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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-04-08
Economic Value
Of Song Birds
Are Great Asset to Farm
Wood Lots and Deserve
Good Protection.

Prepared by the United States Department
of AEriculture.)
The care of birds should be made
part of the routine management of farm
wood lots. according to the biological
survey of the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture. Intensive stud
.es Of the relation of birds to wood
lots made in the East, which apply(in
most parts Of the country, show that
In general birds are great asset to
wood lots and, with one or two ex-
ceptions, should be encouraged and
protected.
Direct Benefit to Trees.
The direct benefit to trees from
birds is chiefly due to their distribu-
lion of seeds and the resulting repro
duction. Birds carry in their flight
the fleshy fruits and nuts and scatter
them much farther from their point
Of origin than would be possible by
any other natural means. They also
aid in reseeding coniferous trees.
Birds are the most important natural
check on tree-destroying rodents and
are of great value in cutting down the
numbers Of an enormous variety of
insect pests of woodlands. Indirect
benefits come also through the pres
ence Of such game birds as the ruffled
grouse, which attracts hunters and in
:reases the revenue Of an entire neigh
borhood, and through bird life in gen.
eral, which makes woodlands more at
tractive for recreational purposes.
Although the individual species Of
birds present in wood lots may differ
according to climate and locality, very
few birds are undesirable. The vel
low-bellied sapsucker, however, is one
Of the few. 1t causes considerable
damage to timber and should not be
encouraged A few kinds of hawks
and occasionally sCreech-owls prey to
an undesirable extent upon smaller
birds that are beneficial because they
eat insects. Such birds found causing
damage should be done away with
promptly.
Keeping Desirable Birds.
The fundamentals of keeping desir-
able birds on wood land area are to
protect them as thoroughly as posi-
Bile, to see that they have a continu-
ous supply Of water, to provide nest
boxes for the hole-nesting species, and,
when necessary, to supplement the
natural food supply. Some Of the
most favored kinds of wild berries can
be planted about the woodland mar
gins, and winter foods can be provid-
ed by means of various sheltering de-
gices.< In trimming operations, pro-
vision can be made for some of
the seed-eating birds by leaving some
Of their favorite seed-producing trees.
The prevention of fire is essential both
TO good wood-lot management and to
the preservation Of the birds. Prac-
tically every measure that is good for
the wood lot, including gradual rather
than wholesale cutting or thinning Of
timber, is good for the birds.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-04-08

XXIHAT was believed to be DELHI
Wv crate attempt to assassinate
Henry Ford was revealed when it be-
came known that tho automobile man.
ufacturer was in hospital recover
ing from painful injuries. Mr.. Ford
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-04-08

NTAJ. H. o. SEGRAvE, an English
AVA man. established world record
at DaytCna Beach, Fla, when he
drove his racing car Sunbeam over
the sand course at the terrific speed
Of 203.79 miles an hour
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-04-08
Our Humorous Youngsters

Father Ito BERTHE who has been talk
ing necessarily since the meal beg:an)
Now, BERTHE, let us have a little
peace.
Bertie-Yes, daddy. little piece of
what, butter?-and he passed the dish.
Boston Transcript.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-04-08
Danger From, Insects

Doctor Neave of the chronological
society in London has stated that in
sects destroyed at least 10 per cent
Of all the plants which man cultivatcs
for food or clothing, and 1t has been
calculated that If the checks, natural
and artificial, on the increase of the
many species Of green-fiy, for exam
pie, were removed, the whole of the
vegetable growth of the globe would
be destroyed in six months.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-04-08

Wrights Indian Vegetable Pills correct
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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-02-23

n TORE than twenty one million carsl One to
lVl every five peoplel More cars than telephonesl
City traffic in villages Boulevard traffic on
country roadsl
Streams Of carsl Torrents of cars! Turning,
speeding, stopping, dodgingl An inch on this
side! Two inches on that An opening herel
A blockade there!s Clutch shift-brakes- accel-
orator, over and over and over again.
That's 1927 traffic.
To drive in that whirlpool of cars, with safety,
ease and speed requires ali your skill at the wheel
all your motors flexibilty and all the sturdiness
your car possesses
But even more, modern traffic demands
new type of motor-fuel, gasoline that delivers
instantly the precise kind of power you need to
Today, in the New Traffic Tydo1 such gas
oline is offered to the motoring public.
A gasoline that meets the demands
Of modern traffic
Present-day traffic makes five definite de
mands of gasoline First splt-second starting
Second, rushing pickup. Third, a great reserve
of power for emergencies Fourth, it must reduce
gear-shifting, by furnishing power as smooth, in
high gear, at five miles an hour as at fifty
Fifth, it must eliminate knocking, and keep your
motor. quiet and sweet-running.
Many gasolines satisfy one or two of those
requirements. But there is only one gasoline,
the New Traffic Tydol that fully meets all five
requirements.
To make this new traffic gasoline possible,
Tide Water technologists made thousands of
exacting laboratory tests, hundreds of rigid road
tests. Refining equipment and refining methods
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-02-23

were revised and developed to q new point - Pre-
cision and accuracy. Great additional resources
in California crude oils were acquired because Cali
fornia crude inparts unique qualities toa gasoline.
And finally, after more than two years Of
work, the New Traffic Tydol was perfected.
TO prove conclusively to the motoring public
the superiority Of this new gasoline it was sub
jected to these competitive tests.
Blind tests Prove this gasokre,s
superiority
Sixteen professional car demonstrators were
selected to make the tests. These men were
experts who knew the meaning of a motors
slightest whisper. The cars they drove ranged
from fours to Fights, from Fords to Locomobiles,
Each demonstrator first tested the gasoline
he was accustomed to use Then he conducted
blind" tests with other gasolines, taken from
labelled cans. One Of these in every case was the
New Traffic Tydol But, at no time during these
tests, did the demonstrators know which gasoline
he was using.
The tests were made under every conceivable
traffic condition,-on hills, in city streets, on
was tested for: fast-starting; pickup; power
gear shifting; and for anti-knock qualities.
In each test the denonstrator was accom-
panied by an observer, with split-second stop
watch, who recorded the results.
Here are the results
Out Of possible 70 first choices, In tests
made On separate points, the New Traffic Tydo
earned IS. On question Of personal choice, all
is demonstrators chose Tydol as the best all
around gasoline
YoG make he FINAL test
Stop today at any black and orange Tydol
pump. Fill up with the New Traffic Tydol
Then test this gasoline impartial1y, for faster
starting, quicker pickup, added power, less gear
cl1;f48racr oTad f1r saTrfi- knock nr1o1i4;ar
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-02-23

Stop today at any black and orange Tydol
pump. Fill up with the New Traffic Tydol
Then test this gasoline impartial1y, for faster
starting, quicker pickup, added power, less gear
shifting, and for anti knock qualities.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-16
Here's Your Chance!

Almost every person honestly would
4 like to do a good deed, but too often
he does not know what to do, or is
held back by timidity, perhaps, or en-
barrassment, when the opportunity ar
rives.
A big opportunity for every wage
Garner in the District of Columbia eX-
lists at Camp Good VIII and Camp
Pleasant, Summer outing camps of the
Associated Charities, now in operation,
Word comes from John Joy Edison,
chairman of the Summer outings COM
mittee, in charge Of this work since its
inception in 1904, that unless more
funds are provided, the season at the
camps will have to be curtailed, and
hundreds of waiting children and their
mothers disappointed.
All you who freely take your own
little ones to the shore or mountains,
think of these scores Of little children
who must stay continually in the hot
city, unless those more fortunately
situated come to their aid.
The sum of 81, less than the price of
two tickets to a good show, will pro-
vide a weeks board for a widowed
mother or her child; $14 will take an
anemic child or tired mother to the
camps for two weeks; $25 will send
mother and her child for a fortnight.
Here is your chance, the opportunity
for every one to do practical deed of
benevolence and right thinking. When
you finish reading this, get out the
checkbook and make out a check in
favor of the Summer outings commit
tee, Social Service House, 1922 Elev.
enth street, Washington, D. c.
Make it out for one of the sums
named, or for any sum, small or large,
and you will be surprised at the feel
ing of good will which plays around
your heart. There will be little chill
dren there who will never even know
your name. but their success. later in
life, will partly trace itself to you and
others like you, who realize the neces-
sity for doing more than just taking
care Of ones own children.
This is the modern attitude, and it
must appeal especially to those in
moderate circumstances. yet who, COM
pared with the children and parents
who go to these two camps, are yeri-
table millionaires.
Life is mostly a matter Of compari-
sons; IL you have ever dreamed Of
helping others, here is your chance
to do it, in tangible, practical way
that meets the demands of the heart
strings.
Mail that check tonight!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-16
Proof by Marathons.

After sitting at the top of a flag
pole in Chicago for more than six
teen days, Joe Powers has come
down. He now holds the worlds
record for sitting at the top Of a flag
pole. Unfortunately he lost seven of
kind gale banged him against the flag
pole. He also gained ten pounds. So
Mr.. Powers, the champion flagpole
sitter of the world, proved something
after all. First, that one may lose
seven of ones teeth by sitting at the
top of a flagpole for sixteen days,
weather permitting; second, that one
may gain ten pounds by sitting at
the top of a tlagpole for sixteen
days.
Not long ago the Nation feverishly
watched the outcome of scores of
marathon dancing contests, the fever
being due to the high and unrequited
hope that the marathon dancers
would strain, sprain or perhaps frac-
ture their limbs so that they would
be unable to start any more con-
tests. The records established have
escaped us. Later still there was the
marathon golf contest craze, where
men set out to find how many con-
secutive holes of golf they could play
before dropping in their tracks. This
record has ,Nlso gone out of mind.
Then there have been marathon cof-
fee drinking contests, ice-cream eat
ing marathons, going -without-sleep
marathons.
In each case the contestants evil
IDENTIFY sought to prove something.
And they did. Every time a new
marathon is started the fact is
brought home with startling en-
phasis that there certainly are lot
of folks in this land with nothing
to do.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-16
The Second Pacific Crossing.

Ernest l.. Smith and Emory B.
Bronte have written another page
in the ledger of aviation development
and history. On Thursday morning
they started out from San Francisco
to fly the broad Pacific to Honolulu.
Yesterday. after approximately
twenty-five hours in the air, they
landed on small island sixty miles
southeast Of their destination because
Of a gas failure, but not before they
had completed for the second time in
history an air passage between the
Islands and the mainland OF the
United States.
Little did Col. Charles Lindbergh
realize that he was to be the spark
which aroused a more or less dormant
world to the potentialities Of aviation.
Little did he realize, when he stepped
into his ship on its completion In
California, that he was to lead the
way in a movement which at one
stride has taken aviation from COM
parative infancy into the grown-up
class, from failures to successes, and
set ahead the development of flying
in a. few short months to a point
which under ordinary circumstances
would have taken many long years
to attain,
The initial impetus to the amazing
Developments in aviation must be
credited to the st. Louis youth who
astounded the world by his pioneer
ing flight but where he led others
have followed and to them must be
given a place in the list Of those
who by their deeds have advanced
human knowledge. Chamberlin and
Byrd and Maitland and Smith have
written their names large in the skies
and must be accorded world respec'
and commentator for their contri-
buttons to science.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-16
The Master Is Acknowledged.

Bobby Jones has again demonstrated
to the world that If the game of golf
has ever been mastered by human,
he is the person who has mastered it.
The mysteries Of the ancient game are
too perplexing for the average mortal,
and even for the specialists who make
their living from it. Golf has been
aptly called the great tanner, the one
sport in which no man can attain per-
lection and hold it for any length of
time. Yet since Bobby Jones first en-
blazoned his name among the immor-
tails of the game he has compelled
realization that the master has been
born.
Yesterday at the st. Andrews Royal
and Ancient Club in Scotland the
grandest golfer in the world completed
his fourth round in the killing strain
of the British open championship with
q total of 2S5 strokes. In all the years
that golf has been played in national
competition, both in this country and
in England, there has only been one
score which even approached the new
record set by Jones. Chick Evans, an
amateur like Bobby, completed four
sterling rounds in the American cham
pionship Of 1916 in 286. Thus the
master golfer not only has broken the
all-time American record by one
stroke and the British low mark OF
29l by six. but in the process Of doins
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-16
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

garden. Enthusiasts have a habit
of wearing out.
Happy spirits who never tire of their
hobby--thrice blessed are they, Tor
thew have partaken of the secret am
brosia and nectar of the gods and
know it not.
The true garden, an inclosed place
of beauty and quiet, is planted to
shrubs and perennials. so that when
the pristine enthusiasm of its owner
wanes. it shall beckon ceaselessly
with waving arms OF green ana
charm with a thousand flower faces.
This is the ideal garden for most of
us Ride a flower hobby for all it is
worth. if it p1eases you, but come
back at last to the quiet haven of the
garden of green grass, tiourishing
shrubs and vines. perennial flowers
that are old friends.
There will be plenty to do in such
a garden, but it will not make the
demands upon ones time and labor
and pociletbook of the specialized
place, where priced bulbs run out"
and flowers grow smaller and smaller,
or bugs turn cherished treasures
into lacy mockeries.
To watch the blooming of the same
plants year after year means a great
deal to the home lover. for such
flowers partake of the essence Of the
home nature itself, which Is stability.
The ideal home is that in which
one lives an entire lifetime. surround
ed by the old familiar faces of fur
niture and garden. Under modern liv-
ing conditions, especially in great
cities, it is an ideal too seldom
realized.
One of the dangers of the mode for
interior decorating is that our homes
will become too specialized losing the
charm of diversitcation. This applies
with special force to the garden,
which may be regarded as an outdoor
room.
To plant gladioli only is equival-
ent to filling a room entirely with
Windsor chairs. A few chairs of this
type are enough for the average
room.
So we get back to the glory of the
average.
We said that specializing in flowers
is not for the average person. In so
saying we made no case against such
specializing for those who are fitted
by nature and temperament and cir
cumstances to indulge in Specialize
ton.
Let one be quite sure, however,
before he embarks on q formal rose
garden, or succumbs to the lure of
the iris, or the peony, or the gladioli,
or even the Zinnia or petunia, that he
is right. Then let him go ahead.
Most Of us who garden for pleasure
den. Deviations down specialized
paths will but call us back again the
more surely.
We are not fitted for the high
destiny of the specialist. Not for us
is the thrill of waiting on tiptoes at
dawn to see the opening of one S
latest creation.
We must be satisfied with all
flowers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-16

Specializing in flowers Is not for
the average person.
Enthusiasm for any one flower, with
most of us, wears off in a season or
two.
The amateur grower perhaps will
do best to stick to a garden of flowers
he likes best, carefully refraining
from going in" for specialties.
What sort of advice is this" we
hear some one ask, from him who
has just advised us to experiment
with garden composed entirely Of
znnias, or a yard filled solely with
petunias?
Has he not gone to the trouble
to parade &c varieties of Zinnias and
So of petunias before our amazed
eyes--and now he onenly declares
that specializing in flowers Is not for
the average person.
* X X X
Well, this is exactly true, as strange
as it may seem.
One has to be tremendously inter-
ested in growing things to desire to
plant only gladioh, or petunias in
their infinite variety, or roses alone.
Most gardeners are content with a
general garden, and our point is that
lneN are very NISc III llieiL udy duu
generation.
1t is heartless task for a person
to cultivate roses exclusively. only to
find them afflicted with mildew or
black spot, or the blooms spoiled be-
fore their time by rain.
Then his enthusiasm Wanes, and his
garden becomes thing Of disappoint-
ment. which is exactly what no garden
should ever be.
Far happier is the home owner who
plants nothing but grass, if he have
not the enthusiasm to do anything
more in the gardening line.
TO have a yard filled with half
growing things is but to court disap-
pointment-and there is enough of
that in life, anyway, without deliber-
ately sowing the seed Of it in ones
own yard.
The garden, to be a pleasure, must
be in a flourishnig condition. The
baby plants must have food and drink
to grow into maturity. They must
be tended and cared for to do their
best.
Nothing short of a plants best is
the ideal of the gardener.
X X X
It might seem, at first blush that
this happy state might be better
realized by intensive work on one or
two plants. so that the gardener might
learn everything about them, and,
therefore, realize more success than
he who scatters his forces.
1t is this very scattering OF force.
howevar that kaeDS I'D ones interest
in gardening. Only to few is given
that great inner enthusiasm which
compels them to devote q lifetime to
any one plant. Even the great Bur-
bank worked with scores Of different
ones, specializing from time to time.
Even an enthusiastic amateur gar.
dener may we'll believe that one may
tend to tire, after several years, OF
the cea SeleSS round of activity in the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-16

SO knocked six strokes from the par
of the difficult st. Andrews course.
So Bobby Jones must be acknowl-
edged as the master exponent of the
game that confuses and irritates and
annoys and gives unadulterated pleas
ure to millions who essay to battle
with "Old Man Par" Some of these
millions play fine golf for week or
so at a time, or perhaps longer; some
have a good round occasionally. and
there are others who consider them
selves fortunate TO complete a well
played hole. But Bobby's worst is
almost as good as any one else's best,
and day in and day out, par, which
means perfection, is in deadly danger
of defeat when the we'll loved Atlanta
youth treads the links. America is
proud of Bobby: he eXemplifles the
spirit that will never quit until per
lection is attained. America congrat.
ulates Bobby and halls him as a golfer
and gentleman, than which no more
can be said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-16
Hvlan Horns In.

When John F. Hylan walked out
of the city hall and turned over the
office of mayor of Greater New York
70 Jimmy" Walker in January, 1928,
most people thought that he was
through politically. And for a time
it looked as though he had run out
his string as factor in the political
affairs of the big city. 1t was an
nounced that he would ''resume" the
practice Of law. Since then he has
been very quiet, perhaps brushing up
his knowledge of the statutes and de-
cisions and grooming himself for
successful adventure in the courts.
He has taken practically no part in
political discussions.
The other day when the Rapid
Transit Commission opened hearings
on a subject related to fares and the
general transportation question, no.
body seemed to think of Hylan as
possible factor in the case, although
during his time in the City Hall he
had made much capital out of his adj
yocacy Of five-cent fare. Then 1t
was announced that eX-Mayor Hylan
had been summoned as witness, and
on Monday he appeared before the
commission and New York was treat
ed to a display of pyrotechnics that
riyaled all exploded on independence
day. There was the liveliest kind of
a. scrimmage between him and Sam
uel Untermeyer, special counsel for
the commission, an engagement so
sprightly that the metropolitan news
papers the next day devoted much
space to it,-giving long verbatim re-
ports Of the exchanges between the
two. Then on Wednesday the former
mayor reappeared, without invitation
or summons, and tried to force his
way upon the witness stand, claim
ing that he had new evidence" and
brandishing a document which he in
sisted revealed Mr.. Untermeyer'
financial relations with the rapid
transit corporations and his unfitness
to serve as counsel for the commits
sion. It was necessary to call police
men to keep Judge" Hylan off the
stand.
The result of these encounters is
that just at present there is feeling
of apprehension on the part Of the
Tammany leaders and. it is said, also
on the part of the governor of the
State lest Judge" Hylan is bent upon
making himself nuisance for the
purpose Of queering the Tammany
game in the next mayoralty campaign.
He has long posed as the peoples
friend and as the only official quail
fed by information and civic virtue to
prevent an increase of fares. His
nuisance value" may be high in the
present circumstances, with Tam
many municipal administration that
has not been overwhelmingly success
full in keeping down expenditures. He
may not have a political future, but
he may grievously affect the political
futures Of others, including the gov
ernor Of the State, whom he charges
with being a secret friend of the
corporations and the enemy Of the
people.