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Milford chronicle., 1930-06-06
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INVESTIGATING THE COM
MITNISTS

A special committee of the nation
al house of representatives has been
directed to conduct an investigation
o! communistic activities and propa-
ganda. While some folks are too
nervous over the proceedings of such
agitators, yet it is well for people
to know how far such propaganda is
proving successful.
This is a country of free thought
and speech. People have right to
entertain communistic views, provid-
ing they do not advocate any illegal
action. They have a right to nomi-
nate communist candidates for all
offices, and advocate their election,
provided they do it in a legal way
The American people suspect,
however, that considerable sums OF
money have been sent into this coun-
try from foreign sources, largely
Russian, to finance a development of
revolutionary sentiment. If so, our
people should realize that the at
tempt is being made to influence our
action by foreign money.
Also our people want to know how
far labor troubles are aggravated by
such propaganda. They have the
idea that in many cases labor trou-
bles could be adjusted harmoniously,
if it were not for communistic agi-
tators who have inflamed the feel
ings of the strikers by violent ap-
peals to class passion, or by demand
ing radical courses of action.
If these suspicious are justified
then the fact ought to be brought out
that such agitation is interfering
with the regular operation of our in
dustries. There probably are some
communist agitators who have vio-
lated our laws who should be de-
ported, but even if not, their foolish
propaganda can be defeated without
trouble, if the people only realize
it's nature. But wherever wage
earners are unjustly treated, condi-
tions of discomfort are created which
flavor growth of Communist feeling.
Milford chronicle., 1930-06-06

vealing to the Oldest members and
friends facts unknown to them. Rev.
Mr.. Layfield, a retired NJ. E. minis
ter of our town, based his remarks
on "Our Flag" which subject is al
ways interesting to all American
citizens and especially fitting for the
day. Rev. H. NJ. Smith was in charge
of the services. Rev. MIR. Hager vOic-
ed the prayer. The addresses and
ongs rendered by the high school
pupils received many words of COM
mendation from the public in gen.
eral.
LEST we forget"-Mrs, Laura Ell
liott, one among the few surviving
widows of the old veterans, and who
is always keenly interested in this
annual affair had much to do in
planning the program for the occa-
sion.
The ladies of Greenwood Grange
will have sandwiches and coffee. pie
and milk on sale at the Firemen's
Carnival on Wednesday night, June
II. The next meeting of the Grange
will be on June IS. This is the last
meeting before closing for the sum-
mer vacation.
Milford chronicle., 1930-06-06
WHAT is NEWS?

Senator Hastings, of Delaware,
calls attention to the fact that the
tendency of the metropolitan press
is to play up only the sensational
and the unusual among happenings
in Washington, and that the result
is that the people get distorted
view of the operations of govern
ment.
In order to get the headlines,
Senator Hastings correctly con-
cludes, it is necessary for a poll
tician to get up and denOunce some
body or something, and especially
to defy the majority in his own party
or in Congress. Members of Con-
gress who quietly go ahead doing
constructive work for the good of the
country get little or no attention.
How much is printed in the daily
press about the many beneficial laws
enacted and administrative actions
taken which cannot be sensationally
treated? Very little, indeed.
In the general news field this is
not surprising. The citizen who goes
ahead doing useful work, obeying
the laws and attending to his own
business, does not break into the
headlines. Let him commit a muir
der, however, and he at once springs
into the headlines. 1t is not surpris-
ing that under these circumstances
readers. conclude that nothing good
is going on i'll the world.
Perhaps there needs to be some
revision of opinion as to what con-
stitutes news. Surely the reading
public must grow weary of being
given nothing but the bizarre, freak
ish and unusual There must be
some interest in the lives of useful
people which is worthy of attention
in the metropolitan press. In fact
behind many of these wOrk-a-day do
ings is an interesting story, of real
human interest. Public interest does
not alone attach to the abnormal,
the criminal, the sensational.
A recent award to newspapermen
doing the most important piece of
work at Washington during the past
year went to journalist who had
accomplished a sensational "expose"
Of an indiscretion by a public man.
The second and third prizes also
went to newspaper men who had
done some especially notable detec-
tive work. This is indicative of the
trend of metropolitan journalism.
Might itn OF be we'll to cultivate a
bit the art of appreciation, which has
fallen into disuse as the habit of
criticism has seized hold of most
writing men? News about the
worthwhile work being done by our
government and it's officials may not
be so easy to get or to write, but
does it not deserve some place on
the printed page?
Milford chronicle., 1930-06-06
GREENWOOD

The Children's Day services which
were held in the NJ. p. Church on
Sunday morning last were quite
success, both from an entertaining
and financial standpoint. The Offer
ing for the occasion amounted to
approximately $135.OO with more in
sight.
At the fourth quarterly conference
of the NJ. P. Church held on Tuesdd
of last week, Rev. Mr.. Hager wa
unanimously invited to return 'oi
the ensuing year. John Jones G. the
Bethel Church was elected de 5ate
and E. V. Ocheltree alternate - the
Annual Conference which meets at
Cambridge, Md, June IL.
w. F. Mai of Lewes who had been
i'll with pneumonia for about two
weeks, died last Saturday. He is sur
yived by a wife and three children,
his parents, two brothers, two Sis
ters and a host of friends. His fu-
neral was conducted by Rev. Dor
sey Blake, former neighbor, in the
Greenwood NJ. P. Church, of which
Mr.. Mai was a member, on Tuesday
at 1 p. m. Interment at st. Johns
town cemetery.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Cannon and
Mr.. and Mrs. c. H. Spence were the
Sunday visitors off Mr.. and Mrs. S.
H. Spence.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Blake and
daughters of Newark were weekend
guests of Miss Elsie Wiley.
Miss Name Houseman of Phila-
delphia spent the weekend with her
sister and niece, the Misses Kate
and Jean Houseman.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Burton of Sea-
ford are receiving congratulations
on the birth of a little daughter,
Frances Ann, who was born at the
Beebe Hospital, Lewes, on Sunday,
June 1. Mrs. Burton many will re-
member was Miss Frances Richards
before marriage.
We are glad to report that Step
hen Spence is improving in health
after taking a rest treatment in bed
for five weeks.
Mrs. Blema Tatman and daughter
of Wilmington visited friends in and
near town over the weekend.
DR.. and Mrs. w. w. Day are Wis
iting their daughter and family in
Brooklyn, N. Y.
Miss Myrtle Clifton and Miss Hell
en- Brubaker of Philadelphia visited
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. w. Clifton over the
weekend.
The following were weekend
guests at their parents home over
the past weekend: Miss Grace Por-
ter, Miss Margaret Mills, Miss Mil
dred Long, Mr.. and Mrs. Norman
Groves, Miss Florence Long and
Gerald Pearson.
Samuel Simpson of Bridgeville is
very ill at this time. He is brother
of Mrs. Clara Wiley who resides in
this town.
Mrs. Walter Belts entertained her
mother from Milford over the week
end.
The Memorial Day exercises that
were held at st. Johnstown last
Friday morning were largely attend
ed despite the inclement weather,
Earl D. Wiley, Esq, prominent at
torney-at-law of Dover, gave, in his
usual forceful and interesting man
ner, the history of the church, re-
Milford chronicle., 1930-06-06
BLANCHARD'S STATION

Mr.. and Mrs. Martin ZOtt and bro
ther from New Haven, Connecticut,
are spending some time here with
his brother Fritz, also other bro
theirs and sisters who live in the
community.
Mrs. Merritt Stringer and son of
Philadelphia are visiting Mr.. and
Mrs. Herbert Edgell and son.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Russell and
daughter of Wilmington spent from
Thursday until Sunday with Mr.. and
Mrs. Carlton Layton and G. L. Bid
die.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. L. Kratz enter
tanned Henry Kratz and family from
Wilmington and other relatives over
the holidays.
Lester Russell, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Matthew Russell figured in a
motorcycle and automobile accident
in Wilmington about II p. m. Mon
day, May 26. Young russell is in the
Delaware Hospital and has been re-
ported in a very critical condition.
We hope he will soon be on the
road to recovery. Mr.. and Mrs. Rus
sell and Mr.. and Mrs. Horace Edgell
visited him at the hospital on Sun
day.
Friends from here were indeed
sorry to hear of the death of Will
liam F. Mai who died of double
pneumonia at his home in Lewes
after being sick only a few days.
Mr.. Mai with his family moved from
his farm here to Lewes over three
years ago. His funeral was held in
the M. P. Church at Greenwood on
Tuesday at l p. m. with Rev. Dor
sey Blake from here officiating. He
leaves to mourn their loss widow,
two daughters, one son, mother
father, two sisters and two bro-i
theirs. Interment took place in st.
JohnstOwn cemetery.
Many of our folks attended the
commencement exercises on Tues
day evening, June 8, in the auditor
ium in Greenwood.
Mr.. and Mrs. Shade Collision OF
CLAYTON, Mrs. Sallie Kinder and
daughters of Bridgeville and Mrs.
Ella Edgell of Greenwood visited at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. S. F. Col
lison on Sunday.
Milford chronicle., 1930-06-06
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MrTrAL OBLIGATIONS

L OAA
To accomplish results in any form
of human life, different elements and
personalities have to recognize their
obligations to each other. In a fam
lily, for instance, the parents must
recognize the obligations to their
children, and the children must rec
ognize their obligations to their par
ents. Lacking either of thest two
sentiments, the life of family will
go to wreck.
This principle applies in a busi-
ness concern. If the management
fails to recognize the obligations it
owes to it's workers, to give them
fair and considerate and just treat
ment. it is headed for labor trouble.
And if the employees fail to recognize
the obligation they owe to the man
agement, the firm will never be pros
porous.
So also this principle applies to
the different elements in community
life. We all owe something to each
other.
Our success as community de-
pends on the relations existing be-
tween the business concerns and the
people. The retail stores depend
upon the public for their patronage,
and they owe it to the public to pro-
vide honest and serviceable and mod
ern goods, at the lowest prices pos
sible. If they fall down in that OBJ
legation, the whole community suf-
'fers.
The buying public also owes an
obligation to its local merchants.
They have, in Milford anyway, mani
tested a great deal of enterprise and
splendid judgment in the effort to
obtain high standard goods at rea-
sonable prices. They devote the ex-
perience of years to this effort. If
we fail to back them up, to give them
a full return for all the energy they
put into the causes of home town
progress, if we fail to>give them our
patronage when we can possibly buy
things at home, we are failing to
make good on our obligation to them,
and our community must suffer.
Milford chronicle., 1930-06-06
Milford, Friday, June 6, 1880
BACCALAUREATE ADDRESSES

On some Sunday previous to grad
uation day in schools and colleges, a
line of seniors is seen marching into
churches and chapels, to hear some
clergyman deliver the baccalaureate
address. Some of the graduates may
receive this advice in fiippant
mood, affected as young people so
frequently are by feeling of prema-
ture cynicism. But in the main
these youngsters are rendered some
what serious by the thought of the
change that is coming in their lives.
They face one of the great divides
of human experience. If they are
going out into the world to earn
their living, life is going to bring
new and perplexing problems. Here
tOfore things have been provided for
them, without undue effort on their
part. Taxpayers have furnished the
schools without cost to them. Gen
erous parents have settled the bills
for college education.
But now all will be different. They
have to make their own way. Nat
urally they are in a mood when they
can be touched. The clergyman who
knows how to reach young people
can say things to which they will
listen now.
Perhaps the thought most empha-
sized in these addresses, is that these
young people should not seek money
as the very first aim in life. They
are told that the possession of wealth
does not necessarily bring happi-
ness, while many folks who have lit
tie money are happy. Love and
friendship count more than dollars.
The worlds wisest men, the states
men, the philosophers, the scientists,
obtain satisfaction in life, not from
the accumulation of wealth, but from
human service, and from the per-
sonal tics which they create. If the
graduates have failed to learn this
lesson from their study, it has been
in some way defective.
Milford chronicle., 1930-06-06

patronize it's business. When you
buy supplies in a home store, you
express your faith that your home
town business people are competent,
and will provide you with good mer-
chandise at a fair price.
When you go elsewhere to buy
goods, you express a lack of faith in
the business of your home town, and
practically say that you do not think
it can supply your wants. 1t is a lack
of faith not justified by the facts
here in Milford, as anyone can see
who will examine the splendid stocks
carried by our stores, and study the
efforts made by our business men to
serve our people.
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THE GOLD STAR MESSAGE

III OOAO - n ~ 4hAAhShD4AN'N4
Those gold star mothers now Wis
iting France are doing something be-
sides satisfying their own desires for
sight of the spot consecrated by
their loved ones lost in the World
War. They are also carrying a mes
sage of national friendship and de-
sire for peace.
AS these women meet the French
people and compare views, so far as
differences in language permit, the
thought uppermost is not of getting
ready for any new war. 1t is a
thought of the utter needlessness of
wars, the failure of wars to accom-
plish any useful results, and the
urgent call upon the world to find
measures by which the war spirit
can be controlled.
Up to a recent date wars were re-
garded as a necessary and inevitable
form of human activity. 1t was con-
sidered about as futile to try to pre-
vent wars, as to attempt to remedy
evils caused by weather and climate.
The thing to do was for nation to
resign itself to the inevitable pug
nacity of human nature, and prepare
thoroughly for such conflict.
When people were formerly swept
down by small pox and other plag-
ues, old fashioned opinion said it
was an inevitable calamity, or a
visitation of God, and they just
yielded to fate. But the scientists
got after these evils, and by better
medical treatment, they have mostly
banished the dangers of such dis
eases.
It is the same with the mental dis
case that causes wars. 1t is to be
aVerted in two ways. First, by well
constructed legislation and treaties
providing peaceful settlement of dis
putes. Second, by friendship be-
tween nations. The Gold Star moth
ers are doing wonderful work along
the latter line. Every French for
eign heart that they meet must be
touched by their sorrow and their
sacrifice, and desire to do all in its
power that such suffering shall not
occur again.
Milford chronicle., 1930-06-06
REGULATED TRAFFIC.

Well regulated traffic was the key
note of the address which Secretary
of Commerce Lamont gave as chair
man of the conference on street and
highway safety at Washington. He
talked to these delegates about the
terrible traffic problem created by
the country's 25,OOO,OOO and more
motor vehicles, and said that the
states that have a strongly central
lied motor vehicle control, with
drivers license systems and manda-
tory examinations of drivers, show
the smallest increase in traffic fa-
talities.
The idea that anyone above a GER
tain age is competent to drive a mo-
tor vehicle still prevails in many
states, but it is not we'll adapted to
a country that kills 81 900 people an
nually in automobile accidents.
Milford chronicle., 1930-06-06
UNION
Near LincOln)

Mr.. and Mrs. Isaac Baker had as
their guests over the weekend Mr..
and Mrs. Carl Black and daughter
Barbara of Wilmington, and on Sun
day they had Mr.. and Mrs. Homer
Lynch of Greenwood.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Messick and
family and John KentOn were guests
of Roy Belts and family of near
Harrington on Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Kenton and
daughter and Mr.. and Mrs. Preston
Kenton and daughter were Green
wood visitors on Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. ElwOod Kenton had
as their guests on Sunday, Lawrence
Murphy and Mrs. Leslie and dauGh~
ter Audrey of Camden, n. ].
The Ladies Aid met with Mr.! and
Mrs. Charles Gere on Friday even
ing last and was delightfully."- enter
tanned. Proceeds amounted to $8.25.
The officers were all reelected. .
They are as follows: President, Mrs.
Katie FITZGERALD; vice president,
Mrs. Margaret Tatman; secretary
Irene Lord Webb; treasurer, Mrs.
Locedia Kenton; social committee!
VIM. Kenton, Ruth Webb and Fran
ces Baker. The social committee put
on a very good. program, as follows;
Solo, Chas. Gere, ST.; recitation,
"Just Down the Road" by Eliza
beth Collins; recitation, II Have No
Right" Ethel Hollinger; limerick on
Union Aid, by Mrs. Herbert Kenton;
reading, when Mother Gets the,
Tea" Locedia Kenton; piano SOLO
Mrs. Fitzgerald; reading, Sugar
Weather" Ethel Lord recitation
Evolution" Elizabeth Collins; rec
itation, Farmer Gray and Farmer.
JONES'" Althen Bethards; reading,
'When the Minister Comes" Nor
man Lord; song, "Take Me Back to >
the Garden of Roses Rachel Fox;
recitation, might and Day." Helen .
Fox; song, "I Think When 1 Hear
That Sweet Story of Old" Lydia
Fox. The Aid was invited to meet
with Mrs. Veril Webb i'll June.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. S. Pritchard and
son Gus were guests of their son
and family at Pennington on Sun
day.
William Belts and sister, Miss JOS
ephine of Jeffersons Cross Roads
were Sunday dinner guests of Mr..
and Mrs. Edwin P. Lord.
Mrs. Mark Welch of Wilmington
was a guest of her brother and sis
ter. Mr.. and Miss Belts of Jeffersons
Cross Roads over the holidays.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Kenton
we're Georgetown visitors Decora--
ton Day. They also visited Sand
Hill cemetery where Mrs. Kenton's
father and other relatives are bur-
led.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. B. Kenton and
son Billy of Milford visited their
brother Herbert Kenton and family
on Friday afternoon.
Alex Ryan and iaughters' Mrs.
Lillian Benton, Dorothy and Gladys
RYAN and Harvey Strong of Booth
kvn. Pa. spent the holidays with
lanes Ryan and family.
Milford chronicle., 1930-06-06
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SENATE IN EXTRA SESSION

One result of the protracted tariff
debate. is that the London naval con-
ference treaty has to go over to ex-
ira session. Once more the senators,
though longing to get home to sum
mer rest, must stick it out through
period of hot weather, and debate
high matters Of state while the ther-
mometer plays tag with the nine
ties.
If the senate had curbed some Of
it's eloquence last winter, the coun-
try would be just as wise, and it
might have been possible to dispose
of this treaty at the regular session.
Milford chronicle., 1930-06-06
A TERRIBLE TOLL OF LIFE

There were $1,000 people killed in
automobile accidents in 1929. If an
epidemic swept over the country and
took 1000 lives in a year, the peo-
pie would be planning measures to
check it, and it would be the univer-
sal subject of conversation. But we
are so used to these automobile ia
talities, that they attract scarcely
any notice.
And many of them happen to peo-
pie who are ordinarily careful, but
who occasionally slip up on their
watchfulness. This thing may hap
pen to any Of us any time. We have
become accustomed to too much
speed, and cease to think of its
perils. Until people get different
point of view about automobiles, this
horrible sacrifice will continue.
Milford chronicle., 1930-06-06
HOME TOWN FAITH

TO push a town ahead, people
must have faith in their town. If
they don't believe in it themselves,
no one else will. One of the best
ways of manifesting such faith, is to
Milford chronicle., 1930-06-06
HOmesick Kids

Homesickness is due to lack of
mental ability to make quick mental
adjustments to new conditions. Such
inability is misfortune.-The
Country Home.
Milford chronicle., 1930-06-06
HOLDING OUR YOUNG FOLKS

The time of year has come when
a certain proportion of our young
folks finish their education and go
to work. 1t is the desire of every
town to hold as many of its young
people as it can. How many of them
will obtain work and stay here in
Milford, and how many will go else
where?
The answer depends largely on
whether we .have impressed these
young folks that we have progress
sive town. Young people dislike a
slow sort of place. But if a town
has go ahead spirit in it, and ac-
composites progressive results, they
feel it is going ahead, and many of
them are likely to settle down at
home, and trust to the opportunities
that will there develop.
Milford chronicle., 1930-06-06

True Love ,-,
Your dog, like your sweetheart
must feel sincere enthusiasm over
your footsteps. Otherwise ne lsh !
really yours.-The Country Home
Milford chronicle., 1930-06-06
HOMIE TOWN THOUGHTS

The people who used to claim
man could lift himself up by pulling
at his own bootstraps, must be re-
lated to the folks who now think a
town can develop without anyone
doing anything to make it grow.
Milford chronicle., 1930-06-06

If people wish to hold on to their
merchandise long time, and carry
it over from season to season, they
are not to be blamed for not adver-
tising it.
Milford chronicle., 1930-06-06

When you send your money away
from home, you not merely say good
bye to your dollars, but the COM
munity has to say goodbye to their
power to promote town progress.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-28
BRAIN REQUIRES
But LITTLE FOOD,
SCIENTISTS FIND
Half a Peanut Supplies Fuel
for an Hour of 'Contin-
uous Thinking.
BY THOMAS r. HENRY.
Thinking is cheap work.

Thinking is cheap work.
The professor absorbed in intense
mental effort for an hour has an extra
demand for food no greater than that
of the maid who dusts of his desk Tor
five minutes.
One oyster cracker or half OF a salted
peanut supplies all the extra fuel the
body needs for an hours continuous
thinking.
This was explained to the National
Academy of Sciences here today by Dr.
Francis G.. Benedict and Cornelia g.
Benedict of the nutrition laboratory OF
the Carnegie Institution OF Washing
ton. During the Winter, they have been
measuring the physical effects OF IN
tense thinking on five men and one
woman. The method was to give the
subject a series of increasingly difficult
arithmetic problems to be done Gin the
head" They found thinking was Aot-
lowed Immediately by distinct In.
crease in the heart rate, pronounced
alteration in the general cnarac1er o.
the respiration, small increase IN tnS
carbonic acid exhalation and small
increase in the oxygen consumption.
Some Of the problems were as onncuit
as multiplying 873 by 81. :.
Measurements were taken eacn 10
minutes and compared with similar
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