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Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-12-19
SHAREHOLDERS MEETING

The regular annual meeting of the
shareholders of the Pocomoke City
National Bank, of Pocomoke City,
will be held on Tuesday, January 18th,
1912, between the hours of 10 o'clock
A. M. and 8 o'clock P. M. for the cleo
tion of Board of Directors for the
ensuing year, and for the transaction
of any other business which may be
considered.
WILLARD J. STEVENSON,
Cashier.
Dec. 12-St.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-12-19
MORTGAGE SALE
WOODLAND

By virtue of the power contained in
mortgage from Lennie T. Parks and
Lillian R. Parks, his wife, to The
Somerset Mortgage and Certificates
Corporation dated February 7, 1885,
and recorded among the land records
of Worcester County in Maryland, in
Liber B. B. No. 49,, folio 283, ct seq
default having been made in the pay
ments and covenants of said mort
gage, the undersigned assignee there
of will sell at public auction in front
of the Hotel Pocomoke, formerly
Parker House) at Pocomoke in said
Worcester County, on
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-12-19
Wednesday, Dec. 81, Al
Beginning At 1000 A. M.

DeBnnthg AT AVsVV n. vi.
the following: 6 Registered Cows, 6
Grade Cows, 2 Registered Heifers,
(These Cows are high producing
Guernseys) 1 Registered Guernsey
Bull,-Sired by Foremost Cavalier,
who is the son of Cosquay's Foremost.
The Dam of this Bull, Good Boys
Althea, has a nice A. r. Record, Is a
granddaughter of Good Gift out of an
Imported Cow. This is a Highly Bred
Bull. My Entire Herd has been T. 3.
and Bangs Free for Over 8 Years and
Will Be Tested Before Sale. / 1900 10.
Mule, will work anywhere, / Pony,
will work single, 4 10-gallon Mix
Cans, Mix Cooler, l Bottle Wash
Tub, SIT X 2 IT, compartments with
drain shelf, Bottle Filler, ! Bottle
Camper. NUMEROUS OTHER
THINGS.
Terms: CA SH.
F. V. MATTHEWS,
Parksley, Va.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-12-19
Chairman Asks For
Women Registrars
CONTINUED from Page il

this is mistaken idea as women to-
day play very important part in the
defense program of the country and
can render invaluable service in many
ways. Those who have not registered
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-12-19

FOR SALE-Old fashion pure
BUCKWHEAT FLOUR, just ground.
best we ever made. New table meal.
Westover Mills, Westover, Md.
Nov. 21-tf.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-12-19

FOR SALE or RENT-BonneviII
farm, one mile from Pocomoke, on
bypass. Will rent house separately.
w. J. Payne.
Dec. 5-tf.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-12-19

FOR SALE-Buckeye Breeders, all
poultry equipment. Ask to see the
New Buckeye Wood Burning Brooder.
Harry E. White, Buckeye Distributor,
Mackenzie Park, Va.
Dec. sat.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-12-19

1 will sell at public auction to the
highest bidder on my farm on the
ROAD, one mile south
Of Parksley, Va,
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-12-19

FOR SALE-1 horse; mule. Ap-
ply on the farm of Joseph P. Boston.
Dec. 12-2t
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-12-19
SHAREHOLDERS MEETING

Dec. 12-St.
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BETWEEN THE LINES

laxed in times of stress will be re-
built Just as efforts were made
at the conclusion of the last war
to put the Negro back in his place,
these efforts will be renewed with
a vigor that will be disheartening
to close students of race relations.
POISON PEN STARTS
Strangely enough it was not I'M
I'll the close Of the first World
War that the poison pen loomed
large in the press of the nation
against the Negro with all the
"rape SorieS" etc. Already this
maneuvre is apparent to even
casual student of current events.
The attempt to portray the Negro
as a degenerate has assumed start
ling proportions already for these
grape" accounts are alarmingly
prevalent In the local and national
press.
The fact is, the stage is being
set to put the Negro back In his
place--providing he gets out OF 1t
during this war. Negro leadership
will be poorly advised if it does
not keep these things in the fore
ground of the Negroes thinking.
The Negroes must never be allow
ed to forget that they are the I'm
derdogs in this terrible economic
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Southern Frontier And It's Editor

strong because its strength is re-
enforced by emotionalism and con-
clusionS not based upon value
judgements. This editorial staff
realizes that there is no place like
home provided home means seeking
constantly and orderly those things
both physical and psychological
that promote a sense Of well-bei1g.
Just as The students Of juvenile
delinquency have determined that
a large percentage of those children
who run away from home do so
because their homes lack that some
thing which would promote in them
a sense of well-being so it might
be reasoned that such large pro-
portion of native talent of both
major races has left their native
south for the identical reason.
The sound philosophy behind the
policies. governing the Southern
Frontier may be credited in the main
to it's guiding spirit, Mrs. Jesse
Daniel Ames. She is a Texas born
and reared white woman who has
spent an eventful life rearing a
family and striving to make the
land of its birth a fit place For de-
cent people to live.
DIVISION is DISASTROUC
1t seems to me that such a con-
cept of home is a fundamental pre-
requisite to leadership in promoting
lnterracial good will. 1t is a truism
that a house of people, even though
inhabited by stronger and a
weaker race, divided against itself
can never stand.
/ have watched Mrs. Ames grow
in courage, spirituality and philo-
sophy of life, for many years with
a sense of gratitude. l say sense OF
gratitude for 1 believe that much Of
the irritation between the races is
due to the Sensitiveness about its
womanhood so characteristic of the
white south. So when a white wo-
man has the courage to give Ne
groes an opportunity to prove that
they are capable of being refined,
courteous and capable of absorb
ing the higher ethical values of
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Finder of
PotOfGold,:
Is Dead

CHESTER, S. C.-Tobin Crank Is
dead. Funeral services for the man
who drew national attention to
Chester five years ago Succumped
last week at the State Park SAM
tarium in Columbia. Funeral serV-
ices and interment were completed
Sunday at Ebenezer cemetery near
Leeds.
While choppine wood On a farm
on the Leeds-Brushy Fork Baptist
church road, about five years ago.
Crank's axe struck an iron pot.
Digging down ne unearthed $6.624-
all in gold, 100 twenty dollars gold
pieces: 113 tens; 307 five, forty
four two, one halves; four threes
and thirty-seven ones. The money
was divided with his brothers and
some used in paying on a planta-
ton, buying livestock, etc.
Newspaper stories of the fortune
appeared on the front pages OF
papers over the counfry and Tobln
was called to New York later and
appeared on the I'VE The People T"
radio program.
Efforts to obtain the money
from him by numerous Chalmers
were unsuccessful. No one has been
able to trace its original owner
but it is believed to nave been
buried BY Iittleton Land, q mer-
chant and farmer, several decades
ago ...--
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His article, death Detail,' was
picked out of 400 otnerS for that
year by II eminent writer's who
composed the judging committee
These literary authorities averred
that Death DETAIL describing
the trial and execution Of 13 Negro
soldiers OF the Houston, Riots
was the best Of 1880. Comprising
the committee were Bruce Barton,
John Erskine. John Kieran. Chris
tOpher More!y, William Lyon
Phelps, Robert Sherwood, Dorothy
Garfield, Helen Hayes, Paul de
Kruif, Kathleen Norris, Mary
Roberts Rhinehart, and Lowell
Thomas.
Selection of articles for each of
20 years to be judged by this final
committee was originally made by
the Digest's regular board of edi-
tors, who selects about 400 from
in 35 or 40 of the best magazines
the thousands written and printed
and other periodicals during the
given year. From these 400 articles,
the committee picks the one which
Is most outstanding.
Published with 19 others in the
DigeSt's current ''20th Anniversary
The Phoenix index., 1941-11-29
BY GORDON B. HANCOCK
tANP Feature Writer)

and social fight of the hour. IT Is
only by "out"righting" the oppon-
ents that we have a chance.
The burden CT this communica-
ton is this: Negroes must not
only see to 1t that the "get in" on
the various projects, but once they
are ''in'' they must "dig in" Ne
groes who were satisfied merely to
get in" during the last World
War were displaced very soon after
the war was over. The Negro who
dared 70 "dig ln' is still IN. In
other words the Negro who takes
his new found opportunities light
ly is doomed to displacement once
the hoStilities cease
PROSPECTS UNHAPPY
The prospect is a most unhappy
one. Our newspapers have a
serious responsibility in this promise.
OUR pulpits and our school rooms
have a mighty responsibility in this
matter. IF Negro press and pulpit
and school room will drive home
the portents of the hour there is
hope that the impact of the after
war business depression may not
catch the Negro hopelessly unpre-
pared. ~
1t is not enough for the Negro to
"get in,' he must dig in! Woe m-
to those who have ears to hear
but will not hear; these shall be
turned into outer economic and
social darkness where there shall
be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Fair warning is not out of order,
even now. -..r. -.
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Ask FEPC To Stop U.S..
Cafeteria Segregation

WASHINGTON, d. Ca N p
One of the oldest problems in
Washington has been thrown into
the lap of FEPC in an attempt to
solve the segregation which exists
in. many cafeteriaS in government
buildings.
Growing out of the case OF
Melva Steuart, an employe of the
bureau OF engraving and printing
formerly a census bureau empioye,
FEPC naS been asked to determine
whether it has juriSdicticC over
the cafeterias which are operated
by welfare associations, under
the supervision of the department
in which the cafeteria is located.
II is said that the ne.d of
the department is responsible
for all conditions which exis:
in these cafeterias and il is
further pointed out that Sec
retary of Labor Perkins and
Secretary of Interior Lckes
quickly stamped out segrega-
ton III their departmental
cafeterias where il once flour
iShed.
In this case, the young woman
was eating at a table in the cafe
terra VIXEN Manager LOuck ap-
preached her after she had taken
a seat with another woman and
said, Sorry, / did not see YOU
ladies when you came to this
table; you can't sit here"
GRABS TRAY
The girl then told Louck she
had been sitting there for more
than a month and that she was
perfectly comfortable. The mana
ger then said he was making a
change and that from now on
seating arrangements would be
similar to those in effect on the
day shift. Miss Steuart made no
reply whereupon the manager IN
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tremendously and without further
words, grabbed her tray, upon
which were her pocketbook, a
piece Of pie and cup Of coffee
and moved them from the table,
Spilling coffee all over the pie
He then called a guard and
asked that she be arrested and
removed from the cafeteria.
The guard refused but told the
manager 10 call a section
chief and get her name and
number. This the manager did.
Later, the young woman returned
to the cafeteria to eat and took
the same table. The manager came
over to her table and told her
that he had not reported her be-
fore but that he would report her
this time for violating a rule ''of
the association His excuse was
that it had been deemed necessary
to allow more room for the white
employees and SO another steam
table III the corner had been OPEN
ed for Negroes and that failure
TO observe the ruling would result
in dismissal Of some Negroes.
INVESTIGATING MATTER
The case was taken to the
Washington Urban League and to
other agencies which acted when
the young woman SWore to an af-
fidavit charging the management
with discrimination and mistreat-
ment of Negroes.
FEPC is going into the mat
ter thoroughly and hopes to
be able to straighten out the
whole thing to the satisfaction
of all concerned.
The cafeterias are operated by
conceSSionaire on non-profit
making basis, profits from cafe
teri2S going to welfare funds. The
General supervision of cafeterias
is under the heads of the depart
ments in which they are located.
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SAFETY

What's all the hurry?
Why burn up the street?
Just step on the gas
And Satin you'll meet.
You think you act smart
BY speeding ahead
But d'you think how you'll look
Stretched out on a bed?
Better go slower,
Even tho late
AT least you'll be sure
OF keeping that date.
AS you start in your car
Keep this in your head
The faster you drive
The sooner you're dead.
BY Mrs. Jerolene Gardner
The Phoenix index., 1941-11-29
George Smiley In
Win At Checkers

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - (SNS)-
George Smiley of North Birm-
ingham defeated Big Bid Will
liam Hammer 4 to 3 recently ir
a 15-game checker match. Sam
Conan lost to Howard Calhoun 2
to o in a five-game match.
The checker matches were spon-
sored by the Kingston Mems Club.
the KMC is challenging any team,
attached or unattached, to matches
in dominoes, checkers. bridge.
or whist. .-
Teams desiring to take up this
challenge are invited to write
John D. Mayer, KMC president, at
45O1 Ninth Avenue North. >
The Phoenix index., 1941-11-29

THE SOUTHERN FRONTIER is
published on the fifteenth of each
month by the Commission on Inter-
racial Cooperation. Already twenty
three issues of this paper have been
circulated. The very fact that this
has been accomplished without
causing any noticeable antagonis-
tic reaction is tribute TO the fine
sense Of balance maintained by the
editorial managen4 1T. Substantial
proof that its chief purpose is to
assist the body polite of the South
into a less and less irritating pro-
cess of adjustment is the paltry fee
OF twenty-five cents which is the
price of one years subscription.
This brilliantly edited monthly
paper is not partisan except in
The Phoenix index., 1941-11-29
CHlVERS SAYS: o-t7.as

socletal life 1 am quite sure that
much of the doubt as TO its success
is taken from the movement for
better race relations.
Mrs. Ames has not always had the
full support of Negroes. They had
cause to be exceedingly reticent
about accepting a southern white
w m a n i n e d e =
s h ip role M ny o +
them could not understand her phi
lOSophy OF race relations for II was
not dramatic. 1t was and is free
from either radicalism or ultra
conservatism. It is embedded In her
passimate desire to see the south
a decent home In which all of its
native sons, regardless Of race,
might have an opportunity to live,
work, recreate and prosper without
the retarding forces of fear and
intimidation. She knew that the
test of fitness to the rights and
duties that go with elemental JUS
tice and citizenship could never be
applied to Negroes until they had
an opportunity to embrace the &C.
onomic, political, and judicial ele-
ments of government as human
beings.
A DYNAMIC FORCE
Mrs. Ames as leader in the fight
for the realization of the New South
gained Negro support on a broad
scale when she emerged as the dy-
manic force in organizing and pro-
noting the Southern Committee for
the Prevention OF Lyn hing among
southern white women. Here was a
practical demonstration of a Chris
tian evaluation of the sacredness of
human life, even though it was Me-
gro life. ...
Another significant act of Mrs.
Ames' was the courageous display Of
independence when she established
sound grounds for disbelief in the
utility Of a federal lynching law.
This was not what Negroes wanted
from an interracial leader but they
had to admire honesty in person
who has proven the capacity for
honesty with herself.
This is not an advertisement but
a long overdue appreciation.
The Phoenix index., 1941-11-29
ADMITS DINING CAR
EMPLOYEES

WASHINGTON-(A N P)-Last
week, the Brotherhood of DHling
Car Employees voted unanimously
I dissolve its organization and
affiliate it's various locals with
the United Transport Service En-
ployees of America. One of the
oldest unions among this craft of
employees, the brotherhood repre-
sentS nearly 65 percent Of the
dining car employees in the south
eaStren area and several groups in
the New England area.
The Phoenix index., 1941-11-29
LIFE MAGAZINE CHIDED

NEW YORK, N. Y The 1naga-
zinc, LIFE, was chided by the
NAACP for using the word pick
aninny" in a feature of its Novem-
Der 10 issue. Upon reporting upon
q healthy baby contest at the an
nual Memphis Negro Fair, LIFE
headlined the article with the word
"pickaninnies."
The Phoenix index., 1941-11-29

SO lar as IL
strives seriously
to present to the
south, in a cou-
rageouS, non
emotional man
ner, the defici-
encies in its race
mOreS W hic h
tend to block
its evolutionary
path toward a
status of equali-
ty in this fedora
ton of United
States. 1t indul-
geS, very Objec-
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ASKED TO REPLY

NEW YORK-The NAACP cabled
England's Prime Minister Winston
Churchill, Friday, November II,
asking him for a reply to the AS
sociation'S letter sent by Clipper
September 26. The letter named
instances where Negroes had been
Disseminated against by British
agencies operating in this country.
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OPPOSITION is STRONG
Fair Warnino

THERE is definite upswing In
the business life of the nation. We
are in the midst of another war
boom with all Of it's "illusory ae-
cessorieS F" The curve of unemploy-
ment is definitely on the down.
swing, and a good time is about
to be had by all. The like has hap
pened before Like a man on a
drunken spree, nations revel in
war time prosperity only to wake
up with terrible headache in
times of peace. Unless signs fail,
We have q headache" coming if
the present boom sweeps forward
with its present crescendo. The
danger is not in the boom itself,
but In Clr Discrimination to believe
that another depression like a
headache after gay night, is on
the way.
The "good times" we are about
to have are just as artificial as the
good feelings" we have after
considerable w1ne-bidding There
is no greater danger in the pres
ent Situation than the. s'eat, drink
and be merry attitude that char
"cterized our last year OF pros
perity following the last World
War. 1t is not too early now TO
take stock of what is to follow the
present squirt of prosperity. Ne
groes of all groups should take
stock and set their house in Or
der and prepare to meet the god
of depression that will come in an
hour they thirk not.
DOORS BEING OPENED
1t is happily true that doors of
opportunity are being opened now
that before the present crisis were
faSt-barred. The aGeat demand for
labor is making the Negro laborer
one of the stern necessities of the
present. During the last war, cir
crmstances conspired to lift the
Negro from Serfdom to citizenship.
from want to plenty and from con-
gestion in the south to latitude in
the north Negroes by tens Of
thousands left their lifelong habi-
tat and found a temporary Land of
Promise in the north and west.
But after the war closed, things
took a certain turn for the worse;
and great pressure was exerted on
the Negro in his new-found land
of liberty and how much he has
suffered only God knows.
The fact that he became the
largest beneficiary of the Govern
mert relief agencies only proves
the point that the coming after
war lot Of the Negro has in it the
making of a great tragedy. There
is bound to be an after-war
period and what will be the Negroes
lot in that period it is not too
early even now to contemplate.
There is bound TO be a return of
the great wave Of unemployment,
ana the full force thereof-as be-
fore-will strike the Negro. The
racial lines that are apparently re-
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ROBERTS SPEAKS

INSTITUTE. w. Va.-(ANP)-
L. Thomas Roberts OF the personnel
division OF the federal department of
agricultural economy visited West
Virginia State College during the
week of Nov. II.
The Phoenix index., 1941-11-29
Reader S Digest
Honors Pickens
His Death Detail Chosen
As Best Article Of 1890

NEW YORK CITY (ANP)-The Readers Digest, in
ternaOnaly magazine, recently announced that it
had chosen the best article written in each of the last 20
years In it's selection of noteworthy manuscripts the
for having the best for 1890 to Dean William
Pickens treasury staff assistant and noted lecturer
The Phoenix index., 1941-11-29

Therefore, it is believed within the
province of FEPC to remedy
nasty situation which persists and
seems to be growing in the dis
trict.
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DISFRANCHISING THE
NEGRO WORKER

Now on the Florida East Coast
the Railway Mediation board placed
white foremen and Negro section
hands in the same classification or
group for purposes of collective bar
gaining. The white foremen know
ing this arrangement gave Negroes
the bargaining power or authority
even over them. joined the Jim crow
Maintenance of Way Employees.
This union follows the policy
Of setting Negroes up in separate
locals, but flatly refuses to allow
these Negroes to engage in col
Iective bargaining of any type with
their employers. These Negroes
are forced TO appeal to the repre-
Sentatives of white workers to
have whatever grievances they
have adjusted if and when the
white workers desire to do.
A sound majority of the Negro
section hands saw the basic unfair
the AFL'S Brotherhood of Main
tenance of Way Employees, looked
to the all-Negro United Transport
Service Employees union for lead
erShip and guidance. Immediately
they were subjected to a reign of
terror in order to force them to
vote control of the bargaining ma
chinery to the few white foremen
on the road. In this lynching of
the Railway Labor act, they were
assisted by representatives of the
federal and state governments.
The question now is whether Ne
gro labor will have sense enough
or courage enough to back up the
fight begun by the U. T. S f. A.
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Anthology" the article in the form
Of a letter by one of the guards TO
folks back home tells a vivid story
of the detention. court martial and
execution of the Is soldiers.
The Phoenix index., 1941-11-29

The PHOENIX INDEX connected with political party
faction shall all times regardless set rulings q regua
the completely mpary hatred
All matter this should be office Sun
later p NJ order the
plainly written
Of the sheet otherwise it used We the rights
matter safety convenience unless the
paid for.
be- contributors they
will not be published
PLATFORM
To the coIored that they feel PROUD
which they their views all political social
religious and questions which face the
especially business the extent
that must become as we'll job seekers
instruct girls IN thrift
promote FatherhOOd brotherhood Of
s. TO build frmer racial foundation tor pOsterfty
the compete
technique other
patrons dependable &
cent service all times that alone will be able
realizing
shall all times give heed and
rendering better service.
published I'm which
national Such
opinions shall not reflect Iii
opinion of PHOENIX INDEX.
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SI.O6I RAISED

I,O6I RAISED
WILMINGTON, Del.-With last
reports just in, the Wilmington,
Delaware branch of the NAACP an
nounceS that it raised total of
ST ,O61 so, and recruited 1,010 men,
berS in its annual membership cam
paign which was directed by Mrs.
Daisy E. Lampkin, field secretary
for the NAACP.
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lively, III self-criticism of a con-
structive nature 1 say lf-criticism
because its editorial staff is COM
posed of distinguished native-born
and resident christian and educa-
tional leaders of both major racial
groups.
OPPOSITION is STRONG
The value Of a news organ is
predetermined by the quality of
folk who produce it. The quality
of these folk is authenticated when
one realizes that they have stayed
home "to grow and to glow against
the stubborn resistance of the
Opposition" The opposition is