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The midland journal., 1945-09-14
AND FUEL OIL SAVED
BY RATIONING

With the help of the people of the
State, the Maryland War Price and
Rationing Boards and the State OPA
Office accomplished the almost unbe-
lievable in conserving more than
75,0OO,OOO gallons of fuel oil and
nearly 20O,0O0,00O gallons of gaso-
line during the rationing period on
these commodities from May 1912,
to August Is, 1915, when the restric-
tions were lifted.
TIE figures were given by Leo II.
Mccormick, OPA Maryland State Di-
rector, in "a summary of operations
on three major rationing programs
fuel oil, gasoline and processed foods
which were dicontinued as of Aug
ust Is. Mr.. Mccormick said "The
magnitude of the rationing job in
Maryland is indicated in the figures
on applications handled and gallons
of gas and oil rationed. On fuel oil
for all purposes 1,614,976 separate
applications for coupons were pro-
cessed for total of 2,038,740,673
gallons. Ration coupons were issued
for 6,747,24G gallons of gasoline. :"
The midland journal., 1945-09-14
SUGAR SITUATION CRITICAL

Warning that the sugar situation
is critical, Leo H. Mccormick, OPA
Maryland State Director, urges house
wives not to apply for canning sugar
unless they actually know it will be
used for that purpose.
The State Director also declared
that purchasers should not accept
anything less than five pounds of su-
gar for the currently valid sugar
stamp No. 38. There have been COM
plants of some storekeepers selling
four pounds instead of the usual five
pounds for the stamps, giving the
purchaser two two-pound packages
and saying they could not break
package for the fifth pound. Dealers
have been told that they must give
full value for the stamps. Mr.. Nc
Cormick said: 1.-The new stamp 3S
will be good for four months at the
current ration rate of five pounds of
sugar every four months. Supplies of
sugar in this country, as well as all
over the world, continue very tight.
The Department of Agriculture tells
us that there is no prospect of i'm
provement in supplies for civilians
this year. Stocks are lower right now
than they have been in decade. OBJ
viously, we must continue to ration
sugar so that all can share equally"
The midland journal., 1945-09-14
FORD AND FERGUSON

Harry Ferguson is product of the
Emerald Isle and it is recorded in his
background that he was the first man
in Ireland to fly a heavier-than-air
machine. He came to America and
hooked-up with Henry Ford, the
highest success as an industrial-fyer
in our country. The two men got to-
gether at Dearborn, Michigan, as
manufacturers of the Ford-Ferguson
tractor, plus Ferguson implements.
Ferguson is an original genius,
and tkat is why he and Grand Old
Henry got together. They agreed that
farm methods had remained almost
exactly the same for hundreds of
years-that the only possible way to
improve farm and economic condi-
tions was to devise modern efficient
mechanical implements engineered
precisely to known farm needs. So
the two big FF's" combined their
tractors and the implements, that
you find mentioned in our live Fam
lily Newspapers SO frequently.
The midland journal., 1945-09-14
Is UNEMPLOYMENT A STATE OF
MIND?

There is general unhappin s
throughout the country over what Is
looked upon as unemployment
ahead of u.s." The Director of War
Mobilization and Reconversion in
Washington estimates that the num-
ber of unemployed may reach several
million by early next spring. Just at
present there are reports from all
parts of the country of war plants
shifting from war production back to
the old natural lines" That is just
exactly what must be expected by
every one of us who take time and
pains to study the definitions for the
word "reconversion."
All those millions of persons who
were taken out of industries, shops,
stores and offices are needed by en-
ployers who gave out jobs before the
war 1t can't all be accomplished in
"jiffy" or a few weeks.
Anyhow, heads of some OF the
greatest business institutions OF the
United States have different state
of mind about unemployment. This
unemployment" fear seems to be a
state of mind.
The midland journal., 1945-09-14
ON DEMOCRACY

There is much talk, from day tc
day, of the postwar world and of pre-
paration for it, of changes in the old
and of new things, of readjustments;
plans more or less comprehensive
and elaborate are exploited, particu-
larly in economic life.
We cannot look into the future
and see, with clearness, through the
vaporings over the boiling cauldron
of the present, what then, in that
postwar world, may be the conditions
in economic or social or political life,
and undertake to lay down rules and
regulations therefor.
We should, however, contemplate
and study the past, intelligently and
carefully, and like Patrick Henry, by
the light of experience learn what
therein was wrong and what right,
"hold fast to that which is good, .
and "do the right as God gives us to
see the right"
The subject of first Importance is
not economic but social and political
particularly the democratic character
and foundation of the government as
one "of, by and for" free people, gov
erning themselves. - William l..
Chitty.
The midland journal., 1945-09-14
PROTESTANT ACCOMPLISHMENT

During the 5 years since the
Spanish-American War, Protestant
free America has done more to help
the people of the Philippine Islands
than was ever done for them under
333 years of Spanish Roman, Catho-
lie misrule.
Protestant America brought in
American public schools, modern
sanitation, decent housing, protect
ed water supply, electricity, the right
of public assembly, free speech, mod
ern transportation, and the open
Bible with its message of the Gospel.
Contrast all these achievements with
the corrupt medieval civilization and
decadent Roman Catholicism that
had been imposed by cruel selfish
priesthood and one will understand
why the people of the Philippines
stood Loyalty by the U. S. A. follow
ing the Jap invasion.
The midland journal., 1945-09-14
GREAT ADVANCES IN POWER
PLANTS SEEN

The motor power plants of the ma
tion's transportation systems have
taken on new forms at rate unpre-
cedented in history, c. M. Larson,
noted petroleum engineer, announ-
ced recently.
The steam locomotive, he pointed
out, now appears powered with a
steam turbine instead of reciprocal
ing engine with cylinders; diesel To-
comotives of 5000 horsepower are
not uncommon; gas turbins are al
ready in use, and jet propulsion air
craft is fact.
"Just imagine what the automo-
tive engineer has up his sleeve for
the postwar car, truck and bus" Mr..
Larson said, mot to mention the civil
liam airplane or skyroad car that will
appear within the next five years.
The midland journal., 1945-09-14
SALVATION ARMY AND WAR

The Salvation Army has helped
1,187,1O3 servicemen in various
ways since Pearl Harbor, when mo-
bile canteens were adopted immedi-
ately and the Honolulu Professional
Business Women's Club, Lions Club
and Masonic Lodges gave liberal sup
port. Professional and volunteer
workers have travelled more than 92,-
900 miles in this service At first mil
itary provisions were not established
and the Salvationists carried on
alone, serving food and refreshments
which did much to maintain a high
morale. Later, responsibility for the
program was assumed by the United
Service Organizations of which the
Salvation Army is one.
The midland journal., 1945-09-14
THE MEN ARE COMING HOME
BY j. IL. Jones

New York City, September 10
Your writer from Washington saw
many of the returning so transports
arriving in New York Port this week,
brining our men home, at the rate of
more than 10000 day. | saw them
1T seems like years ago-when the
boys went away, light-hearted, cheer
ing, anxious for adventure and conf
dent that they would win the war in
Europe. Now, hundreds of thousands
of those BOYS are dead The trans
ports are unloading MEN. Some OF
them are from your community, and
New York is only landing place.
But, it Is the first viewpoint for the
opening of the great transformation
from the boys of recent years t.
the serious maturity brought S.
quickly upon these heroes who have
finished their job, and returned to re
sumo their places in the greatest Ma
ton in the World. say greatest be-
cause our boys of tke 1917-18's won
that war and the boys of the 194O's
won two wars-one in Europe and
one in the Pacific. That's just exactly
the whole, plain truth-with all sen
timent, "maybe's', qualifications and
reservations scratched.
There are men from the wars OF
every avenue and street, and wher
ever you may look in this great city
They are returning to their OWL
homes, and to their loved ones every
hour of tke day and night.
Everybody is agreed that every
man we are talking about must bt
looked after and put back into his
old place or better one. Let nothing
defeat, or chill that good resolution
But 1 have spent many long hour
in remembering those "bonus-army
marches upon my home city of Wash
ngton in the 192O's when the Wash
ngton government lulled all of Us
citizens and insisted that we mus
keep our noses out of this affair.
We did! We won't stand for a repeti-
ion of any such tragedy again! MOI
will you! Tke men are coming home
They will get all their rights. Theil
countrymen will not let them down
this time.
The midland journal., 1945-09-14
POST WAR PLANNING

Through wars man himself has
conceived no more catastrophe de-
struction of human values And in
the backwash of wars also comes de-
struction of those wild life values
which contribute 50 much toward
maintaining healthful, outIoor-lov-
ing populace during peacti.n9s.
In the backwasli of the First
World War came the drainage craze
tion of the soil-binding prairie sod
of our mid-continental states and
provinces of Canada, which needed
only cycle drought to touch off the
dust Bowl" era. And up in the
smoke-like dust clouds OF that era
went the bulk of North Americas
wild waterfowl whose principa
breeding grounds were that prairie
country. The U. S. Biological Survey
estimated the wild duck population
in 1894 at only some $4,000, 1000
not much more than two bag limits
for eack of the 1,250,000 present
day purchasers of duck stamps.
Now another war is bringing in it's
wake corollary to the drainage
craze born of the last great conflict.
Now it's dams-for flood control, ir-
rigation, navigation, hydro-electric
power, etc. Not little dams to hold
back water at the headwaters where
floods really should be controlled,
but enormous structures damming up
the greatest river systems of the ma
ton.
What these great postwar propos-
ais might do to the wildlife of the
regions affected may well be conjec-
tured. Aquatic wildlife, waterfowl
and fish in particular, are dependent
for substenance upon aquatic vegeta-
tion. Such vegetation requires more
or less stabilized water depths to
thrive-a condition that cannot be
maintained if the proposed large fed
eral projects are to serve as vast
catch-basins for spring flood waters
and then, necessarily, be drained off
in readiness for the next deluge.
Too many dams may be just as de-
structive as too much drainage. Our
great rivers and their tributaries are
to this continent what the. blood
streams are to the human body. They
are it's life blood. Major operations
on the blood stream of our continent
should be undertaken only after the
most careful and rigid diagnosis Too
many toruniquIets on our arteries
II hU
muck bleeding, and too many dams
may be just as destructive as too
much drainage.
A case in point is the much dis
cussed Missouri River Authority, an
application of the IVA idea which
may be extended to six other major
river systems of the nation The Mis-
souri, water shed is one of the great
est potential waterfowl areas in the
United States. Like the upper Missi-
ssippi, already biologically upset by
chain of navigation dams, the Mis-
souri, is a waterfowl fyaway of par
amount Importance along which the
migrants must be able to find custo-
mary supplies of natural food--or
else.
Despite the great fight of ducks
out of the prairie provinces last fall,
observers, on the upper Mississippi
reported the migration rs per cent
less than during previous years
With inadequate natural foods along
the Mississippi the birds concentrat-
ed in enormous numbers in the Da-
kotas-doing much damage to grain
crops.
The answer seems to be not big
dams for flood control and other pur-
poses, but wise handling of waters
where the rain falls.
The midland journal., 1945-09-14
shorter Working Hours

The Wage Sterilization Program
and fiocks of regulations were virtu-
ally scrapped, by help of power poll
tics.
Without aid of radio speech-mak-
ing, President Truman in his custom
airy open and sensible manner has or
dered most of the Government agen-
eies on a forty-hour work week. He
took it for granted that the eight Ma
tional holidays belong to all the peo-
pie, and he also lifted restrictions on
annual leave.
The Presidents Order stated that
the forty-hour week will permit the
establishment of five-day work
week wherever feasible" Any special
The midland journal., 1945-09-14
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SERVICES

Substance" will be the subject OF
the Lesson-Sermon in all Churches
of Christ, Scientist, on Sunday. Sep
tember 16.
The Golden Text will be from He
brews 11:1-"Faitk is the substance
of things hoped for, the evidence of
things not seen."
Among the citations comprising
the Lesson-Sermon will be the fol-
lowing from the Bible-Micah al
but in the last days it shall come to
pass, that the mountain of the house
of the Lord shall be established in
TIE top of the mountain, and it shall
be exalted above the hills; and the
people shall dow into It,
The midland journal., 1945-09-14
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EDUCATION
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Tke progress of mankind depends
on expansion of our resources, and
the means by which to do it Is edu-
cation. Education Is a process of In
creasing our power to do things. The
statesman, Edmund Burke, said:
Education is the chief defense OF
nations" That education Is power is
undeniably true. But education is a
general term and can be used to tear
down as well as build up. 1t can
therefore, be a means of defense or
1t can become an offense. AS an ex-
ample of what can be done we simply
need to look and see what has hap
pened to Germany. A nation may
muzzle its preachers and stop gospel
the doors to invite the coming OF a
veritable hell and world conilagra-
ton.
There Is another expression, often
quoted, which has a similar general
significance, bearing on the training
of youth: Spare the rod and spoil
the child" Like education "sparing
the rod" can be corrective or it may
spoil and fail in the thing it Is in
tended to do. In other words, rod
can result in evil as well as good, and
in the majority of cases ruling will
be found to be bad 1t creates fear,
and it is never wise to create any
thing but respect and reverence
Once these are lost, the building of
noble character in youth fails.
Tie word education literally
means "The act of leading out" If
education is thorough and complete,
it will bring out all the powers OF
being, body, soul and spirit.
This is balanced power, makes us
free and gives stability and poise to
do the right. If our education is de-
fective in one of these factors, our
thinking and acting cannot be nor
NAL, and, in a proportionate degree,
our life does not add up to what it
might be. The Bible in stressng our
need of such development puts it
thus: "Man shall not live by bread
alone, but by every word proceedeth
out of the mouth of God" They who
leave God out of their education are
building on the sand, nothing under
their feet is firm, and the very prin-
ciple of life rests ON fantasy, imagi.
nation and uncertainty.
When Edmond Burke spoke of ed
ucation century or more ago there
was more truth in his statement than
there is today. Since that day the ed
lcation of the whole man has retro
graded. Tke textbooks of our public
schools do not contain many stories
on holy living and good habits; ply
siOlogy is no longer a cardinal study,
and as result the use of narcotics
and intoxicants in this age has not
been exceeded in any age. This is no
credit to goth century progress We
have made very commendable pro-
gress in inventions and the sciences,
but only to find ourselves clagrined
in the greatest killing tragedy of
world history.
If nations want to continue to live
they must find way to conserve and
save. Continued destruction will
bring US to the end of all there is.
Necessity demands change of heart,
of will and of action. Past ways lave
proven tkat we must turn to the
light. Education can bring it about,
but not unless it be thorough and in
clude all the powers of the soul with
in us.
The midland journal., 1945-09-14

Robots are nothing new = they
may have been made as far back as
400 B. c., according to the Encyclo-
pedia Britannica. In that year, it is
reported craftsman made a wooden
pigeon that could fly. Another an
cient is said to have made a fly of
iron which would fiutter around the
room and return to his hand, and an
eagle which flew before the emperor
Macmillan when he entered Nurem-
burg.
The midland journal., 1945-09-14
School Days


In recent statement Katharine
F. Lenroot, chief of the U. S. Child
ren's Bureau, said: For four years
war pressures have pushed school en-
,ollment down and child labor up"
In the years 194O-41, high school at
.endance in tie nation reached a rec
ord peak with figure of 7,25O,000.
The following year the registration
lropped 100000; in 1942-43, 300,-
300 more In 1943-44 there was a
lrop of 100000 reported by high
schools on nationwide basis. While
small percentage of these losses is
attributable to fewer numbers of
boys and girls, owing to declining
,irth rates of previous years, the en-
oloyment of Ia to II year old rose
rom less than one million in 1910
approximately three million in the
,pring of 1945.
In addition to those young people
who have dropped from school for
steady employment in industry, an
other two to three millions have
lound jobs during afternoons, even
ngs, weekends and vacation periods
Educators are concerned lest size
able percentage of these fail to re-
turn to school this fall. In order to
make a successful readjustment to
school programs those who have
known the independence and excite
n,ont of rocoiyin0 war.in17otod ma Uoc
must be willing to settle down to the
everyday routine of school life. But
parents, civic organizations and
youth leaders can perform a needed
service by emphasizing to tomorrow S
;itizens that the best foundation for
future happiness is a well-rounded
education.
The midland journal., 1945-09-14

agency of the Government that must
have workers longer hours will be
required to fill in the gap with
skeleton force to keep the wheels 60
ing around. In Washington it was es-
timated that the 40-hour Order will
reduce many salaries; but the Gov
ernment will still be paying out to
all of its employees proper wages and
salaries.
The midland journal., 1945-09-14

There's enough salt in the oceans
to equal fourteen and one-half times
the bulk of tie entire continent of
Europe above the high water mark,
according to the Encyclopedia Bri-
tannica. That would be no less than
four. and one-half million cubic miles
of rock salt.
The midland journal., 1945-09-14

Is there any comfort in the
thought that nobody will try to in
vent. bomb that will kill more tEan
half way around the earth?
The midland journal., 1945-09-14
That Draft

Many in Congress hope that volun-
sary enlistments in both the Army
and Navy will be enough to justify
N end, or at least drastic curtail-
ment, of calls under Selective Ser
vice. If enlistments were adequate,
one of Congress- greatest headaches
would disappear.
The midland journal., 1945-09-14

How about little eye-opener-
the realization of how many things
we've been doing Without
The midland journal., 1945-09-14

That Grand Hotel in Yokohama
managed to resist every earthquake
except Macarthur.
The midland journal., 1945-09-14
MARYLAND MUSINGS

A preliminary estimate of the
number of turkeys raised on farms
in Maryland this year as of August
1 is 10000, according to the Mary
land Crop Reporting Service. This
compares witk 100000 raised in
1914.
The old story about the biscuits
that were heavy because the cook
mistook "bug powder" for baking
powder is not so ridiculous as it
sounds. Many serious accidents have
resulted from carelessness with in
secticides used in the home and gar
den.
Present supplies of fats and oils
are lower than tkey have been in
many years.
The State of Maryland, under su-
pervision of DR.. E. A. Walker, Assis-
tant Pathologist, began removing
Dutch Elm diseased trees the middle
of June in the Lewistown and Fred
erick townships. BY the end of June,
"a Dutch Elm disease and S8 beetle
material samples, or total of. 112
trees had been removed and destroy
ed in Frederick and Carroll counties,
The midland journal., 1945-09-14

Present supplies of fats and oil
are lower than tkey have been il
many years.
The Valley settler., 1945-11-30

-oNaUNITY CHRIS TAS NEWS CONT. from p. l req ts Mrs. Neil Miller, Chairman
 Miss Virginia Wear
 Mrs. Walter Cooper
 Mrs. Henning Benson Program: Mir. E.E. Harriss, Cha irman
 Supt. of the Pc Inner Terri torial
 School
 to appoint other commi tteemen
 from the school. A. ].
 Rev. Victor A1fsen, Assis tant Decora ting: Mrs. L.C. Stock, Cha irmen Mrs. Ralph Goodrieh, Mir. Neil Miller Mir. George Small Mr. Ma tt Onkka Benevolence: Mir. Harold Thuma ,Cha irman Mrs. Walter Huntley, Rev. Fa ther Sneed Caroling: Rev. George Sevchenko ,Cha irmen Rev. Victor Alfsen, Mir. Harry Wimmer. Tn true Chris tmas spirit the Pa almerites come forth to serve their fell lowmen.
  FROM THE HOMER HeMEs TRADER we learn the they have had a heavy snowfall of three feet. This is said to be of the heaviest snowfells in recent years. mer is also building new Hotels and Thea ter. The Schodl needs to be enlarged to take care Of the children of families moving in to Homer. The CAA is furni shing the Homer School wit current until such time as they can get it from other sources. Volunteer workers trung the wires.
The Valley settler., 1945-11-30
MADE EST HE Dr-N-Y

MADE EST HE! D-l1Y
 -- newly arrived soldier in tho North vas trying to give ono Of the Natives lesson in basic Engli sh. Pointing to an- othor native he said, mhn."
 Tho native repeated after him, 'lhn." , Iloasod, tho lmorican pointed to q tre and said "Troo."
 "Troo," the native echoed.
 Then a plano flew overhead and the soldier oxcitodly said, 'That?"
 The native looked into the sky and said, Vim not suro. It looks liko q B-24, but it might be a B-2o."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-23
Carroll E. Medley Makes Presentation
NotionoI Safety Pennont Received for First Time by Connecticut IidustrioI Concern
Concern

Naugatuck, Aug. g. The National Safety Remnant was awarded yes- terday afternoon to the United States Rubber Company, Naiigatuck Footwear Plant for an outstanding record in the reduction of accidents. This is the first time that this award has been made to an indus" trial concern in Connecticut.
 Carroll K. Medley, eastern re- gional director of the National Safety Council made the presenta- tion to Robert E. Lowell, industrial relations manager of the Naugatuck Footwear plant. At the same time the award of honor for distinguished service to safety, as established by the National Safety Council to en- courage reduction of industrial ac- cidents, was also presented by MT. Medley to H. L. Garter, factory manager.
 The third award of the afternoon was the United States Department of Labor Certificate of Safety Achievement. Lewis E. MacBrayne, New England director, national com mittee for conservation of man. power, presented this certificate to Harold N. Barrett, production su- perintendent, representing manage l1lent, and George T. Froehlich, pres- 1dent, Local No. 45, United Rubber Workers of America, C.I.O.
 H. B. Spencer, assistant industrial relations manager. United States Rubber company, was the keynote speaker, and Earl c. Shedd, safety supervisor of the footwear plant, acted as master of ceremonies.