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Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1923-02-17
THIRD COTILLION DANCE.

The third Cotillion dance will be
given in the City Hall, Tuesday night
February 20. This promises to be an
other enjoyable affair with. excellent
music furnished by "a popular orches-
ira, A number Of cards will be sent
out Of town.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-12-01
Alcoholic Prosecutions

CCORDING to figures just published,
~ American druggists are not being en-
riched by prohibition and the Ameri-
can people are not consuming enough drug
store whisky to arouse. undue excitement in
the camp of either the drys or of the vets.
The figures say that 100000 prescrip-
lions for alcohol we're hlled last year by
American druggists.
Taken in one batch, that seems like lot
of whisky and a good many consumers, aver
aging the prescriptions literally at one pint
per prescription.
But there are 110,0O0,OOO persons resi-
dent in the United States. Even if occa-
sional druggist or prescription clerk waived
the formality of a prescription in selling
some sufferer pint of Government flicker
the figures, by and large, reveal the dis
pensation of only one pint of alcohol annual
ly to every ten persons in the United States.
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A BIBLE THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY,

Offers heights and differs measures, both
of them are alike abomination to the Lord.
Epen child is known by his doings,
whether his work be pure and whether it
be right. The hearing ear and the seeing
eye, the Lord hath made even both of
them. Lore not sleep, lest thou come to
poverty; open thine eyes and thou shalt
be satisfied with bread. 'It is naught,
it is naught," saith the buyer; but when he
is gone his nay, then he boaSteth There is
gold, and multitude of rubies; but the lips
of knowledge are precious jewel. He that
loveth pleasure shall be poor man; he
that lopeth wine and oil shall not be- rich.
He that foIoweth after righteousness and
mercy findeth life, righteousness and hon
onr.-From Proverbs.
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Q. Is il true that the United States con.
sumes more opium than China? Il. j.. Nj.
A. Recent statistics show that the Unit
ed States consumes SO grains of opium per
capita in comparison with India 27 grains
France, f. England, g. Germany, 2; China,
3 and Italy, /.
Q. Does Irwin s. Cobb, the writer, belong
to any secret fraterDal organization? II.
j. V.
A. Who's Who in America lists the fol
lowing organizations and clubs with which
Mr.. Cobb is affiliated: Society of Friendly
Sons of st. Patrick (New York;; National
Sons of Confederate Veterans. Southern So
ciety of New York, the Kentuckians the
Lambs, Green Room, Dutch Treat Sleepy,
Hollow, Lotos New York;; Oglethorpe
tSavannah, Ca, Family (San Francisco).
.. Was the game of chess invented by a
man or woman? e. w. e.
A. There is no actual information on the
origin of chess. 1t is believed to have origi-
mated in India and its primitive form was
called 'Chaturanga." 1t is mentioned in Hin
du literature at least.
Q. Was Alexander Hamilton's killed
in duel? Q. p.
A. Philip Hamilton, the son of Alexan-
der Hamilton, fell on November %, 1901,
at the same place where three years later the
elder Hamilton met his death. Phillip Ham
ilton fought duel with George Eacker, fol-
lowing dispute over a political matter.
Q. Who said There never was a good
war bad peace?''-G. w. S.
A. This statement appears in letter
written by Benjamin Franklin to Josiah
Quincy on September II, 1878.
Q. Can you tell me the origin of the sur
name "Shirley?"
A. Shirley was originally a surname OF
old English extraction derived from COM
bnation OF shire or county, and lea" a
lovely plain. It's popularity as girls name
has been increased because it was the given
name of the heroine of a book which was
written by Charlotte Bronte, and which is
still popular 1t may, however, be used either
for boys or for girls
Q. How many wives did Brigham Young
have? J. f.. Mel.
A Brigham Young had 19 wives and 81
children.
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THE COUNTRY HOME
BY MRS. w. H. FELTON,

When the so-called merchant failed he also
disappeared. Only $4,000 worth of dry
goods were found in the abandoned store.
After months Of search, and at heavy ex-
pense, the goods had been removed s7om
Brooklyn to Bridgeport. Conn, and was
known as the Banner Shop. The store in
Brooklyn went early into bankruptcy, inside
Of two months in 1921. and certain creditors
filed accounts of more than $4,000 based
on the indictments obtained altar ta% goods
were thus discovered.
The writer says: every few individual
business firms can afford to chase down
tricks like these. When they do find them
all they can hope for is to get back their
property or even enough to defray the eX-
penses of the legal investigation, There
are bankruptcy experts to whom these crook
ed debtors fly In time of trouble.
When a bankrupt, after having issued
false financial statements, makes large pay
ments to relatives or fictitious claims, or con-
cealed "a large part OF his assets and gets
away with it, he spread the news along
among his acquaintance and tells them how
to get rich quick at the expense Of creditors,
1T is natural to employ the same lawyers to
get a settlement. 1t was charged that one
attorney in the case here mentioned had
been been habtually filing petitions in bank
ruptcy, the assignees being clerks in his own
office These bankruptcy rings are not en-
gaging in victimiZing bankrups, they are only
engaged in victimizing the bankrupt's cred
ltors, which they proceed to do, serving the
bankrupts themselves, and for which they are
paid accordingly.
The bankrupt cases which / was obliged
to investigate were brazen and vicious.
lost some rent, cotton bales, which belonged
to me, and the bankrupt had ginned twenty
seven bales of which no account was rem
dered and notice taken by tbs lawyers,
although the bankrupt went into bankruptcy
inside of forty days after he informed me
my rent cotton was safe at his house in the
country.
Those bales OF ginned cotton did not cut
any figure at all in the at the time of
trial, and | had my trouble for my pains and
did not get penny of the price of the cotton
owing to me. There was sufficient evidence
to show where the cotton was removed to-
but the great majority of the creditors said
there was no use in prosecuting the case,
they couldn't lay their hands on the stuff of
which they had been robbed"
In New York, these bankruptcy rings, COM
prising bankrupts and their attorneys, have
become notorious that the press is MOTTO
ing them. Hence l could read at my leisure
the extent and the success of those who go
into some sort of business only to rob the
people who have sold them stuff, expecting
to be paid for it and who never get it.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-12-01
BEAUTY AND PERSONALITY
BY H. Addington Bruce

II RNEST LINNENKAMP, Viennese artist,
n was hardly tactful in his use Of the
- descriptive term painted dolls" with
reference to majority of the women seen by
him during the first few hours of his first
visit to America. But every woman may
we'll ponder his statement of what in his
opinion constitutes beautiful womanhood:
Women whose souls peep out of their
eyes, and whose faces are eloquent of their
temperament"
Which, of course, is only another way of
saying that beauty and personality are close
allied. And it cannot be denied that, not in
America only but in every land, multitudes
of women are sadly lacking in personality,
with resultant i'll effects their appearance.
In earlier days there was ample reason for
this. 1t was almost inevitable conse-
quence of the unfavorable position of women
in the social organism.
Women were then held in the strangely
anomalous status of plaything and drudge.
They were not expected to do an. thinking
for themselves, outside the narrow range of
household affairs.
They were denied liberalizing, PERSONAL
ty-enlarging education. Current events and
political developments, albeit perhaps affect
ing the welfare of women, were supposed 10
be of interest to the sterner sex alone.
Women were handicapped and hampered
improper for them to take part in vitalizing,
energizng outdoor sports. Hence they were
to large extent deprived of means to de-
velop the vigor which is an important part
in personality growth.
But, as everybody knows things are diff
ferent' nowadays
Women have equality of educational op-
portunity, if they choose to grasp it. They
have equality of opportunity for recreation
in the open. And, having been granted the
franchise, it is as much their duty as their
opportunity to be interested in social and
governmental happenings
In other words, there is no longer reason
for them to resort to the paint-box in a des-
perate effort to compensate for the color
lessness which always marks those deficient
IN personality. They can be truly coIorful-
and far more pleasingly colorfuI-without
artificial aids of any sort.
IL they persist in using rouge and powder
to achieve psuedo-beauty that is distinctly
inferior to the beauty born of ardent feel
Ing, alert thinking, and hygienic living they
beyond question are more blameworthy than
In the past And they may rest assured
there will be an increasing number of Lin
nenkamps to stigmatize their folly
Beauty, real beauty always comes from
within, never from without. 1t is a product
and sign of a soul in fine activity Nav
the time soon arrive when all women will
act with awareness of this.
Copyright, 1929
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-12-01
H,teracu There and Here

ITERACY requirement for suffrage
has been adopted by New York State,
with striking results. Nearly two hun
dred thousand persons were called upon to
evidence their ability to read and write Eng
lish. ere they could be registered as voters
for this autumn's elections. 1t appears,
moreover, that the tests were in no wise per-
functory, but looked we'll to intelligent read
ing, 1egible writing and a good understand
ing of the subjects presented. The vast ma
jority of these cases were, OF course, among
the foreign-born. In the North the litter
aey problem centers upon immigrants, as in
the South upon colored folk. 1t is worth not
ing, too, that whereas Georgia has 32S,838
ilIitera4es, New York has 5,O22; and that
whereas Pennsylvania has 312,699, Louisiana
has $4,000. Let US add that New York is
heartily to be praised for her vigorous and
sympathetic effort to free her population,
and especially her electorate, from illiteracy.
What Georgia has accomplished to this
end may be inferred from the fact that her
percentage of white ilIteracy has been re-
duced from 27.4 in 1870 to 5.5 in 1920;
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Democrats and Ia. Reform

II TITLE minds and great parties go i'll
together. The petty tactics which the
Democrats in Congress have been coun-
seled in some quarters to adopt toward Sec
rotary Melons plea for tax reform would be
at once inexpedent and unpatriotic. The
struct the Secretarys program now because
in 1919 the Wilson policy of tax reform
was blocked by peeved and visonless Re
publicans. That is to say the party of prog
ress and construction should initiate tee
most puerile of reactionary examples!
So staunch an upholder of Democratic
clares: eff tax reform was good policy
four years ago, it is good policy now. If it
was worthy of Democratic support four years
ago, it is worthy of Democratic support now
Ii it was good policy for majority party,
1t does not cease to be good policy when
that party is in the minority. Both
party and country will benefit by tax re-
form. To oppose it under the leadership OF
the Snau6 OF BOISE PenrOSe TIT vas the late
Senator Penrose who led Republican opposi-
tion to the Wilson program) would be par
tisanship run mad"
This is the common sense and the common
duty of the issue. The details of the admin
istration's revision measure which is yet to
be worked out, may or may not be satisfac-
tory; the Democrats may well have ample
ground for urging amendments. But the
larger principle and purpose advanced by
Secretary Mellon, that Of reducing taxes on
earned incomes in the Interest of the rank
and file, are unassailably sound. To support
these, regardless of partisanship, will be
good Democracy: to oppose them would be
poor Americanism.
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He Kne1O Ho1O to FORGET

n newspaper men in Paris are telling a
nj good story ON Marshal Foch. The
Marshal, it seems, sometimes visits the
Academy of Science, where he meets old
acquaintance who have become famous as
scholars. Some days ago he dropped in
on one of the learned sessions when Pro-
lessor Bay was eiucidating a particularly
difficult problem. At the close of the ex-
PLANTATION, which consumed nearly an hour.
Foch rose and solemnly said, cit is most
interesting, but fear 1 may forget it; and
So Thereupon, in the midst of that most
distinguished company. he drew from his
pocket large handkerchief and in one cor
ner of it tied a sturdy knot.
Few of us would dare admit as doughtily
the lack of understanding or the want of in
terest which is responsible for so much of
our forgetfulness But without an ability to
drop many of the things that come cease
lessIy pouring into consciousness, we would
have no room, or no power, left for effective
thinking. Next to learning, there is nothing
so important as forgetting. Lethe is a no less
useful than poetic draught.
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THE ATLANTA TRI-wEEKLY JoUARAn

while her percentage of negro nliteracy has
been reduced, during the same period, from
921 to 29.I. This is rather a credible rec
ord. made as it was under peculiar burdens
and handicaps There were at least thirty
years when the impoverishing eEects OF the
War Between the States were still felt; and
there was the task OF building and maintain
ing schools for multitudes who paid virtual
~ no taxes.
Bat Georgia's iflite-acy problem, like that
ci tbs nation as wAoe, is not yet mastered.
There are still in the United States upwards OF
four million nine hundred thousand persons,
ten years OF age and older, who cannot read
the language in which the Declaration of In
dependence is written; while in this state
there are still upwards of three hundred and
twenty-etght thousand. BY ever means feas-
ible this unhappy condition. with its injus-
tice to the individual and it's menace to the
commonweal. should be combated. In
Georgia the chief need seems to be better
facilities for enforcing the compulsory school
attendance law, as we'll a strengthening OF
that statute itself, and redoubled endeavor
in teaching adults who were so unfortunate
as to miss their educational rights as chill
dren Persistent work upon these lines
should render the state virtually free of il
literacy by the next decennial census.
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QUIPS AND QUIDDITIES

Il hear your boy has entered college,
Hiram," said Jehiel.
YES" assented the other.
How is he doing?" asked the friend
The professors say his skull is too thick
to get anything through" answered the ia
Their.
"Um, ha.
But, of course, that makes him star in
football
There was rich uncle who wanted the
oaby named Violet, Aunt Pansy had money.
100 ana animated that she would not be
olSpleased to have namesake. Mother
wanted to name the child Lily
IL looked deadlock. But wise old grand
pa came forward with suggestion that prac-
tlcaIy accommodated everybody They
named the baby Blossom.
A Berkeley coed was asked py her English
instructor what she had been reading during
her summer vacation. After visible. des-
perate effort to awaken a recalcitrant mem
DRY, she said: "Why, ah, now, I've read a
me oook called Edgar Allan, by Poe
because-see here. Gray, l know why you
hate Nelson"
There ensued moment of silence
HE told you that?' The younger mans
face had slowly whitened; he spoke with dit
ficulty.
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PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS

Sucker creek is a great feeder for Easy
Street.-Detroit News
"The melancholy days" What Bunk?
When punkin pie is allus et and lots of
elders misunderstanding Times.
If he can do it with free conscience.
and you can't without feeling wicked.
heavens! How you hate him.-Birmingham
proposition to use artificial Christmas
trees seems all right when you reflect that
santa Claus usually wears that kind of
Whlskers.-Toronto Daily Star.
Funny old language: the sportsmen saw
conserve our wild life, and the reformers
say END 1t.-Little Rock Arkansas Democrat,
TOO much experience is enough A man
with wild son in college should get it at
wholesale rates.-Richmond Item
The June bride who would rather have
washing machine than a wrist watch for
Christmas ought to have both.-Columbus
Ohio State Journal. ....4.-......,.,-
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MUSINGS OF ABE MARTIN

Cashier Leslie Pine arose at TIL usual hour
this mornin, an after partakin' Of hearty
breakfast o. toast an eggs an Coffee he
kissed his wife an children goodby an
walked t. the bank with firm step. eff you
haint been hit with one o. tn new glass
rollin' pins you hain't seen nothin' yit,'' re-
marked LATE Bud, t'day.
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PREPARING FOR PRESIDENTIAL pRI-
MARTES
BY MRS.

( q EVERAL people with political aspirations
- are coming to Georgia to launch a
~ boom" before the called session Of the
general assembly.
Somebody with sufficient backbone should
PROFOUND a few questions and state a few
facts for the benefit of the voters and tax
payers.
First, what do you stand for, League OF
Nations or allowing the United States to
mind it's own business?' This is vital
question.
If the next president follows the Versailles
League of Nations this country will be
promptly led into another war, or several
other European wars.
Second, do you propose to wipe off the
slate and donate the eleven billions of cash
loaned to the allies by the Wilson admins
tration in 1917, 1918 and 1919, do you
expect the allies, who signed these notes, to
pay in good faith and thus settle for the
Liberty bonds that were sold on this prom
Use and paid for by the taxpayers of the
! United States? This does not include the
billions of money distributed charity by
the Red Cross, the Salvation Army and the
relief organizations of that era.
Lastly, do you propose to reduce taxation
by striking off the payrolls thousands of use
less employees who have been drawing enor-
nous pay since the war time?
If there is single citizen of Georgia who
is patriot enough to ask these three ques-
tioas be Is worthy Of marble monument!
THE TRICKS IN BANKRUPTCY
4 VERY Illuminating article appears in a
y late issue of the Dearborn Independent,
Henry FOrds paper, on the methods
used by attorneys in carrying fathering
of bankrupt cases. My experience with
bankrupts has been small, but I have been
thoroughly convinced that legislation is i'm
peratiVe to protect the creditors of the So
called bankrupts from swinders and their at
torneys in league with them to conceal goods
and defeat the honest purpose of the law.
1t is granted that misfortune can happen
to the best of people in business losses. But
the crowd I am after are those who prepare
for the bankrupt court in beginning their
business enterprises, which are planned to
end in fraudulent returns and concealed
goods and in robbng those they owe of what
is legally due them.
The above named newspaper gives the
story of certain men in New York who
hid the dry goods. unpaid for, conveyed the
same to places in Connecticut and Massachu-
sets, where they recommended business
The investigators found the dry goods
found the creditors, who identified them, and
the amount of merchandise amounted to
over one hundred thousand dollars.
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