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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-12-28
CHRISTMAS TREES FIRE
HAZARDS

Insurance Commissioner Lawrence
g. Ensor, The Maryland State Fire
mems Association and The Fire
Chiefs Club of Maryland wish to call
your attention to the fact that your
Christmas tree and the decorations
On it are fire hazards, which you will
want to watch most carefully.
Remember when you bring a tree
into your home, it is going to dry up.
A fresh cut tree will not take fire
any more easily during the first day
or two than would the evergreen
shrubs growing outside, but it be-
comees serious hazard every hour
At the end of week, it will be high
iy inflammable.
The tree can be kept fresh If set
up in pan of water, cut off at an
angle, at least one inch above the
original cut, and kept standing in
water during the entire period it is
up, adding water to the pan in which
the tree stands at intervals to keep
the water level always above the cut.
This method, when use dwith fresh
trees, reduces the flammability as eff
fectively as any fire proof chemical.
Chemicals may cause the tree to
urn brown OF yellow, or lose its
needles. The tree should be placed
well away from stoves, radiators and
other sources of heat.
Do not use lighted candles on the
cree. Open flame lighting is entirely
out of place, unless we'll away from
the tree, window curtains and burn
bile decorations.
The electrical wiring on lights and
toys in the garden should be care
FULLY checked. Remember that an
overloaded circuit is extremely dam
gerous.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-12-28

About 0 years ago Georgia
town faced business problem famil-
lar to many towns and cities. It need
ed to spend about $4,000 for a
water storage and treatment plant. A
dam would create a reservoir for run
off from watershed of nearly 900
ceres. This watershed was land that
had already lost more than half it's
topsoil by erosion. This fact suggest
ed that soil wowuld continue to wash
down to fill the reservoir. There was
danger that SO little storage space
would be left in 40 to so years that
the town would lose most of it's
,, original investment. Neighboring
towns had had just that experience.
With this problem before it, New
nan, Ca, decided to protect it's $751;
600 by investing enough more to buy
the eroding land and reforest it.
Newman has increase dthe investment
by $32,500--less than SO per cent.
Results indicate that the reservoir
will last many years longer than it
would have otherwise. The town now
owns all but 80 acres of the water
shed. A planted forest is growing.
While the forest was starting-from
1925 to 1937-the reservoir lost
storage capacity at an average of
64S,000 gallons a year. Since 1887,
with the forest well started, this loss
has dropped to an average of 10000
a year, a decrease of 81 per cent in
the rate of filling. With less sediment
there is less expense for treatment of
the water to make 1t clear and clean.
This truo story IS from = ropa by
Carl f. Brown, Of the Soil Ccnsarva-
ton Service en- conditions i'll reser-
voirs in the Sostheast where erosion
has proved serious menace to in
vcstments in reservoirs. A surrey by
that agency shows that half tie exist
ing reservoirs are losing more than
l per cent of capacity annually. A
third of them will be filled to the
point where they will be useless in
| less than SO years from date of con-
struction, and Sc per cent will not
| last rs years.
IioWH pOlHIS OuI LHdl OWH6JSHIp
of watersheds allows adoption of the
best methods of erosion control. An
alternative is active cooperation with
the Soil Conservation District in the
watershed. Cities and towns, he en-
phasizes, cannot afford to let reser-
voirs fill. They can well afford to
supply inducements to farmers to
conserve the soil, to keep it on the
farms and out of the reservoirs.
Erosion from cuts along highways
and in roadside bitches is common
source OF the soil that fills reservoirs
and reduces storage capacity. Towns
and cities can gain by helping to pay
fer control of this damaging wash
ing.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-12-28
WANTED
YOUR 20 RIFLE

\ The .22 rife has furnished real
sport to more people than any other
Kind of gun. But the .22 rifle is not
toy-it is Real Gun and must be
treated with respect. There are sew
eral simple things you must remem-
Der in playing safe.
First, last and always, treat your
rifle as if it were loaded, even when
you feel sure it is empty. Keep it
empty, and, whenever possible, with
the action open, except when you are
ready to shoot. Do this whether the
rifle is in your hands or in car. And
at home, be sure to keep it empty
and out of reach of small children.
Whether your rifle is empty or
loaded, always keep the muzzle point
ed away from anything you don't
want to shoot. No real sportsmen will
ever point an empty gun at another
person, nor wrestle or engage in
horseplay with anyone holding gun.
Before you pull the trigger know
where your bullet is going, what you
are shoating at. Shoot against solid
background-never into the sky or
through brush where your bullet
might kit someone or something you
do not see.
Remember that 20 will carry up
to a mile, and that q bullet may
glance off at an angle from fat hard
surfaces, twigs or water.
And to the younger rif1emen, why
not occasionally call Dads attention
to the nationally known Ten Com
mandments of Safety and talk over
this safety matter with him? Nothing
would offer him more convincing
proof OF your fitness to be trusted
with a gun.
And to the fathers: Be sure your
boys know that in possession of 20
they have deadly weapon. A gun
that can kill, a gun to be classed diff
ferently from an air rifle. Be sure to
instruct him in the safe handling be-
fore putting one in his hands.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-12-28
NEW YEARS CUSTOMS IN
SCOTLAND

AS in France, so in Scotland, New
Years is the chief festival Of the
year. The eve of the day and the day
itself are called Daft Days" or
crazy days. And the. eve separated
from it's daft" associate is called
"Hogmanay. But what this means,
no one seems to know. The applica-
ton of the term is in custom of
children to enrobe themselves in a
sheet and go the rounds of houses on
New Years eve, knocking at the
doors and crying "Hogmanay. In
response they always get an oak
cake
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-12-28
PROPHETS' PREDICTIONS POOR
PAST PERFORMANCES PROVE

Prophets of coming events are def
nitely without honor, judging from
their past performance record.
Were this not so this world of ours
would lave ended long ere this, ac-
| cording to an article on the falla-
ciousness of prophecies in the Deem
Der issue of Good Housekeeping mag
aZine.
Because of desire to pierce the
veil of the future, people since the
beginning of time have been exceed
ingly credulous where prophecies
were concerned, and unusually chart
table or forgetful when the predicted
event failed to materialize.
"Hitler's death or overthrow was
predicted for every year since 1888"
the article states in part. 1.-THE incor-
rect predictions are conveniently for
gotten.
after the First World War there
were several books on Nostradamus,
an incredibly obscure French seer
of the 18th century; they all attripu-
ted to him exact predictions of every
detail of the wars of 1914-18, but not
one of them succeeded in foreseeing
the Second World War.
"a few years later another spate
of Notsradamus books appeared and
CT course they all had the outbreak
of the Second World War given
clearly; but on subsequent events
they were wrong. For example, they
had Hitler defeated and imprisoned
in an iron cage by 1943.
"A particularly amusing bunch of
prophets are those who go for inspir-
alton to the Great Pyramid OF Egypt,
believing that it bears in its measure
metns complete record of the lis
tory, past and future of the Jews.
1T applies to US, they say, because
the English, and by extension, the
Americans, are the Lost Ten Tribes
Of Israel. The descendants of Isreal
were known in New Testament times
as the Sons of Isaac Sak-sons or
Saxons. The Anglo In Anglo-Saxons
comes from the Hebrew word angle
meaning bull Anglo-Saxons there
fore means the 'bull-headed Sons of
Israel'-a name that fits them exact
ly."
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-12-28
BAY FERRY TRAFFIC
CONTINUES LARGE

Automobile traffic On the Sandy
Point Matapeake Ferry increased by
almost fifty percent during the
month of November over November
1914.
The total number of cars using the
Chesapeake Bay Ferry Route during
TIE last month was 25,465, against
1904 in November, 1914. The
number of trucks using the Ferry in
creased from 3,427 in November,
1914, to 4,357, an increase of 9S1 OF
81 per cent.
Passengers using the Ferry totaled
1924 for the month, an increase
of 14,7S5 or "a per cent. Total pas
sengers. including drivers, carried on
the Ferry during the month were
SS,057 against 64,1S0 in the same
month of 1914, an increase of 81 per
cent.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-12-28

There are 100000 Negroes in
the United Subsequently, of the
national population-bu less than
half that number profess any relig-
ious atfiliation, according to the Rev.
Tollie L. Caution, in charge of Ne
gro work under the Protestant Epis-
copal Church. Hundreds of thou
sands of Negroes" he says, ARE in
auenced or guided by leaders with
little education but with persuasive
power to win adherants to any
scheme which promises release from
hardship and discipline. Contrast this
with the wise and steady character
training of the church's schools, and
you will see the Importance of
strengthening their whole program.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-12-28
MORE OIL DEMAND SEEN IN
FUTURE

After temporary letdown during
reconversion, the demand for petro-
leum products will go ahead to new
Heights in the opinion of A. w. Peake
prominent oil company executive.
We can look forward, says Mr.
Peake, to a tremendous demand fol-
improved fuels and lubricants and
also for chemical products that can
compete with materials from the
chemical industry"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-12-28
New Years Blessings an
Ancient Swiss Legend


According to Swiss legend, the
Holy Family is abroad during the
hour OF midnight mass on Christ.
mas Eve.
Therefore, a bowl of fresh milk
Is placed upon the dining table
and each member OF the house.
hold carefully lays his spoon upon
the table cloth.
The person who, returning from
church, finds his spoon has been
moved may anticipate special
blessings during the coming year:
for surely Mary and Joseph have
rested within the abode during
their Flight into Egypt and the
Virgin used that spoon to feed the
Infant Jesus.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-12-28
PRESIDENTS RECEPTION

It has been the custom from the
beginning of the Republic for the
President of the United States to
welcome the New Year by holding a
reception open to the general public.
On the first New Years day after
his Inauguration President Washing
ton opened his home to receive the
people. Throughout the seven years
which Washington lived in Philadel-
phia as the capital of the nation, he
continued this custom.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-12-28
TO ALL CAR OWNERS
Whose l945 Automobile Taxes Are
Still Unpaid
Still Unpaid

In accordance with passed by the 1915 ses
sion OF the General Assembly, have not
paid their 1916 State and County
er by January 1915 required
their 1916 State and County Taxes of
tor Vehicles when forwarding their applications
for 1946 tags The 1916 application
the amount OF the unpaid 1916
from Baltimore to the owners
Every effort has undersigned to urge car
to their 1916 promptly thereby
avoiding needless annoyance and delay many
Of automobiles have complied request your 945
automobile still unpaid the Treasur-
Office without further delay.
Remember-f delay in paying your automobile
taxes until after January l. 1916 will obliged
taxes to the Commissioner not to
the Undersigned
EDWIN s. DORCUS,
Treasurer o. Cecil County
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-12-28
CAN SCIENCE REALLY CONTROL
WEATHER?

Experts think weather can be con-
trolled by blocking off narrow straits
in key locations, thus diverting ocean
currents and creating changes in cli-
mate. Read the explanation of not
ed geologist in the January issue of
THE AMERICAN WEEKLY
Nations Favorite Magazin With The
BALTIMORE
SUNDAY AMERICAN
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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-12-28
Pennsylvania STATE FORESTS

G. Harold Wagner, Auditor Gener.
al of Pennsylvania, has approved pay
ment of $105,342.4O to forty coun-
ties in the Commonwealth, and 274
townships in these counties, in which
State or National forest lands, or
both are located. The payments COW
err the fiscal year ending May 81,
1916.
A summary of the public forest
lands in Pennsylvania shows that
there are 1,660,692 acres classified
as State Forest Lands. Clinton coun-
ty leads with an acreage of 231,448.
The 447,156 acres of National For
est lands are located in four counties,
Elk, Forest, Mexican and Warren.
Mexican leads with 124,54O acres.
Lancaster county has but ten acres
OF State Forest lands. They are To-
Gated in Penn Township.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-12-28
Miracle PLAYS StiII Held

Among more tradition observing
communities Of the world, old-time
miracle plays are still performed,
often in the form of elaborate
dances, in solemn, but lavish, set.
tings against the colorful back.
ground of tropical foliage.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-12-28

The chewing gum" of one-tentk
of the human race is the betel nut,
according to the Encyclopedia Bril-
tannica. Betel nut chewing blackens
the teeth and dyes the mouth. lips
and gums brick red.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-12-28

In the past six years, the United
States has approximately doubled its
tanker tonnage, so that it now las
about IS per cent of the worlds to-
tai.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-12-28
wANTED-IMMEDIATELY

BARRIERS, hairdressers, fountain
clerks, cooks, bakers, mattresses,
sales clerks, stock room clerks,
store managers and assistant mana
gers, stenographers and general office
clerks, cObblers, general laundry
help. Good working and living condi-
lions. Apply Ships Service Depart
ment, Bldg. $50, Naval Training Cen
ter, cambridge, Maryland.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-12-28
PRAYER FOR THE NEW YEAR

For this New Year,
An extra gift of courage
My little trials to bear.
/ ask not for success;
For wealth or fame or power;
/ ask for added faith
To live life, hour by hour.
Give me kindly thoughts. Lord,
To use for charity.
l want no gold to give,
I'll spend kind thoughts for Thee
Ruth Richwine Smith
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-12-28
ENGLISH NEW YEAR

The English New Year celebration
was changed from December rs by
William the Conqueror, because he
was crowned on January 1
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-12-28

Plaster Sand, Concrete Sand,
Crushed Stone (any size), Stone
Dust, Washed Gravel, Bank Run
Gravel.
All prices quoted on this ma.
terial will be delivered prices.
s. CURTIS DEMPSEY
Phone 129M Rising Sun, Md.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-12-28

Congressman Roe extends his best
wishes to you all for a merry CHEEKY
Christmas and happy, healthy and
prosperous New Year.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-12-28

At the wars end. supplies were
being flown into China by the United
States Army Air Forces at the rate
of almost two tons minute around
the clock.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-12-28

Lumber shortage would be over If
every Board were q board.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-12-28

The best way to wipe out friend.
ship is to sponge on It,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-12-28

The first woman doctor was Eliz-
abeth Blackwell, who won her M. d.
degree in 1S49 in New York State,
according to the Encyclopedia Brit
tannica.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-12-28

"Your hair is like spun gold. your
eyes are like limpid pools. ;. your
your lips. gee, what mess you'd
make On the edge Of q cottss cup"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-18

has her eve on some super gadget, and then, of course, she'll have tc have all the gadgets her friends buy Then there'll be a race to see which one can out-decorate the others, and out will go the com fortabie old sofa and in will come something in pale chartreuse you won't dare put your feet on. KEEP UP WITH JONESES
 It's going to be an era of keep ing up with the Joneses to end all such eras.
 Remember, Mama hasn't been able to go in for household gad- gets for a long time. And while you thought smugly that the days ot her having to have something, just because the girls in the bridge club were mad for 1t, are thing of the past, the urge for buying was just dormant.
 Now it is coming to life again. And you might as well be prepared. Maybe Mama hasn't started selling you on all the stuff she needs yet. But her friends have already sold her. And the next steap is selling you.
 So take your feet down off that old sofa. Your days of taking 1t easy are over. Mama wants THINGS again. And you know Mama well enough to know that if she wants them she is going to hame them.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-18

and stage actress, gets a hair-rais- ing ride in bloodstained murder car when she appears behind the creaking door as Your Host Paul McGrath's guest ghoul in Terror By Night" an original Inner Sane tum" mystery, to be heard Tues day, tonight at goo o'clock over CBS
 The McGees, Fibber and Molly, are going to have new neighoors when they return to NEG Oct. 2. That's the date that Amos n Andy, the great blackface comedians, also come back. They will be heard on Tuesday nights at g p. m, e.p.to starting Oct. 2, a half hour before the McGees. This insures listeners a solid hour of sock comedy.
 Latest addition to the woo-and- whodunit cast of NBC's Mystery in the Air" series (Thursdays at 10 p. m, e.p.tD is new scriptual vil- lian, Paul Ford heretofore known for timid soul characterizationS.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-18
BEAUTIES HINTS
BY ALICIA HART NEA Staff Writer

Sketchy curves reflected in mir TOT have caused many a diSpleased owner to resolve upon a change in bust measurements.
 If your encompasing tape Is THAT slack, give good uplift bra a whirl, and see If measurements aren't more to your liking. If not. there's always exercise which, slow as 1t is to show results, usually is Tewarding.
 Take a bra and give 1t as delft alterations as you would a dress to make 1t fit. By doing that, a clever girl can make her bra the equivalent of a custom-order job. For instance, adjust shoulder straps for better placement. Make bra-cups fit snugly by taking in darts. Lengthen the tab that joins bra cups, if the bustline needs widen ing.
 Plastic Surgery" in Fabric
 If you are hard to fit into a ready made, you can at more ex- pense engage the services of cut- fon1-bra maker, who carries on where sklnflint Nature left of. AL though usually costly, you'll get Salue received from skillful de- Ggning-and sometimes wiring Rom what is literally a plastic urgery" job in fabric.
 Exercise? Take it, anyway, and the next time you buy bra, you might have the satisfaction of asking for
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-18

a larger size. But exercise must be taken every day-not a stint now and another next week.
 If you're willing to work at 1t, here are three, with Huthe ("Zieg- field Follies") Brady showing how.
 First, stand tall with body bal- anced on one foot and slasp your hands behind your head as Ruthe does at the right. Push forward with your arms. hands and the upper part of you. body, and push back ward like mad with your head. After each push, relax and switch weight to the other leg, alternating your stance for 10 counts the first time, and gradually increasing the num- Der.
 Do BackstrOke
 Next play ball. There's nothing better for developing muscles under the bust than 10 minutes a day of tossing and keeping medicine or beach ball or Sonny's football in the air and over your head, as Ruthe demonstrates, left.
 And last. swim the backstroke in and out of water. Good exercise is the stroke performed standing erect, imagining you are using your arms to blow though a choppy turf. Lift right arm, and stretch 1t forward and upward over your head. and bring :. 6own behind yo3 to your side. Repeat with the left arm. swimming each stroke 10 times and gradually adding to that mum. Der,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-18

North and South were playing the weak no trump bid, which justified Souths opening bid of one no trump. West decided he had as good chance of finding his part ner with spades as any other suit, and opened the spade nine, the jack was played from dummy.
 What would you play from East hand? The king, and then return a spade? Well, Sylvia did not. She played the ten spot. When West got in with the ace of hearts, he led another spade. Declarer had to establish the diamonds in order to make nine tricks. When West was in again with the diamond ace, he led the third spade, and Sylvia cashed her three good spade tricks.