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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-07-21

a w SlhCliIN W ~
realization
Of the value Of
our democracy
a S a m a n is
aroused to what
his wife means
to him when he
S G e $ he may
lose her
We have come
to take our form
Of goveI'nm c n t
as Il matter OF
course, and have
drifted into the
state of hinG
hat we are too
busy with our
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-07-21
OLD. AGE PENSIONS

Perhaps the old age pension will
some day reach such a state of
development that no one need
live in dread of a pennileSS old
age. Then all old folks will be as
welcome somewhere as the flow
ers that bloom in the spring.
am thinking of one dear old
chap who. when ! asked him
where he was living, answered
that he had no home; that he
stopped with first one and then
another of his children until Civ
en- to understand he had better
move on. Each Of his children felt
able to support him for just 50
long at time. If that old chap
had been receiving an old age
pension. his children would have
fought for the privilege Of enter
tanning him.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-07-21

1t may be well that our democ-
racy is being attacked with the
purpose of destroying it. Tor
probably thereby we shall b"
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-07-21
NO INSTRUCTIONS NECESSARY

1t is an inherent weakness of the present system
of administering relief that the administrators have
extraordinary influence on political allegiance of
the benefciaries. The Messrs., Hopkins, Williams
OF al don't have to announce how they would like
To have people vote. In most cases people know
without being told.-Cedar Rapids Gazette.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-07-21

rur Of Bri,ain's biggest babies.
"a girl weighing i Ia pounds.
WAS born to Mrs. H. Best, a nan
ri's wife in Couanby. England.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-07-21
PARK PREAMBULhT0RS

SASKATOON, Sask. CUPy A
baby carriage parking lot is to be
SaSEattoom's latest convenience.
The city council has set aside =
downtown lot for use Of SASHA
toon mohtcrs who have to push
baby carriages about on shopping
trips. The parking lots Is to have"
HravcIlcd walks, flower beds amd
hedges.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-07-21

PISGAH ROAD: Yates Hemp
hill thinks HendcrSonvillc should
insist upon opening the new road
from the CCC camp site, now the
new recreation center on Mills
River, to the state highway from
Brcvard to Mt. PiSgah since the
Brcvard connection is virtually
closed TO traffic pending road inn
provcmrnts. He says this would
give Hcndersonvillc Il more direct,
beautiful and much nearer route
into the heart Of the Pisgah Ma
tional forest. This was the main
idea in the mind of those who
conferred with authorities about
establishing the camp and build
ing such d road.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-07-21

Omar. Khayyam, author Of the
Riubaiyat, was Mathematician
and astronomer as well as poet.
He died in 1922.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-07-21
PEACHES LOW: The Spartan

burg peaches are said to be Sell
inc as low as 30 cents a bushcI.
tree-run, and 40 cents for the
culls in the orchards. Peaches "a
lore are on the local market.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-07-21

The heart moves $500 gallons of blood day.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-07-21

Seven out of ten have faulty vision.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-04-02

crumpled into dust and been scattere
across the trackless Saharas. Today.
all the pomp and, splendor that once
ruled over the Nile are but sword and
bayonet etchings on the tickle sand 5
OF oblivion. The Jew survives, albeit
as wanderer without a country. g
homeless vagabond trekking across
the sands of the centuries, a pilgrim.
IN his eternal quest for that elusive
Promised Land. always searching, yet
finding only nights of terror and exile
history insists upon repeating it
self. Such self-inflated goats of world
drama as the Pharaohs fail to impress,
the bloat of fatty sausage which is
supposed to be a dictator's brain. A
flyspeck with human features struts
before magnifying mirror and goes
loco over his own magnitude. But de-
stlny is as irretrievable as scrambled
eggs, and on second glance It is not
his own Importance he sees. T.. it is
History playing return engagement,
Retribution singing an encore, Death
taking a curtain CALI
PRAYERS OVER
THE WHITE HOUSE.
Durlng these trying days of wars
and blood and politics, one would :lo+
be surprised if they heard much talk
IN high places about Germany. Spain
or Japan. There can be little doubt
but, responsible minds are burdened
with these grave questions, as well as
with domestic upheavals, like the
IVA, ctcs.
( A recent visitor at the White House
IN Washington relates how voices lift.
ed in song came rolling softly like a
penedlction through the palatial halls
OF that historic mansion. "a Negro
quaret on the radio reverently chant
ing Dvorak's immortal spiritual, Go
ing Home. And as the voices, smooth
In religious ecstasy, seemed almost to
drip with spiritual caress and comfort.
the listener could almost feel in per
sonal contact with the Great White
Throne" which we may reach, accord
ing to the consoling words of the song
through an open door," AS related
by the enchanted listener, the White
House seemed to vibrate gently to
the melodious assurances carried ir
such snatches as ."Pm Just eoir'
nome. through an open door.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-04-02

gwine to sin no more. .. Mothers
there, Fathers waitin' too. and all
the friends 1 knew. +. I'm just goin'
home"
Then as the grooming voices faded
out like the colors of a beautiful sun
set, the leader was heard to lift his
voice in prayerful doxology: 20 Lord
in desc days of sin and sorrow, when
brother is a-shootin' at brother ana
Ole Satan is growing strong ana
mighty in high places, when all about
us is BLOWN the chilly winds of dark
ness and confusion, and everything
seems hopeless, we beseach Thee, our
Father, to come near and BE helpful
to those who must lead us through
troubled waters. Let Thy love bring
wisdom and craftsmanship to steady
the hands of those who pilot our Ship.
of State-Amen."
Somehow, that Negroes prayer re-
minds us that war-making nations
perish not by act of God but by their
own hands. America, in these dan
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-04-02
THE DANGEROUS JEW.


Washington, April 2.-He Is not
much given to acts of physical viol
ence, but to dictators who would de-
stroy him the hapless Jew is the most
dangerous thing this side of purea-
tory. Jews are dangerous to mush.
room governments and self-startino o
dctators, not for what they do to gov.
mcnts and dictators, but for what rul.
crs and tyrannical dictators do 10
Jews History, back to civilization,c
dawn, proves this.
The Psalmist wrote about .sThe foo,
hath said in his heart. There is NJ
God In our day, with courage horn
Of swaggering bravado, the irruptiva
and arrogant Hitler anoints himsalf
alpha and omega; shrugs his should
ers as he holds high carrousel atom
multtudinous heartbreak, and thumbs
his nose at requitative dest;nv. Ha
mocks justice and scorns the immut-
able law of retaliation, breaks laws
that will break him, and soon-not
latc-he and others like him will crasl
into head-on collision with one or two
ineXpugnable announcements: He who
lives by the sword shall perish by tts
sword--and-the nation that persa-
cutes the Jew. even now, works IT.,
own destruction.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-04-02
HENDERSON IN c) DISPATCH SATURDAY APRIL 1898 =

IN ms role as Federal relief admin s.
trator that Joseph met his betravers
again, but blood proved thicker than
old animosities and he took them IN
yer ms wing. Thus the seed OF Abra-
nam !, was planted in Egypt, and thers
II was lett. to spawn and multiply
u,ieil tney were declared menace ana
placed IN captivity. They yearned 70
leave Pharaoh's jurisdiction, and ir,
trying to negotiate passports by sabo-
tage young founding by name Of
Moses invented locusts and other
pests, whose descendants swarm Owe,
our valleys and dust bowls to This
good day-only we have added poli+i-
clans. Moses finally led them from
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-04-02
Waskt'qt9g$&,ayRqS s Sey
1erse Commentaries on Peonle o,,d d.
=. Gentle Iconoclasn, soish Pol;t;c, Esc,,s...
By DR. JAMES E. POPE
NPecIut w 0SIinQton Corrosno,,<I..

$cROSs<SSUB
Joseph, Jew, was sold into Eevnt
py MS envious brothers. There he NAV
nave worked in the CCC or WPA. hui
after being double-crossed bv tho
giamorous Mrs. Potiphar, youns
Joseph was promoted and became vice
president to King Pharaoh. Now. !,
tnose days being the vice-president
meant something, and Joseph's port
iollo of office made him not only ma
uonal chairman of the party in pow
er and postmaster general over al,
patronage, but also chief of the brain
trust and secretary of agriculture in
Pharaoh's cabinet. In this capacity h a
organized the farmers during Egypt's 5
seven years of overproduction. thu
maugurating the very first crop con
servation project-and by storing sur
plus to meet the seven lean years sue
cessfully operated the original ever
normal granary. He also owned tn =
only dependable weather bureau.
flair for guessing the weather four
teen years ahead afforded him a dis
t-nct advantage over present-day plan
ners, in that he could discount and
minimize the political effect of de
presslons before they hit
Time and dust bowls conspired to
nrlng his erring brothers into Egv +
IN search of federal relief 1t was here
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-04-02

bondage, but during the fracas
Pharaoh's army encountered high
water and, suffered, catastrophe ;c
casualties. Perhaps an ancient IVA
dam had gone out,
Pharaoh condemned. the Jews to
hard labor, compelled them to mold
bricks and carry hods. Now t..ese are
callings Hebrew never follows by
volition. In fact it has been whispered
about that all too often the Jews
elects to earn his living by his own
sweatshop rather than by the sweat
of his own brow.
The Pharaohs have perished fro n
the face. of the earth. Egypt Of the
tew-baiting Fharaohs has long since
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-04-02

gerous times, appreciates the sentl-
ment voiced by that praying black
man, and though separated geographi-
cally and by the centuries from that
humble manger of Bethlehem, we
gratefully and reverently concur. IS
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1938-03-04
MAYOR JACKSON
WARNS AGAINST.
RADIO DANGERS
Seeks To Correct Impression
That Singer Was Made Ill
By Eating Crabmeat

The following communication is self
explanatory and reveals the fact that
the Baltimore Mayor has the welfare
of one of Maryland's chief industries
very much at heart. It is copy of
a telegram sent to the N. B. C.
Baltimore, Maryland
February %, 1888
National Broadcasting Company
Radio City
New York, N. Y.
Unsubstantiated statements such as
radio announcement that illness of Sig
nor Martinelli was due to eating crab
meat can do great injury to any
branch of food industry. My infor-
nation is that the noted singer had eat
en- crabmeat with other foods the
night before illness and his attack of
indigestion might have come from
anyone or number of causes.
Howard W. Jackson, Mayor
The case at issue was that of an
opera singer in New York taking a
role in "Aida." He fell just as he had
finished one very difficult aria. An
undesstudy was soon made available
and the opera proceeded, after a short
interruption.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1938-03-04
B. FULLER WALTERS IS
LATEST ROTARY MEMBER

The latest addition to the member.
ship of the Pocomoke Rotary Club is
B. Fuller Walters, proprietor of the
Walters Implement Company. Mr.
Walters is one of Pocomoke's most
substantial citizens and will be a val
liable asset to this one of Pocomoke's
service organizations.
The last of three inter-city Rotary
meetings will be held at Crisfield on
Wednesday evening next, March 9 at
$50 o'clock. The three clubs-Poco-
moke City, Princess Anne, and Girls
field, adopt annually this method &C.
menting more closely the ties of Ro-
tarianism, and also to hear discussed
prominent questions by speakers who
have studied them.
The first Of these was held in POGO
moke; the second, in Princess Anne;
and the third and final one is slated
as above. These meetings are well
attended and much good comes out
of them.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1938-03-04
TWO PERSONS INJURED
In AN AUTO ACCIDENT

Two persons received minor injur-
les in an automobile accident which
occurred Thursday night last when
two trucks and an automobile collid-
ed on U. S. Route IS, about three
miles south of this city.
The automobile, driven by James
K. Coleburn, of this city, went out
of control on a sharp curve and side
swiped truck owned by VIM. B.
Tilghman Company of Salisbury. The
car plunged on after sideswiping the
fertilizer truck and collided head-on
with a truck owned and operated by
VIM. H. Bennett, Salisbury.
Benefits truck plunged through
the guard rail and overturned, trap
ping him in the cab. Coleburn re-
ceived decorations about the head and
face and Bennett sustained cuts and
abrasions. Both truck and car were
wrecked.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1938-03-04
SECOND
MEETING OF THE
FARM BUREAU
Was Attended Last Week By
About One Hundred Mem
bers From All Sections
DIRECTORS ARE ELECTED
FOR THE ENSUING YEAR

The second annual meeting of the
Somerset County Farm Bureau was
attended last week by about one hum
dred members from all sections of the
county.
Mr.. M. F. Carver, President gave
the address of welcome and mention
ed the fine cooperation which exist
ed between the members, board of di-
rectors and officers the past year and
that the organization was working
earnestly in the interests of the farm
ers of the county.
Mr.. J. Miles Landlord, Secretary
and Treasurer reported on the accom-
plishments of the Farm Bureau and
mentioned that the members had pur-
chased over 500 tons of fertilizer, seed
and miscellaneous supplies through
the Somerset Farmers Cooperative,
Incorporated which is the business or
ganization of the Farm Bureau. He
mentioned that around $1,000 was re-
turned to the members in patronage
dividends on the business done during
the year.
He also mentioned that the men,
bers were now placing their orders
for their spring fertilizer through the
cooperative which is the agent for
the Southern States fertilizer in the
County. The price is about the same
as last year and it is expected that
the patronage dividend will be equally
as good if not better than in the 1887
fertilizer deal.
Reports of delegates to the Ameri-
can Farm Bureau Federation in Chi
cago was given by Mr.. William 7.
Chaffey, Vice President and the re-
port of the delegates to the Maryland
Farm Bureau Federation meeting in
Baltimore in January was given by
Mr.. Harry keenan,.
The guest speaker for the meeting
was DIR. T. X. Wolfe, Director of Dis
tribution for the Southern States Co.
operative. DR.. Wolfe discussed the
Importance of farmers cooperating
and uniting for the purpose of educa-
tional development, the promotion of
legislative acts of benefit to farmers;
and the transacting of business as the
cooperative purchase of farm supplies
and the marketing of agricultural pro-
ducts.
Mr.. J. E. Owens, representative Of
the Southern States Cooperative on
the Eastern Shore discussed the plans
for the fertilizer deal this spring and
mentioned that arrangements had been
Continued on Page 12)
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1938-03-04
PUBLIC ADVISED
NO DANGER IN
AN EPIDEMIC
DIR. Willard Announces UneaSi-
ness AS To Infant Sick
ness Is Not Warranted

There is no reason for public alarm
over rumored epidemic among babies
in Snow Hill, according to DR.. w. R.
Willard, Worcester County Health Of
ficer. Investigation of all reported
infant deaths revealed only two due
to the mysterious disease" Other
supposed deaths either could not be
verified or were due to entirely unre-
lated conditions. The water and milk
supply in Snow Hill could not be i'm
plicated in any way.
However, there is some so called
Intestinal Influenza" in this part of
the Eastern Shore and this condition
Is responsible for the two mysterious
deaths" Symptoms of intestinal up
sets such as vomiting and diarrhea are
combined with infections of the upper
respiratory such as colds, grippe, and
sore throat. This is condition not
uncommon this time of year, and is
not always confined to infants. Be-
cause it may be severe with babies
that are not robust, one should not
expose babies to undue risk of catch
ing colds, and one should secure medi-
cal attention for those that have in
festival upsets, fever, or bad colds.
II these precautions are taken, it is
believed there will be little serious
trouble from this condition.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1938-03-04
FIRE DEPARTMENT SETS
HIGH RECORD MONDAY

The local Volunteer Fire Depart
ment on Monday last set what is prob
able a high record in the matter of
answering alarms. No fewer than
five were sent in within a 24-hou1
period.
All these were minor blazes involv-
ing burning chimneys, except one at
the residence of H. L. Vessey, at Pow
ellis Wharf, who was unfortunate
enough to lose dwelling house and
barn. He was also fortunate in that
the dwelling was not occupied.
The high wind prevailing on the
day m question, was probably the
cause of the chimney fires, the in
creased draft tanning sparks into
flame. Reports from nearby places
Snow Hill, Salisbury, Princess Anne
reveal that similar conditions pre-.
vailed there. 1t was lucky no serious
fire broke out, since it would have
been almost impossible to control in
the gale which existed on the day
that February bid the world a fare
we'll.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1938-03-04
LOCAL ROTARY
CLUB IS HOST
TO FARMERS
Program Gives Guests Chance
To See Some Very Mys-
tifying Magic
ATTENDANCE NUMBERED
SIXTY-FIVE PERSONS

The Pocomoke City Rotarians were
hosts to the farmers of Worcester and
Somerset, at the regular meeting on
Monday night last. Farmers Night IS
an annual occasion, and twenty-slx
were present. These with other
guests and the regular members to
about IS people.
Evidently, the program committee
decided not to compel the tillers of the
soil to listen to "shop talk" so a
treat was prepared in the way of a
program of mystical magic. Mr.. Web
ster Selfe, of the Victor Lynn Com
pany was the magician, and right
notably did he play the part. For an
hour, or more, he kept the eyes and
minds of the assembly distracted, in
order to find out how he did his tricks
and everybody finally decided they
couldn't be done.
Mr.. Selfe had varied assortment
of card tricks; slick manipulations;
so-called mind-reading; concealed and
re-appearing objects; and line of
talk that kept one dizzy and diverted
ones attention. Some of the aud
fence saw through CD the way some
of the receptions were engineered,
but, up to date, there is no authentic
account of any ones proving it by &C
tual performance. The evening was
most enjoyable, and there was not a
dry moment to the exercises.
A sextet composed of high school
boys rendered some very well sung
numbers, and this added much to the
pleasure of the evening. Those who
sang were: Kenneth Vincent, Jack
Dickerson, Paul Merrill, Strayer Cor
dy, Jr., Klein Lester, and Bobby
Bounds. Mrs. Dorothy DeMar Scott
accompanied them at the piano.
The farmers in attendance were:
Edgar Benson, Merrill Belote, w. w.
Beauchamp, George Byrd, Harry Coul-
burne, Francis Cuff, o. P. Carey,
John @. East, Edward East, Elliott
Griffin, Herbert Groton, Arthur Lark
ford, Stanley Landlord, J. Miles Lark
ford, Howard Landlord, John Lark
ford, Dewitt Merrill, Russell Merrill,
Herbert Pilchard, Clyde Redden, Will
lis Redden, Ellwood Stevens, Lloyd
Townsend, Clarence Wiedema, Duke
Wiedema and Grover Ward.
Other guests, beside tAa entertainer
were: Curtis Long, ESQ.,, Salisbury,
Nd, DIR. Norman, of the CCC Camp !;
Norman Polk, W. E. Bounds and Ash
ton Miles, Pocomoke.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1938-03-04
MRS. A. B. WALLER
DIED AT Home OF
HER DAUGHTER
Aged Lady Succumbed Last
Week At Home Of Mrs.
Clarence E. Robertson

Mrs. Annie B. Waller, 90, wife of
the late Jonathan Waller, of Sails
bury, died at the home of her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Clarence E. Robertson, this
city. Friday afternoon February twen-
ty-fifth after an illness of about two
months.
Mrs. Waller was the daughter of
Azariah and Martha Rider Davis and
was born October oath, 1847. Shortly
after Christmas she came to Pocomoke
where she made her home until her
death last Friday.
Surviving her are two daughters,
Miss Mabel E. Waller, of Salisbury,
and Mrs. Clarence E. Robertson, OF
Pocomoke and one grandson, Clarence
E. Robertson, Jr. She also leaves
two half brothers, Mr.. Thomas Fetch
er of Bowie, Md, and Mr.. John Fletch-
er of Tower Hill, ILL.,, and one half
sister, Mrs. Charles Hughes, of Sails
bury.
Funeral services were held Sunday
afternoon at 2:30 o'clock from the
Robertson home and interment made
in Parsons cemetery in Salisbury.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1938-03-04
DRAINAGE LAW
CITES MEETING
SATURDAY, nth
A Board Of Two Or More Man.
ayers And A Treasurer
Will Be Elected

The state drainage law provides
that the annual meeting of taxables
on tax ditch be held the first Satur-
day in March.
Notices have been sent by the
Somerset County Agent G. z. Keller
to the managers on the so tax ditch
es in the County and these bitches
have been posted on the bitches, call
ing attention to the meeting to be
held on Saturday.
A board of two or more managers
and a treasurer will be elected and
plans will be discussed for collecting
the annual levy for the purpose of
cleaning out and repairing the ditch
1t is important that the bitches
which have been completed by the CCC
Camp, that the managers will take
steps to see that the bitches are prop
erly maintained, so that they will not
become obstructed and allowed to
grow up with weeds which will him
der the flow of water and prevent the
proper drainage of the land.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1938-03-04
new POST OFFICE TO
BE DEDICATED MAY II

The Procurement Division of the
Treasury Department, Washington, d.
c., in communication with Mayor E.
w. Ross and Postmaster E. E. Mat
thews, has announced that Thursday,
May IL, will be the day on which the
new Pocomoke City postoffice will be
finished and ready for dedication.
The program for the day has, of
course, not yet been prepared, but it
is safe to say that the occasion will
be a notable one. There will be pres
entation and also acceptation speech
es, music, and possibly a parade sim
liar to that which was a feature of
the day when the cornerstone of the
Municipal Building was laid. Further
details will be given later.