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Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-11-10
INSPECTION OF
MOTOR VEHICLES
IS IMPERATIVE
Campaign Will Close On Decem.
Der Is, And No Extension
Of Time Allowed

Applicants for either motor We
hicles or chauffeur license who con-
template taking driving test on or
after Monday, November 18th, 1889
must first have the motor vehicle in
spected and display the certificate of
inspection on the windshield" said w.
Lee Elgin, Commissioner of Motor We
hicles.
eft is indeed a surprise to get re-
ports showing the number of motor
vehicles that must be rejected that
are found unsafe for the roads"
Throughout the year our License Ex-
aminers check motor vehicles used for
driving tests and if faulty mechanism
is discovered the operator is told to
have parts replaced or adjusted before
test can be taken.
During the past week, 100 persons
were turned down when they applied
for operators permits, while 1928 per-
sons were issued operators license for
the month of October. The persons
rejected covered various reasons.
"The annual inspection Of motor
vehicles is safety measure and the
greater majority Of the Maryland
motoring public most willingly cooper
ate, however you always find the
small percentage that will try to evade
the inspection or just carelessly for
get it. This year the campaign will
end on December 18th, 1889 and there
will be no extension Of time given as
has been the practice in the past.
Those who do not. comply with the law
will find it most difficult to secure
license plates for next year."
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-11-10
MRS. COSTEN
CELEBRATESHER
9th BIRTHDAY
Is Abundantly Able To Enjoy
Life And Keep Abreast
Of Current Events
RECEIVES CONGRATULA-
TONS OF MANY FRIENDS

Mrs. Olivia A. Costen, Of this city,
is receiving the congratulations of her
relatives, friends, and acquaintance
upon the ninety-seventh anniversary
of her birthday; she was born No
vember 1, 1912.
Mrs. Costen is the daughter Of the
late Mr.. and Mrs. Maurice H. Adams,
of Somerset County. She married the
late DR.. I. T. Costen-and in 1866 they
took up their res. s.nce at the corner
of Second and Maple streets, as bride
and groom. This became later the
home of several young married couples
and Mrs. Costen named it the Brides
Corner" The original house was
bought by the late Raymond G. Dry
den and moved on Clarke Avenue. It
was thoroughly repaired and is now
a comfortable modern residence.
Mrs. Costen, despite her advanced
age, possesses wonderful vitality. She
is active in both mind and body and
seems destined to round out q full
century of life, if not more. Her in
terest in present day affairs is keen
and her mental grasp Of passing
events is firm and understanding.
Recently, Mrs. Costen made a trip
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Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-11-10
W. 7. CROTON
DIED ON WE'D.
AT HIS HOME
Highly Respected Farmer And
Formerly Connected With
Produce Exchange
FUNERAL SERVICES AT
GRAVE TO.BE HELD TO-DAY

William Thomas Groton, a highly
respected member Of this community,
died at his home near this city, on
Wednesday last, after an illness ex-
tend over some years, but which had
been intensified for about five weeks,
ending in his dissolution.
The deceased was born near Onley,
Va, seventy-two years ago, the son
of the late Henry Groton and Anne
Bundick Groton, and came as resi-
dent to Pocomoke 46 years ago. He
was a. retired farmer and for five
years was connected with the PENN
sula Produce Exchange.
Burial will take place today (Fri-
day. at 1890 A. NJ, No other SER
vices except those at the grave will
be held. Interment will be in the
Baptist Cemetery and will be in
charge of Rev. G. E. Lester, the de-
ceased being a member of the Meth
odist Church, formerly the M. P. de-
nomination.
Besides a widow, Mr.. Groton is sur
vived by one daughter, Mrs. Charles
Matthews, Seaford, Del; three sons:
Clay, of Glenco, Md; Brooks, of
Washington, D. c.; and Ralph, of
Baltimore. Also by a half-sister,
Mrs. David Hancock, Of Stockton; and
a half-sister, Mr.. Ferd Ward, Of Po-
comoke.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-11-10
INVITATIONS
SENT OUT FOR
NOV. MEETING
Order Eastern Star Will Enter
tain Officers And Members
I'm This City
DINNER TO BE SERVED
IN BETHANY CHURCH

More than two hundred and fifty
invitations were issued this week to
members Of the Past and Present
Matrons' and Patrons Association of
the Eastern Shore of Maryland, Order
of the Eastern Star, to attend the No
vember meeting which will be held,
this year, in Pocomoke City.
Elaborate plans are being made for
their entertainment; the meeting to
take place in the Eastern Star Chap
ter rooms.
Preceding the meeting a dinner will
be served by the local Star chapter
in the Social Hall Of Bethany Meth
odist Church at P. M. This will be
followed by the entertainment.
Mrs. Grady E. Powell, Of Pocomoke
City, is president Of the Association
which includes Past and Present Ma
trans and Patrons from IA Shore
chapters, the membership extending
from Elkton, in Cecil County, to POGO.
moke, in Worcester. Other officers
Of the Association are: LIST vice-presi.
dent, Mrs. Hazel Wright, Chester
town; End vice-president, Mr.. Rollin'
son Baxter, Chestertown; Secretary
Miss Alice r. Young, Pocomoke City
Treasurer, Mrs. Mildred c. Johnson
Denton.
A number of Grand Officers of the
Grand Chapter of Maryland, will be
guests at the dinner.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-11-10
DIR. H. A. PORTER TO
PRACTICE In POCOMOKE

BY announcement on another page
in today's issue Of the Democrat,
the public is notified that DR.. II. A.
Portor has settled in Pocomoke, per-
manently, for the practice Of his pro-
fession-that Of Chiropractor.
DR.. Portor is originally from North
Dakota, but has sojourned in several
states-California, Florida, Georgia,
Louisiana and New York. He is a
graduate Of the Palmer School of
Chiropractice, in Davenport, Iowa, and
post graduate Of Logan College,
in st. Louis. He advises that he will
be open for consultation tomorrow.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-11-10
ANNUAL DANCE
TO Be HELD IN
STATE ARMORY
Thanksgiving Event Will Be
Held On The Evening Of
November 23rd
ONE OF THE YEARS
MOST POPULAR EVENTS

The annual Thanksgiving Dance,
sponsored by the American Legion,
will be staged this year, in the State
Armory in Pocomoke City on Thurs
day, November 2Srd.
BY popular request the orchestra
which furnished music at the Hallow-
cen affair has been asked to return
and AL Shirley and His Orchestra will
be on hand with their popular swing
music. Bobby Oller will also enter
tain by singing all the popular lyrics
of the day and Frank Quigley with
his Hawaiian Electric Guitar.
Dancing will start promptly at $3.50
P. M, and continue till 200 A. M
The admission will be the same as
usual, So. per couple.
Those planning to attend this at
fair are asked to make their reserva'
tions early by telephoning E. Fare
Bowen, Pocomoke 329-W, and ar
rangements will be made for their en-
tertainment.
The Thanksgiving dance is one Of
the most popular affairs of the yeal
and due to the splendid music Offered
dance patrons a record crowd is ex
pected.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-11-10
AUTO TAXES WILL Be
PAID in ADVANCE

Motorists must pay both the County
and State Taxes for 1889 and 1910
when they apply for their automobile
tags next spring according to rul-
ing from Attorney General William
G. Walsh.
This will render a hardship next
spring but for the following years the
system will be adjusted and tax pay
ments will be made for one year.
This will make taxes on automobiles
payable in advance instead of the pres
ent system of paying for the year just
passed. :.
It is understood that the reason
for the change is that taxes on many
automobiles are lost due to their re-
moval from the State.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-11-10
NO MEETING OF THE
HEALTH COUNCIL HELD

There will be no meeting Of the
Pocomoke District Health Council for
the month of November, due to the
combined meeting of the Worcester
County Public Health Council to be
held in Snow Hill, Monday, Novem-
Der 10.
The next meeting of the Pocomoke
District Council will be held Tuesday,
December IL, which will be the last
meeting this year.
The December meeting will be the
first to be held at the new clinic
rooms on Clarke Avenue and Willow
Street. All members are asked to
make a special effort to attend. The
social hour following the business
meeting will be surprise to all.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-11-10
COUNCILS HOLD
DINNER MEETING
in SNOW HILL
Public Health Councils Of Ber-
lin, Stockton, And PocOmOke
City Will Cooperate

The Public Health Councils Of Ber-
lin, Stockton and Pocomoke, coopera-
ting with the Worcester County Tube1
culosis Association and the County
Health Department, are holding a din
ner meeting Monday, November 18th,
at the Methodist Protestant Church
in Snow Hill, at 6. M.
A special session devoted to Child
and Maternal Health will be held at
500 p. M. Following this, dinner
will be served and the program con-
cluded by discussion Of the Tuber-
culosis problem.
To acquaint the County with some
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Evening star., 1939-05-14

BY 1880 Georgetown had
grown to this size. Largest
Of the buildings is the old
North Hall. on the left. In
the group oIso ore the oriei-
mol South Hall. the MuIledy
Building. now used as foc-
uIty residence, and the in
firmory.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-08-03
MEAT CUTTERS WIN
CLEVELAND STRIKE

Cleveland, o. (OLNS).-First strike
conducted by a Local Union affiliated
with the Ohio State Branch, Amalga-
mated Meat Cutters and Butcher
Workmen, to establish uniform condi-
tions throughout the state was won
last week by Local 500 for employees
Of the Upgrade Food Products Cor
poration here after seven day walk
out.
The strike settlement gave the
Union it's first collective bargaining
contract with the firm, according to
John Jurkanin, secretary of Local
500.
Principal demands of the strikers
would make working conditions in the
Upgrade Corporation equal to those in
all other organized plants.
These established conditions include
a maximum 44-hour week; 60 to rs
cent hourly wage rates depending up
on kind of work; guarantee of 80
hours work each week; seniority
rights; vacations with pay and Union
shop provision.
With the agreement signed by the
Upgrade Corporation, these conditions
are now effective in six Cleveland
plants, the Hildebrandt Provision Co.
Pavelka Bros. Co., Haberman Provis-
ion Co., Theodore Gutscher Co., and
Warsaw Sausage Manufacturing Co.
Delegates to the Akron convention
Of the State Branch of the Union
unanimously voted to establish uni
form conditions throughout the state
in the retail and wholesale fields.
The strike at the Upgrade Corpor-
alton had the sanction of the Inter
national Union and the support of re-
tail meat cutters and all Union truck
drivers throughout the state.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-08-03
Don't play With Fire

Exports of the Department of Agri-
culture lay down these rules for sum-
mer campers and city dwellers to
avoid fire hazards.
First, never use gasoline or. kero-
sene to start . fire, Or to revive one
that has died down. Not only is there
danger Of a sudden flash Of flame, but
vapors from the fuel can result in
serious explosion. Particularly i'm
portant for campers is the rule: Never
put gas or kerosene into lamps, Ian
terms, stoves, or heaters while they are
burning. If you do store gasoline or
kerosene, for everyone's safety keep
it outside of the home.
Second, when you clean at home. do
not use infammable liquids, such as
gasoline, naphtha, or benzine. There
are plenty of safe fluids for dry clean
ing, such as carbon tetrachloride, that
can be purchased at any drug store.
It's good idea, too, to dry clean out
of doors where fumes have a chance
to escape.
Third. if you live in an apartment
house equipped with an incinerator,
never throw anything in powdered
form-such as dirt from vacuum
cleaner, floor Standings, flour, etc.
down the incinerator without first
wrapping it tightly in paper or rags.
Serious explosions have resulted
when powdered wastes have been toss
ed down incinerators.
Finally, campers and picnickers
should remember the rule that for
esters repeat every season: Don't
throw matches around careIessly; and
don't leave a camp fire until you're
sure it's completely out.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-08-03
Home Education
'The Child's First School IL the
Family"-Froebel

Issued by the National Kinder
garten Association, 8 West 4Oth
Street, New York City. These arti-
cles are appearing weekly in our
columns.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-08-03
On cdpifoI Hilt
By GEORcE L. KNAPP

Washington, D. C. 0LNS)-"Social
organization for the control of disease
is an invention Of this century. Co.
operative medical service is one of the
most important parts of this inven-
ton. The cooperative method and the
cooperative movement parallels the
organization Of workers in unions. It
furnishes them essential services, at
the same time that union organization
establishes conditions of work that
make health and happiness possible" !"
You have read plenty of smoother
sentences; but seldom have read a
more important statement. Jacob
Baker, president of the Federal Work
ers of America, was speaking at the
first convention of Group Health
Plans; and linked this great health
movement tight to labor unions-as he
should.
Young as is this movement of CO.
operative medicine, more than 1,OOO,-
600 persons in the United States are
benefiting from it right now; and they
are spread from Washington to Los
Angeles, and from Wisconsin to
Arkansas.
x X X
This is one of the 81 signs of the
growing determination of the Ameri-
can people to have proper and univer-
sal care of their health At present,
the fraction Of American people who
lack proper medical attention is at
least as large as President Roosevelt's
classic one-third, who are "ill-fed, i'll
clad, ill-housed." Seven out of the 10
chief causes of death strike the poor
harder than the well to do; and the
public is not only getting tired of this
state Of affairs, but showing it.
Doctors probably give more of their
work for nothing than any other pro-
fession on earth. But do we trust our
schools to charity?
4 4 x
Fifty-one per cent of the American
people are in favor of stopping the
sale of war materials to Japan
Eighteen per cent want to protest to
Japan through our State Department;
six per cent are ready to fight, and
only rs per cent are willing to go on
doing nothing about Japan's work in
China.
In other words, rs per cent of
Americans, according to the Gal
lup poll, want stop put to the
atrocious war of conquest now
going on in China, which organ
lied labor has denounced from the
first.
1t is not the first or the fiftieth time
that organized labor has led the pro-
cession of enlightened opinion in this
country.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-08-03

of series of six articles explaining
the Fair Labor Standards Act pre-
pared for the Potters Herald by the
Information Branch Of the Wage and
Hour Division, United State Depart
ment of Labor.
Regulation of the wages and work
ing hours of labor goes far back in
history.
Archeologists have found that in
Babylon three thousand years ago
King Hammurabi issued an edict fix
ing the wages of workingmen. In 301
A. D. the Emperor Diocletian regu-
lated the wages of laborers and teach
ers throughout the Roman Empire. In
1850, following an epidemic of bu-
bonic plague, the English Parliament
passed a law limiting wages. Within
ten years after the Mayfower landed,
the Plymouth Colony passed law
fixing the wages of carpenters, masons
and thatchers.
For so years or more many of the
4S states Of the Union have had laws
limiting hours in certain kinds of
work. The first of such laws were
passed in the interests of safety. 1t
was found, for instance, that long,
fatiguing hours on the railroads led to
more fatal accidents to passengers and
train crews than short hours. Work
ing hours in mines and in other haz-
ardous occupations are now generally
regulated by the States.
Nearly thirty years ago the States
began to regulate the hours of women
and children in industry. Many now
also provide for minimum wages for
women and children. Most of these
regulatory laws have had the support
of organized labor.
1t had been seen for long time,
however, that State regulation, though
desirable, is not enough. A manufac
turer in a State that has minimum
wage and maximum hour regulation
may be at great disadvantage in
competing against a fellow manufac
turer located in State that has lower
Wage and Hour standards. His la
Dor costs are greater, and therefore
he may have to sell at higher price.
Some m asure of uniformity
throughout the country was considered
desirable for the protection of both
employers and employees, and only the
Federal Government could bring about
uniformity. AS early as 1913 bill
was introduced in Congress setting a
50 weekly minimum wage, but failed
of enactment.
In part because of the depression,
the demand for national minimum
wage and maximum hour legislation
was revised on a wide scale. 1t SEEM
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-08-03
STATE-FINANCED HOUSING
INTRODUCED

Chicago, Ill.-Under direction of a
state superintendent Of housing ap-
pointed this month to replace the for
mer state housing board, New York
soon will inaugurate a pioneer plan
for combining state and local money
for investment in low-rent housing,
according to an announcement made
by the National Association of Hous-
ing Officials. The 1889 New York
Law, which in effect sets up Little
USHA" for the state, makes available
annually a total of s150,00O,0O0 in
state loans and s1,0O0,OOO in state
subsidies for dwellings for low income
families. For the 1939-4O fiscal year,
about one-third of this amount will be
available.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-08-03
lob Placements
Decline In June

Columbus, o. (OLNS).-Although
job placements by the Ohio State EN-
ployment Service with private employ
ers suffered a seasonal decline during
June, the number Of such placements
lasting for more than one month con-
tinued its steady increase since Janu-
ary, it was reported last week by the
OSES.
Total placements in June numbered
14,169, of which II 1856 were in jobs
with private employers. The number
Of private jobs filled represents a de-
cline of 9.8 per cent under the num-
Der reported in May and is the first
month of 1889 in which there was no
gain over the preceding month.
A decline in private placements
from May to June has been normal
in employment service operations, but
the decline in the present year was
smaller than in 1897 and 1888, the re-
port states.
During June, 5,706 private place
ments of more than one month dur
alton were made, representing an in
crease of per cent over May. Jobs
filled in private industry included
5,625 placements of men and 5,731
placements of women, and were more
than double the number reported in
June, 1893.
The file of persons actively seeking
jobs through the Employment Service
Division of the Bureau of Unemploy-
ment Compensation numbered 429, ,566
at the close of June, the OSES report
ed. Of these, 360,093 were applica-
tions of men and 69,473 of women.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-08-03

EDITORS NOTE.-This is the first
of a series of six articles explaining
the Fair Labor Standards Act pre-
pared for the Potters Herald by the
Information Branch Of the Wage and
Hour Division, United State Depart
ment of Labor.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-08-03
The Wage dnd Hour Low

ed absurd to many people that some
of those who had jobs should be forced
to work so or GO or even 70 hours
week, while millions didn't have any
jobs at all.
1t also seemed unfair that many
should be working long hours for
wages so low that they couldn't pos
sibly live on them. The taxpayers had
to come to the rescue for such people
by supplementing their low wages
with relief. 1t was felt that employ
ers had no right to call upon the pub
lie to subsidize them by feeding and
clothing their workers and that an en-
ployer who did not pay living wage
should not be subsidized in competi-
ton with one who did.
A wage and hour law was introduced
in Congress in 1887. 1t failed of pass
age that year but the following year
a bill, which became known as the Fair
Labor Standards Act of 1888, was en-
acted. 1t was signed by the President
June 25, 1888, and it's wage and hour
provisions became effective October
"a, 1888.
The law begins with this statement:
"The Congress hereby finds that the
existence, in industries engaged in
commerce or in the production of
goods for commerce, of labor condi-
tions detrimental to the maintenance
of the minimum standard of living
necessary for health, efficiency, and
general we'll being of workers (D
causes commerce and the channels and
instrumentalities of commerce to be
used to spread and perpetuate such
labor conditions among the workers
of the several States; (2) burdens
commerce and the free flow of goods
in commerce; (3) constitutes an un-
fair method of competition in COM
merce; (4) leads to labor disputes
burdening and obstructing commerce
and the free flow of goods in COM
merce; and (5) interferes with the or
derly and fair marketing Of goods in
commerce.
'It is hereby declared to be the
policy of this Act, through the exer
else by Congress of it's power to reg
ulate commerce among the several
States, to correct and as rapidly as
practicable to eliminate the conditions
above referred to in such industries
without substantially curtailing en-
ployment or earning power"
The law applies only to workers en-
gagged in interstate commerce or in the
production of goods for Interstate
commerce. 1t prescribed that these
covered" workers must be paid not
less than rs cents an hour the first
year (from October "a, 1888, to Oc-
tober "a, 1939), not less than 80 cents
an hour from October "a, 1889, to Oc-
tober "a, 1915, and not less than 40
cents an hour after October "a, 1915.
1t prescribes maximum workweek
of Al hours from October "a, 1888, to
October "a, 1889; of AZ hours from
October "a, 1889, to October "a, 1910,
and 40 hours after October "a, 1910.
An employe may work longer than
the prescribed maximum workweek
provided he is paid time and half his
regular rate Of pay for overtime. The
overtime pay is not based upon the
minimum wage, but upon the regular
hourly wage. If the worker is regular
ly paid 81 an hour, then he is entitled
to. $1.5O an hour for each hour of
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-08-03
WORKERS REACH AGREEMENT

Minneapolis, Minn.-A successful
termination Of contract renewed con-
ference of Bakery Local 21, st. Paul,
and 222 Minneapolis, Minnesota, has
been reported by the Bakery and
Confectionery Workers International
Union of America. The agreement,
uniformly covering every wholesale
bakery in the Twin Cities, will pro-
vide a wage increase, time and one
half will be paid for all work over
nine hours each day instead of ten
hours as provided in the old agree
ment. Overtime will also be paid for
all work over AZ hours per week in
stead of the previous Al hours.