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The Phoenix index., 1941-08-09

up to the top figures is something
that we all think about a good
deal. How to do it? Well, you'll
feel cooler if you lock cool, and
there are lots of tricks to make
you look as cool as a frosted
lemonade!
There're beauty tricks which
start with soap and water and end
with final Dash of flowery CO.
logne. just as sure as you man.
age to look fresh and crisp and
your best beau tells you so-well,
you'll feel better right away!
So, defy old Sol ana try a few of
these. First, warm or lukewarm
tub Or shower. If you prefer the
tub, toss in one of the delightful
preparations that turn it into a
fragrant mass of bubbles. It's fun,
and cooling.
TAKE TIME TO RELAX
Take your time, and relax every
muscle in your body. If you're
addicted to firm rubbing with a
rough towel in the drying-off pro-
cess, give that up for summer and
blot Yourself Cry as gently as
possible.
Next comes the bath powder. and
if you use a scented one, choose
the same scent as your bath hub
bles and your cologne. You don't
want TO finish up with a mixture
of perfumes!
Once you're in fresh. COO
clothes, do Won make-un carefully
Summer makeup should be light
er than you NAV use III the cooler
months. Very little rouge, deft
The Phoenix index., 1941-08-09

Emaciation cannot be mistaken
for slenderneSs, which carries a
normal amount of flesh. Skinny
shankS, sharp elbows and proml-
nent collar bones are no beauty
assets. If a girl is in good health
there is no reason why she should
bear with the defects. AS a rule a
girl of her type is over-active, un-
6er-fed, lack the benefits of SUM-
shine and fresh air. A few re-
adjustments in her life will put on
the pounds she needs to fill out
the hollowS to grow curves where
curves should be.
NEEDS EXERCISE
To create appetite she must
have some form of outdoor eXer-
else. 1t doesn't matter what form
the exercise she takes, just so it is
not too strenuous.
Swimming is the thin girls dish.
Golf is all right, short brisk walks
are recommended, tennis is too
eXhauSting. The big idea is to
hustle up circulation without much
effort. Deep breathing is helpful
The Phoenix index., 1941-08-09
STYLE FIRSTS
TWO SUN-STYLES AND A CAPE

TWO SUN-STYLES AND A CAPE
Because you're young. and fun
loving. and have an urge to be
different" - this style is created
especially for YOU! It's Pattern
1856, a gay Claire Tilden design for
the girl vacation A whole suit
case full of ideas is included in the
one simple pattern! First, there's
a suntan dress with a loW-but
really loW-back, buttoned halter
neck, and a back Slide-faStening
that eliminates any need for side
placket opening. The front neck is
loW-cut, in very new and fem
mime effect. Notice how its lines
are smartly accented BY narrow
panelling, with the rest of the
bodice gathered-on softly at either
side. The wide girdle makes your
waist divinely slim and is "upped''
in front, the skirt has a youthful
flare. Now. for a completely differ
ent costume, just follow the pat
tern perforations and make the
open midriff, halter and skirt ver-
sion of this style A fine idea for
sporting and summing! There's a
cape to finish off your costume.
Pattern 386 is cut in junior miss
sizes II. IL, 13, Ia, Is, 16, II and 18.
Size 13. dress. requires 23-4 yards
35 inch fabric; playsuit playsuit
234 yards 35 inch fabric and cape
1873 yards 35 inch fabric.
Send FIFTEEN CENTS Q5cj ir
coins for this pattern. WRITE
CLEARLY SIZE, NAME, ALL
DRESS AND STYLE NUMB7R.
Send orders to Scott Newspaper
Syndicate. Pattern Department, 2l(
Auburn Ave, Atlanta, Ga.
The Phoenix index., 1941-08-09

He never gives me any money
to spend or any clothes. He does
not seem to think I need anything
I Lave to do without so many
things to keep down argumcntS
I love my husband and he Snys ne
loves me, but it is funny love-
He went off Cnce and stayed q
whole week and I did not know
where he was He said ne was
called eff On business and
wouldn't. understand.
Wh3t do you think I ought TO
do to get him to treat me as ne
cnce did? Everyone says I am
smart, am not bad looking ana
I have a junior college educatlon.
I am almost ready to leave.
try to be true to him but no maC-
ter what 1 do, he is the same.
Lonely Wife.
You seem to be very nice per-
son to be so very unhflopy In your
home. Perhaps, you fiave grown
"old" on your husband. and even
vour love for him cannot wake him
up to the fact that he has some
thing ON his hands that any think
ing man would want, a devoted
wife and children. I would suggest
that you get yourself a job, so that
YOU would not have all day 70
think of how he treets you and
you could put up with him at night.
I would not leave my home and
children. although he is blufflng
when he says that you cannot take
YOUR children with you he is
100 percent wrong. They are yours
and you can get them and make
him take care of them. So, don't
60 crying over having to leave them
when you leave. Let them stay
there and let him take care OF
tEem and you C3n't you get a
place teaching near home? Now is
the time to- try. If the children
are not school age and you cannot
take them with you on the job, get
reliable old lady to take care
of them during tie time you are
away from home and make your-
self independent of the man as
fer as your clothes and spending
money is concerned. Don't st9rt
to spending your money in the
home and On the children, let hir2
do that. If you can't get work
teaching do something else, but
do something.
I really believe when he sees
that you are going to make out
for yourself, he will come home -
Your letter sounds just like he
wants to keep you at home. -
quietly, while he puts a new coat
of paint on the town.
If he continues to mistreat you,
! and you have somewhere to GO, get
that job first, and go while you
are young. Don't waste too many
young years on any man in whom
you cannot see pleasant future. .
halfway, at least, because there is
some unhappiness in every mar
riage, it is surely not bed of
roses for anyone.
The Phoenix index., 1941-08-09
by Associated Negro Press

ATLANTA, Ga.-Hundreds of the
nations leading hair stylists, beau
ticians and cosmetologists will start
pouring in this city Monday, Aug.
IL, when the 22nd annual conven-
ton of the National Beauty Cul-
turistS league is scheduled to get
underway The sessions are to last
through Friday.
The executive board is to meet
Monday afternoon, while the first
session will open Tuesday morn
ing with Mrs. Cordelia Greene
johnson of jersey City, national
president presiding.
Following devotionals led by Miss
Amy Noble, national chaplain, an
nual reports Of the president, sec
retary and national organizer as
we'll as chairman of various COM
mittees are to be read.
The Phoenix index., 1941-08-09
Hair Grow:
WHAT
MAKES

will send any reader of this paper
full information. Also my secret formula
for making GRO-ZTT Hair Balm. (reg-
ular price $I.OO) Amazing results can
he expected. Write III. s. Cobb, p. o.
Box IGI. Philadelphia. Pa. Please EN-
close 25e to cover cost al this ad nDd
mailing,
The Phoenix index., 1941-08-09
Distressing To Haze Bones
Not Nicely Upholstered
Emaciation Never Mistaken
For Slenderness, Says Helen
Bv HELEN JAMESON

IT'S NO FUN trmdling around load of fat but it is
equally distressing to have bones that not nicely MP
hostered One girl her ribs the other counts her
caories Both types the girl of normal weight and
proportions who what she likes has no trouble pick
inc up cute looking Clothes has concern about appear
ance when she joins up with the pashers at the bathing
beach.
The Phoenix index., 1941-08-09
Unhappy Woman Is Advised Not
To Leave Husband Children
Sue Leaf Tells
Her To Get Job
Dear Miss Leaf:

MISS LtdI
Will YOU please help me with my problem? am twenty
four wears of age and have been married almost four
For the first year and half husband nice to
me- but he treats coldy have two children and IL
# were not for them would have left him long He has
invited me to leave several times but he that leave
he will have both IF the children.
The Phoenix index., 1941-08-09
PICK SUCCESSOR TO AUTHOR

CHICAGO-tA N P)-O. o.
Morris, 48, for fourteen years exec
utive secretary of the Pine Street
YMCA. in ST. Louis, has been
recommended by Frank E. Hatha-
way, white, Chicago general "Y''
secretary to succeed the late
George Arthur as executive secre-
tary of the Wabash Avenue YMCA.
The board of directors is expected
70 make a decision this week.
The Phoenix index., 1941-08-09

especially if she would add an inch
Or two to the bust measurement and
if the chest is not fully developed.
Arm-swinging exercises just before
the bath will fill out chest and
arm muscles. Swing high, wide
handsome and far back.
Most important of all is the mat
ter of stoking up on the rlgnt
kind of groceries. The day should
start with a warm cereal, well
garnished with sugar and cream
Fruit is necessary to provide ele-
ments that the body needs. BroIled,
boiled and roasted meats are pre-
ferable to fried ones.
NEEDS LEAFY ONES
Ali vegetables are good for little
slimpsy; she needs leafy ones like
lettuce and spinach even If they
aren't fat builders A quart of rich
milk should be taken each day.
The alternating cold and hot
shower is refreshing and 'vitaliz-
ing. 1t is necessary that fatigue
should be avoided. Emotional storms
are depressants because they in
terfere with nutrition. Many skinny
darlings ale high-strung and nerv-
GUS due to the fact that they use
up energy faster than their motors
can create it.
Sleep nine hours every night. 1t
is during sleep that body repairs
take place and little fat cells are
formed A short nap after lunch
con won't do bit of harm. Except
for mild exercise out of doors, little
Miss Slimpsy should be lazy.
The Phoenix index., 1941-08-09
Beauticians Converge On
Atlanta For Convention
preside during the day.

A flood of reservations received
by Miss Ella Ramsey, local chair
man of housing, already indicates
that the Al convention will be the
largest in the 22-year old history
of the league. Those desiring reser
vations should write or wire Miss
Ramsey at $50 Auburn Avenue,
Atlanta, Ga.
The Phoenix index., 1941-08-09
Let's Defy Old
Sol These Days

Isy MARIE DOWNING:
Keeping cool when the thermo-
meter runs its little red tongue
The Phoenix index., 1941-08-09

Bi% Returns for small sums of money.
Particulars free. Geo. A. Cash, No.
Court Plaza. AsheviIIe. n. C.
The Phoenix index., 1941-08-09

greatest hospitality and comfort
for these attending.
The Phoenix index., 1941-08-09

Dorothy: Everyone attains the
height for which he reaches, in my
opinion. So, if that is what you
want to be, you will have to study
to that end The first thing you
would want to do would be to de-
eide on what instrument you would
want to play, get you one and
master it Then, make applications
to managers. 1t sounds easy and it
is easy if you are prepared.
Send me some of your poems, and
let me hear from you again.
Mrs. Bryant: Address your letter
to Able Wallace, same address; he
may be able to help you.
Send your problems of every
day life to SUE LEAF, SNS,
210 Auburn Avenue, N. E., At
lanta, Georgia. All letters will
be held confidential and names
withheld.
The Phoenix index., 1941-08-09

HOTEL MACK
30 Tourists and Transit Rooms 81
up. 548 Bedford Pl., N. E. We.
1921, Atlanta, Ga. Free Parking.
Evening star., 1941-11-28
Sixth Graders Tell
OF Synthetics in
Science Broadcast
Thomson School Pupils
Present First in Series
Of Eight Programs

Science in Our Changing World
was off TO flying start yesterday
as eight of the distinguished little
scientists of Thomson School told
of the role of synthetic materials in
national defense and civilian Ameri-
can life. 1t was the first of eight
such programs which will comprise
the series sponsored by The Star
and the Elementary School Radio
Committee. with the cooperation
of the National Broadcasting Co.
The listening audience had much
to learn from the Thomson School
sixth graders. aged 10 to y. They
heard the names and the processes
involved in many new products now
beginning to take the place of IA
mihar materials formerly used in
clothing. household accessories and
defense goods. Vinyon, nylon, plio-
sheen. fiberglass, zein are some OF
the items which the youngsters not
only pronounced with ease, but eX-
planned as well. BY way of illustra-
ton. the Thomson pupils gave
brief dramatic sketch depicting the
discovery by the Frenchman. Henri
Chardonnet of rayon or artificial
silk. Emphasized throughout was the
fact that such common ingredients
as coal, milk, natural gas, Soybeans
ana corn go into the manufacture
of anything from wool coats 10
waterproof. fire-reSistant and odor
less rubber" shower curtains.
Taking part in the program.
which was prepared and directed by
0. T. Turner Of the Thomson fac
ultv. were Robert Abrams. Wendell
HaIterman. Shirley Holland. Flor
ence Wiggans. Irving Lee. Marilyn
Embree. Jerome Zevin and Mkt
SpiliotlS. Mkt handled the sound
effects in addition TO her script
lines.
Among those who witnessed the
broadcast in the WMAL studio
were Robert EaveS. principal of
Thomson. and Mrs. Gertrude How
ard. chairman of the Elementary
School Radio Committee.
Evening star., 1941-11-28

Baptist Students Open
Convention Toniqht

The first session of the annual
Baptist student union convention
will open at o'clock tonight al
Calvary Baptist Church with more
than 400 students from universities
and colleges in the District and
Maryland expected to attend.
DR.. Frank H. Leavell, southern
director of the Baptist student
movement. will address the OPEN
ing banquet. Mrs. James G. Yaden
president of the District Women S
Missionary Union. will preside. Miss
Eleanor Acher of the University of
Maryland will be toastmaster.
The session will continue at s pm.
tomorrow at the administration au-
ditorium, with Dr.. Raymond Seeger
speaking on science and religion.
Sunday sessions will be held at the
National Baptist Memorial Church
beginning at $50 am. DR.. Leavell
will speak at II am A student
service will be held at pm.
Evening star., 1941-11-28
Painting Bought for School

Nine art students at kingSmith
Studio School "chipped in during
national art week and bought q
painting for the school art gallery
The picture was a scene of Pennsyl-
vania avenue by Dante Radice
Washington artist with the w. P. A
art program.
Evening star., 1941-11-28

The shoppers who buy today.
things that you sell :. bnt buy them
from other stores E. you can catalog
those folks somewhere in that head
line above.
In it you'll find the simplest secret of
a preftine modern business: People
bHy from fbe man that they knoW and
belfere in and like! They'll go blocks
out of their way to buy from him.
They Do NOT buy freely, willingly,
from anybody else.
Today, tomorrow, watch and count
the shutting, countless, passing foot
steps of buyers, shoppers.
Your only task is to determine that
YOU II win the liking, the faith and the
belief of JUST ONE SMALL POR-
TION of that throng; then to deter
mine that you'll bold and keep their
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-02-07
Unemployed Total Shows
Big Decrease Of 100000

New York City (ILNS).-The Ma
tional Industrial Conference Board
reports that the number of unemployed
workers in the nation decreased by
100000 in December, bringing the to-
tai of persons out of work to 6,961 900.
Total employment rose Isl, 900 from
48,262,0 900 in November to 48,413,000
in December. The increase was re-
corded in the face of greater-than-
seasonal decline of $4,000 in agri-
cultural jobs. Employment gains of
436,OO0 in trade, distribution and f.
nance; 177,000 in the service indus
tries; $4,000 in manufacturing, and
$4,000 in construction were reported
in December.
Under the impetus of the defense
program, the months just ahead will
probably show large increases in all
forms of employment, the board said
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-02-07

The home, located on Nunnery Hill,
overlooking the steel city's famous
Golden Triangle, was once the ma
jestic abode of Colonel James An
drews, friend of Andrew Carnegie.
The II acres of the Andrews estate
will be joined with acres of adjacent
land and will form the site of ST.
344,0OO development which will pro-
vide homes for 244 low-income fam
lilies.
Colonel Andrews purchased the land
for his home from the nuns of the
Order of st. Clare in the 1850's. A
celebrated engineer, he built the first
bridge across the Mississippi at St
Louis and supervised the construction
of the levees at the mouth of the river
below New Orleans.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-02-07
SPRING BUILDING
TO SHOW BIG GAIN

Washington, D. C. (ILNS).--Sharp
gains in new home construction ac-
tivity under the FILA program during
recent weeks are probably foreshadow-
ing the largest spring building season
within the past 13 years, Federal
Housing Administrator Abner HI. Fer
guson announced.
In the three weeks ended January
25, new home construction started un-
der FHA inspection showed an expan-
sion of 68 per cent over the comparable
period of last year. At the same time,
applications for FHA mortgage insur-
ance on new homes to be built under
it's inspection have been 35 per cent
larger than a year ago.
Although there is usually winter
let-down in building activity, an av-
erage of between 450 and 500 new
small homes were started each work
ing day under FILA inspection in the
three weeks. The total for the pc
riod, including several hundred new
small homes being financed under
Title l of the National Housing Act,
was 7,768 as compared with 1890 in
the corresponding weeks of 1910.
Applications for FILA mortgage in
surance on new small homes to be
financed under Section 203 of the act,
which affords reliable barometer of
future building activity have been
coming in at the rate of almost 600
each working day.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-02-07
HIGH COURT KILLS
STATE ALIEN LAW

Washington, D. c. (ILNS).-Con-
troversy over Pennsylvania alien
registration law was ended by deci-
cision of the U. S. Supreme Court,
holding that "the power to restrict,
limit, regulate and register aliens as
a distinct group is not an equal and
continuously existing concurrent power
of state and nation, but whatever
power a state may have is subordinate
to supreme national law"
Under the provisions of the Penn
sylvania law, the state sought to force
aliens to carry Identification cards
subject to inspection at any time by
police. The federal law has no such
provision.
On that subject the court said:
Congress plainly manifested a pur-
pose to protect the personal liberties
of law-abiding aliens through one uni
form national registration system, and
to leave them free from the possibility
of inquisitorial practices and police
surveillance that might not only affect
our international relations but might
also generate the very disloyalty
which the law has intended guarding
against"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-02-07
HELPING THE TAXPAYER

A trend toward the payment of local
property taxes by installments-87 per
cent of the larger cities in the United
States now permit this-is reported
by the Municipal Finance Officers AS
sociation of the United States and
Canada.
The 81 per cent represents large
increase over the number of cities per-
mitting payment of local taxes by in
stallment in 1880, when SO per cent of
the larger cities required payment in
one lump sum.
Payments of taxes by installments
aids the taxpayer, and has proved
workable and beneficial in many To-
calities. Why should it not be used
everywhere?
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-02-07
YOUTH COMMISSION
ASKS FOR u. S. AID

Washington, D. C. (ILNS).-Point-
ing to the undemocratic way in which
hundreds of thousands of children are
penalized educationally for living in
poverty-stricken or isolated parts of
the country, the American Youth Com
mission, in statement just made pub
lie, advocated federal financial assist
ance to elementary and secondary
schools, saying "since youth is being
trained for defense, they should be
assisted in forming a conception of
what it is they have to defend!"
A hundred million dollars from fed
eral funds-small in comparison to
the $2,300,000,O00 now spent by the
public schools of the nation-would
tend to relieve the present inequality
under which some school districts
have taxable values one hundred times
larger than others with which to pro-
vide educational opportunity to their
youth, the commission says.
Asserting that it "was fully aware
of the dangers of bringing the federal
government into the field of educa-
tlon," the commission strongly rec
commended that the aid be given in
direct grants, with all control of poll
cles left in the hands of local au-
thorities.
The expenditure of even so small a
sum, says the commission, would
greatly change for the better the edu-
cational outlook of several million chill
dren and YOUTH" of whom at least a
half million are not even enrolled in
school, and hundreds of thousands at
tend school only at irregular periods.
simultaneously with these recon-
mendations for partial federal aid, the
commission reported that even in the
less impoverished sections of the coun-
try, the existing educational facilities
are staggering under the impact of
emergency training duties. "The
schools in many areas will soon reach
the limits of their capacity to assist
In short-term training unless they
make facilities available by reducing
their programs of secondary education
and in particular by drastically cur
failing their regular longer-term pro-
grams of vocational education. Such
step would not seem wise, although
the schools would continue to assist
IN emergency training programs to
the extent that is reasonably feasible.
Beyond that point the commission be-
lleves that any needed expansion of
emergency training programs should
be regarded as the direct responsibility
of industry and labor" the report says.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-02-07

People of the United States have
gone through great wars, suffered
great hardships and privations and
survived and laughed through it all.
We shall continue to laugh our de-
fiance, show that courage and forti-
tude is part of the heritage of free
people, people who laugh at the
antics of dictators who seek to frighten
them with obscure threats of dire and
dreadful reprisals if they do not bow
to the will of the ruthless maniacs now
running amuck in Europe.
We shall not be merely giving them
the old razzberry, we will be sending
it over with our compliments and the
imprint, "Made in the U. S. A., where
Men are Free"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-02-07
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY z, 1941.
HEALTH AND DEFENSE

Examination of young men under
the Selective Service Act is disclosing
an alarmingly high proportion with
physical defects, indicating that the
physical condition of American youth
is unsatisfactory.
Plainly, the situation shown by the
examinations calls for general pro-
gram for the development of physical
fitness. This involves many things
including adequate provision for med
ical care, starting with the child. Al
essential, perhaps more important
than any, would be raising of wage
levels, to bring good living conditions
to all classes of people.
The problem is closely tied up with
both national defense and nationa
welfare, as the American Youth Com
mission points out.
National defense and national vel
fare" the commission says, "are fun
damentally dependent upon the devel
opment of a strong, healthy people
In the present juncture, every phase
of health and physical fitness for the
entire population is deserving of the
most earnest attention"