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Smyrna times., 1919-06-25
TELEPHONE, NO. 10.

In appointing Rev. Thomas Getz
Hill, DR., R. F. Corley and Walter w.
Hynson, members of the old Board
of Education, as the new Board of
three members under the School Code,
Governor Townend has made a most
excellent choice. All are college grad
yates, all have children in school and
are deeply interested in education, and
all are specially fitted to direct local
school matters with success. We con-
gratulate them and wish each, sue
cessful administration. There is much
for them to do in getting the Smyrna
schools working in harmony with the
new code, and as sithdistrict will no
doubt become a consolidated district,
Smyrna will become an important
educational center for Clayton, Ken
ton, Hartly, Cheswold and outlying
, districts. Prof. Harmonson, the out
going Supervising Principal, will act
as secretary of the Board in an adj
visory capacity, until the new super
intendent of Smyrna schools is elect
ed. While the new Board is receiv-
ing congratulations, there is never
theless regret in losing the valuable
services of four members of the old
Board of Education, who because of
the new code, are compelled to termi-
nate their office. We speak of Presi-
dent Harry B. Grieves, who has
served % years; Secretary E. Mar
riott Fowler, who has served "a
years; Vice President Lewis NJ. Price,
who has served years, and William
A. FAIRIES, who has served the long
est period, or about 80 years. These
men have given of their time and
service unstintingly to the cause of
education in Smyrna, and have been
instrumental in making improve
ments that have worked to the good
of the schools. They have done their
work we'll. and thew Law down their
office at the close of this school term
with the best wishes of parents and
pupils. Throughout almost his en-
tire term E. NJ. Fowler has been sec
retary and treasurer of the School
Board, and upon him has devolved
much painstaking care and work,
which he has done faithfully and to
the best of his ability.
Smyrna times., 1919-06-25

In a letter to Secretary H. D..
Boyer, of the Business Mems Com
mittee, Superintendent G. NJ. Smith,
of the Delaware Division, promises
practically nothing much, to the dis
appointment of the people of Smyr-
ma. What step the Committee will
take next, has not developed, but it
is sure they will not lay down, but
carry their fight on higher. Smyrna
it seems, cannot expect anything from
Superintendent Smith.
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OF

By Virtue of an Order of the Chancellor
of the State of Delaware. in and for Kent
County, made June 18th, A. D. 1919, will
expose to Public Auction or Vendue, on
Smyrna times., 1919-06-25
Lost

Somewhere between Cheswold and Mt
Pleasant, one 34x4 automobile tire mounted
on rim, on Monday. June 16.
T. T. WINDSOR.
Milford, Del.
Smyrna times., 1919-06-25
TERMS, OF SALE

On the day of sale the purchaser or pur-
chasers will be required to pay to the Trus-
tee thirty (3O) per cent. of the purchase
money of the lands and premises sold to him.
her or them. and shall, on and before the
return day of sale at the adjourned June
term of said Court. to be held in the Chan
ceIlors Chambers in the. County Court House
in the City of Wilmington. Tuesday the
fifteenth day of July. A. d. 1919. at 10
o'clock in the forenoon. deposit in the Farm
ers' Bank of the State of Delaware, at
Dover. to the credit of the Court. the balance
of said purchase money. Trustee SHALL like
wise, deposit the percentage in the said Bank
and exhibit certificates of deposit on the re-
turn of the sale. The percentage paid on the
day of sale will be forfeited If the terms or
sale are not complied with.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Notice is hereby given that the share or
interest of Mary A. Register in the above de-
scribed lands and premises Will be sold as
above and all persons having claiming
any liens or encumbraHces against the share
or interest of the said Mary A. Register in
said lands and premises. hereby notified
to appear before the Chancellor at or after
the day fixed for the return Of sale, and
make proof of such claim.
EVAN MARRIOTT FOWLER. Trustee.
Smyrna times., 1919-06-25

Subscription price. s1.5O per year. strictly in
advance.
Smyrna times., 1919-06-25

Entered at the Post Office at Smyrna, Della
ware as Second Glass matter
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ment of pussyfooting and somnolent
diplomacy. If this be true the statesmen
are astonishingly Indifferent to public
opinion. BY delaying their ultimatum
until after their verbal chastisement,
they have permitted the world to believe
that Mr.. Hoover and not they should be
directly thanked for what has happened
in Budapest.
But be the inside facts what they may,
it is incontestable that Hungary is, for
the moment at least, rid of the two
greatest perils which menaced it-Bela
Kun and his ultra modern tyranny and
the Hapsburgs and their ancient heart
less variety. Unless mental sobriety is
entirely at discount in Budapest some
mean between the two iniquitous ex-
tremes should now speedily be found
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A TIP FROM MEXICO

TNHIRTEEN bandits was a good haul
l. Among the four killed by the Ameri-
can forces in northern Mexico, one is said
to have been Jesus Renteria, principal in
the outrage against the two army avia-
tors. If this is true the expedition of
our cavalry is swiftly justified. 1t had
the additional merit of waking up the
Carranza administration, whose troops
are reported to have disposed of nine of
the outlaws.
OF the virtue of drastic action in bor-
der crises there can now be little doubt.
What is needful now is some machinery
whereby order along the Rio Grande can
be preserved without plunging the coun-
try into a panic at the prospect of war
with Mexico, desired by nobody save
small cliques of cynical exploiters.
From Mexico City itself comes the
suggestion of practical remedy. This
may seem strange, but it would have
been still stranger had the vacillating
American administration thought of it.
Mexican statesmen have been delving
into the old treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
which closed our war with the frontier
republic III lo4o. "A clause III IndI COH-
venton urges that future differences be-
tween the two signatories "should be set
tied by the arbitration Of commissioners"
Minister of Finance Cabrera has fore
cast the establishment of mixed COM
mission to arrange for guarding the
frontier. Senor Bonillas, the Mexican
ambassador at Washington, is said to
have full power to negotiate a treaty
definitely and effectively settling the
patrol question. Of course, the agree
ment should have teeth in it. Should
the discussed commission plan work out,
vigorous American participation could
see to that.
Further foundering with the Mexican
problem is intolerable. 1t is useless to
wonder why the administration through
all these anarchic years seemed to have
forgotten about the old treaty of 1848.
1t is useless to be sensitive because the
origins of solution appear to emanate
from the Mexican capital. Any policy is
better than no policy at all
If the alleged movement in Carranza
circles is sincere, it is worth consider
ing. Certainly it would be difficult for
any course manifesting a purpose to be
more costly than the perlous and unin-
telligent wabbling with which we are sur
feited
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TT is fair to assume that of the 10000
4 assessed voters who failed to register
last year a great majority were in favor
Of good government and opposed to con-
tractor rule. The organization invaria-
bly, turns out in force to qualify for the
ballot right The slackers are dazed
when they learn that they have lost their
vote and they whine helplessly about the
iniquity of the municipal machine.
There Is no excuse for such unavailing
lamentations this year.
The first registration day is today.
The others are September and 6.
The hours are from a. m. until l
p. m. and from p. m. until 10 p. m.
Wide publicity has been given to these
facts. The "what's-the-us citizen may
choose to ignore them. Nobody else can
afford to do that
The fate of the November election may
very easily turn upon the turnout at the
registration places today and the subse-
quent days next week.
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THE WRONG MAN

AS THE Prince of Wales moves from
"A ovation TO ovation on his way to the
United States, Secretary Daniels is
waited from crest to crest of ecstatic
tumult on his tour of the Hawaiian Isles.
Mr.. Daniels has the best of it.
As people the Hawaiians are ardently
kind. The secretary of the navy does a
banquet an hour. He is whipped from
fete to fete in which fish is eaten an
ciently out of the hand. Unless he be
careful he may be king before Wales
is one. They may put lei on him, after
they rush him to few more luaus, and
make him monarch of village out of the
sheer greatness of their hearts.
When Mr.. Daniels last was heard from
he was on his way to spend a night at
theytop of the great volcano, Kilauea, to
witness the spectacle of "lava boiling by
moonlight" The distinguished American
isn't afraid of volcanoes, of course. He
has been sitting on them for years in
perfect peace. But the trip to Kilauea,
where the lava boils in the moonlight,
will convince every one that the President
sent the wrong man to the Pacific islands
with the feet. Mr.. Burleson should have
been chosen to watch at the top of
Kilauea.
For all we know he might have
fallen in!
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A "PHII.ADELPHIA DEMOCRAT"

WITH astonishing candor Daniel Wade,
w the regular" Republican shrievalty
candidate, reveals himself as a "Phila-
delphia Democrat" The public by this
time is fully aware of precisely what that
term means.
Democrats in the national sense are
rsre here. According to the prevailing
sentiment, they are, though self-deceiv-
ers, sincere in their delusion. The Wade
variety savors of the Donnelly- Ryan
political huckster type.
BY his own admission the contractors
nominee has been registered both as
Democrat and Republican. This is
thoroughly in keeping with the trading
proclivities of the local Democracy"
which has bartered repeatedly with the
major machine and whenever profitable
played cheerfully into its hands.
Mr.. Wade has simply proved that he
is neither a regular Republican nor a
regular Democrat. In the sphere of dis
credit the philadelphia Democrats"
with their fakery and sham principles,
are unchallenged.
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HOOVER VS.. HAPsBURos

T,vERYBoDY knows that the Haps-
~ burgs are tainted. But the diplo-
mats, whatever their wisdom, are plainly
weary. On the other hand, Herbert C.
Hoover is apparently just as vigorous as
when he embarked upon the monumental
task of saving the Belgian nation from
nfaryation. His ringing lecture TO the
Paris council upon the folly and danger
o} sspetioning the control of Hungary
bS scion of the discredited royal line
which directly precipitatei the world
war was one of the most dramatic Incl
@enta Of the reconstruction period.
4 n b said that the Allies note, which
44:.s: h4ppils fasplted IN sweeping the
AfS6tuRa oaeph out Of power, was cen
''sted hefofe NJ. Hoovsrs arfaien
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WHO WILL EXPLAIN CHINA?

DEACEABLY, as she always tried to
l. live, China went through the war.
The Chinese made their declaration re-
The Allies got many German ships and
much Chinese labor.
China saw her chief plunderer, Ger
many, fall to ruins though she herself
hardly lifted hand in resistance. Now
the greatest nations in the world are
ranged upon the side of China and the
league f-nations covenant is being de-
layed in order that she shall receive abso-
lutte justice.
Is this because China never tried to
harm other peoples or were her states
men so experienced in wisdom as to know
that to be patient is to win?
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WORK FOR THEM

MO ONE questions the Senate's right to
debate the peace treaty and the
league of f-nations covenant, and to revise
until it is weary.
: But the senators ought to come down
to earth long enough to deal efficiently
and, above all, quickly, with the legisla-
tion prepared in the House to reduce the
price of food and other necessities of life.
After that the Senate may take to the
air again and continue its trial for the
altitude record.
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been going on for the past four years and
as charter and license to continue the
practices of ignoring decent public opin-
ion and running the city primarily for the
benefit of the political organization. And
the judge himself, when he sits down in
the quiet of his library, surrounded with
his Dickens manuscripts and the origi-
nal sketches by Phiz, must also be unable
to disabusc himself of the belief that the
organization will use him for its pur-
poses or break him if he attempts to re-
sist
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MID-AUGUST

CPIDERS are sn;nninv their webs. &C.
'ps
hear pears falling,
Birds are still; yesterday
y
cro, ,;.
a' 'Me'i'ns now
Hlopes OF silver green,
Slips in between.
Tboro,. ,,,,.
L....a, , na"' ~ 'ne an'
pu'terhy questing hight
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BalIade of Discharge

BalIade Of Discharge
oh, I'VE shed me blood in Flanders, an
" I've got me share O. scars,
An seen the bloody campaign at Yer
dun;
Sure, I've give the steel to Dutchies where
the shells was thick as stars
An I've froze in trenches underneath the
moon;
Yus. I've wore the blinkin' uniform for
sev'ral ruddy years
Cause I'd rather be zero than clerk;
But the bloomin' war is over, an the cart
within me fears
That got to leave the ranks an go to
work
oh, done me bit at Wypers, where the
" fight was thick as ell,
An 'ad a part in rescuin' Lorraine;
They shot me in the thigh an chest an
kicked me till fell
But in 'arf a month I'm fghtin' 'em
again!
Sure. / killed me share O. Boches, an they
nicked me two or three;
But didn't mind a fight never shirk;
Now, the bleedin' war is over, an it looks
lot to me
Like I'd have to buckle down an go to
work!
L'Envo
oh, THERE'S no life like the army life
" The bleedin' thing is fun
You fight, an kill, an mebbe get your
own;
But just about the time you're gettin' warm
the war is done
An the army leaves you fat an all
alone!
Yus, like to be sodjer, and a blinkin'
'erO, too,
Wen I'm Rghtin' in the bloomin' battles
murk;
But in peace the ranks don't want me- so
there's nothin' else to do r
But to get meself job an go to work
Blast the luck
1 got to get job an go to work
ROBERT LESLIE BELuEM.
We surmise that Elwood Strang is re-
GREETING he never learned Grover Bergdoll's
secret of keeping out Of town so success
fully.
But Mr.. Strang, who has nice sense of
| the Importance Of being earnest about other
| peoples money, must find some consolation
| in the fact that the Moyamensing bread and
beans aren't costing him anything.
What are the slick haired young men who
used to run New York boxofiees doing nova :
days2 No one to sneer at!
&s think f.onine's aaponnced design us
Killing Of the ioieufe ciasses n Nersia Ahs
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On a White Muslin Dress
In a ModIste's Window

DEMURE white frock which espy,
~ What slender damosel will buy
This miracle of dainty dress
And grace it with her loveliness,
The bliss of every doting eye?
TTPON a dummy figure lie
- These tender folds, and seem to sigh
Some softer bosom to possess,
Demure white frock
r CAN'T resist. The price is high,
l. But my cigars I will deny:
I'll get the thing for you, dear Bess,
And when you wear it, I'll confess
How utterly enhancing
Deem your white frock
In speaking of the Elwood wreck, you
might specify whether you mean Elwood, N.
j., or Elwood Strang
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THE CHAFFZNG DISH
been exaggerated. For we have heard of no
assassinations of Russian BARRIERS.

The hand may be quicker than the eye,
but Bergdoll seems quicker than both.
Colonel House is said to be coming home
on the boat with Viscount Grey. With the
worlds two silentest statesmen engaged in
mutual secrecy, we don't see how the pub
lie is going to benefit by their discretions
unless some one like Ike Marcosson is going
to be along to spill the beans.
Every time we go down to the shore we
wonder why it is that no one has had the
bright idea to name Pullman car "Citron-
ella"
Nothing ever seems to us quite so luxuri-
Gus and heartA easing as smoking pipe while
undressing.
It seems to us arquant circumstance that
there is kind of watch which costs only
a dollar and a half to buy, but two dollars
and quarter to have repaired.
Few of us realized how attractive the la
dies old fashioned bathing suits We're, until
these new tangled horrors came along.
Even the most agnostic man has been
known to pray, and right fervently, during
those tense moments when the baby wakes up
at 3 a. IN. and utters a few preliminary
squeaks while making up its mind whether
to roar or not.
Grant Rice says, on our favorite sporting
mage, that some fellows have "a competitive
soul" In the throes of vital competition,
Grant asserts, they rise to heroic achieve
ment.
We would admire the guy with competi-
tive soul all the more, however, If we did not
have a lurking suspicion that the Jersey
mosquito can outdo any mere mortal along
that line.
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Answers to Yesterday's Quiz

4. Elizabeth is queen of Belgium. She was
formerly princess of Bavaria.
2. Under the new German constitution the
Reichstng is to sit in Berlin.
8. The word craft, when it means boat,
Is unchanged in the plural.
4. George William Curtis, the essayist,
was called the American Charles
Lamb"
8. Stradivarihs, the celebrated violin
maker, lived In Cremona, Italy.
6. The word gaol should be pronounced as
if spelled ''jail."
Z. The decisive victory of Saratoga was
won by the Americans ever the British
on October Z, 1777.
s. Won Kissing was governor Of Belgium
at the time of the execution of Edith
Cavell.
0. "a reliquary is receptacle for relics.
TO- Stonehenge is a celebrated ancient monu-
ment on Salisbury Plain, England. II
is supposed 10 have been Druid tenn
pie, The original plan seems 20 aave
included two concentfie circles cf hugs
upright stones. In the middle there Il
great slab called the altar 8eren1scB
afnhas of the outer cArcIee ll0s1e i<xt
h;rb are stsndinz
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Wait, for the
Figures

In order to combat
Wait. for the ''the vicious fallacy
Figures that labor costs rem
resent the chief item
in the increased cost of living" the National
Association of Federal Employees is planning
a nation wide investigation and to that
end Congressman Carss, of Minnesota, has
introduced resolution calling upon the
Federal Trade Commission for data. If it is
n fallacy its viciousness must be conceded
but, in the meantime, We'll wait for the
figures
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-26

The fact that price committees. ~
formed, would be helpless is perhaps mot
nearly SO sad as it sounds. There Is an On
chance that price regulation is not the
remedy for bigh prices. We have had the
example Of wheat.
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ALA MAZAM

If Philadelphia does not become the
greatest port Ia the world in the not distant
future 1t will be only because Philadelphiaps
have neglected their opportunities.
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Members of the American Chemical So
ciety have expressed surprise at the pro-
posal of the War Department to abolish
the Chemical War Department. Disap-
proval, naturally; but why surprise? Hash t
the War Department already practically
scrapped the aviation branch of the service ?
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The Boston Tran
The Pathological script, which ought
Transcript to know better, speaks
of the guilty prof
iteer." Where can one find an innocent
one? The difference between taking a profit
and profteering is not in the amount gained
but in the manner in which it is gained. 1t
is conceivable, that man may make a large
profit and be free from the charge of prof
iteering, and that he might 'profiteer" and
gain but a small amount The nature of
the transaction determines the nomencla-
ture
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Isn't it fair, after
A Plant, Certainly you have observed the
method by which cold
storage houses are being used to juggle
prices and blk the public, to speak of any
one of them as an ice plant?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-26

1t Is said this week may bring forth
some surprises In the North Penn Bank
case. But readers have about reached the
gtage where nothing will surprise them,
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If it is difference of opinion that makes
horse races and no opinion is worth any
thing unless you can back it, what chance
is there for the success of the nongambling
horse races at Merchantyille?
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Tombstone marble has increased in
price. On the dead, doesn't it look as
though the high price of dying is destined
to be as serious as the high cost of living?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-26

There are elections and elections, but
for real excitement the one in Hog Island
for ship sponsor is in class by itself.
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The question with Il

The question with abe Senate foreign
relations ccmmittee appears 70 be whether
IL shall settle all the foreign pr&plems "a the
war Of Allow ehe ieeFqe 81 natisAs tc settle
theta |
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What Do You Knotu?


QUIZ
1. What is the origin of the term "roy
Lothario"?
2. Where is Silesia?
3. What is a poncho?
4. How long is An ell?
8. What is the meaning of the word in
transigeant?
8. What state does Senator Fall represent?
z. Who is said to be the leader of the
brigands who captured the two Ameri-
can aviators il Mexico?
8. Who is the acting national food ad-
ministrator during the absence Of Her
bert c. Hoover in Europe?
8. Secretary Daniels has been entertained
at many ''luaus" in Hawaii. What Is
"luau"?
10. What are the tallest trees in the worldf
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Life for time was
Gastronomic peaches and cream
for Strang. Now Fate
has given him beans.
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Rumania is playing bad boy and may
yet have TO be spanked,
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wondcr Il the President knows the e,s
Scotch eong which rum. There's nae lurk
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Even II we SET but hs3f league Il
Win be half league onwafd
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Political Dlttv

Dear Socrates:
Punch, brothers, punch with care.'
The candidates of the Messrs. Ware.
BEN ZEEN.
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What are the slick haired young men who
used to run New York boxofaecs doing nova :
days2 No one TO sneer at!
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-26

The hand may be quicker than the eye,
but Bergdoll seems quicker than both.
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Ne think kenine's anponuced design Of
aiiIips oR tbs 'aisufe eiasses u isssis hss
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Every time we go down to the shore We
wonder why it is that no one has had thu
bright idea to name Pullman car "Citron'
ella"