Milford chronicle., 1927-05-27
MILFORD, FRIDAY. MAY 27, 1872
MEMORIES


grateful people eager to pay hom-
age to the dead and the living IN
whose memory and honor the day IS
set apart. Each year reduces still
more the blue remnant of great
army that defended a great moral
principle. And the shrinking line OF
blue touches the heart deeply.
Wars following that of the Rebel
lion have seen to it that for many
wears to come there will be Memoir
ial DAYS in America. The ranks of
dark blue have blended with the blue
of lighter shade, so familiar in the
Spanish-American war, and these IN
turn with the khaki of the great
World war. assuring a continuance
in it's present form of Memorial Day
observance. But even should it be
that no future wars should furnish
martyrs, the gratitude of the Amer
lean people to their soldier dead Will
make perpetual an annual day IN
which to pay them tribute.
Inspiring as is the procession, elo-
uuent as may be the orator, touch
ing as may be the Towering of vet
erans' graves, these seem wholly in
ADEQUATE as honors to the departed
and the living. These men fought
and died in battle and prison camp
not that their sacrifices might be the
annual occasion of spectacle and
ceremony. Theirs was nobler mis-
sion. a finer purpose. They fought
for a principle, for an ideal, which
they had right to expect their
heirs would hold safe and secure.
Gratitude and appreciation are not
always best expressed by lips and
gestures. What America owes these
warriors is more than the suspen-
sion of business one day a year,
more than applause and cheers
when their flag is carried by, more
than pensions and bonus, more than
spoken or written eulogy. A greater !
part of that debt is in firm and fixed
resolution to carry forward and up
ward the ideals for which these men
bled and sweat, to make secure the
victory they won, to translate into
results the noble purposes that stir
red their souls.
SCORES OF WOMEN and children
have left Milford and other towns in
Delaware this week for the large
strawberry fields of Sussex and
Maryland, where they will pick ber-
ries for the next two or three weeks.
This has been custom with many
people in lower Delaware for years
gone by. They live in the barracks
provided by the growers near the
large fields, doing their own cook
ing on stoves erected by the growers
for a community service, under san
itary conditions, and they make
anywhere from three to five dollars
per day-just according to their ex-
pertness and the supply of ripe fruit.
At the end of the season it is not un-
usual for the expert pickers to bring
back for their three weeks work
$100 or more, over and above ex-
penses. 1t is true that there are
those who do not bring back half
the amount; but, these are they who
are not expert pickers, and who are
not desirable for helpers to gather
the crop of strawberries, from the
larger fields. The expert people pick
without mashing the berries, and
the berries stand up in the baskets
and crates and reach the market in
better condition; therefore bring the
higher prices. The buyers are expert
in selecting well picked berries, and
bid few pennies more per quart for
that kind; and they soon spot the
growers, who bring that kind to
market. Good service from labor to
consumer pays well. 1t is good SER
vice that the Del-Mar-Va Peninsula
needs and must have, to bring the
fruits grown, packed and shipped
from this splendid part of the fruit
district, to be appreciated by the
people of the cities where the fruits
are consumed.
Growers must learn this lesson
first of all; for, it will not bring
them successful financial returns to
produce high grade of fruit, unless
it is picked, packed and shipped in
the best form possible. If seventy
per cent of the fruit grown is per-
feet, then only that seventy per cent
must be sent to market; the Sec
onds and culls are worthless-less
than worthless, for they destroy con-
fidence in the fruits from the sector
where fruit is produced.
Do@
THE CROP of scarlet clover that
is being harvested now from the
fields Of lower Delaware, is the best
grown for many seasons, and the
weather is favorable for its curing. I
This week many growers have cured
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