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Milford chronicle., 1930-11-14
SEED CORN TREATMENT
PROVES SUCCESSFUL

Considering the fact that the prac-
tice of treating seed corn for the
control of root rot and other dis
eases that are carried on the seed
was not being followed at all by the
farmers in Kent county five years
ago ,and also that a survey con-
Quoted this fall by County Agent
Russell e. Wilson indicated that
there were approximately 6,912
acres of corn planted with treated
seed last spring, it is reasonable to
assume that much progress has
been made toward spreading this
idea among the corn growers in this
county.
For the past four years seed
treatment demonstrations have
been conducted on different farms in
Kent county, and in checking up the
results of these plots each fall it
has been found that during this per-
iod the treated seed has given an
average increase of AS bushels of
corn per acre over the untreated
seed. This project this year was
conducted on the farms of Law
renee E. Cain and T. NJ. McGinnis in
the FELTON, area, Dewey Sapp, near
Houston; Howard c. Deakyne and
Dudley Crossley in the Smyrna and
Clayton sections; ElwOOd Kemp
near BrenfOrd and Howard WiX at
Frederick.
Both Semesan Jr. and MerkO were
used to treat the seed corn in the
demonstrations on the Cain, Sapp
and Dakyne farms, while Semesan
Jr alone was used on the remain
ing four farms, with a portion of
the field on each of these seven
farms planted with Untreated corn
in order to compare the results =
from the seed treatment areas. The
yields of corn from the plots which !
were planted with the Semesan Jr.
and Merko treated seed were prac- .
tically the same in that the average
yield this year was 5O.45 bushels .
per acre, as compared to 1853 BUSH
els per acre from the untreated seed
or a difference of 1865 bushels in
favor of the seed treatment.
In addition to securing this in
crease in yield per acre, the corn
which was grown from the treated
seed in most cases was more solid
and it seemed to mature earlier e,
than the corn in the remainder of
the field. This is a very important .
factor in the growing of corn, for
every farmer is interested in pro-
1ucing the best crop possible, and
any increase in bushels per acre is
a step forward in the program of :
production.
DpAD TIIU ans IN TJIc rSsYrp
Milford chronicle., 1930-11-14
NEWS LETTER FROM THE
UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE

The University of Delaware foot
ball team continued it's fine work on
the gridiron on Saturday, defeating
Mt. St Mary's by the score of 13 to
6. This gives the Blue and Gold
four victories and but two defeats
for the season they having won
from st. Joseph's, Gallaudet,
Swarthmore and Mt. St. Mary's and
lost to George Washington and Rut-
gers.
There remains but three more
games on the scedule and many
followers of the sport believe Della
ware has an excellent chance of
winning them all three and thereby
making it one of the most success
full foot ball season for the Blue
and Gold in a quarter of a century
Saturday of this week Delaware
plays Drexel in Philadelphia; on
Saturday, November %, Haverford
will be their opponents on Frazer
Field, Newark, and on Thanksgiving
Day they end the season playing P.
NJ. c. in Chester.
Already plans are being made for
the winter sports at the University
of Delaware which includes basket
ball, swimming, fencing and rifle.
Ed. Bardo, the new member of the
athletic department has started
practice in swimming and the pros
poets are bright for another fast
tank team. DOC" Doherty, graduate
manager, will start basket ball
practice Immediately after the foot
ball season ends. The schedule of
both of these sports will probably
start before the Christmas holidays.
Public school teachers of the
State were guests of the University
of Delaware on Thursday and Fri
day fthis week, when the annual
meeting of the Delaware State Edu-
cation Association was held in Nit
chell Hall, the new auditorium at
Newark. Several noted educators
were among the speakers on the
program.
The Thanksgiving holiday at the
of Delaware will be short
this year compared with some pre-
vious years, but the Christmas holi- |
days will be longer. The Thanks
giving holiday will not start until
noon Wednesday, November 26, and !
ends with the first class Friday |
November 2S, giving the
students one and one-half days. The
Christmas holiday will start after
classes Thursday afternoon, Decem-
Der 18, and will end the morning of
January 2.
Milford chronicle., 1930-11-14
=~GEJ
THE NATIONS school. BILL

THE NATIONS SCHOOL BILL
The survey of school costs made
by the research division of the Ma
ton al Education Association pre-
sents statistics which show that in
The country as q whole we are no.
spending an alarming percentage
our total national income for
public education. The amount
seems large in itself, $2,44S, ,633, ,561,
cut is only 2.74 per cent of the
nations income Nor does it seem
enormous when put beside the ex-
penditures for things that, for the
most part, lie beyond the field of
necessities. This comparison is
not new President Eliot used Of
zen to make it. But with our i'm
mense growth in wealth, expenditure
of public schools has not increased
relatively at the same pace.
1t is not urged that too much is
spent for insurance or building or
passenger automobiles or even for
articles in the luxury class; but the
question is asked whether such eX-
penditures indicate that we in vest
more in the education of our children
than we can afford. Our luxury bill
amounts to nearly three times that
for our schools. The tobacco bill
alone $2,141, 100000. is almost as
large as the total for public educa-
tion from kindergarten to university.
We can afford to do even more
for education. The only doubt that
should disturb us is whether the ma
tion is getting its moneys worth in
the quality of the teaching. The
people will not be parsimonious in
support of the public school when
they know that it is efficiently
conducted. They will even make
sacrifices beyond their taxes.
1t is to be wished that the picture
which Professor Reisner, of Teach
ers College presents in his book on |
1.-The Evolution of the Common
school" were true of every COM
At present the wisdom and the
planning of professionally trained
men and women are brought to
bear upon the common school in it's
every aspect. -. Security of tenure,
more adequate financial reward and
Just promotion schedules are MAX
ing the occupation of teaching more
and are influencing a con-
5tantly in creasing number of per-
sons to find in teaching not stop
zap employment but "a life profess
sion. Finally, the standard of certi-
ication, the facilities for teacher
and the development of in
ervice opportunities for renewal
nd growth are steadily improving
he quality and professional enthus-
asm of the teachers.-N. Y. Times
=
Milford chronicle., 1930-11-14
ell as civil government
===I&@E

FRANK REEDY, while not a figure
in state or national affairs, like Sen
ator du Pont or Caleb r. Layton,
played an earnest part in the civic
affairs of both his home town and
county. He was a bitter partisan in
politics, but a fair fighter always.
For several years he was removed
from all activities because of physi-
cal infirmities.
Milford chronicle., 1930-11-14
ALFALFA HAY

Some of the highest grade alfalfa
hay in this country comes from dis
tricts where the hay is put up in
large stacks with sleds and der
rick and then allowed to sweat
prior to baling, says the U. S. De-
partment of Agriculture. Hauling
the hay from the field on sleds
keeps it free from dust and grit and
better preserves its leafiness.
Milford chronicle., 1930-11-14

Marriage is like a cantaloupe.
You never know whether it is worth
trying until you have tried it.
Milford chronicle., 1930-11-14

NO ONE ever yet helped town go
ahead by talking about how slow
it is.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1930-10-01
EDISON'S ANSWER
Why the Great Inventor is for the
Maintenance of the Eight
zenith Amendment

Here are questions put to Thomas Edi-
son by Frank s. Mead, and Edison's an
swers as published in recent number of
the Christian Herald:
do you believe that prohibition has
contributed in wholesome manner to
American prosperity"
Eyes"
do you object to the men in your en-
ploy drinking moderately?"
Eyes. 1t takes money from their fam
lilies"
What about the scheme suggested for
improvement of the law and its enforce
ment?"
Enforcement could be improved. We
have only about two thousand active men
engaged in enforcement. New York city
has $4,000 policemen to enforce ordinary
laws. The government surely should have
that many to enforce single law in the
whole United States"
do you feel that modification, coupled
with enlarged educational progress, would
be good?"
mo. Enforcement is the only remedy
If that fails, then try education"
What about state control?"
"Too much compleXity-too much poll
tics to be satisfactory"
what is your opinion of government
control?"
"This has been tried many times, in
different parts of the world, but it has
never worked"
Suppose that beer were allowed to
come back, would it slow down or speed
up Industry"
"Slow down, most decidedly"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1930-10-01
THE ALCOHOL PROPAGANDA
John F. CuNNEEN)

The Catholic Total Abstinence Union
of Illinois at its fifty-ninth annual con-
vention held in Chicago, in resolutions,
called attention to the alcohol propaganda
in this statement:
In the days of the legalized liquor traf-
fic nearly all bishops and priests admin
istered the pledge of total abstinence to
boys and girls until they attained the age
of twenty-one years. Millions of our youth
grew into manhood and womanhood with
out knowing Che taste of intoxicating liq-
uor. Those who ceased to be total abstain
ers did so for other reasons than taste for
liquor
The effect of the alcohol propaganda
was probably the chief reason. The alco-
hol propaganda teaches that alcohol is
more powerful than the greatest nation on
earth; that it is greater than the church
of God; that it is more efficient in heal
ing ailing humanity than the doctor who
spends twenty years of his life training
for the work if healing.
The alcohol propaganda leads those who
aspire to social prestige to believe that al
cohol is necessary for success: that the
elite must bow down and worship the ex-
crenent Of a living organism-the myco-
derma cerevisiae.
Father Theobald Mathew, the apostle
of temperance, told of the people whose
constant cry was Great is Diana of the
Ephesians' the idol then worshipped at
Ephesus) "Thus it is always with many
engaged in the spirit trade who are heard
to cry out necessarily Great is Whisky;
Potent is Ale But I say far greater is
teetotalism"
The temperance movement has advanced
since the days of Father Mathew. The liq-
uorites do not cry out for whisky and ale.
They plead for beer and light wines and
insist by word of mouth that they do not
want saloons. Let the people beware of the
alcohol propaganda.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1930-10-01
SALOONKEEPERS NOT
CLASSIFIED

The 1880 government census does
not classify saloonkeepers. This is
the first time in history there is no
such classification. In the 1920 CEN
sus which was taken after wartime
prohibition went into effect. the GEN.
sus listed as saloonkeepers 1882
men and 523 women.
In 1910, the last census of the open
saloon, there were 66,724 men and
,491 women listed as saloonkeepers.
But in 1880 bootleggers, rum-run-
ners, etc, are Jumped under the head
of "other occupations" like the ceme-
terry keeper and exterminator.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1930-10-01
WET LOGIC SURELY is
FUNNY

A recent article under a Berlin dateline.
credited to the Universal Press, reads in
part as follows:
Germany is going dry. The prohibi-
ton movement here is making only
the slightest progress. Nevertheless,
the consumption of spirits has de-
creased considerably. This change is
due mainly to increased popularity of
sports. A vast proportion of these
voluntary abstinents are young per-
sons. In America, prohibition is driv-
ing youth to alcohol; in Germany the
lack of prohibition is driving it to abb
stinence.
To the reader of AMERICAN issue, this
item needs no comment. tt is merely one
more example of the cleverly planned pub
ncity campaign of the vets at home and
abroad to discredit American prohibition
in the eyes of the world. The benevolent
vets gone moralistsl 1t seems like such
waste of energy and money to us for the
vets to fight so furiously to destroy pro-
hibition when they admit that as soon as
wicked prohibition is out of the picture
all drinking will cease. Why spend time,
effort and money to ruin their own bust
ness?
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1930-10-01
LESS DRINKING IN COLLEGES

Two hundred and thirty-nine college
presidents can't be wrong; drinking is a
negligible factor in the undergraduate life
of the country according to that many col
lege heads who replied to a QUESTIONABLE
circulated by the national Woman's Chris
tan Temperance Union. OF the total OF
257 replies eight said the same amount of
drinking obtains now as before the Eight
zenith Amendment; seven reported condi-
tons as being bad, while three said things
were worse.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1930-10-01
IF NOT A SALOON WHAT?

III a
N has a goodw ordf
the the saloon out business GA bad
Neu World o January this Statement
t
era prohibition production
O the
o. o but
whereth money will o
he
there
TX to be
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pretty
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In the doonm enh % to on the
% 10 IS
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1930-10-01
CONSTITUTION AND PROHIBITION

Continued from Page 81
iation of the oath which every federal of
ficer takes when he takes Office
A DISLOYAL PROPOSAL
Why, suppose the state of New York
fixes q percentage of alcoholic content
such as TO be intoxicating Shall the con-
gress Of the United States and the officials
of the United States, the custodians of the
constitution, acquiesce in the proposition
and connive al its disregard of the consti-
tuition? Shall we leave it to the state of
New York or to the state of Idaho or TO
the state OF California to say when and
how and to what extent the constitution
of the United States shall be applied and
enforced? II would make forty-eight
standards. You might have a standard of
per cent in New York, and if SO. they
could ship their product to every state of
the union.
You might have standard of per cent
in the state of Louisiana and yet New
York could send her 7 per cent product i'm
to the state of Louisiana against the
standard which they have established
there We would have forty-eight different
standards, no one guarding or protecting
or enforcing or maintaining the constitu-
tion but forty-eight different states apply
ing their different rules.
WHY uOb Say W Tile DSODle VIII dIc ASK
ing for light wines and beer, you cannot
secure Intoxicating liquors which you de-
sire until you amend the fundamental law
under which you live"P
If this question is to be presented to the
people, let us present it in such q way that
it will raise the real issue, and either give
or deny to them that for which they are
asking. to-wit, intoxicating liquor. The
legislature of the state of New York is now
in the course of passing a referendum law
as I understand it, and so far as that is
concerned, New York Is simply in the lead
Other states will be asked to follow. In the
referendum which they are to send out, if
they pass the law. will be this question:
Should the congress of the United
States modify the federal act to en-
force the Eighteenth Amendment to
the constitution of the United States
so that the same shall not prohibit the
manufacture, sale, transportation i'm
portation, or expectation of beverages
which are not in fact Intoxicating, as
determined in accordance with the
laws of the respective states?
That would delegate or leave to the re-
spective states the power and authority to
say whether a particular beverage was in
toXicating If the state fixes q percentage
which makes it intoxicating, what is the
government of the United States to do?
The. government of the United States is to
remain silent. The keeper of the constitu-
ton, the sole power to enforce it through
out the union, is to remain silent and con-
nive at the violation of it from day to day
and from yea to year. That goes on
through all the forty-eight states of the
union. It means legal chaos, 1t means con-
stitutional anarchy, it means the break
down of constitutional government.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1930-10-01

To the editor of Life Mr.. Callahan wrote
in most vigorous way, which probably the
editor will not soon forget as follows:
"In connection with my letter to the
Outlook I feel it only proper that I should
likewise express myself regarding Life and
what at present seems to be its raiSon
d'etre
st have been reading Life for over forty
years and formerly when travelling over
the world it was the only paper that was
forwarded to me, SO much did appreciate
the editorials by MIR. Martin.
"On account of it's background and that
of the Abbots, I can stand for the Outlook
talking temperance but Life and it's past
record of humor pleading for temperance
in full page advertisements, is more
humorous than anything that appears in
its own columns nowadays.
"In your full page advertisements you
lay great stress on temperance, and was
wondering how much thought you have
given this program and how do you pro-
pose to reach the young or the old, and do
you expect to use the churches or schools
to get the contacts?
ST knew personally Mitchell, Miller and
Martin, and occasionally visited Mr.. Mar
tin, and am very sorry to say that it seems
to me my old favorites, even outside of the
liquor question: are going to the dogs.
1.-THE only people I know of that are do
ing temperance work, getting pledges of
abstinence, etc.. or preaching the evils of
liquor are prohibition people
Frankly I think Life is no better fitted
to preach temperance than my friend
Mencken is to teach Sunday school.
Yours very truly"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1930-10-01

prohibition as prohibition was the result
of non artisanship.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1930-10-01
A CATHOLIC PROHIBITTONIST
Writes Letters to the Editors of the
Outlook and Life Expressing Wig
orous Disapproval of the Atti-
tude of Both Publications on
the Prohibition Question

Mr.. Patrick II. Callahan, who is a promi.
nent Catholic laynan living in Louisville,
Kentucky, and who is. also a prominent
manufacturer of that city, has written
some most interesting letters to the editors
of two magazines, expressing his opinion
about their anti-prohibition policies.
Mr.. Callahan is also al ardent prohibit
ZIONIST and secretary of the association OF
Catholics favoring prohibition. His letter
to the editor of the Outlook is as follows:
ST have just received your letter without
date, the opening paragraph of which is
The Eighteenth Amendment must be re-
pealed'
You will find that am not only sub
scriber, but am also getting a supplement
tary number which I pass along to
friend and it must be thirty-five years that
I have been reading and subscribing for
the Outlook. 1t was, as you must know, a
great disappointment for you to desert us
in the fight to remove the evils of liquor
from the home and political life of the
nation.
"In an issue of some weeks ago you dis
played grief and despair over the increase
of deaths due to prohibition and which I
think you said was the straw that broke
the camel'S back and it was this state
ment that also got on my nerves, for refer
ence to the census bureau statistics re-
veal:
During the years of prohibition, as
compared with the years before prohi-
bition there were more lives saved
than our country lost in the world war
because of fewer deaths from alco-
holism, and that percentage of deaths
from cirrhoSis of the liver and BrightS
Disease due to excessive liquor indul-
gence.
Instead of there being an increase of
deaths by alcoholism since prohibition, the
very worst year in point of deaths since
prohibition is better than the very best
year before prohibition, and I am wonder
ing if ysf InisrepreSent2t i1-1 i -'7ic 49,
ter is fat yoa iar1 s 1r
ProhiL "a
ut w1G-1, therefor, -gsze s..
not only decerted our cause, but gone over
to the enemy bag and baggage and taken
up the cudgels for liquor and the liquor
crowd.
81 knew both the Abbots, father and son,
and even Lawson Valentine, which makes
me feel that a change for the worse has
come over the Outlook
"You can be as wet as you choose, but
you cannot get away with the old liquor
game.
Yours very truly
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1930-10-01

Continued from Page 81
iation of the oath which every federal Of
ficer takes when he takes Office.
rarcr cxrhT DDnDnchT
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1930-10-01

put the out of business ga bad
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-05
Texas Five
FavOrite In
L. S. Meet
Athens, Defending Champ,
Doped to Meet Jena
in Finals.
BY BERT DEMBY
United Press staff Correspondent

CHICAGO, April 5.-The Giants
from Jena, Louisiana, dark horses
of the tournament, and the Hor-
nets from Athens, Tex, defending
champions, stood out today as four
teams went into the semi-final
round OF the twelfth annual
scramble for the national high
school basketball title.
Survivors of thirty-six starters,
the quartet which includes st.
Johns Military academy, Delaf1eld,
Wis, and Corinth, KY, with one
exception have reached the semi
finals fairly easily.
st. Johns is the exception. 1t
overcarne a ten-point lead Friday
night principally because Braselton,
Ga. was inclined to loaf. Possessing
probably the most highly polished
offense in the tournament, the st.
Johns outfit lacks size, and that
is why Athens was favored to beat
the Wisconsin outfit today. Athens,
without a doubt, is the team TO
beat" in the tournament.
jena seems to be the only 90
struction. The Louisianans have a
great team. They possess the best
field general and floor guard IN
the tournament in Sparkle Wade,
Kentucky state champ. Today,
Jena was to meet Corinth, and the
Louisianans were expected to win.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-05
Hollywood Trio
Breaks Record
in Swim Relay

b" CHa 1tS|Af toc April 5.-swimmers
competing under the colors OF the
HOLLYWOOD A. c. and the New York
A. c. were doped to battle 1t out
for the team championship as final
events in tn eannual senior mems
national A. A. U. Aquatic tourna-
ment began today. Hollywood'S
point total today stood at 10 while
New Yorks was II.
A worlds record was smashe'S
Friday night when the Hollywood
trio of Frank Walton, Tom Blank
enburg and Weston Kimball swan
the 300-yard medley relay in
3:062-5.
Buster Crabbe of Honolulu, COM
petins for the Los Angeles A. c.,
nosed out Walter Laufer Of the
Lake Shore A. c. for the 100-yard
free style title.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-05
n. ID. Coach 10
Take Test at
Mayo Clinic

BIZ United Press
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. April S.
DR.. J. G. Barborka, Mayo clinic
physician, is EN- route to Miami
Beach to accompany Knute Rockne
back to Rochester, Mimi. for a
thorough going over Rockne adj
mitted today.
The famous Notre Dame football
coach, who previously had denied
the physician was summoned be-
cause of his condition, emphasized
that DR.. Barborka was not coming
here for a consultation.
I'm feeling fine he said. I'm
planning to go back north this
weekend and Barborka, who is
friend of the family, merely is COM
ing south to go back with me. He's
not called in consultation on my
case"