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Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1940-08-02

Mr.. and Mrs. Jane R. Tilghman
and son spent the past week at Ocean
City.
Mrs. William R. Willard entertained
her bridge club on Tuesday evening
last.
Mrs. George H. Evans has returned
from a stay of several days at Ocean
City, Md.
Miss Ruby Duer, of Philadelphia,
is the guest of her sister, Mrs. Harry
C. Mears.
Rev. Hugh V. Clary, of Bluefield,
Va, is the guest of DIR. and Mrs. F..
w. Wilson.
Mrs. Eugene P. Matthews has been
the recent guest of friends at Vir-
ginia Beach.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. w. Messick are
receiving congratulations on the birth
of fine son.
Mr.. and Mrs. Norman Polk and
daughters spent the week end at
Ocean City, Md.
Mrs. U. S. Payne is registered at
the Shoreham Hotel at Ocean City
for an indefinite stay.
Marshall Kelly, of Seaford, Del,
spent the week end with his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. E. l.. Kelly.
Mrs. Vernon C. Taylor and young
son, Ray, are visiting relatives in
Norfolk and Clifton Forge.
DR.. and Mrs. N. E. Sartorius, Jr.,
are enjoying motor trip to Maine
and the New England states.
Corp. John Powell, of Fort Mon
mouth, N. j., visited his mother, Mrs.
Arenthia Powell over the week end.
Mrs. Arthur H. Shuttle and family,
of Beverly, have leased cottage at
Rehoboth Beach. Del, for several
weeks.
Miss Geraldine Bonneville, of Phil
adelphia, is spending her vacation
with relatives in Pocomoke and Cir
dletree.
Mr.. Jack Nottingham and son, Bill
lie, of Baltimore, spent the week end
with Mrs. H. c. Nottingham in Po-
comoke.
Miss Ann Hewett, of Hagerstown,
Md, and Miss Mary Moore, of Cum
berland, are guests this week of Miss
Charlotte Elmore.
The Woman's Missionary Society of
the First Baptist Church will meet
Monday, August 9Th, in the Church
House at 7.30 P. M.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. w. Allen have re-
turned to their home in New Haven,
Conn.,, after a visit with the formers
sister, Mrs. w. w. Holt.
Miss Grace Dryden has been the
guest of friends in Wilmington, Del.
Mrs. John B. Yingling is quite ill
at her home in this city.
Mr.. and Mrs. Byron Ollendike have
returned to Williamsport, Pa, after
visit with Mrs. Ollendike's mother,
Mrs. VIM. H. Schoolfield.
Staff Sgt. Russell A. Pusey and
Mrs. Pusey, of Fort Hancock, N. j.,
spent the week end with his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Gordon L. Pusey.
Mrs. C. A. Turner, of Springfield,
Ohio, is spending sometime with her
sisters, Mrs. John H. Clarke, of
Laurel St., and Miss Anne Young.
Mr.. Forrest Peters, of Columbus,
Ohio, is spending two weeks va
cation with his wife and daughters
at the home of her mother, Mrs. A.
H. Stevens.
Rev. and Mrs. M. @. Spencer of this
city attended the District Council
meeting at Falling Waters, West Va,
the latter part of last week. Mrs. E.
S. Ingersoll attended as delegate.
Mrs. w. w. Holt left this week to
spend sometime with her sister, Mrs.
Vestella Killing at her home at North
Brookfield, New York, and at her
camp on Otter Lake in the Adiron-
oaks.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence T. Mills, Mr..
and Mrs. Marion Taylor, and Mr.. and
Mrs. Lloyd Wilkerson, motored to
Harrington, Del, on Wednesday last
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1940-08-02

virginia Beach Mrs. Edith
Curles, telephone switchboard opera
tor, Virginia Beach, Va, was re-
sponsible for the recent apprehension
of a burglar. Seeing light flash on
her switchboard and noting that it
came from pay station in a closed
summer hotel, she decided to investi-
gate and in few minutes the hotel
was surrounded by police and the bur-
glar caught. The quick-thinking of
Mrs. Curles proves that the switch
board operator is more than a "hello
girl"
Winnipeg . A telephone unit,
manufactured in England, has been
installed on an American-La France
aerial ladder used by the fire depart
ment of Winnipeg, Canada. It is be-
lieved that this is the first unit so
equipped on the North American con-
tinent. This equipment makes it pos
sible for a man on top of ladder to
communicate what he sees of the prog
ress of fire to the ground crew. AS
the ladder is drawn up or lowered a
drum automatically pays out or winds
up the telephone cable. With the
trend toward longer ladders, telephone
communication has become more i'm
portant.
Lincoln Miss Myra Underhill,
night operator at the York exchange
Of the Lincoln (Neb.) Telephone and
Telegraph Company, sensed something
was wrong recently at the home of
DR.. c. N. Holmsted when the light
on her switchboard kept flashing.
Knowing the family was out of the
city, she called police who found q
brisk fire in progress. The fire had
short circuited the telephone wiring
which caused the signal on the switch
board.
Greenwich =. Advice given over
the telephone on how to apply q
tourniquet saved the life of Irving
Austin of Greenwich, Conn.,, after he
had suffered a deep cut on one leg
while operating q buzzsaw near his
home. Alone when the accident hap
pened, Austin dragged himself fifty
yards to his home, where he tele-
phoned police who told him to apply a
tourniquet until the arrival of an
ambulance.
East Waterloo !. The East Water
loo, Iowa, independent school board
recently approved plans for taking
classroom recitations directly to Grip
pied shut-in children by telephone.
Equipment has been installed which
will permit the shut-in child in the
home to hear all Of the classroom in
struction and ask questions of the
teacher. The state board of education
provided the equipment.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1940-08-02
Telephone Repeaters Play
Vital Part In Sending
Voice Across Country
Feeble Speech Currents Are
Rejuvenated By Marvellous
Network OF Apparatus

The amount of application of the
voice on a telephone conversation be-
tween New York and Chicago is
equivalent to one billion multiplied by
itself five times-one followed by d
ciphers.
The voice is mplified-that is, the
feeble speech currents are rejuvenated
by a marvellous network of appa
ratus known as telephone repeaters
Each repeater along the line takes the
enfeebled electrical energy received
and transmits an amplified copy of ii
without in any way changing its
quality.
Repeater stations are located about
every so miles along the route and
they serve to deliver the voice at its
chosen destination in clear, natural
and easily heard tones.
For a telephone conversation be.
tween New York and San Francisco
you would have to put down the fig
ure one and then add 80 ciphers in
order to get the amount the voice is
amplified by repeaters.
This is one of the many features
of apparatus and equipment which
makes possible the far and easy reach
of ones voice by telephone today. The
repeaters help in the efficient deliver!
of the voice anywhere on the 1890.
900 miles of toll and long distance
wire in the nationwide Bell System
Incidentally that one billion multi
piled by itself five times looks Xix.
this: 100000, 900 ,O0O, OOO, OOO, 900 900
100000, 200, 600, 900, 100000.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1940-08-02

We have one of the finest equipped
plants on the Shore for turning 0si
high class printing.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-04
Tread Carefully

Democrats of the fifth congressional district should consider carefully any plans that may be in the offing to oppose renomination of the incumbent Repre- sentative J. Joseph Smith of this city. True, there isn't much being said about any such effort in this direction, but even mention of it is sufficient to encour- age Republicans of the district into be- lieving they have a good chance of carry ing the district. Democrats ought to check up; they control only two of the six congressional seats in this state.
 The importance of remaining Represen- tative Smith lies in one fact primarily. He is member of the House Military Affairs Committee, an important mem- Der of this group and one whose opinions are sought on every paint that comes before it. A student of the military af- fairs of the United Staes Representative Smith has been quoted far and wide on his views with regard to national defense. It needs no prodding to recall that Sen ator John A. Danaher thought enough of Representative Smiths viewpoint to in- clude it in his keynote speech at the COP spring convention in Connecticut.
 We don't deny the right of anybody to seek public office, particularly in these days when we require the very best legis- lative minds at Washington, but we do require of anybody seeking to oust good legislator that he bring along better credentials Democrats of the fifth con- gresisonal district should realize by now that in their present representative they have young man who has in few brief years achieved record that reflects con- siderable credit upon all of us who helped to elect him. You'll find many Repub- lican convinced that in Representative "Joe" Smith not merely his own district but the state at large has valuable pub lie servant who should be retained in office
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-04
Epoch In Road-Making

Few of us seemed to realize that Labor Day of 1940 recorded definite epoch in the road-making history of Connecticut. The Merritt Parkway in it's entire length was opened formally to the motoring public. In the early part of the trouble some thlrtleS" there were many of us who thought that we'd never see the day when this much discussed parallel route to the Boston Post Road would be availa- ble for use. Oddly enough since sections of it have been opened there has been little said about it relieving congestion along the Post Road Other factors have been stressed.
 In the excitement of extending this route further into the state we have al- most lost sight of the fact that the Mer- ritt Parkway is complete road in itself, stretching all the way from Port Chester to Milford, 37 short miles of marvellous road work through a beautiful country side. Thus two years and little more after the first section of the new route was opened the entire roadway is com pleted and in use. Truly once the wheels of engineering might started to turn they did so smoothly and rapidly.
 The history of the Merritt Parkway, however, does not begin and end with it's actual construction. It goes far back into the road history of this state, for it was years ago that the need of another route from New York into Connecticut through lower Fairfield County was seen. But it was not until recent years that action could be brought to set up method of financing and to acquire the rights of way for the route. Once this was done it might have seemed com paratively easy matter to push through even four-lane highway. But the build Ing of the Merritt Parkway was truly surmounting of all sorts of obstacles. So much the more so today it becomes monument to those citizens who visioned this route and who persevered until it became reality
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-04
Is N. Y. Leadership Waning?

We have been accustomed, with reason, to think of New York as the financial capital of the country. There are signs that this primacy may be waning. The Federal Reserve System complies every month the total volume of checking transactions of the banks of New York City and those of 40 other cities. In 1881 the volume of those business transactions in New York was 121 per cent as great as the combined totals of the 40 other cities.
 But ever since 1880 that percentage has been steadily falling. The Cleveland Trust Company, in it's business bulletin, shows that if the present trend contin- ues throughout this year the dollar volume of business in New York as rep resented by check payments will be only about 75 per cent as great as the total of those same 40 outside cities
 Decentralization is being talked as a defense measure as well as of freeing the rest of the country from the colonial relation to New York. Perhaps, like so many other changes, this is going on unnoticed even while we talk about means of bringing it about.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-04

will soon find it out. Soldering is no picnic.
 But there is something reassuring about the pictures that have come from these maneuvers. Here is General Mar shall, the United States No. 1 soldier, in shirt and trousers, his four stars gleam- ing on the Shoulder-StrapS of the shirt. No dress braid, no polished putteeS. Sim pie and workmanlike. Here is young captain in a ditch with a patrol of his men, muddied to the knees. Here is an- other general, an army commander, talking to group of young guardSmen, informal but buSiheSSlike. Here are the eager, serious faces of Young America, going over the first rough hurdles of learning to defend, the land they love. Their officers are not flashing about in glittering staff cars. They. are down in the ditch with their men.
 Guns can be bored, munitions made. Tanks can be built, planes assembled. Men-ah, you either have men or you don't. And these men look very good in- deed. They have intelligent faces-they are men who know the score all the way. They are hardening physically. The equipment is on the way. You feel that they will be good soldiers. These men and as many millions as necessary to follow them will defend America. You can read in their faces the safety of our country.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-04
Men In The Rain

The men were in little shelter tents. It was pouring Quickly the sergeants passed word that trucks had arrived to take them to new area. They had to roll their packs in the rain There weren't enough trucks. Wet packs, wet blankets, wet skins. But there was no grumbling. Spirits remained high. The men felt that duty that must be done.
 That is a little picture of a single unit of the many National Guard units who maneuvered this summer. It was unpleasant, difficult, uncomfortable But their general commended them. They had done well They are on their way to becoming soldiers. The men Of the Ma. tional Guard who will soon embark on a solid years training have no illusions They know how tough the Job ls. If selec- two service Is adopted, the men chosen
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-04

stand how a man or 8 woman who has followed intellectual pursuits all their lives can generate much enthusiasm for such a task as nak- ing mattresses. It has got to be re- cognized that our psychiatric ma chinery must encourage, rather than limit, patients abilities along the line for which he is best adapted. Many of our progressive State Hospitals give recognition to this perfectly reasonable instrument of mental rehabilitation, but toe many institutions still persist in re. garding meniai labor on the wards or in the shops as part of a patients disqualification: the idea is to save the hospital money by letting the patients do the work while the pay roll is kept down by failure to hire necessary outside help. A hospital is HOSPITAL and not a penal in- stitution.
 Eugene Bertram Willard
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-04

Brigadier General John H. (Machine- Gun) Parker, retired U s. Army officer, has all the color and vigor required of a potential candidate for office in this state, but it remains to be seen whether or not he and his followers can convince the "big-wigs" of the Republican Party that he has the ''oomph' necessary to defeat such tried and true campaigner as Sen ator Francis T. Maloney. It's becoming more apparent to political observers that there is going to be a lot of independent voting in this state on November 5 and the winning ticket may include candi- dates of more than one party. In short it's individual qualifications that count; a straight party ticket may not be enough for victory. Brigadier-General Parker, however, can be expected to put a lot of effort into the fight to get the COP nomination later this month at New Haven.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-04
In Today's Mail

I within this designation. In a re- cent "expose" of conditions in a midwestern State Hospital it was re- vealed that O. T. consisted in rug weaving and running wax polishers over already dangerously polished floors. While superintendent of Danvers State Hospital back in 1921, pr. John B. Macdonald, in a thesis published in the American Journal ot Psychiatry, pointed out that "the value of the State Hospital to the community is to be measured less by the work that is done within the walls of the hospital itself than by what is accomplished in the way of restoring patients to mental health. The point is that anything which dismays patient can hardly be ex- pected to speed up recovery.
 It should never be forgotten that in insanity that the whole faculties of the mind are seldom implicated in the disorder. In affections of the intellect, of the reasoning powers, the feelings, the sentiments are often, quite unaffected, and we have, therefore, powerful ethical full crum upon which the State Hospi- tals must place their lever. In pro- portion to the ability to work upon the healthy characteristics of the mind, our best mental institutions now recognize that they shall be bet ter enabled to combat with the dis ordered perceptions and inclinations.
 Progressive mental institutions now recognize that they must not lose sight of the fact that mental breakdown is not an affection of the mind per SC; that to whatever amount of disturbance the intellect, sentiments, and affections may be subjected, 1t Is nothing more than an effect or result of some impair ment Of the physical structure-the easket enclosing the precious jewel.
 Let Us not underate Occupational Therapy--it has c high place of llse- fulneGs in the modern pSychlatric hospital. But it Is possible to overs employ it by assigning patients to work for which they may be infit- ted as has happened many times in the past nnd b bound to happen many times lii the future. or at least until such time as Administrative Psychlatry recognizes that not all mental patients are able to flnd eontentlnofit making baskets, weave Ing rugs, painting bod sleadn, work. Ing ln tho furniture shop of the broom and mattress shop. ceflalli types of patients afn Well suited Co such work, but lt la hard to ulldogs
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-04

5. Niece Mrs. E. J. Ceconi, stenographer, Foreign Agricul- tural Relations office-S1,62O.
 6. E. J. Ceconi, niece's hus- band, mail clerk, PWA-S1.440.
 :. Nephew Boyd Brossard, clerk, Farm Security Admins tration-$1,260.
 8. Nephew Frederick Bros sard, clerk, Farm Security Ad- ministratiOn-S1,440.
 In Who's Who in the Nations Capital, Brossard notes his chief hobby as Humanitarian work of encouraging and helping those in need of it."
 CONGRESSIONAL NAMES
 The name of Bankhead has been on the congressional roles un- interruptedly for more than half a century. Originator of the celebrated Alabama dynasty was the late Speaker John Bankhead, who served in both Houses from 1896 to 1920. Speaker William Bankhead, his son, has been in the House "A years, and brother John has been a senator since 1930. With the exception of Jones - of which there are only two-congressional names are the same in frequency as in the average telephone book. Largest number of members with the same name are Smiths, with Johnsons second. Third place is a four-way tie among the Aliens, Browns, Kennedys and Martins Oldest name in Congress is that of Rep. Edouard Victor Michel Izac of San Diego, Cal. Of French descent, Izac is an An- napoliS graduate and holder of the Medal of Honor for excep- tional bravery in the World War.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-04

One thing is very noticeable here in Waterbury, namely, the stress put on teachers pay days. We wonder if the subject is discussed so much and so open ly in other communities Not that we don't think that there should be any secret about the public payroll, but we don't think that any group of city em- ployes has more light turned on this vital subject. Some time system will probably be evolved which will enable teachers, as well as firemen, policemen, and departmental employees, to enjoy bit of privacy with regard to what they However, that probably won't be for a long time.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-04

not. I've got a pair with Sena- tor Bob Taft, the meanest, most reactionary Republican up there, and folks, that pair has got him tied up tighter than a tick. He can't do anything, because I've got him hog-tied for fair" TALENTED PROTEGE
 One of the greatest patronage wanglers in American history was former Senator Reed Shoot of Utah, co-author of the famous Smoot- -Hawley tariff act and now an apostle of the Mormon church. As chairman for many years of the powerful Senate Finance Com mittee, he built up a network of high and low office-holding hench- men who permeated every agency of the government.
 One of Shoots Utah proteges was Edgar B. Brossard, whom he installed on the Tariff Commis- sion. Brossard has now been a tariff commissioner for IS years at $10,000 year. And although his patron, Shoot, was eliminated from the Senate in 1882, Shoots example apparently is still fresh in Brossard's mind.
 For he has quietly built up one of the juciest nepotism lists in Washington. Being childless, Brossard has no children of his own on the government payroll. But a flock of nieces and nephews eight, to be exact-draw govern ment pay as follows:
 l. Niece Barbara BrOssard, stenographer, State Department -$1,80O.
 ?. Niece Enid Brossard, stem Ographer, WPA-$1, 800.
 5. Niece Gretta J. BrOssard, clerk, Surplus Commodities Corp. -$1,4
 4. Niece Mrs. H. Stratford Brossard, stenographer, Federal Alcohol Administration--$I,62O.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-04

But always the criticism must be kindly. Sometimes in political cir cles two men who fight each other tooth and nail are the best of friends, personally. This is because their criticism is generally confined to policies, and even when it does extend to personal criticism, it is never either brutal or bitter. Men can stand a great deal of pounding from their oppinents. if it is done in a spirit of give and take.
 The person of continuous sweet speech often becomes saccharin. Don't be afraid to criticise your friends but be careful the way you do 1t. As a friend of mine often says, it's all right to throw a few ripe tomatoes once in while. but be sure to take them out Of the can,
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