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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-08-14
SALESMANSHIP

. BIRMINGHAM is without doubt a
- good salesman. He sells books
and has made competence from his
sales, and any one who can make a
living selling books could amass for
tune If he would try something that
people want. Not one man In u thou
sand has any heart hunger for books.
When the young fellows who are
earning their living in college come
around in the spring and ask my adj
vice about taking up the selling game
during the summer to keep the wolf
from gnawing at the door during the
next year. / always tell them that II
they are thirsting for experience SELL
ing books is the surest and the most
direct way of getting it. If they want
money, they'd better try silk stock
ings, or face powder, or automobile &C
cessories, or fur coats. or something
that people want-not something you
have to make people want.
Now Ii there Is anything for which
have no need, it Is books. and no
one Is more keenly aware of this
fact than Nancy. She has to dust them
during the spring and fall orgies of
house cleaning, and she doesn't enjoy
busting.
Birmingham calls on me at about
the same time every spring. and know
ing when to expect him, steel my
self against his wiles. Nancy warns
me also.
"Is that book agent due about now?.
she asks.
II guess So" answer in noncom-
initial way.
swell, we don't need any more
books" she suggests. "and you'd bet
ter tell the boy to announce to him
when he arrives that you're in con-
ference. and that you're likely to stay
In until he leaves"
"All right" assent humbly, know
ing that I'll have to see the man wbeth
er I buy or not. He's no ordinary
agent-he's a very interesting gentle
man whom am really glad to meet
came home one evening a few days
later feeling guilty. and suppose, as
is usual. looking the part. Nancy sus-
pected something at once, in spite OF
my efforts to act cheerful.
Ibid anything happen today?" she
inquired.
"Ohi nothing especial answered
She looked at me curiously. and then
went on.
"Was that old book man there?
"Eh. heh." | said shamefacedly.
"And you fell again?"
"Yeh."
why didn't you turn him down
when he asked you to buy?"
That's the trouble. he never ask:
me to buy. He just shows EN- to me-
AS l SAID at the beginning. Burning
ham Is an excellent salesman
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-08-14
OUR YOUNG PEOPLE

r LISTENED to grandmother talking
a to Jean the other morning, and
though grandmother is ordinarily a
very placid and quiet person. ] gath
cred that she thinks the present gen.
GRAFTON has wandered pretty far away
from the straight and narrow path In
which young people walked when she
was girl, and that they are now rae
ing madly afield in motor cars and air
planes and in other means of rapid and
dangerous locomotion.
Myers, across the street, was ex-
pressing the same sentiment to his
son at breakfast, also, following an
evenings escapade of the youth in
an adjacent city. / recall that my
father used to feel the same way about
my own weekend amusements. and
have no doubt that his father felt that
the young people in my fathers time
were going to the dogs pretty rapidly.
Young women are differently edu-
Gated in these days than they once
were, and they have reacted to this
new education. In preparing for the
professional and business careers into
which they are now going. In compe-
tition with men, they have broken
away from the imaginative and ideal
istic and have taken up the more
severely practical studies. This has
affected their characters very little,
think, but 1t has modified their man.
ners. Young women are not so shy,
not so self-conscious, not so well-man-
nered as they once were.
This feeling of self-reliance and in
dependence is responsible to a. large
extent for the carelessness In physi-
cal contact which now seems to exist
between men and women.
Telephones and motor cars and hard
roads, and moving pictures and the
radio have all changed methods and
speed of communication and so have
changed customs and conventions. We
blame these changes on our young peo-
pie to large extent, but the old have
changed quite as completely as the
young. Grandmother no longer at six
ty sits in the chimney corner with
cap over her hair and shawl over
her shoulders, and knitting In her
hands. She's out with the kids skat-
ing or dancing or playing bridge, and
she's dressed like high school girl
and so becomingly dressed, too, that
no one would suspect her age.
It is quite true that our young peo-,
pie do very different things in a very
different way from what was the Gus
tom thirty or forty years ago. but they
are only following their elders. i cant
see that morally they are any worse~
han we were at their age.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-08-14
DOES ALCOHOL SHORTEN
LIFE?

DRoBABLY no question since slav-
4 cry days has aroused so much dis
cussion as prohibition. This is not
strange. Prohibition is not only a
question which affects the personal
habits Of millions of individuals, but
1t is also many-sided problem. 1t is
legal question, a political Issue,
scientific problem and social expert
ment. Many men Of many minds have
widely different views on the various
angles presented.
On the scientific questions involved
equally weighty authorities differ
widely. Is alcohol food or poison:
What effect does drinking alcoholic
beverages have on the human body?
There is conflicting evidence on both
sides.
Experimentally. the evidence is
equally confusing. One day, our news
papers will contain a story of hale
and hearty old man who has just cele-
brated his one-hundredth birthday. and
attributes his long and healthy life to
the fact that he has never touched
alcohol. The next day, the same pa
pers will record the life history of an
equally old and vigorous man who is
sure his advanced years and perfec:
physical condition are due to his hay
ing taken, all his life. drink when
ever he felt like it, or could get it.
$50 there We air." as Mr.. Dooley
would say. What is the truth? PLATE
asked the same question two thousand
years ago. and it has never been an
swered.
But If you want the opinion of the
business world. that looks at all ques-
lions from q cold, practical viewpoint,
you can get very positive answer.
No railroad will employ or retain an
engineer or conductor who drinks even
moderately. One of our greatest rail-
roads has notified its employees that
any engineer who even enters sa-
loon (if there are any left to enter)
will be discharged. Scientists and re-
formers and politicians and executives
and social workers and advocates of
SOCldl iIUeIty Ndu ~ VI uiSCuSSAuS tue
many questions involved as long as
they like Hard-headed business men,
whose money is invested in the man.
agement of big enterprises, don't want
any man around who drinks.
Life insurance companies are net
generally regarded as sentimental
Thirty years ago, Scotch insurance
company decided that drinkers must
pay higher premium than nondrink-
ers. Keeping the two classes of pol
icy holders separate, it has been found
that the death rate of even moderate
drinkers is 80 per cent higher than
total abstainers. Four other compa-
MES have found that deaths among
drinkers are from 20 to 40 per cent
higher than among nondrinkers.
So again. as Mr.. Dooley says, There
ye air"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-08-14

TOR twelve years United States ma
l. rines have been encamped In Mana
qua and Corinto. Nicaragua. doing
guard duty. at the request Of the Mica
raguan government. Last week this
Occupation" came to an end when the
little bands. Of marines boarded the
U. S. S. Henderson to return to their
own country. To maintain order down
there a new constabulary force has
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-08-14

n EPORTATTON by Poland Of a
~ great number Of Germans who re-
sided In Sllesia caused a lot of dis
tress because the German government
had not made sufficient preparations
to care Tor them. But the eviction was
In accordance with the Versailles
treaty and nothing could be done.
The German government SO far has
retaliated to the extent TO order
ing out of Germany within 4S hours
all Poles who had voted to retain
Polish citizenship. Nationalist in the
reichstag moved for the breaking Of
diplomatic relations with Poland. but
got little support after Foreign Minis
ter Stresemann had explained the sit
uat.on. He declared Germany would
not take the initiative In reprisals, but
would follow Poland's lead in all its
measures.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-08-14

gians were met in New York by Will
liam Phillips, American ambassador to
Belgium. land Garrard Winston, as
sistant secretary of the treasury. They
brought with them four financial ex-
perts and secretary general.
France has adopted new policy on
war debts and President Doumergue
announced 1t in speech at Grenoble
when he declared France will pay its
war debts according to its capacity to
pay and according to strict justice, to
which it is entitled" Finance Minis
tec Caillaux inspired this policy and
he said: IF have to go to Washing
ton simply to sign on the dotted line
and say Amen am not going, and
| am not going to waste money send
ing a big commission there in Sep
tember."
Nj. Caillaux told the cabinet It was
impossible for France to pay its debts
in full in dollars and sterling to Amer
lea and England. either now or In the
immediate future. He intends to offer
England f4,000,000 ($2O,OO0,0O0) an
nually. making up the balance of the
interest in marks due France under the
Dawes plan and deliveries of French
merchandise or German merchandise
due France.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-08-14

Governor Richie this month expects
to take the first real vacation he has
had in ten years of public life. He
will go to York Harbor, Maine. during
the last two weeks of August. His
mother. Mrs. Albert Richie, has pre-.
coded him there, The Governor has
not made trip for purely recreational
purposes since he was elected Attorney
Ganaral Ct Maryland ten years age
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-08-14

XXTAR between Greece and Bulgaria
wv was among the. possibilities of
the week, the crisis being brought on
by the murder of Greek merchant In
Bulgarian town after number Of
similar incidents. Greece demanded
that the slayers be punished. and as a
precautionary measure strengthened
her frontier guards, and 1t was report
ed she was preparing to invade Bull
garia. This latter was denied; the
government at Sofia said 1t was doing
its utmost to apprehend and punish
the murderers. and it was expected
that the row would soon be settled
peaceably.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-08-14

Mountain Lake Park.-The twenty
fifth anniversary of the founding Of
the John Thompson Rest Home was
celebrated here Saturday afternoon.
John Thompson, known as Bishop"
was conspicuous here in the conduct
Of the camp meetings in the early
days. This rest home for deaconesses
now ranks as one of the best Of the
Methodist Episcopal Church.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-08-14

Easton.-A storm that washed out
two railroad bridges, ripped up tracks
for several hundred feet, burst the
Wye Mills dam, damaged roads, and
at the same time helped late crops,
broke over the Eastern Shore Thurs
day night and continued until late
Friday.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-08-14

Hayre de Grace.-John A. Bungori,
50-year-old World War veteran. lies
dead in the Havre de Grace Hospital
from bullet wound, and Joseph A.
Furbershaw, Washington dry agent,
charged with having fred the bullet,
Is held without bail in the Hartford
county Jail at Belair.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-08-14

Baltimore.-Maryland has a candi-
date for the minority membership on
the Federal Civil Service Commission
made vacant by the recent death of
Mrs. Helen Hamilton Gardner of the
District of Columbia. He is Matt F.
Halloran, former Mayor of Hyattsville,
who has been an employe of the CON-
mission during all of the forty-two
years of its existence.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-08-14

II
"A NTI-FOREIGN sentiment in China
"A is increasing and the strike stu
alton Is steadily growing worse. La
Dor troubles are spreading from for
eign to native industries and last week
5000 Chinese silk workers at Shang-
hal walked out. Students and mill
tarists are keeping up their agitation
and are razing the houses vacated by
British and Japanese in Chungking
and elsewhere. The government
schools probably will not be able to
reopen in September as the students
refuse to accept discipline. The stu
dents union has warned all Chinese
merchants against handling British
and Japanese merchandise.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-08-14
ALONG
LIES TRAIL.
By THOMAS ARKLE CLARK
Dean Of Men, University Of Illinois,


90. 1925. Western Newspaper Jnion.)
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-08-14

Oakland.-The pea winery at Gort.
ner. this county, hulled about 1876 tons
Of shelled peas raised by the farmers
of that vicinity this season. This left
about $500 to those who raised the
peas besides many tons Of good feed
for cattle. One four-acre patch pro-
duced six tons of peas which brought
1882.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-08-14

TWO of the treaties negotiated at
4 the Washington conference and of
great Importance to the future welfare
Of China went into effect last week
with the exchange of Publications by
the nine signatory powers. They have
to dc with revision Of the Chinese Gus
toms schedules. and with the main
tenance Of "the open door or equality
of opportunity in China for the trade
and industry Of all nations" This lat
ter pact provides there shall be no
spheres of influence" and that in time
of war China's rights as a neutral are
to be respected.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-08-14

DMGIUM'S debt-funding commits
- sion arrived in Washington, and
negotiations with the American debt
commission have been begun. The Bel
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-08-14

Annapolis. - Governor Richie, ac-
companied by Stuart S. Janney, d.
rector of the State Department of Wei.
fare, and Swepson Earle, State Con.
servation Commissioner, this week will
visit communities on the Western
Shore and Eastern Shore to discuss
sea-food conservation.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-08-14

Annapolis. - Maryland won addi
tional ground during July in the fight
against typhoid fever, according to an
nouncement by DR.. Robert H. Riley.
director of the bureau Of commuhi.
cable diseases Of the State Department
of Health.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-08-14

Baltimore Diplomas withheld last
June from three seniors of the State
Normal School, Towson, because the
trio went swimming June without
permission from the authorities of the
school, have been given them.
The Washington times., 1925-02-19

STAINS ON "HAMMERMAN"
FOUND HUMAN 81 GOD

RICHMOND. Va. Feb. 10. -
Stains found on the clothing Of
William Harris. a negro. suspected
by the police as the hammer man
who assaulted Mrs. Julia Ciucci,
twenty-one-year-old bride. several
nights ago are those OF human
blood. Coroner Whitfield said to.
day following an analysis of the
stains.
According to the police. Harris
said he got the stains on his clothes
while killing a chicken. Mrs. Ciucci
was brutally attacked and struck
on the head with a five-pound ham.
mer. At the Memorial Hospital to.
day she was reported to be improv.
ing, but still unable to furnish any
details Of the assault.
The Washington times., 1925-02-19
DISTANT STATIONS
This Program Is Sent By Mail and Corrected BIZ
Telegraph, But Subject TO LGst+Msfs"te Changes

6:oO-waldorf Astoria Orchestra.
!, 6:30-Dinner Music, Newark -.
Dinner Concert. Pittsburgh
Cinderella Orchestra. New
The Washington times., 1925-02-19
LATIN-AMERICAN NIGHT ON WRC BILL

ity about the programs that come
on the air from La Java. Cafe And
one can always tune in, assured OF
hearing some unexpected bit of mu-
steal entertainment that is not on
the programs.
Last night it was Gertrude Krei-
selman, now teamed up with Miss
Sweeney, in group Of piano-violin
numbers, who suddenly appeared
from nowhere and provided a fit
ting interlude to the bernstein Ma
cias music.
Reverting to the early evening
Everett Hardell again sang his way
into the hearts of his listeners. He
seems now to Sbe permanent fix
ture with the Black and White or
chestra that plays under the d.
rection of Happy Walker.
KFUO, St. Louis, the station re-
Gently inaugurated by the Con-
cordia Seminary, was new one
for us last night. It was a relief
to creep up. amidst the otherwise
quiet regions of 545 meters, and sit
ercises, after bathing with the class
A stations down at the foot of the
dials.
CNRO, Ottawa, was again the big
noise of the evening. broadcasting
concert from the Chateau Laurier
Hotel. KTHS. Hot Springs, was
finding the going easier without
the interference from WGY.
Roxy and his Gang-the whole
bunch, orchestra and everything
are to make a second appearance
before Washington audience
March 6, when they will present
special show at the Washington
Auditorium under the auspices OF
the National Press Club.
! The Gang will reproduce COM
plete Sunday might studio program
Just as it is broadcast from the
Capitol Theater. This concert,
however, will not go on the air, as
the purpose OF the entertainment
is to give the local fans a, look be-
hind the scenes Of the Capitol
Theater studio.
Special scenic effects will be pro-
vided Tor the performance. Tickets
will be placed on sale next Thurs
day.
The Washington times., 1925-02-19

CNRO, Ottawa, was again the big
noise of the evening. broadcasting
a concert from the Chateau Laurier
Hotel KTHS. Hot Springs, was
finding the going easier without
the interference from WGY.
The Washington times., 1925-02-19
AGED WOMAN DISCOVERED
UNCONSCIOUS FROM GAS

Found unconscious from inhaling
the fumes of escaping gas, Mrs.
Laura Mclean, sixty-seven, S19 d
street R3rtheast, was rushed from
her home to Casualty Hospital last
night. She is expected to recover.
The woman was found in the
front room of her home, by another
member of the family. Gas was
escaping from stove in another
room.
The Washington times., 1925-02-19

PierroD Garcia, Mexico); "Amor-
ANA" Q1omesickness), by request
(Calvo, Colombia).
1O:45 p. m.-Dance music by
jacques Green and his Club Deau-
vile Orchestra, with Clark's Ha-
waiians, broadcast jointly with sta
ton WIZ from the Club Doauvllle
in New York
The Washington times., 1925-02-19

Mexico); la Ingrata" CThe Ingrate)
(Oteo, Mexico).
Violin recital by Arsenic Ralon:
tango, Julian donate, Uruguay;
tango, "Caricias" (Caresses) donate,
Uruguay; tango, "Yamandu" Res-
sig, Uruguay; ia Tristeza de
Pierrot'' CThe NisfortunOs Of
The Washington times., 1925-02-19
1'RED" ORANGES MUMPs
TIE HIM UP FOR WEEK

RICHMOND. Mich, Feb. 10. -
Howard 'Red" Grange. star football
player, who has been bed-ridden
here with the humps, was resting
easily today, but will be forced to
remain here for another week,
physicians said.
A high fever which has been evil
dent for several days has gone down.
Grange was ISOLATED here after de-
1ivering a speech at local banquet.
The Washington times., 1925-02-19

usually averts night attack.
IL Group comes on without
warning, use Of Vicks often brings
relief in 15 minutes leases the
difficult breathing and subdues
the racking cough.
Vicks is ideal for all children's
cold troubles. Being externally
applied it avoids so much dosing
and can be freely used on even
the youngest child.
Vicks is just as good Of course
for grown-ups' colds, and is also
an excellent application for cuts,
burns, bruises, muscular soreness
and skin itchings.
VIleelHzsS
ORR ~ FsxLIoW JAAs NskO EARly
The Washington times., 1925-02-19
Bulgarian Terrorists Active

SOFIA, Feb. 10. Bulgarian ter
rorists are harrassing villages along
the Observation-Disclosures frontier,
it was learned here today. Several
villages have been attacked, with
many casualties on both sides.
The Washington times., 1925-02-19
ROmping Around
the
Radio Dial
By Listener-h

1t is hard to believe that the
young man who spoke so aI1ec-
tionately of Wagner and presented
such an impassioned critiQue OF his
music last night was the same
gentleman who few months; ago
was sitting unprotected in a down
pour of rain and recounting equally
as fervidly the movements OF
twenty-five mud-soakedI football
frenzied collegians.
Sunday this yuong man VIII De
singing in church choir. On
Monday he may he micrOphontng a
prize fight and on Tuesday ne
might easily be expected to be
euiogizing Debussy just as sincerely
as he extolled Wagner last night.
!. He is a paragon of versatility
a gay-serious hero worshiper, seeing
always the splendid and ever blind
to imperfections, quick to forgive
and desiring always to praise.
Incidentally, in the absence of
vote by the Radio Voice Technique
Committee, he Is, as far as we
know, the ideal broadcast an
nouncer and his name is Graham
McNamee.
It is true, he was only Incl
dental to the real program Of last
night, played most beautifully TIVE
catch the McNamee manner) by the
New York Philharmonic Orchestra
underthe baton of the maestro,
William Mengelberg. But side-show
or big top. McNamee always holds
ones interest.
Speaking of announcers reminds
us that we are neglecting our re-
portorial duties. Two new voices
have been added to the lungs of the
Capital during the past. fortnight
and we have failed to inquire their
names.
The management of the Franklin
Square Hotel has caught the trick
of successful broadcasting. There
a an air Of intimacy and informal
The Washington times., 1925-02-19
Group
Quickly Relieved
Without Dosing

When the child
seems crOupy in
the evening APP
ply Vicks over
throat and chest,
spread on thick
~ and cover
with "a warm
flannel. T his
The Washington times., 1925-02-19

The management of the Franklin
Square Hotel has caught the trick
of successful broadcasting. There
N an air of intimacy and informal
Evening star., 1925-09-12

Of Arkansas, Democratic whip of the
House and chairman of the Demo
cratic national congressional campaign
committee, who has been on an or
ganiZation tour through the West, ad
dressed the Democratic State central
committee at a banquet here last
night and strongly urged the Demo
Gratis to get out and vote for their
candidate for the senatorial nomina
ton and to support him in the cleo
ton. Mr.. Oldfield said that he had
been greatly encouraged in the belief
that a strong Democratic organiZa
ton can be built up in many of the
Western States, by his observations or
his trip.
At the same time that Mr.. Oldfeld
was urging the Democrats of the State
to get behind Mr.. Bruce, Senator
Wheeler of Montana, Democrat. was
campaigning in the State for the elec
ton of La Toilette. Mr.. Wheeler, In
supporting the candidacy of La Fol
lette, insists there is no difference be
tween a progressive Democrat" and
progressive Republican" and that
equally there is no difference between
a conservative Democrat and a con
servative Republican. Senator Frazier
of North Dakota and Representative
La Guardia of New York also are here
to aid La Toilette.