davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-20
OFFER PRIZES
/. TO find MOST
NORMAL FOOT
Chiropodists, Times Spon-
Sor Test Open to. All,
Starting Soon.

How many normal feet in Indi-
ana?
Checking up on the normal feet
of women and children will be one
of the features of the seventeenth
annual convention Of the National
Association of Chiropodists, at the
Lincoln, Aug. ITO.
Under the auspices of the associa-
ton and sponsored by The Times a
normal foot contest will open ten
days previous to the convention.
All kinds of feet may be entered
into the contest, which is limited to
women and children.
The owners of the nearest to
normal feet will be judged winners.
A gold medal is being considered
along with loving cups, shoes and
other valuable prizes.
Photograph Free
The normal foot is not necessarily
q small foot, it is explained by the
chiropodists, and so a special prize
will be presented to the owner OF
the smallest feet.
To enter the contest 1t is neces-
sary to get photograph of the con-
testant's feet to the editor of the
Normal Foot Contest at The Times
Where such photographs are not
available arrangements may be
made for such pictures. Such photo
graphs may be arranged for without
cost.
A board of judges composed OF
eon1e Of the most prominent
chiropodists and podiatrists in the
country will pick the winners. On
the board also will be a local shoe
retailer and member of The
Times staff.
This contest is being held in con-
11ection with the scientific research
of the association. Similar contests
have been conducted in other cities
of the United States. Later, the
winners in the combined contests
will be judged for the most normal
foot in the country.
Shoes Affect Health
The association lis sponsoring eX-
tensive educational, work in the in
terest of foot health. They urge
care in fitting shoes and advise
strongly against wearing runover
and impaired shoes. Such practice.
they declare, often proves very poor
economy, resulting in injury to the
feet, often causing pains in other
parts Of the body, sometimes at
tributed to other causes.
All those interested in the foot
contests are urged to watch The
Times for announcements.
Final judging of contestants will
take place Aug. 10 before movie
and news cameras.
Milford chronicle., 1928-04-27

Watch for Bratten's 1-cent sale.
Milford chronicle., 1928-04-27
ROLES RING TRUE
IN "WEST POINT"
Read Cadets Found To Fit Charac.
tiers Played by Haines and Others

The proof of a good screen play
is that it is an experience that could
happen to people you know.
Thus says Edward Sedgwick, no.
ted screen director, who AYERS that
unless a screen play so echoes life
that among its characters will be
found people that audiences seem to
know, the play is not likely to ring
true.
AS an example, he cites West
Point" in which he directed Will
liam Haines, and which comes to
the New Plaza Theatre, Wednesday
and Thursday, May 2 and 8.
When Raymond Schrock wrote the
play, said Sedgwick, he did not
know soul in West Point. He had
not been to the academy for years.
But-he knew life.
when we arrived at the military
academy, and read over the story
to officers and cadets, they began
noticing the characters. One, they
declared, was prototype of a GER
tain cadet-another matched the
character of another. They picked
out men in their ranks to fit every
man in the story.
Then knew we had a play true
to life. Here was a story of real
characters-because in the charac-
tiers the cadets recognized them
selves. In other words, a motion pic
ture, to be really successful, must
hold mirror up to actuality. By
this don't mean that locales and
places must be duplicated to hairs
that the human nature
must be absolutely true to fact. It
makes no difference about the set
ting if, in the characters, human be-
ings can recognize themselves. I be-
lieve that the first role for a seen
ario writer is to picture characters
that the people will know-either as
or someone known to
them"
Haines playsa West Point cadet in
The new picture, vivid romance of |
life at tohe United States Military
Academy, filmed there with the Ar
football game as a spec
.acular detail. OJan Crawford played
he heroine, and Neil Nelly, Ralph
Emerson, William Blackwell, War
Ter Biggs, Leon Kellar and others of
tote are in the cast.
Milford chronicle., 1928-04-27
Drawbridge

There will be held an entertain
ment in the Broadkiln school house
on Tuesday evening, May 1, in the
form of a wrong side out" party.
All who do not meet the require
ments and come dressed wrong
side out" will be charged 25 cents
admission. There will be several dia-
logues, recitations and plays. The
proceeds are to go toward the ex-
pense of having the church painted.
Arthur Dodd will lead the Ep-
worth League services at Zion
Church on Sunday evening, April 20.
The word for the evening will be
Faith"
Mrs. Ella Lank of Lewes has re-
turned home after spending some
time at the home of her son, Mr.. and
Mrs. Raymond Lark.
r. B. Zacharias, Mamie Zacharias
and w. Thomas Lockerman of
Greensboro, Md, spent Sunday with
Mrs. Sarah Lockerman and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter H. Lark and
daughter Thelma spent Sunday with
Mr.. and Mrs. B. F. Walls of near
Milton.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Mitchell of
Lewes spent Sunday with Mr.. and
Mrs. Chas. Walls.
Milford chronicle., 1928-04-27
Seaford

Margaret James, eighth grade pu-
pill in the Seaford elementary school
will be one of the Sussex county
representative in the state ele-
mentary school spelling contest
sponsored by Every Evening, in
Wilmington, May 4. She is a daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. H. Milton
James.
The six-year-old daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Ira B. McCabe, of Nor
gantown, Broad Creek hundred,
suffered a severe cash in her fore
head and was badly bruised, Satur-
day, when she fell from a barn on
her fathers farm.
Miss Sallie Milligan, teacher in
the Seaford school, fell Saturday,
breaking her glasses, which cut her
lip.
Mrs. Karl Wright was successful
ly operated on Friday for Appendix
citis at the Cambridge, Nd, hos
pital.
Sherman Culver, near Seaford,
was successfully operated on at the
Cambridge, Md, hospital, and is re-
ported to be getting along fine.
The Ladies' Aid Society of Reli-
ance M. P. Church, will hold their
social at the community
house, Wednesday evening. Mrs.
Raymond O'Day, Mrs. E. E. West,
Mrs. A. J. Handy, Mrs. Hill Smith
will be hOstesses.
Watch for Bratten's 1-cent sale.
Milford chronicle., 1928-04-27

AMERICANS usually get their
first "class consciousness" when
they learn to say 'yokel" and Ov-
ercome the gum habit.
Milford chronicle., 1928-04-27
Forest Park
(Near Bridgeville)

Mr.. and Mrs. Homer Banning and
daughter of Milton were Sunday
dinner guests of Mr.. and Mrs. C. L.
Banning.
Two new cases of mumps are re-
ported. They are Coleman Webb and
Elwood Smith.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Spanish
and family of Greenwood spent part
of Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs. Amos
Wiley.
Miss Anna Harris returned home
Sunday evening after spending the
winter months in Camden, N. ].
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Passwaters
have moved on their farm near
Chaplains Chapel. Mr.. and Mrs. Vim
Milford chronicle., 1928-04-27

al Banning have moved on the farm
vacated by Mr.. and Mrs. Passwa-
ters.
Thomas Passwaters, accompanied
by Mr.. Elliott of Bethel spent Mon
day with relatives in this vicinity.
Mr.. and Mrs. Howard Tucker spent
Wednesday with friends in Mary
land.
Mr.. and Mrs. Vinal Banning and
little daughter Delema, spent Sun
day with Mr.. and Mrs. Carroll.
Mrs. Joshua Kitchens and daugh-
ter Grace of Milton, accompanied by
Mrs. Ethel Heals and daughter
Ruth of Philadelphia, and Mrs. VIM.
E. Tucker of Georgetown, spent
Tuesday afternoon with Mrs. Chas.
c. Passwaters and family.
Watch for Bratten's 1-cent sale.
Milford chronicle., 1928-04-27

A TOWN where the merchants
advertise freely is invariably a
town where there is life and activ-
ity and something doing all the
time. We look to our business men
to take the lead in movements for
hometown progress, and they look
to us to make a return by giving
us their patronage. A certain
amount of fault finding may be nee
essary in any community, If done
at the proper time and place, but
no city ever went ahead much where
fault finding was the characteristic
temper of the place.
So9
HE HAS reached 80 if he has
ceased to wonder now and then
what ever became of the girl who
has his fraternity pin.
So9S
1T IS rather difficult to Judge the
social status Of the new neighbors
until you smell their dinners cook
ng.
Milford chronicle., 1928-04-27

THE rights of the minority are
protected by nearly all states ex-
cept the state of matrimony.
SoS
HER father never gets a chance
to give her away if her small broth
er does.
Milford chronicle., 1928-04-27
REACHING OUT FOR TRADE

REACHING OUT FOR TRADE
Business men sometimes fail to
realize that in these times when so
many people have automobiles, they
will travel a very considerable dis
lance in order to reach what they
consider an attractive and profitable
trading center.
The merchants in any community
need a systematic plan for reaching
out into the outskirts of the trading
territory of which they are the CEN
ter, and If they are active and wide
awake they can draw trade from
nearer places which are less enter
prising. Printers ink is the med
ium with which the interest of the
people in these outlying towns can
be aroused. The Milford Chronicle
would be glad to make practical
suggestions to any merchants who
would like to extend their trade
further out into the country.
Milford chronicle., 1928-04-27
THE LIVE TOWN

Some communities have a reputa-
ton far and wide as live" towns.
Something is always doing there.
And some places are commonly re-
garded as sleepy and dull places,
and you almost never know of any
thing going on there. What con-
stitutes the difference?
Even in the sleepy place, people
have to do their daily work and
they may work harder than they
do in the live place. Their places
of business may keep open longer
hours. But they work along in the
same rut year after year. If they
have always had some unfavorable
conditions, they are apt to regard
the same as permanently necessary.
They are slow to take up new ideas.
But in the live town, they are
constantly moving to keep up with
the times. If they discover that
some of their school buildings are
behind the times, they modernize
or replace them. If they see the
towns around adding parks and
Fairgrounds, they provide the same
for their own people. If they find
towns in their state having lectures
and concerts and clubs, they try out
the same thing themselves. Their
idea is to give their people the adj
they can expect elsewhere
so far as that is humanity possible.
Improvements are always going |
ahead there. Business men are al |
ways putting up better buildings, or
fixing up their old ones. Ugly
things and eyesores are removed.
The citizens are constantly i'm
proving their homes, and whenever
here is any shortage of dwellings,
someone comes forward with the
capital to build some more.
Something doing all the time.
That is the kind of thing we have in
Milford. We have had much of it
n the past, and if we can maintain
his spirit of giving our people the
advantages they can fairly expect
n a community of this size, we
hall be abundantly repaid for our
'ffort.
Milford chronicle., 1928-04-27

IN THE light of modern boxing
methods, there are some who hold
that David was able to put over the
winning punch while Goliath was
counting the gate.
Milford chronicle., 1928-04-27
An INSTITUTION MENACRD

Congress has before it a bill pro-
viding for the erection, maintenance
and renting of outdoor mailboxes
for rural free delivery routes. The
author of the bill Visualizes a time
when rural mail boxes will be stan
dardized and of artistic design and
color, and when one multi-compart-
ment box will have supplanted the
motley crew of one-family boxes
that now stand in irregular rows at
highway intersections and rural
settlements. The idea is to estab-
lish order and beauty in the jungle
Of mail receptacles and to rid the
highways Of unsightly metal con-
tainers, crudely painted with own
ers names and supported on un-
painted posts that invariably lean
at a precarious angle.
Some years ago when rural mail
carriers began discarding horses
for automobiles the postofice de-
partment heard many protests be-
cause the carrier came and went
too quickly. The rural folk wanted
time to beat the carrier to the gate
after seeing him round the bend |
down the road. Neither will the
farmer surrender his old-fashioned |
mail box without a Tight It is
grotesque, dinged and far from per-
feet in utilitarian way, but it is
a symbol of rural outdoor life.
There is bound to be resistance to
this new step in the urbanization
Of the universe.
When the postoffice department
notifies its rural delivery users that
hey can aid in the Identification
md Standardization of the rural
landscape by paying a quarterly
entail for a government mail box it
will learn that there are some peo-
lie who still consider the old ways
sood enough.
Milford chronicle., 1928-04-27
ADULT EDUCATION

Education was once thought to be
process applied only to students
in schools and colleges. But that
is only half the job of popular edu-
cation. An educational system that
stops when people finish their
school courses, is a pretty limited
thing. People forget what they
learned in school, and unless some
thing is done to induce them to
keep up the educational process,
their ability to meet the needs Of
their lives will decline.
A vast multitude of young people
quit school without having attend
ed any high school, and only a
small proportion have anything
more than a high school training.
For the great majority, education
stops at very early age.
What is needed is to impress the.
idea on people, that they can not
expect to compete in the modern
world, they can not obtain the
things they want, they can not get
the results in community life that
they need, unless they conceive of
education as a continuous process,
that must be kept up indefinitely.
And then they must be given facili-
ties to continue that process.
Newspapers, magazines, libraries,
lecture courses, evening schools,
ETC., are leading means for educa-
ton of adults. A person who reads
good newspapers thoroughly will |
not be uneducated. The newspa- |
Ders present an amazing amount of |
informing material, and many of
,ur people who have the essentials
If education have obtained most of
heir information from the news
papers.
AS time goes on, our communities
will see the necessity of doing more
n the educational line for their
Ldults, through classes, lectures,
tic. But the most vital thing is
o persuade people that they must
lways keep learning. If they will
ust devote an hour or even a half
lour a day to reading good news
apers and magazines, they will en-
rmously increase their power as
7orkers and citizens.
Milford chronicle., 1928-04-27
So@
SECRET OF POPULARITY


Many folks, particularly young
people of reserved natures, worry
because they are not popular"
| They envy folks who always have
admirers and friends. Many people
of superior intellect look down on
popularity. They feel it shows
too easy-going nature. They hold
that if a person is to live sincerely
and do his duty, he must often an
tagonize others, and make himself
exceedingly unpopular.
Popularity comes in different
ways. In the old days of free liq-
uor a lot of people acquired popu-
larity by the freedom with which
they "set 'em up" This was the
basis on which many politicians got
their start. They were always ready
to line up their friends in front of
the brass rail and have several
rounds ION me-" Many people win
popularity by free spending, by liV-
ing extraVagantly and scattering
cash in all directions.
On the other hand many people |
acquire popularity by deVoting !
themselves to some public cause. |
boys who carry on student
usually acquire popular
ity. They are entitled to it because
they have to devote much time to
the reputation of their
institution.
Similarly in community life. Many
people acquire popularity just by
giving a great deal Of effort to pub
lie activities, often more than SUI
Derior persons who criticise them
ire willing to devote to such causes.
Many people acquire popularity by
he friendly interest they show ev-
by a winsome smile and
cordial manner. ,
People who live self-absorbed .
ives are not popular and do not de- ,
erve to be. Any person can acquire z
certain measure Of popularity by s
nanifesting interest and doing help t
I'll things for others and perform
ng service for the community.
Milford chronicle., 1928-04-27
THE TEST OF GOVERNMENT

The TEST OE GOREkNmENT
Some people judge of the merit or
demerit of a government by the
laws it has put on the statute books.
But that is only a superficial test.
The way to judge that kind of work
is to look at the conditions pre-
vailing among the people. If the
industries are busy, if the people
have work at good wages, if social
welfare movements prosper, then
the work of governing has been
well done. Sometimes the principal
business of lawmakers is to defeat
foolish propositions.
The Coolidge administration has
passed many useful laws. 1t has
reduced taxes, paid off a large
amount on the national debt, it has
made more efficient the operations
of the government.
But judged by the prosperity test,
it exceeds all previous administra-
tions. Never before has there been
such social welfare. Never before
have the people had so many COM
forts and Injuries. They did not
even dream Of possessing all the
they now own, not to
speak of radios, monographs, and
various means of enjoyment. Never
before did they wear such good
clothes, or were they able to give
heir children such good education.
Here and there some industry !
nay have been temporarily depres- .
ed. Agriculture has had its diff !
iculties. But no political policy 7
ould have removed the troubles e
rom which the farmers have suf- /
cred. Already their condition is t
as better methods are G
pplied and the government poll c
les are giving helpful service. On
he whole there has been more 1
than ever before. When s
comes to electing the next presi- a
ent, the people are not going to n
hink much of this or that law that f
ras passed or not passed, but they il
re going to say that the country
as made rapid progress, and they
o not wish to change these circum-
.ances. v
@o9 a
WRESTLING is a boys own mus fC
/. It is as natural for him to whis- a,
e as it is for a bird to sing-al- W
Iough the music is not always as d;
elodious. 1t is as instructive with CT
,ys as throwing stones and raiding m
'chards and corn fields. And not m
EN- when he becomes an "old boy" tn
les he forget how. hi
Like the charm Of music that Sc
othes the savage beast, Whistling lis
IS a magic charm that stills the of
ars and instills courage in the hi
uthful breast. A boy is never Ia
one as long as he can whistle. At err
y he whistles out of sheer joy pa
d enthusiasm, and abroad alone at
night he finds comfort and pro-
,tion in his shrillest whistle. ca
A boy reprimanded, a servant FOL
goes away Whistling, II pa
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-06-15
Acids In Stomach
Cause Indigestion
Create Sourness. Gas and Pain. How
to Treat.

Medical authorities state that nearly
nine-tenths of the cases of stomach
trouble, Indigestion, sourness, burning,
gas bloating, nausea, ETC., are due to
an excess of hydrochloric acid in the
stomach. The delicate stomach lining
is irritated, digestion is delayed and
food sours, causing the disagreeable
symptoms which every stomach sufferer
knows so we'll
Artificial digestants are not needed
in such cases and may do real harm.
Try laying aside all digestive aids and
instead get from any druggist some
Bisurated Magnesia and take tea
spoonful of powder or four tablets in
water right after eating. This sweet
ems the stomach. prevents the forma-
tion of excess acid and there is no sour
ness, gas or pain. Bsurated Magnesia
Gin powder or tablet form--never LIQUID
or milk is harmless TO the stomach,
inexpensive to take and Is the most
efficient form of maGnesia for stomach
purposes. 1t is used by thousands of
people who enjoy their meals with no
more fear of Observation-Disclosures
ment
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-06-15
WIFE BEATER SENT TO
FARM FOR 21O DAYS

Mrs. Eva Brown, Alb N. New
Jersey ST., testified against her hus-
band, Jesse, on an assault and bat
terry charge in Municipal Judge Paul
G. Wetter's court today. Her black
and blue eyes and bruised head bore
signs of rough treatment.
He came to her room after being
gone since last January, she told
the court, and wanted their 2-year-
old child. She refused and with an
open knife, she charged, he ctarted
to cut her throat.
Spencer County officers told the
court they wanted Brown on
burglary and larceny charges. Get
him at the penal farm gate in. a
year or So" Judge Wetter answered.
giving the wife-beater 210 days on
the Indiana State Farm and s275
fine
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-06-15

that the revised form of the prayer
book have full synodical authority.
This latter view. it was believed,
might lead to Parliament demand
ing establishment of the church
governing body, provided the bish-
ops did deem the new form of
prayer book to have full authority.
The rejection of a revision was
a blow to the venerable Archbishop
of Canterbury. who wept visibly in
December when Parliament first
voted down the plan to revise the
book.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-06-15
CITE BLACKMER
ON TAX CHARGE
Federal Indictment May
Force Return to u. S.

BIZ United Press
DENVER. June 15.-Henry M.
Blackmer, multi millionaire oil man,
was indicted by a Federal grand
jury here today on charges of max
ing irregular income tax returns.
The action of the jury followed
the filing of tax liens totaling
$8,498,935 on Blackmer's property ir
Denver and New York by Federal
authorities.
Blackmer fed to Europe in 1924,
to escape testifying before the SEN
ate Teapot Dome Committee, re-
garding the activities of the Con-
tinental Trading Company in con-
nection with the leasing of the naval
reserve to Harry F. Sinclair. The
indictment was considered here as
the first direct move of the Gov
eminent to force his return to the
United States.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-06-15

Catholic diocese, told twenty eight
graduating nurses of st. Vincent
Hospital at commencement exercises
Thursday night in the Louise de
Marillac auditorium, nurses home.
wealth and social position may
effect her standing, but her great
influence is expressed by her virtue
and purity" he continued.
The st. Johns Academy Orchestra
opened services with the process
sional. An undergraduate chorus
sang "Panis Angelicus" Miss Esther
McClain, class president, gave the