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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-12-18

IN Italy, Jim Farley will have oppor-
tslnlty 20 stpdy perfect system for distri-
blitins pre- to the faithful.-The Washing
ton Post.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-12-18

NRA authorities are refusing permis-
sion to extend the lunch hour for employ
ees 70 an hour and half. Yet It would
seem to be an admirable way Of cutting
down the agricultural surplus.--New York
Times.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-12-18

It is too much to hope that the next
four weeks win see the last roundup Of
THE Last Roundup. The Knickerbccker
Press. s 81 q. s. s.,,s,s..
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-12-18

.'The United States is gorged with
gold, declares critic of the governments
al policy. Just another case of gold in the
throat. The Hartford Daily Courant.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-12-18

Two nudists just got married in the
nude. Question: How did the bridegroom
get the ring out of his vest pocket? -The
Rocky Mountain News.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-12-18

Editorial comment: There was
general rejoicing in Key West
when the announcement was made
in The Citizen that the contract
for the construction of San Carlos
Opera House was awarded and
work will be started at an early
date.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-12-18

A Cass county Sunday school teacher
asked a little girl where do bad little girls
go?" and the reply was most every
where, The Cas- County Missonrian.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-12-18

How to be syndicate writer: Get
fired from government job.-The Hart
ford Courant
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-12-18

One hat that's not off to the New Deal
is the brown derby.-Gene Morgan in the
Chicago Daily News.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-12-18

Doing well on this earth does not mean
that you are to so out and do others.--New
York American
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Rainfalls

barometer at 8 a. IN. today:
Sea level, 1921.
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Is7s-Durant Drake. noted
vassar College professor "a pill
osophy. ranked Is one Of me lead
ing philosophers in country. born
at Hartford, conn- Died Nov. Is.
1888.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-12-18

1s6l-EdwaFd A. Mcdowell.
among the country's greatest COM
posers Of music. born in New
York. Died there. Jan. e. 1908.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-12-18

I859-Francis Thompson, Eng-
lish author Of 'sThe Hound Of
Heaven" one Of the greatest
poems Of its kind in the English
language, born. Died Nov. Is.
1907.
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lss5-Lyman Abbott, congre-
gational clergyman, Tor many
years editor Of the Outlook" (,
author. born in Boston. Died in
New York. Oct. %. 1922. 70
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-12-18

George H. Adams, Minneapolis
newspaper editor, born at May
wood, ILL.,, as years ago.
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1s19-Isaac T. Heeker. noted
Roman Catholic clergyman. born
in New York City. Died there.
Dec. %, 1883.
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NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
I Today's
Anniversaries
sssseAseeteaeeesseseaese

17s6-Carl Maria Won Weber,
distinguished German opera com.
poser, born. Died June 81 1926.
1s11-Horace B. Claflin, great
New York City dry-goods mer-
chant of his day born at Milford,
Mass. Died in New York, Nov.
IA, 1885.
f.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-03-31
PUT THAT DOLLAR TO,
WORK

A dollar spent now for con-
struction or maintenance of
property is in for a very busy
time.
1t enters the pocket of the
workman on the job. 1t goes
to the local dealer who sells
you the supplies and materials.
1t passes through the hands Of
the transportation companies
that carry them from the fac
tory to you. 1t spends a time
in the Golfers of the concern
manufacturing them, and from
there goes to it's employees. 1t
visits the related concerns SELL
ing raw materials and basic
supplies to the manufacturer.
1t goes to the government in
taxes, and to the investor in
the form of dividends. And,
finally, it starts the cycle all
over again, when someone else
uses it for improving his own
property.
This little dollar, too, has an
amazing purchasing power at
this time. It will buy more
lumber, more paint, more cleo
trio wiring, more of similar
supplies, and employ more la
Dor than it has for several dec
AIDES past. 1t will give you a
chance to improve and increase
the value of your property at
rock-bottom bargain prices.
If you keep it in hiding, it's
worthless-only by taking it
out and putting it to work can
you and others gain it's poten-
tial benefits.
So-put your spare dollars to
work on your property. Make
them fix or renew the furnace,
the roof, the garage. Make
them paint the building and re-
pair the steps. You'll be get
ting your moneys worth sew
eral times Overland you'll be
providing employment in a
dozen businesses and doing
your part to alleviate distress
and build purchasing power.
Jobs are cheaper and better
than charity-and without jobs
there won't be any money for
charity.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-03-31
BEER AND PROSPERITY

The bill legallZlng the sale
of beer, and also wine, of '3.2
per. cent alcohol content has
been signed by the President
and becomes effective imme-
diately after midnight on April
6, when beer may be sold in all
states where local laws do not
prevent it.
The vets have promised SO
much in the way of the return
of prosperity, with the legaliz-
ed sale of beer, that their ex-
travagant and ridiculous as
sertions have served to put
them on the spot" and they
will be Immediately placed on
the defensive, with just as
many and as elaborate excuses,
for the failure of results, as far
as the return of prosperity
from the sale of beer is con-
cerned. And that it will be a
failure they, as we'll as all
others know.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-03-31
RAILROAD GIVEN TRUCK.
ING PRIVILEGE

Permission to carry freight
by motor truck to and from
about 126 points on the Del
marva peninsula, served now
by the Pennsylvania and Bal
timore and Eastern railroads,
has been granted the Pennsyl-
vania by the Public Service
Commission.
The railroad was authorized
to conduct a pickup and de-
livery" service in Baltimore
for freight to Eastern Shore
points, and to deliver on the
Eastern Shore by truck goods
shipped by rail from Phlladel-
phia, Wilmington, Chester and
Camden to the Maryland-Del-
aware border.
Granting of permission was
opposed by the Victor Lynn
Transportation Company and
the White Transportation Co.,
operators of motor trucks on
the Eastern Shore, which
claimed that shipments of
freight from Baltimore to the
Shore by way of Delaware was
an attempt to evade jurisdic-
ton of the commission in in
Iterstate traffic.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-03-31
GOVERNOR RITCHIE'S
REER BILL

Governor Ritchie's Beer Bill
was introduced in the Senate of
the Maryland General Assem-
bly, on Friday.
The beer bill would clear the
way for sale Of the beverage
early next month. It provides
for two classes of licensed dis
pensaries, hotels, restaurants
and the like, where beer for
consumption on the premises
would be sold, and for sales in
bottles or other containers, the
liquid to be drunk elsewhere.
The license fee for the first
class would be $50 annually
and for the wholesalers $25.
No restriction of any kind on
type of store where sales for
consumption elsewhere are
made.
Rigid restriction of the plac-
es where the beverage may be
sold for use on premises to
hotels, bonafide restaurants
where meals are served and
charged forv and in corporated
clubs.
Local licensing provisions to
do away with the need for any
State commission to issue Ii
censes. The revenue from Ii
censes will accrue to the COM
munity in which the permits
are issued.
The bill becomes effective
upon passage so that beer may
be sold when the modification
becomes legal nationally.
A three-fifths vote in both
houses of the Legislature is
necessary to permit immediate
sale under the bill, which is
drawn as an emergency meas
ure; usually acts of Assembly
become operative on the June
LIST following enactment.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-03-31
CROP PLANS FOR 1898

The total acreage of spring
sown crops in Maryland will be
about the same or slightly
smaller than last year, accord
ing to reports made to Richard
c. Ross, agricultural statisti-
clan for the Maryland Crop Re-
porting Service. Present indi-
cations point TO a total acreage
Of field crops about the same
as was harvested in 1882. The
acreage of truck and canning
crops is undecided as yet but it
seems likely that the total
acreage of these crops will be
smaller than last year.
Of the important field crops
only corn and sweet potatoes
are expected to be increased,
while the acreage of oats and
potatoes are likely to be de-
creased. Very little change is
expected in hay, soy beans and
barley.
Tobacco growers say they in
tend to cut their acreage eight
per cent below last year. For
the United States an increase
of nearly % per cent is indi-
Gated, but the total acreage will
probably be lower than in 1882.
Intentions to increase acreage
over last year are especially
pronounced in the hurley and
fiue-cured districts, while sharp
curtailment is planned in most
of the cigar leaf areas.
Maryland, Delaware and Cal
ifornia are the only States
planning increases in sweet
potatoes this year. Southern
states where acreage has been
expanding rapidly and which
are located at great distances
from market are cutting acre
age heavily. !.
The commercial early potato
acreage in Maryland will be
much smalled than last year.
though some increase in the
acreage in the mountain area
is possible.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-03-31
REDUCE WASTE AND SUI.
FERING

The American people GUS
tomarily burn up about $780,
100000 worth of property each
year. About 10000 human
lives are included. This is a
tragic burden on every COM
munity. Each fire adds to the
toll in lost jobs, lost business
opportunities, human sorrow
and suffering.
In depressed times, when
jobs are at a premium and tax
alton at maximum, and when
the nation sorely needs every
business, we still burn up about
$500, 100000 worth of property
annually. During the first ten
months of 1882. fire loss was
approximately $5,O00,000.00
greater than in 1881, a year in
which the waste was practical
ly the same as in the preceding
three or four years.
Fire prevention is both an
obligation and a duty that the
citizen owes to himself, to his
community and to the nation.
Nearly every fire is caused by
carelessness - because some
one neglected to give the little
time and the little money that
would have been necessary to
eliminate a hazard. Do your
bit in the cause of fire proven
ton and save human suffering,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-03-31
NEGRO HEALTH WEEK

Plans for special activities
throughout Maryland during
the week beginning on April 2,
in connection with the nine
teenth annual observance of
National Negro Health Week
have been announced by DR.. R.
H, Riley, Director of the Mary
land State Department of
Health.
The arrangements in each
county will be carried out I'M
der the direction of the County
Health Officer. The program
will follow, in general, the ac-
companying schedule, suggest
ed by the National Negro
Health Week Committee -and
published by the United States
Public Health Service.
Sunday, April 2. Mobiliza-
ton Day. Health sermons
and addresses. Special refer
ence to the care of mothers and
young children and to coopera-
ton with official health agen-
cies. II
Monday, April 8. Home
Health Day. Emphasis on per-
sonal and home hygiene. Pub
lie meetings with addresses on
the Importance of clean living.
Tuesday, April 4. Commun-
nifty Sanitation Day. Begin
ming the annual campaign
against flies, mosquitoes, rats
and vermin. Attention to be
focused on the cleanliness and
proper sanitation of B homes,
bakeries, and other food estab-
lishments; on the proper dis
posal of garbage; on cleaning
UP the breeding places of in
sect enemies and of rats.
Wednesday, April 5. School
Health Day. Beginning of
health poster contests. Special
exercises in the interest of
child health in the schools,
with parents in attendance.
Attention also to be directed to
cleanliness, neatness, santa
tion of school property; and to
personal cleanliness of pupils.
Thursday, April 6. Adult
Health Day. Stressing the inn
portance of general health,
fresh air, right diet, right liv-
ing, regular medical supervi-
sion, periodical health exam
ination for each individual and
early treatment.
Friday, April Z. Special
Campaign Day. Consideration
of local community problems;
cooperation with the churches
in activities for community
betterment.
Saturday, April s. General
Cleanup Day. In and around
homes and throughout the
community.
Sunday, April 8. Report and
Follow-Up Day. Using the
findings of the week as the
basis for health work all the
year round.
Certificates of merit will be
awarded by the National Com
pittee to communities show
ing special Improvement as a
result of Negro Health Week
and of commentator to
schools that participate in the
health n0ster cnntaof
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-03-31

years. But today the the aver
age total days schooling is L.
400, almost double what it was
then. The youngsters stick!
And high school-there is
the culprit! You know it costs
a lot more to educate a high
school student than one in the
grades. But do the children
consider that? Do they pro-
tect our pocketbooks by con-
tenting themselves with an ell
ementary education? You
know they don't! But / never
realized what an epidemic this
high school attendance has be-
come until I got the figures the
other day.
In 1880, in this state, just l
person out of 1,425 was a high
school student. Ten years lat
err it was l in 425-something
was starting to happen, wasn't
it? In 1910, l out of every 120
Pennsylvanians was in high
school. Might say it had be-
come habit then. During the
next ten years, though, it jump
ed to l in Sand by 1880, l
out of every 26 inhabitants of
this state was in high school!
Right there is big part of the
answer to the school cost prop
osition. /.
Looking at it from another
angle, l discovered by examin-
ing figures from Harrisburg
that 1876 out of every LOCO pub
lie school pupils, in 1880, were
in High School. The percent
age must have increased a good
deal even in the two interview
ing years. for many fewer pu-
pills are dropping out at the end
Of the eighth grade, and thous-
ands who have been graduated
are staying as postgraduate
students, a new development
indeed. Seven times as many
of the school population now
are high school students as 80
years ago, and more than twice
as many as in 1920-what a
change that is! ID
While we're talking figures,
did you know that one out of
every 4 present day Pennsyl-
vanians is in public schools?
Surprised me, too, but that's
the truth.
That's where my money
money goes, mister, and yours
too, to keep my baby-and
yours-in school. 1t isn't the
opulent teacher, it isn't the
''fad and fancy" curriculum,
(Which is what it is because we
demanded those extra subjects
for our children). it isn't even,
to any great extent, the grasp
ing contractor, that boosted
school costs. It's those never
satisfied boys and girls.
We can save ten or fifteen
dollars a year apiece ON our
school taxes by making half of
them drop out in the sixth
grade, and by cutting down the
high school course to what it
was in 1898. What dye say
we do?
No, no-neither would |.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-03-31
IT'S THE KIDS FAULT

The following, from the
Pennsylvania State Education
Association, applies with equal
force to our own schools, and
presents a phaze that has not
been considered by some who
have been severe critics, but
have not carefully considered
this reason for mounting
school costs:
"What makes the schools
cost more? Why are they
helping to ''up my taxes?
Why can't they be, run as
cheaply as they were when |
went to SCHOOL,"
Well, Mr.. Pennsylvania, l
was just wondering about that
myself. Being a curious soul.
I've been nosing around To find
out. l remembered the ques-
tions you raised the other day,
when you were kicking about
the same thing, and started by
inquiring as to those points.
You said Expensive build
ings." Building programs have
had something to do with it
but not as much as you and /
thought. You felt, too, 1.-THE
wider course of study did it.
They're teaching a lot of SUBJ
jects, and each one costs mon
ey." / looked into that. No
matter how you calculate it, a
broadened curriculum can't be
blamed with more than a four
tn of the increased cost of our
schools in 1882 over that in
1913. And you wondered
whether higher salaries to
teachers weren't a big factor.
They've pushed it up some. it's
true, but / was amazed to find
out how little of the added cost
went into the pocket of the in
dividual pedag0gue. No sir,
the real culprit isn't any of
those things-and l know,
now, who is guilty.
It's the doggone kids-bless
'em!
They're too numerous. They
are too persistent. They're too
hard to satisfy. Charge every
thing you can to better equip
ment, decreased purchasing
power of the dollar, higher sal
aries, lengthier curriculum and
all other causes, and still you
can't avoid the conclusion that
much more than half the boost
in school costs is the fault of
those youngsters.
Now they all go to school.
Time was when a good share
of them dropped out when they
were 10 or IL, and went to
work. In 1890 and 1900 and
1910 almost one in every five
between the ages of 10 and Is
was sin gainful occupation"
Now look at 'emi Less than S
per cent of those same ages, in
1880, were holding down paid
jobs. and of course fewer still
today. All the rest are in
school. A fine note!
On top of that, they go more
regularly, stay longer. When
you and / were schoolboys, the
average total number of days
in a school lifetime was ITO
measured by a 9 month school
year, a little more than four
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-03-31
CROP PRODUCTION LOANS

h0SulaClOnS lot 1850 govern
ing crop production loans have
been issued by the Secretary OF
Agriculture and are now avail
able to farmers in this county
upon request of J. d. Hobson,
Field Inspector of the Crop
Production Loan Office. Mr..
Hobson's Office is in Towson,
Md.
Instead of writing to Wash
ington or to one of the regional
loan offices, Mr.. Hobson an
nounced, farmers can obtain
t h e necessary application
blanks for loans, and detailed
information about the require
ments, direct from him. APP
plications will then be review
ed by the county advisory COM
mittee, then certified and for
warded to the regional Office at
Washington, D. c., for final ap-
prevail and action.
The regulations this year
specify that only those who
cannot get loans elsewhere are
eligible for loans from the $780,
100000 fund authorized by
Congress. Loans can be used
only for crop production, and
require the borrower to reduce
his acreage of cash crops 80
per cent under last year, unless
he does not intend to plant
more than 8 acres of cotton,
'21a acres of tobacco, s acres of
peanuts, 20 acres of corn, IL
acres of sugar beets, 21a acres
of truck crops, s acres of pota-
toes, 80 acres of rice, or 40
acres of wheat.
The maximum permitted to
any one borrower this year is
$500; or, in the case of tenants,
the total of all loans to tenants
of any one landlord within a
single county. cannot exceed
$1,000. The actual amount adj
vanced by the authorities will
depend upon the borrowers re-
quirements. A first lien or
mortgage on the crop will be
required. The regulations re-
quire that loans be repaid on or
before October 81, 1888. In
terest at 51a per cent, deducted
in advance, will be charged.
Since the loans call for a
first lien on the crop as secur-
ity, the borrower frequently
has to procure waivers from
prior mortgages or rights. If
the applicant is a tenant, or is
farming land under contract
for deed or so-called crop con-
tract, or has given a prior
mortgage on his 1888 crops,
the regulations state he must
secure the waivers of the ac-
tual owners of the land, and, or
all prior mortgage holders. II
the applicant is the owner OF
the land and farms it with ten
ants or share troopers, waivers
of such tenants or share crop
pers must be secured. The reg
ulations further specify that
the person waving his prior
rights must agree not to dis
pose of his rent note, mortgage,
or other security without first
having obtained the written
consent of a duly authorized
agent of the Secretary OF Agri-
culture.
The regulations make it UNI
lawful for any person to dis
pose of or assist in disposing of
any crops given as security for
any crop loan, except for the
account of the Secretary OF
Agriculture and provide for
fine and Imprisonment for vio-
lation of such regulation. The
regulations also require that
each borrower agree to plant a
garden for his home use and
sufficient acreage to furnish
feed for his livestock.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-03-31

In America, we have torn
down more good buildings in
some cities, than many a Eur
opean city has ever built.
The Washington times., 1933-12-23
13
MICKEY MOUSE

(COmtinued from News PGSe)
Jeb Stuart sent telegram after
telegram inquiring about her.
John Pelham, in his letters to
Miss Shacklef ord, always begged
news Of Miss Ford.
Hidden Forces
Finally, both Stuart and Pei
ham arrived in Culpeper by
train again, the postponed court
martial having been called for
March 13.
But again, on the twelfth, an
old and grizzled Negro had sold
another basketful of fish at
Hazel. River Tavern to a man
who paid exactly one dollar and
six cents for the lot. The man
was John c. Babcock, Federal
Secret Service Operator 106.
And on Wednesday, March 13,
he delivered one more tortise-
Shell comb to Colonel Sharpe.
chief Of the Union Secret Ser
vice.
On Thursday, March IA,
General Averell, with three
thousand Union cavalry and
00me horse guns, set out Sc
Oretly for Kelly'S Ford, with
orders to destroy the brigade
Of Gen. Fitzhugh Lee at Cul-
pepper Courthouse.
All that day Fitz Lees scouts
and vedetteS, always active
0~ A UnoE
The Washington times., 1933-12-23
Exciting Tale Of
War Espionage

Sunday; and the girls on the
veranda began to torment the
blushing young man.
Said Stuart, twinkling at
them: "I am utterly unable to
understand why the gallant
Pelham desires to stay here in
this peaceful spot when he
may be missing a first rate
battle over yonder-" He
checked himself, still laughing,
and took a telegram from a
dusty cavalryman who had just
arrived. Ladies'" said Jeb
Stuart, gayly, may I crave
your indulgence a moment?"
He read the dispatch at a
glance, laughed and turned to
John Pelham.
"You are right as usual,
john" he said. 'Fitz Lee has
word from general headquar-
ters that a heavy body OF
Yankee horse is moving north
Of the river"
Major Blythe picked up his
veteran ears. ''It may mean
nothing, general" he remarked.
'Who commands them?"
"Averell, it is supposed"
There was a silence, Gail
Loveless' dark eyes had been
fixed on Stuart and her heart
was beating violently, 4.
Stuart said: "F'itz Lee has
made al proper preparation. I