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Milford chronicle., 1927-03-04

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lax to support a school far
what the children now have?
Can not stop the public school
I'm, any more than the ignorant
position could stop the building
the boulevard.
Milford chronicle., 1927-03-04
MILFORD W. c. Il. q.

The regular meeting of the w. c..
T. U. will be held at the home of
Mrs. Clara Deputy, 2O3 East Front
street, Tuesday evening, March 9Th
at 1880 O'Clock. All the members are
reminded that we expect them to be
present if possible. Text word BE
lieye."
Milford chronicle., 1927-03-04
EXECUTRIX'S NOTICE

As executrix of the estate of Anna
S. Evans, hereby notify all persons
having bills against or owing same
to present them for settlement by
April 1st, 1927.
EDITH e. RICHARDSON,
m4-3t Executrix.
Milford chronicle., 1927-03-04
SUNSHINE SOCIETY

The Alden Branch of the Sunshine
Society of Milford will meet with
Mrs. R. C. Hall on South Walnut
street on this Friday afternoon at
2s30 o'clock.
Milford chronicle., 1927-03-04
@oS

THE bill to pay jurors and wit
nesses five dollars for each day they
are in attendance at all court ses-
sions, an addition to the mileage, is
only fair recompense for the ser
vice given. 1t is sacrifice to give
the time by most men and women,
who serve as jurors or witnesses in
courts, and the five dollars per day
lis certainly modest repayment Of
'avel and hotel bills; no man or
oman with ability sufficient to
rive in either capacity, will seek
at kind of service even for the
re dollar pay attached.
Milford chronicle., 1927-03-04
MILFORD, FRIDAY. MARCH 4, 1927

MILF UNI MOD4 1AfL T. Il new
school building for their primary
and grammar grades, which are now
entirely OutgrOwn from the old
school rooms built nearly a half
century ago. Already three rooms in
the Masonic Building are used, with
three portable school rooms loaned
originally by the service citizens of
Delaware, Overcrowded in what was
once the yard around the main
building. An old abandoned dwelling
house is. also used for the class
yOom. The play opportunity for chill
iren is almost exclusively confined
Ito the New Community Building; the
use of which is rented for athletic
work. The fact is now facing the
Board of Education, that more rooms
must be rented for the next school
year, and where to find rooms that
can be even partially fixed to use
for school work, is the largest job
of all. 1t is now almost a certainty,
that next fall the children in most
all of the lower grades will have to
be placed on half-time each school
day; in other words, the children
will get only half time schooling
. each year. This situation is UP to
the people of Milford to solve. The
members of the local Board of Ed
catiOn suggested a building and
bowed the people a plan for a
lilding TO meet this situation; but,
people voted the proposition
pwn by vote of three to one. Now |
ere is not any effort, so far as is
known, to shave the children pro-
vided with school facilities in Mil
ford, on the part Of those who form
ed that majority last Spring, against
a school building. It is easy to OBJ
struct and destroy school improve
ment; but the children are entitled
TO consideration.
As an advocate Of proper school
facilities for the children of Milford,
we ask of the men and women who
any effort to have proper
school provided, to at once make
move to remedy the situation.
nust do this, or stand guilty of
late and willful desire and
to deprive the children of I
ton in the public schools of {
Anot turn away the sources
Nupport of the public I
ecial Districts, are {
ausing a special tax {
all property in Mil /
your own children. t
ing for the objectors /
er get at it now, for 1
citing very short for 6
re you desirious of paying +
AK to support a school far 1
what the children now have? t
tan not stop the public school v
IN, any more than the ignorant t
position could stop the building
the boulevard. a
Milford chronicle., 1927-03-04
EeS

OCCASIONALLY there are ter
e losses of life, because fire,
lbined with insufficient means of
ape from school buildings, which
pped the children like rats in
The thought is never expressed
public that the cause for these
tsOrs, is the careless lack of in
est for the public schools by the
rents and taxpayers. Yet that is
actly the truth, and the fathers
mothers are potentially murders
the children. If a church burns |
N, the good people with the as
ance of some of those who want !
Reir conscience and gain /
rom a consciousness of
Qrm their public duty,
rebuild the build
only a few Of
" interested;
ht. Yet, when
which all the
terested, needs
is instant balk-
will have to pay
Ich they and their
We for use in the
Just say "Tax" to
IAN or woman, and
/ shrivels and shrinks;
THAT the money is to be
pr.
Milford chronicle., 1927-03-04
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The Washington times., 1927-10-10
Hawks WIN
OPENER

Coach Jack Hegarty's champion
Mohawk gridders came through
with a slashing 1913 victory over
the powerful Reina Mercedes eleven
yesterday afternoon at the Ameri-
can League Park. The Hawks held
a 19-to-0 command at the end OF
the first-half. but the Sailors
started the second half with a prac-
tically new lineup and almost over
hauled the Indians.
Sam Ormes' Northern A. c. grid
ders upset the Washington Bar
racks Marines by a II to 0 count.
Coach Matt Heard'g hirelings were
outweighed by the Devil Dogs, but
this was trivial matter to the
Northerns.
The Renroc Chevy Chase game
was halted in the third period when
fans swarmed the playing area.
Neither team had scored.
The Northern Juniors handed the
Stantons an 1870 setback. The
Lnworths bumped the Marions,
Go.
The Apache-Aberdeen game was
postponed due to wet grounds.
The Washington times., 1927-10-10

Nebraska had counted as good as
won.
Harvard was decisively and
soundly beaten by a Purdue eleven
which outplayed and outsmarted the
Crimson. Only once did Harvard
have the ball beyond midfield. It
was outrushed almost three yards to
one. its line "as outcharged both
on defense and on attack and it,
backs were stopped virtually in their
tracks. Princeton, Cornell, Dart
mouth and Syracuse all had compare
lively easy games which ran true
to form, and the same was true of
the local elevens, Columbia and New
York University.
Pittsburgh swmaped West Vir-
ginia, 40 to 0, and LAFAYETTE
SmOthered Rutgers. Army and
Navy elevens were each scored
upon by Marquette and Drake.
respectively, but won by com.
Portable margins.
Notre Dame won again, as usual,
this time at the expense OF the Uni
versity of Detroit, coached by
Rockne's old side kick, Gus Dorais.
Chicago got out Of the doldrums to
defeat Indiana, and Northwestern
nosed out Utah in a close battle,
Is to s.
Ohio State, Minnesota, Wisconsin,
Iowa State and Illinois all per-
formed up to expectations. On the
Pacific coast. California defeated st.
Mary's. which had previously de.
feated Stanford.
The Washington times., 1927-10-10

chairs. Their scowling faces plain.
ly showed disgust.
1T Is too bloody! 1t is not fair~
declared His Excellency," and, to
the amazement Of the chagrined
American he and his cabinet hur-
riedly left the hall.
shall tell wherein we are lacking
in my next article.
Copyright. 1927, King Feature
Syndicate, Inc.
The Washington times., 1927-10-10

French women boast that they
can readily distinguish American
and English girls on the boulevards
Of Paris, by their large feet"
That bespeaks the life Of sports.
Among other nations where
sports are not as prevalent,
e the intense feeling Of national
ism often creeps into interna-
tiOnal matches, at times over
shadowing the rule of fair
play"
This is due, no doubt. to their
early stage of sport development"
A young friend of mine, recently
returned from small Balkan
state. relates an incident which
Illustrates this point. He was in
charge of athletics in a newly
esta blished American school. The
boys, ranging in age from s
Ito 16, were apt pupils and eager
to acquire American games. But
the American was handicapped by
age-old customs of the various
mountain tribes and clans, repre-
scented in the student body.
One of these traditions was, that
for member OF one clan to lay
his hand on the person of another
meant-"fight." And fight" meant
The Washington times., 1927-10-10
UNSMIRCHED RECORD

The best world series record is
tn. t of the Boston Red Sox, who
have taken part in five of the an.
nual classics without meeting de.
fpnf
The Washington times., 1927-10-10

Out of the. welter Of topsy turvy
scores the most unexpected happen.
ings were those at New Haven,
where Yale succumbed to a stout.
hearted Georgia team by a score of
~ to 10, and at Cambridge where
Harvard Is still quivering from the
shock of a 19.to-0 setback at the
hands of Purdue of the Western con-
ference.
Pennsylvania turned in one of the
biggest surprises of the day by up
setting the supposedly invincible
iron men" of Brown by score of
II to s.
But there were other reversaIs
quite as disastrous I'm their
sphere as these three major ND
heavals. Colgate, regarded as
one of the best teams of the
East, was defeated, 6 to 0, by
Virginia Polytechnic Institute.
Hugo BeZdelA's Penn State
eleven, always there or there
abOuts when the final accounts
of the season are audited, came
q crOpper by a score Of Is to
at the hands of Bucknell.
Maryland, conqueror of Yale last
season, fell before North Carolina
By single point in a 7-to-6 battle,
and even Alabama, than whom there
was none stronger a year ago
was held TO a 0-to-0 tise score by
Louisiana State down at Birming
ham.
In the West, Nebraska was turned
back by Missouri, 7 to s, in a game
The Washington times., 1927-10-10

capital, were invited to be the
Americans guest of honor.
All went well until in the
third round, a stiff, straight
punch in the nose spurted a
slight stream Of blood from one
Of the boxers.
Instantly, the prime minister and
his colleague jumped from their
The Washington times., 1927-10-10
LR PLAY' RULES AMERICAN AND BRITISH SPORTS
FORM REVERSA[S SHOCK
GRIDIRON FOLLOWERS
BY Malcolm Row

NEW YORK, Oct 10And the weak shall be strong
strong weak be too free paraphrang Of the old scpua
text P none the Tess sums up larry accurately the football ua
October Saturday the
when there the
Atlantic seabord and points far inland
The Washington times., 1927-10-10

shots" The rifle was carried in.
stead of the fountain pen. Fist
fights were unknown. The Amer
lean, however, made Roadway in
spite of these handicaps. To facili-
tate his efforts toward harmony,
he had shaved the heads of all
the students in order to do away
with the distinguishing hair.
lock" worn by each boy as a badge
of his tribe. And he purposelv
placed chieftains' sons Of age-old
enemy clans, in the same dormi-
tory.
Gradually. he made progress.
In boxing bouts. opponents be-
gan to refrain from enraged
scOwling, biting and kicking.
They soon learned to cease bat
Ting with the finish bell.
The young American was pleased
with the success of his efforts. He
had broken barriers that had existed
for centuries. Proud of his achieve
r1ent. he decided to put on a public
display of his pupils proves In
the manly art" The prime min.
lister, with his cabinet, and prom
inent townsfolk of the small eastern.
The Washington times., 1927-10-10
AGE-OLD CUSTOMS GRIP
MANY EUROPEAN
COUNTRIES
BY Gene Tunney
Worlds Heavyweight Champion

Olympic athletes rule that the only foreign nation
that has developed the full sporting spirit competitive sports
10 Great Britain
In England country win lose the principle of
"far play" prevails The maxim is "1et the wn"
1t of that these peoples
Sports widely
life young-boh and girls literally brought
The Washington times., 1927-10-10
TINY GRID TEAM

Students at st. Marys University
In Texas have a football team
which Is known as 1.-THE FaHRs"
and Is composed of players ayerag.
ing between 80 and 100 pounds.
The Washington times., 1927-10-10
BASEBALL BARGAINS

The Giants claim a doubleheader
record, having played "a of the
bargain bills last season. They
lost but two and split Is.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-07

ness of making living The solution for their diff
culties offered by the President is relatively simple
1t is, essentially to conne the activities of the Coy
eminent to preserving the peace, protecting private
property providing adequate protection against for
eign aggression and giving the benefit of the pro-
tective tariff to those who use the benefit.
That sounds like reasonable line of procedure.
Whether it is or not depends on the facts.
The President, for example, opposes the use of the
Governments machinery to directly lift the burden
on agriculture. He is willing give the farmers any
legislative advantages enjoyed by other producing
groups, including most any kind of protective tariff
The fact that farmers cannot the protective tariff
to any advantage while the manufacturers, for in
stance can. seems to the President to be beside tse
point. The Government is treating both groups
exactly alike-as he sees it.
If the President had been called on to referee the
famous fight between David and Goliath, on the
same logic he would have taken the slingshot away
from David and insisted both fighting with the
same weapons. This probably would have appealed
strongly to Goliath; not strongly to David
The paragraph of the message likely to be most
discussed is that containing a broadside attack on
SOMEBODY or other guilty of dsagreeng with Secre-
Iary Melons views on tax reduction. The consensus
appears to be that he had the United States Chamber
OF Commerce in mind
If special interests" he said "too often selfish
always uninformed Of the national needs as whole
with hired agents using their proposed benehciaries
as engines Of propaganda, permitted to influence
the withdrawal of their property from taxation we
shall have law that is unbalanced and unjust. bad
for business, bad for country probably resulting in
deficit, with disastrous financial consequences
This may suggest to some that the President is
now already to part company with those who have
been his greatest allies and admirers The message
as whole prevents this suggestion being taken too
seriously Never the President hrmer in his in
Sistence that the Government should engage in no
activity that offers possible profit to private enter
prise The Presidents dispute with the Chamber in
volved at most $175OOOOOO That is mere bagatelIe
compared to the fruits that may follow adherence to
his creed of private profit.
1t is the larger outlines Of the message. rather
than one heated paragraph, that is important. The
heads OF the Chamber Of Commerce will find plenty
of paragraphs to soothe their hurt feelings
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-07
Mr.. insult Thinks Again

Samuel insult now wants to tell all, according to
word from Chicago.
He is willing even eager to appear before the Reed
slush fund committee and tell who received the
money he contributed to the last Illinois campaign
So is his attorney, Daniel F. Schuyler.
insult and Schuyler didn't feel this away about the
matter last spring. but since then something has hap
pened.
Justice Hitz of the District Supreme Court has re-
minded the world that many man sits behind bars
because he followed the advice of his attorney and
has sentenced Harry F. Sinclair to three months in
common Jail for contempt of the United States
Senate
insult it would seem, has desire to join Sinclair
either before the bar of justice in a JAIL
and he's asking another chance
Mr.. insults new state of mind is an exceedingly
wholesome
1t proves wisdom of the Senate's action calling
Sinclair to account for his attempt to defy its au-
thority and the whole incident is encouraging dem
onstration that the legislative branch of government
can, if occasion demands protect the public interest
even without help from the executive branch.
These new-fangled marriages are supposed to last
five years. Well, that's some improvement.
mother-in-law is only a relative trouble
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-07
Jail for Usurers
BY MAX STERN

What Shakepseares lady lawyer said about the
late Mr.. Shyock's profession was mild compared to
a philippe against usury embodied in q brief filed
with the California Supreme Court by City Prosecutor
E. j. Lickley of Los Angeles in his case against one
A. H. Seccomb. Los Angeles money-lender.
The BRIEF filed in an appeal from a Judgment by
Judge Ruben Schmidt who refused an injunction
against Secconb, assais usury as "a cancerous
growth" and crime that has through history been
a factor disturbing to the peace.
Lickley calls Seconds contention that those in
jured from high interest rates may appeal to civil
courts "a grim and bitter JEST" and adds that the
Government, to protect those who not pro-
tect themselves should If necessary resort to jail
sentences to stop usliriouS practices.
I'm ancient Rome, writes Lickley quoting from
Chancellor Kent, "uslry, according to Tacitus was
discouraged in the early period of the republic by the
Twelve Tablets, which reduced interest to one per
cent It was later reduced to one-haf per cent and
finally abolished by the clamors of the people The
Roman law-giverS found by experience that unlimited
usury led to unlimited oppression and that the ex-
torop of the creditor and the resistance of the deb
tor were constantly agitating and disturbing the pub
lie peace"
Usury laws, Lickley argues, do not drive at the
right of contract because he borrowers necessities
deprive him of freedom in contracting and place him
at the mercy of the lender"
"Usury is cancerous growth on the body polite I"
concludes Lckley. ut thrives chiefly in times Of
economic distress when the social order of the State
can least stand the havoc that it wreaks. In the
financial debacles the snakelike trail of the
1.-THE tenets Of the faith of our Republic have
been buded at the little hresides of the lowest of
our people. Sentiment that has upheld the nation in
times of greatest stress has been born there,
these hearths through all American history our
Soldiery has sprung to defense Of country and VIC
torous. their greatest hope has been not laure nor
medals che ers but the right to home again
Organized usy buttressed by the ablest lawyers that
money can hire has met them at their doorstep"
Lckey Is leading crusade on usury in Cali
fornia and has begun on the wealthy money-lenders
of the famous Julian Petroleum Company scandal.
He is trying to send these to jail under the Cali
fornia law
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-07
Tammany Hall Sold

Tammany Hall has been sold
the building, not the organization
and the power behind the
throne of greater New York will
move from the teeming teens"
as one headline writer puts it,
ito the fashionable fifties."
Just another incident in the
colorful career of what is recog-
nized throughout this country as
the smoothest political machine
ever developed.
In these days, when Al Smith
has done so much to live down
the record of Tammany Hall and
Jimmy Walker so much to dress
it up, it may be unkind to recall
the name of Tweed, but if Tam
many Hall lost something through
association with his misconduct,
it could have lost more without
his robust leadership. However
he may have hurt it at the end,
he did lot to make it at the be-
ginning.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-07
The Presidents Message

If the radio reached Mars with the Presidents
message to Congress, there probably applause by
political economists on that planet.
little resentment perhaps, because the President
boosted bit Of our American virtues. And little
mystihcation when the President suggested we should
give up the merchant marine because it is losing
money and give up the Mississippi barge line because
it is making money little further mystifcation
when the President, announcing his discovery that
Muscle Shoals can be fertilizer plant, added
It should nevertheless, continue to be dedicated to
agriculture"
But on the whole the message well calculated
to appeal to rightthinking people, at least to right
thinking people far removed from the problems dis
clIssed.
On people who have to meet these problems at
close range the effect Of the message will depend
The success they are having in the day-to-day bush
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-07
He Will Not Run

The President last evening put at rest all
question as to what he meant when he said he
did not choose to run again in 1928.
His second statement should not have been
necessary. This newspaper never has SYM
pathized with efforts to shade the meaning Of
his famous Rapid City utterance. But taking
advantage of the Vermont yernacular in which
he couched that statement, politicians in many
parts Of the country have continued to talk Of
Mr.. Coolidge as possible nominee in 1928.
Their insistence has finally impelled the
President to announce his determination in
language that can not be misconstrued.
1t is fine thing he has DONE
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-07
SAYS:

President Coolidge has not
recommended what the National
Chamber of Commerce wanted,
what the farm bloc wanted, what
the advocates of flood control
wanted, what the big navy crowd
wanted or what the paciflsts
wanted, largely because it was
impossible.
Compromising in such a way as
satisfies none of the aggressive
groups, Calvin Coolidge has
struck a balance which will APP
peal to the average citizen as
rather fair.
This seems to be the Presidents
one outstanding ability.
Few men ever have occupied
the White House, who could
locate the middle of the road with
such precision and dexterity,
Calvin Coolidge simply will not
take an uncompromising position
with regard to any matter. That
is one reason why people look up
on him as a safe executive.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-07
Stands by Ideals

In spite Of all the grating and
rnal-administration for which
(Tammany has been held respon-
sible, it was not only organized
to promote some mighty fine
ideals, but has stood by them
with remarkable consistency.
The Society of Tammany came
about as protest against the
attempt of colonial aristocracy to
reinstate itself after the revolu-
ton.
AS originally conceived, Tam
many stood for popular suffrage,
for the laboring man, and for the
immigrant. 1t gradually became
a vehicle of expression not only
for the masses, but for Demo-
cratic, decentralized government,
taking up the anti-federalist
cause as a matter Of course, OPP
posing the alien and sedition laws
and supporting Thomas jefferson.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-07
Greet 40 Descendants

Surrounded by forty children,
grandchildren and great-grand-
children, Capt. and Mrs. Richard
Van Wicklen of Freeport, l.. l.,
celebrated their sixtieth wedding
anniversary on Monday. Miss
Mollie Cobb, who was their
bridesmaid in 1857 and Isaac For
bell, who acted as best man, were
also present.
Such items are good for the
young folks of this generation to
read. They help offset all the
talk of companionate marriage
and all the glooming about d.
vorce.
1t simply can be done. Two
people can look across the table
at each other for half a century
and still know the joys of real
affection.
Whether Captain and Mrs. Van
Wicklen are one of those couples
who never had a cross word, the
chances are there were times
when they felt like throwing
something. All normal people
have that feeling occasionally.
Some exercise self-control while
others give their temper free rein.
In that lies go per cent of the
marriage problem.
II Il
Selfish Marriages Break
Barring death and accident,
self-control can guide most any
marriage to a sixtieth wedding
anniversary.
Barring self control, most any
marriage can be landed on the
rocks.
It all depends on whether
young people start out to take
their Quarrels seriously, whether
they are willing to give in. a little