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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1923-03-09
Chant to the Auto.

MY auto, tits of thee, short cut to
poverty-of thee chant. / blew pile
of dough on you three years ago, now
you refuse to go-or won't or can't.
Through town and countryside I drove
thee full of pride; no charm you
lacked. loved your gaudy hue, your
tires so round and new-now 1 feel
mighty blue. the way you act. To thee,
old rattlebox, came many bumps and
knocks; for thee I grieve. Badly thy
top is torn; frayed are thy seats and
worn; Inc Group affects thy horn, l do
believe. Thy perfume swells the breeze.
while good folks choke and sneeze, as
we pass by. paid for thee price,
'twOuld buy mansion twice: now
everyone yells ice" l wonder why.
Thy motor has the grip; thy spark
plug has the pip, and woe is thine. /.
too, have suffered chills, fatigue and
kindred ills, trying to pay the bills
since thou vert mine. Gone is my bank
roll now; no more 'twould choke a
COW, as once before. Yet if l had the
yen. so help me John-amen! I'd buy
car again and spend some more
Bay City Motorist
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1923-03-09
"Quaker Guns"

Dummy cannon are called Quaker
guns" in reference to the doctrines Of
nonresistance held y-Quakers. The
Confederate general, Joseph Il. John
ston, speaking Of his position at Ma
nassas in early 1862, said: "As we had
not artillery enough against their
works and for the army fighting else
where at the same time, rough wooden
limitations of guns were made, and
kept near the embrasures, in readiness
for exhibition in them. To conceal the
absence of carriages, the embrasures
were covered with sheds made of
bushes. These were the quaker guns
afterwards noticed in northern pa
pers."
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1923-03-09
ARE YOU A CHURCH MEMBER?


No? Is it because you do not be
lieve in God? There are few people
who would give such a reason as
that. 1t is more likely that while
you do believe in God, and acknowl-
edge the great benefit which has
come to the world through the mis-
sion of Jesus Christ to men, you do
not feel that the church is just what
it ought to be, and so do not feel
satisfied to join it. Perhaps you do
not condemn the church as a whole,
but are disguised because you see
church members doing things which
they ought not to do. Did it ever
occur to you that the church is sim
ply a group of men and women, and
that as a whole it cannot be better
than the people who make it up?
The church is honestly trying to
help men to find the true meaning of
life, and a basis of lasting happiness.
All of us who believe that the future
of our race is conditioned on the
VI Il6uICOuSuCSS UOlOh 8
under the banner of the greatest
preacher of righteousness the world
ever saw. Criticize the church from
the inside, and so help to make it
better.
But perhaps you are only using
the mistakes of church members to
justify yourself in living a life of
sim, In that case you are indeed to
be pitied. He who deliberately sep
arates himself from God renounces
the finest things in life and creates
his own hell.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1923-03-09
Had Horror of Red Hair.

Red-haired boys and girls are, says
Prof. Karl Pearson, the most con-
scientious, athletic and popular. Yet
Madame De Boigne tells in her
Memoirs how her friend, the duchess
Of Chevreuse, Conceived horror of
her children because they were indis-
Greet enough to have hair Of the same
fiery, red color as her own. Her chief
prooccupation in life was to prevent
people from knowing the color Of her
hair, and she neglected no means of
Disgusting it. AS the duchess hair had
grown somewhat during her last i'll
ness she ordered it to be cut and
thrown into the fire before her eyes,
so that no trace of it might survive
her. Two hours after this was done
the duchess died"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1923-03-09
VALUE OF MARYLAND FARM
PRODUCTS in 1922 GAINED
OVER 1921.
Increase OF Nearly $15,OO0,OOO In
Farm Value OF Crops, Animals
Raised, And Animal
Products.


The farm value of all crops and
animals raised and animal products
produced in Maryland during 1922
was 100000, according to a
statement given out by John S. Dem
nee, crop statistician at Baltimore
for the United States Department Oh
Agriculture. cooperating with the
Extension Service of the University
of Maryland. This amount repre-
sents gain of $14,9O0,000 over the
value Of all farm products produced
during 1921 but is short of 1919
the bumper yearly $S1,000,000;
and of 1920 by $42,00O,000.
OF the 1922 gross value the total
for crops is placed. at SOS, 100000,
and the total for animals raised and
for animal products is placed at
$36,600,0OO. 1t should be borne in
mind that the total value of animals
raised and animal products dupli-
Gates crop value to a degree not as
certainable. Compared with 1921
values, crops gained by $15,80O, 900
while animals raised and animal
products lost 100000.
Crop value as fraction of the ag-
gregate value of all farm products
fell from 50 per cent in 1919 to SO
per cent in 1921, but recovered to
65 per cent in 1922 on account of
the gain of crop value in 1922 over
1921, and the nearly stationary val
ue of animal products.
The course of crop value has
fiuctuated exceedingly during the
last ten years, according to the crop
statistician. The peak year of high
crop prices was 1919, when the
value was 1913 per cent greater than
in 1918. After 1919 a precipitate
decline followed. The crop value
of 1921 marks the lowest point of
deflation, as an upward movement
in 1922 carried such value to SIS
per cent above 1918.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1923-03-09
A Good Thing--Don't Miss L.

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plainly written together with S
cents ,(and this Slip to Chamberlain
Medicine Co., Des Moines, Iowa, and
receive in return trial package
containing Chamberlain's Coug h
Remedy for coughs, colds, Group,
bronchial, ''flu" and whoc2ing
coughs, and tickling throat; Cham
berlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets
for stomach troubles, indigestion,
gassy pains that crowd the heart,
biliousness and constipation; Cham
berlain's Salve, needed in every
family for burns, scalds. wounds,
piles, and skin affections; these
valued family medicines for only s
cents. Don't miss it..
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1923-03-09

At least three of the most recent
appointments of President Harding
are sure to cause further dissensions
in the Republican Party-Po
to be Ambassador to Peru; New to
be Postmaster General, and Mondell
to be member of the War Finance
Corporation. Poindexter and New
are both Newberry Senators. New
berry and Newberryism were over
whelmingly defeated and Tebuked at
the polls last November
The appointment of Mondell, late
Republican floor leader, to the War
Finance Corporation is an affront
especially to the farmers, and an
approval of the worst failure as a
party leader in the annals of Con-
gress. Mondell has been the chief
stumbling block to the passage of
the most important agricultural
legislation. He was branded by the
late Col. Roosevelt as foe of the
conservation of natural resources, to
which the country is committed, and
it was Mondell in collision with
Lame Duck" Phil Campbell, Chair
man of the Rules Committee, who
prevented action looking to cheaper
fertilizer for the farmers.
The appointment of Gen. Hines to
be Director of the Veterans Bureau
has stirred up the American Legion,
but anyone, of course, was an i'm
provement on Col. Forbes.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1923-03-09
Foreign Advertising Repre- sentative
THE AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION
COMMERCE. DEPARTMENT T(
BLAME FOR HIGH PRICE
ON Sugar.

Some of the responsibility for the
present high prices of sugar in all
parts of the country is being i'm
Jdted to the Department of Com
merce, which, in the face of pro-
tests, issued an announcement that
there would be relative shortage
in the supply for 1928, thus giving
stock obbers and profiteers an OPP
portunity to gouge consumers for
about 100000
Sugar is now selling at retail for
and 10 cents pound, with pros
pect that it will go still higher. 1t
is believed that there will be no
decrease in the price through the
summer and the preserving season.
The American housewife will have
to pay dearly for the sugar that she
uses for the next half year, it is pre-
dicted.,
The heading on the bulletin issued
by the Department of Commerce as
serted that Production (of sugar.
for 1923 only $4,000 tons higher
than last year Consumption needs
estimated at 725,000 tons above
production" In the body of the
bulletin there appeared statements
that there was only small .'carry-
over" in Cuba and a decrease in the
production of cane and beet sugar
in this country.
Frank C. Lowry, of the firm of E..
Atkins & Company, New York,
learned of the Commerce Depart
ment's intention to release" the
publish" bulletin and wrote to Sec
rotary Hoover asking him to with
hold it, explaining that it would
bring about "a hetic situation from
which consumers, manufacturers
and other sugar interests would
later suffer-" Notwithstanding this
protest, which the sequel has justi-
fed, the Department of Commerce
issued its bulletin. The wild orgy
of speculation and manipulation be-
gan and prices flew upward until
millions had been mulcted from the
public.
The Republican tariff of 1.7648
cents pound on Cuban sugar and
2.206 cents a pound on all other
imported sugar had previously given
the profteers a chance to advance
prices, which they promptly did
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1923-03-09
GUARD AGAINST GARLIC
FLAVOR IN MILK.

Now is the time for farmers t.
take preventive measures agains
the garlic flavor that makes it's ap
pearance in the milk. The wise
farmer will take the simple precau-
ton necessary each spring, rather
than allow an unpleasant flavor to
appear in his milk, thus losing him
sales"
The warning is sent out by G.. l.
Cohee, Jr., head of the Quality Con-
troll Department of the Interstate
Dairy Council, the educational or
ganization of the dairy interests sup
plying Philadelphia and nearby
points.
Farmers must realize that the gar
lie flavor in milk loses actual sales
for them" warns Mr.. Cohee
Neither the milk dealers nor the
consuming public will long continue
to buy milk that has an unpleasant
taste, regardless of how it may or
may not affect the actual quality of
the milk
Last spring as much as twenty
five per cent of the milk was turned
back to the farmer, daily, because
of the garlicy flavor. Two years
ago one company lost 10000 quarts
in sales in one week, simply because
the garlic flavor was evident in the
milk.
For this reason dealers are COM
PEELED to be rigid in their demands
for milk free. from all foreign
fiavors. The farmer should not ex-
pect to sell milk even slightly flavor
ed with garlic. Even though it may
pass his own inspection it may be
condemned by the purchasers in
spector, who has an especially train
ed sense of smell
1T is quite necessary to take
steps that will eliminate, as nearly
as possible, the unpleasant garlic
flavor" declares Mr. Cohee.
THE prevention measures are
simple, requiring only ordinary pre-
cautions. The farmer should delay
turning his cows out to pasture in
the spring until sufficient growth of
grass can be found for the cattle
without causing them to rely on
garlic for food.
"A good plan, when starting the
pasture season, is to turn out one
cow first, and only for a short
period of time, using the milk of
this one cow for home consumption
alone. If the milk is found to be
favored with garlic, cut down the
hours of pasturage, and continue
cutting down until the point is
reached where there is no longer
any foreign flavor. Then and not
until then, treat the remainder of
the herd in the same manner.
"As a rule, cows cannot be left
out more than two hours immediate
ly after milking without the milk
becoming favored with grass or
garlic"
The Interstate Dairy Council Of
fers to answer any questions and to
help in solving any problems on the
garlic trouble that the farmers
themselves have been unsuccessful
in solving. Letters should be adj
dressed to c. 1. Cohee, Jr., Quality
Control Department, Interstate
Dairy Council, Heed Bldg, 1911
Filbert Street, Philadelphia.
The Dairy Council is sending ex-
tension workers into the districts
particularly troubled with the garlic
problem, but these workers will be
unable to reach all districts where
help will be needed. The organize
ton has been assisting farmers in
this problem each spring during the
past two years, and in some districts
has been able to abolish the garlic
trouble almost altogether.
Even when some women are made
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1923-03-09
Foreign Advertising Representative
THE AMERICANA PRESS association
SIXTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS
EXPIRES.
(Special Correspondence.l


Washington, March 5.-The Sixty
seventh Congress which expired
March 4 will long be familiar to
some as the "Do-Nothing Congress,
to others as the Lame Duck Con-
gress," the "Profiteers' Tariff Con-
gress," the "Newberry Congress,
the ship Subsidy Congress-" etc.,
but among it's many titles there will
be none that will be remembered
with pride.
With the life OF the late Congress
went the fotsam and jetsam, the
strange things that the tide washed
up on the Congressional beach and
the other strange things that the
cat dragged in in 1920, and with
them went most of the Newberry
Senators who were up for re-elec-
ton. The voters Of the country did
great job of housekeeping last
November when they reduced the
Republican majority in Congress
from 169 to II.
The late Sixty-seventh Congress
did some things for which it will re-
ceive popular approval, but in near
ly if not quite every instance of
this kind the legislation was nom
partisan and received the votes of
both parties. This was true of the
ratification of the disarmament
conference treaties, the approval of
the foreign debt funding agreement,
the extensions of agricultural cred
it's, good road legislation and bills
of this character.
But when the work of the Con-
gress is analysed in detail it will be
found that it did nothing of a
permanent character for the farmer,
the legitimate business man, the
wOrkingman, the ex-service man,
the average taxpayer, and that it
disappointed the reasonable expec-
tations of the people as a whole. 1t
has done nothing to solve the Euro
pean problems looking to the res
toration of foreign trade and mar
kets for surplus products of agri-
culture and manufacture; it did not
even attempt to solve the pressing
problem of transportation. This
was because it had no domestic or
foreign policy Of it's own nor one
outlined by the administration.
Its net results are all for the bene-
fit Of the special privilege and preda-
tory class in whose favor it has dis
eliminated, as against the people as
whole. 1t added largely to the
taxes of the people and to the profits
of the prOfiteers through the tariff !;
| it reduced the taxes of the big tax
payers with no corresponding re-
duction to the small taxpayers. 1t
attempted to dispose of the great
merchant marine to the shipping in
terests for song and grant huge
bonus besides. Ship Subsidy was
the measure upon which President
Harding elected to assert his leader
ship, and his leadership was repudi-
ated.
There will be Republican claims
of economy and reduced appropria-
lions by the Congress, but legisla-
tive economy is reflected in reduc-
ed taxes, and the fact is that the
ordinary annual recurring expenses
of the Government have not been
reduced and the average taxpayer
has had no relief. In all major re-
spects the Congress has failed.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1923-03-09

Advances in the prices of nearly
all commodities have tended to de-
preciate the dollar compared with
its purchasing power in 1913 until
it is now worth only about 81 cents.
The rise in prices, it is predicted,
will continue, due to the tariff and
other artificial factors.
Farmers and wage-workers are
the first and worst sufferers from
this depreciation of the dollar, since
they can not mark up their product
to Offset increases in the cost of
what they buy. The farmer is and
ing difficulty in selling his products
for prices that cover the cost Of pro-
duction. Wage workers are con-
fronted by a downward tendency of
wage scales.
The big trusts and monopolies
which control the manufacture of
food, clothing, and other consumers
commodities are reaping all the
gain from the ascent of prices. 1t
is these interests also that are favor
ed by the profiteers' tariff.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1923-03-09
THOSE HoRRID MEN.

A pretty young girl in fury,
Took her case to judge and jury,
She said Trolley E
Had injured her knee;
But the jury said, Were from
Missouri"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1923-03-09
''COLD IN THE HEAD"

is an acute attack of Nasal Catarrh
Those subject to frequent colds" are
generally in run down" condition.
HALLS CATARRH MF-irCINE Is a
Treatment consisting OF in Ointment, to
be used locally, and q Tonic, which acts
Quickly through the Blood on the Ml-.
cous Surfaces, building up the system.
and making you less liable to colds"
Sold by druggists for over 40 Years.
y. ], Cheney & Co., Toledo, o.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1923-03-09

Women might succeed in politics
if they could only learn to throw
mud straight enough to hit the light
person.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1923-03-09

An educated man is one who can
explain any political situation to his
wife, but who doesn't if his educa-
ton has been a practical one.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1923-03-09

Charles w. Colmery, of Newark,
Del, has been elected State Council
lor of the Junior Order United
American Mechanics of Delaware.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1923-03-09

Mr.. and Mrs. F. E. Strickland
have sold their general store in
Providence, Cecil county, to Mr.. and
Mrs. Percy Evans.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1923-03-09

1t takes the young doctor some
time to build up practice 1t fact,
he must have lots of patients.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1923-03-09

You can always fool some people
with substitutes. Those who are
looking for trouble are willing to
take offense. \
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1923-03-09

We have to pay for our experience,
but many a fellow buys it who can't
afford the price.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1923-03-09

Excellent Remedy for Constipation.
1t would be hard to find better
remedy for constipation than Cham
berlain's Tablets. They are easy to
take and mild and gentle in effect.
Give them a trial when you have
need.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1923-03-09

A cynic is man who loves him
self for the enemies he has made.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1923-03-09

No man is so fast that retribution
won't sooner or later overtake him
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1923-03-09

Knaves and fools are merely peo-
pie who haven't sense enough to
keep from being found out.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1923-03-09

Tho poor man feels the pinch of
poverty, but many rrich man has
been pinched, too.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1923-03-09

Always be prepared. Some men
expect opportunity to knock at the
door during business hours only.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1923-03-09

Even in looking, for trouble it's
good plan not to overestimate your
capacity.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1923-03-09

Our opinions cost us nothing till
we try to express them. Then we
generally have to pay the charges.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1923-03-09

Samuel Miller had his arm frac-
tured while at work at Providence
paper mill last Wednesday.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1923-03-09

About the oldest thing in the
world is loves young dream.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1923-03-09
Do You Believe That
Christ's Way Will Work !?

The writer's of the "Pennsbury
Leaflets" do. These are brief
new essays on the application
of Christianity to present-day
problems. They are small, fit
ting conveniently into an ordi-
nary letter envelope. Some
titles are:-
"The Reality of Gods Presence.
''The More Excellent Way"
christian Weapons
They may be obtained free
from VIM. B. Harvey, Secretary,
3O4 Arch St., Philadelphia.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1923-03-09

Even when some women are made
up they look marked down.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1923-03-09

The fellow who spends as he goes
doesn't stop to think about getting
back.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1923-01-19
+ (. I. + I. + I. + + + + + = ! 4 4
+ PERSONAL MENTION I

C. w. Johnson OF Harrison, Idaho
was Moscow business visitor
Thursday.
Walter Remainder OF Spokane is
guest at the home Of his sister, Mrs.
Theodore Lundquist.
DR.. and Mrs. w. H. Carithers left
Thursday for San Jose, Cal. They
are taking little John Douglas Hun
ter, who goes to his grandparents,
Mr. and Mrs. William Hunter. Mr..
and Mrs. Hunter, pioneers of Mos
cow, who have been in San Antonio,
Texas, for several years, have moved
to California to make their home.
Mrs. Roi Ripper and son, Robert,
who have been guests at the nome
OF her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. s. O..
Harrington, during the holidays, left
Thursday for their home in Boise.
Miss Elizabeth Hendrickson, who
works in a match factory at Spo-
kane, is spending her vacation at her
home in Moscow.
J. w. Schumacher received word
that his mother, Mrs. T. E. Schu-
macher, who is spending the winter
at the home of her son, G. L. Schu-
macher at Nampa, Idaho, is quite
I'LL.
Kenneth Yost arrived today from
Spokane for visit with his father.
J. F. Yost.
Corliss McElroy returned home
Thursday evening from several
days business visit to Spokane.
Mrs. L. A. Torsen spent the week
end with her son, Henry L. Torsen,
at Potlatch.
Mrs. c. A. F'rantz has just received
word of the death of her father, MIR.
Woodwork, who lived in Michigan.
He was past eighty years OF age
Cliff Wood, of Spokane, was al
Moscow business visitor Friday
Mrs. J. W. Kershner and daughter,
Miss Helen, went to Spokane Friday
morning where Mrs. Kershner will
visit for few days and Miss Helen
will enter the Spokane Business col
lege.
Ralph Defenbach of Lewiston, was
a Moscow business visitor Friday.
Mrs. Nelson is quite i'll at the home
of her daughter, Mrs. H. M. Stewart, 4
on North Washington street.
Mrs. George Sawyer of Potlatch,
was a Moscow shopper Thursday.
C. A. Frantz, of the Frantz Hard
ware Co., went TO Spokane Thursday |
on busfness.