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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-07-12
FARM REPAIR CREDIT GAINS
OVER NATION

Marked increaee in the number
and amount of farm modernization
loans granted by financial institu-
lions over the country were report
ed for the month of May as COM
pared with an average of all previous
months in 1895, according to Henry
w. Webb, Director for Maryland, of
the Federal Housing Administration
A total of 1926 farm moderniza-
ton loans were made in May, total
ing $532,418.55. From January
through April there were total of
1920 loans made, totaling $1,91S,
497.O4.
This sign of increased moderniza-
ton activity in rural sections is re-
ported concurrently with notice that
farm purchasing power is on the up
grade as compared with two years
ago. A reliable source points out,
for example, that the monetary re-
turn today on 119 bushels of corn
will purchase a hot-water heating
equipment, while in 1888, 422
bushels would have been required to
nance such a purchase. Similarly,
.oday 1927 pounds of butterfat will
purchase a 750-pound cream sepa-
rator as compared with 653 pounds
. h,,+ fo& IN 1000 Cinaiior
PARSONS are shown in other farm
products.
Officials of the Federal Housing
Administration anticipate additional
Increases in farm modernizaiion pro-
iects during the Summer With In
creased purchasing power and lulls
between planting in various To-
ealities, reports indicated that mod
ernization projects were being plan
ned in virtually every agricultural
State.
Modernization credit advanced to
armers is not necessarily repaid in
monthly installments, as is the case
with urban modernization credits.
arrangements may be made with
ending institutions to make pay
ments concurrent with completion
and sale of crops.
New barns, additions and repairs
TO farm homes, paint projects, roof
ng, heating, electric and water sys-
ems, wells, pumps, septic tanks,
wall, floor, and other interior re-
pairs, brick, silos, fencing, are only
L part of the numerous moderniza-
lion projects for which lending in
situations make credit available un-
der the insured plan of the Federal
Housing Administration
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-07-12
PROGRAM LAUNCHED TO RE-
DUCE NORTH PACIFIC
WHEAT GLUT

Baltimore, June 30.-Efforts to
reduce North Pacific wheat surplus
which had already begun to threaten
wheat prices on the Atlantic seaboard
last week, were reported to have
made definite progress according to
statement made here today by c. E.
Wise, Jr., secretary of the Maryland
Farm Bureau Federation.
The purchase of approximately
100000 bushels of Pacific Coast
wheat has already been begun by the
Federal Emergency Relief Admins
tration under the direction OF the
A.A.A., according to Mr.. Wise. The
grain thus purchased wilF be con-
verified into -four and distributed
throughout the Middle West through
regular relief channels. Further re-
ports from Washington, according to
Mr.. Wise, indicate that plans are be-
ing formulated by the AAA to dis
pose of additional west coast wheat
through the establishment of the
North Pacific Export Association, an
adjunct of the AAA, and by aid of
which 2S,OO0,OOO bushels of wheat
were sold to the Orient in 1888.
In their appeal to Secretary of
Agricultural Wallace last week for
the revival of the emergency export
association, the Maryland Farm Blu
reau pointed out that with present
wheat prices in japan and China
only five or six cents below the
American export quotations, /: would
be possible to dispose of the entire
present surplus on the west coast at
a fraction of the cost Il took to dis
pose of the 28-million bushels of the
1888 crop.
Figures submitted by the Farm
Bureau showed that in 1884 latter
the AAA had abandoned the export
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-07-12
PENALTIES FOR FAILURE TO
FILE GROSS SALES TAX
RETURN

Approximately 1000 retail mer-
chants, who have failed to file gross
sales tax returns for April and May
are liable to penalties, according 70
reports from the State Comptroller
office.
Under the law, the deliquent mer-
chant will be notified to pay the tax
due plus a five per cent penalty and
one per cent interest for each month
overdue, officials said. If the tax
continues unpaid for ten days after
the notification, the penalty is 100
per cent on the tax plus interest.
Court action, on the "misdemean-
or" count specified in provision OF
the measure, may render the delin-
Quent merchant liable to maximum
fine Of $500, a maximum jail SEN
tence Of one year.. or both, in the dis
cretion of the court.
May collections from the gross re-
ceipts tax and the automobile fitting
tax totaled $36O,203.89 at the close
Of business last week.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-07-12

President Roosevelt has signed the
Wagner labor relations bill, hailed
by organized labor as "a new Magma
Charta," while assailed by it's vigor-
Gus opponents as undesirable and I'M
constitutional!
The bill is the third great measure
to pass the present new-deal Con-
gress, ranking in importance with
the $4,S8O,OOO,OO0 work-relief bill
now in effect; and the social security
bill, passed by both houses but still
in conference.
The bill seeks to fulfill the time
old dream of American labor to
guarantee collective bargaining, and
to ban the employer-dominated COM
pany union.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-07-12
SHY AT PRESIDENTS NEW TAX
PLAN

The Presidents new tax program
was greeted with amazement by the
MISUNDERSTANDING practically all
Congressman.
The amazement was due less to
| the terms of the program, than to
the fact that the President should
put it forward for consideration at
this Congressional session, which is
already far behind schedule, is
weighed down with half dozen or
so other proposals of the first import
ance, and which seems to have little
chance of adjourning before the mid
die of September, in spite of indus
try's devout wish that it would wind
up it's business and go home. Ex-
perts say that it would take at least
month to properly draw such bill
as the President proposes, and as
much or more time to get it through
the Congress.
The Presidents plan belongs in
the "share-the-wealth" category. 1t
includes increased income taxes in
the higher brackets, and sitter cor
poration, gift, inheritance and es-
tate taxes. And it would do away
with tax-emption Of government
bonds.
The more extreme opposition pa
pers said that the Presidents pro-
posal definitely aligned him with the
aeft wing Long Coughlin school of
national economy Middle of the
ground papers, for the most part,
simply said they believed the bill
was wrong in principle, and that the
President was treading on dangerous
ground. Some papers were non
committal, praising parts of the plan
and criticizing other parts. Rela-
lively few papers approved of the
proposal in toto. In the opinion OF
the well-informed, the bill will go
into committee, will be treated as if
it were on the must" list for the
current session-but will be put over
until next year when it is found that
it will necessitate too long delay.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-07-12
36 VARIETIES OF TAXES ARE
LEVIED IN U. s.

Three dozen varieties of taxes
spread over rich and poor, corpora
ions and little fellows" gamblers
md misers, supply revenue to the
nations State governments.
With all the different kinds of
taxes, however, there are few State
freak" or nuisance levies, reports
from A States showed.
Taxes as a whole fall into a hand
full of general categories, properly,
automobiles and gasoline, sales,
liquor, inheritances, incomes, lux
aries, and business transactions. But
the diversification in types of taxes
are many, with adjoining states fire.
quently taxing the same thing in
different manners.
The property tax, one of the Oldest
forms of assessment, is still widely
used, although trend away from it
is seen in attempts TO find replace
ments.
Since the advent of the automo-
bile, it has become a steadily in
creasing source of State revenue.
First came property taxes on cars,
then registration charges, and dur
ing the last Is years, the mightiest
of all vehicle levies, the gasoline
tax
From an experiment in 1919, the
fuel levy has grown until today il
is used in every State and supplies
an estimated 3S per cent of the
States direct tax revenue.
Resembling the. gas tax in its
growth to popularity, the sales tax
is used in many States. Forms OF
this levy vary greatly. The prin-
cipal ones are the gross sales tax
paid by the retailer, and the retail
sales tax, commonly passed ON to
the consumer.
A hangover from war days,
amusement and luxury taxes exist in
several states. Admission tickets,
cosmetics, sporting goods, camera
films and the like are included. A
newer addition to this group is the
gambling tax.
Business taxes include many forms
of assessment. Some are levies on
public utility property, mortgage
and stock transfers, chain stores,
billboards, ore royalties, special cor
poration and franchise taxes and a
bushel tax on grain passing through
elevators. There are also countless
fees and license tolls for restaurants,
theatres, hotels, fire inspection,
scales and the like.
The poll tax is another old timer
still in use and now another type of
citizenship franchise" tax is APP
pearing-the old age pension.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-07-12

Former Governor Richie has
placed President Roosevelt's new tax
proposal on his black list, along with
other new deal policies. In his In
dependence Day speech in Baltimore
Ex-Gov. Richie termed the Presl-
dents new tax proposal as vision
ary," and added bureaucratic cen
tralization of government in Wash
ington will, unless checked, end by
deadening if not by destroying the
self-governing functions of the SOW
ereign states on which rests our en-
tire governmental structure.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-07-12
DRUNKEN DRIVERS INCREASE

Despite a per cent decrease in
highway fatalities this year, drunken
drivers involved in fatalities have
increased 13 per cent, according to
the Travellers Insurance Company
With 1920 fatalities and 100000
injuries tabulated by the company
as the result of motor accidents SO
far this year, the nation bids to ex-
coed last years highway casualty
coll of 100000, unless the public
awakens to it's responsibility to drive
more safely, company officials do
clared.
For six years the firm has been
warning the public to drive more
safely" But each year casualties
have continued to mount, due chiefly
N the last two years to increased
drinking and greater carelessness on
he part of pedestrians.
While the toll of road fatalities
for the first six months of this year
were found to be 2 per cent less than
in the corresponding period of last
year, it is possible, the company said,
that the decrease will become an in
crease when all reports are tabu-
lated and rechecked. The figures
released were preliminary to the full
report to be issued in another month
They are taken 10 indicate an atti-
tude of apathy on the subject OF
highway casualties that must be cor
rected.
Part of the plan of the Insurance
Company to- break through the crust
of apthy is to keep the public in
formed on the highway trends. The
current facts stand out as follows:
An increase of 13 per cent in the
number of drunken drivers involved
in motor accidents; a 10 per cen.
rise in the number of drunken
pedestrians, involved.
OF the 1920 fatalities, more than
5000 persons involved were pedes-
TRANS. Nearly 500 persons were
killed in motorcar collisions with
trains, accidents that the company
declared always reveal careless
motorcar driver.
More than 1900 fatalities were
registered in collisions of automo-
biles with fixed objects, appreciably
fewer than last year.
Over the last four years the com
pany has found that during the last
six months of any year casualties
have been "a per cent higher than
in the first six months.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-07-12
TREND OF WORLD AFFAIRS
BY Lucy Meacham Thruston

Draw line from the middle of the
Baltic coast of Germany, down
through Austria and Italy and you
strike a country where censorship of
the press is complete. Begin again
with Poland, skip Czechoslovakia,
and include in zigzag Roumania,
Hungary, Yugoslavia, Greece, Tur-
key and you have other lands in
which press censorship is equally
strict. Russia 70 the east and Spain
to the west know this close super
vision. In Switzerland, Scandinavia
and Britain alone is there freedom
of the press. The other European
countries not mentioned have partial
supervision. In the last few years
censorship has been most strict.
In line with peaceful conditions in
Europe the last quarter of the nine
teenth and early years of the
twentieth century censorship was al
most abolished. At the beginning of
the World War lines were frightened.
Again towards the end of the war it
was realized that foreign press dis
patches were useful in forming
opinion abroad and for the first
decade following the war, press CEN
sorship in most European countries
was lightened.
Then came this present period of
tension. In Germany and Italy con-
troll is absolute. In Italy transmits
sion of any news of a military char
acter is forbidden. Only recently has
the correspondent of the New York
Times been conducted, with his fam
lily and in haste, across Italian border
lines. The representative of the
Manchester Guardian fell also upon
hard times. And Germany is credit
ed with exercising the closest of all
supervision upon the press inside and
press news going outside its borders.
How then does the correspondent
get out the most of his messages?
If by cable the word about to be dis
patched must be submitted to de-
partments set up for supervision.
Much may be cut from the cabe be-
fore transmission but nothing must
be added. Mail copy may be sent
to some neutral point and then
transmitted, but mail copy is also
carefully watched. The information
al telephone handles the most news,
out to some point. England for in
stance, and then cabled.
The same strict observance is held
over what comes into the country.
Intelligent and sympathetic observers
and travellers deplore the effect of
this upon opinion of the peoples thus
3u-.le., as we'll as effect of false
information. How is the world 60
ing forward, how are nations to be
in accord, how are peoples to be
sympathetic with one another with
guarded news and false news, how is
that ideal of a free press and free
people to be attained? And on these
must be built international accord,
for take the people of all lands, as
whole and the one thing they desire
says a seasoned traveller, is to be
left to live In peace with one another.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-07-12

program on the west coast) ship
ments of wheat -four from ports on
the Columbia River, to ports on the
Gulf and the South Atlantic sea-
board. totalled over $4,000 bar
rels, and that the competition there
from was forcing -four millers in
Virginia to cut their prices for wheat
grown in Maryland and Ohio,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-07-12

II play has no psychological or
emotional value at all, it is full Of
train wrecks, shipwrecks, fires,
earthquakes and gunplays.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-07-12

Instead of going out into the
world, science brings the whole
world before our eyes and ears right
here at home.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-07-12

People constantly shout "boloney"
and the same people are taken in by
political bunk every day.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-07-12

Lack of vitality never made
rufian.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-07-12

Too much of flowers for the liv-.
ing" may degenerate into taffy.
The Nome daily nugget., 1935-07-19
Strengthen Life Line"

Ever since the Japanese advance into Manchuria in 1881, Soviet off, cials have been working to strength en their life line to the Far East the Trans-Siberian Railroad.
 Closest secrecy has been preserv- ed, but travellers say the line now is double-tracked to a point just north of Blagoveshenck, or about nine tcnths of the distance from Moscow tJ Nladivostok. Completion of this work is a part of the new Far East ern program.
 The new railroad, joining the Trans-Siberian at Lake Baikal, will traverse the northern continental part of the Far Eastern region, pass ing on a rough line through the sources of the Zeia and Bureia riv- CTS and on to the new town of Kom- somolsk-on-Amur in the Maritime Provinces about 100 kilometers north of Khabarovsk. A line be- tween Komsomolsk and Khabar- ovsk will connect the new railroad and the Trans-Siberian on the East. Also a system of feeder lines will radiate from the Lake Baikal-Kom- somolsk route to industrial towns of the Far East
 With the completion of this new line the Soviet Union will be freed of its old fear of being completely cut off from the Pacific in case an enemy should capture the Trans Siberian.
The Nome daily nugget., 1935-07-19
SOyiets To Rush A Railroad Line
 To The Far East
(By The Associated Press)

MOSCOW, July 19, Largely as a measure of military defense against Japan, the Soviet Union is in the midst of a tremendous effort to build a powerful Far Eastern in dustrial state in the area just north of Manchuria.
 The central pattern in this new military and industrial design will be a new trunk line railroad from Lake Baikal to the Pacific. It will parallel the existing Trans-Siberian, but will run several hundred kilo- meters north of it. Thus, it is hoped, communication between Central As ia and the Far East will not be en- tirely broken should an army ad- vancing from the south be able to capture or destroy the Trans-Siber-
The Nome daily nugget., 1935-07-19
New Water Routes

But the railroad is only a part of the pattern. New water routes will be opened. Sea and river ports will be improved. New airplane bases and landing fields will be laid out. New mines and factories will be started. In short, the Soviets hope to build a powerful military and in- dustrial country where recently there was wilderness.
 Transportation has been the weak est link in the Russian system of military defense for a long time. This is true under Stalin, just as it was under the Tsars. The break down of transportation largely was
The Nome daily nugget., 1935-07-19

responsible for Russia's defeat by Japan in 1904 Clogged lines of supply caused Russian soldiers in the World War to lack food, their guns to run short of ammunition. The SoViets are trying to profit by these lessons.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-21
NezV York Stocks

NEW YORK, June 21-Stocks
scared ! to more than points today
and by the end of the third hour
the list had recovered all losses sus-
tanned in the past two days OF re-
cession.
The Dow-Jones industrial average
at p. m. was at a new high since
1881 at 1899. up 2.25 points from
the previous close. The utility aver
age made a new high for the year
at 22.18, up AS point. The rail-
road average at 1890 was up "a
point and was only .l3 point under
its closing level of last Tuesday, the
latter a new high on the move
ment.
Sales to 1 p. III. totaled 100000
shares. the same as the total for
the entire session yesterday.
Utilities swung forward with con-
solidet ted Gas the leader. 1t touched
26ls up rs, and a new high for the
year. Motor shares surged ahead
under lead of Chrysler, which
reached so for the first time in
1885. That vas up pa from the
previous close. Auburn jumped
nearly 3 points. Atchison was up
2 points at 48i4 in the rails. West
inghouse rose 2 to 5294 in the cleo
trical equipments.
A block of $4,000 shares of Pack
ard sold at and later the stock
firmed to Al.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-21
On Commission ROU

Quotations below are averaks Wholesale
prices being offered 20 BUYERS b. local
commission dealers
Fruits-Bananas. &c a 10. strawberries.
bone sTogn c+-o, cas- q RSe5 $50 ! res
red 1s-1t case s. so Blueherries. GeoTgia.
ss-at crate 81 50. 24-pt crate. s. 50
nome TrouS sour 2s-ot case s37s. Can
taloupes California jumbo S6s. crate. 50
iumbo. ass 81 IS California standards
s. s1ff3 Watermelous. WatsonS. 6oc. DIVE
Bellies. S5c Ann.es- Wlnesans. s. 90
uew. fancy Transparents So - lemons
Suusisf. 36o-432s. 81 10 5ooS. $50. crave
fruit Florida seedless 64S. Jos SOS. So p,
au1ies. s1s 81 LINES Mexican. per car
ton. zoe. Persian seeoleSs. hundred s.
Vere-ahies-Cabbaee home grown. bu.
Esc Onions new Texas yellow. Sob bag
s. IS ueW Texas white. SUD nag- = -
Potatoes Gresn Mountains lo0-lo- bag
ST. IS. selected Cohhiers. 100 lbs 81 y
northern Round White io0-ih. has. 81
Ohfos icO-lh haE. 81 50. Idaho Russefs.
ioo-lh baE. s. IS. rev Triuruhs. ioo-ln
hsnpsrs. siiO. Scans, EEeen stringiess,
hampers 81 So Wax s., Celery. washed
ss5e '5nP es,o mssiu sr.t eos 5, IS F emSS
crate. s. Cucumbers. hothouss. do. sec;
f-der box 1oc Endive California. dog.
s-shsT SOC corr. Southern. s-dSr. crate.
81 Lettuce dollhouse f5-lh. basket. 4,c,
California IceberE had lettuce s. IS
senf Ks, q sol 7s5 Psis s'7l1 dos Sse
Peas home Ercwn. busheL rs. spinach
home EroEn. bushei eoc. Racishes. coz-
S---s -roEr a toE-. ssc Carrots. Canfor-
- r~sre Sc G1r SOC Ehuhlrb. outdoor
doz soc Mashroonas ~ = Z IS Ior, a.
cSf5 hothouss. SID basket. s.
All quotations subject 20 chance ID or
dcWn-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-21
FRUITS AND VEGETABLES
HH-aHH~a b.

r-r4rraC1 June -l-Fruits and veEe-
$50 Arrirs-Illincis. cushei sc 81 3
f-a~r~fE- Western crates 0oza 81 $3.50
= a Tr1rwtrS- Illinois. punches. n .tl = &C
see. pnfatnrs- Tennessee. Cushel. Is
- frffuce- western. crates. coz.. s. &
SO Fraf Leftuce-T'hncis. i1-lc- cartons.
Ts-s scr Beaus-Louisiana. tlsheL SOC s.
Cahhare-Tennessee. pony craes. - = soc
p-Ts-Csr fcrnia bushel hampers. 7Scsi
81 81 rndiana. Sc 81 Tomatoes-Texas
49, 81 1sTlSo Sunach-Il' ncis. Push
e. lsT3sc Asparagus-Ilinols- sqlare
r~atnr Z dor -sr1st Fhurarh-rilinois
4r-fn cartons Snst soc Onion Market So
Is xaeksf-Texas veiiows 81 40 So Cali
frrnia Globes. 81 50 60
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-21
The Dollars Power
During Nav virtually no chang

During May virtually no change
occurred in the trend of the pur-
chasing power of the dollar invested
in common stocks, in bonds, or held
in cash, according to the monthly
index prepared by Administrative
and Research Corp. This stability
contrasts with the rise of 10 per
cent in the purchasing power of the
dollar invested in common stocks
during April. AT the end of May
the index of the common stock dol
lar stood at 101.5, compared with
1927 in April. The bond dollar was
at 957, against 96.1. The dollar held
in cash dropped from 96.3 in April
to 96.1 in May.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-21
STEADINESS RULE
IN GRAIN TRADING
Traders DiSinCIined 70 Take
Definite Stand.
ByUHifcd Press


CHICAGO. June 81. - Wheat
prices held about steady today as
traders showed little inclination to
take a definite stand either way on
the Board of Trade.
At the start wheat was unchanged
to i cent higher, corn was i cent
lower to i cent higher. Oats wer-.
of s to up Is cent. and rye was Is
cent lower to Is cent higher.
Improved weather reports from
the Southwest were about offset by
higher Liverpool cables. Bartlett
FraSier & Co.'S Liverpool housa
cables that there was a decidedly
better feeling in the English mar
ket and that the technical position
justified higher prices.
Some attention was paid to talk
that the government might start
some Stabilizing move in event that
they regard prices as too low. Trade
as a whole was only fair.