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Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1927-11-11
TAX REDUCTION, TOO

President Coolidge's congression-
al program calls for tax reduction
as well as debt reduction. Recently
it was intimated that his interest in
debt reduction, but from the White
House a definite intimation went
forth that he was also hoping for a
saving in taxes. His success in
either or both of the fields, how
ever, will depend absolutely on the
willingness of the congressman to
curb their own desires for expendi-
lures out of the public funds.
There is a fine, patriotic Obligat-
ion resting upon all of us to sustain
the President so that the reduction
of the debt can be made as large as
possible. Debt reduction, it must
be remembered, means permanent
tax reduction! Last year the tax
payers paid seven hundred and
ninety million dollars interest on
the public debt. By reason of last
years debt reduction, the taxpayers
have been relieved of forty million
dollars worth of interest charges
which is permanent saving.
Whether money is borrowed by an
individual or a nation, the borrower
has to pay the price and get rid of
the burden is by disposing of the
original debt.
Our public debt is still eighteen
and a half billion dollOrs, a stagger-
ing total even for a rich and pros
porous country.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1927-11-11
GIBLET GRAVY ALONE
REMAINS FROM
PILGRIM THANKSGIVING

Despite the reverence still held
for the first Thanksgiving and the
elaborate menu that is supposed to
have been presented to the Pilgrim
guests, about all it has left to pos
terity is giblet gravy.
There were many shortcomings
in the original feast" says Farm &
Fireside, reviewing the historic
event, but it left the gravy that
still remains one of the features of
every great Thanksgiving dinner.
THE original New England din
ner was far from those that have
been enjoyed since, from the begin
ming of the nineteenth century until
now. The oldest narratives of this
feast refer to five deer, gift from
the Indians, being served on huge
pewter platters. There were also
wild turkeys weighing from thirty
to forty pounds. Sungar was scarce
and honey, extracted from hollow
trees, was used for sweetening pur-
poses. Dried corn, secured from the
Indians, was made into cOrnbread,
enough of novelty to be most pop
ular.
Several napkins were given to
each person. And needed they were,
for forks were not in use. Trenchers
took the place of plates and two per-
sons ate from each one. Cups were
not in use. The Pilgrims had two or
three tankards. These were passed
around the table each person drink
ing his share in turn.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1927-11-11
OVERHEATED HOUSE A MENACE

Father has a new job again. He
must start right in stocking the old
furnace, or he may have to get up
and make the fires in the morning.
But just because you have plenty of
coal in the cellar or a good supply
of wood in the woodshed, don't keep
your houses too warm. Indoor tenn
peratures above 60 degrees are de-
finitely harmful even where the ex-
cess is only a matter of a few de-
grees, says DR.. C. E. Dinslow, of the
Philadelphia department of public
health. Even slight excess tenn
peratures cause an increase in res
piration and heart heat, and fall
in blood pressure. The high pneu-
monia rate in winter is due largely
to the fact that people keep their
houses too hot. The proper house,
hold temperature is between GA and
6S degrees F. When you keep your
house temperature within these
bounds it is a healthful atmosphere.
Many people become so accustomed
to excessive temperatures that they
feel chilly when in a natural or nor
NAL atmosphere. If the household
temperature is kept within the hy-
gienic limit the humidity will take
care of itself. The excessive dryness
Of overheated. air accounts for the
undue sensitiveness Of the body to
chillness.
The Pathfinder.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1927-11-11
AGE OF LNDISCRETION
FIFTY, SAYS FAMOUS
WOMAN WRITER

Its the first fifty years of wo-
mans life that are hardest; after
that she is Free" declared Virginia
Terhune Van de Water in an article
for The American Magazine on "The
Age of Indiscretion" for women, up
on the occasion of her latest after
ffty-five birthday.
For the first fifty years of a wo-
mans life she can seldom do as she
chooses" continues the authOress.
"She must adhere in those days to
certain conventions. If she is not
afraid of getting herself talked
about her family may object to her
doing so. 1t may cast reflections up
on them if she does imprudent and
unconventional things.
Another of the cOmpensatiOns
for age 1 have in mind is that peO-
pie cOnfide in us things they would
never confide in younger friends.
Men will tell the mature woman of
their love affairs; girls will talk of
their problems. One nearing sixty
cannot be jealous of youth unless
one be a fool. Moreover the woman
of that age can give excellent adj
vice. 1t will not be always followed
but it is rather fun to give it. Again
one has all the joy of looking on and
none of the responsibility.
81, for one, refuse to fold myself
up and tuck myself away in the old
age corner. 1 am much too afraid
that something agreeably interest
ing will happen and will not be in
il, ,"
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1927-11-11
A HEAVY CALENDAR

The Federal Trade Commission at
Washington is one of those unhappy
semi-eXecutive bodies which appar-
entity is doomed to be blamed equal
ly for what it does and for what it
fails to do. On one side certain
business groups are in a continual
state of indignation over what they
style as the Paul Pry activities of
the organization, while again a
steady roar of compliment can be
heard from those who argue that
the Commission ignores certain is
sues which it should investigate
and of course find guilty without
further delay.
Inasmuch as the Commission at
the present time is engaged on
nine major investigations, the re-
suits of which it hopes to present
to Congress at it's opening in
December it most certainly cannot
be charged with being dilitory nor
negligent in its activities. It is now
engaged in probing into the petrol
cum electric power industry, sales
price fixing associations, the bread
and flour industry, cooperative as
sociations, stock dividends, cotton
seed combinations, and the pur-
chase of steel stock by du Pont and
General Motors.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1927-11-11
WHAT EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW

A one-crop system of farming ulti-
mately leads to disaster, whereas
diversification and crop rotation
lead to well-organized and profit
able farming.
Soil productiveness can best be
maintained when intertilled, small
grain and leguminous or grass crops
are grown in the order named and
in recurring succession on the same
land.
The use of airplanes, power-boats.
sailboats, and other floating devices
for the purpose of concentrating,
rallying or stirring up migratory
waterfowl to improve shooting con-
ditions has been prohibited by a
Federal regulation.
There have been a few more farm
hands this year than there have
been jobs for them. Farm wages
are now IS per cent higher than
they were before the war, but they
are still well below relative industr-
ial wages. The increased supply of
farm hands this year is attributed
to lower volume of industrial en-
plOyment.
The Department of Agriculture
has kept a record of average month
ly farm prices of eggs from 1910 to
1924 and finds that the price is low
est in the month of April, remains
fairly steady until July, and then
begins to increase until December,
although through January the price
still remains at a fairly good figure.
From August to January, therefore,
is the season of highest prices, and
if egg production is good during
that period profits in egg production
are increased greatly. Unfortunate
ly, however, on most farms and on
many commercial plants, it is dur
ing the fall and early winter months
that the old hens are in the process
of moulting and pullets have not
yet commenced to lay. Thousands
of farmers lose large sums of money
simply because they do not hatch
their pullets early enough so they
will begin laying in time for the
high prices during the fall and win
ter months. They fail to realize
that pullets are almost the only
source of eggs at that time of the
year, because hens are sure to mott,
and they may take from 80 to 80
days to go through the complete
mott.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1927-11-11
School launches TASTE Better Win
REPUBLICAN CHIEFS GATHER

The Republican Party as whole
had reason to feel a considerable
sense of pride and satisfaction in
its representative who assembled
in Washington for informal confer
ences and discussions with Chair
man Butler. They were all pOliti-
cians-which is a fine, honest word,
not at all deserving of the interpre-
tations which lately have been put
upon it.
The chairman, Mr.. Butler, repre-
sents a service of over forty years
in the party ranks, with a career
which began as member of a local
ward committee. and was carried on
through various stages until eli
NAKED with the Craftsmanship of the
national committee. Close beside
him was John T. Adams, of Dubu-
que, Iowa, a former chairman of
the national committee, the sane
ness of whose political vision gain
ed through an almost equally long
period of hard service, has made
him wise counsellor in victory as
well as defeat.
A third striking figure was Vice
Chairan. Charles D. Hilles, national
comitteeman of the State of New
York, a man whose business affairs
require the parceling of his day in
to minute fragments, but who for
years has always put his personal
interests aside at the call of the
party
Ac fO,. uodoae tho ,,o4;oooI oo,,,
mittee treasurer, the aptest thing
ever said in regard to him was
written by Clinton Gilbert, a Wash
ingtOn newspaperman, who said
that Hodges raised funds for a cam
paign in the same spirit and with
the same dignity that other men
employ when creating the financial
foundation for cathedral, and Roy
o. West of Illinois, the secretary,
has achieved as well his post of dis
tinction.
Joseph B. Healing of Indiana and
David w. Mulvane of Kansas, stood
out, as they have always stood forth
in every party council, as men to
whom the future of the nation as
well as the party has always stood
first, and whose decisions and act
ions have never been affected by
any selfish personal considerations.
The whole thing was happily
climaxed by breakfast with the
President at which, in addition to
those named, were DR.. Clements of
Missouri, who for forty years as
man and boy has worked for and
with the party; Bascom Slemp Of
Virginia, former secretary to Pre-
sident Coolidge; Senator Pepper of
Pennsylvania, Senator Ernst of
Kentucky, George w. Bean of Flori-
da, William P. Jackson of Maryland,
Virgil Highland of West Virginia,
Joseph w. Tolbert of South Caro-
lima, ]. Henry Roraback of Connect
icut, E. F. Colladay, national COM
mitteeman for the District of Co
lumbia; Charles A. Rawson of Iowa
and Hamilton F. Kean of New Jer-
sey.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1927-11-11
THIRD OF FIRE LOSS
SUFFERED BY FARMS

Adequate farm water supply
system form a class of fire protect
ion. Water tanks placed atop well
constructed silos provide a reliable
supply of water under pressure with
which to fight fires.
The principal causes of farm
fires, according to the department of
agriculture figures, are lighting, de-
fective chimneys, careless smokers,
combustible roofs, spontaneous,
combustion, carless use of gasoline
and kerosene and faculty electrical
wiring or appliances. All but the
first of these can be completely
controlled; lightning itself can be
rendered practically harmless.
The use of firesafe construction in
homes, barns and storage houses is
recommended by fire prevention
authorities. Standardization of such
firesafe roofing tile has made it pos
sible, at small expense, to construct
a building which will resist fire
from any source.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1927-11-11
loves Cross Roads

Mr.. and Mrs. B. M. Jones were
given a pleasant surprise on Tues
day evening by the postmaster, as
sistant postmaster and R. F. D. car
riers of frankfort P. O., in honor
of Mr.. Jones' 9th birthday, also
25 years as rural carrier. Those
present were: Postmaster and Mrs.
Esham and son, and mother, Mrs.
Harrison, assistant Postmaster and
Mrs. Russell Jones, Mr.. and Mrs.
E. w. Bryan, Mr.. and Mrs. VIM.
Gum, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Steele,
Mr.. and Mrs. George Hudson and
children, Mr.. and Mrs. Isaac West
and children, Miss Ethel West, Mr.
and Mrs. Edgar Jones and children,
Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Jones and child
rem. A pleasant. evening was spent
after which ice cream and cake was
served in abundance. The guests
departed late after thanking Mr..
and Mrs. Jones for the pleasant
time and wishing many more happy
birthdays.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1927-11-11
GIRLS OF is NEED
ADVICE IN FASHIONS
AS ELDERS DO

Girls of sixteen and even ten
years are distinct types and they
need advice and separate cOnsidera-
ton just as their elders do. This is
the theory upon which Nine. Jeanne
Lanvin, Paris couturiere, has built
up her extensive clientele and her
attention to the vanities of the
younger girls were well repaid
when her studios were thronged
with fashionable misses for her fall
showing.
Simplicity is naturally the first
thing to consider in dressing the
young girl" Nine. Lanvin told Flor
ence Burchard, representative of the
Woman's Home Companion, when
she found the unusual number of
girls viewing the collection. THE
sixteen year old girls figure is
straight and undevelOped," continu-
ed the couturiere, "and the lines of
the dress must be straight also.
There must be no intricacies of cut,
no heavy, elaborate fabrics and no
fantastic trimmings. COlOrs too,
must be considered. One does not
choose heavy cOlOrs nor sharp. so
phisticated color combinations for
the young girl"
Nine. Lanvin favors a touch of
delicate embroidery for trimming
and the jumper style of blouse with
pleated skirts in her favOrite cos
tune, varied, of course in material
and trimmings. The bOlerO too, long
or short, according to the figure,
was found in her latest collection.
Many showed soft, full sleeves gath
cred into small cuffs and had simple
necklines, small turnover collars
being featured for street wear.
81 prefer fine Isle rather than silk
stockings for wooden frOcks," said
Nine. Lanvin Silk may be worn
for evening but they should be hea-
Wy silk. Sheer silk hose are in bad
taste for young girls. The girl of
this age must avoid all sophistica-
ton in cut, color and trimming of
her Clothes"
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1927-11-11
DOVER OPENS STANDARD
TRAINING SCHOOL

The Board of Managers for the
Dover Standard Training School
met in Dover Wesley M. E. Church,
Friday morning, for the purpose of
setting up the Dover Standard
Training School. 1t was decided
to hold the school this year at the
Wesley M. E. Church on Monday
nights, January 80 to March 5, in
elusive.
This school is an Interdenomina-
tionaI School and the Rev. F. A.
LindhOrst, director of religious edu-
cation for the Wilmington Confer
ence, will serve as dean. Last year
the school registered 1872. The
board fully expects this number to
be registered this year, and hope
that many more will be added.
Five courses will be offered in
the school. In all probability they
will be as follows: New NTesta-
ment," 1.-THE Teaching Work of the
Church." Primary Materials and
Methods" Junior Administration"
and "Adolescent Worship" The in
structors for each of these courses
will be announced as soon as ar
rangements can be made with indi-
viduals to teach.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1927-11-11
GEORGETOWN NJ. E. CIRCUIT
ITEMS

Services for Sunday, November 10
Sunday school and preaching in
the morning at Sand Hill, and Sun
day school and preaching at St.
Johns in the afternoon, and the
evangelistic services will be contin-
ed at st. Johns at night, beginning
at 1880. With the encouraging re-
suits of the previous week as an in
centive, it is likely the revival eff
fort will continue at st. Johns each
night except Saturday for the third
week, namely the week of Novem-
Der Is. Third quarterly conference
was held at the parsonage Saturday
afternoon, November 5, presided Ov-
er by District Superintendent, DR..
w. E. Gunby, who also preached the
following Sunday morning at COkes-
bury and in the afternoon at Beth
esda, which meetings were well at
tended.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1927-11-11
WILL HOLD TEACHERS
EXAMINATIONS AT DOVER
December and 10 Set As Dates on
Which Examinations May BE
Taken

The State Board of Education has
announced that examinations will be
held for persons desiring Teachers
Certificates on Saturdays, December
3rd and 10th. They will be conduct
ed at the Dover High School build
ing and the Dover colored school.
The schedule for December 3rd fol-
lows! For regular subjects, Morn
ing, arithmetic, handwriting, SPELL
ing, Delaware history. Afternoon: U.
S. history, geography, music, theory
and practice of teaching.
December 10th: Morning, Reading,
oral and written English, elementary
science, community civics. Afternoon
Drawing, hygiene and sanitation,
physical traininfi, handwOrk.
Examinations will be held the
same days for special subjects as
follows: December 3rd, morning
Educational measurements, public
school music, child psychology,
rhetoric and composition, American
history and civics. Afternoon Uni
ted States history, drawing and in
dustrial arts, hygiene and SANTA
ton, English and American liteTa-
ture, child study.
December 10th, mOrning-Physical
education and supervision Of play,
teaching of geography and elemen-
tary science, biology, teaching of
arithmetic, psychology, special
methods in teaching agriculture. At
ternoon, teaching of English, teach
ing of history and civics, English
composition, elementary school
methods.
All examinations will begin at 8
O'Clock in the morning and close at
4 o'clock in the afternoon.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1927-11-11
DIG DAHLIA ROOTS
BY NOVEMBER /
Growers Know Waiting After That
Date Means Taking Big Risk

I'm harvesting dahlia tubers, ex-
perienced growers usually leave
their clumps in the soil until about
the first of November" avs c. H.
COnnOrs, professor of Horticulture at
the College of Agriculture, Rutgers
University. He says, however, that
after the first of November a great
risk is taken, for the ground may
freeze to a considerable depth and
kill the entire crop
The usual method followed in dig
ging dahlia clumps, explains Prof.
ConnOrs, is to have two spades or
spading forks. These are driven into
the ground to their full depth at a
distance of eight or ten inches from
the stalk and on opposite sides of
the plant. If two men are available
for the work, both should lift at the
same time and thus cause the clump
to emrge from the ground with little
or no loss from broken tubers. One
person can do the job, however, by
pressing one fork with his hand and
the other with his foot.
There is a great difference of Opin-
ion among dahlia growers as to just
how the clump should be handled
after digging. Probably the most
popular practice is to shake off
some of the soil from the clump and
place it in an open shed for a week
or so, after which it can be stored
for the winter. Some growers re-
move all of the soil at once, and
when the clump has properly dried
it is then stored away in sand for
the winter 1t is important that each
clump be properly labeled immedi-
ately after it has been removed
from the ground.
1t is vital that the stem be thor
oughly dried before the clumps are
stored. In case the stem is over an
inch in diameter, it is well to split
the clump and stem into two or
three parts in order that the soft
hollow part of the stem is exposed
to the air and all excess moisture
dried out. Attention to this will pre-
vent much loss from "black rot" or
Grown rot" asserts Prof. Connors.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1927-11-11
Sunshine Valley
Near Oakley

Wedding bells ring quite often
This time they rang for Miss Ber-
tina Savage, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank Savage, of near Bridge
vile, who became the bride of Will
liam Murphy, of Lincoln, on Satur-
day evening, October goth. They
will reside at Lincoln. We wish
them many happy and prosperous
years of married life.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Short, Jr.,
and son spent Sunday with his par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. William Short,
Sr.
Mrs. Allen Buckley had the mis-
fortune of cutting her foot last
week.
Several from here attended the
revival services at Chaplain's Chapel
on Sunday evening.
Sunday School at Tatman's Sun
day at 2.15 p. m.
Coleman Webb and John Wolfe
spent part of last week in Marcus
Hook, Pa.
Lester Morgan spent the weekend
with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. C. w,
Morgan.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1927-11-11
Rehoboth Beach

We are having fine weather for
the time of the year. People are
busy getting out their potatoes.
Mr.. Green is better.
Mrs. John Dick has been visiting
her mother
Mrs. Burton, of Rehoboth, has
been on an extended visit to Phila-
delphia, Wilmington to see her rela-
tives. She also visited in New
Jersey to see her granddaughter,
Mrs. Crock.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1927-11-11
RED, SORE EYES

"My eyes were so sore, red and
infiamed, 1 could hardly stand the
light. LAVOPTIK helped them. -
Mrs. S. Gould.
LAVOPTIK is mild and very
soothing. 1t helps eye pains and in
fiamation surprisingly quick. Makes
tired and weak eyes feel strong and
fresh. Eye cup free. E. H. Bratten,
Druggist, II N. Walnut st.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1927-11-11
FOOD FLAVOR TICKLE,
BUT ICE WILL PRESERVE IT

Flavor in food, like perfume, is
precious, elusive and expensive,
Strawberries are good food; so are
potatoes. But, relatively strawber-
ries are expensive and potatoes
cheap because one has a more APP
pealing flavor than the other, says
DR.. Martha Manning, home refrig-
Grafton expert.
While food is being held in the
kitchen, pending consumption, re-
frigeratiOn is necessary to preserve
this quickly perishable quality of
food flavor. Ice does much more
than keep food merely cold and
pure-it protects the different quail
ties which make for deliciOusness
in food, crispness, moisture, tender
ness and flavor. This is why it
really is necessary to use ice the
year round-to prevent our meats
from becoming dry and tasteless, to
keep cheese from losing its velvety
texture, carrots and other green
vegetables from shrinking and go
ing fiat, greens from whiting and
fruits from growing dry shrunken.
The current of moist air direct
from the ice cake, passes in a con-
slant cycle through the food COM
partments collecting and carrying
away excess Odors to the ice cake,
where they settle on the film of
water. on the ice cake and are car
ried down the drain. Ice offers the
natural and ideal way of chilling
food, providing cold enough to stop
spoilage, and moisture enough to
keep food from drying out when
subjected to cold air. Storage plants
often resort to artificial means of
keeping air moist.
Finely favored food makes the
cooks task an easier one, for the
best cook in the world cannot
achieve perfect results with raw
materials from which the blbom of
DarfapfiOn has pOOn
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1927-11-11
Donovan's
(Near Ellendale.)

Mr.. Chas. Donovan had the mis-
fortune to break leg on Wednes-
day while in the woods.
Mrs. Larey Cordrey visited Mr..
and Mrs. Jessie Miller on Sunday.
The crop of potatoes in this sec
ton, which is very large, is about
gathered in.
The November meeting of the
Community Association will be held
on Wednesday evening, November
%. No admission. Everybody well
come.