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SOUTHERN OREGON MINER, Ashland, Oregon PATTERNS SEWDNG CDPCLE Washington, D. C. FOOD AND PAY AN-YOII-GO Although food wai supposed to be ttie chlrf topic of discussion at the recent White Houae conference with farm leaders, uctually Poodczur Cheater Devil did hla best to sell the President on pay-as-you-go taxa tion. He proposed It at in anti» innution measure to drain off surplus Income and euse the work of Income tax payment on the average citizen. "We have simply got to come to It. Mr. President,” argued the food chief. "It was unfortunate that pay- as-you-go taxes were given a black eye by the Rumi plan. Hut pay-as- you-go taxes should go hand in hand with rationing to prevent overspend ing." The President didn’t commit him self definitely, but indicated thut he would favor a pay go plun if wind falls to t)>e wealthy, as provided for in the Rumi plan, were completely eliminated. Ed O'Neal, president of the Farm Bureau federation, and Ezra T Ben son, executive secretary of the Na tional Council of Furmer Co-opera tives, also took up the cudgeli, O'Neal contending that taxpayers wouldn't be able to meet next year's assessments unless the pay-as-you- go plan or forced saving were adopted. G.O.P. Watching Chances. When the ironing board is fold- cd up und stood away in the closet or corner of the kitchen until need ed again, the end that rests on the floor becomes soiled. To prevent this, make a slip cover for the end. > • • • Brooms and other sweeping brushes should be hung up when not in use. For hanging, use ordi nary picture wire. It wears in definitely and being stiff will catch on hooks more easily than string. • • • A clean, well-kept iron gives ef ficient service. With a damp cloth, wipe off any starch marks. If the iron sticks while pressing, rub it over salt sprinkled on a paper. Once a month rub the warm iron with beeswax or paraffin and then rub over a clean cloth or paper Until the excess wax is entirely removed. • • • A small piece of tin br a thin piece of wood is useful when washing the baseboard of a room. It can be slipped along as the woodwork is scrubbed and save many a nasty srnear on the wall- puper. Phone Conversation The Real Problem Voice—Hello, how are you this Hubby—Have you ever wondered morning? what you would do if you had Lady—I’m splendid, thank you. Rockefeller's income? Voice—Then I guess I have the Wife—No, but I have often won wrong number. dered what Rockefeller would do if he had mine. Literate Fellow "I must find another tailor. This An antique is something no one one reads too much." would be seen with if there were "Reads too much?" more of them, but which everyone "Yes. Every time he writes to wants when no one has any. me he begins, ’On going through No Moss on It my books!* ” "What’s that stone in Ann’s en gagement ring, Joyce?" Quarter Down "A rolling stone, my dear. X It happened at an income tax office in Washington. A colored had it once." resident, with his form all filled Selfish Thought out, approached the "Pay” window "What are you thinking of?" and laid a quarter on the ledge. "Oh, nothing much!” "What’s that for?” asked the "Don’t be so self-conscious." clerk, who had read the total amount of the tax. "Why, that’s for my income tax. They done told me I could pay a quarter at a time.” TABASCO Last Chance "Well, we have exhausted rea- son, logic, common sense, and justice; what more can we do? »» "I guess we’ll simply have to e e e If a little piece is chipped off go to law." walnut furniture, touch up the Was He Surprised! spot with iodine applied with a "Who uai that pretty little thing I piece of cotton, then go over the sou you with lutt night?” Spring Classic. surface with furniture polish. "Will you promite not to tell my DUTTON FRONT classic to • • • wife?” you proud. Note the slimming To keep tacks handy, drill a “Surely, I promue.” set-in belt and panel front skirt. *Well, it uai my wife.' • • • three-eighth inch hole, two or Pattern No 8380 lx in s I zm 12. 14. 16, three inches deep, in the handle The boys in Australia sent us 18. 20; 40 and 42. Size 14 take* 3V, yard* of your tack hammer. Fill this 30 Inch material. this one. A mother kangaroo had with tacks and plug the end with a Due to an unusually larte demand and patiently scratched her stomach current war conditions. slightly more time cork. • • • three times, but when the process la required In milng order« for a few of the moil popular pattern numbers. Small bits of soap in a thin cloth was to be renewed a fourth time, Send your order to: bag are as effective as a large she snatched two baby kangaroos from her pouch, spanked them, cake of soap for use in a bath. • • • SEWING CIRCLE PATTERN DEPT. and said: "How many times have Its New Monttomvy Street Next time the steps need paint I told you not to eat crackers in San Franclaco Calif. ing, try painting every other step; bed!" Enclose 20 cent! In coin» for each pait^rn deaired. let these dry, then paint the oth Pattern No. Size. Her Touch ers. It takes a bit longer, *tis Bright Basque. A parton had aeration to reprove d Name ... true, but it’s a lot handier and the VV^HAT a honey this frock is kiddies will love having to take tmall boy for ¡wearing. Add rear ... “If you feel you mutt lay tomething with sleek basque top and 'em “two at a time. juit lay 'Bother!'” he laid. “Your lovely full skirt, and what a pleas father doem't ¡wear, doei he?” ure to make right at this very mo “Oh no, iir!” ment with Spring in full bloom. "Well, then: if he were working in The bright color contrasts will the garden and luddenly itepped back- make you feel young and gay. Sew wardi on to a rake uhich flew up and and Save. hit him from behind, uhat would he "I've made a poll of taxicab driv ers and they are all for it.” said O'Neal. "The great majority of the American people feel the same way. They are against windfalls but they feel they won't have enough money to pay their income tax payment next year. If the administration doesn't take some action on this, the Republicans will steal the ball from you.” "That's right. Mr President.” chimed In Benson. "Tho farmers In my organization are overwhelm ingly for a pay-as-you-go tax pro gram. I think labor is. too.” "Maybe you're right,” responded the President. "Chester <to Davis), I suggest that you talk this over with congressional leaders.” The conversation then turned to farm distribution and the President drew on hie own experience as a • • • tay?” farmer to illustrate the difficulty lllllllll “He'd toy: 'You're back early, dear!*” Pattern No «3M li in sizes 11. 13. 13. 11 "little farmers” are having getting and 10 Size 13. with short sleeves. take« their crops to market. wyet 3', yarda 30-lnch material. 7 yarda bias "I used to raise 100 barrels of ap binding tor trimming. When the soldier talks about “the ples every year on my Dutchess I plywood. Cut out the wooden seat skipper" he means his captain, ’terras ori county farm in New York.” the and screw it to the »chair. Save the head of his company. And President said. “I also raise some that's just what the title "captain” the cardboard pattern. apples on my land in Georgia.” Cover the front of the chair back means. It comes from the Latin Apple Competition. next, tufting it with covered but word “caput” meaning "head." The President grinned to Albert tons sewn through the back with Another leader high in the Army Desirous of bucking up business, Goss, mastrr of the National Grange a long needle. Sew the back of man's favor is Camel cigarettes— who halls from Washington, the big the proprietor of a large depart the cover in place with stitches they’re first choice with men in gest apple-producing state in the ment store engaged an "efficiency hidden under welting. Tack a strip the Army. (Based.on actual sales country: “I'd stack my apples up expert," whose chief delight was of muslin around the seat, and sew records from service men’s own changing the various departments against those you produce In Wash the ruffles to it. Now, pad the stores.) When you’re sending gifts around. ington any day.” round cardboard; stretch covering from home, keep in mind that a One day a section would be at "You're getting out of your class, fabric over it; then sew it in place carton of cigarettes is always most the top of the building; the next welcome. And though there are Mr President,” smiled Goss. "Have on the chair. it would be in the basement or Post Office restrictions on pack • • • you ever eaten a Delicious?” NOTE: Reader» are writing to tell us ages to overseas Army men, you "You win. Albert.” chuckled the where the restaurant used to be. After three weeks of this an old II ERE is how you can play Fairy I that the new BOOK 9 should be called the can still send Camels to soldiers President, "but the point I am try Godmother to a kitchen chair. Victory Book as it contains so many ways in the U. S., and to men in the ing to make is this—little farmers lady approached a worried-looking to make pretty things for the borne that like myself, and the same goes for shopwalker and asked if he could Pad the back as shown here, using could not otherwise be had for the dura Navy, Marines, and Coast Guard at least three layers of cotton tell her where the hardware de tion. Copies are available by mail post wherever they are.—Adv. al) other farmers who don't have batting for the front of it and one paid for 15 cents. Address: the advantage of co-operatives, partment was. "No, madam,” he replied for the back. Next, cut an 18-inch have encountered a lot of difficulty MRS. Rl'TH WYETH SPEARS marketing their crops and getting wearily, "but if you’ll stand here circle of cardboard and use it for Bedford HUH New York their money since the war began for a few minutes, I'm sure you'll a pattern for marking the shape Drawer IS of the round seat on boards or because of the transportation prob see it go by." Enclose 13 cents for each book lem and other factors.” desired. (V. gv. (V. g^« ■ g^« - gv« gv. gv. gVa (%• gVa ^a ^a g^a ^a gWa ^a CV- <Va fV« gWa gVa gVa gWa gWa gWa gVa gWa "Don't you think the government Name................................... should step in and buy up apples and ? 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"I think the that in one second it can circle miles of corridor, 1,500 clocks, 700 of Peter), Hanson (son of Hans), way to protect the little farmers Is the earth how many times? janitors and will house 40,000 and so on. The common name of by continuing the agriculture de 2. If a sailor is punished for be workers? Jones also came from a first partment ’support price* program. name. Long ago in England, it Farmers can get along if they are ing AWOL, where is he put? was the custom to speak of a man 3. The rank of colonel in the The Answers assured that they can get fair prices by a single name—as John or and a decent break on priorities for army corresponds to what rank Richard, or whatnot. Sometimes 1. Seven times. machinery to produce their crops. I in the navy? 2. A sailor is sent to the brig; the members of his family were don't think the government should 4. What city pioneered in intro called "the John” of "the buy up and sell farm products when ducing music into the public a soldier, to the guardhouse. Johnses”—or “the Richards" in 3. Captain. there is no necessity for It.” schools? the case of a family with Richard 4. Boston, in 1837. The President meditated for a mo 5. What literary work is credit as the father. The names 5. Aesop’s Fables. ment and replied: "I guess you're ed to a member of the court of "Johnses” seems to have been fl. Seventeen years. right at that.” Croesus, king of Lydia? changed to "Jones,” to make it 7. Approximately ten. The meeting also thrashed out the 6. How long is the period for question of price ceilings, Kd O'Neal 8. It contains all the letters of short. which a patent is granted in the the alphabet. of the Farm Bureau and Albert Goss A great number of names sprang of the Grange contending that if ra United States? 9. Second and first lieutenants, from occupations. The name of 7. What is the nverage number 36 years; captains, 42; majors, 47; Smith became common in early tioning were tight enough it wouldn’t be necessary to have price ceilings, of hen eggs to a pound? lieutenant colonels, 52; colonels, days because there were so many that rationing would automatically 8. Why is the sentence, "A quick 55; brigadier and major generals, smiths at work. Not only were take care of prices. Justice Byrnes, brown fox jumps over the lazy no maximum age. there blacksmiths, but also gold- Chester Davis and Jim Patton of dog" used as a typewriting exer 10. The army’s new Pentagon I smiths, silversmiths, arrowsmiths the Farmers Union nrgued to the cise? build.ng in Washington. 1 and locksmiths. contrary. The President decided with them. 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