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Show THE PROGRESSIVE OPINION House plants grow toward the sun. Turn them frequently so that they will not grow one-side- Save the juice from canned pine-apple and the liquid from mara-schino cherries to use when mak-ing fruit punch. If there is a constant smell of burning when cooking is going on, examine gas burners. They are probably filled with sediment from "boilovers." Much of the difficulty in growing house plants comes from keeping them too warm. Try putting your plants in a cool corner of the room and watch them perk up. Always wash sieves in soda wa-ter, never in soapy water, as par-ticles of soap may adhere and give a soapy taste to food put through the sieve. Continual opening of the gas or electric oven door changes the temperature and is said to be one of the most common causes of baking disappointments. Country's Capital Where Government Is Located As the capital of any country is where its government is, capitals of quite a number of European countries are "somewhere in Eng-land" at the moment, and will continue to be until the war is ended. The capital of France these days changes so rapidly that it is hard to keep up with it. In the hearts of all true Frenchmen the capital is Paris, but the Vichy government has already been set up at Bor-deaux, Tours, and Vichy. Bordeaux was the French capi-tal during the Franco-Prussia- n war last century, and centuries ago it was the capital of English France during the reign of Rich-ard II. In those days a consid-erable part of France was a Brit-ish colony. The last remnants of it are the Channel islands. During the last war, the king of the Belgians set up his headquar-ters at La Panne, a holiday resort. NO ASPIRIN FASTER than genuine, pure St. Joseph Aspirin. World's largest seller at 10. None safer, none surer. Demand St. Joseph Aspirin. SEW INS CIRCLE " I Juniper and Jacket.' i UERE'S an ensemble that is J 1 A 1 young and gay whichever way Pi'K l I yu wear it. The jumper with ' ' J snugly fitting bodice and easy go- .;; ing skirt makes a simply darling I " I outfit worn over a blouse or sweat-JJil I 8319 er. For suit moods, wear the little I 11.19 fitted jacket' over the jumper 'h nothing could be smarter! I In Pattern No. 8243 is in sizes 12, 14, 16, 18 LSr and 20. Size 14 jumper takes 2J'B yards y ) material, jacket lys yards. Send your order to: SNAPPY FACTS , ABOUT Jg) RUBBER Seed -- bearing podi htgh up In rubber lri when rips go off with an audlbl pop. Th pods, about the tizo of a goot egg contain formations of gat which xplodo when ripe and throw tho sood a far as 1 00 foot. The FrencK call rubber caoutchouc bom an Indian term meaning "weep-ing tree.". Ninety per cent of roadside flats that plague car owners can be avoided. Checking air pressures while tires are cool, before In-flating will show up tubes that are losing an abnormal amount of pressure due to slow leaks. Temperatures, topography and types of roads as well as driving habit of owners account for wide variations in mileages from Identical tires. These factors may account for a tire turning in from twenty to twenty-fiv- e thousand miles of service in Chicago whereas from seven to eight thousand miles may be the mileage it will render in Texas. REGoodricti Buy War Savings Bonds SEWING CIRCLE PATTERN DEPT. 149 New Montgomery Street San Francisco Calif. Enclose 20 cents In coins for each pattern desired. Pattern No Size.; Name Address Bias Panel Front. VTORNINGS at home will fly by when you are wearing this spick and span frock it is cheer-ful for others to look at and it is comfortable for you to wear. The bias cut panel down the front with its ruffle finish across the top is tapered so that its narrowest point is right at your waist! Pattern No. 8319 is in sizes 11, 13, 15, 17, 19. Size 13 requires 3 yards material, yard machine made ruffling. mmm What we received 1942 1941 for products and services sold ...... $1,86551,692 $1,622,355,922 X What we did with the money Wages, salaries, social security, and pensions . $782,661,701 $628,275,135 Taxes Federal, state and local 203,755,157 168,645,848 Products and services bought from others . . 648,401,343 579,640,279 Wear and usage of facilities 128,161,530 98,590,187 Estimated additional costs caused by war . . 25,000,000 25,000,000 Interest on indebtedness . . 6,153,392 6,033,398 Dividends on cumulative preferred stock . . . 25;2 19,677 25,219,677 Dividends on common stock 34,813,008 34,813,008 Carried forward for future needs 11,785,884 56,138,390 Total $1,865,951,692 $1,622,355,922 Steel production in net tons of Ingots . . . 30,029,950 28,963,018 J ' ! "J rHls coZ7rr" ' FACTS WORTH NOTING: Sta Stee, 7 $783 million for workers in 1942, or 25 more than in 1941. Bradivay, New yorl De rllem U26 J Se $204 million to government in taxes in 1942, or, 21 more than in 1941. sent,nie V. S. Steel's Anni 1 I RePort No increase in dividends in 1942. Name for i943 J Balance for future needs 78 less than in 1941. j Sirt " - ' Many other interesting facts are told in the Annual Report of U. S. Steel, just published. J c ' It is a production story and a financial story of a great war effort. The complete ' report will be furnished upon request. Clip and mail the coupon at the right. Slatc I I OWB'S'EE) S'uATGS STTGEL OPERATING COMPANIES: AMERICAN BRIDGE COMPANY COtUMBIA STEEt COMPANY Oil WELL SUPPLY COMPANY U. S. COAL 4 COKE COMPANY OLIVER IRON MINING COMPANY UNITED STATES STEEL EXPORT COMPANY AMERICAN STEEL & WIRE COMPANY FEDERAL SHIPBUILDING & DRY DOCK CO. COKE COMPANY (IXS PITTSBURGH LIMESTONE CORPORATION UNITED STATES STEEL SUPPLY COMPANY end CYCLONE FENCE DIVISION H. C. FRICK BOYLE MANUFACTURING COMPANY MICHIGAN LIMESTONE AND CHEMICAL CO. V tJTJ TENNESSEE COAL, IRON & RAILROAD CO. UNIVERSAL ATLAS CEMENT COMPANY TUBULAR ALLOY STEEL CORPORATION VIRGINIA BRIDGE COMPANY CARNEGIE-ILLINOI- S STEEL CORPORATION NATIONAL TUBE COMPANY By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union. GRACIE ALLEN sets an for all radio and movie stars to shoot at. Asked to pose digging in a Victory Garden at a huge department store in New York, she arr-ived right on time though she'd been up late doing a benefit liked the clothes she was to pose in, complimented the store because she wasn't mobbed for autographs. "Sometimes when we're traveling we hardly get a chance to eat, because people want to talk to us," she said, then added, "But if it weren't for the radio publ-ic maybe we wouldn't be eating!" Incidentally, broadcasting still scares her, because she gets to thinki-ng of all the thousands of us, who are listening to her! Danny Kaye, one of the most amusing men on the stage, has re-ported to the Samuel Goldwyn stu-dios for his first picture, "Up in DANNY KAYE Arms"; he should be a riot on the screen, but sometimes what's funny on the stage just goes flat before the cameras. A touching scene in "The Human Comedy" takes place between Mick-ey Rooney and Butch Jenkins, who plays bis brother. Butch had to wear a long night-gownand flatly refused. Finally Mickey, with Butch riding on his ; shoulders, disappeared, to return with Butch in the nightgown. "I told him that Buck Rogers and General MacArthur wear 'em, ev-ery night," Mickey explained. In addition to his regular weekly radio appearance with Guy Lom-bard- o on "Three-Rin- g Time" Ogden Nash is collaborating on the script of a new musical, "One Touch of Venus," which will star Marlene Dietrich; he says that she's not just beautiful and movie-wis- but is also a very creative woman with decide-dly individual ideas of her own. What Marlene thinks of the humori-st we don't know. Most actors of dramatic parts in radio yearn for a good comedy spot which will land them on the road to fame, but Alan Reed, "Solomon Levy" on "Abie's Irish Rose," re-versed things; he started as an ace stooge for Fred Allen and other comedians. After getting a good start that way, he branched out into straight character acting both in ra-dio and the theater. Everybody'd like to know how Grace George, the celebrated act-ress, was persuaded to make her motion picture debut in "McLeod's Folly," the first picture which the new producing firm of William and lames Cagney will make for United Artists release. Donald Duck's voice made a pers-onal appearance in the lobby of the New York theater where Walt Dis-ney's "Saludos Amigos" was play-i"S- - It belongs to Clarence Nash, who's been doing the Donald Duck voice since 1934, beginning with "The Wise Little Hen." The first scene that Zoltan Korda Planned to shoot for Columbia's "Somewhere in Sahara," on locat-ion in the desert near Brawley, Calif., called for a search by a unit ' Nazi mechanized troops, dying of hirst, for an abandoned, dried-u- p "ater hole. But came torrential rains. So Director Korda thought fast and the script's dried-u- p wa-ter hole became a brim-fu- ll water "le, poisoned by Bedouins! The famous 19th Bombardment Sroup, America's most - decorated squadron, will be glorified in "Suzy ." forthcoming film about our fly-ing forces in the South Pacific. It will have an all-st- cast. ODDS AND ENDS - Cinny Simms mJe some extra dollars by selling half ""sen cows from her San Fernando ''Mhjo Bob Burns . . . "Madame "fie sets a new record for props, with re Ihon 7,200 individual items . . . .C.u'e do yu'U see in "Swing h n e" Passed the tests for "Dogs did 'ense" w'tn marks, but iho" ' gCI oecame c8 were too . Harry James and his band, IZTT1 the m "ion of "Best Mel ,"""''" have been signed by mil" i """"er picture ; in it James 0I" Play a role . . . Maybe Merle n really i, . retiring from the m to become a housewife! Margaret O'Brien, the tormade her debut to "J"rney st Margaret," will play her first role in "Lost Angel"; she'll scTT 85 a chiId Prodigy trained by chii?uts' who has had no normal cHldhood. to me outstanding writers and nine Metr ,re.?tor3 wiU ioin ta filminS nrr,j ' "Nine Marines," an unusual Which wiU teU- - matic fashion, the thoughts of Pass marines assigned to hold a the cost of their lives. Useful at That "What's the idea only two prunes?" roared the sergeant. "You save the stones twice a week till you get a thousand," said the orderly, "and then you know the war has lasted five years all but ten weeks." Ten and Out! The boxer sat in his corner waiting for the fight to begin. Seeing his sec-ond looking rather gloomy, he whis. pered confidently: "You know you can count on me, Joe." "Sure" said Joe, pessimistically, "I know from one to ten." Not Quite the Same As the party of men left the club after a particularly convivial evening, one remarked gaily: "I've got a good wife. When I come home late she doesn't mind a scrap." "Neither does mine," said an-other, less cheerfully. "In fact, she waits up for it!" The only period in a woman's life when she gives any thought to dress is between the cradle and the grave. A man is as old as he looks; a woman is as old as the way men look at her. Wide Open Clerk These are especially strong shirts, madam. They sim-ply laugh at the laundry. Customer I know that kind. I had some which came back with their sides split. Good Example Teacher An anonymous person is one who does not wish to be known." (A few minutes later) Who is that laughing? Voice An anonymous person. What It Took "I envy that man who sang the tenor solo." "Why? He hasn't much of a voice" "No, but just think of his nerve!" His Forte "They say the hardest thing for an actor to do the highest art is simply to do nothing." "Is that so? Then my boy Joe must be a natural born actor." Winner's Secret The winner is he who gives him-self to his work, body and soul. Charles Buxton. Released by Western Newspaper Union. FARMER MUST HAVE ADEQUATE LABOR, SUPPLIES HOW FAR can America go in meeting post-wa- r conditions and de-mands? We are having difficulties today in feeding our armed forces, our home folks and our allies. When the war stops, we will be called upon to feed the starving people of Norway, Fin-land, France, Belgium. Holland, Hungary, Poland, Germany, Greece. Italy, Rumania and China, friend and enemy alike. We cannot let them die of starvation when it is possible to reach them. The demand from England and from Russia will continue. If the starving people of the world cannot be fed, and are not fed, cessation of war will bring anarchy, rather than that millenium which our theorists are dreaming of as war's aftermath. It is as essential that we prepare for peace conditions, with peace on the way, as it was to prepare for war, when war threatened. Food is the demand of peace, as munitions are the demand of war. To produce the needed food, our farmers must have help. If they are to cultivate more acres, raise larger crops, produce more dairy and meat products, they must have more generous treatment in the matter of labor, more machinery and a price for their products which will enable them to meet war-tim- e production costs. The farmer has been the "forgot-ten man" in the war and peace pictures. Unless that attitude changes quickly, unless the farmer is given the help he so badly needs, help he must have if he is to pro-duce the necessary food products, we will win the war but lose the peace. G BATTLEFRONTS AND AMERICAN 'HOMES' THE WORLD is made up of homes. In America the home may have been housed in a crude building of sod in frontier times. It may be in a hovel or a tenement of a great city. It may be in a village cottage or the commodious farm house. It may be a mansion. However it may have been housed, if it was a home, it is the spot on which our memo-ries and affections center. If a home, it was provided for by Dad, and presided over by Mother. It afforded the playground of our child-hood, the study center of our school days, the place we left to seek our way in the outside world. It is a spot we do not forget and for which we have a reverence if it was something more than a house. Homes constitute America's mos valuable asset. May nothing ever destroy their sanctity. It is to home that the thoughts of our boys on the g battlefronts of the world are continuously turn-ing. A home is the one spot in all America to which they will return when the war is over. It is the one spot where they know a welcome awaits them. As a people, we must preserve the conditions which makes homes possible. 'ESSENTIAL' WORKERS CAN BE REPLACED "IF I should die or quit, this place would close up." I have heard that statement made by numerous peo-ple. I have known some of them to die or quit. I have never known of any case in which the loss of one employee caused "the place to close up." No one is as essential as he imagines he is. To do without him might be inconvenient to an employ-er for a few hours or a few days, but the business goes on, the gap is filled, and within a brief time that "essential" employee is forgotten. We see great leaders and think of them as being essential to the con-tinued progress of the world. But they pass, as they must, and the world moves on. They were valu-able, but not essential. Ego is a small word with a large meaning. It is well to have some of it, enough to give us confidence in ourselves, but not enough to con-vince us that we are essential. HORSESHOES AND WAR FOR YEARS pitching horseshoes was a favorite pastime of thousands of northern farmer visitors to the Southland's winter resorts. This year there are few farmers. They have stayed at home to conserve tires, gasoline and railroad space. If there were farmers, there would be no horseshoes. The shoes, as junk, have gone into tanks and guns and ships. What changes war does make! WOODROW WILSON saw the dawn, but did not see the sunrise of internationalism. What the result might have been had we joined the League of Nations will always be a debatable question. That we will see the sunrise of internationalism following this war is almost a cer-tainty. How long that sun will shine, cannot be known. It will need force to keep it shining; force to curb the selfish national interests which will attempt to blot out the international sunshine with clouds of greed. Amer-ica will supply much of that force. IF EGO BE A VICE, it is one form which none of us is entirely convinced, for ex-ample, free of I a that each reader of this pa-per watches for, and eagerly reads this column. The editor would be well satisfied if he knew that one five of his readers ap-preciated out of every it enough to read it each week. ( f t WASHINGTON HAS ATTEMPT-ED plans for everything except peace, and that may catch us un-prepared. |