The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-01-01


SEA HERO
The waves they placed him gently
up on the sandy beach,
The terms went suddenly quiet and
sunbeam tried to reach
His burned and shell-torn body and
his fair and blistered head;
There, as the Huns had left him, q
Merchant Marine lay dead.
There was no blare from the trump
cts and the drums were silent,
too;
The papers made no mention and the
public never knew =.
Just the slow, soft toll of bell buoy
and the long, long roll OF the
They were his only requiem as the
waves brought him back to me.
GEORGE L. ROHDENBURG.
THE FLORIDA WINTER SEASON
Miami Beach is so militant this
season that the coconuts now bear
fuses.
The palms waving in the breeze
beat time to the "Star-Spangled
Banner" the oleander bushes sprout
red, white and blue flowers and the
pelicans, which used to attack only
fish, now attack fishing boats, If any.
Bathing beauties operate only un-
der IA" cards: three to a pageant.
The lifeguards have whiskers and
all answer to the name of Pop"
And if you yell "Fore" on golf
course and anybody looks back at
you it is the Army and Navy.
There is talk Of remaining
Lincoln Road Eisenhower
Piazza"
The first thought Of Miami
Beach visitor is to develop a tanned,
healthy, rugged look. But this year
If he looks healthier than the armed
forces he feels embarrassed.
And II he looks rs rugged he
gets drafted.
So many hotels are in the hands
of the Army, Navy and air force
that If you take room you take it
when, as and IT," A hotel reserva-
ton is merely something you make
by telephone, obtain by luck and
keep by prayer.
Any bookings can be cancelled by
bugle.
The first thing you do when you unpack
your small bags is to phone to the desk
and see if you are still guest You d0B't
dare unpack the big ones.
Soldiers, sailors and air cadets
now have the $50 a day de luxe
rooms that the filthy rich used to
control outright, many night club
is a military classroom and no
apartment house owner can call his
building his own.
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They even say the orange groves
have become warlike, and that the
reason there was no hurricane this
year was that the orange trees had
grown too tough.
COOPERATION
Ina Dodo says she realizes per-
fectly the need to save butter and
is giving up buttered popcorn for
the duration.
THE GOOD OLD DAYS
Carl Broome, editor of the Brant-
ley Enterprise, down in Georgia,
gave swell outline of the duties Of
editorship outside the big cities. In
response to QUESTIONABLE as to his
duties he replied that he set type,
wrote the editorials, covered stories,
wrote copy, read proof, solicited ads,
collected bills, etc. And we remem-
Der back on our hometown news
paper when this was all SO true.
Everybody on the staff doubled in
brass. Dell Dewey, the telegraph
editor, had to edit all the country
correspondence; Frank Smith, the
sports editor, thought nothing Of be-
ing put on a news story and asked
to help read proof. Tom keenan,, the
financial editor, did obits, and fra
ternal news, and Bill Hadden, now
lieutenant governor of Connecticut,
used to report and file cuts in the
''morgue." Ogden White was lit
erary editor, courts reporter, ex-
change editor and responsible for all
Yale college coverage, and Ben
Tousley, now a noted hotel man, in
sists that, when he was police re-
porter, utility proof reader and rail-