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Smyrna times., 1915-11-03
PREPAREDNESS A THEME
INTERESTING DELAWARE
BOOST BY PROMINENT MEN FOR
PURCHASE OF D. c. CANAL

Owellers in Town BY its Banks Be-
lieve Government Will Buy the
Wa.erwaY-many Hear Address
Waterways Day. the big feature
of Old Home Week. was celebrated
at Delaware City. Tuesday and the
town entertained a record. breaking
crowd The exercises. opening at
2 O'Clock. were presided over by John
c. Higgins. and addresses were made
by Congressman Moore. of Phladel-
phia. Senator Salisbury. and Con-
gresham Miller. of Delaware and
Brigadier General E. NJ. Weayer. of
the army. Congressman Miller
dwelt at length upon the Inadequate
Unnamed coast defenses Of the At
lantic sesboard. calling attention to
the fact that Fort Mott and Fort Del
aware had barely enough soldiers to
keep the Government property in
order and TO prevent the guns and
machiney from deteriorating. while
there were but two companies of coast
artillery at Fort dupont. Continuing.
he sale in part:
Better State Of Preparedness the Need
''In :he country today there 5 un-
doubtedly a strong sentiment calling
for better state of preparedness in
our army and navy. The same facts
have been before the people of the
country years past. but it has taken
the example created by the great
European conflict to arouse Us to our
senses. II this nation in the future
is 10 oc .upy the place that il should
among the nations of the globe it is
absolutely necessary for US to be bet
ter prepared than we are today. not
necessarily for war. but for the en-
forcement Of peace. Al the coming
session Of Congress legislation will
undoubtedly be presented providing
for an increase in the expenditures
upon both the army and the navy.
Through their representatives, at
Washington the people Of the United
States are largely responsible for the
system under which the annual ex-
penditure for the army and navy have
been made, and for the practice which
has grown up of disfegarding the
recommendation Of the officers in the
War Department and the Navy De-
partment. These officers. and par
ticularly the General Board Of the
navy and the General staff Of the
army. know more about the needs oi
their respective services than de-
members Of Congress or other civil.
officers Of the Government II is tC
be hoped. therefore, that their voice
will be listened to in the event Of
increased expenditures being made
because. as such matters are nov
handled. It would be far better &
learn how TO spend the money befOr,
we increase the amount if the sam,
practices aud systems are to be al
lowed.
Believe Government Will Buy Cana
The program this afternoon emphi
sized the homecoming feature Of IN
week more now than any other event
With many former residents ther
from all sections Of the country. som
OF them having not been here i
many yesrs. nearly every one in tow
is entertaining some friends, and tn
hotels are taxed 10 their capacity
The interest displayed by the crow
today in the question Of the purchas
of the Delaware & Chesiapeak Cans
by the Government was great. man
believing thst the purchase will h
but the matter of a short time.
Smyrna times., 1915-11-03

Thursday evening. The American
Qusrtette. male will be there. The
day sessions will be devoted entirely
TO regular institute work. as in past
seasons. and some well-knOwn educa
tors will be present In all. about
four hundred and fifty white teachers
will make Milford their home for the
week.
Smyrna times., 1915-11-03

Retiring after several years in the
employ Of the Philadelphia & Reading.
George Conner, Of Richardson Park,
was presented with a smoking set by
Wilmington employees.
Smyrna times., 1915-11-03

George c. Casson was held in $500
bail for Court on a charge Of stealing
a gold watch and some clothing from
Ray Shunt. of Philadelphia. a Car
ney's Point worker.
Smyrna times., 1915-11-03
WANTED.

Keifer Psars to load in bulk SMYRNA
station.
GEO. W. CUNNING.
Smyrna, Del
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1915-07-02
PRESIDENT WILSON
TO FIRST VOTERS

Addresse of President Wilson, at
Convention Hall, Philadelphia, May
10, 1915:
Mr. Mayor, Fellow-Citizens:
1t warns my heart that you should
give me such reception; but it is
not of myself that | wish to think to-
night. but of those who have just be-
come citizens of the United State.
This is the only country in the world
which experiences this constant and
repeated rebirth. Oother countries
dpend upon the multiplication of their
own native people. This country IS
constantly drinking strength out of
new sources by the voluntary associa-
ton with it Of great bodies Of strong
men and forward-looking women. And
so by the gift of the free will of in
dependent people it is being constant
ly renewed from generation to genera
ton by the same process by which
it was originally created. 1t is as
if humanity had determined to see to
it that this great nation, founded for
the benefit of humanity, should not
lack for the allegiance of the people
Of the world.
You have Just taken an oath of al
legiance to the United States. Of al
legiance to whom? Of allegiance
to no one, unless it be to God. Ger
taialy not of allegiance to those who
temporarily represent this great gov
eminent. You have taken an oath of
allegiance to a great ideal, to a great
body of principles, to great hope of
the human race. You have said, eve
are going to America, not only to earn
living, not only to seek the things
which it was more difficult to obtain
where we were born, but to help for
ward the great enterprise of the hui
man spirit-to let men know that ev-
erywhere in the world there are men
who will cross strange oceans and go
where a speech is spoken is alien to
them. knowing that whateve" the
speech, there is but one longing and
utterance of the human heart and
that is for liberty and justice" And
while you bring all countries with you,
YOU come with a purpose of leaving
all other countries behind you,-bring-
ing what is best of their spirit, but
not looking over your shoulders and
seeking to perpetuate what you in
tended to leave in them. l certainly
would not be one even to suggest that
man cease to love the home of his
birth and the nation of his origin
these things are very sacred and
ought not to be put out of our hearts
but it is one thing to love the place
where you were born and it is anoth-
er thing to dedicate yourself to the
place to which you go. You can not
yourself to America unless
you become in every respect and with
every purpose of your will thorough
Americans. You can not become
thorough Americans if you think of
yourselves in groupes. America
does not consist of groups. A man
who thinks of himself as belonging
to a particular national group in Am
erica has not yet become an American,
and the man who goes among you to
trade your nationality is no worthy
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1915-07-02
PRESIDENT WILSON HAS APP.
POINTED LANSING SEC
RETARY OF STATE
New Cabinet Head Probably Foremost
American Authority On Constitu-
tional And International Law

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The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1915-07-02
4 JULY 4 WOMAN.
Handy Betty Hager Helped Our Fore
fathers to Win independence.

Patriotic service in the American
Revolution was rendered by Handy
Betty Hager, known also as Betty the
Blacksmith, who reftted guns and ar
tlilery for the patriotic armies. Betty
was a natural mechanic, whose latent
abilities were developed in the employ
.of Samuel Leverett, blacksmith
farmer living near Boston.
Prior to the battle of Concord the
patriots of the surrounding country
had been preparing themselves for the
conflict for months. Guns of all types
-matchlocks, fintlocks, smoothboree,
blunderbusses and what not. some Of
which had not seen service for three
or four generations-came piling into
the Leverett shop, and while Leverett
himself could be observed by a3v
passing Tory to be busily engaged in
shoeing horses, his unsupported as
Sjstant was working in secret cham
Der making the neighbors' Anticipated
.old firearms serviceable once more.
Betty kept up this volunteer work
Throughout the whole course of the
war, never accepting a single copper
for her labor. To Betty and her en-
.plCyer likewise belongs the credit IF
putting the first captured British can
non into action after they had been
spiked by their former owners.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1915-07-02

Sc nation that is not constantly re-
newed out of new sources is apt to
have the narrowness and prejudice Of
a family; whereas, America must
have this consciousness, that on all
sides it touches elbows and touches
hearts with all the nations of man.
kind. The example of America must
he the example not merely of peace
because it will not fight, but of peace
because peace is the healing and ele-
waiting influence of the world, and
strife is not. There is such thing
as a man being too proud to fight
There is such thing as a nation be-
ing so right that it does not need to
convince others by force that it is
right.
You have come into this great IA.
ton voluntarily seeking something
that we have to give, and all that we
have to give is this. We can not ex-
empt you from work. No man is
exempt from work anywhere in the
world. | sometimes think he is for
tunate if he has to work only with
his hands and not with his head. 1t
Is very easy to do what other people
give you to do, but it is very difficult
to give other people things to do. We
can not exempt you from work: We
can not exempt you from the strife
and the heartbreaking burden of the
struggle of the day-that is common
to mankind everywhere; we can not
exempt you from the loads that You
must carry; we can only make them
light by the spirit in which they are
carried. That is the spirit of hope,
1t is the spirit of liberty, it is the
spirit of justice.
When | was asked, therefore. bv
the mayor and the committee THAI
accompanied me up from Washing
ton to meet this great company OF
newly admitted citizens. | could not
oecIire the invitation. | ought NOT
to be away from Washington, and vet
| feel that it has renewed my spirit
as an American. In Washington men
tell you so many things every day
that are not so, and l like to come
and stand in the presence of a great
body of my fellow citizens. whether
they have been my fellow citizens a
long or short time, and drink. as
1t were, out of the common fountains
with, them and go back feeling what
you have so generously given me. the
sense of your support and of the Iiv-
ing vitality in your hearts of its great
ideals which made America the hone
of the world
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1915-07-02
Huerta Nabbed
By Authorities
FOrmOr Mexican Dictator, DepOsed By
President Wilson, Detained
At Ell PaS0
ARRESTED FOR CONSPIRACY
Man Charged With Madero's Assassi.
nation Held On Charge OF Start
ing Another Revolution

WashingtOn.-The United States
government has frustrated for the
present an attempt on the part of
Gen. Victoriano Huerta and his asso-
ctates to launch from American terri
tory new revolutionary movement
in Mexico.
Detention of the former Mexican
dictator with General Orozco and 9TH
ers at Eel Paso followed nearly three
months of espionage by government
agents. The department of justice
had instructed United States Attor.
ney Camp of the western district of
Texas to take into custody these men,
who, seemingly, were engaged in viO-
lations of neutrality laws which for
bid the recruiting of men, purchase
of supplies therefore, and the organ
izing of a military expedition on the
soil of the United States to be used
in operations against a people with
which this country is at peace.
Nabbed At Ell Paso
Ell Paso TeXas.-Charges of conspir-
ing to incite a revolution against a
friendly country were filed against
General Victoriano Huerta, former
president of Mexico, who was placed
under arrest at Newman, N. NJ, by
federal officers.
Similar charges were filed against
Gen. Pascual OrozcO, who was ar
rested at the same time.
Huerta was released on $4,000
bond and Orozco on $500,
A hearing was set for July /. After
the formal charges issued on instruc-
tions from the United States district
attorney at San Antonio had been
filed, the accused men were taken be-
fore George Oliver, United States com
missioner, and their bond approved
and the date for their hearing fixed.
Surety was furnished by Isaac and
Frank Alderete, May Moye and Ru-
dolfo Cruz.
General Huerta was driven to the
home of his daughter, Mrs. Luis Flu
entes.- Orozco was taken to the home
of friends
Instead of being given an enthusi-
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1915-07-02
Royalty At American Wedding

London.-King George and Queen
Mary, it is stated in the London news
papers. will be present at the wed,
ding early in August of Miss Rather.
inc Page, daughter of Walter Hines
Page. American ambassador to the
court of st. James, and Charles G.
Loring of Boston. Their majesties
are said to be sending notable pres
ents to the bride. 1t is recalled that
King Edward and Queen Alexandra at,
tended the wedding of Miss Jean T.
Reid and John H. Ward, in 1908, the
daughter of Whitelaw Reid.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1915-07-02
Wilson Receives
Many Ovations

Secretary Lansing will do most of
the actual work on the note to Great
Britain now being prepared, but the
president has already gone over with
him the broad questions of policy in
volved and will see the note before it
is forwarded to London.
The president arrived here after a
trip through Connecticut Massachu-
sets and Vermont, marked by fire.
quent ovations from crowds. He re-
fused to make any speeches, but he
smiled broadly at Iaudatory comments
from several hundred men, women
and children with whom he shook
hands. The crowds were much larger
and more enthusiastic than ever have
greeted the president en- route here
before, and many told him they APP
proved his course in the foreign stu
alton.
Practically the entire population of
Windsor, Vermont and Cornish were
at the station to greet the president.
They cheered him repeatedly and for
a while he was completely hemmed in
by people who wanted to welcome him
back to the summer capital.
The presidents JOY was evident
when his daughter, Mrs. Francis B.
Sayre, with her husband. and baby
boy, arrived here for visit.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1915-07-02

son to live under the Stars and
Stripes.
My urgent advice to you would be,
not only always to think first of Am
erica, but always, also. to think first
Of humanity. You do not love hui
mainly if you seek to divide humanity
into jealous camps. Humanity can
be welded together only by love, by
sympathy, by justice, not by jealousy
and hatred. l am sorry for the man
who seeks to make personal capital
out of the passions of his fellow men,
He has lost the touch and ideal of
America, for America was created tn
unite mankind by those passions
which separate and debase. We came
to America, either ourselves or in the
persons of our ancestors, to better
the ideals Of men, to make them see
finer things than they had seen be-
fore, to get rid of the things that
divide, and to make sure of the things
that unite. 1t was but an historical
accident no doubt that this great
country was called the Omitted
States; yet l am very thankful that
it has that word Omitted" in its title,
and the man who seeks to divide man
from man, group from group, interest
from interest, in the United States
is striking at its heart.
1t is very interesting circumstance
to me, in thinking of those of you who
have just sworn allegiance to this
great government that you were
drawn across the ocean by some becl,
oning finger of hope, by some belief,
by some vision of a new kind of JUS
tice, by some expectation of a better
kind of life, No doubt you have been
disappointed in some of us. Some of
US are very Disappointing. No doubt
you have found that justice in the
United States goes only with pure
heart and a right purpose as it does
everywhere else in the world. No
doubt what you found here did not
seem touched for you, after all, with
the complete beauty of the ideal
which you had conceived beforehand.
But remember this: If we had grown
at all poor in the ideal, you brought
some of it with you. A man does
not go out to seek the thing that is
not in him. A man does not hope for
the thing that he does not believe in,
and if some of us have forgotten what
America believed in, you, at any rate,
imported in your own hearts renew
al of the belief. That is the reason
that |, for one, make you welcome.
If | have in any degree forgotten
what America was intended for, | will
thank God if you will remind me.
was born in Aemrica. You dreamed
dreams of what America was to be
and | hope you brought the dreams
with you. No man that does not see
visions will ever realize any high houc
or undertake any high enterprise.
Just because you brought dreams with
you, America is more likely to realize
the dreams such as you brought.
You are enriching us if you came ex-
pecting US to be better than we are.
See, my friends, what that means.
1t means that Americans must have a
consciousness different from the con-
sciousness of every other nation in
the world. am not saying this with
even the slightest thought of criti-
cism of other nations. You know
how it is with a family. A family
gets centered on itself if it is not care
full and is less interested in the neigh
bors than it is in its own members.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1915-07-02
ENGLAND Wants Ban On Foes

New Orleans, Members OF the New
Orleans Cotton Exchange who are as
sociate members of the Liverpool Cot
ton association, announced that they
had received letters urging them to
sign enclosed declarations that they
were not having and would not have
any dealings with persons domiciled
or carrying on business in any state
at present at war with his Britanic
majesty until such time as peace may
have been declared" Similar letters
have been received by members Of the
New York Cotton Exchange.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1915-07-02
America ANNOYED By Haiti

Neutrality-suspicious. conditions
in Haiti have reached such point
that the United States is considering
seriously the formation of an entirely
new policy toward the little island re.
public. Paul Fuller, Jr., sent by Presi.
dent Wilson to Haiti with plenary pow.
ers to negotiate a treaty placing the
collection of customs duties under the
control of the American government
has reported that the Haitien govern
ment does not want to enter into such
a treaty, but has made counter pro.
posals.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1915-07-02
President Greeted By Large And ERthusi'
astiC Crowds Who Cheer
Him Justify
is AT SUMMER WHITE HOUSE
Physician Orders Him To Take Rest
At Cornish-Welcome His
Baby Grandson

Cornish, n. Hinder orders from
his physician to take complete rest
President Wilson settled down at the
Summer White House" for a brief
vacation to prepare himself for the
arduous work he is expecting within
the next few months in connection
with the European and Mexican situ-
atoms.
The president plans to give much
thought in the quiet seclusion of the
Cornish hills to the next step in his
new discussion with Great Britain over
interference with commerce between
the United States and neutral Euro
pean nations.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1915-07-02
Robert Lansing Is
Bryan's Successor
DRIVING AT WARSAW
Teutonic Forces Now Determined To
Reach The Polish
Capital

London-The Russians again are
retreating in Galicia, both north and
south of Lemberg. and in Poland the
Germans have launched another at
tack against Warsaw in the form of a
drive from the north through Prza-
snysZ.
The new blow at the Polish capital
has been preceded by furious artil-
Iery action, The fact is recorded by
the Russians themselves, but it is too
early to say whether it means a seri-
Gus offensive, the first clash having
developed a bayonet encounter, the
result of which neither side records.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1915-07-02

asuc welcome by mis- supporters, many
of whom Mad gathered at the border,
Huerta reached FL Paso in custody of
federal officers and under guard Of
twenty-five United States troopers.
The former Mexican executive and
General Orozco were taken to the
customs house and later removed to
Fort Bliss, where they were held I'M
til their bonds had been provided
Huerta, in answer to a question, de-
MED he had intended to re-enter Mex
leo at this time.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1915-07-02

Former Mexican dictator, who rose
to power through Madero's death, of
whose assassination he was accus-
ed by President Wilson, who de-
posed him and drove him from pow
err. After being driven from ref
uge in Spain, General Huerta came
to the United States, where he was
allowed to land after taking an
oath that he would not do anything
to violate the neutrality laws of this
country regarding any other coun-
try. With party of friends he was
nabbed at Ell Paso en- route to Mex
leo, where, it is said, he intended
starting another revolution and re-
establishing himself as dictator.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1915-07-02

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