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Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1937-04-16
P. 7. A. REGULAR
MEETING HELD
TUESDAY NIGHT
Plans Were Discussed Connected
With Adding To Beauty Of
School Grounds

The regular meeting of the P. T. A.
as held in the High School building
Tuesday evening. Plans to beautify
the school grounds were discussed and
it is to be hoped many residents of
the town will call Mrs. James Crock
EFT, who is collecting shrubbery and
bulbs for this purpose. The need for
fence around the Elementary school
was also stated and listed as one of
the future projects of the P. T. A.
Plans for field day have been made
and every patron and friend of the
school is expected to help make this
day success. A nominating COM
mittee, composed of Mrs. Vaughn Will
kinson, Mrs. Clinton Jones and Mrs.
Arthur Landlord, was appointed to
select officers for the coming year.
Three officers of the keystone Au-
tomobile Club were present to show
moving pictures, depicting accidents,
their causes, ways of preventing same
and the alarming toll of injuries and
deaths caused each year by careless
ness.
A Keystone policeman will be sent
to Pocomoke to train school boy in
highway safety, to help for the re-
of this term and for Field
Day. Mr.. Krusen, State Chairman of
Safety for the P. T. A. was present.
He explained the efficient system used
in Salisbury where school boy patrol
men are active in the work with ex-
cellent results. Efforts are being
made at each session of the legisla-
ture to pass safety law in each county
to prevent accidents. Plans were dis
cussed to work out regulations for
Worcester County.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1937-04-16
LEGION AUXILIARY
HELD MEETING WE'D.

The regular monthly meeting of
the American Legion Auxiliary was
held in the Armory on Wednesday at
which time it was announced the Aux
iliary would not hold the joint meet
ing with the Legion as was at first
planned, but on Friday, April 30th
would give their annual dinner at the
Whyte House. The State President
and other officials of the organiza-
ton are expected to be present and
plans call for a most enjoyable even
ing.
Arrangements are also being made
for the approaching Annual Fashion
Show and Beauty Contest. Several
surprise features will be added to this
affair which will make it an outstand-
ing event.
The affair will be held in the State
Armory, this city, on Thursday, May
18th.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1937-04-16
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Well, Sir, you people may remem-
Der reading an item in last weeks
Pocomoke bladder, telling about a
runaway horse attached to a cart,
with a colored driver doing his best
to saw the frightened animal down to
a walk. But this "hoss" seemed to have
been seized with the speed craze
which has taken possession of every
thing on top of this fair world of ours.
Looked like he wanted to show the
people his resentment Of the way the
motor car had pushed the quadruped
off the road, and to demonstrate that
there was some speed yet left in old
Dobbin as of yore. And he came
very near to proving it.
Harking back to the old days is
not an unpleasant pastimes specially
for one who knows so much about
the long ago as half Of my own house
hold does. You know seeing a horse
hitched to a cart is getting to APP
pear as a novelty, let alone seeing him
run away. Back in the early-well,
never mind the figures-it was a
more frequent occurrence, altho' it
was as thrilling then as now. Re-
member the circus days-when the
brass band came tootin' and thumpin'
down the sidewalks-too muddy to
walk in the middle of the street land
the horses began to prance at their
hitching posts? Remember how the
leader gave the signal to "stop firing"
till the procession got by particular
ly timid creature? And sometimes it
was too late. You'd see a frightened
beast "r'ar" back on his halter. snap
it like it was cotton string, and go
rampagin' down the highway.
And do you remember when the
first automobile looked like the &C.
customed buggy, and horse flesh
couldn't get used to seeing it go
down the road "no pushee, no pullee"?
And the first impulse of your steed
when it met one of these horseless
carriages was to turn around and 60
the other way?
And, also, do you remember when,
once in while, you got hold of an ami
NAL that didn't want to go, no matter
whether it was scared or not-indeed
you couldn't scare it enough to in
duce it to walk, trot, gallop, or run.
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Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1937-04-16
.MOTORIST MEETS
INSTANT DEATH
NEAR SHOWELL'S
George Miller Found Dead In
His Car Which Lay In A
Swamp
EMPLOYE IN ENGINEER
OFFICE AT OCEAN CITY

The death of a motorist at Shovel,
five miles north of Berlin, where his
automobile apparently had crashed
through the rail of bridge and turn
ed over several times before coming
to rest in swamp, Tuesday of this
week, brought to a total Of 164 the
number of persons killed in Maryland
autombile accidents this year.
The one hundred and sixty-fourth
victim was George Miller, 40 years
old, of Philadelphia, who had been en-
ployed in the United States Engineers
office at Ocean City for two years. He
was en- route to the headquarters of
the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal
project at Chesapeake City when the
accident occurred.
Miller left Ocean City about
o'clock Tuesday morning. Three and
a half hours later Woodrow Small
wood, of Shovel, on his way to work,
saw Miller's body in his wrecked auto
mobile. Smallwood notified Constable
William Hall. State Policeman r. j.
Thompson was called into the case to
make an investigation to determine
the cause of the accident.
DR.. John Laws, of Berlin, pronoun-
ced Miller dead. His upper jaw was
broken and he had suffered a COM
pound fracture of the left arm. His
head was not below the water of the
swamp when he was found. The po-
lice were of the opinion that death had
been due to shock and exposure along
with his injuries.
1t was possible, said Sergt. Marlin
Brubaker, of the State police, to whom
Officer Thompson made his report,
that Miller had fallen asleep at the
wheel of his automobile.
At the office of the Baltimore SAT-
ETY. Council, it was pointed out that
automobile accidents at this time last
year had caused a death toll of only
S5 persons in Maryland, compared
with the present figure of 1874 for the
current year.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1937-04-16
ARBOR DAY IS
SPONSORED BY
WOMAN'S CLUB
Planted Tree In COmmemOratiOn
OF Deceased Teacher, Miss
Edith Stevenson
MAYOR ROSS DELIVERS
DEDICATION SPEECH

Arbor Day, or Tree Day, is day u.s.
ually designated by legislative enact
ment in the different states for the
voluntary planting of trees by the peo-
pie; the school children taking part
in the observance Of the day.
The Great Federation of Women's
Clubs this year asked each club presi-
dent to have some commemoration of
Arbor Day in connection with the pub
lie school. It is the hope of the Wo-
mans Club that this observance may
be celebrated each year, thus implant-
ing into the fertile minds of children
the love of trees-a reverence for
their beauty and charm, and a respect
for the part they play in our lives.
A program was arranged by Mrs. R.
Lee Hall, President of the Woman's
Club, and was held in the High School
auditorium on Friday afternoon, April
9. The speaker for the afternoon was
Howard F. Jennings, Project Super
intendent at Camp S-62 f C. C. c., To-
Gated between Snow Hill and POGO
moke. He spoke on forestry and the
Care of Trees"
Mrs. Hall spoke on tentative plans
for the Identification of Pocomoke."
The Woman's Club has made the ini-
tial move in this project by planting
crepe myrtle thus establishing a flow
er personality for Pocomoke. After a
reading of "Trees," by Miss Virginia
Mock, the entire High School march
ed to a spot on the left of the cam
pus where an impressive ceremony
took place-the planting of a magnolia
tree in memory of, and bearing the
name of the late Miss Edith Stevnson.
A poem by Mrs. R. Lee Hall was read
by Miss Howard in memory of Miss
and the tree was dedicated
by Mayor Wilfred E. Ross. Mayor
Ross spoke as follows:
From time immemorial it has been
a custom to perpetuate the memory of
those who have endeared themselves
to the people with whom they were
associated. Tablets, monuments, libra
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Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1937-04-16
HAS VETOED RELIEF BILL
AND WILL CALL TOGETHER
LEGISLATORS NEXT WEEK
WORCESTER WELFARE
BOARD HOLDS MEETING

The Worcester County Welfare
Board held its regular meeting in
Snow Hill, Tuesday, April IS, 1887.
Routine matters were considered and
Investigations for Old Age Pensions
were passed upon.
In accordance with a recent ruling
of the Board of State Aid and Chair
ties, no additional names may be plac-
ed upon the payrolls of Old Age Pen
sions and Aid to Dependent Children
until the situation in relation to re-
lief funds in Maryland has been clari-
fled. Funds are in hand to carry thru
April the families already on the pay
rolls, but no new ones viii be added.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1937-04-16

Hudson girl until her car struck her
and knocked her body into the air.
Members on the coroner's jury were
William S. Hudson, foreman; Max
well CULLEN, o. B. Dennis, Isaac Mich
olson, John T. Hudson, Edgar L.
Rayne, Calvin P. Hall, Reese F. Crop
per, G. Carlton Powell, William R.
Rayne, Elmer J. Warren, and Oscar
Trader.
The girl was the daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Thomas Hudson of near
Berlin and student at the Berlin
High School.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1937-04-16
CLOSING DATE FOR
new SOIL SIGNERS

The closing date in Worcester
County for new signers to make out
soil conservation work sheets has been
set for May LIST. Farmers who are in
terested should make out work sheet
in the County Agents office prior to
this date. Thiss will require a very
short time, but it will assist greatly
if you will make a list of your 1886
and 1886 crops and bring them to the
office with you.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1937-04-16

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Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1937-04-16
COUNTY HOMEMAKERS
HOLD MEETING APRIL q

The spring countrywide meeting of
the Worcester County Homemakers'
Clubs will be an Apple Blossom Fes-
tival held at the orchard of DR.. Lee
w. Warren, st. Martins, April 9th,
2 p. M, to s P. M. Miss Keller,
State Home Demonstration Agent
will address the meeting.
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The PUBLIC CONFUSED

Commenting on the fact that the public has been
misled on the matter of aid for the aged, the Lau
rinburg Exchange says:
The confusion that prevails in the minds of many
as to the purpose and aims of the State social Sc
curity program is not to be wondered at The local
board has found it's work complicated and its eff
forts handicapped because many had the idea they
We're going to get hand-out from the government
And the government to them makes but little diff
ference, whether local. state or national,
On the air, in the press, and by every conceiv-
able means of propaganda and publicity, politicians
and well-meaning persons have created the impress
sion in the minds of many that the government
owed them living; that old age pensions, aid for
the destitute social security for those who need it
and for those who don't need it, were matters that
could easily be arranged by passing law. The
public has been gorged on such wild promises. 1t is
true that much of twas propaganda but the public
does not easily make distinctions. 1t prefers to be-
heve what it wants to believe. And when the legis-
lature came along and gave us social security for
North Carolina many believed, and naturally so,
that the year of jubilee had come.-The Marshville
home.t %
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THEY'LL SUIT THEMSELVES

At Raleigh, and possibly at Washington, there is,
the Daily News bureau of the state capital learns,
a persistent, it at times interrupted search for a
suitable candidate to enter next June's primary
against Robert Rice Reynolds. This rainy day po-
htical sport will probably be engaged in by larg-
er number of experienced players as soon as the
congress adjourns and it is how difficult it will
be for Our Bob to make any considerable capital
of his support of the presidents court reform.
1t is noted in this quarter with equanmity that
more and more attention is paid the possible can
didacy of Superior Court Judge Wilson S. Warlick,
of Newton, who at divers times has been mentioned
in towns where he holding court as one not
likely to be content this side of the governorship
or the United States senate. How suitable Judge
Warlek is for the assignment for which he is sug-
gested we are satisfied to leave to the electorate.
If there is at this time popular demand that he
do anything about it, it has resulted so far in no
public pressure, but certainly he has as extensive
record for public service had Mr.. Reynolds when
he ran and, like Our Bob, he turns over most of
the stones in the effort to please.-Greensboro
News. . .. H'.,. .@ 'l'- '...
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NEWSPAPERS OPINIONS
THE ouEEREST MISTAKE

Of misstatemeats the following from an editorial
in The New York Times last Sunday is the most
amazing that we have observed in any newspaper
in many year. - ~"
"For years and years southern newspapers have
asked southern farmers to put all their hopes IN
one crop" sF' .'@ '''
Speaking from familiarity with southern news
papers covering four decades and longer, we do
not recall one single utterance in them that would
support the assertion of The Times The files OF
every newspaper in South Carolina confute it.
The southern press has for half a century, con-
stantiy preached the doctrine that farmers should
"hve at home and board at the same place" The
full corn crib necessary to the dinner table has
been the text dinned and hammered
Southern newspapers half century ago were
active influences in the establishment of agricul-
tural colleges to teach "all around farming" and
IN this the colleges have been far from failures
In the early 'nineteS the introduction of tobacco
as staple crop supplementing cotton in" South
Carolina was the immediate result of efforts of
two newspapers, The News and Courier and The
Columbia State. The states tobacco crop now sells
for about one-third the sum that its cotton crop
fetches. ... D. &v~ 60. ... 30
The truth is that 500 900 bales of cotton selling
at $50 bale ts4s,o00,OOO) would not pay the
states tax bill and not half it's automobile bill.
If the southern farmers had not long ago learned
to diversity there would be little farming left in
the Southland we are far from saying that they
diversity enough. Z w.' .',
If Tho Times will send its writer to Horny in
South Carolina he will find a county whose farmers
could raise, if they wished, 1000 bales of cotton
year. They raise about 1000 bales, and, The
News and Courier's guess is that not in the south
ern states is farming population of greater aver
age prosperity. In 1929, 10000 of 16S, 900 farm
ers in South Carolina planted no cotton.
The facts about South Carolina, with differences
in degree, apply to all the southern states.
Diversified farming has been necessary to keep
the South alive, and the southern newspapers have
been the principal agency in causing the farmers
to see it. .'- .'' e. ....'...
The New York Times should diversity its infor
nation about the; South and southern newspapers
Charleston News and Courier.
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THE Northwest Territory, sha'
i now is Ohio, Indiana, Michi-
gan, Illinois, Wisconsin and that
part of Minnesota east of the Mis-
sissippi, came into possession Of
a group of ambitious pioneers
through the first high-powered
lobbying that the new Congress
Of the United States ever faced.
The capital was still New York.
when several officers of the Amer
lean Revolution, led by Brig. Gen
Rufus Putnam, founded the Ohio
Company of Associates, and sent
The Rev. DR.. Manasseh Cutler to
obtain the release Of western
lands. AS a result Of his smooth
and efficient lobbying, DR.. Cutler
obtained the passage Of the North
west Ordinance Of 1877, by which
the Ohio Company obtained near
w 100000 acres Of land for
about S450,00o in specie, which
they had bought at 10 cents on the
doli6rO Thus the dana cost them
less than lrcent an acre;
General Putnam led the first
party into the new territoryHand
founded Marietta, Ohio. Both his
portrait and that of DR.. Cutler
flank a map Of the Northwest
Territory on the new stamp just
issued in comrnemoration OF this
event.
downright, 1887, NEA Service Incl
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MODERN=MENUS
by Mrs. GaynOr Maddox
NEA Service Stan Writer

DEAN and peas are big. news
Dnow. The snap bean crop iSesti-
mated at 81 per cent greater than
last years, and the June pea crop
is rated at II per cent higher.
To that good news add this lit
tie fact-theSe vegetables are
among the good vitamin and min
eral group. Snap beans are rich
in calcium and vitamin A, a good
source Of iron, phosphorus and
vitamin G, and a fair source of
vitamin B. Peas are a rich source
for the pellagra-preventing fac
.or.i &c. ID. .
If you don't fully realize how
important these seemingly dull
facts ave, look at children who
do not get the necessary elements
in their diet. Human misery is
more than dramatic-it is tragic.
Watch your vitamins and min
erals if you must feed children
along the way to sturdy and hap
py man and womanhood.
Select only snap beans with
pods of uniform size. They will
cook evenly. Get pods that are
fresh, bright green, clean and
free from blights. Avoid dull,
wilted looking beans. II the pods
snap easily, they are good buys.
Avoid the crooked ones and
those too sharply pointed.
Peas should have bright green
pods, be velvety and fresh look
ing. Flat, dark green podS mean
old ones. Yellow is the color Of
age in a pea, too. Peas, remem-
Der, deteriorate faster than snap
beans because of their sugar con-
tent. The sugar changes rapidly
into starch and the delicate pea
flavor is then lost. So if the peas
must be kept sometime before
cooking, keep them in a cool
Mace. so as to slow down this
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THE NEW De Al
IN WASHIN GTON
by RODNEY DuTcHER.
BY RODNEY BUTCHER
NEA Service STAFF Correspondent

WTASHINGTON.-The President
" telephoned the vice president
and said, in effect:
"Jack, you come on back here
and help me settle some of this
mess you made. A lot of these
senators who are agitating for adj
iournment point out that there is
no reason for staying here and
passing our legislation since the
president of the Senate has gone
away. Come on back here and
aelp me out of this jam"
Presumably each man had a
photographer taking down the
conversation, none of which is
available, of course, except to the
participants. One can only guess
as to what Garner said.
Recall Of Garner, who had
walked out from his post while
Roosevelt, in effect, had elevated
his nose and suggested the vice
president would never be missed
Il that was the way he felt about
it, indicated the desperate posi-
ton in which the administration
forces felt themselves to be after
Majority Leader Robinson's death.
The late, Joe Robinson had OPP
Grated on a personal basis and
there was no administration ma
chine in the Senate. He had ex-
changed favors for fayors, but
these were personal favors and
this became obvious after his
death, TO the great decentralization
Of the administration's court fight.
The real Capitol Hill battling had
been left to the Department of
Justice, which meant, in effect,
only Assistant Attorney General
Joe Keenan,.
COME of RooSevelt's clos, ST
~ friends and most ir .iuential
advisers begged him in vain to 80
on the funeral train with the
body Of Robinson to Arkansas,
for strategic reasons, of course.
The Presidents failure to board
that train aroused plenty'of criti-
~
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ciSm, not only from the few who
felt he Shov'd have paid the final
tribute to loyal follower, but
alSo-and perhaps mostly-from
political enemies who made the
most of it.
RooSevelt's unjuStly celebrated
luck seemed to hold good. how
ever, when complaints as to his
failure to 60 along became dulled
by unvarniShed news reports
which showed the to-and-from
trip to have been a continuous
political conference.
The excuse Roosevelt gave to the
intimateS who urged him to 60
was that he was terribly worried
about the Chinese-Japanese hos
tilities and must stay here to fol-
low hour-by-hour developments.
A PPARENTLY he meant it. The
\ new neutrality act practically
forces the President, in effect, to
take sides in any foreign war.
Roosevelt could afford to make
grandStand play for neutrality by
his handling of the Spanish stu
alton, privately taking the posi-
ton that Spanish civil war was
primarily something for France
and England to worry about
But the Pacific. from the mill
tary and political standpoint, is. in
this country's back yard. Our
traditional attitude toward China
is one of friendliness, and. the
nine-power treaty calls Tor aid to
nations which become Victims of
aggreSSors.
Military and naval gentry all
regard Japan as the nation which
we're most likely to fight This
country is China's base Of supply
for munitions, which would be
automatically cut eff once RooSe-
Welt recognized 4 state Of war.
The neutrality acts casn-and-
carry principle would give Japan
O tremendous advantage on other
commcdiiicj because she has o
merchant feet and China hasn't
.nCOpyright., 1881. NEA Service. Inc!
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do so that all other things will be
added to us; but with that per-
verseness peculiar to our species
we seek everything except the
kingdom of heaven and then won
der why our affairs are always
snarled up. If you ask me, we
get much better treatment than
we deserve, considering the stub
bornness with which we pursue
our willful way. But it is hu-
man nature-and that really is
what ails us-human nature.
1T is SAID
A Spanish refugee from war
torn Spain sought sanctuary in
the United States.
81 must have quiet and safe
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sugar change as much d,
Follow these tour 7 H.
cooking both bea. s-. ', =.
you want to g., al. '.s,.E =
and value. First. g.gn -. !. .
imum Of water. Second =
an uncovered pan 9. 81. " "
them green. Third have ~.
ter slightly sailed b...-gi.':
ouSly, when you g., .a, \,
in, SO as TO cut G..r y,
time. Fourth, con ,lS.
table cooked when 4 -, 10. !.
some body GrmIa. &.
average cook ogcgg.... i's
and beans. RemCwaer Ina. ~
going into the b0i'.rrv.,,.
is a difference in C.u..-r ..
for each-peaS should y,
mered, beans boiled.
If you are canning elm,
or snap beans, the g.a..,. ~
er should b. used. .ar tr.S,,
vegetables are la The -.
group for which any osr
of canning is DOWN n, =.
Gus, according % g. ..--
the United States y.... s
Agriculture
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AUSTRALIAN BUTTER AT PAR

SYDNEY (UP)--For the first
time in history Australian butter
is selling on the London market
at as high Il price as Danish but
ter. Australia plans now to be-
come one of the leading competi-
tors on the European market for
dairy products.
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BIRD FANCIER RETIRES.

KANSAS CITY, Kas. (UP)-
For Is years Cecil Martin has
been one of the largest breeders
of fancy birds in this section,
But now he has quit the business
and is retiring to the Ozarks-
all because of the neighbors' cats.