Milford chronicle., 1929-04-12
RISING FROM DISASTER

RISING FROM DISASTER
The most pitiful thing about sucf
disaster as the flood that has JUS
swept through number of towns
in the southern states, particularly
Elbafi Alabama, is the destruction o.
human hopes which such catastro
phe involves. Relief measures are
quite efficient nowadays, and people
are always willing to give gener
ously to such calamity. But sucf
sweep of destruction means thai
many people who for years have
been working and toiling and strug
Cling for certain ends, are frustrated
and defeated, and some never recov.
er from the blow of it.
People who had been working tc
pay for their little homes or furni-
ture see these swept away OF ruin
ed. Merchants who had been strug-
CLING to build up a business, see
their stocks wrecked. In many
cases such losses are total, and the
savings and effort of years is swept
away in a few hours.
In an oriental country people
would say that it was fate, and they
would lie down discouraged after
such a blow. 1t has the same effect
on some of our own people. After
they have struggled for years to at
tain a certain end, and were making
little progress toward attaining
that end, it seems almost unbearable
all at once to see that purpose
thwarted and baffled, and made
more remote than ever before.
But fortunately the majority of
our people are not thus constituted.
They do not know when they are
licked. If they are knocked down,
they pick themselves up, rub off the
dust and the dirt, save what pieces
are left, and then go on.
The sympathy of the country goes
out to these sufferers from this and
similar disasters. Contributions
should be generously offered to
those in need, and people who have
a chance to throw business faVors
in the way of these suffering COM
munities, should be glad to use that
opportunity of helpfulness.
PEDESTRIANS NIGHT PERAS
The General Electric Company
has been investigating to see what
can be done to promote the safety
Of neople who walk on the highways
at night. Since most country roaos
have no sidewalks or sidepatns'
many millions of people are forced
70 walk in the middle of the road
when they venture out at night, and
MANY of them are run down by iau-
tomobiles.
This inquiry showed that white
,hiac+s worn or carried by pedes-
-rians serve very well as a warning
signal. The women who wear hght
.o1ored clothes in summer nave d
rood nrotection against being run
,ver. and then the light stockings
vorn with dark clothes by many
women and girls will make a per-
on more easily visible. Men and ,
romen who wear all dark CLONES :
ro nearly invisible when they r
ramp over the roads at night G
Pedestrians need to use great care '
+ night to avoid being hit. They h
ften feel that automobile drivers a
re- sure to turn out for them. But 4
drivers eyes are often blinded py u
azzling headlamps. Walking on the I,
.ft side of the road is commonly Ii
,nsidered the safest, since this per- e
its pedestrian to see the cars ap- G.
reaching on his side. d
While pedestrians should use care fl
avoid these perils, yet automoolle
rivers should not speed ahead IN d
,e dark regardless of what they are +;
inning into. Many of them act as W
the responsibility for avoiding ac- n
dent was entirely on the pedes- fl
ians. If a driver can not see the W
,ad in front of him, he should h
,eck his speed sufficiently so that b,
, could stop if suddenly pedes- HI
ian appeared in his path. The au- n,
mobile drivers of Delaware must q,
alize that pedestrians have an W
lual right to the use of the ROADS OF
, day and by night, and drivers
Iould take special precautions at e;
ght. h;
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MIR. HOOyER'S FIRST WOMAN - =
APPOINTEE
Mrs. F. L. Slade of New York.
med delegate to the international
ison congress at Prague, is the
st woman to be appointed to Of
e by President Hoover. She may 20 20
ing home some new light on this -
oblem of all ages. -
We need the woman's point oil 80 ="
w on this question, since wo- 80 80
ms sympathy and intuition may -
, into the twisted hearts of these =,
enders. Men have run prisons for ~ ~
10 years on the basis of furnishing +r S