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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-31
STATE HEALTH BOARD

The secretary of the state board of health, pr. J. D. Gilleylen, having died a few days since, pr. c. D. Mitchell, president of the board, has called for a special meeting at Jackson on Jan uary for the purpose of electing his successor. Governor Bilbo states that he has determined on pr. Gilleylen's successor on the board, but that has nothing to do with the secretaryship, which may go to a member of the board or not. The office is a very important one, and no doubt there will be several candidates Meantime pr. W.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-31
FIRST WOMAN LAWYER

few days since Miss Susie Blue Buchanan of Brandon was admitted to practice before the supreme court of the state, being the first woman who ever made such application. Miss Buchanan is the daughter of the late William Buchanan, a lawyer of promi- hence, who died a few years ago, and her friends confidently predict for her
Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1916-12-13
OBITUARY
John b. DOYLE

John B. Doyle, aged SO years,
died suddenly about six-thirty
Tuesday morning, at his home on
Chapel street. Mr.. Doyle, for
many years an employee of the
American Vulcanized Fibre Com
pany had not been well, and un-.
able to work for some time. He
was, however, able to be about,
and his death came as a shock to
his family. He was on the porch
of his home, when the family
heard him fall, and hurrying to
his assistance, found him uncon-
scious.
Requiem high mass will be held
in the st. Johns r. c. Church on
Friday, December fifteenth at nine
o'clock. Interment in the Catholic
Cemetery.
| A wife and two daughters, Alice
Doyle Adams of Wilmington, and
Mary Doyle Press of Newark, sur
vive.
Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1916-12-13
PLAY
TO BE GIVEN
Local Stars Make Up The Cast

Local Stars Make Up lhe Cast
The cast of Dandy Dick" which
is to be given in the Newark Opera
House Friday evening, December
18th, and which was postponed
from last spring, has been greatly
strengthened by the addition to it
Of Mr.. Alexander Blair, Jr., and
Mr.. A. Bailey Thomas.
Mr.. Blair is a native of Scotland
and has had considerable eXper-
ience in amateur theatricals. lie
is taking the part of Major TarVer'
an English Army officer, to which
part he is especially fitted. He IS
considered by the Agricultural
Club to be a great find, and IS
showing great cleverness and
dramatic ability in rehearsals.
Mr.. Thomas will be remembered
as The Jonah" in the play OF thai
name given by the Agricultural
Club two years ago, and as Au
uustus Schultz in "LOoking tol
Continued on page y
Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1916-12-13
TO INCREASE SCOPE
OF BUSINESS
Newark B. & L. Association
Considers New Charter

NOISlOCIS INC" OlioAIC
Following the regular monthly
directors meeting of the Newark
Building and Loan Association
held on Tuesday evening, Decem-
ber fifth, a special meeting of the
stockholders was held to consid-
er a new charter, the present one
expiring early in 1917. Plans are
being made to increase the scope
of business from 100000 to ST.,
100000. In financial circles the
local organization is rated as the
most successful building and loan
association in the country. 1t is
the proud boast of the association
that no property on which money
has been loaned has ever been
turned back.
The charter has been renewed
once before since the founding OF
the organization. Messrs. H.
Reed and D. C. Rose of the pres
ent board, were also members a
that time.
The matter will be again taker
up at an adjourned meeting to bt
held the first Tuesday in January
Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1916-12-13
Representative Men and Women
Form Community Committee
Make Christmas Fund for Company First Specific Duty

Representatives of the various
organizations of the town met in
the High School building last
evening and organized a commun-
ity committee, whose purpose is
to carry on, on larger scale, the
community work introduced by the
Newark High School Alumni AS
sociation two years ago. The new
committee is composed of twelve
members each the duly appointed
representative of some town III
stitution or organization. The
members follow: Miss Alice Kerr,
Newark High School Alumni AS
sociation, chairman; G. w. Rhodes,
st. Johns R. G. Church; H. W. Nc
Neal, Newark M. E. Church; G. W.
Griffin, wark Presbyterian
Church; Miss Frances Hurd, st.
Thomas P. E. Church; E. B.
Frazer, Newark Town Council; E
/. Richards, Board Of Education
A. L. Beals, Aetna Hose Hook and
Ladder Co.; R. F. Friedel, Parent,
Teachers Association Professor
Professor G. E. Dutton, Delaware
College, Miss Frieda Ritz, New
Century Club. Organization was
effected last evening with Miss
Alice Kerr, as chairman; G. f
Dutton, secretary, and G. "
Uh0des. treasurer. Miss Fried;
Ritz was made chairman of pro
cram committee to arrange
series of get together" meeting
for this winter.
With a committee so thoroughly
representative of the town at Wor
Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1916-12-13
SAMUEL LITTLE CAP
TURES SWEEPSlAkE
Returns With Many Prizes

"Thirty-three birds exhibited
and thirty-one winning ribbons
is the record of Samuel Llttie'
made last week at the Diamond
State Poultry Show. Mr.. Llttie
won among other honors, the Sill
YER cup offered by Mayor Price as
sweepstake prize for the BEST
ten birds in the show. Also the
T. Coleman du Pont cup Tor the
best display of Wyandottes, ana
many other special prizes.
At the show this year there were
exhibited the strongest classes OIL
Leghorns and Wyandottes ever
shown in Wilmington. In the
Wyandotte class there were 49
single entries, from all parts OF
Delaware, and Pennsylvania
Maryland, and New Jersey.
Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1916-12-13
DO your Christmas Shopping at Home ~ &k&
<&&& ~ you can't get in Ne1uak buy in Wilmington
Ne1oark Taxpayers Register Remonstrance
Object TO NelD Assessment LdlU

called on and gave a lengthy talk
on the subject which was follow
cd very closely by all present. Mr..
Moore said without doubt there
was more than one value to a
property and that the courts had
so held but that he objected to
man being compelled to place his
own value on his property. There
is nothing in the law obligatory on
the owner whereby he shall stult-
ify himself, by putting his own
value on his property" stated Mr..
Moore. The rental value he said
will only help in general way in
reaching the real value.
Mr.. Moore told of the Chamber
of Commerce and the Real Estate
Brokers Association having taken
the matter up in Wilmington, and
requesting Mr.. Hilles for his opin-
ion on the point of the property
owner having to furnish the value
on his own property. Mr.. Moore
said he did not think there would
be any objection to furnishing
the information to the assessors
orally, as that is done under the
present Wilmington city assess
ment law, but there was objection
to furnishing him with a written
statement as to value under an
antiquated law. He then read
the opinion of Mr.. Hilles, which
was printed in full in a recent is
sue of Every Evening.
Mr.. Moore said he was satisfied
in his own mind that eve can up
set this assessment if we fight it
, and the time to fight it is right
, now" He contended under such
an assessment there is mo chance
; for the fair man to get fair deal,
: but there is a chance for the crook
2 ed man to get crooked deal"
2 1--WE are fighting the law" he said,
| mot the assessor or the Levy
S Court. 1t is the system that we
t object to-" He said the Chamber
f of Commerce and the Real Estate
d Brokers as individuals will refuse
:. blanks.
t In conclusion Mr.. Moore said
e the proposition was Sprung" on
g them by the Levy Court without
: notice, and was a surprise. The
e court he contended did not con-
d suit anyone who knew anything
d about It.
= Mr.. Griffin stated that no doubt
n a fair assessment in White Clay
a Creek hundred would advance the
o total amount, and that a fair as.
sessment was what was desired.
! Assessor Ferguson said when he
e bad asked the Levy Court for more
n information, he was told that the
r more information he had the more
% he would want.
+ Some of the taxpayers who were
re present at the meeting were
Mayor Joseph H. Hossinger, Eber
le B. Frazer, DR.. Walter H. Steel
is Joseph Dean, Elmer Thompson
" George w. Griffin, Mr.. Colbert
ut James Walker, Professor Harolc
" E. Tiffany, Robert L. Armstrong
~ Elmer Ellison, Francis Cooch
to Edward L. Richards, John F. Rich
y. ards, Frank NJ. Luton, Whine
as Hill and others.
Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1916-12-13
NEWARK TOWN LIBRARY


Of quotations from the poets. We
have, too, some old and rare
books. One that l noticed espec-
tally is: "Friends in the 17th
century," by namc that com
mends itself to NewaGlS-"Charlas
Evans"
We arc especially rich in books
Of travel; and such books, you
know, are often read with more
enjoyment after returning from a
trip than beforehand. Some of
our townspeople who have trav-
eled "in foreign parts" perhaps
do not realize that they could
take those travels over again by
the freside, by drawing out from
the library: yesterdays in the
Philippines" Castles and Keeps
of Scotland" "My Winter on the
Nile" walks in London" and
Walks in Rome" "The Land and
the Book" (in my childhood we
had to be careful not to lose from
the right place flowers from the
Holy Land that my father hac
pIucked and placed between the
rages), Bayard Taylor's "Views
Afoot," and his later travel2 il
Greece and Russia, Stevenson!
"In Summer Seas" and othel
books on "The Heart of Japan,
Norway" "Wayfarers in Italy,
Along F n C h H s. h w ay s,
"Along the Labrador Coast" ant
almost where you will.
In the Kollock Memorial w
have some of the best books to b
Continued on Page p
Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1916-12-13
HEALTH AND FRUGAL
DECENCY FOR ALL
F Forence Kelley Defines Pur-
pose Of Consumers
League

Mrs. Florence Kelley, national
secretary of the Consumers Lea
que. addressed a public meeting
held in the Presbyterian Church
last Thursday evening. Mrs. Kel-
lev told of the children employed
in a knife manufactory in Chicago,
as one source of her enthusiasm
for the work for better hours, bet
fer conditions, and a better wage
for working women and children.
The children in the establishment
described at the time of Mrs. kel-
Lewis residence at Hull House,
were kept until $50, 1000 and
sometimes 10.2O-just as long as
they could be kept awake-Work-
ing on cheap steel pen knives to
be used as Christmas gifts.
In 1891 and so, number OF Wo-
men in New York made a list O.
eight stores in New York who
most nearly approached a stan,
dard of fair play and considera-
tion for their employees. These
stores were called to public at
tention and recommended to the
public. The result was the organ
! ization of consumers league
which rapidly spread to Other
states and finally became a ma
tional organization. The resul'
has been that the customs Whlcf
were voluntary in a few of th'
stores then, are statute now every
where north of Washington, d. T.
from the Atlantic to the Pacltlc
The purpose of the league IS t.
get a conscience into the shoppln'
mob: to get the public to buy ar
Continued on page 81
Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1916-12-13
Postponed Meeting On Friday

Owing to stormy weather the
meeting announced in last weeks
paper, to be held at Welsh Tract
School on Tuesday, December II,
was postponed until Friday, De-
cember fifteenth, at two o'clock.
DR.. Mitchell, president of Della
war College, will be the speaker,
and will discuss some phase of
the school situation in Delaware.
Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1916-12-13
Mission Study Class
At M. E. Church

The Newark Auxiliary of the
w. H. M. S. will meet this Friday
afternoon in the Sunday School
room of the Newark M. E. church
at two thirty. All members are
urged to be present as the meeting
marks the opening of the years
study. Topic: Old Spain and New
America.
Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1916-12-13
FIREMEN NOM
INATE OFFICERS
Appoint Committee To Plan
Banquet

At the regular meeting of the
Aetna Hose Hook & Ladder Com
panv, held at the Hose House last
Friday, committee was appoint
ed to consider plans for a ban
quet to be held in The Armory on
February twenty-second A. l..
Beals was appointed to represent
the organization on the commun-
ity committee made up of repre-
sentatives from the various town
organizations.
The following officers were
nominated, the election to be held
at the January meeting:
President, S. B. Herdman, vice
president, C. P. Medill, secretary
C. w. Colmery, treasurer, A. L
Beals, chief, E. J. Ellison and E
c. Wilson, assistants, E. J. Ellison
and Harry Hill, pipeman, Ira Shell
lender, fire assistants, Benjamin
Devonshire, C. P. Ewing, T. r. Nc
Mullen, William Gregg, F. NJ. Lut
ton, William Ring, William H. Bar
ton; trustees, J. H. Hossinger, R
! s, Gallaher, E. ]. Bailey, DAME
Thompson, Ernest Frazer, H
Herdman, and f. NJ. Luton.
Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1916-12-13

Club members were acquainted
with much interesting infOrma-
ton lative to the town library,
last Monday, by Mrs. Mitchell,
Chairman Of the library commit
tee and Miss Anna Willis, librar-
ian. Mrs. Mitchell in introduc-
tory words dwelt upon the import
ance of directing a child's read
ing. For a child to like good
reading, is apt to make all the
difference whether his future life
will have few or many interests,
and his powers of comparison be
FED or starved, the speaker said.
She referred to the good that has
often resulted from the privilege
Of browsing at random in Ii
brary, and cited instances of life
long interests of moment to the
world, which had originated in
this way.
Books i'm the Local Library
Referring to our own library
Mrs. Mitchell said: "Our library
has a creditable (and I think un-
usual number of good books
other tnan fiction. We have fol
instance, all the English men Of
letter series, and the American
statesmen series; books on ole
china, pottery, and furniture
gardening books; the lives Of
Helen Keller, Alice Freeman
Palmer, Macau!ay, Bayard Tay
lor. and many others, and mum
Der of such reference books a
Gayley's Classic Myths, the Read
ers' Handbook, and a dictionar,
Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1916-12-13

to emphasize our common inter-
ests, and the results that may be
obtained through cooperation for
the common good, Newark prom
ises to take a mighty stride to-
ward general community better
ment.
The first specific task under
taken by the new committee is the
raising of a fund to send to Com
pany E, as a substantial Chris
mas greeting from "the folks at
home" Miss Ritz was instructed
to send a night letter to Mrs. L.
B. Jacobs asking for information
as to the gift which would be
most appl eciated by the Company.
In the belief that Newark will
readily respond to the request for
contributions, no collectors were
appointed. All patriotic citizens
are requested, through the press,
to leave theil contributions or
forward checks to G. W. Rhodes,
treasurer Community Committee,
before Saturday, December 10th.
Everyone is busy planning for
Christmas. The committee re-
quests that you add "the soldier
boys" to yolr list.
Prompt Action Is Requested
The announcement of the pro.
gram committee composed of Miss
Ritz, and E. B. Frazer, will be
awaited with interest. Judging
from the enthusiasm manifested
at last evenings meeting splendid
, results are anticipated.
Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1916-12-13
Prompt Action Is Requested
YOUNG WOMEN PLAN
CHRISTMAS TREAT
Plan To Reach All Little Cit
liens

The community Christmas COM
mittee is busy with plans for the
children's Christmas treat to be
given in the Newark Opera House
on Saturday, December 23rd, be-
ginning at two o'clock. Tickets
admitting children to the hall
will be given through the school
to all children in the first sly
grades at school, and also to all
children over three years of age
throughout the town. There will
be lots of happy surprises for the
little folks, and happy time i
promised everyone.
Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1916-12-13

The citizens of Newark, at
meeting last night held in Town
Council rooms, went on record, as
opposed to the proposed system of
the Levy Court calling on prop .
erty owners to furnish the value
of their own properties for county
assessment purposes. Alfred B.
Moore of Wilmington, a member
of the Chamber of Commerce,
made an interesting address on
the subject and also read the opin-
ion of William S. Hilles, to the
| Chamber of Commerce, in which
the attorney stated that he could
find nothing in the law that re-
quired the assessor to require of
| the owner a statement Of value
placed upon property by the
owner.
While the attendance was fairly
representative, the small number
who attended was a disappoint
ment to many who were interested.
1t has been claimed that many of
the larger properties in Newark
have been assessed very low for
county purposes for many years.
There had been many objections
made to the proposed assessment
and consequently a record atten l.
ance was expected at this town
meeting.
George w. Griffin, a local con
tractor and builder, presided and
/ referred to the position that
George +. Ferguson, assessor for
White Clay Greek hundred, is tax
ing relative to the new assessment
He explained that in his opinion
Mr.. Ferguson no doubt wanted tC
make an equitable and just assess
ment. He then referred to the
i action of the Levy Court in insist
Z, ing that the assessors make the
! assessment on the basis of tht
tue value of the property, an(
said that unless some redress i:
i found Mr.. Ferguson will no doub
have to follow out the mandates o
e the Levy Court. He then callet
q on Mr.. Ferguson for statement
Assessor Ferguson pointed Ou
: to Mr.. Griffin a certain old Statut
Y, which the Levy Court is fOliOWin
Il in insisting on the assessors max
u ing an assessment based on tn
II true value of property, and aske
/ him to read it. Mr.. Griffin rea
n the section, which calls for an as
c sessment as to true value
/ money" and also provides for
r fine to be placed on assessors VIII
4, violate the act.
ell Assessor Griffin said what botl
eled him most was what is tn
true value of a property i
-~ money!" He said as he under
stood it, there are three values t
a property-the home value, DO,
rowing value and speculativ
s value.
Ie Guarantee and Trust Co., said h
re idea of the true value in none
C. is the value that it could be pl
tn up and sold for. He said, hoy
n ever,he could not see how al
as property owner could be made
give the value on his own propert
ks At this point Mr. Moore w;
Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1916-12-13
Christmas Surprise Planned

Christmas surprise T IdII1IOI@
The Sunday School of the New
ark Presbyterian Church is plan
ming a surprise in the way OF a
nroGram for the annual Christ
mas entertainment which will be
held the Thursday following
Christmas. The committee IN
charge of the entertainment looks
wise gut makes no further an
nOuncement.
Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1916-12-13

citizens Of Newark at called on and lengthy talk
held Town subject which follow
Council rooms went closely all Mr.
said without doubt there
The Washington times., 1916-01-29

would go the way he says they
would, the country would be put un-
der tribute the way he says it would,
and the people would be set to wash
ing the clothes and digging the
trenches for the invaders, the way
he forgot to say they would.
But we might save the gold by
raising a volunteer army, while the
enemy was crossing the seas, and
having those troops pack the gold in
their knapsacks and beat it for the
tall timbers and the wide prairies of
the interior. And while we were
about it, we could save, in the same
way, all the precious records of the
peace societies and all the eloquent
speeches made in the halls of Con-
gress against American militarfsm.
Therefore it is to be seen that
General Wood is a wild exaggerator.
The Washington times., 1916-01-29

where it can be employed. This diff
ficulty will be far greater after the
war, because the overdevelopment
of certain industries will have ag
gregated great numbers Of workers
in places where their employment
will pretty precipitately leave them
after peace is restored.
Yet there are other developments
which show how these economic
conditions adjust themselves. In
some communities it is harder than
for many years past to get women
workers at all; wages for the male
members of the family have become
so high that the family exchequer
does not dcunand the contribution Of
the female members, and the girls
refuse to work at any wages they
can get. The tendency to what
might be called initiation of the
labor supply thus automatically
checks itself to a certain extent.
The Washington times., 1916-01-29
HOSIERY AS AN EXAMPLE

One New York firm reports that
it is exporting twenty times us
much hosiery as before the war.
Germany formerly was the worlds
great hosiery maker, providing even
England and her colonies with a
great share of their supplies. Ger
many being driven out Of trade, the
orders have turned to the United
States. Accompanying this devel-
opment, there has been a great ad-
vance in the cost of materials. Silk,
which in this country at least, is in
vastly greater demand for hose
than ever before, has increased more
than so per cent in price. Dyes are
much higher. South Africa, Rus
sia, South America, Australasia, and
England are all demanding our
hos iery.
Something like a crisis in the
business impends because the big sur
pluses of hosiery that were on hand
at the beginning of the war, due to
period of overproduction, are now
exhausted, and the mills find it diff
ficult to get the labor they need.
1t may seem strange that shrapnel
should interfere with stockings; yet
one manufacturer declares that he
has a hosiery mill in a town where
war munitions are also made
The munitions establishments have
drawn away the young women from
the hosiery establishment, and the
latter is now operating at about
one third its capacity.
This suggests the difficulties
constantly increasing, of distribut-
ing labor to the places where it is
needed. Factories can't be picked
up and freighted off to places where
the labor is available; and it is al
most as difficult in many cases to
transport needed labor to the point
The Washington times., 1916-01-29
TARIFF COMMISSION

President Wilson year ago didn't
believe there was any preparedness
issue, and no preparedness program
was undertaken, no preparedness
propaganda was set on foot, no ap-
peal was made in the effort to COM
pei people to understand the truth
about the national dangers. Now,
year and half after the beginning
Of war, he is making the appeal that
ought to have been made sooner.
Meanwhile a congress has been
elected without preparedness being
an issue; the influences that oppose
proper measures for protecting this
country have been a work; the do
mestic pacifsts have been active,
and the alien plotters have had free
hand.
President Wilson at the outset of
his Administration likewise didn't
believe in a tariff commission. He
didn't think it was needed, or would
be useful. Now he changes front,
and is demanding it. His party is
lined up against it, and he confronts
the need to convert it. If his own
leadership had been from its begin
nings in the right direction, his task
would today be largely accomplished.
But it was in the wrong direction.
If we get preparedness, it will be
tardy preparedness. If we get tar
if commission, it will be so late that
the needed Investigations into trade
conditions cannot be made in time to
get the country ready for after-the-
war revolutions in industry.
At least, the President is entitled
to credit for changing his mind in
the right direction on these sub
jects. But the need for such
changes, brought about when his
Administration has passed through
three-fourths of it's allotted span,
assuredly is not calculated to inspire
much confidence in the leadership
that must about-face so often and
emphatically.