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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-12-10
POSTAL DEPARTMENT BAN ON
BASE BALL LOTTERY

With the thriving increase OF
gambling devices, Barnum's cryptic
remark, "a sucker is born every
minute" may today be amended to
read, "A sucker is born every
second"
From the amount of mail the Gov
eminent Post Office Department has
received criticizing it for the fraud
order issued some weeks ago barring
the use of the mails to the National
Baseball Statistical Bureau of Birm-
ingham, Ala, and Atlanta, Ca, the
Department officials are doubtless
convinced that suckers will be
suckers.
The Bureau, which was charged
by the Department with operating an
endless chain" lottery, is one OF
some fifty schemes of the same gen.
eral character that have come to
light during the past few months, all
of which are similar to the ten-cent
chain letter craze of few years ago
William C. O'Brien, attorney in
charge of the fraud section of the
Post Office Department, estimated
the gross receipts of the Nationa
Baseball Statistical Bureau hat
reached a total of about $4,000 pei
week, and netted the promoters be
tween $500 and $500 per week.
The inference is that the letters
received by the Post Office Depart
ment criticizing it for issuing the
fraud order were from participants
in the schemes, or rather the victims
who were being deprived of their so
called rights" to chance little tt
win a lot.
An expert mathematician who test
flied at the hearing in the Post Office
Solicitors Office showed up the fal
lacy of the scheme so conslusively
that, it was said, only hopless
sucker would participate as a player
and only a greedy person OF corrupt
unsocial tendencies would operate.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-12-10
Unwrapping Christmas
Annual Family Program
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

x/ULETIDE has come around
again and it is time to take
L Christmas from its year-long
wrappings.
At our house we have a wardrobe
trunk in one of whose drawers re-
pose all year the Christmas tree or
naments, some table decorations,
napkins and favors left from the
children's party, bright papers and
ribbons salvaged from the last
minute rush to wrap and mail or
boarded from Aunt Lo,lise's gift
package, which is always an out
ward marvel.
Through Easter, Fourth of July,
Halloween, Thanksgiving, they have
lain forlorn and unwanted, these
remnants of Christmas. But now
we open the drawer with as lively
excitement as if we had never seen
its contents. Mother, did you know
we still had this big silver starr"
"Why, here's enough icicles to trim
the whole tree!" "Where did these
bluebird ornaments come from?"
The light circuit doesn't work
and sister, who has just come from
her schoolroom, must dash down.
town before the stores close for
new bulbs. Then everybody hangs
over big brothers shoulder while he
patiently determines which of the
old bulbs have failed. When the
whole set flashes on we all feel like
Thomas Edison discovering the
marvels of light.
There are even a few unused
Christmas cards for starter on the
long list. The baby finds tin horn,
and the hilarious fun that will carry
on till Christmas morning has be-
gun. Somewhere in this tumble Of
familiar things we have unwrapped
Christmas. And the best Christmas
present of all is Christmas ITSELF
Frances Grinstead.
@ Western Newspaper Union.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-12-10
VOTING ON WAR

The most popular anti-war meas
ure that has showed up in Wash
ington is the proposal of Representa-
tive Louis Ludlow (Democrat) of
Indiana, which would provide for a
national referendum before entering
into a war. This is an old proposal
that was hooted before the World
War, but it is making steady head
way. SIGNATURES are being secured
among Representative to bring the
proposal before Congress at an early
date.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-12-10
SUBVERSIVE MOVEMENTS IN
AMERICA

Subversive movements thrive in our
democracy like weeds in damp, rich
soil. On one hand, we have the twin
sisters-Nazism and Fascism; on the
other, Communism. The first group,
according to a recent declaration OF
Rep. Samuel Dickerstein, Democrat
of New York, now has some twenty
camps in the country, scattered from
the Atlantic to the Pacific, with
thousands of men secretly training to
overthrow the government at pro-
pitious moment. These groups, said
to be supported by both foreign and
local funds, are claimed to have
many persons in key places in our
social order.
The other group, the Communists,
is said to be likewise we'll supported
and organized, but much smaller in
number. Its members are to be found
principally in Labor ranks.
A recent investigation states that
the Communist Party has established
marine training school near West
Point, New York, and has already
graduated thirty men trained to
spread Communistic doctrine aboard
American ships. A new class is said
to be in training, with a program to
place at least one Communist on each
ship flying the Stars and Stripes.
Investigators who have visited the
Soviet School for Training Red Sea-
men claim that its large classroom,
situated in the basement of a hotel,
is typically equipped with all the in
sigma and the emotional stimulus
Of the Communist movement, such as
the pictures of Lenin and Stain,
the Red flag of Russia crossed by the
Stars and Stripes, the familiar ham,
mer and sickle.
The training of Red Seamen is
claimed to be part of the Communist
strategy for paralyzing American in
dustry. The teachers at the Commun-
list Annapolis" assert that by tying
up the ships they can close down a
hundred other Industrial activities.
About 100 or so miles south of the
American Communist camp there is
Camp Nordland, near Andover, N. J.
This camp is the product of the or
ganizing ability of Bundsfuehrer
Fritz Kuhn's goose-stepping Ameri-
can Nazis. In social, economic and
political doctrine these two camps
are the opposite of each other, but
both advance teachings which are the
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-12-10
THE TARIFF soMERsAULT

The State Department continues to
make trade treaties and as soon as
the British agreement is signed up
as it is likely to be in the near future
this country of ours will be on a
low-tariff basis. Then comparisons
can be made between its operation
and the high tariffs that were main
tanned through all the days when the
Republicans were in power after the
Civil War. In the short intervening
periods when Cleveland and Wilson
were In office tariffs were not mater
tally lowered.
So In the new shuttle Of events
there occurred noiseless tranfer Of
the problems Of the tariff from the
halls of Congress to the State De-
partment. Strangely enough the crit
1cism Of the new method has been
practically negligible and inaudible.
Industrial and manufacturing in
terests have given their support to
Secretary Hull and lauded him to the
skies. All this despite the fact that
the tariff policies Of the United
States were thrown in reverse-with-
out even a shift through low-gear.
Just another evidence that we Amer
teams are changeable and gentle.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-12-10
Questions And Answers
WHAT'S WHAT ABOUT SOCIAL
SECURITY

@. 101 What is the purpose of
the Federal old-age Insurance pro-
vision of the Social Security Act.
A. 1O1. The main purpose is it
provides an assured retirement in
come to wage earners when they
have reached the age Of IS, thus
making possible the retirement of
these olders workers from regular
employment and also increasing OPP
portunities for employment and adj
vancement of younger workers.
@. 1902 l am now So years old,
earning $50 a week. How much
would get in old-age retirement
benefits at age SIS?
A. 102 Assuming steady employ
ment at $50 a week for SO weeks a
year during the next seven years,
total wages would be S10,500. Your
monthly payment would be $21.50
per month as long as you live.
@. 1913 My husband just died.
He was employed in a textile mill.
How do go about getting any
benefit?
A. 1913 If you will go to your
nearest Social Security Board Field
Office they will assist you in filing
the necessary forms to obtain a
-, - o,,,,, IonoRf VOnr hu ho n y,
employer will also help you If it is
more convenient.
@. 1O4 worked until September
in a restaurant and am now unem-
ployed. Can I get any unemployment
insurance?
The only State that is paying I'M
employment insurance this year is
Wisconsin. All of the States in this
Region will commence unemploy-
ment insurance payments in 1898.
@. los My husband is 76 years
old and I am 70. We have nothing to
live on. Can we get any benefits
under the Social Security Act?
A. 1O5 You should apply to your
State Public Welfare Department
Under the Social Security Act public
assistance is paid by the States, the
Federal Government providing part
Of the money which the States dis
burse.
@. 1O6 l have read in the papers
about 8 " percent Of my wages, but
do not understand what it means.
Please explain.
A 100 In simple terms, it means
$3.50 for each hundred dollars that
you have earned.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-12-10
FEDERAL FARM CONTROL

The farm bill gained the right of
way in the new Congress, and when
it is signed by the President it will
be a ratification of the plans and
policies that have been created and
built up by Secretary of Agriculture
Wallace. The new law will carry a
provision for compulsory control.
Voluntary control will not be accept
ed. Farm production will be measur-
ed out to include every farm-some
of which will go into idle acres.
The major part of the Federal plan
includes cotton, corn, fue-cured bar
ley, fre-cured and dark air-cured
and cigar-filler and binder tobaccos
besides potatoes, peanuts and rice.
The farm legislation of this con-
gress is without doubt the most sig
nificant and far-reaching change in
agricultural affairs that has occurred
in our country since the beginning OF
the New Deal. Unlike the AAA, it
is permanent, subject to changes
1t places agricultural affairs under
centralized control and management
in a Department of the Government
1t Is the okeh on Mr.. Wallace's ever
normal granary.
Now 1t will be very interesting fol
the people of this nation to watch
results, with unprejudiced eyes and
open minds.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-12-10
WHY;
Chimneys Smoke and How to
Remedy the Trouble.

When a chimney refuses to draw,
or actually back-drafts, so as to
drive smoke out of the stove into a
room, it is usually a case of some
obstruction near it which extends to
a higher level than does the top of
the chimney interfering with the air
currents. This condition can be
remedied only by building the Chin
ney higher, asserts a writer in the
Montreal Herald. It should extend
several feet above the level of the
ridge of the roof of the house, or
other buildings or trees close to the
building on which the chimney is
located.
Poor draft may be due to too
small flue, a rough surface on the
inside of the aue or to lealy flue
wall, the last condition being the
result of poorly filled mortar joints
when the chimney was built or to
deterioration of the mortar due to
the action of smoke and its con-
densation into tarry liquid.
In cases of old chimneys it is a
good plan either to rebuild them
completely or to give them several
coats of concrete plaster over the
outside surfaces. The failure of the
mortar in the joints of brick CHM
neys can frequently be traced to
the fact that lime mortar was used
in their construction. Mortar for
chimnnvc should he concrete mortar
by mixing one part cement to two
and a half or three parts of sand;
10 pounds of hydrated lime added to
each sack of cement used will help
make the mortar work more
smoothly under the trowel.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-12-10

The Sixth-Fifth Annual Session Of
the Maryland State Grange will be
held at Westminster, Maryland. on
December Z. 8, 9, it is announced by
T. Roy Brooks, State Master. A full
program of addresses by prominet
speakers, reports by committees, ex-
emplification of Grange degree work,
music and entertainment features
will occupy the three day session.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-12-10

Since All Club work started in
the United States about % years ago
the number of clubs has increased to
more than 10000 with over 100000
local leaders and a membership Of
over1 ,145.000 boys and girls 10 to
20 years of age. Within the last 20
years, over 100000 rural boys and
girls have taken part in these clubs
In the United States alone.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-12-10

Dwelling units have been provided
III new buildings for 1921 famil-
les in the urban areas of the United
States during the first nine months
of 1887, says the Bureau of Labor
Statistics, adding that this is an in
crease of approximately 13 percent
as compared with the same period
of 1896.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-12-10

Dorchester county, Md. ranked
fourth among all the counties of the
United States in the number of acres
planted in tomatoes, according to the
census for 1885. The number of
acres planted in 1894 in that county
was 1913.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-12-10

Three Maryland counties we're in
Guided among the leading SO counties
in the United States in acreage de-
voted to strawberries. as shown by
the census of 1885. Somerset coun-
ty stood 18th, Wicomico county was
26th. and Worcester county was
39th.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-12-10
RECESSION IN RELIGION

The Committee for Religious We'll
fare Recovery has published a state
ment showing support for churches
has dropped off 80 per cent in the
last five years. Figure that out for
yourself. Isn't it distressing
situation?
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-12-10

antithesis Of American economic. soc.
ial, and constitutional principles.
With Nazism, Fascism, and Com
munism spreading their vicious doc
trines aboard in this country amidst
unsettled economic conditions, every
thing that we hold dear is
threatened.
Washington News Bureau.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-12-10

The Social Securities Exchange has
cracked down on the New York Stock
Exchange and says that the latter
must reorganize and reform its
methods.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-12-10

And it's remarkable that they talk
most who have the least to say
Prior.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-12-10

When a rich man tolls he fire.
Qusntly does 1t by proxy
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-12-10
December "a, "Mother Night''.

1t often happens that when man
knows his duty he tries to stave It
OF ~ seeking advice.
Evening star., 1937-05-07
Taxation and Criticism
Second Article on Theme Fears National Rudder Is
Seriously in Need of Repair.

additional 100000 900 in taxes-to
balance even the so-called regular"
budget.
CD It would replace method which
Is certain with an untried and highly
complex one.
90 The measure discriminates
against enterprises which are new or
financially weak in favor Of those
which are intrenched with ample sur
plus funds and available sources of
capital Companies with heavy debts
or with depression-depleted reserves,
and new and unSeasoned enterprises,
could not accumulate sufficient earn
ings to attain an adequate capital po-
sition.
90 The banking, investment and
general credit position OF many busi-
ness enterprises would be needlessly
impaired. Those with bonded in
debtedness would be penalized for
attempting to retire It,
60 The measure Is apparently based
on the false assumption that a cor
porate surplus consists Of idle cash.
60 The plan disregards the need OF
companies with widely huctuating
earnings to put aside a substantial
portion of their incomes in good years
to carry them over bad ones, whereas
other corporations with fairly steady
earnings would be in a position to
escape the imposition Of the penalty
rates
CD The heavy penalties upon re-
tention OF earnings for business ex-
pansion would retard unemployment
and recovery from the present de-
preston.
Experience UphoIds Criticism.
Already, q year from the date Of
these criticisms, experience is begin
ming to show how justified they were.
They were made, not only by business
men, but by most of the economists OF
the country. They were disregarded,
purely-as far as I can see-because
OF the sources from which they came,
and because, in the last two years a
curious thing has been happening in
America: Without any socialist party
or philosophy seriously contending for
responsibility and power, faith in
capitalism, and the recognition of its
laws and realities, has been continually
assaulted by Government ostensibly
pledged 10 its maintenance, and policy
has been colored by unconscious
MARKHAM dogmas based on fallacious
and oversimplified reading of the
human motive and society. The result
is that We move neither toward the
establishment Of clearer capitalist
principles nor toward a socialist state,
but only into a confusion, in which
productive enterprise Is being drained
to support a Government constantly
extending its responsibility for the
maintenance in one way or another Of
larger and larger numbers and groups
Of people, without any halfway clear
idea of where the process vii! stop, or
how, in the long run, 1t is to be sup
ported
Obviously, at such time, criticism
which constantly demands the state
ment OF obJectives, and analysis of the
means We are taking to achieve them,
is urgently necessary. And this leads
me back to the original point of these
two columns
Copyright. 1881
Evening star., 1937-05-07
Headline Folk
and What
They Do
Gar of London Bus
Strikers Like Late
Sam Gompers.
BY LEMUEL F. PARTON.

There isn't line in the British
Who's Who" about the one man who
can make or mar the coronation
and who is causing more headaches
and loss of sleep in certain quar-
ters than any other person. Stanley
BaldWin's fervid plea TO "rend and
dlssipate this dark cloud which is
gathered over us" is addressed, in
effect to big, husky, moon-faced Err
nest Bevin head of the Transport
Workers Union and car of the
London busmen's strike. England, 1t
seems, is going to have company
and doesn't want any trouble in the
family Mr.. BaldWin's plea is one of
the most impassioned and eloquent of
his career.
Mr.. Bevin has made quite score
tying knots in the lions tail, even
when the lion wasn't on parade.
Transport is Brittania's Achilles heel.
Leading the big dock strike in 1926,
he dealt the country a case of the
jitters from which it hasn't yet re-
covered. In 1924 he had 100000 dock
workers out in a strike for 2-5hill-
!ng-a-day rise.
On that occasion he proved that
coronation impresa rios have no mo-
nopoly on shoWmanShip Employers
brought into d conference distin-
gulshed professor, with charts and
statistics, aSsaying weeks rations
purchase bic by the lockers wage.
The professor showed that docker
could get fat on his earnings and have
money left over. Mr. Bevin, anticl-
pating this, brought in few bags OF
food, bought out of a weekly wage.
The total was not impressive. The
employers granted shilling increase.
Mr.. Bevin got fanfare of publicity
out OF this which made him a power
in England. He became the "docker's
K. c. the initials standing for Kings
counsel
He Is, If anything. a shade more
conservative than Stanley BALDWIN.
He runs Communists out of the union,
cries down Communist doctrine,
doesn't want any truck with Russia,
snube the ntellIgentsla when they
come around with social PHILOSOPHERS
and appeals TO ancient British patriot
ism and natlonaliSm. Like the late
Samuel Gompers. he is against labor
mixing in politics of any kind He
matches somewhat our own bulky and
intransigent John L. Lewis, also a foe
Of the left-wingers
He doesn't tell Mr.. Baldwin whether
he will or he won't "rend and dissi-
pate the dark cloud" but he does
hold in check the trolley car and
trolley bus workers who want to head
into the strike. He comes from the
Limehouse district, never represented
in British pageantry. and probably
has more to say about things in Eng
land than anybody else ever born in
that section
CCopyright. 1881
Evening star., 1937-05-07

AL these things
backhs match
lights with the loyalk IDEAL
The Anschus
been achieved by delayed
This the correct interpretation
interviews Venice
Hapsbug
uhat disappointed
Whether European powers it
puabe fact that the block
Italy, Austria a
In the for
Evening star., 1937-05-07

pure RENTER goes scot free" Produc-
tive energetic enterprise, which en-
ployS labor and produces goods, is to
bear the brunt of high governmental
costs, while the rentier-bond and
mortgage holders in general, and espe-
cially holders of government and
municipal bonds-remains protected.
by what standards, capitalist or
socialist, is it justifiable?" asks The
New Statesman"
From the Socialist standpoint" 3"
continues the criticism, this new tax
(national defense contribution) is
specifically an attractive proposition.
1t doubtless will suppress stock mar
ket exuberance and ostensibly it satis-
f1es the just demand that prosperous
citizens should not make undue profits
out of rearmament
Effects Cause Miskivinxs.
1T is when the practical effects Of
this tax In a capitalist system are
considered that misgivings arise.
Adroit though it be from an election
eerlng angle, there is room for grave
doubt whether N D. c. may not
prove administratively a nuisance,
occasion considerable hardship and
injustice and intensity economically
the very trouble in the way of an
lnflationary boom which it professedly
sets out to check
The unsheltered fnon-consumer
goods industries are now beginning
to enjoy ampler profits accru-
ing in much greater degree from world
recovery. Their capital needs for re-
equipment are great, and in many
cases-e. g., adequate pro-
vision for depreciation has not yet
been made: yet their earnings are to
be mulcted, while those of the con-
sistently prosperous consumer indus
trise will scarcely be touched unless
they can be proved to be earning huge
percentages on their real capital
"As between similarly situated con-
Germs, the tax. will create gross
anomalies. In its incidence the
holder of true risk-bearing bonds and
prior charges, whatever may be his
wealth, is left unscathed. Its burden
falls exclusively on the entrepre-
neur"
The psychological effect of the tax,
it IS further pointed out, is likely to
be adverse. above all in the case Of
new" industries such as those pro-
jected for the distressed areas.
In the light OF this criticism, which
in England comes from the intelligent
opposition Of the Left, consider again
the arguments which the United
States Chamber OF Commerce urged
against the undistributed profits tax
before the Senate Finance Commit
tee last year:
Cd The tax would not provide the
Evening star., 1937-05-07

p w. A expires A extending
years subcommittee ckes
addition he
has 900 repoluing und whch amounts to dra,n0
the Treasury
abolished automatically applied
failing the national debt
this end of the flung w. child
of Mr. Ickes.
you to Congress
workings
in
Congress under able quiet leadership taking
do effective job You
all they
1t be good be
statesmen.
Farley candidate secretary
still NTH
Committee hoping a Job Commerce
Department The candidate
Sloue, William
RooSeteh. He candidate.
Mr. De Vaas Irish
far less the headline De
British commonwealth
traa but the comforting
be abandoned.
matter
vdng automatic retirement of judges 10 75 The President how
OF half
legislators packing
been offered They would They feel
that only the President,
that two court members intend resign after the present ends