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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1937
Page
4
A Denton Maryland weekly note titled Saturday Morning, dated April 3, 1937. Published every Saturday by Melvin and Johnson Incorporated with Benjamin F Johnson as President and Treasurer and Marky Melvin as Vice President and Secretary. Entered at the Denton post office as second class mail matter.
A 1937 traffic death projection nears 40,000 as 1936 shows 7 percent fewer fatalities in nineteen states with positive traffic control programs. The piece urges communities to adopt planned rerouting and enforcement to reduce crashes, injuries, and deaths and to treat traffic safety as an immediate social emergency.
A call to repel fascism and communism in the United States warns of a German fascist army of 200,000 and abroad directed communists stirring trouble among workers. It laments the shipping strike cost and urges a return to American citizenship through a vigorous movement led by small business, brain workers, and farmers.
Automobiles pose a grave economic and human problem with estimates of highway losses surpassing 1.5 billion dollars annually. Recent trends show rising deaths and injuries, with 1936 ending at 38,000 fatalities and over 1.3 million other casualties. A broad campaign for accident prevention is planned, led by the National Safety Council promoting stricter licenses, standardized laws and signals, and tougher vehicle design to curb reckless driving and reduce crashes. The auto industry cooperates, noting safety gains in mechanical and structural design.
A study of state traffic reports outlines favorable trends in enforcement and engineering, yet notes rising speeds and drinking drivers as key causes of fatal accidents. Night driving remains most dangerous, with auto deaths up 37 percent over five years to 1935. Incident prevention groups promise unprecedented scope to curb these trends.
The text notes stocks rising while bonds fall since December peak, driven by inflation fears. It cites a presidential Fireside Chat warning of near-term inflation risks, officials’ worries over feverish stock activity, and a government study of measures to curb inflation.
The piece notes cheaper cars driven by industrial research and new tech like high speed steel aluminum and non shatterable glass. It cites 4000 cars in 1900 auto growth to 411 trucks in 1904 and estimates twenty five to thirty million Americans drive their own cars. It discusses highway expansion and the auto industry contributing about ten percent of employment.
A cautious note warns against trusting money to brilliant minds and vision. Safety is linked to prudence, not intellect. Even able investors may worship chance, while a prudent adviser might be a cynical, indigestion plagued man who distrusts everything including the national anthem and tulips.
D L Moody, celebrating the 100th birth anniversary of the famed evangelist, interrupted a lengthy prayer by declaring a hymn would be sung while the speaker wrapped up. The abrupt move drew attention as Wilfred G Grenfell, who had planned to leave, chose to stay after Moody’s brief address.
The passage recalls Wilfred Grenfell, a medical student who turned to medical missionary work after conversion during the Moody-Sankey campaign. It notes Moody’s influence on Grenfell and describes the Labrador missions as echoing Acts of the Apostles. Arthur Percy Fitt affirms Moody’s lasting legacy in Moody Still Lives.
The Maryland Petroleum Industries Committee reports a House bill to tax gasoline lubricating oil kerosene and all petroleum products at four tenths of a cent. Sponsors from several counties back the plan as relief funding but critics warn it would add to motorist taxes threaten federal aid funds and hit low income kerosene users hardest. No state has enacted such a tax.
William B. Matthews of the Maryland Tuberculosis Association announces the annual Early Diagnosis Campaign by national and state bodies to run through April. The effort promotes tuberculin testing and X rays to detect early disease and urges suspects and contacts to use the service. Three focal points include warning signs, testing, and the dangers of open cases, targeting young women, industrial workers, and Black communities.
Ten of Maryland's twenty-three counties recorded no typhoid deaths in 1936 and eleven had no diphtheria deaths. The list of typhoid free counties includes Baltimore, Caroline, Carroll, Cecil, Charles, Harford, Howard, Prince George's, Queen Anne's and Talbot. The diphtheria free counties include Anne Arundel, Calvert, Caroline, Cecil, Charles, Howard, Kent, Montgomery, St. Mary's and Wicomico.
The report notes 1936 typhoid cases by county with 61 in counties with no deaths. Diphtheria had 435 cases and 27 deaths in 1936, vs 1,356 cases and 95 deaths in 1926. Baltimore City had 146 diphtheria cases and 8 deaths in 1936, counties 289. in 1926, Baltimore City 837 and counties 519.
The Federal Land Bank of Baltimore observes its twentieth anniversary this week, noting its service to farmers since 1917. Local Caroline County N F L A, formed in August 1917 with Harry E Holsinger as first secretary treasurer, now has 128 members and 128 loans totaling 312400. Maryland district and entire second district totals show growth in loans and volume over 20 years, with the Land Bank acting as a Farm Credit Administration unit to stabilize agricultural credit through local cooperatives and access to lending markets.
Maryland 4-H clubs compete in the second national rural electrification contest announced by the National Committee on Boys and Girls Club Work. County reports due November 1, with top state winners earning trips to the National Club Congress in Chicago and cash scholarships from an electrical manufacturing company. Electric 4-H clubs active in multiple counties with one planned for Prince George’s. last year’s state winner from Harford County earned a $200 college scholarship.
Maryland wool growers join with counterparts from other states to pool wool for cooperative sale. Secretary C E Wise Jr of the Maryland Farm Bureau says the plan mirrors last year as current wool stocks in storage are at record lows per K A Keithly manager of the United Wool Growers Association. Keithly predicts continued favorable market conditions for pooled wools.
Maryland wool growers expect prices to rise by 10 to 15 cents a pound this year as cooperative sales expand. Last year Eastern and Western Shore lines boosted volume by about 50 percent, with earlier payments guaranteed. The plan calls for at least two carloads from Eastern Shore counties and a similar amount from Western Maryland, aiming for payments by June 1. Cooperatives help smaller farmers pool wool to access top markets and have yielded higher returns in nine of the past eleven years.
University of Maryland extension specialist Herman A Hunter urges tomato growers to plant healthy disease free stock not crowded in beds and to transplant early. He warns soft spindly plants and collar rot cannot be cured by later care and advises soil mulch or mounding to improve germination and moisture.
W. H. Evans of Standard Oil Company announces a substantial pay raise effective April 1 for clerical and other salaried staff in the Delaware Maryland District. About 900 employees benefit as raises follow a series of wage increases negotiated with thousands of workers in joint conferences. Office staff not in the advance and earning $1,800 or less annually will receive a flat $15 monthly increase. those earning $1,800 to executive levels will be considered individually by departments.
Public appeal to Maryland farmers to plant a bird feed patch for cover and food. Reports from the Resettlement Administration show wildlife increases on 7,000 acres in Worcester and 1,400 acres in Wicomico counties. Feeding stations since 1935 and patches since 1986 correlate with 89 percent more bevies of bob-white and 128 percent more birds overall, including raccoons and opossums, as of 1936 37 survey.
In March 1937, Wilson and Vaughn report feed patches in 385 plots with 300 fully consumed. Patches use buckwheat, millet, rape, corn, soybeans, cowpeas, clover, kaffir corn, and savannah seeds. Raccoons, squirrels, and rabbits feed on various crops, while farmers in Wicomico and Worcester counties endorse the wildlife program and urge planting between May 1 and July 1 to boost game supply and attract songbirds.
Mrs Lizzie Miley Smithson of Easton spent Easter with her brother in law and sister in law W S McCarty. The McCartys of Easton hosted George and Raymond McCarty and Mrs Wharton of Federalsburg. Nearby, Harold Dew and family of Chestnut Groves visited the Mills and Halls families in Preston. Other guests included Bertie Roe and son Dallas with W Norris of Wilmington, Alma and Carl Cole, and Mrs F Prager with Gus Prager visiting Harvey Patrick in Laurel. Edward Worm and Mac Willoughby toured Reading and Philadelphia. Clinton Carroll and family dined with James Toft for Easter. Betty Quidas hosted an Easter egg hunt. R F Coleman entertained Wilmington relatives. Josephine Quidas visited Frances Rosebrock.
American Corner lists numerous Easter Sunday gatherings with Mr. and Mrs. Olaf Smith and others hosting. Easter Monday visits include families from Baltimore, Federalsburg, Bridgeville, and Denton. Funeral services were held for Mrs. George Lane, formerly Hattie Daffin, at the local church.
Hobbs notes the Sunshine Workers Class regular monthly meeting will be held at the Community House next Wednesday evening April 7 with full attendance desired. Mr and Mrs L Hopkins Thomas and son Bernard were dinner guests of his parents last Sunday. Master Fillmore Davis hosted the annual Easter egg hunt Monday afternoon for the children. Mrs W E Hubbard hosted the Ladies Aid last Wednesday. Mrs W G Holbrook will host the ladies in April. Several attended the Thawley M P Church supper in Denton on Wednesday. The Easter program at the church last Sunday evening drew praise and a $25.58 collection. Mr and Mrs Kenneth Ramsburg were Easter guests of Mr and Mrs Louis Butler. Mrs Helen Moore of Swarthmore is visiting relatives here.
A century and a half of local life is recalled with Old St. Joseph’s near Cordova dating to 1765 and earlier inscriptions to 1640. The list covers high school trips to Annapolis, a Burrsville wedding at the Methodist Church, readers of the Caroline and Sussex areas, and notable losses including a fatal accident with a dynamite cap and a barn fire at Williston.
A humorous diary fragment recounts a week in a rural family from Sunday to Saturday. Slats describes mishaps with parents, school peers, and townsfolk, noting misunderstandings, teasing, and small misadventures. The entries mix dialect and odd humor about daily life and social expectations.
Farmers store fresh infertile eggs in a water glass solution during peak production to use in low output months. Use clean eggs, keep cracks out, maintain two inches of solution, and keep the container filled and covered. When removing eggs for boiling, pierce a small hole to prevent cracking.
A reflective meditation on human thirst for God using Psalmist verses and biblical scenes. It portrays a doe drinking in a woodland stream as a metaphor for souls seeking grace, recalls Hagar’s well, and invites crying out to God for divine sustenance through scripture. It ends with the invitation to drink the water of life freely.
A quotation urges each person to know their own note and sound it without intruding on others. If all do so the crowd would sing together work together in harmony and rejoicing.
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