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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-12-07
SYNTHETIC RUBBER OUTPUT IN
UNITED STATES

For the first time America Is In a
duction of the worlds natural rub
Der.
Before the war, In 1910, we used
$4,000 tons Of rubber, all imported.
That was more than the rest Of the
world used We were paying about 8
cents a pound for 1t.
Most of 1t came from the Far East.
War shu toff our imports. We needed
rubber. The government spent $780,
100000 on SO synthetic rubber
plants, Those plants now can turn
out 100000 tons year.
The plants-governmen owned,
but operated for the government by
chemical, petroleum and rubber COM
panies are all WORKING. The rubber
they produce goes to the government
which sells II to commercial firms.
In the first Ave months Of 945 the
synthetic rubber cost the government
27l cents pound TO proG'4ce. The
government sold it to commercial
firms at 1914 cents.
This was loss OF nine cents 81
pound to the taxpayers but, through.
production improvements, the cost Is
going down. Synthetic rubber now Is
costing the government about Is "
cents pound, which is also the sell
ing price. The cost may drop further.
But synthetic rubber is not yet
good enough for all purposes. Some
natural rubber still must be import
ed. We can make synthetically about
IS per cent OF all the rubber we need.
We have to import the remaining Il
per cent.
We still are getting natural rub
Der from Brazil, about $4,000 tons Il
year The government IS paying So
cents pound for it, selling it to
commercial firms at the OPA ceiling
price of 90 " cents a pound, a loss OF
F40% cents a pound.
But before Tie war almost all our
rubber was imported from the Brit
ish, Dutch and French possessions In
the Far East, Java, Borneo, Malaga,
Ceylon, Indo-C China. Those countries
ahve been taken back from the Jap
anese.
There is special State Depart
ment mission in London now talking
with the British, Dutch and French
on the rubber problem. The Ameri-
can mission can make no agreements
It's job is to study the problem.
1t will report back Eere to the
State Department. Meanwhile, a
special inter-agency policy committee
of the government--the State, War
Navy, Justice and Commerce Depart
ments are on it's studying the
problem here.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-12-07
MODERN FARMER MUST sTzE-UP
PUBLIC POLICIES

Extension workers must step be-
yond the limits OF The farm line
fence In their effort to help rural
families, by answering their ques-
lions on support prices, full employ
ment, subsidies, agricultural conser-
walton, prices, foreign trade and
similar broad public policies, DR.. T.
b. Symons, Dean of Agricultural and
Director Extension of the Univer-
sity OF Maryland, pointed out at the
State Extension Conference at Bal
timore last week
Today the farmers welfare Is at
fected more by what takes place be-
yond the boundaries of his farm than
by what he does on his land. The fac
tors in his market, and In the price
level at which he sells his crops and
livestock are as important and more
difflcult than the problems on his
own farm.
Paul Nystrom, county agent lead
err, declared that ITO be real SER
want OF the farmer, the extension
worker must adjust his work to hits
situation. He must understand these
problems, learn both sides of each do
batable question, and give the full
picture to the men on the land to let
them decide for themselves"
Aims of extension workers will be
to continue to show practical scienti-
fic facts to increase rural incomes
and to make more happy homes In
rural Maryland. But research on
these public problems that affect the
farmer will be needed, to discover
the debatabe points that must be
considered.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-12-07
NATIONAL CODE OF
COMMERCIAL LEGISLATION


The national Conference of Com
missioners on Uniform State Laws is
preparing a uniform commercial code
which 1t is hoped all the States will
incorporate in their legislative en-
actments, Governor O'Conor was in
formed by ]. G.. Pryor of Burlington,
Iowa, President of the Conference.
Maryland is represented in this
Conference by three Commissioners
for the promotion of uniformity OF
legislation in the United States, At
torney General William Curran,
Judge E. Paul Mason of the Supreme
Bench of Baltimore City and c. Wal
ter Cole, Towson, Attorney.
Maryland has taken an active part
in it's drafting of these uniform acts
for the past decade or more.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-12-07

With the end of the war and the
reduction of the Army and Navy to
normal size, there will, be left
some 1900 Protestant chaplains in
the Army, the Navy and in the Veter-
ans Administration, according to DR..
Seward Hiltner, of the Commission
on Religion and Health of the Fed
eral Council of Churches. About 400
more. he says, will be serving in Pro-
testant hospitals, in state mental hos
pitfalls, in penal and correctional in
situations, and in community institu-
tions. But, in addition to all these,
some 1900 additional Protestant
ministers will be needed for chaplain
cy places in social service agencies,
hospitals and institutions. There are
indications that other hundreds OF
ministers will be sought as chaplains
In Industrial concerns,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-12-07

1.-THE chief blow, which ought to be
the final blow, to peacetime compul
sorry military training, comes not
from the Army nor from the states
men, but from scientists" says DR..
Charles f. Ross, Jr., chairman OF the
World Peace Commission OF the
Methodist Church, body which OPP
poses President Humans proposed
training plan. 1.-THE statements of
eminent scientists, including many
who figured intimately in the devel-
opment of the atomic bomb, are that
the bomb and the discovery of the
process of atomic fission have made
large standing armies and most of
the equipment and techniques of
modern warfare-obsolete The con-
viction Is growing that peacetime
CONSUMPTION and even modern types
of bombers and otker equipment
which were up to date until the
bombing of Hiroshima are as obsolete
as the armor of the medieval knights
on display in London Tower. -.
Scientific facts support moral convic-
ton that the United Nations Organi-
cation should lead in a genuine in
standardization of the atomic
bomb, in the universal abolition of
peacetime military training and by
united action in the reduction of ar
maments.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-12-07
A TREE GROWS

Basic scientific facts OF how tree
grows are reduced to a few simple
paragraphs in tlree-color poster
the Forest Service of the U. S. De-
partment of Agriculture has prepar-
ed as follows;
Light and heat are necessary for
chemical changes. The leaves prepare
the food obtained from the air and
soil and give off moisture by trans
piration. The air supplies carbon, the
principal food of the tree, which it
takes In on the under surface of tie
leaves.
The buds, root tips and cambium
layer are tie growing parts of the
tree. The leaves manufacture food
for the growing processes. Water,
containing minerals in solution, is
absorbed by the roots, carried up
through the sapwood to the leaves,
and is there combined with carbon
from the air to make loou. This rood
is carried by the inner bark to all
growing parts of the tree, even down
to the loot tips. The tree takes in
oxygen over it's entire surface
through breathing pores on leaves,
twigs, branches, trunk and roots.
Trees increase each year in height
and spread of branches by adding on
a new growth of twigs. The heart
wood (inactive) gives strength. The
sapwood (xylem) carries sap from
roots to leaves. Cambium (the layer
of cells where growt hin diameter oc-
curs) builds tissue-wood inside and
bark outside. Inner bark (phloem)
carries food made in the leaves down
to the branches, trunk and roots. The
roots anchor the tree and supply the
water and mineral elements the tree
takes from the soil.
The 16 x 21-inck poster, "How A
Tree Grows" intended particularly
for use in schools, gives this scientific
information in pictorial form and is
available from the Forest Service, u
S. Department of Agriculture, Wash
| ington Is, d. c.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-12-07

The people Of the United States
may be facing serious situation. A
comparatively small percentage of
the population has called strikes
which are causing hundreds of thou
sands of workers to be laid off, thus
curtailing the production of needed
commodities.
No one group of people should be
permitted to rule the country. There
should be no law which would grant
to one group or clique that which is
denied to others. The time may be
here when the farmers and those In
otker lines of Industry should get to-
gether and make themselves heard.
1t is the right of all people in diff
ferent lines of business and industry
to organize and to make their wants
known collectively. The trouble
comes when one group tries to die
tate and ignores the rights of others.
And when one group reaches the
place where 1t dictates to Congress
what laws to make we are in
grave danger. Elk.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-12-07
FATS AND OILS

Confusion and destruction in the
Philippines as the main cause OF
scarcity of industrial fats and oils is
pictured by Kenneth B. Day, former
~ manager of two of the largest oil
processing mills in the Islands.
Mr.. Day, who has recently return
ed to this country after three years
of internment by the Japanese, points
out that until the cocoanut oil of the
Philippines is again coming into this
country at the prewar rate, kitchen
fat salvage will continue to be need
ed in the United States.
THE whole inter-island transpor-
tation system, those small boats by
whic thhe copra was picked up from
the outlying districts, has been shot
to pieces. The boats were sunk by the
Japanese. And it takes time to reor-
ganize and to rebuild. 1t doesn't do
any good to start making copra I'M
less you've got trucks to haul it, and
vessels to carry it to market"
Destruction doesn't even stop
there, according to Mr.. Day, who ex-
plains that processing mills and re-
finehies in the Philippines are first
class ruins. From distance saw
the flames of one of our own mills
burning, so know of what | speak, +"
Mr.. Day continues.
Our own bombs did a lot of dam
age and the retreating Japanese
burned all they could We can rebuild
our mills, but we must first be able
to get machinery, supplies and men.
And even if they were in working
condition, up to now we can't get any
electric power in Manila to run the
mills"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-12-07
PEACE TIME CONSUMPTION

If results show anything, they re-
veal THAT nations with conscript
peace armies have arrived at the bot
tom of the heap, such as France.
Germany, Italy, but that nations not
employing peacetime CONSUMPTION
came out on top of the heap every
time, as with the United States, Bri-
tain, Canada, Australia. The latter
nations won without peacetime con-
scription; the former lost in spite of
peacetime CONSUMPTION. The propon-
ents of the Innovation must be able to
explain away this seemingly anomaly
before advocating the adoption of the
losers Observation-Disclosures Sum
day Star.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-12-07

down his theoretical policies. He pro-
poses to avert infiation-and like "a
lot of other brass hats" he does not
seem to know that there is too much
imitation, good deal of his own maxi
ing. Price controllers, labor union
leaders and even the Administration
and Congress remain jittery on prob
lens of how to restore the country
to normal conditions, such as were
completely upset by World War I
and only partially redeemed about
the time World War II broke out.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-12-07

Herbert Hoover said recently:
'sLoaning money is poor road to in
ternational friendship To which
may be added that it is also poor
road to personal friendship When a
friend asks you for loan and YOU re-
fuse to grant 1t, you save both mon
ey and friendship. England got bill
lions from Uncle Sam and when he
refused to be sucker any longer.
she got sore.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-12-07
FLUID MILK

Milk will find a big post war de-
mand, according to O. H. Hoffman,
Jr., General Manager of Interstate
Milk Producers Cooperative. In his
talk before the tentl; annual dele
gate meeting of the Cooperative, he
stated that st is our conviction that
our biggest potential post war mar
ket for fluid milk is in the beverage
field That is why we asked the Sec
rotary of Agriculture for his assist
ance in centering the attention Of
the American people on fluid milk as
a beverage in the post war period"
There is great need for national
unity among farm organizations, Mr..
Hoffman told the meeting, stating
taht Interstate is going to be par
ticularly interested in the action OF
the National Cooperative Milk Pro.
ducers' Federation and other nation
al farm organizations in the post war
period. Our welfare depends enor-
mously upon how successfully the
major farm organizations conduct
themselves on this national level"
He warned that there is no short
and easy way to secure benefits and
that the notion that this can be done
by Congress passing laws is too prev
alent in the country today. He said
that What we need Is an impartial
unbiased and understanding inter-
probation of the laws we have"
He asked that individuals and
groups close their ranks and stand
together, stating THAT 1T would be a
silly business for US who SO badly
wanted peace to cease fighting the
enemy abroad only the commence
fighting among ourselves at home. :"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-12-07
TREsPAssING FORBIDDEN

Cunning and other forms of tres
passing on the premises of the under
signed is positively forbidden, and
trespassers will be death with ac-
cording to law.
]. ]. HANNA,
Colora, Md.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-12-07
For Sale AT All Times

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 120M Rising Sun, Md.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-12-07
CUNNING AND TREsPAssING


FORBIDDEN
Notice is hereby given that gum
ming and all other forms Of trespass-
ing on the premises of the undersign-
dis positively forbidden. Persons
SO trespassing will be prosecuted to
the full extent of the law.
WILLIAM REYNOLDS
Rising Sun. Md.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-12-07
DIFFERENCES IN DOLLARS
BY J. II. Jones

Washington, o. G. Dec. 3-Wil-
liam Jennings Bryan held up his end
of the argument in regard to a
double monetary standard-gold and
silver, even though he lost out in the
Presidential elections. There are sew
eral silver-producing States that
have never believed in this Orthodox
ical single standard. Anyway, the
gold taken away from the American
public under the New Deal is still in
holes under the ground and not wear
ing out anybody's pockets. Neverthe-
less, buy-woozy politicians in the in
ternational roundup are telling the
folks in Washington, London and so
forth, that the American dollar and
the British crown must achieve
stable relationships. or course, that
would be all right, except that In
reality it is all wrong. Methods OF
living, prices, wages, and everything
else is about SO per cent under the
Uunited States stable relations -
and good many other relations are
pretty punk. There is an unmatch-
able difference" in European and
American money-except possibly
continuance of the old practices of
lending and leasing and never pay
ing. That may be expected,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-12-07

More than half of the estimated
100 million automobile wheels now
rolling on American streets and
highways are doing SO on synthetic
rubber.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-12-07

One major oil company already
has employed, postwar, 1000 return
ed veterans who were not previously
employed by it. More than SO per
cent of the company's employees who
have been discharged from military
service have returned to work.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-12-07
WANTED

Man to work in mill. Apply to
F. P. Keppel,
Phone SIS Rising Sun, Md.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-12-07
NOTICE

Cunning and other trespassing on
my premises positively forbidden.
Eta M. Smith
Pennington, Md.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-12-07

Our petroleum and other supply
lines in the war with Germany ex-
tended some 1000 miles: in the Pa
cific they heightened to. IA 900 miles.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-12-07

Zuleta Angel is elected chairman
of the preparatory commission OF the
United Nations Organization. No one
else in peace organization could
compete with that name.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-12-07

During 1914 the U. s. produced as
muck oil as the whole world did in
1885.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-12-07

Can we afford to fire the drones?
What would we do without their
wage taxes?
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-12-07

How about reversing the present
process by buying the fat from the
butcher at 4 cents a pound and SELL
ing it back to him at so?
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-12-07

Stain Is reported as ready to quit
some Of his jobs. One of them is re-
viewing Moscow paEadss,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-12-07
Advice LIS Cheap

A strong domestic market made up
of American consumers is the back
bone of our National prosperity, cal
culated in all terms, from the factory
to the soil. At the present time agri-
culture and industry are not on
sound footings, in view of the fact
that hundreds of thousands of indus
trial workmen have separated them
selves from their employment and
obeyed the orders of political labor
leaders who have been fomenting
strikes The Federal Government has
been advising everybody to go back
to workout results seem to prove
chat advice is cheap"
This man Bowlss. who has been
liking prices and rationing, las gone
out on the end of the limb iii laying
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-12-07
The Forgotten Man

According to one of the ablest col
umnist's in Washington the wage
price debate has overlooked the con
sumner, who he describes as tie for
gotten man" He names President
Truman and Secretary of Commerce
Wallace as the ''forgetters," who fail
TO remember that the consumers alb
sence in conspicuously illustrated by
the labor-management conference.
There the persons taking part are
representatives of labor and manage
ment with representatives OF Gov
ernmena in the role of expediting the
conference machinery. But, says
our columnist: There is no sopkes-
man charged with pressing the inter
est of the consumer"
Labor and management discuss
matters having to do witk prices, or
which will affect prices, but it is
merely assumed that 1.-The consumer
will pay whatever prices result from
their deliberations and agreements.
"Yet to say that the consumer is
wholly ignored would not be quite
correct. In some of the deliberations
about Price, though not all, it is as
sumed that the cosnumer will be pro-
.ected by Government, that official
ceilings will be put upon prices. But
his is not universally accepted"
Il II Il
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-12-07

That old saying tkat reads some
hing like "a lesson well learned is
hard to forget" is particularly appli
cable these days to the upkeep of
footwear. Just when the evolution of
shoe styles changed from a mere COW
aring protection from the weather
to a identifying part of the costume
s not known, but it dates back as far
as the dawn of history in Egypt And
have taken particular pride in their
shoes and in keeping them that way.
Not only is we'll kept footwear a
matter of personal satisfaction, it is
often of vital practical Importance.
It's point that some negligent PEG
pie overlook and has resulted III
many a person losing job, merely
attributed on an application blank to
careless grooming" And now that
Jobs will become increasingly scarcer
and more and more men and women
will be seeking employment, it would
be well if applicants became aware
of the warning that Best Foods, man
ufacturers of Shinola, advances in
it's advertising-"Your shoes are
showing"
To be sure, shoe rationing is a
thing OF the past, but good grooming
will always be with us. We learned
to keep our footwear in good condi-
ton during wartime rationing be-
cause we had to preserve it, let us,
now keep it so not only because it's
smart to be thrifty but because we're
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-19

Yesterdays C Wv d scrap
pape~ drive, carried out jointly by
the Junior Chamber of Commerce
and the City troops of the Boy
Scouts of America, netted 82,162
pounds Of waste paper, it was an
nounced last night.
This take fell nearly 10000
pounds under that of the second
collection, made six weeks ago,
but was substanti lily greater than
that of the years first drive. The
paper was sold to the Wilmington
Paper Stock Co. and the proceeds
given to the Boy Scouts for the
purchase of motion picture pro-
jector to be used for training pur-
p ses.
Eighteen trucks, furnished by
agencies and commercial concerns
within the City and manned by 30
Jaycees and $50 Scouts, commenced
their sweep at l pm, under a
broiling sun. They garnered 38
loads of scrap from curb-piles built
UP by residents of the City, the
suburbs and Carolina and Wrights-
vile Bea ches, and brought them
for bailing and weighing to the
yards of the North-South Coal Co.,
at Sixth and Campbell streets.
The complete yield had been
handled by $3.50 pm.
The co-chairmen of the drive
were Harley Kenan. for the Jay
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-19
Nv MoRRIE sANDsBERG

TWO JIMA, March 1o-Lf,-H
YOU want to know what I've lima
CAPTURE means, study the map care
fully.
The Japanese mainland is only
100 miles away.
Almost all possible targets IN
future Western Pacific aerial Of
fensives are within conVenlent
bombing range. Haha and Chlcnl
lima in the Bonns are 139 and l63
,noes northeast. The naval base OF
Tawao on Formosa is 1884 miles
wet and it is only few hundred
miles farther to the China coast.
Two was the strongest base IN a
string Of islands Japan had built
I'D as buffer to possible agrees
zion from the south. With its fall,
all others were weakened to the
point of passivity or complete use
lessness. But it goes beyond that.
In Two and the Bonins, the Japa-
nese had staging bases from which
to strike American positions in the
Marianas and conceivably to send
planes into such by-passed and still
potentially dangerous places as
Truk in the Carolines. The Japa-
nese no longer can retaliate in the
air except against Two unless they
risk their few remaining carriers.
Japan's defeat here almost forg-
ed ring around the enemy's main
land. The ring begins here, touches
U. S. occupied islands in the Mari
anas and Palaus and ends on Lu
z0n