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M — (flHMwMf-a — * -_i rf--ft--Wl* -W-7' w *^ ,T ^ _iMaflQMMTtBWM\Ju- **\*^ __nMMtut n *WW ^ JMIWMIL ^ n,l \'' ^~ __ U O B M) B Q1- ^ v ***>* 1 ' m (juWHOt- . ~—^\ g|^ i^^ X | 1, , REGISTERED OPTOMETRIST . § il * DISTINCT IVE EYEWEAR • ; | fi 10 SO, OCEAN AVE. , .. < *' , . PATCHOGUE 1005 , ii ' ¦BBi niiMiiiiii.lil^iiiiiimi I . I im-ni-mnii...!,! - -, --¦ ¦ ' .1 % The Mid-Island Mail ESTABLISHED 1935 MEDFOKD STATION. - L. I.. NEW YORK Published every Wednesday afternoon by the PATCHOGUE AEGUS CORPORATION - at 11-15 North Ocean Avenue , Patchogue , Long Island , New York -IOTTNT TTTTHTT T TR FRANK. P . JOHNSON JOHNT. TU THILL , JR. Secretary and Editor President and PubLmner MAB y CAMPIO N (On Leave ) Advertising Manager SUBSCRIPTION RATES $1.50 a year anywhere in the United States , payable in advance. 5c a single copy. ADVERTISING RATES Display advertising r ates on application for rat« card . Legal advertising at legal rates. Front page reading notices 15c a - line , inside run of paper position 10c a line. Cards of thanks 58c. Birth, mar- riage and death notices free. A charge is always made for advertising reading notices, of: a mo ney-making affair for churches , clubs and other organizations. National Advertising: Representative AMERICAN' TRESS ASSOCIATION 225 West 39-th. Street , New York City Entered as second-class matter Novem- ber 4 , 1935 , at the postofflce at Medford Station , New York , under the Act of • March; S, 1879. The Mid-Island Mail assumes no financial responsibility for typographical ' errors in advertisements, lmt ./wtien notified promptly -will reprint tha.t part of an advertisement in which the \ typographical error occurs. ' . (Continued from page 1) the Lake Ronkonkoma Free , School district having .read the statement of the present board , appreciate their admission of a united mind. The -board , states: 'As to smoothness the present board' s records show.no evi- dence of a split vo te on any issue placed before the board. ' It is de- licious and naive ' admission that the reputation that the Lake Ronkonko- ma board enjoys among other bo>ards must be justly earned. It/is - spoken of a3 'The : one-mari board. ' . It is , to a considerable extent , that single- track nianageirient. that has c reated such widespread demand for a board, with broader -representation and ; one. that would prove approachable by the ' taxpayers/ ' should vital issues arise , wherein parents and taxpayers would wish to be.entertained. \The people- demand also a board elected by the people and for.the people-;, a board ready to fulfill their duties * not as a single mind but as a consensus of varied mindsj wheth- er they be three or . five or more ; members who felt Jt their duty to act to the best of their ability, with- out regard to the number of their board memfcers. . \Why is it necessary for the ex- isting board to express itself so vehn ehiently as being opposed to the increase in the number of board .members ? - They state: ' ... ' . ¦ . the sponsoring group has revealed its hand by putting forth three candi- dates for the proposed two positions. ' Does the hoard forget that one of the existing- positions is to he va- cant , and with the proposed two new ones makes three? \Why should they, today, so em- phatically oppose an increase in the number of the board , and , do so be- hind a smoke screen ? \Has an existing board of three memhers the right to try to direct the people ' s minds in regard to the size of the board ? Why shoul d they so fear an increase; especially, , when , individually arid collectively, they ' ad- vocated and campaigned two years ago ' for a five-man boar d ? \ •: 'The board'in their article charges that ' ' .. ' . - ' . ' .. ihe plan presents ' a threat to hire two principals for Lake Ronkonkoma ' s four-room school- house. ' The -letter sent to. the' -news- papers' , - signed by Morris Hawkins and William Filsinger on behalf of the committee , states 'It is not the intention of the five-man board , if elected , to increase the school staff or raise the budget. ' \Both Mr. Filsinger and Mr. Haw- kins are property owners and tax- payers , Mr. Hawkins having served ori the Lake Ronkonkoma , school board for a total of 12 years , and both are ; men of integrity who would not sign a false statement \The hoard hired a, new principal for the school for next year. This board had the authority to do what they did. No one is denying, that. The.bbard does not. seem to compre- hend that the group sponsoring the increase in the size of the board has members who. were in accord with their desire for a new principal . The criticism arose over the manner in which they did it. \Then comes , the accusation ; again that . the five-man board would in- crease , the : personnel and taxes, It seems incredible that anyone wb\ild . believe that the-three candidates , .Ray Duffield of Duffield' s WeBt Park Beach , Lcroy Vollgraff with his large real es- tate holdingB and , Charles Davi s ,. also a heavy taxpayer , to say nothing ' of Morris Hawkins , would encourage increas ing taxes • ¦ when they them- solves would , feel the . brunt of it. Again quoting the board : ' . , ' :. ' • if these , three new candidates are elect- ed the three how men constituting a majority of the board would place the ' district in the embarrassing and costly position of employing 1 ; two principals for the , coining , year/ It is a well known fact that one of the new candidates for the board having children in tho school , was in accord •with tho board' s not renewing the principal' s contract. So that 'dan- gerous majority * spoken of would jiever occur. ''The board refers to ' annual meet- ing July^9th7 According to the bul- letin 'Education Law , ' section 194 , (issued by the State- Department) they have the option; of holding the annual meeting the first Tuesday of May or the second Tuesday of July, with preference given to May. This, district is large -and the * population is greatly increased, during the sum- mer months by- people owning sum- mer homes and many who: only rent for a summer . season. , Because of this condition , the • school board two years ago deemed, it advisable to hold the annual -meeting in May to get a more honest ballot. One mem- ber of the present hoard was a mem- ber- of the board at . the :time a ' mo- tion ' was made anel . unanimously car- ried . to hold the meeting in May. ' , ' •'This year , because .the board is feeling very. . uneasy over running contrary to the apparent desires , of 160 ^p ' etitioneira^'Ull'- ' .of them year- round residents 6f ' the community, they changed the annual . meeting- to the July: date 1 to get the summer 'trade, ' . What ab out the /spirit' in whicli that pl an was conceived ? : * \The followmg are a few of the many anxiouB to . get the true story and , \ honest' : , facts b efore the . voters , and are willing- to assume , responsi- bility, for the above statements, \ MorrhY M* Hawkins , William Fil- singer Charles L. Davis , Helen Voll- graff , Irvine L, Collins , Evelyn S. Russell , Ingrid E. Puscmp, Rosaline Filsinger , Lillian. DeVere , Alice C. Swain , Josep hine Pedisich , Hazel Wentisch , 4da Rumwwl , Concetta Pedisich , LeRoy Vollgraff , Raymond Duffield. Argumeat Is Issued .To lEcrease . 'Lake . Bd. LET'S BE REALISTIC If there is one thing that we need to be , it is to be realistic iri this ¦crashing world. While the headlines of the daily newspapers are , devoted to. the war in Europe and the prep- arations that our own government are making for national defense , there are a lot of things that are happening in the Far East and things that . are going to happen there -that concern lis just as much as does Hitler ' s blitzkrieg. It seehis to us that what we need to be thinking about in the realm of national - policy is the Philippine Is- lands and ;what we are going to do about therii . And we can t get away from the tliought that we want to follow out our determinati on \to let them. :, go. Our readers will recall that for years Manuel Quezon , pres- ident of the Ph ilippine commonwealth , spent a great part of his time lobby- ing in Washington urging the inde- pendence of his country. On the basis of his advocacy of complete freedom from the United States his countrymen kept him in public office. He had sol C them 100 per cent on the idea. Finally the Congress decreed that in 1 , 945 , that we should withdraw from all political domination of the islands. \ ¦ ¦ ¦On the face of things today, it seems to us that we should get out from the Philippines at once , close out our interests -all throughout the Orient , order the Asiatic squadron into Afnerican waters and be satis- fied to set about to make our own country impregnable. Should Japan seize the Dutch East Indies , that would be ju st too bad ,.hut no present- day concern of ours . We should exert our energies to speed up work on our advance bases in the Pacific , Hawaii , Guam , Alaska , and the Aleutian is- lands. last but far from least.we should en ter into negotiations with Britain , France and the Netherlands ' govern- ments for the purchase of' certain of thoir W est Indian islands for the purpose of having strong advance bases in_the Atlantic. ¦ i__ u_ fc- < * *--*- *P- A ^-- -fc * 4* AAA * , A A A A - . i-.-->-W.-^ -- t A y l ' \__ - ___ J TOWN OF BROOKHATEN Births— - ' June 1—A son , William Hastings , to Edgar and Jane Podlewska Keri- dee , Stony Brook , in Mather Mem- orial hospital , Port Jefferson. June 1—A. daughter , June Fiances , to Burton and Emily Dickers on Greenough , Stony Brook- June 2—A daughter , Marie Jane , to Joseph and Mary Pokorny Lub iria, Port Jefferson , in Mather Memorial . hospital. . June 2—A son , Jack Oakley, to -Charles and .Grace , . Blount\ Petty, .. - Setauket , in Mather Memorial 'hos- pital. . . : . ' . - - \ ¦ June 4—A son , Nicholas , to George and Fanny Panos Dounias , Smith- town Braneh , in Mather Memorial hospital. June 4—A daughter , Sonj a Ann , to Joseph and Ava Mae Lewis Bullock , • Center Moriches- . . ' ¦ ¦ - ., ' ; June a—A ' son , Anthony Chester , to Chester and Josephine Smith Pal- azzi , Coram , iri Mather Memorial hospital . - ¦ ' - ,. June 6—A daughter , Janice May , to Joseph and Agnes Web er Mazzoni , Medford , in Mather Mernorial hos- pital. . June 6—A son to Louis and Lorraine Brown Bianca , 4 Bianca. road , Pat- chogue , in Mather Memorial hos- . pital , June Jo— A son to George and Anne Lucas Slusar , Setauket , Port Jef- ferson . Marriage Licenses-— June 3—George Charles Oster , 92 Macon street , Sayville , and Au- gusta Theresa DeFalco , Bay ave- . nue , both . Patchogue . June 6—Charles Barnett Bayles and Dorothy Helen Bergen r both Port Jefferson. Deaths— May 30—Mrs. Pauline R&dziewicz , 27 , Center Moriches , in Suffolk sana- torium , Holtsville. June 3—Christian Wilson , 76 , Center- each , in Mather Memorial hospitah Died of burns incurred, while fight- ing a brush lire as a member of the Centereach Fire department. TILLAGE OF PATCHOGUE Births- May 30—A daughter , Caroline Eve - lyn , to Daniel and Edna Rate Sat - terley, 25 Northridge street. ' June 6—A son , Donald Domenico; to Joseph and Grace Mulle Marino , 72 Waverly avenue. Deaths— June 2—Andrew Flori pv 45 , 18 Pearl street. Suicide , incurred-by taking poison at his home. LABOR PARTY CLEANING IIP An interesting announcement comes out of the meoting of; the Suffolk County committee of the ' ¦ ¦ American Labor jarty, to the effect that -a resolution was passed \ with wild ap r 3>lause \ placing the - organisation on record as opposed to the activities of the communist party or other to lali- tarians. \ The\ American Ivabor party is a child of the period of Now Deal heyday in -which the national administration seemed bent on encouraging- ewcry ¦wild and wooly element in ' ' the: coun- try. Cevtair/ lnborists , feolipg they could function politically Hetter as a separate party than in,ovo n the dem- ocratic , party dominated , by the Now Deal , went on their own. , Various local New York State. slants were,in- volved. ^ \ \ ' •'\ . v \ ; ; : . Y: ' - 1 ; , ::; ' v- ' , ' . -v -<;;: ' , ::• I V Dospite the fact that/ :' pm the face ? -of :tiie^returns^tho . . difference botvveen: .;#Q-ol pej;i£^ >kehiuaiv 'iri :: l(^ Labor party Tote as the straight Republican total greatly exceeded the straight Democratic , this; ; new . party h«s not seemeol ' to talco any very def- inito hold . on . any l arge number of. voters. . .It seems destined , like most minor parties : th at arise from time to time , to be irirto^ expressing certain ideas' thian a prac- ticnl instruinemt : in election3.; V Y; ' Most AmorxcarisYftnd tliat in the loii' g run thoy ' can wbrlc out thoir problerng\hotte ' r , ;by / kBtay^ in one -of t]ie maj orYpaicbioB^ aKd^m'altfngYtliMr influence;; fehY '' there- Y '^Evfen;;- so ' : ' lt| is hoarteiiin^ ' j tp^ee ' th e; ^inerifiari ;L|«|(6ir :par;t^:^ec^n^>tt(^; : ' i^ ' ra '^i^' blimeiHitB '^ yy]\ 'Vi: ' V' H- .hk ' ' ¦ \ •;' :. , '- . -/; i , ' . :: >? ::: ' :y^ \ :.. ' : ' : ' ¦ (¦ . : y- <: :l: '<¦ ' , Legal Step s Started On D elinquent Rents Westmcadow Beach Preliminary legal steps toward the collection of deliJi quent' rents on bun- galow sites on Brookhaven town- owned land at ' Westmeadow beach on the North Shore , are hein g taken by Town- Counsel Ralph J. 'Hawkins as the result of a \ discussion of the question by the Town Board of Trus- tees at .aYrecent . weeting. ; The discussion brought;. ' out the . fact that out of nearly 90 bungalow owners , five or six are still in arrear s in the $20-a-year rent , som e of them for as much as five years , . Last fall , the Town trustees \terminated all West- rncadow beach leases as of December 31 , 1939 , as the first step toward the settlement of delinquent accounts. Since then , a number of old bills have been paid; it was reported; ; • Medford R. C. Church Getting New Dress The exterior appearance of \ St. Sylvester ' s R. C. church at . Medford has been greatly improved hy a coat of ¦ paint and work on the redecbratiori of the interior has advanced rapidly. The body of the church' is.painted tan with mahogany ' trim , white ceiling, with a new system of indirect light- ing. A balcony has been erected at the rear of the church , ' holding the organ and the choir. This . is decorated in mahogany and a lighter stain. New pews have been installed in addition to the church and four new stained glass windows. Inlaid marbleized lin- oleum, has been laid in the aisle arid the sanctuary. ¦ ¦ * . ' ' ' ¦ The altar has been modernized and has a back drop of' brocaded bur- gundy velvet with scroll work of a dull : metal., A medal cruci fix is sus- pended -above the Tabernacle , which is also made of the dull metal , mak- ing a s triking and impressive pioture as one enters the church. The work has been practicall y completed out- side of a few small matters which will be taken care of within the next few ; weeks. ¦ ; Pledges; Co -operation ; In ^tl_ CoIiis!itf ? Hiint Full co-operation with the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the wide- spread . search for . . \Fifth Column \ activities in this country was pledged by the . First Regiment , United Vet- erans corps , at a meeting on June 1 in Fraternity hall , Patchogue.;. Col- onel George W . 'Andrews of Patch- ogue , presided ,. - .. ' . The . pledge was taken, following a discussion , of Ythe ' . ^Fifth column \ situation. ' XJrider the . plan-adopted by the , regiment , its memb ers will constitute an auxiliary force to in- vestigate ^whoever is believed to ;.be Working ;against the \ United , States government , and; anyone suspected of such activities , ; after a fair and im- partial investigation;has . been made , will be , rep orted to \ the F. B. I. YEhe reg iment is composed of vet - eraiis of all wars , th eYplari ; being adopted because it was felt that its members had fought to maintain a Republican form of goverriment . arid it was their duty to ' help- further .pre- serve it. ; ' . . \ . - . ;. ; \ . .;
