Milford chronicle., 1925-12-25
MILFORD, FRIDAY. DEC. 25, 1925


weekly local paper is varied ant
has many amusing incidents. Last
week it so happened that the Mil
ford Chronicle made an enemy by
printing the report of a local court
in Milford, where two cases of fail
ure to pay the annual dog license
was settled by imposing fines on
the men who were guilty. These
men had knowledge of the law and
had warning to pay the taxes, as
hundreds of others had paid in Sus-
sex County; but because of their
own inclinations, they permitted the
authorities to force them to not
only pay the annual licenses, but
substantial fines and cost in addi-
tion. That is the class on which to
start and make examples of, if en-
forcement of the laws are to be
successful. Each man in these
cases is amply able to pay the fine
and costs, and the State of Della
ware receives the advantage of the
advertising which publication of
the court news brings to the pub
lie. In every case where citizen
knows of a dog being harbored
without the annual tax being paid,
it is that citizens duty to report
such dereliction of duty and have
the dog owner hailed before the
court. If a citizen knows that the
law is being broke by another, in
evasion of paying just taxes, that
individual is no better than the one
who is beating the state, county or
town out of the money due it, II
they fail to report the case to the
authorities. It might be well to say |
lust here, that one of the victims in
the two cases reported last week,
called at the business offices Of the
Milford Chronicle last Monday, and
had the paper discontinued from
his adress; a sure evidence that the
case was right and that the intent
and purpose was checkmated IN
that particular case. Get all who
are evading the tax must be the
slogan of the Game Wardens of
Delaware. The law has come to
stay-so enforce it.
DeS
AT THE CLOSE of a year which
has brought intense problems for
the civil governments of the world,
it is well to study the possibilities
of legislation proposed by radical
thinkers, of this and other coun- {
tries. That there is silent work ]
ing danger to our form of govern
ment, we had ample proof during
the late war, when the various '
forms of socialism, if not revolu- !
tionary interests, spread the unrest s
of sedition across the pages of his
tory. Since then the work has been
less open, but nevertheless it ex- '
lists and is working. George B.
Lockwood, editor of the National I
Tribune at Washington, in the De-
cember number treats the subject :
with plain and understandable Ian Z
guage, which those who will, may /
understand and appreciate. He '
says:
'For want of knowledge the =
people perish" v
No truer statement than that was t
ever made. 1t applies to all people, +
but most of all to the American 7
people, since ours is a government :,
in which every citizen is pOten- b
tial sovereign. C
We have a vague idea that regard Il
less of our own sins Of omission or
the future of our re-
public will be cared for. But by
whom, if not by the people them
selves? And who are "the people" n
but a sum of units like yourself?
If all who have at heart the well d
fare of the nation do no more than h
you are doing to shape its future, C
where is the mysterious force that
will preserve the American heritage al
Of liberty and security? 81 -
This country is in no danger ex-
,ept from that want of knowledge el
IN the part of patriotic men and Ii
which would arouse them
70 a conception Of the danger atten- "a ~
liant upon the unanswered appeals VI
If destructive elements to the ever
present spirit of unrest. The print ca
ID page is given over for the most al
,art to destructive criticism. There ~
ire few to call attention to the val Pl
le of established institutions, tra-
Iitions and ideals, few who give ST
hem that serious study which II
lone will arm effectively in the On
,attle for their maintenance. M
Within every organism are the ell Nj
ments both of growth and of de-
ay. The permanence of any organ 60 60
SIN depends upon the comparative ~
ctivity of constructive and destruc- Of
We elements The battle goes on, wi
of the inactivity of any
lctor. Placid Indifference on the ool oei
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