A ROOM OF OUR OWN

...Orange juice has many healthful properties, but it simply doesn't have the calcium for the teeth that plain milk can supply...

...After three days, when his French doctor told him he would never regain his health, he tried to mount his horse for battle, but fell on his face...

...This not only violated our consideration of the horses, but was quite terrifying to me, since at times they had to find their footing on steep, perilous paths with a drop of thousands of feet below...

...I saw one dash into the jungle for a moment, then reappear with a beautiful green fruit looking like an enormous avocado...

...Driving for half an hour, we came to Millot where Christophe built his "Sans Souci", or palace...

...By that time the present pinch for aluminum, so vital for the aircraft program, may be over...

...Buyers of this year's cars should be unusually careful before they sign on the dotted line, CU- recommends, since there may be no new models next year...

...Not only its size, but to be set on a mountain peak, commanding on all sides hundreds of miles of mountains and oceans...

...By the way, when oranges are expensive, as they are right now, a good cheap source of the vitamin C they're rich in can be found in canned tomatoes...

...Congress and the President, as well as British statesmen, know that the people of the United States do not want to become involved in the European war...

...Because "the con burner was not getting a square deal on tin (containers," Rep...

...While one defense official said last week that "the future will undoubtedly be dark for the pot and pan boys and the ash tray industry," ame aluminum manufacturers regard the current shortage as temporary and report that current warehouse stocks will be able to fill most consumer needs...

...I think it probably will not please them to drag us over the brink, and for this one reason—that the opponents of the bill have insisted upon having their say about it...

...Phil and I gasped...

...We even use the plump bottom section for flowers occasionally...

...In contrast to my disappointment at the size of European castles, the Citadelle took my breath away...

...Of course the natives don't have the ice cream, they eat it from the skin "as is", but this boy told me admiringly that it was a "tres belle fruit", and carried it lovingly to the top of the Citadelle and down again...

...It's found in meat, eggs, whole-grain bread and cereals, milk, fruit and green leafy vegetables...

...This has gone on, both by open charges and by innuendo...

...On this abrupt, speedy climb, the men were running alongside, chattering and laughing all the time...

...Of course, there's a new crop of brides every month, so there' is a steady demand...

...But the cost to his own people, in tears, blood and death, was so overwhelming that they deserted the man who looked upon himself as their champion...

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...Most of the 1941 models cost more than last year's crop, and increases ranging from $20 to $200 have heen made all along the line...

...Under the priority order issued last week by E. R. Stettinius, Jr., Director of Priorities for OPM, civilian or consumer needs for aluminum products—and machine' tools too—will be sidetracked for three months, until May 31...

...In most cases, Consumers Union observes, the money has gone into longer, heavier bodies requiring more powerful engines, with the result that the new cars are harder to park, harder to manoeuver in traffic and more expensive to run than 1940 models...

...After a long study the Bureau has come out with an order reducing the number of tin containers for fruits and vegetables to 41...

...The dangers surrounding the bill have been pointed out...

...Best Buys in the lowest price range, according to CU's investigation, are Studebaker Champion Custom Model 3G an 1 Willys Americar Model 441...

...OINCE BLISS is never unalloyed however, I must admit to dis-° tress over the horses...

...At least one fact is apparent...

...I ran to the window where the sun was rising above a glassy sea and a long line of natives with their donkeys and inevitable baskets on their heads strode along toward the town market...

...Not the Haitians, however...

...Your Money's Worth The Aluminum Priority...

...There is nothing like it that I have seen...

...Another three-quarters of an hour brought us to it, where we dismounted, to go over it inch by inch...

...Like the pyramids in Egypt, men still marvel at how Christophe achieved his fortress...

...By the thousands his people fled to the Republic in southern Haiti...

...Most housewives we know don't buy new pots and pans very often...

...Utensil prices will undoubtedly go up, and there'll probably be more buying of aluminum substitutes, such as the Pyrex glass saucepans and double boilers...

...Many women distrust glass because of easier breakage, but we've had good luck with a glass double boiler, and it has some qualities that lick an aluminum product for the same price...

...It was supposed to have been modelled on the finest French tradition, and even in ruins it has great charm...

...T h e housewife," Rep...

...And since there are health-giving vitamins and minerals dissolved in the cooking liquid of vegetables, save it instead of pouring it down the drain, they urge, and us it in soups...

...Harry Sauthoff finally got results...

...on aluminum for defense needs...

...Sauthoff explains, "could be fooled into purchasing three for a quarter cans instead of two for a quarter in the belief that she was getting much more for her money, when in truth and in fact she sometimes got less because of a narrower and shorter can...

...The building where we slept seemed to mark the beginning of the "city", as the travelers stopped at this point to put on their shoes to go to town, or to remove them for travel home...

...These tops, like cauliflower leaves, make tasty and valuable foods if they're prepared like other leafy green vegetables, federal food experts recommend...

...As I said to Phil, these natives had no idea how to treat horses and seemed to consider them senseless machines to be driven until they dropped...

...Th,e notion of giving the President carte blanche with all our supplies seems to me alien to the democratic ideal, and whatever happens in the future we shall probably realize that the debate over this important measure has been as healthy as it was vigorous...

...The forces of the administration are powerful enough to do as they please, but...

...My youth in Utah had given me experience in climbing mountains on horseback, where the first rule is to let the animal use his judgment...

...Walter Ferguson(Seripps-Howard Cohimnwt) ADVOCATES of the Lend-Lease Bill have done democracy no good by accusing their opponents of obstructing national defense...

...The fact is plain and blunt, even though to some it may be distasteful...

...From the time we started climbing, all the way up the mountainsides and all the way down, they kept up a steaddy prodding and flicking of the poor animals...

...Here was the imagination, the energy, the power to achieve such a fortress against enemies from over the seas...

...Non-union workers in the Ford plant, where,the UAW-CIO are conducting one of the biggest campaigns in labor'history to organize the 113,000 Ford workers, earn an average of 12 cents an hour less than their union brothers in the GM and Chrysler plants...

...Willys, Chrysler, Studebaker, General Motors, Hudson, Packard and Nash automobiles are union-made by members of the United Automobile Workers...

...JVew Vitamin K Prevents Infant Brain Hemorrhages A new life-preserving vitamin, Vitamin K, will prevent brain hemorrhages which are fatal to one of every 100 babies, according to its inventor, Dr...

...Federal food experts also urge saving the liquid in which canned peas and asparagus and lima beans and other canned foods come, since it's packed with food value...

...Does anybody imagine we might not have been in already if these so-called "obstructors" had kept silent...

...These liquids can be used in soups or blended together as m vegetable juice, to drink like tomato juice...

...The best source of calcium is, of course, milk, and our dentist tells us that a pint of milk a day for an adult does more for the teeth than countless glasses of orange juice...

...Mrs...

...It is NOT found in diets heavy with starch and sugar...

...No matter what one reads, or what one imagines at a distance, the actual sight is unbelievable...

...1941 Automobiles Getting Most Of Vegetables Food Minerals -By MARY SHERIDANHARDSHIPS FOR housewives, as well as retail merchants and manufacturers, loom with the virtual monopoly of the nation's aluminum industry for defense purposes...

...Phosphorus is fairly easy to include in any normal diet...

...Yet-1 believe time will prove the antis were true patriots...

...After a substantial breakfast (including a pitcherfull of the most glorious orange juice I have tasted anywhere) we made an early start, as we wanted to make the climb during the cool of the morning...

...Well, we wonder what will happen to the household utensil market...

...A ROOM OF OUR OWN By Israel B. La Follette THE MURMUR of voices, gay laughter, and the shuffle of feet ¦*> waked me before five o'clock on the morning we were to go to Henri Christophe's "Citadelle" above Cape Haitian...

...Here we were picked up by an avalanche of men with horses— thin little horses at whom I looked dubiously when I thought of my bulk...

...As I gazed over the surrounding vistas, I was overcome with the tragedy of the man Christophe...

...You buy 'em when you get married and replace them when they wear out— and good ones, with care, last a long time...

...Consumers Union reports the results of an intensive survey of 55 new models in its current issue, rating them in their various price classes on the basis of body and engine features, comfort, ease of handling and low operating costs...

...Sauthoff Helps Consumers Get Can Standards It took four years, but Wisconsin's Rep...

...Of course, it cost the death of 20,000 peasants whose ultimate "welfare" was his goal...

...We tried explanations, jokes, firmness, to no avail...

...Minerals As Important As Vitamins For Good Health VITAMINS GET MOST of the attention, hut minerals are just as important for body health...

...But with government priorities indicated soon for nickel, steel, tungsten and one type of synthetic rubber, defense officials are mentioning glass and plastics as "ersatz" or substitute material for lighter domestic utensils, refrigerator fittings and the substitution of cast iron for aluminum in making heavy machinery...

...OUDDENLY as we rounded a curve, our companions shouted ° "Voila...

...Henrik Dam of the University of Copenhagen, Denmark...

...Vitamin K is found in fish and is related chemically to chlorophyl, the green coloring matter in plant life, and in plants is produced in the same cells that make chlorophyl...

...I asked what it was, and discovered "ice cream" fruit—a very sweet, soft fruit which mixed with cream and frozen, makes the most delicious ice cream I have ever eaten, rather like banana...

...With his war-like nature, Christophe was contemplating an invasion of the Republic, when he suffered a paralytic stroke...

...Their disapproval has been openly and bodly expressed, and for courage in speaking their minds, they have been insulted and berated by many men whose past records have already proved them to be rubber stamps...

...Sauthoff introduced a bill in Congress in 1937 to reduce the confusing lumber of 700 different sized tin cans on the market...

...After a tremendous amount of chattering and dickering, we finally started out, Phil, myself and two "guides" on horses, accompanied by three or four men and boys a-foot...

...Phosphorus and calcium are especially needed, since together they make up 97 per cent of the mineral matter in bones and teeth—and as concrete evidence for the need of more minerals in American meals, turn back to the story in last week's issue of The Progressiva revealing that defective teeth is the outstanding reason for rejection of selective service and Army applicants...

...I shall never forget the beauty of the tropical foliage with the brilliant sun shining through it in vivid patches, the calls of birds who, strain my eyes as I might, I could not locate but knew were the kinds I've seen in zoos here, and the gushing mountain streams...

...Knowing human nature as we do, and especially political human nature, we can be sure the debate has acted as a restraint upon the tendency of hotheads to act first and think afterward...

...Everyone, even those Senators who now hint about possible declarations of war, realize that we stand on the brink of serious dangers and that a step in the wrong direction may lose us all the benefits, material and social, which it has taken us centuries to gain...

...CU Reports Best Buys In Low Cost Automobiles BEFORE YOU BEGIN to fear that we're being subsidized by glass manufacturers, let's move on to automobiles...

...You can see the water situation at a glance, the cover fits top and bottom so that you have two pots when you don't use it as a double boiler, it's very easy to wash, and the detachable handles make the containers useful for refrigerator use...

...Even though you have only a dab of vegetables left over from a meal, save them and fold them into an omelet for lunch the next day...

...How did he get the millions of tons of rock, the countless cannons (French, English, Spanish) with mountains of huge cannon balls still to be seen, up those mountainsides...

...The ascent started immediately...

...Up a mountain road we went, and I realized again that even a car does not give one the intimacy with the countryside that one feels with an animal, or even better, on foot...

...A large number of citizens disapproved of the bill in its original form...

...Industries producing cooking utensils, streamlined trains, toothpaste tubes, bottle caps, aluminum foil, mechanical refrigerators and electrical conductors are the ones likely to be affected by the Office of Production Management's "mandatory priority" (the string of government agencies is getting longer and longer and the terminology more complicated...

...Not exactly an exciting dish, we'll admit, but try working them into a vegetable or hamburger casserole or serving them with croutons...

...vReal Patriots' -By Mrs...

...Sauthoff got a hearing on his bill, with the result that the entire question was turned over to the U. S. Bureau of Standards...

...Best Ways To Get Your Money's Worth In Vegetables WHEN YOU BUY turnips and beets, don't let the grocer cut off the tops if you want to be sure of getting all the vitamins and minerals you pay for...

...After "a great deal of pulling and hauling," Rep...

...With the news of the final desertion of his household guards, he retired to his private apartment at Sans Souci and shot himself...

...This is what you've always dreamed about," I kept telling myself...

...He is buried in the courtyard of his greatest monument, the Citadelle...

...I had always wondered how Christophe picked the site of his fortress, but when"one realizes that it towers right behind his palace it seems very natural...