Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 December 1942 — Page 19

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Your Next Easter's Suit or Dress Will Cost the Same as Last Year's

WHAT PRICE NEXT EASTER'S suit or dress? Just about what was paid for last Easter’s, is the assuring answer

of office of price administration as structing clothing manufacturers on spring styles.

a result of its just-issued order in-|

the prices they may charge for their

° Since this order will be backed up in the near future by similar

instructions to the stores which sell the clothes, it is quite possible for far-seeing shoppers to start now to "figure their clothes budgets for next spring—always providing they re‘member what they paid last spring! And just as reassuring are reports from manufacturing circles indicating that the supply of clothing will be plentiful this spring. Garment makers are ‘planning to produce just about as many dresses and suits as they did for last Easter, when the number was ample. The order just issued by office of price administration prevents clothing manufacturers from offering their styles in price lines any different from those which they had last March, with one exception; they may introduce a line lower-priced than their lowest last year. To help safeguard the quality of these similarly priced 1943 styles, the order also makes it necessary for a manufacturer to put into his garments at least the same costs of labor and material as were put in last. year. And as a further check against inflationary price soaring, this provision tells the manufacturer that if his mark-up last March were greater than now permitted, he must cut his mark-up over direct: costs by certain amounts,

Styles Not Affected

THUS IT COULD conceivably happen in many instances that the manufacturer’s price for a garment this spring might represent a greater percentage of the costs of material and labor than last March. It is true, of course, that costs, ‘particularly labor costs, have risen some since last March and that therefore in some cases the Easter dress and suit, though their price is the same as last year, might not be quite equal in quality to last year’s styles. Such difference, however, would be slight and need not cause any apprehension on the part of the shopper, office of price administration points out. It is not expected that the restrictions now placed on the manufacturer will have any effect on the

style of the garments concerned. Subject to the limitations of the famous L-85, war production board’s order last spring, the clothes of spring, 1943, should be just as interesting in cut and detail as they have been hitherto.

FOOD

By MRS. GAYNOR MADDOX Times Special Writer SHRIMP, cooked in the Chinese style, can’'make the holiday Sunday supper party both a tribute to our valiant Chinese allies and a gesture of Christmas open house cordiality. And it takes the strain off our rationed meat supplies at the same time.

: ” 8 » SHRIMP, CHINESE STYLE (Serves 6) Two green peppers sliced, 1 teaspoon onion juice, 4 tablespoons

butter, 4 tablespoons flour, 1 tea-|:

spoon salt, % - teaspoon. pepper, 2 cups milk, 1 teaspoon soybean sauce, 4 tomatoes, quartered, 2 No. 1 (7 oz.) cans shrimp, paprika. Saute green peppers with onion juice in butter until soft, but not brown; remove pepper from pan. Stir flour into butter with salt and pepper until well blended. Add milk slowly and cook stirring constantly until thickened. Add soybean sauce quartered tomatoes and drained shrimp. Cook over very low heat stirring occasionally for about 5 minutes. Pour into serving dish sprinkle with paprika. Serve hot with hot steamed rice. Henry Low, noted Chinese chef and author: of cookbooks, gives this suggestion for a gala holiday shrimp dish: CURRIED SHRIMP (GA LAY HA) One pound fresh shrimps, 1 large green pepper, % onion, 4 teaspoons curry powder, 1 teaspoon sugar, I teaspoon gourmet powder (mei jing), % teaspoon salt, 1 cup stock or water, a dash of pepper, 2 teaspoons cornstarch, Chop green pepper and onion very fine. Remove shells from shrimps, slit slightly to remove veins, wash in cold water and drain. Put shrimps, green pepper, onion and curry in hot, well greased skillet, Mix and saute 2 minutes, add stock or water, sugar, gourmet powder salt and pepper. Cover and cook 5 minutes, add cornstarch which has been made into a thin smooth paste, mix well and cook another 2 minutes.

Plan Card Party

An old-fashioned box supper will be held Friday at 5:30 p. m. by the Wayne township P.-T. A. At 8 p.m. there will be a card party with Mrs. Delcia Samply as chairman, °

By ROSETTE HARGROVE Times Special Writer . LONDON, Dec. 16.—Pié¢ture a bulky figure, almost spherically curvaceous from layers of underclothes husked in a quilted, padded outer garment. That may be the war-fashion silhouette of English women this winter— thanks to stringent fuel-saving restrictions on heating. A far cry from the slim, stream-lined silhouette which English women until recently strove to achieve or retain. But modern women’s “scanties” will have to be added to, for health’s sake. After sll, our mothers in the last war wore several petticoats and sweeping skirts which helped keep them warm. # # = SIR LEONARD HILL, director of the Institute of Physical Medicine, commenting on the need to save fuel, recently suggested that “garments can be padded with cotton waste, if obtainable, for extra warmth.” He added that raincoats, shawls and overcoats could be worn indoors by people in sedentary occupations and that these could be supplemented by rugs over the knees and hot water bottles at the feet. It is all part of England’s warcompelled reversion to the simple living of grandfather’s day. Select suburban trains are acquiring peasant market day look, with women, and men, too, returning home with large shopping baskets or string bags filled with a heterogeneous collection of articles, from a jar of face cream to a bunch of leeks, a pair of shoes, a haddock or a rabbit.

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THE “PEASANT” ASPECT of English life will be enhanced when, as seems likely, office clerks and shop girls, as well as factory hands, will wear the wooden clogs so typical of French, Dutch and Belgian country folk. This winter’s prospect of many weary weeks of mud, sleet and snow, plus stricter curtailment of transport facilities, will make even the most fashionable miss aware of the necessity of keeping her feet warm and dry. Another reversion to grandparents’ day is the reappearance of “carrying shawls,” in which mothers tote their infants. Reason: Less than a third of the normal pre-war output of baby carriages is being manufactured today. Those lucky enough to own prams often use them as “vans” to transport purchases or belongings, while baby rides on mother’s arm. A “peasant” diet has already been prophesied by Food Minister Lord Woolton, who, while making no promises that existing rations would be kept up, did assert that no one need go hungry. People in the British Isles will have to make do with oats, potatoes and other root vegetables, eked out with a little meat and/or fish, plus a hunk of cheese.

to ‘Simple Living’

Baby perambulators are scarce, Those lucky enough to own them often use them as “vans” to transport purchases or belongings, while baby rides on mother’s arm.

HOME FRONT FORECAST

By ANN FRANCE WILSON Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Dec. 16.—Along the Atlantic seaboard, where fuel-oil rationing has been in full swing for some time, they've developed a “house pool” idea. And OPA officials here would like to see it extend throughout the country. : ’ The idea is simple enough. Several women get together and pool their fuel resources. Each day one of their houses is kept comfortably warm, and there they congregate to do their sewing, mending and Red Cross knitting. Thermostats in the other houses are turned down to 55, or even 50. It’s an excellent fuel-sav-ing idea for any community— IF you bear one important fact in mind. You must keep your house at. a low temperature at least eight hours before you raise it back to 65 degrees. Otherwise you use more oil to warm up the house than you save by lowering the thermostat in the first place. If you're going to be away for less than eight hours you can still save oil, ~ however, by lowering the temperature to about 58 o 8 8 8 2 8

IF YOU STILL don’t have a sugar ration book, you'd best get busy and apply for it at your local ration board. OPA is getting ready to crack down on those who don’t have their first (sugar) ration book. If you miss it you'll probably have a hard time getting the second (all-purpose) ration book, to be issued about the first of the year. ” ” » : 8 » » THREE AND A HALF BILLION yards of cotton goods sounds like a lot of textiles. But it really isn’t when you figure that "that’s about all there will be left for civilian use next year. Out of an estimated production of 12 billion yards, about half will go to the army. Manufacturers of grain sacks take nearly a billion and a half yards, and 900,000,000 yards of textiles are being diverted to lend-lease. The betting is that drapes, cotton slipcover goods and upholstering material will be the first to go. But there's one sure thing—cotton wearing apparel won't get it in the neck.

Switching Jobs Slows Up the War Effort

By MRS. WALTER FERGUSON : Times Special Writer >

. ARE YOU HELPING the war effort, or do you use the war effort to help yourself? This is a per-

tinent question now, because, according to officials of the OCD, it

excitement. As a consequence, confusion mounts and chaos threatens. “Women who are adept at typing and other office jobs go out for motor corps or welding; those who have mechanical talents long to function as nurses aids. The housewife who should be looking after her children signs up for telephone or radio duty, the expert cook wants to make parachutes—and so it goes. # » tJ IN THE MIDST of a war millions of men and women have decided to take up new jobs which may rejuire several months of intensive training, meaning, in turn, that the work they could be doing may have to be handed over to somebody else who can’t do it so well. To be sure, these industrial upsets are beneficial to a great many individuals. The untrained boy may come out of the war a skilled technician or mechanic; the untrained girl will be equipped to support herself. Many will discover latent abilities within themselves. From the viewpoint of the citizen to whom Uncle Sam offers a free education in hundreds of trades and professions, the scramble is justified. But can it be denied that it slows up the military effort? A large part of the population is using the war to get out of economic ruts. The dull routines of everyday may be exchanged for something new, different and thrilling. In the meantime, however, a global conflict rages. How about getting it over quickly by civilians sticking to familiar tasks and giving them everything we've got?

Sorority Alumnae To Attend Supper

Mrs. Russell P. Burkle, 3741 N. Chester st. will entertain at 6:30 p. m. today with a supper party for the Indianapolis alumnae chapter of Sigma Kappa sorority. Mrs. Karl

- | Meredith will assist.

Members of the chapter. attending the meeting will make their annual contributions to the Maine Seacoast Mission fund.

Miss Wheeler Hostess Theta chapter of Delta Sigma Kappa sorority will have a Christmas party at 7:30 p. m. today at the Hotel Lincoln. Miss Catherine Wheeler will be hostess.

Woman's Viewpoint—

isn’t hard to get people to work; the: tough job is persuading them to: work at something they know how |: to do. 3 Human nature loves change and

Randell photo. Miss Edna Mahr

Zeta Beta Chis To Install New Officers

" Miss ‘Edna Mahr will be installed las president of Indiana Beta chapter, Zeta Beta Chi sordrity, tomorrow evening at the chapter’s annual Christmas dinner party. The dinner will be at 7 o'clock at the ‘home of the past president, Mrs. Arthur Edward Julian, 3628 E. Fall Creek pkwy., North dr. Miss Rose Louise West, assisted by Miss Louise Schneider ‘and Miss June Wolfe, will conduct the installation. Other officers to be installed are Miss Helen Eckler, vice president; Miss Eleanor Pyle, recording secretary; Mrs. Julian, corresponding secretary; Miss Helen Fritz, treasurer; Mrs. Maude Simpson, chaplain, and Miss West, historian. The hostess will be assisted by the retiring officers. The sorority colors of emerald and gold will be used in decorations for the dinner. There will be a gift exchange.

Christmas Party To Be Tonight

The Ladies’ auxiliary to the International Association of Machinists will hold their Christmas party this evening at Castle hall. Following a covered dish supper at 7 p. m,, there will be entertainment for children and a gift exchange. Mrs. Ray Faust is arrangements chairman and will be assisted by Mesdames Albert Ackeret, William Hancock, Charles Miller and Walter Heisel.

Entertains Sorority

Delta chapter of Phi Delta Pi sorority will have a Christmas party at 8 p. m. today in the home of

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surance that it will not be: knocked out of balance by increased prices.

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OPA price controls and, as a cone

be fairly well stabilized at cure rent levels’ in the future. A major step in freezing food prices was taken by the OPA early in October when a number of ime portant products, including butter, cheese, evaporated and condensed milk, as well as eggs, poultry, ex= cept turkeys, flour, cake mixes, cite rus fruits, potatoes, flour, onions, etc, were placed under price cone trols. ; Si ' The prices of these products had been rising steadily for some months. i The effect of OPA price control has been demonstrated, Dr. Stare explained, by the latest report of the bureau of labor statistics on the prices of food in 51 cities, ine cluding Indianapolis, for the month of October. ; Between the middle of September and the middle of October, the re port disclosed, the retail cost of all foods rose nearly 2% per cent. The chief reason for this rapid rise was the fact that not until early in October were important farm and ' dairy products placed.

17 Per Cent Rise

“If we go back to the date when food price control first became effec= tive, the contrast in price changes

tember and October,” Dr. Starr said. “Food prices that have been cone trolled by the OPA since last May 18 advanced less than one-half of one per cent between May and Oc= tober. “On the other hand, those items

increased nearly 17 per cent during the same period. An advance of prices of less than one-half of one per cent over approximately a sixe month period cannot be regarded as significant since it is less than the variation during periods of very stable prices.” Dr. Starr declared that the farm products brought under price control last October “bulked large in the cost of food to the consumer” and, as a result of this OPA action, it may be anticipated that the cost of all foods may be stabilized in the future with no more variation than that shown by the controlled items during the last six months.

On-Ea-Ota to Meet

The On-Ea-Ota club’s Christmas party and gift exchange will be held at 1 p. m. tomorrow at the Warren hotel. Hostesses will be

2415 Shelby st., Apt. 2.

and Harry Hollis.

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