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gs Lee Advertisement By : EMMIE BELL PORTER ~The newspaper advertisement read: "WANTED: Sober, reliable man to take complete charge of ad- vertising department of large. firm. Must be 'able to assume full re- sponsibility. College-trained men only need apply." ' Ted Shane read it over toast aud "eggs. "Mona!" he exclaimed, "Lis- ten . .. this is what I've been look- ing for. . : "Yes, it does sound good," agreed Mona, over his shoulder. Ted reflected. "It isn't that old ~ "Todd. is a bad sort . . . it's just that he doesn't seem to want to give me full rein, and you know I work better, without so much supervision." Mona raised her hand in a dra- matic sweep, "Onward and upward, my lad Let's enter greener fields via this ad... let Todd feed hi. business to the birds!" Thirty minutes later Ted leaned back. "Read it to me, honey . . . let's hear how it sounds." = "Dear Sir: If you are looking for a man with initiative, willingness to work and a capacity -to handle your advertising, look no further. How- ever, I would have"it understood from the beginning. that I am to have full charge and not be hinder- ed, swayed or crippled by any supervisor, helper or owner. I am at present employed but unfortun- ately my present employer is afraid to trust me to stand on my own feet, in fact, I do not believe her fully trusts his own feet. - 1 know what I can do and all I ask is a chance to prdve it. Respectfully, Theodore Shane." Mona's eyes glowed. "Oh, that is a good letter, but is that part bad about your boss not trust: ing you?" : "Ted's jaw set. "All my cards are on the table, honey , . . might as well let him know avhere I) stand right' from the beginning." . Kissing Mona goodby, Ted whis- pered, "Keep- your fingers crossed for luck, sweet." At four o'clock that afternoon the. buzzer on Ted's desk impati- ently summoned him into the in- © ner sanctum of the Big Boss--J. Anthony Todd, himself. That illus- trious individual sat stiffly erect, his halo of steel 'gray hair bristling excitingly. "Sit down, Shane!" he thundered. Sit down. 1 want to talk with you out that Finkle advertising deal: ust how would you handle it?" Ted blinked in surprise. "Why, sir, I would channel it through the mediums of the small retailer for He ushered a dazed but happy Ted to the door. T IN'OUR TIME Ted, 0 SEVIER } LY wi Sa Ri Sle dinoit bo ls BA there's not enough valume to inter- 'est the large concerns." The owner of nodded in agreement, "Right! That's just what I've been telling my part- ner should be-done! Go ahead with it!" ; "Thanks!" agreed Ted. "That should be quite a deal if handled properly." "By the way," his eyes twinkling, "just how would you handle the new plastic deal with the Denver people?" Ted outlined in enthusiastic detail the plans he had been longing to put into action, When he had finished, the boss looked at him in astonishment. "My boy," he instructed, "Go right' ahead. Call'me in for a conference only if you feel you need moral support." He shifted his weight and * smiled. "Come back tomorrow. We will draw up a new arrangement 8 well as full authority in your de- partment." . After he had ushered a dazed but oO huppy Ted. to the door, the head of Todd and Todd drew a letter front" his desk. He chortled, "This is really good!" Adjusting his glasses he read: . "My present employer is afraid to trust me to stand on my own - feet, infact I do not believe he fully trusts his own feet." Putting the letter back, he smiled again, "I guess yoyng Shane will always wonder why he never re- ceived an answer to that letter. It was a good thing I made that ad" ve.tisement a blind one, otherwise I might have never discovered what a tip-top advertising fireball 1 had right here all along!" ' How Can I? - by Anne Ashley Q. How can I remove scratches from walnut furniture? A. This can be done successfully by cutting a walnut or a Brazil nut kernel into half and rubbing the scratch vigorously with the freshly cut nut. will refinish the wood. - © Q. How can I set the color. in' colored wash fabrics? 2 A. Soak the material in salt water 2 cups of galt to one gallon of water, or in Y4-cup of vinegar to one gallon of water, for at least one hour before washing. - Q. What is a -good homemade dentrifice? A. Lemon juice. Dilute it with water and use as a mouth wash, It will make the mouth and teeth feel clean and wholesome, Q. How can I remove Vaseline jelly stains from linens? i A. If the stain has been allowed to remain for a long time, soak it "in kerosene, then rub and wash with soapsuds. . Q. How can I remove a slightly scorched spot from linen? A. When the linen is not scorched "very badly, rub a out onion -over the spot, and then give the linen a good soaking. The cold . water will remove the scorched stain. Q. How can I preserve ye taste of a loaf of newly - bpked bread? ae Ee ~ ., This cannot be done if the fresh loaf is kept in the same box with any stale bread. It must be kept in a clean and separate box. Q. How can I quickly remove a disagreeable odor from the room? A. Burn some dried orange peel on a ple pan, over a low gas flame or electric plate, : Q. How can I remove. the odor. of gasoline from clothes? A. Hang the clothes inthe sun on a windy day, and let them remain - for an hour or more, Q. How ean I overcome brittle fingernalls? A. Rub tHe nails -with olive oll every night before retiring. Wear an old pair of gloves to protect the bed clothing. Released by Now Bra Enterprises ) bet there IS rzom for one mora, tady = the driver hasn't been wrong for the pat ii, 1EEN STOPS!" Podd | and. Todd * inquired Mr. Todd, ii The oil from the kernel 'Veteran Fights--And--Wins--His Toughest Carhpaign--D: FN wring World War II, Jack Jacobson was wounded by shrapnel in Europe. He became a disabled veteran, paralyzed from the breast- bone down. But, quite naturally, he wanted to get around, so went to the Institute for Crippled ~-and Disabled Veterans where--as these pictures show, he was taught how to overcome his J disability. Above, left, a therapist puts him through his paces on the parallel bars, to develop stairs. his arms so they can handle crutches. Gradually he advanced until now, he could walk down Great Britain The United Kingdom has had a little over six months experience with the new National Health Act --and opinions are sharply divided as to how it is working out. * Although the expenditure for medical and dental services was budgeted at around - 520 million dollars for the first- nine months, it is freely admitted that the cost will be much more than that-- probably closer to 800 million. And out of this vast amount, the British professional men, who have to do the actual work, are complaining of getting an unfair cut, --The-doc- tors' first quarterly payment from the health service was disappoint. ingly low, and what is even more serious to them, is the loss of a high proportion of their private patients, who have gone over to the health scheme. But whatever the doctors and dentists may say the British popu- lation, in general, has accepted the Health Act with enthusiasm, With winter weather setting in the doctors were overwhelmed. People with imaginary diseases as well as those wit past -they wouldn't have troubled = doctor--flooded the offices. The stage and radio humorista are having a field day poking fun at. the health Act. One popular bit of doggerel has a verse which runs, "Oh to be in England, : Where pills are running free-- Help yourself to wooden 1 Ne'er a penny fee." Nor are wooden legs the things provided by the free service: Bald folks, both made and fémale, are getting wigs free of charge and the two dozen wigmakers engaged ih the health plan estimate that demands may reach as high as 100,000 such ° pate-coverings per year. At $40 apicce, the Government "should have an annual "bill of 8 million dollars--as each applicant gets a spare. . Other articles in which the supply has not caught up with the demand include spectacles, false teeth, hearing aids, electric wheel chairs and trusses. The almost 9,000 dentists working in the plan * are so busy that some have put out. signs "No new patients for a year." Although there is some doubt as -to wheher 'the Act actually contem- plated such supplies, people have been demanding -- and getting-- such things as headache remedies, simple laxatives and! the like. One. woman got as many (as S00 cascara _tablets--and a druggist tells of an- ' other who tried to get a free bottle - of hair shampoo. Inspired both by dissatisfaction with present conditions, and fear" of what the future may bring, angry doctors are making an effort to rally support for a physicians' strike. As one medical man puts it, "The alternative to a Minis refusal to give adequate MN facilities to men who have spent a lot of time and expense in acquir- ing thelr skill seems to be a Whole- sale resignation from the Health Plan and a return to private prac . tiee--or emigration." Meanwhile, the Health Plan speeds on its more or less merey way. ; " slight colds--for which in the _.world--and, Italy Russian propagandists, for some time back, have been making great efforts to win the people of Italy over to the "beauties" of Commun- ism. But the Kremlin variety of propaganda has been very clumsy indeed, and so far as can discerned, - completely unsuccessful with the rank and file of Italians, In Rome there are at least three Russian libraries, with still in other parts of 'the country. But all the books and magazines are In the Russian language, and so un- intelligible to more than one or two per cent of the population. More than that, those using such libraries have their credentials scanned very carefully, with. the result that very few people bother to use them at all. Russian films, which are rented out on a commercial basis, have had almost as little success. Most of them are in Russian, and on one occasion at least the Soviet repre- sentative in charge of the showing admitted that audience reaction-- especially in the smaller places-- was downright hostile or, at best, simply indifferent. The worst scason for fog and overcast skies in the Berlin district is around the end of December, and it is no secret that the onlook- ers in the Kremlin were expecting such conditions to cripple seriously the Allied air-lift or even, perhaps, wreck it altogether. But their hopes proved ground- less. Allied planes somehow man- aged to keep Western Berlin going and when, with the New Year, the annyal fog season drew to a close, . Western air power stepped up its efforts against cold and hunger in the blockaded city. | , An allied pilot, early in January, flew into Betlin with the hundred- thousandth cargo for the city, while . Allied officers in charge of the operation were making plans to up the daily arrivals to an aver- age of 8000 tons--this being almost four times the minimum subsist- ence level for the Western Berlin, The whole Air Lift busincss has "been a truly remarkable achieve- ment--one that has pfobably done more to astound the Russians, and. to. put them into a more receptive frame of. mind toward settlement of the Berlin question than 'any- thing else' could possibly have - done, British and American pilots, who made. the operation' possible, deserve the thanks of the whole more especially, _ the thanks of the people of Western Germany, But whether they will more ~ .». Germany 4 Socialism And Corruption . ----n The current investigation into alegations of fraud among high officials of' Britain's Board of Trade has a shocking effect perhaps out of proportion to the corruption that may be involved. . British government 'services. have for so long enjoyed a reputation for high-calibre integrity that people are reluctant to believe the men who head them are susceptible to the blandishments of slick lobby- . ists or string-pullers who peddle remuncrative directorships, expen- sive gifts and lavish hospitality for "value received." The "value received" appears to have been favorable decisions made by Board of Trade officials, the wangling -of special privileges and all the other under-the-table, deals invariably associated with govern ment graft. During the last war, there was, remarkably little of this sort of . thing uncovered in Britain, Canada and the United States; and there is every reason to believe that little of it. went on. But it is perhaps not so surpris- ing, after the first shock wears off, to see it happening in postwar Bri- tain where, under a Socialist goyern- ment, politicians and civil servants have retained wide arbitrary powers; where they can make or break, help or hurt businesses by thelr decision about the granting or with- holding of a permit, the allocation of materials, and so on says The Financial Post. 2 Socialism in postwar Britain, with its more stringent control, its super- regimentation (in quintuplicate), its burdensome supervision from morn- ing to night, from cradle to grave, has created the atmosphere and attitude that may smother all publle Svirtud oe Britons have been made into bootleggers, spivs and black market- ers. Every new regulation has brought with it the search for & loophole; every new control Is ac- companied by a platoon of "fixers" who know how (and the price) to get around it. Such regimentation invites corruption; some will always pay for fast passage through the bogs of officious"officialdom. Canadian ang. other visitors to Britain gre alifiost always appalled at the extent to which influence and favoritism has become rampant, There is no reason at present -to believe the current inquiry has done more than lift the lid of tlie scandal yet to be uncovered, or will end the system that has allowed it to grow and flourish. -- -- Knew Better A woman leafing through Dorothy Parker's "Enough Rope," at the Public Library found this remark pencilled in a feminine hand under the crack about men seldom making passes at girls who wear glasses: "That's what SHE thinks!" ~~ receive the latter--that's quite an- other matter as the 'Western Geor- mans are apparently too angry over what_has happened in the Ruhr to "be grateful to anyone--even those who kept them from starvation, "should be good. * Pe PE LETH 31.545 BAP i xi Pl pncied $1 JIA y $00 ida ATES » Good news for a lot of farmers fs found In a recent report that Red Clover seed production in Canada in 1948 was the biggest in at least 20 years. This record crop is} largely attributed to production In Ontario where over seven million pounds were produced. The Dominion crop--around eleven and a half million pounds--is more than double that of 1947. * * * In normal times Canada's sur- plus of Red Clover seed--recog- nized everywhere. for its quality and -hardiness--is exported to the United Kingdom and some West- ern European countries. But import restrictions caused by exchange difficulties are likely to limit such exports. So with plenty of top quality Red Clover seed available, at fair prices, many more farmers than have done so in the past should take advantage of the op- portunity to make greater use of this highly valuable legume crop. SEE * * So many people--both those al- ready on farms and also those who dream of retiring from city life and "Taking it easy"--think of going into poultry raising on a commer- cial scale, that perhaps a few hints from an acknowledged expert might not be out of the way, For while there's money to be made in poultry, there's also a chance for . severe loss, if gone into In a hap- hazard manner, . . * The" proper place for locating a commercial poultry farm Is near a medium or large city, where the products will: be used. Markets -should not be more than ten miles away at the outside, and roads * * " Electricity and a pressure water system are essential. Sandy soll, that is well drained, is 'most desir- . able. .The amount of land avall- able can vary from acres. PE "*Chicks for future layers should be obtained from a reliable breed- er-hatchery--one that can supply disease-free stock from well-bred flocks, and which you can depend on in the matter of filling orders on time. Naturally--as In other purchases--you should expect to pay a reasonable price for such chicks, and not expect to get ther "at a bargain' - a) t * * * Culess you have plenty of both experience and capital, ft is best not to start on a full-scale pro- gram, but to begin moderately and build for the future. To be econ- omical, start with a flock of not less than 2d0 hens--which might one to ten © bulldings, go as high as 500 if you are sure you can handle such a number. ny * * * Breed or breeds? Well, that's pray much up to the individual, ut White Leghorns, Rhode Island Reds, Austra-White and Red Leg moras are probably the most popu lar, although many have had. good results from some ofthe cross. bred strains, Layers should be housed in oné long house, either 20 or 24 feet in width, Hach leg- horn hen should haye 3 square feet of floor space--heavier hens three and a half square feet. * * * Layers should be confined to the house at all times, and those with small acreages of land will also do well to ralse their replacement pullets in. confinement. Those with plenty of land will possibly allow their pullets to range from the tiie they are around two and = half months old until they start laying at § or 6 months. * * * Because of over-enthusiasm a beginner at the business fs quite likely to 'overestimate his income and not take Into consideration all coats. Anyone just starting out would be well advised to pay a visit to some established producer -and take notes undéi three head- ings fixed investments--operating eosts---and inconve, *« LJ * I'rom the very beginning make out a budget and don't po put- ting down a single item, but make it as complete as possible. "Fixed Investment" should include land, equipment, stock on hand and feed on hand. Your "operating costs" should include feed, hired labor, building repairs, medicines and vaccines, equipment repairs, litter, water, egg cases, also takes and interest on your Investment. * * * Under "income" should be in- cluded sales of eggs, sales of cull hens, fryers, feed bags, manure-- also whatever products you use In your own home. Such .a budget, if- properly started and kept strictly up to date, will give you a complete plcture of the operation--also add very materially to your chances of success In such an undertaking. B--" . + Which should be about enough for one session--except to pass along the very ancient one about the eity man who asked the farnier how far It was to Oshawa, . "Well, replied the farmer, "the way you're heading, I figure It would be around 24,992 miles. But - If you turn around,*{t's only about seven." now uses crutches to wal - Paralyzed From Breastbone Down, lyzed | Now Drives Car -- Jack Jacobson, disabled by sharpnel in Europe, alter special Fs to his hand-controlled car. It took 18 months of hard work, but he's fiow pliysically indépendént. : pr electricity, . ". -- ™ a