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Milford chronicle., 1928-10-19
MANY VICTIMS OF
SMALLPOX AT FELTON,
Outbreak In Mild Form Among
School Children; Home Guaranteed

What is classed as a mild form of
smallpox has become almost epidem-
ic in the rural section west of Fell
ton and residents of that part of the
State are much concerned lest a
more serious outbreak follow. Four
families are quarantined and it is
stated between 25 and 30 school
children are suffering from the dis
ease.
The outbreak occurred last week
when several children were stricken.
At first it was thought they were
suffering from chicken pOx to which
no one in this section pays much
attention. Several boys and girls are
said to have become ill and to have
recovered without anything serious
resulting. It was discovered Satur-
day, however, that the patients are
smallpox victims.
The case was reported to the State
Board of Health and DR.. Sargeant of
that department was sent to FELTON,
to investigate. The quarantining of
four homes followed and everyone is
being inoculated. Precautions are
being taken to prevent the disease
from spreading.
Milford chronicle., 1928-10-19
RECORD ATTENDANCE
AT P. 7. A. INSTITUTE
Members VIII Cooperate In Publish
ing Bulletin; Discuss Topics

All former attendance records
were broken at the institute for
workers in local Parent-Teacher
associations held at Georgetown last
Saturday. About $50 officers and
committee chairmen attended the
classes in the morning and about
the same number a second series of
classes held in the cOlored school in
the afternoon. Howard r. Ennis,
the new president of the associa-
ton, presided at the meeting.
rhis year, for the first time in it's
history, the State Parent-Teacher
Association is planning to become
responsible for so per cent of the
cost of publication of 1.-The Della
ware Parent-Teacher Association"
the official bulletin of the associa-
ton. Miss Gladys E. Baker. teacher
in the Stockley district, was named
publicity Chairman Tor sussex CUuu-
W. A chairman in each local unit
will aid her in getting the news to
the public.
The subject for the year, To-day
in the SchOolToom," was announced
in the class for program chairmen,
and an outline of subjects for dis
cussion in the meetings from No
vember to April was placed in the
hands of representatives from the
various associations.
Mrs. Mary D. Latane, of Balti-
more, from a parents standpoint,
emphasized the value of child study
groups, and Miss Rachel Taylor, of
the Women's College, dwelt upon
the important place of art in a
modern school program. Albert
Farley, representing the State Bur-
eau of Adult Education, called at
tention to the night schools which
may be secured upon application of
10 people in the white and 20 in the
colored districts.
Milford chronicle., 1928-10-19
REINDEER BROUGHT
TO u. S. FOR XMAS
Animals viii Be Shown In Large
Department Stores Turnout Country

Santa Claus did his Christmas
shopping early this year. AS a re-
suit thousands of children through
out the United States will be thrilled
during the holiday season by dis
plays of real reindeer-drawn sleighs.
Some $50 of the antlered animals
were brought to Seattle at the end
of summer from the Kuskokwim
river country in the Alaskan interior
and were pastured near there to
await Santa Claus call. The herd
will be distributed among all the
nations largest cities to serve as
Santa Claus teams before Christ
mas.
The reindeer were rounded up by
Eskimos and were transported on
barges down the Kuskokwim River
to Bethel, where they were put
aboard steamers to Seattle.
Stormy weather encountered by
the steamship w. NJ. Upper, which
left Bethel with 27O of the herd,
resulted in the death of 40 animals.
Milford chronicle., 1928-10-19
THE FIRST KISS MADE
WHERE IT WAS WRITTEN
Picture Made At st. MichaeIs, Md,
viii Be Shown Here Next Week

A motion picture "The First Kiss"
was filmed in Maryland, more than
5000 miles away from Hollywood
1t opens at the Plaza Theatre next
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday,,
October %, % and "a with matinee
on Wednesday at 2:S0.
A little more than one year ago,
Tristram Upper, short story writer,
and Virginian by birth, spent his
customary vacation in houseboat
on the Miles River, near st. Mich
aels, Maryland. Here he conceived
the story of -Four Brothers" which
appeared in a national magazine
short time ago. 1t dealt with the love
of brothers, the love of a boy for a
girl and was laid entirely in the
Chesapeake Bay country.
On the very same ground, Tup-
per's story was made into a motion
picture. It is released under the title
of 'The First Kiss" and is the first
co-starring vehicle for Fay Wray
and Gary Cooper as "Paramount's
Glorious Young Lovers" Rowland V.
Lee directed the phOtOplay which
was adapted for the screen by John
Farrow.
Of interest is the fact that all
'sets" called for by Upper in his
original story were used by Lee in
filming the production. In order to
make the production of "The First
Kiss" an entire company was
brought to the historic Eastern
Shore of the Chesapeake and every
foot of the film was made in that
community.
In support of Fay Wray and Gary
Cooper in the picture are Lane
Chandler, Leslie Fenton, Malcolm
Williams, George Nash and Monroe
Owsley.
Milford chronicle., 1928-10-19
THE LAST DAY TO
REGISTER Is TOMORROW
OCTOBER TWENTIETH

If you failed to vote two
years ago, you must register,
tomorrow, Saturday, October
goth, 1928, that you may vote
on Tuesday, November 9Th, at
the general election. The place
to register is at the voting
place of the district in which
you live. If you desire to vote
at this election, and all citi-
zens of Delaware should de-
post their ballot at this i'm
portant election, you must be
registered to be able to per-
form this duty. Remember to
register Saturday, October 20,
1928.
Milford chronicle., 1928-10-19
FIRES OF SUSPICIOUS
ORIGIN AT LINCOLN
CITY BURN BUILDINGS.
Poultry Houses Of Mrs. Emma LOf-
land Destroyed Sunday Night.
Nobody Home At Time.
WAREHOUSE CONSUMED
Large Sweet Potato Storage House
Owned By ClendanieI And Wal.
len Goes Up In Flames.

Two fires, both of suspicious ORR
gin, destroyed property at Lincoln
City on Sunday and Tuesday nights
of this week. The blaze on Sunday
evening was on the property of Mrs.
Emma Lof1and. Two poultry houses
were burned to the ground, but he
rOic work of the Carlisle Fire Com
pany of Milford, who responded to a
call for assistance, kept the flames
away from the dwelling house which
was only about ten feet away from
the burning structures. No one was
at home at the time and residents in
the vicinity suspect that the fire
was of incendiary origin.
On Tuesday night, shortly before
midnight, the Carlisle Fire Company
was again called to Lincoln to fight
a fire. This time the large potato
owned by Frank Glen
daniel, of Lincoln, and Robert Wal
len, of Smyrna, was burning. The
building was located within less
than one hundred yards of the prop
critics destroyed by fire on Sunday
evening. The structure was a mass
of flames when the Milford firemen
arrived and an effort to save it was
The firemen devoted their
efforts to an effort to save nearby
and in this they were sue
The fire is believed to have
started on the second floor of the
building, for when first discovered
it was eating its way up the back
wall and the interior was a mass
Of flames. No fire had been in the
building this season, and no pota-
Toes had been stored as yet. The
surrounding the blaze
leads Lincoln residents to believe
hat it was the work of a fire bug.
The Carlisle Fire Company res
pended to more fires in Lincoln last
year than any other one district.
Milford chronicle., 1928-10-19
ABSENT VOTER MAY USE
MAIL TO CAST HIS VOTE
Sick Resident At Home Also May
Cast Ballot Under State Law

Registered voters of Delaware who
will, out of necessity, be absent
from home or who may be sick or
physically incapacitated, on election
day, November 6, may apply to the
Clerk of the Peace of their county
for blank applications for ballots.
After such a voter receives his
application, he must fill it out and
swear to it before a notary and
then return it to the Clerk of the
Peace. A ballot later will be mailed
to the voter, the envelope of which
has on its outside a printed affidavit
which has to be filled in and sworn
to by the absent voter
The voter, after marking the bal
lot, will return it in the sealed en-
velOpe, and the Clerk of the Peace
on election day will deliver it to the
district in which the voter is regis
tered.
TConfiausd an 6n6s 81
Milford chronicle., 1928-10-19
CAUSE OF CANCER
NOT YET KNOWN,
PHYSICIANS SAY
DR.. Joseph c. BIOOdgOOd, Speak.
ing 10 Wilmington, Tells Of Ne
Cessity For Research.
MORE MONEY IS NEEDED
Amounts Expended Inadequate
For Research Workers To Ac-
cOmpIish Results.

1--WE do not know the cause OF
cancer, nor as yet can we be GER
tain what science will find the ulti-
mate cause" DR.. Joseph C. Blood
good, of Johns Hopkins, Baltimore,
an eminent authority on the subject
of cancer, said in addressing joint
luncheon meeting last Thursday at
the DUPONT Biltmore Hotel in Will
mingtOn, under the auspices of the
Rotary Club and the cancer commit
tee of the Medical Society of Della
ware. The purpose of the meeting
was to stimulate the formation of a
Delaware Chapter of the American
Society for the Control of Cancer.
DR.. BlOodgoOd declared that lat the
present time we are literally spend
ing millions in the treatment of
hopeless cancer. We are spending
far too little in bringing the correct
message before the people and we
are spending practically nothing on
cancer research"
DR.. George A. Soper, of New York,
the managing director of the So
ciety for the Control of Cancer, in a
brief address commended the State
Medical Society and the Rotary Club
and other interested persons and or
CARNATIONS for their support of the
movement to stamp out cancer. He
said he believed that too much could
not be done today to aid the fight.
With DR.. Harold L. Springer, chair
man of the Delaware Committee of
the American Society for the Control
of Cancer, DR.. SOper commended DR..
Bloodgood's address and urged COM
plete support of the movement in
Delaware to organize against can
Ger.
Have No Preventive
DR.. Bloodgood declared that as yet
we have no specific preventive or
curative serum. Adults" he said,
suffering from late cancer are al
most akin to crippled children, ex-
cept fortunately little more can be
done for the cripple"
Radiation with X-rays or radIum
has been tremendously helpful in re-
lieving pain and perhaps in prolOng-
ing life, but has not added much to
the per cent of cures in the late
stages, except perhaps in cancer of
the uterus"
DIR. BlOOdgOOd'S Address
DR.. Bloodgood's address follows in
part:
"This presentation of the cancer
problem is for the lay mind and only
indirectly for the medical and scien-
tific. At the present moment cancer
differs from diphtheria. For diph-
iberia we have a preventative and
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Nothing Succeeds Like Success

It's funny old world we live in; funny old
world and tickle one. It likes one thing in fiction
and something very different in life.
perfect hero in fiction would be a young man
who threw everything aside when the great came
and rushed off to serve his country. He'd be fine,
strong, young man, athlete skilfu boxer and
he'd find himself participating in the boxing tourna-
ments arranged for the amusement of the troops.
Presently he'd emerge as the champion boxer of
the American Expeditionary Forces. And then he'd
come home and having living to make and the bene-
fits of only meager education, his parents being poor
he'd use the talents discovered in the Army In due
time he'd be matched against the champion of the
world, the champion of champions. And this would
be terrible fighter who hadn't fought the countrys
enemy, man who had stayed at home while the war
went on.
Wouldn't the populace cheer when the brave
young veteran brought the world champion to his
knees? Yes, the populace would-in fiction In real
life he had to do it twice before the popuace would
believe it had happened.
In fiction our hero would be a chap who longed
to make something better Of himself who did not wish
to spend his life in profession generally considered
not quite the best. He'd be young man who liked
books good books even Shakespeare.
He'd try to master the English language, to un-
derstand it and speak it. And when he had succeeded
the people would grant him ungrudging admiration.
In fiction the story would end when the girl of his
dreams the beautiful rich and gracious girl promised
to be his AS she rested her fair head on his manly
bosom, the author would draw the curtain, saying,
'and there, dear reader, let us leave them"
But in real life? Omigosh mol Let's bust right in
on them and ask them all about it. Who'd they
think they are, anyway? Say who made this guy, who
paid him all that money he made ightin'? Does he
think he get away with that stuff? Let's show him.
the big stiff! High-hattin us! Huh!
Poor Gene Probably one of the incest fellows in
the world. We don't know and we don't give good
godarn. It's none of business if he wants to be
a cultured gentleman, or if he doesn't.
1t none of our business when Tom Sharkey
achieved his ambition to own saloon. None of our
business when Jack Dempsey married into the young
er Hollywood set. And it's none of our business if
Gene is ambitious to read his name in the social
register.
We may think it's an unworthy ambition, but we
never thought much of the saloon business either And
the tales they tell of life in Hollywood! Bunone of
our business, any of these things
Gene Tunney. He doesn't seem to have that some
thing that makes man popular with crowds. Maybe
that's his misfortune, and not his fault. Anyhow we
don't have to hate him for it.
Or, do we? If we're wrong, please correct us.
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Tourists and Skulls

Some of the things that people do are rather dis
couraging to who likes to believe the best about
human nature
At the great battlefield of verdun, the authorities
having great deal of trouble with tourists. The
tourists poke about the battlefield looking for bones
They prod into the ground dig up skulls, flourish
them with glee and cart them off-to do Heaven
knows what with them 1t would take peculiar sort
of person to take any pride in souvenir of that kind
One Argentine tourist company, it seems, even
furnishes spades to the parties it sends to Verdur
thing like that is, we repeat rather discouraging
The hundreds of thousands of heroic French and
German soldiers who died at verdun would have felt
inspired surely if in their last hours they could have
fcreseen what would happen only twelve years later
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-11
A Great Economic Shift

The shift in American economic and industrial
status during the last half century is strikingly
illustrated in the Commerce Departments report on
United States imports and exports for the month of
June
In the old days America was great exporter of
raw materials Grain, cotton and lumber went to
Europe in vast quantities, and shpload after spload
Of manufactured articles came back in return. But
now the situation is reversed.
The country exported $3.50 28l 900 worth of goods
in June. Crude materials and foodstuts accounted
for only Is per cent of this huge total Manufacturers
accounted for over As per cent, with manufactured
foodstuffs and semi manufacturers accounting for
another % per cent. And crude materials and food
stu accounted for so per cent of our $315180Oo of
imports for the month.
Quite change from the day the country had
nothing to sell but raw materials.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-11
Where Is the End?

More taxes will be collected this year by Federal,
State and local governments than when wartime
taxes were at their highest levels.
This rather startling statement made by Max
Graves, tax commissioner of New York. before the
Institute of Politics at the University of Virginia.
Collections for all purposes will approximate
ssO0oOoOOOO this year, nearly $7OoooOooo more than
the maximum during the war, Graves estimated. APP
preparations by Congress this year exceeded those
during the first year of the Coolidge administration
by $5oo,0Oo,oOo, he said.
State expenditures have increased largely because
of road building and greater OUTLAWS for education,
Graves said He predicted that both State and Fed
eral expenditures would continue to increase.
The taxpayer-voter control this situation, CT
course He wants good schools, good roads, and an
efficient Federal Government, but there is saturation
point for taxes, like everything else In the face Of
steadily mounting taxes, more than before
are wise economies and udicious expenditures neces
sary.
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spirit. the soul of dead man that has cunningly
entered living person. that throws itself upon him
with irresistible violence Once in possession of the
body the evil influence breaks the bones sucks out
the marrow, drinks the blood gnaws the intestineS
and the heart and devours the flesh"
The treatment necessitated by this state of affairs
was double one according to Maspero
First Of ALL the physician had to cast out the evil
influence which causing the disease. This neces-
STATED the of magical practices.
Next he had to heal the ravages caused in the per-
sons body by the evil influence. This called for the
of medical measures.
AS result, fairly good medical practice, consider
ing how young civilization yet was grew up among the
Egyptians.
The Egyptian physicians employed purgatives and
emetics. They had long list Of remedies prepared
from plants
In the later part of their history they devel-
oped what regard as the particular distinguishing
mark of modern medical practice, the specialist.
Herodotus, the historian records the fact that the
land of Egypt became full Of physicians and he says
of them One treats only the diseases of the eye, an
other those Of the head the teeth the abdomen or the
internal organs"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-11
Business Enters Politics

Having learned something from
politics, business men apparently are
waking up to the idea that II is
not such a despised calling after all.
At all. events quite a few Of them
are drifting into it, and politics
looks none the worse because of
their presence.
Governor Smiths campaign man
ager made his money and reputa-
ton as chairman of the financial
committee of the General Motors
Corporation. Pierre S. Du Pont Just
has taken leave Of absence from
General Motors in order to ride the
same band wagon.
Louis K. Liggett, head of the
great drug store chain, has become
national committeeman from Mass
achusetts, Gen. w. w. Atterbury,
head Of the Pennsylvania Railroad
has accepted a similar post in Penn
sylvania, and Bertha D. Bauer, head
OF the Liquid Carbordc Co., has be-
come national Republican commit
teewoman from Illinois.
The careers Of Andrew w. Mellon
and Dwight w. Morrow are too we'll
known for comment, and probably
nave done much to influence other
business men to see the desirability.
II not the advantage in public work.
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History Is lust

Up to a certain point, money
means success. but after that point
has been reached it means little.
There is still more honor in being
Senator or a Governor than there
Is IN $1,000,000. People always have
and always will respect those men
who are identified with government
and who do their work well.
History is not unjust in passing
over the mere rich as of no great
consequence. No doubt Athens had
leading bankers in the time of Soc
rates, and Rome lti-millionaires
IN the time Of Cicero, but the world
does not know who they were, and
Goes not care.
Government still remains the
most important human ENTERPRISE.
and politics is the medium through
which it functions in a republic.
More than that, government is a
reflection of the dominating i'm
pulses, emotions and activities of a
people, and its success depends on
how faithfully it reacts to them.
Business has become the driving
force of modern life. It is onlv
natural that business men should
be taking a greater interest In gov
eminent than ever before.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-11
Lenin Was Wrong

Fear Of money has PLAYED quite
as big a part in the development
OF our social and political system
as has the love of it.. To a measur-
able extent, we have distrusted rich
men, the story of Lazarus in
Abraham's bosom became a part of
our philosophy when a hell fire
gospel reigned supreme.
Looking at us from across the
Atlantic, Lenin declared that we
had proved capital and democracy
irreconcilable. Though exalting pri-
vate business, he said, the Amer
lean people refuse to put. the mil
lionaires it makes in Office. There
was no chance of a Rockefeller or
a Ford, he asserted, to become
President Of the United States.
Lenin spoke before our expert
ment had been f1nished-thousan
Of years before. He spoke without
realizing how democracy had
changed the love of money into love
of things that money will do.
Whatever else may be said of
them, American business men are
no longer misers. They may be
greedy and ruthless at times, but
they no longer hoard. That in it.
self is triumph for democratic
principles.
We have reached a point where
rich men give as much thought to
the wise use Of money as to making
it, which explains why they are
turning to politics, and why they
are receiving a heartier welcome
than they could have hoped for two
generations ago.
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sign Of the Times

Merger of the Brooklyn Edison
Company and Consolidated Gas
Company, just sanctioned by the
public service commission of New
York, is a case in point.
Whatever it may mean from the
standpoint Of local politics, it means
more as a sign of the times.
Apparently we have grown vastly
less afraid Of monopoly than we
used to be. BY the same token,
business has grown vastly less afraid
of regulation.
Public ownership Of stock goes far
toward explaining this change.
Twenty years ago the average man
had no chance to get anything out
of a public utility, except through
reduction Of his bill. Now he gets
a dividend, and that makes him less
interested in bringing the rate down.
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MONOPOLY grows fashionable.
Iva Not only private business, but
public utilities are consolidating
One wonders what has become of
the Sherman law and the antitrust
crusadeS. Twenty-Five years ago we
were boosting competition as "the
life of trade" Not only that, but
we were trying to force it through
regulation.
Regulated competition, Of course,
was illogical, but we could not see it.
When you put a Government
board. bureau or commission over a
group of enterprises, you automat-
ically recognize them as an entity.
Nothing has done more to bring
about merger, combine and monop-
oily than Government regulation.
If public service commission IS
capable Of handling the power, gas
and street car companies of a city,
why isn't a single board of direc-
tors?
Private business has borrowed
more than one idea from the boards
and bureaus which have been es-
tablished to hold it down.