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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-10-07

G. Lewis Hind, in his book, "Naph.
tali'-the story of his adventures
while earning living by writing
tells of his first meeting with Amy
Lowell, the New England poet. He
attended literary supper in New
York and sat next to a rather large.
formidable woman with an assured
smile and no apology for being late"-
she had arrived half an hour after
supper had been served.
"$hp took the seat next to mine
and III once usurped the conversation
readily and animatedly. / listened
with delight and wondered who she
might he ! began to put questions
TO her mainly about poetry. which
she answered slightly. with half her
Intelligence After rebuff more
pointed. ! said suddenly:
al believe you are Miss Amy
LOweili'
"She flashed her handsome eyes
upon me and said:
"Who the HI did you think
Has?"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-10-07
YOU OWE MORE THAN TAXES TO
YOUR COMMUNITY

In a recent address on Civic
Leadership, Development and Re-
sponsibility," Samuel insult, Presi-
dent of the Commonwealth Edison
Company, of Chicago, said:
81 hold that every man owes some
thing besides his taxes to the COM
munity in which he lives. The more
he has been favored mentally and
materially by fortune, the more he
owes. In discharge of that debt, he
is under obligation to do for the COM
munity something he does not get
paid for, something he doesn't make
money by. His obligation to do this
is not just a once-in-a-whlle obllga-
ton; it is a continuing obligation
and what he does in discharge OF it
should be limited only by his abili-
ties and his opportunities.
"a true sense of civic responsible
ity springs from recognition OF this
obligation. Individual response to
it produces the civic leadership that
assures continuous, well balanced
symmetrical community development
the development that provides fol-
social and spiritual needs, so to
speak, as well as for the physical and
material needs of a community.
''It is to the men of constructive
vision that we owe the welding OF
this continent into one homogeneous
whole greatest amongst the
modern creatures of empire. 1t is
to this constructive class that we owe
the development of our great com
munities and our great business, and
from them you should draw your in
SEPARATION for making your share OF
civic responsibility and community
service"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-10-07
ANNUAL FIRE PREVENTION
WEEK

Fire Prevention Weew is to be
held this year from October to 15.
Throughout the country various or
CARNATIONS will again attempt to
train the public in offsetting the
greatest menace in the United States
today. Our people will do well to
learn, and profit by example.
The tragedy of fire is that it is al
most entirely preventable. There
are, of course, natural causes for
CONGREGATIONS that cannot be helped
but these are very small percentage
of the total. The greatest damage
is caused by carelessness and ignor-
ance. Billions of dollars are vast
ed and destroyed each year by few
peoples carelessness. 1t would be
so reprehensible if the loss were
borne by them alone. But it must
be shared, directly or indirectly, by
every citizen and taxpayer.
1t is the duty of every citizen to
cooperate in the observance OF Fire
Prevention Week. And it should be
his pleasure. Fire loss can be stop
ped. And in a single week, ii every
one will observe and learn, a great
deal can be accomplished in the way
of reducing it.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-10-07
tx" MARKS THE SPOT

Slowly but surely there has come
in recent years an important change
in at least one attitude of politicians
seeking to retain office, and those
seeking to get into office. 1t is a
drastic change, but so subtle that
only careful observers have noticed
it. And that is their attitude to-
wards business and industry.
Twenty years ago candidate
wishing to be carried from the hall
on the shoulders of shouting cohorts,
needed only to rise, deposit his fifty
cent Corona Corona carefully on the
edge of the speakers table. smooth
his imported broadcloth waist-coat
over his generous expanse of stom-
ach, and launch into burning rhe-
torical denunciation of the corpora
tions in general. Occasionally he
would even undo himself and pick
out one by name and emblazon it to
the skies as menace, an outrage,
and an insidious foe to all those sit
ting before him, who need only mark
oil a OPPOolIC hlo VA SASSSAOA'
day to be saved from this hydra
headed monster.
Such campaign thunder is not now
so popular. Business and industry
have grown and continue to grow in
power and public esteem. The peo-
pie, as rule, have seen through the
political spell binder"-he does not
maintain payrolls. They have seen
the steady improvement in industrial
management and service.
A large percentage of our popula-
ton owns securities of our indus
trial, public utility and transporta-
tion companies. 1t is no wonder
that the business batting politician is
not so popular when his constituents
make up the ownership of the indus
tries he would attack.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-10-07
Culture in America
in PEeisfocene Age

Primitive man lived in America at
a vastly earlier time than is generally
believed, says Scientific Monthly, If
the evidence gathered by the Colorado
Museum of Natural History in the
Southwest is valid. Instead OF dating
back only some 5000 to $4,000 years,
the time when the Indian is supposed
to have come to America from Asia
these human relics are assigned to
the geological period known as the
Pleistocene. 1t was in this age, from
$4,000 to 100000 years ago, that
northeastern America was periodical
ly covered with a glacier, and when
prehistoric mastodons roamed the
land.
The discoveries are mostly arrow.
heads, metates primitive grinding in.
struments) and other worked stones.
found in close association with ex.
tinct animals. Near Frederick. Okla,
remains of mammoth were found al
level of eight feet above that of q
deposit which contained some Of the
relics. This is considered strong evil
dence of their antiquity The arrow.
heads were totally unlike those In
any known collections. They were
primitive, but the man who made
them must have progressed consider,
ably in culture. as they were far In
advance of the human relics of that
period unearthed elsewhere.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-10-07

The Worcester Democrat, pub
lished at Pocomoke City, states Loire
G. Quinn. Jr., is looming up as can,
didate for the Democratic Congress
sional nomination, to succeed Hon
T. Alan Goldsborough. Mr.. Quinn
heads and controls corporation that
owns and publishes eight county
newspapers on the Eastern Shore
and has newspaper interests in every
county in the District, except Wor
chester, giving him contact with po-
litical organizations and the rank
and file of the party in all sections OF
the District.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-10-07

Both political parties seem to be
trying to stir up the tariff question.
If politics could be eliminated
from the tariff it would become a
simple business proposition.
The tariff serves two primary pur-
poses:
First, it prevents cheap labor
foreign products, both farm and
manufactured, from being dumped
on the American market at the ex-
pense of the home producer,
Second. it forces the foreigner who
has the privilege of selling in the
best market in the world, to pay a
tax to our government, thus reduc-
ing our other taxes by that amount
(some 100000 a year,.
We do not want to shut out for
eign competition, neither do We want
to give 1t an advantage over the
home producer.
Equity and fair dealing should
govern in establishing tariff schedul
es, rather than partisan politics OF
favoritism for any class or product
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-10-07
MEDICAL EXAMINATION OF
SCHOOL CHILDREN

Medical examination of children
in the public schools, by the Deputy
State Health Officers assisted by the
public health nurses will begin in a
few days, according to an announce
ment by DR.. R. H. Riley, Assistant
Health and Chief of the Bureau OF
Communicable Diseases. The plan
is to be tried this year of concentrat-
ing on the younger children-those
in the first three grades. The aim
of the examination DR.. Riley said, is
to discover conditions that may need
correction, particularly Of the throat,
nose, teeth, eyes, hearing, lungs and
of the weight, as an indication OF
general health and well-being. The
sooner conditions of this sort are
found and corrected, DR.. Riley said,
the better the child's chances for
good health and for success in his
school life.
While the health officers will try
to reach every child in the first three
grades, children in the upper grades
will not be neglected. The older
children in need of care OF this sort,
especially those who are brought to
the attention of the examining ply
sicians by the teachers or those who
were examined last year and were
scheduled for a denomination this
season, will be given the same sort
of checking up as the younger ones
will have. In addition, in several
counties, Carroll and Howard, Fred
erick, Montgomery and Prince Geor-
ge's among them, all of the children
in the schools will be examined as
usual, not simply their younger
brothers and sisters.
Approximately $4,000 school child
rem were given medical examina-
ton last year, 10000 in the grades
and the rest were prospective first
graders who were examined before
their enrolment in school. In all
cases, parents were notified OF condi-
lions that needed correction and
were urged to have the corrections
made.
Zone of the effects OF the medical
supervision of the children in our
school," DR.. Riley said, has been to
cut down the number of absences
from sickness or i'll health. Losing
less time from sickness has made ii
possible for many children to COM
plete. their work without interrupt
ton and has made them make more
rapid progress. Ten years ago, 40
per cent of all of the children attend
ing the public schools were what is
known as "repeaters, that is, they
could not get through their grade
work in specified time and had to re-
peat the work the next year. AS a
result of the continuous supervision
of the health of the children the
number has been cut down to 20 per
cent.
st will be seen from this, that
medical supervision OF the health OF
the children serves a double purpose,
the correction of unfavorable con-
ditions removes what might be ser.
| ious handicaps to the health and
mental development of the children
and gives them better start toward
manhood and womanhood. But
there is an advantage to the taxpay-
er also. 1t costs less for the State to
educate child who gets through his
work in specified time than 1t does to
train one who has to repeat his work.
The financial question is important
of course, but the best result of this
health supervision of the children is
the child himself-the all-round
healthy child"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-10-07

Telephones on Main Street" cause
NO surprise to anyone. But almost
everyone is greatly surprised to find
telephones in the forests. The forests
service departments of the state for
ests Of Maryland, Virginia and West
Virginia and the national forests of
the latter two states maintain net
works Of telephone lines in which they
place great dependence as a means Of
forest fire protection. In these three
states more than 21,000,000 acres of
national and state forests are fur
nished protection by telephone lines.
Forest service supervisors, rangers
and wardens everywhere stress the i'm
portance of telephone service as a
means of forest fire protection. "The
telephone is the most efficient branch
of the forest fire department in time
of emergency" they say.
Lightning, campers, railroads, In
cendiarism, and steam saw mills are
among the chief causes of forest fires,
according to William B. Greedy, u. 8,
Forester, at Washington,
"a small fire. he says, may spread
into a confiagratien; and fire. matches.
and burning tobacco should be used as
carefully in the forest as In the home.
Carelessness, in respect to the use of
fire in forests may mean loss Of lives.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-10-07
INSIDE" INFORMATION

AS veal chops have much less fat
in proportion to lean meat than other
chops, they are likely to dry out con-
siderably in cooking unless protected
by coating Of egg and bread
crumbs. This is the reason for serv-
ing veal chops and outlet Dreaded"
So
Veal will stand little more sea-
soning than other meats. Before
cooking season with a few drops Of
lemon juice, little Worcestershire
sauce, and onion juice, as well as
salt and pepper.
Apple sauce, as well as stewed
prunes, apricots and other fruits
which have a pronounced flavor
when cooked, makes good dessert
called "snow" or float" combined
with stittiy beaten egg whites-half
a cup of sauce per egg.
There is no foundation for the
widespread notion that fish is partic-
ularly valuable as brain food. The
idea seems to have originally gained
Roadway because fish was supposed
to contain relatively large proper
lions of phosphorus. There is, how
ever, no experimental evidence to
warrant the assumption that phos-
phorus is any more essential to the
brain than nitrogen, potassium or
any other element that occurs in it's
tissues. Various other foods furnish
a higher proportion of phosphorus
than fish.
Casserole dishes are always popu-
lar with the homemaker. They are
easy to prepare and usually afford an
attractive way to serve number OF
foods from one dish. The Bureau
of Home Economics, U. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture, suggests this
method of combining sweet potatoes
and ham in such dish: slice OF.
smoked ham cut into slices for serv-
ing; cups raw sliced sweet pota-
toes; / tablespoon of butter or ham
fryings; 2 tablespoons sugar; l cup
hot water. Broil the pieces of ham
lightly on both sides and arrange
them to cover the bottom of the bak-
ing dish Spread the sliced sweet
potatoes over them; sprinkle sugar.
Add the hot water and extra fat.
Cover the dish and bake slowly until
the ham is tender, basting the pota-
toes occasionally with the gravy.
Brown the top well.
Oranges at the breakfast table, a
salad at dinner, things formerly re-
garded as luxuries by families of
average means, are fast coming to be
necessities.
Less than a pound of tea year
per person is consumed in the Unit
ed States. For years the tea drink
ers of the nation seem to have been
turning gradually from green tea to
| black tea, but in the last year green
tea importations increased slightly
and black tea declined.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-10-07

homes, live stock, and forage, and q
vast amount Of timber which belongs
equally to all citizens"
Supervisors, rangers and fire wardena
believe that ian once of prevention
Is worth a pound of cure" and they
make every effort to secure the CO.
operation of those living in, or travel
ing through the national or state for
ests over which they have control, to
see that there are no fires caused by
carelessness.
During the danger seasons-fall and
spring-the main attention of the fire
protection forces is devoted to prevent
ing fires. Extra men are employed;
the forests are systematically patrolled.
and careful look-outs are maintained
from high points. Roads and trails
are built so that all parts of the forests
may be quickly reached; tools and
food for the use of the flre-fghtera
are stored at convenient places, The
ranger stations and lookout points are
connected with the Offices of the super
visors by telephone 80 that men may
be quickly assembled to fight danger
Gus fires which the patrolmen cannot
overcome themselves.
There may be no need for alarm,
but the telephone is ready for any
emergency.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-10-07

Our American Idea Of the best way
for one to prosper is for all to pros
per; and that more real profits can
be made by paying good wages,
thereby increasing buying power OF
workers, raising standard of living
and increasing business.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-10-07

Carload shipments of fresh fruit
md vegetables practically doubled
IN number during the last eight
years.
Some of the oil used for lubricat-
ing watches, clocks and other dell
cate instruments is obtained from
The head OF porpoise. The better
grades of neat 's-foot oil are also used
similarly.
Trees slightly damaged by field
mice will usually recover soon II the
injured parts are completely covered
oy mounding up soil around the
bases, or if paint or other material is
lsed to prevent the wounds from
Trying out. When the injury is Sc
yere or the trees are entirely girdl-
I'd, bridge-grafting should be resort
ed to.
AS checks upon big floods, forest
ry and it's allied forms of natural
storage take secondary place. I'M
mediate relief must be sought
through the skill of the engineer.
But behind and supplementing the
evees or other structures that must
De built we get back to the land.
And we should not fail to restore, as
ar as it may be done, the natural
forage and protection from erosion
hat may be derived from tire-free
orests and other practical correc-
ives in our everyday use of land.
LAS a broad conclusion" says w.
B. Greeley, head of the Forest Ser
ice in the U. S. Department of Agri-
culture" the Forest Service has tre-
nendous faith in the commercial
promise Of timber growing to Amer
can landowners. The law of sup
ply and demand is working steadily
% create timber values which in
arge portions of the United States
will pay fair returns on Forestry as a
business. The economic history of
other countries which have passed
through a cycle OF virgin forest de
pletion similar to that which the
United States is now trayersing
points to the same inevitable conclu-
sion. The time is fast approaching
when forestry alone, will supply the
enormous quantities of wood de-
manded by American markets"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-10-07

John Philip Hill, known principal
ly for his wet proclivities, will seek
the Republican nomination for the
House of Representatives from the
Third Congressional district next
year, it is generally believed In both
Democratic and Republican circles
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-10-07

Don't hesitate to marry a woman
just because she is older than you
are. Time will change all that.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-10-07

There seems to be quite a differ
ence between rare man and one
Who is simply raw.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-10-07

Under private ownership of bust
ness, the customer gets what he,
wants, not what the majority wants.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-10-07
Experiments

A live fish was produced by plac.
ing fish egg under powerful ultra.
violet ray for five to ten minutes
Thus life WIS made without the male
sperm The eggs of the sea urchin
were placed under the rays of the
machine and the eggs became swim
ing fish larvae The male was elm
mated entirely The identical expert
menf was performed on Starfsh and
other low forms of animal life. Pc
culiar deformities were produced by
placing the embryo chicken under the
radiation The resulting chick grew
to have one eye. and a heart broken
up into several pieces. each of which
nnlsatad INDEPENDENTLY OF its fellows
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-10-07

Intelligence is a good thing, when
t isn't overripe,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-10-07

Why not try out the church
benches next Sunday morning and
see how you get along?
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-10-07

Talk is cheap, provided you don't
have to take it back.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-10-07

1t is remarkable how many poor
jokes some people remember.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-10-07

Any confidence man can tell you
who put the "lie" in believe.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-10-07
LINE AND PARAGRAPH

Carload shipments of fresh fruit
md vegetables practically doubled
IN number during the last eight
years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-11
By the Associated Press.

| By the Associated Press.
TULSA, Okla, March 11.--While
the petroleum operator pulls long
| face. realizing that each day $4,000
more barrels Of crude oil are bubbling
from the subterranean sands this
year than refiners can take care of,
the gasoline consumers well may aft
ford to chuckle. says Andrew NJ.
Rowley, editor of the Oil and Gas
Journal today.
There are 100000 more barrels of
gasoline on hand than in 1926; tank
car prices are only | cent above the
record low Of cents reached in
1928. and still new wells are brought
in almost daily in the great new
Seminole fields in Oklahoma, where
production already has outstripped
storage and pipeline facilities. The
Seminole field has brought oklahoma
to the head of the list of oil-pro-
ducing States, pouring forth more
than 100000 barrels OF crude oil
daily, even under limitations recently
agreed upon among operators there.
Too Much Science Hurts.
The increasing efficiency of crack
ing methods for deriving gasoline
from crude petroleum is another fac
tOF ulSt the lildikel.
The Oil and Gas Journal finds an
analogy between the proVerbial ma
who, given enough rope hanged him
self, and the petroleum refining in
dustry. Having been given science
enough it is in danger of doing the
same thing.
The present weakened gasoline
market is attributed to overproduc-
ton. This condition is fed by three
factors; too much crude oil; too
much natural gasoline and too rapid
improvement in refinery processes,
which resulted in extraction of more
gasoline from each barrel or crude,
the journal says.
If it were possible for the entire
country to recover So per cent of
gasoline from crude oil as in Indiana
and Illinois last year, all of the gaso-
line needed could be obtained from
265 900 900 barrels of crude oil year,
or 100000 barrels day less than was
used last year -
Much Taken From Storage.
Mr.. Rowley paints a not-altogether
gloomy picture for oil producers,
however, noting that refneries con
sumed $50, 100000 barrels of crude oil
in 1926. when only IT'S, 100000 barrels
We're produced in the United States.
Consumption this year, he thought,
would reach 0S,000,000 barrels of
crude. This means, he says, that the
refineries are likely to draw some
81 900, 900 barrels Of crude oil from
storage and importation.
Production at present averages 259,-
440 barrels more daily than year
ago, while sales of crude oil for re-
finery purposes have increased only
1874 900 barrels a day. The surplus of
IS, 900 barrels daily production must
be stored, necessitating enormous
expenditures by the petroleum in
duStry.