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The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1939-06-02
The Girl With; Brains

The educated girl of former
years was pictured as a bespec-
tacled miss, whose thoughts had
been so concentrate on the &C.
QUESTION of learning that she ne
elected her personal appearance.
The boys were supposed to be
more likely to marry some red
checked peach.
Many boys are plain and practi-
Cal. interested in sports and
money making, but they don't
know much about books. If the
fair graduate shou'd begin talking
about evolution or Tennyson they
wouldn't know what to say. Hence,
it mas often been said that the
eduta;ed girl must carefully con-
ceal the fact that she knows
something, if she wishes mascu-
line attention.
But the pictures of the scenes
about the schools and colleges
the photographs of the girl gradu-
ates do not suggest that educa-
ton and beauty are necessarily
opposed to each other. In fact,
the looks of these diploma win
ners would be hard to beat. 1t
would appear their minds have
not been exclusively fixed upon
the lines of the poets, nor on the
theorems of geometry. Apparent
ly they have paid their share of
visits to the beauty shop.
Some boys had better give their
minds a bit of a prod and find
out about the things going on in
the world. Then they will not be
absolutely speeches. when they
find a girl who knows something
Such a girl will make better
showing when you step out with
her into a quizzical world.
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1939-06-02
Not -SO-GOOd old Ddus

Summer wind and electric
storms are the best known cure
for the backward-lookitis. The
most chronic case of wishing for
the good old times seldom sur
wives one good blow or bolt that
lays the wires low or gets the
light and power on the two-party
line.
An appetite for old-fashioned
ways and customs finds little to
feed upon in the up-to-date worth
which explains the unkind COM
PARSONS between present and past
with the past getting the worst
of it.
One can easily get all sentiment
tai and sobby reminiscing about
the good old candle-light days
when the family gathered around
the open fireplace instead of scat
tering among the beer joints. But
let the electric light go out for
one night at the behest of that
boisterous fellow Thor and these
reveries about the soft glow of
the candle flame are forgotten in
the heat of indignant conversa-
tons with the light company.
Failure of the electric service
for few hours is a major disas-
ter in the modern home. So sell
dom does it occur that few homes
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1939-06-02

There is no more important
phase of desiging than the elm
ination of human fatigue through
reduction in the weight of articles
which require constant or frequent
handling. says Charles B. Bohn,
prominent Detroit metallurgist,
who notes that the reduction in
efficiency of workmen in the later
hours Of working day due to
fatigue is we'll known to all pro-
duction authorities.
Moreover, the human side Of
the situation, in which the use
full life of a workman is pro-
longed many years by eliminating
dead, useless weight from the
tools which he has to handle, is
a subject for the attention of
every industrial executive. Mr..
Bohn also points out that a sim
liar situation in the fatigue of
the housewife is recognized by
manufacturers of washing ma
chimes, lawn mowers vacuum
cleaners and other devices, and
adds:
There is rapidly growing use
of aluminium and magnesium al
Toys for all of these purposes. In
a recently introduced vacuum
cleaner it was possible to add a
headlamp for illumination of dark
corners. a twospeed switch, radio
interference eliminator new castor
arrangement. visible nozzle adj
justment indicator, Incorporated
fitting device and other useful
accessories to the vacuum cleaner,
while making it actually lighter
than the obsolete model which it
replaced. The accomplishment
was simply through the use of
light but strong magnesium al
logs"
Thus the metallurgist, through
more efficient light weight tools
contributes toward longer and
happier life for both industrial
worker and housewife
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1939-06-02
taking any chances.
or State Department

Always highly important, our
Department of State comes into
special prominence in times of
International stress like the pres
ent. the Secretary of State being
charged, under the direction of
the President, with duties con-
cerned with our relations with
foreign nations.
Our Secretaries of State have
usually been among our ablest
statesmen, six of them = Jeffer-
son. Madison, Monroe, John Quin-
cy Adams. Van Buren,, and Buchan-
an-having become President,
while Jay, Marshall and Hughes
became chief justices of the
Supreme Court.
Among other more notable
former heads of the department
may be mentioned Henry Clay,
Daniel Webster, John G. Calhoun.
James G.. Blaine, John Sherman,
Elihu Root and William Jen-
nings Bryan, some of whom
were successful candidates for
the office of President The
present secretary, Cordell Hull,
has long been one of the nations
political figures.
In recent years the State De-
partpopnt hoe had itc hands full
of delicate international problems.
those growing out Of
Italy's conquest Of Ethiopia,
Japan's encroachment on the
mainland of Asia, and Germany's
aggressions in Europe.
The present tense international
is placing upon the de-
partment burdens and RESPONSE
bilities heavier than at any time
since the World War.
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1939-06-02
Simple Fare

The White House menu for the
dinner the RoOsevelts will serve
the King and Queen of England,
was made up after a study of typi-
cal royal bills of fare served them
in England. 1t was found the
King and Queen prefer rather
simple foods. So the main course
of the White House dinner will
consist of such standard American
groceries as fried chicken, sliced
tomatoes, peas, beets and sweet
potatoes.
It sounds like good enough
menu for next Sunday and we
doubt not that, suitably approach
ed, the little woman might man.
age it.
What we like about these royal
visits is to find that, on Sundays
anyway, we live like kings. We
live better. because the White
House chicken will be boned in
honor of their majesties, which
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1939-06-02
Protest By Farmers

Lively interest is being shown
by growers in resolutions recent
ly adopted by the soybean section
of the National Farm Chemurgic
Council calling upon the Depart
ment of Agriculture to change the
classification of soybeans in the
soil program.
Pointing out, that soybeans. as
a new crop in American agricul-
ture, offers a solution to the prob
lem of idle land, brought about
through crop restrictions, the res
olutions declare that the future
of this legume crop is seriously
endangered by classifying soy
beans harvested with a combine
soil depicting.
This attitude of the Department
of Agriculture is said to be con-
trary to all experiment station
evidence, and has resulted in the
circulation of erroneous and mis-
leading statements among, farm
ers, thus creating confusion.
The Department is urged to $50
amend it's rulings that soybean
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1939-06-02

With the Memorial Day automO-
bile casualty lists almost all in
and more and more drownings ap-
pearing in the public prints as the
sun gets hotter and hotter, we're
off! Good old summer is here, re-
CARELESS of what the calendar
says, and while some $4,000 will
not live through it's thrills, the
vacation season will be enjoyed
by all while they last.
Americans are a fatalistic lot
and many of them meet a violent,
but withal more pleasant, end
than Europeans who give up their
lives, voluntarily or otherwise, for
whacky maniacs like Mussolini
and Hitler.
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1939-06-02
Kite Flying

This is a season for kite flying,
and many boys throughout the
country are indulging in this old
and interesting sport. But in To-
calities where overhead electric
wires are present there are some
dangers to be guarded against.
To be perfectly safe kites
should not be flown except in
open spaces, where contact with
wires is impossible. This pre-
caution is not always taken, how
ever, and for that reason no metal
or metalized cord should be used.
as such materials are conductors
of electricity. Even a wet cord be-
comes a conductor when it touches
a live wire.
If a kite becomes entangled
with electric wires, children should
not attempt to bring it down. as
two wires may be pulled together
causing a short circuit. The
proper thing to do is to telephone
the electric company and ask that
a lineman be sent to remove it.
An instance was reported a
short time ago in which a boy
using very light wire as a kite
string was electrocuted when it
fell across a power line.
While accidents i'm connection
with kite flying are not very
frequent, there is an element of
danger frong electric wires, and
children should be warned against
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1939-06-02

prepare for the emergency. Nor
can they meet it completely.
There are no candles or oil
lamps to replace the darkened
bulbs. The old-fashioned flatiron
went for junk years ago. Cooking.
heating and refrigeration all de-
pend upon electricity in countless
homes. Even toast and coffee are
dependent on poles, wires and gen.
orators in most households.
Yes, the good old days and the
old-fashioned ways would be nice
again if We could have them with
ALI modern Improvements
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1939-06-02

when grown on level, and gently
undulating gland and harvested
in such manner as to return the
leaves stems and pods to the
land, be no longer classified as
soil depicting,
1t was provided that the reso-
lgtions, which were unanimously
adopted by the d rowers, should
be submitted to the Secretary of
Agriculture by President Wheeler
Mcmillan of the Council, and
in compliance with requests, that
copies be made available to mem
bers for distribution to their Sen
ators and Representatives in
Washington.
Action toward bringing about
the desired changes is expected
to be taken by the group of farm
ers composing the American Soy
bean Association
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1939-06-02

Joseph Bernhard, chairman of the
American Legion convention regis
tration committee, signs Connie Bos-
well, famous singer, up for date"
with Louis L. Mccormick, Louisi-
ana commander, during the 1889 ma
tional Legion convention in Chicago
September rs through %. It's all
surprise to Mccormick, who is I'M
aware of proceedings.
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1939-06-02
GRANGE TAKES ACTION

Pomona Grange, Leitersburg,
went on record as against con-
struction of new court house
without a referendum. A resolu-
ton was also passed against a
bill passed by the legislature
which Restraints officials at 'the
court house from giving out infor-
nation about the records there.
means there will be no drum
Evening star., 1939-06-29

McCarran, Democrat, of Nevada,
the more we will know what it is
in order to condemn it. The only
thing we have to fear is fear itself
produced by some one who always
and forever talks about the bugbear
OF Communism.
They teach anything but moral
ity,' Senator Wiley, Republican. of
wisconsin, put in, referring to w.
P. A. theater productions. This is
the peoples money, and who's going
to see that the morale of the country
is not shot to pieces?"
Senator AshurSt, Democrat. of
Arizona, had the last word. Prop
ping an unabridged dictionary on a
small stand on his desk, he read to
the Senate Webster's definition of
communist and communism"
mo person should be employed bv
the United States who would strike
a blow at the right to hold private
property" he observed, but let
there be no censorship of free ex-
preston"
Senator Murray, Democrat, of
Montana, supported by Senator
Pepper, Democrat, of Florida, made
a brief fight to boost the w. P. A.
appropriation to s2250,OOO,0O0. The
Senate shouted down the proposal.
Among the amendments accepted
was one by Senator McCarran re-
quiring payment of prevailing local
wage rates on w. P. A. projects.
The Senate also voted to require
that in each State local contribu-
tions make up Is per cent OF the
cost of w. P. A. projects approved
after January l, 1910.
Evening star., 1939-06-29
Charges Russia Used
As Lever on Aggressors

MOSCOW, June % P.-Great
Britain and France were accused by
Propaganda Chief Andre Zhdanoff
in signed editorial today of using
negotiations with Soviet Russia for
mutual aid pact as ruse ito help
them strike a bargain with the
aggressors."
The Communist party newspaper
Pravda, without waiting for new
British-French proposals to be de-
livered to Premier Vyacheslaff
Molotoff, displayed the editorial on
its front page.
Zhdanof did not assert specifcal-
ly that negotiations have ended, but
observed that they have entered
blind alley"
His editorial occupied two columns
under the headline. English and
French governments do not want
agreements with U. S. S. R. on basis
OF equality. ."
What they still want" Zhdanof
concluded, "is an agreement under
which the U. S. S. R. would play
the role OF a hired man carrying on
its shoulders the entire load of the
engagement. No self-respectinp
country would accept such an agree
ment If it does not want to be a
plaything in the hands of people
who want some one to pull a hot
coal out of the fire for them"
Prime Minister Chamberlain in
dlcated in London Monday that new
instructions would be sent to British
diplomats at Moscow soon in the
lengthy British-French- Russian ne
gotiations.
Evening star., 1939-06-29
Germans Are ScornfuI
OF Note From EnqIond

BERLIN. June % (P).-A scornful
chorus today greeted Great Britain's
answer to Adolf Fitler'S denuncia-
ton Of the 1885 British German
naval limitation agreement and in
dicated that the Nazi leader intended
to follow his road of destiny with
out any chains on his growing navy.
The tightly-controlled German
press and the authoritative news
service Deutscher Dienst pointed to
the British document as an "arro-
CANT note" and made it clear there
would be little to negotiate between
the two countries in naval matters
as long as what Nazis call Britain's
"encirclement policy" continues.
1t was pointed out, however, that
the German government would
answer "at the proper time" the
objective" part of the British note
which, announced in Berlin yester-
day, told Germany that Britain was
willing to negotiate a new naval
limitation arrangement, fatty de-
MED the "encirclement" charge and
pointedly asked what assurances the
Reich could give that any new naval
pact would not be scrapped.
Evening star., 1939-06-29
Britain Reported
Proposing Russia
Broaden Guarantee
Inclusion Of BeIeions,
Dutch and Swiss Is
Said to Be Sought
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
LONDON, June 29.-Britain was
said by informed quarters today to
have sent proposals to Moscow for
inclusion of the Baltic states and
Belgium, Holland and Switzerland
in the proposed Anglo Rus
sian mutual assistance pact.
This proposal was said to have
been in the latest instructions which
the British government dispatched
to Sir William Seeds, British Am
baSSador to Russia.
Sources close to the government
discounted an article published in
Moscow today in Pravda, official
organ of the Communist party, say
ing that the negotiations had run
into blind alley"
The new instructions, these sources
said, would come very close to
Soviet Russia's original demands
and an agreement was expected next
week or week after next at the
latest. The negotiations have been
in progress for two and a half
months.
Evening star., 1939-06-29
Relief
Continued From First Page

L S.f
and voted, 38 to SO, against halt
that sum.
After Senator Reynolds, Demo-
crat, of North Carolina had started
a lengthy argument at dinner time
over a proposed appropriation for
the w. P. A. theater project, con-
tending it was spreading Com
munist propaganda, the leadership
clamped on strict debate limita-
ton which brought quick action on
proposal after proposal through the
evening.
Spending forces succeeded in in
creasing by $4,000 900 the House al
location of s123,OOO, 900 for the Farm
Security Administration, boosted
the National Youth Administration
allotment by S2300O,OOO and won a
43-19 majority for s1O000,OO0 extra
in farm tenancy loans.
The chamber also approved an
amendment by Senator Russell
Democrat, of Georgia doubling a
$4,000 allowance for Public Service
administrative expenses.
Federal Theater Survives.
The Senate agreed to permit ex-
penditure of three-quarters of l per
cent OF the total appropriated fol-
projects sponsored solely by w. P. A.
thus providing funds for such prof.
ects as the Federal theater, art ano
music without local sponsorship.
The House had voted to eliminate
all such projects and to prohibit any
expenditure for a w. P. A. Theatel
Project.
Attendance in the chamber anC
galleries during the weary hours OF
argument was unusually good, ex-
cept during the broadcast of the
Louis-Galento fight, which found
members lowering near radios else
where in the Capitol.
When the final vote came, how
ever, many of the Senators who
had stayed for hours to help main
tain quorum were home in bed
Senator Capper, Republican, OF
Kansas, the only member in dinner
clothes, sat silently through the en-
tire proceedings.
On the stroke of midnight, Vice
President Garner, who usually is
in bed by 9 pm, emerged from q
cloakroom and marched across the
Senate floor for word with Demo
cratic Leader Barkley. Mr.. Garner
had not been in evidence earlier in
the evening, but his place was taken
by Senator La Toilette, Progressive
OF Wisconsin, who pounds a gave
nearly as vigorously.
Debate frequently drifted into q
cozy, round-table discussion CEN
tered about Senator Barkley's desk
The majority leader, pencil in hand
would work out the wording of sug-
gested amendments to meet the
ideas of half dozen contributors
at once. Compromises became q
dime Dozen
Wagner Starts Argument.
The warmest argument of the
evening broke out when Senator
Wagner, Democrat, of New York
asked that projects sponsored only
by w. P. A. be granted l per cent OF
the fund.
Senator Reynolds urged that the
Federal Theater Project be con-
demned to the ash cans Of oblivion
He told the Senate that on the pro-
Ject real actors are not employed
most of them are hams" and that II
was lin the hands of the Com
muniSts."
The more we bring Communism
out into the open," replied Senator
Evening star., 1939-06-29

Agency and Federal Loan Agency.
Federal Works, to be directed by
John M. Carmody, who has been
head of the Rural Identification
Administration, will emerge as one
of the largest units in the Gov
eminent, having more than $4,000
employees.
1t will include the Bureau Of
Public Roads, now in Agriculture
branch of buildings management,
space control functions, determina-
ton of priority in construction and
enlargement of public buildings,
and United States Housing Author
ity, all from Interior; the Federal
Emergency Administration of Public
Works, which becomes officially, the
Public Works Administration, and
the Works Progress Administration,
whose designation is to be Works
Projects Administration.
Jones Heads Loan Agency.
The Federal Loan Agency. to be
headed by Jesse H. Jones, R. F. C..
chairman, will have in excess of
10000 employees, principally from
the r. F. c.; Home Owners Loan
Corp. and Federal Housing Admin
istration. 1t takes over seven other
financing groups including the Fed
eral Home Loan Bank Board.
The Federal Security Agency will
have more than 1900 employees,
with the largest groups coming in
from the Social Security Board,
Public Health Service, Treasury;
United States Employment Service,
Labor, and Office of Education, In
terror. No head has been named
for the F. S. A.
Another important shift will make
the Bureau of the Budget a part
of the executive Office of the Presi-
dent, which is also picking up the
National Resources Committee and
the National Emergency Council
Except film and radio functions)
The White House staff, which long
has included only about 40 persons,
will be expanded to more than $50
by the changes.
Other transfers will centralize for
eign trade activities in the State
Department, which now shares them
with Commerce; put conservation
more directly under Interior by
shifting Commerce and Agriculture
units, add farm financing functions
to Agriculture, which is taking over
the independent Farm Credit Ad-
ministration, and send the Inland
Waterways Corp, from War to Com
merce. There are additional bureau
shifts also designed to unity work
The reorganization is increasing
the work of the General Accounting
Office, which even under ordinary
circumstances experiences a rush
at the end of the fiscal year. Cues
tions which always develop when
there are changes in routine come
before the Controller General for
decision and, in addition, appropri-
ations must be shifted around.
Evening star., 1939-06-29
Ickes Calls Mass Meeting
To Thank p. w. A. Stoff

Secretary Ickes, who will transfer
control of the 6-year-old Public
Works Administration tomorrow to
the newly-nominated Federal Works
Administrator, John M. Carmody
called mass meeting of all the
Washington staff at o'clock this
afternoon in the Interior Depart
ment cafeteria.
He will bid them good-by and
thank them for their loyalty during
the past six years.
The transfer of the 10,784 P. w.
A. employees will be effected with
out formalities. Of this number
1881 were attached to the WASH
ington office as of June %.
Mr.. Ickes said today he was
proud" of his six-year record, a
record that showed profit Of $12,-
100000 to the Government in the
sale of P. w. A. bonds, despite huge
expenditures. The new Federal
Works Agency, he said, "is receiving
into its fold as going institution
one of the finest organizations in
the Government.