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Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-07-14
CRISFIELD ROTARIANS
WILL CLEAR ROADSIDE

Under the command of Little Cor
poral Bill Hamill, the Rotary Expedi-
tionary Forces will attack the insight
ly weeds along the roadways adjacent
to the McCready Hospital. Plans for
the attack were laid at the clubs
Wednesday evening luncheon.
The aero Hour" was $3.50 P. M.
Friday, July 7th and Commander Bill
was urging that all Rotarians shoulder
their hoes, scythes, etc and report at
their posts ready for action.
Other civic-minded men who felt
the expedition was worthwhile and
who felt so inclined were given an
invitation to join the Rotary Forces
with little or no "red tape" Only one
requirement was made and that was
that all should "Bring their own lini-
ment."
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-07-14

munity Thursday morning. of last
week.
John T. Cavanaugh, an aged resi-
dent Of Elkton, Md, was sitting on the
front porch of his home on West
High street, when a car stopped in
front of the house. The woman jump
ed out and, after opening the front
gate, hurried up on the porch. With
out any preliminaries, she told Mr..
Cavanaugh that she wanted to see
what was the matter with him, and
Immediately began running her hands
over his body. A few seconds later,
the aged man states, the woman left,
taking with her his pocketbook which
was snatched from his pocket.
Several neighbors noticed the per-
Torrance, but state it was done so
quickly that they did not realize what
was. taking place.
The sheriff's office and State police
were notified, and at once started
work of endeavoring to track down
the highwaymen, but without success
thus far.
Mr.. Cavanapgh told the officers
that he only had 70 cents in his pocket
book, when stolen. Also that he had
no idea what the woman was planning
when she approached him.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-07-14

Beach, N. j., visited his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. William D. Corddry, this
week.
DR.. and Mrs. F. S. Ferris and son,
Sherwood visited relatives in Gettys-
burg, this week.
Mr.. FARRELL Simmons spent the week
end in Baltimore.
Mrs. Pauline Murray visited DR..
and Mrs. Nelson Murray in Philadel-
phia, recently. /,
Mr.. and Mrs. William Kershaw and
son. Mr.. Edwin Kershaw of Whining
ton, were guests of Rev. and Mrs.
Luther E. Poole and Mr.. and Mrs.
George Vincent this week.
Mrs. Carrie B. Sener Of Philadelphia
is the guest of Mrs. Elton M. Jones.
Miss Cecilia Shaw and Miss Evelyn
Landlord of Pocomoke were guests
of Miss Margaret Wilson, recently.
Mr.. and Mrs. D. Hance Fooks, OF
Bethesda, Md, were guests OF Mr..
and Mrs. William J. Fowlr, this week.
Mrs. Eleanor Titus and children,
Emily and James and Mr.. ]. w. Be-
vans of Hackensack, N. j., are spend
ing some time at their home on the
bayside.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Lescure and
son, William Lescure, Jr., of Harris
burg, Pa, and Mrs. Thomas H. Spence
and Miss Mary Spence of College
Park, returned to their homes on
Tuesday after spending a week at
Bayview Hotel, Public Landing.
Mrs. Alton Mock and daughter, Ger
aldine, of Baltimore and Mrs. Edward
Gladding and son, Leland Ray, OF Po-
comoke were luncheon guests of Mr..
and Mrs. James K. Parks on Wednes-
day.
Vernon Jones is visiting relatives
in Baltimore.
Miss SaAah Parker of Onancock, is
the guest of Misses Sallie and Dorothy
Bishop.
Miss Harriet and Miss Ruth john
son and Mr.. Herman Thommon, OF
Salisbury visited Mr.. and Mrs. David
Hudson, last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. Norwood Shockley
have returned home after spending
several weeks at their cottage in
Ocean City.
Rev. and Mrs. Robert P. Davis have
returned after spending two weeks
with relatives in Winston Salem, N
&c.
Miss Lillian Waters of Stockton was
the guest of Misses Sallie and Doro'
thy Bishop, last week.
i Mrs. Jesse Truitt, Mrs. James Gi.
vans and Mrs. Ralph Truitt spent
Thursday with Mrs. Oscar Truitt ir
Salisbury.
Miss Shirley Townsend is visiting
relatives in Brooksville, Washington
and Baltimore.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. Pennewell Apple
baugh, of Cape Charles, spent the
weekend with Mr.. and Mrs. Lester
Taylor.
}, Mr.. and Mrs. Pierce Myers and son
of Philadelphia, were guests of Mrs
William H. Jones, this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Hughes Of
}; Huntington, w. Va, are receiving
congratulations on the birth of son
Frank Hughes, Jr. Mrs. Hughes was
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-07-14
DARING ROBBERY OF
ELKTON AGED CITIZEN

Sheriff David j. Randolph and the
Maryland State Police are making a
diligent search for a woman and two
men, medium young, who committed
one of the most daring daylight rob-
berries ever known in the Elkton COM
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-27
MANS lNHUMANITY
TO THE TAXPAYERS

governor Culbert L. Olson vetoed the
swing Dill because he believed it "unAm-
erican and inhumane."
AS result the state of California will
go much, much deeper into the red in
coming months, and the people who pav
taxes Will pay considerably more into
state Golfers than they would have done
IL the governor had not vetoed the bill.
All OF this additional red ink will rep
resent. and all those additional taxes will
pay, at least in part, for the sustenance
OF aliens supported by the state of Cali
fornia on relief rolls.
The Swing bill, also known as Senate
Bill No. 740, would have denied relief
funds to aliens illegally in the United
states, or those who nave been residents
OF California at least five years without
declaring their intention to become citi-
zens, or who neglected to obtain natur-
allzatlon certificates within five years af-
Ter declaring their intention to do So
Numerous safeguards were included in
the bill TO prevent denial of relief to
aliens who, through no fault of their own
or by reason of existing laws have been
unable to become citizens. Yet the gov
ernor vetoed the bill He said
Since when have Americans ceased
to regard it their moral responsibility to
1'iSNiotS tic u1sl1tSS VI olueT 0ufld0 De-
ings, regardless of race, creed, color or
citizenship? We have sent millions in
relief contributions to all parts of the
world in response to our natural humane
instinct and sympathes for sufferers
from famines'
Yes, governor. We have sent millions
to other lands for relief of disaster vic
TINS But we haven't been taxed for the
millions with taxes we could not refuse
TO pay, whether or not they put our busi-
nesses In the red, caused us to fire men
men so that we could pay the taxes, or
put us on relief through trying to pro-
vide relief for others
We're not losing our humanty-we Just
want to be sure ajority of our people
remain In position to help the minority,
because when the majority becomes pen
nlless there will cease to be be any source
OF revenue with which to provide relief.
Forgetting Utopian idealism for the
minute-because taxes are very practical
things-we want to take care of our own
people first, and it's as certain as those
same taxes that we won't be able to do
even that much longer if we insist on TAX
ing care of the world at large
1t might be trite thought, but it would
surely save wear on many pocketbooks,
If we remember that charity begins at
home"
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-27
Willis Thornton's Editorial on:
Insurance Farm Ownership Still Problem

1t is now about six or seven years
since the great deluge of insur-
anee company foreclosures de-
seended on the farm belt. The situ-
alton was critical problem then.
and it is a somewhat less cri-
tical but none the less real pro-
blem now.
But it is a different problem. One
of the curious aspects of it is this:
the insurance companies pitchforked
into farm ownership against their
will, are now somewhat reluctant to
get out. The reason is simple: they
have found that their large farm
holdings are a sound asset, and al
most the only one they can hold
that provides any security against
possible initiation.
So now insurance commissioners
in various midwestern states. en-
gagged in trying gradually to wean
farm property away from the in
Sluance companies, are meeting
resistance.
Many of these states, the Wall
Street Journal points out in sur
veying the situation, have statutes
limiting the length of time insur-
ance companies may own farm
property in those states. Such laws
have seldom been enforced, and
there is reluctance to enforce them
too drastically at any one time,
lest the dumping of many farms
on the market at once break
down land values.
Further, the insurance companies
are good and prompt taxpayers, and
county treasurers are wary of get
ting too many farms suddenly back
into the hands of those who may
Or may not be able to pay taxes.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-27

But on the other hand, of course
there is pressure in every such
state to reduce farm tenancy, and
one of the most easily available
ways is to get those farms out OF
the hands of the insurance COM
panies and back into the hands Of
farmers. In one state it was found
that Is per cent of all farms were
in the hands of insurance COM
panies, an unhealthy situation in
a country which aims at the widest
possible personal ownership of land
by those who use it.
The problem now is, gradually
and without disturbing unduly the
land market, to get these insti-
tutional owned farms back into the
hands of men who will personally
till them.
Insurance companies will then
have the problem of what to do
with the money received for them,
investigating it in a market which
offers all too little chance for
new investment.
But that is tomorrow's problem
Today's is the graceful easing out
of the farm ownership problem
which arose in the depths of the
depression in l93l-l933.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-27
WISE HENRY FORD
(AlGn1eda Times Starr

Henry Ford could not win an academic
scholarship contest. He probably has no
high school diploma but he does possess
an understanding that is as useful as it
is wise. He is quoted, when asked for an
interview on the significance of the New
York Worlds Fair which he is visiting,
and which may be applied as we'll to our
own Exposition where he has a great ex-
hibit, as saying:
'The principal thing that the young
man-the real maker of the World of To-
morrow will see at this fair is that the
work motive far outstrips the profit mo-
tive. ! have always believed that if you
go in for money and nothing but money,
you will not get it; but if you go in sim
cerely and well-prepared to do something
useful, you will never lack the money to
carry it out. Just look at this great ex-
hibition of the activities of mankind
can you find one that bears the stamp
of the profit-motve as its original reason
for being? If you can find one | wish
you would tell me; it would never have
lasted long enough to get here. This fair
simply confirms my observation that the
greatest motive in life is to express an
idea and to count for something worth
while to your fellowman.
DO you think that Young America,
passing through this fair this summer is
going to miss that point?
Look at the nations represented here
These exhibits, and not their wars, show
their real character. The nations of the
world have sent to the fair the thing that
they are really proud of, the thing they
want to be judged by. They haven't sent
their bombs and poison gas and samples
of their concentration camps = they're
not really proud of those things; they
wouldn't want to exhibit them. Anyway,
most of the nations represented here are
so sick of war that, if it only rested with
them, there never would be another one
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-27
WHERE FARLEY STANDS

James Farley isn't going to break with
President Roosevelt before the real 1910
campaign starts any more than President
Roosevelt is going to announce a third
term decision before that time But poll
tics is politics, and when Farley does an
nounce his intentions, they will be guild
ed by politics
If Farley thinks Roosevelt will win, or
If he thinks the President has a winning
candidate, he will be with Roosevelt If
he thinks somebody else will win, and the
New Deal will lose, he will be against
the New Deal. For Farley, above all, is
a politician and party man. New Deal
or no New Deal, he will be in the fire
front of the Democratic battle. So much,
and no more, you can be certain of
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-27
Bruce Cation in Washington
Dissects the News

- hoe heen more a matter OF quie0
s,,ategv of -the-floor organlza-
tion. of effective work III coi'i'i
ence and committee.
There is less bitterness to it, 100
Both Lodge and Reed hated Woo'-
row Wilson with a passloiia'e'
flaming hatred. That may not nave
influenced their attitude IN tle
League fight, but 1t colored tpei
manner of fighting. Wilson, MN
self a bitter hater, struck back III
the same way. The fighting on
both sides was tense and vindic-
tive.
Today, although there are many
senators who do not love FRANK
lin Roosevelt, this bitter personal
feeling is less in evidence. Where
the personal equation enters into
the fight, it comes in largely as
a feeling that the President Is
tempermentally unsuited to the
task of exercising the delicate po-
wers which revision of the neu-
trality laws would give him.
Last of all, Senators Borah and
johnson have changed,
They are In their seventies now.
Johnsons hair is white; Borahs
is no longer the black, leonine
name that enthralled gallery Wis
itors in the old days. The years
have put their mark on them, have
taken them past the time when
either man might dream of occu-
pying the White House himself
some day teither or both might
easily have done SO once had luck
been just a little differenb. have
robbed their steps of their spring.
and touched the timber of their
voices.
Yet inside. nothing has changed.
They stand now where they stood
90 years ago, still fighting and
still the kind of fighters who are
likely to win.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-27
CUT OFF WITH
4 SHILLING
christian Science Wonitor)

True it was becoming little old-fash-
ioned, but still there were few novelet-
tes, of the yellow-backed variety, and a
few melodramas, in which some leading
character was "eut off with a shilling"
some people may not mind, and the scul-
lery maid now has her radio or wireless.
but the writer of pulp fiction loses for
ever one Of the most popular tricks of his
trade with the enactment of the new Bri-
tish law of inheritance, setting aside the
right of a person of sound mind to will
his property to whom he chooses.
1t seems over-indulgent, but the rash
young heir of Lord Fitzmartin may ac-
cumulate debts beyond his generous al
lowance, and his long-suffering parents
will have no right to pen. in his panelled
library, the devastating decision to leave
his estate to the Society for Reasearch
into the Cultivation of Edible Mushrooms
in the Himalayas.
There We're host of minor characters
who will no longer have employment, it
is feared. There was the rash young
heirs mother, who was perfectly silly
about him and shielded him as long as
she could from his fathers ire. And there
was the studious younger brother, who
was rather amiable and rode unbelievably
well, tar too well for an intelligent read
er to put much faith in his supposed tai
ent for painting or music, which he was
cultivating in some remote, and distress
ingly dirty, alley in Paris.
Book-of- f-the-month clubs notwithstand-
ing, the yellow novelettes have had long
run, and their own uncritical public ALL
thors will have to be ingenious to find
any act of the rich parent or uncle equal
in dramatic intensity to that of cutting
the deserving or undeserving hero off
with a shilling.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-27

the way he started out, Toting
columns of figures.
If he had done what I am about
to relate he might have died a
bookkeeper.
His father was sailor and died
when the boy was six years old
The family was poor; the boy had
a hard scramble to live. Young
Henri went to a commercial school
and studied bookkeeping. He made
up his mind he wouldn't be Just a
bookkeeper. He made UP his mind
he would be the best bookkeeper!
Then suddenly he was buried
Not under the ground, of course
but under an insignificant book
keeping job in-of all places-Delhi
India. He wanted prominence in
Holland. And he was sitting in a
stool in India What irony!
Then something happened. The
managing director came to him
and told him the books were in
an appalling condition. Did he
think he could straighten them
out? Deterding examined them
They were even worse than the
managing director had said. Then
young Deterding surprised the man.
aging director.
Il want 48 hours before be-
gin" he said
The managing director asked
why.
Il want to get geared up physi-
cally." he answered 'I want to
get in good physical trim before
l tackle that job"
During the 48 hours he walked
and exercised-and thought. An
idea came to him-a way to tackle
the problem. The idea grew bright
er and clearer.
When his 43 hours were up he
walked into the office with his
plan. For several days he worked
all day and almost all night. But
he liked figures; it was a problem,
1t was goal TO achieve.
1t took him four months. but
when he was through, every knot
was untangled. He was given a
raise. His salary was almost dou-
bled. The largest raise. he said.
that he ever received.
He started up the ladder then
and there. He was given other
tough jobs. He solved them. Soon
he was managing director Up and
up he went. Finally, he became
so powerful that ne fought the
Standard Oil Company. Even John
d" had no terrors for him. He
was made Sir" Henry Deterding
by the British Government.
He claimed that his start upward
was his determination to lick the
Delhi bookkeeping job 1t gave
him confidence to lick other Jobs!
Don't be afraid to give your best
to what seemingly are small Jobs
when they're handed to you. Every
time you conquer one it makes you
that much stronger. If you do the
little jobs well, the big ones will
tend TO take care of themselves. J
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-27

washington They have lived
through 20 busy eventful years
since they led the Senate's bat
TALON of death in its fight on
woodrow Wilson'S League of Ma
tions, and the years have left their
mark on both of them. But Will
liam E. Borah and Hiram Johnson
stand today exactly where they
stood two decades ago, making the
same kind of Highland from all
present indications, winning the
same kind of victory.
Borah was a black named, lion
voiced stawart in 1919, when
Woodrow Wilson came back from
Paris and offered his country a
policy of international co-opera-
ton, and Johnson was like him
except for the black mane). They
were in their early fifties then, a
year III dSN, oiiNt nt Wiz VI y
height of their powers.
Today everything is different
except for whatever it is inside of
the heads and hearts of two stout
fighters which makes them set up
ideals and stick to them.
The President they fought in
1919 has been in his grave on Mt
st. Adams for Is years and more.
The League of Nations they fought
is moribund. THE senators who
joined forces with them are gone
waspish Jim Reed of Missouri, vim
oictive Henry Cabot Lodge of Mas
sachusetts, stout Bob LaFollette of
Wisconsin. In their places are men
who were not in the Senate then
al all, men whom the public had
not heard of--Bennett Clark of
Missouri, Gerld Nye of Michigan,
and another Bob LaFollette.
The fight itself is different, in
way.
In 1919 and 1920 the League and
the Versailles Treaty were attacked
from the Senate floor day in and
Gay out, in resounding oratory. This
year the attack on the Presidents
foreign policy is less spectacular.
II has produced some oratory, but
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-27

adays they're playing double
matches.
Maybe those Danzig Germans,
begging to be absorbed by the
Reich, are under the impression
concentration camp is a sort
of new-fangled summer resort.
The language of diplomacy,
modern style, is exactly the same
as heard in a bawl-room brawl
without the saving grace of every
cne involved being drunk.
Two actors groups are fued-
ing. Just making a show of them
selves, we suppose.
Gag writer's should vote fash
ion designers their hearty thanks.
Those incredible hats for women,
we read. are to remain in style
another year.
Most usless Job in the world?
Finance minister of busted Eu-
ropean country.
The man at the next desk says
he has an uncle who always
wears caps made of pure cotton.
He's too smart, he says, to have
the wool pluled over his eyes.
Eventually, according to a SER
yey. 25,000,000 American families
will own radios. Thank goodness
they can't all live next door to us.
A rich man, says an editorial. is
naturally educated TO his lot. Well,
SO is poor man--only he, how
ever, hopes some day to be gradu-
ated.
Hat styles for autumn, according
to some fashion experts, will be
crazier than ever. There they go
again-promising the impossible.
Things could be worse. For in
stance, there might be a revival
of those radio hog and husband
calling cntestS.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-27

that title. The
man? A Dutch
man; Henri De-
terding, former
ly head of the
r oy a l Dutch
Petroleum Com
pany. The COM
pany, when he
died, had 10000
employees. Not
bad for a book
keeper, eh?
Th.at'c avact1yi
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-27
Dale
Carnegie

Recently you read in the news
papers about the death of a man
who was frequently called s'the
most powerful man in the world"
A book was written about him by
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-27

Connecticut has Joined the state ex-
tracing toll from New Workers attempt
ing to leave the city. Oh, well, cheer up,
olks-the whole United States is on Man
haitian; Island, anyway.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-27
barbs

German war dead, buried in
France, are being transferred to
German SOIL That's out of line
for Herr Hitler. Usually, he just
takes in the territory and saves
the work.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-27

One community reports kissing purse
snatcher, who grabe handbags as he woos
the ladies. It's about time; girls have
been stealing watches that way for years.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-27
THOUGHTS for the Day

And the king said unto him. How many times shall
I adjure thee that thou say nothing but truth to
In the name of the Lord?-II Chronicles 1915
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-27
You re Telling Ne.

Soviet Monaghan troops clash
with Japanese observation-disclosures -
headline. Golly, even in wars now
adays they're playing double
matchesl
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-27

Sell Farm Produce Through
POst-PresS Want Ads
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-27

Rome has asked Coney Island
heads for information: Italy may
build one of its own. That would
give Mussolini another excuse for
barring his chest.
The United States holds So per
cent of the worlds visible gold
supply. Visible to whom?
Negroes connot successfully be
tattooed because their flesh welts
too easily.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-27

MEMBER
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Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-27

Maybe those Danzig Germans,
begging to be absorbed by the
Reich, are under the impression
concentration camp is a sort
of new-fangled summer resort.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-10-13
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