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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-01-18

and Italian war veterans.
81 am glad to tell you that Premier
Mussolini and ! are now in complete
accord"
Without waiting for an official conf
munique, those best informed said
Laval and II duce had reached full
agreement, the principal features of
serve the independence of Austria, a
five or six power pact of noninterfer-
ence, and provisions for colonial con-
cessions in Africa. The pact agreeing
not to interfere with one another's in
ternal affairs presumably will include
Italy, Czechoslovakia, Jugoslavia, Aus
tria. and Hungary; and later Eng
land, France and Rumania may be
asked to adhere to 1t.
G ENATOR HUEY P. LONG, after
- attacking the administration on the
floor Of the senate, betook himself to
the radio and continued the assault.
He declared the Roosevelt policies
WNAC hoPOiNSos anu cul4AOACO OH thC
people to flock to his banner and help
wipe out all fortunes above three or
four millions, making every man
king"
Meantime the revolt against the
kingfish In Louisiana was growing.
Citizens by the hundreds were joining
the Square Deal association which is
pledged to march on the capitol In
Baton Rouge unless the legislature re-
peals certain of Huey's dictatorial
laws.
DUBLIC WORKS ADMINISTRATOR
l ICKES has resumed his contest with
Arizona over the building of the Par
ker dam In the Colorado river and
wants the Supreme court to keep that
state and its navy" consisting of one
scow, from interfering with the job.
Solicitor General Biggs asked permits
sion Of the court to file suit for an in
junction.
The governor of Arizona recently
called out his militia and his navy to
keep the public administration from
completing the dam. He held that it
would interfere with the distribution
Of irrigation water in his state.
DREMIER r. b. BENNETT of Can
ada. appealing for support for his
administration, promises TO give the
Dominion "New Deal" that bears
close resemblance to President Roose-
velt's economic and social program.
He outlined his proposals in speech
in which he demanded IAN end to the
reckless exploitation Of human re-
sources and the trafficking in the
health and happiness of Canadian citl
zens."
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-01-18

thereafter. In present
ing the budget to con-
gress, President Roose-
velt admitted this, but
without Gualms. He
estimated $8,520,W0,
600 as the amount of
money necessary to
carry on the govern
ment's activities for
the 1896 fiscal year be-
ginning July / next.
The expenses for the
current year, partly
estimated, are $751;
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-01-18
Anti-Clerical Move

In determined campaign to
break the power of the Moham-
medan priesthood in Turkey, the
government Is demanding that the
clergy wear civilian clothes except
when actually attending religious
ceremonies. The ban on clerical at
tire In public applies to Moslem, Ar
menian, Catholic, Orthodox, Prot
testant and Jewish clergy.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-01-18

Pierre Laval or France
and Premier Musso-
lini was announced in
formally. For t W o
days the two states
men d s Gus s e d the
points at issue between
their nations and con-
ditions In general in
central Europe. Emerg-
ing from the last of
their meetings, Laval.
smiling broadly, said
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-01-18

Total exnenditures $3.50. 41s. COS
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-01-18

rapidly toward a
judgment as to the
legality of the abro-
cation of gold pay
ments. Several cases
challenging this act
were Jumped and oral
argu m e n is were
heard. This being q
matter Of vast i'm
portance, involving
500. 1000, 900, 900, At
torney General Homer
s. Cummings himself
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-01-18

Total receipts for the, same period
are put at 1891 800, $3.50, so the esti-
mated deficit will be $4,528, 5OS,97O.
OF the recovery and relief fund the
President asked that $4,000, 100000 be
placed at his disposal to be allocated
by him principally for giving work
to those unemployed on the relief
rolls"
Here are some other vital things
disclosed by the message:
The national debt will increase from
$31 ,000.00O,O00 at the close of this fis-
cal year to 4,239, 100000.
No new taxes are requested. Con-
gress is asked to continue the so-called
nuisance taxes which expire soon and
the 3-cent stamp rate.
A national defense appropriation of
$S99, 948, O65-the greatest in the his
tory Of the country-is requested.
A total of 137,134 federal workers
are to be dismissed. - - - Ast'-1ss,as''
Veterans pensions in 1896 win reach
the staggering total of $704,0O0,OOO.
The accumulated New Deal deficit
for three years on June 30, 1896, will
total $11, 7OO.OOO.OO0.
While the trend of recovery and re-
lief expenditures is downward, regular
federal expenses will increase.
MARY PICKFORD went before
1V1 Judge Ben Lindsey in Los An
geles and obtained decree of divorce
from Douglas Fairbanks; and thus
came to an end the union of the ''royal
couple" of moviedom, who for ten years
were regarded as the model welded
pair so far as happiness and worldly
success went.
Mary's suit, filed more than year
ago, charged Doug with mental cruelty,
Indifference and neglect. She told
Judge Lindsey the charges were true
and that fair and just property set
tlement had been made; and after Eliz-
abeth Lewis, Miss Pickford's secretary,
had testified the decree was granted
and Mary left the courtroom almost
in tears.
FAIRBANKS, In st. Moritz, switzerland,
was informed of the divorce but de-
clined to comment.
EX-PRESIDENT HERBERT HOOv-
~ Err has been elected director of
the New York Life Insurance COM
pany, at the instance of Alfred F..
Smith. He was first offered the place
two years ago when the death of Cal
vim Coolidge created vacancy. Mr..
Hoover said: Il have accepted in the
hope of contributing something to the
protection and advancement of the in
terests of millions of policy holders,
for in these great insurance trusts lies
one of the most vital Of personal Sc
curities to the women and children
Of the country"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-01-18
Checking
Radicals

sion they were constantly harassed by
the radicals who sought to force votes
on legislation which the President and
his advisers did not want and which
for the same reason the Democratic
leaders did not want The radicals ac-
complished their purposes by use of
what is called the rule of discharge OF
committees. But that rule has been
amended so that to invoke it now. ac-
tually a majority of the house will
have to sign petition.
Under the previous rule, the sigma
ture of 145 members of the house was
sufficient to compel the discharge of
committee from consideration of any
piece of legislation referred to 1t for
action. The necessary number of sig
natures was obtained in three embar-
RAISING cases last year. The soldiers
bonus bill was brought out by that
method: the Frazier-Lemkef farm mort
gage imitation bill was released for
house vote in the same manner.
The new house organization. how
ever. is determined not to be embar-
raised in that manner. 1t succeeded
in Democratic caucus-binding on all
Democrats-in having the original
rule amended so that now there must
be a majority of all house members
afFixing their signatures to the dis
charge petition before it becomes OPP
erative.
q. western Newspaper Union
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-01-18

In THE highly dramatlzed trial Of
Bruno Hauptmann for the kldnap-
ing and murder Of the Lindbergh baby
net of clrcumstantial evidence around
the defendant. Lindbergh first identi-
fed his voice as that of the man who
received the ransom; next was Aman-
dus Hochmuth, eighty-seven-year-old
man who told of seeing Hauptmann
driving "dirty-green" car with lad
der In 1t into the Lindbergh lane March
/, 1892, the day of the kidnapping. Then
John Perrone, Bronx taxi driver. identi-
fed him as the man who paid him 81
to deliver ransom note to "Jafsie."
"Jafsie," otherwise DIR. John Con.
don, the aged Bronx educator who I'M
dertook the negotiations with the kid
naper, next went on the stand and In
his garrulous way identified Bruno as
the man with whom he dealt and to
whom he handed the $4,000 ransom
money. His long and somewhat ram
bling story was bitterly assaulted In
cross examination by II. J. Reilly, chief
of defense counsel, but seemingly the
great value Of his evidence was not
much shaken.
Detective Arthur johnson of New
York was on his way home from Eu-
rope bringing relatives of the late Isa-
dore Fisch to testify for the state.
Hauptmann claimed In his defense that
tho rnucnu rnnnax fn,nd Su htc RIOS
session was given to him by Fisch, a
business associate In New York. Fisch
later returned to his home in Ger
many, where he died.
a N APOLOGY to the Canadian gov
eminent and payments of $780,
666.5O damages Is the penalty imposed
on the United States for sinking the
rum running schooner I'm Alone In the
Gulf of Mexico in March of 1920.
This decision was announced by Willis
Van Devanter, associate justice Of the
United States Supreme court, and Sir
Lyman Poore Duff. chief justice of
Canada, who were the commissioners
treaty of 1924 between the United
States and Great Britain for control
ling liquor smuggling.
OF the damages awarded, $25, 600 is
to be paid as compensation to the
Canadian government and $25,666,50 to
the master and members of the crew
of the I'm Alone or their families. In
cluded in the latter is $10.1S5 to the
widow and children of Leon Mainguy,
a French citizen of st. Pierre, Mique-
Ion, who drowned when the schooner
was sunk by the coastguard.
The commissioners found that the
master and members of the crew were
not parties to liquor smuggling con-
spiracy.
THERE were huge signs Of relief
In the chancelleries of Europe
when the success of the conversations
in Rome between Foreign Minister
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-01-18

HAVING given the New Deal slight
i i swat by holding the petroleum
control feature of the MIRA uncon-
stitutional, the Supreme Court moved
Evening star., 1935-11-02
STARS, MEN AND ATOMS
Notebook Of Science Progress in Field,
Laboratory and Study.
BY THOMAS r. HENRY

retreat of the last glaciers from this part
of North America-remains a mystery.
There were no human bones found in
the excavations. The work this Summer,
however, enabled Dr. Roberts to con-
Struct a more intimate picture of the
ways of life of this primitive people and
of the habitation site itself
This particular settlement dwelt in
what once was valley filled with luxuri-
ant meadows fed by cold springs. The
Sedge grass and reeds grew in profusion
on the valley floor. This can be deduced,
if not entirely proven, by the character
of the layer of black soil which rests
directly upon the glacial gravels The
valley probably was a favorite grazing
ground for the biSon-creatureS of an
extinct species considerably larger than
the bison of today There is every reason
to believe that there were enormous herds
of them.
Folsom man hunted with spears.
Probably he seldom was able to kill one
of the big animals outright with a single
blow. He was, however, a skillful hunter.
He probably knew how to hit an animal
so that it would be paralyzed and could
safely be knocked over the head. For
instance. one spear point was found
penetrating slightly the spinal column
of bison, a wound that would have
paralyzed the creatures hind legs.
Some of the points found this Summer
appear to have been arrowheads. They
are about the right size for this purpose
and are too small, it would appear. to
have been useful as spear points. This
raises the interesting question as to the
iy,,n yxrIn hn hovr
brought into North America, presumably
on one of the migration waves from Asia.
1t is known that the basket makers of
the Southwest did not have this imple-
ment. Yet Folsom man, it generally Is
supposed, preceded them by several
centuries.
Several new types of artifacts were
found, including one bit of notched bone
which hardly could have served any other
purpose than that of an ornament. A
number of palettes we're found which
had been used for mixing a sort of red
paint which also probably was employed
for personal decoration. There were
several traces of fires over which Folsom
men probably had cooked their bison
steaks.
Altogether, the work this Summer is
believed to have revealed a fair cross
section of life in the ancient settlement,
although the possibilities are by no
means exhausted. The primitive hunters,
Dr. Roberts says, occupied considerable
area-at least half mile long and a
hundred yards wide. The indications are
that they were there for long period
This ancient habitation site first was
discovered several years ago by Judge
c. C. Coffin and was partially explored
by Maj. Roy G. Coffin, professor of
geology at Colorado State College. Mai.
Coffin reported it to the Smithsonian
Institution.
Evening star., 1935-11-02
Hands,.

Not long ago new town was begun
at Elm Park near London, and five hun
dred houses were erected to accommo-
date the first residents. But before even
single line had been drawn by the
architects the sponsors of the develop
ment had the wit to inquire of the wives
Of prospective purchasers as to what
conveniences they desired in their homes
Curiously, the answer was: kitchens
large enough to turn round in"
Back of that reply, however, lay
psychology of occupation interesting to
examine. Women are manual workers.
For untold centuries they have been
using their hands. Cooking, sewing,
washing, ironing, practicing all the
household arts and sciences, day after
day, year after year, they have acquired
q transmissible deXterity which is part
of their cultural endowment-one of the
basic values of their lives. So it happens
that the widow of millionaire, possessed
Of a monumental fortune, employs her
leisure knitting jackets for babies she
never has been, and her sister, almost
equally we'll provided with material
riches, tats an endless sequence OF beau
Evening star., 1935-11-02
Hirsute Distinction.

Sergeant John A. Johanson, retiring
from the Army at the end of thirty years
of honorable service, has been the re-
cipient of commendatory notice for the
ornament which graces his upper lip.
In paragraph 4. general orders II, his
chief speaks of him as being 'one of the
few surviving members of that fine old
school of enlisted men, symbolized
by the military mustache which SO dis
tinguished the service over a quarter of
a century ago." His handlebar adorn-
ment, it is explained in the same testi-
monial had the effect of making him "a
conspicuous figure in the metropolitan
area, to the great credit Of the United
States army
The story prompts appreciation of how
drastically times have changed since
Sergeant Johanson was young. Hirsute
distinction was so commonplace at the
moment of his enrolment in 1904 that
it was no distinction at all. Rather, it
was the fashion, and the youthful rookie
cultivated the soup strainer over his
mouth so that his appearance might be
in harmonious consonance with that of
his buddies. 1t was the mustache age,
and to be totally clean-shaven in that
era was inferentially equivalent to being
stark naked. Certainly. there was plen-
Evening star., 1935-11-02
Modernistic Conception of
Art and Color Defended
To the Editor OF The Star:

To the Editor OF The Star:
You asked in your editorial is Mod
ernism Declining? Then attempted
to prove that it is. To forecast oblivion
for such modern masters OF art as
PicaSso, Cezanne, Monet, ETC., is broad
statement indeed. However, as long as
artists make more than a superficial
study of their profession their fame will
endure. Their theories and contribu-
tions to art are founded upon scientific
truths. Often they appear radical and
startling, but so has every advance in
any realm been designated.
What the old masters didn't know
about color would fill several books. In
fact. the scientific study of color as we
know it has been learned in the past
fifty years. Color laws that every art
student is familiar with were unknown
to the older painters Any modern
artist who painted with the brown sauce
and dull grayS of the old masters and
called it a truthful representation of
nature would be either ignorant or
liar and should be ridiculed as such.
1t is idle to speak of purple cows, for any
object in nature can be any color. de-
pending upon the color of light that hits
it. Why can't COW be purple as well
dS OloIh, leu VI yCllOW! L IllSllL dSh,
Is snow white? AS a matter of fact it
seldom is. as any artist will say. Monet
painted grass green in one of his pic
lures and after being criticized took a
violin and laid 1t on the grass to prove
1t was not brown. as it had been the
custom to paint it.
CeZanne discovered that the shadow
of an object did not merely turn dark,
f@l1 IrE..1 10
color spectrum; that is. a red apple in
light would have crimson, violet and
purple shadow intermingled with green,
the Complementary of red. A fact so
obvious now that it is universally prac-
ticed where true color representation is
desired. Cezanne may have been a poor
painter. but what he learned and handed
down to artists entities him to the posi-
ton of greatness accorded him, for he
revolutionized painting. Even the artists
that ridicule his work follow the ideas
he eXpounded
Painting was practically dead up to
the middle of the nineteenth century, in
SO far as anything creative or original
efforts were concerned. 1t is difficult
for us to realize how barren and decayed
it was until the moderns revived it. And,
believe me. this could not have been ac-
compliShed had their ideas been founded
on treason false theories or sand.
From Cezanne PicaSSo developed
"cubism" which has doubtless changed
the field of art more than any move
ment since Da Vinci perfected oil paint
ing Architecture. interior decoration.
furniture painting and sculpture have
all passed under its influence. Without
it We would have to go back to the Vic
torian age. The iSms and experiments
of modernism will be sifted out, and
from it will arise the essence of modern
art, which is simplicity, economy and
beauty-an art that interprets the age
in which We live WILLIAM MACY.
Evening star., 1935-11-02

tiful laces. Neither is obliged to toll,
but in the heart Of each is that strange
Instinct to make things
The ladies Of Elm Park, then, were
concerned about the size of kitchens be-
cause of the enterprises they meant to
initiate there. They wanted room Ito
turn round In" not for the luxury Of
spaciouSness itself, but rather for the
practical utility which it would signify
in terms of domestic achievements. Per-
haps they did not pause to analyze the
motive OF their demand Almost cer-
tainly they did not trace it back to its
origin in the mists of unwritten history.
But such an excursion, had it been
undertaken, would have disclosed the
very fabric of civilization-the handwork
which successive generations have
accomplished.
Those who fear the RECOMMENDATION of
the machine age may be encouraged by
the elemental truth to which the women
of Elm Park have testified. Humanity
will not be utterly mechanical so long
as people still respond to the ancient
urge to create for themselves. The
philosopher knows the correlated verify
whereby 1t Is established that builders
also are thinkers and that while hands
are free and active, minds will be
unenSlaved.
Evening star., 1935-11-02

tiful precedent for smooth faces-every
Chief Executive from George Washing
ton through James Buchanan had been
beardless and the whiskers of Abraham
Lincoln and U. S. Grant had been rea-
sonably close-cropped affairs. But lat
terly-in the instances of Rutherford B.
Hayes, James A. Garfield and Benjamin
Harrison among others--there had been
a tendency to grow to extremes. Grover
Cleveland, fearful of the trend, decided
to call a halt. Yet he did not wish to
be too radical. A WalruS variety Of mus
tache, he supposed, would be proper
compromise. And Theodore Roosevelt
and William Howard Taft followed his
example. For authentic masterpieces,
however, the world was obliged to turn
to Kaiser Wilhelm and General
Kitchener.
Meanwhile, the rank and file-Private
Johanson included-did the best they
could with their materials. Literally
thousands of hours and hundreds OF
tons of energy were spent in training
untonsured subnasal decorations of mar
velous theoretical grace and beauty.
Expert practitioners eventually de-
veloped an art of mustache- -Stroking un-
paralleled in the chronicles of human
genius. Wilton Lackaye rose to such
eminence in that department of esthetic
enterprise as to be the envy OF multitudes
of his less accomplished contemporaries.
He could perform the trick with per-
fection which was positively Olympian.
But it required soldier to reach the
ultimate heights of muStache celebrity.
Sergeant Johanson did nobly, of course.
The laurels nonetheless must go to Old
Bill of The Better OLE created by
Captain Bruce Bairnsfather and famous
forever the planet around as the possess
sor of the noblest handlebars that ever
grew.
Evening star., 1935-11-02
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.
Colds and the trafic problem we seem

Colds and the traffic problem we seem
to have with us always.
The former is strictly personal mat
ter, that is why each one of us must
fight it as vigorously as possible.
There is no Safety Council to help
us with colds, so each person must help
himself.
This means, first of all, that one must
think about colds to the best of ones
ability, refusing to be deferred because
one is not a doctor.
1t often is possible, by the best use of
the old bean, as the vernacular once
put it, to work out a regimen of cold
prevention and cure.
This is not only helpful to the person
involved, but to all others, because there
can be little doubt, whatever may be
the origin or cause of spread of cold,
that it is possible to catch" 1t.
~
The person who steadfastly refuses
to say, ''Oh, it's just cold" who de-
termindedly uses his own mind to help
himself, in regard to this popular malady,
is public as we'll as personal benefactor.
What are some of the facts an indi-
vidual may discover?
In the first place, it must be kept in
mind that In all such matters what is
one persons facts are anothers beliefs,
or disbeliefS, even.
Every fact thus discovered will be
attacked, but that makes no difference.
The way of the discoverer is notoriously
hard, especially in things medical if he
have no medical degree. Even then he
must be very cautious. and trail along
with the orthodox But a great mistake
is made by any one who does not think
that the person without learning, in the
specialized sense, has any right to think
about disease and its cure. The fact
that one lives gives every one the right.
Let us see what we can know about
the common cold. There appears to be
some connection between it and fat.
Look around you and see the number of
fat persons Of your acquaintance who
are perpetually shifting and sneezing.
Not that thin man or woman cannot
catch cold. Far from it. II immunity
from it were conferred by thinness diet
ing would be cure which it scarcely is.
But it is evident that the person with
excess weight IS more likely to catch"
cold than if he had no extra flesh.
Whatever fat does or does not do, how
times undoubtedly comfortable, it seems
evident that it predisposes one to colds
and more colds.
1t may be nothing more than the
sedentary life which the fat person often
leads. Perhaps it is more than that. and
the secret rests in inner changes in
duced by the storing of fat Perhaps the
glands of personality, so-called, come
into the picture.
Keeping down fat ought to help keep
down colds.
Such an observation is strictly un-
scientific, perhaps. but thoroughly good
common sense. From this standpoint,
then, some attention to diet on the part
of fat people will help in the reduction
Of colds.
The belief that colds are the result of
some sort of accumulation in the body
is bolstered by the plain fact that many
colds may be "SWeated" out.
Taking hot drink and piling on the
blankets-this has been common wisdom
for centuries.