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.ton Goes in for Restyling
(BY Reheat R. Mullett my Christian Selenee Mronatoa)
Sty mat have elealized it, but
pet few years about all you've
;t amt. oottbem 13113.11 is the shirt
aeltaltatek, and the, allege is ggn. YOUr
fr., Rayon 'has all but pre•,Qmptied
t tbi tdk•ess .goods • market; thepaper
atIsle. now package anuch of your au -
e.; salt' and flour. They are even
'.astpletriatenting with. the possibilities of
gl1?t paper sheet's and pillow cases, at
toast, they say, about equalling your
,�
dry' l ,
5 rea, the ,00etton grower 'has spent
Isev..en lean years, even if he -has been
tone of the New Deal's principal prob-
lem ebikdren. But no more is he su-
pine. Old King Cotton has suddenly
gone Yankee! Heys. organized the
National Cotton Council, has raised
$250,000 for preliminary expenses,
and is -projecting a $6,000,000 a year
campaign to induce you to use more
cotton.
These have been madcap years in•
textiles. When the depression first
hit cotton consumpti-on, and, conse-
quently, the 12,000,000 people living on
eotten farms and the 6,000,000 addi-
tional people engaged in handling ar
processing it, the ootton growers ap-
pealed for Federal help. They were
given, as everybody remembers, a lib-
eral plowing under of the New Deal's
scarcity economics. Growers grate-
fully took their Government cheques,
expected the temporary curtailment
to quickly pass away. It didn't, Other
producing mations took our planting
restrictions as an invitation to . in-
crease their own crops and take over
our foreign markets. In addition, Ja-
pan, once America's largest cotton
customer, n;o longer buys its full 'raw
cotton quotas in the United States.
present indications are that 1939 will
be the, poorest cotton' export year in
all the past 50.
to the midst of the depress -ion, even
after American c.'onsumption ;had al-
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a further sudden and, distressing de -
he raw cotton' orders from se:a-
erall dxfpe>ndabl,e New Ragland eat lls,
bearing names of ;historic importance
in oottonsg. It distal take long to
team why: Rayon! -
Being well equipped for industrial
research—,and great believers in it—
the rayon makers +had experimental
yarns, weaves and patterns made up
in their laborvutoriea Then they took
these to some of the more progres-
sive New England drese goods makers
and since there were plenty of idle
looms they, had little difficulty in get-
t'i'ng 'them to turn out trial lengths.,
Then, the rayon producers had high-
priced designers, make these up into
attractive dresses and took them to
key department stores, the ones that
othens follow, and offered to finance
promotional inrtrodvctions. It wasn't
-hong until a smart new fabric literal-
ly rustled into tat market that had
been dominated -. •',often.
Walk into, say, •-e Pepperell mill
in Fall River today and you will see
sheens of the kind your gl-a.ndmotrher
would have approved,,coming oft_
boomson one fioar, buwalk up "a'
flight and you will find other dooms
clanking out rayon good -s. Mills like
these have pmabably never been more
prosperous. They've been near peak
production for two years.
But where has it left your cotton
grower? Ootton is a crop of the first
importance in, 14 of 18 states. There
are 2,500,0)50 families engaged in cot-
ton production. These families would
like"to buy homes,, automobiles, elec-
tric refrigerators, oranges and apples
and thousands of ether items. Dras-
tically curtail • cotton planting, .chop
off foreign . markets, sweep away a
big portiontof its domestic outlet, and
threaten the rest, and you have pre-
cisely what President Roosevelt has
named it: "The Nation's economic
problem Number 1."
What is to be drone? We can re-
settle the cotton grower where he can
produce so'metthi,ev else, or find -ways
to diversify his crops where he is.
Neither of these courses is easy. Both
require time and economic disloca-
tions of the 'first magnitude. A third
coarse, tire one now being taken by
the National Cotton Council, has a
Prograltgf addliag fOr a greatly expand`
ed use of cotton,
Like *veal progressive movement,
there tai to be someone to take .,the
i'nmtila'tive, bathe Cotton 'Council, this
aniumrtor Ihisa beeta OSCar Johnston, of
Sweatt, Miss„ head of the largest cot-
ton 'glowing plawtabiema in the Cetto ,r
Belt Mr. Jletbastante place in the col
ton scheun'.ei of Maga ie htlgh: As mass-
ager for the. Federal Gov,ei'nMent orf
the Ootton - Pru Poo - of 1933,•
lie marketed for 'the joint amount of
the Fedentp. Goverrnmeut acrd some
half a million .producers appreesimate-
ly two and a half million bales of cot-
ton which had been accumulated in
oonnection with farm programs un-
der the preceding Administration. He
was Director of Finance of the A.A.A.
in 1933. He has spent much time in
consultation with Government leaders
,in his capacity as Vice -President of
Commodity Credit Corporation from
1933 to 1937.
Naturally, Mr. Johntst'an has been
acutely conscious of cotton's plight.
About two years ago fhe accepted the
idea that the five big cotton interests
—which is to say etre growers, gin-
ners, warehousemen, ,merchants, and
cotton seed c'rushersr-•s'h'ould unite,
just as the citrus fruit growers and
shippers, said other similar producing
groups have united, for a concerted
effort to help themselves. He talked
the idea over with a few cotton lead-
ers. Men like C. T. Revere of Laird,
Bissell Se, Meets, the big New York
brokers; Dr. Charles K. Everett of
the Ciottont"Textile Institute; William
T. Wynn, lawyer` and principal own-
er of a large warehouse 'and compress
organization; and William Rhea Blake
executive manager of the Delta Coun-
cil, a co-operative business building
group in Mississippi. These men were
enthusiastic, but the real chance to
test out sentiment on. a big scale did
not come .until June 15, 1938, when
several hundred cotton men met at
the Delta State Teachers College in
Cleveland, Miss., for a meeting of the
Delta. CouneiL
Assistant Secretary of -State Fran-
cis B. •Sayre was the principal speak-
er, and he dwelt at some length on
iow the A m9nistratron hoped
toop-
en
-en
foreign markets for cotton through
the recipeoeal trade agreements, low-
ering tariffs at hointe and abroad. He
talked from the standpoint of increas-
ing the demand for cotton rather than
from the stamdapoint of controlling
prroduetion_ It was music to Mr. John -
sto're's' ears. As soon as Dr. Sayre had
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combs eel', fir. Jeallistda Peeled tat ala
feet and a>lmeunced that a meeting
would+ s itomedtaiteay the rhe, d.,,a, In 'the
college auditorium to discuss what
cotton mets might do to bele them-
selves. Some 500 cotton .'men. • then
beard Mr. Johnston, a genial, robust
malt with oonsid'erably more vigor and
incisiveness in Ms voice than -is us-
ually pictured in the ,planter of song
and story, present his else for a Nat
domed Ootton Council..
"I am quite certain," he said, "that
ate plight of the industry is today
more serious than 'ever- before In its
history . , It suffers from a gen-
eral national economic -disturbance
and lack of -balance. It suffers from
a lack of effort on the part of its
leaders to hanmonize their rt'ifferences
for the long -tame welfare of the in-
dustry,
ndustry, It suffers from the cumulative
effects of -a national tariff s+ye'tem,
shortsighted, unfair, always indefens-
ible . . It suffers from a hysterical
effort ole the part of the nations. of
the world to become self-sufficient,
independent of each tether, this hys-
teria being the result of lack of con-
fidence between the nations, fear of
war between the nations, political sel-
fishness on the part of national lead-
ers and rulers.
"We have become too prone,"
charged. Mr. Johnston while bhe cot-
ton men applauded, "to look to Wash-
ington to solve our ills. And what
happens? They pass one law this
year to correct a certain evil. The
law develops some flaws. These im-
perfections develop into a certain
amount of criticiser, and so instead of
the next Congress passing such reme-
dtial l'egisl'ation as will cure the de-
fect, they abandon it outright and try
a new approach from a different an-
gle. When that method has been run-
ning along a year or so, another law
and then another law will be passed
by Congress. Since 1929 each session
of Congress: has passed some sort of
so-called agricultural aid legislation,
either a completely new Act, or a rad-
ical modification of the one then in
existence, yet where are eve? Cotton
is selling int the markets of the world
when it sells at all, at the lowest
gold price in its history. We must
quit looking for help elsewhere, and
look to ourselves!"
Wh-en the cheers died down, Gov-
ernor Hugh White of Missis-sippi vol-
unteered to made $9,000 of the State's
money available for organization ex-
penses for the new council. Mr, John-
ston was named chairman pro tem
and is was- decided to spend the sum-
mer in carrying the word to cotton
men across the belt from Virginia to
California and Illinois to Florida, and
to hold a general meeting in the fall.
From all over the cotton country
they convened in Memphis Nov. 21,
1938. Permaeen-t State and National
committees were set up. It was de-
cided that each state unit would as-
sess two cents a bale on the 1938
crop for expense -s in getting started.
Thee they decided to meet in Dallas,
Texas, on Jan, 24 for the convenience
cf 'Western gravers. At the Dallas
meeting t_':-? remarkable announce-
ment was made that the cotton men
had raised $2i),000 in 60 days with
which to start the promotional drive.
The assesteme:.t is being increased
and put on a broader basis; it is ex-
pected that uewa.rd of $6,000,000 a
year will soon be available for their
effort. ,
The men directing the Cotton coun-
cil pian no dull ''use more cotton to
save our industry" type of campaign.
Rayon. for one tiring, has indicated
the new technique. Indeed, few of
their own cotton manufacturers have
been blazing promotional trails that
probably- will be followed+by t.he grow-
ers.
But, of course. dresses are not the
whole cotton story. A campaign is
projectecl w'itl4 th-e object of convinc-
ing housewives of the advantages of
cotton sacks for certain groceries,
particularly sugar. Cotton is 'said to
allow for candens'ation, and to pre-
vent caking and lumping. Some 500,-
000,000 square yards of cattail a year
has been used by the sugar packers.
Cotter men are determined not to let
the business go the way of cement
sacks. Not so many years ago they
used to make them all. Now they
matte less than a third.
Paper towels and napkins now con-
sume about 300,000,010 pounds of pa-
per a year in a market that once was
cotton's, and a market that cotton
men- hope to regain.
They have been experimenting
with coating plywood with a how -cost
duck surface, for the insid,e and out
of moderate-prired houses, dipping
this duck in various colors of resin-
ous compound. The id -ea is that it
will `*ave painting costs,
Cotton cloth under road surfaces
acts as an adhesive reinforcement in
chntrolling the heat and frost, expan-
sion that festroys the surface of 'so
many road.. Mr. Johnston tells of an
ext erimental road- near his- Missis-
sippi home where temperatures range
,.from 5 below to 109 above. Other
roarle pop up like pop corn under
this fluctuation, but the road with the
Cotten membrane lays smooth as- a
ribbon. The new Cotton Council esti-
mates there are 2,000,000 miles of
secondary roads in the United States
on which tthe use of cotton would be
economically feasible. With six bales
of raw cotton used`each mile -of such
road's, there could be a consumption
in the course of years of 12,000,000
bales, which was just about the total
of last year's butnper crop.
Then there are, other chemurgical
uses of cotton. Some 500 mills pro-
duce cotton steed oil, which is used
industrially in making salad dressing
paints, cosmetics, lfaoleum, etc. In
recent years there has been more de-
mand for the toil than for the lint.
The Texas experiment station and
the U. S. Department of Agriculture
have just a'nnovnced the 'development
of a new species' -of cotton plant,
Which produces large quantities of
sere !s, and Little lint.
Add all these problems and oppor-
tunitdes together and you have..a Pic-
ture of the reaacsns that have convine-
ed the cotton, Merz that their way of
progress is through research, in de-
veloping new uses and improved pro-
ducts, followed by honest, forceful
promotion. Since they 'have reached
tale conclusion, and ,have sundered Ghtat
the eaaackles ofthe
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f'``Xa t ' �,,,• ..,... Gottonn Southscathere a new spirit In the
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Poles Ready for War Even if
They• Have to Fight Alone
(By, Willrtarlm Weodsid'e, in Saturday Night)
Thiene is a atoa,y going 'around tare
that its strongly 'nemadniiscen+t' of the
famous offer of Saxon Harold to the
Norse invader at Stamford Bridge of
seven feet of Englislh earth. The Poles
so it goes, have agreed to give back
to Fattier all thaat he had before the
war. Yes, trhey, are ready to give him
back tis paint, brush and ladder! And
that ds sill, How rrefreelhimag .the at-
mlossphere here is after ail the dtefeat-
ism and doubt that have prevailed in
face of Hitler's Move in. other years.
The air is absolutely clear; the atti-
tude ones of unoomepromisdneg defiance.
[when the i°uehrer and his infallible
Foreign Minister, flushed from. their
gr elat iviotory 'aver the Czedbst in
March, peremptorily "invitee Colonel
Beck to came and make bus eettle-
ment, and concentrat-ed tu•oo'ps 'along
-the Palish borders, they mistook the
people they were dealing with. They
hawed their game once too often and
let themselves in for a s'howd'own or
a backcbown, either of which Promises
Ito be equally uncomfortable for tibem.
The Poles -think it will be th-e former,
but say that Hitler Chas already left
it too late, that he should leave struck
last September, or in March, and that
if he doesn't strike by October this
yeah are w'on't be able -to strike at all.
Poles Tough Customers
The impression one gains of the
Poles is that they are tough customers.
The very first one whom I asked
"What wid'1 you -do if Hitler starts a
war?" answered without a m'oment's
hesitation: "We'll' march on Berlin."
Well, I 'thought, it's' a delightful idea,
and I didn't discourage him, but pri-
vately I thought he was pretty cocky.
But they old talk like that. ' And, for-
eign observers here say that they're
really not fouling, that they will at-
tack the Germans, that cocky and
egotistic as they are, they are also
recklessly 'brave, as Napoleon regis-
tered in the phrase one bears so of-
ten these' days: soul oomme un Pad-
oonais. Brilliant, romantic, charming,
bombastic, pugnacious and extremely
nati'Qnaiistic, the Poles continually, re-
mind me of the Lnish, but they have
more ambition and energy.
The motto of the army is "We don't
count' our enemies until after the bat-
tle." When you remind Pales that
they are only 35 millions to Geripany's
80, they say they will beat them just
the same. When you slhow them on
the map chow vulnerable they are to
German attack again's't Gdynia and the
Ccrrtdor, against their heavy industry
in Upper Silesia and Tes'chen, and
against- their right flank, from Slova-
kia, they point out how exposed East
Prussia is, how they could cut into
the flank of German attacks along the
Baltic or out through Slovakia, bow
they would break through into Bo-
hemia and raise the Czechs (whom
they otherwise run down frightfully,
probably with a bad conscience), and
especially tow close their western
frontier brings their armies and bomb-
ers to Berlin, far closer than the Ger-
mans are to Wareaw.
Want to Get War Over
They are quite prepared to face
Ger'm,any alone if necessary, and how-
ever pleased they may be that Bri-
tain and France have really made up
their minds to resist too-, they don't
fall on your neck as an ally, but re-
mind you rather a:ally that they
dia.ln't ask for a British guarantee, but
since Britain wanted to give it, then
it had to be turned into an alliance
on fully reciprocal terms•. And if
what you want in an ally is the cer-
tainty that the will fight, whether it. is
he or you that is attacked, then I
would say that we could put our
minds entirely to rest about °the Poles.
They have been wanting to get this
war against Germany over -with for
about six years now.
As far as 1 can see there is not a
trace of scare or nerves 'hien. The
searchlights may practise -'and planes
roar above the city every few nights,
'as they are doing at this moment, and
as they did at Gdynia, and a miblian
mien stand under arms waiting for an
attack which almost everyone regards
as certain to come as soon as the
hiarvest is in. (There Is a bumper
harvest this year, both here and in
Germany; the peasant remark that
there also was in 1911.) Yet the coun-
try goes about its business, new build-
ings are started every day, and, no
one talks a:t all about the horrors of
wai-.
Must Fight for Freedom
You see, the Poles always expected
that they would have to fight Germany
some day, as they had to fight. Russia
in 1920; it is the price of their indle-
penxlence. They are ready. Tfiey
have six million men trained, they
claim., and have rifles and ammunition
for theirs. They 'have the strongest
cavalry in elle tamed, and cavalry live
off the land whereas, Germany's' me-
ohlanized equipment requires gasoline
and roads, both, scanty in these parts.
The Poles have.a little motorized
equipment of their own, and the story
goes that when the German military
attache mumbled at a recent review
"What was the use of tt on Poland's
made?" Marsha] Smigly-Ridz blandly
replied: "But your roads are -excel-
lent!"
Polish aviation ,is making rapid
sttrtdes too, from all I can ie'arn, anti
I have met several well -unformed peo-
ple i'n the commercial and, military
services. They say that their new
"Hawk" will do 450 miles an hour
and that the British have bought the
license to build it, just as the Bristol
"13lenihe!m" bomber is built here an
license. It seems that there are five
plane factories in operation here now
with a m,onnthly prods/cbion of possibly
100 ants in all (they :slay many more).
Even •supp'osin'g they -have half of the
2500 `planes which aeronautical people
claim amid they - are of the boasted
speed and gfraliity, that wottl'd be a
formidable horse. They also claim
isaffiiotent anlnamaent dnd'U:stry has
abeen molted from the extremely vul-
arable Upper Silesian district to the
e'w Central Iudti trial Regain to cove
k " mer t4 t i
f ^1r
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er their main mum'dtttoua supply.
About the whole questi'o+n of -.bring-
ing
bring-
ing Russia into the tine -up behind
theta Utley are very diffident They
,chon't daunt at all on any aid from
her. 'Rhtag won't let a single Russian
soldier dnto their country, but if Rus-
es offers then equipment they will
accept it, wibdle belong prepared"to see
the -supply cwt toff at la moment's no-
tice, as iiias been the case in other
oountetes which Rusts'ie 'has supported
—until she lamed slhe couldn't gain
control over their policy. They think
that Russia's own national interest
dictates that she regard Poland as
her western front against an enemy
about Whose 'sin's she can have no il-
lusions. after the experience of 1918.
But they profio'urudly distrust 'the yart
which -Comintern policy sttill plaays in
Soviet aftla3r•s, and suspect the Bol,sahe-
elks of welcoming a war among the
other European powers and being
ready to pravidie fuel for the flames,
while withholding their own forces to
imptese 'Oommunasan on an exthausted
Continent afterwardst Still the Poles
don't oppose the British 'effort to get
Ru•seda's name on a pact... It is bet-
ter to 'have deer an this side than the
other, even though they don't think
she is of .much account or will be^ a
big • factor..dn European politics for
many years to co'm'e. Incidentally,
well-informed political writers [here
,now adanit that Hitler tried in the
not so -recent past to bribe them to
join in,an attack on Russia, by prom-
ising them the rest of White Russia;
and that failing, tried to get trier to
join in a common colonial grab
against Britain and France.
Poles Want a Colony --
The Poles talk a surprising lot a-
bout, colonies, and have an active
Mari -tree -and Col-ani+al League. They
are convinced that thee meed a colony
as a population outlet and source of
raw materials. But a mand'ated ter-
ritory would do them quite well, and
they seem to believe that one may
turns up in the next sharing around.
Speaking of "sharing up," the rules
in this part of Europe have always
been that the wiener gets tlhe spoils
and the •loses• the knout, and the
Pales stow' No Indication of viewing
the outcome of the next war, if Ger-
mane forces itt on them in an. attempt
to grab their territory, in any other
way. They don't doubt for a mom-
ent that they will wine and by a
l:n•ockotnt, 'Then' Poland is going to
be restored hao her proper borders'. I
only wish that Hitler, Rosenberg and
Co., who have spent so m,a.ny hours
of pleasurable antioipati,on improving
on the plans prepared by Ludendorff
art Brest -Litovsk for this region, could
have been with me this afternoon
while a fiery Polish nationalist, who
loaned a Polish legion in Toronto
during the last war and led them to
tth•e Western Front, showed lie -on
the great ttimeaad-finger-stained map'
on hits living --room wall the "real"
boundaries which the ,had drawn in
for Poland. Under the spell of this
toughest of all the customers I have
met here 1 could almost feel sorry
for Germany already. Which is -of
course just what the Poles can't un-
dersta:n-d, about the British, who
"ruined" the hast pea -c -e settlement by
being soft to the Germans.
FAIR NOTIONS -
AND BALD FACTS
Most tor the beliefs people have
about their thair and hew to keep it.
are sj,n onfiro ed by laboratory tests
and the research of specialists For
instance, the m3t.h that exposure to
,sunlight will raise a crap of super-
fluous hair was exploded i'n -a:series
of experiments by Dos. C. H. Danforth
and Mildred Trotter at the Washing-
ton University School of Medicine.
Late one spring, the hairs on the scalp
and legs ref 12 college girls were mic-
roscopically examined and counted.
All svmaner the girls basked in the
suns In the autumn, the microscope
showed that the prolonged baking
had had! no effect on the growth, in
number or texture, of the 'hair.
The same investigators also dispos-
ed of the common belief that shaving
causes hair to grow nut thicker and
more bristly titan before—a supersti-
tion which makers worn -en turn' to
sometimes harmful chemical depila-
tories, and men keep their razors a-
way Pram the fuzz on cheekbones!
Drs. Danforth and Trotter had three
girls shave area left legs, from knee
Uo ankle, twice a weak for eight
menthe Twelve mien shaved the left
side of their attests daily. In each
case, when the hair had grown out
again, microscopic coinparis'on showed
that :shaving had no noticeable effect.
The ,illusion. of a stubble, when hair
sprouts again after shaving, Is caus-
ed lee 'the changed ratio of the haia's
diameter to its length. If allowed to -
grow, the steel bristles on- a mourning
chin eventually be -come a silky beard.
The moral here, for women, is that
shaving is safer than scraping the
skin with pumice stone or emery
boards, or resorting to hair removers
which may cause tsevere skin infec-
tion . The one safe method tort perm,•
anently,removing the hair, eleotro'lyeis
Is expensive and sthould be entrusted
-only to an expert, with the approval
of your physician.
Another current myth, spread by
many' barbers, is that singeing 'seals'
the their avid prevents the escape of
its 'vital•fluuid.' The hair -has n'o more
sap tthr,an a leuggy whip! Wearing
tightfitting ,hats 'will not necessarily
produce baldness. Wrong also are
the beliefs Isisat the hair should be
shampooed as seldom as posrible "be-
cause moisture is harmful"; that
washing the bait twice a -week or ev-
en daily ithelps the scalp to "breathe";
that massaging i000ens the hair; that
massaging with vacuum eves 'some-
how strengthens it. And eminent
d'ermabologistts, 'alto have made a life-
lotsg study of the ahuneata hair deplore
the millions et dollars spent antnuairy
on hair tondos, baicirness,. remodlet and
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Tic tomcat .fQsi it wit%its
tobacco cap bar fooled"' '
rr r
exp4'xteivu " jiwiing" treat'mentle
Hale is •nrot '&a; thtdependent att'ut
tine growing outer the skim as Wheat
grows from the earth, wast . the hu-
man scalp ,cannot be cultivated Brie et
tract of arable Iand. Like &rgernailsr
their . is simrply another form of trite
horny layer of the skin:.itseaf. Haslet
hair grows up from a tiny papillas
that lies deep in the corium, or body
of the skin. Growth pushes the stair
upward through a furs. tubule, er
follicle, which shapes it into a strong
slender shaft. Por a very short dis-
tance above the papilla, 'itt is a dieing
tissue, teindlar to the deeper layer oft
the skin itaehf. But beyond • that
point it is lifeless insensitive thorn.
Dr. Hans Friedetuthal's count of the
hairs on -the human head, adeepted as
approximately correct, is, 88,000 for
redheads, 102,000 for brunettes'; 104,-
000
04,000 for bl'ondes., Normally each or
these tains has .a life of from eta
months to four years, after which it
falls out, to be replaced by a new -
one. So a moderate amount of heir
shedding need cause no alarm.
The hair derives its color from pig-
intent granules .present in the cells or
the shaft itself. N•ea rally De later
life, or premrarturely in 'many cases',
this natural supply of pigment may
diminish, amid the Blair turns gray_
Worry and nerve s'trai'n may be can-
tributing factors, but there is no ease`
on record of 'hair "turning white ov-
ernight" from shack or fright.
Once the 'hair loses its color there.
is no means known to science of re-
storing it. So-called "hair restorers
are nettling 'mote than dyes, anti, art
wish, are to ,be regarded weal suspi-
cion. Flar while certain vegetable
dyed ---henna, indigo and walnut juic-'
es—.may . be 'harmless, they are diffi-
cult to apply and effective for a short
time only. The dyes of the aniline,
and metallic types may be harmful
and have been known to cause ser-
ious
erious poisanin:gs. The doctors say
that the best thing to do about gray
or white hair is ito admire it!
Dermatologists still don't know aril
the factors involved in making hair-'
grow. But that is not reason for
clinging to 'superstition. So the der-
matologists urge ue to save time.
hair and money by learning . a few'
simple rules.
Take warming from dandruff, a con-
tributing cause of baldness. Occas- • '
ional small flakes that appear in the
`hair are bits of dead skin naturallyehed, but the unsightly scurf popular-
ly called dandruff means that. bacteria.
have attacked your scalp. ' Usually
they will succumb to a shampoo rnade'
of tincture of 'green stoop. Avoid
"dandruff removers" and "da.nadee-nl
shampoos:" If the condition persiets,
consult a doctor—and don't try curer
recommended by your barber or your
friends.
Keep your hair clean, with fort-
nightly shampoos, using a pure toilet
soap and water. . Prepared shampocia
at best are nothing mare than this;
at worst they may contain borax or
alkali—both irritating to the scalp_
Rinse the hair carefully, and if pos-
sible dry it in the sun. After a swine
wash out the sand and salt, then dry
your hair with a towel. The male
habit of wetting the hair in order tot
comb it down is considered by some
a .possible contributing cause of bald
mesa.
Vigorous, daily brushing stimulates
the sebaceous gland's which make the
Bair glossy by distributing over it the
natural oil from the scalp. When the
hair seems too dry and: unruly after
a- shampoo, ,a little vaseline, olive oil
or sweet almond oil may be rubbed
in. If it is too greasy, wet the hair
with alcohol, and rub off quickly be-
fore it, evapoaates.
Massaging is excellent, when cor-
rectly
orrectly performed. Don't rub the scalp
violently nor you will merely pull out
the Lair... Press the scalp firmly with
the fingefs and move it about oyes
the skull, thereby stimulatintg not on-
ly the scalp but the underlying fatty
tissue which separates the scafp from
the skull.
The best medical explanation of
baldness is that etas subcutaneous fat,
prematurely in midkIlte age, or natur-
ally in acid age, gets thinner and dis-
appears. The scalp) becomes more
tightly attached to the skull; the hair
follicles close up and vanish, and
baldness sets in—usually on -the tors
of the head where the skin is tight-
est. According to this -theory, wv-
m-en are bald far more rarely that!
men because their ihaire like a man's
beard, is a secondary serf characteris-
tic a.nd because -their 'layer of subcut-
aneous fat is thicker than a man's,
and atrophies 'much later in life..
Baldness is of two quite different
types. One type accompanies a varie-
ty of diseases. Walem the disease is
cured, the -hair often grows in agars
as mysteriously as it fell out. The
ciaims of success made by baldness,
remedies are founded upon such eas-
es; the hair would have returned even
If to remedy had been.'a4ppli:ed-
The other type, "common" baldness)
is still a profound ptrzzle. Dermatolo-
gists believe that, while mucin mar
be dsme to prevent it, nothing will
cure It once the hair is gone. There
is much evidenece that this ,scourge is
hereditary, and that the tendency can
be passed on net only by a bald far
thte * but thr'taugh the mother who is
not subject to it herself. Intensive
research-s'hotrld some day reveal its
oauae, probably deep in the obscure
chemistry of the glands.
Yet enough is known about humans
hair for der ato'logistts to say that if
people only .,paid more attention to
the fu'ndatnenrtals of 'scalp hygiene.,
and lege to popular superstitions,
remedies and tonics, they would keep
their hair longer. The safest advice
is: "Take care of your hair while
you have it—and forget about it
when 1:t'e gone."
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