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Evening star., 1941-04-20

run either double or triple-shift.
MIR. Johnson trained practically all
his workers himself. He has built his
organization on green local labor, pre-
ferring high-school graduates without
factory experience. Tiny Middlefield
itself couldn't provide enough work
ers to man even one shift; the EN-
ployees come from farms and other
small villages within radius of thir
teen miles Only fifteen ever worked in
another rubber factory, only fifty in
any kind of factory. OF the twenty
foremen, nineteen are local boys, as
are both the general manager and
sales manager.
Smith johnson himself was born
only few hundred yards from the
factory. which was built by his father
in 1895. After college, the Navy dur
ing the World War and a year of art
classes at Carnegie Tech, he came into
the firm and ingeniously made posi-
Bile its industrial triple-play: wood to
steel to rubber. His father, whom
everyone called MIR. Joe, began the
manufacture of wooden pals - for
lard. candy and paint - because the
section was thick with basswood. Be
fore building, however, he made sure
rural Middlefeld really wanted a
factory, passing around a subscrip-
ton list which is historical docu-
ment today - signatures in nine
teenth-century script making such
pledges as 81 day team," COAL"
Il day mason work." printing"
Il white oak tree"
Middlefeld was still backing the
factory when Smith came in to help
Mr.. Joe; the town had even voted a
bond issue to rebuild the plant after
it had burned in 1919. But the bass
Evening star., 1941-04-20

is a two-piece garment with a skirt
that flares from the slender part of the
hips The jacket will help to fill out
the sway, and make your vertical
outline straighter. The belling skirt
conceals front and back bulges. Since
the ideal dress skirt is a fiared, full
gathered, or skilfully draped one, its
belling bottom should be balanced at
the top of your body with some COM
parable fullness or bulkiness. Other
devices for concealment of curves are
Evening star., 1941-04-20

fraternity makes in the factory.
There is one thing that explains
Smith Johnson's success in his rela
tons with his men: he understands
them, shares their point of view.
He knows how his workmen live.
dresses like them, eats with them in
the plant restaurant. And, like them.
he knows what it is to work with his
hands. As boy he made his way
across the continent on motorcycle.
painting initials on auto doors and
mail boxes He still paints signs
around the plant, as we'll as first-class
landscapes.
In the depth of the depression he
set out with his wife to see whether
he could make a living on his own.
He took trailer, in which he fixed
up darkroom. loaded in some paint
brushes and his best camera, and
headed for particularly hard-hit sec
ton of Indiana with only a couple of
dollars in his pocket. He parked in a
town he'd never heard of, hung out
his Photographic shingle, began hunt
ing for stores needing new signs and
people who wanted their pictures
taken. For four months he worked
town after town. successfully living on
his earnings.
He knows the problems of the work
man and the problems of the boss,
and he believes that labor relations
are bound to be harmonious as long
as both workman and boss can con-
tinue to regard each other as human
beings. He once summed it up to his
men this way: "Our policy is to treat
you with the same regard that We
would like were our positions re-
versed."
The End
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Evening star., 1941-04-20

slim-line dresses or coats with tunes
or tiers faring out from the waist
When all you need is slight filling
in in the back to minimize sway,
look for costumes that zip or button
up in the rear. The extra thickness of
material here. plus the fastener itself
will pad out the too-quick curve in
your back.
So much for camoufiage. If you
want to correct sway, correct your
stance, says Catharine Van Rensselaer,,
Evening star., 1941-04-20

an able physical education director
employed by the American Women's
Association. Experience in coping
with a sway has taught her that REM
edy usually comes when you improve
your posture and are faithful to sim
pie exercises to strengthen your back.
To assume the proper posture, she
tells you to stand as erectly as you
can without strain, feet about four
inches apart, toes straight ahead,
knees completely relaxed, abdominal
muscles squeezed in, and neck rub
bing the back of your collar. Keeping
that stance is something else again.
but here is her formula which has
helped many of her pupils to maintain
it, As you walk along the street, prac-
tice gripping your abdominal muscles
as tight as you can for half-block
stretches. Then next time, keep your
muscles squeezed in for whole block
at time, and so on until you can
make an entire shopping tour with a
contracted abdomen.
Getting q Better Book
TIER exercises to straighten and
strengthen your back, and make it
better able to support you, are so
simple you may want to pooh-pooh
them. but if you will give five or ten
minutes day to these simple rou-
tines, you will probably feel better in
weeks time, and in months time
you will turn nicer-looking back to
the world.
For the first exercise, sit on the
floor with your back to the wall and
with your legs extended straight in
front of you. Pull backward to the
wall until your back is fiat against it.
Hold this position a few seconds,
relax, and repeat several times. You
can do this same exercise in a straight
backed chair while you sit at your
Office work or while at home.
For the second exercise, assume
the same position on the floor, as
described above, but extend your
arms over your head. with the backs
OF your hands touching the wall. With
your back hugging the wall, lower
your arms to elbow bends and raise
them to their original position in a
rhythmic count of five. Rest and re-
peat, and increase the number of
counts daily.
For the third exercise, lie fiat on
your back on the floor or on a mat.
arms beside you, knees bent. Draw
first the bended right knee forward
until it touches your chest. return it
to position, and then bring the left
knee up in the same movement. Alter
nate with right and left knee for sew
eral counts, and use your hands to
make sure that your back is fiat
against the floor or the mat as your
knees touch your chest.
Evening star., 1941-04-20
THIS WEEK MAGAZINE
DANGEROUS CURVE!
Hexe's a way 10 combat
swaY-back, the frequent
figuEe-fault that puts
bulges in wrong spots
% Y|ssss Blythe

"HE small of your back holds the
secret of a handsome silhouette.
- When that link of spine is strong
and gently sloped, you look as straight
as lance and wear your curves in the
proper places. But when that stretch
of spine scoops in too much, you have
what corsetieres and dressmakers call
"sway-back" and what the posture
people call "lordosis. This common
figure fault emphasizes the curves of
abdomen and hips and shows the
figure off badly in profile view
If this is your problem, why not
help yourself to expert methods of
Disgusting the sway, or to posture
control and exercise that will help you
to correct it?
Your best bet for camouflage, says
a corsetiere well-qualifed to advise
you. is an all one foundation.
which gives support to muscles, braces
a weak back, and eases out the too
abrupt curves of abdomen and hips.
If your figure is slender, choose a
lightweight all-in-one garment with
a brief uplift brassiere and long.
slim-making skirt of chiffon-sheer,
two-way- stretch elastic. But if your
figure needs more control, look for the
all-in-one in sturdier elastic, plus bon
ing and reinforced front and back
panels. The effectiveness of either
garment depends upon sufficient
length to pull you up to your full
height and to distribute flesh more
equally. Also shoulder straps and gar
tiers must be kept taut for counter
pull at both extremities of the girdle.
Best Bet in Dress
NExr, in the way of disguise. comes
dress, for which there is simple for
mula: float out fullness over the curves
you want to hide. This allows you to
conceal defects, yet make capital of
small -stemmed midriff, which sway
back gives you.
About this, let us consult one of
this country's foremost designers.
She is Germaine Monteil, whose
genius for creating free-movement
clothes has made her models prime
favorites among chic women who
want to idealize their figures.
Your best bet in dress, she says.
Evening star., 1941-04-20
AMID the STIRRING REMINDERS
or YOUR COUNTRY'S PAST!.

Vacation in Massachusetts this
summer where the memories Of
Americas beginning still ride on
every caressing breeze. You may
Collin the same serene countryside
that echoed TO the ride of Paul
Revere play tennis near the home
where John Alden courted Priscilla
-laze on salt sprayed dunes TO
dream of clipper ships sailing into
the far horizon ride along the
woodland trails biazed by King
Philip - sail the waters that bore
the Pilgrims TO this land - relish
foods made from recipes that have
given the old Bay State its fame for
fine foods.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1941-05-01
To Aid Defense

William knudon to the effect hal
have voluntarily agreed 10
reduce production and trucks by about oooo rep
of industry putting PATRIOTISM
and all other
The move available materials tachtes
of the increasing defense oao ~ "
same automobile manufacturers have announced tna
they models through the 1916 thus freeing
both behalf OF greater defense
progress a..
One big company commenting has pointed out that
from S00000 to S4ooouou ms
involves oong 1t further estimates that about W per
cent capacity devoted defense purposes and at IN
100000 man hours VIII De mVoVeo
vehicles million means
these plants Automobile manufacturers are
OF ABOUT
enable the defense program to avail eH
of skilled machines TO an extent
make still greater 4en the rear1nament problem
huge job that Will require ot from every
offering proof positive that It
intends AnecaWhere the nalonai
agreements freely arrived al on the
what ought be done Inc auoooie agree
i o ilumne that general truth
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Time To Brock q Bod Habit

1or the ne"
program referred possibly the largest
the known
decided country nave aue
indicated willingness to pay lot
achieving Coupled with this however they nave
the nondense operations
Actually situation at the present time can scarcely
hes to meet the pubncs wishes in this respect
We fiscal spend at least 10 bllon
dollars military Nonmlay spending VIII
and will take up around billion
defense spending will consume ABOUT
Treasury Department now scratch
head to raise
defined first initiated as emergency
in proponents declared that these spending measures
and its bad tunes
agreed that times far better at present and It Wouo
that least OF these emergency OPP
With the mounting burden that
the neither his Willingness nor ms
should suffer because Of wasted nondeene expenditures
which the necessity
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1941-05-01

ed in sharpshooting classes, and
taught the handling and manipula-
ton of rapid fire machine guns, how
to construct the various barbados
in street fighting, defending public
squares, taking public buildings,
and how to destroy the tank, that is
the military tank and horseback
riding and secret coding"
That is the kind Of training one
group of Americans received in
Moscow. | want to know more
about these Moscow summer
schools.
| find from the bulletin issued by
the Alabama Council of Democratic
Clubs that DR.. Frank P. Graham
| is the chairman of committee on
civil rights within the welfare con-
/ ference. | also find the following
comment on the Southern Confer
ence for Human Welfare.
THE Southern Conference for
Human Welfare, which condemned
capitalism as opposed to Commu-
nism, our voting laws, segregation
of races and our Southern tradi-
tons, was led apd sponsored Dy
and composed Of 700 per cent Fed
eral office holders and rabble rous-
ing radicals, few of whom ever
thought Of serving their community
or country without pay
If DR.. Graham was in fact such ar
important factor in this organiza-
ton, if he in fact did serve as {
board member of the University Of
Moscow's summer school for train
ing American students in Commu.
nism, then | say he is no man tt
represent the public on this super.
mediation board. The people ough
ito know all about DR.. Graham
Rep Walter c. Ploeser (R), Mis-
souri,, in House Of Representatives
April is, l941
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SOMEDAY
BY James Raymond Little
Editor of alaska Life

"Some day" there will come a day
which we shall all remember. We
shall hold it in our hearts and
cherish it in our memories. 1t VIII
be day when war is over, when
the great guns shall have ceased
their thunder, the warbirds have
folded their wings. When rifles
are stacked and the flags furled.
Weary men shall turn homeward
their faces and know again the JOY
of warm hearts welcoming them.
There will be work TO do and faith
in the heart of the people to do 1t.
There will be hope, too, for 1t is
the eternal gift of life.
We do not know when that day
in the future may come. 1t may be
a day when clouds float in the sap
phire sky of summer and peaceful
quiet is again ours The birds will
nest in the poplars: the bees and
butterflies ~ill claim their heritage
among the flowers that blush and
bloom in the torn fields of England
and France. Little children will
play in the open, fearing no black
winged death from above
/ Out of the horror and chaos Of
/ these times will be a knowledge
that comes after, out of the heart.
ache and suffering of humanity may
] be forged the steady light of rea.
son to guide the footsteps of fu.
/ ture generations. May our children
be taught the lesson that war never
| righted a Wrong-that the only roaC
to happiness for either nation o.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1941-05-01
A PERFECT SALESMAN

He never leaned over his Gus
toners desk and attempted to read
the mail on II.
He never asked whether the GUS
toner had gone to his college.
He never added up his figures
faster than the customer could
check them.
He never turned customer over
to an assistant when once started.
He never fell back on Il use them
myself as a sales argument.
He always suggested the. very
thing the customer had overlooked
buying. !,
He remembered all his customers
names and never got them mixed
up.
He never said I'll get it for you
by tomorrow unless he meant 1t.
But he's not around now. "A
customer shot him. He took all the
fun out Of buying.
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RAISED EYEBROWS

am unable to understand just
why certain men were selected for
membership on the experimentation
board recently created by the Presi-
dent I am puzzled particularly
over the appointment OF one man,
who is to represent the public in the
settlement of labor controversies.
That man is DR. Frank p Ora
ham. Understand, | make no
charges whatsoever against him, but
frankly / am puzzled and want to
know the facts. / hold in my hand
a booklet published this year and
circulated under copyright by the
Constitutional Educational League,
Incorporated, of New Haven, Con-
necticut. In this booklet, entitled
the Fifth Column Versus the Dies
Committee" on pages 20 and I'll, !
find the following comment:
Among the prominent college
Presidents the name of DR.. Frank
P. Graham hobs up quite often. DIR.
Graham, president of the University
of North Carolina, was once board
member of Soviet Russia's State
University of Moscow summer
school for training American stu
dents in Communism. Most recent
ly he was president of the Southern
Conference for Human Welfare,
identified by Earl Browder before
the Dies Committee as Transmits
sion belt for Communist propa-
ganda.
/ promptly referred to the Dies
Committee hearings after reading
this about DIR. Graham, and in Vol
ume 7, page 4483, of the hearings,
find that as a matter of fact Earl
BroWder did testify the Southern
Conference for Human Welfare was
classed as a Communist transmits
sion belt" But | did not stop here
Il began searching to find out what
could about the kind of teaching
Americans received in Moscow, and
in the hearings of the subcommit-
tee Of the Appropriations Commit
tee, set up to make an investigation
and study of the Works Progress
Administration, in Volume |, page
1895, / find the following testimony
by Charles H. White, New York ne
gro, and former member of the
Communist Party. He had been in
Russia. Here is what he was
taught
Mr.. White. Practically the whole
time I was there, for about 10
months, / was with about 100 other
Americans, who were there for the
same purpose, and we were instruct
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N1tttNtNNtNNN
SPLINTERS
BY Ted Aronson
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YOUTH LOOKS AHEAD

A generation ago school children
were often told that every boy
might become president if he be-
haved himself, or millionaire if
he worked hard. The boy in Mis-
souri, who thought that he didn't
have any chance of becoming presi-
dent, because his father was DEM
ocrat. was a pessimlst.
Now a-days we find disgruntled
defeatists telling our youth that
they have nothing to look forward
to. that there is no use in trying to
pet ahead that our forefathers
have squeezed all the juice out of
the economic orange. Walls of that
sort come from the agitators who
address our Youth Congresses and
dictate the resolutions adopted at
such conferences.
But. fortunately, most young peo-
pie don't feel that way, nor do
they talk that way. They are just
as optimistic. self-reliant and re-
sourceful as the youth of former
times. A millionaire is no object
of envy for them, for they realize
that all one gets out of living j.
life. and that the greatest salts
factions come from self-mastery and
the ability to create and build.
Despite the doleful tune of those
who knock our form of democracy
the average young person appreci-
ates the chance of living in a land
which has only six per cent of the
world population. but has 10 pei
cent of the worlds automobiles, q
per cent of all telephones, 81 pei
cent of the insurance policies ane
greater school advantages than any
where else.
The real rewards in America are
not what can be skinned off, bu
the energy and service which arr
put into life. Youth looks forward
and marches on to those rewards
and the clamor of calamity bowler
will never prevent it.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1941-05-01
Stacking Crops

When elevators are plugged and
granaries full some growers may
well consider stacking part of their
crop. If protected from mice and
rabbits, the properly stacked grain
will keep until more lumber can be
sawn. Stacking clears the way for
stubble cultivation and keeps visit
ing stock wagons from seeding the
farm with all the neighborhood $
bad weeds.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1941-05-01
Consider MoUing
l. C.. C.. to CHICAGO

There is serious talk of moving the
Interstate Commerce commission.
lock, stock and barrel, from Wash
ington to Chicago The argument
for the change is the real railroad
center of the country--that individu-
ais would find Chicago much more
convenient, as far as time and ex-
pense are concerned. And finally,
that there is no particular reason
why the I.C.C. should be in Wash
ington anyhow.
This is rather interesting at the
moment for larger reason. Presi-
dent Roosevelt is about to ask con-
gress for another reorganization bill.
1t will be recalled that the President
resents the notion that there are SO
many administrative boards and
bodies in the government over which
he has no direct control. OF course,
in virtually all instances, he appoints
the members in the first place, but
that is not enough, in his opinion,
for an integrated administration. He
would prefer to have all these
boards and commissions made a
part of existing departments, SO that
their work would head up to him
for final approval in important
cases.
When the President lost his first
reorganization bill fight the hand
writing was very clear SO far as con-
gressional intentions were con-
cerned There never was time
when there was any chance that
congress would pass the bill without
listing some exceptions. One OF
these was always the Interstate
Commerce commission. Another
was the army engineers.
This time, under the guise OF war
emergency, there will be much less
opposition to the Presidents wish for
more power over these independent
agencies, but it is thought that the
ice will be left free, as at present.
even in the original request.
So far as moving the commission s
headquarters to Chicago is con-
cerned there will be plenty of walls
from the personnel. Most Of the ice
clerks have been on the job for
years. They have their roots deep
in Washington and will not like the
idea Of pulling them up.
But there is much to be said for
the proposal, and If the transfer
could be made gradually, it prob
ably could be done with little hard
ship.
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Non-Profit Organization

The American Automobile associa
ton is a non-profit, civic association
which belongs to its members. Its
president is a non-paid official. This
great organization now has approx
mately q million members.
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NATIONAL
AFFAIRS
Reviewed by
CARTER FIELD

Increased u. S. aid to
Britain likely in near
future " ashin gton
considers moving Inter
state Commerce Commits
sion to Chicago.
Bell Syndicate-WNU Service
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an individual is the path of justice
and unselfishness.

(The above excellent article was
submitted to the Western News by
w. O. Applequist of Libby, The
writer of Some Day" is editor of
Alaska Life" published in Seattle,
and he and Mr. Applequist are close
friends
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bell Syndicate-WNu Service. ,

WASHINGTON. - How soon will
we be in the war; That is the
big question now in Washington. No
longer IF" but when. All this,
of course, is unofficial. Officially
the administration still keeps, up the
old pretense that it can keep out of 1t.
A certainty for the near futuse IS
the shipment of supplies across the
Pacific and beyond, either via the
Red sea and Suez or to Euphrates
ports. This will take lot of ships.
It's long round trip, and so takes
lot of bottoms to handle+any guam
tity of cargo as compared with
transatlantic service.
Very soon now we will be releas-
ing more small naval craft to Brit
ain. AS one looks back at the hue
and cry raised on Capitol Hill about
those small torpedo craft. which re-
suited in an order that they should
not be turned over to the British,
there is serio-comic touch. II
will be remembered that these little
vessels were built on British blue
prints. There never was any inten-
ton 10 use them for the L. S. navy
until congress raised fog about it.
incidentally the boats we're
equipped with lo-inch torpedo tubes
Our naval experts don't like l8-ineh
torpedoes. We use 2l-inch projec-
tiles. We didn't have any torpedoes
to fit these boats, and did not in
tend to have any.
SMALL CRAFT VALUABLE
So now that the smoke has
cleared away these boats will prob
ably be turned over to the British
and this time there may be SOME
speeches by such senators as Davit
I. Walsh Of Massachusetts and Bur
ton X. Wheeler OF Montana. but |
won't mean very much.
Britain obviously needs these
small craft, ideal for chasing sub
marines, very badly. So she vii
get them and others besides Thu
batch. which was actually intend
ed for her all the time.
Obviously little boats which cal
destroy submarines are ideal TO
conveys, q few Of them being muc
better than battieshipA This is es
pecially true becaase Z batfieship
such an important item in war tina
too much pains has to be taken Z
protect it. What Britain lacks ar
destroyers and other small craft t
/ protect conveys.
The greatest need Of all is bottoms
to get the supplies through. Ever.
time little submarine chaser sue
ceeds in eliminating one of thes'
Nazi menaces it saves freighter
from that moment on until the en'
OF the war. Not only that, but ever,
time submarine fails to return t
its base it has a certain effect o.
the morale Of other U-boat crews