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Smyrna times., 1934-01-03
SMYRNA WEDNESDAY

christmas holidays with her sister
Mrs. Frank S. Busser and Mr.
Busser at their home at German
town, Pa.
Mr.. B. j. Nickelsen of Pensa-
cola, Florida, spent the weekend
with Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis M. Price
and family. On Monday Mr.. Nick
elsen accompanied by Messrs Rich
ard 2: Price and Henry T. Price,
left by motor for Atlanta, Ga.
Henry will visit friends at Atlanta
for about a week before returning
to Smyrna
Smyrna times., 1934-01-03
ST. PETERS CHURCH NOTES

Rev. Frederick Marx Barton, Rec
tor, Announces Services for Week
Rev. Frederick Marx Barton,
rector, announces the following
services: Friday, 7.30 p. m, short
evening prayer service and ad-
dress, choir practice to follow.
Sunday next-10 a. m, church
school; II a. M, celebration of the
Holy Communion and sermon, sub
ject of the sermon will be Seeing
the Star, They Rejoiced." $50
p. M, Young Peoples meeting.
The Epiphany meeting of the Wo-
mans Auxiliary of the Diocese will
be held in the church of the As
cension, Claymont, January 18th,
2 p. m.
Smyrna times., 1934-01-03

farm of Gilbert Cosden not far
from the Mifflin farm and from
the Charles Hopkins farm in the
same vicinity. Clues in each case
are being worked out with the
possibility of the early arrest of
the thief or thieves at an early
date.
Smyrna times., 1934-01-03
FOR SALE

State Supervised Barred Ply
mouth Rock and State Certified
Single Comb White Leghorn
Chicks. Order early to avoid dis
appointment.
o. A. NEWTON & SON CO.,
1-3 Bridgeville, Delaware
Smyrna times., 1934-01-03
FOR SALE

Two, used Mccormick Deering
Tractors, complete with disc or
pillow, one walking pillow, and one
John Deere, three bottom orchard
pillow.
Complete stock of repairs for
MISUNDERSTANDING 1920 tractors,
and Little Genius Plows.
o. A. NEWTON & SON CO.,
Is Bridgeville, Delaware
Smyrna times., 1934-01-03
CHICKEN THIEVES AT DOVER
Rob Walker L. Mifflin of Thirty
Chickens and Two Turkeys

Thirty chickens and two turkeys
were stolen from the Walker L.
Mifflin farm west of Dover on a
Sunday night recently. State Of
ficers have also received report
that they were stolen from the
Smyrna times., 1934-01-03
THE ANNUAL MEETING OF

the Stockholders of The Fruit
Growers National Bank and Trust
Company of Smyrna will be held
at the Banking House on Tuesday,
January 8, 1884, at twelve o'clock
noon, to consider and vote for the
election of a Board of Directors
for the ensuing year; also to trans
act any other business which may
properly come before the meeting.
w. E. NOWLAN, Cashier.
Smyrna times., 1934-01-03
FEED GRINDING

BY a hammermill, Tuesday and
Friday. If stormy then first clear
day after
Phone 245 R 2
JOHN r. PRATT,
1927 ct Smyrna, Del.
Smyrna times., 1934-01-03
EONALAND
ITEMS
|rhO Come and Go,
/ Our Community
Farmer Smyrnians

To Our Community
Former Smyrnians
[AND CLUBPARTIES
Mrs.. Erwin R. Dick and
him ]. Dick, entertained
h at their home, Maple
~. near Smyrna, N ew
4. The guests were Dr..
George Cross of swart tn
Mr.. and Mrs. Donald
/. SHVsrside;; Mrs. Wen
[Tint Of Westover Hills,
I'm Mr.. William Powell
\. Pa; Miss Gustava
\ New York City; Mr..
c. Leland Harmonson,
kIrs. R. F. Corley, DR.. and
4. Deakyne, Mr.. and Mrs.
<lsOn, Miss Elizabeth Viii
sSOr and Mrs. 9. w. w.
Nj. and Mrs. Davis Il.
and Mrs. Ralph FAIRIES,
uthsr Lapham, George
Misses Margaret Collins,
Ennsy Harmonson, Mar
Pawn, Norma Coleman,
IaHeckar, and Messrs.
Goldberg, Henry R. Shap-
/ this town; Harry Mayer,
Burton, Of Dover.
Nary A, Smith, widow Of
Smith, Of Smyrna, cele-
er eighty-ffth birthday
y on December % at the
Der daughter, Mrs. Earl
De- and Mr.. Chandler in
Maine. In spite of her
age, Mrs. Smith enjoys
lih and is active. She
flsine in October to spend
ulthS with her daughter,
lder, and expects to re-
Be spring to her family in
She has eight children
as follows: Clarence E.
b Hurlock, Nd; Mrs.
H0dgson, of Smyrna;
n Lyman, of near Smyr-
Nsttie ]. Atwell, of Del
Emma 5. Lattomus, of
'n;i Victor W. Smith, of
loVe, N. j.; Ebert H.
Starke, Fla, and Mrs.
p Chandler, of Rumford,
Smith has seventeen
aren and eight great
drsn.
Iorence Stats, daughter
Ms. AJefferson Stats
nyrna left today for
On D. c, to accept a po-
&enOgrapher for Con
v. L. Adams of VIII
Mss Stats is a grad
Smyrna High School.
s'' also Goldey College,
n -Four years prior to
! Reorganization Of the
lion Works, Edgemoo or,
Sc was employed in the
aullan e. Goldsborougb
airplane from scott I !.
. he Dover Airport last
n Capt. Goldsborougb
Sayina 70 visit his moth
'sily GOldsborough. Who
In nome on Commerce
~ pneumonia. Can't
N =. also visited Mr.. apd
n, Thompson Of i "a, ear
Il Y wyoming, returning to
4. Y, On Saturday. :
H. and Mrs. c. W. W
4. and Mrs. W. {. De !.
n, ~ Mrs. G. Leland g + ar
\ Daughter, Miss Helen +
i. H.. lSas0n. Miss Anne
H., ,s't 81, Mcdonald, and ID
r. ,'l ! Collins were amGno !,
! d. ', r!, to attend the
kso n country Club at Do Do
kay evening.
E : net, Slaughter enter
d s, juliet supper at h. her
4 Ss sstaa on Sunday , ev-
d p Press 1 included Mess gr-
faNna. D william D. Hud-
r Fla - - Nlckelsen of
/ Isa5'rassa' ana an Misses ss.I Betty t,
Esuton. N4u katherine
! d r tsiSs.sll, a student
Pa ', ssn Hospital
Parents Mr.. a, and H srs.
b. I sn,t George Collins.
Ss'ford were re' ., daughter
Smyrna times., 1934-01-03
FOR SALE

One hundred fine, Single Comb
White Leghorn breeding cockerels,
State Certified, either Hanson or
Cedar View strain, from hens with
records of from 200 to 81 eggs.
o. A. NEWTON & SON CO.,
1-3 Bridgeville, Delaware
Smyrna times., 1934-01-03
FOR SALE

FOR SALE
Twenty-Five vigorous Barred Ply
mouth Rock Cockerels, both State
Supervised and State Certified.
Prices reasonable.
o. A. NEWTON & SON CO.,
1-3 Bridgeville, Delaware
Smyrna times., 1934-01-03

b.. Legion Legion 5 Ass5li' 5s :
E|,s'at5'1':: 9 January > e ;
H. rn q VII afternoon s4 N
i be i the Welfare
ssrTlc s..,'srv as announc-
1 y. |, John T. Johnson Joh On !,
t,,a 81 January 7th' ] tn !
l..s Y. strickland 1l., Pas
1 Ss'l,, !. Methodist I Eplsc0,
h n ! clayton; January Mary
Usv Frederick MarA
y Est j peters Pro
/, l3's f :: e. s ! JAMES
+ ~ = Ray RI 4 r kir~an.
/ rsrrch in cheswold.
Smyrna times., 1934-01-03
FOR RENT

Farm of 200 Acres, 8 miles from
Smyrna. Possession March 1, 1884
Apply to
MRS. THEODORE MANNON,
Care of Jackson Snow, Jr.,
Phone "a R % Smyrna Del.
1-3 If
Evening star., 1934-09-16
Early Electric Lights.

For the last week a strong series of
electric lights have been shining from
the top of the Monument and from
the Capitol dome. They light up the
whole city and make it possible to
read a newspaper on Pennsylvania
avenue at midnight. The Washington
Monument is now 410 feet high and
the great ring of light at this dis
Evening star., 1934-09-16
Truck and Rail Line
Agreed on for Andes

BUENOS AIRES Up.--Chile and
Argentina have agreed upon a combi-
nation railway-motor truck system of
transportation across the Andes Noun
tains to substitute for service inter-
rupted months ago, when many miles
OF the Transandine Railway were de-
stroyed by floods and avalanches.
Seventy-Seven miles of the railroad
line were battered by a glacier and
ripped up by floods last January. Re-
placement of the wrecked portion of
the line, all within Argentine territory,
would cost about $4,000, 900. The
money is not available, according to
British owners Of the line.
Under an agreement between the
two nations the Chilean Transandine
Railway, controlled by the Chilean
government, will operate trains from
Santiago to the Argentine frontier
and then over the tracks of the Ar
gentine Transandine line to the village
Of Punta de Vacas, n miles above
Mendoza. where the break In the line
begins.
Between Punta de Vacas and Men,
doza the Argentine Transandine line
will operate specially designed noun
tain passenger and freight trucks.
East Of Mendoza the Argentine Rail-
way viii handle the trafic.
Evening star., 1934-09-16

time or another, but in ways that
make it hard to class them with pre-
cisely the same things that have hap
pened in other parts of the world. A
civil war? Yes, the English have
had one. but it was very civil war,
indeed. Regicide? Certainly, the Eng
lish once killed one of their Kings, but
he was a saint (Which they didn't
like), and they got rid of him in such
a strictly legal way that his far from
sanity son found it quite possible to
be merry monarch. Fascist dicta-
torShip and revolution? Yes, England
has known both; the former was
thoroughly efficient and unpopular,
while the latter was anti-national,
bloodless and entirely successful.
Nor is this English knack of doing
things differently a lost art Think
of the general strike of 1926-the most
English affair imaginable, with every
one tackling the experiment with
good difhdence, policemen
playing foot ball with strikers, not a
life lost, not shot fired.
Which brings one to another Ikable
paradox of England; that she is al
ways ready for the unexpected, yet
often unprepared for the practicable.
Evening star., 1934-09-16
CONSTITUTION DAY FINDS
CHALLENGE TO LIBERTY
Time Has Brought Material Changes
but Principles of Amercanism
Still Are Declared Same.

glories mentioned above-transporta-
tion, electricity, education.
Washington regarded transporta-
ton as the key to the future of Amer
lea and devoted much effort and
money to its development, particu-
larly through canals and highways.
He also studied and Endorsed prac-
tical steamboat which antedated
Fultons by several years. He and
the New York leaders tirelessly urged
improving communications with the
West. Likewise, many of the New
England leaders were even then ac-
lively engaged in overseas trade on a
large scale.
Franklin was so certain that elec-
tricity would be a major factor in
the future that he experimental with
it almost continuously and kept in
touch with the leading research CEN
terS here and abroad. Philadelphia
was, indeed, the center for highly
important scientific effort, dealing
with electricity. water power, etc.
Jefferson, who was, as is we'll
known, a scientist and inventor of
modern American education. He it
was, and not some twentieth century
innovator, who successfully cham
pioned free, non-propagandized, secu-
lar education. He did not stop with
writing about it, but built his ideas
into magnificent university and
was instrumental in starting that
broadening, secularizing movement
which has slowly transformed edu-
cation in this country. 1t was he,
wealthy and master of his environ
ment, and not some spokesman for
an oppressed minority of immigrants,
who promulgated the statute for re-
ligiouS freedom. 1t was he who forced
the addition of the bill of rights to
the Constitution before he would
give it his support.
We are taller than the men of the
constitutional convention simply be-
cause we stand on their towering
shoulders
And yet the cry goes up that we
must scrap the Constitution; that it
was the work of medievalists and
not of moderns: that it is obsolete
and an impediment.
An impeachment to whom? Why,
simply to those ravening theorists
who would despoil an entire civili-
zation to attempt to uphold their
fantastic notion that there is such a
thing as sheer, diaphanous liberty.
capable of functioning and producing
happiness in a property-less world.
They make nice distinctions be-
tween individual rights and property
rights, proclaiming the former sacred
and the latter profane. But, as a
matter of fact, what individual rights
are there that are not woven up
tightly with property rights?
BY what stretch of logic is one
justified in attacking the Constitu-
ton as the stronghold of property
and the dungeon of liberty? 1t is
the champion, at one and the same
time, of property rights and of indi-
sridual rights for the simple reason
that the two are different aspects of
ths same thing.
Evening star., 1934-09-16
BY RANDOLPH LEIGH.
= UPERFICIALLY, it is a far cry
from the America that came

~ UPERFICIALLY, 1t is a far cry
from the America that came
into being with the signing of
~ the Constitution on September
IT, 1887, and the America
of today.
Theirs was leisurely life; ours is
hurried. Communication with them
was slow and hazardous; with us it
is swift and uneventful. Their occu-
pations were relatively few and gen.
orally simple; ours are multitudinous
and often overlapping. Their popu-
lation was chiefly of one stock; ours
is polyglot
Fundamentally, however, the gap
between us and the trainers of the
Constitution is not as wide as might
be imagined. This chasm of almost
a century and a half is spanned not
so much by our capacity for reaching
back and holding to the past, as by
their capacity for reaching forward
and providing for the future.
America, on the first Constitution
day, was, it is true, thinly populated,
but 1t was thick with ideas. To an
almost unparalleled degree it was rich
in men capable of thinking in the
large. There is, indeed, no more
patent badge of ignorance than that
OF assuming that the Constitution was
the work of men of narrow farmer
lawyer outlook. thinking only in terms
of their immediate age and of their
hemmed-in Atlantic Seaboard eco
nomic system.
Only few of them, it is true, had
been over the mountains into the
Great Valley, but all of them faced
in that direction, and intended to
nave nothing less than the Pacific for
their Western boundary. They had
even called their hard-pressed little
Army, wriggling up and down the
Atlantic Coast in an effort to regain
its water front cities, ''the Continental
Army" Pompous nomenclature it
must have seemed to the British gen.
erals who relentlessly pursued that
Army, but prophetic, too, if looked
at through the eyes of history.
We of today are particularly proud
Of three accomplishments which we
regard as distinctive of our epoch:
Transportation, with its enriching and
broadening results; mechanical power,
best summed up in the word cleo
tricity, and education, with its by
product, tolerance. Furthermore, in
discussing the applicability of the
Constitution to our machine age, we
often begin with the assumption that
it was the work of men who had not
visioned these things at all.
And yet the trainers of the Consti-
tuition and their immediate associates
were keenly aware of these problems
and blazed the very trails which we,
blinded by vanity to our debt to them
in this regard, have followed so sue
cessfully. They did not spin philo-
sophical cobwebs about an ideal Gov
ernment with no relationship to a
modern mechanical world They
were actually upon the threshold of
such . world. and were fully aware
Of
Axamine, Resistance. the modern"
Evening star., 1934-09-16
: Percy Robertson.
From Etching by A. E. Howarth.

She can adapt herself to war or a
currency crisis, but when it comes to
getting Wembley Exhibition ready for
a particular date. foreigners must
tramp through acres of mud and un-
finished buildings in order to obtain a
really inadequate impression of Eng
lish efficiency. You can note similar
paradox when the clang of the fire
engine sounds in Piccadilly Circus
and the traffic automatically disen-
tangles itself to make clear passage.
Marvellous organization foreigner
will exclaim. but the same foreigner
will be differently amazed at the
railway terminus when you show him
how an Englishman claims his lug
gage from the guards van-merely by
pushing into the crowd, pointing to a
bag. and saying it is his. "Supposing
it isn't his?" is the thought that will
occur Immediately to any intelligent
Frenchman or German, and since you
cannot boast that the English are
more honest than other races, you
can only reply that their railway Gus
toms are of considerable antiquity and
almost tribal origin, and that the
taking of another mans suitcase is
Evening star., 1934-09-16
BY GASTON NERvAL.
HILE celebrates her national

HILE celebrates her national
4 day next Tuesday. This is
the first year, since the revo-
" lutionary wave which the de-
preston brought along, that
eel dieciocho" will find the inhabitants
of the southernmost Latin American
republic enjoying relative domestic
peace, although the prospects for the
near future are not much brighter.
In the past three years Chile has ex-
perienced a series of internal changes
which affected her institutional life
and necessarily will affect her political
fortune in the next few years. These
changes began in 1881. when an indig-
nant majority of the Chilean people,
first by passive resistance and then
with the support of the armed forces,
succeeded in overthrowing the auto
cratic regime of Dictator President
IbaneZ. The IbaneZ administration
had been one of open suppression of
individual liberties and had been
charged with mismanagement Of pub
lie funds.
But Chile's troubles did not come to
tatorship. The men who took over
the reins of the administration were
overwhelmed by the task of rebuilding
its shattered financial condition. The
public debt of the nation had been in
creased by almost $50 per cent. Con-
cessions which had been granted to
corporations and individuals with
little concern for the public interest
we're now difficult to terminate. The
treasury, into which foreign bankers
had poured millions Of dollars, was
empty.
Shifts Sought Stability.
These problems of government. to-
gether with the political effervescence
caused by the upheaval, proved too big
for the men who succeeded Ibanez in
power. Several rapid, though orderly
shifts were necessary in the makeup
of the temporary government before
one of relative stability could be estab-
lished. Finally the conservative Juan
Esteban Montero was elected to head
the new regime. When Senor Monterc
was inaugurated constitutional Presi-
dent Of Chile optimist observers
thought that the storm had definitely
passed and that new days Of peace and
prosperity lay ahead.
Subsequent events, however, proved
this to be an error. Ever since the
days of Alessandri, the Great Com
Evening star., 1934-09-16
BY FRANK G.. CARPENTER.
CHAPTER Xxx.

Paradise of Cranks.
N w sn ngton is the paradise of
Ecran IS and all the curious characters
I'm t !e country seem to have congre-
&gate here. My latest discovery is a
man wlo lives in a tree He is an
Isl 81 g clerk in the Pension Office and
his larle is A. B. Hayward. He is a
blac :Whiskered pleasant-looking, one
arm d bachelor of about 40 years. His
2heri fabitation is situated just out
side the boundary limits between
|witt tn quarter of mile of Joaquin
mill RS cabin.
HIS home consists of a tentlike
)hou tuilt upon a pine platform be-
tive n two oak trees. The platform
Is p srhaps Is feet square. fastened to
the trees as high above the ground as
the first story of business building.
bpt his platform wall of pine
boa DIS about feet high is built in
the form of hollow square. from the
top Of which tent roof of two thick
mes es of canvas rises in a wedge
6hG 'e. The canvas is Of the best quail
Ety, ard I notice that the Govern
nel stamp is on one of the sides of
khe rolf. The entrance to the tent
FAC s west. Before it there is a wide
ola form where the owner can sit on
Wal N summer evenings, and on which
are now q rocking chair and q water
bue ret
AR. Hayward's platform is reached
by ae ladder. 20 feet long, but very
kio, Wfth he goes 10 work. =he
Evening star., 1934-09-16
Presidential Candidates.

The presidential situation continues
to be food for gossip and speculation.
Opinions vary as widely now as they
did three weeks ago; Blaine is con-
ceded by all to be in the lead as a
popular candidate but with this con-
ceSsion there is generally coupled
doubt as to his availability in certain
quarters. The question whether he
could carry New York is prominently
put. Edmunds is growing in certain
States, but the Logan boom seems to
have stranded for the time at least.
Robert Lincoln's position at the
present time reminds me-" said a
classically minded Congressman, "of
an election which took place in
Athens before the days of Christ.
Each voter was to cast two ballots
for ruler of the city, one as first and
the other as second choice. Every
man in the city voted for himself as
first choice, but every one voted for
one great Greek, Themistocles,
think it was, for second choice. The
result was that the second choice be-
came the ruler. Lincoln today is sec
ond choice for all. He may even be
first choice of the convention"
rs it not strange" said a leading
politician recently, that the two lead
ing candidates of the great parties
are men who have made their repu-
tationS on issues that are past, and
that neither of them is in public life
at the present. Look at Blaine and
Tilden Neither has been before the
public for four years. Tilden, living
corpse, exists mostly from the idea
that he was legitimately elected in
1875. Blaine made himself hero by
his aggressive tactics in the House
and Senate by which he became the
'plumed knight from Maine" For
three years now, ever since his resig-
nation from his Office as Secretary of
State at Garfield's death, he has been
in retirement.
A New Opera.
A new American comic opera en-
titled "Desiree," written by John
Philip Sousa of the Marine Band of
this city, was produced at the Ma
tional Theater last night. A full
house was present, and if the applause
was any index of the success of the
opera, it will be played all over the
country. The McCaull Opera Co.
presented it and most of the costumes,
especially prepared for it, are ele-
CANT and striking. The orchestra was
directed by Mr.. Sousa himself, and
during the evening he was several
times called to the stage to receive
the applause Of the audience. The
musical composition of this new opera
embraces many gems, but now and
then it falls into the mediocre. I do
not believe it will have the run of
the comic operas of Gilbert and
Sullivan, or that it will live like those
of Strauss. Much of the beauty of
the music was lost by its rendition
! ID Continued on Fourth Page.)
Evening star., 1934-09-16

Author Of without Armor," Lost Hori-
son." etc.
v YES, I like England. And not
" so much because I happen to
have been born in Lancashire
Il instead of Lithuania, Lao
T1lpC or Louisiana (tbo1ICb
Evening star., 1934-09-16

tance from the earth looks like
a second moon, hanging in the air
without visible support. The lights
on the Capitol show a ghostly
pile. Looking out from below them
at the Treasury nothing but the lights
themselves and a small round ring of
the dome can be seen. If some astron-
omer of the ancients should spring to
life and see these lights from some of
the Virginia mountains, imagine he
would think he saw new moon being
born and a constellation of stars
ringed together and lying close down
upon the earth. The lights, it is said,
can be seen 80 miles away from
Washington.
Evening star., 1934-09-16
HOW PRESIDENTS DINED
DURING THE EIGHTIES
Frank Carpenter Interviews a Former
White House Steward Under Presi-
dents Hayes and Garfield.

This is the Twentieth Of series
ot wek1y articles on interesting
perso,s and epents In the National
CdpitI II during the SOS. by Frank
G. Carpenter, 1Dorld famous author
and trGueleT. The merit chapter in
the series wiu be published neIt
Sundtlg IN The Star.