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The midland journal., 1946-04-05
FARMERS FIGHT FAMINE

One of the biggest subjects in TIC
news OF the day concerns tie pro lem
of raising food and feeding mil:ions
of starving people in the old Word
Resides the situation III our own cU'la
ny is almost intolefable. Amerl> IA
farmers are at their wits end; tt Ell
main problems are lack of -; Ii.
help and failure to buy farm mac lin
e'y
There have been so many la %,
trt ublee that little attention has be- n
lad to The far-reachiIg hardship re-
sulting from strikes in the steel indus
Try thai made it impossible for man
ufacturers of farm machinery to get
raw materials to meet the demands
of farmers for tarctors and otEer ma
chimes.
CONGRESSMAN Arends of Illi,iris
brought the matter to the attention
of the House few days ago and in
troduced a magazine article that de-
clared the farmer must be prosperous
or nobody can be prosperous. Right
on top of this statement in the Hcus,
the National Capital heard more
about the impossibility of raising
enormous crops this year to meet the
challenge of famine throughout tie
World. Further hearings were, resGin
ed on the CIO strike by 10000 wei K
ers in the International Harves.e,
Company plants.
oLo hot 11f
machinery made by the International
Harvester and other manufacturer.
has been revolutionizing rural Arer
ica in recent years. The CIO prints
in it's page advertisement in the
Washington newspapers letter IN
a farmer, living at Arlington, South
Dakota, in which he says: Like ev-
cry other farmer, l have been c n
cerned about food production to re
lieve famine abroad. We farmers al {
being asked by the Government IL
plant more acreage tkis year ihan
even at the height of the war in oldel
to meet the food shortage. Now, i,
doesn't make sense to use farmer: le
plead for more food, more acreage
when we can't harvest what we plant
ed last year because we don't have
the machinery"
The CIO carried a page all III
Washington newspapers, in an effort
to prove that the International Har-
vester Company is to blame for every
thing because the concern refused t.,
be cracked down upon and force i
into one-sided agreement in favor
of the strikers and all against tic
farmers, the public and the hungry
people of the World.
After all: Prosperity begins on Il /
farm. Unless the farmer is prosper
Gus, nobody can be prosperous.
The midland journal., 1946-04-05
NEIGHBORLINEss AT WORK

"The success of cooperate Z s
through which farmers are now mass
ing their strength to serve their conl-
mon needs" Secetrary of Agriculture
Anderson says, lis attributable to tie
lact that rural people are inherently
good neighbors. 1t is important to re-
member that scientific and business
ike management of farmer-ow ed
sooperatives cannot hold them IT,
5ether unless their members are able
o feel at all times that the copper
tive is simply an organized express
sion of the spirit of good neighb,ili-
aess. 1t is wholly in the tradition nf
he common practices of farm pc 'ple
pioneer days, in joining with their
.leigbhors in such things as swapping
york. husking bees and work OH tie
chool, church or public road. The
lation cannot afford to lose this
5pirit, and it will not be lost as long
IS the rural people who possess ii in
.bundance are able to find constrGc-
i've outlets for it,
The midland journal., 1946-04-05
DEEDS RECORDED IN CECIL
COUNTY

Antonio Sacco and wife to JOSEPH
Clifford Russell and wife. All tina.
piece or parcel of land situate in the
Fifth Election District of Cecil Coun,
ty, Md in the Village of Charles
town. Containing 9% acres of land
more or less.
Rose d. Constable and husband
ct al, TO Frank T. Conway and wife
All that tract or parcel of land. sit
uate. lying and being in the Third
Election District of Cecil County, Nd
Containing 3.3S acres of land, more
or less.
' John Towers and Mildred E. Tow
ers to Solomon w. Hunter. All that
tract or parcel of land situate and ly-
ing in the Fourth Election District
of Cecil County, Md.
Ida NJ Baker and husband to Rob-
ert Walton Kreider and wife. AL
The midland journal., 1946-04-05
SEED AND FOOD

National Chairman, Chester Davis
las pointed out that people of food
,hortage areas are being helped with
seeds, livestock, expert counsel, and
machinery to bring back their own
iood production. Dry weather has
;harpened the shortage of food which
was due in part to wartime lack of
arm labor and fertilizer, destruction
of crops and fields, and removal of
livestock and feed reserves.
More than 30,OO0,0OO pounds of
vegetable seeds, for example, have
been shipped to 81 nations. Each
pound of vegetable seed will produce
about 1000 pounds of food and so
help relieve food shortages consider
ably, once the crop season is ad-
vanced.
The midland journal., 1946-04-05

The critical problem of attracting
and retaining trained teachers in the
Cecil County classrooms was discnss-
of Cour,y Commissioners, the Boar i
of Edu. alton and Representatives
group from the Cecil County Teach
ers' Association, Monday evening, iii
the Office of the Board of Ed cation.
Maurice Dunkle, President of the
Teachers Association, presided. Sal
ary adjustments were considered a.
length. Miss Margaret Bowers, chair
man of tie Teachers Welfare Com
mittee, presented proposed salary
schedule ranging from a illnimum
salary of $1,000 for beginning teach
er without a degree and 81 so with
degree to a maximum salary OF
$2S00 tor a teacher of seventeen
years experience with Nj ,iers De
gree. According to this pro"cs sal, the
maximum principals salary would b,
$1,000 after seventeen years of ex
perience.
Overall, it was pointed nut thai
the proposed salary schedule would
put Cecil County in a positic IL to 81
tract beginning teachers AM to re
tain those with valuable experienoe.
since Cecil would be in the uppe,
brackets of the State insofar as
teachers salaries are concerned. Fur.
ther, it was pointed out, I'll at Cecil is
tho hro hit,.i nd
ing to last available figures) as fal
as ability to pay is concerned
whereas currently it ranks 21st and
22nd in expenditures for educational
purposes per white pupil and 14tr
and 18th in salaries in the whit.
schools
This proposal would mean an add
tional $4,000 to $4,000 in the
school budget, or an approximate
increase in the tax rate of 10 TO II
,ents. 1t was suggested that in spite
If the initial impression this increase
might bring, Cecil's tax rate is COM
)arably low when studied against the
AK rates of other counties of simila L
abilities to pay. Further, it vas stat
ed that in 1922 Cecils tax ra ::
was $3.50 as compared with the cul
cent 81 90.
The group was in accord in realiz
ng the seriousness of the teacher
shortage, especially since the supply
If newly trained teachers is woefully '
-aw and since it is deemed necessary
retain those with experience nov
eaching in Cecil classrooms
No decision was reached as to the
sxtent Of the programs inception CT
ust wkat the program would be,
however.
Those present at the conference
we're: Clarence Harris, President of
he Board of County Commissioners
Howard S. Vincent and Frank L.
Rowland, Commissioners; Reuben
reynolds, President of the Boar;i of
Education; Harvey Buck and II. w.
Jheyney, of the Board of Education; :;
Superintendent H. E. Mcbride; !;
Maurice Dunkle, Miss Margaret Bow
rs, Miss Katherine Bratton, Mrs.
Roy Deibert, Miss Frances Cleavcs,
Miss Elizabeth Crowgey, Miss Mamie
Walters George E. Clifford, Raymon |
NJ. Shingler and George B. Pretty
man, teachers.
The midland journal., 1946-04-05
Peace OF The World

AT every stage in tho formation o:
United Nations organizations Soyi..;
Russia has been an obstructionist
The showdown finally arrived on the
very eve of the meetign OF United Ma.
tions Security Council in New York.
when President Truman ard Secre
tary OF State Byrnes made an iss.n g..
the occupation in Iran by Russian
troops. '1f the United Nations :, 10
endure there must be no excuse or
need for any Natino to take the law
into its own hands," declared and
challenged Byrnes.
A long series of objections by Rus
sia has made it very plain that Rus
sla is SO stepped in its phiiosoph, OF
Commounizing tile World that il i;
not willing to give up that halucina-
ton and recognize the fact all the
other Governments in the United "a
tions are agreed that the price If
World peace rests in full agreements
among all people to follow the for.
mula expressed in The Charter VIII h
bound every country ''to refrain irt nj
the use of force or threat of iorce
except in defense of law"
If we think back upon the hist, ~
OF the League of Nations we wi :. ~
call that several of the tops of Euro.
peau Nations tore Woodrow Wilso, S
peace plan to pieces-and because OF
that fact the United States Gov ....-
ment felt obliged to stand aloof from
the League. This time the Matt ms
are united and they must go ahead
with their program. In doing so they
are forewarned that Russia is a sell
fish Nation, unable to grasp the Dasts
plans of United Nations, and aprar-
emily unable to copoerate-no mat
ter how many lickings she has 20
take in the Councils of this new
World Government.
The midland journal., 1946-04-05
RESOLUTION OF RESPECT

Whereas, it has pleased our Hea
venly Father to take unto Himself
our former member, Thomas B. Mil.
Ter,
Be it Resolved, that the Cecil Far.
mers Club do hereby adopt these res
olutions of respect.
The minutes of the club record
that he joined us in 1913, an,
through the years that he was able
to take part he was always loya
and interested member. There art
only three of our present club who
remember him personally, but they
have told the others of the many
ways that Mr.. Miller contributed tc
the group and have often reminded
us of his patience and Christian for.
titude through these latter years OF
kis illness. We fell that his death
must have been blessed relief to the
sufferer, and we rejoice in our faitl
that he has been received into the
Heavenly Home, but we would ex-
press our sincere sympathy to hi.
family in their bereavement.
Resolved, that these resolutions be
spread on our minutes, and that q
copy be sent to the family and to the
county papers.
On behalf of the committee
$3.50 46 JOHN E. LIPPINCOTT
The midland journal., 1946-04-05
So, ,ooo, 900 "EMERGENCY FUND

A powerful Democrat majority in
the House, riding rough shod over
Republican opposition, recently gave
the President a S5,000,000 blank
check" with which he could finance
projects not authorized by Congress
The Presidents special fund was
granted originally during the war
emergency. Republicans, however,
pointed out that the Director of the
Budget did not offer any justifiable
reason for continuing this emergency
fund" in peace time and could not
foresee any project which would re-
quire it's expenditure.
Maryland Democrat S voting
against the economy measure which
would have returned this item of
government spending to control of
the peoples representatives in Con-
gress included Reps. Dudley Roe,
First District; H. Street, Baldwin,
Second District, and George Fallon,
Fourth District.
The midland journal., 1946-04-05

Churches and churchmen of all
faiths are giving their assent to the
plans to secure during April of this
year more than three time the finan-
cial support now available for re-
search and treatment in the field of
cancer control. The Federal Council
of the Churches of Christ in America
commencing to churchmen full par
ticipation in the campaign, adds this
note: I'VE commend to scientific
administrators and practition ers
their cooperation with properly
trained shepherds of the spiritual
life in research on and treatment of
such enemies of mankind as cancer.
No treatment can be complete which
does not include repair of the ravages
which lie beyond the physical plane,
through psychological and religious
service. No research can be compre--
hensive if it fails to include the study
of the place which psychological and
spiritual factors may have in the cure
and prevention Of illnesses"
The midland journal., 1946-04-05
TEACHERS SPONSOR MEETING

DR.. William c. Carr, secretary of
and associate secretary of the Nation
al Education Association, who was a
ccnsultant to the U. S. Delegation, at
the United Nations Conference, San
Francisco, will be the speaker. at a
tri-county meeting of educators in
William Smith Hall, Washington
College, Chestertown, Md, on April
10. The meeting is sponsored by the
teachers of Kent, Queen Anne's and
Cecil Counties.
DR.. Carr, whose topic will be Ed
ucation for World Citizenship" will
speak at Salisbury on April and at
Easton on April H.
The midland journal., 1946-04-05

that certain piece or parcel of land
itsuate in the Town of Perryville, in
the Seventh Election District of Cecil
County, Md. Containing 277I1000 OF
an acre, more or less.
Robert j. Davis and wife, ct al,
to Ancil X. King and wife. All that
lot or parcel of land, situate in the
Fourth Election District of Cecil
County, Md. Containing by estima-
tion 10 acres of land.
William H. Deibert and wife to
John J. .Ulrich and wife. All that cer-
tain lot or parcel of land situate in
the Town of Elkton, Cecil County,
Md, on Singerly Avenue.
William S. Whitlock and wife, ct
al, to State Roads Commission of
Maryland. Land in Cecil County. Md,
Loura Philips. widow. ct al, to
Paul B Messick.. ALI that lot or par
eel of land situate in the First Elec-
tion District of Cecil County, Md, at
Crystal Beach Manor.
The midland journal., 1946-04-05
rHEoRvaNuFHnxoMsNA
AS we look Tlntoshe zaoth eent1i

As we look 'dntoathe A2oth GENTRY
we ind from a scientific viewpoint we
have many facts for our considera-
ZION. We have theories such as the
evolution. of physics. and the Einstein
theory, the X-ray, the atomic theory,
the magnetic substances, electricity,
electrons and light, travel, molecu-
lar matter and atom energy. All
these can and are put to use and we
find man has made great advances in
mathematics, zoology, physics, chem
istry, astronomy, engineering, medi-
cine, mineralogy, botany aeronautics,
navigation and geology
In all these discoveries we have
somewhat left God out of the picture.
We must take our Maker into the
picture for everything we have and
expect to have comes from our Hea-
venly Father for without all these
fundamentals from our Heavenly
Father we couldn't exist. Some peo-
pie don't agree to the fact, but it is
vitality so. l hope each American will
agree, and scientists. teachers, i'll
structors, and the regular laboring
class, the rich and poor alike. We can
see things in our daily rural and in
dustriai and regular life. All wars
will cease and we will have less
crime. We will Lave last peace and
religion and school life ana then
when we do this we will have lasting
peace and the Kingdom of Our God
will be on earth and then be will see
our labor has not been in vain and
each and every one will be better
Ameri an and we will prosper and
find ourselves secure in God anl our
fellow men.
Thornton Steinmetz.
Box 3S Rising Sun, lid
The midland journal., 1946-04-05
PRicE-wsgE MNDDTHEa
CONTROLS
BY J. e. Jones

Washington u. G., April i--C',.,
trovers.al question Of OPA contrc's
are still being discussed in all pha :
and directions in the National Car.-
tai. Be. nard M. Baruch has had Ills
''say-so". That old boy has "soi,c-
thing on the bean" and he always
talks sense. In contrast most of the
Government bureaucrats fail to maize
plausible explanations to the pahiic
regarding the virtues and weaknesses
of OPA. Many of them seem to be
chasing butterflies.
Chester Bowles made a splendid
impression when he discussed the
whole question before a full house of
newspaper writer's at the National
Press Ciub few days ago. Your corr
respondent was there and listened to
the exclamation Ct the new stabiliza-
tion program, supported by the argu-
ments OF Mr.. Bowles in behalf of con-
tinuing many price ceilings. Bowles
stressed the point that it will take
time to overcome shortages OF raw
materials anG that imitation will
boom sky higk unless the exisLirg
control of prices is ccltinrad until
June, l947. His philosophy is that
we must control prices until we arr
lover the hump
But .Baruch, a few days later, de
rc1ibed the existing situation with
u ference to the wage price policies
3s the race of seltishenss," and he
'Mged the Cover. ment to take firm
grip on wages in the same way that
il kas been keeping n stranglelold On
prices. The elder statesman made ali
Il, gument that appeals to most sant
people. He criticized the Administra
tion's new wage-price policy and rec
commended that Uncle Sam should
lake firm grip on the whole prob
lem and not be afraid to raise prices
or wages. if necessary to reach the
primary OBJ. ectives of production. He
dissented from Government policies
of boosting pay and prices and at the
same time cutting taxation. He Dip
ped into the international situation
and argued against foreign loans to
Great Britain and other countries in
the near future except for direct
needs" He said: Il am no contru1
man. l am free enterprise MAJ.
But" he continued, I'VE have { 7,
keep steady hand to save free en-
terprise. "
Baruch declared that the Govern
ment must stop ''bunking the public :
by saying wage increases can IL
granted without increase in price lew
els. He rang the bell' in demanding
that strikes or lOck-outs must be
eliminated for at least a year, while
the full strength of the Governments
keeps strictly in view the one majnt
question-which is production; b.
cause the whole program, he said .
Without increased production the
rest of my suggestions are meanlnS-
| less"
That's the situation in Washington
lup to date.
The midland journal., 1946-04-05

According to Dr. Crawford Brown
;hief OF chaplains in the Veterans
Administration, plans are under way
% have one chaplain appointed tc
each veterans hospital of $50 beds
or more; and in the larger hospitals
1t least one for each 500 patients
There are at present, he says, eighty
one full-time chaplains in these insti-
,utions, and the number will soon be
increased to more than 200. The Ad-
ninistration is calling upon ali
;hurches to furnish their quota of
haplains. There are now 9S Lospi-
ais, and survey shows 64 % OF the
patients are members of Protestant
bodies.
The midland journal., 1946-04-05
Yout PUBLIC HEALTH NURSE

During the week of April 7-13
Maryland will join the nation in pay
ing tribute to public health nurses
md their increasingly important ser.
ices.'' DR.. r. H. Riley, Director OF
.e State Department of Health, has
Just announced. Throughout the
country, health departments, nursing
organizations and community groups
will participate actively in observing
Kn, y. Your Public Health Nurse
Week.
"a he National Organization fol
Public Health Nursing, in coopera-
tion with the United States Public
Health Service, is sponsoring this
week devoted to disseminating infor.
nation about the public health nurs
ing profession. The Week is an out
growth of Public Health Nursing Da5
observed on January rs, 1945. Thi.
year the Day has developed into al
entire Week.
"In Maryland the Lay Section OF
the State Organization for Pubn
Health Nursing is planning the stat
wide observance of this Week. Mem
bers of this group are lay womer
who have performed volunteer sci
vices for their local health depart
ments and have otherwise shown al
active interest in public health. The
will be assisted by an Advisory Con.
mittee of professional public healt-
nurses.
ITO arouse more interest in the
public health nursing services avail
able in local communities all the
usual publicity channels will be used
Newspaper articles. talks and lee
lures, lad4o programs, exhibits ant
motion pictures will be j. importan
features of the campaign"
The midland journal., 1946-04-05
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SERVICES

"Unrsality" will be the subject o!
the Lesson Sermon in all Churches oi
Christ. Scientist, on Sunday, April 2
The Golden Text will be from Pre-
verbs 37-"There is that makett
himself rich, yet hath nothing; thei.F
is that maketh himself poor, VI
hath great riches"
Among the citations comprisne
the Lesson Sermon will be the fo.
lowing from the Bible-Exodus 12:
41-'And it came to pass at the end
of the four hundred and thirty years
even the selfsame day it came to pass
that al the hosts of the Lord Went
out from the land of Egypt"
The midland journal., 1946-04-05
ssaQLD1ERs SAW PEnMaMENT
FARMS

Thousands of farm boys who have
been serving in the Army in Euro.
pean areas that have been farmed
since long before the discovery vi
America are glad to get back to
where tractors are more common
But many, say reports reaching the
U. S. Department of Agriculture
have also given thought to tho TACT
that some of the European farms
that have been cropped for thousands
of years are more productive and
yield more to the acre now thar
many American soils that have bee,l
wasted, washer out, or cropped out
in few decades.
The Ohio Extension Service for
example, cites George Kreitler. Lick
ing County Agent, who served i i the
Pc Valley in Italy where peasants
normally harvest so bushels of wheat
to the acre and other crops in pr'por-
tion after 1000 years or more of cul-
tivation Kreitler does not suggest
that Ohio farmers adopt peasant
ways of working, but thinks they
might we'll realize the value of work
ing manure and crop residues back
into the soil, the skillful use Of fer
tilizers, preservation of soil by ero-
ison co1trol, and wise rotation ul
crops. Italian peasants, he fonnd
made wiser use of hilly land than
many American farmers do.
The Lurden on the land in Europe
has forced peasants to adopt a policy
cf hard work and no waste, Kce;tlel
observes. Necessity drives. American
FARMERS he suggests, could we'll bor-
row the best of these ideas before ne
cessity compels, and adapt them TO d
better system of farming that will
.ontin .e to use machines ami still
u ese.,e and improve the land.
The midland journal., 1946-04-05
REAL ESTATE SALES

Wheeler & Grier. Realtors, of Ok
ford, have sold for Mr.. and Mrs
Claud Rhodes, their nice twenty-one
acre poultry and truck farm with its
attractive home in New London
Township, near the village of New
London, to Mr.. and Mrs. William A.
Lunsford OF. Wilmington, Del. The
.4unsfords expect to take possession
Of their new kome ON or before April
Is.
The midland journal., 1946-04-05
A QUICK COMEBACK EXPECTED

When the automobile business gets
rolling the evidences will be visible
along every highway and stree, il
the country. More people in the mo
tor industry are dependent for live
lihood outside manufacturing centere
than within the territory occupied by
manufacturers. You can see it all for
yourself. There are service stations,
gas stations, hotels, restaurants,
sales rooms, workers and guardians
of streets and highways.
So when the strikes are over in
Detroit and elsewhere the automobile
industry in every community, no
matter where, will lead the process
sion for reconversion.
The midland journal., 1946-04-05
Real Estate Is Booming

The 1rices of town, city and rural
real estate are booming, and zoola-
ng. unnaturally The charge has
been made by several authorities in
Washington that there is an active
and eqffective real estate lobby that
mas such power that it has practically
fiattened out the veterans housing
bill. It, is explained that effort; were
being made to place ceiling prices ON
existing homes for veterans, but that
the real estate lobby defeated the
measure.
The midland journal., 1946-04-05
MOST PEOPLE KEEP THEIR WAR
BONDS

No matter how much you may reao
in the papers about the American
people cashing their war bonds the
fact remains that 70 percent of 1.-THE
$57,0OO,OOO,000 E, F, and G bonds
sold in the last five years remain il.
the hands of the original buyers. The
redemptions have been rather heavy
in recent months and lot of it has
been due to the needs of servicemen
and the necessities of strikers t.
reach down into their savings.
The midland journal., 1946-04-05
NO STRIKE LEGISLATION

There are proposals before Con
gress to restrict and outlaw st: likes
Other measures would prohibit inter
ference by union members witt
transportation of farm products tt
market. Still other bills would regu-
late relations between employers ano
workers. There has been a lot OF big
noise about what Congress is going
to do about strikes. Likely there will
be nothing done.