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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-12-19

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gantly in swags
over the tree and
caught up with
clusters Of big
gold Christmas
balls strung to-
gether. Light this
tree with all gold
lights. Repeat the
theme of gold rib
bon swags and
gold balls for ta-
BILE. mantel and
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-12-19
Christmas Watched
History in Making

Almost throughout the world, PEG.
pie are looking forsUard to merry
Christmas. This day, so significant to US,
has seen great events occur in the his
tory OF che s0orld.
Following Is list OF important
events whfch occurred on Christ.
mas day:
DECEMBER Is
Year Event
800 Charlemagne, French king,
crowned at Rome, Emper-
or Of the West.
1866 william the C0nqueroF
crowned at London.
1912 Sir Isaac Newton born. He
discovered the law of grav-
ity.
1776 Washington crossed the
Delaware to attack Tren-
ton.
1777 Vermont declared its indie
pendence from England.
1921 Clara HarI0we Barton born.
She founded the American
Red Cross In 1881.
1887 Gen. Zachary Taylor de-
feated the Seminole Indians
In Florida.
1870 Peter Tschaikowsky born.
Famous Russian composer.
1868 Unconditional pardon and
amnesty proclaimed by the
President to all inhabitants
In Southern states.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-12-19

Hear the diner bowling for bet
ter service? He is the one who is
fed in the kitchen at home because
Ii % lseR hqtbsEl
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-12-19

You can fool the people for
time. but they soon realize that you
wouldn't use triekeyy Il your cause
wasn't lEoeksa
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-12-19

The question is not, "Are we pro-
ducing great quantities of defense
material?" but Are we producing
to tho utmost Of our sapa2iszl"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-12-19
mo BLOOD MONEY FOR
CHRISTMAS"
BY J. q. Jones

Washington, D. c., Dec 15--One
slogan that every American might
we'll adopt this Christmas season is
'No Blood Money for Christmas.
1t Is common practise to refer to
the inscrutability of the ORIENTAL,
the mysterious East"-yet how
much more incomprehensible is the
inconsistence of the American mind,
which can, on one hand, conceive
of fully-equipped hospitals for tor
tured Chinese, and then, with
thoughtless contrariness set about
buying shoddy Japanese merchan-
disc at Christmas time This literally
causes American dollars to become
bombs to destroy the very hospitals
we have given.
Each year at Christmas the mark
ct is flooded with inferior Japanese
jimcracks and, of all things, Japan
ese Christmas tree light bulbs in
tended to shine down ON Americas
commemoration of the birth of One
who came into this world as the
Prince af Peace.
Every nickel spent on Japanese
merchandise will bolster the Japan
ese economy, will implement further
the Japanese war machine which is
as definitely bent on a black-out in
the East as Is Hitler on the darken-
ing of European civilization.
There is macabre irony in this
paradox which defies explanation: to
heal the hurt and hurt the heal is a
contradiction of charity. Every Amer
lean should determine that this
Christmas day will be observed with
toys, with Christmas lights, with
gifts that can in no sense make
money the medium of exchange and
turn into mockery the Christmas
season.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-12-19

The man who isn't ashamed to
count his change Ii usually the one
who has most to count.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-12-19
Rail strike Is Settled

Managers and railroad brother
hoods reached agreements to avoid q
great strike. Railroad employees are
entitled to praise for cooperating
with their hard-pressed rail lines la
reaching agreements.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-12-19
Multiplies Our War Efforts

SpOCugnt IN all-Out QeIenSe. But 90
not overlook the Importance of
trained electrical operators, techni-
clans, and engineers in America s
war efforts.
But at every phase of the produc-
ton of guns, planes, and ships, cleo
tricity multiplies the Drawn of rivet-
ers, welders, assemblers, and inspec-
tors. The ship-building yards, the
assembly floors of airplane factories,
and assembly floors for tank plants,
all are maze of cables which carry
energy to drills, reamers, welding
torches and other devices, says J. D.
Purdy, director of the schools of
electricity of International Cores
pondence Schools.
Three shift operations of plants
making propellors, bomb sights, tor
pedoes, are now possible with artifi-
cial light comparable to daylight.
Again electricity provides the eyes
for close clearances and watch-ac-
curacy assembly.
Electricity moves the cranes and
booms which swing into place plates
for bulk-heads, engines for tanks
and planes, tubes for barrels of
giant guns. Myriads of motors fed
by electric energy, by means of their
whirling armatures safely and sur
ely bring together these vital parts
of our arsenal of defense. Electri-
city hauls coal from the mines,
limestone from the quarries, coke
from the ovens, to do their part in
about aid.
These few examples, Mr.. Purdy
points out, indicate the Importance
of electric energy and the need for
men who can design, operate, and
repair these electrical giants of
American power, SO vital to our all
out effort in the plan to which Amer
lean energy and ingenuity are pledg-
ed.
Fishing Must Be Poor In The
| North Sea
The United States Government
made advance arrangements for the
purchase of 100000 cases of sal
mon including 45 per cent of the en-
tire pack of reds for the armed fore
es of the United States and for lend
lease shipments. That produced q
shortage of red salmon available to
civilian consumers in this country.
The worst of it is that large guam
titles Of packed salmon Is being fur
nished to England by the United
States and Canada, and this run on
the market by the United States Gov.
eminent has left our salmon can
ners with practically no reserve
stocks.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-12-19
SAFETY SLOGAN

The Maryland Tramc SaIety
Commissions slogan for the
week is:
Lets Step Out And show
Them What Traffic Safety
Means. It Means Drive
Carefully.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-12-19

What dreadful quantities Of hooey
are introduced by the words; "Neys
sF before In histery",
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-03
ACTION
ANSWERS JAPAN
christian Science Monitor)

(Christian Science Monitor)
This is a serious hour in the relations
between the United States and Japan.
The order of President Roosevelt
freezing all japanese assets in the Unit
ed States provides potential embargo
on practically all commercial intercourse
between the two nations, including oil,
silk, ships. metals, and money. A begin
ming of collective economic action against
an aggreSSor is made in the fact that
Great Britain, Canada, and the Neither
lands Indies have immediately followed
the American lead.
SO dependent is Japan on outside sup
plies that her extremists may regard
this as a life-and-death matter. They
may be impelled to push on from the
present occupation of French lndo-China
to an attack on the oil, tin and rubber
producing Netherlands Indies.
This need not be So under the freezing
order, if the japanese Government will
curb its militaristic bent for aggression.
For the order does not automatically
block all commercial transactions, but
places them under a licensing arrange
ment by which, if the japanese will lis
ten to reason, they may continue to re-
ceive the necessities at least for their
civilian population.
If, however they continue brutal and
destructive eXpansionism without regard
for the rights of others, they-and the
other Axis powers-are bound to come
into collision with forces greater than
their own.
Appeasement by continued shipment
of oil to the japanese has failed. The
United States at length is trying econo-
mic pressure, which many believe should
have been employed sooner But in the
waiting period it has been learned that
economic measures, to be effective, must
be backed by military strength and the
WILLINGNESS to use it
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-03
THE CASE OF Mr.. WILLKIE
(Orange NeWs)

lOfange News
The system of free circulation of in
formation, of which the newspapers of
America are the backbone, continues to
produce the most striking results.
That system enables men of force and
imagination, of energy and boldness, to
hold the attention OF the people and
thereby to consolidate political support.
The case of Mr.. Willkie is in point
Coming from the political nowhere, that
redOubtable performer captured the Re-
publican nomination and narrowly miss
ed the presidency Only through a sys-
tenn that enabled him to freely reach the
public mind, could this remarkable feat
have been accomplished.
Under a dictator-controlled country,
with a serVile press, Mr.. WILKES name
would have remained unknown to people,
The press provides the means for polit-
ical advancement The man himself
must provide the boldness and energy.
In these qualities no man surpasses Mr.
Willkie.
His present prominence in public con-
sciOusness is due to such qualities. Gen.
orally, the defeated candidate drops
from sight. Willkie refuses to be a for
gotten man.
In contrast take the case of the forgot
ten man, Mr.. Farley. By all the rules of
political seniority and service, Mr.. Far
ley should have been the Democratic
candidate. A bolder, more aggressive
man, against all precedent, shouldered
Farley aside and Farley disappeared into
obscurity. Using the methods invented
by Farley, he captured the nomination
and election.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-03

also that a few Mexican film COM
panies swiped it for. their pictures.
And, walls de Montijo, he never
received a centavo from any OF
them.
The only plot-stealing cases that
cause the studio serious embar-
rassment are those involving ma
terial mistakenly believed to have
been in the public domain. one
of the best instances was when
Edward Sheldon and Margaret
Barnes won a judgment for $602,-
437 from M-G-M and its parent,
Loews, Inc. The writers said that
Metro had used their play, Dis.
honored Lady," in the movie calieO
Lefty Lynton." The studio courr--
tered that both play and movie
were based on facts available to
anybody-an 80-year-old poisoning
case in Scotland-but apparently
M-G-M hadn't done a very good
job of researching. The picture used
vented in the writing of the play.
GRANDDADDY OF EN- ALL
Veteran of all plagiarism cases,
though, was Grace Fendler's con-
tention that The Bird of Paradise"
was pirated from her work, I'm
Hawaii. 1t went on for 20 years,
with a court of appeals finally set
ting aside a $780,OO0 verdict for
the plaintiff.
Stars often are named in plagia-
rism suits. Ginger Rogers and David
Niven were made co-defendants
with RKO when writer claimed
he owned the plot of Bachelor
Mother" A couple of months ago
Olympic Bradna and Paramount
were sued by writer who said he
gave her a manuscript to read, and
charged the story was pirated for
the picture, Might of Nights"
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-03
by Paul Harrison
Hollywood Fads, Fancies and FoibIes

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 2-"Writel
Sues for $3.50, ,oOO." Studio Denies
Story Piracy Claims Plot Stolen
Asks Million Plagiarism Trial Be-
gin"
Those are small, local headlines
of the past few days. Plagiarism
suits aren't news in Hollywood eX-
cept in some of the more fantastic
instances. Every studio maintains
a legal department with a generous
budget, and whenever a movie
promises to make a lot of money,
the boys who toll between the
shelves of statutes and torts begin
collecting data and affidavits in an
ticipation of a flock of nuisance
suits.
OF course there are a lot of
people who dash into court with
honest beliefs that their BRAIN
children have been abducted by
the movies, but the records show
clearly that a big majority of cases
are attempts to shake down studios
for out-of-court settlements.
SHEETS OFF GLORY ROAD
Clearest example of such monkey
business came out of the suit against
20th-Fox by a Robert H. Sheets,
who claimed authorship of the yarn
used to make Road to Glory. A
federal court found that Sheets
had not submitted a manuscript to
the studio six months before re-
lease, as claimed; in fact, his story
had been copied from synopsis of
the picture after it had been pub
lished in a fan magazine.
Never, until the other day, had
a writer charged that several STU
dios and individuals had stolen his
story. Now John Igual de Montijo
has filed for damages totaling more
than $6,0O0000 for the misuse of
his claimed original story called
viva Madero'. He alleges that
Paramount made it the basis of
North West Mounted Police; that
Ernest Hemingway used it for For
Whom the Bell Tolls; that GOTH
Fox adapted it for Viva Cisco Kid"
and The Cisco Kid and the Lady;
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-03
by Willis Thornton
Shadows Against The Future

One of the questions which ought
to be carefully studied, and which,
so far as we know has never been
carefully studied, is the effect of
wars on the next generation.
For instance, to what extent are
Europe's troubles today due to the
fact that the best, healthiest, po-
tentially most able of the genera
ton now mature were killed off
in 1914-1918? How many wise
statesmen, how many poets and
artists, how many economic and
social pioneers. what sheer weight
of human brains were dumped into
the graves that blossomed from
Picardy to Kiev in those years?
And what has that loss meant to
today's world?
Because all those things are SO
intangible, nobody can measure
them; because they pertain to the
spirit no one will ever know, per-
haps, their accurate weight. How
many children of the generation
which grew up directly after the
World War bear today the marks
OF the insufficient nourishment, the
tense, hopeless times IN which they
lived? Never forget that that is
the generation, in large part which
made up the Nazi movement.
All these factors no man has
measured, because, perhaps, they
cannot be measured. Yet one knows
they exist. The social loss is un-
doubtedly greater than a similar
loss throughout a cross section of
the whole population, because sold
lers are selected for physical and
mental fitness.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-03
SWELL ADVICE

British Supply Minister Lord Beaver
brook in an article in a current national
magazine says the United States should
join England in her war on Germany be-
cause, for one reason, good warriors
always attack"
The supply minister stuck his neck
out on that one
Uncle Sans isolationists are liable to
ask him, "Then why doesn't England
attack"
A lot of people who aren't isolationists
have been asking the same question. To
tell the truth, we'd like the answer our
selves.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-03

First, orders for important items
should be placed with as many
different companies as possible.
This is now being done to a cer-
tain extent, but the temptation is
to place orders with one reliable,
prime contractor, and then let him
farm out the work.
Second, when a big company can
make variety of items-pots, pans
and airplane parts-While smaller
companies can make only a few
items-just the pots and pans
then all the orders for pots and
pans should be given to the smaller
companies, leaving orders for the
more varied items - the airplane
parts-to the bigger company, which
can be kept busy anyway.
Third, if the capacity of an in
dustry is less than the needs-as
for aluminium airplane parts-ef-
forts should be made to place ed
ucational orders with companies
not now equipped, even if that
means installing additional machin-
cry with the unequipped companies
in preference to putting the new
equipment with present suppliers.
Next, instead of continuing the
expansion of present manufacturing
plants for any given products-say
aluminium airplane parts again
Browning recommends that the
services of additional organizations
should be utilized even though, at
the beginning, this new, outside op-
Grafton may not be as economical
or productive. The point here is
that efforts must be made to as
sist non-defense industries to be-
come new sources of supply.
SPREAD THE WORK
Finally, when any manufacturer
is already assured a large volume
of business, then every effort
should be made to avoid placing
additional orders with this company.
It's better business for the country
at large, they figure, 10 give or
ders to other manufacturers who
would otherwise probably be ope-
rating below normal during the
emergency.
Browning believes that the pos
sibilities of sub-contracting are lin
tied. What he's interested in par
ticularly is increasing the number
of prime contractors, both large
and small.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-03

Now it is happening all over
again. Though almost as many ci-
villains as soldiers are being killed
in this war, the destructive effect
on the coming generation will not
be less than that of the World War
if it gees on as long. Already in
France relief workers and physicians
are reporting that babies born are
markedly undersize, weighing only
two and three pounds at birth.
Why? Because their mothers are
undernourished. People recently
come from France report that they
dare not look into the faces of
children.
If that be true in France. what
must be true in Poland? In Bel
gium? In Greece? In Yugoslavia?
What will the next generation be
in Germany and Italy, decimated
by a series of bloody and useless
campaigns, educated" in a mental
Straitjacket, fed from babyhood on
a diet of bloodlust and a-morality?
Isn't it about time to stop this
once and for all? First, by con-
clusively beating those who have
espoused all of it as a normal, de-
sirable way of life, and forced it
on the rest of the world? Second.
by taking our part in organizing
the world SO that it shall not hap
pen again?
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-03
Cranium Crackers
TOURING AMERICA

TOURING AMERICA
Vacation time is still with >uSk
and the 48 states and Canada are
featuring attractions we'll worth en-
joying. If you're going touring, or
have just got back, you should
know about these places.
/. What states would you go to
to visit these national parks: Wind
Cave, Mammoth Cave, Carlsbad,
Caverns, Crater Lake?
2. Why are Springfield ILL.,, and
Springfield, Mass, well known?
3. Who is the Spanish explorer
that 400 years ago discovered the
interior of the U. S., and whose
cuarto centennial is now being OBJ
served by several midWestern
states?
d. Where are these famous re-
sorts: Rye Beach, Atlantic City,
Newport, Catalina Island?
5. In the u S., do odd numbered
federal highways run east-west, or
north-south? n.
ANSWERS -
/. Wind Cave National Park Is
in South Dakota; Mammoth Cave
is in Kentucky: Carlsbad Caverps
are in New Mexico; Crater Lake Z.
in oregon. y.
2 .pringfield, ILL.,, was once Lin
coins home; the old type U. s.
rifle was named after arsenal at
Springfield, Mass, big manufactur-
ing city, where it was made.
3. Francisco Vasquez de Coro-
nado is being honored by cuarto
centennial celebrations in the mid
west.
4. Rye Beach is in New Hamp-
shire, Atlantic City is in New Jer-
sey, Newport is in Rhode Island,
Catalina Island is near Los Ange-
les, Calf.
s. Odd numbered U. S. highways,
like /, 81, IS. etc, run in a north
south direction.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-03
ONE NON-AGGRESSION
PACT THAT HELD UP

MI ItINt ttkLb UT
More years ago than anyone can re-
member the men Of the Valley Uri, the
community of the Valley Of Schwyz and
the communities of the men of the lower
valley of Unterwald entered into a treaty
with one another.
In the treaty they ''in good faith prom
ised mutually to assist each other with
aid, counsel and good will. whether per-
sons or things be involved, both within
the valleys and without, with all power
and with all zeal, against all and every
one who may do them or any of theirs
any violence, oppression or injury :"
This week in Imperial Valley many
persons celebrate reverently that treaty
which was made in the year 1921, for 1t
was the foundation of the tiny but great
Swiss Confederation. 1t was the begin
ming of Switzerland. 1t was a treaty
which has nCl been violated in $50 years.
and it set up a democratic government
which has matched wits and skill and
even strength against the strongest-and
never vet come off second best
Imperial Valleys Swiss residents have
just cause to be proud of the land Of
their ancestors. And the land itself can
be proud of the people, for they are as
sturdy a race as there is. Perhaps the
two go tOgether-a people whose individ-
ualS are strong, ana country whose MS
tory is a history Of strength.
Americans, veritable infants in de-
mOcracy by comparison, can learn much
from the industry and determination
of the Swiss. 1t is that very industry
and determination, when reduced to in
dividual factors and refined into the
wGlpower of a whole people, which has
retained for Switzerland its independence
throughout hundreds Of turbulent years,
when the country has hemmed in on
every side by aggressors whom nothing
but the probability of defeat could hold
in check.
Such racial willpower would go far to
induce Americans to throw out the cal
amity hOwlers who whine that the OBJ
stacles are too many, that democracy
cannot work in this country.
The United States has more resources,
natural and developed, than any other
country in the world.
What about Switzerland? More than
26 per cent of her soil is unproductive.
The country has so few sources of raw
material that they might be called non
existent. 1t has no seacoast, and its
terrain seems fiendishly devised to make
any manner Of transportation difficult.
Yet, in the face of these facts, we in
this country tolerate and even sometimes
listen to those who howl that democracy
is doomed, that we cannot possibly COM
pete against a world which does not rec
ognize democracy and the democratic
methods of doing things. While we lis
ten to the hOwlerS, the Swiss go blithely
on, a living demonstration that demOc-
racy even under the worst possible con-
ditions can and does survive, compete,
and triumph.
We had better join the Swiss in their
celebration, making it ours as the symbol
of a democracy which has met and over
come difficulties far greater than any
we have ever seem
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-03

We have at least the advantage
of profiting by the experience of
the British, or, in other words, we
start where the English now find
themselves, and not at scratch.
Mayor LaGuardia of New York
on civilian defense.