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t• ANNE ALLAN
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e)lo, Homemakers! Qrgalrization
pt l„the work to be done ,is the best
ira 6 to aplirroaeh any job—even the
tantily laundry. With a decided plan
.yolks job falls into several small jobs,
e -one of which seems overwhelm-
ing, You also save time by eliminat-
ing waste motion.
What jobs need to be done before
actual washing? All mending should
be done beforehand, because tears
and rips are likely to enlarge discour-
agingly during the washing process.
AR stains should be removed becaus&
soapy water sets many stains.
How should 1 soht• clothes before
washing? White clothes: (1) table
linen; (2) sheets, pillow cases, light-
ly soiled towels; (3) cotton under-
wear, shirts, heavy soiled towels.
Colored clothes: (1) light colored;
(2) dark colored; (3) colors that may.
run. Set aside fine fabrics for spe-
cial handling and stained clothes for
treatment.
What can be done about very hard
water? Soft water requires less soap
and makes clothes whiter than hard
water. Washing soda and trisodium
phosphate are good water softeners
but should not be used in washing
rayon or part wool and rayon fabrics.
Some "brand” softeners may be used
for all fabrics and 'colors but should
be used according to directions. Too
much softener may turn fabrics yel-
low.
Do clothes have to be soaked?
Soaking loosens soil, and, therefore.
is helpful in washing dirty clothes.
A fifteen -minute soaking is ample and
cool water is better than hot for this
purpose.
How to keep white clothes white?
Hot washing Water, the right amount
of soap, thorough rinsing and wring-
ing are the answers to that question.
Fill the machine two-thirds full of
hot water. if you use a water soft -
ever, add the correct amount accord-
ing to the manufacturer's directions.
Meas soap allowing enough to
make a .-inch suds after machine
has been ..:rated for about two min-
utes. Do +.. use more soap than
needed. Wash a few clothes at one
time—for a go+d washing, clothes
must move freel • . + - + the 'suds.
Operate the machine from 10 to 15
minutes, depending on amount of soil
in clothes -20 minutes for stubborn
dirt. Before adding another load to
the machine, be sure water is hot,
soapy and not too dirty. Rinse
Clothes three times in soft or soften-
ed water, hot, warm, then cool. Soap
left in -a fabric turns it yellow. If
you wish to add bluing, add it spar-
ingly, according to manufacturer's
directions. Keep clothes in motion
while bluing to prevent streaking. A
plunger is useful to assist in forcing
out soapy water.
How do I keep colours clear and
bright? First make sure colours are
tubfast by soaking a small sample
piece. in warm water 10 minutes. If
colours run, handle the garment sep-
arately. Before washing soak it in
salt and water or baking soda and
water for a few minutes. The wash
water should be only lukewarm and
the cleaning should be done in a few
minutes. Wring as dry as possible
after rising and dry quickly.
Why are clothes starched? The
purpose of starching is to restore the
original finish to fabrics. As starch
gives a smooth surface that repels
dirt and stains, it is especially de-
sirable for housedresses, aprons and
children's clothes. Many woman like
to starch linens very lightly. Clothes
should be starched after the last
rinse. Proper quantities are impos-
sible to list because the amount of
starch a garment absorbs varies with
the weave and weight of the mater-
ial and the temperature of the wa-
ter. You have to learn by experi-
ence. Remember that the hotter the
starch the more will be absorbed.
Use a warm. thin starch solution.
Wring out as much as possible and
let starched clothes dry thoroughly
before sprinkling.
How to hang clothes? As the
clothes are put through the last rinse,
watch out for unnecessary folds to
prevent wrinkles. Fold big flat piec-
es so they won't pull cornerwise. Put
,,,tjA clothes into the basket in some
order—sheets in one end, towels in
the other, small articles ffat on ;top.
Shake out and smooth clothes to
make ironing easier. In general,
bang clothes by the heaviest, firmest
portion. Fold sheets and tablecloths
hem to hem and place on line se
that hemmed edges hang over eight
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them down. You have to iron, out
those additional wrinkles. 'Use a
clean stiff brush or a battle with a
fine perforated Cap to sprinkle the
clothes. Cover with a heavy towel.
Iron in two or three hours' time.
Anne Allan invites you to write to
her c/o The Huron Expositor. Send
in your suggestions on homemaking
problem and watch this column for
replies. -
Comments On
French Courtesy
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The French conception of society
is hierarchical and administrative, as
her government (under whatever
name) has so long been. Every so-
cial situation has its appropriate ges-
tures and its almost fixed vocabulary
and nothing, for example, is more
puzzling to the French than.. the fact
that the English, a race whose civ-
ilization they regard as in some re-
spects superior to their own, have
only two or three ways of beginning
and ending their letters.
This ritual view of .politeness
makes it difficult of application in
undetermined cases, and therefore it
often gets left out in emergencies.
. . . The French are not courteous
from any vague sense of good -will to-
ward mankind; they regard polite-
ness as a coin, with which certain
things are obtainable, and being not-
ably thrifty they are cautious about
spending it on strangers. But the
disillusion, of the traveller often aii:-
es in part from his own ignorance
of the most elementary French
forms: of the "Bon jour, Madame;" on
entering and leaving a shop, of the
fact that a visitor should always, on
taking leave, be conducted to the out-
er door, and a gentleman (of the old
school( bidden not to remain uncov-
ered when he stops to speak to a
lady in the street; of the "Merei"
that should follow every service,
however slight, the "Aprea vous"
which makes way, with ceremonious
insistence, for the person who hap-
pens to be entering a door with one.
In these respects, Anglo-Saxons, by
their lack of "form" (and their lack
of perception), are perpetually giving
unintentional offence. But small so-
cial fashions are oddly different in
The Senate subcommittee on wax
mobilization forecasts that post-war
America will be a mechanically spien-
did place, but today's industrial strife
acids a capital -letter "If."
The committee has released a 200 -
page pamphlet crammed full of ex-
amples of wartime technical advanc-
es achieved . in the United States—
listing 830 'gadgets, products, mater-
ials, processes, inventions and tech-
niques developed in 1944 alone.
New -type helicopters, safer rail-
way travel, two-way radios for taxis,
in>iulated glass for homes, shrink -
proof clothing, dresses of fine -spun
aluminum, fountain pens with a two-
year ink supply—the warfhelped ma-
terialize these innovations and hun-
dreds more. But will industry pro-
duce them? Will they reach the
waiting hands of consumers?
These are the devices awaiting the
assembly -line touch ,of American pro-
ductive genius. These are the atone
is nuclei of new industries and ex-
panded /factories, of more employ-
ment and new jobs. But it is recog-
nized that they will not be produeed
while industrial strife continues,
while industrial planning is jeopard-
ized by uncertainty of production,
while reconversion stalls in the -mid-
dle of the big push.
Accord Vital
If Washington's Labor -Management
Conference accomplishes little, if
conciliation and statesmanship fail
along Factory .Row, the prospects. are
that all of America's new technical
growth will avail it little. This puts
it up to labor and up to industry.
Senator. Harley M. Kilgore (D) of
West Virginia, Chairman of the ob-
lization '. Committee, touches another
key point when he declares in the
report's preface:
"Running through the compilation
there appears over and over the
Phrase that this or that device or
technique was 'employee -suggested.'
An equally recurrent theme is, the
time -saving and man -saving factor,
American working people have con-
tributed greatly to our war -winning
technology, and by their contribu-
tions they frequently have brought
about their own technological dis-
placement."
is-
placement"
When new peanut -harvesting ma-
chines, for instance, cut harvest labor
/ do'wn to one-tenth the present re-
quirements, that means fewer jobs
for some folk. Yet it is stressed ti'at
this technological unemployment can
be fleeting and temporary if hundreds
of new products and techniques build
new industries, which will h.re ' far
more men than those momentarily
rendered pobless.
Senator Kilgore would be the first
to suggest, however, that when costs
are cut by labor-saving devices,
these savings should be spread
around in the form of higher wages
or shorter hours or lowered prices to
consumers—and lowered prices mean
greater buying demand, hence more
production, more jobs and new pro-
fits.
Technical Advances
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Week after week The Huron Exposi-
tor hears very gratifying reports of
the results obtained from the Classi-
fied Directory from people who have
something they wish to sell and want
to find a buyer. For a very small
sum you can tell hundreds of pro-
spective buyers who have something
they are interested in. . The same
applies to any article you wish to
buy. Make your wishes known
through The Huron Expositor and it
will surprise you the number of en-
quiries you will obtain.
You will be surprised how really
inexpensive this service is. Classi-
fied Ads such as For Sale, For Rent,
Wanted, etc., are one cent per word
for the first insertion, and less
for succeeding insertions. Minimum
charge is 25 cents per insertion. If
replies are to be delivered to The
Huron Expositor office an extra
charge of 10 cents is added. Classi-
fied Ads are accepted up until noon'
on Thursdays.
The large number of people they
reach always assures the best pos-
sible deal on short notice. They help
to quicklt sell, trade, rent' or buy
whatever is the immediate concern
or worry.
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boose. Radio fascia ile transmission
for trains has been tested Success*
fully, and radio telephone is: ready,
with wires and rails Carrying the
messages. Two-way radio has been
used on .busses and taxi='cabs. Some
day, one may be able to call a cab
by radio. Whether it will answer is
another matter.
,New homes ' built within the next
few years will have the benefits of
improved technology—if men can af-
ford them. There will be instant -
lighting fluorescent lights, an elec-
tronic thermometer for the north
porch, windows of insulated glass to
eliminate 50 per cent beat loss, com-
pact low-cost smokeless furnaces
which will burn soft coal and, the
smoke from it too.
Stockings From -Glass
Stockings are being developed
which will not have runs -positively
—and dresses may be wove"it from
fine -spun glass or aluminum. Women
may do their ironing on asbestos -
cardboard covers that will not
scorch. And there are a half dozen
new kinds of synthetic rubber avail-
able, each with its special use and
characteristics: Cell-Tite, Foamex,
laetroprene, texylon, silocone rubber,
thiokol LP-2—the list runs on.
Jet -launching devices, for those
whose hobby is gliding, packaged. air-
port equipment for small airports,
television in color and three dimen-
sions and other television specially
tailored for store window, electronic
cooking, steam jets on locomotives to
eliminate smoke, versatile plastics
usable for toothpaste tubes and ad-
hesives—such are the polyglot por-
tents of tomorrow.
"If our resources are effectively ut-.
ilized," says the Senate report, com-
piled by the Bureau of Labor Statis-
tics from trade and technical -journal
items, "technical advances which
have served the nation so well dur-
ing the emergency of war will in the
pe a contribute to a constant im-
pro ement in the content of living
for the people of the United States."
"If," says the report.
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a road 1 thent�kuei;:e c 4Y« i'ri ant•
boa=t 1,500;000 Yen.
The troch wala tranePorting 2,000, -
OP Yen in tiige. no*1U0-yen notes iii
a box. The jolt threw the box out;'
and scurrying throngs,, including
hou'sewivee and'ehildren did the rest.
Police Anally rounded up soo,p00
yen of the notes.
Others Are Asking
Here, then, are a. few of the tech-
nical advances awaiting the applica-
tion of the philosophy of expanding
production: •
In aviation are listed four new
types of helicopter—one of which
marks the first successful application
of automotive assembly -line tech-
niques to helicopter manufacture. A
new 'two-cycle, four -cylinder engine
may be a strong postwar competitor
in the light -plane power plant field.
Air transport safety is increased by
a Weather Bureau device which mea-
sures the, distance of''"dtoud ceilings
two miles high.
For the farm, a Milwaukee firm
has a plow -substituting machine
ready for production which stirs up
the soil six inches deep while re-
volving blades cut up the clods'. Three
new machines have been..deieloped
to harvest peanuts. New - potato
planters, sprinklers, and spinach cut-
ters are ready for manufacture.
Safer railway .travel is made pos-
sible by a frequency -modulation tele-
phone between locomotive and ca -
Cur Lifte4 on Jap Grams
TOKXQ. -- rapanese Government
control has been lifted from theaters,
opening the way for development of
the drama without restraint, Gen.
Douglas MacArthur's headquarters
has announced.
Heretofore, it has been necessary
to submit plays for censorship and
obtain licenses for producers and ac-
tors.
Police in the past have been em-
powered to interfere with plays on
vague grounds of subject matter.
Russians Have Rights
MOSCOW.—Trade-union offcials got
a stern warning that any eomplaint
by a Soviet worker must get the per-
sonal attention of the Union Com-
mittete 'Chairman and an individual
answer. And the Chairman must be
polite.
The President of the Central Coun-
cil of Trade Unions added that the
editor of the labor newspaper, Trud,
would pl),blicize any bureaucratic at-
t?tude reported by workers.
France -Soviet Phone Link
PARIS.—Telephone service be-een
France anti Sci'viet Russia is now bp -
en to the public.
Q.: The owner of a house is re-
pairing it with the permission of his
tenant who is moving out shortly,
having bought another house. Is it
necessary for the owner to give no-
tice to a sub -tenant who is renting
two rooms without the previous
knowledge of the owner? This sub-
tenant is. holding up repairs. The
owner plans to live in the house him-
self.
A,: The owner does not have to
give notice to the sub -tenant. The
sub -tenant of any housing accommo-
dation shall have in respect of the
tenant the same rights and obliga-
tions as the tenant has in respect to
the landlord. No sub -tenant may re-
main in occupation after the date of
the termination of the lease to the
tenant, unless •he has entered into
separate negotiations with the land'
lord.
different countries and vary absurdly
in succeeding generations. The French
gentleman does not uncover in a- lift
or in a museum, because he consid-
ers these places as public as the
street; he does not, after the mauuer
of the newest -of -all American, j::rnp
up like a Jack-in-the-box (and remain
standing at attention)' every time the
woman he is calling on rise' from
her seat, because he considers such
gymnastics fatal to social ease; but
he is shocked by "the way in which
Americans loll and sprawl when they
are seated, and equally bewildered by
their excess ef ceremony on some
occasions, and their startling fam-
iliarity on others. '
Such anisunderstandings ane ;nevit-
able 'between -people of different
`riiieech and traditions. If French and
;Arster1talis are tab. (he, their news-
$apera asm ite 'us) "deni,ocratic," It
gives a notion Of 'how muds the terns
.601ersl a Froin tbi'aticlt °'Ut►ays and
heir ' dtea�tting'� by with tiiharton..
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Q.: Does the price of potatoes in-
crease ..sometime soon?
A.: The maximum price en pota-
toes increased five cents a 75 -pound
bag on November 1st.
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Q.: Do we need special permission
from the W.P.T.B. to sell handicraft
articles such as hand -knitted gar-
ments and aprons at a church bazaar?
A.: No. Special permission is not
required to sell any handicraft arti-
cles when they are being sold for
charitable purposes -such as a bazaar.
3,000 Royal Marine Unite •
LONDON. — The British Govern-
ment has announced that it pians to
maintain a peacetime brigade of 3,00G
Royal Marinecommandos and that in
the future commando training will 'be
compulsory for all marines. Marine
units will replace the Army comman-
do groups which War Secretary J. J.
Lawson announced recently would be
abandoned. ..
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Q.: One month ago I bought some
cornstarch in a grocery store. This
week when I went to the same store
to buy, some more be said I would
have to buy something else with„ it.
Should I have to do this?
A.: This is what is called a con-
ditional sale and is not allowed. Ev-
en if specials of two or more articles
are offered for sale, as you suggest,
a customer must still be able to pur-
chase these articles separately if so
desired.
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Q.: I live in a small town and have
just about finished making my house
into two apartments. How do I get
a price set for this apartment, or do
I have to?
A.: Yes, you must have a price
fixation. Apply to the nearestoffice
of the Wartime Prices and* Trade
Board and they will send an apprais-
er from the rentals department to
set a price for you.
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Questions on any regulation of the
Wartime Prices and Trade Board will
be answered if submitted to the In-
formation Branch, Wartime Prices
and Trade Board, Federal Building,
London,, Ont.
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BERLIN. --Orders for nearly $10,,-
000
10;000 worth Of flowers a day are .being
radioed to wives, sweethearts, and
mothers of, American soldiers, now„
barred from sending home stacks of
American dollars converted from big-
ger stacks of German occupation
marks.
New currency exchange regulations
put a stop to a 40 -day gold rtlah in
which the troops converted millions
of dollars in marks into postal money'
orders. -
India Gold Mine Prospects
BANGALORE, India.—A gold- mine
discovered at Bellera in Mysore state
is expected to yield' gold worth $1,-
200,000.
1;200,000.
Canada 'i -lame' To Get Air
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OTTAWA.—The wartime ban on
Canada radio amateurs will be lifted
November 15th.
Paging All Bus Boys
WELLSVILLE, Kan.—Everybody in
town knows "Bus" Bell—Pte. Fran-
cis E. Bell, liberated prisoner of war.
One of the things they remember
about him is that Bus likes to eat.
He had slim pickings for three
years in a Tokyo prison camp, and
hers due back home soon. The folks
in Wellsville are all going to turn
out to greet him with a special sort
of celebration. Everybody in town
will bring home cooking to a big
basket dinner at the__City Hall . . .
and Bus will be the first one in line.
At our summer Heine when e
sought milk of a better quality than
that supplied by our .regular setiree,
We turned to a Preach fernier in the
neighborhood, Our regular dairyman
,was unite indignant, "That F'rench-
3nat'!" he exclairined. "Re Is utterly
dishonest. He' WilF ttiha to' rtii `i' trick.
Why, be will:,, eveil.,,il'tit : cream • fat -,,his ,a
Milk in order to sell its"
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PHOTOGRAPHIC GREETING CARDS
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It's easy to produce greeting cards with your
selected the illustration you can make the card
photoflhisher do the work for
own
IT'S not one day too soon to think
about Christmas greeting cards.
"Well," you may say, "I can buy
my cards later on at the store."
That's true enough and commercial
greeting cards serve their purpose
• admirably but a photographic
Christmas card made' from one of
your very own snapshots carries a
pictorial message of cheer that is
equalled only by a personal visit.
If you have your own darkroom
you can buy the materials for mak-
ing greeting cards from your pho,
tographic dealer or, if you prefer,
your photoflnisher can make the
cards from your negative.,
MaybeAtu have already snapped
a picture that will make an attrac-
tive card. If not, you can think of
all sorts of ideas 'for making one
specially for a Christman card; If
you have a family, or are a member
of one, you certainly can't go, wrong
if yon include All the Nienlliekki fli
the, picture. Don't, however,' have'
them staring blankly at theear net%
like a group of store` manikins, lfave
them i eff,*ed. The eiliest;r,e'vay �o
ccoinptis ,'tlhia i'e to have thaerm Fde�r
inns .sl t)lymdtiiii'ii t p'bm " L iY''iiie, jiii�
snapshots.
yourself, or
you.
Once you've
have your
4t
might "stage" the picture by having
them grouped around a living roont
table apparently busy wrapping
Christmas packages.
Babies and children are mighty
important, too. Here's one idea that
can be easily veorked out. With a
set of baby blocks spell out "Merl&
Christmas" on the floor and then
pose baby' Jane in a position where
the view will include ,her and the
blocks—then snap the picture. Such
a picture, can be taken by a sunny
window or you can use photoflood
'bulbs or ordir try home electric light
bulbs in reflectors for your illumi-
nation.
It's all just a matter of using your
power of thought to work out dif-
ferent ideas. "Tricky" stunts are
not at all necessary but try to have
something pertaining to the family
or the place in- which yoti live. In
other words ... make it personal.
Whether you use -a pie -Eire which
you novf have or nmake 'a new one
... don't delay, net a min--
tite to lose if your phote''greet1pgg
are- to reach their destinattona oil
time.
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