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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-01-01
Recalling Bitter Feuds
Between Giants and Cubs

He tells about Chicago of another
day. That was when the Cubs and
the Giants were mortal enemies and
two great cities rallied to the
causes. 1t was in those days that
the Chicago Board of Trade used to
hold meetings in the heart of the
Loop. There would be fiery speeches
about the necessity of repelling this
invasion of hated Fasteners. Then
a huge bonfire would be lighted and
McGraw would be burned in ef1gy.
This brings other tales Of the days
when the Giants would be returning
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-01-01

newspaper m a n
around a hotel lob
by for two days try
ing to put the slug
on him. Benny
Bengough is doing
more than all right
as manager of the
Yankees Joplin
farm. So also is Joe
Becker, who was
made president Of
the club after being
re scue d from a
BROOKLYN scouting
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-01-01

ney is, or a gifted
orchestra lie a d e r,
such as Eddie Ouch
in, out she goes.
The C h a r m j n 6
granddaughter of a
poor Irish immi-
grant qualities as an
entry, which is as
it Shouts he. in any
language. But when
she takes for a hus-
band the son of a
poor Jewish inni-
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-01-01
what <(Lk
@IWV/ thinks
" about:
The Social Register.

G ANITA MONICA, CALF. -
~ Those who warm their aris-
tocratic hands at the social reg
lister, take comfort from the
latest issue of that priceless
volume. 1t seems that, if a we'll
born lady weds a night club
playboy with a head suitable
for a handle on a dollar UNI
brella, she stays put.
But If she is married to gen.
uine gentleman, such as Gene Tun-
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-01-01

bers. A detailed sewing chart ac-
companies each pattern to guide
you every step of the way.
Send for the Barbara Bell Fall
and Winter Pattern Book contain
ing 100 well planned, easy : to-
make patterns. Exclusive FASH
ions for children, young women,
and matrons. Send fifteen cents
in coins for your copy.
Send your order to The Sewing
Circle Pattern Dept, 367 w.
Adams street, Chicago, Ill. Pat
terms Is cents lin coins) each.
@ Bell Syndicate.-WNU Service.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-01-01
Continuity Of Life

The purpose of culture is to
set you free from the present
moment, and give you a sense Of
the continuity of life; the essence
of vulgarity is to be wrapped up
in the concerns of your own time,
accepting its standards as per.
manent.-Upton Sinclair.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-01-01
Worse Than Termites
@-WNU Service.

Lumber experts call termites a
minor factor of deterioration in
building materials, compared with
such factors as rust, decay and 9th
or physical and chemical changes.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-01-01
Grimes Was Tough Guy
as a Member of Cards

When he was with the Cards,
Burleigh Grimes once chased
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-01-01
Future Inventions.

CELEBRATING the hundredth
~ anniversary of the American
patent system, the assembled re-
search sharps declare that among
the boons to mankind promised
us in the near future by our native
inventive geniuses are the follow
ing:
Clothes made out of glass with
curtains, I hope, for those of us
who are more than six years old.
Whisky aged instantly by power
full sound waves. (But who has
thought. of suitable relief for those
who also will be aged instantly by
drinking said whisky?)
Rats grown as big as cows by
powerful sound waves. Il can hard
ly wait for the happy day when
we may afford a family rat the size
of q Jersey cow
IRWIN S. COBB.
@--WNU Service.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-01-01
SLEEP SoUNDLY

Lack of exercise and injudicious eating
make stomachs acid. You must neu-
ralize stomach acids if you would sleep
soundly all night and wake up feeling
refreshed and reallv fit.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-01-01

UO6LAlES q E1EA6Uu
The successful person is a healthy per-
son. Don't let yourself be handicapped
by sick headaches, a sluggish condition,
stomach "nerves' and other dangerous
signs Of over-acidity.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-01-01
Playing the Ponies.

~--O~N
D AGING starts soon out in Holly
IN wood, and the stars and star
ines may have to make their pic
lures between events at Santa Ami
ia because they'll have absolutely
no time for fiddling around studios.
To risk my modest wagers on,
I'm looking for a horse named Vir-
ginia Creeper or else Trailing Arbu-
tus. Then when I lose, as I always
do, can't say my choice wasn't
appropriately named.
If had a bet on Paul Revere's
nag, Paul never would have made
that famous ride of his. Somewhere
between Concord and Lexington,
constable would have pinched him
for blocking the highway.
often wonder where the foot-sore
plugs I get tips on really hail from.
It can't be racing stable. Maybe
= yes, I'm sure that's right -
they're exhausted refugees from
bide-a-wee-home.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-01-01


ish is that he's a professional song
writer-and one of the greatest song
writers alive her name is
scratched off the sacred scroll.
Yet what's an old family but a
family that advertises that it's old?
And what is society except lot of
people who keep proclaiming that
they are society until the rest of
us believe them?
Protecting Human Game.
q OR the preservation of the less
4 ening wild fowl, the govern
ment stands pat by its ruling that
ducks may no longer be lured to
hunting grounds which have been
baited for them and then bagged.
But one shudders what would hap
pen to Wall street if practically the
same system now in vogue for gar
nering in the human game was ever
abolished on the stock exchange.
Still, why not leave well enough
alone? If there was no margin
gambling available for cleaning the
poor things, they'd bet their money
on horse racing or the old Span
ish prisoner game or something.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-01-01
TAKE MlLNESIAS

Milnesia, the original milk Of magnesia
in wafer form, neuualizes stomach acid.
Each wafer equals 4 teaspoonfuls Of milk
ofmagnesia. Thin, crunchy, mint-aavor,
tasty. zoe, 3sc & 60e at drug stores.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-01-01
HEARTBURN?

It's surprising how many have heart
burn. Hurried eating, overeating, heavy
smoking, excessive drinking all lead to
heartburn. When it comes, heed the
warning. Your stomach Is on a strike.
The Washington times., 1937-05-14
Three-Minute Journeys

tional note of romance to the
north country, sacred to Walter
Scott and Robert Burns.
CAMBRIDGE
Coming south again, the literary
pilgrim rejoices that he can visit
Cambridge University, where, on
the quad at Kings College, walked
such literary giants as Words
worth, Milton. Gray, Byron, Cole
ridge and Edmund Spenser, as
goodly a company as any book
worm could ever wish to muster.
Then on to London to the haunts
of DR.. johnson, Charles Dickens,
the restoration dramatists and
poets and, of course, Will Shakes
peare, Ben JonSon, Christopher
Marlowe and other giants Of Eliza
bethan days.
Then one may journey to Can
terbury, the Canterbury of Chau-
GERS inimitable stories, or to the
churchyard Of Stoke PogeS, where
Gray was inspired to write his
immortal "Elegy." Then on to
oxford for another visit with
ghosts Of the great. Stratford-on.
Avon during the Shakespeare fes
tival, followed by a short journey
to Malvern for the festival-these
are literary highlights that no
lover of fine literature would wish
| to fOrego.
The Washington times., 1937-05-14
MpROMPTU

Booking agents are missing q
bet if they fail to sign up one Of
the worlds greatest jugglers. It
will probably be hard to get him
because he doesn't like applause.
A customer in the coffee shop
ON the House side ordered glass
Of milk and q cup custard. The
waiter brought them, neatly held
together in his left hand. One OF
the other walters joggled him.
The glass of milk bounced up six
inches, poured a copious helping
Of the milk on the custard and
settled down on the wrist. The
custard, in a cylindrical bowl,
started to spin around and around
on the small plate. The waiter
carried piece of pie In his other
hand and dexterously fought the
good fight alone and unaided with
his other hand.
He won. The customer clapped
vigorously. The waiter Scowled
and a couple of Congressman in
their best bibS and fuckers within
a foot of the flying milk breathed
great signs Of relief and also ap-
plauded,
The Washington times., 1937-05-14
National Aviation Day

n NOE again the Atlantic is spanned by American
" fliers as many others have spanned it since Lind
bergh blazed the trail.
But these repeated successes emphasize HOW MUCH
American aviation owes to PRIVATE INITIATIVE,
and HOW LITTLE to GOVERNMENT AID.
In no other great air power has private effort done
more for aviation and Government effort done less
Too often, indeed the hand of the American Govern
ment has interviewed to HARM aviation.
Witness the cancellation of the arail contracts and
the disasters which resulted Witness also the politics
in the Department Of Commerce which gave American
aviation setback from which it has not yet recovered
It is hardly too much to say that flying in this country
has developed not because of Government assistance
but IN SPITE of it.
Congress now has the opportunity, however, to give
genuine aid to the of aviation by setting aside
day in the year as NATIONAL AVIATION DAY, as it
already has designated Army Day and Navy Day.
Before it now is resolution to make May %
Aviation Day.
On that day the services of the Army and Navy air
corps would be stressed at public exercises and aerial
demonstrations and the Importance of aviation for both
commerce and defense would be brought home to the
people Of the United States by the Government itself
Such official cooperation has long been needed
Neither civil nor military aviation can be treated as
stepchd in future whatever has been the case in the
past.
National Aviation Day, recurring each year, would
give adequate national recognition to this wonder of
the modern world" and immensely stimulate the growth
of air fleets of the size and efficiency required by the
wealthiest country in the modern world
The Washington times., 1937-05-14
ANNUAL CLASH

Somebody on Capitol Hill is due
for q big surprise on May ~ at
Quantico.
On that date the baseball teams
chosen from the members OF the
House Of Representatives and the
newSpapermen who are members
Of the press gallery will fight it
out to q finish.
If boasting will win, the Repre-
sentatives have it in the bag; II
practice and youth have anything
to do with it, the newSpapermen
have it Sewed up.
It's just this way: The Congress
mems team had q little meeting
the other afternoon and decided
it wouldn't be necessary for them
to practice-that is, not much,
They decided that knocking a few
handbalIS around in the House
gym would be all they would need
to put them in condition.
Since a number who are going
to play on the team used to
play in professional and semi
professional leagues they think it's
q cinch. In fact, they're so conf
dent that it is reported they've
gotten up pool Of $1,000 which
they are ready to bet on the game.
Now any one familiar with the
average financial status of news
papermen know that an offer to
bet any group of newSpapermen
up to say $500 or $1,000 is just
a waste of time. AS a matter OF
The Washington times., 1937-05-14

henceforth their ways were apart.
That, Of course, didn't and
couldn't happen in the Biblical
idyll, but it is the sad epilogue Of
many Ruth and Boaz story now
a-days.
In Waycross, Ca, Caroline Mil
Ter, who, in 1884, received the
Pulitzer Prize for her novel,
Lamb in His Bosom" receives a
final decree of divorce from her
husband, Will D. Miller. She
charges that her husband was
"insanely jealous" of her, her
book, and her success as a writer
and lecturer. He says he was "a
faithful and affectionate hus-
band" and they got on beauti-
fully until she became pleasure
mad" after her success. He was
the superintendent of the Bailey,
Ga, school system, and she was
his pupil.
NEW CHALLENGE
So recent has been emergence,
or rather the beginning Of the
emergence, of women from me
diaeval subservience that there is
little historic background for the
strain on marital ties which some
times comes with the woman'S
sudden climb to success. But with
the newly revealed capacities and
opportunities of modern woman
hood, there is this strain today,
and it is a new challenge to mas
culine chivalry.
It is easy to be chivalrouS when
you are strong and dominant
Difference to women, chivalrous
fealty and courtesy, have been
additionally rendered to a weak
er sex. Magnanimity always rests
with the winner. Test that out
when you go back from the city
to your old home town, with 8
good suit Of clothes, a bank roll
and maybe a big-town name.
You won't quite catch the words
but you will know the boys ar
whispering that so and so ism
going to high-hat newly, I kneV
him when" All this at the me
ment when you are just spillinl
over with the milk of human kind
ness and perhaps envying the lad
who stayed home.
It's human. We've got problem
enough without scouting any neN
ones, but the fact is that whe.
women get out in the general, al
The Washington times., 1937-05-14
The Human Side of the News = By Edwin C. Hill

in a big business office
and had revealed fine abilities
and drawn a good salary. She was
intelligent and competent and
applied the same abilities to the
efficient management Of her
home. She had no regrets and
was absorbed with rearing their
small child.
One day my friend told me,
with a show of pride. that his
wife had a nice offer from an
investment banking firm and he
was glad that she had decided
to accept. There was no reason
why an intelligent woman should
be cooped up in a home, he said.
Mrs. B. was a brilliant success in
her new work. The little girl was
put in an excellent day school.
Mrs. B. had no trouble solving
the old "home or career" dilemma.
Their combined resources were
sufficient to maintain an excel
lently Serviced and smoothly rum
ming household. began to hear
of Mrs. B. around town. She was
making addresses to luncheon
clubs. Some novel personnel stud
les which she made brought her
to the attention Of the news
papers. She was frequently inter
viewed.
One day my friend B. told me,
with satisfaction that seemed
just a little pumped up, that mis-
wife was earning more money
than he was. Week-ending with
them occasionally, I came to see
that all was not well. Somehow,
the ghosts of BIS viking ances-
tors were haunting the place. He
couldn't shake them off.
THRALL OF PAST
Mrs. B. wasn't the least bit up
stage about her success. Every
spare moment from her job was
given to her home. They were both
Well-bred, courteous people, and I
am sure that B. never said word
about the voices from the past that
were crying down his wife'S sue
cess. He became gloomy and aloot.
Once in a while he would drop a
slightly ironical remark about how
lucky he was in having a go-gettmg
wife. His work suffered. He missed
chance for an important promo
ton. He became i'll.
Iknew what was the matter but
I was puzzled. If he had been the
sleazy sort of person who consumes
himself with Self-pity, it would
have been understandable. But
here was a generous, sportsman
like, sensible man burnt up be
cause his wife was successful! B
died. don't think his wife hac
the slightest idea of what had done
him in, and probably she hasn't to
day.
It seems clear to me now. b.!
masculinity, his birth and condi
tioning, had put him deeply II
thrall of past centuries. Any Vlktne
would have lost face if his VIII
had hurled a heavier and deadnel
spear. And so are we all in thral
of the past, even in these lays o
free and equal careering.
Copyright. 1897. by King Features
Syndicate. Ine.I
The Washington times., 1937-05-14
LITERARY sHRINES

# you enjoy having goal when
you venture forth to travel, then
perhaps you will be interested in
the literary, art, musical and his
torical tours that are being out
lined for your consideration this
year. Many prospective travellers
already have signed up for a most
fascinating pilgrimage to English
literary shrineS. And no wonder,
when we stop to consider what a
wealth of material and beauty
there is in England's literary treas
ure land.
Just fancy a tour to the sources
Of the glorious literature Of the
English tongue, where glossy ivy
still softens Norman buildings in
leafy Eighteenth Century squares
and where forests still give shade
beneath sturdy oaks that have
echoed to the shouts of Robin
Hood and his merry men.
HARDY COUNTRY
Arriving at Southampton, the
literary pilgrim motors to Dor
chester, associated with Robert
Louis Stevenson, but better known,
perhaps. as the Hardy country.
The settings that Thomas Hardy
selected for his wonderful 70
mances can be readily recognized.
Exeter, associated with the Arthur.
ian legends, isn't far from the
Hardy country. Then comes
tour from lovely Lynton, honey
moon spot of Shelley the poet and
his Harriet, then through the
Doone valley, sacred to Lorna
Doone, to Glastonbury, a trip thai
links the early life Of the poet
Coleridge with the district famed
by the exploits of King Arthur.
On the journey from Chester tc
Windermere, the lake poets and
English romanticiSm are recalled
wildly by visits to Dove Cottage
GraSmere Church and Wordsworth
School at Hawkshead. And, as the
traveller continues on to MelroSt
Abbey, he views the Wall country
living literature of the ultimate
outpost of Rome's world empire
Gretna Green and its famous
smith that has figured in so man.
famous novels injectS an add
The Washington times., 1937-05-14

the National
Archives for
permanent safe
keeping, q move
is now under
foot to transfer
the House rec
ords.
Archivist r.
D. w. Conner
has written to
Speaker Will
liam B. Bank
head calling at
tention to the
space available
for this move.
- A-nH~sxvaa
The Washington times., 1937-05-14

Then, abruptly, you're up
against a wall Of chaparral WIN
the trail lost for yards at a time;
Thorny branches Of greaSeWooo
and "iimosal" tangled above you. .
satiny red trunks Of manzan1ta
with beaten silver disks OF leaves
and, brushing your face as you
crawl the gummy, aromatic mat
Of mountain misery, the pow
dery, pink dust, smelling ike
dried apples and cinnamon.
Suddenly, the chaparral lets
Won down into the green, Swallowed
vault of the creek with the water
lisping and clucking between the
ferns and the oaks arching above
you, holding flecks of sky-like blue
tile set in darkness.
THE STONE HUT
After that, you go up for per
hapS half q mile :. =. hauling your
self over great, messy boulders >.
breaking your way through webs
Of wild grape until, having al
most forgotten what you came for,
you stumble upon the stone hut
the old Frenchman built.
It's in ruins, now-two of the
walls down. Nobody knows when
it was new. Before the Gold Rush
anyway, for the first '49'ers, pros
The Washington times., 1937-05-14

around competitive free-for-all and
begin to take their share of the
tricks there's a domestic new deal
on the way.
Nine. Curie, the great French
radiologist, and her scientist huS-
band maintained a beautiful work
ing partnership and rejoiced in
each others success. But most OF
us lack the amalgam of their no
BILE, creative endeavor, and most
Of us are of coarser clay. just
offhand, one would say that a
husband was poor sport who
couldn't be happy over his wife'S
success, but that isn't the whole
story.
Let me personalize this with the
story of B., one Of the Soundest
The Washington times., 1937-05-14
SEEN AT THE CAPITOL

Anna May Wong, Chinese 40.
tress, appearing at local theater,
interested and full of questions
as she sat in the Senator's private
gallery watching the legislators
do their stuff and hoping that
some Of them will come down and
see her.
The first straw hat Of the sea.
son parading around the rotunda
on the head Of a man who knew
where he was going and didn't care
whether. any one thought he was
rushing the season or not.
The Washington times., 1937-05-14
Wise Words

There appears to exist a great
er desire to live long than to live
well! Measure by mans desires,
he cannot live long enough; meas
ure by his good deeds, and he has
not lived long enough; measure
by his evil deeds, and he has lived
too long.-Zimmerman.
He who envieS another admits
his own inferiority.-Latin.
Peace hath her victories. no less
renown'd than war.-Milton.
A faithful friend is the medicine
of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. ....
Fashion wears out more apparel
than the acknowledgements.
The Washington times., 1937-05-14

the corner, Where the locks are
caved in now, and an old wood
rat is nesting.
How long did he live thereP
Why did he come? Was he looking
for gold? Or was he some frantic
twisted soul, running away from
his world? No one knows.
Only this is sure. They found
his skeleton in that corner. The
coyotes had rumImaged his bones
a bit, but the skulls eyelesS
sockets still stared at that niche
in the world.
BUILT THE NICHE
He had built that niche more
carefully than all the rest, lining
it with fine pebbles from the creek.
Even though :, it was empty when
the proSpectors found him, its use
is plain. There was q cross there
once, and a candle. A cross hold
ing the twisted body and the brave
face of another lonely Man.
Out there, hundreds Of miles
41O1A1 Tile O11114SS uACu SOAoAACA
worth while-pleaSure, romance,
trade, excitement alone with
his grief or his greed, his hate or
remorSe or bitter surrender d.
he had built that house.
But even there, at his last stand,
when he was through with every
thing else, he had made that niche
| to hold the one thing that per-
sisted-hiS faith.
And standing there, with my
living eyes set on the place where
his dead eyes had rested, I
thought how that is the way with
all of us. Joy comes, Joy goes :. .
we turn our back on one dream
after another. But always, built
somewhere in the wall Of life.
amongst the rocks and the rubble
and common clay, there IS q niche.
A niche for faith. And always,
through long. empty night s.
through weary days, q candle
burns
Copyright, 1897, by King Features
Syndicate. ine.I
The Washington times., 1937-05-14

and best newspaper men I ever
knew. He was Of Scandinavian
birth, reserved, reticent, a thor
ough craftsman, clever and ambi-
tious. He had a fastidiouS sense
Of personal obligation and was the
last man in the world anybody
ever would accuse of bad sports
manShip.
He was happily married to q
brisk, red-headed American girl.
They had one child. His salary
was adequate and their savings
accumulated. They had a nice
little country home up the river.
His wife was a perfect house
keeper. It was a home of peace
and well being. Before their mar
riage she had had several years
The Washington times., 1937-05-14

the Sanhedrin
voted h er a
prize Of 1000
talents. B az
stayed no me,
just plu gging
along. Whittier
she went he did
not go also, and
she petitioned
the elders that
her ways no
longer be his
ways. Boaz said
everything had
been all right
until she won
that nriZe Rift
The Washington times., 1937-05-14

ing over the
springy, russell
floor of nee
dies, through
slanting shafts
Of the claret
light, with the
great branches
spre a ding in
peacock smoke
overhead.
Such huShl
Not even the
sound Of your
own moccasin-
ed feet, shut
ting in and
out of the
The Washington times., 1937-05-14
Greatest Show on Earth
BIZ Frank Miller Smith

fact there are some 500 members
on the rolls Of the press galleries
but they might not even have 81
apiece.
Representative Matthew J. Mer.
rift and Representative James P.
Richards are going to pitch for
the Congressman and they aren't
a bit worried. In fact, Represent.
alive Merritt is the one who
stanchly declares they're not go
ing to practice.
Wait and see.