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The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1940-04-19
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The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1940-04-19
BILLS AND PAY ROLLS
APPROVED FOR PAYMENT

The Council at It's session Tuesday
night approved for payment general
hills amounting to S3.743 a.. special
blilS Of SlOS. and pay rolls of So 222I IL.
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inch material without nap; 2 yards
of bias fold.
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up under frequent trips to the clean
ers? In other words, is the fabric
good and likely to hold its original
line after weeks of wear and tear
that only active youngsters can in
f1ict?
Does it blend with other clothes?
BY that, We mean will this one out
fit require number of new accesso-
ries or can it be perfectly adapted to
those worn with other clothes?
Is it flattering to the figure?
Young girls these days are just as
interested in f1attering clothes as
girls of any other age, so if daughter
is chunky, give her vertical stripes
in slimming effect; If she is thin,
select those dresses which don't
make her look like a beanpole. Re-
member your own color sense and
apply it to your child, too. Big
prints, bright colors are not for
plump people. Consider color in re-
lation to her own complexion. Don't
think she can wear just anything
merely because shes child and it
makes no difference on children"
In other words, fashions for the
youngsters are ample and varied.
Start now to teach your daughter
good taste in clothes and you'll be
mighty grateful for that instruction
both now and in years to come.
And just one more word: Many
dresses are now marked to corre-
spond with the approximate height
and chest measurements of the age,
thus enabling women to shop more
Evening star., 1940-04-24
Virgin Mahogany

Two circumstances have made 1t
possible in the last few years to
bring in mahogany logs cut from
timber as virgin as it was when
Columbus discovered America.
Only few years ago mahogany
was discovered on the upper ANA
zon and its tributaries in Western
Brazil and in Peru. Nobody knows
to what extent mahogany is to be
found in this vast, and all but in
habited, jungle. The trees now
being cut are those virtually grow
ing at the edge of flood water as
it is impractical to bring cattle,
horses or machinery into that re-
gion.
In Central America, where ma
nogany has been an important
product for two centuries, the truck
and the tractor are responsible for
the logging of virgin timber. Seven
miles was about the maximum haul
with cattle, but today loggers are
going back Is to 20 miles from the
Watercourses opening up areas
where never before have mahogany
trees been cut. Thus today much
of the mahogany produced is Of the
finest virgin timber, trees that, per-
haps for centuries, have stood
against the violence of storms.
Evening star., 1940-04-24
Dorothy Dix Says go
Woman's Character Is Very Easily
. Determined by Dress She Wears

A masculine correspondent thinks
that the feminine sex would take
long step forward in progress if it
would discard all of its frills and
furbelows and adopt standardized
dress, such as men have done. He
Says that this would do away with
envy and rivalry between women
and that this would be a happy and
inexpensive world if every woman
had on virtually the same sort of
hat and dress that every other wom-
an was wearing. Maybe so. Maybe
so. But what an ugly, drab world it
would be! And what a dumb one!
For what would women have to talk
about if they couldn't talk about
clothes? Surely we haven't so much
gayety and color and beauty in life
that we can afford to throw any
of it away. And if you want to real
ize just how much women's pretty
frocks cheer things up you've only
got to compare a stag banquet with
hen party. One is a gloomy and
depressing picture in black and
white, while the other is a gorgeous
and brilliant flower garden.
Perhaps fashion is spinach, as one
of it's critics has declared it is, but
even so, it is feminine tonic that
is good for whatever ails women
in body and soul. It is bond that
binds the highest and the lowest
together and makes Judy O'Grady
and the colonel's lady sisters in
whatever they put on outside of the
skin.
It is a topic of conversation that
never runs dry. It is a perpetual
source of interest. It is an outlet
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for pent-up emotion. A woman goes
out end buys new dress to celebrate
her good luck, instead of getting
drunk as a man does. And when
sorrow comes to her there is still
left to her the consolation of "tou-
jours la toilette" as the French say,
that makes getting her mourning
take her mind off her troubles.
And especially do women express
their individuality in their clothes.
They take their religion from their
churches and their politics from the
men of the family, but their clothes
are their own.
If woman is fat and careless and
beruff1ed until she looks like Blow
zibella, you know that she is good
natured and lazy and easy-going,
but that she is totally without
judgment or discrimination and that
she will never correct a single one
of her faults, because she will never
see herself as she is.
If a woman always looks as if
her worst enemy had bought her
clothes; if she wears a green hat
when she has saleratus biscuit
complexion; if she dresses like 16
when she is 60, and if she wears
high-heeled slippers when she starts
out on hike, you know she is lack
ing in perception and good hard
common sense.
But, on the other hand, the girl
who is always appropriately dressed,
who is spick and span, clean and
we'll pressed shows that she has in
telligence, taste, discrimination and
self-respect, and she is a good bet
as a wife. DOROTHY DIX.
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Poor Posture
RuinOus to.
Beauty
Bad Walking Faults
Corrected With a
Little Effort
BY PATRICIA LINDSAY.

You may be pretty satisfied with
your figure as you stand surveying
1t In your bedroom mirror. 1t may
have nice proportions and firmed
curves. But all It's beauty will be
lost to the eyes Of others If you
carry yourself In . huddled or
slouched position as you walk.
To see yourself as others see you,
sit down In crowded terminal and
watch the women who hustle past
you. Or take walk down a main
thoroughfafe and with q critical
eye notice every woman and girl
as they walk toward you and past
you. Some huddle forward as If
an icy blast was congealing them.
Others walk with one side dropped
inches below the level Of the other
side. Rounded shoulders and dow
ayers humps are far too prevalent
and wide hips are the rule, rather
than the exception.
hope that one girl or woman
walks past you who is well poised
and carries herself in seemingly
proud posture. Then you will notice
how eyes appraise her. Her beauty
Is enhanced hundred times. She
may not have as pretty face as you,
but her poised appearance will make
her seem more beautiful than any
woman on the street.
Learn to carry your handbag by
its strap, with an easy, relaxed swing
Of your arm. Or tuck it under one
arm, so your shoulders may be
straight and your hand free. Don't
clutch it to you as if it contained
your ife's savings and every passerby
had designs on it,
Crossing your arms in front of
you is another bad habit. Some
women tuck their hands up the
sleeves Of their coats, bend over like
woman of 80 and shuttle along.
You must remember, while walk
ing, that your body is a unit. Every
muscle must coordinate to have
balance and grace of movement,
your arms should swing gently. To
prove to yourself how important the
upper part of your body is to good
posture, walk with the palms of
your hands turned outward. Feel
your shoulders straighten and your
head rnove into an oroct r,oeitio,,
This simple exercise is most eff
cient in correcting round shoulders
and poor head posture.
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pointing with pride to articles in
our homes designed by Goth century
master craftsmen?
Creators Unknown
To Public.
There is one rather logical expla-
nation of this, of course. With some
exceptions, many of the splendid
designers are working in compara-
tive anonymity as far as the average
woman is concerned, just as, no
doubt, did the designers of other
days, whose work is known now
only because time, has focused
spotlight on it. Perhaps an even
more impressive explanation lies in
the fact that much of this design
work has gone into products too
high-priced, or in some cases, too
advanced, too striking in appearance
for the average pocketbook and
taste.
The "American-Way" program is
set to do away with these excuses.
Every piece will carry the designers
and manufacturers name; will be
priced to an established average
level, and each will express a style
that all of us can understand and
enjoy.
Watch for these new things, and
keep your eyes and ears open for
news of the work that later may be
as well known as the work of the
master craftsmen of the 18th GEN.
tury. We have all of the necessary
elements to make this plan one of
the most exciting movements in his
tory. The results should be as fine
as we have hoped and dreamed they
would be. For when manufacturers
recognize the need of good design,
artists recognize the limit of the
average pocketbook and the buying
public becomes aware of new ideas
and appreciates them, we are bound
for renaissance in home deco
ration.
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BY BARBARA BELL,

Charming is the word for this
lovely, youthful dress, in which the
grace of this feminine, flattering sea-
son is beautifully expressed. There's
nothing fussy or frilly about Pattern
No. 1959-B; it's the type of frock
you can wear and wear and wear,
because the lines are so good and
there's nothing about it to get
tired of.
Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1959-B
is designed for sizes IL, IA, 16, 18 and
20. Corresponding bust measure
ments 80, 80, "a, 36 and SO. Size
IA 1922 requires Az yards of 39-
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habits and needs of this country
With world conditions as they are
we are looking more and more to
our own domestic resources for raw
materials and manufacturing proc
esses. Therefore, why not give
more attention than we have to the
artistic and creative elements in our
midst for beauty and usefulness in
the furnishing of our homes?
Designs Suitable
To Our Needs.
With a spirit of cooperation sell
dom found among creative individ-
ualists, some 35 outstanding figures
in the fields of art, crafts and in
dustrial design have joined with
leading American manufacturers to
produce new furnishings for the
homes of America, to be priced
within the average family's budget,
to be suited in service and spirit to
the contemporary mode of Ameri-
can life.
No such comprehensive group ef-
fort of this kind is known to have
been made before, and its eventual
influence should be widespread on
the decoration of homes throughout
the country.
We're all of use fairly familiar
with the special design characters
tics of chairs by the Brothers Adam,
tables by Chippendale or Hepple-
white, beds by Duncan Phyfe, all
master designers of the 18th and
18th centuries. We've managed to get
straight in our minds the design
expressions of the French court of
Louis XVI, or those of our own Co
lonial forefathers, filling our houses
with reproductions of typical pieces.
But, though we facilitate our daily
living with such Goth century mira
cles as the telephone, electric light,
airplanes, moving pictures and auto
mobiles, how many of us think of
Evening star., 1940-04-24
BY HELEN VOGT.

Every time we write a story about
children's clothes, we invariably ex-
claim over the fact that they are
so similar in style Importance to
those worn by adults. So this time
we won't even mention that many
of the modern fashion trends have
found their way into teen-age
clothes, nor could we ware to say
that features often known as high
styled" have been modified and
adapted to make smart outfits for
size 10 to 16. And, not having men,
toned these facts, it's safe to go
ahead and explain that one of the
primary requirements in young
clothes today is serviceability.
Most of the smart-looking styles
to be found in local shops are wash
able, and this is a feature demanded
not. only by harassed mothers, but by
their very sensible and knowing
daughters. Cottons, of course, fill
the bill to perfection. In our explo-
rations around town we have come
across cottons in every form, and
since fashion indicates that this is
going to be one of the biggest sea-
sons for the material, it's not sur
prising to find it used plentifully.
Striped piques, seersuckers, voile,
cotton eyelet dresses, rayon shark
skin-all are highly favored. In one
store we noticed charming and very
inexpensive dresses of crinkled mate
lasse organdie which will wash per-
fectly and always look perky and
fresh, no matter how warm the
weather.
Skirts and Coats
Being Shown.
Among the favorites of the spring
season have been matching or con-
trasting jackets and skirts, partic-
ularly in pastels. These are still
selling strong and many are suf-
ficiently light in weight to go right
through the summer. With a we'll
made jacket and skirt, endless cos
tunes are possible. Little blouses
are most inexpensive and very help
full in creating the illusion of an ex-
tensive wardrobe.
In dresses, particularly in cottons,
we have seen any number Of pima
fore styles-a mode alternately
tossed back and forth between the
adult and adolescent world and right
now in the midst of both. Princess
lines are always an excellent choice,
particularly for the teen-age girl
who requires all the skill of de-
signers to avoid an all-arms-and-
legs look. Jacket dresses are very
popular and plentiful, especially in
spun rayon. We recently saw a
number of white rayon frocks with
brilliantly striped jackets, and they
are certainly charming.
Stripes are used frequently, as
are small checks. These, in addi-
ton to prints, are heartily approved
by the younger set, who prefer to
reserve their plain -colored frocks for
"best" occasions. In the latter cate
CORY, one of the most attractive
dresses is navy rayon crepe, very
much in the nautical manner with
sailor collar and white trim. With
q white hat and shoes, this Is our
idea of how youngsters should be
dressed for Sunday afternoon.
Many Aids to
Purchasing.
In shopping for clothes for daugh-
ter this season, be sure to keep sew
eral important questions in mind
namely:
Is the outfit washable? Most of
them are marked so and also carry
complete instructions for launder-
ing, so If you are uncertain. be sure
to inquire.
II 1t is not washable, will 1t stand
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Cooperative Designers Now Creating Lovely New Collection
american Way the Title
OF Group Effort Which
Is Now in Progress J..
Emphasis on Our Own Talent
Seen as Significant Move;
Suitability Is Stressed
BY MARGARET NOVEL;.

There Is vivid new interest in American products these
the merchandise
that American ships touching ports This has
brought about movement
OF American craftsmen which way living
You have doubtless designed by Gilbert Rohde
several times refrigerator Ioewy eaten
from dishes designed by Russell Wrighand generally
Things IN your nome designed by other equally
sige Next fall when into Washington
things to of
combined efforts
together with those who
even hard at work creating
ware and linens for special collection
These and who years.
contributing individually to the gradual growth of truly American
In home furnishings
that concerted action to bring
the American home
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successfully for children's clothes
without the all-too-frequent agony
of dragging unwilling youngsters
along.
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Because they like young
haze heartily abpro,ed this striped dnA dress of ternk
h of thoroughly @asabe Inclined
ng look this school, ayme trock classic that adore
andv vearabiify.
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With coming of weather
luncheon the heavier
particularly delicate
course the pieces separate des for furniture
The pattern envelope contains complete
tons;
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pattern stamps
coin service Address
Editor Of Evening Star.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-11-22
W. White Speaks to
5000 In L. A.

Los Angeles, Cal.-Launching a
three-weeks speaking tour of the
Pacific coast, Walter White, of
New York, national secretary of
the N. A. A. c. P, spoke to 5000
persons here November II at a
mass meeting sponsored by the
Los Angeles branch of the asso-
citation.
Mr.. Whites meeting was to have
been held Sunday afternoon, No
vember 10, but he was delayed in
his trip from New York by wealth.
err conditions and did not arrive
until Sunday night. Nevertheless,
with the meeting postponed until
the next night, an audience of
5000 persons gathered and heard
Mr. White outline the position of
the Negro in the present national
and international crisis, and tell
of the steps being taken by the
N. A. A. C. P. to secure jobs for
colored workers in the national
defense program. and a fair deal
for the race in the armed forces
of the country.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-11-22

In an effort to keep our readers
fully informed on the important
issues of the campaign just closed.
The articles submitted by Will
liam J. Hyatt on behalf of the Re-
publican Party and its candidates
and which appeared in the columns
of the Northwest Enterprise, were
received with great interest by our
readers. In response to the many
ltters we received expressing ap-
probation for these political COM
ments, the Northwest Enterprise is
deeply grateful and pleased for
the opportunity to have rendered
this service through the courtesy
of the writer.
1t also is the opinion of the
Northwest Enterprise that Mr.. Hy-
att did an excellent piece of work
in bringing this information to our
readers, and we congratulate him
upon the painstaking and thorough
manner in which he treated his
subject and made his comparisons.
No one knows the far reaching
influence of his kind of publicity
better than the press.
This achievement places him in
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The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-11-22

ing the individual who is more ia
miliar with the factors involved
in race relations in the United
States than any other man or wo-
man. Walter White has devoted
his life to the analysis and the So
luton of race problems as involve
the Negro in America.
Mr.. White has distinguished
himself in many ways. He first
won the admiration of Negro Anne
RIGA by his fearless collection of
data concerning lynchings in the
South. With great danger to him
self, he went into forty-one lynch
ing counties during or just after
lynchings had occurred and col
lected sufficient evidence to prove
the guilt of law officers and per-
sons high in the life of these COM
rnunities. Among such cases was
the triple lynching at Aiken, South
Carolina in 1925, Mr.. White was
on the scene soon after the lynch
ing of a woman and two men and
secured first hand information con-
corning the guilt of individuals
high in the political life of the
cto+a An0tha,. y,aycoy,ol ipxyacfioo.
ton made was that of the Phil
lips County Arkansas Share-Crop-
ping riots of 1919. AS result of
this investigation, the NAACP car
ried to the Supreme Court the
cases of seventy-nine share crop
pers, twelve of whom had been SEN
fenced to death and sixty-seven
to long prison terms. A Supreme
Court decision freed the men and
established the precedent that
when a trial is dominated by a
mob, such a trial is null and void.
In coming to the Northwest Wal
ter White is doing SO to foster the
interest of the NAACP. He is sche-
duled to make two public appear
ances while in Seattle. One at
Mount Zion Baptist Church at 8
p. m. on November 18th under the
auspices of the local branch of the
NAACP and the other in Guggen-
helm Hall on the University of
Washington campus at p. m. on
November 10Th, sponsored by the
N. S. U. w. Club, the Departments
of Sociology, Anthropology, and
the Graduate School of Social
Work. A large crowd is expected
Walter White will speak at Port
land Nov. 1926, at Tacoma Nov.
81, Spokane Dec. 1 and Seattle,
Nov. %.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-11-22

not want.
NO FESTIVE BOARD IN Sc
ATTLE COULD BOAST OF
MORE HAPPINESS.
go souls toasted those who made
this Thanksgiving feast possible.
They toasted and toasted again
the big hearted wife of Sergeant
Steen because she cut the purse
strings and silently revealed in the
feast.
Steen was asked to say few
words: He said: I'm writing my
epitaph. Sergeant Stems epitaph
Is indellibly stamped in the hearts
of many forgotten men. Long years
after, wherever Thanksgiving day
is celebrated Steen will live again
in the hearts of Forgotten Men.
Mr.. Johnnie Campbell as the
Maitre D'Hotel guided the big
Thanksgiving turkeys from the
market to the feast table. Camp
bell was instrumental in seeing
that Sergeant Stems Thanksgiv-
ing dinner lost none of it's former
warmth and sympathy. Assisted by
Mr.. Gus West of the Night and
Day Fuel Company, Stems fifth
Thanksgiving feast eclipsed his
former efforts. Mr.. G. M. (Dad)
Payne well known chef prepared
the Ell a b or a t e dinner. Messrs
George Lewis, Chittenden, Herb
Coleman, Bill Williams, George
Woods and Sammy Howell saw to
it that all guests were properly
and plentifully served. Leading
the down and cutters and forgotten
men to the feast table was your
humble scribe, thanks for an in
vitation from "Shag" before his
demise.
Mr.. George Kimbrauch at the
piano led the singing, my Country
tits of Thee" and "G6d Bless Ame-
RIGA" The whole affair was pune
tuated by singing and dancing
walters.
"GOd Bless the Steens" was the
parting salutation as the so salts
fled souls said goodbye.
The dinner was served in the
beautiful dining room of the Hill
Top Tavern 1900 Jackson St.,
which has always been donated
by Mr.. Russell Smith for this spe-
cific occasion.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-11-22
NAACP Halls Order
Barring Discrimination
In Civil Service

New York@The announcement
made in Washington November 10
that the President has ordered that
the rules governing civil service
appointments be changed to pro-
hibit discrimination on racial as
well as religious and political
grounds, was hailed as an import
ant step forward by the National
Association 70 rthe Advancement
of Colored People.
The Association, together with a
number of organizations, h s
fought for this type of change in
the civil service laws for a number
of years.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-11-22
Four Great Bands

The Palomar celebrating its an
niversary featured FOUR GREAT
BANDS: FLOYD RAY, BENNY
GOODMAN, BOB FISHER and
PHIL HARRIS. The applause and
cheers that went up from the
mighty crowd shook the building.
Band after band was encored and
encored, but it was left to Floyd
Ray and his band to be called back
four times in succession and final
ly had to leave the house to permit
the show to go on.
Floyd Ray and his band comes
to Finish Hall Dec. 9. With an
admission fee of 85c plus tax it
will will be taxed to capacity.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-11-22

applicants in test at Town Hall,
New York City, in a selection of
"Stars of Tomorrow" Mrs. Madge
Bryant interviewed and presented
the applicants to the judges who
made the selection.
AS one of the Future Stars.
Miss Houston will be presented by
the Rev. Adam Powell, Jr. at Abb
yssinian Baptist Church in a Mo-
vember concert for which they will
be paid $50 each. Miss Houston
accompanied Mr.. Horace Johnson
who sang 1.-THE Star" and easily
topped the male winners.