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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-01-30

was conducted by Mrs. A. Flicker,
the chairman.
AS the election of officers COM
eS at the next civic meeting Mrs.
George F. Wing, Jr., suggested
that the matter of whether or not
the chairman is to serve one or
two years be decided on, so they
voted to make it two. Mrs. John
S. Forest, club president, spoke
of the cup which the State FEEDER
ated Clubs are giving for the best
short story or poem and asked
the members to compete for it.
Mrs. H. w. Parker, who
brought out some points of espec-
ial interest in current events, came
first on the program. Miss S. D.
Alexander gave a delightful re-
view on Wind in the Pines, by
Victor Starburk, and read several
of his poems. She said that while
the author was born in Florida,
that he had spent a number of
years in Asheville.
Miss Mary Salley's excellent
paper was on North Carolina writ
ers of prose and poetry; she men,
toned as being of local interest,
as well as of wide fame, DuBose
Hayward, who spends the greater
part of the year here although he
he was originally from Charles
ton, S. c. She also spoke of some
poems written by Frank Read
which were included in a book
of verses published, the note in
the book also speaking of him as
short story writer.
Mrs. Mary w. Green, of Miami,
Beach, Fla, one of the visitors
gave some very attractive read
ingS.
During the social hour the hos
tesses served cinnamon toast and
Russian tea while the guests chat
ted before a cozy fire.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-01-30
Park Avenue a Bridge

New York's famous Park avenue
Is not a street, but a brldge-at
least, it lies over the route OF
railroad line, which rumbles under.
meath.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-01-30
wake UP YOUR
LIVER BILE

Without CalomeFAnd You u Jump Uut Of Deo
the Morning Karin to Go
The liver should pour out two pounds OF
LIQUID bile into your bowels daily. II this bile
IS not flowing freely. your food doesn't digest.
Il lust decays in the bowels Gas bloats up
YOUR stomach. You get constipated. Your
whole system is poisoned and you feel sour.
sunk and the world looks punk.
Laxatives are only makeshifts. A mere
BOWEL movement doesn't get at the cause. II
takes those good, old Carter's Little Liver
pills 10 get these two pounds Of bile flowing
freely and make you feel up and up" Harm
asa gentle, yet amazing in making bile how
freely. Ask for Carter Little Liver Pills by
Mans. Stuhhornlv refuse anything else &c
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-01-30
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Miss Harriet Ander-
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L. are being gives. The
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rfiIe Mrs. Thomas L.
10 low score. Dreamed
n crisp cases was served
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|; 20 this attractively ap-
,sr,y for Miss Anderson
trss}snes William Shep-
|-r.S and Arthur B. Shep-
Mss Louise Bly,, Laurie
Mary Ewbank. julia
Sarah HudgenS, Mary Val
Tomm.e Shepherd, Margie
~ and Miss Bryant. Tea
'ryssent included Mrs. A.
|s,.rr, mother of the hon.
r. Mss Mary Reese.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-01-30
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liz Frank Station enter
h Round Table, a depart
! he Woman'S Club, yes
'af,srnoon at her home,
,s.ssses being Miss Elsie
Ri Nesdames J. n. Brun-
r. H. Franks. Twenty
[,n5ers and four visitors
81, at the session which
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-01-30

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Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-10-02

Mr.. and Mrs. E. J. Reid were Wis
itors to Crisfield and Pocomoke. last
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Adkins were
business visitors to Salisbury on Mon
day of this week.
Miss Pearle Reid, spent last Sunday
with her sister, Mrs. Pettigrew B.
Bum.
Mr.. Joseph Taylor spent last Sun
day with his sister, Mrs. Robert Ad-
kins.
The Ladies Aid Society of Remson
M. E. Church will meet with Mr.. and
Mrs. Charlie Outten on Wednesday
afternoon, October 18th. Every one
is cordially invited.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ansel Harmon of Po-
comoke City, spent last Sunday even
ing with Mr.. and Mrs. Pettigrew B.
Bum.
Master Jimmie Bum had the mis-
fortune to be run over by his father
last Friday. The little fellow climbed
on his fathers truck while standing
still and Mr.. Bum did not know it
AMI started the truck up, throwing
his son off and running over his leg.
He was rushed to DR.. Parker's office
at Pocomoke where two X-ray pic
lures were take. Fortunately no bones
were broken and he is getting alone
nicely.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Mitchell and
children spent last Sunday with Mr..
Mitchell's brother-in-law and wife,
Mr.. and Mrs. Ellis Parsons Of Will
lardS.
Misses Florence and Dorothy Ards,
motored to Baltimore and Washington
and Annapolis, Md, and other points
of interest this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Payne and
friend, of New Church, Va, spent
last Sunday with Mr.. Payne's parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Stephen Payne.
Mrs. George Reid, of Stockton,
spent Monday of this week with her
mother, Mrs. A. P. Payne.
Mrs. E. j. Reid and daughter, Mrs.
Pettigrew B. Bum and Miss Pearle
Reid, attended the Order of the East
ern Star at Pocomoke City on Mon
day evening of this week.
Mrs. Robert Hornsby isn't so well
at this writing. We wish her a
speedy recovery.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-10-02

parents, Mr.. and Mrs. E. M. Taylor.
Mrs. c. P. Gladding anil Mrs. Eutha
Matthews spent Sunday with their
sister, Miss Mamie Taylor of Oman
cock.
Mr.. and Mrs. Eddie Ayres of Parks
ley, were guests of DR.. and Mrs. Alva
Matthews Sunday.
Mrs. E. M. Taylor shopped in Sal
isbury this week.
Mr.. anil Mrs. Earl Groton of Sails
bury, spent part Of the week with her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. o. T. Kelley.
Hall Dumville of Richmond, is Wis
iting his parents, Rev. AMI Mrs. S.
L. Dumville.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-10-02
Olivia Bell.

In the first and second stanzas of
Mrs. Gertrude Hurley's poem: "To a
Very Old Lady in Her Garden" pub
lished in last weeks edition of the
Democrat" some transposition of
lines occurred. They should have read
as follows:
Lady, just how many years,
With your basket and your shears,
Have you trod these messy pathways,
up and down;
Shipping blossoms, here and there;
Blossoms common, blossoms rare,
Until frost had turned the garden
sere and brown?
I remember when quite small,
Looking at your garden wall,
With plans for climbing Ger it in my
head;
But 1 didn't have to wait,
For 1 found an open gate,
And 1 saw you cutting roses, white
and red.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-10-02
RADIANT
RADIANT
From Starlight to Sunlight
By Rev.. c. M. Griffeth
D~-k1- C-I~o M Z CLu-oL

By Rev.. C. Nj. Griffeth
Pastor Calvary M. E. Church
Sudlersville, Md.
1t was in those horse and buggy
days when we were living ten miles
back from a railroad. A long jour-,
ney lay ahead of me, and to get TO
the station necessitated an early two
mile walk over the mountain road to
catch the old horse-drawn stage that
left early to meet the daily train.
AS 1 stepped out into the darkness
Of that early morning was greeted
by dazzling array Of brilliant stars.
In the, light of these stars began my
journey. But when reached the
crest where the road led over the
ridge, I saw before me in the distance
the first pale gray of dawn.
stopped for moment and looked
back to the now paling stars and then
forward toward the coming light. "a
new day." shouted in my thoughts,
"what will it mean to thousands of
peoplew
Then as I fastened down into the
valley, the dawn gradually brighten
ed. It was no longer dark. / could
see the distant hills. Then later, as
we bumped down the grade in that
rattly old stage, the sun came up,
flooding the mountain roadway with
a mellow radiance.
So it is with the soul.
In the surrounding darkness of
pagan infidelity there shines forth
above us the Divine Promises of the
Scripture. However small may be
the ray of light that your spirit may
perceive in the Promises of the Scrip
ture, it is bright enough for you to
begin your walk toward God. And as
you walk along by the light of the
stars of the Divine Promises, they will
bring you to the light of a new day
a day made glorious by the rising of
the sun-the Sun of God upon your
life.
Starlight leads to sunlight! Walk
en-!
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-10-02
Melbourne

Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Taylor and
Mr.. and Mrs. George Taylor and her
niece, spent last Sunday with Mr..
Taylor,s daughter, Mrs. Joseph War
rem of Westover.
There will be Sunday School next
Sunday morning at Remson M. E.
Church at the usual hour.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-10-02
Poetry Corner
THREE GENERATIONS

Baby fingers curled around old Snooty
But, luckily, the cat could understand
The volumes of ready laughter
Produced by the Little Man."
Within the confines of the pink-and-
blue nursery
High upon the old third floor;
Lighted by the same dormer windows
For a century, or more.
And Baby crawled around and contin-
ued
On his note of careless glee
While in the room below him,
A lookout on the sea.
Stood his mother, recalling an instant
Her no longer young cheeks full red,
But not from the makeup on the bu-
reau;
From words her father had said.
LILO UdyS VI AACA SoAOAO0o Ae~~6AAOSA
When she, her own praises had sung.
(Strange, the longevity Of few short
wordsD
"Deliver me from a braggart's ton
gue!"
In the little room off the parlor,
The freight yielded full glow.
he little old woman laid aside her
knitting
While on the next-to-the-last row.
The gray head swayed ever so slightly
AS she rocked to and fro,
Like a willow three covered lightly
BY fast-disappearing snow.
There was a smile on still tender lips
AS she dreamed of ages ago
But the worlds we meet in memories,
Side-lines never fully know.
Olivia Bell.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-10-02
Mr.. and Mrs. FLOYD Lewis and

NIL anu MIS-. rIOyO Lewis anu
children of Boothyn, Pa, motored here
and spent the weekend with her
mother, Mrs. William Hancock.
Mrs. John Hill, Mrs. Sam fash,
Mrs. B. F. Harrington and Mrs. w.
H. Merrill, Jr., shopped in Salisbury,
Md, Tuesday.
Mrs. Ruben Sturgis and daughter,
Mary Frances spent last week in
Philadelphia, Pa, with Mr.. and Mrs.
Willie Kelley. And while there Miss
Sturgis was operated on at the M. E..
Hospital. At this time she is doing
fine.
Mr.. and Mrs. Milton Brown and
Charles Brown of Philadelphia, Pa,
motored here and spent Monday. They
were accompanied back by Mrs. Chas
Brown and children, Barbara and Rog-
er who will make their home in Phil
adelphia.
We are sorry that Mrs. Zena Hud-
son is very i'll at the home of her son,
MIR. Ernest Hudson.
Mrs. Thomas Outten, Mrs. Thomas
Wilkerson and daughters, Patsy and
Betty Lou of Pocomoke, Nd, spent
Tuesday afternoon with Mrs. James
Howard.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold McCleary left
Sunday for Philadelphia, Pa, where
Mr.. McCleary will enter a hospital
to have his hand operated on Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Mason of Phila
delphia, Pa, spent the weekend at
their cottage here.
Mrs. Major Cherrix and sons Gil
bert, Byrd and Paige spent the week
end in Philadelphia with Mr.. and Mrs.
Berley Dennis.
Mr.. Allen Crowley has accepted a
position with the P. R. R. Co., at
Cape Charles, Va.
Miss Helen Pruitt had the misfor-
tune to fall and sprain her ankle
Saturday.
Mrs. Jana Sharpley entertained
relatives from Camden, N. j., over
the weekend.
Mrs. James Chapman was called to
Philadelphia this week by the illness
of her daughter, Mrs. Harry Smith.
Mr.. and Mrs. Day of Wilmington,
Del, spent the weekend with Mr.. and
Mrs. Thomas Freeman. Mrs. Day re-
manned for a visit with her mother,
Mrs. George Lang.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Hill and sons,
Otis and Elwood and Mr.. and Mrs. J.
T. Paradis visited Ocean City, Sun
day.
Mrs. Charles Brown, Jr., and chill
dren Barbara and Roger were supper
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. C. P. Crowley
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Bundick enter
tanned at their home in Greenback-
vile, Va. on Wednesday evening the
23rd in honor of their daughter, Fran
ces' 18th birthday. Those present
were: Misses Verna Skeeter, Eta Nc
Cleary, Lorraine Brimer, Annabelle
Aydelotte, Hilda Aydelotte, Elva Dry
Gen, Elva Porter, Mary Justice, Fran
ces Hudson, Phyllis Crowley, Sara
Crowley, Catherine Marshall, Effie
Marshall and Dorothy Matthews,
Willie Sharpley, Charles Matthews,
Clifford Matthews, Oscar Tarr, Mer-
vim Birmingham, Billy Merrill, How
ard Brown, Junior Crowley, John Col
Inns, George Aydelotte and Claude
Outten.
Mr.. and Mrs. Milton Tarr and daugh
tiers, Helen and Susan of Girdletree,
Md, visited Mr.. and Mrs. Joshua Tarr
SUNDAY.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-10-02
GreenbackviHe

Mrs. Raymond Hartman and son,
Jack, and Miss Mildred Russell are
visiting Mr.. and Mrs. Elton Ward at
Holly Oak, INl.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-10-02

Baby fingers curled around old Snooty
But, luckily, the cat could understand
The volumes of ready laughter
Produced by the "Little Man."
Evening star., 1936-03-31

who has seen the rush and heard the
roar of those mighty uncontrolled
waters and the wreck and ruin left in
their wake will go the limit in bring
ing relief to the distressed and in
aiding the rebuilding Of what has been
destroyed. This the national adminis-
tration has done and will continue to
do through special congressional ap-
preparations, encouragement of pri-
vate giving through the Red Cross,
and by utilizing the forces Of the C.
c. c.. the w. P. A. and the P. W. A.
in the work Of rehabilitation. No
effort must ne spared in easing the
burdens of suffering and loss where
ever 1t occurs.
But we are fortunate indeed In
having at the head of the Govern
ment one who, while wholly conscious
OF what this immediate emergency
means to millions of our people, has
for many years been practicing the
doctrine of the conservation of our
natural resources to the end that
such catastrophe as this might be
avoided. II out of our recent erosion
and floods control this Nation girds
itself for a winning struggle against
devastating national forces, the floods
and the suffering will not have been in
vain.
Evening star., 1936-03-31

necessary, individual pieces In a vast
mosaic of definite pattern, think of
major engineering undertakings in
terms of decades.
have just seen an attractive small
book called Little Waters" 1t re-
Gently was issued under the joint
auspices of three agencies of the Fed
eral Government-the Soil ConServa.
ton Service. the Resettlement Admin
istration and the Rural Electrification
Administration. The President sent
copy of this to Congress and in an
accompanying message recommended
that consideration be given to pro-
cedure for conserving the waters of
little rivers" This book shows by
means of pictures and a simple text
how vital it Is for this Nation to
utilize and control small streams If
our major rivers are to be of the
greatest possible service to us. To
those of you who have a real interest
in this subject, / will gladly send a
copy of this study entitled Little
Waters
AS result of the work of this
administration, we have a better
knowledge of floods. their causes and
cures. We have an improved under
standing of what man must do to
work successfully with Nature. We
know now that successful flood control
in the last analysis is dependent upon
proper land use. Not only erosion
control, but reforestation, water stor.
age, irrigation and drainage are fac
tors in the flood situation which we
can ignore only at our peril. The sum
and substance of the lesson pointed
out by all of these reports is just this:
Adequate flood control can only be
attained by controlling the raindrops
from the time they hit the ground until
they reach the ocean.
Control Work Started.
The administration has not con-
fined its efforts merely to studying
the flood problem from Washington,
and securing expert reports upon
it. A program is underway and work
has been started in the field that
will meet the twin problem of flood
and erosion control as the program is
expanded to include every drainage
basin in the country. The new farm
act has as its number one objective the
conservation of the soil itself and its
fertility through wise land use. Until
recently the American farmer has been
planting 3 acres to soil-depleting
crops to l acre in soil-building crops.
The new legislation will help to re-
place this destructive practice with
program Of soil building through
crop selection.
The Department Of Agriculture has
announced as the national goal of the
proposed program an increase of 80
100000 acres in the area Of crop land
Evening star., 1936-03-31

United States Supreme Court decided
that the power to regulate inter.
state commerce embraces the power
to keep navigable rivers free from
obstructions to navigation. Every step
IN the water control program Of the
administration is a help to the navi-
CATION of our rivers. 1t aims to pre-
vent dangerously high water in GER
tain seasons and dangerously low
water In others. It helps to keep silt
and other distractions from our
streams.
The law supports the administrative
program IN its smallest detail, and
there Is nothing on the statute books
to indicate that . project involving
navigable streams must be large or
spectacular in order to be constitu-
tionally valid. AS Secretary of Agri-
culture Henry Wallace says, "if the
individuals comprising a nation cam
not call upon a government for help
in the battle against forces as wide
and deep lying as the foundations Of
the nation itself. then neither the in
diWduals nor the nation can have
any hope for the future"
Nature has way of educating both
individuals and nations through
emergencies. We are well advised to
give heed to such warnings. Any one
Evening star., 1936-03-31

in the South, which disclosed that
this group lad silted up in less than
So years. The reduction Of the silt
hazard by modern methods Of erosion
control Is one Of the best means of
protecting the public's investment in
these great projects.
Much of the $500, ,000, 900 of public
works funds which this administra-
ton is investing in water control
projects is going into great flood-con-
troll works, and their construction
Is largely in the capable hands of
the Army Engineers and the Bureau
of Reclamation. These water control
projects range from the Columbia
River to Florida and from California
to New England. Many Of them are
in the early stages of construction,
and 1t will take several years to COM
plete the larger ones.
Two outstanding projects are the
navigation and flood control works in
the Tennessee Valley and a compre-
hensive project for the use and con-
troll of waters in the great Central
Valley of California. On the Tennessee
Valley food control is being achieved
by q co-ordinated program involving
correct land use, erosion control. re-
forestation and the construction of
dams on the larger rivers. This uni
Evening star., 1936-03-31

fed development OF all the natural
resources In the valley will be of
tremendous beneflt to the valley and
the Nation in the coming years. In
the Central Valley of California the
administrator comprehensive prof.
ect is designed to utilize to the fullest
extent the waters Of this fertile region.
Great engineering works are under
way to provide sufficient water for
irrigation, to restore the ground water
levels, and to control the destructive
floods that in the past have ruined
property and carried millions of tons
of fertile soil into the sea- In addi-
ton. the program will provide electri-
cal energy to meet the growing de-
mands of agriculture and industry
and will improve navigation of the
rivers.
No Respecter Of Boundaries.
Floods are, of course, no respecter
of State boundaries. When there Is
q flood in West Virginia, the de-
structive waters of the Monongahela
cannot be stopped at the borders of
Pennsylvania even by an order Of q
Supreme Court. Nor can Ohio protect
itself from floods arising in the valleys
Of Pennsylvania, New York or West
Virginia. In very early dase, the
Evening star., 1936-03-31

as those from certain less dramatic
causes. such as soil erosion neverthe-
less flood loss creates problem which
must be Squarely faced"
Finding that annual losses due to
soil erosion in the watershed of the
Mississippi River were at least 20
times greater than the losses caused
by floods of the Mississippi and its
principal tributaries, this committee
reported that control of erosion was
vital to the national welfare. Last
week, Morris L. Cooke, who was
chairman of this Mississippi Valley
Committee and later of the Water Sc
dition of the National Resources
Board, testified before a Senate COM
mittee as to the urgency of this twin
problem of flood control and soil
erosion, and made it clear that pre-
ventive measures taken upstream to-
gether with adequate dams and flood
control works downstream are both
necessary if We are to obtain the
most effective results.
The National Resources Board, after
a careful study of the natural re-
sources of our country, pointed out
the pressing need for wiser use
of our land. Its report stressed the
interrelationship between the proper
use of our land and success in con-
trolling our waters and emphasized
the need for proper flood control.
Problem Is Regional.
The conservative and independent
New York Times. last week appraised
the report of the Water Planning Com
nittee of this board as "a document
of the highest social Importance, pre-
pared by far-seeing engineers. Its
Water Planning Committee developed
the first comprehensive proposal for
the control and utilization of the
Nations streams-from rills to mighty
rivers. The committees survey makes
it plain enough that the problem pre-
sented cannot be solved by individual
communities and States. 1t Is re-
gional. 1t concerns not merely the
Mississippi and its tributaries, but
the countless little streams that in
terlace the country from coast to
coast. With it are bound up recur-
rent droughts, erosion that carried
away the topsoil of the upland farms
and leaves hardpan almost as i'm
pervious to water as sheet of glass,
water-power plants, irrigation prof.
ects, pollution Of streams, inland navi-
cation, municipal water supply, water
conservation and water utilization in
their broadest aspects.
If the floods have taught us any
thing, it is the need of something
more than a dam here and a storage
reservoir there. We must think of
drainage areas embracing the whole
country-think of small projects which
number thousands, but which are