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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-11-20
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Days True Spirit
Not Ourselves Alone, Is
Thanksgiving Motto. J.

Grow fat along with me
The best is yet to be,
The last of life for which the first was
made;
The ak is in his hand,
Assassination's planned.
Stand pat, get fat. nor be afraid
Poor vaunt of life, indeed,
Were Turk but made to feed
On corn alone; to seek, to find and
feast,
When feasting ends, to howl
Is this the end of fowl?
Irks care the crop-full bird? No doubt
we'll soon be heeced.
Rejoice we are allowed
To grow and yet be proud
To grace the festal board, be stuffed to
burst,
Be turned upon the spit
Till we have Drowned bit,
Then eaten up with one fell swoop
that's worst.
So take and eat thy Turk,
Save carcass that may Turk
Amid the gravy's lure; pick clean the
bones.
Next day, pray eat us cold,
Then hash us in mold.
Ca,.,H - ae< I,a 30 t,rTch
our means!
With Many Apologies to Browning.
Like the turkey and the ep1cureans,
we are prone to eat, drink and be
merry, for tomorrow we may die. We
must have a particular day appointed
in which to give thanks. lest we for
get. We take so much for granted,
accept all the good things of life with
out stopping to count our many bless
ings, or to name them one by one, as
we were admonished in Sunday school
so long ago.
We enjoy years and years of health.
forgetting what wonderful gift it is
until illness lays us low. We accept
our friends who strew our path with
roses and cheer our way with kind
ness until one is gone, and we realize
how much more we might have been
to him. We think we love our chill
dren, but when they have all left the
nest. how gladly would we have them
back that we might show them how
much more we could prove our love.
The editor of the Outlook, some
years ago, expressed the true spirit of
Thanksgiving so effectively that
quote him verbatim: IF the end of
society is to produce the largest num-
Der of free human spirits, of generous
human hearts, Of strong human hands.
Of pure human homes, of noble hui
man lives; if the liberation of serfs,
the setting free Of those in bondage.
the care and reverence for the man
as a man, the open door to the boy
and girl whose feet are eager to climb.
the breathing of the breath of life
through stagnant world means prog
ress toward the ultimate goal, then let
us revefently thank God that we were
born in an age and in country in
which it is our supreme good fortune
not to be ministered unto but to min.
ister."
"If we are to return thanks" he
goes on to say, mot for ourselves alone
but for all men; not for work done,
but for noble chances to work; not for
a finished civilization, but for the
greater civilization that may be de-
veloped; not for a few choice spirits,
but for the opportunity for all men to
lift themselves into the light; not for
things which make for our own COM
fort, but for the things which make
for the healing Of the world; not for
the life that has been lived, but for
the boundless life that is to be, then
let us thank God that he has given us,
not things but chance of growth; not
comfort but opportunity of service;
not ease of spirit but the tolls of the
unselfish fe."-Indianapolis News.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-02

Her dance may replace the
rhllmba. Mile. Barbara Revelle
Of France. Photographed while !
executing step in her new
CTiolla Dance. The novelty is
to be demonstrated at the an
nual convention of American
Dancing Masters.
Wide World Photo
The newest photograph of
Mrs. Clarence II. Mackay,l
known to musical circles as|
Anna Case. The wedding Of
the millionaire and the prima@
donna took place recently, and
the photograph was made on|
the Mackay estate at Roslyn,|
Long Island.
Underwood Underwood Photo.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-30
|DAIRYMEN ARE TAXING STEPS TO
 SAVE BUSINESS
New England Producers Are Getting the Small- est Returns From Milk in 20 Years

Montpelier, Vt, Dec 30-(UP)-- Dairy leaders have taken prelim- mary steps to stabilize prices that to-day are giving New England producers the smallest returns for milk in 20 years.
 At an emergency conference at- tended by some of New England's s approximately 10000 milk produc- CTS here yesterday the report of a special committee of New Eng land Dairies, Inc, was approved by representative of cooperative and proprietary creameries. This res port recommended temporary agency to handle sales to the or- dinarily lucrative Boston market, which consumes nearly 760,000 quarts of milk daily.
 A proposed agreement authoriz- ing New England Dairies, Inc, to negotiate prices with Boston deal- CTS was signed by Il cooperative and two proprietary creameries.
 New England Dairies, Inc, whose president is Dr F. H. Bancroft, Bare veterinarian, has just been formed as representative of vari- GUS producer-marketing groups.
 AS result of price war. produce CTS now receive only 5 cents per quart for milk delivered in Bos- ton, or IA cents per quart at their local railroad station. Not for two decades has the price of milk dipped to this low mark, which makes possible Boston retail store price of 8 cents and q Boston retail delivery price of 10 cents per quart.
 The situation has become acute because of fears that current low prices may cause milk famine through gradual let-down in pro- duction,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-30
City Loan to
 Come Saturday
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(COntlnueu rom fuBe l') with local banking houses for a temporary loan In the event that the New York proposition falls through.
 The city wants $900,000 in cash. However the New York banking house in question has been inform ed that If this total cannot be ob- tained a lesser amount will be talk en for the present. Local banks. It Is understood, have also been ln- formed that the city would be in- terested in a loan up to about $400,000.
 The cash now on hand fin the city treasury will be practically ex- hausted next week when the munic- ipality pays It's interest and red- demption on bonds. Therefore. to keep up the current business of the city and pay all the help from Jan uary to tho receipt of tax money in May. the city wants $9O0,0O0.
 This afternoon a special meeting of the board of finance began at 3 o'clock at which the loan question was expected to be discussed fur ther. the mayor and controller re- porting on their negotiations so far. At the meeting. also numerous de- partmental and inter-departmental transfers were to be authorized.
 Tonight the aldermen will hold a special session to approve these transfers and to transact several other matters of business. A vote will be passed authorizing local theaters to conduct Sunday per- formances during 1892.
 When the transfers are approved the books of the city for 1881 will be practically closed and the vari- ous items balanced.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-30
America Is Most
 Murderous Of All
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calities In American criminal law, also are important factors"
 Professor Barnhart listed the 15 "most murderous" cites in 1880, together with their homicide rate per 100000 population, as follows:
 Memphis, Tenn, 5S.S; Atlanta, Ga, 52.G; Lexington, Ky, 52.4; Bir- mingham, Ala, 40.1; Shreveport, La. ALA; Augusta, Ga, 38.0; Nash vile, Tenn, 37.G; Savannah, Ga, 36.4; Miami, Fla, 36.S; Jackson vile, Fla, 34.5; Macon, Ga, 31.6; Mobile, Ala, 30.7; Gary, Ind, 30.6; Hamtramck, Mich, sol; Tampa, Fla. 2s.4.
 He gave the murder rate In the ten largest cities as follows:
 New York, 7.1; Chicago, IA; Los Angeles, G.6; Cleveland, ITO; St Louis, 16.S; Baltimore, 14.3; Boston, 1.9; Pittsburg, 10,0.
 The fact that New York ranks roth and Chicago 10th is conclu- sive evidence that the largest cities do not have the highest rate of murder, he declared. Birmingham, Ala, for instance, has 0 rate seven times greater than New York, more than three times that of Chicago and 26 times that of Boston.
 There were 10 American cities which reported no homicides in 1880. Seventeen were in the east, two in the west and none in the middle west or south.
 A study of homicides In the city of Birmingham revealed more kill-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-30
Germans Borrow
 Many Millions
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 which many residents of Duessel- dorf called an extravagancy, a huge new bridge built across the Rhine at the cost of 17,000,00O marks, $4,000,000. Residents told me the bridge was useful but not neccs- sary.
 A local journalist tol me that lery and that tho new one was built largely as the result of mu- nicipal envy of Duesseldorf's rival city, Cologne. After Cologne erect- ed new exhibition hall, the journ- alist said, the authorities here de. cided that Duesseldorf must have new hall as well. and built the museum originally for that pur- pose. tf
 A bushes man told mo that workingmen, insured under the public sickness assurance act, re- ceived costlier and better treat ment at the new clinic, costing 1000 ,000 marks, than the wealth. fest resident of the city could nf- ford.
 Tax payers bewailing the amounts spent for municipal lux ury pointed out that of Deussel- dorf's 60,000 unemployed, 15,000 must be kept up on the city dole without national aid and that tho unemployed were costing the tax payers about 1,000,000 marks monthly, $3,000,000 a year. New York, about 15 times as large Q city, expects to spend about six times that amount this year.
 TfkA al akfAsa d.. kAta ntt.s lss nts.at- lar to that of many other munici- palities. Germany's public debt was wiped out practically by anihiia- ton of the value of the mark in 1924. Seven years later 1t has reached the immense total of 24,- 900, ,0000,000 marks, of which one third was spent in public unser- takings and constru etton. Another fall of the mark, and the debt will be wiped out; and tho bond hold CTS will pay.
 From Duesseldorf. the center of the greatest industrial region iu the world, one cnn sec the creeping paralysis affecting German indus try. Throughout the Ruhr valley. roughly GO by so miles. there are densely crowded towns studded with thousands of towering smoke stacks and network or power lines, railways. and canals. Facto- ries everywhere are deserted. There are million unemployed in the region. Only one third of tho blast furnaces are running. Factories nre running at 34 percent capacity. This is about the same situation 10 be found in American steel districts.
 The vast Krupp organization an- nnnnoah tha lnat Af 4 k00 nm marks. sf,20o,0o0 for the year. The United Steel company's dividend was reduced to four per cent.
 The Germans have developed this industrial plant with millions of foreign capital, chiefly from the United States nnu Grent Britain. When the economic crls.s pnsscs md 'rternationni trade is revived, tho pant will he chI ab." of ,m- mense output nt TtLduct!on costs cheaper than those of ity rivals.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-30
CONFERENCE ON WAR DEBTS AND
 PREPARATIONS
Will Be Held at Lausanne, Switzerland, Jan 2O-- Young Plan to Be Con- Sidered

London, Dec 30-(U. P) The International conference on debts and separations growing out of the report of the Young plan advisory committee will meet at Lausanne, Switzerland, January 20, 1t was ar- nounced officially to-day. The con- ference will be on crowded cai- endar of international<event Tor the league of nations council will meet at Geneva Janusry 25, follow ed by the world disarmament con- ference February 2.
 In addition, the French parlia- ment will re-assemble January 12. The house of commons IS adjourn ed until February 2, the day the disarmament conference begins, but may be summoned before that date if necessary. The place and date of the separations and debts conference coincided with. the views of British and French states men who wished to keep the meet ing near Geneva and convene It as soon as possible without overlap ping other international gatherings.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-30
JAPAN TROOPS AND ARPLANE
 CRASHING ON

Tokio, Dec SO-(UP)--Japanese troops and airplnnes engaged In heavy fighting and captured two cities today as they advanced across q desolated country toward Chinchow. deserted by the Chinese as their last stronghold in Man. churia.
 Hundreds of Chinese casualties, most of them in the ranks of ir- regulars. were reported to have occurred in hand to hand en- gagement which preceded the Japanese capture of Jaoyingho.'
 The Nlpponese forcas accom- panied by armored trains, auto mobiles. motorcycles and bombing planes, continued toward Chinchow and at D. m. captured the town of Tahushan.
 Chinese soldiers burned railway bridges as they crossed in retreat, impeding the progress of Japanese pursuers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-30
FUNERALS

The funeral of Mrs Barbara Dickson Asher took place yester- day afternoon at 2 o'clock with services at the Alderson funeral home, 70 Central avenue, with Rev R. F. Shinn officiating. Interment took place in Crockett cemetery.
 The funeral of John J. Shoner will take place tomorrow morn ing at S:15 o'clock from the home, 427 Chipman street, to St Cecilia s church where requiem mass will be celebrated at 3 o'clock. Burial will take place in Calvary ceme- tery.
 The funeral of Miss Elizabeth Hughes will take place tomorrow morning from the Bergin funeral home, 290 East Main street. to St Francis Xaver church where a re. auiem mass will be celebrated at Q o'clock. Burial will take place in Calvary cemetery.
 The funeral of Mrs Frank gheehy took place this morning nt s:I5 o'clock from the home, 32 Park place to the Church of the immaculate Conception where 6 solemn mass Of requiem was ceie. brated at Q o'clock. Special musical selections were rendered by Miss Gertrude Reed. Burial was ln new St J0seph's cemetery. The paii- bearers were Frank Eeary. William siasehy, Patrick Murphy, Daniel iseary and Thomas and John Murphy.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-30

(Continued from Page 1.) during the emergency rather than increase the burden on the little fellow" They likewise oppose any sales tax.
 Under Secretary of the Treasury Mills attacked democratic sugges- tions that there should be no lux ury taxes and no broadening of the income tax base.
 To tax only higher incomes would be wholly inadequate to meet the fiscal situation" he said. and denounced proposals to meet the deficit by borrowing.
 Speaker of the House Garner, ' was indicated to-day, has become n bit irItated over statements by some democratic leaders. which these leaders insist are their own personal views. hut which have been interpreted incorrectly in some quarters as defining the dem 0cratie tax program.
 Garner said hatly to-day that no tax program has yet been formu- lated, hut that ke is working daily upon it. He has been the party authority on tax, tariff and finance for many years.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-30
Hoover Agent
 Is Against Him

(Continued from Page 1.) | ten states. Twice us much assist ance from public treasuries will bt needed this year he said.
 Burns said $G7, ,O00, 900 had beer raised and that the sum would bt increased to $100,000.000 after January but that only $35,000,. 900 would be available for homt relief and families. The remainder Is allocated to hospitals and other agencies. He said chest relief al. lotments had been increased 59 pei cent.
 Relief expenditures in these communities" he added, "are now averaging more than 200 per cent of those year ago. There is nc sign of abatement in these increas- cd demands, and so no prospect of sufficient private funds to meet them.
 "C0mmunity chests exist only in the more resourceful and for the most part larger cities. Hence am not qualified to report on the smaller communities, especially the single industry towns, and the re- sourceless regions where welfare work is not well organized. In short. community chests represent the communities that ought to come nearest to caring for their own needs"
 The chest funds so far raised arc 1.2 per cent greater than the goals. Previous witnesses testified many communities fixed their goals on the basis of what they expected to raise rather than what actually was needed. The $67.000,000 rep resents 179 communities, with about 180 still to report. He said that while the total raised slightly exceeded the goals, 47 communities fell short of their goals by 10 per cent.
 As result of Burns rather sem sational testimony yesterday. con firmation of the evidence he pre- scented may be sought to-day from Walter $. Clifford, head of the pres- ident's organization on unemploy- ment relief. and from John Barton Payne of the Red Cross.
 Meanwhile 4,000 economists ani sociologists in session here debat- ed causes and cures for world eco- homie ills. Economic planning, staggered employment. short work days and weeks, and unemploy- ment insurance have received en- dorsement. New proposals includ- ed organization of the unemployed into an army to be paid army wages and moved about the coun- try as whole or in details to do available work"
 To-day the banking situation and railroad problem were taken up.
 "Is federal relief warranted or required 2" Senator Costigan. dem- ocrat, Colo, who has introduced a bill to appropriate 75.000. 900 asked Burns in the senate commit tee hearing.
 q can only say that the funds we have are totally inadequate. ]" Burns replied. My personal opin. ion Is that federal relief will most decidedly be needed"
 Other witnesses offered glimpses of conditions in scattered commun- tiles.
 Karl De schweiniiz director Of the Philadelphia Community coun' ell. said one group of families in Philadelphia receiving relief had increased from i4,000 in August io 43,000 by December f9. They re. ceive an average Of s4.3e week.
 Jacob Iiillikopf director of the Philadelphia Federation Of Jewish Charities. Anid the minimum fAns ily requirement Co maintain health and deceney i9 s2s a week He de-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-30

(Continued from Page 1.) tered the building shortly before the explosion. They withdrew five packages from a carton and had them stamped for parcel post to New York. As @ clerk was handling one 1t exploded. The four other packages contained explosives, the postal workers said.
 During the confusion the two men who had presented the pack ages for posting had disappeared.
 Police said the contents of each package had been arranged so as to explode upon being opened, but the one exploded premateurely in the hands of the postal clerk.
 Postal authorities at Washington and Philadelphia were notified and prepared to come to Easton to open an investigation.
 Police would not reveal the names of the persons on the pack ages.
 One of the packages mailed by the two men was addressed to Comm Crazzi, 134 East 10th street, New York, N. Y.," police said.
 The four packages corresponding to the one which exploded were about the size of 1-pound candy box. Each was marked "desk sets" and fragile" and were in- sured.
 House is believed to have re- ceived the packages and Werk- heiser was believed to have been standing close by when the one bomb. improperly timed exploded.
 Both House and Werkheiser ap- peared to have received the full force of the explosion.
 The address on the box which exploded was torn to bits, but po- lice were searching for the pieces In an effort to determine tho ad- dress to which 1t was mailed.
 The four remaining boxes were carried from the building by po- lice. They attached the packages to ends of the poles. They were immediately submerged in water and will be opened by bomb ex- perts for Investigation.
 Within two hours after the ex- plosion nine men and two women were arrested by police for ques- tioning.
 Addresses on four of the pack ages were:
 pr Uff Generoso Pope, b51 Fifth avenue, New York city: Italo C.. Falbo, care II Progresso, 42 Elm street, New York city; Natarl P. Marine, Argentine consulate. New York city; and Comm Crazzi. 134 East 10th street, New York city.
 Pope is editor of the Italian American paper Il Progresso.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-30
Depression Has
 No Effect On
 Use By City
S365, ,20508 Worth Had Been Sold Up to December 1 -l929 High of $303,2ll.O5 Expected to Be Passed When Final Tally Is Made

in the annual report of the water department filed to-day with Mayor Frank Hayes.
 In 1929 the receipts from water reached their highest peak, the fig- ure being $393,211.05. This year, with one month to go, $365,206.98 worth of water has been sold and if the same average prevails for December as prevailed for the pre- ceding Il months, there is every indication that the 1929 record will be reached and possibly pass- ed
 During the year III new service connections were installed, making a total for the city of 13,991. Dur ing the same period 1880 feet of two-inch water main was installed and IS hydrants were replaced.
 The total precipitation for the year up to December 1st was 34.20 inches. However, on February 18th the Morris reservoir was 33 feet below the spillway and there was no immediate relief available from natural sources. It was necessary, therefore, to pump from the Shepaug from March 4th to April 18th to fill up the Morris.
 During the year 12,000 new red pine seedlings were set in around the reservoirs. This makes a total of 262,000 plantations since 1908. The road on the east side of the Morris reservoir was extended 1000 feet and the adjacent woodland was cleared and trimmed.
 The report also shows that dur. ing the past year the Hecla street pump was used extensively to pump water from the Wigwam res- ervoir into the East Mountain reservoir. In all S41, ,625,250 cubic feet of water was diverted through this channel.
 The water sales since 1925 up to December 1st were as follows: 1925. $321,43o.03: 1928. '$S69.- o92,72; 1927, s366,376.23; 1928, $371, ,63S.67; 1929, $393,211.05; 1880, $as3,S5S.42; 1881, $S65,- 295.9S.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-30
MAY CLEDHILL
 WILL LIVE NEAR
 LOVERS PRISON
Canada's Pretty Ski Girl Will Leave With 2-Year- Old Son From Present Home

Windsor, Vt, Dec 30 (UP)-Miss May Gledhill, Canada's pretty "Ski Girl" is coming here to live near the imprisoned father of her love child. It was reported reliably to- day that she would arrive here about January 16 from Floral Park, N. r., where she had lived with Mrs William Ernest Corner, the middle-aged wife of her lover.
 A representative of Miss Gledhill has hired home for her and her two-year-o son, Sonny" almost within the shadow of Vermont state prison, where Corner, con- sulting engineer turned forger, is serving 0 four-year term. Recent ly, after the odd triangle had been widely publiclzed, Mrs Corner visited her husband in prison, but he received her cooly and ordered her to Ego back and take care of May and the baby"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-30

ings in summer months than any other time of the year. This con firms previous congratulations by criminologists, he said.
 In the south the homicide rate Is greater among negroes than whites, due in part to the fact that firearms may be purchased so read fly and because the custom of car- rylng concealed weapons Is more common.
 In Boston and other Massachu- sets towns the homicide rate Is exceedingly low because of the well enforced law prohibiting the carry ing of firearms, Barnhart declared.
 The belief of uneducated negroes that they cannot secure justice in the courts equally with the whites has partly contributed to the large number of homicides in the south, according to Barnhart. The only remedy for this situation, he said, was education of negroes to 0 higher respect for law and order.