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Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1925-02-28
INTEREST KEEN in
GIRL SCOUT MOVEMENT
Group OF Pocomoke Girls Doing A
Work Which Merits Much
Praise

The Girl Scouts of Evergreen Troop
No. 1, held their last two regular
weekly meetings at the homes of Mis-
ses Julia Blaine and Amy Schoolield.
respectively.
The number in attendance and the
keen interest manifested in the be-
nevolent projects undertaken by the
organization testify to the fact that
enthusiasm among the members needs
no rekindling.
Under the guidance of it's captain,
Miss Margaret Wilson, and through
the assistance of local business men
who stamp their approval of the
Troops activities by substantial do
nations to its treasury, this group of
Pocomoke girls is doing work which
can be mentioned only in terms of
praise.
Unselfsh endeavor to Tighten bur-
dens,-"Do a good turn daily
spread the gospel of health, and radi-
ate the spirit of goodfellowship, char
acterizes the Girl Scout movement,
and no better illustration of this
splendid Characterization can be
found than that which recently trans
pired ir this community, when homes
of illness and misfortune claimed the
services of Evergreen Troop No. 1,
and it's ministrations carried comfort
and relief.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1925-02-28
George Washington Tea
For Junior Aid Society

Mrs. G. E. Powell gave George
Washington" tea at her home on
Laurel street, Thursday evening of
last week. The evening was devoted
to games and interesting contests and
the color scheme of red, white and
blue, carried out most effectively.
Favors were suggestive Of Washing
tons birthday.
Taken as a whole it was an unique
and enjoyable affair and unusually
well attended and the voluntary offer
ing, donated to the Junior Aid of the
Baptist Church, was one of the larg-
est yet received.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1925-02-28
COURT GIVES
NEGRO SLAYER
A LIFE TERM
Somerset County Negro Sent To
Penitentiary For Murder OF
Deputy Sheriff
VERDICT RETURNED
BY THREE JUDGES

Harry Merrill, 21-year-old Somer-
set County negro, indicted for Che
murder of Louis F. Dryden, deputy
sheriff and Jail warden at Princess
Anne, was found guilty of first degree
murder and sentenced to the Mary
land Penitentiary for life, the trial
taking place in Cambridge, Nd.
The verdict was returned by the
full bench of the First Judicial dis
trict, Judges John R. Pattison, Rob-
ert F. Duer and Joseph L. Bailey,
shortly after II o'clock Wednesday
morning.
During the course of the trial on
Wednesday, Gordon S. Tull, counsel
for the negro, appointed by the court,
stated that there would be no appeal
to the present proceedings.
The court verdict was rendered af-
ter several hours deliberation by the
judges. A verdict of first-degree MUIR
der was unanimously agreed upon, it
is said, but there appeared in the
consultations some objections to in
flicting capital punishment, with the
result that the prison term was decid-
ed upon. g.
Murder indictment against the ne
gro was brought last month by a
special Somerset county Grand Jury,
and upon petition of defense counsel
"a change of venue to Dorchester
county was granted. Jury trial was
waived and the hearings lasted for 8
hours.
According to evidence, warrant
for the arrest of Merrill had been IS
sued December 13, 1924, on COM
plant of Clarence Hicks, Merrill's
stepfather. The warrant was placed
in the hands of Dryden, who was 72
years old.
Accompanied by Orrie Carey, town
bailiff of Princess Anne, Dryden went
on the Wellington road in search of
the accused. They met Merrill on the
road.
The negro was carrying a shotgun.
In the encounter, Merrill, it was said,
seized Dryden's pistol, shot Dryden
through the heart and then shot
Carey.
Merrill claims the shooting was ac-
cidental.
Merrill was captured in swamp
December Is after search in which
several hundred men participated. He
was taken to the Salisbury Jail and
later to Baltimore city Jail, as it was
feared an attempt would be made to
do him harm.
Harry M. Dashiell, States Attor-
ney for Somerset county, and A. S.
Marine, States Attorney for Dor
chester county, represented the State.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1925-02-28
Enfertains AT Cards
In Honor OF Guest

Mrs. Allen d. Merrill entertained
al cards on Monday evening in honor
of Miss Polly Roadfur, of Philadel-
phia. Little cherry trees were given
as favors. Miss Roadfur and Mrs.
Gladding won the prizes. Those pres
Cnt were:
Mesdames Clinton Duncan, Marion
Duncan, Keener Eustler, Ray V.
Gladding,' Claude S. Davis, Charles
w. Crockett, Clarence Duncan, David
Wiltbank,. Misses Annie Merrill,
Zella Crockett, Rosa Duncan and Pol
ly Roadfur.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1925-02-28
Travelling Salesman, Well
Known In Pocomoke, Dies

Harry Moller, we'll known in this
vicinity as an agent for Baugh e.
Sons, Fertilizer manufacturers, died
suddenly in his office in Baltimore,
last Tuesday.
Mr.. Moller was in attendance at F.
NJ. Wilson's funeral, and his death
came as a great surprise to his friends
and acquaintance here who very much
regret his unexpected demise.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1925-02-28
New President And Vice
President OF Pocomoke
City Natl Bank Elected

Just before going to press it is
learned that at a special directors
meeting of the Pocomoke City Ma
tional Bank held Friday morning, E.
w. McMaster was elected president,
and Milton L. Veasey, vice-president.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1925-02-28

Mrs. r. H. Dryden, of Westover,
while visiting her daughter in Balti-
more, was taken suddenly i'll. Mrs.
Dryden is the mother of Mrs. A. E..
Mcdaniel of this city who is now in
Bait more caring for her.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1925-02-28

The Girl Scouts of Evergreen Troop
No. 1 Pocomoke City vii give a can
dy sale in the store of w. E. Hall &
Son, Market street, Saturday, Feb
ruary 28th.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1925-02-28

Miss Annie Merrill has been confn-
ed to her home on Laurel street by
reason OF illness.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-10-08
Candy
BY Hal Cochran

Let's stand behind the counter in
a little candy place. and wait upon
the trade that comes each day.
Wen see a heap of pleasure on each
little youngsters face, who comes
to let his pennies roll away.
A ragged little fellow stands ana
gazes round and round. Just what
he wants he's not quite sure he
knows. And then, a bit of some
thing new in candy things is found
He loudly shouts, "a penny's wortha
those"
A girl. with baby brother. tries
to satisfy the tot and sweetly says,
NOW pick out what you'd like. ;"
The brother picks a pound box,
though a nickle's all they've got
Now isn't that exactly like a tike?
a flock of little roughnecks come
a racing in the store. They stall,
and look. and wonder for a time.
And then they frankly tell you that
the thing they're looking for. is
what they'll get the most Of for a
dime.
The little folks will come and GO
They keep 1t up all day. And. now
and then an aged man will stop.
You'd think he'd want tobacco. and
you're shocked TO hear him say, 1
wanna buy a lemon lohypop."
Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-10-08

penallze mere membership in an organization
which advocates forbidden" doctrines
1t comes to the court from California Miss
Whitney was member Of the Oakland (Cal)
branch of the Socialist party in 1919, and
voted by ballot for delegates sent to the So
cialist national convention in Chicago in that
year. AT that convention, number of dele
gates were elected and formed the Communist
Labor Party of America
Later a convention was called in Oakland
to organize a branch of this, the Communist
Labor Party of California, and Miss Whitney
took part in the convention, as did other men,
bers of the Oakland Socialist branch, which
had not yet decided whether or not to affiliate
with the Communist group.
Miss Whitney submitted resolution to
the convention which outlined perfectly legal
program for the party. The convention re-
Jected this resolution and adopted instead a
declaration that "the ballot is worthless"
In spite of the fact that after this declara-
ton OF principle Miss Whitney never attended
another meeting of the Communist Labor
Party of California she was arrested soon
after and indicted on five counts. Eventually
she was convicted on one count, charged with
organizing and belonging to an organization
assembled to advocate, teach, aid and abet
criminal syndicalism
In appealing to the Supreme Court. her
defense argues that Miss Whitney s act III at
tending the Oakland convention cannot be pun
lshable by reason of a subsequent event
brought about against her will
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-10-08

patent and process. BY accident one
day Goodyear dropped upon a hot
stove some of the mixeture and
found, to his establishment, that the
heat did not melt it. He next
placed it in extreme cold, and it's
texture still remained unchanged.
Thus after years of patient expert
menting, the process Of vulcanizing
was accidentally discovered.
I have a pet monkey. Can you
give me some directions for nous
ing and feeding 1t?
Monkeys are natives of a warm
climate and can not endure low
temperature; therefore they should
be provided with heated quarters, at
least during cold weather. If the
animal is to be confined continually.
the cage should not be less than
four feet in each dimension. The
cage should be entirely tight with
only the front wired-thus prevent
ing draughts, which are fatal to
these animals. The following is pre-
scribed as a diet: Vegetables, raw
or cooked; boiled rice. ripe fruit
bananas, oranges, sweet apples; stale
bread, occasionally a bit of we'll
cooked chicken, fresh milk, to which
raw egg has been added. Water
should be provided at all times.
Is rubber a conductor Of cleo
tricity?
No. It Is a positive non-conductor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-10-08
Capper and Jardine
( G 1ENATOR ARTHUR CAPPER of Kansas
~ refuses to be cheerful.

G ENATOR ARTHUR CAPPER of Kansas
- refuses to be cheerful
Statistics of increased exports of agricul-
tural products are no balm to his troubled
mind He points to increasing agricultural
productive power in Europe, coupled with very
low wages, which, he says, will limit the mar
ket for products of American farms. Con-
WINGED that there will be shortage of custo
mers for our agricultural products, resulting in
lower prices, he occupies his mind in devisirg
ways by which the Government can avert the
impending disaster. His answer to the prob
lem, which he insists will arise seems to be an
indirect subsidy to American Agricultural in
terests through the creation of a Government
corporation to dispose of surplus products
While Senator Capper goes his way, de-
pressed by forebodings of dark days ahead,
his neighbor from N ,nhattan, Kansas, Secre-
tary Of Agriculture William Jardine, is the soul
OF Cheerfulness. He seems to rest comfortably
IN the faith that the farmers can take care of
themselves with little more than friendly sug-
gestion from the Government now and then
about cooperative marketing, diversified cron
planting, or some such relatively innocuous
procedure. In his hands, the office of Secre-
tary of Agriculture is benign and peaceful
post of Government.
In the two Republican neighbors from
Kansas just about the extremes of political
and economic philosophy are represented.
Senator Capper would have the Government
leader and an active participant in the agri
cultural industry. Secretary Jardine, as near
as can be determined, will follow program
of mild counsel, and the ancient doctrine of
"laissez faire." By watching how the tides
of political fortune favor these two Kansans.
one can conveniently follow the progress of
two almost Numerically opposed theories of
government.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-10-08

prisingly large percentage have
been made sound and whole, while
an even greater number have
shown improvement and their
cases are less hopeless than when
they entered the hospital.
These are the accomplishments Of
only its first year. Steadily year
after year the Riley Hospital will
continue to mend the broken, de-
formed bodies of suffering little
Hoosiers SO that they may take
their iightful places in society
become assets not liabilities TO
their generation.
From the hospital may come a
President Of the United States. or
a genius who will revolutionize hui
man thought, who otherwise might
go through life pleadingly extend
ing a tin cup to compassionate
passersby at a street corner.
The Riley Hospital has taken
large sums Of money from the
State and from individual Hoo
siers. Is It worth the cost? Ask
a child who has been there.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-10-08
KNOWLEDGE
OF THE BIBLE

@R. EDWARD r. BART
ID LETT Of De PAW Uni
versity told the Marion
County Sunday School Council of
Religious Education, Tuesday,
that answers to one-fourth of the
Bible questionnaires distributed
to classes in the university in
dicated the student were utterly
devoid Of biblical knowledge.
Answers revealed that some
students couldn't tell anything
about such biblical characters as
and Cornelius.
Other speakers have said the
same thing about the lamentable
ignorance Of the Bible exhibited by
young people. Average high school
students have l0-year-old's
knowledge of the Bible. quoth one.
Probably it is all true. But why
blame the young people?
In a previous generation many
homes contained little reading
matter besides a Bible and an al
manac. Family prayers and daily
Scripture reading were common.
Often children were required to
read the book through from COW
er to cover in daily stints. and had
a copy given them as a reward
for their perseverance.
In how many families today do
such customs survivor
The family altar today Il like.
ly to hold a radio set and the
the family circle is a balloon tire.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-10-08

TIN EMINENT English novelist
| q in a recent issue of a popular
magazine has an article en-
titled, "All My Troubles Have Come
From Women" 1t is a very lucid
explanation Of the evils which WON
en- work in the world.
Starting out in the days Of his
callow youth, he flunks in a college
examination because his mind was
so occupied with some woman with
whom he was having an affair.
Then gaily down the primrose path
he trips, enjoying all sorts of
amorous adventures, sordid, sensual.
vulgar. Until as years go on he
tires of wild oat sowing and marries
a good girl.
But how could that last when
marriage so takes away the indie
pendence of man and hampers the
style Of the genius? This poor thing
was smothered with domesticity and
his artistic career was on the verge
of ruin, so after some time Of OPP
preston he simply made that large
masculine gesture which is called
"obeying the urge for freedom" and
left his family willy nilly, for twelve
months. During this time, ne naive
ly tells IFS, he rebound women" and
his wild oat crop was a bumper.
Now, after forty, this apostle of
freedom who knows how wicked
women are, is divorced from his first
wife and married to the second edi-
ton of the "only woman whom he
ever loved" And he takes great
delight in giving the general public
his frank opinion of women. whom
ne calls Universal Vampires. He
mas been sorely hampered by all
those with whom he has come in
contact.
But the old lear, through this ex-
perience. modestiy admits that he
knows all about women-ne under
stands them from A to u. and after
the hectic days during which he OBJ
tanned copy for his books and found
out all about our sex, he is settling
down with his excellent wife and
we must infer that he intends TO
lead an exemplary life from this
time forth.
But we doubt 1t. Wild oat crops
are not so easily gotten rid of as
all that-they generally have to be
harvested, and any man who has
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-10-08
VALUATION
OF RAILROADS

~HE Interstate Commerce
Commission has completed
~ the valuation for rate max.
ing purposes Of the Anderson &
Lapel Railroad-an Indiana line.
The total OF this transportation
property is placed at S10S,9 as of
June 30, 1915.
Now that this vast undertaking
is completed life in Indiana will
doubtless be purer and sweeter.
Most Hoosiers haven't been able
to sleep o'nights worrying about
the valuation Of the Anderson &
Lapel Railroad.
For fifteen years the Interstate
Commerce Commission has been
engaged In railroad appraisal
work. Thus was the water TO
be squeezed out Of our predatory
transportation systems. Thus was
the public 20 be protected from
excessive rates. Rates were to be
based on the actual cash value Of
the roads.
1t was a beautiful dream.
Since the valuation work was
started the Government has spent
countless millions of dollars TO
cary on the work. 1t is no nearer
completion than dozen years
ago. About the only road for
which final figures are available
is the Anderson & Lapel line,
which operates a mile and one
half of main track.
And the valuation figures Of
that road-computed on the basis
of 19l6-are now out of date. They
are no more valuable to the rail-
road business of today than cunei-
form inscriptions on sunbaked
Babylonian bricks.
The practical good accomplished
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-10-08
THE RUSH
OF COLLEGE

10Th Indiana and Purdue
HI Universities have this year
LII the largest enrollments in
their history. According to the
figures of the registrars 6,46O
students are now attending these
two institutions.
All the other colleges, uni
versities and normal schools in the
State report similart gains. One
out Of every $50 persons in the
State is attending college. In other
States conditions are similar.
Throughout the country there is a
verltable rush to college.
There are three-fourths as many
students now enrolled in American
colleges as have graduated from
all the institutions of higher learn
ing in the country in the 300 years
since Harvard. the first American
college, opened its doors.
College graduates used to be
about as scarce as dinosaurs.
They were creatures read about.
but seldom seen browsing over
the local landscape. People in
many villages almost doubted the
existence Of a Bachelor Of Arts
they never saw one. Now strings
of collegiate degrees are becoming
as common as freight cars.
Instead Of being a vain hope and
wild dream with most youth now
going to college is a matter of
course. Everybody's doing It.
What does it all mean? Is it
thirst for education or desire to
loaf four pleasant years at dads
expense? Some thoughtful ed
ucators declare that only a small
fraction of those entering college
are likely to receive any in
tellectual stimulus from their
courses.
Certainly all graduates turned
out in the next few years can not
automatically live on their sheep
skins. or brilliantly adorn learned
profession. Some of them will
have TO be plain rank and file
hewers Of wood and drawers of
water. Their status will depend
on their inherent qualities, not on
their degrees.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-10-08
What's to Be Done?

y bread trust is with us. The penny or two
IA or three of profit on each loaf of bread
you buy will eventually reach the same pocket
that received the pennies from bread buyers IN
most other American cities. Converging
floods of pennies from all corners of the coun-
try into the Golfers of the General Baking Com
pany will mark the arrival of the day long pre-
&dicted by opponents Of Big Business.
J Twenty years ago bread trust was held
up as the ultimate of monopoly. Today 1t IS
here There is no mystery about it. By mer-
! ger and absorption the big baking companies
Shave been drifting into the hands Of one set
9of owners The General Baking Company will
4operate 157 bakeries and these are bakeries of
enormous size, really immense industrial
plants each capable of supplying the staff of
life to the population of large territory
What is to be done about it? Well, moth
I ing will be done about it Immediately, If the
established policy of the national Government
Ills followed The very fact of the new trust S
arrival would have been suppressed by the
Federal Trade Commission had not two minor
ty members defed the commissions rule and
announced the fact AS for the Department of
Justice, III mas UOI YET Udhcu OIlOloA NOSAANAN0
Of the existence of the aluminium trust, con-
trolled by the head of the United States Treas
Jury.
What can be done about it? Should this
new trust be busted and the companies form
ling it be forced to complete with one anotherY
Is there any agency of the Government suffi-
GENTLY clever, sufficiently powerful and suti-
o;o ~ Jo+o,1 cd RI
Probably not Mellon, if he ever makes sue
cess of prohibition enforcement, might be the
man to undertake it. He knows the ms and
outs of corporation practices and he might
have real incentive in this case, for the more
the baking business is monopolized the fewer
of his aluminium pans will he SELL
Seriously, it is yet to be shown that bust
ness men who do not wish to compete with
one another can be compelled to do So
What then? None will deny that having
the one most important element of life, aside
from ar, in the complete control of one group
of men is rot an encouraging situation from
the standpoint of national welfare.
The price of bread may show change
for the moment, at least. But it is in the power
Of this small group to make the price what it
pleases eventually. The men in the merger
already have taken large paper profits and
some cash profit out of the transaction. Only
the price Of bread can finally make their paper
profits good. Bread consumers will some day
have something to think about in this connec-
ton.
Another interested party is the farmer
who raises the raw material of which bread is
made. With one customer taking the place of
many, who will dictate the price Of wheat9
What is to be done? The country in general
and the Administration in particular is not in
stbusting mood. Has either the country
or the Government any other means in mind
for protecting our one hundred million bread
eaters?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-10-08
Novelist Will Never Know

spent the best part Of his life eat
ing the husks Of love seldom ac-
quires a taste for more wholesome
food
Going forth to find vampires, this
man miraculously found them. Fol
lowing after the lusts Of the flesh,
he tasted the bitter apples of dead
desire; pursuing the sexual, he
naturally met magdalens and gold
diggers.
And he now boasts handy that he
thoroughly understands women. But
II he does, can he explain what
quality of f1neness and love goes
into the composition Of that good
woman who is his present wife and
who is trying to make him happy
in spite of her knowledge Of his dark
brown past?
No, for that is the quality in
woman that no man is big enough
to understand.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-10-08
RILEY HOSPITAL
ANNIVERSARY

HE Riley Memorial Hospital
for children was one year
81 old Wednesday, the sew
enty-sixth anniversary of the birth
Of the beloved Hoosier poet whose
memory the institution perpetu-
ates. The occasion was observed
with appropriate exercises.
In the year that has passed since
it opened its doors, SIS patients
have been admitted to the hospital
SIS little children with twisted,
crippled, diseased bodies, facing
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-10-08

Family discussions are more like
ly to be about who shall have the
car for the evening than about the
Apostles. The burden of biblical
teaching is shifted entirely to the
Sunday School. where for an hour
a week the Bible, the collection
and the picnic are equally stressed.
The Sunday School does it's best
but laying the foundations of bib
lical knowledge is a home in
dustry.