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Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1929-02-01
MILFORD, FRIDAY, FEB. 1, 1929
THE TAXPAYERS DUTY

One of the obligations of many OF
our people at this time is the prep
aration of a complete and fair in
come tax return. If a persons in
come consists merely of a regular
salary or wages which runs along
regularly from week to week, this
is an easy enough job.
But if one is running a business,
the preparation of this return is apt
to be quite proposition, with many
doubtful points arising. A large
number of people feel they must
hand this work over to some lawyer
OF specialist. 1t involves very cor
rect bookkeeping to produce &C
counts and figures that will stand
examination if the internal revenue
officers are not satisfied with the
return you hand in.
Many people complain about the
complicated nature of the return.
But so many difficult points arise,
that the government has to define
these very carefully and in much
detail.
There is an obligation on each
taxpayer to state his income as hon
estly as he can. Methods of avoid
ing taxation that comply with the
letter of the law but are contrary
to it's spirit, are not desirable. Peo-
pie should look at the government
as their friend and protector, and
avoiding the payment of some tax
that according to the spirit of the
law one ought to pay, is like get
ting money away from your own
father.
People should ask, not merely
what they must pay, but what they
ought to pay. If doubtful points
arise, such questions should be
fairly put up to the revenue officers.
Taxpayers will come out the best
in the long run to make fair state
ments, while those who show a dis
position to take advantage of tech
nicalities can expect to be carefully
watched by the revenue officials. We
should remember that we owe all
our prosperity to our government |
and that we must all take our fair
share of the expense that its main
tenance involves.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1929-02-01
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THE FRIENDLY TOWN

If YOU are travelling in some
foreign country and meet some citl-
zen of Delaware, you greet him
with the warmest cordially, even il
you scarcely knew him at home. 1t
seems good to see someone from
your home burg where you live
Which shows that the ties that knit
the people of our community togeth-
err are firmer than we realize.
Now one thing that we need to
make our community an ideal city,
is to have these ties of friendship
manifested between citizens in their
daily life at home. 1t should not be
necessary to travel thousands OF
miles in order to know that you
like your neighbors and value your
common interests. Show it every
dav as you meet them on the streets
and in your work and business. 1t
will help make this a thoroughly
friendly community, which people
will value for it's neighborliness.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1929-02-01
THE GROUND HOGS SHADOW

Tomorrow is what is known in the
folk lore of the land as Ground
Hog Day" According to an old
superstition, if the sun shines
bright enough for the ground hog to
see his shadow on February 2, he
will become frightened and scam
per back to his hole for another six
weeks of winter weather. If the
old fellow does not see his shadow
he is not perturbed, remains out of
his Information, and spring, indeed
has come, as the old tale runs. But
it seems we have motley season in
this broad land along about this
time of year-siX weeks more of
winter in some localities, spring
like days from now on in other
communities, and some of both in
other places.
The truth is, of course, ground
hogs come out of their holes early
in the season, when the sun begins
to get higher in the heavens and the
weather becomes milder. And they
also go back into their holes when
the weather grows inclement-be-
cause they would starve to death if
they did not do so.
There will be bright days, and
warm ones, scattered along from
today on, until the spring flowers
bloom. But the ground hog has
nothing to do with it, and knows
nothing about it. He doesn't know
as much about it as the weather
man, and makes just as many mis-
takes.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1929-02-01
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A COMMON FAILING

What the country needs is not a
;good scent cigar or a new law, but
a formula or device which would
make it impossible to write 1928
now that it, is passe. For such mis-
takes as this erasers were placed on
pencils, but the economic waste in
wearing out so many erasers and
rubbing out so much ink and lead is
staggering.
If the food of plain, fancy and as
sorted calendars with which all are
deluged on or about January J.
would prevent this writing of the old
year for the new, the economic
waste involved in the annual calen-
dar surplus could be overlooked. But
the careful and methodical man who
surrounds himself with new calen-
dars invariably dates his mail a
year back. That everybody's weak
ness now.
There's a reason why editorial
writer's no longer write in bright and
inspiring terms of the New Year as
a new beginning, a fresh start and
a reawakening. Such flights of poet
ic fancy ceased where the custom of
buying in December and paying in
January began. Economically and
financially the new year begins
about March 1, all of January's and
Februarys surplus earnings being
required to settle in full with the
old year. The hope the new year
brings is the hope for solvency be-
fore Easter, spring housekeeping
and vacation time,
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1929-02-01
ABAFFLING SCOURGE

With every recurrence of influenza
in epidemic form the medical pro-
fession redoubles it's efforts to dis
cover the cause of and preventive for
the disease. 1t is doing this now, but
il is frankly without much hope of
success.
Influenza still remains one of the
few enigmas of medical science. 1t
is a profound mystery, defying solu-
ton. Whether it's origin is related
to electrical influences, as Noah
Webster believed, or to sun spots, as
a Russian investigator recently sug-
gested, or to the so-called Pfeiffer's
bacillus, as many medical authorities
now insist, or merely to unseason-
able weather, there is no definite
proof for any theory so far pro-
pounded,
While the specific cause of the
disease remains unknown, its history
has been analysed until it is now
possible to forecast the modus oper-
andi of an epidemic with some de-
gree of certainty. 1t has been de-
termined that the disease appears
periodically, and runs its course in
two or three cycles. So health au-
thorities and the public can, to a de-
gree, take preventive measures.
Through the epidemics of 1918 and
1919 and the present epidemic the
public has acquired enough respect
for the virulence of the disease to
make a serious effort to avoid it.
This in itself is potent weapon
against the scourge, for nothing so
spreads disease as public careless
ness and Indifference in time of real
danger of epidemic.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1929-02-01
THE MEN AND THE R0YS

Various organizations of men
have during recent years done a
good deal to look after the boys of
their community, particularly those
youngsters who may need special
help. They have canvassed for
funds for boys organizations, in
dividual men have offered their time
to give boys advice, they serve as
officers in boy societies, and in
many ways they have endeavored to
meet the needs of the boys, and
give them a boost into the path of
useful industry and business.
Here is kind of work that is
needed, and in some form it should
be done here in Milford and every
where else. Lives of crime are
proving attractive to many young
fellows. The community is in SER
icus danger from these young
tOughs. In many cases the parents
OF these boys are not capable of
handling them.
The situation is particularly hard
in certain families where the par
ents were born in some foreign land
and never learned to speak English
well. Their children who attend
our schools, usually look down on
these parents, who could give them
good advice if the children only
realized it. But the children feel
they know more than these parN
ents, and they go their own way,
and many of them are in danger of
getting into trouble.s
There ought to be a group of bust
ness and professional men in every
community who are looking after
the needs of the boys of the town.
If the boys need more club work, a
chance for athletics in summer or
winter, instruction in trades or
handicrafts, or any kind of help
and advice, there should be some
group of men to whom they are
welcome to go for counsel, and
who would take steps to provide
these boys with the things which
they need.
If the men of our communities
looked after the boys, not so many
would be getting in trouble, and
themselves a menace
and burden.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1929-02-01

HOW TO OBTAIN NEW
INDUSTRIES

The question is asked over and
over again in Milford, How can we
obtain desirable new industries to
promote our growth in population
and wealth."
Communities obtain such indus
tries when they acquire reputation
for enterprise and progressiveness.
If a city keeps up with modern
ideas, and if it shows a pushing
spirit in promoting the business it
already has, it's reputation spreads
as a living place. Consequently,
when anyone in its section thinks
of starting some new industry, he
is very apt to pick out a place of
this type which has acquired this
reputation for activity and pro-
gress.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1929-02-01
FAST GROWING CITIES OR
T0WNS

1t would be an interesting thing
to make study of conditions in
list of cities and towns that are
growing at rapid rate, and try to
find out what factors enter into this
speedy advance. 1t could of course
be assumed that these communities
are specially well located as bust
ness centers, that they have indus
tries supplying vital and popular
needs, that they have leadership
from a group of public spirited and
active people, both in the business
field and in civic improvement.
The newspaper man will say also,
that such study should include the
newspapers of these places, to de-
termine what influence they have
on the development of the commun-
ity. He would be confident that it
would be found that the newspa-
pers in these towns carry a big
volume of advertising. This use of
newspaper space would be partly
cause of progress, and partly a
by-product of that advance.
1t would be a cause of progress,
because such liberal advertising
draws trade from a distance and
spreads information proving that a
community is a fine place to do
business in. This draws shoppers
and purchasers from near and far,
and also it has the effect of making
people want to live in a community
that shows so much business spirit.
When a community develops in
that way, it is such convenience
and so economical to buy in it's good
stores, that people hate to move
away from it.
Also advertising is a by-product |
of progress, since when a city or
town has lot of enterprising bust
ness people in it, they are not salts
fled unless they are constantly MAX
ing efforts to extend their trade.
This type of people do lot of adj
So when you visit some |
town whose newspapers are full of
business notices, you can conclude
that that place is an advancing
community.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1929-02-01
CLOTHES AND CHARACTER

A lady who lives in a larger city
remarks that when she goes shop
ping at home, she has to wear her
very best clothes, or the clerks de-
cline to give her careful attention.
That seems an undemocratic spirit,
and it does not exist in the stores of
Milford, but unquestionably it does
in many places.
This lady remarks also that she is
a member of woman's club whose
membership has largely fallen off,
and she thinks that the appearance
of the president has a good deal to
do with it. Formerly, she said, they
had as president a fine looking wo-
man who wore beautiful clothes, and
the members just worshipped her.
The present president is an equally
fine lady, but she lacks both the
beautiful clothes and the impressive
personality, consequently the mem
bers seem to lose interest.
Most young women will say that
the girls who are not attractively
dressed do not win partners at the
dances. And in business places, it |
seems to be true that everything else
being equal, the attractively dressed |
girl is most. successful as a sales
woman.
The human mind is swayed too |
much by dress. Many young women
put their minds so much on their
clothes that their heart is not in
their work, and they will never be-
come efficient The destinations of
fine clothes are often deceptive, and
many empty headed people get more
attention than the value of their
ideas warrants, because of their
fine feathers.
But clothes do reflect character to
a large extent. People who lack
neatness and suitability of clothing
indicate a certain carelessness that
tends to prevent good work, and such
folks need to wear better clothes
and take care of them more care
fully.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1929-02-01

INTEMPERANCE

Public attention has been so Ions
centered on the Incorporate use o
alcoholic beverages that the wore
Incorporate" has lost its broad
meaning among a great part of the
populace. If one were to ask the
average person to define the WORD
the definition most frequently given
would be ito drink to excess" OIL
something to the same effect.
Compare this popular understand
ing of the word with it's definitions
as found in Webster's dictionary:
"Indulging any appetite or pas
sion to excess; immoderate in en-
joyment or exertion; ungovernable;
immoderate; as, Incorporate Ian
guage, zeal, etc."
So it becomes evident that one
may be Incorporate in many differ
ent ways. There are Incorporate
eaters, Incorporate smokers, intern
perate workers, Incorporate sleep
ers, Incorporate oilers, Incorporate
spenders, Incorporate takers, in
temperate thinkers, Incorporate re-
formers, and finally there may be
intemperance in anything.
In an essay on 1.-THE Evils of In
temperance" appears the statement:
1.-THE history of mankind has
shown that intemperance is the
greatest evil which has afflicted the
human race. Yet this is the lesson
that mankind from age to age and
from generation to generation per-
sistently forgets. Spiritual intern
perance unlooses the forces of hate,
bigotry, oppression, tyranny, and
the like, any and all of which have
potentialities for evil in civilized
communities that may be compared
only with the physical intemperance
that weakens and destroys barbar-
GUS or semi-civilized peoples"
Victory in civilization's war
against intemperance in the use of
intoxicating liquors will not abolish
all intemperance. There are other
forms of intemperance equally de-
vastating and 'intolerable.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1929-02-01

SECOND WAVE OF GRIP

Late reports of influenza in the
many states, indicate some decline
in this infection. But health officials
tell us to look out for second wave
of this malady, which is often worse
than the first.
So far the grip has not gripped us
very hard. But he is a very treach-'
erous sort of a critter. When he
looks most smiling, he is apt to be
getting ready blow that Will COM
pletely floor us. There is something
very mysterious in the way this in
lection spreads, not wholly ac-
counted for by the movement of peo-
pie in trains and automobiles. We
would better all take precautions
against it here in Delaware.
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MORE MONEY is in circulation
than ever before, but it is likely to
circulate away from you, unless you
turn it your way by advertising.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1929-02-01
DoS

WE ARE ALL partners in the
work of advancing Milford, but
sleeping partners never pulled a
load a foot along the road.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1929-02-01
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VIGOROUS AT SO


The newspapers are printing pic
lures of John D. Rockefeller playing
golf at his Florida home at the age
of SO. He. is described as an indie
fatigable golfer at his advanced age
Many of us would be very happy II
we felt we could retain our physical
vigor so long.
1t is a pathetic thing as men and
women go on into elderly life, to see
them gradually dropping out of the
activities they used to enjoy. 1t
used to be considered that they
were old and had passed their prime
when they reached so years. Then
the limit was gradually extended, as
the older people kept doing more ac-
tive things. But most of them still
drop out far too early.
There are many authorities who
feel that the natural term of life
should be at least 100 years. People
have a way of abusing themselves
without knowing it. They keep do
ing things to the limit, either work
or dissipation, and all at once
something breaks, and they find
themselves rapidly going down hill.
If people are to live to a greater
age, they must have good physical
constitutions to start with. If they
begin feeble, the processes of de-
generation start early. Our medical
science and better care of children
are making the present boys and
girls far healthier than their par
ents were. A lot of them ought to
live to the age of 0, and good
many to be 100 if they would take
care of themselves.
Calm and equable dispositions are
a great help. Nerve tissue wears
fast under worry, hurry, and strain.
long life people must follow the
laws of health, avoid vices and dis
sipations, have regular sleep and
careful eating. Some people may
say that is too great a price. They
think they would rather live fewer
years and have more fun. But if
they could get up to the age of SO
and be as active as Jorn D., they
would say it had been worth while.
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Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1929-02-01
CREDIT AND BUSINESS

Modern business is based in great
part upon credit. Big business and
small business and all branches of
business are conducted on a credit
basis. It therefore follows that
when credit fails business will fail.
1t is no business secret that the
chain of credit extends all the way
down from the source of raw ma
terials to the ultimate consumer.
Everybody uses credit. The manu-
facturer, the merchant, the farmer,
the customer, all are borrowers.
Business benefits from credit, of
course, or it would not grant it, but
the public also reaps rich benefits
from liberal credit. Automobiles,
fine furniture, good clothing, radios,
pianos, monographs and many 9th
err uuasi-luxuries are possible for
most people only through credit.
If the credit method of mer-
chandising is to endure those who
receive the benefit from it must full
fill their contracts. That this has
been done is evident from the fact
that the great majority of people
who buy on credit pay their debts
promptly.
A cardinal virtue of the American
people is the honesty they exhibit
in their relations with their fellow
men. No greater insult can be
heaped upon the American than to
brand him "deadbeat".
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1929-02-01

PROGRESSIVE and energetic
people can make any town a grow
ing one, while fault finding folks
can stop the growth of any city.
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SOME of the folks who complain
about the lack of progress in their
home town, have back yards that
need clearing up.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1929-02-01
OLD FOLKS HOMES

One of the special needs of these
times is a more liberal provision of
old folks homes. In former days, it
was almost always customary for
people to care for their parents and
various elderly relatives in their
own homes. But in these times,
when young people so often leave
their parents and go away from
home to work, a great many of the
old folks are left stranded.
Then there are many old folks
who either never had children or
whose children are not living, and
many people both unmarried and
married, who are practically friend
less and dependent on charity.
Young people do not seem so ready
to take their elderly relatives in as
people used to be. The idea is more
common that young couple are en-
titled to have their own home all
to themselves, so that in the major
ity of cases the old folks have to
maintain or find their own homes.
AS long as the old people are ca
pable of supporting themselves, it
is perhaps better for the young peo-
pie to set up their own homes. But
many old people are left in a very
hard position when their earning
power goes, and they have not saved
enough money to live upon and
their children do not wish to take
them in.
Philanthropic people have left
funds for many homes for old peo-
pie, of which we have a good share
in Delaware. But there are no.
where near enough to care for all
who are not able to maintain them
selves. It is a noble act to provide
money for an institution that shall
offer these old people kindly care
for their declining days.
The down-hill slope of life is hard
enough for the old people anyway,
and then if they have no near rela-
tives to look out for their needs,
these days of decline are doubly
bitter and full of regret. No sweet
er charity was ever open to the
kind hand of philanthropy.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-02-14
Hindu Sent To
Patton Asylum

Joe Mundo, a native Of India, was
ordered sent to the aate hospital
in Pattou yesterday afternoon by
Superior Judge Z. n Thompson.
The defendant was found insane
, following the testimony of several
witnesses.
Nundo, according to the com
plant was seized with an uncon-
troIlable desire 10 tear his clothes
from his body several dayt ago
Rhile working on the ranch Of
fQeorgia May ellis, near here.
Hffc insisted on working without
isvaaring his clothes and was hrough.
1te thc III Centre hospital. While a
lratient there he is alleged 70 have
brokcu the straps holding him to
chis bed and attempted TO attack
1.-TWO Of the nurses.
During yesterday afternoon $ Is
sion Of his trial many Of his friends
testified that heretofore he had
acted absolutely sane and declared
THAT his strange actions must have
fbeen caused by "a temporary dis.
iofder Of his brain.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-02-14
PLAN
BIG D0INCS AT
ANNUAL DANCE

The ticket sale for the swing
johnson Victory Dance, to ba held
a week from tonight in IIeber, a3on-
sored by the FL Centre Fire Dypart-
ment opened TO-DAY and already hum
dreds Of sales have been majo, ae-
cordiug to L. T. Reams, fire chief.
Two thousand persons are expect
ed to attend the ball, hailed as onn
Of the most gala affairs ever staged
in Imperial Valley.
I'VE have been preparing this
hall for several months, declared
Chief Beams this morning, land
with the cooperation we are recriE-
ing from the citizens Of II Coutrc
and surrounding towns ! sincerely
believe the affair viii h' on. 80 80
down in the history ot the com-
ty.'
The famous Ia-pieca Los ArGeles
firemen 5 orchestra VIII supply th"
dance music and delegations from
all important towns and cities b.
tween here and Los Angeles iay.
promised to be ON hand To 1ara u
tire entertainment.
Til. admission tickets uea b-8-
sold hg EVERY member ot fHe ~.
department eu'irle, the holder ~
the privilege II dancing .I0 evening
and also To receive q marvellous dsa
uer. to bs served at midnight.
Chief Eeams ais" declared
"I have made arraa E.msnts. r.
have squad ot rstralmeu ne sent
to safeguard the parked hines
So th.". attending need haea H"
fear 81 losing thc.r machines "r
any raLu3aLes tae- may leave -n
them
The ball Is 10 br Staged II sae
Palm Gardeu IN IeL.r.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-02-14
Arrests Made On
Traffic Charges

Four persons were arrested yoSter-
day and last night by officers work
ing under Frank Oswalt, captain
ot the state traffic division, and
ordered to appear for trial.
George Aeo>'a was arrested for
driving with cut-out open and
cited t. appear for sentence before
JadGr T. Naytjejd February 20.
rac5 Tradford will appear before
Judge Charles Hawkins of Impe-
rial February - to answer t.
charges of speeding Is mites psr
hour in - mile an hour zonc,
THE trial ct - Wallace for fail
iHg to make a boulevard stop Will
come before Judge l. Maytleid Fob
ruarr -.
Judge Uawens will sentence Tom
Go,dsty February p for driving at
tae rate Of 81 mile, Per hour iH .
II mile an hour zone.