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Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-09-26

Betty, spent the weekend with Mrs.
Francis Figgs of Pocomoke City, Md.
Miss Marie Taylor of Onancock,
Va, is spending some time with her
sister, Mrs. w. v. Taylor.
Mr.. John Covington of Phila. Pa.
visited his brother, Mr.. Wallace Cow
ington over the weekend.
Miss Anna Lee Long of Westmin-
lister, Md, spent the weekend here
with her mother, Mrs. E. w. Long.
Rev. and Mrs. Chadwick spent last
Wednesday and Thursday with rela-
tives in Dover, Del.
Mrs. w. A. Cottman, Mrs. H. c..
Beauchamp and Mrs. Vernon Beau
champ visited Mr.. and Mrs. Mitchell
Adams at Rehoboth, Md, Sunday
afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Morris Buckingham
visited Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Hurley at
New Church, Va, last Sunday.
Mrs. Robert Dennis returned to
her home here last Monday from
Crisfield Hospital. Her infant son
will have to remain in the hospital
for some time.
Mrs. Harry C. Adkins of Sails
bury, Md, visited relatives here this
week.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-09-26

Church, during which three of Mrs.
Cochrane's grandchildren, Rosalie Mil
bourne Chamberlain, James Andrew
Sterling and Joseph Coulbourne Ster-
ling were baptized.
The water used in the baptismal
service came from the river Jordan
and was brought over by the great
grandmother of the children.
All the members of Mrs. Cochrane's
family were present, as we'll as a
number of other relatives.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-09-26
Cokesbury News

Master Jack Taylor celebrated his
fifth Birthday last Saturday after
noon by entertaining a number of his
little friends. Games were played on
the lawn and ice cream cones were
enjoyed by all, after which favors
were passed around. Jack received
many nice gifts.
Mrs. James Cottman and daughter,
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-09-26
WHITE PRISONER DIES
HOUR AFTER LOOKUP

Robert 3. Pussy, white, 81, Princess
Anne, Maryland, was arrested at $3.50
by the State Police on charge of
operating a car under the influence
Of Intoxicating liquors. He was plac-
ed in the Jail in Salisbury and died
at 4:3O. DR.. Rademaker, special
Health Deputy for that county and
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-09-26
BAPTISMAL WATER IS
FROM THE RIVER JORDAN

A very delightful evening was spent
at the home of Mrs. A. B. Cochrane,
Sr., on Saturday last. A baptismal
service was held by the Rev. J. R.
Bicking of Emmanuel Methodist
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-09-26

When serving the home dinner
without a maid, passing of plates back
and forth is avoided if someone who
sits near the carver serves the vege-
tables and potatoes which are to be on
the same plate with the meat.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-09-26

another physician made an examina-
ton. 1t is said that Pusey died of
a sudden attack Of the heart.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-09-26

manufacture of these can
non. Thousands of crafts
men have been trained for
the highly technical ma
chimes. This means build
ing fewer cars-but Pom
tiac places defense work
ahead Of everything else.
Evening star., 1941-04-02

These statistics relate only to lost
time that can be attributed directly
to strikes, and do not take into &C
count the loss at other plants which
were unable to operate or obliged to
operate on curtailed schedules as
result of their inability to get parts
and supplies from the strike-bou
industries.
This record, viewed in its entirety,
Is one which reflects nothing but
discredit on the attitude of labor in
this critical national emergency. 1t
is probably quite true, as Mr.. Hobbs
said, that ninety per cent of the or
ganized workmen of the country are
both loyal and patriotic, but they
will not be able to escape either the
responsibility or the consequences if
they permit an irresponsible, dis
loyal and dishonest ten per cent,
who may happen to be in key posi-
tions, to sabotage the national de-
fense program. In its implications,
the address is a clear warning to
labor to put it's own house in order
before Congress, in response to pub
lie demand, takes over that task.
And labor, if it is wise, will not fail
to grasp this fact merely because the
Alabama Congressman tempered the
readinp of his Indictment with re-
strained language.
Evening star., 1941-04-02
IIIooicul Protests

There is little likelihood that this
Government will be much impressed
by the formal protests filed by the
German and Italian governments
against the seizure of axis merchant
ships in American ports. The Coast
Guard and cooperating services
acted with full authority OF law
upon convincing evidence Of con-
certed plan to damage the vessels.
The widespread raiding operations
were carried out smoothly and with
a minimum show Of force. Published
photographs of extensive sabotage
ships leave no doubt that the Ameri-
can action was justified and wise.
incidentally, the notes of protest
carefully avoided mention of the
sabotage, 1t is understood.
The curious thing about the notes,
If unofficial reports of their contents
are true, Is that the axis powers
should have had the effrontery to
challenge validity of the seizures
under either international or do
mestic law, in view of the flagrant
disregard of all established law re-
peatedly shown by both the Nazi and
Fascist governments. 1t Ill becomes
these nations to seek refuge in the
law when it suits their purposes and
to f1out it when they find 1t more
convenient to do so. And even
stranger is the reported declaration
of Berlin spokesman" that deten-
tion of the crews amounts to "an
absolute impairment Of human
rights" 1t would be extraordinary
news, Of special interest to Europe's
subjugated peoples. if the Reich were
suddenly to be transformed into a
defender of human rights.
In view of the conclusive evidence
of violation of our laws relating to
sabotage aboard ships in American
waters, and in the light of dispatches
from other parts Of the hemisphere,
indicating a widespread conspiracy
to disable axis vessels tied up on this
side of the Atlantic, the protests from
Berlin and Rome should be sum-
marily rejected.
Evening star., 1941-04-02
THIS AND THAT
By Charles +. Trdcetpell.

there, ragged and out of elbow, who
nevertheless could make the sparrows
do just about as he pleased.
They would wait their turn in line
while he doled out food to them, and
never a bird would snatch a piece out
Of turn.
Most persons interested in bird life
will look upon such stories with wonder,
comparing them with their own expert
ences.
1t is the usual thing for wildbirds to
be exactly that-wild.
Ordinarily they do not respond much
to the overtures of those who feed them.
So no one ought to be disappointed
II their birds in the garden and at the
feeding stations act as if their bene-
factor were going to slay them.
We are convinced that there is only
one person, here and there, who has
this power over birds.
Whether it is confidence we do not
know. Sometimes we think that when
any wild creature likes you, 1t is nothing
more subtle than this, that he likes your
odor.
Humanity in recent years has come so
to look upon "odor" as some unholy
thing that often we fail to realize that
there is no universal opinion about it
throughout the animal world, to which
we, of course, belong.
That is, animals have their own way
of regarding odor, smell, whatever you
want to call it.
To say that a dog likes your smell'
does not mean anything especially bad,
but merely that he recognizes it; to
him it is almost the same as sound. 1t
is well known that dogs are able to
tell the footsteps of their masters, and
even of other persons in the household.
Often at night, in the old days, when
there was not so much traffic, the
footsteps of homecomers on concrete
sidewalks could be heard at least
block away. But the dog heard 1t much
farther.
The faithful dog of the household sud-
denly would start up, and run to the
front door.
He knows who is coming" the rest
of the family would say, long before
they could hear the footballs.
Sure enough, in time here would come
the absent member of the household.
To believe that the animal could catch
the scent of the homecomer was bit too
much. as wonderful as their scent is.
1t may be that birds. such as the
elderly mockingbird described. have some
way of recognizing their particular
friends.
With them it may be by sight. Birds
have wonderful eyes, and are able to spot
a small crust of bread shortly after it is
put out in a big yard.
1t is easy to believe that some par
ticular bird, now and then, is able to CO.
ordinate the recognition of the indi-
vidual with the fact that he or she
means something to eat.
These are the friendly birds, as COM
pared with the great mass, to whom
the instinct of self preservation, through
exaggerated caution, is paramount.
Evening star., 1941-04-02
Says City Needs
Residents Support
Writer Argues Duty
Of Users Of Services
To Poy for Them
To the Editor Of The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
The recent court decisions relative to
the District Of Columbia income tax and
the attitude Of the House of Representa-
tives toward amendments to the law are
indicative Of the confusion which exists
respecting the nature of the problem here.
Since all revenues from taxes, other
than Federal taxes, levied on Washington
residents, are used solely for municipal
pared with State taxes, but rather with
municipal taxes elsewhere. Washington
is city, not State. In accordance with
the Constitution of the United States no
State government intervenes between the
municipality and the Federal Govern
ment.
Municipalities furnish certain services
to their residents because it is more con-
venient and economical to furnish them
through community, rather than private
or individual enterprise, and also because
concentrated populations require services
localities. 1t is only reasonable that the
users of municipal services should pay
for them. Whether they pay directly in
proportion to use, as water rents, in pro-
portion to their presumed availability, as
assessments, or indirectly through con-
tributions to the general funds, as taxes,
Is merely detail.
Cinco taYoS oro not leyiad for
the support of sovereign government,
but to pay the costs of municipal services,
there is no conflict between municipal
taxes and State taxes, or Federal taxes.
The fact that a Washington resident, for
reasons of his own, chooses to maintain
allegiance to some State, and to pay taxes
for the support of that State government,
should not excuse him from contributing
to the cost of the municipal services
which he uses. A resident of Cleveland,
for example, is not excused from the
payment of city taxes because he pays
taxes to the State of Ohio.
Moreover. while a sovereign power,
such as a State or the Federal Govern
ment, cannot be taxed by municipality,
it is only fair that 1t pay Tor the mu-
nicipal services that it enjoys. That this
is not customarily done is due to the fact
that ordinarily these services constitute
but small part of those furnished to
the city as a whole. In Washington
however, the situation is vastly different.
The Federal Governments plant here Is
so large that the city cannot afford to
furnish these services without compensa-
ton.
If the Congress will get away from the
idea of a sovereign government taxing
it's subjects for its support and recognize
the American principle of a community
taxing itself to pay for community serv-
ices, it viii have found a solution to the
tax problem in Washington.
KENNETH P. ARMSTRONG,
Treasurer, Federation OF
Citizens Associations.
Evening star., 1941-04-02
Hobo Week

There has never been time In
history when the older generation
has not shaken It's hoary head, asked
what was the matter with the young
sters, and confidently predicted that
the country was going to pot, ener-
waited by soft living. Thus 1t Is that
the old timer, Hobo King JEFF Davis,
insists that Americans are mostly
lollypops and nincompoops, in his ex-
act phraseology.
His remedy for regeneration Is
rather startling, evidently working
on the same principle as the medical
ly accepted practice of treating FROST
bite by rubbing with snow. Good
King jeff wants us to go on the bum
for a time in order to become worth
while later, and to get things going
he has designated the period be-
tween the tenth and seventeenth OF
May as National Hobo Week" re-
questing cooperation from amateurs
and professionals alike.
The time chosen may be all right
for actual union members Of the
brotherhood, but will hardly suit the
amateur or scab hobo who Is only a
bum in the eyes Of his wife when
asked to help around the house.
Spring cleaning offers him powerful
incentive to get away, it is true, but
there are screens and awnings to
put up, repair work and painting to
be done, and so much else of the
sort that the householder who selects
this critical time to escape to the
wild will only have to return to a
woman far wilder than anything he
encountered while away.
Evening star., 1941-04-02
The Grove of Winter

I chdnced on pinter'S grave, q
mound OF snoiD,
Deep in a forest glade tohoss rocky
1DdllS
Go steeply up, lDhere terms in sum
ner grop,
But Where the Uarnlth OF sunlight
neUer falls.
Here he had crept and laid him
dotDn to die,
Despised and poor and old. IN
fields above,
Young spring tDds dancing, and the
tender sky
Was full of btrd-notes and the
songs Of loUe.
/ felt the Iostness OF Craze that
only
A pdnderer stands beside Nth
tDisttul face,
Forgotten In the wilderness, lonely
And soon-obliteruted resting place.
So, NTH compassion, as turned
to 90,
LETT my s,oeet arbutus on ths
sn0D.
NEz BARCLAY KIRBY.
Evening star., 1941-04-02

assume the lions share Of the burden
of defending the American Hemi-
sphere against aggression, it is Of
paramount Importance that air bases
be made available from which air
defense operations might be con-
Quoted in any part of the Americas
which might be threatened. 1t is Of
special Importance that the Panama
Canal and its approaches be pro-
tected to the utmost.
With these facts in mind, 1t can be
appreciated how timely and how
vital to security of the Americas is
the agreement between the United
States and Mexico covering a recip-
rocal use of air fields and bases.
This agreement will make 1t pos
sible, by providing many new bases
far to the south of United States soil,
to increase the security of our South
ern States. Even more important,
however, it would make it possible
for the United States to provide
aerial defense for the greater part Of
Central America and its approaches,
and to shift air forces quickly to
Panama.
While modern bombers can reach
Panama nonstop from the United
States, the flight is too long for pur-
suit and the smaller observation and
attack aircraft. Under agreements
with Central American republics, the
Army Air Corps has been permitted
to use airports in Central America as
refueling bases for short-range air
craft flying between the United
States and the Canal Zone. A per-
manent agreement providing such
facilities against any possible time
of emergency, however, is a contri-
button to hemisphere security the
Importance of which cannot be over
looked
Evening star., 1941-04-02
Impressive Indictment

If responsible leaders of labor are
alive to their own interests and the
interests of those whom they are
supposed to represent, they will ex-
anime with care the strictly factual
but none the-less impressive indlct-
ment of defense strikes which has
been drawn by Representative Hobbs
of Alabama.
Some days ago the President,
asked to comment on strikes in de-
fense industries, replied with the
assertion that not more than one
quarter of one per cent of produc-
tion-presumably all production
had been held up at any one time by
strikes. That is one way of looking
at the matter; Mr.. Hobbs took an
other view
Military defense in these times, as
he properly pointed out in National
Radio Forum address, is primarily
a matter of production Of armament.
II the disaster which befell Europe
last year proves nothing else, it
firmly establishes this point. And
yet, despite this grim lesson, the
United States threw away 625,O0o
man-days of labor to strikes in de-
fense industries in January; 1,OOO,-
900 man-days in February, and
many more in March. Strikes in
January and February alone, Mr..
Hobbs said, subtracted from our de-
fense effort the work time necessary
to produce SAL modern bombers, or
more than a thousand fighting
planes. And that wasted oppor-
tunity to produce is gone forever.
Altogether, during 1910 and the
first month and a half of 1941, ac-
cording to figures supplied by Gov
ernment agencies, total of 1917, 1850
man-hours of time was lost in 127
plants engaged on defense contracts
for the Navy Department alone.
Substantially half of this time loss,
MIR. Hobbs said, was caused by strikes
called to enforce closed-shop de-
mands, and a large percentage OF the
other half resulted from jurisdic-
aonal and organizational strikes.
Evening star., 1941-04-02
"VARNUM STREET.

Dear Sir:
Many times In the past have resisted
the impulse to write and tell you about
my old mockingbird, but after watching
him during this most recent snowstorm
can resist no longer.
This particular bird has been with
me IL years or more and is rarely out
of sight of the house.
During the spring and summer when
he is busy with his courting and domestic
duties he pays us no attention but never
fails to build and rear his family very
close to my first floor bedroom window
under which there are many bushes
I'm the fall, however, when his mate,
like so many of her sex, has gone South,
he takes up his headquarters on my win
dow ledge.
Cooking his bold bright eye at me, he
ticks, ticks loudly for food and more food
Not only Is he glutton, but dog in
the manger as well, for when he can eat
no more he polices the place to see no
Door sparrow comes near.
"On one side of our house is seldom
used dog rum have never had a dog
who would stay in it for more than few
minutes-and here nice juicy bones often
lie idle.
THE starlings light here in droves,
squabbling for bit of meat.
And out of the sky like a hurricane
bomber swoops Mockie and off they go
in a whirr of wings.
"Never once have I seen one of them
pause to argue with his lordship even
though he be outnumbered so to /.
During this wintry week end he has
awakened me each morning by o'clock,
kissing and screeching at the other birds
who in a snow covered world sought to
share crumb of his bounty.
with the years he has grown pompous
and portly and more overbearing.
IAN admirable character he is not, but
most certainly a character, a veritable
dictator in his arrogance.
Perhaps you or your readers can tell
me If u years is great age for bird,
also If he has the same mate each year
and if so why she goes South while he
remains.
IT am, your constant reader, D. E. W."
This column also has had letters telling
of other pet mockingbirds.
Information comes that household
on Tennyson street in Chevy Chase has
a mockingbird which boldly enters the
house each day for food. Similar reports
come from other sections.
These stories point to the individuality
of such birds, and how they differ from
the great bulk Of mockingbirds.
1t is not a common thing to have one
bird long, nor to have one enter the
house.
There is a feeling that some persons
have way with birds" That is, birds
will respond to them quickly.
Some such gift is the only way to &C
count for the story told of London before
the war
1t seems that there was poor man
Evening star., 1941-04-02
Strike Violence

Strikers at defense plants who
have resorted to violence to force
compliance with their demands are
compounding their offenseS against
the cause of labor, whose contrlou-
ton to the emergency program Is IN
the balance: against the general pub
lie. whose future security may be IN
yolved, and against government by
law and order, which is directly
challenged.
However taut and frazzled nerves
may be, violence such as has hareo
IN at the Allis-ChalmerS and Ford
plants is never justified and, OF
course, cannot be tolerated. Force
begets force. If parties to labor dis
putes use force or other laWlesS
methods, they must expect police or
other duly constituted authorities to
Use forceful means in restoring order.
The outbreaks at the Allis-Chalmers
plant. where vital national defense
work has been stalled for weeks, are
an especially outrageous challenge
To government. This strike, accord
ing to State officials, was called
illegally by fraudulent balloting. De-
fense Commissioner KnudSen and
Secretary of the Navy Knox made
request, amounting almost 10
demand, that work be resumed, pend
Ing adjustment of differences De-
tween labor and management. The
MANAGEMENT complied by reopenlng
the plant and many workers sought
to return to their benches and
machines-but, under irresponsible
Ieft-wing leadership, group or
strikers has succeeded by exercise OF
force in keeping workers away and
In compelling the closing again OF
this essential factory. At the Rouge
plant of the Ford company, a strike
has been called and fighting has
occurred, although Ford labor diff
culties are in process of being
adiudicated in the courts and al
though the Government has set up
cancellation and mediation services
to deal with Just such controversies
as that between the United Auto
mobile Workers Union and the Ford
management.
President Roosevelt's hopes that
his new Mediation Board will be able
to solve the increasingly serious
strike problems are shared by mil
lions of aroused American citizens.
Mediation is always to be preferred
to compulsion. But if mediation
fails-if labor, through shortsighted-
ness or through domination by
radical leaders, does not give media
ton the fair chance which it de-
serves-public opinion will demand
that Congress use the alternative
weapon, drastic compulsion by law.
Legislation of this type is in the
hopper and it will surely emerge in
all It's stern aspects If the strike
situation does not improve materially
forthwith.
Evening star., 1941-04-02
Mexican Airports

No military facility could be OF
more Importance to an adequate
hemisphere defense than compre-
hensive system of air bases to sup
plement the splendid system of naval
bases now under construction on
American and British sites. While
many of the naval bases include IA
cilities for naval aviation operations,
there can be, little question, in the
light of experience abroad, of the
necessity for shore-based air units as
well to guarantee control Of the air
along all possible avenues of hostile
approach.
Since the United States, in case OF
emergency, would be called upon to