Patterns

There were more new pieces for the patchwork of U.S. wartime living last week:

Casualty. The once lively Portland (Ore.) organization called Mother-by-Proxy--which provided women to look after people's children in the evenings--folded for lack of womanpower.

Swing Shift. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Walter S. Gates suggested establishment of a night court to handle divorce suits for men & women busy all day in war plants.

All Out. A Pittsburgh meat-packing house was asked if it had enough rationed gasoline to make all necessary deliveries. Said the salesmanager: "We don't need gas. We haven't any meat."

F.O.B. ODT ruled that taxis may not be used to deliver telegrams or to carry mail from a business house to a post office.

Chocolate Saints. U.S. children will be expected to contribute to the war effort by going without chocolate Saint Nicholases, Saint Valentine's hearts, Easter bunnies and eggs and all other chocolate novelties for the duration. So ruled the War Production Board.

Silver Bloc. Portland (Ore.) restaurants report heavy increases in thefts of silverware. Their theory: Portland's thousands of new war workers, now starting to furnish 28,683 emergency houses built in the area, are thus assembling their household flatware.

Ob jets de Guerre. Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art opened a "Useful Objects in Wartime" exhibit. Featured: baking pans made of paper, a cornhusk doormat, an open-top hamper-cart for the free wheeling of groceries, a plastic sink stopper, a felt eyeglass case.

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