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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-01-29
FLOOD DISASTER

The entire nation is stunned by one
of the worst food disasters that has
ever occurred in our country.
Reports from the flooded area OF
the midwest, extending through
twelve states along the overfowing
Ohio and Mississippi rivers and their
tributaries, are of human misery and
mounting property damage.
Thousands are homeless, and d.
sease, hunger, cold, and even IRE
have multiplied the food terror. The
death list mounts, while property loss
runs into such staggering figures as
to hardly be estimated.
The Red Cross, that angel of mer-
cy, has issued an appeal for $4,000
900 of funds for relief, and contribu-
ton of money, food, clothing, bed
ding and supplies of every descrip-
ton are pouring in from all sections
Of the United States, in whole
hearted response, to help relieve the
suffering and distress of the people
in the stricken areas.
The promptness with which the ap-
peals for aid are being met from
every section, serves to emphasize
how trouble and disaster helps to
make us all one big sympathetic
family.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-01-29
SOIL CONSERVATION WORK IN
STATE

According to o. C. Bruce, State
Coordinator for the Soil Conserva-
ton Service in Maryland, many Of
the airplane base maps used by the
Physical Land Survey Department of
the Service in Maryland show ar
rangements of cropped fields based on
fat land farming. These maps illus
trate how square and rectangular
fields, suitable for level plains such
as those found in the middle west,
have been laid out on the hilly coun-
try in the state.
According to Bruce, this use 0
iatland field arrangements has been
one of the most important reasons
why cultivated hills in the state have
suffered so severely from soil erosion.
However, on the erosion control dem
onstration areas at Hagerstown this
practice of using square fields, as in
aatland farming, is being changed
and the farmers are arranging their
regular farm crops in narrow strips
running approximately level to the
slope of the hill. This is called strip
cropping.
Strip cropping" says Bruce,
stands today as the leading vegeta-
tive measure of controlling soil ero-
sion. It's practical effect is to 'shor-
ten the slope-an advantage over
putting the entire slope in one crop.
OF the many combinations which
have been tried, the best appears to
be an alienation of row crops with
close-growing crops-small grains,
egumes and other hays. 1t has been
found that the first few feet of
close growing strip will strain out
sediment, act as spreader, prevent
concentration of water, bring about
utilization and lower run-off."
"Still other advantages of strip
cropping" Bruce goes on to say,
are it's low cost and the rediness with
which it can be made to fit into crop
rotations and general cropping plan
of the farmer.
Strip cropping is meeting with
widespread acceptance by the farm
ers on the project at Hagerstown,
Bruce says, and its use is being ex-
tended outside the project area thru
the efforts of the county agents in the
state.
when we have finished helping
the farmers put strip cropping into
effect on our demonstration area"
Bruce concluded, "our base maps or
other surveys taken from the air will
show a different picture than those
used by the Service when it started
work in this state. Square fields
and falkland farm layouts will have
given place, on the maps, to these
strips winding around the hill on the
level. The fields will be tailored to
fit the hills instead of being laid out
in squares without any regard for
slope. Soil losses will be cut to
minimum"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-01-29

The President of the United States
has taken his oath of Office and de-
livered his inaugural speech, and
people in Ameica and, indeed, most
of the civilized world, are bordering
his utterances. Read into his words
what one will, the fact remains that
two solemn obligations have COM
mitted his administration to course
OF safety and true Progression
boldly, and in a ringing voice, he
pledged himself to do his utmost to
preserve, protect and defend the
Constitution" and in concluding his
inaugural he voiced his intention to
seek Divine guidance for enlighten-
ment and leadership.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-01-29

The Federal Trade Commission re-
Gently issued an order against Sc,
Block and Sidney Blumenthal of
Philadelphia, trading as Rittenhouse
Candy Co., to- cease and desist from
selling candy by means of lottery.
Engaged in the manufacture of
candy, the concern is alleged to have
sold their product to jobbers and
wholesalers in packages which may
be used without alteration of con-
tents to conduct a lottery or gift en-
terprise, and to have supplied dealers
with packaged- candy with punch
boards for use by retailers.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-01-29

Report from legislative centers in
Annapolis is that a growing opposi-
ton to the diversion of highway and
motor-vehicle revenue funds into the
general treasury and a hesitancy to
issue bonds to bring the budget into
balance makes it appear that the
wrangle between the Democratic Leg
aslature and Republican Governor
over appropriations will be more
drawn out and more bitter this year
than ever.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-01-29
EVERY WEEK from the NEWS
CENTER of the WORLD Pathfinder e

cent over 1895.
officers of the Maryland Livestock
Cooperative Association were all re-
elected. They include Charles 7.
Cockey, Jr., of Baltimore county,
president; T. Wilson Lord, of How
ard county, vice-president, and Mr..
Wise secretary treasurer. Mr.. Cock
ey will represent Maryland on the
Board of the Eastern Livestock
Marketing Association.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-01-29
The ssth Annual Congress of tn,

The 66th Annual Congress Of the
American Prison Association. which
met recently, passed resolutions call
ang upon its committee on education
20 ask the U. 8. Office Of Education
to undertake an aggressive program
Of research concerning the service In
prison educational techniques and
methods; also that 1.-The Office Of Ed
ucation be urged to stimulate local
and state agencies to inaugurate and
Improve programs of crime prexen-
eaen throngh education"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-01-29

Charging that Maryland employ
ers, like those in other States, have
resorted to the hiring of strikebreak-
ers and private militia" from de-
tective agencies when faced with la
Dor troubles, Delegate Jacob Blum
(Dem., Fourth Baltimorel announc-
ed he was preparing legislation that
would call for strictest supervision of
private detective agencies operating
in Maryland.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-01-29

The acreage of wheat seeded dur
ing the past fall in Maryland is esti-
mated at $4,000 acres by the Mary
land Crop Reporting Service. This
is an increase of seven per cent over
the 461.OO0 acres seeded in the fall
of 1895 and four per cent over the
five-year average (1927-31) Of 49,
600 acres.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-01-29

A. H. vey. traffic engineer for the
New Jersey State Department of
Motor Vehicles, states that while ex-
perience in his territory had shown
wider highways to be more hazard
GUS than narrow ones, accidents
could be reduced on modern roads
through center islands. proper light
ing and pedestrian paths or side
walks.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-01-29

It is said that Garrett county ranks
first in the state in the production
and acreage of oats. According to
the Experiment Station of the Uni
versity of Maryland the acreage Of
oats in that county is 10,422 and the
production 33O,563 bushels.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-01-29

The acreage OF rye sown for all
purposes in Maryland last fall is es-
timated by the State Crop Reporting
Service at 10000 acres. This COM
pares with $4,000 acres seeded in
the fall Of 1895.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-01-29

Honesty, like other policies. often
runs out the day before the fire.
Evening star., 1937-08-08

DocToR's, lawyers;
merchonts ond
moybe even chiefs
changed into soldiers
for two weeks when
officers and men Of the
260th Coost Artillery
Of the District No
tionol Guord went to
Fort Story Vo., for
their regular seasonal
troinine period.
Guord units ore
counted in the first line
Of notionoI defense
and their members ore
required to offend
weekly drills oil yeor
LONG and spend two
weeks in comp onnuoI-
". Col. Walter w.
Burns is in commend Of
the 260th Coost Ar
tiIlery unit.
Evening star., 1937-05-29
cabinets finished In ivory and trimmed

cabinets finished in ivory and trimmed
with small cherry-red motif are
built In on four sides OF the room
All kitchen equipment Is electric.
. The masters suite of bed room, bath
and two closets, is placed above the
living room. Two other bed rooms, one
to serve as a guest room and the
other as q child's room, and a large
main bath. complete the second floor
plan. From the chi'd's room a door
opens into the back hall leading to
the maids quarters. The maids room
and tiled bath are above the garage,
and may also be reached by q stair
way leading from the back porch.
The house will be open to the public
for 30 days under auspices of The
Star. It may be visited each day
from 10 am. until pm. The house
may be reached by driving out Wiscon-
sin avenue past the District line to
Dorset avenue at Somerset. Turn left
on Dorset avenue and drive approxi-
mately half mile to Brookside drive.
The house occupies the corner of
Dorset avenue and Brookside drive.
Evening star., 1937-05-29
BY DOROTHY DUCAS AND
ELIZABETH GORDON.

~ UGS are the bane of our balmy
* Summer nights-gnats, mos
quitoes, moths, all the tiny
- winged creatures of the dark,
who do nothing to enhance the ro-
nance of the season. Danish
them from your porch with a lamp
that draws them irresistibly to
electrocution!
The response Of insects to light is
called phototropism, which means that
something more than curiosity lures
the little bugs to their doom. Insects
are incapable of resisting luminous
attraction, once the rays coming from
the heart of light strike the SEN
sitive regions within their small bodies.
Their muscles automatically become
active and direct them toward the
light source, with the same mysterious
flnality of photo-electric cell.
You can take advantage of this law
OF nature with definite addition of
charm to your porch or terrace, for
the lamp which practices electracide
is made of good looking bronze, with
nothing gruesome looking about its
electrified bars. Indeed, the lamp
provides excellent light for reading or
subdued glow, whichever you prefer,
while operating relentlessly to dispose
OF unWelcome beetles, worms, eel flies,
midges, borers and caterpillars-to
mention just a few of the families
which are its enemies.
The only bug it won't guarantee to
kill is the house fly. For him you have
to have electrified screens, which are
made by the same company who
makes the lights. There isn't enough
current in the screen or lamp to harm
a human or domestic animal, however,
SO you need not worry about the baby
or Fldo if you install either one. You
can get complete screen doors of
this electrified material, too
All sorts of lamps are available with
the translucent globe that projects
through catch-pan to cut short the
song OF the flying pests who sing in
your ears, to a constant rhythm of
face and arm slapping. Stand on
pedestals and can be carried from
porch to as far out as the lawn as
your extension cord allows. Others
hang from hooks in the ceiling or
from supporting brackets on the wall.
The lamps range in price from
$625 for Junior veranda model all
the way up to $50 for a 220-volt
multiple model. The screens must be
ordered to exact size, at so much a
square inch, with the cost of a trans
Evening star., 1937-05-29

you leave the door ajar by mistake,
the bell clangs merrily
The manufacturers Of this device
say 1t should be set so that when you
open the door to see who is at your
door the bell rings. Even If it is
alarming to your friends. it will send
prowlers scurrying, they declare.
Sometimes burglars pose as delivery
men, handymen, telephone inspectors,
but they will run when they hear bells,
all the same. And your legitimate
callers will take It with good grace.
The device requires no wiring and
can be applied either to metal or
wooden doors. The bell must be
kept wound, clockwise, but not too
tightly. The chain is said to with
stand a pressure Of 1000 pounds.
With hot weather coming on, you
might investigate this safety device.
Many of us like to keep our doors to
the hallway open in order to get
proper ventilation, but are afraid of
who might happen by to tamper with
our door chain. With the safety bell
alarm we can be cool and careful at
the same time.
Evening star., 1937-05-29
MATERIAL TEST SLATED

Architects, builders and Govern
ment housing officials have been in
vited to attend a demonstration Of
the usage Of "Insulite" building ma
terials and to inspect a novel air.
conditioning plant next Wednesday
afternoon at 6903 Brookville road,
Chevy Chase, Md.
The demonstration will be held at
the home of which NJ v. Engelbach,
builder, is erecting for himself IN
the Rollingwood section of Chevy
Chase. Sponsors of the demonstration
are the Hudson Supply Co. and the
Insulite Co. A test will be made
showing the comparative strength of
q wall sheathed with wood and one
sheathed with material called
"Buildrite.' A wall section of each
type will be constructed on a test
frame. Then tons of pressure will
be applied until one or both walls
are shattered.
Evening star., 1937-05-29

give good service If It is not firmly and
permanently nailed together.
Or, as one manufacturer puts it
and so aptly that we quote him: "The
life Of the roof hangs by a nail"
There are nails and nails. Some
have an average life in roofing service
OF only 7 to 10 years. You may be
buying q roof which Is capable of
lasting so years. but if your nails give
way before one-flfth Of the roofs life
Is spent. you have wasted your money.
1t pays to spend little more and
get the kind OF nails which won't
corrode when moisture touches them.
Copper nails cost q few cents extra,
but their makers declare they are
absolutely rustproof.
They are obtainable in standard
sizes and In varieties such as large
flat-head wire nails for stating and
shingling, wire nails, regular cut cop
per nails, large flat-head cut copper
roofing nails, cut copper sheathing
nails, etc. They vary in length from
inch to 2 inches, coming 285 to the
pound in the small size, 1O8 to the
pound in the large. The stating and
shingle nails come only in 1H-inch
length, ITO to pound, and l12-inch
length, 1875 to a pound.
Special copper alloys are used
for nails which require additional
stiffness.
IT'S well-known psychological fact
that providers can't stand noise.
Many have flown at the mere drop Of
a book or closing Of door, but when
a bell rings, loudly and insistently,
any self-respecting burglar goes all
to pieces.
Upon this sound theory rests the
latest protection device we have found
a safety-bell chain lock which rings
at the slightest pressure of door
against the chain. 1t is really very
simple gadget, inexpensive and dur
able, and just the thing for any one
inclined to be timid when left alone
in the house.
It consists Of hardened
steel door chain, the sort many of us
have so that we can peer out and see
who's calling before We open our door
wide. The chain is connected with
a hand-Wound alarm bell. which Is
secured to the door or jam. II any
one manages to pick the lock, or ii
Evening star., 1937-05-29
EMMETT w. BEACH BUYS
CARL HALEY RESIDENCE
Home on Patuxent River Has
Farm Of so Acres-Purchaser to
Take Possession in July.

srecial Dispatch to Tie Star.
PRINCE FREDERICK, Nd, May
29.-A land sale Of much interest
here occurred this week when Emmett
w. Beach, Of Calvert county and
Washington, bought the home Of Carl
HALEY, on the Patuxent River, near
Battle Greek, this county. The
estate is an attractive one, consisting
Of an 11-room house on farm of
so acres, and was first owned by the
late Capt. Thomas G; Hance and Mrs.
Hance. Mrs. Hance sold it to HALEY
q few years past. Beach and his
family expect to take possession early
in July.
Beach, native of Luray, Va. has
been a resident OF Calvert for a
number Of years, living at Parker
Wharf, in cottage development. The
past Winter. with his family, he has
been staying in Washington, and the
day after Christmas last, his residence
at Parker's Wharf was destroyed by
fire.
Evening star., 1937-05-29
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former thrown in. To give you
rough idea, screen IL by IA inches
would cost sl1.45, without counting
cost of transformer.
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THERE is saying, in the building
trades, that no roof is any better
than the nails which hold it together.
No matter what material you choose
for the top of your house, it can't
Evening star., 1937-05-29
10-YEAR LEASE SIGNED

A store at the corner of Georgia
avenue and Sheridan street has been
leased to the Martha Washington
Candy Co. for 10-year term, it was
announced today by Shannon &
Luchs, who handled the transaction.
A residence in the rear of the store
was purchased by the candy company.
This building will be razed and the
space used for parking cars of GUS
toners. Extensive alterations will be
made prior to opening the store about
July |.
Evening star., 1937-05-29
Mill Wages Raised.

To avoid disputes resulting from
increased living costs Japanese cot
ton mills in China have voluntarily
raised wages of mill hands.
Evening star., 1937-05-29
Star Home.

Continued from First Page)
meals there without passing through
the living room.
Cabinets on Four Sides.
The kitchen will prove particularly
attractive to women visitors. Kitchen
Evening star., 1937-10-23

dancing, reading and writing than they
are in the unexciting fact that dad
happens to be a Senator. Not yet hav-
ing arrived at the age when teas and
receptions and gala balls occupy their
attention. they don't know much about
who should sit next to whom and care
less. But they are definitely inter-
ested if dad is going to take them for
walk on Sunday afternoon or if they
are going back to their home in Hart
ford for the holidays.
They started their school careers
in West Middle School in Hartford
all except the Youngest. Mary Lee
and are thoroughly convinced this
fact has something to do with the
excellent grades they are getting right
now in Washington.
Washington, however, means some
thing very special to the LOnergan
family. For one thing. Mrs. Lonergan
knew Washington as a girl when, as
Lucy Waters, the daughter of Mary
land physician, she went to school
here and attended her first parties
at time when Senator Jonergan
was serving the first Connecticut dis
trict in Congress. They were married
in Washington and her first child was
born here. The three other daughters
were born in Hartford And Hartford
is their home. although they must
spend the school terms in the Capital
and have learned to love it.
Baekstage in the life of this particu-
lar Senator would find a setting of
particularly honey" charm A big,
sun flooded apartment, filled with an
tiques that are the combined repre-
sentatives Of the Lonergan and Waters
families for generations. is the setting
And clocks! Clocks are the pet hobby
of Senator Lonergan. They are all
over the house, as Mrs. L0nergan puts
/ it, adding, Gus comes in. looks first
at his watch and compares it with
/ all his clocks. which musv be in ship
shape running order all the time, and
/ then says hello to the family" But
/ it is our guess that the senior Senator
/ from Connecticut really says hello
first of all to that youngest daughter
of his. Mary Lee. who is the acknowl-
edged apple of her fathers eye.
Evening star., 1937-10-23
-FOUR DAUGHTERS OF SENATE
Proud Parent of Talented Lonergan Sisters Connecticut Family
Divides Interest Between Affairs in Upper House and
Home Interests of Children.

A ND We don't doubt ct all that
there's a very special hello for
Mrs. Lonergan. Brunette, slim, svelte
and definitely Spanish in type, If not
in heritage, Mrs. Lonergan is charm
ing contribution to any domestic scene.
What is more, she has a sense of
to head an establishment that includes
four growing daughters with increas-
ing consciousness of their own in
dividuality. Society doesn't bother
Mrs Lonergan much. She does all
that is expected of her as the wife
of a Senator, to be sure, but she
doesn't wear herself out with mean
ingless social round that would take
precious time away from such neces-
sary matters as her daughters ward
robes. their school affairs, their home
studies and their likes, dislikes and
preoccupations.
Now this" says Mrs. Lonergan
turning the pages of large album
and pointing to a charming, smiling
child whose hair hangs like heavy
cape about her shoulders, lis Ruth
Ellen just two years ago. That was
quite a day for Ruth Ellen, for she
christened the submarine U. s. S.
Shark Just before 1t was launched on
the Thames River in Connecticut, and
what thrill she got out of smash
ing the bottle against the ships bow"
And this is also Ruth Ellen. as she
is today What a difference two years
can make, to be sure
Todays Ruth Ellen, with her bobbed
hair and her young lady-like look,
smiles up from the recent photogra phi,
to prove that it can. This eldest
daughter and her next youngest sis
ter. Lucy Waters, attend the Visi-
tation Convent in Georgetown. Both
are studious healthy girls, fond of
dancing. swimming, reading and writ
ing Ruth Ellen particularly likes to
read, and would rather spend her
spare moments with a good book
than attend the infrequent social af-
fairs her mother allows her to attend.
She enjoys her occasional trips to the
White House and a reception now and
then. when she gets little Older
I'll take her with me a little more,
but l don't believe in taking children
Evening star., 1937-10-23
CLIPPERS OF MODERN AGE TO REVIVE BALTIMORE FAME
Day Approaches for ParrAmerican and Imperial Air
ways to Begin Conquest of Atlantic, With
Bermuda as First Point of Attack.

| hangar, the old CurtisS-Cap apronl plant
on the edge of the field has been rented
and repair and maintenance shops are
being installed in it. Landing pier and
ramp are already in place and road
way from the ramp to the temporary
hangar, across which the clippers will
be towed for servicing. is under way
1t isn't beautiful at present, but it
will have every necessary adjunct when
the first passengers arrive.
Imperial Airways will Use Pan
Americans facilities at Baltimore as
she has been doing at Port Washing
ton, and as, according to the Cooper
ative agreement, Pam American has
been using and will continue to use
the Imperial facilities at Bermuda.
The city is hoping and working to-
valid the end. that Air France and
Lufthansa will also decide to use the
port. In the case of the Germans.
who are using the catapult arrange
ment for their planes takeoffs. ar
rangements could easily be made for
the mothership. the Schwabenland. to
anchor in the river near by. Whether
the French planes would use PAN
American facilities along with the
British is still an unknown quantity.
American Export Airlines, new as
paint. is another potential customer.
FROM the domestic service angle,
Pennsylvania Central begins its
new route on October rs. running
between Washington. Baltimore, Har-
risburg, Williamsport and Buffalo
Eastern Air makes frequent stops each
day and American Airlines, although
at present bringing in only one sched-
ule on its trans continental run, is
doing some intensive watchful waiting
Whether Transcontinental Western
Air will be permitted to come in later.
in contradiction to the decision of the
Post Office Department last Fall, is
on the knees of the governmental gods
From technical standpoint, the
new port has much to recommend it.
but most outstanding is its factor of
being free of surrounding distinctions
One large smokestack is shortly to
come down and the high tension wires
along the railroad tracks have already
been removed. On three sides is the
river, and in spite of comparatively