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How to Slip-Cover
Your Old Rocker
Bj RUTH WYETH SPEARS
/''YNE day there came a letter
with a rough sketch of the old
locker at the upper right. The
last line of the letter said, “I will
remove the rockers if you say so,
Mrs. Spears, but I would like fo
keep them.” Well, why not?
There is nothing smarter now than
tilings Victorian. Old oil lamps
with flowered globes are being
wired for electricity so, why not
redesign this rocker along simple
lines? Cover it with plain rep in
a nice shade of blue perhaps, and
give it a matching foot stool and
a hem stitched linen chair set all
tricked out in tassels?
Here is the result of that idea
and the diagram shows all the
steps that led up to it. Almost
any old chair may be transformed
with a slip cover if a little work
is done first to build out or to saw
off projections. Padding is also
important, and open spaces under
arms may be covered by stretch
ing the padding tightly and tack
ing, as shown here.
* • *
MOTE: Directions for making the foot
stool are in Sewing Book 3. The hem-
stitched chair set is in Book 4. All the
steps in fitting and making slip covers are
fBostrated in Book 1. Booklets are 32
pages each, and will be sent to any ad-
grass upon receipt of 10c to cover cost
and mailing. Send order to:
RUTH WYETH SPEARS
Drawer 10
Hills New York
Enclose 10 cents for each book
Piril the Trigger on
Lazy Bowels
constipation brings on add in-
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trigger on those lazy bowels, com-
1 with good old Syrup Pepsin to
» your laxative more agreeable and
r to take. For years many Doctors
. used pepsin compounds, as agree-
carriers to make other medicines
i palatable when your “taster” feels
j upset. So be sure your laxative
contains Syrup Pepsin. Insist on Dr.
Caldwell's Laxative Senna, combined
rup Pepsin. See how wonderfully
Laxative Senna wakes up lazy
t and muscles in your intestines, to
ivour:
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: how its Syrup Pepsin makes Dr.
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violent distaste, even when you take it
a full meal.
It's the Thing!
**What are you going to do when
ynu’re as big as mummy, dear?”
“Slimming exercises.”
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Attempts to Solve Farm Problems Are
Older Than the Nation Itself; They .
Began in Philadelphia 155 Years Ago
First page of the No. 1 Minute Book of the Philadelphia Society
for Promoting Agriculture, showing the names of the original 23
members.
By ELMO SCOTT WATSON
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
S UCH matters as control
ling the ravages of in
jurious insects and crop
parasites, prevention of soil
erosion, control of animal
plant diseases, improvement
of agricultural implements,
extension of crop rotation
and promotion of soil man
agement may seem to be
strictly modern farm prob
lems. But, as a matter of
fact, they are as old as the
United States itself. More
than 155 years ago—even be
fore Washington’s first in
augural—an agricultural so
ciety was formed in Philadel
phia to study and suggest the
solution of these and other
pressing farm problems. And,
believe it or not, that organ
ization is still in existence!
It is the Philadelphia Society
for Promoting Agriculture, oldest
farm organization in America. Its
members today continue to add to
the sum of agricultural knowledge
as did its pioneer founders a cen
tury and a half ago. The story
of the origin and development of
this society is one of the most ro
mantic chapters of agricultural
history.
With the Revolutionary war
successfully concluded and the
independence of this country rec
ognized by the nations of Europe,
leaders throughout the states ex
changed their implements of war
for the plow. They endeavored to
promote a fondness for the pur
suits of peace which alone, they
knew, would strengthen the young
nation.
The man who galvanized these
ideas into' action for the progress
of American agriculture was
Judge John Beale Bordley. To
Philadelphia came Bordley aft
er the war from Maryland, where
he had played a distinguished
part in the life of the colonies.
Philadelphia was then the capital
of the new republic and as such
had the significance of Washing
ton today. Representative lead
ers from all the states were there
helping form the new govern
ment. The city was a center
from which ideas might be
spread throughout the land.
Bordley had been judge of the
admiralty court in Baltimore, but
gave up this post when the Revo
lutionary war broke out to de
vote himself to his farms. He
interested himself in a variety of
agricultural pursuits—stock rais
ing, fruit growing, tobacco cul
ture and farm house construction.
When the supplies of the Conti
nental army grew scarce, he
killed his cattle and sent the beef
to Washington. He contributed
in other ways to the success of
the Colonies. He carried on ex
periments in agricultural prac
tices and became an apostle of
agricultural progress. He had the
results of his experiments print
ed as broadsides and fastened
theses on trees where they might
be easily seen.
Four Signers of Declaration.
He associated himself with in
fluential people in Philadelphia,
among whom he found many who
shared his views on the necessity
of increasing the knowledge of
agriculture. After discussing the
project with many of these men,
he called a meeting on February
11, 1785. Twenty-three attended
and became charter members of
the Philadelphia Society for Pro
moting Agriculture. Among these
were four signers of the Declara
tion of Independence — Robert
Morris, James Wilson, Dr. Ben
jamin Rush and George Clymer.
There were seven who had borne
arms in the Revolution, including
officers such as Gen. John Cad-
walader, Col. George Morgan and
Col. John Nixon.
Soon after the society’s organi
zation, two weekly newspapers-^-
Hall and Seller’s Gazette and
Humphrey’s Mercury—a new pa
per giving special attention to ag
ricultural matters—offered their
co-operation by publishing arti
cles on its meetings and activi
ties. *
At one of the earliest meetings
—on March 22, 1785—the first con
tribution on an agricultural sub
ject was offered. It consisted of
a letter from John Singleton of
Talbot, Md., to his old neighbor,
Mr. Bordley, about the chinch
bug and how to control it.
Sponsored Essay Contests.
Because of Judge Bordley’s ad
vanced age he declined any of
fice in the society when the per-
B anent organization was made.
ence the group elected Samuel
Powell as president, Tench Fran
cis as treasurer and Timothy
Pickering of Salem, Mass., sec
retary of state in the national
government, as secretary. Car
penter’s hall became the regular
meeting place.
The society's first major under
taking was the sponsoring of es
say contests on agricultural sub
jects for which substantial prizes
were awarded. First prize, in
some instances, was a piece of
plate valued at $200. Other prizes
included gold and silver medals.
In the light of present-day ag
riculture, the subjects of these es
says seem surprisingly current.
Apparently they were pressing
enough even then to merit spe
cial attention. One of them was
“The best method of recovering
worn - out fields to a hearty
{healthy and productive) state
within the power of the common
JUDGE JOHN B. BORDLEY
farmer.” Prophetic as was the
vision of the pioneer agricultural
leaders comprising the Philadel
phia society, they could not fore
tell the damage which erosion
and poor soil management were
to inflict on future American
farming.
Were these pioneer farm lead
ers alive today, they would more
than ever preach the necessity
for an ever-increasing program
of soil conservation and fertiliza
tion that would put back into the
land the vitally needed nitrogen,
phosphorus and potash so waste-
fully drained away. They could
take comfort in the fact, how
ever, that the means of restoring
fertility today are amazingly im
proved over what they were a
century and a half ago. Practi
cal results on millions of Ameri
can farms have demonstrated
that the intelligent use of ferti
lizer will increase crops and re
plenish the soil’s depleted supply
of plant food.
The campaign to promote soil
conservation which the Philadel
phia society sponsored so long
ago has enlisted effective support
from the United States depart
ment of agriculture, from soil
scientists, teachers, experimental
stations, county agents and ferti
lizer manufacturers who are con
stantly interpreting to farmers
the latest discoveries concerning
soil fertility.
As with soil improvement, the
society encouraged and spurred
the development of many other
important projects. Among these
were the improvement of trans
portation and communication so
vital to the development of ag
ricultural markets, through the
building of roads and canals; en
couragement of education in vet
erinary medicine; the holding of
cattle shows and expositions; the
development of experimental
farms; and the introduction of
lime and clover.
In 1786 John Bordley submit
ted plans and descriptions for a
seed drill to plant wheat in clus
ters and clumps. About the same
time the society gave serious con
sideration to the development of
a threshing machine to replace
trampling by horses and the use
of a hand flail.
Discuss Experiment Farms.
In 1791 a project was proposed
that would vitally influence the
future progress of American ag
riculture. A Mr. DuPlaine of
fered his services in the “man
agement and culture of a small
farm for the sake of making ex
periments in husbandry.” The so
ciety resolved that “Although
they highly approve of the plan
for an experimental farm, it
would not be convenient at pres
ent to carry the same into execu
tion.” Today every state has its
experimental farms and stations
which provide the farmer with an
ever-widening knowledge of the
soil, of crops and their plant food
needs.
Of outstanding eminence among
early leaders of the society was
Judge Richard Peters, vaho be
came president in 1805. The min
ute books of the organization’s
meetings in that year show that
a new type of mold board for a
plow, developed by Thomas Jef
ferson, was shown to the mem
bers. At the same time, Hoxie’s
auger for boring post holes, a
crude threshing machine invent
ed by Deneale, and Henry Cly-
mer’s harrow for Indian corn
were discussed.
In the following year President
Peters undertook a long series of
contributions to the work of the
society on the improvement of
cattle. Later he presented pa
pers on subjects ranging from
Barbary sheep, obtained for him
in northern Africa by General
Eaton, to crop rotation and the
natural succession in forests.
In the summer of 1822 the so
ciety sponsored the first of a se
ries of cattle shows and agricul
tural exhibits which, in a way,
might be called the forerunner of
the modern International Live
stock exposition in Chicago.
Thus through the years has this
unique organization functioned to
help popularize new ideas for the
betterment of American agricul
ture. There have, of course, been
periods of inactivity and years
for which no records are avail
able, but by and large the group
has succeeded in keeping alive
the purposes of its founding fa
thers.
By LEMUEL F. PARTON
(Consolidated Features—WNU Service.)
N EW YORK. — Virginio Gayda,
Italy’s official writing wrist,
pens a solemn warning to the
U. S. A. In an editorial in his pa-
•. ■ • r . y per, Giornale
Italy a Editorial D’ltalia, he
Spokesman Suave, tells us not to
But Pen Ominous misunder
stand the
Axis-Japan agreement and hints
that we’re in for bad trouble if we
make a misstep.
Why Gayda should have been
chosen to do the tough talking, or
rather writing, for Italy all these
years has been a puzzle to this on
looker. Not that he doesn’t do it
well, but it is so unlike him. I met
him once at a tea party in Rome,
in the studio of a British sculptor.
One would have thought he wouldn’t
hurt a fly. That was soon after
Mussolini took power. Tall, slen
der, fair-haired, with a small, silken
mustache, impeccably dressed, Gay
da seemed diffident and eager to
please. He was then editor of II
Messaggero, which had been a
strongly liberal paper, and hei had
made his political start in the gen
eral doctrinal zone of Mussolini’s
Marxian teachings.
But with the March on Rome
he had done an about-face with
Mussolini and was making his
paper daily louder and fiercer.
There was considerable embar
rassment and shyness among
the guests, as it wasn’t safe for
foreigners to mention Musso
lini’s name, and they engaged
the suave Gayda in talk about
art, Roman ruins, the glories of
the Pitti and Uffizi, and the like.
Noting the signor’s facile speech,
I remarked to an old Scottish bank
er, standing by, that the editor
seemed like a mighty smart chap.
“Too smart for his britches,”
growled the old Scot. One never
would have thought that some day
he would be telling the U. S. A.
where it got off.
A native of Rome, he began
his newspaper career as central
European correspondent for the
Stampa, of Turin. He was in
Russia when the World war
started, entered the diplomatie
service there and returned to
newspaper work as editor of n
Messaggero in 1921. It was in
1926 that Count Ciano, Musso
lini’s son-in-law, discovered his
penchant for ominous and
threatening prose and made him
the nation’s editorial spokes
man, as editor of Giornale
DTtalia.
HILE a talent for makeshift
^ ^ might not rate highly in a civ
ilization assailed by deadly preci
sion, it has certain
Col. Netherwood
Good Improviser,
Yet No Apologist
advantages in
a democfacy
as against the
all-or-nothing
techniques of
absolutist
government. The mechanics of the
latter are such that when it is
wrecked, it is an inert, busted ma
chine in a ditch, while a democracy
has an organic quality which makes
it adaptive, allows improvisation,
and perhaps enables it to grow new
tissue and survive a deal of waste
and muddling.
Col. Douglas L. Netherwood, com
manding officer of the northeast
anti-aircraft defense at Mitchel
field, indirectly touches off this idea.
Recruits for the anti-aircraft forces
are wearing odd assortments of uni
forms, sleeping in garages because
of the lack of tents, and drilling
without sufficient rifles or other
equipment. To the worriers. Colonel
Netherwood says:
r
“Shucks, we’re doing all right,
and I’m sure that the quarter
masters will catch up on their
outfitting soon. I drilled in my
civilian clothes when I joined
the army back in 1908, as a pri
vate after I graduated from col
lege. I’m sure the young fel
lows we have out here at Mitchel
field don’t mind it any more
than I did.”
Colonel Netherwood was born in
Birmingham, England, and, inci
dentally, the English are good im
provisers and instinctive pregmat-
ists. Their democracy came from
adjustment and improvisation, rath
er than from the grand principles
of the encyclopedists. However,
Colonel Netherwood is no apologist
for hit-or-miss preparedness.
In 1908 he entered the army,
after his graduation from Texas
Agricultural and Mechanical
college. He has studied tech
niques of precision at the Army
War college, the Army Indus
trial college and the Air Corps
Practical school—with diplomas
from all of them. He entered
the signal corps and got his
rating as a military aviator in
1917. In 1920 the aviation sec
tion of the signal corps was des
ignated as the army air corps.
He became a lieutenant colonel
in 1935.
Strange Facts
( Roving Banks f
Prison Board Bill
Odd Sugar Sources
C. About a century ago when
some states allowed banks to
move from town to town at will, 1
many went into hiding so their,
notes could not be presented for
redemption in gold. One of them,!
the Bank of Morocco, was found
by detectives, after a year's,
search, in a cabin in a dense In-!
diana forest. I
C. Although Michigan enacted al
law in 1935 requiring prisoners
who are financially able to pay for I
their maintenance (about a dollar
a day) the state has only been
able to collect this payment from
two of the approximate 20,000 per
sons who have passed in and out
of its prisons during this time.
C. One of the strangest cases of
human albinism occurred in Afri-i
ca some years ago. A Negro cou-i
pie had three white and three;
black children, born in the follow- 1
ing order—two consecutive black
boys, two consecutive white girls,!
one black girl and one white boy.
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C. Of the hundreds of different*
kinds of sugars, some of which are
bitter and poisonous, many are
made from such odd substances as
seaweed, cottonmeal, chicory, 1
dahlias, artichokes and ivory nuts. I
—Collier’s. j
Secret of Greatness
It is easy in the world to live
after the world’s opinion; it is easy
in solitude to live after our own;
but the great man is he who in
the midst of the crowd keeps with
perfect sweetness the independ
ence of solitude.—Ralph Waldo
•Emerson.
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