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Smyrna times., 1920-10-27

towns.
The oldest woman to register for
voting in Delaware appeared at Lower
Nanticoke in the person of "Aunt
Kit" Tindall, colored, who gave her
age as 1O5 years. She was a former
slave,
The Queen Esther Circle is planning
for a Halloween party to be held at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Nelson
Neff, near Port Penn, next Thursday
evening, October 28th.
Smyrna times., 1920-10-27
PENINSULA NEWS
I'm 'II BRIEF SPICY ITEMS
uvus GATHERED FROM
!, STATE EXCHANGES

Items of People We Know
''' 'sround the Larger Penin-
% 1orns and Communities
% ! iyr rsar evangelistic meetings
D wv s.:or,e a thing of the past in
'1 DsIaware, residents in the
! Fenwick Island, Baltimore
:. AVE decided to revive the IA
- sg,.rick .1 camp-meeting. which
iI.sr l.sn held for several years.
,.Is ~. has had two fire scares
], - manv months, the latest Oc-
: ssen a gasoline stove at the
NJ, Alfred Clendaniel eX-
ID set fire to the building.
! rork 'na on the part of citizens.
..od a bucket brigade. pre-
\ ',r rbst for a time threatened to
.,ious cOnfagratiOn.
] Ma, Martha Morgan, wife of Geo.
san Of SeafOrd, died suddenly
~ .-'I 1ight of last week following
.sItic stroke, Monday morning,
|. ,be act of going to her new
rbieb her husband recently
|. PA She was alone at home at
:. but Miss Lucinda Lord, a
Il, who went over, found her
:, tbe floor unconscious. Mrs.
WAS about 62 years of age
:, q daughter of Purnell Mes
an Dretty wedding was solemn
~ !, t5e home of Mr.. and Mrs.
f. 4 Mckee, near Dover, at
S,nrday afternoon, October L
,seir daughter, Dora May, wa
IN marriage with Mr.. Puse
l,~ore. Of near Wilmington, til
Smyrna times., 1920-10-27
FARM,
TELEPHONES

DEOPLE in the farming communities perhaps best
! appreciate the real value of telephone service.
There are few sections of the country SO thoroughly
covered with telephone lines as the State of Delaware
A complete network of copper and steel reaches
out into every corner OF the State.
AS the principal industries outside of Wilmington
farming and fruit growing the telephone develop
ment has neCesStated an extensive pOe~lne and wire
plant extensive in the that the subscribers
comparatively far apart and long lines necessary
to connect them.
widely scattered telephone plant is expensive to
build and expensive keep in frSt-caSs condition.
No one appreciates SO we'll as does the living in
the country the greater necessity OF telephone service
to him than to his city cousin who has everything
his elbow. And it is obvious that the farther out
into the country subscriber lives, the greater the
of providing the service and the greater the
of keeping the lines and equipment in repair.
These facts cannot be ignored by the telephone
company in fixing its schedules Of rates.
The welfare of a public service company depends on
adequate revenues resulting from that fixed
an equitable basis There no other alternative and
there never will be- It's just the in the telephone
business as in any other
And the welfare of the Company is you fail
e the WeG-e of the OF its service. Inadequate
revenues are bound to starve that SerCeand should
the service break no one would suffer than the
rural communities Farm life would move backward
dozen years.
Americus times-recorder., 1920-06-23
WHEN PA AND MA WE'D

You have heard Of divorce orphans haven't you? And
heart robbed with pity and sympathy for hem OF Most
human hearts that For know that divorces darken lives
of little children; that neither the father the mother the
to them aeward that home isn't the home it used to be
And haven't hoped often when reading of these divorce
orphans that their foolish would make up reed and be-
life all again for their chdrens sake for other
Which hope seldom realized However did happen just that
way in Los Angeles the other day.
Clifford G Fowler and Elsie Margaret Fowler married
Once before they had played leading roles weddngand
divorce proceeding Yes they had children children who loved both
their father and mother and who geved when the home broken
The his fathers best man at the wedding Wash
that fine7
The daughter the maid of honor More joy
1t wouldn't be at all bad would every divorced couple
blessed with children coudand woudenarry and give
chance being and daughter the opportunity of being maid
of honor
AT rate the heat prostration this won't be John
Bareycon prostrations.
has the best of He doesn have through three
of powder.
The c. o. P plank concerning the league sadly in
terpretations.
In these dry times candidate mud
throwing:
The political game indicates that Denmark monopoly
rohenness
Americus times-recorder., 1920-06-23
THE OILY CROWN

going be Ruler of Oil? The United States Great
Britain?
important question today 1t going
porance day day the deepest and cea thinkers
agreed that the world the threshold Of
oil fuel supremacy.
Chairman A. c. Bedford of Standard Oil told the Foreign
Trade Francisco We last what the
British have recognedthat the which controls the Peoe
ums supply will control the trade of the world
Sir Auckland Geddes the British ambassador America be-
Britain plays but small the oil fields OF the
world speech before the Pilgrims in New York he said
England striving monopohshc control OF on er
Fair competition crime and m De all
good of every if have free competition
with this important, this vital substance
Ceddes called the fact that Of the
production of the world from the United States
Mexico and of that American capital controls
threeourths.
He Britain from the whole British Empire only
per cent the worlds supply; that American capital controls
81 per
OF he speaking of developed oil fields Of flowing
wells The point be driven home Americans hoeve tins
Who going control the oil fields of the future the fields
undeveloped which the drill has touched but which will
day abound wealth producing driving nayoaung
gushes of oil? When those undeveloped fields
istenc probable that the American fields will be dry
Geddes says America the oily today
But ism also that the of the hence viii be
the branching fields where unmeasured
of oil flow concealed far below the earth 81 surface?
Americus times-recorder., 1920-06-23
A CITY'S BIG G EST ASSE /
A TRIBUTE TO NEWSPAPERS BY A BANK PUBLICATION

Franklin's day, the most talked OF
newspaper for a decade or more was
the Philadelphia Aurora, edited by
Philip Freuneau, 1t was bitterly
hostile to Washington while presi-
dent, and it became easily the fore
most journal in helping jefferson to
create and build up the Democratic
party.
Our newspapers are old establish
ed institutions. The North Ameri-
can antedates century. The Ledger
is eighty-fve. while the Press and
Inquirer began before the Civil War.
For many years the Record and the
Bulletin have been going serenly on
the highway of success.
Were Philadelphia going to erect
monuments to its dead who perform
ed for their city fine service while
living it would be called upon to re-
member its many able editors and
publishers of the past, for who in
their day and their way did more for
Philadelphia than Franklin, Forney
Childs, Warburton, Young, McMich-
ael, Smith, Singerly Mcclure and
Elverson.
Americus times-recorder., 1920-06-23
GEORGIA--A FIELD
OF OPPORTUNITY
By J. KELL Y SIMMONS
President Georgia Press Association

Georgia is your opportunity. 1t is
to the ambitious man of today what
the Golden West was to the pioneer
Of 1849. 1t is more.
No uncertainty faces the agricul-
tural, industrial or business prospec-
tor in Georgia. He will take out gold
in proportion to his energy, labor,
capital, or all three.
Georgia is the heart of the New
South. 1t is a highly developed state !;
yet more than half of its fertile
acres are lying idle. That is because
of it's great size. Georgia is the larg-
est state east of the Mississippi river
1t contains 59,475 square miles, with
an acreage of nearly 38,000,000. Of
this acreage considerably less than
20,000,000, are being cultivated. Yet
Georgia according to last years sta
tistics, has attained fourth place ag-
riculturally speaking Only Illinois
Iowa and Texas lead in the total an
nual value of farm products.
Georgia is FIRST in peaches. She
is second only to Texas, the largest
state in the union in the production
of cotton, and is third in meat pro-
duction. It's Importance in live stock
and poultry raising is increasing
daily.
Georgia is indeed a field of op-
portunity. AS high as $4,000 a year
has been made from an intensively
cultivated Georgia acre. Profits of
$500 to $500 an acre are rather com
mon.
A Colquitt county man began farm
ing ten years ago, when he was
tweny, with no capital. He now owns
500-acre farm, makes 200 bales of
cotton, SO tons of hay, plants %
acres of sweet potatoes, supplies
cream from 25 cows to creamery
in Moultrie, sells 100 head of hogs
to the packing plant and Is beeves.
| A Chicago man went to Fort Valley
few years ago and went in debt
$500 for farm. Eight years later
| he wrote a friend he had paid off
that debt, purchased $4,000 worth of
| live stock and had built farm houses
and bought implements to the amount
of $4,000. A Baldwin county farmer
began a few years ago as a farm
laborer and today he lends $4,000
yearly to his neighbors. Story af-
ter story of the wonderful achieve
ment of farmers who started in Geor-
gia without anything at all, could be
recounted; some of them too glowing
to seem possible.
While Georgia is largely an agricul-
tural state, her manufacturing and
mining opportunities are wonderful.
There are more than 5000 manufac-
turing establishments of various and
Americus times-recorder., 1920-06-23
McAbOO AND JENKINS

VIM McAdoo of fine sensibiihes he Republicans
procamng that the Wilson Dynasty must not be Pepe
uated and contempuousy referred him the Crown
Prince both that he would be the Democratic
nominee Mr. McAdoo being OF his max
ing man the president family late lite and
man thinks for himself frequently differing with the president on
what other could OF his keen sens
be than seek his coming before the
convention Naturally he would relish the ibe that would
tnuay upon him during the campaign he to be no
mated seeking And what would him
concern probably would be the effect such attacks would have
his wife who is the daughter of the president
should Mr. McAdoo be nominated spite OF his orders 10
the contrary shafts Republican du would lose their sharp
ness be drafted by his the attacks would become
party and personal matter
That the why Dr. Bus jenkins OF Kansas City who
has for himself both minister and newspaper
publisher right the OF Nc doo at
San Francisco regardless MIR McAdoo being highly available man
the party should have the right determine whether wants him
MIR McAdoo has already said that should
offered him. and ne undoubtedly
will no refuse accept should he be nominated San Francisco
Americus times-recorder., 1920-06-23

many classifications in Georgia. Near
~ every Im'ortant industry is renra-
sented IN the list. Millions of
dollars worth of raw material 70
main IN the ground for future deveI-
opment. They are at the door of tba
manufacturer who comes here and 10
Gates
Both agriculture and industry are
served by network of 5000 miles
OF railroads which traverse eyerv
part of the state. Three important
ports, Savannah, Brunswick and ST
Marys', are upon ITO miles of At
lantlc coast line. Georgia has all the
benefits of the Panama canal. The
markets of the world are open to its
producers.
Georgias population is now we'll
over the 100000 mark. Walled off
from the rest Of the world she could
support population three or four
times as great or more.
Let us not overlook another de-
sirable thing to consider about Gear
gia as home for the new-comer-her
wonderful climate. The average an
nual temperature in North Georgia is
81 degrees; in Central Georgia is SO
degrees; in South Georgia is 68 de-
grees. We have a growing season in
northern Georgia of 210 days and
26O days in the southern part of the
state.
Georgia is wonderful state. She
has every natural advantage. All she
needs is developing. The people of
Georgia really do not appreciate the
possibilities. The future is before us
We must awake to these possibilities.
We must build chain Of good roads
from one end of the state to another;
we must have good school house in
every district. We must have a good
teacher in every one of these schools.
We must all pull together. We must
all work for the common good Of
Georgia.
GEORGIA. field of opportunity.
Americus times-recorder., 1920-06-23
Il isnt Ian 70 make light Of the eoIege graduate

1t isn't fair to make light of the college graduate
1t isn't good joke.
The college graduate just is putting his
shoulder to the wheel of progress. He is on the job
Of lifting fe's burdens. He's stepping from the class
the mill, mine factory, field. And he's dead
anxious to get started in real life work
One, not so long ago, there were those who made
sport of the newly fledged college graduate. He
painted being in outlandish clothes and who
must come home to father for support. He was pic
tgred fellow who had greater inclination Tor
mandolin playing than for choopng wood; keener for
football than for kicking goals in the machine shop.
Bur this is not fair picture of the college graduate
T today.
Americus times-recorder., 1920-06-23

The college graduate does not believe that he
knows everything and has nothing more to learn. He
does believe that father has store of experience i'm
possible acquire in college, and he's willing to sit at
fathers right hand that he may learn of things not
written in books.
The college graduate more than any other young
person. is willing to start at the bottom of the ladder
and climb upward He climbs, too! The bankers the
presidents the senator's the labor leaders, the nven
tors dscoverers teachers the captains of industry Of
tomorrow are the college graduates of today.
Don't believe them when they tell you the college
graduate is fifth Wheel" useless ornament, some
thing to hang freakish clothes upon.
The college graduate is none of these. He is
litter, not a leaner.
Americus times-recorder., 1920-06-23

article asking him to contribute
money to some one 5000 miles
away.
An account of prize fight, base
ball game, murder, election, elope
ment in high social circles, horse
race, battle or hot debate in con-
gress, would sell papers. Readers
would buy to see that sort of thing.
The journal which for a century
and a quarter has been regarded in
parts of the world as the greatest
newspaper published is the London
Times. But so far as booming any
thing in London, the Times might
as well be printed in Toxic. 1t de-
votes but little of it's resources and
capital to that sort of thing.
1t may be contended that it is a
newspapers legitimate business to
urge and beg and boost. But it is
no more the function of a newspa-
per than Of magazine, and maga-
zines thrive by publishing only such
articles as their editors believe the
public wishes to read.
The magazine tries and does Sc
cure circulation by interesting it's
readers and so gets advertisements.
II publishes no Belgian, no Polish,
nor Armenian appeals, never urges
better street paving and cleaning
does not coax people to contribute
for the support Of hospitals and col
leges; makes no demonstration for
saving babies, swatting the fly or any
Of these public things whcih daily
newspapers are constantly asked to
help.
Every newspaper publisher knows
that there is neither circulation nor
financials gain in such a policy, yet
they all do it.
There is another feature of Phila.
/ delphia journalism which is rarely
thought of by those not in the busi,
ness of printing papers. Every pa,
/ per in this city refuses to accept GER
tain classes of advertisements which
/ if printed, would yield tens of thous
ands of dollars in revenue.
The public says, perhaps, paper
has no right to publish questionable
ads. But do other businesses scruti
nize as closely
Does any job printer refuse tt
print nice stationary for so callet
brokers who are trying to gull thu
public by send them lying letters
Even the United States govern
ment sells postage stamps to carr,
millions of swindling letters to tn
victims Of fraudulent games.
So the newspaper gives more of 1t
services free than almost any othe
institution that is not an endowe
charity, while at the same time !
voluntarily for what it deems to b
the public good, refusing to accep
profitable advertising. Who car
estimate, therefore, the sum tota
Of such a policy, day in and day out
adhered to by our newspapers?
Philadelphia journalism has bee
full Of romance. 1t has brought ou
a host Of live, brainy men. Afte
Americus times-recorder., 1920-06-23

lTne following Is taken from
recent issue Of Corn Exchange"
published By the Philadelphia Corn
ELc1a1ge Bank
We're Philadelphia 10 pay at com
meEclsl rates for all the free adver-
-4sllg which tne newspapers now con-
tribute gratis, the annual outlay for
-zz- item would exceed the whole
1ssE y the police department.
y men cI-les reckon up the assets
--sy posses, they count their fac
E9-1ss, railroads, stores, banks,
homes, clubs, parks, theatres, church
=, gsE plants, water works and tele-
phones, but usually overlook the
newspapers, which, if properly
measured, would come near the top
q t1e Lsl. And among all the great
cities u the earth, and Philadelphia
ranks among the ten largest, none
has been more fortunate in the 10y
atty q It's press than this town Of
William Penn.
\ Benjamin Franklin was America s
first great editor, and no city ever
nad q Journal which did more to
boost and % promote civic enter
E
printed By Poor Richard.
And al. Of those many things in
which Philadelphia, thanks to Frank
lin, was first, ne wrote about and
urged in ms newspaper. 1t was a
vehicle Of progress.
But Frankln's paper sold only a
few thousand a week Today our
newspapers sell about 100000
| copies a day.
The people Of this city never ex-
pect d shipyard to do anything but
build ships. A locomotive plant has
done its duty when it constructs rail.
! way engines. A hat factory, -four
mill, clothing factory, bank, store
trolley road and telephone is moi
reckoned upon to give its time, serv.
ice or capital for boosting any en-,
terprise excepting its own.
But a newspaper has dozens of re
quests every day to print or to urge
| TO commend or damn, to beg or pro
mote, something out Of which tht
owner of the paper can derive NJ
| financial benefit. He is expected t
, employ his capital in that way TO
the common welfare.
| A newspaper has Dut Two posslDh
sources of income One is from tn
sale Of the paper and the other from
the sale Of advertising space.
Whatever in paper does not at
tract readers to buy is not profit
able thing for the owner financially
Whatever in paper takes "
tspace where an advertisement nigh
/ be printed is direct and immediat
loss. Very little Of what is calle'
| Civic boosting ever brings to
newspaper single reader. Certain
Ily no begging proposition does.
ArmenIans always require relief
so it seems, and the papers are ex
pected to print columns Of appeals
But no person would ever think 0
buying a newspaper just to read al
Americus times-recorder., 1920-06-23

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Americus times-recorder., 1920-06-23

the repeal of bad obnoxious laws so
effectual as their strc constructon-Grant
The Seward gateway daily edition, and the Alaska weekly post., 1920-06-18

the exciting incidents preceding the revolt against President Carranza was the escape of General Banjamin Hill, chief lieutenant of General AL varo Oregon, who fled from the cap ital hidden in a pile of sacks in a milk wagon.
 General Hill vanished from the capital on the same night as did Gen eral Obrcgon April l3. The wagon in which Hill was hidden was stopped by the police in the suburbs of the capi- tai because it did not carry light. While the driver was bribing the po- liceman to pass the lightlesS vehicle, General Hill dropped out of the back of the wagon and hid in the shadow of a building until the policeman was notified. Then the General crawled back into the wagon and continued his flight.
The Seward gateway daily edition, and the Alaska weekly post., 1920-06-18
GERMANS DESERT WITH
 MINE SWEEPER AND
 TRY TO SELL THE CRAFT

THE HAGUE, June IS The Dutch naval authorities have decided to re- turn the German minesweeper U. /. Is. which was intencd a few weeks ago. to the German mineSwceping flo- tilla. from which it deserted
 The vessel was taken by the Ger man crew into the Zuiderzee. At Muy- den, a little fishing town, the captain, mate and two other members of the crew went ashore in order to find a buyer for their boat, but were arrest cd. The rest of the crew, who waiting in vain for their comrades, had grown impatient, were just going to leave the Dutch waters again, when they were caught by a Dutch torpedo-boat,
The Seward gateway daily edition, and the Alaska weekly post., 1920-06-18
Stallation of a Keystone drill.

Stallation Of q Keystone drill.
 The Waldorf property is located at tidc water near the holdings of the Chilkat Oil Company. There are five operating wells in the vicinity the product of which iS treated at the refinery located there.
 It k Mir. Chency'S purpose to organize a company to develop the property. He will be in Juneau a short time before leaving for the South.
 Mir. Cheney was pioneer resident of Skagway and also of Fairbanks. He was in Juneau for several weeks last winter. selling apples from his Washington State farm.
The Seward gateway daily edition, and the Alaska weekly post., 1920-06-18

held 45 decorations and gifts from royal pcrsonagcS.
 Queen Victoria regarded him as an intimate friend. He was her constant companion when she went abroad, and as my old and dear friend" she especially invited him to her Diamond Jubilee festivities.
 "Her Majesty had heart of god,'' he said once. Many and many time 1 warned her that such and such an appeal for charity was thoroughly un- deserving, but usually she would re- ply with a smile:
 "Paoli, it is better to make mis- takes at times than to refuse to aia those who say they are in misery"
The Seward gateway daily edition, and the Alaska weekly post., 1920-06-18
TO STEAM OUT \ PEST

NEW ORLEANS, June lS--- The pink boil worm, more destructive to cotton than the boil wcevil, is to bc steamed.
 Poisoning has failed to kill the pest but it iS expected that Steaming will do the job and make it possible for oil mills to handle seed from in- fectcd territory.
 The decision was the outcome of a conference here between Superintend- entS of cotton-Sccd mills in Louisiana and other places where seed has been purchased from areas krOwn to be in- fccted with the worm.
The Seward gateway daily edition, and the Alaska weekly post., 1920-06-18
READ THE
 GATEWAY ALL OF THE NEWS DAILY.
 TRAPPERS TRADERS SHIP TO GEORGE R. GOSHAW, INC, DEALERS IN RAW FURS

Seattle York Alaska Building. W. Street..
 Ship direct New York for highest paid shipments paid grading the received desired kept seperate order that approved Providing valuation does satisfactory transportation Ship Ship in condition Always enclose name and address All made by National Bank or Tn any other desired Special instructions shipment
The Seward gateway daily edition, and the Alaska weekly post., 1920-06-18
PlO\ FER kATALLA
 OH. MAN ACQU lRES
 NEW HOLDINGS THERE

N. G. Cheney, pioneer Alaskan aud one of the first to become inter c>t,d in the Katalla oil fields. Is in Juneau. He has returned from a visit of several weeks at katalla and vicinity. Mr Cheney acquired the holdings of Joseph Waldorf, who has been living on and holding down katalla oil property for seventeen years. and also holds adjoining prop crt'rs.
 Nlr. Cheney was interested in the katalla fields ten years ago. and sold some of his holdings at that time. He has done considerable de vclopmcnt work including the in