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Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1919-09-27
WHATCOAT VI. +. CHI RICH.


1000 a. m. sunday school. Prof.
A. c. Humphreys. Superintendent,
HOO a. m, Public Worship and
sermon.
500 =. M. Public Worship and ser
mon.
4 HOME-LlkE CHURCH A
HEARTY WELCOME
REN. l.. f.. POOLE. Pastor.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1919-09-27
HOME SERVICE MEETING
THURSDAY. OCT. md

An important Home Service meet,
ing will be held in tho County Home
Service Office. Thursday afternoon.
October End. at T. NJ All Red
Cross workers and those interested
in Public Health Service are urged to
be present.
PAULINE n. MURRAY, Sec'y.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1919-09-27
REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF
First National Bank OF Snow Hill


at SnoN HI IN ,h. state " MARYLAND. ~ ~
close n ta-tr's. SEPT i9th l@i'
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Wartime TeSmwork
Transferred to Housing

Probably the most practical and
workable development Of com
munity building will be that done
by group Of women who know
what they want, plan for it and then
finance the undertaking jointly or
else get The necessary backing and
arrange for the payment in rentals,
as is done in building and loan asso-
Citations. This would make it pos
sihle for woman to look forward
to owning her home and at no
greater expense per month than she
is under for rental. which carries
with it no such engaging prospect.
A group of young business
women could thus take a house
together at no greater expense
than for the traditional "hall bed
room," have the use of the club
room whenever they cared to enter
tain, share in the garden which
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gently planned cooperative living
will be the next step Women take
as naturally to the solving of hous-
ing problems as ducks to water. The
making of her habuation into some
thing livable, and even charming,
has been a womans job for centu-
ries and even ages-the passion for
it is in her system.
The terrible, ineXorable sameness
Of the thousands and thousands of
little suburban houses for which one
yet paid high rental must have de-
pressed thousands and thousands of
women. No one room large enough
to have any restfulness and charm.
a woman would have arranged for
this by economizing here or there on
space; she would, perhaps, have
combined living room and dining
room, SO that one place in the house
at least had a feeling of ample ROOM
Her kitchen might have been tiny,
but accurately arranged and very
complete.
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A Special Type Is the
"Y" Woman

And now for these young women
as individuals. They run to GER
tain type. Whether they resemblcd
one another before they went over
seas CT not can't De said. 1t may
be that their experience made them
alike. They are clean, wholesome
young women. No "prissyness''
crops up in any of them. They are
good scouts and have hiked and
stood hardships with the soldiers
They are girls from the class of
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complished the atmosphere" was a
mystery to the men, but there was
a breath Of home wherever they
went.
Besides the canteen work, which
was part of the life at all the !lutss.
dancing was one Of the most .ya-
portant phases Of the girls work.
The after -armisticc work was
much of it "leave area" work. The
girls We're there to entertain the
men. They had been told to make
the men play. Their business in
life was to be happy and gay. All
the men wanted dances. One divi-
sion would leave an area and al
other would be in the same week.
The girls entertained the shifting
soldier population. Most OF the
"Y' girls say as result of enter
tanning these varied groups that
they liked the privates as a class
better than the officers. They don't
explain why.
81 don't know how I'm going to
get along without all those beys,"
said one worker. "It was like hav-
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or women's hotel Women, married
or unmarried. have an instructive
liking for a home That has so often
made it go hard with the women S
hotel, as women prefer to housekeep
comparatively, two or three of them
together, even when such living re-
quires quite a bit more labor on the
part Of each.
If a group of women could get to-
gether with some real estate men
the plan of community houses ought
to ego" The disadvantages of the
less expensive suburban houses are
obvious. The yards are too tiny to
give a pleasant garden; the houses
are so close that there is not the
privacy that city house in block
yields, and for business women the
difficulties of housekeeping in the
suburbs are serious. First of these
is service and the fact that ones dim
ner has to be arranged for, cooked
and served in the house.
Where would be laundry, a
kitchen with meal service, or a din
ing room for those who preferred.
In this community house would live
the housekeeper and several tcompe-
tent, we'll paid assistants, who would
do the work at one or another of
the group houses, wherever it was
desired. Tenants who wished the
services of the housekecper could
contribute to her salary; those who
didn't need not.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-17
"Housing" Is a
Passion With Women

There are few more promising de-
velopments than the rise of interest
in community housing The projects
for building groups of houses are
cropping out in many places. Houses
which shall serve the need of their
tenants as a group, instead of as
several isolated individuals of such
diverse needs that there can be no
thought of ever pooling" interests.
If the war has taught us nothing
else it taught the value of coopera-
ton. To-day it looks as if the
housekeeper's most pressing and i'm
perative problems could only be
solved comparatively, and that intelli-
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''First Ladies" of All
Lands Take Notice

The first job will be housing.
Since the suffrage has been a fact
IN England, very definite plans have
been made for improving the hous-
ing in the poorer sections of London
where certainly was abundant
room for improvement. At the sug-
gestlon of the new-made citizens.
Queen Mary did what, according to
The London Times" was never
done by royalty before, namely, she
visited in person the squalid sections
Of London and saw with her own
eyes how the other half lives. 1t is
pleasant to recollect that one of the
first things done in Washington by
our Presidents first wife, whom
many Of US remember affectionately
as a woman of fneness and sincerity
and Of wonderfully ready kindness,
was to visit the poor sections of the
city and insist on little municipal
housecleaning.
Another interesting and illuminat
ing departure of the London femi-
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Baltimore and Queens
County Know How

A real estate development near
Baltimore is admirably done. Houses
in groups and roads built to fit the
lines of the country have kept the
plcturesqueness and yet afforded
homes for almost as many as if the
usual real estate process had been
carried out, the individuality Of the
country expunged and the beloved
checkerboard ideal superimposed.
upon the helpless landscape. One
fancies that the very thriving Home
Garden Association of Baltimore
had something to do with the really
sympathetic treatment by the real
estate folk of Roland Park of the
existing beauty of the country
Garden clubs and real estate
men worked together amicably in
the Queens County War Garden
League, and to their mutual profit.
1t would seem that if they would
take counsel together again, with
a woman architect and some one
who knows we'll the needs of. ten
ants, there might be worked out a
very attractive proposition. There
are thousands of little houses
springing up like mushrooms after
a rain, blocks and streets of houses
in new Developments rl5 the idea
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case of women coming to the
rescue of mans organization.
However that may be. the re-
turning "Y' girls are loyal to the
association. Now that they are dis
charged there is no reason why they
should not knock if they have any
"grouches." With perhaps a few
exceptions they praise the organi-
zation. Esprit de corps" lives in
the women who were with the Y. M.
c. A. abroad
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nine electorate besides inducing roy
atty to visit the London slums was
to get from tenement house mothers
suggestions for bettering the hous-
ing and opinions as to how it had
best be done. Overwhelming was
the feminine verdict in favor of
small houses in the country out
skirts of London as against the ten
ement. Valuable also were the sug-
gestions on various points of sani-
tation.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-17
ArnateM showgirls
In the Alps

Dancing was supplemented with
stunt and amateur entertainments
in ali the huts In enc Of the stations
up in the Alps it was almost impos-
sible to get any kind of travelling
entertainers. Sixteen "Y" girls
were there regularly to entertain
1.-The Aasa and they made themselves
INTO show co.npany. Every girl
took part and by the time the
six months Of their work was over
they had developed an entertain
nent that took wonderfully with
|the changing divisions that went
through their area. Louise Il.
Gu cry and Elfeda Maine, of Engle-
wood, were among the girls of this
al aateur theatrical company.
Many of the workers wear bangle
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and a mother who wished to send
her children thither could do So.
In the gears gust before as 1t is going
to be far easier to find on Intelligent
nursery g0ve1Ness 1oho aUiW take care
of q dozen children IN q co0beratiuely
owned community house than 1t Is
for the hdf-dogen mothers each to
find nurse. Firstly, the collective
wages Of individual nurses would be
more, and at that the little folk would
rot be SO we'll cared for, and, second,
if mother wants nurse of the kind
that "mother used to have" she
won't find her. The soil no longer
produces the product.
Some years ago a beginning in
community housing was made by
the Girard estate in Philadelphia,
and some excellent little houses were
built, four or five of them, with
central heating plant. Heat, light
and hot water were included in the
rental, and with the central plant
for the four houses the cost was
much less than it would have been
to the individual tenant, and the con-
venience considerable.
But it is in the rapidly building
suburbs that group housing will be
most welcome. People are thorough
ly tired of the unvarying checker.
board arrangement, the land so cut
up that no one has the sight of a
decent stretch Of green. The group
about court, with garden and
playground, would use no more
space, be more practical and meet
the needs of the house dwellers.
The real estate development COM
pany that wakes up to the fact that
besides making houses which afford
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ness girls over for the Y. NJ. c. A.
and has supervised sending about
400 girls to France. She said the
qualities most sought in the girls
were poise and social experience.
"The letters from the girls ref
erences were strictly CONFIDENTIAL"
said Mrs. Wright. 'If a person
writing description of girl be-
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| society which affords some social
experience-enough so that they
know how to entertain men with
out being personal, how to make
them feel at home without making
them feel under obligation. One
thing that is particularly distinctive
about these "Y" girls is their nice,
clear eyes. The type might be
called the pal girl"
Instances are told of how these
women went on long marches with
the troops. Many of their enter
tainments resembled scenes in quiet
American homes. How they ac-
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"Horne--to the
Huts In France"

In many ways they resemble the
soldiers they have been serving.
They are restless, just as the dough-
boys are restless. After the first
q attack of heart throbs" over set
ting foot on their native soil they
wonder whether they are glad to be
back again. Someway, things seem
to have changed--or perhaps thew
have changed-and home isn't what
they thought it was going to be.
One little "Y" girl who, after ar
irving IN New York, had spent part
of her first bright sunshiny after
noon looking in Fifth Avenue shop
windows, said as she returned to
the hotel: "You don't know how
I've longed for New York and the
shop windows with gay hats and
dresses. And now that | can have
them I'm homesick for the huts and
the dances and | like this uniform
better than any of your fine dresses.
even If 1t does need pressing.
This is the first time I've ever
been conscious of myself. It's ter
rlble the way the people on the
street here stare. We were taken
as matter of course in Paris and
London. But New Workers look at
Us as II we were curiosities. / could
cry I'm so unhappy. I want to go
home-to the huts in France"
Many of the women don't want
to go back to the jobs they had be-
lore they were sent to France, at
least they don't think they do. Of
course some Of them didn't have
Jcbs, were simply Giving at home, :"
and these girls think they can't be
happy at just that All of them are
inspired with the idea of doing
bigger things than they ever did
before.
The "Y'' women who are return
ing now are for the most part the
women who went abroad after the
arnlstice was signed. Those who
were there while the fighting was
going on were sent home last spring
During the long months of wait
ing to come home that followed the
arm1stlce the men needed most such
organizations as the Y. M. C. A.
Morale slumped perceptibly in the
American Expeditionary Forces
when there was no objective and it
was to strengthen the morale that
the "Y" sent its biggest crop of
young women. The age minimum
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Percy and Ferdie
Also Invited

Of course, 20 make the scbem.
really joyous for the working p,rl
or young business woman thor.
should be. across the way. anotbs,
cooperative group Of masculip.
hall bedroom refugees 10 be sur.
the women could manage the enter
prise perfectly eoll anaided; even
informal dances may be successful
though quite manless. think !.
is Caivcr'ey who celebrates such
funct ens
Not MIA e. c'insy Jarss or Georges,
taaqrXt@ned by grasp of man
Maidens speed these smaie orgies
Betsy Jane with Beiay Ann, !
Yet the usual equitable balanc.
is more divertins, more deservedly
popular And d cooperative hOus.
ing scheme that was as sheltered
from masculine Influence as girls
boarding. school wouldn't be popu-
lar; nor would suburbs, however
salubrious, unless there was some
chance for the young folk to have
the ordinary social life.
One Of the most poignant needs
of the young folk Of the city is for
little Of the friendly intercourse
and neighborliness which are .as
natural in the country as The flow.
ers at the roadside. Community
housing ought to afford this. Ger.
tainly it IS worth trying.
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should be theirs, as Gramercv p.A
is used by those who lie adjoin,.-
it, and also the privilege Of -.
tennis courts. 30 dwoller IN sr.
of these proposed elysiams ps.s
be depressed by feeling herssF
an object of benevolence. On Ia
contrary. each could have the iov
of knowing that she vas trying on.
an experiment which, + successsu,
would be Of real value TO hundred,
Of other women.
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he Little Sisters of the Regiment Come Home From Cv

for these workers was dropped from
the twenty-five years it had been to
twenty-three. The girls were
chosen for their agreeable quail
ties and their adaptability. They
were sent to play and keep the men
happy.
Mrs. w. l.. Wright is at the head
of the department of sending bus-'
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lieved she could not work with
others he could say SO and the girl
would never know it. Besides these
questions that had to be answered.
on the candidates we gave our own
examinations. We also took into
consideration the character of the
persons given as references. And
the final test was the weeks con-
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mltted to Mrs. Wright recently that
he had been converted. His men
had clamored for welfare girls
when the other organizations had
them and he finally had to give in
and endure two young women
simply because his men wanted
them. These "Y" women's work
changed his whole attitude on the
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ing charge of so many children and
| know | shall miss them"
"You Know I've danced so much,
remarked another. that I'm like
an old fire horse when he hears the
alarm. The minute hear any
popular music I'm up, ready to
dance, no matter where I am.
When | go to parties at home again
| know III probably make break
some time and rush across the floor
to ask some bashful looking chap
to Dance
Its going to be rather hard, ="
said one of the Younger girls, "to
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With the Gobs
In Ireland

Caroline Arbus, of All West
ll5th Street, New York, was one
of the first American ~" women
to go to Ireland. She was Il pioneer
to develop the work in the United
States navy posts there Instead
of confining her work to one
station she went about and spent
two or three weeks at a time in the
different ones.
Miss Arbus has two happy
thought books in which the men
expressed themselves on various
subjects. Ireland, the war, the
"Y' and Miss Arbus herself were
among the themes for these poems,
eplgrams and drawings. The work
ers of the Y. NJ. c. A. tried to take
the spirit of home to the many dis
contented ''gobs" in ireland, boys
who had begun to feel themselves
neglected.
The library was part Of the Y. NJ.
{. A work. The American Library
Association furnished the books
and the hut was the library. VIII
helmina Harber, ef College Point,
/. l., was librarian at the navy hut
IN Brest. She said that she learned
never to be surprised at having the
men ask for "highbrow' books.
The general taste seemed to be for
serious stuff Shakespeare was a
favorite and next came books or
evolution and psAcpoioyr
Some Of the young women wers
actually attached to divisions
Elizabeth B. Smith, of Montclalr,
N. j., was with the 5,h Division
and marched into Germany wir1 H.
She says that she was one OF the
family. part Of the regiment.
The "Y' girls will all DE back IN
this country this month. Although
there is no big problem abou:
fitting them back into our life. ths's
spirit will be felt by US all to
degree. They have, for one thing
the vision of great things and IN
their homes in different parts Of
the country they VIII try to pass
this vision on to others.
1t may be also that they have
helped to further develop the
american boys taste for u pal.
Several returned soldiers who were
distinctly men who wanted only the
Fluffy Rutfles" before the wa have
voiced themselves as favoring
women who are partners. per-
haps the "Y" girl is the explana-
ton.
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work has proved so valuable
that it will be a permanent part
or our army now, she believes.
She told of one old general who,
at the beginning of the war, would
have none of the welfare women in
his division. He didn't believe in
them and he was not going to have
any of their nonsense" He adj
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matter and he is now one of the
firmest converts to the belief that
the "little sisters have come to
stay
1t is the opinion of many persons
that its women helped raise the
"f' as an organization in the minds
of the public. The resentment
against men in uniforms other than
those military and the knocking
that the Y. M. c. A. had to stand
for while were modified by the
class of women who donned the
gray uniform with it's red triangle.
Many persons have said that it was
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shelter it can also arrange so that
the housekeepers' problems of SER
vice, Of the care of children. of the
need of little greenness and gar
den space to rejoice the eyes, can
be met as we'll should reap both
treasure in this world and treasure
in heaven
New-York tribune., 1919-08-17

bracelets. Incongruous these seem
with the quiet gray uniforms until
they are examined. These show
the story of the girls life in the
American Expeditionary Forces. The
bracelet IS her identification tag
The bangles are tiny symbols from
the towns where she was stationed
or worked for the "Y": Jeanne
1'Arc from Brest, the seal of Anne
of Brittany, a tiny windmill from
The Hague and weeping angel
from St. Nalo
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Business Women
AXE a Hand


SO far it is the business women
who are especially interested in
community projects. One expects
them to lead in that sort Of thing;
they are less bark bound by conven-
ton, or perhaps have more pressure
put upon them to arrange things
comfortably and conveniently for
themselves.
In its appeal to business women
the group of community houses of
which the renter has a chance to be-
come owner will be found to be
miles ahead Of the apartment hotel
New-York tribune., 1919-08-17
FE ME- woman citizen of to-day

Nil T. woman citizen of to-day
u finds herself in position to
realize what old Omar Khay-
yam vaguely dreamed. The "scheme
of things entire" is at present so
thoroughly confused and transition
al that women have the chance of
their lives to get what the farmers
call "a holt" on the situation and
do some first class work in remould-
ing-if not to complete satisfaction,
at least to achieve Something nearer
to the hearts desire,' which, after
all, was all that Omar wished.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-17
Only Those With
Children Need Apply

If in the group were young mar
ried folk with children, then a room
in the community house could be
used as nursery and kindergarten,
New-York tribune., 1919-08-17

of community service is lacking, and
it is this idea of service that is most
essential and most sorely needed
and is destined to be the distinc-
tive mark Of the 1920 model in
suburban building.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-17
BY HANNAH MITCHELL

~ CR uniformed girls are com
q b ing home. In the last few
weeks several hundred of
them have been demobilized by the
Y. III. c. A. The play" army of
the American Expeditionary Forces,
the cheery eyed girls who followed
the boys first through the strain of
battle and then through the long
months of waiting in foreign lands,
is arriving here and, like the boys,
IS scattering to various parts of
the country.
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get used to having only one or two
boys to cali on one. Some of us
have been terribly spoiled by being
The centre Of attention for several
hundred men every day of our
lives"
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terence at Barnard, which proved
up on all the qualities that had
been brought out in the letters"
The Little Sister of the
Regiment Converts a General
The little sister of the regiment
has come to stay, ip the opinion
of Mrs. Wright. The women's
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her son, l.. |. Blake, Jr., and Mrs
Blake, At Mineral Wells, Texas.

her son, l.. l.. Blake, Jr. and Mrs
Blake at Mineral Wells, Texas.
Mrs j. l.. Cox and daughter, Miss
Anne Anderson, have returned from
oklahoma City whore they attended
grand opera. They Were guests Of
friends while here.
Mr. Weldon Guest has returned to
his home in Ryan, after visiting Mrs.
Georgia Scott and family, and other
relatives.
Mis- Lucy Hnl who has been quite
iss, is conyulescent.
Mrs j. g. Spragins is visiting her
mother, Mrs. -. c. Patton at sulphur.
Nh. and Mrs Walter Critchlow are
spending a few days in Kansas city.
Miss Belle Autry ana Mrs oscar
Norycllc Of Marietta were visitors in
Ardmorr yesterday.
Mrs Robert $. Gardcnhire left last
night for Houston where she will spend
several days with her parents Mr..
and Mrs William H. Colby ana broth
cr, Mr. Frank Colby
Mr. ana Mrs. w. X. Shackelford who
recently moved to Ardmore from Fore
man, Ark, are occupying the home of
Mr. and Mrs j. b. Waltrip, 224 Il
street, southwest, during the latters
stay at llealdlon
Mn. Shackleford purchased the city
Drug store last summer, and with his
family have come to Ardmore to make
their home
1 ions Club Meeting Tomorrow
The regular noon day luncheon Of
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ems county, are here and will leave with
the prisoner as soon as the horse can
be returned from the Criner ranch.
Mr. Criner says he is willing to give
it up and take chances on getting part
Of his money back.
When arrested Parks had about StS
on his person.
The horse, bride and saddle accoro.
ing to the owner, We're worth at least
$500.
Parks has not made a statement in
the matter.