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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-01-22
Educator Claims Children
Not Dumb but just Slow

Tommy Schoolboy may not be as
dumb as his report card indi-
Gates, because Tommy's dumb
ness" may be traced to either the
home or school, says DR.. Emmett
A. Belts, director Of the reading
clinic in the school of education at
the Pennsylvania State college.
Parent-teacher diagnosis of a
"slow child has revealed that the
pupil generally is victim of in
sufficient guidance or parental de-
velopment, DR.. Belts said.
Heavy homework, irritated par
ents, and mistaken ideas of how
child should be prepared for school
has built up many emotional
blocks DR.. Belts warned. Home
work for some elementary school
pupils has made school life a living
hell"
The Penn State reading expert
pointed out that parents sometimes
contribute to the homework plague
by "nagging," or educators force
children to adjust themselves to a
questionable school program. Shift
ing of Institutional problems to the
homes makes out-of-school teachers
of parents, he added.
Educational guidance is a pro-
fessional job," DR.. Belts said. "It
is the duty of educators to show
parents how to prepare the child
by developing his play ability, shar-
ing informal story hours, planning
trips with the children, developing
child personality, encouraging phys
ical fitness, and teaching self suf-
ficiency," he urged.
The home and school must work
together for education of the child,
DR.. Belts said. He suggested home
visits by teachers, parent-teacher
discussion periods, and personal
conferences aided by a complete
study of the child's background.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-01-22
Talking Book for Blind

Fortunately, soldiers who lose
their sight in the present conflict
will have to aid them in adjusting
to their new dark world many more
advantages than had their predeces-
sors Of the last war. They can en-
joy the Talking Book, devised by
the American Foundation for the
Blind, which reads books and plays
aloud; they will find available a
newly improved braille typewriter
on which they can write to their
blind comrades; they will find
games specially designed for blind
people. Better still, they will find a
public vastly more enlightened
in its attitude toward the blind, and
a working service infinitely better
trained and equipped to see thar
the dark road which they must trav.
ell is made smoother, happier and
more rewarding in every way.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-01-22
1T Takes Both, War Bonds and Taxes, to
Win-Victory Tax Special Direct Levy
Asked to Help Meet Heavy War Costs

leaving 1875 billion dollars of dis
possible income. During 1913 total
income payments are expected to
rise to 1876 billion dollars and total
personal taxes under existing reve-
nue. legislation will be is billion dol
lars-leaving 10 billion dollars Of
income at our disposal as against
only 1876 billion dollars in 1910.
In 1943 Mr.. Average American will
still be carrying q much lighter tax
load than his Canadian or English
brothers-in-arms. In Great Britain
total national and local taxes paid
by individuals at present amount to
81 percent of the national income.
In Canada, total individual taxes
amount to rs percent of the national
income. In the United States, total
personal taxes, Federal, state and
local, will amount in 1943 to Is per-
cent of national income. Our Eng
lish allies invest an additional 10
percent of national income in War
savings. Our Canadian allies invest
an additional II percent OF national
income in War savings. We Ameri-
cans, to match the record of our Ca
madam neighbors, would have to in
vest this year 20 percent of our ma
tional income in War savings. To
match the English record we would
have to invest % percent Of national
income in War savings.
U. S. Treasury Department
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-01-22

Mammy's and Pappy's room to such
point of apple-pie order that it was
a week before Pappy could find an
undershirt.
Rosebud is a great reader of the
newspapers. Nanny and Pappy
don't take one, but there are plenty
of perfectly good newspapers blow
ing round Vinegar Hill. It was out
of one of them that Rosebud got her
idea for spending the ten cents the
Bunny had put under her pillow the
night her tooth came out. After
breakfast Rosebud disappeared down
the Hill and reappeared soon after
with beautiful ten-cent War Stamp
pasted firmly into a brand-new book
with neat little squares for more
stamps. She displayed her invest
ment to Nanny. II declare you're
an angel child" Nanny said. Rose
bud went on sitting on the kitchen
floor staring with large brown eyes
at the empty squares in her book.
From time to time she took hold of
one or another Of her teeth and
wiggled it, gently. =.
ticularly big washing. Rosebud was
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forgot about her until, coming. in
from the yard with her arms full OF
dry sheets, she encountered her child
with a large hammer in her hand.
Seeming the devil in her angel child.
Nanny shouted at her, Rosebud!
Come we're with that hammer! What
you planning on doing?"
But what was done was done. In
.Rosebud's other hand was another
tooth. Her mouth was stretched In
a broad If slightly bloody smile. II
amt doing nothing, Nanny" she
said. ''1'm just filing up my stamp
book"
(Story from an actual report In
the files of the Treasury Depart
rnent.)
Say yes. Take your change In War
Stamps. Your investment in War
Bonds today will save o payday TOR
tomorrow. y. S. Treasury Department
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-01-22

Rosebud is eight, and the most
beautiful shade Of caramel fudge.
To her loving Nanny and Pappy
she is known, on approximately al
ternate days, as "Angep' and "You
devil child. It was on her devil
child days that Rosebud tied the
knots in the shirts that Nanny had
taken in for washing, and poured the
whole of the vanilla bottle into the
lamb stew, just, she said later
through bitter tears, to "flavor it up
some".
On her angel days Rosebud Is
equally imaginative even if more
restful occupant of the little shack
down on Vinegar Hill. Once when
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-01-22
THE DECADE no COME

BY contrast with steel, aviation
liz a new industry. The war has giv-
an 1t an enormous stimulation.
Probably 10 years Of normal adj
vance have been crowded into one.
Just as the steel age brought O
aew world, so this new age of the
air Is certain to bring vast changes
n the lives of people everywhere
lpon the face of the globe. These
changes are already apparent in
war. They will be equally important
In peace.
Our great strength as q nation
lies not only In our vast natural re-
sources. 1t lies also In our ability to
organize the large-scale conversion
of these resources into finished
goods. No other nation has our
knack of making things SO fast.
In the productive capacity of
American industry not only lies our
assurance of victory in the war but
also the promise of the future No
one can forsee the precise pattern of
the postwar period. But we do know
there will be vast deficiencies Of
goods to be made up. There will be
a. world to rebuild.
The war is developing in this
country the greatest unified power
of production in the whole world.
That power is now devoted to the
destruction of an evil force. But
when the war Is over, this great
power will make US better able to
grapple with the problems of peace.
l believe we shall solve those
problems, too. believe we can IL
we will hold fast to the principles
that have made America.
In some respects the outline of
the postwar world is already TAX
ing shape. There is no longer any
doubt of the fact that aviation will
come into its own as new and
revolutionary element in transporta-
ton. I do not mean to say for q
moment that the older forms of
transportation are to be swept aside.
There will be ships still, and rail-
roads and motorcars. But the air
will assume a new and growing inn
portance.
Already maps of the world are
being drawn showing air routes
which know no barrier of land or
sea.
Points only yesterday separated
by thousands of miles and by many
weeks are now but a few air-hours
away. Distance is being annihilated.
Converted into a transport q
liberator carried Gen. Arnold in his
record, breaking fight from AUS
tralia to the United States. 1t car
ried Churchill to Moscow and Willkie
around the world. But alongside of
the aircraft of tomorrow the giant
Liberator will look like toy plane.
The speed of 800 miles an hour,
which amazes today, will soon seem
slow. Tomorrow speeds of from 400
to 500 miles and hour will be COM
mon.
Planes like these will help keep
America supreme in the air. :.
Aviation will keep America. great
and keep her free. That is what We
are fighting fora free America.
Tom M. Girder, in Pathfinder
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-01-22

this juncture in the affairs Of men is
not merely timely and opportune, but
it is Gods certain and directed answer
to humanity's cry for freedom from
doubt, skepticism, fear, and the bond
age Of hate, mad ambition, covetous-
ness, dishonesty, political intrigue,
strife, war, paganism, and the anti
Christ Of totalitarianism. Christian
Science not only gives the student of
this faith full and analytical under
standing of present-day events, but it
supplies, with no uncertainty or
equivocation, the answer to all human
questionings and forebodings. It pro-
vides assurance of the eventual full
fillment of Gods promises to deliver
His people from the thralldom Of hui
man strife, contention, bitterness, and
hate.
To those not blessed with the sta
bilizing and assuring influences with
which the study Of the Bible, in the
light of Christian Science, endows one,
the future may seem to hold little of
promise or hope, but when, through
the lens of spiritual perception, gained
in the study of Christian Science, the
mists of strife, struggle, and rancor
are pierced, there is revealed back
ground Of spiritual beauty, holiness,
and permanence which nothing can
efface. Error Self destroyer
Christian Science teaches us that
error of any nature destroys itself,
and that is precisely what is happen
ing in the world today-error, or sin,
destroying itself. Men had gotten SO
far away from God and the teachings
of the Bible that there was little in
experience that bore the stamp of
purity and holiness, and when there
was left little in human consciousness
of the divine to stay the grosser i'm
pulses of men, evil had no alternative
but to turn upon and rend itself. In
the light of spiritual perception pro-
vided through the study of Christian
Science these present-day events will
reveal themselves as purifying pro-
cesses, and when this sef-eliminating
experience has accomplished the de-
struction of certain evils in human
thinking, we may then look FIR bet
ter world to live in. And I beg you,
have no doubt. That day will come
when there will be no more war on
earth and men will live together in
the holy bonds Of Christian brother
hood just as certainly as there is
God. Ezekiel prophesies the subju-
cation of all evil where he voices the
divine assurance: ri will overturn,
overturn, overturn, it: and it shall be
no more, until he come whose right
it is"
Periods of Human Progress and
Retrogressi0n
If you will follow the footsteps of
mankind from the earliest records Of
human endeavor down through the
ages, you will see that the advance
ment Of the human race from the
lowest plane Of human thought to
its present mental and spiritual level
has been accomplished through a Sc
ries Of progressive steps or periods,
with each period Of progression fol-
lowed by a period Of retrogression.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-01-22
He Has Ideas!

War Production drive headquar-
tiers has honored Martin Pearson,
author of Western stories, who
works for the Yellow Truck and
Coach Manufacturing company,
Pontiac, Mich. He made two sug-
gestions that saved $4,000 feet of
lumber in so days. The first, an
improved method Of boxing army
trucks for shipment, has been adopt
ed by three other plants. The other
idea was to stencil information
labels directly on trucks instead of
on boards wired to them. This saved
484 work hours in a two months
period.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-01-22
GET WORDS AND MUSIC OF
NEW TUNE HIT

Freddy Martin, celebrated band
leader, has selected Shadow Of q
Doubt" as coming tune hit. Get
complete words and music OF this
brand-new number in the January
S1st issue OF
THE AMERICAN WEEKLY
the biz mAgaxine distributed with
the BALTIMORE SUNDAY
AMERICAN
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-01-22
FBI WANTS YOU

You haven't committed any SER
ious offenses against the law and
the chances are that you never will
but the Federal Bureau Of Investi-
CATION would like to have you, that
is your fingerprints, in its card files.
AS result of the war 100000
people are now accounted for in the
fingerprint files. That is far cry
from the 100000 of June, 1910.
Most of the new records are of SER
vice recruits and inductees and
war workers. Feeling against finger
printing, sometimes claimed to be q
a violation of civil liberties, is strik.
ing a new low, and FBI officials
think now is the ideal" time for
legislation making printing manda-
tory for the entire population.
FBI chief, J. Edgar Hoover, in
commenting ON the measure said:
"The time is rapidly approaching
when every honest citizen will want
to have his fingerprints on file. Fin
gerprinting is liberty-insurance,
except for those who desire to COM
ceal the fact that they are enemies
of society"
The files do yoeman service OUT
side the limits of the law: missing
persons have been found through
them; victims of amnesia, drOwn-
ing and accidents have been identi-
fed. For example, at q recent train
wreck some of the passengers were
burned beyond recognition. The FBf
was able to identify those whose
fingerprint cards it had on file. II
enemy planes were to strike, the
federal fingerprint files would be i'm
valuable as the only possible method
of identifying civilian victims.
Congressional bills calling for ma
tion-wide fingerprinting were pig
eonholed. It's opponents, besides
scoring the violation of civil hber-
ties, objected to the cost. The
proponents now have answers to
both arguments and hope, with the
FBI, to blanket in" the whole
country soon.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-01-22

WASHINGTON D. C-Approxmatey 1000 American
began make added contribution to the War
this month in the form of $50 Victory tax
many millions of Americans the Victory tax and the 1913
the first direct evies be made by the Govern
men to the staggering War And it will take BOTH
and War bonds to provide the supplies and materials
to win the War peace afterwards
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-01-22

Nanny was out
doing day work.
Rosebud got a
wave Of cleaning
fever and secured
every pot and pan
in the kitchen so
that they literally
glistened. Anoth-
er day, left alone,
she tidied up
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-01-22
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SERVICES

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SERVICES
Truth" will be the subject OF
the Lesson-Sermon in all Churches
of Christ, Scientist, ON Sunday
January "a.
The Golden Text will be from
Psalms Se:11: Teach me thy way.
o Lord. will walk in thy truth:
unite my heart to fear thy name"
Among the citations comprising
the Lesson-Sermon will be the fol-
lowing rom the Bible-Psalms. 1904
Make joyful noise unto the Lord.
all We lands
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-01-22

Nazis are wearing coats made oe
human hair. They're surely headed
for shirts Of the same
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-01-22

Wasted money Is wasted
lives. Don't waste precious
lives. Every dollar you can
spare should be used to buy
War Bonds. Buy your ten
. per cent every pay day.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-01-22

Taxes will consume a quarter Of
our income, but we will probably be
asked to spare another dime.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-01-22

Oil situation is said to be depen-
dent upon whether or not, etc. Why
not make 1t dependent upon the
weather. end stop right there.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-01-22

Stalled driver is called a sabo-
teur. How about his neighbor who
rides In the back seat?
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-01-22

BY pointing pencil at a falling
bomb you can tell whether It will
hit you. BE sure the pencil has a
point, 90 you can write down the
answer.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-01-22

Nasis plan to invade Brasil. Con-
tinued lack Of coffee drives them
10 It.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-01-22
"It Takes Both

n Il takes both 4 Punch and Judy
to stage q pantoinirne show and two
hands to pull the strings behind the
scenes. It takes both -. War Bonds
and Taxes to finance the staggering
cost Of this global war. Buy War
Bonds and more War Bonds every
payday Is you pay your v \. {: Tax <:
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-01-22

Say yes. Take your change In War
STAMPS. Your investment In War
Bonds today will save o payday Tor
tomorrow. US. Treasury Department
The Daily Alaska empire., 1943-01-22
n the floor of Congress.

on the floor of Congress.
 Furthermore, Mrs. Luce's Repub- lican lady colleagues also are more deadly than the male Mrs. Fran ces Bolton of Cleveland and Mrs, Edith Nourse Rogers of Massa- chusetts are charming and graci- ous to male members, but when it comes to letting pretty Mrs. Luce on the important Foreign Affairs Committee, they are "dog-in-the- manager" Two women on the com mittee is company, they say rnree's crowd.
 But-some of the menfolks in Congress think Mrs. Luce would be fortnight, intelligent adornment to the Dies Committee. In fact they think the Dies Committee could use some brains = and not even the lady reporters will deny that Mrs. Luce has brains.
 Copyright, l943, by United Fea- ture Syndicate, Incl
The Daily Alaska empire., 1943-01-22

After his retirement in 1886 from the Columbia University professorship of anthropoogy, pr. Boas devoted his time to actively crusadng against Nag ism and declared Personality cannot be assumed to be determined by the so-caed racial groups, but is matter that must be determined individually.
 Hitler taught me that it is not only necessary discover scientific truths about man. 1t is neces- sary to spread them to the world. Science alone was not enough to check the wide acceptance of the race nonsense of Nazisn."
 Continuing he also said: If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic and emotonaly stable third of mankind, all would be represented"
 Works of the eminent scientist constitute a roll-call of scientific premises in the field and in clude "SScal Organization Of the Quakiutl pub lished in 1894 "Kootenai Tales Bulletin 59 in the American Pathological series of Smithsonian Insti- ute published in 1918 but written before 1894; "The Central Eskimo" d885); "Tsimshean Texts" Q902) "Tsimshean Mythology" (1909,; "Kathlamet Tales" tl9Ol): Handbook of American Indian Languages l9lD: "Ethnology of the Quakiutl" d913) and among later works, Primitive Art" G920; and "Coiled Basketry in British Columbia
 Dr. Boas lived full life of endless influence and one of continued benefit to mankind His memory deserves to be held in the almost reverent respect with which his disciples and successors have already come to treat him in his lifetime.
 Eminent men and women have been proud to call him Master-among them the late Dr. Alexan- der Goldenweiser of Reed College Oregon; Dr. E. Adamson Hoebel New York University, under whom Edward J. Keithahn, Librarian and Curator Of AL askas Museum did his first original research; Ruth Benedict Columbia Dr. Edward Sapir, Yale; pr Melville Jean Herkovits Northwestern pr. M Toz- ger. Harvard-all these have paid deference to great man, and the public can do no less
The Daily Alaska empire., 1943-01-22
Machine Age Madness
Philadelphia Record)

(Phlladelpnla Recoru'
 There's something about the memorable precision of machinery that makes the sanest of us want to spoil the amending perfection.
 We can understand the urge of Thomas Edison to toss an egg into electric fan
 We can understand why Charlie Chaplin in his picture Modern Times went berserk on the as sembly line and pranced around tightening buttons on womens dresses instead of the nuts that came by endlessly.
 So we can understand why the Washington motornlan took a quite literal busmans holiday re- gently borrowed trolley car on his day off, and went joyriding around the city on the route he wanted to follow with jaunty this is on me- to those who tried to pay their fare.
 We don't believe that horse car driver, work ing with an animal that ever maintains a certain amount of rugged individuasm, would ever feel the need to vary his routine The horse did it for him by falling down or baking running away.
 Maybe somebody will devise gadget that will make assembly lines trolley cars go tempera- mental every few thousand times switch is thrown. Motormen might not get so bored if a trolley car say once every months, reared on on its hind trucks and neighed.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1943-01-22
DINNER PARITY POLITICS

It begins to look as if the next political campaign would be war of dinner parties-the loser being he who throws the most elaborate dinner.
 That is the implication attached to the 100000 leaflets Republicans are quietly circulating, giving the menu and partial guest list of the dinner which millionaire Bernard Baruch spread in honor of Mrs Harry Hopkins.
 It is a devastating piece of cam paign literature. After a reminder of rationing and war-front suffer- ing, the leaflet tells how Baruch showered vintage champagne, cav jar, pate de foie gras, lobster, tur- key and a long list of other luxu- ries on his guests.
 The leaflet neglects to say that a majority of the guests were high ranking Army and Navy officers. plus Republicans from the War Department, with Leon Henderson and Hopkins the only New Dealers present.
 Because of that omission, it is all the more potent, and Roosevelt politicians viewed the leaflet as dynamite until-a political gift from heaven fell their way. This took the form of an even bigger dinner by Republican Major Rich ard Mellon, nephew of Coolidge's Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon.
 So now it's even. In fact t h e Democrats say the dinner-table baiance is now definitely on the Republican side. For while Baruch lad 30 guests, Dick Mellon had 6O. And whereas, Baruch threw his spread in a hotel, Mellon did things right in the home he leased from Mrs. Parke Brady, the former Eleanor Ryan of the Thomas For tune Ryans.
 As to expenses, Baruch and Mel Ion probably were about even. Der uie gave all his lady guests per fun1e, but Mellon imported Emil Coleman's dance band from New York at reputed cost of around 33,o00. Also he brought from New York Dwight Fiske, cafe society pet monologist, whose fee is around $500 for a recital