The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-11-27
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"How to Win on the Home Front
is pamphlet written by HELEN Dal-
las and offers practical plan by
which the average housewife can cut
her expenditures 10 percent and still
maintain an adequate diet for her
family. The ten percent can go for
war bonds.
The pamphlet explains why ration
ing is necessary and how it operates
how price control helps prevent
boarding, profteering and specula-
ting; what the new credit regulations
are which limit installment buying,
loans and charge accounts; how the
government is working to prevent
hidden price rises by establishing
standards2of quality by requiring in
formative labelling.
The Florida Federation of Women's S
Clubs at it's recent convention adopted
two resolutions, (D protesting the
lack of justifable recognition of
women on policy forming committees
Of the government and (2) protesting
the ban placed on musical recordings
by James Petrillo, president of the
American Federation of Musicians.
Santa Claus will have a plentiful
supply of toys for this Christmas,
but doubts are already expressed on
his requirements for next year.
GLAMOR
Platinum, long used for engage
ment and wedding rings is on its way
out because the War Production
Board has prohibited its use in max
ing jewelry. Platinum articles al
ready manufactured, however, may
still be sold Platinum is now needed
in the manufacture of nitric acid and
radio tubes.
Perhaps yellow gold which goes and
comes in the fashion world will again
come to the fore for wedding rings.
Hair dodads Of every size and shape
will be worn this winter and among
the most popular are the feather CAD
gets. Fine feathers for fine ladies
seems to be the theme. So, if you
would look festive, wear a frivolous,
feminine looking headpiece with a
well groomed hair do. Ask gradma
for her ostrick curls, if beau-catcher
you'd be.
A new WPB order assures us gals
of adequate supplies of cosmetics, so
we no longer will have to choose be-
tween face powder and gunpowder.
Nor will we have to give up our lip
sticks to the war effort.
Types, sizes, forms and packaging
of our cosmetics will be simplified, but
they will still be adequate for our
needs.
A questionnaire answered by two
hundred employees of OPA repre-
senting most of the states, proved
that lipstick came first in Importance,
face powder second, deodorants, rouge
and cold cream next in order.
We are urged to buy cosmetics
sparingly and economically as many
of the materials, such as alcohol, gly-
cerine, dye chemicals and zinc or tin
oxide which go into cosmetics are also
needed for war purposes.
We are asked to set aside those
compacts and lipstick holdeys we may
need for future use and make use of
re-flls, and contribute all the extra
ones not needed to the scrap metal
salvage campaign. Even small
amounts of brass and steel are wanted
by our government.
THE MAN power problem is still
under study by government agencies
and number of proposed solutions
are being considered, but according to
Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins,
three million more women for the ma
tion's industrial labor force will be re-
cruited within the next thirteen
months.
Women are needed not only in war
industries, but in factories, shops and
businesses for the duration.
Asked how she proposed to solve
the problem of getting women back
into home routines after the war,
Madam Perkins replied, Mature will
take care of that problem, as 80 per-
cent of our women want to live in