Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-30

lite DOlO pony Woii ednS ohJ 'i'S
but an aluminium bit or won't re-
spond to any digs in the ribs from
ANYTHING but aluminium spurs
you'll probably have to send the
critter back to be rebroken, 1or
spurs and bits will hereafter be
made of steel, which was, after all,
good enough for the old gray mare
RATIONS FOR
FOOTBALLERS
Football coaching will require an
entirely new school of Pop Warn
crs. for leather helmets and should
er pads are out. They'll be made
of fiber and that will naturally
alter the tactics of the double
wing back and razzledazzles' Even
the lnsoles on athletic shoes Will
be fiber instead of leather. Pig
skins will still be pigskins for
awhile but they will be inflated by
pumps of steel, instead OF brass
If gasoline becomes SO scarce you
decide it's better to ride to Work
on a bicycle, reconcile yourself to
getting a model which will have
lights and horns made OF enameled
steel, not nickel.
Even your yacht will have to be
a little less facny. Boat whistles
are to be made of plastic instead
of brass. The flagpole sockets, bow
and stern handles will be MALE
able iron instead of brass. The
place won't seem as much like
home With these substitutions, and
if the chrome trim is taken away
too, you might just as we'll invite
your friends to spend a weekend
on barge. But, like the courage
Gus Britains, you must learn to
do without. and bear up bravely
under such hardships.
Production for defense is even
stepping in to disrupt your vaca-
ton plans, and If you are getting
lew equipment, you may find the
top on the picnic thermos jug made
of plastic instead of aluminium.
while the new model camera cases
will have plastic instead Of alumni
mum boxes.
SAD NEWS FOR
THE WALTONS
Fishing rod handles and reels
will be plastic covered steel. Gun
cleaning rods will be steel instead
OF brass.
Your very home is to be viol-
lated by the long claws of the de-
fense planners. Remember the
good old washing machines with
the aluminium agitators? Cad,
what machines they were! Plastic
agitators now. And that old kero-
sene stove that mother loved So
well-the one with the copper tub
ing. brass connectcrs, asbestos
kindlers, steel tank and nickel
TRIM Another year or SO and you
won't be able to get model like
that at all The tubing will be
steel, the tank and kindlerS glass,
the trim plastic.
Vacuum cleaner and refrigerator
statesmen will have to learn entire
ly new languages because of the
substitution of plastics for metal
The ersatz era stops at nothing.
If you haa visions Of having Junior
learn to take his first steps in an
aluminium baby walker. you had
best get your aluminium baby walk
er quick, even if Junior hasn't ar
rived yet, or else let your dream
vanish and your ambition go un-
realized. Babies of the coming gem
Grafton must learn to walk TO the
next war in baby walkers OF
enameled steel.
The old folks are to have their
dotage and senili.y ruined, too.
Picture if you can. with all the
touches of nostalgia, father and
mother, retired and living on Their
social security. Mother will be sit
ting on the porch IN her favorite
arte moderne chair, sewing. Sewing
because her no-acccunt children
have forgotten now. But will that
thimble be a perfectly good dime
store zinc thimble like her grand
mothers? Not on your life. The
rhimble will be cadmium finish,
whatever that is.
And Father. Sitting in his socks
and undershirt on the steps below
her, sprinkling the lawn in the cool
of the evening. The picture is per-
feet except for ono detail The
label on the hose will be vulcanized
rubber instead of aluminium.
WASHINGTON OVERS
AND SHORTS