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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-02-09
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Lincoln's Gettysburg Address Occa-
sion and Composition

Appropos of the 131st anniversary
Of Lincoln's birthday, Monday, is
the story circulated in reference to
Lincoln's immortal Gettysburg Ad-
dress. The tradition had prevailed
that the address, consisting of 269
words, was delivered without prepare
ton, or that it was written by Lin
coin ON "a Baltimore and Ohio train
between Washington and Gettys-
bury. The clarity and diction of the
message is proof that it was care
fully prepared.
Competent testimony now avail
able, seems to prove that Lincoln
worte the address in its entirety or
in part, before he left Washington.
There is also convincing evidence
that he gave,it the finishing touches
in the home of Judge David Wills
in Gettysburg, the night before it
was delivered.
After the Battle of Gettysburg, it
was decided that all the bodies of
Union soldiers be gathered and buri-
ed in one place. Seventeen acres of
land was purchased by the State of
Pennsylvania, acting as trustee for
the Is states that had Union sold
iers buried there. 1t was decided to
dedicate the cemetery on October 90,
1868, and Edward Everett, an ora
tor of highest repute in his day,
was invited to make the principal
address. He asked for more time to
prepare his speech and proposed
November 10th as the date. This
was accepted.
On the day of the dedication, the
exercises were scheduled to start
before noon. When the President
reached the cemetery, Mr.. Everett
had not arrived and the exercises
were delayed one half hour. They be-
gan at noon, an hour late. Mr.. Ev-
erett spoke for one hour and 81
minutes. His grafton was thoughtful
and eloquent but it is now regarded
as tedious reading.
Lincoln, as Chief Executive of the
nation, was asked to make few ap-
propriate remarks formally setting
apart the grounds for their scared
USE
The few words, one of his bio
graphers wrote, were such as sank
deep, but left his audience unware
that classic had been spoken which
would endure with the English
language" Lincoln, himself, thought
that the speech was failure and
made a remark to that effect to his
companion, Ward Hill Lamon.
A young man, by the name of
Wayne McVeigh said to the Presi-
dent, "You have made an immortal
address," Lincoln replied, "You
must not be extravagant' about it."
Few, however, realized at the time.
that 1t was an immortal address.
The sentence which proved to be
poor prophesy was, ''The world will
little note nor long remember what
we say here" -1-
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-02-09
President McKinley's Gavel

The last of the famous Mckinley
gavels now rests in the Smithsonian
institution in Washington. The CAV
ell, the sixtieth to be turned from
the porch Of President William Nc
Kinley's former home in Canton,
Ohio, was made from the last bit
of wood from the porch. It was Of
fered to the Smithsonian institution
by the Canton Chamber of Com
merce, and was accepted by ]. E.
Graf, associate director of the mu-
scum. The first of the go gavels
was presented to Henry P. Fletcher,
former chairman of the Republican
national committee, at the 1896 Re-
publican convention in Cleveland.
Since then gavels have been re-
ceived by Vice President John N.
Garner, Speaker William B. Bank
head, ALI M. Landon and other po-
litical and industrial leaders.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-02-09
Beer and Ale

The federal alcohol administra-
ton defines beer as a malt beverage
produced by bottom fermentation
possessing the characteristic flavor
and aroma distinctive Of beer and
containing not less than one-half Of
/ per cent Of alcohol by volume
The administration defines ale as a
malt beverage produced by top fer
mentation, possessing the charac-
teristic flavor and aroma distinctive
of ale, having an original gravity Of
not less than 1880 balling, containing
not less than 5 per cent of alcohol
by volume and of light color.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-02-09

Everyone has known all along
that the National Labor Relations
Act and the Wage-Hour Law have
not given satisfactory results to
either workmen or their employers.
Notwithstanding this fact every at
tempt to amend either law mas been
held up by power of the National
Administration.
The blame is now placed on al
legged faulty administrators and
dlumsy methods of procedure. 1t Is
said that. an effort is being made to
postpone amendments to the laws in
question, until five new administra-
tors can be named and given an OPP
portunity to see whether they can
make improvements on the labor
Jaw machines. This latest scheme
serves. to postpone the matter until
after another election.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-02-09
WHAT DO PEOPLE DO TO MAKE
A LIVING?
BY J. E. Jones

Washington, D. c., Feburary-It
appears in the annual news review
that there are about 1877 thousands
manufacturing establishments in the
United States and that they pay out
somewhere around 10 billion dollars
in wages and salaries and an addi-
tional SO million dollars for mater
ials. Then follows terrific struggles
to pay Federal income and large
number of other taxes. The value
of the manufactured products ex-
ceeds so million dollars. The fig
ures may be dry; but they are stag
gering.
High on the list of industries with
the annual value of their products
running more than 8 billion dollars
each are steel and motors. In the
class over 2 billion annually are
perfumes, cosmetics and toilet pre-
parations, meat packing, motor bod
les and motor vehicle parts. More
than l billion in value industries are
bread and bakery products, cleo
trical machinery and supplies, print
ing and publishing, boots and shoes,
canned and bottled goods, chemical
products, yarn and thread, flour and
grain-mill products, metals, paints.
That's the way millions of people
earn their living. The millions of
human beings depend upon their
employers, and these employers
could not move their machines
without their workmen. And any
political interference that hampers
the freedom of American industry re-
fleets it's defects by hampering priv
ate initiative and is harmful to our
nation.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-02-09

President Roosevelt has suggest
reapportionment of Representatives
in Congress. In his letter to the
House of Representatives Committee
on the Census he states that the
twentieth amendment of the Con-
stitution which changes the terms
of the President and Vice-President,
and Senators and Representatives
to begin in January, makes it inn
possible for the President to submit
statement of population to the
Congress in time to make the re-
apportionment this year. He sug-
gests that the law be changed SO
that the Presidents statement may
be sent to the first regular session
of the 77th Congress-" which will
be in January, 1941.
The effect of the change prevents
the election of Congress on a reap
portioned basis in 1910. Therefore
those states that show gain, or
loss, in population will have to wait
until the elections of 1912 for a re-
Appointment.
In connection with the above it
may be said that the general feel
ing has prevailed in Washington
for many years that the member
ship of the House is already SO large
that it is clumsy in operation. For
that reason the old method of in
creasing representation at reappor-
tionment-time was abandoned many
years ago, and whenever new line
up is made on the basis. of census
some States stand to lose, while
Others gain.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-02-09
Truth win Out

The founders of our Republic were
about to inaugurate George Wash.
ington as the nations first President
on April 80, 1889, when a minor
crisis faced the officials gathered for
the occasion with the discovery that
the Federal building in New York
city was without a Bible for the
ceremony. This incident is humor-
Gus now, but it was the cause Of
great CONSERVATION at the time,
writes Prof. Everett S. Brown ir. the
Michigan Alumnus Quarterly Re
view.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-02-09
Noteworthy Haircut

While this haircut does not rank in
historical Importance with that De-
lilah gave Samson, it is neverthe-
less noteworthy because it brought
two people into police court, cost
them $25 each. Vernon Swan left
Milwaukee barber shop proud of the
artistic job that had been done on
his hair, wendell to nearby tavern
to submit the trim to critical in
spection Of his friends. Oscar Meyer
took full cognizance of the haircut,
deliberated thoughtfully, gave this
verdict: Lousy" There was bed
lam m the barroom which ended
with both men in court and Swan
with three artistic stitches embroid-
cred in his newly shorn scalp.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-02-09
MODERN TREND TO
MORE WINDOWS PUTS
STRESS ON QUALITY
Windows and More Windows Is Trend In
New Homes Today

No matter how you look at windows
you're going to see more and more of them
in new homes. Light, airy rooms mean just
one thing-more windows-and that is def
nitely the trend in home construction today.
And the more windows you have in your
new home, the more you've got to watch
quality construction in the windows you
buy. Windows can add much to the enjoy
ment Of your new home if they're good win
dows, and if they're poor ones, they'll add
plenty of headaches.
Window "Pains" Gone
Rafting, sticking, leaking windows are
thing of the past with the complete factory
fitted window units as manufactured today.
Maybe that is why architects and contrac-
tors the country over are favoring more
windows because, at last, the spain" has
been taken out of them.
New Features
Such features as inside double glazing,
screens that are removed from the inside,
condensation controls, and hinges that allow
both sides of the glass to be washed from
the inside are part Of modern easement win
dows today. Similar improvements have
been made in the popular double hung win
dows. Double action weatherstrip, noiseless
pulleys, and fiat weights that allow for mar
row modern lines are few Of the outsts nd
ing Innovations.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-02-09
The Washington
Merry.GO-R0und

Everybody today has a
chip in the political pot.
And everybody through
news dispatches, is
watching the play OF
political hands.
But the action is so fast
and so widespread that
more is needed than a
running report. You
want explanation OF the
strategy. disclosure of
the forces, understand
ing of the personalities
involved. And you'll
find just that in The
Washington Merry-Go-
Round, by Drew Pear
SON and Robert S. Allen,
in these columns.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-02-09

There are 40 expert linguists in
England listening in for propaganda
from short wave stations through
out the world. = They listen every
minute of the days "a hours-and
pick up 200 words every so seconds!
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-02-09

England is now taking over
leo pounds Of copper wire (war
materially from Rhodesia-levery
minute! AZ.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-02-09

There is no satisfactory reason
for believing that woman who is
always harping will make good
angel.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-02-09

A holly tree nearly 100 feet tall
in Granville county. N. c., Is be-
lieved to be the largest holly on
record,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-02-09

Government taxes in America on
leased wires yield SO minute (tele-
graph, phone and radio.)
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-02-09

There's no fine wasted voting for
water to heot when you have an cleo
trio water heater. A turn ofthe fovcet
brings you plenty of clean. piping
hot water whenever you want il.
Hot water speeds all eIeoning Jobs
whether it be dishes, laundry, boths
or Just plain house cleaning. Why not
be assured Of never-foiling supply
without tiresome stair climbing or any
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-02-09

When bad example is set mis-
chief is Matched out
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-02-09

Idleness is the incubator Of great
many small sins
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-02-09

ottention whatsoever. with an cleo
trio wafer heufer.
And it's cheap, too! Our special
low off-peok rote for heoting wafer
electrically is only W. per kiIowutf-
hour minimum monthly bill sly.
Come in and let US exploin the 3D.
vontoges' of fhe new, good looking
Pence electric wofer heofers.
Evening star., 1940-08-10
A Dubious Procedure

1t is difficult to believe that the
Democratic National Committee,
upon mature reflection, will approve
the announcement by Charles
Nicholson, publicity chief, that the
1910 Democratic campaign books
will be issued this year despite the
plain intent of the Hatch Act to
ban such pernicious political &C
tivity.
MIR. Nicholson, on the dubious
technical ground that the 1910 cam
paign book was established before
the Hatch Act was passed, takes the
remarkable position that the Demo-
Gratis are justified in nullifying the
wholly laudable purpose of Congress
and of the people to outlaw high
pressure money-raising drives of this
sort.
In other words, he proposes to
carry out what undoubtedly would
be a criminal program if instituted
after enactment of the law, his sole
explanation being that this years
book "got under the wire" and that
its issuance is therefore immune to
prosecution. From a technically
legal standpoint that may be correct.
but there is not the slightest doubt
that the Democratic National Com
mittee, if it goes ahead with this
project, will be doing violence to
the spirit of the Hatch Act and its
objective of placing American poll
tics on higher plane.
If Mr.. Nicholson is in doubt on
that score, he could do no better
than to consult this administrations
Attorney General, Robert H. Jackson,
who, on August S, wrote Senator
Hatch that Il am in sympathy with
every effort to curb the use of money
IN politics, and am unwilling to ap-
prove any plan which defeats the
spirit of the act" That language,
although directed to a Republican
undertaking, would seem to be
peculiarly applicable to the cam
paign book project.
In the same letter, Mr.. Jackson,
taking up the campaign book issue,
interpreted the Hatch Act to mean
that its penalty provisions apply to
those who buy books or advertising
space" in them. If the Attorney
General is correct in that analysis,
it would seem that Mr.. Nicholson
is on very shaky legal ground in con-
tending that the books may be pur-
chased without violating the statute.
The time interval between the sale
of advertising space, which possibly
excludes that phase of the project
from the scope of the law, has the
opposite effect with regard to sale
of the books after passage of the act.
In the light of Mr.. Jackson's in
depreciation, it is reasonable to con-
clude that any attempt to sell the
books by the national committee
would invite the commission of a
criminal offense on the part of the
purchasers.
1t may be doubted that responsible
members of the Democratic party
will sanction any such procedure.
Evening star., 1940-08-10
County Welfare Meroer

An indication of some of the re-
suits which can be expected from
the long discussed and recently ef-
fected merger of welfare activities in
Montgomery County is contained
In report to the county commits
sioners. The former county super
visor of public assistance informed
the commissioners that the consoli-
dation of county welfare activities
with functions of the State-main-
tanned County Welfare Board would
save Montgomery about $11,5OO a
year.
Principal saving will be in the cost
OF general public assistance. When
administered by the State agency,
the county is required to pay only
half of the amounts expended, which
last year totaled about $4,000. Fur
ther savings will come through the
elimination of the Office of super
visor of public assistance, which car
ried salary Of $2,7OO a year, and Of
q clerk who was paid 5000.
The transfer of the welfare activi-
ties was made on April l, so that the
new setup functioned in the last
quarter Of the fiscal year. A few
former functions of the supervisor
Of county aid will be handled in the
future under the direct supervision
of the county commissioners. These
include the statutory requirements
that the commissioners oversee out
lays for State disqualification, pauper
burials and commitments to State
institutions.
Under new State laws requiring
that welfare outlays be made by
Evening star., 1940-08-10
Suggests Traffic Plan
To Avoid Tunnels.
To the Editor OF The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
Having just completed motor trip
to Omaha, returning by way of Chicago,
Detroit and Pittsburgh, I noticed that
these great cities, congested by their
industries of all kinds, do not allow the
boulevards Of their restricted residential
districts to be destroyed or marred by
trucks or buses. In Washington, how
ever, such ponderous vehicles clog Mas
sachusetts avenue, one of the handsom-
est streets in the world.
Why not have arterial roads meet at
an appropriate place north of Washing
ton between Rockville and Silver Spring?
Here traffic from the west and the
north and the east could join like the
shafts of familiar ice tongs, then divide,
one highway of four lanes running east
of the Union Station and the other fol-
lowing Wisconsin avenue through
Georgetown to parking depot near the
old Navy Hospital. The east road
would serve Annapolis, the Navy Yard,
Capitol, Supreme Court, Library of Con-
gress, House and Senate Office Build
ings, ETC., while the west would take care
of people going to the airport; Alexan-
dria, Mount Vernon, the cherry blossom
display in season and points south.
My suggestion would relieve conges-
ton in the morning and late afternoon
and spare our wide avenues and streets
for normal traffic without the horror and
expense of bottle-neck tunnels.
August 7. STELLA H. STAPLETON.
Evening star., 1940-08-10

not of beauty and placid existence, but
above all time to be careful, to watch
out for suddenly organized and executed
raids.
Victor Herbert felt the spell of the
time, when he penned his Indian Sum-
mer" rhapsody.
1t is curious thing that the purveyors
Of swing music, so-called, were so long
finding this piece of music and translat-
ing it into terms of modern popular
musical America.
Those of us who have loved the music
of Herbert for many years will be just a
bit peeved that the smart boys over
looked this one so long, and we will not
be completely satisfied until they bring
out "Al Fresco" and many others in
"swing arrangements" Far from be-
lieving that such "jazzing up harms
good music, we feel that 1t translates it
into the only sort of musical terms which
thousands Of young people understand
In time, after they have heard these
wonderful melodies in this manner, they
will go back to hearing them as the COM
posers wrote them. Then an even great
er measure of delight will be theirs
Somehow, on such cool morning, the
mind turns brightly back to the old days
of the light opera and musical come
dies In those days, unless our recollec-
ton plays us false, there were no long
hot spells, making the face feel as if one
had a fever all the time.
Come to think of it, what happens
when the temperature of the air gets
up to 100 degrees is that there is, actu-
ally, fever temperature on the face.
The inner temperature will be 986,
or normal, as we say, but the outside
temperature will be 100 degrees, fever
in any medical language.
r
What happens, we suppose, in hot
weather, to make us feel SO poorly" is
that the humidity and the temperature,
combined, minus breeze, permit the
skin to assume the inner temperature of
the body And this is something this
integument does not do placidly. 1t
sends up protests to the mind and it is
this which makes one fuss and fume.
The lack of a breeze-"The Breeze
and l." as the song says-is what really
makes. the skin hot, and so uncomfort-
able
Just bit of a breeze tiny one,
surely, would save the skin from its
tantrums.
But in hot weather, city weather,
there is no breeze. At the shore, and
in the mountains. where there is a
breeze, there seldom is spell of weather
in which the skin gets really hot.
1t Is the skin which bears the brunt OF
the heat, and which helps us to bear it
at the same time. Not enough praise Is
given the human skin. we are convinced
of that. 1t is not Just glove we wear,
as some seem to think, but wonderful
organ, which must stand all the mosquito
bites and the heat and the sweat and oil,
and at the same time keep us from
having fever within.
Evening star., 1940-08-10
Crime Wave

Usually crime out in the sticks is
of a petty nature, the most common
version of it being chicken theft.
That this Is not always true has been
proved in Williamson County, ILL.,,
which is something of an exception
to the rule. The latest offense there
concerns a resident who had a dock
stolen, creating a puzzler for the
police.
The local constable looked the sit
uation over. Sure enough, the dock
was gone. He scratched his chin
whiskers and wondered what Sher-
lock Holmes would have done. It
was most battling case. If it had
been a duck, now, instead of dock,
he would have known what to do.
He had a reliable list of unreliable
citizens who specialized in appropri-
ating poultry, but nowhere on it was
the name of any one with that big,
broad outlook so necessary for the
successful dock stealer. There seemed
no clue to the trail of the missing
pier, when, as so often happens, a
clue developed automatically. An
other citizen frantically reported the
theft of a pet bridge of his, which he
said could be identified if found by
its length, which was sixty feet.
THAT cinches it," said the consta-
BILE. "The case is as good as solved,
now that we know the criminals
tastes. All we have to do is to set a
watch on the county courthouse and
pick him up in a day or two when he
tries to move it."
Evening star., 1940-08-10

weighty than the old problem Of
Chinese bandits.
The Shanghai International Set
tlement is part of the system of
extraterritorial rights in China
which the United States has said it
is willing to relinquish after negotia-
tion with recognized Chinese gov
ernment. The Settlement dates from
1858, when British and American
concessions in Shanghai were Joined
to form it. The French have main
tanned since 1s49 separate conces-
sion largely under the control Of the
French Consul General. What the
United States wants today is what
it has wanted since the Settlements
birth-the "open door" in China.
What the United States fears from
Japan is desire to close the open
door. The British withdrawal puts
new obstacles in the way of keeping
the door open.