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Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1934-07-13
THREE NEGROES DROWNED
IN CHINCOTEAGUE BAY

Howard Goodwin George Justice
and John Marshall, all colored of
Horntown, Va, were drowned
in Chincoteague Bay, Wednesday, af-
ternoon, July 4th, about night at
what is known as elbow Channel in
Queen Sound. 1t seems that a large
party had gone on fishing and pleas
ure trip and that they ran out Of
gasoline. They sent to mainland in
a smaller boat for supply of gaso-
line and it was taken back to the
larger boat. Being unable to get
the boat started they decided to come
ashore. part of the party in a scow
and the four others in a smaller boat.
In some way the smaller boat cap
sized and threw the four men in
the boat into deep water. Those on
the other boat heard their cries but
were unable to go to them for fear
of overlooking the scow and sinking
: it. The scow was pushed back to the
! larger boat and unloaded and they
then went to look for the four men
who had capsized. Three were miss
ing but Eddie Townsend, colored was
swimming and was picked up.
The Coast Guard was notified of
the accidet and recovered the bodies
Thursday morning.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1934-07-13
SOMERSET COUNTY ERECTS
FIRST FIRE TOWER

The survey Of the site for the first
forest fire watch tower to be To-
Gated in Somerset county has been
completed by Assistant State Forester
Walter j. Quick, Jr., and District
Forester Nelson H. Fritz, and active
work on same will begin at an early
date. Mr.. Fritz is in charge of For
est District No. III, which includes
the Somerset area.
Forest fire towers have already
been constructed in both adjoining
counties-Wicomico and Worcester
and the Somerset tower will be To-
Gated centrally at Green hill, on the
Westover-Pocomoke City State high
way, near the farm of Mr.. Joe Sci
grist.
The tower will be 130 feet tall,
of angle steel construction, and an
extensive forest area will be under OBJ
servation, connecting the Wicomico
and Worcester county towers in uni
fled protective system against the ra-
wages of forest conflagrations.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1934-07-13
Greenbackviue

Mr.. Billie Kelley of Philadelphia,
Pa, is spending some time with rela-
tives here.
Mr.. Roland Lynch, of Wilmington,
Del, is spending some time with his
mother, Mrs. J. r. Lynch.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Custis and son
George Lee, of Allen, Nd, spent Sun
day with Mr.. and Mrs. Charles P.
Crowley and Mr.. and Mrs. Joshua
Tarr.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank johnson and
daughter Irene and Margaret Of Po-
comoke, Md, visited in the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. G. J. Tull on Sunday.
Miss Esther Ward Of Snow Hill,
Md, is spending this week with her
grandmother, Mrs. Annie Merrill.
Mrs. w. S. Lank has returned home
after spending some time with her
sister, Mrs. John Carlin in Whining
ton, Del. While there she entered the
hospital in Philadelphia, Pa, where
she received medical treatment.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Schopper and
daughter, Virginia Lee, of Baltimore,
Md, spent last week with Mr.. and
Mrs. John A. Selby.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Marshall
and daughter, Rebecca, of near POGO
moke, Md, spent the weekend with
her parents, Mr. .and Mrs. Estle Jones.
Mrs Fannie Ireland has returned
to her home here after several weeks
stay with her daughter, Mrs. Geo.
Barrett, in Pleasantville, N. J. Mrs.
Ireland has been very ill but is now
on the road to recovery. We wish
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1934-07-13
MIDDLETOWN LIQUOR LAW
HELD VOID BY COURT

TIL ordinance adopted by the Mayor
and Council of MiddIetown limiting
the alcoholic content Of spirituous
liquor to be sold for consumption on
the premises in that town, is held
void in an opinion filed by Judge
Richards in General Sessions Court.
The opinion was filed in the case
of Martin Boyer, Middletown hotel
proprietor, who was refused a Ii
cense to sell liquor at the Middle
town Hotel, for consumption on the
premises, by the Delaware Liquor
Commission.
The commission informed Mr.. Boy
er that it would refuse to grant a
license to be used in any county or
subdivision thereof, contrary to any
prohibtory law then in force in such
county or subdivision.
John w. Huxley, Jr., appeared for
Mr.. Boyer, Horace Greeley Eastburn
and Benjamin T. Biggs, appeared for
the appellee.
The court directs that Mr.. Boyer's
application for liquor license be re.
manded to the commission for fur.
ther consideration.
Mr.. Huxley had contended that the
ordinance was unconstitutional anC
that the council had no authority tt
pass such an ordinance. Counsel fol
the town contended however that un
der the general powers bestowed upol
the town by its charter it possessed
the right to adopt the ordinance il
question limiting the alcoholic con
tent of spirituous liquor to be sol
on the premises to ten per cent.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1934-07-13

Mr.. Billie Kelley of Philadelphia,
Pa, is spending some time with rela-
tives here.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1934-07-13

The court states in its opinion that
Section "A of the Liquor Control Act
provides that the commission shall
refuse to grant license to be used
in any county or subdivision thereof,
contrary to any prohibitory law then
in force in such couty or subdivision.
But, adds the court, "this section
is not controlling in the case under
relied upon by the APPELLEE does not
prohibit the sale Of alcoholic liquor,
but attempts to regulate the alcoholic
content Of the alcoholic liquor licensed
by the commission to be sold"
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1934-07-13
AGED METHODIST PREACH
Err DIES IN CAROLINE co.

The Rev. Thomas R. VanDyke, age
60, pastor of the Preston NJ. E. Church
died Wednesday at the Methodist Hos
pital in Philadelphia, following an
illness from complication of diseases
The pastor was taken to the hos
pital several days ago for observation
and had grown worse steadily. He
is survived by his wife, two sons
and a daughter The funeral will
be held at the church Of which he was
pastor, Saturday afternoon at two
o'clock.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1934-07-13
FROM OUR
EXCHANGES
FOUR FIRE TOWERS TO
BE ERECTED ON THE SHO'

Construction Of four more forestry
towers on the Eastern Shore of Mary
land, bringing the total to nine, will
make it possible for almost any forest
fire on the shore to be exactly spot
ted by location and cross lining thru
two or more towers, according to \.
H. Fritz, District Forester.
One of the towers will be construc-
ter in Somerset county at Green Hill,
between Westover and Pocomoke, one
in Dorchester county near Shiloh and
two in Cecil county.
The towers are opened by the State
Forestry Department during the fire
seasons in the spring and fall and at
any time when unusually dry weather
creates serious forest fire hazards.
Men stationed in the towers have
crews of men available and can make
contact with wardens near any fire
that may be spotted. Fires can be
seen for miles after the first few
wisps Of smoke have arisen.
Few fires have been reported this
summer despite the unusually dry
weather.
A warning was issued today for
berry pickers to be careful following
the burning of a thirty acre tract |
near Quantico. This fire was blamed
on a match or cigarette thrown away
by berry picker.
Brush burners and smokers usually
contribute largely to the forest fire
causes in the state.
Spread of the pine tip moth on the
shore was reported. This insect, bor-
ing into the tip of budding pines,
bores into the stems. While originally
believed to affect only pine sprouts,
it was found last year in pines of
larger size.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1934-07-13
her a speedy recovery.

her a speedy recovery.
Miss Rae Howard and Master Jack
Howard, of Salisbury, Md, are spend
ing this week with Mr.. and Mrs. w.
c. Pruitt.
Mr.. Gernert and Mr.. Stern of Allen
town, Pa, are spending sometime with
Mr.. Chester Jones.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elvin Lewis and
daughters, Catherine and Harriet Of
Williamsport, Pa, spent the weekend
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. j. T..
Sharpley. Mr.. Lewis returned home
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1934-07-13

on Monday leaving his wife and daugh
ters for three weeks visit.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wesley Taylor of
Temperanceville, Va, spent the week
end with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Samuel Risley.
Miss Annie Brown, of Pocomoke
Md, spent the weekend with hel
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. c. E. Brown
Sr.
Miss Ruth Pruitt is spending this
week with Miss Imogene Gordy at
Delmar, Del.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1934-07-13

Society circles at eastern fash
ionable centers are buzzing with
gossip about the romance of
Doris Duke, 21-year-old heiress
of the Duke tobacco fortune and
reputedly the richest girl in the
world, and II. X. (Jimmy) Crom-
well, 37-year-old son of Mrs. Ed
ward T. Stotcsbury, one of the
recognized leaders of American
society. Friends assert there are
indications the romance of the
couple, above, is serious one.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-05
BY MARY BURGESS

please let me try. / am sure that
l can manage all right"
Most decidedly came this an
swer, mo, I'd like to help you,
but just can't take chance on
having my wash monkeyed with.
To tell you the truth, | want a
younger woman, but as you have
come so far, I'll pay your earfare,
Mother"
Mrs. Sixty felt quite jaunty as
she refused the contribution.
So on, through the weary days.
Every one called her Mother.
No one was wilfully brutal. All
of them wanted to be kind in a
cheap way.
They all wanted to help Moth
er, to the tune OF dime, or dol
lar.
Some laughed, as at a good
Joke.
Some felt little tightening OF
the heart strings.
Into some eyes flashed CLEAN
of fear, which quickly passed
away under the comfort of that
lying old thought, this sort of
thing could never happen to me-"
Thank you for calling. Better
luck next time, Mother.
Thought she, it's bad enough
when they laugh at me, pity me.
deny me-but when they call me
Mother, 1t is the absolute limit.
How she learned to loathe that
word Mother. For her it connOted
nothing but contemptuous pity.
For those who used it, it was just
cheap liberation; it helped
them to say NO, and to say it
without too much brutality.
How this old woman squirmed
under the familiarity and con-
tempt with which that title was
applied to her.
Mother. Mother. Mother: oh,
rotten word. said Mrs. Sixty, as,
after the days quest, she entered
her awful housekeeping" room
and looked lovingly at the little
gas stove in the corner. May |
never hear it again; it's a lie; it
hurts; it kills.
Still she had to laugh as she
said to herself. I've been assist
ing at a witch fry, and I'm the
witch.
All, well, that fire of faggots
must have been comparatively
painless.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-05
Daily Worker Drive

SEATTLE, Oct. with AS
toria leading Section l in So
cialist competition, the Sections
of the Communist Party are
swinging into full action in rails.
ing funds for the Daily Worker
Sustaining Fund Drive. Astoria
is leading with $2075 of its $lO0
quota, and Section ! with only
S. with an equal quota.
Other sections which have
sent in money are: Aberdeen,
Sl6.75; Renton, Sl.50; Workers
Bookstore, Seattle. $500.
Tacoma, although it has ac-
cepted Spokane's challenge for
a socialist competition, has sent
in nothing as yet. So the score
for Spokane and Tacoma is 10
thing to nothing.
California leads District II
with $55 already raised, while
District IL to date has received
$40.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-05
Communist Nominee for Com
missioner, Dist. 2
Clallam County
By ALBERT sTRoUr

PORT ANGELES, Wash, Oct.
Small farmers, small producers
and small store keepers, long
the bulwark of American Capt.
alism, whose strongest past hope
has been to stay the irresistible
march of large social production
by political methods, are now
having that hope fast dispelled
by Roosevelt's pet bird of prey,
the NRA BuZzard. This bird has
brought about real monopoly in
the truest sense of the word.
Though the natural tendency
of capitalism is to diminish the
middle class in numbers it now
finds itself confronted with ever
increasing danger of sheriffs
sales. bankruptcy and ruin.
The New Deal" mortgage NOR
atorium has just been declared
unconstitutional and Immediate
ly the eviction of farmers began,
one case within less than "a hours
after ruling OF federal judge.
10 to One
The element Of conscious in
security is reaching ever higher
INTO the strata OF this class. Hero
N Port Angeles. at our recent
primary election, 10 men filed
for one little county office. Some
III these men are engaged in the
best business in their line. But
they are feeling the relatively
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-05
Fascisnn and War;
The Twin Dangers
By ROBERT MoRss LovETT

Professor of English at Chicago University
Contributing Editor to the New Republic
Pres. of the League for Industrial Democracy
In a civilization based on a predatory sys-
TEN of economics, a system which itself nOurish-
es the spirit of Imperialist War in order to OBJ
tain markets for goods which it would rather
destroy than utilize in feeding the hungry or
in clothing the poor, the growth of Fascsm will
rapidly increase unless militant action is taken
against it, For Fascism is espoused by the upper
classes to resist all attacks upon their self
ordained rights to exploit the disinherited.
Both war and fascism are expressions of the
selfish predatory instinct that animates ma
tions and individuals in our present stage of
progress. War is the international conflict in
which domestic difficulties finally resolve them
selves; fascism is directed against any rational
solution of these difficulties. 1t opposes all
change in the social order, which, under the
specious name of peace, conceals the essential
horrors of the war which it eventuates. To ap-
preciate this connection we do not need to fol
low the speeches and actions of the eminent
fascists-Mussolini, Hitler and Chang Kai-shek.
The United States affords plenty of material
for our study
Everywhere today we find symptoms of
fascism. It parades under various names or it
travels incognito We find it in General John
son, when he, under the aegis Of the Blue Eagle,
broke the general strike in San Francisco. We
find 1t, too, in the Presidents tremendous naval
program which will require the expenditure Of
millions upon millions of dollars Of the workers
money.
Whether the next war is imminent or not,
the fascists are conditioning the country for it.
The American League Against War and Fascsm
is part of world movement against kindred
evils. Join this movement and serve this causel
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-05
Workers Correspondence

from burning sulphur. | worked
10 hours, went home coughing
and splitting. | ate light lunch
and went to bed but the cough
did not stop. Every time |
coughed would vomit and that
lasted about three hours, then |
finally dropped off to sleep and
woke up with an awful bad
cough.
So | went to work the second
night because | was hard up and
was in need of some money and
everything was in an awful shape.
The tank blocked shoot from the
peelers room was full and the
large four wheeled trucks were
all loaded and it meant a race
horse job until about three o.
clock in the morning so | made
a kick and was laid off.
You should see the apples that
come down there, so wormy and
rotten and bruised they are
hardly fit for hog feed but still
after they come out of that acid
they are hauled to another place
where they are supposed to be
washed but all they get is light
spray from a nozzle that doesn't
wash half the acid off and then
into the dry kilns they go, worms,
rot, and all, and are dried whole
and as | understand they are
sold as baked apples, worms
feathers and all.
Pure Food Laws, yes! AS long
as the boss can shove his hand
out back with the dollars in it,
all is OK.
l finally got my check which
was S4.6S for 1917 hours work. So
you can see what good for no.
thing outfit they are.
Yours truly,
"A Worker.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-05
CRIMINAL SYNDICALISM,
WHAT 1T MEANS

speak. write and publish on
all subjects. being responsible
for the abuse of that right"
Despite these constitutional
provisions the conference never
took place. State and police Of
ficials. likewise vigilantes, were
placed at the state fair grounds.
Hundreds of men and women.
workers and farmers. were fore
IDLY turned away and warned to
leave the city. About eighty were
arrested, locked either in Jail or
in an open-air, barbed-wire bull
pen, and many were later trans
ferred to hastily constructed
stOckade.
Several leaders of the confer
ence were locked in jail. each held
under $500 cash bail, and eharg-
ed with criminal syndiealism.
But after two months imprison-
ment were released upon their
own recogniZance Wltnout their
cases ever having been tried.
Among these leaders were
Mary GOold. then international
Labor Defense secretary at Yaki-
ma, her father and brother. 9th
ers were brutally beaten. The
body of Casey Boskaljon, then
state secretary of the United
Farmers League, was a mass of
battered flesh and his head was
branded with swastika. living
evidence of incipient fascism.
Criminal syndicalism. jails, bull
pens, stockades, brutalities, for
workers and farmers of wash
ington assembled in the city OF
Yakima to consider means for
improving living conditions for
the toiling masses of the state!
And the state constitution reads:
The right of petition and of
the people peaceably to assem-
BILE for the common good shall
never be abridged"
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-05
Middle Class Doomed

small buying power of certain
special government projects.
Members of tine middle class,
who feel themselves slipping,
struggle for a salaried position.
Glass consciousness, which is
the backbone of an organized la.
Dor state, is still lacking in these
middle class aspirants to public
office. AS yet it is each for himself
and the philosophy of social sal
Walton is to them an irridescent
dream.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-05

During August, 1888. workers
and farmers OF Washington as.
sembled in the city of Yakima to
attend a conference OF the Unit
ed Farmers League at the state
fair grounds. The primary pur-
pose of the conference was to
consider means for improving liv-
ing conditions for the toiling
masses of the state. Theoretical
ly, permission to hold the confer
ence is embodied in the state
constitution. article one, sections
four and five, reading:
The right of petition and of
the people peaceably to assem-
BILE for the common good shall
never be abridged
Every person may freely
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-05
The WITCH FRY a a s Short st,s ssesy

job. and even more courage to
stand up to the loud. vulgar
laugh that issued from the great
mouth and brazen lungs OF pros
porous Greek. who said to her,
Say Mother. what's the big
ldea?"
Mrs. Sixty explained that the
idea was simple enough-to get
job that would keep her in
what little she needed.
Ha, ha, ha-from the Greek,
and when the mere idea ceased to
be amusing. he went on-"What
we want here is some one who can
be smart and poppy. some one
who can get through the work
quickly"
All in vain did Mrs. Sixty ex-
plain how smart and poppy she
could be.
Nothing doing said the
Greek, but II you want to eat, go
to it, and here's dollar il you
want to take it,"
There was a dreadful buzzing in
the brain of this old woman, who
was a member of what is called
an honorable professional buzz
ing that. for a moment, Obscured
all things. She came to herself
with the thought, this did not
really happen to me-nOt really
I'm just dreaming. But the
dirty cook-shOp seemed real
enough. and the Greek was still
holding a dollar bill toward her.
Thank YOU" said she, you're
very kind, but | am not hungry,
and L do not think | will take
your dollar bill, at least, not Just
now. | may come back for it some
day"
Sure, Mother" said he, "any
time you want it. come in and
get it,"
A woman to wash clothes.
That, she thought, am certain
| can do, and they won't want a
raving beauty for the job. So off
she went, certain of success this
time. The woman who was inter-
viewed was sixty also, perhaps
more. Life had been easier for
her. She hadn't learnt much from
it, she hadn't wasted her youth
and strength over other peoples
bodies, and her first remark was,
Lands sake, you're no washer
woman" Sixty had to admit the
soft impeachment, but she added
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-05
SELL PAPER Write News, Says
Reader in Letter Of Sharp Crit
icism on Paper, Lumber Col
umn
Seattle, Wash.

Seattle, Wash.
Dear Editor:
Since the four page, large edi-
tion of the Voice of Action has
been put out, many improve
ments have taken place in our
paper. True, it does not as yet
reflect sufficiently the problems
and struggles of the working
class of the Northwest as it
should.
| believe the editorial board
is aware of the reasons for this,
which | would enumerate as:
First, it has not reached a broad
enough strata of the working
people such as in the AFL, fra.
ternal societies, lodges, etc. OF
course this can only be accom-
plished by the readers them
selves selling it and getting SUBJ
scriptions from among their
friends and neighbors. A lot of
us, while we realize this, remain
passive. Don't you think that
this can be overcome by carrying
on a real campaign along this
line within the paper?
Other reasons of course, is the
failure to understand on the
part of the readers, the funda-
mental difference between a cap
italist sheet and a working class
newspaper, namely, it has no
staff of highly paid news report
ers and readers must understand
that If they want to see news in
the paper, they themselves must
sent it in. Yet the Voice of Ac-
ton very seldom encourages cor
respondence in its editorials.
| merely state these things be-
cause there is such vast space
for real paper in the Northwest
and the quicker we all put our
shoulders to the wheel, the bet
ter including the editorial board.
Checks Up on Murphy
One more point, being a lum-
Der worker myself, | have read
with interest Murphy's Special
News for the Lumber Workers"
and | must confess | have found
no signs of any special news at
all. Instead | find more of an
unpOinted attack on the IWW
and AFL leadership. For example
in the last two issues / read ''The
degenerated pie card artists in
the leadership of the IWW."
While / understand the neces-
sity of exposing any maneuvers
CONCRETELY of any leaders in
the labor movement, yet this
way of doing it is merely name
calling which will in the long
run keep the workers farther
away from the NLWU.
1 think his column would be
much mote interesting if he
would confine it to what his or
ganization is actually doing
among the lumber workers and
exposing in deeds those who are
working to their detriment.
Let's go readers! Hustle subs
from your friends and send in
news. Put the Voice of Action
over the top!
Sincerely yours
r. N. w
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-05
Did You Know

Oregon business men and well-to-do land
owners are trying to pass a law that would re-
duce school expenditures IS per cent below the
1888 figures. Watch it. Other states will see the
same attempt. Only an arousal of the broad
masses of the working people can prevent the
loss of all education for their children.
The Italian Socialist and Communist Parties
have formed United Front
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-05
woRMY, ROTTEN Apples Make
Joke of Pure Food Laws !;
Speed-Up Terrific.
Yakima, Wash.

dhAIllo, w ASH.
Dear Comrades:
ran all around looking for a
job as | had been sick nearly all
summer and under a doctors
care. l got job at the Washing
ton Dehydrated Plant here in
Yakima.
Well, / am a man of GO years
and am crippled up some so /
got fine job. They put me on
the wash tank where they run
the apples through some sulphur
and acid solution or at least an
acid solution.
Well, the first night the fumes
from the solution almost smoth-
cred me at first. 1t choked me
same as II l had caught q Whit