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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1928-02-17
Superior Women Raise
Men to Higher Level

In a marriage where the two people
are of unequal birth or tradition, 1t
is better that the wife be of superior
grade because she is much more likely
to lift the marriage and the children
to her cultural level, according to
Rheta Childe Dorr in an article in
Liberty. -
"An inferior wife," explains the au-
thor, too often drags the husband
down, because, alas, the male of the
species finds it only too easy to slump
Robert Louis Stevenson noted this
among the missionaries of the South
seas. The men, he tells us, latter
few years grow careless of dress and
behavior, neglect to shave or battle.
and in extreme cases practically go
native. The women, on the contrary.
hardly change at all, but after 90
years among natives live, dress, and
act exactly as they did at home"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1928-02-17
BotUl Used IN East
for Mensuring Time.

1t appears that In certain sections
of Algeria a copper bowl with hole
in 1t takes the place Of timepiece.
An American with business interests
in that colony tells Of the peasants Of
Benz Ferah, for example, who use the
bowl for timing the flow of water into
their gardens from the only nearby
river. So precious Is the water among
the hill people in that part of the
world that o few moments more or
less in the period of flow is of great
Importance. x watch, therefore, is
not to be depended on.
The bowl is part Of a system Of
measuring time that must be of great
antiquity and probably has prevailed
in Algeria for countless generations,
When gardens are to be irrigated
a member of the village council &C.
companies the landowners and brings
with him a large earthen bowl, or
metal pail of water and a small
copper bowl in the bottom of which
is minute hole. At the moment
when the mud wall of the irrigation
canal Is cut through, and the water
is allowed to flow into the first gar
den. the councillor carefully places
the perforated bowl, which is TIL
property Of the village council, and
which, therefore, is the legal measure
upon the water in the pail and watches
carefully for il to sink, which it will
10, perhaps. in Is minutes. Thus each
landowner is entitled, as the case may
be, to three, four, six or eight sinkings
of the copper bowl.
As the time approaches when the
flow of water into a garden is to cease
neighbOr In the little group of land
owners will shout to an assistant in
his garden to be ready to cut an inlet
into his land as soon as the bowl has
sunk for the last time. Just as the
bowl sinks the last time the peasant
cries out to d man In his garden to
stem the flow of the water by filling
with mud the, hole through which il
has been running. Since landowners
are present in person, and since an
elder with the official bowl does the
measuring, 1t appears that the quaint
method Is almost as good as any.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1928-02-17
Cave Impulse to MoUe
for Better Education

American Education week undoubt-
eddy developed from tbe movement
forwarded by DR.. P. P. Claxton in
1920. then commissioner of education.
School Life of October 10, 1920, car
ried what was apparently the first
suggestion for nationwide campaign
for the improvement of schools and
other agencies for education. In this
article Doctor Claxton designated the
week of December to II as "School
week" and urged governors and chief
state school officers to take proper
action to cause the people to use this
week in such way as would most eff
fectively disseminate among the PEG
pie accurate Information in regard to
the condition and needs Of the
schools enhance appreciation of the
value Of education. and create such in
terest as would result in better Oppor
tunities for education and larger ap
preparations for schools of all kinds.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1928-02-17
ELEVEN ELECTRIC SLAVES FOP
EACH AMERICAN FAMILY

TIE estimated output of nearly
SO,OOO,OOO.0OO kilowatt-hours Of
electric power for the United States
in 1927, IL it could be converted into
equivalent man power, would pro-
vide the average family OF about
four persons in the United States
with the services OF eleven ablebodi
ed mechanical laborers working
eight hours daily, including Sundays
and holidays. at a total cost for the
eleven OF about SIS year
The total production of electricity
by public-utility power plants in
1927 is estimated by the Depart
ment of the Interior, through the
Geological Survey, at about 79,7O0,-
100000 kilowatt-hours, an increase
of about 8 per cent over the output
for 1925, which was 1871, OO0, 900
kilowatt-hours. The estimate for
1927 Is based on reports of monthly
output OF electricity by public-utility
power plants for the IL months Jan.
to Nov. and estimated figures Of
output for December. The latest
report, released January 4, contains
the figures OF notify output for
September, October, and November.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1928-02-17
PROPOSED IN POST.
AL RATES

A reduction in several classes of
postal rates through congressional
legislation is being urged by two of
the five Pennsylvania congressman
who are members of the House Post
al Committee,
Representative w. w. Crest, of
Lancaster, Chairman of the Commit
tee, is sponsoring through bill he
has introduced cut by SO per cent
on remailed newspapers, restora-
ton OF the one-cent rate on post
cards, and a minimum of one cent an
ounce on third class matter, such as
direct mail or circular advertising.
On fourth-class mail, or parcel post.
it provides for a reduction of one
cent in the rates on packages ship
ped to the fourth, fifth, sixth, seven
tn and eighth zones.
The bill sponsored by Representa-
tive Kelly. Allegheny County, pro-
viding for the installation of five
cents an ounce instead of ten cents
for air mail letters has been heard by
subcommittee, and approving test
imony was given by w. Irving Glow
err, Second Assistant Postmaster
General, and Paul Henderson. Gen.
eral Manager of the National Air
Transport, Inc, which carries much
of the air mail.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1928-02-17
THE JOKER In THE. NAVAL
PROGRAM

Security for the United States is
the avowed aim of the naval build
ing program now being studied by
the Naval Affairs Committee of the
House of Representatives. The cost
of the program is of secondary i'm
portance.
The cost, however, is startling.
Originally estimated at $725,000,-
900, it has now grown to $SO0,OO0,-
900, not counting maintenance.
And Secretary Wilbur has pointed
out that the present program is only
one fourth of twenty-year program
which is to be followed by another
for the next twenty years.
Not only does the present bill try
to commit the United States to enor-
nous expenditures for new ships for
a long period OF years, it also tries
to make it impossible for this coun-
try to take part in conferences for
reduction of armaments during that
period.
AS the mutual reduction of arma-
ments has been recognized as neces-
sary to the maintenance OF peace. the
practice has grown up OF including
in naval construction bills para
graph authorizing the President to
suspend or stop such construction
when disarmament negotiations
made it desirable to do SO. The
Naval Affairs Committee has strick-
en- this paragraph out of the present
bill
1t is the aim of the Naval Affairs
Committee to make it mandatory
upon the President to complete the
present program within eight years,
and not to stop any part OF it. This
would make it practically impossible
for the United States to agree to any
reduction of ornaments during that
period AS the program is planned
to give the United States unquestion-
ably the greatest navy in the world,
even if there is no reduction of other
navies, the bill in it's present form
means a check ON the reduction OF
ornaments, and probably a new
armament competition. Armament
competition usually means war,
eventually.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1928-02-17


A number of States enacted hegis.
lation during the past year enabling
them to conduct much more inten-
sive work in the control and cradle
ton of tuberculosis of cattle. New
States obtaining helpful legal au-
thority were Connecticut. Massachu-
sets, New Jersey. and Tennessee
Among the States obtaining addi-
tional legislation. Indiana passed e
law requiring that wherever coun-
tv adioins two counties working or
having completed area work, such
county shall provide operating funds
upon the request of the State veter-
marian. This is in effect complete
State law, as under it all counties in
the State will eventually be required
to make the necessary appropria,
tions. At present. So OF the 90 coun.
ties in Indiana are either classed as
modified areas or working to that
end.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1928-02-17
TRANSATLANTIC TELEPHONE
SERVICE

Telephone service to Berlin, Ham
burg and Frankfort-on-Main, Germ
any,, was made available to all tele-
phone users after IL a. m. eastern
standard time, Friday, February 10.
Germany is the third continental
nation to be brought within speaking
distance of American telephones fol-
lowing closely on the extension of
this service to points in Belgium and
Holland, according to an announce
ment just made by w. A. Condit.
vice president, OF the Chesapeake
and Potomac Telephone Of Baltimore
City.
The rates for each of the three
German cities will be $S2.56 for
three minutes and $3.50 for each
succeeding minute. The report
charge for calls failing of compile
ton will be $12.50. Mr.. Condit said.
With the extension OF this trans
atlantic telephone service to three
continental nations, Begun, Hoi-
land, and Germany, the American
telephone user can now reach total
of 2,4s2.600 telephones across the
Atlantic. OF this number 1880,
900 are connected with switch
boards in Great Britain; $4,000 in
Berlin, Hamburg, and Frankfort-on-
Main: 100000 in the Dutch cities of
Amsterdam, Rotterdam, and The
Hague and $1,000 in BRUSSELS and
Antwerp. Belgium.
Transatlantic telephone service is
now available from more than 49,
soc. zoe telephones in the United
States.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1928-02-17
Boy Who "Made Good"

Hans Christian Andersen, who be-
came famous as writer of fairy tales,
was a poor boy. He was not attrac-
tive or popular and he did not dc
well in school, He was considered
queer and about town was known as
the "ngly duckling." He was born at
Odense the oldest town in Denmark.
When he king of Denmark heard
about Hans genius he took an interest
in the boy and sent him to special
school, Then Hans went travelling. He
had an ambition to write great dramas
and moves. but at this he was not
access. says Pathfinder Magazine. But
in invcnting simple little stories he
WAS the worlds master, He con-
sidernd -" little tales almost worth
less bu, his fame spread all over the
world. T.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1928-02-17
Changing Sin Styles

We people IN Junction eli. wish
the Idea OF sin wouldn't change 50
often. u gets us so thai We don't
know where WE'RE AT nd b. lots
more cQmfortahle to know what sin
was, 50 thai there w''ul.!n'' be an.
doubt ahoHl II. anh tllen we could gel
opt and fight Il SnMeflnles ihsi a.
we gel BUSY fighting sip aHd rhe Of
devil. We find that il isn't sin III!
more at all hui is what EVERYDAY is
dining.
Whai we need Is stabilized sin It's
plumb disgusting 10 get 0ni aud fight
u thing fer years and then find thai
II existed only IN our imnginaii"ns
We 10 Junrti0n City don't want sin
changed on US. We're fighters. We
don't care what sin we're Fighting, just
so we're fighting it.-Homer t'rOy In
Plain Talk Magazine.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1928-02-17
KneU He Would Help

In field where Barrie sat thinking
out story there were lambs. One Of
them strayed away fOm its mother.
turned around three times and was
lost. The bleating was terrific. Bar
rie had to put down his work and lead
it back to its mother. Hardly had he
returned to his seat before anOfhh
lamb did just the same. They w
on doing it, one after another, keepE y
Barrie busy taking them back ~
mamma.
But the wonderful thing was that,
after time, instead of looking for
their mother themselves they Just
came to Barrie and insisted on him
finding her for them.
Barrie contends, says Jerome K. Je-
rome. who tells the story in "My Life
and Times" that lambs are much more
intelligent than Is generally supposed.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1928-02-17
DESERVING THE FARMS

The small number of farmers
sons returning to the old home to
till the fields following their gradu-
alton from high school and college
is giving farm bureau officials, agri-
cultural authorities and educators
OF the Eastern Shore considerable
concern. Speaking of the lack OF
labor on farms of the nine counties
e. Clarke Fountaine, supervisor of
the high schools for the Eastern
Shore, said that of the 40 agricul-
tural high schools in Maryland only
four are in operation whereas a few
years ago 10 such institutions were
being conducted with full enroll
ment.
The other six were eliminated
from the educational system OF
Maryland because there were no stu
dents with which to maintain them.
Fewer and fewer Eastern Shore
boys, it is said, are taking agricul-
tural courses, turning instead into
commercial and manual training
courses offered by secondary schools
in this territory. Recently the Kent
county farm bureau conducted an
intensive survey and William e.
Smyth, secretary, stated that from
Rock Hall to Wilmington, lying at the
extreme southeastern and north
western ends of Kent county, there
were found only four young men
who had returned to conduct their
fathers farms after having left high
school and college.
Secondary and collegiate students,
it is declared by these educators and
farm experts, are either going to the
cities to live or are taking up other
lines of specialized work. Students
of agricultural conditions on the
shore are NOW trying to solve the
problem thus presented since they
maintain, even if the farm labor
problem be solved farms cannot be
titled without proper managerial
minds to manage them and the num-
Der of Eastern Shore young men in
clined thus to take their fathers
work is becoming less and less each
year.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1928-02-17
NEEDS OF OUR COUNTRY

Representative James v. McClint-
ic, member of the House Naval Al
fairs Committee, said in recent ad-
dress that the proposed. building pro-
gram for the navy, calling for i'm
mense expenditures and necessarily
imposing additional burdens not only
ON this country, but others as well,
ARISES from a desire of the Navy
Department to take full advantage
of whatever big navy sentiment has
been aroused among the people by
the failure of the Geneva Conference
last summer"
Mr.. McClintic in the same speech
focused attention upon conditions
and needs which are countrywide,
but sometimes lost sight of. "Pres
ent domestic needs, such as Missis-
sippi flood relief and aid to agricul-
ture have prior claim on the
American treasury
There are," he explains, twenty
eight states affected by floods in the
Mississippi river and its tributaries.
One of these states alone has suffer
ed during the last twenty years to
the extent of $200,00O,O0O.
THE real needs of these states
for adequate Hood control will
amount to more than a billion dol
lars. In addition to this agricui-
ture is crying for establizing legisla-
tion to protect farm commodities
from unnatural conditions. A ie-
medal program for this purpose witt
cost the government many miits,ss
of dollars.
st must be apparent the these i'm
portant domestic needs cannot be
satisfied if our taxes are used in
building up big navy.
Therefore as long as We are safe
from an opposing military force it is
far more important for the govern
ment to spend its money for con-
structiye projects than to invest it in
the greatest navy the world has ever
seen when there is not cloud on it's
International horizon"
F. j. c.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1928-02-17
Words Most Used

Analysis of business letters, news
papers ard ordinary correspondence
has produced list of so words said
NC be used more frequently than any
others:
The, and. Of to, l. a. In. that. you.
for, it, was, Is, will, as. have. not.
with. be. your. at, we, on, he, by. but.
my, this, his. which. dear, from. are.
ALL me. so. one, If, they had, has. very.
were. been, would she, or. there,
her. an.
The first - words make, on the
average. 30 out of every 100 words
commonly used. The 50 words run so
to the 100 in all ordinary writing
Only one of the 80. "very," has more
than one syllable.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1928-02-17
Paper.Shelled Nuts

With reference to the pecan, the
term paper shell'' has been extended
in its application until 1t is now prac-
tically without significance. Originally
applied to those types of pecans hav-
ing such thin shells that one could
easily be cracked when two were
crushed together in one hand. the
term during recent years has been
made to include all cultivated yarie-
ties, many of which have fully as hard
shells as the average wild puts. Prop
erly sneakipg, the term 'paper shell
never referred tQ a particular variety /;
its correct application has been only
with reference to varieties having very
thin shells.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1928-02-17

Says Nayalis In one of his question
able aph0risms. character is destiny"
But not the whole Of our destiny
Hamlet. prime of Denmark. was spec
tacular and irresolute, and we have a
great tragedy IN consequence. But If
his father had lived to good old age,
and his uncle had died an early death,
we can conceive Hamlet's having mar
ried Ophelia. and got through life
with a reputation of sanity. nothwith.
standing many soliIoquies. and some
moody sarcasms toward the fair
daughter Of Polonius. to say nothing
of the frankest incivility to his IA
her-in-law.-George Eliot.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1928-02-17
UNDERLYING CAUSES OF CRIME

=
The so-called crime wave has been
much discussed. Authorities on
crime believe that the continual
printing of crime stories with pic
lures and minute details probably
incites certain types of minds to the
thought of crime.
A leader in crime study says he
does not believe the oft-expressed
thought that the late war tended to
produce criminals, for few in ranks
were of the type to make profession
al criminals. He states that those
who were children in the years from
1914 to 1921, are now young people;
that during the war they heard many
unwholesome thoughts expressed
They heard their elders talking
about how to get all the sugar and
other essentials they could, despite
government appeals for conserva-
ton. They saw develop spirit OF
defiance and individual disregard OF
law.
The average persons income was
greatly increased, extravagant ideas
were developed by children and
grown-ups. Many preferred to in
dulge in great Injuries rather than
pay taxes prescribed by law. These
habits extended beyond the family
through institutions. There deve-
loped an unwholesome atmosphere
breathed by the children of the age,
which children are now the young
men and women from whom the ma
jority of those committing crimes
come.
The fact that this theory may not
be in accord with that held by the
majority, is one of the Qualifications
for the existence of the National
Crime Commission which is trying
to assimilate all the theories it can
bring together, and hopes to evolve
from them reasonable explanations
and practical remedies.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1928-02-17

There is little use of building
more and better highways if they
are but to be pathways to death and
injury" C. M. Babcock, President of
the American Road Building Assoc
iation, declared in his address at
Cleveland, Ohio, indorsing the State
traffic partol plan to insure safety
ON public roadways. Twenty-Five
thousand persons, representing every
division of bodybuilding interests at
tended the five-day convention.
"It is time to turn the tide. State
traffic patrols, together with closer
coordination of local peace officers,
should bring fewer arrests for tech
nical violations of traffic laws and
more efficient prosecution of danger
GUS drivers" Babcock said.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1928-02-17
Tempted

Observers from foreign countries
say American husbands, as a rule,
spoil their wives by praising them
overmuch. However correctly the
criticism may apply generally. 1t does
net apply to the old Maine farmer
who is on record as having said:
"Yrs. reckon I've got the best
wife that ever lived. For nigh on to
.ifty years. through sunshine and
.hadow. riches and poverty, sickness
and health. she's been as true as steel
and as sweet as an angel. Yes. sir,
don't believe better wife ever
lived atop of the earth. and some
times it's all I can do to keep from
telling her sa.':-Bostop Globe.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1928-02-17
Fed by the Lions

The staple diet OF the African hseh,
man Is the leftover kills of the ~
The animal invariably announce,
kill ON the African night aiI(
busbman who hears his cry) indiS4te>
the direction by pointing an arrow Al
daylight he looks in that direction for
the vultures, and in this manner he
locates the leavinss of the lion. and
driving the bird scavengers away he
takes their place and eats his I'll. The
women and children follow the men to
the spot and are allowed to partake.
If anything is left the vultures may
have 1t.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1928-02-17
Look ForDord

The man who continuously looks
backward doesn't make much progress.
AS the saying goes. "he lives in the
past" not even In the present. So far
as the future is concerned "he's dead
one."-Grit.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1928-02-17

Even the pessimist might enjoy
the good things he has il he weren't
kept so busy grumbling about the
disagreeable things he expects.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1928-02-17

1t takes a shrewd man to dispose
of his property in way that will
shut out the lawyers as well as his
relatives.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1928-02-17

If children could choose their pa
ents some houses would soon b.,
empty.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1928-02-17

The Cynical Bachelor observes
that the average girl has heart like
a trolley car. There's always room
for one more.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1928-02-17

Some women drive their husbands
and Others make them do all the
driving.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1928-02-17

You never can tell. Some people
return kiss for blow, others Dey-
er return anything.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1928-02-17

When 2 man gives his satanica'
majesty his due it is usually at the
pense Of his other creditors;
The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1928-09-13
ORGANIZE CLUB
AT MEETING HELD
ON FRIDAY NIGHT

A Carbon County Republican club
was organized at the court house Fri
day night. Representative leaders of
the party met with Major L. A. Foote.
candidate for attorney general; Lew
L. Galloway, candidate for reelection
as justice of the supreme court; Al
bert H. Angstman, candidate for as
soeiate justice of the supreme court;
". L. Harmon, candidate for secretary
of state and ]. w. Crosby, candidate
for clerk of the supreme court, and
party plans were outlined for the COM
ing election.
Harry Alden was chosen as tenn
porary secretary of the meeting and
later was elected as secretary of the
club. It was decided to place petitions
throughout the county in order that
voters might sign same and find out
the strength of the party. Literature
can easily be placed in the hands of
the signers.