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i 4D DAILY PRESS, Newport News, Sunday, April 9, 1950 Chesapeake Crabbing, Oyster Boat Pictures Displayed At Museum April marks the opening of thei hand line, trot-line, and crab-pot the line vm lifted and coiled in the boat. After the catch was discharg method of catching hard crabs in ed at a buy-boat or packing house, Virginia waters. Next month Maryland crabbers will become active. As this Industry comes to the force the line was gone over and rebaited for the next dav's work. POPULAR METHOD in Chesapeake waters again.

The Mariners' Museum considers this an 1 1 A 1 1 1 A S. 4 I3- Hi '4 1V'V- This method of crabbing Is still popular around the Bay, with power appropriate time to display a recently acquired painting relative boats, or rowboats pulled along the to this important fishery. line. But a fairly new, more ef The palming, the work of the ficient method of crabbing is carried on with the use of the crab-pot. Baltimore artist Louis Feuchter, shows a group of crabbing skiffs inese wire traps are baited and lowered into the water with buoy under sail bound for the market boat after a day of crabbing.

The boats depicted are represen markers. When the trap Is on th? bottom the four sides, collapse outward and the crabs can enter to take the bait secured on the inside. i tative of the types once used in trot-line crabbing in Chesapeake As the pot is raised to the surface waters, particularly Maryland, be the sides are brought together en fore power boats became popular. The typical crabbing skiff was of trapping the crabs. This is an easier means of catching crabs as the pots slight deadrise, shallow draft, and may be lowered in the evening and carried the single mast with sprit brought to the surface the following sail.

A departure from this, how day. A licensed crabber is entitled ever, was.the sharp-sterned boat, or one with two masts. All of these ifciaa nil mi ii i in- to have a limited number of crab-pots. With the crab taking the seasonal appear in the painting. ONE MAN CRAFT Portrait of the gaff topsail sloop T.

Leonard Cambridge, active as a dredging craft In those waters. Painted especially for The Mariners' Museum by Louis Feuchter of Baltimore. Crabbing skiffs, of the tvpe once commonly used In the crab fishery on Chesapeake waters. Painted especially for The Mariners' Museum by Louis Feuchter of spot light, last month marked the One man usually worked these piano was donated to the founda end of the oyster dredging season in Maryland. And symbolic of the dradging craft employed in that in tion by Lawrence Gouveneur Hoes dustry is another recently acquired boats, tending sails, handling the trot-line, and steering.

The trot-line consisted of a line varying In diameter from 316 to 38 of an inch and in length from 800 to 2,000 feet. A weight was secured to each and is being renovated by the Timid U. S. Male Saddens Master Tailor Advocate Of Colorful Duds To Celebrate Birthday Of Jefferson April 13 With Monticello Fete end to anchor the line and buoys marked these. Baits were placed either In bights in the line or at' tached to "snoods" suspended from the The baited line would on the river's bottom and the crabs painting by Feuchter.

The subject is the topsail sloop J. T. fceonard of Cambridge, the only commercial vessel of her rig on the Chesapeake Bay. The J. Leonard was built in Dorchester County, Maryland, in 1882 and measures 45.6' by 16.6' by 2.8'.

She Is one of the oldest of the Maryland oyster dredging craft and certainly one of the handsomest. A huge spread of sail tops a saucy little hull which despite its years retains its sheen. There are several sloop hulls still serving as oyster dredgers, all built were attracted to It. men who try to look like their bosses even if it means they get one good custom suit get the rest of A spool or an oarlock was set on April 13, the birth date of Thomas, Philadelphia Museum of Fine Arts. Four other pieces of authentic Jefferson furniture were obtained during the past 12 months and will soojrv return to their home atop Jeffersoi "Little Mountain." These were owrX ed by Robert Hill Carter of Richmond, and had been purchased by Mr.

Carter's forebears at an executors' sale following the death of Jefferson. During the next ten. years the Foundation expects to spend an additional $600,000 in further improvements to Monticello. Major Items in the planned restoration will be a complete overhauling of the house. Supporting timbers that have been weakened by age and the footsteps of millions of visitors will be replaced with steel and wood.

One Continued on Page CoL 1 an arm projecting about one foot from the side of the boat. As the Jefferson, will be ceieDrated wis nome and began lts erecu0n 141 year at his beautiful home "Monti craft mailed along with trr trot years Since tne inception of line running over the arm, the line the non-profit foundation, organized would be lifted to the surface and the crab with a hand net as it clung to the bait and was brought to the some 25 years ago. to purchase and destore Monticello, more than $900,000 has been expended towards around the same period as the J. T. Leonard.

But their rig has been changed to that of the skipjack, Jib By CYNTHIA LOWRY New York, April 8 WPi American men who could be the world's best dressed, are careful not to be. "It's, a matter of psychology," said Chauncey Hunter, director of the Custom Tailors' and Designers' Association of America. "Successful and monied men have a cautious approach to clothes because there has been a social revolution. They think, because of public opinion, rtiat it Is undessirable to appear In the wide variety of clothes they can well afford." Because American men fear being pointed out as a "clotheshorse" or a "dandy." Hunter maintains, most younger men shy away from a large or colorful wardrobe. "It's the older men who have surface.

The crabs were placed in this end. All of the known original barrels in the boats. and leg-of-mutton mainsail, a furniture, with the exception of 14 their clothes readymade." All the custom tailors are unhappy about the way modern men keep their wardrobes. The valet, or gentleman's gentleman, went out long before the war. Most men have their clothes taken care of by the local tailor, and their shoes shined by Luigl or Joe who drops into the office every day with his shoeshine box.

Immediately after the 'disappearance of the valet, custom tailors frequently took charge of the clean handier rig but not as picturesque pieces, has been acquired. During as that of the gaff sloop. The painting of the crabbing the last year the original Jefferson cello," in Charlottesville, when the famous Virginia statesman will be honored with speeches and- other ceremonies. Henry J. Taylor of New York, author and radio commentator, who is a graduate of Jefferson's University of Virginia in Charlottesville, will make the principal speech and also lay a wreath on Jefferson's tomb.

A nation-wide hook-up of radio stations is expected to broadcast Taylor's talk. Interest in Monticello has grown steadily each year and during 1949 more than 140,000 visitors came to the shrine to pay tribute to the great American who designed the lovely After the length of the line had beer, "fished" the boat would be turned around and retrace its course to remove additional crabs which may have taken the baits. This 4. skiffs and sloop J. T.

Leonard have been added to a group six other paintings of Chesapeake Bay sail practice continued from early morn ing types, all the work of Mr. Feuchter. These form a valuable clothes ranging from camel's hair sports Jackets, slacks and loafers to business suits," he said. "I regret that in many parts of the country men rarely dress formally." NO BKST DRESSED All the tailors shied away from tagging specific men as "best dressed." None thought Harry S. Truman a fashion plate by New York standards.

"I'd say he tries to be a snappy dresser natty," said one who earnestly requested anonymity, "but you've got to say for the man that he's not afraid of color or anything new." Some active businessmen in the tycoon class have huge wardrobes, but maintain It In various cities over the country. "That's getting common," tailor Ray Twyeffort said. "You can't carry much luggage on a plane, and besides there are so many climates. A man will have a California wardrobe in California and a New York wardrobe In New York." Twyeffort whose Scotch plaid tuxedo Jackets, seem to be catching on among the uninhibited dressers thinks the bulk of male fashion pioneers is in the midwest, not Hollywood. It's the mid-western businessman, he says, who broke away from New York's conservative fashion dictates.

"But we still see a lot of young ing, at which time crabs are supposed to bite more readily, until a good catch was the reward or until the heat of the day endangered the record of vessels once common in ing and pressing of customers' achieved an invulnerable business local waters and have been expertly crabs. executed by an artist well versed When the catch was completed in that particular field. clothes, Hunter said, but increasing costs made this impractical The effort thinks that modem pressing and cleaning methods shorten the life of good woolen cloth take the oil and life out of VIEWS OF OUR READERS CHRIST IS RISEN By Chaplain Willard W. Jones WORTHY JOBS Editor, the Daily Press: it, but he hasn't any substitute suggestions. What makes a well-dressed man? There's no uniform answer.

It seems to boil down to a man blessed or pressed Into a good figure, with a clothes sense who has clothes and keep them in good shape. "And what Is well-dressed in New York may not be in any number of other parts of the country and vice versa." added Hunter. III f4Vr I i 's S-V' i i PIP hfA has had a central place in the doctrine of Christianity. Sometimes a thing happens which It is said that in the early days In itself appears ordinary but has in it something great or near great. Recently a choir from a Negro church In one of the Daily Vacation Bible Schools last Summer a little girl had trouble learning the familiar verse: "God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten son Each time she repeated it she would say, "He gave His only forgotten son Of course, the child was standing who are apt to launch new fashions In men's clothing," he "Even more often, It's the older men who are retired or semi-retired who aren't afraid to blossom out In any gay colors or new styles.

It actually makes them feel younger and It gives them some attention." Younger men, ambitiously carving Out their careers, are among the most conservative of dressers. They are afraid that flashy or too sharp clothes will give an Impression of fllghtiness or preoccupation with the less serious side of life. MAKES TAILORS SAD All this makes tailors very sad. There are, however, a number of men who go arpund In drab sack suits, white shirts and somber neckties, who have secret wardrobes that would make a peacock envious. Hunter knows one man whose fancy was caught by violently colored velvet waistcoats.

He had 25 of them made up In a wide range of colors. "I don't think he ever dared wear one of them," Hunter said disapprovingly. "I also knew a man who ordered 11 light blue flannel suits, all exactly alike. But I suppose you in Newport News sang for the sick of the Russian revolution a convention of the godless was being held on Easter Day in a Russian cathedral. Much ridicule and- scorn was being heaped upon Christianity by the Communist speakers.

veterans in Kecoughtan Hospital. One of the singers was a young fellow who appeared to be a white man. One had to look at him a min Then, during a moment of silence a completely unaware of the change she had given to the meaning of ute or so, to see that he was a col voice from the crowd rang out, the verse, yet, as we come to the ored man. He sang a song about "Christ is risen and spontaneously Library Corner Book World Easter season this year, we cannot Christ on the cross. As he sang he seemed to love all awareness of the help -wondering if the girl didn't the great crowd answered in the traditional Russian Easter greeting, "He is risen, Indeed It Is fundamental to our Christian faith to room around him.

All his own suff almost hit upon the truth. With their lips Christian people ering from his cruel fate in life was believe that Christ are wont to say that Christ holds the supreme place in their lives; concentrated in the song. So deep was his emotion, one Easter is God's answer to all the that His gospel is universal in its could almost feel the agony of Christ on the cross which his song por perplexing questions we are asking. No forces of destruction in this world are sufficient to defeat God's If! appeal: that in the application of His principles in the world lie the solutions of all man's disturbing could call them eccentrics, the aver-J Mrs. Aldrich recalls her own Christmas experiences, "Christmas Handbook," published by Popular Mechanics magazine, contains suggestions for gifts to make at home, tree and table decorations, and handmade greeting cards.

Frank A. Wightman tells the tale of the Wylo, a 34-foot yacht built by himself, in his book, "The Wind Is Free." He and one companion sailed from Cape Town across three thousand miles of South Atlantic to Brazil, along its coast, and to Port of Spain. Lured by' love of beauty and freedom Wightman found exhilarating adventure in the exhausting struggle with wind and wave. His humor heightens interest in the incidents he relates. "Sculpture," by Louis Slobodkm is an introduction to the practice of trayed.

It was terrific. Even the sick veterans showed by their staring purposes. True, there has been much Editor's note: Miss Lottie E. Driver, librarian at Newport News Public Library, presents reviews of noteworthy books recently acquired and now available to patrons. Laura lived In a London base sham and shallowness in the cele eyes that they felt the intensity of bration of the Resurrection, but this I year, to many people perhaps, more than ever before, Easter comes lit problems.

Just how deep-seated this belief really Is would be difficult to determine, yet at each Easter time Christians are reminded of It and of their vital dependence upon Him who came that men might have abundant life. Christianity bases its faith and hon on one Great, sinffle fact, the it. A moving picture named "Pinky" won the prize Oscar this year. This young colored man who sang the song about Christ on the cross, may be just the fellow for whom some Hollywood producer is looking. DONALD SAIR.

erally as a matter of life or death. The world Is desperately in need of a faith to live by and no faith an swers that need except faith in the Monticello, Home of Jefferson. risen Cnrist. greatest miracle of the ages, Christ's Resurrection. Often the successes of some men spell heartache and sac rifice for others; their victories in war are marked by death and de sculpture which calls for only those struction.

The Easter morning vic Great Symbol Of Easter --The Cross -Use Deeply Rooted In Antiquity Of Many Forms age man doesnt do things like that." The worst people In the world to a.ik about "average wardrobes" are tailors, particularly custom tailors. They naturally would like every man to acquire a large custom-made Wardrobe. How many suits should a man have? One famous New York tailor threw his hands into the air and told about customers who had for country wear alone four. jackets and between 15 and 20 pairs of various bued slacks. "They can mix them up and have an unlimited selection he said.

"Many men have as many as 30 auita for all types of wear, but of course I'm not Including formal dinner and evening garb." Another tailor complained about the habit in some parts of the country of wearing Informal and eport clothes to business. He told ol a late dinner In a popular mid-western hotel, where not one man wore evening clothes all the- women were formally dressed. "The men in that doom wore tory of Christ is the victory of life and immortality! ment with her unpleasant mother, her brutal step-father, and dazed Uncil Cupid who knits to quiet his nerves. Though Laura does not show it as her Uncle Cupid, she is just as much a casualty of the blitz. Making no effort on her own behalf, Laura follows her friend Johnny into Juvenile deluiquency.

When he is Jailed, she falls under the spell of vicious Clay and drifts into robbery and murder. "Dear Life" by H. E. Bates, is a tragic tale and will be a surprise to those who enjoyed the author's wartime stories of the Far East. "Journey Into Christmas" by Bess Streeter Aldrlch.

is a collection of the author's favorite Christmas stories. Some are about pioneer days, some are about old people, but all are gently sentimental as befits the season. In a final chapter What a great time this Is for celebrating Easter! All about us we see men who are frightened. It is not always easy for them to tell Just what they fear, for there seems to By HAROLD BYRD Most ancient of all symbols, used tools, materials, and methods that are easily available to the student. The author begins the simplest problems and works up to casting in stone and metals and to architectural sculptures.

There are many pages of Illustrations which show the principles and qualities emphasized in the text. "Religious Art From the Twelfth To the Eighteenth Century," by Emile Male contains siijnificant excerpts from the author's classic four-volume set. There aire dozens of plates of memorable examples of to walk on the bridge It disappeared for travelers to rest beside as well in a bog and was lost for centurier in a variety of forms by peoples in as pray; children, as well as their elders, have the custom of crossing widely scattered parts of the world the longest won the case. Choir boys In European cities still stand with arms crossed when singing. Another use of the cross symbol until later It miraculously appear! and was made 4nto the cross of since before the down of history.

their fingers for luck to avert dan Christ. the cross is the supreme emblem of be no immediate danger. Vet they are apprehensive of an uncertain future. They hear much of materialism, of socialism, of communism and each has Its ominous sound, nowlbly because in their own minds there is little of precise definition of these terms. Another legend states that three Christianity, and never more sig ger.

Many people cross their hearts and "hope to die" when making promises. nificantly so than at Easter. is the design or the paneling on many doors in olden times. The idea was that the dwelling so adorned would be blessed forever thereafter. woods, at least, constitute the true cross, as it was made from a cedar.

Older than Christianity, and deep Market crosses, which once were- cypress, and a pine, grown from Continued on I'ajte Col. 3 ly rooted in the love of life itself, the spirit dt Easter finds its most Tn tho rinvs nf flhHst. the. fnrres The abbreviation of Christmas when three seeks of an apple, picked from common throughout Europe, naturally originated from the custom of early times. The privilege of holding markets was formerly granted to perfect expression in the Resurrec- writing "Xmas" Is another common use of the symbol.

Monks were of evil had done their best to conquer Him. It would be difficult to the forbidden tree in the Garden of Eden. These three seeds were placed 1 17 'What the young man will wear ion of Jesus Christ, at this season under Adam'a tongue after his death of the renewal of nature. the monasteries, and the cross vas Nc is not to be Spectacular and grew into a miraculous triple tree. In the thousands of years from conceive a more uniair and uncalled for series of acts than the Master's betrayal.

His trial and crucifixion. Even then His enemies YOU MEAN YOU erected not only as a sign of thelr jurisdiction and power to receive Folk lore states that the tree cross one shall foist an extreme vant something dimmest antiquity to the present crosses have taken many designs. tolls, but also as a pulpit for oc was made of aspen wood, and fur were not content, but they added casional religious exhortation. Also, Although among the ancients cross 4t.1rtM CONSERVATIVE? safeguards against any possible ther relates, "Now the aspen- tree es were In common use as a means gtMivvn ituiauA Ail in former times, markets were held on Sundays and on festivals, for the constantly quakes and trembles because a divine curse hath been of execution, their most extensive nese Mmes convenience of dealers who were as. jse was In connection with mystic, placed upon It." Even the leaves of religious, and memorial expressions.

miscarriage of their plans. They rolled a huge boulder against the door of the tomb, affixing to the edges thereof the imperial seal of Caesar. Everyone knew that any violation of that seal meant death. taught always to lay the fork crosswise on the knife at the end of then-frugal meals, that it might thus represent the cross. Hot cross buns from time immemorial have been associated with Good Friday, and are still very much appreciated for their crispness, as well as for their interesting cross mark.

Long ago people believed that the hot cross buns were consecrated bread that would never grow mouldy and that It would cure the sick and protect one from misfortune. WITH FIERY CROSS Sir Walter Scott tells how in Scotland long ago clan was summoned against clan by fiery cross. this tree continue to flutter when sembled for worship. Hence the churchyard was often selected for this business. there is not the slightest breeze.

This strange phenomenon Is explained by and they have taken numerous forms, of which the most widely known 'are the most familiar Latin cross; the Greek cross: and tau vet the power that rolled away the NO FAIRS During the reign of Edward an the story, which relates that the cress of Our Saviour was made from cross, so-called because it is formed act of Parliament was passed In stone on that first Easter morning recognized no puny power like that of a Caesar. wood of the aspen tree: thus this tree trembles in fear and horror of It's mostlu like the Greek letter and the tau cross with a circle at the top. When Christ had died upon the the Divine Wrath to come. symbolizing eternal life. 1255 prohibiting the holding of markets and fairs in churchyards, aud in 1677, Charles Us day.

the practice of holding the fairs Sunday was forbidden. The ever-presen. cross Crow the high hopes of the little OF COMMON WOOD The oak also has Dcen supposed band of disciples seemed to have MANY VARIATIONS There are, however, many, many M'Jlj' gents who to be the tree which contributed the There are many stories connected been aroused in vain. A few of them feu gathered in a forlorn group in the 'with the true cross, some quaintly fantastic; but each one tells that i i 1 1 1 upper room to bemoan their tragic reminded men of their Crucified Ex-emple, who had recognized and sanctified the necessary business of life, not only by actually laboring variations of these, among them the oblique Cross of St. Andrews; Papal Cross; the Cross of Lorraine; the Patriarchal Cross; the Cross Nowy quadrat, which has a square expan 1 1 lit was made of wood.

One relates mistake; two of them started to that Adam, when very old, going on return to their home beyond the Judaean hills. It was these two who ALL RIGHT I POLISH YOU SHOE BUT IFYOUTHEENK I PRESS YOU PANTS sion In the center; the Maltese some nine hundred years and racked with pain, remembered that he had been told that the leaves of the Tree encountered a stranger in the way and their hearts overflowed with Cross: the forked cross; the Jerusa innovation lem Cross, and sad memories of the past week when one cried out, "But we, hoped ssMMMBMBMHssssar VVP1T. that It was He who should redeem of Life in the Garden of Eden had a soothing power. He persuaded his son, Seth, to request a slip of the tree from the gardlan angel at the gate. This Seth did, but unfortun-nately Adam died before he re It Is to the third century after the crucifixion that the custom of making the sign of the cross Is traced; and in Constantlne's reign Israeli" Then a little later, as Christ reveals himself to them, this material for the altar of the sacrifice, not only because it was a common tree hi Palestine, and well fitted by Its strength for the purpose, but also because the fragments which bear the greatest probability of genuineness appear to be of that wood.

The oak, also, ha sheen sanctified by many divine mysteries and manifestations. It was under an oak that God covenanted with Abraham at Mamre for the salvation of his seed. Under an oak the angels awaited Abraham's hospitality, and repaid, it by foretelling the birth of Isaac. v. There Is a tridtion that the mistletoe was once a tree and furnished the wood of the ttut cross.

This mey account for the association of mistletoe with decorations at ChristmaY time, although the privilege of kissing under the mistletoe is a relic of crosses were reared In public places, hope finds Its realization In the as surance of the resurrection. 1 turned with it, so the slip was plant the crass was painted on their doors by the faithful, and churches began to be erected In the form of a cross. with his own hands but also by paying legal tribute, and directing the toil of hla followers. The Influence of, the Cross was acknowledged by the traders, for they were in the habit of appealing by oath to the sacred image, under whose shadow they stood, that their goods and services were honest. Another sign or the cross with legal significance is the cross mark made by persons unable to sign their names to deeds, wills or other documents.

This inscribing of the cross has been used for centuries. During the reign of Charlemagne, lawsuits sometimes were decided In a peculiar way, the method of procedure being that the plaintiff and the defendant were required to stand In court with their arms crossed on their breasts; the one who held out THE VALET IS NO ed at the head of his grave, where it flourished and grew into a large tree, From one branch came the Indeed Christ had died. He had been burled, but he refused to stay burled. The power of immortal life could never be confined in an The Crusaders brought the cross rod with which Moses smote the into the most general use in mili tary emblems and in heraldry. earthly tomb.

Ever since that first rock in the wilderness. Solomon had the tree hewn down to make a pil Easter dawn His followers have had a new apologetica new message: Crosses also have been used for purposes other than religious. For hundreds of years the cross has been used as a memorial to commemorate the deeds of the great. Boundary crosses have been used as markers IT MAY BE THE STYLE-BUT OH, BOY TAKE A LOOK U. S.

tailors are sad and confused about the male's taste In clothes. Opinions are that most younger men shy away from a large or colorful wardrobe, because they fear being pointed out as a "dandy," that, because of public opinion, moneyed men think It's undesirable to appear In the wide variety of clothes they can well afford. And, It's the older men who like gay colors. Sketch by AP Newsfeatures Artist H. E.

MunhalL "Yes, He was dead, but He is alive 1' So in the New Testament preach' Ing of Peter on the Day of Pente lar for his temple. Strangely it never fitted anywhere, so he had It made into a foot-bridge, over a brook. When the Queen of Sheba made her famous visit to him, one version of cost, of Paul, and others down to Another tale, and probably the vj the tale recounts that as she started lor church lands; wayside crosses the present time, the resurrection continued en rage CoL 4 II.