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Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-02-21

48- peas and beans 1 It produces rod esnP bets
ter yields of sweet, tender peas and well-flled-
out, crisp beans with plenty of 'snap." 1t en-
couraees uniform ripenine and makes har-
veSting easier.
Experiments prove that extra potash in fer
tilizer definitely makes the seed coats of peas
more tender 1t also aids in producing a uni
form maturity of the crop. Potash increases
the disease resistance of the plants reducing
losses from molds and rots. Plenty of potash
enables the grower to produce both high
yields and high quality. One does not have to
be sacrificed for the other.
This year it costs you very little to make
sure that your fertilizer contains plenty of
NVPOTASH. For instance, compare 4-8-7 fer
tilizer with 1875 fertilizer. The 4-8-7 contains
11% more actual plant food than 1875, yet it
costs you very little more. Ask your fertilizer
man about the small extra cost of the hi6her.
potash mixture.
1t pays to use hieh-pOtash fertilizer for all
truck crops because potash is the quality
producing element. 1t helps you Get the No
grades that the market demandS-the quality
that commands top prices. The average truck
crop removes from your soil more potash than
both nitrogen and phosphoric acid combined.
Your fertilizer man knows this That is why
he is encouraging the use of hieh-potash.
quality producing mixtures such as 4-S-Z,
5-8-12, $3.50, and 2-8-1O for Delmarva crops. !
When 10" bHy potash in mired jsrGkser or ]
straight potash. it pays to make sure you ret ]
genuine NV POTASH - the same potash !
that has helped American farmers to produce
better yields fbeffer quality crops for 5OyeGrs \
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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-07-10

Along comes a science Teller who says
YOU can make lemonade out of tobacco,
for there's actually more cltric acid in
tobacco than i'll grapefruit.
An nicotine has such large an
CROWN use for KILN bugs they're tryin
to make tobacco plants extra full Of
nicotine.
A Teller in Massachusetts, has learned
how to turn cow ponds into laboratories.
He puts SIX kinds of bacteria to work
maxim vegetable gums i'll indoor water
tanks. Billions OF these cellulose- form
ing germs turned loose i'll the old frog
pond produce cloth for dresses, swim
min suits, an things, Ain t that a new
wrinkle to write home about!
An here's Smnethin to make your
eyes blink: | he u. S. ID. A. got together
lot OF fire sirens to kill I7-year locusts
due this year. The sirens hlgh-pitehed
sound waves is figured to drown out the
insects matin calls All papa locust
can't call an there won't be any more
baby locusts. High sound waves, human
can't even hear, have killed mice all
smaller varmints by congealin their
blood. A lot of off-note singers can do
that-but the sirens'd be worse II the To-
custs-an little thing like siren
BLOWN amt goin' to stop gallant
young-b blood from tlndIn' his mate
There's an old sayin' that love will
find IA way.
Looks like sometimes we are gettin
plum away from some OF the tunda-
mentals that's liable to throw us outer
balance. Course cabbage docs smell
pretty ordinary a-cookin' i'll cheap
boardin house but most of us have
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-07-10

stocking purposes. Some states are exper-
imenting with the guinea.
Ducks, when released, will leave with
the migratory flights, but other feather
ed game will remain on the farm, if
cover, roosting and feeding conditions
are satisfactory.
Quail should be raised to maturity
with a bantam hen, then be released in
good cover, adjacent to feed and water.
Commercially, quail are most economi-
cally raised by the incubator brooder sys-
tenn.
Sportsmen May Aid
Pheasants may be released at 10 to II
weeks of age. Pheasants range similar to,
but less extensively, than turkeys.
Swamp land is best. Feed should be
planted in advance, if necessary, allow
ing an acre to each bird. Guineas will
range in more upland, brushy waste
land and will stand slightly more crowd
ing than pheasants.
Ducks and Canadian geese often will
remain or return to waters where they
are raised, thus affording the raiser
some shooting Ducks are almost inva-
riably released for flights and the good
of sportsmen in general.
Whether the farmer is interested in
lettering his own shooting opportunities
or has in mind concentrating shoot
ing rights, he will find it profitable and
inexpensive to encourage game propaga-
ton ON waste lands. A club may be form
ed of sportsmen who should gladly pay
for eggs or breeding stock, brooders
planting feed, etc, for shooting priv
ileges.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-07-10
BY DICK WOOD

G PORTSMEN are waking up to the
- fact the supply of game is not going
to last indefinitely by letting Nature
take its course. Regulating game bags,
by state and federal laws is not enough
to insure a plentiful supply tor increas-
ing hordes of nimrods.
Game farming has long been Gus
tom in Europe. Any land owner, or
city sportsman fortified with shotgun
and hunting license costing So or less
can hunt in this country, but in Europe,
the average sportsman is comparatively
rich. There most hunting is done OF pub
lie or private shooting preserves at con-
siderable fee.
Game shooting cannot long continue
in this country for a dollar OF two ex-
penditure for license; half OF that sum
is spent on game law enforcement 1t
has long been done because the farmer
has produced game birds and animals
and willingly granted hunting rights to
city sportSmen.
Hunting Necessary
In some sections, small game of va
rious sorts thrive under natural condi-
tions, and need periodical hunting to
maintain a proper balance. An over
abundance of squirrels OF raccoon will
damage corn considerably. Doves, pleas
ants and wildfowl will make heavy in
roads on grain in the shock. So hunting
is often welcomed by farmers who lack
time to keep game in check.
Farmers who have considerable areas
of waste land may profitably convert it
into game refugees. Ring-neck pheasants,
quail and ducks are easily raised for
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-07-10

rel with yer neighbors. 1t makes yer
shoot at yer landlord and it makes yer
miss him.
Mark Twain, the famous humoriSt,
once served as editor of Southern farm
paper while the regular editor took
vacation.
Toward shutdown on the day after
the paper went to press all old gentle
man with fine, but austere, face EN-
tered the office and asked:
Are you the new editor r.
Mark answered in the affirmative.
Have you ever edited an agricultural
paper before?"
No, the man who was later to be-
come famous as humorist answered,
This is my first attempt"
Some instinct told me so, said the
old gentleman. Il wish to read you what
must have made me have that instinct.
1t was this editorial: Turmps should
never be pulled, it injuries them. 1t isl
much better to send boy up and lett
him shake. the tree. Now what do you'll
think of that?
Think Of iii" replied Twain. why
i think its good. have no douot but
that every year millions of bushels oil
turnips are spoiled in this township
alone by being pulled III half-ripe con
dition when, if they had sent boy up
to shake the tree :"
Shake your grandmother! TurnipI
don't grow on trees!
ooh, they don't, don't they! Well
who said they did. The language was n
tended to be figurative wholly figura
tive. Anybody that knows anythin
will know that | mean that the bo
should shake the vine."
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-07-10

Farmers who are not up on scientific
farming practices are usually down on
them.
A timely summer tip from Solomon:
He that tilleth his land shall have
plenty of bread. ''-Proverbs 28:Io.
It's crime against good health when
parents fail to teach children to ear
vegetables freely.
Wanfed: BY every dairy COW in the
South, balanced ration, chiefly homo
grown.
In a growing crop, protection is an
important element of production and
therefore big factor in profits.
1t takes moisture and fertility to grow
weeds, and then what have you?
A farmer who does not keep records
for future benefit can not hope TO become
a record farmer.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-07-10
BETWEEN THE ROWS

Aesop's story of the satyr and the
woodman is retold with moral in re-
cent publication of the Rural Electrifi-
cation Administration.
No doubt you recall how the satyr,
upon meeting a woodman returning
home one cold evening, asked the man
why he blew upon his hands, and in re-
ply was told it was to make them warm.
Upon reaching the woodlands cot
tage, the two sat down to hot porridge,
and again the satyr questioned the man
as to why he blew on his soup, and was
told that thereby it was cooled.
Whereupon the satyr declared that
one who could blow both hot and cold
with the same breath must be bewitched
and he left that place forever.
And" moralizes the publication in
terested in more electrified farms, de
spite his very active imagination, Aesop
himself would believe the modern farm
er bewitched who can by the snap of an
electric swith, make heat or cold, pow
er or light"
A negro minister was describing the
bad place" to congregation of awed
listeners in Tennessee.
Friends" he said, you all have seen
melted iron runnin out of a furnace, has
you? 1t am white hot, sizzlin' and his
sin. Well, dey use dat stuff for ice
cream in de place Pse telling you about.
This reminds the writer of what |
heard an Irish preacher in Virginia say
about the evils of whiskey when prohi-
bition was being discussed on every cor
ner:
Drink" he said is the greatest
curse of the country. 1t makes yer quar-
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-07-10
JEST A-WHITTLIN>
AN A-TH|NKIN|
BY PETE GETTYS

learnt to expect sech things-an' it's
sorter like homefolkS to us. But good
bye old boilin' cabbage-n year or two
you'll be gone for market gardeners
will be offerin us smell-less cabbage.
An down in Florida they're tryin' to
grow an odorless an fearless" onion
an that won't be any fun, an | bet
they won't taste near so good neither.
Coffee don't taste as good now as it used
to when Nav roasted it at home Sat
urdays on wood stove, an it smelled
SO good, an every morning you could
hear her grindin' it in the little wooden
coffee mill OH her lap. Fact is, you can
jest keep OIL improvin things, as they
call it, till all the best part is gone
an | still want my onions strong.
Ever have a pig for pet. What a
wonderful pal pig is-the very flower
of discretion. Your intimate condolences
are safe with him. An how attentive
he isl He stands with ears straight up,
his little eyes lookin right into yours
and his nostrils twitchin with interest
All anticipation. Ever notice that a pig.
more'n any other animal looks like many
people you know? The moment you SEE =
a new pig you have dozen names in
your mind-an every one of EN- fit
perfectly.
When you learn to know pig, your
admiration grows for him. He never
poses like somethin' he amt He lives
purity much to a pattern with nary a :
worry, jest plain contented. He has none
OF that nervous twitchness that's SO
wearin' to live WITH He has no idea Z
about anything or himself. He neve VT
gets moody, upplty or frivolous. 4
So, when you reach that time i'll life.
when you commence sufterin from the
chronic orneriness of a man over so,
get yourself pet pig.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-07-10

Once our community found we could
do things together it became better
community and we became better citi
zens.
Better a dinner of herbs and con-
tentment," says wise old Solomon. Yea,
and herbs from good garden help to
make contentment.
have fed hogs all my life, but have
learned more about balanced rations this
year from watching my pig club boy
than | had learned in all my life be-
fore.
The Intercepted by-productS of
yesterdays haphazard farming are the
little, respected by-products Of todays
more scientific farming land not so
little"
Nearly every farmer has enough low
moist land which if put into pasture
grasses would produce fine grazing for
several cows.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-07-10

rel with yer neighbors. 1t makes yer
shoot at yer landlord and it makes yer
miss him"
The Washington times., 1936-03-17

sion, came IL more-al con-
cealed in the same manner, and
all bearing upon their baby flesh
signs of abominable depravity.
How could the simple country
folk connect Herr SeeSfeld with
such a horror-the smiling, soft
spoken worker who had passed
their way periodically for the last
five years on his tinkering jobs?
But then rumor began. Present
ly it was remembered that Herr
Seesfeld had not always been a
travelling worker. Once, for 10
years, he had stayed behind gov.
ernment bars. There had been
dead boys then, too. five Of them.
But although he admitted vicious
practices, there was no evidence
to connect Herr Seesfeld with
their death. So, five years ago,
after serving his sentence, he had
gone free.
PUBLIC MENACE
Now there will be no more trips,
save one short one to the guillo-
tine, for Herr SeeSfeld. But If
Chancellor Hitler's new "Sicher-
its-Verwahrung" law had been
in effect five years ago, those 10
little boys would still be living.
there would have been no chance
The Washington times., 1936-03-17
A Foul Plot Exposed

The sensitive soul Of the Hon James Farley shocked al
the prospect campaign of personalities and bad words
that little band hardened sinners who have not yet been
converted to the gospel according to st. Franklin
AS former ornament of the New York State Boxing Com
mission Mr. Farley naturally desires all discussions to be
Quoted on the oftiest plane.
But in this instance, he fears, it is not to be-
"Let me tell you," he Mortified Democratic
National Committee, "that opponents WiN make
the bitterest and certainly the test political struggle
that any of US here remember"
And he continues with these observations concerning the
enemy and their tactics:
"PerUersiOns of fact. outright lies foul whispeT
ings largest slush fund record mot that fiOe
billion dollar one, sureyO pirate ascenddncy.
financial qanesters extOrtiOn expEOiters. frozen
snakes. poison"
This is alarming indeed but let hope not inevitable
The Washington times., 1936-03-17
By Nelson Harding
By Edwin G. Hill

those who cling to a belief IN the
innate goodness and wisdom Of
the mass.
At the turn of the century, Japan
was at the crossroads. Japan Of
the Samurai was hostile to the new
steel-girded Japan of the bankers
and industralists. It was this
disSension which today is written
in blood. Saionji clung to his
youthfu1ly cherished ideals Of
democracy. But he found no soil
for them in either the romantic
carry-over from feudalism or in
the new Japan of the great entire
preneurS.
GREAT POWER
Gently, gradually, wistfully it
seemed, rather than by deliberate
choice, he became the ally and
leader of the latter, heading their
political party.
Gradually he gathered in his
delicate fingers the strands OF
great power. There was in his
nature a duality which inevitably
made him in his later years the
repository of ancient wisdom and
the counsellor to the Emperor.
There was none whose soul
was more deeply rooted in the
mystic culture of old Japan
with it's asceticisms and its rigor-
GUS disciplines. Furthermore. he
was an artist. turning with eager
interest in his later years to
modernistic paintings. He was a
sage in the venerable lore Of
revered ceremonial. Rarely in
men of power, of political astute-
ness, has there been this unique
confluence of the old and new.
AS the conflict sharpened be-
tween the militarists. the mud
died romanticiStS impelled by the
past, and the industrialiSts, lured
The Washington times., 1936-03-17

The simple house and garden
are an arcanum Of the subtlest,
the most enduring beauty of
Japan-a vase, a kakamona, per-
haps the rarest and most exquisite
prints of HokaSai, or Hiroshigi, or
Toyokini.
There is timeleSS and gentle re-
pose here. There is a ceremonial,
as carefully and minutely stylized
as the ceramics and pictures. Be
havior. and art are exquisitely
blended. They are one.
Down on the plain the aesthetic
unitieS fall short Of fulfillment.
Guns roar at dawn and the blood
Of statesmen is red on the snow.
The guns voice the deadly hatred
Of old feudal, romantic Japan
against the rising industrialistS,
the MitsuiS and MitSubishiS.
Not for 800 years on the planet
has there been bloodletting for
just this reason. The feudal
knights of England made the
same resistance against the as
cendancy of the money kings Of
the Renaissance as did the fanat-
ical, impasSioned, medieval young
japanese officers. There is stress
of contending centuries in this
deadly tension. There is perhaps
the fate of an empire at stake.
PRINCE SAIONJI
The bright-eyed, sleek, little
brown man is summoned down
from his mountainSide. With lei
surely pace, with calm dignity,
leaning on his long staff, he pro-
ceeds to the palace of the EN-.
peror to give counsel in golden
words Of wisdom, minted in his
retreat of beauty and meditation.
He is Prince Kimmochi Saionji,
81 years old, the eldest Of the
elder statesmen, translated like
Elijah to seeming Immortality,
descending only to advise the Son
Of Heaven in a critical hour. If
revered custom holds, it is he
who will whisper the name Of the
new premier. At nod from him,
Japan left the League of Nations.
Later, the announcement Of her
ASiatic Monroe Doctrine was at
tributed to him.
So ethereal is the little old
man in his cloud palace that it
The Washington times., 1936-03-17

Is there a thoughtful American, 4
North, East, South, or West, who
believes that John Adams or
Thomas jefferson, who were the
first two Vice Presidents of the
United States, would have been
willing to divide their time be-
tween the constitutional duties Of
the Vice Presidency and the po-
itical activities incumbent on a
vice chairman of the national cam
paign committee of a Presidency
for reelection?
When Vice President Garner
allowed himself to be drafted sew
eral months ago by Personal Gov
ernment to serve its Jo' laster
General as chief assistant at the
head of the national campaign
committee, now engaged in an at
tempt to extend Personal Govern
ment for another four years, he did
what no one of the bestknown
Americans who. have preceded him
as Viz PRESIDENT consented to do.
Does any thoug'- tful American
believe that Theodore Roosevelt
or Calvin Coolidge would have
been willing to serve either Cam
paign Manager Hanna or Cam
paign Manager Daugherty as chief
assistant in the management of
a Presidential campaign while
serving as president of the Senate?
PUBLIC SENTIMENT
Vice President Garner is not
only serving as President of the
Senate but under the constitu-
tional obligation of that office he
is also serving as presiding Judge
at the trial of a Federal district
Judge recently impeached by the
House.
Under the rules Of the Senate
W W4AICII OCAAoOO1 6O101 ICSCAAGAJ
objected, all questions a member
of the Court-that is to say the
Senate-may desire to address to
witness testifying at the trial
Of this judge must be submitted
in writing to the presiding officer
who puts them to the Senate.
THAT may be the usual pro-
cedure," said Senator BOralf,
"but 1 think it a very poor prac-
tice."
Whatever may be the sound
ness of this practice at trials
where the presiding judge de-
votes himself exclusively to the
constitutional duties of his office,
what does Senator Borah think
Of the soundness of the practice
when the presiding judge is at
the same time serving as the vice
campaign manager of the Presi-
dent in power who is seeking re-
election?
What would the American peo-
pie think if, on some distant TO-
morrow, in the melancholy event
that the President of the United
States should be impeached by
The Washington times., 1936-03-17
Grave Possibilities
Bu James T. Williams, F.

} the House, and the Chief Justice
of the United States called upon
to preside over his trial by the
Senate, and upon taking the oath
in that connection it should be
found out that several months be-
fore he had accepted election as
vice chairman of the national
campaign of the President who
nominated him Chief Justice?
Would not Public Sentiment be
against the trial court Of the
Senate having as it's presiding
Judge at the trial of the PreSi.
dent of the United States elected
by one political party the vice
campaign manager of the other
political party?
DRAFTED
When Mr.. Garner is serving
the Senate, in its capacity as a
court, as its presiding judge at
the trial of a member of the
Federal Judiciary impeached by
the House, Mr.. Garner is clothed
with grave judicial authority and
responsibility imposed upon him
by reason of the high office to
which he was elected by the peo-
ple-the office Of Vice President
of the United States.
His only duty under the Con.
stitution is to serve the Senate as
president of the Senate and the
Senate as its presiding judge
when the Senate becomes a court
for the trial Of Federal official
below the office of the presi.
dency impeached by the House.
His fellow members Of the Sen.
ate, whose respect for his abilities
is shared by his fellow Americans
who know him, are doubtless we'll
aware that Mr.. Garner was not
a candidate for the political job
he now holds as vice manager Of
President Roosevelt'S campaign
for reelection. Mr.. Garner was
drafted for that job by Mr.. Rooss.
velt and Mr.. Farley.
Doubtless, they had their rea-
sons for arranging for his election
to this job at the January meet
ing of the Democratic National
Committee. What these reasons
were will make interesting read.
ing when they are divulged.
But among these reasons there
will be found no justification for
the invasion of the independence
and dignity of the Senate, whether
in the exercise of its legislative,
executive or judicial responsible.
tiles under the Constitution, by
the drafting of its presiding Off
Ger to serve Jobmaster General
Farley as his political Man Friday
on the national campaign COM
mittee of the Roosevelt-Farley
party,
The Washington times., 1936-03-17
The Relief Problem

The relief problem has habit of developing into
crisis every month or two
Such crisis is in evidence in Washington now and
there doesnt t seem to be much doubt to its reality
The present difficulty arises from combination Of the
failure of the Federal Government to live to its prom
ise to give work relief to all empoyables with the failure
to obtain an emergency appropriation of local funds to
meet the need.
The recommendation of the District Commissioners for
such an emergency appropriation has met with delay in
the Bureau of the Budget and is now reported to have
been cut by than fifty per cent by that bureau
It does no good to quibble the of the
dton which has caused the Board of Public Welfare to
warn what it is pleased to call its cients' that they
should not expect further checks for me possibly
until the regular relief appropriation becomes available
on July 1.
The thing that amazes most Washngtonians and which
probably explains the reluctance Of the Bureau of the
Budget to give the welfare authorities the money they
seek is that THERE HAS BEEN NO APPRECIABLE
DROP IN RELIEF ROLLS DESPITE THE UNQUEs-
TONED RETURN OF PROSPERITY TO WASHING
TON.
Possibly the Bureau Of the Budget feels as do many
who have interested themselves in the relief situation
that THE ONLY WAY TO CUT THE RELIEF ROLLS
IS TO CUT OFF THE FLOW OF MONEY.
That thought of course, is Immediately answered by
the cry 1--WE can't let them starve"
There are many "experts" on the relief problem en-
ployed by the District.
These people undoubtedly know their business-and it
is business
WHAT WAsHINGToN1ANs WOULD LIKE THESE
EXPERTS TO TELL THEM IS WHY THE TREMEN
DOUs INCREASE IN EVERY ACTIVITY IN WASH
1NcToN IN THE LAST FEW YEARS HAS NOT RE-
SUITED IN PLACING MORE OF THEIR "CL1ENTs
BACK IN REGULAR EMPLOYMENT