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sions of the traditional Home,
sweet Home with variations ac-
cording to taste.
Period themes and quaintness
will be stepped up to have a dra-
matte quality. Modern ideas will
creep in and add to this effect.
Simple furniture will be built in
and fabrics will be cut and sewn
especially to fit the spaces they
are to fill. The bed curtains for
the slanting wall in the sketch are
an eXample-and the triangular
shaped window curtains to give
extra fullness. Frills will be even
fuller than those of our dreams,
and many homemaker who nev-
er before used her sewing ma
chine attachments will be learning
the mysteries of the ruffler and
hemmer.
NOTE-Why not start your dream room
now with a skirted blanket chest like the
one in this sketch? 1t is grand to have
extra covers handy on chilly nights and
the padded top makes comfortable seat.
Pattern 259 gives complete and fully il
lustrated directions with detailed list of
materials needed for making the chest full
skirt and top cushion. Enclose Is cents
with name and address to get pattern
259. Address:
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not to invade England; it looked
easier to bomb and starve the coun-
try into submission.
But while the bombs were drop
ping in London and the seacoast
towns, the British farmers were busy
ploWing up the grasslands. In 1899
there were l9 million acres of these
grasslands. and seven million acres
have now been brought under culti-
walton. This is against two million
acres of grassland plowed up in
World War l. Today Britain is rails
ing more than 10 per cent of its
food.
The general policy governing agri-
cultural production is laid down by
the cabinet, and the minister of ag-
riculture is responsible for carry
ing out the government plans. The
execution of these plans is in the
hands of war agricultural executive
committees, who in turn appoint dis
trict committees of local farmers
Farmers organizations, land owners
and agricultural workers all have
their share in shaping the plans of
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British City People, Moved TO Country 70 Escape
Robot Bombs, Assist in Harvest Of Bumper Crops

the government, for the ministry Of
agriculture consults regularly with
the National Farmers union, the
workers unions, and the Central
Landowners association.
Before the outbreak of war in 1889
the minister of agriculture had
called for an increase in the amount
of land under the plow. In the
spring of 1899 a subsidy of two
pounds sterling (S8) an acre was
granted for the plowing-up of seven
year grassland and bringing it into
cleanliness and fertility, and imme-
diately after war broke out, each
farmer was asked to plow up rough
ly 10 per cent of his unplowed land.
Further financial grants are now
made in order to encourage the pro-
duction of certain crops and to dis
courage the production of others.
Payments of four pounds ($16) per
acre are made on crops of rye and
wheat harvested, and ten pounds
($4O) per acre on potatoes.
The Farm Survey.
However, much of the land has
had to be reclaimed to offset losses
OF land to military and industrial
use. Therefore, it was extremely
important that the best possible use
be made of each farm acre, and in
l94l the Farm Survey was initiated.
This survey consisted of: (D a
farm record" for each farm, con-
tanning information under the fol-
lowing heads: conditions of tenure
and occupation; natural state of the
farm, including it's fertility; the ade-
quacy of its equipment; the degree
of infestation with weeds or pests;
the adequacy of water and electrici-
ty supplies; the management con-
dition of the farm, and its wartime
ploWing-up record. The information
on the management condition of the
farm is summarized in the grading
of the farm as: (A) well farmed,
b. moderately farmed, and (C) bad
ly farmed.
(2) The complete 1941 June CEN
sus return of the farm including all
the usual statistics of crop acreages
and live stock numbers together with
supplementary information, asked
especially for Farm Survey pur-
poses, on length of occupation and
rent of the farm.
(3) A plan of the farm showing its
boundaries and the fields contained
in it, on six-inch or 1212-inch scale.
The Agricultural Executive COM
mittees have the right of entry on
all farms and the power, which it
has not been necessary to use often,
to remove inefficient farmers. They
can compel farmers to follow their
directions, and have the power to
take over badly farmed land with
the consent of the minister of agri-
culture. They may then rent this
land to suitable tenants, or farm and
improve it themselves. The land TAX
en- over is acquired at value when
possession is taken, and within five
years after the war it must be Of
fered back to the original owner at
price determined by agreement or
arbitration if the minister of agri-
culture believes the land will be
properly managed and cultivated
Today trip through the English
countryside is refreshing expert
ence. Wheat acreage has increased
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Making "V for Victory" symbol
with his pitchfork, George Casely, an
English farmer, defies Hitler and his
bombs. "He needn't think he can
starve us out" said George, who Op-
crates 50-acre dairy farm in Devon.
anized farming country in Europe.
The big tractor works that had con-
templated closing down early in 1899
were given contract by the govern
ment to produce all the tractors
they could. Farm machinery was
also shipped from Canada, Austria
liza and the United States.
In order to make the best use of
available machinery, plowing con-
tractors were helped to extend their
operations, and farmers were asked
to help each other. In some coun-
ties implement depots, where a
farmer could hire an implement for
few shillings a day, were set up.
There has been a remarkable in
crease in the actual number of ma
chinery of different types employed.
The number of tractors has about
tripled, cultivating instruments have
increased about two and half times
the prewar level. Harvesting ma
chinery, however, has not shown
comparable increase, but the intro
duction of improved types, such as
the combined harvester-threSher, to-
gether with its greater use over
longer hours per day and for longer
periods, have helped.
Farm wages have almost doubled
since the war and it is hoped to
keep a considerable part of the in
crease after the war. This is i'm
portant because tenant farming in
England is widespread-most of the
farmers. do not own the land they
work. They are furnished homes
with garden plots as part of their
wages, and usually live on one farm
all their lives. The wages are
reached by agreement between the
National Farmers Union and the
Agricultural Farm Laborers' Union.
Britain Feeding Self Now.
Before the war Britain was only
40 per cent self-sufficient in food,
and imported 812 million tons of ami
NAL feed annually. Perhaps this
was the basis for Hitler's decision
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gangs and members of labor pools.
Some groups live in small mobile
trailers in which they travel around
the country.
The schedule of reserved occupa-
tions, set up on the outbreak of war.
was finally replaced in January, 1912,
by system of personal deferment,
and all applications for deferment
of military service in respect of
workers on the land in the agricul-
tural industry are dealt with by the
district manpower boards under a
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Every of Used Keep British Hands

Vigorous measures have been TAX
en- in Britain to keep farm laborers
on the land. Agricultural workers
who have left the industry have
been encouraged to return to it, and
conscientious objectors are used to
supplement the existing labor sup
ply. Labor gangs and labor pools
have been set up to supply labor
for drainage, harvesting and other
purposes. Special hostels have been
built by the ministry of works and
buildings to house mobile labor
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special scheme operated jointly by
the ministry of agriculture and the
ministry of labor and national serv-
ice through the county war agricul-
tural executive committees.
In general, men over 25, if they
are bona fide farm workers, are
retained in the industry; men under
rs are subject to an individual ex-
animation and if they are deemed
to be key" workers where they are
employed, deferment is granted for
an indefinite period.
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The Questions

/. A ubiquitous person seems to
be what?
2. Of what famous Revolution
ary general was Gen. Robert E.
Lee the son?
3. In what country do the boys
sit in school with their backs to
the teacher?
4. What name is given the
aurora borealis in the southern
hemisphere?
S. How long is the measure
known as a hand?
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By Ruth Wyeth Spears

IF YOU have been wondering if
quamtness, frills and ruffles
were going into the decorating ash
can after the war, the answer is
no. There will be many strictly
modern rooms but there will be
rooms also in which all the war
years pent-up longing will burst
forth in the most romantic ver-
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It's
Only the Infantry has them these
"rl remember those eleven of my
Remember How he forget them?
nfantmans they describe
field Yet Infantry times to kill or
be killed Saratoga New
Salegno There's resembling this
killing
Right the OF the Infantry
advancing the order kill
this the next time doughboy g
almost
can't the doughboy backbut mindful of his
role m this fight for freedom.
Keep your eye on tile In/aaty-IW D0UcAB0y DOES H!"
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, ASK Me q
, ANOTHER (
A General Quiz
The AnsUers

l. Everywhere at the samt
time.
2. Light Horse Harry" Lee.
3. China.
4. Aurora Australis.
S. Four inches.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-05-19
Halifax Labor Pushes Move
For Sale of Beer BY Glass

Halifax, N. S. (ILNS).-The Dis
trict Trades and Labor Council, COM
posed of AFL union locals, is meeting
with success in it's campaign for a
referendum on sales of beer by the
glass in beverage rooms open to adults
over 21. Hitherto, sales of beer have
been limited to government stores and
to bootleggers. It has been pointed
out that bootleggers are demanding
and getting as high as $1.5O for pint
bottle of beer. It is also pointed out
that allowing the sale of beer by the
glass would eliminate the lineups at
the government stores and the prac-
tice of boys and girls carting liquor
from the stores to homes Of purchas-
ers.
The city council, at the request of
the labor council went before the pro-
vincial legislature and secured the
legal right to hold a referendum and
also the authority to take enough from
the city funds to pay the costs of the
special vote.
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dler, labor organizer, a legislative
representative for his union in Con-
gress and, finally, as Secretary Treas
urer of the AFL Metal Trades Depart
ment.
Perhaps Joe McDonagh's rebellion
against OPPRESSION, against stupid au-
thority, began during his service in
the Spanish American War, when he
saw action in Peurto Rico. Uncle Sam
didn't treat his boys in uniform too
well in that war. 1t was then that Joe
learned to hate brass hats.
A Lifetime Enlistment
Later, when peace came and Joe
went back on the job, he discovered
the same heartless attitude, the same
cruel disregard for human life and
human suffering, evinced by private
employers toward their workers. What
if there were industrial accidents?
What if mechanic fell from the rig
ging of ship or had his fingers
chopped off by tool because proper
safeguards were not provided? What
if mans energy and sap were burned
out by too long hours on an intense job
at too low pay? There were always
others to take his place. Human life
was cheap. 1t didn't pay to spend
money to protect and conserve it, like
machinery which represented cash
investment.
This was the type Of economic
cruelty against which Joe rebelled and
against which he waged war through
his union. This was the cause in which
he volunteered to serve lifetime en-
listment. And this was his victory
that by the time he left his home town
of Brooklyn to assume a higher title
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-05-19
FACING
The
FACTS
With PHILIP PEARL

What makes a man devote his life
to the union cause? What attraction
is there in career which takes so
much out Of person yet offers such
insignificant rewards in the way of
fame and fortune?
These reflections spring from the
news of the sudden and shocking
death of friend who made the trade
union movement his life's work, who
accepted the philosophy of organized
labor as his gospel-Joseph McDon-
agh.
McDonagh died as he had lved-in
harness. He was attending a union
conference in New York City and was
reaching over to hand some papers to
his colleague, Frank Fenton, when his
heart stopped. He had no warning, no
time or opportunity to utter last
word to those who will follow after
him. Let his life speak as his parting
message.
Joe was a little guy who went
through life with his chin out. He was
the kind of fighter who likes to pick
out bigger and tougher opponents. He
always had to battle against odds.
Class rooms ended for him at an early
age, but not his education. He served
. thorough apprenticeship not only in
his trade Of electrician but as q sol
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-05-19
REFUSES TO ADMIT
LEWIS Mine UNION
AFL Executive Council Rules No Ad-
mitance Unless Jurisdiction Over
Chemical Workers Is Given Up

Philadelphia (ILNS).-The Ameri-
can Federation Of Labor executive
council disposed of the application of
the United Mine Workers of America
for readmission by rejecting motion
to recognize the presence of the
chemical workers in the miners uniol.
and ohm L. Lewis right to bring
them into the federation.
The motion was made by William L.
Hutcheson, president Of the United
Brotherhood Of Carpenters and join
ers'. The vote on the motion was four
in favor and nine against.
The council reaffirmed it's willing
ness to readmit the miners with the
jurisdiction over coal miners which
the union had when it's connection
with the federation was severed seven
years ago, at the time Of the organi
zation of the CIO.
AFL Miners Protest
President Lewis had asked that his
union be permitted to retain the chem
ical workers and have the right to
organize the entire field of chemicals.
Lloyd A. Thrush, president of the
AFL Progressive Miners Union, filed
formal complaint against accept
ance of the miners union into the fed
Grafton.
At Washington, Lewis withdrew
his application for reaffiliation and in
truculent letter, asked the return of
100000 check deposited for the
first years dues. He described the
handling of the application filed May
IL Of last year, as IAN amazing exhibi-
tion of base hypocrisy approximating
moral turpitude."
President William Green of the fed
Grafton said the 100000 check would
be promptly returned.
"The rejection of the application
was not based on any disposition of
the executive council to reject the ap-
plication or keep the mine workers
out" he said at a press conference
For Further Conferences
Unfortunately, the committee rep
resenting the AFL and the represent
atives of the United Mine Workers
were unable to gree upon plan which
would provide for jurisdictional diff
ferences and readmission Of the UNIV
into the federation. The executive
council expressed it's wishes that fur
ther conferences be held for the pur-
pose of finding basis of aceommo-
dation if possible"
The council adopted statement de-
ploring the failure of Congress to pass
the Kilgore bill covering termination
of war contracts and called upon Con-
gress to remain in session until ga
comprehensive program to provide for
human needs during the demobiliza-
tion period and to stimulate full pro-
duction and full employment in the
postwar years is finally adopted.
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lative worker not necessarily bril-
liant but always reliable and on the
job. The great gains in labor legisla-
tion which the workers of America
have won can be credited at least in
part to the hard work done by Joe and
others like him.
A Practical Idealist
Joe McDonagh was nearing the age
Of sixty-six when he died. To a certain
extent he liked to live in the past. He
loved to recount dramatic incidents of
long-forgotten labor conventions and
battles against tough employers. We
used to sit and listen to him by the
hour on slow afternoons in Bill Hush
ing's Office in the AFL Building.
If you didn't know better, you
might get the impression from his
casual conversation that Joe was a
confirmed gripper. He enjoyed sound
ing off on his pet hates, especially
against the professor" and "theor-
lists" who abound in Washington. Joe
would run into them frequently at
meetings of various Government ad-
visory boards on which he represented
the AFL and some of their impractical
theories with regard to labor regula-
tions got into his hair. He had no pa
tience with people who became over
night experts on matters with which
they had never had any practical ex-
perience and he loathed redtape. The
brass hats in the Navy and War De-
partments did not overawe him no1
did they delight him.
But, as we've tried to indicate be.
fore, the dominating, driving powers
behind Joe McDonagh was a more pos
tive thing than mere impatience with
stupid oficialdom or even hate of op-
preston. He was that rare thing, q
practical idealist-the kind of idealist
who expresses himself in action rather
than talk. He liked his fellow man and
he worked for him. He loved his coun-
try and he served it. He clung to the
independence that freedom gives q
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-05-19

and different duties in Washington,
the electrical workers of his commun-
ity had won the highest conditions
that laboring men anywhere in the
world had ever enjoyed.
In Washington, Joe was first re-
garded as something Of rough dia-
mond. AS legislative representative
for the international Brotherhood Of
Electrical Workers, he came into con-
tact with members Of Congress and
hign-ranking Government officials who
were well versed in the thousand diff
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-05-19

ferent ways of the polite brush-off and
painless double-cross. But they soon
discovered that Joe had a disconcert-
ing way Of his own, way of cutting
through the double-talk and getting
down to facts, way of demanding
yes-or-no answers and getting them.
During the last ten years Of his life
Joe McDonagh made many enemies in
high places and also many friends.
The phonies feared him, but the hon.
est politicians trusted and respected
him. Joe was steady, plodding, legis-
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man and he was ready at all times to
fight for it. He believed with all his
being in the aims and philosophy of
the American Federation Of Labor and
he lived and died for it.
This is just Che kind Of piece that
would have embarrassed Joe to the ut
most. He was the kind that appreci-
ated dig more than compliment.
But the workers Of America owe Joe
McDonagh more than passing sigh.
May he rest in peace.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-05-19
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National League

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Advertise il m The Nugget.
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UNCLE SAM'S SH0VNDOVVfJ FLEET

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Pacific Coast League Hollywood 10, San Francisco 3. San Diego 3, Sacramento l. Oakland 6, Los Angeles 3. Portland 4, Seattle 0.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-10
Plant. Pansies

EOR those who are unsuccessful at growing
p%ansies from seed. but who love the blooms
and want them in the garden. another way OF
having early flowers Is suggested. Buy the
plants as early as possible this fall from some
one in the neighborhood who has grown them
from seed or from one Of the specialists IN
pansy plants who advertise nationally.
Set the plants directly in the places you want
them to bloom In the spring. Water and shade
over the period Of readjustment. Then. after
the soil is frozen and the mice are in their
winter homes, mulch the little plants with straw
SO they will not hesve with the alternate freez-
ing and thawing OF the soil.
Remember that pansies are cool weather
plants and remove the mulch gradually. begin
ming in late March. BY this time buds will be
formed and possibly a few plants will have
flowers. There will be a much better and
longer display of bloom than if the pansies had
been bought. as they usually are. when covered
with flowers and much harder to move.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-10
Try These
WiIdfIowers

TWO lovely plants should be
in every wildflower garden
-Dutchman's breeches and It's
close relative called Squirrel
Corn. Both of these are in turn
related TO the well-known bleed
ing heart and the lesser known
plumy bleeding heart An ~
quiSite picture might be made
in the wild garden. using all
four Of these plants. They all
do we'll IN partial shade, like
soil with much leaf mold in IL.
and do not mind the moist
ground OF early spring. Tallest
is the snowy bleeding heart
which might be used in the
background. The plumy sort
goes AT the very front, being
low, and the other two might
be planted in between. Color
contrast would be good with
the white and cream sorts be-
tween the rosy background
and the paler pink foreground.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-10
A Handsome
Hedqe Shrub

7 COOKING for an informal
IL hedge shrub that will give
privacy? Here's one that will
do well In almost any soil or
position and will also give a
fine harvest OF disable fruit-the
highbush cranberry. While II
Is not To be confused with the
bog cranberry. and while II does
not usually bear as much fruit,
bush for bush. still IL has orna-
mental leaves which turn a
handsome red In fall, the white
flowers in spring are attractive.
Ask for this shrub under its
Latin name Of Viburnum opulus
or trilobum. Opulus In the
European form, trilobum the
American, and since both were
formerly classed together under
the name of v. opulus, that is
the name most catalogs use.
Do not confuse the high bush
cranberry with v. opulus sterile
which Is the old-fashioned snow
ball.