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Milford chronicle., 1920-05-14

MILFORD is just not getting firm grasp the fact
that her town aairs need very radical shaking up and
is fact being impressed thru and by the
Of '0ne dollar and twenty-five the hundred dollars
OF assessment; which is of sixysx per cent
over former rates The system under which Milford
does business is very ancient ana without any attempt
at modern business methods the has sunk gradually
into debt ard the mantanance repairs
ed deficiencies year after year Milford needs very
large doses of practical business management thru
charter, a3d form of town government, and they
must be administered quickly. In the past under the
presen/pan have attempted get something without
laying foT The ser@iee rendered and has heen exnen-
sve experience and rapidly becoming burden for prop
erty. 1t is apparent than before that
competent attorney be employed draft
for Milford, which will embrace a small governing
body which will be held directly responsible the people
for their acts and for that service be paid fair renumerI
alton for the work accomplished Now the time make
the charter It be submitted the people from
until next winter when the legislature be asked
to enact the system into governing law for the
people of Milford It is certain that money expended
by system Of this kind will give the people perma
streets, better sewage better lighting health
conditions, and get the town way reduce debt
so that needed Improvements can be made.
Milford chronicle., 1920-05-14

SENATOR WOLCOTT has been circulating thru Kent
Sussex Counties this week, getting in touch with the
workers and arranging for the perfect harmony which
proposed for the Democratic party Delaware at the
approaching primaries maybe that Senator Salisbury
his friends will forget the campaign in Sussex
Yes that harmony will be a very much patched up when
it gets before the people finally.
Milford chronicle., 1920-05-14
PASS THE KNOX RESOLUTION!
lion Haryery,s Weeklyl
The League. as a YItaI Issne in the CampaIgn. i


The League a Vital Issue in the Campaign, is Dead
To very considerable number of readers of this pa
who have written inquire what deductions may
safely be drawn from the bewiderng primaries reply
As to Republican candidates none.
It will be open convention. with General Wood
far in the lead Senator Johnson second Governor Low
den (probably) third, and about outlined by the
trained political observers of the daily press So much
may be accepted virtually certain. Whoever assumes
to see further at the moment talks through his hat.
As to Democratic candidates,
The ghost OF Woodrow Wilson" still sits at the
of the table but is fading daily Nothing tangible real
y indicative from the Democratic ranks
until after the Republican convention The party has
opportunst poor and simple. It's hope lies
in the remote possibility Of colossal bunder at Chicago
AS to issues. one.
The League proposed and still demanded by Mr..
Wilson is practically eliminated The Solemn referen-
DUN has already taken place within his party and
the whole project denaonazng United States has
been rejected wherever the people have had opporun
ity TO render verdict
Mr.. Bryan marked for punishment from the mo-
ment when in his Jackson Day speech he challenged the
Presidents opposition to Americanzaon of the Treaty
declared that support Of Article the forhcom
ing campaign would oyerwhelm the party the polls.
Senator Hitchcock represented the Administration
spirited that followed backed othe limit
capacity by both the Federal and the STAKE organ
zat5ons but to avail Mr.. Bryan won, andA Senator
Milford chronicle., 1920-05-14

SALVATION ARMY OFFICERS may join in the "oy-
eral Club" prices uniforms do not tumble
soon according officers OF the Salvation Army head
quarters Pennsylvania Salvation Army uniforms that
bring SIS being sold for $50 SHlvationist
buy their outfits Of their meager earnings there
fore the likelihood Of blue denim.
Milford chronicle., 1920-05-14
Derrickson & Van Kirk
Derrickson & Van Kirk
"WeMust WearClOtheS"
mIIIIIIIIIIIIImIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIn

That is the way we figured out for this and it
the way we will figure out for next season. We accordingly
ahead and bought regular amounts of Clothing just as
we did when Clothing and everything else much lower
The merchandise in bought from the best most
representative houses in the country We have not sacrificed
quality for price These goods marked just low they
possibly be- The Young Mems Styles simply beautiful
Our leaders and wobutton dOubebreasted COATS in
grays browns and green's To them is to like them We
have been very highly praised by everyone for patterns and
models for this season. and the prices considered to what most
merchants getting for like merchandise is very Ow
Milford chronicle., 1920-05-14

WAR AND ADVERSELY
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-25
Spanish Socialists Demand
Game Preserves Be Cultivated

MADRID, April 24.-Socialists in
PRODUCED proposition in the Cortes
to-day demanding the government
should purchase from rich landlords
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-25
Shea Warns Rail
Board of Delay
Brotherhood Official De-
clares Men Are Tired of
Being Fed on Promises

WASHINGTON, April 24.-Warning
against further delay in settling the
wage demands of the two million rail-
road workers of the country, Timothy
Shea, vice-president of the Brother
hood of Locomotive Firemen. told the
Railroad Labor Board to-day the men
ever fed upon promises, and dead, dog
tired of delays"
Mr.. Shea presented the demands Of
the fremen and hostlers for a basic
living wage of $3.50 day, with differ
entails for skill, responsibility, expert
ence and the increase in the cost of
living since the demands were first
presented last June.
He told the board the lessons to be
learned from the steel, coal and rail-
road strikes was that "men will not
work when they cannot live decently
on the wages they are paid" When he
urged the striking railroad men in the
Eastern terminals to return to work,
fication for striking was that they and
their families were starving at work
and they Knight just as we'll starve
not working"
Citing the conclusion of the recent
industrial conference that it was fun
damental that "the basic wages of ali
employees should be adequate to
maintain the employee and his
family in reasonable comfort and with
adequate opportunity for the educa-
ton of his children, Mr.. Shea said the
railroad workers had been patient and
they had been patriotic.
owe were patriotic" he said, "while
the thousands and tens of thousands
Of war millionaires were being
created. We have been patient while
the profteers have paused in their
orgy of spending ill-gotten gains only
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-25

day issued a statement branding as
"malisciously false" the assertion that
the Columbus yardmen left the service
Of the railroads because of "a desire
to formulate one big union, or, in other
words, join the I. W. w. movement"
The statement places entire blame
for the railroad strike on w. G. Lee,
president of the Brotherhood Of Rail-
road Trainmen, and says "our high
salaried president [Leel slept at the
crying for bread"
The statement says in part:
NV. G. Lee, president of the Broth
erhood Of Railroad Trainmen, and
others have circulated the report in the
daily press that the action Of the yard
men in Columbus and at other points
in leaving the service of the railroads
was due to desire to formulate one
big union, OR, in other words join the
l. W. w. movement.
This charge is maliciously false, and
can be proved false at least so far as
the yardmen working in the vicinity Of
Columbus are concerned.
1--WE have no desire to formulate the
one big union, neither have we any de-
sire to leave the Brotherhood of Rail-
road Trainmen, but when we found we
had dictator at the head of the
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, who
was positively not in sympathy with
our deplorable conditions, and failed
utterly to look after our interests, as
he promised to do at the convention last
May. and for which he was voted the
princely salary of $14.50o a year, we
charge that if any one had an I. w. W.
tendencies or desire to form one big
union, that man is w. G. Lee.
When Mr.. Lee found that it was
necessary to take determined stand
in regard to wages he took what is
commonly known as cold feet, and de-
serted"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-25
Lackawanna's
Engineers to
Join Strikers
Continued from page one

breach in the ranks of the strikers.
He charged that the strikers commit
tee of 100 had been double-crossed by
the railroad chiefs in order to get
khem out of Washington, saying that
Me brotherhood chiefs had already ar
ranged with the companies for the men
to lose their seniority when they
promised the strikers committee they
would settle the controversy "satis-
factorily" When he sent the tele-
gram announcing he had good news"
for the strikers, he said, he thought
the brotherhood chiefs were acting in
good faith.
"The railroad situation in the metro
politan district has come to the point
where the breach has widened," he said.
"We offered to the general managers
to bring the strike to an early termina-
ton. The managers stood on their dig
nifty and would not extend their ulti-
fnatum. We feel that we have humbled
ourselves enough, and in so doing were
ridiculed because we mentioned the fact
that the public was innocently drawn
into the controversy. Now we take the
stand that we will not deal through the
brotherhood chiefs. We withdraw our
proposition to return under the condi-
tons mentioned in our ignored letter of
yesterday. If any settlement is reached
it must come through the men and be
satisfactory to them.
Announces United Action
eve have tried to bring this strike
to a settlement in and about tho metro
politan district. Now we are joining
forces with other parts of the country
In order that we may bring this issue
to a satisfactory conclusion.
ut may seem to be just a matter
OF time before the men will be forced
to return to work, due to financial
pressure, but let US not overlook the
fact that during the war these men
stood periodically and loyalty and
worked excessive hours and responded
to the several Liberty bond drives,
making sacrifices in order to obtain
these bonds that they might help make
the world safe for democracy. Now
they are ready to make use of those
bonds to obtain justice for them
selves"
Joseph c. Stanton, business manager
Of the Railroad Port and Terminal
Workers, stirred the strikers at the
meeting by the announcement that even
If they do go back to work the men Of
his organization will remain out. The
Railroad Port and Terminal Workers
include deckhands, fremen, hoatmen,
bridgemen, oilers, bridge operators and
others now on strike.
NO matter what the so-called settle
ment between the brotherhood chiefs
and the railways may be-" shouted Stan
ton, sit will have no effect upon the
railroad. port and terminal workers. If
you men decide to go back with your
seniority rights fully protected the
river yards of the railroads will still
be tied up. We control the key men
and we fought too hard for the eight
hour day to lose it now"
Mayors and other city executives o.
New Jersey, at the closing session II
Atlantic City of the fifth annual con.
vention Of the State League of Munich
palities, turned down coldly yesterday
the plea for help from the strikers Of
the Newark-Jersey City district.
The plea was presented by Mayor
Charles P. Gillen, Of Newark. They
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-25
Boy, Is, Arrested as
Lone Pay Roll Bandit

A fifteen-year-old boy was arrested by
the Bronx police yesterday after he is
alleged to have held up and robbed a
girl bookkeeper for the Messenger Com
pany, manufacturers Of motorcycle &C.
cessories at 432 Austin Place, Of the
company's pay roll Of $272.
The youthful prisoner is Paul Carlo,
of 528 Timpson Place, former en-
ployee of the firm. AS Miss Marian
Lowenthal was entering the main work
room Of the factory from the Offices to
hand the employees their pay envelopes
she was felled by blowjn the face and
the envelopes were snatched from her
hand
The girls cries were heard by Charles
Patio, shipping clerk, who pursued the
youth md caught him at 144th Street
and Sef.hern Boulevard. The police say
the money was found in the boys pos
session. Carlo. was charged with juve-
nile delinquency, and sent to the Chill
dren'S Society,"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-25
Chicago S,Uitchn,e,, Going
Back; Strike Is Broken
More Than 1000 Men in Old
Jobs; Freight Shipments Un-
der W0y; Crunau Arrmgned


CHICAGO, April ga decided
break in the ranks of the striking
switchmen" was reported to-day by the
Western General Managers Associa-
ton, representing twenty-seven roads
in the Chicago district.
Three hundred ana fifty men re-
turned to work this morning, bringing
the total number who have returned
since the. strike began to 1895. the
managers statement says.
Movements of livestock, meat and
coal continues normal, the railroad
executives added.
Forty two strike leaders, arrested
last week for conspiracy to violate the
Lever act, were arraigned before a
United States commissioner this morn
ing and their cases continued until
May 8. John Grunau and Harold
Reading, presidents of the two outlaw
unions, were among those arraigned.
The statements from the railroad
managers to-day says.
The number of switching crews in
serv1ce to-day was 051. as compared
to go yesterday and the normal total
I'm addition to the other roads
which have served ultimatums on the
strikers, the Baltimore & Ohio Chi
cago terminal lines announced to- day
that all men on strike after a. M
Monday will lose their seniority"
The Illinois Manufacturers Associa-
ton, in telegram to Senator Kedin
Mccormick, declared that manufacture
ing plants in Illinois would be COM
PEELED to close and untold distress
would follow "unless railways can
switch our cars"
"Our situation is very serious and
we need help Of the strong arm Of
government. Is it afraid to act ?"
Mr.. Mccormick was asked to renew
his effort to get the Railroad Labor
Board away from the Washington
mosphere."
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-25

threat Of District Attorney Wertz. Of
Cleveland, to arrest and prosecute in
diwidually the 1000 outlaw strikers in
the Cleveland railroad yards who an
nounced their intention at a mass
meeting there yesterday not to return
to work to-day.
In telegram to Mr.. Wertz the At
torney General declared with empha-
sis that no such threat could be justi-
ned under the law and, if made, was
subject to the severe disapproval of
the department. He called on the Dis
trict Attorney for an immediate re-
port on all the facts.
In the same telegram Mr.. Palmer
eminent in dealing with strikes un-
der the Lever act to hold liable to
arrest two or more conspirators who
seek to obstruct the transportation of
the necessaries of life or Of the United
States mails. He added, however, that
the government has no power to ar
rest individuals who may quit their
work as such. His telegram read as
follows:
""The morning papers report that
John Sawken, department agent at
Cleveland, threatened to arrest. every
striker who did not return to work to-
gay, and that this was done by your
authority. l feel quite confident that
the story is a mistake. Any threat by
representative of this department is
at all times improper and particularly
so at this time. Those who conspire
with each other to obstruct transpor-
tation of mail are guilty of crime and
are subject to prosecution. The law,
however, does not compel an individual
to work. and a threat of prosecution
of every individual who does not re-
turn to work is not justified either by
the law or your instructions. If the
facts warrant it, you have the authority
to institute prosecutions for crime,
but under no circumstances would the
action reported by the morning papers
be proper. Please advise me fully
about the situation"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-25

long enough to sky-rocket prices still
higher and make a mockery of our
governments promise that living costs
would be reduced.
Gentlemen, the timi has come when
our people say they will no longer be
patriotic only to be plundered, nor
patient only to be pauperized. They
have learned by bitter experience that
their landlords are not patriotic and
that their grocers are not patient
They are fed up on promises, and they
are dead, dog-tired of delays"
Congress is to be petitioned to pass
resolution asking President Wilson
to direct the Railroad Labor Board to
hear the complaints Of the non-recog-
nized railroad workers, R. J. Mitchell.
Of the Chicago Enginemen's Associa-
ton, announced.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-25
Move to Arrest
Rail Strikers
In Ohio Halted
Washington Notifies Cleve-
land Agents They Exceed
ed Powers in Threatening
Wholesale Prosecutions
Federal Law Explained
Appeal Will Be Made to the
Roads to Restore Seniority
Rights if Men Return Now

CLEVELAND, April ga. L. Faulm-
aer. the representative of Secretary of
Labor Wilson. following a conference
with F. j. O'Rourke, president of the
Cleveland Yardmen's Association, de-
Shared Federal authorities here over
stepped their bounds in threatening
The arrest of strikers.
He said he would appeal to United
States District Attorney Wertz to pre-
retain their seniority rights should
they return to work pending wage ad-
|ustments. Mr.. Wertz was out of, town
to-day.
From The Tribune's Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, April 24.-Flat re-
pudiation was made to-day by Attor-
hey General Palmer of the reported
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-25
Praises Pretty Ankle
At Rate of So a Word
Remark Made When Woman
Navigates I through Wind Leads
to Eight and Arrest

ooh, what a pretty ankle!" William
Jackson, of 210 West Thirtieth Street.
is alleged to have remarked yesterday
afternoon, as he stood at the corner Of
Fifth Avenue and Seventeenth Street
and watched Mrs. Helen Swed, of 264
West Nineteenth Street, come battling
past in the wind.
Jackson paid for that exclamation of
approval at the rate Of So word last
Swed as arresting officer in the Nieht
Court, charged with disorderly CON
duct.
According to Mrs. Swed, she halted
upon hearing Jackson's remark and re-
monstrated with him. When her hus-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-25

band, who had been walking behind her
with some friends, approached, she
said, Jackson knocked him down for
interfering.
According to Jackson, nothing Of Che
sort occurred. He never said any,
thing, he testified; he never saw Mrs.
sSwed until she told him he was under
arrest, and as for her ankles. he hadn't
the least idea what they looked like,
and even less than that amount Of Gu
riosity. But Magistrate Tobias fined
him $40, just the same.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-25

territories utilized for huntir. 81
turn them into cultivated land Il b
provide food for the poor. Supss.ess 2
was made that 100000 900 pesetcs
expended for this purpose. Ma 20 pc
was received from the government = ~
garding the plan. e.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-25
Columbus Trai,n,en Lay
Blame for Strike on Lee

Deny One Big Union as Motive
for Walk-Out and .Repudiate
Charge off. ". ". utilization
COLUMBUS, Ohio, April "a. - The
Columbus Yardmen's Association, COM
posed of striking railroad workers, to-
The fool-killer., 1920-04-01

And there is Debs, the great
hearted friend of humanity, the
silver-tongued orator, whose
shoes NeWberry is not worthy to
black, and Debs is dying by inch
es in the Atlanta Federal Peni-
tentiary-for no crime at all ex-
cept the crime of belonging to
the party whose platform is TAB
soluely inimical."
It amount to just this:
The plutes can commit any
crime they please and it is all
right.
No hint of danger to our "sac-
red Institutions"
No big scare about "overthrow-
ing the government"
Oh, no!
But any man or party that has
got backbone enough to buck up
against the great plute machine
Gee Whiz! Why, that's "abso-
lutely inimical," don't you know?
The fool-killer., 1920-04-01
LIES, LIES, LIES, O LIZA
JANE!

The root of our troubles to-
day is lying-of6cial lying, un-
official lying, deliberate lying
and initiative lying, says The
New Republic.
The people of this country
begin to know that.
The Supreme Council at Paris
has acknowledged it..
~ TIC hysterical intolerance
of these days originated in the
central lie about Russia.
The Russian lie is the father of
lies.
For lie, miserable, sneaking
lie, it has been.
It was a lie that the people Of
Russia were calling for military
intervention.
1t was a lie that they believed
In Kolchak and Denikin.
It was a lie that they did not
prefer the Soviet government to
anything offered them by he AL
lied generals and the monarchist
cliQues.
It was a lie that they had ma
tionalized their women.
It was a lie that they had ma
tionalized their children.
twas a lie that they proposed
to invade a peaceful Europe.
It wa a. lie that we remained
at ,Archangel to guard stores.
1t was a lie that Soviet Russia
declined the Prinkipos proposal.
It was a lie that Soviet Russia
had not offered peace with honor
and with guarantees.
And because these lies were
the base of a policy Of lawless
invasion, disgraceful intrigue,
bloodshed, devastation and fam
inc, they have had to be estab~
lished by every device known tC
panic and credulity.
AS the result of these lies a,
bout Russia the world has been
filled with persecution, coward
ice and distrust.
The fool-killer., 1920-04-01
WHY WE STAYED OUT.

Well, honey, it begins to look
like we-unses here in the old u.
S. amt very keen to get into the
great League of Nations.
In fact, it looks like we have
given it a mighty cold shoulder,
considering that our own darling
Woodrow went to Paris and
made it and fetched it home in
his vest pocket.
Most everybody thought away
back then that the League of Ma
tions was the real truck, and
they all took for granted that
Uncle Sam would certainly jine
it in some way or other.
But now, bless yer gizzard, it
seems that Uncle Sam prefers to
play in his own yard, and if Eu-
rope wants a League she will
have to make it and run it all by
herself.
Now some folks may think it
was just %partisizan politics that
kept us out of the League, just
because the Republican Sena-
tors wanted to be contrary.
But there is a deeper reason
than that. If you will dig down
into your old Bible and find out
what the League of Nations real
ly is, and study the territory that
it is designed to cover, you can
readily understand why the
United States COULD NOT be-
come an active member Of it.
The great Image that Nebu-
chadnezzar saw in a dream, as
recorded in the second chapter of
Daniel, is universally admitted
to be the Sacred Calendar of
Prophecy. It represents the
history of the four successive
Gentle empires to which sover-
eign supremacy in the earth was
transferred from the Jewish ma
ton when the latter became un-
faithful.
A different representation OF
the same four empires was given
to Daniel in his vision of -Four
Beasts which came up out Of the
sea, as recorded in the seventh
chapter of Daniel. You will no.
tice that the fourth beast hac
ten horns, which means the same
as the ten toes Of the Image.
The legs and feet of the Image
represent the Roman Empire
And the ten-horned fourth beast
also represents the Roman En-
pire. That is one point on which
all students of prophecy agree
SO it must undoubtedly be right
Now here we come to the poin'
that concerns the League of Ma
The fool-killer., 1920-04-01

If the stupid nonsense that the
mediums pretend to get from the
spirit is the best chin-music that
the disembodied souls can hand
out, it is high time for somebody
to remark, "What fools these i'm
mortals bet"
The fool-killer., 1920-04-01

The legislature of North Caro-
lima should be eternally thankful
to the legislature of New York
for relieving it of the disgrace Of
being the most wooden-headed
legislative body on earth.