The old fashioned way. Many things are old fashioned in the little Baltic states of Lithuania, Latvia and Esthonia, but nothing seen by the American Red Cross workers there, is more primitive than the spinning wheel. It is the possession of every household, and while father is out on the farm cultivating the flax, the barefooted mother-peas-spins it into clothing for domestic and commercialises. There has been much illness in the Baltic provinces but thanks to the work of the Red Cross the people are getting on their feet again