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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-04-14
Weekly News Analysis --- =
German sEncirclement Rushed
But Poland Fears Firm Stand
------EBy Joseph w. LIN Bine-
by Joseph w. La Bine-

and Memel conquests, Japan has
struck again. The victim: France,
who in 1888 laid formal claim to the
seven Spratly islands lying $50 miles
southwest Of the American Philip
pines, $50 miles west of British Bor-
neo and $50 miles east of French
Indo-C China.
Though discovered in 1867, the is
lands went unclaimed until Frances
declaration of sovereignty. Useful
economically only for phosphate, the
Spratly group offers Japan snug
haven for seaplanes and submarines
which might disrupt French-British-
U. S. trade. At Tokyo the foreign
office pointed out that Japs have
worked Spratly phosphates since
1917, investing capital and establish
ing small settlements. But since
France neglected to establish adj
ministrative jurisdiction "a grave
oversight Japan decided to claim
the reefs. ''to eliminate disadvan-
tages and inconvenience"
The expected result of Frances
protest: Nothing.
Spain
/ Though recognition by the United
States again placed Gen. Francisco
Frances Spain in the good graces
of international society (all other ma
jor powers had previously recog-
,.;roI xLn Nationalist rroxyernv,,n,xN
the war-torn Iberian peninsula still
faces tremendous task. Francois
sole Intellectual international gesture
as a European power has been to
join Germany, Italy and Japan in
the anti Communist pact. Having
thus shown European democracies
his heels, the tired generalissimo
could turn to more pressing internal
problems. Among them:
Order. Though Spain needs man.
power to rebuild, many moons will
pass before unemployment will be
solved. Still breathing in their Sec
ond wind after 80 months of war,
discharged Spanish soldiers will not
readily bow to anything less than
military law. Francois answer is
expected to be a 1000, 000-man army
until early 1910.
Health. Substantiated reports
from Madrid tell of a scurvy-like
disease sweeping former Loyalist
territory, caused by lack of fresh
fruits, vegetables and milk. It's med
icine chest emptied, short of band
ages, iodine, salves and medicines,
Spain has sent hurry-up orders to
cope with the sorriest physical plight
an enlightened nation has suffered
in modern times.
Housing. Though intent on restor-
ing shen-pocked Catholic churches
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-04-14
Trim n Smart for
Around the House

. a SMART button-front dress
that you'll want in street ma
terials like wool crepe, fiat crepe
and silk prints, as well as in
housekeeping cottons, is No. 1923.
Simplicity itself, it has lines that
are very fiattering to the figure.
The princess skirt makes your
waist and hips look slim; the
tucked and gathered bodice gives
a nice rounded bust line. It's just
absurdly simple to make--a pat
tern you'll use time and again.
A Stock Of Aprons.
With busy summer coming on,
you'll need fresh supply of pref
ty and protective aprons, and
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-04-14
PROGRESS

Iaisi OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES q new
process, inedible starch can be
converted into aCotransparent
wrapping substance at cost of
less.than three cents pound.
AvIATION-Cap Hans Dieter
lie, German army pilot, has flown
an airplane with 1,175-horsepow-
ser engine) at 463.9 miles-per-hour
to set a new record.
GLASS - At Philadelphia's
Franklin institute, scientists were
recently shown a new automobile
safety glass which bends but will
mot break, thanks to plastic
Sandwich" filler between the
two glass layers.
ELECTRICITY - Ninety-seven
per cent of the 21.OO0,000 wired
homes in the U. S. have electric
Irons, 40 per gent have washing
machines. and vacuum cleaners,
and more thar 2 third have re-
frigeration.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-04-14

here's a new pattern (1622) that
gives you three different ways to
make them. Two pinafore styles,
and a dainty tie-around, they are
all full and flaring, so that they
look smart as your frocks. Cling
ham,, percale, broadcloth and lin
en- are nice materials for aprons
like these.
The Patterns.
No. 1928 is designed for sizes "a,
SO, 38, 40, AZ, A, 46 and 48. Size
SO requires 4A yards of 35-inch
material and " yard for contrast
ing collar, if desired.
No. 1922 is designed for sizes 80,
"a, SO, 38, 40, AZ and A. Size "a
takes, for apron No. l, 2as yards
of 35-inch material and 6 yards of
braid. For No. 2, 23s yards, and
"a yard contrasting; for No. 3, 2as
yards, and l yard pleating or ruff
fling.
Spring and Summer Pattern Book.
Send is cents for the Barbara
Bell Spring and Summer Pattern
Book, which is now ready. Make
yourself attractive, practical and
becoming clothes, selecting de-
signs from the Barbara Bell we'll
planned, easy-to-make patterns.
Send your order to The Sewing
Circle Pattern Dept, 247 w.
Forty-third street, New York.
N. Y. Price of patterns, is cents
Gin coins) each. ~
o Bell syndicate.-WNU Service.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-04-14

in Madrid and other former frontier
points, Franco faces a far greater
carpentry job in placing roofs over
several hundred thousand ex-Madri-
lenos who fled the capitol in war,
returning in peace to find their me-
tropolis shambles.
Revenge. Most Loyalist leaders
like Gen. Jose Miaja fled Spain after
hosting the white flag Of surrender.
Two notable exceptions were Gen.
Segismundo Cascade, war minister
of the defense council, and Julian
Besteiro, moderate Republican
who took no active part in the war
except to supervise feeding women
and children during Madrid's two
year siege. Humanitarian or not,
Senior Besteiro was arrested and
court martialed along with General
Cascade.
Finance. Before the war Spain's
gold reserve of $740, 900, 900 was ex-
ceeded only by the u. S., Britain
and France. Also on hand were vast
boards OF silver. By April, 1888, the
u. S.. federal reserve bulletin re-
ported Spanish gold had dropped to
$525 900 1000, and by this month as
General Franco entered Madrid, mo-
body apparently knew where any
Spanish gold might be. One vague
hint was that Marine Gamboa, rich
Loyalist-sympathizing Filipino, had
moved most of it to Mexico and
thereby insured the solvency of 10y
alist refugees. Meanwhile National
list Spain held an empty bag.
People
Born, President Roosevelt's ninth
grandchild, boy, to Mr.. and Mrs.
John Boettiger (Anna Roosevelt
DalD, at Seattle.
D Appointed, New Hampshire's lib
eral former Sen. Fred II. Brown,
to the U. S. comptroller generalship.
. Douglas Fairbanks, ex-movie starr
has been ordered to return $72, 1876
refunded by the U. S. on income tax
payments in 1927-28-29.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-04-14
Coal Operators Are Left With
Supply in Sizes Not Needed

The 30-day limit also has had an
other effect. When mine owner
could make a years contract or a
number of such contracts, he knew
whether it was lump coal or stove
coal or slack that his customers
needed. Without a contract, the big
buyers naturally shop around to get
the lowest price. A mine operator,
therefore, may sell to one firm one
month and the next month, some
other mine will supply the coal. The
result is that one mine may find it.
self with hundreds of tons, or even
thousands of tons, of lump coal when
all that can be sold in given month
is slack or stove coal.
Well, it is the ordinary practice in
business that if too large stock is
on hand, prices are reduced to in
duce someone to buy. But not so in
the soft coal industry under the Guf-
fey law. If the price is reduced be-
low the actual cost of mining, costs
approved by a bunch of accountants
sitting here in Washington, the law
steps in-not the Guffey law, but two
other laws. They are the federal
trade commission act and the Rob-
inson-Patman act. Under either one
of these laws. the mine operator
who cuts prices below costs becomes
tagged as a very bad boy who must
be punished by fine or imprison-
ment. So, the unwanted coal lies in
piles beside the mine, crumbling and
becoming of less value daily as the
weather takes its toll w i
o Western Newspaper Union.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-04-14
NERVOUS?

Do you feel so nervous you want to screamf
Are you cross and irritable? Do you scold
those dearest to you?
If your nerves are on edge and you feel
you need good general system tonic, try
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound,
made especially for pomeB.
For over 60 years one woman has told an
other how to 60 Smiling thru" with reliable
Pinkham's Compound. 1t helps nature build
up more physical resistance and thus helps
calm quivering nerves and lessen discomforts
from annoying symptoms which often &C
company female functional disorders.
Why not give it q chance to help YOU3
Over one million women have written in
reporting wonderful benefits from Pinkham's
Compound.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-04-14

iected, 1t consti-
tutes a good third
of the nations
territory, a fer
tile land for ex-
pansion in days
to come. But Ger
many also seeks
to expand, and
surprised Argen-
tinians recently
read in their
newspaper Mott
cias Graicas the
tlnsubst antiated
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-04-14
Europe

Europe
"7he regime Of pre-,or days had but
one fauIt-it kneto the deuilish plan OF
encircling and attaciing us, yet il lacked
fhe potcer or sUiH to Uard il off -. No
posUer in the world can ever again force
US to oar knees"
Thus spoke Adolf Hitler at Will
helmshaven, one day after Britain's
Prime Minister Chamberlain had
shocked the world by promising to
defend Poland against Nazi agrees
sion. Though Der Fuehrer barked
boldly, it appeared the heretofore
Intellectual Stop Hitler drive had at
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-04-14
Bruckarts Washington Digest
Weakness Of Unsound Legislation
Does Not Remain Concealed Long
Old NRA Is Striking Example Of Careless Lawmaking;
Now Comes Up the Unworkable Conditions Of Cuffey
Law That Has Cost Coal Industry Millions.
BY WILLIAM BRUCKART
WNU Service, National Press Bldg, Washington, D. c.

duction costs, and the public would
not feel it.
The contract then negotiated ex-
pired recently and new one is now
being considered in the regular tug
of war that occurs between miners
and operators every two years. In
the meantime, however, things hap
pened to labor in the soft coal mines.
AS ! mentioned above, there was
decline in production of coal. It fig
ures out at % per cent. That OBJ
viously means that, while labor OBJ
tanned an increase of one-tenth in
the rate of pay, it worked only four
fifths as much time according to the
records available to me. fail
to see where labor gained from the
law. Moreover, from the federal re-
lief authorities I learn that living
conditions and buying power among
the persons living in coal mining
areas have declined almost in direct
ratio to decline in production of coal.
With respect to the added taxation
placed upon the owners of the
mines, the surface indications and
the original declarations of support
ers of the law have proven to be
quite misleading. The law required
the industry to pay a tax of one cent
a ton and to meet assessments to
cover the expenses of boards that
were set UP in the various regional
areas. It is easy to calculate that
the one cent tax raised So, APO, 900 on
$4,000, 900 tons, produced last year.
But that figure does not show the
extra assessments that were paid to
the regional boards, nor does it re-
veal that every mine owner had to
hire extra clerks in the company
offices to take care Of all of the
various and sundry reports that the
national commission and the region
al boards saw fit to require.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-04-14
Simply Became an Added
Expense Borne BY Industry

Again, it was expected that these
costs and taxes would be absorbed
a nice word for concealing the facts
from the consumers-in the selling
price that was to be fixed. But, as
! reported earlier, the commission
never quite got around to fixing the
prices under the current law.
Hence, the hundreds of thousands of
dollars which the laws sponsors
said would be passed on simply be-
came an added expense borne by
the industry.
The law has another feature which
you and I, as individuals, do not feel
directly. It is another one of those
concealed things. The law specifies
that no contract can be signed be-
tween operator and consumer to last
for more than 80 days. That is to
say, no price can be quoted for
more than 80 days in advance. That
may not appear important, but it
is highly important.
The practice of large users Of coal
is to enter into a contract for sup
ply of coal to last, for example, for
a whole years operation. Having
such contract, the owner of the man.
ufacturing establishment, for in
stance, will be able to know what his
fuel costs are when calculating the
price of the goods he manufactures
and sells. Fuel costs are important,
and it therefore becomes plain that
large users of fuel have an unknown
factor in their expense item for a
years plans. What do they do?
They have to estimate that item,
and they take the maximum that
they can expect to pay for coal
and users of their product have to
pay that added amount whether in
breakfast food or harvesting ma
chinery or railroad freight rates.
That one feature of the law alone
has completely disorganized the coal
industry.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-04-14
NEWS. Perfected
C "A S r q II OIL
EASY TO TAKE

It's news when. by new and revo.
lutionory process. that old reliuble
medicine. castor oil. is now mode &c.
tudlly odorless. tusteless and cosy
10 take. Kellogg's Perfected TQsteless
Castor Oil-the name Of this newest
and purest Of castor oils - sold In
Tefinery-seuled 3h OF. bottles at all
druggists. Polutuble. full-strength, Of.
ficient. always fresh. Insist on Kel.
logg's Perfected accept no so.
culled "tusteless" substitute. Keep
Kellogg's Perfected handy only Csc.
q bottle. but what q difference in
qudlitY! Approved by Good House.
keeping Bureou.
9
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-04-14
argentina

In southern Argentina lies little
known Patagonia, (black section on
map on whose 267 900 square miles
live only 77,750 souls. Though neg
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-04-14

EDITORS NoTE-When opinions are
expressed In these columns, they are those
Of the news analyst. and not necessarily
Of the newspaper.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-04-14
!.

II you read NesUs analysis, You
should be able to ans,oer these ques-
fions:
. What Argentine territory is al
legedly coveted by Germany?
. Identity: Gen. Segismundo
Cascade; Spratly islands; Fred H.
Brown; Col. Josef Beck.
. OF what substance is a new
transparent wrapping material
made?
o Where might Spain's huge gold
reserve have been taken by fee
ing Loyalists?
= How is the ish-Rurnanian
military alliance being expanded?
. What nation has just signed a
trade treaty with France?
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-04-14
Give a Thought to
MAIN SIRE EFT

. For, in our town. and towns
like ours clear across the country
-. (. there's q steady revolution
going on. Changes in dress styles
and food prices :. the rise of
hat crown the fall of furni-
ture prices-these matters vitality
affect our living And the news
isably covered in advertisements.
Smart people who like to be
up-to-the.minute in living sHd
current events, follow advertise
ments as closely as headlines.
They know what's doing in
America =. and they also know
where money buys most!
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-04-14
Costly Counterfeit

Real happiness is cheap enough,
yet how dearly we pay for its
counterfeit. Hosea Ballou.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-04-14
Asia

For almost q year Japanese ag-
gression against French British CO.
lonial interests has followed on the
heels Of European dictator coups.
With London and Paris jittery after
Munich, Tokyo walked into Canton.
On February 10, just after Italian
troops helped General Franco cap
ture Barcelona and put democracies
on the run again, Japan occupied
strategic Hainan island which was
smack in the middle of the French
British sphere of interest. More
over, the seizure defied an earlier
agreement with France.
With France and Britain again jit-
terry in the wake of Hitler's Czech
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-04-14

last taken small roots, and that Ger
many was indeed being encircled.
Outside of Russia, which still
SCOTS at French-British solidarity
efforts, Rumania and Poland are
eastern Europe's principal anti-Nazi
frontiers. Even as Mr.. Chamberlain
announced the new Polish guaran-
tee, France was busying herself with
Rumania. In Paris the French
agreed to double their purchase of
Rumanian oil and slash go per cent
off import duties on Rurnanian farm
products. Thus will King Carols
Bucharest government be protected
from complete economic overload
ship under the new trade treaty
forced by Germany.
Within few more days other re-
suits appeared. Rumania and Po-
land, with French-British blessing,
repeatedly renovated their two
power military alliance to make it
operative against Germany as well
as Soviet Russia. At the same time
Britain apparently extended border
guarantees to Rumania.
There was good likelihood, how
ever, that scoffing Russia might be
right. En- route to London for
three-day conference, Poland's For
eign Minister Josef Beck found
chilly reception. in Berlin, which
probably made him acutely aware
that he must make no rash commit.
ments to the British. After strad-s
ding the political fence for years,
Poland had its choice between mer-
cy at the hands of Germany or
Security with France and Britain,
the latter meaning little in the light
of Czecho-S lovakia's experience.
A good sign of Polish thought was
the comment in Kurjer Poranny,
semi-official newspaper: "There is
no alliance or bloc i. the British
commitments are not in contradic-
ton to aggression treaties signed
by Poland with Germany and Rus
STA Z Poland always tries to con-
form not only to the formal side of
these treaties but also to their spirit.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-04-14
Another Tug of War BetUeen
Coal Miners and Operators

One of the reasons the mine own
ers lost money was because many
who supported the law were con-
WINGED it would mean increased
wages for the workers. The United
Mine Workers of America, headed
by Mr.. Lewis, believed so, and two
years ago they demanded and OBJ
tanned an increase of 10 per cent.
During the debate on the bill in con-
gress it was talked freely that the
miners could get a wage increase
and it could be passed on to the con-
sumers. This would be true, it was
said, because the coal commission
would fix the prices and the selling
price, as fixed by laWss would have
to be above production costs. Ger
tainly, labor's wage is a part Of pro-
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-04-14
Miscellany

Figured, by New York's Rep.
Bruce Barton, that the stock market
usually gains when President Roose-
welt goes fishing or vacationing, usu-
ally falls when he goes on a speak
ing tour.
0 Struck, 338, 900 Appalachian coal
miners after eastern soft coal OPP
orators and United Mine Workers
representatives failed to agree in
wage-hour negotiations.
o Signed, by Russia and Japan,
one-year pact permitting Tokyo fish
ing fleets to operate off Soviet Asiat-
ic waters, thereby avoiding an al
most certain clash this month.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1939-08-12
FATHER DIVINE
Continued from Page u

Yet, the "truly wonderful peace"
movement is spreading from acorns
into huge oak-trees of reality far be-
yond predictions of pioneers whom
Divine interested when the mysterious
cult was conceived. He claims healing
and mystic powers which he reveals
only to his followers. The reverence
he receives in return for his ministra-
tions, is modestly individualistic but
never overdone in public demonstra-
ton by the converts.
All races can be found in the vari-
GUS Heavens" sharing alike acting
the parts Of earthly sisters and bro
theirs without friction or appearance
of any racial barriers.
How will New England react when
Gather Divine" appears on the scene
with his "truly wonderful peace" band
of missionaries The advance guard
of "Father Divine's" army has been in
Boston for several months preparing
for the coming of this Messiah of
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1939-08-12
READY TO END jim CROW BAN
CONTINUED from Page ~

Lee Durecher and Doc Profile of the
National League have named colored
players with the ability to star in big
leagues, and have said bluntly they
would be glad to sign some of them
if given permission by the magnates.
In the American League, Managers
Haney and Baker have vouched for
the fact that there are many colored
stars qualified for big league play,
and that the situation is entirely up
to the owners.
New York, Philadelphia and Buffalo
sports fans can't see why colored ball
players are not in the big leagues
right now. The Young Communist
League petition campaign to crack the
Jim Crow bars is going over in a big
way in all three cities. On recent
banner days Buffalo got 1000 sigma
lures and Philadelphia 700. More
than $4,000 signatures have been col
lected in New York City.
In Chicago, forty thousand fans
"voted" for the end of baseball jim
Crowism by attending the champion
ship game between two colored teams
representing the West and the East,
in which the latter won a Az victory.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1939-08-12
CAMBRIDGE CITIZEN DIES
EN- ROUTE TO HUB HOSPITAL
Continued from Page y

Adams of Cambridge was the under
taker. Interment was at Cambridge
Cemetery.
William H. M. Hamilton, native
of Boston, had been employed by the
Wellington Sears Wholesale Co. for
43 years. He had served in famous
Old Company l.. He was Past Grand
Master of the Masons, William G.
Butler Lodge; he was associated with
the Sportsmen's Club, the PAfricaine
Singers, and the Columbia Glee Club.
His numerous church, lodge, and must
cal activities included membership in
the Riverside Male Quartet and the
Order of the Eastern Star. He has
also been chorister at Union Baptist
Church.
He leaves a widow, Mrs. Mary
Hamilton, a daughter, Mrs. Milton
Peek; grandsons, Robert Hamilton,
James, Milton and William Peek; a
granddaughter, Louise; two nephews,
William and Edward Hamilton, and a
niece, Muriel Freeman of Springfield.
Those who never had the privilege
to hear William H. Hamilton sing
missed hearing one of the greatest
bass singers who ever lived in this
section of the country, comments an
old Cambridge resident. Mr.. Hamil-
ton just sang and sang from year to
year, and now to our great sorrow
that our cheering singer will sing no
more on this planet, Cambridge has
lost oine of it's best loved and best
known citizens.
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Peace into a possible new domain of
unbelievers.
Sympathetic rich land owners OF
vacant castles and buildings in many
sections of the nation are seeking his
advice and counsel as to the advisa-
bility of the cult making Heavens
of their property. These extraordin-
airy unsolicited contacts to further the
Divine movement seem strange, but
final acceptance in many instances
finds slow progress because of i'm
posed financial arrangements and
ownership which to date Divine has
never disclosed when transfers of
property have been made.
The scope of this mysterious spiri-
tual movement has been investigated
from many angles. AS yet, not a
flaw has been found of any fraudu-
lent or criminal motives of operation
1t appears to be as honest as the
Mary Baker Eddy christian Science
movement that has formed a band
around the world, whose assets are
estimated to be over a billion of
dollars. The estimate of the Father
Divine" cult, is said to be $15,000,000.
Will it increase when it invades New
England?