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Milford chronicle., 1928-07-20
Bridgevile

Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin Wiley have
returned home after spending some
time with his sister in Connecticut.
Miss Bessie Kline is visiting in
New York city.
Mr.. Albert V. Hurd has returned
to his home in Brooklyn, N. Y, after
visiting his sister, Mrs. Luther Cal
houn.
Miss Jessie Brown, of Porter, is
visiting her brother, Mr.. Charles
Brown.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sherman Todd spent
Sunday last at Ocean City, Nd
Mr.. John White, of fredericksburg,
Md, spent Tuesday with his son,
Gilbert White.
Mrs. o. ]. Wiley is visiting rela-
tives in Wilmington and Philadel-
phia.
Mr.. Oliver Tibbitt, who has been
in Camp with the Delaware Nation
al Guards, in the northern part of
New York for 10 days, returned
home Monday reporting a wonderful
trip.
Mrs. Edwin McAlvaine is visiting
at the home of her, parents, near
Milford.
Miss Erma Morris, Miss Elizabeth
Hardesty, Margaret Sterling, Anna
Milford chronicle., 1928-07-20
THE POLITICAL SITUATION
NEW CASTLE COUNTY
By "SideIiner''

of course, is the one whose name is
most frequently mentioned. Senator
| Ball has said 81 am out to win" and
if he displays the same energy and
fighting qualities as in some of his
former campaigns he will not go to
the next State Convention devoid OF
delegates.
Ex-COngressman Head and Judge
Hastings are well thought of in this
end OF the State, and if either is
nominated will receive the full Re-
publican support.
The political question most fire.
quently asked here is "who will the
republicans of Sussex county select
as the nominee for the Office of Gov
ernOr?"
The agreement that was said to
have been entered into between Ex-
Governor Townsend and Ex-senator
1. d. Short has been the most dis
cussed here of any political subject.
And the general belief is that such
an agreement was actually entered
into.
A peculiar thing about this much
talked-of agreement is that if it did
exist, it would prove quite agree
able to the great mass of Republic
can workers and voters of New Cas-
tie county.
Make no mistake about it, the
voters of New Castle county, not
withstanding Wilmington newspaper
propaganda to the contrary, whole
heartedly conceded both the offices
of U. S. Senator and Governor, as
Sussex countys, by right of success
sion, and if Townsend was the
choice of Sussex for U. S. Senator,
and Short the choice of Sussex for
both would carry the
county by large majorities.
This county will go strong for
Notwithstanding the ring
ing vets that place booze above
and who are more sold on
liquor than on Republican princi-
pies.
Milford chronicle., 1928-07-20

The declaration of Ex-Governor
John G. Townsend, that Il am not a
candidate for the office of United
States Senator" is not causing any
particular ripple on the political
surface in New Castle county. The
utter lack of any furry because of
this declaration comes from the fact
that the rank and file of Republi-
cans, in this county never have
been seriously interested in the can
didacy of the Ex-Governor. Of
course, there are a few loud ones
here who are always ready to give
stentorian expressions of approval
to the candidacy of any person once
he gets the nod-you may run
from a particular circle. AS the
particular group that has dominated
Republican politics in Delaware,
from this end of the State, for the
past six or eight years has now
gone over, boots and breeches-so
to speak-to the support of Al.
Smith for the Presidency, because
of the moral question that has fore
ed itself into the campaign, it is
felt here that they have also con-
cluded to swallow the whole Demo-
cratic bait and support Thomas F.
Bayard for the U. S. Senatorship
also. 1t is argued that Ex-Governor
John G. Townsend, cognizant of
this, realizes that his attempt to
secure the nomination of U. S. Sena-
tor has been deprived of it's greatest
asset.
While it has been generally ex-
pected that the candidate for U. S.
Senator, together with that of Gov
ernOr, rightly belonged to Sussex
county, it is now considered just
possible that the senatorship may
fall into the lap of a man from this
end of the state. In that event
those most prominently spoken of
are Ex-U. S. Senator L. Heisler |
Ball, William H, Head and Judge |
Daniel o. Hastings. Of the three, |
here mentioned, Senator Ball has
declared he will be a candidate and, |
Milford chronicle., 1928-07-20
MILFORD, FRIDAY, JULY 20, 1925
IMPROVING AGRICULTURE

The effort to place agriculture and
rural life on a better basis has be-
come a world wide movement. We
shall have to hustle in the United
States, and here in Delaware to keep
up with these efforts.
Here are some of the progressive
things that are being done. In Ger
many every farmer is required to
keep full accounts of his business.
The government bureaus are organ
izing bookkeeping on the farms.
Wonder what the more careless of
our farmers who keep no accounts,
and consequently do not know where
their losses are, would say to that?
In Victoria, Australia, radio lee
lures on agricultural subjects are
broadcast three nights a week.
Belgium sends around through its
farming districts travelling farm
household management schools,
which give instructor to the young
people on rural economics. So one
could go through the list of coun-
tries, and find that about all of them
are trying to train the country
young people to farm scientifically,
to manage their households skilfully,
and make country life satisfactory
in every way.
In the United States our people
are also busy. In 1925 over 100000
cases of improved methods were re-
ported through the system of agri-
cultural extension work. The work
among farm young people has be-
come one of the great activities of |
the country, and is getting amazing
ly successful results. There are 49,
900 All clubs which enroll 100000 !
boys and girls to study improved !
methods. The boys of the future are !
going to farm great deal better
than the previous generation did,
and the girls will know many i'm
proved household methods.
These and similar gains are going
to work a revolution in rural life.
The coming on of better trained
generation means a new day for the
rural and country town people of
Delaware.
Milford chronicle., 1928-07-20
pROYmING THE EATS

The theory used to be much advo-
Gated, that eventually we should see
community eating places and dining
rooms all over our cities and towns,
where people can conveniently reach
them. More people than ever before
are eating one or more meals daily
in such restaurants and lunch rooms
and boarding houses. This saves an
enormous amount of labor for the
women, and encourages many wo-
men to do their own homework.
By this means many young women
keep on with their business jobs af-
ter marriage, since so many of their
meals are taken at restaurants.
1t has often been claimed that
there is no money in taking board
ers. But perhaps this is because the
women that tried it had only a few
of them and did not do business
enough. A woman who is good
cook can usually get plenty of Gus
toners if she wishes to open up a
lunch room or eating place. The
people will always patronize good
home cooking.
But it takes skilful management to
make such a place pay. Some people
are excellent cooks themselves, but
when it comes to supplying lot of
people each day with food all of
which is good, they lack the capac-
ity for detail to attend to every part |
of the work. People are terribly |
critical about their food. Those who
rushed to an eating place that was
reported good, will quit it with equal
speed if it runs down. Supplying
the people with food is most COM
mendable occupation. 1t conforms
to the principles of wise business in
to supply the public with
the things it really wants and clam
ors for.
Milford chronicle., 1928-07-20

Mrs. Luther T. Calhoun and daugh-
ter Linda spent Thursday in Will
mington.
Master Morris Adams, of Milford,
is visiting his brothers here.
Mrs. Gertrude ]. Cannon has re-
turned to her home here after spend
ing some time at the country home
of her son-in-law, George A. Hill.
Farmers are now rushing their
work of threshing rye and wheat
during the favorable dry weather
The grain is yielding a normal crop
for those who have thTeshed, but
the straw is very short.
Farmers are also picking their
early apple crop. The apples are
Milford chronicle., 1928-07-20
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MOVING THE NnLBLE DOLLAR


A great many business firms today
are running their affairs on the basis
of turning over their capital very
quickly, and making their dollars
work very actively. Their idea
seems to be that if goods do not sell
readily, not to keep them on hand
very long. They would rather work
them off for whatever price can be
had, and obtain something new.
That policy keeps their sales
forces very busy. There are always
plenty of customers in those stores.
They turn their capital frequently.
AS a result of their great volume of
sales, the expense per article sold is
low. Hence they can afford TO make
low prices, and can give their GUS
toners some very choice bargains.
A considerable part of their goods
goes at astonishingly low figures.
This gives the people who patron
ize such stores a great chance to re-
duce their living costs. They can
make substantial savings by watch
ing for the sales and special oppor-
tunities at these stores. But unless
they can take the time to visit such
stores about every day, they will not
know about these special opportuni-
ties unless they read the newspaper
1t is usually impossible for a store
to run on this plan, which benefits
the public so greatly, unless it makes
free use of newspaper advertising.
It's policy would not work if after
reductions on goods, they
had to be held a long time. But if |
they can move those goods quickly, |
they get by on this plan, and find it |
profitable to them as well as to the I
public.
By the great use of newspaper adj
the Offering of these spe-
,ial bargains at once attracts atten-
ion, and they keep the crowds of
buyers coming to the store, who
map up these bargains about as
;oon as they are offered.
Milford chronicle., 1928-07-20

much smaller than usual and are
not bringing very much profit to
the grower. The fruit is not grow
ing and maturing as it should, due
to the cold wet spring.
Miss Margaret Ball, of the Ortho-
paedic Hospital, Philadelphia, is
spending a few weeks here with her
father, Mr.. Newell Ball.
Mr.. and Mrs. William R. Hill, who
were recently married in Whining
ton, have returned from a motor
trip through the Blue Ridge Noun
tains. They will reside on a farm
near town, where Mr.. Hill is en-
gagged in farming.
Mrs. Sallie Lewis is i'll at her
Milford chronicle., 1928-07-20
THE TRIUMPH OF WOMEN

Oceanic flying is not quite such a
tremendous sensation as it was, but
Amelia Earhart and her two COM
panions seem on their return to have
gotten about as warm a welcome as
any of the fliers. Probably it was
mainly because the people are inter
ested to see a woman taking part in
a great adventurous stunt, and show
ing herself the equal of men in cour-
age.
Women have long been called the
weaker sex. They do not average up
as muscular as the men, but they
seem to have as much or more ca
pacity for heroism and endurance of
pain. The younger ones are apt to
resent the suggestion of physical in
feriority, and they seem inclined to
think that if the men can do any
thing, they can.
Such great adventures may be
contrary to the old idea that the
place of women is the home and the
Preside, but the women folks seem
to be getting more and more impa-
tent of any restraints that limit
their capacity to do things.
Do@
WORK is now proceeding enthus-
astically at the citizens military
camps. Not merely are
.hese young men performing a pa
riotic service for their government,
n preparing for a possible though |
war, but they are getting
physical training and men
al discipline. Any young man in
Delaware who attends one of these
amps should become more alert,
letter able to do things in his occu-
'ation, and he should have made a
tart on good citizenship and useful
less in his community. Parents
7ho obtain places for their boys in
hese camps are fortunate. The
ime will no doubt come when the
publications. far exceed the number
Tho can be accommodated. i
Milford chronicle., 1928-07-20

home on Broad street. Mrs. Lewis
is one of the oldest residents of this
town and the widow Of Charles r.
Lewis, a Civil War veteran.
Charles H. Brown, owner OF the
Bridgeville Garage, is building a
brick Dutch colonial dwelling on
Market street.
Milford chronicle., 1928-07-20
&9oG

EQUAL opportunities for educa-
ton for every boy and girl in Am
erica, is the ideal of DR.. U. w. Lam
kin, the new president of the Ma
tional Education Association. This is
a fine ideal, but not easy to accom-
plish.
Not all young people need the
same amount Of education. It could
not be claimed that a plumber needs
as much as a doctor or a lawyer.
You can learn to repair pipes easier
than you can to repair human bod
les or human laws. But we need an
educational system that will give
every young person a fair chance at
something each one is fitted for.
There are some in Milford and other
places in Delaware who get more
education than they can make good
use of.
Milford chronicle., 1928-07-20

NOTIFYING THE CANDIDATES

One of the events of a presiden-
tial campaign is always the motif
cation" of the candidate. Our people
carry a certain love for forms and
ceremonies into politics. From the
importance attached to this notiflca-
ton, it might be supposed that the
candidate did not know that the con-
vention had nominated him, until
some influential delegation calls
upon him and informs him that he
has been given this great honor.
Whereupon the candidate, not
wholly surprised at this news, which
has in some way leaked through to
him, responds appropriately in a
speech. Then the campaign
is all set for action. If these i'm
pressive ceremonies serve the pur-
pose of waking the voters up to the
TACT that a political campaign is on
hat will vastly affect their affairs
or the next four years, they serve a
Useful purpose.
Milford chronicle., 1928-07-20

ADORNING OUR HOMES

Among the lines of business that
have had a large growth during re-
cent years in Delaware is that of
florists and nurserymen. These peo-
pie have profited by the many per-
sons who buy cut flowers and ported
plants to send to their friends and
to use in their own homes. Also
there has been big sale for lawn
shrubs and trees, and perennial and
annual flowers for the improvement
of home grounds.
1t is a very common thing now to
see people planting these things on
their home grounds. Both men and
women are constantly seen tending
these flowers and plants, ind the
home owners are full of ambition to
develop handsome looking places.
It is interesting to see how the
contagion of this movement spreads
through a neighborhood. If just one
householder takes hold Of these
things on some street where there
was no great interest in such i'm
provement, it spreads to his neigh
bors. People feel that they do not
want to seem slack in caring for
their homes, and they hate to seem
less interested than their neighDors.
Such improvements become a fad. |
People follow their neighbors in this
respect as they do in the fashions /
of wearing clothes. When few of |
the men put on their straw hats at
the first of the season, the thought |
strikes the rest of them that that is
the comfortable, sensible, and sty-
fish thing to do, and they feel they
would get pleasure out of doing the
same, and they follow the example.
In the same way the sight of
planting going on on the grounds of
some place stirs the neighbors to
think that they would get pleasure
out of the same improvement, and
they get out with the spade and the
trowel Thus the spirit of improve
ment spreads, and Milford becomes
more beautiful every year.
De@ +
ALMOST EVERY DAY one reads t
in the newspapers of some automo- i
bile driver who has landed his car I
and its occupants in the ditch, and v
quite frequently the car overturns. t
The reasons given for such mis- I
are skidding, slippery c
roads, defective steering gear, etc. b
In the great majority Of cases these 2
.hings happen because the car was s
going too fast. If a swiftly moving 4
Ear strikes a defect in the road, the v
wrench given to the steering wheel Il
nay twist it out Of the drivers tt
yrasp. These things rarely happen a
n oa1rfio1Is dTfvaPa 81 "
Milford chronicle., 1928-07-20
Mhich2

Modern domestic question: The
country club or a new baby?-Wo-
mans Home Companion.
Milford chronicle., 1928-07-20
HOME TOWN THOUGHTS

While the store salesman is talk
ing to one person, the newspaper ad
talks to thousands, and is a wonder
full method for reducing sales ex-
pense.
Milford chronicle., 1928-07-20

If you expect your home town to
provide you with happiness, as well
as a chance to earn a living, you
should do something to make it a
better town to live in.
Milford chronicle., 1928-07-20

Another obstacle to thrift is that
we always feel richest while spend
ing.
Milford chronicle., 1928-07-20
BRIDES COOKING

]
ly remarked that she was spending
much time this summer in practis-
ing cooking, so that her prospective
husband would not have to suffer
too much from brides cooking" If
all the girls did that, many wrecked
homes would be avoided.
The principal reason for the in
crease of divorces is the greater in
dependence of women. They will
not tolerate the things that women
used to accept. Feminist sentiment
encourages them to stand up for
their rights, and also sometimes
they stand up for their wrongs, for
the husbands are not invariably the
ones to blame. Also the fact that
most of the girls learn occupations
in which they can make a living if
they see fit to leave their husbands,
gives them a great independence.
But the plain and ordinary art of
cookery has soothed many matri-
monial jangles and reconciled many
irritated husbands. When a man
comes home every day and finds
we'll cooked meal on the table, he
does some thinking before he Of
tends that wife of his. He feels so
much better after that good meal
that he is very apt to do the things
necessary to conciliate her, and
give up habits that ALLEVIATE her af-
lection. The old phrase said that
the way to mans heart is through
his stomach.
If the husband finds tough meat
and soggy biscuits and everything
wrong, the home does not seem like
much of place to come back to.
He regrets the freedom of his bach
elor days, when he could pick out |
eating joint pleased him
most, and change every time he
found a better one.
But good cookery adds enormous
ly to the comfort and health of
home and it's inmates. If we are
going to check the divorce habit in
Delaware, one of the first steps
should be to teach the brides to
cook.
Se@
THE EVERY EVENING, publish
I'd daily in Wilmington by William
F. Metten, former down-state boy
who has made good in Delaware
has occupied its mod
,rn new home. The first issue was
'un from the new presses installed
n the new structure on Monday of
his week. Constructed to meet the
of a modern daily
newspaper such as the Every Eve
ling, the building is the last-minute
n every detail of construction and
For years the publish t
rs of the Every Evening have work !
d under great handicaps because of
DOR building facilities and lack of !
pace in which to enlarge the activi- ,
les of the paper. This has been l
hanged, and the new home of the t
democratic evening
aper will give ample opportunity 4
Dr. expansion. The next few years
hould see a steady growth in all T
apartments of the Every Evening. =
he publishers of the Chronicle !
"Bill' Metten and his
aft of associates upon the attain :
tent of an ambition of years s
anding, and wish for him and his
utilization every success in the fu-
worthy product deserves g
Milford chronicle., 1928-07-20

Sometimes a man finds he can't
make ends meet because they are
loose ends.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-01

putting the sIids on to an organi-
cation campaign it was supposed to
have undertaken. It's abibi is that
pending the action of the unity con-
ference it must continue to do what
1t has done in the last three years
NOTHING. By so doing it will run
true to its paved track of economy.
Economy on space for headquarters,
saving on expense of the cost for
such q campaign, and saving tha
energy Of its staff of officials and
at the same time keep intact its ac.
cumulated "big" treasury. They do
not realize that a large treasury
without a membership is like large
body without a soul.
The working conditions Of the
Paterson silk workers are in no way
different from those of the textile
workers thruout the country. The
same problems of no organization,
wage cuts, long hours, speed-up
which are facing the New Bedford
strikers against which they revolt
ed, are facing the Paterson III
workers also. The objective cond
tions in the silk trade and anon
the workers Of Paterson have be
come ripe and If the sitting DO
icies of the union leaders are COZ
tinued the results Of this win be
newly created driving force ta1z
will sweep them from their presen
positions.
The immediate task Of the Pats
son silk workers must be:
l. To create new militant I'm
and file leadership.
2. Organization of shop comrnitte
which shall be responsible for or
ganization of the unorganized II
their respective territories.
3. Forcing true and genuine anna
gamation of the existing mioy
into one militant industrial union.
4. Spreading organization to other
silk centers.
5. Linking up with the general te--
tile movement.
G. Proper steps to be taken for
formation of Labor Party.
z Organize the unempA- q
councils and affiliate them WIZ.
the national movement of the un-
employed.
s. Immediate action be taken to re-
establish the 8-hour day, a cor
responding increase in wages and
recognition of the union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-01
BY BERTRAM D. WOLFE.


May Day was born in gigantic
struggles of the American working
class. The nationwide strikes of
May 1st, 1886, were the elimination
of period of gigantic struggles
that seemed to promise to put the
American working class well up in
the vanguard of the world prole-
tariat. The inspiration of this great
struggle and of the heroic martyr
dom of the Haymarket victims,
caused the working class of Europe
end of the entire world to convert
May Day into international Labor
Day.
Since the American working class
celebrated it's first May Day, there
has been a colossal expansion of
American capitalism. Trusts which
were only in the process of birth
have become all-powerful and they
and the still more powerful banks
have become completely dominant in
American political life. The devel-
cpment of imperialism and the
swift ascent of the American rul-
ing-clsss to a commanding position
cf world empire have resulted in a
great split in the American work.
ing class-a systematic corruption
and bribing of the bureaucracy and
large sections Of privileged work
ers. This has brought with it divi-
sions in the ranks of the working
class which leave the vast mass of
the workers unorganized. 1t has
brought with it the development of
the theories and practice of class
collaboration, and even a rival labor
Observation-Disclosures labor day
which comes in September. The
official leadership of the American
Federation of Labor has abandoned
May Day, just as it has abandoned
the class struggle of which it is the
symbol.
Forty-two years after the his
toric struggles of 1886, the fruits
Of class collaboration and class be-
rrayal show themselves only too
clearly. The basic Unions that
formed the backbone of the organ
lied labor movement are in ruins,
or under an attack that threatens
to destroy them. The bulk Of the
American working class is organ
ized. In structure, in policies, in
tactics, in viewpoint, in strength
in every respect-the existing
unions are Inadequate to cope with
the tremendous power of the huge
monorolies that dor.i-.aoe industry
In place of Looming "more dem
ocratic," in place Of growing into
industry democracy" in place Of
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