Evening journal., 1913-09-01
ARDEN AND
BROWN RIVALS
STIR ARDEN
Philosophical Anarchist An
nOunCeS His Intention Of
Leaving Delaware Colony
SAYS FREE SPEECH
Is DENIED HIN

ARDEN, Del, Sept. Anarchy, Es-
peranto. politics and the celebration Of
1.-THE seyenty-fourth anniversary Of the
birth Of Henry George were so
ljumbied here yesterday that the
lsingle Takers are wondering just
what happened. George Brown,
self-termed anarchist who first
sprang into the limelight two years
ago when he set Upton Sinclair and
all Arden's baseball team pounding
Delaware's State roads for a day be-
cause they had violated the blue laws,
and he, in pet, had sworn out a
warrant for their arrest, provided the
days troubles.
George Brown ran a rival meeting
at his bungalow, while the Ardenites
and hundreds Of Philadelphia, Will
mington and Baltimore Single Taxes
We're eulogizing Henry George and
Esperanto in Arden's Woodland Thea
tre Browns meeting was a strictly
anarchist and free-love discussion az
fair, intended to put a blight up
the Henry George proceedings. In a
: small way it was a success.
It was also Browns farewell party
at Arden. Brown has sold his 90
year leased bungalow for the
i lstrangest of strange reasons-that is,
/ strange for Arden. He has been
e denied, by popular vote, the right Of
free speech, and this by the same men
: who. in 1895, exhausted Delaware Jail
appropriations by serving 30-day
! isentences because they insisted upon
q maintaining that inalienable right in
e the streets of Delaware cities.
The trouble with Brown. the con-
! lservative Ardenites say, was that he
Il talked Just a mite too freely, par
! ticularly about love. and they had to
y muzzle him. His announcement that
he had sold his bungalow was re-
ceived with enough enthusiasm to
supply all needs
Upton Sinclair was not present to re-
joice 1t was reported that he would be
+ here for the days celebration. When
u Frank Stephens. the founder of the
communistic colony. was told that such
e was he rumor he exclaimed: "A little
3 learning hath made thee ma4 Sin
Il clair's not here. He's in Germany, an5
e he won't come back here" 1t was oh
z vious that Stephens hasn't much us'
Il for the author Of "The Junglen-par
.e ticularly in Arden. where Sinclair haS
few little marital difficulties
n "Juniata" in Esperanto.
L Henry Georges birthday really cam'
q today The celebration, however, j
i held on the Sunday previous in view o
the crowds that can take Labor Day fo
resting after Is hours Of Esperanto an
!. single tax aratery. They did more yes
i terday than listen TO oratory on Esper
4 anto. They sang it in the beautiful
~ Woodland Theatre. Chiefly it wa
Z Juniata.
u The Esperantists and every one els
for every one, seated on stumpl
leaves and plain earth, joined in-di
not stop with the one stanza and the re
H. frain. They went through the Who'll
TO song Then they heard Harry Hetze
n Philadelphia's delegate to the Interna
ys tional Congress last year in Cracov
IN Russian Poland, and Don Stephens, VIII
returned to Arden from Europe onl
Saturday, tell how remarkably easy
was, with just little Esperanto a
the end of your tongue to do the Cor
u tinent 100 per cent. more satisfaction
= ily than any school girl in a PERSONAL
" conducted tour ever did it.
II Henry George Celebration.
"a The celebration in honor of Henr
si' George followed several hours of E:
= y peranto. 1t, too, was held in the wooC
- land theatre. There was absolutely n
y. formality in the observance Mel
~ young and old, in white duck trouser
"A open-necked tennis shirts and sanda
~ with never a sign of hosiery, certai
IN young women who wore bloomers an
he others who We're more conservative
~ attired, rested their backs against IL
~ big trees. They sang:
M We want the earth. we want it al
no We want the whole terrestrial bal
to the air Of Maryland, Ny Maryland
IN Henry Johns Gibbons. an assistant cit
rs solicitor from Philadelphia. chairman {
~ the meeting, started the speaking by II
m ferring to Henry George and John NIass
field. He couldn't praise Masehed
- Tragedy of Nan" and "Ihe Widow {
Bye Street" too highly.
Francis /. dupont, declared that tn
results Of modern cooperation Shove
80 per cent loss in human labor, du
to speculation in land. He said tn
r public mind in Delaware is a whole lo
Il more receptive to the single tax than te
years ago.
IL NAoAlth NNlitdu0t 4tnailE Nitih q
the National House of Representative
In told of four Senators and eighteen Rel
y resentatives who are Single Takers. Nj
p DUPONT had said that President Wilso
was "tinctured with the Single Tax.
Mr.. Williams proceeded to confirm thi
by citing !. dozen presidential appoint
% ments of "Pro--ess and Poverty" enthu
= siasts. Among others, he named Frank
:. lin K Lane. secretary # the interior
- and Louis f. Post, assistant seeretar
- :, of labor.
= OF course, every one eulogized Henr
~ George. deploring his mtinlely death i
!. 1899, when he was fighting the secon
= ~ time fqka &yor of New Yori But mod
!, ern politscs, and strangely enough, Ne'
= Jersey politics. were tangled up in Al
- den. Delaware before the big gong a
q the inn doomed supper time All tn
!. politics Was Edmund B. Osborne, Pre-
= gressive candidate for Governor of Ne'
Jersey. William n. Callahan and Jane
A. Robinson spoke for Mr.. Osborne. ]
seemed that MIR. Osborne was a simor
pure Single Taxer with a Single Ia
platform big enough for all Arden to 81
~ upon.
p. "The Progressive party" shouted M
nd - &C. -. fbo Il