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Evening star., 1932-12-11

CANTON. as widely
nracticed in the metropolitan as well
ss backward interior districts OF China,
As being fought here by various humanl-
farians, who have begun a statewide
campaign against it. A petition sub
nitted to the provincial government
nv a number of social groups and
benevolent associations demands the
Immediate institution Of vigorous meas
T,res against mothers who drown or
otherwise dispose of newborn unwanted
cirl children.
AS a result Of the popular agitation
vhich has also been featured in the
rress. magistrates in several districts
fave issued orders forbidding the prac-
+ice Proclamations have appeared
threatening prosecution and the en-
snrcement of the death sentence
sgainst offenders 1t is pointed out that
china is q modern nation and that
eny such barbaric custom as infanticide
saunot be tolerated.
Evening star., 1932-12-11
Chinese Begin Battle ON Infanticide
AS Toll Runs Into Thousands Annually

Deaths by infanticide in China an
nually reach into the thousands. In
stitutions in all big cities are main
tained for the sole purpose of collect
ing and burying bodies of abandoned or
drowned infants. In Shanghai alone
between 10000 and 10000 such corpses
are collected each year.
Formerly in Chinese villages (and
still to be found In the interior) a well
or pit was kept open near temple,
where such bodies were dropped. The
practice in Canton, which has vas
cular system of canals and rivers, is
to drop unwanted infants into the
streams.
This is the only method Of birth
control known to the immense millions
of China, who live ever on the starva-
ton line and for whom the appearance
of another mouth to feed is often a
situation which they are economically
and physically unable to meet.
tCopyriEht. Iss2Jrs
Evening star., 1932-12-11

enough, it acts as a restraint upon Com
munism everywhere and upon Ma
tionalism in Germany. which counted
upon Soviet support in any Polish op-
Grafton. For period Of time, at least,
Russia has renounced all purpose to
seek to exploit general European un-
rest She has concentrated her at
tention upon an attempt to bring the
Russian revolution to success, rather
than to foment that world revolution
which was the basic purpose of the
first Bolshevist regime.
One may expect these political
treaties to be followed or even accom-
panied by economic arrangements. For
Poland this may reopen Russian mar
ket of very great potential Importance.
For France the economic detail is not
of so much Importance. But every
thing which contributes to preventing
new disorder and promoting peace is
to her interest.
(Copyright, 1932)
Evening star., 1932-12-11

Continued From First Page)
and treaty revision is possible only after
war in present-day Europe. Thus, by
striking paradox, the revolutionary
regime of Russia has associated itself
with the stabilizing forces of the west
And this circumstance is of great sig
nificance now. Economic misery and
financial depression are contributing to
produce conditions of unrest which
might seem to threaten Red risings in
all of the Danubian area In fact, the
situation in Central Europe appears as
threatening as at the moment in the
Paris Conference when the Bella Kun
episode in Budapest was viewed as
possible prelude to Red success all
over the Danubian area.
In foreign policy Red Russia has
become conservative and pacific. This
fact removes very great danger and
a very real cause for unrest in all of the
East and Southeast of Europe. Oddly
Evening star., 1932-12-11
Sirup Pays More Profit
Than Cotton in Carolina

RALEIGH, N. G. R.-Sorghum sirup
crops in Johnston County paid farmers
a net profit of $18 an acre. says G. r.
Hudson of the extension department Of
State College, where total returns from
cotton this year did not exceed $40 an
acre.
The average sirup yield, Hudson said,
was 104 gallons an acre at a cost Of 80
cents a gallon. Sold at the present
price of so cents a gallon, this allowed
a profit of $18.72.
Cotton yields about one-half bale an
acre in the same county, Hudson as
serted, and at 8 cents pound would
return only about $40 an acre. with
little Or no prof1t.
Evening star., 1932-12-11
BY RAFAEL SABATINI.

- ONE little time ago the CORE
spondence columns of lead
ing newspaper published letter
~ from schoolboy's troubled
mother, complaining with some
asperity that her son was being made
to waste his time and energies upon
an essay on the life of King Charles l.
She demanded to be informed OF what
possible use to him in life could be
the knowledge SO acquired.
Apart from humorist's reply to the
effect that study of the life OF
Charles I might teach the boy to keep
his head. 1 do not think that there
were any answers to her indignant
question. But from the fact that an
influential newspaper should have con-
sidered it worth while to print the let
ter. we must assume that the editor
perceived in it an attitude of mind by
no means singular 1t would seem to
follow. then, that there are many who
hold the view that the past is some
thing that is dead and buried; some
thing with which we can have no fur
ther concern, and that its study de-
tracts from that application to matters
of the present and the future with
which alone serious-minded persons
should concern themselves.
The fallacy of this is not difficult TO
establish.
The link between the future and the
Evening star., 1932-12-11
BY GASTON NERvAL.

L A REVOLUTION by ballot in
- ~ stead of bullets" is what the
"A Latin American press calls
4 \ the latest presidential cleo
Evening star., 1932-12-11
Soviet Non-Aggression Treaties
Cause Rift in Europe's War Clouds

Continued From First Page.)
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1932-06-03
SURVEY AREAS IN STATE

The Maryland Geological
Survey has completed careful
REORGANIZATION of the areas
OF the various counties and the
state. The former estimates
used by the various Federal
and State bureaus differ some
what and are less accurate
Many of them were determined
before the State had ADEQUATE
maps of the area. In cooper
alton with the photographic
Branch of the U. S. Geological
Survey, which has determined
recently the drainage areas OF
the State, the present figures
for the counties have been
checked, showing differences
in values for the entire State
OF only one-third of one per
cent.
The total area in the State is
given as follows: Land. So.
miles, 9,S70.32; water, 2,429.-
SO; total, 12,300.21. The fig
ures for Cecil County are, land
351.22, water 1887, total 423.-
70 square miles.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1932-06-03
Wet Planks Lead To Social
Chaos

Planks in party platforms
calling for submission for re-
peal are being insistently urg-
ed by the vets in both Repub-
lican and Democratic parties.
The united dry forces of the
country will oppose such a
proposition, which has in it
the seeds of social chaos.
To adopt a submission-for !.
repeal program, with no prac-
tlcal plan as a substitute for
prohibition, would be admit
ting that the violators of law
are stronger than the Govern
ment.
Such a program would ad-
vertlse to the world that the
United States, once the inter-
national leader in moral re-
form, acknowledges defeat ana
turns the affairs of the matte n
over to self-seeking interests,
who see in repeal an opportun-
lty to shift their taxes onto the
FAMILY budgets of the common
people.
How shall such a calamity
as submission f or-re pc a |
planks in the platforms of the
political parties be prevented?
Let the people be aroused to
instruct their delegates to the
National party conventions to
vote in favor of enforcement
planks and against submission
for-repeal planks.-Union Sig
nal.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1932-06-03
MARYLAND FARMERS TO
PREPARE TAX SURVEY

Announcement has bee IN
made by Miles H. Fairbank,
secretary of the Maryland
Farm Bureau Federation, that
the tax committee of the State
organization will shortly meet
with a similar committee rep
resenting the Maryland State
Grange in order that Maryland
farmers may present a united
front in preparing their pro-
gram which will be presented
to the Maryland State Tax Sur
vey Commission appointed by
Governor Richie last year.
This commission is formu-
lating plans to be presented at
the next session of the General
Assembly and Maryland agri-
culture hopes to arrange a uni
fed tax program before the
Legislature meets, Secretary
Fairbank said, following the
first meeting, in Baltimore, of
the Maryland Farm Bureau tax
committee of which e. Thomas
Massey of Kent county is
chairman. Other members are
Fl. H. Nuttle, Caroline county;
T. S. Anderson, Frederick coun-
ty; R. Smith Snader, Carroll
county; Charles T. Cockey, Jr.,
Baltimore county; DR.. T. B.
Symons, director of the Uni
versity of Maryland Extension
Service; President James w.
Davis and Secretary Fairbank
of the State body. The last
three are acting in an exfficio
capacity.
The meeting, to which DR.. S.
H. DeVault and c. H. Walker
of the University of Maryland
were invited, was called for the
purpose of analyzing the tax
situation a mong Maryland
farmers and of formulating a
relief program. The tax COM
of the Grange have al
ready adopted a suggested pro-
gram and the forthcoming
joint conference of the two
committees will, it is believed,
result in a united program.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1932-06-03
We Make Our Own Hard Times

In his remarkably valuable
book, "Men, Money and Mer-
gers" published by the Mac
MILAN Co., DIR. George L. Hoxie
examines the depression, the
various solutions offered for it,
and shows conclusively that
most of the paternalistic and
socialistic remedies proposed
are as hollow as drums.
The public brings hard times
no itself. "Unless the average
person pays as he goes" DR..
Hoxie writes, unless business
is conducted upon a virtual
barter basis, with each paying
for what he gets by giving
what he has currently produc-
ed, a final crash is inevitable.
The end comes when custom
ers on the outer fringe have
used up their saved capital and
have mortgaged their earnings
to the limit. Almost in a day,
a considerable fraction of their
buying stops. Hard times are
on"
AS for the way out of the de-
preston, DR.. Hoxie shows that
the assistance" of politicians
and radical planners can only
hinder a normal recovery. He
says: "Individualism may be
looked to with confidence for
concrete advice respecting the
best paths to pursue to more
rapid and more equitable dis
tribution of newly created
wealth."
DR.. Hoxie's book is refresh
ing, coming as it does on the
heels of a multitude of other
works which, for the most part,
attempt to show the need for a
radical change in our system
of government, and in govern
ment's relation to industry, to
workers and to invevestors.
without offering any practical
substitute plan. The depres-
sion will pass, and if we are
wise, it will leave us with
knowledge that will enable us
to prevent wild ups-and-downs
in the business cycle in the fu-
ture. Those interested in &C.
onomic sanity rather than DO
litical radicalism, will profit by
DR.. Hoxie's book.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1932-06-03
Thirty-Five Thousand Mangled
Bodies

The Insurance Field, un0er
the title, "a Spectacular Open
ing" editorially suggested
what would be a good, but i'm
possible, way of bringing home
OF the public the horror of our
mounting automobile fatalities.
What a tremendous and as
founding spectacle it would
be-" said the Field, ito pack to-
gether $4,000 men, women and
children on some great level
field, and then turn loose an
army of automobile trucks,
tractors and passenger cars to
run upon and among them UNI
til the last sign of life was
crushed and mangled out of
all!
During the year, $4,000, or
more, men, women and child
rem will be killed after that
manner but in relays. If we
had to face it all at one time,
the world would stand aghast
at the horror of it. But it is
done, done on an increasing
scale, every year, in 'dribiets.'
What terrible driblets!"
The $4,000 mangled bodies is
not a pleasant thing to think
about, but it is a thought that
should be brought wildly be-
fore the public. If we kill
thousands of people, one at a
time, it is fundamentally no
different if it were done all at
once. Carelessness, incompet-
ence, recklessness, drunken
ness at the wheel, these are
greater destroyers of lives than
is war!
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1932-06-03
ORPHANS COURT

Bonds Approved - Joshua
Clayton, ancillary administra-
tor of Isaac Halteman; Alice
B. Warner and Harry E. War
ner, administrators C. t. a. OF
John T. Warner; Alice B. War
ner and Harry B. Warner, adj
ministratOrs of j. Otis Warner.
Accounts Passed-Fourth ac-
count of Bessie w. Wallis,
guardian of Severn Tackle
Wallis and John Frederick
Wallis; first and final account
of Mary c. Owens, executrix of
Frances Thayer Wilson.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1932-06-03
Why A Cooperative Is Wanted

Why A Cooperative Is Wanted
1t is just matter of common
sense. The individual growers
cannot market their product
individually, except to sell to
such buyers here and there as
make an offer. These individ-
ual buyers, having no invest
ment in the industry and actu-
ated merely from the motive of
making as large a profit for
themselves as possible, can dip
into the market here and there
buy this mans crop where they
can get it cheap, ship when
they can make a profit and stop
when they cannot. With forty
or fifty such buyers handling
the great bulk of the produce
ton, a systematic and steady
now of our product to those
market centers where the de-
mand will absorb a specified
quantity is impossible. The re-
suit Is an unequal and inter-
mlttent movement of fruit
with resulting loss and waste
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1932-06-03

personal contact. Bulletin
boards, prominently placed in
towns and villages, can display
timely topics on mosquito con-
troll or exhibit the life stages of
the mosquito. Pictures of sew
eral types of breeding places,
and the different species of
mosquitoes which frequent
these bodies of water may also
be used.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1932-06-03
KILLS RATS

and Mice, that is BESTYET
the old reliable rodent destroy
er, comes in powder form. No
mixing with other foods. Your
money back if it fails.
so cent size, 3 OF. is enough
for Pantry, Kitchen and Cellar.
Is cent size, 6 OF. for Chick
en- House, Coops and small
buildings.
Sold and guaranteed by deal
erS
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1932-06-03
INSECT ENEMIES

Wood ticks have been recog-
nized as go-betweens in the
spread Of rabbit fever, tulare-
mia, typhus fever, and more
recently, of Rocky Mountain
spotted fever, to human beings.
They are accordingly being
black-listed by health depart
ments, including the State De-
partment of Health of Mary
land.
For the protection. of camp
ers and picnickers against
these insect enemies. the State
Department of Health advises
persons who are in charge of
summer camps and recreation
grounds to clear out the under
growth along paths and es-
pecially along the approaches
to bathing shores. Explaining
the reason for this recommen-
dation, DR.. R. H. Riley, Direc-
tor of the State Department of
Health said: Everybody who
has ever had any experience
with them, will agree that
wood ticks are pests, and that
even when they are not sour
ces of danger they cause great
discomfort. But since it has
been found that certain kinds
of ticks may also be carriers of
the germs that cause certain
diseases, they have been given
a definite status as insect enc
mics and that there is a very
real reason for waging war
against them.
The diseases for which ticks
have been found to be carriers,
include Rocky Mountain spot
ted fever, which usually occurs
during the summer, and tular-
emia or rabbit fever, which is
more likely to be contracted af-
ter the hunting season opens
in the fall. Rocky Mountain
spotted fever has been preva-
lent in sections of the West for
some time, but it was not rec
ognized in this part of the
country until recently. Last
year % cases were reported to |
the Maryland State Depart
ment of Health. All of them
occurred in the counties, and in
nearly every instance, investi- |
cation showed that the pa
tients had been bitten by wood |
ticks. The same thing was |
shown in connection with the |
investigation of the 20 cases of |
rabbit fever that occurred il
the State last year.
"The ticks that become car
riers' suck out the infectious
material from animals that are
themselves infected. They
transmit this disease produc-
ing material to the human be-
1ngs upon whom they attach
themselves. Not all ticks are
infected, but it is wiser to re-
gard all of them as possible
sources of danger, as they are
OF discomfort, and to clear out
their breeding places. They
are especially likely 20 be
found on low bushes and in the
underground along the ap-
proaches to bathing shores.
In removing ticks that have
become imbedded in the flesh,
be careful not to crush the in
sects. 1t is possible for the di-
sease producing material TO be
absorbed through a break in
the skin; or a scratch, as well
as through the bite of the in
sect"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1932-06-03
Mosquito Control On The Pc.
ninSula

In connection with the ac-
ton taken by the States of Del
aware and Maryland in estab-
fishing a preliminary survey
as the first step in a mosquito
control campaign, with indica-
lions that the State of Virginia
will cooperate in it's two East
ern Shore Counties so that the
movement will become PENN
sula wide, series of articles
have been prepared and SUBJ
m1tted to DR.. F. G. Bishopp.
Principal .Entomologist in
Charge Insects Affecting Man
and Animals, of the United
States Bureau of Entomology.
Doctor Bishopp, after editing
these articles will release them
through the Del-Mar-Va East
ern Shore Association, which
has sponsored the proposed
Peninsula-wide mosquito sur
vey plan.
The first article has been
prepared by Mr.. M. P. Jones,
Extension Entomologist in the
Bureau. 1t deals with control
through local organizations
and offers valuable informa-
ton as to procedure: 1t fol-
lows:
Mosquitoes are controlled
through local organizations
using motion pictures, lantern
slides and exhibits to create in
terest in greater comfort and
fewer sleepless nights.
Mosquitoes should be con-
trolled because of their attack
on children, the discomforts
they cause in the home. and
their annoyance to live stock
They are an economic handi-
cap because" they prevent re-
sort development with it's ac-
companying attraction of out
side capital, in a region richly
endowed by nature for such
development.
Local organizations, both
civic and social, which already
have the confidence of the local
citizens, can do much towards
dissemination of correct infor-
nation on the mosquito and
the control practices necessary.
The success of any piece of
work of such general interest
depends upon the support Civ
EN- it by the public at large.
To win the confidence of the
public and to hold their inter-
est over long period of time
they must be constantly re-
minded of the situation and
provided with correct informa-
ton at all times.
Misinformation may lead to
critism and hinder the entire
program. Local organizations
can assist in correcting these
erroneous statements through
news articles, the question:
and-answer column in the To-
cal paper, or in some cases by
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1932-06-03

Plans are about complete for
the fifth annual Maryland
Poultry Field Day, to be held
June 8 at College Park and
Beltsville. The day will be
featured by addresses by dis
tinguished individuals and an
inspection of the work being
carried on at the U. S. Expert
mental Farm.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1932-06-03

The house cat is one of the
most destructive agencies to
out ground-nesting, tree and
bush-nesting birds. 1t is esti-
mated there are 100000 cats
IN the United States and that
at least 25,000,0OO birds and
small rabbits are killed annual
ly by the house cats.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1932-06-03

Sometimes we wonder which
calls for the more patience: to
hear a man boasting about his
gains or to hear him moaning
about his losses.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1932-06-03
HOpewell M. E. Charge
HOpeWell Charge

Rev. H. N. Bailey, Pastor
Sunday School 1000 a. m.
Divine Worship HOO a. ~
and 1880 p. m.
Asbury Church
Sunday School 200 p. m.
Divine Worship 800 p. In.
Every second Sunday--Sun.
day School $3.50 a. m.
Divine Worship 1880 p m.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1932-06-03
Depression Hits Race Track

II AAANC huCO 1TACk
From the figures given out
by the Maryland Jockey Club,
at the close of the racing at the
Plmlico track, it looks like de-
preston had hit the racing
game, as well as other things.
Betting through the pari-
mutuel machines at Pimlico
track for the spring meet, tot
aled SIS, 1865, a decrease of
$2,O34,977 over 1881, it was an
nounced by the Maryland Jock
ey Club, owners of the racing
establishment and they face
the possibility of their first
profitless meet. The betting
total in 1881 was $7,1S3,632.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1932-06-03

THE wise dairyman will
know whether he is keeping
COWS or whether the COWS are
keeping him."
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1932-06-03

A pawnbroker's shop is al
ways a place of interest.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1932-06-03

If misery loves company it
shouldn't be lonely these days.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1932-06-03

Good manners in Sbad COM
pany are taken for timidity.
- - trre
The daily worker., 1932-09-23
CHANG in NEW
ANTI-RED THREAT
Gets Armored Boats
From Imperialists

SHANGHAI, Sept. %. - Hankow
dispatches report that Chang kai-
shek, Nanking butcher, has admitted
that his huge army in Hupeh pro-
vince is helpless against the workers
and peasants Red Armies. Chang,
howevr, holds out the hope to his
imperialist matters that armored mo-
torboats will achieve the rcs,Iits MS
army has failed to attain. The
armored motorboats were constructed
in the United States and other coun-
tries whose ruling classes are sup
porting the butcher Chang Many of
these new boats will doubtless find
their way into the Chinese Red Army
through fresh desertions of Chiang's
troops.
Rear Admiral WI Kwang- -tsung,
one of Chiang's cronies, was killed
yesterday by four persons who in
vaded his home and engaged in a
battle with his body guard.
The anti-Japanese boycott is being
daily frightened by the angry masses
despite the terror Of the Nanking
government which does its utmost to
suppress the mass resistance to the
partition Of China by the Japanese
and eshaS inaSerialist brigands.
The daily worker., 1932-09-23
NEW ADVANCES In
U.SS.R. INDUSTRY
Tool Production Is In
creased Greatly

MOSCOW US.S.R.-At a farewell
celebration for the departing Amer
/, ican engineers who were in charge OF
the building Of the huge Dnieperstroi
Dam. Chief engineer Cooper de-
clared:
During 1880 an average of 10000
men and women we're employed on
the building of the Dnieoerstroi Dam
and world record in fo~~9-co7crnt-
ing was set up. The full capacity
Of the work is 10000 hip. and over
half is already being produced.-N
thinking man who has seen the
Dnieperstroi station can doubt that
Russia is becoming an industrial
power"
Giant Iron Foundry
Near Tula work has now begun on
what will be one of the biggest iron
foundries in the Soviet Union and
that means in the world The first
of seven blast furnaces will be lit on
the 1st of next January. The others
will follow rapidly. A coking battery
g pipe-moulding works. and power
center of $4,000 kilowatts will also be
build as part of the Tula industrial
combination. The workers of these
rev factories will live in q new So
cialist town of $4,000 inhabitants.