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with mingled realism and romanticism
portrayed the human comedy. With
gentle irony and exacting attention to
detail, he laid bare the dull material
isms and the shams of civilization,
filling the most insipid with exciting
interest, but never receding from his
detachment to turn crusader. Suffi-
cient of his works will survive to as
sure Arnold Bennett a permanent
place on the worlds bookshelves.
THE $1,000,000 libel suit Gus o. Ma.
L tons, former prohibition agent,
filed against Mrs. Mabel Walker Willie
brandt. former assistant attorney gen.
eral, in 1929, in connection with q
series of articles she wrote about pro-
hibition enforcement was stricken from
the docket in Federal court at St.
Louis for failure to prosecute.
Mr.. Nations said he could not pro-
coed any further with the suit because
he had been unable to obtain service
on Mrs. Willebrandt, but he asserted
that suits for $4,000 damages eacll
were pending against her in New York
and Washington for alleged injury
done to him by the articles.
The only observation of Mrs. Mabel
Walker Willebrandt to the news that
the $1,000,000 libel suit filed against
her by Gus o. Nations had been
stricken from the record was: "The
action speaks for ITSELF"
tM 1891. Western Newspaper union.l
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-04-17

The emergency decree enormously
curtails the vital civic rights an
chored to the German constitution.
Basing the action on article 48 Of the
constitution, enabling the President to
take dictatorial measures when "se-
curity and order are threatened" the
decree curtails the personal rights Of
citizens such as the freedom Of speech,
the inviolability uf homes. freedom
of the press, secrecy in the mails, the
right to meet when unarmed, the right
to form associations, or own property.
Public announcements of political
gatherings must be confined to the
barest facts. Newspapers Infringing
upon the terms of the decree may be
suspended for eigh. weeks, and other
publications may be suspended for six
months.
The public speaking 'muzzle de-
cree" the old timers eloquently claim,
Is more severe than a "ukase" In the
days Of the former kaiser.
During adjournment committees will
continue working on mass of internal
reform projects, and the reichstag can
be called together al any time on the
demand Of one-third of the members,
or the council of elders can authorize
such special call by majority vote.
D USSIA babe open defiance to the
N international grain conference at
Rome when Abraham Kissin, Soviet
delegate. declared that, far from re-
ducing her wheat production, his coun-
try would increase it this year and
that instead Of giving up her policy of
so-called dumping" she intended to
increase her wheat exports in order
to pay for her imports, which exceed
$500, 100000 year.
ANY proposal to exclude from
economic intercourse a nation occu-
plying one-sixth of the worlds surface
is foredoomed to failure" Kissin said.
"Russia's population is Increasing at
the rate of 100000 year, which is
proportionately twice as great as the
increase of Europe's population. there
fore we must increase out wheat pro-
duction."
The United States Agricultural de-
partment has estimated that spring
wheat paintings would be reduced 14.7
per cent. This exceeded the hope of
the farm board for 10 per cent cut.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-04-17

iCSdlAOhs
the British legation and Nicaraguan
government buildings were all de-
stroyed. Fire following the earthquake
RACED twenty blocks of the business
district, causing an estimated prop
erty damage Of $30,000,000.
American agencies were quick to
respond to the need for help. The
Red Cross rushed supplies. Marines.
sent to the little republic on political
mission several years ago, were used
to maintain order and relieve dis
tress.
1t is too early to know definitely
the extent of the disaster. Managua's
population was in the neighborhood Of
10000. The region of this city IS dotted
with evidences of its volcanic charac-
ter. and history records at least two
major volcanic disasters. Nicaragua
has been less afflicted with earth.
quakes than its Central American
neighbors.
SO far as is known there Is not q
habitable building left in the once
beautiful Central American city. the
second in size in the republic. Presi-
dent Moncado himself abandoned the
national palace for a tent.
ID ASEBALL loses two Of its major
~ luminaries in the passing Of Err
nest s. Barnard and Byron B. john
son, the president and the ex-presi-
dent of the American league dying
within sixteen hours Of each other.
Both devoted their lives to the Amer
lean national game. Their terms of
service in the presidency spanned the
life OF the league itself.
When johnson quit the sports desk
of Cincinnati newspaper to aeek his
fortune in the business administers.
ton of baseball, James j. Hill had ar
rived as the empire builder of the
Northwest. and John D. Rockefeller
had established the dynasty Of Stand
ard Oil. AS each of those in his sep
arate sphere wore the NapoleOnic
mantle, so Johnson did in baseball.
Under his leadership rather rowdy
sport became. on its artistic side. u
profession, and, economically, entered
the company of large affairs. 1t was
Johnson's genius that wrought the
miracle.
Mr.. Barnard would have been fifty
seven years old on July II. He had
been reelected president of the Amer
lean league for FIVE year term. His
activity in connection with the draft
controversy and in the adoption Of the
schedule is believed to have FASTENED
his death.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-04-17

Witnesses said the nockne
craft, flying through clouds and fog,
lost wing in the air and hurtled to
the ground like crippled bird.
Rockne had only recently. recov-
cred from an illness which year ago
had threatened to terminate his bril-
liant coaching career. Last year. how
ever. he developed one of the very
best of his many excellent teams. and
made schedule for 1881 which in
dicated that he looked forward TO an
equally great team this year.
American football susiains great
loss. Americans lose one who typiiied
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-04-17

ID uRING the for
NAL adjournment
Of he German reichs-
tag the Bruening
cabinet is armed with
parliamentary certi-
fed dictatorial pow
ers to run the country
until next autumn.
when the reichstag'
reconvenes. The gov
eminent also prepared
measures to curb at
tacks on President
Hindenburp
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-04-17

EARTHQUAKES
Il and fire In
Managua, Nicara-
qua, took an esti-
mated toll Of 1000
dead and many
thousands injured.
many of t b e m
Americans. T b e
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-04-17

TN THE death of
i ARM old Bennett.
English literature has
lost one of its mas
tiers. and an unbeliev-
ably long list of nov
els, dramas and es-
says comes to an end.
Absorbed in the work
aday world abou t
him, never a propa-
gandist or a preacher.
stunning the mary
introspections of the
nov- cohOol Rnnnatf
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-04-17

Hoover skin would peel. Inere
was no question. however. that ne was
rested, and greatly so. as result OF
his leisurely trip.
one of his first announcements was
that a tax increase could be avoided
IL his budget and other recommended
lions for expenditures were not IN
creased by congress next winter. 10
that end he appealed to the nation 10
bring pressure on congress against
ssthe demands Of sectional or group
interests"
The statement was made In the race
OF tagging income tax receipts indicat.
Ing d treasury deficit of perhaps $Soo.-
100000 at the close Of the current
fiscal year, June 80. 1t was regarded
as part Of the Presidents effort to
mobolize public sentiment against
further soldier oonus legislation. farm
relief appropriations or similar pro-
posals in the new congress to con-
vene In December.
Senator William e. Borah. Repub-
lican insurgent, Idaho, retorted'
through the press, that "the record is
that congress has appropriated less
than the budget bureau has recon-
mended each session for the last few
years., He declared his willingness TO
cut off the $9O,O00,OOO provided for
the administrator naval building
program. rs lg.etss
a BLIZZARD in Rocky mountain
"A and plains states took a toll OF
eleven lives, including Eve children,
two men and a woman in Colorado.
Scores were in serious condition
from frostbite and exposure.
Thousands of cattle persisted in a
wide area including Wyoming. Colo
RADIO, South Dakota, Nebraska and
the western parts Of Kansas, Okla
homa and Texas. In the southern
part Of the storm area, peach. april
cot and other stone-fruit crops were
ruined.
The child victims Of the storm were
pupils at Pleasant Hill school. Town
er, Colo. The morning of the blizzard
Maude Moser, the teacher, ended
classes because of the storm. Carl
Miller arrived to take the pupils to
their homes in the school bus Miss
Moser started to walk to her home.
There were twenty-five children in
the bus when Miller started, all be
tween the ages Of eight and thir-
I teen. b i X sas 81.
Three miles from Pleasant Hill the
bus plowed into a snow drift ten feet
deep and stalled Outside the mass
Of falling snow was a curtain. OBJ
securing the road. tracks and cover
ing fences. Miller tried to back
toward the school but could not get
the wheels Of the bus free from the
drift.
After remaining with the children
for many hours, Miller realized he
must get aid or all would perish. In
the driving storm he started out
thinking he could reach farmhouse
Struggling on for more than three
miles he fell exhausted in. cornfeld
and persisted.
Five Of the children were dead
when rescuing party found them
but the rest were saved.
There were other tragedies in the
storm that swept the mountain states
and other sections; but this tragedy
was one to arouse the utmost pity
Bravely the children met their fate
They sang and boxed and played to
keep warm. as they. were told by the
driver before he left :hem to seek
aid, as urged by the young leader put
in charge. until the merciless wind
and chill benumbed them into helpless
drowsiness.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-04-17

president HOO
I yer returned to
washington after an
eleyen-day cruise to
Porto Rico and the
Virgin islands, with a
countenance that ap-
proximated the shade
Of an almost ripe to-
mato. West Indian
sur and wind had
burned his face. badly.
and there was a
strong suspicion the
skin would peel. There
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-04-17
KENNETH

KNUTE KENNETH
N Rockne, football
coach of the Univer-
sity of Notre Dame,
with a name that be-
came a collegiate by
word, plunged to his
death with five fellow
passengers and two
pilots on a Transcon-
tinental and Western
Air. Inc, air liner in
the mid. kansas graz
ing country.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-04-17

THE Cuban Su-
L preme court has
given a d e els on
a gain st President
Machado's suspension
Of newspaper publlca-
tion, holding that he
acted in violation of
the, constitutional pro-
vision for free speech
when he shut down
presses which had
published information
and criticism dlstaste-
a. ~ -
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-04-17

without any showing that there was
an emergency or that the newspaper
comment was contrary to the public
good.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-04-17
F.LEAUINlsass1 -
RADIO PROGRAMS

(Time given is Eastern Standard:
subtract one hour for Central and two
hours for Mountain time.)
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-04-17

Mr.. Machado set forth the necessity OF
public security and order as reason
for the prohibition Of publication but
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-04-17

the best in useful, wideawake citizen
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1931-04-17
Cold Cream Long Popular

Don't let this jar your cold cream,
girls. But, believe it or not" that
indispensable cosmetic of present-day
femininity has been keeping the wrin-
kles from milady's face for more than
1000 years. So says Charles White
bread, curator of the division of medi-
cine at the National museum in Wash
ington. What is more, he says 1t is
the second Oldest of all pharmaceu-
teal preparations. And do you girls
know who invented" your old stand
by? To quote Curator whitehead
'the fragrant unguent has changed
very little from the original formula
for unguentum refrigerans ceratum,
invented and prescribed by the Ro-
man physician Galen. sometimes known
as the father of pharmacy Path
finder Magazine.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1931-04-17
Old New Orleans Bank
OutIived Stormy DAYS

When the war clouds Of 1861 rolled
across the port Of New Orleans, the
bank that was situated at Royal and
Iberville streets, linked its fortunes
with the Confederacy. When General
Butler, Union leader, was in COM
mand Of New Orleans, he ordered the
Banques des Citoyens to turn over to
him any money or property In its pos
session belonging to anyone who had
aided the Confederacy. The forced
contribution amounted to $215,S20.
Later $306,400 was contributed by the
dictates of General Butler. Another
order for $4,000 was filled. To Gen.
eral Banks, at General Buffers COM
nand, Sill, 4S5 was turned over by
the order of Federal General Candy.
The bank voluntarily contributed
$250,000 to the Confederacy in 1861 ;
it loaned the South $325,OOO in coin
in 1862; 1t paid pay rolls of various
divisions of the Confederate army.
With all these outgoings and no in
comings, the old bank stood its ground
and lived out its charter, which ex-
pired on January 30. 1911. 1t gave
up then because it was impossible to
have its charter renewed due to the
unprecedented liberality Of its grant.
No other charter of its kind has ever
been issued in this country.-New
Orleans Times Picayune.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1931-04-17

In order to discover the yellow
fever germ DR.. James Carroll sacri-
feed his own life by permitting an
infected mosquito to bite him. He was
a member of the board that was APP
pointed by the United States govern
ment to investigate the acute infec-
tious diseases then occurring on the
island Of Cuba He submitted himself
to incubation, with a consequent Sc
we're attack of the fever. He recovered,
but died seven years later in Wash
ington, September 16, 1907. His death
was regarded as an ultimate result
Of the disease. Doctor Carroll was
born in England June 5, 1854, and
was a physician and surgeon in the
United States army at the time of his
appointment to the Havana yellow
fever commission.
The other members Of the board
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erasmus Aims Box"

Erasmus, noted scholar and reform
er Of the Sixteenth century, with his
friend Dean Colet, founder of st.
Paul's school, visited st. Nicholas
almshouse, in England, and one Of the
brethren ordered a holy relic for them
to kiss, as was the custom before
sprinkling guests with holy water,
writes Lovinia Walsh in the Boston
Transcript. The relic in this case was
a part of shoe once worn by st.
Thomas Of Canterbury. The dean, it
seems, was not kissing anybody's old
shoes. He forthwith got hot under his
clerical collar and became rhetorical
ly hectic.
The scholarly Erasmus, on the con-
trary, was most courteous, and to
make amends for the deans misbe-
havior, he dropped goodly sum into
the aims box. Ever after, this box
was known as "The Erasmus Aims
Box"
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1931-04-17

But Montcalm retreated, and this
puzzled Jeems. The army began to
learn the truth as, weary and foot
sore, it turned toward Quebec. Ra-
pacity, folly, intrigue, and falsehood
had fed at the heart Of New France
until 1t was honeycombed by the rot
tenness of dissolution. Montcalm was
its one star of hope, and as autumn
came. then winter, it seemed to Jeems
that Montcalm's God had deserted him.
The st. Lawrence was filled with Brit
ish ships. The harvest was meager,
and n barrel of flour cost two hundred
francs. Even Montcalm ate horse
flesh. Still he did not lose faith In
God. A thousand scoundrels headed
by Vaudreuil had fattened on the ma
tons downfall, and he prayed for
them. "What country" he ex-
claimed. Here all the knaves grow
rich and the honest men are ruined"
A fighting man, man Of sword and
death, he kept his faith to the end.
IF we are driven from the st. Law
renee" he wrote to his wife, 1--WE will
descend the Mississippi and make
final stand for France among the
swamps Of Louisiana"
Thus planned and prayed the man
whose bleached skull is now shown to
visitors in the Ursuline convent at
Quebec. Through the spring and sum-
mer Of 1850, Jeems watched the
spiders as they wove their web ever
closer about Quebec, the last French
stronghold in America. 1t was in May
Of 1855 that Toinette had been killed.
and it was in May of 1859 that he first
saw from the Montmorenci shore the
mighty rock which so long had been
the mistress of the New world.
Four months later, on the most
eventful September 10 of written his
tory-that Tomorrow Morning" which
will never be forgotten-he stood on
the Plains of Abraham.
Montcalms God was about to COM
plete an immaculate elegy which hung
in the air like a mighty chorus waiting
for a whispered command to begin.
To Jeems Bulain, facing the sun and
the thin red line of the British across
the meadows where Abraham Martin
had grazed his cattle, fate was bring
ing an end to uncertainty and chaos.
1t had missed him at Fort William
Henry, at Ticonderoga, at Mont
morenci, but here he could feel its
presence-an escape-a release from
bondage-something greater than iron
or fiesh-as the crimson lines drew
nearer. He felt the spirit of what
Montcalm had said to his doomed
heroes few minutes before. God is
surely watching over the Plains of
Abraham today"
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1931-04-17
CHAPTER XIII

1t was ten o'clock, the hour of the
crisis. At dawn it had been foggy
at six showers had fallen; now it was
hot. 1t might have been July instead
of September. In darkness twenty
four British volunteers had climbed
the steep height from the river, hang
ing to bushes, digging their fingers
into creyices of rock, crawling with
their faces against the earth, making
their way foot by foot. Il am afraid
you cannot do it." Wolfe had said,
looking at the pitlike blackness above.
But they did. Nameless in history,
they destroyed the old map of the
world and put another in its place. In
that hour twenty-four men ruined
France, gave rise to a greater Eng
land, created a new nation.
At the top, Yergor, the French off,
Ger, slept soundly with his guards. To
him fate might have given the glory
OF keeping the old map intact. But
he was killed before he could wipe
the daze of slumber from his eyes.
Wolfe's path was made, and like a
thin stream of red ants the British
continued to ascend the trail which
had been blazed for them.
vaudreuil, the governor. the arch
villain who lost half continent for
France, lay in his coy nest Of in
iquity a, short distance away dream
ing of sensual days with the faithless
Madame de Paean and planning fu-
ture with the kings own mistress, La
Pompadour. Across the St Charles,
expecting the British in different di-
rection, sleepless, worn, robbed Of
every chance to win by the weakness
and imbecility Of this fayorite of a
kings mistress, was Montcalm.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1931-04-17
Resourceful Sarah

The story is told of the immortal
Sarah Bernhardt that once in Lon
don she took cab back to the hotel.
After time 1t occurred to her they
were not making much progress, and
on questioning the driver was in
formed that they were lost and he
could go no further. She left the
cab, walked minute or two. until
she saw fire engine returning from
a fire. Without a moments hesita-
ton she hailed it and persuaded the
fireman in charge to take her on, ar
irving at her hotel perched on the
engine.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1931-04-17

As defined by the weather bureau,
clear day is one on which the sky
is three-tenths or less covered with
clouds The word fair" used in con-
nectlon with the weather forecasts in
dictates that three-tenths or less OF
clouds and less than OF inch of pre-
cipitation are expected during the pc
Rod coverediby the forecast
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xxxxx***x
Gave Life to Further Fight on Yellow Fever

were Maj. Walter Reed. also a ply
stefan and surgeon of the United
States army, DR.. Jesse Lazear and
DR.. Aristides Agramonte. Doctor Laz-
ear accidentally contracted the disease
during the experiments and died, and
Major Reed died of appendicitis in
Washington the year following the
conclusion of the experiments. his
death occurring on November 20, 1902
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1931-04-17
Ship Me Your
Live Poultry!
GET TOP MARKET PRICES
AND PROMPT RETURNS

My long experience enables me to OBJ
tain High Prices for Good Stock.
Send me your name and address
that may post you on market condi-
lions.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-05
lfS Hhx tHlS: WHEN YOU

GO TO BUY PAIR OF SHoEs you examine the leather the way the shoes made their shape You try them they fit ifthey satisfy you
 Why follow the method in purchasing your cga rees? You cigarettes that made from the very bacco-nld, ripe You them made right You them free from harshness and pnches other words you want cigarettes that satisfy you.
 WHEN YOU GO TO BUY FRU-oranges, grapefruit apples you ripe fruit fruit that has matued before being taken from the tree fruit that has been handled right and packed right fruit that's the throughout green on side and ripe on the other.
 Why apply the in purchasing your cigarettes? You cigarettes made from tobacco handled right by the famer-rpened sweeened in the and cured right You cigarettes that the same day in and day You want them pleasing in tase-mild and satisfying. WHEN CANDY, you know, above all things, that pure Is real candy are there lot of other things mixed in with it? And you it fresh You it freshly made and you want so packed reach you just was when was made.
 Why apply the when you buy your cigarettes? You cigarette that's pure; for purity in ciga-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-05
Break Ground
 for New Church
West Side Hlll Meihodists
 Stage Program Sunday

Ground breaking exercises for the construction of the new West Side Hill Community church at West Main street and Gfadnview avenue were held yesterday morn ing directly after the morning ser- vices in the West Side Hilll Metho- dist church. The first sI1pvelftil of dirt was turned by Adolph Miellez. representing the original member ship of 2s. Rev Ridgeway R. Shinn. pastor of the West Side church since 1s16, followed Mr Miellez.
 The contract for the construcc- tion of the church has been let to the Tracy Bros. %. The com niittee in charge of the church con- struction stated 1t was deemed ad- visabie to have the work done now to help in a small way to relieve unemploymeilt in Waterbury. The corner stone laying exercises are expected to be held in. about six weeks.
 others who took part in yester- day mornings exercises included George W. Underhill. prestdent of the board of trustees, Raymond L. Wood, chairman of the building committee; Charles l.. Balcom, representing the church school; Mrs Adolph Miellez, president of the womerl's association; Charles D. Wirth, president of the Mems club; Eleanor Shumway, representing the Girl Scouts; Edwin Nutbrown. rep resenting the Boy Scouts, and Rtch- ard Thorpe, representing the Cub pack.