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Evening star., 1926-10-19

CARS REFINISHED in a wtde seleotion of
colors. SIS to S35. in ) to 10 hours ready
20 use. Cars vanished. to 5 hours 50 TO
S15; Automohile tors dressed while YOU
Isl 1917 L 81. NV. Phone Frank. 6s4l
Evening star., 1926-10-19

Ford 4-Cioor sedan. 1925. Soa5: both in tx
cellent condition: terms if desired. George
p Robins Pot oS37
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car: run only few Thousand miles: will sell
at very low price. Call Mr.. Callen. North
Evening star., 1926-10-19

FORD coupe 1925: balloon tires: 30-day
guaranty: easy terms. Bartran Motor CO.
6:3o Mass ave. NV. Main 9001. See Mr..
FORD TOURING. 1924: refinished In black
Duco: FIVE good tires lock wheel. parking
light; carries 30-day guarantee: only $3.50
down and 81 "a per week. Ourisman Chew
rolet Sales Co., 625 H st. ne. Open eve
Evening star., 1926-10-19

HUDSON COACH 1925: steel posts excep-
tionally fine condition: fully equipped and
ready to run: compare this value with any
thing in town.. Holland Motor Co. Inc.
1919 18th st. tbet. X and IL. Open Sun
davs and evenings Potomac 262.
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DRIVING TO WEST COAST. LEAVING
about middle Of week. want one to three
Passengers: exnenses shared equally. Ad-
dress Box 252-E Star nfice
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STOVE. heating: preferably Franklin: state
kind and price. Address Box 395-E. Star
Evening star., 1926-10-19

FORD touring. 1923: good paint. tires and
mechanical condition. price 500: S2b down,
balance easy. Bartram Motor Co.. $40
Mass ave. NV. NJ. a001. See Mr.. Moore.
Omen evenings and Sunday
Evening star., 1926-10-19

FORD light delivery: panel body. starter.
demountable rims: easy terms Bartrar1
Motor Co. 635 Mass. ave. NV. Main Qno1.
See Mr.. Moore. Open evenings and sun
Evening star., 1926-10-19

OVERLAND TOURING. 1898: looks and
runs like new: 500 for cash. 616 9th st
Evening star., 1926-10-19

NASH 1926 FOUR-DOOR SEDAN; in per-
had wonderful care: will sell for 81 .175.
cash or terms. If you have q good small
car. will take IT in trade. Call Adams 6S1
hefWenn z and @
Evening star., 1926-10-19

ANYTHING TO SELL
Phone Main 1879 or as3a
Household Effects Merchandise Stocks
AUTOMOBILES. etc Thir:y-six years serving
the Washington public
Evening star., 1926-10-19

PAPERHANGING. PLASTERING-See VIM.
A. Little about your interior and exterior
painting. s1a 9th NV. Fr. 1854.
PAINTING. PAPERHANGING-Sp low
prices: give US trial. Thompson's, 3413
Ga. ave. Col. s"44. Leaky roofs guaranteed.
Evening star., 1926-10-19

LOVING CARE GIVEN CHILD. MOTHER
222 Murray ave Va. Highlands. Va. 2Os
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CONTRACTOR BUILDER - Estimates fur
nished on old and new work: remodaling
etc Address Box 63.E. Star ONCE. c1s
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1926-11-05

disease from infected premises by
persons and animals, the purchase
of animals from unknown sources
and the improper administration of
the double treatment
That hog cholera has not yet
obtained a serious footing in Mary
land is shown by the, fact that only
253 outbreaks have been reported
up to October 18 of this year in
contrast to a seven year average of
421 for the first ten months of the
calendar year. The majority of
these are classified as backyard out
breaks, occurring on places where
only a few animals are kept. Sixty
two per cent of the outbreaks this
year. have been in counties with only
sixteen per cent of the hogs of the
State, it is pointed out, comparatively
few outbreaks being reported from
the leading hog raising counties.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1926-11-05

alloys were made up of two and
some of three metals in various
proportions. The method employed
was first to form alloys, each COM
posed of metals, whose physical
constants satisfied one or more Of
the requirements for contact
metal, and then to test contacts made
of these alloys under circuit condi-
lions corresponding to those which
would be met in practice. Observa-
tions were made on contact resist
ance, pitting and erosion.
Out of a long series of tests with
these metals and alloys came an
alloy of gold, silver and platinum in
specified proportions having desir-
able features; also an alloy of gold
and silver alone, and still another
involving the metal palladium. Ser
vice trials of the gold, silver and
platinum alloy were made in repre-
sentative manual switchboard cir
cults and also in portions Of machine
switching equipment. The result OF
these field and laboratory investi-
cations was an accumulation of inn
portant fundamental data on cleo
trical contact phenomena. The sue
cess of the gold, silver and platinum
alloy-No. contact metal, as it is
called-warranted its wide use, and
at the present time is being used in
approximately 95 per cent of all
telephone relays and keys.
Comparing what is today with
what was yesterday is the obvious
method of determining such progress
as has been made. If the telephone
engineers do this in the case of
contact metals and compare the
actual cost to date with what would
have been the total expense, pro-
vided cheaper contact metals had
not been developed and spot-welding
methods devised, it is estimated that
the savings which have accrued from
these developments in the interval
since 1914, to- be about $4,000, 200.
In each tiny contact smaller than the
head of pin, the individual saving
is of no consequence, but on account
of the great numbers of relay and
key contacts necessary in the tele-
phone plant this large saving be-
comes possible.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1926-11-05
GUARD AGAINST HOG

While Maryland has thus far
escaped the serious hog cholera
epidemic which is sweeping the
West, Maryland farmers are being
urged by Dr. l. K. Atherton, federal
inspector in the state, to guard
against every possible source of
infection.
Histories of cases for many years
show that garbage, kitchen swill and
table scraps are the most prevalent
sources of hog cholera outbreaks in
Maryland, says DR.. Atherton. or
the one hundred and three primary
outbreaks reported for the period
from October 1 to Is, lightweight
were apparently due to the feeding
of pork in garbage, table scraps or
kitchen swill.
In view of the prevalence of the
disease in the West, infected pork is
more than ever likely to enter the
channels of trade and the safest way
for Maryland swine growers to guard
against the possibility of infection
from this source is to see that no
garbage, kitchen swill or table scraps
reach their hogs.
Other sources of the disease to
be guarded against, according to
DR.. Atherton, are the carrying OF the
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1926-11-05
LIGHTNING AND PREHISTORIC
FOREST FIRES -

Lightning, unaccompanitd by rain.
has been the chief cause of the
d sastrous forest fires in the far
West this summer, according to the
Forest Service, United States De-
partment of Agriculture. AS a re-
suit many persons have asked why
the forests were not entirely de-
stroyed in prehistoric times.
Lightning always has been an
important cause of forest fires, par
ticularly in the West, where it
starts from quarter to half of
the fires. For the country as a
whole, however, it causes only about
10 per cent of the fires. Civilized
man has introduced two additional
factors that have enormously in
creased the destruction caused by
forest res-carelessness and forest
denudation. LAUNDERING has de-
nuded large areas and left the
ground covered with rejected parts
of trees. With the admission of
sunlight, these cut-over areas grow
UP densely to grass, weeds, and
briers, which when dried are easily
ignited. Such fires may sweep into
understandable timber and destroy it..
Fires in dense green forests usually
leave many living trees.
When better handling of forests
becomes common practice they will
be only partly open up to sun and
wind. This will probably mean
either removing only the larger
trees, leaving the rest, or where
clear cutting is advisable clear
ing small areas with intervening
stretches of green forest.
The virgin forests before the
white man came were mostly dense,
dark, damp, and cool. In dry sea-
sons lightning (and perhaps in some
cases Indians) set fire to these
forests, and there are evidences OF
extensive prehistoric burns in some
parts of the country. Neverthe-
less, as whole those dark, humid
forests were much less intiammab,e
than the modern denuded or thinned-
out forests. The fact that the
primeval forests persisted for so
many ages and were so extensive and
almost unbroken proves that light
ming fires. numerous as they must
have been, probably burned over an
insignificant part of the total forest
Z area.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1926-11-05
GOLD, SILVER AND PLATINUM

Gold, silver and platinum, three
of the worlds most precious metals,
play an important part in telephone
service. Gold and silver have been
of service to mankind since time
immemorial but platinum is a newer
metal, not having been generally
known until early in the eighteenth
century.
Notwithstanding the fact that gold
and silver are two of the oldest
metals known, platinum was the
first one to be used in the electrical
business. This metal has been used
for the making and breaking of
electric circuits practically from the
very beginning of the electrical art.
In the museum of the Bell Telephone
Laboratories there is telegraph
key manufactured prior to 1859
which is equipped with platinum
contacts, and the very first tele-
phone equipment it was used for a
similar purpose.
The rapidly increasing demand for
platinum during the last quarter
century in the, jewelry, dental,
chemical and electrical industries, in
which the telephone industry took
it's part, was attended by a rapidly
desirable rising price. This en-
phasized the fact that it was highly
desirable to have platinum substi-
tute for contacts which would be
available in greater quantities and
could be purchased at a lower price.
Accordingly, as early as 1906 and
1907, fundamental work on the
problem of satisfactory substitutes
was started in the telephone
laboratories.
In this investigation, approx
mately $50 alloys, covering various
combinations of gold, silver, plat
mum, representative of the so-called
noble metals, and iron and nickel,
representative Of the so-called base
metals, were developed and individ-
ualIy investigated. Some Of the
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1926-11-05

affords a window seat or fernery within.
Every room has windows on two Sides CIV
ing cross-ventilation. The house is insu-
lated, walls and roof with celotex as protec-
ton against cold and waste Of fuel in the
winter and the hot rays Of the sun in sum-
mer. The floors are hardwood throughout,
and have layer of celotex placed between
them to deaden noises within the house, a
feature that is especially appreciated where
there are small children and noisy boys in the
house.
The living room has an open fireplace
and built-in book case. The porch or sun
room may open off the living room or dining
room, and can well have a sleeping porch
above if extra sleeping quarters are needed.
The service entry is conveniently placed at
the side to save the housewife steps. The
kitchen has built-in cupboards, ironing-board
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1926-11-05
MRS. JENNIE TAYLOR

Licensed Funeral Director
Gentleman Emhalmer Lie
sn> ensed for MARYLAND and Penn
.ssylvania
he Dignified service given all
thoughts. night OF day.
dutycQr. N Queen 4 walnut SITS.
Phone I22 Rising sun. Md
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1926-11-05

Money talks" quoted the Wise
Guy. But it takes good care not
to tell how it is made" replied the
simple Mug,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1926-11-05

1t is quite natural a woman should
be stuck on her husband IL he
furnishes her with pin money.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1926-11-05

An optimist is a person who be-
lieves in mascots. A pessimist is a
person who believes in hoodoos.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1926-11-05

The Dysbeptic Philosopher defines
philantHropist as 4 person who
would rather give 20 men nickel
each than give one man dollar.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1926-11-05
.arNsIpE, INFORMATION

Try popcorn Ior breakfast
cereal, served with milk or cream.
=
To remove saltiness from a slice of
ham, let it stand in sour milk or
buttermilk for an hour or two.
This will help to make it tender.
Oiled floors should be. swept with
soft brush and busted with an oiled
cloth or mop. Occasionally clean
Them with cloth wrung out of
warm soapy water, followed by
polishing with cloth moistened
with kerosene or good floor oil.
Use water and soap sparingly.
Rancidity in lard is caused by
hemical action of the air. The
Federal Meat Inspection Service
advises that lard should be well
rendered, free from moisture and
particles of scrap. Lard should be
placed in completely filled, tightly
closed containers, preferably of
glass or earthenware and kept in a
cool dark place. for preservation.
II the home has been regularly
and systematically cared for, the
old-fashioned strenuous period of
upheaval which our mothers called
Spring or ''fall'' cleaning is no
longer necessary. Even in the
cleanest homes, however, the
changes of the season necessitate
certain changes in the details of
homework, and some Encouragement
of ones furnishings and storage
places.
In going through ones home, the
object should be not. only to make
everything spick and span for the
time being, but to make such
changes as will help it to remain
so with the least possible daily or
weekly work. Much of the dirt that
gets into the houses is blown or
tracked in. Remove dirt regularly
from window stills, porches, steps,
and walks to keep it from being
blown into the house. Screens
covered with chessecloth will stop
much dust and SCOT at windows and
doors. Concrete walks will reduce
he amount of dirt carried in on
hoes. Provide mats and scrapers to
lelp still further. A place just in
side the entrance where muddy boots
and coats may be left is great
help.
Lessen the number Of dust col
lacting places. Furnish waste bas-
kets, ash trays, and reeeptacles for
burnt matches in every room, and
above all, train the members of your
family to help by leaving things
where they belong land in good
condition, Take dirt and rubbish
away and dispose of it permanently
when you have finished cleaning any
given part of the house and make
Myour motto ito keep clean rather
lythan clean up. 49, n.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1926-11-05

rs impossible for some people to
ut abusing easy credit.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1926-11-05

gives light
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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1926-11-05

c. ceotechno Institute Chicago, 1925
Evening star., 1926-11-07
GERMAN FORD" TYPE
AUTO OUTPUT $4,000
Production Far Below Expected
Figure at 0rel Plant-Credit
System Used.

Falling far short of the expected
$4,000 production mark, Opel, the
German Ford. this year has been able
to produce a car comparable in price
- the machine turned out by Amer
ica's greatest quantity producer.
Opels production for the year has
been but 1900 cars, despite the fact
that an imitation of the Ford band
system" is in effect in his factory.
Ore Of the factors in the ready sale
of Opel products is the giving of long
time credit, something almost new
in German automotive trade circles.
Exhibitors in this years German
automobile show are confident they
can now meet American, French and
Italian competition at home. They
have succeeded in reducing prices ap-
proximately 20 per cent, and are aided
in holding the domestic market by
high tariff. which will be progressively
reduced during the next few years.
One of the sensations of the Berlin
show is a small type, beautifully equip
ped Mercedes Benz car selling at
$4,000 marks. The Audi Co. has per-
haps the most superb luxury car, fit
ted out with all possible novelties and
with the finest of bodies. 1t sells at
Sc 600.
Evening star., 1926-11-07
OIL RECTIFIER GREAT
AID FOR MOTORISTS
New Product Insures Pleasure and
Cuts Expense Of Auto
Owners.

Enormous advantages have Injured
to both Nature and motordom from
the genius of the engineer during the
mast few years. Among those most
recently gained are the ones resulting
from the oil rectifiCation processes
that have developed into so valuable
an adjunct to the motorists pleasure
and so helpful to his purse.
This point was made by Oscar
Coolican, local Packard dealer, who
declares:
although millions of motor cars
are being added each year to those
already on the streets. Nature is not
producing a single gallon of gasoline
to propel these vehicles. This pre-
sents a pretty problem to the oil re-
finers. but thanks to their ingenuity.
various processes have been invented
which make the old-time gallon of
gasoline go farther and serve more.
with fuel in plenty and at rea-
sonable price came. however. some
liabilities for the motorist. These liza
bilities varied with the owners use
of the car The man who drove
Winter and Summer alike with short
runs and frequent stops found that
present day fuel, necessarily less Vola-
tile. was dluting his crankCase oil.
The man who drove long distances at
high speeds found the same trouble,
but in a lesser degree.
Obviously, it is impossible for the
average motor car owner to test.
daily, the vicosity or body of his
crankcase oil Hence, there was
evolved the motor oil rectifier. a de-
vice which automatically keeps tab on
the motor oil and maintains its .lubri-
eating qualities.
"By the oldest system known to
nature. that of boiling. the oil
rectfier constantly refines the
crankcas Sc oil. boils off its impurities
and maintains the vicOsity at such a
high state that only infrequent
changes and refills of the crankCa Sc
now are necessary.
Motorists are deeply indebted to
the engineers who have invented and
developed. this marvellous device"
More than 10000 miles of hard road
will he laid in the United States before
the end of the wear
Evening star., 1926-11-07
URGES MOTORISTS
TO DRIVE WITH CARE
A. A. A. Tells How Safety
Zones May Be Made "Abso-
luteIy Safe"

Every motorist can take a vital first
step toward the reduction Of traffic
accidents by aiding in making safety
zones absolutely safe. officials of the
American Automobile Association de-
clare in a statement which appeals to
all drivers to be particularly alert to
this driving Vagary.
The national motoring body heads
point out that violation Of safety
zone regulations seems to have be-
come almost chronic on the part of
millions Of motorists. surveys conduct
ed in cities of various sizes show. This
situation is making for thousands OF
mishaps that are easily preventable.
and its chief danger seems to lie in
the fact that If the pedestrian is de.
MED this one haven. he will be more
disconnected. which viii result in fur
ther men3Cing distortion of the traffic
stream"
Duty of Motor Driver.
Observance of traffic regulations
generally is a problem for the indi-
vidual motorist. the A. A. A. points
out. In majority of instances he
must, of necessity, enforce the law for
himself.
This is particularly true in the
case of safety zones" the statement
continues. IheSe exist generally AT
street intersections and at car stops,
and it has been the practice of pedes-
trians to regard themselves as abso-
lutely safe when protected by these
actual or even theoretical safeguards.
Observation of conditions generally
throughout the country seems to indi-
cate that motorists are becoming more
and more careless in their attitude to.
ward these zones.
"One of the recommendations that
won the unanimous approval of the
Second Conference on Street and
the Hoover Conference. was to the ef-
feet that safety zones must be kept
a absolutely inviolate. At this confer
ence the delegates were almost as
whole representing motoring agencies
of one kind or another, and that this
was their thought on the safety zone
should he an emphatic criterion for
motorists everywhere"
Too Heavy for Police Force.
II is futile to think the police de-
partments are capable of enforcing
such regulation except in the most
negligible way, the motoring agency
declares, pointing out that safety zones
exist at almost every street interSec-
tion in one form or another.
1T is certain that no municipality
could afford to station an officer .at
every car stop to see that no motorist
rushed past while passengers were en-
tering or alighting. 1t is recognized
that there is no more dangerous form
of driving than this, and it should be
obvious that. since enforcement can
Evening star., 1926-11-07

Just as lid" has come into the Eng
lish language as substitute for
hat" and "hut" substitute for
home" so in time will various words
pinch hit for automobile" OF course
one speaks of the car or Of the
bus" but there will be terms to in
dicate automobiles Of certain classes
"Flivver" was perhaps first Of the
new terms. 1t describes certain
kind of automotive vehicle and is far
more expressive than "cheap car" or
Ford" And not infrequently one
hears the name of high-grade Eng
lish and American car used to typify
Evening star., 1926-11-07
MOTORISTS URGED
TO SPEED PARKING
Veteran Sees Big Time Loss
Through Inexperience in
Handling Autos.

Automobile drivers 60 through so
many unnecessary motions in parking.
with resultant delay. confusion and
congestion for everybody on the
streets, in the opinion of Rudolph
Jose. local Cadillac dealer and vet
eran motorist.
"In these days of crowded streets
and well-flled curhs. the art of park
ing should he worked out to a fine
point" declared Mr.. Jose.
"A great deal of time would he
saved for every one" he adds, "and
much unnecessary congestion would
be avoided If drivers would learn to
make their maneuverS quickly and &C.
curately.
so often we see a man or woma n
holding up traffic for an unreason-
ably long time while he or she pulls
out of a parking hole time and again
to get q fresh start after having mis-
Judged the distance.
1T is not hard to accustom ones
self tn such manipulation of an au
tomohie. After a certain len9th of
time the driver learns where all Of
the tenders are and how much space
he can allow for his bumpers.
But the practice should be engag
ed in outside the Congested district
1t Is not bad idea to practice park
ltlS AT TIE tuID Iu lIcHt VI one nome
In this manner the traffic stream is
not held up and the motorist soon
learns how to move the car into
given space in one or two movements
TOO often a driver will attempt to
squeeze his car into hole which
manifestly is too small for the car
After churning about for a bit he
finds out his mistake and hurries off
after having held up traffic unneces-
sarily for several minutes. 1t should
he easy for the practiced driver to
tell at glance whether space is
big enough for him to back his car
into it.
Little moments i'm the thick of
traffic mean much in the day. and
each motorist should take 1t upon him
self to speed up the stream. or at
least to refrain from holding 1t up"
Evening star., 1926-11-07
NOISE IS UNNECESSARY.
Grinding Of Gears at Start Often
Due to Impatience.

When the traffic stream is about to
start again, notice what a clashing
there is when drivers begin to put
their cars in gear. 1t is a sign of i'm.
patience more than poor driving
Anxious to get out in front Of the
stream, the driver steps on the gas
while he is shifting and the engine
is running too fast to permit easy
meshing of the gears.
1t will save time to shift as If one
were in no particular hurry. Further
more, it Is not SO costly in repairs.
for gears that are made to clash con-
stantly go quickly to the repair shop.