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Evening star., 1936-04-24

the only living thing to fail to under
stand excessive speeds. One may see
every day many humans who fail to
realize just what 80 miles per hour
means When 1t comes to so and 70
miles they are completely at sea. One
may watch pedestrians who do not COM
prehend how quickly speeding car can
be upon them.
Man is walking animal, and as such
has ingrained in him through centuries
certain ideas of speed in movement.
Though he learns to handle the wheel
exceedingly well, everything considered.
the force he has under his hand is
largely unknown to him, in any real
sense. He steps on it, and 1t goes, but
that Is about all he knows. He, too,
fails to realize how much space his car
can eat up in few seconds at a given
speed.
Motorists should make more allowance
than they do for the failures and short
comings of pedestrians.
Those who walk, for their own Sakes,
ought to make more allowance than
they do for car drivers and the power
and speed they have at their command.
Even the briefest study Of physics,
now undergoing sort of revolution, will
show the average man or woman that
when so much power is involved there
is danger on every hand
Yet all of us become so used to cars
on every side that all too commonly
We let familiarity breed contempt.
Contempt, however. is positively the
one thing no one should have for the
motor car. Its uses are too many and
diversified, its powers of destructiveness
too great to merit anything but the most
extreme consideration.
This consideration must be individual,
however, if one wishes to escape. And
then, at best, one whispers, ''Deo volsnte."
1t is essential to keep in mind that
cars can hurt you.
1t is necessary to think about them
all the time you are in the street.
1t is necessary to think this all the
time you are on the sidewalks.
1t is essential to think cars and speed
and the amount of space they cover in
how little time every moment Of the
time.
1t will not do at all to think these
things for five minutes at stretch and
tllcll 1Ol SCl CIlCAll lOl llSC oCIO1lOb.
A car going at 40 miles an hour can
cover an amazing number Of feet in five
seconds.
Taking the mind of the main thought
in the streets is something which is
done only at great risk.
Every person who uses his feet will
have a certain number Of situations
which are particularly dangerous to him.
After number of years he will realize
just what these situations are. One
of them, for instance, is the liability
attached to the comparative safety of
the loading platform. Once aboard the
platform, one gets to thinking about
something else-and may step off again
without thought of whizzing cars.
There are any number of situations
which each person must consider espe-
cially, since they offer hazards to him.
maybe not to the other fellow, but to him.
All of them can be met, to a certain
degree, by keeping the mind squarely on
the traffic problem.
Think about the traffic in theory all
you will. Maybe you can help But
think about it particularly and individ.
ually while you are in it or exposed in
any way to its dangers.
Evening star., 1936-04-24
Gratitude Expressed for
Stars Cleanup Articles

To the Editor OF The Star:
The Mount Pleasant Citizens ASSocia-
ton wishes to extend to you its appre-
citation and thanks for the very fine
cleanup" series of articles you recently
ran, and, it is hoped, intend to continue
to run in The Star.
Our association some years ago took
up the matter of the very dirty condi-
ton of the streets and sent commit
tee to discuss the problem with the Com
misSioners in an effort to see If some
thing could not be done.
1t seems. however, that it needed the
pressure of the publicity of your series
of articles to bring the District Building
around to some real action in cleaning
up the very filthy condition of the streets
and alleys. 1t is hoped this is not but
passing attack or gesture on the part
of the District Building in the matter of
keeping streets clean.
We thank you for your articles and
hope that you will not let this matter
drop, but will continue to urge that the
city officials continue their campaign and
not allow the streets to drop back into
the old dirty condition. A. A. CHENAY.
Evening star., 1936-04-24
British Taxes.

Having determined that her defensive
necessities require an extensive increase
in armaments. Great Britain proposes to
meet the resultant budgetary situation
by increases in taxation. Addressing the
House Of Commons this week, Chancellor
Of the Exchequer Chamberlain announced
that income tax would be raised by three
pence in the pound to new basic rate
of four shillings nine pence in the pound,
or an advance to 23& per cent. Then,
Mr.. Chamberlain revealed, it is planned
to strike at millions Of the humblest
brackets of the population by raising the
tea duty two pence on every pound pack
age, an increase OF SO per cent over the
Evening star., 1936-04-24
Protest Against Proposed
Lunacv Commission Law
To the Editor OF The Star:


To the Editor Of The Star:
As a resident of the District Of Co.
lumbia. may I protest against the pro-
posed lunacy law now pending in Con-
gress, which is calculated to rob the
residents of the District of their right to
trial by jury?
Under the specious plea that this will
relieve the accused of the embarrassment
Of appearing in court it is proposed that
a commission of two doctors and one
lawyer be empowered to send any one to
the insane asylum.
Now, every intelligent person who reads
the newspapers knows that in every
criminal action where plea Of insanity
is entered expert alieniSts appear on both
sides of the case, proving that their
judgment is not absolute.
The proposed law would enable poor
relations to railroad rich relatives into
an asylum and without recourse to
habeas corpus 1t would also permit
unScrupulouS men to incarcerate their
political opponents without jury trial
Jury trial is fundamental right Of
free people. 1t is astonishing that the
quixotic Civil Liberties Union has over
looked this. Deny the right to trial by
jury in one instance and you may deny
1t in all. Judges are expert in the law
but we do not leave to them the entire
decision OF cases. Doctors may be expert
in insanity but doctors are human. The
transition is easy from one trial with
out jury to all trials without jury and
the result is tyranny.
Insane persons are not embarrassed
by being brought into court, though their
relatives may be. Sane persons accused
of being insane may be saved by
jury-could they be sure of being saved
by commission of two doctors and one
lawyer? MARIE MEDORA.
Evening star., 1936-04-24
President Monroe Was Born
In WestmOreland County

To the Editor of The Star:
Under the heading, "Virginia's Gar
den Gates Swing Open to Visitors" ap-
pearing in Sundays Star-by G. Adams
Howard-I note that Port Conway is
given as the birthplace of President
James Monroe AS matter of history,
President Monroe was born in Westmore-
land County. Va, not far from Colonial
Beach. Port Conway is in King George
County, and it is there that President
James Madison was born. The historic
home of Mr. and Mrs. John P. Hooker,
with it's beautiful gardens, is in the
vicinity of the bridge which connects
Port Conway and Port Royal, dedicated
to President Madison and known by the
name of the President Madison Memorial
Bridge.
This bridge, built about two years ago,
replaced a ferry of great antiquity but
bearing the great distinction of having
been crossed many times by our first
President, George Washington.
NELL LEWIS STAFFORD.
Evening star., 1936-04-24
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. ,TRAcEWELL.

The American public was worshiping
its god.
Men were crowded around a car at the
curb examining a modern radiator treat
ment. fancy tenders. extreme stream
lines.
There was a cynic in the crowd. an
automotive hereto, as it were, but none
Of the worshipers knew it.
He was saying, to himself, well, here
we are, at the shrine of the great killer"
The papers that morning had shrieked
several killed and many wounded the
night before.
If the deaths and maimings had oc-
CURED at one place, as the result OF q
falling wall, or fire, or other hand OF
God" calamity, every person would have
been talking about the happening.
They were just automobile fatalities.
SO no one pointed an accusing finger at
this latest type car, but all united In
admiration and praise.
What's to be done about it?
Evidently nothing, from a concerted
standpoint.
The individual must do something
about it. if he wants to save his neck.
Even then he cannot be sure.
God willing" the old phrase, ought
to be on the tongue and in the thoughts
of all, whether driver or pedestrian.
The man afoot, however, clearly has
the greatest task before him. because
he has no defense except his own brains
and agility.
stop, look, listen" is not enough.
The pedestrian, and by that we mean
simply any one and every one afoot,
must keep clearly in his head the danger
which confronts him, and which he con-
fronts, every minute Of the time he is
on the streets.
One has but to examine the faces and
especially the conduct of thousands OF
pedestrians to realize that this is rare
state of mind.
The individual yet has to get into his
head that he is in great and positive
danger.
Watch the faces at the crossings. Not
a one feels that he is going to get
bumped.
Women, especially, slow their walk in
crossing our busiest streets rather than
accelerate their pace.
They will walk briskly to the curb.
but once they are in the thoroughfare
actually slow down and fairly amble
across.
Getting across a city street is prob
lem nowadays.
Crossing is not something to drool
over but to be accomplished as quickly
as is consistent with safety.
Even the pedestrian has uses for
speed. One is when he has embarked
into the dangers of the stream and is
en- route to the comparative safety of
the other curb.
Keeping the danger of modern traffic
in mind all the time one is subject to
it-this is the beginning Of traffic
wisdom.
1t is completely problem of the in
dividual. if he wishes to survive. Thought
may be taken for him, as it is, by great
institutions, by officials of various sorts.
by the composite mentality of the city.
but unless he makes up his mind to take
care of himself. first and foremost. he
is always in great danger because too
often neither he nor the driver has
realized what speed means.
Speed as We know it today. Is some
thing many who handle it do not in the
least grasp mentally. The dog is not
Evening star., 1936-04-24
rlent Of love and fellowship. Every

nent Of love and fellowship. Every
schoolboy Is familiar with Portals appeal
to Shylock, but that is only one single
instance of the poets insistence on
forgiveness Hundreds of lines might
be quoted to prove the point. 1t was.
indeed, the principal motif of the plays;
it runs like golden thread in the
tapestry of all the Bards writings.
But whence arose the impulse for
such plea? Only soul that had suf-
fered terribly could have cared so much
for "nobility's true badge" The depths
of agony must have been touched by
the spirit that demanded: How would
you be If He, which is the top of judg-
ment, should but Judge you as you are?
Oh, think on that, and mercy then will
breathe within your lips like man new
made"
Americans particularly, here and now.
should be interested to read the riddle.
The fate of the Nation currently is in
volved in the problem to which it might
be the key-the problem of fraternity, of
brotherhood, of mutuality in purpose and
procedure, of social idealism powerful
enough to unite the people in common
determination to achieve progress, pros
perity and peace. Mr.. Folger and his
devoted wife did their part and DR..
Schelling has proclaimed the opportun-
ity. In the beautiful marble temple in
East Capitol street the materials have
been gathered. All that is required is
a biographer with heart and a mind
competent for the task of using those
facilities to create Shakespeare anew.
Evening star., 1936-04-24
A Rhyme at Twilight
By
Gertrude Brooke Hamilton
Charm.

Charm.
She may not have rare beauty to attract;
No lovely clothes nor flashing wit has
she:
And yet a swift glance from her smiling
eyes
Will serve to haunt the very heart Of
me.
She may be wearing last season suit,
With Just touch of white at neck and
wrist;
Yet swift lift of fatalistic hands
And 10! find my heart a beat has
missed.
She may be II, from some small town,
Or early girlhood may have left be-
hind;
Has she that envied-and accursed-
thing
Called charm. no living man to her
Is blind.
Evening star., 1936-04-24
How Will MOdernized Parks
Stand Blazing August Sun?

To the Editor of The Star:
We are now told that lilacs don't do
we'll this far south Any Virginian or
Carolinian knows that to be just silly.
1t begins to look as if many Washing
tonians don't like the park Improve
ments." Formalized, geometric designs,
with no flowers and no Towering shrubs,
seem to be the new ideal.
Also, it is understood that new plans
for the Mall between the Monument
and the Lincoln Memorial call for mess
ing up that area with more geometric
designs, privet hedges and baroque ef-
fects! Maintenance costs? Will the
grass get enough water in August under
the new plans? JEROME GIRARD.
Evening star., 1936-04-24
New Names Should Be Given
Parks to Conform to Looks

To the Editor Of The Star:
In view of the extent Of hard surfaced
roads that are being built in Lafayette
Park it might be appropriate to change
the name of the square to Cement"
Park
The construction work in process in
the city parks at the present time, while
hard on the parks and the public, must
be excellent for the cement business.
Z. M. JOHNSON.
Evening star., 1936-04-24
Shooting Stars.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON
Advice.

Advice.
Advice is something very fine.
Most people sometimes need it,
Yet as it's passed along the line
There are but few who heed it.
The warrior gets advice in bales.
The statesman always hears it.
Whenever any project fails
The wise ones show what oueers It.
There's many an honest man and true
Who scorns to seem a shirker
And seeks instruction with a view
To be willing worker.
But lofty analysts of fate
Will often leave you surly.
Most good advice arrives too late
Or else 1t lands too early.
And even when it seems to touch
Your needs you learn to hate it;
You find they hand you out so much
You can't accommodate it!
Evening star., 1936-04-24
The Gardener.

Oh, let us all rejoice once more!
The vernal skies are bright.
The garden seeds down at the store
Once more our hopes invite.
Well watch the tender leaves and buds
And pray for sun or shower,
And raise most everything from spuds
To kale and cauliflower.
Oh, let us greet the crowd once more
That gayly gathers round.
The cutworm as in days of yore
Is working through the ground
The grub that makes the butterfly
Displays pernicous zeal,
And everything that wanders by
Is looking for a meal.
Evening star., 1936-04-24
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Evening star., 1936-04-24

Vandalism among taxi drivers intro
duces an element of peril which cannot
be eliminated by safety-first exhorta-
tions to pedestrians.
Evening star., 1936-04-24

The most notable effort to organize
youth was that of the Pied Piper; and
that fortunately was only an incident of
romantic fiction.
Evening star., 1936-04-24

Communism is something that most
people do not claim to understand and
do not feel that it is worth the expense
of a college course to learn it.
Evening star., 1936-04-24

Spain has lady bull fighter whose
exploits consist in narrow escapes and
do not disqualify her for membership
in the S. p. c. A.
Evening star., 1936-04-24

If some of the visiting politicians con-
tinue to insist on being arrested they
may demand the compliment of personal
tags on police patrol cars.
Evening star., 1936-04-24
Scientific Methods.

"Are you going to make farmer of
your boy?"
mo-" replied Farmer Corntossel. But
Just as soon as he gets home from school
he's going to teach me agriculture"
Evening star., 1936-04-24
Thoughts.

With problems strange this life is
fraught,
And haste will seldom thrive.
Some things require second thought
And some need four or five.
"Once in a WHILE" said Uncle Eben,
you'll hear a man sayin' he regrets
his past, when de fact is dat he's afraid
Of his future"
Evening star., 1936-04-24
The Dimculfx

Il put my faith in the wisdom of the
plain people" said the complacent
orator.
That's easy" replied Senator Sor-
ghum. THE real job is to get them to
reciprocate"
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1936-01-24
TlUo Former Pocon1ok-
iars At Emerson Hotel

Pocomoke City people will be quite
sure of a welcome when they visit
Baltimore and decide to put up at
the Emerson Hotel.
AS stated recently in these columns
Jimmy Crockett's genial face can now
be seen behind the desk of that house,
dispensing cheerful hospitality to all
comers. Jimmy started in Pocomoke,
removed to Salisbury, thence to the
Lord Baltimore in Baltimore and now
holds forth at the Emerson.
Another native son Of Pocomoke
has started hotel career at the Emer
son. He is no other than E. Clarke
Fontaine, Jr., son of DIR. and Mrs. E.
Clarke Fontaine, both natives of Po-
comoke but now residing in Chester
town and grandson of the late Mr.,
and Mrs. Edgar Fontaine. Clarke
has had some experience in the busi-
ness, serving two years with the Plim-
himmon at Ocean City. He is well
fitted for the work and no doubt
will make good. He says he always
starts a smile when he sees any body
from Pocomoke.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1936-01-24
FRANCIS E. WATERS
NATIVE COUNTIAN DIES

Francis E. Waters, wartime chair
man of the Maryland Council of Ma
tional Defense and a close associate
of the late John Walter Smith, who
was Governor of Maryland and later
United States Senator, died at the
age of 79 on Wednesday last in the
Vincy Hotel, st. Petersburg, Fla, af-
ter an illness of but four days.
Born May A, 1856, General Waters
was approaching his eightieth year.
He was born in Snow Hill, Md, the
son of Richard 7. and Hester A. Hop
kins Waters. He was descended, both
on his fathers and his mothers side,
from families that had been among
the early settlers of this country.
Mrs. Waters, who was before their
marriage Miss Fannie Scott, of To-
ledo, Ohio, died some years ago.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1936-01-24
PROSPECTS BRIGHT FOR
TWO new INDUSTRIES

The representative of the Pocomoke
Shirt Company, who last week insert
ed an advertisement in the "Demo-
crat" for women workers, with view
to establishing a factory in this city,
left on Tuesday last expressing him.
self as we'll pleased with the outlook
for starting a business here.
1t was reported he had a satisfac-
tory volume of response to his ad-
vertisement, but there was some doubt
as to the qualifications of those ap-
plying. He will, however, return here
about Thursday of next week, when
favorable developments are looked for.
Along the line of industrial ac-
tivity, it is pleasant to note that Mr..
H. E. Brooks, representing the Brooks
Hosiery Mills was in this city on
Wednesday looking over the situation
relative to starting a mill in this city.
This industry employs young men
and boys and requires floor space
so by 100 feet. Mr.. Brooks expressed
himself as pleased with the city and
all they wanted was moral support
and cooperation. It seems more than
likely a mill will be established here.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1936-01-24
EXTRA SESSION
OF GRAND JURY
IS CONVENED
States Attorney Johnson Makes
Requests On Account AL
legged Attack On Girl
GIRL HELD ON CHARGE
OF COUNTERFEITING CASE

Judge James M. Crockett has called
an extra session of the Worcester
county grand jury for January 20, to
investigate and consider charges
against three Maryland State Police
man made by a 14-year old girl, Ber-
tina Jones.
Sergeant E. D. Dryden, command
ing officer of Sub-station E, Mary
land State Police, has made a state
ment concerning the case and avows
there is no truth whatever in the
girls statements and that he well
comes thorough investigation by the
Grand Jury. The extra session was
called at the request of the States
Attorney for Worcester, Thomas F.
johnson.
The girl in the case has been in GUS
tody since January 2, she being sus-
pected as having valuable testimony
in connection with the circulation Of
counterfeit money recently discover
ed in Worcester. She was taken to
a hospital for examination, and is re-
ported to be able to attend the jury
sessions. The result of the eXamina-
tion was not made known.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1936-01-24
ADKINS DENIES
INTENTIONAL
JUNK THEFT
Claims To Have Appropriated
A Boiler Out Of Use For
Fifteen Years

Relative to a story appearing in
last weeks issue of the Democrat" +,
concerning the theft of certain ar
ticles by Lawrence Adkins, of this
city, friends of Adkins give ver-
sion, which, if true, throws differ
ent light on the matter.
Reports, as printed, showed Adkins
had stolen practically the entire
equipment of saw mill belonging to
a Mr.. William Laws, of Wicomico
county, and located near Nazareth
Church, in Atkinson's District.
Relatives of Adkins claim that he
had recently engaged in the junk
business, and had removed from the
premises above described, an old dis
carded boiler, out of use for the past
Is years. This he sold to Lee (Junk)
Taylor, of Pocomoke, who afterwards
disposed of it elsewhere.
Taylor and Adkins were arrested
and imprisoned. The former furnish
ed bail, but the latter, at this writ
ing, is still incarcerated. The amount
claimed by Mr.. Laws for the machin-
cry he claims was removed, was too
large to allow trial by the magistrate
court, so the case will be continued
to the Circuit session.
Adkins, probably, made mistake
in deciding the boiler was a cast-off
and should have approached the own
er before apprehending the "junk,"
but he avows he had no intention of
acting dishonestly.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1936-01-24
LOCAL SCOUTS
RECEIVE AWARD
HONOR MEDALS
Court Of Honor Was Held At
Crisfield On Tuesday Even
ing OF This Week
THIRTEEN POCOMOKE
LADS RECEIVE BADGES

A Court of Honor for the Boy
Scouts in the Pocomoke District was
held Tuesday evening in the Emmanuel
Hall at Crisfield at which time
awards of merit were made to Scouts
from Crisfield and Pocomoke Troops.
Jimmy Snow, Pocomoke was elevated
to the rank of Star Scout upon hav-
ing attained five Merit Badges after
becoming a First Glass Scout.
DR.. C. E. Collins, first Scoutmas-
ter, in Crisfield, talked to the Scouts
about the good old days when Scout
ing was in it's infancy. DR.. Collins
organized the first Troop in Crisfield
in 1912.
Captain F. C. Frommhagen, Chap
lain of the CCC Camps on the East
ern Shore was the speaker of the
evening, at an indoor camp fire which
was held after the badges were
awarded. He told several short stor-
les which were we'll received by the
Scouts.
C. R. Andreas, Jr., Field Scout Exc
cutive of the lower Eastern Shore
closed the Court of honor with a
Candle ceremony on the Scout Oath
and Law.
Awards of merit badges to POGO
moke Scouts were as follows:
Jimmy Snow: Farm and Home
Planning, Workmanship, Pioneering,
Salesmanship.
Arthur Lankford: Athletics, Pho
neering, Carpentry.
Willard Richardson: Metal Work,
Firemanship, Carpentry.
Billy Talton: Firemanship, Carpen-
try and Metal Work.
Harry Custis: Firemanship, Per-
sonal Health, Carpentry.
Frank Mac Sorley: Carpentry, Per-
sonal Health.
Willis Boole: Handicraft.
Howard Stevenson: Carpentry.
Edwin DuBose: Carpentry.
Ralph Ross: Chemistry.
Sidney Venable: Pathfinding, Fire
manship, Carpentry.
George Holland: Metal Work, Fire
manship.
George Young: Metal Work, Car
pentry.