Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1940-09-27
SOPHOMORES VISIT SCOTT
POWELL MILK STATION

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week. Our class has been studying
the growth and spreading of germs.
We were particularly interested to see
how the milk was inspected for bac-
terra and sediment.
Everything is spotlessly clean at the
station. The farmers who bring milk
in must follow definite rules in their
own diaries or else the milk will not
be accepted.
The milk is brought to the station,
weighed, tested, and cooled. It is
shipped in cooled tanks : trucks to
Philadelphia. Because of it's high
quality it is used in hospitals and
sanitoriums. We feel that we will
be more capable of taking care of the
milk on our own farms after having
seen such a sanitary milk station.
THE INFLUENCE OF AMERICAN
NEWSPAPERS
Ever since the earliest days, news
papers, pamphlets and books have
done their part in molding Americas
destiny. In fact the letters of Adams
and Payne did much to bring about
the Revolution itself. Later in history
we find Harriet Beecher Stoves
"Uncle Toms Cabin" melting the peo-
pie of the North against slavery so
much that Lincoln called her the lit
tie woman who started the Civil War.
And as America marches up the road
of progress, so increases the influence
of printed matter, especially news
papers. It is said that the work of
the Hearst papers kept the United
States from joining the League of Ma
tions. Not only questions on wars
are influenced by papers, but also we
find that what is read in papers in
fluences the election returns, local,
state, and national.
There are several means by which
papers mold public opinion. The edi-
torial has been for many years pow
erful weapon of the newspaper in OBJ
tanning it's end. In most papers edi-
torials are on an inside page and are
not ostentations, but in yellow
journals" we find editorials smeared
in large headlines on the front page.
Cartoons, too, have much power since
they obtain maximum information in
minimum space.
AS the seniors are having unit of
work on the newspaper, they are be-
coming more aware of its Importance
in determining the opinions of the
people of the world.
Dick Leonard
SOCIAL NEWS
Bill Hancock ('41) went to Cham
bersburg, Penn, last week end; then
from Chambersburg to Philadelphia,
before returning to his home in Snow
Hill.
Virginia Parsons cay gave party
last Thursday night, Sept. II in honor
of her 18th birthday.
Ann Watson ('44) had for her week
end guest, Miss Frances Shockley.
Grace Laws, ('43) visited Mabel
Petit, ('43) over the week end.
Bette Ann Shockley, ('43) visited
in Ocean City, Sunday.
Rosalie Bromley, ('45), visited
friends in Berlin, Saturday.
The seventh grade wishes to thank
Miss Mundy for the new readers
called "On The Long Road"
The home room officers for the
seventh grade room of which Miss
Hartman is the teacher are as follows:
President, Richard Bradford; Vice
President, Ernest Snyder, Sec., Ruth
Cheese; Treasurer, Bessie Truitt; Re-
porter, Ruth Chesser.
COMMERCIAL CLUB
On September 10, 1910, the Com
mercial Club held it's second meeting
of the year. A bulletin board commit
tee of three, Virginia Timmons, Lor-
raine Scott, and Mary Grace Bonnie
vile, was selected. A finance COM
mittee was also selected. The men,
bers of this committee are Dorothy
Tyndall, Janet Haddock, Lula Evans,
Leasrice Gaskill, William Scott, Helen
Tarr, and Anna P. Haubert. The Club
decided to meet the third Wednesday
of each month.
puVcTCTAT. MITIGATION TN THE
SCHOOL
Physical education, should be given
in every school and college. Before
the World War, this form of exercise
failed to meet the interests of the
American youth; but during and after
the war, many began to participate
in sport events. Ever since then, pu-
pills have taken a greater interest in
gymnastics.
Games played in our school consist
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