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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-03-24
M. E. CONFERENCE FORM.
ED IN 1859
Separated From Philadelphia
Group; Had Virginia Dis
trict At One Time

tr1ct AT one Time
The Wilmington Annual
Conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, which meets
in Rehoboth on Wednesday,
March 20, was organized March
II, 1869, the members having
separated from the Philadel-
phia Conference. The session
was held in Asbury Church,
Third and Walnut streets, Will
mington. Bishop M. Simpson
presided, and the Rev. S. l..
Gracey was secretary.
Since it's organization the
conference has been divided in
to four districts, now known
as the Wilmington, Middle
town, Dover and Salisbury dis
tricts, but for several years had
a fifth district, the Virginia
district, of which the Rev. A.
d. Davis was presiding elder.
This district was merged with
the Salisbury district in 1889,
with the Rev. T. o. Ayers, as
presiding elder. Each district
is now in charge of a district
superintendent, instead of a
presiding elder.
At the session of the confer
ence held in Salisbury, Md, a
year ago, a committee Of min
listers and laymen was appoint
ed to consider a still further di-
vision to be known as the Ches-
apeake districts, and directed
to report at the session of the
conference next week.
The Rev. VIM. Chandler, 9
minister and physician, in 179e
was appointed presiding elder
over the entire Delmarva Pc
ninsula, which was Their
known as the Chesapeake dis
s trict. He gave the first ''altal
), CALL" so far as is known, in the
Methodist Church of the entire
world. This was at Pivot
! Bridge in 1899.
In 1917 the Rev. Henry Bo-
chm was named presiding ED
er of the Chesapeake district
I and in 1919 the name was
changed to the Delaware dis
trict. The work was continu.
ed under the jurisdiction of the
Philadelphia Conference unit
the Wilmington Conference or.
ganized in 1869.
+ None of the present member:
. Of the conference were identi-
: fed with the Wilmington Con
ference the year it was organ
lied, but in the year following
1870, the Rev. Adam Stenglt
was received into the confer
J ence, at the session held. il
Port Deposit, Md; in 1871 the
Rev. Levin w. Layfield was re
ceived into the conference a
the session held in Dover; ant
in 1872 the Rev. John p. OTIS
was received into the confer
ence at the session held il
Laurel. DR.. Stengle and DR.
Otis are residents of Whining
ton, and DR.. Layfield resides il
Greenwood. All three are OF
the retired list.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-03-24
WOODLAWN

Do not forget the Minstrel
Show to be given in the Church
House, this evening at 500
o'clock. Same crowd that gave
a minstrel last spring, compos-
ed mostly of folks around
Hopewell, under the direction
of Mrs. Carroll E. Tyson. Pro-
ceeds for Hopewell M. E.
Church. Admission, adults Is
cents; Children under IL years,
Is cents. Mr.. Edwin Barnes
of Elkton, will be at the piano
The Woodlawn w. C. T. U.
met at the home of Miss Vir-
GINA H. Abrahams, Friday af-
ternoon, the 18th. She was
the leader for the March meet
ing. Health was the topic
A playette called Health was
given.
Mrs. w. B. Clagett has re-
turned from a delightful visit
with her cousin, Mrs. Stats
and Mr.. Stats, in Newark, N
J.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Feath-
err and son, also her mother,
Mrs. Retta First, of Ceilings
wood, N. j., spent Friday with
Mr.. and Mrs. George E. Tyson.
Mrs. Feathers aunt.
Miss Cele Marshall returned
home last week from Balti-
more, where she had been since
the first of the year.
Mr.. Harry Hansen has re-
turned home from a Whining
ton hospital, where he was
thirteen days, following an OPP
Grafton.
Mrs. J. B. Tyson quietly cell
ebrated her ninty-third birth
day, at the home of her son
Carroll, where she has spent
this winter, Sunday the nine
teenth. Her daughter, Mrs. ],
D. SINNERS, is visiting her
now. On Saturday, her older
son and wife, Mr.. and Mrs.
George Tyson and her Oldest
daughter, Mrs. John S. Cullen
and Mr.. Cullen spent the day
with her. Dinner was served
at noon. Her youngest daugh-
ter. Mrs. Edward Bryde, of
Washington, was unable to be
there on account of illness.
The past two weeks, she had
been under the care Of her
physician but is again able to
sew on a quilt that she is MAX
ing for a granddaughter. She
received cards, letters, flowers
and a plant, beside other gifts.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred Rutter
and daughter, Mr.. and Mrs.
Baten, of Wilmington, were
visitors of Mr.. and Mrs. Clifford
Rutter, Sunday. ( Z
Mrs. Fraival, of Philadel-
phia, spent the weekend with
her daughter, Mrs. Clyde Hull.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-03-24

President Roosevelt has ap-
proved the first stamp to be is
sued under the Administration
Of Postmaster General Farley.
The three cent stamp bears
a picture of George Washing
toms headquarters at New
burgh, N. Y. The stamp is in
commemoration of the 150th
anniversary Of the declaration
of peace. It was suggested by
Representative Fish, Postmas-
ter General Farley and Joseph
C. O'Mahoney, First Assistant
RQatmestsg General.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-03-24
Charles Moran

Charles Moran, Oldest son of
Mrs. James Moran, died at his
home in Chester, Pa, of a heart
attack. He was buried in
Hopewell cemetery Friday.
Mr.. Moran, who is survived by
a wife and daughter, mother,
several brothers and sisters,
spent most of his boyhood days
in Port Deposit.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-03-24
ORPHANS COURT
Bonds ApprOved-Emma

Bonds Approved-Emma l..
Vincent, Administrative of
Stephen M. Vincent; Robert
Lee Stuart and Roscoe Hamp-
ton Stuart, executors of Chas.
w. Stuart; Edgar McMullen,
executor of Thomas r. McMul-
len; G. Reynolds Ash, admin
iis st G t. e Of Geo Pres ton,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-03-24
s. Wilmer Charshee

S. Wilmer Charshee, age 81,
for years engaged in the mer-
camille business at Elk Mills,
died Wednesday at his home at
Elk Mills, after brief illness.
Besides his wife, he is survived
by one son, Ernest Charshee.
Funeral services were held at
his home Sunday afternoon at
one o'clock with interment in
Angle Hill Cemetery, Havre de
Grace.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-03-24
Harvey J. Finnefrock

The death of Harvey ]. Fin
nefrock, aged Il years, occur
red from complication of all
ments Wednesday afternoon, at
his home near New Texas, Full
ton Township, Pa. He was a
farmer and a son of the late
Samuel and Mary Markley Fin
nefrock.
Besides his wife, Addie A,
Finnefrock, he leaves a daugh-
ter, Mary R. Brown; also these
brothers and sisters: John,
Coatesville; Cassius, Fulton
Township; Charles Mifflin-
town; William, Jennersville;
Walter and Harry, Lancaster;
Emma, Millersville; Blanche,
Lancaster, and Mrs. Ada Hill
ton, Peach Bottom; also a half
brother, Horace, Rock Springs.
Funeral services were held
Saturday afternoon at Little
Britain Presbyterian Church,
Burial was made in the adj
joining cemetery.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-03-24
DEATHS
Mrs. George AIgers

Mrs. Emma Algers, wife OF
George Algers of this town,
dropped dead at her home in
Scranton, Pa, on Sunday,
March IL. Her husband and
one daughter, Phyllis, aged
seven years, survive.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-03-24
West Nottingham Presbyterian
Church
kev. A. H. HibshmaD

HeV.s A. n. 1IUsnmdD
sPh. D., Pastor
Sunday School 10000 a. m.
Worship at 11:00 a. IN.
Young Peoples Meeting az
700 p. m.
DR.. Hibshman's subject next
Sunday will be "The Presence
of Christ"
You are cordially invited to
all these services.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-03-24
James F. McKelyey

James F. McKelvey, eldest
son of Mr.. and Mrs. William
McKelvey, of Rising Sun, died
March Is, aged 38 years, in
Delaware County Hospital, at
Lansdown, Pa, from pneumo-
mia. Besides his parents and
two brothers, he is survived by
a widow and five children, aged
from z months to 13 years.
His funeral was held on Thurs
day, 23rd inst, with interment
at Brookview cemetery.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-03-24
Mrs. Anna M. Crawford

Mrs. Anna M. Crawford, 81,
died March IL at the home of
her son, Louis Crawford, in
Philadelphia, of a heart attack.
She is survived by the follow
ing children: Ada, of Phila-
delphia; Louis, with whom she
resided; Charles, of Perryville,
Md. Services were held on
Wednesday at noon In Perry
vile Methodist Episcopal
Church, with interment in
Principle cemetery. Her hus-
band was the late Gardner
Crawford, Perryville.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-03-24

No pains are too great to
avoid walking under 9 ladder adder
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-03-24
FOR RENT

House for rent, with all mod
ern improvements. Apply to
WIN. y. Pogue Rising Sun.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-03-24

A lot of US applaud because
we're glad the party's over.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-11
acknowledgements
Planning for Fight at
Cotton>P Picking Time
Sidelights on Trial of Tallapoosa Share
Choppers Which Railroaded Leaders

back to the town Of Dadeyille Al
the highways they meet little knots
OF armed men. Deputy CAN'T is
among them, and they know him
for he was one of these who went out
On December 10 to murder the share
troopers and to smash their union
Today he will testify against thei1
leaders. The armed patrols force the
troopers to turn back. But almost
all of them find ways to get into
town. The share troopers from the
Dadeyille region. stronghold of the
union, plunge into the swamps, I'M
provise a raft, and push four men
at time across a dangerous creek
A fifteen-year-o boy travels many
miles, alone, and finally, gains adj
mission to the court room. "He had
to go, you see his mother explains
later. Hes a young Communist"
THE trial is over An appeal is to
1 be made for the convicted CROP
pers. The members Of the union, the
working class as a whole, will struggle
for their release. Meanwhile, there
is yet other work to be done. And
small meetings are now held.
There is much work to be done in
the union, for great struggles are in
sight. Late fall will bring cotton
picking time. Formerly, the cotton
has been ginned, then placed in the
landlords baTn-pooled, as it is call
Al ,,rf;l tho Ia,SJord dantJns n cali
it. This pooling is not of the CROP
per's choice. How much the landlord
gets for this cotton, the cropper never
knows. Hundreds Of troopers have
been killed outright for demanding an
accounting. The choppers only know
that the landlords share is the money
from the sales; the troopers share
is the debt" still owing to the land
lord after the cotton has been sold.
Watch for cotton picking time, 1888,
1t will be q period of gigantic strug-
giles. The Share Choppers Union has
raised the demand: No forcsd pool
ing. For the right to sell our own
cotton. This demand aims blows at
the very roots of debt slavery, of
pcDlldSS, VI Ilic NcplJil VI LllS OOuOll-
ern landlord class, wrung from the
agonies of generations of troopers.
Last year, and for decades before, the
route of the picked white cetton-boll
was from the ginning mill to market.
Along that path lies struggle--but
along that path lies also the ultimate
salvation Of the choppers from debt
bondage.
And SO the troopers raise their slo-
gan. twenty-five hundred new
members for the Share Choppers
Union by August II Five hundred
members for every man they've put
in jail. Spread the union-east into
Georgia, west and south through all
of Alabama!
For we're through working for the
landlords Tor nothing, and Ned Cobb
spoke true words"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-11

the Council for assistance. The
Council sent a delegation With him
and 1875 other unemployed workers to
the Home Relief Buresu. Militsntly
they demanded rent and food checks.
They would not leave until they re-
ceived rent and food checks. The
unemployed worker told the workers
present at the meeting that he and
IS others received checks that day
and the others were forthcoming.
A city-wide campaign has been
started by the Unemployed Councils
modelling all unemployed organizs-
tions in the city in one gigantic united
front action to force rent and food
checks for the unemployed without
discrimination.
The Home Relief Bureau has stopt
the payment of rent and is brutally
disregarding thousands of evictions
onto the city streets.
The Downtown Unemployed Council
calls upon all workers organizations
all the Unemployed Committees in the
downtown section, to mobilize before
the Home Relief Bureau Friday morn
ing, May IL, in the initial demon
stration to be followed by daily de-
monstrationS until: y The Eviction
Laws are repealed; CT, D The Home
Relief Bureau pays rent.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-11

at uleeClng OF Locals ana 5 al Jne
Henry Street Settlement Tuesday
night, May 9.
The Unemployed workers at the
meeting readily accepted the propo-
sails of the delegate from the Down
town Unemployed Council, knowing
full we'll the record of the Council in
previous actions at the Home Relief
Bureau. A few questions were asked
of the delegates who for more than
an hour had been addressing the un-
employed workers at the meeting.
Why Demonstrations?
Max Kolokofsky, Vice Chairman OF
the Central Committee attempted to
discourage participation in demon
stration atthe Home Relief Bureau.
What good are demonstrations"
he asked.
An unemployed worker in the audi
encs got up and told the workers
present that he and few others
went to the Home Relief Bureau for
rent and food checks for their wives
and children. At the Relief Bureau
he was given an application and told
to wait. He could not wait. His wife
and two children were hungry He
was served with dispessess by the
landlord. A neighbor told him of the
Downtown Unemployed Council
With the other workers he came to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-11

but the workers got wind of the ac
Invites of the UTW. in Allentown,
and the organizers Of the UTW.
could not leave town until they turn
cd back every single cent collected
from the workers.
The Amalgamated is working in the
sweat shops to strengthen their po-
sition in textile, with the hope that
the strike situation will spread to that
industry.
Governor Pinchot's Game
Governor Pinchot runs for re-elec-
ton in the fall of 1884. Mrs. Cor
nelia Bryce Pinchot is preparing the
ground for that reelection by driving
in limousine to the picket lines of
child strikers, by picketing before the
Paramount News Camera so that the
people Of Pennsylvania may know
that she, as well as her husband, is
a friend of the poor"
"Noblesse oblige"--the mobiles are
obliged-Mrs. Pinchot answered with
her grand lady air" to the question
of whether it is good to picket. Yes,
indeed the mobiles" are obliged to
make this show in order to keep their
nobility They make mockery of
workers misery, and childrens suf-
fering. with their political acrobatics.
Allentown is not a pro-Pinchot
area. The workers of Allentown re-
member only too well the state troop
ers sent by Pinchot at the request
of the silk bosses to break the strike
of two years ago The hosiery work
ers of nearby Reading know under
whose direction the state troopers
were sent to break the strike against
As per cent wage cut. 1t was against
just such sweating slavery as in the
shops before which Mrs. Pinchot pa
raded that these workers struck. Why
is it then, that today Pinchot orders
an investigation committee, and yes
terday he ordered the state police?
1t is very simple. The silk inter-
ests, the coal and the steel are the
hackers of Pinchot. It is immaterial
to Pinchot or to the other state Of
ficials who investigated the strike
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-11

Of the shirt shop children, whether
or not the petty bosses OF the sweat
shops make profit or not. But it
is of the utmost Importance to Pin
chot to see that the interests Of the
silk, and the coal, and the steel mag
mates are insured, because these in
terests are his interests.
Therefore TO carry the publicity
stunt still further, Governor Pinchot,
on the basis OF the report Of the
members of the Governors Commit
tee to investigate conditions in the
needle trades in Northampton and
Lehigh Counties" has assigned still
another committee TO investigate, the
very evident fact of hunger, exploit
alton, misery, privation, abuse and
insult, inflicted upon these children
of the shirt shops. Investigation, and
publicity, but no action.
The Commissary Plan for the
Employed
The Governors Committee and
Mrs. Pinchot are using the evidence
of horrible conditions for the passage
Of the Minimum Wage Bill"
The Minimum wage tp meet liv-
ing requirements" will probably mean
the enforcement of the commissary
plan of Pinchot on the employed as
well as the unemployed workers.
The Commissary Plan provides for
AZ cents week for adults and q
cents week for children to live on.
Mrs. Pinchot favors this plan. To
prove that it is a good one (for the
unemployed, she arranged banquet
for about 40 society ladies who are
also "noblesse oblige" and spent 1882
for this banquet. The amounts aver
aged to six cents per person. This is
Mrs. Pinchot's idea Of meeting liY-
ing requirements"
Issues To Be Sidetracked
The revolt Of the children was a
rebellion against endless hours Of toll
for no pay, against insult and abuse
of the bosses, for an increase Of wages,
and recognition of union.
Pinchot puts aside the issues OF the
sweat shop and the fight against
these conditions and charges the sec
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-11
BOOK NOTES
STIRRING NOVEL OF PROLET-
ARIAN UPRISING IN RUHR

In view Of the situation in Ger
many today Hans Marchwitza's novel
STORM OVER THE RUHR which
has just been issued by International
Publishers, is of breathless interest.
Together with BARRICADES IN
BERLIN, by Klaus Neukranz, it
meets deep-felt need on the part
of American workers for an intimate
picture OF the class struggle in Ger
many and its immediate historical
setting.
STORM OVER THE RUHR tells
the story of the resistance of the
Ruhr miners and metal workers TO
the Kapp-Lutwitza attempt to seize
power in Germany and restore the
empire in 1920. 1t tells how the
Spartacists (Communists) called for
and carried through the arnling Of
the workers against the reaction
aries; it describes the general strike
and the part played in it by the So
cial-Democrati leaders, and finally
depicts the armed struggle against
the Social-Democratic Minister of
Defense. Noske. who led the Black
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-11
Allentown Child Strikers Driven Back to
SaVeatshobs; State Commission Betraying Them

Article 3, the last of the Daily
Worker special reports of the Al
lentown child sweatshop workers
strike deals with the present strike
situation and the betrayal plans of
the state investigating committee
to which the childrens' struggle has
been urrendered.--Editor.
At the present time Of the 5000
children in these shops only few
are out on strike. OF the forty to
fifty shops in the area only six were
pulled out. -Four in Allentown proper
the Bernstein mill, the Freezer plant,
the Adelphi, and the Lehigh Valley,
and two in Northampton, the D and
D factory and the Clyde Shirt. While
there are picket lines before the
Freezer mill, and before the D and d
in Northampton, most Of the chill
dren have been driven back to work.
Amalgamated Officials Abandon
Child Strikers
An organizer Of the Amalgamated
was asked what he planned to do
with the children. Did he expect them
to pay dues to the Amalgamated?
His answer was, II didn't think of
that"
The whole strike was turned over
TO the Mayors investigating commit
tee. Illusions were built up for the
children that this committee will do
something for them. What has the
Amalgamated and the other union
organizers done? Their chief plan is
TO get into the Allentown silk mills
through the connections and activities
of this child labor strike.
During the last strike of the tex
tile workers in 1881, under the lead
ership of the United Textile Workers
Union funds were collected in initia-
lions and dues to the amount of $1,000.
The U.TW. stands disgraced before
the textile workers Of Allentown, and
since that time they have not even
been able to get together seven work
ers for a meeting.
IN Shmokin, which is nearby. the
he U.TW. organized 1900 workers.
Dues and limitations were collected
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-11
Stage and Screen
"China Express"

The sensation produced by the Chinese
press to be shown at the City Theatre,
i4th Street. Friday, May r. calls for a
word or two about these oriental per-
formers.
AS matter Of interesting fact. there are
no professional actors in the oriental con-
tingent Of the cast. Most Of them are what
may be called natural actors" not in the
sense of native histrionic gift, but rather in
the sense Of simplicity and sincerity. The
eloquent and forceful acting of these un-
trained actors is due in very large meas
ure to the imaginative and resourceful di-
rection Of 1lya Trauberg, disciple of the
master-regisseur Eisenstein Like Eisen-
stein Trauberg selected types, not merely
for their being approximately Sin the same
boots" as the persons they are called upon
to portray.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-11
Letters from
Our Readers
Turn Labor Day Into
Fight on Reaction
Philadelphia, Pa.

Philadelphia, Pa.
Dear Comrades:
May l as reader Of the Daily
Worker since its inception congratu-
late tile Daily Worker for its real
working class news. No other news
paper can give such real information
as our Daily Worker.
Your editorial for May 5th, namely,
Continue the Fight for May First
Slogans" was to the point. May Day
in America this year has had greater
measure Of success than heretofore.
The united front program Is correct.
Why does rot the Daily Worker
start campaign for united front
Of all economic and political organiza-
tons for September 4th (the so-called
Labor Day, with broad program
that would unite all labor unions up
on a common program. such as re-
instatement of all members who have
been dropped due to non-payment OF
dues, caused by unemployment; re-
instatement OF all members who we're
expelled because they fought reaction
airy officials for rank and file control
Of the union; the immediate organ
iaation Of all workers regardless Of
race, color or creed; for the freedom
Of Tom Mooney and the Scottshoro
boys; for national amnesty of all class
war and political prisoners and the
repeal Of all war time seditious acts
against labor; unemployment and So
cial insurance at the expense OF en-
ployers and government; against class
collaboration; for class struggle and
a united front against worsened con-
ditions of the working class as a
whole, including the farmers and
share choppers unions.
Many other slogans and facts per-
tanning to reactionary officials against
rank and file control ean be brought
out by the Daily Worker.
Turn this reactionary Labor Day,
September 4th into struggle against
reaction, by psrades. and mass meet
ings for rank and file control Of
unions with a possible national con-
vention to take place on Sept. 4tln to
selioify the entire working class
movement.
Textile Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-11

women Of the Csecho- slovak organi-
cations in New York.
Realizing that our fighting paper
the Daily Worker is in urgent need
of funds at all times, we Czecho-
Slovak women decided to help fin
ancially, SO we arranged two little
affairs which netted the above men
toned sum. Please take it as con-
tribution of the proletarian women
for the support of the only English
paper fighting in the interests ci the
working class"