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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-02-19
EVERY WEEK from the NEWS
CENTER of the WORLD Pathfinder

The federal educational aid bills,
Introduced by Senator Harrison and
representative Fletcher in the 74th
congress, have been introduced in
he 18th Congress. Identically word
I'd, the purpose of these bills as stat
ID in their preambles is 'to promote
he general welfare through the ap-
jropriation of funds to assist the
,tates and territories in providing
more effective programs of public
.ducation." They call for an APP
preparation of 500, 100000 the firsr
ear, and an additional $50,000,000
or each fiscal year until the total
annual appropriations shall have
cached $3OO,O0O,000.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-02-19
HIGHWAY SAFETY TEXTBOOK
FOR HIGH SCHOOLS

A Highway Safety Textbook for
High Schools, compiled by the Public
Safety Department of the Keystone
Automobile Club of Maryland is now
ready for distribution in the schools,
according to Garrison P. Knox, Man
ager of the Club.
The book, which has been in course
of preparation more than year, ~
an authoritative work covering tie
entire field of motor vehicle opera
ton, with chapters devoted to the
highway accident problem, mechan-
ism of the car, motor vehicle laws,
driving skills, highways, pedetrian
safety, enforcement for safety, driver
responsibility and suggestions fo9
young drivers.
The introduction to the book
makes the frank declaration that "up
to the present time the young driver
has not been credit to society,"" and
asks, what are we going 20 do about
it?"
ut is not argument bit fact" the
statement continues, that there are
more automobile accidents involving
people of the high school and college
group than of any other group in So
ciety. If we are to meet the situa-
ton squarely, we must have a new
generation of drivers. This new
generation will not take pride in
driving recklessly in brightly deco
rated wrecks of motordom, but will
be proud of it's ability to drive safe
ly in a mechanically perfected car.
When the young men and women of
our high schools and colleges are con-
WINGED that safe driving and safe
walking are as necessary part of
sensible modern living as taking
baths, the accident statistics will tell
another story"
Publication of the book Is the log
ical extension of safety work begun
in the schools by the Club in 1928,
when Keystone's Public Safety De-
partment was organized, with Ed
ward P. curran as director" Tie
chief purpose Of the department has
been to educate children in the ele-
mentary and junior high schools In
accident prevention methods.
There are at present more than
100000 children in 1926 schools
who are affected by the safety organ
ization work of the Club.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-02-19
AMERICAN LEGION FIGHTS FOR
SAFETY

The Americanism Commission of
the American Legion, long active in
the cause of traffic safety, has re-
leased two talking-slide-fllms dealing
with that vital subject. Entitled
Inertia" and THE Other Fellow, -
Chey are an important contribution
10 promoting wider understanding of
The cause and cure of the traffic &C
cident problem.
Inertia" is an interesting and I'M
usual presentation of why it is nee
essary to exercise care at the wheel
Of motor car. 1t describes the
physical laws of motion and how
they affect automobile driving. 1t
emphasizes that we are SO accustom-
ed to the power plant we call the
automobile that we consistently tenC
co undervalue the force it harbors.
The second film, THE Other Eel
low" is dramatic treatment of
community responsibility for traffic
accidents. Not the other fellow.
alone, but all of us are responsible
for the mounting toll Of death and
injury because of failure to discharge
responsibilities of enforcement, en-.
cheering, education, self-discipline
The film describes how a number OF
American cities are coping effectively
with their traffic problems, and shows
chat any community, with intelli'
gence and determination, can do the
same.
The films were made possible by
the financial support of trade groups
within the automotive industry, and
produced with the cooperation of the
National Bureau of Casualty anG
Surety Underwriters. Six hundred
copies of the productions are being
distributed countrywide through
state departments of the American
Legion.
1t is peculiarly fitting that tbs
great organization which grew out Of
carnage should now be engaged &C.
lively in war the primary purpose
of which is to save lives.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-02-19
SPINACH AND THE MOVIES

We have a theory this week-a
theory based on survey, says the
Pathfinder. The survey was con-
Quoted by the Children's Welfare
Federation among 10000 youngsters
to ascertain child preferences and
ambitions.
Deep down in the QUESTIONABLE
was the terse query: "Favorite Vege-
table?" The children rated potatoes
first, spinach second. After that,
they went all to pieces, with varying
tastes for asparagus, beets, turnips,
peas, carrots and lima beans. By
the time we were through reading all
the answers, we had gone somewhat
to pieces, too. A few of the prefer
ences were pretty startling.
In the first place, the survey made
It evident that children were actually
fond Of spinach, and that's where our
theory came in. The theory is that
motion pictures are responsible for a
lot Of peoples tastes, dreams and
ambitions. There Is, for instance,
no doubt about who's at the bottom
Of this sudden surge in favor OF
spinach. It's Popeye, the bellicose,
one-eyed sailor, the movie-cartoon
apologist for "spinich."
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-02-19
OLD AGE PENSIONS IN STATE

Maryland was pictured as admin
istering old-age pensions most care
fully and sparingly than most other
States in the recent report made pub
lie by the Board of State Aid and
Charities.
Tables of figures collected by tn
Social Security Board were cited to
show that twenty-seven States have
been more liberal than Maryland in
the certifying of pensioners, while
twenty-five have been giving larger
average monthly pension.
The report calculated that the peak
number of pensioners in Maryland
during the next two years would be
about $4,000. This represents ap-
proximately fifteen per cent Of the
number of Marylanders over IS years
of age, it was stated.
At the present time, there are
about 1900 old-age pensioners re-
ceiving aid in Maryland. The report
estimates that about half the pend
ing applications will be accepted and
will boost this figure to the peak OF
10000 cases by June.
Maryland's average monthly pen
sion in December was $16.49, as com
pared with the national average Of
$1S.71 for the month. CALIFORNIA; av,
erage pension of $31.54 was the high,
est. Colorado was second with $27.65
and Massachusetts third with $26.06
The cost of old-age pensions In
Maryland is estimated at about 81
900, 900 a year when the program is
FULLY under way. OF this amount the
Federal Government pays half
matching funds put up by the State
and the localities. Expenditure is
about equally divided between Balti
more and the counties.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-02-19

The acreage of early Irish potatoes
n Maryland for 1887 will likely be
increased about twelve per cent over
hat of 1896, according to reports
ent by growers to the Maryland Crop
reporting Service. The $500 acres
indicated for 1897 compares with S.
100 acres harvested last year, $500
lcres in 1895, $500 acres in 1884
ind 500 acres in 1888, and the five
year (1928-S2) average of 9,4OO
acres.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-02-19
175,ooo, 900 TREES AND SHRUBS

The Soil Conservation Service plans
TO plant approximately 175,O00,000
trees and shrubs during 1887, as part
of the erosion control program, in
project areas throughout the coun-
Try, H. H. Bennett, chief of the SER
,ice, announces. During 1886, he
said, the service planted 1SO,oOO,OOO
.rees, mostly Of the hardwood varie-
les. The 1887 paintings for erosion
control will bring the total to APP
oroximately 100000 in a little
more than four years,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-02-19
Organized farmers of Maryland ar

Organized farmers of Maryland are
bitterly opposed to proposals to in
crease real estate levies in order to
provide additional state funds to bal
ance the budget, it was announced by
President Harry H. Nuttle Of the
Maryland Farm Bureau. The Farm
Bureau has long held that real estate
~ bearing an unfair share of the tax
burden, and that other methods OF
taxation must be adopted in order to
balance the tax load.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-02-19

The regular annual Gamers School
will be held this year at the Univer-
,ity of Maryland from February "a
o 26, it is announced by Herman A.
4Iunter, canning crops specialist for
he Extension Service. More than a
hundred nurserymen, horticulturists,
Ind agricultural leaders from Mary
and and surrounding states are ex-
Jected to- attend.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-02-19
Approximately 1875 engineers from

Approximately 125 engineers from
all over the State are in attendance
at the first annual short course in
highway engineering under the d.
rection of the Engineering Depart
ment of the University of Maryland
which started February and will
continue through February 20.
Members of the instruction stan
include University of Maryland pro-
fessors, State Roads Commission Of
ficials, experts of the United States
Bureau of Public Roads, and repre-
sentatives of the Highway Depart
msnt of Baltimore City.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-02-19

The estimated enrolment of col
lege students for the year 1886 is
1,179,000, as against 597,857 in
1920. In 1884, the number of men
and women who were graduated at
our colleges tetaled 137,845, as
against 4S.e22 in 1920.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-02-19

There has been a decided increase
in the pack Of yellow corn in Mary
land In recent years. it is stated by
Herman A. Hunter, canning crops
specialist for the University Of Mary
land Extension Service. Yellow corn
about Is per cent of the 1886 pack.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-02-19

It Is announced by A. s. Thurston,
professor of Horticulture and land
ncape gardening of the University of
Maryland, that the annual Nursery
mems Short Course will be held at
Collage Park on February "a.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-02-19

Firemen in England are expert
menting with an asbestos shield by
means of which they are able to ap-
proach the hottest part Of the fire.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-02-19
FACTS AND Fl
ON YOUR n
TELEPHONE D
MI u
By
M,,.4MH|

Earnings of the American Telephone
and Telegraph Company per share for
the twelve months of last year were
S9.36 as compared with 1914 the pre-
vious year. This was the first year
since 1881 in which the company's full
dividend payment had been earned.
A net gain of approximately $4,000
telephones was added to the Bell Sys-
tenn in 1896 as compared with 461,OOO
in 1895, President Walter S. Clifford
of the American Telephone and Tele-
graph Company reported to the stock
holders at the first meeting of the
year. There were about 14,735,000
telephones in service on December 81,
1886, which is $4,000 less than the
maximum development which was
reached in 1880.
The total number of toll and long
distance calls in 1886 was about IL
per cent greater than in 1885, but 10
per cent less than in the record year
of 1880.
As another step in it's program for
better and cheaper long distance tele-
phone service, the company's ninth
rate reduction in ten years became eff
fective January Is. This last reduc-
ton of approximately $12,000,0OO, on
an annual basis, was made in negotia-
tion with the Federal Communications
Commission. It is larger than the
company feels is justified at this time,
but it was accepted as compromise
in the hope that continued improve
ment in business conditions will justify
it and particularly because this set
Element could be reached by informal
discussion between the company and
the commission rather than by long
drawn out rate hearings which are
costly to all concerned.
A comparison of the twelve months
earnings report Of the American Tele-
phone and Telegraph Company fol-
lows:
~ MONTHS
The Washington times., 1937-12-31
NeU York Prepares
For Wet Celebration

NEW YORK, Dec. 81 Q.N.S0.
"A perplexed world will muddle
along into a new year at midnight
tonight with promises to "do
better" in 1888 but not even a
vague idea as to how. The flow,
ing bowl will contribute, to the
vagueness in the Manhattan area
with 1888 special liquor licenses
issued and reservations at regular
night spots far in advance OF re-
cent New Year Eve bookings.
AS always, Times Square will
be the magnet which will draw
celebrators by the thousands from
distant points. The New Haven
road will carry several trainloads
of visitors from Boston, Spring
field, Hartford, New Haven and
Bridgeport. A force of 1875 extra
policemen and ITS firemen will
be detailed to the midtown area
to keep the celebrators in check.
Prices for the evenings fun
ranged from So at the Valencia
to SIS at the Ritz Carlton.
The Washington times., 1937-12-31
Van SittGrt
May Replace
Lindsay

LONDON, Dec. 81 U.N.S).-Sir
Robert Van Sittart, permanent
British .undersecretary Of foreign
affairs, may soon be given a diplo-
matte post, possibly as British am
bassador to some key capital, the
London Daily Express reported to-
day.
The Express said it was rumored
in diplomatic quarters that Sir
Robert has his choice Of becoming
ambassador either to Paris or
Washington.
If he goes to Washington, Sir
Robert will succeed Sir Ronald
Lindsay. There have been recent
reports that Sir Ronald may re.
tire during the coming year.
The Washington times., 1937-12-31
President Thanks Nation
For Thousands of GreetinQS

to reply to all these greetings, he
said, and asked that his thanks be
expressed through the newspapers.
The Chief Executive also placed
his mark of approval on the Big
Apple.
This much discussed dance,
whcih has swept the nation in re.
cent months, was performed at a
dance given last night by the
younger RooseveltS.
The President found it very
interesting" but admitted that,
as a music lover, he found 1t
lacks rhythm.
The Washington times., 1937-12-31
TERUEL VICTORY
SAY
FRANCO FORCES

SARAGOSSA, Spain, Dec. 81
QN.S9.-"We could enter Teruel
immediately-but we are awaiting
further orders" ~.
This illbilant message came to
the insurgent Spanish headquar-
tiers here today from Col. Sagar.
dia, insurgent commander of the
relief column dispatched to aid
5000 insurgent troops who have
been holding out more than a
week against beseiging loyalist
troops in Teruel.
VICTORY REPORTED
The report from Sagardia fol-
lowed an official announcement
of a smashing insurgent victory
west of Teruel in which 5000 gov
ernment troops were claimed to
have been killed or wounded in
the rebel drive to recapture the
strategic city wrested from them
by loyalist forces last week.
At the same time, authorities
here were assured that the insur-
gents bottled up inside Teruel
could hold out against the govern
rnent siege until they were rescued
by the huge army Gen. Francisco
Franco has assembled to drive the
government forces from the i'm
portant eastern-front salient.
Recapture of Teruel by the in
surgents, which is now regarded
as matter of a few days at most,
would deal the government side
a crushing blow and might prove
the beginning of the end of loyal.
ist resistance against the rebels.
The Washington times., 1937-12-31
POISON FATAL
TO D. C. MAN, "a

Returning to his apartment in
the Park Lane early today. Joseph
Drake, "a, told his bride of two
months that he had taken rat
poison.
A few hours later, at 9 o'clock,
he was pronounced dead at Emer-
gency Hospital.
According to police, young
Drake offered no explanation to
his bride, Elva, as to why he had
taken the poison. Similarly he
failed to tell physicians who
treated him at the hospital the
reason for the act.
Drake was a junior representa-
tive in the commercial sales de-
partment of the Potomac Electric
Power Company.
The Washington times., 1937-12-31
Estate Tax Law
Ruling Is Sought

GN.SO. A major test Of the con-
stitutional scope of the Indiana
gross income tax law was sought
in an appeal filed in the Supreme
Court today by the J. D. Adams
manufacturing Company, Indian
apolis road machinery builders.
The company asserted that ap-
plication of the tax to its gross
receipts from sales to purchasers
outside Indiana and to interest
on tax exempt bonds is unconsti-
tutional.
The Washington times., 1937-12-31
Rain and Warmer
Forecast for d. G..

It'll be a wet New Years Eve.
That is the forecast Of the
Weather Bureau, not the Alcoholic
Beverage Control Board.
Bureau officials said the city
is in for occasional rain tonight
and probably tomorrow morning.
The rain will be accompanied by
continued warm weather, getting
slightly warmer tonight, with the
lowest estimated temperature AZ
degrees. Tomorrow will be colder.
The Washington times., 1937-12-31
JEWS PIN HOPE
ON KING CAROL

BUCHAREST, Dec. 81 GN.S).
With Premier Octavian Goga'S
new. anti-Semitic government in
the saddle, hundreds Of thousands
Of Rumanian Jews anxiously
pinned their hopes on King Carol
today to spare them the fate OF
Jews in Germany.
Despite statements that they
will be ousted from the country,
Jews here still put faith in Goga's
pledge to keep within the consti-
tuition.
Latest developments, however
provided little to support the opSi'
mistic hopes of Jewish circles. The
new government moved toward
its goal Of exilnig hundreds OF
thousands of Jews and "purging
them from high places"
AS the first overt step in this
direction, the Jewish director OF
the nations official news agency
M. Hurtig, was dismissed and re.
placed by a Rumanian non-Jew
The Jewish director of the govern
ment radio also was fired and
there were indications Jewish
journalists, already deprived of
travelling privileges, would soon be
discharged.
The Washington times., 1937-12-31
Roosevelt Parties
Quiz About Blasts
By ICkes, Jackson
Cites "T. r." Parable
In EUadiIug Reply
To Press

Q.N.S0 President Roosevelt to-
day avoided expressing outright
approval or disapproval Of the
Jackson-Ickes speeches which saw
agely assailed big business.
In answer to questions at his
regular press conference, the Presi-
dent said he was reminded that
Theodore Roosevelt once criticized
"malefactors Of great wealth."
Certain elements, he said, tried
to make ii appear that T. r. was
assailing all rich men as male
factors" which was not the case.
He suggested that his question
ers could find a New Year parable
in that. He said T. r. knew Eng
lish, he knew English, and so did
the reporters.
The Washington times., 1937-12-31
Big Meteor That Shook
Hudson Valley Hunted

Winkle legend and was clearly
seen at Lake Sebago. on the south.
ern border Of Palisades Interstate
Park.
The shock Of the meteoric blast
was reported by scores of fright
ened residents.
At Sloatsburg, the force of the
meteor's fall to earth was so vio-
lent that Captain Gee. of the Bear
Mountain police. was hurled from
his bed.
The Washington times., 1937-12-31

' President Roosevelt today,
through the press of the nation,
extended his thanks and gratitude
to the thousands of persons
throughout the country who sent
him holiday greetings.
At his press conference the
President told reporters that more
than 1000 greetings had been re-
ceived during the holidays.
The overworked secretariat, busy
preparing the Presidents annual
message to Congress, the budget
and other vital matters, is unable
The Washington times., 1937-12-31
ROOSEVELT SILENT
Heflin Reported
AS Much Improved

FAYETTE, Ala, Dec. 81 Q.N.S)
Former Senator James Thomas
Heflin war believed on the road
to recovery today. DR.. M. A.
Wheeler said the Senator, who
was stricken with lobar pneu-
was resting better" today
and that he was inclined to be
lieve he will recover"
The Washington times., 1937-12-31
Market Weakens
On Ickes' Blast

NEW YORK, Dec. 81 G.N.S0.
The stock market started its last
trading day of 1887 today on a
weak note, depressed by the new
blast against big business deliv.
cred by Secretary Ickes. Steels
and building shares led the de.
cline, but there was noticeable
in motors, coppers and
rails.
The Washington times., 1937-12-31

BEAR MOUNTAIN, N. Y, Dec.
81 G.N.SO.-A huge flaming
meteorite that crashed to earth
within so miles Of New York city,
rocking a score Of towns in this
State and New Jersey over a 20
mile area, was sought today in this
1t flared like an astronomical
skyrocket at about 7:45 o'clock last
night above the fabled Hudson
Valley country Of the Rip Van
The Washington times., 1937-12-31
Prof. Fired in War
May be Reinstated

CHICAGO, Dec. 80 G.N.S0
Calling his dismissal an injustice
done because Of war hysteria, the
American Federation of Teachers
today revealed Prof. William A.
Schaper may recover his old job
at the University of Minnesota.
Schaper, dropped in 1917 because
he was opposed to war, also may
be rendered an apology. The fed
Grafton announced Governor Elmer
A. Benson has asked the univer-
sity's regents to rescind their
action.
The Washington times., 1937-12-31
KILLERS WIFE
FORCED TO ACT
AS HIS GUARD
2 of Crew Held as
Boat Is Sealed
BY RALPH B. JORDAN

BY RALPH b. JORDAN
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 81 dN.sJ.
Faced with a tale OF piracy and
murder scarcely rivaled in the
pages Of buccaneer fiction, G.men
today probed into the yet unex.
planned mysteries of the strange
voyage of the luxury schooner
yacht Aafje an the violent death
Of two men aboard her.
The Federal Sleuths were imme.
diately amazed at one revelation,
that of 17-year-old Mrs. Mary
Morgan, a slender expectant
mother, who cried out a terrifying
tale Of holding a gun on the other
passengers of the boat while her
husband, Jack Morgan, slept.
SEIZED YACHT
Morgan, a small.time piracy.
crazed soldier Of fortune, shot and
killed Dwight L. Faulding, wealthy
Santa Barbara hotel owner and
master of the yacht, and for five
days held the Aafje'S crew and
passengers in bondage, until he
was dispatched and tossed into
the ocean-to follow the body of
his victim.
Officers speculated on the like.
lihood that Morgan, with a queer
twist in his brain, planned to take
the yacht, with its six remaining
adults and a boy, to the South
Seas and establish a colony-a
Pitcairn Island Of the present
century; a soft, sunny, isolated
isle where he would be ruler and
king and found a new race.
SHIP GUARDED
Riding uneasily alongside
dock at Los Angeles harbor today
was the trim. white-sided Aafje,
her gangplank guarded by Federal
agents who were under orders to
keep her sealed for "a hours while
finger-prints and other physical
evidence were hunted.
In the county Jail here were
two youths, Robert Horne and
George Spernak, members Of the
Aafje's crew, who, weary and
emaciated from hunger and thirst,
Continued on Page S, Col. ~
The Washington times., 1937-12-31
Keep
Suburbs Closed

SHANGHAI, Dec. 81 UN.SJ.
Despite a Japanese promise to
open them to Chinese and foreign
residents Of Shanghai, the city's
western suburbs remained closed
today. Reason for the failure of
the Nipponese authorities to re.
open the suburbs was not an.
nounced.
The Washington times., 1937-12-31
Ferguson Named
Trade Body Head

G.N.S) Garland s. Ferguson,
Of Greensboro, N. c., today was
elected chairman Of the Federal
Trade Commission for the en-
suing year. Under the commits
Sion's plan of procedure. the chair
manship rotates annually. Fergu-
son has been q member Of the
commission for II years.
The Washington times., 1937-12-31
DIR. Vega Heads
Nicaragua Court

MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Dec. 81.
DR.. Flores Vega, former minister
Of public works in the adminiStra-
ton of Gen. Jose Maria Moncada,
has been appointed chief justice
of the supreme court of Mica
ragua.
The Washington times., 1937-12-31
TREASURY CONDITION

U.N.SO Treasury balance De.
cember %: $2,992, $50, ,S46.75; in.
ternal revenue. $3.3OS,26S.21; Gus.
toms receipts, $27,5s4,735.00.