The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-09-18
Lights Of Network

Iheater wing s SLaSe LOOT canteeil
with theater tickets as prizes. The
other evening, Radie Harris, in
charge of the entertainment COM
mittee, decided there should be a.
variation. So she arranged for the
presentation of some quite elegant
lighters. It turned out that the win,
ners represented three branches of
the service, soldier, a sailor and!
a marine. The enthusiasm with
which the prizes were received by
the fortunate trio convinced Miss
Harris that she had made wise
choice. Later, however, she learned
that one Of the prize winners, a.
young sailor from Brooklyn, did not
smoke. Nevertheless, believing that
he simply had to make use of his
fancy new lighter, he obtained a,
cigar from friend, lit up with en-
thusiasm, took several puffs-and
went out like light.
Training: At the Stage Door cam
teen, the stars who dance with the
boys in brown and blue are con-.
vinced that lads from the Middle
West are the real wits. The latest
story is one that Ireene Wicker,
petite lady Of the air waves, tells.
Introduced to former member of
her juvenile radio audience, she
asked the husky, apple checked
youth what kind of service he was
preparing himself for.
"Well, I amt made up my mind
yet," he drawled, ''but got bunch
it'll be desert warfare"
"Why?" asked the surprised Miss
Wicker.
maybe it's because I'm in such
good practice for it," replied the
young soldier. "You see, for five
years, I ate that dry cereal you
used to advertise"
Projections: Dwellers in one Of
those old downtown homes that have
been modernized into apartments
were called together for air raid
organization. Under the direction
of a tenant who had received his
training in London while that city
was being blitzed, residents of vari-I
GUS floors were assigned Individual
tasks. Finally, young woman who
lives in the basement, was reached.
She picked the post of roof top
watcher and was informed that in
event of an alarm she was to run
to the housetop, note where the
bombs were falling and if any came
near enough to be dangerous, run
down and warn other tenants.
"But if a bomb strikes so close
can't get down and give warning?"
she inquired.
"You won't need to-" was the
grim reply.
Newport Worries: Summer resi-
dents of Newport, which as it did
in the past, still means for the most
part, New Workers, are wondering
whether this season will bring FAM
lily carriages and victorias back to
Ocean drive. Residents of the sum-.
mer citadel of society of course own
motor cars. But they cannot get
new ones as they did in the past and
there are also tire and gasoline
troubles to be taken into considera-'
ton. For a time there was con-.
sideration, especially on the part of
those not compelled to use gold
headed cane in getting about, of
substituting bicycles for motors.
Then bicycles, too, became unavail-
able. So the horse seemed the only
recourse. One wealthy owner of a
big show place solved the problem
rather neatly. On recent week.
end inspection of her property, she
went to a local dealer and bought
the very best tricycle. he had in
stock.
More Worries: Newport is more
or less worried about another mat
ter-whether the United States navy
will take over the resort and what
part blackouts will play in the sum-
mer social affairs. Owners Of shore
resorts in the vicinity of New York
are even more worried about war;.
time restrictions. It has been al
legged that some of the sinkings Of
American tankers and freighters
have been due to the fact that the
ships were silhouetted against the
lights of beach resorts. New York
city has already BACKED out lights
along some of the parkways and
arranged others so that there will
be no seward reflection, and more
will be done along that line. In
fact, Coney Island, instead of being
it's usual summer blaze of light, will
probably look completely black
from the ocean.
New York hotel owners-or at
least some of them-are looking for
an increase this fall in the number
of non-transient guests. They figure
that suburbanites, unable to use
their cars and facing a furnace oil
shortage, will simplify existence BY
closing their homes and moving into
town for the winter.