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Evening star., 1926-11-28
Level Fools Autoists.

Most experienced car owners know
that it is foolish to inspect the oil
level in the engine while the car ia
standing on anything but level
ground, but often they are not so
skfllful at picking ont the level. One
OF the most common mistakes is to
think the car is on level ground when
II is standing on a gravel driveway.
Sometimes the tip Is quite decided.
Evening star., 1926-11-28

Macdonald, John n. Mackall, chair
man, Maryland Rad Commissions Paul
d. Sargent, chief engineer, Maine; ii.
HI. Rice and Pyke Johnson, National
Automobile Chamber of Commerce;
Fl. III, Kelly and II. c. MacLean, De-
partment of Commerce.
Evening star., 1926-11-28
GRAPHITE HELPS RIMS.

Will Prevent Freezing" and Maxi
It Easier to Mount Tire.
When tires are removed from the
rims the latter should be painted viii
some thinned graphite in order 10 pr.
vent freezing" of the tires 70 III
rims. This freezing" is rustinS. an.
il makes difficult the removal Of a tire
1t will be easier to remOunt the tlr.
after painting the rim with graphit,
and the likelihood of encountering dit
ficulty in removing the tire later l.
greatly iessened.
Evening star., 1926-11-28
John Smith and His Car
BY FREDERICK e.. RUSSELL

Jbn Smith whom should welcome He
net sel6sh motoring chap willing and glad
the other members of the clan.
Milford chronicle., 1926-09-03
Sunnyside
Near Bridgeville)

Mr.. and Mrs. John Reynolds and
daughter, Mrs. Rena West, were
Sunday visitors with Mrs. Mary VIII
liams.
One of the saddest accidents oc-
Cured here last week when William
Jones of Bridgeville, while hauling
peaches for one Of our growers, hit
his own five-year-old son with a
truck. knocking it down and ran ov-
er its body. The boy was sent to the
hospital but died early the next
morning.
Mrs. Annie Passwaters was sent to
the Salisbury hospital for an opera
ton, and is doing as good as can be
expected.
Mrs. Annie Somers, Mrs. Eva Dick
.erson, Miss Mildred Lewis and Nor
gan Williams attended the funeral
of William E. O'Day who died at
Smyrna with cancer and was buried
at Concord, Md. Funeral was held at
Hickman.
Miss Katharine Passwaters left
Monday for Goldey College where
she will take a business course.
Miss Frances Martin will be our
teacher for this term.
Peaches are going into our local
market. Prices ranging from $1:25 to
$500 at present, but expected to drop
this week on account of the extra
large crop.
Milford chronicle., 1926-09-03
NEW YORK AND AMERICA

Harry Ainsworth, editor of "The
People" one of the largest Sunday
papers in London, has come to
America only to find that New York
is not really an American city after
all. Mr.. Ainsworth has made a real
discovery and one which is at least
partially true. For it can at least be
said in all fairness that New York
City is the last place in the United
States where a stranger may learn
what the American people are really
thinking.
A great many of Mr.. Ainsworth's
fellow-Europeans go to New York
City for a visit and then go back
home to tell the people what Amer
lea thinks and feels. When they at
tempt to do this they are only feed
ing to their fellow-citizens some of
that well known American dish
known as "apple sauce"
Every American of course is proud
of New York as the financial CEN
ter and metropolis of the country.
He admires it's mammouth buildings,
and its hustling spirit and he may
even be dazzled bit at first by it's
bright lights.
But he does not let New York do
his thinking for him. A great many
European statesmen have been sad
ly misled in the past because they
thought New York was doing the
thinking for the nation.
Questions of national and inter
national moment too, so far as
America is concerned, will continue
to be settled by the boys and girls
in the outlying districts, in the east,
the north, the south and the west.
Milford chronicle., 1926-09-03
&oG
lar FOR FREE TRADERS

One statesmen who can speak for
the farming interests Of the country
is Senator Arthur Capper and the
free trade disciples of the country
who hoped to wean the farmers away
from protection this year will find
scant comfort in the statement re-
Gently made by the senator from
Kansas, who declared that there is
no desire among the farmers Of the
West to tear down the protective
system, but a growing realization
that with the declining market in
Europe the farmer must depend
more and more on his home mar
ket. And of course every farmer
who thinks knows that the only way
he can keep his home market is
I through the protective tariff on farm
products.
! Free traders who have expected
the farm leaders to call for a gen
eral reduction of the tariff were
doubtless shocked to read that Sen
ator Capper's principal recommen-
dations are not for reductions but
increases in the tariff. The Kansas
senator expressed the opinion that
there ought to be duty on hides
which now come in on the free list,
a duty which he feels will help the
j cattle raisers. He suggested also a
higher duty on beef, in the face OF
the present fierce competition from
Argentine, for the same purpose,
and declared that there ought to be
a greater duty on wheat.
+ In commenting on his proposal
for a duty on hides the senator
wisely called attention to the fact
! that although hides and shoes are
both on the free list there has been
no decrease in the price of shoes.
Evidently the philanthropic shoe
manufacturers of Europe and our
own tender hearted importers have
overlooked this situation which
would offer them a fine chance to
show how free trade helps the poor
working man and the still poorer
farmer by giving him cheaper prod
ucts.
/ Senator Capper's statement will
do much to clear up the misappre-
hension which has existed among
| some protectionists as to the state
of feeling of the western farmer
with regard to the tariff. The think
ing farmer realizes now, as he al
ways has, that the tariff is benef1-
cial to him. What he wants is not
less Of it but more of it wherever he
thinks it will do him any good.
Milford chronicle., 1926-09-03

debt arranged after the war to help
France to her feet"
These are good things to remem-
ber. Just paste them in your mem
tai hat and the next time one Of
these maudlin internationalists tells
you that Uncle Sam has not done
his duty by the world during the
past ten years, and follows up with
the statement that we ought to join
the League of Nations and forgive
all the debts, tell him just how much
money the United States spent in
Europe during the war, to say moth
ing of the far more precious sacri-
fees in the way of life and limb.
Then remind him, in addition, of the
territory which France and Great
Britain and other of the belliger-
ents got out of the war while Uncle
Sam was wanting nothing and get
ting what he wanted. If he still
thinks Uncle Sam is cheating on the
job and playing the role of Shylock
there is nothing you can do to help
unless you have him sent to the
nearest "booby hatch" for treat
ment.
Milford chronicle., 1926-09-03

had been cast for each candidate at
such primary election, one Of said GER
tificates together with one of said tally
sheets and one poll book shall be de-
liVered to the Chairman of the Sussex
County . Republican Committee at
Georgetown on or before the next Tues
day following said primary election.
The said ballots after having been
counted, shall be deposited in the box
furnished for that purpose together
with the other of said certificates, tally
sheets and poll lists. The lid of said
box shall be secured by tape crossed
and sealed in sealing wax by one OF
the Judges and shall be delivered by the
Inspector on the first secular day fol-
lowing such primary election, to the
Sheriff of Sussex County.
The said election officers shall also
count the vote for County Committee
man and shall give to the successful
candidate a certificate of his election.
All persons believing IN the principals
of the Republican Party who have been
registered the first three registration
days are entitled to vote.
BY order of the Republican County
Committee of Sussex County.
WILLIAM J. SWAIN, Chairman.
J. c. LANK, Secretary.
Issued August %, 1926. a27-2t
Milford chronicle., 1926-09-03
MORE EVIDENCE WE SHOULD
'HOE OWN ROW"

The discussion Of an economic
boycott by European countries
against America will furnish the
thoughtful American with another
good reason why we ought to direct
more and more Of our attention to-
ward the development Of the Wes-
tern Hemisphere, according to the
National Republic, which comments
in it's current issue in its Depart
ment of the Trend of National AZ
fairs, on the subject Of economic
boycotts as follows:
"There is talk in Europe of an
economic boycott directed against
the United States. There is bitter
complaint because American fnan-
ciers are investing billions in Eu-
rope and seeking to reduce the con-
tinent to economic serfdom.' 1t is
evident that more and more the
United States should hoe its own
row. We have world in this hem
isphere, and even within the bound
aries of the United States. We pro-
duce as much of the staples Of in
dustry as all of Europe combined.
We should live and prosper if the
wish Of Thomas Jefferson that the
Atlantic Ocean were a lake Of fire.
were realized. With the present
tremendous export of American cap
ital to Europe, and the importation
of European goods and immigrants,
we should think a little less Of Eu-
ropes prosperity, as Jackson once
said, and little more Of our own.
Our helping Europe has brought Us
Milford chronicle., 1926-09-03
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER
(From National Editorial Association
Especial to Chronicle)

(From National Editorial Association)
Especial to Chronicle)
Washington, September There
is a marked disposition to steer clear
from platform manufacturing until
the September primaries are held.
Wise politicians take no unnecessary
risks. The voters of late have bad
habits in that they manifest a desire
to vote for men and are not greatly
influenced by partisan shibboleths.
Reports from states indicate di-
versity of issues affecting senatorial
and congressional candidates. In
New York State, for instance, it is
reported that one party is assigning
definite subjects for party orators
taking no recognition of local condi-
tions. The opposition says it is
subterfuge to avoid pertinent debate.
The sponsors say it is essential to
prevent confusion on vital political
problems. The voters will soon pass
final judgment on the methods.
National leaders have noted a ten
dency of Democrats to drop the tar
iff as the principal campaign issue
and concentrate on farm relief and
irrigation measures, subjects which
are designed to appeal to the Middle
and Far West. They are also TAX
ing advantage of the expose Of pri-
mary expenses. Somehow, both par
ties are willing to sidestep the much
mooted world court controversy. The
President feels that there is no need
for tariff revision at this time. This
means the subject will not figure
prominently at the next Congress.
Within a few weeks, the congress
sional committees handling appro-
priations will meet here to study the
nations pocketbook with a view to
authorizing Federal expenditures.
Their work will not be completed
until January.
The various subcommittee must
quiz departmental chiefs as to the
proposed expenditures as approved
by the Budget Bureau. Those COM
mittees derive keen pleasure in ex-
ercising their authority. It is a
source of delight for them to reduce
estimates and then claim the credit
for great economies.
Possibility of conflict between the
Treasury and the Congress is fore
seen here in the latest utterances of
Chairman Madden of the House APP
propriations Committee that the sur
plus should be used as a basis of tax
reductions. The Secretary Of the
Treasury has advocated gradual re-
tirement of national debt.
The President usually supports his
Secretary Mellon on fiscal matters
and the prospect Of clash on taxes
grows bright.
General Hancock once said that
the tariff is a local issue. Perhaps
with some modification the same
Milford chronicle., 1926-09-03
CIRCUS DAY DRAWS NEAR;
KIDDIES GROW RESTLESS

With only few more days re-
naming before the appearance of
the Gentry Bros. Shows considerable
interest is being manifested, not
only by the younger generation, but
by some Of the older boys" The
Gentry Bros. Show, now on its 46th
annual tour, is looked upon as a
national institution. Year after year
the big show comes for it's annual
visit. Each season sees an improve
ment, until finally it is believed the
limit has been reached. Yet the Cen
try Bros. Shows, which come to Mil
ford, Friday, September 10, always
afford a new and novel entertain
ment. 1t is true the old time features
remain. Yet novelties and European
thrills are added each year as fast
as they are discovered.
Among the features are the Flying
Jordans, the Peerless Potters, gym
nasts; the Nanking troupe of Chi
nese equilibrists; the Maxwell Trio,
acrobats; Arthur Borella, the highest
salaried clown in America; the Flor
ence family of riders; the DeLong
Sisters, acrobats and nearly 100
other stars and features of Continen-
tai Europe and Great America.
Organized nearly half century
ago the show is still under the ac-
tive direction and management of
these famous American showmen.
Two special trains transport the
big show from city to city. Nearly
700 men, women and horses are car
ried; the menagerie is one of the
largest ever to be exhibited in this
section Of the state. The equipment
and paraphernalia is valued at $780,
600. Ten acres of ground is utilized
to house the transcient city.
An immense street parade will be
seen on the downtown streets at
noon on show day. There will be
two performances at 2 and p. m.'
the doors opening an hour earlier.
The Gentry Bros. Shows will come to
Milford, September 10. Don't miss
them.
Milford chronicle., 1926-09-03

tically every country Of Europe it
does not take him long, mentally
to take off his hat and to thank God
for his American citizenship.
The shadow of the war is behind
us and the work of reconstruction
is practically over. We have made
marvellous progress since 1919 and
ought to be truly thankful for what
we have accomplished. Secretary OF
Commerce Hoover recently tersely
summed up our accomplishments OF
the past seven years in an address
in Idaho when he said:
I'm no other nation and in no
case in the history of the world has
there been such a measure of recov-
cry as ours from as great disaster.
To-day, and for the whole of the
last three years, all of our working
people have been employed at a
higher real wage than ever before
witnessed. We have less poverty
and we have grown to higher stand
ards of living and comfort than
even before the war. We have
grown in national wealth by greater
sums than ever in our history and
to greater wealth and comfort than
ever before in the history of the
world.
at is true that our agricultural
industry has Jagged in recovery be-
hind our industrial population, but
nevertheless agriculture has made
substantial progress from the
depths of it's Generalization. Sin
cere men of our nation are strug-
Cling constantly to add to the meas
ures already taken which will over
come this final gap in our recovery
And I am confident it will be over
come"
Milford chronicle., 1926-09-03
Do9
WHAT WE ACCOMPLISH

Every American, when he stops to
think, knows that he is better OH
through his privilege Of being an
American citizen. He may complain
about this thing or that, may be-
lieve that in some certain line the
people Of another country may have
more privileges than himself, may
he dissatisfied with the amount OF
money spent in primaries or by the
present price of corn. But when his
attention is called to the plight OF
the great mass Of the people in prac-
Milford chronicle., 1926-09-03
WHAT WE DID
the Kansas City Star:

Says the Kansas City Star:
During the war the United States
paid its way in France to the ex-
tent of considerably more than
$1,000, 100000. 1t paid harbor charges
on the transports that brought
American soldiers to save the
French republic. 1t paid the rail-
roads for transporting them to the
front. It paid for the training fields
where its men were prepared for
fighting. Now it has settled the
French debt on the basis Of fifty
cents on the dollar, which amounts
virtually to forgiving the war debt
and collecting only the commercial
Milford chronicle., 1926-09-03

might be said regarding the anti
trust laws. Their advantage or dis
advantage depends upon their direc-
tion-aU whom they are or are not
aimed.
This seems-to explain the criti-
cism of the Coolidge administration
concerning it's attitude toward pros
ecution of the antitrust laws. On
the one hand, the Department of JUS
tice has been assailed for its recent
statement concerning the record the
department proudly pointed to in
proceedings under these laws. On
the other hand, the Coolidge admin
istration has been attacked from the
figures shown by the Department of
Justice. The former class Of critics
appear generally to be those who are
not engaged in vocations that might
be subjected to the Sherman or Clay
ton laws. The latter class of critics
constituted principally all those
whose business could be subjected to
prosecution of these laws in event
of their violation. Supporters of the
administration have pointed to this
sharp demarcation of criticism as
proving that the administration has
found the happy golden means Of
which the poet has sung. In other
words, it is contended that the ad-
ministration has followed course
that is fair and in keeping with good
public policy.
One of the largest antitrust cases
Just brought to a conclusion resulted
in an injunction being issued against
the Southern Hardware Jobbers' As
sociation which was charged with a
price fixing arrangement in hard
ware and agricultural implements
among 1872 corporations, seven firms
and 81 individuals. A short time pre-
viously the Department of Justice
had won a big case instituted against
the Malleable Castings Association
whose members were fined total OF
more than $2OO,OOO.OO. This associa-
ton also like the Southern Hardware
Jobbers' Association was charged
with fixing and maintaining prices
restraining trade in interstate com
merce and with other alleged viola
tions of the antitrust laws.
The position of the Government II
those two cases, particularly has
created more or less concern relat'
ing to the rights of trade associa'
tions. However, careful students de-
clare that the decisions last year oi
the U. S. Supreme Court in the Maple
Flooring and Cement cases still
stand unaffected by subsequent &C
ton of the Department of Justice as
the clearest codes ever handed dowr
by the judicial tribunal outlining thu
rights of trade associations. Stated
briefly, the distinction is that data as
to prices, production, stocks, ant
other vital business information ma!
be gathered collectively but the!
cannot be interpreted collectively.
Milford chronicle., 1926-09-03

Our blessings often come disguised,
Good resolutions tabled.
But troubles, not so highly priced,
Are always plainly labeled
A woman's tongue is sometimes
long enough to cut her throat.
The wailing man is never the
working man.
It isn't hard to find trouble if a
man goes on the hunt for it.
If everybody thought exactly alike
it would be no sign in the world
that their thinking is right.
He is no less a faithful friend who
divulges the secret that you could
not keep yourself.
He is infinitely better off who sits
in dungeon made by another, ra-
ther than in one made by his OWL
hands.
If you were to search for dark
ness with the sun you would never
find it. Nor can the good man al
ways find something wrong with his
neighbor.
There is no real life that is moi
free, and yet no man is free until
he can think and act for himself.
We know some saints who pray
and believe in His blessed keeping
and then make dive for the storm
cellar every time the shifting clouds
have a little fracas.
Just so long as two blades of grass
one taller than the other-spring
from the same seed, that long will
there be men who tower above their
fellows.
Milford chronicle., 1926-09-03
PUBLIC SALE
OF VALUABLE
PERSONAL PROPERTY
Thursday, September g, 1926,
AT LINCOLN

The household goods of Mrs. S. c.
Kirby will be offered for sale at her
home in Lincoln City:
parior suit, sideboard, 1 rug 9 #.
by IL it. 25 yards of rag carpet. Mat
ting. Small rugs. 1 sitting room stove.
cook stove. sewing machine. Several
rockers. Lamps. Clocks. 1 bed room
suit. 2 iron bedsteads. 2 feather beds.
Pillows, sheets, quilts and blankets.
Window shades. Linoleum. 1 drOp-leaf
table. Stands. cane chairs. Kitchen
cabinet. lounge. Dishes. Cans. Canned
fruit. Pots and pans. Pile of wood.
Rakes and hoes, and many other arti-
cles too numerous to mention. Also the
house and lot will be offered for sale.
TERMS:-CASH.
A. NJ. MORGAN.
J. B. Dickerson & Son, Auctioneers.
Z. G. Reed, Clerk. 1tp
Milford chronicle., 1926-09-03
LARD 161sc LIB.

Jelly glasses S2c doz. Jar rubbers,
best quality, &c doz. Jar tops for Ma
son fruit jars, 23c doz. Certo, 28c
bottle. Sealing wax sc stick. Puffed
wheat 12c. Puffed rice 15c. KelIoggs
fakes and bran, 10c. Milk crackers,
15c h., lbs. of fig bars for 25c. At
Stewards of course. 1t
Milford chronicle., 1926-09-03
TARIFF AND THE FARM

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TARIFF AND THE FARM
Evidently the tariff on products
from the farm and any proposed in
crease of the same are not entirely
popular with all those persons and
organizations which pretend to have
a deep sympathy with the farmer.
Benjamin C. Marsh, executive sec
retary of the Peoples Reconstruc-
ton League, an organization which
is always hostile to the protection
of American industries, recently is
sued a broadside in which, among
other things, he said:
Tariff on wheat, oats, corn and
also on wool, sugar and butter is
subsidy to owners Of farm lands,
paid by the consumers of America,
which Injuries the actual producing
farmer almost as much as it does
the consumer. 1t tends to another
orgy of speculation in farm lands
like that of 1916 or 1920" ..
1t is a little difficult to follow Mr..
Marsh in all his statements, but
he evidently fears that an in
creased tariff on farm products will
induce another era. Of Speculation
in farm lands" Just now farm lands
are not selling very easily. Now if
we are to have speculation and a
rising tide in the value of farming
lands it will be necessary first for
the farmers to get higher prices for
their products and to make more
money. For it is profitable farming
above all else which tends to in
crease the value of farm lands. And
if, as Mr.. Marsh states, the tariff on
farm products tends to increase the
price of land it will do this of course
for the reason that the farmers are
making money. Mr.. Marsh pretty
well proves the case of the protec-
tionists without going any further.
What the farmers want is higher
prices and more profits on their
products, with the subquent stiffen-
ing nthe price of land. They prefer
this to any theoretical program
which promises to do something for
the producing farmer" but fails to
land anywhere. What is hurting the
farmer more than all else is the de-
pressed price of farm lands, which
has reduced his credit and prevents
those who have borrowed too heav-
lily from selling off some of their land
and thus making their financial po-
sition safe. Farmers will surely not
"view with alarm" Mr.. Marsh's pre-
diction of rising land prices as a re-
suit of the protective tariff.
Mr.. Marsh deplores the fact that
third of the farms are operated by
tenant farmers, and if Mr.. Marsh
will interview few of them he will
find that the owners of tenant farms
during the past few years have been
just as sorry about it as he can pos
sibly be, since they have been hold
ing these farms without much profit
to themselves. If there has been any
increase in land tenancy it has moi
been due to the tariff but to the
fact that every year a new supply
of farmers moves to town.
Milford chronicle., 1926-09-03
CARD OF THANKS

I wish to thank all those who so
kindly helped in any way during the
death of my father, also for the for
al offerings. George w. McKnatt. 1tp