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TWO THE EAST HAMPTON STAR. FRIDAY, MAY 20, 1927 THE STAR Published every Friday morning Entered at the Post Office at East Hampton, N. Y., as second-class matter B. E. BOUGHTON...............Proprietor WELBY E. BOUGHTON......... Editor Subscription R»te A year, if paid in advance.......... $2.50 A FINE SCHOOL EXHIBIT Those who did not attend the physical training, manual training, art and homemaking exhibition at the school auditorium last Friday night missed a real treat and those who did attend were pleasantly and most interestingly entertained for an hour and a half. The art, manual training and homemaking exhibits in the spacious halls were greatly admired by proud parents and visitors. What wonder ful educational advantages our boys and girls have today. Surely our school has made rapid strides ahead in the past decade. With a model school auditorium, and modern equipment to work and play with, competent instructors and teachers, the pupils are receiving the very best that money can buy for them in an educational way, today. And the best part of it is the pupils are beginning to show returns on the investment, as shown by the exhibits last Friday night. Mr. Kuhn and Miss Bohne, physical training instructors and their classes of boys and girls are to be highly complimented for the spirited manner in which they conducted the drills, apparatus work, pyramid building, etc. The ease and orderly manner in which these' young boys and girls performed the drills and stunts were a marvel to parents and visitors. It has been a known fact that East Hampton for a long time, has been slow in introducing athe- letics in school work, but judging by the exhibit Friday night we are ad vancing with both feet. implies purpose. A bad adventure is one contrary to order and purpose. It results in an accident. Cross a street absent-mindedly and in viola tion of the order of traffic. You wake up in the almshouse. That’s a bad ad venture, according to the National Safety Council. A NATION OF ROAD BUILDERS Less than ten years ago it would have been impossible to figure on driving an automobile more than about six or eight months of the year in the rural districts of most of our states. A “touring” car making an extended trip, would carry ropes, chains and a shovel to use in cases of emergency, which were quite fre quent. Today automobiles may be driven from coast to coast and north and south with little inconvenience. An other ten years will see paved roads to every important point. No nation ever attempted such a road building program as we are now carrying out, as an established feature of state and national development. Not only are we building and hardsurfacing new roads, but are widening and straightening (thou sands of miles of old roads. Our an nual bill for building and maintain ing highways is approximately one billion dollars. It is necessary to keep close watch to see that this money is properly expended on scientifically built highways and permanent and practical bridge construction. Thou sands of miles of feeder roads into the main highways must be improv ed witJi a waterproof wearing sur face. The telephone, the automobile, our good highways and our transporta tion system make possible instant and continuous communication and association between all sections of our country. Editorial Comment In Long Island Papers Sabbath Madnen [Suffolk County News] The Sabbath, once the day of rest, is now fast becoming known as the day of eternal rest. For more people now go to an untimely death on that day than any other day of the week. Mad motoring is respon sible for this ghastly change. The Sabbath was made for man, to be sure, but noit for the exercise of his uttermost folly. Yet as surely as Monday rolls around we have the gruesome front page news of the dead, the dying and the injured who have apparently gone mad over Sun day and have paid the price. This is not the full extent of the bad uses to which we are putting the Sabbath day, although they are the most spectacular. Add to this list the jangled nerves of many a good wife, the tired body of many a husband, the unnatural stimulation of many children of the families that rise early and start out on a quest o f distance. Fast and furious driving is likely to mark such a trip, with many near accidents. The mind, body and soul undergoes almost every experience and emotion except those of rest and repose and recreation. Then the homeward journey and the sleep of exhaustion or, what is more likely, the sleeplessness of exhausted nerves. The pendulum swings from ex treme to extreme. The deathlike si lence and stupor of the Sabbath of the past is gone and probably gone forever. But the deathly clamor of our Twentieth Century Sabbath is equally impossible. Wise motorists avoid Sunday itravel as much as pos sible, or seek byways and unfre quented places. Or, what is best of all, use the car to take them a relat ively short distance to a spot where they may (make the most of the day in fhe recreation of body and spirit which alone justify the Sabbath. Politics and Politician* We hear much criticism of politics and politicians. A great deal of it is warranted, undoubtedly. Yet the un just criticism is the foil to public interest. We mean just this, every office holder is subjected to unfair criticism which for most part is start ed by one set of politicians to dis credit another, S£t, and this, of course, for political reasons. The pub lic, without investigation of any sort, immediately follows up the cry of, stop thief! The more honest the of fice holder the less kindly he takes to the criticism. The result, as shown everywhere, is that men who have real consciences i and real ability seldom will accept an office for more than a term, and those who are unfitted very general ly hold ithe jobs! Government largely is therefore a misfit— the office holder a power con trolled by a politician, rather than by the public. The public, as above stated, being strongly given to crit icism, but very weak when it comes to leaving 'home to vote in the pri maries for nominations. The criti cism only tears down the pawn, not the political control. Another pawn is selected, the election held, the pub lic hastens ito the polls to elect some one already selected by the political control. The public should demand to know the candidates who are seeking of fice or who are being -sought by the politician. The public should go to the prim aries and vote for delegates pledged to support the candidates so known The candidates, both for delegate and for the offices, should be men of intelligence and honesty. The public should vote for men who are well qualified and honest. They now often vote for a man through sympathy or for personal reasons which they would discard in the employment of men and women in their own 'business. Looking 'Them Over [By “ One of Ours” ] ADVERTISING LOWERS COSTS Newspaper advertising in America cost §235,000,000 last year, a gain of $15,000,000 over the previous year. It has been argued that advertis ing is so much waste, so much added unnecessarily to the cost of articles sold. In one sense, it is true; if the sales could be made without it, the prices could be just that much less to the consumer. But the world buys only on infor mation. It travels because it knows where to go, what it can see, how much it will cost. It builds new houses because it reads how other people build and live and enjoy. It dresses in new fabrics because these come to its reading eyes. It is many times cheaper to get all this informa tion by reading than in any other manner. The world would settle down into a jumble of ignorant, unkempt, leave-me-alone provincial units, but for what it reads in the advertising columns. ACCIDENTS The word “accident” by derivation means something which “ falls across.” Falls across what? Why, some orderly procedure! Accident implies an order violated. If there were no order in the world there would be no accidents, for all events would then be equally casual. Order MARIAN F. MATTHEWS Mrs. Marian F. Matthews, wife of P. B. Matthews, died at her home in Bridgehampton on Thursday morn ing. Mrs. Matthews 'had recently re turned to her home, after being at the Post Graduate Hospital in New York for several weeks, where ^he underwent an operation. She had been getting along nicely, being able to be about the house a little while each day, until Monday night, when she was stricken with paralysis. Mrs. Maltthews had been a resident o f Bridgeihampton for several years past, and was, until the time o f her illness, a member of the local school faculty. She had many friends in this community, to whom the news of her death has come as a great shock. She is survived by her husband, one daughter, Katherine, and a son, Phillip. Funeral services were held from the Presbyterian Church on Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock.— News. ENGAGEMENT ANNOUNCED Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence C. Halsey of Bridgehampton, announce the en gagement o f their only daughter, Mary Augusta, to Raymond H. Os born, son of Mr. and Mrs. Oliver S. Osborn o f Wainscott. Will Rogers wants to debate with Billy Sunday on the question: “ Re solved, That the talk and arguments used for and against prohibition are worse on the public morals than the drinking.” He offers to take either side of the question. Aimee Mc Pherson is Tiis second choice for the debate. The husbands can not come too fast to keep Pola Negri from getting romantic about them—temporarily. Eastern Long Island has never been dull. The spirit of adventure, licit or otherwise, has roamed these shores since the first white man’s coming. A few days ago I read a very in teresting old document that shows that bootlegging is nothing new off Momtauk; that smuggling of one sort or another has gone on hereabouts for two hundred-odd years, and that our citizenry has always rather en joyed it. Morton Pennypacker of Kew Gar dens, Long Island bibliophile, whose collection o f books about the Island and by Dong Island writers is said to be the most complete to be found anywhere, was kind enough to loan me a rare little book, one of an edi tion of one (hundred printed in 1866, called “ The Journal of the Sloop Mary, from Quebeck, Together with an account of her Wreck off Mon- tauk Poinlt, Long Island, Anno 1701. “ The introduction and notes are by one E. B. O’Callaghan. With fhe original long s’s, and quaint spelling, this journal, found in the chest of John Maher, mate of “ ye slope Marey,” as he calls it, is reproduced. It tells what cargo she carried from New York to Quebec; an unlawful expedition, for when New York became a British colony she was forbidden all commerce with “foreign plantations.” Up to 1763 trade with Canada had to take the form of smuggling, mostly through Lake Champlain. Among other things, the Mary took “ 166 cheses, 20 rols of tobacko, 9 barrels of flower, 1 Lather tronke, 1 grait box, and 9 big caske of shot” to Canada. Then, according to Mr. Maher, the “ Things Resefed on bord ye slup Marey” (his phonetic spelling differed with 'his mood, evidently) included: “4 Iwrels of brandy, 4 hogsds of Claret, some cullered Demity, 3 beaver skins and a Papoose” (would that mean an Indian baby or a baby beaver?) “ Printed Callico Carpetts, Dyed cal- lica, 2 bundles beads, broadcloth, and musling, 1 doz. o f Catt skins and 2 otters,” etc. They set sail down the coast in a “ fres gaile of wind.” Tacking, break ing “ shrouds.” encountering “ thick wather,” taking “ Latt’d by Jodg- ment,” they poked along, the only wonder is that ships ever got any where in those days. They stopped here and there, anchoring off Cape Ann; touching at “ ye Misery” which is Misery Island off Salem Harbor; landing at Salem but avoiding Bos ton with its revenue officers; they rounded Cape Cod, anchoring off Webb’s Island, which 'has since been swallowed up by the sea. On Novem ber 16, 1701, twenty-five days out from Quebec, they reached Martha’s Vineyard and there the journal stops. Seven days later the ship was driv en ashore at Montauk. Records found in Albany say that the sloop Mary “ drove on shore as a Wrecke, not having any p’rson on Board her the 23 day of November, 1701.” She was “ceased” by Captain Josiah Hobart, Justice of the Peace of the town of East Hampton, under authority of New York colony, and by Abraham Schellenx an East Hampton ship-owner. Botih the sloop and her cargo were condemned for violation of the trade and navigation laws. But “ wrecking” was a fair sport, then as later. The revenue officers, when they appeared on the scene, seem to have encountered some dif ficulty in tallying up the Ship’s goods. East Hampton’s moSt upright citizens were set to unload and watch the wreck; but various little things walk ed away in spite of them. In later affadivits the wreckers explained the whereabouts of pieces o f cloth, but some “ barels of Brandy” seem to have escaped their notice altogether. In short, they behaved very much as people would /today, in their school boy attitude toward the law. “ Find ings is keepings” is a most human feeling! Especially on the sea coast. One William Rose, being at Mon tauk art the time of the wreck, testi fied that he helped save the goods. That with him, John Wick of South ampton, Sherrill of Suffolk County, Dr. Wade and Henry Ludlam were employed to unload; they took the goods to Captain Sam Mulford’s warehouse; and someone “ did bair away into the woods” certain goods and give them to Captain Abraham Howell, Christopher Foster, Daniel and Richard Haley; he didn’t know where they put them. 7 pieces of cloth, he said, Captain Howell gave him for his “ labor, pains and ex pense.” With that cloth he bought himself a bond boy of 9 or 10 years old, to serve him for 13 years. Also, Che master of the sloop gave him 11 pieces of woolen stuff and “ linnin cloaithes.” He, William Rose, gave these to Captain Howell’s son Abra ham, and where he put them he knew not. Eight pieces of Kenting (whatevei that was) and 3 pieces of muslin remnants remained in the possession of Colonel William Smith of Brook- haven, who in 1693 had built him self the estaite called St. George’s Manor, there. The “ Names o f men that watched the goods upon the Beatch att Meantauke Belonging to the Sloop Mary” are given in the book. They were: Ebenezer Leeks, con stable; Ebenezer Leeke, jr., Ikobell Leeke, Saml’l Hedges, John Conklin, Thol. Edwards, Lyon Gardiner, Natihaniel Baker, who was first to go on board the sloop. Those who help ed unload were: David Conklin, John Lupton, Josiah Garlick. Lewis Conk lin, John Persons, Will Rose. Men that Carted ye Good from Meantauke to East Hampton: Samuel Persons, jr., Robert Eaton, jr., John Wheeler, jr., — Hedges, Will’m Schellenx’s Teeme and fhorses, but not himselfe. The captain and owner of this sloop was Captain Samuel Vetch, son of an Edinburgh minister. Having no trade, he had been through his father’s influence appointed ohe of seven councillors who constituted the government of the Scotch colony of Caledonia, established 1698 at Darien, south of Panama. This settle ment was soon abandoned to Spain, whereupon several of the adventurers came (to New York. Samuel Vetch married, in 1700, Margaret Livingston whose father was Robert Livingston of Albany, Albany. Not long after the wreck of the Mary, Vetch was arrested and fined for trading with t!he French and In dians. He had political aspirations. In 1708 he went to England and laid before the ministry the bold project of seizing Canada. He wanted to be governor. This plan was approved, but fell through at that time. In 1710 he served in an expedition against Port Royal, Nova Scotia, whereupon its name was changed to Annapolis, and he wa9 made gover nor. He died in England in 1732. Local history is an endlessly en tertaining study, isn’t it? Ours is so bound up with that of all Colonial America; and always has the tang of the salt water to give it flavor. One of Ours. Southampton Masons Planning Big Event Past district deputy grand master Ralph C. Frood of East Hampton, a member of Old Town lodge, F. & A. M., of Southampton, has arrang ed an unusual Masonic event for his lodge on May 16, when the Master Mason degree will be conferred en tirely 'by past district deputies of Nassau and Suffolk Counties. The affair is being looked forward to with anticipation by many Masons throughout the eastern end of the island. John F. Dempsey of Rockville Center, will preside in the East, as master of the lodge, during the de gree work, and the other stations will be filled as follows: Senior warden, Frank E. Shelton of Sag Harbor; junior warden, W. Herbert Eaton, Hempstead; senior master of ceremony, Lewis C. Austin, River- head; junioi< master of ceremony, Harry M. Ketdham, Farmingdale; senior deacon, A. Smith Petty, Patch- ogue; junior deacon, Geo. Hill Moore, Riverhead; chaplain, Ambrose W. Rose, Huntington, and marshall, David A. Kennedy, Freeport. Each officer will receive one candi date and each will raise one, and the historical lecture will be delivered by Mr. Ketcham. A1 Trahern to Try L. I. Circuit Again FALLS DOWN WELL Richard Halsey of Shelter Island, was severly injured when he fell down a well on the farm. He was taken to the Southampton Hospital. Halsey was found in the well, un conscious, by his father, William Halsey, and was rescued by the latter with the assistance o f neighbors. Mr. Halsey fell through the planking which covered the (top of the well. The accident happened about 5 o’clock in the morning. Just a week previous, to a day, Mr. Halsey was injured, his wife, Ruth Reeves Halsey, died at the Southamp ton Hospital. Besides her husband she is survived by four children. Fashion note says a woman should have a hat to match every costume. S.ill, she would never have anything fit to wear. A1 Trahern, aflter an absence of nearly five years on the Pacific Coast, returned to Sayville on Wed nesday evening of last week. He was accompanied by Mrs. Trahern, who was formerly Miss Gladys Mann, leading woman in the Traihem Stock Company. Both are looking exceed ingly well. It will be recalled by old friends of the popular theatrical man that he was critically ill for months before his departure for the west and that his life was despaired of. He now weighs 180 pounds, and his smile is as broad and 'his hand clasp as warm as when 'his stock company first be gan to play Long Island towns more than twenty years ago. He has al ways been fond of Long Island and especially of Sayville and immediate ly u|)on his arrival here declared that he would start at once to get a com pany together and is planning to open at the east end of the Island on June 12, with his first performance in Sayville Opera House on Satur day, June 18. Building Takes Slump Throughout United States The extent of the slump in build ing activities throughout the United States was indicated by reports from 503 leading cities and towns made public by S. W. Straus & Co. yester day (Thursday) showing a twelve per cent loss in April building per mits compared with the same month last year. These cities reported $395,- 794,100 compared with $499,131,- 187 a year ago. The slowing up is fairly uniform throughout the coun try. Ip . the last sixty days building permits in the 500 leading cities have fallen off approximately $100,000,- 000 which, according to S. W. Straus & Co., can be construed as a definite indication that the peak of the post war building boom has been passed and that business interests from now on must adjust themselves to an abridged building program. So far the moral of the Snyder trial is that husbands should not al low their lives to be insured while they are not looking. WESTERN EUROPE’S BIG QUESTION (By Peter Keegan, Special Corres pondent of The Star) Prominent Democrats in Washing ton frankly confess that Governor Smith’s chances for nomination have been greatly diminished by focusing attention on the religious issues and by the action of the Women’s Na tional Democratic Law Enforcement League, largely composed of women from the southern states, who em phatically declare that no “ wet” can be nominated by the Democratic party. The dapper young men of this community are dropping the belt for polka-doitted suspenders. F street haberdashers tell us loud colored suspenders are the latest. But we still have confidence in the belt. There is little probability that Congress will be called for flood re lief legislation. Private subscriptions are sufficient to take care of the ii mediate needs of the refugee?, and officials point out that no compre hensive legislation can be enacted until after the report of the army en^ gineers is received by the president in ithe fall. Political observers com ment that the appointment of Secre tary Hoover to supervise the flood relief has made him stronger than ever as presidential possibility for 1928, or if the President decides to run again, in 1932. Mr. Hoover’; work in the south has brought him in close touch with the section of the opuntry that knew him least, and the prompt and efficient rescue and care of flood sufferers has greatly increas ed his personal popularity. Mrs. Coolidge skips down to the White House every few days to see how the remodeling work is coming along. The fight over the appointment of the Prohibition Commissioner will be settled on a purely political basis. Supporters of each candidate will be called in and allowed to urge their objections and recommendations but the selection will eventually be made on the basis of the control of the largest number of votes. So far, Haynes appears to be leading and an announcement can be expected within a short time. The Prohibition Unit of the Treasury and the Pro hibition Section of the Department of Justice are not co-operating, and the undercurrent o f animosity has developed into an open breach over the Federalship case. The courts de cided that this Canadian-owned ship, sailing under the Panama Canal flag, had been illegally seized but the Treasury Unit cited the Panama law withholding protection from ships under this flag violating the laws of a friendly nation and ordered its re seizure. The Department of Justice refused to prosecute the case, and the ship was again released. The ac tion of Ithe Department is generally interpreted by observers as an effort to embarass General Andrews’ ad ministration by taking advantage of legal technicalities. Our local guessers who are trying to figure out if Neighbor Coolidge is going to be a candidate again have decided he will because he surely wouldn’t be having the White House roof fixed if he didn’t expect to con tinue living under that roof. There is a persistent rumor that important changes will soon be made in the personnel of the Shipping Board and that the President is con sidering the appointment of a well- known official with excellent banking and executive experience who would put the board in closer touch with needs of American exporters. One of |the reasons for the change is said | to be that the Board is out of sympa- j thy with many important shippers as evidenced by the resolution passed at the annual meeting of the Chamb er of Commerce, declaring against the board’s replacement program and the fact that some members of the board appear to be on both sides of the fence. The whole subject will be aired thoroughly soon after Con gress convenes in December, but the changes in the board personnel are likely to come before the end of the summer. Honeymooning couples are num erous among our tourist visitors .this spring. They gaze first at the Wash ington Monument, then at each other. The first commercial airplane show, held in Washington last week by arrangement of the Department of Commerce, awakened great interest and resulted in a number o f sales. Plans are now being made by other cities to conduct similar shows. Whenever you see Mrs. Coolidge, you are also sure to see Jim Haley. Jim is the tall, dark, handsome secret service agent detailed to Mrs. Cool idge. Everybody in Washington knows Jim. The other day a bevy of girls espied Jim out walking with an attractive woman. After some debate the girls decided the woman was Mrs. CooKdge but this time it was his own wife. To Introduce New Dodge Sixes About June 1 Twenty-Five Years Ago in the Star W. S. Williams is now using his new motorcycle. W. S. Everest has just turned out a new butcher wagon for Fred McCann. The strawberry festival at Clinton Hall last night netted the Village Improvement Society about fifteen dollars. Fred McCann’s meat market now presents a neat and attrac tive appearance with its new in terior and large plate glass front. We learn on good authority that the preliminary work of or ganizing the electric light com- - pany for East Hampton is pro gressing satisfactorily; that the stock has all been subscribed for, and that Mr. Hirshfeld will be’ in town again in a few days on busi ness connected with the enter prise. Since our last issue the follow ing persons have subscribed for stock in the proposed electric light company for East Hampton: F. H. Tillinghast, Mrs. F. H. Payne, S. H. Miller, C. E. C. Homan, Mrs. B. M. Osborne, B. M. Osborne, F. S. Stratton, Howard Hedges, Jeremiah Hunt in g , W. O. Rackett, C. S. Day ton, S. A. Gregory. Herbert F. Hedges. About $12,000 worth of. stock has been taken by East Hampton people. Dodge Brothers, Inc., has started production of its new six cylinder line and output is now running at about 100 per day. This number will be increased rapidly and by the end of June daily ouitput will approxi mate 300. The first shipments to dealers were made May 11 and by the end of this month all of Dodge Brothers dealers will have been sampled. The company now has orders for the “ sixes” sufficient to keep the im mense new plant operating at 300 per day for several months. The new line will be produced in three models, a four door sedan, a four passenger coupe and a new type of cabriolet roadster. Other models will be made later. It is expected that the new line will be introduced about June 1. The company has found it neces sary to step up production of its four cyKnder line twice in ten days to keep shipments abreast of the or ders which have been placed since announcement of the new four cylin der motor and standard gear shift was made on May 1. During the first week after the new motor was introduced orders for cars valued at $5,500,000 were received. These were in addition to regular contractual allotments. All of the Dodge Brothers factor ies are now operating at the highest levels of the year and it is expected that still further increases in opera tions will be necessary. Graham Brothers’ April retail sales in tjie United States and for eign shipment totaled 5,600 units. Overseas shipments last month to taled 1084, an increase of 188 per cent over March and the second high est month in Graham Brothers his tory. In Canada Graham Brothers April sales broke all previous rec ords. Overseas shipments of Dodge Brothers cars established a new high record in the company’s history on May 5. Gets $50 Verdict For Auto Injuries Thomas Sullivan of Riverhead, was awarded fifty dollars by a jury in the Suffolk County Supreme Court in an action against Charles Pugs- ley, of New Suffolk, for $5,000 dam- s for personal injuries caused December 23, 1923, when Pugsley’s closed automobile overturned at Amagansott. Pugsley, Sullivan, Wm. Mason, sr., of New Suffolk, and a Sag Harbor man were riding in the machine at the time of the accident. SOUTHAMPTON LIONS ACTIVE The Lions Club of Southampton, has ordered 10,000 copies of a leaf let carrying a detailed map of South ampton and three pages of views and historical data. They will cost over $1,100, w'hicli sum ft is expected will be realized from their sale. Approxi mately one-half of that sum has al ready been pledged by merchants who have ordered them in large quantities. The girls seem to have adopted the slogan of the paint trade and imag ine that when they save the surface they save all. The school of experience has no class reunions. FREE—FREE DICTIONARY Gray blamed Mrs. Snyder for the murder, and Mrs. Snyder blamed Gray. Both are correct. 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TW O TH E E A S T H A M PTO N S T A R . F R ID A Y , M A Y 20, 1927

THE STARPublished every Friday morning

Entered at the Post Office at East Hampton, N. Y., as second-class

matterB. E. BOUGHTON...............ProprietorWELBY E. BOUGHTON.........Editor

Subscription R»te A year, i f paid in advance.......... $2.50

A FINESCHOOL EXHIBIT

Those who did not attend the physical training, manual training, art and homemaking exhibition at the school auditorium last Friday night missed a real treat and those who did attend were pleasantly and most interestingly entertained for an hour and a half.

The art, manual training and homemaking exhibits in the spacious halls were greatly admired by proud parents and visitors. What wonder­ful educational advantages our boys and girls have today. Surely our school has made rapid strides ahead in the past decade. With a model school auditorium, and modern equipment to work and play with, competent instructors and teachers, the pupils are receiving the very best that money can buy for them in an educational way, today. And the best part of it is the pupils are beginning to show returns on the investment, as shown by the exhibits last Friday night. Mr. Kuhn and Miss Bohne, physical training instructors and their classes o f boys and girls are to be highly complimented for the spirited manner in which they conducted the drills, apparatus work, pyramid building, etc. The ease and orderly manner in which these' young boys and girls performed the drills and stunts were a marvel to parents and visitors. It has been a known fact that East Hampton for a long time, has been slow in introducing athe- letics in school work, but judging by the exhibit Friday night we are ad­vancing with both feet.

implies purpose. A bad adventure is one contrary to order and purpose. It results in an accident. Cross a street absent-mindedly and in viola­tion o f the order o f traffic. You wake up in the almshouse. That’s a bad ad­venture, according to the National Safety Council.

A NATION OF ROAD BUILDERS

Less than ten years ago it would have been impossible to figure on driving an automobile more than about six or eight months o f the year in the rural districts o f most o f our states. A “ touring” car making an extended trip, would carry ropes, chains and a shovel to use in cases of emergency, which were quite fre ­quent.

Today automobiles may be driven from coast to coast and north and south with little inconvenience. An­other ten years will see paved roads to every important point. No nation ever attempted such a road building program as we are now carrying out, as an established feature o f state and national development.

Not only are we building and hardsurfacing new roads, but are widening and straightening (thou­sands of miles o f old roads. Our an­nual bill fo r building and maintain­ing highways is approximately one billion dollars. It is necessary to keep close watch to see that this money is properly expended on scientifically built highways and permanent and practical bridge construction. Thou­sands o f miles o f feeder roads into the main highways must be improv­ed witJi a waterproof wearing sur­face.

The telephone, the automobile, our good highways and our transporta­tion system make possible instant and continuous communication and association between all sections of our country.

Editorial CommentIn Long Island Papers

Sabbath Madnen[Suffolk County News]

The Sabbath, once the day of rest, is now fast becoming known as the day o f eternal rest. For more people now go to an untimely death on that day than any other day of the week. Mad motoring is respon­sible for this ghastly change.

The Sabbath was made for man, to be sure, but noit fo r the exercise o f his uttermost folly. Yet as surely as Monday rolls around we have the gruesome front page news of the dead, the dying and the injured who have apparently gone mad over Sun­day and have paid the price.

This is not the full extent o f the bad uses to which we are putting the Sabbath day, although they are the most spectacular. Add to this list the jangled nerves o f many a good wife, the tired body o f many a husband, the unnatural stimulation o f many children o f the families that rise early and start out on a quest o f distance.

Fast and furious driving is likely to mark such a trip, with many near accidents. The mind, body and soul undergoes almost every experience and emotion except those o f rest and repose and recreation. Then the homeward journey and the sleep of exhaustion or, what is more likely, the sleeplessness o f exhausted nerves.

The pendulum swings from ex­treme to extreme. The deathlike si­lence and stupor o f the Sabbath o f the past is gone and probably gone forever. But the deathly clamor of our Twentieth Century Sabbath is equally impossible. Wise motorists avoid Sunday itravel as much as pos­sible, or seek byways and unfre­quented places. Or, what is best of all, use the car to take them a relat­ively short distance to a spot where they may (make the most o f the day in fhe recreation o f body and spirit which alone justify the Sabbath.

Politics and Politician*We hear much criticism o f politics

and politicians. A great deal o f it is warranted, undoubtedly. Yet the un­just criticism is the foil to public interest. We mean just this, every office holder is subjected to unfair criticism which for most part is start­ed by one set o f politicians to dis­credit another, S£t, and this, of course, for political reasons. The pub­lic, without investigation o f any sort, immediately follows up the cry of, stop thief! The more honest the o f­fice holder the less kindly he takes to the criticism.

The result, as shown everywhere, is that men who have real consciences i and real ability seldom will accept an office for more than a term, and those who are unfitted very general­ly hold ithe jobs!

Government largely is therefore a misfit— the office holder a power con­trolled by a politician, rather than by the public. The public, as above stated, being strongly given to crit­icism, but very weak when it comes to leaving 'home to vote in the pri­maries for nominations. The criti­cism only tears down the pawn, not the political control. Another pawn is selected, the election held, the pub­lic hastens ito the polls to elect some one already selected by the political control.

The public should demand to know the candidates who are seeking o f­fice or who are being -sought by the politician.

The public should go to the prim­aries and vote for delegates pledged to support the candidates so known

The candidates, both fo r delegate and for the offices, should be men o f intelligence and honesty.

The public should vote for men who are well qualified and honest. They now often vote for a man through sympathy or for personal reasons which they would discard in the employment o f men and women in their own 'business.

Looking 'Them Over[By “ One o f Ours” ]

ADVERTISING LOWERS COSTS

Newspaper advertising in America cost §235,000,000 last year, a gain o f $15,000,000 over the previous year.

It has been argued that advertis­ing is so much waste, so much added unnecessarily to the cost o f articles sold. In one sense, it is true; if the sales could be made without it, the prices could be just that much less to the consumer.

But the world buys only on infor­mation. It travels because it knows where to go, what it can see, how much it will cost. It builds new houses because it reads how other people build and live and enjoy. It dresses in new fabrics because these come to its reading eyes. It is many times cheaper to get all this informa­tion by reading than in any other manner. The world would settle down into a jumble o f ignorant, unkempt, leave-me-alone provincial units, but for what it reads in the advertising columns.

ACCIDENTS

The word “ accident” by derivation means something which “ falls across.” Falls across what? Why, some orderly procedure! Accident implies an order violated. I f there were no order in the world there would be no accidents, fo r all events would then be equally casual. Order

MARIAN F. MATTHEWS

Mrs. Marian F. Matthews, wife of P. B. Matthews, died at her home in Bridgehampton on Thursday morn­ing. Mrs. Matthews 'had recently re­turned to her home, after being at the Post Graduate Hospital in New York for several weeks, where ^he underwent an operation. She had been getting along nicely, being able to be about the house a little while each day, until Monday night, when she was stricken with paralysis.

Mrs. Maltthews had been a resident o f Bridgeihampton for several years past, and was, until the time o f her illness, a member o f the local school faculty. She had many friends in this community, to whom the news o f her death has come as a great shock. She is survived by her husband, one daughter, Katherine, and a son, Phillip.

Funeral services were held from the Presbyterian Church on Sunday afternoon at 3 o ’ clock.— News.

ENGAGEMENT ANNOUNCED

Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence C. Halsey o f Bridgehampton, announce the en­gagement o f their only daughter, Mary Augusta, to Raymond H. Os­born, son o f Mr. and Mrs. Oliver S. Osborn o f Wainscott.

Will Rogers wants to debate with Billy Sunday on the question: “ Re­solved, That the talk and arguments used for and against prohibition are worse on the public morals than the drinking.” He offers to take either side o f the question. Aimee Mc­Pherson is Tiis second choice for the debate.

The husbands can not come too fast to keep Pola Negri from getting romantic about them— temporarily.

Eastern Long Island has never been dull. The spirit o f adventure, licit or otherwise, has roamed these shores since the first white man’s coming.

A few days ago I read a very in­teresting old document that shows that bootlegging is nothing new off Momtauk; that smuggling o f one sort or another has gone on hereabouts for two hundred-odd years, and that our citizenry has always rather en­joyed it.

Morton Pennypacker of Kew Gar­dens, Long Island bibliophile, whose collection o f books about the Island and by Dong Island writers is said to be the most complete to be found anywhere, was kind enough to loan me a rare little book, one o f an edi­tion o f one (hundred printed in 1866, called “ The Journal o f the Sloop Mary, from Quebeck, Together with an account of her Wreck off Mon- tauk Poinlt, Long Island, Anno 1701. “ The introduction and notes are by one E. B. O’Callaghan.

With fhe original long s’s, and quaint spelling, this journal, found in the chest o f John Maher, mate of “ ye slope Marey,” as he calls it, is reproduced. It tells what cargo she carried from New York to Quebec; an unlawful expedition, fo r when New York became a British colony she was forbidden all commerce with “ foreign plantations.” Up to 1763 trade with Canada had to take the form o f smuggling, mostly through Lake Champlain. Among other things, the Mary took “ 166 cheses, 20 rols o f tobacko, 9 barrels o f flower, 1 Lather tronke, 1 grait box, and 9 big caske o f shot” to Canada. Then, according to Mr. Maher, the “ Things Resefed on bord ye slup Marey” (his phonetic spelling differed with

'his mood, evidently) included: “ 4 Iwrels o f brandy, 4 hogsds o f Claret, some cullered Demity, 3 beaver skins and a Papoose” (would that mean an Indian baby or a baby beaver?) “ Printed Callico Carpetts, Dyed cal- lica, 2 bundles beads, broadcloth, and musling, 1 doz. o f Catt skins and 2 otters,” etc.

They set sail down the coast in a “ fres gaile of wind.” Tacking, break­ing “ shrouds.” encountering “ thick wather,” taking “ Latt’d by Jodg- ment,” they poked along, the only wonder is that ships ever got any­where in those days. They stopped here and there, anchoring off Cape Ann; touching at “ ye Misery” which is Misery Island off Salem Harbor; landing at Salem but avoiding Bos­ton with its revenue officers; they rounded Cape Cod, anchoring off Webb’s Island, which 'has since been swallowed up by the sea. On Novem­ber 16, 1701, twenty-five days out from Quebec, they reached Martha’s Vineyard and there the journal stops. Seven days later the ship was driv­en ashore at Montauk.

Records found in Albany say that the sloop Mary “ drove on shore as a Wrecke, not having any p’ rson on Board her the 23 day o f November, 1701.” She was “ ceased” by Captain Josiah Hobart, Justice o f the Peace o f the town o f East Hampton, under authority o f New York colony, and by Abraham Schellenx an East Hampton ship-owner.

Botih the sloop and her cargo were condemned for violation o f the trade and navigation laws.

But “ wrecking” was a fair sport, then as later. The revenue officers, when they appeared on the scene, seem to have encountered some d if­ficulty in tallying up the Ship’s goods. East Hampton’s moSt upright citizens were set to unload and watch the wreck; but various little things walk­ed away in spite o f them. In later

affadivits the wreckers explained the whereabouts o f pieces o f cloth, but some “ barels o f Brandy” seem to have escaped their notice altogether. In short, they behaved very much as people would /today, in their school­boy attitude toward the law. “ Find­ings is keepings” is a most human feeling! Especially on the sea coast.

One William Rose, being at Mon­tauk art the time o f the wreck, testi­fied that he helped save the goods. That with him, John Wick of South­ampton, Sherrill o f Suffolk County, Dr. Wade and Henry Ludlam were employed to unload; they took the goods to Captain Sam Mulford’s warehouse; and someone “ did bair away into the woods” certain goods and give them to Captain Abraham Howell, Christopher Foster, Daniel and Richard Haley; he didn’t know where they put them. 7 pieces of cloth, he said, Captain Howell gave him for his “ labor, pains and ex­pense.” With that cloth he bought himself a bond boy o f 9 or 10 years old, to serve him fo r 13 years. Also, Che master o f the sloop gave him 11 pieces o f woolen stuff and “ linnin cloaithes.” He, William Rose, gave these to Captain Howell’s son Abra­ham, and where he put them he knew not.

Eight pieces o f Kenting (whatevei that was) and 3 pieces o f muslin remnants remained in the possession o f Colonel William Smith o f Brook- haven, who in 1693 had built him­self the estaite called St. George’s Manor, there.

The “ Names o f men that watched the goods upon the Beatch att Meantauke Belonging to the Sloop Mary” are given in the book.

They were: Ebenezer Leeks, con­stable; Ebenezer Leeke, jr., Ikobell Leeke, Saml’ l Hedges, John Conklin, Thol. Edwards, Lyon Gardiner, Natihaniel Baker, who was first to go on board the sloop. Those who help­ed unload were: David Conklin, John Lupton, Josiah Garlick. Lewis Conk­lin, John Persons, Will Rose. Men that Carted ye Good from Meantauke to East Hampton: Samuel Persons, jr., Robert Eaton, jr., John Wheeler, jr., — Hedges, Will’m Schellenx’s Teeme and fhorses, but not himselfe.

The captain and owner o f this sloop was Captain Samuel Vetch, son o f an Edinburgh minister. Having no trade, he had been through his father’s influence appointed ohe of seven councillors who constituted the government o f the Scotch colony o f Caledonia, established 1698 at Darien, south of Panama. This settle­ment was soon abandoned to Spain, whereupon several o f the adventurers came (to New York.

Samuel Vetch married, in 1700, Margaret Livingston whose father was Robert Livingston o f Albany, Albany.

Not long a fter the wreck o f the Mary, Vetch was arrested and fined for trading with t!he French and In­dians.

He had political aspirations. In 1708 he went to England and laid before the ministry the bold project o f seizing Canada. He wanted to be governor. This plan was approved, but fell through at that time. In 1710 he served in an expedition against Port Royal, Nova Scotia, whereupon its name was changed to Annapolis, and he wa9 made gover­nor. He died in England in 1732.

Local history is an endlessly en tertaining study, isn’t it? Ours is so bound up with that o f all Colonial America; and always has the tang o f the salt water to give it flavor.

One o f Ours.

Southampton MasonsPlanning Big Event

Past district deputy grand master Ralph C. Frood o f East Hampton, a member o f Old Town lodge, F. & A. M., o f Southampton, has arrang­ed an unusual Masonic event fo r his lodge on May 16, when the Master Mason degree will be conferred en­tirely 'by past district deputies o f Nassau and Suffolk Counties. The affair is being looked forward to with anticipation by many M a s o n s throughout the eastern end o f the island.

John F. Dempsey o f Rockville Center, will preside in the East, as master o f the lodge, during the de­gree work, and the other stations will be filled as follow s: Senior warden, Frank E. Shelton o f Sag Harbor; junior warden, W. Herbert Eaton, Hempstead; senior master o f ceremony, Lewis C. Austin, River- head; junioi< master o f ceremony, Harry M. Ketdham, Farmingdale; senior deacon, A. Smith Petty, Patch- ogue; junior deacon, Geo. Hill Moore, Riverhead; chaplain, Ambrose W. Rose, Huntington, and marshall, David A. Kennedy, Freeport.

Each officer will receive one candi­date and each will raise one, and the historical lecture will be delivered by Mr. Ketcham.

A1 Trahern to TryL. I. Circuit Again

FALLS DOWN WELL

Richard Halsey o f Shelter Island, was severly injured when he fell down a well on the farm. He was taken to the Southampton Hospital.

Halsey was found in the well, un­conscious, by his father, William Halsey, and was rescued by the latter with the assistance o f neighbors. Mr. Halsey fell through the planking which covered the (top o f the well. The accident happened about 5 o’ clock in the morning.

Just a week previous, to a day, Mr. Halsey was injured, his wife, Ruth Reeves Halsey, died at the Southamp­ton Hospital. Besides her husband she is survived by four children.

Fashion note says a woman should have a hat to match every costume. S.ill, she would never have anything fit to wear.

A1 Trahern, aflter an absence o f nearly five years on the Pacific Coast, returned to Sayville on W ed­nesday evening of last week. He was accompanied by Mrs. Trahern, who was formerly Miss Gladys Mann, leading woman in the Traihem Stock Company. Both are looking exceed­ingly well. It will be recalled by old friends o f the popular theatrical man that he was critically ill fo r months before his departure fo r the west and that his life was despaired of. He now weighs 180 pounds, and his smile is as broad and 'his hand clasp as warm as when 'his stock company first be­gan to play Long Island towns more than twenty years ago. He has al­ways been fond o f Long Island and especially o f Sayville and immediate­ly u|)on his arrival here declared that he would start at once to get a com­pany together and is planning to open at the east end o f the Island on June 12, with his first performance in Sayville Opera House on Satur­day, June 18.

Building Takes Slump Throughout United StatesThe extent of the slump in build­

ing activities throughout the United States was indicated by reports from 503 leading cities and towns made public by S. W. Straus & Co. yester­day (Thursday) showing a twelve per cent loss in April building per­mits compared with the same month last year. These cities reported $395,- 794,100 compared with $499,131,- 187 a year ago. The slowing up is fairly uniform throughout the coun­try. Ip. the last sixty days building permits in the 500 leading cities have fallen off approximately $100,000,- 000 which, according to S. W. Straus & Co., can be construed as a definite indication that the peak o f the post­war building boom has been passed and that business interests from now on must adjust themselves to an abridged building program.

So far the moral o f the Snyder trial is that husbands should not al­low their lives to be insured while they are not looking.

WESTERN EUROPE’S BIG QUESTION

(By Peter Keegan, Special Corres­pondent o f The Star)

Prominent Democrats in Washing­ton frankly confess that Governor Smith’s chances for nomination have been greatly diminished by focusing attention on the religious issues and by the action o f the Women’s Na­tional Democratic Law Enforcement League, largely composed o f women from the southern states, who em phatically declare that no “ wet” can be nominated by the Democratic party.

The dapper young men o f this community are dropping the belt for polka-doitted suspenders. F street haberdashers tell us loud colored suspenders are the latest. But we still have confidence in the belt.

There is little probability that Congress will be called for flood re­lief legislation. Private subscriptions are sufficient to take care o f the ii mediate needs o f the refugee?, and officials point out that no compre­hensive legislation can be enacted until after the report o f the army en̂ gineers is received by the president in ithe fall. Political observers com­ment that the appointment o f Secre­tary Hoover to supervise the flood relief has made him stronger than ever as presidential possibility for 1928, or i f the President decides to run again, in 1932. Mr. Hoover’; work in the south has brought him in close touch with the section o f the opuntry that knew him least, and the prompt and efficient rescue and care o f flood sufferers has greatly increas­ed his personal popularity.

Mrs. Coolidge skips down to the White House every few days to see how the remodeling work is coming along.

The fight over the appointment o f the Prohibition Commissioner will be settled on a purely political basis. Supporters o f each candidate will be called in and allowed to urge their objections and recommendations but the selection will eventually be made on the basis o f the control o f the largest number o f votes. So far, Haynes appears to be leading and an announcement can be expected within a short time. The Prohibition Unit o f the Treasury and the Pro­hibition Section o f the Department o f Justice are not co-operating, and the undercurrent o f animosity has developed into an open breach over the Federalship case. The courts de­cided that this Canadian-owned ship, sailing under the Panama Canal flag, had been illegally seized but the Treasury Unit cited the Panama law withholding protection from ships under this flag violating the laws of a friendly nation and ordered its re­seizure. The Department o f Justice refused to prosecute the case, and the ship was again released. The ac­tion o f Ithe Department is generally interpreted by observers as an effort to embarass General Andrews’ ad­ministration by taking advantage of legal technicalities.

Our local guessers who are trying to figure out if Neighbor Coolidge is going to be a candidate again have decided he will because he surely wouldn’t be having the White House roof fixed if he didn’ t expect to con­tinue living under that roof.

There is a persistent rumor that important changes will soon be made in the personnel o f the Shipping Board and that the President is con­sidering the appointment o f a well- known official with excellent banking and executive experience who would put the board in closer touch with needs o f American exporters. One of

| the reasons for the change is said | to be that the Board is out o f sympa- j thy with many important shippers as evidenced by the resolution passed at the annual meeting o f the Chamb­er o f Commerce, declaring against the board’s replacement program and the fact that some members o f the board appear to be on both sides o f the fence. The whole subject will be aired thoroughly soon a fter Con­gress convenes in December, but the changes in the board personnel are likely to come before the end of the summer.

Honeymooning couples are num­erous among our tourist visitors .this spring. They gaze first at the Wash­ington Monument, then at each other.

The first commercial airplane show, held in Washington last week by arrangement o f the Department o f Commerce, awakened great interest and resulted in a number o f sales. Plans are now being made by other cities to conduct similar shows.

Whenever you see Mrs. Coolidge, you are also sure to see Jim Haley. Jim is the tall, dark, handsome secret service agent detailed to Mrs. Cool­idge. Everybody in Washington knows Jim. The other day a bevy of girls espied Jim out walking with an attractive woman. A fter some debate the girls decided the woman was Mrs. CooKdge but this time it was his own wife.

To Introduce New Dodge Sixes About June 1

Twenty-Five YearsAgo in the Star

W. S. Williams is now using his new motorcycle.

W. S. Everest has just turned out a new butcher wagon for Fred McCann.

The strawberry festival at Clinton Hall last night netted the Village Improvement Society about fifteen dollars.

Fred McCann’s meat market now presents a neat and attrac­tive appearance with its new in­terior and large plate glass front.

We learn on good authority that the preliminary work o f or­ganizing the electric light com- - pany for East Hampton is pro­gressing satisfactorily; that the stock has all been subscribed for, and that Mr. Hirshfeld will be’ in town again in a few days on busi­ness connected with the enter prise.

Since our last issue the follow­ing persons have subscribed for stock in the proposed electric light company for East Hampton: F. H. Tillinghast, Mrs. F. H. Payne, S. H. Miller, C. E. C. Homan, Mrs. B. M. Osborne, B. M. Osborne, F. S. Stratton, Howard Hedges, Jeremiah Hunt­in g , W. O. Rackett, C. S. Day­ton, S. A. Gregory. Herbert F. Hedges. About $12,000 worth of. stock has been taken by East Hampton people.

Dodge Brothers, Inc., has started production o f its new six cylinder line and output is now running at about 100 per day. This number will be increased rapidly and by the end o f June daily ouitput will approxi­mate 300.

The first shipments to dealers were made May 11 and by the end o f this month all o f Dodge Brothers dealers will have been sampled. The company now has orders fo r the “ sixes” sufficient to keep the im­mense new plant operating at 300 per day for several months.

The new line will be produced in three models, a four door sedan, a four passenger coupe and a new type o f cabriolet roadster. Other models will be made later. It is expected that the new line will be introduced about June 1.

The company has found it neces­sary to step up production o f its four cyKnder line twice in ten days to keep shipments abreast o f the or­ders which have been placed since announcement o f the new four cylin­der m otor and standard gear shift was made on May 1.

During the first week after the new motor was introduced orders for cars valued at $5,500,000 were received. These were in addition to regular contractual allotments.

All o f the Dodge Brothers factor­ies are now operating at the highest levels o f the year and it is expected that still further increases in opera­tions will be necessary.

Graham Brothers’ April retail sales in tjie United States and for­eign shipment totaled 5,600 units. Overseas shipments last month to­taled 1084, an increase o f 188 per cent over March and the second high­est month in Graham Brothers his­tory. In Canada Graham Brothers April sales broke all previous rec­ords.

Overseas shipments o f Dodge Brothers cars established a new high record in the company’s history on May 5.

Gets $50 VerdictFor Auto Injuries

Thomas Sullivan o f Riverhead, was awarded fifty dollars by a jury in the Suffolk County Supreme Court in an action against Charles Pugs- ley, o f New Suffolk, for $5,000 dam-

s fo r personal injuries caused December 23, 1923, when Pugsley’s closed automobile overturned at Amagansott. Pugsley, Sullivan, Wm. Mason, sr., o f New Suffolk, and a Sag Harbor man were riding in the machine at the time o f the accident.

SOUTHAMPTON LIONS ACTIVE

The Lions Club o f Southampton, has ordered 10,000 copies o f a leaf­let carrying a detailed map o f South­ampton and three pages o f views and historical data. They will cost over $1,100, w'hicli sum ft is expected will be realized from their sale. Approxi­mately one-half o f that sum has al­ready been pledged by merchants who have ordered them in large quantities.

The girls seem to have adopted the slogan o f the paint trade and imag­ine that when they save the surface they save all.

The school o f experience has no class reunions.

FREE—FREED IC T IO N A R Y

Gray blamed Mrs. Snyder for the murder, and Mrs. Snyder blamed Gray. Both are correct.

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