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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1932-09-16
Famous West Virginia Cottage
Made Shrine.

White Sulphur Springs, w. Va.-Two
rare photographs of Gen. Robert E.
Lee and his wife, Mary Custis Lee,
have been received here as the result
of a nationwide search for memora-
bilia of General Lee to be exhibited
in the Presidents cottage at White
Sulphur Springs
The photograph of Mrs. Lee, grand
daughter of Martha Washington, is
hand-tinted and decorated by herself,
and that of General Lee bears his sig
nature. Both photographs were hand
tinted and signed as gifts from the
Lees to Mrs. Susan f. Pendleton, a
close friend of General and Mrs. Lee.
The photographs were acquired from
a direct descendant of Mrs. Pendleton.
Together with other recently discov-
cred memorabilia of General Lee, they
will form part of the exhibit of early
American Presidents, generals and
statesmen which will be available to
the public in the Presidents cottage
which has been turned into museum.
For the purpose the Presidents cot
tage has been completely restored.
In the old White Sulphur barroom Pat
rick Henry detained against Colonial
oppression, and Presidents Jefferson,
Madison and Monroe made journeys
here by horseback and stage to talk
national politics with the great men
Of their day.
The Presidents cottage was built
in 1916, and upon President Van Blu
ren's visit to White Sulphur in 1887
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1932-09-16
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The average motor
list can make sixty
miles an hour easier
than he can make
twelve payments on
the car.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1932-09-16
RARE LEE PHOTOS NOW IN MUSEUM

he took his residence in the cottage
and went for deer hunt, together
with his secretary and a group of pol
iticians from Washington. 1
The cottage was thenceforth known
as the Presidents cottage, and was
successfully occupied by Presidents
Tyler, Fillmore, Pierce and Buchanan.
When Presidents Grant and Arthur ar
rived they were housed nearby in one
Of row of cottages known as BAL
timore Row."
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1932-09-16
Composer Works Is Years
to Get Song Published

Green Bay, Wis. Roland ]. Lee
Mieux, Green Bay, one of the country's
foremost composers of popular songs
and music for banjos, mandolins and
guitars, tried for 25 years before one
of his compositions was published.
During the past ten years he has had
900 songs published. some of them in
textbooks for teachers of string in
struments.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1932-09-16
PoTPOURRI
Snakes

There are approximately 1900
different kinds of snakes. They
range in size from five inches to
the huge tropical reptiles of forty
feet. They inhablt all regions of
the globe except the polar. Animal
life is their chief food, but some
exist on eggs. Most species repro
duce by laying eggs, although some
give birth to their young.
q. 1899. Western Newspaper Union.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1932-09-16

W do lAiC Wy VI
John, the fore
runner of tn e
Great T e q c h e r.
Penitence, / sup
pose, is sorrow for
sin committed, hui
man regret that
one has violated
moral law. 1t has
always been inter-
esting to me that
a call to repent
ence has usually
been strengthened
by a statement Of
tho Denaltv which
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-06-05
Famous 'Humbng" Community, Which Mas
to Gto70 Up Beside CAPITAL Mas Made the
Subject of Humorous articles Founda-
tim Stone Laid by Andre7v Jackson
in 1886.
IN 1886.

Of the conditions Of the land" to be turned
into the great commercial city, as follows:
THE property purchased by the Jackson
City Association Is situated In Alexandria
County, D. c.. on the Virginia side Of the
Potomac River, directly opposite the city of
Washington It consists of 572 A. O. r. % p,
including the area H.. l. K OF land, divided
into two unequal portions by Gravelly or Flat
Creek through which the tide formerly ebbed
and flowed; but since the erection of the dyke
at the upper end and the causeway At the
lower end this creek is seldom submerged
indeed never is, except in time of floods 1t is
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-06-05
BY JOHN CLACETT PROCTOR

~ EMON CITY little comedy sketch we
l. used to see at the theater during Woodrow
wilson's administration, and which that Presi-
dent seemed to take so much pleasure in seeing
enacted, was substantially played here in real
life nearly hundred years ago, when some
bright" minds conceived the idea Of placing
city near the south end Of the Long Bridge,
structure many an early resident will remember.
and many, too. who might not be placed in that
venerable category, for it has not been so many
years since this old landmark was removed
and its functions were taken over by the rail-
road bridge and the Highway Bridge now SPAN
ming the Potomac-the one taking the trains
from Washington through Virginia to the South
and the West; the other serving the pedestrian
public and those travelling in automobiles and
other conveyanceS bound in the same direction.
This city, the foundation stone of which was
laid January II. 1886, was to be Washingtons
big sister, or what Brooklyn was formerly to
Americas metropolis. until it became part Of
Greater New York. Unfortunately, at that time
one did not know whether he was purchasing
ground island a lake, whether he
was buying property by the the gallon,
and if he did buy it, if he would build upon it
a house or an ark-it was, indeed, typically
Lemon" city, or, as it was facetiously called
at the timef "Humbug City,
Its real name was more SubStantial-one that
would inspire more confidence, and which, to its
founders no doubt, meant success and greatness
jackson City. in honor of Andrew Jackson, Of
course, who whipped the British at New Or
leans IS days after peace had been declared,
and who later served as the seventh President
of the United States.
This great manufacturing city-for it was to
be that and more, too-was to be on Holmes
or Alexanders Island, practically, if not
entirely. obliterated, but as shown the Eli
colt map of 1892, it was much larger than Ana
lostan Island just little farther up the river.
Incidentally, this is a good map to scan,
one is interested in the contention as to how
much land is part of the District of Columbia
on the south side Of the river, or just where
high water mark was located when the charter
for what we now know as Maryland was grant
ed to Lord Baltimore in 1882. Uncle Sam"
should go very slow about ceding away any
more of the Districts land, for the time Is not
far distant when it will need every foot It can
get and may even be forced to take back that
part retroceded to Virginia in 1916.
co much filling-in has been going on for
- years on the south side of the river that
the present generation cannot picture m
island of the extent of about 500 acres ever
having existed there, and yet that is reported
rs having been the extent of its area in 1847
This is only one Of the factors to be considered
in settling forever the District Virginia
boundary line.
At the time jackson City was planned IN
engineer was employed by the New York men,"
said to be financing the scheme, and IN his
report, made the following yEF. he tells some
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-06-05

however. wet and mArshy. producing a luxur-
liant growth of vegetation.
"A large portion Of the property, amounting
to l89 A., r. "a p, is south of Gravelly
Creek. on elevated ground, perfectly healthy. or
will be rendered by the preliminary i'm
provement, and is abundantly supplied by
numerous and copious springs Of cool and
delicious water. 1t is principally cleared and
was formally cultivated as farm Like ali
the farms in the immediate vicinity it has
been exhausted by improper culture, but was
naturally rich and productive and Is very
susceptible Of improvement.
THE morass of Gravelly Greek is about
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-06-05

1000 feet wide and may be easily rendered
perfectly dry at no great cost, or converted
into fine meadow land, depending on the plan
which may be adopted for the city.
An examination of the map suggests three
plans or rather sites, for the proposed city.
First to build on Alexanders Island.
Second. to build on the mainland south ef
the island.
Third to build on both the island and
mainland, making the commercial quarter On
the river and the residences on the high
ground .
THE second plan is to build on the high
grounds south of Graveily Creek. on the main
land.
u7HERE can scarcely be a more beautiful
position for a city than these grounds
afford. It rises gradually from the river to
the height of IA feet, but the general eleva-
ton Of the plain is from so to so feet and
may be rendered perfectly healthy with the
exception Of the marsh of Gravelly Greek.
which 1t Is proposed to remove cover with
gravel. There is no low ground in the vicinity
and no cause whatever of disease. On the
contrary its elevation and exposure are con-
ducive to health and comfort.
The marsh of Gravey Greek, as has been
stated, is on an average about 1000 feet wide.
and would be covered by every high tide. If it
were not for the artificial means used to pre-
vent the flow Of the tides over or through
it. It Is proposed to excavate a basin in this
marsh 300 feet wide filling up the remainder
above the actions Of tides and floods and 20
feet deep at low water which will admit YES
sells Of the largest class engaged in foreign
trade.
"Excavating a basin $500 feet above the
bridge or causeway on the turnpike would give
q wharfage Of very nearly mile in length,
with ample room on both sides for the trans
action of any amount of business; while along
the basin ON both Sides would be built the
warehouses and magazines, receptacles for the
various commodities of trade The elevated
grounds, more remote from the business quar-
ter, are capable of accommodating an immense
population, and the adjacent country offers
most beautiful and romantic sites for country
residences and elegant villas. Alexanders
Island might be converted into fine public
grounds or useful gardens, to minister to the
pleasures, comforts and wants of the citi-
Gems.
Jackson City, from its position, will DOS.
sess peculiar and important advantages for
trade. It Is connected with Washington City
by q new and free national bridge. The turn.
pixies to Alexandria and Fairfax Court House
pass through it. and it is also intersected by
the road from Georgetown to Alexandria, and
by the location Of the Alexandria canal. The
railroad from Richmond to Fredericksburg
made with view to its extension to Alex
andria and Washington, in which case it,
terminus will be Jackson City, and will open
Continued on Tenth Page
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-08
Prison Torture

The manner in which young Arthur Maillefert
was strangled to death in Florida prison camp last
June is being revealed testimony taken at the trial
Of prison guards charged with the murder.
He was, fellow convicts testify, starved for days
in solitary confinement, placed naked in a barrel
and then stood up in the sweat box" his feet in
stocks and his neck held in chain. Prisoners pro-
tested that the chain too tight
THE chain amt tight enough" ex-guard Solo
Higginbotham was quoted as saying. "He still
drink water" This same guard had told con-
victs that he rather would kill Maillefert than eat
former captain of the camp had been heard to
promise to keep the youth in the sweat box until
Christmas-if he amt dead.'
Were this revolving story an isolated example of
prison guard depravity, we might feel satisfied when
the offenders are punished other murderers are.
Unfortunately it is not Torture of prisoners in this
country is all too common.
The Wickersham commission reported that eight
prisons admit Handwriting men to doors, many still
the strap one-Rhode Island-employs the strait
jacket, others resort to solitary confinement, hosng
semi-starvation and other cruelties How many died
under these barbarities only can be guessed.
Tortures are not only morally degrading. They
fail to work toward better discipline.
Instead of cowing one man, they have aroused
hundred to greater hatred and disconten5" the
Wickersham commission reported. ct is clear that
the more punishment in prison. the discomfort"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-08
Sanity Is Lacking
NEW YORK, has not lacked a

NEW YORK, has not lacked adj
4 ' vocates of sanity. The hopeless
condition in which she finds herself
can not be charged to the absence
Of good advice, or honest efforts for
reform on the part of an intelligent
and courageous few.
All that is lacking is a wide
awake, energetic interest on the part
Of the many.
Like so many sheep, the bewil-
dered citizens permit themselves to
be herded and manhandled, without
even so much as asking why, or
realizing that they must pay the
bill.
Renters vote to continue high
rate, just as though it would not
come back on them every month
in the year.
TIL notion that everybody gains
if a few are permitted to plumber
the public treasury has become an
obsession with your average New
Yorker. His sole interest in politics
is what he, or some friend, can
get out of it.
He has been taught to regard re-
trenchment as a sort of hereSy.
No matter what happens, the Or
ganization's feedbag must be saved.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-08
NeiphhOrs Again

This winter is fine time to get back to the habit
OF being neighbors.
The word meant something generation ago. 1t
stood for the biggest force in Aericanism 1t stood
for kindness, companonship human contacts
The spirit Of neighborliness flourish only
where there is an approximate economic level.
1t almost disappeared when few people began
to get rich and when all wanted to become wealthy.
1t not exist in atmosphere Of selfishness.
The age Of machinery has destroyed that fine spirit
which once held together the families of the farming
communities. The cities meyer really had it.
But neighborliness was One of the finest phases
Of American life while it lasted 1t meant cooper
alton in education 1t meant sharing of sorrows and
sharing of Joys.
Unemployment in cities may create an opportu-
nifty for the return Of this spirit through community
centers.
The big need this year is amusement and enter
tainment. Not many will have the money to buy
fun. And fun real fun, is as essential as food or
shelter. With many compelled to live lives Of leisure
there will be necessity of learning how to have
fun without money.
Most people have reached the stage that has been
the dream of ala life without work.
When men become rich enough TO live without
work. they hunt for amusement. Most of them had
little imagination and had to buy their fun. They
paid people to amuse them.
Men who are forced into leisure need amuse-
ment much more than those who can afford to be
idle The nation can easily become historical through
unemployment and worry.
The one way out is cooperative effort to find
clean amusement without money Social centers are
really clubs They should be started in every Sec
ton of the CITY, In them the old spirit of nsighbor-
illness can come back.
A leader in every block could start the movement
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-08

T was writing the other day about
i schools and what cumbers them
and what they leave out. In some
respects I probably have not kept
abreast of the times.
Some Of my complaints are anti
quated. The world does move, and
so does the system of education. But
a bit more slowly.
The most serious charge which
can be levied is not Of my making.
There must be something wrong
with the manner in which we teach
the young idea to shoot when such
a large number of pupils hate their
studies with so palpable a passion.
Learning can be good fun. Even
in my own INDECENT way have en-
ioyed the contact with ideas upon
several occasions. In our graduate
schools the man who is intent upon
getting a grasp Of some subject or
other is by no means rare. Nor do
I believe that colleges harass their
young men much beyond the point
Of endurance.
But when a lad in high school or
the lower grades tells me that he
loves his classes and his dear
teacher I look at him askance. ]
think to myself that he is either an
unwholesome type or fragrant lit
tie liar,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-08
The Delay in Relief

There is an excellent reason why claims Of the
administration that it has relieved unemployment
and improved economic conditions do not impress
the country 1t to be found in the records of the
Reconstruction Finance Corporation.
The corporation was given billion and half
dollars last July to loan to cities states districts and
private corporations for construction work This
money was expected to put at least million men
to work.
Today, three months later with hundreds of loan
applications before the corporation, six have been
acted on favorably; $5958462O has been loaned; work
is in sight for 11O55 men. Three of the six loans
were made only this week and the others less than
a month ago.
Since July the administration has had it in It's
power to give business tremendous boost, to bring
about billion and half dollars worth of construc-
ton with attendant improvement of material and
supply industries, to call men back into hundred
lines of activity to increase buying power. But its
record of accomplishment is almost blank.
Diligent attempts to be fair find little in ex-
tenuation Of the do-nothing policy The Reconstruct
ton Finance Corporation a going concern when
the relief bill became law. Its members had known
for at least three months that legislation Of this sort
would be enacted.
While congress and the President disputed over
how much mercy money should be distributed, and
how much the federal government Itself Shouo Spenu
on job-gving construction the plan for loans for
other building never in doubt.
Nor have applications for loans been slow in reach
ing the corporation Projects whose engineering and
financial details have been worked out for years
waiting only chance to borrow money, were listed
while the relief bill pending In congress, and
local officials in charge of them have not delayed
in turning to the government for help.
The administration defends its delays by saying
it is being careful with public money. Its critics recall
that the relief pan including that for sef-liqudat-
ing construction loans, accepted reluctantly by
the administration after Democratic leaders had made
Its enactment certainty.
They charge that the plan isn't being allowed to
work at present for fear Democrats will reap credit
for it.
But motives in this sort Of thing are less i'm
portant than results. There is no reason why pub
lie officials should be cautious with money given
them to relieve a desperate human emergency than
ordinary hard-hsted business men are with profit
making money.
What is still in the power Of the corporation to
do before winter makes suffering more bitter should
be done at once without regard to election politics
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-08
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE
Antitoxin May Aid in Scarlet Fever

an ordinary case of the disease and
overcome the disease itself, but at
the same time the patient may have
the complications mentioned.
In instances when the fever is low
and the patient not very sick, it does
not appear to be desirable or even
worth while to inject the antitoxin.
However, if the patient is very sick
and if there are complications, it is
customary to give an injection of
the antitoxin; and there already is
plenty of evidence to indicate that
it is effective.
Because scarlet fever is not a
widespread disease any more, it ap-
parently is also not worth while to
inject every child with a preventive
vaccine or to inoculate it with the
toxin against scarlet fever.
Such method Should be used only
when a child has been exposed
definitely to a case of the disease or
when there is in a community a
severe epidemic of scarlet fever.
There seems to be good evidence
that the child who is injected will
develop resistance against scarlet
fever lasting at a minimum one
year, and perhaps much longer.
There are no records of any severe
accidents or injuries following the
use Of these preventive methods.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-08
| Was Good Once

T AM no marvel, although I was
L runner-up in an eighth grade
spelling bee some little time ago.
Since then I seem to have lost my
touch. Possibly I keep too much
weight on my right foot when try
ing to spell.
Whatever the reason, there are
many hard words and some simple
ones which I invariably slice. But
what does it matter? There are a
number of superb spoilers in the
proofroom and the composing room.
They see to it that I do not dis
grace myself.
It is my notion that by the time
a lad or lass can read and spell
very little more formal instruction
is needed except by the choice of
the scholar. The elective system
ought to begin at about the age
of 10. The lad who can not be-
come excited about the fact that
a straight line is the shortest dis
lance between two points ought not
to be bothered with this interest
ing theory.
In fact, he should be removed to
more congenial chimes in order to
make room for those runners who
want to run.
have a vague impression that
some of the higher mathematicianS
have announced that the axiom is
no longer true. EinStein and others
have brought curves back into favor.
And all this irritates me no end
because, whether It is true or false,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-08
Just Every Day Sense
BY Mrs. Walter Ferguson

TN prohibition discussions, the dry ladies are too
4 prone to produce theories instead of facts. They
ignore all the vast changes that have taken place in
this country since the eighteenth amendment in
corporated into the Constitution and still i've argu
tentatively, speaking in the ninetieS
For instance they talk yet about the old-faShioned
husband who staggered home from the corner saloon
and beat up his wife. And she always bore it cring-
ingy.
What they overlook in this sad story is that no
modern woman would stand for such treatment and
that the courts would uphold her in any resistance.
They forget, too that the records today crowd
ed with divorce in which drunken husbands are
the defendants.
But perhaps the most illogical of all their talking
points is the one in which they contend that prohi-
bition could be enforced if the government wanted to
enforce it.
i theory. For the truth is that the federal govern
ment can not enforce the eighteenth amendment.
Why? Because many decent citizens do not want
1T enforced because they do not believe it is good
law. They resent its tyranny. They detest the hy-
pocrisy it breeds.
And civilizations always have marched forward on
the feet of those who have refused to obey rannous
laws. There is denying this. A supine obedience
to any and every law soon would convert into a
puny people unworthy of our heritsges of liberty.
1t is as much the duty of a good citizen to strike
bad laws from the books to put good ones there
To waste more money in an effort to cram prohi-
bition down the Threats of the American people would
be the most reckless extravaganza. Viewed econonl
ically, it has been a hopeless failure.
And so far as its moral aspects concerned, the
majority Of beginning to define this word more
carefully. Temperance may be moral issue, but
prohibition by force never can be.