Show Girls Win Scholarships Through Skill With Needle Handy Door Pocket And Laundry Bag 4-- H Course Assured Dozen Lucky Ladies College For USING needle and thread and 12 girls from as many states each won $200 scholarships at the National clothing achievement contest held at Chicago in connection with the 24th club congress National The scholarships were awarded by the Spool Cotton company of New York The winners were Dixie Lee Ariz Cochise Co Dragoon Cherokee Co Canton Mae Cagle SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS homa Rhua Slavens Montana Oregon Second row left to kri Kathrya Johnson New a winner) First row left to right: Dixie Lee NuttaU Arizona Gerry Keathly OklaBonnie Chriatison Wisconsin Ruth Erb New Hampshire Eleanor Zaharis right: Mae Cagle Georgia Meta Marie KeUer IUinoio Doris Clapper Mary--York: Marie Welsheit Indiana (Billie McCoy Tennessee not also 3a Meta Marie Keller Streator 111 La Salle Co Marie Lorena Welsheit Petersburg Pike Co Ind WashiDoris Clopper Hagerstown s Md Rhua Ethel ngton Co Mont Molt Stillwater Co Ruth B Erb Hudson Hillsborough N H Co Kathryn Johnson Marathon Cortland N Y Co Gerry Keathly Marland Noble Co Okla Eleanor Zaharia Portland Multnomah Co Ore Billie McCoy Jasand Bonnie per Marion Co Tenn B Chriatison Elkhom Walworth Co club Mae Cagle progressed Sewing isn’t difficult if you have the patience aayi Rhua Slavens who from making doll dresses to slips has made numerous hats and bags dresses house coats and other items of apparel If she likes a dress a winter coat and a coat and suit shown in a newspaper or magazine She admits however that she started sewing by making a tea towel! ahe makes one like it for herself Eleanor Zaharis has won many Ruth Erb thinks It la a crime to so prizes for b?r exceptional sewing let good material go to waste she takes clothing and She starts first with good material It for wrinkles chooses a pattests sense creates many using her style fashion sensations Ruth thinks ev- tern carefully and sets to work She eryone should go through the rag refuses to rush through the sewing but takes extra care to assure an bag or the pile of discarded clothattractive and satisfying result ing from time to time to get material for skirts shorts jerkin blouse Before she became an expert at and other garment Marie Welsheit made many sewing occasions do not bother mistakes but you would never guess Special Kathryn Johnson for she makes any it now Along with making her own outfit the wants Her father's old clothes Marie does most of the silk shirts discarded 20 years ago mending and darning for her family of six people provided her with a blouse She reAnother who started sewing oy shapes old hats into stylish modes Wis In esse any of the above do not take advantage of the scholarships tome of the following alternates nay go to college instead Alice Word Oak Grove Christian To Miller Ky Lorraine Minn Martin Co Nancy Marshallton New Brittlngham 2astle Co Del Carley Jean Richfield Lincoln Co Idaho Lyda Jean Smith Boaz Etowah Co kla and Helen Ochsner Madison Madison Co Neb Each clothing achievement girl had a personal story of how she started sewing of her progress and f her final triumph as s national winner Dixie Lee Nuttall got h£r start mak-ndoll clothes After dressing the loll in the best of fashion Dixie mew she had overcome most of the She has pitfalls of a beginner jompleted a total of 77 articles and ias knitted or crocheted 15 more Bonnie B Chriatison admits she tlwayi liked to sew snd recently proved it when she made 10 gowns 5or s formal wedding when her was married Doris Clopper discovered that shortage of piece goods during made remodeling almost a lecesslty She first selected a blue took it terge suit of her father's on a pattern and part placed it set to work A fine suit tor herself resulted A black coat with a big fur collar discarded by ser mother was revamped into a stylish garment by'Doris Her magic low turn all aorta of old garments nto attractive ensembles for herself family and friends and creates other wearing apparel that will stand the test of any fasheditor’s eye BillJe McCoy estimates that she has laved over $300 by making her own clothing during the last few blouses years Evening gowns skirts suits dresses and other needs were produced by her sewing skill To list all her sewing achievements would make a news story in itself In seven years of project work in ion making a tea towel ii Gerry Keath“If you’ve never sewed you ly don’t know what you’re missing ' she declares now Making dresses or suits is now easy for her and her favorite pastime is darning! Meta Marie Kelly finds she can now make all her own clothes snd still have time for fun and other work It wasn’t easy at first she admits' as she looks back to the time ahe made her first cotton dress Visitors from Foreign Lands Come to Learn at Congress 4-- Other nations are learning from the clubs of America it was revealed at the 24th annual club congress held in Chicago As their members of the guests the United States had 66 boys and girls of other nations who had come to share the event who Eighteen young Chinese were sent to the United States by their government to study clubs and agricultural methods are among foreign friends who will take home a report of their experiences These young Chinese passed November on American farms As a climax of their American visit they attended the congress with delestates gates of their "adopted Typical of them is who will describe the congress to Chinese youth on shortwave broadcasts soon He is learning to drive a tractor and operate other farm machinery on the Owen Perry farm Malcolm Neb Mrs Perry is teaching him English— and he's looking forward to Christmas— the American kind South American Here The "good neighbors” who attended included 7 Venezuelans Costa Rican Peruvian 35 Canadians from Ontario and 4 from Quebec To get acquainted they visited with different delegations For stance one Canadian boy had breakwith fast one day Oklahomans iunch with the Oregon delegation and dinner with Georgians H Mario Perez been living with of Venezuela has his pal Gilbert of Connecticut He is active in the clubs of Venezuela r to clubs Rita Lefebvre 20 of Chandler and Normand Laferriere of Quebec Bertheir Quebec toured Chicago and marveled at "those buildings with their heads in the skies” In their English the vivacious Miss Lefebvre and her companion from a town of 300 population said it was the first time they ha’d een over 15 stories buildings high Neither had visited the United States before their present trip which was in the nature of an award for their club work in Canada Miss Lefebvre who Is employed in a bank directed an exhibit of home economics work and forest education last August for the 70 members of her club Laferriere who is taking a special scientific course preparatory to entering cotwo llege organized clubs and a community center for forest struction at Bertheir Both they and their chaperons Mrs Gerard La Terreur of Chandler and J A Breton of Quebec City marveled at the vastness of the United States organization The Canadian clubs which are more social and educational organizations than farm groups have a membership of 500 they said THE chosen FOUR health champions at the 24th annual national congress at Chicago look down the balcony at congress headquarters Left to right Eleanor from - 17 Chapman Ohio Centerburg Louise Hale 17 Randlett Okla John Savoy 17 Cameron La and Reinboldt Harris Marshall Minn Under the slogan "Building for a Club Stronger America” the give these rules for health: Work and Play Hard Sleep g to 10 Hours Eat Meat and Vegetables Guess Early on 1948 Presidential Candidates of the Truman Seen as Standard-BearDemocratic Party Dewey Faces Fight In New York to Stay in GOP Race Newt By BAUKIIAGE A naly it and Commentator That was a major stepIt was ping stone toward amity beled the President’s Both aides Conference and the rest of the nation know it was Vandenburg’ Former Governor Stassen stands the first In a position to become veteran of World War II to become President Just as the incumbent President Truman Is the first veteran of World War I to achieve that high estate Stassen has youth plus experience as the chief administrator of a state which is important and geographically Like politically he also was a delegate Vandenburg but in any frank to San Francisco appraisal of their roles in international politics he must give ground However to the Michigan senator didate imagHowever passing of a President Stassen has captured popular attiand the elimination from the po- ination by hia litical scene of an incumbent in the tude toward the tantamount subject He vice presidency plus election of a of the day the atomic bomb Democratic mayor in New York has a faculty for capitalizing on City have combined to encourage issues drawfaces the Governor Bricker Mayor-eleelection forecasting back that ”he’ been to the well” William O’Dwyer will not figure perbefore He failed to win the Rebut because he ran roughsonally in shod over the nominee of Governor publican presidential nomination Thomas E Dewey head of the Re- 1944 and had to be content with secBut who could win publican national ticket in 1944 he ond place wave of Dewey sentihas brought national implications against the into what otherwise would have ment then washing over the nation? That he has made a splendid state been simply a municipal ballot even Democrats adWho will be Truman’s running administrator mit What be lacks is recognimate currently is a popular subhe has ject of debate in political circles tion outside his own state from the accusation that will place suffered Whom the Republicans he is provincial His declarations on their ticket runs a close second as a vice presiup in on foreign affairs Taking those developments a year ago Inverse order attention first comes dential candidate weren’t marked for their profundity His was the to Governor Dewey presidential chance discounted by weren’t convincing Unless all preswill Bricker ent plans miscarry the election of O’ Dwyer in New York City over Josiah Goldstein a try for the United States senate That would give hinr the national former Democrat turned Republithat didn’t sounding board be needs can — a circumstance Bricker is handsome (an attribute help him one bit In an overwhelmwhich cannot be overlooked in these headcommunity ingly Democratic he’s an days of women’s' vote) ed for the past 12 years by Mayor LaGuardla The Little Flower de- able speaker and a war veteran The latter will be a factor to be fied description by party label but 1948 when the 1 will weighed carefully hia replacement on January of a ticket is made up And this time be regarded as substitution support No one he’ll have the wholehearted Democrat for a Republican of Senator Robert A Taft of his familiar with New York state politics needs to be told bow poor are home state "something he lacked in the chances of a candidate for a practical sense before Taft was a This time be governor who lacks city support candidate himself says he will not be Dewey faces the New York elecAnd he torate two years hence Vie for Democrata recent indicates does it history Vice P reaid ency If he fails to without city backing On the Democratic side the goal gain another term at Albany that hopefuls will be shooting for it the plua hia defeat for the presidency The vice presidential nomination a as him contender ends about just field Is rather open but not to the more obvious personages There is Strong COP no vice president today of course Competitora Loom Kenneth McKellar funcif only for the sake of Senator Assuming the thought that this tions on the job as president pro developing senate tem the of is scribes Actually in diagnosis by Washington of public thought to the conaccurate upon whom does the spite mantle fall? The subject becomes trary that doesn’t make him the but there second highest officer of the federal difficult at that juncture are two who stand out so far in government Protocol places the front of other aspirants as to make speaker of the house next to the President As a matter of record them virtually alone in the field President Truman has asked conOne is a disciple of the old school in poligress to enact legislation creating the other an Senator Arthur statutory succession to the presitics— the former latthe of Michigan dency with the speaker preferred Vandenburg over the president pro tem of the ter former Governor Harold A close third senate should vacancies occur in of Minnesota and the vice both the presidency Is and a vigorous contender Translated into sports John Bricker of Ohio A presidency is "in on a pass” political catalogue could hardly re- talk McKellar In any event McKellar will be cord three more differing types 80 years of age when Senator Vandenburg is the most approaching the next convention rolls around politically orthodox of the three His out of be the would and on experience in public life has been that score if for no other running reason confined wholly to the United States in the A dark horse senate but he has made the best is Senator Brian McA forceful predictions of every political break A orator he captures headlines is Mahon of Connecticut he trimmed the popular the known country member throughout and able Senator John Danaher There is no bluster to his oratory to win his office He Republican it has been pointed at specific obhas many of the attributes Which With the jects and he has clicked won votes for Thomas Dewey a country facing an era of internationyear ago— he’s young just turned al dealings of transcendent importance he Is well vefsed in world 42 he has proved himself an able affairs He was chosen over several prosecutor while serving as chief division in the deother illustrious party members as of the criminal a Republican delegate to the Unitpartment of Justice when he cleaned up such messes as the Harlan mine ed Nations conference at San Franhe’s a White House intihimself outlawry where he acquitted cisco mate a vigorous speaker well man with a substantia accumulatIn the field of labor relations— secion of worldly goods gained In the only to international ond today problems— he was the sponsor of practice of law and he’s chairman meet-the recent ' of the senate’ committee to develop national which if they policy on atomic energy lngs in Washington the latter distinction did no more proved that employers In gaining can sit down at the be overthrew the senate seniority and employees rule and older members same table and discuss their differences even if they cannot eradl- - who aspired to that important post WNU Service 1616 Eye Street NW D C Washington elections still are three National years away but Washington politicians and news correspondents— particularly tha latter— already are electing “men to be watched” The pext campaign will be normal In at least one respect namely that the Democratic candidate for all practical purpose already Unless the parhas been chosen ty's hierarchy wishes to confess failure of a policy of government it has espoused with only occasional departures the ticket will be headed by President Harry S Truman As a matter of fact that can now be dismissed from conjecture unless fate intervenes Truman is the can- BARBS admitted that the It is generally United States emerges from the war in a sea of n island of capitalism Whether we can leftist countries the tides that are moving withstand toward state Socialism and the curtailment of private property depend on whether we work together The heavor fight among ourselves iest pressure is from w'thin not without cate them 6 y Baukhage When Admiral Nimitz was welcomed in Washington planes in formation spelled out his name in the air "Some stunt to make a Z" an onlooker remarked to me But suppose they had to spell out Eisenhower! 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