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The CIO news., 1942-12-07

Robert Crnden, author Of this
story, is publicity director Of The
United Rubber WOrkers, CIO, and
associate editor Of the mnion's off,
ciai organ, The United Rubber
Yorker.
The CIO news., 1942-12-07
AMERICA, Dec. z, 1941 (.

AMERICA, Dec. z, 1941 ..
America was the road between Akron
and Cleveland, the languor of gray, cool
day with fall lingering In the air; families
tramping through the metropolital parks,
eating hamburgers, talking about how soon
we'd be getting plastic autos, and incident
ally, wondering how come the Russians
were doing such job on Hitler. -.
America was us, bursting into friends
house, with our kids hungry apd jostling
past our friend little pale, who said,
did you hear? The Japs have bombed
Pearl Harbor?"
I laughed and helped to get the kids
something to eat.
He repeated 1t.
You're kddin'," said and started off
on something else
"Lsten!" He turned on the radio.
"a. the State Department Is buz2ing
with activity. Crowds are outside the
White House. Soldiers are posted at all
the Government buildings. And here's an
other flash: japanese planes attacked our
bases
l sat down. A clock licked slowly in
the room. The kids ate on, unconcerned.
The CIO news., 1942-12-07
One Year al War.
We Hute FuSciszrl'

And so help us God, when the day Of
liberation comes, We Shall Fight with
You!
Long Live Freedom! Long Live France!
The CIO news., 1942-12-07

Through the Underground hear Ameri-
can soldiers are already on the way TO help
us. God grant il may be so! Every night
l shall pray-"God bless America! God
speed the day when the Yanks are COM
ing"'
The CIO news., 1942-12-07

But we ADULTS
looked at each
other feeling
alre a d y the
u n C e r t ainty
ahead. k n o w
ing that Mu-
mich had borne
Its bitter fruit
W ar h a d
come TO us at
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-09-11
AIRPORT ABANDONED STORY
Is MISTAKE

Major Clarence A. Remaleey, of
the United States District Engineers
Office in Baltimore, has Informed
Congressman David ]. Ward that a
report stating that plans for the Sal
isbury, Maryland Airport project
had been abandoned, is incorrect.
The report should have been in ref
erence to a proposed airport at
Parksley, Virginia, he said.
The Salisbury project is one of
the large type of airports in the
National Airport Program, desig-
mated as Glass 4, having minimum
runways of 5000 feet. In the orig
inal plan for the Salisbury Airport
two runways were provided. How
ever, Congressman Ward has made
request for a third runway, in con-
nection with theAexpansion program
of the Civil Aeronautics Authority
An extensive drainage system
has been planned for the Airport
With the assistance of Congressman
Ward, a priority certificate has been
obtained from the War Production
Board for the steel necessary in the
construction of the rein forced con-
crete pipe to be used in that sys-
tenn. The contract has been award
ed and work will soon be started.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-09-11
Police Shows Courtesy Pays

Police officials Of Detroit, Mich,
believe courtesy on the roads and
the absence of traffic cutting and
racing reduce accident rates sub
stantially, so they are putting into
practice an idea that ticket of re-
ward should be given courtesy driv-
ers-and by the same traffic cops
who ticket their erring ways.
During the few days the tickets
of reward have been issued, they
have been presented to a milkman
who stopped his truck to help a
confused, elderly lady from the
middle of the street; driver who
helped push stalled automobile to
the curb after it had stopped for a
red light; and two small boys who
got off their bicycles at busy inter-
sections and pushed them across the
street on the outside of pedestrian
traffic.
While the plan still is in its in
fancy, the police department hopes
that system may be developed for
keeping a record of courtesy cita-
lions, and that eventually windshield
stickers will be used to identify care
full and courteous drivers.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-09-11
PILOT

Miss Agnes McGuigan, Philada.,
is spending some time at her home
here.
Mrs. G. H. Mustard and son Ralph
of Bland, Virginia, spent the past
week with her sister Mrs. Perry D.
Bruce.
Miss Margaret McNairy and
Richard McNairy, Harrisburg, Pa,
were guests of Agnes McGuigan
Wednesday.
Paul Houpt Lenni, Pa, spent his
vacation with his grandmother Mrs.
A. B. Trimble
Mrs. Edna James of New Jersey
is spending this week with her son
Fred James.
Mrs. William Hogg and children
of Scraton, Pa, spent last Sunday
with her grandfather, Jesse Bruce.
Mrs. Dorothy James and daugh-
ter are visiting Mrs. James parents
Mr.. and Mrs. James Lehman, Audu-
bon, New Jersey.
The Delmar Devonshires are en-
Pertaining friends from Wilmington,
Delaware.
Mrs. Blanche Brown of Quarry
Vile, has been with her mother Mrs.
William Sprout, who has been very
i'll for some time.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-09-11

this week, with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs Pussy and attended the fun
eral of Mrs. Pusey's mother, who
passed away, Sunday morning, age
92 years.
Dick Burlin, who is with the
State Police in Western Md, was at
home few days this week.
George Noble Poist Carl Adams
and Dick Keller were indicted in
the army Wednesday.
Miss Carolyn Sebold has a posi-
ton at Aberdeen.
Miss Grace Rawlings is sojourn-
ing at the Blue Ridge Summit, Pa,
after spending two weeks at the
farm, before returning to her school
duties in Baltimore, as Principal of
the Forrest Park School.
Miss Grace Jackson was delight
ed to receive a beautiful bunch of
flowers on her birthday, the goth,
cabled by her friend, Corporal Leo
Bitner, Northern Ireland.
Shirley Brown has been visiting
relatives In Oxford,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-09-11

The perfect antithesis of an icono-
clast-that's what du Pont Cornelius
is, and literally. An iconoclast is a
fellow who goes around breaking
icons. Cornelius, young artist on
the University of Pittsburgh library
staff, builds them up, using a BIZ
zarre assortment of equipment
ranging from an insecticide to cot
tage cheese. He has just finished
restoring a group of Is highly valu-
able centuries-old Rumanian icons,
or sacred images, which the Ru-
manian government gave to Pitt for
eventual incorporation in one of the
nationalist rooms at the Cathedral
of Learning. These portrait images
of the saints, styled peasant
Byzantine paintings executed on
wood in egg tempera and gold leaf,
were included in the Rumanian
pavilion exhibit at the New York
Worlds fair, but when they arrived
at the university in December of
1910 they were in bad shape.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-09-11
Old Indian Training
Being Used for Cadets

The American Indian has con-
tributed an idea which army phys
ical education instructors at Kelly
Fields giant replacement center
have borrowed and made a neces-
sary step in the training program
of the future flying officers of the
U. S. air corps.
One day a week these aviation
cadets jog around 21s mile course
in a gait known as the Indian Trot."
After clicking off a few hundred
yards in race-horse pace, the in
structor slows his charges to well
come walk, but the length of the
run is gradually increased until at
the end of the allotted five weeks
each fedgling is expected to click
off the course at a fast pace.
This run--a takeback to the days
when Indian chieftains stressed fit
ness for their young warriors-is
only cog in the fitness program.
After assembly at 9:15 a. M, the
cadet or student goes through 10
HlliluIS WdIIullS-uP SAeIClSe W zoos
en- his muscles. For the next Is
minutes he is put through brisk CO.
ordination drill. Streamed up now
and rarin' to go, the future airmen
are divided into teams for volley
ball, touch football and basketball.
Others compete in high jumping,
tossing the shot, and broad jumping
events.
These calisthenics and the games
that follow last approximately one
hour and Is minutes, five days a
week-just few of the things that
''keeps 'em flying"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-09-11
Decline in Castor Bean Growing

The castor bean plant, from which
we get castor oil, is not legurne, as
many suppose. Although the plant
grows wild and is cultivated in trop-
ical and subtropical countries, it is
cultivated also in the warmer parts
of temperate zones. The plant has
been grown in this country for more
than a hundred years but became
an important commercial crop only
in certain sections of Oklahoma,
Kansas, Missouri, and Illinois in the
latter part of the 10th century, from
1860 to 1900. Since that time, how
ever, the industry has declined and
practically has been abandoned in
this country. This decline has been
attributed chiefly to the reduction in
price caused by the importation of
large amounts of cheap castor bean
seed from other countries, especial
ly from India, China and Brazil.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-09-11
EFFORTS TO ORGANIZE DAIRY
WORKERS

A short time ago, one of the large
labor unions started an aggressive
campaign to organize dairy workers
in the Chicago milk shed. If that
campaign succeeds, it will undoubt-
eddy be extended to all other milk
producing areas.
The interest of the consumer in
this is obvious. If union leaders
manage to organize these workers,
the consumer will do the paying
and imitation will get another boost
forward.
Farm work is basically different
from industrial work. The farm
worker gets many tangible benefits
beside cash wages--a home, light
and water, part of his food, a pleas
ant place for his family to live, etc.
And any effort to place the farm
worker on the same basis as the
to pay and working hours, will dan
gerously dislocate the American
economy.
Dairy farmers and all others are
already paying record wages--and
those wages have offset most of the
benefits that have resulted from
highest farm prices. Union regimen
tation of agricultural labor would
play havoc in millions of American
homes. -.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-09-11
World of Color Varies

The world of color varies widely
over the animal kingdom. Many
lower animals see objects in varying
shades of gray. Dogs, it is believed,
have little or no color vision. Some
biologists say that fish cannot dis
tinguish colors. However, certain
insects have eyes that are sensi-
tive to light rays in the infra-red
and ultraviolet fields that are in
visible to human eyes. Even in hui
man eyes there is considerable vari-
alton in color vision, continues the
institute, adding that in the United
States there are several million per-
sons who are color-blind. Such per-
sons have worlds of color that are
different from those of their COM
panions.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-09-11
Celebrated Italian Tenor
Lived in Two Centuries

Giovanni Battista Rubini was q
celebrated Italian tenor, born at Ro-
mano, near Bergamo, Italy, April
Z, 1895. His father, a music pro-
fessor, was anxious that the boy
be a musician, and. at the age Of
eight young Giovanni sang in church
choirs and played the violin in an
orchestra. He continued concert
work, his first important concert
being at Naples, but his career prob
ably dates from his first appearance
in Paris in 1925.
Between 1881 and 1843 he sang
either in England or Paris, and in
l843 he began a tour with List
through Holland and Germany. Aft
er they separated at Berlin, Rubini
went on to st. Petersburg where
the Emperor Nicholas made him
director of singing in the Russian
dominions and conferred on him the
rank of colonel. He retired in 1874
to a home he had purchased near
Romano and when he died there on
March 2, 1854, he left great for
tune accumulated from his operat-
ic career.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-09-11
Hall Of Statuary Has
Famous Personages' Bust

The national hall of statuary in
the Capitol building at Washington,
D. c., was formerly the hall of the
United States house of representa-
tives. 1t was established by con-
gress July 2, 1864. Each state was
invited to contribute a marble or
bronze statue of it's most distin-
guished deceased citizen. In place
are: Alabama, Gen. Joe Wheeler;
Arkansas, Uriah M. Rose; Arizona,
John Campbell Greenway; Califor-
MIA, Junipero Sierra; Connecticut,
Roger Sherman; Delaware, Caesar
Rodney; Florida, John Gorrie; Geor-
gia, Alexander H. Stephens; Idaho,
George l.. Shoup; Illinois, Frances
E.. Willard; Indiana, Gen. Lew Wal
lace; Iowa, S. j. Kirkwood; Kansas,
John J. ingalls,; Kentucky, Henry
Clay; Maine, Hannibal Hamlin;
Maryland, Charles Carroll; Mas
sachusetts, Samuel Adams; Michi-
gan, Lewis Cass; Minnesota, Henry
M. Rice; Mississippi, Jefferson Da-
Wis; Missouri, Thomas H. Benton;
New Hampshire, Daniel Webster;
New Jersey, Richard Stockton; New
York, Robert r. Livingston; North
Carolina, Zebulon B. Vance; Ohio,
William Allen; Oklahoma, Sequoyah;
Pennsylvania, Robert Fulton; Rhode
Island, Roger Williams; South Car
DINA, John G. Calhoun; Tennessee,
John Sewer; Texas, Samuel Hous-
ton; Vermont, Ethan Allen; Virginia,
Robert E. Lee; West Virginia, Fran
els H. Pierpont; Wisconsin, Robert
M. LaFollette. Statues which were
formerly in statuary hall have been
placed in other parts of the Capitol
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-09-11
Pershing's Auto Number

Routine disclosure that Army
Registration No. 1851 has been is
sued to a light sedan assigned to
the 503rd Parachute battalion at Fort
Benning, Georgia, recalls that that
was the number of the car used by
Gen. John J. Pershing as command
err of the A.E.F. in France almost
a quarter of century ago.
The big locomobile limousine
which he used in France is now in
the museum of the Holabird quarter
master depot. After the World war
the car turned up in Washington in
1922. Two years later it was at
Holabird, then returned to Washing
ton where it was used by the quar-
termaster corps. In 1927 it was
again returned to the Holabird de-
pot, where II stands In the museum.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-09-11
War Plant Guards Being
Aided by Clever Robots

Tiny robot sentries, many times
more efficient than men in storm,
fog and darkness, are now aiding
human guards along the miles OF
high wire fences that enclose some
of the country's greatest war-pro-
duction plants.
Six months of tests under every
conceivable condition were said to
have proved the new sentry system
to be the most efficient yet devised,
with the robots hearing" even the
whisper of person, the snip of a
Wire-cutter or the sound of a pick,
and relaying these warning sounds
instantly to the human Waterman at
his post or to a central guard sta
ton inside the plant.
Engineers said that the acoustic
fence" apparatus, as it is called,
has the effect of multiplying by
many times the number of guards
on duty in adverse weather and at
night. During heavy fog, blackouts,
and night storms visibility is often
zero and guards would have to be
placed almost elbow to elbow to
provide absolute protection along
fences that often are Is to 20 miles
long.
But the robot sentine1s can keep
an alert 24-hour watch over every
foot of fence, regardless of wealth
err, enabling the human guardsmen
to hear what is going on for blocks
or even several miles along the
fence line, and to tell instantly the
location of any disturbance. Actual
ly the fence itself serves as the ro-
bots ears, capable even of over
hearing voices speaking in whispers.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-09-11
HISTORIC PLACES IN LANCAS-
TER COUNTY

One hundred and thirty-five years
caster County native, demonstrated
the first successful commercial
steam vessel, according to the State
Department of Commerce.
Fulton, born in Little Britain
Township in 1865, spent many years
working on various types of boats,
but it was not until he was forty-two
years of age that he began to see
his dreams come true. He is also
credited with building the worlds
first steam propelled warship, in
the War of 1912.
His first ship, the "Clermont",
was referred to by those who
doubted the possibilities of steam
propelled ship, as "Fulton's Folly.
But the first voyage on the Hudson
River, August II, was success.
The Fulton homestead, located
near Unicorn, about % miles south
of Lancaster on Route 222, is now
occupied by private family but I'M
terested visitors are allowed to look
around the place.
Other points of interest in that
section are "Wheatland" in Lam
caster, the homestead of James
Buchanan, only Pennsylvania-born
President of the United States; the
Christian Herr House, oldest build
ing in Lancaster County, construct
ed in 1919, also in Lancaster; the
Oldest schoolhouse in the State
stands just off U. S. 222 between
Lancaster and Quarryville; a few
miles west of Lancaster, near
Marietta, is a sycamore tree claimed
to be the largest tree in Pennsyl-
vania-102 feet tall, ~ feet in cir
conference and some of the branch
es extend out rs or 80. feet.
The Lands Valley Museum, near
Lancaster, is an attraction to visit
ors in that area. 1t contains more
than 100000 items characteristic of
early days in the Keystone State
and is open every day of the week.
Pa. Department of Com.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-09-11
WOODLAND

Mrs. Samuel Gather of Rising
Sun was the guest of the Misses
Rawlings, Hybernia, Monday to
Wednesday last week.
Mrs. Francis Bitner was at the
University of Maryland Hospital for
x-rays and observation first of the
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Jackson of
Baltimore, was the guest of his par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Rufus G. Jack
son, Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Rea and Jane
of Philadelphia, spent part of last
week with his parents Mr.. and Mrs.
William e. Rea.
Mrs. Harvey Culbertson and
Mrs. Samuel Churchman of Will
mington were guests Monday of Miss
Leila R. Thompson.
Mrs. Edward Stevens, two daugh-
ters, Eddie and little brother are
spending this week in Philadelphia.
Mr.. and Mrs William Gillespie OF
Principle Furnace spent the past
weekend with Mr.. and Mrs. Ed
mund Brown.
Mr.. William Bowden has return
ed to Dunbar, Pa, from spending
several days with Miss Virginia r.
Barnes. He has enlisted in the Air
Corp and goes into the service the
31st.
Mr. and Mrs. Herman Slaybaugh
of Rising Sun were dinner guests OF
Miss Virginia Barnes, Saturday
evening.
Rev. j. H. Whedbee and Margaret
called ON Mrs. Lizzie Barnard and
brothers recently. Margaret is going
in training for nurse in one of the
Wilmington Hospitals and her
brother William is In Hawaii.
Rev. and Mrs. s, T, Hamblin and
Lorna have been In Wilmington
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-09-11
ONE HUNDRED PER CENT
PLACEMENT OF SALISBURY
COLLEGE TEACHERS

One hundred per cent placement
of available 1912 graduates, as well
las 1942-43 seniors, has been an
nounced by DR.. j. d. Blackwell,
President of the State Teachers
College at Salisbury, Md. This has
been made possible by the ruling of
the State Board of Education to the
effect that members of the 1942-43
Senior class will be eligible for
teaching positions during 1942-43,
provided they would return to col
lege during the summer sessions of
1912 and 1943.
Placement of 1912 graduates in
teaching positions, effective Septem-
Der 1, 1912, are as follows: Anne
Arundel County; Marie Bounds,
East New Market; Frances Durham,
Mulington; Genevieve Gibson,
Mechanicsville; Augusta Heath,
Nanticoke; Ollie Horsman, Benedict;
Mildred johnson, Crisfield; Julia
Jonese, Salisbury; Virginia Kuenzle,
Elkton; Agnes Martin, Indian Head;
Doris McVey, Rising Sun; Dorothy
Siddons, Princess Anne; Ellen Tay-
lor, VivaIve; Beatrice Todd, Pres
ton; and Virginia Vincent, Sails
bury. Caroline eCounty: Phyllis
Seese, Denton. Cecil County,: Mar
garet Hornbarger, Perryville. Har-
ford Countyt Doris Gross, Rocks.
Howard County: Carrie Carr, Del
mar and Jeanette Rencher Insley,
Salisbury. Prince Georges Countyt:
ter County: Emily Dryden, Snow
Hill. Delaware: Irma Wootten Ayde-
lotte, Delmar, and Josephine Taylor
Williams, Hebron. The four young
men graduates, namely, Albert At
kinson, Cambridge; James Kerr,
Whiteford; William Newcomb, Cam
bridge and Carroll Walsh, Thigh
man, have entered the Service.
Seniors available for teaching
positions have been placed as fol-
lows: Calvert County: Betty Bar
ton, Queenstown. Caroline Countyt:
Evelyn Crockett, Quantico, and Adj
dele Somers, Ewell. Cecil County:
Betty Shippers, North East. Charles
County: Elizabeth True, Coster.
Frederick County: Margaret Reau-
champ, Bishop, Phyllis Hahn, En-
mitsburg. Hartford County: Louise
GRAPHICAL, Street, Florence Standi-
ford, Forest Hill, James Wright,
White Hall. Howard County: Edna
Mae Ellis, Salisbury, Lorraine Hall,
Fishing Creek, and Elizabeth Hick-
man, Stockton Prince Georges
County: Betty Carey, Princess
Anne; Emily Clinard, Salisbury;
Betsey Collinson, Easton; Virginia
Harcum, Mardela; Donna Hoyt,
Easton; Muriel Lewis, Kingston:
Mary Lee Moore, Pocomoke; Irene
Parks, Wingate; Emma Todd, Win
gate, and Georgia White, Salisbury.
SIT. Mary's County: Betty Brene-
man, Annapolis; Virginia Gardner,
Chester; Irta Mills, Preston; Jane
Wheatley, Seaford. Somerset Coun-
ty: Lorraine Siddons B1oodsworth,
Princess Anne, and Thomas Flow
ers, Fishing Creek. Talbot County:
Ralh Kirby, Easton. s. T. c.: Ma
tilda DeVoe, Pylesville, and Rich
ard Williams, Salisbury.
With the unusual demand for
elementary teachers, good enroll
ment at the local Teachers College
is anticipated.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-09-11
Salt Does the Work

Tests with burning magnesium, IN
solid form and in shavings, showed
that salt was highly efficient as a
smothering agent. Relatively small
quantities of salt sufficed to
bring the intense magnesium fire
under control by smothering 1t. When
water was thrown on the metal
buried in the salt the fire recon-
menced, proving that potential re-
sidual fire had been smothered by
salt.
Other chemicals added to salt with
the idea of increasing its efficiency
as an extinguishing agent proyed
practically worthless.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-09-11

A smart strap fastens under the
chin and they are padded for COM
fort. One steel helmet costs So so
every time you fill So stamp book
you are buying protection for an
American soldier. Invest at least
ten percent of your income in War
Bonds every pay day. Help your
community reach its War Bond
Quota. U. S. Treasury Department
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-09-11
X n
MAot4ess RssxW iM
WAR BONDS
a a

When the American Expeditionary
Force landed in Ireland recently
newspapers reported the citizenry
remarked at the similarity of the
steel helmets worn by our boys with
those worn by German troops. These
steel hats are protection from shrap-
mel fragments and other light mis-
siles. We need thousands of them
for they are regular issue to every
American soldier.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-09-11

Gandhi maps in prison. Prompt
British action in arresting him
proves that It wasn't the tirst time
be has done It.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-09-11

The Maryland Traffic Safety
Commissions Slogan for the
week is:
Snow That School Has Open.
ed, Every Mothers Plea
Is ssDrive Safely
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-09-11

Women seldom are what they
seem-and they are glad Of It,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-20
ENTERTAINED
Soldiers on
Thanksgiving
BY DONNA GRACE

ENTERTAINING MEN in
service on Thanksgiving day
should mean more than giving
them a fine dinner. The boys
can have that right at their
own Uncle Sans board. Make
it a real home dinner with all
the best service and decoration
possible.
When inviting boys, 1t is ad-
visable to have as many as pos
sible. One alone will be lost
and not easy to entertain, while
two or three will help to amuse
themselves. The USO centers
will know who to send if you
are not acquainted with any
boys.