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The Washington times., 1929-07-16

Tired feet weary soul, the
ailments Of the apartment seeker who
failed to consult the Classified Rental
sds fof suitable listing Ct apartment
Smyrna times., 1929-12-25
LEGION MEMBERSHIP DRIVE
How Efforts in Congress for Dis
abled Depend Upon Early
Strength of the Legion

Washington, d. O., December
The ears Of congressman and
senators are to the ground these
days listening to the rumble Of
American Legion membership eff
forts throughout the country, as
an early 1880 enrolment is con
sidered as a challenge to congress
neglect a year ago in not passing
the Rogers hospital bill. Early en-
rollment of Legionnaires was made
a mandate of the last national
convention, and, according to the
Legion, it will indicate the earn
estness Of the Legion field in the
Legion's demand for additional
hospital facilities for more than
5000 mentally i'll veterans. These
veterans are now in over-crowded
state institutions, including jails,
a recent Legion survey shows, A
similar survey was made by the
U. S. Veterans Bureau and show
ed 5,543 World war veterans held
III state institutions. The Rogers
bill provides for additional gov
ernment hospital construction to
care for these mentally sick vet
Smyrna times., 1929-12-25
TALL CEDARS PLAN EVENT
Marks Tenth Anniversary of Or
ganiZation of Forest

Evergreet Forest, No. 40, Tall
Cedars of Lebanon, are planning
for a gala event to be held in
January which will mark the ten
tn anniversary of the organization
of this forest in Milford. At
meeting held Thursday night the
original committee which made in
itial arrangements and made it
possible for this forest to exist
was reappointed to arrange for
the anniversary program to be OBJ
served next month. The commit
tee consists of DR.. w. L. Grier, P.
c. T. c.; DR.. S. M. D. Marshall,
James p. Pierce, M. H. Pierce,
James K. Pettyjohn, c. T. c., all
of Milford, and George o. Fear
on, p. G. t. c., of Georgetown.
At the celebration there will be
parade with many visiting forest
members taking part, and the for
ests will be accompanied by their
bands. The anniversary program
will be presented in the Plaza
Theatre. The date of the affair
will be announced later. At the
meeting last Thursday evening the
annual election of officers was held
and all those whose term of office
expired were reelected. The fol-
lowing were the officers named:
Grand Tall Cedar, James K. Pet
tyjohn; senior deputy. D. Rodney
Bice; treasurer, G. T. Reed, scribe,
G. D. Holzmueller. Trustees, DR..
W. L. Grier, G. o. F'earon, DR.. F.
L. Grier, DR.. ]. 3. NAPLES, George
H. Hall. AT the meeting Thursday
night an address was delivered by
former Senator Louis A. Drexler.
Senator Drexler spoke of the
meaning of "cedarism," the aims
and what had been accomplished
by the order.
Smyrna times., 1929-12-25
FIVE "RalIuM VICTIMS" MAY
LIVE ON TO RIPE OLD AGE
Doctors Now Admit They May
Have Been Mistaken in
Their Diagnosis.

New YOrk.-Five young women,
suffering from what was believed
to be radium poisoning and told by
dcctore they had only one year 70
live, NAV have endured the agnnies
of awaiting death for nothing.
The women whose plighT attract
ed nationwide attention received
their death sentence on June | in
1928 Their work consisted of
painting luminous numerals on
watch dials. All are still living
and the doctors now admit they
may. have been mistaken in their
diagnosis.
They suggest the poisoning may
have been due to a substance
called mesothorium which is NOT
necessarily fatal, and not to radi-
nm. If this is the case it is pre-
dicted the sufferers may live to see
old age. Mesothorium can be grad
ually eliminated by the human sys-
tenn.
When they received their death
sentence the women sued the
United States Radium corporation
for S250.000 each The claims were
finally settled out of court for a
cash bounty of $4,000 and n pen
sion of $50 month rs long rs they
live.
How the women expended the
money. in the belief il would be
the last they would ever have. is
revealed as follows:
Mrs Quinta Macdonald. the most
seriously stricken Of the quintet.
has been the most unhappy. She
quarreled with her husband and
separated from him after he quit
his job. Her money is invested in
a trust fund for the benefit Of her
two children.
Miss Katherine Schauh bought an
automobile and has been spending
her time taking long rides in the
country.
Mrs. Albina Larice bought some
small household luxuries and has
been travelling with her husband.
Mrs. Edna Hussman bought a
player piano and a radio set.
Miss Grace Fryer invested all OF
her $4,000 and went to work in n
bank in Newark
None Of the five can adequately
express their feelings at their ap-
parent turn OF good fortune. The
terrible thing to them. they have
said. was not so much the Inn
minence OF death, but the fact they
had been told they must die within
stipulated time.
Their eyes were glued on the cal
endar and the fingers of the clock.
They felt like a person must do
when he is caught In q railroad
track and sees the train thunder
toward him.
Smyrna times., 1929-12-25
PROTEST AUTO TRUCK LAW
Delegates Appear Before Secre-
tary of State Grantland

Approximately fifty motor truck
operators, automobile men and
traffic experts from Wilmington
journeyed to Dover Thursday
morning to protest the present
motor vehicle laws of Delaware
before Secretary of State Char
les H. Grantland The delegates,
who met with the Secretary in his
office at 1 p. M, discussed the pro-
visions of the new laws as they
pertain to the maximum allowable
load of motor trucks. These laws,
they claimed, have been working
hardship on truck owners and op-
orators throughout the entire
State. Philip F. Guerke, traffic
manager of the Wilmington
Chamber Of Commerce, read a re-
port in behalf of the operators and
Of the Chamber. Operators claim
that under the present interpreta-
ton Of the law. truck operators
from neighboring states are able
to come into Delaware and secure
business from the very territory
in which our own local truckers
are located, due to their ability to
load more on their trucks than the
Manufacturers specified maxi
mum allowable load" he stated.
Smyrna times., 1929-12-25
BOARD OF EDUCATION MEET
Blanket Insurance Taken Out on
New Buildings in Delaware

The State Board of Education in
session at Dover had before it
many problems for the next school
year, which were discussed with
out any definite action being TAX
en-. The subject of a State direc-
tor of music for 1930-31 was dis
cussed at some length, it being
finally left with DR.. H. ". Hollo-
way, State Superintendent of in
struction to make an investiga-
tion and report at later meet
ing of the board. Discussion on
the teacher retirement funds was
deferred until the next meeting of
the board. Petitions from the Ce-
dars and also from Lincoln for
new school buildings were defer
red. Considerable discussion was
had as to the demonstration school
agreements, in which the State
Board pays a certain amount and
the Service Citizens a supplement
al amount. A representative of
the latter was present and ex-
planned the agreement of that as
sociation, which was satisfactory
to the board.
Smyrna times., 1929-12-25
GOVERNOR BUCK NAMES A
COMMITTEE ON AVIATION
REPORT TO BE SUBMITTED AT
THE NEXT LEGISLATURE
Men Appointed Are Familiar With
Subject-To Study Need of Air
ports in Various Parts of State

Looking forward to the future
development of aviation, Governor
C. Douglas Buck Thursday an
nounced the appointment of a
committee of three members to
study the needs of airports in this
State and to make recommended
tions to him for his consideration
and presentation to the 1882 ses-
sion of the Legislature. The mem
bers of the committee are Henry
Belin DUPONT and Angus B.EchOls,
of the DUPONT Company and form
Ell Chief Deputy Attorney General
James R. Morford. Governor
Buck, in formal statement noti-
flying the members of the commit
tee of their appointment said: 1--WE
discussed not SO long ago the need
Of the State preparing itself to
share in the business which it
would seem sure to come through
development of aerial transporta-
tion, and [ am more impressed as
the weeks pass with the service
such committee as we thought of
could render the State. In view
Of your willingness to assist my
administration by serving as a
member of what might, for want
Of better term, be known as the
Aviation Committee, I take this
opportunity to more or less form
ally notify you of your appoint
ment as members. while I know
nothing about aviation, and less if
possible, regarding the business
that is done by air, I do believe
the State should seriously consid-
er maintaining at least one mod
ern airport. If we wait too long
to do this, some of the adjoining
States will be the business that
might come to US. My thought is
that the proposed committee, af-
ter studying the States aviation
needs, will prepare report to be
submitted to the next Legislature
for their consideration, and, we
shall hope, adoption, 1 greatly ap-
preciate your willingness to assist
me in this work" This commits
sion will make study Of the need
for airports in various parts of the
State, their size, how they should
be equipped and such other infor-
nation as may be necessary for
careful consideration of the sub
ject. All the men named are ia
miliar with the subject and have
spent considerable time in aiding
in mapping out and establishing
the Wilmington airport.
Smyrna times., 1929-12-25

favor of the treated seed amount
ed to 2 bushels to the acre. This
increase in yield in 1928 was 2.7
bushels, and in 1927 it was 6.2
bushels, resulting in an average
increase OF 3.6 bushels per acre
over a period of three years. The
average termination test of the
seed corn that was planted on
these eight farms this year was
9S.2 percent, according TO the tests
as made by R. L. Hammond, Seed
Analyst for the State Board Of
Agriculture. In addition to this
increase in production it was also
observed again this season that
the ears from the treated areas
were more solid, and there was
less soft and immature corn than
in the remainder of each of these
fields that had been planted with
the untreated seed. Although the
increase in yield is of Importance
to the carrying out of the pro
gram Of economic production, the
greatest argument in favor of seed
treatment is the elimination of a
large percentage of soft and Gull
corn at harvest. Another phase
of this project each year consists
of survey Of the total amount of
dust materials used in the entire
county in order that an estimate
may be made of the acreage of
treated corn planted. This infor-
nation is secured from various
dealsers and agents who handle
these dusts, and the survey this
fall indicated that l57 pounds
were distributed to the corn grow
ers in this county last spring. This
amount was sufficient to treat L.
256 bushels of shelled corn, which
is enough seed to plant about T.
$50 acres. IN 1928 there were TO-
568 acres of rteated corn planted
in this county. Considering the
fact that this practice was not be-
ing followed at all four years ago
in this county, much progress has
been made during this brief period
and no doubt the time will come
when practically every corn grow
er will be treating his seed corn
lust as the majority Of the wheat
growers today are treating their
seed wheat for the control of the
smut.
Smyrna times., 1929-12-25

Grams, who, under existing law, are
eligible for proper care in govern
ment hospitals if room is available
The Legion's first legislative effort
in the House in the present session
was to request a prompt report
of the Rogers bill by the House
Committee on World War Veter-
ans Legislation. This committee
reported this bill favorably last
winter during the short session,
but the House leaders declined to
allow a House vote upon it early
enough to do any god, and the
measure died with the session, ac-
cording to the report of the Leg
ions national legislative commit
tee National Commander Boden-
hamer has fixed December 81 for
a national telegraphic roll call Of
all states on advance Legion mem
bership for 1880, and expects an
showing, which
Immediately following the
in Louisville. A sim
liar roll call held November 10
the national organization
some 10000 ahead of
similar date for advance member
ship the year before, and by De-
cember / this lead was increased
to more than $1,000, the 1929
membership being more than $780,
600.
Smyrna times., 1929-12-25
TO TEST CATTLE IN SUSSEX
Bovine tuberculosis Eradication
Campaign to Start Down State

The Delaware State Board of
Agriculture, in cooperation with
the United States Bureau of An
imal Industry, will start a cam
paign for the eradication of bovine
tuberculosis in Sussex county on
January 6. The county is to be
divided into eight districts, and a
veterinary inspector is to be de-
tailed to each district. He will
call on every cattle owner for the
purpose of applying the tubercu-
lin test to all cattle on his prem
ises. AS the campaign is to the
advantage, financially, of the indi-
vidual cattle owner as well as the
dairyman and breeder, the hearty
cooperation of all will be neces-
sary in order that the campaign
may be a success.
Smyrna times., 1929-12-25

Elton R. Wood, superintendent
of the Sussex County Almshouse
farm, Georgetown, butchered the
heaviest hog that has been report
ed in lower Delaware this year.
The porker when dressed and
placed upon the scales weighed
990 pounds. Just before it was
dressed it was weighed and tipped
the beam at 1910 pounds. Edward
Toomey, farmer of the Stockley
district has one which il is believ-
ed will weigh as much as the one
killed by Mr.. Wood.
Smyrna times., 1929-12-25

Governor Buck some weeks ago
appointed special commission
consisting of himself, Mrs. Henry
Ridgely, Judge w. w. Harrington,
Harry l.. Cannon and II. Rodney
Sharp, to consider either an addi-
tion to the present State House or
the building of a new State House
This commission met Wednesday
in the Governors parlors and dis
cussed the subject but no definite
action was taken. A Christmas
Smyrna times., 1929-12-25
SEED CORN TESTS IN LOWER
DELAWARE ARE SUCCESSFUL
PROJECT UNDER DIRECTION
OF COUNTY AGENT RUSSELL
Dust Materials Aids i'm Greater
Yield Per Acre and Corn is.
Made More Solid

During the past four years dem
onstrations have been conducted
in Kent county to show the eco
nomic value of treating seed corr
with dust materials for the con.
troll Of the rot and other dis.
5Gs25 that are carried on the seed
i. addition to demonstrating that
tnc termination Of the seed may
be stimulated greatly, and the
yield per acre increased with a
more solid condition of the corn
at harvest time. This project has
been carried on under the direc-
ticn Of County Agent Russell E.
Wilson who has received the CO
operation of DR.. j. F. Adams,
Plant Pathologist of the State
Board Of Agriculture and the Uni
versity of Delaware, in planning
the work and securing the results
at the end of each year. No yield
records were secured from the
demonstrations in 1926, but in
checking the yields on four farms
in 1927 it was found that the seed
which was treated produced on the
average 3.5 more bushels of corn
per acre than the remainder of
these fields which had been plant
eQ with untreated seed. The acre
yield results in 1928 from the nine
farms on which this project was
conducted showed that the treated
corn produced on the average 54.2
bushels per acre, as compared to
As bushels from the untreated
areas, or an increase Of 60 bush
els per acre. In order that addi-
tionaI data might be obtained con-
cerning the Importance of this
seed treatment practice, arrange
uents were made to conduct sim
liar demonstrations on eight farms
in Kent county again this year,
and those farmers who cooperated
with the County Agent in this
work during the past year includ-
ed Harvey McGinnis, near Peters
burg; J. w. WEBB, Sr., ]. W.Webb
Jr. and NJ. T. Uebb, west of Will
low Grove; A. G. Darrah and j.
=. Sylvester, near Clayton; Denny
Pleasanton and John G. Tarburton
III the Dover area. With the ex-
ception of the M. t. Webb farm,
this work was conducted in 1928
on each CT the other seven farms
herein mentioned. The dust ma
terials used in these demonstra-
tions this past year consisted of
Semesan Jr. and Merko, and on
four of the farms the Semesan Jr
was used alone, while on the other
four farms both of these dusts
were used to compare their rela-
tive value in producing more ard
better corn. The average yield Of
corn from the plots that were
planted with the Semesan Jr. f.
treated seed was 45.3 bushels per
acre, as compared to a yield Of
42.2 bushels from the seed that
was treated with Merko, and All
bushels from the untreated seed. /
into consideration all Of
the treated plots, the average pro-
duction of which. was 43.7 bushels
per acre, the difference in yield in
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1929-01-31
BIG PROBLEM CONFRONTING THE
PRESIDENT.ELEC

From all appearances, President
elect Hoover is going to have an "a
bundance of work TO dO-big prob
lens to contend with, when he takes
over the reins of the national govern
ment on March 4, 1929.
Farm relief legislation is being
left over for a special session of con-
sress when the new president takes
hold and that is as it should be, for
Mr.. Coolidge has twice vetoed such
bills passed by congress and would
likely do it third time unless it was
legislation without teeth.
Mr.. Hoover is a big man, who has
handled many big problems in the
past and the eyes of the nation are
centered on him now. He was the
choice of the majority at the fall
election and folks are looking hope
fully to him for guidance and lead
ership in the solving of big national
problems.
Newspaper writer's here and there
are specializing on who will be the
members of his cabinet and that is
natural but Mr.. Hoover keeps quiet,
saws wood" and will let his selec-
lions be known in due time. Folks
are optimistic, have confidence in his
leadership, and that is as it should
be. "All hail to the new CHIEF and
may success crown his great efforts
which will be of lasting benefit to the
nation.
National prohibition is also one of
the great problems that confronts
Mr. Hoover He has let it be known
that one of the first things he is go
ing to do after March fourth is to
appoint special commission to make
thorough study of prohibition and
make recommendation which, it is
hoped, may improve the situation
The Duluth Herald recently had an
excellent editorial on the subject of
making thorough study of prohibit
tion by the president-elect, which
reads as follows:
1.-The country knows enough of Mr..
Hoover to be sure that so far as he
can manage it, this investigation will
not start out with a preconviction
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1929-01-31

one way or another about prohibit
ton and seek facts to support it, but
will seek out the facts and then
try to read their meaning.
'An investigation based on a pre-
conviction that prohibition is sound
idea and is working well could find
plausible facts to support it. Sc
could an Investigation based on the
preconviction that prohibition is in
herently unsound and is doing more
harm than good.
but neither Of these is what is
needed. Prohibition now is indiffer-
emily enforced, and what the country
needs to know is whether it is pos
sible to enforce it reasonably well.
Prohibition has undoubtedly made
crime a big business-so big that
murder is a frequent by-product OF
its professional jealousies; and what
the country needs to know is whether
that can be stopped.
Prohibition has to a large extent
broken down respect for law; and
what the country needs to know is
whether that respect can be restored
and whether this poison fruit of pro-
hibition is not a worse thing than the
evil that prohibition aims to cure
but hasn't cured yet
THE Investigators should start
their work with open minds, not as
drys or vets. but as Americans seek
ing what is best for their country
If their investigation shows that the
right course is to strengthen the en-
forcement machinery and go after
the liquor evil harder than ever, they
should not be afraid to face the i'm
plications of that conclusion.
Neither should the investigators
fear to face the implications of a
conclusion that modification of the
prohibition experiment is the right
ing.
There is need of a thorough and
fearless and unprecedented examina-
ton of the prohibition situation even
if necessary, to the extent of consid-
ering whether prohibition as it is now
being attempted is a mistake 1t has
accomplished good, but it has done
harm to. If its good Outweighs the
harm it does, then a harder hitting
enforcement system will be the ans
wer. If the harm outweighs the good
then ONE other way of attacking the
evils of intemperance must be plan
ned.
There have been much talk, many
claims much excitement and great
heat in the discussion of prohibition
but they have only clouded the sit.
uation. The time is ripe for an hon.
est examination, without prejudice
that will show what the country ought
to do about it
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1929-01-31

Mile Laos County Times: A Min
neapolis labor paper claims that city
has the biggest and most efficient
begging system in its history, and
suggests that some of that effort be
devoted to getting people employment
at decent wages, instead of trying to
patch up at the spigot for what is
being wasted at the bunghOle. Two
rival organizations with their beg
ging kettles were competing with
each other for the business of re-
lieving the poor this year, indicat-
ing that there is either a lot of en-
thusiasm for charity work, or that
begging is good business for some
body. Another reason why
the farmers will never get relief
through the tariff: Australia and
South American countries are threat
ening to raise the tariff wall on man
ufactured goods from the United
States, if we shut out their farm pro-
ducts by raising the tariff here.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1929-01-31

There are two men, who ply the
deep blue seas, that will be long re-
membered by the crew of 30 of the
Inflated Italian freighter, Florida,
which had been damaged and con
Quered by the terrific gale of wind,
sleet and snow on January gath.
These seamen, who were snatched
from the very jaws of death in cold
and watery grave, will always re-
member the brave crew headed by
Captain George Fried and his Chief
Officer Manning and will sing praises
to these men and will perhaps tell
their children and grandchildren of
the wonderful courage, which the
reScuers possessed in OrGer that they
might once again touch their feet up
on solid floor and know what it
meant to feel the warmth of a sea-
worthy vessel after SO many hours III
the agony of suffering on board of a
wreck that was barely kept afloat;
and with the bridge washed away, by
the tremendous seas. These men and
their relatives back home are the
ones, who appreciate the heroism of
those in that frail little lifebOat
who braved the waves and threw a
life line, which pulled each and ev-
cry one from the edge of the wat
cry grave that was about to be theirs.
The world certainly has need of
such heroism. How easy it would
have been to have passed up the sos
signals as unheard and continued on
the safe course to land. This was
not the type of men that made up the
crew of the America nor was it any
one differant in command than the
same hero, Capt. George Fried, that
three years ago saved the crew of
the Inflated British freighter, Anti
noe.