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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1922-08-25

Young Men Young Women Separate Departments
Fifty-sixth Year Begins September IS, 1922
Graduates from fouryear
without conditions. required.
CURRICULUM. Eight leading A. B.
gree offered Grouped about following subjects
English History Science Mathematics
Physics, Chemistry and Biology Modern Languages
Education Home Special courses In
Speech Voice. and Piano Unit Ocers Training
maintained by the Government.
LOCATION UNExCELLED 1000 feet above the
Maryland Pure air. water charming scenery
One Baltimore, two from washington.
EQUIPMENT complete Thirty campus; sixty college
modern buildings; comfortable living
laboratories library Of $1,000 volumes gymnasium power
heating plant New athletic field $4,000 ready
the coming New dormitory costing s15OO00
completed September
BOARD TUITION $4,000
Prospectus for 1872 1923 application
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1922-08-25

The woman who climbs the ladder
of fame never thinks of blushing be-
cause of the men who look up to her.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1922-08-25

If we should all think before we
speak what a painful silence would
fill the universe.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1922-08-25

How liberal we all are with the
million dollars we wish" we had !.
how tightly we clutch the ten dollars
we have!
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1922-08-25

No, Maude, dear; it wasn't be-
cause Of Friday that Robinson Cru
soc ate fish.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1922-08-25

When Good Times steps out
Courtesy steps INN some estab-
lishments.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1922-08-25

You never can tell. Even the un-
dertaker may not be able to make
a living in dead town.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1922-08-25

Look before you leap. Be sure
you are right and then take another
look.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1922-08-25

There's only one place where
coming close" counts-that's in
horseshoes.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1922-08-25

No man is too busy to stop and
deliver trade against the evils OF
wasting time.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-09-13
LONG, LONG AGO

M NJ over wonder how modern life compares with long
AGO in America, when grandpa was a ladf Turn back % years
and see whether you would exchange places
Times were hard in 1889. The United States Bank nav
inc over.specIlated in cotton, was forced to suspend opera
lions The failure involved only $2OOO,OOo IN deposlts' ot
il precipitated a financial panic in which over 4oo banks were
obliged to close, many Of them for good.
Congress. as usual. shot off on a tangent and got inter
ested in something else. Ii raised a cyclone OF oratory against
the ''barbarity' OF using a pack of bloodhounds that hd
been ;mnorted from Cuba to track down Seminole Indians in
Florida. Before the talking subsidized, the dogs were abandoned
as inefficient. ~
The cheer.up crew told the nation that its hope for pros
nerity was in foreign trade. Great elatlon when Messrs. bald
win, Vail & Hufty announced that their Phlladelphia pant
had received orders for several locomotives for Engllsn rail-
roads.
II was in 1889 that Charles Goodyear perfected his pro-
of vulcanizing rubber. Another inventive sensation OF
the wear was furnished by Prof. John William Draper OF Uni
yersity of New York, who announced he had made the hrst
Photographic portrait ever taken from life
w. +. Harnden, Boston plunger, started the first express
service in 1889, carrying packages between ms clty ana Ne"
York.
The wilderness was for from conquered. In Florida the
Indians were on the warpath, a bounty of 5000 on their heads.
A row broke out between England and America over the
boundary of Maine, Regulars were rushed to the border and
after a winters persuasion succeeded IN canning the
Maine farmers, who had decided to settle the argument with
their rifles.
marvel of 1859 was that the cost of running the national
government was less than $3S, 100000 for the year. The ma
tional debt then was a trihe under $12,0O0,O00.
Otherwise, the year 1889 was uneventful, except for Gus
tomary trouble with Mexico. Still there's certain glamor
about those old days, and maybe the reason we moderns some
times complain that life is dull is because so many sensa-
tional things happen that we are becoming jaded.
Life today is a carnival-very interesting at first, then
boresome after a while, the spectators wanting to get away
where it's quiet. There is such a thing as life being so super
interesting that it s dull. Extremes meet.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-09-13

in winter from the earth and 'ower
atmosphere. The average temper
ature six miles above sea level at
latitude 40 degrees is roughly,-GO,
degrees +.
Q. Is there a law compelling raa.'
roads to do away with wooden pass
enger coaches and use steel carr
only? j. d. G.
A. The Interstate Commerce
Commission says hat there is no law
compelling the railroads to use steel
passenger cars only. However. there
Is a Post Office regulation stating
that steel cars must be used for nail
purposes.
Q. What battleships are in the
Pacific fleet? A. r. w.
A. The California, New Mex4ro,
New York, Texas, Oklahoma, A.iz-
ona. Nevada. Mississippi. Pennsyl-
vania, Tennessee and Idaho COM
prise the Pacific fleet. The Mary
land has been assigned to it but tas
not Joined yet. Thirty-eight destroy
ers are attached to the fleet.
@. How many women living on
farms never get a vacation? A. McC.
A. A recent survey of 10, 900 a
homes In 33 states shows that ST
percent Of the women on farms
never nave any vacations.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-09-13
LISTEN TO TIE BAND AND BOOST

Visit Perth Amboy Day on September p is going to be
a regular booster for the city. 1t is going to be a Fall Open
ing in every sense of the word. This means more than a DIS
plav by the merchants of their new fall and winter goods,
which, in itself, will be important. The event Will marx
the beginning of another season of activities for making
Perth Amboy a bigger and better place in which to live and
do business.
Inspired by the music of the famous United States Ma
rine Band, September 27 ought to be a day when every citi-
zen dedicates himself and herself to boosting, building,
booming Perth Amboy. Why not? Let it be a day when
every citizen puts aside the hammer, looks on the good
things about the city rather than the bad features, and re-
solves that hereafter he will stick up for the old town
through thick and thin.
We can always find something to knock about, it is
true, but so can we find things to praise. So, let us resolve
on this Visit Perth Amboy Day, September 27, when the
United States Marine Band plays, to be bigger, brighter and
better citizens, and we can only be that by talking Perth
Amboy' at every opportunity.
incidentally, why not take some steps at that time to
revive the Board of Trade so that the city may have a civic
body to represent it in the big things that are going on all
about? Every day scores of letters of inquiry come in ask
ing information about the city. A good, live Board of Trade
would bring new life and activity to Perth Amboy.
While we listen to the band, then, let us turn over a
new leaf and make the coming year one of the grandest
greatest and most glorious years in the history OF Perth
Amboy.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-09-13

@. How much has the Govern
ment paid to World War Veterans
to date? A. L.
A. According to the latest figures
made public by the Veterans Bur-
eau the payments made to and
moey spent on account Of the vet
Grams Of the late war amount to
more than $1,S40, 600, 600. This
compilation is as Of August 1 last.
The items of these expenditures are:
vocational training. $314,419,000; IN
surance, S3~45,473.000; compensa-
ton, $369,619,000; allotments, $3e1,-
10000; allowances. $2~S2,375,0OO;
marines and seamen's insurance,
$35,093,000; medical and hospital
service, $13S,961,000; hospital fac
~cilities and service, $99S,00 admin
istrative expenses, $52,196,000.
Government insurance policies TO the
number of 570,570 and to the value
of more than $1,194, 900 are
now in force. The number OF former
service men receiving compensation
is liza, 1854, while 259,2S3 have re-
ceived hospital treatment and n
medical examinations Of ~1,194,481
has been ordered by the bureau. Of
the 26,364 former service men o
receiving hospital treatment 1919
are tuberculosis patients, 8,897 are
neuropsychiatric and 6,6SS are gen.
eral and surgical.
@. Where was Henry Ford's father
born? G. f. M.
A. Henry Ford's father, William
Ford, was of English ancestry, ell
though born near the town of Bran
don, Ireland. He emigrated TO
America at the age of 20 and settled
on a 40 acre tract in Greenfield
township, 8 miles west of Detroit.
@. Is Mount Rainier 10000 feet
high or 14,40S feet high?
A. This mountain rises 10000
feet above its immediate surround
ings and its peak is 14,40S feet
above sea level.
@. Is it warmer in summer and
colder in winter, six miles above
the surface of the earth? L. NJ. w.
A. The Weather Bureau says that
according to the fullest records they
have, the temperature of the atmos-
phere at the elevation Of six miles
is a few degrees higher in summer
than in winter. This appears to be
due, in part at least, to the greater
amount of radiation in summer than
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-09-13
WHO WON COAL STRIKE;
NO DECISION MADE
Daily Letter by Frederic j. Haskin

WASHINGTON Sept. 1O-The
question as to which side won the
coal strike is heard on every hand
now that the controversy which
paralyZed the great fuel industry
Tor i've months is at an end. tenn
porarily speaking. 1t may not be
important and it may be difficult to
give an answer that will stand un-
challenged but there is a general
and altogether reasonable desire to
know whether the big fight was a
draw Or whether the miners or the
operators can claim the victory.
AS matters stand there was no
decision. In fact. there was no ref
cree, unless President Harding may
be said to have occupied that n
cnviable position, and if the Pres
seen fit to tell the public what he
thought as to the result.
1t is possible, however, to review
the causes of the strike. to state
what happened during the conflict
and to approximate the situation
now that it is all over. That may
shed some light on the mooted ques-
zion.
The miners through their union
had wage contracts or agreements
which expired March 81 last. The
bituminous operators declined to
meet with the representatives or
the miners. in national conference
10 negotiate a new agreement. The
miners claimed that this was in and
of itself a violation of the contract
between the operators and them.
The latter claimed that inasmuch as
such an agreement might be held
to be a conspiracy in violation OF
the antitrust law they could not be
expected to enter into a conference
In the anthracite field the opera
tors met with the miners to work
out a new contract covering wages
and working conditions, but nc
agreement was reached up to and
including March 81. Thereupon
the miners in both fields declined
to go to work on April /. and the
! strike was on. 1t was not called a
strike by the miners, but just as
the rose would smell as sweet II
called by any other name. what mar
pened in the coal industry had all
the effect Of a strike whatever any,
body decided to call it.
What Was at Issue
The bituminous miners had not
presented any demands as to the
new wage contract, so it can not
be said that they struck against a
wage reduction. 1t was we'll known
| however, that the operators were
determined that there should be
wage reduction and that the miners
were insistent upon a continuance
Of the old wage scale. The union
was also determined that the cheek
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-09-13
Ouestions-Answer

ANY readei sai get the answer 20
~ question by writing The Perth
Amboy Evening News Information
,re.u, Frederic J. Haskin. Director
Washington. d. c. This oHer ap-
nlies strictly to information. The
bureau cannot give advice on legal.
medicinal and finsCial troubles. 1t
does not attempt TO settle domestic
troubles, nor 10 undertake exhaus-
tive research on any subject. Write
your question plainly N briefly.
Give full name and address and en-
close two cents in stamps for return
postage. All replies are sent direct
to the inquirer.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-09-13
Tom
Sims


Happiness is a staff of mind your
own business.
Every man starts life a. a baby.
1t is best to outgrow it.
When hubby helps with the dishes
you know who is boss.
Some towns have all the luck.
Two motorcycles smashed in De-
troit.
The mar who makes the worst Of
things gets it.
We respect telephone girls. They
are connected with some OF the best
families in town.
Our trains may be late; but Rus
sian time tables are calendars.
More women are shooting their
husbands. Practice makes perfect.
What could help a safety first
campaign more than longer skirts
A wise man poisons his wife
or selects their wall paper.
Wouldn't it be great If an Ameri.
can dollar was worth as much here
as 1t is in Germany?
Terrible thing about girls showine
their ears again is they may wiggie
them while dancing.
MICHIGAN MAN fh;.1,- L.. l. a,
devil. Moral: Don't believe every,
thing your wife tells you.
Stewards plan to elimina.,
strange words from menus. Moth
ing is said about eliminating strang,
prices.
We saw a nan who was down I,
the mouth and up in the air,
Hunt the bright side. II Won,
clothes were better people Nigh
mistake you for a bootlegger.
An elephants trunk has 1000,
muscles. 1t is the only trunk a bag
gage man can't smash.
The man who takes his own tim
~ ii"S ~ tCll over.
plain girls are clever" finds
professor. But, professor, is a cleve
girl plain?
Funny things happen. A poet ha
become a prize fighter.
Edison admits he invented tn
monograph; but it is doubtful i
blame for these railroad wrecks vii
ever be placed.
Beauty secret: Never cuss a WON
an whose finger nails are long,
themselves to the point Of submit
ting such a proposition. As 1t is tn
miners will have the old wage rat
o practically a whole yea fror
the close of the strike.
The operators, of course, hay
realized good prices on the Goa
stocks on hand at the time of tn
strike, and particularly in the bi
luminous fields. they will now &c
prices such as never would have OBJ
ta!ned IL there had been no cessa
ton Of production. The miner
will have work at full time, an
possibly at overtime, for the mex
year at least. whereas otherwis
!, they would not have averaged NOR
r than three or four days a weel
/ Conditions In an industry that wa
|, over-mined and W manned hav
r been stabilized to a certain exten
and steps have been taken lookin
' to an investigation and reforms tha
may prove OF far-reaching benefit t
l all concerned.
|, In view of all this some observer
, may include that it could not b
said with fairness that either tn
!, miners or the operators won tn
v strike. There are so many differ
, emit angles to the question that 1t
difficult to evaluate the results an
r say that the balance is en- one sid
t or the other.
, One thing is certain, howevel
r We may not know who won the co
3 strike, but we may be sure that Tn
: public lost it. If the public does ne
y know this already. in view of empt
= coal bins and mounting coal price
( it will know it before the winter
I over.
IA
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-09-13
Bible Thought For Today

REAL " ways are ways of pleas
lntness, and all her paths are peace-Proverbs 8: IL.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-09-13

Edison admits he invented the
monograph; but it is doubtful If
blame for these railroad wrecks will
ever be placed.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-09-13

Funny things happen. A poet has
become a prize fighter.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-09-13

Beauty secret: Never cuss a vom-
an whose finger nails are long.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-09-13

Wouldn't it be great If an Ameri-
can dollar was worth as much here
as 1t is in Germany?
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-09-13

Plain girls are clever" finds a.
professor. But, professor, is a clever
girl plain?
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-09-13

We respect telephone girls. They
are connected with some OF the best
families in town.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-09-13

A wise man never poisons his wife
or selects their wall paper.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-09-13

Our trains may be late; but Rus
sian time tables are calendars.
New-York tribune., 1922-07-16

One pleasant evening about a year ago he
came out Of his shop, where he had been look
ing over some doubtful accounts he stood on
the threshold TO survey his well stocked shelves
and smiling dummies and then closed the door
behind him with a vigorous bang. The four
story structure promptly fell down. viewed
the remains the next day. They were an
extraordinary sight. Everything was reduced
TO pile Of plaster and splinters, from which
in spots peered the smiling dummies. The
Coroner or the City Surveyor or whoever il IS
that does such things reported later that the
floor beams had been overloaded. But / knew
better 1t was the piles down below which had
given way. Nothing can resist that eternal
fumbing Of the oceans hands
1t is interesting TO see how this all peryad-
ing element Of salt water dominates the citi-
zenry Of this deectabic burg, Rather Carl
ously comparatively small number Of us are
actually seafaring folk. Yet we are tar
favored for all that. There is a smell OF
hemp hawsers and yellow oilskins in our high
ways and byways.
What possible store in an inland city can
compare with ship chandleryl What feast
of aromas assails the nosel What glittering
array meets the eye-riding lights, compasses,
boat hooks, oars, all the paraphernalia Of tide
water.
Tidewaterl All, there is part Of the secret.
once spent an odious April taking ink baths
in Mount Clemons, Mich. Between dips used
to hobble to the lake and gaze upon It. 1t was
a most revolving sheet Of water. 1t was so
large that it tried to pretend it was an ocean.
1t had horizon and everything. But 1t was
no CO. 1t hadn't any tide The water was
always exactly the same distance below the
little dock. 1t just lay there. ! used TO make
faces at it and started a poem beginning:
"o Lake. you fake"
but | weared Of the stupidity Of my subject
and went no further with it.
But in my home town we have a real, swank-
ing tide every few hours, and we like to talk
about it. One Of my cousins has named his
two Oldest children after the tides, Eb and
Flo / think that is a real pretty idea. We
like TO use technical terms with tang to EN-;
we talk about the turn Of the tide" and "focd
tides" and all that sort Of thing. Every once
in a while some one will mention a "neap
tide" Captain Ben Beebe, who runs the fruit
store on the Parade, even claims he knows
what it means. "Neap?' he said when ! asked
him. "Why sure, Bub; they only come when
the moon gifts gibbous." l didn't have the
nerve to ask him what "gibbous" meant
Cap Beebe hasn't been TO sea for twenty
years, but he is just as salty as when he took
his last trip on the Jabez Randall, the first
five-masted schooner that ever sailed out Of
the harbor. Captain Wooley, who sells cigars
and stationery, has never been to sea at all.
He inherited the title and blue coat from his
father. We're practically all captains in New
New-York tribune., 1922-07-16

Wv THILE those super-feppers Of the
va American womans colleges were
w celebrating their release from school
with daisy chain parades, ivy plant
ings, interclass dances, balloon races and all
the other glad events Of commencement week
word came Of the fiftieth annual commence
msnt of the Constantinople Woman's College,
where girls of twenty nationalities Of the
Near East are learning something Of Amer
lean educational processes and culture.
Started originally as little mission school
in Scutari, the college has for a number Of
years been entirely separated from the mis-
sion board and is now incorporated under a
board Of trustees, Of which Charles R. Crane
is president. Mr. Cranes interest in things
Of the Near East has been rather strikingly
pointed out in public press reports Of late.
The school is now situated on the European
side Of the hills, overlooking the blue waters
of the Bosporous, abou5 six miles from Con-
stantinople more ideal site for a woman's
college could hardly be imagined But it is
Of the Near East fappers, the sweet girl
graduates Of ConstantinOple College, that this
article reports.
81 like Aappers. ] think they are wonder
full" says the president of the college, DR..
Mary Patrick, serene and genial gray
haired lady, who has devoted fifty years to
the work among these girls and who has re-
Gently received an honorary degree from Co
lumbia University. She smiled when some
one asked her what a Constantinople COM
mencerlent was like.
"You might think it very like an American
woman's college commencement II you could
see our graduates, in their caps and gowns,
mounting the steps of Gould Hail." she said
at is like little bit Of America in the heart
Of the Orient. We have Greek girls, Ar
menians, Turks, Bulgarians, Russians. jews
and Serbs, with sprinkling Of other nation
alities, but they are all speaking and thinking
English. Their theses have been prepared in
English. They are not forgetting the customs
of their own countries, but they have learned
10 care for America and American ways.
1--WE are in part Of the world which for
New-York tribune., 1922-07-16
FLAPPERS OF THE NEAR EAST

business women, farmers, teachers, doctors
and nurses.
"Princesses," said DR.. Patrick, "were very
common in the college when the refugees be-
gan pouring in. You met one at every turn.
! remember one, Georgian princess, with
whom we had some trouble when she first ar
rived. There was a Greek girl at that time
serving as proctor in the dormitory 10 which
the princess had been assigned When the
time came for Tights out the daughter of
royalty was discovered in the corridor.
"'You must 20 to bed, the Greek said to her,
It's against the rules TO be up at this hour
The moon will keep
"The princess drew herself up haughtily
and replied: i am princess. ! do not have
to obey rules
"'You do here said the Greek, and she had
her way. The princess became. quite amen
able"
During the fercest fighting Of the Turks
and the Bulgarians the amicabe relations Of
the college girls were not in the least
strained. Two little girls, freshmen in the
college, were overheard in conversation:
"My father is colonel in the Bulgarian
army" said one.
"My father in a colonel in the Turkish
army; that makes us sisters, doesn't it?" saia
the other, and they wound their arms around
each other and started off toward the athletic
field to watch basketball game-American
college girl sports are very popular with these
daughters Of the Near East.
They have their troubles with the stupid
older generation, too, these fappers of Con-
stantinople.
The college quarterly is very interesting
little publication / question if many an Amer
lean college Of the size could produce anything
so creditable as the short story called Blood
for Blood" an Albanian legend. II concerns
the vengeance Of Grandfather Marco"
whose knife, through the lack of any male
descendant fell into the hands Of Liria, who
was forced for "the honor Of the family" to
plunge il into the heart Of her lover.
large number of influential Americans are
interested in this work Of educating the daugh-
ters Of the Near East whose own parents have
either been killed during the twelve years Of
warfare or have become financially unable to
give them the necessary schooling to fit them
for usefYl lives.