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The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1940-05-03
SCOUT ACTIVITIES

The National Council of the
Boy Scouts of America will hold
its Both annual meeting, May and
10, in Oklahoma City, Okla. Men
OF prominence will take part.
Uncle Dan" Beard, the National
Scout Commissioner, who will be
80 years old on June 21, next, is
expected at the meeting. On June
p, designated as Boy Scout Day,
at the Worlds Fair in New York.
more than 10000 Boy Scouts will
pay their respects to him. More
than $4,000 Boy Scouts of the Pa
cific Coast States will gather at
the Golden Gate International Elk
position on Treasure Island, San
Francisco, July 26.
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1940-05-03
Road TO Learning

4 research engineer connected
with the finn industry urges more
extensive use Of motion pictures in
the schools. Pictures, he says
viii teach a child in half the time
required for books to teach him.
Ii is an old argument and prob
ably gains few converts by repeti-
ton. Men who were brought up
on the hard grind of Latin and
mathematics will always refuse to
believe that education comparable
u theirs can be inculcated by
longing in a seat and gazing at
flickering images on a screen. You
can learn in that way how pic
lures look, they hold, and how
things happen that are represent
ed by the pictures. but you cannot
habituate yourself to the processes
OF abstract reasoning. You ac-
quire ability to think only by
thinking Although you may not
have known anything in particular
when you got through Cicero and
the binomial theorem you did
have facility at managing your
mind in connection with any phe-
nomena which might arise there
after.
Despite the opposition of the die
hards, however, pictures are al
ready shown in some schools, and
for the spread of certain kinds of
factual knowledge will probably
be shown more Meanwhile, it
should be pointed out, the theatres
offer a great many courses to sup
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1940-05-03
The Dollar Symbol

One of the most commonplace
of symbols is the dollar sign, but
few Americans know it's history
or its origin. Everybody uses it
and the relatively few who have
wondered over it's invention and in
PRODUCTION into universal usage
have usually satisfied their curios-
ity with the presumption that
like Topsy, it just grew.
During the early days of the
American colonies Spanish vessels
carried in and out a large part of
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1940-05-03

the trade of the little American
seaports. True, most of it was in
violation of the navigation acts
imposed on the colonies by Eng
land, but, because of SPANS con-
troll OF Central and S nth Amer
lea, the Caribbean, Florida and
the West Indies, it was a natural
and inevitable sort of trading.
From her holdings in Peru and
Mexico, Spain virtually produced
all the worlds silver, hence thru
out the American colonies the
eighteenth century Spanish silver
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1940-05-03

plement the old-fashioned system
of education.
They teach all of us. from in
fancy to old age, how to enter a
drawing room, how to be a bandit,
how to appear in a beauty contest,
how to conduct ones self in a love
affair, etc. 1t would take a long
while to learn those matters
through the formula CA plus b
times CA plus b equals A square
plus 2AB plus B square.
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1940-05-03

coins were nearly as common as
English ones.
The Spanish coins were inscrib-
ed with the coat of arms of the
Spanish royal family, a part of the
intertwined with an S. The pillars
interwined with an S. The pillars
represented the pillars of Hercu-
les" Of classical lore: Gibraltar
Rock and Ceuta, which together
formed the Strait of Gibraltar
Hence, by natural and easy
stages, an ideogram resulted which
first meant a Spanish dollar but
later found its way into the Ian
guage of America as a symbol.
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1940-05-03

1t was estimated by a Senate
committee which investigated
campaign expenditures in 1896 that
the Republicans spent IA million
dollars and the Democrats 8 mil
lion, including moneys handled by
state organizations. Abraham
Lincoln's campaign in 1860 cost
only about 100000.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1940-03-29

We who possess the treasure Of
peace cannot consider ourselves
as uncOncerned spectators in the
drama that is being enacted in
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1940-03-29
A Catholic Pleads
For Jewish Cause
By Bishop BERNARD ]. SHE'LL

Europe today. We are of one mind
and one heart in our solemn de-
termination that we shall not be
drawn into the great conflict that
has placed millions of men under
arms and brought untold suffer-
ing and destruction to large num-
bers of civilians. But in our de-
termination to remain neutral, we
cannot remain Indifferent to the
distress and the tragedy of innO-
cent men, women and children
whose homes have been destroyed
and whose lives have been up
rooted. AS Americans we have
never failed to extend the hand of
sympathy and comfort to the VIC
Tins of disaster, be they of war,
famine, earthquake or disease, nor
have we in the past turned aside
from the pleas for assistance from
the victims of racial or religious
intolerance.
They, the victims, are benefit
ent and constructive workers
whose labors have contributed
greatly to the welfare and culture
of the nation. Some of them are
shining lights in law, in medicine,
in art, in literature, in science.
They are brilliant scholars whose
fame and achievement are known
and revered through bout the
learned world. All these by the
thousands, with all their earthly
possessions confiscated, are ex-
lied from the land which has been
their ancestral home for centuries.
They are set adrift upon the high
seas, not knowing where they can
find a haven of peace and securi-
ty for their weary, racked bodies,
cir crushed, bleeding hearts,
their tortured minds. What wonder
if thousands of them have died of
exposure, hunger and disease.
What wonder if thousands of them
have been crushed under the
grinding weight of tragic despair
because they could see no star of
hope shining in their darkened
sky.
In all the sad, bitter story of
mans inhumanity to man, few
chapters are more appalling than
the scene of cold, calculating, I'M
bridled cruelty now passing before
our eyes of which the Jewish peO-
pie are innocent, unprOvOked VIC
Tins. The heart that is not pro-
foundry moved by sentiments of
grief, of sympathy and compassion
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1940-03-29

at the sight of this CHASTITY cruel
fixiOn of great, ancient and cW-
tured people is dead to all the no
bier impulses of civilized man.
When the sacred, inherent, God
given rights of human nature are
trampled under foot by savage,
pitiless, tyranic power, when every
high and enObling concept of re-
ligiOn, of civilization and humani-
ty is scOrned, condemned and des-
pissed by goddess, upstart tyrants
drunk with unlimited power, the
whole structure of civilized life is
endangered.
The situation which now con-
fronts us is not, therefore, prob
lem for the Jews alone. It is a
problem which no less deeply con-
Germ Catholics, Protestants and
men of good will everywhere. We
cannot behold with cold unconcern
the sufferings, the misfortune, the
ruthless persecution of our fell
low men without treason to the
highest and hottest precepts of re-
ligion, wi bout Indicating our
manhood, stultifying our reason
and debasing our character. AS
the great Lincoln expressed it:
Those who care not for the lib
erty and happiness of others de-
serve not liberty and happiness
for themselves and under the
providence of God they cannot
long enjoy Them"
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1940-03-29

In this article Bishop She'll
of the Catholic Archdiocese
of Chicago discusses the re-
SpOnsibilitieS of American
Jewry to the United Jewish
Appeal for Refugees and
Overseas Needs as the sim
gle channel of providing the
means for the rescue and
resettIement of Jews in the
areas of distress in Central
and Eastern Europe. T h e
United Jewish Appeal is now
engaged in an unprecedented
campaign to raise $2S, OOO,-
900.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1940-03-29
MOscOvian z Philosophy
THE CLOAK OF HUMILITY

And like ripening corn, you've heard it said,
AS natures the he bends his head
One virtue near at hand for all to reach,
Humility, of which Cody preach,
And which the givers of real knowledge teach,
Is looking down.
Not with disdain others whom you know,
Nor at the strangers who may come and go,
But at yourself, who loves his pride and show;
Keep looking down!
When things you thought great swell up your pride
And you hardly keep your chest inside,
Soar not too high you will lose your stride
Not looking down;
Humility is like siken cloak
With which wrap ourselves from lifes cold yoke;
Men in one bold stroke,
When we look down.
We show ourselves to others through this gown,
And therefore ourselves, each and frOwn;
We thus air out our faults and gain renOwn,
BY looking down.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-08-31
Langlie Points
To His REGARD

Arthur n Lanelie. who proposes
. lknsine.s administration for the
st.te of Washington similar to
that he now In directing IN the
city of Sesttle. has launched the
final stage of his campaign for
the Republican nomination for
governor
The Seattle mayor said In q
statement prepared for The Taco
ma Times today he 10 gratifisd by
the splendid reception ne has re-
ceived IN his various trips into all
sections of the state.
When asked for the reason
for has successful city admin
istratioa. Langlie said al soas
beoaWse he had chosen able
and competent men to assist
him ia the administration of
city offairs. and because Of
the ceeperofion he has been
veceiriag from the city
G0nncll.
Re said II Ia his purpose. n elect
I'd governor. to adopt the same
formula for the governors office.
ANY governor" he said. 'sshouid
surround himself with able and ex-
perienced men--men who have no
sSes to grind. nor special interest
to represent: men who will dis
charge the functions of thsir par
ticular job In the interest of all the
people: man who are practical men.
who heNe had real experience IN
dealing with practical problems
and who can meet the government
nj problems of the day"
His statement outlined some Of
the hishlights of his program. They
include.
The merit s~stem should be
invoked in state employment.
Each employee should understand
ms value 10 the state Ia basad upon
the kind Of service he delixsrsl
Adequate pensions should he
4 provided. This can be accom-
plished only II money collected in
taxes an this state In utilized SOLELY
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-08-31

for essential services.
D-rhe unemployed do not want
- peliaf They want joss. We
can provide jobs by Developing in
1eiustry and payrolls In all parts of
the state We have not talzen
enough time and 'devoted enough
effort 10 sound planning 10 bring
about such q condition
1.-The state government should
he operated not ~ . political
subdivision. hut ~ . sssnd bsssi-
ness enterprise.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-08-31

surRDaag ooUnT sUeT1oE
Walter u. Besis C1)
Bruee Blsaa.e CD
Samuel n Driver CD
All unopposed.
sUPT. Punz1C EsssTRucTIoN
Stankev r. Atwood
f. 3. Black
Louise s. Taylor
Clarence ]. Cecil
Pearl A. Nanamalssr
sE,rmasOR O0t,kT stsD0E
nrnest M. Card Cd
Fred c. Remain CD
T. ID. Hodge es)
AN unopposed
eDe,ssrtnsont No. ~
Leo reats
Joseph A. Mallery
Frank A. Latcham
Earl v. Clifford
Gilbert n. Peterson
u. s. SCENARIOS
Dcmocrats-
Donald II. Miller
Frank +. Bell
Roy B. Misener
Mon c. Walleren
Robert Lee Smith
Harry c. Huse
Republicans
Robert Prior
Howard H. Foster
Ewing ID. Colvin
Stephen r. Chadwick
Eric Johnston
oOhsGsenseaaAN
Democrat
John n. Coffee
Samuel l.. Crippen
Republican
Paul a. Pre,ss
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-08-31

eosHASo&
Demsernt--
Alexander G~brseseen
Tom Smith
c. C. Dill
Georee II. Cannon
Clarence ID. Martin
Reptfblican-
j Warren Kinney
Arthur b. Lanelie
Frank Burns
Marius Rasmussen
George Dana Linn
IDUrENART-eosnnpsoR
Democrat
Inser s Hsrtoux
Henry Westfall
Art Carton
Earl n. Colson
Victor A. Viewers
Eugene ]. A. Lord
Harry T. Nordlund
John c. Peterson
Republican-
Charles r.. Aaybury
Cecil A. Gholson
Roy LaFollette
Herbert m. Sieler
Milton } Evans
s
s.h y stratum
o. ei1 'Sse''h
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-08-31

/, Repnbiioan-
Howard c. Lacss
Homer n. Jones
STATE AUDeRoa
Democrat--
Cliff Yelle
Republican
Geo. W. Blanchard
Colin ID. Murdoch
ATRoRfsEH -e1asnnAL
Denecrst--
Smith Troy
Republican,
John Z. Mccoy
Mitchell Doumif
Walter c. Hinman
Taos. s. Henderson
Carl b. Luckerath
II. w. Anderson
Ray Kendall
eOassszsszoNER rs8a1c LANE
Democrat
Albert c. Martin
Republioan-
Chas. r. Benson
Peter Il. Terziok
c. A. Mckenney
o. c. Martin
Jack Taylor
INSURANCE OOAGRnReea0PenR
Democrat
Vim S,,lliva,
Evening star., 1940-07-24
Corporate Earnings
Well Above 1899
In June Quarter
Results Of First $50
Firms 80 Per Cent
Ahead Of Year Ago
BY the Associated Press.

by the ASSOClateQ FTeSS.
NEW YORK, July 24.-Profits of
the first $50 corporations to report
for the second quarter of 1910 were
80 per cent larger than the same
period year ago.
An Associated Press compilation
disclosed today that net income Of
the group totaled s168 ,9O2 900, COM
pared with $l21, ,727,0OO in the April
May-June period of 1899.
Excluding the American Tele-
phone & Telegraph Co., whose
earnings accounted for approxi-
mately one-fourth of the total, the
companies rolled up profits So per
cent larger than a year ago.
Sufficient reports have not yet
been received to afford trustworthy
comparisons of the performance of
various industries, but from the data
on hand it appears the parade to
better profits was led by heavy in
dustry and the railroads. The Pc
troleum industry also showed a
notable gain.
The only group which, on the
basis of current reports, seems des-
tined to fall behind the same period
last year is the food division, where
many manufacturers have had profit
margins reduced by increased cost
of wheat, corn and other grains.
Grain prices, which were skyrocketd
by the war in Europe. have tumbled
recently. but the decline came too
late to help profit margins during
the period just ended.
Second quarter earnings state
ments received so far show the
largest gains for the steel industry
and the railroads, but important
units in both industries must be
heard from before an adequate COM
parison can be made. Manufacture
ers of machinery, railroad equip
ment, electrical supplies and auto
accessories are also among the lead
ers.
Makers of chemicals and building
materials and equipment showed
more moderate gains.
The improvement in earnings was
not confined to few large COM
panies, but was spread over a broad
area. OF the first $50 companies
to report, ia had larger profits or
smaller deficits than a year ago.
Only 36 made poorer showings.
Evening star., 1940-07-24
Chicago Livestock

CHICAGO. July "A ES UNITED States
Department Of Agriculture) .-Salable hogs
10000; total. $4,000; slow. and uneven;
open steady to 10 lower than Tuesdays
average. later trade mostly 10-l5 Oh: top,
6.55, srarinely; bulk. good and CHOICE
20O-24O pounds. 6.25-50; 24O-270 pounds,
largely 6.OO-40: most 270-3OO pounds,
5.7O-6 10. some 3O0-330-pound butchers.
5.5O-s0: most packing Sows. $50 pounds,
5.15-4O, few. $50 350-500-pound kind,
generally 100000
Salabie sheep. 1000, total. $500: late
Tuesdays spring lambs weak to 20 lower;
bulk, sorted natives. 9.l0-25; throwouts,
700 down; four doubles. handyweight
rangers. sorted. 25 per cent, s.?5;, feeders.
averaging "a pounds. $50; today's trade
all classes. around steady. most small !ots
native spring lambs. light to moderately
sorted, 9.00-l0: throwouts. 6.0O-7 90; one
double handyweght Western springers,
with 40 outs. s.75: others with heavier
sorts, same price. few handy dry fed; Shorn
yearlings. 7.65; odd head load light ma
tive ewes. 375: bulk $50 down.
Salable cattle. 10000; calves. 1000:
steers. trade very slow: opening 15-25
lower on strictly good and choice grades
but generally bidding 25 or more lower on
all grades; mostly steers run with good
and choice grades. Redomnating:-~choi
to prime Nebraskas, IL .s5: other early
sales, large, 10.S5-11 so: heifers slow,
around 1915 lower; best yearlinss 10; 80;
choice Colorados held higher; cows slow,
STEADY; bulls weak and mostly 7.1O down
vealers. 25 lower; practical top, 1880;
few choice, 1918.
Evening star., 1940-07-24
Daily Oil Production
Up 1860 Barrels
During Week
Refineries Slow Down
Operations Further to
S1.6 Per Cent

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, July 24.-Daily aver
age crude oil production increased
19.600 barrels during the week ended
July 20, but fell below the corre-
spending 1899 week for the first
time this year. the American Pc
troleum Institute reported. Produc-
ton averaged $3.50, $50 barrels a day,
compared with 3,583, ,750 a year ago.
Reporting refineries again slowed
operations, dropping to 8l.6 per cent
of potential capacity from 1928 per
cent the week before. Runs of
crude oil to stills for the industry
as a whole were estimated at $780,
900 barrels daily. compared with
1866 900 the previous week and g.
448. 900 . year ago.
Gasoline stocks continued their
seasonal decline, falling of to 9l,-
789 900 barrels from 81, ,372 900 a week
ago. At the same time last year
gasoline stocks totaled 18TH 900 bar
rels. Gasoline production rose
slightly during the week to II ,378 900
barrels from II, 1868 900 the week be-
fore.
Imports Of crude and refined oils
at principal ports during the week
totaled 1885, 900 barrels, compared
with l,769, 900 barrels the previous
week.
Dailv cr,,de oil nroduction declined
approximately $4,000 barrels in Illi-
nois, but advanced like amount in
Texas.
Evening star., 1940-07-24
FOREIGN Exchange

NEW YORK. July "a AR.-The free"
British pound sterling advanced 51z cents
in terms Of the dollar today as foreign
exchange dealings continued to concen-
trate in money at the Official rate.
The Swiss franc held unchanged.
The Canadian dollar was quoted at
around SS.25 United States cents. oil 20
Noon rates follow (Great Britain in dol
lars, others in cents):
Canada:
Official Canadian Control Board rates
cent premium; selling. II per cent pre-
dollars in New York Of buying. 9,91 per
Canadian dollar in New York open mar.
ket, 11s4 per cent discount, or 1925 United
States cents.
Europe:
Great Britain official Bankers Foreign
Exchange Committee rates.: buying. S4 .02;
selling, 81 .04:- open market, cables, 3.S7:
Germany 40. Ion: tbenevolsnD 1888:
II 65n: Italy, sos: Portugal 3.7S: Ru-
mania, .52n;. Sweden. 23.SS; Switzerland,
%: Yugoslavia, 2.35n.
Latin America:
Argentine. official. 2977; free, 22.25:
Brazil. offciaL sos; free. sos: Mexico,
2050n.
japan. 20 4s: Hong Kong, "A 90: shans-
iRates in spot cables unless otherwise
indicated.) Nominal.
Evening star., 1940-07-24
Profits Of Newport News
Shiphuilding Reviewed
BY the Associated Press.

os the ASSOClateu freSS.
NEW YORK. July 24.-A registra-
ton statement filed yesterday with
the Federal Securities d. Exchange
Commission in connection with a
forthcoming public offering of Sc
curities of Newport News Shipbuild-
ing & Dry Dock Co., disclosed the
company experienced only two un-
profitable years since 1928.
The income figures, first to BE-
published in the company's long
history. indicated net profit OF
81 l,l0l974 for the II weeks ended
April 81. Best year in the 12-year
period was 1880 when net amounted
10 $3,440,298. The 1899 profit was
$2,480,8l0. The deficit years were
1884 with loss of $345 1853 and 1885
a loss of $175.717.
Control of the company was ac-
quired recently by a financial syn
dicate from the heirs of the late
Coils P. Huntington. Western rail-
road builder. 1t had been one of
the largest privately -owned indus
trial enterprises.
The proposed public offering of
securities will include 1850 shares
of IS convertible cumulative pre-
ferred stock and 558.498 shares of
common stock, and will be sponsored
by a group which brought control,
headed by Union Securities Corp.
AS of July Is, the registration
statement disclosed, the company
had uncompleted construction con-
tracts or awards for 18 vessels with
total contract prices of $286, ,46l 900
A considerable part represented ma
val construction. The company op-
crates the largest private shipbuild-
ing plant in the country.
Evening star., 1940-07-24
| Baldwin Orders
| In June Total
| $10,124,375
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, July 24.-The
dollar value OF orders received in
June by the Baldwin Locomotive
Works and subsidiary companies,
including the Midvale Co., was an
nounced today as $10,124,375 as COM
pared with $1,645,034 for June, 1899.
The months bookings brought the
total for the first six months of the
year to $24,369,87l as compared with
$28, 626,2l3 for the same period of
1889.
Baldwin also announced receipt
OF an order from the Atchison.
Topeka & Santa Fe Railway cover
ing ten 4-8-4 type steam locomo-
tives for fast passenger and freight
service. The value of the order is
approximately $4,000 900.
Evening star., 1940-07-24
Steel Concerns beqin
To Feel Effects Of
Defense Drive
Big Tonnoees Involved
In Estimotes for
Many Projects
by the Associated Press.


NEW YORK, July 24.--National
defense needs are beginning to be
felt in the steel industry, the Iron
Age reported today.
The trade publication said large
tonnages" are involved in estimates
for shipbuilding dry docks. airplane
bases and industrial plants.
Heavy inquiries for shell steel
billets and bars are also beginning
to reach the mills" the report
added. Some orders have been
placed for ordnance work; for ex-
ample, 1000 tons of high carbon
strip steel for cartridge clips and q
sizable tonnage of cold-rolled spner-
oided strip for metallic belt links
for machine guns"
Combined with automobile, rail-
road and export demand, the report
continued, defense requirements
probably will keep steel production
at high level "for many months
to come"
ANY slipping from the present
production rate would be a tempo
rary situation and of no signifi-
cance," it said.
Iron Age estimated the current
steel production rate at SO per cent
OF capacity, new 1910 high.
Pointing out early peace in Eu-
rope might upset forecasts, the pub
hcation reported British purchases
accounted for 10 per cent or more
Of the current output.
In addition, it noted, Japan has
increased purchases here, particu-
larly Of billets and wire rods.
The Iron Age scrap price COM
posite was $1817, drop of 81 cents
from the previous week.