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Middletown transcript., 1922-10-09
Barn Destroyed By Fire

Fire Saturday nightdestroyed the barn,
outbuildings and this years crops on
Clayton farm near Bethel, tenanted by
James Burris The E kton fire COM
pany responded and managed to save
the house from destruction. The origin
of the fire is unknown. The loss is
estimated at $4,000, party covered by
insurance.
Middletown transcript., 1922-10-09
MiddIetown Will Play Football

At recent meeting it was decided
that Middletown will play football
team in the field this year. Practice
was called for Wednesday night and
some fine material reported. Man.
ager Weber would like to arrange
games with any team of 165 to lao
pounds. Write or phone c. P. Weber,
Middletown.
Middletown transcript., 1922-10-09
Finds Hog Cholera in State

Animals suffering from hog cholera
have been found at several places in the
State according to veterinarian emr
ployed by the Government who is id
vestigating hog cholera control in Dela-
ware. He found the Sussex County
section to be affected the most. Hogs
suffering from cholera should be im-
munized by the farmers owning them
and report should be made by them to
DR.. NJ. Kurkow, at Dover or to the
county agent.
Middletown transcript., 1922-10-09
A Correction

In recent issue of The Transcript
we published the prevailing prices of
coal delivered in Wilmington, but the
article failed to state that Wilmington
coal merchants sell the short ton of
1000 lbs, while Middletown dealers de-
liver 2240 lbs. We make this correc-
ton in order that local consumers may
understand why they are charged more
here than Wilmington residents.
Middletown transcript., 1922-10-09
Bridge Wreckers Plead Guilty

The five men charged with plotting
70 dynamite the Fourteenth street over
head bridge, of the p & w. X. r. in
Wilmington, on August 81, Lionel
Phillips, Daniel Befany, Harry G..
Seidkem, Robert J. Pratt and Dominick
Gregory, plead guilty last Friday in the
Court of General Session, to malicious
mischief. At the discretion of the
Court, they may be given quite lengthy
prison terms when called for sentence
next Monday.
Middletown transcript., 1922-10-09
OBITUARY
Dave Anderson

Dave Anderson. of Millington, Md,
died on Thursday in that town from a
complication of diseases, after an i'll
ness of two weeks. The funeral was
held Saturday, at o'clock, conducted
by Rev. Wilson, pastor of Trinity
Church, interment at Sudlersville ceme-
terry. The pail bearers We're Leonard
Wilson. Liston Pennington, Paul Come
gys, Charles Legg, Harry Stevens and
Frank Miller.
Middletown transcript., 1922-10-09
Buy Them Now

Have you bought your bonds
for the new Opera House !? II
not you had better do SO to-day.
They are backed by securities
that make them safe.
Middletown transcript., 1922-10-09
A Good Physic

When you want physic that is mild
and gentle in effect, easy to take and
certain to act, take Chamberlain Tab
lets. They are excellent.
Middletown transcript., 1922-10-09
They Are Going Fast

The new series of Opera
House bonds are going fast.
Do not delay purchasing until
they are all disposed of. You
will regret it, if you do.
Middletown transcript., 1922-10-09

FOR SALE-Gunning and Trespass
notices at The TRANSCRIPT OFFICE.
The Washington herald., 1922-06-21
A Traffic Court,

= Establishment of traffic court in Wash
L. ngton is, to bromide expression, "a
step in the right direction"
The District of Columbia long has needed such
an institution While at present it is only an expert
ment, we are, confident that it soon will become
established part Of the ctys judicial system, and
both police and judges will wonder how they func-
toned so long without it.
Few who drive automobiles in Washington have
not been arrested at time or other. Those
who have not have had cards placed in their bid
ding them appear at the police station and post
collateral for their appearance in court The police
men smile pleasantly when they take the money
two dollars, hve dollars or whatever it may be.
They know that in ninety-nine cases out of each
hundred the owner never will claim it again
The traffic court has become a necessity in
every large American city. Washington is one of
the last to make use of it. Increasing use of the
automobile has resulted in police blotters covered
with charges of violated traffic laws. Offenses in
this respect outbalance all others by at least
to one. If the which come up in a single
day, especially at this time OF the year. actually
tried all others would be pushed off the books for
a week.
The separate traffic court will. at least, afford
a cleaner atmosphere for traffic violation cases.
Drivers charged with running past a Stop" sign
will not be forced to appear with drunks and boot
leggers in order to obtain a hearing. 1t will be
entirely respectable be tried before the new seat
Of judgment. This was not always the case before.
There is suggestion of disrespectabity about the
police eourt-resardless of the guilt innocence of
the people who appear before its bench.
At present only an acute of justice would
impel anyone to appear for trial after posting COL
lateral for traffic offense. Even if found innocent
the time and trouble involved in the hearing would
amount to than the sum posted. This cond-
ton may disappear under the dispensaton. At
least it will be possible to give road law volators
a much careful hearing than when, they were
in the past.
With this t-rSfc court in operation Washington
will be able to m, ke much better claim that she
has up-to-date judicial machi,ery 1t is expert
ment which is bound to su .ceed.
The Washington herald., 1922-06-21
Passing of Interior Watch
Force.
To u. Eaitor, Th. w,.hinrten H.raIl:

To tn. Editor, The Washington Herald:
On July l the watch force Of the
Interior Department will become a
thing of the past. BY an act Of
Congress a transfer OF the care of
all Interior Department buildings
has been made to the superintend-
ent of public buildings and
grounds. and directly in the hands
Department. Many members Of
the old guard must 60. Some will
retire with annuities during life:
those with less than fifteen years
service must go without any COM
pensation whatever. The writer is
among the latter.
1t seems not out of place to make
few remarks here as to the duties
performed by the Interior Depart
ment watch force during the
gloomy days of hendish propa-
ganda and war.
An attempt was made 70 destroy
the Capitol but was nipped in the
bud by the Secret Service force. All
public buildings are in the care Of
a watch force at all times. and
during the war and the time of the
nations trouble extra vigilance was
required. No stranger was allowed
to enter any OF the buildings with
out the best OF credentials. Let IL
be said to the credit of the officers
and men of the Interior watch force
that during all these anxious
months not one mishap or accident
out OF the ordinary occurred.
John SHANNON
The Washington herald., 1922-06-21

us by radio and the minute and irregular variations
in this radiant energy must affect climate and
prosperity though we do not yet know how or
how much. II has long been known that fare-up
on the finds its reflex in the northern lights
Sun-spots are solar tornadoes, deep whirlpools
in the suns atmosphere. so large that the earth
might be dropped into one and hot that iron and
lime gaseous. The revolving streams Of cleo
irons create magnetic field in their core and it is
by these magnetic effects that such electric storms
can be found while yet too small to be discernble
as dark patches on the suns disk 1t has recently
been discovered that the as whole is a mag
net. When flock OF spots appear it means an out
burst OF solar activity, but curohsy enough this
causes eloudiness in the earths atmosphere so the
weather is apt to be cooler instead of warmer.
Many fantastic ideas of the relations between
sun-spot cycles and earthly crises have been ad-
vancsl. Rash attempts have been made to connect
brainstorms we'll as rainstorms with solar
cyclones. and to predict and financial failure
as we'll crops. But measurements of solar radia-
ton are now being used in forecastng the weather
in several countries and the method OF tracing
disturbances on the may contribute to this.
The Washington herald., 1922-06-21

take notice. understand some
mothers are making a plea to re-
move their children from farm
homes because IL is too far and
they cannot afford the cost of the
trip TO see them. Others complain
their children have 10 work too
hard. Still others ask to have
their children placed in the Indus
trial Home School
These things excite the sympathy
OF the public. who know nothing
about the real facts or truth Of the
matter, the nature and disposition
OF the child. or the character Of the
mother. rise up in defense OF the
child and condemn the private
homes. speaking in favor Of the
institution
But the public is not 20 blame
for that: they are not gwen h>th
sides. so how can they know? I
would. IL could. give all the facts
I know here. There isn't space:
moreover. I am saving them for q
special article which I am in hopes
will allow the public TO see the
matter in the true light and then
judge as TO whether the institution
or a good private home is best.
There are good homes as well as
bad ones. There are good institu-
tions as well as had ones. hut no
matter how good. how fine an in
stitution. il can never take the
place Of home.
Were IL not that the children
would have to bear the burden Of
confinement and almost compie'e
isolation from the outside world.
while the parents were free 70 en-
Joy themselves. choose their own
pleasures. have a good time aer-
orally. would suggest that chill
dren whose parents request 81 he
placed IN the home school. lesvin -
those who are happy and contented
in their foster hemes.
Unlike Mr.. Thompson. I have 4
personal interest in the matter. Al
interest in the walfare Of all chill
dren everywhere. a special interest
in four little girls in my home. two
who have been former inmates Of
the home school. All are wards Of
the Board OF Guardians. These
children enjoy every privilege. are
Just as free. dress just as we'll
have Just as many pleasures and
are required to perform only such
duties as a child in Its own home
whose parents wanted TO see Il
grow into a good and useful wom-
an would do.
PANSY F. FoLLIN.
The Washington herald., 1922-06-21
Defends farming Out"

TO the Editor. The Washington Herald:
VIII you kindly give me space to
reply to Samuel c. Thompson in
regard to the controversy between
the Industrial Home School. its
allies and the Board of Children S
Guardians. / wish to say that Mr..
Thompson, like the most of the
public, have as yet been given but
one side of the affair. Also that
these wards of the board are not
taken by force from poor parents
unable to support them.
The newspapers from some rea-
son or other have not been able to
get the other side OF the matter.
There is another side, and much
could be said about II had / time
and space.
First let me tell you that in only
few cases are children taken
from poverty-stricken homes by
fierce, but the parents voluntarily
surrendered their children rather
than see them suffer.
Furthermore. this class Of chill
dren form but very small per-
centage Of the wards Of the board.
The greatest number are taken
from immoral surroundings and
homes, from under the influence OF
bad mothers and fathers. Mothers
ana fathers unworthy to bear the
name. Could washinetonians hear
the history OF these children's lives
as told by the children themselves
they indeed would have cause to
The Washington herald., 1922-06-21
The Cherry blossoms. Potomac
Park. Washington, ID. C.

Park. Washington. ID. c.
Go down the Cherry Blossom way
On lovely April day.
Follow curvinE paths about
Through the trees. in and out.
Where the blossoms pink and white
Make ones heart beat with delight
Where the sun shining through
Makes sky and water blue.
Where the great shaft towers high
A benediction in the sky,
Where tire columns of the temple
shine
A precious. sacred shrine.
where full-blowine spray
OF flowers on their branches sway
And the soft mist
Is pale amethyst.
Where the placid river ,tretehe,
Like delicate pencil sketches
Through its bordered green.
How IL shines s-gieam,
And down the vista a tiny boat
On the surface seems 20 float
On its way to sea,
Trembles and rocks In ecstasy.
The gauzy vel Of trees
Stirred by faintest breeze.
Makes fading shadows in the grass
Where we slowly pass.
The willows cannot weep.
But only watehful vigil keep
Above such ioveiiness serene
Beyond ones hasoiest dreami
HELEN WRIGHT.
The Washington herald., 1922-06-21
Riyaling the Hummingbird.

M AN is not satisfied with merely conquering
lfl the air. He must all the means that
his Imagination create. In city today the
hum of arpane motor hardly bends neck.
Airplane trips mail via aero, aerial photographs,
and stories of the use of airplanes in mere
commonpaces New inventors at work on
heicopters trying to build a craft that, like the
hummingbird, can mount straight upward, hover,
fly horizontally, and then drop safely to earth
straight downwards.
1t is not easy task. Getting into the air
is simple. but coming down from the heights is
difficult just it is in many other events in life
The heicopter's development at the present time
corresponds to the pre-Wright days of the airplane
We may expect prizes of 100000 and the
urge of the inventors dreams, combined with
mechanical facility and greater scientific knowledge
to eventually produce man-made machine that
will rival any bird in its power of vertical flight
and stationary lowering.
The Washington herald., 1922-06-21
High School and College.

IT HE high school days of nearly 1900 Wash
ington boys and girls end this week
Then it will be work college-accordng to
ambition, temperament and circumstances.
To many OF this years graduates COL
lege course whether convenient or not is almost
essential. No small number of them are fit for
better things than labor with their hands or
better material than is needed for prvates and
non-commissioned officers in the battle Of life.
Such boys and girls the colleges seek to attract.
In the District OF Columbia. fortunately, it is
comparatively easy to obtain a college educa-
tion-so easy in fact that men and with
ambition, but slender purses, come here every
fall from all corners OF the United States. A
considerable proportion Of government clerks are
college students who look forward not to COM
Portable livings, but the conquest of the world
Washington has four colleges of the first
order Each of these has professional schools
attached and each makes special provisions for
students who must their living while
devoting time to studies. Most OF the profess
sional courses taught in both night and day
classes that undergraduates can arrange almost
any sort OF work and study schedules.
The high school students who plan to attend
college this fall have need to leave Wash
ington. To do so would be much the same as it
resident OF Detroit went to Boston to buy an
automobile a native OF Asatic Turkey placed
order for dates in London. In George Wash
ington University Georgetown University. Ameri-
University and Catholic University, to sa,
nothing of the University of Maryland Just out
sid the District confines, Washington has insti-
tutiunJ q learning which compare favorably with
any in the United States. Moreover the atmos-
Phere OF the Capital is intensely educational at all
times Here facilities for obtaining knowl-
edge offered by no other city
The Washington herald., 1922-06-21
The Troops Go By.

T seemed like war days once more when, the
i Marines marched through Washington yes
tcrday their way to Gettysburg
Almost overnight great bodies of marching
troops have become unfamiliar the streets of
American cities Who would have paid any atten-
ton three years ago to a mere 5000 men?
The interest shown by the public is excellent
evidence that America has settled down more
into the routine of peace.
A few years more and hundreds of thousands
of citizens never will have seen olive drab a
pea green uniform. The recruiting sergeant in
country towns will be as much of curiosity as
ne was ten years ago when the children used to
follow him around the streets if he new
pied piper
But the sight of those marching men, they
move slowly through the green lanes Ind sleepy
villages Of Maryland during the next week, will
stir strange memories. Young farmers, perhaps,
will pause in their haying to watch them-some will
curse and others will have peculiar, faraway looks
in their eyes.
These are picnic days in the art OF war.
Around Potomac Park, Monday afternoon, Marine
officers were seen actually chatting pleasantly with
the men while they set up pup tents. The Mary
land farmers this week certain to notice Incl
dents like this.
For the next fifty years a long line of uni
formed men will stir memories-bitter memories Tor
the part.
But to some they will be pleasant memories.
One of those Maryland farmers here and there will
compare his present lot to that he enjoyed when a
member Of these regiments, perhaps. He
will compare his labor in the hot field to the pic
mic these fellows enjoying, his struggle with the
world to their freedom from responsibility.
The march to Gettysburg should be a pleasant
experience for the men from Quantico. They can
combine all the joys of war with none OF the dis
advantage. 1t will be splendid experience to sleep
in pup tents after the familiar atmosphere Of bar
racks And it is good to recall the military power
OF the nation to its people and then. This pur-
pose can not be accomplished better than by such
q march.
The Washington herald., 1922-06-21
Name of Alabama.

To the Editor. The Washington Herald:
In your issue OF the sth insta Mt.
under the head Of Memory Tests. e
the question is asked. What is the
Indian menaing OF the name Ala
bama?" You answer in the issue of
the 1".a instant. Here we rest"
Wbs. - set down here Is not
meant 20 he conclusive, but 10 given
merelv Is Information.
In an article written for and
published in the Montgomery Ad-
vertiser, Montgomery. Ala. in 1905,
by DR.. W. S. Wyman. an early set
tier in Alabama and long a resi-
dent % Tuscaloosa, in that State; q
scholar. learned in the history. lore
and languages of the Indians OF
Alabama. entitled The Flight OF
the Alabamans," he has this to say.
after relating in detail the Incl
dents leading up TO the abandon
ment by the French in 1853 of Fort
Toulouse. situated on a narrow 18TH
mus. between the Coosa and TalIa-
poosa rivers in Alabama, and the
sincere friendship that existed be-
tween the French and the Alabama
tribe of Indians; the attempt Of the
Alabamas. under the leadership OF
their aged chief Tamathle -mingo.
to follow their French friends and
their migrations westward and
hnal settlement in Polk County.
Texas, where their descendants are
living today: IF there were any
truth in the hoary legend which in
forms us that the word Alabama
means Here we. rest" these In
n - -
old chief in the legend: Alabama:
Here we rest" As II is, they may,
il they please, exclaim: He-yun-
He efo-se-kel-kos! For this is the
genuine jswbreaking expression for
Here we rest" in the Alabama dia-
lect."
EDWARD r. O'coNNoR
The Washington herald., 1922-06-21
Release of Prisoners.

To the Editor. The Washington Herald:
Justinian. in his contribution to
the Open Court. quotes the inscrip-
ton on a Confederate banner Damn
the man who won't fieht for his
country" and according to his de-
duction from his texts. all these
Confederate veterans should have
been hung for treason. as they did
not fight for their country, but
against II.
The above motto carried on a tat
tered banner by Confederate Vet
Grams was applauded on Pennsyl-
vania avenue by men who fought
against them, but who were big
and broad enough TO admire brave
and devoted men who had recently
been rebels and traitors to their
country, in contrast to TO the spirit
Of Justinian.
Justinian says OF our war prison
ers. These prisoners were traitors
and should feel grateful to the Gov
ernment that their fate has been
imprisonment rather than punish
ment by death" What is the mat
ter with Justinian's reasoning? He
has just quoted the Inscription on
a banner carried by men who shat
tered the Stars and Stripes wIsu
shot and she'll and trarupied them
in the dust and the plaudits they
received from the men who had
conquered and forgave them as a
text for his sermon.
IL lenient to traitors then, why
not now7
"A bad cause" now. How about
the bad cause then. in '61-'s5. that
was shot to death with grape and
cannistery
There appears 10 be no nitigst-
ing circumstances In their behalf.
No! According to unbiased testi-
meny, most of them were not guilty
of the charges on which they were
convicted. whereas the Confederate
Veterans were unauestionsbly
guilty Of what Justinian charges
to our present political prisoners.
Our former President and his poll
cies were rspudiated overwhelming-
ly by over 100000 votes. and 50
per cent Of those who voted for
Cox. in reality repudiatsd wilsen.
The Washington herald., 1922-06-21


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NEW YORK DELEGATION.
To the Friend q People: -.
Can you publish the names OF the Senators
Of New Yofkr What State was Martin Van
Buren from7 STUDENT.
James W. wad.worth. jr, and william NJ.
tives Frederick c. Hicks, John Joseph Kin
a5sa JShn Ks,. ThoT,s ss Gullsn ArdepS
voIk Daniel J. RioTdsn. Meyer London. Christie
Jefferson Ryan. w. sourk. Cochran. ogden l.
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