Evening star., 1941-06-18

selves on emergency electricity a
tions.
Their motto is millions of kiio-
watts for defense, but not one Tor
personal comfort.
Electric shavers have been re-
turned to their streamlined cases
and that old-fashioned whisket-
whacker, the straight razor, pat
into use. This accounts for the
nicked chins, because the straight
razor is basically weapon of at
tack and is dangerous in the hands
of a beginner or of a man out of
practice.
Even Bobby Jones, an athlete WITH
extraordinary coordination, told nae
today that he was having more
trouble with straight razor than
he did in winning his grand SIAM
A man can peg himself as a Pc
tential fifth columnist by using
needed power to cool himself with
an electric fan or an air-condition-
ing unit. Those Dixie adaptations
of the tropical punkah, palm leaf
fans, have been rooted out Of run1-
mage closets and swung into action.
It's patriotic to perspire here HaT.
The kerosene lamp is back stn
vogue. One of the biggest drpg-
stores in town has handsome brace
of them lighting its display win
dows at night and citizens are con-
sidering using them for household
illumination until the needed rains
come and fill the dwindling water
supply in hydroelectric reservoirs.
When the sun goes down Atlanta
goes into a semi -blackout. Twonof
every three street lamps have bean
turned of, and famed old Peach%se
street. which used to boast neQn
sign for every pretty girl in toEn,
is but a flicker of its former self:
If you want to play tennis on the
city's public courts at night, you
have to play in the dark because
their candle power has been doused.
So have the lights of all golf driving
ranges, but blackening them hasn't
appreciably cut into their patronage.
AS a matter of fact, the golfers seem
partial to dark ranges as it allows
them to swear every ball they hit
went 300 yards
Barked shins are another symbol
Of patriotism in Atlanta.
They are the result of the laudable
effort on the part of householders to
turn on as few lights as possible,
and to grope their way from room
to room without illumination. And
Atlantans are no different from any
one else when it comes to finding
the sharpest point of furniture in
the dark. Neither is Atlanta furni-
ture any different from that in other
parts of the country. Once dark
ness settles on any piece OF Ame1-
can furniture it sprouts wicked lit
tie horns just the right size to riddle
a big toe, ankle or shin, or so 1t has
always seemed to me. -
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1t is heartening to be here In At
lanta despite the fact that my fsce
looks as If it had been shaved by
allowing two pumas to hold a pillow
fight on it, and to observe long
time city dwellers as they cope with
simple living.
1t has eased my fear that America
has gone soft, and would be lost
without 8 button to push for It's
needs. 1d
1t gave me a lift to hear OF the
matron who, when her electric stose
was turned of, plunged into the
perils Of cooking on a pre-McKinlsy
wood range with the spirit Of "A
pioneer. She chopped the wood,
stocked its fiery furnace, and defed
the red-hot stove lids to do their
worst. The heat OF it had freckfsd
her before she had the biscuits ffa-
ished, but she patted on some sun
tan cream and was doggedly starxi-
ing to bake a cake when overcome
by what veteran wood range cooks
call "stove- stroke"
That'll be all today. I'm of TO
burn my candle at both its ends.
(nisfributed nv MrNausht o-uS,.... VI,