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FOUK MIDDLKTUWfl TIMES HERALD, MIDPLETOWN. N. T. MONDAY, AUGUST 22, 1932. JR tiuMrtimm aimr January 1, 1S27 Being n.

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Audit Bureau o' Circulations. American Newspaper Publishers' Association New YorK State Publishers Association, New York Associated Dailies National Advertising Prudtten. Kins it prudden. i 270 Madison New York Chicago Los Angeles San Francisco A DEFINITION OF POLICY We believe that, the essential of a successful newspaper Is the publication 1 ol live. Interesting news--news that Is news--news that Is true--news that is reliable -without snacking of journalism--news that Is untlcged witk persor.a] belief or prejudice.

Our policy Is unbiased by any commitment to or aflillatlon with any organization or tion. leaving us free to discuss and develop each and every point iearlsss'y and independently. We cater to no one--we hare no to grind, but we assure to our readers a paper conceived in sincerity Teracitr. THE BARGE CANAL MR. MARK GRAVES of the Tax Department, continuing his discussion of tax reduction possibilities, touched the other day on the subject of the barge canal.

This is one of our most distinguished examples of how public funds are used to subsidize special interests. The canal cost millions to develop. Maintenance constitutes an enormous charge. The income from the waterways falls far short of counterbalancing expenditures. In that respect the canal is Hke the subway in New York, where for political purposes the five cent fare is maintained at the expense of the taxpayers.

The barge canal was developed at expense of the taxpayers--including the railroads with which it was intended to compete--with the idea of providing politicians with a talking point on the question of transportation costs. It has not been used to any great extent. Traffic on it today is light. It has failed of its purpose. It might well be abolished.

Monday, August 32, 1932. SOMETHING TO REMEMBER JURY COMMISSIONER MR. TOTH'S death removes an excellent citizen. His passing vacates a County office which should not be filled again, unless a thorough canvass of the situation demonstrates that the public service requires a commissioner of jurors. Under the present system of jury selection, with so many exemptions of favored classes, and preferences to be established as to Grand Jury' service, some argument may be adduced for continuing the service.

But the principal question is: Is it essential? H. Curran, former president: "Our battle for the verdict of public opinion Is The next Congress will adopt a repeal resolution. There remains the difficult and essential task of translating this victory into the law of the land." The statements of Mr. Shouse and of Pierre S. du Pont, chairman of the executive committee, indicate that the future policies of the Association will be: 1.

To agitate for unqualified repeal as opposed to the new amendment recommended by President Hoover which would include a prohibition of saloons in wet states and a guarantee of federal protection to states choosing to remain dry. Mr. Du Pont said: only wise solution is to return control to the "fchs t. ol hie weii can only middle into AN ECHO OF BRYAN UNHAPPY AMERICANS, who have always looked upon Europeans and Asiatics as unhappy, politically'socially and economically, are surprised to hear from a British author' VP- that Americans are the unhappiest race i in the world. Anticipating our interro- gations, he explains: Americans are unhappy because they Ix CUR REST circumstances the country have De ore them the wrong purpose of wants to know whether there is a better iif make good.

The cry, Make good, leader available than President HOOVER, is hurled out into the world with its it wants to know particularly what Gov- brother stupid, tricky, insidious label, ernor ROOSEVELT would have done in the service. Wherever you go in America emergency that confronted the present I you hear th cry echoed and re-echoed, occupant of the It wants to l-Make good. what Mr. ROOSEVELT, if elected i He wou id no accept this American would do to ease conditions purpose nf for that of the English- that have caused distress or prevent man? chinaman and the Negro, which he their recurrence. i says consists of "finding happiness in Thrice now Mr.

ROOSEVELT has had op- 1 the thrills, the ecstatic moments in life port-unity to enlighten the people whose that come from the simple primitive iavor he'seeks, against the aspirations of i and contemplation, not action." Mr. HOOVES for a second term. Thrice he in this as in other things all depends has spoken, once just before the national on how you look at it. Americans may states without attempting such restrictions, no matter how desirable their purpose, as to introduce new complications into the situation. The Association hopes to work with both political parties and to assist toward election of members of-the Senate and House who are pledged to the important policy of repeal." 2.

To organize in the states for prompt ratification of a repeal amendment. Mr. Du Pont said: "Today a somewhat different character of work confronts us. The executive committee of the Association recognized that active steps towards organization will be required in a number of states in order to bring about promptly the ratification of the new- amendment which Congress will submit." 3. To seek the enactment in the states of new plans of liquor control which will "minimize abuses." Mr.

Shouse said: "A constructive opportunity of large possibilities now awaits the Association. It applies not merely to the completion of the effort for repeal but equaUy to what is to be done after repeal is accomplished. All good citizens are anxious to see the inauguration of systems of distribution and sale that will minimize abuses. To that end the Association will give its thorough cooperation. Its interest will not cease with the mere accomplishment of repeal.

On the other hand, it will exert itself to the uttermost in support of law and order, proper regulation, and temperance." President' Hoover, in his acceptance address of August eleventh, gave as his chief reason for opposing unqualified repeal that it would mean "over large areas the return of the saloon system with its corruption, its moral and social abuse its deliberate interference with those states endeavoring to find honest Orange Blossoms conventions, again when he flew to Chicago in an air circus visit to the Democratic convention which nominated him, be unhappy until they ''make good," but those other "happier" races, while they may not know the disappointments and and asain before the Democratic state i sacrifices that come to those trying to convention in Ohio. And thrice he has "make good," never know the happiness failed to do anything except speak in the that is the reward of having "made vein of WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN, whom good." the country thrice rejected. If there are Another thing is to be said for the those among his supporters who had American "purpose." The millions of hoped the Governor would show some American men and women who are try- evidence cf a capacity to inspire the ing to "make good" are producing that more conservative elements of the population they must have been disappointed again by the Columbus address. What Mr. ROOSEVELT did there was to improvise further on the theme of the wealth which has brought greater comfort, ease of mind and happiness to the whole nation.

Success is no longer won at the expense of others. Author POWYS to the contrary, most solution, its parties permeation of political An unqualified repeal Man. Through his address Americans prefer that unhappiness that Forgotten there ran the old bogey, Wall Street. comes from little reverses in "making There was criticism and condemnation i good" to the unhappiness of famine and of "the national administration. Mr.

social and political revolution. was held rather personally re- sponsiblp for the depression that afflicted Great Britain ten years ago, SHALL I have your lunch brought up brought to the deck, sweetheart?" "No, darling; just throw it overboard save time and by the tnirt y- sixth tate Farmer. Germany tfe verge of industrial chaos meanwhile, sr.d struck this country when the breath of fear swept away the I gossamer fictions of an orgiastic indul- gence in speculation. But concerning "WHAT'S because of that hit-and-run what Mr. RO'OSEVELT would have done or driver?" could have cone to produce better re- "He's now doing his stunt on the pris- sults than Mr.

HOOVER the country is left on baseball Boston Transcript. to draw its own conclusions from a gen- eral indictment of the usual political i ROBERT-- "Your steak is like the weath- campaign type. The Administration, said amendment, of the type advocated in the Democratic platform, was submitted in the Senate on July 16, 1932, the last day of the last session, by Senator Wagner. In a Senate speech on prohibition, February seventeenth, 1931, Senator Wagner recommended to wet states that they adopt amendments- to their state constitutions, in advance of the submission of a repeal amendment, which would forever outlaw the saloon. Such action, he said, would give assurance that "the one concrete gain" resulting from national prohibition would be perpetuated, and would clear the way for a return to full control over the liquor traffic to the states.

Forty-three legislatures, including those of all the wet states, meet in regu- session during the early months of 1933. It has been suggested that the wet states might go farther than has been proposed by Senator Wagner and, pending submission of a repeal amendment, might enact "'model plans" of liquor control, suited to their varying conditions, to become effective simultaneously with the ratification of a repeal amendment NOCTURNE Sooty purple twilight Veils the distant A giant snuffer Quells the flame of day. Night settles swiftly; All the world is still. Piercing night's sable robe, Lights stream afar From cheery windows O'er the rolling lea; Each friendly beam A guardian star. 1 --L.

R. H. It looks to like poor stage management or faulty publicity that Professor Piccard's ascent into the stratosphere was not begun to the strains of Irving Berlin's old vorite: When I leave the World Behind. There is something poejtic- ally just about the fact that Ulster County has recently retired a floating debt of with taxes derived from the assessment" of the New York City water supply system. One of the few cheerful notes of the current slump has been sounded, we believe, by the Ansonia, (Conn.) resident, rejoicing in the name of Wasyl Sutkevoy, who, finding himself temporarily unemployed used his spare time to dig himself a grave and erect a headstone.

MORE RECORDS Among other things, the Walker hearings in Albany' have established several long-distance records for evasiveness and -windiness. In proof of this assertion we offer the painful observation that it required upwards of 15,000 words of question and answer testimony, with interruptions, interjections, objections, observations and exceptions for Maitre one of the Walker legal team, to elicit from Mr. Schurman, one of the Seabury law ol- eleven, an affirmative answer the question: "Didn't you tell Detective Lenihan to await further rders in regard to the service of a ubpoena on Russell (Missing Man) herwood, after you learned Sher- rood was out of New York Stats?" And looking back over this para- raph it looks as though we come near establishing a record for non- top sentences with the few well- hosen words recorded above. And then again, as the old-tim- rs used to say, the hearing "gives he newspapers something to trint." And how! Even money is being offered in New York that if Walker is removed from office he will run again in the Fall and will be re-elected by a comfortable majority. With the disclosure that the most recent issue of the Congressional tecord contains $6,000 worth of undelivered speeches of which some 3,000 worth is said to have flowed rom the pen of Congressman Sol Washington) Bloom, it would seem that one way to curb the verbosity of Congressional long- distance talkers would be to charge them a stated per line rate for all heir speeches printed in the Record.

AND STILL THEY COME Add notes on animal stories in the week's news: The Iowa cow that had swallowed and tried vainly to digest cog wheels, wire, clocksprings and other material enough to make a first- class alarm clock. The lone skunk who was the attendant at a Delaware prohibition rally for about two minuses, after which it was the only attendant present. The glad news from dear old Holywood that a grandstand has just been completed for the turtle racing there which will start soon after the arrival of 15,000 turtles which will comprise the rac- stables. Those who charge that commercialism has invaded the arts seem to have proven their case. Earl Carroll has just leased a Manufacturers of New York and er this evening, madam, rather raw." Tvir.

ROOSE- I By the way your m'e oi Wall Street, i D0ai 'd bill is like the weather, too--un- THIS fingerprinting of children will have one good result--it will enable ex- Transcript. THE NEW Chilean government has evidently decided to be socialistic only to the extent that socialism pays from a capitalistic (S. Evening Post. SOMETHING should be done to prevent Public Forum HOUSE NUMBERS EDITOR, THE TIMES HERALD: As a citizen who has occasion to call daily at a large number of residences, I wish to direct attention to the great number of homes on which it is impossible to find street numbers. A decade ago one could VELT, oiaycd What" was Wall Street prior to October settled.

--Progressive Farmer. 1929, but ihe Monte Carlo of a nation in the delirium oi a virulent type of gambling fever? Mr. HOOVER did nothing to --check the or try of speculation. If he had i asperated mothers to trace the real cul- the house number inside the storm been President would Mr. ROOSEVELT rit in the jam Evening door or in an inconspicuous place.

On have tried it? Wall Street is in New York. Mr. ROOSEVELT was Governor of New York, but did nothing. The next administration, assuming that it is Mr. ROOSEVELT'S, will neither by word nor deed $eek to influence the price of stocks and bonds.

Of course no Democratic administration has ever done that--Mr. CLEVEVLAND'S, for example, in easily read the house number from the opposite side of the street. The numbers were large and in a conspicuous place The fault today seems to be in placing some homes there are no numbers. The writer has also observed that very often when the house is painted, the number is painted over, which it practically useless. Considerin the fact that metal numbers can be purchased at reasonable cost, it seems that a campaign to improve this deplorable condition would be in order.

It is certair than two Tribune. hours and THE HUMAN race looks to be between the auto and the limited. bond transaction with Mr. MORGAN was undertaken to prevent the wiping out of our gold resr-rve. The present Congress.

which is Democratic, has not been influ- eijced by any consideration of stock and bond prices. Oh, no! Governmental speculation has risked the lives and property and welfare of the people. Whence came the Farm Board if not from the demands for price-pegging The purposes of the Association advanced by the region to which Against the Prohibition Amendment, Mr. ROOSEVELT, as a presidential aspir- limited heretofore to agitating for repeal Repeal nt, looks for his chief support--Mr. BRYAN'S old principality, the windy expanses of the Midwest? Mr.

ROOSEVELT also announced himself as an remarkable state- xnd supporting wet candidates for Congress, are largely expanded- by statements made in connection with the election of Jouett Shouse to the presidency of the Association. According to Henry would be saved daily for many persons if the numbers on the homes were plainly visible. CITIZEN. This column Is provided for the expression oj individual opinion regarding matters ol vublic interest, -provided contributions are couched in moderate language, do not exceed 500 words and are signed by contributors Contributions will be accepted subject to publication with such editorial comment as may seem pertinent, and the right to edit, revise or reject such as are not considered suitable lor publication, and when published are not to be regarded at having editorial indorse- ment. WAlT'LL THIS COAT Twenty-Five Years Ago The large lumber and feed mill of Sherman Ernhout on Ernhout avenue, Lbierty, was destroyed by fire.

The loss was heavy as the. building was new and well stocked with feed and grain oC all kinds. The property was only partially covered by insurance. The comit which is frisking about the nightly plain has now reached a point visibility so that it is worth while arising to eet a glimpse of it. Comets with visible tails arc so rare as to be phenomena.

The tail of this one can be seen by the unaided eye in the northeastern sky at about 3:30 a. in. in the constellation of Orion. 1 The area' about Kingston is undergoing the driest spsll in many years Owing to lack of water the Honk Falls Power Company near Ellenville which furnishes electricity for power and lighting for Kingston was compelled to shut down yesterday. The Kingston City Electric Company which purchases the electricity got up enough steam and is now running its dynamos.

All of Us By MARSHALL MASLIN Questions and Answers theatre from Trust Company has concluded negotiations with the Prudence Comnany for the occupancy of another Temple or ties- Golden Anniversary While on the subject of things theatrical it is worthy of note that Joe Weber and Lew Fields the famous stage team of Weber Fields have been teammates before the footlights for more than fifty years. And they still get the belly-laughs when they tell their, fishing stay about sawing a hole the bottom of their rowboat and tickling the fish until they laugh themselves vO death. GIVES YOU A THRILL? Are you "crazy about" the work of some particular man screen actor? Who's your favorite? Is there some piece of personal information you want to know about him? Our Washington Bureau has compiled a new bulletin on POPULAR MEN OF THE SCREEN, giving condensed and up-to-date biographical information about a number of the most popular present-day actors and their careeiz. It contains much information you have often wanted. Fill out coupon below and send for it.

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"Well, how arc you Zeke, anyway said a Sullivan County grocer to the sun-browned berry picker who was making his annual pur- au i partly alive, Bill, pavUy replied the woodsman. Among the 7,000 Eskimos in Arr- tic and" sub-Arctic Canada many have sewing machines and radio sets in their igloos, says a Canadian railway bulletin. And do they use frost-proof race powder we'd like to know? County Chromo A hot-cha young lady of Goshcn Having sampled her boy friends devotion; Begged the fluttering swain Kiss her just once again, And trv it 'with ultra-slow motion. Add similes: As cordial as Al Smith and Jack Garner. County Fair attendance this w-iek is going to show, among other things, that, depression or no depression, Orange County folks art mighty glad to pay admission to a Tour Questions Answered You can get an answer to any answerable question of fact or information by writing to Frederick M.

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R. FATHER AND SON IN COLLEGE MT PLEASANT. Mich--Father and son. Irving and Floyd Burns, respectively, arc enrolled in the same course at Central State Teachers Colleen, here. The father, a band director for twenty-eight years, enrolled after hi; son.

Both are members of the college glee club. Q. To what offices in the government can the President make appointments for life? A. Outside of the Judiciary, there is no office in the government to which the President can make a life time appointment. Q.

What is metallography? A. It is that branch of metallurgy which pertains to the structure of metals of polished or etched sections, and by the appearance of the fracture. Q. What arc the duties of the United States Court of Customs Appeal and how many judges has it? A It was created under the Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act to hear appeals from the decisions of the Board of General Appraisers on questions of jurisdiction and law. It consists of a presiding judge and four associates.

Q. What does free coinage? The right of any one to take bullion to the mints and have it coined into money free of cost. In the United States gold is the only metal which has this right of free coinage. Q. What is the color of true amethysts -and where are they found? A.

They range from violet blue to deep purple. The finest specimens have been brought from India, Ceylon and Brazil, but they are common in Europe and are found also in the United States, in Maine Pennsylvania, Delaware, North Carolina and at Thunder Bay on Lake Super! 6r. Q. To what country does Greenland belong? What is its area and population? A. Greenland is a colonial possession of Denmark and has an area of 46,740 square miles and a popu- ation ol about 15,000.

Q. What are the national flowers of Greece and France? A. The lily is the emblem of France, and the violet of Greece. Q. What is the ancient legend regarding the origin of the orchid? A.

Although the orchid is perhaps the most beautiful of flowers, the legend of its origin is anything but beautiful, for the first Orchid was the son of a nymph and a satyr. a fellow of unbounded passions. At a festival of Bacchus, being warmed with drink, he attacked a priestess, the whole congregation fell upon him and rent him limb from limb. His father prayed the to put him together, again, but the gods refused, tempering their severity however, by saying that whereas the deceased had been a nuisance in his life, he should be a satisfaction in his death, so they changed him to the flower that bears his name. Q.

When and by whom was the United States flag designed? A. The design was prescribed in a resolution passed June 14, 1777, by the Continental Congress which read as follows "Resolved, that the nag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field representing a new constellation." "Go into the woods and behold the evil the trees have to contend with--all typical of the evil we have to contend with-- too crowded in places, one tree crushing another by its fall, specimens on every hand whose term of life might be lengthened by a little wise sorcery: borers, blight, disease, insect pests, storm, wreckage, thunberbolt scars or destruction --evil in a hundred forms besetting every tree and sooner or later leaving its mark. "A few escape --oaks, maples, pines, elms-- and reach a greater ace than the others, but they fallal last, and when they have rounded out their green century, or ten centuries, and go down in a gale, or in tl-e stillness of a summer night, how often younger trees are marred or crushed by their fall! But come back after many Ions: years, and their places are filled, and all the scars are healed. The new generation of trees is feeding upon the accumulations of the old. Evil is turned to good.

The destruction of the cyclone the ravages of fire, the wreckage of the ice storm, are all obliterated and the forest-spirit is rank and foil again." Good old. wise old John Burroughs wrote that. John Burroughs who lived to be very old and did not. to the end. lose faith in robins, or trees, or human belnes.

He comforts us his profound belief in the strong, rich certainty of conquering good. And he mieht have written something like this: "Go down into the crowd and behold the evil that Is the enemy ol men. See them poor and shabby, rich and arrogant, whining and treacherous, decent and kind, humble and ambitious, crippled and strong, lusty in their strength, crippled by diseases, and see how they DUSh and shove and battle and snarl. See how the strong may trample on the weak and the ffeak may twist and strike and bring the strong to the ground. See all the vanity and corruption and find, if you can, the decency should be there In the heart of humanitv.

"And If you think man is dying. live long --longer tfian any man has ever lived--and return loun: years from now to see the changes that have come about. To see if the scars are not healed in their children's children and if man is not sweeter and wiser and kinder than you have known him. To see if the' decent seed that is within hiF heart has not germinated and broken chc brown earth apart and made green the land. Be patient men.

as you are with trees, and have faith' in them as you nave faith In the fine strength of trees. And '-elieve there is a soirit them that will save them at the last. If you want a copy of our bulletin on HOMEMADE PERFUMES COSMETICS, write to our Washington Bureau, enclosing five cents in postage stamps. Once Overs By 3. J.

MUNDY Factographs No English poet has produced masterpieces in so many different kinds as Alfred Tennyson. Gerard Terborch was one of the most eminent genre and portrait painter sof the Dutch school. Tcllus was the Roman goddess of the fields, who, as co-worker with Ceres, brought to maturity the seed. The temperature in the healthy human adult averages from 98.4 to 98.6 degrees P. Joined Anti-Hoarhijf Move STANTON 4 Anna Carey, 70, decided to join the anti- hoarding campaign here when she "lost" and then found the $2.850 she had hidden in an old bag of linen.

She placed the money in a bank. At Home You raise much objection to certain noises in your home and state vigorously that they unnerve you. The children's mechanical toys drive you to madness. You think they should be operated only in your absence. It requires very little to irritate you in your home.

Isn't it because you make no effort to control yourself? Where you are employed annoying things occur but you go ahead witn your work just the same because you must, or lose your job. If you used only a small part oi the effort you exert at control during business hours, when you reach home, you would not be heard grumbling at home. You are right in asking for quiet in your home when you want to rest but if you think that the family should tiptoe around and be noiseless in every thing they do while you are at home you are demanding too much. If you want to be welcome in your own home, don't ask the family to make too many changes in their regular routine. To have to be on guard all the time is as irksome to your wife and children as it would be to you if it were required of you.

You don't want them to prefer your absence, do you? (Copyright 1932 King Features Syndicate, Inc.).