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Milford chronicle., 1947-10-24

as the scene for the finals" in this
project designed to:
Seek 10 Pet. Improvement
Develop chicken with 10 per
cent more meat grown from 10 per
cent less feed;
Develop a chicken which will
grow faster, and produce a larger
portion of flesh to a minimum of
bone.
Over a period of two years of
cross-breeding and experimental
tion by the nation's leading poul-
trymen, 40 growers have produced
fowl which have attained the above
objectives.
Expect 10000 Eggs
And so it is that on March /, ap-
proximately 10000 eggs will reach
the university sub-station at
Georgetown.
Nearby hatcheries will be allotted
certain shares of the eggs, and on
March % or within short time
thereafter, all the chicks will be
brought to one location for raising.
Judging will be held on June 21
and %. On June %, the biggest and
best chicken will be exhibited, and
a $4,000 prize will go to the poultry
man responsible for its develop
ment.
The project at Georgetown will
be under the direction of Karl See
gar. of the university staff there. In
addition to national officials of the
Chicken of Tomorrow" contest
LEADING poultry growers of the ma
tion will attend the event.
Members of the state committee
to he host to the national groun are:
A. r Tomhave. chairman: w. G
Skoslund. Frank Gordv. John p. H
Lafferty, and Paul Hodgson, all o
Milford chronicle., 1947-10-24

Mrs. Will Workman, Seaford. was
the Sunday afternoon guest of Mrs.
Ella A. Warrington.
Mr. and Mrs. Othel Wyatt re-
turned Monday from vacationing in
Baltimore, Md, and from visiting
Mrs. Wyatt's sister and brother-in-
law, MIR. and Mrs. Stuart Moul, o:
Glen Rock Pa.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Workman
of Seaford, Mr.. and Mrs. Francis
Rogers and children, of Denton, and
. Mr. and Mrs. Dean Seely of Green
wood, were guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
Samuel Warrington on Sunday.
Milford chronicle., 1947-10-24
Magnets clear HighWays

Great strides have been made In
the use of magnets. writes Glib
Swanson in Capper's Farmer. Some
states employ magnetic road
sweepers to clear the highways Of
nails and other scrap. Magnets are
used by Gamers and food process
sors for screening out pins. wire,
basket clips and other foreign par
ticles. Flour and feed mills use mag
nets to "catch" stray metal. Doc
tors use small. powerful magnets
for removing tacks. pins. etc.. from
human lungs and stomach.
Milford chronicle., 1947-10-24

the University of Delaware; George
Bringhurst, State Board of Agricul-
ture in Dover; John Herholdt, state
board; Charles Marker, poultry
breeder and hatcheryman of Dover;
George Ellis, poultryman of Ocean
View; John Hammond, poultryman
of Bridgeville; Harold Short, poul-
tryman of Milford; and Edward Nc
Illvaine, poultryman of Millsboro.
Milford chronicle., 1947-10-24
u. of ID. Experimental
Station Chosen for
Top Poultry Project
Nations Best POuItrymen Will Con-
tribute Eggs in Effort to Hatch
Superior Chicken in Contest
Scheduled to End Next June p.
%

Disregarding the old saw about
counting chickens before they are
batched, the University of Delaware
disclosed this week that the worlds
biggest and best chicken will be
Matched in Georgetown next spring.
When it grows up, this bird will
be acclaimed as "The Chicken of
Tomorrow"
The attention of poultry growers
not only in the United States, but
throughout the world, will be
focused on the university's expert
mental sub-station at Georgetown
I for, more than three months next
year.
Eggs to Arrive March 1
On March 1, eggs grown on the
farms of 40 top poultry breeders OF
the nation will arrive at the sub
station for Matching.
These eggs will represent the, best
efforts Of pouItrynen who have
emerged after two years as regional
winners and top contestants in
state contests in the Chicken Of
Tomorrow" projects.
The national contest committee
yesterday in washington, D. G.
chose the Delaware experiment sta
I tion ahead of other competing areas
in Virginia, Illinois, and Georgia
Milford chronicle., 1947-10-24
they own Their Homes

There are now 21.744. 1913 owner
occupied homes in the United
States, according to the National
Association Of Real Estate boards.
The owners paid a total Of $66. 6.S21..
079 for the houses.
Milford chronicle., 1947-10-24

The first class of pilots to be gra-
duated from West : oint completed
its work May 81. 1943.
Evening star., 1947-02-23

nearly 40 years to accumulate.
T had a grandmother adjudged to
be dying of cancer. I had father
adjudged by society as a pompous
and. treacherous scapegrace. had
3-year-old sister and a mother
who lay in childbed without security.
without assurance for the future,
without promise of a better year
her young life torn into ribbons.
her ears accepting no whisper Of
comfort except such prayers as her
own condemned mother might pro-
vide"
Yet, among neighbors of deep
American stamp. in community
in which pioneers who had survived
the Indian warfare and the bitter
trials of early settlement constituted
the aristocracy, whatever their
economic or even moral status, these
Ihandicaps were overcome and the
boy achieved success at home and
abroad. There should be much in
the book to teach educators, minis
tiers of the gospel, reformers Of every
stripe, newspaper editors and poll
ticians. 1t is a confession and a
boast.
1t is an interesting thing to read
what a man who, as a war cores
pondent, flew in combat with the
Royal Air Force and the Sth
Air Force in the Second World War,
remembers (and how keenly) OF
childhood in a Midwestern small
town which, with the spirit which
characterized its history, called it
self a city.
Evening star., 1947-02-23

them to make ready and he would
marry them from the window. The
service performed, he wished them
good luck and good night and re-
quested them to leave the fee under
the front door. Sure enough in the
morning he found tucked under the
door two shillings and sixpence.
"On another occasion, from the
same neighborhood a couple called
about noon. They were invited into
the parlor and we're married. The
usual command, Salute your bride,
was given. When the young man
acted in an ignorant manner, which
showed that he did not comprehend
the command, DR.. Balch called out,
Kiss your bride. ,"
DR.. Balch's wit was not confined to
any particular occasion. Once when
performing the last rites for a man
who apparently was without virtue,
DR.. Balch made general remarks
upon the solemnity of death and
concluded: "I deem it my duty, in
this sad hour, to say of the departed
that we were schoolmates and finer
mathematician did not know"
Meeting a Methodist minister who
complained to DR.. Balch that he was
i'll on Saturday but well enough on
Evening star., 1947-02-23
Brief Reviews
Novels

THE ABRUPT SELF, by Davic
Martens. Harpers) A book entirely
composed of a mans reflections or
his inner self, supposedly as tolc
through friend. Sums up rather
tritely.
WELCOME WILDERNESS, by
Grace Tomkinson. (Washburn.) A
novel based on pioneering in the
bleak Canadian maritime provinces
in the years following the Revolu-
ton. Worthy.
SHOD WITH FLAME, by Heller
Topping Miller. (Bobbs MillerD Ty-
pical Miller romance. set in Civil
War period. Four women struggle
for one man.
ANOTHER LOVE, ANOTHER
SPRING, by B. P. Sawdon and P
Wansborough. Samuel Curl) Wal
romance about a young Englishmar
who has lost one French lover anc
finds another. Routine.
Evening star., 1947-02-23
The War Between the States
Kept Vivid in Retrospect

BUT LOOK, THE MORN (the
Story of a Childhood)
BY MacKinlay Kantor. (ColD-
ard-McCann; $780,
Reviewed by
HOMER JOSEPH DODGE.
Here south of the Mason and
Dixon Line, it is usual experience
to hear spirited discussions con-
cerning The War. And, of course,
no one save an outlander has any
doubt as to what war is the subject.
But it is a little unusual and some
what refreshing to find that at
least in the boyhood of a now
middle-aged man, The War was as
ardently discussed in the distant,
Northern land of Iowa and that
there, too, a veteran would shoulder
crutch and show how fields were
won. The War is not the exclusive
heritage of the South. And it
doubtless is as true as it was in
the boyhood of MacKinlay Kantor
of Webster City, Iowa, that The
War is closer to the generations
alive today than the Great Wars
of the Goth century will be to the
generations an equal distance in the
future.
"But Look, the Morn" which takes
its title from Hamlet" is a
story of early hardship. 1T was
not exactly a riotous and light
hearted household into which l was
born. had grandfather who was
angrily engaged in losing the tiny
fortune which it had taken him
Evening star., 1947-02-23
Intimate CImpses Of Alexander Graham Bell

He was SO hard to awaken that he
often stayed UP all night to keep
an early morning appointment. His
eyes were very sensitive to light. He
used to wind a heavy bath towel
around his head to keep the light
out. When he first awakened, II
his shades were raised too suddenly,
he would get a violent headache, and
be useless for the rest Of the day.
Charles Thompson, our butler and
my fathers valet, usually was in
trusted with the task of getting him
up.
On one occasion my father was
one of a delegation appointed to be
at the Navy Yard at 10 am. to re-
ceive the remains Of j. L. M. Smith
son, an Englishman who endowed
the Smithsonian Institution. Buried
In Italy, Prof. Smithson's re-
mains were to be removed to
another grave to make way for
a new building. Father felt that
Prof. Smithson had not received
fitting recognition for the great con-
tribution he had made to this coun-
try and carried on long and ardu-
GUS fight to have the body brought
here for burial with proper cere-
monies. His efforts finally prevailed
and Prof. Smithson;s remains were
arriving in the United States under
naval escort.
Outstretched Fingers Begged
For S Minutes More Sleep
Charles always called father
few minutes earlier than necessary
and he invariably thrust out his
hand with five fingers outstretched,
pleading for five more minutes. On
this particular morning Charles
called him at 9 o'clock.
why are you calling me at 8
o'clock?" father asked. Il didn't
go to bed until four"
Charles explained that father was
being called SO that he would have
time to dress and eat breakfast
before going to the Navy Yard for
his appointment.
Navy Yard? Nonsense. Why
have got to be at the Navy Yard?"
Because you are one of the
regents of the Smithsonian and
must be in the funeral procession
of Prof. Smithson," Charles ex-
planned.
Charles, Charles" my father
cried. ARE you crazy? Smithson
has been dead these so years and
why should he have to torture me
now about his funeral?" Then he
turned over and inquired, HAS he
come back?"
Charles called him IS minutes
later. He finally arose, dressed and
left-on time for the funeral-but
stoutly denying that he had ever
made those remarks.
Distributed by the Associated Press)
Evening star., 1947-02-23

hardships of hunger and despera-
ton.
w. S. Jackson is responsible for
several stories on the old doctor, who
recalls that: HE was a friend of
Georgetown College in it's infancy,
and was a frequent visitor to the
institution and often dined with the
priests of Catholic Trinity Church. -
Another DR.. Balch story goes
like this:
"On one occasion this worthy man
related that a couple from Cooney-
district on the south side of the
Potomac, mostly inhabited by the
laboring classes and called Cooney
Neck-called at his house at mid
night. He had retired to his bed
room, and as he undressed prepara-
tory to lying down, he heard rap
at the front door. He raised the
window and was Informed that a
couple at the door desired to be
united in wedlock. He requested
Evening star., 1947-02-23

that he first recognized the possibil-
tiles of the telephone.
How well I remember the beauty
with which father could play almost
any piece. My son, Melville Bell
Grosvenor, as small boy used to
stand by the hour, night after night,
turning the pages for his grand
father and listening rapturously. As
the hour grew late, the rest Of the
family would tip-toe off to bed, leav-
ing our doors open, to be soothed
to sleep by the vigorous, feeling
tones.
Not only did his passion for music
keep him awake until the small
hours: He did most of his intel.
lectual work at night also, when he
could concentrate uninterrupted
AS q consequence he never arose
until 1890 or II o'clock in the morn
ing.
He was the soundest sleeper J
have ever known. 1t was practically
impossible to waken him until he
had his sleep out. He used to tel
me that if he was working on 8
particularly intricate problem he
would get it clearly in his mind be.
fore going to sleep and would fine
it solved subconsciously when he
aWoke in the morning.
Evening star., 1947-02-23

Sunday to preach against Calvin
ism, DR.. Balch replied: Then, BROTH
er, Saturday was your best day"
Perhaps of special interest are the
CHURCH records of 18o5-1SoS which
gives the names of the following
pew holders: James Calder, David
English, Jonathan Finley, Eleanor
Curlan, William Knowles, Benjamin
Betterton, Clephane Make, Joseph
Wheaton, Mrs. Templeman, Alex
ander Carmichael, William King,
John Baltzer, William Thompson,
Jasper M. Jackson, Christian Kurtz
John Banks, Sarah CruickshankS
Nathan Loughbors, Francis Clarke
Robert Ober, Nichols Hedges, Rich
ard Elliott, jeremiah Mosher, John
Craven, Daniel Reintzel, Daniel Bus
sard, Joseph Bromley, John Heugh
Francis Dodge, Whetzel, Ezekiel
King, John Mafit, Andrew Ross,
William Crawford, John Laird, Sar-
ah Suter, Edgar Patterson, James
A. Morsel, c. P. Polk, Joshua Daw-
son, George Thompson, Mrs. George
French, Thomas Beall of George,
David Peter, John Peter of Tudor
Heights, William Whann, James
Melvin, Jane White, Charles Love
James Dunlop, sr., and David Wiley
Much Interest Centers
In Church Graveyard y
OF course, of much interest in
connection with this old church is
the graveyard that the congregation
laid out about 1902, at which date
the property of the cemetery and
adjoining lots was conveyed to Rev
S. B. Balch, pastor, and Thomas
Corcoran, George Thompson, Will
liam Whann, James Melvin, John
Cruikshank, James Calder, Chris
tian Kurtz, John Peter, David Eng
lish and Henry Knowles, members
of the Presbyterian congregation
of Georgetown, for the exclusive use
of the Presbyterian Church in
Georgetown, adhering to the con-
fession of faith of the Presbyterian
Church in the United States OF
America, and to her presbyteries,
synods and general assemblies"
In this connection, w. B. Bryan
tells us: THE first death in the
new city of a member of Congress
occurred March II, 1902, when Mai
worthy Hunter, a Delegate from the
Territory of Mississippi, passed
away. The members of the two
houses of Congress, their officers
and the heads of departments
walked in procession from the house
where he died, one Of the six build
ings at Pennsylvania avenue and
Twenty first street"
DR.. Balch was strong in the belief
that man should not live alone, and
so, when Elizabeth, his first wife
died, he married another Elizabeth,
though he was then in his 83d year.
She died soon afterward. When he
married the widow Parrott, he was
then in his 85th year.
The good doctor died September
%, 1888, and mural tablet placed
in the chapel of Oak Hill Cemetery
to his memory, by w. w. Corcoran,
ends with these words: I'm life he
practiced what he preached. No
eulogy can add to such a record"
Evening star., 1947-02-23
Weather Chief Tells How to Make Rain
In New Book on Use of Atomic Enerqy
By Malcolm Lomborne, Jr.

Rain making by atomic energy
may be just around the corner, but
when it comes it will present some
ticklish problems of control.
This is the view of Ivan r. Tame
hill, chief of the Weather Bureaus
Division of Synoptic Reports ano
Forecasts, who recently published a
book, through the Princeton Uni
versity Press, entitled Drought, Its
Causes and Effects"
Producing artificial rain, Mr.
Tannehill points cut, could result in
one country stealing another ma
tion's rainfall.
At the beginning or the end OF q
period of drought, relatively slight
amount of energy applied at the
right time and place might cause
rain-producing system to develop
That such control is possible in the
future is open to little question,
the weather expert declares.
He predicts that the next great
drought will bring insistent demands
from all sides that atomic energy
be used to produce rain.
When this period has beer
reached, Mr.. Tannehill adds, We
will need broad and effective regu.
latory measures to make sure thai
changes which are advantageous te
one area will not be allowed to pro-
duce disasters in other areas.
For instance, he points out thai
study has shown that the same
reservoir of moist air supplies rair
to both the United States and Can
ada, and that we get more rain
Canada gets less. "Since most o1
the wet winds move from the south
it would be possible for the United
States to steal Canada's rain," he
asserts.
Observers wonder II all this isn't
a problem that will have to be
placed in the hands of the Atomic
Energy Commission and perhaps
eventually referred to the United
Nations-particularly If it comes te
squabbling over rain.
Turning to 1947. DR.. Tannehil
makes some disquieting observations
on possible recurrence of drought
TT is an ominous fact that 1947 is
Just II years, one sunspot cycle
from the central year of the great
national droughts of the 30s." he
declares.
His studies in the sunspot field
has convinced Mr.. Tannehill there
is a relation between droughts and
Evening star., 1947-02-23

This time we were going to the
Supreme Court. He told me that a
man was trying to prove that father
had not invented the telephone, and
he thought I would like to hear the
testimony. But he also knew of my
great belief in him, and cautioned
me:
"No matter what is said about
me, no matter what names people
call me, if they call me a liar or
thief, you must keep absolutely
quiet"
Nobody would think of saying
such things about you, papa" I re-
piled.
will you promise?" he insisted
Case Is Thrown Out d.,
Of Supreme Court
I promised, and thereupon was
dressed in my Sunday best and was
driven with my father and mother
to the Capitol. where the Supreme
Court was sitting. 1t was every Bit
as bad as father said it might be
and I was righteously indignant
But he had extracted a promise
from me and I just had to sit anC
let my wrath well up inside. What
infuriated me most was that the
attorney who represented my father
and the telephone company JUS
talked in cool, calm manner, with.
out saying a word about the thing.
the other lawyers had called papa
I felt the trial - was being badl.
mismanaged and, although m!
father seemed perfectly satisfied,
couldn't understand it. NY .fathe,
was vjndicated when the case wa
thrown out by the Supreme Court
One thing the telephone suit did
it made my father an invererat'
preserver of notes . laborator,
notes home notes . copies O.
| iCIUClo AlC N1OOS 1SPAASo. 1A4VS
his death we found piles upo1
piles of worthless letters and pa
pers-all as carefully preserved a.
the most valuable autographed let
terS
Another story like to recount i
one told me by Mr.. j. A. D. Nc
Curdy, a close friend of father
at Baddeck, in Cape Breton, Nov;
Scotia. One summer my father ano
mother set out to find summel
home. On the course of their tril
they visited Baddeck and fell il
love with the place, which reminded
my father of Scotland, his native
land. Later Baddeck became the
family summer home.
AS Mr.. McCurdy relates the story
father was walking past the Cape
Breton Island Reporter one day ano
noticed a man inside endeavoring to
repair a wall telephone. He turned
Evening star., 1947-02-23
Santa Claus Message
Comes by Telephone

One of my earliest childhood men,
ories is when my father awakened
me and said Santa Claus wanted tc
talk to me on the telephone. I was
so small that I had to stand on a
chair to reach the telephone on the
wall remember my surprise when
I heard a voice say:
"Is this Elsie?" And when I ans
wered that it was, hearing:
This is Santa Claus"
'Is it really Santa CLAUSE" asked
The voice answered: Eyes, it il
really Santa Claus. I'm up in Green
land"
Have you really got reindeer and
are you coming down here?"
After telling him what I wanted
I climbed down from the chair and
turned TO my father in a daze
Isn't it wonderful to be able tc
talk to Santa CLAUSE" I said. My
the telephone is a wonderful thing
I wonder who invented it. Do you
know, father?"
was thunder-str when hi
told me that he had invented 1t
In school one day several year:
ago the teacher told me father hac
asked that I be excused. He otter
took me with him on business calls
Evening star., 1947-02-23

IL mission over Bremen the
night of September Is, 1912,
scored a direct hit on Eman-
uel Leutze's copy of his vital paint
ing, washington Crossing the Della
ware" A postwar Berlin dispatch
revealed that the painting, once
planned for the Capitol Building
here and valued at approximately
$24 900, was in the Kunsthale Cart
gallery when a bomb destroyed the
structure.
The original Crossing" is the
property of the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York City
and it has remained there since it
was acquired in 1897.
The copy was damaged in fire,
but Leutze retouchetl it and sold it
to the German government. Later
it was hung in the Bremen gallery
where it remained until its de-
struction.
No historical painting is better
known to American school children.
Colored prints of it adorn school,
room walls. In history textbooks the
heroic figure of Gen. Washington
standing in the prov of the small
boat, the flag ian anachronism)
flying in the breezes, and his faith
full crew rowing the boat through the
treacherous ice foes, catch the
imagination, endearing the picture
to school children throughout the
Nation.
Leutze was born in Gmund, Wurt-
temberg, May "a, 1916. He was
brought to America when quite
small. The family first settled in
Fredericksburg, Va, but soon moved
to Philadelphia, where Emanuel
began his training. At an. early
age he won recognition for his por-
trait and figure pieces. In lS41,
when Is, he went to Europe to study
with Karl Friedrich Lessing in Dus-
seldorf. During his 20 years in Ger
many he turned his attention to
historical painting. Among series
Evening star., 1947-02-23
By Amelia MocFoyden

of compositions dealing with Amer
lean life was that of washington
Crossing the Delaware" His studio
in Dusseldorf overlooked the Rhine
and the ice foes on that river served
as models for those depicted in the
painting.
With mis- wife, the daughter OF g
German Army officer, Leutze re-
turned to the United States in 1885
and divided his time between Wash
ington and New York City. In 1861
he was commissioned by Congress
to decorate stairway in the Capitol
for which he painted a large COM
position westward the Star o1
Empire Takes It's Way" Another
work Cromwell and Milton" is
owned by the Corcoran Gallery.
Leutze died here July 18, 1868, al
Evening star., 1947-02-23
THE SUNDAY STAR, Washington, D. c.
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY -. Isz.
A Noted astor
By John CIoqett Proctor

who was Mrs. Jane Parrott of
Easton, Nd, at the time she married
DR.. Balch.
Though devout Christian and
clergyman of distinction, DR.. Balch
was always of cheerful disposition,
even when at times in his early
pastorate he had to overcome the
Evening star., 1947-02-23

the age of So. The Evening Star
of July 20, 1868, in commenting on
his paintings states that ''he will be
best remembered by his picture OF
the Battle of Monmouth & ." How
ever, Washington Crossing the
Delaware" evidently, with the pass
ing of the years, has added to the
hero worship Gen. Washington In
spires, and today biographers con-
slider this his greatest work.
Evening star., 1947-02-23

sunspot activity. We are now ap-
preaching a period of maximum
activity in sunspots, he says.
The scientist says it's probable
that droughts will be widespread
during the next few years. But
thanks to what he calls "billion
dollar rain" over the United States
last April, and to heavy SHOWS this
winter, soil moisture in this country
will afford some protection should
we have bad dry spells this year.
Mr. Tannehill's book goes into
detail on this sunspot theory which
he says offers hope in the predic-
ton and control of rainfall.