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Evening star., 1940-05-19
Bv WHliam Austin.

Wars and rumors of wars may
aff1ict most of the so-called civilized
world, but America has gone fishing
And that's almost literally true,
for everywhere throughout this IA
vored land millions of anglers are
dropping lines and enjoying the
thrills and quiet joys of that grand
pastime.
Here in the United States we still
have more than halt billion dollars
to spend for fishing every year;
$500, ZOO, 900 that elsewhere would go
for barbed wire and bayonets in
stead of for tackle and fish hooks.
From earliest spring until latest
fall the long fishing season is on,
and every angler from the tradi-
tional barefoot boy with safety pin
hook to the completely equipped
sportsman (not forgetting the ladies,
of whom there are many among the
followers of Izaak Walton) has
plenty Of opportunity to indulge his
favorite recreation. Indeed, in this
country there is no limit to the fish,
ing season, for when winter closes
down up North, Southern waters
beckon invitingly.
But this is the season when 1t
does seem as though all America has
gone fishing.
Trout Variations.
Among the aristocrats of the finny
tribe, and beloved by so many ap-
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more and more recognized as CEN
trail motion-picture agency, ready
to make pictures for any agency of
the Government. At present the
film service is engaged in the pro-
duction Of fourth major Govern
ment picture-"Ecce Homo''-"Be-
hold the Man" It is the story
of the fight Americans are waging
for jobs today-a fight which takes
into full account the effect of new
inventions and machines on the
workaday world, bringing with
them chronological unemployment
so called.
Need More Research.
This film has been two-thirds
completed. Work has been halted
temporarily on the actual picture
making while more research is un-
der way. The film may well become
intensely interesting to the millions
now unemployed and to the en-
ployers of labor-and what is more
important, it may carry a valuable
lesson to workers and employers in
the matter of shifting labor from
one channel to another. Today this
is a vital matter-as vital as the
preservation of babies and mothers,
which ''The Fight for Life" is so well
designed to accomplish.
Government film making is 38
years old. The first film made for
the Federal Government was won
Through Merit" produced under the
sponsorship of the Civil Service
Commission by Thomas A. Edison,
Inc, in 1912. Even this film was
antedated by several fact films"
for in 1911 cameraman went out
into the West and made pictures
of Pima Indian Reservation and at
the Roosevelt and Shoshone Dams.
Now three major departments of
the Government have their own
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United States Film Service was de.
MED short time ago. The Federal
Government has a library of nearly
400 subjects which are available to
schools, colleges. adult education
groups and other organizations.
The largest and Oldest producers
of Government films are the De-
partment of the Interior and the
Department of Agriculture, which
have been in the business of max
ing educational films since 1911 and
1918, respectively. But others have
gone in for the movies in big way,
among them the Navy Department,
the Department OF Commerce, the
Department of Labor, the Depart
ment of Justice and the Post Of
flee Department. The Federal
Housing Administration, the Ten
nessee Valley Administration. the
Works Progress Administration. the
National Youth Administration, the
United States Maritime Commits
sion and the Social Security Board
are among the agencies which also
have produced or had produced for
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Work of H. Film Service Reaches Peak New Educational
Play Teaches
Vital Lesson
Nation
Proves Value of
Motion Pictures
AS Government Aid
BvG, Gould Liuc0lu.

The United States Film Service
q few weeks ago produced a marvel
Gus motion picture-"The Fight for
Life" Paradoxically, at the moment
Of its greatest achievement, the film
service is today engaged in a fight
for it's own life.
Why? Because of an inept conflict
that has arisen between the legisla-
tive and executive branches of the
Government. Congress has taken
the position that the film service,
like Topsy, has "just growed'-with-
out the authority of law. So when
the President. in his annual budget
this year, asked for direct ap-
preparation of $106,40 to continue
the work of the film service-in the
Office of Education, under the
Federal Security Agency-the House
of Representatives said in effect:
There is no authority of law for the
existence of the United States Film
Service" The Senate adopted the
same attitude during the considera-
ton of the appropriation for the
Federal Security Agency.
The United States Governments
agencies, many of them, have been
making motion-picture films since
1912. They have been shown to
millions of Americans. They were
made with no more authority of
law" than exists in the case of the
United States Film Service. Yet they
have done vast amount of good in
the cause of education. The agencies
were empowered to disseminate in
formation" and they chose the way
of the motion picture. There is no
better. The Office of Education is
authorized by law to promote the
cause of education throughout the
country" in every way. That would
seem enough to cover the operation
of the film service. For if ever there
was an agency which has promoted
the cause of education and has
difussed information widely it is
the film service.
Why Halt Work?
Why should Congress now, today,
put an end to a going concern that
has done splendid work? Par
ticularly when it is easy enough to
give the legislative authority of law?
It does not make sense, in the light
Of the work that has been done in
the last five years by the film service
and the work which may be ex-
pected.
The film service has produced
three great documentary" films
''The Plow That Broke the Plains"
"The River" and THE Fight for
Life" All three deal with epic
themes. ''The Plow that Broke the
Plains" placed before the American
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was for that latter agency "The
River" was produced and distributed
through 5000 motion-picture houses.
The next move of Pare Lorentz
and his agency for producing pic
lures was to the National Emergency
Council-in 1898. "The Fight for
Life" was begun under the aegis of
that Government agency. Reor-
ganization of the Government by
executive order, however, did away
with the N. E. c. and changed the
film service-now known as the
United States Film Service-to the
Federal Security Agency, headed by
Paul McNutt. 1t was fitted into the
Office of education, under Commis-
sioner of Education John w. Stude-
baker.
The film service has produced
also a short" on the use of elec-
tricity on the farms, for the Rural
Electrification Administration. In
deed, the film service Is becoming
Evening star., 1940-05-19
them motion picture films of educa-
tional value.
Capitalization Tried.

them motion picture films of educa.
tional value.
Capitalization Tried.
In the last few years efforts have
been made to centralize Government
film making and distribution. This
seems a most sensible idea. The
United States Film Service already
has been designated as co-ordinat-
ing agency, with the duty of pre-
pairing lists of all Government films,
showing the subjects and how they
may be obtained for use in public
gatherings. 1t has already done a
good deal of work along this line.
Furthermore, if the film service is
maintained-as it should be-the
service will be in a position to do
more and more work for the various
agencies of the Government.
A word about the documentary"
film-of which "The Fight for Life"
is an outstanding example. The
documentary takes the facts. 1t
dramatizes them into an intergrated
production of compelling force. In
other words, documentary film
not only gives graphic pictures Of
actual scenes, but it also arranges
the pictures so as to tell a story-a
story of educational interest. There
is no "boy-meets-girl" motif. so
necessary to the usual dramatic
film. That. however, does not mean
there is no drama in q documentary.
The United States Film Service,
in its documentary films, has for the
most part made use of the people
themselves to play the parts. In
''The Fight for Life" however, it
departed from this practice and
seven professional actors were used,
with Myron Mccormick talking the
leading role as the young inferno in
this feature-length motion picture.
Also, Mr.. Lorentz obtained for this
picture a brilliantly dramatic ac-
companying score by Louis Gruen-
berg-who wrote the musical score
for Emperor Jones'" The COM
pleted product will soon be seen by
the people in all parts Of the coun-
try.
Evening star., 1940-05-19

laboratories and technicians for
film production, and no less than %
agencies release films for informa-
ton, education, training or demon
strational purposes. All of this
makes more extraordinary the state
ments made on the floor of the SEN
ate that the legislators did not know
the Government was engaged in the
business of making motion pictures,
when the appropriation for the
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ization produced "The Plow that
Broke the Plains" for the Resettle-
ment Administration. This, the first
of the major Government films, was
distributed in 1896 through the field
Offices of the Resettlement Admin
istration and 5000 motion picture
theaters.
The distribution of these docu-
mentary films produced by the Gov
ernment through the regular motion
picture theaters is now regarded as
absolutely necessary to reach the
people. Educational pictures pro-
duced by various Government
agencies and shown exclusively to
specialized groups-such as farm
organizations-fail to get across to
the people as whole. And it is
the people as a whole that these
films are expected to educate.
The Resettlement Administration
became eventually part of the Farm
Security Administration, and it
Evening star., 1940-05-19

people in dramatic fashion the con-
sequences of dust and drought-the
problem of the use of lands in the
great plains area of the Nation. 1t
was followed by ''The River" which
dramatized the consequences of un-
controlled water erosion, floods, over
cultivation of the soil, and reckless
deforestation.
These films showed Americans
what was happening to some Of their
natural resources and what was
being done by the Federal Govern
ment to arrest forces which were in
disastrous action against the land.
"The Fight for Life" which has
run at a motion picture theater in
New York-the Belmont-for nearly
a dozen weeks, packing them in"
deals with the Nations greatest re-
source-its people. How may the
many babies that are born only to
die quickly be preserved? How may
the many mothers who die in giving
birth to their babies be saved?
The picture had as its basis book
by DR.. Paul de Kruif, dealing with
the staggering mortality rate in
child birth. 1t has been hailed by
the dramatic critics of New York as
a great picture. For example, Archer
winston, writing in the New York
Post, said of "The Fight for Life:
There will be no better motion pic
ture made in 1940." Frank S.
Nugent, in the New York Times,
said: "It is as dramatic as life it
self" and Howard Barnes, in the
New York Tribune, declared: Here
is a l-semorable tribute to the med
lcal profession, accented by challeng-
ing SOCIAL overtones."
Aroused Much Interest.
Without any attempted dramatic
criticism of this new Government
produced film, it may be said that
it has provoked a tremendous
amount of interest in the notion
picture industry itself. Not because
the industry considers itself chal-
lenged by Government competition
for the attitude of Hollywood has
been one of friendly interest. The
interest Of the industry is in securing
Evening star., 1940-05-19

a far greater sum of money than
was necessary to produce the film.
The Government has been for
tunate in it's choice of director for
the United States Film Service. Pare
LorentZ has directed the production
of all three of the major docu-
mentary films for the Government.
He is young man-not more than
IS years old-with a genius for dra-
matte facts and their reproduction.
And to him is given the credit for
these real achievements in the realm
of Government motion pictures, de-
signed not only to educate the
American people, but also to stimu-
late them to greater effort.
Lorentz is not only producer Of
motion pictures, but is recognized
as one of Americas most dis
tinguished motion-picture critics.
He has served as motion picture
critic for the New York Evening
Journal and as motion-picture editor
Of Vanity Fair Magazine, Town and
Country, Judge and McCalrs Maga-
zine. He is known as directors I"
critic, and his study of motion pic
ture technique has established him
internationally as one of the most
important students of the movie
form in the country.
Associated with Mr.. Lorentz in the
active work OF the United States
Film Service is an energetic and
able young man, Arch Mercy, who
has charge of the Office in WASH
ington, now located in the new
Interior Department Building. Mr..
Lorentz' own headquarters are in
New York.
AffiliatiOn Changed.
The United States Film Service
during the last five years has been
shunted from one Government
agency to another. For example, in
1885 Pare Lorentz and his organ
Evening star., 1940-05-19

rights to distribute the film to the
motion-picture houses throughout
the country. The film has been
shown SO far in only one theater-
the Belmont in New York. Some
of the large companies have sought
the distributing rights-and are
willing to pay the Government a
good round sum for such rights. It
appears, therefore, that this activity
of the Government may bring into
the Treasury of the United States
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-11
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Evening star., 1940-03-10
One Dead, Seven Safe
After Stormy Night
On Grounded Ship
Crowd Watches From
FIoridu Coast as
Vessel Breaks Up
0y the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
BRADENTON, Fla, March g.
Seven Cubans who spent stormy
night aboard a battered, grounded
ship were safe ashore here today,
but the eighth crew member was
drowned trying to swim to safety.
Two Coast Guard planes circled
over the wrecked tanker Regina and
q crowd of spectators watched help
lessly from shore as a man identi-
fed as Severino Canneciras, colored,
went down in heavy surf about 100
yards from land.
Later. a Coast Guardsman and
volunteer boatmen brought in Capt.
Jose Urquida. Ernesto Crusostino,
Jose Garcia Garcia, Leonard Perez
and Angel Lopez.
Benjamin Alfonso and Juan Leon
swan the 500 yards to shore after
swelling seas which threatened to
break up the boat had moderated.
Capt. Urquida, Alfonzo and Cru
sostino were treated in a Braden-
ton hospital for shock, exhaustion
and exposure. Urquida said the
craft was owned by the Galbany
Lobo Co. of Havana.
The Regina went aground in shall
low water of Bradenton Beach late
yesterday after breaking loose from
the Cuban tugboat Minima, near
Egmont Key.
Members of the crew said the
Regina left Havana March 5 for
New Orleans with a cargo of mo-
lasses, but there was no explana-
Evening star., 1940-03-10
tion Of why she was being towed by

tion Of why she was being towed by
the Minima.
Persons who watched the Regina
slowly breaking up from the fierce
pounding of heavy seas during the
night and morning said the ship
appeared to be an old tanker which
had been converted into a barge.
The Minima was reported to have
proceeded northward from the
grounded ship before all the crew
had been removed.
The Coast Guard cutter Nemesis
from st. Petersburg stood by during
most Of the rescue operations, but
the water was too shallow for her
to get close to the Regina.
Evening star., 1940-03-10
Group Will Sponsor
Forum on Insurance

A forum discussion on Good and
Bad Insurance From the Consumer
Standpoint" will be held under the
auspices of the District Cooperative
League at 8 pm. Wednesday at
Central High School.
Participating in the discussion will
be Richard Bready, insurance spe-
cialist of the United Federal Work.
ers Of America; Simon Newman of
the Patent Once, Leroy A. Halbert,
local manager of the Ohio Farm Bu-
reau Cooperative Insurance Co.,
and w. r. Williamson, actuarial con-
sultant of the Social Security Board.
The meeting is open to the public.
Drive slowly - expect the unex-
nectod
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pected,
Evening star., 1940-03-10
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Milford chronicle., 1940-01-12
YOU WILL NEED ALL
OF YOUR TAX MONEY

The number OF outlets for which
tax money will have to be provided
is increasing rapidly. First comes
the Army. Navy and Air forces, and
next to that comes more taxes for
the financial support Of a good part
OF our merchant ships that have
been forced out OF commission, on
account of the war. Crop control,
relief measures, the building up OF
Latin-America. preparing these Re-
publics TO meet invasion and pump
printing their trade and commerce
are certain to call for huge outlays.
There you are. only the beginning.
Still, the highest officials Of the Gov
ernment talk about the possibility
of meeting the budget and reducing
the deficit to 2Lz billion dollars the
current year It's all imagination!
II simply can't be done by the po-
litical fosces of the existing Admin
istration, and Congress. The national
debt lint is 45 billion dollars, and
the chances are that the figure win
be raised within the next few
months. II it is not raised then the
Federal money system will go
through processes of devaluing. or
borrowing in line TO number of
schemes to evade the real issue.
Don figure that you will save a
nickel on tax money. no matter what
business you are in. because taxes
will be more instead of less. the COM
ing year.
Milford chronicle., 1940-01-12
RoxANA

The Roxana NJ. E. Sunday school
was recognized Sunday morning.
The following officers were elected
for the ensuing year: L0nnie Lynch,
superintendent Vance McCabe, as
sistant superintendent; Miss Chris
tine Derickson. secretary; Mrs. Viy-
ian Hickman. assistant secretary; +.
S. johnson, treasurer; Miss Lucille
Bennett, pianist: choir leaders, Sam
uel Lekites, Orlando Derickson and
James Leary.
Funeral services for Mrs. Helen
Murray Robinson. wife OF Ross Rob-
inson, and daughter OF Mr. and Mrs.
Roliie Murray, we're held last Sun
day afternoon at the Roxana NJ. +.
Church, with interment in the
churchyard
MI. and Mrs. Harry Goodwin, Jr.,
and children were guests of Mr. and
Mrs Roland Lynch on Saturday eve
ming.
The public school was closed last
Monday due to the heavy snow
storm.
Mrs. Lizzie Mccormick is i'll at
the home of her daughter, Mrs
Bright Richards, near town.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Littlet0n. of
Rattlesnale Ridge farm, are the
proud parents of baby boy. born
January /.
Milford chronicle., 1940-01-12
Saturday. January q. 1910,
AZ Two O'CLOCK r. NJ, ln fr0ni % The
United states Post Office. Ia Ocean
Wow. Sussex County and State
Of Delaware. the following
described real estate. to-


All that certain lot, piece Or parcel Of
land. situated in Cedar Neck. in Balti-
more Hundred, Sussex County. state
Of Delaware. lying on the County Road
Point. and adjoining lands now or for
mcrly of Robert BOcttger. William Il.
Tubhs and others. containing Five 90
Acres OF Land. be the same mora or
less. improved by n two-stOry dwelling
house, two poultry houses and other
Outbuildiugs thereon. Being the same
land which was conveyed To John j.
Clarke by three deeds. t0-Wit: Decd
from Robert I. Hudson and sally Z. H.
Hudson, his wife, to John j. Clarke IN
the name Of John James Clarke. dated
February l3. 1926. and recorded IN
Deed Record Vol 2I7. puir 800; Decd
from Clarence T. Mitchell aud Cecil
MitcEtll, his wife. To John j. Clark and
Jennie VI. Clark, his wife, as tenants 10y
the entirety, dated June -, 1927, and
recorded ia Deed Record Vol .ti. page
igl, ;he said Jennie NJ. Clarke having
since departed this life on or about ia"
Twenty lfth day Of May. \. D., 1887
and Deed from Clarence Mitchell aud
Cecil Mitchell. his wife To John j.
Clarke ia the name Of John Clark. dated
December -. 1922 and recorded in
Deed Record Vol ~. page ass. refer |
ence being had To said deeds will morr
fully appear,
Said property being sold as the real
estate of John j. clarke. after proper 8
prOcecdmEs heretofore had ia said lpis- I
triet 'Ouit ui lliv utiNd SiHitS ibf Nl' {
District Of Delaware. IN Bankruptcy. J
and viii lc sold free. rlrar aud dis /
charged from all liens and rucuti bran !
ccs the said liens and 'ncuni1r.tnccs be- +
ing transferred Ia prurrcds at sale
TllliAiS.-Tcu pei cent. uf the pur- I
chase price will be- demanded ON the Z
day Of sale. the balance Ia be paid ON .
OF before Tuesday. the S0th day Of Jan
Trustee will hc prepared to deliver a /
decd Tor the property. The purchaser
will he required Ia Uay the costs of the /
decd.
The return Of sale will be- made to
The Referee nj his Office in Georgetown.
Sussex County. Delaware. on Tuesday.
the 3Hth day uf January. n H.. 1910. at
ten O'Clock in the forenoon. when oh
jcctiuuS IL the couiiruatl lun Of The same
will nc heard
LAWRENCE G. ELLIOTT.
EST. Trustee
Georerto.su. Delaware
Issued December y. 1899 il2-2t
Milford chronicle., 1940-01-12
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