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Smyrna times., 1941-01-16
PERSONAL


E. ]. Colt, who has been confined
to his home the past two weeks
with heavy cold, hopes to be
about again in week or so.
d. j. Cummins has been confined
to his home the past week with a
throat trouble.
Mrs. Young and daughter of
Philadelphia are guests of Miss
Nan Wood.
Miss Nan Hoffecker left yester-
day for a visit of several weeks to
Wilmington.
L. Irving Handy, wife and daugh-
ter, of Newark came yesterday on
visit to Mrs. HIS parents.
Marion Wood and wife left Mon
day to take up their residence in
Roanoke.
Mrs. ]. Ralston McCausland, of
Malvern, Pa, came down last even
ing on visit to her parents.
John Wilkinson, of Philadelphia,
is visiting relatives here.
John P. Hudson and wife and
Preston and George Graham have
returned to Roanoke, Va.
Samuel Armstrong and wife, of
Rising Sun visited relatives in this
town on Sunday.
Miss Ella Lynch, of Milford is
visiting Miss Clara Sithens.
Miss Hettie Megear is spending
several weeks in Wilmington
Mrs. Amanda Spruance is visit
ing her son, Daniel E. Spruance
Louisburg, Pa.
The following relatives of the de-
ceased were in attendance today at
the funeral of William P. Smithers:
Hon.N. B. Smithers and Andrew
Smithers of Dover, DR.. Thomas J.
Smithers, and Norman Smithers,
of Easton, Md, DR., John G. Daw-
son, Milford, William H. Smithers
near Dover, William ]. Lark and
wife, near New Castle, DR.. ]. NJ
Smith, Cheswold. Rev E. E. White
and wife of Millington, Md, were
also in attendance.
Ex-Sec. Bayard, who was one of
the toast speakers at the $4,000
banquet given to ex president
Cleveland, in Philadelphia on
Thursday night in dwelling on the
necessity of limitations in the ad-
ministration of the government
said. 1T is a mere trIism that
power without limitation cannot
be perpetuated without constant
Limitation. Power will grow with
what it feeds upon. Leave power
to itself alone, and law will perish.
A government of will will take the
place of government of law"
| The statement of Gov. Biggs in
his message to the Legislature
that there is an unexpected balance
in the school fund of S79,737 90
makes a good showing. The large
surplus could be very profitably
expended in providing for improv-
ed books and schoolhouse para
phernalia, and if larger wages
were given for teachers services
better teachers could be procured
With such a surplus to the credit
of a school fund, there is no good
reason why Delaware should not
have the best equipped school sys-
tenn in the country
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MASON : WELDON

It. L. Mason, for several years
past, clerk in the Drug Store of J..
w. Denney, and Miss Mollie We'll
don, daughter Of Willard F. Well
don, were united in the bonds Of
holy wedlock on Thursday after
noon at 3 o'clock at the home Of
her parents on Union Street in the
presence of number of relatives
and friends. Misses Clara Lopez,
of Wilmington, and Lucy Taylor of
this town received the guests at
the door and j. Ed. DeFord and
Miss Nora Cotton stood up with
the young couple while the Rev.
w. w. w. Wilson performed the
ceremony. The wedding march
was played by c. Virgil Gordon.
Shortly after the exchange of con-
gratulations the company was in
vited to an adjoining room where
fine collation. was served. The
happy couple left for a trip to Phil
adelphia ON the 4.46 train amid a
shower of rice. The bride was the
recipient of some very pretty pre-
sents. They will occupy the home
of the brides parents, who will
leave in a few days for Roanoke.
Continued on Page Eight
Smyrna times., 1941-01-16
STATE GRANGE OFFICERS
Elected at December Session; Of
ficers Installed In Milford

A large crowd of Changers and
friends from all parts of the state
was present in Milford's Fruitland
Grange Hall Thursday night and
witnessed the installation of the
new officers of the Delaware State
Grange. The officers installed,
elected at the December session of
the State Grange in Newark, are
as follows: Master, Clarence E.
Jester, Milford; overseer, A. Bailey
Thomas, Camden; lecturer, Robert
Yearsley, Hockessin; steward,
Bailey Maull, Lewes; assistant
steward, Bayard Taylor, Richard
son Park; chaplain, Howard R.
Moore, Milford; treasurer, Mrs.
Robert P. Robinson, Wilmington;
secretary, Harry c. Johnson ,Smyr-
ma; gatekeeper, William Naudain,
Marshallton; Ceres, Mrs. Paul
Mitchell, Marshallton; Pomona
Mrs. Helen Thomas, Camden; Flora,
Mrs. Nettie Jester, Milford; lady
assistant steward, Mrs. Bayard
Taylor, Richardson Park; member
executive committee, Guy Wheat
/ ley of Laurel. A short program,
after the installation, was given
under the leadership of the state
lecturer.
Smyrna times., 1941-01-16
AUTO TAGS ARE
AVAILABLE NOW
Jan. 18th to Jan. 31st Set For
Applications From Car Own
ers Wanting Same Numbers
NO SPECIAL NUMBERS

Tie period from January 18th to
January 31st has been determined
as the time to receive applications
from registrants desiring the same
number for 1941 as held for the
year of 1910. All persons sending
in their applications during this
period will receive their old num-
bers. Requests for special mum
beEs will not be hor ored. After
January 31st all plates viii be is-
sued in consecutive order and four
figure numbers will be issued in the
Wilmington, Dover and George
town offices ESQ those desiring low
numbers should present their APP
plications at that time.
The application must be signed
by the owner in ink in the same
manner as it appears on the appli-
cation and questions answered on
the reverse side. Any change in
address should be noted The num-
Der desired should appear on the
application A check or money or
der for the amount of the fee as
specified on the application should
accompany asme. Check the make
Of car and engine number on the
application before returning it so
as to be sure you are registering
the right car. Due to many chang
es in ownership of cars during the
period required to mail out renew
al registrations owners who have
made such changes are likely to re-
ceive applications describing the
car previously registered as well as
the car last acquired.
Dealers may receive their came
numbers and it is requested that
Smyrna times., 1941-01-16
FARMERS MUST
PLAN FUTURE
New Circulars Stress the I'm
portance of Agriculture in
National Defense Program
STATE FARM OUTLOOK

In circular just released by the
Delaware Agricultural Extension
Service, rural Delawareans are
urged to plan for the future. The
circular has been designated as Ex-
tionsion Circular A. 1t was pre-
pared by the divisions of Home
Economics and Farm Management
of the Delaware Agricultural Ex-
tension Service and is being dis
tributed throughout the State by
Extension specialists and county
agricultultural. home demonstra-
ton and All club agents.
The first paragraph Of the four
page, illustrated booklet reads
Farm families must look toward
the future. Not with alarm, but
with a plan, a plan to consider and
face the facts as a foundation on
which to build a future that will
not collapse with the predicted
rapid changes in economic condi-
tions."
The authors of the circular say
that it will be necessary for farm
ers to tighten their belts" by in
cvreasing general farm efficiency
through planning to:
Use credit efficiently = Reduce
debts.
Make wise use of labor.
Curtail wholesale expansion.
Make more efficient use of farm
machinery.
Practice more self sufficient
farming.
Thought provoking questions
contained in the section of the cir
cular devoted to THE Farm Fam
ily's Food" include
"Another question families should
ask themselves is whether farm
production is so adjusted that idle
land will furnish feed for the cow,
pigs and chickens that in turn will
supply the family table. And is the
garden doing its share toward a
well balanced diet? Is necessary
equipment available for canning
and storing after these foods are
produced? And can these foods
be prepared in such a way that the
family will eat them with relish ?"
Smyrna times., 1941-01-16

Joseph Wickes, farmer of near
Pearson's Corner, was entertained
at a family birthday party Sunday
at his home, arranged by his wife,
on the occasion of his 81st birth
day anniversary. Among the IA
relatives and friends present was
Mr.. Wickes' only surviving broth
er, Col. James c. Wickes of Dover.
Mr.. Wickes was born in Dover and
resided there until about rs years
ago.
Smyrna times., 1941-01-16
EPIDEMIC OF INFLUENZA
Wilmington Has Mild Epidemic;
Doctors Are Kept Busy

An epidemic of a mild type of in
fuenza, is sweeping Wilmington
and suburban areas, physicians
report. Emphasizing that the dis
ease is only in mild form and not
dangerous if proper precautions
are taken, physicians agreed that
it appeared to be similar to the
type that has been reported in the
Western and Pacific coast states
during the past two or three weeks.
Dr.. Roger Murray, executive secre-
tary of the Wilmington Board of
Health, said that for the past sew
eral days physicians there have
been swamped with calls. He cited
one exampe of a drug store pro-
prietor who has had to employ an
extra clerk to take care of the
store while the pharmacist devotes
his entire time to filling prescrip-
tons.
Cases Reported Are Mild
THE cases reported have been of
a mild nature and the patient US
ually runs a fever for two or three
days and this is followed by a per-
sistant cough that continues four
or five days." DR. Murray said.
Kent and Sussex Counties, appar-
entity, have escaped the respiratory
infection, there being no more than
the usual number of cases for this
time of year in the lower end of
the state, DR.. Edwin Cameron, Do
yer, executive secretary of the
State Board of Health, said.
Disease Moving Eastward
I'VE have been watching reports
of the United States Board of
Health closely and the disease Is
definitely moving eastward" DR..
Cameron said. 1--WE don't believe
the weather has anything directly
to do with the disease although we
are all apt to get careless when
warm weather arrives in winter
and as a result leave ourselves
open to colds" he added. about
the only precaution we can tell the
public to take is to avoid crowds
and to call a physician at the first
sign of illness" DR.. Cameron ex-
planned DR.. Cameron and Dr.
Murray said there had been no in
crease in the number of pneumonia
cases.
Smyrna times., 1941-01-16
DESSERT SALAD.
refreshing finish
to q meal i
by Dorothy Greig

THIS dessert salad is one Of those
Il blessed two-in-ones that make a
woman's life cheerier. II doubles
as salad and dessert.
II Is a sparkling jelly imbedded
thick with juicy fruit. Bring it to
the table well chilled and add a
smooth creamy dressing. II you jell
the salad in fancy mold It is gay
to look at as well as being refresh
ingly tonic to eat:
Smyrna times., 1941-01-16

Smith w. Purdum, second assist
ant postmaster general, has advis-
ed Rep. Philip A. Traynor that a
general advertisement is now
pending inviting proposals for ser
vice on all of the II star routes in
Delaware during the four-year con-
tract term beginning July /.
Smyrna times., 1941-01-16

The buying power of the aver
age American factory worker is es-
timated at 60 per cent higher to-
day than in 1914.
Smyrna times., 1941-01-16

from there to this town five years
ago. We stated, what he supposed
for the reason that he was not in
the county now, he would get off.
The judge informed him on being
written to, that he would have to
serve if residing anywhere in the
state, so instead of getting off, he
was not only Oh duty in Whining
ton, Monday morning but his was
the very first name called empan-
neling the jury. Two drawn from
Smyrna however did get off John
Mustard because of advancing
years and defective hearing, and
Alex. G.. Cummins, because, it is
stated, he had been a member of
the bar
William E. Preston, died at the
residence of his mother, near Leip-
sic on Monday night, aged about
% years. He was the son of Will
liam Preston who went from here
to follow butchering in Leipsic
when a young man, and grandson
of Robert Preston, one of the
former citizens of Smyrna. The
deceased was the subject of an ac-
cident when a small boy, that
rendered him a cripple for life. He
was postmaster at Cheswold dur
ing the Cleveland administration
and subsequently for q time, en-
gagged in helping produce from
that place. The past year his
health had been giving away from
a pulmonary trouble and died as
above stated.
Smyrna times., 1941-01-16

The automobile industry II
more than two-thirds Of ii j
leather upholstery processed |, \
United States.
Smyrna times., 1941-01-16

the Department be potis.s
o on9 number tp of plates t them :. As
oroer that the prone oeste
applications may be mai5 Lumber
Smyrna times., 1941-01-16
CHRISTIAN sClEScv
Report Of Church Sa.
Next Snnd., s q

First ChurcD az
Wilmington, at Pa X ['-s y Scisat
Van Buren, Street: mora rlaes i
II a. NJ, Sunday scbo - is'y
evening service 500 ? u i II
n 1,e1 evening service ! N " "
Christian Science soeis,1 o.oo ,
meets at Grange HaT. !, l-t''
a. M, also meets frst w ssa'a
evening Of each month @s5 y
Subject for SUNDAY T. :
ne Golden Text Rev y.
| viii give unto hin that ,stf !. I : /
Of the fountain Of The W., ! ~
freely. He that overcon ass5 = 4
inherit all things; and | III, III q
God and he shan be nv =" =. @
Bible Citation from the la IT
mon; Psalms 36:7 and . .' us
cellent is thy loving-kin4sse
God, therefore the childr ,,r-iisa
put their trust under tbs = =
OF thy wings. 9. For VT, s /
the fountain Of life: in ~ ! +
shaH we see light. Co.'S
from the Textbook, "Scienos
Health with Key to the Sem,
by Mary Baker EDDY; Thu y.
lures imply that Cod is an
From this it follows that 1,..'
possesses reality nor existent
cept the divine Mind and HI ~
The Scriptures also decl.,. =
God is Spirit. Therefore i
all IS harmony, and there can = =
discord; all is Life, and tber.
death, Everything is Cod, =
verse expresses Him.
Smyrna times., 1941-01-16

For every dollar paid to stock
holders last year, railroads of this
country paid nearly three dollars in
taxes.
Smyrna times., 1941-01-16
SMYRNA DOINGS.
OF so YEARS AGO
Notes of Marriages, Deaths
and Matters of Interest
of Half Century Ago
ISSUE OF JAN. 14TH, 1891

Taken from our -old files of
corresponding week, as near
date of this issue as possible
Fifty Years Ago. This column,
now a regular feature of the
Times, will call to mind people
and events of the older general-
ton.
Evening star., 1941-01-06
Miss BernardinO
Opens Spanish Glass

Miss Minerva Bernardino of the
Dominican Republic, vice chairman
of the Inter American Commission
of Women, has opened a free course
in Spanish. the classes being given
at her home, at 20l3 New Hampshire
avenue NV.
A number of the women who at
tended the atin-American lectures
recently held here already are at
tending this course to learn some
thing of the language and customs
of our Latin American neighborS.
Miss Bernardino has worked for
several years to bring about closer
cooperation among the women of
the Americas, and the course in
Spanish represents an additional
means of furthering such co-opera-
ton. Among those who have joined
the class are Lady Leslie, Mrs. Helen
Noodle, Mrs Clifford Pinchot, Mrs.
Bruce Smith, Mrs. Barnet<Nover
Mrs. Walter Wyatt. Mrs. Charles
Fairman and Mrs. Rene Taylor.
Evening star., 1941-01-06

Pretoria, South Africa, has just
put in operation a trolley-bus sys-
tenn.
Evening star., 1941-01-06
Suburban
Social
Notes
PattOns Entertain
At Residence in
Sligo Park Hills

Mr.. and Mrs. E. r. Patton enter
tanned at a cocktail party Saturday
evening at their home in Sligo Park
Hills, Md. in celebration of their
7th wedding anniversary. Later
Mr.. and Mrs. Donald Parker enter
tanned the group at supper at their
Sligo Park Hills home.
Among the guests were DR.. and
Mrs. William Crushard of Chevy
Chase, Mr.. and Mrs. Dexter Gam
nell of Washington, Mr.. and Mrs.
E. Francis McDevitt OF Woodslde
Park, Md, and Mr.. and Mrs. John
Scofield and Mr.. and Mrs. Donald
Parker of Sligo Park Hills.
Mr.. and Mrs. Curtis Drake Cecil
of Takoma Park, Md, are enter
tanning Col. Phil D. Rose for sew
eral days.
Miss Ritchie Benson of Hyatts-
town has been spending the holidays
with her brother and Sister-in-laW,
1t. and Mrs. William Robert Beall,
at Fort Benning, Ga.
Fairfax County Revenue Commis-
sioner and Mrs. James U. Klncheloe
entertained at their twenty first an
nual luncheon Friday in compliment
to the county Board of Supervisors.
The guests of honor included Mr..
G. Wallace Carper, chairman OF the
board; Mr.. John T. Blincoe, Mr.. d.
w. Buckley, Mr.. Maurice Fox and
Mr.. Andrew w. Clarke. Mr.. c. H.
Powell, another member OF the
board, is i'll and was not at the
luncheon.
Mr.. and Mrs. William H. Miller of
Silver Spring, Md, are spending
week in New York and visiting
friends in Long Island.
Mr.. and Mrs. John T. Lucker en-
tertained at dinner Friday evening
at their home in Takoma Park, Md,
in honor of DR.. John Andrews OF the
Puerto Rico experimental station,
who is in this country on short vaca-
ton, and DR.. Ella Frazier, who is an
inferno at Gallinger Hospital.
Yesterday Mr.. and Mrs. Lucker
we're hosts at breakfast party, en-
tertaining in honor of 1t. Col, Perry
Huff and Mrs. Huff of Silver Spring,
Md. 1t Col. Huff, who is with the
26Oth Coast Artillery will leave
shortly for Fort Bliss, Tex.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter P. MoXon of
St. Louis, Mo- are guests of their
son-in-law and daughter, Mr.. and
Mrs. Donald M. Smith of Takoma
Park, Md.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry P. Graham
and their children are again in their
home in Takoma Park, Md, after
spending the holidays with rela-
tives in Salisbury, N. c.
Evening star., 1941-01-06
Hostess at Party

Miss Marilyn Shapiro entertained
a small group December 80 in honor
of Mr.. Frank Wolfsheimer, who is
leaving Washington to take up his
duties in Guam, with the United
States Navy.
Miss Shapiro who is the daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Shapiro of
TIT Seventeenth street NV. is
leaving today for Miami, Fla, where
she will spend the month of Janu-
hry,
Evening star., 1941-01-06

Tomatoes grew out OF a sand
bag protecting the Guildhall in
Norwich, England.
Evening star., 1941-01-06

to make you conscious of the fact.
1t even issues such figures as this:
Ten years ago the output of syn
thetic resins amounted to approxi-
mately 100000 pounds-10 years
later, to 213,0OO000 pounds.
Out Tut-ing King Tut.
And now we get down to what
was to me the most fascinating part
of the commerce department ex-
hibit the work that Charles E.
Sando of the Department of Agri-
culture has been doing with a syn
thetic resin that's a dead ringer for
clear glass. He has been burying
bugs and ears of corn and butter
flies in blocks of this stuff and
turning out preserved specimens that
would outlive King Tut's mummy.
Mr.. Sando, 45-year-old bio
chemist, after several years of re-
search has managed the feat of i'm
bedding these speciments in an un-
scratchable clear plastic and retain
Evening star., 1941-01-06
P|astics Display Here
Has Everything From
False Teeth 10 Shoes
Chinese Started MAKING
Them 10 Centuries Ago
And Now They've Arrived
By JACK STINNETT


The Department of Commerce is
slaphappy over plastics. In the vast
vaulted foyer of the departments
building sometimes referred to
locally as "Hoover's Folly" because
nobody up to that time had ever
thought of Commerce as important
enough to be housed in such an
edifice) there now is on display AS
big an exhibition of plastics as
Washington ever has seen.
There is everything from false
teeth to brassieres: from milady's
dainty pumps to football helmets
that would stop the jar of a Chicago
Bear; from agile-looking bits of
costume jewelry to airplane wind
shields that toss machine-gun bull
lets aside like pellets from beam
shooter.
What Plastics Are
The day I was over there, there
was fellow standing around. I asked
him: "Whaddyumean plastics?" And
his answer was: Generally speak
ing, plastics are substances capable
of being nodded or otherwise fabri-
Gated with coloring matter or a
filler) into a desired solid form;
this condition being obtained by
physical or chemical interaction be-
tween the molecules of a wide range
of materials"
Well, no doubt he knew what he
was talking about, but that seems
to me to be putting it the hard way.
Plastics are like radio-you can't ex-
plain them. but there they are. You
take a little coal tar or hammered
soybeans, mix them with a little air
or water, run them through a press
and you get everything from syn
thetic silk to gear-shift knobs.
Chinese Started 1t.
The Chinese started m k j n
papier- -mache about as far back as
firecrackers, but since papier- -mache
wasn't an instrument of slaughter,
it took civilization about 10 centuries
longer to figure out that it was
plastic and plastics were pretty hot
stuff.
Now. after some 25 years of COM
mercial development and about 10
years of concentrated attention from
both the men in the laboratories
and those in the market places,
plastics are coming into their own.
When you comb your hair and brush
your teeth and switch off your lights
at night, the chances are 10 to one
you are using plastics.
When you shove the family ialopy
into gear, you are using plastics.
They are in your kitchen, they are
on your clothes, and the Depart
ment of Commerce is doing its best
Evening star., 1941-01-06

ing not only perfect form, even to
the minute hairs on the legs of a
tarantula, but perfect coloring. He
has preserved frogs, snakes with
barred fangs), peacock feathers
spikes of wheat and oats and even
moths, whose delicate coloring would
be upset by any breeze strong
enough to blow the dust off their
wings.
Don't ask me how he does it. I
only know that it is too expensive
for commercialization and that not
jot of air or moisture is left in
the embedded specimen. Scientists
and medicos already are tipping
their derbies to DR.. Sando and
promising that it won't be long until
you can illustrate your lectures on
the absent appendix with glass-im-
bedded proof.
Evening star., 1941-01-06
Luncheon Is Given
Bv Miss Kline

Miss Elizabeth Anne Kline was
hostess at luncheon Thursday, en-
tertaining in the home of her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Robert E. Kline,
jr., at 3 Primrose street. in Chevy
Chase. Md. Her guests included
Miss Katharine Stanley-Brown, Miss
Monica Gaillard, Miss Ellen Pearson,
Miss Frances Abbott, Miss Loyce
Lovett. Miss Glare Fahnestock, Miss
Florence Montfort and Miss Lucy
Station.
Evening star., 1941-01-06
McCowns to Leave
For West Coast

Comdr and Mrs. H. Y. McCown
with their children, Frederick and
Henry Y. McCoWn, jr., and Mrs
McCown's mother, Mrs. Frederick
Porter, will leave Arlington soon
for the West Coast.
En- route they will spend several
days in Dallas, Tex. Comdr. Nc
Gown will be executive officer of the
cruiser Minneapolis, in the Hawaiian
area.
Evening star., 1941-01-06
British Women Plan
Spending After War

Representing the working-class
women of Great Britain, Mrs. c.
Ganley is a member of the Commit
tee on Cost of Living and Is helping
to decide how people will spend their
money after the war.
Eminent educators, statisticians,
economists and officials are on this
committee, which meets in London.
Fer 40 years Mrs. Ganley has lived
among women who have had to cali
Evening star., 1941-01-06

culate every penny to make ends
meet.
After the war we shall expect
people to spend at least 4 tenth Of
income enjoying nfe," she says.
lone figure that will stay the same
Is the amount for food. Most wom-
en- spend a quarter of their income
on rent, some nearly a third. Fiji
teen to 20 per cent is enough"
Evening star., 1941-01-06
Surprise Party

Miss Betty Egloff. daughter of
Mrs. James T, HightoWer and the
late Mr.. Julius Egloff, entertained
her college friends at dance New
Year night in her home on Capitol
Hill The party was a surprise
birthday party for Miss Barbara
Brown, who celebrated her 18th
birthday anniversary.
Evening star., 1941-01-06
Mr.. P. B. Thompson
Comes to Meet
Grandchildren

Mr.. Phillips B. Thompson Of
New York spent the week end
in Washington, joining Mrs.
Thompson in the home of her
cousin, Mrs. John Henry Purdy,
where she has been visiting since
Christmas. Mr.. Thompson came
to make the acquaintance of his
granddaughter, born Thursday to
Comdr. and Mrs. Jerauld Wright,
the latter formerly Miss Phyllis
Thompson. Comdr. Wright joined
his parents, Maj. Gen. and Mrs.
William Mason Wright, over
Sunday to be near Mrs. Wright
and their daughter. and returned
to his post at the Naval Academy
this morning.