davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-08-02
MARYLAND FARMERS STICK UP
FOR AAA

Farmers in Maryland, as else
where, are beginning to realize the
jeopardy into which the Adjustment
Program has been placed by court
decisions and by new attacks in the
q. S. Senate, and concern for its ulti-
mate disposition is being felt and
EXPRESSED from one end of the state
to the other
Farmers, of course, are a good
deal less interested in the fine points
of the Acts constitutionality than
they are in the fact that the opera
zion of the Act these last two years
was the instrument through which
they escaped economic ruin. TO
farmers. in fact, the issue is too
clear to require anyone's interpreta-
ton but their own. Few have for
gotten the diminutive size 20 which
their share of the consumers dollar
had shrunk two years ago. Even in
1928, at time when other economic
groups were generally conceded to
he prosperous, the farmers share
was only 48 cents and, aggravated
by depression and lower prices, that
share had shrunk to 32 cents by the
end of 1892 and reduced mortgage
ridden farm population to a state
where purchases of industrial pro-
ducts had virtually ceased.
This condition, as everyone real
ized, was threatening the stability OF
The whole economic order, and
remedial measures could no longer
be delayed. The AAA was the farm
ers' challenge to that condition
and it was undertaken in response
20 demands by farm organization
eaders for securing to agriculture
/ more reasonable share of the con-
jumer's dollar.
And there are other angles.
Farmers are beginning to see that
balanced agricultural production, un-
like that of industry, is largely i'm
possible without enabling legislation
md national program supervised
through the Department OF Agricul-
lure. They are convinced, more
over, that the efficiency of the AAA
Program has been established, and
hey are far from willing to have 1t
abolished. Nor are they ready to
believe other than that this program
has also benefited business and in
lustry. At the beginning of 1888
he American farmer was exchang-
ng nearly 100 per cent of his regu-
ar production for not much more
than SO per cent of his former pur-
.hases of manufactured goods-a
situation that was certainly doing no
good to business and employment
What he now fears is that the pub
tic memory is short, and that with
the passing of the emergency, the
safeguards provided by the Adjust
ment Act may be taken away.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-08-02

Things political in the G. 0. r
line have been looking up wonder
fully since Maryland's Republican
Governor, Harry Nice = returned
from his Western trip, where he held
a pow-wow with ex-President Hoover.
Immediately on his eturn the rotund
Governor entertained fishing
party down the Bay, composed OF
leading party officials. These con-
ferences have started the G. o. p.
political pot to boiling at feverish
rate.
The Governor in discussing his
political fishing trip said; THE
whole political field was canvassed
without reference to personalities
we didn't get into the question OF
candidates.. Everything that was
covered was touched on in general,
and most of the discussions were de-
voted to the question of organizing
the party to carry on the campaign. "
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-08-02
TELLS HOW BANKS
AIDED PROGRESS
Economist Describes the Ways
Banking Institutions Have
Contributed to Develop
ment of United States

OMAHA, Nebr. Privately owned
banking. despite its faults, has served
America well, William A. Irwin. Pro
fessor of Economics, Washburn Col
lege, Topeka, Kansas. declared in re
cent address hers on Banking in
Changing World"
Under the leadership of individuals
banking has helped to bring this coun
try to a foremost place in economic de
velopment among the nations of the
world" he said. 1.-THE small community
has been developed by the individual
bank. The frontiers of America have
been pushed forward by the help AMI
counsel of the individual banker. The
shocks of wars and depressions in
century and half have been withstood
with the assistance of the individual
banker.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-08-02
VOCATES CLEANUP OF
ROADSIDE STANDS

A general cleanup" of roadside
lunch stands and filling station wash
rooms is advocated by the Keystone
Automobile Club of Maryland, on the
basis of complaint of members that
many of these places are not only
unattractive but dirty and un-
sanitary.
From our own observation, said
Albert E. Buckley, Manager of the
Club, these complaints are entirely
justified. There are, of course,
many well-conducted roadside stands
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-08-02

YOU'LL enjoy your quarter of
the following delicious dinner
which can be served at a cost
of a quarter each.
Salmon and MacarOni Balls
With
Peas in Cream Sauce 35G
Baked Hubbard Squash I3e
Tomato and Orange Salad $50
Baking Powder Biscuits lie
Peach Fluff &c
Black Coffee So
Salmon and Mdcaroni Balls:
Flake one-half of a tall can of
salmon and add one cup of cooked
macaroni which has been cut in
small pieces. Add one cup of
thick white sauce, one teaspoon
lemon juice, and salt and pepper
to season highly. Spread out on
a plate to cool, then form into
eight balls. Roll these in one
half cup of cracker crumbs, or
fine bread crumbs, then in one
egg which has been slightly beaten
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-08-02

The Oregon Conference OF the
Methodist Episcopal Church OF Ore
gon has requested the Administra-
ton, in the form of a resolution, 20
design and put into circulation a
stamp commemorating the four hum
dred. years of the printed English
Bible. 1t was requested tina. the
stamp show on it's face an open
Bible.
The request was made OF the
President of the United States
through the Postmaster General.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-08-02

Farmers throughout the nation
should be cheered by the forecast
of the Crop Reporting Board. I'm
less some unforeseen catastrophe hits
the now thriving crops there will be
a general increase over last year of
all major crops except potatoes and
sweet potatoes
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-08-02
Annlioa.ions for rural power and

Applications for rural power and
light projects to be built with loans
from the Rural Electrification Ad-
ministration had been received by
he REA from As states up to July
%. About 54q6 were from munich
palities, states, public power or util-
ity districts and 40 per cent were
filed by rural cooperatiyes.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-08-02

From August 81 to August 30,
1895, the Nations Capital promises
to be the scene of the greatest as
semblages of boys in the history of
the United States. Plans are going
forward for the encampmen. of 3d.
900 or more Boy Scouts duMng their
ten-day National Jamboree.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-08-02

Motorists are particularly Offend
ed by the condition of many wash
rooms, and the loss of many thou
sands of dollars in business is
penalty proprietors of such places
are paying for their failure to OBJ
serve the rules of cleanliness"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-08-02
STARS IN FLAG MANDATORY

All of us know an additional star
is placed in the flag every time a
state is added to the Union; but how
many know such an action is manda-
tory? An act of Congress dating
back to 1918 provides that on adj
mission of a new state to the Union
one star shall be added. Such addi-
items are requ red b. .ha. law to
take effect on the Fourth of July
following such admission.-Path-
finder.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-08-02
Change May Be Necessary

at may be that we have reached "A
tide in the affairs of America when new
methods are needed 1t may be that We
have come to point where the indi'
vidual should be submerged for the
greatest good of the greatest number
ut may even be that complete cen
tralization of the banking system has
become an economic necessity in our
complicated social life. But the banker
ought to be satisfied that these things
are so before he should give up his fight
for the system we have known. We
came to greatness under that kind OF
banking; we should not give it up with.
out unmistakable proof of the absolute
necessity of such change"
The American Pattern
Professor Irwin said that the pro
posal which has been advanced for CO.
ordinating banking operations in the
national interest under "a Supreme
Court for banking is typically Ameri
can and ought to have the most seri
GUS consideration of those elements
which are clamor;ng for political con
troll. which is typ.cally un-American
It is not wise, he said, to oppose changes
as such, but that bankers should see
to it that change. if and when it does
come, shall preserve all that is good in
the past and stick as closely as pos,
sible to the american pattern OF
things"
Banking is properly conservative
profession. he pointed out, and should
cling to practices and principles OF
banking that are. and always have been
fundamentally sound.
at is to its credit that so large a
group CT its members never faltered.
even in Boom times. in their allegiance
to those sound principles" he declared.
1--WE probably owe our salvation from
chaos to that fact"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-08-02

Does the good listener" ever
realize that he wastes an awful lot
of time?
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-08-02

Science has discovered drugs to
alleviate all pains except one in the
neck.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-08-02

Some men with enough money use
part of it to escape discomfort. dirt,
noise, crowds and vulgari.y.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-08-02

Shakespeare, says the schoolboy,
wrote tragedies, comedies, and
errors.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-08-02

No one can deny that reading the
Did. Testament is enjoyable.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-08-02
II a Y F = V ID II

ASTHMA and SUMNER COLDS are un-
necessary. Complete relief only $500
Postpaid. Nothing else to buy. Over 49,
900 HOLFORDS WONDER INHALERS
sold last year alone. Mail $1.O0 today for
full seasons relief to THE DANDEE CO.,
IA North Sixth St., MINNEAPOLIS, MIN
NESOTA, or write for Free Booklet.
Evening star., 1935-03-31

mare, and three Hambletonian colts.
Five vehicles were in the carriage
house. landau, barouche, light
road wagon, a top buggy and a pony
phaeton for the children.
From the stable. If the weather
was pleasant and the walking good,
Gen. Grant would often take stroll
along the north sidewalk of Penn
sylvania avenue. occasionally stopping
| to exchange q few words with an
old comrade. He returned all saluta-
tionS, as had been his custom before
! becoming the Chief Magistrate, and
always lifted his hat when bowling to
| lady acquaintances."
ZEN. GRANTS love for horses got
him into trouble more than once
| for fast driving over the macadam
and graveled streets of Washington
when the Board of Public Works
was making a new city out of an
old one.
Gen. Rutherford B. Hayes followed
| Grant into the White House, but
seems not to have given any special
attention to his stable and, after
having retired, he took more pleasure
in raising chickens at his farm near
Fremont, Ohio, than in riding or
driving horses. Garfield's life, un-
fortunately, was cut too short by the
hand of the assassin to have left any
impression along this line.
A few months after President Ar
thur came into office he had sent to
him from New York fine span Of
mahogany bays, with black points
and without white spot anywhere.
They were half-brothers, years old,
16 hands high, with flowing names
and tails, and matched almost to a
hair. The carriage. from the New
York Broome street Brewsters, was
q landau Of novel design, painted o
dark, mellow green.
It Is safe to say that the furnish
ings would, If anything, exceed in
richness the interior work Of the
present high-priced automobile, for,
we are told, the trimmings were Of
morocco and cloth, the cushions and
doors being faced with heavy lace
and the laprobe Of Labrador otter,
beautifully lined with dark green
and having the monogram &C. A. A"
worked In silk.
Gen. Robert e. Lee was also known
to be fond of q good horse and at
Lexington, Va, his burial place, the
skeleton Of Traveller, his favorite
mount, Is exhibited.
From the time the Capital Of the
Nation was moved to the District Of
Columbia Washington was one of the
leading cities in horse flesh, and the
earlier Presidents, as well as the
more recent ones, took . keen in
terest in the best breeds and fore
most racers of the day. John Quincy
Adams, always athletic, was even
known to walk from the White House
to Holmead's race track, then in the
neighborhood Of Fourteenth street
and Columbia road, to witness the
races. This course, known as the
Washington race course, was laid out
in 1902 by Col. John Tayloe and Gov.
Ridgely of Maryland, who was the
proprietor Of Hampton, one Of the
most valuable estates In the country.
and, like Col. Tayloe, had been edu-
Gated in England.
CPEAKNG Of this race course, Ben.
~ jamin Ogle Tayaoe( In letter
from France, dated April 20, 1857
says:
"The Washington City race course
was the arena Of the most renowned
Evening star., 1935-03-31

remarkable for his humor, his benev-
olence and accomplishments"
Further on Mr.. Tayloe alludes to
"the distinguished Gen. Walter Jones,
a rare genius, possessed of rare elo-
quence, eccentric. as well as learned
and able; the estimable Gen. ellison,
the esteemed Col seaton, the worthy
and honest DR.. Hunt and other
worthy and true gentlemen"
Gabriel Duvall of Maryland, an
associate Justice of the United States
Supreme Court from 1911 to 1886,
after his retirement from the bench
when he was IS years of age, is said
to have frequntly ridden his horse
from his home In Maryland, q dis
tance Of IL miles, and returned the
same day. in order to attend the
races.
Evening star., 1935-03-31

champions Of the turf, owned and
run by gentlemen of education. posi-
ton and opulence, where coaches and
four, as we'll as equipments of other
magnates, gave splendor to. that
course, which was often graced by
the several Presidents from Jefferson
down to Van Buren,.
There I saw John Quincy Adams
on foot, he having walked from the
Presidents House, and he walked
back again.
"Gen. Jackson took the liveliest in
tereSt in its races. I recollect colt
of his was started for q great sweep
stake, in the name of his private
secretary, Maj. Donelson, but he was
beaten by Commodore Stockton's i'm
ported Longford, much to the chagrtn
Of the old President, who had .
genuine taste for sport.
This was the scene, too, Of the
turf eccentricities Of DR.. Thornton,
Evening star., 1935-03-31

ticularly described as follows, to wit:
Beginning at northwest corner of said
lot, and thence running south SO feet
8 inches, thence east SIS feet 4 inches
to east line of said lot, thence north
So feet inches, thence west to place
of beginning; the proceeds OF said
sale to be invested by the authorities
aforesaid in another lot or part of
lot in the City of Washington, and
in improvements thereon, the said
property so purchased to be used for
the purpose Of the public schools and
for no other purpose.
As stated, this stable was aban-
doned some years prior to 1921, and
most likely at a much earlier date,
for the statement Is made that when
the British burned the Presidents
House in 1914 the stable, which stood
about so feet south of the main build
ing, was burned first. 1t was large,
two-story structure.
PRESIDENTS MONROE AND
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS kept
their horses in livery stable on G
between Seventeenth and Eighteenth
streets, and Gen. Jackson is said
to have had a stable built at the
corner of G and Fourteenth streets,
but this is probably not SO. Presi-
dent Van Buren boarded his horses
in a livery stable and President
Pierce kept his horses in a stable
which was erected on the White
House grounds about so yards south
of the entrance to the grounds op-
posite the Treasury Department.
When Mr.. Buchanan came to the
White House he had the stable en-
larged. It was again enlarged for
President Lincoln, who kept horses Of
his own, in addition to stabling two
horses for Gen. Scott, and when
Andrew johnson became President
he kept his horses there in this stable.
Gen. Grant, whose love for horses
| is well known, built the last Execu-
tive Mansion stables, which stood on
the east side of Seventeenth street,
q short distance South of the State,
War and Navy Building This was
an attractive brick building and is
still recalled by many. 1t was larger
than any Of those that preceded 1t
and had all of the modern con-
veniences, including an adequate sup
ply Of water, of which there was
none up to Lincoln's time, except
that furnished by small well, which
had been dug for the purpose and, as
this was not sufficient for all needs,
the horses were frequently ridden
| down to the river at the foot of Sew.
enteenth street, mornings and eve
nings, to be watered. Indeed. in the
early days, even the carriages wen
taken down to the river at that
point, to be washed on occasions
when they were specially muddy.
Though it is said Gen. Grant did
not have as many horses as Presi-
dent Lincoln, yet they evidently out
classed them, for the general admired
good horses and, like the first Presi-
dent, made it his business to see
that they were being well taken care
of. OF this Ben: Perley Poore says:
"At 3 o'clock the official business
of the day was ended and Gen. Grant
almost invariably visited the White
House stables, for he was very fond
of his horses. Among them was
Cincinnatus, his dark bay charger;
st. Louis and Egypt, two carriage
horses of fine action; buggy horse
named Julia; Master Jesse's Shetland
ponies, Billy Button and Reb; JET
Davis, q natural PAGER; Mary. Mis-
Nellie's saddle horse; Jennie, . brood
Evening star., 1935-03-31
Herd Health Improves.

THE 1s-year drive to eliminate bo-
vine tuberculosis in the United
States is gradually winning its way
toward It's goal. The Department of
Agriculture reports that now fully
two-thirds of all the counties in the
country are freed of the disease; that
1t Is reduced to a point where less than
half Of l per cent of the dairy stock
is infected. In February Of this year
alone nearly two and a quarter mil
lion head OF cattle were tested for
the disease.
Evening star., 1935-03-31

A s EARLY as 1905. we are told, the
renowned Maid of the Oaks beat
all competitors on this track until
she was trained off. She was run by
her owner, Byrd Willis of Fredericks-
burg, in four-mile heats, and beat.
without an apparent struggle, Gen.
Ridgely's Oscar. Col. Tayloe's Top
gallant. Gov. Lloyd's Dolon and others.
This field of horses, and another on
the same course in 1906" 1t is said
were among the best ever assembled
in this country"
"At this period" an old account
tells us, "the grain-growing States
were enjoying season Of great pros
perity; the unparalleled demand for
breadstuffs abroad gave an extra
ordinary activity to commerce. Many
planters in Maryland, Virginia and
South Carolina had large incomes
(the last named from rice and indigo)
of from $4,000 to 100000 a year, and
were actively engaged on the turf.
They prosecuted its pursuits as q
pastime. To them the cost was
nothing. They bought horses at large
prices, and had their studs, and en-
joyed society like English noblemen.
The best horses were imported from
England, as Medley, Shark, Saltram,
ETC., and the brood-mares Castianira,
Peggy, Anvilina and Others"
1t is really interesting to recall this
old race track at the top of Four
foanth rtraof hill {,Yct q HtRlo box,ov,d 4
where Judge Harlan used to live at
Euclid street, and not much beyond
the old Columbian College buildings.
Few people now living in the area
Of this old one-mile race track can,
In their extreme Imagination, visualize
conditions as they existed during the
many years this course was popular
rendezvous, not only for the elite of
Washington, but for some Of the
greatest minds Of the country. Just
where the track crossed Fourteenth
street Is uncertain, but it was prob
ably at about Fairmont street and at
Park road.
lust how much the dead know about
this world, we can only SurmlSe,
but If the second Adams and Jackson
and their compeers and friends could
see this part Of Fourteenth street as
it is today. with its many apartment
houses and business blocks, undoubt-
edly they would be amazed, even TO
greater degree. indeed, than would
we who have had lived to see this sec
ton grom from q few struggling
houses with villa sites to city OF
congested dwellings.
Still within the memory Of many
is the keen interest taken in race
horses by the late Leland Stanford
while he was serving in the United
States Senate, from 1885 to 1893. He
seems to have been luckier than many
who have tried dame fortune with
the ponies, and to have added con.
Evening star., 1935-03-31

left First White House stable building at southeast Of
demolished
building public school
right White stable Seventeenth south the
Building during the administration P
Center brought to Washington
Center right Allison
Nao livery stable occupied the site Of the District Building
between Washington and Baltimore in 1888 Below right
McCauleys livery between Ninth
n