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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-01-28
Poultry Hints

Let the breeding fiocks have the
range when you shut up the hens for
winter eggs.
Watch the water supply. Poultry
should never be allowed to drink
frozen water.
For Matching eggs breed from the
best of the late-laying hens. rather
than from the pullets.
Be on guard for the first sign of
colds or roup in the poultry. and to
separate the afflicted from the rest.
1t is not well to force heavy egg
production through feeding where
birds are to be used for breeding pens.
It is good scheme to pillow or spade
up the poultry runs each spring in
order to get rid of worms that cause
gapes in chickens.
Natures way OF resting her feath-
cred family is to let them rear fam
fly. Turkeys and chickens are both
better for the season of rest.
Turning hens out of the warm hen.
house on a chill wintry day, or with
cold wind blowing. or with snow or
ice on the ground. opens the way to
wheeling roup before midnight.
If you shut up the pullets they may
lose their appetite. Coax them along
with frequent grain feelings and
moist mash once day.
Cement makes the best floor for
poultry house. When properly built 1t
is economical, easy to clean, rat proof,
durable. and free from dampness.
Breed only from birds producing
eggs of uniform size and as near
chalk white In color as possible. Trap
nest pullets during first winter and
mark birds producing poor type eggs
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-01-28
SPARK PLUGS
INSIDE STORY
Sillimanite Used for Cores
Found, Only After Weari-
some Search.

Those small porcelain plugs on
which your motor depends for its
efficiency and power are the basis Of
an industry running into the millions
In production ard value.
Within their Insignificant bodies
they carry tale of adventure and
research surpassed by those of few
other industries.
They tell OF the long patient search
for sillimanite, mineral highly re-
sistant to electric shock, almost Inn
pervious to high temperature and Of
great mechanical strength.
Search by Scientists.
They recount the tolls Of scientists
In research laboratories and their
dangerous climbs through the i'm
mense crevices of the volcanic noun
tatns of California, digging out this
mineral, once believed too rare for
commercial use and now being sent
down mountainsides by the tons.
Even after its delivery into the
commonplace factories of the indus
try, the mineral goes on through hum
dreds of delicate operations to come
cut finally as mere spark plug!
All this care and research and adj
venture have built up an industry
that produces 100000 spark plugs
annually, at value Of some $60.000.-
900. The sillimanite that goes into
their manufacture is the discovery of
one producer. bringing out 80 Of the
80 millions of spark plugs annually.
But the products of the others may
be of the synthetic sillimanite, lab
eratory product. or Of porcelain COM
pounds.
Many Other Uses.
Besides being installed in motor
cars they're the things that help
make all the gasoline-propeTled boats.
airplanes. tractors and stationary
engines go. OF the S0.0O0,OO0 output
5S,0OO,OOO are used in passenger cars
each year, 100000 in trucks and
the rest in all other forms of gasoline
motors.
A spark plug will last five years
and more. but it's the conviction Of
spark-plug makers that they should
be replaced annually If the motorist
would economic In gasoline and oil.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-01-28
Tobacco Dust Useful to
Destroy Worms in Flock

Placing 2 per cent of tobacco dust
In the mash is common remedy for
removing worms from poultry. Then
once each week give epson salts to
the flock at the rate of a pound per
hundred birds. The salts can be given
in the drinking water or in the amount
Of wet mash that the flock will eat
quickly, allowing as even distribu.
ton of the medicine as possible.
Some poultrymen are using the COM
mercial worm capsules with good sue
cess, as it insures every bird receiving
the proper share. Keep the droppings
removed from the houses, and distrib-
ute them as far as possible from the
poultry houses and range. This helps
to keep down the infestation of worms.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-01-28
Cold Weather Adds
to Traffic Hazards

Winter weather brings in
creased traffic hazards, points
out Walter G. King, president of
the National Safety council, who
calls attention to the fact that
both motorists and pedestrians
should be extremely careful
when snow, hail and sleet are
likely to obscure the vision of
people both afoot and at the
steering wheel.
Here are some suggestions
Be sure your auto is equipped
with a windshield cleaner. Many
drivers prefer the automatic de-
vice which permits motorists to
keep both hands free for driv-
ing and stopping purposes.
Brakes that function efficient
~ are absolutely essential at all
times and especially during this
kind Of weather. They should
be tested frequently and regu-
larry.
Chains shouldn't be left In the
garage these days. When the
tires are worn, the car is espe-
cially liable to skid If the brakes
are applied suddenly. With
good treads the danger is some
what minimized.
Have all of your equipment
in good condition. Don't ignore
the steering gear. headlights and
tail-lights. horns. batteries and
other apparatus, If you would
avoid accidents.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-01-28
Laying Hens Need Good,
Palatable Grain Mash

A good mash should be fed to lay
ing hens, according to G. L. Stevenson
head Of the department of poultry
husbandry at South Dakota State col.
lege. The mash used at State college
consists Of one-fourth part of oilmeaI
to one part each of bran, middlings,
tankage, ground oats and cornmeal
when it is not too high. Ground bar.
ley is now being used in place Of corn.
meal. Two, pounds Of charcoal are
also mixed with each 500 pounds Of
meal, and about one-half pound of salt
is mixed per 100 pounds of meal. The
salt makes the meal more palatable.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-01-28
AUTOMOBILE NOTES

Some cars seem to be able to get
fifty lies to the gallon Of gasoline.
The colleges are serving another
great need by concentrating most of
the 1920 fiivvers in few places.
The automobile is replacing the
railroads in Denmark, says a special
government commission report.
The available tonnage capacity of
all motor trucks expressed in ton
miles is about 10 per cent Of the
railroad capacity.
Boston is rapidly developing an
"automobile truck row" that is rival
ing the automobile row" of the pas
senger car.
One Of the few champions that
came through the summer with the
title unscathed was the locomotive at
the crossing.
The old-fashionkd vaudeville artist
who used to give program of animal
limitations Is now in business. He
makes hick horns for collegiate
roadsters.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-01-28
The Spirit Behind

Mayor Hackett Of Albany said in a
recent address on economy:
II saw a profiteer the other day rid
ing in $4,000 car, and asked my
self if the man wasn't too fond OF
show. Suppose nobody was ever to
see him in this car, would he have
troubled to. spend so much money
on it?
"a good deal Of the extravaganza we
see around us has nasty spirit be-
hind it. 1t is like little Willie:
Why don't you eat your nice cake,
Willie? said his teacher.
"'I'm waitin for Samuel and Ar
thur Willie answered; it'll taste bet
ter with Samuel and Arthur lookin'
on"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-01-28
sYes'' Disappearing

Prof. Louise Pound of the Univer.
sity of Nebraska has recently pub
lished report of speech study she
has made which brought to tight the
fact that the word "yes' is fading
out from the English language. A
canvass of substitutes for it among a
large group of young persons produced
"all right" "you bet,'' 20. K" and the
various nasal sounds, such as ''uh-
huh," etc.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-01-28

yer replied very indignant no when
the judge asked him if he accepted
money for arranging affairs of honor.
But he admitted accepting gifts, and
added, sadly: ALIAS, the gifts are be-
coming smaller and smaller, and the
seconds are charging more and more"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-01-28

Wife-It does seem, Robert, that you
could go to church with me just one
Sunday.
Hub-I don't think it's quite safe,
dear. You know how easily habits are
formed.-Boston Transcript.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-01-28
There She Wasn't

Giles was describing to his friends
the loss of his new watchdog.
"Oi tied 'er up with bit O. string
last night" he said, IAN when OF
gets down in the mornin', there she
was-gorn !''-London Tit-Bits.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-01-28
Looking Ahead

Patient-Yes, doctor, I'll take your
advice when / get out and walk to
work every day.
Doctor-And, if you get run over
remember my telephone number.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-01-28

The first Brutus, the famous Roman,
put his own sons to death for disobey-
ing orders during military campaign,
according to an answered question in
Liberty. III
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-01-28
Luggage Stored on Top
of a Closed Automobile

AS shown. the top of an inclosed
auto body can be used as fine lug
lage compartment that will hold ex-
ira coats. blankets or parcels and pre-
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-01-28
aDANDELIoN BUTTER COLOR"

A harmless vegetable butter color
used by millions for so years. Drug
stores and general stores sell bottles
Of ''Dandelion' for 80 cents.-Adv.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-01-28

Good health depends upon good digestion.
Safeguard your digestion with Wright's In
dian Vegetable Pills and you safeguard your
health. 372 Pearl St.. N. Y. Adv.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-01-28

The wolf is not always at the door /;
sometimes it's in the garage.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-21

legislation under the pretex interpreting congress
ate avoided following the example of the conference that
drew the United States constitution that imposed by
bribery and terror the people of the American colonies
With hundred record of usurpations by the United
States courts before them the excans who drew their 1917
constitution avoided of its pitfalls with the result that
bourgeois constitution is far ahead of the United States
to be hoped that the Mexican legislature repuiates this
decision of the reaconary court and enforces the letter its
oil and land DEGREES against the greed of the American imperial
lists who in Mexico only for the purpose Of despoing it of
it's great natural and enslavng it's population
The very of the United States capitalist ruling class
Kissing and byword the vast majority of the peo
pies of Latin America The ghtfu suppression of the duly
constituted government of Nicaragua following the dispersal of
the of Haiti and Santo Domingo which fol
lowed the Panama Canal steal the black record of colonial ruth
ssness in the Philippine Islands, the dupcty intrigue
the United States has created of fury against dollar i'm
peraism that steadily rising higher In Latin America Mex
is the logical country to take the initiative in launching
movement for antimperas bloc of nations against the
United States and not for should it anything
the mperast despolers History itself has imposed upon
Mexico the necessity Of rpudang the decision of the
and reaffmng the articles of the oil and land laws and
enforcing them with all its might. Such will be
claimed by all cassconcous workers the United States who
look to the peoples Of Latin Ameria allies in joint
fight against Wall Street and its government at Washington
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-21
Disowning the World War.

years ago. when the United States fight
ing imperat the interest of the investments
the House of Morgan all the eminent patriots claiming
credit their participation the crusade to
make democracy Then it considered
helped launch the conflict the war to end wars
Today years after when the agents of Imperialism are
still striving conceal the mperiaist designs under paclst
slogans the last regarded from the exalted heights of
Woniana. Now the busy dscamng respon
sbity fer the last
Only the other evening Thomas W. Lamont partner of the
House Morgan in whose interest the sanity Woodrow declared
against the central powers declared before the annual dinner
of the Academy Political Science the Hotel Astor New York
that the international bankers but the statesmen who
responsible for the world Thus of the masters of
finance capital places the blame for the slaughter his
litical flunkeys.
Certainly hold brief for the statesmen who formulated
the deceptive slogans beneath which concealed the interests
of the banking houses who had invested in the the side of
Britain France and Czarst Russia But in order to keep the
record straight let be forgotten that had not been
for the billions of dollars invested by American banking houses
of which the House Morgan the deeply involved the
United States would the world thousands
thousands young American workers who furnished ban
for buzzards the heon battefed of France would
still be alive and thousands of the blinded sheshOcked
and crppedhe living dead of the warwoud be of sound
mind and body today.
No Mr. Lamont! You and your kind claimed the glory
the government the United States servant
expose your hand and that retrospect
the sangunay facts of the known and
class will have to take the responsibility.
Collectively the capitalist responsible for the
of the working class and the time will when colec
lively it will answer for its crimes.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-21
Money Writes

Mcdowell Colony, and become dig
nified poet of old-fashioned Amer
lean individualism. AS one of his
adorers puts it, very haughtily, "Mr
Robinson does not wish to preach
anything. He does not consider the
world as in the immediate path of
salvation"
And so, as the years go by, we see
happening to him what happens to
all gentlemen poets - his writing
comes to possess what the critics
praise as "subtlety." Having nothing
really important to say, and no deep
creative impulse, the poet concen-
trates more and more upon his man.
ner of saying things; he racks his
mind to devise intricate and compli
Gated and involved modes Of utter
ance.
l used to be fooled by that. When
was a youth l read every word of
Robert Browning. patiently consult
ing footnotes, looking up names in
encyclopedias, digging out learned
papers of the Browning Society to
find out what "Sordello" is about.
But now that / am as old as Brown
ing, l know that he did not have
many original or profound ideas; he
was a Victorian gentleman of travel
and odd learning, who liked to wrap
up obvious and commonplace state
ments in mystifying. language; fill
ing his poetry with references to for
gotten persons and things, of as much
consequence to you and me as the
addresses of all the Smiths in the
telephone directory of Kalamazoo,
Michigan.
take up a recent volume by Mr..
Robinson, "The Man Who Died
Twice" 1t tells the story of mu-
sician who wrecks his art by dissipa-
ton. I open the volume at random,
and find myself reading about music
Blown down by choral horns out of
star
To quench those drums of death with
singing fire
Unfelt by man before.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-21

Of course l recognize the right of a
poet straining after an effect to mix
his metaphors now and then. I re-
member that Hamlet spoke of taking
arms against a sea of trouble. But
if Hamlet had talked about blowing
music out Of star to quech drums
Of death with fire that sang and had
never been felt before-I would sure
ly have said that he ought to have
stopped and got clear in his mind
what he was trying to convey to
mine.
And now the new book, '"Tristram."
debate whether out of a sense of
loyalty to my job l am going to wade
through two hundred pages about the
sexual entanglements of Isolt of Ire
land and Isolt Of the White Hands,
away back in the days of Mallory and
the Knights of the Round Table. l
pick up the volume and trace long,
involved paragraph, in which Mr..
Robinson says the same obvious thing
three times over, and each time in a
more complicated and fantastic fash
ion-until in the end he gets lost in
his labyrinth of words, and forgets
to finish his sentence! So l forget
to finish this greatest poem that has
yet been written in America"
Instead, tell you about an Amer
lean university teacher, friend of
mine and teacher of my son. He
dreamed the dream that there might
be justice in America, that men might
no longer commit mass murder, and
rob others of the fruits Of toll. A
wild and dangerous dream, and a
young professor of English who thus
steps out of his speciality will be I'M
popular with his dean, and also with
his wife's relatives. This friend of
mine was trying to be a poet, and
he married young girl, and present.
ly made the discovery that the seeds
of hereditary insanity were develop
ing in her mind. So with enemies at
home and abroad, he had a painful
time, and when his wife drank poison
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-21
Mexican Supreme Court Decision on Oil Lease Is
By No. Means Final

When the supreme court the United States renders
con is the last word short revolution From the decisions
of majority of the corporation lawyers who appointed
for life to the highest tribunal of the of the United
States there other appeal In the constitution of the United
States the court conceived the final and most
authoritative of the series of checks and balances devised de-
feat the will of the legislative branch and the executive
branch of the government.
Most Americans regard all supreme possessing
liar and hence when the made Fri
day that the supreme of Mexico had ruled favor of
tain American Oil interests interpreted final This how
not the The decision unfolding the contentious Of
the Mexican Petroleum American and sub
sdiary company Indiana
XIV and XIV of the Mexican oil laws unconstitutional
This in spite of the fact that the famous Article XVII
the 1917 Mexican constitution specifically makes provision for
such legislation of restoring rghu the
vast tracts of land and oil and mineral placed in the
hands of mpeas of both the United States and England
pie VINO succeeded nm at intervals during the past seventeen
The twentsevenh article of the constitution makes
it possible the stolen land and resources.
Article XIV of the laws passed under authority
constitution stpuaes that all oil land titles acquired prior
adoption of the Mexican constitution shall be abolished
that yyear concessions shall be substituted The American
oil fought this clause because they wanted the right
to hold such lands perpetuy. Article XIV declares titles
such lands forfeited when applications have fifty
concessions confirmed made before January 1926
companies, neffabe arrogance did
not attempt comply with the oil and land decre hence
their enforcement met with the most resistance and
suited in the American state department launching campaign
against the Gales IN Mexico that urouy
down to date.
Before the present
ea courts of Mexico there must be four similar decisions
the constitution specifying that the five decisions required
to make legislative act unconstitutional This considered
formidable obstacle however, and the American oil and land
holders expect to be able obtain four decisions
court of Mexico largely composed reactonaes and
individuals who can be influenced by wealth.
But though there five decisions of the Mexican
supreme court they final According
the Mexican government the department Washington
dated January 90 1926:
THE decisions of the Court Justice when
by them only binding insofar
the he
the legislative this is the authorized
laws observance throughout the republic"
Thus the Mexican supreme court instead of being the final
arbter has legislation Unlike the United States
court the Mexca supreme Judiciary formulate
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-21
By Upton Sinclair
By Fred Ellis

( he nearly lost his own mind; indeed,
some think he did-his hair turned
white, and his face became haggard,
and the students, when they pass
him, tap their foreheads and say,
"There's a mutt" Just so they said
about Dante long ago, and about John
Bunyan, and William Blake, and a
hundred others who have extended
the boundaries of the souls expert
ence.
And now, which would you rather
read about: Isolt of the White Hands,
who pinned away because her husband
loved another woman, or William Ell
lery Leonard, Professor of English at
the University of Wisconsin? How
romantic the first sounds, and how
commonplace the second-a scandal
item in tomorrow mornings newspa-
per! If you read the book of sonnets
in which the professor has exposed
his tortured soul, you may be fur
Their disconnected, because you won't
find mixed metaphors, nor obscure
references to be looked up, nor in
tricacies to be disentangled. What
you will find is story SO tragic and
terrible, told with a drive SO COM
polling, and with beauty so tender,
and wisdom so deep, and pity so all
embracing-I won't say that 1.-TWO
Lives" is the greatest poem that has
yet been written in America, because
I remember Emerson's "Threnody,"
and Poe's "Israfel," and Whitman's
"Drum Taps" and Sterling's Guam
don," and a number of others that 1
shall name; but I will say that it is
what I mean by great poetry, dealing
with everyday realities of the Amer
lea we live in, and dealing with them
from point of view which embraces
the future as we'll as the past, and
is free and creative in the highest
sense of those words.
ITO Be Continued)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-21
Continued from Last Issue,l
XVI.
Choose Your Poet

AURING the days when 1 was a
hungry hack-writer, there appear
ed in New York newspaper letter
making known to lovers of litera-
ture that a man who had revealed
gifts as a poet was earning his living
digging the New York subway. The
name Of the poet was not given, but
| learned later that it was Edwin
Arlington Robinson; and presumably
some help must have been found, for
the subway laborer devoted himself
to writing, and has just published a
long narrative which l see advertised
as "the greatest poem that has yet
been written in America" A part of
it was read in theatre in New York,
and great audience showed tremen-
dOus delight. Do 1 need to tell you
that this masterpiece does not deal
with the digging Of subways, nor
with any other aspect of American
wage-slavery? No, it is called Girls
tram," and it's theme is a domestic
triangle in royal family dead some
half dozen centuries.
Here and there 1 have found some
pleasure in Mr.. Robinson's books: for
example, his "Miniver Chevy, child
Of scorn," who Cursed the common
place" and missed the medieval
grace of iron clothing" That is a
sample, of the acid with which this
poet does his etching. You note that
it is an individual foible he deals
with; and it is always thus. He is
apparently, entirely lacking in a So
cial sense. His experience in the sub
way trenches taught him nothing. He
had no feeling of kinship with his
fellow-toilers; all he wanted was to
make his escape from the slave
world, and live comfortably at the