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The Washington times., 1930-04-17
The Marry-GO-ROund
BY Helen Rowland

OF course. marriage is the
great acid-test of love, Just as
eating mushrooms is the surest
way to discover whether or not
they are toadstools.
Seeing q man or woman
mornings instead of evenings
facing each other across the
table while the baby cries, in.
stead Of across a roSe-Shaded
lamp, while the ukelele plays
gives you a totally different
light on each other.
You never really KNOW
each other until you have had
to share the same bath-sponge,
the same newspaper, and the
same dollar bill.
Still, there are other and
less desperate methods of sift-
ing the gold of love from the
II you can watch a girl fry
ing bacon and fighting red
ants for a whole week on a
summer camping party, and
still see the halo around her
head, it's REAL love.
If you can sit through four
hours. under a boiling sun, in
a stalled motorboat, and still
find each other interesting
If you can spend seven eve
nings week together and still
be eager for the next meet
ing
II you can teach a woman to
drive a car, or help her mend
a punctured tire in the rain,
without wanting to murder
her
II you can play GOLF to-
gether-
Then you were mated in
heaven-and not even mar
riage here on earth can sep
arate you!
The Washington times., 1930-04-17
WORDS FROM LIPS OF WISE MEN

It is always safe to learn,
even from our manifestation .
safe to instruct, even our friends.
Cotton.
Men of age object too much,
consult too long, adventure too
little, repent too Soon.-Bacon.
If sighted, slight the slight
and love the slighter.
-Spurgeon.
In nature there is nothing
melancholy. Colsrtdge,
The Washington times., 1930-04-17

Why They Re-Marry
1T Is quite the smart thing.
Il now, to re.marry your ex-
wife or your old, last years
husband. Just as it is the
fashion to take your grand
mothers chairs down from the
attic and put them in the liv-
ing room.
This campanionate divorce
has a great deal more to rec
ommend 1t than companion
ate marriage, and those States
which require q probationary
period between the granting Of
the first decree and the final
release are truly beneficent.
At the end Of that time, you
are probably disillusioned and
angry with somebody else, and
beginning to think almost ten
derly Of each other.
There is nothing like the tor.
ment Of a new shoe or a new
love, to make an old one seem
comfortable and desirable.
Every time your new Sheik
Is 20 minutes late, you remem-
Der wistfully how your ex-hus-
band always put his key into
the latch promptly at six-fif-
teen.
Every time you spend 90
dollars for orchids and taxis
on your new flame, you think
passionately Of how your ex-
wife cleaned your cravats In
gasoline and always insisted
on taking a street car to save
your money.
But, oh, how far more won
derful and beneficient would
be o law demanding a wait
between the granting Of the
marriage license and the sign.
ing Of the certificate!
Time in which to think it
over" and put love to all the
acid tests!
The Washington times., 1930-04-17

Care to our coffin adds a nail.
no doubt,
And every grin, so merry, draws
one out. -Wolcot.
For we that live to please
must please to live.
-%Johnson.
1t is easier to give advice than
to bear sufferings manfully.
-Euripides.
hold every man a debtor to
his prptessor.-Bacon.
The Washington times., 1930-04-17

TXISTENCE was a paltry
price for glory at Their
A mopylae-to fall in the
thin red line at Balaklava-to
perish with the handful at the
Alamo-and to die with that
company t good nights and
brave ladies on the consecrated
deck Of the Titanic.
Soldier and sailor and mer-
chant prince, hummer and
journalist, peasant and noble
man, Saxon and Latin and
Celt and Jew strangers in
motherhood, ught into
Northumberland at last in
the splendor of their end!
There was Millet, whose
paint throbbed with the song
of souls. And Harris, who
climbed back from a life-boat
to give his seat to a child.
And 'StrauS, who would not
save himself, and his wife who
would not go alone.
And there were a thousand
more and none were less than
these: Suckers, scullions, room
stewards and bar-men-when
and wherever before was there
woven so mighty a memory
with such strange and varied
strains of caste?
They" told us that the
breed of Winklereid and Rienzi
and the Old Guard and Law
renee and Hale had passed.
But so long as men are left
to cry, women and children
first" so long as fear is
crushed under the heel of duty
SO long as laurel blossoms on
fields of peril-so long as
humble bandsmen stand upon
a sinking ship and, with the
pillows Swirling against their
breasts, play through and go
home to the Master with never
a quavering note. "all's well
with the world"
s-
Storm Clouds in the East
THE Prohibition question is
l. essentially an urban and
not a rural problem. The Vol
stead Act discovers no diff
culties of enforcement in the
smaller towns and villages,
where all folk live in glass
houses and community be-
havior is under unacceptable
scrutiny.
Gay White Ways don't wend
through farming districts or
wind among towns of negligible
population. The bootlegger
may have his customers on
Main Street, too, but they are
not cabarets and night clubs.
The Washington times., 1930-04-17
Papers Advocate

1. An agreement of EnghshSpeaking peoples to pre-
serve peace among Themselves and to promote the
peace of the world.
e Proportional representation in the United States
Senate no State to haze less than tao Senator's.
Legislation to- enforce prompt constitutional reap
portionment, in the House of Representatives.
3. A separate Department of the Army, of the Navy
and of the Air Forces, all united under Secretary
of National Defense.
f. Federal action to the limit of Federal poCers to
abolish lLiteracy in the United States under a
Secretary of Education
S. Election of Congress in November Installation
on the first of January folloOing Inauguration
of the President first Of January neat after
November election.
The Washington times., 1930-04-17
What pride" May Do

What pride" May DO
ISN'T pride the cause OF most
1 Of your mistakes and the
most of your trouble?
For fear Of what people will
say" you do or fail to do what
would personally benefit you.
You might increase your in
come If you would take up an
other line of work.
You don't because you think
1t might lower your standing
with friends.
You might save much more
money IL you would live on the
scale you can afford, and not to
The Washington times., 1930-04-17
ONCE-OVERS

keep up with certain persons
in your circle.
You may be deficient on
many subjects but you won't be
enlightened because you would
have to admit your ignorance in
that direction.
There are certain little side
issues you might follow to in
crease your yearly saving &C
count, but pride forbids.
So on down the line your life
is regulated by pride's voice.
You are catering to those who
will not put an estimation upon
you from your own standpoint
but from the angle Of what YOU
have Accomplished.
The Washington times., 1930-04-17
IN MEMORIAM

Those webs for Fly parties"
and training schools for
sophistication only flourish
where truants may escape
observation and whoopee-makers
The Washington times., 1930-04-17

hide their trails In unfre-
quented streets.
Everybody knows where every
body goes In sparsely settled
hamlets. But gossip cannot
The Washington times., 1930-04-17
By Herbert Kaufman

control the morals or intimidate
the experimental appetites Of
big-city youth.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-31
NEED Of COLLEGE
CHANGES OUTLINED
President of University of
Chicago Tells of Utopian
University System.
Ry the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHAPEL HILL, N. c., October 81
DR.. Robert M. Hutchins. president of
the University of Chicago, advocated a
radical change in the operation of in
situations of higher learning in an adj
dress here last night to the Southern
Conference on Education.
The Chicago educator, who is one of
the youngest of the country's presidents
of major institutions, criticized the
present "hours and residence require
ments as criteria for winning college
degrees"
In their stead. he suggested for what
he termed his university of Utopia, -
a system whereby students would be &C
cepted at any time they could demon
straje their preparedness and would re-
main in school until their general edu-
cation is completed, irrespective of time
consumed or courses pursued.
Graduate schools and similar present.
day classifications would be abolished In
favor of institutions composed of pro-
fessional schools and curricula devoted
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-31

except that I'm glad did the little
deed"
He said he had long contemplated
the step and added: IT did 1t to make
them happy"
He protested against the description
of Dorothy Helen as mystery child"
Years ago he announced she was born
to him and the first Mrs. Ruth in Feb
ruary, 1921. Some time later, Mrs,
Ruth, who was fatally burned last year
when fire swept the house of Water
town. Mass, dentist. set the birthplace
as different hospital and gave June
z, 1921, as the date.
Without attempt to explain this Ruth
said today that Dorothy Helen was
adopted by his first wife at the New
York Foundlings' Hospital "some time
in 1922" but that final adoption papers
never were signed. He said neither he
nor Mrs. Ruth ever learned Dorothy
Helen's parentage.
The will Of the first Mrs. Ruth left
the bulk of her $4,000 estate to Doro-
thy Helen, who was described in the
will as my beloved child and ward"
So Dorothy Helen has been assured of
an income aside from her foster fathers
action in making her legal heir.
Both children chung to Ruth as the
group left the surrogate's chambers.
Neither however, seemed frightened by
the formality In which they had Just
played the principal roles They smiled
obediently for the photographers who
crowded around.
Application for the adoptions which
were completed at yesterdays private
hearing before Surrogate Foley, was
procedure in adoption cases was fol-
lowed and social eorkers attached to
the surrogate's office Investigated the
fitness of the prospective foster parents,
On the basis of their report, Surro-
gate Foley signed the final papers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-31
BABE RUTH ADOPTS
TWO LITTLE GIRLS
Wc"I of First Wife and
D. er of Second Made
His Legal Children.
ny the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, october 31.-George
Herman Ruth hitter of home runs, who
has brought Joy into the lives of
thousands of children by signing his
name on base balls, has made it pos
sible for two little girls to affix Ruth"
to their own names hereafter.
The idol of the sandlots and the
bleachers signed final adoption papers
that made him the legal father of two
children who have been members of
his household for some time. They
are Julie Hodgson, 5-year-old daughter
of his present wife by an earlier mar
rage. and Dorothy Helen Ruth 8, who
was the ward of the first Mrs. Ruth.
There was nothing, except perhaps
the broad shoulders. to suggest the
Sultan of Swat" as he left the cham
bers of Surrogate Foley with his fam
lily after signing the papers.
There was, however, some slight trace
Of the "Bambino" about him as he
smiled diffldently and said:
'Well, there isn't anything can say
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-31
YOUTH PUBLISHES BOOK
French Boys Natural Style De-
clared to Show Promise,

PARASITIC youngest author in
France is Edouard Charlton of Lyon.
aged 141a years, whose first book,
''Eclosion," has just been published in
his native city. The volume consists Of
three short stories, written in q style
which literary critics describe as being
full of promise.
Edouard Charlton is q student ut the
high school in Lyon, and he has de-
termined on writing as his career. He
does not strive to be Juvenile, with
pseudo childish phrases and bad spell
ing, but endeavors to be natural and to
write correctly.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-31

to five specified divisions Of arts, name
ly. the humanities, the social sciences,
the physical sciences, the biological
sciences and the college.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-31
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-31
Boys Tweed Kni

Tan, brown, grey and fancy .
wool-mixed tweeds and heavy
eorduroys. Tweeds lined and with
elastic bottoms. to Is.
Smyrna times., 1930-09-10

(The Smyrna Times has started
TO look back over its files and tell
what happened around the correspond
ing date of this issue. 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
TO the present generation. We hope
our readers will find it interesting and
that it will make the Times more eag-
eyly sought asd read-Editor.)
Smyrna times., 1930-09-10

loads of piling last week making
six car loads that he has shipped
within the past two weeks. Two
car loads of plank were shipped
also.
Visitors. following are the
visitors for the past week: Mrs.
John w. Oliver, Mrs. Harriet of
Yonkers, NJ Y; J.T. Nichols, New
York; John E. Tygert, A. Tygert,
Mrs. S. c. Wands and Miss Lula
'Wands, Albany, N. Y; Miss En-
ma Scout, Miss Lima Thompson,
Miss Carrie Davis, Edward Swan
ton and C. L. Vincent, Philadel-
| 'phia; John Millaway, Mrs. Helen
McVey, Robert Walker, Whining
| ton: Charles Patterson and wife,
Newark, N. j.; Miss Baynard, Bal
timore; Mrs Garwood and child,
/ Camden, n. J.; John Truax and
wife, Oxford, Md; Wallace Green,
Greensboro, Md; Mrs. Turner and
Miss Minnie Turner, Centreville,
Md; Miss Laura McGonegal and
Marion Hawkins Dover; Miss
Kate Hu1nes, Milford Miss De
Newman, Denton, Md; Isaac
Hearn. Gumborough; Miss Dora
Hoffecker, of Dover.
Personals. - Honorable T. F.
Bayard paid his friend, Honorable
/ James Williams of Kenton, visit
on Wednesday last and was one
of the guests at the wedding in
this town on Thursday.
Mrs. Caroline Peterson-Speak-
man went to Milford this morning
on a visit of coincidence to Mrs.
Gen. Torbert, who was one of her
bridesmaids on her first marriage.
Mrs. julius E. Scott, one Of the
publishers of the Milford Chron-
icle, paid us a friendly call on
Monday morning. He was on his
way to Philadelphia by the Tyg-
ert line.
DR.. r. S. W. Hirons, who took
the position CT Surgeon on the
steamship Pennsylvania some
four years ago and subsequently
transferred to the Indiana on the
same line, has, we hear, resigned
his place and returned to this
town a day or two ago, where he
will probably make his home in
the future.
Thomas j. Keating, Of Centre
vile, Comptroller of Maryland.
and several other well-known
Marylanders, were in town last
week in attendance upon the mar
riage ceremony of Thursday.
Smyrna times., 1930-09-10
BULKHEAD AT ST. GEORGES
Will Be Erected East of the Stone
Riprapped Bank at Canal

The bulkhead to be constructed
at st. Georges will form a natural
harbor for vessels at that point. 1t
will be erected just east of the
southern stone riprapped bank and
will not be parallel with the canal
but perpendicular to the water
way. The material will be dredg-
ed out before the harbor is COM
pleted as the greatest part of the
site is now marsh. The Kolyn
Company employees cleaned up the
park at Delaware City last week
and burned all trash and useless
material including the old canal
lock gates. The bulkhead there
has been formally accepted by the
government and the job paid for in
full, it said. The company was
not held responsible for the bulge
in that part of the bulkhead across
the old canal lock as it was con-
structed according to specifica-
tions, it is said. The government
employees and Derrick Barge Mol,
have been there for the past few
days repairing the bulge. The
bulkhead at that point has been
considerably strengthened and the
repairs will soon be completely
made by the government. En-
ployes of the government are still
engaged in filling in with dirt the
space between the bulkhead and
Clinton and Canal streets, Della
ware City.
Smyrna times., 1930-09-10
BURRIs AUTO EMPRESS SOLD
John w. Burris Sells Business TO
Lynn Interests of Salisbury, Md.

Lynn interests OF SALISBURY, Mo.
The trucking business owned by
John w. Burris, of Milford, and
4 operated under the name of Burris
Express, was sold on Saturday to
the Victor Lynn Transportation
Company, Inc, whose general of
fees are located at Salisbury, Md.
The express line operates from
towns throughout Delaware to
Baltimore, Wilmington, Philadel-
phia and New York Lee Webster
Selfe, vice-president and general
manager of the Victor Lynn lines,
said acquisition of the Burris prop
critics would not curtail service or
change existing rates over the lat
ter's lines. Delaware operating of
fees of the Burris service will re-
main at Milford, and John w.
Burris, former owner and operator
will continue with the purchasing
company. The Victor Lynn oper-
ates daily freight boats service
between Salisbury and Baltimore
and coordinated motor truck SER
vice to towns on the western and
eastern shores. Acquisition of the
Burris Express, Mr.. Selfe said. will
add 500 tons to the Victor Lynn
lines daily freight haul. The Bur
ris service will be tied in with the
freight boat service. The Victor
Lynn business is owned by the
same group which owns and oper-
ates motor bus systems through
out the Eastern Shore of Maryland
and in Delaware under the name
of Red Star Lines, Inc, Mary
land corporation with home offic-
es at Salisbury. AS one of the
oldest and largest motor truck OPP
erations on the shore, acquisition
of the Burris Express is regarded
with unusual interest in shore
transportation circles.
Smyrna times., 1930-09-10

among the guests present.
Marriage. Tucker =
At the M. E. Parsonage by Rev.
T. H. Haynes, Benjamin B. Arch
er and Miss Lizzie Tucker, all of
Kenton.
Republican Club The young
Republicans of this town in pur-
suance of a call, met in the John
son Building on Friday evening
and organized the Houston Re-
publican Club of Duck Creek
Hundred. The meeting was call
ed to order and DR.. w. T. Collins
was elected temporary chairman
and g. T. Baggs temporary secre-
tary. The following permanent
organization was effected. Presi-
dent, William H. Baggs; Vice
Presidents, John E Phillips and
z. H. Beck; Secretaries, Thomas
Haynes and w. o. Hoffecker. The
club has secured the use Of Coop
.er's Hall, the finest in town, dur
ing the campaign, and will have
speakers on every Wednesday ev-
ening Frederick AWilliams and
James Penniwell, Esqs.. Of Dover,
will be present and address the
club in their room this evening at
8 o'clock.
$4,000 Fire in Milford. Smith
& HoustOn's large saw and grist
mill, near the depot was discover
ed to be on fire about III o'clock
Saturday night, and was soon
burned to the ground. The fire
commenced at the east end Of the
engine and west of the boiler, and
many express the belief that it
was the work of an incendiary.
The mill and fixtures were all new
having been erected only about a
year ago, and are totally destroy
ed. The loss on the mill and its
contents consisting of machinery,
lumber, and grain, will reach S12,-
900 on which there is an insur-
ance of $4,000.
The annual meeting of the Kent
County Bible Society will be held
in Harrington on Thursday, Sep
tember 10Th. All churches in the
county should send delegates. All
persons interested in the purposes
of the society may become MEM
bers. The county is being thor
oughly canvassed by agents and
families destitute of the scriptur-
es supplied. Churches should
make collections and report the
same to the next meeting or to N.
B. Smithers, President; F. A. Will
liams, Secretary, and j. T. Jakes,
Treasurer.
We are sorry to be informed
that the kindness of Mrs. Caroline
Peterson Speakman in opening
her beautiful grounds to the pub
lie, is of late being so abused by
persons congregating on Sundays
in the Lawn Tent, or quite near
the house, eating fruit, laughing
and talking loudly, not respecting
the day, or the privacy of the
family. We are sorry to learn all
this and even more, and we fear
if it is not stopped the lovely
grounds of Belmont Park will be
closed to the public.
Coming Opera. The opera
troupe of Miss Emma r. Steiner
of Baltimore, which gave us Pin
afore" and the Trial by Jury"
with such satisfaction in June last
are coming again on Tuesday the
18th instant, in the presentation
Smyrna times., 1930-09-10

of the comic opera of"The Chimes
Of Normandy" Our citizens will
remember Miss Rogera and Mad
doX and Messrs. Passapie, Goodwin
Meyer Carlburg, etc, who did
their part SO well on their former
visit
The Worden's found the malar-
ial influences of North Carolina
too strong for them and shut
down their mill a week or so ago
to remain closed until the first of
October. They are in Allentown,
New Jersey, and John Cosden. Jr..
returned to this town all in i'm
paired health. They will not try
the summer experiment again of
running but close from July to
October.
Deceased Mrs. Alphonso c.
Black widow of the late Major
John G. Black, died at her resi-
dence in this town on Sunday last
after an illness of several weeks
in the 68th year Of her life. She
was daughter of the late John
Cummins and with the exception
of q few years after her marriage
has resided in this town all her
life. Her remains are inferred
this afternoon at the Episcopal
Cemetery.
Wilson. In this town, on the
21st of August, Francis K, son of
Alexander and Mary Wilson, aged
three months.
Graham. Near Prices Corner,
on the 26th day of August, Eliza
beth, wife of Samuel Graham,
aged 65 years.
Reynolds.-In Blackbird Hun
dred, on the 29th of August, Will
liam o., son of William H. and
Hannah Reynolds, aged eleven
months.
The Peninsular Fair.-An Tues
day, the 21st instant, the seventh
annual Peninsular Fair will open
at Middletown and continue for
four days. Premiums are offered
to the amount of $4,000. Entries
for trials of speed will close to-
day.
The canning factory closed on
peaches yesterday and will COM
mence on tomatoes tomorrow.
The evaporators will be running
the balance of this week, having
had a run of six weeks.
The Bryant Literary Society,
which adjourned over the heated
term, will be re-organized on Fri
day night next at Library Hall.
John Wanamaker is making
uniforms for the Dover militia.
A telephone line is being con-
structed between Odessa and
Middletown.
The New Castle Presbytery viii
hold its semi-annual meeting in
Salisbury on the 14th instant.
Kenton.-The farmers of our
neighborhood are now busy cut
ting off corn and pulling blades.
The shipment of peaches is
about over for this season with us
as last weeks shipments did not
exceed so baskets on some days
and will be less this week.
J. B. Messick merchant at
Downs Chapel, has opened
branch store at Davis Corner,
four miles distant from here.
S. Walker shipped two car
Smyrna times., 1930-09-10
LEGION CONDUCT IMPRESSIVE
RITES At C00CH'S BRIDGE
OLD GLORY SHRINE HoNoD
ED BY DELAWARE VETS
Ceremony Outgrowth of Pronos.I
Made at Convention at Reho-
both in July.-Hear Addresses

iO"tH Vi proposal
Made at Convention at Rebo-
both in July.-Hear Addresses
Concentrating the 153 ami
versary of the first unfurIing of
the American Flag in battle +ba
American Legion Department of
Delaware held an impressive cerr-
mony at the monument at Coocb,s
Bridge, last Wednesday evenjro
Six organizations responded to
the call Of the Buglers "Assem-
bly, while their colors were bank
ed on either side of the monument
as if the grasp renewed inspjr3-
tion at this wartime baptismal
font of Old Glory. It reminded
those present Of the time that
they answered the call to defend
their country as did the couraga-
Gus colonials century and a baIf
ago. The posts and organizations
in addition to a number of guests
were: Boy Scout Troop No. New
Castle; ]. Allison O'DanieI po.f
No. 10, Of Newark; Delaware
Post and Auxiliary No. !, Of VIII
mington; Delaware Bugle ana
Drum Corps, Of Wilmington. RI
serve Officers Association Of tn
United States, and the Daughters
Of the American Revolution. PROF.
Harold Barker, Of ]. Allison
O'Daniel Post, No. 10, of Newark
offered the invocation. Edward
Cooch, gave a short address deal