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Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1921-09-17
KNOWLEDGE OF CURRENT EVENTS.

examination paper current events recently taken by
1880 college, high school, and upper grade pupils
showed that these young people could only Al per cert OF
questions that every intelligent person supposed to know
illustration New England city only out of q
high school seniors knew who Henry Cabot Lodge is.
The average high school and college pupil does not know
much Many school authorities that
programs crowded with subjects and that they
could not add the study contemporary history without excud
ing just essential Boys read the newspapers good
DEAL but of their attention to the sporting School
girls often showing interest in current news
However, many schools feel it important to interest
young people the thrilling events of these changing times that
they give pupils regular lessons based current topics
found in magazines.
If young people had to composition week OIL
topic like the League Of Nations the Disarmament Confer
ence the Tariff the Tax Law etc. they would not merely get
splendid practice in writing English but their interest in the BIZ
questions of the day would be aroused
The young person who goes out into the world with little in
the of the day. badly handicapped for life Bu
people look with contempt the school, graduate who
heard of Seinn Fem Charles Hughes They think suo
argues superficial mind that such is not fit for
promotion. young people form early life the habit OF
newspaper reading they will perform the duties of citizenship
with far greater competence and they will play the game of life
and business with much better results for themselves
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1921-09-17
THE ERA OF MACHINE
PRODUCTION.

This has been called the era of ma
chine production because so much of
the worlds work is done without the
aid of the human hand.
Brain is replacing muscle.
Men do only that work which ma
chine cannot do.
Machine production dates from the
revolutionary improvements in the
steam engine by James Watt, about a
century ago
So great has been the development
of labor saving devices since that
time that many people actually fear
that there will soon be no work lott
for the human animal to do.
There is no basis for any such
thought.
The adding machine, for instance,
has not eliminated the bookkeeper,
but it has taken most of the drudg-
cry out of bookkeeping. 1t has large
~ contributed to the development of
n new professionalism of accounting
and cost finding.
When the human spirit is freed
from the deadening toll, it turns to
its nobler function-that of creating.
With the adding machine the mod
crn bookkeeper becomes an interpre-
ter. He now has time to do more
than "fgger."
He analysizes his figures and tran
States them into terms that make
them useful.
The once lowly bookkeeper, pictur-
ed so effectively by Dickens, is now
doing finer, better and more useful
work because he has the proper tools
to aid him.
The other day | visited an exhibit
ton of manuscripts which were tran
Continued on Page 2
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1921-09-17
WE HATE A NEW IDEA.

Most of us hate a new idea, or a
new custom.
Bathing in bathtub, as late as
1912, was condemned as corruptive
luxury, and denounced by the medical
fraternity.
Air brakes were installed on trains
only after the inventor had been call
ed "lunatic" when he first suggested
the plan to a railroad president.
William Harvey, who discovered
circulation of blood, enjoyed a lucra-
tive practice before he announced
his discovery, but thereafter he was
called "crack-brained," and his prac +.
ticc fell off.
The Royal Society of England did
not consider Benjamin Franklin's ac-
count of his experiments in electricity
Of sufficient Importance to be printed
i'll the Society's transactions.
Luigi Galvani, who experimental on
frogs and discovered galvanic cleo
tricity, was thought to be crazy.
Daguerre, inventor CT the daguer-
reotype, was put in an asylum for
saying he could transfer the likeness
OF human beings to a "tin plate"
The Bavarian Royal College OF
Physicians claimed that railroads
would ruin the health of the people
because the rapid motion would give
travellers brain disease.
Professor Lowering of Harvard
demonstrated automatically the i'm
possibility of telegraphing 5000 miles
under the ocean, and several scien-
lists also proved" that the long
range gun was an impossibility at the
very time Paris was being bonn
barded.
Napoleon refused to consider Full
TONS steamboat, and later when the
first steamboat did cross the ocean.
as result of Fulton's invention. it
carried aboard an essay proving the
lmpossibility Of the undertaking.
Printers broke the windows of the
first plants that installed Linotype
machines.
The introduction of the spinning
Jenny, the power loom, and other tex
tile machinery in England caused ma
tion-wide riots
Farmers built barricades to OBJ
struct automobiles.
Iron ships were derided for quar-
ter century after they came in use.
Go easy in challenging new idea,
invention, or discovery. Fifty years
from now our children will be erect
ing monuments to the "crazy" men of
today.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1921-09-17
MEMBERSHIP IN BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS.

1t is not difficult matter to organize a Chamber of Com
meIce other Business Mems Association city, to keel
people paying dues and attending meetings year after wear
another problem.
No community ahead without good business men,
association and such society will succeed has
bUost the work.
That means that plan has be devised secure and
tain members which can only be done by socta
tlon And the work of canvassing is left people, will
sooner or later fall through large number must take hold
vide up the work, and make it success
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1921-09-17
HARRIET j. JONES

late of Worcester county, deceased.
All persons having claims against
the deceased, are hereby warned tn
exhibit the same, with the vouchers
thereof, to the subscriber, on or be e.
fore the 18th day of March, 1922.
They may otherwise by law be ex-
cluded from all benefits of the said
estate. All persons indebted to said
estate are requested to make imme-
diate payment. Given under my hand
this 10th day of September, 1921.
CHARLES L. HALL,
Test; Executor.
ASBURY C. RILEY,
VI '' Register of Wills.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1921-09-17
William F. Johnson, Attorney.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Notice is hereby given that the sub
scriber has obtained from the Orph-
ans Court for Worcester county.
Md, letters Testame ntary on the per
SCnal estate of
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1921-09-17

For Register of Wills
DIR. PAUL JONES
The Washington herald., 1921-03-26
Athletic Skill
OfBoysBring
ButtonAUard

Howard Lynch and Leon
SchIoss. whose athletic abilities
equaled the Municipal Play
grounds test for boys, were
awarded bronze buttons by Miss
Meria Matthews. director Of the
Thomson Fairgrounds yesterday
at noon. The athletic prowess
of Harry Rod. Teddy McTwig-
gan, william Gaisberg and Cor
dan Hill also entitled them to
silver buttons, which were pre-
sented last Wednesday by Miss
Janet J. Gasman, director of the
Happy Hollow Fairgrounds.
With the weather beaming
fair during the Easter holidays,
directors of the various play
grounds have planned many ac-
tivities for the large number of
boys and girls who will Temporal
ril9 forget for ten days the
reality of school.
Among the clubs which have
been formed on the Virginia Ave-
nue. Fairgrounds Is tho Carna-
tion Club. open to girls from 10
to IA years of age. The ofiicers
of the club are: Emma Brown,
president; Estella Hysson. vice
president: Margaret Hysson.
treasurer. and Helen Edelin,. Sec
retary. Miss Thelma Smith, d.
rector of the grounds. Is plan
ming a number OF interesting
plays. hikes and other activities
for the club.
The Washington herald., 1921-03-26
Spirit.

tBy Joseph Breen. 1s years old.
Lenox schooL)
There are many schools in SoHth-
east,
And pretty schools they arc.
The Waiiaeh is the largest one,
But the LenoT is the star.
The boys of the LenoI- school
Are boys arith lots of grit.
lind 1chen IL comes to playing
baseball
Then they are certainly It!
With baseball pennants the rooms
are fall
And the pupils loze them best,
And they say that this years pen-
WiH be there nth the rest.
So if you lrent to the Southeast
schools
And stayed for quite q srliile,
l knop you apoald soy the LenoT
IS the best
For us full of class and style.
The Washington herald., 1921-03-26
NeuDJerseyGirls
Greeted byD.C.
Sister Scouts

A pleasing entertainment for
the seventeen visiting Girl
scouts from Union Hill, n. J., in
Guiding a sightseeing trip to
Arlington, followed by a picnic
at the Girl Scouts teahouse in
Potomac Park, will be rendered
them today by the Girl Scouts
Association of the District.
Miss Helen Hesslage, director
of the visiting girls. announced
that money for the trip was
earned wholly by the girls. They
are making their local headuuar-
ters at 1o6 Twentieth street
northwest.
Mrs. David Sellers, Miss Mary
Patten. Mrs. william Reeves.
Mrs. n. Livingston, Mrs. Powell
Clayton. Mrs. Joseph Bradley and
Mrs. Herbert Hoover have re-
Gently Joined the council of the
District Scout organization.
The Washington herald., 1921-03-26
Can you solve this mystery
BROWNS OCCUPATION

TT Is true,' admitted Harvey
Hunt, that observation is the one
faculty in which the detective must
excel. but 1t must be supplemented
by the ability to see cause through
effect, and also by the ability to se-
lect for observation only the sig
nificant facts.
you know. an efficient memory
depends more on that selective
ability than the extraordinary
memorizing powers. The useful
memory Is useful because 100 per
cent Of its capacity Is devoted to
useful facts. Its owner carefully
excludes the great mass Of things
irrelevant to his purpose.
II have to laugh every time !
think OF the great Sherlock Holmes,
spoofing his DR.. Watson for not
having observed the number of
steps in the stairs leading to their
famous quarters on Parker street.
As a matter of fact, Ifcan't imagine
any method by which the great
Sherlock could have handicapped
his observation than by devoting 1t
to such q useless fact-unless, of
course. the knowledge would have
had some bearing on q case he was
handling. But it's silly to quarrel
with a fiction character. Enough
of. that. What Is this problem Of
deduction that has you puzzled" :
How did you know there was
one?" DeKyne looked up. startled.
Hunt laughed aloud. my dear
Bob" he -said, you seem deter
mined to play DR.. Watson to my
Sherlock. The very preoccupation
which prevents you from seeing
how I deduce that is responsible.
You srA preoccupied. Also you
The Washington herald., 1921-03-26

To Europe: I'VE have a new
President. to be sure. but the same
old prejudice against land grab
bing."
Nothing is wanted. The express
sions we learned while filling the
income tax blank can be used on the
umpire.
One suspects at times that states
men consider our motto. ''In God We
Trust" a violation of the antitrust
law
The censors always clip the film
just as the disrobing begins, and
one wonders what they do with the
strips they cut out.
With so many conflicting divorce
lawL II may yet be necessary TO
change the system and let people
take one another on probation.
1t is all very well to say that you
can carry a drink in a fountain pen,
but IL it Is anything like ink. how
are you going to get il out?
The Washington herald., 1921-03-26
SATURDAY. MARCH %. 1871.

SATURDAY. MARCH ., 1871.
This Is Interpreted as a doubt
full day. Astrologers read that while
Uranus. Mercury and Jupiter are in
benefc aspect Venus and Neptune
are adverse.
Men and women should md the
day fairly fortunate for business
conferences. OF for the signing OF
contracts.
shere is a promising sign for men
who write love letters. especially 10
they happen to be teachers. lawyers
or professors.
Newspapers and magazines
should beneft. New periodicals
will be started and there is an su-
spicious sign for distinctly literary
ventures.
Neptune is in a place most un-
favorable TO women. because IL In
dicates q decline Of common sense
or at least a temporary suspen.
sion of IL, where romance or sentf.
ment may be involved.
Under this conngurstion persona
Of all ages may be susceptible and
extremely responsive to hattery.
This is not an auspicious wedding
day, since il makes for an awak-
ening from blind infatuation.
Persons whose birthdate Il is
have the augury of a happy and
prosperous year. fBusiness should
succeed and ambition should be OBJ
tanned
Children born on this day should
prosper all through life. These
subjects of Aries usually are fond
of travel They should he war, q,
their love affairs.
The Washington herald., 1921-03-26
Easter Socks

Full-fashioncd Pure Thread
Silk Hose, in black and the
popular plain colors, includ.
ing grays. 81, SI.So, "a and
$a.so.
Novelty Silk Hose, two
toned colorings and drop
stitch clocks, $7 pair.
Clocked Silk Socks. with
hand-embroidered clocks. self
and contrasting colors. $I.So
and $3 pair.
Best quality Mercerized
Lisle Full-fashioned Hose,
black and plain shades. 7se
pair.
Full-fashioned Lisle Thread
Hose, black and plain oolors.
soc pair.
Imported Lisle Socks, with
embroidered silk clocks. 81
pair.
The Washington herald., 1921-03-26
Edster Shirts

Silk Shirts are always
dressy and appeal to the
well-groomed man of re-
fined tastes. Stripes pre-
dominate, but there is a new
ness and difference that read
lily identifies them as new.
Colorings arc pleasing, one,
two or three toned effects.
They al. rich. lustrous and
4. magnificent, and the prices
are extremely low.
Silk Broadcloths, IS, plus
tax.
Best Silk Crepes, sIo, plus
tax.
White Jersey Silks, with
single or group stripes Of
white satin, $3.50, plus tax.
Madras Shirts, in an almost
endless variety OF attractive
striped patterns; all colors
are absolutely fast. s7, s7.so,
IS. $3.50. s. and IS.
The Washington herald., 1921-03-26

have been quizzing me on the men
tai processes of the scientific de
teck-a-tiff.' 1t would not take :.
detective to see the answer"
Well" said DeKyne, a bit shame
1acedly. 81 have been playing detec.
tive. or trying to. I'm not ie.Ion.
Harvey. You know Martha Sted'
way and had an understandings
oVer a year ago. There's no hope
ior me there. But I don't believe
Martha is going to be happy with
warren Brown. Instinctiveiy sus-
peet the fellow. Martha's father
reels the same way about II. A
couple Of days ago he told me as
much, and asked me to. find out
what 1 could about him."
And what did you find? asked
Hunt.
Nothing" replied DeKyne,
Brown, of course belongs to the
club. He's q good mixer. a good
talker; but he never talks about
himself. None of the fellows know
anything about his source of in
come. Somebody asked him once
and got insulted for his pains. But
there's something funny about 1t.
certainly Brown doesn't want her
for herself. She's not the kind that
appeals to his stripe.
He doesn't want her for social
position. He seems to have estap-
iished himself socially to the
queens taste. 1t must be her
money. Yet he seems to have plenty
himself, 1 fnd no evidence that he
Is In debt. He has his account at
DADS bank. 1t never drops below
S2,7oo, though he spends several
times that in q year. Makes all Of
his deposits in cash. Funny thing.
they're mostly in small coins.
Your mention of useless and ir-
relevant observations only makes
one thing stick up more strongly
In my mind than ever before, yet
Tor the life Of me i can't see that it
has the slightest Importance,
Browns troubled with some sort Of
rheumatism in his right leg. I've
often noticed him when he comes
into the club in the early evening.
Gives him a decided limp, and APP
parentiy a good bit of pain. The
queer part about II Is that 1t always
disappears as the evening wears
on. 1t must be a daytime affliction.
Tor don't know where the fellow
can spend his days Unless in bed.
I've never seen him about town in
the daytime, and / can't find any
BODY he knows who has.
IT you can ft those irrelevancies
together into any theory that will
mold water you're q smarter man
than think you are, Harvey"
Thanks for the compliment.
Bob" said Hunt drily. "Yes, L can
weave q theory out Of those facts.
30 could you. except that you're
making the, mistake Of regarding
them a. Irrelevant when they're
The Washington herald., 1921-03-26
|Nsxh$Ik : s! eitypa !, payBsyP|dy Es1 P|day;

NEW YORK. March 25.-There ID
possibility that writers OF red
biooded fiction will emulate the &C.
tors and go 5son strike. Everyone
said the actors wouldn't strike
They, were too artistic. but they did.
and the Authors, League is just
now bursting with the spirit Of re-
volt.
Ii is all about the moving picture
rights to their stories. Mr. Hearst
they claim, who owns a very inn
portant string of masssiaes. makes
the purchase Of fiction contingent
upon the moving picture rights.
Mr.. Hearst replies with withering
scorn that he does nothing of the
sort and 30 the verbal battle wages.
He further intimates that writers
may sell their wares wherever they
please and there are rumors that
many top-notchers will no longer
appear under the Hearst banner.
The authors say that Mr.. Hearst
pays them certain price for the
movie rights and then sells them
at q price sometimes double that
paid for the original story.
There are two sides,- of course. to
every quarrel. For some time
writer's have been insisting that
some magazine editors seorn any
short story that cannot be made
into profitable movie play. and
he 20
in time that authors, who must
able to sell stories capable Of that
characterization.
But there is another question
Are the writers sure that. IL they
succeed in keeping control OF the
movie rights and profits. American
literature will not suffer quite as
much at their hands as at those OF
the ravening editors?
There Is no denying that the
movie influence in literature has
been overwhelming. for good or for
evil. ! know q man who sold q
serial to a popular magazine for
$4,000. He really wrote II with
| the movie rights in view and he
did later sell those rights for $685..
600 and a percentage of the gross
receipts which brought his total ur
to $4,000.
Writers, OF course, should view
| compulsion with lofty indifference
! And yet writers must eat. Cvoice
Who said soD And II will be dim
| cult for all of them to resist the
temptation to seek the larger gain
In short SO long as the movie in.
ducement Is so great the great ma.
jority will write with the movi,
| rights in view.
The mention Of a rather Sour.
dispositioned" anonymous letter re.
| Gently has brought such a flood oi
complimentary letters from friendl,
readers that I feer impelled to stat,
that l do not deserve the half oi
them - but I'm grateful just tn,
| same. Ana particularly to my
anonymous friend.
IL The song publishing business 4,
as exciting as q rush to Klondyke
There are now men in Tin Pan Al
4 ley known as song explorers,
who upon hearing of a new tun,
in any part of the world make &
quick dash to get the American
rights hrst. Broadway always hai
its ear to the rail for q new song
The Washington herald., 1921-03-26

Jerry vanner, confidence man,
had threatened to kidnap the s.
xear-old son of the Wander
xrift-skelks, unless $4,000 was
Maid to him. Upon receiving
this notification the father i'm
medfateIy phoned Harvey Hunt
and told him of the threat.
Hunt did net walt for the
father to complete the phone
eual, but Immediately drove
with all speed to the family
apartment on Riverside Drive.
Once there. Hunt learned from
the telephone operator the
name Of the latest tenant to
take q suite there. When he
entered the room Of this tenant,
he found 1t was vanner, who
had made the threat. How did
Hunt know he would And VAN
ner I'm the same apartment
house with the vandergrift-
skeIkss His reasoning appears
below.
In the case of by Telephone
Harvey Hunt had these facts te
60 on:
He knew from Jerry vanner's
criminal record that (1) he always
worked alone; I'D he was very
careful in planning the details OF
his schemes; (3) he was most sue
cessful in avoiding recognition. and
went almost wherever he chose.
Hence he argued that vanner's
warning to the Vandergrift-Skelks
not to communicate with the police
as every person leaving their apart
ment would be followed, was but q
ruse to make them limit themselves
to some mode of communication
other than that of making q per-
sonal call at police headquarters OF
a detective agency. or even going
out to post a letter, in case they did
not "falr' for his ransom demand.
svanner was playing 1t as safe a,
he could. II they were not scared
into paying the money at once ht
intended to skip and leave no trail
behind him..
There's only one means by v6iet
a person normally can communicate
with those outside his house with.
out himself going out-the tele.
phone. vanner. must have wanted
them to use the telephone in the
event that they did resist his de.
mand. Why? That, he might be
warned i It followed then that hs
had tapped. their wire. The only
place he could do this was some
The Washington herald., 1921-03-26
The Bookshelf.

II you like to read good stories
about Indian life on the plains.
then when Buffalo RAN" by
George Bird Grinnell. will prob
ably appeal tosyou. 1t is the story
of a young Indian boy and his
thrilling adventures with a band
of enemy Indians who raid his
home. about a buffalo hunt In
which his whole village takes
part. and all sorts of interesting
things about the life of the Red
Men. The book is suggested Tor
your reading by the American
Library Association.
The Washington herald., 1921-03-26
Easter Hats

The latest shapes arc a
. trifle smaller and slightly
more curled in. brim; broad
ribbon bands.
New Tans in variations are
proving very popular.
Our own special makes, $6,
81 and s..
Stetson Soft Hats, So and
SIo.
Stetson Derbies. SIo.
Our own special makes of
Derbies, IS and 81.
Silk Hats in new blocks,
Sra.
The Washington herald., 1921-03-26
Easter CrdUdts

The new Ties are exceed
ingly attractive and the color
combinations are new and
perfectly blended. The as
sortmcnts are varied enough
TO meet the requirements of
the most discriminating. Plain
oolors, figures and stripes.
IL, SI.so, $a, s7.so and So.
Knitted Ties of the highest
grade silks, plain 'and fancy
weaves, solid colors and COM
binations. sa.so and So.
The Washington herald., 1921-03-26
Easter Canes

For the man who wears a
frock coat to church Easter
Sunday morning. or goes call
ing, or for the Easter prone
made in the afternoon, the
Cane is as essential as the
silk topper.
Plain and silver-trimmed
light and dark woods. with
handles of several different
designs; some with noiseless
ferrules. $7 to $Io.
The Washington herald., 1921-03-26
Easter
.Handkerchie6

New silk ones that are very
} attractive, and lend the
needed touch of color.
White japanese Silk: with
colored borders. 75e, u and
$f.so.
Natural Color All-Silk
.Ponsees. contrasting eolored
borders in stripes and figures,
81 each.
Pure Linen Handkerchiefs,
plain white or colored cen
tiers, with eolored borders;
hemstitched. $I.sS each.