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Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1935-03-29
Mona, Va. News

Mr.. and Mrs. William Savage Of
Rock Hall, Md, were callers on Mr..
and Mrs. D. P. Miles Monday MORN
ing.
Harry Bell, Jr., returned to his home
here after spending a week with Mr..
and Mrs. Walter Wilson and Mr.. and
Mrs. James Williams.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Bell entertain
ed at supper Sunday evening Mrs. Sus-
an Wilson, Miss Hilda Wilson, Mr..
and Mrs. James Williams and Mr.. John
Williams.
Mrs. H. S. Hurley, Mrs. Charlie
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1935-03-29
Beaver Dam News

Master Marvin Wilkerson spent a
part of the weekend with Mr.. and
Mrs. w. E. Wilkerson at Mona, Va.
Miss Avis Smith, is visiting rela-
tives at Onancock, Va.
Mr.. Frank Holland is visiting rela-
tives in Pocomoke City.
Mrs. Alice Tull spent last Thursday
in Salisbury.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest White of
Onancock, Va, were dinner guests at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. B.
Smith, on Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Townsend and
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1935-03-29

is of the jealousy guarded secrets of the navy
1t is hoop-like affair which enables the pilot to
chart his course from instructions broadcast by
radio compass sending stations. When the plane
strays from its course, the fact is recorded by the
pathfinder which registers when the radio waves
are DETECTED by the wrong angle of the ship.
Many ships have seen the plane in flight,
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1935-03-29

international interest has been aroused by the
governments new mystery plane and its robot
pilot 8Recent test flights have proven the practical
dependabty Of the device Government officials
are now awaiting break in weather before sending
the ship on its epochal flight to Hawaii. The robot
pilot enables the aviator to set the course without
having his hands on the controls. The pathfinder"
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1935-03-29
Facts And Figures
On Your Telephone
BY EDWIN F. HILL

Improve m ents
and betterments to
the Bell Telephone
System this y e a r
will involve expend-
itures of 5000, 000,-
600 which is $685.
100000 more than
W a s expended in
1884, according to
a statement recent
ly made by Walter
S. Clifford, presi-
dent of the Ameri-
can Telephone and
Te1eoranh Conn.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1935-03-29

AND Up. List price of Master Dc Lszs
Coupe at Flint. Mich, $500. With
bumpers, spare tire and tire lock, the List
price is $25 90 additional. Prices quoted
in this advertisement areIist at Flint and
are subject to change without notice.
Knee Action optional at $4,000 extra.
The Washington times., 1935-12-12
Listen, World!
Bv Elsie Robinson
Why Has the American Home Gone OI


parties, hip flasks and makeup
kits. Meanwhile permitting their
elders to manufacture and sell
said commodities and run said in
stitutions for their enormous per-
sonal profit.
A cute idea! And just about as
reasonable as asking an omelet to
speak French.
Personally, I'm all for hanging
the blame on the PapaS and Ma
mas themselves. The American
Home has gone on the rocks-ac-
cording to my notion-largely be-
cause Parents refuse to accept the
role.
1t would matter comparatively
little whether we lived in farm
houses or apartments, Travelled in
ox-carts or limousines. if the two
people who were responsible for
the home faced that responsibility.
But, in an unfortunate majority
of cases, they don't and won't.
AN IMPOSSIBILITY
A fathers attitude toward his
family has altered relatively little
but a mothers has altered enor-
mouSly.
The average modern mother Is
obsessed with the necessity OF
keeping herself young and enjoy
ing her youth while she has It,
She honestly believes that she
has made a brilliant success OF
her motherhood if, at 35. she is
mistaken for her daughters sis
ter. Daughters opinion on this
subject is frequently imprint
able.) She's either out for a
schol girl figure and complexion
or a career. But in either case,
you'll note, Mama Comes First
And in either case-it's the
bunk!
It is simply impossible to be a
full-time mother and yet look 16
at 36. Moreover, no female with
her full quota of sense would
want to. Nor is it possible to
have a full-tlme career and &c
right by your home.
Yes, I know-you've 1887
smart arguments to refute that
sister, But don't try them on me
I'm a mother myself and I know
what I'm talking about. The
American Home has gone on the
rocks, gals, because we've been
too busy serving ourselves Il
keep II off,
GcopyaEht, &asA n y 4 EH~A
The Washington times., 1935-12-12
Minimum Army Needs
BIZ James T. Williams, H.

|suitable building constructed for
that purpose.
The established military policy
of the United States is a sound
one. It's purpose is to provide a
small Regular Army, including a
modern and highly effective air
force and reinforced by the Ma.
tional Guard and the Organized
Reserves.
What is now needed is action
by Congress at the coming session
in support of the sound military
policy to which the Congress is
committed in the National De-
fense Act.
Now is the time for the legisla-
tive branch of the Government to
ignore the crackpot theorists and
to resist the sappers against the
Common Defense who are attack.
ing our established military policy
and opposing the sound recon-
mendations in pursuance of that
policy which are the main feature
of Secretary Dern's annual report.
No COMPKOM1SE
At the coming session both
crackpot theorists and political
sappers will attempt to discredit
our established military policy and
the sound recommendations. in
pursuance of that policy, which
our military authorities have sub.
mitted to the President.
If Mr.. Roosevelt is we'll advised
he will persist in his refusal in
the past to play politics with the
Common Defense.
What is most needed from Con-
gress at the coming session are
the very moderate grants of au-
thority and funds to carry forward
the modernization of the military
establishment which was neglected
by Congress throughout the
decade after the close Of the
Great War.
In his final report as Chief of
Staff General Douglas Macarthur
offered for the guidance of the
Congress these wise and timely
observations:
To maintain in peace a need
lessly elaborate military establish.
ment entails economic waste. But
there can be no compromise with
military requirements.
In war there is no intermedi-
ate measure of success. Second
best is to be defeated. and mill
tary defeat carries with it a ma.
tional defeat-political. economic,
social and spiritual defeat"
The recommendations Of Sec.
retary Dern stipulate the mini
mum requirements which must be
met if Congress is to be faithful
in the discharge Of its bounden
duty under the Constitution "to
provide for the Common Defense" D."
The Washington times., 1935-12-12
Preserving Repeal

Beverage dealers of Washington acting In a con-
strucve manner in organizing to preserve the benefits
of repeal and to stimulate law enforcement through
operation with the authorities.
Such an organization is needed only in the Interest,"
of those dealing in liquors in the interest of the sub
sdntaI part of citizenry ho stand for temperate
drinking under reasonable regulation
Despite the efforts being made by the professional
drys paint picture of the horrors of repeal nforma
tion gathered by those whose duty it is to know the
facts shows conclusivey that CONDITIONS ARE
VASTLY IMPROVED OVER THOSE EXISTING IN
THE DAYS OF THE SPEAK EASY AND THE BOOT
LEGGER.
It is the right of those interested the sale of bever
ages to do their utmost to present the true facts Of the
situation just is the right of the drys to present
their facts.
AND THERE RESTS UPON THOSE WHO HAVE
BEEN GRANTED LICENSES TO SELL ALCOHOLIC
BEVERAGES IN THE DISTRICT AN IMPERATIVE
OBLIGATION TO SEE TO 1T THAT THE PRIVI-
LEGEs ACCORDED THEM ARE NOT ABUSED
By and large there has been since the enactment Of
the local control bill conmendable display Of cooPerG
on on the part of the dealers Wh the authorities WhOse
Job it Is to enforce the IdW
This desire to cooperate was disclosed fully at the
recent hearings held by the Alcoholic Beverage Control
Board on the matter of drinking after legal hours in
cafes and public dining rooms.
At that time it was conclusvey shown that the pro-
prieor had gone to exhaustive lengths IN an effort 10
bring about compliance with an unnecessarily arbitrary
and harsh provision of the law
The propretors presumably didn't like the ProOiSion,
but they uUere doing their utmost to conform to it,
This is simply example of the wholehearted man
ner in which those who have been granted licenses have
strven to keep the liquor business in Washington on
high standard.
AN ALERT CONTROL BOARD AND RESPONSIBLE
AND RESPECTED LICENSEES CONSTITUTE THE
STRONGEST BULWARK THAT THOSE IN FAVOR
OF TEMPERATE DRINKING CAN ERECT AGAINST
THE ONSLAUGHTs OF THE FANAT1CAL OE4s'
The Washington times., 1935-12-12
AN ENTHUSIAST

Representative Jennings Ran.
dolph. Democrat, of West Virginia
is being touted as The Flying
Congressman"
In a Soon-to-be published maya
zine article, Randolph writes of
previously unknown facts of av1-
alton"
He has made a serious study Of
the subject, not only since he
came to Congress but in the years
preceding. when he sought and
was unable to attain election.
In this article, entitled "Pilots
Of Progress" he gives some of the
nttle-known history Of aviation de.
velopment in words and pictures.
One of the pictures incident
ally, shows the reception for the
first pilot who flew the air mail
across Long Island, almost a quar-.
ter OF a century ago.
Randolph was extremely inStru
mental in securing improved fly
ing field conditions at Elkton, w.
Va.
So it was that not so long ago
when officials Of the field pur-
chased a new ship, they named it
the Representative Jenn ings
Randolph"
The Washington times., 1935-12-12
The Hazards of Football

With the end of gamorous football season. the at
enton of coaches and officials to the youths
who have given lives for Americas autumn sports festival
They the last white chalk nemore tnan score
of them this for their memories even
the most rockng of college tune becomes as melancholy as
funeral dirge ...
It may be said, and justly that the deaths and INJURIES
struck down onv small part of the hundred thousand or
more who played the game this fall.
Still football is the only game that exacts such toll Base
ball deaths are such rarity that when they the entire
nation is shocked Fatalities hockey and boxing which have
a roughhouse reputation, are just as scarce
Lou Little chairman of the football rules committee poIS
out that this year the football deaths occurred among
high school sandot players either because OF faulty equip
ment bad playing conditions incomplete medical examna
ton.
If this is true many Of the hazards Of the game can be
eliminated They must be- unless the coaches and officials wan
to game away from the boys and give 1t 10 tne unoe
taker.
The Washington times., 1935-12-12

Congress must choose at the
coming session between the sound
recommendations Of the Secre-
tary of War for the building up
Of the Army and the crackpot
theories and hostile propaganda
of a coalition of Sappers against
the Common Defense.
Secretary Dern urges upon the
J President the submission to the
Congress of the following recon-
mendations:
First, The maintenance OF the
Regular Army at a minimum
strength of $4,000 officers and
165 900 enlisted men.
Authority was given at the last
session to recruit the Army up
to 10000 enlisted men. Mr..
Dern asks extension of this
authority to permit raising the
officer strength from 10000 to
$4,000. This increase would be
made in annual increments over
the next four or five years and
is needed to enable the Army
to perform it's mission.
Second, The maintenance OF the
National Guard at a minimum
strength of 100000. This will
necessitate a small increase Of
approximately $4,000 in the
present authorized strength of
the guard.
SOUND POLICY
Third, the adoption of five
year aircraft procurement pro-
gram to be initiated at once. Such
program would provide mini
mum of 800 military airplanes of
the best and most modern de-
sign" to be purchased immedi-
ately.
Fourth, the initiation of a mu-
nitions procurement program. Its
objective would be "the acquiSi-
ton of full complement of mod
ern weapons and other equip
ment for the Regular Army and
the National Guard at present
strength, plus a reasonable re-
serve of standardized equipment. "
Fifth, provision for the annual
training for two weeks each year
of 10000 officers of the Organized
Reserves.
Sixth, provision for enrolling
$4,000 youths annually in the
Citizens Military Training Camps
for a months training with the
Colors.
Seventh, maintenance Of an en-,
listed Reserve of sufficient size
to bring existing Army units to
war strength.
Eighth, completion of the Army
housing program and the unifica'
ton of the widely scattered activi'
ties of the War Department in a
The Washington times., 1935-12-12

omy at the Museum Of Natural
History, is the founder and head
of the Amateur Astronomers AS
sociation, with somewhere around
800 members, unusually eager and
active, just now, with New York'S
Planetarium.
Many of these amateurs grind
their own lenses, which are from
two to ten inches in diameter
not big enough to add much to
astronomical knowledge, but all Of
them bigger than the lens used by
Galileo. The largest lens in towu
is the one at Columbia Univer'
sity-12 inches. Their field dey
The Washington times., 1935-12-12

For the last twenty years there's
been a constant discussion about
The American Home. Why has it
gone on the rocks? Each debater
has his own theory and cure.
Some of them are exasperating.
For instance, there's a large
tribe who thinks that everything
would be ducky again if we could
all live in big, rambling, country
houses, with roses over the front
veranda, pigeons in the dove cote
and pies cooling on the pantry
window sill. A delightful picture,
but clearly aSinine.
Congestion-with the inevitable
competition-has inevitably put
big, rambling, country houses in
the same class with Stone Age
caves and tent dwellings. More
over, most bakery pies are cleaner
and better than the kitchen
variety. (Not mine! If you think
that I'm ever going to admit that
any bakery can beat me at pie
making, you're crazyD
However, as I was Saying-and
as you we'll know unless you're
completely goofy-the Dear Old
Fashioned variety Of Home is
OUT. Nothing short Of a miracle
can bring it back to this congeSted
and complicated modern world.
And people who advocate its re-
turn as a cure for the youthful
crime wave are plainly having
pipe dreams.
Then, there's another class who
blame Transportation.
NO MIDDLE COURSE
Transportation, they say, is re-
Sponsible for all this wildneSS. If
we didn't have All These Automo-
biles! But that, too, is piffle.
Human brains being what they
are, automobiles were likewise in
evitable. You might as well say:
"If we didn't have all these egg
beaters. or patent can openers.
If you're going to have a Machine
Age, you'll have to go it whole
hog. There's no middle course.
The largest class, of course,
blame it on The Kids themselves.
They think tn a t right-minded
youngsters should voluntarily
band themselves together at the
age of six and vow to forthwith
resist the devilish lures of all NOV
les, silk stockings, cigarettes, fliv'
vers, roadhouses, dance halls, one,
pieca swimming SUITS nec6nf
The Washington times., 1935-12-12
By Edwin c. Hill

Hes been working for years on a
big lens, putting in all his off time
on it.
The shadow of the edge of a
safety razor blade, thrown the
distance of a long chamber, pro
vides him an instrument of pre-
cision for measuring and grinding
the surface of a lens. A cats
whisker would be a coarse and in.
sensitive instrument for this. The
angle of the razor edge writes
large on the wall an infinitesimal
flaw for the ingenious Mr.. Her
gott.
1t seems too bad that we
couldn't do something like that
with politics and finance. We
devise no instruments of pre-
cision here. It's quite a wrench
from the old telescope mans
queer, lonely people to the most
magnificent astronomical dlScov-
ery-in some ways the noblest
outreach of the mind, but there's
q sequence there. That was the
discovery of the planet Neptune
by URBAN Joseph Leverrier.
Leverrier had spoken OF him
self as "docile to circumstance" !"
and that fairly describes the fuzzy
old star-gazerS who play the
nickel telescopes. Thus docile
and adaptable. Leverrier quit be-
ing an expert on the compost
ton of tobacco-he was the
French administrator OF tobaccoS
and turned his attention to
astronomy, having previously
qualified as a scientist, however.
ON SCHEDULE
AS a newspaper reporter, l have
often tried to think of what story
in history 1 would like to have
covered and how I would have
handled it. That Neptune story
is pretty nearly the favorlte.
Along in 1843, Leverrier observed
Uranus, the outermoSt known
planet, running a bit off sched-
ule. Some vagrant comets were
kicking up a disturbance in that
neighborhood, a billion or so
miles down the coSmic land.
He accounted for the comets
but there was something else.
-Four years of calculus, in which
he had nothing but the law OF
gravitation and the Uranlan
alteration to work on, gave him a
tiny spot in the heavens where
there ought to be new planet, OF
a certain weight and speed, at a
certain instant on the evening OF
September %, 1846.
But the German, J. G. Gale,
also had covered the same
ground. At that mathematically
determined instant, the big tele-
scopes in France and Germany
swung on that siderial pin-prick,
and there was Neptune, 2,793,-
100000 miles away, running on
time, and meeting all the Specifi-
cations of the calculus as to
weight and density!
That Corning lens would have
picked out Neptune with no trou-
BILE at all. That means plenty of
progress in 88 years, but have
those passing decades turned up
O brain comparable to Lever
rier's2
Copyright 1888. xide Features
GyAdiaGA" "RA1
The Washington times., 1935-12-12
The Human Side of the News = ByEdwi

lis in August, when the earth
swims through the Perseids, the
meteor showers from the conStel-
lation Of PerSeuS.
The amateurs help a lot here.
in fielding the ball for the profes
Sionals. Some of them work
years grinding their lenses. The
amateur may be a clerk, banker,
a poet or an accountant. Interest
in the heavens may spring from
exalted fancy or a penchant for
mechanical exactitudeS. There's
Bill Hergott. for instance, running
his little roadside garage and gas
station in Rockland county, N. Y.
The Washington times., 1935-12-12
The Greatest Show On Earth
By John Snure, J.

According to him, the houses
have been completed, modern con
veniences have been installed ano
the colonizers are producing more
crops than they could ever hope
to grow on acreageS back home .
strangest thing about the pioneers
is that a modern, standard gauge
railroad runs to the development.
Senator Bone says:
Think of pioneers going into
an area where they may be con-
fronted by grizzly bears. moose,
ETC., as soon as they step off a
modern train"
The Washington times., 1935-12-12
THE LIST GROWS

The Senatorial trek back to the
Capitol has reached a stage where
the boys might almost have
Democratic caucus.
Back in town are Senators Alva
Adams of Colorado, Homer T.
Bone. Alben w. Barkley, Democrat
of Kentucky; Elmer Thomas. of
Oklahoma; Ellison D. Cotton Ed"
Smith, of South Carolina; James
E. Murray, of Montana; Morris
Sheppard, of Texas; Augustine
Lonergan, of Connecticut, and
Harry Flood Byrd, of Virginia.
Asked the reason for his early
arrival at the Capitol, one Sena-
tor replied:
II came back here to have a va
cation. couldn't have one at
home"
The Washington times., 1935-12-12
Words of Wise Men

The saddeSt thing that can be-
fall a soul is when it loses faith
in God and woman.-Alexander
Smith.
Whom the gods love die young
no matter how long they live
Ebert Hubbard.
'Tis immortality to die asplr'
ing, as if a man we're taken quick
to heaven.-George Chapman.
A crowd Is not company, and
faces are but . gallery Of pictures.
Francis Bacon.
The Washington times., 1935-12-12

uSpOSlGo.
He advocated old age pensions.
He expressed favor for distri-
button of wealth by taxation.
All three of those things
which he advocated have in part
come true.
And the depression he foresaw
came in such a way that none
can doubt its arrival and estab-
iShment.
Donahey was three times
governor Of Ohio. He is serving
his first term as Senator and
as such is one of the most
popular members of the Senate.
Today he predicts further
changes in government and con-
tinues his advocacy of social
security and what might be
called reform" legislation.
Whether or not his prediction
for the future will be as accurate
as his ones of '28 can only be
told at some distant time.
The Washington times., 1935-12-12

I lay it down as a fact that, If
all men knew what others say OF
them. there would not be four
friends in the world.-Pascal.
A man cannot be said to sue
ceed in this life who does not
satisfy one friend.-Thoreau.
Company keeps our rind from
growing too coarse and rough
Walpole.
Reason is the triumph OF the
intellect, fs4th Of the heart
James Schoulera
The Washington times., 1935-12-12

the gre t de-
preston was on
its way. And in
those days of
% few thought
Of depression.
In the same
volume he ad-
vocated t h r ee
c h a n G es in
Gov vern ment
functions.
One of the
major m ov e S
1e a d V a n c ed
,,oe fho GnV.
ernment guar
3ntee of bank
The Washington times., 1935-12-12
Avoid the Christmas Rush

If you've ever been caught in that last furious assault OF
Christmas hopperand the chances that you haveyou
agree that something ought to be done about It, 49,
The department stores together with all the other retailing
organizations have trying solve the problem for years
Scanning the pages of Washington Times you will find
their Christmas gift offerings atractvely advertised
Help yourself and the retailers as we'll
Shop early!
Shop NOW!
The Washington times., 1935-12-12
MODERN PIONEERS

Probably no other man in the
Senate is better acquainted with
the Alaskan situation than
Senator Homer T. Bone (D0 of
washington.
He is one of the outstanding
champions of gradual coloniZa-
ton of the vast acreages of fertile
lands in the southern part Of the
domain.
He is not overly impressed by
the Governments recent venture
to colonize certain valleys and its
gesture of sending several hun
dred persons there.
But despite the controversy over
whether those persons who went
to Alaska are suffering severe
hardship, Senator Bone says:
'"Thev're all right"