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Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1938-05-12

Rose Clayville, Faye Cole, IIilda
Elburn, Betty Ennis, Betty Ever
hart, Nancy Fox, Ruth Hill, Char
Ilotte King, Ethel Leach.
9-2 grade, Miss Robertson, teach
er-Wilma Blendt, Mildred Carey,
Edna Ennis, Charlotte Everett,
Dorothy FAIRIES, Adeline Hilyard,
Betty Jnoes, Louise Nabb, Ruth
Rowland, Olga Pavlik, Betty Phil
lips, Thelma Slaughter, Luellamay
Vincent, Audry Wooleyhand, Will
liam Bramble, Weston Crossley,
George Davis, Robert Deakyne,
Jack Lockerman, Willard Passwat-
ers, Charles Poore, Charles Stew
art, Ned Wilson, Lloyd Johnson.
81 grade, Mrs. Vogel, teacher
George Bradley, Kenworthy Car
ter, Jay Don Charlton, Donald
Clark, Manfred Ennis, Fred Harris,
Fred Heinold, Walter Klapp, Ralph
Knots, Kathleen Burris, Pauline
Francis, Elizabeth Russell, Marian
Grimes, Doris Loman.
80 grade, Mrs. Harrington,
teacher Thomas Conoway, Mary
Ellen David, Hazel Grace, Robert
Jacobs, Edith Johnson, Frances
Johnson, Lawrence Kinsey, Ethel
Leager, John Long, Robert Lower,
Marie Maloney, Frances Melvin,
Joe Passwaters, Helen Pleasanton,
Marian Pratt, Phyllis Reed, Helen
Regenauer, Rodney Schuman, Will
liam Shelter, Lee Slaughter, Rob
ert Spence, Helen Jane Stevenson,
Betty VanPelt, Julian Woodall.
IL grade, Miss Start, teacher
Marion Chester, Theresa Cox,
Frances Ann Davis, Thelma David
son, Henry Dukes, Betty Jane En-
mis-. Beverly Gaulke, Margaret
Gearhart, Edward Grace, William
Harris, Margaret Kinsey, Gene
Kirby, Thomas Lamb, George
Long, George McCrone, Lloyd Nc
Matt, James Parag.
7-2 grade, Mr.. Ward, teacher
Jeanette Burchard, Ruth Garrett,
Eta Sklut, Betty Newman, Aud
reg Westfall, Betty Woods, Jack
Mood, Russell Moore, Buddy
O'Neill, William Palmer, Rayborn
Robinson, William Short, Freder-
lex Stevenson, Jack Wilson, Earl
Vincent
7-3 grade, Miss Filters, teacher
William Minner, Benjamin Morris,
Robert Scorah, Richard Scorah,
Charles Simpkins, Edward Wisk,
George Wright, Agnes Chambers,
Doris Palmer, Eleanor Pierce, Dor
othy Short, Georgia Slaughter,
Sara Stevenson, Jean Truax, Hell
en- Williams.
81 grade, Miss Matthews. teach
er-Rachel Burris, Dorothy Fort
ner, Elma Foxwell, Florence Hay
es, Frank Badur, Earl Biddle, Will
liam Broadway, James Clough,
Vance Cole, Wells FAIRIES, Jack
CARTS, Ray Hayes. Edwin Leager.
81 grade, Mrs. Smith, teacher
Buzzie Deakyne. Billy Long, Karl
Merkel, Florence Passwaters, Billy
Pleasanton, Janet Pyle, Fiji
Schantz, Norma Seward, Leland
Shapley, Leland Slaughter, Nancy
Stats, Herman Tucker, Nancy
Wilson.
81 grade, Miss VanPelt, teacher
Mary Allen, Benjamin Archer,
Robert Badur, Ida Marshall, Ethel
Boyles, Paul Bradley, Marie Brom-
mer, Charlotte Brown, Eddie Bur-
ris, Betty Bush, Sarah Cahall, An
drew Chester, Vivian Chambers,
Dorothy Chester, Betty Clough,
Leon Collins, Billy Cox, Harold
lDeakyne, Jean Ennis, Peggy Ennis,
Dorothy Green, Samuel Foraker,
Sylvia Harris, Maxine Hayes, Lew
is Collins.
So grade, Mrs. Pryor, teacher
Marie Archer, Irene Mofitt, Made
Ign Nabb, Gertrude Newnom, Irma
Newnum, Eleanor Rowland, Mabel
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1938-05-12

During an electrical storm early
Thursday morning lightning struck
a barn at the farm of Albert Port
er near the Kent and Sussex Fair
Grounds, Harrington. Hay in the
loft was ignited, but fremen saved
the building from destruction.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1938-05-12
Conyicts Enact Own Play

San Quentin, Calif.-"The Fish"
was the name of a skit written and
enacted by inmates Of San Quentin
penitentiary. The play dramatized
the agonies of newly arrived in
mates.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1938-05-12
Took Oath on Death Bed

william Goebel took the oath Of
office as governor of Kentucky
while on his death bed from an
assassin's bullet In 1900.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1938-05-12
4 New Baseball League

For several years the eastern
part of Delaware has been without
4 good Amateur League for Base
ball. This year League is being
formed with Pat Knight Of Dover
as president. Six teams comprise
the league. They are Hartly,
Goldsborough c. G. G., Wyoming
@. c. c., Camden, Magnolia, and
Harrington. Four teams will be in
the playoff for the championship.
/ think that Hartly has very
good chance to be in the playoffs.
AT present our star pitcher is
working out with Dover of the
Eastern Shore League. IF he
makes the grade it will weaken our
chances considerably. The League
games start May q and end some
time in August.
This League may develop some
players who will go up to the
Eastern Shore League. This
League is for enjoyment only and
is not a money making PROPOSE
ton. No players will receive any
pay. Hartly's boys expect to win
the title and I am sure they will.
Wallace Powell from Hartly
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1938-05-12
The Real Goal

The first three years in the life
Of a High School student are spent
in getting ready to be senior. At
least that was the way with me.
I always looked forward to be
made a member Of that great
school organization, the Senior
Class. One always hears Of them
as being Solemn Seniors"
Now I have found out my mis-
take. I find that all these four
years have not wanted to attain
seniority but instead, gradua-
ton. That is my real goal.
Murray Blechman
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1938-05-12

Ppgre's '.,s+ipg activ-
= ~ % a 51lt' hss certain
I n,st worthwhile tanners
.. \ Is Of easy nia9u ne !
s,.,, I'd d the part o. n,s sde
I .ssooI gathering. ,. n fsit
for sl'l s.vs a week, 9
b 3 aooa 9 f teaching 6 lS5
\ ;isa:irg etiquette,
l' a was vas organized BY a
|. ,so;sn from the senior
\, \ # up the following
|. gymnasium i .I protected ssrta
T. J ] t is At school part
n,is Of dancing i lin, n.
VI steps such as e.
ataz tFot- emit
j prohibited. ],
saIty is welcome At al
! ! separate period
Esnt classes. =.
various periods the
! ,,,Oints a trustworthy
trssns who take the re. i.
n the management Of
rsrgs
|. sttsr dancers Of each
b making the poorer
NJ more at ease on the
N By teaching them the
pMlrs, rhythm, ana ell
a been no attempt on
b Tie Students to violate
l. This allotted privilege
h appreciated.
Esy d education is to
klrsn to do better the
est they will do in later
hmgh this activity comes
b recreation period, it
xtains to education.
we're present at our last
BIT you can see the re-
Eanplishments brought
d student planned ac-
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1938-05-12
" L a Citizen?

y j one who owes alleg-
. government. He is
p rights and privileges.
b these, the govern
l the citizen to per-
r duties. A citizen is
If, liberty, and pursuit
isG The gCvrnment pro
irun inVasions or any
EIa7tglrsss.
sn should be Interested in
S'ag Of bis cOuntrymen.
agays be ready to help
p n tine Of war. A
novs the important
be history Of his coun-
a'rns his duties as he
heIps keep up the
STATION.
! citizen who is born
States except those
AMBASSADORS, etc, or
ans over from a for
and become natural
an owe allegiance t.
-tg
Elsie Lefner
Return Visit
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lstnany. One Of the
ines ever presented
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i. a''olini were in close
Y. " each other. They
y 's q treaty linking
]. = LAY closer together,
one Of the most nog,
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but also the 5a M
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ni'd over this union opl i
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h. a y visited Ger.
n n. las Ut-
l, Iefnany. ItaIy
NJ y y % Austria, but
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! ~ 7 tdsir hearts, few fer ,
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asr =, uveF MussolinI';
u 1lussolini has II,
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Ill., TIE ceremonie,
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Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1938-05-12

By w. D. Greene
Dedicated to One who will recog-
nize.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1938-05-12

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-03
How They Have Changed

Time was when the press of Connecti- cut, for the most part, could not say too much in behalf of the late J. Henry Ror- aback and the fine businesslike methods he insisted that republican officials give the state We can still recall the glowing words of praise that were evoked by the pay-as-you-go plan of state government, which MT. Roraback popularized. Today MT. Roraback is dead; the pay-as-you-go plan has heaped on us an endless pro- cession of institutional needs that won't be satisfied for years to come and until millions have been expended in lump sum, instead of spread over period of years, beginning as far back as 1926 and '27
 We recall, too, that little was done or said when very small portion of the state press was calling attention to the fact that valuable water rights were be- ing acquired in wholesale lots by MT. Rorabacks public utility, the Connecti- cut Light and Power Company. EXpan- sion of the lighting concern in every di- rection in the state and it's acquisition of rights that might have been retained by the public excited some comment, but not the laundering criticism that one has come to expect in Connecticut in recent years. We wonder if the press of the state was as little acquainted with the true facts then as it seems today to possess them in other matters of public import.
 For example the Bridgeport Telegram and the New Britain Herald have lately taken up the "steal" of a highway along the east bank of the Housatonic River, lost when construction of the Stevenson Dam brought Lake Zoar into existence. The Bridgeport paper says, "We submit that the c. L. & P. purloined the road" The Herald says, "In those days J. Henry Roraback ran both the CL&P and the state Legislature. No amount of denun- citation of the Housatonic river steal de- tered the political powers. What returns does the public get for giving up it's prop erty- Cheaper power?"
 All of which is criticism which should have been forthcoming ten and fifteen years ago. The damage is now done. What one section of the press of the state claimed was happening has been proved. Now the other section joins the anvil chorus, in view of the fact that the spirit of criticism is rampant right now.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-03
Foreign Trade

National Foreign Trade Week, observed by many organizations in cities through out the country during the week of May 23, should have been an occasion of greater importance than most of the special weeks and days we observe. For eign trade concerns all of us. The serious decrease in world trade is one of the fac tors contributing to present economic distress. It is vital that we find the causes and then work out the remedies
 Growing recognition of this was indi- cated by the variety of organizations par ticipating in special luncheons, dinners, exhibitions, and so on, during the week. The Foreign Trade Council, the Automo- bile Manufacturers Association, the American Arbitration Committee, the American Locomotive Company, City Clubs, the American Express Company, steamship lines, Pan-American Airways, are few of the names represented.
 Addresses were on such topics as "World Trade Revival" Giving and Tax ing in Trade Development" "The Mean ing of Foreign Trade" and Commercial Conditions in Latin-America" Some schools prepared exhibits containing colored charts of foreign trade, source maps of basic products and miniature figures of foreign countries.
 Such educational work could do the whole world great good. A thriving world trade, benefitting all countries, would do more to create peace and restore and spread prosperity than all the treaties and pacts ever signed.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-03
May Be More To It

There have been varying reactions to the recent demand of Devere Allen, so- cialist leader in Connecticut, that Gov ernor Wilbur L. Cross retire from any ac- tive participation in the forthcoming Democratic convention to nominate a state ticket In short MT. Allen claims that the governor is disqualified from further office in our state government by virtue of his association with persons, cited in Waterbury's grand jury report. Many have laughed at the demand and termed it a ridiculous one; others have applauded it for political reasons.
 Many striving to present a logical view point of the situation with regard to the governor become almost hysterical in their defense of him and his past record. On the other hand some might view with cold suspicion, as did the conductor of the Bridgeport Times-Stars' Wailing Wall column his status as consistent en- dorser of State Highway Commissioner John A. Macdonald his personal" dis like of Mayor Frank Hayes, yet his will ingneSS to have him as his running mate on the state ticket, and certain other stands" of the governor, which seemed to the writer to be at odds with his ad- mittedly liberal political attitude
 On the other hand there could be the very partisan belief that MT. Aliens sole purpose in firing away at the governor is to embarrass the Democratic party in it's effort to stabilize it's program for the l938 fall campaign. That such drive,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-03
Librarians Holiday

Speaking of postmens holidays, and such, there is the case of Linda Eastman, who has spent 46 years as librarian, and for the last 20 has been head of the Cleve- land Public Library, containing 100000 books. Retiring now, full of years and honors, Miss Eastman says she hopes to get little reading done.
 People never understand why I want to read when I'm away from the library" she says. "But they don't realize how little time I have had to enjoy reading There have been mountains of reports to read, miles of book reviews - and miles of interesting books coming in and going out, without my having more than look at them. When have time, there's noth- ing enjoy more than reading a good
 book"
 It rather shames a fellow who has good book, and plenty of time, but never takes it off the shelf
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-03

With Croft school becoming memory after graduation this June one goes back in memory as they say to the days when. Here was our major central school Many of our well known residents sat in at Croft from kindergarten to the eighth grade. One knew all the teachers, and in the old days the pupils sauntered forth at noon and in the afternoon to their homes adjacent to the center. Stormy days the pupils trudged along and climbed snow banks on East Main street as they approached from the west or the east. Croft school as one of central insti- tutions of learning was part of central Waterbury's history. But a city changes with the years. Landmarks of quarter of century ago are gone or so changed as not to resemble what they were in the good old days. So Croft goes out of exist ence as a grammar school and Leaven- worth high takes over. Miss Loretta Henebry, who has been guiding the des- tlnles of the young folks at Croft, goes up to Klngsbury, where all her friends and associates wish her happy going and happy years.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-03
Housing Primer
Study Situation in Bridgeport, as Relates to Fed era Housing Projects, Is Advice
 +o
Given to Hartford.
HARTFORD COURANT

Authority were written to enable housing funds to be stretched as far as possible. A considerable local con- tribution is rightly demanded. While an annual subsidy from the USHA will enable the Bridgeport Housing Authority to repay the city its loan, amounting to 10 per cent of the cost of the project, the taxes waived by the city each year, plus the services furnished without charge, are just as costly to the city as if cash itself had been handed over.
 Public housing is a business pro- position between the Government and the city. Every taxpayer should thoroughly appreciate that he pays the subsidy that makes it possible for low income groups to get ade- quate housing. As matter of fact many of those living in the slums that are demolished to make way for the new housing will not be able to afford the rent of four, five of six dollars a room that is required. Those on relief and without source of income will not find lodging there. Only in the distant future when the housing program is aug mented by private investment is there any chance that this group will be cared for.
 These considerations are not argu- ments against public housing. They are designed to show that public housing is not simply a matter of getting four or five millions from Washington as MT. Langdon w Post recently suggested here. Hous- ing has innumerable benefits; when sufficiently extensive it gives the taxpayer some repayment in de- creasing delinquency, in reduction oi contagious diseases, especially tuber- culosis and syphilis, in eliminating fire traps that often cause loss oi life It brings comfortable living tc people who might otherwise never have known one. This 1t does, but al cost. Cities must understand what the cost is when they decide to un- dertake public low-rent housing.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-03
Selected Poem
LAST LETTER.
(Esther Weakley in the New York Su

(Esther Weakley in the New York Sum He wrote it, sitting with his back against blasted tree-ts leaves were crushed into the Sodden earth. He did not write of war But of the things at home he'd known-before. He said he knew that spring had come back home: he mentioned flying skates on sun-fecked walks and small boys kites and tulips in a row; plum blossoms floating down, like scented snow; The worn place in the rug before the fire where, in the evenings, his old dog would lie; he asked if there cookies in the jar and If still wished on the nights first star He tried gallantly to hide his fear; he joked and said this might be his swan song It was though he turned and waved his hand then blithey started into No Mans Land.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-03
|PressConnment
THE PRESS AND THE PEOPLE
(Hartford Times)

The phrase, freedom of the preSs," is familiar to all who read newspapers in these times when the growth of centralized government has given fresh importance to this question. Also, most persons are aware that freedom of the press is vouchsafed in the Constitution.
 This very familiarity has tended to cultivate feeling of lease in Zion" about any danger that this freedom might be curtailed. It was pertinent that the American Society of Newspaper Editors at Washing ton should decide to carry on a constant campaign for popular sup port of free press.
 Obviously, the public cannot be principally concerned with the ques- tion of the publishers profits. Nor is that the important aspect of the free press problem. What really mat ters is to safeguard the opportunity for the people to talk to their gov- ernment. The right to comment freely on the policies and acts ot public servants is of the heart of representative government. Demo- cracy stands or falls with a free press. Once the people can no longer talk back" to their elected rulers they have ceased to be free men and have become vassals.
 To safeguard this key fortification to Democracy. the people will have to be on their guard. Government officials are human beings. AS such they love power and hate to be criticised. A very natural tendency on their part is to feel critical of organs of opinion and news which present the unpleasant with the more favorable side of public life They may even be under the spell of crusading zeal which leads them to feel that critical press is a menace to progress. Then, under some high-sounding pretext the shackles are forged. By asserting itself strongly on the side of . free prses the public shows 1t believes ir representative government and polit- Heal liberty.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-03

whether it came from Mir. Allen or any other member of political party, would be heartily welcomed by republicans, who fear the governor can never be defeated for his present office, and also by one section of the Democratic party, which gives him voice-service only, is equally as true
 MT. Allen loosed no bombshell on the state, for we have had in the past like incident in the denunciations of Profes- sor Albert Levitt when he took to the po- litical ring in various partisan disguises. You can write your own analysis of what the Allen attack portends.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-03

Bugles blow no more for Staff Sergeant Frank Witchey, Sd Cavalry, of Fort Meyer, Va Staff Sergeant Witchey has retired from the army after thirty or more years Of service. He is the War Departments most famous bugler, having sounded taps for more famous persons than any other bugler. He blew for President Will son and Taft and many other noted Americans. His most thrilling experi- ence, he says, was when he sounded "taps" at the grave of the Unknown Soldier Armistice Day in 1921. The ser geant says he is passing along to let some of the younger men have try at bugling.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-03

Hartford's first lesson in housing should be to study the situation in Bridgeport. The issues dividing pub lie opinion there will have to be con- fronted here once the Housing Auth ority, which will begin to function in June, considers plans for pro- ject. In Bridgeport, Mayor McLevy, who has long favored slum clearance and low-rent housing, seems sud- denly to have discovered that his city's contribution to such a project is by no means inconsiderable. He realizes that every taxpayer in the city will be contributing, not only through tax abatements but through government funds. Neither Bridge port nor the Federal Government has any funds of its own. Whatever subsidy is spent on housing repre- sents a contribution from the tax payer.
 Mayor McLevy is right on this point. No city should undertake low rent housing without first realizing the outlays that it must make. The Wagner -Steagall Act and the regu- lations of the United States Housing
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-03

nice without a smile, "is the old
 mems home."
 The lady went away apparently satisfied.
 Air Crashes
 Echoes of the crash of the China Clipper, in which Chief Pilot Ed die Musick of Pan American Air. ways lost his life in the South Pacific, are being heard in Wash lngton, where officials of the Bu- reau Of Air Commerce are inves- tigating the dangers attending the dumping of volatile fuel from planes.
 A section of an airplane wing has been set up in front of the great wind tunnel at the National Bureau of Standards, and gaso- line sprayed into the airstream blows over the wings, where cleo tric sparks simulate the charges Of static electricity picked up by the plane in passing through the air.
 High speed motion picture cam- eras and vapor analysing devices record the results. It has been found that under certain condi- tions a long plume of flame trails far back behind the wings, al- though no explosions have yet taken place.
 Merry-Go-ROund
 Supporting Representative Otha Wearin, young Iowa New Dealer who is running against Senator Guy Gillette, is David Murphy, brother of the late Senator Louis Murphy, to whose seat Gillette succeeded following Murphy's death in an auto accident Senator Bob Reynolds expound- ing in the Senate on the glories of his historic state: "Yes, sir. North Carolinians are a very lit- crate people. They write. In fact, they love to write. And gentle men, when they write they want an answer-at once. And if they don't get it at once they raise hell about it." .. Reason why Rep. Boyer of Illinois introduced his bill prohibiting circuses from selling tickets in excess of their actual seating capacity in Washington IS that last year he and friends were forced to stand although they bought reserved seats.
 Copyright. 1888, by United
 Feature Syndicate, Incl