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Milford chronicle., 1928-07-06
REGISTERED MAIL VOTE

Washington, D. C.-Congress has
enacted one measure at the last ses-
sion which, while providing for eff
ficiency and common sense, yet elm
mates another of the old time
practices which for all of being a
little foolish was interesting and
picturesque. Congress has made
possible the elimination of the cleo
toral messengers who once every
four years make their way from the
home states to Washington with the
electoral vote. The electoral mes
senger was a necessity in the days
when the journey to Washington
from any part of the country con-
sumed two or three days and some
times as many weeks, when post
and other methods of cOmmunica-
tion were of doubtful value. What
Congress has done has been to pro-
vide that the electoral vote now can
be forwarded by registered mail.
Six certificates will be provided as
in the past but they will reach the
President of the Senate, the Secre-
tary of State, and the District judge,
through the hands of a postman and
not from state delegate. The
world moves and this is. a natural
and logical change, but somehow we
have a little bit of regret at seeing
this last relic of early practices
abandoned
Milford chronicle., 1928-07-06
REMARKABLE INDUSTRIAL
RECORD

"The manufactured gas industry
lays claim to record of 21 years
during which there has been no de-
crease in annual sales or gross earn
ings," says the Index, published by
the New York Trust Company. "This
is the more noteworthy because dur
ing that period the industry went
through a revolutionary change. The
introduction of electricity almost inn
mediately usurped the place Of gas
in domestic lighting, but the result
was the development Of q multitude
of new uses of gas as a fuel"
OF even greater Importance than
domestic uses, is the tremendously
accelerating demand for gas in in
dustry. Where in 1910 only per
cent of the total output of gas was
used for industrial purposes, today
28.4 per cent is so used. And where
domestic consumers use gas about
16 per cent of the time, industrial
consumers employ it about so per
cent of the time.
1t is believed that an important
factor in future gas development will
be long-distance distribution through
large central stations. Everyone is
a potential gas user and opportunity
for extension Of its uses is unlimited.
Milford chronicle., 1928-07-06
DEMOCRATIC WORDS REPUB.
LICAN DEEDS

Washington, D. C.-There is no
denying that in phrasings on the
real issues of the campaign there is
a considerable similarity in the
declarations as found in the repub-
lican and democratic national plat
forms. The democrats of course had
the opportunity to profit by the re-
publican document before they be-
gan writing their own and that they
read it carefully is more than evil
dent. The similarity however ends
in the phrasings. From sad and bit
ter past experience the public has
learned that while republican plat
forms represent real pledges and
promises, that the democrats give
themselves to graceful expressions
of intentions which never become
actualities. That is the real funda-
mental difference between the two
major parties. The republicans
stand for deeds and the democrats
are satisfied with words. That is
another reason why at election time
consider their own personal for
the people as a whole when they
tunes always end up by voting the
republican ticket.
Milford chronicle., 1928-07-06
FROM CHAOS TO COSMOS

cat the present we are in the
midst of apparent political confus-
ion," said Charles Evans Hughes in
recent address. "It may seem that
we ought to be able to get along in
our political parties with less inter
nal strife. l have come to believe
that that is the law of nature; not
simply the law of political action,
but it is law of the universe. There
was time when scientists in search
for the ultimate and the undividable,
thought that they had discovered it
IN the atom, as an indivisible unit.
No wit is appreciated that the atom
is a great world in itself with cleo
irons constantly clashing with each
other.
GAS has been well said, the pro-
gress o fthe universe is from chaos
into cosmos. We all know in our no.
litical institutions, if these political
electrons clash with each other for
a certain length of time, there will
be progress from what seems to be
chaos into cosmos and we shall fin
ally achieve certain degree of DO
litical stability"
Milford chronicle., 1928-07-06
A SOUND VIEWPOINT

Commissioner of Insurance John
R. Dumont, of Nebraska, recently
presented some sound views on state
interference with the insurance bus
mess. He said that state regulation
of rates and state monopoly of GER
tain branches of casualty insurance,
such as workmen's compensation,
are nothing more than government
interference with private business,
and added:
do you ask your grocer, butcher,
baker, tailor, automobile manufac-
turer, druggist, doctor, lawyer, or
any other person, what it costs him
to supply you with necessities and
service? No, you do not. If you feel
that yo uare getting value received
you are satisfied to let tie other fell
low make legitimate profit, and
you know positively that he will not
stay in business long if he is goug-
ing you and his other customers.
There is no great secret about in
surance, it is no different from other
business. 1t is no longer a gamble,
but it is competitive business that
is entitled to fair profit.
Proper government supervision
of the insurance business is neces-
sary and helpful to both the COM
pany and the public"
Commissioner DumOnt concluded
by saying that ne hoped the insur-
ance department of Nebraska will
always be kept on the basis of a su-
pervision department instead of in
fringing on the judicial and Iegisla-
tive functions of government.
These are sound views and they
come out of the West.
Milford chronicle., 1928-07-06
THE LUCKY RURALS

A recent survey made in Missouri
shows that every community having
a population of more than 700 in that
state is provided with electric lights
and telephones. There are 175 vii
lagos of but $50 population which
have electric service, and oil with
telephone service.
Contrasting the modern small
town with that of twenty-five years
ago and less, shows what American
industrial initiative has done to i'm
prove living conditions. The day of
isolated communities, living apart
from the world of ideas and affairs
and action, is past. Where once
dwellers in rural sections had but
the bare necessities, and none Of the
comforts and luxuries of life, they
are now provided with almost all
that once belonged exclusively to the
cities.
Now the small town citizen and
the modern farmer is as far remov-
ed from the life of his father and
grandfather's time as they were
from Neolithic man. Industry has
given the country-dweller a complete
and enviable civilization.
Milford chronicle., 1928-07-06
A SAD STRADDLE

Washington, d. C.-While the
J democratic anti-wet rump conven-
tions which are being discussed will
no doubt receive considerable
amount of publicity it is a fair pre-
diction that as actual political bod
les they will not figure. On the
other hand the labored working of
the democratic platform committee
to evolve a combined wet and dry
plank which is really neither one
thing nor the other, and the adop-
ton of which was at once noted by
Governor Smith with a declaration
that he was for a modification of
the prohibition law, has caused a
serious feeling of distress among
the democrats.
What has been made plain to the
country is that the party and its
candidate do not know exactly
where they stand on the prohibition
issue. Doubt at this time is not a
healthy matter. Norman Mack, of
Buffalo, is apparently to blame for
part of this trouble. 1t was Norman
who is high light in Buffalo demo-
cratic politics, who before the con-
ventiOn announced that the governor
was for the modification of the law,
something which the convention was
anxious not to hear. The governor
must be credited with courage in
having declared for modification
after the convention, though Joseph
us Daniels, who represents the sin
cere dry element in the party, felt
obliged to say, that he wished the
governor had either said it formally
before he was nominated, or else
have held his peace.
Milford chronicle., 1928-07-06
Greenwood

l wish to correct the statement in
last weeks paper in regards to Mr.
w. S. Cooke and c. B. Porter pur-
chasing new bucks. 1t Should
have been trucks.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Humphreys
of Centerville, Del, spent Sunday
with Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Conoway,
Mrs. Humphreys remained to spend
her vacation here and in Virginia,
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Ho-
mer Lyons.
Miss Mable Conoway is attending
summer school at Columbia Univer-
sity.
Mr.. Ellis Clifton and family Lave
moved to Lewes, where Mr.. Clifton
is in the barber business with his
brother, Mr.. Lanford Clifton.
Mr.. and Mrs. William GOdsey have
moved in the house vacated by Mr..
Clifton.
Mr.. Ronald Fry spent the week
end with his family.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. M. Lyden enter
tanned Mr.. Delmer Loockerman, of
Philadelphia, over the weekend.
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Appleman and
son have returned to their home in
Bloomsbury, Pa, taking with them
Mrs. Appleman's mother and sister,
Mrs. R. l.. Coulter and Miss Mable
Coulter.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lemell McIllvaine
entertained at their home in honor
of their little daughter Pauline, it
being her birthday.
Rev. L. w. Layfield preached at
TOdd's Chapel on Sunday evening.
Miss Lillian Isaacs is planning to
enter a business college in Philadel-
phia in the fall.
Miss Eva Twigg will enter the
Women's College in Newark.
Miss Delema Fowler is spending a
few days with her sister, Mrs. R. I.
Johnson of Milford.
Milford chronicle., 1928-07-06
A SERIOUS QUESTION TO
CONSIDER

The proposed law prohibiting Am
erican arms manufacturers from
selling weapons to countries at war
is question of the utmost impOr-
tance. Recent developments of the
arms industry in a number of for
eign countries indicate that such a
law would only lead foreign powers
to buy all their equipment else
where, instead of part of it in the
United States.
We are peaceful nation, not de-
sirOus of war. But unbiased parties
realize that unsettled world condi-
tions make such a contingency pos
sible. Our own means of protection
must be considered. When we en-
barked in the World War it was Am
erican manufacturers who provided
our soldiers with their fine equip
ment. ObviOusl ythe arms industry,
to stay in business and maintain
plants suitable for quantity proQuc-
ton, must have other than local
markets for its products. The law
now under consideration would to a
great extent reduce American gun
manufacture, with the result THAI in
case of necessity, we might be faced
with dangerous shortage of arms
manufacturing plants.
If this law would be of material
assistance in doing away with war
it would be justified. But there
seems to be little basis for such a
belief. Guns can be bought from
many leading nations. The present
unwritten understanding between
our government and the small arms
manufacturers, by which the latter
refrain from selling weapons to war
ring countries when our government
so requests, has been respected by
manufacturers even though valuable
business has been lost.
To abolish war would be a great
thing, or to make armed hostilities
more difficult. But the law as pro-
posed would seem to endanger our
means of national defense without
securing compensating benefits.
Milford chronicle., 1928-07-06
Bridgeville

Mr.. and Mrs. Chester Mofitt, of
Porter, spent the Fourth with Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Brown.
Miss Grace Ewell, of North Caro-
lima, is spending her summer vaca-
tion with her grandparents, Mr. and
Mrs. Jess Legar, here.
Master Thomas Hobbs, of Port De-
posit, Nd, is spending a few days
with his aunt, Miss Margaret
Hewes.
Miss Gladys Elliott, of Laurel,
has returned home after spending
last week with Mr.. and Mrs. o. T.
Warrington.
Mrs. George Stewart and son, of
Seaford, were visitors here Friday.
Mrs. John NJ. Russell, who has
been shopping in Wilmington and
Philadelphia, returned home Friday.
The Bridgeville Firemens Carni-
val ended Saturday last with good
receipts considering the weather.
Mr.. and Mrs. o. T. Warrington
and daughter Hattie and Miss Glad
US Elliott, of Laurel, spent Sunday
at Oak Orchard.
Miss Emily Cannon is on a camp
ing trip up in Vermont for two
months.
Miss Pauline Ryan, who has been
spending several weeks with rela-
tives in Wilmington and Chester,
has returned home.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Conaway, of
Wilmington, are spending few
days with his father, Mr.. Will Coma
way.
Quite a few of the young people
from here attended the Fourth of
July dance held at Rehoboth on
July 4th.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Ferguson
have returned home after spending
a week in Gloucester Court, Va, as
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Jones, par
ents of Mrs. Ferguson.
Mrs. Emma Jackson has returned
to her home in Ridgely, Md, after
spending two weeks here with rela-
tives.
Mrs. Edgar Anderson and Mrs.
Victor Lewis spent last Sunday in
Ridgely, Md.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Quillen at
tended the Greensboro, Md, carni-
val last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hugh Breiden and
son, Willard Layton, of Philadelphia,
are spending some time here with
Mrs. Breiden's mother, Mrs. Eta
Layton.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dawson Todd are
their home on Broad
street. They expect to occupy it
some time in August.
The funeral services of Samuel
20 years, was held Friday
last from the home of his daughter,
Mrs. Elmer Wiley, in charge of the
Rev. George E. Sterling, pastor of
Union NJ E. Church. Mr.. Williams
has been ill at the home of his
daughter for the past eleven months. |
was made in Bethel Gem
etery.
Milford chronicle., 1928-07-06
RURAL DEVELOPMENT UNDER
GOING GREAT CHANGE

In it's As years of existence, the
, electric industry has reached not
only every urban community of any
Importance in the United States with
light and power sery ice, but rural
electrification on a national scale is
today an accepted Fact.
On January l, 1927, The National
Electric Light Association estimated
that 100000 farms received electric
service from utility distribution
lines.
Electricity Eliminates the farm
house, barns, garage, poultry houses
and other buildings, heats the incu-
bator and water for animals and
poultry during the winter, operates
the electric range, electric iron,
tOaster, vacuum cleaner and other
household conveniences; but, per-
haps, it renders it's greatest service
on the farm in furnishing power for
shelling and grinding corn, thresh-
ing barley, separating milk, cutting
ensilage and fodder, stuffing saus-
ages, milking cows, churning butter,
etc. A recent survey showed over
100 farm uses for electricity, and the
list is being enlarged daily.
Donald Affleck, in Central Hudson
Bulletin, sums it UP thusly: "The
real contribution which electricity
has made to rural development lies
in the fact that it has raised the
of living in outlying Sec
tiOns by removing much of the druid
gerry connected with the everyday
duties of the farmer, and in bringing
to him and his family most of the
con Seniences commonly associated
with life in urban communities.
Milford chronicle., 1928-07-06
11,OO1 AUTOMOBILES PASS
IN TWELVE HOURS

An indication of the number of
automobiles using the State roads
during the day was made when
members of the State Highway Po-
lice of the State Road station an
nounced that from yesterday noon
until midnight 11,OO1 cars passed
by in both directions. The heaviest
hour was from until z o'clock
when 1872 cars went by the station.
The various numbers of cars using
the road at the hours at which they
passed are as follows: Noon to 1
o'clock, 1872; 1 to 2 o'clock, 724; 2 to
8 o'clock, 7O7; to 4 o'clock, 7O1; 4
to o'clock, 996; to 6 o'clock,
1191; to o'clock, 1872; Z to 8
o'clock, 1851; 8 to o'clock, 1896; 8
to 10 O'Clock, 929; 10 to II o'clock,
572, and IL o'clock until midnight,
4SO.
Patrolmen of the State Highway
Police were kept on duty at all the
important intersections to keep traf-
fic moving steadily and to prevent
collisions.
Milford chronicle., 1928-07-06
THE INDIVIDUAL MUST
REMAIN PARAMOUNT

The open secret of the greatness
of America is expressed perfectly at
the end of Lincoln's famous Gettys-
burg Government Of the
people, by the people, for the peo-
pie. ....."
At the basis of all we have done,
all our achievements and prosperity,
is that definite principle of govern
ment.
In the beginning, the United States
was created by men to whom mon
archy, the Divine Right of Kings, all
the freedom-stiflling autocracy of
the Europe of that time, was abom-
Unable.
They established a great country
on the doctrine that the people were
entitled to freedom, liberty and the
right to organize their own govern
ment and society.
The iron heel of Imperialism was
abolished and the great experiment,
Democracy, became a reality.
The qualities which had lain dor
mant in a subjugated people-adven-
turousness, vision, the urge to pro-
gress and invent and perfect-came
splendidly to life. With magnificent
energy and intelligence a compara-
tive handful of citizens set them
selves to the grim reality of develop
ing a great country whose possibili-
ties, resources, and even physical
boundaries and characteristics, were
but vaguely understood.
A little more than $50 years later,
we are the heirs Of their herculean
accomplishments. All their dreams,
aspirations and triumphs have been
given to us.
It is our place-our duty-to see
that our inheritance is carried on
toward that ultimate perfection they
enVisaged.
The past greatness of America, the
past accomplishments, came from
unhampered individualism that used
its intelligence and initiative for the
benefit of the people as whole, with
the assistance of a government that
was the true voice of the people.
. The future achievements and yet
unconceived greatness of America
must stand on the same basis-free-
dom of the individual to progress
and realize to the limit his possibil-
tiles. Only with that doctrine up
permost, can industrial and business
greatness be created and maintain
ed.
There must be no departure from
government of, by and for the peo-
pie. There is no place in this coun-
try for paternalism or radicalism.
The individual must remain para
mount or we have failed.
Milford chronicle., 1928-07-06
BRIGHT MINING FUTURE
ASSURED

The mining industry continues to
become more stable, and production
and demand for such metals as cop
per, silver and zinc are increasingly
better balanced. A revived demand,
in particular for copper, is making
conditions satisfactory to both con-
sumer and producer, and is doing
away with unnecessary price fiuctu-
atiOns.
Many states directly, and the
whole country indirectly, are benefit
ing by the progress in mining. A
fine record is being made in the diff
cult work of doing away with the
chaotic confusion associated with its
early days. Public understanding
and trust in this essential industry
are on the increase assuring a
bright future.
Milford chronicle., 1928-07-06
SURFACE TREATMENT
SAVES HIGHWAYS

In recent article on "Why We
Oil Roads," r. H. Baldock, Mainte-
nance Engineer, Oregon State High
way Department, said:
'The present extensive use of fuel
oil on the Pacific Coast in road work
is the direct outcome of experiment.
al work conducted in 1923 by the
Oregon State Highway Commission,
followed in 1924, 1925 and 1926 by a
bituminous treatment of several
hundred miles of the state highway
system. The use of oil in the pres
ervation of modern crushed lock and
surfaced roads has been developed a
great deal since that time by the
State Highway Department, and is
now being used by highway depart
ments of practically every state in
the Union.
"Oregon pioneered the oiling of
roads as dust preventive and has
since developed this type of road
surface to a point where it is at
tracing international attention. H.
itiated as dust palliative, the oil
ing of roads is now carried on as a
major item in economical mainte-
nance, as it has been conclusively
proved that it costs less to oil and
maintain road than it does to
maintain road without oiling.
"The construction of gravel and
surfacing for state high
ways started in a small way in 1915.
At the close of the year 1923, Oregon
had approximately 1900 miles of ma
cadam roads constructed. By the
end of 1928 there will be more than
twice that mileage completed, of
which approximately 1900 miles will
be surface-treated with asphaltic
OIL"
Milford chronicle., 1928-07-06
PARTISAN TELEPHONE
TROUBLES

Commenting on the Partisan tele-
phone system which is owned and
operated by the government, The
Paris Times says:
"Often enough, machine will be
out of order for days or weeks. The
administration does not press itself
to make repairs, as would private
company. Nor does it offer any pay
ment to compensate for interruption
of service.
"When subscriber, unhOpeful but
desirous of a means of expressing
his feelings, appeals to the COM
plant department, he must pay for
the call.
"These are some of the reasons
why most Parisians would rather
walk mile than go through the diff
ficulties of a telephone call. These
are reasons why thousands of apart
ments which should normally be
equipped with telephones do not
have them. These are reasons why
the government probably makes less
from it's monopoly than it would re-
ceive in taxes from an efficient pri-
vate company willing to give SER
vice"
Milford chronicle., 1928-07-06
RAILROADS VOLUNTARILY
PROMOTE SAFETY

During the past eight years Amer
lean railroads have spent $S2S,701,-
900 of new capital for safety pur-
poses. All but $22, 2,995,OOO of this has
been spent voluntarily without or
ders from any commission.
The railroads have shown them
selves ecinently fitted to promote
safety and prevent accidents. In the
past few years continuous, undevi-
ating progress has been made with
the result that the present accident
rate is the lowest in history. A
branch of a great road recently es-
tablished a record by operating 1876
days without a reportable accident,
and during 1927 an important line
transported over 10 million passeng-
ers an average of 107.59 miles each,
without a fatality '1ue to train ac-
cident. Other lines have made equ-
ally admirable progress.