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Smyrna times., 1948-11-04
SMYRNA AND VICINITY

Mrs. Alice Bailey is visiting Mrs.
Laura Temple.
Miss Dora Wilds, of Dover,
stopped over with Miss Bertha
Smithers Monday evening, on her
return from Philadelphia, where
she had been attending the Peace
Jubilee.
Miss Maie FAIRIES, who is assist
ing her brother, DR.. Clarence T.
FAIRIES, at Narbeth, Pa, is home on
a short visit.
Roland Bell spent Sunday with
his sister, Mrs. L. Irving Handy, at
Newark, Del.
DR.. w. F. Goodwin and daughter,
Mamie made the family of R. D.
Hoffecker a short visit last week,
while enroute from Milford to their
home at Reistertown, near Balti-
more, Md.
Mr., Abel Taylor, one of our we'll
known citizens, has accepted a pos
ition in the Clarksville, Tenn.
branch of the Atlantic Snuff Co. of
which Mr.. B. A. HAZEL is manager,
and left on Monday to enter upon
his duties. He will be followed by
his wife in few weeks.
Mrs. Katherine Deakyne and son
Oscar, of Brooklyn, N. Y, came
last week, guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
John Cesgriff. Mr.. Oscar Deakyne
returned Monday morning and left
his mother here to make visit.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, editor of
the American Union, of Denton,
Md, accompanied by his wife spent
Sunday in Smyrna, guests of Mr..
and Mrs. Isaac Pennewill.
II. B. Grieves, G. B. Raymond,
Benton Denney, and George M.
Stevenson, members of Harmony
Lodge No. 13, A. F. and A. NJ, ac-
companied by c. H. LeFevre, a
Pennsylvania Mason, visited Union
Lodge, No. z, of Dover last evening
to witness the raising of their
friend, DR.. Frank Layton Grier,
formerly of Smyrna. After the
meeting of the lodge, the Smyrna
contingency were entertained at
Smiths restaurant.
]. Nelson Patton, Chief Quarter
Smyrna times., 1948-11-04
The Smyrna Times
eshone 52zl SMYRNA. DELAWARE

Founded by Robert D. Hoffecker. July 5.
1854. Editor and Proprietor until Feb
ruary 10. 1907.
Owned and Published by Robert ID. Hof-
fecker. Jr.. from February 10. 1907 to
December "a. 1889
Published Every Thursday Morning by
The Smyrna Times. Inc. 25 Commerce
Street. Smyrna, Del.
w. Lester Smith. Manager
ADVERTISEMENTS = The Smyrna Times
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Entered as End class matter March Is,
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in advance.
Smyrna times., 1948-11-04
FARMERS ELECT
C. A. OFFICERS
New Castle County AssOcia-
tiOn Names Committees
and Officers
PROGRAM BENEFITS ALL

Mr.. B. t. Hopkins, Chairman of
the New Castle County Agricultur-
al Conservation Association has
just issued a statement to the pub
lie setting forth the list of men
elected to serve on the County and
Community Committees. The pur-
pose of the Agricultural Conserva-
tion Program is to aid the farmer
in improving the land and thereby
increasing production for the bene-
fit of all. The Committee appreci-
ates the interest taken by the
farmer, in this election, in spite of
it being their busy season. 1t
speaks for a Community of wide
awake men who are tilling the soil,
and interested in a Program plan
ned for their benefit and the better
ment of the whole Country. A list
of the men elected to serve the best
interest of the various Communi-
ties follows: County Committee
and officers: Chairman, Barton T.
New Castle; vice chair
man, Jay Price, Middletown; Reg.
w. Steel Atwell, Newark;
First Alternate, Warren j. Phillips,
Smyrna times., 1948-11-04

Illustration at right
shows that boeteriu
have grown right up
to and on untreoied
clothes. These germs
cause decay of per-
spirotion the chief
eoUse Of offensive
clothing body odors,
Smyrna times., 1948-11-04

No. 2: Chairman, Harvey Ogden,
Kirkwood; Vice Chairman. Charles
Laws, Bear; Reg. Member, Francis
Stafford, Newark; First Alternate,
Ralph Vannoy, Newark; Second
Alternate, Raymond Dasher, Bear.
Community No. 8: Chairman, Her
man Cochran, Middletown; Vice
Chairman, Victor P. Kohl, Middle
town; Reg. Member, William Price,
Middletown; First Alternate, Fred
Brady, Middletown; Second Alter
nate, Howard Crothers, Middle
Smyrna times., 1948-11-04

Wilmington; Second Alternate, w.
Morris Collins, Townsend, Secre-
tary, Mrs. Arzie P. Lewis, Newark;
Treasurer, Mrs. Ruth E. O'Bier,
Newark. Community Committee
men: Community No. 1: Chair
man, Henry c. Mitchell, Hockessin;
Vice Chairman, Calvin Ball, Mar
shallton; Reg. Member, ]. Walker
Pennington, Marshallton; First AL
ternate, Warren ]. Phillips, Will
mington; Second Alternate, Ralph
Klair, Marshallton. Community
Smyrna times., 1948-11-04

Master on the U. S. Steamship Sat
urn stopped in Smyrna last week,
guest of the family of DR.. C. o.
Swinney on a short furlough en-
route to New York where he will
spend a week or so with his par
ents.
Smyrna times., 1948-11-04
A Plurality of 100000 Votes

In the Presidential election of
1896 William Mckinley, the Repub-
lican candidate, had six hundred
thousand plurality of votes over his
democratic opponent, William Jen-
nings Bryan of Nebraska.
Smyrna times., 1948-11-04

town. Community No. A: Chair
man, Frederick E. Bell, Townsend;
Vice Chairman, George Shahan,
Townsend; Reg. Member, Charles
2. Dukes, Townsend; First Alter
nate, Edward H. Slaughter, Town
send; Second Alternate, Benjamin
Gibbs, Middletown.
Smyrna times., 1948-11-04

parties won two Presidential elec-
tions each, but in neither of these
elections did the winning party poll
a majority of the popular vote.
Smyrna times., 1948-11-04
Uruguay's Economy

The economy Of Uruguay Is bas-
ed on cattle and sheep raising.
This country supplies Is to 18 per
cent of the worlds exports in these
fields.
Smyrna times., 1948-11-04

Republicans and Democrats Tie
In the calendar period 1SS0-1892
the Republican and Democratic
Smyrna times., 1948-11-04
SMYRNA DOINGS
OF so YEARS AGO
Notes of Marriages, Deaths
and Matters of Interest
of Half Century Ago
80 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK

Taken from our old files Of
corresponding week, as near
date OF this issue as possible
Fifty Years Ago. This column,
aow a regular feature of the
Times, will call to mind people
and events of the older genera
rion.
Smyrna times., 1948-11-04

Where carbide is present in iron
it is hard and brittle.
Smyrna times., 1948-11-04
There ought to a law against it!
Don't let it happen to you

right against automobile
thing to bring it out Roth
wells Garage ande e S it in shape for
Don't let that car let down. Re-
long haven't tried lately.
S right Plymouth Dodge Quality
specialize make of We fix and all
haven't fixed lately Stanley Steamer
those we had bucketun of steam
put Model back the road And
he trucks He and Dutch
half century of the
remember them from back
their acquaintance You all
that they the best this
haven't don't forget
vced for And don't forget to fill with antreeze It's
much fun picking radiator the old
continuing special
SO 54-1OO
If a man hang up
ROTHWELL'S GARAGE, Inc.
SMYRNA, DELAWARE
1851
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his ease on the wall of a fountain
while a barber shaves him and cuts
his hair?
I enjoyed both of these delights
today. was walking along Queens
Way. rubbing shoulders with hun
dreds Of other pedestrians, when
a bearded and turbaned gentleman
tapped me on the shoulder and
said, Your feet, Sahib?"
Why Suffer? g
I didn't catch on at first. but
then I read the lettering ON the
black satchel he was carrying. 1t
said: "Corns and bunions treated
Immediately. Why suffers Select
clientele and moderate prices"
"Where?" I asked. never dream
ing that the treatment would be
administered on the spot:
DR.. Whiskers led me to the
edge of the sidewalk. babe me sit
down, and before I could say, Hey
wait minute, joe" he had pulled
of bmy shoes, removed my socks
and was hard at work on my feet
1 felt slightly conspicuous. My feet
are very graceful, to be sure, but
not so graceful that / want them
treated before thousands Of In
dams. I needn't have worried
though. No one so much as gave
me a glance as the chiropodist
squatting in the street, gave my
tootsies a thorough going over
The flnal touch was a massage
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the surface. Many millions of citi-
zens in the Soviet Union and the
satellite countries would give any,
thing to escape from the Soviet
Communist heaven" and live in
what Moscow describes as a cap
italistic hell.
The cases of the Russian teachers
in New York, who were handpicked
by the MVD (secret police for their
work in the United States and care
fully screened for loyalty before
being sent abroad, are typical. Fur
ther light is shed on the lot of the
common people behind the Iron
Curtain by the efforts of a number
of Soviet bloc athletes - equally
handpicked-to remain in the West
ern countries. 1t should be empha-
sized that athletes in the totalitar-
ian countries participate in sports
by the consent of their governments
and are permitted to compete only
if their Communist record is good
Thousands of Deserters.
western military autn0rltleS . 90
not mention the fact that thousands
of Soviet officers and soldiers are
deserving from the Soviet army and
coming over to us. In the days
when we were trying to placate
Moscow by every possible means the
Allied high command in Germany
returned those deserters to the Rus
sian authorities. They were paraded
before Russian military formations
in the advanced areas to show other
would-be deserters that America
sends such persons back to be shot.
The British were less strict about
returning those whom they had
screened and found to be deserters
in good faith.
In recent months we have been
more lenient about permitting Rus
sian deserters to remain with us,
and the number of assertions to the
American zone Of Germany has
increased. That Is one Of the rea-
sons why the Soviet general staff
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On the Other Hand
Thomas Committee Method Not
Practical Way to Catch Spies

work, following up the lead you had
given.
1t would not call in the press or
hold public hearing and broad
cast your accusation. That would
be telling the alleged spy and the
members of his alleged ring all you
knew. That would be helping the
guilty parties, if any, to cover up;
giving them an opportunity to erase
their tracks, destroy the evidence,
bury the bodies. Instead, every pre-
caution would be taken to prevent
the suspect from knowing he was
suspected until the time came to
make arrests, with the evidence in
hand to convict.
That Is the simple q, b, c of Gov
eminent security work. It is ele-
mental In criminal investigations.
For example, when a bank examiner
finds something wrong in the books
Of a bank he doesn't set up q public
hullabaloo, naming the immediate
suspect. He and his colleagues 60
through the banks whole operation
with a fine tooth comb, seeking to
learn, among other things, whether
any higher-ups are involved. If
any are, they are not tipped of that
it Is time for them to take flight.
The Way 1t Is Done.
That's the way 1t is done when
Government agencies are being
practical. In fact, that's the way
it was done when Miss Elizabeth
Bentley carried her tale to the FBI
three years ago.
1t is hard to believe that the I'm
American Committee is too stupid
to understand this. 1t is easier to
believe that the committee does
understand and that its real pur-
pose therefore is not to expose and
round up any dangerous spy rings,
but simply to smear the political
opposition.
But whatever Is eventually proved.
the committee has made it clear
once again that 1t doesn't wait until
1t has the truth before 1t starts
blackening regulations. - !
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OloAtd4 41SIlto All Av"NAs ANosAUsss
purposes of its own. Those are not
things one should forget. to be sure,
but do it now Just for the sake Of
argument.
The House Un-American Activi-
ties Committee justif1es its behavior
on the ground that the country Is
threatened by a conspiracy Of do
nestle and foreign spies and that
the committee is taking the only
practical means of circumventing
these enemies. Here again you will
have to do some forgetting. You'll
have to forget not only that the
committees exposures" relate to
happenings during the recent war,
not to happenings OF today, but also
that nothing harmful to the war ef-
fort or other national interest &C
tually occurred. Military and poll
cy secrets we're protected and we
won the war.
Is 1t Practical?
Is the committees method of
tracking down spies a practical one,
regardless of all other considera-
tons? N 3" d.
It differs from the methods Used
by the FBI, the Army and Navy
intelligence services and the United
States\ Secret Service. II you,
whether you were q reformed Com
munist or just a lifelong patriotic
citizen, told any one of those agen-
cies that so-and-so was to your
personal knowledge a spy, you would
be thanked and admonished rot to
tell another soul. The agency, the
FBI or whatever, would then 90 to
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iron willed gentlemen, it is re-
peatedly demonstrated, will toler-
ate no deviation by the Wallace
party from the Communist line.
The result is that politicians here
are satisfied that Mr.. Wallace is
losing ground and will continue to
do so. They predict that lie will
poll substantially less than the five
to six million votes he claims.
The outstanding example of the
practical effect of the Wallace party
remains Illinois. There unusually
qualified Democratic nominees for
Governor and Senator, Adlai Stew
enson and Paul Douglas, will prob
ably be beaten by Chicago Tribune
henchmen because the Wallace
party has entered candidates against
them.
Reporters have taxed Mr.. Walla ace
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Hews to Party Line
Disillusioned Liberals Learning
How Wallace Party Aids Reaction

with the case OF his old friend. Mr.
Douglas, and he tucked. VIVA,
happens when his supporters try
to inform him Of dirty work at the
crossroads by the Communists In
his party is related by william M
Murphy, the regularly Endorsed
Democratic candidate for the House
in the 3lst District of New York
Mr.. Murphy, a, Harvard PhD., Is
associate professor of English a.
Union College, Schenectady.
described as militant New
Dealer, he has been active in COM
munity affairs and last year made
many speeches deploring the United
States Russian drift toward war
Last December, at Mr.. Murphy's in
vitation, Mr.. Wallace spoke In
Schenectady and the two were pho
tographed together.
But when the Wallace third party
set up shop in his district in the
American Labor Party framework
Mr.. Murphy found it insisting that
Russia could do no wrong, America
was to blame for everything, a point
of view he emphatically rejected
1t also attacked the Marshall Plan
which he supports.
Explaining that II did not see
how we could be supporting the
same man." Mr.. Murphy wrote Mr.
Wallace about the situation. An
answer came from John Abt de-
claring that Wallace's views were
substantially" the same as Mr.
Murphy's.
(Abt is q former CLIO employe
and reputedly a card-carrying Com
munist. He was one of the plat.
form maestros at Philadelphia who
sac to it that no single note critical
Of Russia, not even the hapless pro-
Tito Macedonians, got into the
third party symphony
Mr.. Murphy noted regretfully that
Mr.. Wallace made no attempt to
reconcile the local group to his
views. This spring, Mr.. Murphy
was suggested to the Democrats
as House candidate certain to win
labor and liberal support and the
county organization Endorsed him
Wallace-ites Get Busy.
The Wallace-ites got busy. The
night the Democrats Endorsed Mr.
Murphy, the left-wing United Elec.
trical Workers local which virtually
controls the ALP-Wallace set-up In
the district, met and Endorsed Its
president, Andrew J. Peterson, as
an Independent Democratic candi-
date. Later the ALP and Wallace.
ties Endorsed Mr.. Peterson also.
The anti-Communist Liberal Party
has Endorsed Mr.. Murphy. He states
that ALP made some overtures tc
him but specified that he must &c
down the line with them on every
point, which he refused to do.
Disturbed Wallace admirers have
written Mr.. Wallace, with copies tt
his campaign managers, c. B. Bald.
win, Elmer Benson and Rex Tugwell
explaining the situation and asking
him to get Mr.. Peterson out Of the
race.
/ The rest is silence.
The New York primaries art
August "a. If Mr.. Peterson wins
the ALP. will have captured TIT
Democratic Party. II Mr. Murph.
wins, Mr.. Peterson will still run OF
the ALP ticket and split the vote
In short, the Republican incumbent
Representative Kearney, can't lose
Sic semper Wallace.
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This Changing World
Millions Behind Iron Curtain Hope
For Way to Escape Communist Heaven

has ordered frequent rotation of
units in the advanced areas and
has replaced White Russian, Co.'S
sack and Ukrainian divisions with
Mongols and other troops from
Asiatic Russia. The latter are less
likely to appreciate life in the West.
During the war, and particularly
while the Soviet armies were re-
treating before the Nazis, the num-
Der of assertions to the Germans
was greater than in any other war
and IN any other army. Although
it was necessary to describe the
army of Gen. Vlasov, whom the
Soviet had decorated for bravery,
as a phantom army organized by
the Nazis for propaganda purposes,
it Is known that it was nearly a
million strong.
When the Germans entered the
Ukraine they were received as lib
orators by the population. But for
tunately for us the unbelievable
stupidity of Hitler and his Gestapo
and SIS troops turned into complete
failure what might have been a
tremendous advantage for the Nazis.
Treated as inferior Race"
In spite of the protests of some
German generals the Ukrainians
were treated as an inferior race"
broWbeaten and handled like the
worst enemies of the Reich. Thus,
they discovered that the Germans
were no better than the Russians
and turned against their liberia
tors" The organization of Ukran-
ian underground, which cut off the
NaziS' lines of communication, con-
tributed as much as anything else
to the defeat of Hitler's armies: at
Stalingrad. The men of Gen.
Vlasov's army were poorer fighters,
because of the Nazis' overbearing
attitude, than they otherwise would
have been.
Conditions in the U. s. 8. r. and
the satellite countries have grown
worse as far as the rank and file of
the population are concerned. No
revolutions are possible So long as
the people, who are not allowed to
have even a shotgun, remain under
the tight control of more than
$4,000 heavily armed MVD agents,
privileged persons who live on the
fat of the land and are interested
chiefly in the preservation of the
police state in their own interest.
The carefully guarded Iron Cur
tain makes it impossible for reyolu-
tionaries from outside to, penetrate
Russia and start campaign to
overthrow the government. But
the recent assertions from the
Soviet ranks, which worry the Rus
slams because they mean a loss of
face, are evidence Of a discomfort
which indicates how the Russian
and satellite peoples still yearn for
freedom and liberation from Soviet
totalitarianism.
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with something out of q bottle
labeled Cobra Oil" The cost:
Two rupees-roughly so cents.
The barber got hold Of me about
half an hour later He, too. sported
a black satchel. When I agreed to
have him work on me he led me to
big fountain, with granite walls
and water playing from a center
spout. He couldn't get to work i'm
mediately, because the wall was
packed with earlier customers. AS
soon as there was room he sat me
down, opened his kit, swung his
razor in the water tmuch to the
danger OF the goldfish swimming
there) and lathered me up. His
razor. which I am sure was BIC
model. peeled rather than cut. His
stroke was much fuller than the
one used by Bobby Jones in his
prime. and to add to my discomfort
he frequently turned his head to
talk to nearby BARRIERS while work
ing on me.
Nearly Scalped.
What he did to my hair when he
got around to working on 1t Is
something that I will carry through
life. He hadn't shipped at me with
his clippers more than 8 seconds
before was convinced that he had
learned his technique from a direct
descendant Of the Red Indian who
scalped Custer.
He took my screams Of anguish as
cries Of praise. Each OUGHT" he
interpreted as compliment to his
skill. For the first, time in my life
I was grateful for the fact that the
years have thinned my hair. Had 1
been q young man, with bushy
thatch, I am sure that I would have
expired or jumped in with the gold
fish to escape the torture. Cost:
Two rupees, eight annas.
With my feet singing from Cobra
OIL" and my head crying aloud for
prompt treatment by an adept SUR
geon. I got in tonga" and headed
for the hotel. A tonga" is a pony.
pulled cart which affords all the
comforts of hanging by the thumbs
1t shufles your bones as skillfully
as q magician does a pack of cards
All OF this in New Delhi mind
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tnlS is tne very
basis of the
democratic free
domS we pro-
claim to the
world. Forget
what 1t means
in damage to
our constitu-
tional structure
W h, e n o n e
branch OF, the
Government, in
this case the
Congress, reck-
lessly disregards
these conStitu-
fionol riul,fc for
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liberal vote and
! benefits rea c.
ton.
But what con-
tribute e e n
more to their
d i S e n c h a n t.
nent is evidence
that Henry WAL
lace does not at
tempt to inter-
vene in these
situations blu t
appears increas-
iilgly the cap
tive of his Com
munist support
AYR A,,y tI,1rA
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Aes'
| Try to name
any other cap
ital city where,
at any hour of
the day, one
may sit down
on the sidewalk
of any number
of principal thor
oughfares a n d
have a chirop-
odist tenderly
tend to ones
feet.
Also, where
else but Delhi
- x-L
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ana several MIL
lion dollars in
cash he would
have no trouble
in bringing to
t he nj t e d
s t a t es as
refugees from
terror most of
the r US 81 a n
army, from field
marshals down.
w lille these
r e m ks were
made facetiously,
there Is more
truth In them
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THE EVENING STAR Washington, D. c. Alt


you. Wait until you hear about old
Delhi, which was founded about
$50 B.C.-and hasn't changed .
great deal since.
distributed BY McNausht Syndicate. Inc)
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Economists OF Greece are studying
methods of utilizing the Ignite de-
posts, with proved reserves Of 100,.
5000 tons, to save foreign ex.
change spent on imports of coal
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By Constantine BrO,Cn

An American Army officer with
long experience in the U. S. S. r..
stated recently that if he were given
bales of blank American passports
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Church to Hold Supper

Clarksburg MD Meth dis
Church will hold its annual fried
chicken and country ham supper
at 4:30 pm. Saturday in the church
hall. =
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By LoweH MeHeff

Forget, for the moment, the fact
that American citizens are entitled
to protection in their constitutional
rights under all circumstances; that
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|kcLemore
Gets corns Treated
In billy Of a City
By Henry McLemore

NEW tDELHI, India.-Delhi is
often spelled Dill" by the Indians,
and it is most appropriate SPELL
ing, because this really Is a dilly