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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-02-24
News Review Of Current
Events the World Over
Economy in Government Gets Boost-Senate Gusts
Sergeant at Arms Barry for Traducing It-Roosevelt
Invites Governors to Farley.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD

In the words Of Senator David Reed
Of Pennsylvania, the senate "made a
holy show Of ITSELF" Barry did not
lack defenders, the warmest of these
being Senator Otis Glenn of Illinois
and Senator M. NJ. Logan of Kentucky.
Mr.. Glenn, being lame duck, was
not afraid to say what he thought,
and he had lot of hot thoughts on
the matter. He pointed out that what
Barry had written was but one small
voice in chorus of criticism of the
senate, and continued:
II cannot distinguish very material
ly between attacking body of this
kind. as has been done in the present
instance. and the privilege which is
exercised nearly every day In commit
tee rooms of the senate of browbeat-
ing witness, accusing him, attacking
him as he sits there, called in response
to summons.
II do not distinguish between the
attacks made upon this body and the
attacks made in this body day after
day by distinguished members of this
body. attacking, abusing, condemning.
blackening peoples names and reputa-
tons. knowing that the next morning
upon the front pages of the RESPONSE
BILE newspapers of this country those
charges, unsustained will be broadcast
to the world"
The debate was lively and rather
vituperative, and was immensely en-
joyed by the occupants of the galleries.
One of .hese was heard to quote:
1.-THE lady doth protest too much, me-
thinks"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-02-24

ECONOMY was given real boost by
~ the senate when it passed the
treasury-post Office bill, for it inserted
into the measure provisions giving the
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-02-24

THAT furry over The activities Of
4 William c. Bullitt, who was report
ed In Europe as being a secret repre-
sentative of .ir. Roosevelt sent over
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-02-24

ENATORS. despite their rules, can
- find ways to say some mighty mean
things about one another; but an out
slider mustn't cast aspersions on their
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-02-24

VXTHILE the President-Elect was
w cruising about the Caribbean try
ing to catch fish the amateur cabinet
builders kept right on working Late
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-02-24


put in the running for the commerce
portfolio. More definite than these
rumors was the report that Jesse 81.
Jones, eminent Democrat and business
man Of Houston, Texas. would be
made head Of the Reconstruction FL
nance corporation. He would succeed
Atlee Pomerene, whose appointment
as chairman by President Hoover was
blocked, with all other nominations,
in the senate. Mr.. Roosevelt will rely
greatly on the Reconstruction Finance
corporation and its vast credit in car
rying out his plans in the new deal"
and would receive strong and able
support from Mr.. Jones as it's chair
man.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-02-24

DLENTY of expert advice on ways
of pulling the nation out of the
slough Of despond is to be offered
soon. First the senate finance commit
tee invited more than half hundred
of the nations leading men in all lines
to present their views on the causes
of the economic depression and the
needed legislative remedies, and those
views presumably are now being for
mulated. Then President Elect Roose-
welt sent to the governors of the 4S
states invitations to meet him in the
White House on March to discuss
means Of solving national problems
in which the governments of the states
and the nation have common vital
interest.
In his letter Mr. Roosevelt said:
ut is my thought that we should
discuss for our mutual benefit certain
subjects, such as:
"(a) Conflicting taxation by federal
and state governments;
"tb) Federal aid for unemployment
relief;
"(c) Mortgage foreclosures. especial
~ on farm lands. and
"td) Better land use by afforesta-
ton. elimination of marginal agricul-
tural land, flood prevention. etc.;
"(e) Reorganization and consolida-
ton of local government to decrease
tax COSTS"
1t is believed all or nearly all of
the governors will accept Mr.. Roose-
vet's invitation gladly. All but ten
of them are Democrats and might be
expected to be In Washington for the
fnauOUra1 nornmoufoc
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-02-24

visited London, Paris
and other capitals and conferred with
various high personages, and our State
department called on Ambassador
Edge for inforll ation. The ambassa-
dor replied that Bullitt was acting on
his own responsibility as writer in
terested in foreign affairs and was
representing no one in the United
States.
Mr.. Edge, it is understood, reported
that this is only one of many similar
incidents. Ever since Mr.. Roosevelt's
nomination, the embassy has had re-
ports Of a long succession Of such ''em-
issaries."
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-02-24

WITH considerable Democratic
w support, the governments pro-
gram for aid to the unemployed was
greatly broadened. 1t provides, among
other things. for an additional $780,
100000 direct relief loans to states,
and in Washington there was belief
that it had good chance Of passage
during the present session. The bill as
drafted also would liberalize the law
under which the r. F. q. makes loans
for seIf-llquidating construction prof.
ects; and it makes provision for loans
to private corporations for the devel-
opment of community farming and
ocean air transportation II such prob
ects are self-liquldating.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-02-24

ID ECENT deaths of note were those
IN of DR.. Lawrence r. Abbott. for
mer president and publisher of the
Outlook and close friend Of Theodore
Roosevelt; and Count Albert Apponyi
of Hungary, the Oldest statesman of
the League Of Nations and a powerful
political figure in his country.
Alss5 wsstsrn Newspaper Union.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-02-24

have great respect for maxims, as
they include philosophy. learning, wit,
experience. One of the best is: "Work
hard and behave" Were it not longer
Gin maxim brevity is very importantly
make the best use of your time"
would be almost equally good.
q. 1854. Bel syndicAte-wNU servioa.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-06-09
FARMER STUDIES ECONOM.
&c PROBLEMS

Perhaps the most encourage
ing phase of the farmers trou-
bles is that they have caused
him to look with a new and in
curing mind on economic and
social problems.
He has discovered that the
world has changed much-that
methods that were good thirty
years ago are disastrous now.
He is finding out that no one
can prosper alone in a world in
which the interests of every
business, every producer, are
inextricably intermingled. He
is finding that the cooperative
ideal-whether in industry, or
agriculture, or simply social re-
lations-points the road to sta
bility and permanence.
During the depression thous-
ands of farmers have joined
cooperatives. Thousands Of
others have redoubled their eff
forts in behalf of their cooper
atives. where before they simp-
ly held passive" memberships.
These are the farmers that are
applying real business methods
TO farming and that are in line
to profit in the future.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-06-09
LOOK THE HOUSE OVER

Take a walk around your
home and property.
If you are the average home
owner, you'll find lots of places
where repairs, requirements or
alterations should be made.
The steps are becoming rick
ETY.; the electric wiring in the
basement and garage is in
poor condition; new plumbing
fixtures are needed; the roof is
beginning to leak; those hard
wood floors for the living room
you've been thinking about SO
long have never materialized;
the garden and lawn should be
rejuvenated; the whole house
could do with a new paint job.
The addition of a few labor
saving devices in the kitchen
would make your home a more
pleasant and efficient place to
live in.
It's probable that you've
been thinking of making such
repairs and betterments as
these for several years-and
haven't had them done because
of nervousness as to the future,
the thought that you'd better
keep your money as intact as
possible. That's the kind of
reasoning that has prolonged
the depression. It's the kind
of reasoning that throws men
out of work and makes it i'm
possible for them to find new
jobs; the kind of reasoning
that causes basic industries to
run at the lowest production
point in decades.
Today you can obtain prop
erty-improvement of what ever
kind, for a fraction of what it
would cost you five or ten years
ago. You'll probably never be
able to buy so cheaply again
it's almost certain that prices
will rise sharply in the near
future. You'll be getting an
amazingly big construction
dollars worth. And you'll be
putting men to work, putting
money into payrolls and salary
checks and purchase orders.
Don't forget that jobs are
cheaper than charity-and that
only jobs make charity posi-
BILE.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-06-09
RURAL WOMEN'S Snort
COURSE

Plans for the eleventh an
nual Rural Women's Short
Course, which is sponsored Ly
the University of Maryland Ex-
tension Service, have about
been completed, according to
Venia M. Kellar, State Home
Demonstration Agent, who will
be in charge. Approximately
500 women from all counties in
the State are expected to attend
the Course, which will begin on
July 10 and extend through the
entire week.
Speakers on the program in
clude: DR.. Valeria H. Parker,
American Social Hygiene As
ISOLATION; Miss Ethel Bowers,
National Recreation Associa-
ton: Miss Lavina Engle,
Montgomery county member of
the Maryland House of Dele
gates; Page M. Etcheson,
Young Mems Christian Asso-
citation of Washington, D. c.;
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-06-09

Miss B. M. Palmer, West Vir-
ginia University; DR.. Cora B.
Key, Child Research Center,
Washington, d. c.; DR.. Harry
J. Patterson, director of the
Experiment Station and DR..
Thomas B. Symons, director of
the Extension Service of the
University of Maryland, and
Miss Florence Hall, Mrs. Row.
ena Carpenter, A. B. Graham
and DR.. j. A. Evans, of the U.
S. Department of Agriculture.
Entertainment features for
the week include musical pro-
grams on Monday, Wednesday
and Thursday evenings; a re-
ception Tuesday evening by
President and Mrs. Raymond
A. Pearson, of the University
Of Maryland and presentation
of certificates and a sightseeing
trip on Friday. Thursday has
been designated as Home
makers Day" and all presi-
dents and members of home
makers clubs in the State are
invited to be guests of the
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-06-09
ADMINISTRATION OF NEW
FARM ACT

Plans for putting into oper-
alton the provisions of the new
Farm Act are being formulated
as rapidly as the magnitude of
the task permits, according to
those who are charged with it's
administration. More than a
half dozen administrators have
been appointed and the organi-
cation is rapidly taking shape.
Hearings are being held and it
is anticipated that announce
ments will be made in the near
future regardinglthe immediate
policies to be pursued with re-
spect to some of the basic COM
modities specified in the law.
When such policies are deter
mined, it will be possible, ac-
cording to agricultural author
tiles in Maryland, to gain a
clearer idea of the benefits
which the people of this State
may derive from the new leg
islation.
The farm commodities in
which farmers and others in
Maryland are most interested
are wheat, tobacco, and milk
and it's products. To a less, ex-
tent, they may be interested in
activities with regard to field
corn and hogs. The man who
is to administer the wheat pro-
duction program has been ap-
pointed. He is Mr.. M. T.. Will
son, who was born in Iowa, but
has been located in Montana
for number of years. Ad-
ministrators for tobacco and
dairy products have not yet
been announced.
1t has been stated that the
Extension Service of the Uni
versity will be called upon for
important service in carrying
out the provisions of the new
Act. The county agents in the
respective counties will be kept
informed as to developments
and provided with information
as rapidly as it is available.
The purpose of the entire
Farm Act, as expressed by Geo.
N. Peek, Federal Administra-
tor, is to raise farm prices.
This purpose, he says, contem-
plates higher returns to pro-
ducers of all agricultural COM
modities as we'll as those which
have been specified as "basic
commodities" While the non
basic commodity prices are rel
atively higher than the basic
commodity prices, they are
considerably below prewar val
ue levels. The provisions of
the Act should, if utilized, react
to the benefit of producers of
those commodities.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-06-09
LABOR HAS NEW ECONOMIC
STATUS

The shoulders of labor may
not be broad but they are leg
ion. And it is we'll that they
are. For labor which has so
long urged a united front has
found itself united as never be-
fore in absorbing the most Sc
we're buffets of the recent
slump.
Nearly 100000 workers
have come to grips with the
worst that any period of hard
times has to offer-iGleness
and restitution. Those who
compare depression to a war
concede to labor the role of
holding the front lines, where
the actualities of the combat
are unacceptable.
Consequently the burdens,
losses and sufferings of labor
must be fully recognized in or
der to determine if it is worth
while so to plan the future OF
industry that such a debacle
will not be repeated.
However, there has emerged
from the slump one foctor of a
most constructive complexion.
The public has new way of
viewing the laborer. The re-
cession has made it clear that
the worker is the buyer. From
this realization may come ulti-
mate development that will
turn the recession into a net
gain for the wage Garner.
The new attitude no longer
beholds the laborer merely as a
man in overalls, a commodity
to be bought and sold in an in
human market. He has emer-
ged as the great stabilizer. the
symbol of consumption, that
indispensable partner of pro-
duction.-Ralph M. Blagden.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-06-09
PROHIBITION ENFORCE
MENT In DELAWARE

Six hundred and sixty-six
convictions in Federal Court,
resulting in the imposition of
III years of Jail sentences and
$13S,832 in fines are among the
effects of national prohibition
in Delaware.
Annual figures from July /,
1919, when national prohibit
ton went into effect, until last
July l, on file at the Depart
ment of Justice, show 1928 and
1880 were the banner years for
prohibition enforcement in
Delaware.
In both of those years, 106
persons were convicted of dry
law violation in Federal Court.
Severer sentences were melted
out in 1880, when a total of %
years were imposed on viola
tors.
The banner year for fines
was 1925 when they totaled
$4,000.
The figures are based only on
cases passing through Federal
Court. Numerous other liquor
cases were dealt with in state
courts during the period.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-06-09

Rural Women's Short Course
on that day.
One hundred and nine wom-
en-, the largest number in the
history of the Course, will be
eligible this year to receive
certificates as a result Of hav-
ing attended the Short Course
four years. Governor Albert
c. Richie has been invited to
attend the graduation exercis-
es. Those receiving certifi-
Gates from Cecil county are as
follows: Mrs. Albert Graham,
Charlestown; Mrs. John A.
Hartenstine Principle; Mrs.
w. c. Henry, Charlestown;
Mrs. c. F. Miller, Calvert; Mrs.
Cornelia Nickle, Principle;
Miss Amelia Atkinson, Colora;
Mrs. Alexander Hasson, Aiken,
and Mrs. Robert Taylor, Bly,
thedale.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-06-09
SPOILSMEN ACTIVE IN
CITIES

American cities are being at
tackled on all fronts by a COM
bination of selfish interests and
spoils politicians who would
destroy every method of good
government that has been es-
tablished in the last 80. years,
according to Mr.. William P,
Lovett, secretary of the Detroit
Citizens League. His conclu-
sions are based on reports
gathered from civic groups in
many communities.
"These destructive forces,
active in every state in the
Union," Mr.. Lovett said. "hail
the breakdown of democracy
as their opportunity to restore
the discredited spoils system.
Their favorite method is TO pre-
vail upon legislatures to clamp
receiverships down on cities
that have gone broke. This is
one way of grabbing political
control of communities, many
of which have nonpartisan,
home-rule charters and are
better able to handle their af-
fairs than an outside politi-
cian."
In some states, Mr.. LOvett
found, attacks are being made
on school systems of cities
which since have long been
emancipated from graft and
spoils methods. Politicians,
according to the report, would
knock out the small and effec-
tive board of education elected
at large and bring back the old
ward system under which the
cheap politician, wardheeler
and saloonkeeper once thrived.
Mr.. Lovett says that Detroit
furnishes an excellent example
of the boldness with which
spoils politicians are working
to upset home rule charters,
which have been adopted on a
nOnpartisan basis in about one
third of the states. The voters
were called upon at the spring
election to decide on a charter
amendment which would have
restored the ward-aldermanic
system, wiping out all the
gains that have been made by
Detroit's Small council and
strong mayor" system. The
proposal was defeated almost
three to one.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-06-09

E. G. Grace, President of the
Bethlehem Steel Corporation,
recently said that if the money
his company pays in taxes
were available for wages, it
would be possible to put 20 per
cent more men on the payroll.
That is a striking example of
the deleterious effects of excess
sive taxation. In the long
run, it creates unemployment,
destroys jobs and lessons the
likelihood of permanent en-
ployment in the future. The
tax burden frightens investors,
discourages management, pre-
vents industrial expansion
and puts more men in the line
of the jobless.
Cut the cost of government.
appreciably lower the tax bur-
den in dollars collected-and a
long step will have been taken
toward curing depression,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-06-09

More than 500 poultrymen
from this and nearby States
are expected to attend the sixth
annual Maryland Poultry Field
Day. which will be held June
15 on the campus of the Uni
versity of Maryland, it is an
nounced by Wade H. Rice,
poultry specialist for the Ex-
tension Service. The day is
sponsored by State and county
poultry associations, the Mary
land Extension Service and the
U. s. Department of Agricul-
ture.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-06-09

A woman is always perfectly
sure that she is right until it
comes to backing her opinion
with money.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-06-09

There may be a good deal in
a name when it is located in
the southeast section of a
check.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-06-09

Some think that to take life
seriously is to take it gloomily.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-06-09

Bad luck in little matters is
the more exasperating.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-02-13
Chancellor Hitler.
(Boston News Bureau.)

On the surface of things it would seem that the elevation of Hitler had marked disquieting. if not alarming, reversal in Germany. Here not merely the electoral rival of Hndenburg, but also the professed and bitter foe of German Republi- canism lodged in the Chancellorshp. Were all his own previous wild words and dogmas to control, within the country and toward the outside world, the outlook might be deemed sinister indeed.
 But perhaps the is not nearly so parlous. The serenity and even the firmness of the security market in Berlin yesterday and the comparative cheerfuness of banking sentiment there would seem to indicate no fear of political economic cata- clysm. The world has heard much of Hitler's bark, and in diminishing volume; and it may yet come to suspect that he has little or no real bite For the new Chancellor is so circumscribed in various ways as to make of him anything but the Mussolini he once yearned to be- Whisked into loffice with speed that stunned him. he would seem to be not much more than title figure head rnged round with other strong figures of the Government and pretty much bound by the words put forth in his name He is thereby pledged to tread fully legal course and not to indulge in any rash economic or currency experiments. He can't go plotting either the overthrow of laws and treaties or the abrogaton of economic laws as he once vaunted he would do
 The paradeS and the spotlights may tickle or soothe his own sentimental followers, but it may well be doubted if any pogroms against the Jews will follow any other serious breach of the estab- lsned order The episode may end with his attain ing not much more eclat than in his earlier adven- lures. Meanwhile the Centrsts will watch him with an 'ice cold" attitude, and the Socialists with a strong suspicion at the same time that they warn their own adherents against any rashness | The rest of the world will also do much watch
 ing; but there will still be must trust in the general
 good sense of the German people and especially
 trust in the aged President who still dwarfs the
 new actor. There may be uneaSe in Paris but
 even this may develop bit of advantage if it
 leads to less petty politics
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-02-13
Technology and Technocracy.
Cincinnati Enquirer.)

NO<%~0-~-~-NNo~
 Technology is the term given to the procedure of applying research and scientific method to crete problems of industry agriculture government and social control Technocracy is the term applied to movement among certain engineers to survey the potentialtes of American life in of tech nology and to set up eventually, ruershp of tech nologists. Technology is enduring concept, to which is traceable much of the progress made in America in the last generation. Technocracy is passing fancy, apparently destined to early demise. It is important to distinguish between the two
 Technocracy is a vivid concept, an alluring phrase. Receiving wide publicity at time when ly to those who seek more efficient and more equitable basis for administering an industrial ciety. But technocracy sets up for the engineer function quite beyond his capacities The ordering of great nation is task for statesmanship in which the interplay of conflicting forces the adjust ment of ideal procedures to human prejudices and failings, induces need for extensive compromise Given the irrational and emotional factors in a nation of human beings technological method is in itself adequate to maintain sound govern ance.
 But the servant of democratically governed state technology can have enormous usefulness The specific movement called technocracy already has collapsed. It carved out for itself sphere of action wider than it's competence, and failure was unacceptable. It has been useful however, in calling attention to the anomalous role technology has play ed, both in our national greatness and in pres ent economic mpassee. Having fulfilled this mis- sion it is doomed to the limbo of tooperfect schemes How many other Utopias, appended to phrase of Greek origin have thus risen to vast popularity and waned when theft artifciaity became apparentl Thus the highly rational but unreal concept of technocracy passes, while the enduring procedure called technology carries on-the handmaiden of democratic government The tempest of controversy he last thS will have heep while Tiff it has brought to the American people a new understanding of the parallel virtues and weak lnesses of technology if it has shown in striking contrast what good lies in scientific research and what dangers lie in extending too far the domain of the technician