House of Future
To Be Miracle of
Comfort, Health
After-Victory Home to Be
Within Range of Low
Income Group.
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The "Miracle Home of the
Future," already on the archi
tects' drawing boards for con
struction as soon as this World
War Two has reached its victori
ous completion for the United
Nations, will be as startlingly
new and different from the old
traditionally-built type of house
as day is from night.
The house of the future will be
truly a miracle home, having as its
first objective, comfort and health
at low cost.
There will be movable walls that
open a side of the house to the
garden, or that can be shifted to
change the size and shape of the
room, thus providing additional va
riety in room outlines, and extra
space for entertaining or for tem
porary sleeping quarters for an
? over-night guest.
Electrostatic installations will
dust, sweep and sterilize every
room. Mechanical servants will take
over most of the drudgery of routine
housekeeping tasks. Climate-proof
construction will guard health, shut
out summer heat and also the chill
of wintry blasts, thus cutting down
heating cost.
A crusader for better living, Bror
Dahlberg, president of Celotex, is a
firm believer that mass production
will be the keynote of the building
era to come.
"War is the most important thing
at hand now," said Dahlberg, in a
recent interview, "but even as we
put every ounce of strength into the
support of our armed forces, we
must look forward to providing bet
ter living in the time of peace that
will follow."
Air conditioning will provide
an important contribution to the
home of the futnre. Astounding
improvements have been made
in this science, enabling it to
now provide fresh, healthful and
tempered air adjusted to the
seasons. It can be arranged so
that pressing a button will de
liver the aroma of alpine firs,
the soft, night breeze of the
tropics, or the health-giving dry
air of the desert. Sufferers from
asthma and hay fever, in par
ticular, will find this latter a
godsend.
Available for the new miracle
home will be invisible artificial il
lumination that will be automatical
ly controlled by variations in the
amount of daylight. Large, decora
tive picture windows and many
household fixtures will be of a new
type of glass, shatter-proof and prac
tically unbreakable. Cabinet work
and trim will be of a wood so treat
ed that it will not burn.
These homes will not be identical
in appearance, but instead, the build
er or purchaser will have a wide
range of selection in shape, size
and exterior effects.
The homes will be within the pur
chasing reach of the low-income
family. Some will sell as low as
$2,500, including the price of the
lot, while those of more expensive
and elaborate built-in fixtures and
equipment will be within the $6,000
mark.
America' In Action
AAF PHOTOGRAPHERS
The khaki-clad soldier snapping a
candid camera shot of a blonde on
a prominent street corner in Denver,
or focusing a shot of ducks floating
on the Denver city park's pond may
go a long way toward helping lick
the Axis.
The chances are he's one of the
thousands of soldier shutterbugs
who've descended on Denver from
all sections of the country since the
army air forces photography school
at Lowry Field began operations on
a 24-hour, three-shift basis. It takes
photographic technique to get a pic
ture of a pretty girl on a street cor
ner?the same as it does of Jap
and Nazi targets and it's been
proved that the students practice
harder on pleasant subjects of their
own choosing than they do on spe
cific less inviting assignments.
Photography?a comparative war
baby 25 years ago?has come into
its own in this war. The vital need
for more and more skilled photog
raphers has placed tremendous, de
mands upon the army air forces
technical training command but the
new "million dollar" photo school
and laboratory at Lowry Field,
Colo., near Denver, is turning out
expert lens and bulb men on a ver
itable assembly line schedule.
The AAF technical training com
mand's photo school, rated by both
civilian and army photographers as
the finest large scale setup of its
kind in the country, is geared to
turn out more students annually
than a major university. Few war
material factories have a bigger
production job than Lowry Field.
Officials estimate that it takes at
least four photographic technicians
to back up every pilot-photographer.
It's the job of Lowry Field to supply
these technicians, allowing three
months training for each man.
Released by Western Newspaper Union,
Farmers Use Potash
Agriculture absorbs more than 90
per cent of the world's total supply i
of potash. It is a vital food for j
crops. Without it, all soil becomes
barren. Some of the small balance j
goes into soaps, medicines, electric
light bulbs, matches, and high grade
glass. Only a minor portion is used
for explosives.
Minute Ma.lt- llpi
By GABRIELLE
To the burning, stinging, wind
bitten skin give "cold comfort"?a
square of cotton dipped in skin fresh
ener and laid gently over the skin.
Rest. Remove. Then smooth on a
rich, creamy lotion. After this is
absorbed apply a cream powder
foundation and pat (ever so gently)
on face powder. Do this and your
skin won't look weather-beaten.
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ber alongside the description of the part of the animal indicated is the number of points to be surrendered
for each pound purchased.
Tun For Your Family
By MISS ABBIE CONDIT
N?tUnal Recreation Association.
Spring lever may make some indi
viduals lackadaisical, but most per
sons suffering from an attack want
to get out and do things. This is
one ol the reasons why spring is an
excellent season for parties. Why
not make yours a real spring affair
centered about the garden, since ev
eryone's interest turns naturally to
the outdoors at this time of year?
Write your invitation on a pastel
card or a white card with sketched
or cut-out flowers brightening a cor
ner. Setting the mood for a gay, in
formal party, your invitation?a rec
ipe for a spring party?might read
as follows:
Take "the flowers that bloom in the
spring";
Add a glimpse of birds on the wing?
Some trees resplendent in green
array.
And the balmy evening of some
spring day.
Add a dash of gardening lore,
One portion of games ? maybe
more?
Stir in some people in festive mood;
And a better spring party has never
been brewed!
Place below the verse your name,
address, and the date and time of
the party.
Games.
Spring Winds Blow. Have all per
sons on one side of the table belong
to one team, and those on the other
side to the second team. A ping
pong ball is placed in the center and
the players provide the "spring
wind"?without any assistance from
hands which must be kept under
the table. The object is to blow the
ball off the table on the opposing
side and to keep it on the table on
your side. Each time the ball goes
off the table a point is scored for
the opposite team. Set a total of
points for a game.
Selecting Seeds for the Garden.
This game is also played about the
table. The end player of each team
receives a cup with a certain num
ber of pumpkin seeds in it. Each
player has two toothpicks to play
the game. The captain removes one
seed from the cup, using the tooth
picks as chopsticks. He hands the
cup to the next player in line, who
takes out a seed. The cups are
passed up and down the lines until
all the seeds have been taken out.
The team finishing first is the win
ner.
Aligning Rows for Planting. A
string stretched from one end of
the row to the other is the garden
er's way of insuring straight rows.
It is up to these gardeners to find
the string in this case. Before the
party, cut up a ball of Btring into
two or three-foot lengths, and hid*
the pieces about the room (under
rugs and tablecloths, for example).
Each team searches for the string.
As a player finds a piece, he takes
it tq the captain who ties it to the
rest of the string which his team
has found. At the end of the time
limit, the team with the longest
piece of string wins.
Picking Flowers. The gardens
planted at this party grow very
quickly, so this game is next in or
der. Prepare the "flower gardens"
by sticking long nails in the tops of
cardboard boxes: one "garden" to
each team, and several more "flow
ers" than there are players in a
team. Place beside each garden a
pair of heavy canvas gloves, a sun
bonnet, a pillow, a box and pliers.
The head players of each team race
from the other end of the room and
perform these actions in exact or
der: put on the gloves, don the bon
net, kneel on the pillow in front of
the garden, "pick a flower" with the
pliers, place pliers and flower in
the box, stand up, take off the hat,
take off the gloves, and return to
the starting point. If a player makes
a mistake, he must return to the
starting line and begin over again.
Each member of the team goes
through these actions. It sounds sim
ple, but there will be many a slip
before the winning team is an
nounced.
Released bv Western Newspaper Union.
VFW Sponsor Knife
Drive for Armed Forces
In answer to an appeal from the
war department, the state depart
ment of North Dakota, Veterans of
Foreign Wars of the United States
recently sponsored a knife collec
tion campaign for the benefit of the
armed forces. Local VFW units
throughout the state co-operated in
collecting several hundred knives
which will be sent to men in jungle
areas where the possession of a
knife, either to hack his way through
the dense undergrowth, or to pre
sent to a native in return for food
and water or guidance, may often
save the life of an American soldier.
No Pleasure Driving on
Isle of Malta, Either
.. . and to jo a bit farther, there's
no driving; of any kind for anybody
in Malta, all of the precious gaso
line being reserved for nse of bomb
er and fighter planes that have made
this little isle an annoying thorn
in the side of the Axis. Even the
crews that service the planes nse
bieyeles to go to and from their
jobs at the airfields.
Informal Horse Show
Behind Front in Africa
Here yon tee a French ofleer tak
ing a Jump in grand style at the in
formal borse show staged by French
flying officers and Spahis at a desert
military post in North Africa.
American officers participated in the
show, and one of them, Brig. Gen.
Joseph Atkinson, was the star tarn
of the day.
R?l*?Md by Western Newspaper Union.
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'GIMME' ATTITUDE
IS UN-AMERICAN
I LIVE in a small town in which
there is a park. In that park are
comfortable seats. On warm days
those seats are occupied by a con
siderable number of men, most of
them 50 or more years of age, soma
of them physically disabled. The
majority could fill jobs which these
days they could have for the asking.
I, too, sit in that park at times
to listen to the conversations. Al
most invariably they turn to the sub
ject of "what the government owes
them" and their hope for collec
tion. The "gimme" habit has mas
tered these men. They have been
fed on a diet of "something for
nothing." They expect a perpetual
"dole."
I know many other men in my
town, and in other towns and on
farms?men of equal age and of
equal needs who are working for the
living they want and must have.
They are enjoying life because they
work for what they have. I know
farmers of more years than the
average of those men in that park
who are working long hours, not
alone that they and their families
may live, but that the nation, our
armed forces and our Allies may be
fed. They know the joy of work.
In this land of opportunity, it is
not well that we should acquire the
"gimme" idea. Instead, we should
encourage and practice the desire
to work, to save, that we may do for
ourselves the things the men on the
park benches demand that the gov
ernment do for them.
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DEFINITION
OF A BUREAUCRAT
REGARDLESS of what Webster
says, to me a bureaucrat is the fel
low for whom I, as a citizen and
taxpayer, have provided a job, and
who then feels he can push me
around, be discourteous when I seek
information, and be generally dis
agreeable. He feeds at the public
trough, into which I pour food, and
a bit of brief authority has given
him a swelled head. He sees him
self as the boss. You frequently find
the species holding public offices, of
both high and low degree, every
thing, in fact, from dogcatcher to
heads of important bureaus and de
partments of the public service.
They forget that we, the citizens
and taxpayers, have the privilege of
changing employees.
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HOW AMERICA
LIKES ORDERS ISSUED
THE LATE GEN. HUGH JOHN
SON instituted the method of "crack
ing down" as a means of getting re
sults. It did not work. Other bu
reaucratic chiefs have tried the
same method of enforcing their de
crees, and it has not worked for
them. American people have been
masters for the past 150 years. They
do not appreciate being talked to as
slaves, even in wartime. An arti
cle on the serious rubber problem by
Rubber Administrator William M.
Jefters in the February issue of the
American Magazine was couched in
the language American people un
derstand and appreciate. His is the
method and language which will pro
duce results so far as co-operation
by the people is concerned. He asks,
rather than commands. The Amer
ican citizen does not stand for dicta
torship.
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NON-WAR EXPENDITURES
SHOULD BE REDUCED
THE 24 PER CENT of his pay
that it is proposed to take out of the
worker's pay envelope is needed and
will be paid without undue protest.
But that is not all he pays. If he
has a telephone, he pays, as an
average on all phones, $14.13 a year
as tax collected by the telephone
company. Over and above the state
sales tax, if any in his state, he pays
a tax on everything he buys, a tax
which is, and must be passed along
by the manufacturer, wholesaler,
retailer and the transportation com
pany. The war must be paid for,
and there is no complaint about
taxes to pay war bills. There is a
complaint against the cost of unes
sential civilian activities of govern
ment, whether they be local, state
or national. People demand the
elimination of such expenditures.
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PUBLIC UTILITIES
AND TAX BURDENS
I DO NOT HAVE the figures fcr
all states, but in California the pri
vately owned electric light and pow
er companies pay as taxes a fraction
over 26 cents out of each dollar of
gross revenue received. In most
other states, the amount is approxi
mately the same. The publicly
owned utilities carry no part of our
tax burden.
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WE ARE ENGAGED in an all-out
war, but those on the home front
have not been disciplined to take
orders, as they do in Germany.
American citizens are more inclined
to listen to requests, than they are
to commands. That is the American
way.
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AT THE LAST ELECTION, Idaho
voted every person over <5 years of
age a $48 a month pension. Now
Idaho is trying to raise the six mil
lion dollars a year with which to do
the paying.
PATTERNS.
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Princess House Frock
T IKE looking neat, pretty and
efficient? Just button into this
princess house frock and presto
. . . perfection.
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Barbara Bell Pattern No. 17M B. de
signed (or size* 32. 34 36, 38. 40. 42. 44
and 46. Size 34 requires 4% yards 35
Inch material.
1744B
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A REAL indispensable ? beauti
fully fitting shirtwaist wlUi
kick pleat and action baek.
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signed for sixes 12. 14, M, 19, 28; 48 Wd
42. Corresponding bust measBpeeeawto ?U
32. 24. 36. 38. 45 and 42. 9ze 14 (32) re
quires. with short sleeves. 3*4 yards 35
inch material.
Due to an unusually large demand and
current war conditions, slightly more time
is required in filling orders for a lew
the most popular pattern numbers.
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pattern desired.
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Just a Natural Curiosity
To Know One's Position
The manager of Super-Colossal
Pictures entered the office.
"Get out!" he howled at a young
man sitting there. "While I'm boss
I'll not tolerate any loafing around
here."
"I beg your pardon," said the
young man, "but I don't work
here. I just came in looking far
a position." ...
"Then you're rag if ink" gutdfcd
the manager, "and now. yoiPio
fired! Get out!"
The young man, surprised,
picked up his hat and turned to
the manager. "Do you mind tell
ing me," he asked, "just what sort
of a job I had before you fired
me?"
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Wilted vegetables may be made
crisp if covered with cold water
and allowed to stand several hours
in the refrigerator.
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To prevent the lower crust of
fruit pies becoming soggy, brush
over with the white of egg before
putting in fruit filling.
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Do not fill a bird too full when
stuffing a chicken or turkey. Fill
ing about three-quarters full is
better. The dressing in cooking,
will have a chance to expand.
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When banging pictures remem
ber that the center of the picture
should be on the level with eyes.
If you are unusually tall, this rule
does not hold good.
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When two glasses become
wedged together, place cold water
in the upper one and set lower one
in warm water. They will then
separate with little effort.
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A night tight can be made from
a half-burned candle. Light it for
a few minutes and then blow out
and sprinkle fine salt over the sur
face and halfway up the wick.
The flame will be much smaller
and the candle will burn slowly.
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Sprinkle a cake with cornstarch
before icing to prevent icing run
ning off.
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Cereals
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MEALS!
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