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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-04-28
SAFETY CHECK-UPS

Accidents happen only too often
from dangerous conditions that have
been neglected. In one year-1942-
accidents caused $4,000 deaths and
100000 injuries, and cost $5,200,-
100000. About 5 percent of these
losses occurred on farms. To stop this
mounting toll of unnecessary loss
and waste, the U. S. Department OF
Agriculture urges renewed precau
tons on farms and in about farm
homes, as we'll as around other
homes. The Department is Offering
a handy check sheet that calls at
tention to some of the danger spots
to be inspected and corrected. The
sheet suggests check-up about four
times a year, as the seasons change.
To protect the family and proper
ty from fire the home owner should
regularly inspect and clean chin
neys and stovepipes; avoid using
kerosene or gasoline to start fires;
insulate wooden partitions and struc-
tural features near stoves or stove
pipes; store inflammables at a safe
distance from farm buildings; keep
kerosene and other burners clean
and adjusted; provide fire extin-
guishers and fire fighting materials.
To protect from falls the Depart
ment suggests using safe ladders, Sc
curely fastened; sturdy handrails
for steps, porches, and stairways;
keeping step, porches, and stairways
in repair and clear of all tripping
hazards; wells, cisterns, and pits Sc
curely covered.
To protect from farm animals the
best precautions are penning male
breeding animals, using care in hand
ling animals with newborn young,
keeping vicious dogs tied and speak
ing to animals before entering stalls.
Tools and machinery on farms are
constant sources of danger, to be
handled only by experienced opera
tors and stored in such a way that
they do not fall into the hands OF
children. Family cooperation is need
ed for all safety measures. But acct
dents will happen, and the degree OF
injury may often be reduced by hay
ing first-aid materials on hand and
knowing how to use them.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-04-28
INCREASE in EGG USAGE URGED

"Use more eggs in your daily diet,
in every way possible, and help the
war food situation" Governor Her.
bert r. O'Conor urges the people
of Maryland, following advices from
Marvin Jones, War Food Admins
traitor, that there is an all-time
'glut'' of eggs throughout the coun-
try at the present time.
american farmers generally have
done an extraordinary job of food
production since Pearl Harbor,"
Governor O'Conor declared, "but in
no single instance have their efforts
resulted in such a tremendous in
crease as in the 1914 spring crop of
fresh eggs. With every section of the
country contributing it's extra quota
the number of eggs produced this
year has far exceeded any total
Thought possible with the result that
the market is overloaded and all
storage facilities are overcrowded
This situation is brought to the
attention of our people because they,
in their patriotic desire to give the
members of our Armed Forces first
call on all available foods, have re-
duced the consumption of eggs dc
cidedly below normal, Now. with
such an excess of eggs on hand, and
because spring is the time of the
year when fresh eggs are most whole
some and are available in greatest
quantities, l call upon the people of
Maryland to lend their patriotic as
sistance by including eggs in their
daily diet as much as possible and
by using them in as many other ways
as can be done. Every bit of this pre-
sent overstock of eggs that is thus
put to good use will save other valu-
able foods for the use of our soldiers
and all our people,"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-04-28
SYNTHETIC STEEL

The wonders of Wilmington never
cease. The latest of very long line
of triumphs in American chemistry
is q new chemical treatment which
will make most soft woods nearly as
hard as steel and which will produce
a thousand kinds of hardwood that
never existed in nature. This item OF
news was put out the other day as
lust another achievement in Ameri-
can chemistry.
The story reads like fairy tale.
The new woods are not discolored in
the processes of hardening, but they
take dyes in all colors that go all
the way through the wood.
So Wilmington can grow forest
In its laboratories, and through
chemical SCIENCE It cap produce a
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-04-28
RED CROSS AIMS AT 100000
HOME NURSES

Three million persons trained to
give simple treatments when there
is sickness in the home, willing to
follow doctors orders to the letter,
even If given over the telephone
such is the longtime objective of
the American Red Cross Home Muir
sing Campaign recently launched in
Washington.
Doctors and nurses are scarce ar
ticles these days! The war has taken
5000 fine physicians and more than
forty thousand trained nurses. Civil
ians can't summon either of them
whenever they think they need pro
fessional service, as in the days OF
peace. For doctors and nurses on the
home front have greater burdens on
their shoulders than they are able
to bear. Their time must be conser-
we'd. They must be called in only in
cases of serious illness. The home
maker must have more self-reliance
and be able to take over when there
is ordinary sickness in the family
To implement it's program. there
fore, the Red Cross has expanded its
home nursing service and is now con-
Quoting classes of instruction in all
parts of the country They are held
in farm sections. in small towns, and
in crowded city districts. In school
houses, church halls, private homes
and public halls, trained nurses sent
ONT hv tho bod CrOcc nra busv in.
structing weekly classes.
The classes take up only few
hours each week and consist of in
formal lectures and demonstrations
Those who successfully complete the
course receive Red Cross certificates
total of 533,483 such certificates
was awarded last year.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-04-28
TIRES

Motorists heretofore eligible only
for used passenger tires (Grade IT'D
will now be able to obtain passenger
tire factory seconds" the OPA has
announced, as result of reclassi-
fcation of these tires into Grade III,
3ffective April 18th. At the same
time, new passenger tube factory
second" may be acquired without a
certificate. as they are being taken
out of rationing.
New factory seconds are tires OF
tubes which the manufacturer has
found to be imperfect, and upon
which he has placed special identi-
flying mark, or from which he has
removed the brand name. Factory
seconds" have a price ceiling $50
less than that for perfect new tires.
Until now, factory seconds were
included with all other new passen-
ger tires and tubes; however, they
are now being taken out of that cat
egory because of slow movement An
eligible motorist who was issued a
ration certificate to buy new tire
was unwilling to accept factory
second, wanting the best tire possible
which resulted in backing up" of
the factory seconds.
Motorists who are issued gasoline
rations for non-preferred occupation
al driving (B books) are eligible for
used passenger tires and now, in adj
dition, they will be able to buy new
factory seconds as we'll.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-04-28

for drainage of the Pocomoke River
o Teachers College Salisbury
enlargement of the hospital at Cambridge.
The Ferry.
The of lie
ferries by the State.
construction of the Sandy
River Bridge
Bridge the Bohemia River Bridge.
line BaltI
VOTE FOR ROE CONGRESS"
By authority of G. Gillespie
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-04-28
Vote For Roe For Congress

l earnestly solicit the support Of
Eastern Shore Democrats in the Con-
gressional Primary. May first next.
The Eastern Shore of Maryland is
one of the most progressive and most
prosperous parts of the United
States. Our wealth comes out of our
productive soil and our seafood pro-
ducts.
Elect as your representative In
Congress man who thoroughly I'M
derstands Eastern Shore agriculture,
it's problems and it's difficulties.
Elect a man whose family for gen.
erations has been tied in with the
customs, traditions and habits of the
Eastern Shore.
One who has had long, active
honorable career in the Halls of our
State House at Annapolis; seventeen
years service there, altogether.
A man who is active and agrees
sive, outspoken, straightforward and
sincere.
During his career at Annapolis he
actively cooperated in:
The building of the jetties at
Ocean City.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-04-28

please call Mrs. A. e. Trollinger,
Perryville 1921. so that substitute
donor may be found.
People from nearby areas are re-
quested to take advantage of this
opportunity to serve so that the unit
may work at full capacity. The more
blood you give. the more boys will
come home. Remember your own
loved ones and that naighhor,s boy
who used to play near your home.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-04-28
WASHINGTON BELL RINGERS
BY j. Il. Jones

Washington, ID. c., April 24--Vice
President Wallace is going to China
as representative of the President,
presumably to assure Chang Kali
Shek that there will be plenty of aid
from the American government, all
the way from Lend-Lease to active
military, naval and air support. Of
course Madame Chang took all that
information back home a long time
ago.
If there is any political sugnifi-
canoe in Wallace's forthcoming trip
it is pretty hard to put finger on
it. Why? Because Wallace is misfit
in administration affairs. He is more
New Dealish now than ever, just at
time when the President has hush
ed down on the New Deal because it
involved so many questions that are
in cold storage "for the duration. -
Secretary of the Interior Ickes
pulls another fast trick that seems
70 be more stupid than his outburst
in March. in favor of building pipe
ines through Iran to port on the
Mediterranean-pla that few peo-
pie knew about till they began to
Keep up with the war news. Ickes
attest brain storm is to turn over
government war production plants to
returning soldiers to run in their own
way. He and some other dreamers in
he administration have been accus-
ng the business and industrial in
.ersts in the country with trying to
sew up monpolistic control of every
thing possible. But, somehow, the
Id Curmudgeon doesn't ring the bell
as often as he used to.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-04-28
Take Care OF The Kids

There was thirty-one per cent
Increase in Juvenile delinquency in
1943, and the Children's Bureau in
Washington gently waves the dan
ger signal. We are all rather pleased
TO know that girls are getting better
out it is painful to know that boys
are getting worse. In former years
the girls led the bad-behavior pro-
eession, but that condition has been
.eversed in the past three years.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-04-28

The incest job in Washington is
that of commentator or critic. You
never see critic broken down by
overwork.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-04-28
The Invasion

For the past week or two state
ments have been printed in Wash
ngton confirming the belief that an
INVASION of Europe is on the way,
Ind that it is an absolute certainty.
It's set. and nothing but German
surrender can stop it, says the Uni
Led States News. That seems to be
: dependable prediction.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-04-28
thousand kinds of soft woods that
are as hard as steel.

In the so seconds now passing.
erosion on American farms is re-
moving $50 tons of plant food mate
riall
Maybe that freezing weapon of the
Nazis is an adaptation of the icy stare
some wives ere capable Of.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-04-28
Planning For A New Automobile

The result of the first newly form
ed Automobile Advisory Committee
indicates possible resumption on a
mall scale of passenger automobile
production after the collapse of one
or the other of the Axis powers. I'm
doubtedly the number of cars will
gests that it is "a reasonable as
sumption that the automobile in
dWstry will be asked to lead the cara
van and do whatever is possible in
the way of insuring against whole
sale unemployment such as existed
after the first World War.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-04-28
Don't Let Down The Victory Gardens

One of the big private activities
in Washington surrounds the local
Victory gardens. The Secretary of
Agriculture has made statement
showing that Victory gardens con-
Lributed forty per cent of the fresh
vegetables grown last year, and he
mas made a plea for more gardens.
This is due to the fact that recent
survey indicated a ten per cent drop
under last year. Don't give up the
Victory gardens-there is lot of
fun in the game if you get into it
and follow it up as faithfully as ii
it were golf.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-05
Letters From
A Soldier

control tower instantly ordered
the whole line TO cease firing,
and the pit man got down all
right but he was Nanked- out of
the pits so fast his head must
have been swimming.
I GU e S familiarity does
Il breed contempt. even for
rifle bullets, and later in the
afternoon, / noticed that it S
true of dogs, too
There are hundreds of stray
NUTS around the fort. and
some Of them roam out to the
range probably in hope of beg
glng scraps of food from the
troops, or perhaps raiding a
garbage can before the cooks
get them loaded onto the
trucks after chow.
Anyway. while the line was
firing / saw mongrel cross
the whole width of the range
with bullets flying a few feet
above him. You know how most
dogs behave when they hear a
gun fired. Here was a dog that
trotted-he was so casual that
/ should say he sauntered-250
yards or so, not paying any at
tention at all TO the bullets or
the noise which is such that
very few coaches can even stay
on the firing line without
plugging their ears.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-05

and transportation facilities al
ready were overloaded The two
tire companies grumhled and
growled but did not put Up
much OF a struggle.
NOW, IT seems that Mexico
has very stringent law
governing industry No COM
pany Is permitted 10 operate
there unless 81 per cent of the
-SinckIS-n Mnad-hr by ,A+iestenr-r-r-r=-
zens, with Mexicans composing
a majority of the directorate.
me TWO tire companies had
compiled with this edlct. And
they had cornered most of the
Mexican tire business.
However. another COMPANY
which had no setup in Mexico
to speak of, and certainly moth.
ing IN which Mexicans had 81
per cent control, wished 10 get
launched into that market. So il
opened a small plant about 10
miles outside Mexico CITY and
then made representations 10
our government.
1t must have been quite per-
suaslve because the government
gave II the okay 10 start MAX
lng tires In Mexico. Further
more, The government shipped
II DOC, 900 worth of government
owned machinery TO il,
The other two companies. nat
uraily, have let out loud veins
and are trying 10 get the
MeXlcans all worked I'D. In
fact. they have howled so yoci.
ierously that the American en-
hassN IN Mexico City has sent
word to the state department
mat maybe the whole deal
should be reconsidered.
/ WISH / could learn 10 keep
= my biz trap shut about mat
ters which arc none Of nv con-
Germ. The other day ! wrote a
piece about a girl in the mari
tlme commission who received
NJ prize for suggestion that
mirrors be removed from wash
basins IN ladies Mushrooms.
Desiring To throw my weight
around, l said il was undoubt-
edly constructive suggestion.
SO what happened? So now
l have every man in the build
ing IN which 1 work threatening
horrible vengeance.
II seems some dope misread
the thing and removed the mir
rors from the mems Mushroom!
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-05

him. Sometimes as in the case
OF disease of the chest or the
abdomen whore it's located so
deep the eye cannon see IL. ne
depends on his fingers and his
ears.
That is why any extension Of
VISION IS Of such great value in
medical work. We have had a
good many such extensions in
the last few years. Indeed the
great value Of the X-ray is that
II IS merely an extension OF our
eyes into opaque tissue. II re-
VeaiS what-~e might see-in
bones, lungs, heart and stomach
" We could tear aside the flesh.
But IT IS no more than just the
human eye operating under ex-
ceedlngly favorable circum-
stances.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-05
THESE DAYS

THE other night. at Tangle-
wood in Stockbridge, Mass,
Mr.. KoussevitZky directed a
Mozart concert. Mozart was a
German. So was Beethoven.
So was Wagner Brahms was a
Hungarian. During the last
war there were wild men who
protested the playing of Mozart.
Beethoven, Wagner and Brahms.
This time we have more sense.
We do not visit upon the Gull
ture and civilization of all man.
kind our antipathies 10 a par
ticular country.
Art. like religion, is universal.
II belongs to all people. II
knows neither politics nor eco
nom1cS nor The Weaknesses ~
hate which every so often beset
human beings. Art, like re-
hglon, knows neither race nor
creed nor nationality. II raises
the weak and backward as il
humoles the strong and agrees
SiVe.
And that is what is 50 hard
10 understand about the Ger
mans. II German composers
were removed from the SYM
phonic and operate programs,
they would indeed become thin.
$ ONE listened 10 Mozart at
"A Tanglewood. the war was
for a moment forgotten. al
though there were plenty of
young people there in the uni
form OF all the services. And
they. too. for the moment for
got, for Mozart rs timeieSS and
one listens as though in an
other century. the facts Of the
moment being driven far away
from the miserable reality of
campaigns and speeches and
wars and radio commentators.
Yet 1t was impossible not 10
recall Just this: Politics and
economics are absorbing us too
completely in this generation.
These mechanisms of our living
arc grinding us instead Of being
managed by us. We have
erected machines that are so
intricate that we no longer
altogether understand how 10
handle them. They play tricks
on US and 1hey-fr iehten-
MAN invented politics 10 set
W I'D rules for his relations
with other men He invented
government as an agency for
the management Of communal
affairs. At first il was all very
simple. The father controlled
MS offspring and their COM
munal relationships which in
time became tribal BY now.
however, government is fright
eninely complex organism which
relates itself not only TO COM
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-05
IL. v. DURLING

would only use the personal
prOnOun II IL times. I checked
you today. You did not men
ton dogs, breakfast or Brook
lyn and used the personal pro-
noun II only Ave times. Bravo.
IL must have been n terrific
strain on you"
4 LITTLE more about horses
"a and quite little less about
women. That is what many
male subscribers demand.
Well. ! VIII say in this con-
nection that last night l saw a
great horse film titled Home
in Indiana. Is about harness
horses.
-f.frKe harness racing better
than running racing because the
meetings are usually held out
IN the country and most of the
in attendance are horse
lovers.
/ think the most ENJOYABLE
race meeting I Cter attended
was harness horse meet at
Freehold, y. j.
| am certainly going TO have
some trotters and PAGERS on my
ranch when i get a ranch and
am going 10 drive them myself.
QUERIES from clients: Q-Is
VI II true that II is impossible
for two blue eyed people TO
have a brown eyed baby
A-Never heard of such /,
claim. Don't believe there Is
anything 10 II. For a blue eyed
husband and wife To harbOr
such n belief would seem un-
wise and might lead to domestic
difficulties I'm -eveHt-eRa
Of their babies was brown
eyed.
Q-When I asked my wife 20
trim my-hair- with some clip
pers I had purchased she re-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-05
WASHINGTON Scene
By George Dixon

MY SPIES. who get around
" every where disguised As
well-dreSScd business men -
press theft pants every morning
10 keep them looking dapper
report that quite a controversy
Is brewing in our rubber rela-
tons with Mexico.
II seems that our govern
ment Is spending more than a
mOdicum of money and energy
10 mako Mexico adore US Yet
" is fiouting the Mexican law
in the matter Of rubber pro-
ducuon
My spies report as follows
When the tire situation be-
came critical, couple of big
tire companies that have SUBJ
salaries in Mexico tried 10 get
permission TO expand their &C
tiviteS down there They wanted
10 spend their own dough TO do
this but the government said
no
The government said no
because the project would neces-
state shipping tlre-making ma
chlnery from here TO Mexico
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-05

If it goes very deep il is
one of the most exhausting Of
all emotions. Doctors and
nurses have To be trained not
10 be too sympathetic. If
every nurse were as loaded with
sympathy for her patient as is
the wife. observation-disclosures
or children, she would soon be
wreck A surgeon has 10 for
get all sympathy or his anxiety
will interfere with his tech
nique. Human sympathy
which is almost another name
for love-ykceps society going,
but II must be controlled.
Scientist A. j. Carlson Of
the University of Chicago main
tains II depends on whether YOU
are having a good time or not.
3--Democracy aims 10 make
al men actually unequal, but
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-05
JACK PICKERING

I WAS out on one OF the rife
L ranges all last week. We
had TO get over TO battalion
headquarters at4 t4a-azm.-ah
six mornings, 10 ride out on a
truck and get things ready for
the company when it arrived.
My job, primarily, was am
munition, along with the odds
and ends that 60 with it like
putting follower slides back in
after some of the boys had
knocked them loose, and keep
ing men busy blackening rifle
sights with lamps made FROM
empty pop bottles, rags and oil.
We carried a ton or more of
ammunition out every morning,
and were ready for another Ton
the next day It's surprising
how fast you can use rifle
cartridges, even firing slowly
on the range.
Somebody over across ought
10 write the saga of the am
munltlon bearers, the men who
cart 1t up to the front on their
backs, lodging shells and bull
lets as they go.
But never mind that right
now because what uaS doipu
was a pretty soft Job. and |
mentioned the ammunition
bearers IN combat merely be-
cause our range work reminded
me of the murderous peril of
the men who have charge of
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-05

feeding the hungry guns at the
front.
an HEranee- de every
" thing imaginable in behalf
OF safety. II a man so much as
tits an empty rifle in the
wrong direction, some gimlet-
eyed officer spots it and: Sol
der, get that rifle pointed
down range 80
Every man opens the bolt of
bis rifle the instant he arrives
Eat the range, and the bolt STAYS
open until he leaves at night.
except for the few seconds that
the bolt is closed when the
rifle Is actually being fired.
Yet, some dope always insists
on risking his life. or somebody
elses. 1t was the middle of the
afternoon, and so men were
firing 30 slugs at so targets,
from the 300-yard line.
SAd6e2y a .sslaD 2;>ifse ::s--:S3 be
side one target. The target had
gotten out Of whack, and in
stead of pulling it down to fix
1t, one of the men in the pits
had climbed up on the parapet.
There he stood, not three feet
from tho cpptpr of tho htilIiS
eye. How little a rife would
have 10 sway. at 300 yards, 10
move a bullet 30 inches and hit
a man instead of a piece of
paper.
OF course the officer in the
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-05
By George E.
Sokolsky

munal matters but 10 every
thing that an individual does.
In some countries it even at
tempts 10 control the mind. de-
termining what the individual is
10 believe and think and pray
for. Government has grown
from a mechanism of utility to
a master of man.
This has happened often be-
fore. In fact, history is an
endless struggle between the
need for some Kind of govern
ment and the tendency of all
governments 10 expand their
functions and powers until they
overwhelm the individual into
slavery.