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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-08-16
MOTORIST OF STATE ASKED TO
REPORT TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS

In an effort to collect complete
information on traffic accidents in
the State, as a steps towards increas-
ed safety by the prevention of such
accidents, Governor Herbert r.
O'Conor's Maryland Traffic Safety
COMMITTEE has issued a call to all
the motorists of Maryland for assist
ance.
A new "short form" for accident
reporting, formally approved by the
Traffic Safety Committee, will be
made available at garages, filling
stations, and many other locations
throughout the State for the use of
motorists involved in accidents. The
reports will be on double postcards,
one side containing full instruc-
tions, the other addressed for de-
taching and mailing to the proper
officials.
The Traffic Safety Executive Com
mittee emphasizes that these forms
are for their information and should
cover all minor accidents, whether
these accidents involve personal in
jury or not. They will be exclusive
ly for statistical purpose, and not
for court action or legal use, and
will mott eliminate the necessity of
filling the standard form required
by law, which must be filed to the
Commissioner of Motor Vehicles
whenever a personal injury results
from an accident.
A complete report of accidents
showing where, and how they occur
are an absolute necessity in the work
of the Traffic Safety Committee. BY
telling the enforcement officials
where traffic law violations are most
commonly resulting in accidents,
they help the traffic engineer to
know where to apply signs, signals,
markings, or other safeguards to
prevent the constant recurrence of
accidents.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-08-16
INCREASING DEATH TOLL ON
HIGHWAYS

Increasing death toll on the high
ways of this, as well as other States,
prompts the Keystone Automobile
Club to warn motorists that eternal
viligance is not only the price of
liberty, but under present-day traffic
conditions the price of life ITSELF"
eve do not" said George E.
Keneipp, Manager of the Club, Sub
scribe to the thought that war jit-
ters' are responsible for the upward
swing in highway accidents. Our
own observation is that there has
been a let-down on safety conscious
ness. Last year the pendulum swung
in the direction Of safety, with ire
mendous public opinion backing all
MONUMENTS calculated to reduce acct
dents. This year the emphasis on
safety has not been as great, and
motorists, being human, are slipping
back to careless methods of driving.
pedestrians also must assume
full share of blame, because there has
been a noticeable lack of co-opera-
ton on their part at busy corners and
under other conditions where the
motorist normally has the right of
way. Accidents to persons crossing
in the middle Of the block and to
those who appear suddenly from be-
hind parked cars cannot be blamed
on careless operation of motor We
hicles."
IAN increase of 26 deaths in Mary
land in the first six months of 1910
over the corresponding period in
1899 certainly is cause for alarm.
The death toll now has amounted to
214, with the heaviest traffic months
still to be counted. Unless there is
marked improvement in driving and
walking habits, the record for the
year may reach horrifying proper
tons"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-08-16
O,CONOR ISSUES APPEAL TO
STATE OFFICIALS TO
CONSERVE FUNDS

ENCOURAGED by the splendid re-
Spouse made by department heads
last year to his call for economy,
which resulted in the reversion to
the State Treasury OF S363,OVo.oo
in unspent budgeted funds, Gov
ernor Herbert R. O'Conor has issued
a similar appeal to the heads OF all
State agencies.
The greatest economy is essential,
Governor O'Conor pointed out II
his administration is to carry out
the pledges he has made to prlhg
about a reduction in taxes general
ly at the very first opportunity.
Partly because Of the large
amount reverted to the treasury
last year, the State was enabled TO
end the fiscal year with a surplus
of s4,OOO,0OO, and it is the Gov
errors hope that this figure Will De
exceeded this year at the close OF
the fiscal year of September SOth.
"It is desirable again at this time"
the Governor pointed out in his ap-
neal to State officials, that our
policy respecting this matter (return
of unexpended balances) be indicat-
ed to the Heads of all State Agen-
cies for their guidance.
Attention is called to the pro-
vision of the Budget Law which says
"Any unexpected balance OF such
appropriation, against which there
will be no outstanding obligations
at the end of the fiscal year, except
balances from sources dedicated by
anv Act of Congress or by the laws OF
the State to some specific purpose
or purposes, shall revert to the Gen
eral Treasury of the State at the END
of the fiscal year." 1t is the obvious
intention of the law that all unobll-
gated balances be returned to the
State Treasury.
eff. for any reason, such con-
dition exists in your Agency, l urge
that you regard such sums for what
they are, namely, unspent balances
and revert the same to the Treasury
sour State is in a sound financial
position, our budget is balanced, oul
reserves sufficient and our bondS
are held in high esteem by the IN
vestigating public. The times, how
ever, require the utmost prudence
caution and economy in the admins
tration of government fiscal affairs
and every financial resources OF the
State must be conserved.
ST know that 1 shall have youi
complete cooperation in making
effective the policies herein indl-
Gated"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-08-16
STATE DEFENSE COUNCIL

Maryland's plans for according
full cooperation to the Federal
authorities in the matter of Nation
al Defense and Resources, appoint
ed recently by Governor Herbert
O'Conor. The activities of the Coun-
ell are being carried on from the
executive offices in Baltimore, under
Isaac s. George, Executive Officer.
j. Frank Robert, well-known Balti-
more industrialist, is Chairman of
the Council.
The Maryland Council of Defense
and Resources has been charged by
Governor O'Conor with the duty of
compiling complete information on
Maryland's industry, man power,
transportation, housing, and other
facilities, with view to making
them instantly available for call by
Federal authorities, should on emer-
gency arise.
The Council will await a detailed
report of the discussions in Wash
ington during the past few days
before it launches its program for
coordinating and correlatfng the
States activities with Washington's
plans. 1t is certain, however, that
as the nearest connecting link to
Washington of the important Gov
ernor's Conference, Governor O'Con-
or will be called upon to play an in
creasing part in maintaining COM
plete cooperation between the Gov
ernors of the respective states and
the authorities in Washington.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-08-16

The conference of the 81 Ameri-
can Republics, which recently took
place in colorfu1 Havana, got off to
a rather discouraging start. Secre-
tary Hull made a fortnight speech
in which he called upon the nations
of this hemisphere to band solidly
together in commercial and mill
tary ties, to oppose European agrees
sion of any kind. Mr.. Hull also
roundly states, intimating that
might happen South of the Rio
Grande unless unity is achieved.
Most of the Latin American foreign
ministers present, paid lip service
to this doctrine. But there were
strong Inducements of dissension.
In many cases, South American eco
nomic interests come into direct
conflict with ours, and South Ameri-
can business was afraid it would get
the short end of the stick if the Hull
programs were adopted in toto. On
top of that, the Axis powers have I'M
Questionably made serious lnroads
into Latin America. Certain coun-
tries, notably Brazil, have been larg-
ely settled by Germans, and Hitler's
agents have been working for years
to convert them to the Nazi theology
All of South America is, of course,
of Latin origin, and Spanish and
Italian influences are strong. Italy
is an active German ally, and Franco
dictated Spain is Hitlers passive
ally.
However, it looks as If the major
ity of Latin American governments
are genuinely afraid of Axis activ-
fly, and are determined to remain
Republics. So, at the end, they came
at least halfway to agreeing with
proposed U. S. policy.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-08-16

The two great political parties OF
the United States have made their
choice of presidential candidates.
Only Mr.. Roosevelt can speak
with full authority in defense OF
New Deal activities and purposes.
And only Mr.. Wilkie, among the. OPP
position, has brought to bear on the
New Deal, criticism which has been
based on philosophical rather than
partisan principles.
There can be no question out
that the New Deal has vastly broad
ened the powers Of government over
the people--over individuals and in
dustries alike. That is the New Deals
basic philosophy--a centralized gov
eminent in Washington, exertine
its influence over almost every phase
of life. 1t is exactly this which Mr.
Wilkie opposes--a Jeffersonian In
tradition, 1t Is his thesis that the
State is basically the enemy of in
dividual freedom. and that the least
possible government is the best pos
uible government for the governed.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-08-16
THEIR FIRST BIG ADVENTURE

Parents of the army of flrst-grad-
ers who will be tacklfng the three
RS for the first time when the
schools open in the fall, are remind
ed by DR.. r. H. Riley, Director OF
the State Department of Health, Of
certain "musts" that should be at
tended to before the children start
off on this, their first big adventure.
First in order of Importance"
he said, sis a general health exam
nation. The correction of unfavor-
able conditions comes next. Health
conferences for the examination OF
children who will enter school In the
fall, have been held in all of the
counties and our records show that
great many youngsters have al
ready been examined.
Especial attention Is paid In the
health examination of prospective
first-graders to the general health
and development of each child, to
the throat, nose, chest, teeth, vision
and hearing.
''If you have put off having your
child examined don't wait any long
err. Take the youngster to your fam
ily doctor for thorough checking
up. If the doctor finds something
that needs attention go ahead and
have 1t done, so that your small boy
or girl may enter school as free as
possible from conditions that might
be responsible for i'll health later on.
"There are two other 'musts': Be
sure that your child is protected
against smallpox before he starts
to school.
"Our State law requires all child
rem to be vaccinated against small
pox before they may be accepted at
any public school in Maryland. The
State has been kept comparatively
free from smallpox, largely through
the observance of this law. The di-
sease is widely prevalent In other
parts of the country, but because we
hear SO little about it in Maryland,
parents have to be reminded that the
children must be protected against
smallpox before they start to school.
"Diphtheria is as preventable as
smallpox. You can have your child
immuned that is protected against
diphtheria through the use of tox-
old. You can have your child safe
guarded against these diseases either
by your own doctor or at one OF the
county health department clinics.
''If you have neglected any OF the
essential health measures just look
at your calendar to see how soon
the schools will open, and have them
attended to, without any further
delay"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-08-16
CHECK HOOPS ON SILO BEFORE
FILLING

Ray w. Carpenter, specialist in
agricultural engineering for the Ex-
tension Service, says that it Is good
idea to check all of the hoops on
the silo for tightness before filling
this year. He states that just because
concrete slaves are regarded as in
elastic one cannot assume that re-
inforcing hoops on silo which has
once been filed are tight enough
when they appear snug.
1t is probable that expansion and
contraction of the silo parts has re-
suited in readjustment and loosen
ing of hoop tension and even a
slight decrease in hoop tension may
result in mortar cracks between
slaves under the pressure Of ensil-
age. If excess juices are present,
they will enter these cracks and may
cause accelerated etching or corro-
sion of the concrete and mortar.
Mr.. Carpenter suggests that since
damage can be done by over-stress-
ing the rods through the use of a
long handle wrench, an open end
type of wrench, not exceeding 10
iehes in length should be used for
the job.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-08-16

According to recent news reports,
Congress Is now in a mood to care
fully scrutinize and analyze future
requests for expenditures for nat
ional defense.
This means that Congress is de-
termined to see to it that all money
spent for defense shall 60 for neces-
sary purposes--and that the max
ium results are attained with the
reatest possible speed.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-08-16

will be patched up with an agree
ment to call Congress back in ses-
sion if, as, and when, matters get so
hot and warlike, and the country so
excited over real and imaginary dan
gers that it becomes necessary to
have the lawmakers on the job.
ready to shoot American fireworks
without delay.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-08-16

Stocks of wheat in interior mills,
elevators, and warehouses in Mary
land on July were $4,000 bushels,
or 10000 bushels more than stocks
ON the same date one year ago, but
5000 bushels below the July l aver
age for the period 1935-1936 accord
ing to the Maryland Crop Reporting
Service.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-08-16

The two new Republican Cabinet
officers. Stimson and Knox, seem to
fit harmoniously into the Democratic
Cabinet, and they are holding to
their promise not to NEEDLE in poll
tics but to look after the duties of
the War and Navy Departments.
Stimson has had Assistant Secretary
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-08-16

Louis A. Johnson replaced by his
personal friend, Judge Robert Port
er Patterson of the United States
Court of Appeals.
Mr.. johnson was a strong man in
favor of definite preparedness. He
quarreled with former Secretary
Woodring, and Stimson apparently
did not want to take chances with
him.
The New Adjournment Date
Congress has resumed and the
latest word from Capitol Hill is that
it is planning to "get through" by
the first of September. A little mod
ern history is worth recalling, and
this reminds us that the President
asked Congress in January to get
through in May. Then he gave them
another month and before June was
up there was opposition to the White
House adjournment date. 1t was SO
loud that the time was postponed
and recesses were taken over the per-
iods of the two big political con-
ventions. Now date is set again.
A comment and prediction Is in
order and our Washington cores
pondent states the belief that the
national campaign will be so hot that
the session Of Congress will run past
September first, and into October,
at which time some sort Of recess
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-08-16

The entire world depends upon
one spot for its supply of cloves and
that spot is Zanzibar. now export
ing 500 pounds Of cloves every time
Just one minute goes BY
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-26
HEARING
IS SLATED TODAY
Seven Asheville Officials And
Attorneys Are Sched-
uled To Appear

ASHEVILLE, March rs. - Up
Seven Asheville court officials and
attorneys are scheduled to appear
here tomorrow morning as Wit
nesses for William Dudley Pelley,
Asheville publisher and leader Of
the Silver Shirts, at a hearing IN
connection with Pelley's petition for
a writ of habeas corpus to aid in his
fight against returning to this state
for trial here.
The seven are Superior Court
Judge Zeb V. Nettles, who prose-
cuted Policy in 1885 and who insti-
tuted the current proceedings
against him; Solicitor Robert M.
Wells, member of Policy counsel in
1885; Robert r. Williams and Thorn
as ]. Harkins, special states attor
neys retained to prosecute Policy =
the current action; Clerk of Court
J Ed. Swain, J. Y. Jordan, Jr.. and
Joseph Ford, Asheville attorneys.
The hearing will be held before
Notary Public Marie Shank. Each
Of the seven was subpoenaed last
week by the United States district
court for the District of Columbia,
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-26
PATENTS RULING
GIVEN BY COURT
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actually used, as a means of control
ling jobbers' prices and s~uppressing
competition among Them
He added that this attempted
regulation of prices and market
practices of the jobbers," which the
Ethyl company could not legally
bring about by contract, could not
lawfully be done by manipulation. >
Assuming that the company, as
owner of a patent, could issue or
withhold licenses to jobbers at will,
the decision said, lit does not follow
that it can lawfully exercise that
lower in such manner as to control
the patented commodity in the hands
of the licensed jobbers who had pur-
chased it, or their actions with re-
spect to it in ways not within the
limits Of the patent monopoly.
"Conspicuously among such con-
trolls which the Sherman law pro
hibits and the patent law does not
sanction is the regulation of prices
and the suppression of competition
among the purchasers of the patent.
ed articles"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-26

(AR0LINA, PENN
TO PLA TODAY
,,n,o Postponed By Snow To
p. Played Providing The
Weather Is Good

u,prL HILL, March 25.-R-
Ch weather. is fair tomorrow the
ID. sities Of North Carolina and
VnN,,1vania will play their SEIZED.
EsnHt hoseball game at 4 o'clock on
.oyns of workers got busy early
s,orning and shoveled all the
bs eff the field which appeared
rV .oir shape, aided by a beaming
% Ia ,a+e this afternoon. The Penn.
'a' onia team also decided to re-
El. aver in Chapel Hill in view of
pa', possibility of the game.
ps ,ro1ina's varsity tennis team is
slated to make its first ap.
wv '.,nce Of the season tomorrow.
Tar Heel netmen will oppose
l llM = college of Pennsylvania
at 8 o'clock on the university
" cr.~olina's freshman team put one
nm the weather today. Members
wv +be team got busy early this
",rning, swept the snow off two
..aent courts, and played a SEIZED.
". engagement with Hebron Acad-
WV of Maine. The Tar Babies
..%,ii,evasled the northern team
= IN n
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-26
CANADIAN REGIME
FACES VOTE TODAY
Continued From Page One)

Intellectually, fired the last campaign
broadside at tonight's traditional
el%ection-eve mass meeting in the
capital.
Political leaders, meanwhile, voic-
ed anxiety lest many of the Domin-
ions $4,000 eligible voters be kept
from the polls tomorrow by snow
storms which have seriously hamper
ed rural transportation facilities in
the provinces of Quebec and New
Brunswick.
Members of Canada's ar m e d
forces at home and broad, number
ing approximately 10000 men, al
ready have cast their ballots but
the result will not be known until
April 1 or later.
For many of the older voters
conditions recalled the last wartime
election in 1917, but the issues, the
parties and the men are different.
The main question to be decided
is whether the Mackenzie King
government shall carry on or give
way to a national government head
ed by DR.. Robert . Manion. veteran
conservative party leader.
Although some eight or ten po-
litical parties are represented by the
672 candidates contending for the
245 seats in the house of commons,
only the liberals and the national
government followers of DIR. Man
ion, who have dropped their con-
sentative label for this election,
have sufficient nominees to obtain
a majority.
OF the minor parties in the run.
ming, the most outstanding are the
cooperative commonwealth fedora
ton under J. S. Wordsworth, with
rs candidates in the field, and the
new democracy, sponsored by w.
D. Herridge, former minister to
Washington, with %.
Members of the social credit
group led by John Blackmore are
s%tringing along with Herridge's new
democrats.
Both major parties are opposed to
CONSUMPTION.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-26
AGAINST
LAWMAKERS BEGUN
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future through the use of a
sound truck and other a

-Four people, all prominent WI.
mington citizens, have been killed
within the past four years as a re.
suit of jaywalking," the chief said.
1--WE aim to eliminate these people
who walk across the street diagonal
ly in the face OF a red light and say
hit me if you dare"
Taking the above mentioned fig
ures as a basis Of computation, it
is shown that during each of the
buster afternoon hours on the two
corners mentioned, there are a total
of 67S traffic violations - each of
which could easily cause an injury
or a death.
And in addition to the danger Of in
jury, Chief Rourk said, they slow p
traffic UNNECESSARILY and make driv-
ing On downtown streets much more
unpleasant and inconvenient.
"And they are not by any means
confined to Front and Princess and
Front and Chestnut" Rourk said,
but they occur on practically every
corner in the city.
with the help of the public we
r going to do our best to help ne
situation"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-26
FREEZING WEATHER
CONTINUES HERE
Continued From Page One)

Chicago would move south and east,
where they have been having cold
air masses Of their own.
Spring in the south, famed in song
and story, was showed under, and
only blooms that could peer above
snowfalls ranging from one to
eight inches deep and extending
from Arkansas through Tennessee,
northern Alabama and Georgia,
North and South Carolina and V1r-
ginia could uphold southern spring
traditions.
Florida and a narrow strip of the
Gulf coast escaped the weather.
mans tricks with the calendar; but
freezing weather was expected in
northern Louisiana and Mississippi.
Record
The annual egg rolling on the
White House lawn attracted only a
score of children before 9 a. m.
&c. S. T.) and $3.50 before noQn,
because it was the coolest Easter
Monday since 1871 when weather
data began to be compiled. In 1887
there was an attendance of $3.50.
The New York-Montreal express
passenger train Laurentian was de-
layed Is hours by drifts on the bor-
der and finally had to back up and
take other tracks to New York.
Some upstate New York communi-
ties were snowbound, and roads in
many counties were so iced or snow
ed under that traffic at best was
slow and hazardous.
A party of six men, who climbed
v hours to the top Of Whiteface
mountain in the Adirondacks to
bring television equipment to snow
bound weather observers so they
could hear and see Easter services.
suffered frostbite in 20 degrees be-
low zero and a administrations
wind.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-26
Mats Considering Trade
OF Buddy Myer To Tigers

WASHINGTON, March 25-LR-
officials of the Washington Senators
we're reported today to be consider
ing a trade whereby Buddy Myer.
veteran second baseman would go
+" the Detroit Tigers.
The Senator's have tried unsuc-
cessfully several times since last fall
70 make a deal with Detroit which
would bring them either Hank
Sfeenberg, OF Rudy York. The SEN
4s0fs Young infielder, Cecil Travis,
Was offered by Washington.
with Charley Gehringer ailing,
De(roit is reported to be interested
III Myer for reserve duty.