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Milford chronicle., 1925-05-15
ROADS FOR THE MASSES

An engineer from the Bureau of
Public Roads who recently studied
road conditions in England, finds
asphaltic types Of pavement used
extensively in that country. One
road job Of this type, 165 miles long
in the Greater London section, will
cost $363,6S6 a mile, the cost to in
clude widening right of way up to
100 or even 12O feet.
The United Kingdom has 177,000
miles of road with 242 persons to
every mile. The United States has
2,941,OOO miles of road with IS per-
sons to a mile.
To pave this vast area it cannot
spend sS6O,OOO mile on road. In
stead it covers from 16 to 20 miles
of worn out gravel and macadam
roads with 8 to 5 inches of asphaltic
concrete, 18 feet wide, for price
England expends on one mile of
road.
When the United States is as
thickly populated as England, these
highways will form the base for
heavier pavement. In the meantime,
millions of people are enjoying the
service of good roads, not only in
the cities but all over this nation.
Milford chronicle., 1925-05-15
Buying AT HOME

Most Americans are convinced Oi
the fact that it is better to buy
American goods than those made in
foreign countries, where American
made products can be obtained, and
it is well to remember that it is
equally as sound business sense to
buy in ones home city, rather than
in some nearby metropolis, when
the goods can be had at home.
For just as we want to make and
keep America the most prosperous
nation in the world, so we should
desire to keep our home community
prosperous and progressive.
1t is the home business and pro-
fessional man who helps to keep
the community going. He pays his
share of local taxes which go to
keep up schools and hospitals and
to make public improvements, and
every dollar spent at home increases
business and consequently the pub
lie as we'll as the commercial reve-
nue. of the city.
No one ever saw a clean, progress
sive, happy community which did
not have active, prosperous and
healthy business institutions. 1t is
the town with the best business
which has the best schools, the best
and the most modern i'm
prOvements.
No agency for promoting these
conditions is more i'm
portant than the home newspaper.
The local editor is constantly urg-
ing his readers to spend their money
at home and so build up the COM
munity in which all his readers
must live. Therefore it is neces-
sary to keep up the local newspaper
if we are to have the right kind of
and prosperous Ameri-
can communities.
Milford chronicle., 1925-05-15
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER
(By National Editorial Association
Especial to Chronicle)

(By National Editorial AssociatiOn)
Especial to Chronicle)
Washington, May 1S-Vice Presi-
dent Dawes is not the only Govern
ment official selling a proposition to
the country during the congressiOn~
al recess. Secretary of the Treasury
Mellon has blossomed out as an ora
tor and his proposition will undoubt-
edly find little resistance on the pub
lie mind. Mr.. Mellon is advocating
tax revision and his program in a
nutshell is this: eve want a tax
system which produces revenue. We
do not want merely a gesture in
taxation. This is the crux of the
whole problem"
Both Secretary Mellon and Vice
President Dawes realize the strateg-
ic importance of the South and are
carrying their arguments into this
territory and talking along nom
partisan lines. Mr.. Mellon believes
that zone Of the most promising as
poets of the whole tax controversy
Milford chronicle., 1925-05-15

ing the above figures into cOnsidera-
tion, it is apparent that some very
extensive investigational work is
needed in this county regarding the
proper methods of contralling this
destructive apple insect.
The cOdling moth passes the win
ter in the laTVa or worm stage and
may be found in cracks and crew.
ces in packing houses and cellar
storages and in baskets that contain
ed apples during the harvest season
in the fall of the year. These small
worms spin cOcoons from which
will emerge the adult moths about
the time the young apples are be-
ginning to form the following spring
These moths lay their eggs in the
calyX end of the apple and the young
worms, upon Matching, Immediately
commence to burTow their way into
the fruit This is the direct cause
the wormy apples which must be
discarded at harvest time, and
which materially reduces the pro-
fits from the orchards as a whole.
In order to determine the exact
time of emergence of these adult
moths each spring and summer it
is therefore necessary that the lar
vac be confined in wire cages where
their life history may be carefully
observed during the season. In car
rying out this plan these larvae are
collected by the County Agent early
in the spring and placed in these
trap cages which are placed in
few orchards in the representative
fruit producing sections of the coun-
ty. When the maximum emergence
Of the adult moths occurs in these
Milford chronicle., 1925-05-15
1oH
COLLECTING FEDERAL FARM
LOANS

A recent summary of a list OF
Federal and Joint Stock banks dis
closes the fact that foreclosures and
losses are rapidly increasing. In
the first seven years Of their exis-
tence, the banks began foreclosure
proceedings on 2,91O farms and ac-
quired S52 farms, of which they
sold 1913, making net gain on farm
sold of $27,O65.38.
In the single year of 1924, the
banks began foreclosure proceed
ings on 1926 farms and acquired 429.
They sold 11S farms at a net loss of
S2S,731.54, thus consuming profits
made on foreclosing farms during
first seven years and creating an
additional loss of $1,666.16.
1t takes more than cheap federal
loans to make good farmers.
Milford chronicle., 1925-05-15
0oS

BECAUSE A TOWN is small there
is no reason why its citizens should
feel that it is small, for when peo-
pie have that feeling they never do
much to make a small town grow
That sort of sentiment has held back
many a town. The Chamber of Com
merce in a small town has just as
important business to perform as
has a civic organization in larger
city. Only too frequently the editor
receives a communication from
some secretary in a small town say
ing, "As you realize, this is only a
small place and there is not much
doing here in the way of news. "
That expression creates two impress
sions. One is that there is some
thing sadly lacking in the makeup
of the civic organization that should
be pushing ahead, and the other I'M
pIGSSlOn 10 LudL lhO pCOp4O AFAh5 IL
that town do not appreciate what
they have. If they did appreciate
their surroundings they would be
getting down to work and work
produces results and results pro-
duce news. In looking through the
Chronicle there will be found items
of interest concerning some very
small communities, because the peO-
pie Of those communities are active
and have faith in their towns; and,
as a result those small towns some
day are going to be large towns,
while other small towns whose citi-
zens have no faith in them will al
ways remain small. Big things were
never produced on a foundation Of
small ideas.
Milford chronicle., 1925-05-15

IN ALL Of Delaware up to this
week there had not been even one
case of small pox this year; but a
case that has been traced as COM
ing from Pennsylvania to Whining
ton, was discovered at a hospital
in that city this past week. Every
precaution was taken promptly, by
vaccination Of exposed persons and
isolation Of the case in the pest
house near Farnhurst. 1t is surpris-
ing that with this disease prevail
ing in all the cities near to Della
ware, that other cases have not
reached the state. A we'll regulated
Board of Health and enforcement of
the health laws, has kept Delaware
immune from contagious diseases
for a long time.
Milford chronicle., 1925-05-15
BAKE

The ladies of the Milford New
Century Club will hold a bake at
the Century Club on Wednesday,
May goth, beginning at 10 a. m. All
kind of good things to eat. Rolls
salads, nut bread, cake lemon mer-
angue pies and etc.
Milford chronicle., 1925-05-15
MILFORD, FRIDAY. MAY Is, 1925

AS MEMORIAL DAY falls on Sat
urday this year farmers who do
their shopping at the weekend, will
note that many of the merchants
are arranging to keep their stores
open on Friday evening, May goth,
until ten o'clock, and remain closed
all of Saturday. May 3Oth. Memorial
Day previous to the late war had
but limited observance by the peo-
pie in general; but the interest has
been revived by reason Of tile great
sacrifice that American men and
women paid in a patriotic duty to
the country and liberty of all man
kind.
Milford chronicle., 1925-05-15
&eS

THE VETERANS of the world
war who have formed the American
Legion, have launched a splendid
work in making a drive to create
and establish on a permanent basis,
a fund for the relief of the widows
and orphans, as well as the unfor-
tunate victims of the war, who are
incapacitated to earn a living. They
are doing a work which the Veter-
ans Bureau has not been able to do
satisfactory and promptly for the
disabled veteran, or orphan that
needs quick action. It is hoped that
the fund will be Oversubscribed in
small contributions, for it is so well
worth the sympathetic support Of all
the people, it would be well to have
all feel that they have had a part
in creating the national fund. The
money will be invested and safe
guarded by patriotic men and wo-
men, and not, pass through the
hands of any politician or political
bureaus. 1t is for real relief; so
give something, if it is only one
dollar to this fund for the veterans.
Milford chronicle., 1925-05-15

The slippery may eventually slide
to perdition as a lot of folks hope,
but in the meantime a lot of them
seem to be sliding into good fortune.
Milford chronicle., 1925-05-15
%2oG

THE BERRY crop now coming to
market from the fields of Delaware
is certainly of the highest grade in
flavor, size and delicious abund-
ance. Strawberries under favorable
conditions grow in Delaware to
greater perfection than anywhere in
the United States, and this can be
proved by demonstration at ninety
nine per cent of Delaware homes.
What can be finer than a well made
short cake with well ripened straw
berries, covered with a smooth whip
ped cream from Delaware COWS? 1t
is one of those delicious preparations
which can only be found on the
tables of the splendid peninsular
homes of the Delmarvia Peninsula.
The women who make these short
cakes know just how to give that
extra pleasing flavor to a strawber-
ry short cake; because they have
the best berries on earth, the finest
cream and the charm of the cook
seems to be a part of her completed
handiwork-a Delaware Strawberry
Short Cake.
Milford chronicle., 1925-05-15

Permanent happiness never was
built upon a foundation of perma-
nent expensiveness.
Milford chronicle., 1925-05-15
SoS

MOST EVERYBODY knows Stanley
D. Prouse, because he has for ten
years or more been in touch with
the people in all parts of Delaware.
He was born in Kent County, so for
that reason we feel more than kind
towards "Shan" Prouse. He is a pro-
duct of lower Kent County and that
is all together in his favor; so, when
Secretary of State William E. Taylor
appointed "Shan" to one of the most
important places in the administra-
ton of the automobile laws for Del
aware, he made a very wise choice,
which is a credit to him and good
thing for the automobile depart
ment. He succeeds another Kent
County man who made good in that
department, and it is certain that
the thousands Of automobile folks
in all Delaware were pleased to
hear Of his appointment. He is well
qualified to handle his department,
because he has been identified with
the automobile business for years
and is pleasing in his business rela-
tions with the public and accommO-
dating. If Secretary Taylor wants
more Kent County men or women
for other places, there is a possi-
bility that others could be induced
to be very agreeable; but he made
no mistake in this particular selec-
tion.
Milford chronicle., 1925-05-15
&5eG

IF THERE BE one class Of Am
orleans who have shown distrust
for socialism in any form, it is the
farmers of Our Country.
The Progressive Third Party in
the presidential campaign of 1924
put up a very attractive socialistic
political platform.
No political organization, even
with the endorsement of active farm
bloc groups of politicians, was ever
so completely repudiated on account
of serving the red flag, as was 1924
prOgressivism, so-called.
It was fitting and proper that
Chief Justice Taft recently called
down a western college debating
team for taking up for discussion
one of the most socialistic planks of
the Red program.
It was the proposition that Con-
gress by a two-thirds vote, could
over-rule any decision of the United
States Supreme Court, plainly dang
erous to our constitutional govern
ment.
Agricultural colleges and state un-
iversities that bid for popularity
with socialistic and communistic ell
ements are dangerous foes of human
rights and the independent, proper
ty owning American farmer.
Chief Justice Taft showed his
sound common sense in rebuking
such tendencies.
Milford chronicle., 1925-05-15

THERE WILL BE great disap-
pointment in Sussex County, when it
is generally understood that there
will be very few, if any, miles of
State-County built concrete high
ways built in this county in 1925.
This result was brought about by
the questioning of the wording Of
the law which provided for the is
suing of another million dollars
worth of bonds, the proceeds from
which was to have been expended in
completing the building program, so
far as possible in Sussex County
during the ensuing two years. The
Levy Court of Sussex this week
adopted a resolution, which is print
ed in another part of this paper, set
ting forth the fact, that the bonds
will not be issued or offered for
sale, until the Supreme Court has
passed upon them and rendered an
opinion as to their being in accord
with thnConstitution of Delaware.
T1n az fhoACfata old roads
Evening star., 1925-07-14

The Regular Army has no more i'm
portant mission than the training of
the civilian soldiers of our new citizen
army. The Summer camps would be
Evening star., 1925-07-14

Women lose things 10 times as
often as men.
Evening star., 1925-07-14
ATTACK ON GERMAN0S
TAKEN UP WITH TURKS
In Friendly Note, Greece Asks Pun
ishment of Persons Who Assault
ed the Metropolitan.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
LONDON, July 14.-An agency dis.
patch from Athens says the Greek
government has sent a friendly note
to the Turkish legation asking the
Turkish government to punish per-
sons responsible for mistreating the
Greek metropolitan Germanos of
Sardis. Dispatches yesterday said the
metropolitan had been roughly han
died by attackers at Constantinople,
who cut off his hair and beard.
Messages from Saloniki say the as
sault has aroused more Greek feeling
there than in Athens, and police are
protecting the Salonik Turkish le.
cation.
In the Greek capital the indignation
at first manifested has been some
what mitigated by news that the pre-
feet of Constantinople has expressed
to the Greek patriarchate the regret
of the Turkish authorities at the in
cident.
The attack upon the metropolitan
Germanos is said to have been in
spired by riyalries in the election of
a new ecumenical patriarch of the
Greek Orthodox Church to succeed
the patriarch Constantinos, who was
expelled from Constantinople in Jan
Evening star., 1925-07-14
SUSPECT DENIES
MURDER CHARGE
Did Not Kill Escort and At
tack Girl, Prisoner
Says.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
CUMBERLAND, Md. July 1.-THE
authorities, it is understood, believe
that Charles Swartzweilder, brought
back to Cumberland yesterday from
Erie, Pa, on a charge of burglary.
and who was wanted for questioning
in connection with the murder of
Arlington Gortner, on Johnstons
Heights. knows nothing of the trag-
edy. He was questioned for several
hours last night by States Attorney
William a. Hustler. He denied all the
crimes Of which he was accused and
offered alibis.
SwartZweilder, who was a fugitive
from justice, was said to have visited
relatives in this city on the night
Gortner was murdered and his COM
panion, Nellie f. Wagner, assaulted.
However. the description given by the
girl failed to fit SwartZweilder.
The charge of burglary on which
SwartZweilder was indicted was based
on confessions of six young men, who
declare he was the leader of their gang
and received part of the loot for plan.
ming the robberies to which they con-
fessed. He assumed the name of
Charles Rockwell at Erie.
Following the questioning he was
remanded to the county Jail.
Evening star., 1925-07-14

(Edftor's note-TIee foIlotUin0 Is the
second of q series of sic articles, torit-
ten for the Associated Press. describ-
ing activities of the Army of the
United States during the SUMMER
months of 1880
Evening star., 1925-07-14

size, while the work to be done has
mounted each year. The Regular
Army. as it's needs become known,
will be increased at least to the mini
mum strength for its proper function.
The excessive. work now required of
the Regular Army is a temporary con-
dition.
Every effort is being made by the
War Department to remedy our exist
ing situation. Under a new training
schedule regiments will alternate in
training civilians. This will give each
organization one year out of two to
devote to- its own training. Regular
Army posts are being substituted for
our wartime cantonments for civilian
training, which will mean less dis
turbance and less moving for the Reg
ular Army. The immediate result will
be increased efficiency and better in
struction for the civilian soldiers.
Pupils are never much better than
their teachers.
Training Is Beneficial.
On the other hand, the training of
the civilian components Is proving
helpful and beneficial to the Regular
Army. Every officer and man has to
work hard. They also have an op-
Poh SdhAtSp udi iil5 lIiC al
least. to function with full commands.
This means that they have some train
ing in the actual handling of war
organizations" In an emergency the
Regular Army will have a much bet
ter conception of its job. There will
be fewer MISTAKES in the future. The
Regular Army personnel will know
how to handle the large mobilization.
training and supply problems that an
emergency would Immediately bring.
No work that the Regular Army has
been called upon to do for our coun-
try is more important than the Sum
mer training that it Is now giving to
our civilian soldiers. From this will
come many beneficial results to our
country that are not even guessed at
present. This work is as important,
in my opinion, as the winning of the
West. the building of the Panama
Canal. the development of our rivers
and harbors. the sanitation of Cuba
Porto Rico. Panama and the Philip
pines, and other similar undertakings
which the Regular Army has perform
ed so successfully in the past
The Regular Army has every right
at present to the confidence, support
and appreciation of our citizens. It's
peace-time work has earned preferred
treatment for it by our Government.
Evening star., 1925-07-14

is to expand in the event of national
emergency into at least nine Infantry
divisions, for the purpose Of checking
the enemy with the least possible de-
lay. The National Guard is to muster
Is divisions, for the purpose of rein
forcing the Regular Army and max
ing certain that the enemy is held at
his starting point. The Organized Re-
serves are to expand during hostilities
from mere skeleton into q Infantry
divisions, and more If need be, for the
purpose of bringing our defense forces
to such strength that the enemy will
seek again the peace he disturbed.
Has Definite Tasks.
However, the Regular Army must
not conflne it's efforts during peace to
perfecting itself alone. Our whole de-
fense system would collapse in that
event. Regular Army officers and men
must work diligently to make certain
that both the National Guard and the
Organized Reserves will also be able
to fulfill their defense missions in an
emergency. Civilians of the high
standard demanded by our plans are
too busy to spare much time from
their private business. In most in
stances they do not acquire sufficient
technical military knowledge from
their daily occupations to undertake
the formation and perfection of their
own military organizations and train
ing without assistance and guidance.
The peace-time responsibility of the
Regular Army, under the National
Defense Act of 1920, is greater than
1t ever has been in our history. No
similar standing army has peace-time
responsibility that is even comparable
with that of our Regular Army at
present.
Approximately 4,S00 officers and
$4,000 enlisted men of the Regular
Army will actually be engaged this
Summer in the training Of the Ma
tional Guard, the Organized Reserves,
the Reserve Officers Training Corps
and the Citizens Military Training
Camps.
Every Summer camp will have it's
Evening star., 1925-07-14

for the Canadian Pacific Railway and
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, de-
fendants in the case.
Citing numerous reasons to support
their contention that the complain
ants should be satisfied with the find
Ing Of the commission several months
ago, setting up a maximum differen-
tial Of cents a hundred pounds as
between the Washington and Balti-
Evening star., 1925-07-14

almost as futile
without Regular
Army officers and
enlisted men as
our schools would
be without teach
ers and admins
traitors.
The National De-
fense Act of 1920
divided the Army
of t h e United
States, which it
created, into three
components - the
Regular Arm y A.,
Nationa | G u a r d
and Organized Re-
serves. Under our
new defense plan
the Regular ARMY
Evening star., 1925-07-14

quota. This means that the Regular
Army will be spread out in a thin
layer over the United States from the
first of June until the first Of October,
as there will be camps in every State,
except Mississippi. Tennessee and Ne
yada
Evening star., 1925-07-14
ANSWER PUBLISHERS.

Denial of the petition by the Wash
ington Newspaper Publishers Asso-
citation, The Evening Star Newspaper
Co. and the Baltimore American for
a rehearing and reconsideration in the
news print case now before the Inter.
state Commerce Commission was ask.
ed today In a brief filed by attorneys
Evening star., 1925-07-14

more rate on news print paper, the
brief says there is nothing in the re-
port of the commission justifying the
complainants' criticism. 1t adds that
the report indicates the complain
ants evidence was given full consid-
Grafton by the commission. The news
print case has been before the com
mission for more than a year and a
half.
Evening star., 1925-07-14
SPECIAL NOTICES.

GLADIOLI. $3.50 per dozen. 1926 Vermont
ave. NV. ~.
WANTCD-A RETURN LOAD OF FURNI-
Sure from New York Philadelphia or Bslti.
more SMITHS TRANSFER AND STOR-