Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1923-12-28

swept dSlu6 III Inc DeudlG III SuppOA
of Secretary MELONS tax reductio
plan. Conservative Democrats ar
publicly announcing their approval @
the program, and their stand is bein
endorsed by editors and business mel
of their communities. The radical ele
ment in both parties, which seeks tt
curry favor through an appeal tt
class prejudice, will endeavor Il
amend the Mellon schedule to sui
their own ends, but it is believed there
will be enough intelligent opposition
to defeat their designs.
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AN ITALIAN ECONOMIST says that
if American debt demands were to be
satisfied now the whole of Europe
would be plunged into worse condi-
tions than Germany. The gentleman
labors under a Misrepresentation. The
United States has made no demands
for payment. All it has asked is that
the debtor countries enter into an
agreement as to when and under what
terms eventual repayment is to be
made. AS in the case of Great Britain
and Finland, those terms will take in
to consideration the economic situa-
ton in each country, and will be ar
ranged so that no undue hardship
will be imposed on any nation.
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SEVERAL ORGANIZATIONS have
pledged their support to the proposed
child labor amendment to the Consti-
tuition. 1t appears to be the tendency
among many people to look at the
solely from the standpoint
of child welfare, apparently quite OBJ
livious to the fact that each state now
has the right to regulate child labor
within its borders precisely as it may
wish. The proposed amendment is
a scheme to take from the
states rights which they now possess
and lodge them in the Federal Gov
It tends to upset the nice
balance between state and Federal au-
thority fixed by the Constitution, with
out contributing anything to the
cause to which it is dedicated. With
child labor law on the statute
books, the responsibility of states to
look after the welfare of their own
would dwindle, and the Ma
tional Government would be expected
to look after the whole matter through
another huge bureau filled with ex-
pensive officials and clerks.
The country would benefit if it were
not actuated by the sentiments that
the Bill of Rights in the Con-
,titution. The Constitution would new
sr have been ratified if the states had
not been assured that the First Con-
gress would propose amendments
individual and state
lights. In conformity with that under
standing the first ten amendments
we're adopted, but the present day ten
lency is away from the principles so
ealously guarded by our forefathers.
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AN ASSOCIATION of railroads |
maintain in the Capital City of the
Jation what is known as the Bureau
# Railway Economics, paying each !
heir proportionate share towards its
It's activities include the gathering
f large and valuable library, bear
lg upon all phases of railroad trans
and the issuing of bulletins
nd statistical summaries, designed to
resent a national picture of railroads,
heir operation, and costs.
The railroads contributing to the
Import of this institution, through it
nabled to understand what all rail-
pads are doing, and get a complete
ision of national railroad operation,
nd it a most valuable adjunct to their
lsiness.
Such an organization is needed in
lat other growing and vitality inn
0rtant transportation field, the high
ay world. For highways are rapidly
much more than mere con-
Getting links between farm and town,
ty and country, over which the far
er drives his grain and pigs, and ]
auls his household supplies. With the i
creasing use of the automobile as a /
assenger carrier and the truck as a j
cans of freight transportation, the
ghway is coming to take its place in ,
e Nation, not as a secondary system, (
1t as primary or arterial transport ]
stem, which will, in a few short !
ears, rival the railroads in tonnage, :
not in speed.
A Bureau of Highway Traffic Eco !
)mics will enable all road makers, &
ad planners, and road organizations {
function more perfectly, make more t
save more money, and use {
ads more efficiently. !
But who will do it," The Nation s
ust do it. It's need is but one more s
gument for the establishment of a '
'licy of national highway building,
n national road usino NV which the 6