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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1934-05-11

rate Louis Quatorze. The rooms
given over to the Historical museum,
founded by Louis Philippe and dedi-
Gated to "all the glories Of France"
contain a collection of pictures and
sculpture retelling the history of
France through its famous charac-
tiers, battles, and events.
The park and terraces alone cover
an area of about six square miles.
Although the playground for the
plutocrats Of the day, Versailles has
been a stage for more serious act
ing. The tennis Court" oath Of the
fighting National Assembly was taken
here in 1889, and here in 1882 the
new United States of America had
been formally recognized by Great
Britain. On September 10, 1870, the
victorious Germans, bands playing
the "Marseillaise," entered Versailles.
In January, 1871. King William, sur
rounded by representatives of all the
reigning families of Germany, men,
bers Of his family, his generals, and
his ministers. here established the
new German empire. And in the
same Galleries des Glaces in 1918 a
defeated German nation signed the
Versailles treaty.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1934-05-11
Clocks "Speak" German

The Neue LIME, German period
ical of fashion, contains this remark
able advertisement, writes the Vienna
correspondent of the London Sunday
Observer: every day, every hour
we hear our clocks strike: Bim-
BAN bim-bam. One puts up
with it as something unalterable, but
consciously or unconsciously GER
tain resistance has been rising with
in us for long time against this
foreign, hollow bim-bam. Now at
Kienzle's, in the town Of Schwennin-
gen, men have found way to sup
ply the German clock with German
voice. Thus two clockwork striking
tunes were called into being for the
gongs of the new Kienzle clocks.
Each half hour the German gong
strikes the opening bars of the Horst
Vessel song, the Potsdam gong
strikes the melody of the chimes of
Potsdam Garrison church. Hence
forth our clocks will speak to us only
in German"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1934-05-11
PUT IDEAS in
MIND OF CHILD

OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON, In the
New York World Telegram.
One of the mothers greatest al
lies in reaching a young child is sug-
gestion.
So peculiar are the mind centers
and so quickly suspicious of criti-
cism or even direct telling, that they
will receive impressions quite hap
PLY by suggestion that they would
otherwise throw away at once.
Suppose her mother wants Mary
to learn to put her overshoes in the
hall closet each time she comes in.
One day she picks them up and
personifies them. Quite casually she
may say, II am sure these friendly
little fellows must think we haven't
much heart leaving them about to
be worried and chewed by Peter"
Mary may regard her for awhile
and not say anything, or she may
pretend even not to notice at all.
But the next time there is good
chance she will open the closet door
and put them away herself.
There Is nothing wrong with a
direct order. Unqualified obedience
has it's necessary place in all child
parent relationships. But it often
fails for a clear reason.
Small children forget, or they are
deeply interested in something else,
or their attention is off wool-gather-
ing. Sometimes when they are told
to do too many things they become
apathetic and careless from too
much to remember, or just plain
resentment.
Children are great imitators. The
power of suggestion combined with
interest is at work here. The con-
duct of the family will reflect al
most instantly in child's manners,
his speech, his tastes and his be-
havior.
Suggestion in its active sense can
be used nicely and happily. The
time chosen is important. 1t usually
fails if the child has set up deter
mined wall of refusal already. No
use in turning diplomatic in the
middle of a tantrum or stubborn
spell. And it won't do much good
if he is deeply interested in some
thing else at the time. Suggestion
should be applied with Judgment.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1934-05-11
FASCIST PLAN TO
KEEP WORKER ON
FARM A SUCCESS

Under the Fascist farm authorities
a social revolution gradually is TAX
ing place in agricultural Italy. BY
the reclamation Of swamp lands, ex-
tension of credit, easing of rental
conditions and breaking up of large
holdings, the italian government
hopes to convert the traditional day
to-day farm laborer into an owner,
or long-term renter.
In 1922 there were 2,S22,922 day
laborers, ~ per cent of the king
dom's population, hired by the day
for so cents a day and discharged
the next. By 1881, through the Wig
orous campaigns of the agricultural
authorities, this number had de-
creased to 1,59S,S79, and it has con-
tinued TO diminish. Also, owner-cul-
tivators, straight renters, farmers
renting on shares and laborers hired
on long-term contracts have in
creased materially until, today. the
day-to-day laborers comprise only
24.6 per cent of the total agricultural
workers, as against 1919 per cent
decade ago.
Supporters of this agricultural rev.
olution. according to a Rome Asso-
ciated Press dispatch, believe the
postwar migration to the cities from
farming districts, which cut down the
farming population by S.5 per cent
in the decade up to 1881, will be
stopped. By eliminating the uncer-
tainty of his existence, the laborer's
contentment and ability in his work
is increased UNNECESSARILY. If sue
cessful, the anchoring of these rowing
millions to steady farm work will
curtail labor dissension and disturb
ances among the agricultural dis
tricts, which, otherwise, might be
harmful to the economic status of
the country at large.-Literary Di-
gest.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1934-05-11
REVIVE GLORIES
OF OLD PALACE
Historic Home of Sun King
Restored.

Restoration of the palace Of Yer
sailles, from the great chateau to
the charming Marie Antoinette vii
lage on the grounds, has been criti-
cized by member of the French
academy. The work, carried on with
funds donated by John D. Rookie
Teller, Jr., is too thorough, says the
critic, and while 1t has saved the
palace Of palaces from falling into
ruin, everything looks too new. The
French ministry of fine arts and the
historic monuments commission,
however, approve the restoration.
While the palace of Versailles is
generally conceded to be the ultimate
in royal residences, and the yard
stick by which magnificence is meas
ured, it may also be said to repre-
sent an Eighteenth century Public
Works administration project, &C.
cording to bulletin from the Ma
tional Geographic society. zone of
the reasons given by Louis XIV for
the construction of the great cha
teau and its vast park was that it
would give employment to some 3d.
900 workmen for several years"
Built for reasons of state, Yer
sailles soon became the setting of a
court so dazzling that many of the
French nobility closed their great
chateaux in the country and came
to take up quarters in a palace that
could shelter nearly 10000 persons.
And near the palace, Louis built the
Grand Trianon, a glorified marble
bungalow.
Left to ruin after France became
a republic, Versailles was partially
restored by Napoleon / five years
after he had installed 1000 Of his
veterans in the central wing Of the
palace. But the greater part of the
work of Transforming Versailles into
a museum was done by Louis
Philippe. being completed in 1887.
Its adaptation into a museum of
social and political history has been
natural and tasteful. The great
central wing, which is nearly half
mile in length. now houses a unique
collection of paintings, sculptures,
carvings and objects dart. The
palace itself was built principally by
Mansard around the hunting lodge
Of Louis XIII. In reversal of the
usual sequence, the palace was built
and then the little town grew up.
But a year after the removal of
Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette to
Paris by the mob, the town was so
desolate that Russian traveller
could scarcely get wretched meal.
The salons and apartments of
Louis XIV and his successors form
a stimulating background for the
imaginative person who wishes to
turn back the clock to the days of
the Sun king and relive the gilt
tering epoch of the Louis. The orig
inal furniture and pictures were
lost. but the walls, ceilings, paneling
and stucco still reveal the elabo-
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1934-05-11
Flame Of the Border
BY vINCIE E. ROE
Copyright. Doubleday. Doran g Co.. Inc.
wNU Service
I'll take your advice. am a little

I'll take your advice. 1 am little
tired"
She rose and entered the deep house,
cool place, its walls laid up Of fiat
stones chinked with adobe mud, its
bare floors bright with Indian rugs.
Sonya Savarin loved her brothers
house, his wife, his child, and him
self best Of all. For five years she had
lived with them in this lone land Of
cactus, sand, and sunlight, and it
seemed as If hand tugged at her
heart whenever she thought Of leaving
them.
She had thought Of that gravely the
last year. OF New York and Rodney
Blake and all they stood for-conven-
ton and affluence and what the world
called life. It had been a year, on the
nineteenth Of next month, since she
had promised to marry him. Rod was
the soul of gallantry and had made
three trips to Arizona in that time,
always urging her to come away with
I'm, to give up her work, and always
she had put him off little longer. Not
that she wasn't fond Of him. Who
could fail to be fond of him with his
good looks, his smiling good-nature?
And he was Serge's closest friend.
Dated from college days. But how
could she give up her work here among
the people whom she had learned to
love and who needed her and her skill
so badly? Wasting herself, Rod said.
If she must practice medicine, why
not do 1t where the results were valu-
able, among folks who counted, where
she could make career for herself in
her chosen field?
These thoughts passed through her
mind as she Invested herself Of her
dusty riding clothes and bathed in the
low pool in one corner Of her room
where the living waters Of the spring
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1934-05-11

ran softly through and out under the
wall In a pipe. treasure, this in
door pool. A blessing it would be hard
to leave. along with Darkness, her
horse, and Lila and little Babs.
Yet she had come near as breath
to leaving them three hours back and
had not given them thought. There
had been no thought in her when she
flung her body out of the arms Of the
man who held her and over the edge
of Lone Mesa-only the age-old terror
of conquest, the high, fierce fare o:
white-hot fury at deflement which has
filed the heart of woman since crea-
ton.
She had essayed death as instructive
lv as she drew her breath, and had
done 1t on the instant. The man, the
tall, lean vandal of saddle and spur,
who had ridden her down to the mesa's
edge and lifted her bodily from Dark
ness back, came back in her vision,
as he had come again and again on
the ride home. in the patio with Rod.
She could see the long blue eyes of
him, wild with inner fire under their
sleepy look. They had large pupils under
their hronze-colOred lashes, and they
were fierce and cruel. swift eyes that
could change in a second from one
vital expression to another.
She had seen them change, instantly.
when she looked up after the sliding
fall over the rim, the jolting catch of
her clutching hands in the pinon roots.
From that promising. sleepy wildness
to wide shock. Had seen them liter.
ally sober themselves from half-drunken
dementia to anguished sanity. Strange
eyes. Beautiful, even In their beast
like cruelty. There had been no
mercy for her In them. A wave of the
cold terror of that moment went over
her, followed instantly by burning
flush OF anger.
'I'll take my pound Of flesh from
him for this" she told herself through
tight lips, ''if it takes me the rest Of
my natural life. If free citizen Of
this country can't ride In safety I'll
know the reason why"
Then she finished dressing and went
out to where Lila, dark Serge's long
haired, golden wife, put the finishing
touches on the table for the evening
meal. They were striking foil for
each other. Sonya and her sister-in-
law, one so tall and dark and vital,
full-lipped, full of brow above her
dusky eyes, sinuous IN her movements,
the other small and fragile as flower.
fair thing to look at, to know. They
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1934-05-11

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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1934-05-11
Why Surreons Arc Busy

1t is estimated more than a million
operations are performed in the Unit
ed States every year.
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Whitens, Clears The
Skin Quickest Way

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complexion; no matter how freckled and
coarsened by sun and wind, Nadinola
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Evening star., 1934-11-17

out of the wreck, whereas under ordi-
nary mortgage procedure foreclosures
leave little if any opportunity to re-
cover anything in exchange for the
equity.
Short Term Expense Cut.
Moreover, the terms under which
mortgages are given in the opera
ton of title II of the national hous-
ing act, reduce the possibility of fore
closure to the minimum. This is true
because the mortgage may run for 20
years and may be paid in convenient
monthly installments, while the ex-
pense of short-term, Junior financing
is eliminated. And, of course, the
lender will fare better under our plan
than before, because he is fully in
sured against loss.
Thus, it seems fair and reasonable
to say that under titles II and III of
the national housing act, greater safe
guards are thrown about the home
owner than ever before, while the
lender of funds for home financing
receives greater protection against loss
than under any plan or system that
has thus far been devised.
Evening star., 1934-11-17
THREE CAPTURED
IN K|DNAP TRAP
Trio Seized Entering Home
of Man Whose Son Was
Threatened.
BY the Associated Press.

DARIEN, Conn, November IL
Three men arrested during what au-
thorities say was an attempt to kidnap
13-year-old Robert Lewis Westheim
must answer to charges of breaking
and entering with intent of commit
ting crime.
They were held under bond of
$4,000 each for the Criminal Superior
Court in Bridgeport after a quick ar
raignment last night.
The men, John Collins, 33, and
Joseph Borg, 26. of Providence, R. l.,
and Edward Menard, 33, of PaWtucket,
r. l., we're seized in a struggle in the
palatial home of Gustave w West
helm, steamship broker, by police, who
had kept vigil there since letters
received three days ago threatened
harm to Westheim's son. A fourth
man escaped.
Three other persons were being
questioned in Providence. They were
Mrs. Lillian Borg, %, wife of Joseph
Borg; David Borg. 18, brother, and
Joseph Favali, 81.
The Westheim boy was brought back
to his home last night from New
York, where he had been kept since
the first threats we're received.
Evening star., 1934-11-17

group is TO confer with the District
Playground Department and study
means of obtaining a playground for
children in the Glover Park area.
The need for this was demonstrated
by members who pointed out that
children can not play in the streets
and alleys because Of the danger, can
not use the school playground except
between the hours of nine and three
and then only under the supervision
OF a teacher, and have no other place
to CO.
The report Of the boundary COM
mittee, redesignating the limits of the
association, was accepted. The new
boundaries are Davis street on the
north, Wisconsin avenue on the east.
except that all of the territory of
the Industrial Home School is includ-
ed; w. place, w street and Manor
place on the south. and west to the
line of Glover-Archbold Park.
Nominations were made for the an
nual election of officers. to be held
at the next meeting.
Evening star., 1934-11-17
TRAFFIC BUREAU
ABOLITION ASKED
BrookIand Citizens Group
Told Too Many Police
Regulate Parking.

Abolition of the Police Traffic
Bureau was advocated last night by
A. F. E. Scheer, president of the
Joint Conference of Northeast Ciu-
zens' Associations. in an address be-
fore the Brookland Citizens AsSocia-
ton. No formal action was taken on
the matter.
Declaring that II per cent of WASH
ington policemen are traffic officers,
Scheer charged the city with being
Ito regulated" and asked consider
alton of his suggestion by the Brook
land Citizens Association.
These men should not spend their
time marking cars" he said, but
should be put back in the precincts to
better protect the property and safety
of the people.
Would Merge Forces.
Combining of the United States
Park Police with the regular metro
politan force was also advocated by
Scheer. In argument for this he
pointed to the large overhead created
by the maintenance of the two sep
arate police bodies.
Scheer in his address also at
tackled the delay in erecting a bridge
over the Franklin street northeast rail-
road tracks near Tenth street, which
are crossed by school children in an
effort to save walking more than two
miles out of their way
The District Commissioners and
Washington Police Department were
commended in a resolution adopted by
the association for the fine work done
in connection with the drive on
crime" DR.. George R. Ellis, chairman
of the associations Law and Legisla-
tion Committee, introduced the reso-
luton.
L. A. Carruthers. vice president of
the Federation of Citizens ASSocia
tions. declared IN an address that
Congress as whole was willing to
contribute to the support of the Dis
trict. but was undetermined on the
amount of appropriation.
On an average, for the past eight
or nine years, CarrutherS pointed out.
Congress has contributed about So
100000 yearly toward the Districts
support. Federal property here, in
cluding tangible property, has an es-
timated value of around $500 00O, ,000
If this were taxed, the Districts in
come from this source would be about
100000, he said.
High Tax Cited.
Property here Carruthers added, is
taxed higher. more nearly its true
value, than any other city in the
country.
He expressed himself in favor of a
sales tax. Taxes paid on the INSTALL
ment. such as gasoline tax and a
sales tax, are a much better plan,
he said. Through this system one
gets part of the revenue Immediately,
instead of yearly. Twenty-Five States
use the sales tax system, he pointed
out.
G.. S. Decker, of the Saliva tion
Army, outlined the work of the CON-
munity Chest, expressing his hope
that members of the association
would give full support this year.
Marvin M. Mclean. president of
the association. presided at the meet
ing, held in the Masonic Temple,
Twelfth and Monroe streets north
east.
Evening star., 1934-11-17
BY JAMES A. MOFFETT,


Copyright. l934 by the Associated Press.)
Owing to the close scrutiny TO
which all properties will be subjected
before they can be accepted as Sc
curity for mortgages insured under
the Federal Housing Administration S
mutual insurance plan, it is not ex-
pected that many defaults in interest
or principal will take place.
When such exigencies do occur,
however, the provisions that have
been made to cover such develop
ments are, in my opinion, as fair and
just to all concerned as it has been
possible to make them.
The method of procedure is as
follows:
The lender may foreclose in the
customary manner, and then sell the
property. If it should bring enough
to clear up the mortgage and all ex-
penses, the mortgage probably would
not bother with the insurance, and
the entire transaction would be ter
minated. Or the financial institution
holding the mortgage may buy in the
property and handle it as it sees
best and thus ignore the insurance
feature entirely.
Alternative Procedure.
The remaining alternative would
be for the mortgage, after bringing
foreclosure proceedings, to turn the
property over to the Federal Housing
Administration. In return for this.
the lending institution would receive
a debenture and certificate of claim.
The debenture would be for an
amount equal to the unpaid principal
OF the mortgage at the time the title
to the property was delivered to the
Federal Housing Administration, plus
any payments that may have been
made by the lender for taxes and
insurance
Both the debenture and the GER
tiflcate of cleam would bear interest
at the rate of not more than 3 per
cent a year The debenture would
fall due three years after the original
maturity date of the mortgage. All
debentures of this description issued in
exchange for mortgages insured before
July l, 1887, will be fully guaranteed
as to principal and interest by the
United States Government, thus put
ting them in the same category as
Government bonds
The main item, of course, covered
in the certificate of claim would be
unpaid interest on the mortgage from
the time it was defaulted until the
property was turned over to the Fed
eral Housing Administration.
Could Be Held.
1nasmuch as the property under
this procedure would be owned out
right by the Federal Housing Admin
istration it could be sold when the
market was favorable or kept and
rented for as long period as might
appear desirable.
When the property was sold. there
would be deducted from the net
amount realized, first, the expenses
of handling the entire transaction.
then the face amount of the debenture
with interest paid on it to date.
Whatever sum might then be left
would be used, first, to pay the certifi-
cate of claim with interest, and the
remaining funds would be turned over
to the former property owner.
It is important to bear in mind in
connection with this part of the pro-
cedure that. under the insured mort
gage plan, the foreclosed home owner
stands chance of saving something
Evening star., 1934-11-17
u. S. Housing Act Cires Lender
TUO Courses on Foreclosures
HOME FINANCING.

Question: In placing a mort
gage, there are fees for eXami-
nation of title, appraiSalS, draw
ing and recording of papers and,
possibly, where the mortgage is
on a newly-built house, an
architects fee. May these be
included in the mortgage?
Answer: Yes, provided that
they are within the limits set by
the regulations of the Federal
Housing Administration, which
are designed to protect prospec-
tive home owners against extor-
tionate charges, and provided
also, of course, that the mort
gage does not exceed 80 per cent
of the appraised value of the
property.
Evening star., 1934-11-17

sary to allow the safe passage Of those
who must walk and cannot ride. Those
sidewalks are like our private welfare
agencies.
Both the public roadway and the
private sidewalks are necessary to pro-
vide for safe progress. for all who must
be aided on their way from the I'M
happiness and insecurity Of the pres
ent toward the city of the future where,
SO far as is humanity possible, all
human beings may be happy, sturdy
ard useful citizens"
Evening star., 1934-11-17
JEWS TO BE ELECTED
FROM BERLIN THEATER
Only Cultural Center Lost When
City Condemns Building
as Unsafe.

BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN, November 1.-THE Jewish
cultural community will be elected
from its last refuge-the Berliner
Theater-it was announced yesterday.
The city of Berlin has acquired and
condemned the building, which was
erected in 1926.
Garages are to be built on the site.
The announcement said the walls
were cracked and the foundations
sinking.
The Berliner Theater was one of
the city's most prominent, ranking in
tradition with the famous Deutscher
Theater.