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The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1949-07-07
Parents Warned Of
Lead Poisoning
State Department OF Health
Draws Attention To New Law
Affecting Decorations On Chill
dren's Furniture And Toys.

Maryland now has law Chap
ter SIT of the Acts of 1949) which
requires all toys, playthings and
children's furniture decorated with
anything that might be injurious to
children to be labelled poison" Mr.
]. Davis Donovan, Chief of this De-
partment's' Division of Legal Adj
ministration, reminds the parents of
young children. The new law, which
became effective on June LIST, covers
all such articles made, sold or offered
for sale in the State and provides
penalties up to $4,000 or imprison-
ment for violations.
The records of the State Depart
ment of Health and the Baltimore
City Health Department do not dis
close any cases of poisoning result
ing from children eating materials
used IN decorating new toys and fur
niture. However, in Baltimore City
since 1881 there have been 213 cases
and n deaths of children under ten
years of age from lead poisoning. 1t
may be assumed that for the same
period of time the cases and deaths
from this cause in the counties would
about equal these figures.
More than half of the known
cases have been children two years
old, and IS per cent have been chill
dren from one to three years of age.
Of the cases Investigated almost
every one was the result of the
child's chewing painted sufaces or
eating paint from repainted interior
walls and woodwork
Parents should prevent children
from chewing any painted surface
or from eating any paint which has
faxed off. Exterior paints and var
nishes usually contain lead and
should, therefore, never be used on
interior walls, woodwork, furniture
or toys. On such surfaces only lead
free paints and those free from
other poisonous ingredients should
be used. If a child becomes i'll after
chewing. on painted surfaces or eat
ing faxed off paint it is imperative
that the family physician be consult
ed Immediately.
Although the State Department
of Health is making every reason
able effort to enforce this law, the
constant vigilance of parents and
others responsible for the we'll being
of young children is necessary to
make it truly effective. Increased
awareness of this threat to Mary
lands boys and girls can prevent
needless suffering and loss of life. y
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1949-07-07
Warns OF Increasing Crime Rate

Crime is on the march and can
be halted only by law enforcement
agencies presenting a united front
so says M. Wilson McFarlin, Mary
lands top Oman. Speaking recent
ly at banquet of the Maryland Po-
lice Association in Ocean City, Nc
Farlin said the crime rate is drain
ing our treasury, demanding terrific
prices from our industries, and ex-
acting tremendous toll in money,
property and lives from the public. y
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1949-07-07
Asks Time Limit For Hangings

Judge Herman Moser, of the Su-
preme Bench of Baltimore, has ask
ed the Maryland General Assembly
to order time limit within which
a governor must set the date for a
condemned man to hang. He said
hanging warrants should be signed
in relatively short time after the
death sentence is passed. To serve
as deterrent to crime, he asserted,
punishment should be administered
while the offense is still fresh in
the public mind.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1949-07-07
Old Business Has New Name

An 80-year-old Hagerstown bust
ness on July l experienced its fourth
change in name along with change
in ownership. On that date R. M.
Hays & Bros, Inc, began trading
as Hays, Inc. The business was
started in 1869 as w. L. Hays, ana
the name later changed to w. L.
Hays and Sons. Lester Mobley, Jr.,
and Ford ]. Bryan are the new own
ers of the Hays business.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1949-07-07
1t Might Help, Too =.

A Lincoln, ILL.,, judge has prom
ised five young offenders serving
Jail terms of from six to nine months
that he will reduce their sentences
by three weeks if, within 80 days,
they can: u Recite the Ten Com
mandments and the Sermon on the
Mount from memory, and o give
the meaning of the Book Of Prov
cribs and Ralph Waldo Emerson's
essay, Compensation"
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1949-07-07
Poultry Council
Has Meeting Here
Winners OF State Chicken OF
Tomorrow Contest" Are An
nounced.


The 1949 summer meeting Of the
Maryland State Poultry Council was
held at the Hotel Alexander on
June 80, with 800 delegates in at
tendance from all over the state.
The highlight of the meeting was
the Chicken of Tomorrow" con-
test, with judging being conducted
by H. l.. Shrader and DR.. E. H. Nc
Nally of the u. S. Department of
Agriculture, and the following win
ners were presented awards at the
banquet which was held in the ball
room Of the hotel on Thursday eve
ming:
L. B. Mcdowell, of Salisbury, re-
ceived first place award with his
Delmarvan Cross, his final score be-
ing 1923 points. His birds were de-
veloped by crossing New Hamp-
shires to a Columbia Feathered
chicken, itself combination of Bar
red Rocks, New Hampshire and Pit
Games. The chickens weighed an
average of 3.05 pounds each, live
weight.
Bradley Hatchery, Easton, Md,
won second place honors with a cross
between Barred Plymouth Rock
and a New Hampshire, which was
high in production score, but second
with BITS in the final points. These
chickens averaged AZ pounds live
weight. Bradley Hatchery also cap
tured third place with straight New
Hampshires.
Other winners were H. M. Devil
bliss, of New Windsor, straight New
Hampshires, fourth; and Gsell &
Truslow, Chestertown, fifth place.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1949-07-07
Urges Care In Handling Livestock

Additional care taken in the mar
keting of livestock offers big divi-
dents for producers, says Martin
Cannon, of the Animal Husbandry
Department at the University of
Maryland. Figures for 1948 cited by
Mr.. Cannon show loss of more
than rs million dollars caused by
bruising and more than seven mil
lion dollars loss because stock ar
rived at packing plants dead or
crippled.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1949-07-07
Use 1880 With Care

Sodium fluoracetate, the highly
effective rodent poison generally
known as compound 1880, nust be
handled with extreme caution" ac-
cording to warning issued by the
State Department of Health. "Acci-
dental poisoning of human beings,
dogs, cats and desirable forms of
wild animal life can cause rapid
death, for comparatively small doses
are fatal and there is no known an
tidote," the Department cautions.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1949-07-07
100000 Population Potential

An Alaskan population of $780,
600 is foreseen in a report Of the In
terror Department to President Tru-
man. The report says there are
$4,000 square miles of Alaskan
land which are more habitable and
have more natural resources than
the average land of the Scandina-
Wan countries.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1949-07-07
COUNTY HOSPITAL
HAS NEW DOCTOR

DR.. Edward NJ Then, of Wichita,
Kansas, has been appointed to the
medical staff of the Washington
County Hospital for special, three
month assignment in medical serv-
ice. Following his service here,
which terminates on October l. DR..
Then will report to the Mayo Gin
lc, Rochester, Mimi, to accept fell
lowship in medicine.
DR. Then come here following a
l5-month rotating internship at the
Wesley Memorial Hospital, Chicago
Ill.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1949-07-07
Taking Life Easier

Farm. families are apparently TAX
ing life easier this year and getting
more hired hands to do the work. A
count just completed by the Bureau
of Agriculture Economics showed
$4,000 more hired hands on farms
in May than there were a year pre-
viously. 1t also showed 1900
fewer members of farmers families
at work on farms.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1949-07-07
Baltimore Hospital To Be Closed

Sydenham Hospital, Baltimore's
40-year-old institution for the treat
ment of communicable diseases,
soon will be discontinued. Because
of the ease and speed with which
communicable ailments now can be
treated in general hospitals with
new antibiotic drugs, Sydenham has
outlived its necessity, according to
health authorities.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1949-07-07

Lie SLUA n d1AlOuASCS gAAC AVAAOWAAA6
arrivals at the Washington County
Hospital:
Mr.. and Mrs Milton Bass, 1876
Broadway daughter, June Yvon :
ne, on June 80.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert P. Schaub
419 Salem Ave.-a son on June 80.
Mrs. Schaub was the former Vir7
ginia Atwood, a graduate nurse in
the class of 1886
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Shanholtz, 81
N. Jonathan Sta son on June %.
Mr. and Mrs. Carroll S. Marshall,
So Madison Ave.-a son on June 29.
Mr.. and Mrs. ElmersC. Price, Rte,
2, Smithsburg-a daughter on June
%.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clark K. Splitter,
Route 3, Hagerstown--a daughter on
June %.
Mr. and Mrs Charles A. Myers,
los E. Antietam Sta daughter on
June 81. Mrs. Myers was the form
er Ruth Fiery, a graduate nurse in
the class of 1885
Mr.. and Mrs. Reed L. Schriever,
Route /, Hancock-a son on June 81.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Harrison, 433
Jefferson Sta son on June 81.
Mr. and Mrs. John H. Garrett,
Fountain Head Heights-a daughter
on June o.
Mr.. and Mrs. Donald Myers, 634
Washington Ave.-a son on June &c.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Morrison,
Route 1, Keedysville-a daughter on
June 26.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward G. Miller.
444 Summit Ave.-a daughter on
June IS.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clyde B. Snyder
Route 6, Hagerstown-a son on June
/ 25.
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard ]. Keckler
1923 Linganore Ave.-a son on June
rs.
Mr.. and Mrs John c. Bowers
Route /, Hagerstown-a daughter or
June Is.
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph E. Slaughter
1928 Hamilton Blvd-a daughter or
/ June "a.
Mr. and Mrs. Lee Wallis, 1903 Lex
ington Ave.-a daughter on June %
Mr.. and Mrs. James j. Kline, Ass
Park Place-a son on June %.
Mr.. and Mrs. William W. Tillett
1903 Hamilton Blvd-a son on June
%.
Mr. and Mrs. Abraham R. Green
70l W. Washington Sta daughter
on June %.
Mr.. and Mrs. George L. Rooms
Jr., SO Salisbury ST., Williamsporr
"a daughter on June %.
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Cochrane
&c Greenbriar ROAD son on June
80
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1949-07-07
Valuable Tip For Gardeners

When the home garden is Watered
by a simple sprinkler at the end of
a hose or by a permanent irrigation
system, a good watering once a week
is much better than light sprinkle
now and then. At least an inch of
water should be applied at one time,
according to A. v. Krewatch, Exten-
sion Agricultural Engineer at the
University of Maryland.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1949-07-07
Nearer To Victory!

In spite of last years polio cpl
demic, in which 1884 cases were
recorded, the outlook for future vic
tory over the disease was brighter
at the end of 1913 than ever be-
FORE" the National Foundation for
Infantile Paralysis reports. Most en-
couraging, the foundation said in
its 18th annual report, were devel-
opments in the search for a vaccine
to prevent the disease.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1949-07-07
Thinks Russia Won't Risk War

Lieut.. Gen. Walter Bedell Smith,
former Ambassador to Soviet Rus
STA. has expressed the conviction
that Russia lis not willing at this
time to risk war and will modify its
aggressive policies when confronted
with firm resistance backed by rec
ognizable force" General Smith is
now commander of the 1st Army.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1949-07-07
Tobacco Researcher

The University of Maryland Ag-
ricultural Extension Service has
appointed DR.. Orman E. Street to
the new post of tobacco researcher.
DR.. Street will study the growth of
Maryland tobacco at the Marlboro
experiment station.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1949-07-07
Man, 1Os, Buys Drivers License

When James Russell Davis bought
drivers license at Nashville,
Tenn, the other day, he naturally
aroused the clerks curiosity by list
ing his age at 108. To the query as
to how he had managed to live so
long, Davis replied, Tending to my
own business" Davis gave his birth
date as October l, 1910.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1949-07-07

The Greek rebels, to defeat whom
the United States has contributed
nearly $17O,0OO,00O in aid, number
about $4,000 soldiers, according to
the Britannica Book of the Year.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1949-07-07
Service Men Get
Reduced Air Rates

ton In Fares For All Service
Men Travelling On Official
Business.
Effective July l, All American Air
ways is granting 10 per cent dis
count on basic fares for all passenger
travel purchased by military agen-
cies when on official business.
This special reduction followed an
urgent request by the military
agencies and is the result of several
months of negotiations between mil
itary officials and the Air Transport
Association, whose membership in
cludes All American and other lead
ing U. S. domestic airlines. Accord
ing to an Alta spokesman, the reason
for the move was an indication from
the military agencies that such a dis
count would result in much greater
use of commercial air transportation
by personnel of military agencies
who were formerly under an agree
ment restricting them almost ex-
clusively to the use of rail trans
portation.
/ Officials of the Air Transport As
sociation estimate that the granting
of the 10 per cent discount to military
personnel using travel acquisitions,
will raise the percentage of all mil
itary travel now carried by air from
between 2 and 4 per cent to between
10 and II per cent of the total.
All military personnel travelling
with official Transportation Requests
including members of the National
Guard and Naval Reserve who are
travelling on orders, are eligible for
this discount at any All American
ticket office in any one of the 46 cities
4 served by AAA
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1949-07-07
AH-St Game To
Be Over WEI
Mel Allen, Jim Britt To De-
scribe Play-By-PIay Of 18th
Annual All-Star Game Over
Mutual And WJEJ On July II.

Mel Allen and jim Britt, veteran
baseball announcers, will broadcast
the 166th annual All-Star baseball
game from Ebbetts Field, Brooklyn,
N. Y, on Tuesday, July II, over the
entire network of 500 Mutual sta
tons.
The coast forecast Mutual system
and the Dominion Network of Can
ada will carry this feature. 1t will
also be short-waved by the Armed
Forces Radio Services to American
occupation troops and to our naval
ships at sea in order to bring this
outstanding national baseball event
to all fans. This years broadcast
starts at lis p. M, EDIT.
Allen and Britt are familiar to
sports followers for their radio des-
criptions of previous All-Star and
World Series games. In addition AL
len is regularly heard in the New
York area describing the New York
Yankee contests, and Britt can be
heard daily in Boston announcing the
Red Sox and Braves games.
The annual game, pitting outstand-
ing players of the National League
against stars of the American League,
started in 1888, and only one game
the l945 contest-had to be cancelled
because of war time travel restric-
tons. The American Leaguers have
won IL out of the Is games played,
winning last year in st. Louis, 81.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1949-07-07

Fhe Old Well Spring at Bath, Eng
land, has discharged in $50 years
enough solids to create an excavation
SIX feet wide, three feet high, and
nine miles long, yet its water seems
perfectly clear.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1949-07-07
News In Brief
Hospital Reports Deficit

A net deficit of $52,O73 for the year
ending September 80, 1948, was dis
closed by the Washington County
Hospital in its 43rd annual report
recently made public.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1949-07-07
Research Lab Begun

The cornerstone of the University
of Chicago's new $7,500,00O lab for
nuclear, biological and metallurgi-
cal research was laid recently. The
honor of spreading the first trcwel
of cement went to DR.. Enrico Fermi.
builder of the worlds first atomic
pile.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1949-07-07
Pollution Control Plan

A plan to bring the Monocacy
River basin into a model demon
strational area to control stream
pollution was adopted by the Inter
state Commission on the Potomac
River Basin at a recent meeting in
Bedford, Pa.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1949-07-07

John Adams, second president of
the United States, was the lawyer
for the defense of the British SOL
diers arrested after the Boston Mas
sacre, according to the Encyclopedia
Britannica.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1949-07-07

Hannah Adams, born in 1745, was
the first woman in America to make
literature a profession.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1949-07-07

William Adams, the first English
man in Japan, was honored there
by yearly festival.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1949-07-07

The surface of the Everglades j
less than 20 feet above sea level
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1949-07-07

The Mississippi river drains five
twelfths of the United States.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1949-07-07
The Stork Arrives

The stOrk announces the following
arrivals at the Washington County
Hospital:
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1949-07-07
Around Town With
The Editor

Due to the printing plant being
closed from Friday night to Tues
day morning, this weeks issue had to
be held to eight pages
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1949-07-07

My apologies to Mrs. Robert P.
Conrad, chairman of the Washing
ton County Chapter of the Red
Cross, for my unforgivable mistake
in not giving her name correctly
in the story in last weeks issue
concerning the delegates to the Red
Cross Convention.
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Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1949-01-01

it became completely independent
in 1904.
It started with a circulation of
800, and did not reach 1000 for
nearly a century. By 1860 it APP
peared in 5000 copies. In 1884, the
Behring'S started a morning edition
which, by 1900, had a circulation
of $4,000, by far the largest in the
land.
In 194S, the daily circulation of
the morning, noon, and evening
editions was about 100000 Along
with weekly editions, the Berling
papers reached a total circulation
in 1948 of 131 100000 copies. Den
marks total population is about
100000.
The paper has passed through
many severe crises of censorship
and economic strain. 1t has re-
ported many wars and a number
of major revolutions, including the
American, the French, and the
Russian. 1t has grown mellow with
experience, but not at all effete;
rarely has it been so vigorous as
now.
The publishers issued a small
neat pamphlet to mark the 20Oth
anniversary and modestly re-
nounced any claim to having led
Danish history during the two GEN.
turtles of the papers existence. In
stead, the publishers say the paper
tried to serve the people and de-
veloped with them. They say its
continued success is an indication
that it has remained close to the
people.
It's columns were almost always
open to ordinary men and wom-
en-" the publishers say. And har-
monious labor relations are cited
as one cause of its extraordinary
stability.
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1949-01-01
Danish Paper
Ends 200 Years

The Copenhagen Berlingske
Tidende has just celebrated its
20Oth anniversary. The news
paper is the Oldest continuously
appearing in Denmark, and is still
owned by the family that founded
it, the Behring'S. Its first number
appeared Jan. 8, 1749.
In the beginning it was state
privileged" or semi-official, which
means that it followed the royal
line. Not unnaturally it was con-
sentative and has remained so
during it's whole history, although
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1949-01-01

A living Danish tradition in the
art of working silver cannot truly
be said to exist: in Denmark, as
in other countries, the rise of in
dustrialism entailed a break with
the past. Also, in the nineteenth
century there prevailed a general
uncertainty with regard to the
aims and methods of applied art
Violent competition, and rapid
technicsl development, fore d
down the quality, and the fluctuat-
ing imitation of earlier styles en-
Outraged tastelessness.
The artistic renewal of crafts
manship at the end of the nine
teenth century, known as the Art
\ouveau movement, had little in
fluence on Danish silver work at
first The new ideas first APP
p5ared in ceramics and bookbind-
ing. The Danish architect Thor
valid Bindesb0ll to whom more
than to any other are attributable
the results of Art NOuveau in Den
mark, was interested only Incl
dentally in silver, and only to-
wards the end of his life. In the
work of Georg Jensen Danish sill
versmiths' art obtained a needed
renewal. Although orr ginally
trained as a sculptor and ceramist,
Georg Jensen was primarily the
craftsman whose forte was the
actual work of execution rather
than the designing. In order to
appreciate Georg Jensens real i'm
portance, ard the furore which his
work aroused we must bear in
mind the prevailing silver produc-
ton of the period. A miserable
hotchpotoh of halfdigested style
ingredients artlessly composed,
pretentious Rocco jardinieres,
pseudo Ren aissance epergnes, all
poor IL material and over
decorated this was the back
ground to his work
Georg Jensen first won renown
for his trinkets. which were
weighty and plastically worked.
They have long since gone out of
fashion. But his earliest structural
works still hold their own; the best
OF them have even outlived the
rationalism of the twenties, and
the new fitness-for-purpose. and
nave become historical. None of
the many artists who have been
associated with this world famous
firm ever excelled the master, not
even the subtle and knowledgable
painter Johan Rohde Georg Jen-
sens importance to modern Danish
silver art must be placed high. The
demands which he made on good
craftsmanship are still honored,
and the influences of this firm can
Be repeatedly traced in the work
OF other Danish silversmiths.
But modern Danish silyersmiths'
art is not confined or restricted
10 Georg Jensen. New people have