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Milford chronicle., 1924-11-07
THE GREAT WEEK m NaVE,rRpp

Inc american Legion the NsGional Education
Assoclation' and the United States Bureau Of
huucauon are cooperating to bring about the
observance OF American Education Week bv all
tne people so far as possible. The dates for this
year are November n to November ;2S. inclus-
I've II Is hoped that at least some part of the
program will be observed in every Vehurcb and
schoolhOuse in the land The exercises will bo
held morning, afternoon or evening as each oonn-
munlty may prefer. The published program is
merely suggestive and will doubtless he chang-
ed in many ways to meet local conditions.
CONSTITUTION DAY. Monday. November NJ
is designated as Constitution Day, the central
luea Delng: The Constitution-The BulWark of
Democracy and Happiness"
PATRIOTISM DAY. Tuesday, November IL.
Ihe United States Flag is the living symbol of
the ideals and institutions of our Republic"
SCHOOL AND TEACHER DAY. "Wednesday.
November 10. "The Teacher-the guiding influ-
ence of future America"
ILLITERACY DAY. Thursday, November 90
Informed intelligence is the foundation of rep-
resentatiVe government"
PHYSICAL EDUCATION DAY. Friday. No
7ember 21. Fairgrounds and athletic fields
mean strong, healthy nation"
COMMUNITY DAY. Saturday, November 90.
Service to the Community, State, and Nation is
he duty of every citizen"
FO RGoD AND COUNTRY DAY. Sunday, No
'ember %. Religion, morality and education
IRE necessary for good government"
The tentative program and other material
prepared for convenient use Education Week
will be mailed free on request to Bureau of Ed
IcatiOn, Department Of Interior, Washington, D.
Milford chronicle., 1924-11-07

THE RESULTS OF TUESDAYS elections may
not have brought joy to some who read the re-
turns of the great contest Of the ballot boxes.
This is undoubtedly true in Delaware Regret
and penitential thoughts will make the private
hours of considerable number in the state,
periods to be escaped and only a real forgetful-
ness can ever bring peace of mind to their dis
quieted souls. Let us hope that the punishment
will not be fatal to all their aspirations in the
future to regain their own respect Those elect
ed will be responsible for the welfare of the vi
tai institutions of Delaware as well as the dis
charge of the duties of the minor Offices; which
by economy and efficiency will best serve all the
people.
Milford chronicle., 1924-11-07

IF OUR IDEAS do not agree with yours in our
discussion of various subjects, it does not mean
that either of us is entirely wrong, but possibly
by an exchange of opinion we can help evolve or
bring about satisfactory solution of question
of public interest Regardless of who is elect
ed to fill political offices, what political party
is in control, the country must forge ahead, pay
rolls must be maintained and people must eat.
It is from this angle that it is our aim to COM
ment on questions which we consider Of public
interest with this idea in mind we ask your
Milford chronicle., 1924-11-07

THE PEOPLE Of Delaware have wiped the
disgrace of two years ago away by rolling up a
majority for Coleman du Pont as United States
Senator, for the six years ensuing from March
4th, 1925. The majority in its largeness out
strips all majOrities recorded in any election by
the people of Delaware OvercOnfdence two
years ago, gave the opportunity for enemies to
creep out under cover in a general belief, that
Coleman du POnt would be elected without any
serious effort, because of the fact that he had
proven himself a large man mentally as well as
physically; that he was farseeing and building
up the important arteries of travel for all the
people and that regardless of political aflliatiOn
he would be honOred by the people. Then the
coalition Of enemies within with the Democrats
without accomplished his defeat by just few
votes. Last Tuesday that disgrace was wiped
away and the more than sixteen thousand ma
jOrity given to him, plainly shows to the world,
that Coleman du POnt is appreciated for what
his abilities and observation-disclosures for public
welfare are worth to Delaware as well as the
nation. Delaware is purged Of the charge Of
lack of appreciation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-05
| THE HUMAN PARADE
By John PiIRrim

\ The boss of the big store down the street was so angry this morn- ing that his jaws clicked. It appears that the boss of the little store next door was initiating his style. The little store windows looked like the bis store windows. The little store was painted like the big store; it had the same sort Of a carriage- caller dressed in gold filagree at the door: and so far las possible it Of Tered the same. goods in it's sales.
 It's an outrage" said the boss of the big store. limitation of thai sort should be forbidden. There shouid be some way to make that skinny rascal quit picking my
 l think he's wrong. t@ ,. =.
 limitation is the sincerest flat tery, said But the other fellow Ill the conversation went further.
 Imitation" said he, lis the best advertising for the on initiated"
 Come to think about it, that s true. 1t may be that careless shop pers go into the little store now and then without realizing that they are not in the hg sto. s.e itIl.s M,, .a $ ful of people like ti:ats They blunder through life w t:,unt wnfc, ing the signs. No wonder SD many are killed at grade crossings. But ereil they make mistake of that soFt only onee UT twice. Bveiftually . feeling of dissatisfaction perc0lates
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-05

net plain constitntional enabling measure, what more explicit authori-. zstiOh could congress have from new amendmentl', y { Our contemporary misses the. point of'the amendment, which'is to prevent the. practice of, tax-exempt issues for all time to come. If "a mere statutory provision were enacted, it could be re- pealed by a later congress animated by political or other considerations. The real criticism that may be made to the proposed amendment is that it includes state exemptions also. It would be far better to leave this a subject for the states to handle as re- gards their own state and local securi- ties,/ than for it to be made the sub ject of federal legislation. The pass age of federal amendment prohibit ing future issues of tax-exempt secur- ities would have sufficient force as an example to the several states. The question of removing the exemption on securities already issued is sepa- rate one, and amenable to ordinary legislation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-05
THE INVISIBLE ROAD TAX

Discussing the economic side of road building the Columbia State says: "When we add to the cost of quickly built road system the interest on the bonds which are necessary for the early construction, we must subtract from the total cost the actual saving in dollars to- the users of the roads for as manyRyears as there is differ ence between the quick construction and the slow construction. If such differences were only twelve years, and the average number of automo- piles affected in that period were 150 1000, the saving to their owners on the basis of forty dollars would be seventy-two million dollars"
 In road builAing projects many peo- pie complain df the heavy taxes i'm posed. They are tangible andd come in lump sum. They seem heavy as direct burden. But the cost is noth- ing like so heavy as that which-is rep resented by reduction in tire mileage, deterioration on cars, increased con- sumption of gasoline and oil, waste of time and inability to haul large loads. The trouble is that many regard these costly drawbacks as a matter of course because accustomed to them as an inevitable. result of bad roads. They are just as much road tax as direct assessments for this purpose, and are far more costly. A bad road tax to be paid in the form of dozen or more losses is far heavier than a good road tax paid in direct Assess ment.. If the two taxes could be pre- scented accurately in figures by way of comparison people would demand immediate construction everywhere of properly constgucted roads without un- necessary delay, even though heavier direct taxes be required to do the work
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-05
INTERVENTION AMENDMENT

Of late thefe has been a growing suspicion that some of the statesmen at Washington who have made deal of noise about the evils of tax-free securities have been actuated largely by political considerations. Perhaps this impression grew out of the fact that since the bill was introduced in the upper house of congress to re- move exemptions from certain securi- ties little has been heard about it, for the good reason that little has been done about it.
 There has been proposal to reach a lot of the "storm- cellar" securities through constitutional amendment. A contemporary wants to know why such a longAdelay and slow process, should be adopted. To put the proposed constitutional amendment through the various states Would require time. Our contemporary says: "Why an amend ment? The people already have voted for an amendment providing for @an income tax. That amendment author ized congress to tax income from whatever source desifed.' If that is
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-05
THE NATIONS GOOD NAME

Speaking of the recent aiiegations in the oil scandal the Philadelphia Public Ledger says: Ut has become g black whirlpool threatening to suck men of both parties and of no party into its sinister depths. It is shaking public confidence in both parties There should be an end to partisan bvsteria and earnest and united effort on the part of all men in public life to cleanse the good name of the na- tion and restore public faith in hon. estv in office" Very sound counsel, except for the fact that the good name of the nation is not involved. Men may be dishonest in office, and it may be found out on them, but the good name of the nation does not suffer thereby, provided the nation cleans house when it discovers them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-05
SCHOOLS AND REVENUES

Tho case of the public schoois' ao completely placed before the peop.s :.s ., R;rr,;ngham, is convincing lh us chewing of the urgent necessity pi further funds to provide for the heeuo' ,' .Iraodv overwhelming. bu; annuaiis crow;ne greater. It is the part oi eoononv as we'll as public interest to make this provision before the passas. of time requires an additional sum- no, o,,,v to make the expansions caiieo for hut also to repair the injuries that nresent neglect will surely entail.
 1nasmuch as the presentation of the u.ou;rements is not easily to be con .es+ed it is now a question ot now f.r inc people of Birmingham are Will ing to go in their support ol she tcause of public education. 10 pe .ure. there are questions ot finance .h.t roust be worked out in the cola ,;ch+ of reason and commonsense; put these questions can be solved i' as evident that the ordinary revenues are oocb wear becoming less adequate to naet the expenses of growing com ,oun;tv. These revenues must De ln- creased. It is probable that neither new laws nor new financial provisions arc SD necessary as tht faithful appll- cation of laws already on the books' hut not now completely invoked or annlied. The under-valuation of prop ertv for the purpose of escaping tax s.;on and the uneven valuation of property are important items Tn keep. P ing down legitimate and due puoiic revenues. It is within the authority of those who have the guidance Of the community's affairs to correct these delinquences. It can be done. It Will require courage to do it. It IS now to be seen whether that courage IS o1- ficially possessed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-05
THE LOUD PEDAL
Ry John Carlyle

President Lowell of Harvard, in his annual report to the overseers of the university, says that he finds too great emphasis on college ath- letics and other activities outside the curriculum. 6s ...@.ff
 President Lowell is not alone in his opinion. Other men in a posi-. tion to know, both inside. and out side of college life, are saying the same thing. It is worth thinking about seriously. The objection in
 the minds of. those who ares the most thoughtful is not to athletics or to any other healthy activities. The real objection has a broader base than that. It has to do with fun dainentals of thinking and living. Those who are trying to call stu dents back to a j. consideration of study and scholarship. might, we'll go much further and call most of us back from a growing tendenccy to put the loud pedal on. the upim- portant things in ife.s &
 Even. churches, which are sup posed to, be engaged. almost exclu- sively in dealig with those. matters which are the most vital in mems lives, are putting the loud pedal on entertainment No doubt there is much merit. in bowling and basket- ball leagues among thes young peo- ple in church. No doubt there is merit in the Sunday evening or mid week motion picture entertainment that some churches have adopted. But the outside interests--outside the main purpose of the church, should have only their proper em- phasis, not more than that. s'e
 Some pastors are substituting book reviews for Sunday evening ser mons. They put the emphasis on en- tertainment and information rather than on inspiration. High schools as well as colleges are leaning far in the direction of interests outside the .arriculum. Athletics occupies, al- most as important place in high school affairs as in college affairs.
 So it is that colleges; churches and secondary schools, are in dan ger of getting the soft pedal and the loud pedal misplaced in their daily jobs of trying to do something T in the cause of human progress. This matter of over-emphasis in the wrong place is not confined to churches and schools. Every one of us has to meet it every day. We must be forever choosing. There is no temptation more common and harder to meet than the. temptation to put emphasis where, emphasis is not deserved. U ,
 We cannot have everything or do everything. Let us pick the. impor- tant, as intelligently as we can. Let us learn to press the right pedal in the right place. .-a.- ~.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-05
AS THE FACTS COME OUT

MT. Thomas w. Gregory's statement setting forth his connection with the Doheny oil interests shows that con nection so slight and indirect that he claims not to have been aware of the connection until afterwards It further develops that the former at torney general had not accepted his appointment to prosecute the Teapot Dome inquiry, but was merely re- sponding to Mr.. Coolidge's expressed desire to confer with him. Meanwhile, he was having his office look up any possible past connection with the Doheny interests, knowing that he would not find it possible to under take the prosecution of any former client. It is understood that MT. Gregory's statement received the ap- proval of the president before it was given to the press.
 Thus what appeared to be a situa- ton involving embarrassment to MT. Gregory was not so at all, except insofar as there was misapprehension as to the actual course and intention of MT. Gregory with respect to his tourney to Washington. MT. McAdoo's statement reveals a similar honorable performance, and to any unbiased mind releases him from any suspicion of improper connection with any oil interests. MT. McAdoo resigned from the cabinet with the explicit statement that he must devote himsel ito his private affairs and repair his depleted fortunes. That he did that in a worthy manner no fairminded person doubts or has doubted. The private activities of MT. Franklin K. Lane, after his re- tirement from public life doubtless will bear with equal success the most searching inquiry. Because he is dead, the political animosities of Republican adversaries have passed him by more lightly than they did his living col leagues.
 Although it is imperative that every guilty connection with official misconduct be laid bare without at tempt at justification or evasion, yet there should also exist presumption in favor of any man of long and hon. orable public record, until there is proof of wrong-doing. Particularly should Democratic journals give. to Democratic leaders the benefit of the doubt when aspersions are cast upon their records by their. political enc mics. Therefore, the haste with which the Montgomery Advertiser ! seizes upon the situation to throw discredit upon leading Dsmocrats is unseemly and entirely Fhtfpf keeping with every
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-05
MUST SACRIFICE
By Addingfon Bruce

:. To sacrifice is one of the laws of life. All must comply. with 1t, for their own good as well as the good of others.
 But the world abounds in persons who do not appreciate this, and suf- fer es a consequence. They suffer in many ways-in health, in happi- ness, in pocketbook.
 Take the multitude of elderly peo- pie, who find themselves penniless or almost pehniless in old age. There was a time many of them earned good pay. Out of that pay they might readily have set aside savings that through accumulation would have given them a competence in their declining years. To have thus saved would have required of, them but a slight sacrifice of present pleasure. They were. unwilling to make even this, slight sacrifice. Present motor rides, thea tre-going, adding to their wardrobe, and 50 forth-beckoned to them with irresistible appeal, They decided that the future. would have to take care of itself. The future has, no doubt, taken care of itself, but not of them. To them it has brought the sting of poverty that would have been avoided had the law of sacrifice been properly observed.
 There are persons for the matter of that, who have been. poor all their lives simply. becsuse they would not comply with the law of sacrifice. Choosing this or that vo- cation, they refused from the start to sacrifice any of their leisure for the sake of increasing their efficien- cy in the chosen vocation. Leisure. they insisted, was wholly for play and pleasure, not for study. Not one jot of present pleasure would they forego even for the sake of giving themselves greater opportu- nity for pleasure in years to come. Refusing to sacrifice present pleas ure they made future pain inevi- table.
 Why do people act thus senseless- ly? Is it because they are devoid of reason? Not at all. Commonly it is because when they were young. the importance and the necessity of sacrifice were not effectively ini- pressed upon them. Children of par ents who themselves liver for the moment and for self-gratification. they had set before them a constant example of non-sacrifice. Also. in many cases, habit of non-sacrifice was drilled into them by the failure ot their parents to demand of them any sacrifices whatever. Nothing that could be given to them was de- nied them. Their self-entered whims ana cravings were perpetually in- dulged.- They were not asked or ex. pected to be sacrificing in the slight est way.
 Hence the pleasure-hunting. the self-mdulging of their maturity, is only logical outcome of the train lng-or, more strictly, lack of train- ng-of their earlier years. Which does not lessen the gravity of it's consequences or mitigate the tor ments these consequences entail.
 Some day there may be among par ents keener appreciation of the necessity for systematic, training for sacrifice. When that day comes, if ever 1t does, sorrow and suffering will be less conspicuous facts in hu- man existence.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-05
DAWES AND GERMAN BUDGET

The New York Evening Post re- marks that Germany has been house. cleaning ever since she heard General Dawes and his committee on repara- tions were to visit Berlin. She brushed off her budget. She hung tax sched- ule conspicuousIy on the wall. She placed her stabilized currency right out in the middle of the floor. The cleaning-up process raised quite a dust. The dust seems to have been intended for the eyes of General Dawes ct al. that they might not see too clearly the flaws in budget and tax schedules. If there was any such intention 1t proved futile." The Post points out that, while the budget of one billion, three hundred million dol lars is too high for domestic needs, it does not provide for separations pay ments, and ais therefore too low"
 There is no doubt that Germ any will do her best to make her cause appear the right one, and to conceal her real intentions under a pretense of something else. It is evident to all who know the reputation of Gen eral Dawes that he will brush aside the German prepared statements as if they did not exist, and will demand the records. If the records are not apparently genuine, then General Dawes will go to the original sources of information and data. The Ger mans may make their arguments and their explanations and their showings as intricate and involved as they can. They will have their trouble for their pains. General Dawes mind will be on something else. Even if he gives audience to such representations, it is doubtful if he will hear what is being said. -
 In fact, .Germany's situation is about to undergo a scrutiny more un- impassioned and searching than has occurred since her program of mis- leading propaganda began during the war. When the figures are finally made public it is very likely that they will be in their entirety the commit tees figures, and not the figures of any interested party. And it is be- lieved that any budget MT, Dawes would prepare for Germany would be less than half the proposed allowances for bureaucracies and subsidies. It would undoubtedly call for an increase in taxes and provide for some pay ment on the reparations account. It will be vain for the Germans to pre- pare transformation for the first, di- rector of the American budget. He has been through the fire.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-05
-V------7--7-------- THE TRIUMPH OF GOLD

In spite of the monetary deprecia- tions that have occurred in many Flu ropean nations, it is remarkable fact that nothing has shaken the standard by which currencies throughout the world are uniformly gauged. In is- suing paper money and coins of baser metals any government subtracts from it's gold balance. When the currency issue passes a certain total it's units begin to decline from par. This de-, cline increases rapidly as the issues swell, until in time the value of the currency is very much below it's face value. In the case of Germany, Aus tria and Russia the face value of mon. etary units reached almost nothing and were no longer quoted on the ex- changes. Theoretically, however, the total value of the currency has been at all times, after the imitation. point is reached, that represented by the sum for which the gold reserve acts as a normal guarantee.
 Thus gold maintains its standard ized value, fluctuating only according, to the varying amounts of commodities unit of gold. will purchase. The. value of currency is relative to the value of the gold unit it is supposed to represent. As long as there is no currency imitation the currency unit theoretically has the same value, as the gold unit it represents. As long as the government retains its ability to redeem its currency in gold on de- mand, that currency remains at par. When the government begins to lose that ability, the market value of its currency begins to decline in pro- portionate degree. In Europe, there fore, those nations that have lost their credit through currency inflations are seeking to regain that credit by re. ducing the ratio between their gold reserves and their currency produc- tion. The process of deflation is ex- imitation. Any nation can reduce it's currency output and thus increase the par value of that currency. When this reduction comes back within the limits established as a safe ratio to the gold reserve then the nation con- cerned has won back its credit Fiat money is worthless. It is the gold that gives it value. Even Bolshevism is now convinced of that. .'