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Page Four WORCESTER DEMOCRAT] AND THE LEDGER-ENTERPRISE Published Every Saturday at Pocomoke City, Maryland. SAM’L M. CHOCKETT, Editor and Proprietor. Entered at the Postoffioe at Pocomoke City, Maryland as Second Class Matter. $1.50 A Year In Advance. Foreign Advertising Representative THE AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION > _ • "• ~~. •" _____ i SATURDAY, MAY 7, 1921 IS THE PRESS IMPARTIAL? , Many socialistic writers claim that the newspaper press is not fair to their movement. They assert that the newspapers are de pendent upon their advertisers, who are employers of labor, and therefore take the capitalistic viewpoint. It is not possible to find any human being whose mind is wholly free from bias. The public must use judgement and not accept anybody's opinion as absolutely authoritative. If the so cialists come into power, they would have public information given out by newspapers controlled by the state. The men who run newspapers would depend for their advancement, upon the met who held the public offices. They would be mere tools and mouth pieces for these men, just as the newspapers of soviet Russia arc today. There are all kinds of newspapers to present all points of view. The public hears all sides presented and makes up its opin ion on the merits of the case. Most newspapers feel it is perfectly safe to berate the capitalists, because they are unpopular. They may get more than their share of condemnation. Newspaper men will testify that it is very rare to have any advertiser make suggestions as to 'the political policy of their pa per. Many merchants earn only small incomes, and their interests are more with the wage earners than with the big capitalists. All merchants depend for their prosperity upon the welfare of the mass of the people. Any policy that failed to do justice to wage earners would injure the merchant class. A newspaper that gives the impression that it is indifferent to human progress and unfair to wage earners, gets such a small pa tronage. that ts advertising space-is not worth much. Individual newspapers often express wrong views, but when the public has read both sides, it gets as fair a picture of the real truth as human beings are able to present. COUNTRY TOWN ADVANTAGES—NO. 4—-RURAL BEAUTY Some people seem inclined to depreciate the beauty of coun try life, as a reason for preferring a country home. “I am not go ing to stay here,” remarked a pert young woman once,” “You can’t expect to live on scenery.” A great many men who are toiling to make good in a country town, will say that they have no time to think of natural beauty. And vet if all these people were transferred to the shut in streets and the hard pavements of a city location, they would feel the dif ference in no time. Their spirits would rebel at the ugliness of it. The beauty of country life is a constant solace and refresh ment. The tired man, relaxing after the efforts of the day, looks out to the sunset over the broad expanse of rural scenery, and the beauty of nature rests and consoles him. The sweet peace of these pleasant scenes sinks over his tired soul like music. It softens all discords and harmonizes his life with its surroundings. Fine trees, spreading plains, noble hills, all these features of nature have tonic and inspiration. They are a never ending source of strength and encouragement. Their loveliness has constant va riety ' i different moods of nature, and fits in with all the circum stances of man, and always seems to make life nobler and better worth living. Women feel these influences even more than men. Few wom en who were brought up amid the charm of country scenes, ever feel quite at home in a sordid city street. The hardness of brick walls and pavements seems cruel and artificial to them. All the influences of the country scene seem friendly and stim ulating. The people who have opened their eyes to these beau ties of nature have acquired a peimanent possession better than all the fine houses and gorgeous trappings of city life. People do not realize how much they are giving up in abandoning a country home, until the change may seem irrevocable. PRINCIPALS OF SALESMANSHIP—THE DEMOCRATIC STORE. People who visit big city stores often remark on the undemo cratic spirit manifested by many of the salespeople. In many stores a woman can get no attention, unless she is dressed in the latest style. If her garments are a little behind the game she is regai ded with a certain contempt, and attended to in a patroniz ing and indifferent manner. It will frequently happen that people who are wearing clothes showing some slight shabbiness, will ask to look at some fine quality goods. A poorly trained clerk will show' surprise, and in dicate that she thinks the customer may want something cheap and flimsy. But it frequently happens that the people the best able to pay will wear old clothes. They established financial inde pendence by economy, and they are not ashamed occasionally to appear in ordinary garments. A woman of that kind does not al ways take rebuffs meekly. If she is slighted in one store, she will visit some other where her cyedit is not judged by superficial ap pearances. People living in fine houses are sometimes slow to pay their bills, while those of moderate incomes may have learned to handle money carefully and do not buy until they have the cash to pay. The well trained clerks found in the stores of Pocomoke City have been taught to give equal attention to all types of people. It is a pleasure to wait on successful folks who have plenty to spend, and help them get the worth of their money and to find articles of 1 ' distinction and artistic beauty. It is an equal pleasure to look after struggling people of small means, and help them make their dollars go the limit in covering their pressing needs. So with the spirit of considering people’s real worth rather than mere exterior appearance, the stores of Po comoke City attain this fine ideal of democratic spirit, and render equally good service to all elements. WORCESTER DEMOCRAT AND THE LEDGER-ENTERPRISE FARMERS, ATTENTION Peninsula Phosphate NOW READY. 2 per cent Ammonia. 12 per cent Phos. Acid. 1% per cent Potash. Made from high grade Phosphoric Acid, Pure Ground Fish and German Potash—good for any crop not re quiring too high a grade t Francis M. Wilson. Pianos And Player-Pianos Tuned and Repaired We now have m our em ploy a most reliable and ef ficient Piano Tuner who has had 20 years exper ience with some of the most reliable city stores. WE GUARANTEE HIS WORK Write us or see us at once if your piano need l attention. HARGIS’ Two Big Stores POCOMOKE i j I "Watch The Market By Telephone Keep in touch with your market by long i distance telephone. Haul or ship your produce when the price is right. The extra re turn on a wagon load or truck full will repay, many times over, the Small cost of a tele phone call. The up-to-date farm er finds out when to take his marketing to town. He makes his : telephone a productive, paying part of his farm equipment. Your telephone di rectory tells about the different kinds of long distance calls and how to make them. Ask the operator the rate to any place. H. W. CARTY, District Manager, The Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Company \ EUGENES. MADDOX^ POCOMOKE CITY, MD [NOTICE OF THE FIRST MEETING OF CREDITORS In the District Court of the United States for the District of Maryland. In the matter of the Bay View Or chard Company, a corporation, Bank rupt. To the Creditors of the above named Bankrupt: Notice is hereby given that on the c seventeenth day of February, 1921, n the Bay View Orchard Company, a corporation, whose post office address is Snow Hill, Worcester County, Maryland, was duly adjudicated an involuntary bankrupt, and the first meeting of its creditors will be held at the law office of Staton & Whaley 1 at Snow Hill, Maryland, on Thursdav May 12th, 1921, at 2.30 o’clock P. M.. at which time and place the said creditors may attend, examine the bankrupt and transact such other business as may properly come be fore said meeting. Given at Salisbury, Maryland, this 29th day of April, 1921, F. W. C. WEBB, Referee. NOTICE TO CREDITORS Notice is hereby given that the sub scriber has obtained from the Orph ans’ Court for Worcester county, Maryland letters of Administration oh the personal estate of CHARLES H. ELLIS late of Worcester county, deceased. All persons having claims against the deceased, are hereby warned to exhibit the same, with the vouchers thereof, to the subscriber, on or ho fore the 25th day of October, 1921. They may otherwise by law be ex cluded from all benefits of the said estate. All persons indebted to said estate are requested to make imme diate payment. Given under my hand this 23d day of April, 1921. HERMAN F. ELLIS, ■ Test: Administrator. ASBURY C. RILEY, Register of Wills. EWELL & CHILD, Solicitors. ORDER NISI L. Paul Ewell, attorney for fore closure under a mortgage from John B. Martin and Lulu C. Martin to Charles L. Mason and William T. Mason, ex parte. In the Circuit Court for Worcester County. In Equity. No. 311?,. March Term, 1921. To wit: April 25th, 1921. Ordered that the sale made and re ported by L. Paul Ewell, attorney named in the above mentioned mort gage from John 5. Martin and Lulu C. Martin, his wife to William T. Mason and Charles L. Mason, for the sale of the real estate in the above cause, and mortgage mentioned he ratified and confirmed unless cause to the contrary thereof be shown on or before the 23d day of May next ryo vided a copy of this order he inserted in some newspaper printed in Wor cester County once in each of three successive weeks before the 16th day of May in the year nineteen hundred £.nd twenty-one. The report states the amount of sales to be $2600.00. OLIVER D. COLLINS, Clerk. True Copy, Test: OLiVER D. COLLINS, Clerk. Get strawberry checks printed now, J AWVBLLIM ll!■!■■■■ I 111 n>UM Ml IMMIHIH If ' | KIRSCHBAUM CLOTHES • SPRING 1921 1 Not for style alone—smart as it is. Not for quality alone— though it is well-nigh faultless. Not for value alone—however extraordinary. But for the ad mirable and unapproachable way in which they combine all three— style, quality, value—do we com- I mendtoyouKirschbaumClothes. "pl'l 5*25 to 5*45 l Company New Spring styles now in our windows and cabinets. I I. H. MERRILL CO. • One Price Clothiers II Established 1862 POCOMOKE CITY I A Neighbor s Plan ONE OF YOUR FRIENDS is quietly building up a snug little fortune. You will be surprised some day and wonder how he did it. But it is a very simple story. TJjis man does not have a large income. He has never made a large savings deposit in his life. Small deposits made every week is the 1 secret of this man’s success. His savings ac count shows a steady climb for years. * The average man fails to win because he is not willing to make small savings deposits and make them as often as possible. Most anyone can see the importance of making a big deposit—but many fail to understand the value of the small ones. Think it over. PObQMOKE CITY NATIONAL BANK Member Federal Reserve System POCOMOKE CITY, MD. The Only Bank in the County With ,=:| Over $1,000,000 Resources ’ FRANCIS M. WILSON JOHN W. ENNIS 0 President Cashier OW 'll _|| BBMgg || l sm gTMWV jjiiiiiimmiiimiiimmiHmiimimmimmmiimmiimmiimiiiiiiimmiimiimiiiu | Guaranteed Tire Repairs j We guarantee our tire repairs to last as long as the tire "Your old tires, repaired by us, can be depended upon for long, =j = trouble free service. All tires that leave our shop are sound tires = E strengthened by the besi repair matrials. E = Bring in your worn casings for free inspections. We will help 5 E you get every penny’s worth of mileage there is in them. 1 TELL US YOUR TIRE TROUBLES I J. Milton Clogg I § POCOMOKE CITY, MD. = = fimiiimiiiiiiiiiimiiiimmiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiMiiiimiimiiiiimiiiiiiiiin Saturday, May 7, 1921