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Meanwhile, Mrs. Harri-
son solves the problem as
a sensible housewife-set-
ting the table twice for each
meal. The family eats in
two shifts, eight at a time.
The younger children are
served first, then the older
ones and their parents.
Madeline and Ambrose Harrison,
with their IA children ranging in
age from 16 years to months,
make up the largest family, all
living and all under the same
roof, in the Baby Derby.
The Harrisons live in half of a
plain, comfortable duplex house
on a street lined with similar
houses Inside, it is furnished
with plain, comfortable furniture,
bit worn, bit scuffed here and
there, as though by small feet.
There are rugs, chairs, tables,
radio, pictures on the wall, ar
tificial flowers in a vaSe-de-
tails missing in the homes of most
of the other Baby Derby contest
ants.
TN the hallway stands the in
Il evitable baby carriage.
TWo-month-old Paul sleeps there
now, but before many months
Paul is going to have to move
over At least, so his mother in
Inmates
Madeline Harrison, with eight
children born in the last nine
years, lags behind four other
mothers in the 100000 Baby Der
by-Mrs. Lily Kenny, Mrs. Man
uella Darrigo, Mrs. Grace Bagan-
to and Mrs. Katherine Nagle-
each of whom has nine or more
children born since Oct. 81, 1926.
But there are about II months
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Literary Notes

Madamoiselle, Street and Smiths magazine for
young women, which barred from England for
its Matchmaker features linking the Prince of Wales
and Mae West will bring together Edgar Guest and
Dorothy Parker in the December issue.
DR. Ludwig Freund. author of The Threat TO
European Culture" who worked last year in the
packing department az Bloomngdaes. New York.
has now taken part time job in a Gotham book
shop.
Carleton Smith. writer for Literary Digest and
Esquire, returns this month from airplane tour
of Europe and Asia, where he has been gathering
new material for series of articles on music
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Ace Political Reporter Finds Maine Just Hot POTATO These Days.
New Deal Losing Ou Spud County Where They Vote Republican

cents on the New Haven Railroad,
between New York and Provi-
dence, r. l. But President Roose-
welt and the New Deal are getting
strictly no credit for better times
in northern Maine.
Bernard E. Esters, in his Houl-
ton Pioneer Times, reported
sensational rise in potato prices"
HIS is secretary Of the ArooStook
Republican Committee. Esters
said Roosevelt would get no credit
for good times in Aroostook. He
pointed out that Wallace opposed
and publicly condemned the
potato act.
Banker James Pierce, a Dem
ocrat, also thought Roosevelt
would lose Maine next year.
TN fact, the first 10 professional
l. and business men I approached,
some Republicans and some Dem
ocrats, were agreed that the New
Deal could not carry Maine nor
any of New England in 1886 The
Eleventh, Ransford w. Shaw, Re-
publican dean of the Aroostook
County bar, thought Roosevelt
could win here if potatoes stayed
above $3.50 a barrel and pro-
vided the New Deal continued to
pour money into 'Quoddy.
'Quoddy is short for Passama-
quoddy, the Eastport (Me) exper-
iment with tide Harvesting in
which Mr.. Roosevelt has pledged
the government to spend S35,-
100000 in converting the ocean
flow into electrical current. The
New Deal has allocated $4,000 900
% 'Quoddy so far.
Mr. Roosevelt will carry East
port all right. But 'Quoddy may
prove to be a political handicap.
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BY LAURA LOU BROOKMAN
Copyright. 1895. NEA Service. Inc,

TORONTO, Ont, Nov. 10. = The Ambrose Harrisons
would like very much to sit down at the table and
all have meal together.
They never have done so. There doesn't seem much
chance that they WILL either because there is simply
dining room table to make places for 16.
If Ambrose and Madeline Harrison win the 100000
Toronto Baby Derby (they among the six leading
contenders) of the first things they certainly will
do will be to buy bigger table.
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It's Really q Tough Job

VET no matter whether he blew on the dice or
Il rubbed them on his pants, all he could throw
was deuce. Spain is not large country and al
though there is plenty of in which TO chase
the stag, Aonso's favorite sport. there time
as he grew older when he knew every yard of it as
well as his tongue knew the inside of his mouth
For change of pace he could put a soft hat and
sneak of to Paris for Weekend but he had a
Jaded mark on his face and recognized wherever
he went, so the upshot of these attempts to get
away from it all resentment
People who couldn't afford to teach their children
to read, because then they would demand books and
newspapers on which to exercise this remarkable
talent, thought of the king lolling around the gded
haunts of pleasure in foreign city. eating hods of
caviar and pouring champagne over his oatmeal at
their expense
Much worse than the cost the bad publicity
which his pleasures gave him with the people, whose
idea OF wonderful time ropy shred of boiled
bllIygoat washed down by a crock of grade B wine
Alfonsos children were growing up none too TO-
bust and judging by the actions of the whole family
since they moved out of Spain. the dew off the
rose in his love bower in Madrid Yet the monarch
of Roman Catholic country, he had to set an ex-
ample of family solidarity, patience and fidelity,
whereas Carol of Rumania and George of Greece,
who is now returning to kingdom which is distinct
~ minor league able to write their own divorce
ing papers, each divorcing the others sister incl
dentally.
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BY ERNIE PYLE

nETROIT, Nov. 19.-Detroit is
~ a dreadful city in way. It's
so big. and it's dirty and smoky
with these auto factories pouring
out black clouds, and there are so
many rNHr people here, and the
streets are damned and you have
to travel so far to get anywhere.
But Detroit has something. 1t
has personality. You don't sense
it at first. but after you're here a
while, you pick it up in peoples
faces, and the way they talk, and
the way they act
Detroit is gambler. Detroit is
like the old Mississippi river-boat
gamblers, hungry one day, eating
stuffed partridge the next, happy
go-lucky, taking things as they
come, often down but never out.
Detroit was one of the first, and
one of the hardest hit, victims of
the depression. The city suffered
terribly. But you ought to see it
today. Prosperity is definitely
back. The auto plants are going
full tilt The street cars are
crammed with workmen. lunch
pals on their laps. The cocktail
lounges are overflowing with rich
looking people. Theaters, many of
them closed for years, are damned
to the hilt. Detroit is happy
again.
DETROIT is an emotional city,
~ as an up-again- down-a again
city would have to be. 1t goes
wild over anything 1t worshipS
prize fighters, and symphony or
chestras. 1t does nothing half
way. 1t is a great follow-the-
leader town. If you're hero out
here. you're a big hero. Take
Mickey Cochrane and his ball
team. Right today. you could
stand out in the street and yell
'Hurrah for the Cubs" just once,
and you'd wind up in the hos
pital.
just a little comparison be-
tween Detroit and Washington.
Washington is constantly pretty
prosperous. Detroit is prosperous
part of the time, but when she's
poor she's really poor. Well,
Detroit's quota for its Community
Chest this year is only $4,000. QQ0,
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Buried Villages Of Far North
Reveal Habits Of Early Races

United States National Museum.
before the National Academy of
Sciences meeting here.
The region is outstandingly i'm
portant in American prehistory.
DR. Hrdlicka emphasized, because
the immigrant trail in those days
led from Siberia across the mar
row sea into Alaska. Newcomers
left whatever clews there are to
their appearance and state of civ
ilization buried where they tarried
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Gently, but to leave that honor the opposite team
In detection of soul produced by painful beatings
in war and by the steady decline of Spain III the
eyes Of her former equals in the world. the people
fell to growing. and the king as general manager,
so to speak, was held responsible. Moreover. know
ing of the jeWery he had in store and the Spendor
in which he lived money which they were COM
PEELED to provide they developed fierce personal
resentment against him. although the fact of the
matter was that he didn't eat much, drank little and
was bowed, worried and desperately anxious
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By Science Serrice
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va, Nov.
~ 19-Customs of forgotten
Americans of the Far North, who
lived in villages with sidewalks
and had arthritis as their chief
ailment. are being discovered on
Kodiak Island, Alaska.
Astonishing results" from three
and half years of digging into
buried villages of these vanished
people were announced here to-
day, by DR.. Ales Hrdlicka of the
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"O0IFtVy hIIOWH dS BUIIg 70 places.
The final conflict was in
Chinese restaurant. Unfortunately,
one member Of the party got hold
Of a beverage menu and found
that the place afforded a long list
OF Oriental Liquors and Cock
tails" She thought it would be
cute to quit the honest Scotch
highballs we had been drinking
and try the wine of the country.
But they gave me a Gar Pei Yu
and after that a Tiger Skin 1t
was the latter, I believe, which did
the damage. The name should
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competent and uneasy and his
generals either horribly dumb or
terribly unlucky.
1t had come to such pass that
Spain just couldn't win a war any
more. and this in spite of the
fact that everybody who fought
his troops would say after licking
them that they were good, game
boys, but overmatched or out of
shape. They died magnilcently
on various fields and though there
is a certain satisfaction in such
regard and tributes of victorious
foes, the fact remains that in war
the object is not TO die maenifi-
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EauZnough
BY
WESTBR0OK PEGLER

barcelona. Nov. 19.-Taking one consideration
ID with another it is my conclusion that the job
which ex-King Alfonso abdcated when the revolu-
ton broke almost all headache and very little
fun. He head man of a declining country. and
1t seemed that nothing coud be done to check the
steady descent of once mighty nation.
Britain had grabbed Gibraltar the Americans had
chased Spain out of the Caribbean and the Pacific,
his people were poor his politicians clamorous. in
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anu WOuId not be SURPRISED 70
ind that the connection was labeled in honor of
mat once famous but now forgotten novel of Enor
Gyms. 1t was designed, fear, to make the period
Of remorse extend fun three weeks And 50
have taken a pledge which I mean to keep From
TINS day forth not single drop of liquor ever will
pass INTO this column. The theme of drinks and
drinkers is definitely out Y
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questions. There is some resent
ment against former President
Hoover but he has friends here
and they are smart and hopeful.
They say he has broken most of
his campaign promises. George
Paul, who TAXED me around
ArooStook County, said, too, that
a lot of Republicans had Federal
and state jobs in Maine Work
relief is functioning fairly we'll but
there is some friction between
local and Federal authorities.
Houlton is carrying its share of
the load. Money for annual re-
surfacing of the towns tar roads
was diverted to poor relief this
year and the cars bounce you
about lot.
I came up here because this
little town and Pressure Isle,
farther north, are the joint
capitals of potato empire. Maine
produces one-sixth of the potatoes
grown in the United States and
Aroostook County produces 80 per
cent If spuds grown in Maine.
The county is larger than Mas
sachusetts but not so populous-
$4,000 persons or thereabouts.
THE 1885 Congress made pota-
L toes a political crop. 1t passed
a sort of potato "Volstead Act"
which may land you in jail if you
purchase bootleg" potatoes. You
will be able to recognize the legal
potato by a stamp which Secre-
tary Wallace or some of his men
will lick and affiX to each lawful
container.
You won't go to Jail right away.
Congress neglected to appropriate
money to administer the act.
Meantime, Wallace plans Janu-
airy potato farmer referendum
there are 100000 growers-to de-
termine whether they want vol
stead" potatoes. Wallace hopes
the farmers vote no" Farmers
in this part Of the country are
going to vote yes" I was in
formed, by about three to one.
To Maine, potato control merely
is its share of the Agricultural
Adjustment Act booty. H. w.
Grinnel, potato merchant, whose
Office overlooks Market Square,
told me that Connecticut tobacco
farmers and Southern cotton
farmers who we're paid not to
raise their staple crops, had
turned surplus land into potatoes
and we're wrecking the market.
Maine thinks if they would
just abolish AAA we might get
along okay," Grinnel said. But
if there is going to, be any AAA,
Maine wants some of it..
THE rugged individualists of
l. northern Maine anticipate
augmentation with considerable
pleasure. I inquired in Houlton
whether there was resentment
against governmental encroach-
ment Of the free Americans
right to grow as many potatoes
as he could plant. Everywhere I
was informed the bankers, mer-
chants, farmers and inn keepers
were content that Wallace should
impose on Maine and other states
a rigid potato production control.
Furthermore. this potato coun-
try is almost booming. Potatoes
jumped from SIPS to 50 bushel
the week was here. At 50 a po-
tato grower makes a profit of
around 80 cents to 81. Last year
potatoes were 10 cents. Fifteen
years ago they were $40. But
Maine considers 50 a fair price.
A baked Maine potato cost me 25
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Haywood BROUN

THE other da2 indicated a desire to write some
descriptive pieces about New York during my
visit to this city. In particular promised to in
vestgate the night life of the town But by now
have met the night life. 1 am not going to write
about it.
In fact I'd rather not even hear about it, It
al! happened so suddenly. A young friend Of mine
was celebrating her forty-seventh birthday which
seemed 70 obigate US all to participate in a curious
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THE BABY DERBY-A YEAR TO GO!



to
of fwhich
the fourth
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Lyle c. Wilson. ace political reporter
of the United Press, is touring the coun-
try. recording present trends. His first
trip was into the Maine potato country,
which is vitality interested in the potato
control act. In the following dispatch the
first of a series Wilson reports reaction
in this pivotal political state.
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BY LYLE c. WILSON

BY LYLE &. WILSON
Copyright, 1885, by United Press)
HOULTON, Me, Nov. 49,
Il y Maine is hot potato these
daJ s-too hot for the New Deal
to handle.
Old Dennis Sheehan told me
they'd live on a crust of bread
around here before they'd vote
Democratic. Dennis is about 80
and an old-time Democratic leader
in Aroostok County.
He teetered back in his rocker in
THE Handy Store d. Sheehan,
Prop as he discussed the current
political situation in Maine.
Sheehan sells a strictly cheap
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He'll Let George Hare Greece


A LFONSO, being king, could not go down 10 the
n pool hall of an afternoon and fan things over
with any one who happened to be there but was
socially restricted to a royal and noble circle and
limited number of ordinary people
condemned to be with the same people so MANY
years, knowing all their by heart and hemmed
IN by convention and the boundaries of a country
which doesn't provide much range, the king I'M
doubleday had moments when he thought of his
mad money, planted in Paris or London or wherever
1t was that he was sending his earnings against the
Gay ne might wish to resign
But ne was game and hung on doing the best he
could not negectng, of course, to take his profits
from time to time.
am not contending that the king is justified
IN taxing TOO much salary for himself but it must
De uue that the job of king in second-rate ma
tlon Is more tradition, tinSe and boredom than
pleasure
IhereS only one really first-rate kings conn
Try lett IN the world, anyway. that being Georges
IN england where the people know how to make
the king feel good and don't load him down with
responsibility which turns to personal blame when
things go wrong
george OF Greece is welcome to his kingdom
When they fail to do better the Greeks will get mad
at the king again; and he not even Greek himself
put just descendant of foreigner who was hired
for the job -0 N
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-09-13
FARM ROADS IN WORKS PRO-
GRAM

Secondary road building has been
designated as one of the main fea-
.ures in the four billion dollar Works
Relief Program, according to a recent
press release from Washington.
Commenting on this G. E. Wise,
Jr., secretary-treasure of the Mary
and Farm Bureau Federation, said
hat Mr.. Hopkins was to be congratu-
ated for this forward-looking step,
md that it would mean great deal
20 the rural districts of Maryland.
1T is also highly gratifying he said,
as evidence of the recognition given
he American Farm Bureau in its
light for more funds for farm roads.
Sixty per cent of Maryland farms, ac-
oording to Mr.. Wise, are still on dirt
.oads which, in many instances, are
,erviceable only nine or ten months
Turing the year. These roads, he
estimated, could be improved at a
cost of between three to five thou
sand dollars per mile and made into
.welve-month roads.
This road program will not only
benefit farmers very materially" he
said, but will, at the same time, in
sure that a large percentage of the
appropriation for this purpose will &C
Tor labor. In various sections OF
Maryland" he continued, "materia
IS plentiful for road construction, and
rom 80 to 80 per cent of the funds
should go to the creation of jobs fol-
Maryland's rural unemployed.
In localities where materials are
aot readily available, Mr.. Wise sale
hey could be greatly improved by
proper grading and drainage,
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The economic consequences of war
might sweep away the remaining
dykes against financial collapse and
revolution. Competent observers
agree that the Mussolini venture will
end in Italian bankruptcy. Fear of
world war will not only throw ma
tional budgets further out of line by
military expenditures, it could de-
stroy what economic recovery is al
ready in evidence. 1t is questionable
if the moral standards of nations
could stand another war and the
capacity for democratic government.
might give way before the rising tide
of facism.
This picture of the consequences
of an Italian attack ON Ethiopia Is
not an exaggeration. What is done
or what is not done to proven. this
war between now and the first of
October may be the most important
decisions in the life of this genera
ton.
The United States is involved both
in the causes and in the results of the
moral catastrophe. The disease af-
fecting the world is an international
disease and the cure must be inter-
national.
No matter how diligently nations
have tried by economic barriers to
insulate themselves from other ma
tions, the same chain of circum-
stances of war, of financial collapse
and of facism, can be found in all
of them. Italy and Germany expert
enced the cycle first, France, Great
Britain, and the United States have
passed through the first phase, are in
the second, and now show symptoms
of the third. Only supreme effort
at world recovery, political. moral,
and economic will save us. The
world war was International; its re-
suits were international, and there Is
no nation that can be cured except
by international remedies.
What should be done now? 1t is
imperative that a peaceful solution
be found 20 the Italian Ethiopian
dispute, and if Mussolini will not be
satisfied with some legitimate eco
nomic concessions in Ethiopia that
will preserve the independence Of
that latter country, the nations have
no choice but by joint action through
the League of Nations to prevent him
from going ahead.
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DRYs PLANNING CAMPAIGN

Hope for another nationwide ban
of the liquor traffic lies in cam
paign which will regain, step by step,
the ground which was lost through
repeal of the Eighteenth Amend
ment
Dry workers of a dozen central
and northwestern states, meeting at
Winona Lake, Ind, for three-day
conference with officers of the Ma
tional Anti-Saloon League, indicated
by their findings that they realize
that national prohibition cannot be
regained without a long struggle,
similar to the struggle which was
waged before the adoption of the
Eighteenth Amendment.
Reports from various States, with
out exception showed conditions I'M
der repeal as "deplorable" and de-
clared that so-called liquor control
has been a complete and dismal fail
ure. Superintendent Mcbride de-
clared that a nationwide tour had
brought almost unanimous reports
from governors and other officials OF
many new evils brought on by repeal
and few of the promises of it's adj
vocates fulfilled.
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SHORE RED CROSS
REGIONAL CONFERENCE

The first of a series of three Red
Cross regional conferences scheduled
or Maryland this fall was held in
cambridge at the Oakley Beach
Hotel on Wednesday, September IL.
Arranged to give a more complete
and comprehensive view of the Red
Cross program on the Eastern Shore,
he conference is expected to further
stimulate participation by the ten
Shore Chapters in Red Cross ac-
tivities.
Among the nationally known Red
Cross officials who spoke at the meet
ing were Commodore w. E. Long
fellow, Assistan: Director of First
Aid and Life Saving, who is a
familiar figure in that part of the
State; w. S. Gard, Assistant Director
of Junior Red Cross; Walter David
son, Assistant Manager of the East
ern Area and Mrs. Margaret Lewis,
Field Representative.
The conference schedule included
a review of outstanding services per-
formed by Chapters during the past
year and preparation of a program
for the coming year. Former Cover
lor Harrington was one of The prin-
cipal speakers during the luncheon
session. Following adjournment, 16
Red Cross Life Saving Instructors
stationed on the Eastern Shore pre-
sented water festival.
The Dorchester County Chapter,
DR.. Robert Weyand, Chairman, acted
as host to the visitors. Following
are the Chapters represented: Cecil
County, Mrs. A. Victor Davis, Chair
man; Kent County, William Usilton,
Jr., Chairman; Queen Annes, Mrs.
Howard Ryland, Chairman; Caroline
County, Mrs. J. Spencer Laph1m, Sec
rotary; Wicomico County, DR.. Justin
C. Wood, Chairman; Somerset Coun-
ty, W. Marshall Scott, Acting Chair
man; Worcester County, Mrs. Walter
w. Price, Vice Chairman; and Tai
bot County, Rev. Carroll S. Klug,
Acting Chairman.
The other two Maryland confer
ences will be held in Annapolis on
September &c, and in Cumberland on
October %.