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Smyrna times., 1952-08-28
Take Time To Be Careful
of Corn Piclxers

Eighteen Delawareans too many
were manned and hurt in corn
pickers last year. That means
many more than eighteen supered,
lost time and money, and went
through a lot of anxiety.
Corn picking time is rolling
around again, and it is not too
soon to start thinking of safety
precautions for this arm-eater,
says Miss Louise r. Whitcomb, of
the Delaware Agricultural Exten-
sion Service.
Corn pickers aren't the only ma
chimes involved in serious accidents
at harvest time, however, In one
year in Delaware, there were rs
other farm machine accidents.
Tractors are probably the most
dangerous farm implements be-
cause they are used most often.
other machines which were in
volved in accidents on Delaware
farms are mowers, combines, plows
saws, grain drills, balers, and
trucks. Each caused accidents
which could have ben avoided.
"Take time to be careful this
harvest" asks Miss Whitcomb.
Check safety precautions, safety
shields, and your own safety con-
science everytime you operate a
machine. Let's be safe, not sor-
ry."
Smyrna times., 1952-08-28
September 6, 1876:
at 2 P. NJ. D.S.T.)

Odtu1 udIs OCptCAthUCI ", 1OOZ
at 2 p. NJ. D.S.T.)
The following described Real Estate. to-
wit:
All those two certain tracts pieces or
parcels of land situated in the Town of
Wyoming. North Murderkill Hundred. Kent
County and State of Delaware and particu-
larly described as follows. to wit:
No. 1. All that certain lot, piece or
parcel of land situated in the Town of
Wyoming. North Murderldll Hundred, Kent
County and State of Delaware and lying on
the East side of Layton Avenue Extended
and on the south side of Apple Tree Lane,
as shown on plot hereinafter referred to,
bounded on the West by Layton Avenue, on
the North by Apple Tree Lane. on the East
by Center Drive and on the South by Lot
after referred to and having front OH
said LAYTON Avenue of Fifty (50) Feet and
running back therefrom between parallel
lines along Apple Tree Lane, One Hundred
and Fifty (150) Feet and containing Sew
entv-five Hundred (7500) Square Feet OF
land. be the same more or less And being
Lot Number seven mo. % as shown on
Wyoming Heights laid out by j. E. Hadda-
way. Surveyor in the month Of June, A. d.
1948. and of record in the Office of the
Recorder of Deeds Etc. of the State of Del
aware. in and for Kent County, in Plot
Book /. PAGE 318.
No. 2. All that certain lot, piece OF
parcel of land situated on the East side Of
Layton Avenue in the Town of Wyoming
North Murderkill Hundred, Kent County
and State of Delaware, as shown on plot
of lots hereinafter mentioned, adjoining lot
number seven mo. - on the North. lo'
Number eleven mo. III on the South, Lay
ton Avenue on the West and Center Drive
on the East and having front on saio
Layton Avenue of fifty t50) Feet and run
ming back therefrom, between parallel lines
| One Hundred and Fifty (150) Feet u
Center Drive and containing seventy-fvs
Hundred (7500) Square Feet of land. be the
same more or less, and being lot Number
Nine mo. 81 as shown on plot OF iots
known as Subdivision of South Wyomlns
Heights" of record in the Office OF the ne
corder of Deeds aforesaid at Dover, IN Plo'
Book l. Page 3lS.
The two lots above described are th'
same lands and premises which Wllhan
Watson Carton and Mary A. Carton, ms
wife. by their certain Indenture OF Bargain
and Sale. bearing date the twenty-slxth ga!
of Nav, A. D. 1850. and of record IN TN
Ofice Of the Recorder of Deeds atoresalG
al Dover. in Deed Book Y, Volume IL, pag'
! ais etc; granted and conveyed unto TN
4 said Jacob Palmatory and catherine
Palmatory his wife in fee SIMPLE
improvements thereon being two-stor!
| frame dwelling built on dividing line o
/ two lots.
The two lots together with improvements
will be sold as one parcel.
SEIZED and taken in execution as tn
property of Jacob Palmatory and Catherine
| r. Palmatory his wife, and will be sold b.
WILLIAM M. PASKEY, Sheriff
Sheriff's Office. Dover, Delaware
! August 18. 1852
Smyrna times., 1952-08-28
FRIDAY 18TH NOT so BAD
More Accidents Caused on satur
days, Safety Council Warns

More Accidents Caused on Satur-
days, Safety Council Warns
Afraid to start trip on Friday
the 18th?
Actually, says the Delaware
Safety Council, fewer people are
killed or injured in traffic accidents
on Friday the 18th than on Satur-
day the 14th-for the simple rea-
son that there is more traffic on
Saturday than on Friday.
Accident Facts" the National
Safety Councils statistical year
book, which is just off the press,
shows that 21 per cent of the 32,-
500 fatal motor vehicle accidents
last year occurred on Saturdays.
Sunday was second highest, with
10 per cent of the fatal accidents.
Then came Friday with IA per
cent. Monday and Wednesday each
had IL per cent of the fatal acci-
Smyrna times., 1952-08-28

In the U. S., it takes a workman
three hours to earn enough to buy
daily food for five people. 1t takes
a Russian worker nine hours. Not
only have we produced enough for
ourselves, but since 1945, we have
helped other countries with loans,
credits, and gifts of about rs bill
lion dollars worth of dash and
goods.
Smyrna times., 1952-08-28

dents, and Tuesday and Thursday
IL per cent.
Saturday also led the list last
year for all motor vehicle accidents
including those causing property
damage as well as injury, with 10
per cent occurring on that day.
Sunday was next with 16 per cent.
Smyrna times., 1952-08-28

One billion tons of manure, the
annual product of livestock on
American farms. if completely re-
covered, carefully preserved, and
efficiently used, should produce six
billion dollars worth of increase in
crop production.
Smyrna times., 1952-08-28
Sherif's Sale
OF VALUABLE
REAL ESTATE

By virtue of writ of Levari Facias for
sale of land to me directed, will be ex-
posed to public sale by way Of public
vendue at the Front Door of Court House
Dover, Kent County, and State of Della
ware, on
Smyrna times., 1952-08-28
Sherif's Sale
OF VALUABLE
Real Estate

By virtue of Writ Of Ievari Facias for
sale of land to me directed. will be exposed
to public sale by way of public vendue at
the front door of THE KENT COUNTY
COURTHOUSE. City of Dover, Kent
County and State of Delaware. on
Smyrna times., 1952-08-28
PUBLIC SALE
OF VALUABLE
Personal Property
Saturday, August 80, 1852

Having sold my farm and retiring will
sell at public auction
Evening star., 1952-11-23

The Marquis de Chambrun
was an unofficial envoy from
France to Washington during
the closing months of the Civil
War. Relations between the
French Legation Gas it was them
and the United States Govern
ment were strained because of
French sympathy for the Con-
federacy. The Marquis, an
avowed Union sympathizer and
foe of slavery, was sent to try
to smooth things over, and also
to do what he could to avert
trouble with France over Mex
leo, where Napoleon III had
placed Maximilian on the throne.
The French envoy's impress
sions. published for the first
time, were contained in letters
to his wife in Paris. She later
joined him in Washington, and
their two sons were born here.
One Of them, Gen. Adelbert de
Chambrun, born in a small house
that then stood at 1929 G street
NV, came across the letters
two years ago when going over
effects left by his sister. Gen.
de Chambrun, an honorary
American citizen by reason of
his direct descent from Lafayette
through his mother, has edited
and translated the letters.
The marquis letters are de-
Evening star., 1952-11-23

Hollywood would be foolish to
pass up. But Miss Suyin also
writes knowingly Of the bewilder-
ing problems facing Chinese In
and out of China, caught as
they are now in the theological
whirlpool of Taoism, commu.
nism and democracy.
Some of our SuperpatriotS
may disapprove, but Miss Suyin
also can make a Westerner un-
derstand how Chinese can
put race above ism. She her.
self confesses she is Chinese
before she is either Democrat
or Communist. The way she
puts it, this sounds tragic but
hardly reprehensible.
Miss Abegg's "The Mind Of
East Asia" is a towering ana
lytical study of Oriental philos-
ophy and psychology. It is much
heavier going than Miss Suyin's
book. But it also provides more
answers.
Evening star., 1952-11-23

Here is one of those impon-
derable Ifs" of history.
If President Roosevelt had
met the Japanese Prime Minis
ter in Alaska in the summer Of
1941 would there have been no
Pearl Harbor?
Mr.. Grew. our pre-Pearl Har-
bor Ambassador to Japan, still
believes a meeting would have
brought a settlement of Pacific
problems. He comedies there Is
evidence against this.
On the same day. September
6, 1941, that Mr.. Grew and
Prince Konoye met sub rosa and
the Prime Minister outlined
what he hoped to accomplish
by meeting the President. there
was an imperial conference.
That conference divided on war
if the United States did not
meet Japanese demands.
But. Mr.. Grew argues, Prince
Konoye was ready to make con-
Evening star., 1952-11-23

ceSSionS and he expected to
come back from the meeting
with a dramatic agreement.
With the support of the En-
peror it would sweep the jap
anese people off their feet.
Mr.. Grew discloses a feeling
of Illustration at the maner the
States Department kept its mis-
sion in Tokyo in the dark. Re-
porting to Washington, he
wrote, was like throwing peb-
bles into a lake at night; we
were not permitted to see even
the ripples." But he continued
to send warnings of the possibil-
ity of a Japanese do-or-die pol
icy even if it meant national
hara -kiri in war.
His 40-year record is some
what of a foreign service pana-
Drama. He was presented to
Car Nicholas II in Russia in
1908, to Kaiser Wilhelm in Ber-
lin and to Franz Joseph in
Vienna.
Evening star., 1952-11-23
From Main Street to Stockholm

$50. Selected and with an in
(Harcourt, Brace; $5.J
dwell with one versed in the
world he expected to depict.
For instance. during the author
ship of "Arrowsmith." he had
constantly by his side Scientist
Paul de Kruif. For Elmer
Gantry" he taught a Sunday
school class and became the in
innate of a minister called Will
liam L. Stidger.
The Prize Refusal .. .
Lewis refusal to accept the
Pulitzer Prize for "Arrowsmith"
was carefully thought-ou and
expertly managed operation.
Characteristically, the CORE
spondence, as we'll as the rela-
tionship, breaks off, with a letter
from Lewis complaining bit
terly that Harcourt, Brace failed
to exploit the commercial po-
tential of his winning of the
Nobel Prize for literature in
1881. The publisher replied with
equally characteristic grace and
tact. IF I've lost an author,
you haven't lost either friend
or a devoted reader"
The letters have been edited
by Harrison Smith, who is
writing a biography of Lewis.
M. Meg.
Evening star., 1952-11-23
and Writing
Authors Meet Here to Honor
Writer of New Life of Lincoln
By Mary McGrory

The anniversary Of Lincoln's
Gettysburg Address was marked
at the Library Of Congress last
Wednesday with ceremonies that
seemed in all ways appropriate.
Most of the wits and scholars
in town turned up at the Lii
brary of Congress to greet Ben
jamin p. Thomas. author Of a
new one-volume life Of Lincoln
that has already been hailed as
the best one-volume life OF Lin
coin ever written.
Mr.. Thomas, a gentle. round
faced inhabitant of Lincoln's
old stamping ground. SPRING
field, Ill, presented the manu-
script of the book to the Lii
brary.
Among the guests gathered to
honor Mr.. Thomas and Mr..
Lincoln was Bernard De Voto,
who, incidentally. was also cele-
brating publication OF a new
book. Course of Empire" (re-
viewed on this page) made its
appearance Wednesday. The
distinguished historian and crit
ic, who is also a martini expert
Che wrote a book on the sub
ject called 1.-THE Hour"), pro-
nounced himself not only sur.
prised by the presence but
delighted with the quality Of the
martins which the Library had
mixed for the occasion.
Mr.. De Voto, who spent the
autumn on the campaign train
of Adlai Stevenson, was in town
for a meeting of the National
Park Planning Board.
With Course of. Empire" on
it's way, Mr.. De Voto says his
future plans call only for the
making of a little money. For
purposes of research, he spent
many months on the open road.
following the path of the Lewis
and Clark Expedition by train,
plane, car and foot.
It was. says Mr.. De Voto in
> retrospect, fun but bankrupt
ing"
Evening star., 1952-11-23

Seldom has an author writ
ten less literary" letters, and
it is hard to see exactly what
purpose publication of them
serves. Sinclair Lewis was as
business-conscious as Babbitt.
and watched the box Office with
unabashed interest and con-
Germ. r
Most authors consider that
their publishers do not know
how properly to advertise them,
and Mr. Lewis is a startling
illustration of this old truth of
the book world. His promotion
schemes differed from those of
other avid novelists, though. in
that they were often very good.
and he was always willing to
have royalties diverted for their
realization. He was forever try
ing to turn other authors let
ters in praise of his books into
jacket blurbs. In his travels he
ran into many of the worlds
literati. but he wrote his pub
Usher about them Che served
Harcourt, Brace as a SCOUT only
in terms of publishing possibili-
ties :.
Publishers Letters
Sinclair Lewis and the firm of
Harcourt. Brace grew up to-
gether. They published his ear
liest and his very best works: b,
Main Street, "Babbitt," "Dods-
WORTH" "Arrowsmith." The
publishers letters, which are
included, present the perfect
picture of the tactful, soothing,
gratifyingly enthusiastic agent.
conveying an air of well-bred
ecstasy whenever a new Lewis
manuscript arrived at the Of
flee. '..,
Some of the incidental revela-
tions are interesting. Lewis
incredible restlessness is re-
f1ected in the ever-changing
datelines. Intimations of his
occasional struggles with demon
rum crop up. He was unfailingly
generous to aspiring authors
and would-be publishers and
sent a never ending stream of
possible noveliSts and employees
to the patient Messrs. Harcourt
and Brace. A little light is shed
on his working methods, al
though Mr.. Lewis was plainly
one Of those who wrote his
books instead of writing about
them. His way was to soak
himself in the atmosphere of a
proposed novel, and virtually
Evening star., 1952-11-23
Korean Cuse

Thus publication day passed
merrily for two authors. For 1t.
Col. Melvin B. Voorhees,. author
of Korean Tales" it was an
other story. Col. voorhees, spent
the day at his desk in the His
torical Section of the Adjutant
Generals Office at Fort Meade.
with an unpleasant prospect in
view.
The prospect is court-martial.
and the publication of korean
Tales" is the cause.
Now the Army does not forbid
its personnel to write for recre-
alton or for profit. On the con-
trary, regulation specifically en-
courage it. On the other hand,
1t insists on clearing manu-
scripts.
Col. Voorhees,. who spent 18
months in Korea, ironically
enough as chief censor for
the 9th Army and supervisor of
courts-martial, sent his fact
and-f1ction account of his Ko-
rean experiences to the Penta-
gon last spring. There. Gen.
Francis x. Dorm, deputy
chief of information for the
Army pronounced the book
"unseemly."
Col. Voorhees, says he made
some changes recommended by
a member of the generals staff.
But he has stood firm on his re-
fusal to make major amputa-
tions" on the manuscript. No
one has questioned it for secu-
rity or accuracy. He does not
question the Army'S right to re-
view things written by military
personnel. At the same time he
feels that protests against what
he regards as arbitrary" meth
DDS of censorship should be
made. He says that General
Dorn's charges of violation of
propriety" left him in the dark.
Since being sent to Fort
Meade. Col. Voorhees,, a West
Coast newspaperman of 18
years standing, has been pro-
vided with competent military
counsel.
He understands that this is
the first time an officer faced
court-martial on account of a
book. He is not enjoying the
distinction.
Evening star., 1952-11-23
Britain, 1852

british Information SerU-
ices: ST.
This is, described as the first
official yearbook to be issued by
the British government. 1t has
up-to-the- minute ~factual and
statistical information about the
United Kingdom. The chapter
headings give an idea of it's
scope. They include: The Brit
ish Isles, a summary of geo.
graphical characteristics and
population trends: Government
and Administration, Defense,
Public Services, Finance, Trade
and Industry, Social Welfare,
Religion, Science, the Arts and
the Press. The book, annotated
with maps, a photography and
an index, should be invaluable
to the business man with over
seas interests, the student or
the reader who merely is in
terested in the detailed organ
ization Of government and pri-
vate industry in Great Britain.
&C. B. j.
Evening star., 1952-11-23
The Tanning of the Motions
BY F. S. c. Northrop.

BY F. S. G. Northrop.
(Macmillan; $5J
In this study of the cultural
bases of international policy,
DR.. Northrop, professor of phi
losophy and law at Yale, argues
convincingly that such inter-
national cooperation as we are
likely to achieve, particularly
with the nations of Asia, can
be based only on a recognition
and acceptance Of a variety of
cultures. The key to protecting
the free world, he says, lies in
efforts to encourage a revival of
Asian, continental European,
African and Latin American
values rather than in a negative
attack on communism or high
pressure attempts to sell our
own way of life. B. F.
Evening star., 1952-11-23
Theuter Review

The gap that threatened to
yawn on library shelves when
George Jean Nathan announced
he would forgo writing his an
nual review of the theater may
be filled up. A young man came
to Washington recently who ap-
pears to be ready, willing and
able to leap into the breach. He
is Richard Mclaughlin, former
ly of the staff of Theater Arts.
Mr.. Mclaughlin, who came
through here on a lecture tour,
feels that one of the troubles
that beset the theater particu-
larly in last years disastrous
season, was the influx of nom
Evening star., 1952-11-23

Mr.. De Voto'S approach to
basic American history is boldly
original in design and detail.
What part did the geography
of North America play in the
long struggle of European ad-
venturers to explore and subdue
the continent? How did their
own misconceptions of this geog-
raphy affect the course of en-
pire? What determined the
eventual boundaries OF the
United States?
These are some of the oues-
tions Mr.. De Voto undertakes
to answer in the third and most
comprehensive of his trilogy OF
books on early American history.
Course of Empire" is thronged
with the record OF people and
episodes significant in nearly
three centuries of tortuous ex-
ploring and colonizing. And it
is written with a glow that lights
up the musty Shelves of old
books and forgotten documents
that give the narrative verify
and substance.
"Why did we become what we
are and not something else?" the
author asks in his preface.
Continentolism
And he examines the force OF
what is called continentallsm.
He emphasizes and his book
makes clear that in streSsing
the role of the natural barriers
the vast wilderness that was
not entirely known until the
years were rounding into the
10Th century-he is not setting
up the principle of determinlsm.
Determinism is historical pre-
destination - the conception
that forces beyond mems con-
troll shape their destinies. He
believes that men are masters
of their societies, society'S will
is free and history is not geog-
raphy, it is men and the events
they produce. But the natural
conditions in which men live
help to shape their societies.
They can and do live in the
desert and on the Arctic ice. but
on terms which desert and ice
impose"
Mr.. De Voto has organized his
books by themes rather than
events or chronology. though
the themes are developed large
ly in chronological order. The
most important themes are the
effects of geography. known.
legendary and guessed at; the
exploration of the United States
and Canada. so much of it as
was relevant to the discovery
of a route to the Pacific Ocean:
the rivalry of four empires for
what is now the United States;
the relationship of these ele-
Evening star., 1952-11-23
Reviewed by EorI n. Voss

One fundamental handicap
plaques most people interested
in the Orient and anxious to
make friends with the people
there: Asia is almost as dark a
continent as Africa. Human
problems lie imbedded in thou
sands of years of Oriental ira
dition so devious and ritualistic
that it takes years to figure
them out.
These two books have the
makingS of a short course on
how the Oriental thinks.
Miss Suyin's "A Many -Splen-
dored Thing" could become as
influential as Pearl Bucks "The
Good Earth" in bringing
China's problems down to an
understandable level in Amer
lea. Miss Suyin is a Eurasian
who writes knowingly of love.
which should serve to attract a
wide leadership. The love
story she tells-her own with a
British correspondent in Hong
Kong-is a beautiful thing that
Evening star., 1952-11-23

ments to the Indians. The
meaning. the essence Of the
book, is not in any single theme.
but in their combination.
The American Indions
Mr.. De Voto feels that his
torians have neglected the In
dians, either brushing them
aside as merely hazards the
conquistadores, the voyageurs
and the colonists had to face
or else considering their society
and deeds as uniform and static.
It is doubtful if any one has
explored Indians and their ways
so thoroughly in the space Mr..
De Voto was able to give them
in a relatively brief history.
He shows the individual traits
of various tribes and the COM
plex effects of white encroach-
ment. We learn. for instance,
of the great military ability of
the Iroquois, who controlled a
vast area of the Northeast for
many years. We visit the Man
dams of the Northwest, who were
light skinned and highly ad-
vanced and were believed by
many Europeans to be descend
ants of a legendary Welsh ex-
ploration in the 18th century.
We come to know the ways of
many other tribes.
We follow the early Spaniards
-Narvaez, De Soto, Coronado
and others-far into interior
wildernesses in their forlorn,
blood d-strewn searches for the
fabulous seven cities of gold
which were always just over the
horizon.
Historical Treasure
Little was known of the extent
and shape Of the continent even
in the next century, when
Champlain, later Joliet and
Marquette, were mapping fresh
areas and the fur traders were
pressing into the vast mystery
of the Northwest. 1t was not
until 1906 that the overland
trade route to the Pacific was
fully explored by Lewis and
Clark.
Mr.. De Voto's chronicle begins
with the incredible but true ad-
venture of CabeZa de Vaca-
treasurer of Narvaez' expedi-
ton into Florida-in 1923. It
ends 278 years later. The ear
lier books, later in time, COW
cred. respectively, less than two
years and seven years. These
were THE Year of Decision"
and across the Wide Missouri"
The trilogy, rounded out mag
nif1cently with THE Course of
Empire" is an impressive ad-
dition to American history.
Evening star., 1952-11-23
The Best-Loved Trees

BY Robert S. Lennon. (Dou-
bledGy & Co. and American
Garden Guild; $780,
Chatty appreciations of SO
arboreal standouts, lavishly il
luStrated. F. S., Jr.
Evening star., 1952-11-23
Impressions of Lincoln and the Civil War

~AA '~sNss~SHt A4OUoC, UG.fVf.
cidedly interesting. He came to
know Lincoln well. and formed
an intense admiration for him.
Once he remarked that the
Bible and Shakespeare formed
the basis of Lincoln's self-edu-
cation, adding: II am inclined
to think that this sort of intel
lectual culture, since it aids in
preserving originality, is better
suited to the development of a
gifted mind than is regular edu-
cation" ---
Chambrun's observations were
keen and generally accurate. It
is not surprising that he fell
into occasional error, consider
ing the atmosphere of war bit
ternesS that surrounded him.
He was ready to believe, as many
persons in Washington were at
the time, that Jefferson Davis
and other Southern leaders were
involved in the plot to assassi-
nate Lincoln. &C. B. j.