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I.ONG 1:^1.A\n TKAVKLIC.^ THE LONG ISLAND TRAVELER \Home Newspaper of the North Fork\ 68th Year Established 1871 PUBLISHED THURSDAYS AT SOUTHOLD FREDERICK C. HAWKINS. Owner and Editor WALTER B. OAOEN, Aasoclate Editor Display Advertising Rates on Application Entered as Second Class Matter at the Post Office at Southold, N. Y., un- der trie Act of Congress on March 3, 1879. THURSDAY , MARCH 2, 1939 Editorials Where Are The Frontiers? A great to-do was aroused a short time ago because someone charged that the president had said that the frontiers of this coun- try are in France. Whether -he said it or not, we believe that the frontiers of any country are right at its own borders. Our most serious problem might come from Mexico, our nearest neighbor to the South, an invasion not by Mexicans but by some country friendly to Mexico. And whatever may be said to the contrary, there is probably no love lost between Mexico and this country. What could prevent a hostile force from attacking the United States through Mexico provided the Mexican government would permit them to do so? Some of the countries to the south are more friendly to some other world powers than to us.. There is no ad- jacent or nearby country of any size, excepting Canada, that we can absolutely count on as being friendly to us.. Therefore, we may not say with any certainty that the presence of the Atlantic Ocean on the east and the Pacific on the west will make us im- mune from attack. We should be prepared to resist any invasion, either by land, sea or air. We were not prepared in 1917, and at what a cost! On the other hand, we must see to it that money appropriated for defense preparations is not used for some other purpose. W e have grown so suspicious, and with reason, about the use of public money for purposes other than the ones for which it was appro- priated, that the public is reluctant to sanction huge appropria- tions for national defense. We have been appropriating money in large amounts for many purposes with very meagre results. One writer who claims to know says that if all the money already appropriated for defense had been properly spent for that pur- pose there would be no need to raise more funds for the army, navy, and air forces. Look at the way relief funds have been used for political purposes. That is a matter of common knowl- edge. A government which would stoop to use relief funds for political purposes would stop at nothing. Never in the history of this country has there been such reckless extravagance with thf taxpayers money. And with what results? The net gains are pitifully small. In the words of the old proverb \the mountain hath brought forth a mouse.\ After a six-year joy ride, a spend- ing spree on a colossal scale, the country is waking up with a sick headache and wondering just what we are doing, where we are going and how we are going to get there. After six years of futile pump-priming and political blood - sucking we are about where we started from, excepting for the tremendous debt which will have to be paid. They can't blame Hoover for the mistakes of the past six years. The boys who engineered this great national joy-ride went in to the tune of \Happy Days Are Here Again.\ Perhaps they are for some but not for the great body of citizens. Ask yourself the question: \Are happy days here.again?\ Ask any business man or farmer and ninety per cent of them at least, will tell you that prosperity is still far around the corner. You may ask \What has all this to do with frontiers? Well, we have economic as well as military frontiers, and our economic frontiers have been pretty well battered. As we need good gen- erals as well as good soldiers in actual warfare, so we need the ablest economic generals to lead us on to prosperity. In real life no one would advise his son to« imitate a spendthrift in order to be a success, either in business or any other line of endeavor. Nor can a Nation be guided by a bunch of spendthrifts, reckless- ly throwing away money which does not even belong to them, and expect to return to prosperity. Violation of all known eco- nomic principles, a complete reversal of all our political and eco- nomic systems apparently is not the answer. Our principal need is to get our feet on the ground. If we can get the bughouse element out of control, we can get the country out of the doghouse. Window Dressing simply because the latter do not advertise. The other day a local man said to us: \I sent to New York for an article advertised in the New York papers. Later, I dis- covered I could have bought it in a local store for the same price or probably a little less. But I didn't know that the local store had the article for sale.\ There is the whole thing in a nutshell. Our local tailors can make you a suit of better quality and work- manship than you can buy in New York for the same price, but you don't know about it and you do read the ads of the New York stores. Compare the quality of goods and workmanship of the local tailors, for example, with your New York product and he has them beaten every time. One New York man in the tex- tile business said to the writer, \That suit you are wearing must have cost you from $100 to $125.\ We had to admit that it did not cost half of either figure. And yet our young lads run to New York and Brooklyn for their so-called bargains when they could do better in their own town. Which leads us to this conclusion: The metropolitan boys know enough to advertise, and the local fellows think it is money wasted. So what? The boys that ad- vertise get the business. Odds and Ends Excerpts from an old autograph al- bum (a young lady's album): \A wish for a friend is often given. My wi.sh for you Is a home In Heaven.\ \When the golden sun is sinking And your heart from care Is free, When of other friends you are thinking Will you sometimes think of me? \May happiness be your lot, lot, lot A.s through the world you trot, trot, trot.\ \May pleasures ripen with thine age From care and sorrow free, Should ever grief come forth to mar Or care to dim thy way May it but an opening prove To scenes of brighter day.\ Deposits in Suffolk County Banks Show Increase in 1938 Deposits in all Suffolk County Banks, both commercial and savings totaled $96,603,475.78 as of December .11, 1938, as compared with $95,882,369.33 on the same date the previous year. This was an Increase of $721,106,45 for the year, an excellent r e c o r d considering the condition of the country. Commercial banks reported an increase of $980,577 with deposits of $59,655,662 and $58,- 675,086 for the respective years ends. However, deposits in the four Savings Banks in the county decreased from $37,207,284.33 at the end of 1937 to $36,947,813,78 on December 31 last, a drop of $259,470.55. There are 45 commercial banks in the county. The Bank of Huntington Trust Co. of Huntington led in depos- This may or may not surprise you but we learn that one large oil com- pany paid, last year. $103,924,000 in taxes, which sum is 50 per cent more than the total wages paid to its 32,000 employees. OUR WEEKLY SERMON Wages And InherlUnce By Rev. Henry Ostrom, D. D., Extension Staff Moody Bible Institute, Chicago, SHELTER ISLAND DEPARTMENT MISS LILIAN T. LOPER, Editor Plea!<e Write, See or Phone the Editor when you know of Social, Per- sonal, Church, Civic and other Local New.s. Mrs. Jones:—\I was a fool when I married you.\ Jones:— \I suppose you were, but I was so infatuated at the t i m e I didn't notice it.\ In the light of present day events, the old fables of Aesop will bear re- peating. For example, take the one entitled The Jackass in Office An ass carrying an image in a re- ligious procession was driven through a town, and all the people who passed made a low reverence. Upon this the ass. supposing that they intended this worship for himself, was mightily puffed up and would not budge another step. But the driver soon laid the stick across his beck, say- ing at the same time: \You silly dolt! It is not you they reverence, but the image which you carry.\ And Aesop concludes with the following: \Fools take to themselves the respect thai is given to their office.\ Old Aesop was no fool. \Nothing is ordinary if you know how to use it.\ This was said by an artis t named William Wolcott, who took two pieces of wrapping paper and mad e two sketches which sold for thousands of dollars. its with $4,168,900, compared with the previous year. Second came the Suf- folk County National Bank of River- head with $3,232,600, followed by the Oysterman's Bank and Trust Co., Say- vilie with $2,944,200 and the Citizen's Bank and Trust Co., Patchogue, with $2,708,400. Two other Banks in Riverhead, the County Seat, were in the $2,000,000 class: The Long Island State Bank and Trust Co. with $2,253,500 and the Suffolk County Trust Co. with $2,233,- 400. Others in the class were the Os- borne Trust Co. of East Hampton, $2,- 241,000; and First National Bank and Trust Co., Southampton, $3,099,100. A comparative tabulation of deposits as of December 31, 1938 and the same date in 1937 for the individual banks of Southold and Riverhead Towns are: I Commercial Banks i First National Bank, Cutchogue I December 31, 1938 419,200.00 'December 31, 1937 422,275.00 I First National Bank, Greenport I December 31, 1938 936,338.00 I December 31. 1937 919,142.00 j People s National Bank, Greenport ! December 1938 606,846.00 j December 31. 1937 582,004.00 Mattituck National Bank December 31, 1938 878,700.00 I December 31, 1937 892.527.00 RIVERHEAD L. I. State Bank and Trust Co., December 31, 1938 2,253,500.00 December 31, 1937 2,184.132.00 Suffolk County National Bank December 31, 1938 3,232,600.00 Decemiber 31, 1937 3,873,142.00 Suffolk County Trtst Company December 31. 1938 2,335,400.00 December 31. 1937 2.076,114.00 Bank of Southold, Southold December 31, 1938 492,257.00 December 31, 1937 521.295.00 SAVINGS BANKS Riverhead Savings Bank December 31. 1938 $14,152,240.73 December 31. 1937 14,263,276.58 Southold Savings Bank December 31, 1938 11,675,390.00 December 31, 1937 11,778,925.65 Window dressing is an art exercised by capable and under- standing merchants to draw attention to the goods they have for sale. And window dressing is a custom long followed by high class merchants to show the superiority of their goods. So important is this to the retail trade, that we note in the Brooklyn Eagle, under the caption \Store Executives Receive Prizes for Window Displays,\ a picture of Philip A. Benson, president of one of the largest savings banks in the country and a noted civic worker, presenting to Walter Hammitt, vice president of Fred- erick Loeser & Co. of Brooklyn, the World's Fair award for the best dressed window over 25 feet high. And the picture also shows Frederick J. Schaffner, of William Wise & Son, who re- ceived the award for the best dressed window under 25 feet. This does not necessarily mean that Frederick Loeser & Co. and Wil- liam Wise & Son have the best stores in the country, but it does show the importance attached to the proper display of goods which any merchant has for sale. No matter how good your stock in trade may be, it means little business unless people know what you have for sale. And that brings us to the point which stresses the need for advertis- ing. The firms above mentioned, not only have splendid v/indow displays, but also advertise extensively in the newspapers. Up to date, it has been conclusively demonstrated that- advertising in the newspapers reaches more people than any other means. People read newspapers, daily and weekly. The press keeps them informed as to world events. Daily newspapers keep their read- ers informed as to national and state affairs, but the local, inti- mate iield is left to the weeklies. Where a daily newspaper at- tempts to cover the local Held efficiently, it is apt to cease to be a great daily. Both the daily and weekly serve an important function, each in its own field, but as soon as a city daily attempts to supercede the weekly and interfere in the local affairs of the citizens of a county or region, it loses power and prestige as a metropolitan newspaper, and becomes a rather clumsy and inept competitor of the weeklies in the field which it attempts to in- vade. We know that the metropolitan stores appreciate the im- portance of newspaper advertising, and we know also that they get a lot of business the local merchants might get but do not SAVE MONEY ON SMALL PRINTING JOBS Mark of H^s on snisN pHnHn^ 'SfrfsiS l l i s f w * can M v e you b i g m o u s y . W o have a faif iSHio p r o u tfwt jint o o H v p t h o M smaH-run [O I N. O n a few hundred loHoilioa'dt, onvelopes, statementt or eordi, tko job i i on the p r o i i and ofF In no time. Thii mean^ lowor prieoi and quicker service. W e give imall j o b i tha *ama im a r t ty p e i and flaw l e i i prois work that characterize our printing o« big,' Important jobi. •ring Ut Your Small Printing Or4an> and Sava THE LONG ISLAND TRAVELER Text: \The wages of sin is death; but the gift of God Is eternal life through Jesus Christ our liord.\ Ro- mans 6:23. Every man not a Christian is a hired man. Every Christian has his own . fortune. The man not a Christian is ' on wages. He is earning every day, but he is paid in counterfeit. Being counterfeit, he cannot count up tlie results on Saturday, or any other day, for his wages are continually bearing ccunterfsit Interest. Yet the wages, though summed up in the word death, can, to some degree, be summarized. Four concepts are included In that word death. 1. Defeat. All that the non-Chris- tian earns is but to defeat the object of the effort. If what a man does cannot be used for God's glory, then all he tolls to accomplish fails. \Burnt up\ is a awful phrase the Bible ap- plies to this eflfort. What if one pro- posed to hire a man by saying that the person to get the Job is to work year in and year out trying to upset the earth with a crowbar. A year goes by—defeat. Another and another—de- feat. And that is the result for the wages paid—only defeat. How foolish to become hired on- such terms! Is not that counterfeit wages? 2. Self-ruin. There can be no real personal improvement from living in sin. Every act of sin is a termite in the structure of one's manhood. Ap- petite and passions running riot, with vanity and self-will, all result in such a contrast between the wreck at six- ty and the promising boy at four, that one Is compelled to Inquire, \Is it pos- sible that this could be the boyhood picture of such a man?\ The sin in man will make him dead to high, noble sweet, true, enduring characteristics as surely as cancer will eat into the flesh. Like the man who risks crime and later finds himself in the death cham- ber, appealing to every straw of in- fluence to save him from the electric chair his every effort reveals his ruin, and he earned it himself. That, even that, is wages. He may not have imag- ined that such was for him in sin's wages, but it was there. Sin pays self- ruin. 3. Condemnation of Fellow Men. There must come an accounting for the evil influence exerted over others. Even the old claim, \honor a m o n g thieves,\ was not so base as to ignore that thread of fact that man is to some extent, at least, accountable for his attitude toward his fellows. One day the answer to the question, \Am I my brother's keeper?\ must be met with the thrust of the word, \Con- demned!\ 4. The Judgment of God. Sin does not await the judgment of the Great White Throne, only. Ceaselessly as the passing seconds, Ood's righteous judgment is daily earned by sin. It condenms already. Death to the heav- enly vision, death to the riches of an- swered prayer. de;»th to the rest of faith, to the friendliness of hope—all these and more declare God's present Judgment against a life of sin. Who is foolish enough to remain hired for such wages? Who, especially if he but hears the remainder of our verse? \But the gift of God is eternal life.\ Thus, the man in his sins has wages, counterfeit wages. But the man in Christ his Saviour has an inheritance. It is a plain contrasting of the earner and the inheritor. To the Christian, not one item provided is counterfeit. It is all wealth, all eternal gain—and it is all a gift. Stronger contrast could hardly be, than death earned or life given. Bear in mind, it is not life bartered, or life sold, or life earned; it Is in no sense wages. It is riches, for the taking. But it is all through Jesus Christ our Lord. He has willed it. He has wrought it. He offers it. He gives it. Christianity is heaven's Investment for which exchange can never be ac- cepted. \Gave him up for us all\ tells the story. I do not say. Will you be good, or will you make some contri- bution on account, or will you help the world by helping yourself? No! I ask you to give up wages and take the gift. It i.s spiritual life, and that is success. It is spiritual life, and that is self-reward. It is spiritual life, and that is helping fellow men. It Is spir- itual life, and that is the approval of God. It is all that is good, given, in contrast to all that is bad, earned. Mr. and Mrs. E. W. McBrlan plan to leave the first part of March to visit the Great Fair in San Francisco. Mr. and Mrs. Burt Clark and party located near St. Petersburg, Fla., for several weeks' stay. Messrs. Richard Grifflng and Albert Dickens have re- turned from a month in Sarasota, Fla., where they repaired a house purchased by Mr. Grifflng some years ago. ] A card party was given last Wednes-1 day evening at Mr. Antone Schaible's for the benefit of her son Antone's Senior Washington trip fund. Pinochle prizes were won by Mrs. Wiliitehead. Mrs. Leonard Bourne and Mrs. Harry Han.sen. A chocolate layer cake shared off was won by Mrs. Mary Hawkins. A miscellaneous shower was tendered Mrs. Charles A. Smith last Fiiday eve- ning at the home of Miss Genevieve Downs. Miss Downs also recently en- tertained in honor of Mrs. C. D. Burke of Amagansett, the affair b e i n g a birthday surprise for Mrs. Burke. Mrs. Charles Burns entertained the Hospital Club last Friday afternoon. Members worked on sewing for the East End Hospitals. Mrs. Edgar Dickerson's resignation as Secretary was received and Mrs. Ralph Cartwright appointed to fill the vacancy. Mr. nnd ^&s. Dlck- erson leave the Island the middle of March to locate in Orange County, N. Y., about 30 miles from Mrs. Dicker- son's old home in Washingtonville. A beginner's class for children who have had their 5th birthdays since school opened in September will be held, beginning February 27th, after- noons from 1 to 3 with the 1st grndi- teacher. Miss Snlmlnen. in charge. The P. T. A. will assist the Senior Washington trip fund by a l a d l e s ' luncheon in the chapcl on March 8th. Two motion pictures \The Rail Split- ter\ and \The First Thanksgiving.\ donated by Sachem Council. D. of A., will be shown as part of a patriotic program at the school on March 1. The Community Club held a quar- tette luncheon for .sixty guests in the community hall last Monday after- noon. Mrs. Moses B. Grifflng and Mis.^ Belle Bowdltch acted as chairmen of the committee. Mrs. Charles Strobe! of Forest Inn prepared the main coursc while Mrs. Reeve of Bowdltch Inn made and served the dessert. Following the luncheon. Bridge and Pinochle were played. Late in the afternoon, the club had a brief business meeting. Mitchell Post American Legion sent a delegation to the Legion Rally at Riverhead, Monday evening. Mitchell Post Auxiliary will have their March meeting on the third. CATHAftlNE ELIZABETH HAVENS Miss Catharine Elizabeth Havens, descendant of one of Shelter Island's oldest families, died In Stamford, Con- necticut on February 19th at the ad- vanced age of 99. At the age of 80 Miss Havens wrote \The Diary of a Little Girl in Old New York,\ a copy of which .she presented to the Shelter Island Public Library. At 93, when failing eyesight came upon her, she pluckily studied Braille. Susquehanna Anthracito •HHlGOALHHHi WM. HI. B E E ^E'S SONS, Cutchogue Tel. Peconic 6553 WitV'IkYi t\'7 >\'7 tri >i'7 >l'7 iVI tVi tTl->\\rtV'l'tV'l^>V'rtVV V Get t h e Habit. . SHOP AT Washington White's \X?..^ and Save ley Phone 317 GREENPORT 120 Main St. jM Fishermen's Supplies gH^ Bait, Etc. BENJAMIN MOORE'S HOUSE PAINT Olson's Boat Paint Hundreds of other Hardware Items Inspection Requested VAIL BROTHERS Peconic, L. I. Tel. 6774 PO N T I A C Sales and Serirlce POLISH CADETS TO VISIT I NEW YORK WORLD'S FAIR ! Two Polish war vessels, the destroyer i Grom (\Thunder\) and the submarine ' Orzel (\Eagle\), as well as the cadet sailing ship Zawi.sza Czarny, will ar- rive in New York duiing the month of July for a visit to the New York World's Fair, it was announced today by the Polish Commission to the Pair. The two war vessels are the latest additions to the Polish Navy, the Orom , having been commissioned last y e a r and the submarine Orzel, which has an under-water displacement of 1,460 tons and a length of 252 feet, only a few weeks ago. The Zawlsza Czarny is tlie training ship of the State Naval School of Gdynia and will arrive in New York with a complement of cadets. It was also announced today that a special exhibit at the Polish Pavil- ion will be devoted entirely to Labor, illusti'uting by means of charts and graphs tile coixdltions of labor in Pol- and such as wages, hours and pro- tective legislation. Among the exhib- its, a large plaque will show a Polish workman pointing to a sentence from Article VIII of the Polish Constitution. \Labor is the basis of development and power of the Republic.\ BORN LUCKY\ Although there is no such thing as \Luck people may say you were born lucky when they learn how your wealth has increased by regular saving. We will gladly aid you in this. Learn how to save $1,000 on the Easy Payment Plan. Ask us about this. This Bank allows interest on deposits from the first o( every month, crediting quarterly— January 1st. April 1st, July 1st, and October 1st. Southold Savings Bank SO U T H O L D t S U F F O L K COUNTY. N.Y.
