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Milford chronicle., 1925-09-18

and Florida. This country, with its
foot-loose, half-nomadic folk, mas
grown many such. The speculative
element is always mingled with
them. They are akin to the "canal
fever" that had the East delirious
back in De Witt Clinton's day. The
rail fever" hit the West, bankrupt
ing many counties and Gripping
some States. These things, however,
gave the country the transportation
it needed. There were ugly phases
of the Kentucky fever" the ore
gon fever" and the gold craze, but
they settled the Great Valley and the
Far West, and the California fever
made the southern end of that state
one of the marvellous Fairgrounds OF
the world. Florida is another OF the
"migrations."
There is a solid value in all OF
them, despite the losses they bring
to the unwary, the foolish and the
unlucky. Whatever happens to the
Florida boom, the State is made.
The picture the average man once
carried about in his mind OF
'gator-hunting, Seminole-haunted
stretch of Everglades has gone for
ever. The "FlOrida fever" has given
Ponce de Icons Land Of Flowers
its place in the sun.
Milford chronicle., 1925-09-18
Frederica

The annual anniversary exercises
will be held at Barratt's Chapel, on
Sunday afternoon, September 20th.
Rev. H. w. Ewing of Newark will
deliver the sermon. Everybody in
vited.
The town board is improving the
streets by having concrete cutters
laid at the Market street crossings.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Rogers, Mrs.
S. X. Belts, Mrs. Julia Darby, Mr..
and Mrs. Burton Hendricks, Ralph
Jester and Benjamin Burton visited
the dahlia farm at Greensboro on
Sunday.
Mrs. Joseph Woodward of WOrces-
ter. Mass, has been visiting her
sister. Mrs. Leon Kelley.
Miss Sara Burton returned to Syr-
acue University.
Mr.. and Mrs. Howard Rogers, Mrs
Edith Melvin. Miss Mary Melvin
Miss Bessie Emerson, Mr.. and Mrs.
REYNOLDS Rogers, Miss Dorothea Cox
and Miss Ruth Kellar spent Sunday
at RehOboth.
Mrs. J. B. Derrickson and daugh-
ter Mary. Mrs. Jester Gray and
daughters, Jane and Sara Burt, Mrs.
T. II. Purnell and daughter Evelyn
attended the dahlia show at Green's
boro on Sunday.
Mrs. Elizabeth Harrington of Har-
rington who has been visiting Mrs.
T. V. Cahall, left this week to visit
friends in New York, Wilmington
and Harrington.
Miss Elizabeth Lank has returned
from a visit to Broadkiln Beach.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. Armour and Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Webb of Houston
were guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Allan
Smith on Sunday.
Mrs. Mary Johnson, Mr.. and Mrs.
Byron Frazier and son, Wilson vis-
tied the dahlia show at Greensboro
on Sunday.
Milford chronicle., 1925-09-18
Bridgevle

Harry Stewart of Toledo, Ohio, is
spending a few days with relatives
here and at Seaford.
Oran J. Wiley was given a sur
prise birthday dinner at his home Oh
Sunday last.
One day run of tomatoes at the IL
2. Cannon and Son plant here last
week consisted OF seventeen thous-
and, five hundred baskets, packed
and stored.
DR.. and Mrs. S. ]. Tilghman have
returned after a weeks vacation up
at Niagara Falls, N. Y.
Mrs. Chas. Calhoon and son Chas
of Georgetown, spent the weekend
with relatives here.
Owing to the Jewish New Year
Klines department store closed from
Friday to Saturday evenings.
Chicken thieves have started OPP
Grafton in our vicinity again week
before last, William Chatiinch lost a
number. while last week Harry Rus
sell lost about 200 fine chickens,
vOun gand old ones, while every aV-
enue Of escape has been covered no
trace of them has been found.
Vaughn Legar and sister, Fern OF
Baltimore, are spending a few days
with grandparents, Mr.. and MIS-.
Jesse Legar.
Morgan McAllen will attend the
University of Delaware this year.
Adams Bros. have erected another
cooling house at their scrapple plant
this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elwood Bennett, Mr..
and Mrs. Millard Macklin were
Ocean City visitors on Sunday.
Arlin Brown and John Russell
spent the weekend at Atlantic City,
N. J.
Our Fire Company was called out
on Sunday evening to a farm near
Owens Station where a large hen
merry was burned down with about
200 chickens.
Charlie Adams was takened sud
denly i'll with appendicitis and was
rushed to the Salisbury Hospital on
Tuesday morning His condition is
reported very grave.
Unknown parties entered the gar
age of P. H Cannon at his home last
week and would have taken his auto
only the gears were locked. They
then entered the garage of Horace
Reynolds a short distance away and
were successful in getting away with
his car. No trace of them has been
found at this time.
Miss Bessie Kline returned home
this wee kafter a ten days vacation
at Wildwood and Atlantic City, N. J.
Harry James, formerly of here and
who now resides in Dover, was Wis
itOr the first of the week.
The town gas was exhausted on
Saturday, for a short duration owing
to the illness of the workmen at the
plant in SeafOrd.
r. Charles COnaway expects to leave
the latter part of the week for Mar
Gus Hook, Pa, where he will secure
a position at the silk mill.
Layton e Owens Mfg. Co. have
closed their plant here for an indef-
mite period.
Miss Elizabeth Hardesty enter
Milford chronicle., 1925-09-18

This was complicated by the "gold
fever of 40" IN recent years Cali
fornia and Florida have caused sim
liar shiftings Of populations.
The california urge seems to be
lessening; but even in the Middle
West, which so long has "gone to
California" the Florida epidemic is
growing and spreading. Last winter
it amounted to an obsession. At pres
ent there are communities from the
Atlantic seabOard to the Great
Plains where Florida and Florida
land speculatiOns have become a
mild form of mania.
This Florida craze has been due
for years. Doubtless the mOtorcar
had much to do with it. The tin-can
car of the tourist" has for years
moved south with the wild geese in
the fall and back with them in
spring. Big Money long ago knew the
beauties and comfort of Florida win
ters. Men of the Flagler stamp saw
the Florida future long since. Flor
ida has known winter hotels for a
generation. Middle-aged Indiana far
mers. Illinois peach growers, Ohio
druggists and Pennsylvania hard
ware men have been wintering in
Florida for a lifetime and amusing
themselves with citrus orchards.
Then. all at once. the country be-
gan talking and dreaming Florida
and Florida real estate. The Big
Gamble started. The superiority de-
velopment there Is, of course, a
gamble. These things always are. 1t
was a gamble in California. 1t will
be when the seacoast development
that is coming for the Middle Allan
tic seaboard hits its stride.
Just now the country is wild about
Florida. Some of the great business
dramas of the decade are being
played there. The dice in the Big
Game are sections Of land, and the
stakes run into tens of millions. The
big plunger plunges and the 'tin-
horn" and the "piker" edge in with
their raveled shOestrings in the hope
they may somehow rub Aladdin's
lamp. Sober fact and fairy tale are
hard to untangle in the hectic stor-
lGO VI OOO4n uetJO lAdb SOAAS AP
from Florida.
The germ of the FLORIDA fever"
has been nOurished by many things.
It is a part of the instructive urge of
the American to get outside the Big
Towns somehow. There is also the
pressure of American wealth and
the American craving for comfort.
Everybody wants to live in "lotus
land" where it is always summer
and always afternoon"
Humanity today loathes the cold
and breads the heat. 1t yearns to
shift with the seasons moving like
the grass-dependent Asiatic herds
men with the grass. Once the rich
only could do so. Now everybody
has more leisure, a little ready mon
ey for ship or train or little old
car" Then, also, the subtropics have
opened up, yellow Jack" the hook
worm and pellagra have gone, and
all the world that knows winter
dreams of the palm and the palmet-
to, the poinsettia and magnolia and
of yellow oranges, green framed /
against blue water.
Hence the "fevers" of California
Milford chronicle., 1925-09-18
THIS THING CALLED
"FLORDA FEVER"
(Editorial Sunday Public Ledger

Editorial Sunday Public Ledger
There is such a thing as "the
Florida fever" There are cases of it
in every neighborhood. 1t is epidemic
over the eastern half of the United
States and as far west as the Mis-
souri, Valley at least. What this has
done and will do to the California
fever" which preceded it is uncer-
tain. 1t used to be that the "old,
tired wives of the Iowa farmers"
dreamed of living the sundOwn of
their days in a California bungalow.
These dreams now include the
orange groves and grapefruit or
chards of the Florida coasts.
In Daniel Boone's time it was the
Kentucky fever" Later came the
"Oregon fever" and the start of the
Great Migration across the Plains.
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sary for the party leaders to agree
on candidates to represent the party.
When he was Governor of New York,
Mr.. Hughes advocated the primary
system of making nominations as a
device for Kidding the party of the
control of the bosses, who had been
in power so long that they began to
think it was not necessary to consult
any one else regarding the selection
of candidates. The primary, however,
has not eliminated the basses in any
State where they have been in con-
troll. With few exceptions 1t has
strengthened their power. They have
met in a hotel room and divided the
nominations among their followers
in advance of the primary election.
Then the SLATE" has been made pub
lie and in nine times out of ten the
voters have consented to the noml-
nation of the men in whose original
selection they had no part. There IS
a primary contest now and then
when factionalism in the party IS
rampant, and now and then the con-
testants break the original slate. But
the rule is that the slate goes
through, and the primary election Is
an expensive superhuity.
The party leaders are not to blame
for this. Indeed, they know that II
there is to be any definite direction
of party policy under the primary
system some one must direct 1t IN
advance of the voting. There must
be a slate or there will be confusion.
Although the leaders opposed the
primary laws in the first place, they
favor them now. When their repeal
in this State was suggested few
years ago, the late Senator Penrose
objected. He knew that it was cas-
ier for him to dictate the nom1na-
tiOns to his associate leaders in ad-
vance of the primary than it was to
force them upon a convention OF
elected delegates.
The adoption of the Hughes sug-
gestion for a pre-primary convention
would restore to the party the pow
er of making nominations by general
consent of a majority of the elected
representatives of the party voters,
and the minority in the convention
could force the majority to make
better nominations than are made
under the present system. Then the
question arises, Why have primary
at all? Mr.. Hughes answers it by his
suggestion that it is important that
candidates turned down by the con-
vention have an opportunity to sub
nit their claims to the voters.
In the mayOralty primary IN New
York next Tuesday there will be a
real contest, the kind of contest
which the advocates of the primary
system hoped would occur every
year. One group of Democratic lead
ers-the Tammany Hall group-has
put forward Senator Walker as it's
candidate. Mayor Hylan has been
put forward by a group of leaders
not members of Tammany Hall. The
enrolled voters will decide between
the two. The Republican leaders Sc
leoted Mr.. Waterman as their can
didate and two other Republicans
with Independent backing have en-
tered the race. But the contest will
be among candidates who were not
Milford chronicle., 1925-09-18

tanned at cards last week in honor
of her cousin, Miss Marian Rust, OF
Greenwood.
Francis Hardesty who has been
quite sick is now convalescing.
H. E. Hardesty and family motor
ed to Valley Forge and spent Sun
d9V
Milford chronicle., 1925-09-18
MR.. HUGHES NEW PLAN
FOR PRIMARY REFORM
He Would Have Candidates Selected
at a Convention and Ratified by a
Party Referendum.
Editorial in Evening LEDGER

Editorial in Evening Ledger
When one of the Republican can
didates for the mayoralty nomlna-
tion in New York tried to force
Charles E. Hughes, former Secretary
of State, into favoring his ambitions
he drew from the distinguished
statesman a merited rebuke and also
an expression of opinion regarding
the primary system of making nom
nations that deserves consideration
wherever the primary system pre-
walls.
Mr.. Hughes says that government
through parties demands ettectlVe
marty organization as well as means
to make that organization responsive
to the wishes of the members OF the
party. Therefore, he believes it ad-
visable that party representatives
selected for the purpose should des-
ignate candidates for the party nom
nations, subject to ratification at the
primaries, and that opportunity
should be given to other candidates
to run in the primaries, so that the
final choice would always lie WIN
the party members.
The plan proposed here is a COM
bination of the primary and conven-
ton system. Delegates would be
elected to nominating convention
and would select the candidates. The
action of the convention would then
be referred for ratification or reJec-
tion to the members Of the party
oualified to vote in the primaries.
Pit more briefly, it is plan for
nomination by convention and refer-
endum.
Tn the absence of any arrange
roent for the convention, it is neces-
Milford chronicle., 1925-09-18

selected by any one who had man
date from the party to make the
nominations, such a mandate as Mr..
Hughes thinks is desirable. But
there was no other way to act, and
the voters will have to be content
with the result.
Milford chronicle., 1925-09-18
LOYAL

Housewife: 1 saw the store boy
kiss you this morning. I'll take the
groceries myself after this.
The Maid: It won't do any good
ma'am. He promised to kiss nobody
except me.-The Progressive Grocer.
Milford chronicle., 1925-09-18
THE REASON

Marshall: The Joneses are moving
from the neighborhood.
Muriel: Moving! Why, people are
lust getting to know them.
That's why they're going. The
Progressive Grocer.
Milford chronicle., 1925-09-18

In the absence of any arrange
roent for the convention, it is neces-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-06-04
WILL FIGHT ALL.
PROGRESS, SAYS
LEE OF B. R. 7.
Reaction Still Rules in
Brotherhood

Especial to the DAILY WoRKER.)
CLEVELAND, Ohio. June S.-Bnl
Lee, ultra-reactionary labor faker
heading the Brotherhood Of Railroad
Trainmen, was reelected president
by its triennial convention here by
531 votes as against 40S votes cast
for A. F. Whitney, his opponent for
the last four elections-beginning in
1918.
After his election Lee, who was
terrihcally disturbed recently when
William z. Foster OF the Trade Union
Educational League spoke at an en-.
thusiastic meeting Of railway work
ers in Cleveland against the proposal
OF Lee to turn all the rail unions In
to company unions and abandon the
class struggle entirely, spoke to the
delegates and said that he, Lee, would
continue his collaboration with the
railway companies and his opposition
to amalgamation and all other pro.
gressive movements.
p. King, general secretary-treasur.
err; Thomas r. Dodge. Lees assistant.
and d. L. Cease. editor. were also
reelected.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-06-04
Foreer of Fake "Zinoviev
Plots" Caught i'm Berlin

Drushelovsky, the German police de-
clare they have run down the forger
who for months has been weaving a
net Of plots all over Europe. making
a livelihood by fostering race hatreds
and animosities. and who has been
successful, they believe, in the over
throw OF q cabinet by his machina-
tons.
The mysterious trail Of the "zin-
oviev" letter. published during the
campaign which saw the defeat Of
the Ramsay Macdonald cabinet in
England. may be cleared up by In
vestigstion OF Drushelovsky's opera
tons. This letter purported to be
a cowmunication from the Soviet for
eign minister to Macdonald, then Bril-
tish premier. suggesting Macdonald
could aid in spreading Communist
propaganda In Great Britain. onicial
Moscow branded the letter . forE-
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FIRE IN 'TINTOWN'
EXPOSES FAIRY TALE OF
BOSSES PUBLICITY

PHOENIX, AriS- June a. The
stories sent out by the Blsbee
chamber Of commerce describing
that nonunlon town sound like
fairy tales when compared with the
following dispatch printed In q To-
cal paper under a BIsbee date llnet
approximately one-fourth Of the
village OF Tlntown, near here, was
destroyed by fire early this morn.
Ing, causing damage estimated at
s12 or SIS. Tintown Is Inhabited
solely by MexIoans Of the poorer
class, who have built their homes
from tin cans, parts Of wrecked
automobiles Of popular make and
anything else that can be tackled or
glued on 10 the railroad ties that
form the framework.
Like the disastrous Chicago fire.
Tlntown's eonflaaratfon Is sup
posed to have started when a vaa-
rant COW wandered Into the kitchen
Of house and kicked over a lamp.
There being no fire fighting equip
ment In the village, ono entire
block was raxed before II was
placed under control"
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COAL MINERS
MEET PUT OFF
BY LEWIS GANG
TerrOrized by Fear of
PrOgressiUes


INDIANAPOLIS, June 3.-The next
international convention Of the United
Nine Workers Of America, scheduled
to convene In January, 1925, has been
postponed until 1927, by decision Of
the international Executive Board,
subject to approved by referendum
vote Of the membership Of the union.
1t is freely admitted that this action
was prompted by fear on the part Of
John L. Lewis that the next conven-
ton II held on the scheduled date
would run away with him. In the last
elections for officers Of the Interna-
tional Union, George Voyzey, progress
sive candidate for president, polled
half as many votes as Lewis, accord
ing to the Official count, which was
made by Lewis. The general opinion
among the rank and file of the union
is that Voyzey was really elected. In
fact Lewis has refused to publish
tabulated list Of the voting.
Lewis held his ground at the last
convention by pulling of several red
scares and illegally terminating the
convention when majority OF the del
egates voted to give Alexander Howat,
Of Kansas, new deal. Since then sew
eral districts have gone on record for
a special International convention to
take up the Howat matter and other
grievances of the-rank and file against
the International officials.
Busted Lewis Machine.
Several districts are decidedly OPP
posed to Lewis and even his position
in the anthracite fields is badly
shaken, tho he made Tom Kennedy
secretary-treasurer of the interna-
tional as sop to the hard coal min
ers. The actions OF the stool pigeon
and renegade Cappellini have busted
the Lewis machine in District one and
districts IL. IA, ~. rs, IS are of the
reactionary autocrat for good.
CONTINUED on pags 81 seat
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WEST virginia
MINE PICKET
GETS 1O.YEARS
Frank Corish First of
Court Victims
BY REGINA MYRoWsKI.
Especial to The Daily Worksr.)

MouNDSVILLE, w. Va, June s.
On May %, Frank corIsh, one Of the
Victims Of the strike situation In the
northern section Of West Virginia,
was sentenced, at the Marshall
County Court House, to ten years at
tho state penItentlary az a result Of
the outbreak which had taken place
at Glendale, w. Va, on April 10, 1928.
On the above date an outbreak had
occurred in that town as a result of
the scabbing that was being done in
that region. The house Of scab was
picketed by number Of striking min
ers, but altho no damage was. done,
police arrived upon the scene immedi-
ately, dispersed the crowd, arrested 10
men and one woman as having part In
the outbreak.
Rank and Rotten Injustice.
On MayN4, 1925 they were indicted
by the grand jury aid we're held
pending trial for violation Of the Red
man act, which carries a prison seIs
tence Of from two to ten years.
The week of May 25, 1926 the trials
for the strikers were commenced,
each one being tried individually.
Frank Corish was the first one to
be tried and was charged with being
the instigator of the outbreak He
was found guilty and given the maxi
mum sentence, 10 years! This caused
great CONSERVATION among not only
the strikers themselves but also
among the sympathizers. and is view
ed as being one of the most savage
sentences ever pronounced for the
crime committed. Frank Corish has
appealed his trial to the supreme
court.
Prison for strIkers-Frsedonn for seah
What the fate of the others con-
nected with the outbreak will be can
not be determined but without doubt
the majority OF them will be con-
victed, with a pretense of trial, and
also given severe sentences, as an ex-
ample for the rest of the strikers.
While these people are being tried
for attacking Robert Grove, the
strikebreaker, no charge has been en-
tered against the latter as yet, altho
he shot Samichow, one Of the strik-
ers In the head. Samichow is report
ed as having nearly recovered, with
the bullet still remaining in his head.
Heavy prison sentences, injunctions,
etc have not as yet succeeded in
breaking the working class spirit
Altho they may have a depressing in
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has made but little Roadway. II the A.
CIV. can make win of the present
strike. which may spread from the cut.
ters to the rest OF the 1000 workers,
the town Of st. Louis will be we'll on
he way to unionization in this indus.
try.
The clothing bosses Of Chicago and
other union centers, SO Il is reported.
have lately been sending their work
TO st. Louis to make more profit from
the low scab wages prevailing. The
long delay OF the A.C.W. in doing ef-
fective organization work has caused
unemploymentir these union centers
and intense exploitation in st Louis
shops.
Mliltants Actively Support Campaign,
II now appears that the A CIV. To-
cally is going about organization in a
determined manner. and in the cam
paign the militant members OF the
Trade Union Educational League and
the Young WorxSrs League are taking
an active part. All the clothing work
ers are set upon making st. Louis a
union town.
Tho demands of the cutters OF the
Curlec shop are 90 follows The right
to organize, Reinstatement OF eight
workers fred for belonging TO th- uni.
on, ranitary conditions. time and a
half for ovsrtims, l4-hour week and
an increase Of the basic wage from
$3.50 20 SAT asweek.
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workers posted to defend their
meetings from attack. Foreign
troops have been ordered to
shoot to kill on all occasions.
The general strike is paralyzinE the
international settlement. All the
workers in the foreign cotton mills,
along the wharves. the telephone ex-
changes, power plants and water
works are out.
Great Demonstrations Being Held.
In the Chinese city, great demon
STATIONS are being held, with the
thousands Of students leading parades,
bearing the collins Of their dead COM
rades shot down by British Sikh DO
lice troops Saturday and the other
victims which have been murdered
since.
OF the five goreign language papers
published here, all are hit by the
strike, four being completely tied up
by the strike Of the linotype operators
while the fifth is issuing a small
sheet only by throwing a heavy guard
around the plant to protect the for.
eign scabs from being stopped at their
work by Chinese strikers and sympa
taizers.
Two thousand Chinese members of
the municipal police force are threat
ening to strike, and fatty refusing to
act against the other Industrial work
ers on strike.
Cable employees are meeting this af-
ternoon to consider Joining the strike.
Water is being furnished the interna-
tional settlement only by use of vol
unteer scabs guarded by American
marines. At the American Club, the
social center for wealthy Americans,
the Chinese servants have been called
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