THE 1. A. A. RECORD 



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Changes in Women's 



Clothing Hits Business 



REPLIES from more than a thou- 

 sand men and women representing 

 all sections of the United States as to 

 the textile fibers in use in their houses 

 and wardrobes in 1927 as compared 

 with 1922, indicates that families and 

 individuals with larger incomes more 

 frequently chose silk and rayon in 

 preference to cotton for many gar- 

 ments. Women gave as their chief 

 reasons for this change that silk and 

 rayon are more attractive and easier 

 to handle then cotton. Men based their 

 preference for silk and rayon socks to 

 cotton on style and comfort. 



In household articles, however, cot- 

 ton is more than holding its own, ac- 

 cording to a report of 646 families. 

 The survey was conducted by the Bu- 

 reau of Home Economics, U. S. De- 

 partment of Agriculture. 



The shift from the use of silk and 

 rayon instead of cotton and wool, par- 

 ticularly in women's clothes, is largely 

 responsible for the depressed condition 

 of the textile industries in the New 

 England States. 



Abolish Toll Bridges 



U'T'HERE is no place on the public 

 A highway today for a privately- 

 owned toll bridge," said Thomas H. 

 MacDonald, chief of the Bureau of 

 Public Roads, U. S. D. A., before the 

 annual meeting of the American Asso- 

 ciation of State Highway Officials in 

 Chicago. 



"The public can finance and build at 

 lower costs, and the largest bridge un- 

 dertakings in the country today are be- 

 ing financed on the basis of their earn- 

 ings," he said. 



"The building of bridges is a field 

 from which the 'shoestring' promoter 

 should be excluded, and he will be if a 

 thorough investigation is made," con- 

 tinued MacDonald. 



Every time a carfeless smoker throws 

 a burning cigarette into the dry grass 

 or needles of a forest floor he is giv- 

 ing the fire demon odds of one to nine 

 that it won't start a fire, says the 

 United States Forest Service. These 

 odds, coupled with the fact that there 

 is smoked and discarded in the United 

 States the amazing total of 171,000 

 cigarettes per minute, day and night, 

 during the entire year, are believed to 

 account for the large percentage of 

 man-caused forest and brush fires that 

 are started by smokers. Even if only 

 one-third of the cigarettes consumed 

 throughout the country were smoked 

 out-of-doors, there would still be over 

 50,000 chances a minute of a fire 

 starting from a burning cigarette butt, 

 foresters point out. ' 



Thrift Note — It is estimated that 

 two per cent of national energy could 

 be saved if all salary checks were sent 

 direct to the installment people. 



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Air Travel Creates 

 , NJBW Fire Hazard 



THE National Board of Fire 

 iUnderwriters has c iUed the 



Rules of the Road — No. 1. The best 

 way to handle a traffic cop is to move 

 your head up and down as he finishes 

 each sentence. 



Uncle Ab sayi don't slight the job 

 you are on now; for the time being it's 

 the most important job there is. 



A successful sailor studies his com- 

 pass and a successful farmer studies 

 market conditions. 



During four years in a typical dairy 

 region in New York it cost an average 

 $2.42 to produce 100 pounds of milk; 

 in the same period the average price 

 received was $2.11 a hundred. 



Unlighted Car Standing at 

 Night 



IT IS NEGLIGENCE to leave an auto- 

 mobile standing unlighted in a pub- 

 lic highway at night, in violation of 

 a statute. ' i 



The fact that^a truck standing in 

 the highway at night, and with which 

 another vehicle collided, had no lights, 

 as required by law. was properly con- 

 sidered on the issue of defendant's 

 negligence. 



Leaving a truck standing near the 

 middle of a street at night without 

 lights, for two and a half hours, after 

 the engine had stopped and the driver 

 was unable to move the truck with its 

 own power, was negligence, but did not 

 constitute a wilful obstruction of the 

 highway, in violation of a statute. A 

 driver colliding with such truck was 

 guilty of contributory negligence, where 

 it appeared that he would have avoided 

 the collision had his lights met the re- 

 quirements of the law and he hall ex- 

 ercised ordinary care. 



If no tail light was left burning on 

 an automobile standing at the side of 

 a road, and the conditions were such 

 that because of the absence of such 

 tail light the driver of another car did 

 not see it in time to avoid a collision, 

 the negligence in not leaving such light 

 burning has been held to be concurrent 

 with the negligence of the driver of the 

 other car and contributory in causing 

 the collision. 



attention of the U. S. 



ment of Commerce to t\ 



hazard of fire resulting 



trafl^c and has asked for some 



regulatory measure which will 



bring home in a forceful man 



ner to air travellers tl^e 



lute necessity of 



against fire damage i[esulting 



from carelessness. 



Departs 

 e added 

 from air 



abso- 

 ^uarding 



I7IGURES compiled by 



The long winter nights are never too 

 long for t)ie man who wants to improve 

 himself by study. 



JL tional Board shoiv that 

 careless smokers cause an an- 

 nual fire loss of million!; of dol- 



lars, but one would 



the Na- 



expect 



smokers to exercise mdre care 

 when riding in a plane. I Appar- 

 ently this is not the case, as it 

 has been found necessary to 

 place "No Smoking" signs in the 

 cabins of air passenger machines 

 operating on the Pacific Coast, 

 ; between Los Angeles, San Fran- 

 cisco, Portland and Seattle. 



THE danger of fire resulting 

 from carelessness of air 

 I passengers is not so great now, 

 ! since comparatively few ma- 

 chines are in operation. How- 

 ever, it will be only a feiv years 

 until air travel becomes com- 

 mon, and when that timt comes 

 no one's property will be safe 

 unless restrictions are provideti 

 and strictly enforced, s;iys the 

 Board. 



THE Farmers Mutual Reinsur- 

 ance Co. provides a way 

 for farmers to secure a 1 their 

 FIRE, LIGHTNING, TORNADO 

 and HAIL insurance on a mu- 

 tual basis. It will insute your 

 entire risk direct, or reihsure a 

 local mutual for any part of a 

 lusk which it does not desire to 

 carry itself — all at cost\ which 

 means at least 25 per c0nt less 

 than going rates in stoc^ com- 

 panies. 



For particulars write 



FARMERS MUTUA 

 REINSURANCE CO., 



8 So. Dearborn St. Chicago 



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 •A legal reserve mutual — 



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