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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-01-28
ANOTHER AMERICAN TELE-
PHONE ACHIEVEMENT

The American telephone system
has been a world wonder for
years. 1t now announces trans
Atlantic radio telephone service be-
tween New York and London. the
Z service for the present being limited
to the metropolitan areas OF these
two cities.
1t is not necessary to go to a
special station to place TRANSACT
lantic calls. It viii be possible fpr
anyone at any telephone located in
the New York metropolitan area, to
talk to any person at any telephone
in the London metropolitan area.
The American Telephone and rele-
graph Company transmitted the first
transoceanic speech in 1919. In
1928 one-way messages were tele-
phoned to London. Since then fur
Their improvements have made the
present service possible.
New York City has three times as
many telephones as london, more
then all Great Britain and oyer twice
as many as France. The telephone,
like the automobile, is a register OF
economic well-being, and use OF
these articles in the United States
so Tar surpasses their general use IN
other countries that there is no
comparison.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-01-28

A new era has dawned for the
woman who visits Los Angeles. Once
she had to go to hotel. Now she
can go to her hotel. For by skill, en-
ergy and perseverance group Of Los
Angeles women alone have put up a
new million and a quarter dollar
structure devoted to women and to
their Notwithstanding men.
It is more like giant hospitable
club than a hotel. The women have
plunge and gymnasium at their
disposal If they wish to play golf the
hotel will give them courtesy cards
to their choice among the many IA
nous Los Angeles all grass golf
courses.
More than score of years ago
some women in Los Angeles were CIV
en- modest piece of land on Figueroa
street. 1t was then SO far out in the
country that orange orchards were
very close to it. 1t was then that
women with high faith and firm pur-
pose resolved to convert that land
into a treasure. They held to 1t.
They guarded it against unwise build
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-01-28
folks will have to be

Superstitious folks will have to be
especially wary on only one day this
5ear. The 1927 calendar reveals
chat there is ony one Friday the 18th
during the year.
The workingman will welcome
the Fourth of July, which falls on
Monday, giving him two-day
respite.
But he win pay for it at Christ
mas, which falls on Sunday, thus
cheating him OF a holiday.
Columbus Day, October II, occurs
on Wednesday. Good Friday falls
on April Is. and Easter, OF course,
on April IT. Labor Day, always the
first Monday in September, will be
celebrated September 5.
The New Years celebrants will
have an ideal opportunity to cele
the advent of 1928. They can stage
their celebration on Saturday night
for 1927. will end Saturday, Deem
Der 81, and rest up all day Sunday.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-01-28
THE PLAGUE OF LAWS

William P. Helm, Jr., who spec
ializes in government statistics, in
an article in the American Mercury,
entitled, s.The Plague of Laws" de-
ciares that the total number of laws
theoretically operative in the United
States, including city, county, state
and national, approximates 10 mil
lion, and that the time has come for
a new Justinian to junk the whole
complicated mess and to substitute
a simple code, like that of the
Roman lawgiyer.
In 1925 mo fewer than $4,000
new laws appeared on the statute
books of the 48 States. Fifteen
typical American cities added 4,833
laws in one year, and there are some
1900 important towns and cities,
and all of them are busy grinding
out ordinances. State legislatures,
including our own State of Maryland,
will this year grind out thousands OF
additional laws. Commenting on
the situation, the Salem, Oregon,
Capital Journal says:
THE growth of bureaucracy can
be traced directly to the extension of
the law, and bureaucracy grows by
multiplication of laws. They sup
plement each other. The more laws,
the more bureaucrats to enforce
them. The more bureaucrats, the
more laws to increase and extend
their power, until we have reached
the point where the whole top-heavy
system is breaking down and the law
becomes a joke"
1t can be added that practically
every new law increases taxes, and
one of the best ways to bring about
tax reduction is to stop passing
new laws.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-01-28
BIG BREAD BASKET

The Mississippi River, the richest
md largest surplus producing agri-
cultural area in the world, contains
roughly two-thirds of the land in
farms in the United States, said
Assistant Secretary OF Agriculture
r. w. Dunlap, in recent address
The whole of the Corn Belt and the
largest wheat-producing States lie
within this basin. The bulk OF the
cane sugar, about one-third OF the
cotton, and much of the market
supply of minor crops, both staple
and perishable, originate within this
great territory. 1t furnishes large
supplies of hogs, cattle, and dairy
and poultry products to millions OF
people both here and abroad.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-01-28
ToMMY's SWIMMING LESSONS

There is little eight year old out
in the country who is learning to
swim. Ordinarily that would not be
wonderful, but in the case OF
Tommy, it is, because he had
infantile paralysis when he was .
baby and he has always been lame.
One of the public health nurses come
across him and asked his mother to
bring Tommy to clinic that the
Bureau of Child Hygiene of the
State Department of Health and the
local organizations were going to
have for the lame children in the
neighborhood.
The mother agreed and she and
Tommy's father began putting aside
some money for hospital treatment
and a plaster cast for Tommy il the
doctor advised it. When the day OF
the clinic came, the doctor examined
Tommy walking, sitting, fiat on his
back, then after some hesitation
said: There isn't a thing we can d.
for him at the hospital. Tomm.
listened with a wistful look in his
eyes, until the doctor said: But
swimming under a careful teacher
that's the thing that may help those
muscles and tendons. And some
body who was at the clinic says that
Tommy threw his arms around the
doctors neck at the very thought O.
learning to swim and be like other
boys. The nurse had no difficulty
in getting membership card for
Tommy at the Y. M. C. A., and the
swimming teacher arranged to give
him private lesson every day
The lessons were started and Tommy
is making progress.
At each of the clinics for lame or
crippled children, orthopedic clinics
they are called, something OF this
sort has happened. I'm some in
stances, the doctors have advised al
operation to straighten or strengthen
the crippled part; in others, braces
have been prescribed; in others
special exercises, as in Tommy's
case.
A checking up was made recently
of the crippled children and young
people under twenty-one years old
attending schools or having care a.
hospitals or dispensaries in Balti
more City, and within short time
the list contained 943 names
nearly thousand. But it is be
lieyed that this is by no means
complete and that the total humble,
in Baltimore City is about 1900.
with about the same number in the
counties.
Studies have also been made o:
the causes producing disab ility o.
this sort and it has been found thai
one half of the cases were due t.
infantile paralysis and one sixth tt
some form of tuberculosis Only
one out of every fifty of those
affected is hopelessly crippled. For
all of the rest something can be
done to decrease the handicap o,
relieve the suffering. Because this
is the case. arrangements have beer
made to continue and extend tho
clinics through which children like
Tommy have been reached.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-01-28

ing. They woke up almost literally
one morning to find that their dream
of hotel was within reach. The
growth of the city had surrounded
the land with large buildings. Its
value leaped skyward. It went SO far
skyward that the value of the land
plus the value of the intended building
permitted the women to sell bonds in
the sum of three-quarters of million
dollars. With this and other money
accumulated they put up a twelve
story class A building and adorned it
with delicacy of taste that has
made it generally admired.
Mrs. Chester C. Ashley, shown In
full face in the picture is the moving
spirit of the Hotel She is chairman
of the Building Committee. Mrs. Maude
N. Bouldin, shown in profile, is man
aging director.
The profits of the Figueroa hotel
are to be used in the creation of new
building fund. When it is of suffi-
cient size it will be employed in the
erection of new Lotel for employed
women.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-01-28
TRANS CONTINENTAL TEIEP-
PHONE LINE

4
The new trans-continental tele-
phone line terminating at Seattle,
Washington, has just been opened
for service.
John w. O'Leary, president of the
United States Chamber of Com
merce at Washington, d. G., for
mally opened the line by talking to
John w. Spangler and Raymond B..
Wilcox, presidents of the Chambers
of Commerce at Seattle and Port
land, Oregon.
This line is the third trans-con-
tinental span. 1t extends from
Chicago through the great north
west,, distance of 2,225 miles
The construction work, which re-
quired twelve months to complete,
invoyled expenditures of over
100000.
AS a preliminary to the opening
of this newest trans-continental
telephone line, Walter S. Clifford.
president of the. American telephone
and Telegraph Company, New York,
talked to officials of the Pacific
Telephone and Telegraph Company
at Seattle and Portland, and then
turned the circuit over to Samuel
M. Grier, Vice-President of the
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone
Company at Washington, who, after
greeting Messrs. Spangler and
introduced them to Mr.. O'Leary.
Mr.. O'Leary in addressing the
presidents of the Chamber of Com
merce at Seattle and Portland, said
in part: II have been looking for
ward to this call and thinking how
fortunate we are in the United States
in having the genius to invent
methods of communication and the
common sense to take advantage OF
hem. II we were still dependent on
Lewis and Clark Expeditions tc
lcquaint each other and our gov,
ernment with the problems and
emergencies of our respective sec
lions we would probably be strug
SllnS as Europe Is tOudy Win Ii"uS
barriers and sectional hatred.
Instead we are talking with eacf
other and looking at each othel
through pictures sent over the same
wires We have built up through
our advancing methods OF com
munciation and transportation an
understanding and realization
Of interdependence, national con-
;ciousness.
This new direct link which we
are opening today brings Seattle
and Portland nearer to the National
headquarters, and the National
headquarters nearer to Seattle and
Portland. Each new link makes
possible more rapid progress in the
development of our commerce, in the
mingling of our thought and in the
development of understanding, all
leading to the making of great
nation"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-01-28
81 Billion Loaves i'm u. S. Wheat

bushels and spring wheat 27lOOOOoU.
The present crop is above the five
year average of S02.O0O,000 bushels.
The acreage devoted to the crop this
year lis put at 57.584,000 and the lat
est estimates place the production at
14.6 bushels per acre, the Foundation
states. Winter wheat will run over
II bushels per acre and spring wheat
1912 per acre. Domestic needs are es-
timated at 64O,OO0.OO0 bushels, so
there will be more than 25O.OOO.OOO
bushels for export. Prices are not as
high as year ago, but the crop prob
ably will bring growers more than a
billion dollars.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-01-28

ENOUGH wheat will be produced in
~ the United States this year to
make 52,018.000,O00 loaves Of bread,
according to the Sears-Roebuck Agri-
cultural Foundation. The latest Off
cial estimates indicate that S39,000,-
900 bushels of wheat will be produced
this year, and 1t is figured that 60
One-pound loaves of bread can be OBJ
tanned from every bushel of wheat. OF
the total estimated output 626,OOO,OOO
bushels were produced by winter
wheat growers and 100000 bushels
by spring wheat growers in the
Northwest. Last year the winter
wheat production was 396,000,000
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-01-28

Governor Albert C: Richie has
issued proclamation designating
the fourth Sunday in January as
Law and Order Sunday.
This is the idea and plan OF the
Allied Patriotic Societies and the
Law and Order Union. representing
numerous educational and patriotic
organizations. 1t is the annual date
for taking stock of the Nations
condition.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-01-28
ACRES OF FORESTS TURNED
INTO STAMPS

In one year IS acres OF forest, OF
41,175 giant trees, were used in
making postage stamps. Had the
pulp made for them been used for
newspapers, 4,150,000 seven-column,
twenty-page newspapers could have
been printed; or had the trees been
converted into lumber, sixty-nve
bungalows could have been built.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-01-28

Maryland's S taxable basis OF real
and personal property is given as
$2,576,876,OOO, by the State Tax
Commission, in its report filed last
week.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-01-28

It's an i'll wind that blow nobody
good. The fellow who is kept busy
listening to other peoples troubles
hasn't time to think of his own.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-01-28

The row about the presidential
dry order probably comes from those
who like it moist.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-01-28

Children usually agree that they
are better than their parents were
at their ages
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-01-28

II you don't believe the people
read this rag of freedom Try an
advertisement.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-01-28

Some people can't stand pros
perity. The horn of plenty has sent
many 4 fellow on a toot.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-01-28
A QUESTION

After reading few of Machia-
velli's essays on chicanery, one
wonders how long he would last
as modern used car dealer. 1t
would give him great laugh,
we know, to see how conscien-
tiously we recondition our Used
Cars before offering them for
sale. But the proof of prin-
ciple is in its success - and the
laugh would be on him, after all.
RISING sun GARAGE
H. M. DuyGkinck, Prop.
Rising Sun Maryland
A USED CAR IS ONLY AS DEPEND,
AS TiE DEALER WHO SELLS
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-01-28
INSIDE" INFORMATION

Do you plan your days work,
allotting certain amount of time
to each task ? Try it, always aim
ing to shorten the time spent on
routine activities so to gain more
for pleasant occupations.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-01-28

If the lower part of the kitchen
wall, which receives the hardes
wear and gets soiled soonest, i!
marked off four or. five feet above
the floor by wooden strip ant
painted or stained different tone
from the rest of the wall, that par
can be cleaned or refinished withou
making the upper wall look shabby
Evening star., 1927-10-26
Today in
Washington History
BY DONALD A. CRAIG.

OCTOBER 26, 1S15-1t was an
nounced IN the press today that all
three of the bridges that had been
destroyed the year before, when the
British invaded the Capital, were now
replaced. The two bridges over. the
Eastern Branch had been burned by
order of the American military author
tiles, and their rebuilding was re-
garded as proper charge on the
public. Congress had passed bills to
replace them in the Spring of 1915.
The upper bridge, owned by DR..
Thomas Ewell. was ready for use
soon after the money became avail.
able, while the lower bridge was
finished during the year. At the
next session. Congress in part REIN.
bursed the Washington Bridge Co.
for the loss of the Long Bridge, as it
was shown that the southern por-
ton had been set on fire by the Amer
lean forces, while the match was
applied to the other end by the British.
Within short time after these
bridges had been restored, move
ment was started for the erection of
a bridge across the Eastern Branch
at the foot of Eleventh street south
east by the Navy Yard Bridge Co.
OCTOBER 26. 1861-The full extent
of the Union disaster at the battle of
Balls Bluff, Va, above Washington
on the Potomac river, dawned on
Washington only today, when the
newspapers printed charges and
counter-charges involving the various
officers
Evening star., 1927-10-26

are wide and long, with the ends some
times extending down to the hem of
the coat, and wide bands of fur are
still placed along the lower part of
the coats.
Well dressed women at present are
showing decided partiality to beige
or light brown coats trimmed with
Evening star., 1927-10-26
Coats of Fur and Fabrics
BY MARY MARSHALL.

beaver. but beaver is an expensive
fur. and when lavishly used such a
| coat costs pretty penny. Still, beav
err Is one of the most durable of furs
and may be regarded as good In
vestment.
There is no fur that can be restored
or renovated quite SO well as beaver
and IL you are fortunate enough to
have an old beaver coat--no longer
wearable in its present condition.
advise you to have furrier convert
it into a pair of deep cuffs, generous
collar and, If there is enough good
fur left, band for the hem of the
coat. With this done it is not an i'm
possible task to make a beige coat
upon which to mount the fur at home.
though you may prefer to have a
tailor do this for you.
Somewhat less expensive than
beaver is nutria, sometimes called
South American beaver. In fact, the
beaver" you buy on a new coat may
be of this description. Nutria is an
excellent fur, only it is not so dense
nor so long.haired as the true Hudson
Bay beaver. Both beaver and nutria
are inclined to kinkiness. The effect
of heat combined with dampness
hastens this tendency, but by simple
process your furrier can have this
kink removed for you.
To wear with the beaver trimmed
beige cloth coat shoes must be dark
brown, with beige or dark brown stock.
ings and beaver brown hat, With
should Say-one Of the new fiat gold
ornaments-and. of course, beige
gloves and a brown handbag.
If by chance you need a new hand.
bag and don't feel inclined to buy an
other, you can make one of fabric at
small expense. There are among the
new imported bags from Paris charm.
ing fabric ones. and with these as in.
spiration we have prepared a number
of bag patterns which I will gladly
send you on receipt of a stamped,
self-addressed envelope.
fCopvright. 1927
Evening star., 1927-10-26
Picking Up.

"Tm really too tired to go this at
ternoon. | don't believe I'd better.
"Oh, come on. This Is the third
concert you have missed. You ought
to take them in just for the rest
if for no other reason. You pald
for the series. Come on. WHAT'S the
matter anyway"
i've picked up things after the
family this whole morning. I've the
beginnings of headache and my
back aches from STOPPING and gong
up and down stairs. It's something
! beyond imagination the way they
leave things about. Every day l pick
up after them and by and by simply
have to take a morning to put Things
where they belong or we wouldn't De
able to live in the house"
Aunt Mary hung up the receiver
and then trotted briskly over 10 tne
house to see why Amarilla should
stick in the house forever and see the
heard of such a thing. What do you
have to pick up. for pity sake"
ooh, not a single one of them puts
thing back in it's place from their
father down. His mother spoiled him
and -
You're spelling yours"
"Oh, no. l talk and talk. tell Harry
to hang up his ba:hrobe and put his
slippers in the closet on the shelf. l
tell him every day and every day l
find them scattered from one end of
the house to the other. This morning
one slipper lay under the dining
room table where he had thrown it
at Bess. l found the other under his
bed. His bathro5e was in heap on
the floor in my room. He had gone
in there to comb his hair because he
couldn't find his own comb. I've
bought him three combs in the year.
Him. And you take a day off to
find their things?"
II have to. Who's to dc it? If
don't have their things ready In the
morning they'll be late. If / don't
hang up bathrobes and put away
books and arrange closets and shelves
and bureau drawers who's 10 find
things when they ask for them?
They're always in a hurry"
Him. Do you like to do this picking
up?"
"of course I don't. 1t nearly drives
me wild, but"
"The answer is easy. Don't do it.
Don't tell me you have to because
I know you don't. You only believe
you have to. Just tell the family that
thereafter the person who drops a
thing picks it up. The one who
makes a mess clears it up. Stick to
it though the house looks like wreck.
Find nothing for anybody. Whose Is
it?' say you. Yours? Then how
should I know about it? Look for it
where you left it."
Evening star., 1927-10-26
Tennis and Temperament.

1t doesn't matter where you tap the
stream of human nature, you get the
same variety of behavior; 1t may be
sermons; 1t may be sport; the perform.
ers carry their personalities into the
product. This is from the sporting
page:
Guarding the one side of the court
will be the unconditional Miss Wills
and the dignified Eleanor Goss. Pro-
tecting the other half of the rectangie
will be the volatile Mrs. Mallory and
the pugnacious Helen Jacobs. The
Wills-Goss team probably will commit
fewer errors. but their opponents like
ly will supply most of the fireworks.
Miss Wills will win hearty applause
by her hard hitting and Miss Goss by
lory and Miss Jacobs will win the
hearts of the spectators by their spirit
and darling"
One might have thought that hit
ting a ball with a racket over a net
within whitewashed lines was a mat
ter Of skill; 1t is. But skill, like busi-
ness or poetry, or music or poker, or
politics or finance, or courtShip or
teaching, or any sufficiently complex
human enterprise that you put your
mind and your heart into, is matter
of temperament. That's the uncertain
but ever-present quantity that deter
mines the product.
There is Unconditional tennis, calm
poise and a steady hand, never forget
ting that the game is strategy; there
is pugnacious tennis, tense, hard hit
ting in the fight: there is dignified
tennis, true to form and the correct
finish of the stroke: there is volatile
tennis, brilliant and taking chances,
but with chances of error, too. And
there is the temperament of the spec
tator that likes fireworks and the spec
tacular. You could take four preach
ers and by proper selection apply the
same adjectives to their sermons, and
four heads of industry and do the
same to their methods and systems
Temperament is UNIVERSAL; it comes
out differently in human occupations
as they offer different invitations to
its exhibit. You needn't change the
terms much if you apply them to
courtship or friendship or family life.
Temperament is convenient name
for the balance of qualities Of head
and heart, of the thinking and the