Southern Oregon miner., July 06, 1950, Image 3

S O U T H E R N O R E G O N N E W S R E V IE W
WOMAN'S WORLD
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S iz e o f W a r d r o b e D e p e n d s on P e rs o n a l R e q u ire m e n ts
By Ertta Haley
WO WOMEN W ITH practically
the same activities hardly ever
have the same amount of clothes
In their wardrobe even though they
may have approximately the same
amount to spend on them The size
of the wardrobe depends on the
number of changes you require as
well as on the variety you feel you
need.
One girl on vacation can get along
with a bathing suit, a sun dress with
a cover up Jacket, an attractive aft­
ernoon dress and an evening gown.
Another will need two of each of
these as well as a suit and possibly
two couts.
Those who want to get the most
for their money and still keep In
fashion will choose apparel for their
double duty wcur. This moans se­
lecting clothes that can be worn in
aeveral different ways, or a coor­
dinated wardrobe In which, for ex­
ample, the coat belonging to a dress
can be worn with one or two other
dresses.
Any clothing, whether It Is chosen
with a large or limited wardrobe in
mind, should be picked with loving
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Choose Cool C o lto n *
Halter Top Dress
T h is
budget - p ric e d
dress
doubles fu r sunning as w ell as
shopping when w orn
w ith
Its
cover-u p bolero. M a d e of O xfo rd
g ra y c h a n ib ra y w ith w h ite pique
trim m in g , this h a lte r top dress
has slend er lines w ith Its but­
tons dow n the fro n t and the a t­
tra c tiv e c o lla r lines.
In Two-Fleee Styles
Wise shoppers will want to get a
two-piece dress for both traveling
and town wear. Most of these are
of the suriback variety that can be
used for lounging about casually.
Covered with a brief or bolero Jack­
et, they are cool for traveling, shop­
ping or sightseeing
Jackets for these dresses are
brief, either waist length or just
slightly longer. Styles are numerous
and it's best to fit on several to
get something exactly right for you.
In two-piece styles, you'll also
want to investigate the dress and
cuat combinations for these have
many fresh possibilities In them.
Simple, bare-topped or camisole
strapped dresses are used with
many of these coats, and the dress
may be worn without the coat for
dining or evening.
Many of the coats in these styles,
made, by the way, of cotton as are
the dresses, can be worn with other
dresses. The reefer styles or prin­
cess models with their buttons down
the front, are splendid cover-up for
many dresses.
Dark cottons are especially prac­
tical for many of the dresses in
these styles. Relieved with fragile
and frosty white touches, they are
crisp, sleek and smart.
L’ac ( h a rm in g P a n ic i*
F o r A fte rn o o n W e a r
Vacationers as well as the stay-
at-homes who want to look at their
charming best during a quiet and
restful afternoon will select fragile
pastels and other sheer fabrics for
their dresses.
There’s a great variety of fabrics
from which to choose depending up­
on the price y<"j want to pay. Cot­
tons are as sheer as silk, if you want
something easily laundered at home,
pastel linens with their crease and
crinkle-proof qualities are excellent
while silk organdy or organza is
exceptionally lovely.
Very sheer dresses often come
with matching slips, included In the
price of the dress, and this makes
them an excellent purchase.
Accessories for dresses of this
type are in keeping with the love­
liness of the frock. You may wear
a small flowered nat or a shadowy
cartwheel and short white gloves.
The bag and shoes may match or
contrast, but th>y should be sum­
mery.
U. S. Dollar Devalued 4 0 Percent
In Purchasing Power in Ten Years
T b it u the fir it ol lu o article! on inllalion, how it w orkt and ill future,
at prepared by the Ia m ily Ecouomici bureau of N orlbew eilern N ational L ift
Iniurance company.
In these hectic days, fresh alarms and fresh problems flare up
both here and abroad, crowding each other through the spotlight.
Seldom is there time enough to think each problem through.
Meanwhile, inflation creeps quietly on, down underneath. It
chisels every pay envelope, every savings account. It undermines
every pension program, every plan for future security. It weakens
our ability to deal with all our other ----- ----------------------------
problems, b o t h
at home and
abroad.
Though inflation has gotten bad-
' ly mixed up in politics, no one party
¡ has a monopoly on the blame for it.
' Groups and individuals belonging
! to all our important political parties
have contributed to our present in-
I flation menace, usually with the
1 best of intentions.
Buying
Power
Down
Inflation needs to be thought
through now, regardless of politics
and in spite of all other distractions.
For we, like Britain and France
Busy V a c a tio n e rs
and many other nations, now have
Need P la y Clothes
Whether you're spending vaca­ the inflation habit. As citizens of a
tion at home or going away on a democracy, we must all share the
trip, play clothes are definitely blame as well as take the conse-
needed. It's true that many of these quences, if we do not find a cure.
Our own dollar has been de­
depend upon the kind of activity in
valued 40 per cent in actual
which you engage, but you'll need
some of at least one variety.
buying power since 1939. The
white haired couple existing on
Even those who say they want to
old age assistance, the elderly
spend their vacation sitting, usual­
worker retired on a pension, the
ly mean they like to see themselves
widow trying to keep her fam ­
sitting pretty, and not just sitting.
ily together on social security
Separates in denim with crisp white
and her husband’s savings—
accents are usually the most prac­
these can testify whether infla­
tical choice when no special activ­
tion has whittled down their
i ity is planned.
comfort and their security.
To see how, and why, the infla­
tion process goes on and on, we
■ must first stop long enough to real-
! ize the nature of money, and why it
I grows or shrinks in buying power.
Money Is only waste paper unless
there are things to buy. Without
i ly attracted to a man from M il­ things to buy. it is as worthless
. waukee. A quiet wedding followed, as a hat-check when there are no
, Kent being introduced to friends and hats in the checkroom. Things to
neighbors as “ a man our friend
buy—or goods, as the economists
Mrs. Oliver knows.”
call them—result from work and
Im mediately a man who had I production.
known both sisters for years an­
Money enables the farm er in
nounced himself as extremely re­
Minnesota to trade a gallon of milk
sentful, as. he said, he had loved
for canned pineapple from Hawaii,
Goldie for a long time, but had been f or fresh oranges from Florida.
waiting until her obligations to her
The money that passes through
mother and his to an old father,
many hands to make these trades
were somewhat less pressing. Goldie
possible isn’t wealth nor does It
only could accept this with the com­
placency of a bride, and the disap­ create a standard of living. The
' m ilk,
the
pineapple,
and the
pointed adm irer elected himself to
comfort Grace, afterward finding oranges are the wealth and the
that she was the one he loved, after standard of living. It is production
all. On their wedding trip they could of these things that makes the U S .
act as godparents for Goldie's baby dollar valuable, and makes the
son; the sisters between them now ' American standard of living so
have five children, and the whole high.
In the wild post-war Chinese in­
venture ended happily and success­
flation it was not uncommon for a
fully for everyone.
I 'ricksha collie to earn 175 million
Which is only to say, perhaps,
Chinese dollars a week, but he often
that there is no harm in breaking
had difficuty buying enough food
out of the rut into which our day*
with his baskets full of money to
sometimes sink. This adventure
keep from starving. There were lots
usually belongs to girls and boys In
of
dollars being poured out by gov­
their teens.
ernment, but not much food being
Some find congenial companions produced or marketed. Though the
and open little bachelor-maid es­ people’s dollar incomes increased
tablishments, sometimes not far fantastically, this did not raise their
from the home nest, but independ­
living standard; it merely de-valued
ent, anyway.
their dollars.
Grace and Goldie were not young,
The inflation that is nibbling away
as love affairs go. They were sensi­ at our dollars and our pensions and
ble women, already experienced in our future security is not the run­
guiding the young, and they knew away, printed-money inflation that
they needn’t have any dealings with afflicted China. Instead it is a creep­
charlatans and crooks and gay de­ ing. gradual credit inflation that is
ceivers generally. The real danger far harder to see. Here's an illus­
of these matrimonial agencies is tration of how it works:
that to the young, curious, adoles­
cent mind they present enormous Money Supply Trebled
fascinations.
Our government borrow’s a m il­
KATHLEEN NORRIS
Arranged Marriage May Succeed
Shirred nylon makes an attractive !
style In a swimming suit, and many
WO SCHOOL TEA C H E R SIS­
of these are cuffed with a strapless
TERS, Grace and Goldie Brooks,
I'moy your vacation fully . . .
top. the prevailing popular style
wrote me some years ago from their
One-piece suits arc available for home in a small town near Duluth,
care, never In haste, and with an those who like their slimming lines, to consult me about marriages that
open mind.
and they may have such attractive are made through
matrimonial
It ’s not always possible to decide details as halter piping and cuffed agencies. Their parents had recent­
In advance which particular styles legs. Many two piece styles are pop­ ly died, and their lives, they felt,
you want or think you can wear be­ ular two for the younger set in gay had become narrow, dull and mon­
cause small variations make a lot prints and colors
otonous.
of difference
"We love cooking and gardening,”
If you want to sun and swim, one
Strapless dresses which many suit can do double duty for most of wrote Grace, “ we keep a nice home,
women shy away from may be un­ the models are made for both ac- and have friends. But neither one
of us has ever had a sweetheart,
expectedly becoming on you. It
and we wonder why. Just of late it
would be foolish not to have one If
occurred to us that many an ar­
you find color and style In your
ranged m arriage has terminated
favor.
happily, and that as we are too shy
Fashion should not always be fol­
to let the men of our own town know
lowed to the last degree, either, for
that we would like to be married,
no matter how up-to-date something
yet we would not feel so self-con­
la, it may not be for you. It arms
scious with men who are deliberate­
are spindly and too thin, then, by
ly seeking good, loving wives. We
all means, keep away from bare
certainly would not take any man,
arms.
and we understand that we would
T h is Season's B athin g
be free to decline any proposal that
Suits are Well Styled
did not appeal. But we both long
It this Is your year to Invest In a
for companionship, for the interest
bathing suit, you'll find much good
of talking over our households, hus­
styling available. The suits are
bands, and perhaps someday chil­
neither too fussy nor too strictly
dren with each other, and we feel
functional.
that a wider life would give us more
w ilh w eU -cbottn wardrobe.
For those who can choose only one
chance for development, and even­
suit. It's advisable to pick one of
tually for service.
nylon that’s quick drying. Those tlvltics. It's no longer essential to
M atrim onial Candidate*
who can take two might like one of have two suits, one in which to
In answer to this letter I wrote re­
wool, and the other of cotton or swim, and the other m which to minding these sisters that, being
rayon.
tan.
adults, they were quite able to judge
for themselves the merits and ap­
peal of any matrimonial candidates,
and that it might not be a mistake
to investigate a n y
responsible
bureau in their neighborhood.
But I also said that this line of
business is a notoriously unreliable
one, open to the unscrupulous and
---------------------------------- By Will Bernard, LL.B --------------------------
dishonest, and especially patronized
by fortune hunters, men to whom
Is it Negligence to Throw a Piece
Is o Storekeeper Liable
even the Brooks girls' modest com­
For Shaking His Fist
Of Dry Ice into the Street?
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----- THE READER'S COURTROOM----------------
Be Aware of Dry Ice Danger
Having sold out his stock, an Ice
cream vendor tossed a left-over
piece of dry Ice on the street and
headed for home. Some children
playing nearby picked up the
steaming object and put It In a
bottle Then, in an experimental
mood, they added a little water,
screwed on the bottle top, and
shook well. It wasn't long before
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In a Customer's Face?
A man bought a sweater for his
wife. However, it didn't fit proper­
ly and she decided to return it.
By an unfortunate mistake, the
woman took the garment back to
the wrong store—and demanded a
refund. The merchant was furious.
He not only ordered her out of the
store but also shook his fist under
her nose to emphasize his feelings.
Later the woman sued him for as­
sault. The merchant protested: “ I
had a perfect right to get sore
She was trying to palm off some­
body elsc's goods on m e." But the
court held the man liable. The
judge said that, whether he was
right or wrong in the argument, he
still had no cause to threaten the
woman with physical violence.
• • •
May You Shoo Pests Over
To Your Neighbor's Property?
the expanding gases burst the con­
tainer, and a small boy was In­
jured by flying glass. When he
sued the vendor for damages, the
latter argued: “ How could I fore­
see that children would go to such
lengths In playing with a discarded
piece of dry ice?" But the court
held him liable for the mishap. The
judge said the vendor should have
known that the ice was both fas­
cinating and dangerous to chil­
dren—and so should not have left
it within easy reach.
• * •
A man on a party line got mad
at the operator one day and began
cursing her vigorously. When she
protested, the man dared the com­
pany to cut off his service. Prompt­
ly the company did Just that.
Doubly enraged, the man went to
court for an injunction—but the
judge ruled that the company was
within Its rights. Said His Honor:
“The telephone company requires
the observance of common proprie­
ty In use of language, because its
operators are refined females. Op­
erators have a right to respect."
A farm er was standing in his
cornfield when he spied a swarm
of locusts approaching. To protect
his property, he managed to shoo
the pests away—and they settled
Instead on the neighboring farm.
There they fell to work and rav­
aged the neighbor’s corn and po­
tato crops.
Afterward the neigh­
bor sued for damages, but the
court turned down his claim. The
judge said the farm er had a right
to defend his property against this
"common enemy” —and wasn't re­
sponsible for what the enemy did
somewhere else I
English Monarch
Has 264 Helpers
Days o f S tro n g A rm
A n d Sword A re G one
we lo i
t
cooking . . . “
fort would be worth plundering.
Several happy wives wrote me that
theirs had been matrimonial bureau
marriages when I wrote of this sub­
ject some years ago, and many Eu­
ropean marriages are arranged this
way.
One of my close old friends in
New York was an Irish woman who
had married a man on the very day
set for his marriage to her cousin.
The cousin drew out at the last
moment, and my friend, then a
saucy 18, volunteered to m arry Dan
and go with him to America the
next day. Seven fine children, two
priests, a silver and golden wedding
were the happy results of this ven­
ture.
But It has to be remembered that
in these European marriages the
religion, background and environ­
ment are all fam iliar to the arrang­
ing mothers and fathers, whereas in
Matrimonial-agency marriages a far
greater chance is taken.
Quiet Wedding
Well, to get back to the Brooks
sisters. They went into Duluth, and
consulted a Mrs. Oliver, a middle-
aged, motherly sort of woman who
never openly advertises, but has a
good reputation as Cupid's agent.
After some negotiating she sent
them some letters, and the sister
I have called Goldie became deep-
LONDON—It used to be that all a
king needed was a lion's heart and
a good sword arm. Things have
changed since the Windsor family
went into the crown business more
than 1,000 years ago.
To handle the job today, you have
to have a lot of assistants. A new
household list has recently been
compiled for King George VI, and
It shows it takes at least 264 help­
ers to hold down the monarchy.
In fact, it’s pretty much a Job just
keeping up with the assistants,
those close to the throne say. These
are complicated days In Bucking­
ham Palace.
King George has 43 doctors (phy­
sicians, extra physicians, sergeant
surgeons,
surgeon
apothacaries,
surgeon occulists. manipulative sur­
geons, surgeon dentists, etc.)
He has 43 chaplains. He has 13
secretaries and assistants and a
treasurer, a comptroller, a vice­
chamberlain and 14 helpers Just to
take care of the royal income.
Purity on Stage
Five people work full time pre­
paring the royal archives and five
more control the king's charities.
The king keeps an eye on purity
on the stage through his chief as­
sistant, the lord chamberlain.
His palaces are under a lord
steward and even in this atomic
age he finds it necessary to have
a master of the horse.
Sovereigns have to be patrons of
the arts, so the king needs a poet
laureate, a master of the music
and an official miner or painter.
Sm art Two-Piece Frock
Displays Unusual Lines
lion dollars from a federal reserve
bank, to meet some of its expenses.
The U S. treasury gives the bank a
note or bonds for a million dollars.
The bank simply marks up a de­
posit of a million dollars in the
| name of the U. S. treasury, and
keeps Uncle Sam’s promise to re­
pay the loan as security.
The treasury then writes checks
on that milllon-dollar bank account
until it is all paid out, for road
building, pensions, airplanes, public
housing, salaries of government
employees.
The total number of dollar
“ claim-tickets” In circulation is
Increased by a million, just as
•urely as If the government had
printed up a million dollars in
crisp new greenbacks and had
spent that money Instead.
Uncle Sam's checkbook dollars
are deposited by individuals and
business concerns in their own bank
accounts; they write new checks
as they pas* the dollars on. The
million dollars stays in circulation
until Uncle Sam repays his loan.
Some of the people who receive the
bank checks will probably want
actual greenbacks for them; any
Federal Reserve bank can print up
new paper money, using that same
million-dollars IOU of Uncle Sam’s
as security, with only 25 per cent
gold reserve required under the
present law.
Now, to see just what has hap-
The above chart prepared by
the Fam ily Economics Bureau
of Northwestern National Life
Inxuranre company show* clear­
ly why your dollar has shrunk
to 57 cents’ w o rth .
pened to the purchasing power of
the dollar:
In 1939 we had a little undet
33 billion dollars of this "check­
book" money and a little over sev­
en billion dollars of coins and paper
money—a total "money supply” of
49 billion dollars in 1939.
By late 1949 we had 93 billion
dollars of “checkbook” money and
27 billion dollars of coins and paper
money—a total money supply of 120
billion dollars in 1949.
This is just three times as many
dollar “ claim-tickets” for goods as
were outstanding in 1939.
But our production of goods has
Increased, too, though it hasn’t
trebled, like the money supply, or
even doubled—it has increased
about 70 per cent.
Production
Fights
Inflation
If
there were no more dollars
In circulation today than in 1939,
each dollar would be a claim for
about 70 per cent more goods;
would buy approximately as much
today as $1.70 would buy in 1939.
But there are three times as many
dollar "claim-tickets” outstanding
today. So each dollar can claim
only about a third as much. A third
of $1.70 would be about 57 cents;
actually we have about a 59-cent
dollar today, compared with its
1939 buying power. If it weren’t for
the increase in production of goods
—our real wealth— we would have
about a 33 cent dollar today.
About three-fourths of the M
billion dollars added to our
money supply from 1939 to 1949
—or about 60 billion dollars— has
been due to government borrow­
ing from banks. Most of this
borrowing was done to help fi­
nance the war.
Another 17 billions, or nearly all
the remainder of the increase, ha*
been due to business borrowings to
build new plants, buy new machin­
ery, finance larger stocks of goods.
Such business borrowings were
temporarily inflationary, because
when they were paid out for con­
struction wages, materials, etc.,
they boosted the number of dollar
“ claim-tickets" outstanding against
our total stock of things to buy.
But as soon as the new factories
and the improved machinery got
into production, they greatly in­
creased tBe supply of consumer
goods, and thus offset the increase
in the number of dollars outstand­
ing.
The government borrowings, how­
ever, did not increase production
of consumer goods.
The things
those borrowed dollar* were spent
for either “went up in smoke” dur-
! ing the war, or were mostly junked
i after the war. The borrowed dol­
lars are still with us at pure infla-
j tion.
From the latest official estimates,
ovx government is now spending
over five billion dollars more than
it takes in in the current year. As
previously pointed out, this means
that five billion borrowed, check­
book dollars are gradually added
! to an already existing money sup-
i ply of about 120 billion dollars.
I f every other influence stayed
exactly the same, so we could
watch this 4 per cent inflation
at work, all by itself, we would
find each individual American
d o lla r
gradually "watered
down" about 4 cents In buying
power. This Is, It would take
$1.04 to buy as much as $1.00
bought previously.
This means about four cents
i sucked out of each of our old dollars
to create five billion new dollars.
I No '"new purchasing power" has
| been created; the purchasing power
: of the new money has been taken
away from all the old money.
S m a r t and U n u su al
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WELL STYLED two-piece
frock that’s as sm art as can
be. The unusual slanted closing is
accented with large buttons, the
skirt is pencil-slim and has a tiny
1 slit in front.
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P a t t e r n N o . 8536 Is a s e w -rlte p e r fo ­
ra te d p a tte r n In sizes 12. 14. 16. 18. 20;
40 a n d 42. Size 14. s h o rt s le e ve . 4 % y a rd s
of 39-inch.
The
s p rin g
and
sum m er
S T Y L IS T
o ffe rs y
a v a r ie t y o f s m a rt, e asy to
s e w s tyle s fo r y o u r s u m m e r w a r d r o b e ;
s p e c ia l f a b r ic
new s;
d e c o ra tin g
tip s ;
fr e e p a tte rn p rin te d In s id e the book. 25
cen ts.
SE W IN G C IR C L E P A T T E R N D E P T .
5M
W ells 81.. C h le a g « 7. DI.
E n c lo se 25 cents in coins fo r each
p a tte rn d e s ire d .
P a tte rn
N am e
A ddress
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Kool-#id
How mild can a cigarette be?
MORE PEOPLE
SMOKE CAMELS
than any
other cigarette!
and among the millions who d o ...
BILL STERN
P opular sports­
caster says: “My
voles gets a work­
out for hours at
a s tre tc h . I t ’ a
mild Camels for
m e! They agree
with my throat 1”
NOURISHING.»
Tasty, toasty, crisp to the last I
With vitamins, minerals and pro­
tein* in the bargain. Nobody can
resist the “Snapl Crackle I Pop I”
of Kellogg’s Rice Krispies. Now
3 packages: Regular and large.
SUPER-PEUSHI
. n*!$ rellevs distress ef MONTHLY ,
Production N ot Increased by Inflation
As a crude example ol inflation, suppose a restaurant check­
room started giving each customer two hat-checks when he turned
in his hat This would certainly not increase the supply of hats; the
patrons would be no better off than before, although they would
have a merry jingle in their pockets. Each customer would either
have to give up two hat checks to reclaim his hat, or else some
customer would come away with two hats, and some with none.
Neither does issuing more American dollars increase our sup­
ply of goods or raise our American standard of living, although for
a while >t seems as if it does.
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