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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-02-02
WEAR A BUTTON
COMMISSIONERSANNOUNCE
TAX RATE OF Sl.l5 FOR '39
Continued from Page One)
turned this job back to the County
Welfare Board.
Roads and Equipment

Roads and Equipment
County roads and equipment were
given $4,000. Last year $4,000 was
levied for oiling and screening of the
roads. This years figures evidently
includes the payment for machinery
purchased in December, over which
there were objections raised by COM
mittee of taxpayers who demanded
that the machinery be returned or
legal proceedings would be instituted.
The assessable basis for the county
in real and tangible personal property
was placed at 18,442,711. This figure,
added to amounts for household goods
of $500, 160; automobile, estimated, of
S325,000, and returns from the State
Tax Commission, estimated, S750,000,
makes a total of $19,817,871. This is
about 100000 less than the assessa-
BILE basis for the county last year, but
is expected to bring in at $1.15 per
500, total of $227,905.52. The esti-
mated revenue from the beer tax was
put at $4,000, and intangible personal
property was expected to bring ST.
263.37 Bank shares are estimated to
add $4,000 to the revenue of the
county.
One Member Disagrees
The levy, as transmitted to The Re-
publican for publication, will be found
on page six of today's edition.
The levy is published by order of
the Board of County Commissioners,
although Paul M. Friend, one of the
members of the Board, said he agreed
on the rate of taxation as set by the
Board, but refused to sign the levy be-
cause of the manner particular items
appearing in the levy had been listed,
which the other members of the Board
refused to change Mr.. Friend men
toned specifically a suggested item
for the Bloomington fire department
of $500 and actual overdrafts of ap-
proximately $4,000.
Items Are Omitted
A comparison of this years levy
with that Of last years, shows there
is no levy made for any debt service.
At meeting in November following
the election, it was understood that
the Commissioners had agreed to fur
nish necessary funds, amounting to
about $4,000, so that the work on
the Oakland Elementary and Kitz-
miller High school additions could be
approved by the Public Works Admin
istration, and construction work start
ed. No levy is made to take care of
this item.
1t is also reported that a bill was
passed by the Legislature directing
the Commissioners to levy $4,000 for
for the erection of a school building
at Bloomington. 1t was stated at the
| Commissioners office that no official
notice of such a bill passing had ever
been received by them. There is nc
provision in the levy for this item.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-02-02
LEGISLATORS ASSEMBLING
MATERIAL ON SALES TAX.
Maryland SOlOns Look To Wash
ingtOn State For Information

Maryland legislators are looking
across the continent in hope of finding
in Washington State the answer to me
of their own fiscal problems.
In that cross-country look was the
CLEAN of a sales taxa revenue rails
ing measure rejected in past sessions
but already brought back to this one
as a possible boulevard to a balanced
budget.
Backers of a retail sales tax have
estimated a one per cent levy would
produce S5,OOO,OOO annually.
Data Being Assembled
Data from the west-coast state
which has a 2 per cent sales tax, has
been sought and more Maryland legis-
lators have written the secretary of
state there for further information
Washington's real property tax is 40
mills and this, coupled with favorable
reports on the sales tax, has been ad-
vanced in support of a similar pattern
for Maryland.
Favor of the sales tax has sprung
mainly from solons opposed to the
classified income tax, core of the broad
tax program advocated by Governor
O'Conor.
Deny Border Argument
The argument that sales tax
drives trade in border counties into
nearby states where no tax is levied,
has been countered, some legislators
say, with reports from Washington
that border counties have suffered
no such loss of business because of
the tax.
Support for the tax in Maryland has
not crystalized into the drafting of a
bill. But debate on the income tax is
expected to unite the sales tax sup
porters.
Is Favored By Garrett COuntian
An opponent of high real estate
taxes is a member of the Garrett del
egation in the Lower House who has
said that the sales tax will, in his
opinion, be the solution of financial,
problems in the State of Maryland.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-02-02
BROWNING-COMPTON

BhON NING-SOMT ION - "A Il
nouncement has been made of the mar
riage of Miss Eva Compton, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. James Compton, of
Oakland, to Mr.. Motley Browning, of
Kingwood, W. Va, which took place
January IS, in Winchester, Va, Rev.
Mckay, pastor Of the Methodist
church, performed the ceremony.
The bride is a graduate of Oakland
High school, while the groom was
graduated from Kingwood High school
and West Virginia Wesleyan college
at Buckhannon. The couple will re-
side in Clarksburg, w. Va, where Mr..
Browning is engaged in the insurance
business.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-02-02
SWEITZER - RAILEY -

SWEITZER - RAILEY - M S S
Blanche Marie Railey, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. J. Milton Railey, of Grants
vile, and Guy Homer Sweitzer were
married in st. Marks Reformed par
sonage, Cumberland, by the Rev. E. P.
Skyles, pastor, on January l, it has
just been announced.
The bride is a graduate of Grants
vile High school, class of 1888. MI.
Sweitzer is engaged in the radio
business.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-02-02

Miss Margaret Kahl, Cumberland,
is here for few days visit with rela-
tives.
Evening star., 1939-06-23
Lecture Is Presented
On Christian Science

A lecture on Christian Science
entitled Scientific Christian Heal
ing was delivered last night by
Prof. Hermann S. Herring, G. s. B.,
Of Boston, Mass, in First Church Of
Christ Scientist, under the auspices
of that church..
The lecturer, who is a member of
the Board of Lectureship of the
Mother Church, the First Church of
Christ Scientist, in Boston, Mass,
was introduced by Mrs. Helen G..
McNeill, second reader of First
Church. Prof. Herring said, in part:
"Since Christian healing is ac-
complished through a transforma-
tion or change of consciousness, it
must be done mentally and must
require some action of thought
Therefore, we need to consider what
thinking is, in order that we may
think Alright, for we know that y
wrong belief cannot be corrected
with wrong thought. Truth alone
corrects error, and we must learn to
think truth if we wish to heal spir-
itually, for God is truth and is spirit,
hence truth is spirit and only spir-
itual thinking is true.
"All will admit that thinking Is
the exercise of intelligence, and that
real knowing is the activity of real
mind. Real mind, as we have seen,
is the divine consciousness, the in
finite intelligence or truth. There
fore real thinking is the activity of
divine truth in consciousness, the ac-
tivity involved in being conscious
Evening star., 1939-06-23

Of the truth. in other words, in
knowing the truth; consequently
real thinking is right knowing, the
knowing Of truth. Obviously we can
know only truth, we can never ac-
tllally know error. For example:
We can never know that two times
two make five, because they do not;
we can only believe that they do.
Thus we can never know anything
that is wrong, evil or material, we
can never know sin. disease, death;
we can only believe them.
''This knowing of truth is the ac-
tivity of real consciousness, the con-
sciousness of the real man, Gods
man; 1t is communion with our
heavenly Father Mother God, inf
mite love. This knowing is true
Christian prayer-'Not my will, but
thine be done'-the almost con-
slant prayer Of the Christian Scien-
tist. Such prayer in His name is
answered in healing the sick, re-
Evening star., 1939-06-23
Tom, II, Turtle Collector, Once
Nearly Collected by Python
Son of American
OfficiuI Aids D. 6.
Scientists With Finds
BY w. H. sHIPPEN, Jr.

CtdI olhh SoiicopouSiCit-
BUENOS AIRES.-A collector of
turtles and snakes like Tom Davis
is not to be daunted by the thought
that he might have been collected
himself.
That was two years ago, back in
Sumatra. Tom was only 10 then,
much smaller and less experienced,
but still able to be rescuer, instead
of the rescued, when big python
broke free.
Tom with his father, Monnett
B. Davis, now American Consul
General to Argentina, were visiting
Washington Zoo Director William
M. Mann in his collecting camp in
the East Indies. Tom, the budding
young naturalist, slipped away to
investigate the mysterious crates,
cages and boxes arranged about the
compound. He disappeared from
the view of his elders just before
a Malay servant came running to
cry:
Doktur, snake eat boy!'
Tom Held On.
DR.. Mann and Mr.. Davis raced
for the sound of a struggle. They
found a 20-foot python trying to
swallow the arm of native hunter
while its body threshed in the
grasp of five or six men-Tom had
hold of section, and clung on
until the battle ended with the
python back in its crate. The native
hunter went to hospital.
Tom was a house guest of DR..
Manns last summer while his
mother and father were in Wash
ington pending their transfer to
Buenos Aires from Sumatra.
The young naturalist spent most
of his waking hours in the ZOO. DR..
Mann gave him a fresh-water tur-
tie which he named Speedy" and
brought South with him. Toms
parents. after sharing bathroom
with a turtle for three weeks on the
ocean, were happy that their son
only started his collection in North
America with single specimen.
Tom has room to branch out in
the Davis apartment here. He's
been saving his allowance to buy
snakes, frogs. turtles, ETC., for the
Washington Zoo. The young collec-
tor refuses to pay tourist prices He
goes down to the water front to
Evening star., 1939-06-23

forming the sinner and supplying
all legitimate human needs. As
physical darkness disappears when
light is brought to bear upon it, SO
the mental darkness Of despair, dis
ease and death disappears when the
light Of the Christ, truth, 'whicn
lighteth every man that cometh into
the world" (St. John 1:9), is brought
to bear upon 1t by being reflected
In the individual consciousness
through right, spiritual knowing"
Evening star., 1939-06-23

tribution comes up to expectations,
he will use his influence to have the
young naturalist put on the United
States Government pay roll at .
dollar q year.
THAT viii lscarcely pay expenses"
Tom said, 'but I appreciate the
honor!"
Evening star., 1939-06-23
FuIse Teeth Go Astruy

Giving his false teeth to a taxi
driver in Sydney, N. S. w., as secur-
ity for his fare, an Australian ex-
serviceman awoke the next morning
toothless and unable to remember
the number or color of the taxi. He
then appealed through a newspaper
to the driver to call at his house
with the teeth.
Evening star., 1939-06-23

haggle in Spanish with the fisher
men. and organizes collecting expe-
ditions among his schoolmates
May Aid DR.. Steineger.
Toms collection of fresh water
turtles, DR.. Mann hopes, will aid the
Investigations of DR.. Leonard Steine-
ger. dean of Washington scientists,
who is completing monograph on
turtles, and wants to observe at
first hand some four rare species
found only in Southern South
America.
Dr. Mann says that if Toms con-
Evening star., 1939-06-23

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Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-08-11
Local and Rural News

Misses Frances and Lois Denston
have returned to their home in Ches-
ter, Pa, after spending their vacation
with Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond Denston,
this city.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Sigrist, Of POGO
moke, accompanied by Mr.. and Mrs.
Frederick Phillips, of Westover, spent
a part of last week in Baltimore, the
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. George McIn-
tyre.
Mrs. William Fl. Hayward, her son,
Mr.. John Hayward, and daughter,
Mrs. William Savers, who are staying
at Ocean City for two weeks were
visitors at the Hayward homestead
last Thursday.
Mrs. Riley P. Stevenson of this city
and Mr.. and Mrs. Riley Stevenson, of
New York, have returned from a
weeks stay at Ocean City. Mr.. and
Mrs. Stevenson will leave the latter
part of the week for their home in
New York.
Mr.. James T. Hancock, of Philadel-
phia, accompanied by friend, Mr..
James w. Carter, Of Newtown, Pa,
spent the weekend with his niece,
Mrs. Clarke Lambertson and Mr.. Lam
bertson. Mrs. Murrell McGrath and
husband, of Eden, also spent Sunday
with her parents.
Members of the Past and Present
Matrons and Patrons Association of
the Eastern Shore of Maryland o. E.
s. will hold their annual summer meet
ing at Ocean City Friday, August 10.
Dinner will be srved at the Hastings
Hotel at 4:45 P. NJ. This will be fol-
lowed by the entertainment and meet
ing at st. Pauls-by-the-Sea P. E.
Church. Two hundred and fifty invi-
tations have been mailed to members
of the Association.
About fifty members of the Mis-
sionary Society Of Bethany M. P.
Church and their friends enjoyed an
outing at Public Landing on Tuesday
of this week. Some went by bus and
others in private cars but all took
basket lunches and spent the after
noon and evening by the bayside. The
day was ideal for bathing, fishing and
grabbing and everybody entered into
the spirit of the occasion and had a
thoroughly good time.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-08-11

FOR THOSE WHO
ENTER SCHOOL
Under The General Direction Of
The Bureau Of Child Hy-
giene Of State Dept.
PARENTS ADVISED NOT
TO POSTPONE MATTER

Youngsters who will tackle the
three RS for the first time this fall,
are centers of attraction at the Sum-
mer Roundup Conferences being
held through out the State for the
health examination of children to be
sure they are in good condition for
the great adventure.
The examinations i'm the counties
are under the general direction Of the
Bureau Of Child Hygiene Of the State
Department Of Health. The arrange
ments in each county are made by the
County Health Officer with the Coun-
ty Department Of Education and the
local Congress of Parents and Teach
ers cooperating. The examinations
are particularly for children not un-
der regular medical supervision.
In calling attention to the "Sum-
mer-RoundU Ups, DR.. r. II. Riley, Di-
rector of the State Department Of
Health explained that the before
SCHOOL, examinations correspond close
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-08-11

ly to the physical examinations tina
are part of the regular school pro
gram for the older children.
Gall school records show" DR.. Ril
ey continued, "that children who start
the school year in good health, and
who have been safeguarded in every
way possible against preventable sick
ness, stand the strain of school life
and make better progress than chill
dren do who are handicapped by con-
ditions responsible for i'll health, such
as decayed teeth, bad tonsils, under
weight, dull hearing and defects of
vision. The summer examinations
enable the parents to find out whether
their children are up to par in these
respects. IF they are not, a great
deal can be done toward correcting
them before the children start to
school.
"a record is kept for each child
showing whether or not the child has
been protected against diphtheria and
smallpox. Special clinics for the
benefit of children for whom these
services have been neglected, have fol-
lowed the examinations in number
of counties. Parents who can not take
their children to the clinics are urged
to take them to their own doctor or
to the nearest health officer and have
them protected against both diseases.
AS most parents know, our Maryland
law requires a child to be vaccinated
against smallpox before he or she
may be enrolled at any public school
in the State. It is wiser to have it
done now than to wait until school
opens.
"These before-school examinations
are like the inspections we have made
of our automobiles before we start on
an important journey. The greater
the care taken in checking up and
correcting any weak points we find
in the machine, the better the results.
The same is true of the little human
machine. If your child starts to
school this fall, don't wait until the
last minute to have the youngster in
spected."
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-08-11
real ESTATE TRANSFERS

Horace G. Payne from VIM. o. Dick
erson and wife,, real estate containing
acres, more or less, on the South
easterly side of and binding on the
State Stone Road leading from Snow
Hill to Pocomoke City and in the End
Elec. Dist. Consideration $40 &c.
Chas. T. Henry and Louisa Henry,
his wife, from Peter Gray and wife
a part of the farm called School
field Place." containing 1 acre more
or less on the East side of Berlin.
Consideration $40 &c.
VIM. d. Hardester and Ada Lee
Hardester, his wife, from John W..
Baylis and wife and another, real es-
tate in the LIST Elec. Dist, and on the
Southwest side of the State Stone
Road leading from Pocomoke City to-
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-08-11
CONGRATULATIONS FROM
LOCAL AGRICULTURIST

The following testimonial, altho'
a little belated was none the less ap-
preciated:
Congratulations on your ami
versary and the splendid paper
you publish each week.
Bill
This came from Mr.. William FL.
Holloway prominent agriculturist Of
Worcester County to whom we return
thanks for his kind words.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-08-11
OLD
CHILD DIED TUESDAY

Joseph John Birmingham, s months
old son Of Mr.. and Mrs. Grover G.
Birmingham, Of near Stockton, died
Tuesday, August LIST in the Peninsula
General Hospital after a weeks ILL
ness.
Funeral services were held We'd
nesday at 1890 A. M. The little fell
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-08-11

wards the Virginia Line. Considera-
ton $40 &c.
George H. Wootten and Viola L.
Wootten, his wife, from Alice M. KEEL
ley and husband, real estate in New
ark in the 4th Elec. Dist on the South
side of and adjoining the State Stone
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-08-11
Hill

Road known as the Hickman Hill
Road. Consideration $40 &c.
Chas. H. Mills and Cleora Mills, his
wife, from Nolan B. Pilchard and
wife, real estate in the 9th Elec. Dist,
near Girdletree. Consideration $40
&c.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-08-11

We have one Of the finest equipped
plants on the Shore for turning out
high class printing.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-08-11

Mrs C.. E. Duncan has returned af-
ter spending a week at Ocean City.
Miss Geraldine Bonneville, of Phil
adelphia, is visiting relatives in Cir
dletree and Pocomoke.
Mrs. Fullen Van Horn, Of Baltimore,
is the guest of her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Geo. L. Bounds.
Mrs. Maurice Boston is attending
summer school at Western Maryland
College, Westminster.
DR.. and Mrs. s. J. Venable and fam
lily, of Colora, Md, spent Sunday in
Pocomoke.
Mr.. George W. Coffman and daugh-
ter, Miss Betty Coffman, Of Cations
vile, spent part Of the week here.
Miss r. Belle Wilson has returned
to Snow Hill for visit before return
ing to Westminster.
Miss Betty Stroud, Of Nelsonia,
spent a part of the week with her
grandfather, Mr.. w. A. Stroud.
Mrs. u. S. Payne will return the
latter part of the week from months
stay at The Shoreham, Ocean City.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. R. Hedeman, of
Baltimore, visited relatives in POGO
moke and vicinity last week.
Mrs. Paul Yingling, Of Baltimore,
is the guest of Mr.. and Mrs. G. E.
Duncan of Cedar Street.
Miss Mary Helen Henderson, nurse
in a Wilmington hospital, is spending
her vacation in Pocomoke City.
Mr.. and Mrs. David Dallas and Mrs.
r. E. Matthews and daughter, left
Monday for a motor trip to Nova
Scotia.
Mrs. Bessie Lyshom and Mrs. Eliza
beth Jones, of Scranton, Pa, are Wis
iting Mrs. Lyshom's father, Mr.. w.
A. Stroud.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ohio e. Fleming, Of
Baltimore, were weekend visitors at
the home Of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
r. w. Dixon.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Merrill, of
Baltimore, have been recent guests
of the formers mother, Mrs. VIM. H.
Merrill, Of Laurel st.
Mr.. John G. Parks, Of Harrington,
Del, came to Pocomoke Sunday to
attend the funeral of Mr.. and Mrs.
Raymond c. Dryden.
Mr.. and Mrs. Brooks Groton and
family have returned to Washington,
d. c., after a two weeks visit with
his parents here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Howard A.. Young, of
Chester, Pa, are spending a part Of
their vacation with relatives in Po-
comoke and vicinity.
Master Alfred Merrill has been
spending some time with Lieut. Com
mander s. G. Barchet and Mrs. Bar
Chef, in Annapolis, Md.
Mr.. and Mrs. Phillip Barnes and
daughter, of Avalon, Pa, are guests
of Mrs. Barnes mother, Mrs. Frank
Stevenson.
Mrs. Stephen H. Appleton and Miss
Sue P. Appleton, of Media, Pa, are
guests Of Mr.. and Mrs. Harry A. APP
pleton Of this city.
Mrs. e. w. Watson is visiting
friends in Newburgh, N. Y, and will
visit the Worlds Fair in New York
before returning home.
Mrs. w. T. Bloxom, of Hopeton, and
Mr.. and Mrs. Milton C. James, of Mel
ia, were Sunday guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. p. T. East.
Mr.. and Mrs. s. w. Russell and fam
lily have returned to their home in this
city after visiting in Richmond, Mar
tinsburg, Va, and Baltimore.
Miss Mary Emily Matthews who is
spending her vacation at the home of
her parents here left today for trip
to Montclair, N. j., and the New York
Worlds Fair.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Ward have re-
turned to their home in Philadelphia,
after spending their vacation with
the formers parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Sim Ward
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-08-11

low is survived by his parents and
grandparents, and one brother, Yer
non, and sister, Jeanette.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-08-11
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Problems That Arise.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-08-04
CONDITION OF
YOUTH WORSE
Fear John Mazza, in
Accident Sunday,
Won't Recover

Fear for the life of another tfaf-
fic accident victim was expressed
Thursday after John Mszza. 81
took a turn for the worse at st.
Joseph's hospital.
Mazzs. who lives at 3541 So. l.
st. has been fighting for his life
since early Sunday when his skull
was fractured in an automobile
crash. He was at the wheel OF a
car that skidded where gravel sur
facing joins paved highway on
the Five-Mile lake road. The car
overturned in a ditch.
A companion, Wally Brebner, Il,
SIS So. 46th st. escaped with minor
injuries. Brebner tagged down
another automobile and Mazza was
taken to the hospital where he re-
manned unconscious for more than
"a hours. Later he emerged from
the coma at intervals and was able
to recognize members of his fam
lily. 49,,
Hospital attaches reported MS
condition became worse during the
night. and expressed concern Tor
him Thursday.
Four persons have died already
this week in traffic accidents or as
the result of previous car mishaps,
in Pierce county.