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Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-08-07

NEW YORK, Aug. Coop
per dull; electrolytic, spot
and futures, 141s asked;
bar silver, 1ss.
Smyrna times., 1926-03-31

maid of honor wore blue georgette
crepe and carried American Beauty
roses. Only members of the immed-
late family and few friends attend
ed the ceremony and the reception
which followed. Mr.. and Mrs. Mentz
left on a wedding trip by motor and
after April 1st they will be at home
at 211 South Grant avenue, Union
Park Gardens, Wilmington.
Smyrna times., 1926-03-31

Smith. Miss Myra Ackerman, a cous-
in of the bride, sang 81 Love You
Truly" The bride was given in mar
riage by her father. Miss Grace Par
lor of Elloree, S. c., was maid of
honor. Arthur w. Koffenberger, of
Wilmington, was best man. The bride
wore gray georgette crepe with slip
pers and stockings to match and car
ried pink roses and sweet peas. The
Smyrna times., 1926-03-31
PRETTY WEDDING AT MILFORD
Miss Emma Davis Becomes Bride of
John Mercer Mertz

A pretty home wedding took place
Saturday, March 6, at noon when
Miss Emma Welch Davis, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter H. Davis,of Mil
ford, became the bride of oJhn Mer-
Ger Metz, son of Mr.. and Mrs. J.
Adam Metz, of Wilmington. The
ceremony was performed by Rev. H.
L. Bunstein. The brides home was
effectively decorated in carnations,
pussy willows and ferns. The we'd
ding march was played by Miss Mable
Smyrna times., 1926-03-31
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 PENN
suIa Towns and Communities

An order Of the U. S. Government
has been made public which is partic-
ularly hard on Kent county, Nd, fish
ermen. This order stops fishing in
the waters of the Aberdeen Proving
Ground Reservation except at night.
The fishermen of Rock Hall and Bet
terton have been fishing on these
grounds and this order is a great
hardship.
Smyrna times., 1926-03-31

Mrs. Mary A. Behen, 67 years old,
native of Dover and one of the
city's best-lmown women, died at her
home there about 8 o'clock Tuesday
morning, following a long illness. She
was the widow of John Behen, Jr.
She has resided in Dover all her life
and was active in church and char
liable affairs. Mrs. Behen is survived
by three sons, John, James and Bern
ard Behen, of Dover; three grandchil-
dren; two brothers, John E. KERN
and James E. KERN, of Dover; four
sisters, Mrs. R. ]. Campbell and Mrs.
James Welsh, of Philadelphia; Mrs.
Michael Connor and Miss Josephine
KERN of Dover. Funeral services
were held on Friday morning. Solemn
requiem mass was sung in Holy Cross
Roman Catholic Church at 1870
o'clock. Burial was made in Holy
Cross cemetery.
Smyrna times., 1926-03-31

If the plans of Washington capital
lists materalize as they anticipate they
will, Bethany Beach is going to grow
within the next two years by leaps
and bounds and become one of the
most popular resorts along the coast
of Delaware and New Jersey. A min
iature Florida boom is looked for, and
thousands of dollars worth of real es-
tate Is expected to change hands with
in a few months.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-01-07

YWyHE poet Wordsworth once wrote:
1.-The forked weapon of the skies can send
Illumination into deep holds
which the mild sunbeam hath not power to pierce"
Deep in the hidden holds of nature often lie sub
mina unguessed qualities and capabilities which are never
seen under the mild rays of avoring circumstances
1t takes lightning of catastrophe failure violence or
disaster to reveal these hidden powers
It was remarked Mark Antony the Roman general that
in time Of stress and impending disaster his true mette
shone forth He could stand anything but success
story rounds Of the newspapers last winter
of tramp drifting from town in the west apparent
" hopeless good-for-nothing.
Then came the revealing lightning
The freight he riding wrecked Crawling out ne
rsked his life to pull the engineer from under the
engine where he in danger of being scalded
to death.
Ulysses little side street, where
he might remained the lightning of the Civil
War brought forth qualities of ndomable resolution
for which he became famous.
In the depths of mild, tenderhearted little maid OF
the lightning of troubOus times revealed the powers
of Joan of Arc.
scold pupil the heroine OF the Oklahoma school
fire, last winter in which she lost her life
The lightning of disaster and adversely which revealed the
heroic these spectacular examples Also on the small
and illt stage everyday life light up the hidden fine
ness of humble who toll unseen
Hardship and suffering refining element upon
noble They bring light the admirable and heroic
The soft south winds Of days produce race Of mid
eyed Lotus Eaters
Il is the North wind Of adversely that lashes mep into
Through adversely spun the strongest threads of
human characters.
There is much truth in the words of the poet
"Things that hurt and things that mar
Shape the man for perfect praise;
Shock and strain and ruin
Are friendlier than the smiling days
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-01-07
Reporters and Editorial Writers
The Difference Explained

Mrs g. of Highland Boulevard Brooklyn, asks What's
the difference between reporters and editorial wrters?
Briefly the difference this reporter is sent out to OBJ
serve questions write and describe report what he
and hears.
An editorial writer in the office and writes
what HE THINKS thinks he thinks about events of interest
to the public.
Often the editorial writer is newspaper man grown too
old o too stiff in the mind to be good reporter.
Usually editorial writers write to give the certain
appearance of soemn hang door not with
any idea that the editorial will be read the by
anybody
really good reporter makes the best possible kind of
editorial writer he will take the trouble to read what is
worth while and THINKS he reads good reporter SEES
THINGS CLEARLY and describes them SIMPLY.
That's all there to newspaper work. Whether you
fire murder flood CLEARLY getting accurate pic
ture of it in your mind and DESCRIBING 1T SIMPLY in
plain good English whether you look national sua
ton THAT clearly and describe it simply it the
kind of mental work
and Joseph Pulitzer were good editorial
they born reporters They had and
could tell what they
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-01-07
Three Commissioners, Not One,
Responsible for All
Municipal Acts
By BILL PRICE

Tn the face of almost solid public disapprova and sharp
criticism in Congress Commissioner FENN1NG announces
that he will proceed to frame the proposed
n;obt parking in the District and submit it to the other
+ commissioners If has approval will become
a law. ,a .ono.;4;oa heo
District executives There has been one SO utterly
lacking in substantial reasons for official approval
cneorc and Representatives daily vocng their feeling
senators ff; at;on here is the most bewiderng in the
United States They the same views nea Dy the
people this cythat too much valuable ocal Time IS
frttered away in seeking to impose new restrictions upon
autoists and too little time given to enforcement OF the
cardinal purposes traffic lawssaey and expedition Of
president COOLIDGE days told newspaper men
that the outstanding requisites Of traffic control anywhere
are: First safety second expedition The President may
not know that this thought has been hurled at the District
Commissioners traffic officials for months and that it
has rome unheeded feversh activities to do things that
DO not have direct bearing on the fundamentals traffic
District authorities have been told time and time again
that Washington people are SICK and tired OF
and that there being created here dangerous spirit OF law
defiance and unobservance.
AS this prohibition of alnght parking the Commits
sioners have been there NO NECESSITY for
that between hours of and anything close to
those hours NO TRAFFIC PROBLEM Washington
that nstice will be done thousands Of auto and
body benefit except garage and possibly the street
car that the streets of Washington
belong ALL the pepoe and that their free use should not
be denied unless substantial reasons for it.
Commissioner fleming charge of the Police Depart
ment of Washington It is part Of his assignment Of mu
nicipal duties To prevent promote coesies
in the Board Of Commissioners IS to let the
In charge have his way Inc other TWO ap
prove what the recommends
It is nice thing harmony in the board but the
time has arrived when Commissioners RUDOLPH and BELL
both of have shown welcome tendency to regard the
wishes of Washington people, must before they share
responsibility with Mr. Fenning Of putting over this most
unpopular and unwse plan Mr. Fenning wants to kick
Washington people and out their opinions the other two
Commissioners do not have to do There absolutely
nothing gain by except promote the spirit Of defiance
that growing fast and make the work OF traffic police
men and police court judges all the harder.
There much passing Of the buck IN the case OF
Captain Headley this proposition the records should
The Board of Commissioners the responsible
heads of the District There be banning Of aunight
parking unless two of the three Commissioners vote for it
Washington will all how the vote stood
Why have open session of the board when this reg
laton comes up?
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-01-07

crime glands" The popular theory
that all glands are those of sex
is erroneous.
There are many glands in the
body. Some have external ducts,
or openings. These are called
ductless glands. Others discharge
directly into the blood and are
called glands of internal secre-
ton" or "endocrines."
In his remarkable new book,
"Why We Behave Like Human
Beings" DR.. George A. Dorsey
says:
There are commonly said to
be seven endocrines property
roid, parathyroid and thymus in
the neck: pituitary and pineal in
the center of the head; adrenals
and spleen in the abdomen. But
it is not yet proved that the
thymus, pineal and spleen are
true glands. The liver, pancreas
and sex glands also function as
endoCrines.
"Endocrine secretions are chem
zeal in nature and are usually
called hormones (exciters). They
are also called autocoid sub
stances: from acos, a remedy
they act like drugs. In fact no
man-made drugs are as powerful
as some we make in our own
drugstore glands"
We know very little about the
functions Of some of these glands,
the thymus, for instance. The
pineal gland, too, remains a
mystery. This is a tiny gland
about the size of a grain OF
wheat which lies high up in the
base Of the brain. Tt reaches
full development in our seventh
year and then begins to atrophy.
But though the pineal gland has
revealed little of it's modern use,
it has told US a wonderful story
of our primitive life.
millions of years ago." says
DIR. Dorsey. this pineal gland
was a third eye and looked
straight up to heaven. Extinct
reptiles have a hole in the skull
for this pineal eye"
Certain living reptiles still have
this opening in the skull, but it
is covered with a scale. Even we
humans still have a vestige OF an
optic nerve to show that once we
saw with three eyes instead of
two.
Then there's the pituitary
gland, neighbor to the pineal.
Dwarfs, and giants were once
mystery to the human race,
something abnormal, almost super
natural. Now we believe that
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-01-07
Hear Chauncey DepeW

Chauncey Depew 90 old pleasant spoken gentle
man. saws everything than in these 20
first years century with capital and labor pleas
ant terms.
Chauncey Depew won't live it, but conditions will be
great better before many centuries have rolled by Our
present Happy Valley in which 80
people just about enough keep them alive and at
work while fewer than 10 decide for the 80 per
Just how much they ought to have.
may be better than being hit the head with
sharp stone, but it isn't quite good ENOUGH.
BY way fathers sending fashionable
colleges they may make rich friends take warning
from Chauncey Depew. He said this writer many years
ago. Never tie yourself up with very rich with the
idea that he will make YOU rich He WON'T.
He may like YOU and be kind to you, but if you
valuable he naturally hand you be useful
his children If he lets you get too rich you will be indie
pendent The best thing to teach your from the
to depend himself.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-01-07
NEGOTIATIONS
OF A WIFE
by Helen Rowland

Putting 1t Mildly
DEFORE the wedding ceremony
I'D Most bridegrooms fortify
themselves with a sttmulaflt,
when what they really need Is
an opiate.
All a man asks, when he has
a picture taken, is justice-but a
woman prays for mercy!
Romance will never die, so long
as there lives man who carries
a photograph in the back of his
watch. and girl who hangs up
mistletoe.
When a man begins to make
extravagant love to a woman, she
is never half SO doubtful of how
much of it he means, as He is.
There is no such thing as a
safe and sane love affair. Love
is always a gloriously dangerous
voyage of adventure, which may
end in the port of matrimony,
the harbor of dreams, the back
water of disenchantment the
calm of boredom. But, oh the
scenery en- route!
1.-THE girl with the "crepe-de-
chine soul" seems to have given
place to the flapper with
Scotch-plaid philosophy, a canton
flannel conscience, and rain
proof imagination.
A diplomatic genius is one who
answers all woman's embarrass-
ing questions. by telling her that
she has beautiful eyes.
When a man lives and dies a
bachelor 1t Is not because of his
inability to fall in love, but be-
cause of his marvellous agility in
catching his balance, and crawl
ing out Of it, just in time!
A woman's Imagination is
perfect oven, In which she is for
ever trying vainly to warm up
an old love-affair, a cooling ro-
nance, or a stale sentiment.
A bachelor is known by the
secrets he keeps.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-01-07
GARRETT P. SERVISS ON SLAVES
OF SUN
Suns Empire Extends Far Beyond It's Farthest
Planet
OF SUN

far beyond it's farthest planet.
out into the darkness where only
pale comets and strange wander
ing meteoric bodies glide silently
through the encircling gloom.
Sometimes we see a new comet
that has been brough. by the
suns attraction from that celes-
tiaI no.man's land into the flick
ering light of our planetary
candles. Marco Polo's travels
were naught to such. The sun
has masterfuIly called it as it was
leaving the court of some kingly
star, perhaps on the jeweled edge
Of the Milky Way, and it has
obeyed and crossed the deserts OF
open space to display it's peacock
tail of flame in salutation to the
solar monarch of our island of
the universe.
The sun is powerful enough to
commerce with his far-distant
peers across the CULTS and the
oceans of space. He lays his hand
on the fiery shoulder of his
great twin bodied brother Alpha
Centauri And Alpha Centaurf
pulls back, and even contends,
however, Intellectually. with the
sun for mastery over us, j. e.,
over our earth. Put him as near
as the sun is and he would have
his way, for his inherent gravita-
tional force is nearly double the
suns. But he Is about 27O, 900
times farther from us than the
sun, so that his pull upon the
earth, by the law of gEavitation,
is less than the suns in the pro-
portion of one to half the square
of 10000. But even so, it is
equivalent to about 100,000,00O
tons. But that pull is distributed
through the whole earth, which is
not perceptibly disturbed by it.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-01-07
By Garrett P. Serviss,
Noted Astronomer and Writer on
Scientific Topics Of Popular
Interest


Interest
COME day when the sun is just
- setting, looming red and gil
gantic on the hoeizon and looking
the monarch that it is, let your
thoughts turn to the subject OF
solar gravitation. Consider the
invisible arm that that great,
glowing ball stretches across
more than 90,000,00O miles of
space to grasp and curb the rush
ing earth, whose speed is forty
times that of the swiftest cannon
ball, while it's weight is six sex
tillions of tons! A sextillion is a
thousand million million times a
million.
What do you imagine that the
strain of the plunging earth upon
the invisible graVitation-arm OF
the sun that holds it to its orbit
amounts to? A little calculation
shows it to be equivalent to the
tensile strength OF trillion solid
steel rods each thirty feet in
diameter! Or, cay, Of single
such rod 5000 miles in diameter!
What would John l.. Sullivan
have done with an arm like that?
But the princes of pugilism are
forgotten, while the sun remains
through all generations swinging
this huge seeming globe-the
arena of conquerors, philosophers
and nonenitities-~around It's Jo-
Wan head.
How inconceiVably mighty is
the empire of that huge red ball
poised on the horizon at the edge
of night! Great Jupiter, now
visible low in the sunset sky and
more than 470,000,000 miles be-
yond the. sun, meekly bows to
that Irresistible control and, with
his 800 sextillions of tons aVoir-
dupois, strikes the skipping gait
of nine miles a second under the
solar whip.
And Venus, beautiful sister of
the earth. now displaying her ut.
q most charms through the diaph-
anous curtain of the salmon-pink
sunset light, skips swiftly and
gracefully around her circle of
obedience and, though her strain
upon the great arm of solar graV-
itation Is over half as much again
as the earth's, yet the sun god,
for her beauty feels 1t not.
Look where the Western Fish
swims under the stars OF winged
Pegasus. There, afar off, family
shines Uranus, planet fifteen
times as heavy as the earth, and
almost, 1900 million miles from
the sun; yet Is it curbed and
forced to travel in it's orbit at
the speeds of more than four
miles a second. And even more
distant Neptune, not greatly
shorts of 5000 million miles
away, must strike the road 1T
nearly three and half miles a
second.
But the suns empire extends
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-01-07
PICKING UP
BARGAINS

WAS recently staying in a
i hotel where one of the guests
was Mr.. George F. Baker, possibly
the shrewdest banker OF his gen.
Grafton. Many of the guests were
gaily discussing the rise of prices
in the stock market and visited
from time to time each day
brokers' office in the hotel. But
George f. Baker never went near
the place nor showed the slight
est interest in stocks until one
day when an alarming slump
occurred. Then he sauntered in
and bought few hundred shares
of bargains.
Men of the George F. Baker
type never buy any other kind.
/ noted, too, that the stocks he
bought were inconspicuous and
long neglected, but by uncanny
coincidence they had a sharp
rise within forty-eight hours
Fred Kelly in Nations Business
Magazine.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-01-07
By EI SIZE ROBINSON
Our GLANDS make Us.

; ing? Why do others have goiter?
All these conditions have now
been traced to the functioning of
the thyroid gland and many of
them have been cured by feeding
thyroid secretion.
The story of the adrenals is
even more amazing. It was easy
to tie up bodily deficiency with
some inward disturbance. But
how about temperaments? What
of these excitable people who are
always trying to pick a fight?
How about the sensitive, melan-
choly people who are always in
the dumps? How about the
towards and the bully? Surely
glands are not responsible for
those?
But they are. The adrenal
gland secretes adrein which is
now a marketable drug and sold
as adrenalin. Adrenalin has spe-
cific action on the flow OF the
blood. the nervous action, the
aIimentary canal and the mobiliza-
ton of sugar in the body. Its
effect on the emotions and on
behavior in general is equally
regulate our excitement-our
angers-our griefs--our urge to
fight-all our more violent mani
festations.
DIR. Dorsey says: Emotional
behavior gets its kick from
adrenin. With adrenin, towards
may fight for their lives. brave
men may surpass themselves, and
all of us can run as we
never ran before; or shed tears
of sorrow over the loss OF
friends
This knowledge makes for toler-
the man who has too little spirit.
and the man who has too much.
Most important of all are the
sex glands. The usual functions
Of the sex glands are known, but
it Is not so generally known that
their influence extends through
all human behavior.
Sex" says DIR. Dorsey, els
woven into every fabric of
human life and lays its finger on
every custom 1t underlies the
highest cultures, as well as the
most degenerate cruelty. It per-
meates religion and art. It lies
at the root of all civilization and
all savagery."
That, briefly, is the nature and
function of the more important
glands. How does even this little
knowledge affect your attitude
toward your fellow manf
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-01-07
LISTEN, WORLD!

this tiny gland IL
r es po n 81 b 10 for
the rate of
growth and sex
ual development.
T h Q fhre .
& Ian d 8 concern
ing W hich w .
have made the
most a m q gin g
di sc ov cries are
the thyroid, In
our throat, the
a DIR e n ais, just
above the kid
neys, a n d TIL G
gonads, or sex
glands.
Why are some
people dull, dry
skinned, listless,
s 10 w Of pulse?
Why are others
hideously deform-
ed, heavy feat
u re d, sim pie
~ u, GAA @ihAAr
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-01-07
HENRY PAR
DEE wan Is

HENRY II A h
Il DEE W a N is
to know what's
all this fuss about
glands? Is there
any sense to it?''
Yes, there's a
great d Q al OF
s e n 81 to it,
Henry. The dis
coveries concern
ing the endocrine
glands GLANDS Of
internal secretion)
are fast revolu-
uOIlZluB ali our
t h e orie s about
h u m q n develop
ment a nd be-
havior.
Before you can
I'm de rst and how
important t h Q s e
discoveries are, 1t
is well to know
ju s t w h at s
Va0onf hwy stna dn.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-01-07
SAP AND SALT
.BV Bert Moses

by neTL NOSeS---'
Hez Heck says: after gittin'
married, man is amazed to
find how many fools they is in
his wife's family"
Young men who can't afford to
get married usually do.
1t is fine to be modest, but
don't expect to get rich on it.
Life supplies any variety of
trouble you so out and look for.
The absence of handkerchief is
a sign that you will catch bad
cold in the head
Very often man who appears
consistent is only pig-headed.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-01-07
DIR. FRANK CRANES
DAILY EDITORIAL
The Sunbeam and the Lightning
Nv DR.. FRANK CRANE

ITyHE poet Wordsworth once wrote:
1.-The forlked weapon of the skies can send
- Illumination into deep holds