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

year, as submitted to Congress b.
President Coolidge, demonstrates one
more the sound theory of the bulge
law. It will be remembered that tn
budget bill was vetoed by Presiden
Wilson, and when re-enacted by Re
publican Congress and approved b!
President Harding. The billions of dol
lars saved to the people through the
working of that statute, are part Of
the debt of gratitude which the peO'
pie of the country owe to the Republi-
can Administration.
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THE AMERICAN FARM BUREAU
FEDERATION is preparing a Ques-
tionnaire on the soldier bonus, which
will be distributed to farmers through
state branches. "A forecast of the re-
suit ought not to be difficult. The
farmers have been represented as be-
ing the most harassed people in the
country from high taxes and from the
high cost of living traceable to those
taxes. Of all classes of our citizens,
the proposal of Secretary Mellon to
cut 1926, 100000 annually from our tax
burden should appeal most forcibly to
the farmers. When they are asked
whether they prefer relief from that
tax burden or indefinite postponement
of it while $4,000,0O0,0O0 is distribut-
ed among able-bodied ex-soldiers,
their answer will be quick and en-
phatic.
MISS HELEN SCHULTZ, operator
of the Red Ball Transportation Com
pany, which runs buses in Iowa, is
the center of a legal battle in which
she is endeavoring to prove to the sat
isfaction of the State board that her
service is a public convenience"
within the meaning of the Iowa mo-
tor-carrier law. This is denied by the
opposing railroads, the Chicago Great
Western; Chicago, Rock Island & Pa
cific; Chicago & North Western; Min
neapolis & st. Louis; Fort Dodge, Des
Moines & Southern; and the Chicago,
Milwaukee & St. Paul Roads These
roads are supported in their conten-
lions by the county supervisors Of
Worth, Cerro Gordo, Hardin, and
Franklin Counties, who also declare
the heavy buses damage the high
ways excessively.
Friends of the highway bus idea
contend that the remedy for any dam
age done roads by bus operation lies
either in higher taxation of such
buses or the construction of roads
able to bear the traffic of heavy bus
ses. They say that the bus is a con-
venience, as much a necessity to
towns served as are trolley cars, and
point to the fact that in the beginning
the railroads were against the estab-
lishment of interurban trolley service,
but that in later years the railroads
found them of such value in relieving |
them of the improbable short haul
that many railroads have built troll
ley lines themselves.
Restriction of a public utility to
serve private interests has been so
often tried in this country and so Of
ten decisively denied that the eventual
outcome of this case should not be
hard to predict.
A MASS MEETING OF PHILADEL-
PHIANS has voted overwhelmingly
not to hold an international exposition
in celebration of the sesquicentennial ;
Of the signing of the Declaration of !
That action is prob
ably wise, because the nations of Eu-
rope would find it almost impossible {
to be adequately represented. Never (
he less the anniversary should not be !
allowed to pass without celebration '
with its Importance. 1t I
should be national affair, and all the /
States of the Union should participate
With an enthusiasm that should i'm I
)ress upon the world how wildly they /
'ecall the signing of the Declaration '
m July 4, 1776, and how dearly they |
cherish the independence which it I
and which has been pre- {
erved so carefully ever since. I
A demonstration of that character
axes on an added significance in i
hese days of internationalist activity l
,mong our people. When quasi-Ameri- I
ans are exerting themselves to sur /
ender our independence to foreign t
to make donations of bill b
ions of dollars to foreign treasures, S
nd to rewrite American histories y
long internationalist lines, it is i'm i
Derative that the American people as
whole lose no opportunity to as Il
ert their nationalism. The safe-and r
ane Fourth movement of recent years t
whatever of merit it may possess 7
as had the effect of making our an r
ual Fourth of July celebrations de-
idedly tame affairs compared with n
THAT they used to be. The 150th an a
iversary on July 4, 1926, offers an p
nyO,.fr7uif1y for oivino nyOrncciOn IN a