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The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-12-25
"That Man In The White
House" Is Not A Democrat
By Miriam KOlkin

WASHINGTON - Listening to
Sen. Albert ''Happy" Chambers
mOurnful tones when he speaks
of ''that man" in the White House,
you would never suspect the peO-
pie of Kentucky elected him to the
senate ON a platform of about
support for the President.
''Why, Roosevelt's not Demo-
craft" Chandler told me aggriev-
eddy. ''He's New Dealer. So why
doesn't he get himself New Deal
party and leave the Democrats
alone?" The President doesn't even
act like Democrat, he said, COM
planning that Roosevelt comes into
stale to make a speech during a
senatorial campaign and does not
even mention the Democratic can
didate.
Although he's rather pessimistic
about the chances of forming third
party, Chambers syrnpathies are de-
fnitely with his two southern col
leagues-Josiah Bailey (N.C.) and
Ellison Cotton Ed Smith (S.C.)-
who irately warned that the south
ern bloc would pull out of the Demo-
cratic party after Joseph Guffey Cd.
Pa.) accused them of having formed
an "unholy alliance" with Republi-
cans to defeat the soldiers vote bill.
Chandler voted for the bill, but he
conhded that when he heard Guffey' S
unjust accusations, he was sorry he
hadn't voted with the polltaxers.
There are deep, irreconcilable diff
ferences between the southerners and
the New Deal" he said, his face as
Stunning a solemn expression. Nor were
the southern senator's the only ones
who were discontented, he went on.
The people back home were discon-
tented, too, which was why Kentucky
elected a Republican governor in the
November elections.
He's seen the Republican swing
coming all along, he said, not too
unhappily. But when l asked him
what he thought of the Macarthur
for President campaign-after he
told me he thought Macarthur the
military genius of the century, he
replied loftily that he wasn't inter-
ested i'm Republicans.
Chandler spent the good part of
the hour / talked to him, explaining
why the war isn't popular in Ken
lucky and with the rest of the Amer
lean people. IT'S not like 1917 when
people saw the boys off with brass
bands and parades," he sighed. The
people Just want to be let alone" he
added, drawing a pathetic picture of
their being harassed by OPA regu-
lations and spending all their time
filling out government forms.
1t pays to talk to a defeatist,
once in a while. Little items like
labor's no-strike pledge, the produc-
ton records they're setting, and the
bonds they're buying, the Atlantic
Charter and the results of the Cairo
and Teheran conferences might
lead you to think the United Ma
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-12-25
Frozen Wages VS..
High Living Costs

Observation-Disclosures OF
American families will be
caught i'm price squeeze be-
tween frozen wages and the
rising cost of living unless
congress adopts food subsi'
dies, the December ALL.
''Monthly Survey warns.
It is generally realized, the
survey says, that millions OF
workers have received only the
Little Steel 1870 wage increase
while even the Labor Department
living cost index shows an in
crease of 1870 since Jan. 1941.
seven the Department admits
that its index cannot show work
ers' actual increase in expenses due
to wartime conditions, and union
members know that the actual lv-
ing cost rise is much more than
80 although we have as yet no
way of measuring it accurately, "
the survey says. s'Millions of other
families with fixed incomes-un-
organized workers, people living on
pensions and savings-have had
their living standards cut away by
price increases.
How many are caught in the price
squeeze? The U. S. Treasury esti-
mates that $40 of all city families
(7,400,O00) will have no hioher in
come in 1914 than they had in 1911.
This means that an income cut of
more that 300, due to price rises
has already affected some 100000
people. Are they to have further cut
by still more price increases?
'sOf these families 100000
(89o of all city families) will ac-
tually have less income i'm 1914
than they had i'm l94I. Many are
below the poverty line. The Treas
ury estimates show that 1870 of
all city families (3,9OO,OOO) will
have less than 81, 500 a year i'm
1914, a poverty living level at to-
days prices. AT least 1870 of
all city families will receive less than
$500 in 1914, according to the
Treasury"
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-12-25

What happened then was termed
by the FEC. in it's careful govern
mental policy of using understate-
ments as improper" The A. T. 4
I. ''transferred'' the phOny ''prO-
fits" or excess value posted on ny
Telephones books to the A. T. &
It's books as profits on the trans
fers.
The actual sum is $4,166,51O and
the FEC. says these profits" are
as unreal as interdepartmental trans
actions within the A. T. & T. itself.
The commission described the 81 mil
hon as an ''infationary writeup" of
the New York company's asset &C
counts.
A. statement from the New York
Telephone Co. on the deal called
it legitimate business.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-12-25
Bookkeeping rick
Juggles 81 Millions

NEW YORK-A. T. & T. does
MT mean ''Always Take & Treble"
but the Federal Communications
Commission has just caught the
New York Telephone Co., a wholly
owned subsidiary of the American
Telephone & Telegraph Co., in
slick little bookkeeping gesture in
volving more than $4,OOO.OOO.
The story goes like this: Between
1925 and 1923, there were some four
transfers of property from the A. T.
q /. to the New York Telephone Co.
When these transfers were made,
they were entered on the books of
NY Telephone at amounts far above
their real value, or as the FEC.
said, at 'amounts in excess of net
book cost to the A. T. & To-
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-12-25
CASUALTIES ARE UP

Casualties among our soldiers of
production continue to mount This
is revealed by the survey of indus
trial injuries just completed by the
United States Department of Labor.
In 1o42-as in the preceding year
the number of disabling work inju-
ries lose much more rapidly than
employment or total elnployee-hours
of labor The average number of dis
abilities per million employee-hours
mounted by go last year. The time
lost because of injuries also increas-
ed over the previous year.
Shorten our casualty lists by
lengthening our War Bond buying
lists.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-12-25
No. Bal AffiIiates
With N. H. Council

The New Haven Film Exchange
Employees, Local Bal, International
Alliance of Theatrical Stage En-
ployes and Motion Picture Machine
Operators, have voted to affiliate with
the New Haven Central Labor Coun-
Gil.
The afiliation was unanimously re-
ceived at the Councils meeting
Thursday, and Harold Freed, presi-
dent of the Local, was sworn in as a
delegate. The Local, which is con-
stantly growing, now has AZ dues
paying members.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-12-25
For Lynch Law And
25c-Day Wage Scale

WESTINGHOUSE. Ellison D
Cotton ED Smith o., S. c., who
openly advocated lynch law recently
in a senate debate on the soldiers
vote, is up for reelection in 1915. This
is the farm bloc statesman who in
1888 opposed 25c-per-hour wage un-
the wage and hour law. He said SOC a
day is all that's needed to live on in
South Carolina.
Smith poses as "the only genuine
dirt farmer we've got in the senate"
But he reputedly is advised by Rob-
ert Harriss, Wall Street cotton brok-
er, who is a financial banker of the
Natl. Farm Committee, farm bloc
lobby group. Smith has been in the
senate since 1907.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-12-25
PAY ENVELOPES

During the second War Bond
Drive, the American people bought
80 million E. Bonds alone-an
average of almost one bond for
every three people, counting man,
woman and child. Of the $425,-
100000 allotted for monthly bond
purchasing from wages and sala-
ries, more than $3OO,OOO,OOO came
out of the pay envelopes of union
members.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-12-25
This U. S. Cruiser Went Down But She's Not Out

In Naples Harbor, this battle-dam-
aged American cruiser sank. But
before you, TOTO, or you, Hitler,
begin gloating over this picture,
consider this: she was raised,
patched up, brought back to the
U. S., and before long one of you
will again be suffering from her
salvos! It's for vital jobs like this
- fixing ships damaged in battle -
that the Navy needs more SRU's.
Men skilled in any of more than 40
trades are wanted Immediately. A
new booklet, available at the Navy
Recruiting Station, tells all about
the Ship Repair Units.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-12-25

The more planes, tanks, and
jeeps the United Nations will have
at the front, the more customers
they will have for their bandwagons
in the rear. Watch some so-called
nuetrals like the Fascist Franco.
Evening star., 1943-06-08
Domestic Service Fine Field
For a Middle.Aged Woman

who would like to get out and help,
but when employers demand young
girls we just have to sit back in
the corner. Can you tell us how
we can go about finding a job that
would get us out of the rut?
MRS. A. G.
Answer-There is one bitter thing
that middle-aged women will have
to accept as fact, that they can
neither ignore nor overcome and
that is that when they look for
employment their age is a handicap.
This cannot be wholly explained by
the theory that men have amorous
eyes and prefer to be surrounded
by young and pretty girls rather
than by aging women who have
lost their looks. It is largely be-
cause experience has taught them
that girls are more adaptable, more
amenable to discipline and easier to
teach than women who are settled
in their opinions and who have been
accustomed to bossing rather than
being bossed.
But there is one field of labor open
to the middle-aged woman for which
she is prepared, in which there is
never enough labor to go around,
and in which at the present moment
she can practically write her own
ticket, and that is domestic service
Cooking. Housework. Taking care
of children. The fabulous wages
paid in defense projects have al
most depopulated the kitchens and
the nurseries. Nearly everybody's
cook has passed up the gas range
for the riveting machine, and nursie
is helping make airplanes instead of
darning little Johnny's socks and
taking him to walk in the park;
also innumerable mothers have
heard the voice of their country call
ing them to run canteens instead
Of their own homes and entertain
soldiers instead of amusing the baby.
And this has left gap in the en-
ployment situation that the middle
aged woman who wants a Job can
fill with profit to all concerned.
Evening star., 1943-06-08
Shopping around
By Dorothy Murray.


For Smart Serving
1t would be smart eied
fruit cocktail in individual glass dishes that finished
full shade of blue The would
table the occasion buffet luncheon supper
dishes Lazy Susan and the
themselves
Tray That's Different
Attractive and cool appearing serving light
wood with brass and silver designs appiqued
full leaves and modernc conception among
the designs IN stock To keep the designs from furnishing
ting damaged there piece of clear glass placed
the top Several from which selection.
Indesfructible Table TOP -.
wonderful investment for porch small table that
equipped with indesructible
material but normer must have considered military
secret for he told technical
tive looking affair that resembles grained This
into blond wood table frame would be excellent
coffee end tableust remember lighted cigarette
happened to fall on the center part won't hurt it at all.
Conversation Piece
The most unusual picture and frame
erred Sunday portrays
small children gazing with rapture The
ment in color and to off, it q
coored linen fabric This interesting piece
would have to be hung in just the right surroundings
M0dernisfic Bird Cage
Even bird cages have modernc. One style the
market that but equally
chromium and glass 1t stands approximately
base being made entirely of chromium designed
shape of closely placed chromium bars with
panels OF clear glass fittings
made of chromium and glass.
Evening star., 1943-06-08
By DR.. J. B. Warren

If you are overweight and have
followed faithfully your physicians
advice as to food and exercise and
there is no reduction in weight, you
are justified in asking him about the
use of gland extracts or benzedrine
sulphate.
Gland extracts and weight-reduc-
ing drugs are unsafe unless used un-
der the supervision of a physician
Try the reducing diet first.
Evening star., 1943-06-08

things with fabrics, adapting such
odd ones as glazed chintz, gingham,
seersucker, percale and popin to
play and sun suits. There are loads
OF blue denim fashions and other
washable, easy-to-care-for materials
that look cool and correct.
So you see, not being able to travel
this summer won't be such q hard
ship after all. It's a matter of ad-
justing your wardrobe to the type
OF vacation you plan, as well as to
your own personal preferences.
Casual clothes need not cost a for
tune; in fact, you will be surprised
at the moderate price tags on many
Of the colorful, cool, good looking
summer fashions. And in these
styles, even as in more formal ones,
a little novelty goes q long way. It's
all right to indulge in some Of the
whimsical play togs, the mad acces-
sories and gay touches, but chances
are that the choice of classic favor
ties will make for more happiness
and more comfort this season and
in seasons to come.
Evening star., 1943-06-08
By Dorothy Dir

Dear Miss Dix: We read in the
papers so much about the demand
for women in labor, but apparently
employers want no one but young
girls. I am 43 years old and because
I have had no recent experience I
cannot get a job, although before
I was married I was typist, bill
ing machine operator and also a
bookkeeper in large wholesale gro
Gerry house.
My family is reared now. My hus-
band makes a small salary and it
is awfully hard to get along now
adays with the high price of every
thing, so I would like to earn some
extra money in order that I may
prepare for the future, which is
going to be very hard for all of us.
I have done all of my own house
work, even to the washing and IRON
ing and sewing for the past %
years, yet I can't even get work as
a sewing machine operator because
of my age.
There are many women like me
Evening star., 1943-06-08

Dear OPA:
Don't feel too bad about not let
ting us drive our glamorized jeep
to the beach this summer. We
never did like sand in our sand
wiches, anyhow-and they drafted
all the handsome lifeguards long
ago.
What we thought we'd do is stay
home and take fling at this va
cation-in-your own-backyard busi-
ness. And the way we figure it, it
can either be a great success or an
awful fizzle, depending upon how
much effort the urban vacationist
makes.
Take the matter of play clothes.
If we embark on our two weeks
reprieve dressed in the sloppiest,
shabbiest and most disreputable
looking togs We own, we're not going
to get much of a lift mentally. We
wouldn't dare go to resort in
badly fitting, droopy pair of slacks
or a swim suit that looks like a
parade ground for moths. So we
won't spend our vacation at home
in them. It's wonderful to relax
and not worry too much about
whether your face is on exactly
straight, but it's terrible to spend
your days looking like a fugitive
from corn field.
So we thought we'd buy one or
two double-duty play suits, which
serve as bathing suits-or vice versa.
And then if, while we're sunbathing,
Junior accidentally turns the garden
hose on our deck chair, it won't
matter. There also are the usual
classic play suits with detachable
skirts, perfect when we take a walk
to the store or our staid maiden
aunt unexpectedly drops in. For
badminton or just general outdoor
activities, we like play dresses with
panties underneath, particularly the
new pinafore and apron styles that
look demure and dainty enough to
wear to the dinner table. Stacks,
of course, for general lounging, and
even dressy slacks with fancy long
or short sleeved blouses for enter
tanning in the garden. But we in
sist that our slacks fit properly and
that the southern view of us head
ing north be a picture of good
tailoring. Separate shorts worn
with long-sleeved blouses still look,
to us, like the last word out of a
smart fashion magazine
And while we're dressing the part
we're going to give careful attention
to accessories. The high-style look
of a cluster of flowers used at the
Evening star., 1943-06-08
Look the Part This Year
Vacation at Home Calls for Cool Comfortable Fashons
Sporswear Styles Both Diversified and Fashion.Risht
By Helen Vosf

waistline of shorts or slacks is still
for us. Costume jewelry worn on
play dresses makes all the differ
ence. A bright snood or a hair Or
nament of ribbons or flowers takes
away the too-casual look Of play
clothes. But we'll wear fiat heels
with all our informal clothes except
maybe when we wear a frilly pima
fore dress in the evening. Play
shoes are in many cases unrationed
and plentiful, so there's no excuse
for stopping around in an old pair
of fathers bedroom slippers. Until
our legs have a chance to turn
golden brown from sun bathing We'll
use leg makeup and be sure that it
is applied to a smooth, hairless sur
face.
Realizing that there is great
variety of styles, fabrics and colors
from which to choose, our summer
styles will be either Of the frilly,
dressmaker variety or the simple,
f1gure-revealing type, such as two
piece swim suits in bright colors.
The designers have done wonderful
Evening star., 1943-06-08
Care of Oily
Skin Given
In Detail
By Patricia Lindsay

There are varying opinions on the
care of oily skin, but one outstand-
ing cosmetician, whose advice I
sought to report to my readers, has
developed rather detailed but ef-
fective treatment.
To rid yourself permanently of
an oily skin condition, this authority
claims, you must watch your diet
and cultivate healthful living habits
in addition to the external skin
treatment. Get plenty of fresh air
and sunshine, she advises, and walk
every day if you will not exercise
otherwise. Never touch your face
with dirty hands. Strict personal
hygiene is most essential. Treat
your skin with clean fingers and
cotton pads. Discard the pads after
each application.
There is pasteurized face cream
which is used to massage the face
and especially the blemished areas.
This cream cleanses and lubricates
and should be removed with tissue
before the skin is washed with little
soap grains. The grain lather is
worked over the skin gently with
fingers and then rinse off thor
oughly.
For blemishes or pimples which
accompany an excessively oily con-
dition, there is medicated cream
which is left on overnight to heal.
If you live in a dusty area your
skin should be cleansed with cream
again in the morning, or washed.
AS a makeup foundation there is
a lotion, slightly medicated. which
provides mat finish and partly
concealS blemishes.
After this is blended nicely and
dry. proceed with your makeup.
Dry rouge is preferable to the cream
rouge, if your skin is oily. Apply
your powder with fresh cotton,
pressing it onto the skin instead of
putting over the skin. Any excess
is brushed off with a little powder
brush. Be sure to select a shade
that matches your current skin tone,
and there is a powder which is
mixed especially for the oily skin.
Your lip coloring is outlined with
brush, then the outline is filled
in with your lipstick, and any excess
Is blotted off. Over the first appli-
cation you may powder, and then
apply a second application, blot.
This will keep your lip color
smoother
Evening star., 1943-06-08
Offering Family
ernpting Food
Is Patriotic
Bv Edith NJ. Barber

- y IL NS~ssS NA - ~ W.
Few of us realize the extent OF
our personal demands on the food
supplies Of our country. I, myself,
was surprised to see the figures in
pounds Of the average amount of
food consumed by one person dur
ing year. Would you believe that
it is somewhere around two thou
sand to twenty-five hundred
pounds? We have been wasteful of
food in this country. No doubt, a
percentage Of the food produced
never reached our tables, and many
of us used carelessly what we pur-
chased.
Our attitude toward waste has
changed in these crisis days. Most
OF us are attempting to cut it to
a minimum. The Army is trying
to set us an example Like many
of the rest of us, soldiers, many of
whom eat cafeteria style in the
training camps, had eyes bigger
than their stomachs, and took bad
ger portions than they could eat
Sometimes vegetables, for instance,
were taken but not eaten, either
because the particular vegetable it
self was disliked, or because it was
poorly cooked. Effort is now being
made to serve the most popular
vegetables more often, and to i'm
prove methods of cookery. Recently,
my sister, Mary Barber, who is
food consultant for the Army, Wis
tied large mess and inspected the
waste from the table. This was ex-
ceedingly small, and she attributed
it partly to the fact that the spinach
which was on the menu was so we'll
cooked and looked so appetizing.
BAKED FRANKFURTER
PINWHEELS.
II pound frankfurters
cups cream sauce
2 teaspoons dry mustard
recipe biscuit dough
Chop frankfurters fine. Beat mus
tard into cream sauce, and add
enough of the sauce to the frank
furters to allow them to spread.
Roll biscuit dough into an oblong
1s Inch thick. and spread with the
frankfurter mixture. Roll length
wise and slice in 1-inch pieces. Peel
and slice onions and place in
creased baking pan. Arrange slice
Of biscuit on each onion slice,
bake in oven 400 degrees F. about
20 minutes until brown. Serve hot
with remaining cream sauce. Yield:
6 servings.
SPANISH SHEPHERDS PIE.
medium sized potatoes
4 to "a cup milk
2 tablespoons butter or margarine
Salt
Pepper
IL cups sliced onion
tablespoons fat.
green pepper cut in strips
IL cups diced cooked meat
cup gravy or tomato sauce
Boil potatoes and mash with milk
and butter or margarine and salt
and pepper to taste. Reserve for
"pie crust" Melt fat, add onions
and fry lightly until yellow. Add
green pepper, seasonings, meat and
gravy or tomato sauce and simmer
for 10 minutes. Line a pie plate
with half the mashed potato, fill
with the hot meat mixture and COW
er the remaining potatoes. Brush
with milk or beaten egg and brown
in hot oven (450 degrees F)
Yield: 6 servings.
Evening star., 1943-06-08
1 l1784.R I
By Barbara Bell

Softly styled and in perfect taste.
Very f1attering to larger figures and
amazingly slenderizing.
Good news for all home dress
makers, the Spring Fashion Book is
ready. You'll find it brimming with
new ideas for dirndls, tailored frocks,
suits and accessories! Send for your
copy today, it is Is cents. Order q
fashion book with a 15-cent pat
tern for Is cents plus / cent for
postage.
Barbara Bell pattern No. 17s4-B
designed for sizes SO, SO, 40, AZ, a,
as, 48, so and So. Size SO requires
4 yards 39-inch material, 2 yards
edging.
For this attractive pattern send
IS cents plus l cent for postage, In
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