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Evening star., 1940-12-25
CoIored Society Here
Aids 'Shut-in' Seumen

Sailors Association, Inc, a group
of colored eX-naval men, is conclud-
ing campaign to aid the shut-in
members of their organization as
well as other bed-ridden veterans.
Gifts of cash and food have been
distributed to patients in the Naval
Hospital, Walter Reed and Mount
Alto Hospital. The campaign is
an annual affair. Members visit the
disabled of the association weekly
to keep informed of their needs.
Evening star., 1940-12-25
TOMORROW.

TOMORROW.
Luncheon, North Washington
Lions Club, Kenesaw Restaurant,
1915 pm.
Luncheon, Rotary Club, Willard
Hotel, 1890 pm.
Meeting, Young Friends Club, Ho-
tel Raleigh, $50 pm.
Dance, C. A. r., Hotel Raleigh, 9
pm.
Convention, A. 2. A. of B'nai Birth,
Reg. No. 5. Hotel Raleigh, all day.
Evening star., 1940-12-25
City News in Brief

IUIJAI.
Tea dance, Beta Mu Sorority, Will
lard Hotel, pm.
Evening star., 1940-12-25

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Evening star., 1940-12-25
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CHENILLE SPREADS

The elaborate design is developed in
closely spoeed rows Of thick fluffy
cheniIIing Choice Of lovely coIors
ION matching erounds) ond all white.
Twin and double bed sizes.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-08-23
Maryland Guide Book
Completed
Compiled By Workers Of The
Writers Project.-Historic
And Other Articles

Covering practically every imagin-
able aspect of life in Maryland, del
wing into many little-known by-ways
of the past and including items of
the contemporary scene, the eagerly
awaited Maryland Guide is now COM
pleted, and will be available for
sale ON August 8, at bookstores
throughout the State. Complied by
workers of the Maryland Writers
Project, Work Projects Administra-
ton, the volume is entitled Mary
land, a Guide to the Old Line State,
and will sell for $2.75 per copy.
Attractively bound, and contain
ing nealy a hundred illustrations
and maps, the book runs to more
than $50 pages. The photographs,
particularly, have attracted many
favorable comments, and present
comprehensive panorama Of every
part of Maryland.
Twenty essays and some fifty
tours are included in the Guide.
History, religion, education, music,
literature, industry and commerce
and similar general subjects are
treated in the essays, while the tours
endeavor to give mile-by-mile rec
ord of the States points of interest.
Stories of long-forgotten personages
who played important or interesting
roles in Maryland's development are
brought to light again, and should
offer frequent opportunities to the
short-story writer or novelist.
All of the material in the book was
handed over to expert volunteer
consultants prior to publication, so
that it is reasonable to assume that
the Guide material is as accurate as
careful research and verification
could make 1t. So wide is the field
that has been covered in the volume
that it has already been described
as the "most encyclopedia informa-
ton on Maryland ever assembled
within the confines of a single
volume.
recent of the widely praised volumes
recent fthe widely praised volumes
turned out by workers of the WPA
Writers Program, throughout the
country, and known collectively as
the American Guide Series. Although
the University of Maryland Is the
general Statewide sponsor of the
Maryland Writer'S Project, Cover
nor Herbert r. O'Conor served as
sponsor for the Guide. and a fore
word from the Governor appears In
the volume. There is every reason to
believe that the "Old Line State"
may well be proud of her first real
Guide.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-08-23
RIVERS OF MILK

Figures now being released Dy
the Institute of Distribution cover
ing the national dairy campaign
held in June, impressively demon
strate the vital part which modern
mass distribution plays In our eco
nomic life. They also give some In
dication of the benefits received by
all when free enterprise, under the
impelling urge to do bigger and bet
ter things, digs in to serve the
public.
Objectives of the campaign IN
Guided increased year-around milk
consumption, aid to dairy FARMERS
in disposal of abundant milk ana
dairy products at fair prices, ana
generation Of general business TO
the social and economic beneht OF
the entire nation.
Dairy Month and its sponsors re-
ceived the praise of the President.
Twenty-seven state governors ana
over 225 mayors proclaimed 1t.
Municipalities observed 1t with balls,
banuuets, parades, contests, carni-
walls, stunts and features. MIX ana
milk products we're pushed TO the
limit of human ingenuity. Millions
Of consumers were subtly introduce
ed to higher standard of living
through more milk. Chain and In
dependent stores alike took part.
It is estimated that 1880 units OF
ia non-grocery chains alone exhip-
tied nearly 100 miles of window dis
plays relative to milk.
And what were the results OF
Dairy Month. They were gratifying
to say the least. Chain five and
tens" and chain restaurants, the
only groups for which figures are
available so far, increased milk sales
by 14.4 and 1914 respectively, dur
ing June, 1910, as compared to June,
1889. These percentages, measured
in terms of a rising health stan
dard, mean something. And, sig
nificantly, credit goes to modern
mass distribution which some poll
ticians SO dearly love to condemn
as being monopolistic and opposed
to the best interests of the people!
"The 1O-year period, ending this
YEAR" says Paul H. Walser of the
Soil Conservation Service, prob
ably will go down in history as the
conservation decade. More signifi-
cant advances have been made
toward the formulation of a long
time program for the conservatism
of natural resources than during
any other period in our history"
ALL-RIsK INSURANCE HELPS
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-08-23
BRIDGE wATCHMAN DROWNED

Martin S. Robinson, aged SIS
years, was drowned in the Susque-
hanna river Sunday, Aug. IL, near
the new Susquehanna river bridge.
His body was recovered the next
morning when two small boys sight
ed it floating in the water about so
feet from shore near the old locks.
He had been employed as watch
man for the Mclean Construction
Company.
Son of Mrs. Alice Robinson, of
Havre de Grace, and the late Martin
S. Robinson, the victim was born in
Cambridge, Md. He was bridge
builder and steamfitter by trade.
He served two enlistments in the
United States Army, and saw SER
vice overseas, He is survived by his
mother, Mrs. Alice Robinson; one
brother, Mr.. Walter Robinson, of
Hare de Grace, and two sisters, Mrs.
Clyde Myers, Havre de Grace, and
Mrs. Charles Deaver, of Aberdeen.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-08-23
Women OF Maryland Rally
To Support Peoples
Court Amendment

Women's clubs in ell sections Of
Maryland will have an opportunity to
hear the story behind the Statewide
campaign for the Adoption of the Peo-
pies Court Amendment to the Mary
land Constitution, explained by out
standing women members of the
Maryland Bar.
Miss Rose S. Zetzer, President of
the Women's Bar Association of Bal
timore City, announced that this Or
ganization will cooperate with the
Maryland State Bar Association and
the Bar Association of Baltimore City
in the campaign to have the voters Of
Maryland adopt the Amendment at
the November election.
The women Of Maryland have al
ready shown keen interest in the
Amendment designed to further ex-
tend Maryland's system of a non-po-
litical judiciary to cover the Peoples
Court in Baltimore.
A Statewide subcommittee Of
women's organizations, headed by
Mrs. Thomas J. Tingley Of the Mary
land Federation of Women's Clubs.
and Mrs. Emil Crocken Of the Mary
land League of Women Voters, is al
ready functioning.
Mrs. Harry L. Harcum of Salisbury,
prominent Maryland club woman, is
a member Of the Statewide Non-Par-
tisan Committee for the Adoption Of
the Peoples Court Amendment, as is
Mrs. J. Stanley Grabill of Mt Airy.
Maryland.
The Women's Bar Association Of
Baltimore has organized a speakers
bureau, and will work in cooperation
with the various feminine leaders
mentioned above by sending trained
speakers to explain the Amendment
to any groups requesting this service.
Reuben Oppenheimer, General Chair
man Of the Non-P Partisan Committee.
and W. Clinton McSherry, Frederick
attorney, State Chairman, together
with MEMBERS Of their executive COM
mittees, are now engaged in formu-
lating a plan to coordinate the activi-
ties Of these various groups.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-08-23
DUCK SHOOTING SEASON
EXTENDED

Maryland duck-hunters will have
is extra days Of shooting when the
wild waterfowl season opens this
fall. This news is given by Harold
L. Ickes, Secretary OF Interior
under whose jurisdiction comes the
enforcement of the regulations.
The extra days are placed at the
beginning of the season, the open
period for waterfowling being from
November 2 to December 81. This
gives an open season of sixty days.
Last year the season lasted only
forty-five days.
Another change that will please
the wildfowl gunners Is the extern
sion of the shooting day, which will
be from sunrise until 400 p. m.
instead of from 700 a. m. to 4:0(
p. m.
Bag limits remain the same as
before, except in the cases Of geese,
where it has been cut from four to
three per day. The daily bag limit
remains at 10, but it will be permits
sable to have in possession two days
bag.
Another important change has
to do with woodcock, the season fol
this species being cut from 80 tt
Is days, with a daily bag limit of
four.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-08-23

The pattern of Hitler's projected
world revolution steadily becomes
more clear. 1t is apparent to anyone
that this isn't war in the TRADITION
al sense, in which Germany, il she
wins, will be satisfied with repara-
lions and colonies and economic
power. What the Nazis obviously
intend-despite their occasional pro-
testations to the contrary-is the
complete and final destruction OF
the British Empire, which for hun
dreds of years has held the balance
of power in Europe and large part
of the rest of the world. And follow
ing that, If the Fuhrer's astound-
ing frank Mein Kampf is to be be-
LEVIED, the rest of the democracies
will receive similar treatment. Now
adays, the only democracies left,
save England, are the American
Republics. And OF the American Re-
publics, only the United states pos
sesses sufficient wealth. resources
and potential armed strength to be
q serious obstacle to the aims OF
National Socialism.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-08-23
STATES DEFENSE PLANS

Maryland's plans for organizing
it's industries and other resources
for possible use in any National
emergency ara stepping into high
gear now, following the opening OF
offices of the Council of Defense and
Resources in the Governors suite
in the Union Trust Building, Baltic.
In welcoming the Council to Its
first meeting, Governor Herbert II.
O'conor charged them with the def
mite responsibility of lining up every
resource of the State for prompt
service when needed, and under
Chairman w. Frank Roberts and
Executive Officer Isaac S. George,
the ground work is now being laid.
He has approved list OF seven
Committee appointed by Chairman
Roberts from among the twenty
five members of the Council and
these new committees will begin
functioning Immediately. -
Governor O'Conor has promised
the full cooperation of the State in
any demands of the Federal Govern
ment and he is working personally,
as one of two representatives of the
National Governors Conference,
with officials of the Department OF
Justice and the Federal Bureau OF
Investigation in lining up program
for coordinating all State and Fed
eral activities.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-08-23
Striking shifts have developed

Striking shifts have developed in
the commercial Matching Of chicks
in recent years. From 1884 to 1898,
says B. H. Bennett Of the Agricul-
tural Marketing Service, the proper
ton of chicks raised on farms that
were bought from commercial hatch
cries increased from about Al per-
cent to more than go percent. Anoth-
err important factor was the rise
of the all-year production Of broil-
ers, nealy all of which are Matched
commercially. This has resulted in
longer season Of Matching opera
ton, with a number of plants In the
specialized broiler production areas
Matching the year around.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-08-23
FIFTH COLUMN ACTIVITIES


posed that Congress and the state
legislatives enact equivalent legis-
lation dealing with subversive ac-
tivities, with seditious acts, with
those things which slow UP or break
down our common defense pro-
gram"
Few people of the United States
have any conception of the strength
of the Fascist, Communist and Nazi
activities in this country. The Fas-
cists began their work among our
Italians within a year after Musso-
lini and the Black Shirts seized the
Italian Government. About the same
time the Russian Communistic
movement made its advent in the
United States, and for the past sever
al years the Nazi agents and sympa-
thizers have been building roads
for their Trojan horses"
Strange to say, the American press
has kept from the people facts con-
corning these "three-in-one" sub
versiye doctrines, particularly the
Fascist and Nazi activities. Now in
a great national emergency 1t is
difficult to impress our citizens that
many of the things that happened to
European countries can happen here.
Hitler's methods of working in
countries he proposes to destroy, his
utter disregard of principles, inter-
national law, and ethical patterns
which western civilization has been
years establishing, is explained in
The Voice of Destruction by Herman
Rauschning. They were discussed
by the Fuehrer, himself, in CONVEX
sation with Doctor Rauschning be-
fore these two Germans became
setranged.
Hitler's utter humiliation of mo-
raj and legalistic patterns is as
difficult for Americans to under
stand as it was for the nations OF
Europe which are now subject to
his will. Many Americans aroused
to the danger of their free institu-
lions are at last convinced that
every diplomatic or consular agent
of Germany, Italy Russia are clan
destinely carrying out the orders OF
their respective dictators to under
mine the Government and the in
situations of the U. S. Moreover,
every German, Italian and Russian
agent and their American fellow
travellers are likewise under the
order of the dictators OF these
countries.
In his statement, made on Aug
ust 9Th, to governors and other rep
resentatives of some forty states
meeting in Washington, President
Roosevelt said in part:
eve must be viligant, always on
guard, and swift to act. But we must
also be wise and cool headed, and
must not express our activities in
the cruel stupidities Of the vigilante.
There is where the fifth columns
form the line"
The conference of governors and
others is expected to formulate plans
for uniting Federal and state law
enforcement agencies to fight fifth
column activities and to aid in adj
ministering the recently enacted
Alien Registration Act. The group
was addressed by j. Edgar Hoover,
director of the Federal Bureau OF
Investigation.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-08-23
DON'T LET YOUR DOG RUN
8 AT LARGE

Two out of every three persons
who are given the Pasteur treat
ment at the State Department of
Health to protect them against
rabies, hydrophobia, have been bit
ten by stray or ownerless dogs.
To give some idea of the danger
from "stray" or ownerless dogs as
well as from other dogs that are
allowed to run at large, DR.. r. Fl.
Riley, Director of the State Depart
ment Of Health said: "There is new
er any let-up to the stream Of per-
SONS who apply at the headquarters
of the Department, after they have
been bitten by dogs or other animals
for the treatment that will prevent
hydrophobia from developing.
According to our records over a
thousand persons living in or near
Baltimore City are bitten each year;
among them are great many child
rem. During the five years from 1885
to the close of 1889, over 1000
people from this section of the
State had to have preliminary pro-
tective treatment after having been
bitten, Nearly 500 have applied for
treatment since the first of January,
this year. These totals refer only to
people living in this section of the
State. They do not include persons
in the counties who are cared for
by their own doctors or at the Coun-
ty Departments of Health. Two
thirds of those who have been treat
ed have charged their injuries to
STRAY" or other dogs running at
large.
"Only small percentage of the
people who apply for the Pasteur
treatment actually need to be treat
ed. In a great many instances care
full inquiries have shown that the
dogs or other animals infiicting the
injuries we're cross, or possibly vic
ious, but not rabid. AS matter of
fact, not more than a hundred have
had to be treated each year.
"But you can't take any chances
with a disease like rabies, which
means sure and agonizing death II
it once develops. Therefore, as a
precautionary measure protective
treatment is given to each applicant.
II there is any doubt about the con-
dition of the dog the treatments are
begun at once and are continued.
tut ordinarily the complete course
of fourteen treatments is not given
unless the animals are known to be
abid or are suspected Of being rab-
d. The treatments are given by DR.,
W. C. Rohrer who has been in charge
ct the Pasteur Division since Its
establishment in 1915.
"All dogs that snap at strangers
or act suspiciiously, are not neces-
sarily mad. But every dog that bites
anybody should be securely tied SO
that it can not harm anyone. 1t
should be placed in the care of an
experienced veterinarian and kept
under observation for ten days. The
animal should of course be pro-
vided with food and water. Its action
should be carefully observed. If the
dog has rabies 1t will go mad and
die In q few days; in most instances
in a weeks time.
There is no excuse for letting q
dog run at large. And there is no
excuse for the needless suffering.
mental and physical. that may be
caused by injuries inflicted by such
animals"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-08-23
AUGUST 81 is DEAD LINE FOR
WHEAT CROP INSURANCE

Winter wheat growers in Cecil
county have only a few days left to
get "all risk" insurance on their
1871 crop, warns j. 2. Miller, Coun-
ty Agent. August 81 is the closing
date this year for winter wheat
growers everywhere and no appli-
cations or premium payments will
be accepted after that date, even
if the crop has not been planted.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-08-23

Maybe the falling birth rate in
Gates consideration for the neigh
bors. Babies were plentiful when
people didn't live in thin-walled
apartments.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-08-23

The many ways in which rural
identification has benefited farm
communities are discussed in spec
ial section OF the July Rural Eiec-
IRRIGATION News. Reprints OF the
section are available for distribu-
ton by REA-ananced systems
throughout the country.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-08-23

cate very close fight between the
Democratic and Republican NOM
inees. That means an exciting cam
paign-and hot one.
Still On The Waiting Calendar
After two years of consideration
and discussion in both branches of
Congress the NLRB law was amend
ed in many important particulars
by the House early in the year and
the measure was sent to the Sem
ate. There it languishes beneath the
shadows of foreign entanglements-
and sad to say, it is not likely to be
re-discovered until after election.
Roosevelt Puts Congress On
The Spot
All big war problems have been
laid in the lap of Congress, and the
President calmly informs. the legis-
lative groups that here is what
think about it," and tells them to
assume the responsibility that is
imposed upon them. 1t is high time
that Congress should take the lead
that's its plain duty.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-08-23
GALiuPsPoLLs

The whole nation has come to re-
gard the Gallup polls as the most
dependable of all indicators Of ma
tional conditions. These polls indi-
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-08-23

It scarcely seems possible, after
looking at grandmother's picture,
when she was girl and then at the
fiapper of today. that 1t costs more
to dress 'em now.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-08-23

When you are offered something
for nothing you should accept 1t, If
you can afford to pay double its
value.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-08-23

We U. S. residents spend $40 a
minute importing leaves for maxi
ing drugs (herb and roots).
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-08-23

A Magnificent Story Of Western Pioneer Days,
Unsettled Lands, and Ever-Present Danger
Evening star., 1940-07-06
Economic Defense Urged
Through Department Of Agriculture.

To the Editor Of The Star: -..
Our economic defense demands that
immediate steps be taken to produce in
the Americas those commodities until
now imported from abroad, such as rub
Der, quinine, etc. We are just about 20
years late, so there is no time to be lost
The Department of Agriculture should be
directed to drop some of its less impor-
tant Investigations and concentrate upon
these more pressing problems for the
next few years.
The Department of Agriculture has
large staff of highly trained specialists
and needs no additional personnel, nor
additional appropriations, but the au-
thorization to direct it's present ap-
preparation and personnel to solving
these problems: To produce in the
Americas those crops and materials i'm
ported from abroad, to introduce new
crops in appropriate localities and study
the redistribution of present crops, to
eliminate surplus by this means.
Hitler is far more apt to conquer the
Americas by economic means and by the
fifth column than by immediate direct
military attack. Our economic defense
must rest largely with the Department
Of Agriculture. A. ROCKWELL.
June 27.