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Evening star., 1939-11-26
By Frank George.

Motor trucks loaded down with
Christmas greens will soon be on
the Maryland and Virginia high
ways headed for Washington. AL
ready the farmers in upper and
lower counties have marked the
trees of cedar and pine for harvest
and shipment to the District. All
about the countryside the nursery
men are putting into pots the
spruces and frs to be used as Give
trees" for Yuletide celebration in
thousands of Capital homes.
The picture does not end with
trees. Down on the Eastern Shore OF
Maryland busy fingers soon will be
twining wreaths of holly to be hung
on Washington windows and doors
In eight southern counties are the
center of the Nations production
of American holly greens. More
than 10000 persons harvest the
Maryland holly crop not only for
Washington, but for Baltimore and
Philadelphia and other Eastern
cities to which the big boxes OF
wreaths are rushed by motor truck
Besides the local trees which
make up the bulk of the Districts
Christmas supply, large quantities
OF cut fir and spruce trees are
shipped in from the North. For
days the North woods have been
ringing with ak and saw bringing
down the harvest. The principal
sources of supply of these trees are
the forests of Maine, New Hamp-
shire, Vermont, the Berkshire Hills
in Massachusetts, and the Adiron-
dack and Catskill Mountains in
New York.
Much Taken in East.
Government foresters say thai
Washington and other Eastern cities
take the bulk of the Nations ever
green's harvested for Christmas cele.
brations. And the tree that will
attract most attention this season
as in the past, will stand lighted ir
Lafayette Park across from the
White House. Preliminary plans
call for the usual community cele-
bration about this tree when it Is
lighted by President Roosevelt or
Christmas eve.
Elsewhere in the city Santa Clau.
Lanes" will be aglow, and on thou.
sands of front lawns of private
homes living trees will be lighted
Visitors are continually astonishec
at the luxuriant growth of ever.
green's on public and private ground.
in the District. Many come to Wash.
ington during Christmas week espe'
cially to see the colorful display!
of trees Illuminated with flashing
electric lights.
A decade ago foreSters watched
the cutting of Christmas greens II
the open woods and warned of th'
day when none would be left. Way
to conserve natural production b,
cutting the tops out Of trees ant
by thinning forest stands, were thel
developed. New industries wer'
started-the production of cultivat
ed trees on farms and the manufac
ture of artificial ones which lose n,
spills. Less is heard now of tn,
denudation of the evergreen forests
Christmas trees are being pro
Evening star., 1939-11-26
AWAIT BIG YULE SALE
Christmas Decorations Provide Material of Prosperous Farm
Industry Which Is Gaining in Financial Yield
Years Pass and Holidays Expand.

duced in farm plantations in West
Virginia, Ohio. Pennsylvania, New
York and other States. They are
a source of cash return and a means
of using waste land. In some cases
production is combined with forest
paintings for timber. Farmers in
the business find spruces, true frs,
Douglas fir, deodar and Eastern red
cedar most suitable. Table-size
trees are produced in one to three
years; the main crop, with cultiva-
ton, in seven to eight.
Plantations are usually started
with four year = old transplanted
stock to hasten production. Guilt
vated, some Norway spruces are
raised to height of to 7 feet in as
many years-a foot a year. In ex-
periments the Michigan College of
Agriculture has produced Norway
spruces nearly 60 per cent taller
at the end of four years than trees
which had not been cultivated.
Government foresters say the pro-
duction of Christmas trees on farms
is less difficult than the growing of
many garden and truck crops. Much
care is required in starting the plan
tation, but cultivation can be car
ried on at odd times without inter-
fering with other farm work. Nor
way spruce is chiefly recommended
for plantations, since this tree is
easy to propagate; it makes rapid
growth and has q wide range OF
adaptability.
Blue spruce grows more slowly
but its striking blue color and dense
foliage make it popular for sale as
a living Christmas tree. White
spruce also grows less rapidly than
Norway spruce, but is well adapted
to planting where the climate Is
severe and is frequently superior In
color and shape. Balsam fir Is not
so successfully grown outside its
normal range.
Deodar, tree brought here from
Asia, is being extensively and sue
cessfully planted. 1t is graceful ir
appearance and has been found
particularly well adapted for grow.
ing in the warmer parts of the East
and the Middle West. Douglas fiji
also grows more slowly than Norway
spruce, but it is superior in form and
color. Eastern red cedar has a nat
ural range from Canada to the Cult
and from the Atlantic to the Great
Plains.
Chiefly in favor of farm planta.
tions is the fact that trees may be
cut nearer Christmas, whereas thu
bulk of the commercial crop is har.
vested month or more in advance
These trees have lost much of theil
moisture by Christmastime, and they
rapidly shed their needles inside
the home. Locally grown trees-a!
in Maryland and Virginia-retair
their fragrance and foliage bettel
throughout the holiday season.
| Government foresters say tina
when Christmas trees of certain
evergreen species are cut above tn
lower whorl of branches the re-
naming branches turn abrupt.
upward and often reach a heigh
of feet in less than two years. II
European forests, the removal o
Christmas trees is made to serv'
the welfare of the forests; the cut
ting Of small trees is in the mature
Of an improvement thinning and
Evening star., 1939-11-26

ClOnS OF Lne opposite term.
Government employees removed by
the thousands from homes in the
States to Washington left behind
them in hundreds of instances
dependent or partially dependent
parents, younger brothers and
sisters, and other needy relatives
with whom they must dutifully
share their earnings.
Long queues stretching from the
money -order windows in the local
post Offices each Government pay
day bear mute witness to the fidelity
of the Federal workers in discharg-
ing these obligations to their
families. Any casual observer may
be impressed with the lines Of
patrons standing before the money
order windows-especially if he is at
the end of the line-but official
figures of the Post Office Depart
ment demonstrate even more con-
vincingly the enormous volume Of
money -order business transacted by
the local postal stations.
Home kemlttanceS.
Washington's volume of money
order purchases far exceed those
of any other city of comparable size
and greatly surpass those of many
cities of much greater population.
The answer to this paradox of a
smaller city buying more money
orders than larger one is, obviously
the transplanted residents employed
in Washington who, each pay day,
make remittances home.
San Francisco offers an example
of Washington's disproportionate
money-order business. The West
Coast city, with a population of
693 900, had a total money-order
volume of $10,159,86 in the fiscal
year 1898. Washington, having a
population of only $4,000, did a
money-order business of more than
$18,874 900.
Though the Capital had some
5000 fewer people, it bought $8,714,-
600 more money orders than did
the California city. In number of
individual money orders purchased,
Washingtonians bought 1,702.653,
while San Franciscans in the same
period invested in only 1,164,012.
Buffalo, N. Y, to cite another
example, with only 10000 fewer in
habitants than Washington, fell
more than $10,000,000 short Of the
Capitals total money order volume
in 1898. Postal patrons in that
Western New York city purchased
884, ,066 individual money orders, or
slightly more than half of the num-
ber bought by Washingtonians.
incidentally, Uncle Sans Treas
ury, whence originated most of the
money for Washington money -order
purchases, received back a tidy sum
in fees for transmitting these funds.
To be exact, the post Office collected
$175,212 from Washington money
order buyers in the fiscal year 1888
This never-slackening stream of
money sent home by Government
workers keeps the wolf from thou
sands of doors and is of incalculable
aid to an inestimable number Of
people. The green money order
slips bought at the Washington
postal stations find their way over
the highways and the byways by
mail train, mail plane and rural
mail carriers automobiles to lonely
farms and ranches, village bunga-
lows, crowded city apartments and
suburban cottages.
Part of the money that Uncle Sam
pays his Capital workers goes back
into the States to aid aged parents,
meet mortgage installments on the
old home. help keep younger
| brothers and sisters In school, pay
Evening star., 1939-11-26
Federal Workers Send
Home Aid in Streams
City's Money.Order Record
Challenges Comparison
With Others in Country
By Marvin Coz.

For many people, the phrase money from home"
memories Of college regular
to their student and daughters The
broader meaning unexpected lucky
Money for home something
Washington reality without the happy recolec
Evening star., 1939-11-26
Invention of Washington Scientist Ocean b Radio
New Type Buoy Permits
Moving Ships to Avoid
Undersea Hazards
Robot Broadcaster Is Used
In Device Developed for
Y. S. Coast Survey
By James Nepin Miller.

Thanks Washingonians invention the oceans
mountains the NAVIGATOR
Of seagong vessel steer clear of
to navigation. ~ ~ r 'e
Responsible for this device
guhed scientist of the United eodetic SURVEY with
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-03-17

B. Twyford on Tuesday night, March
18th. Those present were Mrs. Lizzie
Twyford, Mrs. James H. Young, Jr.,
Mrs. Preston Bagwell, Mrs. w. Ayres
Coard, Mrs. Richard Young, Misses
Mildred Grant, Katherine Budd, Ellen
Edmonds, May Edmonds and Pearl
Duncan.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest T. Koenig and
Mr.. Dale Koenig of Washington, D.
c., spent the past weekend with rela-
tives in Accomac.
Mrs. Joseph L. DeCormis, Jr., and
daughter, Billye Lewis of Richmond
are spending several weeks with rela-
tives in Accomac and Hopeton.
Mr.. and Mrs. David McFalls, of
Grand View, N. Y, spent the past
weekend with Mrs. Thomas B. Scar
burgh.
Captain Webster Marshall, of Oak
Hall, Va, is spending this week with
Mr.. and Mrs. B. Drummond Ayres.
Mr.. Clarence Nelson spent the past
weekend with friends in Cape Charles
Mrs. William P. Bell has returned
home, after having spent several
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-03-17
months in Austin, Texas.

in Austin, Texas.
Mr.. William A. Winfree, Jr., of
Baltimore, Md, is spending this week
end in the home of Mrs. Thomas B.
Scarburgh.
Miss Virginia Parker spent the past
weekend in Cape Charles with Mr..
and Mrs. Richard T. Disharoon.
Mr.. Donald w. Kennedy and Mr..
Edward Hartley of Philadelphia, spent
Tuesday with Mr.. Kennedy's daughter,
Mrs. w. Ayres Coard and Mr.. Coard.
Mrs. Mary Keaton of Willoughby,
Va, spent several days this week with
Mr.. and Mrs. E. C. Neville.
Mrs. William n. Nelson of Nor
folk, is spending week in the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. George w. Milliner.
Mr.. Thomas Dunton of Machipongo
spent Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs. Doc
Dunton.
Mrs. o. M. Chandler has returned
from a visit with relatives in Berlin,
Salisbury, and Baltimore.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. Lester Drummond
and Mr.. and Mrs D. C. Vessels spent
a few days this week in Richmond.
Mrs. Marguerite Foote of New York
City, spent this week with Mrs Rich
ard F. Hall.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-03-17

Mr.. and Mrs. A. G. Ayres of Wash
ington, d. c., spent the weekend with
Mr.. Ayres" brother and sister-in-law,
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles U. Ayres.
Mrs. ]. H. Ayres has returned home
after spending several months in Rich
mond with her daughter, Mrs. James
r. ". Daniel and Mr.. Daniel.
Mrs. Carl T. Landlord returned
home Saturday, after spending several
weeks with relatives in Washington,
D. C.
Mr.. Donald M. Shute of Hampton,
spent last week in the home of Mrs.
Edgar D. Fletcher.
Mrs. j. L. DeCormis has return
ed from visit with relatives in Rich
mond.
Mr.. Levin Mock Davis has returned
from business trip to RichmorI.
The w. M. s. of Drummc ..dtown
Baptist Church met with N.s. Phillip
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-03-17
'THE ABBEY" WILL BE
OPEN TO PILGRIMAGE

Announcement has been made that
one of the historic Kent homes to be
open to visitors on the occasion of the
Maryland Garden Pilgrimage on April
%, 20, and 80, would be 1.-THE Abbey
in Chestertown. This old building,
erected in 1868, is owned by Mrs.
Henry Catlin, Of Italy, who visited
Chestertown last week and gave per-
mission for the house to be opened.
"The Abbey" was built by Nathan
lei Hynson for the British Govern
ment and was used as club by the
British officers when Chestertown was
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-03-17
WORCESTER DEMOCRAT POCOMOKE CITY, MARYLAND

a port of entry. In later years it
was the home of u. S. Senator James
Alfred Pearce.
Panelling from one of the rooms
was removed and the room recon-
structed in the Baltimore Museum of
Art but much of the original panel
ling still remains and the double stair
way in the spacious hall is one of the
outstanding features.
The house, on the corner Of Front
and Cannon streets, has been unoc-
cupied for a number Of years.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-03-17
INSIST ON VITAMINS "A" AND ~"
IN ANY COUGH MEDICINE YOU BUY

prescription contains genuine
Beechwood Creosote, Menthol and
five other important ingredients
combined in a base Of pure Cali
fornia Fig Syrup.
Go get q bottle OF Mentho-
Mulsion today. Note its immediate
effect and how quickly you lid
yourself Of that cough due 70
colds.
Mentho- Mulsion Is now recon-
mended. sold and guaranteed by
Lloyd & Blaine, Druggists - Adv.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-03-17
Build Up Resistance While Re-
ieving Coughs from Colds.

Doctors all agree that cold
coughs break down resistance.
Scientists have proven that both
Vitamins "A" and I'D" are vital
in building up that resistance.
Mentho- Mulsion is the only
cough medicine we know Of that
Is fortified with both Vitamins
"a" and ED" and like a doctors
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-03-17

When You have something to sell
rent or trade run IN ad in our Glass
flied Columns.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-07-19

Raleigh, July 19.-Miss Isabelle
Moseley, of Kinston, graduate in
home economics from the Woman S
college Of the University of North
Carolina, was today appointed dairy
marketing specialist Of the State De-
partment of Agriculture to conduct
statewide program looking toward
the increased consumption of milk
and dairy products.
Commissioner of Agriculture w.
Kerr Scott, in announcing the ap-
pointment, said that the dairy
marketing program of the Depart
ment will be launched with the sup
port of the State Dairy Industry
Committee, which is composed of
representatives from the North
Carolina Dairy Products Association,
the dairy specialists at State college,
the State Board of Health, and the
three major dairy breed association
''The need for immediate attention
to the marketing of dairy products
is emphasized by the fact that North
Carolina milk consumption averages
approximately one-half pint per
person, while health authorities and
recommend a minimum of
one quart per child and a pint per
adult daily, commissioner Scott
added.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-07-19
HUTSON WILL ATTEND
MEETING OF FARMERS

Raleigh, July 1S.-fAP)- j. B..
Hutson, assistant administrator OF
the AAA, who is in charge OF tobac-
co, will attend a meeting of North
Carolina farmers here August 4 upon
investigation Of the State Farm Bu-
reau federation.
E. F. Arnold, secretary of the farm
bureau, said Hutson and his boss, R.
NJ Evans, the national AAA ad-
ministrator who will have S928,OOO,-
600 to distribute this year to farm
ers who cooperate in AA-A work,
both would be here, with Evans to
speak and Hutson to confer on the
tobacco situation if Georgia markets
open July 25 with low prices.
The record d-breaking tobacco crop
is causing concern, Arnold said, and
the Farm Bureau wants to be in
position to move quickly to help
growers if the prices are down when
the season opens.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-07-19
WIDER HEALTH WORK
AMONG YOUNG URGED

Chapel Hill, July 19.-Pointing out
that millions of dollars have been
spent on cline courthouses, apprOp
riations for national defense, eradicat
ing diseases Of animals, and educat-
ing those not equipped to take edu-
cation" Dr. Grady Dixon, Of Ayden,
member Of the state board of health,
said in an address here today that
''Were we to spend one-fourth Of the
amount spent on repeaters (school
children remaining in one grade
more than year, to train and cor
rect their physical defects their
number would be cut to one-fourt,
what it is now.
DR.. Dixon addressed dentists from
all sections of the state who are
attending the fourth Institute Of Pub
lie Health Dentistry being held at
the university during the first term
of the summer session.
DR.. Dixon declared that all teach
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-07-19
SUICIDE ENDS QUARREL
OVER NUDIST PARTY

Los Angeles, July 19.-(AP)-A
quarrel growing out of weekend
party at nudist camp was blamed
by police last night for the suicide
of Dawn Hope Noel, 19-year-old
bride Of dance band leader and
daughter of Adele Hope, once a prom
inent Broadway actress.
Police Capt. Dalton r. Patton
quoted her husband, Herbert James
Noel, SO, as declaring she shot her
self in the bedroom of their North
Hollywood home yesterday as he was
reprimanding another guest at the
nudist camp for his association with
Mrs. Noel.
eve had gone last Saturday to the
nudist camp above Roscoe" Capt.
Patton quoted Neal. 'The party con-
tinued that night, all day Sunday
and Monday, and we came home
about 8 o'clock yesterday morning.
1--WE had been doing some drink
ing at the camp, and made several
trips back to the house during the
party. Monday night at about D.
m. Dawn said she was going home
to feed the dogs and exercise them
and that she would be right back.
She didn't come back for four hours"
Noel told Captain Patton he had
learned two other men and a girl had
joined his wife at her home He said
he was telephOning one of the men
when he heard the sound of a shot
in the bedroom and ran to find his
wife lying on the floor bleeding from
the temple, with a rifle beside her.
Noel called an ambulance and his |
wife was pronounced dead upon ar
rival at the Van Nuys Emergency
hospital.
She became Noel's fourth wife less
than year ago.
Adele Hope was fatally shot in her
Harrison, N. Y, home September II,
1886. Her death was pronounced a |
suicide
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-07-19
FLIER is UNINJURED
WHEN PLANE CRASHES

Selma, July 19-Alfred Rogers,
student flier, had a narrow escape
yesterday morning when the air
plane he was flying fell in some
woods about mile from Fuquay
Springs.
Rogers left the Selma airport about
$50 and had flown to Raleigh and
was going to Dunn, when he ran
into a fog He attempted to go
above the mists and when his eff
forts failed tried to drop low enough
to get out of the fog screen. 1t was
reported that he recognized Fuquay
Springs and finally tried to land in
a tobacco field, but when he circled
back to land in the field the mists
obscured his visibility and he landed
in small patch of woods.
The wings of the plane were shear
ed off, and the motor was damaged,
but Rogers walked away from the
plane without scratch. The plane
was the property Of David Johnson,
auto accessory dealer, of Smithfield
The damage to the plane was es-
timated to be around $1,000.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-07-19
Netherlands India
a.. Flight to Europe
In Day Forecast

The Hague, July 19.-Flying in a
comfortable airplane from here to
Netherlands India, a distance Of o.
900 miles, in a single hop in just
over "a hours was predicted as a
development of 1.-The near future" by
A. Plesman. director of the Neither
lands Airlines, when speaking to an
audience of traffic experts.
Mr.. Plesman is highly qualified in
aviation for he has been running
the K. L. NJ, Royal Netherlands
AEl;nes. for 20 years. During these
last 10 years the fortnightly air SER
vice Amsterdam-Batav has been
developed into a three times per
week service Every other day a ma
chine takes off from Amsterdam and
Batavia. There is also a regular
twice-weekly service from Batavia
to Australia
as The development of airplane fly
ing range, which today has reached
1000 KIN. (4,500 miles), together
with the development Of automatic
plotting gives positive ground for
Mr.. Plesnan's predictions.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-07-19

ers should be trained in public health
Although most teachers, he said
scarcely "know the baby teeth from,
the permanent ones, we do hava
some teachers who are competon+
to see the whole picture. There aro
a few school principals who havo
seen the light and know that wo
must do something about the phy-
sical condition of the child beforo
we can do our best training with
his mind.
occasionally there is county sn-
perintendent who knows the PROGRAM
is unbalanced and who is WILLING 70
help bring it forward" he said. "Yonr
task is not unsurmOuntable. Your on
portunity is first, to bring this in
formation to the child; second. to tho
teacher; third, to the principal. and
fourth to the county superintendent ;"
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-07-19
ERWIN is SPEAKER
ON FARM FIELD DAY

Raleigh, July 19.-Diversification
in farming and agricultural research
will be the theme Of the 34th annual
field day Of the Piedmont Test Farm
near Statesville Thursday, July 20,
Commissioner of Agriculture w.
Kerr Scott announced today.
DR.. Clyde A. Erwin, State superin-
tendent of public instruction, will be
the principal speaker and State
Senator Jack Joyner will preside as
chairman for the day. Phillip M.
Hendricks, farm agent, Lexinton,
will be general chairman of contests
with nine events scheduled in the
afternoon.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-07-19
OVERSEAS TRAVEL
COSTS OF AMERICANS

Washington, July 19.-(AP)-The
Commerce Department estimated
July 16 that Americans had spent
S5,400,O 100000 on overseas travel in
the past 20 years and that this was
five and one-ha1f times as much as
foreigners spent On visits to the
United States.
The figures did not include travel
between the United States and Can
ada and Mexico
The report estimated that Amer
leans spent S5OO,OOO,OOO last year on
foreign travel and that foreign visit
ors to the United States spent $780,
100000.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-07-19
HENDERSON, Q c. DAILY DISPATCH WEDNESDAY, JULY 49,
Americas Income:
How 1t Is Divided

Washington, July 19.-Only FL
per cent of American families
have incomes Of $4,000 or more,
less than 13 per cent $4,000 or
more, and 81 per cent have in
comes of $1,25O per year or less,
the monopoly committee reported
Recalling testimony by DR..
IsadOr Lubin, Commissioner OF
Labor Statistics, the Committee
said that if income of families re-
ceiving under S1,250 a year could
be increased $3.50 a day they
would buy:
S8OO,OOO,OO0 more food;
S416,OOO,OOO more clothing;
100000 more rent or hOus-
ing;
S213,OO,OOO more fuel, light and
refrigeration;
1885, 100000 more autos and
transports;
S73,OO0,0OO more personal care;
1924, 100000 more recreation.
Moderate increase in low wage
family incomes would "absOrb the
output of most of the surplus ca
pacity in the U. S" the report ad-
ded.