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Smyrna times., 1954-05-13
20 Years Ago

At a recent meeting of Smyrna
Town Council, it was voted to
award the contract to George &
Lynch, Dover, to complete the
work as expeditely as possible, ex-
pecting at least to have south
Main Street trench, from Hanil-
tons Lane to Mill Street filled in
and graded by the weekend.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer p. Corrie
ad daughter, Miss Florence r.
Corrie, have returned from Fred
erick, Md, where they spent sew
eral days last week attending the
48th annual encampment of the
Sons of Union Veterans of the
Ladies' Auxiliary to that organiza-
ton.
Miss Anna B. Beckett, Miss
Eunice Lowmaster, Mr.. and Mrs.
Leland Harmonson, Mrs. E. P.
Vogel, Miss Helen Scout and Miss
Margaret Slaughter were among
those from Smyrna to motor to
Wilmington on Monday evening
and see Ruth Cornell in @The Bar
retts of Wimpole Street" presented
at the Playhouse.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Slaughter of
Philadelphia, spent Sunday with
their parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Harry
Slaughter.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert H. Denney
and daughters, Henrietta and
Louise, spent Sunday in Whining
ton with Mr.. and Mrs. Vernon
Clark.
Mr.. and MRS. Harry M. Grieves.
of Lansdowne, Pa, spent Sunday
with Mr.. Harry b. Grieves.
Harry P. Boyles is building a
house on Commerce Street, next
door to his present residence. AS
soon as the house is completed, Mr..
Boyles and his family expects to
move from their present home into
their new home.
A number of Smyrna firemen
with one of their fire engines, went
to Lewes yesterday where the fifth
annual convention of the Delmarva
Firemen's Association was held
and entered the parade of firemen
from the three states held in the
afternoon.
DR.. and Mrs. c. ]. Prickett gave
a dinner followed by bridge at
their home on west Mt. Vernon
Street, Tuesday evening in honor
of DR.. and Mrs. A. v. Gilliland.
Mr.. S. M. Hoffecker of Bryn
Mawr, Pa, spent Sunday with Mr..
and Mrs. R. d. Hoffecker.
MIR. and Mrs. Hervey p. Hall
were guests at dinner on Sunday
of DR.. and Mrs. Frank L. Grier at
Milford.
Smyrna times., 1954-05-13

D. c. was in town last Sunday.
Mrs. James Scotten and Mrs.
Richard Johnson and son, Dickie,
Mrs. Slaughter and Judy, were
Rehoboth, Del, visitors on Satur-
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Hitlin and
boys of Dover were dinner guests
of Mr.. and Mrs. William Oxley or
Sunday.
There will be no service at the
Methodist Church, Sunday, May
16. Conference will be in session
in Wilmington.
Mr.. ]. S. Daley attended Lions
Club dinner meeting at Preston on
Wednesday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Howard Logan en-
joyed Mothers Day with their
children in Carney's Point, N. ].
Master Jeffry Boys is spending
time with his grandparents, Mr..
and Mrs. A. H. Wyatt.
We are glad to report little Bill
lie Melvin is home from the hospi-
tai with no serious results from his
accident.
The Ladies Auxiliary will enter
tain the Kent County, Delaware
Ladies Auxiliary Association at a
dinner meeting on Tuesday, May
25, at z pm. in the firemen's hall
Pvt. Leroy Harman left on Fri
day for Aberdeen, Md, where he
will attend Ordinance School for
8 weeks. We wish him lots Of luck
Mr.. and Mrs. Elvin Phillips and
the Logan's were dinner guests on
Friday evening of Mr.. and Mrs
H. R. Butts.
Smyrna times., 1954-05-13
MARYDEL

The Civic Club will meet at the
home of Mrs. Isaac Thomas with
Mrs. Radach as co-hostess on
Thursday, May 27, at s pm. Mrs.
Harry Heather and her committee
will begin charge of the program,
subject Gardening" Will each
member please bring a plant or
bulb for exchange.
MIR. Price Kaler of Washington,
Smyrna times., 1954-05-13
SMYRNA DOINGS
OF so YEARS AGO
Notes 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. win call to mind people
and events of the older genera
tion.
Evening star., 1954-11-28

tics, economic difnculties, racial inequities,
mans inhumanity to man.
But DR.. Coffin was not merely a
reformer. Much Of his endeavor was pledged
to strictly conservative interests. He de-
voted himself to the tedious task of church
unity when to do SO was not popular. With
infinite patience. he strove to bring diver
gent groups together in functional harmony.
His books of which there were many, for
he was richly eloquent with pen empha-
sized the constructive values Of his faith.
He was builder, never wrecker, In his
ministry. The love of beauty which was one
Of his major endowments led him into
liturgics and the mission Of music, especially
hymnology which he taught in his own
home.
Washington knew Dr. Cofin as notable
preacher and as religious statesman. He
long will be remembered here. and his work
will be carried forward in the Nations Cap
ital by men and women he trained for such
responsibility.
Evening star., 1954-11-28
Fifty Years Ago in The Star !.

England shortly, proceeding thence to
India, where they would visit the vice.
roy, Lord Curzon, and Lady Curzon,
the former Mary Victoria Letter.
~
An important political career was
getting started so years back. The Star
for November 80,
Woodrow Wilson 1904. reported that
On the South DR.. Woodrow Will
son, president of
Princeton University, was the guest of
honor at the third annual dinner Of
the Society Of. the Virginians in New
York and that the subject Of his adj
dress was: "The Political Situation in
the South" The speaker "said that
no one could wonder at the present
impatience Of the Southern political
leaders at finding themselves without
real independence or influence in the
politics of the country. He declared
that it (the South was the only sec
ton Of the country which did not make
real choice Of Its political actions In
the recent election. The real oppor-
tunity Of the South, he thought. would
be the rehabilitation Of the Democratic
Party on lines that would restore 1t to
dignity and power by the casting out
Of radical theorists"
On November 28, 1904, The Star
printed . dispatch from New York read
ing: "a sensation has
Cassie Chodwick been caused here by
Litigation the bringing Of suit
by Herbert D. New
ton Of Brookline. Mass, against Mrs.
Cassie Chadwick Of Cleveland. Ohio.
for $190, 800, for money loaned. Mrs.
Chadwick Is the wife Of Cleveland
physician. In addition to Mr.. Newton,s
suit. several banks have taken legal ac-
tion to recover various amounts. which
bring the total sum to $267.Soo. Mr..
Evening star., 1954-11-28

An editorial in The Star for Decem-
ber /, 1904, read as follows: To-day
witnesses the close Of the
Exposition great exposition at St.
Closes Louis commemorative OF the
acquisition by the United
States Of the Louisiana Purchase ter
ritory. It has been notable enter
prise and unquestionably productive OF
much permanent good for this country.
It has resulted in the assemblage OF q
great number of people from all parts
of the world. directly and indirectly
representative of all the powers and
races. It has furnished the American
people with an object lesson OF rare
value, demonstrating the industries
and resources of other countries as
well as their own, and bringing them
into contact with each other and with
foreigners. This contact itself has been
an education. s. The attendance has
not been equal to that at Chicago. fall
ing short about million. This. it is
believed, is due to a lack Of local pa
tronage, for the railroads entering St.
Louis report heavier traffic than dur
ing the Chicago exposition period"
r.
S. Kanns Sons 81 Co. Eighth street
and Pennsylvania avenue NV, adver-
tised In The Star of No
Wheeled vemher 80. 1904, q variety
TOYS Of wheeled toys, the prices
of which will be Of interest
to- parents purchasing similar play
things half century later. A very
strong. rubber tired tandem pedal auto
with specially built running gear" was
available at $lI.49. and rubber-tired
rlnabDut. single-seat pedal machine
with horn" was $4.98. Meanwhile. q
great wagon bargain--1lx22-inch
body with steel axles and braces cost
only SO cents. A "hot-air engine for
running workshops. etc." arranged to
Evening star., 1954-11-28
Roadside Eyesores

Most motorists will support renewed
efforts in Maryland to prevent further de-
terioration of roadside scenery in that
State. With such highly conmercialized
highways as U. S. Routes and 40 in mind,
several legislators have announced plans
for reintroducing bill to control roadside
development on major roads. The move
ment is justified not alone on esthetic
grounds but in the interest of traffic safety
and of protection of the States investment
In highway construction.
Some measure of control has been ex-
ercised by the State Roads Commission In
the planning of such expresSways as the
Washington Baltimore Parkway and the
new 240 route between Washington and
Frederick. BY limiting access to these free
ways, commercial development along them
has been restricted to areas in the vicinity
of the various interchanges. Even there,
however, the State has acquired wide rights
of way on each side of the highways, thus
keeping hot dog stands, billboards, taverns
and the other hodgepodge structures and
businesses we'll away from the traffic But
not all of a States highways can be re-
Stricted as to access. Some limitation on
roadside chaos Is essential in the public
interest, however. Apparently it will take
action by the General Assembly to provide
the authority needed
Evening star., 1954-11-28

practice that starts out with a false
premise that 1t is indeed science can
only result in inviting confusion,
mischief and greater evils than what
they are pretending to cure. Insanity
is a subject and disease that mankind
has been acquainted with historically
for several millenia and very large
percentage of its etiology has been
found by those most competent to deal
with 1t as springing from some form
or acquired or congenital moral turpi-
tude. Obviously, most crimes have
their origin in some form of acquired
or congenital moral turpitude. Are we
therefore warranted to extend sanctu-
ary to criminals by shunting them into
insane asylums?
The current status and insight Of
psychiatry scarcely exceeds the obser-
vations Of an intelligent and pene-
trating lay mind In detecting and
evaluating sanity from insanity.
Therefore, investing psychiatry with
final powers Of determination as to
insanity resulting from the applica-
ton of this new formula of the test
of insanity can only result in COM
pounding society with infinitely
greater mischiefs, and in the final
analysis constitutes an open invitation
to lawyers to shepherd their criminal
clients into the haven Of insane
asylums. Criminals require no prompt
ings to plead insanity in preference
to the rigors Of penal servitude. More
over, even in cases of bona f1de insane
inmates, the so-called treatments or
cures effected in insane asylums do
not measurably exceed the results OBJ
tained in the psychiatric wards Of
penitentiaries. To emasculate penal
servitude is to invite an acceleration
of criminal activities in these United
States It remains for me only to
hope that your institution will not
fail in exposing this medical fallacy.
Silas Ezra.
Evening star., 1954-11-28

connect with lighting gas and prom
ised cannot explode" was $4.98, and
swinging" hobby horse was $2.49.
There were II different kinds Of shoo-
flys on display for "littlest folks" at
SO cents to $4.98.
An entire page Of book reviews ap-
peared in The Star on November 26,
1904. the leading ar
New Books tieles being devoted to
Reviewed Hall Gaines ''The Prodi-
gal Son." Arthur Morri-
sons 1.-THE Green Diamond" and Har-
old MacGraths ''The Man on the Box"
Other comments had to do with Well
ington. Soldier and Statesman" by
William O'Connor Morris: Monsieur
Dupin." Charles Raymond Macaulay;
1.-THE Albert Gate Mystery" Louis
Tracy; "Corea, the Hermit Nation" !"
William Eliot Grifis: Far and Near, !"
by John Burroughs; Emerson, Poet
and Thinker" Elisabeth Luther Cary:
Saints and Festivals Of the Christian
Church" II. Pomeroy Brewster, and
'sThe Friendship Of Ar" Bliss Carmar1.
Meanwhile, the important private lie
brary Of Bishop John r. Hurst was be-
ing sold at auction in New York.
The Star Of November 20. 1904. an
nounced the marriage Of Nancy Carver
Letter, sec o n d
Letter Compbell daughter Of the late
Wedding Levi z. Letter. TO
Mai. Colin Powys
Campbell Of the British Army. Rev.
Roland Cotton Smith. rector Of St.
Johns Church. ofiiciated ct the cere-
mony at the home Of the brides
mother. Mrs. Mary r. Carver Letter, on
Dupont Circle. Only members OF the
family and q few close friends at
tended. It was understood that Mai
Campbell and his wife would leave for
Evening star., 1954-11-28
Spires Of the Spirit
On Omitting Flowers

please omit flowers" is q request
often issued when arrangements are
announced for what usually is called
funeral service. In life'S darkest
hours. when hearts are torn by poign-
ant grief, when 1t seems as dear one
goes from our sight and side that life
has tumbled in, strange new direc-
tive puts a taboo on the Creators
petaled masterpieces which can say
nameless things that no human lips
can utter.
Whence comes this incongruous sug-
geStion? Omit howers--In the Valley
Of the Shadow, when every yearning
impulse is struggling vainly to ex-
press feelings that are too deep for
words! Then it is that flowers offer
wings TO affection, appreciation and
consolation, to wistful memories and
assurances of sympathy. OF course.
carping critics Of any custom may sus-
pect the aroma of commercialism in
the slogan admittedly coined by ven
dorS of blooms: Say it with flowers"
But, alas for the one who In so fragrant
phrase detects only the ring Of the
florists cash register. In Say it with
flowers" there stretch enchanting vistas
OF sacramental beauty like the glory
Of garden or the simmer OF moon
light on a silvery sea.
X
A choice friend, here no more, whose
spiritual apprehensions found radiant
kinship in flowers as he pondered a
poSey's secret for entering the SacriSty
of another's felicity or pain, left us this
verbal bouquet: "The enterprising fo-
rist does not attempt to suggest what
you shall say. That Is your part of the
enterprise. His to supply the vocabulary.
SO to speak; yours to select the partic-
ular words required for your message
Indeed. your floral gift can say things
of exquisite delicacy and tender mean
ing for the expression Of which a die
tionary leaves you inpotent. Heart
meanings conveyed by flowers become
prismatic, whose white light breaks into
a perfect shower Of crimson, violet and
gold" Yet it is boldly proposed to blow
out all the floral candles on the high
altar Of grief-to bar all that glory
from the place Of mourning and re-
membrance-when the daughters of
music are brought low! "No trespass-
ing" signs are set UP against the con-
soling presence Of the splendor which
had captured the very being Of Oliver
Wendell Holmes, when he declared:
1.-THE Amen Of nature is always
flower" Some unnamed constable dares
to forbid the entry of the gay loveliness
which banished his gloom, as Emerson
gratefully remarks, Earth laughs in
flowers"
In a poets rapture Walt Whitman
cries: "a morning-glor at my window
satisfies me more than the metaphysics
of books" And it was Tennyson. with
a tiny bloom held in his hand, who
soliloquized that if man could tell all
that is mirrored there he'd know what
God and man are. In his Hymn to
Evening star., 1954-11-28
Henry Sloane Coffin

The Presbyterian branch Of world
Christianity lost great exponent and
exemplar when the Reverend DR.. Henry
Sloane Coffin died at n. He was practical
theologian," working in the science Of classic
religious philosophy on broad scriptural
base. Adding his own original conceptions
to wealth of reading, he brought to his
task as president of the Union Theological
Seminary between 1926 and l945 realistic
scholarliness which made studying under
him an inspiring experience. His mind was
agile, receptive and provocative; his man
agement of language skillful and efficient;
his acceptance Of the challenges of events
serviceable in the highest degree. Human
affairs of every sort were included within
his concern. He shut himself away from no
current problem, no prevailing issue. Hence
the term liberal" frequently applied to him.
He earned that designation by his coura-
geous reactions to questions involving poll
n II
Evening star., 1954-11-28
Our Churches

The two articles recently appearing
in The Star about life in. Washington
and New York City presented vivid
pictures Of some phases of life in the
two cities but the one about New York
might have left one wondering II
there is or ever was house of worship
in that city.
The writer. describing so well the
sensations and impressions Of the folks
who come to Washington from all over
the country, did include the fact that
church attendance is high" I was
glad he inserted even that little item
to indicate that people can find here
food for the soul as well as bread,
butter and even bit Of jam.
I came to Washington during World
War I and, as the others he men
toned, stayed on" But on my first
Sabbath in this city I sought and at
tended church I thought I might
like. The soul needs regular nourish-
ment as much as the stomach does
and I soon united with the church
of my choice. There have found not
only uplifting preaching and teaching
but delightful fellowship.
Were I to leave Washington for a,
home elsewhere would remember with
pleasure the many artistic. educational
and patriotic memorials and institu-
tions here. My most treasured memory.
however, would be of the fellowship
and fine Christian friends and the in
spiration found where church at
tendance is high" A. L. w.
Ride from one end OF Sixteenth
street NV. to the other and return.
and try to count the different kinds
Of churches and places Of worship.
There they stand-side by side one
might say-all along the way: Baptist,
Methodist, Presbyterian, Christian Sci
enlist, Spiritualist. Roman Catholic.
Greek Orthodox and other churches
Evening star., 1954-11-28

the Flowers" Horace Smith points to
their inspiring ministry in unforgettable
lines:
Were I. o God, in churchless lands
remaining
Far from all voice OF teachers or
dtutnes,
Ny soul mould find In fo,oers OF Thy
ordGintng
Priests, sermons, shrtnes.
In the midst OF such Hallelujah
Chorus, lifting to the highest heaven
a paean of gratitude for the tint Of
the tiniest flower, how impertinent ap-
pears a banner with this strange device:
please omit flowers Omit priests,
sermons, shrines" What! Bring no
symbols of the white flowers of i'm
mortality which bloom around the
solitude Of the grave? Omit flowers
when gathered friends come to hear
the triumphal assurance that death is
but q portal to another room IN the
Fathers many -mansioned house? No
flowers as emblems whispering of the
virtues and graces that made the
earthly life Of the one who has finished
the course even as garden Of the
Lord?
How bleak and bare the last rites"
can be when there is no loft from
which comes the solace Of multi
colored, surpliced. flower choir in the
chapel Of death2 OH to be sure, like
any other hallowed ritual, defiling
hands may turn it all into q vulgar
display Of pagan extravaganza! But
there is an old proverb warning against
letting out the baby with the bath. A
remedy for excesses which prescribes
that flowers be eliminated when and
where they are needed most savors Of
the ruthless inconoclast.
But listen, says one with cold gleam
in his eye: Why not give the money
spent for flowers to some humanitarian
cause? How piously realistic! But the
undertones of that proposition are sus-
piciously like the snarling suggestion
of Judas when Mary poured the pre-
cious ointment. perfumed like English
violets, on the feet of the Master she
adored. The miserly instincts Of the
Evening star., 1954-11-28

Newton alleges that Mrs. Chadwick told
him she had S. million In bonds and Sc
curities held in trust by Ira Reynolds,
secretary and treasurer Of the Wade
Park Banking Co. of Cleveland, and
that she had note for 100000 which
she could negotiate at any time for the
purpose of paying Newton. p. w.
Carver of Boston, attorney for Mr.. New
ton, in a statement for his client, said
that when the loan became payable IL
was not met and that then he, Mr.. Car
yer, had a conference with Mrs. Chad.
wick and her counsel. The statement
was made to me- said Mr.. Carver. that
the securities held as trust fund would
soon be released and that In short
time all the various obligations would
be paid. Later, went to Cleveland,
where had conference with MIR.
Reynolds, but he refused to disclose any
information as to the securities in his
care Following another conference with
Mrs. Chadwick's counsel last Monday
we decided to bring suit In equity for
the recovery Of the money and have
obtained injunctions restraining Mr..
Reynolds from putting the securities out
Of his possession and also to prevent
Mrs. Chadwick from disposing Of
them.'" Thus began q story which had
extensive coverage In the press for
years and still is Q subject Of comment
In legal circles.
The Takoma Club and Library gave
q book party and dance ct its club
house on Oak avenue, Te-
Book koma Park, Monday evening.
Porty November n. 1904. and The
Star for the next day con-
tanned an account Of the occasion.
explaining that each Of the guests
brought book as gift TO the CLUB
collection. President Louis 2. Shoe
maker headed the receiving line. and
other ofilcers in attendance we're: Dr..
A. v. Parsons, Howard Fisk, Ben q.
Davis. George A. Warren. w. q. Platt.
C. M. Heaton, ]. B. Derrick, II. 3.
Knight, A. j. Pieters. ]. B. Derrick and
DR.. e. v. Wilcox. Among the speakers
was DR.. r. Il. r. Ellis Of North Takoma.
Evening star., 1954-11-28
A 25-Yeor Boom

The vitality of the American economy
has been proved in many ways but an in
teresting measurement of it's growth In the
last quarter-century is provided by the
recent special study by the Department Of
Commerce.
Covering the Is years from 1929 through
1858, the Office of Business Economics found
the gross national product has expanded
from $1O4 billion to $685. billion annually.
Adjusted to constant dollar" level
allowing for the deflations and infiations
of major depression, two world wars and
other limited" emergencies-the figures
would be $149 billion and $307 billion, an
increase of about los per cent. At the bot
tom of the depression in 1888, incidentally,
the Nation was producing at rate Of only
$50 billion annually.
A population increase from 100 million
to 100 million offers the first and easiest
explanation for the Jump in production.
But of greater significance, perhaps, is the
fact that real output per capita expanded
by about 81 per cent-due to such factors
as increased labor skills, chronological i'm
provements, larger amounts of capital
equipment and better organization and
management
It was from this study apparently that
President Eisenhower during the recent
congressional campaign drew some Of the
basic statistics used In his major economic
address Of October 26. It was then that he
foresaw In less than decade national
annual output Of $500 billion. He proposed
at that time q seven-point program by
which Government might help create the
environment for such tremendous eco
nomic expansion and he reminded the
Nation that there must be climate of
peace internationally and OF confidence
domestically. The impressive record OF the
last Is years has been made under condi-
tions anything but peaceful internationally
or Of unbroken confidence domestically.
Given these, andsal the other factors still
at work, 1t is easy indeed to agree with the
Presidents forecast for the future.