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Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1938-03-11
A CONFERENCE
HELD HERE TO
LIMIT ACREAGE
Worcester And Somerset Meet In
POcOmOke To Decide PO-
tatO Planting
AVERAGE ACREAGE ON
FARMS ABOVE 3 ACRES

A conference was held at Pocomoke
last Monday of members of the Coun-
ty Soil Conservation Committees of
Worcester and Somerset Counties and
State and government officials of the
Agricultural Adjustment Administra-
ton to determine on the county goals
of white potatoes which are to be eff
fective this year in connection with
the soil conservation program.
In Somerset county the census fig
ures have shown in 1880 and 1885 that
around 1000 acres of early and late
crops of white potatoes are grown in
the county.
The supervisors reports for the
nearly 600 farms in the program and
survey of the farms which has re-
Gently been completed of the farms
not in the program shows total of
216O.4 acres in 1886 and 225O.9 acres
in 1887.
The average acreage for 1886 and
1887 above acres was determined by
the Committee to be 1876 acres. This
acreage was arrived at by adjusting
supervisor figures for any late pota-
toes that were not counted on check
ing and for potato land that might
have been counted as corn land in
the fall when the farms were check
ed for compliance. Potato growers
in the program had an opportunity
to verify the supervisors figures at
the time they signed their applica-
tions for benefit payments for the
1887 program. Cards were also mail
ed to the potato growers to give them
an opportunity to report any potato
acreage that might not have been
counted.
The average acreage for 1886 and
1887 above three acres on the farm
is as follows:
Dublin District 964.5 acres
Brinkley's & Lawsons 511.0 acres
West Princess Anne,
Mt. Vernon, st. Peters
Deals Island, Danes
Quarter and Chance 245.5 acres
East Princess Anne GIG acres
Westover and Fair
mount 93.5 acres
Total 1860 acres
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1938-03-11

1860 acres
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1938-03-11

A very delightful evening was spent
on Saturday, March 9Th, at the home
of Mr.. J. Lee Carey, near town, in
honor of his granddaughter, Miss Bet
ty Hottenstein's eighteenth birthday.
The evening was spent playing games
and refreshments were served at a
late hour. There were about thirty
five guests present and Miss Hotten-
stein received many beautiful gifts.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1938-03-11

other one to sober up on. Reckon one
has to take counter-irritant on
some occasions; and also, too, and once
again, good excuse comes in handy.
Well, after all is said and done, the
drink didn't do any harm, but seems
to have sent the dog on his way re-
joicing to a grand and glorious growth
and I will say about whiskey what In
often said of certain bad-actorS-
"Give the Devil his DUE"
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1938-03-11

were. No one ever heard Of the laws
excusing anybody because of being un-
der the influence of liquor. More
frequently, he's under the influence of
his own peculiar disposition, and US
ing liquor as a cloak for natural ten
denotes.
1 was just wondering whether that
little four-footed animal felt like bit
ing anybody when he sort of sensed
he was soaring in the air without
wings. Poor thing! it can't tell us
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1938-03-11

what happened, but it set good ex-
ample by going to sleep. Lots of hu-
mans should take notice and act ac-
cordingly.
Now, if the owner of that dog hap
pens to see this article, I'd like for
him to let me know if the pup showed
any evidence of hankering after an
other drink to sober up on. That's
a tradition among those who bend
their elbows just trifle too frequent
ly. A drink to get drunk on and an
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1938-03-11
PRESIDENT EHLERS
HAS MORE CONTRACTS

Arthur Ehlers, owner of the POGO
moke City base ball franchise, writes
the Democrat" that he received sign
ed contracts from Nelson Jester,
Thomas Dousha, and William Skinner.
These players were on the roster of
the club last year and, no doubt, the
fans will be glad to hear the players
will be seen cavorting around the
local diamond this year.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1938-03-11
RESPECTED COL0RED
MAN DIED LAST WEEK

David Quinn, an old and respected
colored citizen of Pocomoke died
Thursday of last week at his home
in this city.
"Uncle DAVID as he was familiar
ly known was 90 years of age. He was
a polite and courteous old gentleman
and was highly regarded by both
white people and members of his own
race.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1938-03-11
CHIRPS
Continued from Pare 1

Continued from Page 1
sorts of bad-acting. But I've seen
some of that tribe suddenly sobered
by a sound, whack on the smeller.
They found out, then, that they were
not as drunk as they thought they
Evening star., 1938-12-10

reached by driving out @ street
through Georgetown to Wisconsin
avenue, north one block to Reservoir
road and west to Dumbarton, just
west of Foxhall road.
Evening star., 1938-12-10

can be made safely in cold weather.
If there is danger of freezing,
quick-setting cement should be
used. This will reduce the time
during which the work must be pro-
tected against low temperatures.
Evening star., 1938-12-10
Tay|or-Bui|t Houses
Receive Magazine
Shield Of Approval
Six Homes Constructed
By Firm Located
In Dumburton

Announcement was made today
that Good Housekeeping magazine
has awarded its shield for Better
Standards in Building" to Waverly
Taylor, Inc, for six houses just COM
pleted by the firm at 4608-4628 Res
ervoir road NV, in the new SUBJ
division, Dumbarton.
The shield of approval of the
magazine has been placed on a COM
parative few homes built in the
country. Each of the six houses in
Dumbarton was inspected by a field
representative from Good House.
keeping's Studio of Architecture,
Building and Furnishing. The plans,
specifications and details were
checked by their consulting arch
itect and consulting building engi-
neer, both of whom found them
satisfactory.
Good Housekeeping standards by
which the Dumbarton houses were
judged include the five major points
which are taken into consideration
by the home buyer. These points
are: Good neighborhood environ
ment, good architectural design and
plan, high quality materials, good
construction and good land usage.
The six houses are Colonial in de-
sign. Some are Of formal Georgian
architecture with handmade, sand
finish brick and others in less formal
styles, with painted brick and re-
claimed brick first stories and Co.
lonlal siding on the second stories.
The roofs are blue-black slate, laid
in random widths. All exterior
metal is rustproof, the cutters,
doWnspoutS and f1ashings being
Evening star., 1938-12-10

(See PERMITS, Page BID
Evening star., 1938-12-10
Home BUILDING
In D. {. Area
Is Active
Permits Are Issued
For Construction
Of 40 Dwellings

Though the dollar valuation Of
private building in the District the
4ast week was somewhat lower than
usual, there was brisk activity in
the home-building field. Building
Inspector John w. Oehmann ap-
proved permits calling for erection
of 40 dwellings during the six-day
period.
All types of building for which
permits were issued during the week
were valued at S296,970. This figure
was made up almost altogether of
residential construction. There were
no large permits passed on during
the week.
More important permits follow:
Simpson-Peake Co., 5400 Brook
vile road, Chevy Chase, Md, owners
and builders: George S. White,
(See PERMITS. Page BID
Evening star., 1938-12-10

(See HOUSING, Page B-3)
Evening star., 1938-12-10

copper, and the screens of aluminium.
The windows are set in wide wood
surrounds and each doorway, cornice
and other details are individually
designed.
Floor plans are varied to provide
for most formal requirements. Some
of the houses have first-hoor study,
some f1rst-foor lavatory and some
both. Generally. the living and din
ing rooms and living porch are on
the garden side, with an unusually
fine view down the Potomac Valley.
The kitchens in these houses are on
the street side. Garage entrances
are from the street, eliminating the
need for alleys. The houses may be
Evening star., 1938-12-10
New Low-Rent
Home Finance
Plan Devised
Technique Tried Out
At Princeton, N. j.,
is Described

How a new financing technique
enables private capital to build low
rental housing projects prof1tably
without skimping on materials, is
explained today in the December is
sue of the Architectural Forum.
The magazine reports that with
the new financing method a profit
able $4,000 project, which rents at
$625 per room, has been constructed
at Princeton, N. j., by Gerard B..
Lambert, formerly president of the
Lambert Pharmacal Co. of ST..
Louis. Mr.. Lambert originated the
new plan, and his project pays 4
per cent on his investment, besides
amortizing itself in % years.
"A success at Princeton, the Lam
bert plan should prove still more
successful, if and when adopted on
a national basis" the Architectural
Forum predicts. The salient fact
Is that the Princeton projects low
rents are the direct result of the
new financing technique-not the
result of cost reduction.
1.-The biggest cogwheel in the
Lambert plan is the establishment
Of new type of corporation to be
recognized and regulated by Fed
eral law and called, for lack Of a
better name, investment housing
corporations They would sell Sc
curities to the public, build housing
projects with the proceeds, manage
and maintain the projects until they
have paid for themselves. At such
a time, projects would be turned
over to the municipality.
Maximum 4 Per Cent Return.
"Securities of the corporation
would be limited to a maximum
return of per cent and no profit
beyond this income would accrue
to the corporation or the individual
Investor" the Architectural Forum
explains. The corporation would
receive annually from each project
fixed sums sufficient to repay the
invested capital over a period of
years and yield 4 per cent on money
stiIl invested in the property in any
one year.
when all capital has been re-
turned and interest paid, the project
Is to become the community's. If
dwelling units are built for sale
instead of for rent, the project
would become the property of its
occupants.
"Since the community will ulti-
matelly get a revenue-producing
asset, it is logical to suppose that
most any enterprising United States
city would waive taxes on the prop
erty while it is being operated by
the corporation. Eventual release
of title would also eliminate any
possibility of speculation on the part
of the corporation.
inducements Listed.
I'm addition to the advantages
of a steady per cent income, three
other inducements are proposed
which would make private invest
ment in this type OF housing an
attractive venture the Architec-
tural Forum points out. These
inducements are:
81. While the financing entails
no mortgage, it is reasonable to
believe that the F. H. A. might be
authorized to insure the invest
ments of these corporations.
80. Housing in many States could
be built under existing legislation
permitting local housing authori-
ties to issue bonds exempt from
(See HOUSING, Page B-3D
Evening star., 1938-12-10

Here three of the group of houses built Dumbaon
by Wavy Taylor which received the Good Housekeeping
Magazine shield for Better Standards in Building The houses
first to be built in the development located at
Reservoir road NV All Of the dwellings Colonial type
and the details design carefully worked Before the
awards made the houses plans and specifications
carefully checked by experts representing the magazine
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-04
All That Crosses
Mexicos Border
Is Nor Mexican

The Watch on the Rhine" hardly held candle TO the
watch on the Mexican border in Imperial Valley, where
aens citizens the world sometimes slip without
the formality of a call border immigration border
patromen who scour Imperial county highways and sec
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-04
New Achievements
Seen for Plastic
Surgery in Future

SAN FRANCISCO, Mar. 3. CUP
Recent advances in plastic surgery
which make it possible now to re
construct ears and noses and al
most completely replace skin and
tissue burned or cut off in acci-
dents will be veritably insignificant
by new achievements in years to
come, DR.. Gerald B. O'Connor of
San Francisco said today.
He spoke before the joint con-
vention of the Association of West
eln Hospitals and the Western Con-
ference Catholic Hospitals Associa-
ton at the Fairmont hotel.
DR.. Halcolm H. Merrill, chief OF
U. S. department of health bureau
of veneral diseases, pointed out the
widespread public demand to stop
syphilis and laid down a set of
rules for both physicians and hos
pitals to follow in the campaign
against the disease.
Surveys indicate there are ap-
proximately six cases per thousand
population constantly. under treat
ment fo. veneral diseases in Call
fornia." DR.. Merrill said.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-04

is conceded 70 be all the smuggler
can get out o. the eager men, wom-
en. and children anxious to enjoy
lie on the American jazz front.
Ingenious methods for getting the
human cargoes across the borde;
al. into the United States fire.
auently resemble Rube Goldberg's
best efforts. Gerrish and his pa
trolmen have discovered human be-
mgs aliens to be sure but still hu-
man beings, piti!ully stuffed and
cramped into supposedly secret
commandments under, on top, and in
the interior of automobiles and
trucks. They have found them
packed in cotton, slowed away in
old cattle bones, chucked in among
all manner of trumpery slowed on
vehicles to resemble legitimate
merchandise.
Smugglers become smugglers for
love of money obtained without a
great. deal of work or in des-
/ perate play for cash needed in a
| hurry
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-04

tons along the border in a never
ending search for them
Just because most of the aliens
enter from Mexico is no reason
they all are Mexicans. Chief Her
bert GerriSh said THURSDAY Men,
women. ana children from many
countries enter through Mexico IN
preference TO other points because
they believe it easier to avoid de
lection in unsettled areas. Many
wait in Mexico for a chance TO en-
ter the United States when no one
is watching Night patrols make
entrance Just as difficult III dark
ness as in daylight.
Run Gauntlet
Crossing the International boun-
Diary in safety does not mean they
have accomplished their object.
They still have to run the gauntlet
OF line after line of patrolmen in
this county, lines constantly moved
from place to place to make illegal
entry still more difficult, Even II
they safely pass this border county
GerriSh declared, they still must be
on the alert. Other counties have
immigration patrols also,
An alien in the United States
Illegally may be arrested at any
time, weeks or months after the
first danger is past The alien may
think he is lost among the Welter
of American life, that he is part
of the picture. On the contrary,
he may be arrested at any time, the
patrol may yet catch up with him.
He never knows when he viii be
forced to show the papers requir-
ed by immigration laws.
More arrests were made by i'm
migration border patrolmen in I'M
perial county in February than in
any other month in the last four
years, the chief declared. Eighty
two aliens were arrested, three for
smuggling aliens, and four persons
for other offenses, including petty
theft and carrying concealed Weap-
ons. This was the greatest number
arrested in one month since April,
1884.
Smugglers Hunted
Smugglers are another quarry OF
the immigration border patrolmen
There are persons who make a
business of smuggling and manage
the thing in way they hope will
be safe for themselves if not for
their cargo or those who help in
the dangerous project. What the
smugglers charge for this doubtful
service is said to vary but usually
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1938-03-24

(Patflfincier)

While the idea conservation being promoted next
week. thought another
wealth that ragcay wasted This wealth which
fish, fowl grizzly bear human life and it absolutely
squandered
passing Ieovers know
accidents hundreds Of thousands of Americans each
National Safety Council preliminary for 1887 submits
figures:
Accidents in 1897 killed 100000 Americans
100 traffic
accidents the home and the balance
cidens caused nscellaneousy
killed accidents
disabled $4,000 temporarily disabled 55oOoO and
monetary loss Of $7oo0Oo000
they killed traffic accidents permanently
disabled 10000 temporarily disabled and caused
monetary loss Of sl,64OOoOOOO
addition $4,000 they killed. perma
disabled 100000 temporarily disabled 45oooo
and caused monetary loss of $6OO0O00O0
1897 in $375O0OO0OO
These striking figures They speak eoqueny for them
damnng indifference the
apparently eloquent enough to
reduced
They reduced minimum human
plans systems and oughess Just the eet
be from extinction just the antelope be restored too
a however, must be clearly
profoundly That the accident limited
that affects everybody that it
strikes Unfortunately th9t greatly mnrized
After reading the statistics the National Safety Council who
indifferent problem? Who Indifferent for instance when
indifferent when disclosed that living private life
home can indeed be living can be
is found that 1887 brought
Indifference impossible who
stupidity thought
created world everyday hazards devastating
sgnfnt but not wholly substantial fact that certain states
be uniformly than others In this the lax
resemble individuals susceptible accidents
individuals susceptible accidenndvduas al
falling down stairs breaking their bones getting caught in
the fellows On the whole people
of this apparently born that way
egslate themselves
into taking They traffic regulations they stage
programs safety propaganda they pass strict laws governing
accident hazards not only IN industrial offices and factories but also IN
this with public cooperation
all its phases much to down the great
of life that Of Americas shames Wldle already has
its enthusiastic guardians Human life should be similarly conserved
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1938-03-24
"PIease Don't Let My
Little Girl Run Over You"


Ever so often there is writtepe an
editorial that makes hit 1t I'M
mediately goes the rounds, is cop
led and re-copied. Such an ed
itorial was recently written by Phil
Braniff. first appearing in THE In
surance Field Phil wrote a soul.
full appeal to Dear Driver and
asked him to be careful and not
run over his little girl of 7 years
who had just started to school that
day. II was fine piece of writing
Now the editor of the Longmont
fCnl lTimes=Call goes Phil one bet
ter and imagines the little girl has
grown to IT. Here is what he writes,
and it is so good we pass it on to
you, daring you to forget it after
you have read it. Says the Times
Call editor:
(Now, for our part, we do not pro-
pose to wait, breathless, to find out
what Phil may write, say, 10 years
from now, if his soulful appeal to
drivers is needed and his little girl
keeps out of their way. II little
girls do not change much in that
decade. we imagine it will be some
thing like this:)
Dear Pedestrian:
To-day, my daughter, who is IT
years old, is out with my car. What
she is wearing | do not know, but
lit is not much, and is designed to
catch the attention of one or more
boys slightly older than she and
who may be in the car with. her.
Before she took the car out, we
talked about several things, but not
about where she was going, with
whom, or what they would be doing.
She is reticent about such matters,
and also she seemed to pay scant
attention to several suggestions of
mine about the care of the car, or to
her mothers admonition to be care
| full.
MY daughter is a nice kid, and
not addicted to worry. If have
taken precautions to have the car in
good mechanical condition, properly
| fabricated, the tires safe, and the gas
tank filled, she will have no trouble,
barring accidents. She knows
enough about the car to start it,
steer it and stop it, and has heard
| that there are men who make a
business of fixing automobiles when
things 60 wrong. She probably
thinks that such persons inhabit fill
ing stations, but she will be set right
when she inquiries.
But she knows that when she
steps on certain knob with her
right foot, the car will whizz along
at 60 to 80 miles per hour and she
believes that the knob is placed
there to make it do SO. That is the
only way she knows how to drive
it, and that is as fast as it will go.
so, please Mr.. Pedestrian, do moi
let my little girl run over you. Yol
will know her by her happy look
her blond hair and her red hat
She may be smoking a cigarette ane
the boy beside her may be huggint
her, SO that she may not give yol
her attention if you are in her line
of driving. You had better wal
until she gets by, or dodge.
/ IF you get in her way and sht
runs over you, it may cause her tt
lose control of the car, she ma,
go through the windshield and sea
her pretty face, or she may &c
tangled up in the steering Whee
and need to 90 to the hospital. Ever
though she escapes and you don't
she will come home and cry.
$50 pleace, Mr.. Pedestrian, do no
get run over by my little girl
PHIL"
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1938-03-24
Congratulations?

Liberties Union congratuates ITSELF recent
survey single political
of Communists generally
without interference
Meanwhile ls filled and the firing
squads busy qudang guilty political activity
o. oppose Stain extinct
Liberties Union that these
among boangy their freedom of
goal for which they
WORKING Governments reached Com
bring abolish the freedom
this group America
Americans!
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1938-03-24
Lest We Forget Our Progress

easily led believe the much
socially backward nation that
standard of living of the of the
radical change the system essential
they the March issue of The At
Monthly" plain analysis Gerard Swope of living standards
eight which he visited recently compared with
living standards in the Uned,S States.
yardstk this simple and practical
work the necessities and
life the European worker toll acquire
benefts?"
found his
European 46 73 hours enough money
basket five staple foods An American works II hours
months of work European countries
enough America only As
months
It from to of work Europe
refrigerator only the United States
"a hours of labor required
the United States it takes but q
ilowahour of electric for the lamp
United States
the money energy
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1938-03-24

form philosophy Of devised and still remains the
beacon light OF the hberty-ovng people of the world
1T that America which
chance that wish help all its and human values
1t is those unmatched blessings liberties and opportunities that
for children succession Of eventfu
the future that lie beyond the penerabe silence
momentous future that challenge with
tude and loyalty oil that and the
America Inherited from those hard max great
and worthy of devotion.
MARTIN l. DAvEY, Governor Of Ohio.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1938-03-24

No business has ever yet run it
self and paid profit.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1938-03-24

The most utterly lost of all days
is that on which you have not
laughed.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1938-03-24

country mankind greatest liberties the
advantages and the unparalleled opportunities in the his
the world not be perfecttat would be much toll
hope
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1938-03-24

Great merit is coy, as we'll as
great price.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1938-03-24

Don't confuse action with progress.
A wishbone is NJ G.. without a
backbone.