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Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-01

Butter: Los Angeles. 23isei but
terfat, Imperial Valley fob. ranch,
grade A, 3O1zc; manufacturing milk.
24c; route gathered cream, 81 &c.
LA. Hay: U. s. No. 1, si4-l4.5Oi
No. 2 leafy, S13.50-14; No. 2 Sl2.00.
Minneapolis flax May S1.6s.
Evening star., 1939-12-19
Don't Fail to See
Kute Kris Kringle

a Liuina. Walking,
Talking Santa Who Il
, Inches High
More hon As 900
Woshinetonions hove
been to see this omoz-
ing little Sonto. Come.
see him in his work
shop, tok with him on
his telephone see
il you con guess what
mokes him tick"
Second Floor
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-02-17
WORK OF CCC DRAINAGE CAMPS

WORK OF CCC DRAINAGE CAMPS
1t would have cost the farmers
benefited the sum of $4,000 to ac-
complish the results obtained from
work of three CCC drainage camps
from the time they were establish
ed on the Eastern Shore of Mary
land late in 1895 up to January 1,
1899, according to Ray w. Carpen-
ter, Professor of agricultural en-
cheering at the University of Mary
land. Mr.. Carpenter was principal
ly responsible for arranging to have
the work carried on in cooperation
with the Bureau of Agricultural
Engineering of the U. S. Depart
ment Of Agriculture, and has been
in general charge since it started.
1.-THE objective" Mr.. Carpenter
states, sis to improve the drainage
of lands now being farmed, not to
bring new lands into cultivation"
The program, he says extends to
maintenance, improvement and re-
construction work on the public tax
bitches.
A summary of actual accomplish
ments shows that 242 miles of
bitches have been cleared prelimin-
airy to excavation; I'll miles Of
bitches excavated; 8,912,S31 square
yards of clearing was done; and L.
237,76O cubic yards of excavation.
Mr.. Carpenter estimates that 1884,
600 acres of land have been bene-
flied, and that outlet facilities have
been provided for hundreds of miles
of small tributary drainage bitches.
AS evidence OF the public support
given the program in the sections
where it is being carried out, Queen
Anne's and Caroline counties are
each currently appropriating 3d.
10000 per year to facilitate pro-
gress, and Dorchester and Somerset
counties are each appropriating L.
$4,000 per year. These funds are
used to employ additional operators
for the excavating machines.
Mr.. Carpenter estimates that APP
proximately 1900 farmers now be-
long to about 11S tax ditch organ
izations, and states that many cd
ditional tax bitches will be organic
ed as soon as it is reasonably GER
tain that the Drainage Camps will
continue beyond the time required
to complete projects for which app
plications. have already been NADIA
Looking to the future, he says that
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-02-17
BY Hook or by Crook
Saying of Middle Ages

In the Middle ages the common
people were forbidden to cut down
trees for firewood. This was priv
ilege specially reserved for the
Lords of the Manor. Naturally, a
great deal of hardship resulted, and
to avoid unrest dispensation was
given whereby they were allowed
not only to gather deadwood but to
be permitted to break off with bill
hook any dead branch. The crook
enabled them to pull such branch
within reach.
And so people spoke of getting
firewood ''by hook or crook" This
phrase came to be used for other
things as well and so we still say
we'll get something by hook or by
crook when we mean "by any meth
cd possible" says writer in Pear
sons London Weekly.
The phrase "to eat humble pie"
originated in the Middle ages from
deer hunting. The coarser parts of
this animal were usually given to
the inferior servants. These parts
of the deer were called "Umbles" or
''Numbles" and in the course of time
the word was corrupted into Hum
ble." So to eat humble pie meant to
be one of the common folk, whereas
today it means to accept an inferior
position, or to "climb down."
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-02-17
SUGGESTS COUNTIES SHARE
TAX FUNDS

State Senator Dudley G. Roe
(Dem., Queen Anne's) has propos-
ed an amendment to the administra-
tion's $S,5OO,O0 yearly tax bill to
offset squabbling by counties over
their share of the spoils.
The chairman of the Senate Fin
ance Committee, which heard mem
bers of the commission that pro-
posed the new revenue measure, said
he will offer plan thereby coun-
ties would share the income-tax rev.
enues according to the amount each
pays.
The new revenue measure would
abolish the current levy OF az
mills upon securities-which Balt1-
more and the counties now share
with the State-and impose SIX per
cent. tax upon unearned income
such as dividends and interest.
From the proceeds Of this six per
cent. levy, however, the revenue
measure would indicate one-third-
or about $1,6OO,000-to replace the
funds the political subdivisions now
receive from the Az mill tax.
The proceeds of the two and hair
DER cent. levy on earned income and
a one and a half per cent tax on
corporation income would go to the
State treasury in full.
Most of the objection raised to the
revenue bill conferred on the prob
able effect of the loss by counties
of their share of this An mill tax,
and to some features of the six pei
cent. levy ON unearned income.
AS the law now stands, the coun-
ties receive one-third of the revenue
from the Az mill tax, while the
other two-thirds is retained by the
State.
Senator Roe will propose, he said
that the tax bill be amended to re-
turn to Baltimore and each county
one-third of the total revenues IRON
the six per cent. levy paid by resi-
dents of the particular subdivision
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-02-17
Irish Land Problem Is
Traced to 1649 Invasion

The nature of the soil and crops
and the character of the relationship
between landlord and tenant were
major factors in the Irish ''land prob
lem." After Cromwell's invasion in
l649, the seizure and distribution of
land among English landlords
reached its height and gave rise to
the evils of absentee ownership. The
great famine of 1840-50, and of 1846
in particular, caused uncomfortable
privation, says a writer in the Phil
adelphia Inquirer.
Until 1870 the landlord class was
generally favored in legislation. The
encountered estates act of 1849 did
provide for the sale of those Irish
estates whose rents were mortgaged
but the resulting influx of spectators
increased the tenants burden. The
Act of 1870 gave the tenant compen-
sation and made it possible for him
to become owner of the land. How
ever, there was no restriction on
rental rates and the tenant whose
payments were in arrears was un-
projected.
After the famine of 1879, the Irish
land league was formed and two
years later the Irish farmers mag
ma Carta" recognized the three F's:
fair rent, fixity of tenure and free
dom of sale. Subsequent acts of
1885, 1887, and 1896 stimulated land
purchase. The Wyndham act of 1903
offered bonus to landlords who
we're willing to sell. The evicted
tenants bill of 1907 compelled the
sale of land needed for evicted ten
ants and the amended land pur-
chase act of 1909 iberalized this
provision. BY 1921, two-thirds of
Irish land was property of the ten
ants and shortly thereafter COM
pulsory law transferred the re-
mainder.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-02-17

An improved agricultural situa-
ticn this year is assured" the De-
partment of Agriculture has report
ed in forecssting an increase in
farm income.
The general index of prices OF
farm products turned sharply up
ward in the fall of 1888 and regain
ed most of the losses of the early
part of the year, department ec'n-
omists said.
"A strengthening factor in COM
ing months will be the improved
consumer demand flowing from in
creased industrial activity during
the last half of 1885," the bureau OF
agricultural economics said.
The average price of principal
farm products at the close OF 1888
was 96 per cent. of pre-war and the
highest Size March, 1888, the Du-
reau reported. Indications are that
the price level will pass the pre-
war figures by spring.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-02-17
HERE'S HOW FARMERS EARN
AAA PAYMENT

Now that applications for 1888
Conservation payments are being re
cevied at State AAA Offices, farm
ers are anxious to know when to
look for their checks. They will
start going out in February and will
continue in greater volume through
March and April 1t takes about a
year to earn a payment, and the
payments consequently are spaced
about year apart. Here is the regu-
lar procedure:
1, The farmer attends AAA Com
mittee meetings to learn what pro-
visions of the program are applic-
able to his farm.
2. He plants crops.
8. His farm is measured-under
supervision of his county committee
for compliance with requirements
for payment.
A. He files application for pay
ment
5. His application is checked
against county records in county
and State discussing offices.
G. His check is mailed to him.
About the time the farmer receiv-
es the payment earned on one crop
he is preparing to plant the next
one. Checks for participation in the
1889 Conservation Program are
scheduled to go out in February,
March, and April of 1910, or year
after receipt of 1888 payments.
Addition 1888 price adjustment
payments-on corn, wheat, rice. and
cotton-are conditioned upon plant
ing within 1899 farm acreage allot-
ments. For winter wheat, compli-
ance with the 1889 conservation
program has been determined and
the first checks are scheduled to go
out this spring.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-02-17

A closeup OF the foreign policy
debate that has ragged recently be-
tween Congress and the White
House shows that the two import
ant facts which it has brought out
are these:
Congress Is at last clearly aware
that one man. the President, is to
all intents and purposes exercising
the power, given by the Constitu-
ton to Congress, to decide the
question of peace or war for this
country. There may be many people
who believe the Presidents "pri-
vste foreign policy" is the right
policy, but no citizen Of democracy
eager to preserve and strengthen
democracy can believe that it is
right for onr foreign policy to be a
private policy. Behind the neu-
trality legislation, behind the war
referendum amendment, behind the
whole opposition to the Presidents
foreign program is q struggle to get
the war-malring power back into
the hands Of the people and repre-
sentatives.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-02-17
STATE EMPLOYMENT SERVICE

The IA offices Of the Maryland
Employment Service sent $3.50 men
and women back to work during
the month of January. OF this num-
Der 1923 were jobs in private in
dustry. This is an increase OF over
1907. 266 jobs were filled with
public contractors making total OF
ITO jobs filed.
Second on the list of offices for
the number of jobs filed with pri-
yate industry is Cumberland with
100 placements as compared with
70 for January, 1888.
In third place is the Office IN
Frederick with 95 placements as
compared with SO for January, 1888
and in fourth place is the office in
Towson with 80 jobs with private
industry as compared with AZ for
January, 1888.
Each Office has increased the
number of placements made to
private industry in its community
by at least $3.50 as compared with
january, 1888 which is an indica-
ton that the Service is being OF
real value to the employer and the
employee.
Other Offices in the State Service
with the number of private jobs fill
ed by each are as follows: Sails
bury with So; Westminster. 40;
Hyattsville, A; Annapolis, Al;
Cambridge, 20; Hagerstown, "a;
Chestertown, %; Oakland. 15; Sill
YER Spring, Is; and Elkton, 2.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-02-17
TREND OF WORLD AFFAIRS



A manifesto was recently signed
by eighteen prominet citizens of
Great Britain including such men as
John Masefield, poet laureate, and
the Earl of Darby, industrialist and
power in the Conservative Party.
The manifesto urged the people and
leaders Of Germany to join Britain
''in supreme effort to lay the
spectre of war;.
American planes carrying serums
and medical supplies were promptly
dispatched to Chile to help in the
Andean earthquake zone where one
of the great disasters of our times
has just occurred. Funds from the
Red Cross have reached Chile and
are continuing to be sent. The Unit
ed States has the opportunity and is
showing the friendship and solidar-
ity which binds us in pact with
our Latin neighbors.
A committee has been formed to
promote legislation to curb Ameri-
can sale of war supplies to Japan.
1t is known as the American Com
mittee for Non-participation in ia
panese Aggression will seek to block
further sales of War material, in
Guiding scrap iron, oil, steel and
trucks to the Japanese. An appeal
is being made to 100000 prominent
citizens of the country for normal
and financial support of its program
An announcement sent out by the
Committee states: America is in
dignant at the aggressive war in
China, with it's cruelties to helpless
civilians, but Americans through
lack of knowledge or Indifference go
on ignoring the fact that we are
supplying the Japanese aggressors
with the sinews of war-all more
necessary to her than manufactured
munitions"
When we sing the song "The
Road to Mandalay" we are singing
of the route across the sea. But
another road to Mandalay, an over
land route, has just been completed
in an effort on the part of the
Chinese to resist Japan's push to-
word the west When Japan occupied
China's Pacific ports and then push
ed along China's chief rivers and
railroads, the Chinese needed a
new route to secure supplies. Thous-
ands Of coolies were put to work
making road and in months it
was completed. 1t connects Chung
king, the new Chinese capital, far
in the interior, with Mandalay in
British Upper Burma. From Manda-
lay another and older road leads to
the Bay of Bengal, port of RANGE
on and gives China an outlet to the
world.
The most remarkable thing about
the road is the speed of cOnstruc-
ton. Extending over high table
land, running along mountainsides
and twisting through canyons, it has
been built within months and built
entirely with primitive implements.
No modern road building machine
whatever was used on it-not even
a shovel brought from the outer
world. With nothing more than bare
hands and arts known and practic-
ed from early times, the Chinese
have built a 21OO miles highway
from their new capital to Burma. 1t
is not a wide. hard highway such as
we have in the United States end for
the most part is suitable for only
one lane traffic. But it has good
surface which permits a speed OF
more than SO miles an hour it need
ed. The road is now open ready for
caravans of trucks to keep open the
channels of supply from the out
side world.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-02-17
LEGENDS OF THE AMERICAN
INDIANS

Second of series of fascinating
paintings by strange. imaginative
artist, reproduced in fullor Color. In
the February 26th issue of The
American Weekly, the magazine d.
tributed regularly with the Balti-
more Sunday American. On sale at
all progressive newsstands,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-02-17

morning and evening papers, and
promptly punches them into one.
For two years Mrs. Patterson oper-
ated the papers, on lease,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-02-17
Two in One

Hearst is out of the newspaper
business in Washington as Mrs.
Eleanor Patterson. OF the Chicago
line Of newspaper folks, buys the
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-02-17

He who never leaves his country
is full of prejudices.-Goldoni
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-02-17
Hitlerities Are Mad

The news duly arrives at the
United States Capitol that 1.-The
Nazi press rares" at the Presidents
statement to the Senate Military
Affairs Committee, in which he laid
down the principle that the demo-
cracies of the United States, Britain
and France, stand firmly against
the Nazi government and other die
tatorships. There is new spirit to-
wards these dictatorship govern
ments, and it breeds defiance to
their moves that are oppressive
While the United States cannot use
the military forces of our own coun-
try in conflict to pull Britain and
France out of hole, the fact re-
mains that the Western Hemisphere
is our pasture and that we don't
expect German Hitlerities to fatten
themselves In it. In looking both
ways neither fight nor a frolic is
in evidence.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-02-17
GOVERNMENT LEADERSHIP
]. E. Jones

Washington, D. c., Feb. 13-The
habit of remedying all conditions
by having 1.-The Government pass
law" hasn't worked out convincing
ly enough so that the present pro-
cess of Government leadership is
accepted as the answer to all Of
our peoples perplexities and prob
lens. We all know that there are
differences of opinion about Govern
ment relief, as wide as the contain
emit. A government health and med
icine plan would undoubted help a
lot of people. But, if this is to be
a fight against our family doctors,
then there are millions of people
who will side with the doctors be-
fore falling in line.
The claim of Senator Wanger and
others that the doctors need to be
helped by the legislation is not en-
dorsed by the doctors, themselves.
If there must be a public movement
in behalf of health, it ought to be
on a very high plane.
Approval of the legislation will be
urged upon Congress. But it doesn't
seem quite in line with Democratic
government to expect the Govern
ment to spend tax money on this
reform. The notion that the Govern
ment can pay from the cradle to
the rave" is running out. 1t is not
hard to be impressed by the objec-
tions of the American Medical As
.sociation-which has lined up
against the Government plan.
All these many gestures in which
the tax money is used weaken the
nation. We are too prone to spend
other peoples tax money. How are
we going to turn around and start
back towards civilization that
supports itself, and pays it's own
bills?
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-02-17
The Administrations Ring OF
Silence

Silence
Nicholas Roosevelt rips the COW
ers off from international affairs
and asserts that "the danger to the
American continent is from within. I"
Principal sore spot at the moment
is to the south of our border.
Former under-Secretary of State
William R. Castle says that in
Mexico ''a more and more Com
munistic government has gone ahead
implacably with the confiscation of
foreign property" and he can find
no existing intention of payment
for anything except possibly. with
printed IOU's."
Mr.. Castle points to the fact, not
to be overlooked, that seizures of
properties by the Mexican govern
ment have been developed proper
ties of land and OIL" The undevelop-
ed rich areas of Mexico remain, as
they have for centuries, undevelop-
ed. That wasn't the way the United
States was made.
There can be no Good Neighbor"
in the countries where friendship
has to be purchased at such a price
as the United States pays, observes
Mr.. Castle, who expressed his belief
that the Monroe Doctrine is being
misinterpreted, and is not positive
force through which the United
States Department protects U. S.
property rights in Latin-America.
Why the ring of Silence in the
Administration, where everything
is taken about except Mexico? That
source of most of our international
trouble must be medt to disgorge
the properties it has confiscated.
Evening star., 1939-01-03

ensuing "a hours. Our agent, backed
by the commercial attache, revealed
that the United States was the
largest importer of coffee, which Is
Brazil's greatest dependency, and
that the award to England of a
contract which had already been
promised to us was going to create
an unhappy situation. The nearest
approach we could get to diplomatic
gravity was the language of the
commercial attache, but he made
it severe. 1t sounded formidable,
and the President of Brazil took a
hand to the extent of issuing a
proclamation that the United States
should have one-half of all the air.
plane business from Brazil.
In many of the states all of the
competing companies are involved
in trade deals to bind the bargains
while the United States companies
must do business on cash basis.
In her recent dealing in Vene-
zuela. Germany attempted to capture
the business by cutting the price
senss tionally, depending upon her
subsidy to make possible the de-
livery.
This chapter on the sale of air.
planes to the governments in South
America does not touch the COM
mercial import of the airplanes in
the Latin Americas.
In a country that for four CEN
turies has carried so many of the
burdens of civilization largely upon
the backs of donkeys. over tremen-
dous mountain barriers into i'm
Evening star., 1939-01-03

states In the Lima compact. Brazil
was real leader in the Pan-Amer-
ican Congress, and favored an
agreement resolution.
There is apparent occasionally
the bad effect of untruthful propa-
ganda. Chile, which has recently
provided a $5,O0O,000 fund for air.
planes, had been told by Italian
representatives at Santiago that she
should consider only Italian and
German trade because OF the trade
balances between those countries
and Chile. She apparently made
the Chilean government believe this.
AS a matter of fact, the American
purchases of nitrate in Chile are
greater than those both of Italy
and Germany, but our publicity de-
partment seemed lame while Ger
many and Italy worked together
convincing the government. They
had the assistance of the Bank of
Italy, which at Santiago is prac-
tically the ministry of financial
affairs, as 1t is in Peru. Not an
American manufacturer has been
invited to make proposals to Chile,
because our agents didn't have time
to remove the bad impression of
the false Italian and German propa-
ganda.
Amongst the other arguments
used by these countries in DETECTING
Chile's attention from American
manufacture was the statement that
the neutrality law of the United
States would make it difficult for
the American manufacturer to keep
his contract if any trouble occurred.
Therefore the American manu-
facturer, unsubsidized, naked to the
ruthless competition Of the sub
sidized dictator countries and hamp-
cred by the neutrality law. has been
removed from the picture in Chile
for the present.
England Competitor in Brazil.
In Brazil, our severest competi-
ton was England. which has SUI
perior sales staffs seasoned by years
of experience in South America.
The Brazilian government had
made a contract for a certain num-
Ler of planes with a United States
company. The purchasing agent
had revealed that he possessed the
power to sign the contract in this
country. On the morning when
the contract was to be signed, he
made the astonishing statement
that he had just received word
from home that England was to be
awarded the contract within the
Evening star., 1939-01-03

10. member trading accounted for
l6 per cent OF the total, compared
with 10 per cent and 20 per cent
in the two Immediately preceding
weeks.
Although no season is officially
assigned for this decline, some Wall
Street observers say the rising tide
of tax selling as 1888 drew to q
close was in large measure re-
sponsible.
They point out exchange men,
bers have. week in and week out,
traded between 20 and % per cent
of the total for their own ac-
count. The sudden downward re-
vision, therefore, was believed to
be the result of relative increase
In tax-loss selling rather than a
real drop in member transactions
The members themselves sell
shares for the same purpose, of
course, but brokers say the profess
sional is more apt to wait until
the time is practically up for max
ing the switch than is the average
trader.
Evening star., 1939-01-03
Good Job of Resisting.

We did an unusually good Job
of resisting, and finally by the aid
of the commercial attache, who
brought the Brazilian governments
attention to the fact that the United
States is the best customer Brazil
has for her coffee.
The United States manufacturer
has probably saved his contract,
but 1t is believed that entering into
the considerations which prevented
Germany from destroying one of
our trades by offering the same serv-
ice free, was the growth of the
Brazilian antipathy to the Nazi
PHILOSOPHERS, which has found such
general expression in all the Latin