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Milford chronicle., 1930-08-29
CLIFTON'S CORNER
(Near LeWes)

Mrs. Annie Wallis condition seems
not to improve, and her daughter
Mrs. Maggie Vincent is caring for
her.
Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond Hill visit
ed her sister, Mrs. Vessels, who is
in a hospital in Chester, Pa, last
Sunday and report that her c0ndi-
tion was bit more favorable. Clar-
ence Vessels and sister, Mr.. and
Mrs. Eugene Marsh also visited My
ers Vessels. Miss Vessels remained
over with them this week.
Carey's Camp closed last Sunday
and several from here were in at
the end. AS Big Thursday at Slaugh-
ter Beach was the following Thurs
day, many from this section went
there. Among the number were w.
w. Clifton and family, Raymond
Hill and family, and they say there
was sure some crowd there; but the
high wind and damp air made it
just a bit unpleasant.
The children will soon be back in
school, and it is very different from
Tic SClOOAS VI CNCA ISll ySalS cSO'
The children look forward with
real pleasure to the reopening of
the public schools.
How quick a change in the wea-
ther produces an optimistic effect
on the people. After the long dry
spell of weather with Olistering hot
suns, the rain and cool winds have
washed and blown away the misery
of those unpleasant conditions, and
now we hear that predictions of an
early and cold fall, is close at hand.
Some say that wild geese have
flown to the south as a sure sign.
Saving corn fodder is underway
and we expect just moderate crop
of corn; so it is just one thing right
after another to hold attention of
farmers.
Milford chronicle., 1930-08-29

I long periods without food, water and
last, but not least, the State For
estry. Department needs satisfac-
tory and adequate laws providing for
the apprehension and conviction OF
those who not only wilfully but care
lessly start forest fires.
There are already many records
in the Forestry Department files, of
fires in the past year which positive
ly identify the source, cause and the
name of the person who started a
forest fire. Yet, because of lack of
sufficient testimony, the offender
cannot be brought to justice.
The next session of General As
sembly will be asked to support bills
providing for adequate appropriation
to inaugurate a forest protection pro-
gram supported by forest laws with
real teeth in them. AS matters now
stand the Forest Department is
practically helpless to cope with the
situation, but it feels that when
properly understood, every citizen of
the State will be in favor of aiding
in the passage of this much needed
legislation.
In discussing the proposed pro-
lection system to a newspaper rep
resentative, State Forester Taber
said: Let us assume that we had
the fire towers and supporting or
ganiZation; we will say a fire starts
somewhere near Cedar Swamp. AS
soon as the smoke rises above the
tree tops, it is spotted by one tower
man and soon after by second tow
erman. Each towerman, by means
OF his instrument obtains the line of
direction by degrees from true north
and phones this information to the
State Forestry Department, where
the fire control map is located. Any
one in the Department with the in
formation given by the towerman
can tell the exact location of the fire
by arranging strings attached to
pins on the map representing the
towers. The fire warden nearest the
fire is Immediately ordered out on
the fire. He is equipped with tools
and has a regular crew of expert
enced men who will stay on the fire
until it is out or they are relieved
by a fresh crew. When the fire is
brought under control a patrol is
around the fire until it
is completely extinguished.
But the fire warden's job does not
stop with the extinction of the fire,
for he must investigate the cause of
the fire and report the same, esti-
mate damage caused and file re-
port of extinction expenses. He may
also find it necessary to arrest and
bring to justice the person or per-
sons causing the fire"
Milford chronicle., 1930-08-29
STATE AUDITOR
REPORTSSURPLUS
OF $l2,62l,O26,99
rContinned from First Paael

[COntinHed from First Page]
earnings on investments, interest
on bank deposits, fines, and non
revenue incomes from sales, reim-
bursements, and refunds, showed on
July 1, 1929 an available cash sur
plus of $4,175,789.75.
To this amount were added trans
fers from the Industrial Accident
Board, and from fire companies spe-
cial accounts, tOtaling $77112. A
total of $10,727.10 was deducted
from the cash surplus and transfer
red to the school fund, which left a
cash balance of $4,165,833.77.
On June 80, according to the
statement in the report, after all ex-
penditures had been made, an avail
able cash surplus of $5,368,511.S5 re-
mained to the credit of the State,
showing a gain of $1,192,722.1 10. The
total income during this past fiscal
year in the general fund, accord
ing to the report was $3,S34, ,150.06,
with total expenditures for this
period amounting to $2,621,47198.
The school current fund, which
includes revenue from taxes, fees,
interest on bank deposits, earnings
on investments, fines, tuition, rent
of land, penalties, and non-revenue
incomes from refunds, showed at
the beginning of the fiscal year just
past, an available cash surplus of
$4,285, ,2S441.
Transfers from the general fund
and the school investment account
amounted to $10,970.16, and brought
the cash surplus up to $4,296,25457,
from which were deducted trans
fers to the State school building
account, Wilmington school build
ing account, and Smith-Hughes ac-
count, leaving a balance of $3,026,-
25457.
At the end of the fiscal year, the
school current fund showed an avail
able cash surplus of $5,506,341.77 af-
ter all expenses, which amounted to
$3,193,98783, had been paid. The
total cash surplus on July l, 1929
which included the income for the
period, amounted to $S,7OO,329.6O,
according to the report.
The State highway fund on July
1, 1929, showed an available cash
surplus of $375,335.6O. The fund,
made up of incomes from revenues
on automobile licenses, net gasoline
taxes, fines, accrued interest, per-
mits, rentals, Federal aid, miscella-
neous fees, and non-revenue in
comes from the public laud COM
bond sales, sales Of plans
and equipments, reimbursements,
and refunds, was increased to $3,-
721 $3.50 during the year.
Total expenditures amounted to
$3,175,80271, which left an avail"
able cash surplus of S545,837.19.
A substantial decrease in the
State sinking fund is noted in the
report. The balance on July l,
1929, was $5,9O7,412.22. On July 1,
1880 it had shrunk to only ,$11J,-
279.98. The total income during the
year, plus the balance on July l,
1929, amounted to $8,113,5 ,5S536, and
he total deductions during the year
to $7,994,57S.3S.
The deductions included the fol-
lowing: Cash paid for highway
ponds, S4OO,OOO; loss on investments
sold, S1,0OO.62; accrued inte ,est,
S4,977.76; bonds redeemed, $4,294,-
100, and bonds cancelled, $3,695,O0O
Milford chronicle., 1930-08-29
A.

The memor yof the goodnight
kiss" in the stormy years which may
be in store for your little one will
be like far-off steady star in the
years to come. my father-my mo-
ther-loved me-" Lips all feVer-par-
ched in distant land will become
dewey again when tender memories
crowd in thick and fast. Kiss your
child before he goes to sleep. The
hour may come when you would
give all the gold in the world just
to touch those ruby lips once more.
- B.
No man ever got nervous prostra-
tion pushing his business; you get
it only when your business pushes
you.
Magnolia Oil News
&C.
Visitor in county jail-"What ter
rible crime has this man commit
ted?"
Warden-"He didn't commit any
crime at all. He was going down
the street few days ago and saw
one man shoot another. He is being
held as material witness"
Visitor-"And where is the man
who committed the murder?"
Warden-"Oh, he's out on bail"
Milford chronicle., 1930-08-29
FINANCING AMERICAN HOMES

No action of President Hoover
since his coming into office has met
with more general approval than
his calling a conference to study
the problem of home ownership,
with a view to removing the imped-
iments which are slowing up the
growth of the home owning move
ment in city, town and country.
The conference is to be organiz-
ed by a planning committee headed
by Secretary Lamont and compris-
ed of representatives of leading ma
tional organizations interested in
the question of home ownership.
The President himself is deeply in
terested in the movement. AS Sec
retary of Commerce he organized
the housing division of the Com
merce Department and he was pres
ident of the Better Homes of Am
erica Association while Secretary of
Commerce.
The principal drawback during
the past several months, to the
home building movement has been
lack of funds. President Hoover
made mention of this in his state
ment outlining the work of the COM
ing conference, when he said:
1.-The conference will deal with
the whole broad question of home
construction and home ownership.
1t will embrace such questions as
finance, design, equipment, city
planning, transportation, etc.
lone of the important questions
is finance. The present depression
has given emphasis to the fact the
credit system in home building is
not as soundly organized as other
branches of credit Commerce, in
dustry, installment buying, and to
large extent farm mortgages all
have more effective financial reser-
yOirs."
1t is true that the slump in home
building has been due to a great de-
gree to the lack of proper methods
and means of financing. If the COM
ing conference can remedy this
condition, it will have performed
great work for the future of Am
erica. 1t is hardly necessary to say
that the American home is Of SUI
preme Importance to our national
welfare. The more we become a ma
ton of home builders and home Ow-
ners the better it will be for the
future of our country. Surely the
American home is a good financial
risk, and proper facilities shoald be
afforded for financing it.
Milford chronicle., 1930-08-29
It's Time For I'm
american Policy

of erection, will turn out 10000
tractors a year, while two other
plants will soon be built to turn out
100000 more. Russia already has
through the help of American inter
national industrialists the largest
agricultural implement factory in
Europe and is building plants to
turn out 10000 harvesters a year.
The tractor production would indi-
cate a contemplated grain pr0duc-
ton ON more than fifty million new
acres. In addition an American
company is installing on the Dnie-
per River two of the largest cleo
trio units in the world at a cost of
one hundred million dollars, to be
used as the basis of -four indus
try which will Overshadow Mime
apolis. An American is even guild
ing the Moscow dictators in the de-
yelopment of their state grain
farms.
Export of American capital has
brought about a situation which
makes necessary, if the American
standard of wages and living is to
be preserved, a policy of increasing
protection of the home market ON
all competitive commodities, and
the building up of commerce with
the nations of the western hemis-
phere.. The prospect of a European
outlet for American production lex
cept in certain limited lines) is a
vanishing mirage. American inter
national capitalists have furnished
the money and technique to thus
arm the world against us and have
even erected two thousand plants in
foreign cheap labor markets to
compete destructively with the pro-
duct of higher paid labor in Amer
lea.
At the very time when this revO-
lutionary change is taking place in
world economics, we have the most
and loudest talk in favor of turn
ing our back on that home market
which absorbs 80 per cent of our
production, in order to fare forth
in world markets which are about
to become involved in a world eco
nOmic war in which our high labor
costs would render us impotent.
This is due to the fact that the in
bankers and industrial
lists employ propaganda on a huge
scale to blind the American people
to the real facts, and much of the
innocent exhortation |
about international good will at the |
sacrifice of American economic, |
and naval defense, is sub
Sidized from this quarter.
There must be a national awak-
ening to realities, and a revision of
he views of our people and our
statesmen to save American pro-
luctive enterprise from disaster.
We need not, of course, give up the
dea of foreign markets; if we pre-
serve the home market there will
always be an outlet for what we are
lble to produce better and cheaper,
lespite our high labor costs because
)f the mass production made pos
;ible by our immense retained home
market. Moreover Central aud
South America, which produce what
We cannot produce and need what
We produce, furnish the real field
or American foreign trade eXpan-
lion. Our commercial and political
citations with these countries
hould be strengthened in the face
# the effort of powerful foreign and
interests, echoed by
gents in the United States, to ere
tie i'll will between the United
states and Latin-America.
Milford chronicle., 1930-08-29
AMERICAN LEGIONNAIRES
REQUESTED TO COMPLY

Edward H. Naylor, adjutant of the
Delaware Department, American
Legion, has made an announcement
in which he has urged all members
planning to go to the convention in
Boston to bring with them their
1880 membership cards. In a COM
munication from the National Ad-
jutant, received by Mr.. Naylor, the
request is made as follows:
"It is very important for many
that every Legionnaire COM
ing to Boston carry with him his
1880 membership card. Department
are requested to transmit
this information on to all Legion
naires in their department who are
planning to attend the convention"
HARRIS SOMONISKY,
Wilmington, Del.
Milford chronicle., 1930-08-29
RUSH INSPECTION
OF AUTOMOBILES
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were adjusted, while 673 were re-
lined. 1854 horns were passed dur
ing the fifth week, 293 were adjust
ed, and $50 were replaced. The
steering gear on $3.50 cars were
passed during the week, Ala were
adjusted and repairs were made to
parts on 402. 6575 mirrors passed
inspection, adjustments were made
to 256, while it was found necessary
to. replace 361. 6398 windshield
wipers were passed during the
weeks inspection, adjustments were
made to 615 and 1856 were installed.
The registration tags on 1869 cars
passed inspection, while corrections
were found necessary in 723 cases.
1880 operators licenses were exhib-
tied. 4535 headlights passed the
tests during the weeks inspection,
1851 were adjusted and 72S were
replaced.
Milford chronicle., 1930-08-29

Standardization me, sir, but
can 1 interest you in copy Of our
book, Tobacco Habit Cured in so
Days" ?"
Only a Husband-No, but watt
I'll call the wife.-The Pathfinder.
Milford chronicle., 1930-08-29

Podunk-My wife is a bargain
hunter, but there is one thing l
must say for her.
What's that?
Podunk-No.-The Pathfinder.
Milford chronicle., 1930-08-29

Remember the old days when it
was considered unmaidenly for a
girl to do anything so strenuous as
to whistle.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1930-03-27
King County Dairy Herd Improvement
Association Meeting Saturday,
March 29th.

A meeting of the King County
Dairy Herd Improvement Association
will be held at the Novelty Hall in
Novelty, Washington, on Saturday,
March 10Th at 80 p. M
A discussion of cutting the cost of
production in dairying and increasing
the profits from the dairy herd will be
lead by the county agent.
The regular annual business meet
ing of the association will be held.
A round table discussion of the COW
testing work will give each member an
opportunity for suggesting work and
assistance which may be given, and
improvement in plans which he may
have in mind for the association work.
This meeting is open for all interested
dairymen. Every man who has COWS
is cordially invited to attend the meet
ing and take an active part in the
discussion. The members of the as
ISOLATION are scattered over a large
portion of King County and this meet
ing is held for the benefit of the dairy
industry in the county. All those in
terested is COW testing are especially
urged to be present.
Meeting starts promptly at 1870
p. m.
A. E. LOVETT,
County Agent
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1930-03-27
WHAT DO YOU SAY?
Prepared under the direction of
the Executive Committee, Public
Health League of Washington.

Tom SAID, II can beat the train to
the crossing" He didn't!
Jim said, II can't swim, but l won't
fall off the raft" He was drowned.
Ma said, "I'll send her to school, It's
only a cold" She started measles
epidemic.
10 said, 81 can fix this leaky rubber
gas pipe" He was asphyxiated.
Ma, said, I'VE don't need the doctor
yet: wait until tomorrow" Then they
needed the undertaken.
Pa said, wait until he is of school
age before getting him vaccinated"
Six months later he died of smallpox.
Ma said, THE baby has only sore
throat There is no use in calling the
doctor" The baby died of diphtheria,
Pa said, I'm going to shoot some
golf. My heart? That's all right. No.
I didn't see the doctor" He dropped
dead on the links.
Ma said, Our neighbours children
only have whooping cough. Let our
children have it and get over with it,"
They got it, One of them died.
Pa said, 1.-THE school doctor says
Bobby needs glasses, but I don't think
So" Bobby could not read the ex-
animation questions correctly and fail
ed.
The Public Health League says:
These are actual experiences. There is
only one way to prevent them
PROBATION!
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1930-03-27
PUYALLUP FAIR TO ADD NEW
BUILDINGS

Puyallup-The expansion program
of the 1880 Western Washington Fair
at Puyallup from September Is to 81
includes many new improvements ac-
cording to the announcement of Presi-
dent w. A. Linklater
To take care of the ever increasing
crowds arriving at the fair from over
the south highway, there will be a
new southeast entrance gate. The
structure will be highly ornamental
and will be finished in stucco. There
is to be additional room for parking
purposes near this entrance so that
visitors will not be compelled to drive
to the official parking grounds near
the main entrance gates.
The old horse barn, built more than
25 years ago, will be RACED to make
room for new modern racing stable
more than 160 feet long. Draft horses
are one of the big features of the fair
each year and the new draft horse
barn will be 400 feet long.
1ilcoS improvements Will De IlldQe
upon a five acre track purchased last
year by the fair association. AS a
result of the extension of the horse
barns and opening up the new acreage
for building purposes there will be
more room in the fair grounds proper
to handle the increasing crowds.
In the last four weeks more than
four acres of waterproof paint has
been applied to the roofs of fair build
ings as a protection against rain and
storms.
Another improvement announced by
President Linklater will be an addi-
ton to the present Fine Arts Building
to provide ample room to display
paintings and Photographic work en-
tered in competition by Northwest
artists.
Our amusement and entertainment
program at the fair this year will be
along new lines" said President Link
later. "The exhibits will show the in
dustriai and agricultural progress of
Western Washington and in every de-
partment of the fair there will be vast
improvements again this year."
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1930-03-27
THE WORLD IN BRIEF
BY Leonard Van Bossche

Together with his sister, the boy is
the most precious possession OF the
American home" said President Hoover
in an address in which he paid high
tribute to the Boy Scout movement on
the goth anniversary of the organiza-
ton
"Obscure and immoral" foreign
books were banned from the United
States by vote Of the Senate, but the
destruction of such books will be held
up until decided upon by court action.
This action stirred up q hot debate in
the Senate. 1t is regrettable that some
writer's ideas on sex and common
decency are such that censorship must
be resorted to as the lesser of two evils.
Six worlds records in swimming were
smashed by Miss Helene Madison, 16,
of Seattle, in swimming meet held at
Jacksonville, Florida. She set new
records in the 200, 22O, 300, 400, 44O
and 500 yard distances. Miss Madison
has accomplished the greatest SWIM
ming sensation since Miss Gertrude
Ederle, first woman to swim the
English channel, broke six worlds
records in swimming in 1922.
The discovery of new planet in
our solar system, which makes a total
of nine, was announced recently by
DR.. v. M. Slipher of the Lowell observ-
atory at Flagstaff, Arizona. The plan
ct is said to be As times as far from the
earth as the earth is from the sun, and
ma be larger than Jupiter, the planet
which is 1900 times the size of the
earth.
A limitation in each country of
brass buttons and restricted use of
gold lace has been suggested by H. G.
Wells as a worthy task for some future
peace conference. His suggestion to
abolish some of the ballyhoo of war
displays is not such bad idea after
all. Nationalism as taught in our
public schools fosters the war psychol-
ogy among our youth and makes the
work of the dove of peace so much
more difficult, he claims He points
to world federation as the solution of
the war problem.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1930-03-27
Automobiles

And automobiles! There is the for
eign agency, whose product sells for
$4,000 minimum. And there are three
secondhand auto shops in row-no
bargain establishments, be assured.
Each of these has red car in the
front row, which must mean some
thing. Three secondhand cars really
look better than new. They are beau
tifully and gaudily painted. Apparent
ly, the people who buy them do so for
show. There is no need to get brand
new motor If the paint is new.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1930-03-27
LIGHTS By GRANT GRANT
Of NEW YORK
Snooty Street

We might, today, take a stroll along
snooty Fifty-seventh street, home of
Carnegie and Steinway halls, the steel
skeleton of n new hotel, a silversmith's,
a foreign automobile agency and
numerous shops devoted to expensive
and sometimes useful things.
Across the way from, Carnegie is an
unusually large plate glass window,
and behind it strangely arresting
display--a cabin motor boat of yacht
proportions. l have often gazed at it
and wondered how they ever got it
there, so far from the water. 1t has
been there for year or two, and right
now 1t Is in dry dock and painters are
going over its hull. Even dry-land
boat must be kept shipshape.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1930-03-27
A Proud Man

A gray-haired New Yorker whose
position in both the financial and artis-
tic worlds is unquestioned is very
proud of his personal appearance. An
inveterate theatergoer, he always takes
care to arrive after the curtain has
risen, so that every one will notice
him.
On a recent trip he was, as usual,
perfectly groomed for every occasion.
At times he could not resist showing
off bit, and once he paraded the
length of his private train in his loung-
ing pajamas-an exquisite creation of
blue trimmed with red, and set off
with a red stock tie.
All went well until one morning
when the stop-over at fashionable
country club called for golf outfit
He was as pleased as usual with his
habiliments until he saw his secretary.
"Come here" he shouted, Infatuated
"What do you mean by this? Your
trousers hang better than mine!e
20, 1880. Boil syndicate.)
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1930-03-27

Helen: $50 Peggys new sweetie is
Scotch. How does he treat her?'
Mabel: VERY reluctantly, believe"
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1930-03-27
That's Different

One day very pretty young lady
who had a poodle dog in her lap
CHANGED to be riding on street car.
A bluenose lady sitting next to the girl
addressed her thusly: my. what a
nasty little dog. Don't you think, my
young lady, it would look much nicer
If you had little baby In your lap2'
mo" the pretty one replied in calm,
even tones, at wouldn't. You see, I'm
not married" EXCHANGE,