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Smyrna times., 1935-07-18
CRUMPTON CANNERY BURNS
Big Plant of ID. E. Fo0te Company
Destroyed Monday - $4,000 Loss

Destroyed Monday - $4,000 Loss
The big canning plant of D. E.
Foote Company over at Crumpton,
Md, was destroyed early Monday
morning at loss of $4,000. Fire
engines from nearby Millington
and Chestertown responded. Fire
men battled the blaze for six hours,
but were unable to save any of the
building, its equipment, or the ad-
joining apartment of Vice Presi-
dent George Phillips, Jr. Phillips,
who lives in Baltimore, usually
spends his summers at the plant,
it was said. He and his wife were
awakened by the cracking of the
flames and found all exits from the
building blocked. Clad only in
their nightclothes, they leaped
from rear window into the Ches-
ter river and swan fifty yards
downstream to escape the sparks.
Harry Hatley, manager of the
Crumpton plant, said the building
was erected nineteen years ago at
a cost of S107 900. 1t served as a
center of operations for growers of
canning crops in Kent and Queen
Anne's counties. The plant had
just started canning string beans.
The village of Crumpton is in a
desperate plight. A considerable
number of the 800 or more resi-
dents were employed in the Foote
plant and have no other means of
livelihood. Little or no hope is
held out that a temporary factory
will be erected.
Smyrna times., 1935-07-18
WEDS CALIFORNIA MAN

Mrs Margaret Dunn Laurens the
Bride of Harry Hart, San Francisco
Mrs. Margaret Dunn Laurens,
daughter of the late Mr.. and Mrs.
William F. Dunn, of Smyrna, and
Harry Hart, of San Francisco, were
quietly married on July 10 at Reno,
Nevada. They will make their
home in Sutler Hall Apartments,
165 Sutler street, San Francisco.
Mrs. Hart spent the past winter in
Smyrna, her native town, spending
most of the time with Mr.. and Mrs.
Davis H. Bell. She lived in Shang-
hal and in Paris. She was known
as Peggy Brown in her motion pic
ture work in Hollywood.
Smyrna times., 1935-07-18
EVs STAND IN
MYRNAON FIRE
L..,;sou Brothers Damage
/. Building and Contents
$4,000 to $4,000
aRL KEITH's ESCAPED

L,,t.,ison Brothers news stand
au,sa-'t j sssr tavern, corner of Com.
~ D' and Market Streets and tne
tes ssstiansry snu store and apart
4 = Earl Keith adjoining es-
~ y = ! couaagration by fire early
trSav eS morning and but for re tne
bandis pl,ur5 work of the Smyrna flre
mnauv rnu,n might have been a .or story
namniete ruin. Hutchison Brotn-
'UD wpre damaged to stock equip
j md building to between So'-
! - and $4,000, but Keith, FORUM
|slv' escaped any material dam
& shortly after midnight Sun
I 4 > snort while after they had
Eired for the night. fire broke out
the down stairs front of Hutch
brothers, had eaten q hoie
I, The wall into the alley way OF
Trl Keith and was filling the
b,lse with smoke when discovered.
4 alarm of fire was sent in and
Z Fire Company with their Two
hicks got on the job. Soon a
Ege crowd gathered, The fire
bich seemed to have started
hong some papers in the corner
the room occupied by the news
|and. ate its way into the partic-
|ns and side walls until it had
(ached the roof. Not a room IN
Ie building escaped the suffocat-
Y smoke. Miss Hilda Hutchison
|ho keeps the apartment for her
tother, first discovered the fire
Id gave the alarm. Others on the
rect took it up and set off the
hen from the box" at the Four
bners. All escaped from the
hilding before the Fire Company
rived The same was true of the
Lmily Of Earl Keith. 1t was a
,ubborn fire to fight but was soon
Dtten under control. Fire had
.orched the inerior of the news
and and dance hall and what the
Re did not damage, the smoke did.
some instances firemen had to
1t into the partition walls and
'en climb to the attic to extin-
lish the flames. The result was
at the entire second floor will
I've to be repaired, papered and
tinted before it can be occupied.
ne same can be said of the por-
on Of the building occupied by the
'wsstand. The newspaper agency,
E understand, is owned by E. w.
utchison and the tavern business
owned and managed by Spru-
ice Hutchison along with mis-
other Merrill Hutchinson, the lat
= having a job at Yorklyn, near
ockessin, but only home in Smyr-
over week-ends. The loss to
e Hutchison Brothers in building
image stock and equipment is
tween $4,000 and $4,000, which IS
'Vered BY insurance. Repairs are
w underway to restore the build
9 to its original condition.
Smyrna times., 1935-07-18
ASBURY M. e. CHURCH NOTES
Church and School Show Good At
tendance, Despite Warm Weather

lChusfiCC, Dcspitc WdIIu weather
The services at Asbury are being
largely attended despite the warm
weather and dep interest is being
shown in all the activities of the
church life. The attendance upon
the sessions of the church school is
in access of that of last year on
the corresponding days. All the
departments of the school will meet
at ten o'clock on Sunday with Mr..
Harvey C. Jones, General Superin-
tendent in charge with the sever
al department superintendents di-
recting the devotion and lesson
study in their individual groups.
At eleven o'clock the morning wor-
ship will be conducted. The choir
will present special music in con-
nection with the congregational
Continued on Page Five)
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TRIP TO DELAWARE

Ind. O v,,.a ,or and Wife of Cleve-
|Mr. =, ~ Visit Ut H Q. Taylor, Dover
|hylor ~ - 1r mrs. Cornelius Graves
(eek..na y ,'l'l Cleveland, O., spent the
p and fsusI,.a s,sn his uncle, tl H. c. Tay-
| an ], ! Known to the radio world
nd O sD0pncer gS at wGRA, cleve-
bg q to,,l ne and his wife are max.
6ia !. vss ,0ur Of the Delmarva PENN. n
(ev. wi,li. nr. Tayiors father, the
kanv 'am csn P. Taylor served
/ = Charges in the wilminetor ton
erence including Kenton
Smyrna times., 1935-07-18

Geo. c. Rothwell School Director
George c. Rothwell, residing on
the Smyrna-Leipsic road near
Leipsic, has been named q school
director for Leipsic School No. IL.
Smyrna times., 1935-07-18
MIDDLETOWN SCHOOL STAFF
Prof. Gilbert Nickel Heads Middle
town Schools for Another Year

toHh SNaiOttS IUI ltHOtncT Il ear
The faculty for the Middletown
schools for the 1935-1936 school
year has been selected by the
Board of Education as follows: Su-
perintendent, Gilbert Nickel; as
sistant principal, Ida V. Howell;
Edwin P. Vogel, d. Kenneth Steers,
Adelaide z. Stafford. Mary I. Rig
by, Mildred Powell, Nellie Encore,
Lillian T. Merrick, Mary E. Labour,
Roberta v. Phillips, Margaret p.
Ernest. Ethel M. Roe, Roberta F.
Linthicum, Minnie E. Keen, Gladys
M. Hopkins, Elsie r. Jones, Emma
c. Donovan, Adah L. McCabe,
Clalra U. Reynolds and Esther L.
Pearson.
Smyrna times., 1935-07-18
Fsr ,n'eFferes With Thresb,nv

Prt Tsss. sss Of this community re-
Pvera yesrs Aas the best head in
kst = hsss years, and expect to har-
Is h.Ss ssvy crop. While all farm.
i've ess e.sn cut S their wheat, many
e tr.m,.I en kept from threshing by
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ANOTHER FOR THE OMEN?

THE Federal Trade Commission has charged the
National Electrical Manufacturers Association
and Is large member manufacturers Of power cable
and wire materials, with unlawful combination and
conspiracy to restrain competition by establishment
Of uniform delivered prices.
This association, "NENIA," was one OF the most
difficult problems Of NFA. Patent holdings appar-
emily made monopohes legal. Competition is diff
cult to establish in such an industry.
Private and public utilities both collecting direct
ly from consumers, are major customers for these
products.
The complaint, as issued by the commission and
calling NEMA and the companies to show cause
on Nov. why cease and desst order should not
be issued makes serious charges of interference
with price competition
If these charges are true, the commission is 60
ing to have a difficult time enforcing an order
The commission repeatedly has been overturned by
the Supreme Court. Some of its cases have taken
five or six years from inception to Supreme Court
decision.
The Department Of Justice-since the Schechter
decsion-is also responsible for enforcing the anti
trust laws, violation Of which is charged here The
department might move more directly into the
courts if violation is found.
So it may mean another job for the "G-men."
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PRESERVE THE CCC

CECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR HAROLD
~ ICKES is reported to have his eye on the CCC
camps, in connection with his ambitious plan to re-
vamp the Interior Department into the Department
of Conservation.
President Roosevelt already has announced that
the camps will be made permanent institution.
Director Robert Fechner will fight to keep CCC a
separate unit with the Interior, Agriculture Labor
and War Departments cooperating at present.
But Mr. Ickes is expected to use the permanence of
CCC as an additional argument in favor of taking
forestry and soil conservation away from the Agri
culture Department.
Opposition to transfer of these divisions helped
block Mr.. Ickes' bill for the new Conservation De-
partment in the last Congress. The measure was
passed by the House. but remained on the calendar
in the Senate
Organized foresters have fought against any shift
from the Agriculture Department. They argue that
trees are crop, though slow-maturing.
All CCC forestry work is carried out under
direction of the Forestry Division of Agriculture and
soil conservation under the Soil Erosion Division of
the same department.
Only when dealing with parks are the CCC camp
ers now given orders from Mr.. Ickes' department.
which includes the National Parks Service. The
Office of Education also is under Mr.. Ickes, but its
work in the camps is supervised by the War De-
partment, which supplies the officer personnel
for CCC.
The CCC enrollecs are selected under supervision
Of the Labor Department.
In this department set-up, Director Fechner
has served as sort of umpire, 1t seems to us that
on the whole he has served successfully. The CCC
is one of the finest achievements of the Roosevelt
Administration.
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Provide Wealth, Not Share It

than elementary common sense;
and yet it is point that needs
to be made over and over again,
if we are to understand the real
nature of the problem that faces
us.
With our productive plant, our
natural resources, our inventive
ness, and our skilled energy, we
could make this city of ours and
this nation of ours incomparably
the richest ever dreamed Of; rich
est in the sense that the ordinary,
undiStinguiShed man could have
more comforts. more luXuries, and
more safeguards in his daily life
than even the kings of the earth
had few generations ago.
We do not, however, as of today,
possess enough wealth for it. We
possess the means of producing
that Wealth-but the wealth itself
we have not got.
We must set our productive
machinery to work at top speed.
More goods and lower prices
there is an avenue down which we
can progress toward that nation
ally desired goal, a more abundant
life.
Trying to share our wealth.
today is putting the cart in front
of the horse. 1t would seem to be
more sensible to set to work to
increase our wealth so that the
shares would be big enough to be
worth asking for.
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stand the gaff financially in the
matter Of embarrassing are having
few children, or no children at all,
while Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Doakes from
down in Hooverville are cucumber
ing themselves with more offspring
than is either financially or socially
advisable.
From all this you will learn that
America is Systematically breeding
out those traits Of character and
intelligence which it ought to pre-
serve.
Now the only trouble with all
this seems to be that it isn't exactly
so.
have just read a report by DR.
Clark Wissler, curator of anthro-
pology at the American Museum
of Natural History, who reports
that the time honored trend toward
smaller families on the part OF
educated and well-to-do Americans
IS being reversed.
Basing his views on careful
study of statistics, he reports that
in the near future families of -four
or five children will be as common
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Questions and Answers

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when addressing any question OF
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apolis Times Washington Informal
ton Bureau. Legal and medical
advice can not be given. nor can
extended research be undertaken. Be
sure all mail is addressed to The
indianapolis Times Washington
Bureau, Frederick NJ. Kerby. Direc-
tor. 1913 Thirteenth-st, n. W., Wash
ington. D. C. THE EDITOR
Q-Where is the tree in Cali
fornia under which devotional and
patriotic services are held on
Christmas Day? For how long
have these services been held?
What is the name and the size of
the tree?
A-The Gen. Grant Tree in
Gen. Grant National Park, Cali
fornia, is the tree under which de-
votional and patriotic services
have been held each Christmas
Day at noon since 1925. The tree
has height of 267 feet and a di-
ameter of 80 feet, and contains
more than half a million feet Of
lumber in the trunk, roughly 325
cords. 1t was measured and named
in 1867 by Mrs, Lucretia P. Baker,
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a member of a pioneer family in
the district.
Q-Give the population and al
titude of Tucson, Ariz.
A-The 1880 census enumerated
32,5O6. The altitude is 1916 feet.
Q-When was the British ship
Tuscania torpedoed and what was
the loss of life? Were any United
States soldiers aboard?
A-The ship was sunk by a tor
pedo off Ireland, Feb. 5. 1918. With
a loss Of 213 lives. On board were
Company E, Sixth Battalion,
Twentieth Engineers; One hun
dredth Aero Squadron, One hun
dred flfty-eighth Aero Squadron,
Engineers Reserve Corps. anc
One hundred seventh Supply
Company.
Q-Who owns the race horse
Man O. War? Where is he kept?
A-Samuel D. Riddle is the
owner. The horse is in charge of
Miss Elizabeth Daingerfeld, at
PARKWAY Farm, near Lexington,
KY.
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in the upper income brackets as
they are now among the very poor
The social ideal about large
families is subtly changing" he re-
marks. THE large number of mar
ried couples who can afford chill
dren, but don't have them, has
caused lot of thinking, and this
has started 5he reaction going the
other way u is all matter of So
cial ideals.
"a social ideal about the desira-
bility of large families will inevi.
tably bring about large families.
This would indicate to me that
Americas upper middle class is at
last beginning to get some sense
Rearing a family of children is
just as expensive and difficult as
every one says it is; but when al
is said and done, it remains the
most reWarding activity that the
ordinary human can indulge in.
The married folk who can limit
themselves to one child. or to nc
children at all, are simply cheating
themselves out of the best thing life
can offer them.
In no other way is it possible to
taste the full richness and deep
flavor Of living. 1t calls for sacrifices
it means heartaches and worry, it
brings veXing complications but
what thing that is worth doing
does not?
1t is safe to assume that the re-
cent trend toward small families
is but a passing fad. In the long
run it makes life less satisfying
rather than more so. Sooner or la
ter the common sense of the race
will recognize the fact.
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By Middle Class Reader

The bullet that ended the life
of Huey Long also Debated the
most promising Cor menacing, if
you prefer of the political move
ments based on the simple dis
content of the man whose pockets
are empty.
Since people Of this kind have
been numerous OF late IN Indi-
annapolis and their discomfort has
been great, Long was able to ride
a long way and looked like riding
farther.
But although he is gone and the
movement he led is in a state of
confusion, the urge to share the
Wealth-to cut slices off the cake
on the rich mans table and pass
them around to those who have
no cake-still exists, and needs
to be reckoned with.
If the masses are to be enriched,
1t must be done through increased
production and lowered prices
rather than through division of
the wealth already existing. Our
productive capacity is not in ex-
cess of our requirements for con-
sumption. On the contrary, it is
behind them.
If we divide the wealth now. we
shall be freezing our economic
level at point too low to satisfy
US. Before we talk of dividing it,
we ought to get busy and in
crease it.
This, to be sure, is nothing more
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I TNWITTlNGLY, but none the less effectively, A.
year-oId Bobby Lunn has provided an excellent
talking point for Fire Prevention Week campaigners
Playing with matches Bobby set fire to his home
The house was destroyed
Children and matches form a combination with
a great capacity for causing sorrow and loss
If Bobby Lunn's act serves as warning to all
Indianapolis parents to exercise greater care in keep
ing children and matches separated, it will compen-
safe in some measure for the loss Of familys home
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SWAN SONG FOR OIL
COUNTRY STORE
Old England
BY BERTRAM DAY.

Old England is well known in deeds
and songs,
It's sea-washed shores are pic
turesque and warm:
It is a gem set in the oceans prongs
Rejecting Natures regal uniform!
Its poetry is one rich legacy
Of virile dramas from Shakes
peare's pen,
Or stirring epics full Of brilliancy,
Or dreams from the minds
OF gifted men,
It's galleries, museums, churches old
Lure visitors to each rare ediflce,
They prove a magnet powerful as
gold:
Famed London is the worlds me-
tropolis!
A Pantheon of genius and renown,
Westminster Abbey takes from all
the Crown,
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said, 76 per cent of the stores are
now in the cities, and they 90 near
ly SO per cent of the states retail
business. Here in Indiana the figures
are nearly as high.
The little old country store was
as distinctively American an in
stitution as the nation possessed.
It's cracker barrel philosophers
and informal debating societies
helped shape the ideas of the re-
public. Indiana and the nation will
have lost something when it finally
DISAPPEARS.
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AUGUSTUS TRIED 1T

LIS generals, in the early part Of his reign, at
tempted the reduction Of Ethiopia and Arabia
Felix. They marched near a thousand miles to the
south of the tropic but the heat Of The climate soon
repealed the INVADER and protected the unwarlike
natives Of those sequesteled regions" Gibbons
The Decline and Fall Of the Roman Empire; Au-
gustus Caesar; reign 81 B, C. to IA AID
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PROVIDING MOTORISTS
WITH SOME LIGHT

BY a. c. d.
indianapolis motorists may be in
terested to know that Texas courts
have held that a motorist who is
blinded by the headlights of an ap-
preaching car while driving at night,
and who hits something while so
blinded, is guilty Of negligence.
The case which produced this rul-
ing arose, I understand, after mo-
torist, travelling at IS miles an hour,
crashed into parked truck Which
he was unable to see because ap-
preaching headlights had blinded
him. He was killed, his heirs sued
the trucks owner, and the de-
/ fendant replied that the dead driver
had failed to exercise proper care.
This contention the court upheld,
and its ruling is worth noting, A
driver, it held, must anticipate the
presence of objects in his path. If
headlight blinds him, it's up to
him to slow down or stop until he
regainS his vision. If he doesn't do
so, and hits something, it is his
fault.
The ruling is timely warning to
all Indiana motorists.
THE GUFFEY BILL AND
OUR COAL STRIKE
BY Non-Miner
It strikes me that some one ap-
parently deceived somebody in con-
nection with this bituminous coal
strike
A few months ago, when Congress
was in session, we we're told that
only by passage Of the Guffey Bill
could nationwide strike be
averted.
Well, Congress passed the Guffey
Bill, and everybody breathed sign
of relief. And then, just after Presi-
dent Roosevelt had appointed
board to administer the new act,
the strike broke anyhow.
A good deal of transformation
seems to have been passed out
somewhere. How come?
SWAN SONG FOR OLD
COUNTRY STORE
BY An Old Philosopher
The Commerce Department, we
understand having investigated
matters in such representative
states as our own Indiana and Ohio,
reports that the old country store
is rapidly passing from the Ameri-
can scene.
Autos and paved roads apparently
are depriving it Of its reason for
existence. Fewer and fewer people
stop to shop at the crossroads; in
stead they go on into town.
In Ohio. for instance, the report
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Daily Thought

If thou hast done foolishly in
lifting up thyself, or if thou hast
thought evil, lay thine hand upon
thy mOuth.-Proyerbs XXX, 80.
To be free from evil thoughts is
Gods best gift.-Aeschylus.
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Times readers are inrited to cypress
their Uic,Cs in these columns, religious
controversies excluded. Make Dour letters
short. so all can hare chance. Limit
them to ESQ qcordS or less. Your letter
must be siGncd, but names 1oiU be
tCithHeld ON request
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SMALL FAMILY ONLY A
PASSING FAD, 1T SEEMS

BY Reader
Gather a little group of serious
thinkers in indianapolis together
for an evenings discussion of what
is wrong with the world and sooner
or later you will find them speak
ing sadly of the decline of the fam
lily.
Broadly speaking, the complaint
will be that educated folk who
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DANTS is supposed to be a somewhat vulgar word
but because there is a distinct connection be-
tween pants and war, we crave your kind induI-
gence.
Premier Mussolini has launched his adventure
in Ethiopia. His planes are raining bombs upon
Aduwa and other key places and his infantry is
following up the barrage The conflict is on.
Massed at Suez and Gibraltar are squadrons of
British warships If they bar II Duce's path to
Ethiopia, he has warned, he will fight. He can not
desert his army battling in East Africa.
And if war breaks out in the Mediterranean, be-
tween Italy and Britain, another general European
war will become a grave probability.
It is high time, therefore, for the people of the
United States to begin deep thinking. The
President must declare embargo muntion
shipments to both belgerents-to Italy and Ethiopia
alike NO difficulty is anticipated there. But what
if the war spreads? Suppose France backs Britain
and Germany backs Italy? Suppose Russia attacks
Germany and Japan attacks Russia? Suppose Po-
land joins on the side of Germany and the little
entente goes to the aid of Fra nee? And so forth
and SO on.
The President may lay embargo on NUM-
lions to each and all nations that join in the war.
Scrupulously he might forbid the shipment of
single bomb tank, rifle, cartridge, vessel shell,
airplane, poison gas container, machine gun what
important to any Of these
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We must bring the Republican Party back to the
people The people are thinking more of issues than
OF men.-Frank E Gannett, newspaper publisher.