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Smyrna times., 1930-10-08

takeably apparent that the chief
| interest was in the races. The
first day was devoid of this fea-
ture, given entirely to the farmers
and called their day, but the num-
Der of them who put in an appear
ance was exceedingly small. The
threatening weather OF that morn
ing may have had something to do
with this, but the farmers sons
and daughters like to go on the
days when there are the biggest
crowds and the most excitement,
and the family carriage generally
moved at their command. Never
theless there was much to see, and
during the day the exhibits came
under inspection as well as the
racing.
Inspectors Election The Lit
tie Election passed off yesterday
very quietly. There were only
538 votes cast out of a total poll
of over 800. In 1876 the vote was
438 and in 1874, 6O3. j. w. Den
ney was elected Inspector over
Carey Frazier by 138 majority
and Joshua T. Jerman Assessor,
over William A. FAIRIES by 133
majority At the last 'little cleo
jority was 164 and in 1874 35.
Canning. John H. Hoffecker's
canning factory will finish up On
tomatoes this week, having been in
continuous operation on peaches
and tomatoes since the last Of
July. It has. experienced some diff
ficulty this year in getting a sup
ply of tomatoes at home as form
erly, and has been under the nee
essity of drawing on the vicinity
of Wyoming.
Marriages Timmons-Boone. At
the NJ. E. Parsonage, this town on
the 3rd instant by Rev. T. H. Hay
mes, William T. Timmors and
Miss Fanney Boone, both of New
Castle County.
Collins Walker-In Philadelphia
on the 28th of September by Rev. .
Enoch Stubbs, Andrew McC. Col
Inns and Miss Willie D. Walker,
both of Odessa.
Annex workshop of G.. w.
& S. Taylor covers a considerable
area, but their increased business .
demands more room and they are
now having erected an annex on
the east side IS by II feet We
are glad to see this evidence Of f.
prosperity among our manufactur-
ers.
A few farmers have commenced
corn.
The individual deposits il our
two banks subject to check is
S306, ,272.14.
T. F. Brayman of Kenton, is
having the front of his dwelling
house torn down and expects to
build a new one.
The Hancock and English club
of Kenton that was organized a
few days ago was addressed by
James Wolcott, Esq, of Dover,
last evening in an able and efFic-
lent speech.
New corn is coming into market
slowly and is selling at 40 per
bushel
Personal George T. Baggs, who
has been assisting his father in
the Post Office, left last week for
where he has entered
the Maryland University Law
School. P. P. Collins, proprietor
Of the Smyrna House, has been a
great sufferer for the past two or
three weeks from an attack of
rheumatism.
Mrs. H. Haynes. Mrs. Chris
-iana Cloak and Miss NJ. A. Savin
are visiting friends in Milford, and
Mrs. NJ. A. Cummins, Berlin, Md.
THE Srr ATE, DnETI rDN SuInxxr
Smyrna times., 1930-10-08

ago. We hope to make this a regular
weekly feature. If it does nothing else,
it will call to mind people and events
Of that day that should be interesting
70 the present generation. We hope
our readers will find it interesting and
that it will make the Times more eag-
ely sought and read-Editor.l
Sad Case Of Drowning On Fri
day evening last, about seven
o'clock, q boy who witnessed the
tumbling over the mill dam of
wagon, horse and driver, hurried
to town with the news and soon a
large number of persons were on
the spot. The wagon was found
submerged with the load of phos-
phate, the horses were also, their
heads only sticking above the wat
er and nothing but the nat of the
man floating on the water, visible.
a boat had to be procured from
the other side of the pond before
anything could be effectively done
when the horses were released and
the search for the unfortunate
driver commenced, half hour
having elapsed between the find
ing of the body and the accident.
When the alarm was first given it
was generally believed and so re-
ported to be another man who had
been in town drinking quite free
ly through the afternoon, but the
recovery of the body proved it to
be Benjamin Wallace, a farmer
residing near Brenford. Mr.. Wal
lace was a good farmer, respected
by the community with the single
fault of at time drinking to excess.
When he took one drink he never
stopped short of extreme drunken
ness, and on the afternoon in
question he had been on his
rounds from hotel and at nightfall
started home with his load of
phosphate. The general opinion
is that while on the dam and too
intoxicated for proper knowl-
edge of himself and his safety, he
attempted to return to the hotel
for another drink, and in the act
Of turning backed his team over
the dam in one Of the deepest
places. He was thrown, in the
fall over the embankment a dis
tance of about 20 feet, the BODY
was found by Messrs. John and
George Q. Raymond, who showed
unusual energy in releasing the
horses and in the search for the
unfortunate man. The body was
brought to the store room of the
Messrs. FAIRIES, undertakers, where
Smyrna times., 1930-10-08
SMYRNA FIFTY YEARS AGO AS
REVAMPED FROM OUR FILES
ITEMS ABOUT SMYRNA FROM
SMYRNA TIMES. OCT. 9Th, 1880
Notes of Marriages, Deaths, Real
Estate Deals and Matters of In
terest of Half Century Ago

THE Smyrna Times has started
to looE back over its files and tell
what happened around the correspond
ing date of this issue, a half century
ago. We hope to make this a regular
weekly feature. If it does nothing else,
it will call to mind people and events
of that day that should be interesting
70 the present generation. We hope
our readers will find it interesting and
that it will make the Times more eag-
ely sought and read-Editor.l
The Washington times., 1930-07-26
Fire
By Archibald Henderson, Ph.D., D.CL., LID.
Famous Scientific Authority

plotted and developed in in
Vulnerable directions. But 1t
was not until the time of Count
Rumford that scientists began
to think of heat as a mode Of
motion. Fire is energy, and the
mathematicians and physicists
for less than a century have
had the practice of expressing
kinetic energy in symbolic
form.
Step by step the great figures
in science worked out the prin-
ciples by which fire could be &C
curately and usefully employed
to develop power, =
A great step forward was
taken when Calico discovered
that force could be represented
as mass multiplied by acceIera-
tion. Modern physics and as
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS law of uni
versal gravitation, Laplace's
comprehensive principles of as
tronomy-all arise out of this
great and fundamental prin-
ciple.
Civilization took a great leap
forward when the mathemati-
clans and the physicists, The
engineers and the biologists set
their minds to harnessing en-
ergy, and compelling it, like the
genii of the fairy tales, to do
mans bidding, to work for the
worlds betterment.
The day will come when the
worlds most convenient and
available sources of energy,
coal and oil, are exhausted.
But long before that time
arrives man will have learned
how to utilize solar energy and
use it for mans purposes. The
magnitude of that solar energy,
as yet. embarrassed, may be real
lied When we consider that two
modern countries receive in a
day as much heat as is now
produced by all the coal burned
in "a hours throughout the
world.
The Washington times., 1930-07-26
Indispensable Workers in the
Civil Service

In the present retirement law there is specific recognition
that in the civil service of the United States there
men and women valuable to the Government they
may be continued in their positions indefinitely matter
how old they become.
This prolonged continuation in periods of two years must
however the request of Government heads who must
set out to Civil Service Commission that the employees
Invaluable and that the Government needs their services
This recognition that brains and knowledge do not grow old
in fairly healthy bodies and that the Government they
worth than youthful energies when directed by
active young brains will receive widespread attention
After August co. next the provision in the former
law holds good applying to the general Of aged work
ers-there will be extension of employment beyond four
years after the retirement age reached Workers who
reach the retirement and desire to continue in the service
may receive combinations for two periods of twoyear
until they become "a years of age applications ap
proved After that continuation impossible except heads OF
establishments that workers possess expert knowledge
special qualifications that make it worth while to the
Government to have them remain.
The Washington times., 1930-07-26
Listen, World!
BY Elsie Robinson

agony compared to that? Moth
ing-nothing at all. But who
was she to say she couldn't
country needed her boy? Who
was she to say, she couldn't
bear it, when thousands OF
other mothers were bearing 1t
standing shoulder to shoulder
in a silent, invisible army
their eyes strained to the East?
And so, Ellen didn't whimper.
Set her mouth against the
agony-took her place in line
with them-waited, too. And
even though fear shook her,
terrier fierce, the laugh in her
heart went on. Somehow, the
laugh went on.
But the day was to come
when the laughter stopped. for
ever, in Ellen's heart, as it did
in many mothers. A few
words on paper-the cold con-
dolence Of the Government
that had taken all she had
Ellen'S laughter was over.
Yet, with the healing years,
a little comfort came. If she
couldn't laugh, she could still
be proud that her boy died as
he did. Died like a man,
fighting in the trenches for
the country he loved. Scrub
bing floors-bending over tubs
with her hair graying and
her eyes dimming and her
flesh growing tattered and
worn as an ole rag, Ellen could
still be proud. She had borne
a boy. She had given that
boy to her country.
And so, the other day, when
they led her down to a ship,
and told her she, too, was going
over there to see her boy-her
baby-in his last narrow bed,
a great wonder and glory must
have famed in Ellen's tired
heart. Going as other mothers
gone!
No, not quite as other mothers
had gone. Not in q great
radiant throng, to the shouts of
a nation. But just with 81
others. Only 158 little old
mothers on one great lonely
ship. But-they couldn't ar
range it any other way. They
were sorry, but they couldn't
arrange it any other way. For
Ellen is black.
Not too black for God to
make her a mother:
Not too black for a nation to
take her boy;
But too black to travel on
the same boat with whites,
when she goes to visit his grave.
The Washington times., 1930-07-26
Rough Stuff From Prohibition
Officers Not To Be Tolerated

The new prohibition director, Amos w. Woodcock,
nouncs rough work the part of prohibition agents.
including searching Of of private citizens without
cause will be tolerated In of his determine
tion he suspends for short tme two agents he indicates
used force but not brains.
This good start for the new director It is in line with
the courtesy orders of Commissioner Crosby charge of the
Washington Police Department.
Stopping the automobiles of citizens without good cause
searching of these and their occupants ruthless
ner with uncompimentary remarks failing to discover
illegal liquors. dangerous proposition, especially when it
done at night by persons suddenly looming up in cars
without lights
Many men, under such circumstances knowing themselves
to be abiding citizens might resort to protective methods
fearing attack from criminals That sort of thing explains
q number Of shootings and killings in the past.
Vigilance proper in officer of the law, but Judgment
ust be used with it, There vast numbers Of American
citizens who go out in their automobiles without taking boot
leg concoctions with them
The Washington times., 1930-07-26
Temperate John Bull
No Prohibition, Little Drunkenness.

England, wisely working toward temperance studies
methods Of cutting down drunkenness and seeks sub
stue for alcohol that will give the pleasure with
out subsequent pain.
Vscount DAbernon, chairman of the liquor control board
during the war; convinced that substitute be in
vented and that fortune together with the gratitude Of
humanity will reward the discoverer.
hint to American scientists and inventors in that.
Pending the discovery however the British consider further
restrictions sale alcoholic beverages along the lines
they have adopted successfully years High taxa
tion liquor and limited hours during which sale have
British drinking less than onethrd of what IL in
prewar days In 1918 $4,000 made for drunken
ness in 1928 only 5000. "a
Now is proposed to eliminate all saloons where drink
served without food and to naonaze the liquor industry out
of the hands Of private dealers
In our progressive land slow rational procedure does
not appeal Pass few laws" solution Of the liquor
problem.
seem to have learned it.
The Washington times., 1930-07-26

It was storming the night
that Ellen'S baby came. The
sky went mad-gulped, gagged
and bellowed-claWed earth
sprewed rain and hail-belched
thunder in its torment. Down
below, people covered with fear
at the sound of it. But to
Ellen, clinging with white
knuckles to her ragged bed
eyes blinded with sweat-mouth
locked wide in her long agony
the storm meant nothing at
all. For Ellen was borning lit
tie Pete and sky gone mad
was very small performance
beside that hell through which
she was travelling.
It was storming still when
they laid the baby in her
arms-iust as the dawn sent
a sickly green through the
riven purple and black. But
again, she knew nothing of it.
For all the world was filled
with dazzle and song, as she
looked at that small head,
burrowing into her soft. full
breast. The sweat was not
dry on her brows-the cracks
not yet healed on her writhen
lip s+yet. looking, Ellen
laughed. For her baby was
born!
And through all the poverty
that lay ahead, through the
pain and the worry and fear
that hovered around them
both, like buzzards, after big
Jim died-that laugh went on.
Not always on her lips. Again
and again life drove it down
into the secret places Of her
heart. But never once did
life smother it, quite-no mat
ter how hard the breaks. For
as long as she had little Pete,
what did anything matter2 AS
long as. she had Pete, Ellen
could always laugh.
Laugh even when she saw
him marching away that day
in 1917. Going over therel
Couldn't she have kept him
back? Surely, yes. She was a
widow and he her only boy.
But how could she kill the
eagerneSs in that 18-year-old.
face-how leave him crippled
in pride for the rest of his
life? So Ellen let him go. And
stood straight and tall and
laughing as he turned to wave
good-by.
Terrible days, then. Waiting.
Wondering. What was birth
The Washington times., 1930-07-26
SECRETS OF
HEALTH
BY DR.. Louis E. Bisch-

There is scarcely a person
who has not, at one time or
another, thought of suicide.
BY this statement I do not
wish to imply that the thought
was a strong one or that it
carried with it a compelling
desire for selfdestruction.
That such persons exist
there can be no question. 1t
may develop in certain cases
into a veritible obsession, a
haunting fear from which the
individual is scarcely ever en-
tirely free.
But besides these, there
surely are hundreds Of men
and women to whom the
thought occurs now and again,
with greater or lesser force, but
who are in no real danger OF
committing such a deed.
People, however, very often
become alarmed when they
think such things. It is not al
ways that they believe they
will some day give way to the
impulse. Often they believe
that such thoughts are dis
tinctly abnormal and lead to
insanity.
During adult life, too, we
often think things that would
not bear inspection by society
at large. Our dislikes often
are very strong. AntiSocial
ideas are not uncommon. Any
way, all such thinking breeds
feelings of guilt.
Now then, maSochism means
pleasure derived from receiving
pain. Technically. it is pain
coming from a beloved object.
A mother, suffering the pangS
of childbearing, is displaying
masochistic tendencies.
However, we. can also inflict
pain on ourselves-in other
words, punish ourselves for ac-
tual or fancied wrongdoing.
In suicide ideas we see such
a mental mechanism at work.
People who think a lot about
putting an end to themselves
are. merely Furnishing them
selves.
The Washington times., 1930-07-26

Men Of power enjoy cartoons in which their strength
alleged weaknesses portrayed.
The late Mark Hanna enjoyed the SERIES willie and His
Papa" drawn by that genius r. D. Opper showing Mark
Hanna Trust Giant, with Mckinley knee and
Theodore Roosevelt the other.
And Theodore Roosevelt collected and enjoyed the drawings
of that other juvenile genius Tom Powers.
Here yop three carcatsts presentations Of the power
full Mussolini who keeps Europe thinking and WORRYING
This picture at the top illustrates passage from recent
speech by Mussolini-"T WORDS ARE VERY BEAU
TLFUL THINGS, RIFLES MACHINE GUNS, SHIPS, AERO
PLANES AND CANNoNs ARE MORE BEAUTIFUL
THINGS STILL
The picture below shows the left Mussolin ashng the
poor Angel Of Peace with his string Of batleshps And
the right the Italian dictator is shown with the Italian
King his power completely overshadowed by that fMuson
The Washington times., 1930-07-26
Cynic scorns Spirit Messages
And Calls Public "Gullible"

Editor, Times;
It seems a shame that the
American public should be so
gullible and so ready to be
docile in the face of situations
which should arouse their curl
osity to an Unsuitable peak.
A short time ago, Sir Arthur
Conan Doyle died. Before his
his death he shouted to the
world that he would deliver
a message to his family within
a week. After his death. his
family shouted of the faith they
had in his promise. Soon it
was heralded in loud tones that
a meeting was to be held in
which the promised message
would reach a world thirsting
with desire to know of harped-
heavens.
The message came, but the
audience, in deep respect for
the personal message that Lady
Doyle heard, kept at a respectful
distance and whispered that
they would require no more
from the favored woman whose
soul had heard the voice that
knows the unknown.
And for milleniumS we have
sought that unknown. Lady
Doyle should write a book pro-
pounding her knowledge to a
world starving to know what
happens when the soul rises
from the warm body to meet
the coldness of the space be-
yond.
We hear nothing these days
of Interrogation The people
are satisfied that the message
from the one departed man
who was given permission by
his Maker to communicate with
this earth should remain a
secret.
Someday my soul will leave
my earth-ridden clay, but if I
should be favored by the Om-
nipotent to speak with those
whom I have left, I shall GER
The Washington times., 1930-07-26

Poets, artists, scientists, phi
losophers are all agreed that
civilization dates from the dis
covery of the uses to which
fire could be put for mans ad-
vantage and Improvement. The
snatching of fire from the
chariot of the sun by Prone
theus stands today, as in the
past, as a sort of poetic symbol
of mans eternal quest for
knowledge.
The sun, or fire. in various
forms, has become the central
point in various religions in the
course of human history.
In fire lurked not only dan
ger but utility. The signal fires
of the tribe, a primitive sur
vival, for example, among our
own American Indians; the
uses of fire to warm the body,
cook food, to make implements
and ornaments Of various sorts
pottery, earthenware, iron,
steel, gold, Silver-an mark the
gradual evolution of civiliza-
tions, the thrust toward
more comfortable, convenient
and highly organized life.
AS Millikan says in Toward
Civilization"-"The fire trust
has grown in power and influ-
ence until a very few years
ago, Einstein reorganized the
whole physical world under the
hegemony of fire.
Earth, air and water, indeed,
all forms Of matter, are sup
posed by him to be leaping
continuously of their own ac-
cord into the furnaces Of the
sun to keep the great fire ball
going, and this Sacrificial act
on their part is alone respon-
sible, according to modern as
tronony, for the fact that we
are here today.
Otherwise we should have
been long ago merely the ashes
Of a spent star system.
Fire had tts many and multi
form uses, and these were ex-
The Washington times., 1930-07-26

an interesting sidelight on our
national pastime from the view
point of a rabid Washington
peanut maSticator.
Shutting our eyes tightly,
and muttering a fervent prayer,
we burst forth in type:
Old Babe Ruth Is a man uncouth,
His writings are just SO much hooeyl
1t isn't the heat
That spoiled the Senator'S feat,
Their greatest troubles st. Looey,
1t could be Whittier.
Simmons and Foxx and Cochrane and
Miller,
Each one a slugger and each one a
killer,
Should, according to Kinerk, put
the AS ahead.
But after the ball llwhackinE season
is dead.
I'm afraid that the Mats will be
champions instead.
-Shortfellow.
The Washington times., 1930-07-26
ROUGH TREATMENT FOR
PEACE.
MUSSOLINI The DC
TATOR AND HIS KING.

In the Munich publication Jugend the king saying his
great dictator You and l. Duce working hand in hand will
dominate the century"
The extract from Mussonis speech about rifles machine
guns ships etc. to many lacking in the spirit Of
Christianity But there time long ago. here in
the United States when Government and paroters
working for 81 year and something else ION the sid" "
would gladly have exchanged many beautiful words
rifles, machine guns aeroplanes etc.
We spent billions Of dollars trying get those things in
hurry But the aeroplanes wouldn't FLY the ships never
left their docks
Let hope that shall learn from Mussoini and not
cOnfine ourselves entirely to beautiful words but rather
prepare for the trouble that may and that not long
ago, DID come!
The Washington times., 1930-07-26
Hearst Papers Advocate

!. Peace and Gnaaty IOath all nations; entdnghng
alliances NTH none," advocated By George
Washington.
2. Proportional representation in the United States
Senate, no State to haze less than ta0o Senator's
Legislation to entOrce prompt constitutional reap
portsonment IN the House of Representatives.
g. separate Department OF the Army, of the Macy
and of the Air Forces, all united under Secretary
of National Defense.
d Federgl action to the limit of Federal poa0ers to
abolish dtiterGcy tn the United States under a
Secretary of Education. t,a
s. Installation of the President on the first of Jan
adry folLoaUing November election.
The Washington times., 1930-07-26
"Poor Man" Wants to KnoN
How to Solve Problem

Poor Man" Wants to Know
How to Solve Problem
Editor, Times:
1 would like to ask a ques-
ton of the public. What do
they intend to do to the poor
man?
A few years ago we had a
war for the poor man. Then
we got prohibition for the poor
man. knowing the rich had
their cellars full. Now we have
q raise in carfare for the poor
man. Now we have President
Hoover in the White House
and no work for the poor man.
What is the poor man going
to do? Is there any way to
solve this problem? I would
like to know if there is
Respectfully,
The Washington times., 1930-07-26
Admiral Markham
Ee Believed in Peace, Not Planes.

Twenty years ago Admiral Sir Albert Markham Of the British
navy arrived in New York and said:
"I think the airpIane Is being taken too seriously
N the game Of uUar. believe It might be UalUdbIe
for scouting, but that Is all.
"The tendency in these days Is for peace, GndI
hope we uiu neOer be able to test in actual OGrfdre
the bgness of bGttleships."
Admiral Markham deserves . seat In the Ssnats.
The Washington times., 1930-07-26

tainly popularize the theme
songs of the angels, and I
won't forget to tell you if the
devil is really all red and if
all the official men are in
heaven or seeking retribution
elsewhere. JAB.
Hot Weather Goads Man
To Baseball Quatrains
Editor, Times:
May I submit the enclosed
poetic effusions written by a
youngster of reticent nature
and who is foredoomed, I am
grieved to say, to an ignoble
death under the wheels of a
scent taxi before the year 1000.
They were written in one Of
his few lucid moments and are