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Smyrna times., 1947-12-18
URGE CONTROL
OF TUBER WORM
Potato Worm Causes Serious
Damage To Late PO-
tatO Crops
FUMIGATE SUPPLIES

Serious damage to late potatoes
by the potato tuber worm is being
reported in Delaware, according to
DIR. L. A. Stearns, extension ento-
mologist for the University of Del
aware.
Similar reports that the worm
has been unusually abundant in
Maryland and Virginia have been
received by DR.. Stearns. To an
swer the frequent requests being
received for information on meth
eds to eliminate this pest in po-
tatoes now in storage, DR.. Stearns
reveals that few treatments have
proven practicable
Since the potato takes up odors
and f1avors readily and retains
them for indefinite periods, DR..
Stearns recommends fumigation of
the potatoes in storage with car
bon bisulfde.
Carbon bisulfide does not injure
the potatoes. 1t can be applied for
long periods and since it is heavier
than air will, if liberated at the top
of a pile of stored potatoes go en-
tirely through the pile to the floor.
Smyrna times., 1947-12-18

The fumigant should be used at
the rate of 5 pounds to each 1000
cubic feet of space for a 4s-hour
exposure with the temperature 60
degrees F. or above. The liquid
should be placed on top of the
sacks in shallow tin pans. Care
should be taken not to expose the
gas to fire, since it is explosive
when mixed with air and ignited.
Two or three such fumigations are
often required during the winter
for effective control.
Tuber worms which survive the
winter in Gull dumps and in stor-
age houses and cellars are the
soudces of early-season field infest-
Smyrna times., 1947-12-18
Elementary Assembly

Thanksgiving was observed on
November 25 in grades 1-6 of our
school with a special assembly pre-
sented by Mrs. Slaughter's fourth
grade homeroom. The program
was opened with the Bible reading,
read by Peggy Jacobs, after which
the whole group of students said
the Lords Prayer, gave the Flag
Salute, and sang the 1st and 3rd
verses of America. Following
these opening exercises Betty Lou
Hurd gave a greeting from the
fourth grade. Other Thanksgiving
readings were given by Sandy
Poore, Bobby Kellums, Ellen Pet
ers, Robert Croll, Kenneth Mayn-
ard, Burton Melvin, Panic Gibe,
Patsy Lowman, Barbara Graham,
Joyce Gardner, Josephine Walls,
Betty Vessel, Joanne Mills, Bar
bara McVey, Joan Loose, Freddy
Allen, Rodney Reynolds, Shirley
Porter, Janice Burris, Henry Stel-
Ter, Edwin Alfree, Joyce Spence.
The fourth grade sang two songs,
November Feast" and "The Flag
Colors".
The program was concluded with
a small play called '"The Spirit OF
Thanksgiving. This play showed
how the spirit of giving was dis
played in one of the typical Amer
lean homes.
The stage was very prettily dec.
Grated with flowers.
The piano accompaniment was
given by Alice Jane Matthews; the
announcer was Sandra Poore.
Carol Craig
Lena Newman
Smyrna times., 1947-12-18

alton on volunteer plans or the
newly-planted crop.
Insecticides have not proved
very satisfactory against this pest.
The only way to control potato
tuber worm in the field is to de-
stroy the Gull potatoes of the
spring crop and thus reduce intes-
tation in the fall crop.
Smyrna times., 1947-12-18
Unique Advertising

Robinsdale, Minnesota, a fourth
class city with a population of g.
500, being the closest municipality
to Minneapolis, uses the slogan;
"Robinsdale, next to the largest
city in Minnesota"
Smyrna times., 1947-12-18
High School Assembly

On the afternoon of November
25, the 18th grade classroom under
Miss Evelyn Smiths direction gave
an assembly for the high school.
This was Truth or Consequence"
program. The announcer was
Leonard Pleasanton and the mast
er of ceremonies was Ronald Now
land, assisted by Martin Moffitt.
The victims of this program were
chosen from the audience. Among
these were John Doughten, Jane
Dukes, Lena Newman, Robert Bam-
berger, Neil Tilghman, and Emma
Daniels. They were asked ques-
tions about Thanksgiving; the an
Smyrna times., 1947-12-18
Your School Reporter
NEWS OF THE
JOHN BASSETT MOORE SCHO OIL

nouncer gave the correct answers.
Some of the consequences were to
sing a cowboy song, sing like AL
Jolson, ask girl to a dance, and
call chickens. Mrs. Dorothy Meyer
was chosen from the audience to
be an assistant in one of the con-
sequences. The contestants were
awarded candy canes for their CO.
operation in the proram. Four
students, Virginia Newcomb, Vir-
ginia Johnson, Donald Knotts and
Ronald Nowland, sang the''Thanks-
giving Hymn" and 1--WE Thank
Thee Lord. This quartette was
the high1light of the program.
Alice Jane Matthews accompanied
the songs and played the process
sional and recessional.
Carol Craig
Veteran Training
Mr.. George Wright has an
nounced that veterans of World
War II engaged in apprentice
training in Smyrna will be given
instruction during the 1947-4S
school year beginning on Tues
day, December 2. Classes will be
held on an average of two nights
per week in the Smyrna School.
Jane Virdin
First cheer leader practice was
held recently under the direc-
tion of Miss Esther Walker. Con-
testants for positions are drawn
from grades s through u.
The second marking period end
ed December IL; report cards were
given students on December 16.
Basketball
The Smyrna High School Boys
Basketball schedule is as follows:
Jan. 9 Open
Jan. 13 FELTON, Home
Jan. 16 Caesar Rodney Away
Jan. 20 Open
Jan. % Middletown Away
Evening star., 1947-01-01

wilson's proposal. ] concur in his
opinion that steps should be taken
forthwith in the direction OF reduc-
ing the national debt. But / would
caution him that one reason for
the Republican failure to reduce
the national debt was its political
anxiety to reduce the income. tax.
In 1921 the new Congress reduced
this tax by $500, ,000, 900. Again,
in 1924, the income tax was re-
duced, in order ito reach fair
peacetime rate" In 1925, another
tax-reducing law was parsed. II
1928, still another reduction went
into effect because I'VE don't need
the money" 80, cpl, =, -
cember 4, 1929, in the face OF
tumbling prices, panic and impend-
ing ruin, the Republican admin
istration passed still another law
reducing income taxes.
1924 to 1929 Period!
If the tax rates levied in the
revenue law of 1918, and those
rates were not excessive, had re-
mained on the statute books un-
altered for nine years-until jan
uary 1, 1927, EVERY DOLLtR of the
national debt would have been re-
paid. During the five-year period
from 1924 to 1929 the net incomes
Evening star., 1947-01-01
BY THE HASKIN SERVICE

ny 1hE dASAfN SEhFlCE.
Q. Do birds ever sing as they fly?
e. P. B.
A. The Fish and Wildlife Service
says that number of birds sing
while flying. notably the lark. Some
of the warblers and wrens also have
flight songs.
@. Are the cadets at West Point
assigned to companies according to
their height?-V. r.
A. Yes, the assignment of cadets
10 companies is done in accordance
with the heights of the cadets within
each class. The heights in the COM
panies vary from year to year, de-
pending upon the preponderance of
one certain height that may be in a
class just entering.
@. In what countries of the world
do geysers exist?-C. E. S.
A. In only three places, Iceland,
New Zealand and the United States.
Yellowstone has the biggest geysers
and the largest number. Geysers
occur in certain regions of the earth
which were formerly volcanic.
@. Who is the author of the say
ing, Now is the time for all good
men to come to the aid of the
party"?-G. H.
A. The identity of the author is
unknown. The familiar sentence is
quoted in THE Typewriter Song"
by Edward Robinson.
@. How large vote is required to
pass a bill over the Presidents
Seto?-C. A. B.
A. If the President vetoes a bill
which has been passed by the SEN
ate and House of Representatives, it
may be passed over his veto by a
two-thirds majority of each House.
@. What kind of a ball is used
in playing softball?-C. j. B.
A. The ball is made of kapok
wound with yarn and covered with
leather.
@. Who were the lotus -eaters?-
K. H. Mob.
A. In Greek legend they were
happy. idle people who lived on the
north coast of Africa. They tried
in vain to persuade Odysseus and
his companions to stay with them.
Tennyson's THE Lotus Eaters" has.
become an English classic.
@. From what animal is the fur
known as broadtail obtained? Is 1t
native to this country?-K. B. Y.
A. Broadtail is one of the COM
mercial furs obtained from the
Karakul sheep, the others being Per-
sian lamb, astrakhan and karakul
Though native of Asia, the Kara
kul has been introduced int the
United States and appears to be
thriving in certain sections Of Cali
fornia.
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newcomer TO bIlG
Senate and would not want to dis
illusion him too roughly as to the
prospects of a Republican Congress
adopting his plan. However, ! am
sure that he will be interested In
previous performances by Repub-
lican administrations. Who was IL
said, "I have no way Of judging the
future but by the past?"
IL Years Under G. o. p.
At the end of World War I
the highest point of Indebtedness
reached by the Wilson administra-
ton was $26, 100000, 900. That was
in August, 1919. Between that date
and June, 1921, this debt had been
reduced by slightly over $2,500.0oO
600 so that when the Harding ad-
ministration took Office, the national
debt was just short of $4,000, ,0o0,-
600. There followed IL peacetime
wears under Republican administra-
ton. However, the day that Pres
ident Roosevelt replaced President
Hoover, the amount of the national
debt was $22 500, 100000.
At no time during the prosperous
Republican tenure was the debt
reduced by a total of more than
eight billions and the subsequent
increased Federal expenditures ne
cessitated by the depression wiped
out almost all of this gain, with the
net result that over period OF IL
long years three Republican admin
istrations had succeeded in reducing
the national debt by less than
81, 500, 100000 On comparative
basis, the Republicans in IL years
reduced the national debt by only
three-hfths as much as Wilson had
reduced 1t in two years.
In short, the Republican Party
brought down the national debt by
less than per cent in IL years. To
state it differently, the Republican
Party paid on the average for the
whole period not quite one-half Of
l per cent Of the national debt dur
ing each year Of its administration.
Now I, for one, applaud Senator
Evening star., 1947-01-01

of tablet paper wrote these reso-
lutions:
1. To wash the inside of my ears
as we'll as the outside OF my ears
2. To quit forging my parents
names to excuses for not attending
school.
3. To learn the whole multiplica-
tion table.
4. To quit picking fights with
4-year-old girls.
S. To quit she ing marbles fol
keeps.
| 6. To quit running away from
home in order to get married and
settle down.
7. To put the nickel 7 was given
on Sunday in the collection plate
and stop spending 1t for licorice,
jawbreakers and chewing gum.
8. To be a better boy.
Shamed by Others.
It shames me to realize that while
| I was making those resolutions and
breaking them, Harold Stassen,
about my own age, was behaving
himself beautifully and looking for
ward to the presidency; that Frank
Sinatra was grooming to his broom
stick horse and moving toward a
| 81 ,000, ,000-a-year income; that AL
fred Gwynne Vanderbilt was cutting
out paper dolls and coupons with
firm, strong hand, and that
Randolph Churchill already showed
signs of developing into one Of the
most pompous young men in the
world, Elliott Roosevelt not ex-
cluded.
But it isn't too late for lie to
improve. Titan painted his first
Saturday Evening Post cover when
he was 81, and Burbank crossed his
eyes with tulip when he was in
his 70s. What the heck! There
is still a chance for me.
A Few for 1947.
Here are a few of my 1947 resolu-
tions. and you can see that I have
grown up to be a big, important
figure in this country:
/. promise to refill the ice trays
when I take out the cubes.
2. I promise to clean my razor
after every use, and not to cuss
at my wife when 7 find that she
has used it and then snuck 1t back
into the cabinet without cleaning IL.
8. I promise not to snarl like a
hound dog when I am asked to
run a simple errand to the grocery
store when my wife is frantically
trying to cook for six extra and un-
expected guests.
4. I promise not to tee up my ball
in the rough except on the long
par-5 holes.
5. promise, just as did at 8,
to wash the inside of my ears as
we'll as the outside.
6. promise that if am fortunate
enough to find any ambergrls, ] will
split the profits with the men who
are with me at the time.
7. I promise never to pretend te
have read pilgrims Progress" be-
cause I haven't.
promise, I promise, I promise.
So do you. So does everyone else
and what does 1t mean? 1t means
simply this 49,.
Distributed by McNausht Syndicate, IneJ
Evening star., 1947-01-01

of individuals and corporations In
creased, and income tax revenues
would naturally have increased pro-.
|portionately. The result was that,
when the stock market took its pre-
|cipitous plunge in 1929, We found
ourselves still saddled with large
national debt thai might well have
been wiped out.
II we had done this, we would
have gone into the period of the
depression and faced World War II
with our national finances in an
infinitely stronger position than
they actually were because of the
|burdensome debt that the country
continued to stagger along under
during the IL years of Republican
rule. It might be profitable to
speculate whether the depression
would have hit us SO hard or would
have lasted so long if our National
Treasury had been using black ink,
Evening star., 1947-01-01

of estimated Government receipts.
This proposal. II now adopted,
would mean that whenever Congress
Evening star., 1947-01-01

that the American people are 50
fundamentally discerning that they
are bound to recognize real char
acter In a public man and reward it?
Or is he so high-minded that he
refuses to compromise his principles,
even to the extent of remaining
silent, in order not to offend the
special groups.
|. Perhaps there are other explana-
tions but no one has suggested them
Evening star., 1947-01-01

It is not necessary to agree with
Mr.. Taft politically nor to approve
either his votes or acts to concede
Evening star., 1947-01-01

with my romp-
ers and freckles
on, and stood
head and shoul-
ders above my
classmates in
m S b e h a v ior, ,
hardness, a n d
general lack of
comprehens ! o n
as to what school
was all about.
I took a chubby
little finger in a
chubby Ii t t ! e
hand, licked the
pencil point, and
on a clean sheet
Evening star., 1947-01-01

estimated that
appropriat / o n S
would reach q
point where a
tenth of the re-
ceipts could not
be applied on
the debt, the
Congress would
be required to
levy additional
taxes to make
up, within two
years, the diff
ference.
Senator Wilson
is a relative
Evening star., 1947-01-01

that the kind of
courage he has
displayed In the
last few months
Is so unusual in
an aspirant for
the presidency
as to be almost
n o n c x / stent.
Certainly, it is
not matched by
any of the other
gentlemen, Re-
p u b Ii an or
Democratic, who
have been men
toned in con-
f1ection with our
hiotooet o#oo
Evening star., 1947-01-01

instead Of red, In the years prior to
1880.
Now, with the new Republican
Congress in Office, q whole chorus
of Republican Senators sing song
Evening star., 1947-01-01

cent across the board" while Sen.
ator Wilson does q solo part about
cutting down the national debt.
I wonder whether the chorus or
the solo will prevail.
(Copyrisht, 1947)
Evening star., 1947-01-01
ANSWERS to
Questions

A reader can get the answer to any
question Of fact BY writing The Evening
Star Information Bureau: 316 ! street
close 8 cents for return postage.
Evening star., 1947-01-01
| |kcLerlaore-
Gives Promissory
New Year Note
BIZ Henry McLsm0re

I can remember my first set OF
New Year resolutions as If had
made them yesterday. was 8
or 9 years old. weighed 81 pounds
Evening star., 1947-01-01
Frank r. Kent
TheGreat Came fPOlltlCs
Taft Refuses to Compromise Principles
In Face of Many Pressure Groups
Frank r. Kent

great being written these days about
public well founded and of it not
In homage to what the late Sir James
Barrie the lovely virtue curiouy few to
appears the conspicuous political
tme-to w.t. that exhibited by Senator Robert Taft
Evening star., 1947-01-01
Harold L. Ickes
Man to Man
G. o. P. Record on Tax Measures Cited
In Years Following World War |

the past 10 mournfu backence walls have
been issuing Republican viewers with alarm about the
national debt Now that 5can Congress has
over right expect ths mediate steps shall
be forthcoming reduce this debt subst N Recently Sen
ato George wilson, Republican of o proposed annual
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-08-24

Those who like character studies
with tinge of romance in a New
England setting will find THE Gar
retson Chronicle" a brilliant and
refreshing novel.
Three generations of the Garrett
son family appear in this portrait
grandfather, the stern traditionalist
shyly addicted to trout fishing; the
son, who clings to tradition, fails as
a writer and lives out his life on the
family estate in a transcendental
dream and, finally, the grandson,
who casts aside all tradition to end
up, happily enough, as carpenter.
The setting is a little village,
called Compton, near Boston. 1t
might be any New England village
in the early part of this century.
Ralph, the son, is sent to the best
schools but rebels at their tradi-
tionalism. Finding no sympathy
from his self-righteous stepmother
or father, he seeks refuge with the
Kingsleys and finds peace and con-
tentment in working with Seth, the
carpenter, a sturdy character.
Throughout the story Is his ro-
nance with the girl whom he called
"beanpole" in his boyhood and later
wed.
More piquant and at the same
time more profound than Mar
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-08-24
AnOdds-on Fuvorite
For Good Thrill
BY Roy Chanslor. (Simon &
Schuster; $2.75.)
Reviewed by
IRVING F. LASH.

For any one who has ever gambleo
or even had the urge, this is an
odds-on favorite to please. While
the book is properly classified as a
novel. it has all the tingle and
breeziness of a well-put-together
detective story.
Indeed. one of the principal
characters is detective named
Storm, a capable, likable, big fel.
low who became private eye
after retiring from professional
football. His quarry is a nifty psy-
chopathic case who answers to Ellen
Crane when she's using her right
name.
Ellen will bet on anything-a spin
of wheel, turn of card, roll of
the dice. nose of a horse-and
everything. A tragic love affair is
the reason. She's running away
from a mirage, so to speak, and try
ing to black out dream by losing
herself in the risk that goes with
gambling. It's really not the money,
but the principal of the thing.
The story opens with Ellen, a re-
luctant heiress, who doesn't want
the millions willed her, WEIGHING on
a big bet with a professional gam
bier. The gambler, who cuts king
to her queen while high-spading for
$500, puts "Shamus" Storm on her
trail.
The coast-to-coast chase, through
all sorts of gambling scenes, makes
a good thriller.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-08-24

HUIu.
Courtesy William Edwin Rudse.
of the island, to the September day
so years later when he called his
japanese wife and children to his
bedside in Tokyo and bid them
"Sayonara."
Hearns wanderings furnish the
framework for an exotic story. From
the sur-baked Greek island to
murky Dublin, thence to Wales after
his parents had separated, where he
was under the care of a strict Roman
Catholic great-aunt; London, Paris,
the United States, where he worked
on newspapers in Cincinnati and
New Orleans, followed by two years
in the French West Indies and then,
when he was nearing 40, his journey
to Japan, where he was to spend the
rest of his days And in all these
places it was the bizarre, the fotsam
and jetsam of big cities and faraway
places that Hern sought after. The
normal, the conventional dismayed
him; he was constantly restless and
yet always seeking peace. He found
it for time with Althea, mulatto,
in the poorer district of Cincinnati,
and with Cyrillia. in the West Indies,
but more than anywhere else with
Setsu, whom he married in Japan.
It was Setsu who created for the
restless wanderer surroundings that
enabled him to write his best books
and who in some measure appeased
his mortal hunger.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-08-24

nave been pupllShed: Henry Bam-
ford ParkeS' Recent America" (sec-
ond edition, 1943), Harvey Wishs
Contemporary America" and Eos
ter Rhea Dulles Twentieth Cen
tury America" (both 1945). Prof
Dumond now brings out revised
edition of his book under a different
title and Incorporates the events of
the last decade-a decade of crisis,
catastrophe and drastic change I'M
parallel in the West since the dis
solution of the Roman Empire.
The writing of contemporary his
tory is. VIGOROUSLY difficult and
controversial work. Prof. Du-
mond was nevertheless generally
thought to have done creditable
job, balanced and lucid in both
analysis and narrative, and inter-
preting the course of events from
the viewpoint of a moderate and
reasonable liberalism. The new edi-
ton, the author informs us, has
been completely reorganized";; the
material earlier than 1887 has in
deed been rearranged in Is chapters
instead of 10, and the sections con-
siderably juggled, with the addition
OF a few new passages and the
deletion of greater number of old
ones, usually those descending to
the greatest statistical or other de-
tail. But 1t remains essentially the
same book.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-08-24

The index of the 1887 volume in
cludes no entry for Hitler, Adolf
although he had been absolute in
Germany for four years and had all
ready matured his plans for a Nazi-
operated planet. The hundred-odd
pages now added to the older mate
rial are almost wholly concerned
with the impact of this evil genius
upon the America of the New Deal
But 100 pages out of SIT are too few
for the tangled and terrible story of
1937-1946. Chapter %, THE Road
to Victory" is an intolerably con-
gested recital of the thronging
events of our global war, such as
college students were expected to
memorize so or more years ago, but
hardly today. The result is not
balanced book, but hurried con-
clusion. =.
Prof. Dumonds liberalism per-
sists. however, possibly with exag-
geration. The late President Roose-
welt, he tells us in his summary.
was recognized everywhere on
earth as the greatest statesman of
his time" But this is absurd, for in
Chicago Roosevelt was described as
a criminal, in Moscow regarded as
dupe. BY his death "the liberals
were left once more. as in 1919, con-
fused, bewildered and without lead
ership." What, pray, is the value Of
a liberalism so easily and so per-
petually confused and bewildered?
Or of a leadership which conducts
to confusion and bewilderment?
President Roosevelt's greatness, let
us hope, does not depend upon
formulate of this sort.