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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-01-24

Sixty-6ve years ago there was no
telephone, but there was a telephone
laboratory. In corner of Boston
workshop Alexander Graham Bell was
investigating speech and hearing and
was devising apparatus and methods
for the electrical communication Of
intelligence. The outgrowth of these
laboratory experiments was the tele-
phone and the worldwide system we
have today.
From two men-Bell and Thomas A.
Watson - the telephone laboratory
personnel has grown to thousands;
from small space to large buildings;
from simple tools to the complete
equipment which modern scientific
progress has made possible.
A review Of the activities of the Bell
Telephone Laboratories, research or
ganization of the Bell Telephone Sys-
tenn, for the past fifteen years shows
that in 1925 your neighborhood movie
theatre was a palace Of silence. The
Laboratories were responsible for the
talking motion picture. The Bell
System served, directly, about half as
many telephones as today. Long dis
lance calls totaled half the present
number and were much costlier. Radio
network broadcasting hadn't approach
ed its present dimensions. The first
commercial transatlantic radiotele-
phone call was yet to be made. Air
mail pilots were humping along in-the
clouds, but operation Of luxury pas
senger airliners in constant commune
cation with ground forces was job
for a later date.
Among Bell Laboratories discover
les was the transmission of pictures,
announced by the Bell System in 1925,
and which has had such a profound
effect on journalistic methods. In
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-01-24
Your Family Too!
Fl YPOCRITICAL parents make
= = for skeptical children.

RI IFOChlIlCAL parents make
for skeptical children.
That statement not only refers to
the neighbours children, but to your
ownl When the intelligent leaders of
our citizenry talk about Juvenile
crime, or about the effects of tav-
ems and liquor on teen age young
sters, many parents read it as just
SO many words, instead Of stop
ping to remember that such facts
may hit home in their own family!
A poll Of $4,000 youths throughout
the United States on the question of
whether drinking of alcoholic bever-
ages Is a serious evil among young
persons resulted in an affirmative
response by ratio of approximately
four to one. The QUESTIONABLE was
sent by the Rev. Daniel Lord, S. j.,
editor of the Queens Work, young
peoples magazine, according to
press wire service report from St.
Louis.
Six positive steps recently were
listed by Mrs. Ida B. Wise Smith,
president of National w. c. T. u,
for parents who want to keep boys
and girls out of saloons and taverns.
The list Of "do's" included:
l. Set sober example.
2. Urge youth to participate in
healthful sports.
3. Help youth to have a social
good time in non-alcoholic surround
ings and to know that alcohol never
changed wallflower into glamour
girl.
4. Convince youth that drink new
er helped boy or girl to get or
hold a job.
b. Help strengthen youth spiritual
ly as religious conviction is the
strongest basis for temperate living.
6. BY regulatory or prohibitory
laws help to remove the easy ac-
feasibility of present-day liquor.
Youth wants a place to congregate
and have good time. Repeal took
young people from the corner drug
store to the tavern. During 1910
though there was recorded a strong
move by youth itself to get out of
tavern surroundings by endorsement
of dairy, fruit juice and soft drink
bars, of iquorless night clubs, and
non-alcoholic curb service stands.
Studying the highway slaughter of
youths each year-wth large per-
centage due to drinking-Mrs. Smith
appealed to girls to safeguard them
selves and their friends by refusing
to get in a car if the driver had
had even one drink.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-01-24
COLORS GUIDE TELEPHONE
REPAIRMEN In SPLICING
INTRICATE CABLE WIRES

If you want to be an installer or
repairman Of telephone switchboard
cable, it might be wise to make certain
you aren't color blind because colors
play an important part in this job Of
maintaining equipment. Each of the
hundreds, sometimes thousands, Of
wire circuits in the cable has it's indi-
vidual color or combination of colors
in the insulation about the wires.
These colors give the wire experts
ready visual means of distinguishing
one line from another. In addition,
electrical tests make absolutely GER
tain that the wires are in the right
places.
According to the color code, used
by telephone forces in all parts of the
world, the circuits in the cable are
indicated from the center outward by
combinations of blue, orange, green,
brown and slate, in that sequence.
With these colors, however, three
others-white, red and black-are
used in that order to form the many
combinations that may be used to
distinguish the multitude of wires in
a particular cable.
Some 339 of these combinations, for
example, are used in Bell System
switchboard cables of various sizes
made by the Western Electric Com
pany, manufacturing and supply
organization of the system. Switch
board cable, of course, is but one of
many types made by the company for
connecting central offices, subscriber
lines and long distance points.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-01-24
Looking Back to Kitty Hawk

Whether Orville and Wilbur
Wright, who realized Roger Bacon's
prophecy and Leonardo da Vinci's
dream, ever foresaw the sky full
of Messerschmitts, Heinkels, Spit
fires, Airacobras and the ike--is q
question that some expert in the short
history of aviation may answer If he
can. II they did the world today
possibly wishes they had folded their
tents at Kitty Hawk and bicycled
back to Dayton before 10 o'clock on
the morning Of December II, 1908.
Be that as it may, it is certain
that they did not foresee an ency.
clopedia Of the airplane of more
than 400 pages less than 81 years
after their Notwithstanding fight. Yet
here it is this day, an item at least
half as bulky as an unabridged die
tionary, and named "Aerosphere:
1885," The author and editor II
Glen D. Angle of Detroit, who -
known as an engine designer and
as the author Of various books and
many technical articles relating to
airplane engines. He was formerly
a professor at the Lawrence Insti-
tute of Technology, and is now con-
nected with the Briggs Manufact,u.
ing company.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-01-24

It was boyhood experience that gave
Mr.. Danforth his checkerboard idea.
When boy he waited on customers In
his fathers general store in southeast
ern Missouri. There he learned many
valuable lessons that were to serve
him well in his business career. "But
the most important thing I learned be-
hind the counter in that country store
where we sold everything from linen
handkerchiefs to horse collars, was
this" Danforth smilingly recalls = 81
learned the Importance Of dress And
I learned that lesson from the mother
of large family in our community.
Among the many articles we handled
in our store was bolt goods mostly old
fashioned ealicos and sturdy ginghams.
Along in the spring of the year bust
ness picked up in this line of goods.
Customers swarmed into the store to
buy dress materials. Usually they pur-
chased enough material to outfit the
whole family. From the same bolt
would be made shirts for the father
and all the boys, and dresses and aprons
for all the girls. Most of the women
who traded with us chose modest pat
terms and varied them from year to
year. But not Mrs. Brown. Mother Of
a large brood of tow-headed boys and
girls Of all ages, Mrs. Brown had one
invariable choice In spring material.
In all the time she traded with us she
didn't, so long as I remember, swerve
from her standard. She always bought
a bolt of heavy red-checked bingham.
You can imagine the appearance of the
Brown family when they came out in
their new spring wardrobe" Danforth
recounts.
"Mrs. Brown headed the crew be-
decked in her red-checked dress. Mr..
Brown supported her with a red check
erboard shirt. And through the whole
family the design was repeated-red-
checked dresses for every girl, red
checked shirts for the boys.
ut was striking. appearance this
family made. They were conspicuous
from afar. Other mothers might tenn
porarily lose sight Of child or two
at an ice cream social or a basket
dinner But not Mrs. Brown. She
could spot Brown offspring in any
crowd. And SO could everyone else.
Before long the Brown family in
that. community became indelibly asso-
ciated with red checkerboard gingham,"
Danforth says, "and from that family
learned that to make thing stand
out you have to dress it to fit the part.
And also learned that dressing alike
gives unity and Identification lacking
in helter-skelter design"
Years later when Danforth, fresh
from college campus, decided to en-
ter the feed manufacturing business,
he remembered how Brown was never
mistaken for anyone else in the COM
munity. So he decided to dress his
products so they would never be con-
fused with those made by others. Thus
was born the checkerboard trademark
that, through AZ years, has increasingly
gained popularity, and is part of the
sign that Identifies our local feed store
that handles checkerboard feeds, con-
centrates, and sanitation products.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-01-24

Farm grains alone are not enough"
Powell says. "a COW needs balanced
amounts of carbohydrates, proteins,
minerals, fats and vitamins to produce
milk abundantly.
'For that reason we have developed
at the Purina Experimental Farm and
in our Purina Laboratories mixed con-
centrates containing what grains lack
to produce milk In large quantities.
Blended with home grown grains, these
mixed concentrates give the cow a ball
anced ration for making milk and
maintaining her body"
The same is true Of other types Of
livestock, according to Powell. For ex-
ample, he says, it takes 10 to II bushels
of corn to put 100 pounds of pork on
a hog when the corn is fed alone. How
ever, by adding more proteins, more
minerals, and more variety to keep the
appetite keen, the same pig will put
on 100 pounds Of pork with 81 to 6
bushels of corn and 40 to go pounds of
mixed concentrates.
He goes on to say that although it
looks like getting by cheaply to let a
hen roam the fields rustling for what
ever she can find, just as her jungle
ancestors did, it's actually expensive be-
cause she won't lay enough eggs to
make her profitable.
Mixed Concentrates Scientifically Made
Science, which by breeding and Sc
lection produced our present-day farm
animals, has been just as busy develop
ing feeds that will meet their changed
needs" Powell says. GAS a result, to-
days farmer has his choice Of many
mixed concentrates to blend with their
home grown grains that are made by
reputable, nationally known nnanufac-
turers."
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-01-24

An operator sits at the keyboard
of the meV electric calculating ma
chine, the only one Of its kind in
the a0orld.
Calculating machines Of various
kinds are familiar equipment in banks
and offices, but the new machine diff
fers radically from them not only in
appearance and principles Of opera
ton, but also in that it performs COM
plicated calculations and returns the
answer in written form without any
attention on the part of the operator
other than writing out the problem
on set of typewriter keys. It is con-
structed entirely of standard telephone
apparatus, using for its computing
elements relays and crossbar switches
such as are used to connect subscribers
in the most modern type of dial ex-
change.
There is only one of these calcuiat-
ing machines in existence. It is in
stalled in small room in the Bell
Telephone Laboratories in New York
City. One need not go to this room
to use the machine, however. Instead,
the operator sits at teletypewriter,
which may be located at any conven-
lent place, and presses keys to record
the numbers and to indicate what op-
erations are to be performed.
This machine recently was demon
strated by its inventor, DR.. G. R.
Stibitz, before meeting of the Amer
lean Mathematical Society at Hanover,
N. II.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-01-24
MODERN GREEK AMAzONS
TERROR OF ITALIANS

How modern Greek women, like
the celebrated woman warriors of
their ancient legends, know neither
fear nor mercy when in battle. A
timely article by a celebrated world
traveller in the February End issue Of
THE AMERICAN WEEKLY
the big magazine distributed with
the BALTMORE SUNDAY
AMERICAN
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-01-24
The Checkerboard
Trade Mark Had a
Very Simple Start

Often we've been attracted by that
popular Checkerboard trade mark that
is apart of the sign identifying one Of
our local feed stores and on the bags
and containers in which its feeds, con-
centrates and sanitation products are
packed. But how did it get startedp
You're wrong II you've guessed it
was SO the bags could be used for play
ing game of checkers out in the barn
on rainy day. According to William
H. Danforth, founder Of Purina Mills,
their checkerboard trademark had a
simple, yet rather amusing, beginning.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-01-24

dig AS8SUO U8MS0 A40UVED
Huge sports stadia Of the future
In which major league baseball
teams win play under roofs and with
indirect lighting, rain OF. shine, are
predicted by Robert j. Swackham-
er, G-E engineer. Such stadia
might be built in the next 10 or Is
years, he believes.
Admitting that the idea seems
radical, Mr.. Swackhamer points out
that baseball was seoffed It In the
early stages Of its development at
Lynn, Mass, but now night baseball
is being played by rs per cent Of the
clubs in organized baseball. Swack-
hamer, who designed the lighting
for the fields Of the Cincinnati Reds,
Brooklyn Dodgers, and Cleveland
Indians, recalled how his proposal
of night ball in the majors was rid
iculed at one time.
The indirect Illumination Of such
stadia probably would be accom-
plished by projecting the light, frorn
concealed locations below the ruofy
to the ceiling of the stadium whsr9
1t would be reflected downward ~
the playing and seating areak
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-01-24
The Hostess

Angelo Patri says: "It is not nee
essary to serve cocktails at young
persons party. The fruit drinks that
can be made are delightful in color
and fragrance and taste. Young peo-
pie enjoy them.
Nowadays most of the young peo-
pie arrive at party in cars. The
boy who drives the car must not
drink The hostess who offers
drinks (alcoholic) to young people
who are to drive cars afterward
takes a grave responsibility on her
conscience.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-01-24

Carrying on the tradition started
BY their grandfather. the five sons Of
John D. Rockefeller. Jr.. have pooled
their philanthropic activities in a
new corporation called the Rookie
teller Brothers Fund.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-01-24
A. 3 p. MILITARY SERVICE MEN

Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea
Company announces that employees
entering the United States military
service will receive from the COM
pany 20 pr cent of their wages, up
to a maximum payment of 500 a
month, for full year. The company
states it also will pay such employees
group life insurance premiums for
the one-year period.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-01-24
BELL LAB SCIENTISTS
DEVELOP new SUPER
CALCULATING MACHINE
Arithmetic Made Easy by De-
vice Constructed of Standard
Telephone Apparatus

An electrical super calculating ma
chine recently has been developed by
the Bell Telephone Laboratories to ex-
pedite the extended calculations re-
quired in the design of electrical filters
and networks, and in the solution Of
other circuit problems.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-01-24
HOW MUCH TIME DO YOU

Well known quiz expert, in an
unusual feature, enables women
through self-analysis to find out If
she makes the most of her time.
Don't miss this feature in the Feb
ruary End issue of
THE AMERICAN WEEKLY
the big magazine distributed with
the BALTIMORE SUNDAY
AMERICAN
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-01-24

Nice new slogan: Billions for de-
Tense. but not one cent for prof.
teers."
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-01-24

Automobiles and bombers teach
US that man is capable Of making
machines before he is mature enough
to be trusted with them.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-01-24

People will arise and put an end
to crime when they understand that
all losses are added to the price they
pay.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-01-24

With the exception Of success
some people willingly forgive any
thing in friend.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-01-24

Even the troubles Of pretty wonn-
an are interesting only the first time
they are told.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-01-24

The tongue of a woman is her
sword-and she never allows it to
rust.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-01-24
Jane Barleycorn

sThere was a 80 per cent in
crease in women alcoholic patients
for the first II months of 1888 as
compared with the same period of
1885," said Martin Nelson, secretary
of the Kelley Institute, the drink
cure at Dwight, ILL.,, in a press IN
terview. Think that over!
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-01-24
An lJnholy Trio!
81 Av1NG studied history carefully

TT AVING studied history carefully
A and then checked their findings
against what's going on in our ma
ton today, the temperance forces
lump beer, wine and distilled spirits
together when they speak of alco-
holic beverages.
''It's not the taste nor the label
on the bottle which creates the alco-
hol problem" these welfare-con-
scious leaders declare. cts the al
cohof in the drink and it's alcohol
the drinker is after, whether he
takes it in beer, wine, or whisky"
Neither beer nor wine is a bev-
erage of moderation, they con-
tend, pointing out that both have
long record for creating the alco-
holic habit and bodily demand for
more and then more alcohol. They
also point out that beer, for in
stance, is the drink which frequently
introduces youth to alcoholism, not
only causing drunkenness itself but
inducing the use of stronger drinks.
The Judge Knows!
"Boys and girls, children, men
and women are drinking as they
never drank BEFORE" declared Dis
trict Judge j. E. Haycraft at Jack
son, Mimi, in sentencing Paul Poe
laert for the murder of his mother,
wife, and two babies. II hope those
who worked so hard to restore this
curse are satisfied"
Tit for Tat
Said the bottle to the boy,
Said the bottle, sly and coy,
'I'll tell you what we'll do;
You catch me-then I'll catch you'll"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-01-24
The Judge Knows!
Tit for Tat

Said the bottle to the boy,
Said the bottle, sly and coy,
"I'll tell you what we'll do;
You catch me-then I'll catch you!''
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-04-28
Change in Membership
 Of Alaska Legislature
 Proposed by Dimond

Alaska Delegate A. J. Dimond introduced bill, H. R. 4397, on April IT, ITO amend the Organic Act of Alaska" providing for re- allocation of membership in the AL aska Territorial Legislature on q proportionate representation or pop ulation basis. The bill provides for a membership of eighteen in each house, the same for the Senate as for the House. The terms of the members now in office are not af- fected, and the period of member ship remains the same, four years for the Senators and two years for the members of the House of Rep resentativcs.
 Delegate explained the reasons for the bill and the contents of this measure in press release and said
 Original Adoption
 When the act creating the Leg islature for the Territory of Alaska was passed in the year 1912, the Ter ritory then, as now. was divided into four judicial divisions and those judicial divisions were adopted as legislative districts. Tn the original
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-04-28
NAzI FORCES DRIVE SOUTH
 ON BRITISH
Berlin Says Reireaiing Ex- pedition Being Bombed
 by Stukd AirpIdnes
CBy ASSOCIATED PREss)

Hitler's swastika flag of conquest flies over Ancient Athens. birthplace of the worlds first Democracy while two German columns are driving south across Polopponnesus in pur- suit of the retreating British Expe- ditionary Force troops.
 Australian Army Minister Percy Spender said the withdrawal of the British Imperial Forces to the sea now underway is proceeding suc- cessfully."
 Berlin reports said Nazi Stuka dive bombers are blasting the Brit ish troop concentrations and speed ing the last of the BEF contingent to a new Dunkerque.
 Hitler's High Command said the luftwaffe has violently strafed the British and Greek columns in the Argos Tripolis area and this indi- cates the Allies so far have fallen back half way across Polopponnesus and are apparently fighting stiff rear guard actions to cover the with drawal of the main BEF toward em- barkation ports.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-04-28

act, it was provided that two mem bers of the Senate and four members of the House should be elected from each of the four judicial divisions, thus making Senate of eight mem bers and a House of sixteen mem bers. While at that time there was some difference in the population of the several divisions, the numbers residing in each division were suf- ficiently close to justify the adop- tion of the formula then used.
 Since that time, and particularly between 1880 and 1940, several of the judicial divisions of Alaska have increased largely in population and one of them only slightly. For ex- ample, according to the 194O census, there are now 25.24l people residing in the First Judicial Division and only l1,877 in the Second Judicial Division. Accordingly. under the present system of electing members of the Territorial Legislature, each voter in the Second Division has the equivalent of two votes as com- pared with each voter in the First
 (CopfYnr,od m, Daoa v,ics,zN
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-04-28
British Prime Minister Broadlasts Grim War
 Review on Sunday
FURTHER CONFLICTS
 ARE NOW FORECAST
Defies Hitler, MussoIini, However, to Find Safety
 for Averaging Justice

LONDON. April 28.-"The tremen- deus decision" of the United States to patrol the wide waters of the Western Hemisphere was hailed by Prime Minister Winston Churchill as vital to the battle which Great Britain must win to survive.
 In the Battle of the Atlantic mo far-seeing man can doubt the even- tual defeat of Hitler and Mussolini; {; certainly in view of the respective and declared resolves of the British and American democracies.
 Tn a grim review of the entire war situation broadcast Sunday to the British Empire and America, Chur- chill acknowledged German victories in Yugoslavia and Greece, and pre- dicted: We must now expect war in the Mediterranean on the sea and the desert, and above all, in the air, to become very fierce and var jed. Widespread war may spread to Spain and to Morocco and to Tur- key and to Russia. Germany may lay her han d s on the granaries
 (Cnnt;,,,,oJ ~, Dona Evr11tN
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-04-28
Moforeylists Defd ehmeni Rolls Into Conquered
 Capital in Morning
NO BOMB OR SHELL
 FIRE DESTRUCTION
Troops Cheered byI0ne Nd- lion While Citizens of
 Other Are Silent
(By ASSOCIATED PREss)

Heralded by martial music over radios, the Nazi High Command re- ported the fall of Athens saying briefly:
 Troops of the German Army fighting in Greece in pursuit of the enemy, arrived at Athens at $40 o'clock Sunday morning when the first detachment of German motor cyclists entered the Capital City of the Greeks. issss
 The German newspapers printed reports the city was taken without a fight, no bomb or shell fire de- struction.
 A London radio announced the last message broadcast by the Ath- ems radio station stated that the Capital City was being bombed and she streets machine gunned.
 The DNB, German news agency. said the German residents of Ath- ems cf-eered as the grey and green clad Na1i began the march into Ath- ems while the Greeks looked on in stoic silence.