06-04-1941 - Village of Pinckney

Daisy Hot Dish Mat
An Appropriate Gift
By RUTH WTETH SPEARS
IT WAS the flower handle of the
* tea-pot lid that suggested this
daisy mat. I had been thinking
of making a hot dish out of firmly
braided strips of cotton cloth. I
wanted it to be thick and sewn
firmly like a rag rug, so that it
would stand frequent scrubbings.
The design had to be novel and
gay so that it would be appropriate
for a Christmas gift or would
attract attention if used to sell at
a church bazaar. All the directions
you need to make one are
right here in the sketch.
Cotton flannel or heavy cotton
knitted material are good to use
for the braided strips. Cut the
strips two inches wide if the goods
is heavy or wider if light weight.
Braid tightly and then use No. 8
white cotton thread to sew, as
shown. A set of these mats are
pretty on the table; and mats for
oval dishes may be made by sewing
two daisies together.
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NOTE: There are directions for a hot
dish mat made of cable cord In SEWING.
Book 4. Books 2 and 3 also contain directions
for many gifts and novelties. These
booklets are a service to our readers and
each contains 32 pages of Illustrated directions
for things to make for the home.
Send order for booklets, with 10c coin for
each copy desired, direct to:
MRS. RUTH WYETH SPEARS
Drawer 10
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By LEMUEL F. PARTON
(Consolidated Features— WNU Service.)
EW YORK.—In 1933, young Nelson
A. Rockefeller was hand­
ed a delicate job of commercial
and cultural co-ordination, indeed a
Rockefeller Well * tm t ^^l
ment for a
Qualified tor His beginner in
n r\ j- *• » i this field. It
Co-OrdwationJobwtia tQ ^.
suade the Fiery Oiego Rivera to
x-out that head of Lenin in his murals
at Rockefeller Center. He managed
the affair with tact and restraint,
undisturbed by the thunder
from the left.
Now he has progressed to fulltime
work in that highly specialized
field. He is co-ordinator of commercial
and cultural relations between
the United States and other
Western hemisphere nations. Currently
he is in the news as he appoints
John Hay Whitney to hia staff,
to take care of motion picture details
of the above co-ordinating.
I remember talking to one of
bis teachers at Lincoln school,
New York. She said Nelson was
good material for progressive
education, as he had a way of
getting on with people. He was
a good student, too, romping so
far ahead of schedule at Dartmouth
that they gave him his
senior year off. He devoted it
to a wanderjahr, in which he
went to India and had a long
chat with Mahatma Gandhi, and
studied photography. Taking op
the rich man's burden, he devoted
himself mainly to the family
real estate, becoming president
of Rockefeller Center,
which, incidentally, is one of the
most successful feats of commercial
and cultural co-ordination
In the world.
Mr. Rockefeller, born In Bar Harbor,
Maine, in 1907, is tall, blonde
and reticent, an abstainer from alcohol
and tobacco, always deeply in
earnest. With his .manifold business
interests he combines a careful and
diligent trusteeship of the Museum
of Modem Art. This department
can't help but feel a bit doubtful
about co-ordinating commerce and
the arts—unless there is a John
Masefleld around to write a poem
like "Cargoes." ^
[/" ING BORIS of Bulgaria is doing
^ the best he can for his Little
Cinderella kingdom, but things don't
look so good. He reviews troops
King Boris Would f^^f 8 ^
Rather Be 'Caaey guns around
Jon„ o, Balkan, • " # ; **
that he is just making himself a
lot of unnecessary trouble. As a
king, he never did have his heart
in his work.
He has a passion for trains
and never misses a chance to
drive a locomotive. Engines fill
his life and bis dreams. When
his father, Ferdinand, abdicated
In 1918, the young man insisted
that be be allowed to go to
America and be a railroad engineer,
but his father forbade It.
Ascetic in appearance, always of
seemly behavior, he moved immaculately
through Balkan wars, revolutions
and internecine dogfights. Ferdinand
had apprenticed him to a
versatile fighting man in 1912, when
he was only 18 years old. He fought
dutifully, but seemed always to be
listening for the whistle of old 97,
coming round the bend.
His wardrobe, one of the best in
Europe, runs mainly to pinstripes.
He is a nimble dancer, good at all
such orthodox sports as boar-hunting
and timber-topping, but aroused
and eager only when he has his
hand on the throttle of a locomotive.
la 193$, he married the Princess
Giovanaa of Italy. This alliance
was regarded, among other
dynastic ties, as a stabilising
and safeguarding influence fer
his kingdom, but now seems ef
small account, la 1934, internal
stress led the king to set up a
dictatorship, by a military oen>
It didn't help much. About It
per cent ef the experts el Bulgaria
con tinned to go te totalitarian
countries, and It came
mere and mere under their
thrall. The king flirted with Russia
for a whfle, with ae gratify
tag results. Be has been hi frequent
peril of
and nothing seems Is
much, since they went let him
ha a railroad
I
N WW, be lost his job selling oil
burners when the com party told
ed up. Julia, his wife, said, "How's
your chance to do some of that singing
you ware always going to do."
So he piped up right away and sang
his way right through to the dotted
line on s Metropolitan Opera contract.
That's young Arthur Kent,
one of the ten new singers booked
this season at the Met He began
singing in cafes and churches and
then got 46 weeks in "I Married an
Angel." His repertoire includes Italian.
Soanish. French,
Washington Digest
The Pinckney Dispatch
Congress Establishes Vocational
Schools to Train Farm Youlh
Rural Schools to Offer Instruction in Mechanical Trades;
Rumors Predict Roosevelt, WiUkie Will Name
Loser to Head Defense Board.
By BAUKHAGE
(Released by Westers Newspaper Union.)
WASHINGTON.-Remember that
old song: "How you going to keep
'em down on the farm, after they've
seen Paree"?
Well, you're not going to be able
to keep some of them down on the
farm who haven't seen Paree. This
time it isn't the bright lights that
are calling, it's the pay envelope.
Not the lure of the ladies but the
lathes and riveters and stamping
machines in the factories that are
calling.
At least, that is what the experts
here in Washington who claim they
can see through a haystack without
blinders prognosticate.
And Uncle Sam is helping. Most
people didn't notice it but congress
slipped $10,000,000 into the last deficiency
bill, most of which is going
toward helping the farm boy get a
job in the city. The money is to be
appropriated as part of the industrial
defense program for "out-ofschool
rural and non-rural vocational
schools" but the fact is that states
will share in the fund according to
their farm population.
At present more than 2,500 rural
vocational schools are offering instruction
in vocational agriculture.
These schools, if they get additional
money for equipment and teaching,
can provide training in auto-mechanics
and other skills basic to defense
industries.
• • •
City Employer* Prefer
Men Raised on Farm
And this isn't just a defense measure,
either. We know that scarcely
any city produces enough babies to
keep its population even. We know
that while some farm districts are
overpopulated now and have been
since the depression, a lot of farmers'
sons will always go to the city
if they can find work there. Right
now defense industries need help
and they prefer a man with a card
that shows he has had vocational
training. This doesn't mean that agricultural
vocational training will be
cut down but the $10,000,000, while it
won't go very far, will help a lot to
give the farm boy the mechanical
training the city boys have been getting.
But there is another reason why
more farm boys are going to get city
jobs. They are preferred in a lot
of industries anyhow. A farm boy
makes a good factory worker, the
experts teU us, if he comes from a
farm where machinery has been
used, because he's just that much
more experienced than the city boy.
Especially the tractor wheat farms
of the Northwest, the corn-belt, the
Mississippi South. He knows a cam
from a gear, he knows what makes
the wheels go round. He can transfer
this "feel" he has for farm machinery
to a lathe or any other
simple machine.
Another thing, he's better disciplined
than the city boy. On the
farm Pa is the foreman. The boy
is used to taking orders. Also he's
used to working hard. And when he
goes to the city he's likely to be
steadier and more reliable than the
city worker. • a •
Defense Commission
Post in Doubt
There is an interesting rumor
chasing itself around the lamp-posts
on Pennsylvania avenue these days.
It's one of those wish-fathered
thoughts but it's worth repeating
over anybody's back fence. This is
the way it goes:
"If Roosevelt is elected he's going
to make Wendell Willkie ehairman
of the defense commission. If WiUkie
is elected he's going to name
Franklin Delano Roosevelt for the
Job."
Such a consummation might do
more to unify the defense program
than any other single thing.
At present there isn't any chairman
of the commission. When Mr.
Knudsen, head of the production unit
of the group, has a problem that involves
national policy he has to put
on his hat and walk over to the
White House, or eise call National
1414 and ask vt speak to one Franklin
Delano Roosevelt, for he's the
boss.
The same thing applies to the
heads of the other units. As a matter
of record mere has been no public
criticism on the part of the defense
commissioners about the arrangement
but some people feel that
it would be a wonderful thing as far
as public opinion goes, if the next
President, whoever he may be after
next January, picks hia erstwhile
TRADE SCHOOLS
Farm youths win soon be offered
training in mechanical
trades, according to Baokhage.
He passes on the rumor whispered
in Washington that when
Roosevelt or Willkie is elected in
November, the losing candidate
will be appointed chairman of the
Defense commission. If the election
is close, Baukhage writes
that it is possible the United
States may he without s president
after January SO.
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