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Mlodern StRories Of Rags-To-RicIies Succcoas stlorie-s continue to be- told with -a bit of awe and a note wfSonderi. Because of the changýed social *nd economic tim.es, they are dif.. 4renit from the Ager rags-to- kkches fiction. And their basis is truth, A f ewý days ago a Sm Fi-an- eisco nwppraTom Ma- ffhows, toid- sucli a story in the 24an Fîranýcisco Chronicie. 1t's theý atory nif a longshoremnan - a Mei ber of the LIterniational Loneshoremnen's & Warehouse- men's Uion-who lias rnanaged to amass $1,000,00O0 of'real'estate- In two decadle~. Alexander (AI) Maisin, the son of Russian emnigrants arrved- lin San' Franicisco in 1938 from Harbin, China, and found a job on the dýcks in 1941. In recent years, bl i asaveraged -about $8,700 a year aqs a longshoreman under -ILWU contracts. Hle foundi, years ago, that lie could live comfortably on lecs than his wages. Iiiste-ad o'f findîing ways of spcedîng moýre, as, too, many do, he- put his exýtra dollars to work. A "hamburger joint" did pi-et- ty well, with Mrs. Maisin i-un- ning it days and Mi-. Mais;in put- ting in 'Gtrme there vhen flot on his dock job), Then "we expand- ed and went boe' lie tol1d Mr. Mathews. An attorney "kýept the slieriff off my back until 1 could pay off eeyhn" olrfor dollar." The failurews discouraging and-wiped ot savings.ý, but a year later Mr. Maisin opened a Christmnas t rýeeo-origon the docks and cuttinig trees, in his spare tio. Thie profits help- ed'psy off the previous losses. Once-out-cf dbMr-. M i bought qý rundowýn apartment house' aËd remodeled it in lits spare tirne. He credits his bank- er for -éncouraging hlm to put money into property; he didn't know ho casily it could b. doue, ho said. Onice the f irst apartment bouse wa.s remodeied snd producfing Incomne, he borrowcd on t and boughi t aothe-r dliapi.dated build- ing. Hle lim been following tbis pattern since, buying run-down bulidings, remodcllmg thein, end ~,roigon theen to buy more. Currertly, li. ba2 10 piece% of Inconie pro-perty and six parceli For !ntertainîng Dri-cs up a luncheon table witb, tbis seýt -- large 'çloiiy as conter- piece, srnallei- as place mats. Scalloped border enfliauces f raceful ovai shape. Pattern 660; 'redtion5 for 20x3-incb doily; matcbing onles l2'2x2O snd -7x 13 inoies in No. 30 cotton. Seud TH-IRTY-FIIVE CENTS (starnps caunot lie accepted, use, postal note for sae ty) for Ibis pattern ta Leurs Wiecler, Box 1, 19-3 Eigteentb St. New To-. ronto, Ont. Pri-lt plainily PAT- TERN NUiMBER, youm NAME ,"ud ADDRESS. JUST OFF THE PRESS! Send nowv for oui- excîing,, new 198.1 Neediecraft Catalog. Over. 125 desigus le ocrochiet, ku.it, sew, emblroider, qulit, weave - fash- Ions limefuni~iing, bys;gifl,, ->azaavriîta. Plus FREE-iuatrue- l.üin5frsix eplirt .Veill spe. Hur-y, send 25é, nqw! of unimproved land. One oi. 1h. buildinigs is a. 16-story office building, his iatest purchaui., owned with a syndicalie. The largest piece of land is acreage bouglit "for $16,f00 in 1956. With ',somne hired help," Mr. Malslin bas clearodA the land aud put la somne roads. Utilitiýes ha1vee mn i-un in underground. Now -ho thinks a fair price for Ili, land. would be $180,00, and no e in ago he so4ýd "the -first hùuse buffiton, It for $70,00U'" He devcloped a singi, theory ofl investinug: "I bouefh what other people d-idnt want, and then made an 91d building good for anlother 100~ years."' Because "labor is so expensiive," lie uses2 it to put it iïi the bestimaterialu sudi "beautitul. things"-it "costs Juat as much to put lu thQbe bot as put in junik, so wiybother At first he worked largcly by himself. Afterý a night of loýadin9 bides on the docks, liewol sleep "two, tbxce boums iun my truck" thern go to wQrk\ on hi.' latest poject; iltook.to'o lonig to idrive home f irst. Later, witli incomre coring lu. regulariy, h. learûied where to f4nd skil)Led help suldho to supervise it, He's takiug things easier now, but not miucl eDsier. 'Fli Maisin story isn'Ét the onliy nic of its kind even on the San F'a ciç 1ockýs. Several years agoa ILWU off icial told me t hat il 'asbeen. fairly common- place thecre for dock workers to 4"sock awaýy" ilfO uoldhouses aud aaîetbuildings that they can refurcbiali in off-time, eithier ln or in groups invest- ing sud ,working togetheý,r. Other woyrlke-rs in other inlustrial areas have found different ways t10 i-cd out 1mbo new ai-cas of op- poi-tunity. One lu New Jersey «ererd" from a plant job at> 65 to the vic-p shlmQyof a building' snd oan ascato. He bad licou buying uip its stock througli the yesrs snd lisd become a ma- jority stockholder. Anotier lu Mieigan recently quit a plant jo b te devote more lime to a cliain of smaîl dme stores he lied d*veloped through the years. T lhe moral may lie that-while Hioratio Alger s toriesimay be out- of date for today's youth, succese 2lories stili have a pertinoncy fcr today's bliie collar wvorkers. By Ed Townsend ln the Chris- tian Science -Monitor. More About Those Yeur.lRound Schools The possiblity of a lý-month school year has been kicked sround for several ycars now. The receut California Citizens Commrission on Education reco)m- moended ithat the Legisiature, study the possibilities of a year- rouni-d yoar. Eduicator.s havec debated the effect of a tue-ot vacawiou for teenagers. It baus b2een point- ed out that this country no long- er has a. rural -coniomyý% - chîild labor has been replace(d by ma- Lohines. Yet we stili reta_-in the short sohool yoar m-lth a long Summor 1el.vacation. S. Byn Jennin.gs cf Middle- bur-g, Fia, a miember of that stlate'schme of commercrce co01mmitte on1edu!catiOn, bas, been an outspoken advocste of ycar around sehool ue Jennings advocatos "the- effi- cient use ofi educational facilities snd tahigpersonnel by -abol- lshing, as rapidfly as possible, the outrnoded SYs;teni of operat- lug schools for ninoe montis lu t1he year and allowing oui- buid- ings-whicli repi-esent the in- vesýTmnt of 'billions of dollars- to stand idie for the renaiuing three mnontha of oach year.- Jenuiugs estimatos that if al of the schoois in the nation would operate 48 we-ýeks iu the ycar wUi staggered enrollmeut.s, the eqUivalenit Cf 444,000 uiddi- tionai. lassreomis would boc cre- atcd--equal tca a conitruction rost 'YWIAppro.,t. S*t inn whia a, Yu wmr4 PARIS IN SPRING- Actor Karl Boehmn has eyes only for hlas wife, Mouchie, as they tcke ;nthe sighit s of Paris. He i3 in the French ,capital for the filming of _"Four Horsemeýn oi theý Apo- calypse." Oh dear, itliooks as if wo,-'ve go'tot face it again , thle Speeches, the promises, the pro- paganda that always prececdes a general election. We a1imat ilIt at tbe thouglit of it. Nottbecause we are so well satisficd witi the pi-sent governumeut tiat we want themn te remnain in office; not even because we are dissatis- fied with them sund want ihemn out. Sauuds as if we'resitting on the fence, donesn'f t ilIl is't even that. When tie turne cornes îWe shalh know wici way tO vote - but w,,e wouIld ille 1 iposýtpone il as I -,log s possible. Our iimmediate Interest la the weao-ther. We hvutreally ha7d s lbad winterblut yet I don't kuecw a! any yeaýr whien we have iookedl forwar1d tD spring s0 eagerly. Last week lýil made mre feel just wcn Jefful ta see a.îred, mcd 'robin struttiug arouud on lie lawn. HIe wcn't be so wel- cane ,cliter an w'hen small fruits are ready fer picking.j But have you uoticed - aithougi you sec robins at Ibis lime of th,- 'year you nover hear their sweet sang. Maybe. lboy are afraid of gctting laryýngitis if theýy wrb toa mucb before the weather war'ss 1up. Matpeople leook for an early spring w'hn Ester. is carly bttof late years tere seems IitIle cnuection btwenEaster sud lthe -weatbier. Hreshopîng I thbink the cldreýn -around iec i uaI eloi oging ïfor ,spring Iao. Anyýway t~ a lie- uine for aur patios,, front sud back, 'whre e haveýý a six-f aot overhangý that kee:ps du-i in tic pianters nice sund dry, m, rakirg il jus l ikea.s sandpilJe for lie, younigsters ta pla(y lu. That is until the dut gets mrixed up with lie snow. Then tiey, are able ta miake rîud pies with wiich they piastor oum steps' sud patio. A lovely me-zss, Iassure you. Geuerally tliu- abouts sud squeals o! deliglit lbetray themr se it isn't long before Partner or 1 clisse them licmne, Their miothers' re namore ple-ased with eir esaaetha-n are because they go hnome wîl-ih snows,ý-uits plaýsler-ed wîth nudc. I an thank- fuI it la thie patio we bav:e to lean up sud ual the' kid3s!Any- wiay, Ilie poar littie ikles hae h play sonefwlere. Incidentlly, hae ou noLiced liow tilles have chaniged the way lu whicb cildrgp geýt fresi air ud clxercise in, winitE-rWheu our two were siraîL' Iused bt dre-as thein warrnly sud take them fior a walk, evon if it wss only for half-an-hour. And I kopt thein ouhie movo. Thal way tiey didn't get a chiance te get coid or i-un into milsehief. Nowadays morthers put snowsuils on Ibeir pre-sohoolers and sond theni couI 1o play by thi-nnsel,ýes. Tihe owut are sucb a pro- tection against the weather there is l1111e fear c'! thein eatching eold. Bu-t ,wliat l i3 e efoir tbe PorA11h1le miles ho do? N'atural- ly,if ,tie-y eaUTIfind amj uic. dry' dirt they are going to _play with it. Failiig that tfhey get bored and cornepordn at the (1oor for a cookie oGr to got th bath- room. MOùthe'rs rmbebeas chlldren are ro soon7er cdresscd than they wa1)tacoe liiiagain. To my way of thinkingý il is eas- ici- to take them for ahaf hour's walk raL12 ther thanturný themi loose on theiir own. Exer- cise is wha t they nld - adthe fresh air is gond ûfornMther too. 0f course on a farm cllden an always f4tid penivty t-iamse themi at the, barn - and they love to help Daddly vwitb the chai-es. Which gesto sho-w TULIP-TOP'S - Thîzs la th* new spring hairdo, SU gg'esting a tu- lup hloss.om, being inltrodulcod in, Paris, by Ja.nine ev*squa, loft, and An ny Nekon. heeis no place lil, f- r for raisîng a iairnily. Speaking of raisinig a famuily I1 was vcmy îintereste'd iuthe eo ilomy mentus puWiislied a few days ag'o by on. of& our-evening papers. Soin. of Ihein looked quite good. But 1 couldn'il hlp thinking whPt ;k luxury those meal-, wouldl havie icou luEng- land when we %vee on war rations. To moake oîr ,vee2kly ration o!oftwo ouxicca o! butter, go fi-t'her iwe r.n1xýe1ili witli friaahed po iacoes and tien re- molded il mbt pals. A filiiug aud favaurite dfssert was bread pudding. Oui- family stîli likes it. Here is the recipe. Grease-a pyrex dish with, margarine. Fi it three-quartcs-s full with stale bread. Spriukie with brown suaraisins, currants and peel. Add cinnaman aud vanilln. Aise two tablesp oons of margarine. Beat eue egg andsufficiert nmîlk ta caver the bread.' Wh.-n I ccad is soaked blond thoroughly witb fork., Bako ln 375 degroe aven about-au heur. Goed oîd-fahlouied aatmeal porridge iustead of pack-aged cerlis another, budget saver. If v ou knew :haw ta make it prç,aerly., Too often it is a thick, luu'ny mess. Itshouidlie smaoth snd, croaý,my sud served - with brosxn sugar su ad. whole milk. vr'd ivhy ahd ld p-,rk suad beaus al scor-ne out of a can? Any gaed coek ioak -wil tell you how ta make oEston bak1cd beaus. Soup? The-re is nathing so- eco- nomical as liamemade soup, witb, mrice, c-pet"barley as, a fil ler. Potatoes? Scalleped petatoes go a lotf arther than boiled. And do you kuowi that browu, sugar syrup inakes, a good. desseKfrtoi chldrie if fruit ig not availablo. Boil two cups of sugar with anc cup of, water. 'Add vanilla or mnaple flavouring sud you have a dessert as'gond as mapie syrup., Fine for sweetness but don't foer- gotl' 1childi-o n sd groWn- ups too, need raw fruit,. vege- tables suad fruit juices. They ReuIIy At. In Grandpa's DaIy Ycu probably_ aren't eating as mucli as you djid 'a f ew yeams liack-according to scientists 'wbo have been chccking up on tic amount of food we consumei. One resiî,t (of Ibis is that oui- dinner plates have leienshirink- ing lu size. TleyPare cousideir- sbly sm-allom than thcy were lu grandfather's sund grc-at-.gravidfaý lhcr's tlimes. They and Ilicir foi-cfatiers, cou>sumed fond lu, a big way. Up 10 a century ago six or seven courses at an ordinary meal were quite common., Thecjnewspapers- of eamiier limes 'frequeutly told stos-les, of extra-specialesters, -too - mren who ste record amounts of food to win wagers or just for the sheer fun cf it. Garagantuan eaters are rare to-day. No one organitzes a fes- tival o! -the. stomacli as did soine of oui- ancestors. You dou't bear fo r 'instance of record appetites IÏke that cf' a in uneiîed "Býee!- steak P»te,"- wlo once eonsunied sevonteen pounds of bec! for dinner or that o! "Lanmbey" Smith wio actually ate seventy-, five sintîl lain fl p at a single meal. This dashing, side -,buttoned wrap is sprinig's mnost applauded casual! Se- it swiftiy, sash it smnartly.with a quick tie-it lias no waist seainsý.. Choose cotton, shantung, surah. Pýrinted Patte rn 4776; isseg' Sizea 12,- 14', -16, 1$8, 20, Sice 18 talces 3% ya rds 39-inch fàbric. Seënd VIFTY CENTS (stamnps cannot, bé acoepted, use postal note for safety) for this pàttermu. Please p r iln t. plainly SIZE,' N A ME, .ADDRESS., STYLE NUMBER.-' Send order to ANNE ADAMS, Box 1, 123, Eighteenth St., New Toronto, Ont. ANNOUNCING t h e biggest fashion show of Spring-Summer, 1961-pages, pages, pages of pat- terns in our new Color Cataloýg- just out! Hurry, send 35e now! ISSUE 14 - l9iil LUFTHANSA GERMAN AIRLINES has announced the ordecr of 12 Boeng 727 jetý aircraft, boosting to 25 the total number of jets, the airline has n operation.or on order. The neýw short-to-medium-range aircraft are schedule-d for Lufthansai's routes to the neor caîit and withlin Europe, the first six being deliv&red by summet 1964, the balance by summrer 1965. Sumimer wili sec the German carnet' operaing jets on ail long-distance segments cf iis fivo. Continenrt netwa'r.ik, 50 flights we.Jtl.v on the North -Attainfic runs alone. Modern ttquette By Amie Ashle-Y$ Q. When a business letter Is addrmsed' iointly to a man ai a woman, whati i the correct salutation? A. "Dear Sir and -Madan" Q. fa nmanit 3 walklng with a womn anad shie is carrying lier coat on hler arrn, should lie offer Wd carry it for ber? A. This is, not expected. Q.What is the best and easi- est way to introduce married couples ta each other? A.* One good way is merely: "Mr. aid. Mrs. Carson. Mr. and Mrs. -Rogers."- Or, "Mary and Tom Carson, Helen and Dick Rlogers." Ultra-Easy! PRINTED PATTERN