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Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1932-01-27
SAFETY SALLY" SPEAKING
Don't Dream While Driving; In
attention Causes Accidents

Safety Sally in her weekly ap-
pearance before the Delaware pub
lie says, You'll smash your finger
if you try driving a nail without
keeping your eye on it. Driving
a car requires the same concentra-
ton. Always keep your eyes and
mind on traffic or you'll smash
more than your finger. First and
foremost, constant attention to the
business of driving is paramount.
The lapse of one seconds vigilance
may wreck your car, kill a person
or cause serious property damage.
Keep your hand on the wheel, your
mind alert and focused on the job
Of driving. If you must talk with
your companion don't take your
eyes off the road. Become thor
oughly experienced in driving be-
fore you drive in traffic. Ability
to drive one car does not neces-
sarily qualify you to drive other
cars. If you have to change cars
from day to day get sufficient ex-
perience with each one to drive it
well anywhere Never permit an
inexperienced companion to drive
in traffic nor let anyone drive from
the side seat. Small children should
sit in the rear of the car. They
should never be held in or between
the arms of the driver. Safe driv-
ing demands your full and undivid-
ed attention. Don't dream while
driving. Inattention causes acct
dents.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1932-01-27
BOARD OF AGRICULTURE OF
STATE Of DELAWARE REPORTS
1000 CATTLE UNDER SUPER
VISION IN STATE IN 1881
Poultry Department Also Shows
Some Interesting Work Accom-
plished - Diseases Checked

Ralph G. Wilson, secretary OF
the State Board of Agriculture,
has submitted his annual report to
Governor Buck in which he re-
views the work of the department
during the year. The report in
part follows: THE State Board Of
Agriculture has endeavored during
the past year to render every pos
sible assistance to the farmers
throughout the State during a very
difficult time. The sum Of S12,-
32O.72 was collected during the
fiscal year and turned over to the
state treasurer, from the tonnage
taxes and registration fees on
feeds, fertilizers and lines. This
is an increase of $52O.36 over the
amount collected from these sourc-
es in 1880, and is the largest
amount collected in any one year
from this source. This is evidence
not only that the law is being
strictly enforced, but that the
amount of feeds and fertilizers, es-
pecially feeds, consumed in the
State each year is constantly in
creasing. An appropriation Of
$4,000 was granted to the State
Board of Agriculture for the oper-
alton of the State laboratory dur
ing the fiscal year. OF this amount
S11, 39O.62 was expended and bal
ance of S609.38 was returned to
the State treasurer. The collec-
ton Of S12, 320.72 not only support
ed the laboratory entirely without
expense to the State, but together
with the balance returned from the
appropriation provided the sum Of
S93O.1O over and above the expens-
es of the laboratory, towards the
support of the other departments.
This is the second year that the
State Board of Agriculture has
supported the laboratory without
cost to the State; and, this year,
the services rendered by the labor
atory to the people of the State,
free of charge, were increased to in
clude important work in the test
ing of apples for the spray residue.
No serious outbreaks of contagious
diseases occurred in the live stock
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1932-01-27

of the State during the fiscal year,
although rabies was more prevail
ent than in the past few years.
Over $1,000 cattle are now under
the supervision in Delaware for the
eradication Of bovine tuberculosis.
This includes practically all of the
cattle in the State. Every milk
station in the State now requires
that the milk come from tubercu-
lin tested cattle, and most of the
City Boards of Health into which
Delaware milk is shipped make the
same requirement, which means
that the cattle must be tested in
order for the milk to be sold. IN
der a law passed by the 1881 Leg
islature, and appropriation of $685.
600 was provided to pay the vet
erinarians for retesting those herds
of cattle whose certificates expire
during the fiscal year 1892 and
an appropriation of $4,000 was
made for the same purpose for the
fiscal year 1928. This appro-
priation was made to relieve the
farmers of Delaware of the ex-
pense of keeping their own herds
tested after they were accredited
by the State" In the Poultry De-
partment the report shows 983
specimens examined bacteriologi-
caly and pathologicaly in the lab
oratory. In addition 97,700 blood
samples were tested. The Poultry
Standardization Program recognize
es from the standpoint of breeding,
three different grades of eggs,
chicks and stock, namely, super
vised, certified and record of per
Torrance. A summary of the work
done during the year shows &c.
1876 birds inspected and tested;
331 fiocks inspected and tested and
eleven hatcheries under supervi-
sion.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1932-01-27
DOGS UNDER QUARANTINE
Move Necessitated BY Outbreak
of Rabies; Now in Effect

Owing to an outbreak of rabies
in New Castle County, the State
Board of Agriculture, cooperating
with the State Board of Health
and the Game and Fish Commits
sion, has quarantined all dogs in
Brandywine Hundred and that por-
ton of Christiana Hundred east Of
the Kenneth Pike, New Castle
County, until further notice. The
law requires that all dogs in the
quarantined area be securely tied
or confined to the owners premises.
Any dogs running at large, unless
accompanied by the owner or Gus
todian, viii be killed. This quar-
antine became effective Thursday
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1932-01-27
Stop
Night Coughing

Ordinary cough remedies do not
reach the conditions which cause
night coughing but Thoxine, a doc
tors famous prescription does II
stops the cough within a few nm
utes and goes direct to the internal
cause, preventing further trouble
Taken before retiring ThoXine
absolutely prevents night coughlns'
1t gives the same speedy relief for
sore throat too. Safe for the whole
family guaranteed no dope
Money back if not satisfied. SOC
SWANS PHARMACY
and all other good drug stores.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1932-01-27
Middle Age Materialism

The corroding materialism of
middle age is more deadly to the
soul than the hot passion Of youth.
1t is more deadly, because its peril
is not recognized and no shame is
attached to it. Sins of passion So
ciety has agreed to brand as shame
full, and that very brand Of shame
attached to them acts as a warning
against them. But love of the
world, absorption in the pursuit of
its wealth and power, is reckoned
no disgrace. 1t rather counts to
a mans credit, and therein lies its
deadliest Montreal Herald.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1932-01-27
Al CLUB BEST CORN GROWER
Arthur Handley, Bridgeville, Wins
Bronze Plaque and Gold Medal

Arthur Handley of Bridgeville is
the state 4-H Club Corn Judging
Champion, and Jack Lafferty of
Cheswold is the state All Club
Poultry Judging Champion. These
championships were determined at
the annual All Club Corn and
Poultry Judging contests held at
the Annual Farm Products and
Poultry Show at Milford, on jan
uayr 8, results Of which have just
been compiled and released by A.
d. Cobb, Assistant Director of
Extension. Arthur Handley, the
new All Club corn judging cham
pion has been a All club member
since 1927, and has completed a
All club project each year since
with the exception of 1928. He has
also been student in the Agri-
cultural Class of the Bridgeville
High School, where he has receiv-
ed valuable training in agricultural
problems. His score of 90.5 in the
contest will bring him the bronze
All championship plaque and a
gold first place medal awarded by
the Delaware Crop Improvement
Association. The silver medal for
second place goes to Albert Buck
worth of New Castle County for
his score of 86.7. He was the
champion last year and in three
years of corn judging competition
Howard Speicher of Greenwood
won the bronze third place medal
with a score of 84.5. Kent Coun-
ty All Club members ran away
with the State All Poultry Judg-
ing contest winning four of the
first five places. Jack Lafferty has
worked hard for his championship,
having been poultry club member
for five or six years. In the con-
test he made perfect scores in
placing two classes of exhibition
birds and scored 90 each in two
classes of production birds. Add
ing to this record his score of 80
in the written examination his to-
tai score was 479 points out of a
possible 500 for an average grade
of 95.8. AS a result of his good
work he will receive a bronze 4. Fl
club championship plaque, a gold
first place medal, and a trip to the
All Club Short Course in June.
/ Second place was won by Charles
f. Jones of Greenwood, with a
score of 94.2 and will receive a
silver second place medal and a
Short Course trip. Joe Kielbassa
of Milford, won third place with a
score Of 90 and will get a third
place bronze medal. Short Course
trips were awarded the highest
ranking judges from each of the
three counties, SO Paul Colt OF
Middletown also receives a Short
Course trip for his sixth place
score Of 87.2. All of the awards
in this contest were presented by
the Delaware State Poultry Asso-
citation.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1932-01-27
Obvious

The teacher of the kfddie school
in one of the big Hollywood studios,
is convinced that Young America
knows its stuff. She was conduct
ing her class between scenes and
finally asked one Of the small boys /:
Johnny, what is the feminine
corresponding to the masculine
.stag:'
Johnny pondered over the ques-
ton for a moment and then replied :
Afternoon tea"
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1932-01-27

Perch and rock fish are being
caught in large numbers in the
Nanticoke River, something re-
markable for this time of the
year.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1932-01-27
Saturday. h,


The foll., nv n
MI. .''"Ing de,c,7.
81 tia, cer,.-
SITUATED in In III "a,
county AMI 4tk .s.
on the public a'e q ls.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1932-07-28
FARMERS SUFFERED
LARGE LOSSES OF
INCOME in 1881
Only Two States, Ken
lucky And Mississippi,
Sb0wed An Increase o.
err The 1880 Production
Values.

The total value of North Carolina's
crops in 1881 was $136,496,o00, as
compared to $213,647,0 0 in 1880, it
is pointed out in the Farm Forecaster,
issued by the state department of agri-
culture in cooperation with the Unit
ed States department.
This publication, just off the press,
is prefaced by a short article by Com
missioner of Agriculture William A.
Graham entitled Looking Back at the
1881 Crop Year." in which he de-
clares: 1--WE have passed from a year
of unfortunate conditions into a year
which many believe will urn the tide
back to prosperity. Whether this is the
case or not" he declares, 1--WE are all
better prepared to practice those econ
omies which are so necessary in times
of stfes."
my message to the farmers" says
the commissioner, lis hat they do not
give up hope but display that indom-
liable spirit which has always charac-
terized them in the past"
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1932-07-28
A ROCK IN A WEARY AND

When + was fifteen years old my
father took. me into his study and
gave me a talk about life insurance.
He was a preacher, with a large fam
lily and a small salary.
Paying my premiums has kept me
poor, and often in debt" he said, 'but
l am well rewarded. I can lie down
and sleep soundly at night"
In order to bring the lesson home,
he applied for $1,000 Of life insurance
On the twenty payment plan for me,
saying that he would carry it until I
had graduated from college and
could go on with it from there.
Twenty years seemed longer at that
time than a hundred years seem now.
l wondered if I would ever live to the
ripe old g of th~irty-five,. when the
policies would be paid in full.
Well, l have lived that long, and
these policies, and some others, are all
paid up. Father himself lived long and,
having educated his children and seen
them all started, he cashed in his in
surance and was comfortable in his
old age.
Remembering this lesson, I have
signed my checks for premiums very
carefully, but never with so much sat
isfaction as during the past two years.
In a period when almost everything
one owns is tumbling it is great to
know that one investment, at least, is
just as good as it promised to be.
Nothing has happened to any of the
big insurance companies, and nothing
will.
l was reminded of this the other day
when | attended a convention of in
surance statesmen. They were full of
human interest stories.
Said one: "A business man walked
into my office and asked for an ap-
plication blank. He said that two years
ago he was worth $2OO,O 900, and
thought that he and his family were
safe from financial worries forever.
Now the 100000 is less than $780,
600. His only hope of independence
is through systematic savings as rep
resented by payments of life insurance
premiums"
Another told of a man who asked:
Il am thirty-five and have to start
all over again. What kind of a policy
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1932-07-28

The following article was found in
the collection of historical papers of
the late Theo. Buerbaum and repro
duced verbatim:
1.-THE last conversation the writer
ever had with the late Col. Hamilton
C. Jones was in Charlotte a short time
before his death. He remarked that he
had often wondered why so little had
been written about the customs of the
negroes when first brought from the
"wilds of Africa to this country.
"He then went on to say that he
was n of the Wing candidates from
Rowan for the Legislature in 1860,
but before the campaign opened, spent
several days in Scotch Irish with the
late DR.. James 6. Ramsey, in order to
meet and get better acquainted with
the people of that section.
"He met a Mr.. Peter Stiller-at
that time an old man-who told him
about taking a load of produce to
Charleston, S. c., in his younger days
and bringing back ten negroes for Mr..
Lewis Beard of Salisbury. These ne
groes had come direct from the Guinea
Coast of Africa and were bought from
a ship then lying in the Charleston
harbor. They started home and moth
ing of interest occurred until the sec
ond day out from Charleston. As they
were passing through a swamp, Mr..
Stiller heard the negroes yelling and
~gesticulating as if greatly excited; one
ran % the wagon for the axe while
others secured clubs and then it was
found they had discovered and were
killing an alligator. Mr.. Stiller re-
Trained from saying anything because
he wanted to find what they intended
to do with it. Throwing it in the back
of the wagon on they went without
further adventure une4 camping time
that evening, when the alligator was
prepared for a feast that lasted long
after midnight.
Capt. Jno. Beard of this city, a
great grand son of the above mention
ed Lewis Beard, says the family tradi-
ton is that the negroes dropped and
pined in captivity and longed to re-
turn to the land of their nativity. One
of them went to the Old Mccoy mill,
now standing near this city on the
Wilkesboro road, walked up to the
third story and said that be was going
back to Africa, then leaped through
a window down to death. Another
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1932-07-28
Crop Values Show Decline In North Carolina
WHAT / KNOW ABOUT


I do not know why. crooners Groom
Their motives are elusive;
l have no facts on which to base
A statement that's conclusive.
I only know the air is full
Of softly grooming crooner
And what it seems to me they need
Is sending to the tuners.
For all l know, when roone Groom
It's their determination
To hull to sleep my better self
And cause my degradation.
1t may be SO. l do not know
The purpose Of the crooners.
The only thought I have is this:
They're much in need of tuners.
No fear have I, when Groom,
My moral strength will leave me;
| feel no lack of self-control-
Quite otherwise, believe me
l merely stop the radio
When comes the time for crooners;
I do not care to listen in
/ To gents in need of tuners.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1932-07-28
STEAL $4,000 IN SILK

Edward Rowe and Paul Vance,
Burlington truck drivers Of Barn
well Brothers, were robbed of a $40
0d0 truck load of artificial silk in
New York. Two men, with south
ern accent, kidnapped the drivers
and released them, shoeless, a short
time later. Three others drove off
with the truck.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1932-07-28
Page From the Past

sought to accomplish the same end
by jumping into a well, but was res
cued uninjured. One married and he
and his wife raised a family of TWEEN
ty-two children.
1.-THE alligator "ten" passed from
earth many years ago and nearly all
of their descendants have followed
them. As far as anyone knows old
Jack Litaker and his family are the
sole survivals."
q. H. Ramsay. Nov. Goth, 1909
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1932-07-28
SAIS. MARBLE AND GRANITE CO.,
MANUFACTURERS OF MEMORIALS

The Salisbury Marble and Granite
company, manufacturers of monu-
ments and memorials, has been in OPP
Grafton in Salisbury for the past -
years.
The company was organized in 1919
and for the first six years of operation
in Salisbury had headquarters on West
Fisher street: however, a model plant
and show room was built at 1905
South Main street and the concern
moved there in 1925.
The present personnel of the bust
ness is as follows: M. c. Barnhardt,
president; T. P. Shinn, vice-president;
Mrs. Myra Beaver, secretary-treasurer,
and ]. w. Beard, sales manager
The Salisbury Marble and Granite
company employs IS local workmen
and all work in connection with the
manufacture of Monuments is done at
the plant and show room, 1905 South
Main street
An inspection of the memorials in
the local cemetery shows a large va
riety of stones designed and erected by
the Salisbury Marble and Granite COM
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1932-07-28
CHILD CLIMBS R o WELL

Robert Moore, 5, Alamance county
bow, fell into a 35-foot we'll recently.
Hearing his cries the mother peered
odwn to see him clinging to the rocks
at the water level. Robert hen care
fully climbed to, the top. He suffered
no injuries other than scalp wounds.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1932-07-28

can you offer me that will insure me
a competence at sixty?"
We were all carried off our feet by
the new theory of investments in 1929.
Bonds and insurance were out of date.
Common stocks were the one sure way
to fortune.
Now the pendulum has swung back.
The old-fashioned ideas are in style
again. 1t is a time when insurance
companies ought to double their adver-
Using, and insurance statesmen their
efforts.
When we were prosperous we some
times regarded these statesmen as a nu-
isance. Today their ware. are "as riv-
ers of water in a dry place; as the
shadow Of a rock in a weary land.~
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-12-17

air to infect the audience. Thus, q
few years ago, you heard . great
deal about a. certain George Abbott
| If a play showed signs Of long life
they called him in to give it further
vitality. But for Abbott, such a hit
as Broadway" for instance, might
not have been half so healthy.
Where foreign productions are
concerned, Sidney Howard is likely
to be hailed these days. Gilbert
Miller asked for TRANSMISSION such
as only a DR.. Howard could perform.
Howard was asked to take a foreign
scene and give it a New England
accent and have the blood Of the
cape country run in its veins. So
behold, 1.-THE Late Christopher Bean"
In its original state Mons. Bean was
no more from the Boston baked bean
zone than goulash is from Ireland.
KAUFMAN BATTING FOR
The outstanding medico of the
theater, at this immediate moment,
however, is George Kaufman. A
playwright of no small stature, he
has been called into consultation,
collaboration and operation. His
name keeps sneaking into one play
after another. Word goes around
that whereas G. Glutz appears as the
author, Dr. Kaufman has been on
hand with his indefatigable pill box.
No less an authority than Variety,
the theatrical magazine, places his
present income at seven grand
which is $1,000 weekly in American
money.
X X X
M. d. MUST DIRECT
An interesting fellow, this Kauf-
man. He graduated from good
newspaperman into a better theatre
cal paragrapher It is the hopeful
noticing of sickly or impaired plays
that he can inject bit of vigorous
and funny patter. Now and then,
he has even assayed the role of ac-
tor, as instanced by his casual per-
Torrance in "Once in a Lifetime"
over which Ring Lardner had worked
and sweated. Only DR.. Woollcott has
tied him as newspapernan actor
Kaufman is one of those men who
believe that M. D. stands for must
direct" Once he's In on production
he seeks to stand by-on and off the
stage. At times he has been silly
enough to put his own money into
plays he thought were worth the
price. On a couple Of occasions he
has lost the case.
X X +
NOSE FOR DRAMA
Once a play is under way he
chooses to lean against the lower
rail of a balcony stairway. There
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-12-17

and false insinuations down the
Threats Of the political shysters who
framed this case against me-"
II this statement frightens anyone
it will be Mr.. Langer's brother law
yers, for all the dictionaries make
the word shyster peculiarly apple
able to those members of the legal
profession who fail to meet the ethical
standards.
The funk and Wagnalls Practical
Standard Dictionary defines shy
ster very definitely as "A lawyer who
practices in an unprofessional man
ner: hence anyone who conducts his
business in tricky manner"
The Century Dictionary and Cy-
clopedia is no less definite, branding
a shyster as "One who does business
trickily; person without profess
sional honor: used chiefly of law
yers."
Webster's Unabridged also indicat-
es the word is an unlovely one when
uttered by a lawyer, defining it as
"A trickish knave; one who carries
on any business. especially legal
business, in a mean and dishonest
way; one without professional hon.
or"
The word Is one OF which lawyers
ordinarily are very careful, for most
lawyers know It's meaning.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-12-17

he leans, with arms akimbo and chin
on arms, with his eagle beak and eye
UPON the performances. He Is usu.
ally as right about actors as about
plays, and anyone who has ever
heard of his pillbox can pick out the
spots where he entered the scene at
such a hit as Dinner for Eight"
kaufman is particularly wary
when a play, having proven its sue
cess, settled down for long run on
Broadway. It is the habit Of some
players to go slightly stale after
playing and playing part. Where
upon DR.. kaufman, dropping by, in
jects a few acids.
Just as old newspapermen are as
Sumed to have nose for news.
Kaufman is credited with Schnoz-
zle for the dramatic situations. He
can tell them ten rows away and can
dictate when they should be used.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-12-17

typical. The family auto has beef
stolen.
Beer may be brewing in Wash
ingtou. but If congress has no
better luck than the average
home-brewer, we may expect his
apology, Its not as good as the
last batch" to become q White
House statement.
X X X
The back-to-the-farm drift this
year has brought the farm popula-
ton up to 80 million-only 200, O0C
less than that Of 1910, the record
year. That 100000 was only a trifle
compared with the crowd that went
back for Thanksgiving dinner.
X X X
II it's true that z per cent of hu-
mainly does the thinking for the
other 80 per cent, that leaves most
of us in shape to do the kicking.
With 10000 horses on the rae
ing tracks this year, it was just
rs hard as ever to pick the win
ner.
There's no friend like an old
friend-if he can "fix' a traffic
sticker
Copyright, 1882, NEA Service, Inc.)