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PAGE FOUR T H E WATCHMAN THURSDAY, JULY 6 , 1939 THE WATCHMAN Founded in 1826 Entered as Second ClaM Matter at the M a t t l t u c k Post Office Publicotion Office Mattituck Press Phone 8320 PU B L I S H E D EVERY THURSDAY By Mall W e e k l y - $1.50 Per Year HULL M. W I C K H A M .............. O w n e r - E d l t o r 1 THURSDAY, JULY 6, 1939 DOGGY NEWS Students of newspapers find that dogs play a considerable part in events. In some towns people complain of being bitten. In some the dogs have to be muzzled. In some people are said to be tardy in having dogs licensed. In some there are said to be too many stray dogs. In come places dogs chase sheep, and in some the neigh bors complain that they bark nights. Yet the suggestions for stricter regula tion bring out loud protests. To a true dog lover, the pet is a beloved member of the family, for whom extenuating circumstan ces can be found for seemingly unrighteous acts. People may not quarrel over their boundary fences as they used to, but the conduct of the dog population still creates frictipn, ^ --------------------- -- ARGUING OVER NEUTRALITY Apparently Congress is headed for a prolonged struggle over the question of preserving neutrality. One element says the way to keep out of war is to refuse to sell munitions to any fighting nation. Many say it will be safer to let it be known in advance that America will supply arms* to the democratic countries, since such an attitude will warn the dictators not to stir up America's tremendous forces against them. This is a ticklish question. Almost any position which may be taken may turn out wrong. When men get it into their heads that the way to prosperity is by fighting wars, they are possessed by an abnormal idea, and you can't tell what they will do. The American people tried once to cure the ills of the world by sending an army across the ocean, and when- the job was done, the world was sicker than before. So as the old timer said, you can't most always sometimes tell. ^ ATHLETIC ACHIEVEMENT The schools and colleges of America pro duce what are probably the best athletes in the world. Where the students of many countries devote themselves largely to study and books, a good part of the time of many American students goes into their exploits on diamond, gridiron and track. They have to think fast to catch the base runners, and poss the football. They make a host of friends. Perhaps this athletic life leads some boys to take their studies too lightly. If so, such boys would better dig a little deeper into the books of wisdom. The athletes have been taught some wonder ful lessons of obeying the rules and play ing like gentlemen. If they are able to apply these lessons in daily life, they will clean up many unhappy messes in our social system. YOUNG MEN FOR THE ARMY The United States Army needs to take on 112,000 new men during the next year, to provide for expansion and to fill the vacancies. Here is a chance for strong, vigorous, young fellows. Uncle Sam takes good care of the men who defend him from the world's dangers. They will be well fed and well clothed, and have little to worry about. The chances of having to actuolly fight In any war are remote. Uncle Sam asks for loyalty and fidelity, and he wants men who are willing to sub mit to discipline and obey orders. They will come under a fine, type of men serv ing os officers, from whom they will learn many forms of wisdom. The army is a kind of school, which turns out manly, forceful and achieving graduates. OFF TO THE CAMPS About this time you sometimes see parties of boys and girls traveling about the country with expressions of supreme joy and happiness on their faces. They could hardly look more delighted if some one had given them all the money they ever dreamed of having, with ‘the promise of all their little beating hearts could wish. Probably their joy arises because they are headed for a nic^ camp on some lake or river. • Some who come from beautiful homes where every want is supplied, may come down to eat rather plain fare. They may have to do some kinds of work about the camp which they would refuse with scorn at home,, but the atmosphere of magic which surrounds their camp experience fills their minds with rapture. ' Why is it that the camp experiences seem so wonderful to youth? Perhaps one element is the companionship of young sters of their own age. An electric current of high spirits runs through this assembly of youth, and it- communicates happiness to each heart. The program provides tHe games in which they can display strength, muscle, deftness and agility. At the swim ming hour, the cool stimulus of lake water stirs their energy to high pitch. Camp leaders hove made a stody of boy and girl life. Influencing the youth mind is their specialty, in which they develop finished skill. When parents tell their chil dren a certain thing, the youngsters may not be convinced. But when the camp leader soys the some thing in a little different way, with a twist of appeal to youth, the young world responds with en thusiasm. So the boys and girls learn many ^useful things at camp. Their minds are open to a great many good suggestions which might be rejected if they came from the home circle. GUARDING DIAMONDS A heavy guard of policemen and detectives is constantly on duty at the Belgian Pavilion of the New York World’s Fair, where diannonds worth millions arc* on exhibition. And there is a ma chine gun concealed behind-, a screen—just in case. FAIR FOOD PRICES FAIR The 80 restaurants at the New York World’s Fair can feed 43,000 persons at a single sitting. Most of them charge popular prices. The average luncheon, consisting of soup, meat, two vegetables, dessert and coffee, costs from 50 to 85 cents. GUESS YOUR W E I G H T The men who guess your weight at the New York World.’s Fair work on a straight commission basis, but they’re good. They earn from $40 to $95 a week. FOREIGN MONEY Foreign governments have spent approximately $31,000,000 on the buildings and exhibits at the New York World’s Fair. W H Y N O T A SAFE oANE FOURTH? SELF LIQUIDATING PROJECTS How would the self liquidating projects, now before Congress, aimed to stimulate business and employment, work out in actual practice? If Uncle Sam can put many men to work on enterprises that will bring in enough revenue to pay all interest and principal charges on their cost, such plans may be very popular. The doubters will ask whether a project that starts on the work of paying for Itself will keep on doing so. A toll road or a bridge, for Instance, might seem an ex cellent way to invest money and get it back. But If pubjlc sentiment In future years clamored to have that road or bridge made free, some future Congress might vote to abolish those tolls, leaving the tax payers to pay its cost in taxes. Congress would better consider all such chances. About Two-Thirds of Potato Crop Harvested In Northampton County NEW CAR OWNERS | Greater New York-Suffolk Ab- =;tract Corp., Riverhead, Chevrolet sedan. Moore, Riverhead, Harold A. Ford tudor. Winston T. Tuthill, Greenport, Dodge sedan. Jacquelyn T. Hallock, River head, Chevrolet sedan. Stella Romanski, Riverhead, Ply mouth sedan. Howard ‘G. Bishop, j£*mesport, Dodge sedan. . Rober| L. Moorehead, Mattituck, Plymoutt sedan. Edward P. Callahan, Riverhead, Ford fordor. Harold O. Peterson, Riverhead, Dodge sedan. - Stanley Deerkoski, Mattituck, Pontiac sedan. Mary Gadomski, Peconic, Ford tudor. Lillian M. Danowski, Aque- bogue, Chevrolet sedan. ^ Approximately two-thirds of N I the Irish potato crop of North ampton County had been harvest ed by the end of this week. Prices have around $2 per bushel in the eastern markets. In consequence- of the lower market which devel oped a week ago, many growers curtailed digging operations. Recent rains and warm weather have materially increased the yield, and while the early digging when yields were low will sub stantially cut the county acreage output-r-probably as low as 35 barrels to the acre—there are growers now reporting product- REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS DEEDS J. W. Brush to W. M. Delaney, lot 149, Oak Hills, Riverhead $500 J. A. Hulse to W. Schmidt, lots 167-169, Wildwood Hills, Wading River $375 Shoreham Farms to Mattituck National Bank, lot on Cooper st adj land late of Tesla, Shoreham $1,000 W. Trojan to H. S. Raffel, lot w s Tuthill’s path, Aquebogue nom. G. P'. Wagner to Behnaco Man agement Associates, lot s s East Main st adj land fe. A. Ackerly, Riverhead ’ $25,000 E. Young and ors to L. S. Fer- ragatti, lot w s Midway rd adi land F. J. Roselle, Shelter Island $1,600 G. S. Younie to D. Knox, lot adj Orient Harbor and land A. H. Latham, Orient $2,000 MORTGAGES Benhaco Management Associates to First National Bank, Farming- dale, lot s s East* Main st adj land E. A. Ackerly, Riverhead $20,000 W. Seaman to Federal Land Bank, lot s s rd adj land J.' Cam eron, Jamesport $12,260 ASSUMED BUSINESS NAMES ion as high, as from 75 to 95 bar rels per acre. However, such yields are quite unusual. The quality of the stock har vested the past week has been- fine; the potatoes are bright and well shaped and it is reported that there has been no rot of conse quence. Both dealers and grow ers hope the improved stock and the reduced speed of harvestings will result in an improvement in demand, which has been slow. It was being predicted early- this week that at the present rate of movement the season may con tinue through part of July, unless, of course, there should be a sharp rise in price. In this event, har vesting would naturally be speeded up to the highest possible degree. Further north in Acomac Coun ty, the potato movement has con tinued slow in the face of a slug gish market, although farmers from Bayview to Kiptopeke have harvested from 70 to 75 per cent, of their crop. Potatoes the first of last week sold as high as $2.75. A couple of days later the price had dropped to around $2.50 and $2.60 and then to $2.25. The movement inP'this county was light throughout the week. There seemed to be no partic ular hurry in that county for farmers to get the potatoes off the market. They still were hoping for better pi’ices. In some fields potatoes continue to grow, and this is said to be helping the situ ation to some extent. RED-GO L D DIAMOND The only red-gold diamond in existence in the world is on dis play at the Belgian Pavilion of the New York World’s Fair. It is called the “Golden Maharajah” and weighs 66 carats. Reading aloud <6' a child who’ is a slow reader, so that he hears Homer Davis of East Marion, and Donald Liedlich, doing busi ness as Donald Liedlich, at Green- T 1 • • J „ u.,c.: the story while seeing the pic- Seweryn Jurkiewicz, domg busi- / , i i.- * u ness as Osborne Market, at River- tures, often helps him to become head. interested in books.
