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Twin-City herald., 1938-09-03
FIRST LADY RAPS SOUTH'S
EXPLOITATION

New York, Sept 2-Mrs. Frapklin
d. Roosevelt took a slap at the South 5
exploitation of the Race in her syndi-
Gated column, Ny Day"
In the New York World Telegram
of August II, the First Lady said:
"The South has SO many potential
riches but it always seems to me that
many of its advantages go for nothing
because of habits and customs which
have grown up and been injurious to
the land and people. The people who
have been forced TO the lowest stan
dards Of living and have a minimum
of education and the lowest cash in
come are the Negroes, and | think i
has always been felt by the South that
in some mysterious way, this IS an ad-
vantage. During the last few year;
some question has arisen in the minds
of many southern people as TO whethei
backward group is ever an advan
| ltagep
Twin-City herald., 1938-09-03
SOME RESENT FINGER
WAVES

Here is a new way to break in the
workhouse folks. Charles Johnson,
age SO, of 3251z Washington Avenue,
may not go down in history because of
his discovery, but the persons at whom
he waved his four fingers after he had
carefully placed his thumb in one nos
tril will probably remember their in
dignation for long time.
Police called, Johnson was waved
into cell by five fingers, waved into
the builpen by five more, waved to the
bar or justice by Still another five, .to
show why he had waved just four.
The missing thumb was not in his
Dose when Judge Wright gave him
ninety days. A broad grin made uss
of the offending thumb impossible
when Judge Wright said he could
leave town after serving thirty days
If thy thumb offend thee, wave mo-
four fingers.
Twin-City herald., 1938-09-03
VISITORS

Rev. and Mrs. J. E Bradford Of
Terre Haute, Indiapa, were visitng
their parents. Mr.. and Mrs. Chas.
Phelah 23l6 Tenth Avenue South.
Mrs. Orpha Nandergrgff Of Milwau-
kee, Wisconsin, is visiting her mother
Mrs Mayne Garter, 28oS TentR ss'yie
So.
Mr. E. n Harpole is visiting hi'
parents. 23l6 Tenth Avenue south.
Mr. James Hunter OF Kansas City
Mo, and Mrs. Daniel Barker OF To
peka,. Kansas, are :;visiting. their brothsr
Mr. NJ fFtnter, 4oz6 liI!aa :sfVs
Mrs. Helen Hudson OF CoffesTpille
Kansas, is theshouse guest Of Mr.. an
Mrs Vim. Reddick, OIL z. 22nd ST
Mrs. l. Mitchell Of Kansas City
Mo-, is the house guest Of Mr and Mrs
Wm. Reddick, Oh e. 22nd ST
Mr. and Mrs S. Q. Harris, 2430 St
Avenue South have as their hous
guest Mr.. and Mrs. G. f. Prescott {
Kansas City.
Twin-City herald., 1938-09-03
THE POLICY RACK E3f

The Twin City Herald does not.ine
terest itself in the flittle'' fellows Of
the big racket We would ike to
know why the barons Of policy are
still immune, why it is so <seasy to
catch the writer who gers about two
cents out of every dime, but the fellow
who gets the. eight cents cannot be
found?
Another angle that might be worthy
of investigation, is whether or not high
schoolers and adolescents find any in
terests in this particular pursuit Of
lady luck. 1t has come to us that some
of them play, again it comes that but
few do SO. We are not in position to
say, if the kids are one-half as elusive
as apparently the bosses of the racket
are, we probably will never know.
Twin-City herald., 1938-09-03
FORMER DES MONIES
WOMAN DIES IN
MINNEAPOLIS -

Rose Burns. formerly Of Pes Moines,
died Sept, lst at General Hospital.
BegR. ia@SRRton, Virginia, in 1881,
Mrs Brown lived some time in -Des
Moines, Ia coming to Minneapolis,
she resided at the Serville Hotel since
1881,
Size leaves to mourn her loss, four
brothers and two sisters.'e The body
will be removed to Des Moines for
burial
Beautiful floral offerings were given
by Mr.. and Mrs Sylvester Oliver Nj
Ellis Houston, Mr.. Washington, and
Mf. ]. r Douglas, Neal Funeral Home
lSn Sharge -
Twin-City herald., 1938-09-03
HELP, HELP, WE NEED
PROTECTION

The following was received, and not
knowing just how to classify it, we
filed it with our fan mail:
Mr.. Perry, have read your art
icles about policy in your little
cheap paper.
Why pick on the ones that you
say walk around with grips 1t is
the public and people that want tc
play, and you know that if you
could lay down dime and get
$5o0o for. it you would do it. too
but you can't play because you
don't make many dimes on your ole
trashy cheap paper, to play. Yot
look like you need square meal.
Do you'believe in VooDoo
If you don't, yoll will.
Twin-City herald., 1938-09-03
MINNEAPOLIS TO HAVE
BIG TIME NIGHT CLUB

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A night club that will compare with
the best in metropolitan areas is the
latest gift. of Messrs Hamlet Rowe and
Sylvester Oliver, when the Clef Club
opens September 5th. at 635 Sixth ystSe.
No. An unusual, though 9eaptlful. col,
or scheme viii be i!osI.!93yyisa Services
Of Doc Pettif6Td's TsII:5se Garden Or
chestra'haRe been. secliyed,.
The reputatiols.df :..batt,;Mr. Rove
and Mr.. Oliver for, ,doing things in
the correct way, rssetheE with the
elaborate .preparatiets. that have been
made in this partieulsr place Of enter
tainment, should smell an unusually
good time for the .hnliday celehrants.
Twin-City herald., 1938-09-03
Mess Line


When Cotton Ed Smith, and a.
little band of staunch followers met
beneath the statue of Wade Hampton
to celebrate their victory, we wonder
what there was in common.
Wade Hampton, as defender of
South Carolina, had a real menace to.
combat For if ever there was state.
submitted to misrule after the Civil
War, this state could vie with the best.
of them.
Carpet baggers had ridden the citizen
ry in some cases out of homes and.
possessions, confiscated This worlds
goods in the name Of righting great
wrong.
Hampton had been chosen to lead
the state out of the nire in which it
found itself in 1876, and he had the
staunch support of many substantial
Negroes as we'll as whites.
Cotton Ed came forth and waved
perhaps for the last time, the bloody
shirt
II must have been interesting to have
lived in those days and nights when
the red shirts rode in South Carolina.
Many Negroes on both sides were
misguided. The ''Red Shirts" in them
selves did not represent the horrible
abuses that were to follow their sue
cess at the polls.
According to the legends of the day,
some of the first of the group painted
their shirts the proper color
Negroes who chose to be Democrats,
had to be furnished body guards by
the Democratic party, and yet it was
almost impossible to have party with
out them.
AT the time, the census reports
showed 2So, ,667 white; 4l5,814 Negroe.
Every unbiased historian of the present
date proves, conclusively, that some
Negroes were godsend to the state
during this period, although larger
number were all too eager to heed the
carpet Dagger in his plea for vengeance
and blood.
Persons of the Cotton Ed" variety,
who still stalk the swamplands and
mountainsides, in behalf of long dead
issues, who attempt to raise the blood
lust in those who have long since
proved their need Of decent wages and
housing; whose ragged half starved
children need schools and training
must make it extremely embarrassing
for those on the "otherside" like Wade
Hampton, love to see the progress o.
the state for which they did much, tc
which they gave much. Cotton" Ec
Smith, and all his ilk, who have rid
den into political favor by reviving ano
discoloring old issues that are now his
tory, cut the throats of those leaders
who followed the wake of the disaste
of the war between states, who woult
no doubt have eventually brought tn
South out of the rut, that makes nev
deals, wages and hour bills, and no
the least, child labor laws necessary
Had it not been for the unconscious
aid given them by the post war schoo
OF. thought that was demonstrated il
the carpet bagger, and the other zealot
who. got off on the wrong foot, tn
Smiths, the Bilbos of Mississippi an
the,Test, would no doubt have still bee
following the plow on ten acre plo
or vending their way tosa cotton mil
Their dinner bucket would be ha
filled with the sowbelly and cawnpon
diet, which, they have not been able
change for over fifty years, becaus
they have been too busy fighting tn
i shadows of black menace which ca
never exist, for poor whites and poe
Negroes are finding that the road
progress lies in one direction and the
need to bear each others burdens Q
thefway:
Twin-City herald., 1938-09-03
PLAY HIDE AND GO SEEK. IN
MATTER OF EVICTIQNS =.

-.Ys~
While there seems to be no .partlcu-
lar henry 6naahe part or the State
Highway Department ff'tEs matter Of
evictiQns in thesrondenHed area along
the proaased Olson boulevard, there
is still little satisfaction to be obtained
as to whstsastiozs=s actually Intended.
AT first it was claimed by Representa-
tives Of the highway department, that
the nlasser rested eHtirely in the hands
OF the city engineer
Inquiry proved that the city itself
had no particular say in the matter sof
evictions, as it was state project.
Hexeysr Councilman Sullivan, elfaifs
man of. the committee ons foadsz and
hridgess sand F TsRam, detsEA Aginse
seemed ..exGsnselssSEnxious tlsat' resi-
deQts along. tfieeeSaAnsea route Of or
son BoulsHHsrd be. @ssSrnsuch protection
as may be deemed NECESSARY s.in. .sae
mater OF shelter: A delegation ,ef.,
citizens effectively headed by NI, E.M-
ing 900 6fi.ASeA6ue Moth, have made
some artSngenisffittss; with the. Depart
meht Of Highways, but no Disclosure
has been made as to what tfle. Jesuit
Of These Conferences were. both, Mr.
Bundle, and Mr.. E1sberg Of the State
Highway Department have besa..ab.
sent from their offices. for the past.
sz<E
The coneensus Of opinion seems to
be; howtsSer, eve ,'thaf the siprobsff procedure
would be to si;ittt ssitsttt. &e6ffS work. insseme qther.
part Of the project until Sumner sFieldS Isl
Homes! We're. opened for occupAncy.; <.
I The Eitizens Volnnteer. Committee
ION Housing, which met larss Sunday at.
Phyllis Wheatley House, for fessShs
best known. to themselves, saw: ;flf TO
ignore this particular phase ofithe'
housing SITUATION, although some eff1the,
rrffesidspts affected might lose thelsaAFl-.
ority flgbit- in the gsy hSpg1ss Ssp!g sA4sld
they be forced to ileaye the disstrict.sE
Twin-City herald., 1938-09-03
y So

: SieverendJ. II. Thompson and wife 5
have been presented with fine baby.
girl Sir pounds;:twelve ounces. The
mother rs doing 6shceiysat at tiFairvieN
Hospital ks~r
Twin-City herald., 1938-09-03

4 z F55a-
Philadelphia, Sept. "a Race man,
believed TO be a city employe, but
Unidentified, is said to be
the key man in the investigation being
made into the baied-fo-deatll' scandal
at HIo.l4nsbgrg, Rgison, here. -,
Nine. prison guards. all members of
the. squad which marched the % fing-
Leaders .ot.a food stfiEe at, the prison.
two weeks ago to solitary confinement
cells underwent I, stiff grilling satur-
day !.
One at the tipe, ,the. guards passed
through a small ants-roon into the
Offices Of the. county detectives whers
Coroner Charles =. Hgseh,. pepstss
Coroner Vincent Morantz and Assist
ant District Attorney John A. Boyle,
tirelessly fired questions at them.
Seated alone insithe ante-room,
through which each gdard passed
twice, .onee entering and again leaving
the inquisition chamber, was a Race
man; who serutinized closely the face
.of each. guard. o.s
He spoke to no ones' 40 one spoke
to him. He did no wiring, nor read-
ing he just IS saF f'Er and a. s:a:zed at the
guards.as they Sassgd sm.
Aii:ialk about. ffm5=and there vas
.plentyLwas speculation, because those
who knew his identy made no expla-
nation of his presence .for4ftfnction.
Some said he was minor city of
Ificial.vho had served time, in !tIF
| EF1oimesburg prison. Menbersvqs sthe
district attorneys staff did not. deny
I'that he was to be used as an iderlthi-
cation witness.
i 1t was also limited that the prober:
ftwin depend upon his testimony tc
learn conditions Of the prison from ths
! prisoners point Of view, and to learf
lhow certain membssse ofSthg :guarS
staff were regarded by inmates.
1 The four men found baked to dealt
when the. solitary confinement cell
were opened Monday, Aug, 22,~weg
all white. It's got, kapWp # any Q
1.-The 21 surviving conyiets..feNnd in
weake4ed condition in the calet Wei
lmenibsrs Of the. Race. Is
4 r.: =: =. - - xI
=. SI6K kND Shirt IN
Twin-City herald., 1938-09-03
Decision Rendered
In Dodson Case
LEONARD, eorSroN 1MPRo ovEs
!. - -

Leonard colston;, s.AIiIaneapolis sDe-
tective, who was shot some time ago
during family arguafest .has shown
great, Improvement dtlring the past
week, and apparently Is out Of danger
Mr. Colston has been sitting pp for
the past few days, and seems t5 be in
fair spirits.
Twin-City herald., 1938-09-03
SICK AND sAIIf ii.

Mrs. Prinith Doyle, 2so8 Tenth Ave.
South is III at her home
Mrs. Elnora Walker, sol Aldrieh
Avenne North, is still at her home.
Mr. George Peters, 605 9Th Avenue
North is convalescing at home
Mrs. r. Burns is quite q at General
Hosp tai
Twin-City herald., 1938-09-03
.COLoRED MAN PRRcHuTES
TO WORLD RECORD

Chicago, ISL Willie (suicidel Jones
of. Norfolk ya..eIaims a new worlds
altitudessSs0iXl for parachuters with a
jump FROM 2g40o feet at Chicago. The
previous record was 26,500 feet set by
BELIENEeRACE MAN IS. KEY
re. BAKE DEATHS
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-12-16
Garden And Outdoor
Life Show

Arrangements are being rapidly
completed for the 1889 North Ameri-
can Sports, Garden and Outdoor Life
Show, to be held in Fifth Regiment
Armory, Baltimore, February II to
Is, inclusive.
To date over rs percent of all
available floor space has been filed
with new and more colorful exhibits;
and, although the Advance Ticket
Sale will not begin until January 3,
1889, over $4,000 tickets have al
ready been reserved. Lee Sens, Chair
man of the Advance Ticket Sale Com
mittee has announced that only 3d.
900 tickets will be placed on sale
at the special price of fifty cents.
When that quantity, has been sold,
tickets will be available only at the
regular price of seventy-five cents.
1t is suggested that organizations
affiliated with the Maryland Out
door Life Federation, Inc, deter
mine the number of tickets needed
for their membership and mail their
reservations for Advance Tickets at
once to Lee Sens, Md. Outdoor Life
Federation, Inc. 81 N. Charles
Street Baltimore, Maryland.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-12-16
Jobs For Unemployed

The local office of the Maryland
State Employment Service, located
at 207 North Street, Elkton, Mary
land, would like to urge all unem-
ployed skilled workers, especially
Bricklayers, Carpenters, Electric
ians, Plasterers, Plumbers and stone
Masons, who have not already reg
istered within the past year, to reg
lister at the Office in order that they
might be considered for the public
building program which is about to
start in this county. All workers
selected for these projects must be
registered with the Maryland State
Employment Service.
All employers who are in need
of additional workers are invited to
call at the local Office at 207 North
Street, Elkton, Maryland, or to tele-
phone Elkton 381. This service to
employers and employees is without
cost.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-12-16
Personal And Social

A marriage license was issued at
Elkton last week for Bradley Blew
ems and Elsie L. Webb, Of Rising
Sun.
Mrs. John Remsen and Mrs. Frank
Houston, of West Grove, Pa, we're
Sunday guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Cecil
e. Ewing.
Announcement is made Of the
marriage of Charles o. McCauley,
of Perry Point, and Mary d. Col
lings, of North East.
Mrs. Harold Il. Cobourn has re-
turned to her home in Perryville af-
ter a visit of several weeks in Cali
fornia and Southern States.
Mr.. Joseph Couden, of Perryville
is recovering from injury caused
by a fall, and expects to be able
to return to his home by Christmas
Day.
Mr.. John Morris, of Chesapeake
City, and Miss Elva Justis, of Will
mington, were married in Baltimore,
Saturday, December 3rd, by the Rev.
c. nj. LeFew, of Baltimore.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-12-16
Ninth District Farmers
Club Meeting
Election Of Officers For Com
ing Year interest
ing Program

The December 9TH meeting of the
Ninth District Farmers Club was
entertained at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. E. d. Kirk, near Pennington.
Meeting opened with singing
Jingle Bells, then the roll call.
This being the time for election Of
officers, the following were elected
for the coming year: President, w.
r. Little; Vice President, j. e.
Crothers; Rec. Secretary, Mrs. Chas.
Miller; Cor. Secretary, Mrs. d. B.
Mcdowell; Treasurer, H. B. Brown.
Mr.. Little appointed the progr9 m
committee: Mr. and Mrs. j. B. Fas-
slit. Mr.. and Mrs. c. H. Morris and
Mr.. and Mrs. R. T. Wilson. Flower
committee, Mrs. D. B. Mcdowell;
Mrs. Charles Miller; and Mrs. Ralph
Wilson
Miss Helen Irene Smith, Home
Demonstration Agent, said the
Homemakers' Clubs were preparing
a Christmas Pageant to be held In
Calvert High School, December 27th
Silver offering.
Mr.. j., e. Miller, County Agent,
told of very successful All Club
Banquet .eld at Bay View with l61
guests, showing a fine spirit. Mr.
H. r. Brown told of being in Ptila-
delphia to the Annual Meeting Of
Interstate Milk Producers CO.
operative. Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas d..
REYNOLDS and Mr.. and Mrs Harold
Brown Joined the club. After enjoy
ing dinner and social hour, after
noon meeting opened with singing.
Miss Smith had the program and
introduced Mr.. York Honore, of
Port Deposit, who gave a pleasing
talk about clay molding and show
ed some things he had made. Mrs.
Davis, Wilmington, favored us with
two solos which were appreciated.
Miss Helen Irene Smith read THE
Little Mixer" a splendid Christmas
story. And now was the time for the
exchange of the Christmas packages,
which proved to be lots Of fun.
Christmas spirit was surely in the
air with the lighted tree and all
the fixings.
Afer fine day, the club adjourn
ed to meet with Mr.. and Mrs. W. r.
Little, January A, 193az~4sf
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-12-16
School Attendance In
Cecil County
Averages For Month Of No.
vember Compiled BY The
Attendance Officer

One-teacher schools I'm Cecil
County piled up the best attendance
records during November, according
to School Attendance Officer Ed
ward II. Barnes, to the board OF edu-
cation. Charlestown with Q per-
centage of 93.1 took first honors,
Westley School, second and Finger
board and johnson school tied for
third place.
Providence, with a percentage Of
SO, Elk Mills, second, and Perry
Point, third, led two-teacher schools,
Chesapeake City led grades schools.
with a percentage of 94.4 and Ken
more, with 96.2 per cent led high
schools.
The attendance records follow:
One Room Observation-Disclosures
9S.1, Wesley 97.5, Fingerboard and
johnson 96.9, Pierce's Neck 96.5.
Pleasant Hill 95.7, Pilot $50. JEFF
ferson 94.9, Union 94.S, Hart's 94.S.
Jackson 1915, Chapel 92.3. New
Valley 91.5, Liberty Grove SO.1.
Fair Hill 1913, Blake $50, Ponds
Neck 1872, Warwick $40, Principle
86.5, Rowlandville and Marion 84.2,
lakewood $40.
Two Room SchoOls-Providence
$50. Elk Mills 95.6, Perry Point
s4.6, Cherry Hill 90.3, Leeds 90.2,
Colora 87.2.
Grade SchOOls-Chesapeake City
94.4, Rising Sun 93.8, Elkton 92.9,
North East 92.7, Calvert cas-, Ce-
clifton 92.0, Perryville 91.5.
High Scho0ls-Kenmore 96.2,
North East $40, Chesapeake City
1913, Rising Sun 93.5, Calvert 93.1.
Elkton 92.5, Perryville 92.1 Cecil
ton 9O.3.
COlOred SchOOls-Wilson 98.4,
Cokesbury 97.5, Elkton 95.7, Port
Deposit 95.5, North East 94.2, Con-
owingo 93.4, Cecilton 89.6, Chesa-
peake City 1873. Cedar Hill 86.2,
Elkton Col. H. s. $50
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-12-16
December Term Of
Circuit Court

The December term of Circuit
Court for Cecil County convened al
Elkton on Monday.
The docket contains 112 civil
cases IA petitions, 29 appearances,
and "a appeals.
The criminal docket has 81 held
over cases from the September term,
to be disposed of, and IL cases to
be indicted by the grand jury,
among them the charge against John
Goodyear, who on the night of Oct
ober 1st, shot and killed his brother,
Howard Goodyear, at their home on
the Singerly road.
Former Sheriff Albert G. Buck
worth was. made foreman of the
grand jury with the following jur-
ors:
Elwood F. Padley, Streeper
Mackie, Theodore P. Crothers, Will
liam j. Hartlett, Henry M. Riley,
John C. Ducan, George Oldham,
Ralph H. Rees, John M. McCool,
Ernest r. Biles, George L. Wingate,
William e. Umberger, George M.
Shure, John M. Connolly, Charles
Owens, Herbert B. Price, Robert K.
Fears, Argus F. Robinson, Charles
E. Biddle, Howard G.. Barnes and
Robert j. Brady, Negro.
Members of the Jetit Jury are:
Howard Green, Henry j. Haley,
Guy G.. Lockerman, George Thorn
ton, w. Harry Jones, William Ed
ward Hayes, Victor S. Taylor, Gus
Sclavos, Charles H. LETTERS, James
H. Warrington, Alfred H. Davis,
Isaac S. Payne, Charles A. Ferguson,
Ernest Wood, Sr., Francis G.. Nc
Grady, Walter S. Cameron, Horace
G. Hall, Charles H. Hutchens, G..
Clinton Dinsmore, Lawrence F.
Sanders, Walter l.. Simmons, s..
Taylor Raglan, and Carroll Reynolds.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-12-16
The Old Farmers Almanac

We have received from the pub
fishers, Little, Brown & Co., "a
Beacon St., Boston, Mass, a copy
of the 1899 Old Farmers Almanac.
This valuable publication is full
of things of interest, not only
astronomical information, weather
forecasts, and the like, but articles
of a different nature that command
your attention.
There is, for instance, an original
poem by Robert Frost; a charming
little article on Connecticut by Gov
ernor Gross; page on Trailers as
means of mentioning by Larry
Nixon, whose book, "Vagabond
voyaging'', is receiving much at
tention; a page ON Shooting and
Fishing by Arthur w. Bell. The
Cooking Recipes come from a new
kitchen this year, while the whether
forecasts return to the old place
initiated by Robert B. Thomas,
founder.
You will find an article ON "The
First Sunday" by the Rev. Richard
r. Beasley. giving you inter-
esting information as to when Sun
day was first recognized end cele-
brated.
These are only few Of the many
articles in the 1889 edition Of the
Almanac.