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Evening star., 1937-09-12
Fourth Regiment, With Record of Service in Storm
Centers of World Soon to Be Joined by Sixth
Regiment-Links With Capital.

THE real reason for the presence of
some 10000 of Uncle Sans
armed forces in China is that the way
to the sea must be kept open. If
the Chinese furnace grows too hot,
Americans must be able to get to the
cooling. saline water, and safety.
Accordingly, at Peiping, the ancient
capital of venerable China, 500 picked
United States Marines keep the guard.
At Tientsin, near the sea, guarding
the vital traffic artery, the important
railroad. is the 18th United States In
fantry Of the Army.
At Shanghai, China's major COM
mercial hub, the United States Marines
and bluejackets are on duty. 1t is of
special interest to note that the senior
officer present af1oat is Americas Ad-
miral Yarnell. Britain's Sir Charles
Little. who was a vice admiral, at
tanned the full rank of admiral just
few months ago. Japan's senior
officer present is Vice Admiral Kyoshi
Hasegawa, commanding the 3rd Fleet.
the flagship of which for some years
has been based at Shanghai, to OBJ
serve developments and protect Japa-
nese nationals. Other ships of that
feet have been assigned the same
mission in other coastal ports OF
China.
One of Americas important mis-
sions in China is the Yangtze patrol
Those that have thrilled to the lurid
tales of the pirates of the Spanish
Main-Morgan, Blackboard. Jean La
Fitte and the rest of the buccaneers
with their unbelievable boards of
sparkling jewels, gold and silver plate
and other precious loot--little realize
that today in China there are pirates
as active as ever were their Caribbean
brethren.
Chinas Navy is negligible. Accord
ingly, the United States naval patrol
of the Yangtze River-the Great
Middle River" as it is known to the
Chinese-is considered a vital neces-
sity, not only to aid in keeping down
the pirates, but to protect American
cargoes and lives. The patrol was
established, officials here say, at the
request of Chinese officials themselves.
OF old, the Chinese believed that the
Yangtze River was the Son of the
Ocean''-that from its bosom came the
mighty waters that fed the seas.
a MERICANS generally have little
conception of the task that falls
to the Yangtze River patrol. For some
$500 miles that great waterway is
Evening star., 1937-09-12
By Lucy Salamanca.
\ ECLARING that the Roosevelt
I administration has taken
] many cues from Huey Longs

administration has taken
many cues from Huey Longs
philosophy of government"
his successor in the United States
Senate, Senator Allen Ellender of
Louisiana, paused long enough be-
tween a conference with President
Roosevelt and Secretary Wallace on
the recently signed sugar bill and his
departure for his native State to pay
tribute to his predecessor. the second
anniversary of whose death is Septem-
ber 10. The occasion seemed one for
review of the policies of the man who
was elected to succeed one of the most
picturesque figures who ever raised a
shout in the Senate Chamber.
Because Senator Ellender fell heir
to difficult situation in replacing the
stormy petrol of the bayou country,
and also because he had been swept
into the vacant Senate seat on the
Long ticket with a majority unprece-
dented in Louisiana elections, interest
attaches, on the anniversary of Longs S
death, to the record made by his
| successor and to the extent to which
he has carried out policies that were
the mainsprings of Longs fiamboyant
actions
Senator Ellender has recently
gained public attention for other rea-
sons, having found occasion TO deny
/ in a manner reminiscent of the dra-
matte Huey, the extravagant charges
that as a Progressive in the new
South he would aid Mr.. Roosevelt ir
establishing a dictatorship in this
country. This colorful accusation
grew out of previous assertion thai
he it was who had assisted Ions
locally, in q similar intention.
AS II this were not enough to inves
Evening star., 1937-09-12

these barons of wealth from their
foothold in government"
WHAT, actually, has been BLENDERS
record in the two years since
gunshot wound ended the career of
Huey Long?
In review. his first interest seems
to have been for the farmer, particu-
larly the farmer who must make his
livelihood from the cotton, sugar and
rice crops of Louisiana, For that rea-
son he remained in Washington after
adjournment of Congress to confer
with the President On the sugar bill.
Evening star., 1937-09-12

Italians, French-one sees the uni
forms of each, for they are doubling
their outposts these uncertain times,
as the war planes of Japan whine
overhead and the big guns of Nippon
bark out their messages of death. The
japanese naval barracks are in the
Honkew section of Shanghai, where
some $4,000 japanese live in normal
times.
A MONG the big American firms at
Shanghai are the Standard Oil
Co., the British American Tobacco
Co., the United States Steel Corp.
the Chase Bank. the National City
Bank, the Radio Corp of America,
the Mackay Radio, the Texas Oil Co.,
as well as various United States mis-
sionary publishing houses and head
quarters of large Protestant and Cath
olic groups. There are also hospitals,
schools and university.
Latterly, much has been heard of
China's New Life movement, which
aims to educate the masses, promote
cleanliness and sanitation, the sup
preston of opium, the welding of the
war lords into a unit, a republic with
strong central government, with
the hope of ultimately getting rid of
extra-territorality and generally boost
ing China for the Chinese" This
is undoubtedly a vital factor in the
current disturbed situation, for China
is determined to fight the Japanese
invasion to keep China for the
Chinese" their nationalistic goal.
In these latter years the United
States Fleet has been stationed in
the Pacific. based on San Pedro, Calf.
Many of its officers and enlisted men
are veterans of duty in the Orient
''the Asiatic station as the American
sailorman puts it. How soon they
may have to return is a question
that is running through the minds
of not a few of them.
Americans have aided in training
the Chinese airmen, who are making
their world premiere in warfare Ger
man staff officers have contributed to
the training of China's crack di-
visions. China's West Point is To-
Gated at Marking. which has become
one of the objectives of the hostile
Japanese aviators. Sons of China s
prominent families have been enrolled
as students in the Military Academy,
which is conducted along the old
Prussian lines.
Shortly after the Boxer rebellion
units of the United States Army were
stationed at Peiping-or Peking, as
Evening star., 1937-09-12

navigable, we'll over half the way from
New York to San Francisco. Today,
the u. S. S. .Luzon is flagship of the
Yangtze River patrol and recently she
was at Hankow. Other vessels in
this fleet are the u. S. S. Guam, re-
Gently at Nanking; the Monocacy.
named for the nearby Maryland River
and battlefield, which has just been
at Ichang; the Oahu and the Panay
at Chungking and the Tutuila at
Marking.
Engines for these vessels were con-
structed in the United States few
years ago, but the hulls were fabri-
Gated at Shanghai. Shortly before
the big crash that launched the de-
preston over here, the American Gov
ernment arranged to put new feet
on the Yangtze River to replace the
obsolete Spanish and other gunboats
that had been utilized since the Span
ish-American War. This new feet is
now in commission. One of these old
Spanish warships, that came into
Uncle Sans possession after the con-
f1ict with Spain and was for long
time on duty on the Yangtze River,
was the Pampanga.
After the treaty ports were open in
China to American trade, the United
States Navy arranged to escort cargo
ships safely. The great Yangtze wa
terway has since been patrolled by
American bluejackets.
In the South China Patrol is the
U. S. s. Mindanao, which was re-
Gently at Canton. She patrols some
l 500 miles of delta and river coun-
try in that part Of the olden land
Of the Manchus
The mission of the United States
Navy, Marine Corps and Army as
well as representatives of the State
and Commerce Departments in China
lzo-
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and expressed his elation when Mr..
Roosevelt signed that much-debated
piece of legislation.
Il believe the sugar bill, as passed
by Congress, will prove of great bene-
fit to the sugar cane growers and pro-
ducers of Louisiana. 1t carries an
increase in quota for Louisiana and
Florida of 100000 tons of sugar, and
provision has been written in the bill
to give the Secretary of Agriculture
wide discretion in the allotment of
quotas to small farmers and new
growers.
ut Is our desire 10 aRo9d the anal
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(See ELLENDER, Page F-3)
Evening star., 1937-09-12
The U. S. s. Guam gunboat the Yae0tse
RUer patrol in China. u. S. Many Photo.

ships with the Chinese officials and
people and to cooperate with them.
Many time the teeming millions
have been assisted in their fight
against famine by Americans-not
only those on official duty for Uncle
Sam, but by the missionaries of various
faiths from the United States.
The Boxer Rebellion enabled the
various legations to keep by treaty
rights a sufficient guard to safeguard
their nationals and to insure access
Evening star., 1937-09-12

to the sea-and escape, if necessary.
An international train operates from
Peiping to Tientsin and the port of
Taku.
IN SHANGHAI, the International
Settlement, which looms large in
the news these days. is the outgrowth
Of the opening up of China. Perpet-
ual leases give various other nations
concessions in that city. China's
greatest commercial center has be-
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-08-06
LARGER FARM MILK CHECKS

Announcement from Washington
that farm milk income reached $685.
100000 for the first five months of
1887 $33,OOO,O0O ahead of the
same period in 1886, 64% higher
than the 1888 low and the largest
first five months return since 1880
further emphasizes agriculture's
successful climb toward pre-depres-
sion levels. While bottled milk and
cream, butter, cheese and evaporated
milk still are the major contributors
to dairy farmers milk checks, stead
lily widening industrial uses for milk
by-products have also helped boost
farmers income, as was recently
pointed out by Thos. H. McInnerney,
President of National Dairy Products
Corporation.
Larger sales volume of bottled milk
and of the major dairy products, and
higher farm prices, have both con-
tributed to the consistent advance in
dairy farmers income in the last five
years. But a contributing factor to
larger farm milk checks, and one al
most unnoticed, has been milk's en-
try into the industrial field. The
pharmaceutical, plastic, chemical,
baking and confectionery industries
are using increasing amounts of
skim milk products. This develop
ment clearly indicates the value of
the industrys commercial laboratory
research efforts.
Mr.. McInnerney points out milk
product manufacture leaves around
fifty five billion pounds of skim milk
each year, compared with total an
nual production of about one humid
red billion pounds of whole milk.
LAS recently as 1920 all but 3 or
4 per cent of this skim milk never
left the farm, or was carted back to
the farm, after separating, to be used
as animal feed. Today about 1870 of
this skim milk-about seven billion
pounds-is being converted into differ
ent types of dairy products. Although
there is considerable opportunity for
further expansion in skim milk pro-
duct consumption, a 300% increase
in commercial utilization of skim
milk within Is years is notable It
has meant better market and better
prices for dairy farmers"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-08-06

the transmitter mounted on curving
iron gooseneck rising out of the desk
top. On the left side of the desk hung
a receiver and on the right was little
crank. In the space which in an ordi-
nary desk would hold papers, pens and
ink, there was glass-enclosed cabinet
inside which could be seen the inner
workings of the instrument. On the
shelf over this were two nickel bells.
When Governor McLane first used the
instrument, he heard the operators
voice coming to him from Baltimore,
as there was no central Office in An
napolis at the time.
Now, with the remodeling of the
Executive Mansion, this famous old
telephone has given way to more mod
ern instruments, and no longer will it
help with the activities of Maryland
executives. It's bells are silenced.
Quietly it takes its place among other
objects of history. It has we'll earned
its rest after fifty years in the Execu-
tive Mansion.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-08-06
EMPLOYERS MUST POST "NOTICE
OF COVERAGE"

To acquaint workers with the in
tent and purpose of the Maryland
Compensation Law, a notice OF COW
erage" is being mailed by the State
Unemployment Compensation Board
to each employer in Maryland.
The notices are in the form OF pla-
cards which employers are required
to post in their plants or places OF
business.
The placards notify employees that
their employer is covered by the
Maryland Unemployment Compen-
sation Law and is properly register
ed as a contributor and that this reg
istration places the employees in
line for benefits which are payable to
eligible workers who become unem-
ployed after January 1, 1888.
ct should be born in mind by all
workers that only those in covered
employment will be entitled to bene-
fits under the Law" said William
Mines Maloy, Chairman of the Mary
land Unemployment Compensation
Board. Unemployment Compensa-
ton is strickly an insurance provis-
ion of the Social Security legislation
and should not be confused with the
many welfare phases of this program.
The Maryland Law requires all
employers of eight or more individ-
uals to contribute to the funds. EN-
ployees of contributing employers
automatically become, insured thro-
ugh the Fund against periods of un-
employment"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-08-06
SPEED HOUNDS

Nearly one-third Of all traffic
deaths occur at night, and most OF
these are on rural highways-and
this even though not more than one
fourth or one-fifth of the traffic is at
night. The safety bureaus tell us that
the same speed-hounds who violate
all the traffic regulations by excessive
speed are the ones most frequently
out Of luck in trying to make bad
curves that are twice as dangerous
at night as in daylight. Besides, hu-
man eyes usually see only half as
efficiently at night, and at high
speed collisions too frequently occur.
OF course we need more well-llght-
ed highways. But even these improve
ments will reduce but not stop, the
large number Of accidents and deaths
and maybe pull the record Of 49,
500 fatalities for 1886 down a few
thousand.
Modern automobiles are as near
fool-proof as machinery can be pro-
duced. It il the main idea to get
there ahead of time" that results in
the many luckless drivers and their
victims being picked up and deliver
ed to hospitals and undertakers.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-08-06
CALLED ON THE CARPET

The Federal Trade Commission has
grown into a mammoth branch OF
the Government 1t draws the chalk
line and those engaged in doubtful
ways of doing business have to toe
the mark. Recently it has taken a
hand in correcting many errors and
abuses. Here are some of he cases:
Using lottery methods to stimulate
the sale of candy and peanut pro
duets.
Discrimination by wholesale food pro-
ducers against certain branches OF
the retail trade.
Unfair methods in the sale of food
and medicine for birds.
"Mushrooming the virtues of mush-
room spawn.
The beauty doctors, pimple and
wrinkle removers, vitality tonic pro-
ducers, curers of muddy compilations
and sun burn; correctors of contour
of the chin; nourishers and builders
of the skin; plus the takers who claim
to restore youth and make leather
faced octogenarian look like high
school graduate have been taking
their spankings, and say they like it..
Excetional inducements Offering pro-
fits up to 80 cents on each dollar
by using a machine that fries pota-
to chips brought an outlaw order
against these little get-rich-quick
schemers.
A dealer in polish for brass and pew
ter that would make old things
new" was told that there are new
ways of doing business-so why
lie about it!
A concern with way to make the
stomach sweet when the patient
suffered from sour gases during
drunk was compelled to discon-
tinue extravagant claims.
Cap manufacturers were called on to
explain price-rigging methods a.
mong themselves, plus boycotts a
gainst those who refused to pur-
chase their uniforms and caps.
The Federal Trade Commission GER
tainly is energetic in it's efforts to
protect the country's suckers.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-08-06

Annapolis II For half a century
It gave tireless service, day or night,
week day or Sunday, in peace or
war. Eleven governors this tele-
phone served, and it played its part
in many an important historic event
in Maryland. Now, Annapolis 1 is
gone, but it will not be forgotten, for
the old instrument is to have an hon.
ored place in the Museum of the Mary
land Historical Society.
This telephone, the first in An
napolis, which for 80 years and more
served Maryland's chief executives,
was installed in the early part of 1884
in the office of Governor McLane, in
the executive mansion. It was no
ordinary instrument, this telephone of
1884, but a special cabinet type"
which was installed for important peo-
pie only.
The then governor, Robert M. Nc
Lane, it is recorded, watched as it
was being installed, and was shown
how he could pull chair up to the
desk-like instrument and speak into
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-08-06
SCIENCE SERVICES

spirit" will be the subject of the
Lesson-Sermon in all churches of
Christ, Scientist, on Sunday, Aug. 8.
The Golden Text will be from 1
John Alp, 49, mo man hath seen
Sod at any time. Hereby, know we
hat we dwell in him, and he in US,
because he hath given US of his
spirit"
Among the citations comprising
the Lesson-Sermon will be the
following from the Bible John ABA
God is Spirit, and they that wor-
ship him must worship him in spirit
and in truth"
The Lesson Sermon also includes
passages from the Christian Science
textbook, Science and Health with
Key to Scriptures, by Mary Baker
Eddy, among which is the following
page 481: Material sense never
helps mortals to understand Spirit,
God. Through spiritual sense only,
man comprehends and loves Deity"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-08-06
CONGRESS POLLED FOR VOTES
ON PEACE

A war-peace poll of Congress
which will confront every member on
his return home after adjournment
is being completed during the remain
ing weeks of the present session by
the National Council for Prevention
of War.
The votes of Senators and Con-
gressmen on issues affecting war and
peace will be recorded at Councils
headquarters in this unique survey.
The record votes on the following
issues are being tabulated: neutrality,
reciprocal trade agreements, navy
and army appropriations, currency
sterilization, Buenos Aires treaties,
peacetime arms embargo, and the
Frazier amendment on compulsory
military training in schools and
colleges. The attitude of each mem
Der on the Ludlow war referendum
will also be catalogued.
officials of the Councils staff Of
60 men and women are engaged in
taking the survey.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-08-06

joyful mornings. No matter where
ones home may be located, one may
always realize Gods power to dispel
the night dreams that may have come
with the darkness, or the waking
dreams of not too happy past or
present experience.
Suppose one feels in the morning
that the night has not been restful,
one may not be glad that the dawn
has come and another day has ar
rived. Then, II that one will but turn
his thoughts from self to mediate
on God and His creation, he will
realize that the new day promises all
the possibilities of joyous, new ex-
periences. And If one persists in
thinking of God first each morning,
the habit of undue self-contempla-
ton will surely disappear.
With practical application, Mary
Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and
to the experience of sleeplessness on
page 1856 of Science and Health as
follows: "You say that you have not
slept well or have over-eaten. You
are law unto yourself" If one who
has not slept well will refuse to voice
or retain In thought that experience,
and will persistently remember that
God Is always with His children, he
will learn to anticipate only Joy In
the new day, knowing that also, by
such true thinking, the fear, and
therefore the experience of other
wakeful nights will be averted. :.
When wecomply with the demand to
think truly before we go to sleep,
we shall not awaken thinking untruly
or unhappily.
Farther on in the hymn quoted
from above are found the words:
$50 shall it ever be In the bright
morning,
When hearts awaking see the sha-
dows flee."
The true awakening is the hearts
awakening to the truth about God
and man, by which one realizes
health, harmony, and peace. This
spiritual awakening Is possible.
Each one may voice his grateful
praise in the words of the Psalmist
(Psalms 1917, 49,: "How precious
also are thy thoughts unto me, o
God! how great is the sum of them!
If should count them, they are more
in number than the sand: when
awake, | am still with thee. "-The
Christian Science Monitor.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-08-06
Joyful Mornings

n LOVED hymn which has sus-
~ tanned and inspired many be-
gins with the lines:
"Still, still with Thee when purple
morning breaketh,
When the bird waketh, and the
shadows fee,
Fairer than morning, lovelier than
the daylight,
Dawns the sweet consciousness,
am with Thee"
These words emphasize the Joy and
light which illumine thought as one
realizes the presence of God
There may be those who do not
look forward to the morning awaken
ing, because to them 1t seems but the
beginning of another day of care Or
worry or fear. And there are others
who have yielded to the habit of al
lowing some time to elapse before
arousing themselves to being thor
oughly awake and responsive to good
for the new day. But all may awaken
each morning with joy and energy,
fresh as the birds, when 1t Is realized
that, even though sleep has inter-
vened between the experiences of one
day and those yet to come in anoth-
er, we are still with God, still loved,
guided, supported, protected by the
adorable Father of all.
Even though there may have been
in the human experiences of yester-
day evidences other than those of the
peace and joy which come with the
realization of Gods presence, yet The
dawn ushers in new day, in which
a discordant past need have no part.
Each may awaken quickly. If he will
Immediately turn to God, and much
may be accomplished If joyous, spir-
itual thinking is begun early. Prompt,
right mental activity helps to make
the day harmonious and fruitful, and
to overcome any sense of discord re-
sulting from whatever in the previ-
Gus day may have been unworthy and
regrettable.
Many have learned to engage at
once, upon awakening each morning,
In quiet prayer and contemplation of
Gods glory and Gods gifts to His
children-joy and peace and health.
1t is not necessary to dwell in sur
roundings entirely desirable to hui
man sense, in order to experience