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The midland journal., 1946-09-20
SEVEN FAT YEARS FOLLOWED
LEAN

Experience in the United States
has run just contrary to the Egyptian
chronicle of the seven lean years fol-
lowing the seven fat years of the
Pharoah's dream which Joseph in
terpreted. Here the seven fiat" years
of high production have followed in
stead of coming before the seven
lean" years preceding (1933-39).
However, as a result of the change in
demand-both national and world
wide-the farm situation in the
lean" years was characterized by a
threatening and persistent surplus
problem. In the "fat" years, the pa
rade of record-breaking crops has not
been able to match the war-created
requirements, and shortages" have
accompanied bumper crops.
These contrasts appear in U. S.
Department of Agriculture tabula-
tions of crop production. By using
the August Crop Report figures for
the seventh fat year, and official es-
Inmates for previous years, simple ad-
dition shows a production of more
than 21 billion bushels of corn for
the seven years of 1910 to 1916. For
the seven previous years the lean"
production was 15.4 billion bushels.
For wheat, the figures show almost
z billion bushels in the seven fat
years and As billions in the lean
period. For oats, the record stands at
more than billion bushels compar-
ed with 6.5 billion.
The record reveals that for these
crops, production in two "fat" years
have been nearly equal to three of
the lean" years. And the United
States has experienced seven success
sive fat years of good crops! Crop ex-
perts agree that the weather is a
principal item. They mention as other
elements in the picture, hard work
and planning by farmers, improved
machinery, and better cultural prac-
tices that include such items as use
of fertilizer, hybrid conr and improv-
ed varieties of other crops, and con-
troll of erosion. From the standpoint
of human nutrition, substitution OF
machines for horses as farm power
has released much acreage for food
growing.
The midland journal., 1946-09-20
A GOOD START To SCHOOL

September brings new routine in
households throughout the country
Millions of boys and girls are return
ing to school or are entering school
for the first time.
The first day of school is q big mo-
ment in the life of every youngster
1t is the day when the last vestiges
of babyhood are cast aside and the
child enters upon life in which he
must rely upon himself to an extent
beyond His previous experience.
The physical condition of the first
grader, and likewise of his older
brothers and sisters in higher grades,
may determine his success in school.
| In fact his whole future life may be
affected by how good start he gets
in school.
Before Junior begins school, he
should have complete physical ex-
animation. He will come in contact
with large groups of people and may
be exposed to contagious diseases for
the first time in his life. Ills resis-
tance to these diseases will depend
caution his parents have taken to
have him immunized against certain
diseases.
Vaccination against smallpox is
usually required before entrance to
public schools. Parents should will
ingly cooperate with the school au-
thorities in seeing that their child is
vaccinated before beginning school.
While immunization against diph-
| iberia is not a matter of law, wise
parents see to it that their child is
given injections against this disease,
to which children are particularly
susceptible, by tke time he is six
years old.
thorough physical examination
before school begins will reveal any
defects in the child--whether he is
getting proper nourishment from his
food, whether his tonsils are healthy,
whether his eyesight is good. Defec-
tive eyesight may place such a strain
on the child that he will become re-
tarded in his studies and may also
become upset emotionally.
And what about the child's teeth?
He should by all means see a dentist
before he enters school and should
make regular visits to TIE dentist
| thereafter, as the dentist recon-
mends
The child who enters school in a
! healthy condition is much less apt to
come down with ailments through
out the year and lose time from
school.
This column is sponsored, in the
interest of better health, by the
Maryland Tuberculosis Association,
900 st. Paul St., Baltimore, Md.
The midland journal., 1946-09-20
PLAN POTATO CONTROL

Maryland potato producers will
have Individual farm acreage goals
for potatoes in 1947, and only farm
ers who stay within these goals will
be eligible for government price sup
ports on this crop, advised State
PIMA Chairman, Joseph E. Blandford.
The goal restriction on farm
basis was set up for 1947 because of
the production which greatly exceed
ed suggested acreage goals in 1916.
In Maryland, the 1916 goal for early
white potatoes in 1916 was 4,500
acres, Mr.. Blandford pointed out, but
production totalled $500 acres. With
national production about 67 million
bushels greater than the goal, the
price support program has been call
ed on to buy a huge quantity of po-
tatoes this year.
In Maryland alone, Mr. Blandford
pointed out, 1142 carloads of early
white potatoes, totalling about 49,
261,OOO pounds, were purchased by
the government under price support.
All but Sc carloads which were
bought through the Hagerstown Of
flee, were purchased from growers in
the Eastern Shore. A great many of
these potatoes were diverted to max
ing of alcohol. This was part of 81
million bushels of spuds bought by
the government this year under the
price support program.
Maryland farmers kept within the
goal for late white potatoes this
year, said Mr.. Blandford, with a pro-
duction of 1890 acres compare to
goal of 1900 acres. But early po-
tato production was nearly SO per
cent above the expected needs. The
State goal for 1947 will be announ-
ced early in October The National
goal for potatoes calls for 373,000,-
900 bushels; 100000 less than the
1916 goal, and 76 million bushels
bushels less than actual 1916 produc-
tion of potatoes. Support of late crop
potatoes is only by government loan
on the stored crop.
The midland journal., 1946-09-20

Sure, things have been going to the
bow-wows for a long time. The Ma
ton has been going backwards Our
National Government seems to have
made more bad guesses than good
ones. When the yardstick of political
measurements are applied to the old
political parties both of them have
been found wanting-both confused,
uncertain, taking chances, hoping for
better things tomorrow. A strictly
non-partisan newspaper writer from
Washington tells us that if one at
tempts to fix the blame, that most
members of the two Houses of Con-
gress have just muddled things
through. So what, The American
people will have to decide who to re-
turn to Washington to represent
them in the next Congress, and who
to keep at home. Really, it seems to
be more of a question of making in
dividual choices than voting the tick
ct straight. Also, think hard about
ever-mounting taxation, and with it
the high costs of living and every
thing incidental to living. There are
strong advocates of National econo-
my in Congress. Senator Byrd of Vir-
ginia says two million useless en-
ployes should be taken off the Gov
ernment payroll. This is the year
when one should be sure to vote in
telligently.
The midland journal., 1946-09-20
BURNEs SAID 1T

Secretary of State Byrnes has
proved himself to be wonderful
leader in the bogs of international
diplomacy. He went out in a new di-
ecrtion last week when he told the
German people to their faces: cit is
not in the interests of the German
people or in the interests of World
peace that Germany should become a
pawn or a partner in the military
struggle for power between East and
West"
The midland journal., 1946-09-20
WHO'S SAVING MONEY

The Federal Reserve Board recent
ly made a survey which showed that
only 25 per cent of American families
followed savings plan; another 25
per cent saved nothing and about
half of all the people spend first out
of income and then save what is left.
The life insurance companies have
wedged in as advisory groups to urge
savings. They urge family budget
and assert through public relations
outlets that they are going to make
an attempt ito bring us back to our
senses regarding the compulsory
need" for considering saving and
spending habits.
The midland journal., 1946-09-20
OUR TROUBLES SEEM TO
DOUBLE
BY J. Il. Jones


| asi;ington, d. c., September 16
There is more reason to be troubl-
ed about our own front yard of Amer
lea than the back yarsd of Russia and
the big She Bear. Apparently all we
have in common with these Russians
and their bear-cats, Is to agree on q
form of peace to protect the World
from war.
That looks simple enough, doesn't
It? The Germans and the Japs gave
up and admitted that they were lick
ed. But the Russians think they are
1T.
Here at home there is a perpetual
parade of strikes that covered the
great industries tying up the produc-
tion of coal, steel, lumber, durable
goods, automobiles, electrical ma
chinery, clothing, shoes, butter, mar
garine, cheese, meat-thats only
part of the list.
There were SO new strikes in the
United States the last of August, plus
252 old strikes affecting about 141,-
600 employees.
Then in early September 5000 u.
S. merchant ships laid idle in the Ma
tons ports. Five thousand freight
cars were tied up before the strike
was three days old, and large part
of them were filled with food on the
way to market
VJI Inst
ried on in Maine, Connecticut, Louis
lana, Colorado, Rhode Island and
elsewhere, and the political issues
were very unusual. 1t was not the
New Deal, or the Democratic or Re-
publican parties engaged in fighting
out their differences. The real clash
was over the OPA, the bonus, the
bonded debt of the United States, the
high cost of living increased fares on
buses, ships and airplanes.
Most of the mess of confusion that
has sprung up since VI Day may be
laid on the doorsteps of labor union
bosses who spring strikes in all ma
! jor industries for higher wages. In all
these strikes, except the strike on the
railroads, the Truman Administra-
tion kas lodged the issues. The
strike that tied up 5000 vessels in a
week, disclosed government officials
throwing up their hands-about 48
hours later they suspected and re-
ported slight hope for an early end
Of the Maritime strike and it's threat
| TO the National economy"
, Now, if you trace that all back to
1914 you'll be able to find proof that
the labor vote elected Roosevelt for
the fourth term. His running-mate as
Vice-President was Mr.. Truman. And
every indication is that the latter is
planning akead to carry the election
in 194S for his party and for himself.
had more statesmen and not SO many
political adventures.
| Really, folks, we are in a bad way
as far removed from World peace
as we were after the first World War.
We won World War III with the
camhpion fighters, and machinery
and supplies in quality and quantity
better than ever produced before.
We have spent our money, we have
piled up a NatiOanl debt that cannot
be paid during the lifetime of any
person now living. We have been de-
filed by Russian pitch and forced to
resist their weird doctrines OF Gov
ernment. If we could only mind oul
own business and get enough back
bone in the Administration and Con-
gress to stop these strikes and re-
store the old formulas of supply and
demand, and competition, we might
switch over to the right track and the
American way of life.
The midland journal., 1946-09-20

A new chemical is now available to
prevent the sprouting of potatoes and
other stored crops. This product,
methyl ester of alpha naphthalene
acetic acid. is commercially available,
as rust or applied to shredded paper
for mixture init the storage bins,
The midland journal., 1946-09-20

Ancient Romans never sentenced
criminals to prison terms, according
to the Encyclopaedia Britannica. In
those days prisons were not used ex-
cept for OBTAINING persons until they
could be tried and executed. The only
recognized punishments were death
and the infiiction Of bodily pain.
The midland journal., 1946-09-20

One swarm of locusts, seen cross
ing the Red Sea in 1889, was so large
that it covered an area of 1000
square miles, accorindg to the Ency-
clopaedia Britannica. Another huge
locust swarm is reported have travel
ed all the way from the west coast of
Africa to England.
The midland journal., 1946-09-20
HEADS AND TAILS

In the big battles between the Ia
Dor bosses and big industries tie
LBS win whenever there is a wage
boost. And every time the Govern
ment rearranges prices at lower lev
els the manufacturers lose. In fact it
seems to be case in which indus
tries lose both ways, Heads you win,
tails we lose.''
The midland journal., 1946-09-20

One kind of lizard can shed it's tail
when in dagner, and slither away,
leaving the tail to wriggle for short
time, according to the Encyclopaedia
Britannica. The wriggling tail often
distracts pursuers until the lizard has
reached safety.
The midland journal., 1946-09-20

Insurance of an income equal to
rs percent of wheat crop from all
acreage sown and damaged by natur-
al causes, costs the farmer only 8
tenths to 8 tenths of bushel of
wheat permium per acre. Farmers
may get wheat insurance for the
crop they plan to sow this fall by ap-
plying at the County AAA office.
The midland journal., 1946-09-20

The latest U. S. census listed TO-
100000 adults as virtually illiterate,
according to the Encyclopedias Bri-
tannica. OF these 100000 had
never attended school.
The midland journal., 1946-09-20

A Maryland All club girl enter
ing college this fall, has planned for
herself a complete wardrobe for
cash cost of only $102. She did much
sewing, remoedling and construction
of clothing accessories herself.
The midland journal., 1946-09-20

A study in Vermont shows that
farm housewives spend an average of
64A hours week in housework, 26
percent of this time being in food
preparation and Is percent in dish
washing.
The midland journal., 1946-09-20
JAMES W. HUGHES
MARYLAND MUSINGS

Be sure to check the seal on all
home canned foods after they have
cooled and before they are packed
away in storage.
The midland journal., 1946-09-20

Meat rationing, says one official is
not likely to return. Perhaps because
there isn't enough meat.
The midland journal., 1946-09-20

Tarffic Safety Sligan: Court at the
wheel. and you'll be wheeled into
court" Drive carefully.
Evening star., 1946-08-01
Customs Attorney Elected
To Head Legal Sorority

Miss Catherine l. Vaux. an attor-
ney in the enforcement division
of the Customs Bureau, Treasury
Department, has been elected in
ternational president of Phi Delta
Delta, legal sorority, at its conven-
ton in Detroit, it was announced
today.
Miss Vaux Is graduate of George
Washington University and the
Washington College of Law. She
Is member of the American Bar
Association and the American So
ciety of International Law. Recent
ly she effected arrangements where
by Phi Delta Delta is to have an
official observer at the open sessions
OF the United Nations.
She lives at 1924 Buchanan street
NV.
Evening star., 1946-08-01
jacob Rosenberg Dies;
Music Union Leader
BY the Assoeioied Press

NEW YORK, Aug Jacob
Rosenberg, 81, for II years presi-
dent of Local 802, Associated Mu-
sicians of Greater New York, Amer
lean Federation of Musicians (AFL)
died last night at Polytechnic Hos
pital
Born in Austria, Mr.. Rosenberg
came to the United States as a
child. Before becoming president
of Local 802 he was a symphony
drummer. His last concert work
was with the National Broadcasting
System.
Evening star., 1946-08-01
INFANTS WEAR CLEARED

INFANTS' WEAR CLEARED!
Were NOW
Z Infonts' Wool Sweoters, pink
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Z Cotton Bonnets, pink blue $50 2.4o
| Robe and Hood pink wool and
royon*, Damaged ---- 4.s8 36s
! Infonts' Cotton Dress for ors,
size 9 months donnooed- - 10 sos
Properly labeled to material content
Neutrality-suspicious. Shop-Fourth Floor
Evening star., 1946-08-01
Wherry's Criticism
OF State Department
Draws Quick Reply
BY the Associated Press

Senator Wherry, Republican, of
Nebraska, told the Senate yesterday
that weakness" in the State De-
partment had led to Russia's be-
coming a real menace" to peace.
His speech drew prompt replies
from Senators Connally, Democrat,
of Texas, and Vandenberg, Republi-
can, of Michigan. Both argued that
Secretary of State Byrnes should
have united American support at
the Paris peace conference.
Wherry declared:
Russia has become real menace
to the peace and security of the
world. But Russia could never have
reached this stage in her aggression
had it not been for the weakness of
the State Department policy"
Senator Wherry contended that
undersecretary Dean Acheson is
"unsuited for his office Also, he
continued, the department and As
sistant Secretary Spruille Braden
have been destroying the very roots
of our god neighbor policy" and in
the Far East our policies are selling
out the Chinese to the Communists.
Taking the floor Immediately, Sen
ator Connally said that with Mr..
Byrnes at the peace conference it is
most unfortunate TO have broad
side attack on the State Department
and its policies all down the line.
The United States is doing all it
can to establish good will through
the earth. l hope the Senators will
aid us, and do what they can to help
promote these causes, instead of
making speeches criticizing and
throwing obstacles in the way
Senator Wherry replied that his
criticism was constructive in intent
Senator Vandenberg said he had
mo quarrel with Senator Wherry
with regard to some of the pre-Yalta
dealings, or with certain aspects of
the South American situation.
But, he said, regarding the five
treaties now under consideration in
Paris: In their preparation, through
difficult and trying hours, / don't
know how any representative of
America could have been more faith
full to American ideals than the
present Secretary of State
Evening star., 1946-09-10
Dexter Terrace Row
Enters District Court

The several court battles which
have been staged recently in the
landlord and tenant branch of
Municipal Court, through which pur-
chasers of housing units in the 1900
block of Dexter terrace Sc. have
sought to GUST tenants now renting,
yesterday afternoon moved up to the
District Court level.
Attorney J. Ambrose Kiley filed
suit in District Court in behalf of 18
tenants now renting, seeking an in
junction to prevent eviction action
in Municipal Court.
The suit, which seeks an immed-
late temporary restraining order.
names "a defendant purchasers and
the Dexter Realty Co.. Inc. Many of
the individual defendants and per-
haps all Of them, Mr.. Kiley said, are
veterans and wives.
The suit among other things says
that a division of the housing units
at the present time is contrary to a
covenant, which the petition claimed
provided that the units were not to
be sold until certain improvements
were made to the water and sewer
system. The latter have not been
made, the suit claims. 1t further
claims that the Dexter Realty Co.,
Inc, has failed to be licensed as re-
quired by the Real Estate Commis-
sion Of the District.
Several tenants in the housing
units, a wartime project, have been
given a time limit in the landlord
and tenant branch of Municipal
Court in which to move, Mr.. Kiley
said. Suits to evict others are pend
ing In the lower court, he said.
Evening star., 1946-09-10
Mrs. lue|Ia Davis, 81, Dies;
6eorqia Artist Lived Here

Mrs. Luella Davis, 81, former por-
trait and landscape artist, died last
night at the home of her daughter,
Mrs. Joseph r. Atchison, 46l2 Not
tingham drive. Chevy Chase, Nd,
with whom she lived.
Born In Fairburn, Ga. Mrs. Davis
was well known In Atlanta for her
portraits and paintings Of Georgia
scenes before she came to WASH
ington in 1921. President Cleve-
land, on a visit to Atlanta, was i'm
pressed by q portrait she had done
Of him.
Mrs. Davis lived through the siege
Of Atlanta during the Civil War and
could remember the shelling of her
neighborhood. The house in which
she lived was the only one In its
block to escape destruction by fire.
because water and wet blankets had
been thrown on 1t.
She was an active member until
several years ago of the National
Memorial Baptist Church.
She Is survived by two other
daughters, Mrs. Raymond M. Taylor
OF Washington and Mrs. B. P. O..
Edwards, Sunbury, Pa, and by five
grandchildren and four great-grand-
children.
Funeral services will be held at 8
pm. tomorrow at the Chevy Chase
funeral home. 1901 Wisconsin ave-
nue. NV. Burial will be In Cedar
Hill Cemetery.
Evening star., 1946-09-10
Posse OF $50 Hunts Hills
For Slayer Of ; Officers
BY the Asseeiotsd Press

KEYSER, w. Va, Sept. 10.-A
posse Of $50 State police and civilian
volunteers today famed out over
Allegheny and Backbone Noun
tains, overlooking the upper Po-
tomac along the West Virginia
Maryland line, in their search for
the slayer of two West virginia
police officers.
Mineral County Prosecutor Yer
non =. Rankin. identified the man
sought rs Mark McCauley, 30-year-
old strip coal miner. who ned into
the rugged hills after . shooting at
Emoryville, in the southwest corner
OF the county.
Killed were Sergt. Joseph Horne
veteran Of 20 years with the West
Virginia State police and on duty at
the Thomas branch station, and
Sheriff o. Gay Hovatter OF Tucker
County. Sheriff Hovatters son Don
was hit in the chest, arms and face
by . shotgun blast and is in Po-
tomac Valley Hospital here.
Sergt. Horne and Sheriff Hoyatter
had arrested McCauley on 4 war
rant charging him with stealing a
coal truck at Davis, in Tucker
County.
Evening star., 1946-09-10
Fort Davis Citizens AssaiI
Real Estate Tax Increase

p Opposition to 20 per cent in
crease in real estate assessment
and, reversing a former decision, to
a sales tax in any form for the Dis
trict was expressed last night by
the Fort Davis Citizens Associa- :
tion.
Mrs. Edward B. Morris was ap-
pointed to represent the group at
Mondays District tax structure
hearing. She was instructed to
favor broadening of the income tax
to include nonresidents, increasing
the tax on unincorporated busi-
nesses and on alcoholic beverages
and increasing the gasoline tax /
cent and to oppose the sales tax, any
tax on household gas, electricity,
telephone calls or cigarettes.
The group called for early OPEN
ing Of Branch avenue to relieve
the traffic situation" On a motion
Of William A. Duvall, past president,
the association also appropriated
SIS toward the proposed Fedora ton
Of Citizens Associations newspaper.
Thirteen new members were &C
cepted into the association at the
meeting, first of the season. con-
Quoted by William T. Cameron,
president, and held in the Ryland
Methodist Church, Branch avenue
and 8 street Sc.
Evening star., 1946-09-10
Mrs. Carrie B. Matthews
Dies At Dauqhter's S Home

Mrs. Carrie B. Matthews, "a,
widow of Jerome P. Matthews, a
wen-known District seafood mer-
chant, died yesterday at the home
Of her daughter, Mrs. Helen S.
Ritnour, 48l7 Drupmond avenue,
Chevy Chase, Nd, after a two-year
illness.
A native of Crisfield, Md, Mrs.
Matthews had lived here for more
than 20 years. Her husband owned
and operated the Crisfield Sea-
food Co.
Besides her daughter she is sur
vived by son, Kenneth r. Mat
thews, and four grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held at
IL am. tomorrow at the Hines
funeral home, 290l Fourteenth
street NV. Burial will be in Fort
Lincoln Cemetery.
Evening star., 1946-09-10
Aid Fund for Mrs. Downs
May Pass $4,000 Today

More than $4,000 has been con-
tributed by policemen and sympa-
thetic citizens to the fund for the
widow and four children of Police
man Donald w. Downs, killed at
his traffic post August 81 by q
careening automobile, and an OH
cial tabulation of contributions to-
day indicated the fund will pass the
$4,000 mark before the day is over.
Inspector Clement P. Cox, GUS
todian of the fund, said he had re-
ceived s15,209 by closing time yes
terday but nearly $4,000 was still to
be turned in by police precincts.
Checks should be made out to In
spector Cox, police headquarters,
Municipal Center Building
Meanwhile, the Police Depart
ment All-Stars and the District
Soft Ball Umpires Association
teams will stage a benefit game at 8
pm. Thursday at Kavakos Stadium,
New York avenue and Bladensburg
road NE, for the Downs family.
All proceeds will be turned over to
Mrs. Downs. Maj Harvey G. Gala
han, police superintendent, said he
will urge all policemen to attend the
game.