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Smyrna times., 1933-01-25
Yielding To Lure of Microphone, ID. " Griffith,
America's Pioneer Director, Dramatizes
Movie History

ideas which he first brought to the
screen have been skillfully adapted
to the microphone in the stirring
"reminiscences Of this star maker.
Mr. Griffith himself has ap-
preached the microphone in a spirit
Of humility. aware of the tremend-
dous audience which his voice
reaches in the course of a single
broadcast, and fully appreciative of
the power of the microphone itself.
It is a heart-warming reminis-
cence, is this Hollywood" of Mr..
Griffith. recalling old, familiar
names, some now stars, others
which have faded into the obscur-
ity of the past It is a Hollywood"
of Mary Pickford. Dorothy and Lii
liam Gish. Blanche Sweet. Mae
Marsh, Owen Moore, Henry B. Wal
thall, Alice Joyce, Lionel Barry
more. Jack and Lottie Pickford.
Mabel Normand, James Kirkwood,
Harry Carey. Robert Harron, Rich
ard Barthelmess and Constance
Talmadge. And ii is a Hollywood
which recalls to movie goers such
early companies as "Biograph,"
"Kalem" and Edison.
In June OF 1908. Griffith became
an assistant director of Biograph.
on 14th Street, New York. The re-
suit was Mr.. Grifith's first film
Smyrna times., 1933-01-25

The New Castle County Nation
al Bank of Odessa, met at their
annual meeting and elected the fol-
lowing directors for that bank for
the ensuing year: Daniel Corbit,
James T. Shallcross, L. v. Aspril,
Jr., Lawson Crothers, S. Redmond
Smith. Harry S. Woodkeeper, Clar-
ence E. Pool and Frank Davis. The
directors met and elected the fol-
lowing officers: President, Daniel
Corbit; v!ce-president, James T.
Shallcross; secretary, Clarence E.
Pool; cashier, Frank Davis; assist
ant cashier, Harry B. Roberts;
bookkeeper, Miss May G. Enos.
Smyrna times., 1933-01-25
SMYRNA BOY GETS STAMP
Also Receives Letter From Roose-
welt and Secretary

Also Receives Letter From Roose-
welt and Secretary
The collection Of stamps gather
ed by Walter Applefeld, aged II,
a seventh grade pupil in the local
public school, may not be any more
valuable than that of any other
boy, but it now includes one stamp
that will be cherished over all 9th
ers. 1t is from a letter taken from
the mail of President-electR Roose-
velt, and with it is a letter from
the President-elect and his secre-
tary, Louis M. H. Howe. Walter
is not only a good student but he is
an ardent Boy Scout and a collec-
tor of stamps. He is the only child
of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Applefeld of
Smyrna. Soon after the election
of Franklin ID. Roosevelt. Walter
wrote to him congratulating him
on his election and also telling him
that he, too, was a collector of
stamps. He enclosed one from his
collection in his letter Mr.. Roose-
velt was much pleased and sent
Walter a letter, with his signature
His secretary, Louis M. H. Howe,
also wrote a personal letter and
enclosed an interesting stamp torn
from MIR. Roosevelt's mail which
Walter proudly added to his collec-
tion.
Smyrna times., 1933-01-25
w. ID. DENNEYS TERM ENDS
No Provision to ReappOint Former
Governor as Asst. Sec. of state

William D. Denney, formerly
Governor, on Wednesday completed
his term of office as Assistant Sec
retary of State, which position ne
has held for two years. The Of
fee of Assistant Secretary Of state
was created by act Of Legislature
in 1881 and that law spec fed thal
the term would expire on the thiru
Tuesday in January 1888. Or that
date, the law ferther specified the
office should be abolished. Oniess
the present General Assembly re-
enacts the faw passed in 1881 q
adopts one similar to it recrea'ins
the office Delaware will nave ~
Assistantf Secretary of state
Smyrna times., 1933-01-25
Not Content to BE Comics

"Our ancestors told us carefully
what to say and do in each human
emergency" said Hi Ho, the sage
of Chinatown. But no generation
is content to be entirely made up
of actors. Washington Star.
Smyrna times., 1933-01-25
CENTENN1,77
Old DELAW1
Trustees Mali. Il
Celebration g. y
May Next Y
INSTITUTION is epd..
EXcent fo.

Except fo- i,,. +
and probably inf. !, -lallstie /
and reminiscent. MAJ ID
The Inv, rooms The csatl
chart ~ =. = 5i'y of Dslaps11
Febrga,r "-i5 60 by upn9tA
condrtlas Current /
caJebr ~ ~. afe not conduC7
ary Instead. ! cslosL u ne \
held il May nsxt =. W.. =, a'loa| \
dredth anniversar,3, ,.S' y
ening Of the collie. :. ne \
stitu.ion. PresiGsSp. 4 !, d n
hen said that " alls' 4
n-iT "a .ae celebration il nj
viii be an acadani. 'lAfl'
special commemor..'. s0aVs'
on the college camrr. \
"anse q a brochure I'd
I. .ae university n
! I. yes Of The un.veri,
= ppoi'ilea a celebration q,
- ~-l 0s enlarged IA
ne committee viii
r members Of the al
prominent alumni. On II ~
1893 the State Legi.1 ~
ed the charter f9r t5s St.. :. I
pat r3-sil k'l2"n as New AK d
that the college was form,'
ed taking over the NJ
emy as a preparatory sc5ni
the college opened ii ls3f
was only one student erron
progress Of the college Ia
rough one and for a perio5,
and during the Civil war'
closed but reopened il 1sll
greatest period Of deveIopr,
within the past decade .hrj,
generosity Of P S. duPorAI
Smyrna times., 1933-01-25
LIMITS OF DELAWARE
Bill introduced 70 Take a
OF Northwestern Secd

Representative Schosdsy
duced a bill 70 change he /
les Of Delaware Ci,y. u
would take Out Of the tos
part of the northwestern d
the town now in the limits,
sentative Wilson iEtroi1os
to divide the second I'D
trict Of the Tenth Repres
District Of Kent County y
a new election district Il
voting place at Hous:di
would give three election /
in that representative distri
Smyrna times., 1933-01-25

tee; Wilmer Stradley, George L.
Townsend, Jr., /. B. Finkelstein
and Emmett S. Hickman, repre-
senting the Chamber of Commerce
and Vincent c. Blackwell, Ernest
J. Otteni and Milton Common, rep
resenting the Ninth Ward Business
Mems Association.
Smyrna times., 1933-01-25
Try Resin

With haircloth furniture coming
back, mans greatest need is nom
skid pants.-Buffalo News.
Smyrna times., 1933-01-25
DOINGS so YEARS
AGO IN SMYRNA
Notes of Marriages, Deaths,
and Matters of Interest
of Half Century Ago
ISSUE OF JAN. PATH, 1888

(The Smyrna Times has started
20 look back over its files and tell
what happened around the correspond
ing date of this issue. a half century
ago. We hope to make this regular
weekly feature. If it does nothing else.
1t 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-
erly sought and read-Editor.9
Smyrna times., 1933-01-25


BORROW $4,000 FOR SCHOOL
HOUSE Friday evening the
citizens of our town met to decide
as to whether the Legislature
should be asked to authorize our
school commissioners to contract a
loan to build a new school house.
Over 100 voters were present. John
H. Hoffecker called the meeting to
order and moved that William B.
Collins be chairman of the meet
ing, which was agreed to without
dissent and followed by the selec-
ton of William Polk Cnurnmins for
secretary. DR. Cloak, Secretary of
the Board of School Directors, then
read the advertised call for the
meeting as the basis of action. L.
Irving Handy on being called upon,
presented concisely the difficulties
as Principal he and the children
labored under in a divided school
(on extreme sides of the town. and
r. M. Johnson set forth clearly the
benefit of education and education
al facilities. Prof. Groves, by re-
quest, gave his views Of the adj
vantage a new and creditable
building would be to the town and
noted the rapid improvements that
other towns had made in school
buildings, in the past few years,
advising when they did build, to
have in view the prospective
wants, a matter that some of the
CONTINUED on Page Sikh
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-01-13

Washington, D. C. (ILNS)-To
abolish child labor by state action is
the object of new national campaign
now being launched under American
Federation of Labor leadership, with
out diminishing effort for ratification
of the child labor amendment.
There is much opinion, however
that the amendment may not be still
alive, and some fear to rely on the
amendment alone, on the ground that
it may no longer be valid as pro-
posed amendment.
Forty-three state legislatures meet
this month, and in all of them pro-
posed legislation will be submitted to
affect 667 900 children under l6 enum-
Grated by the 1880 census.
The minimum age to be asked as
necessary to employment is 16. Only
Ohio and Montana have thus far set
that age as the limit. Maine, Mich
igan, Rhode Island, California and
Texas have fixed 10.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-01-13
FULL-CREW LAW
For Railroads Asked BY
BrOtherhOOds

Washington.-The enactment of the
Shallenberger full-crew railroad bill
was advocated before the house COM
mittee on interstate and foreign COM
merce by representatives of the rail-
road brotherhood.
The bill, sponsored by Congress-
man Ashton C. Shallenberger, of
Nebraska, prescribes minimum re-
quirements of personnel for engines
trains and other rolling stock on lines
operating across state borders.
The witnesses were: Donald R.
Richberg, of Chicago, general counsel
for the brotherhoods; J. A. aFrqu-
harson, vice president and national
legislative representative of the
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen;
7. c. Cashen, of Buffalo, president
of the Switchmen's Union of North
America; w. d. Jackson, of Little
Rock, Ark, and f. O. Duggan, OF
Chicago, representing the Brother
hood of Railroad Trainmen.
The legal phases of the bill and the
need of federal law to secure uniform-
ity in view of the differing state laws
were discussed by Mr.. Richberg.
Mr. Farquharson considered the
through and local train practises and
declared the federal law is needed to
conserve to railroad employees the
safety accorded employees in factories
and other industries.
Mr.. Jackson said some of the
states have more stringent laws than
the Shallenberger bill proposes.
A. P. Thorn, of Washington, D. c..
general counsel of the National Asso.
citation of Railway Executives, oppos-
ed the measure.
The commerce committee asked fo1
an estimate of the additional cost the
proposed law would impose on the
railroads.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-01-13
PEANUT GROWERS
PROTEST PRICES

Scotland Neck, N. C. (ILNS)-
Starvation prices for this years pea
nut crop are forcing farmers of the
peanut belt of North Carolina and
Virginia to consider drastic meas
ures in protest. The peanut crop, one
of the major products of the two
states, is bringing less than one cent
a pound today, and the trend is to
prices of less than one-half cent a
pound.
At a meeting attended by more
than 100 growers of this locality,
plans considered for boosting prices
included march on Washington and
the picketing of highways to prevent
the delivery of peanuts at present
starvation prices" A heated session
was held, and the group pledged to
present a united front in its protest
of low prices.
A larger meeting was held at
Chowan College, Murfreesboro, N. c.,
Tuesday afternoon. The action of
Sundays meeting here was approved
with added emphasis.
The growers and cleaners insist
that the protest will continue until
peanuts are bringing the growers one
and half to two cents a pound for
the common shelling stock. Estab-
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-01-13
Census Report Shows Loss
OF Labor's Buying Power
Five Billion Drop in Earnings in Manufacturing Recorded
By Government Report, Along With rs Per Cent Fall
in Employment

Washington, D. C. (ILNS)-A 2t
per cent in the number of employed
Americans was found by the United
States Census Bureau in 1881, it's lat.
est report shows.
Wage earners employed in manu-
featuring industries numbered 6.511,.
SAT in 1881, compared to 8,833,743 ir
1929, the bureau reports.
Worse than that, wages declined
37.8 per cent in the same period. In
1881 the wage total was 1925 ,587,-
464. In 1929 it was 1,620,s73, ,254
Number of manufacturing estab-
lishments in 1881 was 174,136, while
in 1929 it was 210,959.
In 1881 the value added by manu-
facture was 1892, ,984, 1881, while in
1929 it was $31 1856, ,283,711.
In 1929 the value of products was
$7O,434, ,863, ,443, while in 1881 it was
$41,333, ,1O8,998.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-01-13
TECHNOCRACY
On Gridiron While Critics
Examine

New York City tILNS)-Techno-
cracy continues as major interest
among economists, in addition to the
spotligh. which it occupied during the
sessions of the American Association
for the Advancement of Science at
Atlantic City
Moreover, in the hot fire being
poured upon it by economists today,
it is standing up none too well.
In the first place, technocracy
spokesmen have poured out figures
showing that if certain specific indus
tries used the equipment available to
the best equipped employment would
be reduced in those industries almost
to the vanishing point.
There have been two dramatic ex-
amples-one a razor blade, the other
bricks.
Charge Factual Errors
1t has been said that 100 mon could
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-01-13
FORTY-HOUR WEEK
On Government Clothes For
Destitute Adopted By
Senate

Washington.-The senate adopted
the house bill providing for the pur-
chase of $4,000 bales of cotton from
the Federal Farm Board and turning
it over to the Red Cross, which will
have the cotton made into clothing
for distribution to the needy.
Senator Capper, OF Kansas, per-
suaded the senate to adopt an amend
ment providing that "all contracts for
the making of garments shall specify
that not more than five days of eight
hours each shall constitute work
week"
Pointing out that the purpose of
the amendment was to afford employ
ment to the largest possible number
of workers, Senator Capper said the
principle of the shorter work week
should receive the approval of con-
gress by applying it to contracts for
clothing made from the 35O,000 bales
of cotton, especially in view of the
fact that our national government
is furnishing the material for max
ing the clothing"
"It is believed by the proponents
of this amendment" Senator Capper
added, "that it is only fair to thou
sands of unemployed that they be
given an opportunity for employment
through the medium Of the shorter
work week.
Application of the shorter work
week plan to contracts in this in
stance seems to be in harmony with
the policy of the congress when pro-
vision applying the shorter work week
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-01-13
EMPIRE PACT
Is ssDud" in Making Canad'
ian Boom

Ottawa (ILNS)-As a means of
stimulating Canadian business, the
empire trade agreements have turned
out duds. In June, before the OF
tawa conference assembled, the price
of No. | northern wheat at the lake
head was 56 cents; at this writing 1T
is 40 cents. That wipes out the value
of the 6 cents preference in the Brit
ish market accorded Canadian wheat,
provided it is sold there at the world
price.
On the other hand, British tory
napers complain that the Canadian
government has wiped out the prefer
ences offered British goods in the
Canadian market, by decreeing that
the pound sterling represents $4.40 IN
Canadian money for customs valua-
tions. For Canadian exporters OF
goods to Britain the exchange value
of the pound sterling is around $3.50.
New empire squabbles are in the
making. Once again it is shown that
the real problem Canada, as we'll as
other countries, must face is that OF
making changes in its domestic econ
omy so as to articulate consumption
and production; that attempts to
manipulate external trade will not OF
themselves restore prosperity.
Preliminary estimates are to the
effect that the volume of business
in Canada in 1882 was 13 per cent
below 1881, while employment was
down about 16 per cent.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-01-13
Labor Will Strike, If Necessary, to Establish
The 6-Hou Day, 5-Day Week, Green Says

make all the bricks needed in the
United States.
1T has been said that tungsten
steel razor blade could be made to
last generation.
Gregory Comstock, of the Firth
Sterling Steel Co., says experiments
In the effort to make such a blade
have not proven successful and that
If such blade could be made it could
not be kept from the market.
R. S. Tilden, manager of the New
Jersey Brick Association, says the
highest possible rate of brick produc-
tion is 1000 per day per man, instead
of the 100000 claimed by technoc-
racy's leader, Howard Scott.
John Vanderventer, editor of Iron
Age, says the production in steel is
23.2 times the production per man of
SO years ago, instead of the $50 times
claimed by Scott
Gains in Steel
Scott asserts he is using man-hours
per ton instead of numbers of men,
but Vandenventer points out that rec
ords on man-hours do not go back of
1921, asserting that Scott, therefore,
is guessing.
Where technocracy and labor are in
substantial agreement is in the state
ment that if production were to be
resumed full speed, not more than
half the unemployed could find work,
because of mechanization.
Technocracy obtains considerable
agreement with it's charge that mech
anization has resulted in an increase
of industry's debt load, an obvious
fact. John NJ Carmody, president of
the Society of Industrial Engineers
is among those agreeing. Frank A.
Vanderlip is another Carmody
agrees to the charge of increase in
debt load but he believes industry
will shorten work hours, raise wages
to provide consuming power and thus
bring about readjustment. VanderliI
agrees that increase of the debt load
has seriously mortgaged the future.
Watson Davis, editor of Science
Service, points out that much of the
volume of technocratic assertion is
! not new, that there is a vast litera-
energy on man-hours required per
unit of output. AS matter of fact
organized labor has itself produced q
vast literature upon that subject and
has repeatedly made those charges OF
technocracy which seem to bear ex.
animation.
Theory Not Published
Scott's theory of energy deter
minants," thus far unpublished, is
I likely to come in for severe punish
ment when it is publisher. if ever, fol
the reason that apparently he puts
4
his emphasis on energy fed into the
machine, instead of upon the energy
delivered.
Certain it is, thus far, however, that
no new theory thrown into the arens
of economic thought has ever had the
attention thrown upon technocracy
and none has been examined more
generally in the hope that something
of social value would be found. Thu:
far the net is small in the examina
ton Of democracy. Principally, i
appears that many agree to the ides
that technocracy has riveted atten
ton on certain abuses and given dra
matte effect to chronological unem
ployment, but that in the matter o.
remedy it has produced nothing o.
moment. However, it must be sait
that technocracy's theories have no
yet had full examination, for the,
have not been fully expounded b.
technocracy's spokesmen.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-01-13
FICTION HOUSE"
QUITS

New York City (ILNS)-After II
years of operations, Fiction House,
Inc, publishing IL magazines in what
is known as the pulp paper" field,
has discontinued business, throwing
printers, editors, writer's and others
into the army Of unemployed.
Fiction House published such mag
azines as Aces, Detective Book and
Frontier Stories.
Thurman T. Scott, secretary, ex-
planned that the business situation
made suspension necessary. When
"the magazine field has righted it
SELF if ever, publication of the group
may be resumed Meanwhile one OF
the best markets for writer's is closed
and men long accustomed to earning
decent living will be asking for "a
little loan till something turns up
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-01-13

Organized labor would mobilize it's
economic force and strike.
Work for Jobless Necessary
Il am firmly convinced that the
shorter work day and work week mus,
be applied in industry generally and
universally if we are to create work
opportunities for the millions of work
ers who are idle and willing and
anxious to work." Mr.. Green said.
Abolish Old Hours Standards
Industry has become so highly
mechanized that it is utterly and ab-
solutely impossible to provide work
or work opportunities at the ole
standards of hours, work week, anc
work day.
I'VE are face to face with the
inevitable fact that adjustments must
be made in the working period anc
working time, or we must settle dowr
and prepare to accept an economic
condition which will create and es
tablish and maintain a permanent
standing army of unemployed.
"That is my honest conclusion as
the result of study of the industrial
and economic situation.
Millions Jobless Before 1929
"The facts are that prior to 1925
and during that period there were
many millions out of work because
they had been displaced by the intro
duction of machinery, and ever
though we were at the peak of pro
duction it would be impossible fol
industry to absorb those displaced by
the introduction of mechanized de
vices and machinery"
Mr. Green told the subcommittee
that he would prefer to see the six
hour day and five-day week accom-
plished by legislative enactment, bu
if that were not done, organized La
Dor would have no other ALTERNATIVE,
than the mobilization of it's economic
force to achieve this object.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-01-13
All States to Be Urged
To Abolish Child Labor
Campaign to Be Carried at Once to Legislatures Fixing
is as Minimum Age and Safeguarding Minors with
Regulations of Protective Nature.

Strict regulation of employment
conditions for those between Is and
II will be asked, to affect 1,500,000
of that age.
Hours Of not more than eight per
day and to be always fewer than those
worked by adults will be asked. Min
imum wages for minors will be ask
ed, these to be set by state commits
sions.
Relentless pressure on labor
standards" was reported at Chill
dren's Bureau conference attended by
Edward F. McGrady, representing the
A. F. of L., because Of increased EN-
ployment of children in place of
adults. A report of the conference
says: "The agreement was unani-
nous that in this economic crisis
every available job should be given
to an adult, and that in the interest
of both child and adult legislation to
this end should be enacted this
winter"