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The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1939-03-03
ELEVATOR PERMIT
FOR NEW CITY HALL
Another Fine Dwelling
Being Erected Here;
Other Permits

The Warsaw Elevator Co., Balti-
more, took out a permit for the
installation Of an elevator at the
new city hall, at an estimated
cost of $19,492. This permit was
supplementary to a permit issued
on Jan. in connection with the
erection of the new municipal
building for Hagerstown.
Other permits follows: Cohen
Bros, Inc,, One-story brick and
tile dwelling, 46 by 20 feet, and
frame garage attached, East Irwin
avenue; Elwood Brown, One-story
frame house "A by 80 feet, Lincoln
street; Irene Wingert to change
mansard roof and all four bay
windows on second floor and
convert a single house into six
apartments, 135-138 East Frank
lin street; Dancer Lumber Co.,
frame addition, by % feet,
corner S. Potomac street and Will
son boulevard and D. Webster
GrOh, Jr., to convert single house
into four apartments and add two
into four apartments and add a
two-stOry brick addition, IA by "a
feet, All w. Washington street.
The estimated valuation of the
permits issued the past week was
$27, 442.
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1939-03-03
AMERICANISM WEEK

Hagerston Lodge No 37S, B. P.
O. Elks will render a public cere-
mony on Sunday, March 5 at .2:3O
o'clock in the Maryland Theatre,
in connection with "Americanism
Week" celebration. The Elks will
be assisted by Morris Frock Post,
American Legion; the Hagerstown
Junior Chamber of Commerce and
the Boy Scouts of America. The
Hon. Theo. r. McKeldin will be
the principal speaker.
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1939-03-03

Quick action on the part OF
the City Administration leaders
to name a new mayor, was
brought about, we are told, as
result of meeting of the Demo-
cratic City Central Committee.
That forgotten" committee
gathered together last week to
talk over the situation as it
stacks up today. Word leaked
out that in all probability the
committee would recommend a
candidate for Mayor and the
City Hall boys went into action,
pronto! 1t was all unnecessary
we are told, because the discus
sion conferred around the cam
paign coming up in 1941.
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1939-03-03
THEY LIKED 1T!

An editorial, 1.-THE Excise
Tax" which appeared in the
February 10th, issue of The
HagerstoWn Globe, was repro
duced and selected by the Dis
tiIlers and Allied Industries of
Maryland as the only Newspaper
in Washington County, having
been represented in their issue,
which was distributed in con-
junction with an intensive cam
paign against unfair tax in the
state.
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1939-03-03
CITY PARK SOON
READY FOR SUMMER
Will Be Given Thorough
Inspection; One Major
improvement in View

The City Park Board is making
surveys as to repairs to the City
Park after the winter season. The
elements always make it necessary
to give the park a good going over
in the Spring. looking to he APP
preaching summer season wnen
thousands Of people visit TINS
recreational center of Hagerstown.
While walks through the park
have been laid with asphalt. vet
there is always something t. De
done as soon as the weaLner
clears up sufficiently to permit
OF work. Some repairs naturally
nave to be made to the various
buildings on the grounds. one
particularly large JOB in line IS
anticipated and which will be
taken up as soon as the appro-
prlation to the park is made by
the Mayor and Council, wnlcn
VIII be at an early meeting.
Work has been progressing on
the toilets at the entrance OF the
park on Virginia avenue and Will
be entirely completed before the
summer season opens at the park.
The time limit is April l.. Con
siderable grading will be necessary
here. Shrubbery, trees, etc. nave
stood the winter comparatively
we'll and the park this summer
Will again be a beautiful pace.
The Japanese cherry trees nave
come through the winter in god
shape.
Their blooming time depends
somewhat on the season but they
can generally be expected to be
out from April Is, to May l.
While the park is pretty well
supplied with walks, yet there are
parts of the park where solid
walks would be a big improvement
and these will eventually be laid.
The athletic field across the top
of the hill to the west is in good
shape but these, too, will be look,
ed after and all necessary repairs
made. superintendent Heck re-
Gently erected ball stop for
soft ball
The small, round pavilion which
stood at the extreme south end
of the park has been moved to
the island in the north enc In
its new location this pavilion will
be so pOsitioned to afford shelter
for picnickers in that immediate
section, also heretofore it was
little too close to the driveway
Approximately so per cent CT the
permits for the summer season
have already been issued by Harry
R. Rudy, member of the board of
park commissioners
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1939-03-03
GOSH! - AND THANkS!!

The BentztoWn Bard's column
in The Baltimore Sun of March
I said: 1.-THE Hagerstown Globe
is the only tabloid weekly in
Maryland. This descendant of
what was once an enterprising
daily, is rich in special features
and manages to get into it's
columns lot of very readable
matter"
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1939-03-03
IMPROVING

John Heck, superintendent of
the Municipal Park, who has been
confined to his house on Guilford
avenue by illness, is improving.
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1939-03-03
SEEMING CANAL

Work of seining sections of the
c.. & o. Canal from Washington
to Cumberland, will be continued.
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1939-03-03
CORNERSTONE FOUND

The cornerstone of the old city
hall, laid lit years ago, was final
ly found at the northeast corner.
A glass jar was broken and the
contents badly damaged, old coins
were found. The cornerstone was
found four or five feet under the
present street level. The corner
stone was removed to the Central
Equipment building for safe keep
ing. 1t was of native limestone.
Miss Harriet Brennan and Miss
Annabel Harp were winners of
tickets given by the MARYLAND
Theatre for working a puzzle. {
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1939-03-03

Dame rumor has it that the
majority of the City Committee
continues to brood. 1t looks like
DR.. Sweeney will have to be
called in to perform a major
operation.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-01-06
Use of Peppercorns

In old-fashioned cook books, and
in family recipes that are handed
down from generation to generation,
there are many times when the in
gradients call for peppercorns. That
is word which denotes an ingre-
dent with which even the youngest
cook is familiar, for it means mere
ly whole pepper, either black or
white. Pepper grows in long clus-
tiers, and each little pepper is small
and round, with a dimpled skin like
an orange. It is picked before it
is completely ripe and then dried
until it is hard and shriveled. It
is in this form that it comes to us
and is used in our kitchens to SAVIOR
meats, soups and many other foods.
The most common use of pepper
is in the ground form which is used
at the table as well as in seasoning
food during the cooking.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-01-06
Shane Of Bottles

Did you ever pause to wonder how
bottles reached their present shape?
There's not much news of them pri-
or to A. D. 100. In fact they were
so scarce and valuable that they
were regarded as works of art, and
had the date of manufacture
stamped on them. In the Eight
eenth century the shapes changed,
necks became shorter, and the bot
tom pushed upwards, bell-shaped.
Later, says Pearson's London Week
ly, the sides became straighter, the
necks shorter, and the bottom
came up even farther. The first
clear, or fancy-colored bottles were
made by the Dutch, and later cop
led by Baron Stiegel, in America. In
1765 appeared smelling-salt bottles
with shoppers, not corks. And in
1925 came the round and octagon
liquor TASKS.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-01-06
Of-Flavor of the Milk
Not From Well-Fed Cows

If the milk from cows becomes
off-favor because they eat weeds,
the remedy lies in providing feed
other than that in the pasture, adj
vises w. B. Combs, member of the
St. Paul university farm dairy staff.
Experiments at University farm
indicate that cows may not eat
enough weeds to flavor milk if other
palatable feed is available. In work
ing with well-fed cows, it was nee
essary to starve them to the weeds,
says Combs. When pepper grass
flavor occurs in milk or cream, the
COW has likely consumed as much
as 80 pounds of the weed daily,
University dairymen believe, for it
was difficult to obtain more than a
mild off-favor in milk or cream by
feeding go pounds of pepper grass.
This would indicate that when pep
per grass flavor occurs in milk, the
animals are receiving little more
feed than the weed itself.
When cows eat such weeds as
French weeds, wild onion and pep
per grass, the milk they produce
becomes almost worthless. This not
only leads to loss for the individ-
ual dairyman, but to the industry as
a whole, since in products from
weed-favored milk and cream, the
off-favors are intensified.
Combs reports that if pasture is
supplemented by a grain ration, and
some hay or silage, cows are less
likely to eat enough weeds to flavor
the milk.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-01-06
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SERVICES

Sacrament" will be the subject
of the Lesson-Sermon in all churches
of Christ, Scientist, on Sunday
January 8.
The Golden Text will be from
John 6:33: THE bread of God is he
which cometh down from heaven,
and giveth life unto the world
Among the citations comprising
the Lesson-Sermon will be the fol
lowing from the Bible, 1 Peter So,
8: Feed the flock of God which is
among you, taking the oversight
thereof, not by constranint, but will
ingly, not for filthy lucre, but of a
ready mind; Neither as being lords
over Gods heritage, but as being
ensa mples to the flock"
The Lesson-Sermon also will in
clude passages from the Christian
Science textbook, Science ani
Health with Key to the Scriptures
by Mary Baker Eddy, among whica
is the following, page 454: Right
motives give opinions to thought,
and strength and freedom to speech
and action"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-01-06
Liverpool Was Founded
In Thirteenth Century

Geography has played an unmis-
taxable part in shaping Liverpoops
destiny. The city is situated only
three miles from the Irish sea on
the north bank of the tidal Mersey
river, which ranges in width from
one mile to three miles, and ex-
tends inland far enough to provide
safe anchorage for thousands Of
ships.
King John founded the town early
in the Thirteenth century, but it de-
veloped slowly until America was
discovered. Liverpool engaged in
the slave traffic, and its bold sea-
farers also played an active part in
the romantic days of smuggling
rum, sugar and tobacco. But the
ports real prosperity dates from
1910, when Samuel Cunard inaugu-
rated regular steamship service be-
tween the Old World and the New.
One of Liverpool's principal "ar-
ticles of export" to America, until
the time of the World war, was i'm
migrants. It was pioneer port
of English emigration, and in addi-
ton, many emigrants from Spain,
France, Russia, Poland and the Bal
tic region bound for America EN-.
barked there.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-01-06
OLD AGE INSURANCE

@. I notice in the paper recent
ly that over 100000 claims for old
age insurance have been paid in the
United States since January i, 1887.
Why do they always say since Jan
uary, 1, 1897?
A. Because the law went into OPP
Grafton on that date, and no wages
earned before the first day CT jan
uary, 1887, are counted toward old
age insurance benefits.
@. How much are the pld.ag in
surance payments now being made
to 65-year-old workers who are COW
cred under the Social Security Act?
Does every claimant get the same
amount.
A. The average payment OF
lump-sum old-age insurance in the
United States, for last month was
about $64. The amount of the pay
ment in each case depends upon the
wage earnings shown on the wage
record of the worker concerned. IL
a man has earned a thousand dol
lars in a job that is covered by the
act between the time the law went
into operation and the day he reach
ed 65, his lump-sum payment would
be 3h percent of $1,000, or $35.
If he earned $4,000 in that time, his
lump-sum payment would, of course,
be 31a percent of $4,000, or $40.
@. Where should / go to file
claim for payment of old-age insur-
ance now due me?
A. To file a claim for old-age in
surance, you should call at the Soc
ial Security Board field Office, or
simply write to that Office and ask
for an application form.
Assistance in filling out the forms
will be given, free of charge, to
claimants in any Office of the Soc
ial Security Board. The Baltimore
Office is located at 100 Hopkins
Place.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-01-06
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Three Old Castles Claim
Macbeth, Duncan Tragedy

It has been computed that II
Washington actually did honor with
his slumbers all the houses which
claim a room where Washington
slept" he must have spent each
night of his life under different
roof, and perhaps even troubled
himself to transfer, on several occa-
sions, from one house to another
Sin the wee small hours"
Scotland has no such record; for
Scotch hospitality, while in reality
warm and generous, has legend
airy history quite to the contrary.
When 1t comes to famous murders,
however, there seems to be more
lively competition for the honors.
At least three Scottish castles, all
situated in the northeastern high
lands, claim to be the very spot
where Duncan was stabbed by Mac
beth, centuries before Shakespeare
was born to tell the story in his
famous play. The castle at Inver-
ness, on the beautiful Moray firth,
once had a keeper named Macbeth,
and this alone seemed to authenti-
cate it in the eyes of many visitors.
Cawdor castle, near Marin, was not
even built until the Fifteenth CEN
fury, but nevertheless it's supporters
stoutly acclaim it the original cas-
tie: after all, was not Macbeth
"Thane of Cawdor"? Finally there
10 G1oyoic coct1o 1x1ipO forfher south
in the direction of Edinburgh; and
here guides point out "the actual
room" where Duncan was murdered
in 104O. History professors usually
respond with a dubious lift Of the
eyebrows; but they will admit that
a Scotch king (not Duncan) was
probably" murdered there in 1888.
The ordinary tourist usually comes
to the private conclusion that
Shakespeare just made up the story,
and that all the castles are fakes.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-01-06
IL DUCE's INCONSISTENCY

1t is difficult to understand the
reasoning of the Italian controlled
press in matters which affect the
immediate designs of Mussolini.
When he seized Ethiopia, he at
tempted to justify his action by de-
claring that Italy needed more ter
ritory to absorb the surplus popu-
lation of the fatherland. Recently
the newspaper Popolo D'Italia, said
to publish his personal editorials,
carried an article in which 1t was
claimed that in race and blood there
were some 2S,000,00O Italians in
the world outside Italy. II all Of
these could be repatriated, the ar
ticle, said, Italy's population would
become 72,O00,000, which would
make Italy, "the second nation. in
Europe and only very slightly be-
hind Germany" AS here used ''if''
is big word. 1t Is the opinion Of
many that If all the Italians who
want to could expatriate themselves
there would be plenty of room in
Italy for the 28,OO0,000.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-01-06
FARM
TOPICS
BULLETS DO BEST
IF HOUSED EARLY
Ample Space, Cleanliness,
Good Ration Necessary.

By H. H. Alp, Poultry Extension Specialist.
University of Illinois.-WNU Service.
With higher egg prices in pros
pect, poultry producers will find it
doubly important to see that pull
lets are in their winter quarters
week or 10 days before laying be-
gins.
Failure to observe this funda-
mental rule has many times result
ed in lowered egg production when
pullets are confined to winter quar-
tiers.
If the poultry house is in good
shape, if the pullets have ample
space, at least four square feet a
bird, if the house is kept clean, if
there are ample feeders and if a
good ration is provided, we'll
matured pullets can be confined to
houses all the time and maintain
good production.
In the event that the poultry house
is not particularly satisfactory and
where good clean range with plen-
ty of young tender green feed adj
joins the house, pullets might well
be allowed outside at least the latter
part of each afternoon until snowy
weather arrives. However, confine-
ment following range privileges and
during good egg production is likely
to cause a drop in production. Once
pullets become accustomed to being
kept in they can be expected to lay
well if properly fed.
All things considered, pullets will
usually do best when they are kept
separate from older hens. Many
poultry houses can easily be divided
into two rooms by using poultry
netting as a partition.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-01-06
Group Pullets by Ages

When pullets in the same stage Of
maturity are placed in the one pen
they are much easier to handle, and
produce better results than when
birds of various stages of maturity
are mixed. Because pullets all of
the same age can be fed to better
advantage, production will often
climb to 70 or 80 per cent, because
they are all laying at the same
time. When production begins to
drop the whole pen may be given
the same change in management at
the same time to bring the pullets
back into laying. Thus change to
artificial lights, wet mash or any
other phase of management may
be made to better advantage.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-01-06
GEMS OF THOUGHT

Habit is the keynote of health
Frank Hobbs.
Truthfulness is the weekday re-
ligion of the English people.-Dean
Inge.
The secret of success lies in the
man and not in the stuff he works
on.--Bradford Tosrey.
The brain does not see or hear or
feel, nor does it plan or hope or
love.-Sir Oliver Lodge.
Time is blooming; nature is ever
teeming with life; and all is seed,
and all is fruit.-Schiller.
Your daily duties are a part OF
your religious life just as much as
your devotions.-H. w. Beecher.
Men will never be brought to-
gether by emphasizing their differ
ences, but by adding the knowledge
of one to that of the other.-T. T.
Munger.
Stay out of the clouds. Keep hard
down on the commonplace, matter
of-fact earth, and reckon with what
is just before you.-Dr. j. B. Shaw.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-01-06
Age Of New York CITY

The lower portion Of Manhattan
island was Incorporated as city
under the original Dutch regime in
1852. Charles II of England, claim
ing all the country from the French
possessions south of Florida and
west to the Pacific as belonging to
the English crown, granted char
ter covering New York to his broth
er, the duke of York, who suddenly
appeared before New Amsterdam
and took unopposed possession in
August, 1864. The name of the city
was changed to New York. The
Dutch recovered the place in Aug
ust, 1878, and changed its name to
New Orange. The next year it was
restored by treaty to the English,
and ever since it has kept the name
Of the city Of. New York.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-01-06

Arthur L. Eskey, Charleston, w.
Va, was elected vice president of the
Telephone Pioneers Of America att
their seventeenth annual convention
held recently in Toronto, Canada. Mr..
Eskey is the general plant manager
of The Chesapeake and Potomac Tele-
phone Company of West Virginia. He
is a past president of the West Wiz
ginia Chapter of Telephone Pioneers,
which has 230 members. Like most
telephone officials, Mr.. Eskey came up
from the ranks, having started his
telephone career thirty-one years ago
in Wheeling as groundman.
The Telephone Pioneers Of America
Is an organization of telephone en-
ployees who have twenty-one years or
more of service, and was formed to
promote the continuance Of friend
ships and fellowships made during the
progress of the telephone industry. It
boasts 10000 members who represent
a total of approximately 1,085,832
years of telephone service. Other Off
GERS elected for the ensuing year
were: president, Walter S. Clifford,
president of The American Telephone
and Telegraph Company; senior vice
president, Charles L. Rice, works
manager of the Western Electric
Company, Chicago; and vice president,
William F. Armstrong, The Cincinnati
and Suburban Bell Telephone Com
pany.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-01-06
Farmers Saved Millions
By Insect-Eating Birds

The fantastic theory that insects
might some day dominate the world,
sometimes advanced by imaginative
scientists, would become a reality
if it were not for birds, according
to the American Wildlife institute.
Birds constitute the main check
against the reproduction of insects"
points out c. M. Palmer Jr., as
sistant secretary of the institute.
IF that check were removed, in
sects would multiply SO rapidly that
they would clean the world of all
vegetation, leaving man to starve
in barren, deserted waste"
Birds usually concentrate in
areas threatened by unusual out
breaks of pests, Palmer points out.
An example occurred during out
breaks of the Rocky mountain To-
Gusts between 1865 and 1877. These
voracious pests denuded many
places they visited of every green
thing.
According to DR.. w. L. McAtee,
technical advisor to the chief of
the bureau of biological survey, a
thorough investigation Of the rela-
ton of birds to the outbreak showed
that the feathered tribe was, in
many instances, the means Of saw
ing crops from destruction.
Conspicuous and important as
are the activities Of birds in gather
ing at the scene and taking part in
the suppression Of insect outbreaks,
probably their everyday services in
consuming insects Of all kinds, thus
holding down the whole tide of in
sect life, are of greater signif-
icance," the survey expert says.
The American Wildlife institute
points out that the value of insect
eating birds to the nations farmers
Is more than $3.50, 100000 a year.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-01-06
Sore Shoulders on Horses

Clean cold water is very effective
in washing sore shoulders on horses.
Where animals are troubled with
tender skin, advises the Indiana
Farmers Guide, it is possible to
battle the troubled, areas noon and
evening with mild astringent wash
as follows: Lead acetate 4 ounces
and zinc sulphate 8 ounces in gal
lon of water. This solution should
be shaken well before using. At
first an attempt should be made not
to work the horse too hard for
time. Frequent curryings and brush
ing, clean collars, wellftting collars
and constant attention will do much
to keep shoulders in working condi-
ton.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-01-06
All Indians Clever at
Chipping Their Flints

SAAPPAuk AACM AAueS
Though some Indians were more
proficient at it than others, and the
methods of some tribes were more
advanced than those of others, there
was very little secret about the max
ing of flint arrow heads, and prob
ably all the Indians knew Now, says
a writer in the Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
Flint and similar stones were
used not so much because of their
hardness as for the reason they
could be faxed off and fashioned
into the desired shapes as arrow,
lance. spear or harpoon heads,
knives, saws or scrapers. The flint
was to be found in open fields, boul-
der beds and elsewhere, and the
tribes camped occasionally near the
larger supplies to break off with
rocks or hammers the quantities
and sizes of flint chips needed These
were carried home, to be faxed off
and worked into shapes with the aid
of sharp-pointed implements of
bone. The waste and refuse of the
process, as well as the tools en-
ployed in it, have often been found
on the sites of early Indian dwell
ings.
The products of the primitive in
dustry range in size from tiny arrow
tips to ceremonial spear heads more
than . foot long.