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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-10-30
SOPPING WET SENATOR HAS TO
CAST DRY VOTE

WASHINGTON, Oct. 3O.-Plenty
Of senators vote dry whose per-
sonal sympathies are very wet.
However. believe me, they keep
quite as mice about their sympa-
thies. All except one
Senator Coleman Livingston
Blease's personal sympathies are
sopping wet. South Carolina. his
state, requires him 10 vote dry. he
does il. but il nearly kills him, and
he keeps no quieter about IL than a
steam calliope.
Whenever a wet-and-dry question
up in the senate, Cole Blease
makes a speech, explaining his vote.
1t will be a dry vote. he states.
The explanation is that it has to
be, or Collie could not continue to
be a senator-which is candid, but
not so bad. if the South Carolina
solon did not always take occasions
to tell what he thinks about prohibit
ton. too.
What he thinks about IL is
thing fierce.
"Asinine,' Outrageous" "idiotic"
are among his mildest adjectives.
Senator Blease has a big vocabulary
and he uses every bit Of it on this
subject. His last available hard
word exhausted, he votes-dry.
Even though he does vote dry. it
is a senate marvel that he has the
nerve ia say the things he says.
Regardless of the fact he knuckles
under 10 the inevitable, how can he
abuse. so lavishly. the pet political
principle of a practically bone-dry
section of the country-without
making two-thirds Of its voters
hopping mad.
A few nights ago the truth came
QUIT does make the dry voters
hopping mad.
AT all events, they were mad
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-10-30
Other Papers
NEW WRINKLE IN CAMPAIGNING
(St. Louis Globe Democracy.

The radio has brought about many changes in poll
,;cs but Senator Howell Of Nebraska is believed to De
the only candidate who carries his own broadcasting
station. News photos show the senator standing on
the roadside, facing no visible audience and earnestly
,ddressing his portable brosdcaster. when he decides
- wake an address, we are told, she stops his car and
tears into a political speech, just any place"
II IL the very latest wrinkle in radio campaigning
In bysone years any candidate, before he would make
. speech. waited for a large crowd to gather to hear
him. This antiqusted practice is still observed in the
current presidential campaign, though the radio is also
utilized. The speaker does not need a crowd or 20
c.,.,or Howell seems to think. With his portable
.~--s...,;rv station, he reaches out for invisible au-
s;snces. He pays no high tribute to the vested inter
ests in broadcasting.
Perhaps the manufacturers of this new radio equip
us,t will not do a very big business in the present
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-10-30
Washington Letter
By CHARLES q. STEWART

\ enough to send a shower ~ eggs
in Coles direction.
The senator is stumping Dixie for
Al Smith, il seems.
Il was at Atlanta, on the South
4 Carolina-Georgia line, that he lit
into the eighteenth amendment and
the Volstead act. Maybe he had
done so elsewhere also, but it was
at Augusta that he brought down
the barrage.
They say the Eggs missed him, but
they were well meant.
Needness to relate-if you know
Colie-the panning he ave to pro-
hibition after that broke al rec
ords. The madden his audience gets.
the better the senator likes it-and
his audience evidently was as mad
as a hornet.
But the queer part OF 10 is
After having all those eggs chuck
ed at him, as a wet. Collie unques-
tionably will come back here to the
capital ext winter and vote dry,
as usual.
On the one hand. we have Sem
ator Blesse. with so intense a loath-
ing for prohibition that he will get
up on a platform in a dry commun-
ity, and risk being spattered with
hen fruit 70 d~enounce it-but in
Washington he classes as one Of the
standbys in the anti-rum forces.
On the other hand, we have an
aggregation of voters 50 devoted %
the prohibition principle that they
Gu loose with a salvo Of eggs at nv
distinguished a public man a. Cole
man Livingston Blease for roasting
it-but when the tir1e for
them to select a United States SEN
ator. Collie gets afbig majority.
Collie faces sScts.
He IS a WEB BY inclination. He 3
a dry by necessity. lie proclaims it
boldly.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-10-30

Who am I? What is my profess
sion? With what recent aerial
achievement was ! connected?
Who is president or France.
Who was the first president cf
the German republic1
Who IL meant BY the phrase, "The
Vanishing American :"
Likewise, We younger, submit
yourselves unto the elder. Yea. ali
of you be subject one to another.
and be clothed with humility: for
God resisteth the proud, and givcth
grace TO the humble" Where does
this passage appear in the Bible?
Today In the Past
On this date. in 1735. John Adams.
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To LAUNCH DRIVE

HARLINGEN, Oct. 30.-Offieers OF
the local Young Women's Christian
Association unit are completing plans
10 launch the annual drive for funds.
beginning Thursday Of this week, sc-
cording to Miss Lillian Hooking, sec
rotary.
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The Grab Bag

second president Of the United
States. was born.
Today's Horoscope
Persons born under this sign are
very sensitive and easily wounded.
They are possessed Of the faculty
Of learning and retaining much valu-
able knowledge. They also have u
great capacity for love.
A Daily Thought
"A man protesting against error
in on the way towards uniting him
self with all men that believe In
truth."-Carlyle.
nss4eV WAnaC
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campaign. But wait awhile. II Senator Howell is re-
elected. all candidates will be wanting them. No large
funds will have to be raised to conduct a campaign
along these lines, and the spellbinder can cut loose
whenever and wherever he pleases. The only drawbacks
is that these portable stations can not be heard at any
great distance.
But If, two years or four years hence, motorists
along rural ways see a lone speaker declaiming and
wildly gesticulsting on some hilltop, they will know
what it means. It will be merely another candidate
trying to swing a rural vote. 1t would be discourag-
ing, however, if Senator Howell should discover at the
November election that nobody had been listening to
the broadcasting of his portable station.
CAN WE PUT A CANADIAN BORDER SOUTH OF US?
Dallas News).
The Santiago treaty, negotiated in 1928, has at last
come into effect with the signatures OF all Latin-Amer-
lean countries and the United States subscribed. I'm
der the terms OF the agreement, mobilization Of troops
on the border Of any country within less than two
years after the beginning Of any dispute Is barred. II
is contemplated that disputes shall first be subjected
TO diplomatic adjustment, then to arbitration il posi-
BILE, and finally, If not settled otherwise to investiga-
ton by a committee ard report. Until this report .
filed, or until the two years are up, military action may
not be relied upon.
II Il the cooling off" idea, Of course. An argu-
ment two years ago somehow seems less a matter to go
to war about. Particularly Is that true where it has
been investigated by nonpsrtisan inquiry. But the
United States is going to have more occasion, perhaps,
to look to this experiment and more reason TO hope
for its success than almost any other country except
Mexico.
If we can make the Rio Grande as peaceful a river
as the st. Lawrence IL will be a happy contamination
indeed. A Canadian border 70 the south of US is all
that any lover Of International friendship could ask.
The Mexican people are not evilly minded. They are
not determined to wrong US. They have their rest
less ard lawless elements, to be sure. And so have We.
II we take two years to understand them before we
undertake to force them to our way Of thinking. we are
apt 70 find that we do understand them, and that they
understand US and that there is no need of force after
all. In AIRY case IL Is we'll worth trying in a spirit Of
give and take. As Mexico advances in industry and
education We are apt to find her friendship Is one OF
the outstanding assets Of our foreign trade. II is very
important already.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-10-30

MANIAC ROAMS FOREST
CLAYBURG, Eng.-Frederick walk
er, an escaped luuatic. has evsded
capture in Epping Forest for six
weeks.
Milford chronicle., 1928-04-20
HELP FOR FLOODED STATES

With remarkable speed the United
States Senate has passed the bill
which provides $325,OOO,OOO for
flood prevention in the Mississippi
Valley, and probably a good deal
more than that will be spent even
tually.
Thus a fine demonstration is
given that the calamities that af-
feet one section affect us all, and
when disaster becomes too big
for one section to meet, we must
all rally to its aid. Such a demon
stratiOn must deepen the enthusi-
asm that we all feel for our great
country, which responds heartily to
such calls for assistance. This an
plies. especially to the building of
new school houses in Delaware
The towns help rural districts and
results in the future citizenship
helps all the people of our state.
Milford chronicle., 1928-04-20
'.MY ONE VOTE"

One of the influences that oper-
ates most powerfully to encourage
people to neglect the civic duty Of
voting at primaries and elections, is
the idea that, as many voters put it,
"My one vote won't make any diff
ference"
The neglectful citizen feels that
when millions of people are voting
in the presidential contest, his lit
tie ballot will never be missed. The
result will be just the same, whether
he fails or not.
How would that principle work if
applied to all the duties of citizen
ship?
Suppose it was applied to the
question of service in the recent
war. The drafted man might say,
"The little fighting 1 can do in
this war will never make any differ
>ence There will be. plenty beside
me to go and fight the Kaiser.
will evade the draft, as what little
1 could do would not affect the re-
suit any,"
Uncle Sam would not take any
stock in that plea. He would say
that if everyone used that argu-
ment, we should have no army at
all, and the whole world could
trample on us.
Or the individual taxpayer might
say that his little ten or fifty dollar
bill that he was assessed, would
make no particular difference and
wouldn't buy much, so that he need
not make any return of his income
Also the government would make
short work of that argument.
To get results in a community
everyone has to do his own part. If
people use the excuse that their
own lack of service will make no
the reply is that if ev-
eryone did that way, the govern
ment would so to smash. People
who use that foolish argument as
an excuse for not voting, should be
made to feel that the community
does not approve of their idea. If
we are going to have a country
worth living in, everyone must do
his part as if the whole thing de-
pended on him alone.
Milford chronicle., 1928-04-20
~N
MILFORD A GOOD TRADING
CENTER

When a town develops a group of
up-to-date and enterprising stores,
it accOmplishes a wonderful step
toward its progress. People are
better cOntented to live in a town
where the shopping facilities are
good. They consider such stores
one of the leading attractions of
the place, and such business
houses furnish jobs to young peo-
pie who are leaving school.
But in order to get such a coIlec-
ton of stores in any city or town,
the people Of that community have
to make it their practice, so far as
it is possible, to do their buying at
home, If any large share Of this
trade goes elsewhere, the town will
never develop the business it might
have, and its progress will drag.
But this latter point is a problem
for the local merchant to solve sue
cessfully.
Milford chronicle., 1928-04-20
Glendale

Miss Mae McColley spent Tuesday
evening with Miss Elsie G. Warren.
Mr.. and Mrs. John B. Derrjckson
and daughter were guests of Mr..
and Mrs. George E. Reed at Reho-
both Friday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. George J. Knots of
Kenton were guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
George Spicer Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Spicer were
Sunday callers of friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph S. Short, Jr.,
entertained as their guests Sunday
Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Boswell and son
Clifton of Blades and also Misses
Mile and Anna Short.
Robert A. Swain is ill at this writ
ing.
An old fashion serenade was Civ
en- Mr.. and Mrs. Weldon Dickerson
Tuesday evening at the home of Mrs.
Dickerson's parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Truitt at Lincoln City. Refreshments
were served and everyone reported
a fine time.
Mrs. Cove Smith is still ill at this
writing but is improving.
Mrs. Norman Jester is greatly i'm
proved at this writing.
Miss Marian Spicer spent the week
end in Philadelphia.
Mr.. and Mrs. R. ]. Clendaniel en-
tertained guests the past week.
Rev. and Mrs. w. D. Short and
daughter Irene of East New Mar
ket, Md, spent Monday afternoon
with the formers parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Joseph S. Short, Sr.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Bayman, Jr.,
and daughter, Kathleen Virginia,
and Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Bayman of
Lewes were guests of Mr.. and Mrs,
John B. Derrickson Sunday.
Milford chronicle., 1928-04-20
MILFORD'S COMMUNITY
ADVANTAGES

To promote the development of a
community, it needs to have the IA
cilities ordinarily provided in cities
of the same class. If parks and
Fairgrounds and public libraries
and athletic fields and modern
school buildings are usually pro-
vided in towns of that type, then
the community that is ambitious to
go ahead will have at least to keep
up with the average in these re-
spects.
If it wants to make decided pro-
gress, it will have to provide more
than the average of these advantage
es. Here in Milford we should
carefully examine the advantages
that we give our people in these re-
spects and compare them with
those offered in similar places. If
we are behind in any respect, that
lack should be supplied with the
least possible delay.
Milford chronicle., 1928-04-20
S2oGe
HUMANE SENTIMENT

/ The week April ID TO Il mas Deen
appointed as BE Kind to Animals
Week" and is more or less observed
over the whole country.
In spite of everything that has
been done for humane education,
there are still a good many horse
owners who do not give these
beasts kind or fair treatment. The
sight of some skinny and half-fed
animals is a pathetic one.
The horse bears a large share of
the burdens of humanity. If men
and women had to drag through
the streets and roads everything
that is now carried with horses only,
the burden would be almost insup-
portable. These great strong
horses, noble creatures that they
are, carry these loads very cheer
fully and willingly There is some
thing inspiring in the readiness
with which a well cared for horse
will obey his owner. Without
questioning why he should thus be
made to carry burdens in which he
is not interested, he goes at his
work patiently and faithfully.
He asks just one thing in re-
turn, and it is all the comfort he
gets out of life. That thing is kind
treatment, to be shown in giving
him good food and plenty of it, in
protecting him against heat in sum-
mer and cold in winter, and giving
him comfortable and well fitted
harness. When he does so much
for us and does it so patiently, how
can any horse owner in Delaware
have the heart to deny him this
slender reward for his faithful eff
forts?
Then there are all the rest of the
animals. We should have a thought
for our dogs and cats, and see that
when we go on our vacations, they
have plenty of food and comfort
able care. Owners of cattle owe an
obligation to these submissive
beasts. In this age of civilization,
people should have hearts tender
enough to see where suffering ex-
lists among these speeches. crea-
lures, and not make them suffer for
heir lack of voice of protest.
Milford chronicle., 1928-04-20
AN OLD.FASHIONED CAMPAIGN

Some folks have the idea that the
political campaign of this fall is
going to be run somewhat on old
fashioned lines in the doubtful
states, with torchlight professions
and brass bands parading the
streets, yelling for their candidate,
and stirring up noise and enthusi-
asm which they think will give an
appearance of victory and make
votes for their cause.
Some politicians might say that
that would be effective campaign
ing. Yet some difficulties can be
seen. If they are going to have
marching battalliOns, the marchers
need some drilling to make good
appearance. The young men have
too much on their minds nowadays
to spend much time in drilling. A
poorly drilled battalion would not
make many votes by mere yelling.
Further it costs money to buy
uniforms and torches and provide
the bands and the feeds that are
necessary to keep the enthusiasm
of the marchers alive. Public SEN
timent does not favor large cam
paign expenditure now.
These are more complex times
than the ones when the old torch
light professions used to be the IA
vorite campaign method. The peo-
pie are not so easily thrilled and
It is doubtful if they
would stand around on the street
corners all the evening now to see
the procession go by.
Probably it will take different
kind of appeal now. The radio will
be a favorite method, which will
reach millions of people in Is min
utes. And then there is always
the newspaper advertisement, that
carries it's silent message into the
homes where it is carefully read.
These are methods that appeal to
the busy life of 1928 here in Della
ware.
Milford chronicle., 1928-04-20
COVERING UGLY SPOTS

An appeal has been made in that
district of Vermont that was re-
Gently ravaged by flood, that the
spots thus defaced should be plant
ed with Towering vegetation. Here
is a plan that would be helpful al
most anywhere, for almost all To-
calities have ugly spots on their
landscape that detract from their
beauty.
In any waste of dirty sandy soil,
some kind of vegetation would
grow, and cover that defacing scar.
The same idea applies to home
grounds, and many people in Della
ware could improve their places by
planting some quick-growing trees,
or shrubs in front of some feature
of their place that detracts from its
appearance.
Milford chronicle., 1928-04-20

Miss Anna Sheppard spent a part
of last week in Milford.
Harvey Marker is somewhat i'm
proved.
Many enjoy pleasant motor trips
and the wonderful spring foliage
that Mother Nature has given US.
Mr.. and Mrs. Norman Prettyman
and Mr.. and Mrs. Oliver Lynch took
a motor trip to Crisfeld, Md, Sun
day.
Mrs. Short is very i'll at the home
Of her son, Elmer Short, of near
town.
Milford chronicle., 1928-04-20
SoS
ROADS AND TRADE

Remarkable results in increase of
trade are obtained in many cities
through the improvement of roads.
1t will often happen that the people
of some city have not been able to
draw trade from certain towns or
localities near by, because the road
way to those places were so bad.
People would not drive over those
roads.
But when those highways were
improved, all at once a new current
of trade set in. The automobiles
which had formerly stayed at
home, or gone a longer distance,
now turn onto the new hard sur
face. If we in Delaware improve
a road leading to some nearby
town or village, we set new cur
rent Of trade to flowing in,
Milford chronicle., 1928-04-20
FOREST FIRES

! Many fires spread through the for
est lands in the springtime. The
peril to these lands is greater than
ever, not merely because of camp
ing and fishing parties, but still
more because of the careless ways
of the people who pass in automo-
biles.
Some needless man throws
burning cigaret end into the dry
leaves by the side of the road, and
in short time that inflammable
stuff is burning. The vast stretch
es of forest land burned over each
year are a sore spot on the face of
the nation, and the destruction Of
valuable timber is one reason why
building costs are high in Della
ware.
SoS
NEW INDUSTRIES are always
desirable, but a little encourage
ment given to the old ones often
accomplishes more.
SoS
THE PEOPLE who can't afford to
advertise, frequently come out
about like those that can't afford to
hire salespeople.
So9
BEFORE a town grows much in
population, it has first to grow in
faith and enthusiasm and enter
prise.
%eG$
WORK hard and save your money
so your childen won't have the
troubles which made a man of you.
Se@
THE joy of doing something for
yourself is doubled if you know
someone else wants you to do it.
Se@
WHEN denying youself some
pleasure, be sure you gain at least
as much as you lose.
@e@
TAKE pains with your work or
you will get pains out Of it.
Milford chronicle., 1928-04-20

On account of illness in the home
of Mrs. Molloy C. Vaughn, her home
will not be open for demonstration
for "Better-Homes Week" until Fri
day Nav 4th
Milford chronicle., 1928-04-20

THE numerous dinners and dances
that mark the post-Lenten season de-
mand that the faithful winter even.
ing frOcks be replaced by flowing, airy
creations. Whether at Lake Placid
or in sunny Florida, the model pictur-
ed above will never fail to do justice
to the soft spring nights, and charm
ingly decorated bathrooms. The hand
kerchief drapes are set in diagonal
tiers on the skirt. A shoulder bow
with flying ends is buckled on the
right shoulder. The belt is gathered
by another buckle at the left side
under the slightly bloused bodice. The
simply V-shaped neck in back and
front is flattering too to pretty neck
and shoulders. This design is one of
the fluttery Floating" frocks that are
particularly the thing for printed and
plain chiffon. Copyright, 1928, by
BHtterick)
Milford chronicle., 1928-04-20

Harvey c. Marker states II wish
to express my sincere thanks to my
neighbors and friends of this COM
munity for their help that I am re-
ceiving while I am disabled with a
badly cut foot"
Everyone is invited to attend Sun
day school April 22nd.
We are sorry to hear of the death
of David Wells, of near Nassau. He
has relatives near here.
Milford chronicle., 1928-04-20
CARD OF THANKS

1 wish to thank all who in any
way assisted during the illness and
death of my wife. May God bless
you. Thomas H. Wilson. 1t
Milford chronicle., 1928-04-20

LET summer holidays end! ItAii
easy to say that, if the young per
son has planned her winter wardrobe
successfully. Back to college or school
with its happy reunions and the an
tieipation of new hGnors to try for.
Not all the hours are ones of study.
This wise girl did not forget to add
that ever necessary lOunging robe in
her dress budget. She remembered
that there will be cheese dreams OF
fudge making in the winter nights.
But what difficulty she had, choos-
ing from the many lovely materials
there we're! Eiderdown, flannel or
quilted silk could have beautiful satin
ribbon to bind it. Or the smartness
of corduroy o. terry cloth with just
the simple cord around the waist. So
she decided to have two. Copyright
1897, BY Bgt;ericE)
Milford chronicle., 1928-04-20

FOE some time Theresa's dancing
school teacher has been privately
coaching her for a little solo dance
that she has been selected to do for
the Spring festival. Her last re-
hearsal has gone through splendidly,
for the new dancing frOck mother
made is so comfortably cool and
roomy. Just a simple slip-over frOck
with frills of val lace around the
neck and tiny embryo sleeves. And
the petals also surrounded by lace
ruffles spread out so charmingly
when she twirls and promotes and
reveals the short, full, scalloped skirt
trimmed with tiny lace frills. To
many Juniors, dancing class is a bore
but a dainty little dress such as the
one Theresa wears will set their nat
ural grace off to great advantage and
cause them to take great pride in per-
fecting their steps. In georgette,
voile, crepe de chine or organdie, this
design also makes lovely party dress
that can be worn on the most gala
occasions. Copyright, 1928, By But
terickl
Milford chronicle., 1928-04-20

Raising a family costs almost as
much as it is worth.
Milford chronicle., 1928-04-20
2oG

WHEN a man leaves his wife she
hasn't lost half so much as she
thinks she has.