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Smyrna times., 1932-11-09
LANG, JR.,
NEW PROFESSOR
Oberammergau Youth Join
Georgetown University Staff
at Washington, ID. c.
PROFESSOR OF GERMAN

Washington.-Anton Lang, Jr.,
twenty-seven-year-old son Of the
peasant potter of Oberammergau,
whose fame is flung throughout
Christendom for his portrayal Of
the Christus in the passion Play"
has Joined the faculty of George
town university as professor of
German.
The serious young man who first
encountered the hustle and hustle
of American life as a student at
Holy Cross college, where he was
graduated in 1928 with the degree
of bachelor Of arts, brings word
that the citizens of his Bavarian
village are planning even now for
the next presentation of the ia
nous drama to be given in the
summer Of 1884.
This occasion, marking the tri-
centennial anniversary of the first
Passion Play, is an unusual depart
ture in time, for it has been pre-
sented only at ten-year periods,
the latest being in 1880.
Film offers Refused.
He said the village again would
turn down any offer Of motion pic
lures of the drama in 1884, as was
done before when economic condi-
tions were acute.
the Passion Play to be commercial
lied in the movies, no matter how
much the villagers need the money"
he explained.
During the nearly four years
since his departure from the United
States Lang has been living in the
peace Of his Alpine village. pursu-
ing postgraduate work. Like his
famous father, he speaks English
with scarcely an accent. But un-
like his father, whose long hair
and flowing beard suggests some of
the older Italian paintings of Jesus,
the son seems typical of the young
er generation.
DisIikes Automobiles.
Through his former two years
residence in this country Lang is
used to American ways, but is frank
in saying he will never become ac-
customed to American automobiles.
which he believes have taken all
the romance away"
He came to Washington direct
from Oberammergau. where his
parents. two brothers and three
sisters live. AS all the other mem
bers Of the Lang family-there are
30 in the village bearing the name.
and his relatives number about $50
he has taken part himself ID the
Passion Play. He was a member
of the orchestra in 1890.
His father. who has played the
Christus three times-more often
than any other man-spoke the
prologues for the various scenes
in the last enactment.
Smyrna times., 1932-11-09
Constable ~ Years.
Then Meets Defeat

Henning, Tenn.-Joe 3. Jor-
dan, eighty-one, has learned that
the job of constable isn't nor
petual.
For 40 years he held the uosi-
ton Of constable in the Eighth
civil district Of Lauderdale couD-
ty without having suffered a de-
feat.
Then along came this election
year and Deputy Sheriff Tom G.
Meek defeated him. The election
for constable was more keenly
contested than state and other
county offices.
Fist fights occurred in a num-
ber of precincts as a result Of
the race.
Smyrna times., 1932-11-09
QUARANTINE POST
AT REEDY ISLAND
Work Will Be Started This
Week on New Quarters
For Officers
OF I'll Err ALTERATIONS

Although no official word has
been received from the United
States Public Health Service, Wash
ington, to the effect that Reedy
Island, below Delaware City, will
again be the quarantine station for
the Delaware Bay and River, this
belief is gaining impetus, as it has
been learned that work will be
started this week on the construc-
tion of new quarters for medical Of
fcers. The firm of McClatchy &
Compan, Philadelphia, has been
awarded the contract for the con-
struction of medical quarters by
the architect of the U. S. Treasury
Department, Washington. The cost
of the erection of the quarters will
be approximately $4,000. S. D.
Collins, Of Port Penn, is the sub
contractor for the construction of
the foundations for the new medi-
cal building of colonial type, which
will be located on the extreme
southern end of the island. Mr..
Collins has started to move his
equipment from Port Penn to the
island and work on the foundations
is expected to start the latter part
of this week. When the founda-
tions are completed McClatchy &
Company will start the erection Of
the home Rehabilitation work at
the island has been going on inter
mittently for some time. The old
fumigating plant has been moved
from the old disinfecting pier near
the ship channel and re-erected on
new foundations on the island A
new wharf was built and some
minor repairs made to the old
quarters. Following the removal
Of the buildings from the old dis
injecting pier, it was entirely de-
molished. The cost of this work
amounted to approximately S39,-
900. A submarine power cable
from Port Penn to the island was
also laid for conveying commercial
current from the mainland to the
island. The laying of the cable
cost about $4,000. Wilmington
shipping interests for sometime
have been trying to bring about
the removal Of the quarantine sta
tion from Marcus Hook back to
Reedy Island. They insist that it
is unfair for their boats to be fore
ed to steam up to Marcus Hook
and then turn back to Wilmington,
an additional Is mile trip. Phila-
delphia interests, although recog-
nizing the business of Wilmington s
protests, point out that it would
seriously handicap local shipping
were the change to be made. They
explain that vessels arriving at
Reedy Island after the Quarantine
Station had closed for the day
could not proceed up the river to
Marcus Hook, but would be forced
to anchor off Reedy Island until
the following morning. However,
the United tates Public Health Ser
vice may operate both stations and
thereby placate lower river and bay
interests.
Smyrna times., 1932-11-09
Glib Sweet Potato Being Exhibited

A sweet potato weighing nine
pounds, grown on the farm of Lor-
emo Johnson, near Georgetown, is
being exhibited in the barbershop
Of Calhoun Brothers, and is at
tracing the attention of hundreds
Of people Of Georgetown as well as
a large number of people from diff
ferent sections Of lower Delaware.
The tuber, so far as is known, is
one of the largest ever grown in
that section. II is a species of
yam and would almost fill a gallon
jug.
Smyrna times., 1932-11-09
Brothers United After
Separation of 40 Years

Montrose, Colo.-Martin Riley and
Mike Riley, brothers, who had not
seen each other for more than 40
years, enjoyed a reunion recently.
Mike Riley has lived In Richland
Center, Wis, for the long period.
Smyrna times., 1932-11-09
JaiIs Man For Neglect of Child

Jails Man For Neglect of Child
Protesting that he 'had walked
the streets looking for work as
much as any man in Delaware, 2"
Medford Duhadaway, of Dover, was
fined $500 and sentenced to a years
Imprisonment by Deputy Judge
Broughal in Municipal Court Sat
urday morning for the non-sup-
port of a child. The court felt that
his failure to report to probation
authorities as required, indicated
a lack of sincerity in his attempts
to spport the child. The judge di-
rected that fifty cents daily be de-
voted to the child's support from
his earnings while at the work
house.
Smyrna times., 1932-11-09
Gasoline Tax For October

Charters filed at the Secretary
of States Office last month totaled
267, a decrease of 16 compared
with September. Revenue receiv-
ed for gasoline tax for October was
S114, ,86O34 and fines from motor
vehicle violations $3.50.
Smyrna times., 1932-11-09
AnoID AVOID YOUR
rRouBLEoS,,11 /
Car Owners sb.,,,
On Their Batt.,' u
ing Before Cola -
ANALYZE Po,n /

cautions that MI -SSs q i
trouble and avna. ], save i
Kentor 9,lslng ,la Ralph \
ency Road SeTr;.. :, u
the Delaware Anto.i IN
WiIn7ino+l. n. n, ! 1928 Nars.
statement. NJ .as |
ergency road call. '-a lofig
essary if owners of - |
then 49, - 4 llttle c5scziin,
"a LeI1eS. lpnit;o.
cooling system - wv \
igT;+ioa appt 4asass. Battery /,
third Of the totaI = i Y
analyzed. If motori.t- Y
ularly replace water h n
At least every ten i,
up on the ammeter + !,
generator is in heed of \
perhaps setting up Or y
Of brushes and look III
ing to see if any electri,1|
tons are loose or exDo,sa'
this trouble would be j.,
other important job 4
weather is a complete 4
Of the cooling system IA
Of any rust Or scale that /
formed before the wintsl
OF anti-freeze solution !,
placement Of grease n 4
mission and diferds1
changing to a lighter a
are also advised. Cha aSs,
Just sparkpIugs and h,
carburetor adjustment I
CdIeIuI cnecKup now will
ably lessen the possibiIity
car failing to respond n 4
or playing dead when u,
expect it,
Smyrna times., 1932-11-09
10000 For state Highways

Delaware will receive 100000 as
its portion Of the S72,000000 of
Federal emergency highway funds
allotted to the States up to Octob-
er 20, is was announced Friday by
the Department Of Agriculture.
Smyrna times., 1932-11-09
Man Evades Army Duty
by Using Feminine Name

Kemmerhissar, Turkey.-My mis-
spelling his name peasant Of this
village made himself officially
woman and for seven years escaped
military services and taxes. Hanefi
gave his name the feminine twist
of Henife when he registered at his
coming Of age. He was heavily
fined.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-05-02

It must be i bitter pill for Representative John Q. Tilson of New Haven to have to take congressional advice from fellow mem- Der. Not that we don't think the New Haven legislator wouldn't receive advice. We don't wish to create such an impression as that. But for years he has been one of the real leaders on the floor of the House. Now he is merely member with ranking equal to about that of the. newcomer. He. together with Representatives Goss and Freeman. the three republican members from Connecticut, are under the wing of Representative Bacon of New York who acts as their counsellor and guide in matters of policy. He advises them as to the way they should vote and keeps them in general informed on various measures under consideration. He is known as the key man for Connecticut and part of New York We think that probably Representative Tilson could act in like capacity if he so desired.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-05-02
A Singing Nation

Educated musicians are engaging in big conspiracy to make this musical nation. Not by playing highbrow music at them. What they want is choral singing every where. and plenty of it. The idea orght to be popular. In fact, vogue for such sing ing is already started growing possibly out of the community singing of war times and the mass singing that followed it. The musical supervisors of the country now want a general organization of the movement with better direction for the singing groups and a somewhat finer choice of songs.
 They plan to divide the country into dis triets and develop choral federations in them to combine for a united singing festl- val once year. There should be big demand for choral conductors. The desire is to raise, the level of choral singing so that the finest voices in every city want to belong :. Here surely is promising out let for the musical feeling of any community. Anyone who can sing at all can learn to sing in chorus. and almost anything that chorus is likely to sing will sound better than the jazz and erooning that have been affleting the country.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-05-02
Opera. Steps Down, i

The Metropolitan Opera Association, which runs the sport of queens in New York. has decided to have another season after all. in spite of this years losses of half million. and even though few more Fifth avenue mansions and Newport villas go by the board. It will not be SO plutoeratie, how ever. The prices of seats are to be reduced and the season shortened from 24 weeks to Is. Thus the cost of subscription seat will be only about half as much. There will be greater appeal to the general public. which is expected to fill available seats for single performances. Salaries of the per- forming stars will be cut by negotiation"
 There is another announcement of far wider interest than these comparatively local details. Tentative broadeasting during the past season has brought such satisfactory response that the Metropolitan expects next winter to broadcast throughout the season. This will mean a genuinely national public for grand opera. It will be valuable con tribution to radio. dispensing artistic enjoy ment, bringing good will to the broadeasting companies and doubtless drawing more pa irons to the Metropolitan Opera House in person from the outlying provinces
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-05-02
Branch Factories Abroad

Ivar Kreuger. the Swedish Match King who recently killed himself. was pioneer in the modern industrial practice of building branch factories in foreign countries. He did this to gain or hold foreign markets while dodging tariffs. Our American man ufacturcrs are now growing adept at this policy. praetieing it to greater extent than any other country has done. Such pro- eedure is fine as far as capital is concerned. It permits great eapitalstic expansion. It is not so good for labor. The American workman does not benefit along with the Amefican investor. He sees foreign work men competing with him for the foreign markets he helped to create.
 There is another consideration too. that does not look so good. When mother industry in this or any other country has established it's factories abroad to supply the foreign trade. what happens to shipprg' The troubles of our merchant marine today must be more Of less due to this cause. It would probably be better all around il native industries in general remained at home and interehansed their products as they used to do Nf ''Y ,-'
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-05-02
Re.D Distribution Of Wealth

Senator Husy P. Long of Louisiana says what is wrong with the country is failure to live up to the old Hebrew rule that wealth should be re-distributed every 50 years. It sounds pretty crude when put like that. even if the senator does bolster up his theory by historical references to the de- struetion of Babylon. Carthage. Greece and Rome through failure to live up to this senptural law. We do not believe much in splitting up wealth today. That would be Socialism or Communism.
 What we do believe in, evidently. is the imposition of progressive income taxes, in- heritanee taxes personal property taxes. and real estate taxes which amount to about tl@ Ine thing. though they prolong the
 fiy little. It is good old American
 Milton. too. that it is 'three generations ff6m shirtsleeves to shirtsleevcs" What is this but an informal re distribution of wealth every 80 or 90 years' Only we 'stsgser" the operation instead of doing it all at once, making it a continuous social process. And cur ssfsxes arc probably shortening the famify's economic cycle.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-05-02
The Home Loan Bank

Anyone who has studied the proposed federal home loan bank system. and knows something of the difficulties now faced by hundreds of thousands of home owners, will probably agree with Senator Watson of Indiana when he says: This bill provid- ing for l2 regional home loan banks. now before Congress, is the most constructive plan which has ever come to my attention to aid the small home owner. Its possibil- ities as a permanent system are immeasur- able. Its flexibility makes for flow of financing, where it is most needed"
 The measure. according to Dr John M. Cries of the Department of Commerce, will accomplish these very desirable things:
 1. Prevent a disastrous blow to home ownership in this emergency.
 .s2., Help to break the present eeo- homie deadlock.
 3. Protect and- increase home owner ship in the future. ....
 4. Give the same protection and n- suranee to Sl5.000 100000 worth of home financing that now is given to commercial. agricultural and industrial financing.
 It is strange that, with the emphasis always laid on home ownership in this country. as a creator of civic virtues and business values. so little has ever been done to give it the financial facilities and seeur- ity afforded to other forms of investment. If it comes to pass where millions of American families conclude that home owning is impossible or unprofitablc, it will be . sad time for. our national life and a catastrophe for American business
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-05-02
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Sings on the ROad to Mandalay Y

We are worried about our PA year old son. Lately he has commenced to pick his nose. I have tried to make him stop but he VIII pick his nose. Some of our friends say 1t Is q sign of worms. but 1 don't believe all people say, though I know some children have worms The hoy is Anc every way. no had habits otherwise knows most of the letters of the alphabet when he secs them, counts up to 10. says his prayers and sings some of the songs he hears over the radio t. (Mr V. k.)
 Answcr--It has no significance. You must slap the hand as often as you find him picking his nose, and presently he will stop.
 Insulin for Holy Fright
 I imcl0sc a clipping from one of the tabl0lds in which the tabIoid's health expert rather dasiies cold water on the suggestion of insulin treatment for undcrwciglt. He says 1t Is i'm. practicable and unJustlfa ble-but thanks tc your recommendation of this treatment have gained l4 pounds and now I feel like new body (H. M. Al
 Answer--Ycs, tho old timers regard all mod. crn methods as impractlcable or unwise for some vague or theoretical reason. But great many persons who have alwnys been painfully undcrwelght have gained, needed flesh and strength uader tho insuiIn treatment, in spite Of the notios of the old fogies that insulin i' for diabetes only ,tI g ,(copyright John r. DiIle co.)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-05-02
"A Book agDay
 by BRUCE CAPTION
Finds Society Amply Earned
 It's Disaster z, z

Every now ana then there Is published q novel which rises above It's artistic defectA by virtue of it's authors intense indignation.
 Such a book is "Passing Stran- gcrs," by Felix Rlebenberg.
 In this book Mr1,Eliesenberg of iers iictional study of the great stock market boom, the crash yof 1929 and the resultant depression
 .Hc studies these sphen0 0nlena by examining c bakoitsS dozeh Of peop1e who lived through them; n rich promoter.aa Bue cessfuf mer- chant, e broker, a.f,lunginE Man. haitian realtor, Q fake iastrol loger on elevator operator, "a woman novelist, Q chauffeur, -sundry la. dies of easy virtue, gentlemen oi leisure and so on.
 Describing what these people did and said and thpueht while | the market was first soaf4ng and then dlvng,@ Mir Riesanberg pre-. gents n yicture that Is savage and despairlng. Here. he seems to say is what was going on in the yer, I center of thipRs--rascaiity. stupid. ity,s braEgadoclo, pomposity, esnob. .bery, venality and unchecked grecd The blind led tho blind and we al tumbied into tho ditch together and we got no more than wc de-
 Tylng tho stories of all these sep, nrate lives into q compact nara tive is q tough job, and MT RIcs enberg hardly scores q ho M Wllpi silccess tt it. The book Is ht6f( to read, confusing, burdened .witi an excess of people and Incidents
 But it does got across that pic turc. and the picture ssems e Y fni to DA fairly .trutisfiu, ,... /. ..., .,,. {. | The book is pubIlshed Isy<. iierl ] court. Brace and Co and costs ss
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-05-02
THE sMOULDERING DEMAND
 FOR HOMES M
(New Haven Registerl

4Il (NeW Haven RcHlbtcT)
 Any number of fine predictions for . remarkable resumption of business In the home-bullding in- dustry have been made In recent months. 50, many in fact. that more might seem to be unneces. sary. Just one further forecast, however. might well be added be. cause its basic facts arc so strik- ing. In Massachusetts. ID cities and towns issued not 2 single per. month. The list includes such Northamptom' Eaverhiii, Now Bed. ford, Somerviiic and Lawrence. Altogether tho population of the 10 totals approximately 100000. As long as the institution Of family life endures there naturally must be some sort ofa normal Increase in the demand for dwellings. And when, in communities totaling 9 %, 900 souls, for three years there has been no pickup in homo building in spring, tho usual time for 1t, and when in this last of the three years not ono permit in c month is issued to build, 1t must bcevident that there Is a latent demand that is full of exceptional promise. Eventually the normal increase in population will fierce the building of now homes in view of such circumstances, regardless of the conditions of the times. But given q slight improvement in general business and financial ar- arrangements encouraging to bor- rowing on homes. when the time comes this stagnatlon should blow up fin q way that will be felt as seldom before. ,F7t lUr..r
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-05-02
WHEN IT WAS NEW.
fiIartford CoMrantl

t Htif (H0rtTOfd COuruHtD
 A friend sends The Courant q pamphlet printed in 1871 by Case, Lockwood & Braiuard and entitled "Acts of the General Assembly Providing for the Building of a New Capitol at Hartford" Tho pamphlet is fairly brief. the initinl act consisting of . single para graph appropriatlng s600,0o0 "for the purpose of erecting in the town of Hartford a suitable build. inR to be used as Q state house." This was followed by other acts that authorized the City of Hart ford to issue bonds up Ito $1.100,- 900 for the same purpose, to ap- point q Hartford State House com mission, to hold city meeting to vote on the proposed bond issue, and finally, to advise the commis- sion that if 1t discovered that the $1,500, 900 appropriated or auth orized would be Insufficient to complete the structure, to stor work until Hartford furnished. the amount necessary for completion.
 Tho Capitol was finished in due time, and the state abandoned It's double Capitol plan which was be- gun In the early days, much to the grief of southern and southwestern Connecticut. Perhaps is was as we'll, We recall an elderly man who, in hts day, having been elect- ed to the Generai Assembly, sat on the steps of the State House in New Haven for nearly the entire day awaiting the arrival of other members, ignorant of the fact that the Legislature met in Hartford that year. The state has not on. lnrged It's borders since the. Capitol was opened in this city but we re. cnll that when 1t was opened and when the various State depart. mcnts were auartcred therein it