Milford chronicle., 1926-02-19
MILFORD, FRIDAY, FEB. 10, 1926

election year mulIlply udlly' "NN
those who are searching for plat
form clauses, and party abuse are
beginning to be heard. AS yet the
Democratic party has no apparent
set policy by which to conduct the
campaign which will be started a
few months hence. Political wise
acres are harping on the tariff, the
League of Nations and other topics,
hoping thereby to formulate some
line of action which might meet the
popular fancy. Some of the Demo-
cratic newspapers are indirectly try
ing to resurrect dead issues, which
while at their height proved useless
to the party for political purposes.
The Every Evening, of Wilmington,
and Delaware's only Democratic
evening newspaper, seemingly has
joined forces with those newspapers.
Speaking editorially last Friday eV-
ening under the caption Coolidge
On Memorial Coin" the editorial
writer of the Every Evening takes
issue with those planning the coin
age of 100000 half dollar memorial
coins bearing the portrait of Presi-
dent Coolidge as a part of the OBJ
servance of the 150th anniversary of
the signing of the Declaration of In
dependence. The Every Evening
writer may, or may not, be right in
his assumption that the minting OF
such coins is needless, and that a
mistake may be made by using the
likeness of our President thereon.
His opinion may be well founded
but mis- line of reasoning shows
plainly the search for some little
thing by which political capital may
be made, for he takes a nasty little
dig in the concluding paragraph of
his editorial when he says, admin
istration officials probably would
turn deaf ears to the suggestion that
the one man whose portrait should
appear on the memorial coin is
Thomas Jefferson; and, if Jeffer-
sons portrait is not used, then the
only other suitable thing to do-if |
the Administration is bent upon
minting memorial coins-is to place |
upon the coin a clear cut picture of
a Teapot-and make it look as much
like Grecian urn as possible"
This effort to resurrect the Teapot
Dome controversy is pathethic. The
Teapot was kept on the political
Goals constantly by the Democratic
newspapers during the last cam
paign. It boiled ceaselessly for
months; until finally on election
day it steamed over and enveloped
the Democratic party to the tune of
100000 majority. Surely the
Every Evening editorial writer is
entering the realms of the practical
jokester when he mentions the Tea
pot, for this issue is one which the
Republicans have convincingly met
and it is ancient history. But an
issue must be had-and the search
will continue.
SeS
LANCASTER COUNTY, PENN
SYLVANIA has long borne the rep
utation of being the wealthiest coun-
ty per capita in the United States.
Its excellent farming land, and thlif-
ty citizens have brought about a
condition wherein the bank deposits
have reached large figures. It was
with much surprise, then, that the
editors of the Del-Mar-Va Peninsula !
learned some startling facts about /
Sussex County, Delaware. At the t
recent meeting of the Del-Mar-Va {
Press Association, Mr.. Gerrish Cas- I
soway, manager Of the Wilmington t
Chamber of Commerce, in the course
If his address to the newspaper men '
made the statement to the effect t
hat the bank deposits in Sussex O
county are greater per capita than G
ire those Of Lancaster County, a
This statement, COM C
ng from Mr.. Gassaway, is worthy Fl
# respect and bears out the claims t
# those now fostering the develop a
nent of the Del-Mar-Va Peninsula, o
through a comprehensive plan of 1
the advantages of our b
,eninsula to the world. It is said, f
nd truthfully so, that the climate v
nd agricultural advantages Of Del d
ware and the Eastern shore Of S
Maryland and Virginia are better s
han t4lose Of any other section Of
he world. We, in Sussex County,
ave been sitting contentedly, earn
ng our daily bread and living our Il
ives in Gods paradise-little real S
zing that each and every one of us c
5 contributing to the prosperity of t
county whose bank deposits are a
reater per capita than are those Of Il
be so-called "wealthiest county in C
be United States" Food for thought G.
, contained within the statement Of Il
Ir. Gassaway. We, in Sussex, are Il
mons the blessed of the earth. 81