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The Coolidge examiner., 1933-01-13
American
Heroines
BY
LOUISE M. COMSTOCK
Ann Maria Lane

Ann MafIa Lane
.nUT of musty old records lying
~ In the archives of the Virginia
State library at Richmond has but
recently been reconstructed the
story of heroine forgotten since
1908.
In that year. so read the molder-
ing records, the state of Virginia
granted pension to one Ann
Maria Lane, who fought ain the
garb and with the courage of SOL
der" in the famous engagement
between the British and the Ameri-
can Revolutionary troops at Ger
mantown, Pa, In l777. We learn
further that Ann Maria not only
marched with a gun in the ranks,
but performed extraordinary mill
tary services" and was disabled
by severe wound"
The known facts of this gallant
woman'S life are few. She has
been identified as the wife of John
Lane, a sailor in the Virginia navy,
who took part in 1871 in the dis
astrous encounter In the James
river at OsbOrne's Landing, when
the states fleet, six ships, eight
brigs. five sloOps and two schoon-
ers, met the superior forces Of the
traitorous Benedict Arnold, just
come from looting Richmond. The
state lost it's vessels but few of its
men. In I79S we find John Lane,
his wife and two daughters. living
at Point of Forks. up the James, an
outpost against the Indians. In
$500. when the insurgent Gabriel
was prodding the negroes about
Richmond TO insurrection. the Lanes
were returned to that city and lived
at the barracks near the state cap
itol. Here. il seems. Ann Maria
took to nursing the soldiers.
In 1902 Dr. J. II. Fousbee, city
health officer, wrote to Governor
Monroe requesting that Ann Maria
her services. From his letter we
learn that she was then an old
woman, scarcely equal to her self
imposed task, and lame from that
wound received at Germantown. 1t
brought Ann Maria the moderate
consideration" of six dollars
month in addition to food and lodg-
ing In 1904 the state finally gave
her an infirmary for her patients.
But In the fall of that same year,
| judged too old and lame for her
work, Ann Maria was retired and
her name dropped from the payroll.
In 1893. however. having investi-
gated her case. Governor Cabell
brought II to the attention Of the
state legislature. The state at that
time eagerly adopted this RevOlu-
tiOnary heroine. They granted her
pension of 5000 per year.
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a thin white sheet which people call
by their own name-frost. All this
he did in the Silly night, and then
he made ready to race away back
jolly, round. red MIR. Sun should
kick off his blankets and begin his
daily climb up in the blue. blue sky.
Peter Rabbit and Reddy Fox and
Old Man Coyote and Lightfoot the
Deer and Billy Mink and Little Joe
Offers and Jerry Muskrat and
Paddy the Beaver and Buster Bear
and Hooty the Owl. who. as you
know. are usually abroad in the
night. knew what was going on. On
the whole. they were rather glad
to welcome Jack Frost, for they
had new thick coats TO keep them
warm. But Johnny Chuck and
Happy Jack Squirrel and all the
other little people who curl up in
their beds and sleep through the
night as people are supposed to
do, knew nothing of the coming of
Jack Frost until they awoke just at
the break of day. Then when they
poked their noses out of their
houses Jack Frost slyly pinched
them ever so gently by way of in
Producing himself.
Now johnny Chuck was. as you
know. very fat. very fat indeed. For
weeks he hal been eating all that
he could. He had been stuffing
himself lust to make fat so that
he might sleep through the lone
winter in comfort OF late he had
been getting very sleepy. Fat peo
pie usually are sleepy SO Johnny
Chuck had been going to bed mucf
earlier than he did In the summer
and finding il harder to get up early
in the morning. On this particu
lar morning somehow he dldn'
want to get up at all. He stretched
and yawned and tried to make al
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pan, add two tablespOonfuls OF
-four, stir until smooth and Drowned
slightly. then add a half cupful of
good soup stock; stir until thick.
add cupful of sardines from
which the skin and bones have been
removed and serve over rounds of
hot buttered toast.
@. 1899 Western Newspaper Union.
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nofheryG Cookbook
TASTY LITTLE SARDINE

THE little silvery herring which
l. we call sardine comes from the
coast Maine.
We do not serve this delightful
little fish often enough to learn of
the number of dishes which IL may
add to our list of good things. How
about a rarebit? Everybody likes a
rarebit-
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Sardine Rarebit.

Mix two tablespoonfuls of melted
butter with half pound of rich
cheese grated or broken into bits.
Stir constantly while it melts, then
add one egg beaten and diluted with
twO-thirds of cupful of cream.
Stir until smooth, season with pa.
prika. a small pinch of salt and a
few drops Of tabasco sauce. Drain a
box of sardines, broil them, place on
slices of toast and pour over the
hot rarebit Serve at once.
One may buy the sardines put up
In oil, or in tomato sauce. or done"
in mustard. so all tastes may be
served and given variety.
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Pocahontas


dian, and she Is buried, not near
jamestown, Va, with which are
associated her deeds of bravery,
but in England. In an alien land,
among a people who must have
seemed to her very strange The
register OF st. Georges church,
Gravesend. contains this record:
Here Rebecca Wrolf. wyffe Of
Thomas (John) Wrolf, gent, Vir-
ginia lady borne. was buried In the
chaunsell. 1911"
In the history books Rebecca
Wrolf is Pocahontas, lovely daugh-
ter Of Powhatan. big chief of the
Virginia Indians. who played an
important part in the establishment
of the first English settlement in
this country. In 1907 small band
of colOniSts settled on the James
river, at spot they called James
town In honor of their king. 1t
was an unfortunate location. The
swamps spread disease and grew
little food. and the dense forests
pressed upon the little colony and
made II easy prey for attacking In
dians. Without the friendship of
Pocah0ntas. jamestown might never
have survived the first hard years.
Capt. John Smith. leader of the
colony, managed to secure the good
will of P0whatan and promises of
corn. But Powhatan was big
and temperamental chief. liable TO
change of mind. Once he held the
doughty captain prisoner and was
determined to have his brains beaten
out with stout war clubs. And time
and again PocahOntas. at the risk
of her fathers anger. Of her tribes
ill-will, even of her own life. proved
her friendship for the white man.
When provisions ran low she
brought grain from her fathers
supply: when treacherOus ambus-
cade was planned. she gave warn
ing: and as Captain Smith lay with
his head on a pillow of rock. await
ing his death. POcahOntas rushed
between him and the threatening
war club and saved his life.
For all this the Indian girl was
rewarded as are many herOines.
Once John Smith had returned to
England a new leader determined
TO make secure the food supply
once and for all. kidnapped Poca-
hontas and held her hostage in
jamestown for a year. Here, how
ever, she was baptized into the
Christian church and renamed Re
becca. or "bond of peace" and mar
ried young John Rolfe. When
Rolfe returned to England, she ac-
companied him. was wined and
dined In London. and but a little
| later fell Ill and died.
! g. 1882. Western Newspaper Union.
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BONERS are actual humorous
tidbits found in examination pa
pers, essays, etc. by teachers.
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Sardines on Toast

Sardnes on Toast.
This Is most delightful dish for
Sunday night supper or in fact for
any day in the week. Put two ia.
blespoonfuls of butter In a sauce-
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Henry Taft Snowden, nephew OF
the late William Howard Taft, for
meT President and chief justice of
the Supreme court. who is a main
stay of the Yale wrestling team. of
which he Is veteran member. He
won the intercollegiate wrestling
title in 1881 in the heavyweight
class. SnOwden stands feet
inches in stocking feet, and weighs
221 pounds.
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BY EARL H. HOSTETLER. Animal Hus-
bandry Department. North Carolina
Experiment Station.-WNU Service.
Milford chronicle., 1933-11-17
THE INTELLIGENT TOWN

The development of a community
depends in large measure on the
number of intelligent people which
it has. If you have a town full of
bright and wide awake people, who
are reading newspapers and mag
azines and who know what is going
on in the outside world, you have a
town where new and good ideas
will be promptly taken up.
The intelligence of community
depends very much on its schools.
Good schools make it certain that
you will have a generation coming
up who will show good judgment in
everything they do. Organizations
also help toward this aim. Wo-
mems clubs, business associations,
or any group of people that present
capable speakers and have good dis
cussions about public matters, help
create the intelligent and wide
awake town, that is going to keep
up with the procession.
Milford chronicle., 1933-11-17
DRIVING WOMEN OUT

According to the recent orders of
the German government, the women
of that country will not be allowed
to do any work that men can do. The
government wants them to marry
and have children, which will give
them plenty to do. But what are
100000 superfluous women in that
country going to do? There appears
nothing in sight for them, unless it
is decreed that men can have two
wives. Most of them will say that
one is all they can handle.
The American women would never
stand for a government that forbade
them to do anything they could do.
And the chivalrous men would never
ask to have them driven out of the
shops and offices. The working wo-
man helps industry, by earning
money which is spent and which
provides work for somebody else.
Milford chronicle., 1933-11-17
n0N,T ExPECT MIRACLEs

General Hugh S. Johnson, speak
ing at st. Paul, urged his hearers
to support the government in its re-
covery efforts, and to have patience
Speaking of discomfort among the
farmers, he remarked that the gov
ernment's agricultural program "has
just begun to bite" and it should
not be condemned until it has had
a chance to make good.
In restoring economic welfare,
some people always expect political
and economic miracles. They think
that long standing habits, and the
results of years of hard times, can
be removed all at once. The gov
ernment probably encouraged this
error at the start, by giving out too
roseate predictions of what could
be accomplished in short time.
Progress is not accomplished in
any field of activity by sudden jerks.
Growth is slow and imperceptible.
When you watch your garden plant
next summer, you see no change
from day to day. But if you COM
pare its height with what it was a
month previous, you see it has
grown.
There is much distress in the
country, but there might be a great
deal more, and there is tendency
to exaggerate it. TIL great majority
of the people have work. There is
money enough in the country to feed
and clothe every needy family. If
any such worthy family is not
helped as it should be, it is not due
to lack of ability or willingness to
help.
A country where conditions are no
worse than that is not on the verge
Of some great disaster, as some
croakers seem to think. General
Johnson says that 100000 people
have been put to work since March |
1, and that is all and more than
could have been expected. We
should not demand a rate of prog
ress that would simply be miracu-
ous, but thank God and take cour-
ige from the big gains the country
has already made.
Milford chronicle., 1933-11-17
FDUCATION WEEK

The week of November 6-12 is be-
ing observed as National Education
week. What ideas should be brought
before the people through this OBJ
seryance?
Such discussions might we'll take
up the present "crisis in education" A"
as it is called. Rural schools in
many sections are running a very
short year, which means that chill
dren will lose some part of the edu-
cation they ought to have. No
teacher can be expected to cover the
ground in 20 weeks for which her
pupils should have 40. The schools
of many cities also have closed up
essential forms of instruction, and
the children will miss some forms
of training which they need.
Some of these economies have
gone beyond reason. The children
have no votes, and they can't hit
back, while the taxpayers can. 1t is
essential at all hazards for cities
and towns to maintain their credit.
But when education really suffers
economy, the pruning knife
would do less damage in other lines
of expenditure.
Milford chronicle., 1933-11-17
A NOBLE PHILANTHROPY

The annual roll call of the Amer
lean Red Cross, November 11-SO, IS
reminder of the marvellous results
this society has achieved in reliev-
ing distress.
Not merely does the Red Cross
supply the medical care and nurs-
ing that are so necessary after great
disasters, but it is a wonderful pre-
ventive and educational agency. 1t
shows people how they can live so
as to become healthy and efficient.
When there is some great job of
welfare work to be performed, this
nationwide organization has the
system that can put it over. One
example was its recent service in
converting the wheat and cotton Tro-
vided by the farm board into food
and clothing for the needy. This
great organization is not merely
noble philanthropy, but it is busi-
ness investment to keep it on the
job of relieving poverty and disease.
Let us give this society, in this year
when its aid is needed so much,
more generous support than it ever
had before.
Milford chronicle., 1933-11-17
RiNIsHINE FRAR

Mrs. Franklin d. Roosevelt, speak
ing at the Chicago Fair, called on
the women Of the land to Danish
fear. Many women and many men
who entertain fears about their
jobs, their homes, or their business,
will say this is impossible. They
feel that it is time of great change,
when misfortunes are constantly
happening. Some of them are desti-
tute of money, and many fear they
will lose their jobs, or their bust
ness will go to wreck. New policies
are being tried out by the govern
ment, and they don't know how these
ideas will work, all which creates
apprehension.
The American people are a very
strong and achieving people, and
when they make up their minds on
anything, they accomplish it. They
determined to make a success of
their part in the World War, and
they did. The world was astonished
by what they achieved.
Similarly they are determined
now to make a success OF the war
against depression. They are going
to abolish it, and they are going to
fix it so there will be no more de-
pressions, at least none as bad as
the recent one. When they make
up their minds ON a thing, they al
ways do it.
Second, the fact that this or that
scheme which the government is
working on may not be a success,
proves nothing. If it doesn't work,
it will very quickly be abandoned,
and something else will be tried.
In ordinary prosperous times, 1t is
hard to get mistakes corrected. But
the people are so stirred over these
things now, that if any mistake is
made, it will be corrected before
most people know it is a mistake.
1t is simply ridiculous to feel that
our people are going to be mastered
Tor very long by depressed condi-
ions. The determination that con-
Iuered a wilderness, will not long
De stumped by bad Industrial con-
litiOns. "
Milford chronicle., 1933-11-17
SHORT DAYS

We are fast coming into the time
of early dark. Long winter eve
nings are close on us. We miss the
effect of sunlight. We need all
those life giving rays, and the in
crease in physical ailments that al
ways comes with winter tells a story
of what the loss of sunlight means.
If we lived wholly normal lives as
nature meant us ito, we should be
out in the sunlight so much in the
short days that we would come near
getting a normal amount of it. But
all that many indoor workers get
of the sun is what little they can
absorb in the brief walk or ride to
shop or store. No wonder that such
folks look pale by spring. Let us
not be afraid to venture into the
sunlight because of chilling winds
and low temperatures.
Eye strain increases in winter.
Lighting facilities are far better
than they used to be, but many peo-
pie economize on light. 1t is poor
policy to get headaches and hurt
our eyes by lack of good light.
Milford chronicle., 1933-11-17
THE 0RGANIZE1 COMMuNITY

A good town consists of some
thing more than a group of people
who have gathered together to earn
their living in that place. If those
people are simply isolated units.
each one going to and from his work
each day, that town is not going
ahead much.
Those separate units must be COM
bined in organizations, the aim of
which is to supply human needs, So
cial, religious, business, etc. When
you get the churches and societies
and clubs and civic organizations
supplying certain functions, you get
a good town. To make very good
town, also each organization must
be keenly interested in all measures
for the welfare of the community
and be disposed to cooperate with
those efforts. 1
Milford chronicle., 1933-11-17
L0RS 0N PuRLIC MONKS

The government is making a great
effort to advance the big public
works projects for which it is sup
plying funds. But it is an equally
difficult proposition to handle all
these projects in short time, so that
unemployed people shall find work
soon. Under normal conditions,
when a government project is au-
thorized, it may take year or more
before workers are actually earn
ing pay on such job.
1t used to be considered that start
ing public works was the ideal plan
of relieving unemployment. But if
it takes year or more before money
can actually be paid out for labor
on such jobs, these projects are an
awkward and cumbersome method
of relieving unemployment. Yet if
such jobs are put along hastily, there
is danger that much of the money
will be wasted on i'll considered
projects, or that extravagant
amounts will be paid.
Another difficulty with public
works as a means of putting idle
men to work, is that those mostly
benefited are mechanics and manual
laborers. white collar workers"
can not usually go out on the roads
and dig, nor do they know construc-
ton trades well enough to work at
them.
1t would be a godsend if unem-
ployed people, who are used only
to office and store and factory work,
could be put to work in shops where
they could make supplies which the
cities or the government have to
furnish to the needy. They could
do, or learn to do such kinds of
work.
The old-time city or town used to
provide jobs for the unemployed by
giving them work on town farms,
or in municipal woodyards. The
need for such labor has now largely |
passed. We need some kind of plan
by which unemployed people can be
promptly put to work in providing |
goods or services which are needed
in these times.
Milford chronicle., 1933-11-17
REGULATING PRODUCTION

Regulations are being made by
which the NRA will control the
construction Of new mills and intro
duction of new machinery IN the
cotton textile trade. People will
not be allowed to enlarge their pro-
duction capacity, useless it is dem-
onstrated that there is need for
such enlargement.
Some people will claim that the
government should let business en-
terprise alone, and that if people
wish to enlarge, they should have
that privilege. Yet the country is
pretty we'll equipped with mill and
factory plants. There is such a
thing as erecting so many new ones
that over production exists. How
ever, machinery is wearing out all
the time, or becoming obsolete, and
there will always be need for re-
placing such outworn equipment.
Milford chronicle., 1933-11-17
THE FALL CLEANUP

Some people are quite enthusias-
tic about improving the looks of
their home places in the spring.
Under the stimulus of that bright
season, they get out with rake and
spade, and proceed to clean up dis
order and beautify their places.
That is very fine, but they shouldn't
lose their enthusiasm. If you want
a good looking home, you have to
keep working at it. The cleanup
should take place every week in the
year.
1t is strange how people who
would never think of dropping any
refuse around the interior of their
homes, will yet let the dreary rub
bish accumulate on their home
grounds. Thereby anybody can
make a really pleasant home look as
il it belonged in a slum neighbor-
hood. ..r,.
Milford chronicle., 1933-11-17
CALVIN COOLIDGE CLASS

A Washington church has started
movement to form a Calvin Cool
idge mems class, to be a memorial
to the late President. Thousands of
men in all parts of the country
would be glad to join an organiza-
tion bearing that name. Many of
them did not agree with the politi-
cal beliefs of the dead President, but
they all respected his character
Calvin Coolidge stood for strict
honesty, in a time when millions of
people had become Indifferent about
that principle. Some folks claim.
that everybody has his price, but
personalities like Calvin Coolidge in
Delaware and elsewhere still prove
that plenty of men in government
and business value their honor more
than dollars. 't
Milford chronicle., 1933-11-17
HOLD YOUR JOB

A good many cases are heard of
where people have given up their
jobs because they only had work
part of the time, or for similar rea-
sons. And many of these same peo-
pie have now been loafing for con-
siderable period. Their hopes of
finding a better opportunity have
not been realized.
Business has shown a marked i'm
provement, and it will keep gaining,
yet it takes time to recover from
such an experience as the country
has recently passed through. These
are times when anyone who has a
job should hang right on to it, un-
less something better is positively
in sight. The wise old-timers knew
that half a loaf was better than no
bread.
Milford chronicle., 1933-11-17
PRESS FREEDOM SAFE

Gen. Johnson, head of the NRA,
dwelt in a speech at Chicago on
questions about the freedom of the
press. Some people have felt that
the NRA law might be so stretched
as to interfere with the principle of
a free press, which the American
people value almost more than any
other privilege.
The forceful general referred to
such objections as synthetic dead
cats" and "hobgobins." 1t is in
conceivable that any considerable
element in America have any dispo-
sition to interfere with the rights of
free speech. The American people
know that whatever else they may
RESTRICT the right of free discussion
must be preserved.
Milford chronicle., 1933-11-17
WHY PEOPLE DELAY BUYING

An employer of labor was speak
ing about conditions in his business
as affected by the NRA. Il have
had to put on more help and in
crease my labor costs" he said, but
my receipts have not increased
much"
But more people have been put
20 work, and the wages of many
have been raised, so it should not
be long before you can see the diff
ference" was the remark made to
him.
"Yes" lie replied, but these people
who have been put to work and are
having their pay raised, are hang
ing onto their money. Mahy of
them have been out of work for
some time. When they get a pay
envelope now, they save evry dol
lar they can. They don't kknow what
is ahead, and this time they propose
to have some reserve they can draw
on"
That mans situation explains why
the increases in retail sales of goods
have not so far kept pace with the
increase of production.
Premature hopes of fast recovery
may be disappointed. You can't
throw people out of work for months
or a year. and then have them act
just the same as they did before.
We simply have to have patience.
1t comes hard on many merchants
who have limited resources, who are
asked to increase their operating
costs without getting similar addi-
tions to their income. The govern
ment and all its agents should be
lenient with such ones.
Many people who were formerly
extravagant, have lately been over
cautious, but that mood is contrary
to American nature, and it won't
last long. In spite of difficult times,
many people who were formerly
very imprudent with money, have
saved money during the past year.
Their improved position will create
a strong foundation for business, be-
cause those folks won't have to run
for public relief if their pay stops
for a week.