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Smyrna times., 1931-05-20
DISCUSS MAD DOG SITUATION
Recent Scare in Wilmington Brings
About Meeting of State Officials

DR.. j. r. Porteus, well-known
veterinarian of Smyrna, attended
in Dover, Friday, melting of rep
resentatives Of three State depart
ments interested in the control of
rabies. Former Senator o. A..
Newton, Of the agriculture COM
mission. presided. Others present
were: ". L. Grubb, w. Mifflin and
Mr.. Wilson, Of the Department of
Agriculture; Mr.. Isaacs, Senator
Burton and Mr.. Foster, of the Fish
and Game Commission; Drs. Port
Gus and Sarde, veterinarians, and
Roland Herdman and DR.. Jost, Of
the State Board of Health. The
purpose Of the meeting was to con-
slider carefully the somewhat dis
turbing situation arising from the
unusual prevalence of rabies in the
State, eliminating last week in the
outbreak at Wilmington. There are
records Of twenty-three heads, pos
tive for the disease, having been
examined in the State Board Of
Health laboratory in the past six
months. The muzzling of dogs
and treatment by preventive inocu-
Smyrna times., 1931-05-20

lation of all animals was freely dis
cussed, but the opinion was ex-
pressed that the destruction of all
stray dogs was one of the principal
measures to be adopted. Strict
enforcement of the quarantine reg
ulations which provide for dogs in
any quarantine area being secure
ly tied or confined in the owners
premises" was decided upon as
having in the past been adequate
to free the State of disease, and
as yet entitled to recognition as
measure which would control the
outbreak. Any quarantine impos-
ed as a protective measure must
be lengthy, since not for several
months can there be reasonable
assurance that the disease will not
develop in any bitten animal. The
susceptibility of dogs to infection
is SO great as to make it likely
that a large number of all bitten
will in turn become sick. So great
is it, in fact, as to justify the i'm
mediate destruction of any animal
known to have been bitten by an
animal known to be rabid. If
human being is bitten, immediate
resort to treatment, as an import
ant part of which the Pasteur pre-
ventive treatment should be includ-
ed, was advised. It was consider
ed that the provisions already
made in the State were ample to
assure that any individual bitten
could secure treatment. The State
Board of Health should be immed-
lately communicated with in all
instances.
Smyrna times., 1931-05-20

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GRADUATION AT HOSPITAL
Three to Receive Diplomas at Mil.
ford Emergency Hospital

The annual graduation exercises
of the Milford Emergency Hospital
Training School for Nurses will be
held at the Plaza Theatre this ev-
ening, May 20, beginning at 8
o'clock. Three young ladies will
be given diplomas at that time.
They are Miss Ellen Chambers,
Virginia Wilds Graham and Alice
Brubaker Croft. The trustees and
officials of the Emergency Hospital
urge the public to attend these
exercises. The
graduates have worked hard to Sc
cure their diplomas, and will leave
the institution well qualified to
practice their chosen profession.
The program for the evening as
announced follows: Invocation, DR..
Frank Herson; New Century Club
Chorus; Address of Welcome, DR..
Francis Burgette Short; Speaker
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Entered at the Post Office at Smyrna, Del
aware. as Second Class matter.
Subscription price. $3.50 per year. strictly
In advance.

The increase of air travel is
indicated by a report of the
Federal Chamber of Com
merce which shows 2,715,S46
passengers travelled by plane
during the year 1880, which
perhaps gives an idea of the
competition air ships are set
ting up against other forms of
transportation. AS the Every
Evening pertinently says:
when it is recalled that
there is a motor car in this
country for every five people
and trucks that can convey a
third of the lighter freight
for short hauls, one gains a
mental picture of the disas-
trous competition that is fac
ing our railroads.
Indeed the decline in the
passenger and freight earn.
ings of railroad companies has
become so immense that it re-
quires the most ingenious fl
nanciering and operation
economy to show a balance on
the right side Of the ledger.
1T is already averred that
the motor cars and buses have
cut the passenger traffic of
railroads to almost half while
most Of the pick of the freight
service is obtained by motor
truck lines. With the air
planes carrying almost 3,0OO,-
600 paid passengers the cut
into the business of rail or
water transportation must
further decline as that form
of travel becomes popularized.
with some of the railroads
supplying plane service for
long fast flight they doubtless
are carrying a small percent
age of the air passengers
which atones, but, in a small
way, for the diminution of
railroad earnings"
Smyrna times., 1931-05-20
NOTICE TO BIDDERS

Public notice is hereby given that the
Grounds and Buildings Committe of the
University of Delaware will meet at the
Office of the President of the University on
Tuesday, June 18th, at two O'Clock in the
afternoon, Eastern Standard Time, and
then and there will receive and open sealed
bids for furnishing labor and material to
erect the addition to the Gymnasium on the
campus of the Women's College. University
of Deaware, at Newark, Delaware.
Copies of the plans, specifications and
bid forms will be on file in the business
office of the University of Delaware on
Monday, June l. 1881, for the purpose of
examination and estimating.
There will be a limited number of copies
of the plans and specifications, which will
be supplied at a cost of SIS, the check
drawn to the order of the University of
Delaware. If plans and specifications are
returned. the check will be returned, but
should the plans and specifications be not
returned, the deposit may become forfeited.
All bids must be in sealed envelopes adj
dressed to the Grounds and Buildings Com
of DR.. Walter Hullihen, Newark, Delaware,
with the name of the bidder and notation
that it is a bid for the addition to the
Gymnasium at the Women's College.
No bid will be considered unless accom-
panied by certified check to the order of
the Trustees of the University of Delaware
in the amount of 5Ge of the amount of the
bid.
Plans and specifications will be issued
only to contractors who have pre-qualified
and shown their financial and structural
ability to do work of this character and
magnitude. The data necessary for quail
fcation must be filed on a standard form
of QUESTIONABLE, which may be obtained
from Mr. A. G.. Wilkinson. Business Ad-
University of Delaware. New
ark, Delaware, and returned to his Office
on or before Wednesday. May 27. 1881. at
ten o'clock in the morning. Eastern Stand
ard Time.
BY order of
The GROUNDS AND BUILDINGS
COMMITTEE OF THE UNIVERSITY
OF DELAWARE
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the cooks and similar employees of
the school. It will accommodate
about four families and will be two
stories in height with an attic. In
general design it will be similar to
the other buildings at the school
and was designed at the time the
general plans for the school were
made and is part of the general
series of buildings which were con-
templated by A. Felix DUPONT
when he contributed the funds for
the building and the endowment of
the school.
Smyrna times., 1931-05-20
st. Andrews Building Progressing

Work is being pushed by the
Turner Construction Company, of
Philadelphia, Pa, on the new build
ing which has been given to st.
Andrews School at Noxentown. 1t
will be finished and occupied by
the time the Fall school term
opens. The building is known as
the Service Building and is intend
ed to accommodate the families of
Smyrna times., 1931-05-20
NOTICE 70 DITCH COMPANIES

All Ditch or Drain Companies OF Cor
porations in Kent County are requested to
send representatives to meeting with the
State Highway Department at its office in
Dover on Wednesday, May 9th. 1881 at 2
o'clock p. M. Standard Time. for tbe pur
pose Of discussing the taking over by the
State Highway Department of bitches and
drains in Kent County as provided in
House Bill 102. Of the General Assembly Of
1881, entitled IAN Act with Reference to
bitches and Drains in Kent County"
STATE HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT
DCyar
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of the evening, Hon. James M.Tun-
nell, of Georgetown; Cornet and
trombone duet, Ralph Reed and
Wilson Sockrider; Presentation of
diplomas, Rev. j. l.. Nichols; Ben
ediction, Rev. Joseph P. Kinks;
Music for the evening will be furn-
ished by Willis Halls orchestra.
Smyrna times., 1931-05-20
Mixed Teams

Street life in Naples has many
amusing features, among which are
the odd combinations which pull
the vehicles. One frequently sees a
donkey and a COW hitched to the
same cart, or a COW and a horse.
or a donkey and an OK.
Smyrna times., 1931-05-20
LOST

Boys Elgin Wrist Watch, near
Lake Como, on Monday night. Re
ward if returned to
MRS. w. B. MASTEN.,
Phone ia r Il South Street,
500 1t Smyrna. Delaware
Smyrna times., 1931-05-20

Published Every Wednesday Afternoon, by
r. ID. HOFFECKER- Proprietor.
Founded by Robert ID. Hoffecker, July s,
1854. Editor and Proprietor until Feb
ruary 10. 1907.
Smyrna times., 1931-05-20
DISTRICT


and of the size named in the following
list:
DISTRICT
Mt. Pleasant. District No. 2-31 rooms,
including auditorium gymnasium and lunch
room.
Alexis l. dupont. Special District s
rooms and gymnasium.
Hockessin including North Star and Mt
Pleasant No. 34-4 rooms and assembly.
Yorklyn. including Clinton, No. 2s-4
rooms and assembly.
Newark Special Auditorium and
gymnasium.
Townsend. No 81. and Blackbird. No.
SO. if consolidated-6 rooms and auditor
iun-gymnasium.
Delaware City. No. 52-Repairs to old
building.
Dover Special District room addition.
Milford Special District-6 room addi-
ton.
Milton. District No. = Equivalent of
SeIbyville. District No. 82-Equivalent of
21 rooms.
Lexes Special District room addition.
and further room addition If outlying
districts are consolidated.
Millsboro. District No. 23-IO room ad-
dition.
MarshaIlton-1s rooms. auditorium-gym-
nasium and cafeteria.
Frederica-S rooms and auditorium-gym-
nasium.
Lord Baltimore-10 rooms and audi
gymnasium.
When the plans and specifications are
ready for these jobs they will be issued
only to contractors who have pre-qualifed
and shown their financial and structural
ability to do work of the character and
magnitude of the jobs for which bids are
asked. The data required must be filed. on
a standard form of QUESTIONABLE which
may be obtained from the Delaware School
4130 DUPONT Building, Will
Delaware. and returned to the
same place by ten o'clock. Daylight Saw
ing Time. on Wednesday, June 8. 1881.
STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION.
III. ". HOLLOWAY. Secretary.
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NEW SERIES

BUILDING AND LOAN STOCK
From now until June 18th, 1881. shares
may be had in a new Series of stock of
The Kent County Building and Loan As
ISOLATION. Dues are fifty cents per share
per month. shares mature at One Hundred
Dollars. For further particulars and to
secure shares, call at the Office of the Al
soeiation.
THE KENT COUNTY BUILDING
AND LOAN ASSOCIATION.
1917 Dover Green,
Dover, Delaware
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NOTICE.

I am prepared to do all kinds Of
Tin and Heater Work. Also Car
pentering Work.
DAVID j. LURTY,
with H. w. OLIVER,
5-2O 1T N. Main ST.. Smvrna
Smyrna times., 1931-05-20
FOR SALE
NOTICE

All those having bills against
the estate of John Johnson will
please present same and those ow-
ing same will settle as soon as pos
sible.
JOHN w. TUCKER, Executor
500 3t Smyrna. Delaware
Smyrna times., 1931-05-20
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Smyrna times., 1931-05-20
NOTICE 70 RInnERS

The State Board Of Education in Della
ware. in conjunction with the School Build
ing Commissions for the several districts
will during the year 1881, advertise for
Smyrna times., 1931-05-20

A. & P. District Ofice-CandIer Bldg, BALTIC,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-22
Here's StatesmanShin

Everybody should be pleased with prohibition.
The vets have their drink and the drys have their
law"
This is the gem attributed to Senator James Eli
Watson. earnest candidate for another term in the
United States senate in Evansville on Wednesday.
Not quite original but revealing.
The drys now properly can evauate the sincerity
for their cause which the senator has always pro-
fessed. What he says may be true But nc critic of
Vosteadism ever has accused the sincere drys of
being entirely without over the rule of gang
dom, the rise of the Capones the prevalence of gin
parties among youth.
Even those who doubt the efficacy of the noble
experiment believe that the rank and file Of its advo-
Gates really want the use of liquor stopped.
OF course, those whom the senator terms vets
and this would include all who desire a different
treatment of the social problem-can estimate how
Watson can be brought to the viewpoint that the
people should have chance to pass upon the problem
All citizens should be grateful for his contribution
tn craftsmanship It only proves what many hitherto
have suspected.
Possibly the people may desire representative in
Washington whose convictions on this and other sub
jects are definite and not jocular
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-22
The Pride of the Cities

Lord Bryce forty-three years ago, wrote that
the government of its cities was "the one con-
spicuous failure of the United States"
In the latest issue of the Survey Graphic experts
unite in denying that this charge holds true today
Chicago has its beer gangs and racketeer MUIR
derS New York its barter of judgeships Detroit it's
scandal American cities, however, know less Of the
rottenness that thrived in the days of Tweed and
Croker, of Hinky Dink and Bathhouse John of Gin
cinnatis boss Cox, and Philadephia's Matt QUAY.
The muck made famous by the crayon of Thomas
Mast and the pen of Lincoln Steffens, can not be
matched in the worst governed city of today
The depths of today are as hilltops compared
with the snkhoes of depravity in which our cities
slumbered contentedly in $780," writes Professor
Thomas H. Reed of the University of Michigan
Things never heard of in the easy 80s are common
places in every city today-direct primaries civil
service, central purchasing secret ballot fine parks
streets and Fairgrounds. And above all, we have
city managers.
The city manager movement, born in Staunton
Va is less than twenty-five years old Yet now 442
cities are being guided by these experts busy and
well paid &c. MS"
OF every five cities of more than 10000 inhabi-
tantS one is a city manager municipality. Among
them are such large centers as San Francisco and
CIeYeland. Some, like Cincinnati, are governed al
most ideally; others, like Kansas City, less so.
All, are doing better than under the old spoils
system, for politics has been retired to back seat
and the citys business is run like that of any other
corporation
Even New York and Chicago are considering adopt
ing the plan. Certainly they need it,
1t was Steffens who wrote his doleful book, "The
Shame Of the Cities" half century of battling
against boSssm and graft has made it possible to call
the achievements of the city-manager American
municipalities. "the pride of the cities"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-22
We Remember the Pact

BY invoking the kellogg pact in the Manchurian
crisis, the United States has helped to save what
rapidly was becoming a worthless scrap of paper.
The delay of more than a month has been COSTLY
Obviously the action not be as effective now as if
it had been taken promptly
But even at this late day it will help. It will help
especially because all the powers have joined in the
action The other powers acted several days before
the United States, the chief sponsor of the pact
Thus the initiative for the preservation of peace
came from those European powers and the League of
Nations which so much suspected and maligned
by some of our isolatonist senators.
The matter of credit however, is not very impor-
tant.
The important thing is that international action
has been taken We believe this action and the
action which naturally should follow will be effective
Japan is not apt to stand out against united world
But even If the Kellogg pact proves Ineffective at
least it has been honored by trial and has held the
loyalty of most of the nations signing it, Therefore
if it proves ineffective with its present weak prov-
Sons the next step will not be to scrap it. but to give
it the teeth it lacks
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-22

seepage, and the end of the depression has been
delayed correspondingly.
This editorial is directed specifically to those who
have put money in hiding.
II you have money in hiding you are making a
direct contribution to prolongation of the depression
There are thousands Of banks in this country that are
solid as a rock. But if you are fearful and if you
have such money in hiding have you thought vet of
the United States Postal Savings bank?
Did you know that the Postal Savings bank will
accept individual deposits up to $4,000? Did you know
that on such deposits interest is paid? Did you know
that the faith OF the United States government the
same government which guarantees the bill or coin
that boarded also is back of the deposit of that
money when it is put into the United States Postal
Savings bank?
so why, in the name of common sense hoard?
Or If you are boarding more than $780, why not
put at least that amount the United States Postal
Savings bank?
No money is any safer than the government which
issues it, or the government which accepts it for
deposit. Certainly sock or a mattress or a loose
brick the ultimate of insecurity as compared with
the United States of America.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-22
Times Readers Voice Their Views

Editor Times-I recently read an
article in the Detroit News on the
subject of unemployment.
In this article, Miss Mary Ander-
son, chief of the women's bureau of
the department of labor, denounced
the growing practice of firing mar
ried women and hiring men, as an
unsound economic policy which
penalties that stabilizing force,
family life.
I do not agree with Miss Ander-
son. I think that it is one of the
ways of solving our unemployment
problem.
I just wonder if Miss Anderson
ever stopped to think how many
homes already have been penalized
because fathers, brothers, or older
sisters are out of %york.
How many little children have
gone hungry, thinly clad and i'll,
that these selfish married women
may have the best in life. How
many divorces have had their be-
ginning in homes where the women
worked? How many broken homes,
disillusioned children and unhappy
lives have been the result?
How many careers of crime have
begun in the streets where children
play while mother works? How
many young people coming out Of
our schools and colleges have sat
idle, that these vain women may
work and hoard their money, to
spend on pleasure and clothes.
am single girl and am at pres
ent one of the great army Of the
unemployed. I am educated and
experienced in my work. Ever since
I started to work, almost four years
ago, I have had to accept positions
while married women got the big
jobs with larger salaries. Most of
them I found have husbands also
making large salaries.
1t often is said that they have
more responsibilities than single
girls. I disagree with this, because
I know many girls who have fathers
and mothers, younger sisters and
brothers depending on them for
support. I also know many girls
who have no homes and must sup
port themselves, even if there are
no dependents.
ask you, is it not fair that these
married women step out and give
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-22
Just Every Day Sense
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

COMETIMES our carefully nurtured sense of family
~ solidarity causes us endless unhappiness Women
especially, having been nourshed to live in harmony
regardless of opposing personalities.
Now and then one actually can sense the heavy
hopeenesS that weighs down the hearts of countless
mothers whose sons have been taken by alien women
If we could lift the rooftops and peer into the
places of the American home, we should find this
bitterness lurking everywhere-the acrid bitterness
bred Of marriage.
We have, for instance, Mrs. G.. who tells sorrow
full story about her only child a son. who has been
the pivot about whom his parents have moved They
had hoped to gain one else to love when he
married
Instead the wife makes nothing but trouble and
has aIenated her husband from them Because the
two men in business together, they can not
separate, that would mean money losses for both
OUCH misery occurs because men and women in
- dulge in the fond belief that they can keep their
children with them during their lifetime Nothing
ever has caused more grief to the human race than
this idea.
Thousands of parents SOW the seeds OF future sor-
row for themselves and their children when they are
not brave enough to send their forth fare for
themselves in the world.
And would it be wise or kind to encourage this
woman TO hope that in time her daughter will
change and become sympathetic. where she is now
malevolent? This probably will never happen
Therefore the two families should separate. It is
better to lose money than to estrange love forever
Surely the greatest sin is to close the heart to an
others pain and this sin is that which tempts the
souls Of the daughters-in-law Of tM land.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-22
HEALTH
Heart Disease Sufferer Must Rest

peatedly in these columns, is the
one organ in the body which be-
gins to function fully before the
birth of the child and proceeds
without cessation of its activities
until the time of death.
It is known that excessive physi-
cal activity causes the heart to beat
fast and with great intensity,
whereas rest in bed lowers the rate
of the heart, and so far as is hui
manly possibly, actually rests the
heart muscle.
For this reason the prime pre-
Scription in most cases of heart
disease of any type is rest.
The understanding of the mech
anism of production of pain in the
heart and relationship to the
amount of work done is further
indication of the. necessity for pro-
viding a proper amount of rest for
this important organ.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-22

the heart in people whose coronary
blood vessels are disordered.
Indeed, anything that greatly re-
duceS the amount of blood supply
going to the heart muscle seems to
bring on the pain in the heart that
is called angina.
For instance, the giving of in
sulin lowers the total amount of
sugar circulating in the blood, in
this way lowering also the amount
going to the heart muscle, and
not infrequently producing in people
with angina pectoris a sudden at
tack of pain.
In those who have the disease,
any dinlinution in the amount of
oxygen going to the heart muscle
produces the painful attack.
Any extraordinary effort or
breathing for long time in small
closed room may bring on an at
tack.
The heart, as has been said re-