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HARTLY
Items of Personal and Social In
terest Cleaned From the Vicinity

Hartly, Aug. 4-The Homemak-
ers Club held an interesting and
instructive meeting at the Lodge
Hall with thirteen members and
two visitors present. An excellent
program was rendered in charge of
Miss Minturn, who gave an illus
trated lecture on Better Light for
Health" She gave many useful
suggestions as to how to improve
electric lights. Mrs. Harrington
gave a report on her trip to New
ark to the Homemakers' Short
Course. Mrs. Samuel Carrow and
Mrs. Clyde Campbell served delic-
ious refreshments. No meeting of
the club will be held during Aug
ust, but will meet again in Septem-
ber.
Mr.. and Mrs. Maxwell Davis had
as recent guests Mr.. and Mrs. John
Timmann and children, Raymond
and Betty and Archer Hutchens Of
New York. The Davis entertain
ed in their honor, their guests be
ing Mr.. and Mrs Cecil Burris and
family of Wilmington; Mr.. and
Mrs. Herbert Hurd and daughter
Betty Lou of near Cheswold; Mr.
and Mrs. Thomas Keller and Mrs
Delsie Thompson and family Of Do
yer.
Stanley Puterbaugh of Parsons
Pa, has returned from visit to
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Schweitzer, Jr
He was accompanied home by his
mother, Mrs. Sadie Puterbaugh
who has been here for several
weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Carrow
have been sojourning at Rehoboth.
Mrs. Jennings Poore and daugh-
ter, Patsy, spent several days re-
Gently with Mr.. and Mrs. Cole
Hutchison at their cottage in kits
Hammock.
Mrs. Fannie Poore entertained
last week, Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Jew
Smyrna times., 1938-08-04
BLACKBIRD
items OF Personal ana Social In
terest Cleaned From the Vicinity

terest Cleaned From the Vicinity
Blackbird, Aug. Mr.. and Mrs.
Elmer Emerson and daughter Thel-
ma May and Miss Hilda Hill of Mt.
Pleasant, were Sunday visitors
with Mrs. Mary E. Tharp.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elwood Reihm and
Mr.. and Mrs. Roland Burchard and
daughters were Sunday visitors
with Mr. and Mrs j. w. Weber.
Mr.. and Mrs. B. A. McGinnis,
Mr.. and Mrs Kermit McGinnis and
daughter Fay, and Mrs. Marvin
McGinnis and son Donald, are
spending a week in Virginia visit
ing relatives and friends
Mr.. and Mrs. Martin Mitchell Wis
tied the Harrington Fair on Fri
day
Mrs. Alvin Pryor is spending a
few days in New Jersey. Her chill
dren are visiting their grandpar-
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. w. F. Ander-
son.
Mrs Jennie Keeler has returned
from Tilghman's Island, where she
spent several weeks with her
daughter.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Tucker and
family spent the weekend in Ches-
ter.
Mr.. John "A. Heinold has return
ed from weeks visit with Mr..
and Mrs. Ed Ennis While there
he attended the Harrington Fair.
Leonard Lambdin, Harvey Carey
and John Jester also attended the
fair on Saturday.
Smyrna times., 1938-08-04
CHESWOLD
Items Of Personal and Social IN.
terest Cleaned From the Vicinity

terest Cleaned From the Vicinity
Cheswold, Aug. Mrs. Norman
Smith and daughter, Miss Pearl
Smith, spent several days recently
with relatives at Marcus Hook, Pa.
Miss Pearl Smith also visited
friends at Swedesboro, New Jersey.
Mr.. and Mrs. Willard Stayton and
daughter, have been guests of Mr..
and Mrs. Clarence Carey near Do
yer.
Mrs. Sallie Lynch is spending a
visit with relatives at Long Island,
New York
Bobby Bamberger of Clayton, has
been visiting his cousin, Junior
Bamberger.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lyman Smith of
Dover, were recent guests Of her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. John W.
Thompson.
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cent visitors in Wilmington.
Mrs. M. M. Fitzgerald has been
visiting in Delaware City.
Mrs. Arthur Wilmington who is
i'll at the hospital in Wilmington
is reported better.
Mrs. F. T. James has returned
from a Philadelphia, Pa, visit.
Mrs. WV. Gremminger has been
a recent visitor in Penns Grove,
N. ].
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Wilson, of
st. Georges, were recent visitors to
town.
Smyrna times., 1938-08-04
ODESSA

Items of Personal and Social Inter
est Cleaned About Neiqhborhood
Odessa, Aug. 4.-Mr Edward
Pleasanton who has been confined
to his home because of illness is
reported better.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Dixon. of
Wilmington, We're recent guests of
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Reynolds.
Mrs. Frank Reynolds and sister.
Miss Annie Reynolds, have been re-
Smyrna times., 1938-08-04
CLAYTON NEWS
AND PERSONALS
Budget of Items From Our
Railroad Town and Their
Personal Mention
CHURCHES AND SCHOOL

Mrs. Ernest Davis spent severa
DAYS last week in Wilmington.
Mr.. John Heinold of Blackbird
is visiting Mr.. and Mrs. Ed. Ennis
Miss Roberta Ennis, Mr.. Tracy
Ennis of Clayton, Miss Florence
Corrie Of Smyrna and Mr.. Pat
Leonard of Chestertown, Md, spent
Sunday at Atlantic City.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Johnson anC
Mr.. and Mrs. Caleb Jackson are
spending this week at Rehoboth.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. M. Miller, Mrs
Hester Negendank and children
are spending two weeks at Reho-
both.
Robert H. Hollett is out for Levy
Court Commissioner for this dis
trict at the coming Democratic
primaries. See adv.
Mr.. James LeCompte is spend
ing this week at Rehoboth with
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul George.
Mr.. Charles Clayville of Della
ware City, spent the weekend with
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Harry
Clayville.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Carrow and
son Billy, Teddy Rohman and Tom
my Brown spent Sunday at Toll
chester.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charlie Baker and
Mr.. and Mrs. John Ramho spent
Sunday at COLCHESTER.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Montague
and children, spent Sunday at Re
hoboth.
Miss Jane Carroll of Dover, and
Mrs. Emma Meredith of Dover
spent the weekend with Mrs. Har-
~ Stevens.
Mrs. Charlie Beck and Jimmy
Bickling of Odessa, spent Sunday
with Mr.. and Mrs. William Robin
son.
Jimmy and Dan Brown of Balti-
more, are visiting their grandmoth-
er, Mrs. ]. S. Cobb.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Rambo and
son George, Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred
Worwman and Miss Margaret An
derson of Wilmington, visited Mr.
and Mrs. John Rambo on Sunday.
Mrs. May Hammond and friend
Miss Dorothy Hammond and Jean
cite Hammond, spent Sunday at
Riverview.
Mr.. Thomas Attix and Mr.. and
Mrs. Elwood David of Townsend,
Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin Shane and
daughter Thelma, spent Sunday at
Riverview.
Mrs. ]. F. O'Neil and Mrs. Nan
Sullivan spent several days last
week at Fairmont, w. Va, with
Miss Catherine Sullivan.
Miss Thelma Shane is spending
this week at Riverview, N. J., with
Misses Ruth Jean and Mary Louise
Wallace.
Mrs. Harold Shockley and Mr..
and Mrs. w. S. Collision spent Sun
day at Rehoboth.
Mrs. Lewis Conaway spent Wed
nesday in Wilmington.
The Sunshine Class of st. Paui's
NJ. E. Church will hold their picnic
at COLCHESTER on Wednesday.
George Davis is spending this
week in Wilmington with Mr.. and
Mrs. Woodrow Hughes.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. w. Hawkins
spent Wednesday in Wilmington.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elwood David Of
Townsend, spent Thursday with
Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin Shane.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Orvis are
receiving congratulations on the
arrival of a fine son born Wednes-
day, July 27, at Kent General Hos
pital, Dover.
Miss Josephine Smith spent last
week with her aunt and uncle in
Philadelphia.
Little Buzzie Smith has had his
tonsils removed and is getting
along as well as can be expected.
Miss Betty Eichholz spent sew
eral days last week in Atlantic
City with her uncle and aunt, Mr..
and Mrs. Leslie j. Truitt.
Evening star., 1938-05-29
POISON MAGAZINES STUDIED
Critic Is Advised Make Further Investigation of Them TO
Determine Need of Public Responsibility Found
in Some Homes-C Censorship Again.

| said that the best government was the
one which governed least. Nobody GER
tainly would claim that we have that
kind today. For the best government
we seem to be using q substitute. Even
matters of taste must be adjusted
to the difference.
THE reviewer, in going over the mag
azines month by month, has more
than once bemoaned the preoccupation
| OF the contributors with the questions
Of communism and fascism as these
doctrines relate to America. This dis
paragement, however. has not been
because she sees no importance to
our country in the political systems
which are ravaging 30 large part OF
the world. Rather it has been because
SO few Of the writer's have had any
thing Of pertinence to say on either
subject. They have seemed to limit
their remarks to viewing with alarm
or an earnest putting Of the question
as to whether America was going to
the right or to the left. Only few
times have they gone into the untheo-
retical realities of our relation to these
European plaques. This month is one
Of those times. In the June American
Mercury Lawrence Dennis writes with
unusual wisdom Of "the real COM
munist menace" His piece is well
worth reading.
The real communist menace in this
country, says Mr.. Dennis, Is in the ap-
| peal which the doctrine makes to
| honest liberals Our liberals think
Of communism" he writes, 'in terms
Of its ideals Of abundance, efficiency
| and equality rather than in terms of
its theology Of an eternal workers war
against the capitalists. The
liberals insist that communism Is what
| they would like 1t to be. But
| there Is no excuse for such disregard
of historical facts. The Communists
do tell the truth about themselves in
their theology, though naturally they
lie about themselves in their strategy.
Communist scriptures truth
| fully represent communist hate and
| lust for power. Communist tao
ticians untruthfully represent COM
munism as a bulwark of democracy"
Communist strategy, says the article,
demands and aims at the destruc-
ton Of capitalist interests and liberal
government everywhere" And while
our own American-bred liberals are
conscientiously defending the Com
munists in our midst in the name of
liberalism these worthless return the
hospitality by plotting our overthrow.
They are not, says Mr.. Dennis, the
professional martyrs Of Union Square
and the picket lines, who are offensive
but essentially harmless; they are an
infinitely more dangerous and subtle
group, proceeding intelligently in ac-
cordance with well-defined plan.
The article is the first one which the
reviewer has read to make this point.
AS said, it is distinctly worth reading.
Evening star., 1938-05-29
Public Library
Civil War in America.

|
As ITS part in the current OBJ
servance Of Memorial Day the
Public Library presents the following
short list of books looking toward d.
versif1ed reading program on q subject
Of undying interest. All Of the books
may be borrowed from the central
building at Eighth and K streets,
where hundreds of other works in
the field may be obtained also by con-
sulting the card catalogue or con-
ferring with the readers adviser in
history.
The standard history of the Civil
War, during which Memorial Day
originated is still James Ford Rhodes
monumental History Of the United
States From the Compromise of 1850
to the End of the Roosevelt Admins
tration," which was in publication
from 1895 to 1929 Shorter and more
recent works are The Civil War and
Reconstruction" by J. G. Randall,
and THE American Civil War: an In
depreciation" by Carl Russell Fish.
The growth OF sectionalism is en-
phasized in Americas Tragedy" by
James Truslow Adams, and the causes
of the war are analyzed In Arthur
Charles Coles The Irrepressible Con-
flict, 1850-l865." The quandary faced
by Virginia and other border States
is related in The Borderland in the
Civil War; by Edward Conrad Smith.
AS Memorial Day." in its begin
ming, was Union" holiday. a glance
at trio of biographies Of the North
ern generals is perhaps appropriate
An English officer, Maj. Gen. j. F. C..
Fuller. extols Grants leadership in
THE Generalship Of Ulysses s. Grant" !"
and compares the two leaders in
Grant and Lee; a Study in Per-
sonality and Generalship." Popular
Northern heroes are the subject Of
Sherman, Soldier, Realist. American"
by B. H. Liddell Hart. and Of "Sheri-
dan; Military Narrative" by Joseph
Hergesheimer.
OF the making of Civil War fiction
there is no end, and some Of the
best has been made very recently. The
Southern cause bulks large as the
protagonist in these novels, but as
there had to be an enemy the North
comes naturally into the action. Their
inclusion in this list is therefore per-
missible. OF the more romantic, Stark
Young's so Red the Rose" has the
glamour of Mississippi before and
during wartime; more unsparing is
William Faulkners THE Unvan-
quished," also about Mississippi. The
phenomenal best seller, Margaret
Mitchell's Gone With the Wind"
concerns the war in Georgia. Du Bose
Hayward pictures the conflict con-
science in the mind Of a liberal
Southerner in Charleston, S. c., in
Peter Ashley"
Richmond in wartime Is search
ingly revealed in Clifford Dowdey's
| "Bugles Blow No More" and escape
from the Confederate prison at Belle
Isle is the central theme of Mackin-
lay Kantor's Arouse and Beware"
The same author has an unequaled
account Of the battle Of Gettysburg
in his earlier Long Remember" In
his Action at Aquila" Hervey Allen
dramatizes Northern officers strug-
gle to carry out his generals COM
mand while loathing the devastation
he causes, the scene of which is the
Valley of Virginia.
Evening star., 1938-05-29
WEEKS 10 BEST SELLERS
IN OTHER CITIES.
BOSTON,.

Fiction-''Lisa Vale," Olive
Higgins Prouty: "The Mortal
Storm" Phyllis Bottome: "The
Citadel" A. j. Cronin; "Sleep in
Peace" Phyllis Bentley: Action
at Aquila," Hervey Allen.
Non -fiction-"The Importance
of Living" Lin Yutang; "The
Summing Up" Somerset Maugh-
am; 1.-The Evolution of Physics"
Albert Einstein and Leopold In
field; Fashion Is Spinach" Eliz-
abeth Halves; DRY Guillotine,"
Rene Belbenoit.
CHICAGO.
Fiction-"The Yearling." Mar
jorie Kinnan Rawlings; North
west Passage" Kenneth Roberts;
1.-THE Citadel" "The Mortal
Storm" Action at Aquila."
Non -fiction-"The Evolution OF
Physics" THE Importance Of
Living" ~. B. Murphy" Loyal
Davis; "The Summing Up" Ma
dame Curie," Eve Curie.
NEW YORK.
Fiction-"The Yearling," "The
Citadel" 1.-The Mortal Storm"
Promenade" G. B. Lancaster;
Free Land" Rose Wilder Lane.
n-fiction-"The Evolution Of
Physics" The Importance of
Living" Madame Curie," DRY
Guillotine," Master Kung," Carl
Crow.
SAN FRANCISCO.
Fiction-"The Rains Came"
Louis Bromfield; 1.-The Citadel"
Sleep in Peace" "The Yearling,"
Free Land"
Non-fiction-"The Fight for
Life" Paul de Kruif; "The Evolu-
ton OF Physics" "Glass Houses"
Carleton Beals; Fashion Is Spin
ach," Memoirs Of Julian Haw-
thorne," edited by Edith G. Haw-
thorne.
(copyright. 1889
Evening star., 1938-05-29

two occupations have something In
common in the matter Of these maga-
zines. For If priest discerns in them
a menace to good morals and critic
a manifestation of ignorant tasteless-
ness, might not the answer be in
tensive education in good literature?
Particularly since the people who pore
over this trash are not, necessarily, OF
bad intent?
No. The answer is chuck the mis-
erable things down the sewer where
they belong. Msgr. McMenamin is
right. But the governmental frame
in which so simple and direct a course
might once have been adopted is cur
iously altered. One Of the founders OF
our democracy is on record as having
Evening star., 1938-05-29
BEST SELLERS IN WASHING.
TON-WEEK ENDING
MAY "a, 1888.
E9Nflnn

THE YEARL1NG. Rawlings.
Scribners.
FREE LAND. Lane. sLongmans.
CITADEL. Cronin. Little e-Brown.
THE HANDSOME ROAD. Bris-
tow. Crowell.
THE LATE GEORGE APLEY.
Marquand. Little-Brown.
WHAT PEOPLE SAID. White.
Viking.
Non. Fiction.
THE EVOLUTION OF PHYSICS.
Einstein and Infeld. Simon &
Schuster.
CULTURE OF CITIES. Num-
ford. Harcourt & Brace.
AMERICA GOES TO WAR.
Tansill. Little-Brown.
DRY GUILLOTINE. Belbenoit.
Dutton.
WOMAN ON HORSEBACK.
Barrett. Stokes.
MASTER KUNG. Grow. Harpers.
Evening star., 1938-05-29

SengerS flown commercially, only IL
have been killed, those in a single acci-
dent-a record Of safety which chal-
lenges any form Of transportation,
land. sea or air. In point Of safety, he
declares, the airship is the least Of
fender" among all modes of transpor-
tation. The advantages Of the air
ship, as he outlines them, are so posi-
tive and 50 self-evident that It would
seem almost incredible that the air
ship should be wiped out Of existence
without more comprehensive trial
than has been given.
Il for one am certain that, given q
fair opportunity to develop in an order
ly fashion, the modern airship can be-
come an effective unit in the commerce
and in the national defense Of the
United States Of America" Comdr.
Rosendahl concludes. j. S. E.
1T MIGHT BE VERSE. BY Wilfred
J. Funk. New York: Mcbride g.
Co.
A ND so it might! But one would
never suspect a distinguished lexi-
cographer, a man with many letters to
his name, to say nothing Of diction-
ary or two; q man who revels in the
cognomen of Wilfred. to perpetrate
anything as light-hearted, as kittenish,
as juvenile, as altogether 'let us drink
and be merry, for tomorrow we die" as
this. OF course, 1t Is amusing in a
purely contemporary way. It jeers at
itself and at its times. Occasionally
something serious. poetic or beautiful
does creep through the lines, only to be
Knocked by its author before the end
of verse.
Much Of the effect is produced by
tricky end lines, as in Vital Statis-
tics" He uses chaotic punctuation
to attain chaotic effects; his rhyming
Is rather weak and repetitious, IA
vorite coupling being loaded with
Scotch and soda, which rather gives
the theme Of the whole. Yet 1t would
be unfair to dismiss 1t all as the bub-
blings of a frothy mind. A few verses
have genuine beauty. Most Of 1t Is
smile-provoking. One or two verses
are genuinely funny or original. not
ably "Bacchus Chases Bacchante," !"
which Is a whole novel; in a few
rhymes. R. R. T.
IN THE NAME OF COMMON SENSE.
Matthew N. Chappell, New York ::
Macmillan Co.
This book is designed to cure wor-
riers of worrying. It is a serious,
psychological treatise which presents
a method Of relieving the chronic
worrier Of many Of his mental and
physical difficulties by substituting
new thoughts for old ones. The wor-
rier is to forget old causes for worry
in learning new causes for non-worry.
The author is insistent that will
power" Is not evoked in his process,
which sounds rather silly to the reader,
for it would make the average per-
son, worrier or non-worrier, expend
a large amount Of will power to carry
through to successful conclusion the
formulae presented.
There is no doubt that this work
is founded on sound psychology Of
the Watson, James and Lange schools,
as we'll as on sound common sense
Chronic worriers, complainers Of aches
and pains for which no doctor can
find q reason, let alone cure. may
follow its precepts successfully. At
least they will forget their worries
temporarily in the joy of comparing
symptoms. r. r. T.
Evening star., 1938-05-29
Brief Reviews of Books

SCANDINAVIA BECKONs. BY Amy
Oakley. New York: D. Appleton
Century Co.
Conventional travel guide to Nor
way, Sweden, Denmark and Finland.
HOLLAND: CROSSROADS OF THE
ZUIDER ZEE. BY Hendrix de
Leeuw Philadelphia: J. B. Lip
pincott Co.
A guide to the Dutch kingdom. by
a native Hollander. Authoritative.
Europe's Problems.
THE NEW POLAND AND THE JEWS.
BY Simon Segel. New York: Lee
Furman.
A chronic danger spot Of Europe
studied and analyzed. Informative
but duly written.
WATCH CZECHO-SLOVAKIA! BY
Richard Freund. New York. Ok
ford University Press.
The possibility that Czechoslovakia
may be the storm center in the always
predicted war between Facism and
Communism. Informative.
SOME STILL LIVE. BY F. G. Tinker.
New York: Funk g. Wagnslls Co.
The weeks book on Spain-the story
of an American airman who fought in
the Loyalist forces. All the customary
horrors, but also lively narrative.
Science.
MAN THE SLAVE AND MASTER.
BY Mark Graubard. New York:
Covici Friede.
A biologists vision of the future
race. Readable.
Theories.
THE AMERICAN WAY. BY David
Cushman Coyle. New York:
Harpers & Bros.
The four prize-winning essays Of the
recent contest held by Harpers maga-
zine for solutions of our problems in
ian American way" Previously pub
lished in the magazine. Magnihcently
dull.
ARCHITECTS OF IDEAS. BY Ernest
r. Trattner. New York: Carrick
g. Evans.
The stories Of the men who have
made historic theories, from Copper
nicus to Einstein. Interesting.
CIVIL LIBERTIES AND INDUS
TRIAL CONFLICT. BY Roger N.
Baldwin and Clarence B. Randall.
Cambridge: Harvard University
Press.
Four lectures originally delivered at
Harvard University, two on the side
Of social organization and two on the
side Of social destruction. Take your
choice as to which Is which. The re-
viewer finds Mr.. Randall sense talking.
blinded with his customary violent
prejudice and love Of notoriety.
Exploration.
UNFL1NcHING BY Edgar Christian.
New York: Funk & Wagnalls.
The diary Of young man who In
1925 went with two companions into
the Canadian wilderness on trapping
expedition. The dead bodies Of the
three were found in 1929. With the
bodies was this diary-a story Of six
months Of starvation. A moving
document.
xx1G o1OEtx VI 1 w GkN n S8AIN~
TURY EXPLORATION. BY
Charles Z. Key. New York: Al
fred A. Knopf.
The great explorations Of the still
difficult parts Of tho world, from the
Amazon to Thibet and the South Pole
to the North. Immensely interesting.
Ancient History.
NEVER TO DIE. Commentary and
Arrangement Of Text by Josephine
Mayer and Tom Prideaux. New
York: The Viking Press.
Selections from Egyptian literature,
designed to cover the essential phases
Of human existence In the Nile king.
dom. Informative.
Poetry.
ALL IN A LIFETIME. BY Edgar A.
Guest. Chicago: Reilly and Lee.
Edgar Guest.
THE STORY OF LOWRY MAEN. BY
(see REVIEWS Pase Esq