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The midland journal., 1941-03-07
UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS

New claims for unemployment
benefits received by the Maryland
Unemployment Compensation Board
in the first eight weeks of the cur
rent year aggregated 7,130, which
was six percent less than the figure
for the corresponding period of last
year. But the total number of
claims--which includes Continued
or rentwed--was 92,081, a reduction
of more than forty-five percent from
the first eight weeks of 1910.
The aggregate of claims filed in
the first eight weeks of 1899 was
271,391, while in the corresponding
period of 1910 the figures dropped
to 170,64O. In the like period OF
1899 the total of new or original
claims filed was 1920, more than
double this years record.
On April / a new unemployment
benefit year will begin, and the
earning record of employees in 1910
will become available as the basis of
payments. Current payments are
based on the earnings of 1889.
The midland journal., 1941-03-07
U. s. MARINE CORPS ENLISTING
REsERVISTS

The Officer in charge Of the U. s.
Marine Corps Recruiting Station,
Post Office Bldg, Baltimore, Md,
states that word has been received
that there are vacancies in the Ma
rine Corps Reserve to be filled i'm
mediately.
These vacancies will be filled by
men enlisting in the Reserve and as
signed to active duty for period
of training at Paris Island, S. c.,
at the expiration of which they will
be assigned to some reserve battal-
ion now on active duty.
The period of enlistment is four
years. The period of active duty is
for the duration of the National
Emergency. Men enlisted in the Re-
serve will be. subject to the follow
ing: (1) if the Marine Corps is en-
larged, they may be discharged
from the Reserve for the purpose
of enlisting in the regular Marine
Corps, if they so desire; (2) that
their training, duty, and opportun-
tiles for promotion will be the same
as for men enlisted in the regular
service; and (3) that whereas, they
are to be put on active duty immed-
lately, a full four years of active
duty cannot be guaranteed as they
would possibly be placed in an in.
active status If the Marine Corps
Reserve should be demobilized prior
to expiration of enlistment due to
the termination of the emergency.
The requirements for enlistment
in this class of reserve are: appli-
cants must be between Is and 80
years of age, single with no depen-
dents, have an average education,
no police record, and be in good ply
sical condition.
Applicants who are interested in
this class of reserve are urged to
call or write to the Marine Corps
Recruiting Station, Room 325, P.
o. Bldg, Baltimore, Md.
The midland journal., 1941-03-07
PEDESTRIANS URGED TO GO.
OPERATE WITH MOTORISTS

In a bulletin urging pedestrians
to cooperate with motorists for
their own safety, the Keystone Auto
mobile Club declares that disregard
of the oft-repeated admonition to
walk facing traffic is responsible
for many avoidable highway trage-
dies.
Edward P. Curran, Safety Direct
or of the Club, said pedestrian high
way casualties at night are showing
marked increase, and in nearly all
cases the accidents can be attribut-
ed to faults of pedestrians rather
than carelessness of motorists.
Pedestrians can avoid accident
on the highway by taking the pre-
caution of facing, instead of walking
with their backs to traffic, said Mr..
Curran. Every driver knows, and
every pedestrian should learn, that
it is difficult to see walkers on the
roadway under average night con-
ditions. Headlights which light up
the highway so far as the pedestrian
is concerned may be binding the
drivers of approaching cars, with the
result that walkers close by are in
imminent peril.
"The walker who is facing traf-
fic can avoid danger under such
conditions by the simple act of step
ping off the roadway. The walker
with his back to approaching head
lights literally bets his life, that the
motorist will see him in time to
avoid running him down.
| Considering the multiple diff
culties of car operation under con-
ditions now existing at night, we
feel pedestrian cooperation is of
the greatest Importance"
The midland journal., 1941-03-07

food stores, milk drinkers, and
healthy, hungry consumer-not
the liquor traffic-are the real allies
of the American farmer.
The common sense of the Ameri-
can farmer has not been misled by
the current liquor campaign, which
seeks to win support by constant
repetition of its so-called benefits
to the farm.
All that the brewing division of
this traffic is shouting about is that
they use each year certain total
of farm produce. Carefully analysed,
this is equal to the output of nine
tenths of one per cent of the total
acreage in cultivation.
Of course, the shrewd farmer
knows that if a family spends rs
cents for meat, milk, or other farm
products he is getting good share
of that money back. He also knows
that rs cents spent for beer or for a
couple of highballs means only the
fractional part of mill to farm
income.
In return for these minor pur-
chases, the liquor traffic asks level
headed John @. Farmer to support a
system which adds millions of dol
lars to our governmental outlays
for support of hospitals for nervous
disorders, for relief, for fighting
crime, and a system which adds
greatly to the costs of government
by being a mainstay of corrupt pol
itics.
The farmer is asked to approve a
system which let's a man take a
drink and then drive a car through
our streets or along our highways
with the result that the National
Safety Council finds that alcoholic
drinks play a part in Is per cent of
traffic deaths.
The farmer is urged to remember
the taxes paid by the liquor trade,
yet the farmer knows that his taxes
haven't been decreased since repeal
in 1888 but have mounted steadily
upward.
Americas small city and farm
population is the backbone of this
nation and, despite the millions be-
ing spent by the liquor trade in high
pressure courtship, these straight
thinking citizens won't be deluded.
Big city folk are more easily fooled,
perhaps because SO many of them
live so close to poverty, crime, and
disease that they see no hope for
anything better.
Let the small business man or the
big business man join the farmer in
considering just what it would mean
to the economic life of their state il
the people didn't spend their share
of the three and half billion dollar
annual national liquor bill this year
but spent this sum instead for new
clothes, more gasoline, more health
building food such as milk, or even
for the movies or fruit juice drinks.
It's like the National w. c. T. U.
said in a recent statement on this
question of beer taxes: "Who pays
these taxes anyhow? Isn't it the man
who buys the beer, not the corpora
ton which brews it?''
The midland journal., 1941-03-07
DELAWARE AND MARYLAND
CASH FARM INCOME

The 1910 Maryland cash farm in
come including government pay
ments was $72,334,O0O or 4 per-
cent above that in 1889, according
to. the Bureau of Agricultural Econ
omics, through the Maryland and
Delaware Crop Reporting Service.
This income is based on the calendar
year. Cash income from sales is
highest during the months of July
and August when wheat and truck
crops are being marketed In large
quantities, whereas income from
Livestock is well distributed thru
out the year. Cash income from both
crops and livestock was above that
in 1889. Government payments to
Maryland farmers in 1910 were 26
percent larger than in 1899. The
1910 average income including gov
ernment payments per Maryland
farm Chased on 1910 Census) was
$1,718 compared with $1,648 in
1899.
Delaware total cash farm income
in 1910 was $19,476,O00 or nearly
percent above that in 1888. The
increase in income from crops more
than Offset the decline in income
from livestock and government pay
ments. Based on the 1910 Census
number of farms the average cash
farm income per Delaware averaged
$2,165 in 1910 compared with
$2,092 in 1899.
Total cash farm income should
not be confused with total farm
value since the latter Is based on
crops produced during given year
whether sold during the year pro-
duced or not.
The total United States cash
farm income, including Government
payments, was $9,119,903,000 in
comparison with $8,668,434,000 in
1899. Government payments were
S765, 5,799,OOO in 1910 compared
with $SO7,065, 200 in 1889.
The midland journal., 1941-03-07
Low MARK FOR BENEFIT
PAYMENTS

The low mark for benefit pay
ments by the Maryland Unemploy.
ment Compensation Board was re-
corded at the end of February when
it was found that the total for the
month was only $267,7S4, which
was fifty-one percent below Febru-
airy of last year and twenty-foul
percent below the preceding month
January, 1914.
The lowest preceding monthly
total was $300,176, thus February
was about ten percent below the
previous record.
Monday, March II, has been set
by the Board as the earliest date
for the reception of new claims for
unemployment benefits based on
earnings of employees in the calen-
dar year 1910, which Is the new
base year. New benefit payments
will not begin until after April /.
The midland journal., 1941-03-07
THE TAX BURDEN

Annapolis, Md, February 26
1941--"Burdening County Taxpayers
with a two and a three cent raise in
the tax rate for education is entir
ely unnecessary" said the Citizens
State Budget Emergency Committee
in a statment issued today, ''if the
cost of welfare is considered in g
realistic manner.
The statement, inspired by the
Administrations proposal to place
approximately one-half the cost oi
equalizing colored school teachers
salaries with those of white teach.
ers, announced, eff the Legislature
would consider appropriations fol
welfare in the light of what was
actually needed in 1910 a saving oi
100000 is possible, part of which
could be applied to relieving the
Counties of additional tax burdens
for education.
''In 1910 while $4,S40,920 was
appropriated for welfare of thai
amount the State actually spent
only $4,216.057. In that year there
was no defense boom and the need
for public charity was greater thar
under our present conditions. Now
employment is rapidly approaching
peak and people are again able te
take care of themselves. Neverthe.
less the new Budget proposes ar
increase of 100000 year fol
1912 and for 1943 above what was
actually spent for welfare in 1910
IF relief costs are kept at ap.
proximately the same level as ir
1910 the State can absorb the in.
crease in colored teachers salaries
without forcing tax increases fol
education on the Counties.
The statement closed with this
warning, Mandatory tax increases
imposed by the State will be par.
ticularly harmful at a time when
officials and taxpayers in many
Counties are cooperating in an eff
fort to reduce governmental costs in
view of the approaching defense
taxes and additional education taxes
may tend to bring undue criticism
on all education costs'',
The midland journal., 1941-03-07
In future years, historians will

In future years, historians will
record the swift changes that took
place in the temper and attitude of
the American people and their lead
ers during 1910 and 1941. Looking
back now on the months that fol-
lowed the outbreak of World War
II, it seems as If we lived then in
another world. The majority of the
people wanted neutrality-and they
wanted no part Of Europe's newest
mess. They wanted to avoid the risk
of war at all costs. And the states
men who represented them felt the
same way.
Today the polls show that we still
want to keep out of war-but that a
considerable majority, despite that,
favor helping England to the fullest
extent even if it involves the risk
Of our being drawn into war. No
one talks of neutrality-it is as dead
as Moses. The cash-and-carry policy
has been virtually forgotten--it is
perfectly clear that every financial
resource will be used to help arm
Britain no less than ourselves. The
American people, in short, are vio-
lently partisan, and the American
nation is definitely and irretrievably
involved in war.
What has caused this change?
1t took us almost three years to be-
come really anti-German in the last
war-it took us less than year
this time. Better communication,
both verbal and visual, has been a
factor. So has the amazing courage
of the British people--the Americans
like and respond to any display of
bravery against odds. Most import
ant, in all probability, has been the
fast-growing feeling that our des-
tiny and Britian's are inter-mixed
and inseperable, and that if Brit
ian falls we will be in grave danger.
There are those who stoutly belle
this doctrine, but they are much in
the minority. The President obvious
ly thinks that Britain is fighting for
US as well as for herself. So do most
members of Congress. So do the
bulk of the leading commentators.
So does long list of principal daily
newspapers.
The midland journal., 1941-03-07
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WORKERS URGED TO SAVE DUR
ING DEFENSE BOOM

While the Government may be
able to control, to certain extent,
the natural increase of prices that
will result from defense spending
most experts agree that the United
States is in for a period of imitation.
The time will come when goods
needed for defense will become al
most prohibiaive in price, and other
price levels will show correspond
ing increase.
Bearing this in mind, the sugges-
tion was recently made that Amer
ican workers would do well to spend
wisely during the defense boom so
that they can get the most out of
the increased wages that naturally
result from the armament campaign.
Careful use of increased income
will not only benefit the individual,
but will place the national economy
in stronger position.
Goods needed for defense purpos-
es offer a poor choice for the indi-
vidual buyer. Not only will the
price be high, but the individual
will be entering into competition
with the Government for such goods,
to the end that the prices will ad-
vance to even higher levels.
One suggestion is that increased
income should be used to retire old
debts. Any surplus could be used
to better existing living conditions
and increase the educational oppor-
tunities of the worker and his fam
lily. Last, but far from least, is the
opportunity to save.
The midland journal., 1941-03-07
STRIKES in DEFENSE IN.
DUSTRIES

Many Americans are becoming
deeply disturbed at the continuing
and sometimes apparently increas-
ing grist of news of labor disputes
and work stoppage in plants manu-
featuring materials for the defense
of the United States and Great
Britain.
In some cases strikes may be at
tributed to mere selfish agitation by
ambitious union leaders. To them
as much as to industrial profiteers
applies President Roosevelt's re-
Dukes about men who would "clip
the eagles wings to feather their
own nests.
In a. number of strikes or threat
ened strikes, union recognition is
principal issue. In these the Ma
tional Labor Relations Board,
though it is not a mediation agency,
should be able to help by holding
elections to determine whether the
union in question is the preferred
bargaining agent of a majority OF
the workers.
But beyond these sources OF
trouble, it is probable that much the
greater proportion of the restless
ness in employee ranks today is
due to grave misgivings over what
may happen to the cost of living
Workers have their families to
think about in this regard, and
many of them remember uncomfor-
tably some of the rents and food
and clothing costs which obtained
during the last war. Union officials
are apprehensive about negotiating
a wage scale on the basis of present
costs and of possibly finding thell
members in distress from price rises
before the contract expires.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics in
the United States Department OF
Labor has given one assurance on
this score. Living costs have risen
only slightly in recent months and
probably will not rise more than
or per cent by spring, according
to the Bureau. Food and other sup
plies are more plentiful than in
1914.
1t would seem clear at this juno
ture that labor ought not to ask, and
thoughtful workingmen probably
will not ask, increases in wage
rates unless occasioned by rise in
living costs. The public will remem-
ber that the weekly income of de-
Tense workers already is greatly en-
hanced by fuller employment and
that non-defense workers are the
more apt to suffer if prices rise.
Every effort should be made to keep
living costs level and to keep manu-
facturers' profits moderate. If this
is done, there will be little justifi-
ction for labor unrest.
The Monitor
The midland journal., 1941-03-07
LEND-LEAsE LEGISLATION
By ]. e Jones

Washington, D. c., March 81
have been right here in the Nation
al Capital ever since 1917, and I
believe my old files would disclose
preparedness" news that would
need only the new head, national
defense" to describe what is going
on at the National Capital today.
President Roosevelt has "a little
group of willful men," including a
Senator Lodge, a Senotar LaFol-
lette, a Wheeler, and others. The
Chief Executive is battering down
the opposition, and creating unity.
His weapons are exactly like those
used by Woodrow Wilson in 1917,
when he told the country that what
he recommended was the right thing
to do"
No one pretends to know what is
ahead, and opinions differ about the
next "Armistice", and the next turn
in Democracy's road.
If events like those Of the 1920's
follow this war; if this effort to
make the world safe for democracy,
and keep our Nation out of war, are
easy to look back on with approval,
ten or twenty years from now, his
tory will have new medals in its
stock of moratoriums.
Time alone will furnish the an
swer, which no man can predict in
these Winter days of 1941.
Supreme Court Should Go In
Reverse
Thurman Arnold, Assistant At
torney General rises to remark that
many past antitrust decisions by the
Supreme Court were arrived at by
votes of 5 to A. Every effort should
be made, he said, "to bring these
points before the Court again."
recommendations of the Federal
Trade Commission to the Temper
ary National Economic Committee
are to the effect that free competi-
ton must be restored as funda-
mental element of the economic life
of the United States The Commits
sion disapproves mergers of large
economic units, and it charges that
these combinations make it possible
FOR private business concerns to
maintain high prices and impose ar
tifical restraints upon trade. The
Commission believes that Congress
should direct itself toward the res
toration of competitive industry.
The Washington Post agrees that
Congress should take, an active part
in Strengthening out the antitrust
laws, and this attitude was ably
summed up in a recent editorial.
The midland journal., 1941-03-07
FARMER HOLDS THE BAG

SIT looks as though the farmers
were going to carry most of the bur-
den Of defense without too much
compensation, declared Fred H.
Sexauer to Farm and Home Week
audience at Ithaca, N. Y. Sexauer,
president of the Dairymen's League
Cooperative Associat ton, wondered
whether Washington would consider
the interests of the dairy farmers
or its good-neighbor policy with
Argentina when it supplies Eng
land with butter.
While he saw high defense wages
becoming ''just scandal, the
speaker prophesied that milk prices
would be lower than for the first
six months last year. Food prices in
general would be kept down, he
warned, as an excuse to prevent in
crease in wages. "All this, he con-
cluded, will be done in the name
of defense, and anyone who objects
will be smeared as traitor.
At Omaha, Neb., meanwhile, an
assembly of farmers was told by R.
M. Evans, A. A. A. administrator,
that they had better not count on
preparedness prosperity, for con-
troll of production would have to be
increased rather than relaxed. Fear
was felt in administration circles
that farmers, seeing the expanding
activity around them, would resist
control and go in for unlimited
production. A gradual improvement
in the farmers market for the last
six months, especially for hogs, has
already spurred hopes among the
growers, but Government agents
warn Of increasing the still accumu-
1ating surpluses. Acreage control,
they believe, is needed to keep pric-
e. from tumbling.
The midland journal., 1941-03-07
Importance OF Babies

Official estimates by the Govern
ment indicate that 2,350,000 babies
we're born in the United States in
1910, which is the highest birth
record for the last ten years. Young
mothers have raised the national
birth rate to 18 for every 1000 pop
ulation. In business Offices the ste
nographer-mothers are being allow
ed leave of absece of from four to
six weeks when new babies put in
appearance.
Further evidence of the impor-
tance of caring for the babies was
related by Washington columnist
who reported that when John Roose-
welt, the youngest son of the Pfesi-
dent, was leaving with his wife for a
trip to South America, the baby
was checked" at the White House
and instructions were given to the
grandparents to prepare for the
event and buy 40 diapers.
The midland journal., 1941-03-07
MARYLAND LIVESTOCK REPORT

Increases of percent in all cat
tie, and decreases of 9 percent in
hogs, 5 percent in sheep, percent
in work stock, prcent in chickens
and 80 percent in turkeys on Mary
land farms compared with a year
earlier, are shown by the annual in
ventory estimates Of livestock on
hand issued by the Agricultural
Marketing Service through the Office
of the Maryland Crop Reporting
Service. The total farm value of all
livestock, chickens and turkeys on
Maryland farms January /, 1941
was estimated at $35,509,000 or
about A percent above the total val
uation of $34,O16,000 a year ago,
and IL percent above the 10-year
(1930-39) average.
The midland journal., 1941-03-07
SUIT FOR DIVORCE

Mrs. Harriet Biggs has filed 9
suit through counsel in the Circuit
Court at Elkton for an absolute di
vorce from her husband, Ralph L
Biggs, ON the grounds of miscon'
duct. The bill states that they were
married in Elkton on September 8
1889, and lived together until June
28, 1910. No children were born az
a result of the union. The defendant
who is now a non-resident of Mary
land, has been ordered to appear
in court in person or by solicitor or
or before April 8 next, to contest
the suit If he so desires.
The midland journal., 1941-03-07
HOW THOSE GLAMOUR GIRLS
HAVE CHANGED

Louis Sobol, popular Broadway
columnist, draws a striking con-
trast between the streamlined girls
of today and the beauties of other
eras with interesting results. Don't
miss this feature in the March 18th
issue of
THE AMERICAN WEEKLY
the big magazine distributed with
the BALTIMORE SUNDAY
AMERICAN
The midland journal., 1941-03-07
ECLIPSES OF THE SUN NOW
MADE TO ORDER

An instructive article pointing
out that astronomers don't have to
travel all over the earth any more
to study sun eclipses as their new
instruments provide them with all
the information they seek. Read
this interesting feature in the
March 18th issue of
THE AMERICAN WEEKLY
the big magazine distributed with
the BALTIMORE SUNDAY
AMERICAN
The midland journal., 1941-03-07

Total retail sales in the United
States amounted to $45,500, 100000
in 1910, gain of $S,476,0O0,00O
oyer 1899, says a statement from
the Department of Commerce.
.Willkie.
The midland journal., 1941-03-07

Daughter finds the typewriter
unsatisfactory for ordinary CORES
pondence. There is no way to UNDER
score a word at one lick.
The midland journal., 1941-03-07

Since the outbreak of the war,
the U. S. import of castle soap has
been dropping considerably. current
shipments are only. three pounds
a miputa. .kA~nla&
The midland journal., 1941-03-07

Experience that 10 given away d
seldom appreciated,
The midland journal., 1941-03-07
Believe 1t, Or Not

sScare advertising" is described
as a trick to induce consumers to
make speculative advance purchases
of foods and goods, says the Ma
tional Defense Advisory Commits
sion,
The midland journal., 1941-03-07
Hopkins And wnlIxie

Harry Hopkins official advisor for
the President, and Wendell Willkie,
unofficial supporter Of the Lend
Lease bill, have been powerful fac
tors in overcoming independent OPP
position in Congress to what is pop
ularly known as the Presidents bill.
Crowds, made up from every class
of people, turned gut and cheered