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NEWSPAPERS OPINION
CHECK THIS VIRUS!

The opening of the first ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
factory in America in peace-time is announced
from Millvi1le, Mass, run by the FERA and de-
voted to the manufacture Of clothing
Employment of 100 workers initially will start
this plant 1t viii turn out $500 garments per
week. This, at. any rate, is the information con-
tanned in a brochure in our possession. We as
sumo it to be reliable.
And on that assumption of the facts in the case,
The Observer takes occasion again to call vigor-
Gus attention to the definite trends toward govern
ment ownership of business, government operation
of industry. and government invasion of private
enterprises, now breaking out into the open. "
We do not believe in it,
The present emergency, in the opinion of this
newspaper, should not be allowed to become til
dividing wedge driven into the body of persons
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THE MUSE ON THE CAMPUS,

Verse of college students is being hailed as
kew TO what American youth is thinking, on the
basis that writing is self-reveaton. poetry cor
test recently conducted in the colleges by the
Forum produced several surprises particularly the
extent of undergraduate interest in verse. mod
est prize quietly offered, brought competing verses
from students of 200 colleges in 43 states. TIE
quality of cersifcaton was rated distinctly ST.
perior to the undergraduate average of a genera
ton ago. Five young women from new college
in Vermont contributed verse "of real promise.
From Minnesota student came just four lines:
To Young Girl
Your hair is golden sea;
Your hands are songs unSung;
Your eyes are caverns hung
With wells of mystery.
The second surprise is that the jazz note was
conspicuously absent. "The verse is in general
quiet and collected, and its flights of imagination
are rhythmcal and normal"
Even more surprising was the absence, of sa-
tirieal attitude Can it be that youth has lost
taste for the tart fruits of iconoclasm? The Fo-.
rum thinks so. Even the mawkish sentimentality
which preceded the iconoclasts is missing succeed
ed by sentiment not only about willow trees and
lovers moons but sunny meadows, tortoise paus-
ing by the path, and pine tree towering against
barn.
A Smith College. girl sings Of. the joy of living:
Fling your hair
And swing.
Touch that gnarled limb
Up--up higher.
Birds fly like this-higher.
The final and biggest surprise that these
college poets have forgotten the depression! Only
oh
and he sounded so sturdy and gay that, his quest
surely will be successful.
''There is hope for America" Henry Goddard
Leach, editor of the Forum, concludes, Gin such
young people emerging lean and weather-oeaten
from the depression. believe that you today is
turning the tide to a new era of cooperation and
personal courage :. ready either to adapt them
selves to a friendlier social order or to reshape
their environment masterfully to, suit their own
ideas" =, 81. .ru sr..a-r .l"v.erss
Whatever the Interpretation, these fresh, clear
songs are welcome musc.-The Christian Science
Monitor. ..,., ,.,a, IL
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endeavour and private capital.
II is a subtle introduction of outright govern
ment ownership which is a form of Socialism
against which the people of this country should
rebel
When the government of the United States,
which is all the people in politically corporate
bodv, sets itself up in business in competition with
the individual industry of its citizens, the whole
form and philosophy of our Democratic govern
ment has been violated. 10.
In the case of the IVA, the government has
again invaded the field of public utilities and pro-
poses the generation of electric power at a price
that the private companies contend they are un-
able to meet. sEr "1
The iva has gone even beyond the field OF
manufacture and entered the realm OF retail as
trbution of appliances that go along with electro
service, thus coming into direct competition with
great retail business that has been built up III
this country with private capital. %, Sc r., ".
If, the federal government has no computations
about entering the manufacturing and distribution
ends of electric current, and boldly PUSHES INTO
the business of making clothing, why should 1t
hesitate to knock down the doors of any type OIL
private business, and become an immediate, con-
tender for its trade? -
That's the viciousness of these precedents that
are being set. 49,
When will the tendency be halted and at what
point will the government conclude that it had
better let the individual citizens of this country
with their own capital remain unmolested in such
fields Of enterprise as they have chosen?
Why not try the cotton manufacturing business
whV not drive all capital out of the banking stfuc-
ture of the, nation and let federal money handle
This business, why not go into the retail dlstnbu-
tion business in any every line, tell the indus
tralist and the shoe-shine boy alike to go home
and sit on the front porch-the government Will
attend to their respective businesses?
These present very obvious tendencies at THIS
time to supplant private capitalism with pubic
ownership are far more involving than we may be
thinking. a ..-
Il is easy enough to let it all go by as NEE
eypeajent, the outgrowth of the enforced oppr-
tunisms of the depression, part of the gen&ial
nroqram by which the government is franticaiy
irving to rescue this country from the continuing
perils of the present crisis. ~....
But by what logic is the conclusion arrived at
that The federal government, which is all the CO.
pie, can take hold of all business and industry IN
America and, operate them more practically and
more 'determinedly for the public welhbeng, tnah
its individual citizens, with their own money, with
their own judgment, with their own executive
management and with their own personal interest
and enthusiasts for their particular enterprises!
America had better have a care as to these ILL
vasions on the part OF its government Before u
hardly knows what has happened, if this tendency
goes on unchecked, Socialism will have fastened
its benumbing and paralyzing claws upon the oody
of American business-Charlotte Observer
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YOU ARE DRAFTED
By WICKES WAMBOLDT

certain length of time. and get
certain important ideas across to
every home assigned to you to
cover.
"But what do I get for it,"
Well, the first thing you will get
out of it will be to learn to stop
asking, "What do | get out OF
it," every time you are called on
to perform some public service.
You and all the rest of us must
Get the idea out Of our heads that
we must personally and immedl-
atelv get some kind Of material
reward for every move we make.
You and | and everyone of us
must learn to think in terms Of
the whole community, and not in
terms Of the individual member
of it. You and | and every one
of us must learn to look ahead a
little. We must Develop the abil-
ity to realize that as the whole
people benefit, we individually
cannot help benefitting, and that
only as there is protection for the
whole people, for the entire COM
munity, can we individually really
ever be protected.
The disasters which befall us
in our social relations are cue to
the fact that the scheming enc
mics among us who profit by cX-
plotting us, maneuver us so as to
keep us from Offering ourselves
for service, and from joining our
selves together for service.
We are going to have to learn
what genuine patriotic service
means before we can ever real
iZe the benefits of our form Of
government. The democracy is a
kind of government that depends
for its success on the willingness
of its citizens to serve unselishly
to sow the seeds Of service
freely and abundantly that they
may reap the harvest of service
still more freely and still more
abundantly.
The democracy is a back
scratching form of government.
We must all scratch each others
backs to make democracy go. But
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WHY NOT ARBITRATE BEFORE
Striking?
(By BRUCE CATION "

The average industrial dispute in TINS
country. if it reaches the stage OF open
warfare, passes through three phases
First there is the period in which both
sides hurl defiance and call on heaven anu
earth to witness that they are completely
and everlastingly in the right.
Next comes the time of outright hostlll-
ties. The workers lay down their tools and
walk out-or they are locked out by the
bosses; picket lines form at the gates
strike-breakers come to IVORY with varying
mixtures of Sheepishness and dehahce'
heads get laid open, tear gas bombs are
thrown, windows are broken and the usual
bloody and tumultuous procedure, costly
to everyone involved, is followed.
Then, last of all, comes the settlement.
Unless one side or the other wins clear
cut victory, the general staffs OF the two
sides get together, neutrals are called III,
and the whole dispute is put up to arbl-
tration.
Tn the end the arbitration committee
hands down its decision, the contendmg
PARTIES accept it with cheers or with
scowls, work is resumed again-and one
more industrial muss-up is over.
1t makes rather dreary and discourage
ing routine 1t is horribly expensive; the
owner loses dividends, sometimes losts fat
orders, frequently has property damage to
pay for; the workers lose wages, and III
many cases get dubbed and punched as
we'll; the general public suffers inconven-
fence; has to pay for extra police work
and in varying ways plays the unhappy
role of the innocent bystander.
And it all leads one to wonderfully,
since the average dispute winds up in az
bitration anyway, can't arbitration be re-
sorted to in the first place to save all this
trouble?
The answer, probably, is that to be
stubborn and opinionated is very ancient
human trait which has not, to date, shown
many signs of disappearing.
Arbitration can hardly be forced on the
contending parties-not without revising
our whole political and economic frame
work more than most of us are prepared
to do at this time. But the stern logic OF
hard facts points directly toward it.
Unless victory for one side or the other
is speedily gained, it usually comes in the
end. Can't owners and workers see that
everybody concerned would be ahead if it
came right at the beginning?
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BEHIND TIE SCENES M
WA IL INC TON

Tabled AAA to enforce its licensing
and marketing agreements despite
legal attacks.
EIERCELY, they seek to con.
L vince farmers that they're being
forced toward slavery and both
| farmers and consumers that proc
essing taxes are running them. They
want no crop reduction, because
they want to buy cheaply. They
want to fix prices to the consumer.
And large segment Of public
opinion supports their view that
their profits are none of the govern
Iment'S business.
Leading the AAA fight are I'm.
dersecretary ReXford Tugwell, Gen.
eral Counsel Jerome Frank, and
! u. Fred Howe and DR.. Thomas C.
Blaisdel of the Consumers Coun-
sells office Administrator Chester
c. Davis has delivered some hard
blows at professors who try to
sabotage AAA, but is handicapped
by advice from section chiefs who
favor the middlemen.
Secretary Wallace is entirely
sympathetic with the liberals, but
sincerely anxious not TO interfere
with Davis.
IF you could read the texts of
Tugwell's Iowa and South Dakota
speeches you would appreciate the
surprising boldness with which
! AAA is suddenly waging war. The
speeches were partly q Icollabofa-
ton by the best brains in AAA,
who decided at last that their
+only hope of success was to take
their case straight to the people.
Tugwell named names, suggest
ing that Libby, Mcneil and Libby
had fought AAA because the COM
pany was subsidiary of Swift &
Co. of the packing industry, which
j-seeks freedom to operate as it
lliRes. He attacked Thomas Wick
iham and Arthur Cutten, grain men.
He will tell farmers ard con.
I'sumeHs of others who he says are
istin trying to exploit them.
l fCopyright. 1894. NEA Service, InGs
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than usual while those who favor

than usual while those who favor
the coastal resorts are going in
for swimming. fishing, boating,
golfing and other beach attrae-
tons in a big way.
at is also interesting to note
that following a recent survey by
the AAA among 1888 travellers
that the Carolinas last year were
ranked third as the favorite rec
reation spot visited by these mo-
florists. Our trained travel coun-
sellers this year have adequate
supplies of travel information,
triptiks, maps, directories and lit
erature to make an "Trip, long or
short5 more comfortable and con-
venient for the travellers and the
1884 travel season is without
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Advertise il or Won
have to keep IL.
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kind of service necessary " So''
quer the enemy. -,
We are going to have to adopt
the policy of cOnscripting our
people for any and every kind OF
service needed for the protection
of the welfare if the natien and
the community. We should not
limit patriotism to the narrow
field of physical fighting. 1t should
be the custom to call on all cltl-
zens to do their share Of public
service, according to their ablll-
ties.
"You're drafted" should be an
everyday declaration. 1t should
not be reserved merely Tor mil
tary operations,
you're drafted" to occupy q
certain public office for a certain
length of time.
"You're drafted" to serve on
such and such committee Tor
such and such a length of time.
"You're drafted" to work IN
such and such a movement for q
certain length of time.
you're drafted. We need you
and your automobile today to help
carry out an undertaking for the
good of the community.
"You're drafted" We need you
to go from house to house
- +b;c cOpop,,Initv for q
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By RODNEY BUTCHER
NEA Service stan Correspondent

NEA Service StnH correspondent
WTASHINGTON.-You can't posi-
W bly, overestimate the importance
Of AAA's summer-fall campaign OF
contemporaries.
It's the most significant show
IN all this 40-ring circus. NRA
doesn't yet know where it's
headed. AAA does.
AAA has rolled up its sleeves
for a finish fight in the open with
it's enemies. 1t will wage a grim,
hard-hitting campaign to con-
vince tens of millions of farmers
and consumers that its enemies
are also theirs-and thus recruit
them in the fight.
AAA's enemies are the mid
dlemen''-the professors and
distributors who handle and sell
us our food.
Perhaps it's mistake to speak
of fully cohesive AAA cam
paign. It's the young liberals"
strongest but not always domi-
mating force in the farm admin
istration, who lead it. And there
are at'least the markings Of an in
ternal struggle similar to that in
which Administrator George n.
Peek was eased out to another
job.
DUT AAA does present relative.
- ~ united front in the struggle
for higher prices for farmers, lair
prices for consumers, and only a
reasonable spread of profits and
costs for the middleman. And that
simply means an attack on the
profit system as it now exists.
A.AA sees it as an attack on
profit ering in the necessities of
life as well as an attempt to save
farmers from exploitation by pack
ers; millers, canners,$milk distribu-
tors, grain traders; cotton manufac-
turers. and, other groups.
Food industries worth billions Of
dollars are opposing1t desperately.
In Congress they beat the amend
ments to the Agricultural Adjust.
ment Act which would have en-.
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We do not hesitate to draft
men, organize them, drill them,
and send them out to be killed
and manned whenever the safety
of the country is menaced by a
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sssoIsne gaaeeaaeu SMOOTHER PGRFoawA.c

doubt destined to set a re.,,
one of the largest for all IN +.
point Of expenditure and >,
tional benefits" ''
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foreign Zoe, OF
even by a domes-
tic foe that rises
up and assails US
physically. L g t
any gro up Of
men attack the
b o dies of our
.citi re n S with
weapons and the
h 0 m e S of our
cit re n S with
flames, and our
men would be
called into any
necessary to con-
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Americanism: Scientists studying to produce ~
better gadget manufacturers making it cheaply SO
you'll wear it out and buy new one.
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The Field Museum is exhibiting slab of clay
stone only four by six feet in which skeletons of
% little deer are embedded. -,
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Middle class: The one that is too poor to pay
for hospital service and too rich to- get it for
nothing. ... co..
Smyrna times., 1934-06-28
Horse Defeats Man
in Walking Contest

Orlando, Ela.-There was an
argument-one of the kind from
which grows the desire to wager
about whether a horse or a
man could walk faster.
W. W. Brown, a member Of the
Orlando Riding club. championed
the horse and poohpoohed his
fellow clubman. Harry VoorhiS,
for his espousal In behalf Of
man.
Getting nowhere with debate,
they decided to establish proof
by practical means And so
Brown mounted his mare. Likely
Lady. while Voorhis, an attorney
of dignifled bearing, set out
afoot.
Meanwhile, news Of the argu-
ment spread around town and
some 1.20O people flocked to the
contest.
Around and around the park
they walked-the horse and
Voorhis. The course was dis
tance Of two and a half miles.
At the end the horse came In Al
seconds ahead of Voorhis-
Smyrna times., 1934-06-28

newspapers everywhere feature it
in headlines. and national relief
organizations compete in aiding the
survivors? And If, by some seismo-
logic miracle, the event could be
foreseen, would not the whole ma
ton help to move those 5000 per-
sons out of danger?
Yet every year, 5000 men, wo-
men and children are killed or in
1ured in grade crossing accidents
all of them preventabIe-and only
a few, slow, blundering or unwill-
ing steps are taken to prevent the
wholesale slaughter!
Two thousand of the unfortunates
die within twenty-four hours of the
sccident. OF how many of the re
naming die as a result, there is no
record. These figures are from the
insurance tables, and the yearly
loss to the insurance companies and
to the state Is well over SIS ,000, 900.
There are in this country, accord
ing to the records of the Interstate
Commerce Commission, over 240,-
Smyrna times., 1934-06-28
DOINGS
OF so YEARS AGO
CONTINUED From Page Three)

by their teacher, M. Handy. They
showed a proficiency not often at
tanned by pupils of their which
of course could not have been but
for the directing hand of a skilled
instructor, who keeps not only
abreast but a little ahead of the
times. Several of the school direc-
tors and a number of others inter-
ested in education were present
and took part in the exercises by
asking questions in English gram
mar and history. We have not
space to mention the names of the
pupils who acquitted themselves
best. Joseph Wilson of Washing
ton, d. c., was present and in a
few terse and well chosen sent
ences showed the pupils the ad-
vantages to be derived from their
training and contrasted the differ
ence between now and a few years
ago. A half dozen visitors were
present yesterday morning, when
Miss Mary E. Spruance, teacher of
the Second Primary said, good
morning" to her little pupils. The
little folks sang several songs and
repeated several appropriate verses
from the Bible with animation.
The first class that recited was
composed of children whose school
life commenced four months ago.
They read from the chart about
pigs, cats, tin boxes and such
things. A knowing eye could de-
tect at once that the teacher was
of the progressive school. She is
a recent graduate Of Smyrna Pub
lie Schools; yet few in the State
are equal to her as a primary
teacher. The slate work of the
pupils attracted special attention
and admiration. The smallest of
the children were given lesson in
numbers, using shoe pegs, colored
cards, and the abacus for objects.
Smyrna times., 1934-06-28

of Brookfield, Mo, former citizens
of this place, are on a visit to
Yonkers, N. Y. They expect to
visit Smyrna before they return
home.
Rev. J. E. Smith of Mt. Salem,
was in town yesterday.
Thomas M Huntingdon of Phila-
delphia, John H. Huntingdon of
Phillipsburg, Pa, and Miss Mollie
Huntingdon of Dover, have been in
town several days.
Miss Minnie Clement will leave
on Friday to join friends in Phila-
delphia for an extended trip to
Canada, returning IN September.
William Sharp is on a visit to his
son-in-law, James S. Moore at Do
yer.
Miss K. L. Storm will start on
Friday for a visit to her sister in
Chester County, Pa, recently mar
ried and will spend the balance of
her vacation at Milford.
Miss Bertha L. Hoffecker left
today for Philadelphia to join
friends in an excursion up the Hud-
son river tomorrow under the aus
pices of the Friends Lyceum.
Mrs. Rev. T. c. Murphey is the
guest of Mrs. John H. Hoffecker.
Mrs. E. B. Stevens and Mrs. DR..
Maloney of Wilmington are guests
of Mrs. James w. Anthony.
The following persons are visit
ing friends in this town: Miss Jen-
ME Lea, Wilmington; Miss Eliza
Corbit, st. Georges; Miss Kate
Tucker and Miss May Anderson,
Dover; Miss Fannie Stevenson, Eel
ton; Miss Laura Bernard, Perry
vile, Md; Thomas j. Hynes, Balti-
more, Md; Mrs. Emma Myers, Miss
Ella Preston, Eugene Shugart, Will
liam Stubbs, R. S. WiIds, Philadel-
phia, Pa.
Smyrna times., 1934-06-28
OPTOMETRISTS
MEET AT DOVER
E. p. Collins and V. Lay Phil
lips, Smyrna, Attend Meet
in and Banquet Thursday
PROMINENT SPEAKERS

The Delaware State Optometry
Association held banquet at the
Hotel Richardson Thursday even
ing which was attended by many
optometrists in this State as well
as several of the profession from
the Eastern Shore of Maryland.
After the banquet the association
held meeting when two members
of the faculty of the Pennsylvania
State College gave addresses, one
being DR.. w. ]. TAFT and the other
DR.. j. F. Moore. Those present at
the dinner included the following:
Drs. S. L. Mckee, w. Arlo Moore,
B. G. Adams, Thomas Logan,
Leonard c. Lipscomb, Edward H
Banks, H. j. Pollard and DR.. NJ.
Burton Meyer, all of Wilmington;
DR.. E. P. Collins and V. Lay Phil
lips, Smyrna; DR.. w. S. Hoffecker,
Laurel; DR.. S. c. Vvans, Milford;
DR.. H. H. Berman, c. R. Cummins,
j. A. Richards, Dover; DR.. ]. Cliff
ford Compton, DR.. B. F. Rudnick,
DR.. Robert H. Dolde, Wilmington;
DR.. S. M. Omen, Easton; DR.. A. B.
Bolden, Salisbury, Md; DR.. F. ].
Wright, Denton, Md; DR.. T. B.
Freeney, Delmar; Dr.. 81. Kreeger.
Chestertown, Md.