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...women only are courses in the Y. W. C. A. building. There they may learn how to make quilts, hooked rugs and lamp shades from Miss Clarice Smith, a sanatorium nurse, in a course in Home Handicraft ("Beautify the home-nest"). Mrs. Andrew Wood, housewife, shares her culinary skill in New Wrinkles in Cooking. Mrs. H. S. Patton, wife of a Michigan State College professor, teaches the school's second most popular course, Personality Plus. In it 158 women are learning how to meet strangers, use cosmetics, improve their conversational resources...
...Boys' workers spending one period a week, either coaching teams, teaching handicraft, or leading social clubs, help take gangs off the street and give them an opportunity for meeting in a non-criminal atmosphere...
...Dirigibles can be constructed and utilized properly only in the Soviet Union. No capitalist country can construct such craft on a large scale. Even the United States, with its great financial and technical resources, carries out its dirigible construction on a handicraft scale, producing only one or two ships yearly. . . . It would not be worth our time and money were we to undertake dirigible building at the American rate...
Since early in the fall, the bread ration cards have been abolished and new stores have been opened everywhere. The open market, strictly prohibited by early communistic practice, is now being tolerated, and thus a wider list of commodities is available to the Russians. Likewise the handicraft workers, put out of business by the Socialists in 1928, are again allowed to contribute to the market. "This indicates a slight concession to private initiative," Professor Hopper explained. "The general trend is to increased production of consumer's goods, rather than to manufacture for the state...
...schools. But far more to the point than these superficial concessions to practicality is Highgate's provision of new workshops, where boys can build usable machinery with their own hands and lie on their backs in overalls beneath Austins in the making. This is the sort of healthy handicraft that really balances intellectuality, as the Hill School hobby-shop in America has effectively shown. Equally commendable is the honest purpose of Kimmel Hall, a new school, which is admittedly "devoted to training leaders in commerce and, industry," and which places its arts course second to technical training...