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PATHFINDER'S COMMITTEE
SPENDS NIGHT HERE
Meeting Held Last Night to Make
Necessary Arrangements For Cam
bridge to Take Part in The Great
Boys Corn Club Movement.

ture, better known as the Marylant
Agricultural College; Henry E.War
ner, of the Baltimore Sun, and Gil
bert B. Porter, County Agent, met ;
number of gentlemen last night a
the law Offices of Vernon S. Bradley
Esq, for the purpose of explaining
the objects of the State tour which
will be given the County winners ot
the Boys Corn Club contest:
throughout the State.
The gentlemen present were Mes
srs. Robert H. Matthews, chairman
and Vernon S. Bradley, of the Peo
pies Bank; William F. Applegarth
Milford Nathan, Samuel H. Mills, oi
the Farmers and Merchants Nationa
Bank; John G. Mills, of the Eastern
Shore Trust Company; William E.
Hearn and Guy L. Bryan, represent
ing the Town Board; Earle w. Orem
of the Democrat and News, and P
Watson Webb, of the Banner and
Record.
Mr.. Brigham was the first speaker
and explained the objects of the Corn
Clubs and of prizes offered. The first
object in the minds of those respon-
sible for the organization of such
clubs was to develop the resources of
IhS SouutlSS IL IL Cdu Do SllOW Ii lIdt
the yield per acre of land throughout
the different counties of the State
can be largely increased by better
cultivation, more care in the selec-
tion of seed, etc., the wealth of the
owner, the grower and the section af-
fected is correspondingly increased.
The increase in yield is just as great
an Increase in the profits as an in
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when the boys of a community raise
more corn to the acre than the ex-
perienced farmer, it shows what can
be done and is an inspiration to ev-
cry farmer to increase his crop yield
accordingly.
Seeing the results that are secured
by growing corn, similar methods of
cultivation and care are applied to
other crops and the result is a large
increase in the yield of all crops
grown. In addition to this, the boy
learns to feel a greater interest in
his work, he finds that it is profit
able, he finds that he can make more
clear money on the farm than he can
in the city, and he makes up his
mind to stay on the farm, and is sat
1s1ed to do so. Last year trip was
arranged to the Maryland State Hor-
ticultural Show, sixty-six boys being
given the trip, with all their expen-
ses paid. Following this, the idea of
the Statewide trip was conceived; 1T
was felt that the boys of the western
Shore would be greatly interested in
and benefited by trip to the East
ern Shore, and that, likewise, the
boys of the Eastern Shore would en-
JOY the trip through the mountain
country of the Western Shore, and all
who would have a far better idea of
their own State, would know more
OF its resources, more about the va
rious industries and would have
more intelligent conception of the
needs of the various sections
Mr.. Henry e. Warner, of the Bal
tfmore Sun, explained the connection
of that paper with the movement,
that realizing the splendid objects of
the Corn Club movement, and what
it meant to the State, it had gotten
behind 1t to give it the necessary
publicity and to enlist the support of
a large number of persons, who,
while heartily in sympathy with the
movement when they understood it,
would not have had the opportunity
of understanding it, would never
have had it brought to their atten-
tion, if some big paper had not taken
hold of it.
Mr.. Warner explained that not
exceeding twenty-five Western Shore
and Southern Maryland boys would
be brought on the trip to the East
ern Shore, while all of the Eastesrn
Shore boys will be required to take
the Western Maryland trip. The en-
tire trip from the various starting
points will be made in automobiles,
and the boys will be conveyed from
one place to another as the guests of
the various places. For instance,
they will spend the night before COM
ing to Cambridge at Easton; they
will be conveyed by the Easton peo-
pie to the Talbot county line, where
they will be met by the Dorchester
machines and brought to Hurlock, or
direct to Cambridge, where they will
spend the next night; the next day
they will be carried to the Wicomico
line. and will be met by Wicomico
machines and conveyed to Salisbury
for the night. Stops, as will be ex-
planned later, after the schedule is
completed, will be made at all small
towns on the route; no town will be
passed over, but all will have the op-
portunity of meeting these young
champion corn growers.
County Agent Porter explained
how enthusiastically the movement
was being received by the boys in
all of the counties, and that forty
boys had already entered the contest
in this county, and there was a pos
sibility that a number more would
enter. Last year twenty boys enter
ed, but on account of the wind, hail
and rain storms only eight of them
were able to finish, three of them,
Messrs. Harding, Neal and Van Ho-
sen, were given the trip to Balti-
more. The meeting then formed an
organization to look after the de-
tails of the work of the trip in No
vember, by electing Mr.. Robert H.
Matthews chairman of the General
Committee, Mr.. Samuel l.. Byrn, vice
chairman, and Mr. Earl w. Orem,
secretary. This Committee will
have charge of the general plans for
the tour so far as Cambridge is con-
cerned.
The Entertainment Committee.
named was Messrs. Milford Nathan,
chairman; William E. Hearn, vice
chairman; Phillips Lee Goldsbor-
ough, John G. Mills, William F. Ap-
plegarth, S. H. Mills, Jas. NJ Sher-
man, DR.. E. E. Wolff, DR.. Charles M.
Handy. DR.. John Mace, James R.
Jones, William H. Medford, Ivy Phil
lips, John G. Hurley, James w. Nc
Cready, Judge John R. Pattison, II.
Harry Hopkins, Samuel M. Smith, A
J. Foble, c. H. Waller, James p.
Handley and w. w. Byrn.
The Transportation Committee is
composed of Messrs. Vernon S.Brad-
ley, chairman; Russell p. Smith, vice
chairman; George w. Woolford, JOS
II. Sauerhoff. Levi B. Phillips, w.
Nicholas Williams, p Watson Webb,
w. Irving Bowdle, Samuel E. Hub
bard, Herbert Hearn, Arthur X. Aus
tin, Joseph w. Phelps, j. Radcliffe
Jones and w. Irving Mace.