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Smyrna times., 1933-05-03
CUTS TRAVEL
TIME OVERSEAS
Combined Air and Steamship
Service To RevOlutiOniZe
Travel Abroad
TRANSFER BY IRELAND

Dublin.-The plan to bring New
York within three and one-half
days of Europe by a combined air
line-steamer service was brought a
step nearer completion with the fiji
ing of the prospectus of the Irish
Transatlantic Corporation, Ltd.
The idea back of the scheme is to
build a mammoth dock and air field
at Galway, Ireland. Passengers land
ing there from oceangoing liners
could transfer to air liners making
connections with the principal cap
itals in Europe.
In the prospectus Sir John Purser
Griffith, whose firm is acting as con-
sulting engineers, states profitable
business concern should be built up
if the harbor scheme is wisely de-
veloped.
'AThe capital outlay necessary for
all harbor works. jetties, shed and
buildings for the first stages of the
development would be $4,000" he
says in the prospectus. The es-
timated outgoings are per cent on
S1O,OOO,OOO or S7OO,0OO a year or
$13,4OO a week.
''If the service between Halifax
or New York and Galway was car,
ried on by the same vessels as run
between Southampton and New
York, with two sailings per week
and if the Southampton statutory
rate of $3.50 a ton was charged on
50 per cent of the gross registered
tonnage the weekly receipts would
amount to S13.S5O.
''The above figures show that the
port dues from two Atlantic liners
per week would be sufficient to cover
all the estimated outgoings.
THE reduced distance of the sea
voyage from Halifax to Galway will
enable one liner to make complete
outward and homeward journey in
two weeks. instead Of three weeks
as at present between New York
and Southampton. This would re
duce the number of liners in com
mission"
Smyrna times., 1933-05-03
ROAD WIDENING
PLAN PRAISED
Cecil Group Backing Project
Offers to Get Rights of
Way For Road
WORK TO BEGIN SOON

The Advisory Board Of the Phila-
delphia Road Improvement Associ-
alton, whose members are residents
and taxpayers all the way along
the line from Elkton to the Balti-
more city line, at a meeting held
in Havre de Grace, passed resolu-
tions thanking the State Roads
Commission for the careful atten-
tion it had given to the widening
and improvement of the Philadel-
phia road and expressing conf
dence that the commission would
give the travelling public the very
finest road possible at this time
The Association also offered its
services in securing new rights of
ways and in any other matters in
which it might be helpful. Plans
under consideration by the State
Roads Commission call for widen
+ ing the road to thirty feet and that
/ existing curves will be eliminated
wherever possible. The improve
ment will probably consist in five
foot concrete shoulders on the pres
ent road bed, with a macadam or
asphalt center. Three shifts Of en-
gineers are now at work on various
sections of the road, engaged IN
survey matters. In the near fu-
ture it is expected that the Roads
Commission will ask proposals for
building the first section of the
road.
Smyrna times., 1933-05-03
RELIEF
COMMISSION
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ority to furnish baby chickens for
this purpose. The members decid-
ed that such requests did not come
within the realms of relief work as
understood by the commission and
the applications were refused.
Where the rumors originated are
now known, but from the appeals
made to the commission the re-
quests were pretty general They
ranged from requests for twenty to
fifty chicks, up into many hundreds
of chickens, some appeals ranging
from three to five hundred baby
chicks a person, it is stated. The
commission approved the budgets
for May, involving expenditures for
sewing units and direct relief ord
ers for all three counties March
it was believed would be the peak
in the work of direct relief, but or
ders sought through April, it is be-
lieved will show equally as heavy
demands. The amount approved
for May, is slightly under that ex-
pended for March and April The
Commission approved of three
work relief projects -one about the
Dover High School grounds, one
about the State College for Color
ed Students and the third about the
school at Concvord. The commits
sion members We're pleased with
the reports concerning the health
of the young single men, between
I Is and 25 years Of age, who have
enlisted in the emergency conser-
walton program, provided by the
! government, which embraces work
in the forests of the United States.
/ Recruits from New Castle and
Kent counties, were found to be in
splendid condition, and less than
half dozen were refused after the
first examination from some physi-
cal deficiency Government army
officers who inspected the young
men, were high in their praise of
them and stated they should show
even more improved health condi-
/ tions at the termination of their
six months work in the woods
These contingents. but the first of
the allotment of 500 from Della
ware are now in training at Fort
DUPONT, where they will remain un-
til they are conditioned for forest
work. Nearly half of the five hun
dred to which this state has been
assigned are now under tents at
the army post at Fort dupont
Each youth who enlisted did so vol
UNFAIRLY, and agreed to have $25 of
the monthly wages they will re-
ceive deducted and returned for
use of the parents and relatives at
home, whom they are trying to
support. One of the most encour-
aging features to the commission,
was the enthusiasm with which the
recruiting of these foresters pro-
ceeded. The boys appeared de-
lighted with the opportunity af-
forded them, and because every
thing was voluntary in their enlist
ment. showed their willingness to
accept the governments offer for
work of this character.
Recruits from Sussex county will
be among the next group assigned
to forestry service, as well as 9TH
ers from New Castle and Kent
counties.
Smyrna times., 1933-05-03
GIRL, 8, WIRELESS OPERATOR
Jean Hudson, Laurel, Youngest
Licensed Operator in Country

An eight-year-old girl, who sat
on a thick dictionary SO she could
comfortably reach the table top,
Wednesday, passed the Federal ex-
aminations and was licensed a
wireless operator The girl, Jean
Hudson, of Laurel, Del, was given
a rating of 80 per cent by Examin-
er George z. Sterling at Federal
radio headquarters at For McHen-
nv. She is believed to be the
youngest licensed operator in the
United States. Sterling started the
tests by sending 10 words a min
ute, but Jean was far ahead of
him, although that is all required
of an amateur. Then he stepped up
his sending to Is words a minute,
and then to 20, the requirement for
a commercial license, but the little
girl was with him all the way. Next
came the technical tests, in which
the youthful applicant was requir-
ed to explain the fundamental
workings of the short wave radio
rescribe the makeup Of a sending
and receiving set and spell the
names of all the component parts
She needed but IS as a passing
grade. but when it was all over, q
check showed her to have 80. Jean
gets her radio ability naturally
Her father, Edgar L. Hudson, is a
licensed amateur operator, and her
14-year-old brother. Roland, receiv-
ed his license a year ago.
Smyrna times., 1933-05-03
BERRY FREIGHT
RATES TOBECUT
Lower Delaware Growers to
Save $50 a Carload on Ship
ments to Boston, Mass.
MEAN MUCH TO GROWERS

Strawberry growers Of this sec
ton last week received through w.
H. Allen, Delmar freight agent, re-
ports on drastic reductions in
freight rates for this commodity.
The announcement came from H.
r. Neamond, route agent for the
Railway Express Company, which
handles freight and express ship
ments on the Delmarvia Division
of the P. r. R. The detailed tariff
for the season has not yet been
made public, but Mr. Neamond as
sured local growers that the rates
would be effective before the first
shipment of berries is due to leave
Delmar. One effect of the new
rate will be a saving of $50 per car
load or 3Oc per crate between Del
mar and New England points, not
ably Boston, one of the most i'm
portant northern centers. An in
vestigation of the crop in this sec
ton of the Eastern Shore, includ-
ing Salisbury and Selbyville, Del,
shows that there is approximately
an increase in acreage of twenty
five per cent over last year. Alfred
A. Nelson of Cape Charles, who has
been made assistant yard master
for the Pennsylvania Railroad at
Delmar, will assume his new duties
this week. For the present, he is
living with a sister, Mrs. Jackson
L. Ellis, at Delmar.
Smyrna times., 1933-05-03
Town to Get Free Gas

Bow Island, Alta.-The town Of
Bow Island will receive free fuel gas
for the next five years by virtue
of its location in the heart of a
gas producing area. The company
developing property in the vicinity
of the town agreed to supply the
towns gas, in exchange for a nom
producing well owned by the munich
pality.
Smyrna times., 1933-05-03
Armor Worn by Ancient Greeks

The Greeks of the Homeric age
had helmets. cuirasses, greaves and
shields of brass. The later Greeks
used the same pieces of bronze
armor. but developed them so as
10 protect the whole body more
thoroughly and frequently used a
corselet of quilted linen of oriental
design in place of the metal cuirass.
The shield was smaller than the
HOmeric shield.
Smyrna times., 1933-05-03

phate rock, coke, iron, lumber, fur
niture and farm and food products.
Smyrna times., 1933-05-03
REPEAL FIGHT
NEW CASTLE co.
Petitions For Nominees Piling
Up in Wilmington and All
Through County
VETS ARE ENCOURAGED

Members of repeal organizations
who last week began the circula-
tion in New Castle county and Will
mington of petitions nominating
delegates to the Statewide repeal
convention in Dover June "a, re-
ported that the petitions are being
rapidly signed and that unusual in
terest is being manifest by citizens
of every political affiliation in favor
of repeal. The convention nomi-
nees are subject to a delegate cleo
ton on May q. The nominees for
repeal who are supported by all the
repeal organizations in county and
city, including Association Against
the Eighteenth Amendment and
the Women's Organization for
National Prohibition Reform, are:
Mrs. Preston Lea, William G. Robe
len, Pierre S. DUPONT, Charles Nal
colin Cochrane, Sr., John Pilling
Wright, Eugene Ennals Berl, and
Bankson T. Holcomb.
Smyrna times., 1933-05-03

are w. M. Newton and his son, w.
c.. Newton, who contemplate pre-
senting their find of the old papers
to the State Archives Commission.
Smyrna times., 1933-05-03
DEATH RECORD OF WEEK
Mrs. Marshall, Widow of DIR. George
w. Marshall of Milford, Dies

Mrs. Mary L. Marshall, aged so,
widow of DR.. George w. Marshall,
died at her home in Milford early
Thursday morning following an ill
ness of several weeks. She is sur
vived by three sons, DR. William
Marshall, DR.. s. M. D. Marshall,
noted eye specialist, and Chester
Marshall, all of Milford, three
grandchildren, Donald, Samuel and
Barbara Marshall, of Milford, and
a sister, Mrs. Manly P. brennan, of
EIkton, Md. She was the daugh-
ter of the late Andrew Donnell and
sister of the late Samuel Donnell,
both of Newark. Prior to her i'll
ness, Mrs. Marshall was prominent
in welfare projects in her commun-
ity and in the State. She took an
active part in the work of the Del
aware Chapter, American Red
Cross and was a member of the ex-
ecutive committee. She was a
member of the Milford Branch and
during the World War organized
and directed units for making
sweaters, bandages and other nee
essities. Another project close to
her heart was the Anti-Tuberculcs-
is Society of Delaware. She was
one of the pioneers in the fight
against this disease and it was
largely through her efforts that
sentiment for the movement was
created in lower Delaware. Mrs
Marshall was active in club work
in the State. She was a charter
member of the Milford New Cen
tury Club. She was a past presi-
dent of the State Federation OF
Women's Clubs. It was while the
late DR.. Marshall was attending
Delaware College that lie met his
future wife, who was living in the
college town. The funeral took
place from the Protestant Episco-
pal Church at Milford, Saturday
afternoon at 2 o'clock with the rec
tor, the Rev. Joseph Kinks, con
Quoting the services.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-04-14
LaborQueriies

Questions and Answers on La
bOr: What 1t Has Done; Where
II Stands on Problems of the
Day; Its Aim and Program;
Who's Who in the Ranks of
the Organized TOilers, etc., etc.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-04-14
Organized Business Still
Fighting Work Insurance

New York.--Despite the need for
unemployment insurance, amply de-
monstrated during the present depres-
sion, organized business in New York
state is still fighting unemployment
insurance proposals. The insurance
committee Of the New York State
Chamber of Commerce has expressed
vigorous opposition to the standard
unemployment insurance bill now be-
fore the legislature, contending that
the bill, which is supported by organ
lied labor, would set up system
of relief or "dole" under the guise
of insurance. Organized labor is not
worried by the chambers opposition
and is continuing its battle for un-
insurance.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-04-14
MORE STATES
Pass Mandatory Old Age
Pension Acts

New York City (ILNS)-Five ad-
ditiensl states have enacted nanda-
tory old age pensions during the
present legislative season, the Amer
ican Association for Old Age Secur-
ity reports.
Three states, Oregon, North Dakota
and Arizona, enacted pension legisla-
tion during March, and similar laws
were passed by the legislatures and
signed by the governors of Indiana
and Washington earlier in the legis-
lative season.
Speedy progress of pension meas
ures in many other legislatures now
sitting is reported. In Arkansas Leg
islative approval has been given to a
pension bill which is now awaiting
the signature of Gov. j. M. Futrell.
The legislature of Oklahoma has also
passed measure, according to the
latest information. Additional bills
are over the legislative hurdles in the
lower houses Of Ohio and Missouri,
Favorable committee reports are
speeding the progress of this legisla-
tion in other states.
A signal victory for old age pen
sions was registered in Pennsylvania,
where the house committee which re-
fused to report out the pension con-
stitutional amendment was discharged
from its consideration on March %
by majority of 129 to 63 votes in
the lower house of the legislature.
For the first time in the history of
Ohio, the state house of representa-
tives passed an old age pension bill,
result Of fight of many years
duration. The measure was intro
duced by direct initiative Of the peo-
pie, and, having thus proved its pop
uuarity, received the approval of 81
legislators, with only 36 votes re-
corded against it.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-04-14
ILLEGAL
Pay Cuts Made BY Rail-
roads, Labor Head Says

Chicago (ILNS)-Two big and
wealthy railroad systems, the Rock
Island and the Illinois Central, are
making illegal reductions in the pay
of their employees, A. F. Whitney,
chairman of the Railway Labor Ex-
ecutives' Association, charged in
statement issued at Washington.
J. E. German, president of the Rock
Island system, denied the charge, say
ing Whitney had been misinformed.
The Illinois Central said it had no
intention of violating it's contract.
Whitney declared that the two rail-
road sysems were attempting to
force employees to accept 1875 per
cent pay slash in violation of fed
eral laws and of contract with the
workers. He said the attention Of
President Roosevelt was being direct
ed to the matter and added:
II was informed that the Rock Is
land was preparing checks providing
an additional deduction of one-sixth
from the wages of employees, which
already have been reduced 10 per cent
by the national agreement made in
Chicago, December 81, 1882, and
which does not expire until November
l, 1888.
"They are thus proceeding to break
their contracts with employees, to vio-
late a federal law, the railway labor
act, and to evade the application of
the national bankruptcy act"
The Rock Island system was re-
ported to be issuing two pay checks.
one for five-sixths Of the pay and
the other for one-sixth. The one
sixth would be returned to the car
riers as voluntary contribution"
A similar scheme repeatedly was
under consideration by the Illinois
Central
Whitney said he had advised all
union workers to hold any pay checks
from which deductions OF more than
10 per cent had been made.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-04-14

much the same thing, for so long
time as the Chinese.
Their Great Wall kept out the bar
barians to the north; there were high
mountains and deserts between them
and the western peoples, the great
ocean to the east was safeguard
there: while on the south the Hima-
layas guarded.
But Steam-of ocean ships and loco
| motive-drawn trains-broke all bound
| aries of walls, and of distances, and
of oceans.
The Western world wanted Chinese
silk, and offered in exchange the Sc
crets of all its power
The ancient civilization, with it's
habits and its barriers, is gone.
But the Chinese still can live on a
handful Of rice and beans day.
When China has learned the West
ern secrets Of power and wealth and
trade-and the arts of making things
things to sell'-
Then let the West beware!
Perhaps it may be our turn to re-
member the Chinese lessons of how to
live on little.
And if perhaps needs must-learn
a 70
the most Of food.
For the lesson Of the land is also
a part lesson Of the 1000 years of
Chinese wisdom.
An acre of land will give more fat
from the raising of peanuts, than it
will from the grazing and feeding of
a cow. They have tried it.
An acre of land will produce two
pounds of pork for every pound of
beef or mutton that it can raise.
They tried that, too.
And soy beans take the place of
meat-protein.
The funny stories they tell about !
Chinese foods fade into insignifcance
by the side of these age-long lessons
in the art of "how to live"
"Ridiculous" you say. "That we
should learn from the Chinamann
Perhaps
But put this where your grandchil-
dren can read it:
THE CHINESE ARE NOT A VAN
RACE.
Can the White Man say as much
for himself?
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-04-14

New York-The British health in
surance system was championed by
DR.. G. F. McCleary, former senior
medical officer of the Ministry of
Health of Great Britain, in speaking
before the house of delegates Of the
Medical Society of the State Of New
York. DIR. McCleary said the British
system had brought adequate medical
treatment to whole classes of persons
who did not receive it before, and had
improved the standards OF medical
practice in England.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-04-14
Truths POndered While
Riding at
Anchor
Then gently scan
your brother man."
BY Mr.. MOdestus-

Experience is wonderful teacher
but it usually takes a long time.
In the education of nations, how.
ever, education has had a select
school.
Only in the last century have ma.
tions gone to the modern school, OF
search and comparison.
This is one of the causes of the
upheavals going on around the globe
When the rest of the world has
caught up with the inquisitive Sec
ton, we may have times to settle
down--apparently.
Apparently-because they will all
be moving more together, then.
An important thing in education is
eating; not much attention is paid it.
Mostly-we eat too much; "dig our
graves with our teeth"
1t has been demonstrated that mil
lions of able-bodied people can live
on few cents per Applicability
and work hard
Some of them live on wheat, main
ly; others mostly on rice.
The other principal element of their
food is beans-soy beans.
Two-thirds of China-about 260
million people in the southern part
live mostly on rice and soy beans.
The northern third of the Chinese
people live on wheat and soy beans.
They are not vegetarians in any
sense, or because they have read
about it.
They like chickens, and pork, and
other meats, as we'll.
And they know what to do with
salads.
These food practices-perhaps you
might call them habits-are the result
OF about 1000 years of experience.
No other great nation has stayed
so long in one place, and done pretty
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-04-14
Utility Companies Put
Men on Five-Day Week

New York. = Approximately 900
men have been placed on the five-day
week in the electrical and mechanical
construction departments of the New
York Edison Co. and United Electric
Light and Power Co. subsidiaries of
the Consolidated Gas Co. of New
York. Officials of the companies said
the five-day week was adopted in the
hope that it would enable the COM
panies to avoid reduction in the
working forces Of the departments.
The officials said similar adjustments
of working hours would have to be
made in other departments Of Con-
solidated Gas companies.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-04-14
Early "sidsboard."

The credenza II often said to have
been the forerunner Of the sideboard.
but this distinction really belongs to
the dressoir on which was piled all the
plate not In use at she banquet. as
well ~ many valuable articles which
had no connection whatever with the
meal, such as girendoles, vases. Jew
els, and the like.
The abace and credenza In earl,
days were often used ~ service tables
and still earlier the latter often seryet.
az an altar In the less important
churches, the accessories to bs used
upon II being kept insidA
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-04-14
MILL ON THREE-SHIFT
OPERATION

New Bedford, Mass.-As result Of
increased tire fabric orders received
from tire plant in Akron, the Devon
Mills here are operating at full ca
pacity on three shifts. About 1000
workers are employed on the three
shift schedule.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-04-14
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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-04-14

Q.-Is there a general shipping
strike in any European country at
present?
A.--Swedish seamen are on strike,
as a result of the failure of the Sea-
mems Union and the employers to
come to an agreement. The employ
ers are demanding wage reductions.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-04-14

Q.--DOes labor favor unification of
the banking system?
A.-Discussing banking reform, the
latest monthly survey of business of
the American Federation of Labor
lists unification as one of the needs
OF banking and says: "Once our
banks are in one system it will be
possible to regulate them strictly and
prevent the fraud and mismanage-
ment which has honeycombed the sys-
tenn in recent years"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-04-14
RHODE ISLAND LABOR TO MEET

Providence, R. 1.-The annual con-
vention of the Rhode Island State
Federation of Labor will be held in
Providence on April 20 and 80. Among
the important matters to be discussed
is labor's eleven-point legislative pro-
gram, now pending in the Rhode Is
land general assembly.