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Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-01-10
Column
Cassville, N. j.
Dec. &c, 1885.

A'AA' lie ~ OA~A nc,
Editor Worcester Democrat
Dear Friend:
l certainly appreciate and thank
you for your kindness and courtesy
in publishing my several letters in
! your peoples Column" and here is
another one.
Recently The Bookings Institution
Washington, D. c., completed a study
of the distribution of income among
the entire population of the United
States, based upon the year 1929, con-
sidered as the peak of the prosperity
era. According to that table 41.6
per cent of the families in 1929 lived
on less than $500 per year when our
land was at the pinnacle of it's pros
perity, and half of this group were
allotted less than $1,000 per year.
There were in these lower groups
II, $685. families who were in the
upper range of poverty; 9,893,OO0
families lived in minimum comfort
% per cent or 5,928,000 families who
were comfortable, well-to-do, wealthy,
and extra wealthy. The extra wealthy
all had incomes of more than $4,000.
Now my friends, examine this: in
what class do you belong? How
many of you have had, for the sup
port of yourself and family an aver
age income of $1,000, the upper edge
of poverty? 1 will confess that I've
lived on the upper edge of poverty
until was A years old and after
moved to New York City, where it
cost more to live, I never got above
it in any one year. And yet having
had steady employment, good health,
the ability to work, every day and,
above all, a good help meet in my
wife, (she, her mother, and my mother
were the best women I ever knew ]
have managed to live in minimum
comfort and save little for my old
age and I hope I shall never be a
burden on my children. There were
times when if misfortune, such as a
spell of sickness or unemployment oc-
CURED, I would perhaps have dropped.
Now, my friend, examine again
and analyze the situation. and you will
find that financiers have failed to do
their best to give US an efficient mon
ey system and yet it was their prin-
cipal business to do so. The function
of money is not to make money, but
to give work, move goods; money is
only one part of our transportation
system. 1t moves goods from man to
man and in the moving gives work
to many men as it moves.
A dollar bill is like postage stamp.
It is no good unless used, to move
goods or commodities from person to
person. 1t is just the same as an en-
CINE without steam; some one will
have to get out and fix it.
DR.. Townsend and his followers
have proposed a plan that will fix it.
Since the money masters-the finan-
cial obligarchy-have neglected to
provide an adequate distribution of
money.
We need at the same time to set up
certain other safeguards, so that when
we have fixed this part of the none
tary system, monopolies shall not de-
mand or receive more than their just
share of the money circulated, for
this would defeat if given to them the
noble object of this great financial
plan. Thus would the golden prom
Uses of our Declaration of Independ-
ence become the actualities as we as
sumo the responsibility. "That I am
my brothers keeper"
Yours truly,
H. Thomas Stevenson.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-01-10

Mr.. and Mrs. George Dryden and
daughter, Elva, were supper guests
of Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Hickman near
Stockton, Sunday.
Mrs. Carrie Jones entertained at
dinner on Sunday the following: Mr..
and Mrs. Ohio Brown and son, Bob
bic, of Stockton, Md, Mr.. and Mrs.
Lester Hall and children, Mary Fran
ces, Betty Lee, and Lester Ray, of
Silva, Va, Mr.. and Mrs. Elton Jones
and children, Virginia Lee and Bobbie
of near Greenbackville, Mr.. Sidney
Tarr of Stockton, Md, and Miss Ann
Mason of Greenbackville.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-01-10
Local and Rural News

guests Friday, Mr.. and Mrs.. Bundick
and Mrs. r. H. Harris.
Mrs. Clarence D. Fleming entertain
ed at a birthday luncheon Saturday
last for her young son, Clarence D.
Jr., who had reached the age of 1
year. Her guests were: Mrs. Jesse
E. Bradley of New Haven, Conn.,, Mrs.
Burton S. Reese and son, of Onley,
Va, and Mrs. Harold S. Mock of
Philadelphia.
Announcement of a death which
reached us too late for publication last
week was that of DIR. Carl Ludwig
Knitter, Jr., who but recently settled
at Chincoteague for medical practice.
DIR. Knitter, who is known to many
here, died at Johns Hopkins Hospital
in Baltimore, Thursday, December
26th, death resulting from pneumonia
following an operation.
A regular meeting of Crescent
Chapter No. A Order Of the Eastern
Star will be held Monday night, jan
uary 18th at 7:3O o'clock. At this
time the officers elected and appoint
ed to serve for the year 1886 will be
duly installed. A number of visitors
will be present and the meeting will
be followed by refreshments and a
program presented by the January
Social group. Mrs. G. Ewell Dryden,
of Stockton, is chairman of this group.
Mrs. Grady E. Powell, Deputy Grand
Lecturer, will be the installing Off
Ger.
Recent dinner guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Clayton F. Lambertson include:
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Ards and sons,
Elwood and Preston, Mr.. and Mrs.
Elwood Ards, of Salisbury, Mr.. and
Mrs. w. H. Pilchard, Miss Edith
Myers, Mr.. Woodrow Myers, Of Stock
ton, Mr.. and Mrs. George Waterfield
and son, Kenenth, Mr.. Junior Water
field, Harrison Lambertson, Jr., Mrs.
Florence Lambertson, Miss Pauline
Lambertson, Mr.. and Mrs. Cleveland
Lambertson and daughter, Betty Lou,
Mr.. Edgar Lambertson, of Goodwill,
Mr.. and Mrs. Marion Lambertson of
Remson, Mr.. and Mrs. Henry LAM
bertson and daughter, Margaret, Mr..
and Mrs. Harold Lambertson, Mrs.
Wealtha Mason and Mr.. Elihu Wilker-
son.
A full attendance of the members
is desired at the regular meeting of
the Inasmuch Circle Of Kings Daugh-
tiers to be held Monday afternoon,
January Is, at the home of Mrs. o.
A. johnson. The 50th anniversary of
the international Order will be OBJ
served throughout the nation on this
date and in cooperation with the Mary
land Branch the local organization
will also hold it's meeting and
present an attractive program. Each
member is urged to be present and
is privileged to take friend. In
connection with this jubilee celebra-
ton it will be interesting to note that
the local organization was formed
just two years later and has been
active for forty-eight consecutive
years.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-01-10

sary within the past month, Mr.. and
Mrs. J. T. Paradis, Mr.. and Mrs. J
w. Davis and Mr.. and Mrs. G.. w
Ards. We wish them many more an
niversaries.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elton Jones of near
Greenbackville gave a three o'clock
dinner on New Years Day. Those
present were Mr.. and Mrs. Casper
Skeeter and sons, Mr. and Mrs. Yer
non Skeeter and daughters, Mr.. Will
Skeeter, Mr.. and Mrs. Ohio Brown,
and son, Mr.. and Mrs. Lester Hall and
children, Mrs. Carrie Jones and Miss
Audrey Jones.
Smyrna times., 1936-03-26
Smyrna High
School .ACtiUitieS
Contributed Articles By Pupils Covering Literary
Efforts Sports, and News of School Interest

Oh! there was an old battered
trunk. Having dragged it from the
corner, 1 opened it. In it were
piled many old clothes. Among
them 1 found one dress that fitted
me exactly. Mother told me that
it had belonged to my great-grand-
mother. In the bottom of the
trunk were some old letters which
L welcomed for their stamps. In
the corner there was a small purse
containing confederate coins, which,
although unusual, were of no value.
Then 1 saw sampler which had
been made by my grandmother at
the age of eight. What eight-year-
old child of today would stay still
long enough to embroider such in
tricate designs.
In the other trunks found many
more interesting things. 1 was
very sorry when the day was over,
and waited impatiently for another
rainy Saturday.
E. Phillips.
Smyrna times., 1936-03-26
Pheasants in Delaware

Pheasants are probably the most
beautiful game birds found in this
country. They have been brought
from England Asia and Indo-China
and have been successfully raised
in the woodland regions of Amer
ica.
The male birds display striking
colors and gorgeous plumages
while the females are usually
brown or gray and of smaller size.
The tail feathers of the male are
from two to three feet long, color
ed scarlet, blue, black, green and
golden yellow. There is a species
of pheasants found in India of sur
passing beauty with crested beads
and brilliant metallic greens, pur-
pies, golden yellow, and colors set
off by patches of silvery white and
velvety black.
In Delaware the government has
been very successful in the propa-
cation of these game birds. The
pheasants are rapidly multiplying
in the forests and thick brushes
where they are under cover and
protected from the hunter.
Erika M. Reimann
Smyrna times., 1936-03-26
A Great Surprise

Some nights ago I had nothing
to do that especially interested me
so decided to go to bed early and
get some much needed sleep. This,
1 thought, would be a break" for
the teachers because I always man
age to get little nap during some
hour of the day.
After 1 had slept for several
hours 1 awoke with the realization
that was very cold. 1 thought
that mother must have gone to
bed, judging from the deep, wark
stiffness of the house and thinking
it unnecessary to awaken her by
swapping on light, crept into
the hall to find an extra blanket. /
groped along until I reached the
bannister at the head of the stairs;
then I picked up a blanket and
turned to go back to my room. I
had not gone more than two feet
when heard terrible noise in the
hall below. / was so scared that
/ began to run and I didn't stop
until 1 reached mothers room.
Naturally she awoke and after 1
breathlessly told her what had
happened, she calmly told me to go
back to bed. I had my doubts and
suspicious but 1 went back to bed
and as the noise did not return, I
soon fell asleep.
When I went down to breakfast
the next morning, mother met me
and I have never seen her laugh so
hard before. She told me to come
into the hall and see what my ghost
was.
Imagine my surprise! I found
out that as had lifted one blanket
from the bannister the one beneath
it had slipped over the side and had
fallen on a stand below. When it
landed it knocked over a vase
which was smashed into bits.
Naturally I was much relieved
and from that time there have been
no ghosts for me.
Flo Hollett
Smyrna times., 1936-03-26

Georgetown to make some Dur
chases, and on returning home
found the remains of his wife w.
ing in the yard burned to death
No tidings were left to show the
cause of the terrible accident.
DR.. John K. Kane, a prominent
physician, of Wilmington, and a
brother-in-law of Secretary of
State Bayard, died at Summit. N.
J., Monday of erysipelas.
DR.. James S. knight, Surgeon U.
IS. ~, died suddenly of heart dis
ease at Hyannis, Mass, on Sunday.
DR.. Knight was born near Kenton
entered the service in 1861 as as
sistant surgeon and was commits
stoned a surgeon in 1866. He won
high praise for his courage and
skill throughout the war. He took
part in the passage of Forts Jack
son and st. Phillip, the capture of
New Orleans and the assaults on
the Vicksburg batteries.
Smyrna times., 1936-03-26
Dreams

Dreams - the exact definition
would probably be: thoughts oc-
curing during sleep, or things
seen in the imagination. To me,
dreams mean much more than this,
and / venture to say that they have
the same reaction upon most peo-
pie, especially the female sex.
Although scientists argue that
in reality, dreams last but seconds,
they seem to us, to endure for
hours. Sometimes, they bring mo-
ments of ecstasy, or hours of med
itation and horror.
Have you ever noticed how good
natured one is when he awakens
from a pleasant dream? In the
same way the person who has had
a horrible nightmare is usually
moody and disagreeable for
hours.
Many people believe that our
dreams center about the last
thoughts which have occupied our
minds before sleeping. If this were
so everyone would think of pleas
ant things before entering dream
land-but I've tried it and it doesn't
work.
N. Wallace
Smyrna times., 1936-03-26
The Junior Play

This year as in other years the
Junior Class is going to present a
play. This has been done for quite
a few years in Smyrna High
School. Its purpose is to help raise
money for the annual Junior Prom
and to help the Washington fund
The cost is taken if possible from
the Junior Glass. Every Junior
with any ability is required to try
for it. A person who tries for a
part or parts takes a,section of the
script and learns to read it well
and to act it. When the chance
comes he acts the little part in
front of few teachers. When
each person has acted, the best
ones are chosen. This method of
cast selection is very good and eff
fective. After the parts are as
signed the cast is given a full
month of rehearsals. More time is
used if necessary. Mr.. Schantz at
tends to the business part of the
venture.
Howard Deakyne
Smyrna times., 1936-03-26

PEELED to lay off for a year because
of i'll health, will make his home
for the time at Milford.
William Reinnardt, who has been
bookkeeper for the past two years
for the Peninsular Bone Fertilizer
Company, left to-day to take po-
sition as bookkeeper for the Char
les Parker Company in Philadel-
phia. Mr.. Reinhardt has filled the
position here in very satisfactory
manner, and leaves with the re-
grets of his friends in this place.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. Frank Denney
will celebrate their twentieth ami
versary at their home in White
Hall Neck Friday evening.
Reuben T. Stewart, who was a
resident of this town some thirty
years ago, died at his residence in
Wilmington, on Monday, at the age
of SO years. He was painter,
which trade he followed until he
died.
Owen G. Crow moved to Smyrna
on Monday from Wilmington. ard
occupies a house on Delaware
Street.
William VanGasken, after a visit
of several weeks to this towr.
starts to-day for his western home,
Smyrna times., 1936-03-26
Howard Deakyne
Selecting a New Outfit

1t is most disgusting to arrive in
the city to select an outfit without
an inkling as to what you want.
Just to start wandering for some
thing-you don't know what, until
you find it. But yet, it's fun. Fun
to wander until you find what you
think is the ideal dress. You try
it on, have the sales lady fit it,
when suddenly you decide you just
don't care for it, and leave only to
say, I'm sorry" But tricks turn
when you see the most beautiful
dress in a window. You think how
appropriate it is. and what a pleas
ing color it is. You enter and ask
to see the dress in the window.
The sales lady is awfully sorry, but
she does not sell dresses that are
in the window.
The hat is next. All the hats
are draped with flowers and feath-
ems and look like some last years
birds nest. You finally decide to
wear your own last years nest.
The shoes are not so hard to find.
The first pair you try on are just
a little too large. At last, the
plain pumps are what you buy.
BY this time you feel as if you
are about to faint, and the rest of
the articles that are on the list
just have to wait until another day.
Marie Heinold
Smyrna times., 1936-03-26

Etiquette is the name given to
rules of conduct observed in polite
society and society is the game all
men play. If you play it well, you
will win, if you play it badly, you
will lose.
To be at all times at ease and
free from embarrassment one must
be free of self-cvonsciousness, but
thoughtfully considerate of others,
and one must not only know what
is the good form but practice it
through daily life. Ease comes
with habitual good manners.
When one is careful Of ones good
manners, he usually succeeds in
either the social or political side of
the business world. True. one who
is born into the higher rank of So
cial classes usually is brought up
on the best social plane. But the
businessman usually has to work
himself up. In either case, it is al
ways gods taste to think twice be-
fore you act.
Virginia Darrah
Smyrna times., 1936-03-26
FORMER STATE
EDUCATOR DEAD
Prof. A. r. Spaid Dies i'm Win
chester, Virginia, of
Heart Attack
LEFT DELAWARE IN 1921

Prof. Arthur R. Spaid, former
Delaware state commissioner of
education, former superintendent of
the New Castle County public
schools, and former principal of
the Alexis 1. DUPONT High School.
Wilmington, died Monday night of
last week at the home of his
daughter, Mrs. Russell o. LaFoI-
lette in Winchester, Va, at the age
of SO years. Death was due to
heart trouble. Prof. Spaid became
i'll while visiting his niece, Mrs. Lee
Calvert, in Washington four weeks
ago. He was taken to the home of
his daughter two weeks ago. His
condition become critical Thursday
previous the his death. He had
been head of the education depart
ment of Salem College, Salem, w.
Va, for the past ten years. He
was principal of the Alexis 1. Du-
Pont High School from 1893 to
1903, superintendent of public
schools of New Castle County from
1903 to 1913, and Delaware state
commissioner of education from
1917 to 1921. From 1913 to 1917
he was superintendent of schools of
Dorchester County, Md. He de-
voted his entire life to education.
Born in Capon Springs, w. Va, on
July 81, 1866, son of the late John
w. and Margaret Elizabeth Spaid.
Professor Spaid was graduated
from the Wilmington (Ohio) Col
lege with the degree of A. B., in
1898, and, winning a scholarship,
received his M. A degree at Haver-
ford College in 1894. He also re-
ceived an M. A. degree from Co.
lumbia University in 1917. After
leaving Delaware in 1921, Professor
Spaid engaged in Chautauqua work
and about 10 years ago became
Smyrna times., 1936-03-26

Grade 2-1, Miss Robinson, teacher
Robert E. BedweQ
Kay Boehmler
Alice A. Burris
Grade 2-2, Miss Burchard, teacher
Leon Tucker
Grade IL, Miss Griffith, teacher
Edith Myrtle Allen
Anna Marie Davidson
Mary Virginia Foraker
William H. George
Grade 1-2, Miss Stats, teacher
Frances Pierce
Gwen Smith
Avis Truax
Joyce Wilson
Smyrna times., 1936-03-26
A Rainy Day

When awakened one Saturday
morning and heard the rain pat
terang on the roof. was very much
disappointed. 1t would have to
rain on the day my friends and I
had planned to have a picnic! 1
dressed slowly and during the
morning wandered disconsolately
about the house. Suddenly I re-
membered that, in the attic, there
were several old trunks which
hadn't been opened for many years.
I went quickly to the attic, wonder
fng what treasures would find.
Smyrna times., 1936-03-26
Art

More interest should be shown in
an art course in high schools. Some
phase of art is found everywhere
in every day life. To appreciate
the value of art person must un-
derstand and enjoy beautiful
things.
In high schools the pupils may
make and express their own ideas
of painting and drawing in their
own ways, thus enabling them to
become familiar with the problems
of really great artists and enjoy
their work more keenly.
knowing something of art will
help young people in their careers.
Everyone should have some knowl-
edge of art to be successful in bus
ines or whatever type of career
they may choose.
Life will be richer and fuller for
those who learn to appreciate art.
Jean Urian
Smyrna times., 1936-03-26

head of the educatir |
of Salem College. Praz
hobby was nature sa;
cause Of his wid:ly-hz|
ors in this field, be \
member of the Amilr
of Natural History, Nzl
year. He was a pGz
of the National Edaat
tion, was a member d
Orler of United WG1sI
grange, and Of the N
copal Church. Will !
ton, he was one Of III
McCabe Memorial Ca
Smyrna times., 1936-03-26
HONOR ROLL AT
SMYRNA HIGH
The First and Second Honor
Standings For Fourth Ad-
visOry Period
LIST OF THOSE HONORED

Supt. c. c. Schantz of the Smyr-
ma Public Schools, has announced
the first and second Honor Roll for
Scholarship, fourth advisory period.
The First Honor Standing" is
granted only to those pupils who
have. for that grade period, all
I"A's" representing their scholastic
attainments in all subjects, provid-
ing however, that not more than
one grade in one subject may drop
to ''B" for that same period.
Grade IL, Mr.. King, teacher
Elizabeth Attix
Grade 11-2, Miss Rogers, teacher
Elizabeth Phillips
Nellie Wallace
Grade 10-1, Miss Shatz, teacher
Daisy Darrell
John Shortall
Grade 90, Mr.. Wright, teacher
Eiulef TdSSWdlSTS
Grade Al, Miss Scout, teacher
Jimmie Edmondson
Grade AZ, Miss Adkins, teacher
Jack Garis
Modal Rowlinson
Grade 81, Miss Kaufman, teacher
Jamie Lamb
jeanette Ellwanger
Grade 80, Miss Martin, teacher
Irene Mofitt
Eleanor Nowland
Grade FL, Miss Robinson, teacher
Thelma Dulin
Ruth Gooden
Grade 2-2, Miss Burchard, teacher
Mary Minner
Gerry Lamb
Billie Kenworthey
Jane O'Neill
Eleanor Reimann
Curtis Newnum
Grade IL, Miss Griffith, teacher
Scott Ennis Bedwell
Grade IL, Miss, Stats, teacher
Doris Nowland
Second Honor Roll Scholarship
Those in the Second Honor Roll
for Scholarship, Fourth Advisory
Period. Second Honor Standing"
is granted only to those pupils who
have attained a scholarship stand
ing, so per cent of which are LAS"
and no marks below 3D." provid-
ed however, where 5 subjects are
taken, 3 must be "A's".
Grade IL, Mr.. King, teacher
E. Hughes
Grade Ill, Miss Graham, teacher
Anna w. Davis
Dorothy Handloff
Grade 10-1, Miss Shatz, teacher
Phyllis Armstrong
EsteHe Admondson
Grade 1912, Mr.. Gebhart, teacher
Mary Eta West
Grade 81, Miss Beckett, teacher
Dorothy Cooper
Grade 9-3, Miss Filters, teacher
Leslie Silpath
Grade 81, Miss VanPelt, teacher
Frances Ann Davis
Grade So, Mrs. Pryor, teacher
Audrey Westfall
Jean Truax
Grade 3-1, Miss Kaufman, teacher
Dorothy Donovan
Jimmy Ford
Sylvia Harris
Grade 3-2, Miss Martin, teacher
Jean Spence
Margaret Springer
Smyrna times., 1936-03-26
Miles City, Montana.

Miles City, Montana.
Frank Collins, of Delaware Col
lege, is home on a three or four
days vacation.
Miss Linda Bailey, of the Seven
Hickories," will give a party on
Friday night.
Manlove Davis, one of our old
citizens, has been confined to his
house by sickness the past several
weeks.
DIR. S. w. Hirons, who has been
quite sick for the past week, is re-
ported better this morning.
John c. Stockley, who has been
confined to his house by indisposi-
tion for the past four or five days.
is expected out in a few days.
DR.. Fanning's wife was yester-
day suddenly called to Kennedy
vile, Md, to attend the funeral of
her sisters child.
I COUNTY AND STATE ITEMS
Miss Mamie Bayard, the Secre-
tary's third daughter, now presides
over her fathers home.
j. Thomas Lowe and William
Harrington have been granted let
ters upon the estate of Thomas H
Denney, deceased.
Captain Charles H. Stockley and
Maggie P. Burton, of Lebanon,
were married Mach 22nd, at the
Camden M. E. parsonage, by the
Rev. E. Hynson.
D. L. Dunning, postmaster at
Middletown, resigned that Office on
last Saturday. Major William Wood
is strongly recommended for the
place. Mr.. Dunning's term had not
expired by year.
Rev. t. H. Haynes adm wife were
given a cordial reception on their
arrival at F'rederica last week, by
the members of the Methodist con-
gregation. The selection of Mr.
Haynes for that town at this time
was perhaps the best that could
have been made from the Confer
ence.
The wife of John Bowden. living
near Frankford, Sussex county,
was burned to death on Saturday
last. Her husband had been to
Smyrna times., 1936-03-26
War

Germany has just broken the
treaty of Versailles by entering
the Rhineland armed. Every coun-
Try OF Europe realizes the possibil-
lty OF war and has prepared for
1T. All the people realize how hor-
rible this war will be and therefore
are not very anxious to fight.
Most Of the citizens think that gas
VIII be the worst weapon but it
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