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Smyrna times., 1922-07-05
U. OF d. SUMNER SCHOOL OPEN
Series of Lectures Will Again Be Fea-
ture at Six-Weeks' Session at Newark

Series of Lectures Will Again Be Fea- |
ture at Six-Weeks' Session at Newark |
University of Delaware will be a |
busy place for the next six weeks.
Monday the annual Summer School
opened with large attendance. Pro-
fessor W. A. Wilkinson, head of the
Department Of Education of the uni
versity is director of the Summer
School again this year. Professor
Wilkinson has gotten together an un-
usually strong faculty for this season.
Public school teachers of the State get
the advantages Of the Summer School
free and in addition the State pays
their transportation and board while
at the school.
The lecture course will again be
provided by the Service Citizens and
Miss Eta J. Wilson is in charge of
this important branch of the Summer
School. These lecture courses have
been a feature of the school for sew
eral years. Radio concerts will also
be provided this year by the Service
Citizens. The lecture course just an
nOunced follows:
June 29-Lecture by Frank P
/ Graves, commissioner of education
for the State of New York, subject,
"The Use and Abuse of Intelligence
Tests
July 6-Lecture by the Rev. S.
Parkes Cadman, pastor of Central
Congregational Church, Brooklyn, on
"The Mission of the Republic"
July 9-Sermon by DR.. Aquilla
Webb, pastor of First and Central
/; Presbyterian Church, Wilmington
Special music by Mrs. Russell King
Miller, contralto; Dorothy Johnston
Baseler, harpist; William SilvanC
Tunder, pianist, of Philadelphia.
; July 10-Lecture by DR.. Newell
t Dwight Hills, of Plymouth Church
Brooklyn, on "The Ten Command
n ments and the Constitution of tn,
i, United States.'
/ July 12-Lecture by DR.. Florenc,
f. Bamberger, professor of education
r John Hopkins University, and specia
e musical program.
t July 13-Ruth Cramer and Maria
: Whiteman in a spring festival demon
strating folk games.
l. July 16-Sermon by Bishop Edwi
It H. Hughes, of Boston, and specis
e musical program.
% July 1S-Musical concert, Emil
Stokes Hagar, soprano; Marie Ston
.e LangstOn, contraltO; Henry Gurne!
,e tenor; ]. Helffensten Mason, bass,
IS and William Silvano Thunder, pianis
IF July 20-Lecture by Henry S. Canb
editor of the Literary Review of tt
l. New York Evening Post, on "Goc
A. Books and How to Read them"
July 23-Sermon by the Rev. Floy
er w. Tompkins, of Philadelphia, al
he special musical program.
Dv July 25-Concert by Baltimore al
r. Ohio Glee Club.
July 3O-Special music by commu
a ity chorus, under direction of Mi
of Dora Wilcox, and sermon by the Re
et. ]. Stitts Wilson, International Y.
ed c. A. worker.
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NEW CASTLE COUNTY LEVY
COURT CUTS AUTO EXPENSE
WILL DO AWAY WITH ONE AND
UPKEEP WILL BE LIMITED
Adopt Resolutions Changing Basis of
Paying For Road WOrk-Other
Levy Court Notes of Importance

! After effecting a saving of several
hundreds of dollars of the county's
money on contracts for printing and
/ stationery needed in the various Of
( fees of the county, members of the
New Castle County Levy Court at
their session last week directed the
clerk to advertise for bids for one of
the automobiles now owned by the
county. This car will be sold. The
Court also adopted a resolution rela-
tive to the operating expenses of the
other nine cars owned by the county
which it is thought will save the coun-
ty at least $4,000 a. year.
This resolution states that if the
automobile expense in any district
should fall below the amount allowed,
the surplus shall revert to the credit
of the aforesaid district as an un-ap-
prOpriated fund; but should the auto
mobile expense of any district exceed
the amount set aside for that purpose
the excess shall be paid by the COM
missioner from that district out of his
I ! own resources.
i The resolution requires that the
\ county engineers Office be limited tt
Y the use of three automobiles, the same
Y to be used strictly for county purpose.
j If the automobile expense for the of
- flee should fall below the amount Sc
aside for that purpose in the bulge
for the fiscal year, which is $500, tn
surplus shall be treated as part of tn
county's funds. But should it b
found necessary to exceed that amour
the same must be done with the con
sent of the majority of the member
of Levy Court.
Change Road Work Paying Basis
The court adopted another resOlu
tion changing the basis for payin
,e employees on road work, to the effeC
in that the scale of wages for the worl
Mt ing forces on the dirt and stone road
be changed from a day basis to a
hour basis, and that employees be pal
N only for the actual time they are en-
A ployed at work. The schedule is Z
follows: Supervisor, so cents pt
hour; labor, 80 cents; two-hOrs
oil team without driver, 40 cents; tw'
pc horse team with driver, 20 cents; dra
team with driver, As cents; tractiC
engine, $1.5O; 1l2-ton truck, $1.2
III 2-ton truck, 50; 5-ton truck, $3.50.
A resolution prohibiting the parl
ing of automobiles and buses on,
near, the Marshallton bridge W;
adopted by the court.
Smyrna times., 1922-07-05
FARMS
For Sale

FARMS-Both large and small, some
on DUPONT Highway, others within
3 miles of same. All different
prices.
ONE ACRE-More or less, in Town
of Smyrna, on Main street. A
splendid location, will sell cheap.
TWO ACRES-More or less, Town of
Clayton. Nicely located, make fine
building lots.
HOUSES-Both large and small, in
both Smyrna and Clayton.
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FOR SERVICES RENDERED

Was he not famous down in the is
lands for always having those Bank
of England notes in his belt? That
is, unless rumor lied! He'll have 1t,
right enough--all ready for us!"
Houtman regarded his companion
with a very cynical air.
you are young. Koln," he said.
"You are young. and you make light
of great things. This Cap'n Hanson
is no small matter. Perhaps you
never heard how three men tried to
kill him and take that money. once
in Amboina when he was drunk"
ia. I heard" scoffed Koln. Three
men from Thursday Island pearler,
fighting men! And this Cap'n Hanson
broke them all to pieces. MANNED
them. killed one Of them! Well. what
Of 1t? I may be young, but by heav-
ems have head! And I have done
things"
THAT is true" Houtman frowned
thoughtfully. Ten thousand pounds
in Bank of England notes! He never
spends 1t. He never does anything
with it. He says that he is waiting
to find the owner. Well. it is known
that Cap'n Hanson is not crazy, GER
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marked man. This. by reason of the
ten thousand pounds in the money
belt around his waist. The whole
archipelago knew about 1t and some
Of tae archipelago lad moved heayen
and earth to get hold of 1t.
There was some deep secret about
that money; no one knew Just what.
Hanson. finding the story had some
how slipped out. merely said that he
carried the money in trust and was
seeking the owner. Another man
would have lied and scoffed at the
story, but not Hanson.
Another man would have banked
the money. but not Hanson. That
money was safer in his belt than in
any bank, he considered. And rightly
enough. SO, far as his own ship was
concerned. ! No one who knew him
would ever try for that money. As
a rule, he was off poking around
through the distant islands-he had
even been to the Kermadecs. He had
the air Of a man restlessly seeking.
On the night after the Nimrod
had pulled up the river to Bangkok
and dropped her hook. Hanson came
ashore. He came into the English
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sales gal in the ladies hosiery that
amt got a run in her stocking. But
anyway we went over to see greeks and
sponges on their home grounds and
the greeks looked just like all other
greeks and the sponges the same only
that they cost more here than any
where's else on acct. of this being
where they catch them.
4 X !; *
Put what started to say was that
we made the return trip after
dark and We had to have our head
lights all lit up and so did the other
cars comeing towards US and when
You take a Is mile ride on a #. road
on Sunday evening with a constant
line of head lights stareing you in the
eye. why 1 haven't no wds to describe
same though our driver had a good
supply and used tho most of them.
RING w. LARDNER.
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man told me that sponge fishing was
one of the biggest industrys in Greece
and when the greeks heard that they
was a school Of sponges spongeing off
Tarpon Springs why they all left their
own happy spongeing grounds and
Hooked over here. 1t struck me as
kind of funny that greeks should be
leaders in this amusement as / never
yet seen a greek that looked like a
sponge lover, but 1 suppose it is the
same like other professions like for
inst. you don't hardly ever see
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sonal letter. Mrs. Van Fleet feels
that a typewriter personal letter is
an abomination and an affront to the
recipient. According to her, it is not
only bad form but It is a menace to
all our instincts for beauty, to our
most cherished traditions and sacred
sentiments-to everything. in short.
that dignifies and adorns human con-
tact.
That's what Mrs, Van Fleet thinks.
And 1 think that what she thinks is
tommy rot. You might as well weep
large, salty tears and say that the
holy state of matrimony is imperiled
because wives no longer sew their
husbands shirts by hand. The es-
thetes made a similar fuss when sew
ing machines were introduced. You'd
have thought the devil was concealed
in the shuttle.
Are hubbys shirts any less sacred
because they are turned out whole
sale at a factory than when the max
ing of them involved endless strain
on wifey's eyes and temper? Is the
well known baked bean any less hon
orable because we guy it in a can in
stead of baking 1t ourselves for hours
in hot kitchen, thus liberating our
selves for pleasurable hours else
where? Is little Johnny's neck any
less precious and clean or mother love
any less sanctified because she now
uses drug store soap on little John
ny instead of rolling her own out
of kitchen drippings and I've?
Why In time should a letter contain
more or the writer's soul quality
when it is composed in bad penman-
ship rather than In perfectly good
typewriting If one of the purposes
of a personal letter be to show con-
sideration and afford pleasure, then
where did William shakespeare get
off? AS far as chirography goes. any
fifth grade graduate from a dog doc,
tors college was Williams peer. Ne
for the lii round keys!
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hold everything here in disregard as
though the man had nothing In COM
mon with the scene. All around were
officers from many ships, both OF the
line and of the marine-nonest
laughter, quick snatches OF many
tongues. catches of feminine voices.
From the other room the wheeze-
bang of native music, scrape OF dane
ing feet, clatter of chips-the throb
and thrill of high-pitched amusement,
Of frank gayety.
Yet the man was never stirred oy
it at all. He seemed thinking OF
something else.
why the dYil don't that ga, bring
the drinks?" ssnarled Almond sud
denly. Real booze here. None o
your cursed rotgut-
- X X
A WHITE-cLAD Chinese boy, the
"A first who had appeared in this
bar, slipped through the throng.
Deity and with apologies he made
his way to the two men. Down be-
fore Ben Almond he laid folded chit.
"You telly my. yes-no," he said
softly.
Almond opened the paper and read
the message curt command from
Lee Hung to get out. A pallid fury
leaped athwart his face. He wiped
the look away, stifed the oath on his
lips and looked up at the skipper
II got to see man in hurry,
Cap'n," he said. ITS hell of a
note. But it's a business deal"
Don't mention IT," returned Han
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LISTEN, WORLD!
BY ELSIE ROBINSON.

Mrs. Horatio Van Fleet is much dis
turbed. Now. Mrs. Van Fleet is not
easily disturbed. In spite of her sew
enty years, she manages to receive
the changing days with cheerful toll
erance. But there, is one thing which
she cannot abide, and her prejudice
against this is backed strenuously by
the cultured circles in which she
moves.
This one thing is typewriter per-
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0ORMER President Wilson has for
. one disciple an ancient man
whose outlook on life is through

whose outlook on life is through
knotaole in the back fence of
obscurity-though, at that, he gets a
clearer slant on conditions than some of
US holders of reserved seats at the
worlds front door.
If you have any old papers to give
him, and he considers you quality in
stead of poor white trash, he likes to
discourse with a knowledge that comes
from being able to "stedy out" the news
Of the day, with courtly difference that
with an Unborn ability that comes from
where!
"Yessum, it pears as if the republican
PATTY is in powah, but I has my hopes
My family's. ben democrats even sence
the revolutionary wan, an befo' that we
was tories-for why? Englan' had
ginnus plenty of good land, an most OF
us bein' fahmahs an doctors an cluggy-
men, we had'n no quarl to pick-an' I'm
a democrat today. I'm a. degeneration
democrat, same as President Wilson
for why? Nations is like hens. If you
got a good, roomy chicken run fenced in,
! them hens gwine lay aigs in straw
| ness whar they can set in comfort an
hatch out tautteen chickens fun thut'
teen aigs. If you amt got no chicken
run, them hens gwine kite off an drap
aigs whar weazels en- steal 'em, an the
few chicks they does get outn' the shells
is jes' SO many meals for hawks-yes-
i sum.
They tells me they's whole passler
| nations oval in that Europe place whar
President Wilson went, an what he was
amin at was to gettem all fenced in
safe and SCUM, SO they could hatch out
all the good luck that was a'comin' to
'em, with nobody nigh for to hindah-
becawse why? Becawse no enemies
that was after 'em could CHM the fence
That's cla.1, amt it, lady"
1t was a crystal ball for clearness
only few people bother with crystal
, balls these days.
X X 4 4
ELOORWALKERS and diplomat,
are cast in the same mold-it i,
the luck in borning that makes the
difference. It isn't every ambassa.
dor, Of course. who possesses the
! full line of qualifications to hold
down a job Of aisle manager, but YOU
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son with a wave of his cigar. Even
as he spoke, his eyes wandered care
lessly. 1t meant nothing to him,
nothing at all.
Almond departed, leaving Hanson
sitting there.
and smiled at Hanson. She paused
before him and spoke. He frowned.
listened, made her repeat three times
before he understood that she wanted
to speak with him. Then he nodded
and ordered drink. He scrutinized
her curiously.
what language is that you speak"
he inquired. Good Lord, girl, can't
understand thing you say"
True enough. She was absolutely
unintelligible to him-that broad
Somerset burr was all Greek to his
| American ears. Suddenly she plunged
! into excellent Hollandsch.
"My father was often in Holland"
she explained. HE was a sea cap
| tain. too
"Good!' said Hanson. still studying
her face. That's good. girl. Smile
again-by George, that smile of yours
| is the finest thing I've seen these
ten years."
F! But Zomy Sal did not smile. In
stead, she returned his intent look.
! THAT man with you" she said, "he
meant to drug you. Two men were
| in here last night, and they talked in
Hol,andsch-they did not know I I'M
derstood. He was to drug you, and
7: they were to get you when you left"
. Hanson removed the cigar from be-
| tween his teeth, and sat back in his
chair. His deep eyes had changed
slightly; little flame had come into
them. His muscles had tensed, SO
that he seemed to be awkwardly pois-
ed in his chair.
! Good for your he said calmly. 81
thought there was something odd
about that chap picking up such a
friendship for me. Had my eye on
him. Who were those other two men?
i Dutchmen?"
j Now Zomy Sal, smiled again, and
right merrily.
| L =.
There names were Houtman and
Koln; you don't know them. But tell
me, Capt. Hanson! Were you ever
mate in an island trader out of Sgd
ney, a schooner called the Avu-avu:
Ten years ago"
The effect of this question upon
John Hanson was extraordinary.
For an instant his dark eyes closed
] otherwise he did not move a muscle
One would have said that those eyes
closed to shut out the world. to shut
in a prayer drawn from the mans
soul.
Then the eyes opened. dwelt upon
the girl with a singular intensity.
YES" said Hanson. II was"
, Zomy Sal was perhaps little dis.
appointed at his manner. She lean
! ed forward and spoke again in her
good European Hollandsch.
"And did you once carry a rich man
! and his daughter to Rarotonga? And
was the ship wrecked? And was
| nearly every one drowned-nearly?'
1.-THE features OF capt. hanson
L brown as rosewood under the
cap-line, became overspread with a
mortal pallor. His nostrils became
pinched, whitish. In his eyes shone
agony.
"Oh, God. have found her al
last?" he muttered in English. II
was actually a question addressed to
his Creator.
"Yus" said Zomy Sal triumphantly
| "Yusw
A frightful effort. a spasmodic
contortion of the facial muscles
passed across the countenance of the
skipper. He was himself again
shrewdly alert.
what d'you mean, girl?" he de-
manded sharply. "who told you thil
yarn?"
! shes upstairs. sick with thu
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motoring Through the South
By Ring W. Lardner.

"O the Editor: Not more than
seven or eight years ago there
was great excitement in the
state of Florida. when a car
came along with a Tennessee license
or some other place way up north
and everybody wondered who the
folks was that had ali that nerve
and patients to make such long trip
and how long it had took them and
etc. In those days the auto routes
between the northern states and
Florida was SO bad that they wouldn't
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AROUND THE CITY

can take 1t from any woman who
knows, that frst-class floorwalker
no matter where you pick him up,
has the brain stun to outfit a whole
legation. Therefore, the experience
of one of them should be worth con-
sidering:
"A woman is nearly always spoiled
If she hasn't good husband or pa
rents to do it, she goes ahead and
that subconsciously wants to be
'babied.' There are exceptions, nat
urally; they stand for the sacrifices
Of the world, seldom for it's romances
"a woman feels that she owns her
butcher and her pastor; her special
clerk in the store she deals with. and
the policeman on her beat. She
bosses them all around. but when
you get right down to it, she has a
child's faith in each of them-the
faith of a trusting child-allowing for
the always exceptions. understand
No matter how strong and sensible
and seif-reliant women are for fifty
nine minutes in the hour. they are
children on the sixtieth.
"I'll give you one little illustra.
tion"-but he didn't, for the reason
that two women dripped in from the
storm and made soppy Decline to-
ward him; one Of them fighting mad
and the other following. with the i'm
portance that comes Of moral sup.
port-umbrella to be changed, be-
cause ut wouldn't stay up"
Still, a good opinion is always
worth passing on.
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and American bar" in company with
one Ben Almond, who managed a
sawmill along the stream. Almond
was an American of sorts. or had
been one. He was a plausible chap.
always in debt; he was not strong
enough to be bad. but he was furtive.
And there was nothing decent about
him, except his plausible air.
Lee Hung had once put out
Of the place. for reason, and ordi-
narily would never have allowed him
! entrance again. On this particular
night, however, Lee Hung was too
busy to watch things. Lady Nell was
down with an attack of river fever.
and all hands were rushed.
- + +
co the two men came into the Eng
lish bar, and sat themselves down.
Cap'n John Hanson looked about,
crowd. With his seaman's cap off,
he looked older showed much gray
hair about the temples.
He was not a big man at all, this
skipper of the Nimrod. He was quite
lanky, even thin. The effect of his
hooked nose and square chin was
dampened by a certain weary air in
his eyes. Now he appeared rather
disguised with his companion.
Il don't care for this sort of place.
he said mildly. Loose women-"
Ben Almond snickered.
1T amt whAs it seems, Cap'n-not
| a bit Of it! Try anything on with
these gals. and they'll show you what
for! Soil Lee Hung"
The heavy brows of Hanson went
up. so? You can't mean"
about impudently. Il don't savvy il
myself. Tried to make a, date with
one of the girls, and I thought Lee
Hung would knife me. guess they're
| straight enough"
Later this remark was to make
some money for Almond, but he did
not dream it now.
you know" he went on, cts rot
ten hard for a white woman, on hel
uppers, to keep straight in these
parts, Cap'n! You know how 1t is
blamed hard. Mebbe that's why Lee
Hung went into business. These
Chinks are the devil for queer notions
! I've heard he's a regular father to
| 'em, sends 'em back home, and sc
! forth. Yes, guess the girls are all
straight enough" ,&
looming from you," said Hanson
carelessly, "that is tremendous af-
frmation."
Hanson went on looking about the
| room.
As for Almond, he was rather SLOW
| in sensing what had just been said
When he did understand it-when he
realized that Hanson, in tone OF
careless disregard, had classed him
| with the lowest of the low-the mans
face paled horribly.
Have ciga," he said in stran-
gled voice. Got some Americans
here"
He laid several cigars on the table
Two bore the gaudy bands of i'm
norted Havanas With an exclama-
tion of mild pleasure Hanson took
one of these and lighted 1t.
It was singular to note the supreme
disaain with which Hanson treated
the man who had brought him here
Perhaps, seated under the lights. he
had found something in Almonds
face which he had missed previously
Yet something of this same air
toward everything and every one
around him, could be found in the
gaze of Capt, John Hanson. 1t was
no turbulence. It was not as though
he considered himself better than
others. Not that at all! Nor was il
the weary aloofness.
Rather, those deep eyes. after thei,
first flash OF interest. appeared tc
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When oak is buried in water or in
wet sand it will last for centuries
Oak piles under bridges constructed
by the Romans 1000 years ago have
been found to be as sound as when
they were first put in position.
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lust for fun, a woman counted
) nearly two hundred half-smoked
cigarettes littering the ground around
q track. Then she figured out the
why Of the waste: A young fellow
will light his cigarette while wait-
ing for a car and have to throw it
away after few puffs. Other men,
young and old, will pause outside of
business houses to light up, while
exchanging a word or two before
going inside. Add the whole city
full of stubs, multiply them by every
other city and every day in the year
and the result is enough money
ia nav 80 soldier bonus.
MAMIE LANCASTER.