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Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1923-01-20

are more productive in low, springy
soil. Thousands of acres in that sec
tion would be ideal for the crop, &C
yording to Government experts, il
drainage was regulated.
Those vitality interested in the farm
ing industry in this locality are de
termined to keep the matter alive UNI
til the project is completed. The Sails
bury Wicomico Chamber Of Com
merce, various organizations in the
county towns, and prominent farmer
and truckers being enlisted in mum
bers that would almost assure at once
successful remedy of the condition
when presented to the Government.
William A. Duvall, State grand pa
iron; Miss Anna Reviol, State grand
natron, and Mrs. William F. Boyd
assistant State secretary went to Den
ton last Friday night and instituted
Caroline Chapter of the Eastern Stat
with 80 members. The Chapter Of
Eastern Star of St. Michaels put on
the degree work. The following art
the officers for the ensuing year;
Worthy matron, Mrs. Eliza Haymak-
err; associate matron, Miss Anne Lew
is; worthy patron, M. X. Newman;
secretary, Mrs. M. X. Newman; treas.
uref. Mrs. J. Howard Pasterfield
After the business meeting refresh
ments were served.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1923-01-20
AGRICULTURE

Farmers by the thousands in the
Middle West and in the transmits.
sissippi region are in debt and dis
tress, in bankruptcy and poverty, and
with no prospect of an improvement
in their condition unless the prices of
agricultural products rise at least to
the cost of production or the Govern
|ment offers them the poor consolation
Of taking mortgages on their lands
for the loans that are needed to tide
them through another season Of seed
ing and harvest.
Such is the plight of the most vital
industry of the country. Only some
fortuity or some prompt and powerful
assistance from the Government not
by way of gifts, but through advances
of funds on the best of all security
can rescue these farmers from the
wretchedness which they are now en-
during. It may be that the Govern
ment's great resources will prove to
be ITO little for the relief of the ag-
r;cultural industry, but they ought to
be invoked, and that without delay.
There is no epidemic of bankruptcy
among the corporations, large and
small, engaged in operating ships on
the seas. Many of these corporations
are more prosperous than they have
been in years. They enjoy, in some
cases, a practical monopoly. Hardly
any other class Of business needs the
help Of the Government less than
these shipping companies.
And yet-President Harding called
a special session Of Congress to legis-
late bonuses into the Golfers of these
corporations, and makes no provision
at all, and only a vague promise, for
the consideration Of the farmers dire
necessities. There will be $75,000,000
year for the shipping trust-if the
President can arrange it so-and not
cent for the agricultural industry
upon the productiveness and pros
perity Of which the success Of every
other business and enterprise de-
ponds.
There were $500 words in Mr.. Hard
ing's address to the special session of
Congress. Only $50 words Of this adj
dress concern the helplessness and all
HIT h0nnIoSSneSS 0f the American
farmer. The rest Of the $500 words
are a plea for the bestowal of $780,
GOO, 900 Of Federal moneys on vigor-
GUS private interests and for the pro-
vision of a fund Of $125,OO0,000. from
which they may borrow at an inter-
est rate Of 2 per cent year while
the farmer pays 6 per cent on his
loans from the Federal Farm banks
and as high as 10 or IL per cent to
individual lenders.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1923-01-20
A Good Thing - Dom: Miss It.

Send your name and address plain
ly written together with cents (and
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coughs, colds, Group, bronchial, "fu"
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indigestion, gassy pains that crowd
the; heart, biliousness and constipa-
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every family for burns, scalds,
wounds, piles, and skin affections;
these valued family medicines for on
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Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1923-01-20
MEN YOU May MARRY
BY ETHEL r. PEYsER
Has a Man Like This Proposed
to You?

Has a Man Like This Proposed
to You?
Symptoms: Bully chap, good
heart, good looking, dark, well
set up, blue eyes and reliable
purse. Always notices every
scenic effect everywhere, thea
ire, your clothes, sunsets, girls
faces in carmine decked, always
rearranges your furniture and
ornaments. Always wears odd
colors, always a quaint little
hanky sticks out Of his breast
pocket, purple socks, green silk
shirt, Of crepe de chine, silken
collars, soft hats, and always
advises you to change the thitgs
you have for other things re-
CARELESS of your hard-earned
cash. He likes you because you
listen to his coloratura rawlings
and he thinks that he can make
a scene out Of you.
IN FACT
He may!
Prescription to His Bride:
Lear1e your colors so that yo'l,
too, can talk. Talking colora-
tura is in this case wiser than
singing 1000 trills.
Absorb This:
Il Takes Two to Combine Lies
Color Chart.
60 by Mcclure Newspaper Synaicate)
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1923-01-20

From $4,000, 900 to 100000 acres OF
waste land, which. at the best, can
now be regarded only as a liability
may be reclaimed and converted into
property equal to the present market
value within a comparatively short
time if the efforts Of the citizens OF
Wicomico and Worcester counties,
Maryland, and Sussex county, Della,
ware, receive recognition from the
United States Government.
About one-half Of the area, or some
$4,000 acres, is in such condition that
cultivation on large scale could be
carried on should proper drainage be
effected. The balance is in woodland,
tR larger portion of which could be
converted into highly remunerative
proportions as lumber.
The lowlands comprise the east side
CT Wicomico, the west and northwest
sections of Worcester and the lower
portion of Sussex county. These
should geographically drain their
waters into the Pocomoke river. Logs,
partially decayed and vegetation in
enormous quantities from the wood
land have been deposited into the up
Der section of the river, thus causing
the water from even a small rainfall
to ssback up" flooding the entire area
All this may be changed, it is be-
lieved, if an appropriation can be Sc
cured for the dredging Of the POGO
moke river, now navigable for bay
craft as far as Snow Hill, and the
head Of the stream cleared Of it's de-
posts of debris. The entire project
it is estimated, will cost less thar
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1923-01-20
STATE NEWS

Young women seem once more t.
be attracted to the teaching profess
sion. It has been only about two years
ago when our State normal school
buildings showed a scarcity OF occu-
PANTS. The war had drawn women in
to other channels of work. Now they
seem to be drifting back into the
school house. The following is clipped
from the Baltimore Sun, and shows a
very gratifying future in the matter
of keeping up the standard Of our
public schools:
Announcement has been made by
Albert S. Cook, State Superintendent
of Education, that the contract for
new dormitory for the State Normal
School at Towson will be given out
early in the spring.
When this dormitory, which will
cost $15O,OOO, is completed there will
be facilities for the admission, OF l42
additional students, and many who are
now compelled to live in Towson will
be able to obtain sleeping accommoda-
lions in the new, dormitory, Newall
Hall, the present dormitory building
is overcrowded. three or four girls
sharing each room, and portion OF
the Administration Building has been
reserved for dormitories.
The new building will be behind the
present structure, but it will be visible
from the road. The contract will be
awarded by the Board of Public
Works. There are at present, bO5 stu
dents attending the Normal
School, but Mr.. Cook said it is expect
ed the enrolment will reach 600 next
year. The new dormitory will be
named Richmond Hall, in honor OF
Miss Sarah Richmond, principal OF
the school when it was located in Bal
timore at Carrolton and Lafayette
avenues. There will be but two girls
to room.
Evening star., 1923-05-23
SOCIAL CONFERENCE
GOING To- TORONTO
Canadian City Selected for 1924
After Stiff Fight for
Honor

The National Conference Of Social
Work goes to Toronto. Canada. for its
next annual gathering.
Carrying its fight for the designa-
ton as q meeting place OF next years
session of the national conference of
social work to the floor of the con-
ference yesterday, the Canadian dele
CATION was able to command sufficient
support to amend the report of the
had reported in favor of Des Moines
Iowa.
Miss Julia Lathrop of Rockford, Ill,
formerly chief of the federal chill
dren's bureau, and recently selected
by the League of Women Voters as
one of the twelve most famous women
in the United States. championed the
cause Of Canada before the business
meeting of the conference. at which
Toronto was selected: She said that
the conference would receive much
help and inspiration from the meet
ing in Canada, which, she declared,
has led the world in its care of ex-
service men"
The argument that the psychologist
cal time had come for the conference
to meet outside of the United States
in order to foster an international
viewpoint in social work had great
weight with the delegates. The con-
ference has met only once before in
Canada, in 1897. at Toronto. BY a
curious coincidence Toronto was Sc
conference rejecting the report of
the committee on time and place.
Denver was also a contender for
1924, with Gov. William z. Sweet as
spokesman on the floor OF the con-
ference:
Evening star., 1923-05-23
SOCIAL WORK DESCRIBED
AS SPIRIT EXPRESSION
Has Not Claimed Credit for In
fuence on Opinions, DIR,
Taylor Says.

The social settlement movement is
the movement of spirit. DIR. Graham
Taylor of Chicago Commons told a
group meeting Of the National Confer
ence of Social Work, in the American
Red Cross Assembly Hall this morn
ing, at which DR.. John Lovejoy Eli
oft, president National Federation of
Settlements, New York, also spoke.
Robert A. Woods of Boston presided.
Because settlements have been so
much more the expression Of a social
spirit than an organization or in
stitution. they have neither attracted
nor claimed credit for influence upon
public opinion and policies" said DR..
Taylor. Far would we be from pre-
suming to claim parity of Importance
between our few, widely scattered
little settlement centers and the big
sweep of the social democratic tide
through all the channels of life and
labor upon which settlements have
been borne up and on. BY life and
act, they have exemplif1ed, expressed
and objectified the motive and hope
of democracy in a way that appeals
to the Sympathies, Imagination and
idealism not only of their own local
but farther af1eld. What
ever influence they have had. how
ever, has been sought. gained and
welded far more by standing in be-
tween classes, parties, races and
sects, than by identifying themselves
with any one of them. Settlements
have been justly regarded as stand
ing for the whole community, for
taking account Of the whole situa-
tion, and for promoting formative
policies and legislation rather than
merely remedial or reformatory
From this uniquely ad-
vantageous point of view and base
of operations. the settlement spirit
has contributed an eppreciable in
fiuence upon public sentiment and
action" .-'' at - 2 E... <;
Evening star., 1923-05-23
CANADIANS MEET HERE
TO SUPPORT SOCIAL WORK
Delegation Welcomed at Luncheon
by Counsellor of British
Embassy.

The Canadian delegation, with
representatives from Toronto, Mon
treal. Ottawa, Hamilton, Winnipeg
and Vancouver, met at luncheon at
the Chevy Chase Club yesterday to
discuss the question Of more active
participation of Canadian social
workers in the national conference
OF social work.
) The counsellor Of the British en-
bassy. Henry Getty Chiffon, well
coined the delegates in the name of
the ambassador, Sir Auckland Geddes,
who Is enroute to Europe F. N.
Stapleford Of Toronto presided. He
suggested the desirability OF a Joint
meeting Of nine Canadian national
social service agencies and a com
mtttee was appointed to try to effect
this.
Rev. Peter Bryce read a resolution.
which has been submitted to the ma
tional conference. asking that the name
be changed to the American Conference
of Social Work. Miss Foster of Ros-
ton, formerly a worker in Canada.
suggested that IL a Canadian Confer
ence were FORMED, II might meet BIZ
of Social Work.
Mrs. John McLennan, wife of the
senator from Nova Scotia, who was
born in the United States, made q
plea for closer contacts between the
two countries. Mrs. Sidney Small,
chairman of the Toronto Department
of health. and active in Big Sister
work in the city. was at the speakers
table.
One Canadian delegate who can
never be lost in any crowd was Rev.
Arthur ]. McRae of New Zealand.
who ts a student In Washington. Es.
'timates vary as ~. whether he Is
seven or eight feet31ti. -
Evening star., 1923-05-23
EMPHASIZES PLACE
OF SOCIAL ACTIVITY
Speakers Say Work Has Not Yet
Been Sold to the
Public.

William H Norton, secretary OF the
Detroit community fund, and G. NJ.
Bookman, executive secretary of the
community chest and council of social
agencies, Cincinnati, emphasized the
place of social work in the minds Of
the public and the need for more
thorough understanding of its func-
tions. before a group meeting today
of the National Conference Of Social
Work in Memorial Continental Hail.
Social work as community force
has not impressed itself upon the gen.
eral public" asserted Mr.. Bookman.
The whole program of social work.
before 1t can be sold to the pubic,
needs thoroughgoing testing in the
light of intelligent social experience
and restatement in words used by
the man on the street, a simple ex-
planation of it's ideals and practices
in the symbolism already in mems
minds for charity, benevolence. in
dividual sturdlness and the recrea-
tion of opportunity" said Mr.. Norton.
George ]. Hecht. editor Better
Times. and Rev. c. II. LIE Blond. su-
pervisor of Catholic charities, Cleve-
land, Ohio. also spoke. Mr.. Hecht,
who was the presiding officer, said
some contributors to charitable and
social agencies are mere check-sign-
ers" and declared social welfare or
ganizations should increase their ef-
forts to widen the publics under
standing of their work.
Social work needs faith by all the
people of the nation in its ideals and
in the practicability of its general
program of commiseration, recon-
struction and prevention" continued
Mr. Norton in his address. The first
task of social work is to write that
faith and belief into the tradition
OF America. We have made much
progress in that direction. but we
could make faster and more certain
progress if we could return to a SIM
pier language in describing ourselves
and our work.
Social workers should recognize
the fact that sentiment cannot alone
maintain public opinion" said Mr..
more tangible to build on. There
is nothing so tangible as results, and,
as the newer policy in social work
has been followed long enough to
show the first gratifying results, it
is the duty of social workers to
keep these results steadily before
the people, so that the wisdom Of
this policy may appeal to their COM
mon sense and develop favorable
public opinion. The policy of pre-
Sention is actually preventing and
this is clearing the way for con-
struction We now have facts and
figures and instances to prove the
efficacy of prevention, and we must
make use of them in forming a pub
lie opinion which will enable US to
enter more effectively upon the still
newer policy of construction"
Evening star., 1923-05-23
Schools Must Combat Bigotry,
Social Work Speakers Declare

Revision of the curriculum and
methods in schools generally so as
TO "inculcate a spirit of International
good will and appeaserent in op-
position to present tendencies to in
culcate a narrow, exclusive and
jealous nationalism, miscalled pa
triotism," was urged by DR.. John
Dewey. professor. of philosophy at
Columbia University, addressing the
evening session of the social work
conference in Memorial Continental
Hall last night.
Schools, he declared. should "foster
mutual respect among racial groups.
teach geography. history. literature
and the arts in such way that
each racial group shall learn 10 ad-
all others. SO that each group shall
feel that in becoming assimilate ted
to the spirit of American life, it has
something worth while and dis
tinctive to contribute"
Dangers at Present.
There are certain marked dan
gers at present" he continued. "One
of them is the growth of racial and
sectarian animosities, with the de-
the community to identify :Ameri-
caniZation' with conformity to the
standards and beliefs of their own
group. Along with growth of intol-
erance there is the disposition to re-
sort to force rather than persuasion
force In the form Of violence. but
force under the name of law. Such
things are important as symptoms
of underlying tendencies to strife
2nd division"
DR.. Rene Sand of Belgium, secre-
tary general Of the League of Red
Cross Societies, declared "interna-
tional good will is but a legitimate
and necessary expansion of patriot
ism" since sit is a guarantee. not
Referring to conditions in Europe,
DR.. Sand described general ten-
dency toward recovery" declaring,
II think one can safely say that
things will be kept going"
Results of War.
There are no more advocates of
war;" he adds. People have ceased
keep the nations physically and
morally fit has brought physical
and moral decadence in its train. II
everybody condemns war, how Is 1t
that war Is still possible What 1t
needed. is not simply the knowledge
also the recognition that it is in
principle just as good as ours.
THE school can foster peace by
permeating itself with the spirit Of
international sympathy and by al
lowing organizations like the Junior
Red Cross to inculcate in the children
the habit to act along the lines of in
ternational cooperation.
I'm order to start this work on
solid ground, the relation Of patriot
ism to international sympathy has
first to be made quite clear and to be
detached from any political move
ment.
Universities ought to be far more
internatio nal than they are now.
Evening star., 1923-05-23
VALUE OF SOCIAL
JOURNALS OUTLINED
Editors Tell of Publicity Need in
Work for Welfare of
People.

Social Interpretation through the
Scientific Journal will help social
workers to overcome difficulties and
objections. and to develop the newer
ideals and plans of r growing pro-
fession, according to Howard w.
Odum of Chapel Hill, n. c.. editor of
the journal of Social Forces. who
spoke at a group meeting of the Ma
tional Conference of Social Work in
the rose room, Hotel Washington, to-
day. The subject, Printers Ink and
Social Interpretation" also was the
theme ot addresses by Mrs. Honore
Willsie Morrow, former editor of the
Delineator. New York, and Carl Van
Doren. literary editor of the Century
Magazine, New York. Paul L. Kel-
logg of New York. editor of Survey,
presided.
Social work is now entering upon
new reaches and meeting new chal-
lenges," said Mr.. Odum. THE history
OF progress in public health and pub
lice education in government and in
economic and social programs indi-
Gates an important function of the
academic and scientific journal. The
presentation of scientific information
in each of these fields has been a
fortrunner of the desire for more
knowledge, the means and methods
for obtaining this knowledge, and the
plans and active programs for the
utilization of this knowledge for the
common good. To those who have
been sceptpical or prejudiced the
word of science has often proved con-
vincing where other evidence did not
avail. And in many spheres of polit-
ical, economic and social progress
the academic question has preceded
social action"
Morals are the concern of conserva-
tives. and thinking the concern Of radi-
calls" declared Mr.. Van Doren. The
most striking and effective books of
devoted to form of social work which
professional social workers rarely have
the opportunity to do he said
These books have thought relatively
little about social amelioration and
relatively much about challenges to
| the social order and how established.
They have had, IT is true, some desire
I rouse the popular conscience, but
they have desired even more to sting
the popular intelligence. Their attack
has been directed against stupidity,
against complacency. against the
mechaniZation and the Standardization
of life. Consequently. they seem toler-
ant of unorthodox behavior and intol-
Grant of orthodox thinking. Morals
after all. are the concern of conserva-
tives, and thinking the concern of radi-
Gals. If radicals are just now in the
ascendant in literary America, IL is be-
cause thinking is in the ascendant in
intellectual America.
Evening star., 1923-05-23

study. and above all widely expert
ment, with methods of release, prob
ably cooperative in nature, from the
non essential; work out the moral
or aptitudes. home industry and COM
munity interests; create, finally, the
public interest necessary to make this
subject an integral part of women's
Gator indicates that action will be
slow to begin In that field. I believe
that Is subject made to your hand"
Advice to social workers not to be
stampeded to despair by reported in
creases in divorce was given by Mr..
de SchweinitZ, who said that:
while divorce is a testimony to
human weakness, while In each in
dividual home Is represents tragedy.
it Is perhaps the price of change. the
sign of failure, 1t Is true. but of fail
ure to attain to a higher ideal of
longer content with an adequate life
together. They are setting them
selves Ioftier goal of human asso-
citation. goal that gives promise of
a happier future for the race"
Social work has the distinction of
covery to the family. It has looked
with fresh eyes upon an experience
older than history, and II has found
therein Significance and life.
out OF vast experience social work
has found new appreciation Of the
family. 1t sees IL as supremely the
place for the culture of the individ-
ual. 1t sees it meeting his needs as
no other institution of society can
meet them. 1t sees IT fulfilling the
fundamental desire of every human
being to possess and TO be possessed,
to be pre-eminently himself and to be
part and parcel of the life Of others;
to have an anchorage. no matter how
far he may depart from 1t; to be Sc
cure and yet to be free.
"Surpassing all these present re-
sponsibilities is the crisis in housing.
The physical standards of the home
are under such an attack as they
have not sustained for a generation.
Overcrowding. the doubling up and
tripling up Of families within the
same house, the reduction In the
number Of rooms, the continued in
crease in rentals are threatening to
nullify the accomplishment of thirty
years. The heaviest indemnity, the
indemnity that every nation is paying
because of the war. IS being paid
and quality of our dwelling places. 1t
is an issue that demands the re-
doubled attention and activity of So
cial york.
tivate the spirit of discovery in its
relation to every branch Of science
that approaches the home, reaching
out in particular to medicine. psychol-
ogy and economics.
"At the apex of the struggle for
better things stands social work. 1t
is the Interpreter of the longings of
people for a more wholesome social
order, for a sounder family life"