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OUR COMIC SECTION | PETER t B. X PEEVE W !!!!!. i /I rp | 0 p ?jr J. Millar Walt * 1 wiro [s ?M A T T E R P O P By C. M. P?yn? I THE GREAT PROBLEM IS NOT ONLy PRODUCTION h BUT lM DISTRIBUTION \L RCXMVM.! . 1 vjurS*Ft< A-r J 19*1 rw?tj r hem-hem! ^ ya ?dit>i>unt i (air ml j ET V^EY1- WHATSA 1316 J B IUEA, RUHNIN6/ 7 MUD IN HETC6?4 \CO 1DACK AN' WIPE ) ETJ^ 5<w ru f * ^WterJ l *> A I ?- >J1* * "That mint be the great Gobi Desert we hear so much about in cross word punles." k Be Should Try It! "Those new people across the street seem very devoted," said Mrs. Jones wistfully to the news paper which hid her husband. A rustle of the paper was the only reply she got, but she was used to that. "Every time he goes out he kisses her, and he goes on throwing kisses all the way down the street. Ed ward, why don't you do that?" "Me?" snorted Mr. Jones. "I don't know her!" PARTISAN n #?. "He is a strict party man." "Sure; he would vote tor his moth er-in-law if she happened to be on his ticket." EXPLAINING THE PRICE RISES ("Retailers must explain to customers the reason for advancing prices. The public doesn't understand the situation."?Louis E. Kir stein. ch? rman of the American Retail federation.) Customer?How much are fresh eggs today? Retailer?Sixty-five cents a dozen. Customer?I said a dozen, not two dozen. Retailer?I heard you. Sixty-five cents a dozen. Five centa extra if I make an explanation. Customer?How about storage eggs? ?? Retailer?Forty-two cents, and I'll make my explanation a cent cheap er. ? ? ? Customer?Give me twenty cents' worth of eggs and one cent's worth of explanation. Why should eggs be up?" Retailer?It's the defense pro gram. Customer?Are we sending eggs to Russia? Retailer?No, but Europe is get ting a lot of our hens. And you know about the straw shortage, don't you? Customer?No. Retailer?All the straw is being used for Gallup straw votes. And with so little straw in their nests the hens won't lay. Is it clear? Customer?No. I'll take a loaf of bread. Is that up? Retailer?Yes, and I'll explain that. The country is short pf dough. Customer?If it ain't it soon will be. How about baloney? There is no shortage of that, is there? Retailer?No, but it's gone up in sympathy. Baloney is one of our most sympathetic products. And don't forget we are sending a tre mendous amount of baloney to Europe. Customer?This is the first time I've heard anybody admit it. ? - ? ? SCENE II?A HABERDASHERY Customer ? How much are $3 shirts today? Retailer?Three dollars and fifty cents. And I'll throw in a full ex planation. Customer?Shirts aren't necessary to the defense, are they? Retailer?Of course they are. Would you defend the American way without a shirt? Customer?I may have to I Retailer?Could you use some socks? They've only gone up fifteen cents a pair. Customer?Is there a sock short age? Retailer?No, but it's harder for me to explain why they should cost more, so I charge extra. ? ? ? SCENE ID?A RESTAURANT Customer?What would you sug gest? Waiter?Our 85-cent order of gou lash is very good at $1.25 a plate. Customer?Good heavens! Why should goulash be up? Waiter?It's the OCCG. Office for the Control and Co-ordination of Goulash. Customer?Must there be a fed eral board to control goulash? Waiter?Sir, today there must be ? federal board to control every thing. ? ? ? Customer?Bring me a ham sand ' wich. With mustard and a complete explanation why it should cost more. Waiter?I'll be glad to explain ev erything. Do you understand infla tion at all. Customer?Not at all. Waiter?Good! I'll explain it then. ? ? ? THE BACHELOR LOOKS AT A FRIEND'S CHILD Blessings on the, little boy. Bellowing with fiendish joy I My heart leaps to see you, lad. Riding bareback on your dad. When your daddy opes his trap. How you prattle, little chap! A cheerful hail, you lusty scion! . . . I'm glad you're hizz'n and not "mion." ?M. E. SMITH Uncle Sam has cracked down on an aluminum company which he say a diverted metal needed (or de fense, to companies using it for or namental work on slot machines, pin ball games and juke boxes. There are times when some of our biggest industries don't seem to be any more appreciative of the crisis than the average man. ? ? ? WHOOPS! Joe Stalin is now seeing his for mer ally, pal and buddy at such close range that he may be said to be meeting him two-face to two face. ? ? ? Elmer Twitchell says the govern ment's fiscal policy is the same as no-limit poker, with the deuces a lit tle wilder. ? ? ? "Ford Yacht Leased to Navy."? The Qaaea Uxsle? By VIRGINIA VALE (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) NOT content with having a J very promising film ca- , reer, Susan Hayward has i turned actors' agent. Dining i at a New Orleans hotel, she 1 was impressed by the young j singer and trumpet player , with Chuck Foster's band; he stopped the show at every ] performance. So when he was brought over to meet her she ques- j tioned him. Why wasn't he in films? Nobody'd asked him to be. j Where did he come from? Los An geles, but he'd never been able to get near a film studio there! So Susan placed him under con tract, and arranged for his Holly wood debut at a cafe there. His name? Ray Robbins, profession ally; in real life, it's Foster. A new romantic duo makes its debut in RKO's comedy, "Obliging Young Lady," in the persons of Ed mond O'Brien and Ruth Warrick. RUTH WARRICK He recently scored in "A Girl, a Guy and a Gob" and "Parachute Battalion." She made her film bow as Orson Welles' first wife in "Citi zen Kane," the picture that's been a springboard to motion picture con tracts for so many actors and act resses. *? Robert Taylor has an exception ally tough beard, and while he's be ing shaved talks about show horses, like his Arabian stallion; Clark Gable chats about guns and fish and venison, under the same condi tions, and he also has a tough beard. Spencer Tracy yells wise cracks at everybody while he's in the barber's chair. Bob Young makes a few remarks about his rid ing horses. Jimmy Stewart sits and says nothing. All this informa tion from Jim Adamson, major domo of Metro's barber shop, who began snipping locks and news from movie stars way back in the days of Inceville?he's been at it for 2V4 decades, and has his own Hollywood Who's Who. * We're told thst Inex Cooper, ? Hollywood new comer, looks so much like Hedy Lsmarr that ex perts can't tell them apart. Miss Cooper has worked in "Unholy Part ners" and "The Shadow of the Thin Man"; she's now appearing in "Mr. and Mrs. North," and is slated for a role in "I Married an Ansel." None of these pictures have yet been released, yet she's already had a flourishing screen career. People whose memories go way, way back will remember Harold Lockwood, one of the big stars of his time. His widow died recently, after having been a member of Paramount's make-up department for nine years. Today's movie stars are more foresighted ^financially than were those old-timers. For ex ample?Joel McCrea is listed by the government not as an actor (though he's been making pictures for 11 years) but as a good producer, thanks to the annual profit of ap- 1 proximately $9,000 which he makes from his ranch. ?* Madeline Lee, who's "Genevieve Blue" on the "Amos and Andy" broadcasts, has found herself turn ing into a hat designer. She en tered a hat designing class on a dare, found that she not only liked it but was good at it; now she makes all her own hats, and her friends besiege her to turn out little num bers for them. V Correction: Last week's item about "The Chocolate Soldier" was partly wrong; Metro's picture by \ that name includes only music from the operetta so known; the story is the one you're familiar with un der the title of "The Guardsman." ODDS AND ENDS?RKO has signed St. Brendan's Boys' choir of 20 boys for church sequences in "loon of Font,' which will uor Michela Morgan, I ha new f ranch Oar. and Paul Htureul.. Bud Abbott and Lou CottcUo will ploy the leading comedy roles, and Kathren Crayon and John Cor roll will have the romantic tinging leads in the new mania version of "Rio Rita" . . Waller Pidgeon returns to hit frit ca reer, thai of a linger, in "Design for Scan dal," which ho hoi fun completed with Iha newly wad Rosalind Russell . .. They ting "A Bicyde Built for Two" . . Clira Brook's daughter Faith, makes her flm debut in "Suspicion." FIRjfSAID AILING'HOUSE by Roge|i> Whitman (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) Painting Door* [T IS not always easy to paint doors when hanging normally, for the paint is likely to streak along the edges of the panels and in the mouldings. The job is much simpli fied by taking the door off its hinges and laying it flat on boxes or on something else that will bring it to a convenient height. In taking off a door, it should first be opened, so that the outer corner can be blocked up with pieces of wood or books to relieve the hinges of the weight. In all modern hinges the two parts are held together by pins, which can be driven out to separate the hinge halves. The lower hinge should be the first to be separated. If the upper hinge is separated first, and the door should tilt, the leverage would be so great that the lower hinge would be bent or even broken. In replacing the door, the upper hinge should be the first to be put together. With the door laid flat, paint or other finish goes on smoothly and evenly, with little chance that "tears" or "beads" will form. Attaching Wood to Concrete. It is often necessary to attach shelves or other woodwork to con crete walls, and the job may be something of a problem. One sure method is to drill holes an inch or two deep in the concrete, making use of a star drill, which can be had at a hardware store. The hole is then plugged with a piece of soft wood, into which a screw can be driven. In place of the wood, the thread of the screw can be wrapped with a thin piece of sheet lead. Hardware stores carry prepared plugs for the purpose, usually sold with a drill. These plugs and drills come in different sizes. For a thin wall, as in the case of concrete block or lath and plaster, bolts with hinged ends, known as toggle bolts, can be had. The hinged end is pushed through the hole, and turns at right angles, which gives a solid support when the nut is screwed down. New Floor Over Old. ? Question: Can a new hardwood floor be laid over an old floor? Or should the present floor be removed and the new one laid on the sub floor? Answer: The new one can be laid on top of the old one, which will save labor. The old floor should first be made smooth; protruding nails either driven in or pulled out, and roughnesses of the floor planed or scraped down. At lumber yards you can get flooring intended to be laid over an old floor; it comes complete ly finished, so that no further fin ishing will be needed after laying. It is thinner than ordinary flooring, for it serves only as a finish. Sound-Proof Door. Question: What is the simplest | way to sound-proof a door between two apartments, or at least to dead en the sound? - Answer: Sound can be deadened by hanging two or three thick por tieres over the door. For a better job, set four or five pieces of 1 by 2 across the door opening, from side to side, not touching the door. On these set a sheet of insulating board, cut to fit the opening. The joint between the door and the frame, all around, should first be packed with moth-proof felt, soft rubber strips, or something simi lar, for much of the sound comes through the joint. Cleaning a Cellar. Question: What is the best way to clean an old cellar in which there is a hot air furnace? Answer: Everything in the cellar is probably coated with coal and ash dust, and the first step should be to loosen this by brushing. (Then fol lowed with a vacuum cleaner. Con crete floor and walls should be scrubbed with a strong solution of washing soda in water, followed by rinsing. All wood parts should be finished by painting. For masonry walls use cement paint, while the floor should have a kind of paint that is proof against injury by lime. For the wood parts you can use casein paint. Noisy Road. Question: Wo live on a road inter section that is very noisy. Is there any kind of sound-proof glass that could be put in the windows of our living-room? Answer: Glass in two thicknesses, separated by a quarter-inch or more, might do the trick, but would require new window frames. Dou ble windows woud give you the same effect. Metal weatherstrips around the window should do quite as well. Another method would be ; to equip each one at the windows ' with an electric ventilator of a kind that admits air, but keeps out sound. These can be had from dealers in j electrical equipment. Artificial Flowers. Two of my readers describe meth ods tor restoring faded artificial flowers. One says that they can be brightened and made to look like . new by using common wax crayon, I "with which I have recently rejuve nated a bouquet of cosmos." The other recommends spraying them with a dye made tor tinting fabrics, that can be had at a drug store. She used her perfume atomizer, which, she says, "works perfectly, as it did not allow too much of the liquid to get on the flowers. They dried quickly. If food burns in a pan, shake a generous amount of soda into it, fill with cold water and let stand on back of stove until pan can be easily cleaned. ? ? ? Crocheted bedspreads can be washed, but they should be care fully spread out on a clean sheet to dry and not hung on a line. ? ? ? A teaspoon of baking powder in the water in which meat and vegetables are cooked will help make them tender. ? ? ? It takes less sugar for stewed apples if sugar is added after cooking. ? ? ? Often a coat of paint is saved by first washing the walls before repainting them. This removes the soil and stains and assures a better job and takes less paint. ? ? ? Directly under the skin of pota toes is a valuable nutritional lay er, so, whenever possible, cook potatoes in their jackets. The skin can then be peeled off easily with out loss of food value. 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