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PAGE FOUR
THE INFORMER, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20.1943
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HELLO, PALS:
February is a abort month but it certainly is an im-
portant one this year. One particular ally, Russia, is making
a victorious stand against the enemy, and is making the
month count.
That’s heartening news for men in the armed forces
everywhere. And I’m sure those Valentines from the girls
back home helped to make you feel even better.
By the way the girls want to know what’s happening to
you soldiers, and why don’t you write? After all, they won’t
know that you want pen pals unless you write. And I’m won-
dering why you don’t write because this column is especial-
ly for you.
There are a number of girls who want to hear from sol*
diers but they don’t give any numbers or send stamped en-
velopes. When you can’t pick a soldier we will mail your let-
ter to a soldier but we can’t guarantee that he will the age, or
. color or of the disposition you would like. That’s why we ask
you to pick a number.
We’re always glad to have news of Texas boys in the
armed forces so keep us up-to-date by sending in your news.
Make It short and snappy, snd don’t forget those letters.
We’ll be looking for them.
Until next week,
BOB.
Negro Women Used
In Skilled Jobs In
Washington Navy Yard
For the first time in history, Ne-
gro women are now being employed
in skilled jobs in the Washington
Navy Yard. Within recent months
more than 300 specially-trained ma-
chine workers and mechanics helpers
have been given jobs there at wages
averaging $45 per week, and more
are being employed at the rate of
50 a month.
Results ef NYA Efforts
NATL OFFICERS OF IOTA PHI LAMBDA
War-Time Bride To Experience
New Type Of Furniture
This development resulted from ,
the efforts of the National Youth
Administration and the Project
manager and staff of the NYA Wai
When ths brides and grooms of
1948 go out to buy the furniture for
their new homes this Spring, they’ll
be met by new types of upholstered
furniture—new, at least, to the
present generation of Americans.
The newness, however, won’t be
evident to the eye, for it’s under-
neath the upholstery where the
changes have occurred in response
to the prohibition put on the man-
ufacture of metal springs by the
War Production Board.
OUR HEALTH
FREDERICK RHODES, M.D.
New under-arm
ream Deodorant
safdly
tops Perspiration
Producttan training School at 1827
8. Street, N. W., Washington, D. C.
This school, now working on n SA-
hour basis, offers free training in
are and gas welding, sheet metal
work, aircraft riveting, drafting,
Clerical work, radio construction,
small parts assembly, code receiv-
ing end aending, and in other jobs
now in demand in the war produc-
tion battle on the home front. •
The school to open to youths of
all races between the ages of 16 and
25, but because of Selective Service
requirements and demands of the
armed forces, most of its pupils are
women. The average enrollment
ranges from SOO to 850 and in ad-
dition to placing workers regularly
in the Washington Navy Yard, the
center has placed its graduates in
war plants in such distant points aa
Miami, Ohio, Hartford, Conn., the
Norfolk Navy Yard, in Virginia and
Chairs, sofas, sofa beds, studio
couches and box springs have all
been affected by the prohibition.
But purchasers of this new furni-
ture, with its ingenious substitutes
for the kind of springs they’re used
to, can expect it to be comfortable,
strong and durable, thanks to ear-
tain precautions taken by the Of-
fice of Price Administration. A
Technical Committee set up by this
agency collaborated with the Na-
tional Bureau of Standards in do-
veloping a series of tests to be
passed before the furniture to re-
baaed for sale.
Actually the metal eoll springs
which we think of as traditional
were not of any widespread account
in the manufacture of upholstered
furniture until the early part of
this present century. Previous to
that time our more recent ances-
tors had made themselves quite
comfortable with very different
kinds of furniture construction.
Anyone who knows anything
about antiques is familiar with
the chairs and sofas and beds
whose springs were that early
version of what is now called the
“suspension” type. In these ear-
list pieces, ropes were suspended
across the chair seat or bed bot-
tom, drawn taut through holes In
ths side rails, and on these sus-
pended rope springs, fillings were
laid and upholstered over. Ropes
later wore superseded by webbing
and this latter construction is etill
used in pull-up, side and dining
room chairs. True, thsss construe-
tions aren’t as cheerfully bouncy
as modern metal springs; but
neither do they hold out rash al-
Iwo to the children as a medium
for symnasio exercise.
Then along in the 1800‘s, people
began to get new ideas on ths sub-
ject of comfort and furniture mak-
ers set to work devising and pat-
enting various mechanical arrange-
monte of metal or wood which
could be compressed under pres-
sure, thus offering certain comfor-
table adjustments to the move-
ments of the body. Soms kind of
fibre, such as hair, cotton, straw,
evxcelsior or chemically treated
moss was used for stuffing.
The Romance
From the middle of the 1800’s on
to the early part of this century,
records in the U. S. Patent Office
The national officers of Iota Phi
Lambda were in Chicago last Sat-
urday for an executive board meet-
ing, called by the national presi-
dent, Mrs. Lola M. Parker. Consid-
eration was given to business mat-
ters pertaining to the sorority, in
the all.day session, which was held
at 4907 South Parkway.
During the course of the delibera-
tions, the board members outlined
a program of activity for the mem-
bership during the war period; set
up a National Defense Committee,
and purchased $500,00 worth of War
Bonds in the name of the sorority.
The purchase was made through
Mrs. Alva L. Bates, chairman, wom-
en’s committee, Illinois War Sav-
ings Staff, U. 8. Treasury.
In the evening, members of the
local chapters were given an op-
portunity to meet the officers, when
Sorors Fuchsia B. Miller and Lola
M. Parker received informally at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. William
8. Parker.
Those officers who attended the
board meeting, in addition to Mrs.
Parker, were: Sorors Lucile B. Cul-
pepper, Columbus, Ohio, second vice-
president; Mildred R. Miller, Cleve-
land, and Sarah A. Lewis, Atlanta,
secretaries; Alice P. Allen, Birming-
ham, Ala.; national dean of pledgees;
Nettie Bennett, Atlanta, treasurer;
Fuchsia B. Miller, Chicago, western
regional directress; Odessa P. Wil-
liams, Morris Brown College, edu-
cational director; Theodosia B. Skin-
ner, Cleveland, northern regional
directress and Mabel A. Gatewood,
Atlanta, southern regional direc-
tress.
THE COUGH DUE TO
A WEAK HEART
Cough is such a common symp-
tom and affects so many people that
it must be unusual before it is re-
garded as serious or important. The
cough of heart disease is less com-
mon than most coughs, but one who
has such a cough is likely to pass
it by as due to an ordinary cold for
the first few weeks.
But after the early stages of a
heart cough have passed most peo-
ple will begin to suspect something
more serious than was a first sus-
pected. Smokers may at first blame
it on smoking; those who work in
dust are likely to blame the dust,
and some will think of an irrita-
tion in the throat as the cause. Af-
ter a time the patient will notice
that he coughs more often and will
perhaps be disturbed from his sleep
at night.
Later there will be a tendency
to become tired on moderate exer-
tion. One who could walk many
blocks without faitgue will now be
worn out after walking a few
blocks. Also shortness of breath
comes with such fatigue, and when
these conditions develop violent
spells of coughing are likely to
come on. At first there is likely to
be no sputum coughed up, but later
there may be frothy or foamy spu-
tum which may at times contain
blood.
By the time such a state of af-
fairs is reached the patient most
often fears that he has tuberculo-
sis of the lungs. However, a little
investigation will show that the
condition is not accompanied by the
other common sumptoms of tuber-
culosis, such as loss of weight, loss
of strength, poor appetite, night
sweats, fever, snd psle complex-
ion.
Some of these people will con-
tinue to work snd go without med-
ics! care, fearful that tuberculosis
will be found. Finally the lower
portions o fe lht -Zss nrcl-SH H
portions of the legs will swell, at
first only slightly, but later to a
greater extent. The swelling devel-
ops late in the day and disappears
during the night’s rest, so that on
arising in the morning there is no
swelling. Such swelling becomes
more pronounced, and all symptoms
are increased in severity, includ-
ing the cough.
By this time medical attention is
sought and a clear-cut story of
what has happened, plus a physical
examination, will prove that the
cought and other symptoms are
caused by a weakening of the
heart. The sooner the cause is
found, the better.
Rest and appropriate medication
in most cases will restore the
strength to the heart. If syphilis is
the cause, the outlook is not so
bright. If high blood pressure and
disease of the kidneys are present
an entirely new schedule of living
will be necessary. In any case the
sooner such e condition is found
the longer one can maintain life
and health.
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Relief At Last
For Your Cough
Oreomulsion relieves promptly be-
cause it goes right to the seat of the
trouble to help loosen and expel
germ laden phlegm, and aid nature
to soothe and heal raw, tender, in-
named bronchial mucous meme
branes. Tell your druggist to sell you
a bottle of Oreomulsion with the un-
derstanding you must like the way it
quickly allays the cough or you are
to have your money back.
CREOMULSION
for Courts, Chest Colds, Bronchitis
the Philadelphia Navy yard, as well
as in ordnance plants throughout
the country.
The school le under the diree-
tion Of J. P. Bond, Jr., project
manager, who was formerly in
charge of the NYA program for
Negroes in North Carolina. Mr.
show Increasing variations of these
types of "compression” techniques,
as furniture manufactures now call
them. It is such techniques which
are now receiving the most con-
sideration as substitutes for metal
coil springs, and it is interesting
that among the many suggestions
and models offered by today's fur-
niture manufactures to the Office
of Price Administration, practical-
ly none displayed any real innova-
Bond to • trained educator, hav-
ing taught for several years at A. -__________.....___
and T. College, Greensboro, N. C., tion from those last century Ideas
following his graduation from recorded at the Patent Office.
Howard University. He now has It was bscause so many of the
a staff of sixty persons with Ed- models that wars first developed
ward R. Rodrigues as a personnel | wars of unknown or uncertain
quality that it was decided to set
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officer; Rudolph Jones, finance ef-
ficer; and David Jefferson, opera-
tions officer.
Typical of the results achieved at
the NYA War Production Training
School is the case of Miss Juanita
E. Cray, 30, of 226 59th Street, N.
E., Washington, who began her
training in the machine shop in
April, 1942. She completed her
training in September of the same
year and was placed in the Wash-
ington Navy Yard, where she to now
earning $45 per week. She is a
graduate of the Dunbar High School
and prior to taking the NYA train-
ing she worked in domestic service.
Hundreds Take Advantage
Hundreds of Negro women are
taking advantage of technical train-
ing opportunities offered by the Na-
tional Youth Administration. New
employment opportunities are open-
ing every day for women in indus-
try. Their skills and a chance to
work are helping to defeat the
Axis.
By Patsy V. Graves for ANP
HELLO, HAVE YOU HAD YOUR
ROOTS TODAY? That may seem
like an odd question but seriously I
mean it. Under the classification
of roots we have beets, carrots,
turnips, rutabaga, etc. There cornea
a time in mid winter when greens
may be hard to get. That is es-
pecially true these deys when trans-
portation is so difficult. But our
good friends, the root vegetables,
with their marvelous keeping qual-
ities stay with us the year round.
And a good thing it is too, that
there is one certainty like a bunch
of carrots in this most uncertain
of all worlds. Of course the taxes
seem fairly certain too, but what’s
the use of worrying about what you
can’t help?
BACK TO THE ROOT VEGE-
TABLES. Most of them keep best
in cool, moist place and these days
you’ve got to watch food spoilage.
Prices are too high, and food too
precious to waste even a little bit.
What with the fate of nations and
peoples in the balance on the very
subject of food surely your con-
science does not let you indulge
in wasteful habits. A spoonful of
peas or a rotten potato may not
seem much to you, but just multi-
ply that by several million women
who may throw away the same
amount every day and you’ve got
enough food to make a whale of
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minor skin irrita-
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World's largest seller
at 5c; 8 times as much
for a dime. Demand
up the series of tests which are
now to be given to this new furni-
ture in accredited laboratories in
various parts of the country. These
tests protect both the householder
who buys the furniture end the
manufacturer who is conscientious
snd anxious to maintain his reputa-
tion. Some firms, in fact, withdrew
their applications for pricing, as
they studied the problem more in-
tensively, especially after the test-
ing procedure was announced.
The six testa being made on new
compression springs are similar to
the testa which have been made for
years on furniture with the now-
departed metal coil springs, which
first began to be really popular
about 1912.
About the earliest patent for
A metal coil springs was granted on
June 16, 1846, and applied to bed
bottoms with double spire! springs.
Three years later, one Nathaniel
Colver of Boston received a patent
for another arrangement for a bed
bottom consisting of “slats support-
ing would spiral or double conical
helical springs." On these springs,
seeking was laid.
Various interpretations of this
idea appeared at scattered intervals
but little attention was paid to any-
thing except beds until the last
quarter of the 19th century. Rail-
way seats and wagon seats engaged
the interest of the Inventors long
before seats for chairs and sofas.
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ROSALIND HUNTER, graduate of
the Atlanta University School of
Social Work, haa been appointed
child welfare worker by the De-
partment of Public Welfare of Vir-
ginia. Miss Hunter to also a grad-
uate of Lincoln University, Jefferson
City, Missouri, and was recently em-
ployed as tenant investigator by the
St. Louis, Missouri Hewing Au-
thority.
a difference.
NOW FOR A FEW GENERAL
rules in cooking root vegetables.
They should be started in boiling,
salted water. Your object in cook-
ing all vegetables is to make it as
■nappy as possible. Prolonged cook-
ing destroys those preclous vita-
mins and minerals. Young, tender
vegetables need only enough water
to keep them from sticking, for
older roots you need enough boil-
ing water to cover. And please do
not throw away the cooking water.
It, too, contains your vital ele-
ments Don’t be the kind of cook
who sends all the goodness of your
food down the sink. Use the cook-
ing water for soups and such.
IF YOU PREFER THINGS LIKE
onions and turnips with a mild
flavor, leave the kettle uncovered.
Boil root vegetables whole unless-
they are too large or the skins
are too tough. If peel you must,
make the peeling thin. Now that
ham bones and skins are hard to
come by, you won't be doing so
much boiling of vegetables with
meat. If you will just add meat
drippings or melted fat just before
serving, they taste okay. Then meat
has passed them by at least.
Scalloping Will help you over a
rough spot if you have a few roots
and not meat to cook them with.
To three cups of cooked vegetable
use a cup and a half of white
sauce with one cup of bread crumbs.
Place layers of vegetable and sauce
in baking dish. Cover with crumbs
and bake in a moderate oven until
brown and bubbling. You will need
a medium white seuce which is
three tablespoons of flour, three
tablespoons of fat and a cup and
a half of milk. Cook until smooth
and thick, season with salt and pep-
per.
IF YOU SAW THE MOVIE
“TALK OF THE TOWN" maybe
you wondered about that Russian
borsch that Cary Grant kept talk-
ing about. Remember he was the
only person who ordered borsch
with an egg in it, and that was
what led to his capture. Well,
borsch is nothing but beet soup.
Beets are a very important mem-
ber of the root vegetable clan, and
I hope .you use the fresh green
tops in the same manner as you
use any other green vegetable.
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Cook until tender in boiling, salted
water, chop, season and serve.
BEETS, CARROTS, RUTABAGA,
PARSNIPS. They’re usually reason-
able in price and they're usually
available. These days you’ve got to
use what the man has to sell you,
not what you wish he had. So get
acquainted with the roots. They are
good old standbys that like good
religion will see you through.
Tips For Saving
And Using Fats
1. Keep fats from scorching and
smoking. Once a fat reaches the
smoking point it gets rancid more
quickly . . . makes food cooked in
it herder to digest.
2. Save all fat drippings. Use “as
is” as flavoring for vegetables and
in other cooking.
3. Use drippings as fat. Heat
them, strain them, mix several
kinds together if you like. Use in
pastry, hot breeds, some cakes and
cookies, or to cook meats that
haven’t enough fat of their own.
4. Save excess poultry fat, fat
trimmed from raw meat when more
than necessary for Its cooking. Ren-
der raw fat, then use as you would
new fat
8. If there’s a “Jack Spratt” rir.
your family, eave the plate waste
Render it and keep for salvage.
6. Store saved fats as carefully
as you do new fats. Store in clean
containers with tight fitting covers.
Put in a cool, dark place. Use as
soon as you can.
Fats are strategic in the wartime
food picture. They give meals the
staying power that keeps us from
feeling hungry soon after we’ve eat-
en. Soldiers and war workers on
long, hard shifts need more fat in
their meals than do most civilians
in peace time.
Use more fat in your meals, and
salvage all the waste fat you can to
help the government increase the
supply of glycerine so vitally need-
ed in the war effort.
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