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Smyrna times., 1934-08-09
Melvin Shahan, Leipsic, Loses Sol

Melvin Shahan, Leipsic, Loses Son
Mr.. and Mrs. Melvin Shahan of
near Leipsic, have the sympathy Of
their friends in the loss Of their
five year old son, Melvin Shahan
who passed away on Saturday.
Funeral services were held from
FAIRIES Funeral Chapel on Monday
afternoon at 2 o'clock and inter
ment was made at Odd Fellows
Cemetery. Rev. w w Henry of
ficiated.
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FARMERS TOUR
FOR CHICAGO
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have failed to register early. A
tour of so persons IS practically as
sured now. This is an all expense
tour of four days sponsored by the
University of Delaware, leaving
Sunday, August IL, returning We'd
nesday, August 10.
Smyrna times., 1934-08-09
FOR RENT

An apartment on Commerce
Street with six rooms and bath,
steam heat, gas stove, and hot
water heater. Apply to
The National Bank of Smyrna
Smyrna times., 1934-08-09
FOR COUNTY TREASURER
AND RECEIVER OF TAXES

By advice of some of my Democratic
friends hereby announce myself as a can
didate for County Treasurer and Receiver
of Taxes for Kent County, subject to the
decision of the Democratic and Independ-
ent voters of Kent County.
HARRY B. CLARK, Smyrna
1926 If
Smyrna times., 1934-08-09
For Levy Court Commissioner

wish to announce my candidacy for
Levy Court Commissioner for Kent County,
representing the First, Second, Third and
Fifth Districts, at the coming Democratic
convention. and will appreciate the sup
port of all Democratic and Independent
voters.
JAMES ]. BEHEN
50 tp Fifth Representative District
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PS1NALAND
ElClAL ITEMS
| Who Come and Co.
4 70 Our Community
1 Farmer Smyrnians

Former Smyrnians
EyD CLUB PARTIES
n Mrs. c. Howard Moore
'-re A. Moore, Mrs. Char
grre. Mrs. Margaret 3.
n George W. Burns OF
t.,,is Pa, Dr.. and Mrs
Denney, Miss Mary
Mss Frances Denney, pr.
N Denney Of Elkins Park
theodore Rogers Of West
pa. Mrs. Addie Sudler'
ue GOodhand, Mrs. Emma
M John Mallalieu, Mr.. and
+rgsn Of Sudlersville, Md,
" DOrman, Mr.. and Mrs.
In eViness and Mr.. Theo-
,Tne:s Of Salisbury, Nd,
Inn those from a distance
Yesterday afternoon, We'd
tie funeral services Of
ID Moore, at Smyrna.
nj Mrs. Harry Jackson OF
Ens City, were guests last
4 tts Delaware House. Mr..
D vas formerly Of near
!, having been one of the
7iD lived with the late
Reed Lofand. On Satur-
dy q, Mr.. Jakson and Miss
lne Nagaletta we're quietly
In New York. Shortly af-
!. ceremony Mr.. and Mrs.
p lift for Smyrna where
x. their honeymoon. Mr..
EsElliam Jackson, and Miss
kne Urich Of New York City
sading this week at the Del
HCus. William Jackson is
be d Harry Jackson and
M With the late Mr.Lof1and.
nd Mrs. H. H. Pakradooni,
0TerbroOk Hills, Philadel-
I, are receiving congratula-
2 he arrival of a fine baby
Monday, July 80. The baby
u amed Haig Herant PAX
I'd Mrs. Pakradooni will
s1''rsd as Mss Marguerite
W Sitter, daughter Of Mrs.
HG'osrt Sitter Jr., Of Ger
y, Pa, and a niece Of Miss
Beckett Of this town.
ID Ms. Charles C. Handy
saiir, Jane, have returned
1ei spending a week with
L Reading, Pa. While
Can and corn roast" was
! 'aelE honor by DR.. and
4ln'i Blevett at their sum
me At Berkely, Pa.
! Afs' v. Lindsay McFar-
raladelphia, are spending
a'lol in Smyrna greeting
They are the guests
lad Mrs. Elmer Pratt Of
SnTns. n
a4lan Bell Of Inglewood.
Ea0 is at present with
Nj. Homer Smith. ~
visited Mrs. Elva Nc
'n Sunday. Mrs. M.
! tie guest of Mr.. and
! Davis Brown left YES.
Grove N. ]. '''Oufh 4
laonas H. coverdale at.
4 Tuesday morning tbe
s,.s m''lces Of her uncle, Ben,
Dover. - 'a'e III
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49,
! "a fine baby son on N Mon. o,1'
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rps 4 Wilmington. MIS- r.,
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II. s'lan a. Church Of smvr.
ns !, Galley, have gone t.
be rpr,;. "Oehs. Ihey vii
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j !, q Cleveland, Ohio.
ssss,ll j a's; Russell HutcbIso,
y Jane, have ret,,r,o,
h VI, N a..,'' Wilmington afte,
|aa' 'lsi' Hn.'sl with their mother Il e.
n, a,a !. Start of wiImiro
esssst' s''l''r to Smyrna On,
Hsrnap -,
spaass,v, s,,a J. Myrtle Johnson ,
b Hts ~ % spend an indehn
%tas !, =: "a and Mrs. Edwar,
Iii, . = H0nssdale, Pa.
q VIZ Scout s,t,s q Wilmington
h Co.. : with Mr.. and Mr.
~ss' Mr.. and Mrs |. !.
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MONEY WELL INVESTED

FEDERAL funds are being spent so lavishly
these days that an allotment of $4,000
hardly seems worth noticing. Nevertheless.
the expenditure of that sum at the Michigan
College of Mines. at Houghton. Mich, eventual
" may be worth untold millions to middle
western industry.
The college is using the money to under
take research in methods of using low-grade
iron ores. The rich Michigan iron mines &C
cording to college experts, will be practically
depleted within twenty years.
But even then they will contain billions
upon billions of tons of low-grade ore which,
under present methods of exploitation, can
not be mined profltably.
The Michigan experts hope to find way
in which this enormous store of ore will be-
come commercially available. If they do, that
$4,000 research fund will mean incalculable
sums TO industry throughout the middle west.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-11
GOVERNMENT LAWYERS

WITH Dean Justin Miller of Duke uni
w versity law school taking over New
Deal litigation it is hoped that the govern
ment henceforth will be more aggressive in
its court battles
Called unexpected to his cabinet position,
Attorney General Cummings perhaps didn't
have time to make a careful selection of sub
ordinates. Democratic party spoilsmen took
advantage of him and stated the justice de-
partment in part with group of political
Geadheads who wouldn't even have been con-
sidered for the jobs had the late Senator Tom
Walsh lived to take charge Apparently Mr..
Cummings has tried to weed out some Of the
incompetents.
From the first it has been obvious that the
legal department has been one of the weak
links in the Roosevelt administration.
Although NRA codes have been upheld in
90 per cent of the cases coming before federal
courts, the major credit for these legal VIC
tories goes to NRA's legal division under Don
aid Rickberg. Justice department lawyers
were outmaneuvered in preliminary court Skin
mishes in the celebrated Weirton steel case
and the Grief garment at Baltimore.
And their record in prosecuting oil code viola
tors and others has been none too good
The interests trying to break the back OF
the New Deal employ the best talent that
money can buy, and the government is at dis
tnct disadvantage when it has to depend
upon lawyers whose chief claim to fame is
party service.
Our government is entitled to the service
of the best lawyers of the land. Others of
Dean Miller's caliber should be recruited.
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farm program on the principle Of voluntary
cooperation. They preferred to make it profit
able for the farmer to cooperate. rather than
criminal for the farmer not to cooperate. But
the cotton farmers and tobacco farmers, by or
gained pressure, and through their repre-
sentatives in congress. forced the administra-
ton to accept the compulsory measures. The
farmers believed that no other method could
insure a stable market.
Mr. Fletcher is only doing his duty as the
opposition spokesman in condemning the ad-
ministration for yielding to the pressure Of
these two organized minorities. But he erred
in intimating that the cotton and tobacco
laws we're conceived by the brain trust.
The Republican chief landed another on the
chin when he contrasted Democratic prom
ises with Democratic performances in the mat
ter Of tariff reduction.
The Democratic party" said Mr.. Fletcher,
has been in complete control of the law
making power for two sessions of congress and
it has not reduced single schedule Of the
much maligned tariff act of 1890"
This is not entirely true. There was
slight reduction in the Cuban sugar tariff. But
on the whole II is a fair indictment, to which
the administrations only answer is another
promise that 1t will do something through
reciprocity treaties.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-11
PLAYGROUND HOPES

NTORD that the city park and recreation
w departments are considering establish
ment of north side playground next year
Will be we'll received in the vicinity.
The city plans, through an offer made by
George Marott. to take over lot on the west
side Of Meridian street, north of Thirty eighth
street.
The site, Of course will not be ideal to
every one on the north side who desires to
see establishment of playground. But there
is no doubt but the playlot will benefit thou
sands and answer a crying need.
1t is too late for action this year because
the grounds in the city will be closed Sept. l.
But it is not too late for the municipality to
outline its program of developing the ground
early next year.
Mr. Marott is to be lauded for his offer
Some time ago The Times suggested that
real estate owner on the north side make the
park board a proposal. Mr.. Marott has done
that
Future of the north side playground situa
ton now rests with the city There can be
no reason why the issue should be lodged.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-11

rendering a real service to the So
cialist party
In the meantime, New Deal cap
italism staggers long with a con-
stantly weakening pulse
Suppose we should live to see one
more boom. necessarily brought
about through a loosening credit.
Would production and consumption
be balanced? OF course not. That
can only happen in a Socialistic So
ciety The new boom would be very
short Lived and we rapidly would
sink into the mud deeper than ever
before To launch such a boom a
Republican majority would be neces-
sary first. because the New Deal is
putting restrictions upon unlimited
profits and rugged individualism.
For the same reason no business ex-
pansion will take place as long az
we have the New Deal.
The conclusion is that. if the
Republicans should win once more.
we will get Socialism through a
boom and sudden collapse of IN
surpassed dimensions. If the Dem
ocrats stay in power, we will get
socialism through a rather slow an
nual decline
1 am for the quicker of the two
ways, whichever it may be.
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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

the bottom fell out Of things, and filed their
prospectuses with fragrant misrepresenta-
tons and concealments.
1t tells how foreign bonds were issued
helter-skelter with the investors interests
completely overlooked so that the Ameri-
can public was induced to shoulder not only
the huge indebtedness Of foreign industry,
now substantially in default, but also the
indebtedness Of foreign governments
And it adds, as a final cracker, that many
of the abuses in investment banking arose
from the incompetence, negligence, ire
sponsibinty. or cupidity of individuals in the
profession"
All this, to be sure, is ancient history We
heard it all at the time the committee was
taking testimony. Why repeat it all now?
Because it is an indictment which We
must never forget. A few years ago these
money changers were posing as oracles and
seers. They told us what men we're fit persons
to run the country and what men were not.
They made solemn announcements on
the issues of the day, and advised us sagely
on governmental policies We listened to
them respectfully. and did as they suggested.
If we keep this whole story in mind we
shall be less docie audience in the future
which will be very good thing for us
indeed
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-11
TAKES ISSUE WITH
MILLIKAN VIEWS
BY Hugh B. Marshall.

BY Hugh b. MarSnaA.
AS a reader of The Times, one
Of the unfortunates, along with my
family of five children, to be
crushed and torn from each other
and be held out Of a job without
sufficient wages to make a home
and maintain my family, I read in
The Times of Aug. s where the
New Deal is attacked by DR.. Mill
kan and I feel called upon TO
answer in the interest Of the most
people involved.
He states a group of political
philosophers and Sociologists seeks
to make man dependent on the
state. after science has taught him
to rely on his own efforts. Some
call it Socialism, some Communism.
but he calls it Stateism, TO include
this whole tendency toward govern
ment ownership and operation OF
everything. which ne thinks weak
ems self-rehance, discourages pri-
vate initiative and diminishes
opportunity. stimulates bonus
marches. veteran rackets and even
teachers federal Hobbies.
wish TO say that two old major
parties have controlled this coun-
try too long. building the laws 10
please their fat pocketbooks: laws
which have placed the common peo-
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MR.. FLETCHER ON CAMPAIGN

ONCE becoming Republican party chairman,
- Henry P. Fletcher has made some wild
swings al the New Deal Indeed. he still is at
il. Like most Of his earlier haymakers, his
Illinois Red-baiting speech as a whole was
ludicrously wide OF the mark But he did land
a few punches.
In condemning the cotton and tobacco pro-
ducticn control laws. Mr.. Fletcher was effective.
These compulsory measures with their prohibi-
tive levies against cotton and tobacco produced
IN excess OF license allotmsnts. are dangerous
laws and repugnant 10 the traditions OF a free
people. They are even alien 70 the philosophy
OF the New Deal. but this. OF course. Is point
Mr. Fletcher would not concede.
Neither President Roosevelt nor Secretary
Wallace wanted these two restrictive farm
measures. They preferred to continue the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-11
A BANKING LESSON

THAT famous senate banking committee
l. got most of its headlines several months
ago. Its story is an old story, by this time;
most of us, being humanity forgetful, recall
vaguely that a midget sat in j. P. Morgan's
lap. and feel somewhat muddled about the
rest of il.
However. the committee is reporting its
findings these days, and the reports make
interesting reading. There are some things
We ought not to let ourselves forget; among
them are the disclosures made by this COM
mittee about the ethical code which prevailed
among the money changers during the recent
boom years.
The committee tells what it found out
about investment bankers, for instance. 1t
uses such adjectives as "scandalous" and
shocking" and tells of practices which vio-
lated the most elementary principles Of
business ethics"
II recites the sorry tale Of the preferred
lists" by which the big boys let certain public
servants in on various good things; and it
adds drily that the bankers deny. perhaps
too vehemently, that they expect any direct
considerations from these benefciaries Of
banking benevolence.
It asserts that in floating bond issues the
bankers used high pressure methods. pegged
prices so high that they could unload before
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-11
TRAFFIC IMPROVEMENT

nAINTING Of yellow traffic lane strips on
Il North Capitol avenue Will be distinct
and to northbound traffic on this thoroughfare
In addition TO Capitol avenue the police
traffic department Will paint the lane strips
on Meridian Delaware and New York streets.
Each OF these IS busy thoroughfare and
every available method should be used to speed
I'D traffic with the safety needs Of the COM
munfty stressed.
ANY other steps which the department and
city officials can take TO aid the indianapolis
traffic situation should receive the support Of
the entire community.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-11
ADVANCES REMEDY
TO CURB CRIME
Rv a Times Reader.

By a Times Reader.
We are SHINING against our youth
in a most unfOrgivable fashion,
and the men whom we have elected
to fill our responsible places would
like to pass the buck" back to the
public, pretending we lack interest.
But that is only a poor excuse and
in an effort to escape their duty.
The majority had faith in them be-
fore the election ballyhoo, or they
would never have been elected.
If we could only have more news
papers like The Times the public
might be censured justly for not
being more politically minded. The
public has no direct way of voicing
its opposition of a matter publicly
without a process of organization,
and usually that is factional, unless
our newspapers offer their services
at their own expense, as The Times
does. Mostly the officials would
rather not know the general public
reaction. If we could ever get the
right type of official in he would
welcome it.
I would like to suggest to our state
officials a method whereby believe
the whole crime situation can be
vastly improved in a comparatively
short time without much costly
equipment. We already have a null
titude Of welfare workers who should
know more about crime breeding
than all the special commissions we
could employ.
Why not allow our young offend
ers to enlist in our federal army?
Even though they are too young to
be regularly enlisted, schools could
be maintained at the posts where
their studies could be attended to
by competent teachers who have
been selected in respect to their
ability for this special work.
On entering the post, no one eX-
cept the high officials would know
the ofense for which the youth was
incarcerated. It would be the Sa-
cred duty of all regularly enlisted
men to ignore any reference to any
irregularity about these youths that
they might hear and it would be
their solemn duty to help them cor
rect any wrong tendencies that they
might notice which would bring
them to further grief.
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By Constitutionalist.

BY COnstitutionalist.
News from Washington stated
that a proposal for the next con-
gress would be the creation of a
Central Bank of issue and credit,
completely controlled by the gov
eminent.
This is news of the first magnl-
tude. The Federal Reserve Sys-
tenn is a private institution. Its
name has fooled many citizens
into believing that it was a gov
eminent unit, publicly owned,
like the word NATIONAL over a
bank might indicate its public
ownership.
The creation Of credit, which
is identical with the creation of
medium of exchange, properly
belongs to the government. The
creation of credit by banks, through
loans to operate the mechanism of
production, exceeded the actual
money in circulation from six to
ten times. Real money had to speed
its turnover to keep pace with this
bookkeeping bankers credit
money"
When the crash in Wall street
pulled the pegs out from under this
bookkeeping credit money, thirty
billion dollars in bankers credits
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-11
Holds Creation of Credit u. S. Duty

went into thin air in one single
day.
Like a house of cards, the whole
money credit structure toppled,
until today those credit tickets
written on bankers books have
tumbled the book values on Amer
lean wealth over one hundred
billion dollars. The sky seemed to
be the limit for that type Of money.
So we are all scratching to get
our fingers on the greenbacks to
pay our bills
That method of creating money
by credit creates a mountain OF
debt. The mountain turns out to
be a volcano, speWing out dis
aster to industry, farmer and
worker.
If the bankers had had real
money to loan out instead of bank
credit tickets which evaporated
on check withdrawal, the tickets
would still be in circulation.
It's high time we ask congress to
put the constitution into effect, by
forcing the creation of money and
fixing of its value by congress.
Money includes credit money, and
the volume of both money and
credit are of great Importance to
balanced industry.
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SEEKS INFORMATION
ON DAM PROJECT
BY L. G. Parker.

BY L. G. Parker.
I am writing you because you
seem to be the only persons inter
ested in the welfare Of the general
public around here and am Won
dering if you know whether there is
a licensed engineer on the Browns
town project.
1 do not know what the work is
there any more than that they are
building a dam and some buildings.
but my interest was aroused yester-
dav when the father law Of a
man on the job told me he was do
ing all Of the surveying and super
vising the job.
The man on the job is Ralph Mi
ley. a Shelbyville man and great
friend Of Pleas Greenlee He be-
longs to the legion worked hard
for NcNutt's election and was prom
ised a good job. but he has always
been a paperhanger and interior
decorator, and good one but knows
nothing about surveying, unless he
may have picked up some informa-
ton on the job.
I have been a Democrat all my
life, but I am not in favor Of many
things being done In the state, and
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-11
Capital Capers
BY GEORGE ABEL

CILK-HATTED Butler Wright, who used to
- meet visiting celebrities on behalf of the
secretary of state when they came to Washing
ton, is back in the capital en- route to be Amer
lean minister in Czechoslovakia.
Butler arrived from Uruguay (Where he S
been minister for the past three years.. AS
usual he breezed into Washington carrying a
brief case He always carries a brief case. 1t S
habit Incidentally, the brief case is invariably
empty.
Beaming, clad in gray 1annes, Butler Cor
BUSY as they call hm) extended hand to ole
state department colleaguess doomed:
We'll, I'm of for Czechoslovakia. Sailing
Sept. r.
Then. mindful that Francis White his pre-
decessor as minister at Prague, had resigned his
post saying that the legation windows ratified ano
there wasn't enough heat for the 1l2 rooms, ne
added:
I'm going over to see if those windows really
rattle
Little Mary Wright. Butsy's 15-year-old
daughter, is going over with her father. When
he was minister to Hungary, Mary learned to
speak Magyar. When he went to Uruguay she
learned Uruguayan Spanish. In between times
she picked up German and French
After two weeks in Prague grinned BUSY
she'll speak Czech like native"
A NEW YORKER who went west early in life
N Envoy Butler Wright loves the great open
spaces. He likes horses, the lonely howl of
coyotes cactus. August moons rising above low
mountain ranges and the solitude Of his home
in Wyoming.
L want to take my family out to Wyoming,
muses. Diplomat Wright, but I don't know
whether I'll have time"
In the meanwhile, he will take them out to
Chicago to see the World fair. One way, they'll
travel by bus: the other way by train.
See more Of the country that way" explains
BUSY.
While Envoy Wright goes about Washington
shaking hands making plans for his new job
dynamic Mrs Wright plays bridge, She's mad
over contract.
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ROOM
BY HARRIET SCOTT oLINICK

DI LI1hhlE O0O OLAANIOh
How gracious is this room, these
ivory walls
This stretching sweep Of carpet, soft
and deep.
These cushioned chairs; warm
drinks Of crimson wine.
These corners where the violet
shadows creep.
This tall grandfather clock, aloof
and Old
It's white face wears calm Of set
tied years
This spinet desk Of richly cleaning
wood
This pale statue; a stream Of crys-
tai tears.
I pause upon the threshold, breath
leSsly.
And though it is quite empty, calm
and still,
I sense the presence Of a loving host
Exerting into space his gracious VIII.