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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1930-12-05

60 says the charming Chris
A. TOPPER Robin Of A. A. Mines
verse, on attaining the mature
age Of six years. And who
wouldn't feel clever, after five
long years of home supervision,
If one suddenly stepped of to the
brand new world Of pupils and
teachers-with a lunch-box all
ones own, and maybe a book?
But the mother who watches
this clever parsonage walk with
dignity down the street, doesn't
feel half so confident. What of
the mid-moHning milk and graham
crackers? What Of the hot din
ner at noon-the main meal of the
day which she has been serving
for these five years, so that supper
may be light and therefore con-
ducive to happy dreams?
Foods for Thought
The first weeks of school are a
period of adjustment, and the
wise mother usually begins this
adjustment a few weeks before
school opens. 1t is we'll for the
child entering school to have an
especially nourishing breakfast
that will be adequate to furnish
energy until noon-a fruit, a
warm cereal with plenty of rich
milk, light but sustaining egg or
haNOn dichoa NTH hnktarad %noek
and a warm drink. such as
chocolate matted drink or cocoa.
The lunch.box, may be made to
take the place of the warm meal
at home il it contains some of the
strained vegetables-they are pre-
pared in cans. by the way, IL the
busy mother hasn't time to pre-
pare them-in a warm thermos
container. some simrle but ~o-~.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1930-12-05
Christmas Mail

January every year the dead letter
service receives between three and
four million dead letters containing
Christmas and New Year cards in adj
dition to the normal receipts of ordi-
nary unbelievable letters.
This is due primarily to incorrect
addresses and failure to place return
addresses on the envelopes.
Thousands of these letters are
found to contain gifts of money, but
comparatively few contain sufficient
information to enable their return to
the mailers.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1930-12-05

the manufacturing organiza-
ton consisting of twenty DOM
este plants is working on q
tentative production schedule
for the month of November of
more than 10000 cars. De-
spite the fact that this is a high
goal for the month, the output
Of cars has already fallen con-
siderably behind orders already
booked, the sales division re-
ported.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1930-12-05
SAVE YOUR EYES
BY DR.. J. Fred Andreae, Sec
Md. State Board Optometry
GLASSES BY MAIL


'The eyesight of thousands of per-
sons is being ieopardized by specta-
cles sold by certain INSCRIPTIONS
mail order optical houses which,
through widespread advertising and
sales campaigns, are selling glasses
without even asking for any symp-
toms, without any sort of testing the
vision of the eyes of the prospective
purchaser, and without even an in
quiry as to the condition of health of
the Eyes"
The quotation above is from a
recent statement issued by the
National Society for the Prevention
of blindness.
Warning of the menace contained in
such a dangerous situation, the state
ment continues: fs
Investigation has shown that the
glasses which are actually sent are
simply a fair grade of magnifying
glasses mounted in an extremely
poor grade of frame. These are
advertised as scientifically ground
and curved lenses The glasses do
nothing that the exploiters claim for
them-they do not relieve eyestrain,
they do not fit any eyes, except by
mere chance. They simply make
the print look larger. as a consequent
ce of which many persons with fail
ing sight, will worry along with them,
occasionally feeling satisfied because
of their own ignorance of the harm
that may be done their eyes,"
Persons receiving the advertising
matter of these concerns are warned
that it is impossible for glasses to be
properly fitted by mail, and that in
most cases attempts to SO fit them
will result in harm to the eyes of
the WearerS.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1930-12-05

Pointed indications of a re-
sumption Of buying interest
throughout the nation are
manifest in hundreds Of re-
ports on file at the home Office
of the Chevrolet Motor Com
pany revealing that the recep-
ton accorded the new 1881
Chevrolet Six during the early
days of the national showing
had only parallel in the history
of the company,
&c. meet the needs Of dealers,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1930-12-05
Who Should Pay The Bill?

More than two years ago large
and representative delegation from
all over the county went before the
Grand Jury in the interest of Law
Enforcement and asked that that
body recommend the employment by
the Sheriff of qualified detectives if
necessary, to assist in the arrest of
the bootleggers who were carrying
things with such a high hand in the
County.
Ever since that time, and in fact
ever since he went into office, Mr..
Logan has worked increasingly in en-
forcing all laws at his command to
rid our county of the nuisance. And
as he was so anxious to bring to
justice some of the violators succeed
ed in locating two detectives whom
he felt could handle the case.
You all know the news reports of
the result but there are few things
which have not been published which
should like to see brought to the
attention of the people of the County.
Who will deny that those detectives
did a good job? They had the whole
band SO scared that they raised who
knows how much money to use in
every way they saw fit to buy them
selves in. First succeeding by
''hook or crook" to keep the detec-
tives from appearing against them at
the hearings. Then when the detec-
tives came before the Grand Jury and
presented the case the accused mostly
''took to the tall timber" and remain
ed safe and sound till court should
adjourn.
should like to know what became
of the bond money they put up?
Was justice so miscarried that our
county is poorer by even that?
And how about the fines which one
reasonably expects to pay who in
sist on violating the laws?
don't blame the County Com
missioners for refusing to use my
money and yours to pay the bill, but
surley there should be money in our
treasury to take care of such ac-
counts, especially as the action was
authorized as above mentioned.
Does any one for a moment think
that the job would have been so well
done had even two or three other
officers known all about it.
For my part / still feel like con-
lgratulating Mr.. Logan for his efforts,
and if thru miscarriage of justice he
is forced to lose even that sum of
money, what is that in comparison
with the huge sums which so many
have lost recently and have nothing
to show for it.
May our newly elected Sheriff fol-
low as carefully the right and, leave
behind him as clean record as the
one some of US are so sorry to see
REPLACED.
BERTHA BALDERSTON,
Superintendent of Department of
Legislation and Enforcement of Law
of the w. C. T. u.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1930-12-05

The gas tax collected in Lancaster
County, Pa, for eleven months,
July /, 1929, to May 81, 1880, was
1854, ASS, 88. The return to the coun-
ty for twelve months was $113, 1888. II.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1930-12-05
Changes in Maryland's cunning

Changes in Maryland's cunning
license laws are under consideration
by officials of the State Conservation
Commission as preparations for
legislation at the impending session
of the House of Delegates begin.
Officials of the State Game Depart
ment said efforts may be made to do
away with the present county license
system.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1930-12-05

Modern kids are licked less;
the world pounds them more
as they grow older.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1930-12-05

If vanity does not entirely
overthrow the virtues, at least
it makes them all totter.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1930-12-05

Going somewhere merely to
be going somewhere, suffers
defiation in about an hour.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1930-12-05

Do you happen to know a
father who would want mis- son
to follow in his footsteps?
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1930-12-05

ishing sandwiches, such as whole.
wheat bread with peanut butter.
or graham bread with lettuce and
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1930-12-05

A lazy man is a dead loss to
himself.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1930-12-05
six" Goes To School

"Bnt noto I am sic, I'm as clever clever,
SO think I'll be sic for eUer and euer."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-29

to Charlestown and Bunker Hill Monu-
ment, and possibly you may see the
ghost of one Of those grand clipper
ships which used to be launched in
South Boston while the steeples rocked
and guns doomed and the roofs were
black with people.
Low Skyline Retained.
Moderately new Boston is the Back
Bay, but even that In spite Of q few
iugglings with the building code, keeps
its low skyline. Residences, however.
are yielding to trade, and across Boyls-
ton street to the south new section Of
hotels and offices and stores is rising.
But actually the growth of Boston has
been suburban. Swing an arc from the
State House equal to the arc required
to take in the boundaries Of New York
and Boston would have 1000, 900 in
habitants. Classic Cambridge is sprout-
ing apartment houses like a field of
mushrooms, and q score of other sur
rounding towns are now solid city, pain
fully like any other city anywhere
movie" houses. filling stations, chain
groceries and all the rest. But that
isn't Boston. 1t is something which
in the slow process of years has got
to be made Boston II the spirit Of the
The difficulties of combating both
the lord bishops and the lord brethren
have not diminished with the years
Once Boston threw British tea into the
harbor, but later the lord bishops and
lord brethren together threw the
Bacchante out of the Public Library,
and only a year ago threw Strange
Interlude" out of the theater. Free
speech, as Wendell Phillips practiced
1t In Faneuil Hall, is no longer permit
ted in that famous cradle.
The fight to save the traditions of
independence as well as the physical
monuments Of the past and to build
the new city on the style of the old in
spirit as well as material structure is
Boston'S peculiar problem. There are
many in the battle line, and no visitor
to the old Puritan capital this Summer
can wish them anything but success
They stand, like the Spartans of Their
mopylae. against an engulfing invasion
Of horrible uniformity Whether they
are william Blaxtons or plain Puritans,
or q bit Of both, who can say? Thsy
are, anyhow eld-time BostonianS.
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round the new life with enough
food to start it successfully in
the world, and then quietly
die and get out of the way.
1t would be much better, he
said, If each one of us could
come into the world wrapped
in $4,000, which would see us
through to maturity, unencum-
bered by any mountaineering
with parents or relations.
Such a world would make
just about as much progress as
the beetles have made in the
past 10000 years.
We keep going, not so much
for money or fame, but in the
hope that our kids can say
with pride, That's my father"
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pieces on his head for several minutes
and then letting them tumble in q cha
otto heap as, he stated, capitalism would
fall. 1t Is always a bracing thought
for the worker of Russia to be assured
that laborers in America who, it is ru-
mored, 60 to work in automobiles, are
only catching last frantic ride before
the debacle.
Radio Has Possibilities.
The radio Is recognized by the gov
eminent as another amusement that
possesses infinite possibilities as a con-
veyance for propaganda. And with this
In mind, radio in Russia is growing by
leaps and bounds. From one broadcast
ing station in 1924, they have expanded
to ST. Last year there were $4,000
radio receiving sets in the landau in
significant number compared to the
millions in the United States. But this
figure does not accurately reflect the
number of hearers, as most sets are in
stalled in workers clubs, factories,
schools and apartment houses where
hundreds listen in. An extensive plan
is now under way to bring every part
of the vast country within hearing Of
Moscow's voice. BY broadcasting two
complete news services daily-each one
dren-the WORD of the government
controlled press will reach the huge
army of illiterates who once were be-
yond It's pale.
So the new Russians play more in
tensely than any other people, but from
much Of their fun the old spirit Is gone.
1t is often approached seriously, as q
duty, or again as something which
should be great sport, but in some way
falls short Of its aim. The people are
like small boys dragged from q great
game of cowboy and Indian, with only
the limits Of their imagination bound.
ing their fun, and set at the formal
games OF the school grounds.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-29
BOSTON, 3 CENTURIES OLD,
is CITY OF TRADITIONS
How to Preserve Them in Face of Mod
" .ern Tendencies Is One of the
Problems of the Day.
Continued From Third Page)

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land Antiquities. The latter would be
even more flourishing II more people
wrote q small enough hand to get their
names on checks for their annual dues.
They try it once, and then are dropped
for non-payment. The society has pur-
chsSci and preserved fine old houses,
PAL " ularly Of the very early colonial
period, all over New England, and in
Boston itself has as its headquarters
the beautiful Harrison Grey Otis house
on Cambridge street down in a poor
neighborhood now, which is fitted UP
as a museum. Close beside it, now a
branch Of the Public Library, is a fine
Asher Benjamin building. once q
church, and these two designs of red
brick, set bit back from and above
the value Of such historical preserya-
ton.
Buildings Works Of Art.
1t is all very well to have museums
with American wings" but the origi-
nal buildings of a fine period are works
of art which can never be exhibited in
museums. They must be preserved, if
at all. as and where they stand. Here
the city has saved. from the days Of
the early republic, two works of art in
brick and mortar, and the museum Is
city street. A second Otis mansion,
built some years later and designed by
Charles Bulfinch, may be seen on the
north side of Mount Vernon street just
above Louisburg Square. Here is still
a residential neighborhood to compare
with RnPh a nSinr' the hnnga still "a
private residence.
The Athenaeum would have de-
lighted the soul Of william Blaxton, he
who loved books (did he not have a
vast library of $50 volumes in the will
derness of the New World, where most
folks were content with the Bible?) and
who loved quiet. The Athenaeum is q
library-a large and very fine library
and II you are a real dyed-in the wool
BoStonian you own a share in 1t and
are a proprietor. If you aren't, you'll
have to go to the Public Library, which
is full of Sargent murals and visitors
trying to understand them by looking
at printed cards instead of the pic
lures, not to mention smells, which are
the same in public libraries the world
over.
The Athenaeum is on Beacon street
on the hill close to the State House. II
is mournful looking pile of stone, as
solid as a prison, entered by a dark
and gloomy doorway You step into
a large, mournful, dim vestibule pre-
sided over by a couple of classic casts
and dim portraits. Then you push on
into the delivery room-and 10, the
place Is flooded with sunshine, which
pour in through huge windows that
open on the Park Street Burying
Ground. Across this cheerful little
park, full of elms, naples. gray squirrels
and the tombS Of the Colonial great,
rises the lovely Wren spire of the Park
Street Church, and there drifts in,
when the windows are open, the SUBJ
dued roar of trafflc on fremont street
beyond,
There are five floors of reading
rooms with their sunny exposure and
countless mezZanines and galleries and
rooms on the north side where the
stacks are. and q pet cat named Chris
label, and goldfish bowls, and Gam
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I venture to say that after
one has laid by a few extra
dollars and has seen his name
in print a dozen times these
two motives very rapidly lose
their power.
Far stronger and more en-
during motives, I take it, are
the calm, appraiSing eyes Of
ones children. They are our
Judges; their opinion counts
more than that of all the rest
of the world.
Samuel Butler thought it
was a great mistake that the
generations overlap He point
ed with approval to the exam
pie of the moths and beetles
which spir their cocoons, sur
1aaAN
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-29

picked up a caddy, a bright
eyed youngster of Is.
"Are you staying at the inh?"
he asked.
I nodded.
Have you met the night en-
gineer?"
I said that unfortunately my
contacts had been entirely with
the day staff.
you should meet him." the
youngster said proudly. That's
my father"
1t is assumed by those who
view the social structure with
disfavor that men work from
only two motives-money or
reputation.
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m YOUNG professional man
~ took me to a country
town to call on his parents.
The old couple have raised
eight children, of whom six are
living and doing well. The
father runs a small store.
81 wanted you to meet my
people," my friend said later.
They are poor, but I'm very
proud of them. When any
one talks pessimiStically about
marriage or human life in gen.
eral, I like to remember the
record of those two old folks"
On my way from a Summer
hotel to a nearby golf course
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Caucasian Is Victor.

As left and right hooks to the Jaw
are being exchanged the tiny man is
once more on his feet, and my COM
paniQn resumes his admonitions as
thoroughly and completely Is before.
While he talks the boxer from the eau
casus contributes his front teeth to the
process of his opponents group and re-
taliates forthwith by straight right to
the head that sends the symbol Of
LAningrsd's health staggering to the
ropes, where he slumps Unconscious on
the canvas. All Il quiet while the ref
The Washington times., 1930-07-25
"MISS HARD BOILED"

She could not have slept had
she tried. Instead, she set
about packing such things as
were personal and enough of
the simpler things from her
elaborate wardrobe to carry
her overseas. Greta helped,
gabbling the while like an ex-
cited young hen over a single
chick.
Jerry came In at twilight.
Baffled. In a ferment of I'M
patience and thwarted hope.
The French palms had not
turned so easily to the greasing.
Certain forms must be fol
lowed. They could facilitate
the happy event for monsieur
up to a certain point. Beyond
that, 1t was "imposseebeelv
ut will mean five days at
least, RaquelS' he ragged, as if
five days were five eternities.
Even a week. It's preposter-
Gus. felt like wringing a cou-
pile of official necks. Five days!
Maybe Seven!"
A week. Alphonse might re-
turn before she had given her
self. definitely, to Jerry. He
would. He was lonely, eager to
see her, to hear her voice. He
had written her as much.
A panic seized her. 1t shook
the slender wires of her already
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Visit Dolores Tea Room

Inside the atmosphere was
quite as distinctive. Partitions
were 50 arranged that practi-
cally every table was in q
booth, varied in size to &C.
commodate parties of any num-
ber. It was decorated complete
ly in Louis XIV and the parti-
tions were scrolled In designs
which depicted scenes at the
court OF that monarch. Tap
estries were in abundance on
the walls and hung over the
partitions. The only lights were
those from candles set in each
booth.
Blake and Dale had diff.
Guilty in obtaining q booth.
The tearoom was filled with
faShionably dressed women, and
quite frequently, as they passed
to the far end, the two men
glimpsed young ladies with dis.
Misunderstanding elderly es-
cOrts. AS they had asked to
speak with Dolores she finally
entered their booth.
Congratulations on your
charming tearoom, Mrs. Qoin-
cy," said Dale, after they
greeted each other.
ut is rather nice, isn't it?
And we've been doing wonder.
fully. You know we've taken
the next floor and are going
to enlarge. Richards going
into it with me from now on,
and I'm sure we'll make q 20
Of it,"
"Quite expensive setting up
q place like this" Daily said
as he was examining some Of
the beautiful furnishings.
"A horrible lot of money, but
one has to be distinctive in
any business. Do you know,
Captain Blake, / haven't recoV-
cred from the shock of Satur-
day night yet. Poor Jerry
and to think that such nice
young man like Bert Forrest
could have done such a dread
full thing"
And thus 1t continued. All
the efforts of Captain Blake
and Robin Dale to probe In
formation from Dolores went
for naught. She skinned blithe-
" along, on the surface OF
everything. When they finally
stepped into the street again
Blake merely smiled and shook
his head hopeleSsly.
YOU'RE right, Captain Blake
beautiful but dumb" +"
To Be Continued Tomorrow
Copyright, 1880. by King Features
Syndicate. Incl
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overstrained nerves. Just ahead
of her there, around the corner,
was a reasonable assurance of
happiness. If she could reach
that corner, whisk around it be-
fore the slender tapering hand
thrust out from under the dark
coWl could seize her. She was
breathleSs, running. Her pulse
a pain of agony in her throat.
her wrists. Once, when she had
striven to reach the Mission of
San Jeronimo-
II have it!" Jerry came to
her and lifted her bodily from
her chair, allowing her to slip
down by tiptoe to the floor.
will you do it, dear girl? Will
you?"
But you haven't told me
what it is you want me to do?"
Raquel reminded him.
Say yes. and I'll tell you.
Sight unSeen!" he teaSed.
"Well-then-yes."
His lips touched the scented
sable cloud Of her hair.
Wen have a ship wedding.
1 know the skipper of the Mara
thon. She's an American yes.
sci, you know. The skipper
would like nothing better than
to tie me up for life. He's often
told me so. I've shipped with
him a dozen tihems. And he's