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Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1918-08-03
+. JOHNSON. Solicitor
Order Nisi.

q. Walter Mapp, mortgage of Charles
II. Amcs and Annie 4. Amcs, his
wife, cX parte
In the Circuit Court for Worcester
County. In Equity. No. 1851. July
term, 1918, to-wit: July 22d, 1918.
ORDERED that the sale of the
property mentioned in these proceed
ings made and reported by G. Walter
Mapp, mortgagee, be ratified and con-
firmed unless cause to the contrary
thereof be shown on or before the 18th
day of August, next, provided copy
of this order be inserted in some news
paper printed in Worcester County
once in each of three successive weeks
before the 18th day of August, in the
year nineteen hundred and eighteen.
The report states the amount Of
sales to be Sl4,268.30.
OLIVER ID. COLLINS,
Clerk.
True Copy, Test:
Clerk.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1918-08-03
Rev. L. A. Bennett
In Charge Of Services

Rev l.. A. Bennett. formerly pas
tor of Bates Memorial NJ +. Church,
Snow Hill, is conducting a union
Evangelistic campaign in Baltimore.
Seven Churches are united in the ser
vices, which are being held in tent
at North Avenue and Payson Street.
Chatsworth Methodist Episcopal
Church, Caenarvon Methodist Episco-
pal Church South, North Avenue I'm
tied Presbyterian Church, Seventh
Christian Church, Clifton Avenue
Methodist Episcopal Church, Salem
United Brethren Church. and Christ
Methodist Episcopal Church will take
part.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1918-08-03
TOWNSEND
HAS HEARING
Charged With Murder Returns
To Jail in Default of Bail of
Three Thousand Dollars

Henry Townsend, colored, was ar
raigned before Justice WA. McAllen
Thursday morning on the charge OF
murder. the crime of which he was
accused having been committed last
week. when William Hudson, also col
ored, died as the result OF wounds al
legged to have been inflicted by weap-
on in the hands of Townsend
Townsend was held in the sum Of
$4,000 bail. in default OF which he was
remanded to Jail to await the action of
the Grand Jury
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1918-08-03
UPSHUR g. uPSHUR, Solicitors.
Trustees Sale
or VALUABLE
Real Estate

BY virtue of a decree of the Circuit
Court for Worcester County. in
Equity, in the case of Carrie +. Rick
ards Us. Jennie f.. Richards and others.
No. 290l Chancery. the undersigned
trustees will sell at public auction to
the highest bidder in front OF the Post
Office, in Bishopvillc. Worcester Coun-
tv. MARYLAND. on
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1918-08-03
COMMUNITY
MEETING HERE
MONDAY NIGHT

A community meeting will be held
in front of the Court House next Mon
day evening, beginning at o'clock.
There will be singing, and patriotic
address.
Every man, woman, and child is cor
daily invited to be present. and join
in a whole hearted manner in the song
service.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1918-08-03
WAR TAXES ON
AUTOMOBILES
Federal License and Levy of TIVE
Cents a Gallon on Gasoline
Now Proposed.

Washington. July Automobiles
and motorcycles were the targets
again to-day of the Ways and Means
Committee, which is drafting the new
$4,000. 100000 War Revenue Bill.
Not satisfied with levying u 10 per
cent. tax on the cost of the price of
all pleasure automobiles when sold by
the manufacturer, the war tax makers
called upon the motorists to pay a
tax Of two cents gallon on gasoline,
and a Federal license tax. such Us the
States now have.
The tax on gasoline was tentative
ly placed at two cents gallon, to be
paid by the wholesaler. The whole
saler, like the manufacturer. will pass
this tax along to the purchaser. The
Treasury Department has recommend
ed that the gasoline tax be fixed at
10 cents gallon. The Ways and
Means Committee experts estimated
that the gasoline tax of two cents
will bring in about $45,000,OO0 an
nually. while the Federal excise Ii
cense tax, to be graduated according
to the cost of the cars, will yield
about sl25,000,000. The 10 per cent.
tax on gross sales of automobiles the
committee estimated today will yield
about S70.000.000, making a total
Of S2i0.000,00O. which the autoists
and motorists must shell out TO help
lick the Hun.
Federal License Opposed.
Some opposition has already devel-
oped to the Federal license plan.
Many States which have State licenses
for automobiles, have always object
cd to this scheme, because they de-
clare it is paving the way for the
abolition of the State license tax.
Representatives Coady and Linthicum
have opposed legislation in Congress
providing for a Federal license tax,
because they contend ii would event
ually curtail or destroy Marylands
license tax, the funds from which are
used to help maintain the highways
Of the State. The American Auto
mobile Association has for years been
backing legislation for Federal Ii
cenSing of automobiles.
The scale of the Federal license
tax. as tentatively agreed upon by the
Ways and Means committee is as fol-
lows:
A tax OF $40 is levied upon auto
mobiles that cost over $500; between
$500 and $50 the tax is sis; between
$3.50 and $1,000 the tax is $50; each
additional $500 of the original pur-
chasing price up and including sS,-
600 would be taxed SO; and each
additional $500 in purchase price
above $4,000 would be taxed $50.
All autotrucks are included in this
scale tentatively.
The Federal license tax on all mo-
torcycles, regardless OF their cost,
was placed at s5.
The provisions for these excises on
the use Of motor vehicles is the same
that passed the Senate
when the existing revenue bill was
under discussion last year, except
that the rates are doubled.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1918-08-03
Stockholders Meeting

The annual meeting of the Stock
holders Of the Equitable Building and
Loan Association of Snow Hill. will be
held in the Directors room of the De-
posit and Savings Bank Building. in
Snow Hill. Md. on Wednesday. August
Tth. 1918, at 1890 a. m., for the pur-
pose OF electing a full Board Of Direc-
tors for the ensuing year. and the
transacting OF any business coming be-
fore the Stockholders.
WILLIAM s. PARSONS. See'y.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1918-08-03
Notice to Creditors

Notice is hereby given that the sub
scriber has obtained from the Orphans
Court for Worcester County. Maryland.
letters of Testamentary on the personal
estate of
CHARLES EDWARD DAVIS. col.
late of Worcester County. deceased.
All persons having claims against the
deceased. are hereby warned to exhibit
the same, with the vouchers thereof. to
the subscriber on or before the 2sth
day of January. 1919. They may other
wise by law be excluded from all
benefits of the said estate. All persons
indebted to said estate are requested TO
make immediate payment. Given under
my hand this 10Th day of July. 1918,
MARY EMMA OSBORN.
Executrix
Test: ASBURY c. RILEY.
Register Of Wills
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1918-08-03

The first Thursday the first Wednesday August Farm
ers Day Public Landing Because many believed
that the always off the first Thursday August
and papers there
much husng around last Saturday the day and date
settled When the river folks arrived they
quickly settled the this wise: The Wednesday Aug
the day which Mt Olive festival held annually and the
day after the festival the day for the Farmers bay picnic
Public Landing.
Therefore the Thursday after the first Wednesday Aug
is the day-Thursday August Sh.
1t is going to be great day unless all fail and is likely
there will be patriotic dongs mixed with the festivities
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1918-08-03
NnTICE mo- CnEnIrORs

NOTICE. TO CKEDITOKS
Notice is hereby given TO the cred
itors OF the said Isaac W. Richards.
deceased to file their claims with the
vouchers thereof with the Clerk of
the Circuit Court for Worcester
County, on or before the 10th day Of
September, 1918.
GEORGE VI. CPSHUR.
FRANKLIN UPSIIUR.
Tru-tpps
New-York tribune., 1918-02-08
The Miracle of France

Andre Tardieu, the French High Com
missioner to the United States, has al
ways boldly challenged the plying asser-
ton, which had it's origin in Germany,
that France has been "bled white" Be-
cause Frances losses have been severe
and continuous Cher armies have been
fighting on large scale ever since the
war began) many Americans have been
misled into accepting the patronizing
German estimate of the exhaustion of
the French people. The German military
leaders have not shared that view They
may have had some faith in it two years
ago, when they launched their costly
campaign against Verdun. But they
haven't acted on the theory since For
nearly two years their strategy on the
French front has been defensive
M Tardieu puts the French loss in
killed at little over 100000. The
wounded who have been disabled and the
invalided constitute another million The
Germans claim to have 368,00O French
prisoners. Yet M. Tardieu says that on
January l last the officers and soldiers
modified, excluding native troops from
the colonies and men in the factories,
numbered 4,725, 900, of whom nearly g.
100000 were in the various war zones.
That is marvellous development of
man power for country whose popula-
ton is now only 35,000,00O. 1t seems
unreal. Yet the grouping of forces on
the Allied West front supports M. Tar
deus statements. The line from the
North Sea to Switzerland is 755 kilo-
metres long. The Belgians hold 25 kilo-
metres of it, the British hold 165 kilo-
metres, the French hold the remainder
565 kilometres. The French section
covers three quarters Of the line. And
the Germans keep massed against the
French section two-thirds of their active
and half of their reserve divisions. The
French also have considerable forces in
Italy and on the Salonica front.
AS to artillery, now the undsputed
queen of battles" the French have to-
day in the battle line $1,000 guns of all
calibres, and they have developed an
ordnance industry which is capable not
only of supplying all the needs of their
own armies, but of furnishing a surplus
to other Allied armies. By July 1 France
will be able to equip with artillery at
least twenty American divisions.
The French have now about twice as
New-York tribune., 1918-02-08
The Power of Stettmius

No more wonderful bit of unveiling of
character has been given in the inquiry
at Washington than the passage from Mr..
Bakers testimony which we transcribe
below.
After all the months of demand for CO.
ordination, for a munitions director, for a
war board, Mr.. Stettinius, with sonorous
peal of trumpets, is made Surveyor Cen
eral of Purchases-an "almost" director.
And these are his powers:
Secretary Baker-The function which
Mr.. Stettinius is to perform will be per-
mitted to grow as it's opportunity for use
fulness develops. | do not mind saying to
you what l said to Mr.. Stettinius when he
asked me what his duties were. I said:
"Your duties are to do everything which
will help in the speedy procurement of
supplies and the coordination of the indus
trial activities of the War Department" I
invited Mr.. Stettinius, out of his very large
experience, to make suggestions freely and
to bring them directly to me, so that if there
were any uncertainty to whether or not
he should undertake a particular function
I could personally inspect it and deter
mine it.
The general theory of Mr.. Stettinius's
employment isl
This is our Secretary of WAR.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-08

ing bureau established. For two or three
years effort has been made to bring the
Legislature into line with this reform, but
no action has resulted. Yet it is no expert
ment which is proposed. Other states
have adopted the idea, with an average
saving of from 20 to 25 per cent. The City
of New York has had somewhat incom-
plete bureau--that is, one lacking power
to make all city purchases-which has
shown much saving. The merit Of the
plan has commanded widespread recogni-
tion. Governor Davis of Virginia wants
the lawmakers of his state to create a
state purchasing commission. Mayor
Peters, taking Office in Boston, advocates
centralized purchasing of supplies.
New York State has many uses for
every cent the taxpayers can supply. The
poor, the insane, the feeble-minded, all
need better and bigger institutions. Build
ing programmes are curtailed to point
far below what they should be. Why
should inertia or politics be permitted
longer to perpetuate lack of system
which the Controller says costs millions
New-York tribune., 1918-02-08
Uncalled For and Objectionable
From The NctD York Times ~

(Fron The Nc,D York Times OF uesterdn,)
lnasmuch this is a government of laws.
not of men, it will not be necessary to vest
the President with the extraordinary powers
he asks for in the measure sent to the Sem
ate yesterday. Cause must be shown before
Congress will consent that the Legislative
Department shall abdicate by giving Mr.. Will
son supreme authority to reorganize the gov
ernment, have laws set aside, control expend,-
ture, and take all branches of the business
of war into his own hands
No cause has been shown. Conoress h.o
been prodigal in its bestowal of power unon
the Executive. Transportation on land and
sea, prices OF commodities, the food and the
fuel of the people, their right to buv and sell,
and manufacture have in large measure
passed under the control of the Administra-
ton. These powers have been freely and
willingly given; more will be given with
equal readiness when it is made clear that
thereby the might of the nation NAV be more
effectively applied to the prosecution of the
war. But Congress cannot and should not
confer upon the President the approximation
to supreme power which this measure con-
templates.
Mr.. Wilson's need is not more power hut
more and bigger men, to aid him in exercis-
ing the vast powers he already has. The
people have depored his attitude of unyield
ing opposition to theefforts of Congress- IN
call to his support men strong e1oueh to
assume some of his burdens and make GER
tain vigorous and effective prosecution of
the war. Faults and weaknesses that could
not be concealed from them have given rise
to the apprehension that yet more serious
inadequaces would be disclosed as the labor
of war preparation grows heavier. He re-
Bluffs all these perfectly sincere efforts to
add to his forces and demands instead an in
crease of authority such as has never been
conferred on any President
New-York tribune., 1918-02-08

fore we have sent no one. We have our lead
ers, our officers; let them order US to do
so and we WILL
"And wha. are the officers to do with
that? 1t is matter for the soldiers
only to decide. Are you supporters of the
old regimen
we support no regime. The regime con-
Germs you only, and as to the reason why we
OBEY our officers, that is own busness!'
Thus the delegates returned after having
failed, probably calling the Poles Counter
revolutonists
And when to Mohylow came a regiment
OF Polish sharpshooters, the local Russian
soldiers asked them whether they were for
kornlloff or for Kerensky. They were an
swered: we are for neither side. We are
for Poland and against the Germans 'Whv
did you come here, then, if you are not with
Aornlloff" !" We are carrying out orders; we
were ordered to come here and here we are.
IL is not our business to reason in war time,
Our orders were to come here, and therefore
we must stay here
The Obedient Poles
The Mohylow soldiers were dumfounded
at receiving such logical and clear replies.
which they could not explain by any means,
and once again they became convinced that
the Poles were for counter revoution.'
Why? Because they were obedient without
resorting to any mass meetings, without plot
ting; they marched and they felt happy while
marching. No, there's something the mat
ter And they left the Poles firmly con-
vinced that they were supporters of Korni
loft
1--WE have a good leader said Polish
officer to me; 'he is active, enlightened and
wise. lie came to US, and gave US h-!'
w hat do you mean? Insulted the whole
division" He was right. We were not Of
tended in the slightest degree On the con-
trary, we saw our mistakes and have done
our best since to avoid repeating them
'lf a similar leader of some Russian div;
sion were to act in this way what would the
soldiers do with him? He would be r;sk;no
his life
Everything is curiously intertwined in
this life; in the little village of Bychow
new force is arising-the Polish army; the
Polish eagle is beginning to stretch out it's
wings, and there with the old church as
background, in the midst of lime trees. ia
setting the star Of that man who dreamed
about the rebuilding of a Russian army and
OF making Russia strong and free; there the
star of kornilotf is slowly disappearing from
the horizon. And from the ashes of Russia
arises, as If from the dead new Poland
which proudly asserts her rights and with
out assistance extricates herself from amono
the chaos of Russa!"
New-York tribune., 1918-02-08
America Stands Fast

There are two outstanding facts emerg-
ing from the tragic hours through which
the country has been passing, faced with
the possibility of we knew not what black
disaster from the confused words coming
to Ms under the ocean from the bleak
waters north of Ireland.
One is the stanchness with which the
nation faced its first test of real war. The
other is the splendid courage and iron
nerve with which it now becomes clear our
men on the deck of the Tuscania passed the
most terrible test to which war can put
human beings.
That wait on crowded troop ship, while
the water rises relentlessly and the bust
ness of transshipment proceeds how swift
ly and how slowly! Modern trench war
fare has invented its own diabolical tor
lures and trials, but the "Birkenhead
drill'' remains the toughest bullet a soldier
can be asked to chew. It is picture to
clutch the heart of all of us-our men of
the National Guard, our men of this SER
vice and that, from Long Island, from Wis
consin, lined up shoulder to shoulder on the
deck of their stricken vessel, and singing
"The Star-Spangled Banner" with will.
There must emerge from such moment
solidarity among those men, an Ameri-
canism, a faith in each other, faith in
their cause, which no years of other living
could create. And a touch of the same
unity, of fellowship in disaster, of sacri-
flee in a common cause, becomes warm in
the hearts of us Americans at home. We
forget how many miles and differences in
point of view lie between Wisconsin and
New York. We are caught up in a new
and living Devotion We know as we never
knew before that it is one country that we
love and that our love for her knows NO
bounds
There was i'll luck and there was good
luck in the Tuscania sinking. It was an
extraordinary fortune which enabled a
U-boat to make killing in those waters,
under such conditions of convoy. It was
hardly less extraordinary that successful
torpedo should leave two precious hours in
which to remove the bulk of our troops and
the vessels crew. The whole episode was
war at its cruelest and kindest.
We shall have many such black hours of
suspense in the months to come. War is
finally and chiefly test of nerves, of wait
ing, of courage through long, dragging
hours when disaster looms large. That is
true both at the front and here behind the
line. Let US be proud and thankful that
here in our first test, in their great trial
in the shadow of death, our soldiers, and
we, in our lesser trial of suspense-all
Amerca-stood fast
New-York tribune., 1918-02-08
The Anxious Dead

jAnother poem by the late Colonel John McCrae.
author of the much quo ted poem I'm Flanders
Fields is presented here through the courtesy Of
L. Mackenzie of Crestwod, N. j. 1t was originally
published in "The London Spectator")
o guns, fall silent till the dead men hear
Above their heads the legions pressing on!
(These fought their fight in time of bitter fear
And died not knowing how the day had
gomez
o flashing muzzles, pause and let them see
The coming dawn that streaks the sky afar!
Then let your mighty chorus witness be
To them, and Caesar, that we stir make war.
Tell them, guns that we have heard their
call:
That we have sworn and will not turn aside:
That will onward till we win or fall;
That we will keep the faith for which thew
Bid them be patient and some day, anon,
They shall feel earth enwrapt in silence
deep
Shall greet in wonderment the quiet dawn,
And in content may turn them to their
sleep. JOHN M'CRAE.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-08
Three Billions-for Expansion?

The Treasury has asked the banks OF
the nation to lend the government three
billions in the next three months.
No such free banking surplus exists
nor any large part of it. The banks are
pretty we'll loaned up. There are only two
ways in which this huge credit can be ex.
tended to the government. That is by
withdrawing three billions of outstanding
credits, which would create panic, or by
expanding the volume Of loans; or combin-
ing the two.
The effect of an expansion of anything
like three billions would be farreaching
These loans would be very quickly con-
verted into checkable deposits. The vol
ume Of these is now somewhere near thir-
teen billions.
This is the actual currency with which
the vast exchanges of the nations are eff
fected. An abrupt increase of nearly 25
per cent would undoubtedly send prices
soaring still higher, and thus add billions
more to the cost of the war.
1t is evident from this that the banks
ought to restrict credit as far as possible
to essential enterprises, and that the Fed
eral Reserve system should set its face
against reckless expansion by raising the
rates of rediscount.
Every dollar Of credit expansion now is
pure initiation. 1t cannot produce an
added ton of coal or steel or wheat or
corn. It can only kite the cost of living
yet higher, add to the wars burdens and
stir unrest.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-08
A Central Purchasing Bureau

1t is an amazing thing that the agen-
cies Of government are permitted to lag
so far behind those which ordinary COM
mon sense has forced on competitive bust
ness institutions. If an industrial con-
Germ spending $9,000,000 annually in pur-
chasing supplies permitted it's various de-
partments to buy Individually, without
reference to wholesale rates which could
be obtained by bulk purchases, it would
soon be headed for the rocks, and the gen.
eral verdict would be that it ought to 90
bankrupt. Yet that is precisely what
Controller Travis says the State of New
York has been doing for years, wasting
millions of dollars of the taxpayers
money.
The Controller wants central purchas-
New-York tribune., 1918-02-08
The Shontsian Bloomers
Standard Sized Conductorettes Urged
by a Critical Observer

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: hope you will not consider me pre-
sumptuous in writing you a few lines about
the matter of proper dress for the women
that are taking up work on the subway and
surface cars.
What you say in Sundays issue is really
very funny, but there is good deal of truth
in it after all.
Mr.. Shonts may be capable of running sub
ways very we'll, but that is no sign that he
knows much about the proper way to dress
women, and, though I may be old d-fashioned. |
would like to ask him if he thinks what saw
in Broadway car few days ago is proper
The lady conductorette, or whatever he
thinks she should be called, was not made for
the bloomers or whatever he calls the awful
things she had on-or at least they were not
made for her. much smaller woman would
have filled them too much for decency. What
with the people crowded in the car like sar
dimes in box, it was, to say the least yerv
dangerous for her to do her work and move
about with safety.
IT Mr.. Shonts expects to furnish standard
sizes of whatever he calls them he should pet
standard sized ladies to fit them-that is all
l have to say about "bloomers." But ask
you If it would not be far better to have the
same sensible garb that the workers in fac.
tories and other dangerous places have adopt
ed-the good old-fashioned "rompers."
With an elastic band at the lower extremity