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Show THM RICH roiINTY REAPER. RANDOLPH. UTAH From Sharecropper to Packing Magnate, Americans Work Hard for Their Living jumped (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) million boxes in By VIRGINIA VALE its the third excellent picture in a row for Preston Sturges, who wrote and directed it. Henry Fonda acquires new laurels as a comedian, Barbara Stanwyck is completely delightful, the rest of the cast (which includes still Americas number one choice; beef, number one meat; apple pie and chocolate cake, number one desserts. When the pinch comes, American families economize on clothes fkst. But American women love clothes and have a vast choice in inexpensive styles (48 million felt hats in the $3.95 to $5 quality were sold last year.) There is no more Main Street of fashion. Fashion a Fault? American womens chief fashion fault doing a good thing to death. If veiling is the fashion, they lose themselves in the mists. If open toes are in style, they go for the most extreme and open styles and How America Lives . . . They spend as wear them every hour of the day much on ice cream and soft drinks as on and night. They pile on too much building houses. As a nation, they like to eat well, and, particularly in these junk jewelry . . . lack when for of money cents a day per person that the colored sharecroppers in Mississippi live on by eating flour and molasses in winter . . . As much money is spent in ice cream and soft drinks as in building houses . . . and other facts are the findings revealed in How America Lives," just off the presses of the Henry Holt publishing house. The full report on how Americans make their money and spend it; what they eat, drink, wear and talk about; what gives them a kick; where the shoe pinches the most, and the least; what they dream of and what they believe in; and even what they do on Sunday times, do eat better than any other nation afternoons was compiled by special- in the world. The average city family ists who, after traveling to all parts spends of its annual income, or of the nation during 1940, wrote the t508, a year for food. It thrives on good How - America - Lives series for plain cooking three square meals a day. Few families keep accurate food budgets. The Ladies' Home Journal. The 16 families range from that They dont need to the women are thrifty of Henry Bracey, Negro Mississippi shoppers. sharecropper, whose cash income than 80 per cent were built without last year totaled $26, to the family of help from architects. Functionally Thomas Wilson, millionaire head of they are inadequate. Aesthetically, the Wilson Packing company of Chi- they are unfortunate. They lack enough closet space; they are hard cago. to heat; the roof leaks; and they Summary of Study. And heres a summary of the are so poorly planned that the homewalks an extra hundred miles study which was conducted in the maker a year between the front door and homes of real, warm, typical Amerthe kitchen. icans: S. As against the 1940 U. Kitchens Best Equipped. census statement that $22 a week is the salHigh points in American living are ary of the average man in America, American kitchens best equipped, the survey disclosed that a man with most modern and most used room in a family of two children needs to the house. Living room is shabbiearn at least $35 a week before he est, dining room barest and least can own his own home, carry insurused. ance, and give his children welcome Ninety-fiv- e per cent of the women advantages. And he can do this only in America employ no household help. Average American homemakers week (in home where there are growing children) rims 50 to 60 hours and 24 hours a day, seven dujs a week she is on call when the children are little. (Grandmothers hours were nearly a hundred!) American boys and girls still help with the chores, even if they live in city apartments. The typical American familys credit is good. Majority of families pay as they go, after saving with a particular goal in view. Installment buying records show 98 per cent fulfill their payments. Foreclosures in FHA mortgages over five years have amounted to less than half of 1 per cent. Largest single item of American families yearly spending is food 14 billions, or 28 per cent of the national income. Conclusive proof that America as a whole sets a good How America Lives . . . What shall I table is the fact that the average wear?" Its the daily question of a whole d of its annation of women who have made up their city family spends minds that they want to look pretty and nual income for food. Ten dollars a of four adequatestay young. And so America is giving week feeds a family them what they want . . . at the price they ly, but without many frills. It can be a Cedar Rapids, want to pay. They can buy a unique value done for less in a simple felt hat, for example, for about Iowa, womans food budget was $7 $5, or even t3.95, and know they tare geta week for four people. ting quality! Food Budget 'Touchy.' he if has if there is no sickness and Touchiest subject among Amerisaved up an initial lump sum for can homemakers is the food budget, about which they become more dethe down payment on his house. Dream of all American families is fensive and passionate than about a to own a home. Chief hurdle is national presidential election. American homemakers have been saving up down payment. Low points in American living are made acutely vitamin conscious. American houses expensive and in- Per capita consumption of vegetapotatoes, has inexpensive. Although $3,000,000,000 bles, other than 26.36 from pounds in 1919-2- 0 annually goes into new homes, less creased 1923-2- 4 in 1934-331.36 to to in pounds houses than 40 per cent of the of oranges America are in good condition. More Production and shipment down-to-ear- 10 million in 1935. (Beleased by Western Newspaper Union.) The big Sunday dinner is passing. The Lady More and more families go on automobile outings instead. Saturday PARAMOUNTS one of the night dinner has replaced Sunday best come out has that pictures noon as the big dinner of the week. and of in Hollywood years; years Gingerbread and baked beans are that can sustain life is the three These from 1900 to 55 CHICAGO. In most American homes, the Mrs. holds the purse strings . . . less than 50 per cent of American houses -- When 5ome one does &. noble deed Of springs thou$kt tWet-- By HOPE CHAMBERLIN have bath tubs . . . The least amount THE CHEERFUL CHERUB th one-thir- d one-thir- ... 5. Charles Cobum, Eric Blore and liam Demarest) couldnt be Wilim- proved on. The company launched the picture in New York with something different in the way of a cocktail party. A night club was turned more or less into a Garden of Eden, and five pretty girls were engaged to act as Eves. Since theres a snake that plays a prominent part in the picture, one was provided. Dr. Raymond L. Ditmars, curator of reptiles at the Bronx zoo, was present; he felt that the party would do much powers shopping clothes. to dissipate the popular phobia Two permanents a year, averag- against snakes. A consultant psying from $3 to $5 are fixed charges chologist theorized on perfect womin the budget, although weekly trips en in general and the five Eves in to the beauty shop are usually sup- particular. Then Emma, the snake, planted by the home shampoo and departed for the zoo, and the wombobby pin method. en guests breathed easier. America is reappraising itself . . . taken as a whole some 30 million Whether youre an Andy Hardy fan or not you mustnt miss Andy Hardys Private Secretary, if you want to see the debut of one of film-dobest bets. Shes Kathryn s mbes me feel proud myjelf A if done Mickey Rooney In " Andy Hardys Private Secretary. How America Lives . . . What does Mrs, America do on an average day? She has no help with her housework. (95 per cent of American women dont.) Then it?s likely shes up at 7 a. m., and the light in her kitchen window will be shining long after sundown. She gets the meals, washes the dishes, cleans the house, markets, irons and mends, to mention but a few of the deeds which require 60 or more of her weekly hours. Grayson, whos not quite eighteen, and is being hailed as a real dis- it too. RW"! WNU Service. TIPS,, (rardeners GARDENING AS HOBBY "ARDENING as a hobby can be made to pay excellent dividends. As an example, a Missouri woman reports she made a net profit of $300 from her garden in a single season. Figured at market prices, food used fresh was $230; food canned, $80; and food stored, $71. Seed and sets cost her only $20. There are two major requisites to obtaining garden profits of this kind. They are, willingness to work and the use of quality seed. It is important also to devote considerable space to multiple purpose crops like beets, onions, and tomatoes crops that can be used in a variety of ways. Here, briefly, are the uses of crops ; Onprincipal ions green, as relish; mature bulbs fried, stewed, or as seasoning; bulbs for pickle, and relish making; tops for seasoning; bulbs fresh for storage. Tomatoes fruits for slicing or stewing, for immediate table use ; for canning, or for making tomato juice, or tomato catsup; green tomatoes for frying, or for use in pickle relishes, or in pie filler (like mince meat) ; yellow fruits for preserves, juice, or immediate table use. Cabbage fresh in slaw, or salad; cooked for table use; canned as kraut, or stored. Beets tops for greens; roots cooked fresh, canned, pickled, or stored. two-thirds-a- se Ministers and Speakers! Did acid stomach, "fullness or heartburn spoil an otherwise perfect talk? Not if you had ADLA Tablets handy for quick relief. Get ADLA Tablets at your drug store. covery. Eighteen months ago, when she sang at a Los Angeles musical, she attracted the attention of Metro exLabors Power ecutives. Before the afternoon was Labor the power to rid us has over she had an appointment with Louis B. Mayer the next day she of three great . evils Boredom, families America lives pretty well. had a contract. After that she Vice and Poverty. Voltaire. Theres room for improvement, yes. checked in at the studio school That, like the new vacuum cleaner, took a regular high school course, another pair of shoes for sis or an had lessons in music, diction, makeaddition to the house, will come. dramatic training. up, She has a magnificent coloratura 9 6 WITH WEAK, CRANKY voice, can sing C above high C, and NERVOUS FEELINGS it is predicted that she may become women who suffer pain of IrregYou one of the greatest coloraturas the ular periods and are nervous, cranky deknown. ever to has world Shes due monthly functional disturbHOLLY RIDGE, N. C. Four ances should find Lydia E. Pink-habut in over being pictures lighted months ago you could have bought Vegetable Compound simply marvelous to relieve such annoying all the land you wanted around here in another two years shes going to symptoms. tackle the Metropolitan opera. for three or four dollars an acre Plnkham's Compound Is made especially tor women to help relieve unless you happened to be dealing such distressing feelings and thus Hortense Monath, who recently with a native whose conscience thru such help them go smiling "difficult days." Over 1 ,000,000 women would not allow him to accept such appeared as soloist with the NBC have reported remarkable benefits. an exhorbitant price. Today this Symphony orchestra, has made a WORTH TRYING! Any drugstore. same land is being sold in 20 foot name for herself as a concert pianist lots and for serious money, too. in both Europe and 'America, playWNU W 1341 No, nobody has discovered oil in ing with many of the most famous these parts. r This just happens to be orchestras. the place the federal government She really, has a second career; picked for the armys new she browses in the musical literaSalt Lakes NEWEST HOTEL training camp, now under con- ture ef the ages and brings forth struction. each year a series of programs for There is good farm land both to the New Friends of Music, one of the north and south of Holly Ridge New Yorks more important musibut the real estate in this immediate cal organizations. She thinks theres d vicinity is little more than a too much sameness about most muwaste. But the U. S. sical programs she also disarmy had other ideas. The section approves of intermissions, encores, is not only easily accessible by high- stage seats and prima donna-doway and railroad, but offers an ideal ft spot over which to shoot of Theres no telling how many of without guns danger hitting anyone on land or sea. The shape our future radio stars will succeed of the coast and the lay of the land because Fritz Blocki, producer of Your Dream Has Come True, is well suited to the armys purOnslow fire into out will Guns gave them a start. Auditioning for pose. bay, wide coastal indenture many the program is no ordinary affair. miles from the lanes of coastwise The entire week preceding a broadcast is spent in listening to the many shipping. Naturally the government didnt people who want to appear on the suffer from Holly Ridges new land program ; when its difficult to make boom. In the first place, the price a choice between actors," a recorddidnt rise until the army had acted ing of the voice in question is made and, in the second, the government and the radio department makes a TEMPLE SQUARE has the right of condemnation. So decision. Oppodte Mormon Tempts As big name actors and actresses its frontage on U. S. highHIGHLY RECOMMENDED way No. 17 and all the territory be- have no meaning on this program, Rates $150 to $3.00 tween here and the ocean came the unknowns have a wonderful opIts a mark of distinction to stop cheap enough. Its the land adjacent portunity and under Blockis skillat this beautiful hostelry to the reservation thats suddenly ful tutelage they are sure of getting ERNEST C. ROSSITER. Mgr. become so valuable. excellent training. feme ram Real Boom Town Rises in Wasteland i anti-aircra- ft scrub-timbere- I KNT tf CMMIKM ILUONI foil roooust ) . 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