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Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1926-09-04
SPORT NEWS

The Springfield republican has the
following very interesting article
relative to the departure of Suzanne
Lenglen from the ranks of Amateur
tennis players; and also mentions
some Americans who have been con-
sidering the same venture:
"Mlle Lenglen is reported as hav.
ing burst into tears when she found
in Switzerland that none of the Ger
man tennis players with whom she
had expected to compete in an ama-
teur tournament had been allowed to
take part by the German Tennis as
ISOLATION and had withdrawn in a
body on account of her entry. This
unhappy experience suggests that the
episode of Mile Lenglen's turning
professional may yet end as did that
Of the king of France, who, after
marching uphill, marched down a
gain. Undoubtedly the tennis world
would be glad to welcome her back
as an amateur if the plans for her
American tour should blow up before
she actually took part as a profess
sional in any match.
There has been some suspicion
that Miss Elizabeth Ryan, one of the
ranking American women tennis play
ers, and former partner of Mile.
Lenglen's on European courts, might
turn professional and furnish the
competition necessary to the success
Of the American tour. Miss Ryan
has at least refused to commit her
self as to the chances of turning pro-
fessional when questioned by report
-ers, who were met with frank and
vigorous denials by other we'll known
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1926-09-04
FROM OUR
EXCHANGES

Failure of Old Sol to shine on eth
er day of the Great Salisbury Fair,
except for short time on Tuesday
opening day-caused the exposition
this year to face heavy deficit. At
tendance was about IL per cent OF
normal, according to D. J. Ward
president of the Association. Usually
around 10000 people file thru its
gates. This year the figure WOULD
have been exceeded, it is thought, as
the fair continued over Saturday.
Due to the fact that the associa-
ton is a mutual one-the profits be-
ing put back into the treasury fol-
lettering the exposition in subse-
quent years-the directors are faced
with the necessity of borrowing sew
eral thousand dollars to meet the de-
felt.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1926-09-04

women players.
"If Miss Ryan had succeeded in
winning the national championship at
Forest Hills on Monday she would
have been far more of a drawing
card as an opponent for Mile Lenglen.
II she could have been billed as the
American amateur champion of 1926,
who had turned professional in order
to find opposition worthy of her skill
full racket, It would have meant much
in advertising joint matches with the
French prodigy. But by the slender
margin of a single stroke Miss Ryan
failed to carry off the title and w S
forced in the end to bow to her stub
born opponent, Mrs. Molla Mallory,
who has declared with emphatic final
ity that she will not turn profession ii
under any circumstances.
A significant feature of the SEN
sational match between Mrs Mallory
and Miss Ryan was the fact that Mrs.
Mallory was the loudly applauded
favorite of tse audience. In the past
Mrs. Mallory has often been anything
but the choice of the spectators and,
OH occasion, has even been booed and
treated with marked discourtesy. 1t
is possible that her announced deter
mination to remain an amatur, con-
trasted with Miss Ryan's noncommit-
tai attitude, may have contributed to
the changed spirit of the gallery at
Forest Hills. If this is, in any de-
gree, the explanation, it suggests
that tennis enthusiasts-at least those
who have been accustomed to attend,
ing the big ENTHUSIASTICALLY object
to professionalizing of the game. On
the other hand it must be recognized
as possible that if Mile Lenglen's
tour could be made successful by find
ing suitable opponents for her, a new
|; 4 different audience less versed in
the tradition of the game, might be
attracted.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1926-09-04


Work of rebuilding the "burnt dis.
trict" in Asbury, Crisfield, Md, which
was wiped out by disastrous fire in
the early summer, is now going for.
ward rapidly land in short space OF
time the havoc wrought by the flames
will be but passing memory.
The handsome new Asbury church.
which was prey to the flames, is be-
ing rebuilt and will soon be ready fol
occupancy again. The well-known 10.
cal contracting firm of Wilmington
Bros, were awarded the contract tc
rebuild the church, and already the
work is we'll under way. With large
force of workmen on the job, it is
expected that all signs of the damage
done by the fire will soon be removed
and this handsome church of worship
will again be ready for the use of the
big Asbury congregation.
A large new garment factory has
been built in place of the old Lawson
factory, which was destroyed by fire
The new factory, erected by the Top
kiss Bros. Co., is modern in every de-
tail and is much larger than the plant
that was destroyed. The new plant
has capacity for about 100 en-
ployees, all of the machinery is mod
ern and the plant is up-to-date thru
out.
The Maddrix store house, which
was in the path of the flames, is be-
ing replaced by a large storehouse
and barber shop, which will be mod
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1926-09-04

his first sermons-morning and even
ig-on Sunday, September 5. Dr..
Croft is a man of very pleasing per-
sonality and has made most favor
able impression upon the many call
ers at the home the last few days.
DR.. Croft comes to Asbury from
First Church, Lincoln, largest Metho-
dist church in that state in an ex-
change of pastorate with DR.. H p.
Fox.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1926-09-04

ern business establishment when COM
pleted. The building is two-story,
and will have large Assembly hall,
and a residence on the second floor.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1926-09-04

DR.. Albert J. Croft, new pastor of
Asbury M. E. Church, Salisbury, and
family arrived from Lincoln, Neb.,
on Resday to make their future
HON Eahd are now occupying the par
sonage on N. Division st.
The new clergyman will deliver
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1926-09-04
MOTORCYCLE FOR SALE

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Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1926-09-04

The sweet potato crop started to
move around the 10th of this month
To date around 120 cars have been
shipped from the Shore. These
brought prices up to SO per barrel
f. o. b.
The drought which preceded the
present spell of extremely wet wealth
err prevented the tubers from formir g
and short crop, about 85 per cent
is expected But if the present prices
hold, and there is indication that they
will, the growers will reap a fair
profit
The average yield of the Eastern
Shore of Virginia is about 100000
barrels annually.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1926-09-04

Today seafood dealers and officials
of Virginia and Maryland will gathe r
at Colonial Beach to discuss the
problems that caused crab war be-
tween the two states this summer.
The purpose of this conference is to
prevent recurrence of trouble in the
future. The commissioner of Fisher
les, Harry r. Houston, will direct the
discussion for Virginia, and Swepson
Earle will represent Maryland, the
last named is commissioner for his
State.
The Governors of Virginia and
Maryland also named committees to
represent the respective states. Those
on the committee of Virginia are: j..
N Rev, George Mason, o. A. Blox-
ON, James McMenamin L. M. New
comb, I. T. Ballard, R. L. Ailworth, B.
T. Fisher and John T. Daniel.
The Virginians will leave Old Point
Friday night, September 8, aboard the
Commodore Maury, and are expected
to return. Sunday afternoon.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1926-09-04

The formal opening of the oyster
season will be September 18th, and
from the report of the Virginia Com
missioner of Fisheries, Harry R.
Houston, the best season in years is
to be expected.
eve are expecting a banner year
in the oystr business this. var" says
the Commissioner, "But that is not
the best of it, the demand is larger
than ever before in the history of the
country, and I would not be surprised
to see Virginia sold out some time
before the season is over.
The oystermen of the Chesapeake
Bay are busily preparing for the
opening of the season. It is believed
that record number of, tongers will
be seen on the oyster beds on Sep
TENDER 18th.
Evening star., 1926-06-20
BY SIR PHILIP GIBBS.

tn HERE are many keen and brilliant
minds trying at the present time to
read the riddle of the future. Owing
to the last war, and its consequences,
there was never period of history when there
was so much uncertainty as to what is in store
for mankind in the plot of fate.
What is going to happen to all during
the next so years, to say nothing Of the hun
dred and the next thousand? Most of us
would answer that question by saying no NOR
tai man tell
But there are prophets about who bold
enough to forecast the future, and who base
their prophecies not on any mystical gifts.
but upon what they believe to be a scientific
analysis Of present conditions, which must,
they say lead to inevitable results.
They are. unfortunately, prophets of pes
simism and If we believe what they say, fate
has some very unpleasant history to unfold
in the future history of mankind.
During the past week I have been reading
two books which sum up this philosophy of
pessimism that has caught hold Of many ad-
vanced thinkers of today. One is 1.-The Origins
of the Next War" by John Bakeless; the other
To-day and Tomorrow" by j. II. Curle.
Mr.. Bakeless, who is American writer
of great distinction, has made most careful
and scientific study of the social, political and
racial problems now lying beneath the surface
of human life, and his conclusions are, to say
the least alarming
He asserts that the last war decided nothing
and settled nothing. He is convinced that the
same causes which led to that monstrous con
fct are existing in more dangerous forms to
produce another world explosion far
than in 1914. In his opinion, the League Of
Nations and all talk about 1.-The Spirit of
Locarno," and all the efforts of sentimental
pacihsts will be made a mockery by racial and
economic struggles which will be decided by
ordeal of battle.
Owing to the increase of populations in
various lands, competition for the empty spaces
of the earth and the raw materials of indus
try will become intensified. The instincts of
race and its natural ambitions for self-preserva-
ton and development stronger than before
the last
X X *
Mr.. Bakeess gives map with the dan
ger spots marked. They lie about Japan and
a chain of islands leading to Australia. They
scattered over Europe, where the old pan
Slav movement is stirring again, and where
France with a dwindling population, has made
temporary alliances with weak states to hold
back growing Germany, which must find
Evening star., 1926-06-20

more elbow room and capture new markets
for her manufactured goods.
These danger posts are all along the Medi-
terranean, where Great Britain holds a series
OF strategic bases, which cut across the In
famed ambitions Of Italy and threaten the free
passage Of French native army from North
Africa. There are hundreds Of these sign
posts Of danger on the map Of the world to-
day which may lead to the Armageddon Of to-
morrow.
In the opinion of Mr.. Bakeess, nothing has
been altered in the mentality of peoples or in
the methods of craftsmanship. Old national
prides, the arrogance of new dictators like
Mussolini playing those prdes and, above
ALL the desperate urge of commercial compe-
tition are at the present time preparing for
new war more frightful than the last
* **
Well, that is gloomy outlook, if true
But the second prophet, whose work have
been reading, punges even deeper into pes
simism
In To-day and Tomorrow" by j. H. Curle
the writer forecasts the time when the white
race of the world will have to put up des
perate fight for preservation against the Asiat
les and colored peoples.
At the present time the white races, he
thinks, are just playing for their own downfall
by ignoring certain weaknesses which are sap
ping their mental and physical health.
One of these weaknesses is what he calls
the make-believe Of democracy" which takes
Of the hands Of those who have most know
edge and strongest character.
1t delivers a nation into the power of half
educated folk who get most Of their ideas from
a cheap press They become weakened So
cialists, sentimental pacifists and labor agita
tors and are jealous of all that is superior to
themselves that their main idea of progress
is to pull down what has been strongly built
by wiser men.
X r
Worst of all, Mr.. Cure sees the stamina of
the white in many countries weakened
poisoned and ultimately destroyed by breed
ing from the utf1t'
Modern science keeps alive the invalids, the
imbeces, the half-witted the hereditary weak
lngs, who produce more children than the in
teectuals and the well bred. Modern sent
mentality gives the dole and other forms of
relief to those who would otherwise die because
they won't or can't work. Women have been
allowed to legislate for men and to sap the
virility and philosophy of the old man-ruled
states
The masses Che says) can neither govern nor
choose wisely those who The glib talker
is more and more rising to power. AS the
Evening star., 1926-06-20
IS THE WHITE RACE DOOMED?

masses gather force, does the quality OF
they elect steadily decline.
The struggle between capital and labor lead
ing to civil war will eventually lead to new
wars between European states. So the prog
ress Of weakness goes on among the white
races. while all the time the colored races are
waiting and watching, masking their hatred.
but feeding on it.
The time is nearing (says Mr.. .Curle) when
the masks will be off, when we shall see the
whole of Asia, and, 1t may be, all Africa as wel
try to throw off white domination and come
succeeding. How democracy based on
the opinions and the prejudices Of the ignorant
masses is going to handle such as this
1 really don't know.
One cannot put off all that on one side with
a shrug of the shoulders the fantastic raving
of morbid minds. This philosophy of pes
simism is not without some foundation of truth
and fact.
But where l differ from these pessimistic
prophets is in the question of democracy and
it's alleged weaknesses l have very little pa
tience with that stuff about breeding from the
unfit" 1t is true that slums produced C3
class but the remedy is not to prevent slum
people from having children, but to wipe out
the slums.
1t is true that present system of educa
ton has produced a large number of people
who get most of their ideas from bad novels
and the baser kind of newspapers. but the cure
not to destroy the liberty Of democracy, but
to ennobe 1t by higher standard Of character
and thought
Democracy has it's weaknesses and its fol-
lies, but dictatorship and autocracy produce
more immediate dangers. The clean sword
of Mussolini is uncomfortably like the shin
ing sword" of Kaiser Wilhelm.
X X X X
Everywhere in the world. as far as ] know
it, the common folk want peace and security
for their work and homes.
They may be led away by passion, the in
stincts of nationality and racial urge may be
too strong for them; they may be poor pup
pets in the hand Of destiny working again to-
ward some mighty struggle, but at least the
only chance see Of preventing or postponing
those evils is by the gradual development of
education and wisdom among the masses.
They will longer breed from the unfit
because they have attained a decent standard
of life and will not allow their children to be
used as gun fodder for the ambition of auto
Gratis, the folly of statesmen, or some point
of national pride. some sinister claim upon
colored peoples desiring their own liberty and
way of life
1891
Evening star., 1926-06-20
BY FRANK j. GOODNOW.


The National Anthem of the people
Of the United States speaks of our
country as "the land Of the free and
the home of the brave" Whatever
may be the truth of the characterize
ton of America as the home Of the
brave, it is certainly true only in a
qualified sense that our country may
now be or might ever have been
selected as par excellence the land Of
the free.
De Tocqueville says in his famous
Democracy In America:
II know of no country in which,
generally speaking, there is less inde-
pendence of thought and less real lib
erty of discussion than in America"
This was said in 1880. Fifty years
later Lord Bryce, while recognizing
the existence of a certain tyranny
exercised by the majority which he
thinks has tended to produce great
uniformity Of thought in the count :.
believed that the intolerance of which
De Tocqueville wrote had largely dis
appeared. But he says: Should pas
sion again invade politics one can
imagine the tendencies Of so years ago
reappearing in new forms. But. in no
imaginable future Is there likely to be
any attempt to repress either by law
| or by opinion the free exercise and
expression of speculative thought on
| morals on religion. and, indeed, on
every matter not within the imme-
| date range of current politics"
How dangerous is the attempt to
prophecy with regard to human con-
duct is shown by recent legislative
and governmental tendencies in this
! country to curtail freedom Of thought
| in both religious and social subjects.
Whatever may have been the progress
of the last Is years, it would seem
| that the American people in recent
years are reassuming their former in
! tolerant attitude This is noticeable
as we'll in the case of conduct as in
that Of freedom of expression.
Control of conduct is not, however,
so serious as the attempt to curtail
| freedom of thought. It's manifesto
| tions may be annoying to those whose
| conduct is subjected to control, but,
after all, this sort of control does not
| impose limitations on the speculations
| of the human spirit which, II we are
| to live happily and profitably, must
be encouraged to reach out for truth.
! You are probably asking yourselves
why these observations should be
| made? The answer is that there lies
in this intolerant spirit to which at
tention has been directed great dan
| ger. An intolerant spirit, when not
carried too far and in too many direc.
| tions. is In some respect an advantage.
One can hardly be intolerant without
being self-confldent, and self-confi-
dence Is probably one Of the factors
| Of successful accomplishment.
] At the same time tolerant spirit
Evening star., 1926-06-20
TRUTH AND TOLERANCE NEEDED
TO MAKE AMERICA LAND OF FREE
Controlled Intolerance Is Advantageous, Johns Hop
kins Head Declares in Outlining Plan for
Progress

toward those with whose opinions we
disagree Is a necessary basis for in
tellectual progress. We know really
very little at the present time. There
Is much which we can Justly hope to
learn. Every one Of us who has lived
through a reasonable span Of years
has seen changes in many things with
regard to which when we first learned
about them there was much greater
certainty than there Is now. Eternal
change is a characteristic Of nature.
How, then, can we ever be certain
that we know the whole truth? How,
then, can we rightfully endeavor to
hamper the search for truth?
1t is only as we can know the truth
that this land can really be the land
of the free" But in the search for
truth be tolerant of other persons
opinions. Remember that you may
look at things from one point of view
while others may look at them from
another, and as in the case of the
shield in the fable, both may be right.
(Copyright 1920
Evening star., 1926-06-20
What Polish Revolt
Brought in Its Wake

Strict censorship prevented pub
lication of the exact number of cas-
ualties caused by Marshal Joseph
Pilsukski's army revolution. Con-
servative estimates made by men,
bers of hospital staffs and others in
a good position to know give the fig
ures as between 500 and 500 killed
and fully $500 injured.
Besides, many casualties of a
minor nature never came to the no.
tice of the hospitals. They were
cared for at home or by family doc"
tors.
warsaw will never forget the tragic
day of the funeral, when several COM
mon graves, holding 60 bodies each,
were filled and marked with tempo
rary wooden crosses. Families Of
the victims stood for a long time
about the graves and wept bitterly.
The women had wound their heads in
cheap shawls. Many Of them held
babies in their arms.
Evening star., 1926-06-20
CITY BOYS INDUCED TO REPLACE
RURAL YOUTH RUSHING TO CITIES
Senator Capper Sees Gain for Nation in Pennsylvania
Farm School Plan to Cope With Agricultural
Exodus.

modern farm machinery plus
thorough practical training in scien-
tific farming has robbed agriculture of
much OF it's former arduous labor.
The successful farmer of today has a
we'll built, we'll planned home, with
commodious and we'll planned interior
with radio and automobile, and is in
constant contact with the State uni
versities. He is placed well forward
In the category of those who have
made the United States an outstand-
ing nation.
Downright 1921
Evening star., 1926-06-20
BY b. +. YOAKUM.

1t is a mistaken idea that farm
relief" is applicable only to the farmer.
If agriculture is permitted to continue
it's trend toward bankruptcy. it will
not only hit the farmer. Every class
of security and every class of business
will be affected should agriculture face
the bankruptcy upon which it is now
verging.
So if business looks at the farm
situation purely from selfish view
point it will find that clippers of bond
Evening star., 1926-06-20
A Strike Incident.

During the recent strike in Eng
land the volunteer driver of the Lon
DON Liverpool express performed the
feat of bringing the great
train into Liverpool twenty-five min
utes ahead of schedule time. The
passengers went forward in body to
thank him. A pale green face
emerged from the cab. Don't thank
me-" it gasped; thank God! 1 only
found out how to stop this thing 10
minutes ago."