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Milford chronicle., 1929-09-27
INCREASE WHICH LETTER
POSTAGE OR PARCEL POST?

There has been some talk at Wash
ington that an increase in the rate
of letter postage may be advocated,
with the idea of raising the rate
from two to two and half or three
cents. Such a plan would hit every
family, and would cause resentment.
1t may be remarked that as the
department needs more revenue, it
may seem necessary either to raise
letter postage or put it up on parcel
post. Also that an increased rate
on parcel post would get the gov
ernment in bad with the farmers,
who use this service constantly in
buying goods through mail orders.
The mail order business is a form
of trade that creates competition in
thousands of towns and villages, for
the element that does the most to
promote community development,
the local merchants. If organization
work has to be done in any COM
munity, if committees have to be
appointed and give lot of time to
get things done, if money has to be
raised, it is commonly the merchants
of the community who do the bulk
of the work. Everything possible
should be done to make it easy for
them to do business.
If the government is carrying its
mail order business for rates lower
than the cost of transporting these
packages, then this form of service
would seem to provide a kind of
subsidy to the mail order trade, and
it does not seem good policy to give
any such favor.
The two cent rate for carrying
letters has commonly been said to
be profitable one, since letters
take up very little space, and a lot |
Of them can be carried in very small |
compass. There seems no reason
FOR charging an added profit on them, /
Il the parcel post business is being
at a loss. This will be
he sentiment of the business men
If Delaware anyway.
Milford chronicle., 1929-09-27
Highway Hostess
HELEN B. AMES

a couple of odd chairs, you can
weld these unrelated pieces to-
gether with light gray enamel or
lacquer, stripe them with rose or
decorate them with stencils or de-
ca1comania transfers-and achieve
a matched set. Other cool combin-
ations for the summer bedroom are
lettuce green with jonquil yellow,
lavender and violet, robins egg
blue with maize.
Color effects are very important
when the decision of the renter
hangs entirely on first impressions.
A small room, for example, can be
made to appear much larger than
it really is if receding color, such
as light blue or gray is chosen
for the wall finish.
And painted walls and furniture
are so easily renovated that, when
the summer is over, it will be very
little trouble to brighten up the
room with warmer colors and make
it ready for permanent winter
guest.
Milford chronicle., 1929-09-27
Marriage as an Institution

as eln
Something like 10000 officials have
the responsibility of issuing marri.
age licenses, and 100000 clergymer
are qualified to "tie the knots" and
those who do not engage ministers
have the choice of 10000 different
oficials-from justices of the peace
up.
Investigators for the Russell Sage
Foundation say that there is a gen.
eral and dangerous tendency to re-
gard marriage licenses as bought
rather than issued" The marriage
license is commercialized by the fact
that in many States the remunera-
ton of the license clerk depends
wholly or partly upon the number of
licenses he issues. Under these cir
cumstances, the Foundation believes.
there is a general tendency not to
challenge applicants statements
about themselves and to permit
many evasions of marriage laws.
Mrs. Coolidge Rebukes White House
DespOiIers
Souvenir hunters who despoil the
White House when they are enter
tanned there are rebuked by Mrs.
Calvin Coolidge in her latest article
which appears in The American
Magazine, for October.
Citing instances of how vandals
tore tassels from curtains and even
cut furniture coverings, purloined
ash trays and other small objects,
Mrs. Coolidge calls attention to the
fact that the White House should be
held in the highest regard by every
American.
ITO me the home of the Prssi-
dents is sacred ground" says the
former First Lady, ''hallowed by the
memories of those men whom our
country has chosen to the high Office.
To live in it is to live in a shrine
and I never could understand the
point Of view of the souvenir hun
ters who took away mementos to add
to their strange collections. In the
East Room, the little tassels of the
finishing braid on the edges of the
Orocaded hangings at the windows
had been pulled off as high as the
hand could reach and I was told
hat in times past, pieces of the ma
.erial with which the furniture was
covered had been cut out.
Upon one occasion the butler mis-
a direction given him by
he President, and instead of plac-
ng some small silver ash trays in
he Red parlor, he put them in the
Cast Room during visiting hours.
Milford chronicle., 1929-09-27
Hints for the

"NOURISTS ACCOMMO-
DATED" has become such
Il frequent sign along auto
mobile highways every summer
that touring motorists are no long
er forced to accept any sort of ac-
commodations when nightfall over
takes them in a strange town. If
the first place they look at doesn't
suit, there is sure to be something
better across the road or around
the corner.
Those who adopt this means of
adding to their incomes must meet
competition with lodgings which
make an instant appeal. 1t is short
sighted economy to furnish such
a room with collection of dis
cards that no member of your own
family is willing to live with. But
on the other hand it is often pos
sible to save the expense of buying
new furniture by painting up these
worn and shabby pieces. If you
have, for instance, an old brass
bedstead, golden oak bureau, and
Milford chronicle., 1929-09-27

In surveys conducted every year
since 1926 by the Institute of Max
ers of Explosives, composed of the
leading explosive manufacturers in
the United States, it has been dis
covered that approximately 500 chill
dren throughout the Union are injur-
ed-and some of them killed-by
playing with these harmless looking
little instruments. Finding the caps
near mines and quarries and on
farms where agricultural blasting
has been done the children have
been known to use hammers, lighted
matches, and whatnot upon the caps
with the result that an eye was
frequently put out, hand badly
mangled or the body so seriously in
jured that blood poison would set in.
The greatest number of injuries have
occurred to the hands, with eye in
juries following. In 1928 a deaf and
dumb lad in Arkansas lost both eyes
when a blasting cap exploded in his
hand.
The Institute in 1926 began a
lnOhSLuShI W VI llS IuS OclASS1 VI
children playing with blasting caps
to the attention of blasting cap US
ers, parents, teachers, and the chill
dren themselves, to reduce the num-
ber of accidents.
The campaign has been participat-
ed in by the National Safety Council,
the Boy Scouts of America, the U. S.
Bureau of Mines, the Surgeon Gen
eral of the Treasury Department, the
U. S. Department of Agriculture,
institutes, industries whose
members use explosives, the public
and private schools in many States
and numbers of State departments.
Warnings to parents, teachers,
children and the users of blasting
caps are now being sent out by the
Institute of Makers of Explosives,
and it is hoped that this year will
see a reduction in the number of
these accidents.
Milford chronicle., 1929-09-27
FOLLOW EDITORIAL II
ALMSHOUSES MUST GO.

| AAuuOlVO CEO MUOI UUs
The Wilmington Sunday Star in
an editorial headed Pensions Cost
more," says:
The social tendency which some
years ago began to move away from
poorhouse, almshouses and the hid
eous old type of asylum has now
taken a still more daringly modern
turn. 1t is increasingly accepted
that maintenance in their own inde-
pendent dwellings, wherever possi-
BILE, is the best way of taking care
of the INDECENT aged and of patients
with certain mild incurable affic-
tions. 1t has been proved that Or
phan children are better off if board
ed in decent private homes, where
they are sure to receive kind treat
ment, than if brought up in a public
institution. And now the American
Association for Old Age Security
recommends pensions for old persons
instead of the almshouse-and adds
the startling but well founded state
ment that they represent the less
expensive method.
All very aged persons should be
secure. 1t is the duty of their rela-
tives to care for them properly, but
when kindred are incompetent or
derelict, then the state should step
in as protector. To open the doors
of a public institution and say to the
unfortunate aged, Live here, in the
manner we prescribe, or perish" is
not enough. A prosperous country
like ours could do better than that.
even if the pension plan were to cost
heavily. But skillful business meth
DDS make it possible to grant pen
sions to old people without further
burdening the state. Both the very
old and the very young, when pov-
erty-stricken, can now live in real
homes, under sufficient supervision
70 make those homes safe and rea-
'onably comfortable. 1t is strange
hat this progressive modern idea is
lot being taken up more rapidly, for
iurely all of us, If asked our prefer
nee, would choose an independent .
'rivate home with a pension in our
Id age, rather than a cot in an in {
titution, should the sad necessity /
Or such choice arise. I
An official of the association, re- =
orting before the Commission for =
Id Age Security Of New York, de- /.
Jared that the states sixty-two h
lmshouses should be reduced to is
x, these half-dozen being for the a =,
Milford chronicle., 1929-09-27
%O@
THE PRESIDENTS TRR

President Hoover is starting out
on trip to the central states Octo-
Der 20. 1t often seems all wrong to
the people of the central and wes-
tern states, that the national capital
is located close to the eastern edge
of the country, so that the vast pop
ulations west of the Mississippi riv-
er have access to the government de-
partments and the lawmakers only
with some difficulty.
1t is up to our presidents to make
frequent trips through those por-
tions of the country which are dis
tant from the capital. They need
from time to time to get away from
the political atmosphere of the capi-
tai, and get out among the people,
and find out how every day questions
look to folks who do not see them
political spectacles.
Milford chronicle., 1929-09-27
Modern Problems

,"John," said his wife over the tel
ephone, "you must come home at
once. 1 have mixed up the plugs of
the vacuum cleaner and the wire
less, and the loudspeaker is sucking
all the paper off the wall."-Oswes-
try Advertiser.
Milford chronicle., 1929-09-27
THE OLD SCHOOL SEAT

Henry Ford had an interesting mo-
ment a few days ago, when he sat
in the old seat in the school he occu-
pied in the schoolhouse which he
once attended, and which has now
been moved to the village he is
building at Dearborn. 1t was an ex-
perience that many of us would like
to repeat in our own lives.
How many memories cling to the
old school seat! Some of us can still
see the many names and initials car
we'd by idle boys on that homely old
wood. We can think back to the
boys who used to read their dime no
vels behind the big geography books,
to the secret messages passed to the
blushing red checked girls across the
aisle, and to the faithful teacher who
put the first notions of ambition in
our hearts. We owe much of what
we are to the lessons learned in the
old school seat.
The methods would seem old fash
ioned now, but habits of industry
and application were required, which
were the basis on which many sue
cessful careers were built.
Do@
MOST OF US belong to certain or
ganizations. These associations are
all useful and helpful. They promote
progress in Milford especially and
supply certain functions of life
which we need. So whenever we do
anything to promote the success Of
these organizations, we do something
for our home community.
When you attend its meetings, you
encourage it's officers to keep on with
plans for advancement.
When you assist in any committee or
you make that organ
ization more attractive and add to
the service it can give. You may
think these little services do not
count much. But if it were not for
a countless number of them being
performed, life in our community
would be fiat and dull this winter.
Milford chronicle., 1929-09-27

It's easy to find your way into
trouble-the hard part is finding the
way out.
Milford chronicle., 1929-09-27

portunity in the radio programs
which are on the air from many, il
not all the large stations. Even read
ers of last minute news flashes are
guilty of some awful blunders in
speech.
IT is A PLEASURE to endorse
the sentiments expressed in the Eve
ming Journal last Saturday under
the caption, Get Them In Line" 1t
has been a long pull to create pub
lie sentiment for new school build
ings through all of Delaware. If
Delaware can not afford to rebuild
all of the public school buildings
that were built twenty years ago,
there never will come time when
our finances could accomplish the
task again. Keep in mind, this
truth, NO SCHOOL BUILDING WILL
GIVE SERVICE OVER THIRTY
YEARS. The day of our fathers are
in the long past as to school build
ings and public school education.
The Evening Journals editorial of
Saturday said:
Every town of size in Delaware
that hasn't a new school house
should have one and lose no time
unnecessarily in getting it.
In the educational field in recent
years our State has been forging
ahead nightly. There are, certain
communities which persist in lag
ging behind, greatly to the injury of
the children resident therein. During
the current school year they should
be made to see the errors of their
way and be induced to fall in line.
1t will be better for them to be at
the far end of that line than to be
out of it altogether.
%e9
1T SEEMS interesting that in
spite of the marvellous changes of
the past 20 years, that the county
fairs and cattle shows are drawing
bigger crowds than ever. Some peo-
pie would have guessed, if they could
have forseen the wide ownership of
through the rural COM
the development of motion
pictures and radio instruments, etc.,
that the competition of these and |
other methods of spending time, |
would make it more difficult to as
semble crowds at the cattle shows.
Furthermore, the expense of run
ming these events is more than ever
before. 1t costs a lot to keep up the
exhibition buildings, grand stands,
etc. Every detail of incidentals costs
/ lot to keep up the exhibition build
ngs, grand stands, etc. Every de-
all of incidentals costs more than
ormerly, and the sum that would
lave gotten an agricultural society
through its annual fair 20 years ago
would mean bankruptcy today in
most cases.
AS a matter of fact, the changes
f the times seem to have helped the
airs. The farm families pile into
he family automobile, and it seems
1uch easier to attend the annual
how than it did when it meant a (
ong and dusty journey behind
orses.
Every farmer and gardener and {
ruit grower needs to advertise his
roduct. He can see that exhibiting
lem in a county or neighborhood {
air is a form of advertising that I
caches a great number of people.
The young people enjoy the county /
lir as much as anything in the c
ear, and the farmer who takes his G
lmily to the fair does something to '
AXE them happy in their home en- I
Ironment. 1t may well be hoped
lat all the farmers and business Q
ZEN of lower Delaware will be loyal t
the annual fair held in Harring- {
IN and give it the patronage it ?
eeds to meet the increased costs Of t
lese times.
Milford chronicle., 1929-09-27
Ne0R

A TOWN that spends more money
outside than it draws in from outly-
ing places, will come out like the
reservoir, the outlet of which flows
faster than its sources.
Milford chronicle., 1929-09-27
BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE

Young men and women who have
an ambition to make good, need to
acquire some general intelligence
about their line of work. The sue
cess of any concern depends much
upon how far its employees are in
telligent about the line it is hand
ling.
An ambitious sales clerk, for in
stance, will read trade papers, busi-
ness reports, fashion news, ETC., to
gain information about the goods
that clerk is handling. The clerk
who can talk intelligently about his
goods will win many more custom
ers. If we can get that intelligent
service in all the stores of Milford
our trade is bound to make a rapid
growth.
OUR SCHOOLS TEACH US that
we must not merely know things, but
be able to tell and clearly express
what we know. Similarly in busi-
ness, we need not merely to give
good service, but to tell the people
through advertising what our SER
vice is.
~oGR
THE PEOPLE who mar their
home towns by disorderly looking
dwellings,, do not look as If they
would use orderly and successful
methods in any work or business.
Clean up, if you want to look like a
Milford chronicle., 1929-09-27

portunity in the radio programs
which are on the air from many, if
not all the large stations. Even read
ers of last minute news flashes are
guilty of some awful blunders in
speech.
The Washington times., 1929-07-05

The son, Albert B. Havener. was
given the watch by his mother
when he graduated from Eastern
High School. One day a pickpocket
stole his watch and wallet
The matter was, OF course. re-
ported to the police. The watch
The Washington times., 1929-07-05
MODERNISM IN RELIGION

rThe effect Of Modernism on Re.
ligion' was the subject of an ad.
dress last night by Morris Talpalar
before the Washington Chapter Of
the American Association foe th
Advertisement Of Atheism.
The Washington times., 1929-07-05

tRipley's believe IT or Not" COM
pensates when people aren't getting
enough excitement ont OF life," said
Prof. Goodwin Watson, Of Teachers
College. Columbia University. "Mip-
ley's pictures are harmless emotional
tOnie.o These great cartoons begin
next Tuesday In The Washington
Herald,
The Washington times., 1929-07-05
Dry Forces Hold United States Engineers Auto
WHILE
He WAS OUT
Of CITY

While Elmer w. Pehrson, an
engineer employed by the
United States Bureau Of Mines,
was touring the Middle West
and collecting statistics on the
zinc industry, dry law forces
here were seizing his automo-
bile which he had placed in
storage in a garage.
Since Pehrson returned to the
city on June 30. he has spent sew
eral hours eac;. day trying TO get
1t back.
The car was seized on June 20,
by Sergt. o. j. Letterman and mem
bers Of his squad In raid on q
garage In the 100 block Of Seven.
teenth st. N w.
Car In Storage
Robert Allen Long, So. said to he
the garage owner, and George Ellis
Brooks, rs. an employe, were ar
rested in the raid.
Police charged that car in ator-
age was used rs cache Cor
liquor. Twelve half gallons were
found.
Pehrson said he left his car in
Longs garage on June 8, before
starting on his trip. The battery
and tire were to be repaired.
Rides Street Cars
In addition to an affidavit filed
by Pehrson, G. e. Julian, chief en-.
gineer of the common metals dI-
vision. Bureau of Mines, swore be-
fore a notary public that Pehrson
sis tw-abiding man."
He said he himself sent the en-
gineer on his Investigations for the
Government and added that Pehrson
knew nothing of the use to which
his car was put.
Pehrson will get his car back a.
soon Is necessary formalities are
completed, according to Assistant
District Attorney James r. Kirk
land, Meanwhile he rides on street
cars.
The Washington times., 1929-07-05
WOMAN JAILED
FOR DRINKING

Mrs. Lillian Ashley, OF the 400
block East Capitol St. was having
such good time yesterday that
she was unable to pronounce her
own name. according to a police
man who asked her what it was.
and later arrested her, in the Hong
Kong Low restaurant on Ninth
Street.
j. she couldn't walk straight your
honor" Mrs. Ashlsg's captora Iacon.
icalIy told Judge Ralph Given in
Police Court today.
Ten dollars fine" said the Judge.
At the same time that Mrs. Ash.
ley was arrested, a youth giving
his name as John w. jackson was
also taken into custody. He was
not with Mrs, Ashley.
jackson. was overcome with mirth
and couldn't stop laughing, accord.
ing TO Policeman w. J.. LeGate, WHO
made both arrests. lie still laughed
as he was led from the restaurant
towards a patrol box.
Jackson according to Policeman
LeGate, offered to pay Mrs Ashley s
fine at the station house when 1t
was discovered she had no money,
although he had not been in her
company.
The mirthful prisoner failed to
show up In Police Court today,
however. and forfeited SO. Mrs.
Ashley spent the rest OF the night
at the House of Detention. Today
she went to Jail, her fine still un.
paid.
The Washington times., 1929-07-05
Watch Stolen in 1910
Recovered Here

The bureau Efficiency today learned something Of eff
cheney when the detective bureau which, along with other
branches Of the District government, recently invest
gated called Dr. George c. Havenner Of the bureau to tell
him watch stolen 19 years ago had been found
The Washington times., 1929-07-05

There were three hit.and.rnn cases
sOne alleged hit-and-run driver be.
J11r caught and. turned over to po-
/; lice after q five.hlock chase. A
2VVashin gton Coach Company bus
nweryed to avoid striking an auto
mobile and crashed into a light pole
III Twentieth and M SITS. N. W.,
Hausing serious injuries to one man
[ ana slight injuries to a woman,
Despite the fact that yesterday
was \ holiday and everyone who
[ oWned an automobile was on the
streets trying to get somewhere, ar.
rests for violations of the traffic
ACode were the lowest since the po.
Flice iliAugurated their drive. week
axo Tuesday Precinct and traffic
I bureau police shared 1S9 alleged
traffic vtolators.
Hurt by Bus Crash
Robert shamberlin. 81, Of the 1900
block of Thirty fifth St. N. W.. sua'
stsined internal injuries and his
Svife, Blanche 40, received minor
cllts and bruises. in the hpa crash.
Edwin m. Clement, y. Of the lltld
block of Staples ST N. r., bus
EasFIver, tod police he swerved to
avoid striking another automobile
driven BY woman, which turned
[ Klfe corner and disappeared.
Three serious charges face Queen
f4arry Harley. oolored. 81. OF the 800
block OF Fifteenth Street Southeast.
when he appears in Traffic Court
feday He Is charged with hit.and-
at,lIi, reckless driving. and driving
without a District permit. Police
hay he borrowed an automobile,
drove it into the parked car of
george Coppage, of the 1000 block
assenning Road Northeast, jumped
ff0m the borrowed car and ran
yvay. He was captured about five
bi0cks away BY j.. e. Burroughs, of
1900 block of Eastern Avenue; Bur
4 fof Eastward OF 2O0C block Ben
ming Road. and M. r. Maxfield, also
sf the 1000 block Benning Road. He
s.
The Washington times., 1929-07-05
Girl and Two Others
Victims of Dog Bites

A dog bit Marjorie Snyder. 10 years
old, Of 225 Rock Creek Church Rdd
n W., while ahe was playing in the
yard of neighbor yesterday morna
ing. She was treated at her home. !.
Dallas Wallace, colored. 50. Of 1928
u ST. n. W., was bitten by q dog I'M
Temperance Alley N. w. He waR
treated at F'reedn1an's Hospitals
Amcio Pierson. colored, 1S, was bits
fen BY his own dog while playing at
1905 Columbia Rd. N. w. His in4
juries were not serious.