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THE LISTENING POST
by WALTER TRUMBULL-

From s SSgs Of old, '0he" knights 'Osre
or cold, or something of the sort,
The GnctentS yell of stout John L.
And tell you HON he ruled the sport.
But, 1phtle John IDds q man OF might,
a grand old bdttler, game and fine,
sGw the Dempsey Willard tight,
AND DtH Just take Jack for mine.
The ancient host toiH sit and boast
And toast Ed DelehG11ty'S play;
They claim that he would Surelu be
Above the hitterS OF TO-DAY.
Wen, Del tU1S sure pearl OF price;
He Socked the ball, and that's the truth,
But, hdDing seen him once or t,Dice,
III Just be satisfied Nth Ruth.
~ ERTAIN performers are mile
stones on the road of sport
and, as some one has said,
~ milestones don't come every
few yards. But they always
Many tell you there are no more good
heavyweights. Whether there. are or
not, there will be. Disregardtng Shark
ey and Schmeling and refusing the floor
to Scott, you can flnd other promising
material.
Don't be fooled concerning Campolo,
just because he didn't do better against
a tough experienced man such as Risko,
who fought like combination of a
porus plaster and windmill, retaining
the best features of each. Campolo is q
very likely looking prospect. He is
improving all the time.
Willie Stribling of Georgia has every
thing q champion needs, except the
disposition. # you don't think he Is
good, just try to get one Of these other
heavies to meet him. You viii find
they all have engagements somewhere
else.
They say all Camera has Is
size, strength and speed. That is all
an elephant has, but nobody is very
anxious to annoy an elephant. No,
the present crop Of heavyweights isn't
90 bad a. It has been painted.
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THE GREAT ADVENTURE.

Only so many Springs are LETT
Only so MANY ApriLS notD--
Where dog,Dood Sflow hides in the cleft
And green comes back upon the bough;
Where life once more is young and 1lew,
Reborn from Winters udntSted SrotD,
And youth returns to tDdnder through
The dreams and ghosts OF long ago.
There is no age in April tDhere
Each path leads out BY bloom and
And only youth is in the air
To beckon one by glen and glade,
Where only Spring is in the heart
As years roll back to set one free
From time and care, t1here each may
For dreams and ghosts that used to be.
Ut will be a matter of four weeks
before Bobby Jones starts for the
other side, but he is already geared
up and ready to go at top speed.
Bobby proved, beyond any argument,
over the two well trapped, testing Angus
ia, Ca, courses that he will make this
next invasion in better condition and
more thoroughly equipped than he ever
was before. He Is taking the trip more
seriously than he has ever taken any
other, his main objective being the
British amateur championship, the one
prize he has yet to win. have never
seen him hitting his tee shots as far
and true as he did all through the
Augusta show.
The two open tournaments at Sa-
vannah and Augusta have been just
what the Georgian needed to key
himself up for the British test. He
will play more golf this April than
he has played in early Spring for
SOr1e wears and YOU can take it for
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- ERTAIN performers are mile
stones on the road of sport
and, as some one has said,
~ mileStoneS don't come every
few yards. But they always
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st. Joseph's nine will face Arlington
tossers In a practice game Sunday
morning at IL o'clock on the Plaza
Field. The squad, including new can
didates, Is asked to report an hour
earlier.
Walter Reed nine will engage Colo
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-03
SandIOt Ball Teams Get Set
For Heavy Sabbath Program,

"A R ANY sandlot base ball teams in
mn the city and vicinity are get
wv ting in snappy sessions in
Milford chronicle., 1930-03-14
WILL ENROLL NOW FOR
MILITARY TRAINING
C. W. w. Schantz VIII Head Kent
County Committee This Year

C. W. w. Schantz, of Smyrna, Del,
will head the Kent County commit
tee in charge of enrolment for this
Summers Citizens Military Train
ing Camps. His formal appointment
as local chairman for the War De-
partment was made by Major Cen
eral Hanson p. Ely, commanding
the Second Corps Area, at Cover
nors Island.
DR.. Schantz's appointment follows
his recent election to the chairman
ship of the Military Training Camps
Association county committee and
thus brings all c. M. T. C. activities
throughout the county under his di-
rect supervision. This is the sixth
year that he has been given the post.
With him on the committee will be
Major P. S. Prince, Dover; Major c.
A. Short, Dover; Prof. R. E. Shilling,
Milford, Del; Prof. ]. c. Messner,
Harrington, Del.
These public-spirited citizens are
among a huge number of patriotic
persons in more than 80 per cent of
the three thousand counties in the
United States who have volunteered
their services in aid of the govern
ment's project to build better citi-
zens out of young Americans.
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Milford chronicle., 1930-03-14
STRAW VOTE INDICATES
DELAWARE IS DRY
Pathfinder Believes Prohibition Is
Favored By Ruling Majority

Dry sentiment is stronger in Della
ware than wet sentiment, if a refe-
rendum on national prohibition re-
leased in Washington for publica-
ton on Tuesday is taken at face val
ue. Delaware voted 1S1 wet and
459 dry.
The poll was conducted by The
Pathfinder, a weekly having national
circulation largely in small towns
and rural communities, where dry
sentiment is well known to be more
prevalent than in tn ecities. The
publication frankly cautions the
reader to bear in mind the rural
character of its circulation.
In both New York and New Jersey
where the voting population is large
ly urban, the straw vote of the Path
finder shows more dry votes than
wet votes, due, in part at least, to
the fact that the poll was more rep
resentative of the dry sections out
side the cities. In New York state
the vote was 1873 wet and 2S,O45
dry, and in New Jersey 4,2O1 wet
and 5,7O5 dry. Maryland voted 1,2S9
wet and 2,3O7 dry.
The grand total of the poll was
171,SO2 wet and 272,82S dry.
, Pathfinder QUESTIONABLE was made
up of six questions. The vote IN
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Milford chronicle., 1930-03-14
KENT TEACHERS
ELECT OFFICERS
D. A. Petry, OF FELTON,, Named Pres
ident, Lester Judy, Secretary

The ninth annual meeting of the
Kent County Teachers Association
lwas held Friday in the auditorium OF
Dover High School with morning
and afternoon session and noon
banquet in the dining hall of Peo-
ples' Christian Church which lou
teachers attended.
At the morning session DR.. II: "
Holloway. superintendent of public
instruction, gave a short talk. Dr. "
G. Jordan, secretary OF agriculture
of Pennsylvania, made an address
ON "Wings That Lift to Heights
Sublime" -
At the banquet Mr.. Messner OIL
Harrington was toastmaster. Spec
ches were made by Superintendent
Helm, of Laurel; DR.. H. B. King OF
the State Department of Education;
DIR. Albert S. Vook, State superln-
tendent of education of Maryland;
Dean Robinson, of Newark; DR.. Jor-
dan, of Pennsylvania, and ProI'
John Shilling, of Dover.
/ At the afternoon session Or. Al
bert S. Cook, State superintendent
of Maryland, spoke on What Con-
lstitutes a Progressive School Sys-
tenn" s.,,o.u.
President. D. A. Petry, FELTON,; vice
president, Miss Helen B. Stuart
Smyrna; secretary and treasurer
Lester Judy, Of Hartly.
Milford chronicle., 1930-03-14
ROAD SUPERVISORS ARE
NAMED FOR SUSSEX co.
COnstables and Bridge Tenders Are
Also Chosen For This Year

Road supervisors for Sussex
county have been appointed by the
Levy Court as follows: First repre-
sentative district-Harry E. Glen
daniel, Lincoln; William J. Carey,
Milford, R. D.
Second-Abe Ricards and Alfred
Passwaters, of Greenwood.
Third-Minnard Hill, Seaford, r.
D.; Harry L. Short, Georgetown,
R. D.
Fourth-William W. Tindall, Lau-
rel, R. D.; Harvey D. Kitchens, Sea-
ford, R. D.
Fifth-Albert w. Phillips, Delmar;
John H. Massey, Laurel.
Sixth = Severn Hall, Millsboro;
Philip D. White, Dagsboro; Fred T..
Conaway, Georgetown, R. D.; David
R. Baker, Millsboro, R. D.
Seventh-Ebe T. Evans, Frankford,
r. D.; Marvel Pepper and Willie
Long, Selbyville, R. D.
Eighth - Kendall o. Warrington,
Harbeson, r. D.; Charles H. Rogers,
Millsboro, r. d.
Ninth-Peter N. King and Elijah
w. King, Georgetown, R. D.
Tenth-Delmar Reed, Milton, r.
D.; Jerome G. Phillips, Lewes.
Constables were appointed as fol-
lows: First representative district,
William H. Marvel, of Milford; sec
ond, Edgar B. Belts, of Greenwood;
third, George w. Bowden, of Sea-
ford; fifth, Minos B. Hearn, of Lau-
rel, and George E. Hearn, of Delmar;
sixth, Levin T. Hearn, of MillsborO;
seventh, Raymond D. Ringler, of Sell
byville; ninth, Charles T. Jester, of
Georgetown; tenth, Clarence K.
Lynch, of Rehoboth Beach.
The following bridge tenders were
named: Harvey L. Moore, of Lau-
rel, for Delaware and Poplar ave-
nues, in Laurel; Thomas M. Hearn,
of Laurel, for Bethel Drawbridge;
G. G. Massey, of Woodland, for
Woodland Ferry; Elisha Gray, of
Selbyville, R. D., for Fenwick's
Milford chronicle., 1930-03-14
MAGNOLIA CITIZENS
PROUD OF TOWN
Village Has Water Plant And Fine
Fire Protection

The Magnolia Fire Company, one
of the best equipped smaller fire
companies in the State, held an oys-
ter supper and chicken salad supper
Thursday night in the town hall. Par
ticular interest centered in the sup
per this year from the fact that the
company has just purchased a $500
fire fighting engine which they ex-
pect to pay for within a short time.
Magnolia secured from the last Leg
islature authority to borrow money
for the erection of a water tower
and the piping of the town with wa
ter mains, all of which has been
done and the plant is in full service.
Magnolia, possibly has not many
over $50 population and yet can
boast of one reported millionaire
who owns 10 farms around Magnolia
and other parts of Kent county.
The town fathers also boast of the
fact that they rarely ever have
case in court for infractions Of the
law, never has there been known to
be a bootlegger in the town or a
murder committed in the town.
Milford chronicle., 1930-03-14
RUSS INDICTED WILL
Be TRIED APRIL 2S
Negro Will Face Kent County
Jury Charged With Serious
Crime.

Theodore Boob" Russ, 24-year-
old negro living near Viola, has
been indicted on three charges of
criminal assault by the Kent county
Grand Jury in special session at Do
yer.
Russ is charged with having
broken into the home of Myrtle
Reed, a tenant farmer living near
Woodside below Dover and attack
ing Reeds 21-year-old wife, Mary.
The negro was arrested a few
hours after the attack and is now in
the New Castle County Workhouse
without bail.
Russ was found in the Reed home
by Reed and his brOther-in-law Ed
gar Kemp of WoOdside. Russ is al
legged to have cut Kemp's throat in
making his escape from the house.
The three true bills against Theo-
dore Russ are as follows: Rape, as
sault with intent to commit rape;
breaking and entering with intent
to commit rape. The trial of Russ
has been set for April %, in the
regular sessions of the Court of Oy-
er and Terminer.
Two of the indictments, rape, and
breaking and entering with intent to
commit rape, are capital offenses,
and if Russ is found guilty on eth
er, the death penalty will be impos-
ed. He will be represented by Thos.
C. Frame and Charles L. Terry.
Milford chronicle., 1930-03-14
MILFORD LODGEMEN
VISIT SMYRNA LODGE
Crystal FOunt Members Enjoy Social
Time With NeighbOring Town

Last Friday, the Grand Lodge of
Delaware Odd Fellows, announced
the appointment of Willard Leroy
Harris, of Amity Lodge No. 20, of
Camden, Del, as District Deputy
Grand Master, to succeed William J.
Boyd, District Deputy Grand Master,
who lost his life in fire at Dover.
Harris has been actively engaged in
Odd Fellows affairs for years and
will have charge of all Kent county
lodges. His appointment meets with
general approval.
Many Milford Odd Fellows braved
the driving rain storm last Friday
evening and went to Smyrna, as the
guest of Morning Star Lodge of that
town. The occasion being the Off
cial visit of Grand Master W. Henry
Ennis, to his home lodge.
Following the official ceremonies
an excellent play was staged by the
ladies of Laura Lodge of Rebecca,
of Smyrna. This feature of the
evenings entertainment was well
above the average, and brought
forth rounds of applause.
Those present were Lavinus Aus
tin, Clarence Jester, Paris Kirby, Le-
roy Stevenson, James w. Cannon,
George Peterson, James ]. Smith, L.
]. Swank. James w. Cannon, Jr.,
Jack Wright, George R. Bennett, and
John Jester.
Refreshments consisting of chick
en- salad, Delaware biscuits and cof-
fee was served at late hour.
Milford chronicle., 1930-03-14
DELAWARE MAY Get
A new STATE HOUSE
This Was Brought Out During
Hearing On Dover POstOffice
Prospect.

Delaware may have a new $3,000,-
900 State House in the course of the
next few years at Dover. Congress-
man Robert G.. Houston referred to
this possibility during a conference
in Washington Friday afternoon.
The conference was between a
delegation of Dover residents head
ed by Lieutenant Governor J. Henry
Hazel and Mayor J. Wallace Wood
ford, with Perrk X. Heath, in charge
of public buildings construction.
This delegation advocated a new
postoffice building in that town so
that LOOckerman street can be de-
veloped to the east. 1t was indicat-
ed that should Congress approve an
increase in Federal public building
funds it is likely new postoftice
will be built at Dover during the
next two years.
The public building committee has
reported a bill introduced by Rep
resentative Houston to authorize the
secretary of the treasury to sell the
present postoff1ce site at LOCKER
man and State streets, which, they
said, was holding up plans of the
State and City of Dover in the de-
velopment of large area which has
not been possible, due to the present
location of the postOf1ce.
The delegation was introduced by
Representative Houston, who out
lined plans of the State and city
officials of Dover, for the develop
ment of the State capitol, which
included the proposal to build a
new $4,000 900 State capital build
ing.
Lieutenant-G Governor J. Henry
Hazel and Colonel John P. LeFevre
were the principal speakers, who
maps and other data to
show that the location Of the post
office, which unless changed, would
not permit the extension of LOCKER
man street, nor make it possible to
carry out plans for the development
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Milford chronicle., 1930-03-14
GIVE LIST OF STATE
SUPERVISED CHICKS
State Board OF Agriculture Gives
Certificates To Those Named

It has been brought to the atten-
ton of the Poultry Disease Labora-
tory of the State Board of Agricul-
ture that the names of the hatchery
men under State Supervision are not
known by all poultrymen of Della
ware. H. r. Baker, Poultry Patho-
logist for the State Board of Agri-
culture, states that the following
hatcherymen hold certificates to sup
ply chicks of the Supervised-Tested
Grade: The Byron Pepper & Sons
Hatchery, of Georgetown; the Con-
cord Poultry Farm, of Wilmington;
and the hatchery of w. V. Steen, of
Dagsboro. Supervised-tested chicks
are Matched from eggs laid by hens
which are under official supervision
and are blood-tested for Pullorum
Diseases (Bacillary White Diar-
rhea).
The hatcheries of Charles E.
Grove, of Milford, and o. A. Newton
& Son, of Bridgeville, are listed as
Certified-Tested Hatcheries. These
hatcheries use eggs from breeding
flocks which fulfill the requirements
of a Supervised Hatchery, but in ad-
dition the flocks are mated to wing
banded pedigreed males whose dams
laid 200 or more eggs in one year in
trapnests. The Byron Pepper &
Sons Hatchery and the Concord
Farm. also sell Certified
Tested chicks of the S. c. White
Leghorn breed only.
Milford chronicle., 1930-03-14
PROPOSED SALE OF
LIQUOR BY STATES
SCORED BY NTELDS
John P. NieIds Sees Weakening
In Repeal Of KIair Enforce
ment Law.
Less DRUNKENNESS NOW
Conditions Are Much Better Now
Says Former United States
District Attorney.

Addressing an audience of 100 or
more persons in the lobby of the Y.
M. C. A. at Wilmington, John P.
Nields, former U. S. district attOr-
ney, who said he was a dry" scored
the idea of the state selling intoxi-
eating liquors.
Mr.. Nields spoke on the subject
"Get Rid of the Tiger, Don't Try to
Control Him" Mr.. Nields referred
to liquor as the tiger.
"The wet program for Delaware
in 1881 is obvious enough" Mr..
Nields said. 1T is proposed to Grip
pie prohibition in Delaware by re-
pealing the State enforcement law,
known as the Klair Law. If it were
proposed to amend the Klair Law to
enable doctors to prescribe alcohol
as they may do under the Volstead
Act, the suggestion would have more
merit. The State courts are to be
relieved of all jurisdiction over
liquor cases and the whole burden
of liquor control placed upon Judge
Morris. AS a first step in a pro-
gram to overthrow prohibition the
repeal of the Klair Law, is logical
enough. But will the people of Del
aware abandon prohibition and take
this step for the purpose of over
throwing it,"
An empty beer bottle and a brown,
flask-type whisky bottle, stood on
the table which held Mr.. Nields' va
rious reference books and docu-
ments.
In referring to Pierre S. duPont's
suggestion that the Anti-Saloon
League together with ministers OF
the gospel take charge of the sale
and distribution of liquor so that 1t
would be properly and temperately
controlled, Mr.. Nields inferred that
the situation would be incOngruous.
"The drys must face the facts.
They must prepare for battle.
stand on the general proposition,
that, in America, drinking alcohol
does more harm than good. Prob
ably no one has the hardihood to
deny that. Incorporate drinking of
alcohol has been one of the curses
of humanity from the dawn of his
tory. Will anyone challenge that?
Incorporate drinking OF aIcOhol Oh
the part of a large number of the
people of Delaware has been a blot
on the history of this State. Con-
ditions in Wilmington 100 years ago
are shown in the Journal of City
Council for the years 1882, 1888 and
1884.
"Of conditions in Wilmington dur
ing the last half century am fairly
to testify. 1 affirm that
was far more prevalent
and obvious before prohibition than
since. 1 do not rely upon statistics,
but upon my own eyes. In the old
days there was a saloon at nearly
every corner of parts of the town.
In a walk between the creeks on
Market street you were ap to meet
half a dozen drunks. Now you may
take the same walk without meeting
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Milford chronicle., 1930-03-14
$4,000 MOTORISTS ARE
WITHOUT LICENSES
Large Number OF Drivers Fail To
Register And Are Subject To Arrest

TheGe are still 10000 motorists in
Delaware who have not yet taken
out their drivers license, according
to officials of the Titling Department
of the Secretary of States office.
There are not so many drunken
drivers being reported now as there
were a couple of months ago. Short
" after the first of the year, drunk
en- drivers were convicted at the rate
of two and three day, but now the
number has fallen back to IN aver
age of one day.
Some idea of the difficulties en-
countered by the Titling Depart
ment may be gained from this in
stance: A man wrote in for his dri-
ver's license and said to change his
address from Cheswold to Whining
ton. He gave no street address, so
the letter was forwarded to the Cen
eral Delivery window at the Will
mington post Office.
Three days later, the Titling De-
partment received another letter
from the same man, written in a
very caustic style. After berating
the department for not forwarding
his license card, he gave his street
address.
Milford chronicle., 1930-03-14
CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR
TO MEET In MILFORD
Statewide Convention VIII Be Held
In This Town In October

Plans are under way for the state
wide Christian Endeavor convention
to be held in Milford from October
"a to 27 A meeting of the executive
committee for the convention was
held at the Y. M. C. A.
Robert Yeasley, of Marshallton,
will receive registrars. Miss Ethel
Blackwell, of Wilmington, is chair
man of the entertainment commit
tee.
1t was announced by the commit
tee that Russell Blair, field secre-
tary of Christian Endeavor for Mas
sachusetts, will speak at the City
Union meeting at the First United
Presbyterian church, Tuesday night,
March 25. He will speak before the
Kent County c. E. Convention March
26th.
The Sussex County C. E. Conven-
ton will be held April 1 at the Mil
ton M. P. church it was announced.
f. c. Dixon, field secretary for the
Maryland Delaware-West Virginia
Christian Endeavor district, will
speak at that convention.
Milford chronicle., 1930-03-14
SUSSEX INTERESTED
In HEALTH PROMOTION
Conference At Georgetown Hears
Authorities Speak On Health Work

That more attention is being Civ
en- to the health and nutrition re-
uuirements of the livestock and poul-
try than to similar needs of the men,
women and children on the farms,
seems to have been the conclusion
reached by a group of Sussex county
rural men and women who met in
Georgetown last Friday for a Sus-
sex County Health Outlook Confer
ence.
The conference was called by G. r.
Snyder, Sussex county agricultural
agent, and Miss Laura B. Rutherford,
Sussex county home demonstration
agent, and included thirty rural men
and women of the county, and repre-
sentatives of the medical and dental
professions, the State Board of Edu-
cation, the State Board of Health,
and the Extension Department of the
University of Delaware.
In the morning session, presided
over by Mrs. Helen v. Mckinley,
state leader of home demonstration
work, facts were presented which
showed that of 5000 Sussex county
IGCCnbAJ 0SOAC0 ASA N~SN
habits, three-fourths of them scored
20 per cent or below and anly $50
scored 80 per cent or more. About
half of these children received only
half enough milk to meet average
nutritional requirements, and less
than half received the proper
amounts and variety of vegetables in
their daily diet. Medical inspection
of 2213 school children by the County
Health Physician showed a total of
3249 defects of which "a per cent
were faulty nutrition, 49 per cent de-
fective teeth and 1915 per cent de-
fective tonsils. 1t was pointed out
that most of these defects could have
been prevented by proper food hab-
it's. Additional evidence was pre-
scented to show that large percent
age of both young and old persons
suffered from constipation, head
aches and colds.
TCOntirned on page
Milford chronicle., 1930-03-14
ACCIDENTS ON HIGH
WAYS SHOW INCREASE
Fatalities Much Lower, However,
For Months Of Jan..Feb.

There was steady increase in the
number of accidents and in the num-
Der of those injured, and the prop-
erty damage incurred, in motor ac-
cidents on State Highways, for the
first two months of this year, accord
ing to the reports of w. w. Mack,
chief engineer of the Highway De-
partment today. The number killed
during January and February, how
ever, was cut in half as compared
with 1929.
Those killed on state highways
during these two months was five as
compared with eleven last year for
the same period. There were 26 more
people injured, however, ten more
accidents, and nearly $4,000 addi-
tiOnal property damage.
Fatalities due to jay walking
were reduced from seven to two dur
ing these two months.
There were 73 slightly injured and
six seriously injured, both being
big increase over last year. Fifty
three of the accidents were on dry
days and fifty-six on wet days.
Inc largest numDeE Oh mlSndpS
occurred on straight roads, the total
being seventy-five, with twenty-six
at intersections, six on curves, three
at street car crossings and one at a
railroad crossing.
Skidding heads the list of causes,
with 25 mishaps; recklessness %;
inattention IL; seven each for loss
of control and cutting in; six for
driving on wrong side of road; five
for jay walking, and the same num-
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