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Journal-Every Evening, Wilmington, Delaware, Saturday, September 1 1934 fix Rahs and Razzberries An Improvement Sir: Allow me to congratulate you and both of the names are complete and at the same time makes a harmonious combination. Hoping for a change, LEWIS PIERCE SCHWATLO. EVENING Consolidated Jan. 2. 1933 The News-Journal Company Publisher) Orange and Girard Sts.

Wilmington, Delaware An Independent Newspaper Published Every Afternoon Except Sunday. WILLIAM L. MAPEU Executive Editor. GEORGE CARTER. Editor.

A. O. GRIER. Associate Editor. CLEMENT B.

HALLAM. Managing Editor. ARTHUR DAVIES. News Editor. HARRIS SAMONISKY.

City Editor. ELIZABETH BULLOCK. Society Editor. your staff on the new set-up of the Journal spare the money now. It behooves the authorities, however, to take such steps as may be necessary to assure airport facilities, either in co-operation with the Bellanca people or, if this be not possible.

Independently. Wilmington is on the route of several air lines. It is important that a public landing place should be provided somewhere near the city, not only as an accommodation, emergency or otherwise, to the planes that regularly pass over, but also as a means of facilitating the air business of the people of Wilmington. As soon as the present confused situation has been adjusted a start should be made looking toward consummation of a permanent airport project for Wilmington at as early a date as the way can be cleared for doing so. Every Evening.

In my opinion, the paper tn v. nuance By Edgar A. Cnt If by chance a man should gain All the gold he wished to Luck might let him still rem3in On the earth without a friPnrf If by chance a man should Very wealthy over night Luck might never let him know Whether "done" or "did- right Chance the purse may f.n By mysterious ways and blinil. But luck never has nor will Wrought a change of heart or mind has greatly improved and bears a metropolitan appearance and should affect the readers accordingly. Very truly yours, JAMES J.

CAHILL, Postmaster TELEPHONE 5351. Tba various departments may be reached through the Private Branch Exchange. STORY. BROOKS FINLEY. Advertising Representatives.

New and Grand strer.r. Philadelphia. Chicago. San Francisco, has Angeles Vew York. Governors Lead Safety Campaign IE governors of 44 States, including Delaware, fjpil Sir: When I read the new Journal-Every Evening today I tnought I had the wrong paper, and it took me sometime to find the squibs from Cambridge.

It's all so new and and the commissioners of the District of Colum 0 Tntered at Postofflce, Wilmington. as second-class matter. The Journal-Every Ei'ening Ls on sale at newsstand In the pnnc.pal cities and towns in the State: also leading in Philadelphia. New York, and Atlantic City. Price 2 cent a copy.

Delivered by carrier in Wilmington and every town In the 12 cents a week. The Sea of'Kvenis fly Alice Mathrw grand that I haven't yet recovered from the 'r GT Part More Readable and Better Looking From the Wilmington Labor Herald To us whose life from infancy has been associated with printers ink and things typographic the most distressing feature of the merger of the Evenins Journal and Every Evening into Evening Journal-Every Evening some twenty months ago was the typographically atrocious masthead of condensed Cheltenham type, with the State eeal centered between the two names. The type in Evening journal extended wider than did the type in Every Evening, necessitating let-terspacing of the condensed letters of Everv Evening which is a typographic impropriety. Another count in the indictment was the failure of the capital letters of the masthead to align with the small capital letters, but most dlstreesini was the use of Cheltenham which extremely utilitarian type lost all claims to distinction years azo. You see it cn circulars and slap-bang advertisements.

It Ls never employed wherever distinction is sought. Wednesday, the new-christened Journal-Every Evening made its bow to the DUblic shock. In my opinion every change is an im Complete Associated Pre.vs Wire Service; also full Newspaper Enterprise Association feature service. M.i.i subscriptions. $6 00 i year: 50 cents a month.

Si 00 a year in Zones 1 and 2. if paid in aovance. Foreign subscriptions. SI8 a year; $1.50 a month. provement even the name.

It should attract many new readers. LEILA B. SMITH. Cambridge, Md, Aug. 31, 1934.

subscriptions parable in advance. Make money orders, checks, to The News-Journal Company. ar.d Avoda Club Approves MEMBER OP THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for cation of tU news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited to this newspaper. Sir: It is my privilege to write you. and 'ft-; Life, bring mc love I plf-od.

This doth seem my greatest norrj Every day and every hour For I know trtre love brings war Let joy's surge sweep over mv. Drench me in its ecstasy. Keep me from glooms arm spar. After favored foam doth start Great emotion deep in mo Plung? me then within a res Of events; life prevail O'er my spirit, let me Where wild waves puh mc alor.3 On an ocean voyage of son? Let Jove, please, rny pilot b. Through the tide of destinv.

through you the News-Journal Company, ftenr-j to of the action of the Avoda Club, at its meet September 1. 1931 bia have called upon the people under their Jurisdictions, by proclamation or otherwise, to make September, which was ushered in today, a model month in safety traffic regulation. Last year at this time there were 30 States In this movement. The importance of this means of arousing the public conscience to the growing danger on the highways is apparent. Some of the State executives, in their proclamations, emphasize the lesson the Journal-Every Evening has been bringing to the people of Delaware, particularly during the current week, in a series of articles pointing out the causes of road accidents in our State and explaining how they can be avoided.

The national death toll on the highways has been increasing yearly until it has reached alarming proportions. It can be checked, however, if all automobile drivers, and all persons who walk on the roads, can be made to realize the danger involved in reckless driving and careless walking. September and October appear to be the months that usually register the heaviest motor-death toll. Hence the need for all users of the highways exercising special care during those months. It will follow, that those who learn to be careful this month and next month will get the habit.

Once they hare the hattt. they will cease to menace the safety of other users of the roads. ing today in adopting a motion commend il ing the Journal-Every Evening on its change In format and makeup. The membership feels that the change will be conducive to Next day in cf the Monday being Labor Day. and a holi-Delaware.

there will be no publication Joumal-Evcry Evening. I am pr higher newspaper standards and to a greater variety of news, entirely in keeping with the to bp 1 t'. "Tz-j metropolitan growth of Wilmington. SAMUEL F. KEIL.

President, the Avoda Club Property tax Li or a 25 Years Ago Today From Every Evening Sept. I. irm ex3cCi 'a 31.J Dr. Frederick 'A. Cook.

Arctic rxDlorr. ha-, wired the Colonial Office at Cor.han' according to advices from that city thhP reached the North Pole on April 21, Of 1 Don't Delay College Registration Tbe Textile Strike TIE nationwide strike of union textile mill hands, which has been called for tonight, is fraught with serious consequences. The immediate effect may not be felt locally to a great extent, but no part of our country, the industrial East, can escape its harmful influence. The walk-out is presumed to be in effect all along the Atlantic seaboard, and inland over a considerable area. Hundreds of thousands of operators will be idle.

Perhaps the persons most seriously affected will be some cf those men and women on strike, particularly if they are away from their jobs for any great length of time. However, the public in general will share in the distressing consequences. It is obvious, therefore, that the whole public has a stake in this unfortunate occurrence. Everybody who is honest and rational must want to see a 1 deem it opportune to call attention to the fact that the time for registration of pros The City Council of Wilmington today executed contracts with the city's 12 volunteer fire companies for fire service during the ensuing year. cf ti' surfaee Thxh v.r vah derir! turs ar.j so pective students at the University of Delaware for the coming semester is drawing to a close.

Under the regulations obtaining at the University it Is specified that "applicants for admission whose applications and credentials are received after September 5 will be subject to an additional payment of in new tspographic bib and tucker. John E. Allen, of the Mergenthaler Linotype Company and editor of the Linotype News, worked with the staff on the pages of Journal-Every Evening and laid out a typographical motif that is conservative and in the beet of taste. Bodoni, a type face whose beauty and appeal has survived centuries of use. is employed throughout the paper for headlines and in the masthead, in which, by the way, the capitals and small capitals now align.

The more readable lower case letters are used in all headlines, and in accord with prefent-day usage streamer headlines are only employed when the importance of news stories warrants them. While the imDrove-ment in appearance is especially noticeable on the first page, it is the editorial page in which the greatest improvement has been made. What was an unbroken expanse of narrow measure body type, actually repelling attention, has been made into four wider columns of feature and reprinted articles, attractively headed with semi-boxed captions. The solidness of the pase has been relieved further by column rule on a wide body which separates the columns by additional white space. In one particular Instance, however, the hand of John E.

Allen teems not to have been employed. That is on the date lines on the inside pages. Whereas in the masthead there is a hyphen between Journal and Every Evening on these, inside datelines there is a one em dash between them. And whereas the customary space between words should be a third of an em. on these inside datelines it is a full em.

We tender our congratulations to the staff for the improved appearance of Journal- $10." It follows, therefore, that prospective students who settlement come Quickly, and with the least friction Christian Greiner of Camcten. N. drowned when his launch overturned yprr-day in the Delaware river near The Trustees of the Poor today repored that during the last fiscal year outside relief cost the county $15,104.89. Embodies Journalistic Ideals Sir: May I congratulate you on the improved appearance of your paper. Having worked on the staff of the Wilmington Hiah School News in the capacity of chief head-liner I can appreciate to a limited extent the work entailed in changing the entire makeup of your daily.

May I also add that during my study of journalism I learned that the type you chose was one of the best looking and most readable made. In fact your paper is now closely following the advocated ideals of journalism: conservatism, readability, and balance. Your paper has now seemingly lost all earmarks of provincial journalism with the exception of the name. You claim that any name except Journal-Every Evening is not acceptable because of the question of balance. Such an excuse is hardly valid, for to me common sense should have precedence over balance.

How was the Every Evening able to make out for so many years with two words of unequal length for a name? This paper also carried the State seal. Please do net get the impression that I favor a return to the cumbersome name you formerly used, but I do believe that many pecple would approve of the name Every Evening Journal. This name combines Every Evening and Evening Journal bo that Answers to possible. Hence the importance of everv person re- I fail to enroI- the manner prescribed by the rules. Bv Fmiprir J.

raining from doing anything that may stir up incidental trouble, or that might stand in the way of adjustment. lac dt Tie manors 3sfi, fri a. ctzu lor The Rev. W. H.

Hinkley, formerly of Wilmington, died last Sunday at Dorc.lesr.er. at the age of 7Q. O. Who suites tie before next Thursday, will be penalized. But the most important thing to remember, perhaps, is that applications and credentials that fail to reach the University by September 10 will not be considered.

The sensible thing to do is to attend to tha matter not later than the first of next week, thereby avoiding embarrassment and also facilitating the work of the staff in making up the roll for the two colleges. All communications concerning the admission of girls should be sent to Dean Robinson of the Women's College and those of boys should be sent to Dean Dutton of Delaware College. Although the University will not inaugurate the semester until September 20, there is much preliminary work to be done. Hence the futility of postponing anything that can be done now. A.

F. Parsons of Wilmington was yesterday elected president of the State O. S. at the annual meeting in Wyominz. A.

Tiie Parker Azisri that the Srst itu i years tnis r. Gov. Ritchie Acclaimed (From the Washington Post.) her of the junipisz an ir.or.ly ute-i Every Evening. Q. Did Axencas ins me Arden Claims Upton Sinclair A.

They They also xace 11330 cbiervation figiis. z. varied callings. All were respected citizens. Upton Sinclair's "home town" is Arden, the Single Tax village six miles to the north The ten were haled before Magistrate SitXi James W.

Robertson in Wilmington. Testi A Serious Weakness TT'7'HILE, in principle, we are opposed to the crea-T ticn cf new jobs, in fact, we believe there are too many public jebs now. yet it is apparent that the Department of Elections should have the means of providing itself with an assistant to the secretary. As matters now stand, the clerical task of the department, in its entirety, devolves upon cne man, the secretary. There is so much cf this work, particularly in the years when State and national elections are held, that the secretary should have an assistant.

Members cf the board do assist, it is true, but their jc-b is no: the clerical part of preparing for and carrying through an election. The most serious phase of this situation, however, that, under the present set-up, in the event that the secretary becomes incapacitated, there is no trained person at hand to take his place. We have just had an instance cf this weakness. The secretary, Thomas E. Peeney, a highly capable ofScial, was stricken with illness three months ago.

At that time the department was beginning to set the stage for this year's election. It so happened that Smiley King, a former member of the board, who is familiar with the work, chanced to be disengaged and he has been doing the work since that time. Ke completed his task yesterday. Mr. Peeney.

having regained his health, has resumed his post. We do not believe the public will suffer because of the temporary shift in the program. But the point is that, had there been an assistant to Mr. Peeney, in the employ of the board, it would not have been necessary to call in an outsider to do the work-It would seem, therefore, that this is a defect in our governmental machinery that should receive tbe attention of the Legislature at its next session. Elections are almost sacred institutions.

There should cf Wilmington, where the principles of cte to mony was amusing and hilarious. Brown Henry George and William Morris have said Sinclair couldn play tennis well, any Council Should Comply CITY COUNCIL should, and we believe that It will, comply with a request from the Board of Health that an ordinance be passed calling upon the citizens of Wilmington to do their part in the statewide fight to suppress the mosquito nuisance. The suggestion is that it be made unlawful for owners or tenants of real estate within the city to maintain stagnant pools of water on their premises, also making it illegal to permit other mosquito-breeding conditions to exist thereon. Acting upon the suggestion of the State Mosquito Control Commission, several of the towns down the State have passed ordinances similar to that which our City Council has been asked to enact. Apparently, the action in each case has beentaken willingly.

And. so far as we have been able to learn, the residents of those communities have given splendid blended. A. In way, and as for the baseball game, it was Wvf X0CC iZlZi-H 1 Sinclair lived there only two years 1910 an awful exhibit of the great American sport. and 1911 but his brief residence is such a sliinles should be ing naiis cnveii The defendants were each fined $4 and costs, in spite of Sinclair's impressive speech bold chapter in the village history and town I to the court.

Rather than pay the fine and costs, the band of ten decided to go to jaiL surface a unij---a neat job asd iscces t. Maryland's affection for Gov. fittingly demonstrated yesterday when, he returned from a vacation in Europe to be the first extended rest he has taken since he became chief executive at Annapolis nearly 15 years ago. Even before the Governor reached the soil of his heme Scare he was accorded a hearty welcome. From the time he disembarked at Ncrfolk until he reached Baltimore Mr.

Ritchie enjoyed an almost continuous round cf greetings and congratulations, for he has jus: parsed fifty-eighth milestone in his career. To a certain extent the reception at Baltimore was inspired by politics. Since Gov. Ritchie is a candidate for re-election his s'-u-porters naturally took advantage of his return to arouse public enthusiasm. Yet there is little partisanship in the genuine esteem of the average citizen for this devoted public servant.

Quite apart from the issues involved in the approaching campaign, the "Old Line" State is proud of Gov, Ritchie's record for intelligent Perhaps this is the greatest compliment that Maryland could pay to the white-haired gentleman who has all but made the State House at Annapolis a permanent residence. Dozens of capable men who have spent a large part of their lives in the public service have been retired in disrepute during last two years merely because of econcm.c First, they all went to an "ice cream filled themselves with the delicacy and gossip that Arden folk look upon him as "a home town boy." It was in Arden that Socialist Sinclair clashed with the Single Taxers and anarchists. It was from Arden that Sinclair, with nine others, went to the New Castle County prison for eighteen hours on charges ot is rie eaves and gaies i-t then boarded a trolley car for Greenbank, a- cut axay. a Sinclair fasted in jail. A faddist on diets and J-i tide the sices and the like, he decided he was afraid of the fcod.

They all worked in the workhouse quarry, making small stones out of biz ones. Sinclair could not sleep that night. Instead. A. The mice.

novate coileciion reran, ci 2e be no weak spots in the machinery set up for the protection of the electorate in expressing its will at the polls. ftWJfl" of S900.3M- q. please --K Chicago, he wrote a poem on the noises and inhabitants of the jail. It opened like this: "Oh come, ye lords and ladies of the realm. Come from your couches soft, your perfumed halls-Come, watch with me throughout the weary hours; Here are the sounds that thrill your jaded nerves, Such as cave men, your forefathers, heard Crouching in forests in primeval nights." That is what we need, and want, in Wilmington an effective law and co-operative effort to live up to it.

Our citv is not at the mercy of mosquitoes to the same extent that are some of the communities in rural sections of the State. And yet. we do have the pest here, sometimes, and occasionally it is painfully noticeable. If a way can be found to eliminate the breeding grounds within the city itself, that will go a great wav toward minimizing the mosquito annoyance. It will not be enough to enact a law on the subject.

It must be lived up to. and should be lived up to by the residents, voluntarily, whole heartedly and cheerfully. The Mosquito Control Commission has made much headway toward the eradication of mosquito breeding grounds lower Delaware, where the trouble has been most pronounced. Much of the beneficial effect will be lost, however, if the people, particularly in the cities and towns, fail to give such individual help as they can give. Residents of farms can help also.

By doing so they will be helping themselves and at the same time contributing to the general welfare of the State. conditions over which they had no ceir.ro. avii-ipii fven me prosit depression etigma, and the cruet issat i has been raised against him is the Ienta the exen police ea tVTT.t The next afternoon, at 3 o'clock the ten bcsb, of his gubernatorial service, in aj ers. sl' a men walked out into the sunshine. They sieuioer mate estimate of the man and the executive of course, this factor must redound -to were met by newspapermen from all parts credit.

sever of the East. Sinclair was their target. "Uppie" was weak from lack of food. His For a Secina City first words were: "Give me a drink of fine cold water." o. Was From the Cleveland Plain Dealer oi the Stan Good eyesight is the first of human bless- Then, everyone went to Wilmington for- violating Delaware's Blue Laws.

His wife was the one who started the bloomer craze that so amazed the farmer people of Bran-dj-wine hundred. It has been 23 years since Sinclair left Arden, but he has not been forgotten. Visitors always ask the natives: "Did you know Sinclair?" or "Where did Upton Sinclair live?" And even today, as Sinclair is acclaimed a formidable candidate for California's governorship on his EPIC platform and as a Democrat, the people of Arden, gathered about their campflres or fireplaces, are saying; "Well, Uppie seems to have made it." And even many of those of th5 village who disliked Sinclair are praying for his success in the coming elections. Sinclair's two-year sojourn in Arden, turbulent as it was, had its climax in his going to prison and Sinclair is by no means ashamed of it. He has written to this writer that his eighteen hours in the New Castle county prison is not a hidden chapter of his life nor a skeleton in his closet.

How could it be? Only last night, at a campfire in the Arden woods wrhere a group of old timers had gathered with guitars and mandolins and between songs, the old story was recounted. It seems that there lived in Arden a shoemaker, George Brown, who tyled himselt a "philosophical anarchist." Brown was unusually vitupcrant at the town's economic meetings and because of emphatic language he is alleged to have used one day, he was arrested and sent to jail for several days. Brown returned to his shack in the Arden woods, obviously bent on reprisal. So. one Sunday, early in August of 1911, Brown swore out warrants against ten Ar-enites.

The warrants charged infraction of Delaware's Blue Laws. Sinclair was charged with playing tennis on Sunday; Fred Steinlein, now dead, charged with selling ice cream on Sunday." The others were accused of playing baseball on Sunday. One was a recognized artist, one a phr.v A. ings. Modern science mases sun possible to virtually everyone, provided science more ice cream and Sinclair gave his story of New Castle County's prison to the nation.

His criticisms were along constructive A scientist announces that a goose isn't nearly as silly as it looks, which should be some consolation to fat men who wear polo shirts. is a chance, unioriuna.ci feet. af and judicial lines. not always gvt that chance. Hence CU311S.

half ihe adult population of the nation Several days later, he wrote to the and styled himself "an ex-convict." He fers from defective eyesight. Our Tangled Airport Situation A unfortunate situation has developed with re- spect to Wilmington's airport that should be cleared up as speedily as possible. The Federal government having failed to complete a development project at Bellanca field, upon which it started some time ago. City Council has taken steps looking toward cancellation cf its lease on the field. The ground is owned by the Bellanca Aircraft Corporation and is located at the southern end of New Castle, about six miles from Wilmington.

When the lease was signed, a few months ago, it was explained at the Council meeting on Thursday night, it was understood that the Federal government would spend $30,000 in improving the field so as to give'it an A-l rating. The work was started, but was stopped soon after it had been begun. Because of this embarrassing situation Council evidently feels that it should not be bound by the contract it had entered into. Whatever the outcome may be- of Council's cancellation move, it is hoped inat it win be line result, of an amicable decision, for riie Bellanca Corporation is not tor toe urn aSairs have taken. Thjs new situation emphasizes Wilmington's need of a municipal a-rpon.

It cannot have one. however, unless the city maintains it, or. at least, helps tr do o. Up to tbe present time the city has been able to enjoy airport facilities through an arrangement with the Bellanca Corporation. If it should be found that there is to be a discontinuance of this arrangement, steps should be to obtain a field in some other location.

The matter of the city having an independent airport is not a new proposition. The subject has been considered on various occasions heretofore. Each time, however, it was felt that the city could not then afford to buy a field and fit it up, in fact, could not do so until financial conditions should show improvement. It is hardly likely that Wilmington could Caught Here and There Pefl have learned that the word "boom" Is short for "boomerang." Shane Xeslie. called attention to conditions he thought To help give science a fair chance to WSS' a.

eyes good is the purpose of tiie Sight should be remedied, such as the abolition of the silence system, change of food supply Nil ing Council, now being organized in Ciee- and the construction of a recreation yard for land, the first group of its kind to bellow a anywhere. It has the backing of civic, stress and welfare organizations. The ami Twenty years is a long time in the life of a man. Il is a shtfrt time in the life of an idea. Robert S.

Warren. the prisoners. Sinclair did say the New Castle County to heln Cleveland see better. The nic- jail was superior to that at Chestex or at Moyamensing, Philadelphia. So sincere were is to spread the knowledge of what can his suggestions that the trustees and the done to maintain sood eyesight.

Our lathers tried hard to protect themselves against the rainy day that their whole lives became a drizzle. I. R. A. Wyle.

Its campaign continues "from no cn. The 35. sets no final date for its good purpose o. newspapers of Wilmington accepted his recommendations in good faith. They were not the ravings of an irrational radical.

tj-e sii making and keeping Cleveland a The home he built in the Arden woods iS is iu With the Paragraphers A great executive is one who has sense enough to go fishing after hiring the right man to do the work. Newark Ledger. Eligible From the Muskegon Chronicle on the edge of the village green is an inn today. And as Sinclair fights his way toward the governorship of California the Arden folk talk of him more than ever they did before some in favor of him; some still a The head of the nudists claims Uniited States Senator belongs to I- Ci- As a matter of fact, we know of several Sen Many a man won't join the church because there are hypocrites in it. He remains outside where there are still more hypocrites.

San Francisco Chronicle. little against him, but none, indifferently. He is Arden's "home town boy" who, his friends say, "is making good." ators whom we expect to be ready to join al teacher, one a publisher, one a lawyer, another a composer of music. Others had ter next fall's election..