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Smyrna times., 1939-06-22

which was authorized by the
Maryland Legislature. ''The
proposal under considera-
tion," says the Journal-Every
Evening, "contemplates the
building of a home, adequate
for all nine counties, to be
financed jointly by the state
and counties"
An institution of this kind
has been advocated by vari-
Gus welfare groups and other
organizations ever since Del
aware abolished it's almshous-
es and substituted the State
Welfare Home at Smyrna. In
fact, the matter is understood
to have received some consid-
GRAFTON even earlier. 1t is be-
lieved, however, that the sue
cess of the Delaware expert
under the able manage
ment of DIR. A. V. Gilliland,
superintendent, has heighten-
ed interest in the subject on
the Maryland side of the state
line. In any event, it will be
worth while for the residents
of the nine counties to furn-
ish the survey commission
not only with their ideas re-
garding the matter, but also
with such information as will
the commission to
make an intelligent report
that will truly reflect the
sentiment of the Eastern
Shore as a whole.
Smyrna times., 1939-06-22
Water Purifier for Smyrna

Mayor Matthews and Smyr-
ma Town Council have taken a
progressive step worthwhile
in putting their application
with the Public Works Ad-
ministration Of the Federal
Government, for a water pur-
ifier for the Water Works
Plant. For many years wat
er takers have been put to
much annoyance and expense
in having their water pipes
filled with sediment and rust
to say nothing of the damage
caused by "eaten" pipes. A
purifier installed at the source
Of supply is sorely needed and
something that should have
been done years ago. 1t is
understood they have assur-
ances that Smyrna's case will
be favorably acted upon and
now that Council has made
formal application, we are in
line to receive attention.
Smyrna times., 1939-06-22
Shore Welfare Home Proposal

What for some time has
been a subject of periodical
discussion and much interest,
the establishment of a haven
for the homeless poor of the
nine Eastern Shore counties
Of Maryland, may become a
reality as a result of action
taken at the recent session of
the Maryland Legislature.
Two Of the counties maintain
almshouses. The other seven
make use Of the Eastern
Shore State Hospital at Cam
bridge. Whether the present
setup will be changed doubt
less will depend upon a survey
by an official commission
Smyrna times., 1939-06-22
TelevisiOn Is Here

If the New York Worlds
Fair accomplishes nothing
else, it should give a large
part Of the American public a
better idea of just exactly
where television stands to-
day. Says the Wilmington
Morning News:
'sThis business of adding
vision to radio has been sim
mering in the pot for fully 15
years but it has never come to
a boil. Countless times it has
been on the verge, but it has
never quite materialized. De
spite repeated rosy promises,
television has never managed
to get beyond the experiment.
al stage. Now, in New York,
the sponsors of this type of
entertainment are making a
effort to push televi-
sion over the top. Broadcast
ing stations are operating, re-
ceivers are being sold, and, at
the Fair itself, millions will
get their fifirst chance to see
what television looks like on
the screen.
"What their reactions will
be can hardly be predicted in
advance. But there are cer-
tain facts about this modern
marvel that are beyond dis
pute. One is that present
television receivers are so
costly that they are far be-
yond the reach Of the average
mans income. Another is
that television has an ex-
tremely limited range Of so
odd miles.
1.-TWO things will have to
happen before the bulk Of
Americas radio fans can see
as well as hear. The country
will have to be literally cover
ed with broadcasting stations
so miles apart. The price of
sets will have to be brought
within the reach of the aver
age mans pocketbook, or else
| there will be no warrant for
spending vast sums for build
ing broadcasting stations. In
other words, television is
here, but it is still present in
a very limited way. There is
not the slightest sign as yet
that it is going to revolution
ize the radio industry over
Smyrna times., 1939-06-22

Harry Voshell, son of the late
Jas, L. Voshell, and wife, living
near Salisbury Sanatorium in
Salisbury died Monday morning,
June IL at 8 a. M, after a short
illness of complication of diseases
affecting his heart, lungs and kid
neys at the age of % years. His
remains were returned to his late
home, near Millington, and on
Wednesday afternoon of last week
the funeral services were held in
charge of Rev. A T. Mcfarland.
Smyrna times., 1939-06-22
TOWNSEND

Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Morgan
to Wilmington one day
early last week
Miss Mary Schwatka, who was
in Dover the past sever
al days, has returned home.
M. c. Phillips of Altoona, Pa,
was a recent visitor here.
Smyrna times., 1939-06-22

night. And, until its present
technical limitations are over
come, it is likely to remain
the plaything of the few rath-
er than a daily means Of en-
tertaining the multitude"
Smyrna times., 1939-06-22
Treasurer Simonton Budget Sec'y

Treasurer Simonton Budget Sec'y
The State Budget Commission
Monday elected State Treasurer
Fagan H. Simonton as secretary,
and Delbert B. Lyons of Bellefonte
as accountant. The commission
met with Gov. McMullen, State
Tax Commissioner James P. Truss,
Mr.. Simonton, and Fred Powell, of
the State Auditors Office.
Smyrna times., 1939-06-22

ADVERTISEMENTS - The Smyrna Times
is the business medium not only for the
town it represents, but for the outlying
district of which it is the center. en-
bracing the towns of Clayton. Kenton.
Cheswold. Townsend, Leipsic. &c. A rate
Of so cents per inch an insertion charged
for transient advertising. Season or
yearly display advertising rates quoted
on application. For Sale, For Rent.
Lost and Found advertisements occupy
ing one inch space or less. a minimum
charge of so cents per insertion. In
memoriam articles. 10 cents per line per
issue.
THE SMYRNA TIMES is an Independent
paper devoted to the welfare of the town
It represents and the State of which ii
Is a part. 1t also gives the items of
importance of the Eastern Shore of
Maryland.
Smyrna times., 1939-06-22

Entered at the Post Office at Smyrna, Del
aware. as Second Class matter.
Subscription price. $3.50 per year. strictly
in advance.
Smyrna times., 1939-06-22

Published Every Thursday Morning, BY
r. ID. HOFFECKER, Proprietor.
Founded by Robert d. Hoffecker, July s.
1854. Editor and Proprietor until Feb
ruary 10. 1907.
Evening star., 1939-06-04

Heep, most humble. 1t is an arrant
coward and possesses that irritating
habit of continuing indefinitely to turn
the other cheek. Its only defense is
most realistic stimulation of death
(playing 'possum, together with d
concomitant ability to recover from
serious wounds.
Among ninety-fve skeletons of
opossums, thirty-nine showed evil
dences of more or less recently broken
bones - jaws, shoulder blades, ribs,
legs and toes, all of which had sue
cessfully healed. The gait of an opos-
sum is, at best, so wobbly and rolling
that any induced limp would never be
noticed, and as the animal is too much
of coward even to run from danger,
accidental curtailment of speed is a
negligible factor.
The spasm which, at the imminence
of danger, turns the opossum into an
apparent corpse, works havoc to those
individuals living near boulevards
and state roads, for no acting, how
ever clever. will deceive or defect
an oncoming motor car These lowly
mammals seem to be the most fire.
quent victims of automobiles.
The opossum may also be said to
suffer in silence, for its utmost effort
in ordinary vocalization is snakelike
hiss. At the season of courtship,
however. the male at times gives vent
Evening star., 1939-06-04

to his emotions in series of metallic
clicks, achieved by means of tongue
or teeth. Just as in the dull intellect
of some human being there may occur
flashes of sheer genius. so in the opos-
sum a remarkable habit has been
recorded once or twice: the use of the
Coiled, prehensile tail to carry hand
full or rather talful. of dry leaves to
its nest in some hollow log.
Like some races of mankind, the
common opossum, in spite of all diff
culties, thrives under adverse condi-
tions, and is increasing and extending
its range northward from the center
of distribution in the southern states.
For half century it has been COM
mon around New York City, and
when introduced into Long Island
and Connecticut has multiplied
rapidly
When we see pack of hounds with
heads raised high, baying at hollow
far up in lofty tree, we may picture
the opossum mother curled tightly
up in her nest of leaves. and deep
within her skin fold of pouch, the
dozen shapeless babies, patiently
transmitting constant stream of
milk into another of the innumerable
generations of opossums, generations
which in the early history of man.
mails on the earth stretched so far
back into the remote past
Evening star., 1939-06-04
TOO YOUNG TO BE SEEN
bY william Beebe
Tropical e.eh, York zooseo
Director. Department Of Tropical Re.
Reseoreh, New York ZooiosieoI Society

instinct is as unerring as if rehearsed
for lifetime.
Birth control has no place in the
economy of the opossum and a score
of young may be born at one time;
but this means tragedy, for there is
usually room for only a dozen at the
milk bar" and only frstcomers are
served. Our pity is stirred deeply at
the thought of the diminutive. blind
little being, thirteenth or fourteenth
in the bread line. fighting its way
uphill and into an unknown cavern,
only to find no unoccupied fount For
time it creeps about, futilely push
ing its pore fortunate brothers and
sisters, but finally, succumbing to the
pangs of hunger, it tumbles out of the
pouch and to the ground.
When newborn, seven thousand
opossums are needed to weigh
pound, but the fortunate offspring in
the pouch grow apace, and at the end
of two months their weight may have
increased five-hundred-fold.
In the tropical opossums. before one
Evening star., 1939-06-04
WHICH WAY WOULD YOU BET |?

bad for the eyes? Yes No
a. Do you believe alcohol is good
antiseptic? Yes No j
S. Do you believe persons hair
grows after death? Yes No
6. Do you believe that you should
never 60 in bathing when you are
especially warm? Yes No ]
T. Do you believe mirages are seen
only in the desert? Yes No ]
8. Do you believe that swans sing
before they die? Yes No q
g. Do you believe that the fur of the
ermine is white during the winter
months only? Yes No
10. Do you believe hot water freezes
quicker than cold? Yes No Z
-HAROlD HART
Evening star., 1939-06-04

litter has left the mother for life of
their own, another lot may be found
occupying the pouch. So the patient,
timid parent must search for recuper-
ating food throughout the whole night,
and anything edible - worms, Mile
pedes, beetles, eggs, mice is &C
ceptable.
The opossum is a real member of
the First Families of Vertebrates. Its
early forebears are confined to Aus
tralia, while its more recent opossum
connections may call South America
their home. The unusual early birth
of the young places these animals in a
most interesting median position in
the mammalian scale of life Below
it is the duck-billed platypus of Aus
tralia, which, reptilelike, actually lays
eggs, while all higher mammals retain
their young within their body until
the offspring are comparatively we'll
formed.
Like some human first families, the
opossum is rather decadent. 1t is also
confirmed pacifst, and. like Uriah
Evening star., 1939-06-04

N INFANT opossum enters upon
A life in an almost unbelievably
4 u strange manner. From the
hidden recesses of it's mothers body
it is catapulted into an almost equally
concealed pouch, in which it lives for
months and absorbs vast quantities
of milk.
Instead of remaining unborn for the
reasonable time of several months, it
appears in the world after only eleven
days, helpless, shapeless, more like
great pink grub than potential back
boned animal
My word "catapulted" is rather
hyperbolic, for this amorphous little
being possesses one perfect thing: an
inborn instinct to creep or crawl in
exactly the right direction, two or
three inches to the waiting pocket.
And not only this, but it has to climb
upward all the way and at the end of
the Journey nose out one of its moth
er's dugs.
Its eyes remain tightly closed for
the next six weeks, but its pouching
Evening star., 1939-06-04


NH superstitious - but are you
4 sure?
Below is list of ten questions, each
of which contains a belief commonly
held by vast number of people today.
Not all are untrue But you may be
surprised at the number that are mere
fiction.
Perhaps some of your own pet be-
liefs are pure superstition. Check your
answers with an X and then look on
Page Is for the truth.
l. Do you believe there are no fish in
the Dead Sea? Yes No
2. Do you believe your sense of bal
ance is in your ears? Yes No D
3. Do you believe that wearing rub
bers or overshoes inside the house is
Evening star., 1939-06-04
1t starts with gentle
Ivory Soap-advised by doctors!

"A pleasant story with happy ending -.
The beginning, sound foundation for skin
beauty, is gentle daily cleansing with pure
Ivory Soap.
Ask your doctor if that isn't so! Many
doctors say just that-for a very simple
reason: Ivory cleanses the skin gently, with
out irritation. 1t is always mild and pure.
And Doctor likes the idea that when he says
''Use Ivory''-he's advising fine skin soap
at only tiny cost. Gentle Ivory is friend to
Baby's delicate skin-and to Big Girls
complexion that makes mans heart skip
beat.
You'll find Ivory for -complexions in grand
mansions and in cottages built -for-two! SO
why not morning and evening beauty cleans
ings with gentle Ivory for YOUTH
X Recently aleadng medical journalwrote2O,O 600 =
doctors asking them which soaps they advised.
For both babies and grown-up skins more doc.
tors replied Ivory than any other soap
Evening star., 1939-10-24
Tech's Circle 7 Club
To Honor Hoya Cub
Coach Friday
HordeII Will Be Given
Scroll by Exchanges
At 6. U.-G. W. Tilt

Tech High Schools progressive
Circle T Club today pledged its sup
port to the testimonial to be ten
dered Elmer P. Hap Hardell when
the popular coach sends his George
town University freshman football
team against George Washingtons
yearlings Friday at GrifIith Stadium
at 2:3O o'clock.
Comprised of spirited alumni.
many of whom were handled by
Hardell when he was coaching foot
ball and track at Tech, the Circle T
Club will assist in the purchase Of
a trophy to be presented Hardell
before the game.
Scrolls signed by the student body
at Tech and freshman and varsity
football players at Georgetown will
be presented to Hap. Techs scroll
will be presented by Harold Tres
kunoff, while Francis (RedD DAILY,
Georgetown end who played under
Hardell at Tech, will present the
Hoyas' token.
Perhaps the most eagerly antici-
pated college freshman game in his
tory here, the engagement is ex.
pected to entice large crowd. Ad.
mission will be 40 cents.
Evening star., 1939-10-24
Chase, Leonard, Case
Of Mats Figure in
New A. |. Movie
Johnson, Cobb and Ruth
And Arroy Of Present
Doy Aces Included

Kendall Chase, the semi-bald
southpaw who lost 10 games with
the Nationals this year, is included
in the cast of the American Leagues
official motion picture for 1910, as
we'll as Dutch Leonard, who won 20
games, and George Case, the games
leading base stealer.
Leonard, Washington knuckle-
ball expert, explains his speciality
as we'll as exhibits it. while the
feather-foot Case is depicted re-
vealing the niceties of base running
The film. which will be available
to high schools, colleges, fraternal
organizations, boys clubs, etc, after
January /, also features such i'm
mortals as Walter johnson, Ty Cobb
and Babe Ruth in addition to flock
of current stars. Joe Di Maggie, Joe
Cronin. Charley Ruffin, Joe Gordon,
Bob Feller, Charley Gehringer,
Jimmy Foxx, Lefty Grove, Charley
Keller and Ted Williams are in
cluded in the latter group.
Second Baseman Gordon and
Shortstop frankie Crosetti, crack
double-play combination of the
Yankees, explain fundamentals of
play in covering their respective
spots, while the batting style of
Williams is analyzed in slow motion
Requests for the film, obtainable
for cost of expressage to and from
Chicago or points of distribution
now are being taken by Lew Fon-
SEGA. Room 2420, $40 South Michigan
Building, Chicago.
Evening star., 1939-10-24
Atchison
Continued From Page Ala


Dubofsky's seven mules for the in
experience of the reserves has pre-
vented the regulars from receiving
well-earned rests during battle.
Last year, If you recall. the current
line was the reserve group and could
relieve the first-stringers without
visibly weakening either offense or
defense and their stellar relief work
was as much responsible for George
towns unblemished record as Mel
lendeck's running.
But look at the record for this
year and you'll see that the boys
have had but little leave from their
front line posts. Lefty" Riofski,
center; Jim Hill and Bill Burke,
guards, and Robbie Robinson, a re-
serve tackle who was just a shade
below first stringer. are the boys
Georgetown misses this year. 1t
would be all right if they were an
swering the starting whistle with
men like Augie Lilo, Matuza, Osti-
nato and Fullilove standing by to
relieve them.
Over at George Washington Bill
Reinhart has concocted what he be-
lieves is an air tight defense for the
foes spread plays and also thinks
his boys will be able to repulse
Georgetown's vaunted aerial attack.
Catholic U. Fears Heat.
II may be wrong" he said today,
but I don't think spread plays will
go 6 inches through our line.
Georgetown has power-plenty of it,
but we're going to take a tip from
Syracuse and play an unorthodox
line game to halt Georgetown's
running attack. We're stressing pass
defense this week and II anything
goes through my boys it'll have to
be just about perfect"
Catholic University's minions are
stumng palm beach suits and other
summer clothes into dufle bags to-
today preparatory to tomorrow's de-
parture for the tropical climes Of
Miami. Friday, Dutch" Bergman's
undefeated crew ties into the Hurri-
cane-always tough nut on the
home lot-and he's hoping for the
best. The old heat bugaboo, q con-
slant threat to northern teams, h
the major worry on the silver-haired
mentors mind at this writing and
he's keeping his fingers crossed on
! that,
Evening star., 1939-10-24
Skins Are Scheminq
To Check Packers
Air Offensive
Attack Is Feared After
Green Boys Passes
Overcome Detroit
BY BILL DISMER. Jr,
Star Stan Correspondent.

MILWAUKEE, Oct. 24.-It hasn't
taken the Redskins a day in Green
Bays foster football home to learn
that the Packers are able to cap
italize on their outstanding weak
ness more effectively than any team
in the league.
Ever since they arrived here early
last evening, the Indians have seen
little in the local press except how
Green Bays aerial attack resulted in
the first defeat OF the season for the
Detroit Lions last Sunday. And
that's an i'll omen.
For regardless of their own un-
defeated status after five champion
ship games. it's definitely obvious
that the Redskins still have much
to learn about pass defense and that
they weren't beaten in Pittsburgh
may be due to the reluctance with
which the Pirates took to the air
until late in the game.
Laden With Insomnia.
Not only did both of Pittsburgh's S
touchdowns come on passes covering
20 and u yards, but the Pirates
swept 55 yards-through the air-in
the closing minutes of play for an
other near score. If Pittsburgh could
do that to the Redskins, how much
more damage will Green Bay inf1ict
with such passers as Arnie Herber
and Cecil Isbell and a receiver like
Don Hutson?
It's a question that's destined to
cause Coach Ray Flaherty sleepless
nights this week, for he remembers
all too painfully the sight of one of
his veterans being fooled comletely
on the first scoring pass last Sunday
and another which clicked 50 per-
fectly that 10 Of his II players never
had a chance to stop the receiver
from running to score.
Details of the Green Bay-Detroit
game show that Hutson took two
touchdown passes, from Herber and
from Isbell, and that Andy Uram,
Minnesota's star Of 1897, broke loose
for another. Each time Hutson was
step ahead of his defender and
proceeded to run away once he got
his mits on the ball. AS matter of
fact, they're saying that Hutson is
playing the best game of his pro-
fessional career, and he was no
slough when the Packers played in
Washington two years ago.
Concentrates on Defense.
incidentally, Huston has been
unanimous all-league end for the
past two years while Milt Ganten-
bein, the Packers other end, was on
the second all-league team last year.
Because the Packers use the same
system as the Pirates, Flaherty does
not contemplate any change in the
practice methods he employed the
last two weeks, but he will concen-
trate on pass defense every day and
night this week. Starting tonight,
the Redskins will hold skull meetings
at least once every "a hours and in
dividual assignments will be stressed
so that there can be no doubt as to
who is supposed to cover whom when
the Redskins are on the defensive
next Sunday.
Evening star., 1939-10-24
Bears, Redskins Outgoin Pro
Grid Rivals; Giants Ninth


The ancient adake i which says
something about crushing offense
being the best defense today was
being booted around rather rudely,
except perhaps in the case of the
RedSkins. with the release of Ma
tional Football League team statis-
tics. =
:: The Redskins have done all right
in that department, registering ll3
pdints to thetr opponents Al, but
wtshathe NeMfY ork Giants and Chi
eagp Bears itaSsa biz. different.
NsH :yprk'saoutfit ranks seventh
in the leseHsin- scoring and owes its
lofty status. "tufrenly being tied
with the Redskins for first place in
the Eastern Division, to permitting
Evening star., 1939-10-24
Tech and Western Are Favored Over Roosevelt and Wilson Friday
Grid 'Outcost' Regoins Glory
Bussey, Once Dismissed by l. S. u, Fights
Way Back to Be Teams SpurkpIuq

to run the team. After another
infraction Of training rules he
was summarily dropped from the
squad.
After weeks of pleading, he was
reinstated, but only to the third
squad.
His layof had ruined his timing
and 1t was slow road back. He
turned up at quarterback this
year, a job out of the limelight
but one calling for much hard
work and little of the spectators
plaudits.
But the Texas petrol has come
through this fall in his old man
ner. Against Mississippi, Holy
Cross, Rice and Loyola he showed
masterful field generalship. He
has been a demon on defense and
a constant sparkplug for his
team. His enthusiastic chatter
rattles the opposition. They are
mentioning him now for all-con-
ference honors.
Evening star., 1939-10-24
Seabiscuit Returns;
May Become 1urf's
Top Coin Getter
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. "a
Charles S. Howard's great thor
oughbred Seabiscuit has returned
to Tanforan race track to train for
comeback which might make him
the greatest money winner of all
time
The 6-year-old stake star, 1898
champion of American turfs with
his brilliant triumph over War Ad-
miral, came down with a leg in
jury last winter on the eve of the
500, ,000- added Santa Anita Handi-
cap. He was taken to Howard S
Ridgewood ranch in Northern Cali
fornia for rest and treatments.
Seabiscuit likely will be entered in
one of the Tanforan handicaps next
month and if he rounds into shape
might be pointed for the 1910 Santa
Anita Handicap.
The son of Hardtack has earned
$340.880. The all-time money-win-
ming record is held by Sun Beau
$376,7A4.
Evening star., 1939-10-24

opponents to score only SO points
for the, leagues best defensive rec
ord. In ground gaining the Giants
rank only ninth in the league.
Chicago's high-powered Bears,
well on their way to league marks in
both scoring and ground gaining,
have lost two games. Despite a
mediocre record the Bears need
score an average OF only II points a
game for the remainder of the sea-
son to break Green Bays record 223
made last year.
Washington's passing department
owns the finest efficiency record,
having. completed 36 out Of SO for
81 per cent effectiveness, while the
Redskins are second In scoring with
1l3 points.