The Mid - Island Mail•ESTABLISHED 1935

MEDFORD STATION. L. I.. NEW YORKPublished every Wednesday afternoon by thePATCHOGUE ARGUS CORPORATION

at 11-15 North. Ocean Avenue, Patchogue,Long Island, New York

JOHN T. TUTHILL , JR FRANK P. JOHNSONPresident and Publisher Secretary and Editor

(On Leave in the MARY CAMPIONUnited States Navy ) Advertising Manager

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Belle Terre LodgeBuildings Come Down

in Last Act of Era

Axes prompted by taxes are beingwielded on much of the last vestigeof another Suffolk landmark, the re-maining* buildings . of Belle Terrelodge, widely known in the past as asummer hotel. The main buildingburned down.

The lodge, which early in the cen-tury was the social center of thevillage of Belle Terre, a picturesqueand restricted summer colony sit-uated on the east side of Port Jef-ferson Harbor, passed throu gh a suc-cession of ownerships and weathered _the early years of the depression untilfire destroyed the main clubhouse sev-eral years ago.

Acting as trustees for tlie certifi-cate holders interested in the ¦ guar-anteed mortgage on the 107-acreproperty, the Suffolk County Trustcompany of Riverhead recently award-ed the contract for the wrecking of.the r:-.Mining* buildings to the NorthFork Wrecking company of Matti-tuck.

The buildings to be demolished in-clude the "annex ," a rambling two- •story frame structure, a second largebuilding which "was converted from.a stable into a combination restaurantand kitchens,, and a 20-car garage.A bathing* pavilion on the- Long Is-land sound shore, some distance re-moved from the other club structures,will be left standing.

Much of the material and all of thefittings of the three doomed struc-tures are being carefully salvaged bythe wrecking company, which has de-molished many famed Long* Islandlandmarks , including the HuntingtonBay club and the palatial ShelterIsland mansion built by "Borax King"Smith many years ago.

The immediate aim at Belle Terreseems to be to bring about a reduc-tion of the taxes on the propertythrough the elimination of the as-sessed valuation represented by thebuildings. It is probable , however,that the extensive tract of high,wooded laud , with its beautiful show-front, ultimately will be cut up intohome sites., although no plans.for itsdevelopment have yet been announced.

The Belle Terre club, establishedin !!){)(-;, was the nucleus of the en-tire Belle Terre development, createdby Jean A. I void , a well known real(estate! ope rator , on property pur-chased f ro in the Strong family. Mr.Aivord. who now lives in retirementin Florida , patterned the resort afterexclus ive Tuxedo Park , N. Y,

TOV^N OF BROOKHATBN

Deatlis—August 14—Abraham Edwards, 57,

Moriches, in Suffolk Sanatorium ,Holtsville,

August 16—Mrs. Frances J. Wil-liams, 49, Brooklyn , at Miller Place.

August 18—Mrs. Clara L. Murd ock,56, Center Moriches, in MatherMemorial hospital , Port Jefferson.

August 19 — Kate Crampton , 8'0,Woodside , at Quogue place, MasticBeach.

August 19—Konstance Lorine Bry-son , 3, Selden.

August 20—James V. Sposoto , 35,Huntington , in Suffolk Sanator-ium.

August 20—C harles F. Howell , 81,245 Maple avenue , Patchogue.

August 20—Jacqueline Waclvter, 3,Glendale, at Church street , LakeEonkonkoma .

August 22—Randall Vause, 21, Hunt-ington , in Suffolk Sanatorium.

August 23 — Antonio Barone , 51,Poughkeepsie, in Mather Memorialhospital.

August 23—Dennis Emanuel Bergen,65, Brooklyn , in Blue Point,

August 25—-William F. Mebus, 12,Patchoeue.

VILLAGE OF PATCHOGUEDeaths-August 24—Nathan Frederick Smith ,

61, Patchogue.

TOWN OF BROOK HAVENBirths-August 1;>-- A. dangl i ior , Hor! ,- Do-

lores , tr > Jolir** and Fr:nH:es "VolentiCJazzota . 47 U' u.-;'iiir. j v * '>n avenue ,Pak'hogui.- , in Patrb o-y. !-, (' ' .;>¦.era 1hospital.

August 15 - ,A ( i n l i g h t i.T, A nnetteMario , to Harold and Mar t '/ l ,o.-;-choni Ui-xie , Fori. .j - .-l' TiM ' .-'on Sia-i'ii 'Vi ,

August , 1 7 —A son , Gieoiu* .; , to Stev-en and Mary A n n 1>_ Dio Vak-nl i ,Center Moriches , in Palchogm* Gen-eral liosp ital.

August 18----A son , Joseph Edward ,to Charles and Ruin Deorhani.Plumber , Center Moriches.

August 21—A son , to Hilhm. ii andRebecca Davidson Lontin , 220 NorthOcean avenue , Patchogue , in Math-er Memorial hospital.

August 21—A son. to William andRosetta Cooper Keane , Port Jeffer-son , in Mather hospital.

Manias* Licenses—August 20—Francis Lee Smith , Islip,

and Josephine Eleanor Leasing,Port Jeffe rson.

August 22—Sterl ing Russel l Da rling,Stony Brook , and Helen MariettaHulse, Setauket

August 23 ~ William Arthur Zeh,Calvcrion, and Dorothy Ann Vicik,Eastport.

August 24—Leslie John Swain , PortJefferson Station , and CharlotteJulia Malkmes, Port Jefferson Sta-tion.

August 24—Gerard Theophane Bour-guignou , Baypoit , and Mary AgnesGraham , 25 Baker street, Patch-ogue,

August 24—John Frederick Niebling,94 Robert street , Patchogue , andHelen A.ufeusta Jansen, 27 Woodavenue, Pntchog-ue.

August fM —DonaWl Hancock Bartow,Miller Place, «n<l Elizabeth RashidaWard , Miller Place.

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CHILDREN WSK LIVES

In sp ite ol repeated warnings frompoli ce , teachers , Scout leader: ' andother" , many fhildrtu i still go aboutLicyeling in a manner that risks theirlives. They dart throug h heavy traffic ,scarcely loo-king when tliey dodge inand out , th ey go in groups and , onseeing a vehicle approach , some goto one side of the road , some to theother , they ride one another onhandlebars in violation of the Jaw ,and they ride at night without lightsin violation of law.

Children cannot be expected tohave the discretion of adults. Properconduct in such matters must be drill-ed into them by their own parents ,bac ked up with sharp discipline , orthey will continue these heedlessrisks,

In most of these cases the faultlies right straight at home.

Registering AltonPostponed Few Days

Because all the l'equirod formshave not yet been rec cjived , the workof registering aliens at tho Patch-ogue postoffice, as part of tlie na-tionwide proj ect that is expected totake . four months , will not bo start-ed until early next week, says Post-master Edgar M. Mapes.

In the early reports on this work,it was said that alien registrationwould be handled by first and sec-ond class postofflces* and at the coun-ty clerk's office , but recent reportsshow that in Suffolk , the countyclerk's office will not figure in thework , due to the fact that ltivor-hend, the county scat, has a firstclass nosfcofllco.

WHY NOT TOUNG MEN?

The State Department of Labor,-through its placement division , callsattention to the fact that "urgentneed for tool and gauge designers,¦tool makers and machinists has caus-ed the Watervliet , N. Y., arsenal toraise the 'age limit for qualified ap-plicants to 62 years."

Many thousands of young men outof work, or muddling along with in-significant jobs when they have suffi-cient brains and latent skill to holdreal places!

There are several reasons for thiscondition, and the fact that this par-ticular ite m refers to arsenal jobsshould not cause the situation "to bemisunderstood. The arsenals arespeeding up because of war scare de-manding armament; likewise othershops on military work.

But there are thousands of otherplants in this country which , despitevaunted America;* superiority; havebeen running downhill in equipmentfor seven or eight years, and jus t toprepare for producing again on aprosperous scale will require greatnumbers of skilled mechanics. Eco-nomists, notably Roger Babson, madethis point several years ago and pro-phesied a shortage of such workers.

A national political policy of per-secuting business and laying on puni-tive taxes has driven capital intohiding and kept industry down, if giv-en a chance it will expand again andmake jobs . Now some sections of in-dustry are about to benefit imme-diately through armament—n o creditto the prevailing administration inWashington.

Meanwhile , through these back-ward years, various things " have tend-ed to limit , tragically, the training ofhoys to seize the opportunities nowopening up.

Two of the worst are selfish unionlabor rules limiting apprenticeshi ps,and too muc.t "education " for vaguewhite-collar prospects. The oppres-sive union rules were made by mid -dle aged men sold on the false doc-trine that limitation , forcing wagesup unna turally, makes for prosper i-ty. They failed to see that this alsoforces prices up unnaturally andtends to restrict production , which isthe real basis of wealth. So there theboys coming up into manhood havegot a poor deal.

The white -collar education excessesliavo resulted partly from false pride(maybe girl-boy attitude has hadsomething to do with that), and part-ly from educators failing to fight ef-fectively for real trade schooling,"Manual training" or "shop classes"are. a sop to hoys who have had allthe hook learning they can take , orwill take , but they do not teach anyboy any trade at which he can makea living.

MY" FRIENDS!This Is Another Promise

"It is my ptedge and promise that rigidgovernment economy shall be enforced by. astern and unremitting government policy ofliving within OUT income. I ask you to assignto me the task of reducing the annual oper-ating expenses of our national government.Stop the deficits."

—Campaign pledge, 1932.

lias tossed the other platforms intothe discard.

Now, when it is hardly fresh news,we get, under federal mailing frankfrom Senator James M. Mead, a leaf-let of this document, which bears onits title page the words: "Printed inthe Congressional Record" and "Notprinted at government expense." Also"United States Government PrintingOffice. "

Perhaps you, too, reader, get someof that kind of mail occasionally. It'squite likely to be an out-and-out poli-tical speech by Mr. Roosevelt or oneof his " stalwarts, printed on a card,with all the earmarks of political ad-vertising, which is what it is.

Don 't be fooled* by the naive line:"Not printed at government ex-pense." These booster circulars areprinted by the government at nom-inal rates, and they are mailed freeof charge, In other words, at publicexpense.

We get px-etty - sick of receivingthem. The practice, no matter whatmay be the political color of the send-er, is an abuse of privileges allowedto national legislators, for the pur-pose of keeping the citizenry inform-ed on especially important publicmatters. The subject covered may, in-stead be utterly remote from the deli-berations of congress. A senator orrepresentative can , by leave, g e tinto the Congressional Record almostanything, on down to an account bysome humorist of a dog-and-catfight. The legislator does not evenhave to make a speech , and if he madeit nobody would he listening,.

We generally waste-basket these of-ferings with scarcely a glance. Thistime a copy of the paper will be sen tto Mr. M«ad , as acknowledgement ,with no thanks.

The people oi the United States donot send representatives to Washing-ton for sudi -'work" at this , and theirmoney should not bo wasted this way .

NO THANKS FOR THIS

Some weeks back we read in thedaily papers the platform adopted bythe renomination meeting in Chicagowhich Mr. Hopkins ran for Mr. Roose-velt , commonly referred to as theDemocratic Nat ional convention . Whatwas in tho platform does not mattermuch, considering how Mr. Roosevel t

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