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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-19

1t will require some discerning elo-
quence to convince the rural populace
that "debenture" may after all. prove
only another name for gold brick"
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Check on Einstein.

From the Providence Journal.
solar eclipse in these days seems to
be important chiefly as affording an
other opportunity to keep tabs on Prof.
EinStein.
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Not Fair to Jungle.

From the Indianapois News.
The lecturer who says gossip is sur
vival Of the jungle isn't altogether fair
TO the jungle.
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The world has an abundance of me-
chanical and scientific genius, but there
is a marked depletion in the supply of
safety-first experts.
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Social precedence is now mentioned
by physicians as rather dangerous in
causing loss of appetite.
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Muzzles More Appropriate.

From the Toledo Blade
Several masked tenors are featured
where muzzles would be more appropri-
ate.
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On With the Dance,

do you dance?"
Sometimes" said Miss Cayenne.
Other times simply submit politely
to being dragged around"
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HE who knows too much about the
business Of Others" said Hi Ho, the
sage of Chinatown, may find that
knowledge is not Power, but Weak
ness"
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Il goes to church every Sunday"
said Uncle Eben, AN I gifts de benefit
of KNOWN dat 1t ain no use of startin'
an argument bout what you don't fully
understand"
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Waving the Question.

Waving the Question.
Are you q politician?"
Don't ask me-" rejoined Senator
Sorghum. ITO be a successful politician
you must often be able to disguise your
identity as such"
Jud Tunkins says one Of the troubles
OF farm relief is that there are too many
farmers who don't know how to farm.
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Quite a Crop.

From the Canton Daily News.
Just after a frost destroys the entire
fruit crop another frost comes along
and slightly damages the rest Of 1t.
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The Market Tout.

The market tout is still joke,
AS words of wisdom he'll begin
The man who has himself gone broke
Can always tell you how to win.
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Badness and Faces Linked.

From the Adrian Daily Telegram.
Edgar Wallace says long-faced men
have tendency to become bald. Maybe
they only seem long-faced.
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OratOry.

The orators the proudest
OF men that Nature notes;
And he who hollers loudest
May get the "mostest" votes.
Milford chronicle., 1929-10-11

MAKING GOOD in business with
out advertising, is much like rowing
boat up stream, against the current
running in the opposite direction to-
ward the places that tell the public
about their goods.
Do@
PARASITE plants often destroy
trees, by sapping out the life from
their trunks. Parasite people also
ruin communities, by receiving its
benefits and giving nothing in re-
turn.
PEOPLE WHO FAIL to push their
home towns or counties ahead be-
cause it is too much work, often
work a lot harder putting up with
conditions that could be removed.
Milford chronicle., 1929-10-11
FIRE PREVENTION

For a number of years movement
has been conducted to reduce the
terrible loss by fires, which has
reached so high point that it may
fairly be considered a national dis
grace. This movement has had con-
siderable success for the past two
years, yet the total loss would have
been considered beyond all reason a
comparatively few years ago. Much
remains to be done to educate pub
lie sentiment properly on this ques-
ton.
The prevalent dishonesty of the
times shows itself in this matter.
MANY of these fires are fraudulent
ones, set to collect insurance money.
Yet that is not the principal element
in this loss, which is chiefly due to
the needless and don't care" atti-
tude taken by so many of the Ameri-
can people.
If our people are not moved by the
tremendous money loss caused by
preventable fires, they might at least
consider that fires annually cause a
loss of about $4,000 lives. They bring
sorrow into all these homes. They
destroy the earning power of fami-
lies, reduce many people from COM
fort to beggary, they stop the opera
tions of workshops and throw people
out of employment, and are one OF
the principal curses that affiict the
nation.
1t is about time for people to wake
up to this great evil, and ask them
selves individually whether they
have any habits that involve fire
peril. President Hoover has issued
the annual proclamation appointing
the week beginning October 6 as Fire
Prevention Week. Let us hope that
real and thoughtful attention will be
given to the subject here in Della
ware.
Milford chronicle., 1929-10-11
Hickory Hill

Mrs. James Daisy and two chill
dren, Orville and Grace and Mrs.
George Murray and two children,
Olive and Josephine of Frankford
visited Mr.. and Mrs. Bouden of Chin
colleague, Va, the past Sunday.
Mrs. Hettie Mumford had her son,
Audrie Mumford, home from college
the past Sunday and Mr.. and Mrs.
Clifford Mumford and children also
for dinner.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leonard West and
little son visited Mr. and Mrs. Will
Hudson the past Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Burt Hudson and
children and Mr.. and Mrs. Will Hud-
son and children, all of Frankford
visited Mr.. and Mrs. John Kitchens
the past Sunday.
Miss Elizabeth Mumford and Miss
Mildred Moore visited Millsboro on
Saturday night.
Mics Eva Hudson of Frankford
visited Miss Myrtle Kitchens the
past Sunday
Mr.. and Mrs. John F. McCabe and
Peter Mumford and Walter Mumford
and Mrs. Elwood Shears and Horace
Brasure of Philadelphia, Mr.. and
Mrs. Clifford Mumford called on Mr..
and Mrs. Will Hudson on Sunday
morning.
John and Clarence McCabe and
Earl Hall called on Norman Hitch
ems on Sunday morning.
Mrs. James Daisy and little daugh-
ter Grace and Miss Olive Murray
visited Mr.. and Mrs. John F. McCabe
the past Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Howard and
Mr.. and Mrs. Isaac Oliphant visited
Mr.. and Mrs. John F. McCabe on
Sunday NIGHT.
John McCabe, Miss Gladys McCabe,
Miss Kathaleen McCabe and Orville
Dukes, Miss Margaret Kitchens and
Miss Hazel Ellingsworth, George
Parsons all are attending the high
school at Millsboro.
S. F. McCabe and two children,
Harold and Martha called on Mr.. and
Mrs. John F. McCabe on Monday eve
ming.
Milford chronicle., 1929-10-11
Our Weekly
Washington Letter
We're Weak on the Waves

The activities of Shearer being in
vestigated by the Senate indicate
that the ship builders were interest
ed in the enactment of the Jones'
White Merchant Marine Act. 1t is en-
tirely natural that they should have
been as it meant more business for
their ship yards.
At the same time it turns out that
the Chapman interests leaned heav-
lily upon their expectations of re-
ceiving mail contracts from the Uni
ted States Government when they
purchased the Leviathan, the Presi-
dent Ships and other Shipping Board
passenger boats. The Postmaster
General failed to agree and as the
mail contracts are undetermined
the Chapman's are reported to be
sulking on their contract.
Concerns like the Dollar Line, the
Ward Line and the Grace Line are
engaged in American shipping. But
there is something wrong with the
whole Merchant Marine situation as
everyone will agree who has crossed
the Atlantic this Summer and looked
in vain for the Stars and Stripes in
the harbors of Europe. The French,
English, German and Italian lines
are in the throes of great activities,
but America, although we know how
to build railroads and highways, is
lamentably weak on the waves.
When, oh when, will the United
States develop a Merchant Marine
policy that it can stick to through
more than one season?
Milford chronicle., 1929-10-11
Redder1

Mrs. John Jester spent the week
end with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Francis Kitchens of Overbrook.
The Ladies Aid was entertained at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Harvey
Penuel last Thursday evening and
was we'll attended. After the usual
business meeting a very social time
was enjoyed by all with bountiful
supply of assorted and delicious
home made candies which would Just
naturally melt in your mouth. 1t was
enjoyed by all.
After attending morning services
at Beaver Dam Church Mr.. and Mrs.
Robert Veasey were graciously en-
tertained at dinner by Mr.. and Mrs.
George Simpler of Harbeson, after
which all attended the 204th ami
versary service at Coolspring Pres
byterian Church, which was very
largely attended. The basket collec-
ton amounted to $4,000.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Morgan of near
Milford were Sunday guests of Mr..
Milford chronicle., 1929-10-11

Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred Bickling and
Mr.. and Mrs. Geyer of near George
town were Sunday evening guests of
MIR. and Mrs. George Stuck. Mr..
Stuck is critically ill.
Miss Unice Rust gave a birthday
party to her many friends last Tues
day evening in honor of her 18th
birthday, which was well attended.
The young folks spent the evening
i'm various games and at a late hour
they were invited into the dining
room where refreshments were
beautifully served, consisting of ice
cream, cake and various kinds of de-
licious home made candies. Miss
Rust also received many beautiful
and useful presents. And at late
hour the guests departed wishing
he r many returns of the day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ollie Daisy and chill
dren of Pennsylvania spent the week
end with Mr.. and Mrs. Rufus Rust.
Miss Beatrice Donovan of Milford
spent the weekend with her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Luther Donovan
War settlesh nothing, not even its
own hills
Milford chronicle., 1929-10-11
Ramsay Macdonald

The British Premier has stirred up
all sorts of interest in Washington.
He came over from England to talk
over, face to face with the Presi-
dent and other leading Government
officials, the question Of world peace
and the limitation of ornaments,
and similar matters of international
concern.
This method of arriving at frank
understandings is wholly different
from what it was in the days when
secret diplomacy juggled the tricks
and cheated the common people out
of their rights. There should be
good results from efforts of this
kind.
Milford chronicle., 1929-10-11
and Mrs. Newton Rendfrev.

and Mrs. Newton Rendfrey.
Mr.. and Mrs, w. S. Allsbrook of
Patterson, N. j., spent a part of the
past week with Mr.. and Mrs. George
Jester.
Floyd Hooker of Roanoke, Va,
has been spending some time with
his sister, Mr.. and Mrs. Reid Boyer.
Russell Donovan entertained a
bunch of Is friends and relatives on
Sunday last. Those of the party were
as follows: Willard Donovan and
family and friends frt'm Dover, ia
cob Moore and fhmily from Seaford,
also Mr.. and Mrs. Luther Wonovan
from near here.
Mrs. Reid Boyer has returned home
after spending two weeks with her
children, Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Moore
and Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Chafins in
Philadelphia.
Mrs. Oliver Jester and little
daughter Pearl spent part of the
past week in Milford with Mr.. and
Mrs. Roma Mariner.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edgar Short of near
Georgetown were Wednesday guests
of Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Warren last
week
Milford chronicle., 1929-10-11
WOMAN'S PLACE

"Woman's place is in the home"
So said the people of a former gen
Grafton. Henry Ford also seems to
think there is merit in this idea. Any
way he tells the readers of the Pic
torial Review, that women are a di-
minishing rather than an oncoming
force in industry. He finds that girls
are not of an inventive turn of mind,
that they are more likely to take or
ders than to forge ahead for them
selves, and that they don't want to
think on mechanical and industrial
matters.
Yet if people stand at the railroad
stations of cities, or at the factory
gates in thousands of towns, and per-
ceive the crowds of young and older
women, who are pouring into those
working places, it does not look as
if they were any diminishing force in
industry. In fact their participation
in the industries keeps increasing
year by year.
They keep the books of business,
they help the buyers select their
purchases in the stores, they tend a
thousand types of machines in the
factories.
1t is possible that in some future
age, prosperity will have so in
creased, that the man of a family
can easily earn enough so that his
wife and daughters will have no need
of working. But even then, it seems
likely that the girls will want jobs
Just the same. They enjoy the free
dom of having their own money. II
they have more than enough to dress
well, the money will go into automo-
biles, entertainments, etc.
Mr.. Ford's opinion is entitled to
great weight, but the modern world
will disagree with him at this point.
The modern young woman is looking
for home, but the thing she wants
most is independence, so she can
choose the kind of home she wants.
After she gets this assured position,
then she will look around a bit and
see what the world of men has to Of
fer her.
Milford chronicle., 1929-10-11
Are You Safe At Home?

Safe at home! How often do we
hear that remark? And yet, are we
safe? Statistics of the large insur-
ance companies prove the contrary.
One company recently reported that
during the past five years nearly
nineteen per cent of its claims we're
paid on account of accidents occur
ring within the home.
Of course there are many causes
for these accidents. One insurance
company alone paid out in the past
five years $197, ,287.S7, covering 1872
accidents from falls on rugs and
floors. And NOSE of these accidents
could have been easily prevented by
an article we'll known among deal
ers as rug anchor" It is a special
kind of coated fabric that is put un-
derneatb rugs, and keeps them from
slipping.
Milford chronicle., 1929-10-11
Eo@

BUSINESS MEN will do much
more to please the people than they
would have done years ago. They
practically guarantee that their ar
ticles sold shall prove satisfactory,
they generally give customers their
money back if on examination of the
goods they are not pleased with
them. They are not satisfied merely
to make sales, but they want to be
sure that the people get value for
their purchases.
1t is a pleasure to be able to say
that the business men of Milford are
fully up with the times in such re-
spects. 1t is satisfaction to trade
in the stores of our community, since
one gets such agreeable and helpful
and friendly service.
These stores are really training
schools, where each year a good
number of our young people are
given a practical education in trade
methods. They are taught to handle
goods intelligently, to take pains to
please customers, to represent the
goods for just what they are, and to
make sure that customers do not buy
anything with a mistaken idea of its
value.
Our business men are determined
to see that everyone who buys goods
at these stores gets the worth of his
money. If anyone feels he has not
done so, he should make complaint,
and he can be sure that he will be
fairly treated.
The Chronicle does not believe
there is a town or city in the United
States where people will get fairer
or more reasonable treatment in the
retail stores. The people who live
within easy distance of these stores
are favored by the advantage and
convenience of using such a good
trading center, where the moderate
costs of living tend. to keep prices
down, and where the enterprise of
the merchants offers a constant sue
cession of bargains.
Milford chronicle., 1929-10-11
Frankford

Annual services will be held in
Old Blackwater Presbyterian Church
on Sunday, October 1 at 2 o'clock p.
m. The sermon will be preached by
Rev. John Humphreys, pastor of the
Presbyterian Church of Odessa. The
pastor is Rev. George F. Sheese, of
the Frankford Presbyterian Church.
Blackwater is on the State Highway
leading from Frankford to Ocean
View It is a very old church and its
organization dates back to early Col
onial days.
Milford chronicle., 1929-10-11
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THE FAMILY HEARTHSTONE

The scene about the open fire on
the household hearthstone, as the
family and it's friends gather around
in the crisp air of October, has aften
been described by poets and philoso-
pliers. 1t is an hour of quiet peace,
in which curling flames and smok-
ing logs suggest reflection. Much
good conversation has been stimu-
lated by the fire upon the hearth.
Those glowing Goals warm the
heart as well as the body. They give
a touch of home happiness, and sug-
gest that the family circle is a CEN
ter of contentment better than any
thing that wealth or travel can
bring.
Many of us would give a great
many dollars to bring back scenes
of the past before the family hearth
stone in the old homesteads, when
friends now distant or departed met
there in friendship and affection.
Milford chronicle., 1929-10-11
THE FAULTFINDING SPIRIT

A good many people who claim to
desire community progress, yet tend
to hamper that progress, by their
constant faultfinding about their
home towns. They see defects, and
they do not ask whether such faults
are inherent in any community of
that type, Of whether they are
remediable.
Any town has lacks. You can't
expect a community like Milford to
provide certain things that can be
had in cities like New York and Chi
cago. But town like ours can pro-
vide many advantages that New York
and Chicago lack. The thing for us
to do, is to dwell upon our advan-
tages, to ignore defects that are be-
yond our power to remedy, and to
work heartily and earnestly for the
removal Of those defects which we
could easily get rid of.
Do@
BOY SCOUTS throughout the
country were asked to help in the
observance of Fire Prevention Week,
and are doing so by distribution OF
literature and otherwise. This cause
ought to appeal to boys. They love
to go out in the woods and enjoy wild
life. But if the forests are burned
down by carelessness of many citi-
zens, what chance has good live
boy to camp out?
It is a fine thing when the boys
thus take hold to help out public
causes. They are usually willing to
do so. They thereby begin to re-
alize that they are men in the MAX
ing, and that they must show their
potential manhood by cooperating
with the efforts their elders are
making.
THE TENDENCY of the times is to
concentrate trade. Business is unit
ing in larger units. People will
travel or send long distance to buy
goods, if they think they can save a
dollar. They may lose by so doing,
but you must prove that they could
do better to buy their stuff near
home.
De@
THE AMOUNT of money spent in
advertising in this country is in
creasing very rapidly. If a town
wishes to keep up with the process
sion, it's expenditure for advertising
must gain in similar proportion.
Milford chronicle., 1929-10-11
UNUTILIZED ASSETS

Every business has it's unutilized
assets, possibilities of increase and
enlargement that could be taken ad-
vantage of, but which people are too
busy or burdened to take up and
make full use Of 1t is also true
that every community has oppor-
tunities for growth and development,
which are not taken advantage of.
Here in Milford we could easily
do a hundred things that would pro-
mote fine and prosperous develop
men here, but for a wide variety of
reasons these things are not done.
Yet such development would bring
new prosperity, attract more resi-
dents, make more jobs for wage
earners, create new trade for busi-
ness men. Let us look around for
these unutilized assets and neglect
ed OnnortunitieS.
Milford chronicle., 1929-10-11
MILFORD, FRIDAY, OCT. II, 10.
HONORING COLUMBUS

In recognizing on October IL the
deed of the marvellous man who dis
covered our continent 437 years ago,
attention should be paid to the enor-,
nous change in human affairs Gre
ated by that event. By common con-
sent, humanity in the more civilized
lands, has placed the birth OF Christ
as the greatest of historic events.
But with that exception the discov-
cry of America seems about the most
important date on which we can
place any definite finger. 1t might
be said that the discovery of print
ing did more to promote human
knowledge. But that was kind of
indefinite thing, to which no positive
date can be assigned, and opinions
differ of it are said to date far back
in the hostory of the Chinese.
The discovery of America led the
way to a long story of development
that revolutionized the history OF the
world. 1t opened up new country
where people settle and escape from
the evils and conflicts that held back
development in the older continents.
1t made it possible for improved So
cial institutions to start, where peo-
pie could make use of the wisdom
they had learned from previous ex-
perience, and avoid errors that were
deeply rooted in the old world.
1t provided an environment In
which democratic ideas could be tried
out, and finally worked out in type
of government quite new to the
world. AS this government attained
stability and prosperity, the ideas
which were at the base of it have
spread, and now have become the
prevailing principles on which the
majority of the governments of the
earth are based.
This great explorer was looked at
as a dreamer by the wise men OF MS
time. The idea that those dark and
misty waters of the Atlantic could |
conceal a great unknown land look
ed like fairy tale to them. 1t takes
a man of wonderfully piercing vision
thus to disregard the wisdom OF his
time. The man who can do it is the
one who opens up new possibilities
to the human race, and we should all
revere and initiate his memory.
Milford chronicle., 1929-10-11
NOISY AMERICA

Doctors claim that noise has ten
dency to increase nervous strain.
There are many light sleepers, who
simply can not get their nights rest
in localities where there is constant
noise. Some people are so consti-
tuted that they demand quiet for
their physical well being. Instead
of ridiculing this feeling as a weak
ness, it seems more generous to
avoid creating needless disturbance.
In thousands of country towns,
noise is not problem. The inhabi-
tants of these places, which too often
are sleepy and stagnant, would like
more noise rather than less. A little
construction machinery and the
hug-chugging of traffic would be
welcome to them, as a relief from
the soundless monotony that aff1icts
their lives.
Still as a whole our country is too
noisy. Many drivers operate motor
trucks and automobiles in a need
lessly noisy way. Even the quietest
country town may suffer, if milk
trucks come through the street at a
very early hour and wake the echoes
as they start up their motors and
grind their rasping gears.
The people who operate radio loud
speakers with their windows open,
frequently fail to shut them off when
sleep time comes. There is an obli
CATION on us all to be considerate.
We might we'll ask ourselves, par
ticularly at night, if it is necessary
to arouse whole neighborhoods by
our various kinds of racket.
So@
ANY COMMUNITY will draw in
more trade, if it formulates a COM
prehensive plan for enlargement of
the same. The business men of
every live town should constantly
get together, and consider what other
cities are doing to get trade, what
plans prove successful elsewhere,
and try out the best plans for their
own location.