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Milford chronicle., 1936-04-24
Obituary
SHARPLEY

SHARPLEY
Mrs. Anna Purnell Sharpley, wife
of George F. Sharpley. retired Penn
sylvania Railroad trainmaster, died
at the Peninsula General Hospital,
Salisbury. Md, at lis a. m. Wednes-
day. April 18th, 1886. after brief ill
ness. The deceased, who was 60
years of age. was a native of George
town, Delaware. being a daughter of
the late Charles r. and Margaret P.
Purnell. A woman of pleasing per-
sonality, Mrs. Sharpley had a wide
circle of friends. She was a member
OF Asbury NJ. E. Church, Salisbury,
Md, and active in religious and So
cial circles. Funeral services were
held from the home. IO2 w. william
street. Salisbury. Friday afternoon
at 2.30 o'clock. DR.. George w. Hum
phreys, pastor of Asbury Church, and
the Rev. J. W. COlona. of Smyrna.
Delaware, officiating. Interment was
made in Union Cemetery at George
town. Mrs. Sharpley is survived by
her husband. A sister, Mrs. Martha
c. Messick, of Milford. Del. died Eas-
ter Sunday morning.
Milford chronicle., 1936-04-24
rATAiAN

Following a lingering illness, Fora
W. Tatman. 6S years old, died at his
home near Frederick on Monday,
April 20, 1886. He is survived by
his wife, Mrs. Flora E. Tatman, also
the following children, Oscar, Of
near Pennington, Elmer of viii
mington, Mrs. J. C. Nichols of
Bridgeville, Mrs. c. v. Robbins Of
Wilmington, Daniel Tatman of Will
mingtOn and Fora B. Tatman at
home. Four brothers and one sister
also survive him. Funeral services
were held from the residence on
Thursday, April %, conducted by
the Rev. J. E. Parker. pastor Of
Harrington NJ. E. Church. Interment
in Hollywood cemetery. Harrington.
Milford chronicle., 1936-04-24
WILDS

Mrs. Sarah Hill Wilds, SO years
old. daughter of the late Col. Robert
Hill and Mrs. Frances Cummins Hill,
and widow of Nathaniel Wilds of
Smyrna. died at the home of her
daughter. Mrs. Harry Fauntleroy, in
Roland Park, Baltimore. on April Is,
1886. and was buried on Saturday
from st. Peters Church. Smyrna,
with interment in St. Peters Gene
terry. She had been in poor health
for several months. She is survived
by her daughter. Mrs. FauntlerOy,
and two grandchildren, Sarah Cum
Minis and Gordon FauntlerOy.
Milford chronicle., 1936-04-24
NM
SMITH

Lovey Cora Smith. age p years,
and II months, died suddenly on
Thursday, April 16, 1886, at the Mil
ford Emergency Hospital. She was
the wife of Clayton Smith, of near
Collins Mill. in Nanticoke Hundred.
and is survived, besides her husband
by two small children. She was the
daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. James E.
O'Day of near Bridgeville. Funeral
services were held at Cokesbury
Church on Sunday and interment
made in the adjoining cemetery.
Milford chronicle., 1936-04-24

Commander H. H. Abbott and Col
Onel B. B. Deputy attended the G.. A.
R. Encampment held at Wilmington
this week.
Evening star., 1936-05-01

l. of Springs oheod And what would Spring be without
the Roeieh Hoberdoher MAY SALE with its big savings
on the very things you buy eagerly ot regular prices! We
cannot stress too strongly the importance Of this sole bringing
clearance prices fashions hot you will right through
Spring and into Summer Every department the house offers
Evening star., 1936-05-01

French. back shorts in
woven modroses, end
to.end oxfords ond
btoodeloths. Swiss. hot-
knit and mesh shirts.
Evening star., 1936-05-01

n ERE the clothes
Suits ond Topcoos Thus
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-09-16
COUNTY RECORDERS
DOCKET FOR MONDAY

The county recorders court was
in session yesterday and several
cases were heard before Judge K.
H. Station. The docket was as fol-
lows:
Earl Owens pleaded guilty to
assault on female and was given
a GO-day suspended sentence:
NJ. J. Taylor was acquitted on
a charge of reckless driving.
In the case of Lawrence Camp
charged with carrying conceal
ed weapon, the state took mol
pros with leave.
Sam Gibbs pleaded guilty to
driving a car while drunk and
prayer for judgment was contlnu-
ed to October 2G. Drivers license
was surrendered.
James Logan pleaded guilty to
driving a car while drunk and
prayer for judgment was continu-
ed to September q. Drivers IL
cense was surrendered.
The state took a mol pros with
leave in the case of Wheeler Os-
teen. charged with driving car
while drunk.
The state took a mol pros with
leave in the case Of Harvey Os-
teen, charged with driving car
while drunk.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-09-16
GRATITUDE FOR WHAT WE HAVE

Secretary of Commerce Daniel G.. Roper re-
marked when he returned from trip abroad:
"a thirty-day series of baths in the atmosphere
of any European country will prompt gratitude Tor
what we have and make all the dissatisfied persons
better American citizens"
There are, to be sure, plenty of Americans lett
who think anything in Europe is superior to what
America has to offer but it is probable that num-
Der has decreased very greatly in the past two
decades.
We may not believe Secretary Roper intended 10
speak disparagingy of any of the peoples or any OF
the countries on the other side of the ocean, but
merely to emphasize the better conditions of life,
the greater freedom and the larger opportunity to
make life prosperous and worthwhile which we en-
ioy here in comparison with any other part of the
world.
Is he right?
With all due respect and admiration for the
many fine and splendid peoples of Europe and their
wonderful accomplishments in government, science,
the arts, and their social progress, we think ne is
most emphatcally right.
If we did not think so would want to go some
wher, else to live And that is something we can
not even think of doing.
But above everything else, if we believe as Sec
rotary Roper has said, it should make US the more
determined to preserve what we have and to strive
to make it better and more secure.-Rock Hill, >
c., Herald.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-09-16
NEWSPAPERS OPINIONS
TWO CHICKENS IN EVERY PASTURE

President Roosevelt's enthusiastic address to the
"Green Pastures rally of southern Democrats at
Cbarlc tie. n c. made the same mistake President
Hoover made in his 1928 campaign of claiming TOO
roncb nolitical credit for economic conditions.
The neatly conveyed implication that govern
mental polices are responsible for the fact that IN
1e36 "a very much greater number of individuals
are back in the black has reminiscent sound
very much akin to the one-tme Republican prom
ises of the full dinner pail and chicken in every
pot And it is we'll known to what grief these came
The party that attempts to convince the nation
it and it alone can produce prosperity makes IN
the long run a serious mistake. 1t may not be in
single campaign political mistake That depends
on how the economic tide is running.
But it is in any event inaccuracy in fact.
That is not to say that governmental policies 90
not exert an influence economic well-0elng'
They are however, only of number OF FAC
tors at work in the recovery decline of national
business.
New Deal economics have both helped and hurt
recovery For instance, they helped check defatlon
and they spread purchasing power on the farm
The New Deal has at the same time, though,
caused fear of imitation that curbed enterprise
and has permitted price raising which absorbed
great deal of the gains in industrial purchasing
power.
Both intelligent governmental policy and eco
nomic effort are necessary to national prosperity
It is seldom that any one political party has mo-
nopo!y on intelligent policy And either the party
or the voter that pins faith to political label as
substitute for economic effort is counting disap-
pointment-Christian Science Monitor.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-09-16
DICTATORS' RULE NO. l

This little thing called news makes dlctators
tremble With their first opportunity they knock
it cock-eyed. Because Greece now has its Dictator
General John Little john Metaxas, America has
had it's last surely authentic public information out
of that country. His first batch of orders decreed;
Newspaper criticism of the government Is
forbidden"
That leaves only England, Switzerland and re"
other small countries in all of Europe where news
flows free and unrestrained. France, Russia SPAN
Germany, Italy and the others strain their news
through the fine sieve of their dictators.
Along with freedom of the press the head Greek
wresued many liberties from the people one may
not leave the country except at an outrageous
tariff. The police have taken over supervision OF
all safe deposit vaults. Possession of foreign cur
rencv is forbidden. A citizen may be jailed 1ol
banking money outside of Greece Once these sum
mary laws were published the people began to howl
and naturally. But Metaxas got away with 1t. Inc
newspapers were silent. Dictators, by the admls'
sion implicit in censorship, can't stand the white
light of publicty-Charlotte News.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-09-16

Is it lack of understanding lhal
makes nations fight? Or is it lack
of consideration for one another
rights? For instance, was 1t lack
of understanding of Ethiopia that
caused Mussolini to invade that
nation, slaughter its inhabitants,
and seize its lands? Or was it that
IMussolini wanted what he want
| ed, and did not give boot about
anything else? Was it lack of un-
Outstanding Of the worlds prob
lens that caused Germany to as
sault the world with intent to
conquer it n 1914?
Firm on.nitment to the Gold
en- Rule by nations is probably
the only way ever to bring nations
to the state of mind to stand res
olutely for peace.
We have war because nations
like persons-are dishonorable
because nations-like persons
are selfish and greedy.
Peace meetings which are set
up on hypothesis that it is merely
misunderstanding that eau S e
war, are approaching the problem
from weak angle.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-09-16
BY RODNEY BUTCHER
NEA Service STAFF Correspondent

WASHINGTON The pneu-
" monia rate from presidential
inaugurations is going to take
jump and weather hazards for
these spectacles will be materially
increased
That's one of the thoughts oc-
curing to officials who already
are making plans for the first jan
uary inauguration. Thanks to the
Norris "lame duck" constitutional
amendment, the winner of the No
vember election will be inaugu-
rated January 20.
Washington frequently has sub
Stantial billiards in January, and
the chances of bad weather then
are much better than for March 4,
the old inauguration date.
A design for the platform, which
as usual will be built out from the
portico on the east front of the
Capitol, already has been drawn
by David Lynn, architect of the
Capitol.
Congress will meet January S.
Because Is days wouldn't have
been enough to organize inaugu-
raj preparations and get the plat
form up, congressional leaders
thoughtfully legislated authorize
ton and $4,000 for expenses be-
fore they adjourned in June.
1t also appropriated $4,000 for
District of Columbia officials tc
provide for safety and convenience
of visiting crowds and authorized
erection Of grandstands on federal
land downtown.
AS far as can be learned, neither
the New Dealers nor the Landon-
ties are making any elaborate
preparation for a big celebration
pending election. But, blizzard OF
no blizzard, you can be sure OF
big doings in Washington on and
about January 20.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-09-16
INTERNATIONAL LAW

There is much wide, loose talk
about international law. Actual
w. there is no such thing as inter-
national law. How could there be
when there is no international
court to interpret and administer
international law, and no interna-
tional agency to enforce the man
datesQ Of an international court?
What would domestic law mean to
our domestic criminals if we had
no courts to pass sentences on the
lawbreakers, and no agencies and
to carry out those
sentences?
international law is a myth,
and will remain a myth until there
is some means Of interpreting,
administering and enforcing it.
What we have now is not inter
national law, but international
practices, customs, usages. 1t Is
the custom for a man to tip his
nat to a woman. But what can be
done about it if he doesn't?
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-09-16
AN OBSERVER OBSERVES
By WICKES WAMBOLDT
COMFORTING

The other day ! heard a speak
er say something that comforted
me very much. He said that less
than twelve persons understand
the science Of money. That state
ment relieved my mind consider
ably.
After studying various schemes
for solving the worlds currency
problems as advocated by various
experts who dramatically dis
agreed with each other, l came to
the melancholy conclusion that !
did not have what it takes or
should certainly have known what
it was all about, and what should
be done about it.
When the experts disagree, you
can write it down in your little
book that neither is right. or that
the one is as right as the other;
| but when the experts agree, you
have something to tie to.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-09-16
BEHIND TIE SCENES
IN TIE CAMPAIGN

IpEPUBLICANS are cleaning up
IL in the psychological trial
heats" and Democrats do not un-
derestimate the importance of that
Ordinarily the successive occur
renee of the 2 to l Landon vic
tory in the first few thousand votes
of the Literary Digest's national
poll and the big Republican vic
tory which nearly everyone has
anticipated in Maine would be
enough to Undue the G. o. P. lead
ers with complete confidence and
fill New Dealers with dismay.
That isn't really the case, but
Democrats are likely to have night
mares if the Digest poll figures
don't quickly come down to point
where Landon and Roosevelt will
be running somewhere near even.
Meanwhile, however, Roosevelt
leaders are admitting that "We've
got to get over those two psyche
logical humps"
VARIOUS New Deal agencies
have been discovering for
weeks that they were harboring
spies for the Republicans. Some
employees have resigned and ac-
copied jobs with the Republican
National Committee, there to I'M
burden themselves of what might
or might not be called official Sc
crets.
Others have stayed on, suppos-
eddy to supply the opposition with
information covertiy. Confidential
documents, or copies of them, keep
turning up in the hands of Re-
publican publicists.
The same sort of thing happened
four years ago, but not on such a
large scale. Republicans had been
in power IL years and had few
enemies in administration ranks.
Nor were there so many new
agencies, with a certain proportion
of fumbles, offering such a fertile
field for espionage.
! (Copyright. 1886. NEA Service. Inc.J
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-09-16
A VISITOR who is modest about

his suggestions offers d good one
to the effect that property own
ers keep the walks, where not
paved. cleared of grass, which Is
not good walking for newly pol
ished shoes. He mOdestly suggest
ed that he didn't suppose the city
was able to bear the expense OF so
much work in such a large area.
Bushes, !, said, were hanging over
some of the walks. He thinks they
should be cleared next spring and
kept clean.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-09-16
DESERT RAIN-SWE

TOOELE. Utah. (UP). - The
little village Of Ibapah, situated
in the middle Of the arid western
Utah desert, has been practically
swept by recent rains when the
desert weather took a sudden and
surprising turn.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-09-16
DOLLHOUSE ON TOUR

SALT LAKE CITY. (UP).-A
dollhouse that cost S435,O00 to
build. property Of Colleen Moore,
film star, was displayed here re-
Gently. 1t has been viewed in 27
cities by more than 2,225,000 per-
sons and has Travelled $4,000
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-09-16
UGLY WAR STRIPPED OF ALL ITS
GLAMOUR
CBy BRUCE CATION

A lot of water has flowed under the
bridge since the day when Jeb Stuart rooe
off to battle with a plume in his hat' d
banio-player at his side, and a scarlet
lined cloak floating from his broad snouI-
derS.
Since then, war has had the glamour
rubbed off; it has lost that mdehnaole
combination of heroic attitudes and visible
conscious heroism which went by the name
of romance; it has grown, to use the OLD
expression, as urgly as homemade sln' Ana
the proof of this lies in the public reaction
TO the war news from Spain.
What we are getting from Spain seems
to be a glimpse at mankind gone raVenlng
mad We read of cOnquering troops nerd
ing prisoners into bull ring and spraying
the place with machine gun bullets until
the prisoners were all dead; Of priests cru
Gifted to church walls; of prisoners execut-
ed in cold blood to prevent their release
by approaching armies; of cities going up
in flames from the lust of destruction; OF
wholesale atrocities - committed, appar-
emily. with a fine impartiality, by both
sides-enough to make the heart sick.
This sort of thing is not romantic, &C
cording to any swords standards
which may have been bred into us by our
reading of romantic war novels. There is
in it none of the breath-taking pageantry
of the charge of the Light Brigade; none
of the color and thrill of CambrOnne's de-
fiance at Waterloo; none of the fine dash
and flair of Jeb Stuart cavalry raid. 1t is
war reduced to its primitive essentials
men at one another'S threats in fury so
hot that it must spend itself even on the
bodies of helpless prisoners and noncOm-
batants.
And we shall acquire little valuable
wisdom if we realize that this sort of thing,
after all comes with the bicycle" This
Spanish war may be more vengeful and
bitter affair than some wars, but the essen
tials are always the same. Underneath, war
always was like this. It's gaudy trappings
were always a sham, good to fool the pub
lie but otherwise quite unreal.
For example: those slim British cruisers
that patrolled the seas in the last war hac
a romantic look to them as they went about
their lonely business on the tossing waters
But how romantic do you suppose they
looked to German mothers who saw thell
children dying, or growing up stunted ant
deformed, for lack of the foodstutfs which
those cruisers were keeping out of thu
country?
Or-to go over to the other side OF th'
picture-how much romance did the sll
ver-winged German planes have for British
mothers who saw their children blown t.
bits by aerial bombs?
To realize all this, to understand tina
the unspeakable horror of the Spanish wa
is simply the horror of all war magnitiet
just a little, is to fortify ourselves agains
tragedy. For when the danger of war i
imminent, we are apt to be drummed int
line by our emotions. We remember tn
picture-book side of war, Jeb Stuart will
his plumed hat, and all the rest; and lie
down our guard.
If we can get real understanding o
wars reality, we may be able to decid
with our minds instead of with our hearts
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-09-16

among natl o n 5.
The point is
stressed and re-
stressed that if.
nations could be
brought to un-
derstand one an
other better, to
realize one an
others problems,
there would be a
b e t t er feeling
among nations
m ore sympathy
with more and
more reluctance
to fight.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-09-16

That pair of dusty marble bathtubs in the lower
regions of the national capitol, thus far defyng ex
PLANTATION, may be the ones in which the promised
cleanup of patronage to have been under
taken-Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-09-16
WILL UNDERSTANDING CURE
WAR?

You have observed Of course
that many Of the peace confer
ences build most of their argu-
ments for preventing war on the
need of better understanding
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-09-16
BURNING QUESTION

Wonder if Maryland's Governor Nice, who point
ed out the other day that "The great question be-
fore the people is the future of the country, has
looked into the question of whether the boys and
girls of today are the men and women of tomor-
row?-Norfolk Virginian-Pilot.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-09-16

THE OLD SHEET IR o N
building formerly used as city
hall and the,residence to the rear
Of it-Sccond and Church - are
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-09-16

Man isn't so smart. Thousands of years before
he began to have afternoon headaches from trying
to think the turtle had stream-lined body, tur-
ret-top, retractable landing gear, and portable
house-St. Louis Star-Times.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-09-16
WANTED. AN APPLE PEEL.

er made to peel some OF the Knot
tv apples We are required to peel.
Il ought to be again the law to
have our market cluttered with
such apples in a country "hich
can produce just as fine as can
be grown anywhere.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-09-16
GET MARRIED HERE" IS

the solemn advice offered over the
entrance to the office of Magis-
trate-Coroner J. +. Brooks.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-09-16

George Bernard Shaw says he's the most popular
man in America He means he's the greatest OPP
timist in England.-The Jacksonville (Fla.) Times
Union.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-09-16
THE FARMERS ARE IN THE

THE FARMERS AXE IN TIL
midst of harvest time - money
time-hauling apples, beans, t.
matoes. potatoes, cabbage and
other produce. The most of this
produce is bringing good prices.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-09-16

Jesse Owens, they say, holds his breath in the
stretch That's where politicians waste theirs
Toledo Blade.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-09-16

Hitler wants Spain to pay for the Germans
killed in her private war The price, of course,
would be much higher than the hOme-purge rate
Toledo Blade.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-09-16

THE Treaty of Versailles again
l. has proved a mere scrap OF
paper, with Germany's rearming
Of Helgoland, tiny island in the
North Sea. In 1890, when Eng
and traded this islet to Germany
or Zanzibar, 5000 times as large
he world thought Germany had
struck bad bargain, for Helgo-
and was doomed to extinction by
he sea.
But Germany built strong con-
crete retaining walls, and fortified
he huge rock so that it became
iermany's Gibraltar of the North
Sea-" A far cry this was from
he "Holy Land" which the Danes
lad named it before it was taken
from them by Britain in 1907. II
IS less than a square mile in area,
one-fifth its size 200 years ago.
The island commands the mouths
of the Weser, Jade, Elbe, and
Elder rivers, and the harbors Of
Hamburg, Bremen, and Cuxhaven
from a vantage point % miles of
the mainland.
While still under British rule
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-09-16

HeIgoland issued
its own stamps in
German v a lu e S,
until it came un-
der German own
ership. One such
stamp is shown
here.
Copyright, 1895, n.