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Show FROM KEYBOARD TO WASHBOARD I I BRINGS HIGHER SCALE OF PAY , I Professor of Music Changes Work to Help the World Keep Clean WASHINGTON From Do-re-mi and the C scale to Rubandub-dub. Yea, verily, from keyboard to washboard! wash-board! Prof. Will Spahr, for many ycain . teacher of music, both piano and vocal, has followed the advice or the gov-j crnment experts, who say that what the nation needs Is more productive and less non-productlvo labor. I Spahr, doing his bit to help the nation's employment ' problem, has given up teaching- the younger generation gene-ration how to play and has turned to tho washboard as tho Instrument on which ho will play his role through the reconstruction period. In other, ' words, he's taking In washings, doing laundry, helping the world keep clean 1 1 Harmony, Too. Incidentally, ho says, ho finds tnat. tho markot for his services has in- creased, that the pay is better and that a lot of harmony as well as walvr ll can be wrung out of linen. 'jl While the national conference un ' education. In Washington, was deplor- f ing the fact that teachers, tutors and educators arc face 'o face with hard- ; 'H ships because of low pay. Prof. Spahr ' up to his elbows in soapsuds, was , demonstrating that they can maitu . good living in other lines if they nave ' Waslilng More Essential. "I'm getting all the work I can uu now by hand," Spahr says, "so I'm ' planning to put In an electric washer and mangle. Then I'll receive and send washing parcel post." Spahr has established his business iH at McLean, Va a suburb across tho Potomac river from Washington, H where he has plenty of soft water, ll fresh air and sunshine. For years he ill taught music to the boys and girls of 'll northern Virginia, southern Mary-land Mary-land and southeastern Pennsylvania. Now he feels he's doing no less laud-ablo laud-ablo a work In helping them keep clean. For. after all, the Blblo says i "cleanliness Is next to Godliness," and taking in washings therefore is more iH essential than teaching music! |