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PAGE FOUR T H E WATCHMAN THURSDAY, JULY 27, 1939 THE WATCHMAN Founded in 1826 Entered as Second Class Matter at the Mattltuck Post Office Publication Office Mattituck Press Phone 8320 PU B L I S H E D EVERY THURSDAY By Mail V/eekly - $1.50 Per Year HULL M. W I C K H A M .............. O w n e r - E d l t o r THURSDAY, JULY 27, 1939 SUMMER RESIDENTS AND TRASH We have come to the unpleasant real ization that much of the trash, namely empty beer cans, and paper bags full of kitchen garbage, that is found along our roads is due to the thoughtlessness of some of our summer residents. Especially those w h o rent for short periods of time. There are ways and means of disposing of regular household rubbish besides toss ing it out the car window while traveling the highways, and the habit of tossing empty Deer cans along the side of the road js extremely disheartening. People of Mat tituck are proud of their community and encJedvbr fo moke’*t i ah qttractive and pleasant place for vacationists to spend their summers. So, before opening the windowo t throw your bundle, think of how it will look strewn along the gutter. Close the window, go home and bury it or call the local garbage collector. But please don't go to some out-of-the-way place on some fdrmer's lot and dump your week's trash. STRAIN OF UNEMPLOYMENT It is a distressing experience for people to be out of work. When people have reg ular employment, they settle down in a habitual routine, and it is easy for them to see life in a calm and reasonable way. The work is like the balance-wheel of an engine, that corrects fluctuations. It is a proof of the essential strength of the American temperament that millions of people have gone through the strain of unemployment, and have not succumbed to it. They have kept cheerful, and they keep trying. Sooner or later folks who do that stand a good chance of selling their services to the world. It takes a certain power of resistance to maintain that cheerful attitude when one is deprived of the invigorating power of daily labor. Under these depressing cir cumstances, it is inevitable that some will lose courage and say it is no use trying. The early days of the depression pro duced unrest among young men, and thou sands of them began wandering around the country. They thought if they could get to some distant state or city, they would find conditions better. When they got to such places, they usually found conditions no. better than at home. The boys whose fam ilies lived in those places would naturally have the first chance. What can the unemployed person do to relieve the strain of such a trying experi ence? Constant efforts to find work keep people from useless brooding. Efforts to improve one's capacity to do useful things give people more confidence. The regular reading of newspapers, magazines, and books adds to anyone's intelligence, and thus improves the chance for finding work. Time spent in helping the housewives do the home work makes the family burden lighter. Above all, people should keep cheerful, realizing that hard times have clways passed before, and will again. PEDESTRIAN AND MOTORIST The pedestrian is more likely to lose his life in the city street then the motorist, says the National Safety Council, and this will be so until the walkers obey traffic rules. Five-sixths of pedestrian victims of fatal accidents are at least of high school age, so the deplorable accident record can't be principally attributed to the heedlessness of children. People have to learn that you can't go crossing the streets with your head in the clouds of dreams os so many do. If they want to live to see their grand children, they had better obey the signals of the cops and the lights of the traffic beacon. News Item: W HO WILL HEAD 1940 TICKETS? The figures of the Gallup polls indicate the accuracy of the observation of one Senator that \the only Democratic issue is Roosevelt.\ The President is expected to be the nominee, unless he should decline to be a candidate for a third term. The seme Senator and most Democratic leaders do not expect him-to decline. . — The Gallup polls Ore accepted as im portant because in every showdown they have proved to have been correct. The polls show Thomas E. Dewey to be the favorite of Republicans for next yeor'3 standard bearer — actually it is Dewey against the field. Dewey, 47 per cent; all other potential candidates, including Vondenberg, Taft, Hoover, London, Brick- er, Saltonstoll, etc., 53 per cent. How curious and remorkoble it is that the District Attorney of one of the nation's 3053 counties should today so outdistance the field os the favorite of his party for the 1940 presidential nomination! The charge of his opponents that Dewey is too young and therefore too inexperi enced does not stick os far as the public is concerned. Decent people everywhere who respect integrity and ability like the cut of Dewey's jib, get enthusiastic over the public record that he has made. They like his public record because they highly regard courage, intelligence and ability wherever found —nd a especially in public life. And like the astronomer they don''t have to wait to see a comet land before knowing its course. Instead, after the manner and method of searchers of truth in the heav ens, they study its course, get a range on its curves, calculate its speed and then tell you exactly when and where it will land. While it is true that the science of poli tics is not on exact one os is the science of mathematics (with which the astronom ers' calculations ore made), nevertheless there is enough known about it to enable men to see where a public figure is going. And Dewey is going places. He has be come the symbol of honesty, courage, and decency in government. He thinks straight, sees straight, walks straight^ and best of all he is young —he t symbol of the fresh, hopeful, clean, hpnest leadership which can lead a discouraged people to the firmer ground of high places. 03 per cent of the national Income of the United Stafei goei to worker* and the self-employed.'* UP TO THE PEOPLE It looks as if Congress could reach no decision on the perplexed question of neu trality in the wars of Europe and Asia. Apparently the statesmen will go home and talk it over with the folks in the village and city meeting places. What will plain home wisdom say on this mighty question of how to keep out of war? Some say the United States should sell war implements freely to the democratic nations in cose war breaks out, os the only way to keep the dictators from ruling the earth. Others say that when we begin selling to one set of countries and refusing to sell to their enemies, we enter the war and will hove to stand up and fight. Our people tried that once, and do not feel they got results ..... Perhaps the safest way is to sell the war stuff to any nations of Europe that will come and get it and pay cash. That plan would give the democratic countries plenty of fighting stuff. The'dictator nations, with, inferior navies, would find it easier to buy the styff than to get it home. NEW CAR OWNERS Koke Brothers, Southold, Chev rolet pickup truck. Joseph R. Grimm, Cutchogue, DeSoto coupe. Eddie Kruk, Riverhead, Olds- mobile coupe. Grace DeB. Crowe, Beixedon, Buick sedan. Charles E. Tuthill, Mattituck, Packard sedan. Cora E. Benjamin, Riverhead, Chevrolet sedan. Anton T. Doroski, Cutchogue, Chevrolet coupe. Mike Gallo, Riverhead, Ford truck. - Helen C. Samuelson, Riverhead, Plymouth touring. Alice D. Huntington, Riverhead, Ford tudor. , Oscar Case, Peconic, Interna tional pickup truck. Joseph Buckin, Greenport, Buick sedan. Barnett S. Golding, Riverhead, G. M. C. truck. Henry D. Gallo, Riverhead, G. M. C. truck. Phillip Stapon, Aquebogue, G. M. C. truck. Stanley W. Troyan, Aquebogue, G. M. C. truck. Daniel R. Grattan, Southold, Buick sedan. REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS SUBSCRIBE TO THE WATCHMAN DEEDS F. Barker, ref., to Mattituck National Bank, lot adj land L. S. Reeve, Mattituck $2,000 A. J. Gould to I. Samohel, lot n s Main road adj land Wickham, Cutchogue $1,000 R. W. Sterling to G. A. Brown, lot adj land J. F. Bowers on Har bor lane, Cutchogue nom. MORTGAGES H. Komnatzki to I. Williams, welfare commissioner, lot 29, In dian Neck Park, Peconic $3,000 M. Rolle to S. E. Zdyb, lot s s land F. Zaneski, Jamesport $2,000 J. M. Warner to A. Hodgkins, lot s s Center street udj land of Anderson, Greenport $2,000 JUDGMENTS Samuel Harding against Harold Kominski and Adam Kominski $327.60 ASSUMED BUSINESS NAMES Mary Lowenthal, doing business as Kathryn Cassidy, at Greenport. SMALLPOX MARCHING EASTWARD Later information, however, ap pears in Public Health Reoorts, issued by the U. S. Public Health Service, for June 9. We find here that for the four weeks ending May 20 there were 1,229 cases of smallpox reported in the United States, a decrease from the same period last year, but an increase over the two previous years. The significant thing, however, is that one-half of the total number of cases were reported from four states: Iowa, 185; Oklahoma, 165; Indiana, 163; and Missouri, 122. “The largest number of cases are still being reported from the cen tral states. In the mountain and Pacific states, where the disease has been unusually prevalent for some time, the number of cases jhas now dropped somewhat below the average seasonal level.” Smallpox, then, seems on the march, traveling eastward. The outbreaks in our own state appear like advance skirmishers, herald ing a more serious attack. The figures for cities with a high prevalence of smallpox last year showed seven in the near-by states of Illinois, Indiana and Ohio that were dangerously infected. Ohio had 72 cases in April of this year, and the outbreak in Chautauqua, County, according to the J.A.M.A., “was traced to a truck driver who traveled between Syracuse and Cleveland. LEGAL NOTICE FIN ANCIA L REPORT OF SCHOOL DISTRICT No. 9 as of July 1, 1939 RECEIPTS Balance on hand July 1, 1939 $11,287.95 Public Money from State and Retirement Money 25,749.64 Money from tax on prop erty ................................. 32,203.03 Academic Fund for non resident tuition ........... 1,790.00 District Tuition .............. 2,050.00 Federal allotment for vo cational education ....... 283.80 Individual Tuition ......... 42.50 Other receipts ................. 392.56 Child specialists say that good health does not come from food alone; a child must also have plenty of fresh air, plenty of sleep and sunshine, and play with companions of his own age in pleasant surroundings. $73,799.48 EXPENSES General Controls ............ $323.88 Instructional Services .... 37,370.65 Operation of Plant ........ 7,056.50 Maintenance of Plant ..... 551.73 Auxiliary Agents ........... 1,641.31 Fixed C h a rges ................. 2,370.71 Debt Service ................... 12,345.59 Capital Outlay ................ 1,538.84 $63,199.18 Balance on hand July 1, 1939 9,850.30 Transferred to Sinking Fund for building in surance ......................... 750.00 $73,799.48
