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Smyrna times., 1948-02-26
Just
Ten Years Ago

In one of the most instructive
and interesting meetings of the
year DR.. Tarumianz, head of the
State Hospital at Farnhurst, told
about the work being done and the
great handicap under which the
staff was laboring because of lack
of the proper facilities. "If the
state assumes responsibility for
anything, it should be fit for all
classes of people. If any organ
ization cannot be formed to fit all
classes, none should exist" he said.
EDITORIAL
Citizens of Smyrna regret that
a change in business and location
has made it necessary for Walter
w. Hynson to relinquish his Office
of Town Treasurer. For efficiency,
loyalty and serving the best inter-
ests of Smyrna, MIR. Hynson has
made a record to be proud of.
However, he is to have a worthy
successor in Harry ]. Lower and
in these changes the Times ex-
tends good wishes for success and
prosperity.
PERSONALS
Miss Gertrude Parsons of Dover,
spent Tuesday with her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. G. A. Parsons, Ken
ton.
Miss Elizabeth Attix of Newark
spent the weekend with her moth
er, Mrs. Helen C. Attix.
Mr.. James w. Anthony, son of
William G. Anthony of Bannister
Hall Poultry Farm, Smyrna, who
is taking a course in aviation in
the Roosevelt Aviation School on
Long Island, spent the weekend
with his aunt, Eunice Anthony.
James entered the school last fall
and has SO progressed that he is
now able to fly plane all by him
self. He made his first solo fight
over Roosevelt Field on st. Valen-
tines Day and was complimented
by the school on the manner in
which he handled the plane. His
teacher sees no reason why he will
not be able to take a plane and
fly home this summer.
Miss Sara B. Jones, who has
completed taking hospital tech
nicians course at Temple Hospital,
Philadelphia, has accepted posi-
tion as technician at the Salisbury
Hospital and will enter upon her
new duties next week.
Smyrna times., 1948-02-26

There's ecoe nei0s for passengers too the lower WIDER
oomier Futramic body And there's good netUs underneath the
hooda hgcompression head which adds extra horse
power to Oldsmob1es famous 8cylinder engine.
Naturally, this brand 1913 model offers Odsmobes fully
proved Futuamic featreCM Hydra-Matic Drive* Here's
driving at its utramodn best No clutch pushingno gear
shifting step on the gas and gor You go smoothly
comfortably with thrilling performance the Futuramic
Hydra-Matic way
See the Futamc Odsmobe "98the colorfu new Dynamic
Oldsmobile 100" and "7O"-on display in our showroom
Smyrna times., 1948-02-26

(ED.-Smyrna town elections are
held every year on the last Mon
day in February and names of
candidates must be submitted to
the Town Office no later than ten
days before the election date.
The Council is not required to
solicit for candidates. The Editor
agrees that some sort of noti-
fication should be published to
remind the citizens of Smyrna that
an election is due and for candi-
dates to submit their names. The
Smyrna Times will endeavor to
rectify this situation in the fu-
ture.)
NOTE: The Smyrna Times will
Smyrna times., 1948-02-26
Letters To
The Editor

Smyrna, Delaware
February 20, 194S
Smyrna times., 1948-02-26

welcome all letters to the editor
with the provision that all such
letters must be signed by the writ
er. Names will be withheld from
publication upon request
Smyrna times., 1948-02-26
SMYRNA DOINGS
OF so YEARS AGO
Netes of Marriages.. Deaths
and Matters of Interest
of Half Century Ago
so 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,
now a regular feature of the
Times, will call to mind people
and events of the older genera
tfon.
Smyrna times., 1948-02-26

EEyl<--,.1.Sr For 1913 The Big Netos Is The
NeiU Odsl brand new Oldsmobie
'98" is here today! It's the first of
opn0na '' extra cost the Futmamic introducing
the first of the eagerly awaited postwar Bodies by
Fisher It's Oldsmobies Golden Anniversary model-and
carries to high the Odsmoble tradition of sarnessi
When you this Fuuramc Oldmobe you'll realize what
important brings There's style in its cean flowing
Fuamic nes-its modern simplicity inside and There's
sae in the greater visibility provided by the new low
hood design curved windshield, and size windows.
Smyrna times., 1948-02-26

Referring to the Smyrna Times
for February 10, 1948, we read,
Evening star., 1948-09-20
Hypocrisy Unlimited

Through Ambassador Panyushkin, its
representative on the Far Eastern Com
mission, the Soviet Union has now de-
manded that General Macarthur be called
upon to revoke his ban against strikes by
government employees in Japan. The Mos
COW radio has been aSsailing the ban for
weeks past as "repreSsive" measure
against Legitimate union activities"
Stated another way, the complaint Is a
complaint against an obviously sound move
to prevent walkouts of kind that could
paralyze the political life of the Japa-
nese-a complaint, in short, against wise
and forehanded action to keep the Com
munist- inspired minority from stirring up
disorder and chaos for the greater honor
and glory of the Kremlin.
Coming from the Stain dictatorship,
from that tender-hearted tyranny that has
Just condemned five German boys to a
living death for demonstrating against
communism in Berlin, the Panyushkin
protest exceeds the limitations Of lying
propaganda and becomes repulsive. In
Russia and its satellite empire, OF course,
people who dare to strike against anything
are swiftly beaten into submission and
shipped to places like Siberia to join the
millions languishing in the slave-laoor
camps. But this same power, posing as a
Evening star., 1948-09-20

white-plumed champion Of human rights
and human liberty, does not hesitate to
vilify General Macarthur for taking mild,
just and perfectly sensible precautions
against the possible danger of Red trouble
making in the Japanese government.
The Soviets have long since demon
strated their seemingly infinite capacity
for hypocritically hutchering the truth and
spreading poisonous propaganda against
decent men and decent governments.
Their attack on General Macarthur and
his strike ban is simply another in a long
list of examples of how they use crocodile
tears and colossal distortions to muddy
the international waters in order to serve
their aggressive ends. The technique, how
ever, is growing threadbare. 1t has been
resorted to so often that few intelligent
people anywhere can be fooled by 1t now.
Certainly the Far Eastern Commission is
not likely to do more than file and forget
the Panyushkin protest
Evening star., 1948-09-20
Atheists and the FEC

1t is hard to follow the process OF
reasoning by which the Harness Com
mittee indicts the Federal Communications
Commission for what 1t calls thought
policing"
That Is one OF number OF phrases
which have achieved a considerable popu
larity with those who like to use words
for their scare effect rather than their
content. But actually it is meaningless
term when used loosely, as generally is
the case.
The special House committee headed
by Representative Harness of Indiana has
been investigating two complaints against
the FEC. One concerns attempts by
atheists to compel radio stations to let
them have time on the air. The other
has to do with an FEC ruling that radio
stations cannot censor political speeches,
although under the laws of some States
the stations may be liable for defamatory
statements made in political speeches.
In its report the Harness committee
finds the FEC guilty on both counts. This
finding on the second count seems clearly
wrong, for the ban on censorship of politi-
cal speeches was written into the Federal
Communications Act by Congress, and the
FEC is bound to follow 1t. FEC Chair
man Coy is correct when he says the
remedy lies, not in action by the FEC
that would run counter to the statute,
but in the enactment by Congress of legis-
lation to protect radio stations against
suits arising out of political broadcasts.
The other matter is more difficult. The
Star has been among those who have felt
that the position taken by the FEC with
respect to atheists in the so-called Scott
case was not sound one, and it is in
clined to agree with the substance OF the
House committees criticism in this respect.
This agreement, of course, does not ex-
tend to the thought policing charge,
which presumably was thrown In Tor
headline purposes But it does extend to
the criticism that the language used In
the Scott decision, taken as whole, Is
so vague and SO ambiguous that reason
able man could not tell with any Ger
tainty what the position OF the FEC IN
this important matter is or is apt to be
n few months hence.
It NAV be true, as Chairman Coy Sug-
eests, that the intent of the Scott ruling
has been clarified in a subsequent decision.
But even if this be so, the position OF the
FEC still is so obscure that the operator
of a radio station would be hard put to
determine, without risking loss OF his
license, whether he could refuse time TO
atheists. And The Star does not believe
that such confusion in matter OF this
importance is either desirable or necessary.
Evening star., 1948-09-20
SLOGAN Dies in Use

While the new slogan cancelling dies
dramatizing the campaign against forest
fires were being placed in service at the
City Post Office Wednesday, the Associated
Press was reporting that in the State of
Maine alone thirty-one separate and dis
tinct blazes were burning. The total area
devastated annually exceeds that of the
whole of Virginia. Any available device
which will help to educate people to CO.
operate against such destruction and waste
certainly should be used for that purpose
The Post Offlce Department and the De-
partment OF Agriculture have gotten to-
gether to place the dies on machines
postmarking mail in thirty-eight different
cities from coast to coast. Since The Star
first suggested the plan, it naturally is glad
to see 1t in action.
The use Of cancellation dies bearing
educational messages, Of course, is not of
recent origin. 1t dates back beyond the
issuance of the first adhesive postage
stamp in 1s40 Great Britain, Belgium,
Austria, the Netherlands Switzerland,
Sweden, Italy and many other countries
regularly employ slogan markers to pro-
mote worthy detectives OF national sig
nihcance. In this connection Acting
Postmaster General Vincent C. Burke, ad-
dressing the audience assembled for the
first day" ceremony Wednesday, stipulated
that the privilege never should be regarded
as easily obtained or lightly given. Only
causes of broad social value. he said, ought
to be permitted such facilities. The Treas
ury Department long has publicized the
sale of War Bonds with slogans applied to
mail Just now the Department of Labor
is advertising the drive to secure jobs for
handicapped citizens in this way.
Represented in every such case Is the
principle of economy. The only cost in
volved Is that of making the dies.
Evening star., 1948-09-20
Harvest of Smoke

dru man, shrnnken NTH austere
Norembers,
Rakes slotply at the lean and shriUeled
ledUes
That shuttle do,cn the laUn. His heart
remembers
The harUests OF past autuntns, opulent
OF grain. rich hodrded essence of the sun
And treasured strength OF Dttal earth,
withdrawn
By his oton strength from earth till
strength iDds done
And he must garner leares on this scant
ldtcn.
He touches fame TO heaped leapes,
clasped together
Like toithered ueined old hands dspo1
In prayer,
And smoke sighs through the ha,p
Gstringent weather
Its ,oisttuI supplicattons Iosf ~ au' W..
Once he had reaped earths 1h11Hess 'oD
Hnypest ~ smoke fs an his efforts ,ctn:
0'oe's y '"'0" JANE II. MERCHANT.
Evening star., 1948-09-20
Emil LUDWIG

Those who knew Emil Ludwig personally
must have been surprised to hear OF his
death at sixty-seven. He was man OF
such dynamic energy, such passion 1or
activity that it is difficult to think OF his
life as being finished, his work stopped,
Perhaps the strain and the tension under
which he labored were responsible for his
premature demise.
What the world has in result OF his in
cessant endeavors is list Of one hundred
and fifteen book-length productions The
titles range through thirty centuries.
Ludwig wrote with equal zeal about the
pharaohs of ancient Egypt, the sea kings
of Crete and the tyrants of Greece and
Rome on the one extreme and about
Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph Stain on
the other. The inspiration Of his campaign
to populariZe history undoubtedly came
from the example of much greater artist
-Lytton Strachey, whose Eminent Vic
torians' appeared in 1918 and Queen
Victoria" in 1921 Something of the phe-
nomenal sale of H. G. Wells Outline" also
drove Ludwig onward He sought and soon
obtained financial success. His Napoleon
provided him with the celebrity he desired.
Published in 1925, 1t was defiant volume
Scholars who had spent decades studying
the Emperor went wild over its mistakes
The public at large, however, cared moth
ing for the protests. Instead, it refused to
listen to them.
With such q commission, Ludwig hurried
into the market his biographies OF Bis
marck, Wilhelm II, Goethe, Hindenburg,
Lincoln Cleopatra, Beethoven and many
other characters. Each new effort brought
out it's own storm of criticism. The pro-
fessional appraisers of literature COM
planned about Ludwig's carelessness in re-
writing earlier texts. His prejudiceS and
his hectic enthusiasms-both subject to
change without notice-irritated the pun
dts to frenzy. Meanwhile, average people
read him, liked his daring, enjoyed his
whimsicalities. When he essayed the lee
ture platform, crowds stormed the audi
toriums to hear him perform. He put on
a good show with himself as the hero.
Nothing pleased him more than chance
to demolish heckler. A meeting in which
no violent interruption occurred was a
bore. Ludwig fiourished on opposition. A
contemporary declared: "He acts as II
Hitler were his personal property"
But Ludwig was not all flash in the
pan. There were moments when he really
was q master of words. His Son Of Man
probably j his most durable achievement
Evening star., 1948-09-20
Chaos in Juvu

Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin's recent
warning that international communism
seeks to precipitate chaotic situation in
Southeast Asia as prelude to Red domi-
nation is being factually borne out at more
which has erupted in Java Is q duplicate
of the one that Is bedeyilling the new
state of Burma. And the evidence tends
to show conclusively that this is not a
chance coincidence.
The self lf-styled Indonesian Republic,
which in reality controls only the central
portion of the island of Java, plus certain
districts in neighboring Sumatra, has been
afflicted from the start with grave fac
tional difficulties that have hindered the
maintenance of internal order and COM
plicated its negotiations with the Dutch.
The republic has been an arena of con-
tending parties ranging all the way through
the political spectrum from a conservative
Moslem group to moderates, Socialists and
Communists, the latter bitterly split among
themselves into Stalinist and Trotzkyist
wings. During recent months moderate
regime has been at least nominally in
control headed by Premier Mohammed
Hatta, who has been doing his best to
stabilize the internal situation and reach
an agreement with the Dutch on an equit-
able basis.
That, however, is the last thing the Com
munistS desire. And the local Commu-
nists recently have made notable progress,
successfully infiltrating other left-wing
parties. They are now staging an armed
uprising which is two-fold in character.
1t is directed against both the Hatta gov
ernment and the Trotzkyists, who, though
hostile to the government refuse to bow
to feminist dictation. AS a measure of the
seriousness of this uprising, the Com
munists have seized control of Madiun
the republics third largest city, and have
forced the Hatta regime to invoke mar
tial law. The upShot is chaotic struggle
which, if it continues, might soon reduce
the republic to at least temporary anarchy
"a situation favorable for eventual Com
munst control And the struggle is spread
ing to those parts of Sumatra which give
their allegiance to the republic.
Premier Hatts roundly denounces these
Communist tactics as suicidal" for the
Indonesian Republic. They are certainly
forfeiting the sympathy of the other por-
tions of the Netherlands Indies who have
accepted the Dutch program of imperial
federation. And republic either sunk
into chaos or falling under Communist
control would render inevitable Dutch in
tervention. Indeed, this could be invoked
by the other states of the Indonesian
Union, to eliminate an intolerable source
of Communist infection for the entire
archipelago. Such an intervention could
be deemed an internal" matter, outside
the purvieW of the United Nations. Ger
tainly, combating the growing Communist
offensive in Southeast Asia has become
such a life-and-death issue for all gov
ernments there, native as we'll as Western,
that theoretical objections are likely to be
brushed aside.
Evening star., 1948-09-20
What Every Child Should Know

SOmeClmeS the experts make 1t very lard
for us parents to know just what to do in
bringing up our offspring Take Miss
Norma Alessandrini, for example. A spe-
cialist in children's affairs at Bellevue Hos
pital in New York, she warns all of US not
to correct Junior II he sees squirrel and
calls it tiger. Such corrections, she says
along with a lot of adult dos and don'ts,
keep him from learning through his own
experience and. thus rob him of resource
fulness and tend to overguide him to the
point where he retreats into himself and
becomes full of psychic fears and repres
SionS.
1t may be that Miss Alessandrini's thesis
which probably is grossly oversimplified
here-is essentially right Nevertheless the
incorrigibly old-fashioned among us must
challenge1t at least as regards the identi-
fication of animals. At any rate, there
seems to be good reason to wonder whether
every child ought not to be told, at an
early age, how squirrels differ from tigers.
Suppose Junior mistakes one for the other.
Suppose nobody corrects him. Suppose he
visits the ZOO and puts his little hand in
between the bars to feed a peanut to the
nice big striped squirrel pacing up and
down there. What about that Miss Ales-
sandrini? Is it wiser to let him learn by
experience in that way than to give him
a chance to enjoy ripe old age by put
ting him straight on some things even at
the risk of filling him with repressions?
Certainly, old-fashioned or not, there
are great numbers of us parents who will
never be convinced that it is harmful to
correct tots who think squirrels are tigers
and vice versa. The difference between
the two Is something every little boy and
girl should know as soon as possible More
over, there are many of us who will argue
until we're blue in the face that the
standard dos and don'ts-for example
do eat your string beans,' don't swallow
those pills in the medicine cabinet" and
don't run across the street"-are salutary.
Perhaps such guidance robs child of
some resourcefulness, but no one can deny
that 1t helps to save him from an early
grave.
Evening star., 1948-09-20
Stars, Men and Atoms !
Scientists Photograph
Ever-Dork Depths Of Sea
Bottom Four Miles Down
Filmed by New Device
By Thomas r. Henry

The bottom of the sea nearly four miles be-
meath the surface-a place Of perpetual dark
ness-now can be photographed
One picture has been taken with q special
hashlight camera at depth of 3a miles. 1t is
announced by the Woods Hole oceanographic
Institution A weighted camera Is lowered on
. wire from an electrically driven winch and .
trigger suspended below the instrument flashes
the bulb when 1t hits the bottom.
Life on the sea floor, which previously was
studied by dragging dredges and nets at great
depths now can be observed in its natural sur
roundings. 1t may turn out to be very weird
life indeed. Almost nothing is known about it.
Sea Spider rs Inches Long.
The whole operation, reeling out the wire and
retrieving the camera, requires several hours
for each picture. Photographs already taken,
the Woods Hole scientists announce, show that
life on the deep ocean bottom is far more plen-
tiful than has been supposed. One picture of n
gigantic spider, % inches long. was taken at a
depth Of 5000 feet. The creature, hitherto unt
known to science, looks like huge daddy long
legs.
Pictures taken Of the bottom of the Medter-
ranean show mysterious colonies Of holes, each
about az inches wide, in groups covering about
IL square feet. 1t is not known what type Of
sea life inhabtS these holes
The Woods Hole exploring ship Atlantis
has just returned from 20,0oo-mile explor-
ing expedition in which it charted much OF
the eastern Mediterranean and the Straits
of Sicily. 1t also charted two sections Of the
bottom of the Atlantic between Cape Cod
and Gibraltar.
6,0O0-Foot Sea Mountain Found
Among the findings was a new sea noun
tain which rises approximately 5000 feet
from the sea floor just east Of Bermuda. It
also was found that the Ampere Bank of
Gibraltar is at least 36 feet higher than Is
marked on charts. hitherto uncharted
major shoal was found in the Straits Of
Sicily, over which hundreds of thousands OF
Allied soldiers passed during the war. 1t Is
approximately five miles in diameter and
rises $50 feet above the surrounding depths.
Further studies were made of the mysterious
false echo" first discovered during the war;
This is caused by a moving layer near the
surface Of the ocean which is believed to be
due to myriads Of tiny shrimps. This phantom
bottom had been found previously In the
Pacific and Atlantic. 1t now has been DEM
onstrated In the Mediterranean. The upward
and downward movements Of the layer are
influenced by light and special studies wers
made with an extremely sensitive photo
electric cell to determine how far solar radia-
ton penetrates into the sea.
For the first time it was possible for
scientists of this expedition to follow the
route of migrating birds across the ocean by
means Of radar.
Evening star., 1948-09-20

For the rest, he deserves appreciation as
part Of a worldwide movement to bridge
the past to the future. He did make his
tory interesting to readers who previously
had yylnnoSed IL dull
Evening star., 1948-09-20
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Evening star., 1948-09-20
Atheism and Hopelessness

To the Editor Of The Star:
The letter in The Star OF september ~
h.adsd mot a Goddess Country" by Ruth
nx,,.s raxter. was worth saving-and did just
that.
believe all faiths and all beliefs" should be
allowed hearing faith that can be under
mined and shaken certainly Is frail The
trouble with the atheistic philosophy is that 1t
i. hopeless. How can there be happiness with
out hope3 - d. ,. 6HADFOFD.
Evening star., 1948-09-20
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