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The Washington times., 1937-12-06
n. Y. PAIR WINS
NATIONAL BRIDGE.
CHAMPION S HIP
Amateur Title Goes to
Annapolis Men
By WILLIAM CHEEKS

Baron Waldemar Won Zedtwitz
and A. Mitchell Barnes, Of New
York, topped a brilliant field last
night to win the CavendiSh Tro-
pry in the national open pair
bridge championship at the Shore
ham Hotel. The washington en-
trants. Thomas Hamlin and DR.. E.
B, Conolly, ahead as the finals be-
gen. finished eighth.
The winners rolled up match
point score of 52912. Harry Fish
bein and Phil AbramSon, of New
York, were second with SIG match
points, and Ralph Margolius and
Herbert Gerst, Norfolk Vao
team, third with 5181a match
points.
The District pair champions had
led through the semifinals. In the
finals, however, they skidded down
to eighth, ahead of other Wash
iugton teams. The next Washing
ton team, that of William McIn-
tyre and Leroy Thurtell, placed
thirteenth.
Lieuts. R. A. Cook and C. w.
Humphreys, U. S. Naval Academy
at Annapolis, won the national
amateur championship. They were
presented with a radio each by
Oswald Jacoby, of the renowned
Four Aces. Automatically, the two
winners become national masters
and thus ineligible for amateur
competition in any future Ameri-
can Contract Bridge League tour
namentS.
Sixth place was the best Wash
ington could do in the anna
teur competition, Major and Mrs.
Charles S. Brice garnering this
standing.
Veteran bridge contest followers
declared the tournament, which
drew more than $500 entries, was
one of the best ever held. They
lauded the smoothnesS with which
the tournament was run off, and
said they noted a remarkable lack
of friction among players. No in
stances Of unethical conduct were
complained of, it was said, and
there was not a single protest
filed. Throughout the competi-
tion the play was hard fought,
they said.
A Washingtonian won the james
H. Lemon Plaque, donated for the
player with the five best scores
with three different partners in
amateur games. Isaac H. York
was this victor, with a 53.7 aver
age and Mrs. Bolivar T. Lloyd,
also of Washington, was second
with 57.9.
The Washington times., 1937-12-06

young man who finds pleasure in
it." remarked the bishop.
Referring to the time when the
morality council was regarded as
a bunc hof "snoopers, he said:
People used to say they were
sorry for the poor Bishop of Lon.
don's mind-but now they're be-
ginning to side with me-"
There is nothing on the London
stage which can be compared in
indecency with the undestrained
burlesque of a year ago, or in
nudity with the higher.priced
"girlie" shows along Broadway.
What London is aiming for"
the Bishop said, "is a London with
clean theaters and cinemaS, open
spaces where young people can
go without temptation.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-09-03
ADDRESS ERRORS HOLD UP
REGISTRATION WORK

The Commissioner of Motor We
licles, Walter r. Rudy, said his Of
ice is receiving numerous inquiries
nd application for the new re-regis-
ration of operators. Mr.. Rudy
lated that the re-registration de-
)artment was organized for this
special work by the State Comptrol-
err, Williams S. Gordy Jr., and is
under the full direction of Mr.. Harry
3ullen. supervisor
As all of these new licenses must
be issued prior to January /, 1898,
Mr. Rudy said that delay can be
avoided by addressing all correspond
ence to the registration department
in care of the Commissioners of Mo-
or Vehicles. Mr. Rudy also request
ed that in writing to the department
of Motor Vehicles inquiries in regard
to the re-registration should not be
included. They should be in separ-
ate letters.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-09-03
THROUGH HIGHWAYS WILL SOL
We TRAFFIC PROBLEM

The use Of Stop and Co lights is
not a solution for traffic problems,
says Thomas H. Macdonald, chief of
the Bureau of Public Raods of the
United States Department of Agricul-
ture. ''It is only a necessary develop
ment imposed upon a system of high
ways built before the present needs
and speeds of highway traffic were
considered possible"
The trend of highway improve
ment, he believes, will be tc provide
continuous flow of traffic from con-
gested downtown areas we'll into the
suburban areas, without counter and
cross-currents requiring signs. While
the dost will be high it is only
through such arteries that the bust
ness districts can continue to serve
the ever-increasing population.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-09-03
sPEED-THE GREAT KILLER

During recent years number of
states have adopted The basic rule"
speed lava measure whereby no
fixed maximum highway speed is pre-
scribed, but drivers are required to
operate their vehicles with due care.
Today in many of those states motor
vehicle officials are coming to the
view that the basic rule has failed,
and that a fixed speed law, rigidly
enforced, is necessary to the proven
ton of accidents. The national or
ganizakion which studied highway
legislation and first advocated the
basic rule, has now changed it's posi-
ton, and urges fixed speed limits.
So the motorist has failed in his
responsibility under law which
gave the individual wide leeway in
his driving habits. Speed is still the
great highway killer, breeding more
violent deaths than any other driving
error 1t is a harsh commentary on
drivers that the bulk of fatal auto
mobile accidents occur on first class
straight highways, under good
weather and visibility conditions,
and involve cars in passable mechan-
ical condition. Speed-the insane in
stinct to open her UPS the
answer.
1t is apparent that the automobile
death and injury rate will continue
to climb until all states cooperate
to modernize their traffic codes i'll
the light of modern conditions. APP
peals to the motorists instincts OF
self-preservation and public respons-
ibility have produced some results
but much more must be done Speeds
must be reduced. And the offending
driver must be punished under laws
enforced without fear or favoritism.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-09-03
U. S. PEACE POLICY GETS WIDE
ACCLAIM

Washington. --Worldwide approval
has greeted Secretary of State Cor
dell Hull's recent statement Of
Americas policy of peaceful settle
ment of disputes, it was announced
here last week. Thirty-seven nations,
including Great Britain, France,
Russia, and many of the smaller
nations of Europe and Latin Amer
lea, have fastened to acclaim Sec
rotary Hulls vigorous stand for
national and international seif-re-
straint," abstinence from force and
non-intervention in the affairs Of
other nations, lowering of trade bar
riers and reduction of ornaments.
1t is believed here that Secretary
Hull's statement was a first move
toward sounding out possibilities of
cooperation between the nations Of
the world for maintaining peace,
and that further cautious steps may
follow the widespread response.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-09-03
SQUARE" FARMING LOSING
FAVOR IN ROUND"
COUNTRY

In many parts of the United
States, farmers are abandoning
square farming on naturally
''round land in favor of contour
farming and strip cropping on the
contour as advocated by the Soil
Conservation Service. Rectangular
fields and straight fences and rows
have often been the custom, even
the mark, of a good farmer, where
ever slopes were not too steep. Row
right over the tops of hills, straight
up and down slopes, created drain
age channels that quickened erosion
and increased soil and water losses
Farmers are finding that contour
farming takes no more time, de-
creases erosion and run-off, and re-
quires less power.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-09-03
EPSON Downs

EPSON Downs comprises 387
acres near the town of Epson, Sur
rey, Is miles southwest of London.
It is said that horse races were run
there as early as the reign of James
/ (16O3-1625), but they were not held
regularly until 1870. Grandstands
we're first erected in 1929 The prin-
cipal races run are the 'Derby" and
the "Oaks" In 1880, the twelfth
earl of Derby originated a race for
three-year-olds, and it was referred
to as the EPSON Derby" after the
town where it is held and the man
who originated it. 1t is still known
officially by that title, but the world
knows it better as the English Der
by" The course is one mile, four
furlongs (one-half mile) and 20
yards. From the starting point the
ground rises about 1874 feet in less
than mile and before the slight
rise at the finish it drops about 100
feet.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-09-03
STATE INCOME TAX BLANKS
READY

State Comptroller VIM. S. Gordy,
Jr., announces tax return blanks for
the reporting and payment of the
State income tax by corporations
were ready for distribution.
A tax of one-half of one per cent,
was levied on incomes by the recent
Legislature as part of the States. re-
lief revenue program. The first pay
ments by corporations are due Sep
TENDER Is, Individual returns for
1887 are due and payable March 10,
1888.
All corporations whose fiscal year
ended between January l and June
80, 1887, must file their returns and
pay the tax by September Is.
Corporations whose fiscal year will
end after June 80 must file a return
and pay tax on the fifteenth day Of
the third month following the end of
their fiscal year.
Mr.. Girdy pointed out that the tax
must be paid in full when due. No
provisions have been made for in
stallment payments.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-09-03
Whv Trade Winds Were
Aid to Sailing Ships

Trade winds, which extend about
35 degrees north and south of the
equator, are caused by the differ
ence in temperatures between the
poles of the earth and the equator.
Hot air from the equator rises and
cold air from the poles rushes in.
Instead of blowing straight north
and south, however, they are de-
fected by the rotation of the earth.
Thus the trade winds from the
north blow in southwesterly direc-
ton, those from the south in north
westerly.
In the days of sailing ships trade
winds were of great Importance The
great clipper ships would sail hun
dreds of miles out of their courses
to find them. Sometimes, when be-
Gained in a region near the trades,
the crew would put over the side in
small boats to tow the vessel into
the wind.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-09-03
FEDERAL INQUIRY OF
BROADCASTING

Seventeen years ago when the first
radio broadcasts were sent out for
the public, it was considered a ma
tional game for families to huddle
over their crystal sets and excitedly
pass earphones about.
Last week the Senate Interstate
Commerce Committee decided that
radio, which now has 24,50O,OOO
families in it's regular audience, was
no longer a game" but billion
dollar industry that was badly in
need of investigation. Thus, with the
committees blessing, a resolution
sponsored by Senator Wallace White
of Maine and calling for thorough
investigation of the broadcast1ng
situation as it relates to govern ment
regulation, was sent to the Senate for
approval before adjournment. Pend
ing before the House was a similar
resolution.
The White resolution proposed
that an inquiry be conducted by tie
Interstate Commerce Committee
with reference to the following
points:
The geographical distribution Of
broadcasting facilities, with special
attention paid to inadequate distribu-
ton of programs in rural sections.
The extent to which licensees use
their stations to build up other bust
ness in which they are interested,
and the extent to which these lie
ensees refuse their facilities to COM
petitors.
The extent of newspaper owner
ship and control of radio stations.
The effect of networks on inde-
pendent stations.
Censorship by stations.
Also subject to congressional in
vestigation would be the Federal
Communications Commission, which
has attempted to regulate broadcast
ing in the United States. The question
which Senator White would like an
swered is whether, in carrying out its
business of licensing all stations. the
Commission has been swayed By pol
itical considerations. Amid mounting
criticism of the Commission s
methods, President Roosevelt last
week named two new members to
put the Commissions affairs in
order"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-09-03
Questions And Answers
WHAT'S WHAT ABOUT SOCIAL
SECURITY

Q. Al How many forms of taxes
are there in the State of Maryland
under the Social Security Act?
A. Al There are four separate
and distinct taxes; % an income
tax on employees, which is now one
percent on the first $4,000 earned,
CD an excise tax on employers of
one or more. The Federal tax on en-
ployers of eight or more, for the year
1887, is two percent of total wages.
There is also a tax imposed by the
Maryland Unemployment Compen-
sation Board of Is percent, based
on total wages. The Federal tax just
mentioned allows an employer Of
eight or more to deduct 80 percent
of the amount he has paid to the
State of Maryland.
Q. AZ In filling out my applica-
ton for Social Security account
number l gave my correct age, with
the understanding that this informa-
ton would be kept secret from my
employers. Now l hear that the
Board will turn over the records to
the employers if they request them
to do so. Is this true?
A. AZ This is not true. The age
of any Individual who has filed an
application SS-5 will not be reveal
ed by the Social Security Board.
Q. 43 Will l be able to draw
benefits when l become 65 If l con-
tinue to work?
A. 43 Under the terms of the
Social Security Act, you will not be
paid benefits as long as you continue
working in an employment that is
not specifically exempted from the
Act, but when you retire from active
employment you will receive
monthly annuity.
Q. A My father is now 81 and
out of work. Will he be able to draw
old-age benefits from the govern
ment?
A. A No, since he is beyond the
age requirement of IS, he cannot
qualify.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-09-03

Prices continue to rise. During the
first half of this year, according to
Business Week survey, wholesale
prices were 8 per cent higher than
in 1886. Raw materials were up IA
per cent. Farm products cost IS per
cent more. Food increased per
cent. The general cost of living was
per cent greater.
One of the few manufactured
articles whose price had not been
generally advanced. was the auto
mobile. Car makers always dread a
price increase-because, they think,
it will result in a large number Of
motorists driving their old cars a
few months longer, and so reduce
sales.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-09-03
India Has More People
Than the United States

India accounts for more than two
thirds of the population of the Brit
ish empire. 1t has nearly three
times as many people as has the
United States, though its area is on
ly little more than half as large.
But the more than 351. 399,00 In
dams crowded into the triangular
peninsula that juts out from Asia
are far from unified-culturally, re.
!igiously, or politically, according to
writer in the Chicago Tribune. The
land is a crazy-quilt of presidencies.
native states, provinces, protector
ates, tribal areas, and even few
foreign owned patches. Some parts
have been governed by modern
British law; others by native
princes ruling with Arabian Nights
splendor, holding the power of life
and death over their minions, main
tanning their own armies, and sub
iect indirectly to the king.
India is usually thought of as en-
tirely British, but France and Portu
gal keep tiny toeholds on the edges
of the huge British domain. OF these
remnants of the days when all three
powers were competing for Indian
trade and riches France has about
200 square miles of colonies along
the east and west coasts, while
there are ,461 square miles of Por-
tuguese territory on the western
side of the peninsula.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-09-03
Cassia, Aromatic Bark,
Is Used for Flavoring

Cassia is the aromatic bark del
rived from cinnamomum cessna
(family Lauraceae). The greater
part of the supply coming from
China, it sometimes is termed Chi
nese cinnamon. The bark is much
thicker than that of true cinnamon;
the taste is more pungent and the
flavor less delicate, although some
what similar to that of cinnamon.
The properties of cassia bark de-
pend on the presence of volatile
oil-the oil of cassia, which is i'm
ported in fairly pure state as an
article of commerce from Canton.
Cassia bark is in much more ex-
tensive demand on the continent of
Europe than in Great Britain, being
preferred to cinnamon by southern
nations. The chief use is for flavor
ing liqueurs and chocolate, and in
cooking generally, says writer in
the Indianapolis News.
When ground as a spice it is diff
ficult to distinguish cassia from Gin
namon and it is common practice
to substitute the cheap common
spice for the more valuable article.
"Cassia buds" which have pleas
ing cinnamon flavor, are believed to
be the immature fruits of the tree
which yields Chinese cinnamon.
They are brought in considerable
quantities from Canton, and used
as spice and in confectionery.
"Cassia pulp" used as a medi-
cine, is obtained from the pods of
Cassia Fistula, or pudding pipe
tree, native of Africa which is Gull
tivated in both the East and West
Indies. Some confusion occasion
ally arises from the fact that "cas-
STA" is the generic name of an ex-
tensive genus of leguminous plants,
which, in addition to various other
medicinal products, is the source
of the SIENNA leaves which form an
important article of materia medi-
ca.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-09-03
John Eliot Was Known as
"Apostle to the Indians

John Eliot, known as "the apostle
to the Indians" is probably even
less known to persons interested in
Indians than Sequoyah, who invent
ed the Cherokee alphabet, although
Eliot, a native of England, obvi-
ously faced task so monumental
that only a man with broad love
of humanity and an indomitable will
could have seen it through, relates
a writer in the New York Sun.
After arriving in this country he
came to share the opinion, widely
held in his time, that the Indians
were the lost tribes of Israel; that
in process of time they made their
way after the captivity from the ex-
IRENE parts of Asia into America.
He believed that in their language
he would find some traces of the
Hebrew.
But although good Hebrew
scholar there never was any evil
dence that his knowledge of that
language assisted him in any way
in understanding the Indian Ian
guage. In 1913, when thirty-nine
years old, he began to study that
language. He told how he set out
on his task.
81 found" he wrote, ga pregnant
witted young man who had been a
servant in an English house, who
pretty we'll understood his own Ian
guage and hath a clear pronuncia-
ton. Him / made my interpreter
And thus l came at it ="
Three years later Eliot began to
preach to the Indians in their own
language. Fitting symbols to sounds
and teaching his wards how to read
and comprehend was a task that
caused many of his friends to look
on his efforts as hopeless.
A biographer has written: Zone
is appalled,, Inundated as he thinks
of the remarkable labors of this
wonderful man." One can hardly
imagine the difficulties which beset
Eliot in the work of translation into
the Indian language.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-09-03
Finding Wives in Spain

In Spain many a man sees his
future wife first on the street. If
she appears attractive, he follows
her to find out where she lives, and
thereafter he spends a part of every
day in silent courtship beneath her
balcony or before the barred win
dows. If her parents approve, some
day he will see little white hand
pluck a blossom from the vine that
climbs on the patio within and throw
it to him. Then the real wooing
begins. If the girl lives on the
ground floor, the path of love is
smooth, but the dark eyes that flash
from windows higher up must mix
pining in their gaze to convey the
words that can not be uttered.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-09-03
Shakespeare's Plays Not
"Best Seller" at Start

To find publisher for collected
edition of Shakespeare plays was
probably not as easy as we who
know the thousands of editions into
which his works have gone might
conclude, according to an article by
Edwin E. Willoughby in Coronet.
In fact, five years after his death,
only one printer was willing to pub
fish his complete works, and, had
he refused to undertake the risk of
printing the volume, we might have
lost half of Shakespeare, for up to
that time only half of his plays had
been printed-in pamphlet form.
But the danger that we should
lose the plays of Shakespeare were
by no means over when that printer,
William Jaggard, agreed to publish
them. Because it seemed doubtful
that such a venture would prove
profitable, Jaggard published sew
eral other books during the next
two years which he thought we're
more important, and left Shakes
peare's plays lie around the shelves
of his print shop collecting dust.
Had he not resumed his work
from time to time during that Pc
Rod, it is quite possible that these
plays never would have survived.
But he finished the volume despite
many difficulties, and in 1923, it
was offered to the world.
The book was evidently a moder-
ate financial success, although it did
not at first sell as rapidly as did
many other books of the time.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-09-03
WHY
Dandelions, Canaries and Egg
Yolks Are Yellow.

Fresh from the sea, a lobster is
usually blue-green. Why? This
raises the whole question of colors
in nature. Why are canaries, dan
delions, the yolks of eggs, butter
cups all yellow? Why are sea anem-
ones purple and blue?
Prof. I. M. Hebron supplied, at
least partial answers before the
Royal Institution recently, says a
writer in the New York Herald-Trib-
une. It turns out that like colors
are all traceable to "a sharply di-
vided group of compounds not only
widely distributed in flowers and
plants but also throughout the ami
NAL kingdom"
Professor Hebron projected on
the screen long chains of 100 or so
of molecules to explain how the va
rious colors are built up. Yet it
must not be inferred that like colors
in living organisms are always
traceable to like compounds. Egg
yolk, for example, owes its yellow
only partly to the chemical that
makes canaries yellow; some egg
yellow is chemically like the vel
low of our Indian corn. So with the
yellow of buttercups and dandelions.
They, too, are of composite origin.
Hardest of all to explain are the
puppies and blues of anemones.
''They are very complex" said Pro
lessor Hebron.
AS for the uncooked lobster, that
owes it's blush green color to tetra-
keto-beta-carotene, which means
that one of its ingredients is related
In ana found in tho 1oulv carrot
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-09-03
Whv Chimneys Do Not Draw

The height of a chimney has a de-
cided effect on it's efficiency. Some
authorities recommend 80 to 80 feet
as a minimum height. Many one
story houses have efficient CHM
neys less than this height, however,
drafts in low chimneys tend to be
erratic in their action. Strong
prevalent winds, the height of the
chimney above the roof, the pres
ence of over-hanging trees, and 9TH
err factors cause disturbances in the
action of the drafts.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-09-03
Why "squinters" Are Dangerous

Of the four types of eyes, the
"squinter" or the "wall-eyed" are
the most dangerous behind the
steering wheel of motor car, &C
cording to a Mayo expert. The
squinters, he explained, are those
who have difficulty in locating OBJ
jects in space. One or both eyes
have a tendency to turn out. The
first function of the eyes of baby
is to find where an object is in
space. Its second step in vision, he
pointed out, is to see that object
clearly. These first steps take
place in the first year or eighteen
months. Then comes the develop
ment of fusion, that is, perfection
of the range-fnding properties OF
the two eyes.