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Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-02-17
MD. LEAGUE OF
MUNICIPALITIES
HOLD MEETING
Regional Meeting Comes Off In
Salisbury On Friday Night
February 10th
COUNTY MEETINGS OF
OFFICIALS TO BE HELD

A Regional meeting of the Maryland
League of Municipalities was held at
Salisbury, Maryland, on Friday night,
February 10th.
One of the purposes Of the League
is to sponsor Statewide legislation
that will provide a more equable dis
tribution of certain revenues collect
ed by the State.
Gasoline-tax revenue and fines col
lected for violations Of State laws,
where arrests are made by local Off
GERS who are paid and maintained
solely through municipal taxation,
were the principal matters discussed.
League officials were present at the
Salisbury meeting and also officials
of incorporated towns in Dorchester,
Wicomico and Worcester Counties.
Pocomoke was represented by Mayor
Ross, Councilmen Mock and Hancock,
Attorney Godfrey Child.
Resolutions were unanimously pass
ed approving Statewide law which
will give to the municipalities of each
county portion Of the gas-tax reve-
nue. and one-half of the fines collected
for violations of State laws where ar
rests are made by municipally-paid
officers.
The meeting at Salisbury was the
fourth regional meeting to be- held by
the League. Previous meetings were
held at Frederick, Annapolis and Elk
ton, and at those meetings resolutions
were unanimously adopted similar to
those passed at the Salisbury meet
ing.
Under the present law, the matter
of municipalities sharing in the gas
tax revenue is entirely in the hands
of the County Commissioners of each
county with the exception of Prince
Georges and Anne Arundel Counties,
where definite percentages of county
ALLEGATIONS must be paid to the incor-
porated towns in those counties.)
If the County Commissioners decide
not to make recommendation, the
municipalities are excluded from any
direct benefit from the revenue which
is created, in the main, by the citi-
zens and taxpayers living in the cit
les and Incorporated towns of the
State. a
County meetings of municipal Of
ficials will be held for the purpose
of drafting definite recommendations
that will be Incorporated in the State
wide Bill, which will be presented to
the Maryland Legislature for adoption
at an early date.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-02-17
CHIRPS
Continued from Page /

OOuC1UueO 1TOm rage !
case whether girls or boys participate.
The rules are somewhat different for
the two sexes, and, so far as have
heard, there has been no case, up to
this time, where there has been what
might be called coed basket ball.
But up there in Dorchester county,
they appeared to have started some
thing, according to the following clip
ping from one of the county papers:
"This Friday night the Colleg-
ians are to play Goucher College
in the first game of a double
header at the high school,"
Now, I haven't heard anything a.
bout the result of that game, but no.
body would give the boys a chance to
win that set-to. How in the world
could they see ball or basket with
so much else to look at. And so con-
fusing and binding would be the spec
tacle, they might not know which goal
to shoot. About all they would shoot
would be glances.
Then, again, boy could not be SO
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-02-17

impolite as to try to get in the way
of nice little girl when she was drib-
bling the leather sphere, and he'd
probably sock one of his team who
did. And as to fouls, I know when
a maiden fair was SO unfortunate as
to be guilty of a violation of rules,
her male opponent would quietly whis-
per: LAY it on me, lassie!" It is
likely, too, that when a Goucher girl,
maybe not so tall as some, would try
to toss one in through the cords, a
gallant youngster might forget him
self and lift her up high enough to
score the points. Oil all sorts Of
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-02-17
BANKERS ASSOC.
SPONSORING AN
ESSAY CONTEST
r. Harlan Robertson Is Chair
man OF Group In Which
Worcester Lies

The Maryland Bankers Association
is sponsoring an Essay Contest which
is open to member of the 1889 grad
uating classes of the white public and
parochial school in Maryland.
For the purposes of the Association,
Maryland has been divided into seven
groups, Dorchester, Somerset, Wi
comico and Worcester, comprising the
9Th group. r. Harlan Robertson is
Chairman of the group; J. G. Steven
son, Secretary-Treasurer, both of the
Citizens National Bank, Pocomoke.
The seven winners will be invited
to attend the Annual Convention of
The Maryland Bankers Association at
Atlantic City, New Jersey on May
4th and 9Th, at the Hotel Traymore.
Hotel and travelling expenses will be
paid by the Association. These seven
individuals will deliver their papers
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-02-17
LOCAL GUARDS
VICTORIOUS OVER
CAMBRIDGE TEAM
Defeat Cambridge COllegians
Wednesday Night By The
Score OF 81 To SO

The National Guard Basketball
team turned in another victory when
the Cambridge Collegians came to
town last Wednesday. Dropping only
one game early in the season, the
Guards have won six, and they include
Delmar Hornets, Crisfield, Phillips of
Cambridge, and Cambridge Collegians.
The game Wednesday night was one
Of the cleanest played in the Armory
this year. Although the Guards took
the lead and led the scoring through
out the game, they were hard pressed
in the second and fourth quarters. At
intervals in the game the visitors open
ed a series of long range shots and
scored again and again. Leading in
this attack were Robinson and E. Pet
ers. Collie Miller with Is points and
Ed MCGEE with IL points topped the
scoring for the Guards. The Cam
bridge team were at disadvantage in
that Jim Busick was forced to retire
early in the game due to a previous
injury.
Next Wednesday night the Guard
boys will have their hands full when
the Laurel A. C. team plays at the
local Armory.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-02-17
SURPRISE PARTY TO
MR.. ira LAWSON

A surprise birthday party was CIV
en- Friday night of last week for Mr..
Ira Lawson at his home in Calvary.
Those present were: Mr.. and Mrs.
Clifton Sterling, Mrs. Ira Lawson,
Mrs. Grover Slant, Mr.. and Mrs. Grow
er Lescalette and daughter, jeanne,
Mrs. Dewey Mason, Mrs. Thos. B. Ster
ling, Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, Mr.. and
Mrs. Harry Lawson, Mr.. and Mrs.
Harold Lawson and Mr.. and Mrs. Ser
mon Lawson. Mr.. Lawson received
many nice and useful gifts.
Delicious refreshments were served
and all reported a very enjoyable
evening.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-02-17
SHORE LEAGUE
STARTS SEASON
MAY FOURTH
Local Organization Sponsors The
Z Club Located In Centre
vile, Maryland
Sunday DOUBLE-HEADERS
NOT TO BE ALLOWED

The Eastern Shore Baseball League
season will open May a, and close La
Dor Day, it was decided at the meeting
in Easton on Sunday last.
The directors voted against double
headers on Sunday, but authorized
double headers for Memorial Day,
July Fourth and Labor Day.
The officials tabled a motion which
would have required the new manage
ment of the Easton club to make a
payment of one-eighth of the approx
mately $1,7OO now in the league treas
ury in return for its franchise. Local
interests took over the franchise at
ter a wrangle in which it once was
sold to Brooklyn. Baseball Commits
sioner K. NJ. Lands found the sale a
breach of baseball law and ordered the
franchise sold to the Easton group for
800.
Several clubs in the league thought
the new franchise holders should pay
an additional sum on the theory that
they would be entitled to one-eighth
the amount in the treasury should the
league dissolve.
Officials of the Centreville club,
chief problem of the league, reported
they are selling stock and looking a.
bout for a working agreement with
some major league club.
The Philadelphia National League
Club cut loose from the Colts at the
close of last season after helping them
with players and making up part OF
the $4,000 deficit put on the books an
nually during the first two seasons.
A group of Centreville sportsmen
have formed "Queen Anne's Sport:
Activities, Inc, to sponsor the club
Discussion of Sunday baseball hing
ed about the situation at Salisbury
where the diamond game cannot be
played on the Sabbath.
Milford and Dover, the two Della.
ware outfits, asked permission tt
move up their Monday games and play
Sunday double headers in the home
precincts, but the league turned
thumbs down on that, too.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-02-17

before the Convention, and to the win
ner will be awarded a scholarship of
one thousand dollars to be used at the
rate of two hundred and fifty dollars
each year over a full college course in
a standard four year college selected
by the winner.
Any one desiring further informa-
ton can secure it by communicating
with r. Harlan Robertson, Chairman.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-02-17

number. In that way even the judges
did not know the names of the success
full contestants until after they made
their selections.
The motion picture industry is
proud of the success of this contest
and the manner in which it was
judged. Although tremendous task,
because of the large number of en-
tries each answer was carefully check
ed by a staff of experts, and through
a process Of elimination the letters
were graded and then considered by
the judges. F.!
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-02-17
JEWELER REMOVES TO
new QUARTERS HERE

o. L. Thompson, jeweler and optic
ian, announced in the Worcester Demo
crat last week his removal to new
quarters. Mr.. Thompson is now open
for business in the Stevens Building,
formerly occupied by the Lambden
Shoe Company and before that by
VIM. Sartorius, jeweler.
Mr.. Thompson has had q years ex-
perience as jeweler and matchmaker
with nine years residence in POGO
moke City. For the past several years
he has had his business in the I. 81.
Merrill store. He plans increased
lines and more extensive operations.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-02-17

things might happen to set referee
crazy, and 1 don't think, it would do
for the girls and the boys to engage
in contest where there is so much
to distract from the real issue. Do
you?
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-02-17
$ CASH S
WE WILL PAY Cash

for several acres of we'll bedded Prem
Ter, Missionary and Chesapeake straw
berry plants. If you have some good
beds of any of these varieties and
want to sell, write or phone The w. F.
Allen Company, Phone No. 5, Sails
bury, Maryland.
Feb. 3-3t.
The Washington times., 1939-01-11
Cardenos DriUe

! Cardenas is pushing his barter
drive on all fronts. The latest of
our major industries to be hit is
that of rayon. While the writer
was still in Mexico, a $4,000 900
deal was closed with Japan and
Italy for that product in exchange
for oil. 1t is announced here for
the first time.
Heretofore, our manufacturers
have enjoyed a practical monop-
oily of the Mexican rayon market,
with the du Points getting the big
gest share.
Japan up to now has taken only
three or four tankers of oil on
barter basis for cacahuate beans.
as the Mexicans call peanuts. The
NipponeSe have only been inter
eSted in Mexican oil, as a cash
commodity, when the Government
would reduce the price in the Gulf
to equalize the price in California.
Rayon was the second barter
deal to be negotiated with Italy.
In the other one, Mexico contract
ed to deliver $3,4OO,OOO worth of
petroleum for three, Italian-built
1O,500-ton ocean-going tankerS.
Mexico has no merchant marine
and the lack of tankers has been
troublesome problem since she
went into the oil business.
Then there is the transaction
engineered by William Rhodes
Davis, with offices in Rockefeller
Center. for 100000 barrels to
Germany. Not q cent is to be
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60 into our own treasury. The people in this
country play church lotteries, slot machines,
cards for money make election BETS play the
numbers, and many other games of chance.
Liquor State and Federal taxes amounted to
over ST. 1000 100000 in 1887.
About "Dutch" Schultz
XXE ALL know of the fortunes that Dutch
w Schultz and the underworld characters of
New York have made with their slot machines
and other gambling rackets Why, small chill
dren even play these wretched machines, in the
hope that all the pennies or nickels will come
tumbling out
The church lotteries are splendid thing, and
these bring in a big revenue for the poor and
needy.
1t just goes to show that if the lotteries are
handled right, they are mighty good things for
any country.
We have so many known and unknown taxes
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be resumed between Russia
and the United States, as one
of the first steps in the inter
national field after elevation
to the presidency in 1884.
When the BolsheviStS came
into power we broke off rela-
tions with Russia, and they re-
mained broken for is years.
The principal reasons for re
fusing to have relations with
Russia were these:
Russia's refusal to abide by
international law and civilized
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It's Only Human

A LMOST everyone in the world loves to take a
"A chance. They wouldn't be human if they
didn't. And when you spend few dollars with
the chance of winning sums up to 100000 you
cannot blame people for doing this year after
year.
Of course, it is long shot and, even when you
stop to consider how much you have paid out
without ever drawing a winning ticket, it is a
little diScouragng But nine out of ten times
when the new tickets are made up for the next
year. we send our few dollars over to the other
side with the thought always in our minds:
We'll this time may be lucky"
There is another important factor in this lot
terry question The countries that allow them
and encourage them have less social and economic
trouble than the countries which forbid them.
They seem somehow to be a safety valve for the
people; and, as I have said before, how much
better to let them take their chance and perhaps
win their fortune, with their own Government
back of them guarding their interests, than al
low all this stream of money to pour into the
Old World.
1 hope the Society for the Liquidation of the
Public Debts of the United States will be success
full in getting lotteries legalized in this country.
This is one of the biggest single items to bring
in huge returns to our country and, while doing
so, give the people pleasure and joy.
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and, somehow, I do not entice
the same spine-tingling thrill
out of their activities as that
which kept me deliciously on
edge when Z read my paper-cov-
cred mick Carriers" and "Old
Sleuths." The matter-of-fact
newspaper accounts of cur
rent G-men adventures are ex-
citing enough stuff, but the
run-of-the-mill detective bu-
reaus. devoting most of their
time to shadowing erring hus-
bands and wives, leave me
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T1But''

In a modern civilization, all three-religion'
democracy, and international good faith-cOm-
plement each other. Where freedom of religion
has been attacked. the attack has come from
sources opposed to democracy. Where democracy
has been overthrOwn, the spirit of free worship
has disappeared. And where religion and democ-
racy have vanished. good faith and reason in in
ternatiOnal affairs have given way to strident
ambition and brute force The United States
REJECTS such an ordering and retains its
ancient faith.
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Japanese COnquests

Eighteen pages are devoted to a talk on I'm
perialism" by Prof. Gabino A. Palma, who excuses
Japan'S rapacty in Manchuria and China by say
ing that "her economic condition is not of the
best particularly when compared with the United
States" few paragraphs further on he states:
"Of the petroleum reserves of the world, it is
considered that only seventh part is found in
the United States. The Six-sevenths parts remain
ing are found in other, countries. And these are
countries of the colonial type They are coun-
tries with conquerable people.
The petroleum reserves of the United States
are calculated to last IS years at the most,
and each American consumes about 20 times
much in petroleum and its derivatives as each
Engllshman.
For another thing the United States needs
sufficient petroleum for the next war in the
Pacific. The between the United States
and Japan is an inevitable thing. washington
knows that we'll. And the petroleum fields of
Mexico within easy egreSS through the
ports of San Diego and Los Angeles . are
necessarily figured on in the economic scheme
of the Great Confagration. The oil fields of
Mexico are the reserves of the future, but the
future of America, not the future of Mexico"
Worth More Than Blood
Palma added that "the owners of the petroleum
companies in Mexico know well that, as Clemenceau
said, "A drop of oil is worth more than drop of
blood in winning BATTLE"
This, remember, was said before appropriation.
AS the situation stands today the Mexican oil
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Organization Still Kept Busy

TT was Allen who created the slogan, I'VE Never
= Sleep" and I suppose the boys who worked
for him back in the 185Os never did, which is how
they saved Lincoln from assassination the first
time prevented train robberies chased Jesse
James, and captured murderer or two Since
the present-day Pinkertons shy from divorce cases
and picayune ferreting, it would seem that with
the energetic Omen on the job, to say nothing
of QUIZ highpressure police detectives and their
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practice governing relations between nations.
Russia's confiscation of a stupendous amount
OF American property (our claims still stand at
$6OO,OOO,OOO, greatly reduced figure).
Russia's destruction of free worship.
Russia's brutal mistreatnent of all who at,
tempted to defend their faith and freedom to
worship therein
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slightly cold Yet the truth is. still stand in
some awe of the famed Pinkertons. have often
wondered how the founder. Allen Pinkerton i'm
migrant from Glasgow. drifted into crime-detec-
ton work. because seem to recall he started his
working life as barrel cooper.
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Is Nephew of Famed A. G.


OCCASIONALLY the wisp of a legend arises
W that Volinist Albert Spalding is the adopted
son of the original sporting goods Spalding who
was the famed baseballer many years ago. There
is no harm in the story for the truth is the
musician Chicago-born, is nephew of A. G., yet
of interest is the fact Uncle Spalding did once
adopt boy who bore close resemblance to the
volinist. He was named A. G. Spalding, jr, and
was killed in France on the first day of the Battle
of the Somme.
NIIE born Villager will point with something OF
l. pride to the little studio building on Morton
Street, where lights, flickering through the par
TALLY closed shutters of the first floor Indicated
that perhaps Edna st. Vincent Millay was fash
ionng another one of her inspired poems. And
through the window of the gay biStro, which is
now the Pepper Pot, other eyes may have peered
into the shabby room Of neighboring building,
where a gangling girl from the ranch country
of Iowa. much too pretty for her drab surround
ings often let her voice out in sweet song Two
dollars a week she paid for the room and none
among us knows whether she didn't have to do
without an occasional lunch in those days in
order that the rent money might be paid. She
was destined to go on to world fame, for her
name was Lillian Russell.
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BY FRED PAISLEY

Copyright. 1899. by News Syndicate Co. lnc)
Mexico, now linked with the BerlinRome- Tokyo
axis by oil barter is looking forward to the time
when the United States shall not only have ex-
nausted its petroleum reserves but shall face Japan
IN the War of the Pacific"
1t is thesis that has been put into common
circulation by dnt of constant repetition, appar-
emily in an effort to justify the seizure of the
$4OO 900 American and British oil properties
The latest example is to be found in pamphlet
distributed throughout the country by the govern
ment propaganda bureau. containing speeches
delivered at the national congress of high school
students in Mexico City just prior to appropriation.
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LEND money, but we some
how seem to hate to TAKE IN
money for ourselves.
This question of legalization
of lotteries is such a simple
and easy way to bring a ire
mendous revenue into our
treasury, if the powers that be
and the people would only
wake up to this fact.
We allow millions of dollars
a year to go over to the other
countries, when we could so
well stop all that and have it
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WEDNESDAY, JAN. II, 1889
By EUalw Wahh Mclean

in this country that are perfectly legal and run
by the Government. don't for the life of me see
why, with few changes in the Constitution, dear
old Uncle Sam couldn't go into the lottery buSi-
ness and make tremendous profit out of it,
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fields are the potential reserves OF
Germany, Italy and Japan.
And it is the consistent policy
Iof the Cardenas administration to
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My Say

IT DOES seem as if this beloved country OF ours
takes the longest and the hardest way around
a situation We can always GIVE money and
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Hostile to u. S.

BOVE all, Russia announced intention to
"A work to overthrow all governments. includ-
ing the United States Government and her
active steps to put subversive program into
effect even in America.
Even more so than Germany Russia was and
is a totalitarian government which restricted all
foreign trade used the equivalent of the barter
system and exercised rigid and discriminatory
exchange controls.
1t is quite within the bounds of logic to say
that most of the things we criticize Germany for
perpetrating we're duplicated and, in some cases,
exceeded in Russia.
Yet one of the first things President Roose-
velt did when assuming office was to gloss over
these inhuman practices and over the protests of
millions of Americans, resumed relations with
Soviet Russia
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Mexico Now Linked to Axis
By Petroleum Barter

This is the fourth of a series of articles
By Fred Paisley, aCho has Just returned
from II sir-1Ueek surrey of conditions in
MeEicO.
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CASUAL COMMENT: have had little occa-
~ sion to promote contact with any of the de-
tective agencies which flourish in Manhattan
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T1RANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT spoke those words
4 January S, 1899. The same Franklin D.
Roosevelt eagerly directed that friendly relations
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CHART SHOWS a COM
parison of export trade to
Mexico for the years 1884
and 1887.

further that setup by barter trade
agreements aimed not only at dis
posing of oil confiscated from
Americans, but at squeezing us
out of our largest export market
Mexico-among the Latin Amer
Iican republics.
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Voice of New York By Louis Sobol

effective modern methods, there would be little
left for the Pinkertons to do yet the organization
is active and flooded with requests to work along
with the police in the solution of battling crimes