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Milford chronicle., 1931-05-15
SHAWNEE

Mr.. and Mrs. Howard Beideman
Mr.. and Mrs. Roland Beideman of
Philadelphia, and Mrs. Murray Wy
att of Lincoln were supper guests
of Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Belts and
family on Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Isaacs and son
of near Milton spent Sunday with
Mrs. Arthur SlaytOn.
Miss Ethel Stayton is still confiu-
cd to her home with an absces.
throat.
Felix Short is confined to his bed
with an attack of rheumatism.
Mrs. Mollie Prettyman, Mrs.
Pierce Prettyman, Mrs. Emma
Walls and Mrs. Charles Calhoun
motored to Preston. Md, on Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert PostIes en-
tertained relatives from Philadel-
phia over the weekend.
Mr.. and Mrs. Millard Belts spent
Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs. Robert
Lofland and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Pierce Prettyman,
Mrs. Emma Walls, Mrs. Charles
Calhoun and daughter, Hilda CAL
houn, were dinner guests of MI
and Mrs. James C. Mayhem, of Will
mingtOn, on Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas COllett were
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. John Cover
dale, of Lincoln, on Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charlie Rieley and
family, of Philadelphia. were guests
of Mr.. and Mrs. e. F. Collins on
Milford chronicle., 1931-05-15
Milford, Friday, May Is, 1881
WELCOME TO OUR CITY

The Federated Women's Clubs of
Delaware are holding their annual
convention of two days in the City
of Milford, which is an honor we
appreciate. To be selected as their
convention city is an honor, because
the membership of clubs of this kind
is made up of women with broad and
inquiring minds. They are women
who have in the past been identified
with movements which have brought
about changes in the policies of all
the people, that created a higher
standard not only for the women of
Delaware, but for the women of our
delightful peninsula. Greater in
fuence for women in the home, in
social life and conduct of the meth
ods of education for young and the
old as well, and placing women's
position above that of a wage earn
er or ordinary housewife. 1t is a
noble work and noble aim for all
women to be identified with. Milford
welcomes the women of the FEEDER
ated Clubs of Delaware and feels
proud to be their host and conven-
tion city. May joy and peace abide
in all your deliberations and take
with you our love and good fellow
ship.
Milford chronicle., 1931-05-15
MEN WHO ARE TRUSTED

The death of George f. Baker, o.
New York, one of the cOuntry's most
eminent bankers, gives an illustra-
tion of certain type of men whom
everyone trusts. They hold posi-
tions of high responsibility. and if
any task is given to them, people
know it will be done.
Mr.. Baker was for time director
of 4S corporations. These corpora
tions must have understood that he
could give only small portion of
time to the work of any one such
company. But they would rather
have 10 minutes of his time than
many hours and days from men who
held less of public confidence.
When certain men are named to
be on the managements of corpora
tions or other organizations, people
have the instructive feeling that
everything will be all right. They
know that these men have such
clear perception of what constitutes
reliability and good business, that
nothing crooked or incompetent will
take place while they have anything
to do with it.
The question arises, how such
men command this confidence. Mr..
Baker developed a good deal of it
back in the panic of 1873, at a time
when other banks were closing their
doors, when he said his bank would
pay his depositors as long as it had
a dollar. Such men by their keen
foresight anticipate such situations,
and have their money placed where
they can get it when they want it.
Only a few men ever attain such
positions of high responsibility. But
every community has some, and we
have our share of them in Milford, |
who follow along the same line, and |
whom everyone trusts. How do they J
gain that confidence? By their in
sight; good judgment, and faithful
performance of every task that is
given them. Fidelity is their watch
word, but they have to be observant
enough, and close enough students
Of business and human nature, so
that their judgments usually prove
accurate.
Milford chronicle., 1931-05-15
YOUTH AND AGE TESTED

Leland Stanford university in
California has begun making tests
comparing the mental ability oi
young and old persons. Two groups
of young and elderly professors in
the leading Pacific coast colleges
were tried out under intelligence
tests, and the results showed that
they scored just about equally.
It is ordinarily felt that older
people have had more experience of
life. and can hence form more ma
tured judgments, while younger peo-
pie think more quickly and can
learn new things more readily.
The chief fault of youth is lack of
background with which to compare
new ideas. A young person hears
some theory propounded, and it
looks very good to him. He feels
that the application of this theory
would be very beneficial to the COM
munity. But when people have
worked along under that system for
awhile, it is often discovered that it
has defects that they never thought
Of 1t may make conditions worse.
The elderly person compares such
suggestions with his own expert
ence, and is often apt to see where
they are faulty.
The chief fault of age is that it
tends to become set in certain pre-
Elderly people have
over the problems of life,
and have usually reached fixed con-
clusions. They do not easily accept
new evidence tending to show such
to be imperfect, and
they cling to old and outworn meth
DDS of work
Each element of people should |
avoid the errors and faults of its
,wn type. Young people should
)e constant readers of history and |
he experience of the race, so that |
hey may quickly recognize the er-
ors that have created trouble in the
,ast. Elderly people should recog-
lize that human society is i'll a pro-
ess of constant change, and that
ur systems of life and society are
cry faulty, and must constantly be
Milford chronicle., 1931-05-15
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PRUDENT MARRIAGES

The marriage rate rises and falls
more or less in proportion to busi-
ness. 1t recently appeared that the
marriage rate in New York state in
1880 was the lowest for 80 years,
there having been 6,146 fewer mar
riages in 1880 than in 1929. Evident
ly many couples, before rushing
headlong into matrimony, are look
ing around a bit to see where the
money is coming from.
Ardent lovers quote the old say
ing that two can live as cheaply
as one" But the idea that a fellow
is going to support two people for
the same money that supported him
as bachelor, usually proves an il
lusion.
Many bachelors use money Law
ishly, and the money they wasted in
unproductive expenditures would
support wife if she did her own
housework. The bride may have so
much common sense and insight,
and may do so much to help her
husband in social ways and through
suggestions relating to his occupa-
ton, that the marriage will be an
excellent business investment for
him.
The young people who think they
can get married without having any
savings at all, may be able to get
by, if one or both of them have de-
pendable incomes. Love in a cot
tage, with economical bliss, in which
people obtain their happiness from
billing and cooling. without spend
ing money, looks quite ideal in the
romantic days of courtship. But
most of them find their expenses
more than they expected.
The mists of sentiment have a
way of evaporating under the cold
of every day life. The
flowers of romance have a way of
fading when they are brought into
the workaday world The young
married couple usually want their
share of fun, which costs money.
And then children come, and the
expense of them, with all the scien-
life care considered necessary now,
Keeps on climbing. Better have a
1ank book before you interview the
young folks!
Milford chronicle., 1931-05-15
REGISTRATION OF ALIENS

vice-President Curtis told the
Daughters of the American Revolu-
tion in Washington that alien resi-
dents ought to be registered. 1t
would be helpful to the labor de-
partment, he said, and to all seek
ing to become citizens.
Also it would help show whether
a foreigner came in here legally, or
whether he paid some crook $500
to slip him over the border. 1t
would help us get rid of trouble
makers. Our people have to have
passports to travel in most Euro
pean countries, and their people
could not complain if aliens living
among us were required to show
that they have a legal right to be
here.
Milford chronicle., 1931-05-15
HARRISON

/ Mr.. and Mrs. Benjamin Chamber
lain spent the weekend at Ocean
View as guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank Moore.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ananias Hickman
and Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Martin
visited Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Warning
ton near Oak Orchard on Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ira Short and Mr..
and Mrs. Robert Prince spent the
weekend with Mr.. and Mrs. George
A. Rust.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralston Pepper are
the proud parents of baby boy.
born at the Beebe Hospital ON Sat
urday, May 9.
Mrs. Edgar Hill and children of
Wilmington spent the week end
with Mr.. and Mrs. r. NJ. Jarvis.
Mrs. Emma Belts of Milton visited
Mr.. and Mrs. COurtland Veasey over
the weekend.
Edward Davidson of Carney's
Point, N. j., visited Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles PettyjOhn on Saturday.
Mrs. Annie Warrington spent a
part of the week with relatives here.
Miss Delema Wilson is improving
after mastoid operation in the
Beebe Hospital.
Mrs. Frank HOrner and Miss Al
berta Veasey are visiting their par
eDts, Mr.. and Mrs. G. E. Veasey.
A, Redhefer is on the sick list.
Miss Wainwright visited Olive Yea
sey on Sunday.
Milford chronicle., 1931-05-15
ONE FORM OF. THRILL

1t is claimed the people desire
thrills. They are said to eagerly
run after stories and entertain
ments that supply such excitement.
But not all the thrills come in fic-
ional form. Some are matters of
fact.
One form of such thrills comes in
the form of business news. The
housewife is thrilled by the story of
bargains: The news showing her
how she can make $1.OO do the work
of $1.25 or $3.50 or more, is also
thrilling. She is stirred by it. She
reads the newspaper advertising in
each issue, in the hope of finding
such thrilling stories announced in
these notices. She finds them, and
acts according to their suggestions.
Milford chronicle., 1931-05-15
SEEING THINGS GROW

If you ask garden enthusiast
what it is that gives him so much
pleasure in his job of cultivating
and seeding, he will probably say
81 like to see things grow"
The best sources of happiness
come from doing things ourselves,
from the sense of having created
something. The person who plays
some game skilfully, obtains keen
zest from his command of the ten
mis- racket, golf club, or ball bat.
The one who simply watches some
one else do these or other things
skilfully, has not touched the most
vital sources of pleasure.
When the gardener sees his nice
flowers and vegetables peeping above
the soil, standing up sturdily against
various viccissitudes, he has the
feeling of having created something.
He has made something of use or
beauty with his own hands, lie is
proud of it, and life brings no bet
ter pleasure. 1t costs very little,
and is something that money can not
buy.
Milford chronicle., 1931-05-15
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WHY STUDY LANGUAGES!

The question is often asked, what
good does it do the average boy OIL
girl to study this or that ancient OF
modern foreign tongue in schools
and colleges? French, German
and other modern languages are
very generally studied, and many
high school pupils still take Latin.
To many people this looks like
waste effort. They argue that few
people go to foreign lands to live,
and if they merely want to travel
there, they can find some every
where who speak English.
We need a large number of people
who can read books and magazines
in foreign tongues. Ability to read
these languages gives valuable in
formation about modern progress.
Differences in language create hos
tile feeling, and knowledge of for
eign tongues enables people to get
foreign points of view and it dispels
such hostile sentiment. 1t would
help international friendship, if
every high school pupil in all coun-
tries was required to learn at least
one foreign language.
The translation of words and SEN
tences from one language to an
other, if done under the supervision
of competent teacher, is one of the
best ways of teaching people to
think. The pupil with such a trans
lation to make has to think very
carefully about the shades of mean
ing between different words in his
own tongue. This increases his
command over his own language, it |
makes him a better writer and |
speaker.
The result is, that students of the
various foreign languages, ancient |
or modern, are apt to develop into
young people, who form
opinions worth listening to. They
have been a mental exercise that
wakes up the mind. Such mental
can of course be obtained
n other ways, and many of our
most intelligent people never stud
ed any foreign language. But that
ioes not prove that young folks
should be denied the mental stim-
Illus given by this form of training.
Milford chronicle., 1931-05-15
1885,

A multitude of farmers are now
running their business according to
improved methods, and turning out
greater product, with the same
amount of labor or less. They may
think they obtain a poor reward for
their increased efficiency since the
prices of their products have drop
ped so much. But such inequalities
right themselves in due time, and
when food products are cheap, peo-
pie will buy them more freely.
Anyway it is a great boon for the
people to have an abundant food
supply at moderate prices, as it
means a we'll nourished population,
and plenty of food with which to
bring up strong and healthy chill
dren.
Milford chronicle., 1931-05-15
% YEARS PLAYGROUND WORK


A few days more than 25 years
ago, a group of men and women met
at the White House, at the invita-
tion of President Roosevelt, and Or
ganized the Playground Association
of America. The directors of that as
sociation have just met at the cabi-
net room of the White House in rec
ognition of that anniversary.
Today about $33,5OO,OOO is being
spent annually by communities in
the United States and Canada on
public recreation programs. The
average daily attendance at such
Fairgrounds is 100000 persons, of
whom 100000 are children. Mr..
Roosevelt started big thing.
The more Fairgrounds there are,
the fewer jails we need The boy
who is working his head off to win
games for his ball team, or who
spends his spare hours studying new
tennis and golf strokes, is not in
terested in criminal life. The smart
crook who drops those insidious
words in his ears about easy money,
gets no attention from him.
The lot of the children in crowd
ed city district without Fairgrounds
is pitiable. They can't play in the
streets, on account of the automo-
bile peril. What is there left for
them but gang life, in which out
whiting the police becomes their ins
centive? In many smaller towns, |
there isn't a single spot where the |
boys can play ball without being |
ordered off.
Just the mere opening up of a
in such a neighborhood
will cure much of this restlessness.
But of course the playground will
accomplish far more, if there is
some supervision. Without oversight,
many of the games will break up in
rows. But with a reason
able amount of supervision, the con-
yested neighborhood is turned from
1 center of restlessness and unhap-
1iness for young people. into COM
nunity where young life has at
aimed a wholesome objective.
Milford chronicle., 1931-05-15
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NO ECONOMY ON GASOLINE

The year 1880 may be considered
one of depression, yet the American
people paid out more money for
gasoline taxes. The amounts paid
on this tax netted ID per cent over
the payments of 1929, the year of
peak prosperity. This increase may
have been partly due to higher rates
of taxation in some states. Yet the
consumption of gasoline increased
31a per cent
There was a time when automo-
biles were considered a luxury for
the majority of people. Those who
ran into debt to buy a car, were
looked at as rash spenders by many.
But today no one can persuade au-
tomobile owners that the ownership
of their car is a luxury. They would
give up almost anything rather than
abandon it.
Many of these folks will wear
their old clothes to the point of
dingy shabbiness, rather than sac
rifce their car, or even cut down
on their mileage. They will have
their shoes soled and half soled,
until they are full of cracks and
seams, rather than give up the gas
buggy No wonder many lines of
business run slow, when people
must have gasoline, tires, and re-
pairs, expenses that did not cost
many of them a dollar 10 years pre-
viously.
And the consumption of gasoline
has been greatly augmented by the
custom of letting the children of
the family have the use of the car.
A few years ago, these youngsters
felt themselves happy to have a
kiddie-car, velocipede, or an old
bicycle. But now they must have
the use of the family car, or their
life is blighted. And so the old bus
goes rattling around to the dances
and shows within wide range of |
territory, and the money has to
come from somewhere.
1t is not much use to quarrel with
the tendencies of the time. If peo-
pie want money for something very
badly, they hustle more to get it.
The intense desire for automobiles,
has stimulated peoples ambition,
and made them willing to work to
obtain this privilege.
Milford chronicle., 1931-05-15
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BACK YARD AVIATION

The landing of an autogiro on the
White House lawn the other day,
this plane being able to rise and
fall nearly vertically. was a notable
event in aviation progress. Hereto
fore one of the difficulties in avia-
tion has been the necessity for large
landing fields, which often makes a
forced landing dangerous.
If airplanes can be made to land
safely and easily in fair sized home
grounds, without being subject to
offsetting disadvantages, the day of
general use of such machines would
seem much nearer. 1t will probably
be many years before the masses of
the people keep airplanes in their
back yards, but the automobile age
was considered a dream 40 years
ago.
Milford chronicle., 1931-05-15
CHEAPER FOODS

Retail prices on the leading ar
ticles of food had declined about 16
per cent at recent date, below the
prices for the previous year at the
same time, according to government
figures. That is tremendous
change change to take place in the
cost of living, and it will have its
effect on business and living condi-
tions.
It hurts the farmers who produce
all this food for the time being.
However, the costs of the things
they have to buy have also come
down, though not on an average as
much as the food products. They are
likely to make one very important
saving on their expenses, and that
is on the wages of farm labor. They
will probably be able to hire help
at fairly low rate this year. Many
men who have been out of work in
the cities and towns will say that a
farm job for the summer with
plenty Of good home cooked food
will look very good to them.
The lower prices for food will
make large difference in peoples
buying power. Many thing that
was out of their reach before, will
be possible now This increase of
spending ability should lead to
many purchases of household and
personal necessaries, and thus tend
to make general business good.
Milford chronicle., 1931-05-15
GRAVEL HILL

Robert Davidson has been on the
sick list.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. II. Powers have
purchased Chevrolet sedan.
Mrs. Isabelle Mcdowell was on the
sick list the past week.
G. II. Koeppel has purchased a
MISUNDERSTANDING caterpillar trac-
tor.
Grace Baker was on the sick list
the past week
Thieves visited the poultry house
of Mrs. Andrew Coulter on Wednes-
day night of last week and stole
nearly all of her hens. The tracks
of three persons were found near
the poultry house and one of the
thieves lost his cap.
Milford chronicle., 1931-05-15

Mrs. J. J. West is visiting her
daughter, Mrs. Esther Prettyinau.
Mrs. George A. Rust and Harry
Barker are slowly improving at this
writing,
Mrs. Lydia Dennis Of Georgetown
is spending the week with Mrs.
Maggie Green.
Mrs, Fannie Horner is entertain
ing Mrs Fay Garrison of Bridge
ton, N. j., for several days.
There will be services i'm the
church on Sunday as usual Tho
morning topic will be "Arnageddon."
The evening topic will be The Two
Comes"
Milford chronicle., 1931-05-15
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TASTEFUL HOMES

Don't be discouraged about youi
home, because you have little money
to spend on costly furnishings. You
can give the impression of taste in
less expensive ways. Just cleaning
up every bit of rubbish and disor-
der makes a long step toward it.
A pleasing arrangement of color in
painting does much for it. Select
colors that seem to like to live to-
gether, not those that seem to swear
at each other.
Flowers, trees, shrubs, green
grass, mark the home of taste and
refinement. Work over your home
as if you loved it, and the marks of
taste will not be missing.
Milford chronicle., 1931-05-15
ANTI.LITTER RULES FOR CITY
OR HOME

OR HOME
There is a general desire that all
homes, business places, highways,
or places of a semi-public character,
shall be maintained by owners of or
those responsible for, keeping the
entire community in clean and at
tractive appearance as may be pos
sible. This applies to rural homes,
rural scenery, and all highways, as
we'll as the cities and towns. Help
nature to keep beautiful and that
helps all the people to enjoy life and
happiness; each must do its part.
Tell the children that it is wrong
as we'll as dangerous to throw fruit
skins on the sidewalks. Tell them
that it is wrong to throw old paper,
pop bottles, tin cans or other refuse
out along the highways, to become a
menace to safety as we'll as spoil
ing the beauty of local scenery.
The New York Times in an edi-
torial last week on this subject
said:
The Committee of Twenty on
Street and Outdoor Cleanliness ap-
pointed by the Academy of Medi-
cine is doing its best to make the
city "litter-conscious." If it could
succeed, litter would disappear from
the streets and parks and the city
would take on a different aspect.
Efforts made by architect and land
scape artist to ennoble and beautify
the city and by the street cleaners
and garbage gatherers to keep it in
respectable condition are hampered
by the carelessness or wanton acts
of those who use the streets without
regard for the decencies of life, the
rights of others, or the fair name
of the city.
The rules which the committee
asks the public to observe are rea-
sonable and should be scrupulously
kept by every one who has any
sense of civic duty:
Put garbage and all waste mate
rials Immediately into tightly COW
cred pals or cans, thus avoiding
the spread of disease through cats,
dogs, rats, flies and vermin.
Bundle carefully all papers and
other light refuse before placing on
street for removal.
Sweep into cutters daily between
and 8 a. m, but, better still, col
ect such sweepings into special re-
ceptacles for removal.
Refrain from throwing newspa-
Ders, fruit skins, or other refuse on
he street, sidewalks, parkways, va
,ant lots or other public places.
Put them in cans especially pro-
yided for this, both indoors and out
loors.
Refrain from splitting on side
walks, stairways, platforms, road
Ways of subways and elevated struc-
ures. Use a handkerchief, or, if
-ou must, spit into the gutter. but
lot at crossing.
There are few other command
nents, but if these are kept there
rill be little need of the others so
ar as concerns citizens. 1t is the
ity's official responsibility to gath {
r the garbage and refuse and dis
ose of them with least inconven- .
9nce to the public and with greatest Il
But the cleaning up of t
le city must begin with the citi- u
en-. Outdoor cleanliness begins o
ldoors."
Milford chronicle., 1931-05-15
TAKE CARE OF HOME FIRST

France has increased her duty on
sugar. the new duty being the equiv
alent of cents a pound, and the
reason for the increase being pro-
lection to the French beet sugar
farmers. All of which is neither
particularly important or significant
until it is recalled that for the past
five years France has been one of
the most outspoken critics of the
American protective tariff policy
whenever this policy affected the
products of France.
Milford chronicle., 1931-05-15
E]&&El

IF YOU want to know what is
going on in any community, the
newspaper advertisements will tell
you kuite as much as the news
columns.