Milford chronicle., 1927-09-23

selves for their own neglect, and
they let things drift on their proper
ties.
Now if you could go into some
neighborhood in any town which had
thus become decadent, and persuade
those people to clean up, paint up,
remove rubbish, NOW their lawns,
and plant shrubs and flowers, prob
ably real estate values on that street
would advance rs per cent or more.
Where formerly people had to sacri-
flee to sell it, now it would be in de-
mand.
The family that holds back values
by it's neglect does not show the
spirit of modern neighborliness.
Smiles and friendly talk over the
back yard fence are fine thing, and
they help make people contented in
their location. But elbow grease
applied to hoe, rake, mower, and
wateringpot excites quite as much
applause in these times.
So@
THE NEW SCHOOL YEAR
Here is a thought for parents and
children, to begin the school year
with.
The American people no doubt
chase money too hard. They often
decline to support good causes ade-
quately. But they do spend lot of
money on their schools.
You can get in most communities
more money for schools for the chill
dren, than for the roads over which
we drive our cars and haul our pro-
ducts, or for the police that protect
our lives, or for the firemen who
save our buildings.
Are the children cooperating with
all this money spent for their ben
eft alone?
When one sees many of them put
ting their first energy into football
and dancing, one has doubts.
Now listen, boys and girls of Mil
ford especially and Kent and Sussex
counties, suppose that during this
school year you take hold of your
books with the same energy with
which you take hold of your dane
ing and football. You could do in six
or seven years the work that now
ordinarily takes eight, or in 10 years
the work that takes II.
This would save a lot of money.
Many more of you could go to high
schools and colleges. You would all
become self supporting, and have
your own money, and the fun and
comforts that you want, at an ear
lier date. 1t will give you quicker
start in the world, help you to get
on faster. Think it over youngsters!
Se@
ADVERTISING AIDS ALL
Newspaper advertising and the
automobile have combined to bring
city shops to the very door of the
farm house and the suburban home.
Each day the newspapers bring a
complete quotation of what can be
bought, where it can be purchased
and the prices at which it can be
purchased. The sale is actually
made through the advertising col
umns of the newspaper. A visit to
the store next day by automobile
completes the exchange of money
for merchandise.
How much more convenient is
this contrivance of modern COM
mercial and industrial genius to the
inefficient method of our rural
forebears who knew only their per-
2OA~A hCCuo' Will Ill6ll Iu6T6 Was
no alternate for the slow, tedious
and disappointing expedient of
going to town by wagon or cart and
trusting to diligence and a stout
pair of shoes to seek out the shop
which sold that which they were in
need of and which sold it at an ac-
ceptable price, if not at the lowest
price.
The merchant in the cities and
towns need not have debated over
the inroads of the mail order houses
before the day of the automobile
and of persistent newspaper adver-
Using. The mail order houses
provided the rural and suburban
buyer with store-if only on paper
in which to plan his buying.
Newspaper advertising is now Of
fering the service formerly offered
Jy the catalogs of the mail order
houses but in addition is furnishing
his service daily instead of twice
yearly, is giving the buyer the
choice prices and goods of all mer- |
chants not those of one, and is
valuable "a hour service
n assisting the public to determine
is wants.
SeS
SOME OF OUR PEOPLE can face
most any danger except a subscrip-
lion paper for some good cause here