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Woman World
Intelligent Use of Curtains
Can Make Any Home Lovelier
by G,tta Haley

MO MATTER what kind Of home
- you live in, it's a real pleasure
to know that you can make 1t love-
ier by intelligent selection and use
of materials. One of the most basic
beauty treatments for the home or
apartment or flat is the use of
attractive curtains.
Spanking fresh white or pastel
curtains which are luxurious even
though the fabric may be inexpen-
sive can give even the home with
few apparent possibilities for i'm
provement a nice new look that
everyone admires. Fortunately,
even the beginner can sew curtains,
because there is nothing really diff
cult about it.
Before you start on curtain
making spree, look over the window
situation carefully and decide just
what should be done.
If the view outside the window is
good, you will choose transparent
tie-back curtains that allow the out
doors to come in; at any rate,
SIlooSe SOlIletIlIlS WHICH Will peIIIl1L
an outdoor view easily.
If the view is poor, your best
choice is straight glass curtain
which is as opaque as possible with
out losing its suggestion of lightness
and airiness. Add side draperies in
as attractive a print as possible to
close out the view and make the
occupants find enough interest in
side so there is little desire to peek
outside them.
One of the most attractive things
about windows can be their fullness
and draping quality. If a choice
must be made between a good quail
ity but skinny curtain or a cheap
but full curtain, the choice should
always be the latter.
Shop Around to Find
Curtain Bargains
1t is often possible to find curtain
materials In dress fabric sections
at a considerably lower price than
in the drapery sections.
Prices on curtain fabrics vary
widely, and it is the woman who
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Girl Now Engineer

A little girl who used to distress
her mother by preferring play with
a set of carpenters tools to caring
for dolls has grown up to be a civil
engineer. She is Miss Winifred Hut
ton of Chicago, who was the first
woman to receive degree in civil
engineering from Northwestern uni
versity's chronological institute.
Miss Hutton is interested in the
designing side of engineering and
already has had several months
experience under cooperative pro-
gram with Industrial organizations.
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can be used as guide. Before try
ing to do any cutting, it's a good
idea to pull some thread to use as
guiding line. Or, better still, do
not try to cut the fabric; it's much
better and easier to tear it.
A yardstick is best to use in
measuring length; for the detail
work, such as ruffles, use a tape
measure.
Remove all selvages before you
start working on the curtain. The
selvage is woven much more tightly
than the curtain fabric, and if al
lowed to remain, it will bunch when
washed and not enable you to iron
the curtain smoothly.
Side hens are put in the curtain
first. To save time basting, turn the
edge A-inch first and press; then
turn it one or two inches and press
again. This will then be nice and flat
and can be machine-stitched with
out any basting. If you plan to
attach ruff1e, sew only the edge
that will be against the wall.
Finish and Trim Your
Curtains Attractively
Although it is possible to finish
the side seams without doing bast-
ing, it is wise to haste the hem of
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By KATHLEEN NORRIS
Bell Syndicate.-WNU Features.

WINE way to begin living
the ideal life is-to be-
L GIN"
A girl of 16 saw this line print
ed on butchers calendar some
40 years ago. 1t was a rainy aft
ernoon, with the grim outside
world growing dark. The girl
was tired, puzzled, more than
little frightened and sad, and
dressed in shabby mourning:
It was shabby mourning because
it was cheap mourning, as so often
mourning clothes must be. She had
worn it only few months-hard
and bewildered months.
She took her packages of Goldfish
or sausages or whatever it was and
went home, thinking of the words
on the calendar as she went. When
she got home she told her sister she
was going to live by those words for
a year-a year anyway. She was
destined to live only 20 more years,
and die beloved and admired, and
the happy mother of children. But
she never forgot that the way to
begin living the ideal life was
simply to begin.
She began in the little group of
orphaned brothers and sisters who
we're waiting for the sausages. She
didn't say much about it, but every
thing she touched from that time on
was touched with magic. Butter
was rolled into balls again, as in
her mothers gracious day. A picnic
meal was served among the pines
that surrounded the reservoir
across the street.
A pair of new stockings awaited
a pair of tired feet; the new cake of
soap in the bathroom was scented
and rare. She would read poem at
dinner; bring home an even less
fortunate friend for supper. Often
the flowers that kept the house
sweet were only field flowers from
vacant city lots.
The Ideal Life.
Often in winter, in the shabby
living room that was dining room,
too, when the fire burned, and the
brothers grumbled over the carving
of model boats or plans for the ma
chinery that was presently to make
their fortunes, with an older sister
idly playing old songs at the piano,
the two youngsters busy with home
work and the cat placidly asleep in
an old aunt's arms, she would look
wistfully about. "This is ideal, isn't
it?"
The family income for more than
two years averaged S85 month for
seven persons. 1t was a long time
ago; it couldn't be done now, finan-
cially. But it was done without debt
and without undue anxiety then, be-
cause economy and thrift and SIM
plcity were ideal, and the way to
begin living the ideal life waste
begin.
This is not fairy-tale, this is
simple truth. And it is true of the
lives of thousands of women who
have found out, whether they ever
put it into words or not, that the
material conditions that surround
them are not the important ones
that love, service, order, peace of
mind are all conditions of heaven
on earth, and that, as the wisest
voice of all told us two thousand
years ago, the kingdom of heaven is
within each and every one of us.
"What can you do?" demands
Nadine Powers of Buffalo, N. Y.
"Sidney's pay is $37 a week, no
more and no less We have two kids
perhaps we shouldn't have had
two kids, but we love them, and
when we're not worried to death
we love each other.
Horribly Discouraged"
"But what with Sidney coming
home dead tired every night, and
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This delightful floral frOck for
summer evenings capitalizes on
the fine draping quality of Swiss
Organdie crepe in its softly pulled
peplum, shoulder ruffles and flow
ing skirtline. The shoulder cor
sage with velvet ribbons is de-
tachable SO the frock actually
may be tubbed, if you wish. The
semi-soft finish of the fabric is
permanent, and the print is fast
color.
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to your tongue. But
10000 people don't
pay up to $3.50 each,
as they did here in
W a shin gton, and
then make a dona-
ton of So, 1000 just to
hear a political
speech. Neither do
200, 1000 people in 9TH
er sections of the
nation. What is it
thon0
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finance policy and to the "inequali-
ties" in the tax bill, asserting that
any saving to taxpayers in the low
income brackets would have been
more than offset by the rent in
crease bill.
Non-partisan appraisers point to
four mistakes the COP leadership
made as at least partially respon-
sible for the tax reduction impasse:
First, failure to set a ceiling
on government spending as re-
quired by law; second, using
political face-saving devices"
to force through the tax bill to
keep campaign promises; third,
seeking to make the tax cut re-
troactive to January l, 1947, and
finally, after five months delay,
compromising on July 1, 1947,
when they were assured Demo-
Gratis would 60 along and the
President would sign a tax cut
bill effective January 1, 1913.
Only the 1948 elections will de-
termine whether tax reduction is an
effective campaign issue.
Farmers Home administration bas
applications from some 10000 World
War III peferans for purchase of
farms. Aetion of The bonse nnlifed
that section of The G.I. bill of rights
by undertaking funds, thus suspend
ing THE governments declared policy.
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n0 III @aYY!
TOUn G] "2' 49,. !
Rfp0R7zR4EI
Tax Controversy
IN WASHINGTON


D EPUBLICAN leaders are
IN jubilant in declaring that
President Truman signed his
political death warrant by his
veto of the Knutson Taft tax
reduction bill. On the Democratic
side, leaders point to the Presidents
courage and sound government
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Can it be that people today
are worried and confused and
that the one idea in their minds
and hearts is peace and secu-
rity?
Is that the sympathetic chord
which draws people to pay to hear
this man make his plea for world
peace?
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Another Fight Looms

Indications now are that the fight
between IVA and the fertilizer in
dustry will measure up almost in
intensity to the fight private utilities
made against this government en-
terprise. IVA won out against the
powerful utilities. The fertilizer in
dustry is not nearly as powerful, so
indications are that IVA will win
again and provide low-priced fertil-
izer, which may or may not be a
yardstick for measuring private in
dustry prices on fertilizer.
About half of the small cities
and towns which hoped to get
federal aid for airpOrts and
airparks under the federal aid
airport program will be disap-
pointed. The reason: Congress
cut so per cent of the appropria-
ton which had been set up by
the last congress.
Municipal government officials in
hundreds of small towns and other
units of government are interested
in the Hinshaw bill, which seeks to
clarity authority of the securities ex-
change commission by placing pub
lie bond issues outside jurisdiction
of the SEC.
At least some good news-no
more tax on general admission
to county or farm fairs, but still
admission tax to amusement
enterprises.
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Sympathetic Chord

YOU may disagree with every
thing Henry Wallace says. You
may call him crack-pot. an ideal
list, Communist or whatever comes
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Sheila and Peter getting up to IA
and IL, more expensive all the
time, and food what it is, why-we
just are never caught up, and bills
pile up day after day. I can't seem
to keep the house attractive and in
order, we need paint and paper,
new draperies, new dining room
furniture. What with incessant dish
es, dust, shabbiness, money short
age, get horribly discouraged.
eve have four rooms and what
Peter calls his cell, little slice of
space off the kitchen, just big
enough for his bed. His chest of
drawers stand in the tiny entrance
hall. The dining room is Sheila's
bedroom; we eat in the kitchen;
two of our seven windows look out
on dull street, two on a line of
bare backyards, three onto air
wells. Sheila will soon want to be
entertaining friends - where? She
and Peter want to join skating,
swimming, tennis clubs; some of
their friends ride, 60 away for the
summers. Sid and l want to do our
UeSI lOI OuT CllllQTeH. we nave sac
rificed everything for them. But we
know now that we simply can't
make the grade"
This is typical letter, but the
ideal life is in reach of Sidney and
Nadine, if they'll look for it. 1t
would lie in their case in a more
realistic attitude toward the things
they may properly give their chill
dren, and the things those children
must earn for themselves. 1t might
mean move to the country, or the
taking on of larger responsibilities
in larger quarters, or forming some
plan-any plan, that will inspire
them all to want the real rather
than the show. Not easily, perhaps,
and not swiftly, but their lives, and
all others, can be freed of fear and
anxiety. And the way to begin-is
to begin.
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Soil Bankrupt

Sen. Lister Hill Of Alabama says
farmers of the nation today are fac
ing soil bankruptcy. Battling the
fertilizer lobby, Ed O'Neal, Ameri-
can Farm Bureau federation presi-
dent, declares senate bill 1851 will
increase production of high analysis
fertilizer. O'Neal says farmers now
buy five pounds Of filler to get
pound Of plant food and that plant
food must be stepped up to at least
double present content, to save on Ia
Dor and transportation costs.
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shops around who finds the most for
the least dent in the budget.
An incident to illustrate this point
comes to mind when I think of the
woman who was doing curtains for
her daughters bedroom. They had
decided on something very femi-
nine, and organdie with an embroi-
dered eyelet was the choice. The
fabric was found, but its price was
exorbitant. The mother, however,
was not to be outdone. She found
some 45-inch organdie for less than
SO cents a yard, some edging for
less than that. The two together
made very attractive curtains, and
there was enough left for a dressing
table skirt. The total cost was less
than they had decided was neces-
sary for the whole curtain project.
True, it took bit of footwork to
find the material, and a few extra
stitches to attach the edging to the
organdie, but the result was luxuri-
GUS as well as satisfying from an
economy standpoint.
Cutting, Sewing Tips
Make Work Easier
AS I explained before, curtain
making is not difficult, but there is
lot of material to maneuver into
position, so it's wise to select
large space for working. I have
found that clean wooden floor or
freshly Northumberland rug are
ideal spots for cutting.
A rug is particularly good for cut
ting transparent fabrics because it
Enakopravnost. [volume] (Cleveland, O.[Ohio]) 1918-1957, 1947-05-01

.sedo v itaijanski politiki, je IL
javil, da je njegoya stranka
.vedno pripoznayala, d. potreba
IA zunanjimi krediti v svrho
|obnove dezele nj nikakor Y ma
sprotju s tenn, da Sc te kredite
|dobi cd kapitalisticnih drzav.
Italia je danes tudi kapita-
listicna drzava. v njej Sc mi,
.skupno z ostalimi strankami,
borimo "a globoke demokratic-
ne spremembe, Ii bodo onemo-
gocile vrnitev fasiznaa in reak-
CHE. Seveda Sc zavedamo, da
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moran1o imeti politiGno stabil-
most, ce zelimo dobiti zunanje
Iposojilo. Verujem pa, da sedaj
ysak verjame, da je politika tia
lijanske komunisticne stranke
in memo ejstvovanje pri tia
lijanski vladi widen cinitelj ME
ne stabilnosti. Poleg tega itali-
jansko ljudstvo je dokazalo, da
zna samo cd sebe graditi res
nicno demokracijo. Dokazi ma
BE politnne zrelosti in sposobno-
sti so neskoncni," je zakljucil
Togliatti. "
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zbrani denar obrnjen ne sano
"a, emo najyecjih potreb, tenn
vec DO to tndi naiboljse odgo-
varjalo namenu, "a katerega
je bill zbran, je odbor sklenil, da
Sc to izvede. Precej knjig in par
instrumetov je torej he tudi -
ruds rski oddelek ljubljanske
universe odposlanih, ma nekate-
re pa je treba cakati, kakor pri
narocilu zdravilskih aparatov in
reel. II.
Nabranega denarja S pripi-
sanimi obrestmi, kot smo ze
svojecasno porocali, je bilo sku-
paj $86, ,495.48. Ia nakup hra-
ne in poslanih zivljenskih po-
trebscin, kot Sc pref omenjeno,
smo izplaeali $25, ,OOO.OO. Ia ma
kup aparatov "a diagnoziranje
in kontrolo tuberkuloze ter me-
dicinskih knjig, "a nabavo ru-
darskih knjig in instrumentov
ter razne stroske v zvezi S tenn
smo izdali $48,456.98. Skupni
izdatki do sedaj torej znasajo
$73,456.9S. Ostane gotovine ma
banki Sc 13,O38.50, kar pa nam
je treba "a naroeila, XII so ze
oddana in v teku, ter DO ma
koncu, ko vse raeune izplacamo,
tudi to prilieno vse izcrpano.
Ko bo vse izplacano in bodo
pregledani racuni, bono priob-
Gill nadaljno in bolj podrobno
racunsko porocilo. To poroeilo
pa priobeujemo vnaprej il raz-
loga, ker bo vzelo Sc precej ca
sa, da bodo VISA naroeila izvr-
sena, in da ne bo 'kdo po nepo-
trebnem v skrbeh, kaj Sc je
zgodilo z denarjem JPO.
Vincent Cainkar,
predsednik.
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In ko smo potem, ko Sc je ju-
goslovansko ljudstvo uprlo in
ovrglo svojo izdajalsko vlado,
izvedeli, da je kruti sovraznik
res ze vdrl v nase rojstne kraje
in pomandral jugoslovansko dr.
zavo ter kako zverinska poeetja
so zvajale njegove pohvjane
cete ma nasem ljudstvu, snao bi-
Ii seveda toliko bolj zgrozeni in
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ogorceni. Vedeli smo, da bo ma
Sc ljudstvo spet najbolj priza-
deto in naravno, da so IL nasih
src privrele najgorkejse simpa-
tije zanj. Ampak zavedali snao
Sc tudi, da- samo ogoreenost in
simpatije ne zadostujejo, pac
pa, da moramo pomagati- i-po-
Enakopravnost. [volume] (Cleveland, O.[Ohio]) 1918-1957, 1947-05-01
NOVA JUGOsLAVIJA GRE MA DELO

iugoslovanskem parlamentu je bill 28. aprila odo-
bren vladin peetn nacrt predvsem nanasa ma nd-
strjazacio dezee Ia nacrt e zelo vazen bodocnos
Jugoslaje, kaj samo doseci druge boil
razvite ndustrijske drzave ampak jh cello prekoslh
Pr diskuzijah XII so Sc vrsle parlamentu, je spre
govor tui vodite opozcije, Dragoljub Jovanovc XII e
izjav da zelo goreee prieakue ustvarjanje naerta
kateremu kot socialist sanal 40 let Jovanovie je
scer kritiziral posamee tocke nacrta in ugovara ia
Sc posveca dosti veca industr in zkoreanu
rudnega bogastva kot poledestvu Toda tudi opozc
ia je celoti podprla vladin program
Nj dvon1a da je sedana vlada posvetila prvo pozor
most dvigu indusrije. Predvoni rezimi Jugosave, XII
skodo udstva zrocai zaklade JugoslavJe
tum kaptalistcnim podetjem po svojemu porazu "a
pusti jugoslovanskemu ljudstvu tenn pogledu lie skra
teak problem. predvojni Jugosavji Sc je okrog
56 odstotkov do edaj obstoeee industre nahaalo
kah tuh kapitastov Ia sedanjo ljudsko vado e ze
tenn pricela tezka borba. Socialsticna vada Angije
XII pa e "socijaiscna e kolikor to nanasa pre-
biva]svo Ange odnosu ostale drzave istotako
konzervavna ko je to bila torska e poala proteste
proti podrzavjenu podjetj, industri in rudnikov pr
katerh meli deez angleski kapitast Lahko rece
da je tenn programom podrzavjenja, poponoma
spremenjeno stalsce napram novi Jugoslavj Cd teda
so se posebno ameriskem tsku zace vrsiti strupen
napad Jugoslavijo skupno napad XII so jim
vodi razni 'katoski" st ko agrarno reorno bila
prizadeta, tudi cerkvena veleposestva.
"Zemlja tistemu, XII jo obdeluje, tovarne tisti, XII
MIN pfOQucIaJO uODTHJe I'd SpOSHO Je Seo1o
XII ga drzo Jugosavii navzic vpitu reakcio
narcev in zakrknjenih sovraznkov ugosovanskega ud
stva. Toda agrarno reformo in podrzavjenem
ndustr rudnkov in "a sposne lnterese udstva Vaznlh
podeti bo omogoceno uspesno deo p uresncenju tega
ogromnega petetnega nacrta po katerem 81 DO Jugosa
via priborla popolno ekonomsko samostojnos Ze seda
Sc e ljudstvo vrgo deo obnove. Ia obno
va pa je lie zacena faza prvi korak storen vekemu
cilu-k dosegi vseh tstih kvot oznacenih petetnem
nacrtu.
Deo bo lahko. Mnoge ovire bodo stale poti.
Mnogi problem bodo pojavili Toda lustvo, XII Sc
je otreslo jarma naconalnega suzenstva, in rane dix
tatorskih rezimov raznh Aeksandrov Jefticev, Koro
scev Sojadinovcev Cvetkovicev in Mackov in XII noce
b ponzni hapec tum kapitaliscnim izkoriscevalcem,
nobeno takSno deo bo nemogoce. Sc vecji navdu-
senjem DO prelo delo tempo bo petdesetkrat in &c
treba tud stokrat pospesen stroll bodo ropota kadva
bodo pela-nad Jugosavjo, XII dvga IL rusevin
ravno minute vone bo sijalo lepse bodoenosti
tenn pa mai besno ajejo saka njih laane DO motto
navduseno pesem jugoslovanskih udarnikov.
Enakopravnost. [volume] (Cleveland, O.[Ohio]) 1918-1957, 1947-05-01
KAKO E SKLADOM JPO

Kot menda vs nasi roaki dobro spominjajo, smo
bill amerski Slovenci oh zbruhu rge svetovne vojne
veikh skrbeh ka bo naso stare doovno kajti sutili
so da bo val fasizna in nacasistienega nasstva pref
ali slej zaje tudi MO.
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Palmiro Togiatti 0
TrumanOvem nacrtu

4NANA, ~. dDIld - va O.AN.1A.
poroca Claire Neikind.) - Pal
miro Togliatti, voditelj italian
ske komunisticne stranke in biv-
81 justicni minister, je danes
ostro napadel zunanjo politiko
predsednika Trumana in opozo-
ril, da nadaljno posojilo kapita-
istienih ,drzav ne sme ogrozati
politicno neodvisnost Itaije.
V razgovorih S. tenn dopisnis
kom je Togliatti podal to sva-
rilno izjavo ko Sc nova eko-
nomska misija pripravlja "a od-
hod v Zedinjene drzave, kjer sc
nadeja, da bo sklenila obsezne
trgovinske sporazume.
"Italija mora vrsiti pogaja-
MIA "a posojilo in dati tiste ga
rancije, XII jih bodo zahtevali
kreditorji. Mi zahtevamo samo,
da te garancije ne bodo taksne,
da bi pomenile v kakrsnikoli
obliki izgubo nase neodvisnosti,
vmesavanje v notranje politiene
zadeve nase drzave ali pa, da bi
navezale Itaijo ma zunanjo po-
litiko katerekoli velike sile, ali
pa grupe velikih SILL" je rekel
Togliatti.
"Nasa zunanja politika mo-
ra biti poitika prijateljstva in
sodelovanja z vsemi velikimi 81
lami," je nadaljeval Togliatti,
"in istotako z vsemi narodi."
Togliatti je hjavil, da je ita-
lijanski narod vsled zunanje po-
litike Italije globoko prizadet s
Sredozemno doktrino predsed-
nika Trumana. Komunisticni vo-
ditelj je oznacil to Trumanovo
politiko kot poizkus, ida Sc pod
vrze Sredozemfje pod izkljucno
kontrolo Zedinjenih drzav."
"Navzlic iskrenemu priznanju
pomoci, XII so jo Zedinjene drza-
We nudile "a unicenje fasizma,
Italijani ne morejo biti naklo-
njeni taksnemu nacrtu kot ga
predlaga Truman"
"Itaija ne more nikoi napre-
dovati v Sredozemlju, XII Sc ma
haja pod vplivom enc edine We
like sile. Mi ne moreno druga-
&c, kot da Sc zoperstavimo onefi-
skemu ekspanzionistienernu pro-
gramu ma Mediteranu, Xxi ustvar-
ia jez proti narodom- who'd
ne Evrope, nkljucuje te narode
pri dostopu ma naorje in onemo-
COCA svobedno izmenjavo med
nami in vzhodno Evropo. !"
Tajnik itaijanske konunistie-
ne stranke, XII je druga najnaot-
nejsa komunisticna stranka ma
svetu in XII utegne po priAod-
njih volitvah inaeti odloGilno be-