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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-05-26
PUKINA MILLS IS
BIG CUSTOMER OF
AMERICAN FARMER

st. Louis, Mo.-Purina Mills, manu-
facturers of checkerboard feeds and
cereals, ranks high as customer of
the American Farmer, according to
Fred Osterkamp,' manager of the Mill
Supply Department for Purina Mills.
Approximately 10000 acres of soy
beans are required annually to supply
the soy bean meal Purina Mills uses in
it's feeds and concentrates. AS token
of appreciation, more than $4,000, 900 is
paid annually to soy bean farmers for
their product.
It would require one milking from
100000 average cows to produce the
dried milk that goes into Purina elbows
each year.
Sufficient flour to give every inhabi-
tant of Canada 16-ounce loaf of bread
every day for los days must be milled
to supply the mill feed used in year
by Purina Mills.
The yield from $4,000 acres of good
alfalfa land is required to furnish
Purina Mills it's yearly requirement Of
alfalfa meal. More than one and one
quarter million dollars are paid to al
falfa farmers for this crop.
If the beet pulp used by Purina Mills
in a year were to be made into spag-
hetti or macaroni, the supply would
feed every person in Italy for four days.
AS everyone knows, most Italians
throw dieting out the window"
The offal from 10,250,0OO hogs or S.
$4,000 steers is required to furnish
Plrina Mills its annual requirement of
meat scrap and tankage.
To provide the cottonseed meal
needed by Purina Mills annually for its
feeds and concentrates requires the seed
from 278,3O0 acres Of cotton. That's a
lot of cotton when one thinks of the
blowing and picking that must be done.
Being the manufacturer of the two
wheat rehabilitation Wheat Cereal
and Shredded Ralston-Purina Mills
must buy annually large quantity of
high-grade wheat. Also, sizeable
amount of rye is bought to make its
popular, mountaineering wafer - Ry
Krisp. Yes, Purina Mills is really a
big customer of the American Farmer,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-05-26
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SERVICES

Ancient and Modern Necrom-
ancy, Alias Mesmerism and Hypnot-
ism, Denounced" will be the subject
of the Lesson-Sermon In all Churches
of Christ, Scientist, on Sunday,
May %.
The Golden Text will be from
Eek. 1879, mine hand shall be
upon the people that see vanity, and
that divine lies. and We shall know
that I am the Lord God"
Among the citations comprising
the Lesson-Sermon will be the fol-
lowing from the Bible, Matt. 5:3:
BLESSED are the poor in spirit, for
theirs is the kingdom of heaven"
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
the following page SO, Science only
can explain the incredible good and
evil elements now coming to the
surface. Mortals must find refuge in
Truth in order to escape the error
of these latter days"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-05-26
OUR MEMORIAL DAY

The years have brought changes
in the Memorial Day, but funda-
mentally it remains the same.
When Gen. John A. Logan, as COM
mander in chief of the Grand Army
of the Republic, asked a general
observance OF May 80 as Memorial
ial day, a custom began that de-
voted it's attention chiefly to Dec
Grating the graves of soldiers and
sailors who had been killed in the
war. Men and women OF middle
years remember how the veterans
of that war, still staiwart and Wig
orous, slowed the pace of tLeir Me-
mortal day march to accommo-
date a few feeble survivors OF the
war with Mexico. ALI the Mexican
war soldiers are gone, Seventy odd
years after the surrender at Apo
mattox the surviving soldiers or
the Civil war stand in the same
relationship as did their brothers
in arms who enlisted for battle
with Mexico. Out of the thousands
of @. A. R. members who once took
the lead in Memorial day plans, but
few remain, and they have lived
out the Scriptures allotted span.
AS the goal of every war is peace
SO the struggle for peace through
out the world becomes more slgnln-
cant on Memorial day. 1t is on this
day more than any other that the
toll of war is seen in the long rows
of white-crossed graves at nome
and abroad, and where the little
flags wave in cemeteries through
out America. On this Memorial
day the nation yearns for the main
>tenance of an honorable peace with
other nations, near and far. It views
with dismay the race among COM
peting nations for more powerful
military establishments, and 1t re-
news it's ancient pledge, to meet
them round a conference table, SO
that war will be no more, and
that justice and reason mey rule
where conflict once held sway.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-05-26
Hornbill, Odd Bird, Has
Beak Heavier Than BODY

Hornbills, birds of the Picarian
order, range from about II inches
in length to one which measures five
feet from the tip II the beak to the
end of the tail. When we look at
one of the larger hornbills, observes
a writer in London Tit-Bits maya
zine, we wonder how it manages to
keep its balance with beak that APP
pears to be heavier than the body.
Some species carry crown or horn
above the great beak, and this adds
to the weight.
It is thought that the strange APP
pearance of hornbills caused the an
cient invaders of India to originate
the myth of the phoenix. This tells
us of fabulous female bird that
lived for five or six hundred years
in the desert, then built for herself
a funeral pyre Of wood and aro-
matte gums, to which she set fire by
the tanning of her wings, and so con-
sumed herself; but from the ashes
she sprang up again in youth and
freshness to live a few more CEN
turtles.
The hornbills Of Africa have a
loud, weird cry which often fright
ans superstitious natives; it resem-
kles the braying of an ass or the
loud cries of person in pain.
This remarkable note not only keeps
away native hunters, but also mon
keys, wild cats, and other creatures
that might prey upon them.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-05-26
A BETTER PRICE
FOR GULL COWS

st. Louis, Mo.-Cull dairy cows that
are in better flesh and condition COM
mand higher price than the average
run of Gull cows. And it really takes
no great investment in time or feeding
to add the extra finish that gets the
better prices. A mixture of 1,700 lbs.
of ground ear corn and 300 lbs. of
Purina steer Fatena is widely used
ration to put flesh on thin stuff. Such
a mixture is reasonable in cost, espe-
cially where a feeder grows his own
grain, for then he has to buy but 800
lbs. of this balancing concentrate to
make a ton of fattening feed.
In feeding this ration. a week should
be taken to gradually place the Gull
COWS on full feed. After that. the ra-
ton should be kept before them in self
feeders or troughs until they carry
enough flesh to get the better price.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-05-26
MAssING OF THE COLORs

The annual massing OF the col
ors service at Washington Ca
thedral has became an lnstltu-
ton of the life of the Nation
Capital. For several years the pa
triotic organizations of the city
have Joined in the impressive COM
memoration of the heroic dead, and
the beautiful southern slope OF
Mount St. Adams is perfect place
of assembly for the thousands VINO
have wished to attend.
Nowhere else in the United States
is there to be found a more deeply
stirring spectacle than the process
sion of flags which is distinguish
ing feature of each reccurent occa-
sion. There are usually more than
six hundred banners in line when
the bugles sound the signal to ad-
vance. The bearers start from st.
Adams Parish church, at the west
gate of the Cathedral Gloss; fol
low the tree-sheltered lane into the
Cathedral walls and descend into
the amphitheater by way OF the Pill
grims' Steps-a brilliant tide OF
red, white and blue flowing TO the
music of drums and trumpets.
The service proper centsrs about
a cross of peoples raised in a wood
land grove which nature seems pur-
posely to have provided.
No UNCONVENTIONAL differences
mar the event, no political disson-
ance disturbs it. And no chau-
whistle extravaganza ever is per-
mitted to intrude. Gratitude and re-
spect, tolerance and peace are the
keynotes Of the rites. Invariably,
the President speaks or sends his
greeting, and the sermon OF the
bishop of Washington is an appeal
to conscience of the multitude to
the end that ''these dead shall not
have died in vain"
The service is a memorable ex-
perience of the type which, at least
once in his career, every American
should have, observes a writer in
the Washington Star. Its pagean-
try, it's majesty, its living grandeur
and its compelling stimulation have
an enduring influence in the mind
and heart. 1t represents a nation
at worship, a nation aspiring to-
ward a common unselfish ideal, an
all-clusive love of country. God
and man.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-05-26
The Times Is Right

One reads with approval the COM
mendation of 1.-THE local paper" in an
editorial in the New York Times
which is often spoken of as the
greatest daily newspaper In the
world.
The local news paper tells the
story of the life of its churches,
schools, merchants, sports. clubs,
social functions, police, fires and
everything, according to listings of
it's merits by the Times.
Nowhere is the local newspaper
more in evidence than in the Ma
tional Capitol. Sacks of home papers
are delivered to Senators, Congress
men and Administration heads all
about Washington-from the White
House to the homes and boarding
houses where Government clerks
live.
No people know better than
Washington's political colonies that
the local newspapers smashed the
Presidential purges in the last cleo
ton. Every once in awhile The Pow
er of the Press is found to be the
power of the Nations local news
papers.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-05-26

President Roosevelt has been out
done by the Senate as a spender.
That body has added $50 million
dollars to the Administration recon-
mendations for the support of agri-
culture. The President and Secretary
Of the Treasury tell Congress that 1t
must originate new sources Of taxa
tion.
Congress puts the farmers in .
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-05-26

Claims of all kinds-original
continued and out-of-State-for the
four benefit weeks ending May ag-
gregated 92,574, while ths figure
for the four weeks Immediately pre-
ceding was S0,062.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-05-26

France is importing oysters-for
re-laying and breeding. Every time
minute goes by-70 oysters are
imported.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-05-26

Every go seconds, 5000 pounds
of paper are used in America for
printing the Nations books.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-05-26

classA for such help as the Govern
ment can furnish and runs out COM
pletely on its economy promises.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-05-26

Foot scientists figure that the
average letter carrier, in one min
ute, walks 160 feet.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-05-26

Diligence is a fair fortune and in
dustry good estate.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-05-26

Brazil, South America, produces
900 pounds Of cotton every minute.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-05-26
HOW ABOUT THIS WAR?
J. e. Jones

Washington, D. c. May ga
year ago the President and Congress
agreed that in case it was necessary
to prepare for war that they would
do so according to plan which
they worked out at the time, and
which was called "a notice to GER
tain nations in Europe of Americas
intentions when the time rlived to
get ready for the forthcoming bloody
event. 1t was perfectly simple. 1t
didn't cost anything to make a pro-
gram.
The program proved to be SO
full of promise of security to keep
the United States at peace with the
world, that the persent Congress gave
much oratory on the subject of re-
moteness from the dangers of war.
Then it decided to push the idea
along. That's how these mammoth
appropriations were prepared for
e-time-preparedness = for the
war that we wouldn't get into any
way.
including the groups that range from
pacifists to the fighting-ist kinds OF
military and naval leaders. Congress
apparently obeyed public opinion in
providing program for more and
greater ships, bigger, better and
more planes; stronger and more
efficient army, because the whole
idea was Peace-nO war to claim
American boys for cannon-fodders.
How about this war? In it's pres
ent stage it is fight over neutral
ity. That question involves our sup
port for the democracies, our boy
colts for the autocracies. But the
cool heads still reason and argue in
favor of the most popular notion of
all i. e.: Let Europe settle its own
troubles in its own way, because we
can't settle them, for them. Ameri-
can taxpayers will have enough to-
do, to settle the bills.
- y -
Reorganization OF Government
After quarreling for more than a
year about whether the President or
Congress should undertake the task
of recognizing the Government the
responsibility was won by the Presi-
dent The lawmakers tied strings
to the authority that they granted.
Now comes the first report from
the president to the Congress, in
which he proposes to merge 20
agencies of the Government into
three consolidated bureaus. The re-
action of Congress was very favor
able, particularly because the whole
political machine of the Federal
Government finds it's pets safely
protected in office. Few will lose
their places on the payrolls through
the big shuttle.
The president rings the bell by
pointing out certain improvements
in administrative management of the
Government that will provide saw
ings of from Is million to 20 mil
lion dollars a year-and hardly any
body hurt That's what the voters
and taxpayers want more OF. There
fore, the President undoubted takes
a good deal of comfort in the fact
that his sample is being SO favor
ably received by the two critical leg
islative bodies.
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The Times Is Right
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-05-26

Many a woman without brains il
able to fool a male highbrow.
Evening star., 1939-06-13
Senator Logan 10 Receive
National University Honor

The conferring of honorary doc
torate degrees on Senator Logan
of Kentucky and three prominent
graduates of the National University
Law School will mark the universi-
tvs commencement exercises in Me-
mortal Continental Hall at BIS
o'clock tonight.
Senator Logan, who will deliver
the commencement address, is a
former chief justice of the Court of
Appeals Of Kentucky. The other
honorary degrees will be conferrd
on George P. Barse, general counsel
to the controller of the currency;
William Barron Kerkam, president
Of the American Patent Law Asso-
citation, and John Clagett Proctor,
well-known Washington writer.
Dean Charles Pergler will award
the diplomas to the 285 graduates
OF the law school, while the presen-
tations in the School of Economics
and Government will be made by
Dean Eugene Carusi.
Associate Justice Jennings Bailey
Of the United States District Court
will award medals and prizes, and
Chancellor Leslie c. Garnett will
preside.
Evening star., 1939-06-13
Strict Enforcement
Speed Law Urged
1oCurb Fatalities
Blodensburg Citizens
Hear Talk or Truffic
BY Harry S. Wender

Discussing traffic as one of the
Districts most serious problems,
Harry S. Wender, president of the
Southwest Citizens Federation and
chairman of the Legislative Commit
tee of the Traffic Advisory Council,
last night urged more rigid en-
torcement Of the speed laws to help
curb fatalities, at the final meeting
OF the Bladensburg Road Citizens
Association.
Speaking as a representative of
TRAFFIC Director Van Duzer's Office,
he stressed the need for additional
District policemen, q stricter prose-
cution Of traffic offenders, and more
widespread scientific traffic investi-
cation work on the part of the
officers.
Thomas Named President.
As for the pedestrian, Mr.. Wender
remarked that since pedestrian con-
troll has been in effect there has
been decrease in the number of
accidents involving them. He an
nounced that the American Auto
mobile Association is holding the
first pedestrian control contest, and
the District of Columbia has been
entered He also praised an edi-
torial on traffic appearing recently
in The Evening Star.
William P. Thomas was elected
president to succeed John Wolf.
Other officers were as follows: H. I.
Sweeney, vice president; L. M.
Green, financial secretary: w. S.
Ahlberg, treasurer; Ruby Neal, Sec
retary; Mrs. Marie Mold. assistant
secretary: w. F. Ryan, delegate to
the Northeast conference, and Mr..
Thomas and Mr.. Green as dele
gates to the Federation of Citizens
Associations. Committee chairmen
were also named, and six new men,
bers were admitted.
Parking Violations Cited.
One member commented that al
though there are mo parking"
signs on Montana avenue NE, near
New York and West Virginia ave-
nues. they had not been entirely
effective and suggestion was made
that traffic officer be located there.
The widening and improvement of
Mills avenue at Twenty-fourth and
Franklin was also discussed. Mr..
Thomas stated that the sidewalk
requests in the territory were being
taken care of. The question of the
boundary line dispute with the
Rhode Island Avenue Citizens As
Sociation was also brought up, but
nothing was decided.
Several dead tree applications
were made, and criticism of some
tree trimmers was made by one
of the members. Double parking on
Mills avenue when there were any
special events in Langdon Park was
also criticized.
The meeting was held in the
Church of Christ, Twenty eighth
and Douglas streets NE, and mark
ed the third anniversary of the or.
ganization.
Evening star., 1939-06-13
Harold CIopp Dies;
Started Buby Food Firm
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated PreSS.
NEW YORK, June 13.-Harold
Clapp, 81, of Rochester, N. Y,
wealthy founder of Clapp's Baby
Foods, Inc, died today in Nassau
County Hospital, Long Island.
He collapsed at the home of
friends at Great Neck, Long Island,
during the hot spell last Friday.
Hospital physicians attributed his
death to stomach disorder.
Mr.. Clapp sold out his interest in
the baby food manufacturing con-
Germ bearing his name several years
ago.
Surviving are his widow and three
sons, Jack A., Donald S. and Charles
g. Clapp.
Evening star., 1939-04-10

book1e he'd
seen operating, and he went there
and gave the bookie the money and
told him what horses to bet on for
him. Mike knew horses pretty veil.
That night he went back to the
road camp. All the next week he
worked, and on Saturday he re-
turned to town. The bookie handed
him $43.5O. Mike thumbed through
the money. 1t looked like his luck
was running good. He added $40
from his weekly pay to the $4350
and gave it to the bookie. The next
week when he came in the bookie
had $2l313 ready for him.
Mike looked at the money. There
were two lbs in the sum. It was
easy money and it was a great
temptation to try and build 1t up.
But two lbs were bad. So he stuck
the money in his overall's pocket.
That night when he returned to
the camp there was no smoke on
the horizon. They told him the fire
was out. Two days later he was
laid Off
He counted up his capital. He
had $241.50. He felt good. He
wasn't hungry. He felt brown and
strong. He went in town and
bought himself a good looking suit
of clothes. He hired a room and
took bath and shaved and put
on his new clothes. Then he went
out. The sun was shining brightly
1t was warm and clear. He walked
around for awhile and tried to think
what he could do. He could 60
back North and buy into the filling
station that Joe Dayton owned on
the Northern pike. That would as
sure him of steady $50 a week. If
he was careful and saved he might
get a station of his own in a couple
of years.
Their he began thinking about the
horses. He knew horses. He'd al
ways followed the races. A smart
man ought to be able to turn a
couple of hundred dollars into a
thousand in no time Then he re-
membered the two lbs that had
turned up. That was bad, he
thought.
Mike sat down on a park bench
and tried to work it out First he
decided to 60 North. then he de-
cided to try the horses. A man
sat down beside him and tried to
engage him in conversation, but /
Mike paid no attention, and after
awhile the man got up and went
away. 1t got late. Finally Mike
came to decision. He'd toss a
coin. Tails he'd go North. Heads
he'd try the races.
He reached into his pocket for
a coin, but the pocket was empty. |
All his pockets were empty Mike |
remembered that the man who had !
tried to engage him in conversa-
ton had left hurriedly. A crooked |
smile came to Mikes face. "It's |
those 1885," he thought. 1.-TWO lbs
at once is bad"
(Copyrisht. 1939D
Evening star., 1939-04-10

100, ne inquired ne
might be able to get work in Florida
because of all the tourists down
there.
He almost starved bumming his
way down, but the day he landed
In St. Augustine there was cold
wave and he got job carrying oil
In buckets to fill the smudge pots
In citrus groves.
Gradually he worked his way
South toward Miami. living off of
fruit mostly and sleeping in the
open. He knocked around Miami
looking for work. Once he washed
dishes for a meal. He saw cops
looking at him queerly. He felt
self-conscious. Some day soon a
cop would start asking questions.
Then where would he be?
He'd heard unpleasant stories
about the way cops treated vagrants
in Florida. He began to get
scared.
Then fire started in the Ever
glades. He was passing a fire sta
ton and a chap called to him and
asked If he wanted a job fighting
a fire at 80 cents an hour? Mike
said he did. A flre-f1ghting job
couldn't last very long. but even
If it paid him only 80 cents he
could eat.
He rode out on a truck with two
white men and three Negroes. There
was a camp set up on road far
off the main highways. Smoke
hung on the horizon.
They gave Mike a shovel. A man
with a big white hat who was the
boss told him where to dig. They
started to dig and by 6 o'clock they
had made ditch, curving slightly
north and south, about feet deep.
Then they went back to the camp
and two long tables were spread
with food. They sat down and
ate. No food ever tasted better
to Mike.
After supper they sat around and
talked for awhile. then they crawled
in beneath canvas shelter and
went to sleep. The big man woke
them before daylight. Mike felt
stiff and sore, but the food smelled
good. He ate as much as he could.
because he figured this job wouldn't
last very long.
They went out and began on the
ditch again. They worked all morn
ing, and 1t was hot and flies buzzed
and Mikes back ached. But he
kept on working. At noon they
stopped and ate again and lay
around awhile The smoke was still
thick in the distance.
A Negro told Mike that the de-
cayed stuff of the Everglades got
so dried out sometimes that it would
burn. A fire would get going un-
derneath the ground and burn for
weeks or maybe months. The only
way to stop it was to dig ditch
around the entire area and fill it
up with water.
How long do you figure this job
will last?" Mike asked.
Evening star., 1939-04-10

'' M a Y b e a
month";" the Negro
said.
Mike couldn't
b e elieve it. It
seemed too good
to be true. At
the end of a
week he was given
$14.40. It seemed
like a dream.
Mike rode in
town on the truck.
He bought him.
self som e new
overallS and shoes
and socks and un-
derwear. He had
more than 50 left.
1t was so long
since he'd had
any money he
didn't know what
to do with it. Then
he re m enbered
Evening star., 1939-04-10
municipalities League
To Meet May 24

The Virginia League of Municipal
tiles has called a regional meeting
of representatives of Northern Vir-
ginia Jurisdictions to meet in the
George Mason Hotel in Alexandria
on May "a.
The principal discussions will CEN
ter around community planning.
The session is scheduled to be
held from 3 to pm, with dinner
at 6 pm. County Manager Frank
c. Hanrahan of Arlington has been
named toastmaster for the dinner.