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The midland journal., 1945-04-13
REDUCTION IN FIRE INSURANCE
RATES

am glad to announce a further
MaMryland. Several months ago our
Department was able to announce
ltha. a substantial reduction had
been made on dwelling properties
throughout the State AT that time
asked the Middle Department Rating
Association to consider the rates
charged on farm property as there
apparently had been no change in
these rates since they were establish
ed in 1919.
| am glad to announce that the
Middle Department Rating Associa-
tion, which fixes the rates for that
part of Maryland, exclusive of the
City of Baltimore and it's metropoli-
tan aera. has advised me that 1t has
reclassified the farm rates and reduc-
ed the number of classes from seven
to three. Substantial reductions have
ties, and in some places the reduc-
tions will be as much as 21% on
farm dwellings and 1870 on farm
barns and out buildings. In the coun-
ties, where relatively low rates have
existed, there will be but nominal re-
elections There will be a uniform re-
duction of 20% on tobacco in barns
Previously nine classes of church
rates have been obtained in the
State and have now been consolidat-
ed into one class. Here again the
counties that previously enjoyed low
rates will experience little or no
change In areas, however, rated as
protected" the church reductions
will range up to 201o. Unprotected
church risks will obtain substantial
reductions if written with co-insur-
ance as part of the contract.
In the better constructed risks in
the class of hospitals, colleges and
penal institutions reductions varying
from nominal amounts to 200 will
be made.
The Insurance Department of
Maryland has sponsored in the recent
session of the Legislature two Rating
Bills, which are designed to give the
Department supervision over insur-
ance rates in the State. At this time
the Department kas no direct super
vision over the rates, and whatever
is done must be of a voluntary ma
ture.
Lawrence E. Ensor
Insurance Commissioner
The midland journal., 1945-04-13
FEEDING SCHOOLS BREAK ALL
ATTENDANT RECORDS

Attendance at the 81 all-day feed
ing schools held by the County Agri-
cultural Agents and the University OF
Maryland specialists during January
and February in Is Maryland coun-
ties broke all records of the seven
years such meetings have been held,
it was reported at the University OF
Maryland. The average attendance
was 43 persons for the 81 meetings
or total of more than 1900 per-
sons.
Last year the average attendance
for "a feeding schools was 35 per-
sons, it was pointed out. Carroll
County again topped the list of the
lis counties from tke standpoint of
attendance with two schools averag-
ing 100 persons each day. The atten-
dance figures do not include the
many vocational agriculture high
school boys who often attend these
schools nor does it include the Ex-
tension service agents or specialists.
'It is we'll to remember that these
schools are only a part of the year
round Maryland livestock feeding
and home grown feed production
program" said George Hyatt, Jr.,
Extension dairyman. Service letters
% interested farmers. summer tours,
and timely news stories constitute
the remainder of the program"
The midland journal., 1945-04-13
PREPARING FOR PEACE

The gas utility companies of the
United States will spend $1,4O0,000
year for three years on an expand
ed program of industry research, ma
tional advertising and general pro-
motion, and manufacturers of gas
appliances will add 100000 to this
program.
Aside from war activity, this ma
tion has been almost standing still
FOR the past decade. Household equip
ment, stores and Office buildings,
farm dwellings and machinery, not
to mention our whole Industrial
structure, are worn down to the
quick. Needed requirements and re-
pairs are beyond calculation. There
fore, industry that plans now to be
ready to step into the peacetime har-
ness to handle the domestic load, is
rendering a real public service in
maintaining jobs and filling the ac-
cumulated demands of millions of
customers.
The midland journal., 1945-04-13
DELIVER THE GooDs-INTAcT

During 1914, $6O,O0O,000 worth
of freight was lost or damaged in
transit in this country third more
than in the year 1943. Consequently,
shippers and transport agencies are
preparing to put more drive than
ever before into the ninth annual
perfect shipping" campaign to be
conducted during the month of April.
Every shipping agency, shipping en-
'ployee and the public will be remind
ed of the tragic waste of wartime ef-
fort which results from poor packing
and improper handling of freight.
This year, the campaign will also
have the additional objective of i'm
proving packaging technique in the
preparation of shipments in the post
war period.
The responsibility for coming with
in measurable distance of tie goal
in the perfect shipping campaign fin
ally falls ON the shoulders of the un-
known individual No mater how ex-
cellent the promotional work and
the organizing ability of those who
are spark-plugging the drive, they
cannot succeed unless the public, es-
pecially those whose Jobs are direct
ly involved in some phase Of ship
ping. cooperate to the greatest pes
The midland journal., 1945-04-13
WANTS NO MORE BUTTER

1--WE note" says the Syracuse
New York, Post-Standard, that an
economist in the department of agri-
culture has recommended that Am
ericans find another spread for their
bread other than butter, and use the
milk for its food value and not for
its butter
''The butter market, along with
the cheese market, has been a life
saver for the dairy industry. More
milk is produced in one season of a
year than another, so that in sur
plus periods extra milk is made UP
into foods that can be stored and
kept. Dairymen produce enough milk
in times of lean production to fur
nish all the fresh milk the market
will absorb. When surplus periods
come, more milk is available than
can be used in the fluid market"
Maybe some bureaucrat can figure
out how to make cows produce at a
constant rate.
The midland journal., 1945-04-13
TAXATION BY FEUDAL
OVERIORDS

Following the lead of Mr. Petrillo
head of tke musicians, union, who
successfully defied the government
in his demand to levy tax on every
phonograph record, to the tune OF
some $4,000,000 year, Mr. Lewis
head of the United Mine Workers
low demands union tax of 10 cents
on each ton of coal mined, to enable
the 'Gnion to provide economic pro.
lection" for the workers. AS the
coal mines produced over 00,O00,-
900 tons of coal in 1914, the public
would have to dig up some $60,000,-
600 a year for Mr. Lewis tax
If this policy of permitting unions
otax production goes unchecked
the people will be paying special tax
es for privileged few, as they did
10 feudal overlords who were more
powerful than governments in an
cient times. Why should the tax be
limited to a phonograph record OIL
a ton of coal? Why shouldn't it be
applied to suit of clothes, a gallon
Of gasoline, an automobile, or any
commodity, the production, of which
is under union control?
This is not a uinon or non-union
issue-it boils down to a question OF
whether powerful private agencies
are to be allowed to tax the public
for the exclusive profit of those ag-
encies and their members. The issue
q.
before long because the unions are
proving evtry day that they are be-
yond the reach of present laws and
regulatory measures that apply to all
lother business and individuals.
The midland journal., 1945-04-13
LARGER TREES MAKE
ECONOMICAL FUEL WOOD

Marylanders cutting supplies OF
fuel wood or wood for sale can save
labor il they cut only trees that mea
ter at A " feet from the ground, ad-
yises Harry w. Dengler, Extension
Forester at the University of Mary
land. Persons hired to cut fire wooI
IN a piece basis will find, too, that i,
S more profitable to cut only the
arger trees.
Cutting of small trees is inefficien
because of the large number of trees
equired to make cord. Expert
nents indicate that on an average
axes 48 trees of four-inch diameter
o make cord; 9.3 trees of eight
nch diameter; "a trees of 12-inci.
iiameter; and IA trees of 1S-inel:
iameter.
Dengler cautions woodland owners
gainst cutting 18-inch trees for fire
good If these are suitable for saw O..
eneer logs, which ordinarily bring
higher labor return. 1t is advisable
confine fuel wood cuttings to dead
ying, poorly formed, diseased, un-
-hrifty and poor lumber producing
trees The removal of such trees will
improve the woodland by allowing
more room for the better trees to de-
velop.
More than 100000 cords of wooG
IRE consumed annually in Maryland
rhe severe shortage of farm labor
and the strong demand for wood in
,rease the necessity for getting the
OBJ of wood cutting done econo-
mically
The midland journal., 1945-04-13
WAR VETS NEGLECTED

Shocking charges of inefiiciency,
neglect, racketeering and downright
carelessness and callousness that are
causing an unconscionably high
death rate among our war veterans
in government hospitals, are made
in the March issue of Cosmopolitan
magazine following an exhaustive in
vestigation of the Veterans Admins
tration by Albert @. Maisel.
In a thoroughly documented ex-
pcse of the pitiful conditions under
which our war veterans are dying in
our government hospitals at an
alarming rate, Maisel charges that
despite the astronomical sums of
money appropriated for the treat
ment of these veterans, only one pa
tient in six leaves our government
hospitals cured.
"Only three out of five complete
their disqualification and win even
the label of improved" Maisel de-
clai es. 1.-The rest die or are discharg-
ed as 'unimproved' or run away to
enter other hospitals or to suffer and
die quietly at home"
Investigation of TIE disqualification
given veterans consumed six months
and covered hospitals throughout
the eastern half of the United States.
Asserting that the statistics used
in the article are based on the pub
lie figures issued by the Veterans
Administration itself, Maisel de-
clares that Gin many of the Veterans
Hospitals l have visited, the death
rates are actually far higher, the
cure rates far lower, and conditions
far, far worse than any cold statistics
can ever indicate"
THE root of this cancer is in the
Central Office in Washington, among
men who have long been aware OF
the situation, who have seen it grow
worse and worse for two decades
who have failed miserably toclean up
the growing mess" he declares. "The
cure. too, must start at the fountain
head-in TIE Central Office-with
drastic changes both in personnel and
policies. Wartime emergencies car
not serve as an excuse"
The midland journal., 1945-04-13
THE CLOTHING DRIVE

"For want of nail shoe was
lost"
Most of us are familiar with the
military adage which opens with that
line and goes on to tell how tie miss
ing nail, by costing the loss of shoe,
cost the loss of a horse, of general
who rode it, and, ultimately, the loss
of TIE battle in which the generals
leadership was essential to victory.
Through it's frequent repetition, or
through sayings of similar character
the lesson of the Importance of SEEM
ingly trivial things to great achieve
ments has been pretty well establish
ed in American minds.
Yet, we wonder how many have
thought of the Importance of their
cast-off clothes, shoes and bedding to
the restoration of this war torn
world and the wholesome and last
ing peace which we all desire when
the final victory over the Axis ma
tions is won.
For want of adequate clothing,
during the five or more years of Axis
aggression, uncounted numbers of
men, women and children-innocent
victims of the Nazis and Japs-have
been dying of exposure or diseases
traceable thereto. AS our valiant ar
mics liberate their lands and free
their peoples, the full extent of tkeir
suffering and their present desperate
needs are revealed-large families
forced to share tattered garments
scarcely adequate to cover a single
person; children and older people
forced to remain in their shattered
novels or to step forth virtually
naked into the rigors of harsh eli
mates; other Axis-made conditions
equally appalling.
Millions of American homes are
hung or cluttered with cast-off, yet
still serviceable, SPARE clothes
shoes and bedding.
Hundreds of millions of pounds of
suck materials, useless and never to
be used by us, are available to the
war-ravaged destitute. The United
National Clothing Collection, which
opened on April 1, is designed to
transfer our seviceable castoffs to
these stricken peoples. And now is
the time for you to raid your attic
or catch-all store-room and force it
to yield its share of usable apparel
to those in desperate need.
WHAT CAN YOU SPARE THAT
THEY CAN WEAR?
The midland journal., 1945-04-13
THE SAN FRANCISCO
CONFERENCE
By j. II. Jones

Washington, d. c., April g.
There will be no postponement of the
international conference scheduled
to be held April 25. The unreason-
able demands of Soviet Russia STIR
red up wEirlwind of resentment in
Washington, all to the effect that
stain can't do this to u.s." But the
President and the Secretary of State
and all the "old cool-heads" offered
explanations, compromises, argu-
ments and advice in favor of frank,
open discussions at San Francisco.
We old Washingtonians witnessed
a similar spectacle in the days of
Woodrow Wilson when that great
leader left the discussions and argu-
ments over till after the war. Then,
it was too late. That is the situation
that must be faced right now-and If
there are serious disagreements at
San Francisco the statesmen of the
United States must stand by our own
people and never surrender the one
great objective of RMANENT
PEACE.
Stain may be green in internation-
al affairs also selfish. On
the other hand the United States has
been dragged into two European
wars-and it is safe to say that we
saved England, France and the occu-
pied nations on the Eastern front.
Really, Joe, we did lot towards
saving your folks.
The Dumbarton Conference was a
success, so far as framing charter.
The San Francisco Conference has
been called for the purpose of ap-
proving-and improving-that char
ter.
There must be no irreparable dis
putes over the plans of Roosevelt
F., Churchill and Stain at this time
There is plenty of reason to hope for
and expect the San Francisco gather
ing to be crowned with success.
The midland journal., 1945-04-13
MAN-MADE FOREST FIRES
CAUSED BY CARELESS
AMERICANS

Every year fire, caused in large
.egree by lack of care and fore
hought on the part of careless indi-
iduals, destroys three billion feet of
imber, or enough to make 100000
tons of newsprint, says the Forest
Service of the Department of Agri-
culture. Last year, and every year
without exception, these generally
preventable fires burn millions of
acres of feed, pastures, and open
ranges needed for cattle, sheep and
game animals. An average of 220, 900
forest, woods and range fires lay
waste nearly 31,000,00O acres of
and, making a vast area of desola-
zion equal to the area of New York
State, the Forest Service points out
Nor is the destruction of valuable
.imberland the only evil result of
his annual holocaust due in so many
cases to individual carelessness. Fires
cripple watersheds on which indus
tries and cities and public utilities
depend for power and light; from
which farmers and ranchers in the
West get water for irrigation. Fires
lie up nearly one million man-days
# labor; destroy wildlife and mar
ne natural beauty of America. Most
t this prodigiOus and unnecessary
waste inflicted on America last year
ind every yearly unthinking and
:areless Americans-co be avert
ID if the average person who goes
nto wooded areas on picnics, fishing,
hunting and motoring trips would
observe always the following simple,
;ommonsenSe rules of behavior: Cd
Crush out your cigarettes or cigars
10 not toss them out of a car window
or toss them carelessly away into
he woods (2) Extinguish all camp
dres with water or dirt, and make
sure they are safely out before you
ieave; go Break all your burned
matches and pinch them until the
last spark is dead; "a Learn the
legal requirements and obtain per-
NIT before attempting to burn grass
or debris, then heed the ordinary
rules of safety. Care and foresight,
says the Forest Service, will prevent
nine out of ten man made forest and
woods and range fires. Fire danger Is
greatest during different periods for
different sections of the United
States. In the East and Illinois, Indi-
ana, Iowa, Missouri and Ohio-Feb-
ruary l to April 80; and from Sep
tember / to November Is. In the
South--February Is to April 80; and
October to December Is. In Ari-
zona and New Mexico-April Is to
June Is. In Michigan, Minnesota,
Wisconsin, and Mort Dakota-ApriI
Is to June Is; and August / to Sep
tember 80. In Montana, Idaho, Colo
rado, Kansas, South Dakota, Nebras-
ka, Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, Califor-
mia, Oregon and Washington-June
Is to September 80. If these dates
and rules were observed by all Amer
leans, says the Forest Service, nine
out Of eevery ten of the destructive
man-made fires that ravage our coun-
try every year would never occur.
The midland journal., 1945-04-13
sible extent.

sible extent.
Failure to package shipments pro-
perly today very often sits right
through to the fighting fronts where
some boy loses out. Perhaps it will
only bring him disappointment in the
form of a broken gift. 1t may cost
him his life.
The perfect shipping campaign has
a deep significance to all of US in
these grim war years. 1t is to the cre-
dit of shipping men, railroad men
and other transportation agencies
tkat this April will see an intensified
effort to deliver the goods-intact.
The impetus Of the April campaign
should carry on through the year,
The midland journal., 1945-04-13
REAL ESTATE SALES

Wheeler G. Grier, Realtors, of Ok
ford, have sold for John A. Pugh, his
fine 6s-acre dairy farm at the village
edge of Kemblesville, Pa, to Fred
H. and John H. May, of Wilmington.
Mr.. Fred May formerly owned the
Thomas farm at bonneville, which he
later sold and moved to Wilmington.
Mr.. John May has, until recently,
managed his fathers large farm near
johnson City, Tennessee. Possession
10 10 be taken On or before May !.
The midland journal., 1945-04-13
There Is A Food Shortage

Louis Bromfield, noted writer who
owns and operates 100 acre farm
in Ohio at profit, told 1900 mem
bers and guests of Detroits Econo-
mic Club tl,is week that the food
shortages which he predicted several
Years ago, and for which lie was un-
justly accused of crying famine, is
ALREADY with us and has been for
some time"
Virtually all of the nation, save
only the farmers" he declared, "are
living today upon a protein deficient
diet which will leave it's marks upon
the health and the vigor of the popu-
lation for years to come. The legacy
iof food shortages in Europe during
and after the First World War left
marks which carried on into the
Second War. The health and vigor OF
a nations people are part of its
real wealth. the farmer has done
his job of production, but not with
out great cost to himself and to his
soil, both great assets in the list OF
our real wealth. We shall be feeling
the effects of the strain hundred
years hence in the destroyed fertility
of millions of acres of soil which
should never have been farmed at all
or which have been overworked.
THAT so much of tkis cost has
been wasted by confusion, bad distri-
button and ALLEGATION, and the exper-
iments of amateur economists is the
Ireal tragedy"
The problem is many-sided and
there is no single cure for it, but one
factor in the solution is the applica-
tion of modern methods, according
to Bromfield, who said:
"In our agricultural technology
the question of farm machinery plays
a larger and larger part; and for
tunately so, because the ratio be-
tween low but profitable food costs
and farm machinery are closely re-
lated. Animal power is both wasteful
and expensive in the production of
food and throughout the world con
tributes both to the low level of pro-
QuCtAOA anu IuC Al6n COSlS VI LOU. i
am not speaking only of the differ
ence in cost involved in feeding a
horse whether he works or not. That,
however real, is merely superficial in
comparison to other differences. AS
a practical farmer, know that in or
der to do the work on a thousand
acres, it would require at least
twelve teams to do the work of three
tractors. That would not only mean
a larger overall investment of capi-
tai, but it would mean the hiring of
twelve men to handle the teams, and
the comparison of costs in time and
labor is SO striking that horses are
ruled out without question as impos-
sible."
He emphasized the fact that the
use of proper farm machinery "can
enable the dispossessed industrial
worker, with an eight hour day and
a five day week, to engage in small
and even large agricultural ventures
The midland journal., 1945-04-13

which will bring him in, under por-
gram of decentralization, economic
security and stake in the nation. II
can change his status from that OF
!proletariat to middle-class, without
which democracy cannot exist"
Post Wark Jobs On Paper
Full Employment is now live
issue in Washington.
Tie go millions jobs" idea of the
President has been supplemented
with proposals that tie Government
guarantee American workers year
round employment and earnings
The White House and Capitol Hill
are studying all phases of the pro-
gram.
Full Employment" assumes that
''all Americans able to work and
seeking work have the right to USE
full, remunerative, regular and full
time employment" But the prom
ised land is concealed in that part of
the discussions assuming that sit is
the policy of the United States to as
sure the existence at all times of
sufficient employment opportunities
to enable all Americans freely to
exercise tkis right"
These discussions have widened
out until they now encourage in
creased activities and more postwar
spending by private business, con-
sumers, local governments d
practically everyone who has any
savings.
Administration officials are con-
stantly relating fairy tales about Inn
mense foreign trade to help create a
postwar boom.
The midland journal., 1945-04-13

boy, I'm scared! just gotta let
ter from man telling me he'd shoot
me if didn't stay away from his
daughter" Well, all you have to do
is stay away from his daughter" +"
yeah, but he didn't sign his name .
The midland journal., 1945-04-13

Workers in Germany are herded
like cattle. Nazi trick to deceive the
people about the meat shortage.
Evening star., 1945-03-25
Resort Help Can Return
Only With USES Approval

BALTIMORE, Mar. "a LR.-Va-
cation resort and summer amuse-
ment place workers who have held
other jobs during the winter months
may return to their summer work
only through referral by the United
States Employment Service.
The restriction was announced to-
day by Grafton Lee Brown, acting
State director of the War Manpower
Commission, who emphasized the
necessity of keeping critical war in
dustries manned.
He said that under the restriction
it was expected mo great number
of these workers will be released to
resume their former employment. :"
Mr.. Brown said employers should
now make known to the VINO the
Evening star., 1945-03-25
Des Moines Paper Hill
By JurisdiciionaI Strike
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
DES MONIES, Mar. "A juris-
dictional dispute revolving around
union affiliation of mailing room
employees caused a work stoppage
in the composing room Of the Reg
lister and Tribune today.
A statement by the newspaper
management said the company was
caught in the middle" Of dispute
between the International Typo
graphical Union and the Interna-
tional Mailers Union.
Both unions claimed majority
membership among approximately
100 mailing room employees.
The strike spread to the composing
room, which employs 112, when the
printers, affiliated with the ITU,
joined the dispute shortly after the
final afternoon edition of the Trib-
une. The newspaper management
said a sufficient number of mailing
room employees remained at work to