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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1934-02-02
MARYLAND GIVEN $4,000 FOR
RELIEF WORK

Maryland has been granted $780,
900 by the Federal Emergency Re-
lief Administration to carry on re-
lief work in the State through Jan
uary and February, Harry Green
stein, State Relief Administrator,
announced Friday.
Early in January the State re-
ceiyed $4,000 from the Federal
Administration, making a total of
81, 100000 for the year thus far.
The total received from the Federal
Administration in Maryland in 1888
was s4,372.59S. Mr.. Greenstein
said that there are more than 10000
persons on relief in the State.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1934-02-02
URGENT NEED
FOR FUNDS
Chi,dren's Aid Society To
Held Campaign In
Cecil County

The Board of Directors OF the
Child1en's Aid Society o. Cecil
County. after studying The financial
condition CT the agency, decided, at
The quarterly meeting Monday, to
hold campaign for funds in the
ear future. Senator Wallace Will
liams was appointed to heao the ef-
1urt, in which the entire county will
be asked to participate.
The action was taken after MISS
Nellie j. Beardsell, Director OF the
Children's Aid, reported that the
agency is unable to provide care for
:, number of local children in i'm
1iediate need CT assistance she
s.ated that government relief funds
rust go to the unemployed and can
not be used for the care Oh neglected,
dependent, and crippled children.
Miss Beardsell said, Since No
yember, 1881, over two years ago,
the Children's Aid Society has been
CARRYING on a hand-to-mouth exist
esce. The time has now come when
this plan of financing can no longer
he continued Without seriously
handicapping the need of children in
mis- county. We can no longer lg-
more the calls for help from little
children. Rigli now there are
children in desperate plignts. The
United States Government is giving
literally for unemployment relief,
but has decreed that not one cent OF
money shall go for the care OF little
children. Uncle Sam considers
them the responsibility OF local COM
munities.
Considerable concern over the n
rancial difficulties of the agency was
expressed by board members. They
believe, however, that when the
public is informed of the need OF ad-
6itional funds, an adequate response
will be made to enable the agency
to extend help to those children 1t
finds to be in need. and to insure
satisfactory continuance Ct the
work.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1934-02-02
PERSONAL AND
SOCIAL
Items OF Social Nature OF In
terest To Our Readers

Harvey Buckwalter, Washington,
was visitor at the Brumfield home
on Monday.
Miss Mabel Reynolds entertained
at dinner on Saturday Mr.. and Mrs.
Will Reynolds and son Billie.
Mr.. and Mrs. Benjamin F. Thorn
as, of Akin, observed the dfty-sev-
enth anniversary of their Wedding
on Tuesday, January 16.
Edwin l.. Haines, who had been a
patient in Johns Hopkins Hospital,
Baltimore, for several weeks, was
able to return to his home here last
week, and is progressing nicely.
Miss Dorothy McCrabb, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank McCraob, and
Herbert Eckman, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank Eckman, Chestnut Level,
Pa, were united in marriage on
Thursday, at Elkton.
Thomas M. Lindell, of Principle
Furnace, has announced the engage
ment of his daughter, Miss Myrtle
E. Lindell, to Martin L. Price.
They will be married on Washing
toms Birthday, February %.
Mr.. John H. r. lamar, Of Chicago,
ILL.,, has announced the marriage Of
his daughter, Miss Mary Isabel
lamar, formerly of Elkton, and Mr..
Edward Daniel Morgan, of Gallup,
New Mexico, the ceremony being
performed on Saturday, Jan. 20, at
Albuquerque, N. M. Mr.. and Mrs.
Morgan will reside at Gallup.
Sunday, January %, was the SSth
birthday of Mr.. Edwin Haines, Ris-
ing Suns oldest resident The not
able anniversary was happily OBJ
served by a family reunion and din
ner. Mr.. Haines has but recently
returned to his home here from the
hospital, where he sustained an OPP
Grafton, and is rapidly regaining his
accustomed good health.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1934-02-02
HELD in JAIL ON COMPLAINT
OF WOMAN

Charles Swanson, of Elkton, who
recently completed an enlistment IN
lie United States Navy, was held in
the Cecil County Jail, Elkton, Mon
day night, charged with assault and
battery and attempted attack upon
Mrs. Catherine Simpson, wife OF
Howard Simpson, who lives on tbs
old Frenchtown turnpike, about two
miles southeast of Elkton.
The assault is alleged to have
taken place at the womans home
Saturday evening while other mem
hers OF Inc household were away
Swanson deaied the charges. 1t is
alleged that when the woman was
attacked she tainted,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1934-02-02
MARRIAGES ANNOUNCED

Mr.. and Mrs. John Clanton, of
Little Britain Township, Fa., an
nounce the marriage of their daugh-
ter, Pauline W., to Charles Webb
Crossan, of Unionville, which took
place January End in the Norristown
Presbyterian manse; also the mar
riage of their son, Clarence Clanton,
to Miss Sophia Turner, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Melvin Turner, of
West Chester, which took place De-
cember 81 in Elkton.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1934-02-02
EXECUTIVE VICE-PRESJDENT
OF BANK

G. Albert Ringgold, who for some
time past has been Chief Deputy
Comptroller of the State Of Mary
land, has been elected executive
vice-president of the ElktoE Bank
ing and Trust Company, which re-
opened on Monday, after being
closed since the bank holiday last
March, except for new accounts.
Branches of the Trust Company at
Rising Sun, Chesapeake City and
Cecilton are now also open on an
unrestricted basis.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1934-02-02
T,rSEGys FROM TERCENTssNARY
COMMISSION

The resignation of J. Alexis shriy-
er as chairman and director general
of the Maryland Tercentenarv Com
mission, has been accepted by Gov
e-nor Richie In his letter to the
Governor, Mr.. Shriver said that 'as
asy IDEAS as to the character of the
e ercises commemorating Mary
lands 3OOth Birthday, to be held
drring the year, are at variance
with the majority Of the executive
committee. / think this is pro-
pitious time to present tay rssignav
tim, which l hereby do With regret,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1934-02-02
PEN-MAR TRAP SHOOTING
YEAGJIE

AT a meeting Of the Pen-Nar Trap
Shooting League held January 16,
H. M. Duyckinek, of Rising Sun, was
elected president, and Hugh Falls,
of Port Deposit, secretary.
By unanimous consent the regular
program Of shoots has been suspend
ed for the present season. Because
of the recent lack of employment
this course was deemed advisable,
rather than continue the regular
program with poor attendance.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1934-02-02
new PHILADELPHIA
ROAD TO Be BUILT
Is Given Priority In Mary
land Highway Program

The proposed new Philadelphia
road is to be given priority in all
road construction programs in Mary
land to be financed by Federal funds
under the Public Works Adm inistra-
ton, w. c. Stettinius, chairman OF
the Maryland State Advisory Board,
has advised the State Roads Com
mission.
Furthermore, each project pro-
posed by the commission to the
board must be a complete unit and
easy lor highway service. Or, as
n. Stet. MUS explained, there must
- complete construction OF road
as one unit, and no partia. con-
struction.
Following a meeting Of the COM
mission Friday afternoon, e Brooke
Lee, spokesman for the com mission,
said:
''This means we will have to hold
back a certain number Of projects
that this commission has recon-
mended, the Maryland committee on
Federal projects has approved and
the PWA has accepted"
The commission took no definite
action on the proposal of Thomas H.
Macdonald, head of the United
States Bureau of Roads, that new
Philadelphia road be built parallel
with the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
road between Baltimore and Aber-
deem and that Monument-Granklin
street viaduct be constructed in
place of the proposed Bath street
viaduct.
Mr.. MacDanold, following State
survey, rejected proposal to im-
prove the present Philadelphia road
and Fayette street with Federal
funds. There have been Indications
since the receipt Of this Ma donald
report by the State Roads Commis-
sion that controversy over the rels
alive merits of the Monument street
and the Bath street viaducts, which
extended over four years, would be
|reopened. 80
With the exception Of a swo-ands
a-half- mile strip adjacent, Ito the
eastern city line, the State Roads
Commission ON Monday abandoned
it's plan to improve extensively the
Philadelphia road and agreed to
build a new highway connecting Bal
timore with the north and east.
In regard to the two-and-a-half-
mile strip, however, two members Of
the commission Ca majority insist
ed that the new road extend only as
far southwest as Golden Ring and
that the highway then follow the
Philadelphia road route into the
city
Members of the advisory board re-
fused to agree to this plan, holding
that the new road should proceed
into Baltimore separately and inde-
pendently of the Philadelphia road.
With both groups refusing to give
way, it finally was decided to have
Washington officials settle the Ques-
ton in regard to the strip, and all
present agreed to abide by the deci-
sion made.
Rights of way will be secured and
actual construction work begun as
soon as possible. The new high
way will be of the dual type along a
150-foot right Of way.
The project will be a Part OF
Maryland's $12,5OO,OO0 Federal aid
highways program. The highway
will parallel and lie southwest of the
tracks of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad. At Aberdeen it will fol-
low the present course of the Phila-
delphia road to Havre de Grace,
which stretch also will be dualed.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1934-02-02
REPORT OF TAXPAYERS COM.
MITTEE

Elsewhere in this issue will be
found the report Of the Taxpayers
Committee in its entirety. We be-
speak careful reading Of the re-
port, as it presents some interesting
facts CLEANED by the committee. Il
also shows the futility of efforts to
effect drastic reforms, when said re-
forms touch the peanut politicians
vested right of feeding at the pubic
crib.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1934-02-02

The Rev. Richard X. White, s. T.
M, rector Of Trinity Episcopal
Church since pscemhsr IA, 1871,
will leave Elkton to accept the REQ
torship Of ~, Paul's Church at
Georgetown, Del. after February II.
He will be succeeded by the Rev. y.
Warren Atkinson, D. ~, now rector
of susquehanna Parish, embracing
churches at Port Deposit and Akin.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1934-02-02
GROUND HOG DAY

Today, Friday, February End, is
Ground Hog Day, when the little an
imal is supposed to tell us all about
the weather for the next six weeks.
If he sees his shadow when he comes
out at the noon. hour, then lock cut
for six more. weeks Of winter; II he
does not see his shadow, gentle
showers and Spring flowers are just
around the corner;-belieye 1t or
not,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1934-02-02
WOMAN HEADS CATTLE CLUB

The Cecil County Jersey Cattle
Club at its second annual meeting
and banquet held at the Howard He-
tel. Elkton, elected Mrs. II. 2. Crow
fgey. Of Elkton, presidents; Clayton
Mcdowell Calvert, vice-president,
and Glenn McGrady. Rising Sun,
secretary-treasurer.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1934-02-02
COUNTERFEIT PLATE MAKERS
SENTENCED

Two members of York, Pa,
photo-engraving firm have been SEN
fenced to two years each In North
eastern Penitentiary in that State,
for manufacturing plates for use in
printing counterfeit money.
The men, A. Nelson and Charles
A. Horn, pleaded guilty in FEEDERS
Court before Judge Albert L. Wat
son. A third defendant, Theodore
Hertzog, indicted with the Horn
will be arrigned later,
It was charged that the Horn en-
craving plant manufactured plates
which later were used in printing
spurious Federal Reserve $40 notes.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1934-02-02
PURPOSE OF HOME LOAN COR
PORATION

The Home Loan Corporation Tor
Cecil county, has received numerous
requests for money to take up mort
cages generally. This Is wrong
impression. The Corporation is in
tended solely to help out when there
is a foreclosure threatened tie own
err or the sheriff is, about to sell the
property for taxeg
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1934-02-02

The annual meeting of the Mary
land Press Asaoch pm viii be held
on Saturday, February 10, at 1890
a. M. at the Emerson Hotel, Balti-
more.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1934-02-02

7 A man gets lots of advice on his
health when he Is sick and helpless.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-06
I a0ho1y diSapprove of aOhat you sag and will
defend to the death your right to sag it-VoltGjre
Three Cheers for the Trustee

cuSe from work men who had a
reason for not working.
Then I began to see what the
trustees office was up against.
With about 5000 men at work, be-
sides those who were excused from
work by the trustees, which, I
imagine, was 1000 or more, per-
son can plainly see that there was
bound to be a mistake now and
then.
To see that everybody got coal,
milk and groceries on the specified
day was large order. We found
that most of the knockers were
goldbrickers, and that they were
at fault themselves because they
failed to receive proper relief. OF
course, not all were that way, and
it caused hardshipS to them at the
time. I believe that every person
who is entitled to relief will get it.
AS to Mrs. Spaulding, if some
of these knockers had her job,
they would call doing without coal
and groceries a godsend, when it
comes to hearing about it as much
as she does and trying to satisfy
some people who wouldn't be salts
fled with all the money that Henry
Ford has.
I am the father of five children,
and l am as poor as any Of the
rest. but say three cheers for the
trustees, as I think they are doing
wonderful job.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-06
A Woman's Viewpoint
By MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

they could not spend so much as
a happy half hour with them
selves. That's what I call being
spiritually dependent.
IF every mon ent of your day,
l. you must have companionship
Of some sort then you are not in
dependent at all. You are con-
demned to perpetual serfdom-
the serfdom of the mob. If you
can not sit down and enjoy your
own society, or read book, or
feel keen pleasure in that sense
of enlargement of personality that
comes only by being alone, then
you might just as well be back
in the Victorian era so far as
getting any god out of freedom is
concerned.
We are a gregarious people, but
there is something almost servue
in our consuming need for ex-
element and noise. One seldom
meets serene woman nowadays.
We all scream and fidget and
laugh when there's nothing to
daugh at.
And so I think the one thing
the modern girl needs for any
kind Of success Is more time out
for getting acquainted with her.
self.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-06
HOPEFUL COMPUTATION

ONE of the effects of the devaluation pro-
~ gram apparently will be a reduction in
the actual size Of the United States govern
ments stupendous debt.
Shortly before devaluation was announced,
Professor Irving Fisher of Yale pointed out
that although the debt recently increased in
round figures from $4,000 100000 to $24,ooo'
100000, the total actually is substantially less
if a reduction in the value of the dollar is
taken into account
Viewed in this light, he remarked, the
government debt today is really about IL per
cent less than the debt Of March 4, 1888
despite the fact that in cold figures it is Is
per cent greater.
All this is comforting enough, to nation
filed with uneasiness by growing federal
debt But it indicates that the ordinary pro-
cesses Of arithmetic aren't going to be quite
enough for us in our future assessments OF
national profit and loss.
method of reckoning which makes "a
billions less than 81 billions is something our
school books failed to teach us.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-06

VOUNG women are tremen-
i dously concerned about eco
nomic independence. have let
ter after letter describing the am
billions of the writer's and inquir-
ing as to the probability of their
realization.
Fortunately, the fields into
which girls may go these days are
many, but so few Of us understood
what success and independence
really are.
Primarily, of course, success
means the making of money, or
at least of decent living. Girls
hardly expect more than that.
But we should want something
else. To build a good life, mad to
work, not for cash alone, but for
the pleasure we have in doing our
job-these are the true rewards
for all human striving.
And so, it seems to me, before
we can become economically in
dependent fe must first be spir-
itually free. The latter often in
wolves far more effort than the
former.
I've known plenty Of fine girls
who were regular whizzes at the
of1ce-almost top notch in their
professions or trade-but who were
such slaves to other people that
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-06

prodigous amount of traffic. It
is evident that the conditions that
held sway in the Meridian street of
old hardly can be said to operate to-
day.
There being more traffic there
naturally would be more mishaps-
more accidents. But the point is
that the accidents are not proper
Tomato to the traffic. They far
supersede that.
Woe to the dog or the cat that
SO much as dares to cross the street.
A thousand toots and blares and
whistles and horns to the wary in
dividual who ventures a crossing.
Things have come to pass that
only the more alert, the Swifter, and
the more strategic can cross with
out conjunction.
I have seen aged men and women,
not to speak Of cripples, who have
secured entire neighborhoods in
search Of an opportunity to cross
much like horsemen used to seek
fords in the rivers.
One thing is certain. This acct
dent trend is growing one. So
conditions will grow worse and
school children will be next in the
list of injured, unless scientific and
organized action is taken.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-06
EvAsIvE HOLDING COMPANIES

THE federal power commission thinks it is
l. time for the government to turn attention
to utility holding companies.
For one reason or another the federal water
power act usually considered one of the most
thorough and intelligent pieces of legislation
ever written has never functioned effectively.
Improper enforcement was the reason at first.
Now the holding company problem places Gin
surmomtable difficulties" the commission re-
ports, in the way of auditing costs Of a
licensed power project-and this is the founda-
ton of the regulation the commission is sup
posed to exercise.
Under the new deal we are getting new
vision of what planned development Of the
nations power resources may mean to the
people, of what electric rates within the capac-
ity of every pocketbook may bring in the
way of civilized living But the vision is not
enough. Unless the power commission is un-
shackled and allowed to proceed toward this
goal fulfllment will never come
Licensing and regulation of power projects
is joke while the power commission, when it
sets out TO determine costs, finds that the
pertinent facts . are either buried in ac-
counts Of companies outside the commissions
jurisdiction and. therefore. not subject to its
scrutiny. or are not to be found in any record
at all"
And regulation had better not remain
joke. If it doesn't begin to work pretty soon
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-06

HITLER "UBER AIISTRIAn

a GAIN the League Of Nations is to be
tested by fire. If it fails this time. there
WI be little left Of 1t for salvage The de-
cRion rests largely with Great Britain. France
aed Italy, who dominate the league.
The test IS Austria and the seeds of an
okher war. Nazi Germany for many months
has been violating the sovereignty of her
sqithern neighbor, supporting Nazi counter
revolution there. Austria has protested 20
Germany and threatens to take the case to
tie League Of Nations. Hitler replies that this
is a domestic dispute.
Germanys seizure of Austria directly, or
Indirectly. through a Hitler-controlled Naz
characterization, would increase the proba-
brities Of European war. Far from being
dpmestic issue. it IS the very center of the
European powder barrel.
This dangerous situation, of course. is pre-
c6ely the kind which the League of Nations
IS supposed to be able to handle-and which
iShas failed to handle to date because of the
great powers who control the league.
when an earlier test arose In the far east
in the case of japanese aggression against
Chinese N1anchuria. the league had the aid of
the United States because a specific American
treaty-the nine-power pact-was being vio-
lated. Despite American peace leadership.
Great Britain and others were able to prevent
effective league action, A year later when
Japan quit the league, it was too late. As
result the league lost much of its prestige and
power.
At that time we pointed out that Germany
was being encouraged to follow Japan's ex-
ample This is now occurring.
Great Britain, France and Italy must unite
in sharp warning to Hitler in defense Of
Austrian freedom and the league, or be pre-
pared to take the consequences.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-06
LET US BE WARNED

TINE head of the Japanese navy assures the
japanese parliament that in two more
years the effective strength Of the japanese
navy will outrank that Of the American navy.
On the same day. congress considers
naval construction measure which would give
this country a fleet superior in hitting power
to the famous fleet of 1919, when new ships
from the wartime building program just had
gone into service.
And a former japanese cabinet minister
bluntly warns his fellow-eountrymen that if
naval programs are to be dictated by the ad-
nirals Of the two countries. an unbridled
armament race will be inevitable and war
will be highly probable.
All of which emphasizes the way in which
the relations between this nation and Japan
have drifted into the danger zone. Not in
years has the prospect of war been discussed
so openly. Not since the Washington confer
ence has the navy building race been carried
on in such grim earnest.
The ordinary American, who finds it hard
to think of a good reason why he should send
his boy half way around the world to die
fighting nation which les on the other side
of the Pacific. is apt to grow a trife nervous
as he contemplates this situation.
Yet it may be that the horizon is not quite
as dark as it seems.
All this talk of war. ominous as it sounds,
at least brings the problem out into the open
and forces it on our attention We at least
are getting plenty of warning that there is
trouble ahead.
We are not likely to repeat Europes tragic
mistake of I914-when. as Newton D. Baker
once remarked. the world went to war IN a
1T Of absent mindednesS.
Our task right now is to survey the stu
ton thoroughly to know the worst. and to
lay our plans accordingly.
That such plans must include maintenance
of an adequate fleet goes without saying. But
that can not be the only item on the program.
The difficulties between the two nations
must be examined carefully. and peaceful ways
Of settling them must be sought
We are being warned in plenty Of time.
It ought not to be impossible for us to profit
by the warning.