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TT IS easy to make a whole set of
A these folding stands and ply
wood trays. Cut all the pieces at
one session and then spend an eve
ning putting them together. You
are then ready for supper under
the trees or on the porch.
Carry-a-tray parties are fun for
; everybody and very little work for
'the hostess. Each tray may be at
tractively set with luncheon mat,
silver and gay informal dishes.
Hot foods may be prepared in in
dividual casseroles. Guests set up
their stands and eat where they
please in twosomes or in groups
and the novelty of the idea creates
the informal atmosphere which
makes any party a success.
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The Questions
1. Who was the second Presi
dent to go from congress to the
White House?
2. What instrument in an or
chestra is familiarly called “the
clown”?
3. Does February ever have five
Sundays?
4. What bird can fly backwards?
5. An apostate usually refers to
what?
6. The first one-cent piece is
sued under the authority of the
United States was the “fugio” pen
ny in what year?
7. Does sound travel faster
through air or water?
8. In what mountains were Cus
ter’s forces annihilated in 1876?
9. During what years did China
reach its widest expansion and be
come the most civilized power in
the world?
10. What is the difference be
tween a “plurality” and a “ma
jority” in an election?
The Answers
1. Warren G. Harding.
2. The bassoon.
3. It will have five Sundays in
1948 and again in 1976.
4. The humming bird.
5. A renegade.
6. In 1787.
7. Water.
8. The Big Horn mountains.
9. During the years 618-906.
10. If a candidate receives more
votes than any other candidate, he
receives a plurality. If he re
ceives more votes than all the oth
er contestants combined (more
than half of all the votes cast)
he receives a majority.
Test a sample of printed rayon
to make sure color will not run.
Use clear water. If color is fast
in water, it will be fast in soap
suds.
• • •
When children’s dresses are to
be lengthened, always rip the
hem, wash and iron before adjust
ing the new hem. This helps get
rid of the old crease, and assures
a smooth job on the new hem.
• • •
An envelope pasted inside the
cook book will hold clipped
recipes.
• • •
Hydrogen of peroxide will often
remove perfume stains from a
dresser scarf that has been given
up as hopeless.
NOTE—Mrs. Spears has prepared an
actual-size pattern to guide you in cutting
all the parts of these stands and trays
with a complete list of materials required
and Illustrated directions for assembling.
This Is pattern No. 268 which will be sent
for IS cents, which covers cost and mail
ing. Address:
MRS. RUTH WYETH SPEARS
Bedford Hills New York
Drawer It
Enclose IB cents for Pattern No. 268.
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SNAPPY FACTS T
ABOUT
k) RUBBER
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Synthetic Inner tubes need
lubrication before being in
serted in a casing. Partially
inflate the tube and use ordi
nary pure soapsuds as ■
lubricant in tha absence of a
special tuba lubrication prep
aration. Dry synthetic tubes
do not "slide” in, the tire and
unless lubricated may net ad
lust themsahrus properly.
Proponents of the continuance of
our synthetic rubber insurance
policy after the war hold tha t |unglo
growth on tha rubber plantations
and the probability of the Japs
wrecking the plantation equipment
may mean a loss of two years
before normal levels of rubber
production can be realized.
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MIDLAND JOURNAL, RISING SUN, MD.
U. S. School System Faces £TE
Greatest Crisis in History
Selective Service Auxiliary Branches Make
Heavy Draft on Teaching Personnel;
Higher Wages Necessary. BBBBiJ
By BAUKHAGE
News Analyst and Commentator.
WNU Service, Union Trust Building
Washington, D. C.
Recently, the fate of the Churchill
government hung on school teach
ers’ salaries. The opposition threat
ened to defeat a government-spon
sored measure because it didn’t pro
vide for making women teachers’
salaries equal to men’s. The opposi
tion finally yielded for the sake of
harmony but the issue is not dead.
Today a report outlining what are
described as “revolutionary changes
to raise the social status of teachers
in Great Britain and make their
profession attractive” is before Par
liament.
Any informed Englishman admits
that the American public school sys
tem offers far more to the general
public than the British system. At
the same time, our own school
system faces one of the greatest
crises in its history and, likewise,
some of the greatest changes. One
simple reason for the crisis can be
stated in a sentence: American
schools have lost 200,000 competent,
well-prepared teachers since Pearl
Harbor.
Selective service and voluntary
enlistment have made a heavy draft
on the men, and you have no idea
how many WACs and WAVES, Ma
rines and SPARS stepped out of the
schoolroom into their natty uni
forms.
Of course, high wages in industry
lured many a teacher from the three
Rs, too. And why not? The aver
age teacher’s salary is only about
$1,550 a year.
This year 44,000 teachers were
paid less than $260 a year. That
wouldn’t buy slacks and “old fash
ioneds” for a new-fashioned lady
war-worker.
Two hundred fifty-four thousand
teachers received under a hundred
dollars a month. My figures are
from the Journal of the National
Education association.
“Already many classrooms have
been closed,” says this periodical,
“and thousands of others are so
overcrowded that effective teach
ing is impossible.” If these trends
continue much longer, the magazine
predicts, education will be cut off
at its source right at a time when
it has a tremendous job ahead re
educating a generation which has
been subjected to highly abnormal
surroundings and educating another
which will have to help recreate a
normal, if a somewhat altered,
world.
Higher Salaries Needed
In this country, as in England,
the first step in the solution of the
problem is higher salaries, the next
is better working conditions, the
third is an active campaign to at
tract young people to the profes
sion.
But before these steps are accom
plished, an interim effort is neces
sary, and it has already begun—
an organized effort urging capable
high school seniors to prepare for
the teaching profession.
Many state groups have be
gun campaigns of various kinds,
and the National Education associ
ation, itself, has appropriated $8,500
for this purpose. Hundreds of thou
sands of pamphlets and leaflets
have been prepared and distributed.
Realizing that those attractive post
ers of girls in uniforms had a lot
to do with recruiting women for the
armed services, one of the artists
who helped lure private, sergeant
or lieutenant Smith out of the school
house, has been hired to try to lure
her back when the war is over, or
attract her young civilian sister.
I haven’t seen one of these posters
yet, but I hope they do the job, for
the task ahead for the teacher and
the opportunities that the profes
sion will offer are both bound to
expand tremendously due to the
situation which will follow the war.
This will spring from two causes.
The first is a part of a universal
demand which is already being
heard abroad as well as at home,
when any group, formal or informal,
gets together to talk over postwar
conditions. Plenty of ridicule is
hurled by the so-called hard-headed
citizens at the postwar planners
whose name is legion. But congress
has already learned that there is
one brass-tacks phase of war-plan
ning that can’t be labelled as
amiable day-dreaming and ignored.
That is exemplified in the so-called
BRIEFS. •• by Baukhage
Germans suffering from pre-in
vasion jitters have been advised to
take cold foot baths or cold showers
to calm their raging nerves. (There
may be no hot water.)
• • •
More than 60,000 men are needed
for lumbering and pulpwood jobs be
fore next fall if 1944 requirements
are to be met, according to the War
Manpower commission.
“GI bill of rights” which includes
the “billion dollar program” for
1 education for returning veterans.
Educational Demands
The bill will pass congress and
will be signed. The soldier, far
more vocal than he has ever been
before, and representing the great-
I est group of voters with a single
ness of purpose on the subject of
“GI rights” that congress has ever
; faced, is going to get what he wants.
' And the demand for greater edu
' cational opportunities will not be
limited to the veteran.
Careful estimates indicate that,
to carry out the postwar education
\ program for veterans, non-veterans
and their children, the present per
sonnel will haye to be increased 50
per cent. This, of course, includes
besides teachers, administrators, li
brarians, clerks, nurses, janitors
and bus drivers, nearly a million
and a half persons. These figures
give you an indication of the num
ber of persons who will be drawn
into the profession and its allied ac
tivities if the plans go through.
The second reason why we can
expect a stimulation in the whole
field of education is because there
is a very strong feeling that the op
portunities for learning must be
greatly broadened. As a result of
the social changes preceding and
during the war, the strong voice of
the common man has been raised,
demanding that cultural as well as
economic benefits be more widely
distributed. The thoughtful educa
tors realize that a wider background
of knowledge must be furnished to
everyone, that technical and profes
sional courses must be grounded on
a firmer base of general knowledge.
Already there is a feeling of re
action against the emphasis which
the war has placed on purely mate
rial subjects, on a purely techni
cal or scientific education. This
is bound to call for a greater share
of what might be called spiritual
culture. And at the other end of the
spectrum, also a demand for train
ing in health and physical develop
ment.
Educators themselves have their
troubles from within as well as from
without. Of late, there has been
pressure by certain groups, like thft
National Association of Manufac
turers, anxious to see that nothing
is taught that might endanger what
they define as the “free enterprise”
system, although not all business
men agree on what free enterprise
is or that they like it too free.
There have also been many con
flicts within and among institutions
of higher learning, like the one in
my own alma mater, the University
of Chicago, where President
Hutchins and his followers want to
get back to “first principles” with
an emphasis on the philosophers;
and others lean toward a more utili
tarian training. The so-called “ex
perimental” colleges like Antioch,
stressing individual development
and social responsibility, do not
agree with Hutchins nor even
among themselves. But it would
seem that the trend of the times
agrees with the recent edict of a well
known educator who said that con
cern with the development of the
individual and concern with society
must be the twin goals of education.
In any case, it is clear that never
before in our history have the
school teacher and the professor
been offered such a challenge.
Never before has the proverb
which says “wisdom is the principle
thing, therefore, get wisdom” been
more widely heeded; never has the
rest of the abjuration of King Solo
mon been more important: "and
with all thy getting, get under
standing.”
• • •
FORTY ACRES AND A JEEP
It never rains but it pours.
With the sheep in the meadow,
the cows in the corn, and even the
scarecrow alone and forlorn for
want of manpower to help out, the
department of agriculture now
sends out the warning that after the
war there won’t be enough farms
in the country to hold all the people
who will be crying for 40 acres and
a jeep.
Officials say that five million war
workers alone, a lot of whom don’t
know a spade from a club, may try
to get their living from the soil when
peace comes.
According to WFA, an estimated
4,000,000 extra farm workers will be
needed this year; about 1,200,000
will be boys and girls under 18 years
of age and about 800,000 will be
women.
• • •
In Ontario alone there are more
than 30 million tons of salt deposits,
enough to supply the entire world
for 100,000 years.
IMPROVED
UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL
SUNDAY I
chool Lesson
_ By HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST. D. D.
Of The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago.
Released by Western Newspaper Union.
Lesson for June 18
Lesson subjects and Scripture texts se
lected and copyrighted by International
Council of Religious EducaUon; used by
permission.
___________
A GOOD SOLDIER OF
CHRIST JESUS
LESSON TEXT—II Timothy 2:1-4, S-12:
4:8-8.
GOLDEN TEXT—Suffer hardship with me,
as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.—Xl Timo
thy 2:3.
“A good soldier”—what a wealth
of meaning there is in that simple
phrase. We think of our own home
town boys who have distinguished
themselves in the service of their
country, who have proved again that
there is that in American life which
can meet a crisis and do it well.
“A good soldier of Jesus Christ”
is an even more significant phrase,
speaking of that fine loyalty and de
votion which Christians of all ages,
yes, and of our day, are giving to
the Captain of our salvation, our
Commander-in-Chief in the great
spiritual warfare going on in all the
earth.
In our lesson we note that the
soldier is
I. Obedient (2:1, 2).
There is something to be done,
and the soldier is enlisted for the
purpose of doing it. In the case of
the Christian soldier, it is to see that
the gospel message which he has
received is passed on to others.
Personal work is God’s method,
one man telling another, and an
other, and another. This is to be a
continuous matter, not just now and
then, and each one is in turn to be
come a soul-winner.
As each one wins others and the
witness is multiplied by the law of
arithmetical progression, the total
result is tremendous.
Why, then, has the entire world
not been long since completely evan
gelized? Because we who are Chris
tians are not all obedient soldiers of
Christ.
11. Loyal (2:3, 4).
No soldier can serve well with a
divided loyalty. He cannot be run
ning a business back home, or taking
on outside interests to divert his
attention. Being an efficient and
useful soldier is his first and only
business.
Have not the military authorities
in this war asked those who are at
home to keep the problems of the
home and business out of the letters
to men in the army? Do they not
require a man to leave home and
family and give his all to the serv
ice?
The soldier for Christ must please
the Lord, even though it involve
bearing “hardness.” It is no soft
and easy business to be a soldier.
“Blood, sweat and tears” are the
order of the day. Shall we not do
as much for our Lord?
IH. Prepared (2:8-12).
Training is of highest importance
for a soldier. He must know what
to do, and why he is doing it. He
must understand the reason for obe
dience and the purpose of the war
fare. In other words, he must be a
disciplined man, prepared to serve
effectively.
The soldier for the Lord is to “re
member Jesus Christ,” his resur
rected Lord and victorious Com
mander. He knows for whom and
under whom he fights.
He also knows (vv. 10, 11) that
the message he bears is God’s Word,
and will succeed even though the
bearer of it suffer and die. He is
prepared to die, if need be, before
he will deny his Leader (v. 12).
IV. Faithful (4:5-7).
Watch, endure, work, be faithful
to the very end. Such is the obliga
tion, yes, and privilege of the soldier
for Christ. Paul was able to ad
monish young Timothy to such com
plete faithfulness because he had
himself exemplified these virtues in
his own life.
Those who are called upon to com
mand men must themselves be good
soldiers. There is an encouraging
note from the battlefields of this
great war. One learns that the com
manding officers are at the front, not
hidden away in dugouts far behind
the lines. The men take courage as
they see the bravery of their officers.
What that meant in Paul’s case
may be learned from the story of
his life, which is condensed in a
brief statement in n Corinthians 12:
23-33. He really endured affliction
for Christ’s sake.
V. Victorious (v. 8).
A nation at war can stand the
strain and bear the agony if it can
be sure of ultimate victory. The
grave disappointment of losing a bat
tle, or the deep sorrow of heavy
casualties, can and will be borne
for the sake of the final triumph of
the righteous cause.
In the battle for Christ, we know
that the result will be victory. The
faithful soldier shares the fruits of
victory. The Christian soldier shall
one day receive from his Lord and
Leader a crown of righteousness.
When will that great day come?
When Jesus Christ returns (Matt.
16:27). He is coming again; first
for His own, and then in glorious
revelation of Himself as the judge of
all the world. His victory over all
His enemies will then be complete,
and He shall reign forever and ever.
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