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The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1949-12-01
Golfers Features
Sears, Roebuck Co.
Series Of Four Feature Ar
ticles Begins In December 3
Issue.


In a series of four feature stories
to begin this week, Golfers maya
zine will explore the Sears, Roe
buck and Co. organization from the
ground up it was learned here
by Mr.. H. L. Munholland, manager
of Sears store.
Author of the series, which IS
entitled THE Life and Times of
Sears, Roebuck" is Francis Sill
Wicl1ware, well-known free lance
writer. In addition to being nov
elist and fiction writer, Mr.. Wick
ware in past years has served as a
staff writer for Fortune and the New
Yorker magazines.
According to information which
Mr.. Munholland received to-
day from Golfers editors, the series
is scheduled to begin in the Deem
Der 8 issue of this national weekly.
now on sale at your favorite news
stand
In preparing the series, which will
run consecutively, the author spent
some six weeks on research both In
Chicago and Mexico City. The ar
ticles will trace the historical growth
of the company from its beginnings
in North Redwood, Mimi, up
through its recent postwar expan-
sion in the United States and Latin
America
The editors of Golfers told Mr..
Munholland that the series will con-
tain many heretofore unpublished
facts about the Sears organization.
It will include colorful incidents and
much human interest" material,
some of which is built around the
companys famous catalog.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1949-12-01
Worlds Greatest Heart Surgeon

DR.. Alfred Blalock, surgeon in
chief of Johns Hopkins Hospital,
Baltimore, has been named as the
worlds outstanding vascular (heart)
surgeon by the international So
ciety of Surgery. DR.. Blalock was
chosen primarily for the "blue-baby'
technique he and DR.. Helen Taus-
sing developed for the correction of
a narrow artery to the lungs, a con-
dition with which some babies are
born.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1949-12-01
FIRST BRETHREN
CHURCH

"A Light Amid Darkness" will be
lhe sermon subject of Rev. James E.
Ault at the morning worship serv-
ice at 10:45 o'clock on Sunday morn
ing at the First Brethren Church,
Mulberry and Antietam Streets.
Church School,, with classes for all
ages, meets at GAS o'clock, and the
Christian Endeavor is held at $50
pm.
At the evening worship service
at 7:30 o'clock, Reverend Ault will
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1949-12-01
FRIENDSHIP
UNION CHURCH

The Methodist Group will conduct
the service tomorrow (Friday) eve
ming at 7::30 o'clock at the Friend
ship Union Church, corner of Coff-
man and Virginia Avenues.
All residents of the Halfway area
are cordially invited to be present.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1949-12-01
Wants University OF Md. To
Control Negro Education

DR.. H. c. Byrd, president of the
University of Maryland, wants all
the States facilities for Negro high
er education placed under the con-
troll of the university. The institu-
TONS Board of Regents agrees, he
saws, that such centralized pro-
gram would be the most satisfactory
for all concerned.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1949-12-01
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Leaves $1,5O0,OOO Estate

An inventory of the estate of the
late Robert E. Hannegan, former
Postmaster General and part-owner
of the St. Louis Cardinals baseball
club, indicates the estate to be worth
about $1,5OO,OOO.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1949-12-01

Indiana's fifty-mile water front
on Lake Michigan is a great indus
trial center.
Evening star., 1949-11-13

after a full summers work, his
pastures are rich and lush, show
ing the effects of manure, and
fertilizer and lime. Every bit Of
manure from the barns goes back
on the land.
One machine on the Money
farm that helps out at haying
time was assembled from an old
cutting box and parts from an
old washing machine. 1t is con-
veyor that takes bales from the
ground to the barn loft, and it
didn't cost a penny but the work
that Mr.. Money put into it at odd
times.
This machine has proved so sue
cessful, he said, that he now is
getting the materials ready to
build a stationary conveyor that
will take the hay bales up the side
of the barn and drop them in an
opening to be made in the roof.
I'll make it out of angle iron
and paint it, SO it can stay in
place all year." he said. Then
I'll fix board slides on the inside
of the barn so the hay can be
placed at any part of the NOV.
This way can stack the NOV to
the top without lifting."-J, B,
Evening star., 1949-11-13
Garden Club
Activities
Thanksgiving Flower Show.

The third annual Thanksgiving
Flower Show, sponsored by the
Trowel Club and the Wesley
Heights Spring Valley Garden
Club, will be held on Thursday at
the Community Club of Wesley
Heights from 2 pm. until 8 pm.
The public is cordially irvited.
There will be seven classes of
exhibits-the special feature again
being IL arrangements for q
Thanksgiving dinner table CENTER
piece with accessories. which have
always been an inspiration to
those looking for a novel idea for
their own tables.
New this year is a community
exhibit open to residents of the
Wesley Heights-Spring Valley
area who have never won blue
ribbon. This is an arrangement
suitable for a coffee table.
There will be, as usual, a guest
club exhibit open to neighboring
garden clubs, which is a still life
arrangement depicting 1--WE Give
Thanks"
Mrs. Herbert Greger is chair
man of the show, with Mrs. H.
Gabriel Murphy of the Trowel
Club and Mrs. Roger w. Eisinger
Of the Wesley Heights-Spring VAL
ley Garden Club chairmen of
their respective clubs.
Evening star., 1949-11-13

Glc ldUOI - Sd -
ing ideas-that he is a good man
with tools and that he likes his
farm.
Mr.. Money lives on land that
once was a part of his grand
fathers farm. He built his house
in 1925 and started a part-time
farming operation, cropping the
40 cleared acres.
just five years ago, he decided
to stop working as a carpenter
and to start farming in earnest. He
built small dairy barn, got to-
gether the foundations of grade
herd and has been doing pretty
we'll ever since.
"At today's wages. you won't
make quite as much money in
the dairy business as you can
make as a carpenter, but it is a
lot steadier," he said. There are
bound to come those years when
carpenter may not work every
day. But with dairying, you've
got a full-time. steady job"
This year, Mr.. Moneys 49 acres.
which are all in grass, carried 56
cattle. including the 26 COWS that
are in milk. He usually rents
about 10 acres each year to pro-
vide enough corn for his silo, and
makes hay on the shares, getting
forage from other land.
His permanent pastures are in
Ladino clover mixture, and this
year for the first time he planted
a bronze grass mixture. He is
thinking Of sewing Ladino and
Kentucky fescue in q poorly
drained section of one of his fields.
Even this late in the fall, and
Evening star., 1949-11-13

"How do you water your house
plants?" Perhaps I should ask
"how often" and "how much?"
These are common questions folks
ask because watering plants in
the modern home is a real prob
lem. All gardeners know plants
must have a certain amount OF
moisture in the soil and the soil
must contain air and not be
waterlogged. The problem. then,
Is to provide adequate moisture
without drowning the plants.
The correct answer may de-
pend upon the particular situa-
tion in which the plants are grow
ing-the amount of sunlight or
shade. the temperature. the
humidity, the kind of pot, the
soil mixture and, of course, the
kind of plant. A plant growing
in full sunlight is in much more
active growth than one growing in
shade, hence needs more moisture.
In warm room plants tend to
be more active, also the warmer
the air the more moisture they
take up. In cool room the plant
is in less active growth and there
Is less Transportation. Ferns and
African violets obviously need and
use more moisture than succulents
such as the peperonia and SAN
severia.
Air Usually Is Too Dry.
In our modern homes the win
ter air tends to be so dry that it
parches the throat as well as
dries out the furniture. You can
easily see what it does to the
saucerful of water in which your
plant is growing. Clay pots per-
NIT evaporation through the sides
but glazed pots do not.
First let us consider top water
ing and watering from the bot
tom. Ordinarily the capacity Of
the pot above the soil is too small
to hold enough water to saturate
the soil below. Hence, watering
from above may require many
Filings, and. even then we are
not always certain the job is fully
done. When watering from below
we can see when the moisture
has reached the surface and the
job is well done. Occasionally
plants should be watered from the
surface to flush out salts that
may have accumulated there from
evaporation.
Since in many cases it is easier
to water from the top than from
the bottom the grower might we'll
follow this practice, supplement-
ing once week with a good
soaking from below.
Sometimes houseplant growers
say that wetting the foliage is
dangerous. They are usually re-
ferring to African violets. To this
we may say that nature waters
Evening star., 1949-11-13
By jones Birehfield

We have problem with the
guineas just now on The 40 Acres.
It is all because one hen decided
to set late in the year and now
has left only one of five keets that
Matched.
This little fellow seems to do all
right during the day. It keeps up
with the flock, even though they
range clear to the back side of the
place. and hasn't yet run up
against the hawk. 1t is nicely
feathered for its age, but hasn't
yet learned to fly. And this is a
distinct disadvantage.
When night comes this lonely
keet is lost. The hen. with the
other guineas, f1ys to their roost-
ing place in the oak tree in the
side yard, leaving the keet to shift
for itself on the ground.
There is lot of clatter out in
the yard about dusk every eve
ming and then, in little while,
the keet melts away out of sight
in the tall weeds. We haven't yet
been able to find where 1t stays
during the night, for there is
nothing that moves more quickly
than a guinea keet.
Now you see it, and now it is
gone. Just like that.
hope it survives. There is
nothing we can do, though, to as
sist nature.
often wonder what becomes
of the frogs and peppers that live
in the spring branch down behind
the house when there is no water
In the ditch.
The spring is not large, and the
ditch has silted rather badly, so
there is not much of a flow, and
it doesn't take much of a drought
to stop the flow. But, let it rain
and let the ditch get back its
little water supply, and that very
night you can expect a frog sere-
made. 1t is the same way with
the peppers in the spring.
I cleaned out the feedroom the
other day and found some tools
Evening star., 1949-11-13
Watering Your House Plants
SeveralMethods Are Suggested but There
Is No Substitute for Daily Attention
By Wilbur H. Younemon
By Wilbur H. Younemon

them that way but not with cold
water. 1t is the cold water that
causes ring-spot on African vio-
let leaves. Swinging the foliage
occasionally to remove dust is an
excellent practice but use luke
warm water. However. it is well
not to allow plants with sensitive
foliage to dry in full sunlight.
Also, it is better to wet the foliage
in the morning than in the eve
ming.
How to Supply Moisture.
Since very few plants thrive in
either excessive or deficient sup
plies of moisture. what are the
easiest methods of supplying the
right amount? One rather eff
cient method it to keep the plants
in a shallow pan or tray with a
layer of gravel on the bottom.
The pots most of the time are
above the water level. but when
they need to be watered the water
level is raised to cover the bot
toms of the pots. Moisture from
the gravel at all times will pro-
vide a certain amount of humidity
to the air about the plants and
that is very beneficial.
Wick watering andlor a clay
brick may be used to meet speci-
fic needs. A clay brick or bricks
may be used to supply water to
house plants while the owners
are away on vacation. This will
not work with plants in glazed
pots. Wick watering devices, home
made or purchased, need to be
checked. The rate of flow Of
water capillary action) varies
with the size and the material Of
the wick. Thus wicks may provide
too much or not enough moisture
depending upon the plant and
the season of the year. A little
close checking will pay.
Small amounts Of soluble fer
tilizers should be used with care
until experience shows how much
and how often feeding may be
done. The use of liquid fertilizers
in the gravel-tray is hardly prac-
Jicable because of the accumula-
ton of salts in the gravel.
Water in evaporating from the
gravel will likely leave behind
certain salts which should occa-
sionally be washed out of the gra-
vel and the tray.
Questions about watering can
not be fully answered for each
plant in each home for each sea-
son. I have described several
methods of watering but there is
no satisfactory substitute for daily
attention. The plant grower, if
observing, will soon learn when
a plant needs moisture or has
too much and will add or reduce
the supply accordingly.
Evening star., 1949-11-13

Do not be too hasty in making
fun of people who love and praise
some seemingly uninteresting old
dog. They know far better than
we his true value and worth.
Just how long will a bird dog
hold a point? I have no exact
knowledge to answer that ques-
tion. However. I know about two
men who a few years ago took a
pointer out in a field to settle
wager as to just how long this
particular dog would hold a point.
They timed the dog on point for
two hours and 40 minutes. Un-
doubtedly, it is possible under
certain conditions for bird dog
to hold a point for even a much
greater length of time than that.
Your guess is as good as mine.
From time to time perhaps you
Evening star., 1949-11-13
New Grains Tested
By the Associated Press

BLACKSBURG, Va, Nov. 12.-
A total of 38 Notwithstanding
10 being tried for the first time
are entered in this seasons winter
small grain tests conducted by the
Virginia Agricultural Experiment
Station.
All the recommended varieties
from the 1949 list are included.
Newcomers In the wheat tests in
clude Trumbull- -Frondoso Y2375,
Leapland-Fronteria Y2652, and
two South Carolina varieties.
New winter oats are Fulgrain No.
3, Full-bright. Victorgrain 1898,
and two unnamed experimentals.
The only newcomer In the barley
tests is Kentucky CC-1O-43.
A total of is varieties OF winter
oats, IA of wheat and eight Of bar
ley are included In the test plant
ingS.
Evening star., 1949-11-13
Is !21tNt Nottss2s NsoSts2'
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have thought of securing little
metal tag with your name and
address on it to attach to your
dogs collar. Here is an easy way
to make your own and at home.
Take a piece of brass, nickel
or bronze and cut it to the size
and shape you want. Melt candle
wax on the face of the tag until
it is covered with thin coating.
Then, with a sharp pointed in
strument Can ice pick or darning
needle will do the trick write
your name and address on the
waxed surface, making sure to
cut through to the metal. Fill the
impressions with iodine and let it
stand for a day or two. After re-
moving the wax you will find
that the inscription stands out
clearly. Furthermore, it will be
permanent.
have found that it is a good
idea not to give a convalescing
or seriously sick dog too much
drinking water. A beef or lamb
broth, allowed to cool. is a good
thirst-quencher as well as a
b,Iilder-upper.
It is safe to assume that unless
a dog has excessive nasal mucous
secretions lasting over three
month period, distemper will not
cause any permanent detriment to
the nasal tissues or affect the ami
mails sense of smell.
@. Do they use only German
shepherds as seeing-eye dogs to
lead the blind?-H. M.
A. Among them are boxers, col
lies, Doberman pinschers. poodles,
pointers and others. However,
German shepherds are in the ma
jority.
Released by McNaught Syndicate, Inc.
Evening star., 1949-11-13
This Week in the Garden

Now that suburban gardens
have had a killing frost the gar
deners will lift dahlias and glads,
pull up the dead ANIMALS, and
start otherwise to put the garden
In shape for winter. Draining pipe
lines is one job that is easy to
overlook. Drain the garden hose
before storing and check garden
markers to see that names are
legible and stakes well set.
Pile weeds. leaves and other
garden refuse on the compost pile.
The resultant decayed material is
a valuable soil conditioner and a
relatively inexpensive one. Ground
limestone may be mixed in to aid
decay, but some form of nitrogen
will be needed to feed the decay
producing bacteria for, if nitrogen
is lacking, decay is greatly slowed.
Manure is a good source Of nitro
gen, but lacking manure in some
form use cottonseed meal. tank
age or commercial fertilizer.
If commercial fertilizer is used
we may choose between so-called
straight nitrogen material such as
sulphate of ammonia and nitrate
of soda, or the usual mixed fer
tilizer.
I For most gardeners the compost
pile will be . good place to use up
the tag ends of mixed fertilizer.
They will not be wasted for the
element most likely to leach, the
nitrogen, will be taken up by the
bacteria, to be released when the
material is mixed with the soil.
There is still time to sow the
seeds of many hardy ANIMALS,
preferably in the place where they
are to bloom. Some transplant
fairly easily. but most of them do
not. Sow the seed thinly and then
thin out vigorously next spring SO
that the remaining plants will
have space in which to develop
properly.
Rye and vetch are we'll known
companion green manure crops.
Abruzzi rye is preferred since it
makes more winter growth than
the common grain type. Hairy
vetch Is the legume that will with
stand our winters and it needs
the rye for support. Hairy vetch
seed should be inoculated before
sowing if it is to fix the maximum
nitrogen in the roots. This combi-
nation of green manure or winter
cover crops will not be ready to
Evening star., 1949-11-13
Life in the Country-Last Keet of Summer

simply to arrange things so
could get in again.
I cleaned for half a day and
found the hack saw, three
wrenches, two chisels, a hasp, a
bag of nails, two hammers. a roll
of solder and nine assorted screws.
Not a bad haul, considering
that I can get into the room now
without too much of a struggle.
Evening star., 1949-11-13

spade under before late April I'M
less you are willing to forego the
optimum growth. However. on
soils that will wash. that is de-
sirable practice. Most gardeners
omit a winter cover crop on that
portion of their garden where they
intend to put in the early crops
such as cabbage. peas. etc.
Gladiolus cormels (srnall bulb
like growths that form just below
the corms) are ordinarily dis
carded since the increase from di-
vision normally provides an am
pie supply of blooming-size corms.
However. If more corms are wan
ed. the cormels may be planted as
you would plant peas. Fall sowing
in sandy soils is usually successful
although it may pay to mulch the
rows to prevent deep freezing.
Very early spring planting is the
usual practice. Thus planted. the
cormels will, under favorable con-
ditions, flower the first season.
Celery plants may be lifted and
stored in the coldframe or just be-
fore freezing weather be put into
deep boxes and stored in the base
ment. Keep some soil on the roots
so that the plants will not shrivel
and dry up. In a cool moist stor-
age space the celery will keep In
good condition for several weeks.
Removing the spent flower heads
of perennials is just as important
as removing weeds before they go
to seed. Hardy asters. perennial
ageratum (Eupatorium), hardy
phlox, swamp aster tBoltonia) I,
etc., should have their tops re-
moved before they scatter seed far
and wide. 1t is just as important
to keep these strong growing flow
ers under control as it is to control
weeds.
Evening star., 1949-11-13
Meeting and Bridge Party.

Chevy Chase ID. Co. Garden
Club will meet tomorrow at the
home of Mrs. George L. Hart,
1901 Jenifer street. at l pm. To
raise funds for the clubs certifi-
Gates, a bridge party will be held
Wednesday at the home of Mrs.
Mark Lansburgh. Bill Idaho ave-
nue..
Evening star., 1949-11-13

Notes
By Don Henderson

Purchasers Of feeder calves have
them on the grass still. probably
feeding a bit as a supplement.
They are great types. the chunky,
easy-feeding kinds.
Carter Hall, down by Wildwood,
has a group of Angus OF the best,
and I glimpsed them over the
post-and-rail fencing lately erect
ed by Owner Frank Christopher.
Two excellent advances for a fine
estate. Caught also good view
of real Herefords down the Paris
Delaplane Valley road, little chaps
with deceptive weights under
them. There is plenty Of grass
still and owners are taking ad-
vantage of it.
William D. Pawley, son Of the
former Ambassador to Brazil, has
taken on two activities at his Bel
voir farm, south of The Plains. He
purchased 80 head of the late c.
B. Asher herd of purebreds, then
double that number from the AL
bert Mitchell place in New Mex
leo. He also has some so good
commercial Hereford heifer calves.
Also the owner turned his head to
the horse business, buying a share
of the German Derby winner,
Nordlicht. with Chris Chenery and
DR.. L. H. Kraskin. The good
looking Preisrichter went in the
same deal.
Hal Longley of the Shorthorn
World announces that the annual
sale of Cherry Hill polled short
horns will be made at the farm,
Worthington, by Glyndon. next
Saturday Mrs. Harry Straus
will carry on with the farm at
least for the time being. She Is
fortunate to have as assistants
Harry Cannaday and Raymon
Duer, in charge of horses and
cattle, respectively.
The succession Of sales is about
over. now its the Eastern National
at Timonium and then on to
Chicago for the lucky ones. This
year the representation from this
coast will do us proud. There
is no reason why we should not
be at the top. Our smaller farms
and extremely fertile lands, plus
an ideal climate. offer opportuni-
ties for the best breeding prac-
tices. Two herds which make this
clear are the Cherry Hill and
the Spring Valley. Each Is pio-
neering for the polled head and
is arriving very fast indeed. Our
Angus herds have carried on well
for some years, of course.
Looking down over the Middle
town Valley from the south, it's
no wonder wise men who were
farm minded settled there. The
fruits of their efforts is revealed
in the substantial farm buildings
to be seen on every side. To the
east of the battlefields Of Antie-
tam prosperity shines blatantly
and industry is evident on all
sides.
Jim Herbert at Delaplanes has
purchased three Angus bulls ut
Le Baron and has used them
with his Hereford heifers. Not
so far to the north of his place,
Paul Llewellyn is doing a good
job with his Shorthorn bull with
purebred Angus. It is quality beef.
too. Some was eaten at the
Shen-Valley Packers opening last
month, down Timberyille way.
BirdWood Farm Is the only out
fit from this section to consign
to the International Hereford sale
in Chicago. Jim Stork is always
on the job. aided and abetted by
owners Middleton, father and
son. c. A. Smith Of Chester,
w. Va. will also be there with
some of his top offerings. Two
good herds thus will represent our
seaboard out there where Here
fords are so popular.
Talk m Anna riums.
Evening star., 1949-11-13

Moneys small
farm ou t in
Fairfax County
has the look Of
a farm that is
a hobby as we'll
as a business.
You can tell by
the look of the
farm-the way
the house and
yard are fixed
up and the way
Mr.. Money has
worked out lit
II
Evening star., 1949-11-13
Seed Available

Farmers who are interested in
trying Kenland or Northern Neck
red clovers should contact county
agents as soon as possible as only
limited amount of seed is avail
able. Northern Neck is a Vir-
ginia native. Kenland was de-
veloped in Kentucky.