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Smyrna times., 1922-11-15
STATE AND PENINSULA NEWS
/. TOLD IN BRIEF SPICY ITEMS
NEWSY ITEMS GATHERED FROM
OUR STATE EXCHANGES
Brief News Items of People We Know
In and Around the Larger Penin-
sula Towns and Communities

Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Fleming of Ten
nessee and Mrs. Henry Emac of Fox
Chase, Pa, are visiting their parents,
Mr. and Mrs. William Walker at Dow
er.
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Mrs. Atwater, wife of Rev. Charles
L. Atwater, rector of Emmanuel Epis-
cOpal Church, ChestertOwn, Md, is in
Philadelphia. She went to Philadel-
phia last week to visit her parents and
while in the shopping district became
i'll and was taken to a hospital, where
an operation was performed
Miss Ella DOwnes of Dover, has
been entertaining her nephew, Hall
Downes and bride of Los Angeles, Cal
ifornia. After spending a few days
with their parents in California, Mr..
and Mrs. Downes will sail for Homo
lulu where they will make their future
home. Mr.. Downes is connected with
the Durant Automobile Company.
At the monthly meeting of Dover
Council last week the report of the
| town alderman showed seven arrests
during October, with fines amounting
to $27. Council decided to raise the
price of electric current, beginning
November l, from 10 to 15 cents per
watt. The semi-annual report of the
Board of Health was received.
Believing that a special freight rate
on sweet potatoes would move the en-
ormous crop out of Delaware and that
it would be the means of making pO-
tatoes cheaper to the consumer and
at the same time keep the thousands
of bushels from wasting, Sussex Coun-
ty Pomona Grange has passed resolu-
tions asking the railroad company tC
make low special rate.
An automobile driven by Charles
Townsend, son of Z. Z. Townsend Of
Millville, crashed into the laundr!
wagon of the Hotel Windsor, of Mil
ford, on the dupont Boulevard neal
Georgetown. Townsend, James Ryan
SON of Alex. Ryan of Milford, ant
Norris Cordray, who has been making
\ his home with James Saterfield, nea
Milford, are in the Milford Emergenc!
Hospital badly hurt.
Mrs. Clara V. Turner, a fOrme
II teacher in Tome Institute, Port De
II posit, instituted suit against Mrs
II Evelyn S. France, wife of Unite
II States Senator Joseph |. France, o
II Cecil County, for $500, the amour
II due her thru failure of Mrs. France t
II make payment since March on a lif
III income of $1OO monthly "for service
III rendered." in accordance with a
III agreement made October 25, 1899.
III Mrs. Sarah Usilton, of Chestertowi
III Md, aged 85 years, widow of Joh
HI Usilton, died Wednesday. She was
III member of one of the oldest and mos
III prominent families in Kent count
III and was a woman of unusual INTEL
III gence. She was one of the organizer
III of the Women's Christian Temperate
III Union in the county and for yeal
III was actively identified with the Metl
NJ odist Episcopal Church. She leave
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1922-05-11
GOLF CLUB PAST
TENTATIVE STAGE

Plans for the Hood River Golf Club,
the course of which will be laid out
on tract of $50 acres, owned by Her
man Pregge in the Oak Grove district.
six miles southwest of the city, have
passed the tentative stage. according
to promoters. Indeed, the financing Of
the club has progressed to the point,
where arrangements are being made
for taking over the property, and Sum
day Chandler Egan, of Medford, ex-
champion of American amateurs, who
has beer engaged in laying out one of
the municipal links in Portland, came
here with Victor Johnson, Portland golf
expert, and made thorough survey of
the local grounds. 1t is anticipated
that MIR. Egan will lay out the local
course.
The Oak Grove ranch will be purch-
ased by sale of S20,0 in debenture
bonds, Of which $4,000 worth have al
ready been taken by local and Portland
men. j. c. Ainsworth, who will be a
charter member Of the local club,
bought $500 worth of the bonds. An
other Portland man who subscribed is
E. D. Kingsley.
Mr.. Egan, who was escorted from
the Columbia Gorge Hotel by +. D..
Blanchsr, c. N. Ravlin and AL. w.
Peters, declared that the contour of the
Oak Grove land was ideal for the dew
elopment of a fine course. Local men.
interested in development Of the club,
declare themselves as very much en-
couraged by Mr.. Egan's report.
The event, which according to plans.
will be made annual. will be termed
the Apple Blossom banquet. Cars
have been mailed to all members of
he club, urging their attendance. The
dinner will be served at 81 per plate.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1922-05-11
BENSON BUYS THE
GARRABRANT PLACE

S. Benson has just purchased from
D. c. Garrabrant 40-acre tract lying
Just across the Highway from the Co
lumbia Gorge Hotel. Consideration
for the place was $4,000. A large
part of the place is in native shrub
berry. 1t will be left intact as much as
possible, it is stated. and will be inn
proved by landscape gardeners. lt is
proposed to make the place a park for
motoring picnic parties.
Gardeners Friday completed making
seed beds on the grounds Immediately
around the tourist hostelry. They
were seeded TO grass. Putting greens
will be established. A crew of Italian
masons arrived Sunday and on Monday
began the construction of number Of
dry masonry terraces on the hotel
grounds.
The hotel is now the scene of nu.
merous social affairs. Numerous mo-
tor parties from Portland have been
there the past week. Thursday a
party of 20 women of The Dalles par
ticipated in card party and luncheon
at the hotel. Friday night SO mem
pers of the Hood River County Tea.
chers' As ociation participated at q
banquet at the hosterly.
Mr. Benson has also purchased from
Robert Rand an additional six acres,
paying the sum of SIS, 900. The latter
property lies Immediately east Of the
hostelry. and Mr.. Benson now owns
from the Nature Lovers Club proper
ty all the way to the DeHart place.
The property bought will give excel.
lent opportunities for landscape gar
dening. and the surroundings of the
famed hotel will be beautifed and put
in keeping with the building.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1922-05-11
BLOOM FEAST
Is DELAYED
COLD DAYS CAUSE POSTPONEMENT !.
Ad Club Party Will Join Commercial CIV
in Celebration on Sunday,
May Il e

Hood River valley orchards ar E e.
ginning to bloom. aud the owr of
the $4,000 acres of trees. soon !, los
som laden, invite all the world s .ome
on Sunday. May 81. and share in the
rare and inspiring beauty of an ocean
of pink and white.
1t was anticipated last week that
Sunday would be celebrated as Bios
som Sunday in the Hood River valley,
but continued cold weather has post
poned the opening Of the blossoms, and
the bloom festival here this year will
be at an unprecedented late date.
Fruit spurs, however, are loaded with
buds, Just ready TO burst. Indeed
growers declare they have never seen
such promise for blossoms, except for
the remarkable spring of 1919, when
the Portland Ad Club inaugurated the
annual custom of a motor pilgrimage
of its members and their families to
the little Valley of Peace and Happi-
ness, tucked among the enfolding hills,
for the celebration of Apple Blossom
Sunday.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1922-05-11

Lane carries the motorist up a canyon,
where young frs, naples, dogwoods
and other shrubs are now at their best.
Leaving the wooded canyon, the trav-
eler breaks out on open orchard dist
ricts again. These tracts on the west
bank of Hood river, overlook the
stream. Both Mount Hood and Mount
Adams are in plain view, and here,
too, is gained fine view.D IF sections
Of the orchard district.
Upper Hood River Valley orchards
are not now in bloom. Their trees will
present a glory of color and perfume
in about two weeks. Indeed, the mot
or tourist, if he be unable to join the
merry thousands May 21, may find
blossoms in plentiful array in some
portion of the Hood River section for
the next three weeks.
On May 81, after one has "done" the
valley and desires to make further eX-
plorations, he should turn his car east
over the Columbia River Highway and
visit Mosier. The trees there are mag
nifieent with blossoms, and the six
mile stretch of the Columbia River
Highway between here and that city
has sensations as great as may be
found between here and Portland.
A feature of Blossom Sunday will be
the calls planned by hundreds of Port
alnd folk at the valleys new golf
course on 150-acre tract in the Oak
Grove section. The golf club here has
been assured as result OF the purchase
of bonds for financing the purchase of
the place, the orchard home of Her
man Pregge, and Hood River promot-
ers are enthusiastic over their plans
and will display the new grounds with
pride.
Hood River prayers are for clear
skies and warm sunshine. If their
pleas to Divine Providence are grant
ed, Sunday, May 21, will be a perfect
day for all the local population and all
of the visitors, now estimated around
n
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1922-05-11
GRANGE OPPOSED TO
KILLING MILLAGE TAX

The Pomona Grange, Of this county.
last week adopted a resolution oppOs-
ing propaganda being circulated in the
interest Of a tax reduction element
which proposes the repeal of the mil
lage bill for Oregon's institutions Of
higher education. The resolution, in
troduced by A. /. Mason, who recently
withdrew from the Oregon Tax Red
uctiOn League, when that body pro-
posed to kill the millage laws. declares
the higher educational institutions a.
mong the leading assets Of the state.
The millage measures, it is declared.
offer the most feasible and economical
method Of supplying funds vitality
needed
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1922-05-11
K. P. BAND CON-
CERT POSTPONED

A concert By the Knights Of Pythias
hand. in celebration Of the arrival OF
new uniforms, scheduled for FRIDAY
night. has been postponed until Friday
evening. May Is. Then the band men,
numbering SO, will give an open ar
concert, and the program viii be toi-
lowed By dance at Pythian Temple.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1922-05-11
Rand Buys Waite Place

Robert Rand, who has just sold to
S. Benson six acres lying just west Of
the grounds of the Columbia Gorge
Hotel, has purchased a lOi acre tract
from H. Waite on the Coi0bis River
Highway east Of the resort hostelry.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-03-23
THEY'RE HUMAN
William Anterior Du Puy-

Martin B. Madden. chairman of the Appropria
tons Committee OF the House, once had the
rare experience Of being taken to the King
Of England by Samuel Clemens. alias Mark
Twain.
The two Americans met in a London hotel
and II developed that the humorist had formed
the habit Of dropping In King Edward with
little more ceremony than would inaugurate
when he went to the grocer's to pay bill.
They had no sooner reached the presence of
the King than Mark Twain began telling
story Of two London tramps. They met on the
street and one upbraided the other for the shah
biness Of his appearance. He just must have
better pair Of pants. He should ring the bell
Of the next house he that looked like 1t
had extra pair Of pants and ask for them.
SO the shabbier tramp crossed the street to
house with a doctors sign on it and rang the
bell A lady came to the door
..Is the doctor in?" he asked.
The answer in the affirmative
well, II the doctor has an extra pair of pants
I would appreciate it II you would be so good
as to give them me-" said the hobo. Il am
losing caste with my kind"
Il afraid they would not do said the
lady ~ o,o,., q. -, , o..uur.,
But I am the DOCTOR" she ventured. And
the King of England roared
When VIII Hays was getting ready to retire
as Postmaster General and become a bellwether
for the movie industry he being given a
blowout down at Miami. Fla. with William
Jennings Bryan on the platform and everybody
all popped up.
There had been a good deal of talk about the
call" to service Mr.. Hays had received, such
being a trade term in ministerial circles
The toastmaster, however, gave evidence of a
familiarity with certain American institutions
entirely divorced from the church.
He said 1t did not look to him much like
a cali as 1t did like a raise"
Tennessee legislature, later a newspaper CORE
spondent in Washington Is now the United
States minister to Bolivia. He arrived in La
Paz a few weeks ago, was received by the
president Of that country and addressed its
legislative assembly. Writing to a friend here.
Minister Cottrell, who is plain, unaffected sort
of fellow, said:
And just think Of i'll had to make a speech
before the legislative assembly and my way
from the Capitol j escorted by a troop of
cavalry. 1t was something new for yours truly"
Copyright, 1s22)
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We TOWNE GOSSIP
Copyright. 1870
BY X. G. B.

Dear X. c. Bust after breakfast, when
everybody should be northumberland far
be it from me to say they were mott read
to my good wife about your friend Katie
Did" and her husband, who did not seem
to appreciate things, and she laughed and
felt all puffed up and proud. because / do
the things try to do the things Mr.
Katie Did" did not.
Then | got it, for my good wife did say
to ask X. c. B. what would ne think of a
COOP of husband who came home when his
wife had on a gown she had had for seven
teen years, more or less, and ssid how nice
she looked in her new gown and when did
she get it? That is the question she would
ask you?
Candidly, my opinion on the general sub
ject is that one will be damned is he does.
and damned if he don't. THE COOP.
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More Babies for JuDnn

IRIS. SANGER who teaches birth control for keeping
wi down excess population limiting poor families and
AA improving babies in general thought she would go
to Japan and tell them about it there.
She planned without knowledge of Japanese plans and
ambitions Her passport is refused and Japan will not
admit her unless she promises make birth control
speech.
The japanese tell you they must have more land pref
eraby side of the Pacific because they lack room
for their people at home
But she would not thank you to cut down or limit he
population 1t is her convction-enrely praseworthy-
that she surpasses other and is destined to be h
next great world empire.
The next great war-may it be the last-w be wa
with the East Asia has got to learn, again. that thu
West is One result of our Washington conference
has been to disgust China and turn her against the
United States the only real friend she had among bid
nations That suits Japan's plans For if Japan comes
marching West she will want Chinas masses behind her|
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-03-23

SUPPOSE prisoner is ac-
cused of stealing automo-
bile. Jury stays up arguing
all night. Eleven men vote
Guilty" Lady on jury votes
NO" Foreman of jury wakes
his mustache ana puts but
ter on his whiskers. He says
Yes" Lady juror says No"
TO r e NJ A shines his
= brogans and manicures
his nails. Lady juror says
No" Foreman puts flower
in his buttonhole and votes
Yes"
THEY argue for three or
- four hours. Lady juror
votes No"
EOREMAN has his face
u massaged and his cuffs
polished. Argue for couple
more hours.
CHE says No" Foreman
~ says Yes" He pleads
with her. She is stubborn.
no you think they are
~ still talking about auto
mobile thieves?
A ND IL she yesses him
"A and kisses him don't you
think that other jurors will
buzz her husband? Looks like
petty and grand larceny
juries will wind up in com.
pound alimony. And when
wife is on Jury what Is to
stop husband from starting
jury of his own?
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-03-23

MINNEAroLls coed jury
was out all night. Five
women and seven men on
Jury. How long has this been
going on?
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THE BISHOPS ERROR.
NOWHERE.
Where will I find
A lady fair
Who does not mind
About her hair.

HOPE SAL ENJOYS HER RIDE
SAL"
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WHAT husband wants his
wife out all night with
handsome foreman of mixed.
up jury? What wife desires
her silly half to spend mystic
hours of twilight with arti-
fetal blond jury ladies and
come home with henna hairs
on his lapel?
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-03-23
Stars and Stripes
Men think they fall in love when they

Men think they fall in love when they really
for II.
A sense of humor is that which makes you
laugh at something that happens to somebody
else.
King George presented his new son-in.law with
the Garter But, will the Princess darn his
socks?
THE BISHOPS ERROR.
The bishop very tired. There were an
UNPRECEDENTED number of candidates for con.
firma ton and the church grew hotter and hotter
The bishop felt his eyes getting heavier and
heavier At last a baldheaded man knelt before
him The bishop dropped into a half doze lust
as his hands touched the shining dome And
this is what a Mortified congregation heard him
drowsily utter: Il declare this stone to be well
and truly laid"
NOWHERE.
Where will I find
A lady fair
Who does not mind
About her hair
HOPE SAL ENJOYS HER RIDE.
Sign on barn In Westchester: HORSE FOR
SAL"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-03-23
MERELY AN OPINION

A controversy has been raised over the
question whether 'the first hundred years
are the longest" or "the first hundred years
are the hardest" We hazard the opinion
that the first hundred years are the most
plausible.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-03-23

Without your vigilance and
your action two-t thirds of the SEN
ate will now vote to pledge us,
our sons and our sons sons to
the maintenance of the waning
Imperialism of Britain and the re-
enforcement of the waxing i'm
perialism of Japan.
The Four Power Treaty has
been officially proclaimed in
Japan as the Anglo-Japanese AL
lance with the United States
Of America added.
Oh, citizens, make no mistake as
to what Japan means by the
Anglo-Japanese Alliance and this
FOur-Power Treaty, announced as
its lineal descendant and accept
able substitute.
Japan, feudal nation in fact
till 1867, a feudal nation in spirit
today, its war-trained people held
like mailed fist in the tense arm
of its military leaders-Japan in
1867 receives the books that
record the accomplishments of the
Western world. These books it
casts aside save three.
From one it learns the technique
and the machinery of modern war.
In the second it reads the story
of Alexander with his Macedonian
phalanX conquering the East.
In the third it reads of tiny
island in the North Sea grown so
great an empire that it's morning
drumbeats, following the sun and
keeping company with the hours,
circle the earth with one continu-
GUS and unbroken strain of the
martial airs of England.
Alexander, England, Japan!
First the method of Alexander
is attempted. In 1894 China is at
tackled, overrun, subjugated; and
Japan in the peace of Shimonoseki
EFFORTS the cession of the Lao
Tung Peninsula and the fortress
of Port Arthur.
Alexander now has both feet
firmly planted on the Asiatic
mainland.
But between the signing and
ratification of the peace of
Shimonoseki, Russia, France and
Germany intervene and force ia
pan to give back Liao-Tung and
Port Arthur.
Thus Japan learns that the day
and the way of Alexander are
gone. 1t learns the slower but
surer way of England, to proceed
by alliance with those so strong
that none may gainsay your spoils
of war.
Hence the Anglo-Japanese ALI
ance Of 1902; made by Japan to
assure the fruits of it's next vic
tory; made by Britain in its at
tempt to prevent this dangerous
new Imperialism from falling on
Britain's Eastern possessions in
the inevitable British clash with
Russia, then descending like i'm
pending doom on India and al
ready on the Afghan frontier.
Read the harmless peace-pre-
serving terms of the original
Anglo-Japanese Alliance of Janu-
airy 80, 1902:
The governments Of Great
Britain and Japan, actuated
solely by desire to maintain
the status quo and general peace
in the extreme East and being
moreover especially interested
in maintaining the territorial in
tegrity of the Empire of China
and the Empire of Korea, here
by agree:
Article /. The high contract
ing parties, having mutually
Socno-ni1oI fho ;odopop Iopco 80
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-03-23
No Foreign Eutunglements;
Our Business Is at Home

<AhSio-c dpdiicSc hlllduCc Is I'LL
masked as a pact to guarantee the
fruits of conquest.
japan, in 1904, induced Korea
to join it in war with Russia by
the solemn guarantee of Korean
integrity and independence.
When the war was done Japan
coveted the territory of it's Korean
ally. Russia agreed, England
agreed, and, on August IL, 1905,
three days after the Russian and
japanese plenipotentiaries had
met at Portsmouth, New Hamp-
shire, England consented to modi-
fication of the Anglo-Japanese AL
lance SO that it read:
Japan, possessing paramount
political, military and economic
interests in Korea, Great Britain
recognizes the right of Japan to
take such measures in Korea
as it may deem proper.
Where is the velvet glove that
stroked the head of trusting
Korea9 1t seized the mace to
dash her brains out.
And, citizens, mark well, read
carefully. A President of the
United States and his Secretary,
Elihu Root, are seduced to con-
summate the devilish deed, secret
ly to violate a solemn American
treaty with Korea and to deliver
her over to the japanese butchers.
Yet with all this done China
still stood safe under the shielding
arm of the benevolent Anglo
japanese treaty. Its clause guar
anteeing her independence was
unrepealed.
Then in 1914 Britain called
Japan to join it in destroying
Britain s commercial rival just as
the power of Britain's military
rival had been broken by Japan
ten years before.
This time the price was China,
at that very time the ally of
both Britain and Japan.
Britain secretly promised Japan
Shantung; authorized Japan to
add thirty million more slaves to
the seventeen million of Korea.
Again an American President
was called upon to validate the
treachery; this time Wilson at
Versailles. 1t is fresh in every
mind how he agreed and how
nearly he made delivery.
Citizens, isn't it enoughi You
must think with your own minds.
On Friday they will bind you
to protect the Pacific possessions
Of Britain and Japan against the
aggression" which those I'M
scrupulous Powers know too we'll
how to provoke. The documents
of history tell you what their in.
nocuously worded alliances mean.
We've just been "an associate"
in one such alliance.
We've just won one Anglo-Jap-
anese war at a cost Of one hun
dred thousand young American
lives and twenty-six thousand mil
lions of treasure.
What will become of us when
our young men and our resources
are mortgaged to the imperial
isms by treaty which-as their
record shows-means the protec-
ton of their aggressions.
No amendments or reservations
can make the treaty safe for us.
Whatever the gliding, it is bind
ing chain. 1t is the business of
diplomacy-which the imperial
isms have and we have MOTTO
translate into concrete action the
vague benevolent language of
treaties.
Citizens, OUR BUSINESS Is
AT HOME.
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A Working Agreement.

1t appears that China il to
be for the Chinese. IL they
will work II for the profit of
England, France and Japan.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-03-23
MIXED
JURY DUTY
Hy "RI-GS" RAER
Copyrish,. lp2a. By Star Company.
by BUGS" BAER.

THIS mixed jury business
is making scandal out OF
divorce cases.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-03-23
She Can't Live Il Down.

Give a woman a brush and
a bucket of paint and she will
enjoy herself, no matter how
aristocratic she may wish her
ancestors had been.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-03-23

FACT that they are judi
cial and legal long red
hairs doesn't make il better
for wife. Justice is blind. So
is love. But jealousy is wog-
gle-eyed.