Milford chronicle., 1929-10-04
Our Weekly
Washington Letter
"JOhn and Florence"

son of a president, and Florence
Trumbull, daughter of a governor
might have been welded in the
White House, but with good judg
ment decided on less ostentatious
plans. Washington is especially in
terested in presidential families. i
is gratifying to all true Americans
that no sign of snobbery is manifest.
ed by any member of first families
of the land.
DOlling Up Uncle Sans Artillery
A battery of Coast Artillery that
goes into the annual maeuvers spicb
and span is likely to end it's weeks oi
training looking like contractors
outfit on muddy construction job
But the 51st Coast Artillery put one
over on the others of that branch OF
the service when it refinished four
155mm cannons and other equipment
by ducoing, as is done by most auto
mobile manufacturers. Even after
the guns were hauled out of a
swamp, where they stood in water
during target practice, and had re-
mained in the open without covering
i AOA I'LL luOhIlAoy oil IhclJ was IG-
quired was washing off and a bit of
retouching to restore the battery
to its snappy, new appearance. Not
even the heat of firing affected the
finish. Putting an automobile finish
on artillery was a stunt about which
other commanders are asking Capt.
John B. Day, 51st Coast Artillery,
MANY questions.
What of the Air Future?
1t goes without saying now that
aviation "has come" The space it
occupies in the public press testi-
fies to that. But there have been so
many accidents of late that Senator
Bratton has demanded an investi-
cation of the recent loss of the "City
of San Francisco" not to diminish
air-travel, but to increase it through
public confidence in aviation. The
Secretary of Neurological Institute of
America, speaking to the jewellers
of the country in convention, has
just pointed out the intimate rela-
tionship between the matchmaker
and the development of aviation,
clock and watch movements having
been a considerable factor in this.
He said the whole future of aviation
is bound up in the accurate instru-
ment and the fine mechanician, and
that without these every mans front
yard was in danger, not Just noun
tain sides and open fields.
More Potatoes From the South
Recommendation has been made
that Florida, Virginia, Maryland,
North Carolina and South Carolina
plant more spring potatoes. In all
1000 more car loads are desired. But
those interested should get the full
details, for some districts are asked
to cut the acreage.
Bird-Killers &c.
Among mammals the most dan
gerous enemies of birds, including
game birds, are cats, free-roving
dogs, rats, and weasels; of lesser
Importance are minks, foxes, bad
gers, skunks, opossums, raccoons.
Even the little ground squirrels, or
of the prairie States, eat
the very small young of game birds.
Snakes sometimes figure prominent
ly as egg thieves; and bull-frogs,
turtles, and such fish as
pike, pickerel, and bass, if allowed
to live in a duck pond will seize
and devour a great many ducklings
and even attack adult birds:
Not Understanding Reasons
One of the troubles of all us is
that we use too much "snap judg-
ment." Congressman are very apt !
to seize quickly on something which |
they can use as ridicule of their op
ponents. A case in point is Senator |
remark about the farmer |
diamonds. These valuable |
stones have the tariff taken off in
The new bill. Why? Because they |
are so easily smuggled into the |
that a great temptation is
offered and no real benefit accrues
except to a small group profiting
1y illicit actions. But Senator Nc
Xellar has sought to make laugh |
ly depicting farmers finding their
happiness in diamonds. At the very
ime the Senator was having his fun
he retail jewellers of America were
n convention seeking to solve their
worries incidental to the slump that
las come over their business since
he war. No business has been hard
n chit" by the developments which
lave taken so much money into the
radio, and movie devel-
,pments. The boy of today is not
10 keen to buy a ring-he thinks it's
,nough to take her for a ride or to
. show.
Famous People Know Their Bible
A striking illustration of the part
'layed by the Bible in the lives of
uccessful men and women is found
n a series of favorite passages of
evenly celebrities, recently COM
lied by the Bible Guild.
Few of them, if any, seem to have
cen satisfied with a perfunctory
aiming of the most familiar verse
hat came to mind. Instead, they
uote passages rejecting their pro-
ession, their philosophy, or their
ersonality.
A former prize-fighter quotes: J
He that ruleth his spirit is better
IAN he that taketh city" A ia
lous novelist refers to the majestic
eauty of the Book of Job. A juve- !
lie court judge: "I delivered the a
DOR that cried, and the fatherless, 7
nd him that had none to help him." b
surgeon who has saved hundreds a
lives: "Yea, though 1 walk n
trough the valley of the shadow of
cath, 1 will fear no evil" L
The Twenty-third Psalm appears
be the most general favorite,
hile the Sermon on the Mount fur
shed more individual verses quoted Il
: these men and women. Many n
I'd in the Gospel according to st. a
,hn the passages that mean most to S
EN-. But outside of these, choice b