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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-08-25
SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS

The distribution of the million $50
cial security" benefits now in force
Illustrates wildly the family import
ance of Federal old-age and surviv-
ors insurance, William M. Don,in,
manager of the Baltimore field office
of the Social Security Board points
out
While many persons think the pro
gram provides benefits only in old
age, Mr.. Donlin said, it is significant
to note that nearly 40 per cent of
the million beneficiaries are children
and young widows who have children
under IS. There are 100000 young
widows with children receiving So
$4,000 month in benefits, ana
288,00O children of deceased or re-
tired workers receiving $3,55O,OOL
a month
When wives of retired beneficiaries
who must be IS to be eligible, and
the 65and-above widows of insured
workers who have died are added to
the young widows and children, MI.
Donlin said, the family value of the
program shows up even more-with
approximately 100000 women and
children and about 100000 aged
men on the benefit rolls.
More than one retired worker in
every four has wife who is draw
ing half as much in benefits each
month as he gets. There are Assoc
no nf
mem receiving $9,846,0OO month
10000 of them have wives past 65
! and they are receiving $1,518,O0O a
month.
while the number of aged wild
ows of insured workers is smaller
with $4,000 receiving $1,172,OO0 a
month" Mr.. Donlin pointed out
their protection under this insur-
ance program enables them to main
tain their dignity and enjoy peace
full old age. Most of them have earn
ed this by helping their husbands
through useful working lives"
The smallest group of monthly
beneficiaries, Mr.. Donlin said, is
made up of aged dependent parents
of insured workers who died with.
out leaving widow or child. They
number $500 and receive $4,000
month.
Monthly benefits now have reach.
ed an annual rate of $22O,OOO,O 200 a
year and, in addition, more than
sos, 100000 has been paid in lump
sums in the cases of 100000 insured
workers who left no survivor entitled
Immediately to monthly benefits.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-08-25
A WORK OF FAITH

In Council Bluffs, Iowa, is located
Home for orphan and destitute
girls and boys, which is different
from any other organization of it's
kind in the country.
This Home was founded on the
Promises of God, more than three
score years ago, by Rev. j. G. Lem
en-, godly man of gigantic and un-
wayering faith.
This Home, which is the Christian
Home Orphanage of Council Bluffs,
Iowa, is supported by TIE free will
offerings of the lovers of God and
Humanity. Thousands of children
have passed through it's portals dur
ing the long years of its existence
Children, who were in the Home
years ago, are now outstanding men
and women of tdoay; many have
won fame and fortune, due to the
teachings received while they were
children at the Home. These same
children had they been left in their
original pitiful surroundings, might
have helped to fill the penitentiaries
of today.
The Christian Home conducts it's
so it's day school up to and including
own Church and Sunday School, al
the seventh grade. After the children
of the Home have completed the sew
enth grade, they enter the Public
Schools of Council Bluffs, Iowa.
Many have been graduated with hon
ors from the local High Schools,
and then have entered higher schools
of learning.
The work of caring for homeless
children, and training them to be-
come Christian men and women, is
the most outstanding work of today.
The Christian Home Orphanage is
doing this work, but it cannot do it
without your gifts and cooperation.
For information in regard to this
remarkable Home, write to the Chris
tan Home Orphanage Council |
Bluffs, Iowa, and literature will be
sent to you.
All contributions sent to the Chris
tian Home Orphanage are duly ac-
knowledged and credited in the Off
cial publication christian Home, +"
a sample copy of which will be sent
TO you upon request.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-08-25
POPULATION OF PENNSYLVANIA
is 1O,146,952

An increase of 246,772 in the
population of Pennsylvania since the
Federal Census of 1910 is revealed
IN an estimate announced recently by
The State Planning Board of the De-
partment of Commerce.
The estimate, which includes those
serving with the armed forces, places
the total State population at 10,146,-
352 as of August 1, 1913.
TIE figures show that Philadelphia
has crossed the two million mark
with total of 2,052,S79, an increase
of 121,545 since 1910.
Philadelphia population expan-
sion was the largest among the coun-
lies of the State. Allegheny county,
which registered an increase of 1O4,-
307, was second. The county with the
greatest percentage of increase was
Delaware with gain of 1877 per
cent, representing a numerical addi-
ton of 48,S2O.
The gain made by Pennsylvania in
the period between April 1, 1910, the
date of the official U. S. Census, and
August /, 1943, was almost equal to
the increase during the entire decade
of 1930-40.
While the overall gain was record
I'd as 2.49 per cent the change in
population was not uniform through
out the State. Gains were made in
20 counties while SS counties regis
tered losses.
The largest population decrease,
1907, was in Lackawanna County,
followed by Luzerne, which dropped
24,S40. The greatest percentage of
loss occurred in Potter County where
decrease of 2,783 reduced the pop
ulation by 1873 per cent.
The State Planning Board estimate
was made under the direction of F.
A. Pitkin, executive director. 1t is
based ON the official school census
made annually by the school districts
as reported to the Department of
Public Instruction, and on the num-
Der of births and deaths by place
of occurrence reported by the State
Bureaus of Vital Statistics 1t differs
from the figures recently made pub
lie by the Federal Census Bureau,
which recorded Pennsylvania as hav-
ing sustained loss of "A per cent
since 1910. The Federal estimate,
based principally on war ration book
registrations, was concerned only
with civilian population and omitted
all Pennsylvania citizens who are
serving in the army and navy.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-08-25
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PENAL BOARD RETURNS $3.50, 900
FUND TO STATE

AS the result of the successful op-
GRAFTON of the State Use Industries
at the various penal institutions,
Governor Herbert r. O'Conor has
made known, the Department of Cor
Iection has returned to the State
Treasury the sum of $4,000 advan-
ced to it to be used as capital in the
operation of the various industries.
This amount is in addition, the
Governor made clear, to the $685.
1855 savings reverted on June 80
from 1914 budget appropriations and
from 1943 balances which had been
carried over for specific purposes at
the close of the 1943 fiscal year.
Under Chapter SIS of the Laws of
Maryland, 1887, Governor O'Conor
pointed out, Revolvi ng Funds
amounting to $4,000 were estab-
lished from the unexpended balance
in the State Treasury for the purpose
of financing the manufacture at the
Maryland Penitentiary and t h e
House of Correction of goods for the
use of the several using authorities
of the State.
With the increased activities of
these industries, due to their parti-
cipation in supplying Federal agen-
cies with manufactured products
needed for the war effort, safficien.
reserve has been realized, Chairman
Joseph H. A. Regain reported to Gov
n'Cnnnr @ thof Of In oil
of June, 1914, the Revolving Fund
was no longer necessary and, there
fore, has been reverted to the Gen
eral Surplus Fund of the State from
which it was obtained in 1897 From
now on, the Governor said, the man
ufacturing activities at the two in
situations will be carried on through
their own financial reserves and with
the accumulated inventories which it
has been necessary to build up to in
sure continuous operation of the var
ious contracts, particularly those for
the Armed Forces.
A recent checkup on war work in
penal institutions ranked second in
the Nation in the per capita produc-
ton of prison made war goods The
Maryland State Penal Farm topped
all penal institutions of it's size in
the Country for war work in 1913.
All four of the States penal insti-
tutions have worked on war contracts
for eight separate Federal agencies.
He quoted the national report like
wise as showing that during the 16
months covered, war production COM
pleted by Maryland penal institu-
lions exceeded by an appreciable
amount that done in the State of
New York which has a prison popu-
lation ten times that of Maryland.
Special awards for war production
have been received by all four of
Maryland's penal institutions, Cover
nor O'Conor recalled, Maryland being
the first State in the Country to
achieve this record.
In making public the report, Gov
ernOr O'Conor expressed commenda-
ton of the work done by the Depart
ment, and Chairman Regain, and ask
ed the latter to express his satisfac-
ton to the members of the Board, as
well as to the inmates of the various
institutions concerned
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-08-25
THE "BIC INCH,

The Worlds biggest oil pipeline
-1,36S miles from Longview, Texas,
to the New York-Philadelpkia area
has begun it's second year of full,
length operations, having delivered
96,292,O0O barrels of crude oil dur
ing the last IL months.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-08-25

Victory gardeners are no longer
puzzled over whether toma o
should be tied. The question is
whether they should be fried. stew
ed or canned.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-08-25

Swell town: One where you make
money and people think you great
guy. Rotten town: One where you're
hard-up and people seldom notice
you.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-08-25

Democracy is done for whenever
those who want something for moth
ing outnumber and outvote those
who pay the bill
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-08-25
Congress Resumes

The United States Senate showed
lp with three-fourths of it's members
answering present" at roll call the
second week of August, despite the
General understanding tn a tn e
month of August and part of Septem-
Ter would be vacation period for
hose who wanted to take it, Never
heless, our Senators came back to
Nashington-the hottest town in the
ountry-and showed their determi-
lation to stand guard and protect
he interests of their country to the
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-08-25

Americanism: Feeling proud of
our ingenuity, our inventors, om
+. wonderful machines; learning a
white-collar job and feeling above
dirty mechanics
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-08-25

You can't judge people by the
stand they take. When most of us
are right, it's probably for the wrong
reason.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-08-25

A rich governor growls that mo-
body provides pension for him.
Quite true; and hospitals have no
charity wards for miiiicnaires, either,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-08-25

Dewey makes up campaign speech
es while playing golf He can get q
number of spicy words that way.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-08-25

Soviets send apples to Roosevelt.
Result OF the Dewey charge about the
Roosevelt depression,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-08-25
best of their abilities in these terribl,

best OF thelr ablIltles IN these terrible
days. Hats off to our Senator's!
The Lower House has also resum..
ed and the way the Legislative
branch of the Government is hand
ling the major issues and problems
that confront them day-by-day is
clear evidence that Congress has
found its long lost independence"
and 10 no longer a rubber stamp
for the White House.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-10-26
Kaiser Backs Drive for
Large Turnout at Polls
Election of Enterprising Officials Assures
Program for Full Productivity, Famed
Shipbuder Tells Countrymen.
BY BAUKHAGE
Ne.us Analyst and Commentator.

armed forces and it will be hard to
do anything at this late date to
stimulate them. Therefore, the
greater responsibility devolves upon
the members of service families at
home who can exercise their fran
chise.
Five million families have moved,
following war industries. Some Of
these have lost their votes but others
can establish new residence or regis
ter and vote by mail in their home
towns.
There are millions Of first voters
coming up; this year 100000 more
women than men are eligible to vote
and women are laggard about car
rying out this function. This year
there are great issues at stake and
Americas is one of the few free
elections going on in the world.
So much for the bed rock facts
about voting.
Now what about this job business
that voters have so much to do with?
Mr.. Kaiser's views on this subject
will startle lot of people.
But they will not startle many
of the members of the fraternity of
big businessmen who, like Mr..
Kaiser, know that their bread is but
tered with the same spread that
covers the slice in the working
mans dinner pail.
Mr.. Kaiser believes in three prin-
ciples:
l. High wages. (This is hot one
for the old-fashioned tycoon to swal-
low!)
2. Increased production, Chat
isn't so terrifying)
3. Low prices. (Another bomb
shelly
These are necessary, he believes,
to full employment which is in turn
vital not only to prosperity but the
only escape from depression, dis
sension and war.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-10-26
Bag of Sponges Used
AS Proposal Of Marriage

If you came down for breakfast
one morning and found on the
table silken net containing Fl
sponges, what would you think?
Probably that the unknown donor
had been to the Black Market, be-
cause sponges are almost un-
obtainable now.
But there is an island where, if
you received such a present, you
would know that one of your girl
friends, 81 years old, was asking
you to marry her.
Most of the worlds supply
comes from the Mediterranean
from Tunis, Crete, Cyprus, and
Lampedusa, to quote only few
places. Supplies are also obtained
from the Bahamas and from Flori-
da bay.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-10-26
Kaiser Mentions
Production, Needs

Two essentials which he named
Immediately were: first, competition
Chat is, removal of monopoly. Sec
ond, credit" "And," his son, who
is one of Kaiser's expert associates,
piped up from the end of the table,
"guts.")
Mr.. Kaiser told number of off
the-record stories of how monopo-
lies had fought him, tried to keep
him out Of one business after an
other merely because they had
monopolies and didn't want to face
competition with man who had
learned how to make money by pay
ing high wages, producing efficient
ly and selling at low costs.
AS to credit, the stories he told
would curl your hair. But Kaiser
didn't blame the banks or the in
vestment trusts for refusing to lend
capital to pioneers. But he did offer
a way out. He suggested an inter-
mediate credit institution. An or
ganization which would lend money
on new ventures, giving them, say
a three-year chance; if these ven
lures showed a good record then
they would be normal investment for
banks.
If private capital wouldn't go
into intermediate financing, let the
government do it under the same
system as the Federal reserve sys-
tenn, says Mr.. Kaiser.
But in the end the whole program
comes back to jobs. A survey OF his
own workers showed that over 80
per cent Of them had saved money
for investment and also showed that
the thing they wanted to invest in
first was-what? An automobile?
That's what he expected. But, no,
the answer was-a home. But there
was a condition: some assurance OF
security-of job.
I suppose Kaiser has built nearly
two-score successful businesses Che
said his shipyards had built half the
liberty ships in one-half the man.
hours they had been built before)
and yet real distress came over his
face when he began to talk about
the tremendous possibilities for in
dustry in other lines as yet I'M
touched.
''Think of it," he said, pounding
the table, "58 per cent Of the freight
cars in this country are Is years
old. We could ship them all to China
and build new ones. China would be
glad to pay us in raw materials we
need"
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-10-26
SFUING CIRCLE NEEDLECRAFT
South OF Border Tea Towels

current war conditions, slightly more time
is required in filing orders for a few Of
the most popular pattern numbers.
Send your order to:
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-10-26

And what, / asked Mr. Kaiser,
are the things which we have to
have to achieve full employment?
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-10-26
WNU Service, Union Trust Building,
Washington, D. G.

washington, ~. Ns
Commentators and newspaper
writer's get lot of free meals. Or
at least they are offered lot -
from people and organizations who
want something. So when was In
vited to attend luncheon given by
the Nonpartisan Association for
Franchise Education, Inc, I Won
dered. When I learned that Henry
J. Kaiser, shipbuilder and entire
preneur would be there, was more
interested.
I arrived late, as I must at all
luncheons, since don't get off the
air until lis. ! slipped quietly into
the one vacant chair, for stocky,
bald-headed man in glasses was
making some highly emphatic re-
marks accompanied by gestures
which 60 with what you visualize as
the big business get things :
done executive.
He was talking about the necessity
Of full employment" after the war.
BY the time the luncheon was
over was another one of the people
who once having seen this human
dynamo Of mass production in
action are almost afraid to talk
about him. It requires just too many
superlatives.
Henry Kaiser has lent his name to
this franchise organization which ]
mentioned because he believes that
the only hope for democracy is a
job for everybody, and he believes
that there is plenty of chances Of
job for everybody if the everybody
realizes the fact and then gets out
and expresses his sentiments with
ballots.
Getting out the vote is the pur-
pose of the Nonpartisan Associ-
alton for Franchise Education, Inc,
q non-profit, non-political corpora
ton with headquarters at 16 East
SIND street, New York City,
Because President Roosevelt when
he was making his campaign speech
to the Transfers last month men,
toned that Henry Kaiser was pres
ent, thought Kaiser was coming
out for the Democratic ticket. But
he Is not. He was invited by the
teamsters to the dinner with whom
he has far more contacts than with
the New DeaD. He has no parti-
san purpose in backing Franchise
Education, Inc. Many persons OF
both parties are behind it simply
because they believe in getting out
the vote.
And any thinking person realizes
the need for such an organization
when he considers the facts. You
can't have democracy if people don't
exercise the franchise and that Is
exactly what lot of the people Of
the United States do NOT do. The
smaller the vote. the nearer dicta-
torship.
Erno~S Lose THIN
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-10-26

INDULGE in a riot of color in
these "South of the Border" tea
towels. Make gay caballeros and
senoritas in cross-stitch.
Brighten your kitchen with cross-stitch
towels. Pattern 7159 contains a transfer
pattern of seven motifs, averaging 614 by
inches.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-10-26

Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept.
| 81 Eighth Ave. New York
Enclose is cents (plus one cent to
cover cost of mailing) for Pattern
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-10-26
Expect Less Than
Half to Cast Vote

The Gallup poll indicates that
there will be drop of 10 million
in the vote in the national election
this year. That would mean only 40
million ballots cast out Of possible
So million.
In the Wisconsin primaries where
Willlxie staked his presidential
chances, only 80 per cent of the
people bothered to 60 to the polls.
In New Jersey, with the exception
of one county mayor Hague's BALI
wicD only Is per cent of the regis
tered voters went to the polls in the
recent primaries. In New York state,
the votes dropped from 6,279,0O0
in 1910 to 1903, 900 in 1943.
This year there are 44,043, $50
American men of voting age. Nearly
nine million of these are now in the
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-10-27
Duluth News
By ZILLAH WATERS
719 9Th Ave. East

Mrs. Eddie Saunders returned to
her home in st. Paul Sunday, Oct,
%, after having been the house
guest of Mrs. Leona Kelley, 1925 E.
10th St., for several days.
Mrs. Kitty Knox, 118 N. First
Ave. E., is recuperating from an OPP
Grafton at the Mayo Clinic in
Rochester, MINI. She was &C
companied to Rochester by Mrs.
Jimmie Leonard of the same ad-
dress.
Mrs. Birdie Copeland has finally
given up her residence here and
gone to st. Paul to make her home.
Corporal Howard Thornton, son
of Mrs. W. L. Shook, is convalesc-
ing in a hospital somewhere in
Italy after having been wounded ac-
cording to word just received in
Duluth. He expects to rejoin his
unit soon.
Miss MarjOry Kelley, daughter of
Mrs. Leona Kelley, 1925 E. 10th
St., is taking up Cadet Nursing at
The Villa Scholastic. Miss Kelley
seems rather enthusiastic about the
course and reports the girls at the
Villa are very friendly. She is the
only Negro enrolled there.
Mr.. Elmer Norris, ST., of st. Paul
is a delegate to the Parent Teachers
Congress which is being held at
Hotel Duluth. Mr.. Morris is stop
ping at the home Of Mr.. and Mrs.
George Adams, 115 E. Fifth st.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-10-27
The Other Side

Employers have in the with justification complained that
too Negro workers absened themselves
quent Before the statistics
asenteeism Negro industrial exceeded that
workers. In the defense and period the preaching Negro leaders
and the resulting
workers regard for the value regular attendance
With these factors mind gratifying that
American fellow citizen Timothy Howard of guard
set record for regular attendance the Federal Cartridge Corp
operated Twin Cities Ordnance completed
three consecutive employment that having
missed a single day.
The fact that the plant city limits and
that
operation did not keep Howard from getting
His record is most remarkable when it considered
$4,000 have been the payroll
perfect record Each day we are
developing and like Timothy
workers have the responsibility improving
attendance record and RELOCATING the old theories past
SONGS FOR SALE
The Democrats
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