Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1944-08-03
SMYRNA AND VICINITY

OhoiIS WuCdl 10 uOW COl1lulduu-
ing so cents, an advance of two or
three cents per bushel.
The award of contracts for sew
ering the streets is to made this
evening by Town Council. Would
be contractors to overlook the
ground and put in bids are here
from other places in force.
Charles Gibbs, better known as
Laughing Charley" who came to
this town few years ago from
Maryland, and was in the employ
of VIM. M. Lewes, as hostler, died
Monday, aged 70. Charley was
small of stature and of infinite
good nature, or so he seemed, from
his long and hearty laughter when
addressed on the street, and he
thought he had made a witty reply.
John P. Carey, in tenure of one
of John Heitshu's farms near Ches-
void, has shipped from his orchard
some peaches, the Early st. John
variety, which sold from $1.72 to
81 per three-gallon carrier, or
Sc 2-3 cents per gallon.
The Sullersville team of baseball
players-five of them college ath-
eletes, and the combination known
to be a skilled one, called out a
good attendance in the contest
with the Smyrna boys on Monday
afternoon, on the grounds here. 1t
was attended by all classes of peo-
pie, including some ladies who take
pleasure in well-directed manly
sport. Among the number was
man, member of church, of active
and appropriating faith, who likes
a good game when it does no con-
fiict with other duties, who was
well pleased with the two or more
hours of diversion afforded him, as
he felt, without harmful influences.
There was no wrangling and bad
language as used to frequently pre-
vail, and even Johnny George, as
he stated it, was under the best of
decorum = only one Marylander
was manifestly demonstrative over
their victory, and he only to the
extent of tearing up his straw hat.
This is the way it was looked at
from one side. A man of the same
religious mould as the above, aim
ing all the time at proper thought
and good example, but who does
not go to see such games, remark
ed after seeing the outflow, that
che heard great deal of the hard
times, but the waste of time and
waste of money as was apparent
in these games, did not look like
it."
There is manifest change TAX
ing place in the ascetic habit and
thought that has dominated the re-
ligious life of the past. The natur-
al aspirations of youth, it is claim
ed, have been enslaved by the mys-
ticisms of the past ages, that were
as much the result of superstition
as piety. Let nature assert itself
in its legitimate way for a vigor-
Gus and joyous youth and happy
old age, which can be done in har-
mony with viralized life free
from sinful purposes.
1t is quite certain that this is the
trend of thought. Gymnastics,
sports, base ball, football and even
the cotillion party are not entered
upon with that callous, antagonis-
tic, even defiant attitude to religion
that used to characterize the young
people, and it is a question if they
may not, in time, be Invested of
what has been their Questionable
qualities, and become, under bet
ter regime, a recognized mode of
youthful diversion.
If there is a tendency, as has
been apparent in the last decade,
to liberalize Youth and give it feet
and wings in harmony with the
spirit of the age, there is an equal
tendency when not harassed by its
misguided prosecutors, to follow
better impulses and work for amel-
iorating results in lettering the
condition of mankind, that old men
through older methods could not
attain.