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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-12-15
Swedish Traveller
Finds Germany Sad
People Doubtful of Victory
And Some Complain.

STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN Scenes
behind the lines in western Germany
are described in an interview in
the newspaper Dagens Nyheter with
a Swedish woman who travelled
from Zurich to Berlin in the early
days of the war
"All were desolate and none want
ed war;" she said OF those Germans
she met. Extremely few were GER
tain of victory. Sorrow has swept
over Germany"
She told how, amid the hectic
scenes of evacuation of the cities, a
young man with Nazi party badge,
complained that he had been called
a traitor and threatened with ex-
pulsion from the party because he
sent his family into the country be-
fore the evacuation order.
An exhausted worker in concrete
from the foremost section of the
Westwall got on the train at Frank
fort on the Main and said that 1000
men had had their marching orders
Sunday night and that in the course
of a forced march of 20 miles two
had died of exhaustion and two were
executed for trying to loot aban-
doned homes. Serving six months
as worker he had never had free
day and worked IL hours a day,
even on Sundays.
Many of those being evacuated
believed rumors that there was
revolution in France and that the
French at the front had asked Ger
mans not to fire, saying the French
workmen would not fire either.
Great Britain, they said, was thus
the only enemy.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-12-15
Balloons Aid in Checking
On Center of Hurricane

A tiny instrument, weighing about
one and one-quarter ounces and sus-
pended beneath a small balloon, is
sciences latest device for finding
the why's and wherefores Of South
Atlantic and Gulf coast hurricanes.
According to w. r. Gregg, chief of
the United States weather bureau
conducting tests Of the equipment,
the data obtained will add immeas-
urably to what is already known
about hurricanes. The instruments
are sent out from three stations
located near Montgomery, Ala;
jackson, Miss; and Augusta, Ga.
operated by the Massachusetts in
stitute of technology, cooperating
with the government in this study.
Signals for release of the instru-
ment-carrying balloons are given by
the weather bureaus eastern dis
trict forecaster at Washington, D.
c., who also sets their schedules,
says Scientific American. From his
daily charts of weather conditions
all over the world, the forecaster
follows every tropical disturbance
from the time it appears far out on
southern seas, until it has blown a
path across the land or has veered
to spend it's fury over the water.
The instrument consists essential
1y of three recording elements, three
small penpoints, and piece of
smoked glass about the size of a
postage stamp. Fitted into a small
aluminium or doped fabric gondola,
it is carried on a hydrogen-inflated
balloon to height 10 to 20 miles
above the earth at rate of climb
of $50 to 300 feet per minute.
Five pieces of red cloth are at
tached to the bamboo framework to
attract attention of passersby to the
fallen instrument. A tag offering a
reward for return Of the device to
the United States weather bureau
station at Boston is also attached.
There the glass plate will be ex-
amined and read under q micro
scope and tabulations from the re-
cordings will tell an interesting
story of what goes on in the heart
of hurricane.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-12-15
Mans Scientific Studies
Offer Strange Contrasts

Civilized man is an ironically in
genious fellow in that the faster he
progresses in civilization the faster
he seems to develop 1ethal weapons
and the desire to use them on his
mates, whilst, at the same time, he
emulates the Red Queen in travelling
faster and faster in cutting down the
danger Of death due to disease. On
the medical front of late group Of
encouraging developments can be
reported, possibly as partial Offset
at least to some Of the gloom sur
rounding the political and economic
fronts.
The versatility of sulfanilamide
may, it appears, experience further
extension through the fact that in
combination with fat component of
coconut oil it has been found to pre-
vent the growth of tuberculosis
germs in test tubes, says Technol-
ogy Review. Moreover, it checks
the disease from developing in
guinea pigs innoculated with large
doses of a human strain of the bacil-
luS.
Drs. M L. Crossley, E. H. North
ey and M. E. Hultquist, reporting
their work to the American Chem
ical society, emphasized the fact
that thus far they, have been con-
cerned only with animals and that
no conclusion is as yet permissible
regarding the efficacy of the new
compound in the treatment of dis
ease in man. The tubercle bacillus
wears a wax armor plate which the
new drug IS able to penetrate. The
bacillus of leprosy likewise is
sheathed in a waxy coating; it is
hoped that the new chemical may
prove efficacious against this foe
also.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-12-15
Ohio Man Earns Living
Entering Prize Contests

A So prize in newspaper con-
test won as an 11-year-old boy is the
basis of a modern success story by
Frank G.. Davis, of Springfield.
In the IS years since that first
prize, he has won $4,000 in 1880
contests. In the last eight years,
Davis said, he earned between ST.
500 and $4,000, including eight auto
mobiles-for doing nothing more
strenuous than thinking up slogans,
working out crossword puzzles, pre-
dieting football scores or drawing
cartoons.
Davis now spends five hours day
at his work, the rest of the time do
ing free-lance writing and cartoon
ing. So far this year he has come
through with II prizes, which is con-
siderably better than his 35-year-av-
erage of one every 10 days.
He doesn't keep account OF his
expenses, but estimates that expen-
ditures for stamps, stationery and
ink amount to $l2 and SIS a month.
The cost of soap wrappers, box tops
and the like don't amount to much
because he doesn't enter many of
this type of contest. They're too
big; judges can't give entries prop
er consideration" he says.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-12-15
MARYLAND ROADS RANK WITH
WORST

s'Maryland's State roads, once the
best in the nation, are today among
the worst" declared Col. Ezra b.
Whitman, chairman of the Mary
land State Roads Commission, in an
address before the fredericksburg
Rotary Club.
SIN the future, money will not be
spent in repairing the aptiquated
roads already in existence, instead,
new highways of the modern i'm
proved type will be built" Col. Whit
man said.
With the exception OF the An
napolis-Baltimore road and the
Philadelphia road from Baltimore to
Hayre de Grace, Maryland has no
modern up-to-date highways. the
speaker pointed out. This year prac-
tically all funds are being used to
build two bridges, the Suspuehanna
River Bridge and the Potomac River
bridge, and the completion of the
Philadelphia road to the Delaware
line, so that there is little money
left for other new roads. A plan
ming survey is about complete, how
ever, and the new super-roads will
be built as funds become available
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-12-15
Foolish Requests Annoy
California Police Chief

CORONADO, CALF. - Police
Chief Jordan thinks he has the
wrong kind of job-all because
people ask him to do foolish things.
Without waiting for reply fem
mine voice on the telephone asked
him if he kept stamps on hand and
then went on ordering one to be
delivered Immediately to her home.
Still another feminine voice on the
telephone queried:
"Who won the horse race at Holly
wood today?"
And while Jordan and the boys
tried to figure that one out she con-
tinued with:
"Well, I'd like to know whether
Los Angeles won the baseball game
with San Diego this afternoon or
not and what was the scorer"
Chief Jordan says he is thinking
about asking the chamber of COM
merce and messenger service to
merge forces with the police de-
partment.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-12-15
THE CHRISTMAS SEAL

The annual tuberculosis Christ
mas Seal sale began on December
LIST, when more than 100000 ap-
peals were mailed to the people of
Maryland requesting help i'm des-
troying the great white plague, by
buying and using Christmas Seals
during the month of December
On the face of the Seal is an
angel with outstretched arm, sym
bolizing the protection accorded the
public by the fight the Seals are
making possible against tuberculosis
Also featured is the red doublebar
red cross, the International symbol
of the fight against this disease.
The Maryland Tuberculosis AS
ISOLATION has carried the fight
ty and to continue this work salts
factorily every section must coop
crate through the purchase of these
Seals. Dollars, exchanged for Christ
mas Seals, will help insure every
home in the state against this dread
disease" Mr.. Matthews said
Much progress against tubercul-
osis has been accomplished since the
organized effort to eradicate it be-
gam" Mr. Matthews continued. "The
tuberculosis association began it's
work in 1904 and at that time the
death rate of the disease was 234.2
per 100000 people and it was the
leading cause of death of all dis
eases. The death rate, since then,
has been reduced to 68.3 per 1907
600 people and tuberculosis now
The association issues warning,
however, against becoming too opti-
mistic. Although great gains against
the disease have been mde, they say,
the fight is far from won. An atti-
tude of carelessness or Indifference
at this time would undo much that
has been accomplished. tuberculosis
is an infectious disease and If eff
forts at prevention and case finding
are relaxed, more deaths will occur
and the disease will spread to new
victims.
Christmas Seals make possible
such anti-tuberculosis activities as:
free chest clinics, the preventorium,
medical research, health education,
a clinic for instructing colored ply
sicans in tuberculosis diagnosis, tu-
berculin testing and X-raying.
During last year 290 clinics were
held in the counties to which 5542
persons came for consultation and
exa mination The Miracle House,
the tuberculosis preventorium for
white children, was host to 141
patients.
st is the hope of the Maryland
association" Mr.. Matthews said, ito
realize enough from the sale OF
Christmas Seals to strengthen the
activities now in operation and to
establish new activities in the hope
of speeding up the decline in tuber-
culosis deaths and sicknesses."
tuberculosis can be wiped out but
the aid of every citizen is needed
to accomplish it."
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-12-15
Newspaper Soup

Newspaper soup! That's what a
band of Is surveyors, lost in Cana
da's wilderness, tried to live on UNI
til they were rescued. For 80 days
the men had eaten nothing but IA
rabbits; they tried to make soup
from newspapers as change.
When reduced to desperate plight,
men have been known to eat some
strange foods. Magellan, who led
the first trip around the world, ran
out of provisions near the end of the
Journey. His crew was reduced to
boiling leather for food. Explorers
in the tropics, when pressed for
food, use the monkey as a guide.
Anything it will eat, they will eat
if they can get it!
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-12-15
Old Steamship Ticket
Tells of Life at Sea

Among the most interesting OBJ
jects to be seen at the Maritime
museum of Gothenburg, Sweden, is
a steamship ticket issued in 1858,
giving menu which is quite star
ting when contrasted with meals on
luxury liners today. The regulations
printed on it are:
each passenger will be furnished
the following rations weekly: Seven
pounds of ships bread, two pounds
of salt pork, two and one-fourth
pounds of flour, one pound of salt
herring and a daily ration of one
can of water for drinking and wash
ing purposes. These rations are
furnished from the ships stores, but
each passenger must furnish his
own butter, sugar, mustard, strip,
pepper and vinegar. Each passen-
ger is responsible for bringing his
own bed clothing and tin dishes for
eating, drinking and washing pur-
poses. The ships master has the
right to withhold water rations until
the promenade deck has been swept
and cleaned each day by the pas
sengers."
Many other items of interest to
ocean-going travellers are exhibited
at the Gothenburg museum.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-12-15
Woman Magician Does
Her Tricks at Age 1O7

ANCONA, ITALY. = Born in
central Italy lot years ago, For
tunata Reghizzi earns her living
going from village to village en-
PERTAINING children by doing
sleight of hand tricks. Her 30
year-old daughter accompanies
her and assists in performing
some of the tricks. The husband
of the century old woman served
as an officer under Garibaldi;
their three sons died in the World
war.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-12-15
Australia's Surplus of
Food to Go to Britain

CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA.-Brit-
aims food supply for the new war
was bolstered under an arrange
ment announced by Prime Minister
Robert MenZieS.
The arrangement calls for British
purchase of Australia's surplus pro-
duction of butter, cheese, meat and
eggs and canned and dried fruit.
Meanwhile, the government, act
ing upon advice of defense experts,
decided to call up the entire militia
of 5000 for training.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-12-15

Governor Herbert r. O'Conor has
been advised by Russell B. Allen,
Secretary of the Maryland Society
of Professional Engineers, Incor-
porated, of the passage of resolu-
ton by the Society expressing its
appreciation for his efforts on be-
half of the Engineering Profession
in Maryland.
The resolution specifically approx
ed the appointment as Chairman of
the State Roads Commission of a
Professional Engineer, Major Ezra
B. Whitman, and also the signing of
Senate Bill No. EOS, providing for
hte registration of Professional En-
gineers and Land Surveyors.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-12-15

The incredible destruction of ship
ping, principally Allied and neutral,
which has taken place in the early
months of the war, has military OBJ
servers all over the world scratch
ing their heads. No one, apparently,
thought sinkings would reach such
a total. Today the mine and U-Boat,
rather than the airplane and the
tank and the cannon ARE the most
effective instruments of warfare.
OF the two, the mine has proven
by far the most effective-U-Boat
sinkings are now far in the minority.
The German surprise technique OF
releasing mines from submarines,
and smaller, parachute-equipped
mines from airplanes, has proven
extraordinarily successful. 1t Is OBJ
vious in violation of international
Law.
The rumor that the Germans have
perfected some magnetic device
which attracts mines to ships pass
ing by some distance away, is dis
counted 100 per cent by American
scientists, for various technical
reasons. Far more likely is the as
sumption that the seas have been
literally strewn with free mines,
which makes a knowledge of plan
ned mine fields next to useless to
ships.
How to clear the seas when war
Il over seems to be a potential prob
lem that no one has yet been able
to answer.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-12-15
Ground Directs Lightning

Not only the height Of building
or of a tree, but also the nature of
the ground on which it rests, is of
prime importance in determining
whether it will be struck by light
ming, Science Service says. That
lightning chooses the path of least
electrical resistance is the conten-
ton of L. N. Bogoiavlensky, Soviet
scientist, in a letter to Nature, the
British scientific journal. The re-
sistance of the air, he explains, is
influenced by the radioactivity of
the rocks below it, "since radioac-
tive materials constantly give off
radiation which increases the Joni
cation and the electrical conductive.
ity of the air"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-12-15

The war influence has produced
two new toys for the Christmas
trade abroad. In London, mechan-
ical toy is being featured which
represents Chamberlain whacking
Hitler over the head with an UNI
brella. In Paris the favorite toy
contains figures of Hitler and Goer-
ing, dressed as Don Quixote and
Sancho Panza, fitting at windmill
representing world opinion.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-12-15

At the recent annual meeting of
the American Cooperative Institute,
considerable discussion was given
to plans for establishing courses on
cooperative marketing of agricultur-
al products in agricultural colleges
and high schools.
That idea deserves attention
among educators. A very consider
able percentage of young Americans
plan to devote their lives to farming.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-12-15
Luck Runs Out at "a

LONDON fighting in four
wars, surviving shipwreck in
which 100 men were drowned, and
living through famine in Russia,
John Bell Findlay, an 84-year-old
sea captain, was knocked down and
killed by motor car in London
suburban street.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-12-15

So far the war has taught US
that ground guns which don't hit
anything can drive away an enemy
plane which has no bombs.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-12-15

Philosophy is merely the realiza-
ton that natural laws and human
dscency usually make things turn
ont all right if you wait.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-12-15

If q man doesn't know when to
be silent he doesn't know when to
speak.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-12-15

Another proof of will power Is
to have a sore spot and not poke
it or monkey with it,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-12-15

A diplomat is a man who has ac-
ouired the art Of knowing how to
wait patiently until his turn comes.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-12-15

Irregular honesty is harder tt
manage than regular dishonesty.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-12-15

1t is the clean tablecloth that
catches the early grease spot.
The Washington times., 1939-01-16
and self-administered death.

ana SelI-aQmlnlSCeTeQ OedGu.
The leg j rate for loans of
more than $500 in Virginia
is 6 per cent-and the same
rule applies to Maryland-which
is eminently fair. People Of sub
stance and standing have no diff
Guilty in obtaining money at these
rates. But now enters into the
setup in both States. "the small
loan law" which is practically the
same in both Commonwealth.
and in a number of other States.
Even these generous rates for the
lender were grudgingly accepted
by the loan-shark lobbies in State
capitols. And Is lobbyists nsuC-
cesSfully opposed regulatory laws
introduced in the Louisiana legis-
lature. This measure covers
sums loaned up to $500. The
legal rate of interest is 31a per
cent per month. But, as be,
fore stated, if you start slipping
there's no telling where you will
end up-indeed, some have ended
dangling from a rope thrown
across a tree branch. in the gas
filled interior Of o little unpaid-for
automobile, in the Potomac River,
The Washington times., 1939-01-16


It is well that we cease to supply the Jap
anese with military planes. But if we are to
stop supplying one set Of nations, then we must
also stop supplying to the other set Of nations.
Wheat Conference BOgs DOwn
VTHE INTERNATIONAL WHEAT CONFER
l. ENCE is begged down again at London.
The prospects of wheat surplus Of such pro
portions as to send prices sagging to the point
Of disaster for farmers has been put up to repre-
Sentatives Of 20 nations.
The inability of Secretary Wallace to make
up his mind what course to pursue resulted in
the conference steadily decaying from a point
at which one time there appeared high hopes
Of success.
Having done a personal selling job on the
major wheat countries of the world Ambassador
Kennedy. chairman of t. wheat committee,
} even succeeded in bringing Argentina into line
on antidumping agreements, when Wallace
backed out!
Kennedy threatened to resign the chairman
The Washington times., 1939-01-16
individual and the State

individual and the State
TONY EDEN has made another speech-his
first since his famous piece in New York.
This one was addressed to 1000 American bust
ness men, residents in England - which shows
how hard Tony is working on Uncle Sam and
all his children!
Seemingly, however, he mixed his signals a
little. At one point in his speech he declared:
"A new form of State idolatry has been
created, carried onward with the fever of excite
ment Under that, the State is set up above the
individual . Neither in this country nor the
United States is there the least danger that
such doctrines will receive any measure of sup
port They conflict utterly with our concep
tions of the rights Of national and individual
freedom"
Having spoken thus, Tony came up later with
this:
Britain land America) face this difficult
problem of adjustment. It is important to dis
tinguiSh between the rights Of the individual
and individualism. The rights of the individual
must be related to the needs of the society in
which those rights must be exercised . If the
needs of the State are subordinated. then all is
swept away and the rights OF the individual will
be lost along with the rest"
Copyright Ledger syndicate)
(BoGke CGrter'S opinions are his otDn and not
necessarily those OF The Washington TtresJ
The Washington times., 1939-01-16

New Orleans, Miami, and
scores Of lesser towns. It
sounds exciting enough in the
anticipation, but I am afraid
some Of the old-time thrill has
vanished from these cross-
country jaunts. There was a
day when a trip from coast to
coast was something to tingle
the spine: there was a mixture
Of excitement and fear. If, by
Stagecoach, there were the
dangers Of highwaymen and
horrendous discomfortS of the
The Washington times., 1939-01-16
Loan LQW'S
LOOphOle

Revision Of the Districts
''lOan shark" law to prevent
exOrbitant charges for small
loans will he sought in this
Congress by local officials.
Corporation Counsel El-
wood Seal said plans are
being made to submit a draft
Of the proposed legislation
to the Budget Bureau for ap-
prOval.
Present law limits interest
charges to 1 per cent .
month. but makes no pro-
vision for "surchargeS." The
contemplated IegiSla a tiOn
would limit all interest to l
per cent.
The Washington times., 1939-01-16

he has brought to thousands
Of people over the radio, and
what a huge salary he must
get, it seems a pity that he
should go through all this
mental worry and distress for
Just $2,231.
OF course, smuggling Is an
illegal and a wicked thing,
but somehow I think If Benny
had had any real intention OF
smuggling, he wouldn't have
taken a chance for this small
-
The Washington times., 1939-01-16

ming into the hundreds per cent.
spreading over the years, plling up
misery and apprehension night
and day, day and night, wrecking
careers. ripping away jobs. open.
ing prison doors. ending some
tiIres--aS 1t has right in this Dis
trict of Columbian self-sought
The Washington times., 1939-01-16
MONDAY, JAN. Is, 1889
By Evalw WIahh Mclean

things we are not doing anything wrong is be-
cause we look upon Uncle Sam as such ire
mendous big, impersonal organization. And the
people who know better, and really go ahead and
try to smuggle things in take It more or less
as a joke and don't consider it serious. OF
course this is wrong, and it is a mighty good
thing they are being stricter each year about
customs regulations.