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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-04-17
Automobile Club Plans Banquet.

The Automobile Club of Maryland
will hold the first banquet in the his
tory of the organization April 20 at the
Southern Hotel. Invitations have been
issued to the $500 members of the
club.
Several OF the more important
achievements of the organization since
its founding nearly twenty-five years
ago will be recounted as part of the
program. These, officials pointed out,
include the present Maryland title law,
successful campaigns against toll
roads and speed traps; posting of
roads in Maryland at the clubs ex-
pense;. the proposal of the semaphore
and roped standard system now being
used in Baltimore, and the setting of
the present speed limits.
A. number of prominent men in and
out of the State have been invited to
speak.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-04-17
Claim Portion OF Laurel Track.

napolis.-Although the Maryland
Court of Appeals on Tuesday denied
@ motion for modification of its pre-
vious opinion in regard to the legal
controversy involving ownership of
wedge-shaped tract of land at the
Laurel race track, in Anne Arundel
county, other legal actions now are
pending in the local Circuit Court.
Under decision of the Court Of APP
peals, delivered in February, it was
held that a three-fourths interest in
the property is vested in the heirs of
Louise Smith and that the Maryland
State Fair, Inc, holds the other one
fourth. The property in question con-
sists of about five acres and the race
track is on one part of it.
Since the Appellate Courts decision
the fair association has filed a pro-
ceeding in equity in the local court
which seeks to have the race track
portion of the five-acre plot declared
TO be its one-fourth interest.
Mrs. Emma J. Boyle, one of the
Smith heirs, has instituted a suit on
the ground that the track owners have
no legal one-fourth interest in the
property.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-04-17
MARYLAND WHEAT
IN GOOD CONDITION
Winter Crop In Much Better
Shape Than Other States,
Says Dennee.

Maryland's winter wheat crop is in
much better condition than the crop in
other States, according to bulletin
issued by John S. Dennee, agricul-
tural statistician at Baltimore for the
United States Department of Agricul-
ture.
The winter wheat outlook for the
country as a whole is poorer than at
eny time since 1917, Mr.. Dennee an
nounced. The condition of the crop at
April was only sixty-seven per cent.
of normal, causing estimates of 474
million bushels to be made of produc-
ton.
The new estimate is 116 million
bushels lower than estimates made
during the winter. Severe winter
weather in many States is said to be
responsible for the poor condition Of
the crop.
While the average condition of the
wheat crop is sixty-seven per cent. of
normal, the condition of the Maryland
crop is ninety per cent. normal, &C.
cording to Mr. Dennee.
Crops in Spain, France, Italy and
North Africa, where the crops is al
most ready for harvest, are good, he
said. Mr.. Dennee estimated that
foreign wheat production approximate
ly would equal last years foreign pro-
duction.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-04-17
Mental Survey Clinic.

Plans are being made by State
Mental Hygiene Commissioner Arthur
P. Herring to open a mental hygiene
clinic in Cumberland for Allegany
county mental cases, which will make
the fourth county to fall in line with
the new mental survey plans.
Commissioner Herring said that he
had received reports that there are
dozen or more cases in that county in
need of clinical attention and that he
has received some assurance of sup
port. He opened up clinic in Hagers-
town for Washington county cases last
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-04-17
Women Hear Address.

Rockville.-The semi-annual meet
ing of the Women's Democratic Club,
of Montgomery county, which is fed
Grafton of numerous district clubs, was
largely attended. Mrs. Edwin A. Mer-
rift, of Chevy Chase. presided, and ad-
dresses were made by Representative
William A. Oldfield, of Arkansas,
chairman OF the Democratic National
Congressional Committee. and Mrs.
George M. Gather, of Baltimore.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-04-17

HOLSTERS walk on tiptoe when travel
ing in the ocean.
Iceland which formerly belonged to
Denmark, became free state in 1874.
In Japan, Confucius, me great
teacher, has been raised to the rank of
god by royal decree
Brass can be kept clean much longer
", after Frightening with metal polish,
It is rubbed with rag sprinkled with
parafiln.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-04-17
Cecil Game Association.

Elkton.-To complete the organiza-
ton of the Cecil County Game and
Fish Protective Association another
countrywide meeting will be held in
the courthouse here Wednesday.
At this meeting officers will be
chosen and bylaws adopted. The
plan is to enroll as members of the
association every person in the county
who is interested in preserving game
and fish. A fee of 81 will be charged.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-04-17
stolen Watch is Returned.

Elkton.-Bennett Steele, of Chesa-
peake City. this county, has received
mail package which contained his gold
watch and chain. 1t was stolen from
him nearly four years ago, when he
was held up and robbed along the
Chesapeake City-St. Augustine road
by two masked men. The supposi-
ton at the time was that the hold-up
was done by local people more as a
joke than an actual hold-up. Where
1t has been is mystery.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-04-17
Home Damaged BY Flames.

Conference.-The home of Charles
F. Jenkins, formerly of Hancock, at
Meyersdale, was badly damaged by
fire. Jenkins was the only one at
home and did not know of the fire
until notified by neighbors. The flames
are supposed to have originated by
spark from a passing locomotive.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-04-17
OFFICIALS In Hancock Reelected.

Conference.-The corporation cleo
ton at Hancock was uncontested, re-
sulting in the selection of the follow
ing: Burgess, John T. Mason; assist
ant burgess, Austin G. Peck; commits
sioners, James X. Noel, H. NJ Rosen
and DIR. l. H. Tobias.
All are reelected except DR.. Tobias,
who succeeds Harry F. Exline, who
was not a candidate.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-04-17
ParoIed To See III Mother.

Governor Richie announced the
parole of Luther Smith, of Blythes-
vile, Ark, from the Maryland Peni-
Tertiary. Smith has served all but
two weeks of three-year sentence.
He will be released to return to his
home, where his mother is reported to
be seriously i'll.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-04-17
Form New Baltimore Post.

Consolidation of three American
Legion posts, to be known as Balti-
more Post, was announced following
a meeting at the One Hundred and
Fourth Medical Regiment Armory.
They are J. Allison Muir (Naval)
Post, Charles ]. Blankford Post and
Charny Post. The new organization
will have membership of approx
mately $50.
Capt. Charles Nungesser, French
war ace, last night spoke of his ex-
periences in bringing down German
planes during the World War.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-04-17
Early Spring Helping Farm Work.

Maryland's spring is well ahead Of
the normal, and much farm and gar
den work has been done over the
state, the weekly report of Weather
man Spencer announced.
Fruit buds are coming out in most
parts of the state. All winter crops
are in good condition. Peas are up
in the southern half Of the Eastern
Shore, and many potatoes are being
planted.
There was some damage to peach,
Pear and strawberry blossoms by
freezing on the Shore, he said.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-04-17
Richie Talks On state Government.

Hagerstown.-Gov Richie ex-
planned the problems of State govern
ment to 400 business men gathered at
the luncheon of the Rotary Club. John
N. Mackall, Roads Chairman. dis
closed his program for safer highways
DR.. Victor Miller presided.
The Governor said the roads are
being improved with shoulders at the,
rate of 100 miles a year.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-04-17
Married 80 Years, sues For Decree.

Elkton.-After living together for 80
years and rearing ten children, John
F. Smith, of near Singerly, this county,
has docketed suit in the Circuit Court
here for an absolute divorce from his
wife. Mrs. Sarah Amanda Smith, on
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-09-27

simp who Is sitting beside me, Mr..
Nut. You never heard Of him before.
gentlemen, but then neither did your
committee. But we have hunted
everywhere for a speaker. and we sim
ply can't get any except this guy that
you see here. He is going to talk to
you on Our Trade Relations with Nj
caragua.'
Il am well aware, gentlemen. that
this subject seems utterly without in
terest. But it appears to be the only
subject about which this poor shrimp
knows anything. SO L won't say any
more-I'll let you judge for your
selves what you are going to get. Mr..
Nut"
Then, of course, there is the vital
question of whether, after all. lunch
con club needs to listen to speeches.
Could il not perhaps fulfill its func-
lions just as well If there was no ad-
dress at all? The trouble is that one
never gets time to study up the Ques-
ton beforehand and the recollection
that is carried away by what the
speaker said is too vague to be of any
use.
1 will give as an example my own
recollection, as far as 1t goes, Of the
address that we had at our club last
week. to which I have just referred.
on the subject OF our Trade Rela.
tons with Nicaragua"
Let me say at the start that / am
not quite clear whether 1t was Mica
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-09-27

ragua or Nigeria. The chairman
seemed to say Nicaragua. but ! I'M
derstood the speaker once or twice to
say Nigeria.
I tried to find out afterward from
other members Of the club whether
1t was Nigeria or Nicaragua. But
they didn't seem to care. They hear
SO many people lecture on so many
queer places that II runs off them
like water. Only a few meetings be-
fore they had heard a man talk on
six Weeks in Bangkok" and right
after that another man on Seven
Weeks in Pongo Pongo." and the very
next week after that the address was
called Eight Weeks in 1tchi-Itchi."
But let it go at Nicaragua, because
it is really about the same. Before
the speaker began to say anything
about Nicaragua itself. or Nigeria It
self as the case may be, he went
through a sort Of introduction. All
the speakers seem 10 go over about
the same ground in beginning. l tried
to write this particular introduction
down from memory but / am not sure
that l have 1t correctly. 1t seemed to
run as follows:
II feel very much honored in being
asked to address this club. 1t is an
honor to address this club. And
feel that addressing this club IS an
honor. When I was invited to ad-
dress this club tried to think what
/ could address this club about. In
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-09-27
Milk Versus Water.

THAT milk is not equal to water as
a steam producing agent was once
demonstrated in a railway in New
York. State. The chief figure in the
story was passenger train No. 10.
This train left Cincinnatus at 1880
one morning. and was due in Syracuse
an hour and half later. 1t stopped
at the water pump in Cincinnatus for
a supply OF water.
The water was pumped from a creek
through q milk depot by the same
pump, it seems, that was used to force
milk into the large watts.
The fireman, a new employe, set the
pump going and, after taking aboard
what he deemed g. sufficient quantity
of water, stopped the pump and the
train started.
The steam dropped rapidly, and such
a sputtering began about the gage
that the engineer became alarmed, and
at Freetown telegraphed to the train
dispatcher at Syracuse that his engine
had gone wrong and requested that an
extra be sent to haul his train to the
end of the run.
This was done, and the rejected en-
CINE was sent to the yards for inspec-
ton. There ii was discovered that the
boiler was filled with milk instead Of
water. The fireman supposed that he
must have connected up wrong"
somehow, and pumped milk instead of
water into the boiler.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-09-27

of the folks is in dinner clothes or
sport suit, but he does not mind
their kidding and claims to lead a
satisfactory domestic life.
In my conversation with Casper he
went on to say that he had long been
interested in this very topic and had
engaged in considerable correspond
ence in regards to same with some
friends of his named Legion both In
New York and various parts OF the
country and found that the failing II
such it could be called is very COM
mon. He pointed out the case of
Daniel McCafferty Of Chicago a traffic
policeman. During the hours when
McCafferty is away from home on
his job the rest of the McCafferty
family live like other people. but the
minute Dan comes home everythir z
changes and the domestic activities Is
made to conform with the traffic laws
of the Windy City.
Like for example neither Dams
wife or none of his Riddles or their
Aunt Leona who lives with them can
walk east and west across the living
room or any other room till Dan has
blowed his whistle to indicate that
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-09-27
ne the Dentist Luncheon-Cub Affairs and Other Diversions
What Gets to Hard-Listening Member
Through Static of the Luncheon Club

fact. 1 felt very much like the old
darby. This old darby" Here fol-
lows the story OF an old darby, which
has been told to our club already by
six explorers, seven professors and
two clergymen.
1t will just about stand repeating in
print, but not quite We always know
that when the speaker looks round
and says, There was an old darby
we are going to get it again. Some
of the members can still laugh at II.
But even leaving out the 1ntroduc-
ton, there are other troubles. The
addresses are, no doubt. full Of infOr-
nation. But you can't get it. There's
too much of it. You can't hold it.
Here is what l got, listening as hard
as ] could. from the address of which
1 am speaking.
Probably very few of us realize
what vast country Nicaragua. or Nj
geria, is. 1t extends from latitude Il
didn't catch it, to latitude am not
quite sure, and 1t contains a quarter
of million or half a billion square
miles. The principal product is either
logwood or dogwood-it may have
been deadwood. Sugar either grows
excellently or doesn't grow at ALL
didn't quite catch which.
THE inhabitants are either the mild
est or the widest race known on the
globe. They are polygamOuS and sell
their wives freely to travellers for a
few glass beads I'VE all heard that ~
plainly as anything. The whole o.
the interior or Nigeria, or Nicaragua
is dense mud. All that Nicaragua or
Nigeria needs is richer soil, a better
climate, a decent population. money,
civilization, women and enterprise.
So upon the whole. l am much in
clined to doubt whether the speeches
are worth while. II is so hard to
carry away anything.
And anyway, having speeches means
getting too big a crowd. \ hundred
men is too many.
AS a matter of fact. a moro COM
pact luncheon Of, say, twenty would
be better still. Twenty men round a
table can all converse. they can feel
themselves in actual personal contact
with one another. With twenty men.
or say, fifteen men. YOU feel YOU are
among a group of friends. In fact, /
am not sure but what ten. or eight,
would be a cosier crowd stiI.
You could get eight or six men to
| gether and you can really exchange
ideas. You get n real mental friction
with six men that YOU can't get with
| six. or four, men sitting down like
this day after day you get TO know
one another and in point of service
| and comfort there is no comparison
| You can have a luncheon served for
! four, or three, men that IS really worth
/ eating. AS a matter of fact. if 1t
/ comes to that, two is a better number
still.
Indeed, the more I think Of it the
| better like two-myself and a darned
| good waiter.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-09-27

manner will not be such as to indi-
cate thankfulness. But by patience
and perseverance, he will be induced
by and by to come and take his food
from the stick, and eventually from
the trainers hand.
Not infrequently he will try to bite
the hand that offers the meat, and
generally, speaking, it is deemed a
signal victory when young lion will
voluntarily approach and take his
food from the keepers hand. Soon
after this he will allow the trainer
to stroke his head. Toward a stranger
he may exhibit nearly or quite as
much ferocity as at first.
The next step is to put chain
around the young fellows neck and
lead him about the cage, and most
trainers deem it necessary to bind a
lion down to the bottom of the cage,
once or twice, in order to instill into
his naturally intractable mind the
fact that human bonds are irresisti-
BILE, and that chains cannot be broken.
The various feats that go to make
I'D a modern performing lions educa-
ton are afterward taken up. one by
one. and taught gradually. The only
secrets" that the trainer knows are
endless patience and oft-repeated les
sons. Needless cruelty is always avoid
ed; nevertheless, 1t Is necessary that
lions, as we'll as tigers, leopards and
most other wild beasts, should hold
their keepers in fear. Gentleness and
kindness alone are not sufficient; these
fierce animals must be made to know
that their trainer is absolutely their
master.
1t should be added that there is al.
most or quite as much difference in
young lions as in boys. Some are
much more docile and intelligent than
others. Some develop good and trust.
worthy traits; others prove stolid and
can nevex 10 fully trusted.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-09-27
Methods Used in Tanning Young Lions.

A CCORDING to veteran show
n man, the tanners of wild beasts
use no secret methods or magic spells.
In fact. they proceed very much as a
child would in tanning a wild kitten.
If lion Is to be taught to ride on
horseback, for instance, it is neces-
sary to be patient at first and take a
great deal of time. If possible, it is
best to begin when he is young, less
than a year old.
If he was born in captivity, he is al
ready accustomed to see persons out
side his cage, but not inside. All his
instincts are still fierce.
When the trainer first opens the
cage door and steps inside the young
ster at once displays fear. He will
probably jump at the trainer. snarling
savagely, for that is his way Of show.
ing alarm. The only course that can
be pursued is to beat him off with a
light club; the first lesson he learns Ia
that it is not safe for him to attack
man. Sometimes in his excitement he
will make several attacks, one after
the other. The trainer merely beats
him off, and in the end the young lion
retires, snarling, to the far corner of
his cage.
The trainer does not follow him, but
sits down quietly on q box, or a chair,
inside the cage, paying no particular
attention to him. He sits there for
an hour or two hours, sometimes three
hours, at n stretch. This Is done to
accustom the lion to the presence of a
man in his cage, and to wear out his
natural fear and fierceness. This first
lesson is repeated on the following
day, and is continued for a week. Or
perhaps for month.
Next the trainer takes a piece OF
| meat into the cage, and waiting till
the lion is hungry offers it on the end
OF long stick. Very likely the lion
will not touch it at first, perhaps not
for many days, or, II he seizes It. his
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-09-27

"O the editor: Some weeks ago |
see in the paper where Il
woman was sewing her hus-
band for a bill of divorce on
the grounds that he was so
raped up In his work that he could
not forget same but brought 1t home
with him and though his hours was
only from in the am. Till in the
evening he was SO in the habit OF
working that he kept 1t up after he
was off duty and in fact every min
ute of the day and night even vile
he was asleep.
It is OF course a common occurrence
for women to give their husband the
air because the last named won't work
at all or at lease not enough. but
the troubles Of the wife referred to
above seemed kind Of out Of the or
binary at first. What made 1t extra
unbearable for the plaintiff was the
fact that her man was employed as
caller in a subway station and in
stead of indulging in the usual quiet
and affectionate dialogue as would
bef1t man and wife at the supper table
or in the library. their home life con-
sisted in him shouting all the time
at the top Of his voice and she could
not make head or tails of a single
word he shouted. 1t become a spe-
cially grewsome and disgusting in
the middle Of the night when she
would Just be commencing to enjoy
pleasant dream about kissing games
she had competed in as a child when
she would be reused suddenly by him
believing some such CHASTITY verbage
as "Grnnmhultgam Brahgi. Gelgrmte
Boonset"' She had no idear that this
Is a callers droll way to saying Eek
press to 1S0th street and Bronx Park"
AS this case seemed so out Of the
ordinary I talked II over with several
Of my boy friends and one Of them,
Casper Heffel, stated that they wasn't
nothing so unusual about 1t and per-
sonly he was afflicted the same way
himself and had been all his life
though engaged In different occupa-
tions than the hero of the newspaper
article AS youth he had been
bell hop In the Fireproof Hotel at
Green River. Wyo., and his parents
used to lick him up every night when
he come home and walked into one
room after another paging strange
people with names that sounded like
Bllkiy and J. F. Tklwop. He finely
quit hopping bells and become book.
keeper and got marred and his wife
did not object much to his eccentric
tiles at home on acct. of them not
being very troublesome, in fact they
merely consisted in him always wear
ing a alpaca coat and setting on
high stool. Some of his friends who
come to dine at his house joke him
on how funny he looks on a high
stool with the rest Of them in dining
room chairs and how odd for him to
alwavs wear alpaca whether the rest