12 Th Newi-Review, Roieburg, Ore. Mon., July 25, 1949 Built-in Age Affects Everything From Three-Color Ice Cream To Brassieres By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK. UP) This is the built-in age. No body any longer wants anything unless it Is also guaranteed to have at least a couple of other leatures built into it. This goes for practically everything from brassieres to bookcases, From three-color ice cream to cigaret boxes that play "Yankee Doodle" when opened. If it doesn't have that built-in something extra, it's strictly "twenty-three skiddoo." Even the pigeons turn up their beaks at popcorn today unless it contains three kinds of built-in vitamins. Think I'm kidding? Well, over In Glasgow they've just developed a blouse with built-in perfume. Makes a girl smell sweet in any flavor she wants ior momns.anu months. But this International craze to build something Into someining else probably has reached its true flower in the motor car and household gadget industries. An automobile used to be a ve hicle to Ret you from here to there. But now cars are gradual ly taking the place of the old fashioned home. You can shave In them, listen to a concert, smoke, carry on a long distance telephone conversation with Paris, or push a button and slice your mother-in-law in half with an automatic sliding window. About the only thing you can't do in them is play a tuba. Take what happened to the sim ple broom. It used to be a straightforward instrument for gathering dust out of odd corners. Then they turned it into a carpet sweeper. Then it developed into the vacuum cleaner. And what won't it do now? It'll paint walls, wax floors, dry the baby, mani cure the furniture and shampoo your rug or your dog or your wife. In another year it'll serve meals, fight peddlers, attack poisonous snakes, and play you gin rummy for keeps. Furniture has become so com- lit IF I W$- You have a f m . m m tip i m I Miller',-, "omember Purchased after Juy 25 "of due until SePiember 10 m m. m i. plicated by built-in gadgets that you can't even tell its function from an outside look. Soon we'll have to hang an index on each piece to know all it is capable oi. You'll have to approach it by ra dar. As it is now I always have a moment of fear when a host asks me to pull open the door of a new cabinet in his living room. I never know whether the thing will dump a sack of laundry on the floor, flip out an X-ray pic ture of my lungs, spray me with martinis, roll out Into a sofa bed or just show another television wrestling match from Chicago. Yes, it's all confused. Try to dial a telephone and somebody complains you're turning off the air-conditioning unit. Are we liv ing at peace in a built-in war, or dwelling at war in a built-in peace? Call a social engineer. The planet's a-wry. Saloon Offers No Escape The corner saloon no longer of fers any escape. I met a friend emerging from one the other day, and he said with- a dazed look: "What a new slot machine they got in there! I put In nlckeL And what happened? Why the darn thing rang up a 10,-000,- 000 score, shot off three roman candles, weighed me, shined my shoes, told my fortune, played a Bing Crosby record and reached into, my pocKet ior anotner nickel. "Don t go In there, pal. I bare ly got out alive. If I'd put in a quarter, the thing would probably have married me, moved Into my apartment and set up housekeep ing." There !s only one way to end the built-in age. That's to develop a race with some built-in common sense. Who really wants a foun tain pen that will write letters, brush his teeth, take his passport photo and for fifty cents extra has three knife blades and a bottle opener at one end? and House, Commercial industrial wiring Electrical Trouble Shooting Motor and Appliance Re pair Free Pick-Up and Delivery Service 17 Years Experience ACE ELECTRIC Licensed Electrician 316 E. 2nd Ave. N. Ph. 1095-L Girl Preacher Uses Back Yard For Her Pulpit By NEA Service CLEVELAND (NEA) At an age when most girls are busy plavlng with dolls, 11-year-old Linda Kasslmatis spends her time playing preacher beiore a sun- suited "congregation. Every Wednesday afternoon for an hour she gathers her flock of neighborhood youngsters in her backyard for a Bible class. More than 40 children usually attend, With all the decorum of one dedicated to the church, she calm' ly leads them in hymns and tells Biblical stories. "Linda's always played church. She'd get her dolls together and preach to them," said her mother. "Most children don't go to story hour at church, so I just thought I'd start one here," Linda ex plained. Her seriousness in leading her saulrmlng audience never deserts her. Her answer to the discipline proDiem is, "i just start taming ana tncy Keep quiet. Its not really tnat simple. A couple of the older children - act as monitors and her parents stand by to shake a finger at the too active. Linda's father, a cook, is unemployed because of illness. in iront oi ner on a little bench, she keeps her briefcase with church papers, Bible and bookmarks with religious pictures or texts. She gives the bookmarks to members of the congregation for good attendance or lor bring ine new members. Every service ends with the dis tribution of religious literature and a "treat," a cold drink and cookies. Linda's church and some of the neighbors help her with the expenses. Oregon Beans Swapped At Boston For Baked Mess BOSTON, July 25. P This olo stronghold oi the caked bean today was given a case of Oregon beans that have yet to see the oven. Young Denny Frank flew here with the uncooked offering as the representative of the Santiam Bean festival of Stayton, Ore. Louis J. Brems, for Mayor Cur ley, welcomed the boy and gave him as a return gift a pot of Bos ton baked beans. The Santiam ambassador wore his "Jack-of-the-beanstalk" cos tume, green Robin Hood jacket and leggings and a red cap. He took oil irom tne west coast Thursday after a farewell from Oregdn Gov. Douglas McKay, Stayton Mayor Clifford Likes, and Salem Mayor K. L.. tustrom. Flowing Fishline Used To Rescue Small Boy COLUMBUS, O., July 25. (JPy Fred Byas whipped his fishline in to the swift-flowing Scioto river vesterdav. snanoed William Miller around the foot and reeled the floundering eight-year-old boy to safety. Afterwards, the 32-year-old rail road brakeman ccmplalned: "That's the trouble with fishing here. The kids always come around to ruin my fishing." HIGH IH QUALITY-LOW IN PRICE Now Convenience Savings-Food Thrills Ml , Sis f with HARDER 18 Cubic Foot Upright Modal. 60" x oO" x 24", 9 Cubic Foot Upright olio ovailable. Harder-Freei ends meal planning headaches and rush trips to the store or locker plant. Makes Instant ly available the year around an abundant supp'y of gar den fresh vegetables and fruits, choice meats and poultry with original good- ness and flavor frozen right in. Enables you to prepare favorite dishes In quantities, even complete meals for serving months later. E3 GO 13 cu. leet 18 cu. feet 24 cu. feet 9 cu. feet R05EBURG REFRIGERATION Harold and Mildred Horn 324 N. Jackson Phone 270 Remedy For Britain's Thin Purse Is Effective Period Of Selling By PETER EDSON NEA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON Understanding of Britain's economic crisis may have been terribly muddled up by too much gobbledygook. When financial experts get to spouting about trade balances, sterling convertibility, drawing rights, devaluation of currency and bilateral vs. multilateral trade agreements, they are talking way over the heads of most of the taxpaying customers. These problems are of course very real. The fact that U.S. Treasury Secretary John Snyder has gone to Europe to look Into them, the fact that his British counterpart. Sir Stafford Cripps, is coming to the United States in September to talk about them some more, attest to the serious ness of it all. There would be much less confusion if their pub lic statements were not couched in such stratospheric language. Leaving out all of the statistics and trying to reduce this situa tion to its simplest possible terms, the British crisis may be described as notning more tnan a Job of selling. The United States is a nation where everything is sold by su per-salesmen irom razor blades, brushes and vacuum cleaners, to automobiles, insur ance, skyscrapers and the Brook lyn bridge. So anything express ed in salesman's language ought to be understandable. Must Expand Sales Over the long haul, the only solution to the British problem is that the British must expand their sales to the United States and Canada the so-called dollar area. It is from this area that the British have to buy many of the things that they need most prin- cipaiiy wheat, meat, fats and oils and other foodstuffs. Up to three months ago, the British seemed to be doing all right at this business. Marshall Plan aid, American scarcities and American high prices were contributing factors. When Am erican prices began to decline and sales began to fall off the British were in a bad way. In this situation the British gov ernment was forced to do what many American business firms were forced to do. They cut back on the amount of supplies they bought, even though they needed them. The problem which the British now face Is to provide some kind of incentive for British manufac turers to get out and sell more of their goods In the American mar ket. British manufacturers natur ally prefer to sell in British em pire areas where the pound ster ling is the basic currency. In this area the British salesmen have a protected market that amounts to a virtual monopoly. In this area they don't have to buck Am erican competition and American prices. Stubbornness Is Taboo The Marshall Plan has some times been severely criticized on the grounds that all it was ac complishing was the build-up of British industry which would be competitive to American manu facturers and would take jobs away from American working men. But British sales to the United States in many fields need not be at all competitive. American wage rates are now at such levels that the manufac ture of landicrafts in this coun try has practically ceased. There is a market for these things in the United States for fine tex tiles, laces, high grade chinaware and cutlery. But it will take con siderable initiative on the part of the British to meet the demands of the American market. The story is told of one British firm that for years had made bone-handled cutlery its top style line. .Before the war it sold good quantities in America. Some of the retail outlets after the war advised the manufacturer that the demand now was for silver handled cutlery. The manufactur er refused to change from his traditional patterns. So he lost the business.- That kind of stub- SLA3W00D in 12-16 end 24 in. lengths OLD GROWTH FlR DOUBLE LOADS WESTERN BATTERY SEPARATOR Phone 658 Camas Valley ' By MRS. JAMES COMBS The small daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bert Golgert was run over by a hay wagon and was taken to the hospital. It was , found she suffered from a bro--ken collar bone and broken ribs. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Erickson of Issaquah, Wash., visited at the home of Mr. Erickson's sister and brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Moodie. Mr. Erickson is the superintendent of the school at Issaquah. Mr. and Mrs. Les. Whiteman of Glenwood, Ore., were also vis itors at the Moodie home. Mrs. Raybelle of South Bend, Wash., is visiting at the home oi her daughter, Mrs. Alvi Bartley. Arthur and Roberta Ferrier and Daisy Doyle of Arago visited at the home of Robert Martin- dale on Sunday. Mrs. Jannet McCann of Brock- way visited at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ted Wiley. Mrs. Carl Moodie will attend the home coming school picnic at Issaquah. born resistance to modern sales methods doesn t help the British position a bit. The other side of this argument is that unless U.S. imports of British and European products are stepped up, the American taxpayer faces the prospect of having to keep on financing for eign aid indefinitely, through the Marshall Plan or its successor. The way to get Europe off the American neck is to help mane; it self-supporting. , Veterans Urged To 'Write Right' In Letters To VA Veterans finding it necessary to correspond with the Veterans Ad ministration are urged by the VA to "write right" in order to get prompt service. Because VA files contain mil lions of records of veterans and their dependents, letters contain ing insufficient information are almost impossible to match with the correct file and answer. Just as an example one VA regional office in the Pacific Northwest has 2500 Johnsons, 2100 Smiths, 1200 Jones and 1500 .' ndersons. A large number of them have common first names, such as John, Charles, Donald, William, James and Carl. Complicating the task is the heavy volume of letters which the VA receives. The agency's an nual volume of incoming mail runs well over one hundred mil lion pieces of correspondence. inereiore, tne VA says, it is Im portant that each veteran identi fy himself fully when writing to the VA. He should include his full name, service number, com plete address and C-number, if one was assigned, or N-number, if the letter concerns National Service Life Insurance. Veterans should not write to I Stock Car Hurtles Into Crowd, Injuring 1 1 WESTBORO, Mass., July 25. UP) A "stock" car went out of control and hurtled into a crowd, injuring 11, during a race at Westboro stadium Friday night The car, driven by Peter Read, 30, of M a r b 1 e h e a d, plunged through a guard rail, went over a nine-foot fire mesh and landed in a section of wooden bleachers. None of the injured was re ported seriously hurt at Memor ial hospital in Worcester. Read escaped with a rib Injury. 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