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Milford chronicle., 1930-06-27
DELMAR

Mrs. Mary Tyre is on an extended
visit with her sister, Mrs. Hicks
Wheatley at BalestOwn, Md.
George Lightner of Kentucky was
a recent guest of DR.. and Mrs. e. II q.
Dashiell at the parsonage.
A new fire siren has just been in
stalled by the Delmar Fire Depact-
ment.
Frank Lynch, Sr., has returned
from a visit with Mr.. and Mrs. VIM.
Rowe in Brooklyn, N. Y.
The members of Mrs. H. NJ. Wal
ler's Sunday school class had a Jery
successful festival and food sale on
Saturday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Frazier, Mrs
Anna Fleetwood and Mrs. Lavenia
Elliott spent Sunday with DR.. and
Mrs. Walter Hastings of Cambridge.
Mrs. Ella Carmine spent the week
end with her sister, Mrs. Cora Belts
near Milford.
Mrs. Smith Kitchens who has been
visiting her daughter, Mrs. E. E.
Freeney and family has returned to
her home in Philadelphia.
Mrs. D. J. Tingle and son Norris
have returned from visit with rel
atives in Silva, Va.
Mrs. D. A. Mcmillan and son Rus
sell of Charlotte, N. c., and Miss
Edith Sylvester of Harrington were
recent guests of Mr.. and Mrs. V. J.
Carmine.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hubert German en-
tertained Mr.. and Mrs. LinwOod
German of ClaymOnt over the week
end.
Mrs. j. J. Culver has returned
from a visit with her sister, Mrs.
Studley in Laurel.
John Nelson of Wilmington is en-
joying his vacation at home with his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Nelson.
Will S. Marvil and V. J. Carmine
attended the Holland sale in Milford
on Monday.
James w. Bounds, formerly of this
town, but now residing in POGO
moke, passed away at his home i'll
that town Sunday morning after
spending several weeks in the JEFF
ferson Hospital in Philadelphia
where he went for treatment for
heart trouble, which developed a
few months ago, finally causing his
death. Mr.. Bounds was at one time
in the employ of J. T. Wilson and
Company, clothing merchants of
Delmar, but of late years sold fer
tilizers, lime and farm machinery.
He is survived by his widow, who
was Miss Julia Fowler, daughter of
the late DR.. Fowler, of Laurel,
three children and his mother, who
lived with him. Funeral services
were held from his late home in PO-
comoke Wednesday afternoon and
interment made at Mardela. He was
a member of Delmar Lodge, No. POI,
A. F. and A. NJ, and was buried with
full Masonic hOnOrs. He was about
forty years of age.
Mrs. Harry Esham has returned
from a weeks visit in Washington.
Mrs. Polly CleaTy of Wilmington
spent the weekend with relatives
here.
A. w. Ellis has bought new Sc
dan and is building a new garage to
house the same.
The serious drought which pre-
vailed over this section was broken
Tuesday evening by a severe cleo
trical storm and a much needed
rain which was hailed with joy by
the people in general.
Milford chronicle., 1930-06-27
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NFORMING THE PUBLIC

When business people desire to
know how they can interest the pub
lie in their goods, it can be sug-
/ gested to them that there is a wide
open chance, if they will undertake
to give the public information about
their goods. People who are spend
ing money for anything like to know
all about the thing they are buying.
Take the case of man who con-
templates buying an automobile. He
will spend hours poring over the ad-
vertisements of cars. Everything
that magazines and newspapers can
tell him is eagerly absorbed. The
chances are very strong that he will
buy the one that seems to tell the
most convincing story in this adj
vertising.
1t is just the same about clothing,
house furnishings, foodstuffs, or any
thing that people buy. Before spend
ing their money, they like to know
what they are doing. They like to
read the arguments for buying any
particular line. They are interested
to see how any particular producer
will meet the difficulties and objec-
tions that people raise.
The seller of commodities neglects
a wide open opportunity, if he fails
to take advantage of this desire to
obtain information. The cuts freely
distributed by many producers and
wholesalers are a great help to re-
tailers who wish to inform the pub
lie about their goods.
A few words of simple description
added to the notice about some ar
ticle or line, is a wonderful help.
1t makes people feel that the goods
have unusual value. Advertisements
that give the public information
about goods are read with the keen
est interest, and they sell big vol
ume of merchandise here in Milford.
Milford chronicle., 1930-06-27
"UnderWeGr" Is A
mart WOrd

Well have you know that there's
great difference between under
wear and lingerie (that word that
the sales girls so frequently and so
wrongly insist upon pronOuncing as
'lonjeraO. Nowadays, if you please,
underwear is the smarest of the two.
OF course, we aren't talking about
long legged union suits, but of those
perfectly stunning durened cotton
sports pieces usually made with lit
tie shorts and shirts. Sometimes
with shorts and brassieres. They're
ever so much more swanky for ac-
tive or spectator sports than fluffy,
inconsequential little chiffon things.
The material is very porous and alb
sorbent, and has lovely soft sheen.
Moreover, these little garments are
twenty per cent stronger in texture
than old fashion cotton, and natur-
ally will wear corresponding we'll
Milford chronicle., 1930-06-27
EDUCATIONAL HANDICAPS

The graduating season, when so
many finely educated young folks
are turned out into the world is a
kind of disheartening time to mil
lions of people who never had much
education. They read about the
honOrs and rewards given to the
graduates of our leading institu-
tions. They feel hopelessly left out
of this circle of achievement.
A great many young people carry
with them, as the result of their
failure to obtain higher education,
a permanent feeling of inferiority. 1t
destroys their confidence and initia-
tive. And yet a lot of these same
young folks who have this feeling,
have in themselves greater powers
than those possessed or developed in
many highly educated persons.
There is no magical power in
college degree. 1t simply opens a
door of opportunity, and half of
those who have the experience never
take full advantage of that OppOr-
tunity.
A course at a fine educational in
stitution is of course a very great
advantage, provided those who take
it make the best of its OppOrtuni-
ties. 1t is not so much the things
they learn, as the social experience
that comes from mingling with a lot
of people who have had good OppOr-
tunities, and the contact with keen
minds among the faculties and stu
dents.
But if young people without edu-
cation live up to the best they have,
if they seek rewarding companion
ships, if they read good books and
newspapers, if they listen to the
good talk that comes from a hun
dred sources, they also can improve,
so that in the course of years they
may have more than the average col
lege graduate has. No non-graduate
should therefore be worried as re-
spects his future, on account of his
lacks, if such a one is
willing to make up for those lacks,
and use all the opportunities pro-
vided for him in a community like
Milford.
Milford chronicle., 1930-06-27
RESURFACING
WITH SHINGLES
BY Bertna Anne Houck

By bcflna Anne tOuck
There is more to undermining ar
old house than just making a bath
room out of a clothes closet, cutting
a window here and there where light
is needed, and removing a partition
to construct large room out of two
small ones. True, architectural re
modelling of this sort is often nee
essary, but it alone cannot brine a
house up to contemporary S I'd
ards. For example, a house Il a
middle western town was the dis
/ grace of the block. On a street of
attractive modern homes it stood out
like a sore thumb.
A building and loan association
took it in hand for renovation. A
small corner porch was incorporated
into the living room, aud the roof
line brought down over it in a grace
full sweep. The bathroom down
stairs was converted into a break
fast room; clothes closet upstairs
into a bathroom; and rhe attic into
a sleeping porch. Important as these
changes were, there was still some
thing lacking. The exterior dated. >"
This was not wholly matter Of
line-especially as the remodelled
roof was charming-but seemed to
the owners to be rather a question
of surface. In other words, the clap
board siding, while appropriate for
some houses, succeeded in making
this one appear about fifty years
old.
Shingles to soften and give char
acter to an exterior that is obvious
ly too stark and uninteresting, de-
cided the building association. So
shingles it was. But while the rough
texture of the shingles played con-
siderable part in undermining the
exterior, the stained finish was of
equal Importance. This gave the
house not only color but further
durability. The shingles were pre-
pared by dipping them in stain be-
fore laying. Paint could have been
used as well. The best dipping
method is to have a barrel cohtain-
ing stain or paint and dip dozen
or two shingles at a time, butt end
down, to a depth of six or eight
inches, and to stand them in
trough to catch the dTippings. They
should be allowed to dry several
days before being laid After they
are laid, a second coat should be
applied with a brush in order TO fill
the cracks and joints.
Shingle stains come in a variety
of subdued cofors and are very
suitable for the shingle house which
emphasizes quaintness and a wea-
thered appearance. Painted shingles
give an entirely different effect,
equally interesting, but mainly de-
sirable when a smart, crisp, bright
appearance is the end in view.
Shingles of two harmonious colors,
laid at random, give a variegated ef-
feet which is more appropriate for
the roof than for siding. This effect
helps to soften the roof which an
absence of trees makes stark.
At the first signs of weathering,
shingles on either siding or roof
should be given a new protective
coating. Neglect allows the nails to
rust, and as a result, in severe wea-
ther, the shingles become lOosened
and blow away.
Milford chronicle., 1930-06-27
NeUU Pioneer Spirit
Developing NeIU Forest

A new pioneering spirit is devel-
oping in the Lake States region,
bent not upon Opening up" new
country and exploiting" resources
regardless of consequences, hut
upon creating new resources and
carefully outstanding them for per-
manent use, says DR.. Raphael Zon,
director of the Lake States Forest
Experiment Station, maintained by
the Forest Service, United States
Department of Agriculture.
This new pioneering spirit is Civ
ing protection to the cut-Over lands,
is encouraging planting and denuded
areas, and is creating forestry val
ules for the future. AS a result, Doc
tor Zon declares, there is developing
a new forest which in time will
again produce real revenues from
the idle lands. The area now in
State, municipal, and county parks,
resorts, clubs, shooting grounds,
hunting and fishing preserves, and
in State and private game refnges is
close to 51a million acres. Already
there has been put back on the TAX
rolls thousands of acres that until
recently were bankrupt and paid no
taxes. Doctor Zon believes that the
movement for protecting these areas
and of creating wealth upon them
by refOrestation will gather momen-
tum.
The new growth on these cut-Ov-
er lands will never be like the Vir-
gin forest, Doctor Zon says. 'At
first it will be a forest of aspen or
jack pine, suitable chiefly for pulp
and wood, fence posts, railroad ties,
and box lumber; but as time goes
on, and the forest now being planted
approaches maturity, industries us
ing it's products will develop
throughout the forest region just as
industries gre won't of the old lum-
ber industry. These industries, how
ever, will be built to stay, because, /
taught by the bitter experience of
the past, the new forest will not be
destroyed as the old was, but will be
handled on a permanent basis"
Doctor Zon believes the people are .
awakening to the fact that much of
the land occupied by the old forests
is not suitable to agriculture and .
that great areas will come back ma
turally into a second growth, which
will furnish an intermediate reve-
nue. until the real forest develops.
There has also come with the auto
he says, the development of
a new appreciation of the forest for
purposes, and this has
led to better understanding of the
need for fire protection, for forest
planting, and for the establishment
of county, State, and national for
ests.
Milford chronicle., 1930-06-27
THE NATION,S BIRTHDAY

The American people are this year
celebrating the 154th anniversary of
their birth as a nation. They have a
reason to become very enthusiastic.
The situation when the represen-
tatives of the 13 colonies declared
their states to be Independent as a
nation, was one when two courses
were open. One course was to sub
nit passively to wrongs that had
been imposed on them by an unjust
and tyrannical king. This course
would have avoided much personal
risk, and in a money way the coun-
try might have been more prosper
GUS during the life time of these
revolutionists.
But that course would have been
contrary to the conceptions of fun
damental law and Justice which
these colonists nobly entertained
They decided that life was not worth
living, unless they could live under
a system which provided democratic
government and free opportunity for
all When these great men adopted
that attitude, they began to revOlu-
tionize the world. They were to ac-
cOmplish two great ends.
First, this change created condi-
tions in our country favorable to de-
velopment and prosperity, so that
achieving and energetic people could
establish comfortable conditions for
themselves and acquire education
and advantages.
Second, it firmly established a new
principle of popular government in
the world, which has been working
ever since. 1t was that principle
which was the dominating motive in
the recent World War. The senti-
ments that heartened our country
and others to fight against the king
ly pretensions and autocratic tyran-
ny of the rulers of the German en-
pire, were really formulated in In
dependence Hall in Philadelphia
when that declaration was signed.
Well may we celebrate with all
possible enthusiasm such a day,
when the progress of America was
assured, and when the principles
were established that were to pro-
mote human welfare all over the
world
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JULY FOURTH LAwLESSNESS

JULY FOURTH LAWLESSNESS
The celebrators of July Fourth
can be pardoned or tolerated for rea-
sonable demonstrations of exuber-
ance. Conservative people should
remember they were young once.
But it is a kind of contradiction of
things, when the observance of a ma
tional occasion for rejoicing becomes
an occasion for rowdyism, as it does
in many places.
The patriot fathers rebelled from
England because they felt that the
just rights of their country had been
trampled upon. They felt the Eng
lish king had been lawless i'll his
dealings.
Now if our too enthusiastic young-
sters are allowed to celebrate an
event, which was protest against
Iawlessness, by lawless and harm
full acts of modern style, they ex-
hibit not American spirit, but the
spirit of the tyrannical king against
whom the forefathers revolted.
When they come to that kind OF
celebrating, some power should in
terfere and tell them to go home and
go to bed.
Milford chronicle., 1930-06-27

town celebrations, the picnics, the
political gatherings, the orators
should be invited to give a July
Fourth rouser. The people should
listen. The orators can we'll be
counselled not merely TO glorify
what the fathers did on July 4, 1916,
but what our people can do on July
4, 1880, and the year to come, to car
ry out the principles the fathers were
trying to establish.
So@
SOME PEOPLE who move away
from good homes in Delaware should
deposit enough money in the bank
so they won't have to walk home.
Milford chronicle., 1930-06-27
MILFORD NECK

Children's Day services will be
held in the grove at the Milford
Neck NJ. E. Church on Sunday, June
30, beginning promptly at 2 p. M.
Everybody welcome.
The Ladies Aid will meet July IL.
The program committee for the
month is Mrs. Wilbur e. Mills and
.Irs. Emerson Sapp. The regular
program will be in next weeks
Chronicle.
Milford chronicle., 1930-06-27
MARVEL'S LANE

Miss Edna Smith, of Philadelphia.
is spending some time with her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Jos. Smith.
Mr.. Phillip Short has purchased a
new Chevrolet coach.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wallace Hearn and
children spent Sunday with Mr.. and
Mrs. John Marvel.
Services Sunday at Bethesday
church. Sunday school at 2 p. m
Preaching at p. m.
Milford chronicle., 1930-06-27
THE JULY FOURTH IDEAS

How shall the ideas that the coun-
try would like to impress upon the
people in connection with July
Fourth, be gotten over to them? This
is a question which many people are
asking.
The old fashioned Fourth of July
address should be heard in every
town. Our orators should be in
vited to timber up in their best style,
study up on history, look into the
meaning of this great event. At the
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Milford, Friday. June %, 1880
CELEBRATING July FOURTH

The way our national Independ-
ence Day is celebrated is open to
criticism. But it would be a sad
thing, if we ever forgot that Occa-
sion. Better do a lot of foolish
things, rather than take no note of
so great an anniversary.
If we had had no Independence
Day, we should never have had any
Washington's birthday. George Wash
ington would have been just a plain
country gentleman and surveyor.
Scarcely anyone in Delaware would
ever have heard of him. We would
have had no Memorial Day, as the
issues which we fought out in the
War Between the States would have
been settled for us from outside. Per-
laps we should have had no Armis-
tice Day, as our part in the World
War might have been very different.
American history all comes back to
this fateful July Fourth, as the one
date when the whole future of the
country was changed.
So while we are perfectly right in
our demonstrations of joy on this oc-
casion, the kind of observance that
pleased people in more primitive
days is not probably adapted to the
needs of this period
The habits of a nation for cen
tury and a half can not be at once
changed. But sooner or later people
will see that noise making is not
much of a way for celebrating a
great event of political and individ-
ual Development Also it will dawn
upon peoples minds, that any meth
cd of celebration that leads to Sc
rious accidents and fires is too child
ish to last through this sophisticated
e15ee > "aons'@
What we need is some method of
celebrating July Fourth that will tell
the story to the people of what that
day has achieved for us. 1t should
tell us how it has revolutionized our
lives, led to the utilization of our re-
sources, opened the schoolhouse
doors to all, brought comfort and
welfare into the homes. Some day
our achieving people will observe
this wonderful holiday, in that man
ner.
Milford chronicle., 1930-06-27
CHEATING STUDENTS

Reports of cheating by students
who are taking examinations in COL
leges and schools are frequently
heard. They might be asked to tell
why it is any better to fake an ex-
animation paper, than for a business
man to sell fake goods.
To which they may reply that
when a man cheats in business, he
cheats other people who need the
money. But when he cheats in an
examination, he cheats only himself.
Such a student does an injustice
to the institution and his fellow stu
dents, since low standard scholar
ship hurts the institution and all its
students. He passes off something
as his own work which is not so. If
the boys can't see this, their moral
standards are too low to make them
welcome additions to the community
Milford chronicle., 1930-06-27

Diner-This genuine turtle soup?
Why, there isn't taste of turtle in
it.
Waiter-Quite true, sir, but you'd
hardly expect to find Secretary Slim
son in the cabinet pudding, now
would yOu?-The Pathfinder.
Milford chronicle., 1930-06-27
THE NEW TARIFF

At last, after a debate that seemed
interminable to anxious business
men, the new tariff bill has become
a law. Opinions will differ as to it's
effect. But there would be general
agreement that it has taken far too
long to get this law enacted. Uncer-
tainty hurts business just as much
as a wrong tariff.
The United States needs to have
the tariff question taken out of poll
tics. Perhaps that is not possible,
but it should not be necessary to
spend Is months in passing law
that usually lasts only eight or 10
years, and may last much less.
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BARGAIN HUNTERS

The American people hunt for bar
gains with untiring zeal. If a store
puts an advertisement in newspa-
per announcing various lines or ar
ticles for sale at low price, it is
amazing how people will gather to
take advantage. Many stores attract
such crowds that the buyers can
scarcely be handled.
The people feel that living costs
are high, and they are educated up
to the idea that by careful watching
of the market, lower costs can be OBJ
tanned They do not have to be
argued with or persuaded to follow
the news of such markets. The ad-
vertisements in newspaper are read
with keen attention by people who
plan their shopping expeditions ac-
cOrding to the announcements there
i'll made. They are willing to go to
any store that tells a favorable
story about such opportunities.
Milford chronicle., 1930-06-27
DRESSING UP THE HOME TOWN

In business life, people are judged
considerably by the clothes they
wear If salesman goes out to sell
goods on the road, his chances are
pretty poor if he wears old and
soiled clothes. But put good and
well cared for garments on such a
man, and he not merely impresses
people as being of some account, but
there is a favorable reaction on his
own morale. He gains more cour-
age, and feels able to do things he
could not do before.
1t is much the same as respects
the appearance of community.
There are many towns the exterior
of which is simply hopeless. Disor-
der is tolerated everywhere. The
casual visitor gets the idea of COM
munity where there are no stand
ards, no ambition, no pride, no de-
sire for progress. No one wants to
do business in a town like that if he
can help it. People who sell goods
ir such a town would be more sus-
picious of it's credit.
Now if you could take such town
and start a general improvement
effort there, and get the people to
cooperate with it, the benefit would
be incalculable. The people would
feel more courage, have. more pride
in their community People would
come in there to do business, it
would become more of center.
The majority of American towns
come somewhere in between the eX-
tremes of beauty and ugliness. They
have their pleasant and pretty
neighborhoods, and they have their
slatternly and ugly ones. The peo-
pie who live in these less attractive
neighborhoods should wake up.
They are a dead weight on the
progress of the whole town. They
hurt its trade, its industries, its de-
STABILITY for residence. Some infiu-
ence to which they will listen
should get hold of them, and show
them the harm they are doing to
themselves and others.
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GOOD IDEA for people to mind
their own business, but they also
have to mind the home towns bust
Milford chronicle., 1930-06-27
MAKING THE GRASS GROW

One of the most beautiful features
that can be provided for a home, is
to give it a nice velvety lawn of
green grass. 1t takes time and eff
fort to develop such lawn, and in
many localities it calls for constant
watering. Still such lawn does
add so very much to dwelling, and it
pays for all the time that is put
into it,
Grass is a fussy sort of a little
plant, and it will grow where you
don't want it, and won't grow where
it should. Still, it can finally be pro-
duced almost anywhere with fertiliz-
er and water and good seed. A
neighborhood without smooth green
lawns, looks like a man with seedy
clothes, and the homes seem rough
and incomplete.
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GOOD IDEA for people to mind
their own business, but they also
have to mind the home towns bust
ness, if they want low taxes and
modern improvements.