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Milford chronicle., 1930-12-19
BETTER MILK COWS NEEDED

The present low average of the
nations dairy cows is a serious han
dicap to consumers as we'll as to
producers of dairy products, says
the Bureau of Dairy Industry, Unit
ed States Department of Agriculture.
Because OF the low production per
COW, many dairy farmers are work
ing for a very low wage and are act
ually feeding their COWS at a loss.
With fewer COWS and q higher aver
age production per COW the net pro-
fits of the average dairy farm could
be greatly increased. 1t is estimated
that the average yearly production
per cow of the 22,5O0,00O milk COWS
in the United States is 4,60O pounds
of milk containing 1870 pounds of but
terfat
Milford chronicle., 1930-12-19

well, Nose, can give you this
divorce, but il viii cost you So"
"Three dOllahs, bOss?'
That's the fee"
well, boss, jes tell yOuh, don't
b'lieve | wants divorce. There amt
So difference tween dem two VIM
min"
Milford chronicle., 1930-12-19

animals on the farm should be re-
moved. Send all hogs to market for
slaughter at an abattoir under Fed
eral inspection. Apply the tubercu-
lin test to cattle and dispose Of the
reactors. Clean and disinfect pens
and stables before restocking.
You can prepare good paint for
metal surfaces by mixing red lead
or sublimated blue lead ground in
oil-with linseed oil and drier, say
chemists Of the U. S. Department OF
Agriculture. Follow directions on
the containers in which the pig
ments are sold. Mix paint from dry
red lead in the following proper
tions just before it is used: Red
lead, dry, SO pounds; raw linseed
oil, 1 3-4 gallons; oil drier, l pint.
This makes . 1-2 gallons of paint.
TO make a cheaper paint, mix red
or brown metallic pigment, linseed
oil, and drier Finishing coats for
oil tanks and other structures that
need protection from the sun should
be white OraHght colored. Mix them
like outside house paints. Prepare
aluminium paint by mixing alumni
mum bronzing powder, preferably
polished, with good outside spar
varnish in the proportion of 3
pounds to gallon. Add the varnish
to the dry pigment q little at a time,
well.
Milford chronicle., 1930-12-19

4 The best contribution to the con-
cert of peaceful loving nation is
made by Costa Rica, whose army
Consists entirely of a military band!
Milford chronicle., 1930-12-19

Mr.. Coolidge says our last years
crime bill was $7,500.O0O,000. How
ever, we had quite a Bit Of crime to
SHOW for ii.
Milford chronicle., 1930-12-19
Story of Tree Rings
Complicated by Drought

The time-hOnored method of tell
ing the age of trees by the annual
rings has been upset to some extent
this year by the popularity of the
season, says the Forest Service of
the United States Department OF
Agriculture. Trees in most sections
got off to a good start in the spring
but were halted by the parching
summer drought. Almost every
where the growth of trees this year
has been slight, but in some areas
where late summer rains soaked the
earth, a second period of growth
followed the drought, and so alter
ed the ring records. This has been
the case in Alabama, according to
reports from the State forester.
When q tree puts on Yeas
growth it adds a new ring of wood,
and the diameter increases by dOu-
BILE the thickness of the last tree
ring. The age of a tree can there
fore usually be told by counting the
rings on the stump. AS a conse-
quence of the hating and the new
advance in growth this season, Ala
bama trees in many cases put on a
second thin layer, known to fores-
ters as a false ring" So the fores-
ters of future years will have to be
on their guard in computing ages in
the living calendars of Alabama
tree stumps. Such false rings are
not uncommon over long periods OF
years.
This years regular ring in most
parts of the country shows much
less thickness than the average
years ring, and even in those reg
ions where growth was renewed
late in the season the second ring
has not resulted in a larger total
years growth. Most regions, how
ever, did not get rain early enough
to start the second ring.
Milford chronicle., 1930-12-19
a.

"All hail to the ordinary woman;
may she flourish and live long! 1t is
she who gives us our bright boys
and noble girls-GOd bless them!''
exclaims Mrs. Carey. All hail to the
ordinary man, too, even though he
be silent, and doesn't give c0mpli-
ments and caresses. He is often TOO
much abused; perhaps he should
like 4 few words of praise. He may
be hard pushed, weary and worn.
He has got to go out and battle with
the world Yes: women are hero
ines, not all of them, but mothers es-
pecially. They have been lauded to
the skies in song and story. Men
are heroes-the sober, reliable,
truthful men, whose fireside is the
dearest spot on earth. Though he
may sit in silence and read his eve
ming paper, she, the ordinary wo-
man, should consider herself blest
and glad to have him at her side Sc
cure from the evils and temptations
Of the street
Milford chronicle., 1930-12-19

Those revolutions in South Amer
lea certainly started OFF the "R"
months with a bang.-The Path
finder.
Milford chronicle., 1930-12-19

Some men look to their wives for
and others for consola-
tion.
Milford chronicle., 1930-12-19

You must prove yourself Il profit
able investment for your employer,
or why should he keep you? Don't
be at all afraid you will make your
self too profitable He or some other
employer will be glad to share the
profit with yOu.-Forbes.
Milford chronicle., 1930-12-19

The duller the visitor the longer
he stays.
Milford chronicle., 1930-12-19

A closet shower for the bride-to-
be is a good idea Everyone brings
something to make the closet more
convenient. Shoe trees or racks,
hat stands, shoe bags, laundry bags,
clothes hangers, nested boxes,
stocking boxes, dress bags, and a
clothes brush are among the pos
sible items to choose from. One girl
received a hammer and some boxes
of tacks and small brass hooks
among other things.
Milford chronicle., 1930-12-19

Prevention of tuberculosis in
swine lies chiefly in pasteurizing
milk fed to hogs Especially that
from creameries), in allowing hogs
to feed only behind adult cattle that
have passed the tuberculin test, and
in thoroughly cooking all offal or
carcasses before they are fed to
hogs. Disposal of tuberculous pOul-
try hocks is also an important pre-
yentive measure. tuberculosis cat
tie and fowls are considered the
principal sources of tuberculosis in
hogs. When tuberculosis already eX-
lists in a drove of hogs, all affected
Milford chronicle., 1930-12-19
NEWS OF.
IN TIE REST
TO
AGRICULTURISTS

Some poultrymen now use the
"slack-scald" method of picking
poultry. This is a modification of
scald picking. After killing and
bleeding the birds, keep them in wa
ter at a. temperature of about 125o
f. for from one-fourth to one min
ute, depending on the class of poul-
try. The feathers are then picked
instead of being rubbed off as with
scalded poultry. After plucking, the
carcasses should be dried thorough
ly. They are then handled in the
same way as dry-picked poultry.
This method, when properly done,
results in carcasses which look like
dry-picked poultry, though the slack
scald method permits more rapid
picking and the more complete re-
moyal of pinfeathers.
Milford chronicle., 1930-12-19

Cook parsnips with stewed pork
which is seasoned with onion and
chopped parsley.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-13

as the limit OF forgiveness. In this
instance I'm for tradition rather
than new-fangled nationality.
1t is perfectly sensible, suppose,
to take the chronic criminal and
thrust him aside with the steel
hard decision of back to the but
ton molder."
And yet, even you and I hardly
can afford to live upon exactitude
of judgment. My guess is that
there was some period in the life
of every one of us when he seemed
out of it and mired.
Nobody would think of disqualify-
ing horse until he had his chance
at the long run down the stretch.
I'm all for Ruth's having at least
one more shot at it. OF course,
there still is small point in sending
this woman to any institution where
she will spend year or two in the
company of other hardened crimi-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-13
The Democratic Danger

Meeting in an unusually optimistic mood,
the leaders of the Democratic party OF the
state today open a conference and plan 10
capture certain state and county offices.
The optimism comes from the fact that
very many cities of Indiana last fall elected
mayors from their party, revolving against
local and statewide conditions.
The leaders of that party will make
very grave mistake if they believe that they
can win by following the same methods and
offering the same kind of men who brought
the dominant party into disrepute within its
own ranks.
Neither party has a monopoly of either
wisdom, courage, intelligence or honesty.
It is true that indifference on the part
of the voters permitted the control of the
majority party to pass into the hands OF
those who used it to their selfish ends.
It is true that the ordinary citizen has
had little to say, if he were a Republican,
about the affairs OF the party of his choice.
1t is true that instead of ideals of service,
many public officials have encouraged pri-
vate plumber, the introduction of a spoils
system the needs Of the political machine
for which the people have paid in inefficiency
of government and heavy taxation.
It is not likely that the people will turn
from one machine to another for relief. They
will demand something more than change
of party labels.
If there is to be any real optimism, the
Democrats should seek for candidates those
whose records of public service and whose
characters are guarantee that there will be
a change of viewpoint of government as well
as a change of faces in public Office.
Political victories won through the mis-
takes and misforunes and mismanage-
ment of opponents bring no real reforms or
real relief.
There is a vast opportunity for real serv-
ice and for real economies. Some pledge
should be made in this direction. And more
important than the pledge, is the presenta-
ton of candidates for Office who have a
decent regard for the rights of the individual
citizen who finds his government burdensome
and oppressive.
The Democratic danger, very real one,
is that the party will be merely another
political machine with a different brand upon
the steam roller.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-13
REASONS FE EERBEs

THE world rang Wednesday with eulogies Of Abra-
l. ham Lincoln on the one hundred and twenty
first anniversary of his birth, and much said of
his sense his vision his love of justice and his broad
humanity. Little notice. however, given to the
thing which made his career possible and that was
his experience as lawyer
Without that he could not have debated with
Douglas made the Cooper Union speech, written the
Gettysburg address those two immortal inauguras.
Without the mental discipline of the bar he could
not have reasoned his way through the tangled Is
sues of his day clear through to the end
us ambition to be lawyer came, when as boy
l. in Gentryville Ind, he sat around the stove at
Jones store and listened to the lawyers and little
later we find him trudgng over the hills fifteen miles
to Boonvle. where he stood enthralled in the little
log courthouse and listened to Breckenridge frontier
lawyer, defend man charged with murder
Lincoln congratulated him and they were to meet
many years later under vastly different circumstances
Breckenridge then an old man. was to call at the
White House to pay his respects to a newly elected
President and Lincoln was to remind him of the
Boonvle incident and say Il thought that day if
could ever make good speech that, my soul
would be satisfied, for it was the best had ever
heard"
THE first book Lincoln ever read was thin volume
l. of the Revised Statutes of Indiana, published in
1924 the being borrowed from gentleman in
Gentryville.
Lincoln was the only one who ever read the Indi-
ana statutes through and lived to tell the story.
Later on, when he had gone to Illinois and en-
tered the grocery business with booze drinking part
who led him into financial disaster Lincoln was
day to pay passing immigrant so cents for
barrel and its contents and at the bottom of that bar
rel Lincoln found complete set of Blackstone's COM
mentariea the laws OF England
Those books were the corner stone of his career.
But his future greatness was not visible to the
naked eye.
One day farmer for whom he supposed to
be working, found him lying under tree, his pitch
fork cast aside, his face buried in book
What you readng?" asked the farmer.
I'm not reading; I'm studying" answered Lincoln.
Studying wnat?"
Studying law
"Youl" exclaimed the farmer. Great God Al
mightyl"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-13
SCIENCE
Wise Men of Earth Scheme
to Make San Their Slaue
IN Future Day of Need.
BY DAVID DIETZ

MAN began by worShiping the
IV1 sun. He now is plotting TO
find a way to make the sun his
Slave-to utilize the energy of sun
light to run his engines so that he
will not be left without supply OF
power when the earth's stock OF
coal and oil eventually gives out.
The fascinating story of mans
study of the sun is told with clarity
by Charles G.. Abbot in The Sun"
published by o. Appleton g. Co. at
$3.50.
Older readers will recall a book
of similar title by Abbot published
in 1911. The new book represents
a complete version Of the older one
for as DR.. Abbot points out. great
changes have come about in our
view Of the sun since 1911.
In fact. DR.. Abbot, as secretary
Of the Smithsonian institution and
director Of that organizations
astrophysical laboratory, has played
an important part in bringing about
some of those changes.
Consequently, DR.. Abbot writes of
the sun with the authority of
man who has devoted his life to
studying it.
In his book DR.. Abbot does not
hesitate to deal with the most in
tricate phases of solar research. He
does 1t, however, in such way that
no layman should experience diff
ficulty in following his discussion.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-13

much more than to make the skin
flexible and to protect it against
wind and weather.
One of the most remarkable as
poets of the cosmetic industry is the
fact that it is possible to sell cold
cream under variety of names
merely by dding some unnecessary
ingredient ID it, putting it up in a
fancy package and giving it a fancy
name.
Here the old psychology is at
work, making women pay a high
price for something merely because
the exterior gives the idea Of value
The cosmetic industry today is
where the patent medicine industry
was years ago. All the hocus-pocIs
Of secrecy, the magic of mystery
surrounds the sales of these mix
lures to the credulous sex.
The promoters conjure up the
weird legends of discovery which
used to be the basis for snake-oil
for rheumatism, herb-medicineS for
dyspepsia and pink pills for pale
people.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-13
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE
Cosmetic Trade Recalls Early Days

point of view has changed and also
that the chemistry Of cosmetics has
advanced greatly.
Moreover there has been develop
ing an art of cosmetic application.
Far too frequently cosmetics are
used to make the female counte-
nance hideous rather than to bring
out the finer beauties.
Among the earliest of cosmetics
was cold cream, apparently discov-
cred by Claudius Galen, who lived
just after the beginning of the
Christian era. Originally cold cream
was made from almond oil, beeSwaX,
spermaceti and rose water.
Today there are various formulas
for cold cream, but in most of them
borax or lanoline is used as the
emulsifying agent, and liquid par
ATTN has taken the place CT the al
mond oil. The spermaceti is usually
omitted and modern cold creams do
not become rancid.
Furthermore, various perfumes are
used to modify the cold cream. 1t
is doubtful that cold cream can do
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-13
8 It Was Rot
NNE can believe that we were
" justified in entering the war,

nNE can believe that we were
~ justified in entering the war,
and still admit that we talked very
foolishly and very extravagantly.
Tales of atrocity, laws against the
teaching of German, and spy Scares
how we reveled in the rot.
But that seems to be an inesca-
pable aspect to strife.
We no longer put gunpowder in
whisky to make soldiers SO crazy
that they can't be towards, but we
put lot of ballyhoo into the pup
licity we feed them, which amounts
to the same thing.
Our war propaganda rested on the
conviction that it was necessary to
create the belief that we were fight
ing devils, to produce the right kind
of spirit.
A prominent war time leader once
said to this writer, II know that
much we are saying is not true, but
it peps up the boys and makes the
women feel better"
To a measurable extent, history
reflects the same idea.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-13

VOU and don't come off any too
Il well when a woman of % is sent
to jail for the rest of her natural
life. I am not stressing the fact
that Miss Ruth st. Clair happens to
be the first member of her sex SELL
fenced under the Baumes law.
At 90, any bit of human material
still is pretty new to be flung upon
the scrap heap.
There is no point in denying that
this young woman has made q
rather sorry mess of her life. She
falls clearly enough within the in
tention of the statute which is de-
signed to end the anti-social activi-
ties of all who are habitually Grim
inal.
1t is not particularly pertinent to
stress the fact that the stuff which
she stole from department store
would have netted her more than
$25 if sold to a fence"
Readily enough, I will agree that
a short sentence would mean no
more than the temporary detain-
ment Of a shoplifter.
If released after few months or
a year, I have no doubt that Ruth
st. Clair would steal again. And,
even so, it seems to me that the
community is making a pretty
shabby surrender in this case.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-13
Warfare
A N interesting chapter Of Abbot's

4 4 N interesting chapter Of Abbot's
1 n book is devoted to the utili3a-
ton of solar energy. He writes:
1T is said that during a siege Of
Syracuse in the year Ola B. C. the
renowned philosopher Archimedes
burned or scattered the Roman feet
under Marcellus by concentrating
sun rays upon the ships by means
of mirrors erected on the shore.
Whatever may be the truth of this
story, which has been doubted, such
means Of warfare are not likely TO
be revived in oGu day.
Button, the French naturalist
q707-l788) tested the possibility OF
the circumstance Just described. In
1747 he made many experiments
with a burning mirror constructed
by mounting $50 plane glass mirrors
on a frame in such manner that
each could be adjusted separately
so that all could concentrate their
reflected rays to focus at any de-
sired distance.
He found it possible to set fire tc
wood at 60 meters. GA meter is ap-
proximately a yardD With forty
five mirrors he melted tin at 6.5
meters, and with lit mirrors melted
silver at the same distance. BY
these experiments he showed the
possibility Of the feat Of war attrip-
uted to ArchimedeS."
DR.. Abbot then proceeds to de
scribe more modern devices for
using solar heat. One of these is
his own, "solar cooker" which was
mounted on Mt. Wilson, California.
1t utilizes a curved mirror to con-
centrate sunlight on a blackened
pipe. Oil from a reservoir flows into
this pipe. There is an oven built
into the reservoir. 1t has been pos
sible with this device to bring the
oven to a sufficient temperature to
bake bread.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-13
Foolish Optimism

THOSE who look for peace
l. through the scrapping of bat
tleships, the humanizing OF subma-
rines, or any other mechanical
means, are naively optimistic.
Primarily, war is by-product Of
what men say and think; of gossip
and scandal mongering; Of whis-
pered hate, suspicion and distrust;
all of which have just as bad an
odor, even though expressed in
highbrow language, and made re-
spectacle by leather bindings.
What people say about each other,
not only before and during war,
but afterward, is responsible for
nine-tenths of the trouble in this
world.
Ten years ago. Russian Commun-
lists cried out for worldwide revo-
luton, denouncing the rest Of hu-
manity as stupid, hypocritical, Or
malicious.
Communist Russia has been sing
ing the same tune to itself ever
since, and getting an audience in
other places when it could.
The reaction is a grand chorus
Of anti-Russian propaganda.
The pope interdicts; the primate
Of England prays; the French press
roars; police raid Russian offices In
Mexico City and Munich; mobs
form in Paris.
Moscow responds by denouncing
the United States as leader of a
conspiracy. The man Is stupid
who can not behold history repeat
ing itself, who can not see new
storm center developing in the
same old way.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-13
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ANNIVERSARY
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THE TEMPERANCE SOCIETY

Feb. IL
I'm Feb. Is, 1926, the American
~ Society for the Promotion of
Temperance was founded in Boston.
1t was in this year also that DR..
Lyman Beecher, noted clergyman,
delivered and published his six ia
nous temperance sermons at Itch
field, Conn.
Under the influence of the
churches, the movement made rapid
progress, and, by 1888, there were
5000 local societies in several states
with more than 100000 members.
Although the campaign against
intemperance was largely directed
against the use of spirits only, a
proposal was made and adopted by
several societies to include all alco-
holic drinks in the pledge of absti-
nence.
The American society rejected the
proposal in 1888, but accepted it In
1886 and retained it ever since.
About this time, Father Mathew
of Cork, Ireland. the greatest of all
temperance missionaries. caused
more than 100000 of his country
men to become ahstainers.
In this country, New York state
passed law in 1845 prohibiting the
public sale of liquor, but repealed it
three years later, and In 1851,
Maine adopted prohibition.
Today. the temperance societies
are credited with procuring, in a
large part, the legislation dealing
with drink.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-13
Long Shots

CURELY we are a craven and an
- unimaginative crowd if we all
agree that nothing short OF a life
sentence will serve. Something bet
ter could be done.
grant that it may be a long shot,
but the city or the nation which is
apathetic to the thrill of long odds
already has quilted the quick and
joined the dead. I'm all for gam
bling in this case, and many others
of a similar nature.
After all, it doesn't seem to me
that Ruth st. Clair has had a fair
shot yet. She was born of illiterate
parents. She was sweated in hard
Job while still a child.
At 10 she was betrayed by man
four times her age. A little later
YOU and I were instrumental in
sending her to a reformatory, and
if there is one thing certain in our
penal system, it is that refor1nato-
ries do not reform.
Her first husband happened to be
a jailbird and a drug addict, too.
She married him when she was 10.
Granted such a start, it seems
hardly strange that the girl became
a thief. You and would scarcely
do much better if we we're forced
to start so many yards behind
scratch.
All men, and women, too. I sup
pose, are created free and equal.
That's fantastic dream. If it is
ever to come true, we must make
some allowance for those who are
unfortunate enough to get them
selves damned before maturity.