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Smyrna times., 1919-06-11

a. m. northbound, 8.25 southbound,
and the 6.1S p. m. northbound trains,
were given some hope Friday, when
the committee returned from Broad
Street Station Philadelphia, after a
pleasant conference with Elisha Lee,
general manager of the Pennsylvania
Railroad. Not a Smyrnian who went
to Broad Street but was delighted
with the cordial greeting and that ir-
resistable smile of Mr.. Lee. He was
exceedingly gracious in manner and
made everyone feel at home. He
heard Smyrna's grievance with an
open mind, and was quick and ready
to see that this community had a
case, and while he would not say just
what would be done, he assured the
Committee there would be some ad-
justment, especially in the matter of
an adequate train service that would
take care of the school children who
will come here in larger numbers
from Clayton and outside districts
this fall, when Smyrna inaugurates
the new school code. The Committee
in making their righteous protest
against what had been done to the
detriment of the best business inter
ests of the town and community, de-
manded a full restoration of all train
connections. Smyrna will be satisfied
with nothing but full and complete
train service from the 7.O8 in the
morning until and including the 800
train in the evening. Smyrna has
enjoyed a full and complete selv-
ice for more than fifty years, and any
cutting off works hardship and dis
satisfaction. If the Railroad Com
pany wants to cater to and be on the
right side of the Smyrna community,
they will grant what is asked, other
wise they are bringing about an en-
nifty and ill-will that will quicken and
grow throughout central Delaware.
Smyrna times., 1919-06-11
TELEPHONE. NO. 10.

The Delaware State News, of
Dover, adds its plea further in the
way of Smyrna Train Service" and
says:
Business men and patrons gener-
ally of the town of Smyrna are quite
naturally very much exercised over
the loss of two day trains and Sunday
trains connecting that community
with the main line of the Delaware
Railroad, and it is apparent that the
citizens of Smyrna do not intend to
submit to such treatment. Simply
because Smyrna happens to be off of
the main line is no excuse for discon-
tinuing train service that means
severe blow to the business interests
of the town and a stumbling block in
its future development. The present
generation of Smyrna citizens are not
responsible for what transpired more
than fifty years ago, and there is no
reason why they should be made to
suffer for something that occurred at
that time. Even though it be true
that the branch road from Clayton to
Smyrna is being run at loss, which
is the excuse for discontinuing the
, service, yet how many other branch
roads, and even main lines, are also
run at loss. Then, also, why do not
the railroad officials take into consid-
Grafton the amount of freight that is
shipped in and out of Smyrna, which
has increased to such an extent that
a new side track had to be laid in the
yard. These things are we'll worth
considering, Notwithstanding the COM
pany claims loss in the passenger
service. The people of Smyrna have
been done a grave injustice, by the
loss of these trains and it is not to be
wondered that they have raised such
a vigorous protest. They are reason
able people, and will gladly submit to
anything like fair treatment, but they
are only asking for their rights when
they ask to be treated as other pa
irons of the road, and if the railroad
company is wise it will accede to the
demands of the people before it is too
late"
Smyrna times., 1919-06-11
She Fears Nobody.

Precocity, thou art indeed often the
sauce of life. When the 12-year-Old
daughter of negro laundress brought
back a customers laundry at IL p. m.
Saturday the customer, femininely
curious, inquired: "Aren't you afraid
to be out alone so late at night" "Oh,
no, 1 got a gun" responded the daugh-
ter Of Africa. producing a 32-caliber,
loaded revolver from the pocket OF
her coat and flOurishing it about. Il
never shot 1t yet" she continued un-
concernedly to further frightened in
quiries, -but would, all right, If
anybody bothered me-" She was hasti-
" ushered out.-Detroit Free Press.
Smyrna times., 1919-06-11
clemenceau Was Peeved.

When ROdin modelled the bust Of NJ.
Clemenceau, which now stands among
those Of other great Frenchmen in the
senate chamber, his subject was not
at all pleased with it. The big skull,
projecting cheek bones, wrinkled eyes
and dropping mustache were certainly
not fiattering. Scrutinizing 1t, the
"Tiger' knit his brOws and growled:
"WhO is this Mongol?"
There are even those who say that
was why NJ. Clemenceau did not favor
a national funeral for Rodin, but "can
such anger dwell In minds divine?"
Smyrna times., 1919-06-11

Chautauqua is with US again this
year and opened auspiciously Monday
evening for a week of delightful en-
tertainment and intellectual treat.
The guarantors went "over the top"
in their ticket selling drive. thus as
surfing a successful tent meeting.
Smyrna times., 1919-06-11

Citizens of Smyrna, who were in
dignant last week and much worked
up over the cutting off of the 7.OS
Smyrna times., 1919-06-11

Performance of contract shall commence
within ten (1O) days after execution of the
contract and be completed on or before Dec
ember l. 1919.
Monthly payments will be made for 80 per
cent. of the construction completed each
month.
Bidders must submit proposals upon forms
provided by the Department.
Each proposal must be accompanied by a
surety bond. certified check. money to the
amount of at least ten (10) percentum of the
total amount of the proposal.
The envelope containing the proposal must
be marked Proposal for the Construction
of a State Highway under Contract No. Is.
No 16 and No II.
The contract will be awarded or rejected
within twenty (2O) days from the date of
opening proposals.
The right is reserved to reject any or all
bids.
Detailed plans may be seen, and index plans
and specifications may be obtained after
June %. 1919. upon deposit of $4,000 ten
dollars which amount will be refunded upon
return of plans and specifications in good con-
dition, at the office of
STATE HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT.
DOVER. DELAWARE.
Chas. M. Upham. Chief Engineer.
Smyrna times., 1919-06-11
THE STATE OF DELAWARE

Sealed proposals will be received by the
State Highway Department at it's office. Dover,
Delaware. until two ~ o'clock P. NJ, July
8, 1919. and at that place and time publicly
opened. for the construction of S.27 miles of
State Highway Cement Concrete) in New
Castle and Kent counties. Delaware, involv-
ing the following approximate quantities:
CONTRACT NO. 15-O.42 MILES
800 Gu. yds. Grading
10 Gu. yds. Concrete Masonry
300 pounds Reinforcement
so lin. ft. Is in. Reinf. Concrete Pipe
"a lin. ft. 80 in. Reinf. Concrete Pipe
Bounds
1,5O0 Tons Stone for Macadam
900 So yds. Penetration Macadam
Smyrna times., 1919-06-11

THE SMYRNA TIMES is an independent
paper devoted to the welfare of the town it
represents and the State of which it is
part. 1t also gives the items of Importance
of the Eastern Shore of Maryland.
ADVERTISEMENT Smyrna Times is
the business medium not only for the town it
represents, but for the outlying district of
which it is the centre, embracing the towns
of Clayton, Kenton, Cheswold, Townsend
Leipsic, &c. A rate of so cents an inch for
first insertion and 25 cents for each subse-
quent insertion will be charged for trans
lent advertising. Locals and Reading Motif
ces, 10 cents per line per issue. A special
discount on all semi-annual and yearly ad-
~ertisemehts.
OFFICE-Next Door to the Fruit Growers
National Bank.
TELEPHONE Nh IN
Smyrna times., 1919-06-11
CONTRACT NO. 17-2.94 MILES

IS tons Stone for Macadam
$500 Gu. yds. Cement Concrete Roadway
$50 Joints
Smyrna times., 1919-06-11

Bids may be submitted for Contracts No
16 and No. II separately or combined.
The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1919-05-10
Popery Enthrones Irish and Germans

n A ORE THAN HALF Of the enthrohed preates O
lVE Rome in this country are Irish and most of th
rornnn ni,ado,
The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1919-05-10
This Paper Stands For National Unityone Country. One
Rhode Island Governor Among PapaI Irish

sr NHE IRISH HOSTS of popery gathered in the
throne-room Of the papal Cathedral Of SS Peter
and Paul in Providence, Rhode Island, on April
10 to witness of the gaudy displays Of worldly vanity
which the Roman hierarchy much enjoys The occasion
was the conservation of an Irish priest named William A.
Hickey coadutor bishop Of Rome that city Of Roger
Williams
Bishop Thomas d. Beaven of Springfield, the-Irish-
man whom very young girl Of his sued unsuccessfuy
for damages few years ago for appointing rector Of
the church of her membership lewd priest who COM
mitted felonious assault her in church. was the Of
icating prelate while D. f. Feehan Irish bishop of Fall
River, and Louis s. Walsh Irish bishop of Portland
Maine and Thomas r. Hickey Irish bishop Of Rochester
acted as subordinary side shows.
Some twenty other Irish prelates were present in
their alien and medi@ye costumes to inspire awe in those
who witnessed the elevation of Irish priest to
the rank of assistant at local throne of the papa empire
There is scarcely week that Rome does not execute dis
play of vanity of this ypein city Of this great Chris
tan nation.
But the carnal pride Of the hierarchy is salts
he'd with such performances unless show of union Of
church and state can be presented by inducing pub
lc officials to attend Any persons holding great public
office will do but the higher the Office the more the pre-
ates enjoy the performance and with the more gusto do
they parade the affair In their diocesan newspapers and
in the censored and subsidized publi4press
On this particular OCCASION the diocesan mouthpieces
Of Rome exploit the alleged presence of Governor Beck
man of Rhode Island and Mayor Gamer Of Providence
and members of the state legislature Patriots in that
of New England would do well to look after scky
political snobs who the mark of the papa beast on
their foreheads and in their right hands.
The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1919-05-10

N n ORE THAN HALF of the enthrohed prelates of
lVH Rome in this country are Irish and most of the
remainder are German and Hungarian. In the
appointments to these thrones which the crowned and
reignng sovereign of the papa empire announces from
time to time there is virtually never an American Nearly
all are Irish and the few others are German
very short time ago Michael J. Gallagher the Irish
man then regnng in Grand Rapids was promoted by his
sovereign to the throne in Detroit On April 10 Edward
d. Kelly, another Irshman succeeded Gallagher as pro-
curator of Rome in the province of Grand Rapids
AS recently stated in these columns Rome has this
year installed Irish prelaes to reign over the important
provinces Of New York and ST. Paul as of the
two Irish preates who had previously occupied those
thrones to the time of their deaths last fall
Prior to the death of Cardinal Farley three papal
thrones in the United States were occupied BY members
OF the imperial court of Rome and all three of them were
Irish. The remaining two Cardinal Gibbons and
OConnel still reign over two greatest Roman prov
inces except New York.
Of the thirteen archbshops who reign over the more
important provinces of Rome in the United States four
are German and the other nine are Irish The hundred
less prominent thrones in smaller cities are occupied
by Irish and Germans in about the same ratio with vir
tually no Americans.
The sweeping challenge of the Free Press Defense
League to the Roman preates all our thrones last Oc
tober which struck terror into their guilty and cowardy
souls and caused them to take to the woods offered to
prove as the foremost thesis in the rendered proposition
that the papa autocracy san alien empire to every land
it nhabts The nationality of these preates establishes
our allegation.
The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1919-05-10

the only divine right autocrat left.
He would have to turn red repub-
lican or be expelled Either will
make him a man without coun-
try.
where will the pope gof The
Jesuit insists on the Temporal
Power myth and the pope won't
recede. If that falls to pieces by
his quitting Rome! what will hap
penY Remember France, the most
faithful son of the church. The
revolution tore the church to pieces
by the hands of those whose knees
wore callouses kneeling at her al
tars. If the pope throws down his
temporal power and becomes a
fugitive, what will happen to the
Catholic masses2
People who have been ruled
by others and never developed the
soul to walk alone, when the rule
quits them, stagger like. drunken
men, morally ana spiritually. They
will be a mob bf wild beasts let
loose on the world. RomaniSn
when thrown off naturally leads to
anarchy, atheism and confusion.
There is trouble ahead until these
raw elements are educated and
taught to think and that can't be
done in a day or year.
"The papal question is to be
settled in the next two years and
it will give trouble that will show
the need of a League of Nations. "
The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1919-05-10
nty. One Allegiance One Flag One Language One School
K. C. Not Secret2

I IN A CHARACTERISTIC HARANGUE, made re-
Gently at New Orleans, Pope Benedct's general man
ager from Baltimore Cardinal Gibbons, had much to
say concerning the knights Of Columbus.
According to the Times -PlcGyune, Of April 6, His
Remnants passed the tip that the popes knights not
secret order. To quote that paper literally:
Cardinal Gibbons occasion also to correct an impression t
is held in some quarters that the Knights Of Columbus secret
poaon Of large department stores for instances The
corporation has certain organization secretswhch with
holds from the public So have the Knights Of Columbus but
more Both the knights and the corporation would
those secrets to any properly constituted authority civil
otherwise, IL occasion arose that made it advisable
This is than interesting This secret sectarian
society is about secreve corporation which is cer
tanly secret enough for all practical purposes
About as secret as large department store; and we
dare say about as benevolent as those same department.
stores which make pretense Of any other purpose than
the accumulation OF profits and distribution of dvidends
Department stores like other private Enterprises
which are run for profit reveal what it is profitable to re
veal and conceal what is profitable to concea and we
have doubt that the knights of Columbus are eoual
open and equally close concerning their business,
You might, or might not pry some of their secrets
loose In open court but the record Of corporation ga
ton reveals disposition the part of corporation Of
clas to tell more than to their immediate advantage
Corporations have certain secrets--and keep them.
Notable among the corporations which have and hold
their secrets is the Roman Catholic corporation which
does business here but keeps its general office and records
carefully removed from jurisdiction Of American courts
In It's archives at Rome
1t is not advisable" for Rome to reveal the true ma
ure of itself or its subsidiary branches even tries to
keep 4 G. secrecy secret though secrecy were an evil
in itself.
Both the popes knights and the popes larger corpor-
alton, which is known as the Roman Catholic church,
would reveal and have revealed their secrets to any prop
ery constituted authority; but both recognize their pope
as the supreme authority earth so there is no properly
constituted authority for them unless approved by the
reigning pope.
Slippery Jim slips some pretty smooth save but
who is soft enough to believe that business corporations
the Knights of Columbus are not as secret as ny other
organizations which show smooth front for Interior pur
poses9
The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1919-05-10
Not a Papist

Signor Guglielmo Marconi, the world
famous inventor, showed his consistency,
as a Protestant and member of the
Waldensian church, by abstaining from
attending the requiem Mass at West
minister Roman Catholic cathedral on
"Italy's ay.''-ProteStdnt Alliance
MdgGsins.
In this connection we would add
that Thomas Edison, the electrical
wizard, is not a Romanist, nor is
the great electrician Nicola Tesla.
Benjamin Franklin and Samuel
Morse were well known in their
day as consistent ProteStants. In
fact, we do not know Of a Roman
list who has succeeded in ferreting
out the secrets of nature, or in
making any great discoveries or in
ventions which have been of ma
terial service TO mankind.
Like the Chinese and Japs, pa
pists are capital imitators-always
ready to take claim the credit for
the labors Of others, and that is
all.
It's up to our R. @. contem-
poraries to prove what material
benefit they have been to the age
we live in.
The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1919-05-10
Papist Governor Shows Hand

al Smith, governor Of New York
by the grace and power of the
Catholic vote, shows himself to be
faithful son of 'tthe church" and
true to its teachings in regard to
the public schools.
He showed his hatred to the pub
lie school system. Of New York
when, on April IL in vetoing GER
tain items Of the departmental
state supply bill, he took occasion
to include in his veto, an appro-
priation for $4,000 for the pur-
chase Of additional land for the
State Teachers College at Albany,
and an appropriation Of $4,000
for the reconstruction Of the .Cort-
land State Normal school which
was destroyed by fre.
AS the Cortland Normal school
was one of the Oldest and most ef-
fcient in the state, it had natural
ly incurred the hatred Of the pa
pists, and its destruction by fire
gave a papist governor the oppor-
tunity to cut it out with a stroke of
his pen; and thereby weaken the
non-sectarian school system of the
state, which is Of course one Of the
objects for which he was placed in
the gubernatorial chair.
AL Smith can, and will, strike at
the cause of popular education
every time he gets a chance; but
tits dollars to doughnuts that he
never vetoes an appropriation in
which the Roman Catholic church
is interested.
Since the above was written we
learn that a concerted effort is un-
der way to make the said "Smith" I"
the next president Of the United
States, In which case It would be
His Excellency AL. Smith, the
Catholic President of the U. S. A.
The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1919-05-10
PapiSt Journalism

January 25th, The Living
Church (Epissopal) reprinted a
paragraph from the Pilot (Cath-
olic Of Boston) of November 2,
1918, which purported to give the
utterances of Chaplain Conoley, a
Roman Catholic priest at Camp
Devens, Mass, in reference to GER
tain chaplains Of the Episcopal
communion in the United States
army. This paragraph the Living
Church fttingly characterized as
venomous. This came to the notice
of Chaplain Conoley, who wrote to
the Episcopal paper, repudiatihg
the article in question, and brand
ing its statements as false, also
stating that he never read the Pilot
and didn't know what it was say
ing, and that he had written the
Pilot protesting against the article.
This goes to show that the reck-
less and irresponsible scribes of the
Catholic press stoop to misquoting
their own priests and falsifying
their records for the supposed
glory Of "the church," and that
there is at least one Roman Cath
olic priest who resents such work
on the part of his ecclesiastical SUI
periors.
As the Pilot has neither ex-
planned nor retracted the article,
OF even apologized for it, we infer
that it glories in its shameful work,
and acts on the theory that a lie
well told is as good as the truth.
The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1919-05-10
ITALY and VATICAN
WILL PART COMPANY
So Says Globe Trotter Who
is Well Acquainted With
international Conditions
From Light, Louisville, KY.

From Light, Louisville, KY.
1T1TALY AND the vatican will
i part company by New
l>k Years Day, 1922, according
A to the calculations Of a
globe trotter on our list, He is a
man Of wonderful insight and has
spent a lifetime in work that
makes him well acquainted with
international conditions Of all
sorts. This is the way he figures
it:
II have been in Italy and know
the Italians who have been there
lately. Italian conditions are
censored to the United States by
the wholesale. The Associated
Press, United Press, ETC., are full
Of Jesuit spies. Where the news
can be controlled there is q Jes-
uit, for that is his special job. l
would bet $40 to 81 the Pope
won't be in Italy on New Years s
Day, 1922, or he will get out in
side of two years. The Italian
government will hardly expel him
in SO many words, but they will
get him to leave all the same and
then the question is, Where will
he go2' "
"If you know Brazil and all of
Spanish America, you know they
wouldn't have him. He would be
persona non grGtG, or to say the
least an inconvenience. Mexico
would be in a turmoil the moment
he set foot there. Spain would be
touched off as by a spark. Aus
tria, Germany, France, England or
Ireland are out Of the question
Canada as well.
Comfy THE UNITED
STATES REMAIN. Is that why
the pope was SO anxious to see
President Wilson and sound him
on asylum in the United States :
Can you conceive president vii
son offering the pope asylumH /
cannot.
eff the pope leaves Rome, he
will suffer discredit to his previous
claims that will shake Catholicism
from center to circumference.
"Suppose he goes to Spain. He
won't land at Barcelona, for it is
a center Of Radicalism. Garth
agena is where he would naturally
go. But if on Spanish soil, what
Of the Andalusians Of the South,
the Catalonians ofethe Northeast,
and the Basques spf the North.
They are all rai}it 'anti-papal.
From Cadiz came the constitution
Of 1912 that whers re-proclaimed,
French troops paid by the Holy
Alliance had to crush. The COM
ing Of the pope would unite all
republican forces and republic
would be declared not friendly to
The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1919-05-10
WHOM WILL YOU HAVE FOR PRESIDENT?

TFYoU COULD APPOINT the next of the United States whom
/ would you ~
Every president first suggested by somebody's
MENACE is going you the your choice publicly
you have preference do the readers Of this paper to tell
and why The why really the most important part
Ii good they will for the ac
desire everybody will talking pres
ident y Nl@ @f q ~ - 4e Ptoo
beat the crowd and hayea little exchange Of private opinions
na may nave It's influence public opinion This your paper
to use for all practical patriotic purposs seit pp
n listen en- Write Immediately tO The MrrAon editorial
nation sehoice Say not than Write plainly
on one side OF a sheet containing nothing else
Enclose anything else send the Office enyeI
pe pr make letter separate and distinct
mixed up with other business 88 - ~ 80
we vii have to Be economical Of hearing the greatest
De number For that omitted
pu an are expected to sign their good faith
It cannot national executive then tell
briefly and forcefu the kind Of apresnt havend wy
too thicky padded with straw ~ ' "
Inc sentiment Of readers Is whit wish to fell all
OF you what the rest Of think president Of the United
States Enough said. Say your say and right away