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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-08-11
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COUNTY AGENTS ASSIST BOTH
FARMERS AND NON-FARMERS

The annual reports of county ag-
ents and home demonstration agents
indicate the extent to which they are
serving the people of the state in
helping them to meet their food pro-
duction goals and with other war
lime problems, says DR.. 7. B. Symons
director of the University of Mary
land extension service.
One significant change as compar-
ed with former years, he points out,
is the large increase in number of
nonfarm people that have been serv-
ed This is largely the result of help
given to people in urban district and
small towns who had victory gardens
and in the canning and preserving
OF farm and garden products. The
gents have helped also in many war
lime programs affecting all tie peo-
pie, such as salvage campaigns, war
bond sales, and the like.
The extension agents made 22,O45
visits to IL, $50 different farms and
homes in connection with their work
in 1913. A total of 1923 people
called at their offices and 1O6,461
made telephone calls regarding farm
and home problems on which they
sougt TIE aid of the agents. The num-
Der of telephone calls is considerably
larger than in former years, indicat-
ing that limitations on travel have
caused greater use of the telephone.
Local newspapers have always
been of great help in disseminating
information quickly and at times
when it was most useful. In 1913,
the local papers published 4,S41 ar
ticles by the extension agents.
Extension teaching has always
been based to large extent upon
demonstrations, in which the meth
DDS advocated are shown in actual
practice. Wartime conditions cur
tailed this method of teaching to
some extent, but the agents conduct
ed $3.50 demonstrations in 1943,
with total attendance of 108,396.
They participated in 4,197 otker
meetings of an extension nature,
which were attended by 1876, 448.
DR.. Symons makes particular ref
erence to the valuable work of local
leaders throughout the state. They
multiply the effectiveness of the ag-
ents and have been of untold assist
ance during the wartime emergency.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-08-11
G. I. VETS WANT EDUCATION

More than 1000 veteran G. l. Joes
already have applied to the Veterans
Administration for educational bene-
fits offered them under the so-calleo
G. 1. Bill of Rights. In addition,
1000 have written inquiries and
many additional telephone inquiries
about benefits offered under the bill
have been received. To be eligible fol
educational benefits, veteran must
have had his education interrupted
and must have had 80 days active
service since September is, 1910,
with separations under conditions
other than dishonorable. Veterans
who entered service before they were
25 vars old are presumed to have
had their education interrupted.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-08-11
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FORTY NATIONAL
ORGANIZATIONS JOIN HIGHWAY
SAFETY PROGRAM

A ten-point program for postwar
highway safety is announced by 40
national organizations representing
labor, agriculture, business and in
dustry, war veterans and women's
groups.
The program, published by the
National Safety Council, called for
action now to meet "tke complex
problems that will arise when re-
strictions on travel are lifted"
The proposed action included
building safety into all new high
way construction; competent city
and State traffic engineering SER
vices; rebuilding depleted police de-
partments and providing adequate
personnel training; expanded facili-
ties and regulations for vehicle in
spection.
The program further called for ex-
banded accident reporting; more
specialization in handling traffic cases
in court; improved driver licensing;
resumption of accident reporting and
analysis; expansion of safety instrue-
ton in schools; programs of safety
education for adult drivers and pc
destrians; revision of laws necessary
to effect improvements.
Kenneth Coleman, of Seattle,
chairman of the committee respon-
sible for drafting the program, said
there were $1,000 traffic deaths in
.1941, the last year and that high
way accidents have taken 10000
lives in this country since 1900.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-08-11
PLENTIFUL FOODS DURING
AUGUST

Foods expected to be plentiful
throughout most of the country dur
ing August, according to the War
Food Administration, are fresh toma-
toes, fresh peaches, peanut butter,
citrus marmalade, canned green and
wax beans, frozen vegetables, fro
zen baked beans, dry-mix and dety-
drafted soups, oatmeal, wheat -four
and bread, macaroni, spaghetti
noodles, and soya -four, grits and
1akes.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-08-11

Because of the acute paper short
age in England, both the British and
Foreign Bible Society and the Amer
lean Bible Society, which usually
print in England, are having large
editions of French, Czechoslovakian,
Rumanian and Serbian scriptures
printed in Sweden. This is part of a
program of 100000 worth of Bible
printing which the British Society
has earmarked for postwar Europe.
the Netherlands Bible So
ciety reports the largest sales in it's
80 years of Bible publication. 1t is
reported that $4,000 Bibles, 10000
New Testaments, and 10000 portions
of the scriptures were printed and
circulated in the Netherlands last
year.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-08-11
SHAW APPOINTED MILKWEED
CHAIRMAN

Edward M. Davis, chairman of the
Maryland Milkweed Collection Com
mittee, kas named S. B. Shaw, Col
lege Park, State supervisor for the
campaign to collect milkweed pods
for life jackets for the nations arm
ed forces Shaw recently retired from
the position of chief of the State
Bureau of Markets.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-08-11
WHERE is YOUR SHARE?

Of the eight million tons of paper
needed for salvage in 1914, the Wal
Production Board says 38 per cent
is in hiding in American homes and
farms, while the other 81 per cent
is to be found in the files and store
rooms of American industry. If the
Boy Scouts or the Girl Scouts don't
find these home-hidden boards of
waste paper before next fall, school
children hope to dig them out.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-08-11
REVIEW IN STREAM
LINED DRESS

The Pictorial Review section of
the Baltimore Sunday American now
comes to you in new streamlined
dress, with more features, more pic
lures in COLOR, than ever before.
See the bright new Pictorial Review,
distributed every week with the
BALTIMORE SUNDAY AMERICAN
Order From Your Newsdealer
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-08-11
CUT FIRE WOOD TO SAVE COAL

Every extra cord of fire wood
American farmers supply for fuel can
save from one-half to a ton of coal.
WPB advises. Coal supplies this year
will be short and vitality needed by
essential war industries.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-08-11
SOME NEW SCHOOL BUSES AT
LAST

After almost total lack of new
school buses for two years, WPB
approved a 1914 production quota of
5000, of which more than 2,400 al
ready have been released to schools
where new buses are needed to pre-
vent absences and replace unsafe
equipment, the Office of Defense
Transportation reports.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-08-11
DRIVE TO DEVELOP CAR POOLS

A new drive opened August 1st,
to insure maximum development of
car pools, as an important aid to
conservation of automobiles, gaso-
line and tires. The War Price and
Rationing Boards are instructed to
issue only temporary 30-day rations
to applicants who have no car pool
ing or ride-sharing agreement, and
If no such plan is worked out, unless
a plicant proves it to be impossible
in his case. no further gasoline ra-
lions are to besissued.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-08-11

The Baltimore Sun, in two col
umn editorial Thursday morning an
snounced that it will support Dewey
the Republican candidate for Presi-
dent, as against Mr.. Roosevelt, who
seeks a fourth term.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-08-11

Mussolini tried to commit suicide
but failed. He is more deserving than
Hitler who never made the attempt.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-08-11

Englishman calls Gandhi a BAN,
boozler Sounds like the opening gun
Of d political campaign IN India
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-08-11

From this'angle the German revolt
doesn't look too srevoiting,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-08-11

Pacific ground gains are called i'm
pressive, but they don't begin to COM
pare witk all the water we've cap.
tured.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-08-11

War Labor Board procedural rules
have been tighteend to resist attacks
on the Little Steel Formula and to
insure against snarling up decisions
of WLB, which are intended to pre-
vent labor leaders" from throwing
the National industrial and econo-
mic conditions out of balance.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-08-11

Norway has paid her debt to the
United States. hut she's still waiting
to do the same to the Nazis.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-08-11
Confusion

Nine tenths of the items about the
failures of war production appearing
in metropolitan newspapers are un-
supported by facts tkat are furnish
ed by officials of the Government.
There have been some slumps--but
no major failures
Evening star., 1944-01-19

War Bonds ers your essurones Of FREEDOM from -.
PRESTON slevsr, and rssimsntotion At the ksnds q
either 6sfmeny ., Jepen. Thsts why YOUR purchase
Of EXTRA BONDS DURING THIS 4th WAR LOAN Is
50 Necessary! Uncle Som NEEDS you . needs the
loan Of your money to boek the ottoek Of the brave
American soldiers soiIors and morines now attoekns
oil fronts! LET'S ALL BACK THE ATTACK and
buy sxtre bond or two NOW!
Evening star., 1944-01-19
Plea for Air independence
Seen Behind Leaders Talks

set out to win by air warfare alone.
Whether air warfare alone could
have won is one Of the might-have-
beens which will forever remain q
matter of opinion"
Gen. Spaatz indirectly supported
this view that true strategic warfare
has not yet been attempted "Air
power" he declared has proved It
self to be the most decisive weapon
in this war;" but he added pointedly
~ single cannon cannot win a
battle and few airplanes are not
air power. Air power is air superb
|ority."
That achievement of air superior
lty was delayed by diversion of our
air effort elsewhere was supported
by the tone Of relief with which
Gen. Spaatz said: II want to en-
phasize that the outstanding sue
cess Of the anti-submarine cam
paign by all methods of attack has
lessened the urgency of further air
attack on sub bases" 1t is such
diversion as the annihilation of
submarine bases-or, to cite another
case, the destruction of German
plants producing tanks, trucks and
other equipment for the eastern
land fronts in order to aid Russia
which detracted our strategic air
power from its main job: the elm
inat.on of the German Luftwaffe.
Confusion Feared.
Like all airmen, Air Marshal Peck
and Gen. Spaatz apparently fear
that the European experience may
confuse public opinion on the mat
ter of air power; that air power
might be blamed for having failed
to do a job which it was never per-
mitted or properly equipped to do.
Why is it important that this pic
ture be seen in proper perspective?
For good or Ill, the European strategy
is fixed, so why cry over split milk?
The answer is that after Hitler Is
licked we still have another war to
fght-the war in the Pacific. The
European events must be fully un-
derstood in order that its lessons
can be applied to the Far Eastern
theatre Of operations. Thousands of
Allied lives can be saved, airmen
believe, If the Pacific strategy could
be made genuine air strategy, under
the leadership of airmen.
Unlike Europe, the Pacific is not
yet hcpelessly committed to a mile
by-mile or island-by island proce-
dure. There is still time to cut
down on barges and build more
long-range, hard hitting aircraft for
achieving the air superiority over
Japan proper, which Peck and
Spaatz are talking about-to strike
directly at the heart of the enemy
without the necessity of spilling
blood for intermediary bases.
distributed by McNaught Syndicate, Inc }
Evening star., 1944-01-19
Peck's Reply Cited.
Citizenship for FiIipinos
Proposed in Randolph Bill

A bill which would grant Ameri-
can citizenship to an estimated
125,O0O Filipinos who entered the
United States prior to May /, 1884,
was introduced in the House yester-
day by Representative Randolph,
Democrat. of West Virginia.
Mr.. Randolph, who offered the
bill at the request of DR.. Diosdado
M. Yap, editor and publisher of the
magazine Bataan, said the Filipinos
have proved their right to become
citizens at Bataan and Corregidor
by joining the armed forces of the
United States.
DR.. Yap explained that under
present statutes the Filipino in this
country is considered as an Amer
lean citizen for the purposes of war
time employment but that under
the Tydings Act of May l, 1894, he
is considered as an alien so far as
the immigration quota is concerned
The Randolph bill is intended to
clarity this anomalous situation
and to settle legal, racial and mari
tai status questions of resident Fill
ipinos, he said.
Evening star., 1944-01-19

nehan and Vincent ]. Meehehan
trading as J. F. Meenehan's Sons
Co. The suit was filed by John L.
Laskey, District enforcement attor-
ney; Carl w. Berueffy and j. Gra-
hame Walker assistant enforcement
attorneys, OPA.
Pointing to an affidavit filed with
the complaint by Alice L. Garrison,
an OPA investigator, the motion
declares that ito allow these viola
tions to continue will cause addi-
tional overpricing and immediate
and irreparable injury to the pur-
chasers of said services and to the
ultimate consumers, contributing to
the causing Of an inflationary spi-
raj. economic instability and harm
to the national war effort"
Evening star., 1944-01-19
z Missionaries to Speak
At 'GripshoIm Meetinq'

Two missionaries who returned
to this country on the Gripsholm
last month will speak here tonight
at one of a series of "Gripsholm
meetings" throughout the country.
Sponsored by the Northern Baptist
denomination, the speakers will be
Dr.. Lewis Hylbert of the Northern
Baptist Convention and DR.. J. T.
Williams of the Southern Baptist
Convention, both of whom spent
years in China as missionaries.
The meeting will be held at pm.
in the First Baptist Church, Six
| teenth and 0 streets NV.
Evening star., 1944-01-19
|0PA Asks Sales Injunction
! AGAINST Hardware Firm

Charging J. r. Meenehan's Sons
Co., local hardware dealers, with
selling iron cords, ash cans and
other articles above ceiling price
and with failure to keep required
records, the OPA yesterday asked
District Court for an injunction to
prevent the firm from doing business
until It ceased alleged violation Of
and complied with the Emergency
Price Control Act of 1912. The firm
operates two stores, at 20l0 Four
teenth street NV. and 3241 M
street NV.
The defendants were listed as
John F. Meehehan, jr.;; Frank Nee
Evening star., 1944-01-19
Hansen to Take Office
As Rose Society Head

Niels J. Hansen, 6135 Utah avenue
NV, will take Office as president
of the Potomac Rose Society at a
meeting at pm. tomorrow in All
Souls Unitarian Church, Sixteenth
and Harvard streets NV, it was
announced today.
Other officers include Mrs. Lomax
Tayloe, first vice president; Capt.
Walter S. Diehl, second vice presi-
dent; DR.. Furman L. Milford, third
vice president; Maj. Ray K. Wind
ham, treasurer, and Mrs. L. c.
Gannaway, recording secretary.
Moving pictures of the gardens
of members will be shown.
Evening star., 1944-01-19
Ksntuckiuns pIun Fets

Approximately ITS servicemer
|conyalescing at Walter Reed Hos
|pital and members OF the Kentucky
congressional delegation will be spe.
cial guests of the Kentucky Society
at . pm. Friday in the ballroom o1
the Willard Hotel.
Evening star., 1944-01-19

last week SUD-
mi t t e d to a
trans = Atlantic
radio interview,
staged by the
National Pres s
Club of Wash
in 6 t on. They
made some i'm
por t an t COM
ment on the air
war against Ger
many on t h e
eve of the pro-
jected invasion
Of the continent.
But their most
Evening star., 1944-01-19

lSigntf C q n t MAJ. De SeveFsky.
points were more implied than
stated outright-it is not easy for
military men in command posts to
speak publicly without restraint.
Outwardly these leaders were an
swering routine questions about the
air phase of the European war. But
between the lines" of their an
swers, those familiar with the air
power thesis could discern ideas not
explicit in the text itself. If the
writer, for instance, were to sum up
the meaning of what Air Marshal
Peck and Gen. Spaatz had to say
it would be about as follows:
Air power has never had real
chance in Europe. 1t was wrongly
conceived from the outset, in that
it was amassed primarily as an aid
to surface forces, so that the avail
able strategic aviation has been
limited in relation to the job it had
to do. Moreover, the available air
power was dispersed for variety of
secondary tasks irrelevant to its
strategic use and therefore never
had a chance for concerted action
on an adequate scale. We believe
that air power by direct action can
win a war, the British and Ameri-
can aviation generals said in effect,
but Europe can never be proof
because we have already involved
the other forces.
Peck's Reply Cited.
Air Marshal Peck came nearest to
stating this proposition when he was
asked whether "air warfare alone
will knock Germany out of the war"
To this he replied. in part:
Il think that whatever form vic
tory takes, it will not have been won
by air warfare alone because air
warfare has not been employed
alone. "'' We've got to remember
that the strategy Of the United Ma
tions has been a combined all-serv-
ice strategy, and that we did not
Evening star., 1944-01-19
BY ALEXANDER p. DE
SEVERSKY.

Two Of the high-ranking airmen
IN the Allied air effort in the Euro
pean theater, Air Marshal Sir Rich
ard H. Peck and Gen. Carl Spaatz,
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-28

ToDAY there are 10 million men and
i women in the armed forces
Each eats about 5A pounds of food day
so per cent more than he or she ate as a
civilian.
Each member of the armed forces in this
country must have oO-day reserve of food.
And right now, 40 per cent of the 1914
commercial pack of fresh vegetables has
been allotted to these men and women.
See why its up to your
Victory Garden?
These are the facts, and they are staring us
straight in the face. The farmer will do his
full share-and more-but he can't do the
whole job alone. That's why the War Food
Administration asks for Is per cent in
crease in Victory Garden tonnage.
That's why it's imperative to have more
Victory Gardens bigger and better Victory
Gardens.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-28

We must beot lost years record
Make no mistake, the need for your help is
urgent.
This is not a job for the neighbors. This is
your responsibility.
If you did not have Victory Garden last
year, have one now
fyou had small one, see if you can't man
age larger one.
If you had good one, have a better one
II will be eosier this year
The War Food Administration and other
government agencies have improved the
supplies for gardeners. More garden tools
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-28

stock-pile of canned food in our pantries
and cellars. And let's have little fun at it
"a little good humor, little sweat and
spirit. A few tired muscles this year are tho
standout marks of good citizen.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-05-05
IS. s. SANTA ELISA
TO Be LAUNCHED

The S. S. Santa Elisa. fifth CT.
vessel to be built by the North
Carolina Shipbuilding company fol
the Grace Line, will be launched
Saturday morning at 1890 o'clock
under the sponsorship of Mrs. c.
c. Mallory, of New Rochelle, N
Y, wife of the treasurer and vice
president of the line.
Miss Jacquelin Mallory, of Wash
ington, a member of the U. S.
Marine Corps Women's Reserve,
will be maid Of honor. *
The vessel is the 159th and the
33rd CO to near completion at the
yard 1t is also the fourth in the
Grace line fleet to bear the name.
of Santa Elisa.
The original Santa Elisa, built,
about 1902, was freighter. The.
second, a combination passenger
and freight ship built in 1918, was
subsequently sold to the Alaskan
Steamship company. The third
was a CO freighter lost in the
Mediterranean in convoy en-
route to Malta. o.
The new Santa Elisa follows the
standard CO design of the United
States Maritime Commission con-
sidered by experts to be the best
ship of its class in tn e world.
These ships are 459 feet overall,
of 1890 tons displacement, with
capacity for $4,000 cubic feet of
refrigerated cargo and are equip
ped with the most modern safety
appliances and devices for the
swift handling of cargo. Powered
by high pressure steam turbines
developing 5000 horsepower, the
CTS are able to maintain a speed
of IS IL knots in service and are
long-range vessels capable of max
ing lengthy voyages without re-
fueling.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-05-05
NEGROES TO TAKE /.
| Fl. BRAGG EXAMS

Eighteen Negroes will have
this morning at 8 o'clock from,
County board No. 2 for their pre-
induction examinations at For
Bragg, draft board officials stated
yesterday.
Local men included in this group
are Ernest Sidburg, Leroy Ever.
EFT, William Henry Shaw, Ernest
Rouse, and Avance Sidburg.
Transfers are James A. Ballard
George Cummings, Alex McLoud
.LaVerne Lee, O'Donneli Green
Willie Williams, John Wicker
James Thompson, Edward Briggs
Fred Woodbury., Ralph Weber
Robert Mack, and Edward Smith
Six Negroes left from the Coua
ty board yesterday for Undue
ton into the Army at Fort Bragg
They were Leroy Williams, Johr
Wallace, Talmage Pope, Jr., Alex
ander Edward Jacobs, Charlie
|McIntire, and Willie DeShields.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-05-05
FAMILY SQUABBLE
AIRED In COURT

Haven't you learned in three
years of married life to keep your
mouth shut when your wife is talk
ing and let her run DOWN." So
licitor j.. A. McNorton asked of
3S-year-old Raymond Mayer, ship
yard worker of 1-B-4 Hooper drive.
Maffitt Village, brought into Re-
corder's court yesterday on an
assault charge preferred by h
wife.
The Mayer households domestic
difficulties were thoroughly aired
before the court, and with the cou
pies infant children in attendance
Mrs. Katie Mayer described how
her husband lunged at her violent
ly, and attempted to Choke" her
Mrs. Mayer depicted her strap
ping, blond husband as a perpet
ually unpleasant member of the
home, and asserted that he 'stay
ed out late 's< .a a5'4
On the other hand, Mayer sale
that his home was in an uproal
all the time, that it was so noisy
he had to leave the house directly
when he came from work, usually
to take in a picture" Mayer re-
vealed that he paid a nerve cpe-
cialist $500 last year to treat his
acutely nervous condition. 80
There is just too much racket
at home" Mayer said. Welfare
workers said the apartment was
very small for a four member
family. = 49,. .
Mayer also reported that his sig
ter-in-law, Mrs. Lille Belle Mayer
was can agitator. The sister-in-
law lives in an adjoining apart
ment.
Judge H. Winfield Smith sus.
pended judgment in the case pend.
ing an investigation by the Wei
fare department, and hearing in
juvenile court to determine what
disposition shall be made of the
two children.
Meanwhile, Smith admonishee
the wife to prepare meals for hel
husband on time; told the man tt
''stay at home at night; and urg.
ed both to maintain a respectable
residence.