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Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1924-08-23
BUSINESS POINTERS.

Buy your Hats at Callahan's.
WANTED-10O men at the Baptist
Church every Sunday morning.
=. H. B.. PILCHARD.
Your Picture would please your
friends and we are sure we can please
you, at HARRIS STUDIO,
FOR SALE-One building lot on
Market street. For information ap-
ply to GA Market st. 5-17-tf'
FOR SALE-.Soy Beans, $500 per
bushel. JOSEPH SIGRIST,
Je-14-tf. Greenhill, Md.
FOR SALE-Yaman & Erbe Filing
Cabinet. Good as new.
Iy-26-tf. j. FRANK VINCENT.
FOR SALE-One light wagon pole,
and one suit single harness.
Aug-16-3t. G., G. yonSICK.
Bring your eggs to US. We pay the
highest market cash price.
AMERICAN STORES CO.,
Pocomoke City, Md.
FOR SALE-14 barrels of Irish
Cobbler Seed for sale, also four mich
cows.
Jy-26-tf. JAMES S. CLOGG.
WANTED = Highest cash prices
paid for Poultry and Eggs at all
times. Phone 119. B. F. STURGIS,
corner Vine street and Clarke avenue.
NOTICE - Get your house moved
by the house mover, who has had Is
years experience in moving all size
buildings. G. 7. sGroton. Parksley, Va.
FOR RENT - Apartment, A large
rooms, bath and electric lights.
p. RODBELL,
Je-28-tf. 10 Oak st.
REQ BUS FOR. HIRE-suitable
for parties anywhere anytime. Rea-
sonable rates.
July-12-tf. w. F. CHERRIX.
FOR RENT-Second floor apart
>ment over my bicycle shop on Clarke
avenue. Possession. August 1.
Jy-12-tf. C. W. BUNTING.
GASOLINE and OIL-Tires, tubes,
and accessories. Second hand Ford
Touring car for sale.
E. G. SAVAGE.
Aug-2-tf. Foot of Market st.
FARM FOR RENT - About 120
acres. Three miles from Pocomoke
City. New house now being built.
Apply Josephine r. Polk or Market
Street American Store. A-19-tf.
CITY TAXI-Day and night SER.
vice to all parts Of the Peninsula.
Rates reasonable. Phone 285, POGO
moke City, Md.
E. X. HILLMAN.
SPECIAL KENYON CORD Tire
Sale 80 31s cords. Guaranteed,
$3.50. All other Tires reduced pro-
portionately. Come and see and be
convinced.
J. E. VESSELS,
Aug-2-4t. Distributor.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1924-08-23
WORCESTER DEMOCRAT, PoCOMOKE CITY, MARYLAND

Mr.. Willard Bicking spent last week
end in this city
Mr.. Robert Sturgis entertained a
number of his friends on straw. ride
to Public Landing on Monday last. T.
Mr. Frank w. Byrd left on Monday
for business trip to Baltimore.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1924-08-23
HEM STITCHING
1Oc PER YARD

Accordion, Box and Knife Pleating
a ButtOnhOles- Covered
All Kinds
MRS. JOHN Il. BLADES
215 Walnut st. POcOmOke City, Md.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1924-08-23
For Sale or Exchange

Two pair of nice mules, years old;
and one good mare, years old, will
weigh HOO pounds. All broke. Work
anywhere.
Aug-16-3t. c. E. TOWNSEND.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-09-16
About "Skeeters. p"

Dawson has been remarkably free of mos
qutoes this summer, but other communities
have not been so fortunate. "Skeeters," &C
cording to local newspapers, are on the job
in many places. They are accomplishing their
destiny of taking the joy out of life.
The mosquito is pest Often he becomes
plague. He easily is the most detested of
preying insect life. There are insects that are
more annoying and hateful. Some species of
ants actually will consume the living body
of an animal, even man, if it be put in their
power by accident or illness. The tsetse fly
Of Africa will kill with its bite but it is not
numerous, and it is more or less confined to
localities. But the "skeeter" is a tiny image
of unadulterated sin that hits with the force
OF an army when he makes a mass attack.
Just one blessing can be found in connec-
ton with "skeeters," and that is the fact that
they are of small size. Yet, what they lack
in size they make up in numbers. The sci
entihc skill that could eliminate them forever
from the haunts of men would be rewarded
with towering monument of gratitude.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-09-16
Mr.. Lands Victory.

One result of the recent state primary that
is especially pleasing to the people of Daw-
son is the nomination of Mr. Fort E. Land
for superintendent of education. Mr.. Land
was a resident of Dawson several years as
superintendent of schools, and has many
friends here. Besides being splendidly equipp-
ed by education and training for the import
ant duties to which he has been called by
his fellow citizens Mr. Land is a gentleman
of pleasing personality and large share of
good common sense.
The News predicts that his administration
will be one of the most successful ever known
in the Office to which he has been so over
whelmingly elected, and that the educational
interests of the state will move forward in
an exceptional degree
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-09-16
Meet This Opportunity.
from the Sandersville Progress.

Three of the banks of Terrell county pub
Gshed a page advertisement III The Dawson
News last week
1t was not plea for the payment OF debts,
or The solicitation of deposits but was SIM
olv matter Of advice as to the existing con-
ditions a statement OF facts about the short
corn crop in the western corn belt with the
EDMONTON to 90 out and meet this oppor-
tunitv. They advise the purchase OF Iennes-
see sows and the raising OF pigs tor next
years market, and pledge the aid OF the
banks to their customers who have suthcient
iced for taking care OF the hogs that are TO
be produced. Some OF the points brought out
should receive the careful consideration OF
the people of Washington county, as follows:
The government agricultural and live stock
reports and the daily newspaper market re-
ports are bringing a message to the SOUTH
and particularly to South Georgia that has
great significance.
They tell us
short corn crop in the corn belt
Western farmers rushing hogs and cattle
to market
A reduction in the number OF pigs.
Selling brood Sows at a sacr1hce.
The last government report estimates that
the corn crop will be 531 100000 bushels
smaller than last year.
1t means shortage of hogs next season.
shortage of hogs means higher prices.
We believe it would be a paying invest
ment for farmers who have the feed to buy
these sows and feeder pigs
The banks of the county will furnish the
money to their customers who have the feed,
to buy these hogs.
1t looks like an unusual opportunity when
the west is short of feed and selling hogs at
sacrifice, for the south, with increased feed
crops, to buy feeders and breeders and get
ready for the higher prices.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-09-16
Partner With Christ.
From the Savannah Press.

Andrew P. Rives somewhat eccentric
but altogether resident OF Southwest Georgia.
has given notice to the world that he con-
sders himself a democratic nominee tor or
binary OF Randolph county and that he pro-
poses to enter the race for election in No
yember Mr.. Rives does not base his claim
to the office upon such small detail as hav-
ing received majority of the votes cast but
he contends that he is the only candidate IN
the primary, held in March, who fully COM
Piled with the requirements as to certificates
of expenditures and things of that character
in the campaign, as required by the rule
With that we have nothing to do. That's a
matter for the homefol<s to determine, but
we have been struck by Mr.. Rives' political
with Christ in his political affairs, as he says
he has been in his business dealing. We quote
his announcement in part:
The Christ (who, as my senior partner
for nearly forty-four years OF service as
agent of the Central of Georgia Railway
Company, so guided me that no passenger
to whom | ever sold a ticket was ever
injured, no baggage ever checked by me
but what reached its destination, and no
freight for which | ever signed bill OF
lading was ever losD will be my senior
partner in the office OF ordinary, and by
His help as guardian of every child in
Randolph county, | shall make the high
ways and streets of Randolph county
safe for the children OF the county.
l shall not canvass for vOteS-ny SEN
or partner will direct the campaign
and my only request is that every Chris
tan in Randolph county, of every name,
race and order, or who has not joined
their humanity with any sect may, from
now until the polls close in November,
unite with me in prayer that every Of
flee, from constable to president, may
be filled with a daily follower of the
Christ.
We submit that this is an unique political
creed, and Mr. Rves deserves some consid-
Grafton for originality if for no other cause.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-09-16
Eliminate the Revolver.

Magistrate Frederick B. House, OF New
York, who has come in close contact with
crimes of violence for a number OF years De
1ieves that the best way to cut down murder
is to forbid by law the manufacture and
sale Of revolvers. He has urged the passage
of laws that will make such manufacture and
sale felonies His point is that II no Such
weapons are manufactured they cannot be
utilized by criminals
To prohibit the manufacture OF revolvers
and to put an embargo on them beng shipped
from other countries no doubt would cut
down murder in the United States. There
are hundreds OF thousands Of such firearms
in this country now, but the sales OF new
ones are OF such astonishing volume as to
SUGGEST that the time will come when prac-
ticaIlv every citizen will be a potential killer.
A law that would prohibit their manufacture
would not stop murder here. law to COLI
fscate all the revolvers now IN possession OF
criminals and householders, if enforced until
every one-hand gun in the United States
was in the hands Of the authorities, would
not stop murder Murderers would find other
weapons with which to kill But such law
as Magistrate House urges would check muir
der in way that would justify the legisla-
ton. The revolver is the most convenient
weapon the criminal can employ. Manufact-
urers ask no questions as to ultimate owner
ship. What they are interested in is the
sales The gunman's money is just as desir-
able as that of the honest householder who
arms for one purpose, to protect himself, his
property and his dependents Another thing
that is done with deadly suggestion is the
manufacture and sale Of silencers for the re
volvers This makes it possible to kill with
out noise The silencer helps to keep the Sc
cret until the killer can leave the premises.
Magistrate House is on the right line, and
while there is strong sentiment in favor of
legislation that will protect crime it seems
difficult to put it through. After all, bust
ness, even that of making weapons with
which to kill innocent men, women and chill
dren, finds a way to protect itself The re-
volver ought to be Iegislated out of exist
ence 1t was a sad day for humanity when
If was invented
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-09-16
RUDE RURAL RHYMES
PRUNING.

This bard and Hannah own lot, very
pretty, slightly spot. A park near by, wood
ed space was once a most attractive place.
The shades beneath were cool and dim, for
trees were thick with leaf and limb, their
contours rich with swells and dips, like girls
with rounded breasts and hips. The shrubs
beneath did graceful duty to supplement the
loftier beauty There Nature, neither forced
nor sheared, had made a scene to nymphs
endeared, until the neighbors interferred.
They said My gosh this isn't proper. Wen
have to prune er trim er lop 'er; she'll take
the place if we don't stop er." The city sent
up Bill and Ben, pair OF honest, earnest
men. Since all they knew was cut and slash
they waded in to earn their hash. They cut
all limbs that they could reach till locust,
maple, elm and beech, no longer dropping
like they ulster, are leggy like a Shanghai
rooster. Though Nature in three years or
four the scene may partially restore, it's
CHASTITY while the wounds are recent with all
the naked trunks indecent Things much like
this have taken place within the well-known
human race. So all our parents and our
preachers, our legislators and our teachers
should study e'er they seek to boon US, and
learn their jobs before they prune us.
bob ADAMS.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-09-16
Cheating Father Time.
From the Milwaukee Sentinel.

Camille Flammaron, the French astrono-
mer, regrets that he was born on this planet
instead on Mars. The Martians, he thinks, are
a much happier lot than we, being more in
telligent Besides the flight OF time has no
terrors for them.
Years in Mars are twice as long as ours"
he says, "and an nhabitant there is only fifty
wears old when we are ninety-four"
The march Of time, it may be objected, is
probably the same everywhere, whether its
rate of progress is computed in terms OF an
earthly year or a Marian year. Fifty years
on Mars may be equivalent to one hundred
years here so far as the deteriorating effect
on the human frame is concerned.
Ii Father Time can be cheated as easily as
NJ. Flammarion thinks, then perhaps all we
will have to do is to reform the calendar and
lengthen our years" We might measure the
lapse OF time by Olympiads, like the ancient
Greeks, or by presidential elections. By this
system OF counting the civil war veteran who
cast his first vote for Lincoln will be surprised
to discover that he is still young man, bare
ly old enough to run for United States sem
atOr.
NJ. Flammarion's idea suggests suspicion
that the Martians are the original daylight
savers.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-09-16
Gun Prohibition.
From the Dearborn Independent.

1t is being suggested that the time is ripe
for some form of prohibition i'll the use OF
firearms except for the use OF the army and
navy and police forces. Certainly the gun has
become fak too handy a weapon in the outht
of habitual criminals, and there IS not the
slightest doubt that crime would decrease II
the teeth of the gunner were effectively
drawn.
The possession of a pistol renders arrant
towards for the moment bold There are
grounds for believing that were it not for the
advantage gained by the possession OF gun
the average ruffian would be afraid to show
himself in the light of day, or to make his
presence known within mile of an honest
man. This sinister advantage ought to be
eliminated. Human wolves ought to be rem
dered powerless.
There are laws against the carrying Of
firearms by civilians but these laws are so
easy to evade that they are standing Jest.
Gunner laugh at them, and children defy
them The officers of the law are among the
principal victims of this contempt. Were it
not for the army of gunner that prey and
slay in this country the police force could
be cut in half.
The only way to put an end to such a
thing is to check it at its course. Tab should
be kept of every revolver automatic that
is turned out of the factory. There ought to
be an Identification number on every weapon
by which it could be traced under any cir
cumstances All officials and responsible per-
sons should be called upon to render strict
account as to whom such firearms are hand
ed out or sold Traffic in secondhand weap-
ons should be made illegal for to this traffic
much of the evasion of the law can be traced.
Bootlegging in death-dealing instruments
must be blotted out if this country is to be
made safe for its citizens. Safety first has
a wide field here.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-09-16
They Say.

One of the most common expressions in
ordinary everyday conversation is they say.
1t is used to introduce a statement as au-
thority for quotations and as an abb for re-
sponsibility. Indeed, one has sometimes to
know the characteristics of the persons using
it to determine exactly how it is used The
fact is it is too frequently used very care
Jessly.
For this reason not much importance is at
tached to the expression by persons who lis
ten to the statement predicated on it, espe-
cially persons who want fact and not fiction
When they say" is merely introductory
the statement will generally be found largely
to consist of the idea of the person who in
PRODUCES it. When they say is given as au-
thorty it is then no authority at all because
it is so impersonal that they cannot be
found by the best detective in the secret
service.
"They say" is one of the most mischievous
and cowardly expressions employed, and
should be thrown into discard by all real
gentlemen and ladies'
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-09-16
Politics Doesn't Pay.

Governor Smith has announced as final his
decision not to run for governor Of New
York again. He has been importuned by
leading democrats OF the state and also of
the nation, the belief being that he would
add strength to the Davis-Bryan ticket i'll
New York. Governor Smith, a staunch sup
porter of Mr.. Davis, would be expected by
eastern democrats to aid him in carrying the
state in the national election. But Governor
Smith does not desire another term. He offer
ed as his reason that he simply had to get out
of politics and public Office in order to re-
trieve his fortunes. He will go into business
somewhere, he said, and try to earn compe-
tence before it is too late. So, after all, there
are politicians who do not make politics pay.
Governor Smith, OF New York, evidently is
one Of them.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-09-16
Riding the Candidates.
From the Anderson Is. c. Independent.

From the Anderson Is. c. Independent.
1T is very disgusting to see some news
papers take after the candidates. In the by
gone days OF golden journalism when news
papers were built upon principle and pledged
unequivocaly to public service and not to
money trapping, newspaper publisher would
have scorned the solicitor OF a political ad-
vertisement. Any person connected with a
newspapers in those days who would have
dared solicit cards on thanks from defeated
candidates would have been kicked out OF the
shop. And rightfully SO in those old days or
now, for the press ought not attempt to ride
the candidates, successful or defeated, and
such tactics are very unjust and uncalled for.
We suppose that this condition is just lit
tie forerunner of the day when some few
newspapers (thank God there will always
be some left in the hands of men who refuse
to fly the dollar on the mast) will send ad-
vertising solicitors to the homes OF the be-
reaved to ask if cards of thanks may be pub
lshed "at fifty cents apiece"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-09-16
The Boy on the Bicycle.

Everybody is jumping on the automobilist
these days as a highway menace. Why not
devote little attention to the bicyclst? A
boy on wheel is one of the lawless things
loose today. There is no regulation that he
observes, and he weaves his way up and
down the sidewalks, now and then cutting a
caper the purpose of which is to see how
narrowly he can miss striking a pedestrian
without regard to safety or law, There was
time when the policemen lay in wait to
capture some miscreant who rode his wheel
on a sidewalk, but that was in the days when
anything faster than a trot was high speed.
Now boys and errand runners are on the
sidewalks in the quiet residence streets.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-09-16
TIE WHISTLES TO BIRDS TAILS.

From Popular Science Monthly.
One of the queerest orchestras in the world
plays music up in the sky. The players are
members OF flock OF pigeons carrying vari-
Gus kinds OF light air whistles attached to
their tails by fine wires Flocks of the birds
flying through the air provide unique and
melodous aerial concert. The orginators Of
this unusual idea are the Chinese. The mus
ical instruments used are of two different
types-bamboo tubes and gourds with tubes
attached They are made to whistle by the
rapid passage OF the bird through the air.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-09-16
SHOULD REMEDY THIS.

From the LAGRANGE Graphic
Between thirty-nine and forty million
pounds of side meat were shipped into Geor-
ga last year. 1t would require nearly four
teen thousand more hogs, of one hundred and
fifty pounds each, in each of the one hun
bred and sixty counties in the state to bring
it up to self-sustaning basis. This hog rails
ing business is a hard problem to work out.
When our farmers have them to sell they say
the market is poor, but there is something
wrong when we fail by fourteen hundred
train loads to raise enough pig meat to do US.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-09-16

Despite the restrictive immigration law un-
der which only $751; 900 immigrants, theoreti-
cally, were to be received into the United
States during the fiscal year just ended, the
number OF immigrants actually admitted to
the country was 67O,587. This excess is due
to some extent to the fact that there are no
quota limitations for Canada, Mexico and
Central or South America At that The News
believes the immigration law has done great
ables.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-09-16

Malcomn McAdoo brother of William
c., has bolted the democratic party and joined
forces with the LaFollette movement, having
been made treasurer of the organization's
New York state committee. Mr.. McAdoo re
sents the statement that he left the demo-
Gratis because his brother did not get the nom
nation. but he has not said that he would not
have bolted if William G.. had been chosen
as the candidate Anyone is entitled to but
one guess as to what Malcolm McAdoo 5
alignment would have been in that case.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-09-16
Dose of His On Medicine.
From the Greensboro Herald Journal.

An editor and a merchant were discussing
the virtue OF billboard advertising. The mer-
chant contended that more people read the
billboard than the newspapers After lengthy
conversation i'll which neither man would
give in the men parted. The next week the
merchant came tearing down the street to
the newspaper office wanting to know why
the obituary OF his wife's mother was not in
the paper. especially after he had seen that
copy was taken to the newspaper Office.
Well" said the editor, Il know you wanted
the obituary read by the people so l took it
out and nailed it up on your billboard"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-09-16

"An inscription on monument in Alabama
reads; In profound appreciation OF the boil
weevil and what it has done as the herald OF
prosperity this monument is erected by the
citizens of Enterprise Coffee County, Ala
bama The weevil proved blessing in that
it taught the farmers the prosperity that fol-
lows crop rotation" says a news item That
sounds good, but agricultural section is
as prosperous as it was before infestation by
the boil weevl Diversihcaton is the wise
thing and has been the salvation of South
Georgia.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-09-16

The sweat OF labor is the irrigation Of
progress A calous on the hand means more
in human happiness than a kings ring La
Dor is as sacred as truth, for labor is truth
in action. 1t is our proof that we are men.
Labor is the outreachng of a man toward
his dreams To labor is to love and live.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-09-16

Some day plane will start out on trip
around the world, and it will receive but
scant mention. 1t will be the usual thing.
The goings and comings of airships will be
no more in our lives than the goings and
comings of our great ocean liners.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-09-16
TERRELL'S GOOD EXAMPLE.

From the Conyers Times
Farmers OF Terrell county show wisdom in
their purchases OF feeder pigs. Two carloads
Of these have been sold in Dawson within
the past two weeks. The purpose is to pre-
pare these pigs for market next spring. There
is a good suggestion in this for Rockdale
farmers.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-09-16

Thus far the campaign has been about as
exciting as the minutes of the last previous
meeting Oh, for the good old days when
we had torchlight professions and marching
clubs and rallies and when people would drive
many miles to hear a political address.