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Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1935-10-11
Poetry Corner
IF 1 HAD WINGS

Oh how l wished that I had wings,
And that I could really fly,
Just like see the brides do,
Way up there in the sky.
There are so many, many birds,
They seem to be just every where,
I wish they'd give some wings to me,
If they ever get an extra pair.
Then every time I'd see some birds,
Up there, flying to and fro,
And if they looked sorta blue,
I'd just fly up and say hello.
And if mother sent me to the store,
Wouldn't every body be surprised,
When they looked up and saw me,
Come fluttering down out of the
skies.
Maybe I'd fly far, far away,
Just like l see the brides do.
When winter comes, they all fly south,
And then 1 could fly south too.
But when tell the grown ups that,
They only laugh at me.
They say it's just a childish dream,
Just cause Pm only three.
They think they're smart just cause
they're big,
And shave and all that sorta thing.
I'd like to show them thing or two,
And I'd do it too, if I had wings.
Jimmy" Snow
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1935-10-11
OLD employees
DECREED SAFE
IN THEIR JOBS

Herbert R. O'Conor, Attorney Cen
eral of Maryland, in a ruling just
handed down, has decreed that all old
employees of the Board of State Aid
and Charities are safe in their jobs
and can be removed only for cause.
The ruling applies to all of the county
welfare units in Maryland whose per-
sonnet is appointed by the State
Board.
The ruling was made at the request
of Samuel E. Shannahan, of Easton,
Director of Charities of the Board of
State Aid and Charities. Mr.. Shan
nahan reported to Mr.. O'Conor that
under a ruling of Harry c. Jones,
State Employment Commissioner, all
of the county welfare employees of the
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day charged with assault.
ROOSEVELT AND BYRD
AT BRIDGE OPENING

President Roosevelt and Rear Ad-
miral Richard E. Byrd are expected
to head the list of distinguished guests
who will go to Cambridge, Nd, for
the opening of the bridge over the
Choptank River OH Columbus Day, Oc-
tober IA. Others include Governor
Nice, former Governor Albert c..
Richie, United States Senator Geo.
rye L. Radcliffe and Mayor Howard
3. Jackson. The dedicatory program
is being arranged by a committee
from Dorchester and Talbot counties
and is composed of former Governor
Emerson c. Harrington, Mayor Char
les E. Brohawn, Howard w. Simmons,
Russell S. Davis, w. Enos Valiant and
George d. Holder, representing Cam
bridge, and John Noble, of Easton, and
3. Frank Sherman, of Claiborne.
Tentative plans call for a luncheon at
Easton, after which members of the
State Roads Commission, accompan-
led by the Antartic explorer, who has
given assurance that he would present
the present and former governors of
Maryland and Senator Radcliffe and
the mayor of Baltimore, will proceed
to the bridge. Here the procession
will halt until the "Sequoia," the Presi-
Dental yacht bearing the Chief Execu-
tive and a party of friends passes
through the span, after which the
draw will be closed and appropriate
ceremonies held in connection with
turning over the bridge to the State.
The pageant will move to Sunburst
Highway, cross the dual highway,
now under construction, and pass thru
the main business section of Cam
bridge which will be decorated for the
event. Floats, depicting the history
of that section, will participate, and
many nearby counties have signified
their intention of entering the fete.
The speeches will be made at NUM-
cipal Park. A water carnival in the
Choptank River at this point will COM
plete the program for the afternoon
with banquet and fireworks at night.
Rear-Admiral Byrd will be the guest
of Colonel Albanus Phillips during his
stay in that city, will arrive the pre-
ceding day, and will give a lecture
at one of the theatres.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1935-10-11
Pres. GH6ERT Nv
MEND <L.L.D.,

State Board would have to take new
examinations to keep their jobs, and
if they failed they would be replaced
by others who passed.
Mr.. O'Conor ruled that all of these
employees are protected by the Merit
System and cannot be removed eX-
cept for cause, or required to take
new examinations to hold their posi-
lions. His rule has the effect of re-
versing the action of Employment Com
missioner Jones and means that those
persons validity appointed by the State
Board prior to April of this year can
not be disturbed in their positions by
any action of the State Employment
Commissioner, except on charges made
against them for inefficiency.
1t appeared that the Legislature of
1888 provided that employees of the
Board could be appointed without ex-
animation, but once they were appoint
ed, they could be removed only for
cause. Mr.. O'Conor ruled that this
wording of the law brought them with
in the Merit System and saved their
jobs, unless someone brought charges
against them.
The Legislature of 1885 further pro-
vided that all employees engaged by
the Board after April IS, should
take examinations under the Merit
System rules. Therefore as to all new
employees employed by the Board, Mr..
O'Conor ruled that the provisions of
the 1885 Act would govern and that
they must qualify under the terms of
the Merit System.
Also it developed that the State
Board, although not required to by
law, provided that courtesy examina-
tions" were to be held for it's en-
ployees hired in 1888 and 1884. Mr..
O'Conor ruled, however, that the Board
did not have to follow the results of
these courtesy examinations" but
could pick from them if it chose or
hire them in any manner it saw fit in
the Boards own discretion.
Speaking of the 1888 Act under
which employees of the State Board
could be hired without reference to
the Merit System, Attorney General
O'Conor, in ihs letter to Mr.. Shan
nahan said:
"Your Board was free to use any
method of selection it deemed best.
1t could appoint without reference to
the Merit System, or, as apparently
was done, it could appoint after "cour-
tesy examinations had been held to
provide an eligible list. However, it
was not bound to follow the results
of these examinations. There is moth
ing in the 1885 Act which abolishes
the positions of your employees but
the only effect of it, in my judgment,
is to extend the operation of the Merit
System to govern not only the dismiss
al of your employees but also the ap-
pointment of all of your employees
engaged subsequent to the effective
date of the Act.
"Of course, any future appointments
to your staff must be governed by the
1885 Act which provides for qualifica-
ton under the terms of the Merit
System.
"From consideration of the above,
therefore, must conclude that your
employees appointed prior to the 1885
Act were not legislated out of office
by the recent enactment but that the
1885 Act, in effect, continues the or
ganization already functioning, with
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1935-10-11
SALIENT PHASES
OF BETTER LIGHT
BETTER SIGHT

The Charlotte, N. c., OBSERVER in
a recent editorial very pointedly dis
cussed some of the salient phases OF
the Better Light-Better Sight activi-
ties which are now being aggressive
ly sponsored by manufacturers and
utilities all over the country.
In part, the editorial, entitled
Cheaper Than Eyes" says:
"Those utility companies that con-
stantly and persistently seek through
newspaper advertising and other chan
nels to educate the public to an APP
probation of the benefits of more and
better lighting in the homes are rem
dering humane social service of in
calculable value"
ROBERT CULLEN, nationally
popular Photographer, put a whole
bookfull of truth and wisdom in a few
words when he wrote in effect, that
some households are so economical in
the use of light that in order to save
80 cents on the monthly bill they pay
$3.50 for glasses for members of the
family"
If an accurate survey were made
of all the homes in Charlotte or any
other city or town, it is not improbable
that it would reveal that an over
whelming majority have no adequate
lights for the reading members of the
family, and that fathers, mother and
children are injuring their eyes by the
use of dim or improperly adjusted
lamps"
"From such homes com thousands
of children who are handicapped in
their school work because of defective
vision and from such homes eyeglass
manufacturers and dealers get large
portion of their business and eye spe-
cialists get high percentage of their
patients"
Undoubtedly thousands of families
spend, unnecessarily, more for glasses
and eye treatment than the difference
between poor and adequate lighting
would COST"
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1935-10-11
Claiborne Annapolis
Matapeake Ferries
Save 100 Miles

Save 100 Miles
FALL SCHEDULE - 1885
Effective September 30th, 1885
DAILY AND SUNDAY
Eastern Standard Time
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1935-10-11
Claiborne-AnuapOlis Ferry Co.
ANNAPOLIS, MD.
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few doses usually stops the pain and
many people say cit is worth it's
weight in gold" For sale by LLOYD
& BLAINE, POcomOke, Md.
Aug 1856 mos.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1935-10-11
DEALS ISLAND FARMER
THREATENED BY NEGROES

Two 3O-year-old Deals Island col
ored men, reported to have been some
what under the influence of alcoholic
drink on last Thursday afternoon
threateningly approached Mr.. E. Mace
Smith, who was alone in the woods in
speeding some of his timber near his
sawmill, on the Deals Island road.
AS reported by Mr.. Smith the men
asked him for cigarettes and became
threateningly abusive when he did not
supply their wants. He retreated to
his car, which was parked near the
mill, where he had sotgun which
he carries for squirrel hunting, and
upon seeing the gun the colored men
went off through the woods. Appar-
emily losing their way, they came out
on the Oriole road and asked Mr.. Phil.
ip Wyatt to direct them to Deals Is
land. Later, on the Deals Island road,
they were given a ride to their des-
tination by Mr.. William Phoebus, and
through these gentlemen the men were
traced by searching parties immediate
ly sent out to apprehend them, by
Deputy Sheriff Holland, State Police
officers and Mr.. Smiths brothers,
Messrs. Roy, Elwood and Herman
Smith.
The colored men, James White and
Carl Jones, were arrested at Danes
Quarter, and lodged in the Princess
Anne Jail about 5 o'clock last Thurs
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1935-10-11
SOCIAL SECURITY
ACT ATTRACTS
MUCH ATTENTION

In connection with the arrangements
being worked out for the extension of
health service for mothers and young
children throughout the United States
through the provisions of the Social Sc
curity Act, undertakings along SINH
lar lines in other countries have at
tracted particular attention. The fol-
lowing news notes from France and
Sweden, taken from recent publica-
tions of the U. S. Children's Bureau
are cited by DIR. j. H. Mason Knox, Jr.,
Chief of the Bureau of Child Hygiene
of the Maryland State Department of
Health, as interesting illustrations of
such activities:
Prenatal Care-Prenatal
centers at which expectant mothers
are given physical examinations and
advice on proper care during the pre-
natal period exist in many of the lar
ger cities of France; they are main
tanned by welfare societies, mutual-aid
organization, business establishments,
and municipalities. They function US
ually in connection with hospitals, ma
ternity homes, and infant-health cen
tiers. Some prenatal centers employ
nurses to visit the mothers at their
homes.
Child-health centers-Child-health
centers have been organized in some
places in France by the local health
departments, in others by the NUM-
cipalities, in still others by private
societies or large employers Of labor.
All child-health centers are subsidized
by the National Ministry of Health;
they are considered the most useful
agency for preventing infant NOR
tality and encouraging breast feed
ing. Most of these centers in France
are stationary; but travelling centers
function in some rural district.
SWEDEN-Prenatal Care-In one
district in Sweden in which expectant
mothers were examined it was found
that eclampsia was one-fifth as fire.
quent among the examined mothers as
among those who did not come to the
centers; in another it was found that
digestive disturbances, ricketts,, and
anemia were rare among children who
had been examined and whose mothers
had received advice on their care.
Child Hygiene in rural districts-A
considerable part of the child-hygiene
work in the rural districts of Sweden
is done by the local public-health Off
Ger, assisted in some places by mid.
wives and nurses who are also employ
ed by the local government.
Lecture courses on child hygiene
for mothers are a part of this work
Physical examinations of school chi
dren and instruction in hygiene are
provided in most of the schools. The
Importance of cooperation between
home and school as a means of improy
ing the child's health is stressed.
Public-health nurses and midwives are
employed by the municipalities. The
National Department of Health of Swt
den supervises their training and Their
work.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1935-10-11

Between Annapolis and Claiborne
LEAVE LEAVE
ANNAPOLIS CLAIBORNE
500 a. m. 10: 100 a. m.
500 p. m. 700 p. m.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1935-10-11

out again qualifying through exami-
nations; and that the persons already
employed, in the manner above re-
ferred to, may be removed from their
positions only for cause, as prescribed
in the Merit System Law"
Assistant Attorney General Char
les T. LeViness, 3rd, concurred in the
opinion.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1935-10-11
BARRATT'S CHAPEL HOLDS
COMMEMORATIVE SERVICES

A perfect early Fall day with a
warm sun brought out about $500
persons from all parts of Delaware
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-10-01
POTATO CONTROL WON'T CONTROL

There is no good reason for growing excited
about the federal potato control act. 1t Will be
honored so much in the breach that the average
person won't know it exists. Do you suppose that
a person with kitchen garden is going to get pes
mission to plant Irish potatoes? Do you suppose
that the federal government is foolish enough to
try to regulate the range Of sass IN kitchen gar
dens?
On the face of the act it is serious business to
violate it. The law prescribes fine of 81 900 and
q Jail sentence for potato 'bootleggers." 1t pro-
vides for an army Of shoppers by requiring neigh
Dor to tell on neighbor In practical effect, the LAY"
if enforced would annoy the producers as well rs
the consumers for it requires that all Irish pota-
toes shall be packed in closed and stamped contain
ers of special design.
DR.. Tugwen, of the Brain Trust, foresees diff
culries. "The plan," he has said, "invoves admin
istrative problems of major Importance which have
not been encountered in other programs. Among
these special problems are the large number and
wide distribution of potato producers, the seasonal
and perishable character of the commodity and the
marketing methods used which include both regu-
lar commercial distribution and direct sale by the
grower to wholesalers, retailers, and consumers
The potato control act is bureaucracy gone mad.
The farmers wife, with few bushels of potatoes
to SELL would be required to keep records. The
housewife pausing by the side Of the road to buy
potatoes from the farmers wife, would be required
to provide stamped containers if the farmers wife
did not have them. In such cases the farmers wife
would become "bootlegger" and the housewife
! would aid and abet the "bootleggng."
If any person believes that the potato control act
is going to do what it says it intends to do he
''don't know nothing" Incidentally, it seems that
the congress forgot to supply funds for enforce
! ment-Charleston News and Courier
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-10-01
TIME TO BLOW A RETREAT

In his usual blustery and breakdown fashion,
the belligerent General Johnson tells a group Of
influential business leaders of New York City that
Zone of these days somebody is going to kill
Santa Claus or put such crimp in him that he
won't be able to keep your problems asleep Jy
waving a wand over them.
"You know as well as do that the federal gov
eminent can't go on pouring $4,000, OOO,O 900 year
in soothing syrup to keep the unemployment prob
lem from raising bedam all over the nation"
That is getting said at long last what ought to
have been slid in louder voice and with great
Ter authority long ago-and once it was said, pro-
coed thereafter accordingly.
The General is of course right in respect to the
necessity that the government get out from under
this relief enterprise quickly circumstances
will permit and that individual business and indus
try take up where the government leaves off, not
in doing out living and graciously underwriting
the earning abilities of the neer-do-wells, but by
giving the able-bodied, honest and earnest unem
ployed chance to go it on their own momentum
The sooner government retreats from every func
ton except that of governing and business advances
into every function for which it is responsible thu
less chaos and the orderly and organicaliS
better tmes.-Charlotte Observer.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-10-01
NEWSPAPERS OPINION
BREEDING COMMUNISM

More than electricity is being forced upon East
Tennessee In this area people by slXtn gehera'io
Americans descendants of the veterans OF tne pa'-
tIe Of Kings Mountain, the New Deal has planted
that alien cancer-communism. The Chicago III
bune says editorially:
..Norris. Tenn, is the town built by the Tennes-
see Valley Authority Certain facts concerning II
have leaked out They were so Incredible That we
oLed the IVA to confirm or deny them. The per-
istent and stubborn refusal to reply is an eloquent
confirmation of the truth of the reports. There IS
no longer room to doubt that at Norris the Com
munism of Lenin and Stain has taken root in the
United States, for
"No man in Norris may engage in private busl-
ness.
mo man in Norris may work for wages except
for the government.
'.No man in Norris may worship in church or
build a church to worship in, according to his
conscience.
"Can anyone doubt that in the inaccessible noun
tans of Tennessee is being grown the germ culture
that is intended to infect America
Nor is there anything conflicting or paradoxical
in the establishment of Communism and the un-
necessary, mismanaged and grotseque power pro-
gram of the present administration. 1t IS all part
of the radical war upon those who represent IRA
ditional Americansm, to clear the road Tor the
Utopia of universal RECOMMENDATION, degradation ana
slavery, sugar-coated yet in this country Dut
which operates in stark reality in the Russian
Mecca of American radicals as the dictatorship OF
the proletariat.
It NAV be confidently asserted that unless the
radicals succeed in bringing their plan of absolute
socialism into being in this country, within ten
years all of these unnecessary New Deal power
projects will be rusting disused OF will have been
sold or leased to privately-owned utilities on the
latter's terms But poor, old John Taxpayer VIII
them. Oh, yes, indeed! For ne Will De
paying for them.-Industry and Labor
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-10-01
IN THE SHADOWS
Rp WICKES KAMBOLDT

highly strung than men, arc often
driven crazy by their thoughtless
mates, who can not understand
that they need sympathetic con-
sideration.
Many a woman who has gone
to pieces and is in some institu-
ton, could be restored by the low
ing kindness of the right persons.
| heard Of a man whose wife
had completely lost her mind.
Whether he was responsible for
her condition, | do not know. But
he set himself the task Of bring
ing her out of it. He put his heart
as we'll as his mind into the job.
He devoted himself to her con-
gtantly and studied her case un-
der the instruction Of specialists.
Several years passed. The wife's
condition grew no better. Her
case seemed hopeless. He was adj
vised to place his wife in an insti-
tuition. Seemingly, the conditions
would have justified his doing so.
But he refused.
"No," he said, 'G'm going to
stick by her and bring her out of
this"
Finally he took her for visit
to the old home where she had
grown up and where he had met
her. Day after day he led her by
the hand to this spot and to that
spot; to this landmark and to that
hoping that some feature of the
old surroundings would bring her
wandering mind back to its nor
NAL condition. But the experience
seemed to have no effect on her.
She did not seem to know where
she was.
Disappointed, the man took his
wife home. She was very exhaust
ed, and he put her to bed early.
She soon fell asleep-but the
sleep was different from any she
had had since her trouble came on
her. She slept peacefully; deeply.
Her husband felt that some
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-10-01
EIGHTY YEARS IN BUSINESS

John D. Rockefeller at "a looks back upon
business career of 80 years 1t was four score
years ago that he got his first job as office boy and
bookkeeper's helper with a produce commission
house and his pay for the first three months totaled
$50. At the end of year his salary was raised to
.$25 month Soon he had saved enough to buy a
partnership in similar business. Later, when oil
was found in Pennsylvania, Mr. Rockefeller en-
tered the oil business. He prospered and became
the richest man on earth. He has lived to give
away more money than any other man in all his
tory and it is said that he retains enough to keep
the wolf from the. door. a most remarkable man
is Mr.. John D. Rockefeller spartanburg: Herald.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-10-01
BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON
az RODNEY BUTCHER

of Morgan partners were pledged
for the Allies and how important
it was for them to have the Allies
win-though you won't learn that
this led them to egg Washington
into the conflict.
Possibly there'll be some hereto
fore secret history of unfriendly
postwar relations between Score.
tary McAdoo and Morgan which
will seem especially interesting
when you recall that McAdoo lost
the Democratic nomination in 1924
TO a Morgan lawyer-a dark horse
named John w. Davis.
Relations between the Morgans
and the Van Sweringens and GER
tain government officials are be.
ing uncovered by the committee
under Senator Wheeler, now inyes.
tigating railroad financing, which
means more sensations coming up.
CREATION of Morgan, Stanley
~ & Co.-operated and owned by
Morgan partners and fronted by
son of J. P. Morgan himself-to
carry on a security investment
business (from which the Morgan
company itself is barred as long as
if engages in banking) caused sar.
douic comment here. Especially
among such optimistic New Deal.
ors as had thought, after Morgan
lobbvists were defeated recently in
their attempt to change the law,
they had ended the evils of com.
hined commercial banking and in.
yestment banking.
II is recalled that the law pro.
b;biting railroad mergers and con.
soIidqtions without ice approval
was neatly evaded when Wall
ctrpct lawyers toId the Vans-with
nIoroan floating their securities
and acting as their bankers-how
% bnv up control of railroads by
y, nnrchasing stock through holding
companies. .,.y>.r y