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Smyrna times., 1940-06-06
WITH THE BEST INTENTIONS
by c. E. Speakman, Jr.

Choose a tree that is about as
high as your head and cut at least
a tWo-foot circle around the roots
with a spade. Get as much of the
root system as you can. When you
have dug up the tree, wrap a bur-
lap bag around the ball of earth
on the roots and carry it to the
site you have picked for it. At
ter you have planted it good and
deep, tamp the earth around it
hard. The secret of good planting
is in the tamping. CA big cudgel-
like stick is fine for this purpose J
Now, remember that you have
weakened your tree by this remov-
al, so cut back at least half of its
foliage so that the root system will
not be overtaxed trying to feed
too many leaves. If the tree is in
an exposed place or is tall and un-
wieldy, be sure to support it with
three guy wires attached to stakes
in the ground.
A nursery near here has pink
dogwood for sale. "A thre-foot tree
costs around S15O Smaller pinks
can be had by sending away for
them at for a dollar. If you will
call me at the Smyrna Times or at
home, I'll give you the addresses of
several places to write to.
b
Last week, 1 told you how to
plant seed bed Of asparagus. At
ter it is planted, you must wait
three years for your seed to bear
fruit. You can, however, plant
crowns. Crowns are asparagus
roots and you can buy them by
the thousand Setting the crowns
is a most important operation, as
they are supposed to produce prof.
liable asparagus for at least IA OF
Is years. One man takes a basket
Of wet crowns and backs down the
row placing crown perfectly fiat il
the bottom of bitches IL" deer
and "a" apart. AS soon as he has
placed few crowns, another mar
follows up and with both hand.
rakes in sufficient top-soil to cover
the crowns to the depth of two o.
three inches and simply tramp:
this dirt down tight directly OF
top. Proceed this way until tht
entire field is finished. The crown.
must be handled carefully; hau
them in bushel baskets and we
each basket thoroughly before
leaving shed to insure crown!
from drying out before being plac
ed in the ground. In the field
keep covered with wet bags or {
tarpaulin.
There is more detail, but withal
the planting Is not so complicated
I can't give you the whole story
here; but Mr.. Speakman says, i
you want to put asparagus in, ever
though it might mean competition
for him, he will be glad to helr
you.
I'll be with you again next week
but in the meantime: PLANT A
lockwood TREE.
Smyrna times., 1940-06-06
Fumigation Held Useless
In Exterminating Germs

PULLMAN, WASH.-Because bac-
terra do not breathe but absorb ma
terials only in solutions. effective
disinfection by fumigation is diff
cult and rarely succeeds, DR.. Ernest
c. McCulloch. research veterinari-
an of Washington State college, said.
For many years, early bacteriolo-
gists did not know that disinfec-
tion must be carried out by means
of solutions. They attempted to kill
bacteria by fumigation, DR.. McCul-
loch said. Formaldehyde vapors or
the fumes of burning sulphur were
used.
But this funigation actually suc-
ceeds in killing only insects which
breathe. AS a result now, the air
in operating rooms is frequently fill
tered.
Smyrna times., 1940-06-06
War Still Utilizes
Canine Combatants

BERLIN.-Dogs still fill impor
tant army assignments in war
time-even in Germany's mech
anized, motorized army.
Doberman pinschers, shepherd
dogs, airedales and others were
recruited-as were many of their
masters-for service in the Ger
man army when war broke out.
They were given eight weeks
training and are now used to de-
liver dispatches and orders, es-
pecially through heavy fire; to
stand guard over munition and
food depots in the field. and to
aid the medical corps by search
ing through forests, underbrush
and cornfelds for wounded.
Smyrna times., 1940-06-06

The following is letter received
from the Valley Forge Park Com
mission in reply to the proposal
published il last weeks Times to
make Smyrna the "Dogwood
/ Town:
Smyrna Times,
Gentlemen:
$50 pleased to note in THE
Smyrna Times, the plan present
ed to the Smyrna Business Asso-
citation to ecourage dogwood plant
ing in Smyrna. Your editorial
support of such a program is COM
mendable.
People generally have come to
realize the glory of our native dog
wood surpasses the aenemic short
lived coloring of the cherry trees
of the National Capital. Residents
of Montgomery County, Pennsyl-
vania, have planted over 100000
young dogwood trees (white and
red) on their home sites during
the last four years.
For several years the care of
the dogwood display of $4,000
trees at Valley Forge Park, re-
garded as the greatest outdoor
flower show in our country, has
been under my personal supervi-
sion. When one realizes that
/ $50, 900 persons, from all our forty
eight (4S) states, visited this his
toric reservation in May to enjoy
the Towering dogwood, it becomes
apparent that the proponents of
the movement to make Smyrna
"the Dogwood Town" are justified
in their suggestion. Townspeople
and local organizations should CO.
operate wholeheartedly in this pro-
gram.
Very sincerely yours,
GILBERT S. JONES,
Secretary Valley Forge
Park Commission"
There are other attractions al
Valley Forge to draw visitors but
notice that Mr.. Jones says that
100000 persons, from all oui
forty-eight states, visited this his.
toric reservation in May to enjoy
the Towering dogwood." That:
three-quarter of million people
think what it would mean Il
Smyrna if we only drew say 10000
during the month of May. It viii
take a few years, but it require:
so little effort and so little ex
pense if everyone cooperates anC
plants at least one tree. A com
mittee will meet next week to de-
eide on plans. Several people
have already planted dogwooc
trees since the plan was presented
at the meeting of the Business As
sociation.
May 1 give you a few hints or
replanting dogwood from the
woods? I have transplanted three
from the woods back of our house
which is teeming with dogwooo
and in the process have learned q
few Of the dos and don't's.
First, don't be too ambitious
Smyrna times., 1940-06-06
NOTICE

In pursuance of an order of the Reg
lister of Wills. in and for Kent County,
dated May 16. 1910, notice is hereby given
of the granting of Letters Testamentary Ia
David C. Lloyd Executor, on the estate Of
Mary B. Evans, on May 16. 1870 All per.
sons having claims against the estate Of
Mary B. Evans are required to exhibit the
same. duly probat,Ad. to such Executor
within one year affer date of the granting
of such Letters. OF abide by the law in
that behalf which provides that such
claims against the said estate not SO ex-
hibited shall be forever barred
DAVID C. LLOYD, Executor
Dover. New Jersey
Charles L. Harmonson. Esq,
Attorney for Estate,
Dover, Delaware.
Smyrna times., 1940-06-06

The following editorial was
contributed by a reader Of the
Smyrna Times:
Smyrna times., 1940-06-06
Tilted, We Stand

On Tuesday night, Secre-
tary of Agriculture Wallace
speaking over the radio said
''When Germany in V a d e d
Austria, America turned over
in her sleep; when Germany
took Czechoslovakia, America
rubbed her eyes; when Ger
many conquered p la n d ,
America sat up in bed; when
Germany captured Denmark
and Norway, America jumped
out of bed and began to put
on her clothes; when Ger
many took Luxenburg, The
Netherlands and Belgium,
America rushed to the win
dow and saw the flames. AT
last America is fully awaken
He then went on to say that
Just being awake is not
enough. We must have ac-
tion and in order to have eff
fective action, we must have
unity of purpose.
1t was Daniel Webster who
said United, we stand; divid
ed, we fall". And with Trojan
horses and fifth column:
everywhere working to divide
us, that adage was never 81
applicable as it is today.
The will Of the great Amer
lean people is bound to be fol
lowed if it is a united will anC
makes itself audible. In dis
cussing the war, one hear!
said on every side, Henry
Ford says he can make {
thousand planes a day, if he il
allowed to 60 ahead withou-
interference" and it is invar
iably added. "but they won
let him do it,. After all, wht
are "they'. This government
is of the people, by the people
and for the people and the
Smyrna times., 1940-06-06

will work together in unity of
purpose. in a march of ma
tional rhythm.
Smyrna times., 1940-06-06

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ruary 10, 1907.
Evening star., 1940-08-25

plause of the fans. tits you they
Want-notme, she tells him. Judg-
ing by the letters I get from her
fans, I don't think she's entirely
right.
And now for Barbara the career
girl. I don't know many other
actresses here who take their job
as seriously as Barbara. She is the
champion worrier of them all. Here's
what Frank Capra, her present boss,
says of her: She's the most con-
siderate of crew and people on the
set of any actress know or have
known. She assumes everybody's
responsibilities. You feel that when
she is in picture she is not there
because she has to do the chore,
but that she is working with you,
worrying about delays and other
production costs"
Barbara's picture price is S50000
per-which is coming long way
from Brooklyn, N. Y. where she was
born 33 years ago. Her real name is
Ruby Stevens. 1t became Barbara
StanWyck via an ancient English
theater program announcing Jane
Stanwyck' in Barbara Frietchie.'
She was the youngest of five chill
dren. Her parents died young. And
until she was 13 years old Barbara
was either in an orphanage or
boarded out with families and work.
ing for her keep. At 13 she worked
as a bundle wrapper in depart
ment store, then as telephone girl.
At 16 she was chorus girl, earning
from s25 to $50 week.
She's Modest, Too.
The play "Burlesque" brought her
to the attention of Hollywood. Her
first picture, The Locked Door"
1923, with Rod La ROGUE starred, +,
was a flop. After that 1 tested for
hundreds and hundreds of pictures
without getting them" Barbara told
me recently. 1t was then that Frank
Capra came into her life. He sug-
geSted another test. There are
screen tests of me all over town.
I'm not doing any more" she re-
piled. mo test, no job," said Capra.
But Barbara won. Capra looked at
one of the old tests and signed her
for Ladies of Leisure" which eStab-
lished them both in Hollywood.
Barbara, next to Husband Robert.
is the most modest personality in
FINLAND. I'm no raving beauty"
she told me once. MY close-ups,
when 1 see them. frighten me. I
cannot understand what people see
in me-" And another time-"Im all
right in public as long as I don't
hear people say, oh, is that Barbara
Stanwyck? Goodness, but she's
homely!"
She uses little or no makeup in
private life; wears slacks and tai
lored suits. She dislikes jewelry. ex-
cept rubies given her by her hus-
band. . Her hobbies are golf and
raising horses. She invests spare
cash in Government bonds, horses
and real estate. There are $50
horses at her valley ranch, co-owned
with the zeppo Marxes. She
suffers from insomnia. but doesn't
count sheep. She pretends she Is
lying on a hay stack.
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ments were no less transient than
the run Of play.
Now the best writing that was
ever done for the stage was done in
the 18th century by men who were
associated with stable producing
companies composed of playwrights
and actors. 1t was done by men who
invested their own money in going
theatrical concerns and had share
in their management. If the five
playwrights had been looking for
precendents they might have found
encouragement in that one, but, as
remember it. there was never any
talk of precedents. Our preliminary
discussions were few and fairly brief
and concerned such practical matters
as the investment required, the
necessity for a business organization
and the possibilities of profit and
loss
There's a Precedent.
Since Mr. Anderson unburdened
himself of the foregoing conclusion
he and his associates in the play
wrights' company have produced
eight plays, five of which were def
mite successes, and, it follows, de-
cidedly profitable projects. This
amazing record in the theater has
knocked thoroughly askew all prece-
dents and has catapulted this cour-
ageOus band of writers to the
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Coming Attractions

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ments that were released by his
theatrical organization.
Sidney Howard, whose tragic
death a year ago was a severe blow
to the playwrights' company. had
a business sideline that brought him
yearly profit that compared IA
vorably with his earnings as writer
in Hollywood and in the theater.
On his 600-acre farm at Tyringham,
Mass, Mr.. Howard operated a dairy
that each year was becoming in
creasingly profitable to him.
Maxwell Anderson-aside from his
activities involving the drama-has
made real estate investments in the
vicinity of New City. N. Y, that
label him a man of vision in that
field
S. N. Behrman is the exception
to the rule in the Offices OF the
dramatists. Mr.. Behrman is a rank
sense out Of an accountants report
His associates in the firm see to
it that Behrman is accorded vaca-
ton or is assigned to see the out
of-town tryout of some play when
important business deals are on the
fire. The author of such sauve
drawing-room comedies as "Biog-
raphy," brief Moment" and Nc
Time for Comedy" is-in short-an
atrocious businessman and easy
prey for the most obvious Of the
city's confidence workers. He Is the
wit of the group, but is also the
first one shunted to the door when
conferences involving commerce get
under way.
Mr.. Behrman Never In.
A visitor to the offices of the Play
wrights Co. will observe that the
name of Behrman is the only one OF
this illustrious quartet that has been
lettered on the plate glass door.
His companions had it placed there
because Behrman is the one men,
ber of the group who can never
be found in his office. He is equally
elusive when at home. He never
answers the telephone and when his
co-workers wish to reach him they
have to telegraph his apartment and
ask that he call his ONCE.
AS to their business sessions, their
fidelity-Behrman excepted-to the
more prosaic aspects Of play pro-
duction has exceeded expectations.
Rise and Sherwod have taken to
this phase with particular enthusi-
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These Theater Artists Also Know Their Business
-Four in Payghts knowledge Public
FneT1n Out PlaysP oducd

position of New York's leading pro-
ducing organization.
Although all of his compatriots
know their way around in a pocket
book, Elmer Rice is particularly
valuable to the company for his
sound business sense. Through the
operation of his own theater for a
number of years and because he has
himself managed most all of his
own plays before he Joined up with
the playwrightS' company two years
ago, Rice is as expert as any Broad
way business manager in the matter
of distinguishing good commercial
deals from bad ones. An astute and
discerning individual. Mr. Rice has
long been accustomed to separating
the theater's sheep from its goats.
Sherwood Knows Ad Copy.
As for Sherwood, his skill at writ
ing advertising copy compares IA
vorably With his expertness as a
playwright. For fully 18 months
before he came into national promi-
nence through the stop Hitler
Now" advertisement that he pre-
pared for William Allen Whites
committee to defend America
through aiding the Allies, Sher-
wood had been exercising his Prov
ess on the more important of the
newspaper and magazine advertise
Evening star., 1940-08-25
Bv WWiam Fields.
NEW YORK.

4NIW OANIAs
Now seems as good time as any
to explode that old myth that MAIN
tains that writer's are invariably
inept businessmen. In other words,
the canard-and it is pretty gen.
orally believed-that playwrights and
novelists by virtue of being literary
men know nothing whatever of the
manipulations of commerce and are
in complete confusion when it comes
to oiling the wheels of industry is,
as have limited, sheer nonsense.
AS far as dramatists are concerned
I can speak with absolute au-
thority and I number enough novel;
lists among my acquaintances to be
able to speak with more or less con-
viction in their behalf as we'll
The playwrights' company, for ex-
ample, is comprised of quartet Of
Americas foremost dramatists. They
are Maxwell Anderson, S. N. Behr-
man, Elmer Rice, Robert E. Sher-
wood, and-until his death one year
ago this month-Sidney Howard.
These gentlemen founded their
own theatrical producing company
precisely two years ago-in August,
i938-because, In the words of Mr..
Anderson, 1--WE shared several strong
and positive ambitions for the the
ater, some of them selfish, and be-
cause we wanted to quit hoboing
from one Office to another and build
up permanent personal and busi-
ness relationships within an organ
ization of our own.
I'm this country a, playwright has
always been a bird of passage, SELL
ing his script where he could, or
where its chances looked best. In
evitably his contacts were ephemeral
and almost every new production was
a voyagle of discovery in unknown
waters. Unless he produced his own
play In daring isolation therl was no
ONCE In which he could feel at
home, and his business arrange
Evening star., 1940-08-25

PALACEBoom Town." roaring swaggng tale of fortunes
and lost and made again wildcat" oil fields with Clark
Gable Spencer Claudette Colbert Hedy LAMAR
rves Friday.
CAPITOLYoung People last picture Shirley
her recent retirement Friday Charlotte
and Jack Oake Miss Temples principal supporting
Phil Reagan will headline the stage bill
EARLE-He Stayed for Breakfast" comedy involving Loretta
Young and Mevyn Douglas in between politically
conscious waiter and bankers wife Friday
it, on the stage will be Sammy Hayes Swing and Sway music
Observation-Disclosures Gold" with
Farmer and John Garfield finding adventure
going in the oil fields will follow White
Seven Dwarfs."
KE1THsWhen the Daons Rode actonld of the lives
famed outlaws follows the Ginger Rogers
Ronald Gilman comedy hit, Lucky Partnen&
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Todoy's Film Schedules

CAPTOI-"The lad and
being meek 445 730 and 1905 Stage shows 355
m.
Prejudice version of the Jane Austen
novel with Greer Carson: 2:05, ABS, 7 and $50 PM
Flynn rides the
plus stage shows; continuous from 2 o'clock.
KEITHSLucky Partners Ginger Rogers and Ronald Coman in
romantic comedy: @ $780, 545 TAO and s:35 pm
comedy with the cinemas top baby
star: q 1855, 6, 805 and 9:55 m.
METROPOLITAN the Seven Dwarfs" plus some
top Disney shorts: 245 5, 7:2O and $40 pm
comedy with Myrna 10y and
William Powell 24o Ass, tbs and s35 PM
TRANS s-LUX-News shortsk continuous O'Clock.
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main street he encountered corre-
spondent friend footing it along in
the opposite direction.
The star spoke and waved a CHEEKY
greeting. But he got not the Slight
est tumble in return. His acquaint-
ance. apparently engrossed in deep
thought. merely ambled right along
with his head down.
A few days later when the news
paperman dropped around on one
of his set visits. Gable took him to
task with great gusto.
so you don't speak to your
friends" chided the star. Boy, I
hate to think what would have
Evening star., 1940-08-25
You'll Get Warm and CHEEKY Greeting From the Stars
No Notion Who
YouM BeorW WhereTh Met You

| for Conquest" and identified her as
Miss Sherman"
Gable realizes he can't keep track
of all names-although he has q
camera eve for faces-so he plays
safe by calling everybody Joe" even
his directors.
Tracy Smiles and Winks.
Always reticent and soft-spoken,
Spencer Tracy gets away nicely by
turning on a charming smile and an
ingratiating wink. When Tracy
winks across the set, it's 10-to-1
gamble he doesn't know your name.
The feminine stars have it much
easier, of course-a cinch. in fact.
At a loss for an acquaintance name
they'll always rely on such trusty
and endearing salutatlons as
Honey" Darling" and Sweet
heart" Claudette Colbert, Carole
Lombard and Joan Crawford use
Dear" exclusively to both sexes even
when speaking to those they barely
know.
"Toots' covers a multitude of peo-
pie of both sexes and almost all ages
with Wayne Morris. Ann Sheridan
may call a visitor Big Boy or
Pretty Lady" and when she does
that it's almost certain she has, at
least for the moment. forgotten the
real, name of the person addressed.
Pat O'Brien has a gift for remem-
bering names; so does Herbert Mar
shall. We would say Marshall, the
reserved English leading man. has
the best face and name memory Of
any Hollywood star. This actor, at
each introduction, repeats the name
Of his new acquaintance several
times. And the chances are he'll
call them by their correct names six
months later.
There is no actress in town with
a more amazing memory than the
Chinese siren, Anna May Wong. A
few nights ago a fan magazine
writer was introduced to Miss
Wong; he declared he was right
glad to meet her.
But, we have met before" said
the actress.
The writer stammered a little, but
insisted she must be wrong. 1t was
first run so far as he was con.
cerned.
1T was in New York, four years
ago." Anna May declared after
pause. Then she mentioned where
the party had been held and the
names of numerous guests. The
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