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soBacRtprraM SIATM TbiM MB Pooitb FOMU moott. Si OB. PO.UI by Ottn or Monday Afternoon. September 19 THE AMERICAN SHIRT Thlsjs a good time for Americans to keep cairn, as calm as they should stay on. The United States is not In- a war.

It reads Its newspapers with eagerness. It listens to radio bulletins. It is interested in foreign affairs. But it Is not In a war. Good sense requires that the American think ahead a little, that he think out now, while he Is calm, what he would like to have his country do, and what he as an individual can do to further that end.

But, it also requires that he refrain Jrom jumping to conclusions. BRITAIN AT BERCHTESG ADEN of thewoeld worth more than man's lift, mom than any fact, than nation's pride. Netille Chun- berlain, Hying on his gravely gatUnt Journey t6 bargain with Adolf -Hitler, had with him the ot all the world. Leaders and unthinking of the Hazi party took this journey as a victory. They rejoiced that Great Britain should feel obliged to Itself to bargain with their leader.

But the saner minAt nt there am many, silent today but not hoping that these negotiations may bring peace. Permanent peace seems impossible while Hitler rattles the sabres of the Reich, But no regime lasts forever. Destructive ideologies destroy themselves. The Hitler group; may regard thlt a triumph. But the world knows that ao long as Britain shall endure it may take a great, a humble, a justified pride In the knowledge that everything it could do to avert catastrophe was done.

While a thousand Interpreters differ as to what thia journey means and what will come of it, down through the years of history ring the words of EsMier, taking in her hands the lives And if I TIMES, CUMBERLAND, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19,1938 PEACE OR WAR? 'And I will go In unto the King, perish, I perish!" SUBNORMAL INCOMES Yes. the Income of the South Is "under par," as compared with the rest of the country. That Is, the Income of a big majority ot southern people, especially Negroes. Moreover, the Income of most of the people in other sections, and a majority ot the nation as a whole, is under par. This has always been so.

We-are merely more conscious of it nowadays than we used to business prostration than In normal times. Something, too, should be done about It In a rational and Constructive way. It Is absurd that a nation ot our Intelligence, resourcefulness and material resources should not provide, for people In general, a better living than most of them are getting. Although we are much better off as matters stand than a big majority of nations, with our opportunities we should be stiU better off. war in the memory of man.

It la In a worse mess todny, and whatever seems to be settled today may be unsettled again tomorrow. The present mess may end by involving the world. But It has not involved the world yet. Benes of Czechoslovakia seems to be keeping his head remarkably well. He sets a good example.

Let the American keep his. The United States has Jived through a good many wars, big and little. The stock market has taken nose dives before, and queer, sudden spurts upward, and wobbled for months. And the Constitution still stands. Let the good old American shirt stay right on.

JUDGES' WIGS Lord Raglan, president of the British Association, Is now being viewed with alarm by a considerable section of the British nation. He says lie cannot understand why English judges and lawyers should persist in wearing wigs. Such talk la dasigerous radkailsm. From the viewpoint of Americans, who discarded thia professional custom a century ago, His Lordship seems to make a pretty good case. The idea has been that pudlcial wigs stood for the dignity of the profession.

"Numerous other people," he observes, "from the King and Archbishop of Canterbury (heads respectively of state and church), have to keep up their dignity, but do not do It by wearing wigs." Such a practice, still observed in France and some other countries, seems to Americans merely sttly. Our legal profession, however, probably abolished wigs lor the practical reason that they were uncomfortable. sO SAFETY MARGINS The Increasing speed of automobiles has brought one grave danger that drivers do not yet seem to realize. It takes time and experience to readjust our driving to 50 and 80 miles an hour, on good roads where the cars slide along so easily that we are hardly conscious of speeding. The danger is the slight safety margin usually allowed on two-lane road in passing a car going In the same direction, while a car is approaching from the opposite direction.

Two experts of Yale University find that in one- tenth of the cases, the time actually allowed by the car passing from behind, to get ahead before the oncoming car hits him, Is less than one second. Most drivers must have noticed that the interval Is often a whish. and you're through the rapidly closing gap and the other car Is vanishing In the rear. Less than a second certainly is not time enough. Any little mechanical failure or misjadfcir.cni, of the driver, and three cars would be badly mixed up.

would be difficult, anyway. Most of the big aggregations of wealth are not In liquid form and, if they were, wouldn't go very far. Wealth, generally speaking. Is not a lake but a stream. Try to "crack down on the wealthy," taking their wealth and dividing up, as some nations have tried to do at tunes, and you dry up the sources.

We can even things up a little more than we have done, no doubt, individually, or by economic groups, or sectlonally, or collectively. But mere legislation will not do very extensively, though It can help. Our whole economic structure hangs together as one structure. A3 far as possible, 'we should rise all together, merely curbing the big, strong fellows at the top a little by legal control, lifting the great, helpless masses at the bottom a little by more education and more opportunity. Behind the Scenes in Washington onrwt.im.mi STORIES IN STAMPS By RODNEY DTJTCHKR (Evening Times Washington Correspondent) Washington, Sept.

19 The rush of propagartda Intended to line up the United States with one or the other of the European factions has been going on for some time. Should war break, It wlU Immediately redouble, and truth will be the first casualty In this 03 in all wars. There will be less excusa for being misled this time, however, for over at the Department In the Offlca of Munitions Control conferences are going on. a series of earnest Foreign propagandists are registering In accord with a law which jusi sane into effect. Others are seeking expert advice as to whether they have to register.

If they do under the law, they must eet down the names of their employers, the character of their activities, what they ore paid, and what their duties are. The Intent of the law Is to enable the American people to tell who Is feeding them what propaganda. I Registration data is open to all. Failure to register subjects the agent to a line up to and a jail term up to two years. Mexican Battles Made Him President JTS7HEN the United quired Texas In 1845, the government turned to "Old Rough and Ready," Gen.

Zachary Taylor, to occupy the borders. By the of 1846, the had uOWJi to the iriOuui the Rio Grande with a force of 3000 men and established Fort Brown. Across the river 'was the Mexican army, under orders to drive Americans out of contested They tried this and war WM on. Suddenly Taylor faced a conflict beyond his strength. But he won two victories in quick succession, at Palo.

Alto and Resaca de la Palma, on Mcy and 9, 1846.. The Mexicans retreated and Taylor followed to consolidate his position. At the same time the country began to-consolidate the gen- ii ASEB ALL BUSINESS Another big league baseball manager has been fired, suggesting that these are troubled days in professional baseball as elsewhere. This season's managerial casualties remind the public again that tlie favorite national game, when It leaves the sandlots and the playgrounds, becomes business more than sport. Managers are supposed to produce winning teams, although tt Is obvious to anyone that not all the teams can wlr.

pennants and championships every year. The public, in turn, would like to remind the baseball authorities that league games would be a bigger thrill to the crowds In the bleachers, and before the street scoreboards and the home radio if the contests were closer. When the second team in the American League Is 15 games behind the leader, there Is too big a for sustained excitement or fur genuine popular enthusiasm. Things are more satisfactory, from the spectators' standpoint. In the National League, when the second team Is only 2Vi games behind the leader, the third team 3y 2t the fourth team ditto.

There Is still chance for surprises there. Connie Mack, one of the greatest managers in baseball history, broken up victorious teams because they were too (rood. It proved to be good business as well as good baseball The public has a way of getting bored by too one- sided a -O Whatever they do about Czechoslovakia the American public hopes they'll clarify name, pronunciation and spe'Hng of its capital. y-v The "third decree" In that Philadelphia prison seems to be about 200 degrees of heat. position for the presidency.

Followed another close shave, and victory for Taylor at Monterey in September, and again the country acclaimed him. Next Taylor crossed sharply with General Scott in the Mexican campaign, with the result that at Buena Vista Taylor barely snatched a victory from Santa Anna and his 20,000 troops, four times the number Taylor com- manCicd. At home the feclins was that Taylor had been stripped o) his troops by Scott, who was campaigning elsewhere in Mexico, bul won anyhow. So Taylor- became irrevocably a presidential possibility. He was elected in 1848.

He Is shown- here on a U. issue of 1870. ICopyrlsbt. 13IK, SKA Service. In New York By Like all laws, this one Is not bullet-proof, and the admlnlstringr office has been for weeks engaged in drawing up regulations Interpreting the act.

There Is some doubt as to just how completely any such law can reveal the inner cogwheels of the propaganda machines, for deviousness is usually their first characteristic. But it should help, and the early rush of propagandists to register shows that at least eome of the more propaganda programs wlU be revealed for what they are, thus enabling people to divide their product by the proper common denominator. PLENTY OF SPIES Possibility of the being Involved in war recalls their very effective propaganda In the United States -jrhlch began the moment war was declared In 1914 and corilinued throughout the period of our neutrality, redoubling of course aj aoon as the United States WM In the war. Thomas Masaryk had his man Vosfca on duty here early in 1914, raising funds, holding meetings, contacting newspapers and politicians. Working closely with the British Intelligence Service, especially Captain Gaunt and Sir William Voska established a spy service of his own which employed at least 80 people.

And the exposure he made of German and Austrian plotting in this country helped materially to bring the United States Into the war. The large number of of Czech Wood not only provided Masaryic wilh more than a half- million doUara for such work, but in cities like New I we hope. The museum now clut-' York, Chicago, Pittsburgh and Cleveland, which had up the entire thirty-fourth and have large Czech populations, made hla pro-! floor of the International Building gram a vital part of public opinion. In Radio CHy snd belongs to a Voska WM one ot the ablest of all the spies and 1 pair of fabulous gentlemen named propagandists who flooded United States from! Douglaa Herts Crosby Galge. i European countries as soon as began.

His ac- I The first is a New Jersey sporte- tivttlM here were one of the largest factors that led; wan; the latter Is a Broadway pro- I to establishment of the Czechoslovak Republic which ducer, country squire, gourmet, en- is now so gravely threatened. In tho Washington of J915 you couldn't walk down the street without stepping on agenU, avowed New York, Sept. have Just come away from viewing the first pretzel-bending machine ever made by man who, in his wisdom, has overcome the obstacles of Nature in many things. We Inspected the inaugural pret- in the most amazing museum In town. One that Is not open to the general public for the moment, but one that will be soon, 0v.v*.u un agents, avowed or secret, amateirr or professional, of foreign gov- graver, cattle breeder, insect lector and fudge expert.

col- Anything Collector Now for the museum which shel- emmenLs. In 1938 it is almost bad, and" should war actually come to Europe it will be much worse. BRAIN-TRUSTFJL Tn Pfrpn-ow Cr8- Here's the story: Back In and member of the famous Corcoran-Cohen brain- trust team, decided to vacation In Europe In the hope that he could aid Jewkh refugees from Austria. space for working models ventions on the register. of In- What's fangled devices to Washington.

And In same breath, Congress the sale of all the existing old models to private bidders. Along came a British hobbyist, Sir Henry by name, 8lr Honry collected anything. He heard about Congress' bill and he sent agents with instructions to buy up everything, which they promptly did. By everything, we mean 200,000 models of Inventions that had been registered with the Patent Office between 1820 and 1900. Well, Sir Henry passed away, and in due course of tfaac Ws estate was liquidated among his heirs and it seems that no one among Sir Henry's descendants cared especially for the warehouse containing those 200,000 items.

And ao It happened that the Messrs. Hertz and Gaige, who are boyishly enthused about such things, came Into possession. They paid a handsome for the whole shebang, too. They didn't take Inventory. You don't taiei Inventory on thousands of packing cases thst you are buy- Ing out In an entire lot So theyi started moving their stock out of.

the warehouse gradually and into the 34th floor of the International Building and there set a crew of men to unpacking, cataloguing ard exhibiting the stuff. And it -will be half a year before they are anywhere Mar the end of their task. First, Ttrtt, First, etc. We've told you about the Initial pretzel bender. It was patented In 1879 and, by gosh, It stili works.

These are several of the other objects d'art we also saw: the first cash register UB79) with a bell vice a fire truck' would admire; the firpt cigar moulding machine (1878); the first handcuff which had not yet been perfected, secause there is only one manacle, attached to a chain the end of which was held by the arresting the first typewriter, patented by T. P. Allen in 1876. and made of weed. HISTORY From Times Files THIRTY YEARS AGO Mrs.

Charles McKenzie died at Mt. Savage. Death of Mrs, Sarah A. Brunt. Death of Miss Mary O.

Martin, 26; Charles Eagen, 45, Westernport, died. John Philip sousa, famed director, was to give a band concert The water board in an appeal to citizens asked the city supply be used sparingly because of the low- stage of the river. TWENTY YEARS AGO H. Dorsejr Etchison, Frederick BARBS Children wrUlnly make the time fly toe body. That mumbling you hew lltUe Johnny busy counting the till tummer vacation.

A cow town had a male beauty ccotest the other day, but cheer up, girls: there's still plenty of rugged scenery around. The premier of Japan has Informed ths Oxford Movement of his strong belief in moral rearmament. Gosh, he certainly had the footed there for a while I There's a man in Philadelphia who has built himself a miniature swim band out of wood. It doesn't play any music, and that makes Iti a genuine reproduction, la New York at the moment la a European who has been pretty llum for the last Jew years over lie fact that he's a man without country. He's feeilng just touch better these days.

(Copyright, 1938, NEA ServrceTTncT FOUND NEEDLE IN LEG Lincoln. pain in his leg sent C. H. Walters to a physician; and an X-ray examination disclosed a needle lodged near the boiw. An operation recovered the needle, rusty and slightly bent.

Walters can't remember when the needle stuck iJm. SO THEY SAY! You cant women these Gene Tortariello, of Unden explaining why he kee rt brief? chained to his car, It now evident the House intendz to have no essary thinking going on in Democratic party. Alt M. Homely girls and those who jonly passably attractive easier time of it than those have the attention-getting var, of beauty. Meseke, of Marion, who was recently crowned i America 1938." The A.

T. of L. regards an Integral part of the gover Green, A. P. of dent.

INSURANCE ESTATE BONDING RENTALS The J. H. Holzshu Co. 21 S. Centre St Phone 458 county, was candidate for named Democratic Congress to oppose Far Northern Churches Receive Pelts As Gifts Reglna, Sept.

col- plates used in mission churches la the Far North are larger than those used in clfcy churches, Mrs. J. G. Curleigh, wife of a "Mountie" stationed at Aklavlk, N. W.

told newspapermen here. Little money is in circulation in the north, she said, and worshipers attending church heap the collection plates with dried muskrat skins Instead. Frederick N. ZBilman, Republican. Three prisoners, two of them sol- dlert, escaped from ths AUegany Jail.

with, a wooden key. Tin. two soldiers, held W. O. were recaptured.

Miss Nell CrMrforiJ, 17, died at Luke. Death of Melvln Hymes, 35; death of Mrs. William Lewery, 49; death of Miss Annie K. Moanett, 76; John Jones, 55, died. r.

Zschary Terrell, B. O. freight agent, Keyser, wag named -warden of the- penitentiary at KoundsviUe W. Va, Death of Mrs. Andrew M.

Nelson, S3. Eckhart, Charles Burke was elected captain and Paul Smith, manager of Allegany High School football team. TEN YEARS AGO 'A county fair was to be held at Oakland, (September 25-28). James T. Robertson, 25, member of a camping party near Spring Oap, was missing and was believed drowned.

Carl Garlitz, 18, Avilton, Plans were revised for flood gates at the canal dam in the river here tn connection with flood protection work and dredging. Death of Mrs. F. A. O.

Murray. Harry C. Hite, 51, farmer, Bedford Valley, Blame Adams, city, and Aubrey Adams, Lonaconing, were hurt hi motor crashes. Fairmont won all three ball games from Hanover in post season league contest SON'S BODY IN FATHER'S NET Rome, Sept a Cagliart pulled in his net recently he found the body of his 12-year- old sc-n. Ths boy had been on the way down the shore to his father's boat when he was drowned.

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