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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1938-12-29
aLosr HoRIzoNn

emphasize, this bit of "back his
tory" because 4 believe it has an i'm
portant bearing on confidence at the
moment. Millions of people - as we
get further and further away from
1929 = look upon that year as set
ting a record which can never again
be touched. AS result of the sharp
ups-and-downs of the past decade,
they have come to believe that hard
times are now normal times in
America. 1 disagree. / think that
these people have lost their horizon!
do not believe that 1929 necessarily
represents the pinnacle of American
business.
1t is true that some factors are less
favorable than in 1929. Among them
are taxes, bureaucracy, and lack of
faith. We have, however, the follow
ing favorable items today:
1. Our population has grown 7,000,-
600 since 1929.
2. Thousands of new products have
been invented.
3. Production efficiency has scared
5000 in ten years.
a. A huge deferred demand for
goods has piled up.
5. Credit reserves are the greatest
in history.
6. Production costs are lower than
last year.
T., Wholesale and retail inventories
are relatively low.
8. Confidence is returning as "busi-
ness batting" lessons.
9. Billions will be spent on arma-
ments and pump printing.
10. Building is on the threshold of
real boom.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1938-12-29
MORE JOBS AND STRIKES

Better business next year naturally
means more jobs. There are about
100000 jobless today against $780,
600 last Christmas. This total ought
to drop at least 100000 during 1899.
New building, railroad equipment,
factory machinery, and the tool in
dustries, plus the service businesses.
should provide a good portion of these
jobs. AS business increases, labor
troubles may likewise increase. How
ever. l now foresee no widespread
strikes such as 1887 witnessed.
Wages may edge higher in 1899,
but do not expect any general in
creases, such as we had two years
ago. Hourly rates will be marked up
only in special instances later in the
year. More jobs and slowly rising
wage rates should add up to the big
gest payrolls and best urban buying
power since the Boom. These payrolls
would even exceed 1929 were it not
for the new "Wage and Hour" Act
which is ball and chain on most
workers.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1938-12-29
SPENDING TO GO ON

AS result of my record poll of
readers opinion on the Putnam Chain
Store Bill, l predict its defeat. The
defense program will go ahea6 full
blast after a strong debate in Con-
gress, but doubt if any special taxes
will be levied to support it. There, will
be drive to abolish the big Social
Security reserve fund and put the
program on a "pay-as-you-go" basis.
The only change 1 see in this pro-
gram, however, is the stepping-up of
the benefit maximums and the apply
ing of the Act to more people.
Because of the heavy defense pro-
gram, the spending faucets at Wash
ington will be wide open. Although
the average citizen wants economy,
his wishes are not needed by Con-
gress7for state legislatures. / think
that public extravaganza is one of our
three biggest long-term problems.
History proves that, once spending
starts, it is almost impossible to stop.
Our experience so far bears this out.
A balanced budget is not in sight.
BY the end of the next fiscal year -
on June 80, 1910 - our national debt
may reach $4,000, 000, 900, compared
with $4,000, O0O, 900 in 1880!
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1938-12-29
Saunders Family In
Reunion At Bethesda

Among the county's young peon,e
returning from college is Miss
Emily Elizabeth Rawdon. Miss
Rawdon, a freshman at MICHIGAN
State College, is a daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Henry Rawdon, who have
recently become permanent residents
OF the county at Bethesda. Mr.
Rawdon is chief of the Division of
Metallurgy at the Bureau of Stand.
ards. He is a former resident Of
Michigan and graduate of the
University of Michigan.
Mrs. Rawdon is a daughter of the
late Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Lee
Saunders. Several years ago the
five heirs divided the acreage of the
home place and it is on their share
that they have been built.
Eleanor Saunders, the youngest.
now Mrs. Edward T. Dunlap, has
also a permanent home on the estate.
MIR. Dunlap is son of Canon Ed
ward s. Dunlap of Episcopal Cathe-
dral Staff and is a graduate of the
School of Architecture of the Uni
versity of Virginia.
Charlotte Saunders, another daugh-
ter is married to Mr.. L. H. Crook.
They have the old home where Mr..
Crook, a nationally known aero
nautic engineer and inventor, has his
laboratories.
Mrs. Arthur p. Thompson, the
fourth of the Saunders girls, now
residing on the Shady Grove Road,
has sold her share to DIR. w. N.
Johannessen, a dentist of Washing
ton.
Mr.. John B. Saunders, the son,
now residing in Washington, retains
his share.
Mr.. and Mrs. Rawdon are hosts
this year to the Saunders families,
now numbering twenty. It is their
annual custom to get together on
Christmas day for exchange of gifts.
Early in January they will enter
tain at a supper dance for their
son, Richard Henry Rawdon, now
student at Roosevelt High School
in Washington.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1938-12-29
GRADUAL GAINS IN EARLY
MONTHS

For these and other reasons, be-
iieve that the forces of recovery are
still predominant. Right now business
stands at 80 on my Babsoncnart COM
pared with "a year ago. 1889 will
open, therefore, with activity 18 per
cent above the early days of 1898.
Indications are that, as we work
along through the first salt of the
year, business will register a slow but
healthy gain over the January levels.
The entire first half of the New Year
should show a rs per cent increase
over the glOomiest months of early
1888.
The second half Of 1889 should see
continuation of the gains. My fore
cast, however, is contrary to the ex-
pectations of many people. They look
for business to taper off and even to
slide backward when the government
pump printing ceases next May or
June. Nevertheless, / am willing to
predict that the second half of the
year will be better than the early
months and will run Is per cent above
the last half of 1888. The entire
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1938-12-29
ALONG THE
ROAD s ! z 5$$s

The ancient Greeks began their new
year with the new moon after June
81, while the Romans celebrated theirs
on March /, until old dictator, julius
Caesar changed it to January 1.
Saxon England used our Christmas
Day, December Is, for the beginning
of their year, but the Normans
altered it to correspond with the
calendar of the Romans. March Is
marked the birth of the new year in
the Middle Ages but the Catholic ma
lions adopted the Gregorian calendar
in 1852, and England followed their
lead in 1852. This holiday never has
become a festival of the Christian
church, but coming so close to
Christmas Day, it is widely celebrated
throughout the world.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1938-12-29

There are no "hedges" tackled on to
my forecast as there were in several
year past. In 1887, feared that the
sit-downers would upset the apple
cart. A year ago, Washington's in
ertia worried me. But today, 1 can
see no reason why the tides of re-
covery should not carry us vigorously
forward perhaps even to new
highs since 1929! This will merely be
continuation of the uptrend which
began in 1882. Frankly, I do not
consider the 1937-1938 Recession as
anything more than temporary, but
sharp, interruption of the upward
swing.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1938-12-29
Boyd Presbyterian Church

A New Years Conservation Divine
Service will be held next Sunday
morning, New Years Day at II
o'clock. The minister will preach a
New Years conservation sermon.
Gospel music.
A New Years Sunday School ses-
sion will be held at 10 a. m. The
Christian Endeavor Society will have
a Candlelight Conservation Service
led by the. officers OF the society at
7:45 p. n.y. Special features. Special
music.
We cordially invite you to be pres
ent with US. Come and bring others.
Start the New Year right. Go to
Church!
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1938-12-29
LOOKING BACKWARD

An old gray ghost goes out tonight.
His step is slow, his beard is white.
He leaves trail of broken seams,
Of shattered hopes and empty dreams;
Reproaches in the fading light.
Dark shadows hang above his head,
Of men ill-clothed, of mouths un-fed,
Of human fiends who boast and pirate
And charge the air with hymns OF
hate,
While honor dies beneath their tread
And yet, we thank you, passing year
For what you gave in health and
cheer,
For paths of beauty, golden threads
For thrilling deeds, uplifted heads
That saw the sunlight in the clear.
ssss~@
That brighten all the weary miles.
Like music from an evening bell,
For tender thoughts and kindly
smiles
For memories that burn and swell
Say, New Year, shall you do as well ?
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1938-12-29

The Wagner Act, for instance, may
be amended, but only if the President
agrees to the amendments. Many tax
law changes will be proposed, but few
will go through. The biggest fiscal re-
form may be the elimination of tax
exemption on new government bonds.
Moreover, it is possible that public
employees will be put under the same
income tax laws to which other indi-
viduals are subject. A lot of talk
about incentive" taxes to foster
proft-sharing plans will be heard.
Some change in farm legislation is in
the wind.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1938-12-29
Letters to the Editor
To the Editor of THE SENTINEL

To the Editor of THE SENTINEL:
In all the great and wonderful
perfection of Creation down to the
smallest of birds, we can see the
infinite love and wisdom of Christ
our King. All nature obeys His
orders: except one species and this
is-"mG,". But whenever we go
contrary: we suffer.
The fruit growers of Pennsylvania
protect robins in every way. Con-
sequently in migrating: they come
to our homes friendly, trusting and
gentle. We Marylanders; like igno-
rant barbarians, shoot down these
friends God has sent, resulting in
having to spend much time, money
and labor in spraying fruit with
dangerous .poisons. This kills the
honey. bees, resulting in scant crops
of fruit and clover seed.
His evident "Quail'' was sent us
by Christ to protect our field crops
from insects. If every farmer would
keep a flock of these in his garden
the year around, they would soon
become tame as our larger chickens,
following -spreader, pillow, har-
row, cultivator, from early spring to
late fall, catching all insects in each
of their nine forms. Needing only
a few handfuls of small grain, when
snowbound. Much cheaper than dan
gerous insecticides.
Wild Quail, sent to our grain fields
by God in His infinite wisdom, TO
keep down insects, live on them and
weed seed, until snowbound and then
starve because they are ignorant Of
their worth; to help them through
the severe winters. Other birds can
fly away from danger but this one,
only a few feet; then the beautiful,
harmless and defenseless gifts of
Divine Providence hide in under
brush. The cruel, selfish, idle sports
man drives out with dog and kills
the best friend the grain grower
ever had. When we had many birds,
no insects; Plenty of bees; no bar
rem orchards and clover fields.
The fundamental principles of our
laws 1. e. "wild animals, fowl and
fish belong to the landowner, no
one having right to kill without his
consent. The hunting license is issued
subject to this law. We should ask
our courts to severely punish those
idle sportsmen who trespass upon
our lands, killing our friends, while
we are busy with our crops.
We should ask our County govern
ment to give US credit upon our tax
bills for hawk, crow and bee-martin
birds, upon our oath we killed them
on our lands. This would save our
poultry, birds who protect our gar
dens, field crops and fruit from
insects and our bees that colonize
our orchards and clover fields.
The English Tile Roof Sparrow
should also be killed out but there
lies danger of children shooting our
native American Hedge Sparrow,
which when dead, SO closely resem-
bles the foreign enemy. The i'm
ported bird will never hunt insects
80 long as he can find native bird
to drive off or fruit and grain to
pluck holes in. Vice versa with our
Hedge Sparrow.
BIB Brown.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1938-12-29
NO DISTURBING LEGISLATION

NO DISTURBING LEGISLATION
The absence of disturbing new leg
islation may well spark this advance.
Since 1888, the cues for my annual
forecast have been found on Pennsyl-
vania Avenue. This year, we face a
new set-up. The marked increase in
the Republican delegation on Capitol
Hill, plus the unpurged Democrats,
can lick any further New Deal re-
forms. On the other hand, the Presi-
dent still retains enough 100 per-
centers" to block any serious revision
of existing laws.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1938-12-29

business will mark time, but the
average volume for the year will be
around 20 per cent above the 1885
level. Jobs, wages, retail sales, stocks
and even farm prices should all chalk
up good-sized gains. 1t is even pos.
sible that the sharp peaks of early
1887 will be topped - but this is
pretty long shot. Considering all fac
tors, forecast that 1889 will be
year of moderate prosperity.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1938-12-29
DAMASCUS

Dinner guests Sunday of Mr.. and
Mrs. r. N. Poole were as follows:
Mr. and Mrs. William johnson and
children; Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Poole
and daughter, of Cookesville; Mrs.
Lucy King, Mr.. Wallace Poole, Mr..
and Mrs. Roger Poole and son, Jack,
and Mrs. Elsie V. Cue, all of
Damascus.
Mr.. Druid Clodfelter, of Wash
ington, was the guest Sunday of
Miss Dorcas Miles, at the home of
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Roby
Miles.
Among those home for the holidays
are: Leroy Harris, Albert Cline and
Hilda Hyatt, from the University of
Maryland; Marjorie Brandenburg,
Dorothy Fetzer and Austin Beau, all
of Washington.
Monday dinner guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Roger Poole were Mr.. and
Mrs. William Brandenbp rg, and son,
Jerry; Mrs. Edna Brandenburg and
daughters, Dorothy and Betty, and
Roscoe Pearce. Guests that evening
at the same home were Mr.. and Mrs.
Irwin Cue, of Rockville.
Mrs. Sallye Souder visited her
mother, Mrs. Amanda Purdum, in
Baltimore on Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gilmore Hurley were
guests Sunday of Mr. and Mrs.
Harry Hurley.
Tuesday dinner guests of Miss
Allie Mae Moxley were as follows
Mr.. and Mrs. Basil Burdette, Mr..
Merhle Piquette of Washington; ;
Miss Elizabeth Hurley, Of Damas-
Gus, and Mr.. Walter Mullinix of
near Lisbon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Daryl W. Shaw
spent the holidays with friends in
Pennsylvania.
Mrs. Della Burdette and daughter,
Marie Beall, and Mr.. Bernard Poole
visited friends in Alexandria, Va, on
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Osborne Williams
attended dinner held at the home
of Mr.. Downey Williams, on Sunday.
Sunday guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
Purdum Poole were Mr.. and Mrs.
Monroe Mullinix, and Mr.. and Mrs.
James Williams and children and
Mr.. and Mrs. George ellis.
Misses Emma Brandenbug, Maize
Mullinix, Marie Beall and Reva Mae
Cue were dinner guests Tuesday OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Donald Watkins, OF
Mt. Airy.
Guests Monday evening of Mr.
and Mrs. Osborne Williams were Mr..
and Mrs. Garner Duvall, Mr.. and
Mrs. Herbert Hyatt, Jr., and Mr.. and
Mrs. Jerry Williams.
Sunday dinner guests of Mrs. Min
ME Watkins included Mr.. and Mrs.
Ellie D. Hawkins of Woodfield; Mr..
and Mrs. Marion Howes, Mr.. and
Mrs. William Beall of Cedar Grove;
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Walker, Mr.. and
Mrs. Clayton Watkins of Gathers
burg; Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Lee
Watkins, of Cedar Grove; Mr.. and
Mrs. Luther Howard of Laytonsville;
Mrs. Hazel Allnutt, Mrs. Mary John
son, Misses Celeste Hawkins ant
Lucille Howes, and others.
After spending Christmas day q
the home of his mother, Mrs. DELI
Burdette, Mr.. Austin Bean left t
spend the remainder of the holiday
in New York.
Miss Eileen Lord spent the hoh
l..,. x,,;41 1a, nm ~ Noxu Vn1sk
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1938-12-29
OUT OF THE PAST

Lord Chesterfield, English author,
had wit, tact and fine manners which
fascinated his contemporaries and
friends. His famous letters are full
of interesting advice and admonitions
as applicable today as when they
were written. I quote. A mans
good breeding is his best security
against other peoples ill manners"
"Modesty is the only sure bait when
you angle for praise"
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1938-12-29
FARM OUTLOOK BETTER

Farm income should also be better.
Farm products prices can score mad
crate advances led by wheat, corn,
fresh vegetables and potatoes. Butter,
eggs and milk should not sell for
much more than they did in 1898.
Cattle will feature the livestock pic
ture, while bigger supplies of lambs
and hogs will hold down their prices.
With wool demand high, and world
supplies not burdensome, higher
prices are logical.
Indications now are that production
of farm products, while less than last
year, will again be above average.
So barring drought or other abnormal
weather conditions, farm income may
jump 10 per cent above 1888.
Farmers profits will be somewhat
better than this year even though the
goods which farmers must buy will
cost more. Because the outlook is only
moderately better, l see no reason for
farm land values to change greatly.
FOOD TO BOOST LIVING COSTS
Food eats up practically DO per
cent of the average family's budget
Hence, the strengthening of farm
CONTINUED on page 81
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1938-12-29

It's all very nice to take the car
which Governor Nice has been using
for the last four years, away from
him, and then invite him to ride in
it, but what I'd like to know is, how
the heck is the new Governor going
to fill that chair without couple of
cushions and huge stack of old
newspapers.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1938-12-29

In Helston, England, window in
the church shows two angels doing
the swing dance, each year in the
month of May. I don't know about
their habit of dancing but feel
certain that they laugh sometimes at
the music rendered by some church
choirs. And I, don't mean you!
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1938-12-29
.To Show Che white Feather,
BIBB Brown.

The expression TO show the white
feather" had its origin in the cock
fighting ring. A white feather in the
tail of game bird showed him to
be of impure strain and he was pre-
s'imed to be of less resolute spirit.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1938-12-29
ADVISEDLY

A happy New Year to you, folks,
With treasures on the shelf.
May you escape the guy who talks
Of nothing but himself.
And may you miss the village crouch
There's one in every town.
But should he sing his gloomy song,
Just quietly knock him down.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1938-12-29
Business And Financial
Outlook For Year 1889
By ROGER w. BABSON

Total business by the end of 939yar should
will good per
1929. There be periods whenmas.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1938-12-29

Used Fires to Blind Fowl
Indians caught wild ducks and
geese by building great fires at night
to blind the fowl
The Washington times., 1938-08-16
He Remembers Hoover

I do not know who wrote your
editorial about Lord Beaver
brooks boom for Frank Gan
nett for President, or what kind
of education he received. but I
know that even our high school
students acquire a sense OF
sportsmanship and fair play.
There was little need for that
spite sentence, "You remember
Hoover" Many Of us remember
Hoover as the last Of a long
line of American statesmen who
represented true democracy,
and as one of the greatest hu-
manitarians this country has
ever produced. Remember, too,
that Mr.. Hoover inherited an
economic problem, which would
have fallen upon anybody who
might have been elected PreS1-
dent in 1928-he didn't plan it
that way" H. L. T.
The Washington times., 1938-08-16

would feel bound to ask in order
to obtain worthwhile informa-
tioll for Distracted Mother"
would get me into a heck of a
lot of trouble and. very possibly,
land me in a police cell-and in
court. The very best could
expect would be future reference
to me, in Washington's restau-
rant circles, as a nasty old man.
I can't do 1T, lady.
I can, however, from a life
of wandering-and consequent
eating and table service pretty
near all over the world-declare,
just about definitely, that wait
resses work like farm horses;
that they put up with more lip
than do women in any other
profession; that the path from
kitchen to table is as hard as
the hammers of hell and that
nary a primrose ever peeps out:
that the nearest human to a
fairy prince ever to Stagger
The Washington times., 1938-08-16
Social Security 3 Years Old

m HERE are noser pieces of news in the papers just
now than the that the Social Security Act is
celebrating its third anniversary, but few, if any, of
these noiser pieces of news affect
4OOOOOOO as many people as the SSA
ponof;cinrioo More than 40,000,000 Ameri-
cans are now buying Government
annutes under the old age insurance provisions of the
act Monthly benefits of from $40 to $85 called
for beginning in 1912 and payable to those retiring
from employment at 65 or over.
At the end of May than 27 100000 workers had
earned credits toward unemployment benefits
We haven't reached perfection in Social Security by
long shot. Farm help domestic servants bank clerks
sailors and workers for charitable and religious insti-
tutions are still exempt to use the
It's Far From delicate word meaning they can't
Dorfoo+ Vot benefit from the Act non-exempt
workers can. They should be
brought under the SSA fast Congress can get up
the nerve to defy the pressure groups that first
empted them.
There are many complaints of inefficient adminstra-
ton particularly in the unemployment insurance field
Payments are slow in many red tape seems to be
excessive But no serious charges of graft have yet been
heard And administration ought to improve expert
piles up.
The employer still paying all the freight the job
insurance plan, whereas the worker should pay part to
insure his or her active interest in efficient and honest
administration.
The long and short of it, believe, is that Social
Security is doing fine for infant of three years. and
that with years decades of tnkerlng and
improvements it ought to into of the greatest
pieces of mass welfare legislation enacted in any
country took Great Britain ten years to get its
Social Security laws working we'll; but those laws
eventually worked economic lfebet for Britain
throughout the course of Brans twelveyear postwar
depression
(From the New York;
The Washington times., 1938-08-16

nurses the cost to the patient
is just the same. Certainly we
are only human after all. Your
help will be greatly appreciated
in establishing the 8-hour Sched-
ule for nurses, and when you
are in need of a nurse please
insist on the 8-hour-duty nurse,
for we know that patients would
receive much better nursing care
having a fresh and more alert
--urse at the end Of 8 hours,
than a tired worn-out 12-hour-
duty nurse.
A TIRED 12-HOUR-DUTY
NURSE