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Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-04-11
Cokesbury News

Mr.. Ralph Taylor spent the week.
end at Upper Darby, Pa, with Mr..
and Mrs. Fred Harris. He was &C
companied home on Sunday by his
wife, who has been recuperating
there after an operation in the Uni
versity of Pa. Hospital. Her many
friends are glad to welcome her back
and wish her speedy recovery.
Mrs. Russell Bundick, of Merchants
vile, N, j., was called here last week
to attend the funeral of her grand
father, Mr.. Charlie Birmingham.
Master Francis Pusey is housed
with measles this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Marion Birmingham,
Jr., of Pocomoke City, visited the
formers parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Mar
ion Birmingham, last Sunday.
Mrs. Edwin Martin had her tonsils
removed last week at Nassawado1
Hospital. She is now at her home
getting along nicely.
Mrs. H. C. Beauchamp entertained
the Women's Christian Service So
ciety at her home last Wednesday af
ternoon.
Mrs. Harry Bradford, Jr., of Snow
Hill, visited her parents, Mr.. an,
Mrs. Il. C. Beauchamp last Wednes
day afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Griffin ant
Mrs. John Holley, of Huntington, L
l., visited friends here over the week
end.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edgar Atkinson ant
little daughter, Norma Fay, spen
last Sunday with the latter's mother
Mrs. w. J. Martin, of near town.
Miss Grace Cowger, Miss Ami
Cowger and Miss Pauline Long 0
near Pocomoke, were supper guest
of Mr.. and Mrs. A. P. Long, Mon
day night.
Rev. and Mrs. j. F. Willis spen
part of this week with Mr.. and Mrs
Ralph Baker at Georgetown, Del.
Mr.. and Mrs. Curtis Sturgis ant
daughter, Betty Lee, of near town
were Sunday guests of Mr.. and Mrs
Rome Pusey.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-04-11

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Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-04-11
Do You Plant Hybrid
CORN?

If you plant all or part of your corn
acreage to Hybrid you will need to
supply more plant food. Hybrid Seed
produces more corn more corn
takes more food :. you must supply
it or leave your soil depleted.
And if you do not plant Hybrid,
YOU should try some this year. More
and more growers are planting it
each year.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-04-11
HERE'S PROOF!

Here is the difference in fortified
and unfertilized corn. You can "see
the difference" You, too, can have
more bushels of corn at harvest time
if you fertilize adequately.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1941-07-03
Farm Labor Problem
Vexes u. S. Agencies

Farm labor is still a problem that
is vexing government agencies as
well as the farmer.
Pressure is being brought on the
selective service system to allow
some of the boys already indicted
into the army to return home to help
with the harvest. I asked s~elective
service officials if any steps had
been taken in this direction. But
they told me that so far the figures
e to indicate that it is not the
army that has robbed the farm-it
is the defense industries.
In agricultural areas" a defense
official has just told me, where
seasonal demands create a serious
situation induction may be delayed
60 days. And if congress feels the
same as it seems to at this writing,
nobody % years of age and over
will be called"
That suits the selective service
system-they predict that they can
get all of the 80O, 900 men they need.
Although from the first they have
felt that men % and over should be
deferred by statute. they do not
want these men removed entirely
from the lists.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1941-07-03

HAVE you considered covering
your o~ut-of-door cushions
with water-resistant artificial
leather? 1t may be cut and sewn
the same as any heavy fabric.
The colors are all so fresh and
gay that you will be inspired to
try striking combinations. Use a
coarse machine needle; a No. S
hand needle; No. 20 or "a sewing
thread and regulate the machine
to about IL stitches to the inch.
The cushions shown here are
green with seam cords covered in
red. The sketch shows how they
are made. The cotton seam cord
should be about A-inch in diam
eter. 1t is covered with q straight
strip IA inches wide stitched with
the machine cording foot to allow
the sewing to come up close to
the cord. The raw edges of the
cord covering are basted around
the top and bottom of the cover
on the right side, as shown, and
are then stitched in with the seam.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1941-07-03
ANY PANS?
Asks LdCuardia

Little Flower" LaGuardia got I'M
der way his OCD, or civilian de-
tense director, and made his first
nationwide appeal a plan to start a
collection of scrap aluminium.
His broadcast appeal called for
citizens to contribute everything
from pots and pans to washing ma
chimes, and he set a goal for the
nation of 20, 900, 900 pounds.
Reception depots will be maintained
without charge, LaGuardia said.
He asked not only housewives. but
all hotels and restaurants to give.
He wants everybody to make an
inventory of all the aluminium uten-
sils they a spare.
His list included golf clubs, pots,
pans, vacuum cleaners. picture
frames, ice trays, measuring cups,
kettles, double boilers. jar caps, re-
frigerator plates. toys and all things
like that"
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1941-07-03
LEASE-LEND:
THE Picture

The veil Of secrecy surrounding
the whole question Of le~ase-lend aid
to Britain, which had not been
pierced very satisfactorily from the
readers point Of view by President
Roosevelt's 9O-day statement, was
pulled aside enough to give a more
promising picture.
The disclosure came before the
senate's commerce committee. 1t
came in the form of a general sur
vey by a number of shipping lines
as to the increase in Red sea car
goes, which. presumably, were
mostly of the lease-lend variety.
This was in a discussion of a
house-approved bill that would place
virtually all merchant ships operat-
ing from the U. S. under the control
of the Maritime commission.
Ship operators appeared before
the committee asking for lust COM
pensation'' for themselves and that
this be included in the measure.
Then came the reports. One said
that a large part Of its 32-ship fleet
was now in the Red sea business:
another reported three ships now en-
route there; still a third said he had
sem four ships there. and that he
had 16 others in the same trade.
The attorney of the Maritime
commission, testifying for the ship
operators, said the amount Of lease
lend cargoes to the Red sea was
enormous"
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1941-07-03
REGULATION Of Farm Prices
Proves TO Be Tough JOB
Parity Is Goal of Agriculture Department;
Uncle Sam Is Busy Figuring Out
His Current Family Budget.
BY BAUKHAGE
National Farm and Home Hour Commentator

that he started out with the New
Deal in the NRA. His answer was
"chiseling."
1t was harder, he told me, to con-
troll prices in a field where there
are a great many different concerns
in the industry. The majority might
agree but the chiselers would start
edging up prices and the rest would
follow in self-defense.
Greed. That is what is back Of
most of the trouble of human society
not to mention animal society. II
you try to get all there is in the
dish by pushing everybody else
away you may knock it over and
get nothing.
Don't let that horse get its head
or there'u be a runaway!
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1941-07-03

Forty-three! Not such a big fig
ure except that Mr.. Smith left off
nine ciphers from force of habit.
Forty-three billions are the appro-
%priations, authorizations and pend
ing recommendations of expenses
for the government for the fiscal
year beginning on July /. Not all
of the things undertaken during this
time will be completed in the COM
ing fiscal year, but it is estimated
that $22, 169, DOC, 900 will be the years
actual expenditures.
Another figure which Uncle Sam is
gazing upon hopefully is 50, 4O2, oOO.-
600. That's the amount that Uncle
Sam expects to collect from the fam
ily-in other words the income from
the taxation and borrowing. Secre-
tary Of the Treasury Morgenthau
thought earlier in the year that two
thirds Of this figure would be met
through taxes and the other third
through borrowing. But with in
creased defense expenditures chang
ing the picture he is no longer sure
of this distribution of the source of
income.
And then comes the last figure
SIP, 1857, 900, 900. But why bother?
That's only the expected deficit for
the coming fiscal year.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1941-07-03

q Now that we are cultivating the
friendship and consuming some Of
the products Of Latin America, re-
member that a Spanish onion a day
won't keep a neighbor away.
q l am informed that the highest
observatory in the United States is
on Mount Evans. Colo. But a lot
more earnest public observation is
going on at sea level now the bath
ing season is here.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1941-07-03
b X E + by Baukhage

q There are 80, 900 buttons on the
La3ts of each graduating class of
Flying Cadets. The holes in the
b~..!~nholes would provide the CEN
tiers Of enough doughnuts to feed the
class for a week.
G Men in the army eat better thaH
they do in civilian life, according
to the government dieticians. They
also grouse more about their food,
according to the army cooks.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1941-07-03
LABOR:
Not at Ease

Despite the final removal Of all
troops from the plant Of North
American Aviation, first and only
factory to be taken over by the army
in order to break a strike. labor was
far from at ease, though there were
many factors tending to improve the
situation.
In the first place, assuming that
the Communists actually were in
back Of some Of the labor troubles,
they now found themselves fighting
for their lives Gin Russia) against
the Nazis. and as America was
pledged to do likewise in the ALI
out-aid" program, the Communists
changed their front and we're less
likely to participate in defense
strikes.
But, on the other hand, the basic
desire Of labor for a 75-cent an hour
minimum wage as a sort Of level
at which they'd be willing to work
hard and faithfully at most any sort
of defense task, seemed not at all
reduced. and this was sure to u
outbreaks in the future.
Example
For instance. 5000 employees Of
the Sperry Gyroscope company vot-
ed to strike. Whether they would
carry it out or not was problema,.
ical. but the specter Of labor trouble
was rearing its head in this concern,
which makes the all-important
bomb-sight.
These workers wanted a blanket
20 per cent wage increase. The
company offered an unspecifed
compromise, then added the words,
take it or leave it."
The workers voted to leave it.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1941-07-03
Your Uncle Sam
Figures His Budget

This is the time of the fiscal year
when Uncle Sam sits down and fig
ures out his family budget. If he
did it by the calendar year instead
Of every first Of July it would have
been easier because he has planned
a lot Of new expenditures since jan
uary.
Harold D. Smith, director of the
bureau of the budget, handed your
Uncle a piece of paper with this
written on it:
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1941-07-03
Other Labor Trouble

The farm is not the only place in
America where labor shortage is
evident. Here in Washington the
telegraph companies are having
trouble getting messenger boys. and
both the biological survey and the
forest service are complaining that
they cannot get the help from the
CCC they used to. The CCC boys, of
course, get jobs in factories that
pay them a lot better than the $50
a month they get in the camps.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1941-07-03

MuddLed as the information.
al situation is. here is another
incident to add to the confu-
sion. Pictured uboue is Mrs.
Brigid Elizabeth Hitler, mife
of Chancellor .4dolf Killers
step-brother. shoun at her
desk at her first days mork
for the British Var Relief So
ciety in New York. Mrs. Hit
Ter points proudly to Aid
Britain pin. Her work Nth
the society is voluntary.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1941-07-03

If you like variety in your cush-
ions, there is an idea for sturdy
ones made of burlap and silk
stockings on page % of SEWING,
Book S.
NOTE: Book 7. In the series Of Home
makers Booklets by Mrs. Spears. is the
latest and contains directions for more
than thirty things which you will want
for % own home or for gifts. Included
are working drawings for reconditioning
old chairs and other furniture; directions
for a spool whatnot; an unusual braided
rag rug and many things to make with
needle and thread. The seven booklets
now available contain a total of more than
two hundred of Mrs. Spears NEW IDEAS
for Homemakers. Booklets are 10 cents
each. Send your order to:
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1941-07-03

Drawn from a n authoritative source, the above chart indicates the
total amounts of strategic resources produced in the entire Soviet Union.
These items come from the Ukraine and Caucasus in the following per-
centages: Coal, 81; oil, SO; iron ore, GA; pig iron, 60; steel, Al; and
sugar, "a. Thus loss of the area represents a tremendous blow to Russia
and a n important gain for the Nazis. This chart was released by the
University of Chicago Round Table.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-30

knocked her imperial boy-friend for a loop be-
cause. unknown to either of them, the med-
cine contained aspirin.
That an occasional person is knocked out
by some drug is no reason for prohibiting 1t.
Somebody is probably alergic to most every
thing There are those who cannot eat the
staff of life wheat bread some who dare not
touch that other finest of foods milk others
are made sick by touching the metal nickel.
Thus far science has found no case Of
a woman allergic to diamonds though they
may cause nervous allergy to some man who
sees them on her. Many a woman has wept
and sobbed because she could not have
mink coat but an equally pathetic figure is
the woman who has one but cannot wear 1t
because it makes her eyes run and her throat
choke with allergy.
The villain allergy creeps and flies often
in the myriad forms of the insect world. The
housewife seeing a moth fluttering through
the room goes into action and finally kills 1t
against the back of upholstered chair
That night when her husbands old asthma
comes back on him he breaks out with
hives why should she connect this mysterious
misfortune with the fact that he spent the
evening in that chair and breathed the micro
scopic feather-like scales from the moths
wings?
But tndt Is a comparatively easy 'AA~' III
villain WAS at least &aaH-AH- insect the
opposite-side Of the world may break up a
happy home as one almost did IN a case
related by Or Vaughan. a bridegroom came
TO his doctor with a heart breaking situation.
He had broken out with devastating crop
of hives at the beginning of the honeymoon
and had them ever since.
The unhappy man had heard that one
could be alloIEic to persons and It must be
that he was alergic to his beloved bride 1t
could not be her lipstick face power, perfume
or anything like that because they had changed
all such things and anyhow, there had been
no trouble before the honeymoon. When he
left. home for a few days he got better, when
he returned he got worse. Gould the doctor
cure his wifeallergy
The doctor was not so sure that she was
guilty and made a few tests. One of these
was getting the bride to put away her lovely
trousseau nighties and wear cotton ones. At
once the hives cleared up. The villain was
a silk worm that had lived in Japan but
exported its allergic effects along with its
silk to the United States.
, Those who have no allcrgy in The family
or. If they do have do not recognize It, are
inclined to think lightly of he hay fever
Il, b.. American Weekly Inc. Great Britain Rights
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-30
BY ROBERT d. POTTER.

A LLERGY. first convicted in 1882. as the
"a minor offender, guilty of making hay
V fever sufferers sneeze. has since been
revealed as the most ingenious. all-around
thief of health and life in medical history
Every day the medical detectives eaten
alergv making somebody sick IN a new way
but each time he comes right back, in new
disguise to fool them again. This villain
has more different pictures of himself IN
the medical rogues gallery than perhaps all
the other big diseases put together
The victim NAV learn to know his enemy
and flee to a far country where the perseeu-
tor does not exist, only to have the villain
sim pursue him A man after living out West
some time developed hay fever and saw his
doctor about IT, He had become sensitized
to something and the only question was to
find out 10 what
The medical Sherlock worked on the same
principle as a policeman would on learning
that a bicycle had been stolen. He first in
vostigated the local offender with the worst
reputation in that line It was sage-brush
territory and tests quickly proved the man
to be highly sensitized to sage pollen. Rarely
are cases solved so quickly and simply. All
the man had to do was go far away from
where any sage grew.
He did this and all was well for a long
time Then one night after dreaming of
sage he awoke with the old hay fever and
called in the local allergy detective The doc
tor upon learning of his history suspected
the same villain, sage pollen.
But sage had a perfect alibi, because none
grew near enough for pollen to reach the
patient. The doctor asked the victim what he
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-30

opencd all sorts of new doots 10 the human
system and threaten to unlock many others IN
the future.
After that notorious stabbng in the
Roman Senate. had julius Caesar been rushed
quickly enough in modern motor ambulance
10 "a modern hospital he migiH possibly have
been saved by az modern blood TRANSMISSION.
But also ne might have come down with an
attack Of alergic asthma from his blood donor.
or if he developed hospital pneumonia he
might have developed allergy symptoms from
sulfanilamide.
Being a smart observant man Caesar
might have told his nurse to take away that
aspirin tablet because he was allergic to it,
Yet on his return 10 the Epalace Cleopatra.
mirht have bought him a bottle Of her pot
cough medicine from a modern drugstore.
except that there was no such thing and
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-30

had eaten for dinner the day before the
attack and learned that the feature OF the
meal had been a delicious roast leg OF lamb
The doctor disregarded all the other items
on the menu for that because the patient
mentioned that he had tasted the lamb
afterward This aftertaste of an article OF
food is one of the surest evidences of allergy.
The butcher shocked that anyone should
impugn his fine meats gave the name OF the
meat packer from whom he had received the
animal The packing house was able to tell
where the consignment of animals had been
raised and, 10 and behold 1t was his old sage
brush area. The villain, having been caught
coming in the window, as a vegetable, had
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-30

velop an aliergy to It, The doctor then writes
his second best prescription which will prob
ably do about as well unless the patient also
wears this ones allergic welcome out.
And finally DIR. Vaughan tells of the case
of the girl who got over her hives only by
getting married. Hers was an emotional
allergy caused by her dilemma of trying to
protect beloved aunt from the curse of drink
and her love for a young man who continually
implored her to marry him and get away
from her troubles. He had plenty of money
and was an apparently ideal mate but she
believed her duty was to stay with inc
alcoholic aunt.
Finally she gave in and was married ana
as an extra bonus on her honeymoon touhd
that the old case of hives cleared up.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-30

ic attacks, particularly when travelling in Pull
man cars"
sailor had tattooed on his chest a beau
tiful earle whose eyes wept whenever the
sailor got hurt This seeming psychic miracle
turned out to be merely another manifesto
ton of allergy The eagles eyes had been
tattooed with cinnabar mercury preparation.
This would have been all right If the young
man had not used a common mercury anti
septic every time he got cut or scratch.
until he became sensitized to mercury. After
that whenever he applied the antiseptic, it
stirred up the cinnabar, causing the tissues
to weep At that point He changed 10 iodine
and the eagle went no more
There are heat allergies and cold allergies
and among the latest to be proved are nerve
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-30

managed to sneak IN
the kitchen do or,
disguised as a lamb.
DR.. arr en- T.
Vaughan, in his new
book, Strange NAL
ady. the Story of
Allergy, just pub
lished by Doubleday
Doran. New York,
brings this strange
detective serial up
to-date.
Besides the latest
knOWleuEe on II {
subject. he points
cut that the ancients
suffered fro m the
maladv too, bat not
10 anything ike the
extent of MS mod
ems because our
new food s. drugs,
materials and even
such things as blood
-transfusions. h a vc
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-30

Vaughan tells of a "kapok boy and
Feathers woman" whose lives he saved.
"One afternoon" he writes, "a doctor
called from a distant city urging me to
come quickly as possible to see boy who
appeared to be fatally Ill with asthma.
The lad was in an oxygen tent. If could
not arrive before the morrow II would be
too late was at the boys bedside about
10 o'clock that evening.
He showed those symptoms so famil-
lar to doctors and nurses which told that
in few hours he would be breathing no
more. few skin tests had shown allerGy
TO certain foods. These foods had been
eliminated AS a matter of fact he had
eaten very little food of any kind during
the preceding days nor was he in any con-
dition for further testing.
Although the child had not been
tested for senshzation to feathers or
other inhalants. his doctor had realized
that feather pillows often cause asthma
and had substituted kapok pillow.
Here was the child in small seques-
tered world of its own. inside the oxygen
tent, breathing the purest of pure air.
There was but one thing in the tent with
him, the kapok pillow. l removed the
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-30

sneezer or the hive
scratcher, though asth-
ma seems more serious.
But allergy shock can
and does kill with start
Iinr snddenness. DIR.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-30

the OF h er
c o nsultants,
we retired to
discuss h e
case. We W ere
e on e somewhat
over an hour.
w h en- we re-
turned the boy
was sitting up,
calling for water,
very obviously on
the road to re-
covery.
The following
day we tested
him with an eX-
tract Of k a p O k.
The reaction was
positive.
The s e c o n d
case was equally
sp e c { a cular. l
had examined a
young lady, find
ing her sensitiZed
TO several aller-
gens, including
feathers. A year
later she became
acutely asthnat-
ic. From here on
the story is al
most a duplicate
Of the first As
| en- ere d the
room t h e three
physi,c ians re-
marked I h a I |
was too late. She
could n OF live
more THAN an
hour or two
In the oxygen
tent she Wa g
propped up on
four feather pill
low w re-
moved these, sub
stituting rolls Of
cotton blankets
She still has &C
casional asthmat-