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Questions and AnSzge7cS

bit of water and placed near their
haunts will drive ants away. Where
the house is badly infested the legs
of tables, ice box or cupboards may
be set in cans of water and the
water in turn treated with few
drops of kerosene or crude oil to
prevent mosquito breeding.
On what day of the week did April
!, 1927, come?
Saturday.
What is the derivation of pin
money!"
Back in the fourteenth century
after the invention of pins, makers
we're not allowed to sell them ex-
cept on the first and second days of
January. The reason was that wom-
en-, delighted with the novelty and
usefulness of pins, spent an undue
proportion of the family income on
them, since they were very ex-
penSive. 1t became the custom for
the women of the family to place
aside bit of money now and then
throughout the year SO that they
might have sufficient to buy pins on
the first and second of lenuary. This
came to be known as "pin money
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positions as we'll fortified by the
learning of the wise, from which
you may look down upon others
and see them wandering all
abroad and going astray in their
search for the path of life-see
the contest among them of intel
lect, the rivalry of birth, the Striv-
ing night and day with surpass-
ing effort to struggle up to the
summit of power and be masters
of the world.
20 miserable minds Of men! o
blinded breasts!
Mankind tolls over vainly, and
wastes life in groundlesS cares,
because they have not learned
what is the true end of getting,
and up to what point genuine
pleasure goes on increasing; by
slow degrees this has carried life
out into the deep sea, and stirred
up from their lowest the night
pillows of war"
1t may be so; but then perhaps
NietzSche was right; when we be-
come so reasonable it is time for
us to die.
This attempr to satisfy with light
never succeeds.
1t is fire we want as we'll as light
for in our secret hearts we are
chilled with loneliness.
Soon a gospel Of love will come
and carry away these apostles Of a
weary wisdom; soon a breath of fire
from the parched hills of Galilee
will sweep down upon these tired
souls and make them live again.
When Platos passion, hopeful Of al
things good, subsidies into the Lu-
cretius' resignation and despair, the
world is ripe for Christianity.
Copyright. 1923, by Will Durant)
(TO Be Continued
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TT. Wayne Journal-Gazette
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Senator James Eli Watson OF
Indiana, voted to seat Truman H.
Newberry, Michigan's slushed SEN
ator who later found peace of
mind in resigning. Senator Wat
son afterwards boosted that he
had voted for Newberry and
would do it again" When the
case of Colonel Frank E. Smith,
Senator-elect from Illinois, came
to vote in the Senate last Thurs
day, Senator Watson voted for
him. Senator Arthur R. Robinson,
Indiana's totherest tribune, voted
against Colonel Smith.
Of the pair of them, we prefer
Senator WatSon's conduct. He
showed some courage and certain
ly he showed consistency. Senator
Robinson's vote, though cast on
the side of honesty and decency
in politics, was a gesture Of per-
fectly obvious meaning and pur-
pose. We have not the smallest
though that Colonel Smith or the
character of the primary in which
he was nominated are the least
Objectionable to Senator Robinson.
We are quite certain that honesty
and decency in politics are among
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and the natural development of this
phrase has come to mean small
amounts of money set aside for a
special purpose.
How are potato chips made at
home?
Pare potatoes, slice into thin shaw
ingS and allow to soak in ice water
for an hour. Take from water, dry
with towel, place in frying basket
and fry in deep fat or oil until they
curl and are delicate brown. Shake
as free from fat as possible before
lifting frying basket from kettle and
put 70 drain on oiled paper. Dust
with salt. Do not have fat too hot
as chips must cook before they
brown.
When and by what States were
the first mothers pension laws
passed?
The first mothers aid laws were
passed in Missouri and Illinois in
1911.
Is New Years day a general Holt
day throughout the United States
and its possessions?
Yes.
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Our Support of Hoover
CFrom The Nation)

(FrOm The NatiOn)
BY unanimous vote of the editors of the twenty
six Scrpps- Howard daily newspapers and the gen.
eral managers of the entire group, after two-day
session. the support of these dalies has been given
to Herbert Hoover This is the most powerful Access
sion to his strength which Mr. Hoover yet has re-
ceived so far the daily press is concerned.
For the Scripps-Howard papers whole
the most liberal group which have, and their
decision is the more remarkable because the most
ardent press supporters of Mr. Hoover to date have
been the most reactionary organs Of opinion, such
as the Curtis papers, the Chicago Tribune and 9TH
ers owned by extremely rich entirely hostile to
the progresslvsm of 1912 and 1924
The value of this Hoover support is apparent when
one remembers that the Scripps- Howard paper in
Cleveland largely responsible for the carrying
all the outward omens are favorable, Mr.. Hoover's
victory in the convention is not yet assured Mr..
Mellon and Calvin Coolidge will decide the nomina-
ton, unless an unexpected bolt within the party
takes the decision away from them.
Obviously the time is approaching when Mr..
Hoover and Mr. Coolidge will have to take position
in regard to the formers continuance in the
Mr.. Hoover is running in the New Hampshire pr-
mary, to be held Feb. "a. The political gossip is
that if Mr. Hoover is to be given the presidential
blessing he will stay in the Cabinet if not he will
make the fight on the outside.
Finally, the Scripps- Howard editors paid warm
tribute to Governor Smith for his record of achieve
ment and promised to support him if the Repub-
licans should nominate Dawes or Lowden, or some
other man equally Objectionable to the group.
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Human Nature Does Change

Human nature has not changed so very much
from the time of Adam up to the present moment >
said Mrs Alfred j. Brosseau, president general of
the Daughters of the American Revolution Mrs
Brousseau was speaking before the Womens Patriotic
Council of National Defense in session in Washing
ton with representatives of thrtyfour patriotic soca
ties present
We are without knowledge as to just when Adam
lived, but wonder if Mrs. Brosseaus assertion
about human nature can be accepted without ques-
ton
Men no longer kill their neighbors, and carry off
their wives. Cannibalism longer is practiccd
Slavery exists in but few. places.
Prisoners of war no longer put to slaughter.
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ANYBODY Desire Prosperity?

High wages help make prosperity That is the
industrial creed; sometimes called the Henry
Ford creed, since he among the first to preach
it-and to practice it.
The United States Government could do its bit
toward prosperity if this theory correct 1t could
begin paying halfway reasonable salaries to its
great army of employees in Washington and through
out the country SO large is this army that if the
Government were to adopt this policy the effect on
business conditions generally would be greater than
simultaneous wage increases by dozen Henry .Fords.
If Congress desires to promote prosperity, here's
one way of doing it.
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TINE only thing lacking in this
Il follower of Epicurus is Epi-
cureanisn. There is no joy in him,
and the pagan touch is gone; not
only in the Stole sternness driving
out the will to live and the zest of
love, but almost a premonition Of
Christianity is upon our poet, fill
ing him with a sense of universal
vanity and inevitable death.
History, which is the joke book
of philosophers, was never so
fac etious as when it gave to the
sanity EpicuruS and the sombre
Lucretius the joyous name Of
Epicureans.
1t is true that the great poem
calls upon alma Venue" and "Dux
vithe dia Voluptas creative love,
and divine pleasure, guide of life;
but it is only poetic, not moral
license; the final counsel, as with
Epicurus, is that quiet ordering of
the soul, that godlike ataraxia,
which preserves our flesh from i'll
only by dulling every sense.
Lucretius, torn with passions and
emotions, lifted to poetry While he
meditates philosophy. longs for the
wise mans calm-''to be able to
look on all things with a mind at
rest"
And at the outset of his second
Book he makes a pleasant metaphor
convey his idolatry of peace.
ut is sweet when on the great
sea the winds trouble the waters,
to behold from land another's
deep distress; not that it is a
pleasure and delight that any
should be afflicted, but because
it is sweet to see from what evils
you are yourself exempt.
But nothing is more welcome
than to hold the lofty and serene
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You can get an answer to any answer
able question OF fact or information by
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ington Bureau, 1922 New York Ave,
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What are the expressions used to
distinguish between the two horses
of a team?
Facing the same way as the team
the horse on the right is called the
near horse and the other called the
off horse.
What is the best way to keep ants
out of house?
Ants go where they can find food
and if the food supplies of the
are kept in metal con-
tanners or tightly covered jars, or
refrigerators, where they cannot be
reached ants will not stay. Floors
should be swept frequently to re-
move any stray bits of food or
crumbs which may have fallen on
them. Tartar emetic and powdered
sugar in equal parts. moistened with
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To the Editor:

To the Editor:
During the year past, much atten-
ton has been given to the matter of
educating the public along the line
of safeguarding human life, and the
results achieved by those who have
interested thee selves in the work
have been the subject of much fav-
orable comment. During 1927 the
number of fatal accidents affecting
school children were reduced one
half as compared with the preceding
year
This campaign, instituted and
carried on by public spirited individ-
uals, has been directed largely
against the hazard growing out of
the extensive use of automobiles,
where the greater number of seri-
Gus accidents occur. Now the auto
mobile is not the only machine that
destroys life and limb, nor should
the whole work Of accident preven-
ton be wished onto a few individ-
ualS who are willing to give both of
their time and money to protect
their neighbors and their neighborS'
children from avoiding accidents. 1t
would seem that our national Gov
eminent should at least set a laud-
able example, not only by doing
everything possible to promote care
among its personnel, but by insist
ing that all kinds of government
equipment be kept in proper condi-
ton. Only a few days ago a freight
elevator in the Federal Building fell
some fifteen feet, seriously injuring
three Government employees.
About four or five years ago, this
same elevator made an untimely
rush in the general direction of
China, and three postal employees
were badly crippled as a result. This
particular elevator is of an an
tiquated type, presumably about the
same model as that used by Noah
in the Ark, and, judged by any
standard of modern engineering, it
is a mechanical absurdity.
But in the interest of administra-
tive economy, so dear to the hearts
OF certain lOO per cent protC Amerl-
cans, this piece of obsolete equip
ment no doubt will be patched up
so that more men may be manned
or possibly killed. while in line Of
duty. The sovereign State of Indi-
ana would not permit a private cor
poration or individual to operate
such potential death trap for even
one day, yet the wealthiest Govern
ment on the face of the earth is so
little concerned for the safety Of its
employees that any sort of Junk"
must be used forever if it saves a
few dollars.
A little revision Of our much
Wanted economy program" down.
ward to a point where it conforms
with the spirit of Safety First
might not be amiss.
OBSERVER.
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NJ. E.
TRACY
SAYS:
"The Question of Whether
Sinclair and Fall Are
Guilty MergeS Itself Into
the More Important
Question of Whether
Milli0ndjreS Sue
cesSfulIy Can Defy the
Government"
SAYS

With Robert w. Stewart, chair
man of the board of the Standard
Oil Company of Indiana, refusing
to answer questions, and with H.
M. Blackmer of the Midwest Re-
filming Company preferring to remain
in exile rather than tell what he
knows, it looks as though the Tea
pot Dome case had become
challenge to the authority of the
United States.
The question of whether Sinclair
and Fall are guilty merges itself
into the even more important ques-
ton of whether multimillionaires
successfully can defy the Govern
ment. when it comes to given
evidence regarding shady trans
actions
If they can, we might as well
admit that there is one law for the
rich and another for. the poor in
this country.
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Amazing Ignorance

Mr.. Stewart, who was so anxious
to get hold Of oil that he made no
bones about paying 25 cents more
a barrel than he needed to and who
did not hesitate to guarantee a
$50,000,00O contract, is strangely ig-
norant Of the other details.
What is more amazing, he re-
mains unruftled when told that the
Senate committee might assume
that he was an imbecile, but gets
dreadfully riled when it is re-,
marked that there is equally good
ground for assuming that he
has lied.
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Why. MI. Schwartz

If Stewart was so anxious to get oil
and if Humphreys had it to sell at
$3.50 barrel, why did he not buy
it direct, instead of allowing Black
mer to run in ahead of him and OBJ
tain a contract for it?
If Blackmer we're willing to sell
That contract, and Stewart still
wanted oil, why. did he not take it
over, instead OF allowing the Con-
tinental Trading Company to do so?
If he knew that the Continental
Trading Company were going to pay
$3.50 barrel, as he must have
when he guaranteed the contract.
why did he agree to pay $1.75 with
out discussion or delay?
If he we're the shrewd executive
his stockholders and associates be-
lieved him to be, and if he were so
short Of oil as he says, why did he
allow himself to fall for such an OBJ
vious hold-up when he could have
avoided it hy merely dealing with
Humphreys in the first place?
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BRIDGE ME
ANOTHER
Copyright. 1928. by The Ready Ref
erence Publishing Company
BY w. w. WENTWORTH

Authorizations: A-ace; K-king; O.
queen; Jack; X-any card lover
than 10.)
l. Declarer bids one no-trump.
All pass. Dummy holds K @ 10 x.
Declarer holds x x x. What Shou%
Declarer play when opponent leads
small card through Dummy?
2. In planning your campaign
against no-trump bid, what
should be your aim?
3. (a) Is it necessary to know how
to score? (b) Why?
The Answers
l. Queen.
@ Establish long suit.
3. (a) Yes. (b) Bidding is In
fluenced by the score.
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/. The idea of letter golf is to
change one word to another and do
it in par, a given number of stroNeS.
Thus to change COW to HEN, in
three strokes. COW, HOW, HEW,
HEN.
2. You can change only one letter
at a time.
3. You must have a complete word
of common usage for each jump.
Slang words and authorizations don't
count.
4. The order of letters can not be
changed.
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To The Editor:

To the Editor:
am very much peeved at the ac-
lions Of the police in arresting those
two boys who accosted girls in front
of English's the other evening.
These asphalt Arabs" to use the
slang of today may be guilty, but
why don't the police get some of the
female offenders?
The streets are alive with these
''meandering Mollos" who are daily
strutting their waves" about the
streets of this town Illinois st. is
fairly overrun with them, with their
nod and a wink and their "eye open
for a sucker" air. Surely they ought
to be run in as nuisances to the
public. I thought with the abolition
of the red light" district that they
were to go, but they haven't. Can't
something be done?
WILLIAM SULLIVAN
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Conspiracy Of Silence


The Senate committee believes
Mr.. Stewart knows a great deal
more than he has told. So do a
lot of people. The man obviously is
attempting to evade a free and full
disclosure.
In this respect, he is like Black
mer and O'Nell, who ran away. The
Government apparently faces a con-
spiracy of silence, and has no choice
in the matter but to adopt drastic
measures.
Stewart, Blackmer, ONeil and
Sinclair are only citizens after all,
and the time has come to prove it.
This is just another case, though
perhaps the most fragrant, that has
yet occurred in which big business
undertakes to protect one Of its
leaders who is in trouble, regardless
of rhyme or reason. AS it proceeds
the issue becomes clearer. Has
money outgrown the law?
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Get All the FaCtSI

In order to unravel the Teapot
Dome case, it is necessary to go
into several transactions which,
though they may seem to be of
private nature, have a definite
bearing on it.
If these transactions were honest
and above board there is no reason
in the world why they should not
be described freely and fully. If
they we're not, there is every reason
why the public should know it,
AS things now stand, it looks as
though the Continental Trading
Company were organized for no
other purpose than to enable some
body to extract 100000 profit
without disclosing his identity,
The Liberty Bonds which former
Secretary Fall received from Harry
F. Sinclair are supposed to be a
part of that $3,OOO,O0O In order
to prove, that they we're it is
necessary to show who got it and
where it went. That is why the
Government wants to know. and
has the right to know all about it.
n +
Devious Trail of Gain
To begin at the beginning, Mr..
Humphreys had 33,333,333 barrels
of oil which he was willing to sell
at $3.50 q barrel
H. M. Biackmer of the Midwest
Refining Company entered into a
contract for the purchase of his oil
at that price.
Somewhat later the Continental
Trading Company was organized
and took over this contract.
Robert w. Stewart of the Stand
ard Oil Company of Indiana and
Harry F. Sinclair guaranteed that
the Continental Trading Company
would carry out the contract to the
extent of $50000,000 which was the
total amount involved.
1t is inconceivable that they
would have done this without
knowing all the details Of the
transaction, or that Stewart would
have agreed Immediately to buy the
ill at SITS a barrel, which repre-
stnted a profit to the Continental
Trading Company of $8,000,000,
without very excellent reasons.
It is even more inconceivable that
the contract would have been sold
for 100000 when it was about half
fulfilled, unless those interested had
taken out all the profit they needed
for some specific purpose.
In other words, there is no ex-
PLANTATION for this peculiar deal, ex-
cept a deliberate plan to organize
a fly-by-night corporation as a
smoke screen to enable certain
people to lay their hands on large
amount of cash
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Hartford CITY News

HARTFORD CITY News
Senator Watson voted to give
Smith of Illinois, his seat and
Robinson voted against seating
him. In view of Robinsons affilia-
ton with the Khan, to whom he
owes his own seat, which of these
two men do you think was sim
core? One thing about Watson,
you got to hand it to him for al
ways standing pat" You will
remember he voted for Newberry,
and he is one of the few in the
Senate who voted that way who
still has seat in the Senate.
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erence for Senator Watsons
frankness, audacity or loyalty to
his own-call it what you will
we prefer his brazen candor to
Robinson's palpable hypocrisy.
Any man who has come up as Ar
thur R. Robinson has come up
must have sympathy and fellow
feeling for man who was coming
up as Colonel Smith was progress
ing. He should have had the cour-
age Of his natural sentiments. He
did not. We believe it will add
nothing to his repute, such as that
may be.
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Ti,:veS Readers
Voice Vices

The name and address OF the author
must accompany every contribution. but
tcrs not exceeding 200 words will receive
preference.
Milford chronicle., 1928-12-14

And some of us can be fooled a
lot easier than we can fool others.
Milford chronicle., 1928-12-14
Milton Letter

COmitfed from the Milton letter last
:. ayeek because of lack of space }
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Anderson O.
..Iansdown, Pa, Mr.. and MIS- NePp!
of Philadelphia, spent Sunday De
cember 2, with Mrs. Harry MOTIFS
lane and Wilson Mathes spent the
,Tbanksgiving holidays with thell
-narents in Millville, N. j.
marty consisting of Carey CllI-
Ton Russell Reed, Halmanus VIII
hank Webster Jefferson, Wll1am
~E11iott and John Fisher, OF Milton
and Miss Mabel Griffith of Milford
r1ade a Measure trip to Washington
D. c.. on Sunday, December q wneIe .
thew took in the sights OF the Capl-
tol City. Among the lnteresllne
things they saw were the dlIerent
snnblic buildings and the new SIX
pvlinder Chevrolet car they saw at
.tl,o Mavfower Hotel They were
LEASED nc with their trip, especially
+be annearance of the new Chevrolet
car. -, 1Tou,ard
of chester. were recently guests Oh
Steward Steen and family
NTiss Elsie Lank, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. J. Clarence Lank' Oh MI
con has finished her course OF tram
mo as a nurse and on Sunday, De
lon,ber 9 was given her diploma at
+ke Methodist Hospital, Philadelphia.
r wilson recently killed a pair
of hogs that tipped the beam at 400
and 355 pounds each ia
II Ernest Conwell, Inc, sold sew
eral building lots, together with
>sovon-room dwelling at Georgetown
ON the nroperty, last Saturday. In
-. IN 70 oct the lockwood on these
nroperties the company was compeIl,
,ed to buy the lots. Ihe poA"oou
having been removed the lots were
ssold. 7roA11;s+or on
+ortainad a number of relatives. on
THANKSGIVING Day at a turkey uln-
ner. -..,,+1,, NOV
od into his new home recently erect
ID on Chestnut street. Paris Thomas
has also moved into his ne" pur
~chase on Behringer avenue.
Miss Susan D. Carey spent IIe
~Thanksgiving holidays IN Fnllauei-
phia. .. teacher in
+bo Milton school, spraine0 an
onk1e while playing with her pupils
on the school ground and was l.n1 un1
able to teach her classes for seVerai
days. oo,.o+ou,n has
>tooT,n a. tbe 1aying of concrete cutters
W, oe7 Union TN street hill Material for the
',Iort On has been delivered. This nil
has caused the Highway Commlssi1n iI'a
considerable trouble because OF tnS