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Evening star., 1948-10-20
LITTLE WILLIE"

(Fron, J. H. B., BetheSdd.)
To r. r. B., Chevy Chase. The
Little Willies Book" that I have
was published in Boston by the
Carol Press in 1911, copyrighted. The
poem you wish is number VIII.
Evening star., 1948-10-20
STARCHING CURTAINS:
TUBEROSES?

From Mrs. J. M. j., Silver Spring.
This is in answer to Mrs. L. j. K,
Washington, in regard to curtains
Perhaps you need a different kind
of starch or thicker starch for your
cotton curtains. I prefer cotton
and never have any trouble because
of humidity. I have two pairs Of
rayon marquisette (frosted ruffled
curtains which I do not like. The
first time I washed them, most Of
the frost came out, and more has
come out with each washing. Since
rayon cannot be starehed with ordi-
nary starch, I just washed and
ironed them. They washed and
ironed beautifully and easily. except
that the ruff1es hang limp, so they
do need stiffening of some kind.
Have any of you ever raised tube
roses? planted some bulbs in the
early summer. They finally came
up, after weeks, but never bloomed.
The directions that came with them
seemed queer-it appeared that I
was planting them upside down,
and when I dug one up the other
day I found 1t had grown down
first and then up. Is that correct2
Thanks for any information.
Evening star., 1948-10-20
SPECIAL DOUGHNUTs?

(From W. H. B., Arli,lgton.)
Does any one know about a rolled
out doughnut made In strips and
when boiled in deep fat puffs up to
almost nothing but air2 My mother
called them "nothings." Maybe they
were afternoon tea crullers.
Evening star., 1948-10-20
MOLASSES CAKE;
REFRIGERATOR;
VIOLETS.

From Mrs.> H. D., Arlington.)
Perhaps Mrs. j. K. McC. would
like to try this recipe for MolaSses
Cake. II cup brown sugar. y cup
shortening, / egg. Mix and add
spices at this point. adding spices
to the wet mixture makes a darker
cake than If they are added with
the four. n teaspoon each of Gin
namon, cloves and ginger, and Y
teaspoon of salt; n cup very dark
molasses, Y teaspoon soda dis
solved in 4 cup hot water, about
IL cups flour. Raisins, dates or
nuts may be added If desired. Bake
at $50 degrees.
Here is another suggestion for
the reader who inquired about how
to refinish her refrigerator. Several
years ago I wanted my refrigerator
painted to match my kitchen color
scheme. We sent it to an auto
mobile paint shop in Washington
where 1t was given permanent
finish. The result was very salts
factory.
1t would seem that everything
possible had been said in these
columns about African violets, but
the following experience might be
of help to some reader. I was away
from home two months this sum-
mer. I did not want to burden my
friends and neighbors with the care
of my violets.. so I sank all the
pots in a rather low, very shady
spot in my yard, well protected from
the direct sun by bushes and vines.
I left the pots q little above the
ground level so that water could
not stand around the crown of the
plant. When I returned I found
these plants in excellent condition
and full of blooms. I now have too
many violets and would be glad to
exchange some Of them for estab-
rshed plants of fuchsia, Abutilon,
or others. Also have cuttings to
give away Of wax begonia, varigated
peperonia, giant wandering jew,
Chinese, evergreen lily and coleus.
STICKING DRESSER DRAWERS?
PINKING SHEARS;
MILDEW ON BOOKS?
from Mrs. D. P. S., Arlington.)
Can anyone tell me how to re-
lease bureau drawers which appar-
entity have sweled from the mois-
ture in the house? I can't bulge
them in or out. I would appreciate
knowing how to remove them so I
can plane them down and have
them slide easily.
Some time ago some one inquired
concerning pinking shears versus
the rotary type pinkers. I have the
rotary type and am sorry I ever
bought them, although at the time
the others were unavailable.
Can anyone tell me how to re-
move green mildew from books? Is
it SUFFICIENT to just wipe of with a
rag?
Evening star., 1948-10-20
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.

Information and requests sent
in by the tollo1Ding hare been
forwarded to those for tphon
they Uere intended:
Washington: Mrs. D., Mrs. c.
F., Mrs. F. M. M, Mrs. B. c.,
Mrs. r. c. NJ, Mrs. j. s. McC.,
w. T. S., Mr.. w. R. H., Mrs. r.
K. S., Mrs. r. H., Mrs. w. L. H.,
M. E., Mrs. r. K. S., Mrs. M. s..
Mrs. T. B., Mrs. r. F. D., Mrs.
P. NJ. j., Mrs. M. B., Mrs. w. w.
c., A. M, I. H., Mrs. A. T. T.
Alexandria: A. H., Mrs. G. w.
P. Annandale: Mrs. r. S. r.
Arlington: Mrs. T. w. G., Mrs.
C. L. c., Mrs. B. H. p, Mrs. c.
E. P, Mrs. M. E. B., Mrs. c. B. D.,
E. P. P, Mrs. M. N. S., Mrs. D.
ABB, Mrs. T. NICK, Mrs. r. G.,
Mrs. II. E. D., Mrs. v. H., Mrs.
I. w. ", Mrs. M. F., Mrs. E. s.
S., C. c. c. Beltsyille: Mrs. ]. H.
Berwyn: Mrs. D. A. Bethesda:
r. C. P. Charles Town: B. L. I.
Cheverly: Mrs. L. l.. c. Chevy
Chase: v. w. NJ, Mrs. S. A. D.
H., Mrs. A. G: K, Mrs. G. A. w.
Edmonston: Mrs. H. D. Fairfax:
Mrs. A. B. c., Mrs. r. A. Falls
Church: Mrs. ]. S. p, Mrs. w.
H. H., Mrs. A. w. KensingtOn:
Mrs. P. E. Manassas: Mrs. w. F.
H. Marbury: Mrs. w. c. G.
Newington: Mrs. R. A. w. Pts
gah: Mrs. E. N. B. Riverdale:
Mrs. M. L. r. Rockville: Mrs.
j. r. c. Shadyside: Mrs. S. B.
w., Mrs. N. B. S. Silver Spring:
Mrs. w. K, Mrs. H. w. A., Mrs.
w. A. s. TakOma Park: Mrs.
]. H. r. Tucson, AriZ.: Mr.. c. A.
M. Upper Marlboro: Mrs. r. v.
H. Wellsville, N. Y: Mrs. H. B. S.
Our thanks to these readers,
phose contributions Dere similar
to Others. previously receiued> and
already atDaiting space for pub
hcdtion:
Washington: Mrs. c. G. B.,
Mrs. M. U. Arlington: Mrs. H.
M. S., Mrs. J. H. L.
II II n
CUTTINGS FROM SHRUBS.
(From M. r. M, Washington.)
Replying to a number of requests
re shrubs. I will discard soon a
leaves fall the A-G Hydrangea
N. c. Japonica; bittersweet vine;
live-for-ever; physotegea: and fire
thorn. There also will be many
cuttings of other shrubs. I have nc
phone, but can be reached by mai
Il these are desired for reservation
II 4 y y
BAMBOO STICKS.
From Mrs. d. M. B., Washington. :,
1 saw bamboo fishing poles al
Largo, Md. corner of Largo roae
and Central avenue. Maybe If yol
tried some of the Sports Centers
here in the city they would have
bamboo fishing poles which I thinl
would do.
II Il
LITTLE WILLIE"
From J. H. B., Bethesda.)
To r. r. B., Chevy Chase. The
Little Willies Book" that I have
was published in Boston by the
Carol Press in 1911, copyrighted. tn,
poem you wish Is number VIII.
X n n
OLD EYEGLASSES.
(Fron, H. F., WGshington.)
In response to q readers query
old eyeglasses have been solicited
by New Eyes for the Needy, Short
Hills, New Jersey. The above ad-
dress is sufncient.
Evening star., 1948-10-20

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Evening star., 1948-10-20

Payments on your home are
made easy by renting a room.
Renting a room is made easy
by advertising in The Star.
Call Sterling 5000. Open 8 am.
to 8 pm.
Evening star., 1948-05-23
Washington Alumni
OF 6. u. 10 Step Up
Memorial Gym Drive

Georgetown University alumni
leaders hope tomorrow night to
break the jinx that has kept the
washington area in a "humiliating
last place" on percentage basis,
among the SO cities contributing to
the proposed McDonough Memorial
Gymnasium at the university.
Rear Admiral William Brent
Young, retired, Metropolitan WASH
ington chairman. has called the
meeting for $3.50 pm. in Copley
Lounge on the campus. The ses-
sion, it was announced, probably
will be the most critical one of the
campaign.
With only s23,607 raised locally
toward a 100000 quota, Admiral
Young was encouraged, however, by
a squirt which last week resulted in
$5,272 being raised at single meet
ing. The poor results of the CAM
paign, locally as we'll as nationally,
were analyzed at this meeting as
due to failure to contact an ade-
quate number of alumni.
Fewer than 10 per cent of the
5000 alumni in the Washington
area have been solicited in three
months, 1t was pointed out, and
the percentage is about the same
In the national campaign. Approx
mately half of the national goal
of 100000 has been raised to date
New York City, with less than
half the alumni in the Washington
area, has contributed nearly twice
as much toward the campaign. Gin
Evening star., 1948-05-23
|Patho|ogists 10 Open
Two-Day Sessions
Here Tomorrow

A two-day pathology meeting
sponsored jointly by the Washington
Society of Pathologists, the pathol-
|ogy section of the District Medical
|Society and the middle eastern sec
|tion of the College Of American
|Pathologists will open at $3.50 am
tomorrow at the District society
auditorium, l718 M street NV.
Delegates will move for morn
ling scientific session to the Naval
Hospital at Bethesda. The group
then will divide into IS discussion
units for afternoon meetings at the
National Cancer Institute.
DR.. Paul F. Douglass, president OF
American University, will address
THE group on Relationships OF
Pathology to Higher Education and
1.-The Advancement of Medicine" at
Ia banquet at the Mayflower Hotel
lat 7:30 pm. tomorrow. DR.. Oscar
|B. Hunter, chairman of the District
|society's section on pathology and
laboratory medicine, will preside.
Discussions Tuesday morning will
Evening star., 1948-05-23

be held at Walter Reed Hospital,
moving to the District society audi
torium for the afternoon and final
evening sessions.
Roger M. Choisser, professor OF
pathology at George Washington
University, will preside at the night
meeting, beginning at s:15 pm.
Greetings will be delivered by Ray
mond T. Holden. president Of the
District Medical Society. Speakers
will include:
Robert A. Moore, dean of pathol-
ogy, Washington University, st.
Louis, and secretary of the Ameri-
can Board of Pathology, "Tumors
of the Testes," and Frank w. Hart
man, director of laboratories. Henry
Ford Hospital. Detroit, 'The dag
nosis and Prevention of Anoxia
Through the Continuous Recording
of Blood Oxygen: Application to
Anesthesia."
Evening star., 1948-05-23
Americon-Soviet Group
Calls Rally for Peace

The National Council for Ameri-
can-Soviet Friendship will sponsor
a rally for peace at 8 pm. Tuesday
in the National Press Building
auditorium.
Speakers will include Corliss
Lamont. auditor and lecturer: Ada
B. Jackson, member of the board Of
directors of the National Associa-
ton for the Advancement of Colored
People; the Rev. Richard Morford,
executive director of the council,
and Samuel Rosenwein, general
counsel of the Civil Rights Congress.
Evening star., 1948-05-23

cinnati, with q small number Of
alumni, has contributed $56,965.
Alumni attending last weeks
meeting here pledged themselves to
help contact all prospects in this
area before the June Il commence
ment, by which time 1t was hoped
the local quota would be raised.
1--WE can do 1t If the steams make
the contacts" Admiral Young said.
Evening star., 1948-05-23
Spuutz, Vundenberq to Speok

Gen. Carl Spaatz, retired Air Force
chief of staff, and Gen. Hoyt S.
Vandenberg, who succeeded him,
will speak on American Air Power
Today" at luncheon meeting at
the National Press Club at 1890
pm. Tuesday.
The union times., 1948-04-10
Fair Harvard Club Picketline
 Lands In Jail

NEW YORK-(FP)-Twe1ve un- ionists, including Vice Pres. George Kyriages of Local 6, Hotel & Club Employees Union (AFL), were ar rested last week when police busted up a mass picketline in front of the liar yard Club.
 The exclusive establishment, ire quented by big businessmen and bank CTS, was struck March IS when man agement refused to discuss a union demand for a 40-hour week.
 The mass demonstration was ar ranged to protest management's con- tinued refusal to negotiate Police had ordered the picketline limited to three
 Leaflets distributed by pickets re- minded the public that the late Charles Elliot, former Harvard president, once said: ''The right of collective discussion and bargaining concerning wages, hours of labor, shop rules and provisions for the health and comfort of workers are fair subjects of discussion between managers and workers"
 The union followed up with picket line of strikers children who carried signs asking: "How can we go to Harvard on the wages the Harvard Club pays our dads?"
The union times., 1948-04-10
THE DEATH OF A LEADER

Three years have passed since the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt April l2, l945. It has taken three years for the greatness of the loss to sink in.
 All of right. The death of Roosevelt for tears. But we say again it has taken three years to understand fully the weight of the loss.
 In the history of our country, Roosevelt was Lincoln may have been greater friend of the people, but in those days unions had hardly begun.
 It in the early years of Roosevelt's admin istratiOn that the Wagner act pushed through Congress. In the l2 years he in the White House organized labor tripled i'll size It der Roosevelt's leadership that the LaFollette mittee turned up the spies and links whom the giant corporations had set upon labor.
 Against the stubborn resistance of the friends of big business in Congress, Roosevelt the fight for a social security act, for IVA and for controls Wall Street. The press of the country showered ridicule the WPA but Roose- welt stuck to the simple proposition that the gov ernment shouldn't leave the jobless to starve.
 The record of the three years without Roose- welt shows nothing but defeats. The Wagner act was scutted by Taft-Hartley. The weight of the government was thrown against the railroad men and the coal miners when they were locked in critical battle with the employers.
 In the face of constant pressure, Roosevelt held firm through the war years for price control and ratiOning. Imitation checked. After the war, with Roosevelt dead, OPA was dumped and the cost of living has risen ever since.
The union times., 1948-04-10
Mayor Asks For, Receives Card In Union

LOUISVILLE, Ky.-(FP)-FIon- orary memberships in the Office Elm p1oyes Intl. Union (AFL) have been offered to Mayor Charles P. Farnsley, Safety Director David A. McCandless and Alderman Leo F. Lucas.
 OEIU Local 6l Pres. Hazel Har- rison said this followed request by the mayor for a card in some AFL union. The request was made at a meeting which Farnsley held with top-ranking AFL leaders soon after he was elected by the board of aldermen.
 ''We are doing this because we think these men are progressive citizens and deserve recognition as such by the labor movement" Miss Harrison said.
 McCand1ess was one of the new ma yor's first appointees. Lucas is already an AFL member, being an internation- al vice president of the Stove Mount CTS Intl. Union. He was key man in the election of Farnsley, who had the backing of most of labor.
 The honorary membership cards will be presented to the three men at To- cal union meeting here April 28.
The union times., 1948-04-10
Two Unions Agree On TeIevision

NEW YORK-(FP)-In a unique move to avert jurisdictional row, the Intl. Alliance of Theatrical Stage Elm p1oyes and the Int1. Bro. of Electrical Workers (both AFL) agreed on 50- 50 split of job assignments when tele- vision steps into the legitimate theater April 6.
 Announcement of the pact was made here by IATSE Pres. Richard Walsh following a conference with IBEW Pres. Dan w. Tracy. Each of the two unions will furnish practically an equal number of cameramen, control men and other technicianS.
 The 50-50 agreement is limited to three weeks. After that, 1t may be ex- tended or altered. For some time, Walsh and Tracy have been attempt ing to resolve jurisdictional problems between their two organizations. Re gently they signed an agreement set ting a dispute of many years stand ing i'll the Hollywood film studios.
The union times., 1948-04-10

Roosevelt Knew that when the veterans came home there would have be housing. He mapped big housing program. Without Roose- welt to guide the program, housing is tight So it goes, down the line: sniping attacks social security, direct attack the wagehour law, profits swelling like a dead pig and wages run- ming far behind prices.
 With the war nearly won, Roosevelt fixed his eyes on the best way to keep the world peace. When he died at Warm Springs, Ca., he was plan- ming go in person the organizing meeting of the United Nations.
 JUN was Roosevelts hope for the peace of the world. Roosevelt helped to hold the allied nations together through the most terrible in history. He thought LIN could do the same job after the war. With each year since l945 LIN has lost more ground.
 Today the big decisions being made outside of LIN. The world is tense with war fear. LIN seems as pOweress to quiet the drums the old League of Nations.
 There was no magic in the way Roosevelt led the people from one victory to another. He was fighter, and the people fought with him.
 When he said drive the money changers from the temple and talked of ''economc royaliss'' the monopolies knew he meant it. They hated him with passion. They fought him with every foul device in the book They turned 9O@o of the press against him.
 Even so, the voters found their way through the cloud of hatred. Four times Roosevelt sent to the White House.
 Roosevelt won against odds because he gallant fighter and because he made the issues clear. The same recipe will win battles without Roosevelt. But each year miss him
The union times., 1948-04-10
Child Labor Increase
 Held Fault Of Congress

New York.-James Myers, assistant secretary of the National Child Labor Committee, branded as a national shame the action of the Both Congress in cutting the appropriation for the federal child labor program by more than so percent.
 Myers said he was amazed at the extent of the practice of emp p1oying child labor in modern industry and pointed out that there are now ''twice as many children employed as before the war"
 The number now at work in various industries and in agriculture is nearly 100000, according to latest govern ment figures.
The union times., 1948-04-10
WallStreetU Union Asks Probe By
 Citizens Group

NEW YORK CPD As mass picketing continued before the New York Stock and Curb Exchanges, the United Financial Employees (AFL) called on 21 prominent citizens to in vestigate the 4-day dispute and issue a public report.
 Among those asked by the Wall Street union to probe the dispute were Bernard M. Baruch, Pres. David Sarnoff of the Radio Corp. of America, Pres. George Sinister of Hunter College, Pres. Harry Cideonese of Brooklyn College, Lib- eral party Chairman A.A. Berle and others. Main demands are for a un- ion shop and $9 to SIS weekly wage increases.
 Meanwhile the American Civil Lib critics Union demanded that the city hold public hearing on the police vi olence which featured the second day of the strike, when hundreds of blue coats clubbed pickets who stretched out on the sidewalk in front of the Stock Exchange to block the entry of scabs. About a dozen unionists were injured and 50 arrested.
 While terming the union ''Iie- down" demonstration ''highly ir- regular and improper,'' the ACLU report branded the police attack ca wild and reckless use of stick force to accomplish what very we'll might have been done had other measures been first tried"
 The report charged that the police had clubbed "any and every civilian in sight who was standing and then con- tinued with almost unabated fury to fay those pickets who were lying down" {"
The union times., 1948-04-10

WIDE SUPPORT
 In the Hartford area, striking milk drivers and plant men cOntin- ued to canvass retail routes of Bry- and Chapman and wholesale routes of R. C. Miller X Sons. local sub- sidiaries of General Ice Cream Cor poration. Four large Catholic in- stitutions announced Monday that they would discontinue their use of the Sealtest products distributed by the two companies. St. Joseph Col lege, and Mt. St. Joseph Academy in West Hartford, St. Thomas Semin- ary in Bloomfield, and the House of the Good Shepherd in Hartford announced that they had placed milk orders with companies not in- volved in the strike.
 Two weeks of intensive canvassing by strikers in the Hartford-NeW Britain Manchester section, supported by the activities of large Women s Committee to Aid the Milk Strikers, had cut the business of the two struck firms to about one-half of normal, according to a union statement.
 Besides person-to-person contacts with customers, the strikers carried on picketing activities at seven plants i'll Hartford, New Haven, Waterbury and Springfield, Mass. The purpose of the out-of-town picketing was to disrupt deliveries by union drivers to plants i'll the General Ice Cream and National Diaries chain.
 NATIONAL HELPS
 The national teamsterS organization moved this week to help the Hartford local. Representatives of about 200 Teamsters Locals met Tuesday in Cleveland, Ohio to discuss the Hart ford strike.
 In Hartford, the union continued to offer to arbitrate all issues of the dispute which started over de- mand for fve-day week. Com- panies' officials refused all offers of arbitration, because. they said, they could not submit the jobs of men hired since the strike began to arbitration. The companies have offered to take back union mem- bers, some of whom worked for the companies for 20 or 30 years, to fill jobs after the new employees have been taken care of.
 The Hartford strike began March 2 after General Ice Cream Com- pany had sent in employees from Springfield, Mass, and Schenec- tady, N. Y., to ride on milk routes with regular drivers while negOtia- tions were still under way. The cOm- panies call these Out-of-state men Observers"
 Three other Hartford area dairies were involved in the same contract negotiations. Union drivers and plant workers of Local 536 have continued working on the routes and in the plants of the three companies.
The union times., 1948-04-10
Profits Up 37%
 To Record High, Survey Shows
Average Return Of Top Corporations After Tax
 Payments Is 12.2Pc.

NEW YORK-(FP)-Net profits of the 3,102 top corporations in the US. jumped 37@o from 1946 to 1947, making last year the most profitable i'll business history, the National City Bank reported this week
 The bank survey showed the cor porations' total profits after taxes as $9, 100000 in l947, compared to $6, ,75O,OOO,OOO the year before. An earlier survey by the Wall Street Journal revealed that 332 major companies in 2 industries had scored a 48@o increase in profits over l946.
 At the beginning of I947, net worth of the firms was. $75H bill lion, comprising about 45%o of the total for all corporations in the US. The profits represented an average return of l2.2%o, com pared to a return of 9.5H in l946 on net worth of $7,3OO.OOO,OOO.
 The high profits, the bank said, could be attributed to the huge volume of goods produced to meet deferred de- mandS, higher prices, and inventory profits resulting from soaring com modity prices.
 Anticipating charges that the profits were "extortionate," the bank report said: While profit margins in many cases look big, the question naturally arises as to how they would stand up in the face of adverse changes in any one or more of three factors-a reces- sion in sales volume, a forced reduc- tion in selling prices, or further rise in costs"
 It cited an earlier Commerce Dept. survey, which found corpora ton profit margins reasonable. Ac- tually, the average l2.2% return represents more than twice the amount generally considered fair return.
 The banks breakdown of major bus mess divisions showed that manufac- turing profits had gone up 549o; min ing, 7296; transportation, 4790; f. nance, 1O9o; trade and public utilities had each gone down 1@o; and amuse- mentS went, down go.