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please" This sets an example of
the courtesy which many higher
classmen lack.
If you like headaches, just be-
come a monitor. If your head
doesn't ache there is something
wrong, because between the small
er children and the higher classes
your head surely feels like it is re
volving.
There are also those who give
you a hearty welcome CASUALLY a
slap on the back every morning.
Others try to make you dizzy by
going round you again and again.
My term as monitor is over and
now Clement Bason can worry
with the responsibilities.
George Thawley
Smyrna times., 1934-12-20
SUNDAY DINNER
SUGGESTIONS
BY ANN PAGE

EGG prices have come down sharply
Il in the past week and except when
bad weather slows laying, these prices
should continue or go even lower.
Meat prices have increased, particu-
larly on lamb and beef.
Vegetables are plentiful and very
moderate in price. An amazing variety
of them is Misunderstanding cab
bage, caulifiower, broccoli, Brussels
sprouts, kale. spinach, m u ar d
greens. dandelion green's, green beans,
carrots. beets, turnips and W h t e
boiling onions, to mention only few.
Navel oranges are cheaper though
still much higher than other oranges
and grapefruit. New crop Florida
Strawberries have begun to arrive.
Here are three menus made up
from seasonable foods:
Low Cost Dinner
Roast Shoulder of Lamb Potatoes
Diced Turnips
Bread and Butter
Orange and Grapefruit Cup
Cookies
Tea or Coffee Milk
Medium Cost Dime.
Roast Pork Mashed Sweet Potatoes
Brussels Sprouts
Bread and Butter
Deep Apple Pie
Tea or Coffee Milk
Very Special Dinner
Celery Pickles
Roast Lamb Drowned Potatoes
Green Beans
Mint Jelly
Rolls and Butter
Steamed Marmalade Pudding
Coffee Milk
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From the Principals Office

MuuTeU wilmington
Leslie Silpath
From the Principals Office
1t will be the aim of this column
in this and future issues, to ac-
quaint the reading public with
some of the organizations of our
school. In this issue the "Home
Room" will be discussed.
The Home Room" is really the
medium by which the pupil ex-
presses himself as member of
a group of his own age and grade
level. Each class elects its offic-
ers, who are the guiding influence
of the class in its policy as a mem
ber of the greater school organiza-
tions. Each morning the Bible is
read, the Lords Prayer repeated,
the flag saluted, and one verse of
the Star Spangled Banner is sung.
Two days a week current events
are the topic for the rest of the
period; one day each week class
business meeting is held, one day a
program is prepared, and the fifth
day is left vacant for extra occa-
sions such as an exchange of pro-
grams with another class.
Value of the ''iome Room" may
be enumerated as follows:
/. 1t stresses group cooperation
and responsibility.
2. 1t allows the child to express
his opinion of school affairs as a
member of the class and school.
8. 1t teaches proper parliament
ary procedure.
4. A knowledge of the events of
the world is stressed.
Smyrna times., 1934-12-20
MY Bondage To Clocks

My Bondage To Clocks
Br-r-r-, With the first br-r of
the clock, I leap out of bed and
turn off the alarm on the clock
which informs my knowing eyes
that it is seven-thirty. Mind you,
this is no mere weekly happening
which occurs to give me an early
start on trip, or an opportunity
to run down to the beach for an
early swim in the refreshing wat
er; nothing quite so enjoyable. 1t
is, much as I loathe it, my daily
signal to leave my warm and sat
isfying bed to prepare for school.
OH how that alarm haunts mel
l have reached the point where I
shudder upon hearing an alarm
clock ring, even when it's being
demonstrated to a customer by
some innocent clerk in a store
where they sell the abominable ar
ticles.
When I have silenced the alarm,
began to wash and dress. AS I
perform tbs daily task, by eyes are
constantly on the clock, for 1 dare
not allow myself more than twen-
ty minutes. Having completed my
first clock-timed deed of the day,
I dash into the dining-room to gulp
down my four-course breakfast.
chewing a piece of toast, I grab
my coat and a massive pile of
books (thanks to the teachers,
bless their soulsD and arrive at
school in record d-breaking time
even causing admiration on my
swiftness from the postman.
Classes begin at eight-fifty.
Every hour, by the clock always
by the clock) we change classes.
Each teacher constantly consults
her watch, unknowingly consoling
me by proving that 1 am not alone
in being ruled by clocks.
When the hands of the clock
reach the eleven-fifty dot, we are
freed by a nod from the teacher.
Now make streak for home.
If I realize, as 1 dash along, that /
won't reach home within the ten
minutes set aside for that purpose,
1 run las daintily as a hullung
brute of a girl canD At twelve
noon, 1 eat my midday meal,
which in our home is a small lunch.
Time problems which 1 present
prevent it from being otherwise }
The afternoon session resembles
that of the morning, and it is with
joy that we are dismissed for the
final time at three-thirty. I devote
the time from then until dinner to
doing things I want to do. / try
to forget time and make an effort
vain though it be, to agree with
our modern philosopher who says
There is no such thing as time" "
Although the habit of eating
fast has been thrust upon me, ]
try to eat dinner slowly, for which
my case of nervous indigestion is
duly thankful.
Before I climb gratefully into
bed, I wind the clock, which sits
on the night-table ticking madly
into the night land my ear,) being
careful to set the alarm for seven
thirty. Often I am on the point
OF throwing the clock out of the
window and seeking some secluded
spot, far from humanity, where ]
could be able to sleep without hav-
ing lovely dreams interrupted by
the cold reality of the changing
clock. But instead, I wind the
clock, knowing deep down in my
heart that with the first br-r-r of
the alarm in the morning, shall
obediently rise, shut off the alarm,
and wonder as / embark on an
other rushed day, whether I shall
be forced always to live such a
hurried existence.
| Dorothy Handloff
Smyrna times., 1934-12-20

+ Nellie Wallace lae,
III Marianne WeDo
| .. sophomore Class
4 snly Graham El1ey
las or 70 Fail Fail !. the
\ ! /. continually, ont IN the The
p school pupil one
=. ;,,ts say to them
"a never miss s.uay- ! ~
n I must pass" On
p tbs direct opposite IL
.,o,,o say, "oh, WELL
s.ols are paying 70
4 rsoOl, l won't bother
\ anyway, the teach
% me-" ,,,bo
4. ~ the pupils VINO
N % pass, but just
rs,s the grade. They
!, bard to understand
- about, but 1t just
e head nosds
I. be group that needs
g they are Ia taxing ing
g,rss. Many that are
rth the academic
sing this because OF
dlSnce. The parents
AjH to take cultural
rrss they themselves
uch education. Often
/, failing three subjects
.. because he is doing
be is not adapted.
Ais same pupil would
Gxly good work IN
~ he was interested.
|. ghool work affects
lone, wastes time and
many times leads to
he sducation of a pupil.
Is continuous, the
IL discouraged and de-
ktk no use for him to
because he fails all
be student will think
in the last years of
i ShOol about subjects
nst and receives the
il, and decides on sim
d The high school, the
! | geful years wasted,
L a.lars consumed, and
Egt N hundreds of
d be greatly lessened.
Marianne Webb
Smyrna times., 1934-12-20
Traffic Signals

We often become aggravated
when we have to halt for a red
light and wonder why it couldn't
wait for us to get by before turn
ing red. II that were true, the
light would always be green. When
we're waiting for the light to turn
green we mutter TO ourselves and
Smyrna times., 1934-12-20
An Interesting Incident From an
Interesting Book

An Interesting Incident From an
Interesting Book
Title: Adventures of Tom Saw
yer.
Author: Mark Twain.
TON" No answer. tom"
No answer. whats become of
that boy, I wonder? You Tom"
No answer The old lady pulled
her spectacles down and looked
over them about the room; then
she put them up and looked out
under them. She seldom or never
looked through them for so small
a thing as a boy; they were her
state pair, the pride of her heart,
and were built for style" not SER
vice-she could have seen through
pair of stove lids as we'll
She looked perplexed for mo
ment and then said, not fiercely,
but still loud enough for the furn-
iture to hear: well, I lay if / get
hold of you, I'll She did not
finish, for by this time she was
bending down and punching under
the bed with the broom, and so she
needed breath to punctuate with.
She resurrected nothing but the
cat. 'I never did see the beat of
that boy" She went to the open
door and stood in it and looked out
among the tomato vines and
jimpson weeds that constituted the
garden. No Tom. So she fitted
her voice at an angle calculated for
distance, and shouted, "You-u-u
Smyrna times., 1934-12-20

Robbers entered the dry goods
store of J. B. Thompson at Seaford
early Sunday and escaped with
about $3.50 worth of merchandise.
Entrance was gained by forcing
the front door Of the establish
ment. The loot consisted chiefly
of shoes, shirts, stockings and bed
comforts.
Smyrna times., 1934-12-20
Nellie Wallace
Tdt In the Home

AAoiilt
'uics Lab.
20 has rolled around
~ here again. The
Economics II arc
ia asads and parents
sday December tbe q
s'a S'' twothirtyg to to
nIs..09c This tea is
yaIsnas spirit which i
n..ss'' s'nlcs department
Weeks we have
ar,,, y fruit cakes.
~ ssls !. kinds. candies
= = stuffed fruit. N'e'
aats our gifts, we
n !. : bright colored
~ soy ribbons and
!, cake wrapped
90 90 tied with }
ls.,ss,', on display Il |,
tea. We ~
- i : Outsiders and per- sls
H.. tne school 70
lM i s. some day
arka,.' 'ae s..l girls busy
| Blanche Oliver.
..A.~..,.
IA, ~. : r. dignity Of
Smyrna times., 1934-12-20
What Christmas Means to the
Store Clerk

How glad we are to welcome the
Xmas Season! How happy are
the Shoppers as they cheerfully car
ry their heavy bundles from store
to store The children are all
thrilled with the thought of Xmas
vacation and the coming of Santa
Claus.
Perhaps the only ones in the
whole world who do not welcome
the Xmas season with open arms
are the store clerks. When Xmas
season comes around the clerks
are very busy waiting on people,
sometimes three or four shoppers
asking the clerk questions all at
the same time. They are kept
busy from Thanksgiving to Xmas.
However, when all the hustle
and hustle of the shopping season
is over, even the clerks succumb
to the joy and happiness that be-
long to Xmas. When the clerks
are home, and the stores are clos
ed, they laugh about the crowds
of people pushing their way in and
around the stores, the foolish
questions that were asked, the i'm
patience of the last minute buyer.
With a thankful sigh of relief that
another Xmas rush is over many a
store clerk no doubt remarks:
Thank goodness, Christmas day is
here" 1 guess that many people
have been cheered up by a little
gift. 1t was worth all the hard
work after all.
Leslie Pryor,
Eighth Grade
Smyrna times., 1934-12-20
J Srssful Failure

irUuse your anger to
nty ulmercifully criti-
1urtQnate person who
Well, let us take a
lrs A man cannot
-g unless he has tri-
E The failure, there
l-n Rio has tried, and
ne things he has tried
aaN failures he will
ias days. But a fail
god chance of win
G' because he will try
S not much to the
rsr tries. He is good
but 10 criticize those
. ne that the fellow
q to fight against
Mgh luck or who
Fa the bitter gall of
sFss little credit. If
Nsf had the dreams,
u castles which you
W 'weat, and blood,
sas down on your
N yourself on the
" position in the
have accomplish
but you can claim
10 It. But he who
aisd and found fate
salnst him, but has
N trying-that is
assarves the credit.
. whom we should
ats. = He is a fight
He is a successful
Smyrna times., 1934-12-20

MIR. James T. Shallcross, who has
served as vice president and direc-
tor of the New Castle County Ma
tional Bank, Odessa, for the past
20 years, has rendered his resigna-
ton to the board of directors. In
the future Mr.. Shallcross will de-
vote his time to his own farm and
the management of several others.
The extremely cold weather of
the past four days has frozen all
the inland marshes, putting an
early stop to muskrat trapping. 1t
is unusual that the ice is SO thick
in December that trapping has to
be stopped. Trappers made their
rounds on Saturday and the ma
jority of the men have been un-
able to do anything since.
Miss Sallie E. Miliigan of Sea-
ford, was injured at her home Fri
day afternoon wnen she tripped
and fell down stairs. Until this
term of school she was a teacher
in the Seaford Central School and
had gone to the attic of her home
When she started to descend she
tripped and fell the entire length
of the stairs. One leg and one
arm was fractured and her arm
cut and bruised She also suffered
hr1Iicac about the hody
Smyrna times., 1934-12-20

Two Delaware rabbit hunters
have contracted "tularemia," a
skin infection, from handling rab-
bits which they had shot. The
State Game and Fish Commission
on hearing of the cases issued
warnings to rabbit hunters.
Smyrna times., 1934-12-20

Announcement IS made of the
engagement of Miss Frances Mae
Clark, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Uric ]. Clark, Of Wilmington,
formerly of Middletown, to DR..
Agostino Sammartino, of Provi-
dence, r. l., son of Francis Sam
MARITIME, of Providence. The we'd
ding will take place in the Spring.
Miss Clark attended the Ursuline
Academy, the Women's College,
University of Delaware and Bea-
com College. DIR. Sammartino is a
graduate of Brown University and
Columbia Medical School.
Smyrna times., 1934-12-20
BRIEF ITEMS OF
THE PENINSULA
Brief News Items of People
We Know in and Around
Larger Peninsula Towns
FROM OUR EXCHANGES

MIR. and Mrs. Clayton D. Apple
by announce the engagement of
their daughter, Kathryn, to Jen-
nings C. Moore, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. C. C. Moore, of Middletown.
Marriage to take place in January.
Smyrna times., 1934-12-20
CLAYTON School Herald
Articles of Interest Contributed by Pupils of Clayton
Grammar School.
Grammar School.

Editor r..... Owens Weaver
Associate Editors,
Mildred Wilmington
Leslie Silpath
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HA'as...
NJ, ~ r. dignity Of
eAs'seu q the he
A'ssd Of the the
Evening star., 1934-05-20
GARFIELD CLASS
GRADUATES MAY31
43 Nurses Will Receive Dr.
plomaS at Exercises in
Hospital.

The Garfield Memorial Hospital for
Nurses will hold graduating exercises
Thursday, May 81, for the 1884 class
of 43 nurses, with W. S. Corby, pres
ident of the board of directors, pre-
siding.
Four District of Columbia girls will
be among those graduated. They are
Miss Rosalie Friedling, Miss Virginia
Spence Thompson, Miss Mary E.
Toomey and Miss Marguerite Whit
mire.
Commencement exercises will con-
sist of prayer services by Rabbi j. T.
Loeb, musical program by the orches-
ira, presentation of graduates by DIR.
Harry H. Kerr. representing the medi-
cal staff; comforting Of diplomas by
Miss Aline Solomons, member Of the
board of directors, and the benedic-
ton by Rabbi Loeb.
Preceding the Thursday exercises
will be the baccalaureate service at
the Epiphany Church next Sunday. .
dance given by intermediates to grad-
yates Monday night and Ladies Aid
tea honoring the graduates Wednes-
day afternoon.
Other members of the graduating
class are Wonona Ellen Alders, Ruth
Elizabeth Baker, Elizabeth Marie
Bennett, Hazel Bourke, Mildred Clas-
tine Bowman, Diantha Atkison Bowie,
Jane Adelene Brock, Nancye Marable
Canter, Evva Sylvia Chrismore, Doro-
thy Gertrude Craft, Sadye Bell Daily,
verna Eaves. Bettye Paxton Flippo,
Elizabeth ]. Foley, Pauline E. Grabill,
jeanette Harrison, Marion Bruce Hell
neken, Martha Louise Hickerson,
Stella Margaret Jackson. Maxine VIII
liams Lovett, Eleanor Catherine Ma
gruder, Ina Louise Mann, Lola Edna
McCallum, Sally Lewis Norman, Cath
crime Elizabeth Painter. Velma Lee
Pannett, Edith Grace Pepper. Helen
Julia Pichler. Margaret Powell, Caro-
line Ryan. Rosa Ross. Josephine H.
Sewell, Mary Stancell Stephenson,
Ermoye Avise Stoll, Mary Frances
Strader, Evelyn Louise Sutton, 1nez
Beaulah league and Dorothy Mae
Woods.
Evening star., 1934-05-20
VOTEFOR DISTRICT
TOBE DISCUSSED
Local League of Women
Voters Elects Offices
Tuesday Night.

National representation will be dis
cussed at the annual dinner meeting
Of the Voteless District of Columbia
League Of Women Voters, Tuesday
evening at the club house of the Amer
lean Association of University Women.
Ofiicers will be elected for the COM
ing year. and minor changes in the
constitution Of the organization will
be made. Mrs. Harris Baldwin, Miss
Gertrude McNally, Mrs. Elizabeth
Friedman and Mrs. Edna johnson
are expected to address the meeting.
Reports of departments will be made
Is follows:
Mrs. Laurence Todd will report for
the department of women In indus
try. Mrs. Elizabeth Friedman for legal
status of women, Mrs. Charles Weston
for efficiency in Government, Mrs.
Henry Chalmers for international CO.
operation, Mrs. Dumas Malone for ed
ucation. Mrs. Louis Gutenberg for So
cial hygiene, Mrs. Gardner jackson
for membership, Mrs. Winfield Riefer
for finance, Mrs. William Kittle for
Special Committe on Local Relief, Mrs.
Ben McKelway for Special Commit
tee on Revision of the League Con-
stitution and Mrs. Jesse Adkins for
child welfare.
Evening star., 1934-05-20

Ed) Smith, Of South Carolina
appropriately
Wednesday Shoreham
commemorang the by the legislator
number Of votes in South Carolina for
receiving the tray from Representative Hampton p
society
Evening star., 1934-05-20
R|TCH|E TO SPEAK
AT M. i. EXERCISES
700 Degrees and Diplomas
to Be Awarded at College
Park June 2.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
COLLEGE PARK, Md. May 19.-
Gov. Albert c. Ritchie will deliver the
address to the graduates at the joint
commencement exercises Of the Col
Iegs Park and Baltimore branches of
the University of Maryland at College
Park on Saturday, June 2, beginning
at 8 o'clock. The exercises will be
held In Ritchie Coliseum. named for
the Governor, which seats 5000 per-
sons.
There will be approximately TOO de-
grees and diplomas awarded, of which
about one-half will be from each
branch of the institution. Among
them will be II doctors of philosophy.
Father Nevis on Program.
Father Coleman ]. Nevils, president
Of Georgetown University. will give the
invocation at the commencement ex-
erciseS.
The first of the exercises incidental
to commencement will be held at Col
lege Park on Sunday, May 81, when
the baccalaureate sermon will be given
by Rev. j. Ritchie Smith of Engle-
wood, N. j., who retired in 1880 after
16 years as professor of homiletics at
Princeton had followed a number of
years of service in churches in New
York and Pennsylvania He is
Princeton graduate and also took the
theological course there. He studied
law one year at the University of
Maryland.
Woman's Society Event.
On the morning of Sunday, May p,
the Woman's Honor Society will hold
its initiation at College Park. There
will be a lapse Monday. May %, but
starting the next day the activities will
continue daily until the completion of
commencement at College Park, June 2.
Many of the affairs will hold great
interest for the alumni, the various
Baltimore branches making provisions
for the old grads on May 81 and June
l with the early part of the program
at College Park on June being given
over to them and dinner and dance
that night being shared with them by
the students and faculty.
Evening star., 1934-05-20
NORTHEAST BOYS CLUB
PET SHOW DATE is SET
Exhibition Will Be Conducted
Saturday, June 9-Entries
Being Received.

The Northeast Boys Club has set
Saturday, June 8, as the date for the
pet show to be held in the gymnasium
of the club at 1868 Kraemer street
northeast, and to Steve Zevglovis goes
the honor of making the first entry
q goat.
A. Boyd Kinds, director of the club,
is already beginning to look worried
over some of the entries for the show.
One boy has a huge beetle in a bot
tie, and he declares the BEETLE is a
bug destroyer of the highest type. He
has entered it as his pet. Another
boy has racing cockroach, which he
declares can outrun any cockroach in
the Northeast section.
Mr.. Kinds is being besieged for en-
try blanks by boys who have dogs Of
more or less uncertain lineage; cats,
principally of the alley variety; tur-
ties, chickens, one large green frog,
a toad, two rabbits, a parrot and a
pair of canaries. The Committee on
Entries is being called on to decide
whether or not pet snake will be
admitted to the show, and up to yes
terday no decision had been reached
Evening star., 1934-05-20
SOCIAL HYGIENE GROUP
WILL HEAR new YORKER
DR.. Benjamin C. Gutenberg Will
Be Principal Speaker at
Meeting Friday.

DR.. Benjamin C. Gutenberg of New
York will be the principal speaker at
the annual dinner meeting Of the So
cial Hygiene Society Friday at 6:45
pm. at Barker Hall, Y. w. C. A.,
Seventeenth and K streets.
DR.. William A. White, president Of
the society, will discuss Modern So
cial Hygiene Trends" while Ray H.
Everett, executive secretary, will re-
port on the years work Of the So
ciety.
Prof. D. w. Willard, chairman Of
the Program Committee, has an
nounced that the dinner and meeting
will be open to those interested. In
formation and reservations may be
obtained at the society's headquarters,
1913 Vermont avenue.
The meeting will mark the society's
sixteenth year of service in Washing
ton. It was organized in 1918 to CO.
operate with the Government in the
Nationwide social hygiene program.
Evening star., 1934-05-20
DINNER POSTPONED
ON DEATH OF PRIEST
Fourth Degree Knights of Colum.
bus to Hold Service Tonight
for DR.. G. F. Strohaver.

Out of respect for the late Dr.
George F. Strohaver, S. j., who died
Friday, the Washington General As
sembfy, Fourth Degree, Knights of
Columbus, has postponed until May %
a testimonial dinner it had planned
to give tomorrow evening at the May
flower Hotel for DR.. Coleman Nevis,
S. j., president of Georgetown Uni
versity
DR.. Strohaver, dean of Georgetown
College, was an active member of the
assembly. The Fourth Degree knights
will assemble tonight at $3.50 o'clock
in Dahlgren Chapel at the college for
service in his memory. The as
sembly also will be present at the
funeral mass tomorrow morning at 9
O'Clock in the college chapel, at which
time the members will act as guard
of honor. Members will wear the
morning dress with the outside bal
dric without sword.
The dinner for DR.. Nevils, post
poned by reason of Dean Strohaver's
death, is to honor him as the faithful
friar of the assembly. Postmaster
General James A. Farley, Senator Pat
rick A. McCarran and Senator Joseph
C. O'Mahoney are expected to be
among the special guests.
Evening star., 1934-05-20
H00E AND HERBET HEAD
JOINT MEDICAL GROUP
Davies, Magruder and Lamb Also
Elected Officers at We'd
nesday Meeting.

DR. Arthur Hooe and DR.. w. Herbet
were elected president and vice presi-
dent, respectively, of the Virginia,
Maryland and District of Columbia
Medical Society Wednesday at meet
ing at the Manor Club.
Others elected are DR.. Harry F.
Davies, recording secretary; Dr. A.
Magruder, corresponding secretary,
and DR.. Robert Scott Lamb, treasurer.
DR.. William B. Marbury presented
a paper, Some Conditions of the
Ano-Rectal Region" DR.. Percy Hick-
ling a paper on 1.-THE Value of Hered-
ity in Mental Diseases" DR.. Robert E.
Moran reported on Plastic Surgery"
and DR.. Davies presented a paper, en-
titled "A New Treatment for Hay
Fever and Other Allergic Conditions"