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Smyrna times., 1927-02-16
St. Georges Bridge Closed Tomorrow

To enable the excavation of the
Chesapeake and Delaware Canal to be
completed at St. Georges, high
way traffic over the bridge at that
point will be closed from a. M,
Thursday, February II, until IL noon,
Saturday, February 10, 1927, an
nounces Col. E. |. Brown. District En-
gineer. During this time all high
way traffic should make a detour via
Summit Bridge.
Smyrna times., 1927-02-16
Fire at ]. R. Mingus. Bethel Church

Smyrna fire alarm was given and
tiremen hastened last night to the
Jefferson farm, occupied by John R.
Mlngus across the road from Bethel
Church. It was a bad chimney fire
but was eXtinguished before it caught
to the rest of the house.
Smyrna times., 1927-02-16
Fire at Nils. Alice spruance Roberts

FIRE at Mrs. Alice Spruance Roberts
Sunday night about nine o'clock,
firemen were called to the residence
of Mrs. Alice Spruance Roberts, Mt.
Vernon and Union streets. A defec-
tive flue was the cause, fire eating a
hole thru the chimney 1t was soon
extinguished.
Smyrna times., 1927-06-22
WEDDING AT DOVER TONIGHT

Miss Ethel Wolfe HOrsey to Become
Bride of Edgar W.MOnteil, Cambridge
The marriage of Miss Ethel Wolfe
Horsey, daughter of Mrs. Minnie
Wolfe Horsey, of Dover, and Mr.. Ed
gar Whiting Montell, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Arthur Montell, of Cambridge,
Nd, will take place today Wednesday
evening in Christ P. E. Church, Dover,
at 7.30. The ceremony will be per-
formed by Rev. E. F. Thompson, rec
tor of the church The bride will be
given in marriage by her father, Mr..
Arthur P. Horsey, Jr. Mrs. Dallas
Culver, Of Philadelphia, will be the
matron Of honor and the bridesmaids
will be Miss Katherine Pennewell and
Miss Emily Walker, cf Dover. Her
two nieces Eleanor and Lloyd Horsey
will be the flower girls. The ushers
will be Mr. Peter Chichester, Of Fred
erick, Nd; MI. Willard Boyce, of
Cheswold; Mr. Wells Horsey, Of Do
yer and Mr. Donald Horsey, of Lans-
downe, both brothers Of the bride.
Miss Helen Hughes, erganist, accom-
panied BY Mrs. Hall Anderson on the
violin will play the wedding music
and give a recital preceding the cere-
mony Following the wedding a re-
ception will be held at the Maple Dale
Country Club near Dover. Miss Hor-
sey has been extensively entertained,
including the bridge dinner given for
her on Wednesday evening, last, by
Mr. and Mrs Robert Ufher entertain
ed at bridge dinner for her. Last
Friday afternoon her bridesmaids,
Miss Pennewell and Miss Walker gave
a bridge tea for her at the home of
Miss Walker and yesterday, Tuesday
her brother, Mr. Harold Horsey, and
Mrs. Horsey, gave a buffet supper for
the bridal party and the out-of-town
guests.
Smyrna times., 1927-06-22
KENTON
Items of Personal and Social Interest
Cleaned About the NeighbOrhOOd

Items of Personal and Social Interest
Cleaned About the NeighbOrhOOd
Kenton, June 21. Miss Ethel Wilds
of Smyrna, spent one cay last week
with Mrs. Edward Hughes.
Miss Lucy Hazel who has been out
Of town couple Of weeks returned on
Saturday.
Mrs. Roland Hazel Of Philadelphia,
spent last week with Mrs. w. 3.
Hazel.
Mrs. Kennard Wooleyhan spentl asst
Saturday with her sister, Mrs. Wal
ter Rambo.
Mt. Frank Attix ST., has improved
his property il town BY having if
painted.
MI. and Mrs. Bryan Crossley and
son Weston, Of Millington, Md, spent
the weekend with his parents, Mrand
Mrs. Jacob Crossley ST.
Mrs. Ralph Knots and children Of
Dover, spent Tuesday in town.
Miss Emma Walker Of Wilmington
spent the weekend at her home.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. W. Arthurs enter
tanned company last Sunday.
Smyrna times., 1927-06-22
CLAYTON
Budget of News Gathered Here and
There Of NeighbOrhOOd Interest

Budget of News Gathered Here and
There Of NeighbOrhOOd Interest
"A festival was held on the lawn Of
Ewells NJ. P. Church Friday evening,
proceeds for Sunday school classes.
Mrs. Raymond Mayberry spent a
very pleasant week with her parents
at Lewes, Del.
Miss Clara Gooding left Monday
for Newark College to attend Summer
school.
MI. ana Mrs. Fred a. Marker spent
Monday in Wilmington.
Miss Elsie Allen entertained the
Sunshine class Of the Methodist Epis-
copal Church at lawn party On Fri
day evening.
Miss Mary johnson is spending her
summer vacation with her parents,
Mr.. ana Mrs. Harry Johnson.
Miss Helen Cobb has been spending
some time with her parents, Dr. and
Mrs. Cobb.
Service will be held in Trinity
Church Sunday evening at 7.30 o'clock.
The Methodist Episcopal Church
celebrated Children's Day service
Sunday with a very pleasing program.
The Tuesday Evening Club was
very delightfully."- entertained by Mrs.
J. A. and Miss Ida Swain and Mrs.
Edward Wright at a movie party in
Smyrna and refreshments at "Now-
lands"
A variety shower was given at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Jones
of near Delaney on Thursday evening,
June 9th, in honor of Mr.. and Mrs.
Allen Alfree. About eighty people
were present. The evening was spent
in playing games, music and dancing,
after which refreshments were served.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas f. Shortall,
413 Geddes street, Wilmington, form
erly Of Clayton, have announced the
marriage Of their daughter, Miss Net
Tie Shortall, to John @. Bradford, son
Of Mr.. and Mrs. William p. Bradford,
of Overlook, Pa, formerly Of vii
mington and Pittsburgh. The we'd
ding took place on March IL at Be
lair. Nd. Mrs. Bradford is a graduate
of the Wilmington High School and
Goldey College. MI. Bradford attend
ed the University Of Virginia and will
be graduated next year from the Phil
adeiphia College Of Osteopathy Both
young people have wide circle Of
friends in Wilmington.
Smyrna times., 1927-06-22
TOWNSEND
Items Of Personal and Social Interest
Cleaned About the NeighbOrhOOd

Townsend, June Contractors
have begun laying fine stone as top
dressing at Greens Corner on the
Townsend-Dexter's Corner road and
unless held up for material and wet
weather, they expect to finish the road
by July /.
After a survey of the swamps in
the different localities, huckleberry
dealers report that the crop this year
promises to surpass those of many
East years, due to the bountiful rains
preventing destructive forest fires,
forcing growth and allowing the
bushes to blossom heavily, promising
bigger ard better berries. All other
wild berries will also be more plentl-
full this year due to the same condi-
tions and the dealers and pickers are
looking forward to busy and pros
porous harvest.
Some farmers are said to have lost
heavily through the depredations of
foxes which visit the poultry yards at
night. One loser who visited fox den
after losing several chickens, found
eleven broilers buried under 2 sand
dune.
Pea cannerics in this part Of the
state are in full operation and thou
sands of cases are 70 be packed. The
peas are of high grade and the acre
age is some larger than that Of last
year.
The cherry crop is now being har-
vested and orchardists who are for
tunate enough to have a number Of
trees will make some money because
Of the high prices prevailing.
Smyrna times., 1927-06-22
R. r. FOURACRE TAKES BRIDE
Son of Editor of Middletown Trans
cript, Weds Daughter Rev. Mcdowell

Son of Editor of MiddletOwn Trans
cript, Weds Daughter Rev. Mcdowell
Miss Esther Mcdowell, daughter of
the Rev. and Mrs. E. w. Mcdowell,
Of Wilmington, formerly Of Middle
town, and r. Rogers Fouracre, son Of
Thomas S. Fouracre and Mrs. Four
acre, Of Middletown, were married at
Eastlake NJ. Z. Church Parsonage at
2 o'clock Saturday afternoon. The
brides father performed the cere-
mony. Only members Of the immed-
late families, with few of the brides
most intimate friends were present.
The bride graduated from the POGO
moke City High School, and from the
Maryland State Normal School, Tow
son, Nd. For the past three years she
has been teacher in the public
schools at Northeast, Md The bride
wore pencil blue georgette crepe, with
hat to match, and blonde kid slippers
and hose, and carried sweet peas, ill
ies-of-the-valley, and roses. The
couple we're unattended. The bride
Groom Il a graduate Of the Middle
town High School, and was recently
Graduated from Pennsylvania State
College, where ne was captain Of the
1926 cross country track team. He IS
a member of the Sigma Pi Fraternity.
After an extended wedding trip, the
couple will be at home August l, IN
Petersburg, Pa, where Mr.. Fouracre
has accepted a position as teacher OF
agriculture in the high school.
Smyrna times., 1927-06-22
CHESWOLD
Items Of Personal and Social Interest
Cleaned About the NeighbOrhOOd


Cheswold, June 21.-Rev. and Mrs.
H. S. Reed attended at Hillsboro, Nd,
last week, the funeral of Rev. S. N.
Pilchard, a prominent retired minister
of Wilmington Conference
L. D. Learned returned to his work
after three weeks absence, with a
broken and mashed finger
Mr.. Lyons of Wilmington was a
recent visitor to his sister Mrs. J. E.
Vaughn.
Mr.. Elmer Garrison has returned
home from a visit in Philadelphia.
Mr.. Thomas Moore, Of Wilmington,
has been spending a visit with his
brother Frank More. Mr.. Moore Il a
former resident Of Cheswold.
Rev. +. 9. Baxter and daughter
Emma, Of Allenwood, Pa, have re-
turned from a visit to Mrs. Lille
Wright ard daughter Esther.
Everett Shackell, Of Pennsylvania,
has been spending the past week here
with his parents.
Mrs. Hattie Money who has been
visiting friends in Cheswold, has gone
to Rehoboth for the summer.
Mrs. Edward Kipp and three chill
dren Of New Jersey are spending
sometime with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. John Legar.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas ]. Moore
were guests of his parents Mr.. and
Mrs. Harry Moore near Dover.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chandus Buckson and
daughter Sara of Wilmington were
recent guests of his sister, Mr.. and
Mrs. Clifford Anderson.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fryer and daughter
Betty, and Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Cote
of Philadelphia were recent guests OF
Mr.. and Mrs. j. E. Cote and Mrs. De-
Nemorister.
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PhOedra Confesses Her Crime.

With his droppingS of warm tears.
And his touches of things common
Till they rose to touch the spheres
Aristophanes charged him with SEN
timentality and had excuse; Euripi-
des is never through with the pangS
of despised love and the breaking OF
material hearts. But these were the
things the others ignored; their PLAYS
and poetry had told of kings and wars
but not of women and men, not OF
wives and mothers left mourning dis,
family, nor of common soldiers crushed
under chariot wheels.
Euripides, then, is the romantic dra'
matist par excellence; like Miranda, he
suffers with those he sees suffer and
he writes with the resentment Of a
man who cannot understand why men
should suffer so. H1schylus was con
fident that the gods would reward
virtue and punish vice; Euripides re
grets to announce that the evidence
runs the other way He stands to
.Fschylus as doubling Job to be-
lieving Isaiah. no wonder some schol-
ars have thought the Book of Job a
Euripidean tragedy. Human fortune
or misfortune, our dramatist thinks.
is not q gift or a blow from the gods;
a mans history is determined not by
supernatural decree, but by his char
acter; and a mans character, as Hera-
clitus put it, is his fate.
SO Euripides writes with feeling and
without apology. He has not the
stern sublimity of H1schylus, nor the
classic calm and objectivity of Sopho-
cles; he bears the same relation to
these as the emotional Dostoievski to
the tiatanic Tolstoi and the impeccable
Turgeniev. But it is in Dostoievski
that we find our secret hearts reveal
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the vlrtuous for their virtue. But it
was not to save his plots that Eurlpl-
des imported the gods into his plays;
ii was to save his face and perhaps
his head: it was sop to superstition
SO, when the angry crowd, enraged
at q skeptical line, refused to let his
play proceed, the dramatist rose in his
place and babe the audience be com
forted; the speaker of the line would
be roundly punished in the end. Zone
can hear the laughter of Socrates
across 1000 years. AS nearly every
one is killed or ruined at the close of
a Euripidean play, it was promise
that could be safely made.
Meanwhile the people enjoyed the
lyric and dramatic quality Of his
tales. 1t is true that they applauded
Enthusiastically when o Aristophanes
atii lied the style, the themes and the
liinsophy of these plays; and it is
lie that they preferred the ideal
en- of Sophocles, in theory, to the
',ealism" of Euripides. But in prae-
ice they found the older poet plati
rudinous and moralistic, and the
younger one stimulating even in his
heresies: their keen wits relished the
subtlety of his lines. and their eXcitable
minds were thrilled by the romantic
pathos of the scenes. No one had ever
pain ed human beings for them so
sympat hetically; no one had lavished
such tenderness upon his heroines or
revealed so intimately the sufferings
of the soul.
X X
The man had an almost Shelleyan
sensitivity to the misfortunes of man
kind Edith Browning felt it and
called him
"Our Euripides the human.
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The Story the Week Has Told

are still anathema to him as Of old 1t
is evident that he would be ice to any
new measure of the McNary- Haugen
complexion. He would increase the
efficiency of the orthodox existing
Government agencies, which minister
to the farmer. He favors creation Of
a Federal Board to aid the co-opera-
tive movement in agriculture and to
be provided with a revolving loan fund
for the necessary financing. But he
will not hear to any plan which should
not leave the farmer substantially
standing on his own foundation"
8. 1.-THE last year" says the Presi-
dent, has seen considerable changes
in the problem of Muscle Shoals. De-
velopment of other methods shows
that nitrates can probably be pro-
duced at less cost than by the use of
hydro electric power" Moreover, lex
tensive investigation made by the De-
partment of War indicates that the
Muscle Shoals) nitrate plant is of
little value for national defense" The
President, therefore, recommends that
this property be sold and the proceeds
applied to research looking to more
economical methods of producing fer
filters.
9. Apparently, before pennlnS ms
observations on the Mississippi flood
and the flood control construction
necessitated or indicated by that dis
aster. the President carefully studied
the report of a board headed by the
chief of engineers of the Army, car
rying recommendations based on an
elaborate survey of the situation Gre
ated or emphasized by the recent flood
and those observations may perhaps
properly be considered as largely in
the nature of approving comment on
the report. CThat document was for
warded by the President to Congress
on December 81 Some have criticized
those observations as cold and I'M
sympathetic; the explanation sug-
gested by me, if correct, tends to dis
pose of such criticism.
Legislation by this Congress-" says
the President, should be confined to
our principal and most pressing prob
lem, the lower Mississippi, considering
tributaries only 50 far as they ma
terially affect the main flood prob
lem" Does not this read like note
on the following paragraph in Gen.
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than undertake any new constructor.
Their operation is a burden on the
National Treasury. for which we are
not receiving sufficient benefits
Note well the above in view of
the fact that Congress is expected to
take defnitiVe action at this session
respecting Government policy in re-
gard of merchant shipping. The
severe rap at the Shipping Board
seems likely to have consequences
). The President notes with graft
fication the rapid development in com
mercial aeronautics and the excellent
work being accomplished by the De-
partment of Commerce under the
enabling legislation of the last Con
gress. He is solicitous that our Gov
eminent and private enterprise in our
country should vigorously cooperate
with the governments of sister coun-
tries to the south toward development
of a regular aircraft service of com
munication between our country and
those sisters.
6. The President has caused much
unhappineSs by his recommendation
that future Federal appropriations for
good roads be less generous than those
of the past. Federal contributions
toward such construction should,
says he, be confined to trunk line sys'
tens, and the Federal tax on auto
mobiles is nearly sufficient for such
outlay. but note that the revenue
bill just introduced proposes reduction
of the tax on automobiles) On the
other hand, he expresses great inter
est in the projects which contemplate
a system of motor highways which
should connect this country with ''all
the principal points in this hemi-
sphere south of the Rio Grande." He
hopes that private interests in this
country will look with favor on all
reasonable loans" sought by the
countries to the south for such
purpose.
T. The President expresses himself
at considerable length on the most
contentious of the problems facing the
new Congressional of relief for the
farmer But he does little more than
restate, luci0ly and cogently, views on
the problem sufficiently well known
from his many previous statements
thereof. The proposals of Government
price-fiXing, Of a Government subsidy,
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tine them. Marat believed in
justice and demanded 100000
heads"
This is too cynical a state
ment, but it contains a large
grain of truth. Some one once
asked me: "Are you a liberal or
a conservative?"
answered.: "If, by conserVa-
tive, you mean man who thinks
that we live in the best of all
possible worlds, then ] am not a
conservative. IF, by liberal,
you mean a man who thinks that
whatever is is wrong, then ] am
not one of those, either"
Our present social order, with
all it's defects, represents the
best that human beings have
been able to work out for them
selves. Before any man sets
himself up as a professional
critic of it, want to ask him
four simple questions:
One: Have you a family and
are you supporting it? II not,
don't pick on me. have, and
am.
Two: Have you engaged in
some eainful occupation and
shared the problems and worries
of the employers you are so
ready to condemn?
Three: Are you tolerant and
fair minded toward those who
disagree with you?
Four: Do you pay your bills?
am an Intellectual being in an
imperfect world. But If you are
going to appoint yourself to act
as my preceptor and guide, in
sist that you first feed your cat.
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LARGEST OPTICAL GLASS DISC +
STILL COOLING AT IT. S. BUREAU
Molten Glass Poured Months Ago, But Results VIII
Not Be Known Until February, When An :
healing Forms Are Opened. .

Sometime about next February,
scientists at the Bureau of Standards
here will know whether or not they
have the largest disc of optical glass
ever cast in the United States.
During the war, when European
sources were closed. the bureau be-
gan to make optical glass. Last May.
these experiments reached a climax
with the casting of a disc of glass 20
inches in diameter and 1919 inches
thick. This is the largest disc that has
ever been cast in the United States,
and one of the largest in the world
But such a disc Is not finished when
it is cast. Glass conducts heat very
poorly. 1t is very hot when cast. for
then it is in molten condition. If
simply exposed to the air as soon as
it begins to harden. the outside would
cool much more quickly than the in
terror. In doing so it would shrink
and the result would be that the disc
would soon be merely a pile of small
pieces of broken glass. Even if cooled
more slowly, strains might be set up
in the disc that would cause it to
crack as soon as efforts were made
to grind it into the dish shape of a re-
flecting telescope mirror.
Accordingly. it is necessary to ex-
tend the cooling over a period of many
months. In making such big disc, it
is carefully inclosed in sand and fire
clay so that it takes nearly year to
cool. This is called annealing. BY
February. 1928. the 70-inch disc at the
bureau will have cooled sufficiently for
the scientists to uncover it. Then they
will know whether they have disc
or some pieces of broken glass.
Annealing is not always successful.
The largest disc that has ever been
cast, from which the 100-inch mirror
of the big rejecting telescope at the
Mount Wilson Observatory was made.
was completed only after number of
attempts. This was made at st.
Gobain, France. where, before the
war, the principal factory for large
discs was located. Time after time
discs were cast. only to find months
later that they had cracked in
annealing.
Even the one finally used was not
perfect, as it was cast in three layers.
and, when completed, showed two
layers of bubbles, like the filling in a
layer cake. So it may be that the
American optical glass workers will
find in a few months that they have
to try again. .-A.......- Asslsn
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-11
BY WILL DURANT. Phi. D.,
Author of
The Story of Philosophy"
The Story Of Civilization

ed and our secret longings understood;
and it is in Euripides that Greek
drama, tired of Olympus, came down
10 earth and dealt revealS1gly with
men. Have all the nations of the
world since his time" asked Goethe.
produced one dramatist worthy u
hand him his slippers?" Just one,
The Pacifist.
AS Euripides looked about him r
seemed to his eyes that men were eX-
plotted by kings, and women by men
and all of them by gods. When ne
was 20 lin 459 b. CO the first Peiopon-
nesian War broke out between Athens
and Sparta, and ragged for IL years.
! When he was so the second Pelopon-
nesian War began; for 80 years, like
an intermittent fever, it ran its de:
structive course. and Euripides did
not live to see it's bitter close. Judge
his feelings from this prayer, which
has come down to us as a fragment
from the lost play "Cresprontes'
o Peace, thou givest plenty as
from q deep spring; there is no
| beauty like unto thine; no, not
even among the blessed gods. My
heart yearneth within me. for thou
Earliest; l grow old and thou re-
turnest not Shall WEAKNESS over
come mine eyes before they see
! thy bloom and thy comliness?
When the lovely songs of the
dancers are heard again, and the
thronging feet of them that wear
| garlands, shall gray hairs and sor-
| row have destroyed me utterly?
| Return, thou holy one, to our city;
abide not far from us. thou that
quencheth wrath. Strife and bit
| terness shall depart, if thou art
with us; madness and the edge of
! the sword shall flee from our
doors.
| Like Plato, Euripides plead with his
countrymen to make peace, and tc
unite with Sparta in a Pan-HelleniC
| League. rather than fight with her till
all Greece should be exhausted and
ripe for barbarians. But they would
! not hear. The war went on, heaping
| brutality upon horror, war of Greek
| against Greek, shot through with all
| the ferocity Of relatives. When the
citizens of Melos refused to enter the
war on Athens side the Anthenians
besieged their capital, devastated it
put all the men to death, and enslaved
all the women and children. 1t was in
| the very next year AIS E. CO. that
Euripides, with the audacity that made
and was to break him, produced one
of his most powerful plays. THE Tro
! jan Women" All who heard him
knew that Troy was a symbol for
| Melos. and that the dramatist had re
solved to make clear to Athens the
| other side of victory. Never was
| imagination more nobly used, nor a
greater plea ever made for peace.
| x X X
Just as modern novels begin where
respectable novels used to end-with
marriages. Euripides begins where
| simpler poets would have closed
after the victory. 1t is not the tri
J. Continued on Sixteenth Page.)