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Evening star., 1950-12-22
Hoover, Dewey Talks
Show People Weary
OF DiHy-DaIIying
Patience Wearing Out
Over Lack of Definite
Action by U. N. Powers
By David Laurence

President Truman, in his recent
statement, very properly invited
Republicans who have "alterna-
tive policies" to come forth with
them.
Former President Hoover and
Gov. Dewey, twice a nominee
for the presidency on the Repub-
lican ticket. are presenting alter
native policies. What they advo-
cate has a positiveness and a
forthrightness which is missing
in governmental announcements.
But it isn't easy for President
Truman to make American policy
nowadays-he has to be governed
by what other members of the
United Nations may say or do.
While there are parts of what
both Mr.. Hoover land Mr.. Dewey
said with which there will be dis
agreement expressed, the fact re-
mains that these two men are re-
flecting a certain dissatisfaction
in this country with the admins
tration's foreign policy that can
not be cleared up by merely call
ing for unity and less partisan
ship.
Points of Criticism.
Something deeper has been re-
vealed in these cleavages. The
American people are asking for
leadership, and there can be uni
fed policy agreeable to all ele-
ments of the Nation only when
due consideration is given to
criticism.
If ever there was time to
examine dispassionately and with
out emotion the points of criticism
that are made about the world
situation. it is now. These criti-
cisms boil down to this:
l. Member countries of the
United Nations have let America
down. They have not supplied the
manpower needed in Korea since
the crisis arose there last June.
2. The impression has spread
throughout the world that the
United States and not the United
Nations is fighting in Korea. Who
is responsible for that impression
and what is going to be done
about it by the United States and
the U. N? Senators Ferguson of
Michigan, Republican, and Green
of Rhode Island, Democrat, were
quoted in Tokyo yesterday as say
ing that, wherever they have trav-
eled in Asia, the idea is prevalent
that this is just a United States
conflict with Communist China.
This is exactly the line that Mos
COW has sought to implant by
propaganda.
3. The United States does not
have the manpoWer to defend
Europe if by this is meant that
America must supply the bulk of
the troops. The American people
are behind the North Atlantic
pact and applaud the designation
of Gen. Eisenhower as supreme
roroYTar r1der hlIt II uac ahOIIt time
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d en- t merely Constantine Brown.
warned that so long as the present
patchwork defense policy is pur-
sued in Europe. the sending of
small packages of American troops
across the Atlantic would result
only in another Korea.
Facts speak for themselves. The
Atlantic pact was created in 1948
with the definite understanding
that all it's II members would do
their utmost to prepare themselves
against aggression. At the end of
1850 the military strength of the
Atlantic pact nations had not
materially increased.
Living in FOOLS Paradise.
In spite of ominouS signs from
Russia and her satellites, all the
members of the coalition were
more interested in producing con-
sumner goods than military equip
ment. Nor have they augmented
their ground forces. They all
seemed to be living in fools para
disc, believing that the atomic
bomb was such a powerful deter
rent that the Russians would not
dare.
We in the United States were
not much better than our allies.
The difference is that our indus
trial potential is greater and our
will to win at any cost far exceeds
that of the Western European
nations.
There is no hiding the fact that
Korea caught us flatfooted. There
was far more improvisation in the
Korean campaign than in other
military operations in which we
have been engaged in the past.
But while we are rapidly awaken
ing to the dangers to freedom and
the threats to Western civilization,
the continental European powers
are still dragging their feet. This
possibly may change in the future.
and if Mr.. Hoover's speech served
somebody told the European peo-
Piles that the American people are
sick and tired of the dilly-dallying
about the defense of Europe. Eu-
ropeans must show, more than
they have these last few years,
willingness to mobilize and to
fight.
4. The American people are
growing weary over the vacillation
in the U. N. and the evident at
temptS at "appeasement" by gov
ernments that seem to be playing
ball with the Communists or try
ing to do so while processing to be
friendly to democracy and op-
posed to aggression.
S. Failure of the U. N. to pro-
nounce Communist China an
"aggressor" has caused profound
disappointment throughout the
United States.
It is plain from the foregoing
outline that Americas policy in
world affairs needs clarification
and strengthening and that mem
bers of the U. N. should learn
somehow in positive terms from
somebody that American patience
is wearing out.
That's the true meaning Of
some of the points made in the
Dewey and Hoover speeches. The
detailed programs they offer may
bring dissent for various reasons
but in the main the speeches
have notified the world, and par
ticularly Europe, that America ex-
poets other nations to do their
duty not only in a military way
but in exposing the basic princi-
pies of morality which have been
written into the United Nations
Charter itself.
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! 1IdFC W 30 VO
the kitchen, open the door of the
cabinet under the sink. root
through furniture polish, floor
wax, dust cloths, and all the other
items one needs in case of a dis
aster, until I reach the family
f1ashlight.
You see, the fashlight is the
only bit of electrical equipment
that is working since we put up
the Christmas tree.
First Thing to Go.
The first thing to go was the
waffle iron. That was when I
Evening star., 1950-12-22

Its ii g h t S
have gone out,
which h a r d ! v
con S t / t u t e S
news, being as
it's lights have
been on and off,
on and off, ever
since I risked
m y n eek to
drape it with
bulbs from its
tree scalp to it's
tree instep.
When I want
to see it now,
r L. - -
Evening star., 1950-12-22

10 ClInlQlCy, pun
our oceans up
around us, and
abandon t h e
leadership of
the free nations
of the world.
This m a Y
turn out to be
a service. For
it draws the
issue and opens
a debate which,
sooner or later,
we were obvi-
ously bound to
Evening star., 1950-12-22

advanced out
posts in both
the A ! a n t / C
and the Pacific
was e c e v e d
W j tn m x e d
feelings in po-
litical circles in
w a S h in g ton.
S ON e n t e T.
pr e t e d it as
d o G m a for a
eW isolation
ism.
In fact, the
form er PreSi-
Evening star., 1950-12-22
Bp Thomas L, Stokes

Herbert Hoover, perhaps un-
Willingly, has offered a symbol
for those among us who. in this
hour of national trial, would yield
Evening star., 1950-12-22
McL.emore
Uses FIoshIieht
To Find YuIe Tree
By Henry McLem0re

I wish you could see my Christ
mas tree.
I'll 60 further than that wish
I could see it myself.
Evening star., 1950-12-22
Bv Constantine Bro,On

DV Y OUWSFUWFFHt OTU UkUW
Elder Statesman Herbert Hoo
ver's proposal last Wednesday
night that we concentrate on
hemisphere defense with far-fung
Valley frontiersman., 1950-11-10

entered a strict French convent, and, by the time she was Is she could speak, read and write Eng
 fish, French, Germand, Flemish Italian and Dutch. She was also proficient in Greek and Latin.
 At Is, she entered a Niederland- ish state preparatory school, where she studied for four years. She was in her sophomore year at the University of Ghent when Hitler overran Belgium.
 Thousands of Belgians-includ- ing Antonia Stock-Were shipped off to the industrial areas of Hit ler's empire as labOrers. AntOnia was more fortunate than most of her countrymen. When her cap tors learned of her linguistic abil- ity, she was made an interpreter for Western European lab0rers in a Junkers aircraft factory.
 The compound in which I lived and worked with thousands of other captured people was seven kilometers square," Antonia re- called. Even though my work as interpreter brought me in con- tact with many hundreds of per sons, was never allowed near
Valley frontiersman., 1950-11-10

any aircraft"
 In 1943 the Germans, as part of great propaganda campaign to impress the captured people of Europe, permitted selected group of these people to attend college. The young interpreter, Antonia Slock, WaS- chosen as a Belgian student to continue her studies at Heidelberg University
 Antonia attended this famous University until March IA, 1945, when the American doughboys took over Heidelberg and the SWastika was thing of the past.
 She felt there were more inn portant things to do in Germany at this time than to attend school As most foreign students at Heid- elberg had been connected in some manner with the Underground, " they were the first persons to be screened by the Americans. Two weeks after the arrival of the U. s. Army, Antonia Stock was an official court interpreter for the Army of Occupation.
 When Heidelberg University opened again in the fall of 1945, Antonia was admitted as non- German foreign student under American sponsorship. She had received her Baccalaureat degree in 1914, and now went on for her Ph.D., which she achieved in June, 1947.
 With these two degrees tucked safely under her arm, Antonia Slock acquired another certifi- cate. She was married in July.
Valley frontiersman., 1950-11-10

1947, in Mannheim, Germany, to a handsome American Army legal officer, Captain Claude F. Ratliff. They came to the United States the following month.
 The young couple toured the United States for three months and in November, 1947, arrived in Fairbanks, where Claude Rat Tiff took over the job as station manager of KFRB.
 Antonia had too much energy to be a complacent housewife. She visited the University of Alaska and talked with the late Dr. Will liam E. Duckering, Dean of the Faculty. She was engaged to teach French and German, and this fall she starts her third year as member of the University of Alaska faculty.
 @Many wonderful things have happened to me in my lifetime" " Dr. Ratliff said with her typical enthusiasm. But I think the greatest thrill was in May of this year, when I became an Ameri- can citizen-right here in Fair banks.
 For years I was a displaced person. But now, nobody can push me around" |" Dr. Ratliff said with conviction.
Valley frontiersman., 1950-11-10
Homecoming Party Held For Bob Pefersons on Return From Outside

After an absence of almost six weeks on a trip to the states, MT. and Mrs. Bob Peterson were vel comed back to Palmer by friends at a homecoming party and buff fet supper held for them Monday night.
 MT. Peterson, commander of Palmer American Legion Post No. Is, attended the national Legion convention at Los Angeles, Calf, in progress from November through II. He left here the lat ter part of September to drive to
Valley frontiersman., 1950-11-10

( h ardly 28) speaks six lan- guages, has a. Ph.D. and went t h r o u g h the toughest w a r the world has ever seen.
 AntOnia was born in DeStel- bergen, E a S t Flanders, Bel gium. At the age of five she
Valley frontiersman., 1950-11-10
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
 No 66

&NSs 0O
 IN THE PROBATE COURT FOR THE TERRITORY OF ALAS KA, THIRD DIVISION, WA SILLA PRECINCT.
 In the Matter of the Estate of ALBERT G. DODSON, De- ceased.
 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN. that the undersigned, EMMA w. DODSON, was on the End day of October, 1850, by an order of the above-entitled Court, appointed administratrix of the Estate of AL bert G. Dodson, Deceased, and that she thereupon is qualified as such Administrative in the man. her required by law; and all cred itors of, and all persons having claims against said decedent, are hereby required to present their claims, with the necessary vouch- CTS, within six (6) months from the date hereof, to the Attorney for the Administrative, J. L. Me CAREY, JR., at his law office at 429 Fourth Avenue, Anchorage, Alaska.
 Dated at Wasilla, Alaska, this 18th day of October, 1850.
 EMMA w. DODSON,
 Administratrix of the Estate
 of Albert c. Dodson, Deceased. Publish Nov. 3, 10, IT, "A, 1850.
Valley frontiersman., 1950-11-10

the states over the Alaska high way.
 Mrs. Peterson flew to the states the first of October to join him at Spokane, Wash, and to accom- pany him on to the convention.
 While Outside they also visited friends and relatives at Spokane and Anaheim, Calf.
 They arrived here last Sunday about 6:30 pm, after setting out on their drive back to Alaska around 1 pm. the previous Tues day. They reported snow all the way from Dawson until they came to within Is or 20 miles of Palmer.
 CoffeY Insures Everything
Valley frontiersman., 1950-11-10
K>som Ho11n N+siuen4iz4

Dr. Antonia Stock Ratliff, late of Europe, is five foot two, has eyes of blue, and long, natural blonde hair. You'd never suspect that this vivacious young lady
Valley frontiersman., 1950-11-10
WARREN DAYS FAMILY ARRIVE FROM STATES

WASILLA-Warren Day vel comed his wife and son this week upon their arrival from the states to join him here. The Days plan to make their home here.
Smyrna times., 1950-04-20
Silver Wedding Anniversary

There was a surprise party given
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Aubrey
Berry on Saturday, April 1st in
honor of Mr.. and Mrs. Roy D. Ev-
erett's 25th wedding anniversary.
The guests were Mr.. and Mrs.
Thomas Cooke, Mr.. and Mrs. Coop
er Berry, Mr.. and Mrs. Levi Ever
ett, Jr., Mr.. and Mrs. James Ever
e. Mr.. and Mrs. Erich Hengst, Mr..
and Mrs. Marvel Everett, Mr.. and
Mrs. Donald Everett, Mr.. and Mrs.
Lee Everett, Mr.. Allen Everett,
Mrs. Evelyn Everett, and Mr.. Ray
mond Cooke. In addition to these
the following children were in at
tendance: Miss Sandy Everett, Miss
Judy Everett, Miss Shirley Everett,
Master Leroy Everett and Miss
Peggy Everett.
Smyrna times., 1950-04-20
Death of Albert w. Foraker

Funeral services for Albert
Whitley Foraker, 80, of near odes-
sa. who died at his late residence
on April 16, were held Wednesday,
April 19 from the FAIRIES Funeral
Chapel. The Rev. Walter L. Beck
with oficiated and interment was
in Glenwood Cemetery, Smyrna. He
was the widower of the late Eliza
beth Cook and is survived by the
following children: Mrs. Edith
Short, wilmington; Mrs. Bessie
johnson, Smyrna; Albert, Jr., Lin
wood, Pa; Clarence, Middletown;
Harvey, Delaware City; and John,
Middletown; and twenty-three
grandchildren.
Smyrna times., 1950-04-20
AT
CENTURY CLUB
Over $50 Women Attend Sind
Annual Luncheon of 10th
Century Club Here Friday
AWARDS PRESENTED

Approximately $50 women at
tended the SIND annual luncheon of
the Twentieth Century Club at the
club house Friday afternoon. Mrs.
Alfred Tilghman was hostess and
Mrs. ]. Chester Banta was general
chairman of the affair. A one-act
play, Candle or Kerchief", direct
ed by Mrs. Glenn S. King, was pre-
sented by Mrs. Ronald Grier, Mrs.
Bodley, Mrs. J. Chester
Banta, Mrs. Robert Riddagh, Mrs.
Glenn Busker, and Mrs. S. Allan
Mofitt. Mrs. Harry P. Jones was
in charge of costumes and Mrs.
Raymond D. Pusey was in charge
of properties. B. Stimson Carrow
played the following piano selec-
tions which depicted the change
from classical to modern music
over a period of a hundred years:
Waltz, OPP. ga and Waltz, op. SO
by Chopin, Arabesque by Schu-
mann, Interbezzo in A Major by
Brahms, Two Arabesques by de-
busy, and Prelude in d Flat Major
by Palmgren. The club chorus con-
CONTINUED on Page Six)
Smyrna times., 1950-04-20
NEW ORDINANCE
BY COUNCIL
Restrictions Against Firing of
Air Rifles Within Town
Limits Made Law
TO ADOPT BUDGET PLAN

An ordinance involving restric-
tions against firing of air rifles
within the town limits was unani-
mously passed by Town Council at
a recent meeting, and copies of it,
as passed, will be published in this
and next weeks issues of The
Smyrna Times. The town went on
record as going along with other
communities in daylight saving
time, which will be effective from
April 80 to September "a. Council
has under consideration the SER
vices of Charles c. Brown, former
ly town manager for Dover, in
making a sewer survey of Smyrna.
The town has acquired a strip of
property from N. G. Pawn along
Hamilton Street, approximately IL
by 1877 feet, which will serve to
widen the street.
Police Report for 1949
A report of the police depart
ment for the year 1949 was made
by Chief of Police John w. Jacobs,
Jr., showing 504 complaints; 303
arrests, ITO of which were fer mot
Tor violations, the other miscellane-
Gus. The total fines collected
amounted to $2,45O.9O. The 1850
budget, as presented by Council
man William Kruchen, was accept
ed and will be adopted. It will ap-
pear in detail in next weeks issue
of The Smyrna Times. The antici-
pated income for 1850 will be $780,
200 and the expenditure will be the
same, as we have a balanced bud
get. 1t has been set up to include
a per cent reserve fund, approxi-
mating $4,686 for the year, which
will become a part of a sinking
fund for future emergencies. Mayor
Albert A. Newcomb, Sr., presided
Smyrna times., 1950-04-20
Ask for Return of Music

Part of the choral music which
was used by the choral group in
preparation for the Antics of 1850
has not been returned to the COM
mittee. They will appreciate the
cooperation of anyone having the
music in their possession, and ask
that it be left with Frank Sick
mann or William Doughten. The
committee will be grateful for any
cooperation shown in getting the
music returned.
Smyrna times., 1950-04-20
FTREAIEN KEPT BUSY
Three Alarms Within Twenty-FOur
Hours Monday and Tuesday

The volunteer firemen were kept
on the jump with three alarms
within twenty-four hours on Mon
day and Tuesday. The first was for
a grass fire in a truck-patch which
threatened a large woods on the
property of John Lightcap, Dex-
ter's Corner, northwest of Smyrna.
Before returning from this blaze an
alarm came in from Mrs. Harry
Reed, DUPONT Parkway, four miles
north of Smyrna, cause not known,
but a grass fire approaching a
woods, which was halted by the
firemen. The third call, just before
noon on Tuesday was on the Walk
er's School House Road, near the
property of Ernest Brewington,
when a grass fire threatened two
houses. The first fire, at Dexter's
Corner occurred as the result of
burning off of a truck patch by
Lightcap.
Smyrna times., 1950-04-20
JAMES WARREN
NOBLE GRAND
Deputy Grand Master Offici-
ates at Odd Fellows Installa-
tiOn Friday Night
OTHER OFFICERS NAMED

Last Friday evening in a cere-
mony at the Odd Fellows Hall,
Deputy Grand Master Edward w.
]. Cooper and his official staff Of
ficiated at the installation of the
following officers of Morning Star
Lodge No. 6, Independent Order
of Odd Fellows, Smyrna. Those in
stalled were: Noble Grand, James
C. Warren; Vice Grand, Morgan L.
Parry; Recording Secretary Tenn
pie Heinold.
officers Appointed
Noble Grand James G. Warren
made the following appointments:
Right Supporter to the Noble
Grand, Harry c. Johnson; Left
Supporter to the Noble Grand
James Fleming; Right Supporter
to the Vice Grand, c. Townsend
Vaughn; Left Supporter to the
Vice Grand, Charles Dukes Chap
lain, Walter w. Hynson; Warden
Ernest Council, Jr.; Conductor
Austin Deamer; Right Scene Sup
porter, Julian Dunning; Left Scene
Spporter, Norman Shorts; Inside
Guardian, William G. Knots; Out
side Guardian, Arthur Shorts.
Committees Named
The following committees were
named by Noble Grand James War
rem; Auditing, Harry Lower, Viii
liam E. Matthews, James Fleming
Publicity, Morgan L. Parry, James
C. Warren; Widows and Orphans
Harry Cloud, David M. Todd, Har
ry c. Johnson; Visitation and Re
lief, James c. Warren, Morgan L
Parry, Temple Heinold; Crane
Representative, Harry c. johnson
of the Grand Lodge of Delawar'
was present, also the following
members of Morning Star Lodg'
No. 6 who have held Office in tn,
Grand Lodge in the State of Della
ware Past Grand Representativ'
Walter w. Hynson, Past Crane
Master Henry Ennis, and Pas
Grand Warden, Millaway Broad
way, Sr.; Past Grand Representa-
tive Joseph Ennis.
Smyrna times., 1950-04-20
VESTRY OF ST. PETERS CHURCH
HOLD REORGAN ANIMATION MEET

Boehmler, chairman, c. L. Harmon
son. Stanley Middleton; music: DR..
Comegys, chairman, Mr.. Bodley;
cemetery committee: Joseph Jeffer-
son. chairman, Mr.. Middleton, Guy
Edmondson, Jr., with George
Boehmler as consultant; finance
committee: DR.. Sarde, chairman,
DR.. Comegys, Mr.. Bodley, and frrs'
Warner w. Price, Jr.; directory
committee: Joseph jefferson, chair
man, Reynolds Bradley, Guy Ed
mondson, Mrs. Warner w. Price
Jr., with Glenn S. King as consult
ant.
Smyrna times., 1950-04-20
SMYRNIANS IN MINSTREL
Willard Rutter and Edward New
comb To Be Featured At Dover

Willard Rutter and Edward New
comb To Be Featured At Dover
Two talented Smyrna men VIII
have feature roles in the Delaware
Veterans of World War II, Dover
Post, minstrel show next Monday,
Tuesday and Wednesday at the
Dover High School Field House.
The big home-talent show entitled
'SThe Del-Vets Blackouts of 1950
will be staged by more than a hun
dred talented ladies and gentlemen
from Dover and surrounding COM
munities. Smyrna will be represent
ed by Willard Y. Rutter, who has
been chosen as one of the Premier
Comedians and will be featured
singing .Alabamy Bound" The
other Smyrna representative will
be Edward Newcomb, who will sing
the popular ballad, Make Believe"
Tickets are said to be selling fast
and it will be wise to get your
available. Remember the dates,
evailable. Rember the dates, April
April "a, 25, and 26.
Smyrna times., 1950-04-20

At a reorganization meeting of
the vestry of st. Peters P. e.
Church, held Wednesday evening
with the rector, the Rev. Donald ].
Parsons presiding, the following
delegates and alternates were
named to the diocesan convention
to be held at Christ Church, Dover
May 9-10: C. L. Harmonson, Lester
Meyer, delegates; DIR. Richard w.
Comegys and Harley R. Bodley, al
ternates. George w. Boehmler was
elected treasurer, and DR.. Robert
Sarde, assistant treasurer; Mr..
Meyer, named secretary to the ves-
try. Property committee: Mr..
Smyrna times., 1950-04-20
PUBLIC FORUM
TUESDAY MITE
Much Interest Being Shown in
Community Forum Sponsor
ed by Century Club
WILL BE IN TOWN HALL

Much interest and enthusiasm
are being shown in the community
forum to be held by the Twentieth
Century CLUB on Tuesday evening,
April % at Town Hall at o'clock.
All of the people, not only of
Smyrna but of the surrounding
area, are invited to attend. Mem
bers of the Board of Education,
Smyrna Special School District,
will sit on the panel and take part
in the discussions. They are DR.. c.
]. Prckett, president, Mrs. c. L.
Harmonson, Henry t. Price, Lee
Deakyne, and George w. Wright,
secretary to the board and super
intendent of schools. DR.. John
Shilling will represent the State
Department of Public instruction.
DR.. ]. o. Corner, Wilmington. pres
ident of the Council for Delaware,
Education will make a contribution
to the part of the program pre-.
sented by the state department. He
will be accompanied by S. Marston
Fox, Wilmington, president of the
state Parent Teacher Association.
Questions on school matters may
be referred to the panel members
for answer. The services of German
Walsh, well-known radio executive
of Wilmington, have been secured
as moderator. The committee in
charge of arrangements for the
forum, which is the second in a
series to be sponsored by the Cen
tury Club on public affairs, includ-
ed Mrs. Joseph Ennis, president;
Mrs. Cummins E. Epeakman, leg
islation chairman; Mayor Albert
A. Newcomb and Reynolds Pratt,
; president of Smyrna Rotary Club.
This committee was aided in pre-
hminary plans by the heads of all
organizations in Smyrna and Clay
ton.