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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-01-16
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Continued from rage OHel
high bench would tend to aggra-
vafe anti Semitic feeling here
and elsewhere. Meantime Messrs.
Ickes Cohen and Corcoran were
urging the Harvard man selec-
ton.
The reaction to the presiden-
tial sermon was so favorable
however, that it encouraged FDh'
so the inside story runs, to press
his attack on the dictators. The
rabbis are understood to have
withdrawn their protest in the
face of these considerations.
Evidence of a last-minute deel-
sion can be detected in the fact
that the president wrote the
Frankfurter nomination. includ-
ing the date, in his own hand
writing. He didn't even bother
to send for the forms on file IN
the outer office for such an occa-
sion
The president has placed him
self in a strategic 1910 position
with his prediction that the bud
get for that year will not top
S3.226. 900. 900. He may have the
last laugh on those budget-bal-
ancing congressman - Democrat
tic and Republican who cheered
and ieered when he offered no
hope of equalizing income and
outgo in the next eighteen
months.
FDR's termination makes no
provision for revival of PWA,
liberalizing of social security pay
ments, new large-scale WPA eX-
penditures or deficiency appro-
priations which are as sure as
taxes. These things. as he rec
ognizes are dear to the great
and generous heart of the politi-
clans on Capitol Hill, and they
are certain to be included in the
final accounting. The total bill
for them will probably amount
TO a billion dollars, making the
1910 fiscal year budget about
the same as 1939's-four billion
more or less.
But the responsibility for any
additions to the presidential fig
ure will fall on congress. Wheth-
er FDR vetoes the extras or
allows them to be appropriated
without his signature meth
cd with respect to the 1887 tax
bill-he will appear chinchy and
pinchy in comparison with free
wheeling boys at the other end
of the avenue.
The backstage reason for
no senate rebellion against
ROosevelt's three latest ap-
pointments - Messrs, Hop
kins, Murphy and Frankfurt
ter-is the behavior of the
politicians friend and guide,
WA pup. hht pVoPit itiuSt
to get eXcited-at least not
excited enough to stir up
their repres zen tatives at
Washington.
Protests have been filed-they
always are-but not in sufficient
quantities to burden Capitol Hill
mailmen. Hopkins, surprisingly,
has escaped almost unscathed,
presumably because of late years
the commerce department has
done nothing to warm the blood
or the ink. Prof. Frankfurter,
despite attacks on him as papa
of the brain trusters, has come
off best of the trio. His emil
hence as a professor and student
of the law seems to be highly
regarded.
The new attorney general has
provoked the most complaints.
based chiefly on his handling of
the sit-down strikes. Nor do
these come from industrialists
and financiers who would be eX-
pected to voice prejudice against
his tolerance. The majority We're
penned by folks of comparative
ly humble place and means, who
may not have much property but
apparently figure that what they
have belongs to them.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-01-16
BLACK AND WHITE
BUT READ ALL OVER

Hudson seal is the trade name
for common muskrat fur made
up to resemble seal.
The wolverine shades its eyes
with its paws when in glaring
sunlight. just as humans do.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-01-16
SECRET YENS

The most dramatic figure on
an orchestral podium, Arturo
Toscanini is said to have con-
fessed to cronies that if his life
had not led him solely into
music, he would have liked to
have been an actor of the clas-
sizes which he reads and recites
aloud at home.
Tony Canzonerri, one of the
pluckiest cauliflower boys in the
ring. would like to be a band
leader.
Noel Coward would exchange
his life in the theater for those
of either a country squire or a
globe trotter.
To what do you suppose a
spectacle-maker such as Billy
Rose aspires Well, seriously,
that diminutive, latter-day Bar
mum would like to put on a two
character play in one setting
some day.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-01-16
SAFETY ZONE MARKERS

Metal disks are commonly
placed in a street TO mark off
safety zone for street car pas
sengers. If car stops in front
of marker and a passenger
trips over il after alighting,
does he have a case against the
railroad?
The car was crowded and new
passengers clamored to get on
board. Mrs. Wullbrandt stepped
off behind a group who were
leaving. The car had stopped
farther back from the corner
than usual and the safety zone
buttons were directly in her path.
With so many people around
she did not see the markers and
she tripped over one of them.
iniuring herself severely. She
brought suit against the city
which operated the railway.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-01-16
IN NEW YORK
n GEORGE RONS

NEW YORh-Frustrated am
billions.
We've often heard Moss Hart
one Of the first names IN the
playWrights' circles, say that II
he had his way, he'd run a
sheep farm the rest Of his lie
and make it profitable.
The team Of Rodgers q Hart
compose some Of the most popu-
lar songs in the country. Aet
those gentlemen are not a
cheerful pair They won't be,
it seems, until they get a full
length opera off their chests.
Men who patrol city hall tell
us that although official life
agrees heartily with Mayor La
Guardia. ne would blissfully ac-
cept a career as the best
French horn player in the world.
That was the instrument his
father played as bandmaster
in war days.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-01-16

tional outbreaks that they de-
mand special attention. In some
cases this process may seem to
affect only the brain. whereas in
other patients there may be a
complete breakdown in relation
ship TO other tissues OF the body
as well.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-01-16
MR.. fIXIT
IL. C;x.. 1b;n,s

To receive attention IN this col
uinn letters must give name and
address OF writer Only initials
will be- published when requested
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-01-16
TODAY'S COMMON ERROR

Do not say, THE patient was
FESTIVE during the night" say,
restless. -
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-01-16
scHNozzELIziNG HAMLET

Jimmy Durante dixie many
another in his comic craft
would reach the peak of life
time if someone were to give
him a part like Hamlet.
James Montgomery Flagg, the
celebrated illustrator, would have
reached the goal of his career,
if a portrait of his had been
hung in the art museum for
posterity.
Gladys Swarthout. who start
ed out as an actress and became
a great opera singer, would like
to become a great actress.
WANDERING MAESTRO
II is no secret that the
maestro, Arturo Toscanini, is on
the absent-minded side So it
is no breach of hosiery conf
dence to relate that the other
night a guest came down to the
lobby of the Hotel Aston and
said there was a suspicious look
ing man on the seventh floor,
trying to open doors with a
skeleton key.
The lobby detective hurried
upstairs and prepared to nab
seventh-story man in the act of
burglarizing a hotel suite.
He did espy his prey fitting a
key into the wrong lock and ap-
preached his catch warily. But
he stopped short when he recog-
nized the maestro. For Signor
Toscanini had forgotten the
number of his own hotel suite.
Smyrna times., 1939-03-23
Longer Span of Life Is
Given Film by Science

ROCHESTER, N. Y.-History now
in the making will be preserved for
generations far in the future through
film produced by a Photographic
supplies manufacturing firm here.
The bureau of standards in Wash
ington has completed accelerated
aging" tests in which films in six
months went through the effects of
so years storage in a cool dark
room.
These tests showed that the new
er safety, or acetate film, may be
preserved hundreds of years, and
that cellulose nitrate film would last
from so to 100 years.
A Hollywood chemist estimated
the maximum life of film at 25
years, but government scientists
said no apparent limit has yet been
found.
Smyrna times., 1939-03-23
Atlantic Mail Flights
Will Begin Next Spring

LONDON.-T1e long-awaited An
glo-American North Atlantic air
mail service will begin next spring
as soon as the ice-blocked harbors
of Newfoundland have thawed clear.
In making the announcement the
British air ministry revealed that
the experimental crossings of the
Atlantic by the new Imperial Air
ways Cabot flying boats, scheduled
for this fall. were held up by the
recent European crisis.
Nevertheless, Britain is well ahead
of America with Atlantic prepara-
tions.
While the first of series of Amer
lean flying boats big enough to
cross the ocean with a worthwhile
mail load has just been completed.
three of the eight new British Cabot
flying boats will be ready this
month.
The rest of the new British flying
boats will be in the air by spring.
In addition, two D. H. Albatross
landplanes are now undergoing final
tests, and it is expected they will
also be ready for work by then.
Smyrna times., 1939-03-23

income of Robert Elliott. The state
executioner is paid $3.50 each time
he throws the switch.
Useful: Mrs. Louise Hamer told
me Of the woman who got on SUBJ
way train at an uptown station with
a big bass viol. The doghouse or
rowboat, or whatever swing musi-
clans call it, was in a case Of course
and in the case were two pockets.
After some trouble, the woman
found a seat and propped the bass
violin beside her. Then she opened
the bottom pocket and took out knit
ting needles and yarn. ALI the way
downtown, her needles flew. And
Mrs. Hamer never did learn what
she carried in the other pocket in the
bass viol case. But she believes it
might have been her luncheon.
End Piece: New York color
scheme as painted by Andre Bar
uch: S-yscraper gray, taxicab yel-
low, Union Square red, greenhorns,
blues singers, the Great White Way
and that well-known dark brown
taste. To which might be added the
Wall street gold and Park avenue
purple.
@ Bell Syndicate.-WNU Service.
Smyrna times., 1939-03-23
Nuts to You! Wisecrack
Authored 165 Years Ago

BUFFALO, N. Y.-''Nuts to Jona-
than" snapped peevish character
created by Arthur John Byron 165
years ago, and thereby was born
tnat modern wisecrack nuts to
you" University of Buffalo ibrari-
ans have found that Sir Walter Scott
used TEL it to the marines" 108
years ago.
The origins of these and 148 other
snappy comebacks in Twentieth CEN
tury usage went on exhibition re-
Gently at the university in the form
of marked first editions in which
they first appeared in print.
'I'n tell the world" William
Shakespeare declared 315 years ago
in Measure for Measure"
''The game is up" Shakespeare
wrote in "Cymbeline. He coined
mot so hot in Winters Tale" more
tllan three centuries ago. A woman
mentioned in 'iFestus" by Philip
James Bailey in 1861 had beauty
but skin deep and 352 years ago a
wife was first called my better
half by Sir Philip Sidney in EAR
cadia."
Smyrna times., 1939-03-23
SMYRNA DOINGS
OF so YEARS AGO
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who wished to take their products
to Flemings' Landing or Duck
Creek, or to the wharf at Collins
Beach soon to be completed. The
road, he said, was in excellent con-
dition, wide and well built, shorter
than the old road and in every re
.spect desirable. Without the new
road the growers have to haul
peaches seven or eight miles
around, at a great loss of time and
money, as it took double the num-
ber of teams to do the work and
it was not good tohaul fruit so
far through the sun and over hot
and dusty roads. 1t was, he said,
absolutely necessary to repair the
old road, and that being the case
it would be better to spend the
money for the road already in ex-
istence and which was much short
er. William H. Churchman, of
Wilmington, one of the members
of the Collins Beach Meadow Com
PdHys lOlAOWCQ III l4O SdIllS SlI dill.
He told Of the expense of digging
the great bitches to drain the land,
and what the road was, how built,
its length, etc. He showed that it
was shorter and more direct than
the old road, which, in fact, was
not a road any longer, and i'm
pressed upon his hearers that no
fancy or exhorbitant figure, as it
had been intimated, was to be ask
ed from the county. During the
conference, which took place after
dinner, other members of both
houses besides those on the COM
mittee interested dropped in on the
meeting and heard what had to be
said. The impression was good
one upon the members, and those
who had opposed the Meadow
Company's bill were made to think
better of it. 1t looks now as
though there would be no real op-
position to the bill, and that there
will be no delegation sent to op-
pose it. A committee of the New
Castle County Levy Court will go
over the new road and it is prob
able that a request will be made
to have a legislative committee
visit the road also.
Smyrna times., 1939-03-23
Scientist Tells Secret
Of Long Ears In Rabbits

BERKELEY, CALIF.-Robert T.
Orr, Of the California Academy of
Sciences, explained to the conven-
ton here Of the American Society of
Mammologists, and the American
Society Of Ichthyologists and Her
petologists why some rabbits have
long ears and others short ones.
1t all depends on natures system
Of wiring the rabbits for sound, Orr
stated.
In the Southern desert and in,
land areas" Orr said, rabbits find
more obstacles to the reception of
sound than they do in the coastal
ard Northern areas. Hence the ears
of the rabbits inland and on des-
erts stretch upward so they can
hear BETTER
Smyrna times., 1939-03-23
Navy Recruiter at Smyrna
Post Office

Chief machinist's mate L. A.
Steullet, U. S. Navy Recruiter will
he at the Smyrna Post Office on
March 20 from 1.3O to $50 P. M.
for the purpose of accepting appli-
cations for enlistment and giving
information relative to the oppor-
tunities of Naval Enlistment.
He will visit the post office at the
same time on the last Thursday OF
each month hereafter. To young
men of god character, between the
ages of II and 25, the Navy offers
the opportunities for advancement
and success. Over five thousand
young men graduated from the
Navy's trade schools during the
past year. One of f1fty-five differ
ent trades may be learned through
Naval Enlistment. For full par
ticulars, see your Navy Recruiter.
Smyrna times., 1939-03-23
SIDE LIGHTS OF
NEW YORK CITY
Told By L. L. Stevenson i'm
His Own Immical Way
of Doings in City
INTERESTING SKETCHES

Dates: What with an escort serv-
ice for lonely women visitors TO New
York and a more recent similar
service for lonely New York male
visitors, now comes an "introduc-
tion service" for young men and
young women. The announcements
state: 'introductions so correct
your grandmother would approve
which make your life in New
York as vivid and exciting as
Disney cartoon" Applicants for
membership must give references
which are ''tactfully but carefully"
investigated. They must also sub
NIT to an interview in which their
backgrounds and hobbies are
learned. Character sketches and
photographs are filed and those
wishing company merely have to
thumb through the files until suit
able candidate is found. Member
ship costs So and thereafter,
charge Of buck for each introduc-
tion. Thus boy or girl with
only a small cash capital need no
longer be lonely in the great city.
Subway trains and stations are
lodging houses for hundreds of New
York's homeless. The number is
greater in winter. of course, since
during the cold season park benches
are impossible as beds. But all
through the year there are many
subway sleepers. Late passengers
encounter or see them stretched out
on hard benches in draughty sta
tions, with trains arriving or de-
parting noisily every few minutes.
Other passengers see them propped
up in corners Of cars getting their
rest, IL such it may be called, as the
train clatters underground. Train
crews and station men are supposed
to evict the dodgers. But they are
human and pity those forced to such
bedrooms. So the sleepers remain
until day comes. Then they wash
up and disappear only to return at
night Nowhere else is it possible
10 obtain shelter, such as it is, for
a nickel.
Period there are drives
Smyrna times., 1939-03-23

What a blessed privilege ii Is "a
have in the midst of our burria5
life a sequestered retreat one
that opens heavenward.
I discovered such a retreat one
hot summers day as I was uIsh-
ing along through the tumuIt Of
one of those riotous streets Of New
York.
AS was about to pass a large
church, my eyes caught a SIGN
which read: open for meditation
and prayer" turned from the
throngs and entered it dim bat
spacious interior and rested myself
in one Of the pews.
How peaceful and quiet it all
was and so deliciously cool! The
Smyrna times., 1939-03-23

The New Castle mills have shut
down owing to the dullness of
trade, throwing 250 hands out of
work.
over 100000 feet of ship timber
have been shipped from Milford
during the past twelve months by
the same dealer.
The creamery at Summit Bridge
and that of McDonough are now
under roof and are now being rap
idly completed.
The Wilmington City Railway
Company has decided to build an
electric road on Eighth street at
a cost of $4,000.
James Jacobs and wife were
poisoned by eating canned pickles
in Wilmington on Sunday, but
their condition is not serious.
George V. Massey, Esq, as trus-
tee, sold the farm of the late Peter
Wilson, in the Alley, Thursday, in
Smyrna, to John Wilson for S1O,-
500.
Robert P. Jones, a colored public
school janitor of Wilmington, was
arrested Monday for appropriating
school house coal to his own use.
A wharf will be built at Mahon's
River soon for the accommodation
of the Citizens. She will touch
there going and coming from Phil
adelphia.
John Lockerman, who recently
moved into Blackbird from the
Neck is industriously employed in
the Improvement of the grounds
adjoining his home.
The Sandy Hook, the iron twin
screw passenger steamer, built for
the Central Railroad of New Jer-
sey by the Harland & Hollings-
worth Company, was launched
Saturday at Wilmington.
John White, aged IA years,
trackwalker on the Philadelphia,
Wilmington and Baltimore railroad
who had his foot cut off by shift
ing engine at Wilmington on
Thursday is the father of twenty
one children.
Mr.. and Mrs. Haddock, removed
from Zion, Md, last week. They
have been visiting Mrs. Haddocks S
father, Presiding Elder John
France at Smyrna, and will short
ly take up their residence in Will
mington.
The death of Mr.. Samuel d. Nc
Gonigal in Dover on Thursday, re
moves one of the Oldest business
men of the town. He leaves a
family Of grown children and hosts
of friends. He was seventy-eight
years and nine months old
Mrs. Satterfeld of Georgetown,
is a successful cancer doctor. She
is over 80 years old, but hale and
hearty. She says she has killed
over 200 cancers in the last twenty
years and has heard of none re
turning. Notwithstanding her age
she travels to Washington, Phila-
delphia and elsewhere to treat pa
tients.
John Saxton Of Magnolia and
Miss Sallie Baylis of near Kenton,
were married at the residence of
the brides bather, William Hilyard,
Wednesday night at Z o'clock, by
Rev. w. w. Sharp. After the cere-
mony refreshments were served
and a general good time was had.
A host of friends and relatives
were present to witness the happy
occasion.
Smyrna times., 1939-03-23

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impression upon me. = qs5
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| knelt and worshipps5 n
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open uno the quietne,, i
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Smyrna times., 1939-03-23

the part Ui the police department to
rid the subways of sleepers. Those
caught are taken into court OH
charge Of disorderly conduct. Last
spring, the number of such arrests
ran up to 500 month. One magis-
trate dismissed all brought before
him on the ground that sleeping in
the subway was no crime. On the
other hand, there have been many
complaints that not all the subway
sleepers are merely down and out
ers. Women have been molested
and annoyed and in number of
instances, subway sleepers have
turned out to be pickpockets. In
fact, conditions reached such state
in the city's own subway system
that a number Of washrooms had
to be closed at night.
Advertising: Sandwich men run
pretty much to type, that is in the
way of equipment-two boards and
cards to hand out. Occasionally
there is variation. For instance, that
old man who parades Forty-second
street doing publicity for a pants
to-match establishment. As he
comes toward you, his sign is
topped with white man. Going
away from you, the man is colored.
1t remained for Bill, however, driv-
ing away up on Broadway, to dis
cover something unique. The sand
wich man had the usual boards. But
instead of carrying cards. he had
portable radio which was playing
loud and strong. The light changed
before Bill could tell whether he
was attached to his employers es-
tablishment with wires but at any
rate, he attracted a Lei of atten-
ton. And what was he advertising?
You'd never guess-a radio store.
Controversy: Whether to do the
hair up or down has split the fair
sex into two factions. It seems that
Hollywood's stars refuse to pile their
hair on top Of their heads and that
recently so of the New York's smart
est debs, gathered at luncheon
with their hair down. Those who
argue against the hair up hold that
it gives an older appearance and
that no hair fashion in the last dec
ade has been more f1attering to
woman than the casual coiffure"
which falls in soft curls at the nape
Of her neck. And so despite the
dictates of fashion which says, up,
one Of the towns big department
stores advertised that hair up is
out" AS for me, I'm neutral I
can't forget the sad fate Of my
campaign against red fngernails-a
campaign that came home to roost.
Pictorial: Years and years ago,
young photographer started in busi-
ness in Yorkville. An expert and
conscientious workman, he special
lied in children He began with
baby pictures and went on up
through the years. Then came we'd
ding pictures and next pictures of
children Of those whom he had pic
tured as children. He's now work
ing on the third generation. Hav-
ing kept specimens of the work he
has done, his studio is now a pictori-
al history of that section Of the city
Grim: There have been only seven
electrocutions at Sing Sing prison
during the last year. This is a rec
ord: over a nine-year period the
average number has been 16 each
year. The present low may or may
not indicate a falling off in crimes
for which the sentence is death. But
it does indicate a falling off in the
Smyrna times., 1939-03-23
Fuel Value in FOODS

Both the proteins or nitrogenous
constituents of foods and the carbo-
hydrate or starchy constituents
have the same fuel value of 1850
calories per pound.
Smyrna times., 1939-03-23
The Spanish Inauisitinn

The Spanish Inquisition began in
the Fifteenth and Sixteenth CEN
turies and was not wholly abol-
ished until 1884.
Smyrna times., 1939-03-23
North CaroIina,s First Town

The first Incorporated town in
North Carolina was Bath, which
was settled in 1890 and Incorporated
in 1705.