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Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1926-08-21

Miss Ethel V. Downs wearing
fiftieth anniversary button. (Photo
by Harris C Ewing)
the occasion. Speech was first trans
mitted by telephone March 10, 1875.
Fiftieth anniversary celebrations
were held in many cities throughout
the country. In the territory of the
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone
Company and associated companies,
meetings were held at Washington, and
Baltimore, and Richmond. Norfolk and
Roanoke, Va, and Charleston, Wheel.
ing. and Clarksburg, w. Va.
The significance of those memorial
gatherings lay in the fact that it was
the one event among many in which
every telephone man and woman in
the United States and Canada could
participate personally. 1t probably
marked the first occasion in the his
tory Of the Bell system, and perhaps
the only occasion in the lifetime Of
the present personnel, when each
member of the telephone group could
simultaneously register by a simple
and universal act his or her respect
for the profession and indicate faith
and pride in the future of the organ.
ization.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1926-08-21
IMPROVING THE SERVICE

The 1925 construction program of
the Long Lines Department, American
Telephone and Telegraph Company.
contemplates plant construction to
cost more than $2S,OOO,OO0. Plant
costing approximately $19,OO0,O00 was
constructed in 1925
The proposed expenditures for Plant
construction during 1926 are divided
among various projects about as fol.
lows: Aerial wire. including new pole
lines. $4,000 long distance cables
with associated pole lines. loading
coils. building and equipment. $11 .200.-
900: switchboards and other telephone
and telegraph equipment, $3.50, 900;
line work not included in the aerial
wire and cable projects. $3,S60,000.
The new facilities will provide for
increases in long distance telephone
trafic and will also make it possible
to furnish more dependable and faster
service,
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1926-08-21
CHAPTER ZIG.
AN ACT to amend the Constitution of Mary

AN ACT to amend the Constitution of Mary
land by adding new section to Article 4.
SECTION 1. Be It enacted by the General
ASsembly of Maryland, three fits Of all the
members of both Houses cOncurring, that
the following section be and the same is
hereby proposed as an amendment to the
Constitution of the State of Maryland and
II adopted b. the legal and qualified voters
thereof as hereinafter provided, the same
shall stand as an additional section to Ar
ticle Of said Constitution, to follow Sec
tion 81, and to be known as Section 31-A.
31-A In addition to the authority grant
cd to the Mayor and City Council Of Balti-
more by the preceding section to pay to
each Of the judges of the Supreme Bench
the annual sum Of Five Hundred Dollars,
authority is hereby given to said Mayor
and City Council to pay to each Of said
Judges such further annual sum as an
addition to their respective salaries as the
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore sail
from time to time deem right and proper,
provided, that any such sum being once
granted shall not be diminished during the
continuance Of said judges in office.
SEC. g And be 1t further enacted, by the
authority aforesaid, that the said foregoing
section hereby proposed as an amendment
to the Constitution shall be, at the next
general election for members of the General
Assembly to be held in this State, sub
mitted to the legal and qualified voters
thereof, for their adoption or rejection, in
pursuance of the directions contained in
Article IA Of the Constitution of this State
and at the said general election the vote
On said proposed amendment to the Con-
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1926-08-21
TELEPHONE NOW
FIFTY YEARS OLD

On March 1c telephone people
throughout the world in general and
the United States and Canada in par.
ticular, celebrated the fiftieth ami
versary of the birth of the telephone,
and in this way paid honor to Alex
ander Graham Bell. the inventor, and
Thomas A. Watson, his assistant, in
the early experimental work. Each
of the 100000 telephone employees in
America were furnished a blue button
on which appeared big white nu-
neral, "fiftv" to wear in honor of
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1926-08-21
PROCLAMATION
Proposing Constitution State 1925

stitution shall be by ballot and upon each
ballot there shall be written or printed the
words For the Constitutional Amendment"
ment, so that the voter may elect; and
Immediately after said election due return
shall be made to the Governor of the vote
or and against said proposed amendment,
as directed by the said 14th Article of the
Constitution
Approved, April 9, 1924
Now, Therefore, 1, Albert C. Richie, Gov
ernor Of the State of Maryland, in pursu-
ance OF the direction contained in Section
OF Article IA of the Constitution of Mary
land. do hereby order and direct that this
proclamation containing a full, true and
correct copy Of the text of said Chapter
Maryland Of 1924. be published In at least
two newspapers in each Of the counties OF
the State where so many may be published
ished then in that newspaper, and in three
newspapers published In the City Of Balti-
more one Of which shall be published in
least three months next preceding the gen.
eral election to be held in the State Of
M Mary1snd on Goas Tuesday the End day Of
men as ni 81 election eb the said
shall be submitted in form and manner
prescribed by the General Assembly, to the
.egaI and qualified voters Of the State for
their adoption or rejection.
Given under my hand
and the Great Seal Of
The the State Of Mary
Great Seal land. Done at the
City Of Annapolis,
OF this 18th day Of July,
Maryland in the year Nineteen
] Hundred and Twenty
six.
ALBERT c. RITCHIn
by the Governor:
DAVID C. wINEBRENNER. Sd.
Secretary OF State.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1926-08-21

WHEREAS, at the January Session Of
the General Assembly Of Maryland held in
the year 1924, an Act Was passed, tO-wit {:
Chapter 116 proposing an amendment to
the Constitution of Maryland, by adding
new section to Article 4, to follow section
81, and to be known as Section 31-A, grant
ing authority to the Mayor and City COun-
Of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore addi-
nonal salaries; in words and figures as
foil, VS.:
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sorts. There are, cheapest of all
little wooden markers on which you
write the names of the seeds and
plants in indelible ink. From this
simplest. cheapest kind YOU have
YOUR choice IN to special markers
that are covered with glass. and SO
are really very durable, very I'm
pervious tn weather.
And so II is with all the details of
your gardening, You can specialize
In any one of them and become an
authority on that particular thing.
You can spend hours and dollars,
Have Plan.
" YOU are starting a garden, make
out. first Of all. a plan Of procedure.
Really block out your garden, just
az Ia ndscape gardener would do.
You can find all sorts of interesting
books In the shops and at the
libraries To help YOU with this task.
Here is one charming garden |
know about. 1t was not an 'espe-
ciallN promising bit of land before II
was blocked out 1t is a stretch per
ha ps 80 feet wide and 100 long. bound
cd on one side by hedge and beyond
that y lovely tree shaded lawn of the
next door place. and on The other side
nv 2 cement drive and the house. At
one end Of the garden is the garage.
A. the other the sidewalk. Eut the
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garden is four or Ave feet above the
walk,
There IL a nice old elm toward the
front of the garden. The shadow of
the house gives too much shade to
parts Of II, hut toward the front there
is sunshine for many hours every
clear Summer DAY.
To begin with, the woman who
planned this garden had a pool due
1t is only three OF four feet wide
and is perhaps 20 feet long. IT
is lined with cement, painted black
ia give an appearance If depth It
is drained nv simply siphoninE the
water out into the street often enough
,o keen II fresh. and refilline win
the hose. Around the top of the pool
in stones that have heen placed IN
The cement rim. gro" All sorts ~
water.loving plants, both wild ana
tame. shrubs about the elm form a
screen that gives privacy +" several
rustic benches and chairs. and here
is always = shady spot for rest an"
play.
The bank above the street mas
been partlv held in with stone wall
but the upper part of II mas nee"
stoned hack and turned int" rockefN
where from earles, Spring !" Autumn
some rock loving plant gives r"'"'
And behind this roCkerH ~ Wi"e
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II Is considered tremendously smart
to garden.
The size and. location Of your gar
den" doesn't matter. You may I'VE IN
an apartment. and stay there all sum
mer. still YOU must garden. YOU
must have a window garden Of some
sort IL 1t IL no more than pot or
parsley and a jar IF grapefruit seems,
The one To give flavor 10 your SOUP
the other to give a. spot OF glossy
sreenery for the table.
Really. women have gone IN
'-s.pendously for gardening in the
last few wears. and the results Of some
Of the pioneers are now inspiring
host Of new gardeners. You have ~"
idea unless YOU have tried II now
much fun and benefit YOU can set
from, planning and working garden.
In the war. Of course. women went
in for vegetable gardening. No"
most women leave the supplying or
Neeeta hles to their family tables
either 10 the shop around the corner
~, down In the village. or else 10 the
man hired n do thai work as an
expert.
il ie flower gardening that has
charmed the woman NJ much and
little leisure.
Dress the Fart,
" ,ou haven't vet taken M ga,
deninc. there ave a few preltminartes
worth considering One Is your gar.
denine clothes. Truly. Nou will he
much more comfortable and much
more efficient If you dress for the
mart. You can wear gardening over
ais II YOU wish absolute comfort.
Or YOU may pull on smock over
an ordinary frock when YOU 60 into
the garden Sneakers are the best
shoes to wear, for heels OF any height
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Deriving Fun and Benefit
From Work in Home Garden

make disastrous marks In the SOFT
soil. a shady hat II you want to
protect the skin from sunbufn, and
pair of loose. heavy gardening gloves
either leather or cotton. and you are
ready.
Not a very formidable outlay. for
ALI these things come cheap. " you
have an average sized head YOU can
buy 1oppy. airy straw hat Tor
quarter Smocks may he cheaplN
made or else bought for couple or
dollars. Sneakers for dollar or so.
And as for the gloves, all the way
from 10 cents to 81 or 81 q pair. ~
all depends on the kind YOU want
You can Get cheap. loose cotton gloves
that protect the hands adequately
from over NthinG hut wafer, ana bhN
new ones from lime 10 time or YOU
can hnv pair of those heavy English
gardening gloves Of leather mat wear
for wears however marred they ne
come with mud and rose th"rns
I.ook Ia Your implements.
Then com. your implements And
hese are worth choosing carefully
You must have rakes and spades and
forks arG such heavy artillery for
preparing the ground for planting.
Quite likely YOU will have man q"
thai work fo, Won. Iut 70, ordinary
garden tending YOU must have al
sorrs IF odds and ends -troWels and
veoGers, wa erinc cans dtmnnutlVe
hoes kreelete - keen your frock ano
knees dry ana clean when YOU are
planting o. wedding. SCISSORS. seeo
markers stakes and strings. Tags tor
shrubs and bushes and baskets to hold
flowers and implements.
Won can raaUv waste delightfully."-
a Ia, Of lime over vow implements.
Inst markers. alone. There are All
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border where bulbs, then perennials
and then ANIMALS give glorious bloom
from April TO October
There are shade.loving plants border
ing a tagged path down the side Of
the pool, and at the back. against the
soft stucco background Of the garage.
there are hcllyhocks and peonies and
chrysanthemums.
Perhaps you won't want to make
such an elaborate plan for your gar
den. But consider we'll your plot of
land and then Law it out into an at
tractive. garden which IL will be pos
sibIe for you to keep M. There is
such q thing as planning sonnet hing
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LEOPOLD'S LETTER
. BEFORE PROBERS
Wrote Father "He Was Going
Away" Before Convlcts
4 Mace Their Escape.

H. W." Associated Press.
tCHICAGO. May l5.,The name Of
Nathan Leopold. IT.. Chicago thrill
slayer again has been drawn INTO the
Investigation Of the murder Of q state
vile prison official last week by seven
escaping ConViCts.
His alleged involvement is ha sed on
q note he scrubbed 10 his father on
the cover Of his cell bench. Leopold,
who Is serving a life sentence for the
Murder Of Bohbie Franks. WAS in
sclitar, confinement near the deputy
warden : Office when the official va
slain.
THE importance Of the newly dis
covered MESA sc. Investigators init
mated, hinges upon the interpretation
Of one sentence in which Leopold
told his father he was about to 90
AVA.
Full Text If Note.
The note AZ made public a. Joliet
where indictments charging the se' en-
convicts with the murder of Deputy
Warden Klein were returned by the
grand jury Yesterday. read
Dear Father:
'As am about 10 20 away want
YOU to know that in my last hours
acknowledge that had ] followed your
teaching would have avoided
trouble. am sorry dear father, for
the trouble I have caused YOU and
realize that | did not do the right
thing.
lovingly your son.
NATHAN"
Whether The reference to going
SWAY" was occa stoned by fear on the
part Of Leopold that he would he
killed by the fleeing convicts ~
whether he planned ~ escape with
them was not revealed
Five Convicts Recaptnred.
An but two of the seven c"nvicts
have been recaptured Two nf the
seven were pupils of Leopold while
he was 4 prison school teacher
The Joliet jury has not concluded
ITS inquiry. Like the special crime
grand jury i'm paneled here after the
Shaving of William H McSutgein, an
assistant States attorney. the Joliet
turv will not meet today. reconNenine
Monday.
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Rev, H. M. lawson to Leave

~ the Maryland Avenue BAPTIST
Church special evangelstic services
will be conducted BY Rev. f. +
White during the coming week The
pastor, Rev. Fl. NJ. Lawson, will
preach tomorrow evening. He will
leave for the north during the week
for an extended visit to rocuperate
his hea NH
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Beer Aids Grievances.

LONDON. Nav Is P).-Instead ~
expensive formal banquets. Rev. H..
~ Carter. new mayor Of Oxford
has decided 10 discuss over glasses ~
beer municipal matters presented h
committees who call on him. The
chief charwonla Of the town hall ard
several Office hoys who had gri.'
ances 20 present have been anncns
the callers under the new regime
The BOYS were served lemonade.
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too elaborate. too difficult Of achieve
ment Keep within your means and
strength and make what garden you
have as lovely as you can.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-05-15

The only way to keen a circle Of
friends is always to act on the square.
saws the Office Boy.
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some girls promise to marry man
others threaten 10 do so.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-03-02

white, Harold Warnock, Herman
Lange, Herminia Soriano.
JUNIORS LEAD IN Scholarship
The seniors lead again the scholar
ship honors at high school with a
class average of 2.69. the best aver
age made this year and also eclipse
the best made by the class of either
1924 or 1925. If the seniors are able
to maintain this average or even
increaose this last six weeks average
they may set up mark that will be
hard to eclipse.
The juniors also came into the
running with an average of 2.S7, the
best that they have been able to
make this school year. 1t is also the
first time had have had better than
IS" average. The sophomores take
third place and the freshmen are
last for this period
All failing grades were sent thru
the mail to parents this week There
were 116 failing grades distributed
among 50 students, indicating that
several students received more than
one falling grade and some as high
as three and fuor.
The school average for the first
time since last year has advanced
above the average with mark of
293.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-03-02
N. Y. GOVERNOR
TAKES STEPS
TO HALT CRIME

ALBANY, N. Y, March 1.-The
first step in concerted movement
by various agencies of the state to
check crime was taken tonight by
Governor Smith in the submission
of a special message to the legis-
lature proposing immediate creation
of a joint legislative -civilian COM
mission to study the possibility of
making a sweeping revision of the
criminal statues of the state.
In comparison with foreign coun-
tries, the governor said, the rate of
crime in this country and in New
York State is appalling, and should
be made the subject of an inquiry
by the government. The commission
which the governor advocates would
consist of four members of the
legislature to be selected by the
two houses and of five citizens to
be appointed by the executive. Usual
powers of subpoenaeing witnesses
and compelling production of bonds
and papers would be delegated to
the commission under his proposals,
and an appropriation of $4,000
would be authorized.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-03-02
Local Chamber asked to
Support Los Angeles Man
For u. S. C. of G.. Officer

A letter has been received at the
Douglas Chamber of Commerce and
Mines from the Los Angeles cham
Der asking if the local directors are
willing to epress their stbport Of
Arthur s. Bent of Los Angeles as
director from this division, of the
United States Chamber Of Commerce.
According to the message Sent here,
Bent who is now in charge of the
civic development department Of the
national chamber, is to run again for
that office despite the fact that he
is now also president of the Los
Angeles chamber.
A. G. Arnoll, secretary and general
manager of the Los Angeles cham
Der, is anious to have the Douglas
directors endorse Bent who he praises
as an efficient and influential di-
rector of the national body.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-03-02
SENIORS MAKING
FINE RECORD In
THEIR STUDIES

The High School honor roll for
the month of February, 1926 fol
lows:
Seniors
Clara Blum, Ruth Foreman, Mary
Hickox. Levn Osel1, John Clerihew,
Alfred Grantham.
Juniors:
Harry Harding, Annie Kerbolieh,
Barbara Spoerry, Sarah Ryder Ro-
bert Grantham.
Sophomores:
Frances Jacks, Marguerite Harris,
Elizabeth BeumIer.
Freshman:
Jennie Welcome Marjorie Bicker-
staff, Mabel Frost, Leslie Farber,
Zana Lamb Elaine Houle.
HONORABLE MENTION
Those students who made honor
grades in all but one subject:
Seniors:
Staurt Krentz, Margaret Doty,
Margaret Sweeney, Isodore Kline.
Juniors :
Margaret Sparr, Kathleen Beard,
Alfred Levy, Aileen Maiden, Edith
Blum, Enrique Ruiz.
Sophomores: a
Elgin Sanders, Louis Sanders,
Elizabeth Seaman.
freshman:
Mabel Hill. Dorothy Haythorn-
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-03-02

of archaic and unenforced statutes
now cluttering the law books, while
not affecting the common lazy.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-03-02
Would Set Quarter Century
AS Lifetime" of Statutes

NEW YORK, March The sug-
gesffon OF Governor Moore to The
New Jersey legislature thar all laws
carry automatic time limits bv which
they Were repealed when they had
served their purpose, has brought to
light nationwide movement to
make 25 years the lifetime" Of all
statutes.
The governor in his inaugural ad-
dress said that ito read all the laws
of the United States would take
eight years and four months. read
ing eight hours every day, including
Sundays and holidays The move
ment. it's sponsors asserted. aims to
remedy this condition by shortening
laws so that laymen can grasp them.
Jay b. Il. Smith, editor of law
publications of the United states
corporation of New York, and former
assistant secretary of the state of
New Jersey, one of the promoters of
the plan, said that "a governors of
states have responded favorably to
it and 1fO chambers of commerce
have taken it up.
"a general repeating act was pro-
posed by Glen b. Winship of West,
field, N. j. declared Mr.. Smith. This
act provides for the automatic repeal
of all statutes when they have been
on the BOOKS 25 years and is in
tended as preliminary to a pro-
posed amendment to state constitu-
tions fixing quarter century as
the maximum life of all legislative
statutes
If carried out, Mr.. Smith added,
this plan would wipe out thousands
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-03-02

Boys will be boys-but the girls
are giving 'em a hot contest for the
rivilege.-Arkansas Gazette.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-03-02

Flowers are now being grown by
electric light. We knew that wild
oats were.-American Lupnberman.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-03-02
WANT BIGGER Dry FORCE

WASHINGTON Mar. 1.-Plans for
expansion of the alcohol diversion
squad of the prohibition forces
which has been operating in New
York and Pennsylvania, were ad-
vanced Saturday.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-03-02

Besides being an optimist the
fellow who worked out a CROSSE word
with a fountain pen was a rubber
Observation-Disclosures News.
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outside in all her jewels. He often joked
about his high intrinsic value.
Miss Hatmaker when she learned how
Nungesser had been patched up seventeen
times and had hurried right back for an
other bout with the spectre that always
rode the air with him, must have realized
that she was falling in love with person
who had a will of extraordinary power.
Perhaps that was the very thing that at
tracted the young woman.
Miss Hatmaker, however, may not have
realized how Nungesser's masterful will
had kept him from winning a fortune to
match hers by influencing his destiny after
the war.
When the war ended, Nungesser was
surprised to find himself alive and quite.
well in spite of all his wounds, and now
that he had time to notice it, one of the
nations greatest heroes. He had flatter-
ing offers to capitalize this alteration. He
was invited into politics, but declined
what was almost certain success because
he did not feel himself particularly fitted
to help France in that way. For the same
reason he refused to serve on boards of
directors or as a dummy vice-presdent of
corporations, eager to pay for the prestige
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Capt. Charles

of his name. No; he would work at the
only thing at which he had proved his
experimentation.
These things the young heiress found
out and repeated to her soothing friends.
Surely, it ought to convince anyone that
this one man cared nothing for money,
but they only smiled indulgently and said ::
isn't love wonderful? How simple and
blind YOU are, dear. Don't you know that
all the fortune grabbers, from Boni de
Castellane on, have proudly scorned to
sully their noble names commercially be-
cause an American heiress is so much
more profitable? In six months you will
pay off the debts of lifetime"
''He hasn't any debts"
"How do you know? Just wait till you
are married.
The American girl just simply knew
better. 1t was not the blindness of love;
she would risk her life on it that the great
hero, who could have his pick of so many
girls in Paris, chose her because he set
her above all the others. And yet there
was always that tantalizng question
which everyone had insinuated, "Why did
he choose her!
OF course, he had told her often enough.
II was because she was the most beauti-
full. charming, chic, sympathetic, under
standing girl in the world, and utterly
different from any other woman that ever
was She knew that he was right in
thinking so, but, then, so knows every
other woman.
During their engagement the French
man took this daughter of wealth about
and entertained her, not as she was used
TO being entertained, but on the modest
scale his salary warranted. She, who was