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Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-12-12
WASHINGTON COLLEGES
POPULAR STUDENTS

David Bartolini of Waterbury, Con-
necticut, and Miss Minor Steele of
Rome, New York, were crowned as
the most popular boy and girl of
Washington College, last Saturday
night at the All-College Night spon-
sored by the Washington ELM. The
selections were made by a student
vote.
Runners-up for the most popular
boy and girl were Basil Clark of Ell
licott City, and Lloyd Davis, of Fed
eralsburg, and Helen Marie Culver,
of Chestertown, and Ellen Peters, of
Baltimore.
Calvert Jones, general chairman of
All-College Night, announced that the
affair, the first of it's type ever to be
held at Washington College. was a
tremendous success.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-12-12
DEALS ISLAND RESIDENT
STAYS HIS NEIGHBORt

Morris Taylor, 26-year-old Wenona
Deals Island waterman, surrendered
to Somerset County authorities for
the shotgun shooting of Thomas Alb
bolt, a neighbor.
He told Sheriff I. Fred Phoebus
that he fired at Abbott as the water
man ran through the weeds near his
meat house. Abbott was shot in the
legs and was taken to the Peninsula
General Hospital for treatment. His
injuries are described as painful but
not serious.
Mrs. Dewey Webster "a neighbor
said that the two are close neighbors
and had had previous disputes.
After the shooting he started for
Princess Anne, telling bystanders he
was going ts surrender. Sheriff I.
Fred Phoebus met him on the high
way and accompanied him to Jail.
Taylor is married and has four
children. Abbott, about %, is wat
,erman and is unmarried.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-12-12
INDUSTRIES ARE
NOW COMBINING
FOR DEFENSE

Big industry and little industry, not
so long ago regarded as rivals or
even enemies, put their heads togeth-
er over $50 conference tables re-
Gently and by this new hearty coop
Grafton are giving push to Nation
wide drive to spread out defense pro-
duction to the country's full capacity.
For time it seemed that little bus
mess was going to be crushed be-
tween the wheels of the defense pro-
gram. Demand for faster production
caused the Army and Navy to give
their contracts to the big industrial
organizations accustomed to handling
huge orders and able to get them out
with speed. At the same time, the
"little fellows" unable to get defense
business, found themselves forced to
stop producing some regular lines
for lack of materials.
Now a powerful effort is being
made to give small industry it's share
of the defense jobs. The recent three
day conference in Chicago, arranged
by the Office of Production Manage
ment in cooperation with manufac-
turers' associations and Chambers of
Commerce of eight Midwest indus
trial states, is one example of this
effort, and most successful one, to
judge by reports of participants. For
it did what it was intended to do
brought some 1000 small manufac-
turers in touch with the big prime
contractors for the purpose of ar
ranging for sub-contracts to be TAX
en- over by the small men.
How eager big industry and little
industry are to cooperate in the de-
Tense program was visualized at the
meeting in the Stevens Hotel. Here
came $50 or more big manufacturers
who had been able to land the much
desired Army and Navy contracts.
They set up an actual market place
and put their wares-objects to be
made by subcontractors - out upon
tables, together with blueprints show
ing precisely how they are to be
made.
At one side of the table sat rep
of the big companies,
usually engineers, explaining just
what their firms wanted. At the 9TH
err side sat small manufacturers, tell
ing in detail what facilities they po-
sessed for making this or that small
part.
Out cane pencils and notebooks,
as the big manufacturers wrote down
he names of small shop owners alb
e to help them and as the "little
fellows" jotted down descriptions of
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-12-12

CONTROL MUST
BE SECURED

The tuberculosis control program
must not be relaxed in any of our
communities it was stated today by
William B. Matthews, Managing Di-
rector of the Maryland tuberculosis
Association, as he appealed to every
one to make returns for the Christ
mas Seals that have been sent to
them.
1t was further pointed out that
these Christmas Seals are the finan-
cial support of the Association and it's
affiliated county units.
"Now that our country has been
forced into making the supreme eff
fort to bring to justice those aggres-
sors who have unleashed the horrors
of war upon our peace loving people,
we must be ever mindful of our health
conditions at home.
''In order to have a healthier ar
my, we have been x-raying all selec-
tees throughout the state and since
this war will mean a bigger army it
will also mean more x-rays.
mot only is it impossible for man
who has tuberculosis to fight, but the
greatest danger lies in his giving his
fellow-soldiers the disease. We, there
fore, must be careful that no one with
tuberculosis gets into our armed for
CO."
Attention was called to the fact
that nutrition has very definite re-
lation the incidence of tuberculo-
sis, that bodies must be kept healthy
in order to ward off the danger, it
was stated.
Through your purchase of Christ
mas Seals, we will not only be able
to redouble our Efforts for national de-
Tense, but also redouble them toward
home defense. The money that is
raised in our state is used in our
state. We shall continue the fight un-
til this disease is brought under con-
troll" Mr.. Matthews concluded.
The Maryland tuberculosis Asso-
cations Christmas Seal Sale started
on November "a and will continue un-
til Christmas, Everyone is requested
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-12-12

manufacturing industries is essential
to the maintenance of our Democratic
way of life-the primary goal of our
extensive defense program"
The Illinois Manufacturers Asso-
citation maintains that it will be ne
cessary, in addition to spreading the
work" of defense production, for the
government to modify its priorities
rulings to provide reasonable alloca-
ton Of materials to those industries
not engaged in defense production"
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-12-12
FROM OUR
EXCHANGES
SHORE COLLEGE RATES
HIGH AMONG FRATS.

Washington College received ar
outstanding national distinction fol
the comparative level of scholarship
of the fraternity men for the year
1904 in the annual report of the
Scholarship Committee of the Ma
tional Interfraternity Conference
which has just been issued.
The report, issued on the eve of the
annual meeting of the Conference
held last Friday and Saturday in New
York, lists in detail the scholarship
performance of more than $4,000 un-
dergraduate members of 1889 chap
ters in $50 colleges and universities
in all parts of the United States. Fol
lowing the listings of all figures by
colleges and by fraternities, there is
one paragraph of significant impor.
lance, which will be read by Deans
and Fraternity officers all over the
country. It is headed, Notable Rec
ords," and reads as follows:
"The outstanding record of the year
was made by the fraternities of
Washington College with a group av-
erage of 90 percent better than all
men, followed closely by Centenary
(La.) with % percent. At Transyl-
vania (Ky), Millsaps (Miss.), Ala
bama Polytechnic, Furman, Is. CO.,
Mississippi State and Mississippi, in
the order named, the fraternities
were 10 percent or more above the
average of all men,"
The basis of comparison devised
ten years or more ago by the Inter-
fraternity Conference is that of the
scholarship average of all men stu
dents in all colleges in which member
chapters are located.
1t is interesting to notice that the
ailments average at Washington Col
lege is in excess of the average of all
men, fraternity and non-fraternity in
the $50 institutions studied. Of the
81 colleges and universities studied in
the Middle Atlantic States region,
there are but twelve in which the
scholarship of the fraternity men is
rated above the ailments average. AS
already noted, Washington College is
first in this section as also in the en-
tire nation. Following Washington,
in the Middle Atlantic region, the
nearest rival is Dickinson College, fol-
lowed by Washington and jefferson.
None of the others stand more than
5 percent above the ailments aver
age, and run as low as OCT above the
line. They are, in order, Susquehan-
ma, Gettysburg, Syracuse, Renssel-
aer, Rochester, George Washington,
Franklin and Marshall, Westminster,
and Colgate.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-12-12

objects they believed they could man
ufacture and names of persons to
contact. A great many subcontracts
will eventually be let as result of
these intimate conferences, said the
men behind the tables, when inter-
viewed.
Officials of the OPM made them
selves accessible to the visiting man
ufacturers, seating themselves at
desks near the entrance where any
one officially invited to the clinic
could talk to them. They had few
idle moments during the three-day
conference.
The principal speaker during the
sessions was Floyd B. Odlum, direc-
tor Of the Contract Distribution Di-
vision of OPM who stood before a
microphone in the big exhibition hall
and spoke as one business man to a.
mother.
He made it clear that the program
of spreading defense work is not
merely an altruistic one, designed to
keep the small manufacturer going
AS he sees it, it is question of win
ming the battle of production.
ITO use less than our total practi-
cal capacity to produce munitions is
to risk the destruction of our civili-
zation,' he said.
But he recognized the other side of
the problem, too. "The defense job
is simply so enormous that there are
not enough of many materials for de-
Tense production and normal goods
too. To save themselves as we'll as to
safeguard the Nation, small indus
tries must convert their facilities to
defense production wherever prac-
ticable."
go after defense contracts and
subcontracts with every bit of ener-
gy you possess" he urged his listen
ers.
While calling on the small manu-
facturers to use their initiative to
the utmost, SMr. Odlum pledged al
so fullest assistance from his depart
ment. His own Division, he said, is
a Nationwide force of
several thousand engineers and in
dustrialists to help spread the work.
Nobody welcomes this effort to
help small industry more than manu-
facturers' associations. The Illinois
Manufacturers Association, in a re-
cent statement, points out that 81
percent of all the factories in the
United States can be classed as
Small" and that they employ about
81 percent Of the wage earners and
pay 80 percent of the wages.
But even before the priorities sys-
tenn began to make business difficult
for them, the small manufacturers
were decreasing in number. The de-
cade from 1929 to 1889 saw a Is per-
cent drop.
1T is Clear" said C. A. Livingston,
speaking for the association "that the
preservation of these relatively small
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-12-12

A wooden mixing spoon is light and
well adapted to beating cake batter;
it makes little noise and does not
discolor the batter.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-12-12

to use his Seals on Christmas mail
and packages
Evening star., 1941-03-09

1t seemed to come out of the wall at me.
Until then I'd thought had the room to my
self. What was there for, was going to be a
ciIch. When the light flashed on - you know.
the queer greenish light from student lamp
- went for him with blackjack :"
No BACK to the beginning won't you?" /
begged. Don't start in the middle. Give me
the whole story straight, as it happened"
HIM - that won't be easy, because l
always see the particular second when l stood
with the blackjack ready to wham down, as
the exact second when my life began. Funny,
eh? Nothing that went before is real to me
now" Wasp rubbed his chin thoughtfully
with the palm of his hand. Il was kid who,
like plenty of other kids, used to tell myself,
Hell, didn't ask to be born, did l? If I'd
had anything to say about coming into this
Evening star., 1941-03-09

looked up and saw Wasp's eyes, equally mel
low and amused and tolerant
'Wel?" he inquired, watching me intently.
l said nothing.
Don't you want to know why tried to
kill him?"
I'm waiting for your confession" an
swered. Il don't expect to have to cross
examine"
He reached for the leather case, restored
it to his inside pocket. This goes wherever
go. have cockeyed superstition that I'd
fall down on job if he weren't along. When
anything stumps me, no matter where am,
l shut myself in room, switch off all the
lights except one. Then l take this out and
he's right there with me, helping me put the
pieces of the puzzle together. Maybe it's be-
cause that's the way first saw him, in the
dark with single shaft of light on his face.
Evening star., 1941-03-09

rotten world, I'd have picked Hettie Green
for my ma. The kids who got 'em didn't
deserve the gold spoon any more than did
THE way saw things, it was my tough
luck to be born on the wrong side of the tracks
in college town that offered no chance to
boy who hadn't the price or inclination for
higher mathematics, who knew only that if
you could make two and two equal six, you
were a heap smarter than the educated boob
who made 'em equal four.
When it came to youngsters, my parents
went in for quantity rather than quality.
My mother was too tired bearing us to train
us. There were ten youngsters by the time
was eighteen, and we dragged ourselves
through the early years fighting over pieces
of bread or an extra glass of watered milk.
was too skinny for my height, and because
| hadn't enough food to satisfy a growing
boys appetite, was short on work and long
on play.
II had no moral sense whatever. Life was
a game in which you had to get the best of
the other fellow. AS simple as that!
THE only work that reused my enthusi-
asm was job as helper over week ends in
hot-dog joint Cfranks they were in those
days. run by a little dark Hungarian fellow
with bright eyes and pink cheeks. His name
was too complicated to pronounce. He was
known as Joe the Hunk. The place was one
of the first of those converted railroad cars.
CONTINUED on page ~
Evening star., 1941-03-09

. the auditorium at Police Headquarters
&=~ during the daily lineup. Black shades
covered the tall windows, and silence hung
like a storm cloud, intensified by the shuttle
of feet as suspects crossed the stage and
paused for questioning
The glare of spotlight beam gave the
only illumination in that vast room. Facing
the small stage on which it shone, were rows
of detectives, police officers, visitors. To the
men and women in the lineup they must
have looked like figures out of doom.
We were seated in the front row, in the
direct line of the spotlight. 1t etched Inspec
tor Wasp Cardigans profile as the moon
picks face out of the night. Against the eerie
light, his gaunt, irregular features, high
carved like stone.
Inspector Wasp Cardigan conformed in
no way to the popular conception of a star
detective. Broad shoulders slightly stopped
heavy-ensed spectacles, long expressive
hands. clothes sadly in need of pressing, gave
him the look of scholar Yet newspaper men
and women who held him in admiration and
friendship knew him as an ex-cop whose only
educational background was the school of
human nature.
We loved him for his generous under
standing and for the sharp sting of his pene
tration, which was responsible for the nick
name we had given him, Wasp" Not one
of us knew him by any other name.
launched forward, Wasp was intently
studying the prisoner under fire of question
ing This young man had skin pasty as putty,
and eyes with thick lids dropped like blinds
to hide their cunning. He had been picked
up on a charge of attempted burglary; any
observer could see that this was not his first
appearance under the eye of the law. He was
too sure of himself, too contemptuous.
k1E ANSWERED questions cagily, in a voice
cautiously indifferent. His movements were
quiet and his feet had the pad of panther's
| had creepy feeling that, meeting him in
the dark, even strong man would get all the
worst of it.
Suddenly Wasp Cardigan muttered. Il was
like him once. But for the grace of God
that boy might have been me twenty years
ago."
Later, when | repeated these words to
Wasp, he looked blank. Then he gave me
slow smile. Did say that? must have been
thinking out loud"
Not very loud" | said -
But what did you mean ~
that crook might have been @
you twenty years ago." u
Wasp didn't say anything 81
for minute We were having n
lunch in one of the little streets u
which branch like arteries ~
from the heart of Center
Street, where Police Head
quarters are located "If tell T
you," he commented finally, ID
you'll probably make story ~
of it." ID
IF it's that good, | most
certainly will. I've always III
wanted to know what started ID
you on your career" -
Quietly Wasp answered,
AN attempt at murder" ID
Taking note of the fact that d
the shrewd eyes behind his IN
glasses were Laughing at my
amazement, told him with ta
out any excitement Now
you're being theatrical. don't want fiction.
want the truth"
Evening star., 1941-03-09
Il Short Story Complete in This Issue

ARKNESS surrounded US, the gloom of
the auditorium at Police Headquarters
y during the daily lineup. Black shades
Evening star., 1941-03-09

you're being theatrical. don't want fiction
| want the truth"
I'm giving you just that, though was
sure you wouldn't believe me-" He reached
in pocket of his vest and handed me
shabby brown leather case. the kind that
holds two small photographs This had only
one, yellowed newspaper cut of an old man,
DR.. Wiley Collins, Professor of Psychology
at Blank University. He's the man l was
ready to kill" explained Wasp He was the
only friend ever had
judged the clipping to be about fifteen
years old. 1t showed a man whose vitality
was as ageess as Father Time, with a deep
forehead square chin, and eyes shutting you
in. They had an intimate twinkle, mellow
wisdom. They gave me the priceless sensation
you get when stretched in lounge chair be-
fore a CRATE fire with your favorite book
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0rting Town Hall
Will Have Blinds

ORTING The ortinE town hall
windows henceforth viii sport new
Venetrn blinds. according 70 =
resolution passed at the monthly
council meeting.
Il vas decided 70 install a new
street light at the corner Of River
and Cslistogs SITS. where Council
man Peterson resides.
Also purchased was a 1897 GaC
truck for the water department
The annual budget vas adopted.
Excerpts from the 1912 budget;
Estimated official expenditures,
including fire department. Ss.o6l ;
CITY streets. $1,000: water depart
ment. $1,000: sewer department
s. 500: cemetery. $500; water
bonds, S2275. water warrants
S244.
Ernest Cool and Tadashi Sasaki
of Orting will be indicted into the
army Thursday.
Harry Albright will replace Mar
shal William Frasl during the two
weeks of Frasl's vacation from
official duties. Mr.. and Mrs. Frasl
left on a deer hunting expedition
into okanogsn county Friday.
The echoing hills behind Orting
this weekend heralded successful
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Pastor Ends
Service Here
Rev. Engelbrecht
rendered Farewell

After 1s years with the Zion
Lutheran church here. Rev. II. II.
Engelbrecht left Tacoma with his
family Monday to Join the staff OF
the Lutheran University sssocia-
tion IN Indiana.
Rev. Engelbrecht came 70 Ia
coma in 1928 after five years with
the church in Puyaliup.
While here. his many activities
included co-founding Of the Wash
ington district Walther league and
theConeordia Lutheran school at
Falkland; during 20 years associa-
ton with the former ne held such
offices as Craftsmanship OF the
executive board. Christian service
summer camp committee and
Christian knowledge. and was also
field secretary as well IA having
held high offices in the interna-
tional.
Rev. Engelbreeht was rendered
farewell dinner by some $50 OF
his pensioners. whose expression
OF good wishes were unanimous for
his success in his new endeavors.
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BONE. SMITH ISSUE STATEMENT
Controversy Over Future
OF Bonneville-CouIee
Power System Carried on
DIFFERENCE WITH ICKES BILL CITED

WASHINGTON, ID. C.-Senator Homer T. Bone of Ia
coma. and Congressman Martin Smith, of Hoquiam Wash
carried the controversy future of the Bonneville
Couee power system with public statement today pointing
to points of difference principles pro-
posed governing law and that of Secretary ckes They said
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Sons OF Norway
To Hear Leader

Sens of Norway request a
members 10 be present Thursday
Oct. IS. for an important bushes
meeting. The grand lodge press
dent. f. B. Hauke, who Is noe
touring the west coast, viii inE
tate a new class Of candidate
and later in the evening viii de-
liver a speech.
Sons and daughters Of Norway
viii hold their three-day carniv1
on oct. 30. 81 and Nov. l. q
Thursday. oct. 80. a card Party
will be featured. while on Friday
Oct. 81. Wade Perrow Of the T<
coma Ski club will show two SD
pictures. On Saturday. Nov. 1
starting s O'Clock, a turkey
smorgasbord dinner Will be served.
The public is invited to attend. :
deer hunts by Jack and Don Willis
Bob McAbee, Roy Rodgers, Bib
Swearingen, Frank Bath, John
Lusso. Gordon Danley, Bob Hue
neka and Henry Fielding.
Cal Johnston OF Orting viii
pinch-hit for Bill Hoggatt at the
orting fish hatchery from now on
while Hoggatt takes a day of
per week. The hatchery is giving
away surplus fish this week.
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Reduced price Medium-weight.
heece-lineo. full-sizs athletic
cut, Save NOW.
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New wool feltS and rsyon vel
vets in dressy and casual styles.
Every single one brand new.
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Brand new FAN patterns in ray
on and cotton mixtures Short
and regular lengths.
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rubfast percales in flatterng
new patterns and colors, Long
wearing. So.
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Bigger more powerful than
any wood circulator we've seen,
Fast-heating steel inner unit
E.. lined with tough cast-iron,
Poreelaineo body! Save.
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sy JIMMY HATlo

Your best shirt buy! Because
the fabric are closer woven
and Sanforized (9eoo shrink
proof. Because the collars are
wiltproof. Colorfast.
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Gigantic Ward Week savings
on Wards Certified super
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unequaled in durability,
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Just set the dial. put in the
bread. and current shuts off
automatically when your toast
has popped up No watching
no burning =. no turning!
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-12

will be any good if she does. Germany in
fated her money after the other war, until
lS25. 900 worth of it wouldn't buy a bonnet
Take the water for the morning coffee
fresh from the tap, is the advice of coffee
experts An explosion in the kitchen of
New York apartment brought police and fire
men who found husband and wife fatally
burned and the remains of coffee pot that
had been blown to bits Also two jugs stood
on the table, looking just alike but one con-
tanned water, the other gasoline 1t was
case of mistaken identity.
"Oh. yeah" say the inhabitants of Joliet,
Illinois. you can't tell what may come out
of the tap" One pleasant morning. last
January. beer flowed out of their water
faucets Some called up to complain, others
told the City Commissioner he was the most
progressive man in politics, but they wished
he would make it a little stronger. The
Commissioner who had not meant to be that