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SATURDAY, JANUARY 20, 1923
NEEDED—SYNCHRONIZATt ON
EPRESENTATIVE MELS ON, Democrat, of Ds««
boro hundred, seems to be afflicted with the un
happy faculty of talking first and thinking afterward.
In the make-up of most men, the brain and the
tongue are synchronized. That Is. they work simul
taneously. Such synchronization seems to hs lacking In
Representative Melaon. His brain and his tongue, as
many legislative observers see It. work Independently
of each other, with hla tongue usually several lap*
«bead of hla brain.
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Such a condition Is a serious handicap to any man.
and particularly to a legislator. It soon leads the pub.
He to refuse to accept seriously anything he may say.
Delawareans will recall that during the World War
the propellers of ths aeroplanes and the gun« which
such aeroplanes carried were synchronized to such a
degree of nicety that the bullets passed between the
blades of the rapidly-revolving propellers,
the propeller or the bullets got out of synchronization,
time, the propeller wa« shot to pieces and the aero
plane crashed to the ground.
Now. taking Mr. Mcleon's mind as the propeller and
his tongue as the rapid Are gun and adding to them a
woeful lack of synchronization, It Is easy to see from
the slmllle that unless he does something to get his
brain and his tongue timed together, he 1« destined to
take a terrible fall In public estimation.
It woud be a pity for a budding statesman from
Dagsboro hundred, who now has hla first real opportu
nity to shine, to suffer such a fate. Wo want to help
him and would suggest that, ns a first »top, he go to
the Aviation Bureau of the War Department ln W sh
Ington. and got the expert« to «ynchronlze hl« brain an,
his tongue.
If either
or
OONTENENTATAS FINE SHOWING
V S shown by tt« fifteenth annual statement, the Con
tinental Life In su r anc e Company, of this rity. is
able at the end of one more year to point out to Its
stockholders, policyholders and friends a very satisfac
tory Increase in business during 1922 a« well as an en
viable financial condition. The statement, as well as
the explanatory comment of Philip Burnet, the presi
dent, !» .published In today's Evening Journal.
* A« an expert analyst In the Economic World has
pointed out. It Is doubted whether any other life com
pany In the country will bo able to show as large a per
centage of Increase both In new business written dur
ing 1922 and In total Insurance In force. Side by side
' with the growth In business has been a strengthening
of surplus, which adds to the financial strength of «
company which always has kept high reserves.
The Continental Company 1. a Wilmington "homo ln
dustry." In many respects Its growth ha. been little
short of phenomenal. It, officer, and director, arc
Delaware and Maryland men exclusively. When It Is
realized that. In total assets, the company Is exceeded
by only a few of our largest manufacturing, banking
end transportation companies, Mr. Burnet and his as
codâtes deserve th* thanks of the whole business com
munity for adding to our commercial life so healthful
and prosperous a unit.
YES, WILMINGTON IS MUSICAL
NT lingering doubts os to Wilmington's actual love
of all that Is best In music were answered, con
\
clusively, last night by the outpouring of musical en
thusiasts and the reception accorded to the New York
Symphony Orchestra, In the Playhouse.
To the Delaware Musical Association, successor to the
Philadelphia Orchestra Committee, belongs the credit
for bringing to our city a distinguished conductor and
a world-renowned organization of artists.
There no longer can be question nf the city's attitude
musically. Lost night's success iheans that the con
certs to come, provided by the Delaware Musical Asso
ciation, the Mayor's Music Commission, the Organists'
Guild and the Delaware Muelc Teachers' Association,
ail, are assured of enthusiastic support.
Tes, Wilmington 1» musical I
YOUR WEAK LINK
ID you read the remarkable story about Mrs. Adele
Robertson, tho New York woman who had the kid
ney of a sheep transplanted Into her body?
The patient is dead. But the surgeons who per
formed the delicate operation claim that It was a suc
cess. death due to other complications. Had It not been
for these complicates, she might be alive now and the
most Interesting medical specimen In existence.
The sheep's kidney started to function much the
same as a motor transferred from one flivver to an
other. Mrs. Robertson's blood circulated through It
and began Its normal work. Death Intervened.
This kidney operation probably Is the forerunner of
a lot of experimental surgery which will affect life In
Wilmington and other places. It suggests that eventu
ally, When our vital organa give out, they may be re
placed by transplanting similar organs from antmal».
That already Is being done with monkey and sheep
glands.
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A famous theatrical magnate, now deceased.
wa« ro
pntèd to have had a pig's stomach transferred to his
interior, his own stomach having l>een removed when
It wore out. Thousand, have heard thl« «tory and be
lieve It. Doctors laugh and say, "Nothing to It."
What Is the weakest link In your physical make-up_
tho Internal organ that gives you the worst service and
the most trouble?
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How would you like to be able to climb on an oper
a'lng table, inhale other, and wake up with a new or
gan transplanted from an animal? An enticing dream.
It might, conceivably, come true within your lifetime.
Will surgical mechanicians come to the rescue?
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VOITR DREAMS
ID you ever have a dream In which you tolled until
exhausted, then waken In the mornln- all tired
p
outT
Rodger Dolan had such a dream. It seemed that he
was for up In Canada. In a logging crew, and that he
chopped wood hour after hour. Qulttlng-tlme flnallly
came. And Just as Dolan was curling up In his dream
land bunk, for a sound sleep, the alarm clock woke
him up.
*T wouldn't mind It so much," he says, "If I had any
wood to show for my work."
Dolan wants to know why he was as stiff and aching,
when he wakened, as If ha had really put In eight hours
with an ax.
A plausible explanation of this might be that the
feeling of fatigue originates In the brain, where dream»
staged, and that exhaustion 1« telegraphed from
are
brain cells to muscles and Joints.
Here, again, we encounter the t«rrlflo fore». Imagi
nation, along the Coue line of reasoning.
We recall a baseball pitcher, and he wasn't a Uni
versity of Delaware man, who dreamed that he pitched
a 80-lnnlng game. Next day bis arm was so «or» and
exhausted that he couldn't lift It,
Obviously, since his arm bad not gone through the
gestures of pitching during «lecp. Its fatigue waa Imag
Or. at least. It originated In Imagination, then
Insry.
the Imaginary condition wa« translated Into actual ex
haustlon of bodily cells.
Conceding all «hl*. It will appeal to moa of us as a
logical proposition, to endeavor to Imagine that we are
healthy and that our endocrine batteries are charged
with plenty of reserve energy. The rule works back
ward the same a« forward.
Some psychic cull« believe that. In sleep, the spirit
leaves the body and carries on a separate existence In
some other "world," planet, dimension or earthly loca
tion, returning to the body at the moment of awaken
ing.
It would have to travel with lightning speed to get
book to the sleeper wakened unexpectedly In the middle
of the night.
The bizarre Is Interesting, whether w e agree or not.
In the last analysis, our state
dominates our actions.
World War. People had to be worked up to a warlike
etate of mind. Imagination, before they were ready to
face the shrapnel and bayonet«.
And there cannot he real peace In Europe until the
people get Into a peaceful state of mind—freed of
hatreds, rivalries and stubborn refusal to admit the
truth.
You saw this Illustrated In the
BABIES AND INTELLIGENCE
T HREE hundred babies are given so-called Intelli
gence test», at a meeting of American Psycholog
ical Association.
Juet what Is intelligence? It certainly Is not merely
the possession of facta for the average «ohoolhoy of
1923 knows more concrete fact* than did Socrates In
the day« when science ond most of the world wore un
explored.
We Delawareans can have a lot of fact-knowledge
without being Intelligent. Any bottle can be filled with
milk. Real Intelligence I« In reasoning power, the abil
ity to distinguish right from wrong and the loglcallly
true from the obviously epurlou*.
I/OVK AND MANSLAUGHTER
FAME IS FLEETING
you 1ha ,' Rlbot „ „„a? Tou d on't quHe
) ^ ^ namf T WM minister of France
Mareh to September. 1917, during one of the mort
N a New York restaurant, an actress 1s shot and
klllsd by a rejected suitor. The murderer tell*
the police, ''My love drove me to kill her."
Many will nod knowingly and comment with an air
Not so, In this
The murderer never loved the
1
of wisdom, "Yes, love Is akin to hate."
casa—and few other«.
He loved himself and went after her with a
aotre«».
pistol because his vanity resented her failure to adore
him.
It
True love never Inflicts pain on the beloved,
makes self-sacrifice freely and gladly, to the utmost.
for the sheer Joy of It, neither demanding nor even ex
A lot of Delaware folk who think
peering reward,
they are In love are merely In a hypnotic state of
vanity.
critical periods of the war.
Le» than six years to make him dim In the memories
Even the World War Is he
most Wilmlngtoninns.
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We would be tsrrlbly unhappy if we did not have this
illty to forget. j
ginning to seem distantly remote.
Nothing is Indelble In the memory of man,
most blessed posseaelons la the power to forget
One of
our
quite as indispensable and soothing as memory, the
fcower to keep fresh In the mind.
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FOOD AND FOOD PRICES
ET AIL prices of food last December 15 were 36
per cent higher than in 1913. In Indianapolis. In i
Richmond, Va, the figure was 57 per cent So reports ^
th# government's Bureau of Labor Statistic«. !
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There 1» quite a spread between those figures. ,
it emphasizes how unevenly the back-to-nnrmal ,
movement Is progressing tn different parts of the coun- |
The same 1« true with clauses, the farmer being
[{
try.
the worst sufferer from deflation.
In time however a general balance will be re-es
' Prices, like water, ultimately seek a com- I
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tablished.
mon level.
With the Pnragraphcrs
How a draft dodger reveals his calibre when he
seeks protection from the government that he would
not protect.—Boston Herald.
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The editor's mall the other day contained this from ;
a man In Nebraska; "Please discontinue my paper. :
I'm not Interested In the oil game any more. It's too I
slippery."—Eldorado Times.
j
prMit.nt Hnrdimr well said In his message to Con
^ "W. ask no onTto ^um,
assume no responsibility which others must hear I
for themselves." That's saylhg an old thing In a new
_ I, Vriend«hin for ell but «mint,
ling alliance# with none_Fort Wayne News
ling alliance* with none^ rort «ayne .Yews.
Sheriff Burton recently levied on fourteen foxhounds
belonging to John Walkup. south of Stoutsville. and
brought them to Parts In a truck. The execution was
in favor of Robert Crump of Paris, and the Mercury
say» this is the first recognition of a hound as property
In th# history of Monroe county legal proceedings. The
dogs ore all pedigreed and If put up at eale will doubt
less bring high prices.—Paris Mercury.
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GEMS OF THOUGHT
Where the public thinks a fast talker Is a fast worker
deep thinkers have no chance.
It's all right to lov« your neighbors, but It won't lost
long If th« loving Is all on on« side.
Great men fit circumstances to themselves; contented
men fit themselves to clrcun.stances.
"Pride goeth before a fall," but if there ever wa« any
reason for Its existence, It also climbs up after a fall.
The Situation in the Balkans
(From the Washington Poet.)
Before becoming alarmed at re
porta hinting that another
war may spring out of quarrels In
the Balkans, It would be well for
any »ader Interested. In that sub
ject to Inquire Int» the new state
of affairs In the Balkan-. That
loosely defined region Is entirely
different, politically, from what It
was in, 1914. Instead of being com
posed of three countries—Serbia,
Bulgaria and Greece-—the Balkans
may now bo said to Include Rou
manie. because of Its acquisition of
the Dobrudja province.
Formerly the Balkan states were
a feeble folk, but now two of them
are strong. Serbia, inetend of num
bering 4.000,000 population« jln( a
restricted territory, la now Jugo
slavia, with a population of 16,000,
000, with access to both the Adrl
atlo and the Aegean. Roumanla has
acquired Transylvania and Bessa
rabia as well as the Dobrudja, ana
now contains 15,000.000 people.
Jugoslavia and Roumanla have a
hard and fast defensive alliance
which constitutes their people a
solid bloc against such a conflagra
tion as that which swept over the
Balkans In 1914.
Greece remains a email state,
and Is In no condition to carry on an
offensive against Turkey. aS has
been reported. If Greece escapes
Interior convulsions she will be do
ing very well. Bulgaria constitutes
something of a menace under the
■resent regime, as It Is popularly
believed that ^hero la an under
standing between Bulgaria end the
Russian soviet which may develop
Into an attack upon Rumania. If
circumstances seem auspicious. The
soviet regards the taking of Bess
arabie as a casus belli, while Bul
garia Cheryl Ives the same fueling
regarding the Dobrudja.
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Editorial Opinion
DELAWARE IN LINE
From the Phlla. Evening Bulletin.
Should the Delaware Legislature
act favorabley on « hHl creating a
State Constabulary, which will make
Its appearance early In the session,
all of the Middle Atlantic States will
have adopted that form of policing
their rural territory. In which Penn
sylvania wa* th# pioneer almost two
decode« ago.
The «ervlc«, when fleet put Into
operation In this State. Immediately
proved Its value, and In the era of
the automobile has become Indis
pensable. The creditable record of
the Pennsylvania troopers was not
slow In making «n Impression else
where and almost every year has
the duplication of the experi
ment In one or more other States.
The spread of the system, with
anything like an adequate degree of
cooperation between
ought to go far toward nullifying
the advantage which good roads and
the automobile have brought to rov
ing law-breakers.
the States,
and things will go on as usual." It
Is this last opinion that events seem
to have Justified. The figures givenj
out on the subject by the bureau of,
At the!
of 54,621,882 ell
glble voters 27,783.97«, or more
than 6« per cent., did not take the|
trouble to go to the poll« National I
and clvlo responsibility appears to
he slumbering when so many polit
leal slacker» are to h« found In the
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THE NEGLIGENT VOTER.
From the Washington Post.
Many persons
others had
franchise at
would show up
numbers whenever
votes were to bo cast,
possibly better Judges of
nature and certainly more cynical,
said: "Give women the suffrage,
had hoped and
feared that, with the
last secured, women
In overwhelming
and wherever
A third class,
human!
the census are astounding
last election out
body politic.
It might be argued that It was the
men who were In default and that
the women did their duty. The solid
facts are. however, against this con- i
In addition here Is the
president general of the D. A. R.. I
p(>SSMSed exceptional sources of ;
information, who comes out boldly
fenrion, and
with the statement that for this re
grettable dlllnquency women must
hear their full share of responsible
Neither can the blame be shifted
to naturalized citizens. Some of
those are. if 1s true, not yet fully
«„ >h,i,
'^ r of t hem are proud
^ th< 4 rJ|tht , as votart ot
gr «at country which has adopted
them.
all around—on women as well as on
»" the natives as well os on
the forel#rn horn. The public con
science need« to bo stimulated, and
It Is sincerely to bo hoped that th©
census fljrure« will supply the neces
Tho truth Is that there Is blamo
eary spur.
A FATAL RIPER.
From the New York Tribune,
Had the building profiteers, who
are the most active enemies of all
beneficial provisions In the so
called Lockwood bills, oast ah " ut ;
for a method to defeat them the>
could have found no better one than
thiat whlch b5 f„, *
Themwlth"««!!
J," ,, P à n f IreTth,T nrorDora
^' ch |>f w t °"' < ^ KxVhange the
tlon of tho mock kxi nange xn»
committee has brought Into oppo
«uion to the bills a large and for
»ridable number of business men
who regard such a proposal as half
i bakad and onà I tend
^ do f har " 5°?^ of
The fact that the ne P
the exchange long has **
Project of the committee s counsel
doubtless Is responsible for Its In
elusion In the committee's legists
rive program. It Is, however. ;n ef
feet a rider, whose only Influence
will be exerted against tho passage
of such of the measures as might bo
highly beneficial.
It would have been no easy task
to get the Lockwood program
through tho Legislature even if It
had been limited to enactments
whose necessity had been suggested
by the results of the committee's
investigation. Arousing a new cir
cle of opponents may only make
th« whol« legislativ« budget of the
Bulgaria Is also supposed to be
In close touch wlW her former
en
emy, Turkey, because of their com
mon quarrel against Greece. Bul
garia. has no «pedal military
source, and has only 6,000,000 popu
lation but her strategic position
might be very useful In case Turkey
should run amuck and attempt to
take western Thrace and Macedonia
us well as eastern Thrace. The
ment Turkey made such an offensive
she would be at war With Roumanla,
the ally of Jugoslavia, and possibly
Inducements might be held out to
Bulgaria which would cause her to
look complacently upon Turkish ag
gressions against Greece and Jugo
slavia. Bulgaria's treachery to her
neighbors In 1914 ha« never been
forgotten or forgiven. They are now
strong and ehe la weak,
there is nothing to fear from Bul
garian treachery now. unless It Is
made effectively by cooperation with
the Russian reds and the Turkish
nationalists.
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There la another source of possi
ble war In Central Europe In the
region affecting the Balkans—the
quarrel between Hungary and Rou
manla. The Junkers of Hungary
have never accepted the result of
the war. They are mors Impenitent
than the Junkers of Prussia, and
far more ignorant of world opinion,
They still believe they can crown
a Hapsburg and eventually wrest
Transylvania from the Rouma
nlans, after having suffered for cen
turles under the Magyars, are now
Impatient and ready to fight. It
1« with difficulty that France and
Great Britain have prevented a se
rlous clash between the two coun
It doss not appear probable
that war will develop, because of
the overwhelming force which Rou
mania could bring to bear. The
Roumanians could count upon the
trie».
commit;.»« hopeless and render fu
tile all the really excellent work It
acoomplshed In Its Investigation.
FOR THE VETERANS' BUREAU.
From the New York Tribune.
To expose a bad situation without
suggesting the remedy for It Is a
futile procès». The Tribune, In a
sortes of articles this (week. has
shown the Ineptness, the Inefficiency,
misunderstanding,
the government's
the
which
on
vocational
rests
training for New York'« 'veterans
of the World War.
What remedial step seems best?
It seems clear from The Tribune's
evidence that the main reason for
the bad conditions has been the
constant "turn-over" due, probably,
to polities. The fault do«» not He
with the local control for the mo
ment. Major W. F. Lent, The Tri
bune Is convinced. Is the best chief
Veterans* Bureau District No. 2 has
had; but he Inherits a situation
made by a half dozen predecessors,
each of whom held office but a few
months.
would not have been too big
for the Job. But Wood Is tied to
the Philippines. The Administra
tlon's other doctor and administra
lor Is Postmaster-General Work,
Uven » Cabinet officer is not too
big for the Job, and Informed opin
Ion In army circles know» that the
lob 1* no* too big for Dr. Work.
Th « Administration has faced an
Irrepressible conflict over the eol
dlprs ' bonus. That conflict bids fair
to break forth again. Most of its j
P asslon and prejudice rest upon the]
government's mishandling of the j
wounded. «Ick or mentally affected
soldlers of the World War. An
American of th# first rank In charge
The fact Is that the Veterans'
Bureau as a whole needs a larger
visioned management than has ever
been accorded It. It Is literally true
to say that no American 1« too big
for this national responsibility,
Leonard Wood—'doctor and adminls
tratoi
of the Veterans' Bureau would not
,on, y accomplish a great service In
p Ti he would also take the grtov
ance out of the bonus Issue by as
the reduction of sheer human mls
surlng the country that a grateful
government was taking proper rare
°f Injured sons.
THREE TEARS OF
FHE DBA LAW
T ' r "f n x, ' w • Tor ' { Herald.
Three years ago the dry law went
Into effect. It Is still a gigantic ex
périment. It may take another
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three years before the country can
safely pronounce It a success or
demonstrate It to he a failure.
It Is a very larffo and complex
question. In a country' the slzo of
America the enforcement of so
drastic a law Is a colossal undertak
ing than th© framer© of tho measure
reasonetl It could be.
Those who believed In and fought
for tho enactment of the dry* law (
doubtless maintain now the same
stand they did then. They were not
half hearted In their Insistence on
Its passage. They put all their ar
guments Into tho fight. They' had
none loft In reserve for the fight
against the measure that has now
developed In such large proportions
Kightpen1h Amendment had
a walkover In Congress and a walk
ratlfl '' atlo 'V' Th '~
wa * no " ,T<>C,1V6 citizenship organl
iaU °. n a * tttlr " t "' n . g0 } th *
mPn t 0 f »very State In the T nlon
„cept three—New Jersey. Rhode
,,, and and Connecticut.
And the Volstead act passed Con
Kregs wlth a rush . President W1I
flon vetoed j t on technical grounds
and U: T ' k '' M Vv a ? •» av « r h' a
The Eighteenth Amendment and th
Yolsfcad act were then free from
party politics. The Volstead art i
not free from party politics today. I
The truth 1« that the dry law has he- :
rome a very real political Issue and i
It cannot escape becoming a much!
bigger one. j
Organized labor has demanded
light wines and beer. Sam Gompers |
has taken up the fight. The Demo
oratio State platform of New York
demanded light wines and beer and !
the party won out at the polls
overwhelmingly that the Republican I
opposition was smashed to »mith- !
Just what part the wet ]
plarrk played In the victory is a
matter of conjecture. That It wa» a,
ereens.
entire strength of the little entente
to strike back at Hungary; and If
the latter should be successful In
drawing In Russian or German help,
then France would stand behind
Roumanla.
looming behind the horizon of
Central and Eastern Europe Is so
viet Russia with Its army of 1,600,
000 men. The possibility of em
ploying this army to defend Ger
many against France Is very remote,
If not beyond discussion. But there
Is always a possibility of a soviet
offensive again« Poland or Rou
manla, and also a possibility of
Russia becoming Involved In the
war that threatens between Turkey
and the western powers. The
strength and warlike purpose of so
viet Russia are obscure matters
which are not revealed to the'world
except by Indirection and accident.
The western powers have gathered
much Information, however, which
warrants their opinion that the un
derstanding between soviet Russia
and Turkey does not necessarily Im
ply that, Russia would be found on
Turkey's side in the event that war
should follow the Lausanne confer
ence.
No doubt Incessant Interchanges
are going on between the German
and soviet Russian government« and
between them both and the Turkish
nationalists. Evidence of an effort
by the Germans to bring about a
Turkish-Russlan-Oerman entente
alliance Is In possession of the
western powers
have little or nothing to offer the
Russians or the Turk« at this Junc
turs, while the task of assuming
Germany's burden may well
either Russia or Turkey to hesitate.
The great danger «pot Juet
Is where France Is occupying Ger
man territory. If war should break
out, It Is more likely to break out
there than In tflie Balkans.
or
But the Germans
cause
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Spirit of the
Delmarvia Press
BLOW TO UNIVERSITY.
From the Milford Chronicle.
In th« death of Edward Laurence
Smith the University of Delaware
has sustained a loss and suffered a
blow from which It will take time to
recover. Stricken In the prime of
life, without warning. Dean Smith
succumbed to an attack of pneu
monia which was of ehort duration.
For twenty years of a useful life, he
has given the best that was In him
to the University of Delaware In
order to advance Its interest and the
Interests of the student body. Enter,
ing the faculty of old Delaware Col
lege when It was a struggling Institu
tion with an enrollment of loss than
100 students, he worked faithfully
for the advancement of the Diamond
State's seat of learning. At all times
the Interests of ths Institution were
his Interests and ho took every fair
means of seeing th - these Interests
were upheld and advanced. When a
few years ago the old college became
the University of Delaware the trus
tees did not have to look elsewhere
for a man capable In every respect
of filling the important office of Dean
—Edward Laurence Smlfh was al
ready on the Job. and It required
only ths.actlon of the governing body
of the University of Delaware to
cloth hlpi with the proper authority.
It will be a« Dean Smith, that he will
long be remembered by friends of
Delaware. It was as counselor and
friend that rhe students wont to him
for advice, and the solution of their
problem« were much more easily
compllshed after a heart to heart
talk with Doan 3ml6h. As time went
on he became the "big brother" to
the students; always active In
vanning their Interests and aiding
them to better fit themselves for «
useful career Inactive life. No better
tribute to any man could have been
Klven ,han that which was witnessed ,
<ia1I 5 r when * om » graduate visited
hls Alma Mater, and the first request |
was invariably "Where Is Professor
s mlth7" A handshake from him. and I
a cordial welcome made the visit a
real pleasure.
passed to the world beyond; but to
those men who have had the privi
lege of having studied under him,
and availed themselves of his coun
sel. his useful life
ac
ad
Dean Smith
has
memory.
ESTATES OF THE DEAD.
Letters on esratesiS
were granted
y Register of Will« Isaac R. Brown
yesterday as follows:
Administration—On the estate of
Mordecal S. Plummer to Mary E,
Plummer: estate of Ransom Hock
aday t0 lMnc n Brown Jr
Testamentary—On the estate of
John H. Miller to ßamuel H. Bay
nard, Jr.
Administration—On the estate of
Edward I,. Hanna to Naomi Hanna;
estate of Harold Child
Child; estate of Leokadya Sohieskl
to .Marcell Sohieskl; d. b. m., estate
of Lucinda Ellis to Alberta V.
Thompson.
Administration—On the estate of
Daniel R. o. Atkinson to Charles
y. Atkinson.
to Viola
HOUSEHOLD NOTES.
When moving Into a house, keep
a list of each room's requirements—
number of rolls of wall paper, yards
of curtain material, etc. This will
b» a help when the time comes to
renew these things.
If you ere puzzled a« to what to
serve unexpected dinner guests, try
this
Toast atlcka nov<? , fo
with bouillon. Cut a loaf of broad
, nM) nuart<>r . lneh s i| rMi brush with
m «i tad butter, cut Into quarter-inch
wtr lp a and brown,
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very largo part Is certain,
In New Jersey the wef campaign
of the Democrats swept everything
before It. In tho North the wet Idea
is fast becoming a Democratic issue
and Its strength lies largely in the
fact that It faces no solid opposition
with Republican voters.
But what of the wet contention
"emergency
chowder, meat patties. Jelly, near
French-fried potato©#», string beans,
cold «law, choose, cracker«, pineap
ple round« and coffee.
menu"—potato
with the Democratic party of the
South, for It was in the South that
the Eighteenth Amendment and ths
Volstead aot had their strongest
backing?
42 States Join ir ifh Uncle Sam
to Save Mothers and Babies
Despite the Frothlngham and'
Massachusetts suits attacking the
constitutionality of the Sheppard
Towner maternity and Infancy act,
much I« being accomplished under
Its provision to save the lives of
mothers and bablee. Grace Abbott,
In charge of the Federal operation
of the act, tells what Is being done
the following article written
especially tor NEA Service.
In
BY OR.im ABBOTT,
Chief of Children'« Bureau. U. S.
Department of Labor.
WASHINGTON—The act for the
promotion of the welfare and hy
giene of maternity and Infancy,
which became a law November 2 3,
1921, authorized an annual appro
priation of not to
exceed
for a co-operative
undertaking b y
the Federal gov
ernment In the
reduction of our
high maternal and
Infant mortality
Under the terms
$1.240.000
-
%
rates.
, ■ :
of the act. not
to exceed $50,000
Is to be expended
by the Children's
Bureau for admin
istrative
aJêBSBÊ
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Grace Abbott
pur
To any State Accepting the
poses.
act $5.000 Is Immediately available;
additional $5,000 is paid If
matched by the State appropria
tion; and the balance of the Fed
eral appropriation 1« allotted among
the several State« on the basis of
population and Is
matched by the State.
Up to date, 42 State« have ac
of the aot
an
available If
II
Maine. Massachusetts,
excepting
■-Rhode Island, Now York, Louisiana
and Washington.
Of the acceptances, 12 are by the
Stjate Legislatures (New Hampshire.
Delaware, New Jersey, Maryland.
Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia,
Mississippi, Minnesota,
New Mexico). The
Kentucky,
Oregon and
others are by governors pending the
next regular eesslons of the Legis
latures. The question of acceptances
will, therefore, probably be consid
ered In some 35 State Legislatures
that will be In session this year.
How States Operate.
WOMAN IN INDUSTRY
F 5TÎ occupations
listed by enu
merators (of the
: recent census)
only S6," said
Secretary of
Labor Davis,
op « n 1 n g the
Women's Indus
trial Conference
In Washington,
"failed to show
the employment
of women."
anywhere based upon the
industry of the mothers of the na
»Ion '» fa,se an d sooner or Infer will
<'°me crashing about our heads."
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"Women have
demonstrated
*re
entltled to equal pay (with men)
that they
for equal work In Industry, but In
many cases It has been found dlf
flcult to establish this simple Stand
'The nation of the future can bo
ard."
no better than Its mothers."
"The spectacle of American moth
ers torn from their children while
they strive In the toll and turmoil of
Industry to earn a livelihood for
themselves and their little one«, I«
an Indictment of modern clvillza
tion."
''An economic structure which Is
labor in
!
!
'X'pon the right solution of thes«
problems depends our very exist
ence a« « nation."
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YESTERDAY'S LATE
NEWS AT GLANCE
FOREIGN
French place all Ruhr mines un
der surveillance, seize customs, levy
40 per cent duty on coal shipments
to Germany and take over Reichs
bank branches In Ruhr towns. Ten
mine officials are arrested and prep
arations made to confiscate coal tax
and forestry receipts.
Germany stiffens resistance . to
France, hut announces readiness to
resume negotiations with Allies col
lectlvely it French will withdraw
troops.
WASHINGTON
Long-awaited, shakeup of Veter
ans' Bureau believed to hav» begun
with dismissal of Dr. T. Hugh Scott,
executive officer and acting dlreo
tor, and ten associates.
Foreign Relations Committee dl
recta Senator Lodge to get fuller
Boy
Observer
Information as to
den's Instructions and activities, as
Sertator Johnson opens fight for his
recall.
Ohio's predominance In national
affairs a leading Issue «s progrès- j
slves and farm elements begin fight |
to make Graham, of Illinois, House
leader.
Mrs. A. H. Atwood, of Federation j
of Women's Clubs. hotly assails !
Bursum bill before Senate Public j
I An ds Committee, and urges pas- |
sage of Jones-Lsatberwod measure, r
DOMESTIC
Jaw. on carpet two hours at Al- ;
bany, vigorouely defends his tax
administration.
Will of John Wanamaker, ready
for probate, leaves bulk of property j
to children, with $1,090,000 trust I
fund for each of two daughters and j
large bequests to charity.
State announces It will rs-try five I
defendants In Herrin mine strike'
murder trial, as jury renders acquit
tal verdict.
"Berry" Whetstone, State's star
witness In masked murder trial at
Bastrop, La., appears and creates
sensation by Identifying "Jeff" Bur
nett as one of ths abductors of the
The State administration of the
benefits of the Sheppard-Towner act
is in charge of the child hygiene or
child welfare divisions of the State
Boards or Departments of Health,
or, where such a division does not
exist, by the agencies designated by
the States.
State plans originate In the State«
and are t administered by the
States after approval by the Fed
eral Board of Maternity and In
fancy, composed of the chief of the
Children's Bureau, the strrgeon
general of the U. S. Public Health ,
Service, and the U. S. commissioner
of education.
Many States are starting out with
virgin soil as far as any public *
health work In maternal care Is
concerned, and they are, of course,
planning quite differently from the *
States which are small In area. In
dustrial In character, possessing
easy communication between differ- •
ent parts of the State and many
local resources.
They all have, I think, hod a
sense of Immediacy about what they
were doing, asking themselves what
can be done for the women who are
going to have babies this year and •
next, as
proper care in the future.
One State whose eountle« are •
fairly well organized for public
health work will place nursas In
the organized counties to devote •
themselves to maternity and Infancy
care. This Stats will also conduct
prenatal and chlld-Oiyglene center- ,
and will supervise raMwlvos and ma
ternity hospitals.
Another State will Increase the
number of Its prenatal and woll
baby clinics and will employ 80
public health nunaes to give half
time to maternity and Infonoy work *
•ell as how to provide
and four nurses to give full time
with two field physicians and «lx
supervising nurses.
A third State will have a staff of
nurses large enough to make possi
ble a visit to all new-born babies •
and supervision of boarding homes;
It will employ two social workers to ,
give special attention to the problem
of preventing unnecessary separa
tion of mothers and babies; It will
offer prenatal care and Instruction
In Infant care to mothers, and will
Investigate maternal deaths, super
vise mldwlves and co-operate with
hospitals.
BEGIN INSPECTION
OF GUARD FEB. 20
«
Adjutant-General J. Austin Bill
son. of the National Guard of Delà
ware, has Issued orders for the an
nual Inspection of the various units,
officers personnel, staff and equip- ,
ment of the militia. The Federal
and State Inspections will be made
Jointly, beginning February 20.
The dates of the Federal and 'State
Inspections will be as follows:
Staff, at Wilmington February 20. *
State Arsenal. Wilmington, to be
announced.
-
Gno hundred nlnoty^elghth sr- •
tlllery A. A. Regimental headquar
fers, Headquarters battalion and ser
vice batallon, Wilmington, Febru- ,
ary 28.
Headquarters detachment and
combat train, first battalion. Bat
teries 'A" and 'B," Wilmington. Feb- *
ruary 28.
Battery "B," Newark. March 1.
Baftery "H." New Castle. March 2. •
Headquarters detachment,
battalion. Machine Gun, Battery "G."
Dover. March 5.
Battery 'F." Milford, March 8.
Medical detachment, Wilmington,
2nd
February 28. ,
The order states that the Inspec
tlon will include property records
and armories as well as the person
nel of the organizations. The order •
adds that the commanding general
of the second corps area has directed
all United ,
that an Inventory of
States property be taken by the office
making the annual armory Inspoc
tlon. This Inventory refers to the ,
government property Issued to the
state.
A loose-leaf notebook makes a
book for a child. It
I may be enlarged at any time by ,
adding more paper, and may be
kept In good condition by giving the
child only page at a time.
p
dead men.
MARKETS AND SHIPS
Speculative Interest shifts to rail •
shares.
Way opened for
settlement
controversy over Central Pacific.
Calumet and Heela reported to
have made largest sale of copper
Rince the war.
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During last year this Society
made new Mortgage Invest
ments on properties in New
Castle County
OVER $1,000,000.00
A DEPOSIT IN THIS
SOCIETY HELPS BOTH
DEPOSITOR AND
THE COMMUNITY
4 % Interest Paid On All
Deposits
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SAVINGS
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