Workers Busy Building America's Largest Ship
The America, largest ship to be built in this country, is now under construction at the Newport News Ship
building company in Virginia. The new super vessel will be the running mate for the Manhattan and Wash
ington in the transatlantic fleet. Pictured at the left are highly skilled mechanics blading the low pressure
turbines, a part of the America's driving machinery. There are some 15,000 of the blades for the casing
plus that many for the rotor. At the right is a well-outfitted electric welder, dressed in safety equipment.
Stars Ask Severance of Nazi Relations
Hollywood’s committee of 56 recently signed their own Declaration of Independence which will be signed
by 20,000,000 American citizens and then presented to President Roosevelt and congress, seeking a sever
ance of economic relations with Nazi Germany until such time as that country comes into the fold of nations
in accordance with the humane principles of international law. Left to right, seated: Melvyn Douglas, James
Cagney, Edward Robinson. Standing: Gale Sondergaard, Helen Gahagan, Henry Fonda and Gloria Stuart.
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RETURNS FROM CHINA
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Methodist Episcopal Bishop Ar
thur J. Moore, returning from
Shanghai to his headquarters in San
Antonio, Texas, declared that more
than 100 missions, hospitals and
schools have been destroyed In the
war between China and Japan. “A
century’s work has been dissipat
ed,” he said.
SKEET CHAMP
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Pbtl Miller, French Lick Springs,
Ind., skeet and trapshoot expert, is
three-way national champ. He
missed only 31 out of 3,050 targets
in J938 to win high average honors.
He is also Class AA champ and
head of the Class A doubles group.
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Capitol Gavel Industry Booming
David Lynn, capitol architect (right), watches E. S. Kenyon, machin
st, replenish a supply of gavels for Speaker William B. Bankhead, to be
used during this session of congress. The gavels are made in the capitol
machine shop.
Trio Plans 2,500-Mile Canoe Trip
This trio of intrepid yachtsmen have obtained permission to make
the 2,500-mile trip from Honolulu to Samoa in a 32-foot Hawaiian outrigger
canoe. Carrier pigeons will keep them in communication with their port,
Honolulu, during the 20 days at sea. Left to right: U. S. Woodbury,
Burlington, Vt.; Don Hall, Long Beach, Calif., and Charles Kern, Paw
tucket, R. I.
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4^" Ruth Wyeth Spears
Quilted pads for dresser drawers.
'pHERE seems to be no comer
* in the house where the decora
tors’ art is not applied. Closets
used to be drab and dreary places
but now they are bedecked in
scalloped shelf edgings, gay gar
ment bags and bright hat boxes.
Dresser drawers are also perking
up. Time was when a clean news
paper was put in the bottom of a
drawer every so often, and the
date of the one removed pro
claimed how long it had been
since this housewifely task had
been performed. Now, we make
pads to fit the drawers. We scent
them with our favorite sachet and
find infinite joy in their soft color
ings.
Machine quilting is just the
thing to give the pads the stiffness
and body they require so that
they will lay flat in the bottom of
the drawer and not wrinkle up.
Glazed chintz in a plain soft blue
with darker blue bindings is used
for the pads made to fit the chest
of drawers shown here. Thin mus
lin is used for the backing and
sheet wadding for the padding.
When all three layers of material
have been cut the right size, baste
them together. The first row of
basting is run diagonally across
the center and then the rows are
spaced about six inches apart as
shown. Here also is a sketch of a
machine quilter in operation. It
is merely a foot with an indicator
attached. The end of the indicator
runs along each previous row
stitched making an accurate
gauge for the spacing of the quilt
ing. After the pads are quilted,
bind the edges as shown.
NOTE: Mrs. Spears’ Book 2—
Gifts, Novelties and Embroidery,
has helped thousands of women
to use odds and ends of materials
Instinct, Intelligence
Instinct perfected is a faculty
of using and even constructing or
ganized instruments; intelligence
perfected is the faculty of making
and using unorganized instru
ments.—Henri Bergson.
and their spare time to make
things to sell and to use. Book 1—
SEWING, for the Home Decora
tor, is full of inspiration for every
homemaker. These books make
delightful gifts. Mrs. Spears will
autograph them on request.
Crazy-patch quilt leaflet is includ
ed free with every order for both
books. Books are 25 cents each.
Address Mrs. Spears, 210 S. Des
plaines St., Chicago, 111.
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Doctor’s Orders
“I’m all out of sorts. The doc
tor said the only way to cure my
rheumatism was to keep away
from all dampness.’’
“What's so tough about that?”
“You don’t know how silly it
makes me feel to sit in an empty
bathtub and go over myself with
a vacuum cleaner.”
An Out
Customer (after being shown
everything on the shelves)—You
have nothing else you can show
me?
Shopkeeper — Only the door,
madam!
Little Johnny, aged seven, had
been taken to the zoo to see the
animals. He stood before the cage
of the spotted leopard for a few
minutes staring intently. Then,
turning to his mother, he asked:
“Say, Ma, is that the dotted lion
that everybody wants Dad to sign
on?”
More Needy
“Now that you’ve heard my
opinions,” said a candidate, ad
dressing a public meeting, “I
think you’ll agree that my oppo
nent hasn’t a leg to stand on.”
“All the more reason why he
should have the seat,” said a man
at the back of the crowd.
ASK ME H A Quiz With Answers
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The Question*
1. To what coin of the United
States did the Spanish “pieces of
eight” correspond?
2. What are sun spots?
3. What marks the distinction
between a cathedral and an ordi
nary church?
4. What are the two capitals of
Holland?
5. Where is the International
Date Line?
6. Who is now the prince of
Wales?
7. What was the capacity of the
Roman Circus Maximus?
8. From what poem are the
lines: “Boys flying kites haul in
their white-winged birds, you
can’t do that way when you’re
flying words”?
9. When did the Twentieth cen
tury begin?
10. With how many nations does
the United States have foreign re
lations?
The Answers
1. The dollar.
2. Sun spots are solar cyclones
in which hot gases are cooled by
expansion.
3. A cathedral is the seat of a
bishop.
4. The Hague (seat of the court)
and Amsterdam (legislative).
5. The 180th meridian, in the
mid-Pacific.
6. There is no prince of Wales
at the present time.
7. It is said to have had a seat
ing capacity of 385,000.
8. It is from “The First Set
tler’s Story,” by Will Carleton.
9. It began immediately after 12
o'clock p. m. on December 31,
1900. A century begins on the first
day in its first year and does not
end until the close of the last day
in its hundredth year. The Twen
tieth century includes the years
1901 to 2000.
10. With 64. The United States
maintains 18 embassies and 40 le
gations. In addition, there are
consulates only in the following
countries: Free City of Danzig,
Principality of Monaco, Palestine,
Philippine islands (for immigra
tion only), Republic of San Ma
rino and Syria.
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Grant's Homecoming
After the Civil war came to an
end, U. S. Grant went home for
a visit. When he had left home he
was just another man, but now he
was famous, known throughout
the land. Her face expression
less, his mother met him and
said, “Well, Ulysses, you’ve be
come a great man, haven’t you?”
Then she turned and went on
with her household work.
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To improve the golden moment
of opportunity and catch the good
that is within our reach, is the
great art of life.—Johnson.
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