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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-07-21

candidate to another as occasion de-
manded. In 1882 the Chicago con-
vention went into wee morning hours
with Franklin Roosevelt still minus
his two-thirds vote. AS host, Chi
cago's Mayor Anton Cermak ap-
preached Indiana's Bosses McNutt
and Frank McHale, got their agree
ment and planned to announce dra-
matically during the next vote that
Indiana and Illinois were switching
to Roosevelt.
But Chicago was also planning
worlds fair one year hence. With
nomination unlikely for two more
ballots, Mayor Cermak moved for
adjournment at 4:30 a. m. and
planned his announcement the fol-
lowing evening when the nations
radio receivers would be trained on
the convention. But he forgot to
tell Chairman Farley of the plan.
BY next evening Mr.. Farley, thor
oughly mad, had wooed and won
California's Chairman William
Gibbs McAdoo. On the roll call Mr..
McAdoo was reached first; Demo-
Gratis Cermak, McNutt and McHale
never had a chance and their plan
was never made public.
Such is the story. But if peace
now reigns between Farley and Nc
Mutt, what can come of it?
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-07-21
AGRICULTURE:
Frozen ASSET

Ten years ago science discovered
perishable. fruits and vegetables
might be preserved by freezing, thus
providing hotels, hospitals and res
taurants with quasi-fresh products
out of season. So well did the idea
60 over that last season heavier
than-normal Greece" was encour-
aged despite previous seasons
carryovers amounting to 10000, 900
pounds of vegetables and 10000, 900
pounds of fruit. But consumption
dropped unexpectedly last winter.
With new packing season under
way, food freezers are now survey
ing $4,000, 900 pounds of vegetables
and 100000 pounds of fruit, won
dering how to melt down almost
100, 100000 pounds Of frozen assets.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-07-21
POLITICS.:
Exclamation

Ever since Chicago's Democratic
convention of 1882, Indiana's presi-
dental aspirant and former Gov.
Paul v. McNutt has been at odds
with National Chairman James A.
Farley. Reason: Democrat McNutt
allegedly tried to block Franklin
Roosevelt's nomination in 1882. Thus
when the white-haired Hoosier re-
turned from his Philippine governor
generalship last month to start his
presidential boom, he found no well
come at national headquarters. But
a few weeks later he emerged from
conference With Mr.. Farley and po-
litical wiseacres smiled, for a feud
based on misunderstanding had evil
IDENTIFY been settled. The reported
feud:
Since early days Illinois and Indi-
ana Democrats have worked togeth-
err, switching from one presidential
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-07-21
BULGARIA'S CLAIM
Yugo.Slauia would also suffer.

Hungary, opposing the pro-democra-
cy bloc composed of Rumania,
Greece and Turkey.
Greatest reason, however, was
Germany's apparent support of Bull
garia's long-standing territorial
claim to Dobruja, which she lost to
Rumania after the World war (see
map. Should enough Rome-Berlin
axis pressure for return of this terri
tory be placed against Rumania,
Adolf Hitler evidently presumes
King Carol might be persuaded to
drop his Anglo-French connections.
Biggest fallacy in Germany's plan
for a pro-axis Balkan bloc is that
the Reich must support two nations
which want the same thing. Yugo-
Slavia, though leaning axis-wise,
could hardly be persuaded to ally
with Bulgaria if it meant surrender
of the land she gained from that
nation after the great war.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-07-21
HOUsING:
Political TOgue?

Periodically there arises David
who Stays the wicked giant Goliath.
Usually it sets fashion until cor
ruptness again catches hold. Last
year New York's racket-busting
States Attorney Thomas E. Dewey
became a David, captured public
fancy, inspired radio programs and
placed wicked politicians on the de-
fensive. The public obviously want
ed reform and no more rackets.
When Tom Dewey began looming
as 1910 G. o. P. presidential pos
sibility, reformation sounded like
good strategy for any aspiring poll
tician or party. BY early July, At
torney General Frank Murphy had
behind him an excellent record of
smashing corrupt political machines
(like Kansas City's Tom Fender
gast) and tracking down income tax
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-07-21

fore and air-conditioned little bon
net. You can really make whole
summer-full of daytime clothes
for your little girl, using this one
easy design. It's so quick and
easy to make. Bingham, linen,
percale and seersucker are nice
cottons to choose for this.
The Patterns.
No. 1853 is designed for sizes "a,
So, 38, 40, AZ, "A, 46 and 48. Size
SO requires, with short sleeves, 4
yards of SO inch fabric without
nap. "a yard of contrast for collar
and vestee.
No. 1765 is designed for sizes /,
2, 8, 4 and years. Size 2 re-
quires Ia yards of IS inch mate
rial, without nap, for pinafore, s
yard for playsuit, " yard for bon
net. 81s yards of braid or bias
binding.
Send your order to The Sewing
Circle Pattern Dept, 247 W.
Forty-third street, New York,
u. Y. Price of patterns, Is cents
Tin ceins) each.
(Bell syndicate-wNU service.)
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evaders. This was the signal for
Scripps-Howard Columnist Raymond
Clapper to charge that Frank Muir
ply was trying too hard to win the
vice presidential nomination.
Meanwhile there was arising an
other administration racket-busting
program under guidance of the JUS
tice departments Thurman w. Ar
mold. It's aim: To drive trust prac-
tees, price-fixing and collision out
of the u. S. building industry. The
day Mr.. Arnold told his plans to
the temporary national economic
committee, Chicago Daily News
William H. Fort wrote from Wash
ington that this was obviously the
New Deals most ambitious trust
busting venture in its attempt to
push young Tom Dewey's New York
activities into the shade"
Designing or not, Thurman Ar
nold's drive bids fair to accomplish
something. With 140 lawyers and
an enlarged appropriation, the JUS
tice department expects to uncover
plenty of reasons why a metropoli-
tan dweller runs into trouble when
he wants to build house. Alleged
monopolistic devices: (D fixing of
prices by producers of building ma
terials and trade associations; (2)
use of joint selling agencies; (3)
control of sales and limiting of
quantities; (4) elimination of COM
petition by assigning business in ro-
tation to the one next in turn; (5)
refusal to sell direct to purchaser,
so that all material must be bought
through retail outlet.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-07-21
ADVENTUROUS
AMERICANS
BY
Elmo Scott Watson
Elmo Scott Watson
Indian Painter

The early painters Of American
= Indian life were all adventurous
men, but John Mix Stanley had
more than his share of perils and
narrow escapes from death.
Stanley first became interested in
Indians in 1888 and went to Fort
Smelling, Mimi, to paint them. Dur
ing the next eight years he made
frequent visits to picture the tribes
of the Southwest. In 1846 he joined
the famous march of General Kear-
ney and his dragons from Santa
Fe to San Diego, during which time
he laid down his painters brush to
take up gun and fight in several
engagements.
The next year Stanley found more
excitement awaiting him in the
North. He narrowly escaped being
in the Whitman massacre when that
missionary, his wife and II others
were killed by the Cayuses in east
ern Washington. He had another
close call when he returned to San
Francisco to take ship for New York
via Cape Horn, for he arrived just
too late to go aboard. That ship was
lost at sea and was never heard of
again.
In 1853 Stanley was appointed art
ist to the expedition sent to explore
a route for Pacific railroad from
st. Paul to Puget Sound. After a
series of adventures with that expe-
dition, he returned to the East,
where he died in 1872. The last
years of his life were saddened by
the loss of more than $50 paintings
of Indian life which he had spent
10 years in making and which were
destroyed by fire in the Smithsoni-
an institution in 1865.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-07-21
JAPAN:
No Pooling

Two years ago this month the men
of Nippon invaded China, stormed
Picking and started the war which
still remains officially undeclared.
Anniversary time finds Japan at her
wits end economically, enjoying an
artificial wartime boom but never
theless ready to impose new taxes
and new restrictions on an already
sorely pressed people. How much
longer the conflict will last is any
body's guess, but certain it is that
China grows more unified each day
and will be thorn in Tokyo's side
for years to come.
What troubles Japan today more
than her Chinese problem is Sec
ond war, which International OBJ
servers agree is now an actually.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-07-21

to succeed Mr..
Swanson, others
thought the post
might GO to Adm.
William D. Lea
by, retiring chief
of naval opera
tions.
Though only 40
years old, Mr..
Edison is no new
conner to govern
ment circles. He
became assistant
secretary of the
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-07-21

The opponents: Japan and Russia.
The participants: Japs and their
puppet Manchukuoans versus Rus
slams and their puppet Outer Mon
golians.
For five years both nations have
kept their troubles out of print by
relying on convenient buffer states,
but by early June there were signs
of open hatred. Newspapers, first
in Tokyo, then in Moscow, began
boasting of Incredible victories
which never gibed with the enemy
account. After several weeks Of this,
American correspondents finally
reached the Japanese front lines
from where they dispatched more
accurate reports, yet there was
enough Japanese good news in them
to indicate official censorship. Most
important, correspondents found
well-equipped armies fighting on a
nine-nile front in a region SO re-
mote from civilization that it might
be on another planet.
At Tokyo, Premier Baron Kiichiro
Hiranuma officially discounted the
Importance of this warfare, but he
was fooling no one. Knowing so, he
made it clear Japan will show "a
stronger front" to the Soviet on
questions of fishing, coal and oil
concessions.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-07-21

navy in 1886, but his real initia-
ton came during the World war
while still in his twenties-when
he directed manufacture of war
materials. Mr.. Edison's chief
business interests follow in his
fathers footsteps, carrying on the
utilization by mankind of the in
struments that inventor perfect
ed.
Just as many army admins
trative tasks have been given to
Assistant Secretary Louis John
son, so has President Roosevelt
placed heavy trust in Mr.. Edison
for navy administration during.
Secretary Swanson's long illness.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-07-21
EUROPE:
Balkan, Pressure

In June Yugo-Slavia's regent,
Prince Paul, visited Berlin. In ear
ly July Hungary's army chieftain,
Gen. Henry Werth, attended Ger
man army maneuvers just as Bull
garia's premier, George Kiosseiva-
noff, was discussing 'sthe general
situation as well as specific Ger
man-Bulgarian questions in Berlin
with Adolf Hitler.
AS well it might, this frightened
Rumania. Reason: Adolf Hitler's
three guests represented nations
surrounding Rumania on as many
sides, south, west and north. A
second reason: Adolf Hitler is angry
with King Carol for consorting with
England and France. A third rea-
son: From these visits may grow an
anti-democracy Balkan entente COM
posed of Bulgaria, Yugo-Slavia and
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-07-21
SCIENCE:
Official Car

Within the antarctic circle lie vast
iron, coal and oil resources coveted
not only by the U. S. but by Norway,
Germany and Great Britain. In pre-
vious trips to that region Rear Adm.
Richard E. Byrd staked out vast
areas for the u. S., but no official
claim was ever made. Several
weeks ago congress appropriated
$S4O, 900 for land-staking expedi-
ton which Explorer Byrd win lead
out of New York early next October,
hoping to claim approximately 675,-
600 square miles of antarctic wastes.
Equipment viii include three
ships, the coast guards Northland,
Admiral Byrd's Bear of Oakland,
and the ice breaker North Star. Also
taken will be ample air equipment,
but what fascinates most landlub-
bers is the ''house on Wheels"
Since wide crevasses in the. ice
crust offer a mighty obstacle to ex-
plorers, ordinary tractors are use
less. At Chicago, therefore, DR..
Thomas e. Poulter announced he
was building a huge new snow cruis-
er IS feet long. powered by diesel
engines and tracked with endless
tread wheels. In its spacious quar-
tiers four men can live comfortably
with supplies 10 last year. On its
roof win be dashed a small airplane.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-07-21
HEADLINERS
CHARLES EDISON

The instant death came to TT
year-old Secretary of the Navy
Claude A. Swanson, his position
went automatically and without
fanfare to the assistant who has
actually managed that depart
ment for the past year-Charles
Edison, son of the late Inventor
Thomas Edison whom he closely
resembles. Though many in adj
ministration circles predicted Mr..
Edison would be named secretary
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-07-21
Smart Patterns in
Midsummer Styles

IF YOU'RE looking for a gra-
cious, sophisticated afternoon
fashion in women's sizes, you will
be delighted with 1853. Cut on
true princess lines, it is beautiful
ly slim and graceful. The shirred
vestee and narrow roll collar give
a pretty, soft, dressy touch, and
it has the simplicity that you like
in midsummer. For this, choose
silk crepe, georgette or chiffon.
Dutch Mode for Tots.
Cool comfort and cuteness for
tots is assured by 1865, a simple
pattern including playsuit, pima
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-07-21
Confederate Mail Runner

TOR 10 years before the Civil war
4 Absalom Grimes was MISSISSIPPI
ri river pilot, running between st.
Louis and St. Paul. At the outbreak
of the war he enlisted in company
of "irregulars," raised in Rails
county west of Hannibal. Mo-, to
recruit the Confederate army. One
of the members of this company
was a young fellow named Sam
Clemens. Years later Mark Twain
referred to his "short and inglorious
military career" in that company
which decamped hastily at the first
appearance of an enemy force and
soon afterwards disbanded.
Grimes then volunteered for serv-
ice as a mail carrier between the
Missouri and Kentucky troops in
the Confederate army and their rel
atives at home. It was an extreme
ly hazardous duty for it meant GO
ing through the Union lines at the
peril of capture and execution as a
spy. During the siege Of Vicksburg
he ran the blockade successfully by
wiring his mail in tin boxes to the
bottom Of an overturned skiff and
floating beside it among the Union
gunboats until he had passed them.
Grimes was repeatedly captured
by the Union forces and twice he
was sentenced to death. He spent
several months in the old Gratiot
prison in st. Louis and was there
under sentence of death at the end
of the war. However, his Life was
saved by an unconditional pardon
issued by Abraham Lincoln-among
the last acts Of mercy performed
by the President before he was as
sassinated.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-07-21
Trend
Hosc the s0ind is blowing

HOtU the sUtTd Us bLOtUsng
LABOR - Oregon's Supreme
court has held constitutional the
famous s'anti-picketing" law
adopted by referendum last No
vember, combining picketing to
bona fide disputes between en-
ployers and a majority of en-
ployees, prohibiting boycotts and
outlawing minority strikes.
BABIES-Since both 1887 and
1888 found Frances deaths ex-
ceeding her births, Premier Ed
GUARD Daladier has announced
DEGREES to reward large families
and thus stimulate the birth rate.
BUILDTNG--Major u. s. engi-
neering construction awards for
1939's first half reached the great
est volume since 1880.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-07-21

Happy in Life
Life is life; and it is the bust
ness of the individual to be happy
in life itself.-Powys.
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WEEKLY VIEWS ANALYSIS BY JOSEPH W.. LoBINE
Arnold Uses Popular Strategy
In Construction Trust Inquiry;
Charged With Copying Dewey

EDITORS NOTEwhen opinions
necessarily newspape
pal Waste rnfNamsa .I.io.
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Aguinaldo's Captor

TN 1901 America had a new nation
al hero-"a little man with a
slight limp, with Vandyke beard
and a sense of humor that bubbled
in him like the effervescence of
wine" His name was Frederick
Funston, former student at the Uni
versity of Kansas, newspaper re-
porter and member of filibuster-
ing expedition to deliver to Cuban
revolutionists five Hotchkiss guns
for use against the Spanish. He
was made captain of artillery and
in 10 months fought in % engage
ments. Then the Spanish put a
price on his head and he barely
managed to escape and return to
the United States.
At the outbreak of the Spanish
American war Funston raised a reg
iment of Kansas volunteers and was
made it's colonel. He was sent to
the Philippines and aided in the
capture of Manila. In August, 1898,
Emilio Aguinaldo started an insur-
rection against the new masters of
the islands and for the next three
years led 10000 American soldiers
and their native auxiliaries mer-
ry chase.
Finally he was located in south
ern Luzon and Funston, by now a
brigadier-general of volunteers,
formed a daring plan to capture
him. Taking two captains and two
lieutenants, Funston led party of
80 Macabebe scouts toward Agui-
naldo's hiding place. They were to
pass themselves off as detach-
ment of insurgent Tagalogs who had
captured these five Americans and
were bringing them to Aguinaldo.
It was a risky business for every
thing depended upon the faithful
ness of the Macabebes.
But they played their part to per-
lection and the American "cap-
tives" were delivered to Aguinaldo,
Then they revealed their identity
and calmly informed Aguinaldo that
he was their prisoner.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-07-21

DR. PAUL POPENOE, geneticist,
biologist, and student of family
relations, who has given much of
his interesting career to clinical
studies of home life, discovers that
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-07-21
WHO'S
NEWS
. THIS
WEEK
By LEMuEL F. PARTON

NEW YORK.-News Of the ap.
~ preaching retirement Of Brig.
Gen. Harley B. Ferguson is a re-
Ininder that it was he who super
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1939-03-30
presbyterian Churches

Mcconnelsville church: Sunday
school, $3.50. Mrs. Elsie E. Maier,
superintendent. Preaching service,
1920. Palm Sunday service No
prayer meeting Wednesday. Young
peoples meeting, Sunday, $50. I'm
ion meetings from Tuesday to Fri
day, at 1870: March 2S, NJ E..
church, McConnelsville; March 20,
M E. church, Malta; March 80,
Presbyterian church; March 81, M
P. church, McConnelsville. Congre-
gational meeting, April 5, at 7:30
All reports must be in. Every mem
ber canvas, April g 1t will help the
canyasers if everybody will come
prepared to make their pledges at
the Sunday morning service. There
is to be special service for this
purpose.
Bristol church: Sunday school at
p. m. Mrs. Mary L. H. Fland-
ers, superintendent. Congregational
meeting at 2 p. m. 1t is hoped that
all members will make special eff
fort to be present. All reports must
be in
Deerfield church: Sunday school,
10 a. m. Mr.. E. |. Price, superin-
tendent This is the Sunday to elect
Sunday school officers for the ensu-
ing year. No preaching service. A
congregational meeting will be held
Tuesday, April f. All reports must
be in. Time 7:30.-Chas. j. Caller,
pastor.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1939-03-30
Newton Ridge

Mrs. Hettie Woodward of Ches-
terhill, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Tuck
er and Wilbur Matson of McConnels-
Vile, were visitors at the Nan
Sherwood home, Sunday afternoon.
Jesse Bishoff and family of Ma.
rietta spent Tuesday with Mr.. and
Mrs. G. r. Bailey. MARY Newsom
Clifford of Pennsville Bobby Tomp-
kins is back in school, after having
been out last week, with tonsillitis
Rev M. T. Mcdonald of Penns.
willie was supper guest Tuesday
at the j. Harry Henery home Roy
Young and daughter Elsie Of Har-
riettsville. spent Sunday with his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. VIM. Young
Mr. Ramage spent the week end
in McConnelsville John Wetherell
and family spent Sunday afternoon
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Clifford and
Blanche Daugherty attended grange
at Pennsville, Wednesday evening.
---Several attended the Clare
Chappelear funeral Saturday, and
also Mrs. John Coler's funeral at
Todds Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Porter
and daughter Dorothy spent Sun.
day with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs
James Porter, of East Windsor
Mrs. Lena Selsam and Mrs. Dave
Alton of GAINESVILLE spent Saturday
at the c.. w. Thompson home
Hanson Gheen of Wheeling spent
Wednesday night with Mr.. and Mrs.
w. E.. Henery Willis Wright and
son William of Corning spent Thurs
day at the formers cottage. Floyd
Revenaugh and family of Blue Rock
spent Saturday night and Sunday
with Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Bishop
John Wetherell and family were sup
per guests Sunday of Dwight Gra-
ham and family. Mr.. and Mrs G.
r. Bailey received word that their
son Estell of Amanda, Mich, had
been very sick with septic sore
throat, but was some better Mrs
Nettie Sherwood and daughter Ada
of New Lexington, spent Friday ev-
ening at the j. Harry Henery home
Mrs. Edithe Duffy and son VIII
Smith and family of GAINESVILLE were
callers on the ridge, Sunday. .--El.
bert Wilson and family of Penns.
Vile spent Sunday afternoon at Wen
dell Tompkins' MIR. and Mrs.
Stanford Wooley of GAINESVILLE spent
Sunday at the Mabel Newsom home
Bernice Newsom returned home with
them to spend the week. Media
Tompkins spent the week end with
Mae Henery. Ernestine Clifford
spent the week end at home. THE
many friends of Blanche Simpson
were sorry to hear of her illness,
and hope for a speedy recovery.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1939-03-30
McCOnne1sville Rt. 3

Mrs. Maggie Johnson of Beverly
spent Monday forenoon with Mrs.
Maggie Stegner. Howard Clark OF
Unionville spent Friday in McCon-
nelsville. Raymond Roberts was a
week end visitor with relatives and
friends in GAINESVILLE. George Steg-
ner who was recently operated upon
at Marietta hospital, is improving
and soon will be able to help with
the farm work again. Veral Newlen
sold a fine bunch of lambs, and
shipped them Saturday Mrs. Eth
ell Roberts and daughter Betty Lou
spent Monday at the Eta Newlen
home Mrs. Maggie Stegner is con-
fined to her bed with after effects
of flu and stomach trouble Steve
Silvia and wife, Of McConnelsville,
spent Wednesday with his father,
Steve Silvia, and family Charley
Saturday afternoon. Mike Ponchak
and son Wesley attended the stock
sale at Marietta, where Mr.. Pom
chak purchased a fine young work
horse Steve Silvia was moving
Mrs Margaret Groves furniture to
her son Harry Wilson's Of Zanes-
Vile, Thursday. Mrs. Mary John
son was a caller at the Silvia home
Sunday Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Fain
and family Mr.. and Mrs. Howard
Moore and family of McConnelsville
and Mr.. and Mrs Lillian Johnson
and family Of Beverly spent Sunday
with their parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Mike Ponchak. and family Mrs.
John Gregory Of Marietta is helping
care for her sister, Mrs. Margaret
Stegner.- Mr.. and Mrs. Wesley Gift
fen and Mr.. and Mrs. Wesley Mob
ley of Marietta, visited with Mrs.
George Stegner, Sunday Mr.. Giffen
is Mrs. Stegner's brother Mr.. Mob
lev is her uncle.