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Smyrna times., 1934-01-17
SESSION
ROTARY CLUB
"Old Timers Night" Was OBJ
served by Rotarians at
Dover Last Week
MINUTES 1ST MEETING

"Old Timers Night was OBJ
served by the Dover Rotary Club
last week with almost one hundred
per cent of the membership in at
tendance. After a dinner served
in the Dover Century Club rooms
Russell E. Wilson, president, ex-
tended greetings and compliment
ed the membership on their at
tendance. Many interesting fea-
lures were introduced during the
dinner hour, one being the reading
Of the minutes of the first meeting
of the Dover Rotary Club October
1921 by the clubs first secretary,
DR.. Harry V. Holloway. A call
for charter members present was
made showing all but two or three
of the original members present
either as continuing members or
invited guests. Arthur Leader of
Smyrna, gave several vocal selec-
tions. Past President H H Han
son gave a talk. Major H. C.Mor-
ris, former member of the Brit
ish Aviation Corps, who was a
guest, gave an interesting account
of his experiences while in the ser
vice, as did also Charles Wetzel,
of Wyoming, a member of the
club.
Smyrna times., 1934-01-17
SAFETY
COUNCIL NEWS
Statistics Show More Acct
dents Attributed to Insult
ficient Brakes on Autos
WORN TIRES DANGEROUS

According to the Delaware SAT-
ETY. Council an automobile is no
better than it's brakes. Occasion
ally danger may be avoided by in
creasing the speed of car but as
a rule emergency conditions are
such that slowing down or stop
ping as quickly as possible is the
only safe course. Statistics show
that more accidents are attributed
to insufficient brakes than to any
other single mechanical defect or
disarrangement of automobiles.
Failures of the steering mechan-
ism should also be included among
the more important causes of &C
cidents attributable to mechanical
defects or break-doWns. Poor
tires are especially dangerous. If
the treads are smooth, the wheels
are more likely to lock and slide
along the road when the brakes
are applied and the probability of
skidding on wet, icy surfaces is in
creased. Moreover, serious acct
dents are to be expected when
weak castings suddenly blow out.
Good lights, a horn and windshield
wiper in suitable operating condi-
ton and a properly located rear
view mirror are other necessary
items in the equipment of every
car. Major repairs involving heavy
expense can aften be postponed
for a long period by correcting
minor defects promptly and by
making adjustments as soon as
they are needed. This tends to re-
duce the total amount of repair
costs and spread it out in small
sums which are relatively easy to
pay. There are millions of cars in
use today that are from five to ten
years old or more. Many of them
have been well cared for and are
still in good running order. Their
owner should remember, however,
the superior safety features of
modern automobiles especially
with respect to stopping ability
and should exercise corresponding
ly greater caution when operating
in traffic.
Smyrna times., 1934-01-17

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''. gems to be picking King Up
For about a raI .s,1.
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breakdown st Or something
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1 aid ID her most business
rlsr. -
1 minutes after five Joan
| ber way to her favorite
Jsrlor.
s,ss fayOrite at the beauty
MI because Of her docile
! d everything that Maggie
urics and Olga did, but be-
| her insistence on perfect
,rs the IOveliest woman In
la' Stanley Jones told her
\ met him in the lobby Of
a.Bradly. Absolutely, you
lsveliqst woman in the
he told her again as they
j at their table in the roof
dining room. Don't you
At you are gorgeous?"
In just a very ordinary
person." she said. "Just
Iuanis Of other stenOgra-
urking to make an honest
"a Big city,"
you could do a great deal
han that II you only knew
! Jour wonderful personal
Intelligence. You don't half
te yourself. | don't be-
! get ? cent more than my
Smyrna times., 1934-01-17
TEMPERANCE FORCES MEET
AIl-Day Conference and Meeting
at Dover on January 10Th

Temperance forces will join in
Dover on Friday, January 10, for
an all-day conference and meet
ing. The sessions will open with a
State institute of the Women's
Christian Temperance Union in the
morning, led by Mrs. Anna Lee
Waller, president. The various or
CARNATIONS will gather in the af-
ternoon for a business session
when plans will be made for fu-
ture activities. Both the morning
and afternoon sessions will be held
in the Peoples Church. Rev. Leon
ard B. Smith, president of the
Maryland Methodist Protestant
Annual Conference, will be the
speaker at the evening meeting in
Wesley M. e. Church. Mr.. Smith
resides in Baltimore.
Smyrna times., 1934-01-17

own stenogr.. pher. And you're
worth infinitely more to any man.
You wouldn't even ask for a raise,
T suppose, you shy little girl. With
vour personality and intelligence
and charm, there would be no limit
70 what you could do. But the trou
BILE is other people take advantage
of YOU. What you should do is
make I'D your mind what you want
and then 60 out and get it, the
same way other people do without
half your ability"
Il don't like to be scolded." Joan
fold him. Il wish you'd say some
thing nice"
"But, Joan. I've told you how
how adorable you are. I've said all
the nice things dare. You're the
most wonderful woman | ever
knew. You're positively glamorous."
"Rut I'm really not a bit CLAM
orous," she said. "And the only
time / ever pretend l am is when
I'm with you. I never attract at
tention."
"But you could if you wanted to-"
he said, "if you wanted to doll up
and use makeup and spend money
on beauty parlors as other girls do.
You know I've often wondered why
YOU never used rouge or any of the
other kinds of war paint"
ooh. you're scolding me again."
Joan told him. First, because ]
didn't ask for a raise, and second
because l don't go to beauty par
lors"
Its all part of the same scold,"
Stanley said. Its fault that
makes me love you all the more"
but you just said you wanted
me to doll up and 60 to beauty par
lOrs."
mot for my sake" he said
"Only for your own sake. to give
YOU more confidence, and to make
you seem as utterly lovely to your
self as you always do to me-so
that other people would realize,
and you'd know they realized. how
charming you are"
perhaps l will sometime" said
Joan. "Only men are likely to mis-
understand a girls motives"
"And that" said Stanley, "was
precisely the sort Of thing you
would say. But don't you see. If
you dolled up. they couldn't. Be
cause with your exquisite taste. It
wouldn't be obvious. They'd never
even suspect it. Will you do 1t
sometime for my sake?"
Sometime" she said.
Stanley, utterly oblivious of the
waiter, put his hand over Joan's.
"The sometime will be when you
have consented to be my wife," he
said.
"And you won't ever tell me that
| ought to make up my mind what
| want and then go out and get it
rs YOU told me I ought to ask for
a raise?"
mo, Joan" he said. Because
IF you'd ever gone out after things
there would never have been a
chance Of persuading you to marry
me"
Smyrna times., 1934-01-17
AT
SUDLERSVILLE
Number of Changes Take
Place With the First of
the New Year
BREAKS ARM ON AUTO

SudlersviIle, Md, Jan. 1O.-A
number of changes have taken
place in and about Sudlersville.
Clayton W. Larrimore has NOV
ed to Kent county, just beyond
Crumpton lane; Reese Coleman to
the farm owned by Charles B.
Chance, vacated by Mr.Larrimore;
Arthur Coleman moved from Wild
wood owned by Senator Roe to the
farm vacated by Reese Coleman;
Frank Coleman moved to Wild
wood. Frank Coppage has moved
from the Atkinson property near
Blue Ball to the farm owned by
his father, Joseph Coppage; Mr.
and Mrs. Newell Everett have
moved to Delaware near Pearson's
Corner; Nat Wooleyhand moved
from the Roe property adjoining
Frank Walraven, to Mrs. Ander-
sons farm near Anderson's Cor
ner. Roy Skinner will till the farm
vacated by Mr. Wooleyhand. VIII
liam Stanford, the colored man
who has been living on the Oscar
Roe farm near Dudley's moved to
Caroline county, and Frank N.
Tarbutton will take the farm.
Robert Roe moved from the farm
owned by the Gadd heirs to near
Ingleside and Mr.. Charles Smith
y,oOT,od RI tIic farm
While cranking his car one ev-
ening recently Calvin Skinner had
his arm broken. DR.. Metcalfe
being out of town Mr.. Skinner was
takne to Emergency Hospital,
Easton, Nd, where the fractured
bone was set. Mr.. Skinner is an
active All Club member and is
president of the Maryland State
All Club Association.
During the recent cold spell the
young folk of the community en-
joyed some ice skating. Having
no ponds in the immediate COM
munity they motored to Crumpton
and Garrison's mill pond in Della
ware. The old McFadden mill
pond where every one in Sudlers-
vile used to skate has about gone
dry and is almost completely
grown up with brush and grass.
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REPEAL TO SET
HUNDRED FREE
Liquor ViOlatorS Who Were
Sentenced, To Enjoy
Freedom
LENIENCY EXERCISED

1t is more than a possibility that
the governors of many Of the states
which have been marking time so
far on the release Of prohibition law
offenders will follow in line with
orders from Washington and free
every man and woman convicted of
crime under the wording Of the
Eighteenth amendment.
The repeal of prohibition law is
no longer a possibility but as GER
tain as death or taxes. By Deem
Der the last of the necessary state
Publications will have been made
and q new leaf will be turned over
where the book has lain open for Is
years.
Will Use Common Sense.
According to Attorney General
Homer Cummings, "a common sense
attitude will be maintained in the
department" in the matter Of fed
eral prisoners. He added that 1t
might not be advisable to issue
blanket order for release, as many
cases have other sides to them over
and above the simple breaking of
the prohibition law.
Repeal also will be demanded for
issuance of Presidential pardOns for
the thousands who have been SEN
fenced over the last 10 years and
who are now on parole.
Already a number of those states
which have voted TO throw the
Eighteenth amendment out of the
Constitution have freed the men
and women held in accordance with
that law. In Michigan Governor
Comstock let out everybody.
From Indiana. where there was
until last November, a bone-dry
law eQualing that of Michigan in
severity, comes word that Governor
McNutt has released all persons
held on simple liquor charges and
is giving consideration to all trans
port and traffic charges.
Leniency In Texas.
MA" Ferguson, governor of
Texas. is, on the advice and coun-
sci of husband Jim, who led the
vets to victory. following In the
footsteps OF Indiana and promising
consideration to the graver liquor
charges after repeal is an actual
fact
Such leniency does not mean that
the federal government intends to
let up or the arrest and prosecution
Of bootleggers after the Twenty
first amendment becomes effective.
Beating the law after repeal means
beating the tax laws, Mr.. Cummings
has gone to some pains to make
plain.
The history of prohibition over Is
years shows the following violation
tallies as far as the federal govern
ment alone is concerned:
Persons to the number of 539,17S
were convicted and fines OF SIS,
600 were assessed. Since 1926-rec-
ords before that time were not accu-
rately kept-152,510 persons re-
ceived jail sentences. Ten millions
went In attorneys fees, court costs
and loss of wages.
The federal government padlocked
1921 places, seized 1851 automo-
biles and destroyed 326,30S stills at
an estimated cost to the owners of
$50 100000. From 1920 to 1929,
1890 persons were killed In con-
nectlon with 'orcement. The bill
Smyrna times., 1934-01-17
DOVER DRAMATIC CLUB
Organized by Electing j. o. Willis
President With Other Officers

The Capital Dramatic Club of
Dover is the latest movement of
local amateur thespians to awaken
interest in amateur dramatics. ].
o. Willis was elected president; E.
E. Benson, vice-president ard ]. D.
Satterfeld, secretary and treasur-
er, and ]. o. Williams, Mrs. r. E.
Isabella Moran and DIR. C. B. Pier
members of the executive commit
tee. Meetings will be held once a
week. The club has ordred three
plays which will be read at the
next meeting. One or two will be
chosen for production.
Smyrna times., 1934-01-17
DOVER BANK DIRECTORS

First National Bank Elects Offic-
ers and Directors for Coming Year
At the annual meeting of stock
holders of the First National Bank
the following directors were re-
elected: John Carrow, William j.
Benson, William E. Maloney,
James w. Wise, James K. Sapp,
Bennett H. Emory, Thomas G.
Frame, E. p Horsey and Hughett
K. Mcdaniel. Organization was
effected by the election of John
Carrow, president; William J.Ben-
son, vice-president; Bennett H.
Emory, secretary; E. P. Horsey,
cashier; Thomas c. Frame, attor-
ney; Walter w. Rash, assistant
cashier; ]. E. Leo Scanlon, assist
ant cashier; Preston Eusenbrey,
bookkeeper; Miss Mary Attix, as
sistant bookkeeper and George
Luff, clerk.
Smyrna times., 1934-01-17

into use for quick and effective re
pairs. Many of the cowboys anG
other players who take par ID
western, war and other scenes OF
action are burned brown by tb'
California sun and for Their use A.
well as for general public use the
Red Cross Products Division OF
CSSG32 oS9 7cStee..::.sS1. largest man
ufacturers of first aid products nas
devised an adhesive plaster that "
not only waterproof but also IL the
color of suntan.
The average player may carry .
rabbits foot or other charm 70
ward OF danger. but when a pro
auction unit goes or location. q first
aid kit Ia also carried as health In
surance. for the cameras must keep
grinding.
Smyrna times., 1934-01-17
('ep cameras Grinding Is
|Nyw0ods First Commandment
|VVc SCHNuRMAcHEa

W. ss' scHNuRMAcHeR
r,'AoOD' Cal. Gone for
- dsya when a stai coulr
'aas'l0n and arrive OF tne
al hours late While direc
a'sH and camera crew
\ Inusnuy as studio costs
r,, nsht production sched
s ss.suas supervisors ano
'a a. hare At last put an
s = efodisal spending so
IT,. e'aisd With studios uers
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p s~'sa many In The movie av1
bsa TN ~. seem SO intent on
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= include ~s'adsd irOn the minds :
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Smyrna times., 1934-01-17
Students Visit Philadelphia

Seventy-five students of Dover
public schools from the seventh TO
the twelfth grades accompanied by
Profs. McNeal and Morgan and
Mrs. Cubbage of the faculty. went
by bus and private cars last Wed
nesday to attend the show and lee
ture at the Planitarium in Phila-
delphia.
Smyrna times., 1934-01-17

Subscribe to The Smyrna Times,
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Smyrna times., 1934-01-17
BRIEF ITEMS OF
THE PENINSULA
Brief News Items Of People
We Know in and Around
Larger Peninsula Towns
FROM OUR EXCHANGES

w uldIu Lduh, age 10, uISd 1t
the home of his sister, Mrs. Will
liam Jones, in South Milford on
Thursday morning after an illness
of many months. He is survived
by a wife and ten children.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Truitt, OF
near Lewes, celebrated their gold
en- wedding anniversary by enter
tanning a large number of friends
of their section together with re-
latives from Haddonfield, N. j.,
Baltimore, Md, Bishopville, Md,
and Philadelphia
Owing to an outbreak of rabies
near Greenwood, the State Board
of Agriculture, cooperating with
the State Board of Health and the
Game and Fish Commission, by
power of the Laws Of Delaware,
was established a quarantine on
dogs in that section.
The body of Mrs. Harriet Drum
mond Cannon, of New York, wife
of Walter c. Cannon, was brought
to Bridgeville, Delaware, Friday.
for interrnent in Bridgeville Gem
etery. Mrs. Cannon was a. daugh-
ter-in-law of the late Richard Can
non, druggist of Bridgeville. She
is survived by her husband and one
son, Drummond Cannon, of New
York.
Fire from undetermined origin,
but believed to have been caused
by defective chimney, destroyd
tn home of George Williams, at
Bishopville, Md, three miles from
Selbyville, entailing a loss of sew
eral hundred dollars. The Selby-
vile Fire Company hurried to the
blaze, but it had gotten too much
Roadway and they were unable to
save the building.
The Bridgeville Fire Company
has elected these officers for the
year: President, Leroy Truitt; vice
president, Donald Wright; secre-
tary, Sherman Neal; treasurer,
Harry c. Layton; fire chief, Daw-
son Todd; assistant fire chief,
Frank Locates; fire recorder, Gil
bert White; chief engineer, Char
lie Brown; trustees, Edward J. FL
lott, John Kern, o. T. Warrington.
A turkey dinner was given the
directors, officers and active crew
of the Middletown Volunteer Hose
Company at the Cathline Inn, last
Wednesday evening. They had as
their guests, Mayor Louis Levin
son and the members of town
council, and a few other friends.
Dinner was served at $50, and
was followed by several speeches
made by Mayor Levinson and
members of town council.
Smyrna times., 1934-01-17

for trying to L.y America ran into
an average of S4O,OO0,O0O a year. or
a rough total outlay of $4,000. 600.
During that period Americas Illicit
drink bill has been figured at So, S4S,-
R00nOn
Evening star., 1934-04-15

The four guns at hand were loaded and the
doors locked.
Then, unfortunately for the defense every
body had several drinks, which improved their
courage more than their aim. Soon after day
break Standish and his little troop walked
boldly up to the door and demanded surrender.
This scared all the fight out of one of Mortons
men, and the other was already drunk.
Standish at this point started to break down
the door; whereupon Morton came forth to
shoot him, with gun charged half way to the
muzzle. Probably Morton was similarly charged
but Standish was cold sober and quickly seized
the formers weapon. Thus the battle ended.
\ hoRTON was then taken to Plymouth for
wi sort Of preliminary trial. According to
his own account several of the magistrates
were in favor of his immediate execution,
Standish earnestly desiring to perform the
fatal ceremony with his own hands.
They finally decided, however. to send him
to England for trial There he escaped con-
viction, and returned to plague the saints Of
New England for another dozen years.
After a long interval. however, they caught
the fugitive and hailed him before the mag
istrates, presided over by Gov. Winthrop Here
he was given opportunity to defend himself,
but merely compelled to listen to the follow
ing harsh sentence of the court:
TT is ordered by this present court that
Thomas Morton of Mount wolliston shah
presently be set into the bilboes, and aften
sent prisoner into England =; that al
his goods shall be seized upon to defray the
charge Of his transportation, payment Of his
debts and to give satisfaction to the Indians
2 for q canoe he unjustly took away from them:
and that his house, after his goods are taken
out, shall be burnt down to the ground n the
sight Of the Indians. for their satisfaction.
for many wrongs he hath done them fron
time to time" ..-fg dpu-. e.
Evening star., 1934-04-15

became lord Of misrule, and maintained Gas It
were) a schoole of Athisme. And after they
had gott some good into their hands, and gott
much by trading with the Indeans, they spent
it as vainly in quafhng and drinking both wine
and strong waters in great exsess, and, as some
reported, 10 pounds worth in a morning.
They also set up May-pole drinking and
dancing about it many days togeather, inviting
the Indean women, for their consorts, dancing
togither, Qike so many fairies, or furies rather)
and worse practices As II they had anew re-
vived and celebrated the feasts Of the Roman
Goodies Flora, or the beasly practieses of the
Bachhinalians."
Various indignant representatives Of Ports
mouth Salem Chelsea, Weymouth and Nantas-
ket at last besought the stronger settlement at
Plymouth to do something about this Merry
Mount problem, and the authorities at Plym-
outh accordingly took the initiative by sending
two communications to the joyous and lawless
Morton, first exhorting and then demanding
that he behave himself.
Morton defed them, land threatened with
all that If any came to molest him. let them
locke to them selves, for he would prepare for
them. Upon which," says Gov. Bradford they
saw ther was no way but to take him by force"
THE job of making the arrest was intrusted
to Miles Standish (whom Morton disrepect-
fully called "Captaine Shrimp') who, with
party of eight. set out late in May. 1928. and
surprised their man while he was visiting set
tlement short distance from Merry Mount
His guards however, had imbibed too much
powerful liquor in celebrating his capture, and
they slept so soundly that Morton managed to
slip of the bed and past two doors unobserved.
= Morton easily eluded his pursuers In the
darkness and reached Merry Mount far ahead
Of them. He found only two Of his men there.
but made hasty preparations to resist capture.
Evening star., 1934-04-15

huntsmen and guides. but they participated in
his revels-and not the men only, but the
women, also. Indeed, one Of the principal al
legations subsequently made against Morton re-
ferred to the very anomalous relations existing
between himself and the neighboring squaws."
Morton knew his Latin; he also knew his
neighbors. Hence in changing the name OF
his settlement from wollaston to Merry Mount
ne spelled the latter name Mare Mount, from
the Latin word mare, meaning sea. The joke,
If any, was supposed to be on the surrounding
Puritan settlers, who could hardly object to the
name Mare Mount, l. e., Sea Mount, while
Morton's roistering gang chuckled in calling it
Merry Mount, meaning something like hot-spot.
The weak point in Mortons case is that ne
was a bootlegger to the Indians, and the COM
modify he sold them was altogether too peril
Gus to the white mans possession Of America.
Not merely frewater, but also firearms, were
easily obtainable by the savages at Merry
Mount.
THUS 1t was a military menace quite as much
] as a moral one that finally led the neigh
bors to abate the Merry Mount nuisance. Gov.
Bradford, in his history of Plymouth, laments
bitterly the failure of the English government
to stop this gun running "by some exemplerie
punishments upon some Of these game thirstie
murderers for they deserve no better title),
before their colonies in these parts be over
throwne by these barbarous savages, thus armed
with their owne weapons"
In emphasizing the military danger, the
drunkenness and debauchery at the Merry
Mount revels should not be minimized. Gov.
Bradford's account Of these, though it bristles
with stern disapproval, seems to cover most OF
the facts, at least by implication.
He tells us that "they fell to great ncencious-
ness, and led . dissolute life. powering out
themselves into all profanenes. And Morton