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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-22

Field street for local amateur boxing bouts out like excessive including rental and the must be admitted free of charge So Bobby Kelly and Mickey Dance will into Buckng wrestling according though making Q of both ventures big order.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-22

Merden of the most improved amateur fighters ought to give Tommy Carlo real argument they tonight in New Haven Both boys are strong hit the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-22
This, That And The Other

Joe Yanchuli University of 1895 who will be seen at Professionals line Sunday the borough Giants to the winner of the most valuable 1936 when he played in Orange Florida against Mississippi State Ray Marquette Ken Strong also find their to Naugatuck Sunday, ts said
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-22

Can imagine hitting l64 22 before set2 Yet that's just what D Mona Naugy did last night the opening Dusty League sersion the Mattatuck alleys
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-22

Mickey Kobrosky Trinity who made the big time and college players look small during the ar game New York two weeks ago with the New York Giants Danbu finally signed with the Giants this action the Polo Grounds The reasonhe was enroll n Yale Medical school
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-22

signed his major league agreement hotel block Dytons the Tommes quarred That was spotted him pitching for the Cedar Rapids the national tournament
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-22

Yesterday Hero-dabby Hartnett, the Cubs nomination for the Ma. tional league most valuable player award who hit 6 triple, double and single to drive in { Of his teams runs against the Giants. He also scored two himself.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-03-05
Tale of imp Campbell
and Musical Scribes

One year the Yankees came home
from Florida by way of Texas, Ok
lahoma and Arkansas. Baseball
writing is not precisely a laborious
occupation and the bored young
camp followers decided that they
must do something to vary the mon
otony of their existence. They pur-
chased a portable victrola and a
flock of records so that music might
reign in the sleeping car until 4 a.
m. when they retired, worn out by
their exertions.
1t was good fun for several days.
Of course, Umpire Brick Campbell
also was in the sleeping car, and
his duties on the field did demand
that he get some portion of rest,
but nobody minded that. After
all, If you're going to spend your
life worrying about the comfort of
umpires, how are you going to get
any recreation? So probably nobody
listened to Brick, even if he did
have any comment to make.
Then-precisely at 4:22 one morn
ing when eleven berths were well
occupied by young men dreaming
of new scoops, raises and such
pleasant visions as come to the
righteously eKhausted-there was a
raucous scratching and squawking.
It kept up for hours. Indeed, was
resumed again for several morn
ings. Then, by unspoken comment
of all parties, compromise was
reached. Between the hours of mid
night and noon any tired young men
seeking music or other diversions
to cure their insomnia could seek
It in the baggage car ahead.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-03-05

THERE is a curious and very
L much mistaken idea that by
talking of our grievances and our
troubles, we decrease their pow
er over us to make us miserable.
Instead, by dwelling on them we
reinforce their power. We not
only do this, but we scatter the
seeds of their discomfort, as we
unburden our hearts, and whole
new crop of disturbing thoughts
enters into the minds of those who
bear with us during our outpour-
ing of words.
Making Misery.
If the person to whom we speak
is near and dear to us, our
troubles weigh on them almost as
their own. We are unwittingly
the cause to them of an added
weight of discordant thoughts,
and perhaps they may be trying
to get the better of their own
bothers.
Sympathy Versus Help.
We have only to consider the
effect on ourselves of listening to
others talk of their worries, mis-
fortunes, and hard luck, to real
ize the depressing power of such
conversation. It is seldom we can
do anything to help them. In fact
persons who talk of their troubles
seldom do it to get helpful sug-
gestions. They are bespeaking
sympathy and often are disturbed,
hurt or annoyed, when they get
advice, even though it be excel
lent. What is wanted is to hear
expressions of understanding of
their position as difficult, and to
hear their actions considered
wise. Is this not really what we,
ourselves, hope to hear when
we air our troubles?
Trouble MOngers
When we are awakened to the
fact that talking of our woes adds
to those of the listener without
lessening ours, that we are inn
planting troubles in the minds of
others, we surely will try to be
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-03-05
Twas This Way
90
By LYLE SPENCER
O Western Newspaper Union.
o Western Newspaper Union.
Learning to Shave

Mo ST women probably think
1VA that the person who invented
shaving made great contribution
to civilization. At least he made
it unnecessary for them to look at
and be scratched by sweeping mus
taches and billowing boards. But
this forgotten inventor, whoever he
was, also condemned the male
world to centuries of painful scrap
ing before poorly-lighted mirrors.
The invention of shaving goes
back before the dawn of recorded
history. Before the use of metal
razors, men either pulled out the
hairs one at time or slashed
them off with bits of sharp-edged
stones. Some of the earliest draw
ings found in Egypt and Assyria
show men clean shaven.
The American Indians, who have
scanty boards like Oriental peoples,
religiously cut all the hair from
their faces with sharp flints. Many
Polynesian savages still shave with
two pieces of flint, and others use
plCCSS VI SHELLS VI olAoAho 1SS"AA
ground down to razor edge.
The metal razor itself is very old,
and was probably used by the AS
syrians and Egyptians as far back
as $500 B. c. Shaving is even men
toned in the first chapter of the
Bible, where the book of Genesis
says that Joseph "shaved himself,
and changed his raiment," when
ordered to appear before Pharaoh.
Alexander the Great ordered his
soldiers to shave before they went
into battle so that the enemy would
not be able to grab hold of them
so easily. But nowhere do the
early books suggest that men
shaved for romantic reasons. Not
until modern advertising made the
world razor conscious have men
shaved to please their wives and
sWeethearts.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-03-05
Origin of Lead Pencils

# HE peculiar thing about the So
Il called lead pencil is that it is
not a lead pencil at all. It is made
of graphite and contains not the
slightest trace of lead.
The first pencils made of graphite
(Which comes from the Greek word
"grapho," meaning 81 write") were
invented back in the time of Queen
Elizabeth. They created quite stir,
because they were much easier to
write with than the old goosequill
pens and could be carried around
anywhere. Stocks of the graphite
mines in England underwent almost
as big a boom as wildcat gold mine
stocks did during the gold rush days.
But after the first excitement was
over, the early pencils proved to be
too expensive for ordinary use. The
graphite had to be cut with crude
saws, and since it broke very easily,
there was a tremendous waste. It
was not until 1895 when a French
man named Conte conceived the
idea of using pulverized graphite
with binding clay that pencils be-
came cheap enough for popular
consumption.
An even bigger impetus was
given to the pencil industry when
an Englishman happened to think
of tipping them with rubber erasers.
He was smart enough to patent his
idea, and during the years that his
p a t ent sted, his royalties
amounted to over 100000 annually.
It just goes to show how much
money can be made from one good
idea.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-03-05
How Blotting Paper Was
Invented

I IKE so many other inventions,
IL blotting paper was discovered
by mere accident. One day early
in the Nineteenth century, care
less workman in a paper mill in
Berkshire, England, forgot to put
the sizing in a run of paper he was
making. The whole lot was ap-
parently ruined.
Shortly afterwards the outraged
owner, having fired his negligent
employee, sat down to write letter.
He thought that some of the con-
demned paper would serve his pur-
pose, and was intensely annoyed
when he was unable to write on it
because the ink spread out all over
its surface.
Suddenly the thought flashed
through his mind that if the unsized
paper could not be used for writing,
it could be used for drying ink in
place of the sand then universally
used. Under the name of plotting
paper, he was able to sell all his
damaged stock at a good price.
Before long, he had turned his en-
tire factory over to making plotting
paper, and had made himself
wealthy in the bargain.
Although he did not know it, the
reason why this sort of paper dries
up ink is because the paper fbres
are really a mass of hair-like tubes
that suck up liquids by capillary
attraction. Put fine glass tube into
water and you'll find that water
rises in the tube due to this same
principle of capillary attraction.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-03-05
Uncle Phil
Says: 06
Doubt, The Pernicious Weed

A suspicious person raises a
large crop of doubt.
Add one new word to your con-
versational vocabulary every day;
first you will surprise your friends,
then floor them, then lose them.
Life is made up of getting and
giving and forgetting and forgiv-
ing.
AS long as there is one crack
Drained nation in the world, the
others have to build battleships.
Raise the Standard
Equality of all men doesn't
mean that the equality of all is
to be reduced to that of the lowest
level.
1t takes men who know men to
govern men; any kind of recluse,
scholarly or otherwise, has slim
chance.
Most agreeable discovery a man
makes at middle-age is that he
has a good reputation.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-03-05
Ate Six Desserts

Those Orioles were sturdy young
men, possessed Of the appetites that
come from healthy exercise. Three
times a day walters staggered I'M
der the weight of trays. AT one
lunch Max Bishop ordered pie with
ice cream, decided after two bites
that this was proletarian food,
switched to nesselrode pudding, and
then really made up his mind that
the opportunity vas too good to
waste. Before that lunch was over,
Max, who had started out with steak
and fixings, had dabbled in bored
fashion with six desserts and was
contemplating taking cut at Oeufs
Frits a la Franchise if the tired
waiter could ever bring the an
guished chef around to it.
Naturally, there was very little
training done, but everybody was
fat, satisfied and sassy. That is,
they were until the first bill reached
Baltimore. Dunnie arrived in Win
ston-Salem almost on the heels of
his initial scream.
Immediately there was hell to
pay along with the board bill, but
for young reporter it was the be-
ginning of many pleasant and en-
during friendships. Being a toiler
for a great and generous newspa-
per, he did not have to worry.
And, of course, there is no graft
young men possessed of appetites
that come from healthy exercise,
being slipped a ham Omelet now
and then to vary their diet of bread
and water.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-03-05
Dwelling on Grievances
Power of Trouble Is Increased
And Distributed by Talking of 1t

more careful about giving vent to
the misfortunes by talking about
them. Moreover, if we do con-
tinue to be trouble mongers, no
one will be eager to talk with us.
Winning Out.
If, instead of dwelling on our
grievances, we discuss pleasant
topics, we are not only giving
pleasure to others, but we are ac-
tually doing ourselves a kindness
as well. We diminish our own
depression by rising above our
troublous thoughts, thus becom-
ing conquerors in and through our
conversation.
g Bell Syndicate. -wNU Service.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-03-05
Baseball Writer
Recalls Stories
of Past Springs
CPRINGTIME memories of a re-
" Rnrn,n nd hnrnhnll xxrrifar.

CPRINGTIME memories Of a re-
~ formed baseball writer:
The year when the Orioles, newly
started on their long string of con-
secutive International league pen
nants, had their training headquar-
tiers at new Winston-Salem hotel.
Jack Dunn, the owner and man.
ager, stayed in Baltimore while his
team was going through the first
week of conditioning, and it was al
most the only mistake he ever made
in baseball.
Merwin Jacobsen, Jack Bentley,
Joe Boley, Dick Porter and those
other members of a famous team
took one look at the palatial dining
room. Ordinarily, an arrangement
is made with the hotel whereby
players are restricted to some food
allowance-say four or five dollars
per man per day. If they eat more
than that amount they are likely
to be reminded of the purposes of
training camp and made to pay
for the extra food. They asked quick
questions.
''No," Coach Ben Eagan and Cap
tain Fritz Maisel told them. "Dun-
ME gave us strict instructions about
workouts, lockers in the clubhouse,
what time you have to go to bed,
what time you have to get up, and
things like that. But he never said
a blamed word about food" They
pointed toward the palatial dining
room and waved liberal hands.
Day When Max Bishop
Ate Six Desserts
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-03-05

IeXaS provide no
joy for Chick Nee
han and his Man.
haitian constituents.
The word is that the
Texas A. & M. elev-
en-, which proved
too tough for the
Jaspers last Decem-
Der, will be far bet
ter this fall. Indeed,
Lone Star Staters
are boasting that
Dick Todd may lead
the team right into
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-03-05
NOT IN THE BOX SCORE:

ANO AAN Az oO<A 0GOAN2s
n LID Blues are going crazy trying
~ to keep Larry Kelley from
turning pro. But teammates insist
he will accept huge hunk Of Yam
kee cash in June Ethelda Blelb-
trey, cOmely ex-queen of mermaids,
has protegee who, she insists, will
be an even better swimmer than
Toni Redfern. This is eleven-year-
old Ferne BramhaIl, who has done
the 100 in $50 fiat Bill Carr,
Olympic star in 1882, is making a
tidy living for himself selling insur-
ance in Philadelphia. The 44O-yard
record holder, who once was tops
in style and running grace, has al
most completely recovered from the
auto accident that broke his ankles
and ended his track days. You no
tice trace of a limp only when he
is very tired.
Babe Phelps Maryland neighbors
insist the hard-hitting catcher is
holding out on the Dodgers with the
full force of his 225 pounds
Bob Oracle, Montreal Maroon for
ward, is one of the best boxers in
the National Hockey league. Among
other things he holds decision
over Chuck Conacher of the Maple
Leafs Bill Coughlin, Tiger third
baseman 35 years ago, had only
three fingers on his throwing hand.
The what's in a name department
should consider the case Of thor
Oughbred named Good for Nothing,
who ran for seven years-and never
won a race PrincetOn's base
ball team plans a trip to Japan this
summer incidentally Tiger
sophomore named Lefty Farber
may give the Ivy league something
to talk about soon. They say he
is by far the best pitcher to take up
Nassau's burdens since those dim
ming days when Charlie Caldwell,
now doing very neat job of coach
ing at Williams, was cutting the
plate Dick Meehan, E. I. A.
referee, was responsible for what
probably was the most unique for
felt in basketball history. In the st.
Johns University-Alumni game of
1927 he ordered an alumni player
to leave the floor. Teammates re-
belled and departed from the court
along with the penalized athlete.
After waiting several minutes Nee
han awarded the game to the var
sity, to 0.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-03-05

the Rose Bowl Philadelphia
friends insist Glenna Collett Ware
will play full tournament schedule
next summer. The golf champion
just can't resist the lure of the links,
they say Marty Glickman,
former Brooklyn schoolboy wonder
and now a star sophomore sprinter
at Syracuse, lists a Phi Beta Kappa
key as his chief ambition. Incl
dentally, he's off to a good start,
being rated as an exceptional stu
dent Johnny Simonaitis is
another Syracuse athlete who must
disgruntle the viewers with alarm.
He is a soccer goalie, plays base
ball and is captain of the very good
basketball team. In addition he re-
Gently received six AS, one B and
one c for his scholastic work dur
ing the first semester Five
brothers are regulars and sixth is
a substitute on a 145-pound team in
the South Baltimore basketball
league.
Davey Kerr, Ranger goalie, pre-
fers to play up on the forward line
in lacrosse and rates as one of the
games best centerS A good
hockey team could be made up of
the players the Toronto Maple Leafs
have lost this year. They are: goal,
Hainsworth (retired); de fense,
Clancy (retired); HOllett (sold to
Bruins) /; forwards, Center Euzz Boil
(broken arm); right wing, Chuck
Conacher (broken handy left wing,
Regis Kelly Graded to Hawks)
Coach Red Mckenzie and Player
Red Levia are the only members of
the original Atlantic City club who
have continued in action in that city
since the team was organized six
years ago. In point Of service they
are deans of the Eastern Amateur
Hockey league.
Track experts, who assured the
world that Don Lash would set a
wild horse pace in the Wanamaker
mile, still are trying to explain the
calm and peaceful manner in which
the race was run. Of course it could
be that the Indiana flyer lost some
of his old confidence in Berlin last
summer, but the correct answer
seems contained in the prediction
Lash made. When interviewed by
Arch Murray after the Brooklyn K.
of c. games, Lash said he probably
would not be as good on the banked
boards of the Garden A pat on
the back, by the way, should be
given to Stanley Frank who wrote
far in advance that Tommy Deck
ard would run away from the field
during the Millrose Games two
mile event.
DIR. F. C. Phog Allen, recently
depOsed Kansas U. athletic director,
has distributed mime0graphed cop
les of a pamphlet dealing with his
coaching achievements. Among
other things his basketball teams
have won Is championships.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-03-05
Tallest Chimney Raced

More than so pounds of dynamite
were required at Ince, England, to
bring down Britain's tallest CHM
ney, which weighed 5000 tons and
contained 100000 bricks, and which
was destroyed because the IRON
works it once served had been
abandoned.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-03-05

used to be and a
beauty parlor where
once the livery sta
BILE spread its fasci-
mating perfumes.
So it couldn't be
that.
All of a sudden
it dawned on me.
Since coming here
I've seen mighty
fe W 1912 model
grandmothers b a r.
ring in the movies,
and then, with the
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-03-05
u[S&t o
dHWAH1
O.O1obb
NIvlkD about
StreamIined Grandmothers.

Streamlined GrandmOtherS.
CANTA MONICA, CALF
~ All along I've been wonder
ing what has vanished from the
city landscape.
I'd grown reconciled to service
stations where blacksmith shops
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-03-05
News From Texas No Joy
to Chick Meehan

While we're on the subject of
Meehans, private dispatches from
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-03-05

GXCGpLIOn Ul UEdI
May Robson, they had to wear
makeup.
We don't so much mind the young
girl who has gone prematurely old
we're accustomed to her-but the
old woman who has gone prema-
turely young, so young that she
seems to be advertising the ap-
proach of second childhood by
dressing to match it-well, that's
different.
So now know what I miss. It's
the old-fashioned lady who wa
neither streamlined nor four-col-
or process.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-03-05
Try This Amazing Fast Way
The "Phillips" Way
Millions Are Adopting

On every side today people are being
urged to olkalize their stomach. And
thus ease symptoms of "acid indiges-
tion," nausea and stomach upsets.
To gain quick alkalization, just do
this: Take two teaspoons of PHIL
LIPS MILK OF MAGNESIA 80
minutes after eating. OR - take two
Phillips Milk Of Magnesia Tablets.
Relief comes almost at once -
usually in a few minutes. Nausea.
'gas" - fullness after eating and
''acid Indigestion pains leave. You
feel like a new person.
Try this way. Get either the liquid
"Phillips" or the remarkable, new
Phillips Milk Of Magnesia Tablets.
Each one equals teaspoon Of the
liquid. Only 25f box at all drug
stores
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-03-05
Penalties of Old Age.

IF, MENTALLY or physically, or
l. both, man of seventy has so
slowed down he no longer can func-
ton usefully, what are we going to
do about Secretary of State Hull and
Secretary Roper, and Senator Glass
and Senator Norris, and both Cal
ifornia's senators, and stable pro-
portion of the outstanding member
ship of either branch of congress?
And, to avoid cluttering up the
words, so to speak, what disposition
should have been made, at seventy,
of Thomas A. Edison and John D.
Rockefeller, ST., and Henry Ford
and Queen Victoria and Cardinal
Gibbons and Won Hindenburg and
Clemenceau and Professor Eliot and
Carrie Chapman Gait and Mark
Twain and Elihu Root and Melville
w. Fuller, just to mention few
names that come to mind?
Going still further back, one gets
to thinking, among others of Henry
Clay and Ben Franklin and Glad
stone and Bismarck and Victor
Hugo and Alexander Humboldt.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-03-05

WOmen'S New Freedom.
EVEN in olden days, before they
II broke loose, women envied us
every masculine perquisite we had,
except the moustache cup and pos
sibly chewing tobacco. Since eman-
cipation, seems like they've taken
over practically everything we ever
had.
The bars are crowded with wom-
en-, and the smoking rooms and the
barber shops and the gambling
clubs and the prize-fights and the
wrestling matches and the political
caucuses. If it weren't for them, the
race-tracks and the night spots
would languish and the cocktail
mixers might get an occasional rest.
Maybe, as a distinguished scientist
now arises to proclaim, they could
have excelled us in our then ex-
elusive fields, only before this they
didn't get chance to prove it.
IRWIN S. COBB
Q Western Newspaper Union.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-08-27
Fire Record

rwenty-four hours from 10 a. m,
August rs, to 10 a. M, August ~:
1880 p. m.-1959 Fourth st. N. W.,
Aedless alarm. oo
5:1l D. m.-Rescue Squad, 1926 Thirty
first st, N. W., dead girl.
5:2S D. m-Ambulance, 1908 Thirty
first ST. N. W., gas case.
SAT p. m.-1sS5 Vermont Ave. N. w.
s:s5 D. m.-Rescue Squad. s412 Four
teenth St. N. W.. ammonia leak.
s:35 p. m.-s2o9 NJ st. N. w. trash in
furnace. r.
N. w, false local alarm.
s:4s D. m.-250O block K st. N. W.,
incinerator, needless alarm.
10:54 D. mis- Eighth St. s. E., shed.
1888 p. MA Fourth St. N. E.
1iG 1888 o. pe' m.-5o1s central Ave. N. E.,
persons marooned
Ills p. m.-Fiftieth and Dean tC
sixtieth and Dix Streets Northeast, flooo
and marooned persons.
1i:37 D. m-Anacostia Road and NJ
Streets Southeast. marooned persons and
lbs D. amsterdam and stanton
Roads Southeast. false local alarm.
11:4O p. m.-4s11 Nash st. N. e.
IT'S p. m.-Front of 47s Indiana
Ave. N. w, street car.
12:11 a. m.-First and Atlantic Streets
Southeast, marooned persons.
1889 a. m.-Forty-ninth and Hayes
st. N. E, marooned persons.
1928 a. m.-45oO Gault ST. N. E.
ms s:P9 "a. p m.@iiss H St. N. E, re-
1fi f:25 a. m.wsIi Cedar St. N. w. false
local alarm.