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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-07-21
Factory of Roman Era
Unearthed in England

An industrial establishment with
number of furnaces and part Of
blacksmith's forge has been dis
closed on the Roman site at Colliton
Park, Dorchester, says the Times,
of London.
''On the western part of the area
one of the large buildings has been
uncovered, and from the number of
furnaces it contains appears to have
been some kind of industrial estab-
ishment. So far, however, it has
not been possible to determine what
was manufactured. One curious fea-
ture is large shallow pit cut down
into the chalk which was found to
be filed with ashes and a mass of
small single.
ITO the north of this building part
of a blacksmith's forge has been
disclosed with a neatly built hearth
of limestone blocks. Two short lines
of animal bones project outward
from it on either side. These bones,
carefully embedded upright on the
chalk floor, would appear to have no
practical use, and it may be sup
posed they had some superstitious
significance.
''Iron, fragments were found in
the ashes of the forge, and also a
number of Third century coins and
gaming counters.
"a cutting into the bank behind
the Roman town wall has revealed
the manner in which this work was
strengthened with a rubble core and
a revetment wall at the foot.
ION the eastern part of the site
trial trenches have remained of a
Roman street running north and
south. This is lightly metaled and
must have been once of the minor
streets running between some of the
insulac, or blocks of buildings.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-07-21
Federal Report Scores
Billboards on HIGHWAYS

WASHINGTON.-The bureau Of
public roads, in its report recon-
mending a nationwide national de-
tense highway system, took crack
at the billboards and roadside
stands, labelling them positive
menaces" to driving safety which
unjust be controlled"
'The mere presence of these nu-
merous, close-crowding objects and
establishments is a distraction to
drivers of vehicles" the bureau
said. -"Some of them, by every con-
ceivable device, endeavor to attract
the attention of drivers of vehicles
from their primary responsible
ity; most of them contribute largely
to the hazards of unexpected stop
ping, turning, and emergence upon
the highways of both vehicles and
pedestrians.
"All are positive menaces and
must be controlled, and the only
probability of material improve
ment lies in a general and substan-
tial widening of the rights-of-way of
the more important roads, together
with effective border control"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-07-21

Truth" will be the subject of the
Lesson-Sermon In all Churches OF
Christ Scientist on Sunday, July %.
The Golden Text will be from
John 17:11, II, Holy Father, keep
through thine own name those whom
thou hast given me, that they may
be one, as we are. .Sanctify them
through thy truth; thy word is
truth"
Among the citations comprising
the Lesson-Sermon will be the fol-
lowing from the Bible, Psalms: 20
send out thy light and thy truth; let
them lead me; let them bring me
into, thy holy hill, and to thy taber-
nacles."
The Lesson-Sermon also will in
clude passages from the Christian
Science textbook, Science and
Health with Key to the Scriptures"
by Mary Baker Eddy. among which
is the following. page 312, "Mortals
try to believe without understanding
Truth; yet God is Truth
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-07-21
THE ssDREAM" THAT CAME
TRUE

Despite objections and ridieule
from Anti-New Dealers, the New
Deal Department of Agriculture has
gone right ahead with it's tree
planting on the praries, with the re-
suit that in three OF four years 1t
has turned some of the so-called
drought section into a national
bread-basket. Eleven thousand miles
of tree strips, which means III
million trees, now protect multi
tude of farms from soil and crop
destroying dust storms. The trees
also act as snow holders. The scient-
lists figure that every such snow re-
tanned is equivalent to from i've to
ten inches of rain fall.
These dreaming theorists put In
eighteen-inch seedlings, which are
now elms and cottonwoods, etc.,
thirty to thirty-fve feet tall, in the
soil where trees would not grow,
according to the declarations OF
those whose creed is that the Presi-
dent is always wrong.
The farmers estimate a tree strip
as worth $1,000 to a twenty-acre
farm. All, but the cost? Well, the
cost to the Government amounts to
about four cents per tree. Every
big dust storm they have had in
that part of the country caused
damage more than the whole cost OF
the linear forests.
Isn't that a terrible boondoggling?
It is so appalling that the farmers
along the line, who were originally
taught that trees could not thrive
there, are now clamoring for more
and more trees. Presently the term
Dust Bowl will he as archaic as
..The Great American Desert of the
ancient maps of the United States.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-07-21
Building Rises as
Silent Monks Toll
abandoned Project Taken
Up by Cisterciarss.

LONDON. - Eighty men spend
their lives learning how to die at a
monastery in Charnwood Forest,
Leicestershire.
They rise every morning at two
and go to bed at night at seven.
No woman has ever set foot in their
house. No words pass their lips.
Nearly five years ago Trappist
monks from Mount st. Bernard alb
hey, Leicestershire, vowed to cele-
brate the centenary of the return
of the Cistercians to England by
completing their church, begun
many years before, but left unfin-
ished through lack of funds.
Today the 100-foot tower rises
above the trees. 1t is now expected
to be furnished and decorated in
time to be consecrated this sum-
mer.
Just over a century ago six monks
took possession of tiny, half-ruincd
cottage in the depths of the wood.
All around was desolate, untitled
waste.
Snow and rain beat on them as
they lay down each night for five
hours sleep, rising at midnight to
sing hymns in their wooden chapel,
and going out before the dawn to
pillow and sow.
Today Mount st. Bernard takes it's
place with the greatest of the
Cistercian abbeys-Beaulieu, Foun-
tains, Rievaulx, Kirkstall, Tintern,
Margam-and its model farm of 600
acres is one of the most successful
in the midlands.
Some of the brothers once were
successful men in the world OUT
side. One, still young, held $1,000
a year job with the London County
Council. Now he tailors the monks
long habits and cowls.
A once-famous musician plays the
organ when the community troop
into their church to worship, seven
times a day.
Two Of the monks were police
men, one drove a lorry, and one
captained university football
team.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-07-21
MEASURE CREATES SALARY
STANDARDS BOARD
Looks To Equalization OF Pay
Among Classified Service En-
ployees Performing Com
parable Service

In signing Senate Bill 203, pass
ed by the recent session of the Gem
eral Assembly, Governor Herbert
r. O'Conor assured for present and
future employees of the State of.
Maryland an equitable compensation
schedule for all classes of positions
in the Classified Service.
The new law provides for the
creation of Salary Standards
Board, composed of three mem
bers, whose duties it will be to pre-
pare a pay schedule and determine
minimum salaries for the various
classes Of positions in the Classified
Service of the State. Its schedules
and rules, after approval by Cover
nor, will have the force of law, and
hereafter will be employed as a
basis for salary acquisitions by De-
partments and Institutions for sue
ceeding budgets.
Two OF Three Places Set
The Salary Standard Board will
be composed of the Commissioner
of State Employment and Registra-
ton, Col. Harry c. Jones; the Dir
ector of the budget, Walter N. Kirk
man; and a third member, who
shall be familiar with industrial and
commercial employment and pay
policies in the State. He is to be
appoined for term of six years.
After consultation with appoint
ing authorities, the Salary Stand
ards Board will prepare and recon-
mend to Governor O'Conor pay
plan for all classes of positions in
the Classified service to the end
that all positions therein involving
comparable duties, experience, re-
sponsibilities and authority shall be
paid in accordance with the standard
salary schedule. In establishing rates
of pay, the Salary Standards Board
will give consideration to expert
ence, the prevailing rates of pay
for the services performed, and for
comparable services in private and
public employment, living costs,
ceived by employees, and the States
financial condition and policies.
Law Not Retroactive
The Law provides, however, that
the rate of pay of any employee,
who at the time of the effective date
at this act is paid at higher rate
than the maximum rate of the scale
prescribed for the class, shall not
be reduced by reason of the estab-
lishment of the standard rates of
pay prescribed, SO long as he re-
mains the incumbent Of the same
position and class, but the rate for
his successor in the same position
and class shall conformto the rate
of pay prescribed for his position
and class.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-07-21
The question is up: Is journalism

The question is up: Is journalism
letting the people down?
A lot of reckless charges have
been laid against the newspapers
and general accusations are being
made by political leaders that the
newspapers have been betraying the
people. Some of them say radio is
the thing! Most broadcasts do not
indicate that experience and quail
locations in choosing the artists"
Radio certainly goes far beyond the
limit in transmitting silly programs
Ray Howard, is one OF America 8
most successful editors. He sees
journalism as ''the peoples refuge. !"
He says that a newspaper sometimes
becomes ''midly intoxicated, and
puffed up by its own Importance. !"
That is a fair criticism. but on the
other hand the press is courageous
in its opposition to what Mr. How
ard calls .'demagogic formula"
The people of the United States
are the best informed public in the
world today. Their newspapers have
made them SO. American newspapers
strive for high ideals.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-07-21
LABOR's ATTITUDE

Labor is running true to CLIO form
in striking on PWA projects because
Congress recently passed legislation,
the purpose of which was to get
some where near value in return
for money expended on public pro-
jects.
The Works Project law was
amended by Congress and a new
schedule of longer hours at the old
rate of pay required. Naturally this
did not coincide with the views OF
WPA Workers, large numbers OF
whom believe in doing as little as
possible in as few hours as possible,
hence the strikes against the new
order of things.
So long as the increased hours
schedule is the law the only thing
to do is to enforce that provision.
Congress only can change it. 1t is not
an effort to reduce wages of union
artisans in private industry and
should not wrongly be construed as
such.
The legislation is the measured
purpose OF Congress- to provide sub
sistence compensation for jobless
skilled workers until they can find
employment in private fields, and
as such form OF relief should be well
coined by them until they can hnd
employment at prevailing usually
union-wages in regular channels OF
craftsmanship.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-07-21
FARMERS ON LOOKOUT FOR
SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION

Any notion that the American
farmers fell into an unprogressive
rut during the depression is dis
PEELED by the announcement of the
results of personal interviews with
$4,000 farmers in 35 States, which
disclose that farmers are more
eager to learn and to use the latest
scientific farming methods than they
were in the boom days Of 1928.
This year more than So per cent
of the farmers attended meetings
or demonstrations held by their
county agents, and more than %
per cent made the long drive to
their State experiment stations
farm and fields for up-to-date point
.ers on advanced farming, it is an
nounced by The National Fertilizer
Association which conducted the Ma
tion-wide poll.
This mass pilgrimage to centers
of agriculture information repre-
sents gain of 16 per cent in the
number of farmers who reported
that they attended county agents
meetings and demonstrations, over
similar survey made by the As
ISOLATION ten years ago. The in
creased demand for scientific infor-
nation is further evidenced by the
fact that there was an per cent
gain in the number of farmers who
visited their State experiment sta
lions over the number who made
the trip ten years ago.
Alertness at these meetings is
testified to by farmers answers to
the question, did you get informa-
ton of practical value from the
meetings Or demonstrations attend
ed?" Fifty-four per cent of those
who attended reported learning
farming practices which proved val
liable to them in dollars and cents.
Ten years ago, the number who said
the information was helpful was
only "a per cent. That 92 per cent
of the farmers reported using fer
tilizer of some kind is also indica-
tive of their general acceptance of
good farming methods.
Recognition of the fact that bet
ter farming pays, is in large
measure due to newspapers. maya
zines, and reliable sources of farm
information, both public and pri-
vite. which during the past ten
years have dramatized and present.
ed the value of improved farming
practices. The extension service has
more than kept pace and met the
increase demands upon it.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-07-21
COnOWInG0 pOWeR company
-1ioe Electrically and Saue
AUTOMOBILE FATALITIES IN
CREASING IN STATE

Automobile fatalities continued to
show an increase over last year as
the State concluded the first six
months of the year with 179 deaths
resulting from automobile accidents
compared to 173 during the same
period in 1888.
According to the records of the
Baltimore Safety Council, fatalities
increased in Baltimore to an even
greater extent than in the State at
large Their figures show that sixty
six persons have met death in auto
accidents this year as compared to
forty-seven during the first half of
last year.
This year 5,816 automobile acct
dents have been recorded as COM
pared to 5,718 In these accidents
2,502 persons have been injured,
while 2,402 were hurt last year.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-07-21
WHY the Weather?

Albedo! This earth of ours would
be hotter if its "albedo" (reflecting
power) were less. It could then alb
sorb more heat. Earthlight, as
viewed from the moon, is about 40
times as bright as moonlight on the
earth. This is because the earth is
q better reflector or mirror than
the moon. The earth reflects almost
half the light received from the sun,
whereas the moon reflects only z
per cent. The clouds and snow
fields of the earth are responsible
for its high rejecting power. Snow
reflects rs per cent; water 2 per
cent when the sun strikes it at a
high angle, and rs per cent when at
a very low angle.-Science Service.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-07-21
New Game for U. s.

Jai-Alai pronounced hi-li), the
national game Of Spain, has found
favor with American audiences.
Few Americans participate, how
ever, because years of training are
necessary. The game is played
with long, curved rackets, woven
from straw, called cestas. which
are used to throw a hard ball, called
the pelota, against a solid wall,
much like the American game Of
handban is played. There are only
two frontons (stadiums) in the Unit
ed States, one in New York city and
the other at Miami, Fla. In Spain
many of the churches are built with
one side fiat so 1t can be used by
jai-alai players.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-07-21

Government researches indicate
that persons who do night driving
and experience unusual discomfort
at approaching headlights may be
victims of Vitamin A deficiency
without realizing it, themselves. Ad-
dition of an amply supply OF
oranges to the diet will do much to
correct this condition. Eggs. butter,
cod liver oil, kale, parsley, peppers,
spinach, sweet potatoes and turnip
greens also are excellent sources Of
this vitamin.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-07-21

for corn, oats, barley, rye, tame hay.
tobacco, and soybeans are more than
Offset by a drastic decrease in win
ter wheat and small decrease in
potatoes and cowpeas. Indicated
yields for most of the main crops
are below last year but near aver
age except corn, which is about
bushels per acre above average. Tot
al production Of main crops is in
Dictated to be below last year except
barley. rye, and sweetpotatoes,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-07-21

Even honesf-to-goodness
hardened dirt formers get
a big kick out of the Elec-
trified Farm. City folks ore
all ogog over it. And no
wonderl Il is the lost word
in productive, easy FORM
ing-equipped with every
conceivable electrical
help. No mere show place
lit actually works. Don't
miss it'll
And while you're at the
Fair, be sure to stop at the
"Forword March Of Amer
ico"-your utility's exhibit.
This vnfoIds the amazing
growth Of electricity from
1892 down to 1899 in a
most dramatic fashion.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-07-21
Wheeler Won't Run

A peculiar sort of boom was start
ed by some of the Washington poll
ticians for Senator Burton K.
Wheeler. In part number one
Wheeler was described as 1.-THE man"
for Vice-President under Mr.. Roose-
welt. 1t didn't click. Then Wheeler
was s'favorably mentioned" for Pres
ident Reporters ipauiring into the
matter found that Wheeler won't
run" Evidently he knew there was
a hook concealed in the bait. Wheel
err has background. He deserted
the Democratic party and was the
Vice-Presidential candidate with
the senior Senator LaFollette on the
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-07-21
GIVING PUBLIC WHAT IT WANTS
J. E. Jones

"Oh wad some power the gifie gle us
ITO see oursel's as others see us!
''It wad frae monte blunder free us,
"And foolish notion"
Wistful, yet wise, still remains
that plea of Bobbie Burns, uttered
so many years ago. Hardly would the
Scottish bard ever have dreamed,
back in the eighteenth century, that
today great business concerns would
be striving to transform his fanci-
full wish into vitual reality.
Many business today-through
public and Industrial relations,
through surveys and missionaries,
through multifarious means-is
seeking a mirror to give true re-
Election of the impressions of others
toward itself, while at the same
time, admittedly, endeavoring to
give to others a better picture of
itself.
One of the most effective efforts in
the work of the Customer Research
Staff of General Motors Corporation
through which has been develop
ed THE Proving Ground of Public
Opinion" Each year G. MS Gus
toner Research Staff invites more
than 100000 motorists, owners OF
all makes of cars, "to pool their
practical experience with the technic-
al skill of General Motors engine
ers"
This activity, CARED on mainly
through illustrated and informative
QUESTIONABLE booklets, goes even
further than merely probing to
learn what the public thinks of G..
NJ products. Through it, General
Motors aims to anticipate the Gus
toners needs, tastes and desires as
bearing on the design of future pro-
ducts, not only as regard specific
features of design, equipment and
accessories, but also as regards what
might be called the overall results
or effects" of design.
In other words, the motorist is in
vited to rate" the degree of impor-
lance that he attaches to such things
as Appearance, Speed, Safety, Eco
nomy, Comfort, etc. Incidentally
the latest tabulation of the nation
wide ballot shows Dependability
Operation Economy and Safety to
be the most important factors in the
minds of the practical motorists.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-07-21
Maryland CROP REPORT

College Park, Md. July 1.-THE
total acreage of Maryland field crops
for harvest this year is about two
percent below last year. according
to the July crop survey made by
the Maryland Crop Reporting Ser
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-07-21
"Frozen Minds"

Some one accuse Jesse H. Jones
with having a frozen mind toward
small business all because he is
cautious about making so-called
character loans" with taxpayers
money. Well there is a question
that is as old as civilization.
However, the record shows that
Jones does not have frozen mind"
towards citizens struggling to get
ahead. He has favored the New Deal
plans for endorsing home loans, agri-
cultural loans, building loans, and
other loans. Jones is accepted in
Washington as semi-conservative,
and libebral-minded enough to suit
everybody.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-07-21

Progressive ticket in 1920. He led
the remarkable fight against Presi-
dent Roosevelt's attempt to purge"
the Supreme Court.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-07-21
Seeing "Good orsummertime"

The Atlantic City Boardwalk has
long been known as 'the show win
dow of the nation 1t is sort of a
permanent worlds fair, and one of
the advantages is that it stretches
out for several miles along the
beach. There are restful ways to see
it all, and when coupled with a va
cation the human mind and DISPOSE
ton are readily tuned in to get the
full benefits of the show windows.
While most of the Atlantic and Pa
cific coasts are usually included in
vacations there are only limited
number of these resorts that are
all-year-round places. The railroads
consider Atlantic City at the head of
the latter list and different lines are
featuring it in their advertising as
a part of a Worlds Fair trip.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-07-21

Intervention in love is equivalent
to declaration Of war.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-07-21

ooh wad some power the gifie gle us
ITO see oursel's as others see us!
''It wad frae monte blunder free u.s.,
"And foolish notion
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-07-22

DR.. Clendening will answer
questions of general interest
only, and then only through
his column.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-07-22
Avoid Watermelon
By Proper Posture

proportion of average citizens with
good posture is negligible. But this
does not mean it is not important.
Bad posture does not kill, but it
heightens greatly the irritability
rate.
The greatest obstacle to good pos
ture was placed in our way long
time ago, when one of our very early
ancestors decided to stand on his
hind legs. Man was never designed
to assume the upright attitude.
But since he assumed it, let US
make the best of it. The back should
be straight, the head up, "looking
for enemies"
How to cultivate this posture?
DR.. Whitman warns against the slo-
gan, Throw your shoulders back"
Doing so gives you still further
hollow back and pot-belly. The most
important thing posture accom-
plishes is to give the abdominal
organs support and keep them from
pudding. If you tighten your ab-
dominal muscles, you strengthen
and lengthen your spine, and you
look healthier and more successful,
you feel that way and are that way.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-07-22
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

A. A: G.. you please devote
little space in your daily column
to the subject of excessive perspi-
ration? I am troubled by this con-
dition, especially in the feet and un-
der the arms. The waist and arms
are always rolling in perspiration.
On occasion when excited or nervous
the arms become instantly wet"
Answer: This is very annoying
condition. It affects a certain ner-
vous type of individual. And moth
ing very helpful can be done about
it. The human race has been di-
vided into vagatonics and sympathi-
cotonics. depending upon which half
Of the involuntary nervous system
predoni:.atcs The involuntary ner-
vai1s system controls the glands Of
persj,isa ssiol. Ehat the above
an cunts to j: like SAYING there are
sweaters an1 nor-sweatcrs. Person
ally, would rather be a sweater.
They are more active and alert and
aggressive anyway. l wish there
were some other reliable advice I
could give you, but really the only
thing to do is grin and bear it.