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a THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, SUNDAY. MORNING, SEPTEMBER 27, 1959 'Only In America' Come see our fashion show "Fashions go to the Ballet" Wednesday, October 7, at 7 p.m., in our lighth Floor Auditorium Plus, a thrilling ballet presentation by the Philadelphia Civic Dallet See newest fashions, designed for after-five and theatre wear, parade down the runway at 7. Tickets available through the Ballet Office, 930 Chestnut St, Phone WA 3-3755. Admission for adults, $2. Children under 12, $1.

Proceeds for the Philadelphia Civic Ballet Company. Check your calendar nowl Bring the family for an exciting evening. by Harry Golden ginia aristocrat who had willed Dred Scott to his Captain Peter's daughter found Dred a nuisance, so she sold him to an Army surgeon named Emerson. Emerson took I Dred with him to encamp ments in Illinois and Wiscon sin, he even bought him a wife named Harriet, but for some reason he abandoned Scott SIT RAWER D11 7 KI Shop Monday: Philadelphia, 9:30 till Ardmore and Wilmington, 9:30 till Jenkintown, 9:30 till 9:30 when he came back to St. Louis.

But Emerson was still Scott's legal master and when Emer son died, Scott was assigned to his widow. Mrs. Emerson used to hire this slave out for wages, but it was rare that Dred Scott earned his keep. Scott, it is said, Was shiftless, lazy and unreliable. There was no rea son for him to be otherwise.

A slave did as little as he had WHEN Clarence Darrow appealed an unpopular case and the decision went against him, it was never unanimous. One vote always favored the unpopular appeal. Darrow beamed and said, "There is always one man." Freedom is what it is because there is always one man, one man who gays, "This far and no further." Mr. Henry Blow was such a man. If you were in St.

Louis, Missouri, in the summer of 1857 chances are that you went to Barnum's Hotel to see the porter who worked there, the fellow that caused all that commotion. He wasn't hard to find. There he was sitting under one of Barnum's imported palm trees, smiling and laughing, with a group of men around him. After you talked to this porter a while, you understood he didn't know much of what had transpired about him. All the legal phrasing was so much candy to him.

He was much more interested in his notoriety than in the history he had made. This porter had been a slave and he had sued to regain his freedom. The United States Supreme Court had ruled on his case. The porter's name was Dred Scott and the Court had ruled that he was still a slave. We immigrant boys on the East Side of New York thought we knew all about Dred Scott.

The Dred Scott Decision had voided the Missouri Compromise. But truthfully we weren't sure what the Missouri Compromise had been and Dred Scott, to; and despite the myth the plantation sire has fostered about the kindness the master showed the slaves, the lash alone kept the slaves line. QOON without employment and no means of support, Scott appealed to Captain Pe ter's son for help. Henry Blow sensed his chance to strike at slavery. He financed Scott's ap peal for freedom through the Missouri Courts.

Scott's argu ment was that any slave who lived in a free Stale was auto matically free: no slave State could re-enslave him. Though Scott never appeared in court, these issues made him famous. Begun in 1845, the suit took seven years until the Missouri Courts ruled in 1852 that Scott's argument was neither good logic nor good law. The case of well, he was probably a fugitive slave. We didn't think of him as flesh and blood, or even as a man who wanted his freedom.

Only two people to my knowledge ever did think of Dred Scott as a piece of humanity instead of an abstract fact of history. ONE of these was Stewart Holbrook whose book, "Lost Men. of American History," offers a biography of Dred Scott. The other man was Dred Scott's master, Henry Blow. Dred Scott was the luckiest of all slaves.

His master was an abolitionist. Henry Blow was a young man, but already a multimillionaire. He was one of the Scott, a Man of Color vs. Emerson, was filed away. But not for long.

Henry Blow financed an appeal that went to the Supreme Court of the United States. It took the Supreme Court until 1857 to make its ruling. This was the decision which ruled the Missouri Compromise enacted by Congress in 1820 was. null and void. Congress had no power or right to exclude slavery from any new territory or State.

By a five-to-four decision, the Supreme Court ruled Scott was still a slave. If Henry Blow was disappointed by the Decision, he did not stop fighting. He want- pillars of the St. Louis commu- ed Scott freed, so he bought nity, a philanthropist and a pub him and Harriet and freed them. Of everyone involved in the case Blow, the abolition ists, and the courts, Scott came off the happiest.

His last years were spent in fame and when he died, Henry Blow paid his lic-spirited man. But he had incurred criticism from his neighbors because he was doing everything in his power to condemn slavery, limit it, and keep it out of the new territories. Blow himself did not own slaves. Did not own slaves until one day one of his father's old slaves sought his help. It was Dred Scott, born on Captain Peter's Virginia plantation in 1795.

Captain Peter was a Vir- funeral expenses. Henry Blow was that one man who is always there. He saw the political issue of slav ery but never forgot either that it was played out in human terms. Copyright by Harry Golden. EDWARD LAWRIE MIFFLIN, president of the two textile man ufacturing firms, died Thursday at his home, 1 Brookside Wallingford.

He was 76. An executive in the textile field for 40 fl. Special Purchase Close-out! years, Mr. Mifflin was president of Mifflin DiOttavio, 127 Van Horn Philadelphia and the Fibre Processing Wilmington, Del. During The Second World War he served as a civilian with the Coast Guard See all the new styles! Boxy Suits Fitted suih Dressmakers Classics Hip-tips Demi-fit jackets See all the new fabriesl Forstmann wools Crepes Imported tweeds Checks Pacific and Barnoi worsteds See all the new colors! Midnight black Grays Red Green Mixtures Blues Lilac Browns See sizes especially for you! Sizes l2'2 to 24'2.

Not all fabrics, colors in every style. Hurry in for yours. Usually 69.95 fo 79.95 Auxiliary, using his own power boat to assist in patrol work. Surviving are his wife, the former Edna Tarker; a daughter, Mrs. Richard Schwarz; a son, Edward and a sister, Mrs.

G. TSrmon Mathor TVTomnrial wrif. JULES CHADWIN, owner of the Stanley Brake 520 N. Broad died Friday in Jefferson Hospital. He was 65.

He lived at the Kevon Park Apartments, 52d st. and Montgomery ave. He was a Mason and a member of the Golden Slipper Square Club. Mr. Chadwin is survived by his wife, the former Minerva Rose; a son, Stanley; a daughter, Mrs.

Esther Becker; a brother, Leo and a sister, Mrs. Fannie Kas-don. Funeral services will be held at 11 A. M. Sunday at Joseph Levine and Son's, 1512 N.

Broad st. CHARLES hTkRUMBHAAR, of 1725 E. Willow Grove Laverock, a former partner in the investment banking firm of W. H. Newbold's Sons 1517 Locust, died Friday in Chestnut Hill Hospital.

He was 79. Mr. Krumbhaar, who was graduated from Harvard University, was a member of the board of directors of Drexel Institute of Technology. He is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Charles Piatt, Mrs.

Floyd T. Starr and Mrs. S. Rowland Morgan, and a brother, Dr. Edward B.

Krumbhaar. New fall suits in women's special sizes 2Vi to See outstanding styles, fabrics for wear right nowl We've done it again! Brought you a whole new treasure trove of suits, that usually sell for much, much more! Not ordinary suits, but the season's newest. See diplomat velvet-touches, double-pocket details, jackets grazing the hip, or short versions. No mail or phone. Dash in tomorrow; snare several, at this outstandingly low price! I ft WOMEN'S SUITS (100), THIRD FLOOR; alio Aj ices will be held at 3 P.

M. Monday at the Friends Meeting House, W. 3d Media. THEODORE E. WEIDER-SEIM, retired vice president of the Ketterlinus Lithograph died Saturday at his home, 7003 Green Hill Overbrook.

He was 84. Mr. Wiederseim was a member of the Loyal Legion, Colonial Society of Pennsylvania, Sons of the Revolution, Society of Wars of 1812 and Society of Colonial Wars. A son, Harrison survives. Services will be held at 11 A.

M. Monday at Holy Communion Lutheran Church, 21st and Chestnut sts. MRS. HARRYF. GILL, Sale! Virginia Maid Hosiery! Full-fashioned or seamless styles with famous sole secret featurel "Nouveaute" llelanca stretch style, tool 1,19 Pair 3 pairs 3.50 VX BARNEY LEON SILVER, of 711 E.

Upsal a master plumber for 30 years, died Saturday. He was 50. He was a Mason, and member of the Master Plumbers Association. He is survived by his wife, Sally; a daughter, Esther; a son, Joseph, and three sisters and two brothers. Services will be held ai 'f.

M. Sunday at ihe Miii-man's Memorial Chapel, 4324 N. Broad st. MRS. VV A LT ERR.

MAXWELL, died Friday at her home, 120 Cascade Springfield, Delaware county, Mrs. Maxwell, the former Gladys Lundgren, is survived by a son, Walter a daughter, Nancy and two sisters, Mrs. Jerry Kiely and Mrs. Monroe Blanchard. Services will be held at the Cascade rd.

address at 11 A. M. Wednesday. SAMUEL SMILEY, of 6214 N. 16th a television reDair man.

Reg. 1.50 polr Dress sheer with seams; absorbent cotton sole. Medium, dark beige, taupe. Sizes 8-11. died Friday at her home, 2426 6th Boothwyn, after a short illness.

Mrs. Gill was the former Margaret Anna Mann. In addition to her iiuBUdiiu, klie is survived by a son, Harry two daughters, Mrs. Margaret Bodley, and Mrs. Marian Barr; two sisters, Mrs.

Rose Naylor and Mrs. Elsie Tees, and two grandchildren. Services will be held at 2 P. M. Tuesday in the Maxwell funeral home, 1834 ileeting House Boothwyn.

MRS. PETER BYRNE, a idow and the former Margaret Duffy, died Friday in the Mount-ford Convalescent Home. She was 85 and a former resident of 23d and Wallace sts. Surviving Absorbent cotton sole Walking sheer, seams; absorbent cotton sole. Medium, dark beige, taupe.

Sizes 8-11. Walking sheer, seamless; absorbent cotton sole. Medium and dark beige. Sizes 8-11. 236 Pair pairs 4e65 Reg.

2.95 pair "Nouveaute" HelancaS) stretch. Medium, dark beige, taupe. Short 8-91, medium 9VS-11. tall 10-11V. Phone Monday on $3, more.

is a sister, Mrs. Thomas J. Han-ley. Solemn Requiem Mass will be sung at 10 A. M.

Tuesday at 'died Friday in the Einstein Med St. Francis Xavier Church, 24th ical Center. He was 48, Surviving and Green sts. jare his wife, Rose; a Early Birds! Call WA 2-4500 as Early as 7 A.M. MONDAY MORNING (Our Phone Order Service Now Closed on Sundiyi) Barbara; a son, Leonard; two! sisters.

Mrs. Svlvia Toll and MAYER AGIN, of 808 Disston a retired huilder, died Thurs Esther Vinokur, and a Jack. Services wil be held at 2 I HOSIERY (2S1), FIRST FLOOR; alto I I "Nouveaute" Helanca stretch day in Jeanes Hospital. He was 72. Surviving are three children, Clara, Harry and Joseph, principal of the Dick Elementary School, and a sister, Chaia Aeli-lon.

Services will be held at 11 A. M. Sunday at Joseph Levine end Son's, 7112 N. Broad st P. M.

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