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Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1938-01-14
MD. FEDERATION
WOMEN'S CLUBS
TO FIGHT CANCER
Has Set Aside February 81 AS
A Statewide Cancer Con-
troll Day

The prevalence of cancer and the
well known depredations caused by
the disease, are matters too well
known to require amplification. Add
ed the prohibitive cost of radium in
volved in cancer cure, small wonder
that the very name of cancer is ter
rifying.
The Maryland Federation of Wo-
mems Clubs, in support of a campaign
launched by the General Federation
of Women's Clubs, has set aside Jan
uary 31st as a statewide Cancer Con-
troll Fund Day. All the clubs over
the length and breadth of the state
will devote that day to luncheons or
teas, at which sums will be raised for
the Maryland Fund.
Some clubs will assemble in COM
munal affairs. Larger clubs will
have series of individual hostesses,
in their own homes. Guests will in
clude not only Federation members,
but all socially-minded people who
will wish to contribute their share.
Mrs. Charles o. Appleman, of Col
lege Park, State Chairman of Public
Health, Maryland Federation of Wo-
mems Clubs, is directing the cam
paign. While the majority of women
throughout Maryland will be meeting
on the same day, at the same hour to
offer their contribution for the pur-
pose of alleviating the evil of cancer,
the Columbia Broadcasting Company,
from it's station at the University of
Maryland, has granted the Maryland
Federation, the period from 2:30 to 8
o'clock on January 31st for program
to which all hostesses and guests will
join in listening.
Mrs. T. j. Caruthers, of Salisbury,
is Eastern Shore District Chairman
for Cancer Control.
The fund is to be applied to the
purchase of radium for the clinic con-
nected with the University of Mary
land.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1938-01-14
POCOMOKE FIRE DEPT.
HELD ELECTION JAN. 6

At the annual election of the Off
GERS of the Pocomoke Volunteer Fire
Company held Thursday night, Jan
uary 9th, Fred U. Henderson, was
elected Chief succeeding James F.
Dryden who have recently removed to
Salisbury.
The meeting was presided over by
Ernest Dickinson, who was elected
Assistant Chief. The other officers
elected at this meeting were: Fore
man, John H. Causey; LIST assistant
foreman, George Henderson; End as
sistant foreman, Johnson Payne; Sec
retary, Paul r. Vincent, and Treasur-
er, Herman Ellis.
The Fire Company held their an
nual banquet in the Firemen's Hall on
Wednesday, January 9Th at 6:45 P.
M
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1938-01-14
THE BOY SCOUT
WEEK CELEBRATED
FEBRUARY 6 TO II.
29OO Boy Scouts Of The Delmar-
va Council Will Join A
Million Others

1900 Boy Scouts of the Delmarva
Council, will join a million Scouts and
Scout leaders throughout the nation
in celebrating Boy Scout Week, Feb
ruary 6 to IL, dates of which were
announced today by Howard A. Sol
ONION, Field Scout Executive.
Boy Scout Week will commemorate
the twenty-eighth anniversary of the
founding of the Scouting Movement in
America, during which time more than
100000 boys and men have engaged
in Scouting's character influencing,
citizenship training program of camp
ing, service and organized activity,
Mr.. Solomon declared.
Three high points will mark the
weeks activities by Pocomoke Scouts
who will begin the celebration with
the observance of Scout Sunday, Feb
ruary 6, in accordance with the 18th
point of their Law "A Scout is Rever-
ent," by attending in Scout Uniform,
the various churches of their respec-
tive faiths.
AS is traditional in Scouting on
February 6, every Boy Scout and
leader in America will re-dedicate him
self to Scouting ideals by renewing
his Scout Oath in a ceremony which
will occur on a nationwide basis at
500 P. M.
Troop anniversary meetings, reun-
ions, court of honors and ceremonies
at schools, churches and civic group
meetings will fill the week which will
climax in countrywide Living Ex-
po" through which Scouts plan to
demonstrate methods of accident pre-
vention, recommended procedure for
both motorists and pedestrians as
well as safety precautions for the
home. They will also give living ex-
hibits of Scoutcraft allied to safety
training which they receive as a part
of their year-round Scout work, all
of which may assist in reducing the
accident death toll.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1938-01-14
Officers OF TlUo
Banks Reelected

Mr.. E. w. McMaster was reelected
president of the Pocomoke City Ma
tional Bank and Mr.. R. Harlan Robert
son reelected president of the Citi-
zens National at the annual meeting
of the stockholders of the institutions
held Tuesday.
All officers of the two banks were
reelected and the entire board of di-
rectors of the Citizens Bank. The va
cancy on the board of the Pocomoke
City National left by the death of
Mr.. A. n. Stevens was filled by Mr..
J. Elton Mason. The remaining di-
rectors were reelected.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1938-01-14
MRS. HANCOCK
READS PAPER IN
WOMAN'S CLUB
"POcOmOke Beautiful Is The
Subject, And It Urges Effort
For Beautifying City
PROJECT WORTHY SUPPORT
OF ALL THE CITIZENS

"Pocomoke Beautiful" There is
somthing very lovely in the sound
of those two words. They are rhyth-
mic. Each is a word of three syl-
lables; the accent of both falling on
the first syllable le-Po-co-moke Beau
ti-ful! See =?
Then, lovelier than the sound they
produce, is the picture they present.
Instantly, before our minds eye there
appears not merely what now exists,
but an imaginary vision of little
city from whose face all blemishes
have vanished; whose streets and
structures are well-planned; whose ac
tivities are altogether satisfying; and
whose being pulses with the steady
beat of progress.
True, we have, in reality, a meas
ure of beauty to which we may point
with pride; but, were we satisfied
with that which we perceive, the Wo-
mans Club would not now have as one
of it's principal detectives the "Beauti-
fication of Pocomoke."
Beauty" someone has said, "is in
the eye of the beholder." This is
only a half truth. Beauty is, or it is
not. It is possible to sense potential
beauty; but we cannot behold beauty
where none exists. Beauty is actual;
it appeals to those in whose nature
there is an inherent love of it; or to
those in whom such love has been cul-
tivated.
Appreciation of, and hunger for,
beauty indicate soul development.
And that our Club should stress our
local need of creating and perpetual
ing it, is a manifestation of the cul-
tural quality of it's membership.
The beautifying of this, our home
town, is an undertaking worthy the
wholehearted support of every men,
Der of every organization, and of ev-
cry individual, in the community, It's
accomplishment cannot well be achiev-
ed without it.
The task is one of magnitude there
are so many phases of beauty! And
when one casts a critical eye upon
those features of Pocomoke which mar
it's general makeup, realization of
the pluck, perseverance, and patience
required is likely to be discouraging.
What these regrettable features are,
you know as well as I. They exist,
not because we are unaware of them,
but because Pocomoke's civic conscious
ness is not yet properly developed.
When it is, we may hope for a trans
formation. Unsightly, unsanitary,
unwholesome, nonprogressive, condi-
tions will disappear; and the end to-
ward which this Club is directing it's
effort will be achieved. For
This town is what we make it.
Citizenship carries absolute response
bilities. We neglect them. The re-
suit of this neglect becomes apparent
When we see it, we may, or we may
not, acknowledge our guilt. Well
blame someone, somewhere; but-we
will not take the trouble to follow thru
and learn the why's and wherefores
of such situations or conditions as
merit our disapproval. And if we
did, the chances are we would fear
to attempt to correct them.
"Deplorable ?" Yes. But true. "Isn't
it?"
Our lives and our interests are so
interviewer that a movement toward
betterment of a general nature which
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Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1938-01-14
COMMISSION : =
AND CITIZENS
DO NOT AGREE
Residents OF Ocean City Desire
New Bridge To Be Built
On Present Site
WILL SEEK INJUNCTION
FOR PROPOSED LOCATION

A lively contest is in the making
at Ocean City, Md, in connection with
the site for the new 100000 bridge
to be erected to take the place of one
now in use, connecting the island with
the mainland.
The State Roads Commission wants
it at one place and the citizens of the
resort want it at another. The for
mer has decided, so far as they are
concerned, to move the bridge six
blocks further north to North Dlvl-
sion Street; the citizens want 1t at
the same place the present structure
occupies.
Nathan L. Smith, chief engineer OF
the commission, said the new location
will require construction of about a
mile of approach highway, extending
to the Herring creek bridge on the
mainland.
Differences of opinion over the
bridge began when bill calling for
it's construction was brought up in the
State Legislature. Later Representa-
tive T. Alan Goldsborough had the
House of Representatives approve a
resolution giving the towns citizens
the right to select the bridge site by
vote.
Both the Roads Commission and the
War Department, which has jurisdic-
ton since the span crosses the Sine
puxent Bay, a navigable waterway,
took the position the bridge should be
constructed at place engineers deem
ed logical in anticipation of future
development.
North Division street is an ap-
proximate dividing line between Ocean
City's hotel and residential district
and the business section.
Last summer the citizens voted,
253 to 81, for construction of the new
bridge on the present site, rather than
at the proposed one. The new location
is at a wider part of Sinepuxent Bay
and it will be necessary to construct
a long causeway over a marshy sec
ton.
DR.. C. w. Purnell said last week he
already has prepared a suit asking an
Injunction to prevent the commission
constructing the bridge at the new
site.
A group of residents have COM
pleted plans to appear before the Wor-
cester County Board of Commissioners
to ask that groups aid in having the
roads commission reconsider its decis-
ion.
w. p. Laws, member of the City
Council, said he did not know what
action, if any, the Council would take.
He said the group may meet to con-
slider the question, but added:
81 think a new bridge any place is
mostly what the people want"
w. w. McCabe, who was Mayor OF
Ocean City for twelve years, said a
bridge at the new site would "tear up
the zoning system. He said it would
"mean concessions in the residential
sections" with depreciation of property
values.
Mayor w. P. Elliott came to de-
fense of the new site.
"I thought all along the new site
would be picked" he said. "Now
hope they'll start as soon as possible.
Ocean City wants a bridge"
Persons favoring the present site
contend a bridge there would not cost
as much as one at the new site.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1938-01-14

Mr.. and Mrs. Stanley Bayly and
Miss Dorothy Ward are enjoying a
motor trip through Virginia and
North Carolina going as far south as
Winston-Salem, N. C.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1938-01-14

A special business meeting of the
Woman's Club of Pocomoke City is
called for Monday afternoon, January
18th, at 2 P. M. All members are
earnestly requested to be present.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-07
THE WOMEN---- TONIC OF FTATTERY MAY BUILD HIS EGO INTO OSWELLED HEAD

toward a person or an important issue is prejudiced, she should feel guilty if she doesn't try to set him straight.
 When he was young he had critical family to point out facts once in whle-a check none of us gets along easily without, even when we are grown.
 So a wife owes a little construc- tive criticism to the man she mar ries-along with all her praise and encouragement.
 She is likely to find that her flattery backfires if she gives it to a man in larger doses than he can swallow. Then she is apt to com- plain, like the woman who wrote the other day, that she had used flattery on her husband with dis turbing results.
 When she married him he had a job selling radios in department store, and she decided that she would make him think he was the best salesman in the entire store.
 She did. In a little while she had him thinking he knew even more than his boss, and little while af- ter that, she had an unemployed husband on her hands.
 Flattery is tonic that some men can't take-except in broken doses. Copyright, 1888, NEA Service, Inc0
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-07
APPETITE IS A MYSTERY

Every little while some eager soul inquiries whether medical science" has not found some remedy which will diminish appetite with out harming the body otherwise, so that one can push away from the table when the dessert is about to come on, and without feeling too sorry for oneself
 Hush, child. Medical science has not yet discovered what appetite is, much less how to control it.
 But medicine is making strides, all right. A pertinent observation we have made in recent years, or rather our patients have made q never use the editorial plural if I am talking about myselO, is that after a few weeks on the New De- sign for Dwindling regimen (that is the title of a booklet telling all about it, and any reader may have copy if he asks for it by name in writing (no clipping will suffice) and inclose a stamped envelope bearing his address-and no loose stamps will suffice either - one finds that ones appetite or desire for food is satisfied with less food than one formerly ate.
 Now that is odd, isn't it? Indeed it Is, so odd that some self-styled scientific authorities are too chuckle- headed to understand 1t.
 But Dr. Victor Heiser, who wrote the best seller, "An American Doc tors Odyssey" was getting warm when he said in a magazine article that overindulgence in improper foods may be responsible for over eating. He explained that excess of improper food causes the intes- tinal tract to become thickly coated with the mucus or phlegm thrown out in an effort to protect the mucous membrane, and this dimin- ishes the absorbing surface, SO that the patient has to eat more in order to absorb the same amount of nourishment. To correct all this, Dr. Heiser suggested, the remedy is right eating.
 We'll, now, if overeating can cause overeating 1t is illogical to say that eating less may cause lowering of excessive appetite?
 The chuckle-headed medical scieI1- tist who can't understand such thing is bemused by the traditional
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-07
STYLE CHATS

Paris. (UP)-Cows, pigs and snakes are being sacrificed in large numbers on the altar of fashion this season. Time was when their duties were confined to shoes and bags, but that was before the Duchess of Windsor decided on hats with leather crowns. and Marjorie Dunton, introduced leather into the evening mode.
 Suzy, who made the duchess's leather crowned hats, is also using natural and colored leather for flat sailors with infinitesimal crowns. These she covers with much yelling. Suzy also has discovered the knack of draping leather as evidenced by one of the ducheSS'S turbanS.
 Marjorie Dunton builds her new collection around leather ensembles, for she is more or less the god- mother of this mode in the haute couture. She puts a three-tiered red, green and purple suede belt and single shoulder strap on a daintily feminine evening gown. Its match ing cape is also trimmed with multi colored suede. She introduces aIltel- ope into the afternoon mode using It with the same softness as satin. She embroiders a pink suede afternoon suit in pink silk. A blue blouse, a wide green sash and a burgundy skirt are combined into one of her most charming all suede sports en- semble. In this same province is g pigskin golf skirt edged in red. Mrs. Dunton puts a gold suede vestee under a brown wool suit and adds a sleeveless pigskin jacket to green wool dress.
 Paquin concentrates on suede and smooth leather jackets for day eil- sembles, doing a black swagger in effective eyelet embroidery. Worth has a whole collection of swagger and straight double breasted suede coats to be worn with sports and afternoon costumes.
 Leather of all kinds is used exten- sively in trimming spring suits Francevramant uses quantities ol
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-07
Democrat Fashions
TINY TOTS LOOK SWEET
 IN GAY PANEL BROCK

A beguiling little frock that al ways looks fresh and sweet on your tiny daughter. And it's an excep- tionally easy style to make. Get started now on a few extra frocks for your active youngster she'll need them for hot weather wear. If you use a check or plaid, make the front panel, the pockets and the pert little sleeves on the bias they look so smart that way. But if you want the dress for party wear, choose crisp cool organdy, dotted swiss or lawn and dress it up with lace at the neck, sleeves and shoulder. There's a Detailed Sewing Guide included with this pattern.
 Pattern 582 is cut .n children's sizes 2, 4, 6, 8 and 10. Size re- quires 2 IA yards 36 inch fabric, 3 IA yards lace edging.
 Send FIFTEEN CENTS (15c) in coins or stamps (preferably coins) for this pattern. WRITE CLEAR LY SIZE, NAME, ADDRESS AND STYLE NUMBER.
 Send orders to the Waterbury Democrat Pattern Department.
 Tomorrow: Gay Aprons.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-07
QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
 A Clue

Indianan postcards: Wrote you two weeks ago and to date have not received reply. GA. K)
 Answer-If at first you don't tell me what you want, write, write again. I keep no memoranda of correspondence, once I have read the letters. Every day a handful of unbelievable answers are turned back to me by the post office be- cause correspondents have not given correct address or have vaguely named the home town City" which is no name to give one's home town, after all.
 X-Ray for Oily Skin
 My physician gives my face two light X-ray treatments weekly for acne seborrhea. It seems to be helping, but I read in book about harmful beauty aid that facial X-ray is dangerous for removal of super1uous hair. (H. D.
 Answer-In the hands of your physician the treatment is quite safe, and good for seborrhea (ex- cessive oiliness) with or without acne. It is only when unqualified persons attempt to apply X-ray treatment that 1t is dangerous.
 B. B. B. B. B.
 Am I too late to get copy of the Bigger Brady Better Baby Book? We followed the earlier edi- ton ir raising our first baby (now two years old) and he wants to go to school like Patsy! My sister has
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-07
NEA Service Staff Writer

NEA OcrVAcc SLdu VTAtCH
 This is the time to begin think ing about the way you want to ap- pear in summer beach clothes, ten- his shorts and golf dresses. The woman who wants to eliminate bulges which will mar the effect of 8 trim bathing suit will start right now to do reducing exercises reg ularly and will also do something toward planning a healthful but non-fattening diet.
 It is, of course, much smarter to lose weight gradually and by ex- ercise as well as diet than to decide that you must be certain smaller size within two or three weeks, then go on a very rigid diet. Starvation diets just should not be considered except under doctors orders.
 Begin by deciding how many calories you will allow yourself each day. Figure out 6 way to consume quantities of foods that are low in caloric content, rather than a few small portions of those that are calorie rich.
 For instance a dinner of clear soup, a portion of lean meat, two or three green vegetables (not drip- ping with butter, please), a large green salad (more lemon juice than oil in the dressing), and a bit of unsweetened stewed fruit ought to be enough dinner to keep one from getting hungry before bedtime. And this is a low-caloric meal. Get into the habit of choosing leafy, green vegetables in preference to heavy. starchy ones and large salad plus a bit of fruit instead of rich des- sert and you will be a long way on the royal road to weight reduc- ton.
 Naturally, if you consume fewer calories than you have been eating and get more exercise than you have been taking, you are bound to lose weight-no question about 1t. Furthermore, exercise keeps skin from becoming fabby as fat issues underneath disappear. It isn't easy
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-07

CO1lCCAItA 0uAOAAs AA4 the latter word lies 8 secret.
 The habit of concentration should be encouraged in the sec ond and third year, at the time when solitary play is preferred.
 The tiny child is always in- venting, although to watch him, his busy nothing appear to be aimless and without meaning. We must not deceive ourselves. AL most everything our b aby does| has a meaning. He is learning to| build, to select, and to invent. He isl more intent that we think.
 Learns from Play
 He learns why blocks will fall one way and not another, when piled crookedly. That is as hard as bridge-building is to the ma ture mind. Besides, it has no ex-| perience to back 1t. Starting| from scratch in 8 thousand ways to learn thousand things, is th1s| little child at play.
 Usually you are so relieved at all this peace and quiet, that you allow this genius to bud with out too much interrupting, but perhaps you do not know that be- sides getting your work done, you are being a great educator. Your baby or little child will lose the power of concentration if, in theI middle of play, he is perpetually being hauled off to something else, or corrected or talked to.
 He may not stick to one thing for very long, as interest endure briefly, but he may play alone fo1 long periods at time, going from one toy to the next, but always fix ing his mind on the thing at hand
 Maintain Routine
 It would be impossible to allow him always to keep his ow, hours entirely, 1t Is true, fo there is his program to be kep1 SO necessary to his welfare: bu every small child should have per iods when he can play by himsel without interference.
 He must get used to interrup tions, of course, as the too-placi life may fix him in selfishnes and inadaptability. But let goo judgment always be your guidS These precious minutes ot clos application are very important nov if ever he is to learn the first ru of stick
 Fixing attention is hard to II still in older children unless tf power of concentration has bed encouraged very early in life; ghoS of the past mocking us for lost o portunity.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-07

The dinner date that makes a well-bred man shudder.
 She gulps her soup from the tip of her spoon instead of slipping it daintily from the side; she tips her plate recklessly toward her as though she hadn't eaten for week.
 "Will everyone be staring at us before dinner is over?" her escort wonders miserably.
 It's the little things that count in table manners. Do you ever hur- riedly butter a whole slice of bread, instead of breaking off and butter ing a small bit at time? Spear an olive with fork, instead of pick ing it up, correctly, in the fingers? Make an all-day sucker out of big spoonful of ice cream instead of taking small spoonful at a time?
 Do unusual foods perplex you? Follow the helpful tips on table eti- quette in our 32-page booklet. Course-by course directions for din ners. Fork and finger foods. Res taurants, buffet suppers, clubs.
 Send 10c for your copy of GOOD TABLE MANNERS to the Water bury Democrat Home Service, 635 Sixth Ave, New York, N. Y. Be sure to write plainly your NAME, AD- DRESS, and the NAME of booklet