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workers around camps. This part
of the problem is stated in the words
Of q madame quoted in studies Of
the Hygiene Association. The SOL
diers, she said, get paid once a
month, the Navy twice, but the de-
fense workers have money all the
time.
There are further plans for pro-
lection of women who go to canton
ment areas seeking work. In North
Carolina move is afoot to send
suspected delinquents to hospitals
segregated so that they will not
have to associate with prostitutes
Evening star., 1941-10-17

as many contacts as would be pos
sible for the same individual pick
ing up clients on the streets-or even
using taxicabs-under the constant
risk of detection by a reasonably
watchful police force"
The Division OF Social Protection,
Federal Security Agency, reports
that in 1910 a planned law enforce
ment campaign in Southern ma
neuvers cut the rate of infection in
half in one month.
Advocates of an all-out attack on
the organized business point out
that the enlisted mans rate Of syph-
Ills infection is 172 per hundred
Evening star., 1941-10-17

In the World War the American
Army had the lowest venereal rate
and the best general health of any
army in history. 1t is now the first
and only army to have the benefit
OF sociological tests for syphilis, a
routine that catches and therefore
makes 1t easier to cure perhaps
three times as many cases as the
old clinical examinations.
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only about half that of the average
civilian American population.
The significant thing about this
low enlisted rate is that 1t Is not
uniform over the country. 1t drops
under the military average in en-
forced areas: goes higher than the
average where prostitution is per-
mitted or winked at.
This fact, some health authorities
think, puts the responsibility for in
fection squarely on the shoulders
of the organized phase OF prostitu-
ton.
The health authorities divide men
into three classes. About Is per
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cent, they say, are not likely to 90
near a prostitute; another is per
cent cannot be expected to stay
away; the remaining 10 per cent
will get a lot of infection If 1t Is
easy to reach, otherwise not.
The wide zones, they think, will
greatly benefit the TO per cent.
The authorities are looking be-
yond the soldiers. They wish to
avoid the danger of a general in
crease. or even an epidemic, after
this crisis. Europe had such an
epidemic in 1919.
They wish to protect the civilian
Evening star., 1941-10-17

school system was 1,745, according
to report made to the School Board
by Supt. L. F. Shelburne. This
represents a decrease of SO as COM
pared with the same time last year
when 1903 were enrolled.
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chance. Number of exposures, that
is, accounts for the greater part of
the mems troubles.
within a given period of time" "
the American Social Hygiene Asso-
citation says, "one inmate of a pro-
tected house can make five times
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Stounton Enrolment DROPS

STAUNTON. Va, Oct. II (Spe-
ciaD AS of September 30, enroll
ment in the Staunton city public
Smyrna times., 1941-06-12
SURVEY FOR
SCHOOL NEEDS
Extensive Revision Urged AS
Prime Necessity in a
Changing World
RECOMMEND CHANGES

WASHINGTON. = Today's high
school graduates. facing world Of
profound social and economic
change, find themselves poorly
equipped to meet the complex prob
lens of present-day lives, results Of
a study indicate.
Competition among adults for po-
sitions in industry virtually has
eliminated opportunities for appren-
ticeship, and the high-school gradu-
ate, trained though he be in voca-
tional studies, can find no employ
ment, according to a survey COM
pleted for the American youth COM
mission by the American council on
education.
Even If vocational education
were unqualifiedly successful in 9TH
er respects, it cannot create jobs
where they do not exist" the report
said.
Recommending that thorough
practice in reading-the most i'm
portant single branch Of education
accompany vocational studies, the
report emphasizes the role Of social
studies in providing an effective ed
ucation for citizenship in democ-
racy.
The committee making the study,
headed by Ben G.. Graham, super
intendent Of public schools in Pitts
burgh. found that the styled ma
ture of present-day courses in Eng
fish composition, mathematics, for
eign languages, history and natural
science kills their appeal for the
modern student.
1t is recommended that these
courses be revised to present funda-
mentals of enduring value rather
than mass Of easily forgotten de-
tail.
If the high school is to fill its
place as a factor in the American
order, the report concludes, it must
expand its program of instruction.
Smyrna times., 1941-06-12

French Yndo-China has not affected
the relatively small shipments of tin
and rubber from that country. but
informed sources emphasized the
situation would be vastly different if
Japan should attempt to blockade
those two essential products as well
as the tungsten coming from near
by Malaga.
For military reasons, precise fig
ures as to the size of the growing
reserves of the various materials
are being withheld, but Edward R.
Stettinius Jr., in charge Of the de-
tense commissions materials divi-
sion, reported six weeks after taking
office that surveys offered reliable
indications that adequate supplies
would be available for defense in
dustries as needed.
Army Forecast.
On the other hand, army sources
forecast that if the existing situa-
ton with regard to chromium ore
important to the manufacture of
armor plate and armor-piercing pro-
jectiles - continues, the United
States would be in bad shape" on
that score in about a year and
half. Domestic production Of the
ore is Insignificant.
Not all the items on the strategic
and critical lists are so well known.
There is, for instance, charcoal
made from coconut shells. 1t has
long been considered the best alb
sorbent filling for gas mask can
listers. The munitions board report
ed, however, that great progress"
has been made in the development
Of satisfactory substitutes from do
mestic materials which are abun-
dainty available and that large-scale
production Of the latter would per-
NIT removal Of coconut char from
the strategic list within the next
year.
Substitutes also are being devel-
oped for number of materials, in
Guiding synthetic rubber and SUBJ
stitutes for quinine, such as alta
brine and plasmochiD.
Smyrna times., 1941-06-12
SHORT OF WAR
ESSENTIALS
Experts Say it Would Take
Three Years to Get
Needed Supply
NEED 20 COMMODITIES

WASHINGTON.-Uncle Sam won't
have to requisition aluminium pots
and pans from the nations kitchens
in event of war-as Britain did
but he's much less fortunate with
regard to some other vital raw ma
terials.
Defense authorities estimate 1t
may take three years for this coun-
try to acquire stock piles of some So
called strategic and critical mate
rails adequate to a wartime de-
mand, despite the progress already
made in that direction.
II the United States should be-
come involved in war in the mean
time, strict conservation and distri-
button control measures and the
wider use of substitutes almost GER
tainly would be necessary in the
case Of some of the minerals for
which this country is dependent
upon foreign sources.
OF the % commodities which the
army-navy munitions board lists as
strategic and critical, officials indi-
Gated they are chiefly concerned
about things which the man in the
street takes for granted, such as
rubber, quinine, mica. chromium,
tin, tungsten and manganese.
Kaleidoscope changes wrought by
the war already have interfered
with the normal supply Of those and
other materials.
Smyrna times., 1941-06-12
Door Grilles

The possibilities of decorative ef-
fects of ornamental grilles used in
connection with screen doors are
frequently overlooked by home own
ers. In front doors having loaded
glass side lights. grille stimulating
loaded effect in the screen door
would carry out the general char
acter of the entrance. Aside from
their ornamental qualities. the
grilles also Serve to protect and
strengthen the screening.
Smyrna times., 1941-06-12
Need Tin and Rubber.

Army experts, keeping a constant
watch on the shifting military and
political tides abroad, report. for in
stance, that the French island Of
Madagascar, source Of some of the
worlds best mica for electrical in
sulation, has quit exporting to this
country. the neutrality act and the
cost Of war-risk insurance has vir-
tually quadrupled the expense of
bringing chromium ore from Tur-
key. where the best grade is located.
Thus far, Japan's penetration At
Smyrna times., 1941-06-12

Baker spent the HOLIDAYS in Pal
both where they have rented H.
TOT thelr trailer Tor the summer
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Lee
miss biancne Lee attended tbs
saccalaureate service at FELTON, o.
Sunday afternoon.
Smyrna times., 1941-06-12
TOWNSEND

Mr.. and Mrs. Harvey Daniels, of
Wilmington, were weekend guests
of Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Morgan.
Mr.. and Mrs. Daniels, Mr.. and Mrs.
Morgan and Mr.. and Mrs. Rodney
Smyrna times., 1941-06-12
SMYRNA DOINGS'
OF so YEARS AGO
Notes of Marriages, Deaths
and Matters of Interest
of Half Century Ago
ISSUE OF JUNE 3RD, 1891

Taken from our old files of
corresponding week, as near
date of this issue as possible
Fifty Years Ago. This column,
now a regular feature Of the
Times, will call to mind people
and events of the older genera
ton.
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Funeral services were held Friday
morning for Charles Burch, "a, who
died in Memorial Hospital, Cumber-
land. September Is. He was the son of
the late Nh. and Mrs. John Burch and
is survived by his widow. The Rev.
Earl Thomas. pastor Of the Brethren
church, Markleysburg, Pa, conducted
the funeral rites at Blooming Rose
church. Burial was made in Blooming
Pose cpr1atnrN
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have seriously reduced Russian
naval strength in Baltic and Black
seas, closing ports against supplies.
Moscow offered only general infor-
nation but a r-offensive was
in progress in center. Leningrad and
Odessa still held out. Moscow took
action that might indicate it was pre-
pairing to withstand siege Nazis
said drive toward Kharkov continued.
British and L. S. missions arrived in
Russia. British sunk two Italian
troopships in Mediterranean. Italians
claimed to have penetrated Gibraltar
harbor with small boats sinking three
ships Germany claimed Is British
ships in Atlantic A German army
captain was slain in Paris. Turkey
announced that under no preteXt
will any fleet pass through the Oar
danelles." Germany gave Bulgaria an
ultimatum to enter the war or be oc-
cupied by German troops.
WEDNESDAY - Red counter of
fensives appeared to improve their
positions with Germans acknowledge
ing their action but claiming they had
all been broken around Poltava,
Smolensk and Leningrad. Germans
claimed humiliation Of fifty Red di-
visions around Kiev, but Russians
claimed advances on all sectors. Rus
sian ambassador in London declared
Germans had lost three million men.
In Croatia so were executed for a
bombing there. In France French
men were shot for bombings and in
Belgium the practice of shooting five
hostages for any attacks on Germans
there was announced Roosevelt an
nounced U. s. might arm it's ships.
Secretary Knox called for immediate
repeal of the neutrality act
THURSDAY-Russia declared it
had broken a second Nazi offensive
against Murmansk and claimed sue
cesses on nearly every other sector.
R. A. F. was fighting in Russia. Ger
many claimed its principal success
about Leningrad, asserting troops
drove Russians from outskirts of city.
Nazis also claimed two entertainments
about Kiev. There were indications the
neutrality act might be repealed. In
Argentina military occupation was
extended to all airfields and an air
craft factory In Japan a series of
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DIARY OF The WAR

FRIDAY - Russians appeared to
have suffered a major defeat in iso-
lating Crimean peninsula and it was
feared the Soviets might have to give
up unless British and U. s. gave more
aid Russia, however, began assemb-
ling a huge reserve army, estimated
at 25 million. They said the fogs OF
autumn would swallow up Hitler's
dream of an eastern blitzkrief. Ger
mans claimed capture Of key NUM-
tions city so quickly that Reds failed
to destroy plants Assault upon Len
+ ingrad continued. Bulgaria modified
$4,000 troops and road workers were
at work there for possible push to-
ward Suez. London reported sinking
four German ships.
RDAY - Hitler claimed
Soviet city Of Kiev and Poltava, 20C
miles to east was overrun by a Nazt
advance reaching toward Kharkov, in
heart of Donets river basin. Hitler
also claimed four Red Armies en-
trapped Nazis admitted casualties in
Russian campaign of 402,865 against
purported Russian losses of $500, 900
Red news was scarce, reporting the
Leningrad struggle continuing indie
cisively but admitted fierce fighting
around Kiev U. S. War department
estimated 10 million men in Nazi
forces with one-third of army yet to
be placed into Russian battle Twelve
British warships are being repaired
in U. S. harbors. Defiant French
fired a Nazi garage as reprisals
there are frightened and two more
executed for attacks on German
soldiers.
SUNDAY - 1t was reported Bull
garia would join the war on side of
the Axis Russian positions in Uk-
raine was desperate but they claimed
big Nazi toll of lives, and appeared
determined to hold Leningrad, fol
highest possible price in blood of Ger
man soldiers. Twelve more were
executed in Paris for Staying of Ger
man officer. Britain continued its
regular smashes at German territory
with sWarms of bombers
MONDAY-German armies claimed
shattering victories at both ends of
Russia's 1000 mile front, but Soviets
said the intense drive on Leningrad
had not gained the Nazis an inch of
ground. Nazis claimed control of
Oesel and Muhu in a fight to clear
the sea lanes to the city In the south
Crimea was cut off from the Rus
sian mainland. Nazis claimed total of
two million prisoners. r. A. F.
bombers were over northern and
southwestern Germany and reached
Berlin and Frankfort. Germans
claimed SO British planes. British
claimed 10 German planes. Germans
claimed % ships in submarine fight
ing around Iceland. Turkeys position
was. becoming critical again. Five
citizens of Netherlands were executed
for aiding British ailmen. There was
growing signs of revolution in
France.
TUESDAY a American-owneC
freighter was sunk near Iceland in
patrolled waters. Germans claimed tC
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GORTNER


Come to church Sunday morning
and evening.
Clouds are the artistry of the sky
Watch them 90 lazily idling by;
No paint, no brushes, scenes seem
implanted
But each is designed by a Master
hand"
Some of our people stayed up till
two o'clock watching the grand fire
work display of the Aurora Borealis
last Thursday night
Noah Lichty had an X-ray taken
of his spine since his twenty-foot fall
in silo and found no serious trouble
other than the discomforts of bruises.
Mrs. c. j. Morrow, Of Jackson
Heights, N. Y; Mrs. e. L. Gasterger,
of Harrisburg, Pa; Mrs William II.
Love, Bridgeport, O., and Mrs.
Elliott Riley, of Red House, were
guests Of Mrs. Anna Bittinger, Mon
day.
Miss Blanche Grouse spent Sunday
with Miss Helen Beeghley at Sunny
Side.
The following attended a meeting
near WilIiamsport, w Va, on Sun
day: Mr. and Mrs. EIwood Schloss-
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motored to Pittsburgh last Wednes-
day, where they witnessed the defeat
of the Pittsburgh Pirates baseball
team by the Brooklyn Dodgers, 6 to 4.
Mrs. Ellwood Hinebaugh, Oakland,
spent the weekend here with her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. j. Alvin Friend.
Miss Blanche ShiVeley and Miss
jamie Bradford. West Bridgewater,
Pa, spent a short time Saturday aft
ernoon visiting Mn and Mrs. Wilbert
N. Savage
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Friday afternoon with Mrs. Harvey
SWartZentruber.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Schlossnagle
and Mrs. Amanda Hoff spent Sunday
with their relatives, the Thomases
near Frendsville.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Kinsinger, of
Grantsville, called on Ray Livengood
and other friends in our community.
Monday.
Billy and George Fulk were visit
ing relatives at Sunny Sic, Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert dsk, Emma
Catherine and Melvin Calls were
in Bloomington Sunday evening
viewing the wrecked train.
Miss Sarah Beachy was home from
Meyersdale, over the weekend.
MIR. Samuel Lape, Lorraine Old
ham, and Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Verna.
Of Pennsylvania. were among the
guests at Mr.. Ohio Friends, on Satur-
day and Sunday. They and the fol-
lowing enjoyed a party honoring Miss
Eleanor Friends birthday on Satur-
day evening: John and Helen Schloss-
nagle, Glenn and Mildred Killius,
Dale Simpson and Junior Paugh,
Edns, Beckman, Ruby Fike, Eliza
beth Bernard John ShoHs, Albridge
and Mary Dunkle. Mrs. Myrtle Old
ham, the Custer boys, Melvin Old
ham, and Ohio, Friend, of Pennsyl-
vania; Mrs Willard Swartzentruber
and Miss Laura Alice Friend.
Miss Leona Dodge is preparing to
leave for Bridgewater college, Vir-
ginia.
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Orphans Court Proceedings

The Orphans Court for Garrett
County met in regular session on
Tuesday and among others were the
following proceedings:
Letters Granted
Estate of Josiah G Friend, late of
Swanton; letters of administration to
Mary J. Friend, widow.
Estate of Catherine Goehringer,
late of Accident; letters of admins
tration to Clemens C. Goehringer,
son.
Accounts Passed
Estate of Sallie Broadwater; sec
ond and final account; George L.
Broadwater, administrator.
Estate of Rebecca F, DUR; first
and final account; Ira L. DUR, ad-
ministrator
Estate of William H. Speicher; first
and final account; Nettie NJ. Peck,
administrators c. t. a.
Estate of Minnie j. Kaese; eighth
and final account; nellie X. Friend
and Theodore c. Kaese, admins
traitors.
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Display
OF Aurora Borealis
Attracts Attention

A spectacular display of the Aurora
Borealis swept the skies of this entire
area last Thursday night in a heav-
emily show which led many an individ-
ual to believe it had something to do
with national defense. Oldtimers say
it is a sign of war.
As several people described it, the
display began around $50, although
it was about 1880 before persons here
began to notice it. Beginning as vivid
streaks, some white, some green and
blue, the lights swept across the sky
in ripping movement. Later, pink,
rose and red shades appeared
Then suddenly the beams of light
seemed to converge on a central point
directly overhead, the zenith. From all
directions, like thhe petals of some
gigantic flower, they met in the cen
ter Of the heavens which was sufused
with a red glow.
For a time the streaks of light We're
high, then nearer the horizon, partic-
ularly in the direct north. Some obser-
vers noticed a rainbow-shaped beam
across both the Northern and the
Southern sky.
The chickering's played havoc with
communications throughout the world
and the Associated Press teletypewrit-
ers in daily newspaper offices pro
duced an annoying volume of gar
ble'reports. Wirephoto, telegraph and
wireless communications We're inter-
rupted.
The Aurora Borealis, according to
scientists, is a display Of light in the
high levels of the earth's atmosphere.
1t is most frequently seen in broad
belt which lies along the boundary Of
the northern Polar region.
The Northern Lights generally
show greatest intensity and frequen-
cy along a path which crosses North
America from Alaska in a southeast
erly direction to Hudson Bay and Lab
rador. This line of maximum intensity
: crosses Norway and skirts the Arctic
coast of Siberia, and it is unusual to
see display south Of this area
Intense and widely spread auroral
3plays, such as last Thursday
hits, are associated with high sun
Inactivity and worldwide magnet
lectric storms, which explains the
ruption Of communications.
The region in which auroral dis
lays occur has been found to be ap-
roximately between fifty and two
inbred miles above the earth's sur
&c. Analysis Of the light Of aurorae
5 shown that it is produced by cleo
a discharges in Oxygen and nj
gen.
The shapes and directions assumed
y.the aurorae and their positions with
aspect to the carth's magnetic field
how that this mangnetic field and
is variations are controlling factors
In the formation Of displays.
The association of aWorae with
solar and terrestrial magntic-eIectric
phenomena indicates that the sun is
the source Of energy that produces
the durorae. The electrical condition
of the upper atmosphere is largely de-
termined by the incident ultraviolet
light and streams Of charged corpus
Giles from the sun and by high-spacd
charged corpuscles from outer space,
known as cosmic rays.
The exact mechanism by which one
or more of these forms Of energy pro-
duce the aurorae is known, but re
searchers are CROPPING their way to-
ward an explanation by new methods,
including the use Of radio waves. to
analyze the earth's upper atmosphere.
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Garrett County Road Is Nearing
COmDIetiOn

Construction Of three and e-tenths
miles of the Bloomington
road viii be completed about October
Is, it has been announced by the Mary
land State Roads Commission
The work on this highway was
started as a WPA project and is now
being completed by the State Roads
Commission for the county.
Traffic is being maintained.
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7
burg, w. Va, Monday and Tuesday
Edgar J. Bartholomew, who had
been employed in Baltimore, is spend
/ ing some time here with his parents,
| Mr.. and Mrs. David Bartholomew.
- Mr.. and Mrs Aubrey Savage and
daughter, Enfield, Pa, visited rela-
tives here during the weekend.
Mr.. and Mrs. Merle Frantz and
children. Loeb Lynn, visited relatives
here, during the weekend.
Aldworth Brown, who has been
employed by the Celanese plant,
4 Cumberland. spent Saturday with his
parents, Dr.. and Mrs, r. D. Brown.
He left Sunday for Washington, D.
! c., where he will attend the Bliss
| Electrical School
Privates John Suter, Irwin Savage,
and Woodrow HENDERSON, Fort
1 George G., Meade, visited at their re-
spective homes during the weekend.
Private Charles Matheny, Fort
Eustis, Va, is visiting his mother,
Mrs. John Matheny, for several days.
Private Perry Uphold, Fort Mon
roe, Va, visited relatives here during
the weekend.
Mrs. J. H. Rumbaugh returned to
Brownfield Pa. after visiting with
Mrs. Harvey Friend for a week.
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