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Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1935-02-22


the luncheon bridge club on Tuesday.
Miss Nettie E. Barnes was hostess
to her bridge club Tuesday evening"
Miss Elsie MCGEE is visiting rela-
tives in Wilmington, Delaware.
Mrs. VIM. F. King of Keller, was
visitor in Pocomoke Monday.
Miss Lucy Tull, Of New York, is
the guest of her cousin, Miss Emily
Stevenson.
Miss Cynthia Blaine, of Fredericks-
burg, is visiting relatives and friends
in town.
Mrs. L. Paul Ewell was hostess
Tuesday to the afternoon contract
bridge club.
Miss Betty Ward, of Gaithersburg,
spent the past week with her sister,
Mrs. J. Miles Landlord.
Mrs. James Macleod, of Philadel-
phia, is visiting her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. M. w. Landing.
Mrs. H. D. Renninger has returned
to Pocomoke after an extended stay
in Crisfield
Miss Frances Street, Of Newport
News, Va, is the guest of Mrs. A. A.
Parker.
Rev. E. L. Bunce. of Baltimore, was
the overnight guest Tuesday of Rev.
and Mrs. P. w. Crosby
Mr. and Mrs. VIM. D. Keim have as
their guests Mr. and Mrs. George Will
ford and children, of Bangor, Pa.
Mrs. Claude Davis has returned
from a visit with friends in West
minister and Baltimore.
Mrs. Harry Whyte gave a very en-
iovable dance at "The Whyte House.
Thursday evening of last week
The Senior Aid of Salem M. E.
Church will meet with Mrs. Raymond
Dixon Tuesday, February 26th.
Mr.. and Mrs. Franklin Atkinson OF
Snow Hill were weekend guest OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward P. Bayly.
n n ID c4ox,ooco,, Of Coro Char
les, was a visitor in Pocomoke the
early part Of the week.
Mrs. Harry Matthews is spending
some time with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. r. w. Heath in Salisbury.
Mrs. Benjamin Harrington and son
of Cape Charles, are visiting Mrs. Hal
rington's mother and sister, here.
Mrs. H. C. Nottingham is quite sick
at her home on Clarke Avenue, this
city.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. T. Mason and son
William spent the weekend with Mr.
Mason's brother in Onley, Va.
Mrs. J. B. Cullen of Belle Haven
Va, was a visitor in town the early
party of the week.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. w. Redden ano
daughter have been recent guests Of
friends at Marion Station, Md.
Miss Corolene Lambden, of Balti
more, graduate nurse of the Unior
Memorial Hospital, is spending the
week with relatives here.
Miss Virginia HARDWOOD, member
of the faculty at the Teachers Col.
lege, Salisbury, visited friends in Pc
comoke recently.
Mrs. Clarence Duncan and son
Wilson Duncan attended the mid-win
ter dance held in the college in Sails
bury Friday night.
Misses C. Howerton and G. K. Matt
lage have returned to Cellar Hous'
Farm after a months visit with Friends
in Washington, D. G.
Kerbin Sturgis, local electrician o
Snow Hill, is teaching class in cleo
tricity at the CCC camp located OF
the Pocomoke-Snow Hill road.
A regular meeting Of Crescen
Chapter No. a o. E. S. will be he'll
Monday night, February 25th at 7:3
o'clock.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph M. Pugh o
Easton, were in Pocomoke Monday t
attend the funeral Of Miss Kitty Dry
den.
Mr.. and Mrs. Francis Dryden o
Salisbury, were in Pocomoke Monda
to attend the funeral of Miss Kitty
nr.vdan
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BEN FRANKLIN

GROWN weary of reforners whose idealistic
~ yearnings outrun their common sense
harassed Michigan newspaper editor the other
day suggested that pretty fair sort of man
to pattern after in these parlous times is old
Benjamin Franklin.
Franklin, remarked this editor, was that
rarity. a man who could work for radical re-
forms and at the same time keep both feet
squarely on the ground and remember the i'm
portance of money in the cash drawer.
Ben was a New Dealer, too, and wanted
things changed quite bit" the editor unused.
He liked women, built cook stoves, wrote
editorials. negotiated treaties. fought the king.
published paper. and discovered electricity
but his perspective of things was eternally
right
At true when the United States Supreme
Court has sprayed some very chilly water on
the skins of ardent reformers who remem-
bered everything except the value Of prac-
ticality. FraEklin and his inexhaustiole fund
Of common sense was worth remembering.
Franklin. as the Michigan editor point23ut.
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SWIRL AT SPRINGFIELD

ELOODWATERS of the Republican River in
IL Nebraska probably are no muddier than
will be the political swirl at the Republican
grass roots" convention next week in Spring
field. Ill.
There, party orators will try to capture
the spirit Of that illuStrious Springheldian,
Abraham Lincoln. They will recall his de-
bates with Douglas. They will even mention
the history-rs zing bred Scott decision which
crystalized the issue on which that first Of
Republicans rode into the White House.
Il believe this government can not endure
permanently half slave and half Free" Lin
coin said, defying the High Courts decree
which had implied that the principles for
which the Republican party was formed were
unconstitutional and unattainable. Four years
of bloodshed overruled that decision.
Now. 70 years after Appomattox, political
realignments form around another Supreme
Court decision. And on the eve of a party
conference in Lincolns home town. eminent
Republicans who profess reverence for his
memory rejoice in the courts doctrine which
seems to sentence our country to remain half
swected labor and half free.
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FATHER COUGHLIN

MYTH indianapolis and Indiana residents
w taking an active interest in the affairs
and theories Of Father Coughlin. The Times
herewith presents sections of an article.
Father Coughlins Authority" appearing in
The Commonweal" Of May 81
a.. Father Coughlin is following up the
work already begun through his radio ad-
dresses with extraordinary personal success.
but with extremely dubious results so far as
his influence as priest Of the Catholic Church,
engaged in promoting the sociological teach
ings Of that church. and his efforts as an in
dividual citizen. organizing and directing q
mass political movement are concerned.
There are great, and growing. differences
OF opinion on the first point. not only among
those outside his church who either support
him or oppose him. but also among Catholics
themselves. The same situation exists in re-
gard TO the second point Tie Clash Of oppos-
ing views on this second point. however. would
be much less momentous we're il not that 1t is
inseparably connected with the far more i'm
portant problem presented b. the first point.
Until or unless ecclesiastical authority superior
even TO Father Coughlins own bishop shall
deem IL proper to define. or to limit, Father
coughlin's right 70 enter practical politics.
and TO declare how correctly he communicated
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TIMES is LAUDED FOR
COURTHOUSE STORIES

BY a Taxpayer.
Come on general public, and give
The indianapolis Times three more
cheers for the courthouse stories.
Many have their brothers and sis
tiers, nephews, uncles, aunts and in
laws working for them at some posi-
ton or other, sitting back in arm
chairs drawing neat salaries out Of
the hard learned money that we
poor working devils pay in for taxes.
The Times also printed the law
right before our eyes that those
relatives are not allowed to hold
those jobs, but who are we to stop
such practice? Well, I'll tell you
who we are. We are the voters that
are going to make Republican
landslide at the next election.
am At and have always voted
the Democratic ticket, but has this
Administration made a Republican
out Of me and many others? Well.
wait and see.
One mora little incident is when
our chief Of police upheld those big,
brave policemen for clubbing up
those three blind men. Yes, those
big brave coppers with their badges
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was New Dealer. If we think we have public
discomfort with the status quo in our land
today, we might remind ourselves that it is
only pale shadow of the discomfort that was
abroad in the land in 1776.
The old order being put into limbo
with bullets, then, and Franklin was one of
the men who would have gone to the scaffold
ii the attempt had failed. If we are getting
a new deal today, we got new deck and a
new game then.
Such times provide a field day for crack
pots They tempt man who wants to see
a new order of Things established to follow
his ideals until his feet leave ground.
Franklin, one IF the foremost of the ideal
lists, never once LOST his contact with reality
He was able, that is, to build for the future
without forgetting the necessity for living in
the present He could go to Paris and sell the
most autocratic court in Europe on the beau
ties of democracy and freedom, and at the
same time he could write down those homely
bits of earthly advice that filled Poor Rich
ards Almanac.
He could help build better world and
simultaneously remember that Saturday
nights pay roll had to be met.
All of which might remind us that it is not
necessary to go off into the clouds when you
are working for sweeping reform. The vexing
argument about whether we are to have re-
covery or reform is wasted effort.
A stolid old idealst of the Franklin stripe
would figure out way to get both.
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rHrRspAY. yuxE s. 1885.
THE CHAMPION CLAIM

VITHEN Franklin D. Roosevelt and Herbert
w HooYur rode together down Pennsyl-
vania-av. March 4. 1888 ne thought an era in
history had ended-an era in which the Re-
publican party had claimed the copyright on
prosperity. But political memories are short
and Of the making Of claims there is no end
So now out Of the grave rises Walter II. New
ton. President Hoovers patronage secretary.
He shakes his shroud and prOclaims:
That the panic which closed the banks be-
fore Mr.. Hoover left the job was all Mr.. Roose-
velfs fault
When Mr.. Roosevelt took the oath, every
bank In the nation vas closed or closing. Even
the money temples in New York. the citadel Of
the nations finance. we're locked and barred.
New York hadn't even been able to hold out
until after Inauguration Day Millions of de-
spairing Americans-even though they pos
sessed bank passbooks-could not get their
hands on enough cash to pay the grocer.
II seemed then that those who left their
seats Of power said such economic desolation
would never again assert kinship to omnip-
otence. Yet Mr.. Newton and his literary as
sociate. William Starr Myers. now inform US in
tic CURRENT SATURDAY Evening FOob tAAdt tAAe ue-
preston had hit bottom in June. 1892. and that
the peerless Mr.. Hoover was leading tn nation
back 70 sound recOvery-untn that fatal day in
November when the people made the mistake
OF electing Mr.. Roosevelt.
Thereafter they say. came doubt and dark
ness. not because the people lacked confidence
in Mr. Hoover. but because they distrusted Mr..
Roosevelt
Let's look at the record.
In the y years ending the last Of December,
1892. the record shows 1876 banks closed their
doors. The number up to Nov l. 1882, few
days before the people voted to end Republican
rule was 1852.
In 1929. Mr.. Hoover's first year. $50 banks
closed. IN 1880. 1852 banks closed In 1881.
22a4 banks closed. In 1892. 1856 banks closed.
The tempo Of clicking bank doors continued
to mount early in 1893. on Feb. IA, 1888. the
first bank holiday was declared, in Michigan.
It is. perhaps. too cruel to recall what hap
pened from that date to the hour Mr.. Hoover
evacuated the White House on March 4.
So ven just skip from the middle Of Febru-
AIRY to the middle Of March. when President
Roosevelt licensed the banks to reopen During
the rest of 1888. ITO banks had to close again.
In 1885. Sc banks closed. And. in the first four
months Of 1885. nine banks closed.
Now. having looked at the record. let us rise
and pay tribute to Mr.. Newton and Mr.. Myers
as the holders Of the sll-time, all-American
high in political claiming.
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The Book World

VXTASHINGTON, June 6.-Books on the Su-
w preme Court and its historic clashes for
supremacy with Congresses and Presidents were
hard to get today in Washington.
Members of Congress and newspapermen
flooded the Library of Congress with requests for
more than the library had available
Chief Justice Hughes own book 1.-THE Su-
preme Court of the United States" published in
1923 when he was in private practice, was in
special demand.
Others include Warren's four-volume history
of the Supreme Court, Beveridge's life of John
Marshall, the recent two-volume work by
Boudin on Government by Judiciary and a
book by Charles A Beard on the Supreme Court.
These are the books sought by lsymen. Law
yers and lawyer congresSmen also delved into
technical legal discussions in the back issues of
law journals and in the law Libraries to brush up
on their Constitution.
James Madisons journal of the secret ses-
sons of the constitutional convention of 1887 was
also in demand, in the search for clews as to
what the Founding Fathers might have had in
mind when they wrote the commerce clause.
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OBJECTS TO DISLOYALTY
CHARGE BY READER

By James E. TindaIL
In the Message Center June l
there appeared an article by Will
liam D. Campbell In this article Mr..
Campbell Grapes phantom blanket
of disloyalty around our foreign
born and naturalized citizens with
out exception.
I would not question the right
of Mr. Campbell to his own personal
opinion, but it does seem unfair to
question the patriotism of all nat
uralized Americans because of an
alleged statement made by one OF
this class. 1t would have been just
as logical, and more broad-minded,
to have used the name of Casimir
Pulaski as a gauge by which to
measure the loyalty of sour Polish
and other foreign-born citizens.
Would it be fair to brand all
Methodists un-Christian because
their board of foreign mission on
Feb. %, 1885, aligned Itself with
the athestic, communistic, Goddess
Mexican government against the
prosecuted Christians of Mexico?
Would it be fair to brand all
our colleges and universities I'M
American because of the few in
instances where commuliStic doc
trines have been taught? Certain
~ not! But if Mr.. Campbell is
looking for something to worry
about he could find plenty among
our native-born Americans.
He could worry about some OF
the young peoples organizations
where peace-loving fanatics have
gone so far as to counsel sabotage
in the event of another war.
He could worry about the thou
sands of American-born students in
our schools and higher institutions
of learning who have openly said
they would not shoulder a gun to
defend their country. And he
should. if he is inclined to worry,
not lose sight Of the munition
manufacturers and the Wall Street
buzzards who grow fat on the car
cases of the loyal" American cit
liens, both native born and foreign
born, who have always carried the
Stars and Stripes to victory-to pro-
tect the interests of the super
nationalist of high finance whose
only flag is the dollar sign.
Therefore. I contend that the
"naturalized'' Americans, taken as
a whole, are just as loyal and pa
triotic as our present crop Of native
born Americans. I refer to those
foreign-born who come here to make
their homes, not the Red agitators
who are sent here by their govern
ments to stir up strife. Unless Mr..
Campbell can trace his family tree
back to the American Indians he
must have had "naturalized" Amer
lean ancestors Would ne accuse
them of disloyalty? A blanket charge
covers a lot Of territory.
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THE IDEA LIVES

UTHILE the President. in difference to the
w Supreme Court. has buried NRA. the
idea back OF that experiment in cooperative
industrial planning still lives. That is proved
by the voluntary nationwide efforts of both
business and labor to keep in effect the wages.
hours and working conditions that NRA had
established.
Whether those efforts succeed or fail is yet
10 be seen. But the idea that NRA symbolized
will not die.
That industry must civilize and democratize
itself II It is to survive in a free republic-such
was the essence Of the NRA idea.
II means abandonment of unfair trade
tricks. long hours. sweatShop wages. child labor
and class war-abandonment of the jungle
formulas Of the past
For nearly two years America had that idea
written into Its law. In spite of chiseling
minority groups. ridicule from radicals Of both
right and left political sabotage and other
attacks. the idea survived. Even under these
handbags it worked tolerably we'll In thou
sands Of letters to Washington the people are
pleading that the idea be written into a new
and better law.
President Roosevelt has promised that those
who set government contracts must observe
decent standards. Government buying repre-
sents only a small percentage OF American
business activity. But its influence should
prove considerable
Ard The NRA idea still lives in the hearts
and The wills Of millions Of working people.
whose families have found America better
dwelling place because Of the experiment.
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or interprets or applies to the moral doctrine
and the sociological teachings of the Catholic
Church, the subject is wide open to contro-
versy. and that controversy is bound to pro-
duce great confusion of mind. and distress of
soul among Catholics, until it is settled /. :.
So. Father c. ghlin's proposals may or
may not be sounc, Or desirable, or in conso-
nance with Catholic morals. They are to be
debated on their possible merits or their many
fragrant demerits-but that debate should not
proceed, whether for or against any particular
point in Father Coughlin's program, from the
assumption that the point in question is in
vested with the authoritative support of the
Catholic church"
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i3y r. -.
Why not write up the so called
bonus" in the "debunker?"
Explain that instead of sum
of $1,000 being paid to the average
veteran for his adjusted compen-
sation" actually only $500, or four
tenths of that amount, is what we
each would have received if We
had been paid in 1925, seven years
after the war.
Compare that amount with the
sum received by veterans of other
countries.
In 1925, when the memory of
the war was still in the night
mares of our people, it was
thought just that the boys who in
1918 were Heroes, God Bless You,"
should receive some considera-
ton. The facts recently brought
out in the Congressional inves-
tigation of profits given to mu-
milton manufacturers, steel corpor-
ations, and shipbuilders, were un-
der suspicion at that time.
So the present bonus" was orig
mated by some smart boys in the
profits who were afraid their
500 to 300 per cent bonuses
would be sadly nicked to pay off
the ungrateful, unpatriotic ex-sol-
diers who had done nothing to
save the country but fight for her
and suffer for her.
They were familiar with the
beautiful ability of compound in
terest to multiply dollars, and the
idea was put over. 1--WE are go
ing to be most generous to our
noble fighters. We will give each
of them on the average of $1,000
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DEATH
BY DOROTHY PERKINS

There is a voice at her window
That hoarsely. croakingly cries.
There is a face at her window
With malevolent looking eyes.
Il know that dark face and that
voice,
They fill me with horrible dread.
I will come from he'll to find you
Were the last low words that he
said"
A chill creeps in through her VIM
dow
Like a breath from under the
ground.
A bell tolls nearby her window
With signing, sepuschral sound
Twenty years ago killed hi.
And hid him away from msignt.
I wrapped him in winding seet
And dug him a grave the
night"
The moon stares in at her windV-
She is there in terror. alone.
The wind blows Wild past her a.
dow
She Is dead on her own heal
stone.
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A Study in Contrasts
An Editorial

THE Criminal Court and the County Au-
l. ditor's Office stand out as the two units Of
government which have an evident distaste for
having their affairs made public.
why7
When this newspaper has asked for infor-
nation about state departments. Gov. Paul V.
McNutt has invariably thrown the door wide
open. II administrative errors have appeared
as they are bound to do in any human enter
prise-he has promptly corrected them.
When County Auditor Charles A GroSsart
threw out slurring reference about the city
government. Mayor John w. Kern promptly
invited investigation. He went even further and
forciby reminded his department heads that
they we're public servants and that their acts
we're open to public scrutiny.
The conduct of the Governor and the Mayor
is a clear demonstration of a tranquil con-
science. Obviously they feel that they have
nothing whatever to fear from a scrutiny of
their conduct Of the peoples business.
An honest public official welcomes con-
structiye criticism from newspaper or any
other established public agency. Gov. McNutt
and Mayor Kern are honest. Because they are
men, and not archangels, they have made some
mistakes and, doubtless, will make some more,
but any thinking person knows that their mo-
tives are decent and their accomplishments
laudable.
CONTRAST them with Criminal Judge
~ Frank P. Baker and County Auditor
Grossart.
When we revealed that Lee Barker, con-
victed of a felony, had apparently either been
imprisoned in an irregular manner or released
in contravention of the Supreme Court what
was Judge Bakers explanation TO the people
Of this state?
Nothing.
Why?
When we courteously asked him nine ques-
tons about his conduct as public servant in
the Barker matter what was his reaction?
To instruct his court attendants that they
were not to assist The Times in searching the
records of his court.
Why?
We pass over his personal conduct following
our b; rker revelations. The bench of Indiana
fortunately has many. many men of dignity
an6 integrity upon it. They are credit to
themselves and to the state they serve One
needs seek no farther than the very building
in which Judge Baker sits to find such judges.
How they must vince at the disgusting
spectacle of a member of the judiciary so far
forgetting himself as publicly to spew steady
stream of filthy comment that a brothel keeper
would scarcely tolerate!
Nearly a month has passed since we asked
Judge Baker those nine questions His only
response has been lewd remarks about The
Times and its personnel. We doubt that the
people of Marion County will accept them as
sufficient answer.
Is the Criminal Court Judge failing to an
swer because he CAN NOT reply2
+ EFT us turn now to County Auditor Gros-
IL sart.
We nave pointed out that, although one of
his duties is entering unpaid taxes on the
duplicates. he had neglected to pay his own
taxes. Many persons have been unable to