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Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-11-07
Local and Rural News

Mr.. B. F. Sturgis is quite i'll at his
home on Clarke Avenue.
Mrs. Dean Tasker entertained her
bridge club Tuesday night.
Mrs. Clarence w. Barnes is spend
ing the week in Norfolk, Va.
DR.. r. Lee Hall motored to Balti-
more on Wednesday of this week.
Mrs. William E. Craigmile motor
ed to Baltimore over the weekend.
Mrs. G. E. Scheduled, Of Baltimore
is the guest of Mrs. William School
field.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ounce Ashburn were
visitors in Suffolk, Va, Thursday
and Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph A. Ross spent
part of the week in Wilson, North
Carolina.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dean Tasker made a
business trip to Baltimore the past
weekend.
Miss Bessie Hayward has return
ed from a weekend visit to friends in
Philadelphia.
Mrs. T. B. Venable entertained very
delightfully."- at bridge supper, We'd
nesday night.
Mrs. J. Miles Landlord entertained
q few friends at bridge Thursday
night of last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Norman j. Lewis and
Miss Ethel Dix spent a part Of last
week in Philadelphia.
Miss Ellen Lynch, of Ocean City,
has returned after brief visit with
Mrs. William L. Bennett.
Mrs. B. r. Harrington and son, Of
Cape Charles, have been guests of her
sister, Mrs. Anna Mcclure.
Mrs. w. J. Kelly, of Chincoteague,
has been the guest of her son, Mr..
Edward L. Kelly of Walnut st.
Miss Lenora Heilig of Goucher Col
lege spent the weekend with her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Simon Heilig.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. Harlan Robertson
and Miss Julia Robertson motored to
Lancaster, Pa, over the weekend.
Mrs. Frank Stevenson, Miss Marah
Stevenson and Miss Madge Ross have
been recent visitors in Baltimore.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Stringer, of
Chevy Chase, have been recent
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Basil Payne.
Miss Margaret Crocke tt is in New
York, gift shopping for the what
Not" Maple Street.
Marshall Kelly, of Seaford, Del,
was called home this week to attend
the funeral of Mr.. w. F. McAllister.
Master Tommy Sexton spent few
days the past w eek with his grand
mother, Mrs. James Sexton, Second
st. ~
Mr.. Joseph r. Ford was taken sud-
denly i'll on Tuesday and is confined
to his bed under the care of physi-
clan.
Miss Gertrude Dunn of Baltimore,
returned to her home after spending
the week with Mr.. and Mrs. Ben
Cohen.
Mr.. and Mrs. Howard Dryden, of
Baltimore, attended the funeral of
Mrs. Harry Walters held here on
Thursday.
Mrs. John w. Ennis, of Concord,
Mass, was called here on Tuesday by
the death of her sister, Mrs. Harry
Walters.
Mrs. Clayton T. Davis and sons,
Billy and Bobby, have returned from
a visit of several days with relatives
in Baltimore.
Mr.. John w. Dunton, of Green
backville, Va, spent last weekend
with his sister, Mrs. s. J. Mariner,
on Second Street.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-11-07

Mrs. James S. Clogg who has beer
spending sometime in Franktown, Va
has returned to the home of DR.. Ham
mond in Berlin.
Mrs. Earl Cutler, Mr.. and Mrs. Dial
Mills, of Cambridge, have been guests
at the w. S. Schoolfield home or
Market Street.
Mrs. Riley P. Stevenson has return.
ed from a visit of several days with
her daughter, Mrs. Harris Corddry OF
Public Landing.
Mrs. Bessie Merrill, of Smyrna,
DEL, spent part of the week in POGO
moke, called here by the death of
Mrs. Harry Walters.
The Woman's Democratic Club of
Worcester County win meet Monday
night, November 10 in Brimer's
Restaurant, Snow Hill.
Corp. Clayton T. Davis Jr., of Fort
Bliss, Texas, is spending fifteen-day
furlough with his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Clayton T. Davis.
Mrs. S. w. Carey has returned to
her home in this city after a two
weeks visit with her daughter, Mrs.
Thomas Henderson, in Baltimore.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. r Birmingham,
and daughter, Kay Royal, and Mrs.
Jas. D. Justice, of Belle Haven, Va,
visited relatives here on Sunday last.
The Annual Thanksgiving Dance
will be held sat the State Armory in
Pocomoke, Thursday night, Novem-
Der 20. Make your reservations early.
Mr.. and Mrs. Francis E. Young and
son Francis Mears Young, and Mrs.
Lawrence Birmingham spent a part
Of this week with friends in Balti-
more.
Dick Thompson who has been re-
ceiving treatment in the Mercy Hos
pital, the past two months has return
ed to his home on Walnut Street,
much improved.
Mr.. and Mrs. Asbury P. Beauchamp
have recently returned from very
pleasant visit with friends and rela-
tives in Philadelphia, Chester and
Washington, D. C.
Miss Irene Flax, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. A. w. Flax, entertained a
number of her friends with a skating
party, and refreshments, on the oc-
casion of her fourteenth birthday.
Miss Cecilia Shaw, member of
the Senior Class of Hood College, ac-
companied by her roommate, Miss
Betty MacCrosky, of Wilmington, N.
c., spent the weekend with her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Shaw.
Mrs, Clifton Boole was able to
leave the hospital in Nassawadox,
Va, on Wednesday and return to her
home in this city. She brought with
her, her young daughter.
The State Roads Commission will
open bids next week for relocating
and paving of three-quarters of a
mile of road from near Greenhill to-
ward Pocomoke, thus cutting out a
decided curve at that point of the
highway.
Mr.. Goldsborough Hurley, who was
operated on about two weeks ago at
the Peninsula General Hospital, in
Salisbury, is showing satisfactory i'm
provement at this writing, though his
condition will not permit his leaving
the hospital for some time yet.
Mrs. Ray v. Gladding, Mr.. and
Mrs. Herbert Gladding, Mrs. Gladding
Davis and Mr.. Paul Gladding motored
to Philadelphia, Wednesday to visit
Mr.. Gladding, patient at DR.. Beck's
Clinic. From latest reports Mr.. Glad
ding is gradually improving in health
and his friends here are hoping the
improvement may continue and he
may soon be able to return to his
home in this CITY.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1941-05-08

Carl wrote in less than the club ex-
pected to pay"
Third question" How long does
it take to turn minor Lacquer into
major leaguer?" Again speaking
in terms of the average.
CATER thorough check, l find it
takes just 31a years for all except
the pitchers. 1t takes the pitchers
Az years to be ready for big league
bats" President Ford Frick said.
81 am taking the time from the
first minor league start until the
player is ready for big league job.
Many, of course, have come along
in year or two. A few have broken
in directly from college play or
sandlot play. Others have taken six
or seven years-or even longer-be-
fore they arrived with the right
equipment.
"But thorough search and study
of the records shows that a minor
Lacquer usually needs 31a years.
training before he can hold down
major league jOb-and keep it for
a while" he added.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1941-05-08
TOUGH DRAFT BOARDS

The problem of industrial man.
power has become so acute that de-
Tense chiefs have complained to Sc
lective service officials that some
local boards are ''too tough" about
granting deferment to skilled work
men.
Ohio draft boards, for example,
are ordering the induction of crafts
men badly needed for the crucial
machine tool program. Similar
complaints have been made against
Michigan draft authorities for TAX
ing specially skilled men needed by
the Packard plant, now producing
Rolls-Royce airplane engines for
the British.
From Virginia have come reports
that the draft is hampering the vast
naval and shipbuilding program at
Newport News.
The problem of labor supply is
also hitting agriculture. Agricul-
tural officials fear that so much
labor is being drained off farms that
some of them want to bar any more
defense plants in midwestern dairy
and pork sections.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1941-05-08

it don't make 'em lay up the big
car, shorten up the pleasure trips
or cut down on the night club par
ties.
Luke-Ain't guy got a right to
his own idea of what sacrifice
means?
Elmer-Not up to the point where
he thinks it's strictly baseball
term.
Luke-You don't expect people to
60 around demanding a chance to
sacrifice, do you?
Elmer-Not yet, but I think it will
be strictly a routine impulse be-
fore the year is over. Mr.. Roose-
welt gave a plain warning in strong
language, but he people still need
to be stirred up to a full apprecia-
ton of what it all really means. This
country has been in an atmosphere
of marathon waltzing, express
speedways, de luxe settings, special
upholstery and bottle feeding for so
many years that too many people
still think it's a sacrifice to get up
the first time the alarm goes off
instead of waiting for the repeat.
Luke-I guess maybe you're right.
l know some fellers who would think
they was making the sacrifice of a
lifetime if they had to work twenty
minutes overtime in even a soft job
like judging a Miss America contest.
Elmer-And I could point out a
lot of 'em who could applaud every
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1941-05-08

blank contract and
told to write in his
own figures was
Bob Grove of the
Red Sox. Where
upon Grove sent the
unsigned contract
back to Tom Yaw-
key with the re-
quest that Yawkey
do the writing.
"Carl Hub b ell
was sent the same
type of contract"
someone said. land
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1941-05-08

of the average big
league ball player?
2. w h t is t h e
average amount of
money big league
ball players make
in their playin 6
time?
3. w h a t is tn e
averag e length of
time it takes to de-
velop a big Lacquer,
starting from his
first day in the
minOrS2
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1941-05-08

1t has remained for Ford Prick, one
of the best officials baseball ever
knew, to supply the correct answers.
1t was no easy job since President
Prick had to look back through the
lifetime careers of a long, long list.
happened to be with Bill Dickey,
Joe Gordon and Red Rolfe when
Ford put on his quiz-and none of
us came within brassie distance of
hitting the target.
Average Playing Lifetime
"There have been leaguers who
knew only one year of SERVICE"
Frick said. "There have been 9TH
ers, such as Ty Cobb, Pop Arson
and Jack Quinn, who hung on for
nearly rs years. But in adding up
all the figures l discovered the
average big league players career
is just 81 years.
''Those who passed the 20-year
mark include Cobb, Arson, Wagner,
Ruth, Lajoie, Quinn, Speaker, Cy
Young, and few more. But the av-
erage span is 81a seasons
This was trife astonishing to
Messrs. Dickey, Gordon and Rolfe,
who had guessed from four to six
years.
Question No. 2 is-"How much do
ball players collect, on an average,
through their playing careers?"
Mr.. Prick had the answer to this.
''The amount" he said, els $780,
900. This would mean around
$4,000 year. Salaries have
ranged from $4,000 to Babe Ruth's
$50, 00O-and it was Babe Ruth who
lifted the average far above old
levels.
''This mark is we'll above what it
was 10 years ago. 1t is far above
what it was 20 years ago."
Holdouts of 1910
I recall over 80 years ago when
Larry Lajoie and Ed Delehanty, two
of the greatest of all time, were
offered contracts for $4,000 and held
out for $4,000. And they were both
around the 400 class.
Inc largest salary ChrISty Math-
ewson ever drew was S12, 5OO-when
he was winning from 80 to IS games
year.
The highest paid men today in
clude Hank Greenberg, Bob Teller,
Buck Newsom and Joe DiMaggio.
Their average is above 100000.
Until Ford Frick dug up the gen.
eral average, doubt that anyone
ever guessed that an 81s-year ball
player would collect $120,000 for his
work.
The highest payrolls today belong
to the Yankees, Tigers and Red Sox.
All three have such headliners as
Greenberg, DiMaggio, Newsom,
Dickey, Gehringer, FOxx, Grove,
Williams, Ruffing and Gordon, who
are all in the higher brackets.
Zone queer feature" Frick, said
els that most of the higher salaries
come in ball players tenth or
eleventh season, when he has be-
come star"
There is a report out that the only
ball player who was ever sent
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1941-05-08
LUKE AND ELMER ON
SACRIFICE

Luke suppose you've heard the
Presidents warnings on the sacri-
fees every American man and wom-
an will have to meet now that the
about aid program is in full swing.
Elmer-Yes, and no truer word
was ever spoken. But I doubt that
more than one American in thou
sand appreciates it.
Luke hope it don't come to a
point where I have to stay home
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1941-05-08

a LII quiz clubs, interested in
\ baseball, are hereby called to
order. We are able to offer them
a few interesting and important
queries that even more ball players
can't answer. They came to us
from the active brain of Ford Frick,
president of the National league.
Here they are:
l. How long is the playing career
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1941-05-08
MERRY-GO-ROUND

Tall, fast-moving Rep. Lyndon
johnson is going to let no grass
grow under his feet in his campaign
for the seat of the late Sen. Morris
Sheppard of Texas. The young New
Dealer, who has the public blessing
of the President, plans 208 speeches,
an average of three day.
George Brooks, executive assist
ant in the OPM labor division, is
able to keep two secretaries busy
taking dictation and at the same
time carry on telephone CONVEX
Sation
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1941-05-08

Week-endS.
Elmer - There
you go! You're a
typical case. You
are one of the
great army of
Americans who
don't mind sacri-
fcing as long as
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1941-05-08


word the Presi-
dent said on sac
rifce and then
set up a yelp if
on their way
downtown in an
imperial linou-
sine they got held
up three minutes
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1941-05-08
1t Used to Be Sissy

There as time ,uen played badminon regarded
something But those days gone In these
photos made BY the Speeday technique eo top"ofch Ae
Davidson and Hugh Forge shou you of the strokes
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1941-05-08

by defense parade
Luke read where some guy
made squawk the other day be-
cause new defense aviation base
was so close to his golf course that
it made him nervous while putting.
Elmer-You can find plenty of
people who think a major sacrifice
is involved if the government gives
priority to the shipment of bombers
as against pool tables and electric
music boxes.
THE PENCIL SHARPENER
You'll find this odd utensil
In every office joint:
1t sharpens up your pencil
And then breaks off the point!
Merrill chilcote
Can You Remember
Away back when cigarettes were
said to stunt growth?
We understand Harold Ickes
hadn't been at sea on the Presidents
yacht an hour before he was adj
vocating federal censorship of the
waves.
Hitler is the kind of man who not
only celebrates spring by shooting
the first robin but justifies it on the
ground it was planning to attack
him. =.
John Kieran's new tome Nature
Notes." has reached this depart
ment. John says that the dragon
fly or "darning needle does not sew
up your ears as we were taught in
childhood, but is harmless, and, in
fact, beneficial. If your ear has
been sewn up a dragon fly is so
kind and gentle it will take the
stitches out, we take it.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1941-05-08
YOU'RE A ROOKIE DRAFTEE
WHEN

1-You take reprimands from cor
porals seriously.
2-You're a low private but you
have the idea it is necessary to
yell atothers when given a detail to
direct
3-You demand three helpings of
chow but write home that the food
is lousy.
4-You always let the sergeant
know you finished a job quicker than
anybody else, thinking it gets you
ahead.
"A. B. Watac.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1941-05-08
OUT OF THE RED

The New York board of educa-
ton has made membership in any
Communist, Fascist or Nazi group
sufficient grounds for dismissal of
any teacher in city college. 1t got
around at last to the belief that the
big red professor should never SUI
persede the little red schoolhouse.
A WIFE'S WORST FAULT
All my protests do not faze her
She cuts cloth still with my razor.
Merrill Chilcote.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1941-05-08
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Private Papers
OF a Cub Reporter

The harassed attache of the Amer
lean Consul at Lisbon swears this
happened: A small, shy little man
leaned confidentially across his desk
and said "Please, Mister, could you
tell me if there is any possibility that
I could get entrance to your Won
derful country?" The attache,
pressed by thousands of such re-
quests and haggard with sleepless
nights, roughly replied Impossible
now. Come back in another ten
years."
The little refugee moved toward
the door, stopped, turned and asked,
with a wan smile: Morning or aft
ernoon?"
Well, as most of us suspected, that
Nazi aviator who escaped from a
Canadian concentration camp has
lamistered to Peru, FORGETTING the
$4,000 bail posted by the German
Consulate. This is good news, be-
cause the government officials will
henceforth crack down on them all,
and there will be no bail for any
of them However, the clever
aviator didn't have all the laughs
during his escape The first
week here he was taken to many of
the Broadway hot-spots In one
of them he got double mickey"
for talking too much and loud-and
when you've swallowed a Mickey
Ono less a double one) you can es-
cape all you like, but you will never
feel better than dead duck
Which is a lot better than feeling
like live Nazi who has swallowed
a double mickey"
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1941-05-08

Top: The shuttlecock, or
''Bird," is in flight across
the net here, and Ken Dauid-
son (left) also looks as if he
is soaring, after smashing it
over to his opponent, Hugh
Forgie, 1vho is recovering
after going off balance.
Right: Zowie! Hugh
Forgie completing an
uround-the-head smash. This
shot is used by the better
players rather than a back
hand stroke.
The Hagerstown globe., 1941-09-19
LEAVES TURN COLOR

Annually when the reds and yeows begin appear
woodlands, the heard beautifu-but lust
wait until after the first frost The concerning
the part frost plays the color changes the
Those who have those changes assert that frost
plays part in the process 1t is chemistry
yet fully understood Throughout the spring leaves are
coored by the presence of chorophy strange plant
substance which converts carbon dOxde and
for the tree When the begins wane chorophy
slowly changes another FORM pass The pastids
have chemical coOring known caronods which
sunlight and cooler temperatures of them
yellow, others red
Another color factor lies in the plant sugar trap
ped in the leaves when the the sap veins in
preparation for winter This plant sugar chill nights
and changes color, sometimes o red or purple.
Thus the brillnce brought about by the
first frost but from the chemistry of the
The Hagerstown globe., 1941-09-19
TUNING CAR FOR WINTER

Recent cool mornings when the a wee bit
slowly warning to get ready for cold weather. and the
wise motoriSt who does will money.
The authority for this statement not local garaeman
although all garagemen would appreciate
American Automobile Association which
are l3OOOOO motor in what it calls the belt" the
in which weather conditions seriously opera
ton.
AS of preparing for winter it suggests change
lighter OIL adjustment of the carburetor
MIXTURE adjustments the ignition system and especially the
breaker points, checking of the battery brakes and tires and
cleaning of the cooling system preparatory putting
antreee solution The latter step recommended espec
tally important.
In addition to increased safety and comfort the
the association boon business if the average
torst would exercise pointing out that
s. spent preparing each
for the winter the total outlay would be SO 00O0OO.
The Hagerstown globe., 1941-09-19
BAKED AIR UNHEALTHY

In most of North America some form OF central heating
considered desirable and necessary in winter Thereby
possible to live in comfort in cold climates winter
loses much of it's terror
But because people careless about ventilation
preserving the natural humidity of the air. the majority
these homes supply the people with baked air in which the
tural moisture dried rendering the subject
the multitude of ills which they get i'm winter.
The human body unfavorabLy such artificial
mosheric conditions produced majority
of homes Old Man Grip thrives on baked air.
Convincing people is than keeping ignorant
til their convictions el
Civilization it's menaceS America mOdernized
Japan; England built up her fleet.
The age of discretion when idea discarded
that side is all good and another all bad.
The Hagerstown globe., 1941-09-19
Can You?

Can you take a lot of roses and
a hollyhock or two
And make nectar finer than any
witch can brew?
1t is an old, old secret, known
since the world began,
And if you cannot do it, | know
some one who can.
Can you take some tiny branches.
some wool and bits of string,
And make a coZy dwelling that
lasts from spring to spring?
No builder through the ages has
found better plan;
And if you cannot do it, | know
some one who can.
Nellie GOOde
The Hagerstown globe., 1941-09-19

get stoves and furnaces when the days spring
Pipes left full of corrodng and deterioration
10y hot fires through the winter continues during the
The has been promoter rush
rain down the chimneys.
Give the pipes of stoves and furnaces careful
The cost of replacing defective pipe cheap
Besides is less annoying to make repairs the heating
than will be in cold weather when
ence to do without heat for a few hours
The Hagerstown globe., 1941-09-19
BLUE EYES FOR BEST
RIFLE SHOT SCORES

Blue-eyed men are likely to be
the best rifle shots, according to
officers of the Marine Corps who
have been taking note of the op-
tics belonging to leading marks
men among the soldiers of the sea-
An investigation shows that
about two-thirds of the U. S. Ma
rines enlisted on the West Coast
are blue-eyed. incidentally the
leathernecks are usually we'll up in
front in nearly every sort of shoot
ing competition.