The Seminole Sentinel (Seminole, Tex.), Vol. 30, No. 50, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 10, 1938 Page: 2 of 8
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TIPSto
Crardeners
Get Flowers Earlier
GARDENERS can get earlier
bloom from many flowers by
starting them indoors from seed
and setting the plants in the open
soil when frost danger is past.
Plant seeds of the following in-
doors about six weeks before the
plants are to be set out: Delphin-
ium, pink, gaillardia, lobelia, my-
cvsotis, pansy, Iceland poppy, sal-
via, stock and verbena.
A week or two later the follow-
ing can be sown indoors: Agera-
Itum, snapdragon, aster, dahlia,
nicotiana, petunia, phlox drum-
Vnondi, salpiglossis, scabiosa and
vinca rosea.
Seed may be procured at your
corner store sufficiently early to
permit indoor planting.
With a number of popular flow-
ers, however, there is no advan-
tage to be gained by early start-
ing indoors, according to Gilbert
Bentley, flower expert of the
Ferry Seed Institute.
In this class are sweet alyssum,
calendula, calliopsis, candytuft,
four o'clock, marigold and nastur-
tium.
"Ah showed
yo' mammy with
JEWEL, too.
• For generations, fine cooks
throughout the South have preferred
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of choice vegetable fats and other
bland cooking fats, Jewel actually
creatns faster, makes more lender
baked foods, than the costliest tyi>es
of shortening. You get better results
every time. Look for the red carton.
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Washington!
Digest jidte,
National .Topics Interpreted j
By WILLIAM PD"^ A DT
NATIONAL "PRESS BLDG WASHINGTON, D C
Washington.—It has been stated
frequently that 90 per cent of the
residents of Wash-
Washington ington are located
News here because it is
the site and seat
of the federal government. In oth-
er words, Washington is a great
city because it is the capital of the
nation. The statement is not com-
pletely the truth, but a bare analysis
by whomever made cannot fail to
demonstrate that there are thou-
sands who live in Washington for
the reasons mentioned.
In consequence of this condition,
therefore, Washington news does
not get into the newspapers of the
country as does other news. The
Washington date line in ninety-nine
out of each one hundred cases is
over a story that detis with some
phase of government or politics.
Since Washingtonians have no vote,
Washingtonians cannot be in poli-
tics.
Nevertheless, sometimes there is
news about Washingtonians that is
of interest to all of the country. The
observation is peculiarly true of a
circumstance that has lately devel-
oped. Moreover, the case in point
holds a lesson for the country as a
whole.
Lately, congress passed a law es-
tablishing a minimum wage for
women workers in the District of
Columbia. The statute was rather
loosely drawn, as it had to be if it
were to work at all. It left much
to the discretion of a controlling
agency called a minimum wage
board. One of the reasons why so
much discretion was left to the lo-
cal agency, however, was because
the subject with which the legisla-
tion deals contains political dyna-
mite and congress did not want to
establish a precedent by going too
far in fixing wages. So the District
of Columbia was left a rather wide
scope within which to build its mini-
mum wage structure.
That was the basis for the cir-
cumstance above mentioned, the
news about Washingtonians, the les-
son for the nation.
The wage board started out to
hold hearings to obtain facts about
the wage level and what was need-
ed by the women workers. Stenog-
raphers, office workers, clerks in
stores and this and that and the
other type of employed women. Fi-
nally, the board got around to wait-
resses and their wages. That was
where the lid blew off, because who
does not know that waitresses col-
lect considerable money in tips?
Promptly, up bobbed a red hot ques-
tion: should the tips, or the average
monthly "lake" in tips be consid-
ered as a part of the wage of wait-
resses?
Well, the question has not been
settled yet and even when an order
is issued, it will not have been set-
tled. It will go on and on and there
will be some racketeers who will or-
ganize a society or something to
fight for exclusion of tips as part
of the wage, if that be the order.
If the board eventually decides to
exclude tips and fix a minimum
wage without regard to tips, the
employers will carry on a drum fire
of criticism about it. Why? Because
the question strikes at the very
heart of the relationship between
employer and worker.
Any worker naturally wants as
much of a return for his or her la-
bor as can be obtained. Any em-
ployer feels equally that he is en-
titled to obtain needed labor as
cheaply as is possible. The wait-
resses, therefore, took the position
that the proprietor had no right to
consider the tips as a part of the
wage. On the other hand, the pro-
prietor — probably with the same
justification — said in effect that
without the job the waitress wfll not
get tips, and that the owner who
takes the risk ought to be allowed
to count those tips as part of the
compensation.
• • •
Further, the customers of the res-
taurant were entitled to some con-
sideration, said
Consider the proprietors.
Customers That is, they ar-
gued that the cus-
tomers were charged prices for food
and service that would yield the
proprietor a fair profit. The tips, it
was held, were gratuities on the
part of the customer and they vary
in amount, some large, some small.
1/ the wage rate was to be raised
and the tips excluded—somebody
would have to pay more for food.
The waitresses used the argument
that the tips were gratuities, just
us the owners did, but since they
are gratuities, said the waitresses,
in no wise was it fair to include
them in the wage scale.
And so the argument went! But
the lesson remains. No better il-
lustration is possible, I think, than
the Washington waitress wage con-
troversy; there is no better way
to show how utterly silly it is for
government to mess into private af-
fairs. Whenever government sticks
its hooked nose into private affairs,
just there begins an unbalancing of
human nature. That is to say, there
is no substitute for negotiation be-
tween humans, each inately fair,
each desirous of gaining justice ac-
cording to his light.
• • •
While on the subject of expansion
of government into every cranberry
. patch, it is inter-
Buttmg esting to note that
Into Business some of the left
wing New Dealers
would like very much to put the
federal government into the busi-
ness of making small industrial
loans. I think probably it will be
some time yet before the nitwit
section gets anything tangible into
the open on the newest of their
schemes, but it is true that they are
now planning along those lines.
The thought of this group of so-
called presidential advisers is that
the federal government should start
loaning money to small businesses
so that those businesses will be in-
dependent of "the great banking
trust." In short, it is proposed that
the federal governpient should be
equipped to make a loan of ten
thousand or twenty thousand or fifty
thousand to a small manufacturer
so that he can expand his plant and
take on new workers, etc., etc. It is
suggested that perhaps there ought
to be a new governmental agency
created to handle this work so that
it will be done "sympathetically"
and with an understanding.
It all comes about apparently
from the fact that the present ad-
ministration has discovered, after
five years in office, that there are
great monopolies or trusts or some-
thing else in the way of combina-
tions in existence. They have found
that these monopolies are in control
so far that the little fellow in busi-
ness can not borrow money when
he needs it to carry on his business.
Something must be done for them,
or else they can not have the more
abundant life of plenty.
President Roosevelt has become
intensely interested in having busi-
ness become "home owned" or
something of the kind. He has
shown, for example, in his shots at
utility holding companies how much
he likes the type of operating com-
pany that serves its patrons and
doesn't mix up in the tangle of
corporations that operate in more
than one town or city. They are
good, according to the President,
and they ought to have considera-
tion.
• • •
Every now and then some infor-
mation leaks out about "emergency
action" that was
Emergency taken by govern-
Action ment officials dur-
ing the hectic
days of the Hoover depression as
distinguished from the Roosevelt de-
pression. (The depression that was
on when President Roosevelt took
office in 1933 was labeled the Hoo-
ver depression in New Deal propa-
ganda.) One of these incidents came
out before the senate committee on
public lands the other day. The
committee was investigating the
nomination of E. K. Burlcw to be
assistant secretary of the interior,
and that formed the basis of an in-
quiry into general practices of the
Department of the Interior which
is headed by Secretary Ickes.
Mr. Burlew was answering ques-
tions as to how the department
spent much of the three or four bil-
lion dollars appropriated to it for
public works. Those were pump
priming appropriations, if you re-
member, although as far as I can
see the water has not started com-
ing out of the pump yet. Anyway,
Mr. Burlew let the fact drop that
Secretary Ickes had bought two new
automobiles in 1933. He said the
purchases were due to the "emer-
gency" and, of course, money for
them came from the emergency ap-
propriations. Senator Stiewer of
Oregon asked what was meant by
the "emergency."
"Well, the secretary wanted the
cars, and that was the emergency,"
Mr. Burlew replied amid laughter
in the room.
C Western Newspaper Unioo.
AROUND
the HOUSE!
Items of Interest
to the Housewife
Tasty Sandwiches.—To vary the
plain peanut butter sandwich, mix
peanut butter with chili sauce,
spread on slices of hot buttered
brown bread, and put together
with crisp lettuce leaves. Gar-
nish with slices of dill pickle.
• • •
Before Baking Potatoes.—Let
them soak in cold, salted water
for 15 minutes. They will bake in
half the time.
• • *
For Home Dressmaking.—Make
a small pincushion and sew it to
a "bracelet" of elastic. Stick
some pins in the cushion, slip the
bracelet on your left wrist and
the pins are always handy.
• • •
Bacon in Stuffing. — Bacon,
chopped small, should be added to
all stuffing. It gives a delicious
flavor.
• • •
Remember Our Feathered
Friends.—Birds welcome bread
crumbs and suet when winter
winds are howling, but don't forget
to provide shelter for them so
they may eat in comfort. Roost-
ing boxes are easy to make and
save the life of many a bird.
• • •
Haddock With Tomatoes.—Lay a
small dried haddock in a pan with
a little water and bake for ten
minutes. Remove skin and bones,
and flake the fish into large flakes.
Melt two tablespoonfuls butter in
Wise and Otherwise
An explorer says that he will
never marry. This rolling-stone
intends to gather no boss.
No man is a failure—or a
success—till he's dead.
Masseur—It's going to rain,
sir. I can feel it in your bones!
"No business can afford to
carry a passenger nowadays,"
says an efficiency expert. He
should tell that one to the bus
companies and the railways.
Fortunately women never try
to live up to their adjectives.
Love is blind—but the neigh-
bors aren't.
Two heads are better than one
—especially if you sell hats.
a saucepan, fry a little chopped,
onion lightly in it, add one-hall
cup canned tomatoes, and cook
until soft. Put in the fish and a
little chopped parsley, season, stic
over low heat until all is thorough-
ly hot, then serve.
2 Steps in Fighting
Discomfort of
COLDS
i
ENTERS BODY
THROUGH
•STOMACH AND
INTESTINES
EASE PAIN.
" RELIEVES
)#THR0AT PAIN
RAWNESS.
All it usually costs to relieve tha
misery of a cold today—Ls 3^ to 5^
— relief for the period of your cold
151 to 25^. Hence no family need
ncglect even minor head colds.
Here is what to do: Take two
BAYER tablets when you feel a
cold coming on — with a full glass
of water. Then repeat, if neccssary,
according to directions in each
package. Relief comes rapidly.
The Bayer method of relief
is the way many doctors now
approve. You take Bayer Aspirin
for relief — then if you arc not
improved promptly, you call tha
family doctor.
2 FULL DOZEN 25c
Virtually 1 cent a tablet
catch cold
easily?
VlCKS
Vatponol
helps prevent
many colds
Scolds hang on
and on ?
VICKS
VapoR lib
helps end a V*3.
cold quicker
\
FOLLOW VICKS PLAN FOR BETTER CONTROL OF COLDS
Full details oj the Plan in taeh Vicks Packat
Smooth Sailing
The stabilizer in the Italian liner
Conte di Savoia, which eliminates
rolling more than 2xk degrees to
either side in the roughest weath-
er, weighs 750 tons and cost nearly
$1,000,000. The 175-ton flywheels
in its three gyroscopes require a
period of nearly three hours to at-
tain their maximum speed of 910
revolutions a minute. — Collier's
Weekly.
Calotabs Help Nature
To Throw Off a Cold
Millions have found in Calotabs
a most valuable aid in the treat-
ment of colds. They take one or
two tablets the first night and re-
peat the third or fourth night if
needed.
How do Calotabs help nature
throw off a cold? First, Calotabs
are one of the most thorough and
dependable of all intestinal elimi-
nants, thus cleansing the intestinal
tract of the virus-laden mucus and
toxins. Second, Calotabs are
diuretic to the kidneys, promoting
the elimination of cold poisons
from the blood. Thus Calotabs
serve the double purpose of a
purgative and diuretic, both of
which are needed in the treatment
of colds.
Calotabs are quite economical;
only twenty-five cents for the
family package, ten cents for the
trial package.—(adv.)
Tail Stilt a Tail
Abraham Lincoln once asked a
deputation: "How many legs
would a sheep have if you called
his tail a leg?" The deputation
answered promptly: "Five."
"No," said Lincoln, "it would not;
it would have only four, for call-
ing a tail a leg does not make it
one."
CHEW LONG BILL NAVY TOBACCO
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Stone, Harry N. The Seminole Sentinel (Seminole, Tex.), Vol. 30, No. 50, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 10, 1938, newspaper, February 10, 1938; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth440754/m1/2/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Gaines County Library.