Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1928-08-10
MILFORD, FRIDAY, AUG. 10, 1925

MILFORD, FRIDAY, AUG. 10, 1925
PRESIDENT COOLIDGE said in
his address last Memorial Day some
things which are facts that it is well
to remember. He said, eve cannot
pass laws that will make crime i'm
possible. Efforts in that direction
have too often reacted to the advan-
tage of the criminal, by restraining
the law-abiding citizen. What we
can do is to interpret and expedite
our present laws and procedure that,
by example, crime will be discour-
aged. If we add to this, early train
ing that inculcates in the potential
citizen an instructive respect for the
rules of society, we will have gone
a long way toward reform.
IT WOULD BE a very fine thing
if members of town councils, could
be made to understand, that crime,
like weeds, fourishes best where it
can most easily resist obliteration
and escape punishment. The Mayors
or chairmen of the police commit
tees, must familiarize themselves
with the duties of police, and in
struct such officers specifcly as to
how to administer the laws. The
criminal and lawless element in the
past, has trespassed upon sympathy,
until forebearance has ceased to be
a virtue. Lets have real law en-
forcement pure and simple, and see
how it works out. Milford is a good
place to try out the policy, and this
statement is to be construed by each
member of Town Council, as a per-
sonal appeal to them to be of SER
vice to the people they are chosen to
act for. Start on observance of
traffic rules, and passing the traffic
lights before the pedestrians have
opportunity to cross.
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IF YOU WANT to know why some
towns and some business concerns
go ahead while many stand still,
the answer is that these go ahead
places and concerns give the impress
sion of something doing. They have
an air of activity, and people like
that air and are drawn to it.
A small town where people are
wide awake and responsive to new
ideas, and working for better things,
is commonly regarded as a much
better place to live in than much
larger one, where things are more
stagnant and stay about the same
year after year. The small wide
awake place may not have nearly
so many advantages, but the people
like the spirit of it. Also they think
there are better chances to make
money and get a job in a place
where new activities are expanding.
It is much the same with a bust
ness. People are not attracted to
anything that looks stationary. If a
business man keeps the same goods
in his show window for many
weeks, people cease to look at it. It
is question whether that show win
dow would do him any good. People
want to see some evidence of change !
or development or something new in
such a window.
This may explain why newspaper
advertising attracts people so pow
erfully. An advertised store looks
like a place where there is some /
thing doing. People feel that
things are going on there, that
changes are being made, new goods
coming in fast, old goods going at
bargain sales if they do not move
readily in regular stock. They like I
the evidence of activity which adver-
Using gives.
Such a store gives the impression
Of being a store of enterprise, hus-
tie, effort to render service, with new
things happening that need to be
kept watch of. So the people flock
there, and add to the impression Of
activity by their presence around
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