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Milford chronicle., 1931-02-20
LONG NECK

The Ladies' Aid met at the home
OF Mrs. Asher Lingo on Thursday
evening with large attendance. At
ter the meeting ice cream and cake
We're served in abundance. The next
meeting will be at the home of Mrs.
Clifford Green.
Captain Stanley Adkins of Will
mington, Walter Adkins and L. Black
of Milton, visited E. G. Lingo on
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clifford Lingo and
children attended the funeral of
Charlie Wells at Lewes Sunday af-
ternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Garry Massey are
confined in their home due to ill
ness.
w. D. Steele and family attended
the funeral of Carl Steel at Reho-
both on Sunday afternoon.
Norman Draper, of Bridgeville,
spent Wednesday and Thursday at
his cottage.
Mrs. Ward MCGEE and son, Mrs.
G. E. Lingo and children, were call
ers in Georgetown Tuesday.
Mrs. Charles Phillips, of Oak Orch
ard, was a caller with her mother
Thursday, Mrs. Ward McGee.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lloyd McGee and
children, of Milton, called on Mr..
and Mrs. Garry Massey on Sunday.
Mrs. George Phillips is improv-
ing.
Mrs. Lizzie Warrington spent We'd
nesday afternoon with Mrs. Clifford
Lingo.
Miss Edna Parsons and E. G. Lingo
attended the fourth quarterly meet
ing held at Unity church on Sunday
morning.
N. w. Prettyman and family, of
Stockley, spent Sunday with the lat
ter's father, A. L. Joseph.
Milford chronicle., 1931-02-20
DRAWBRIDGE

The Ladies' Aid Society of Zion NJ
E. Church met at the home of Mrs
Evelyn Reed on Wednesday evening
of this week, to conduct the regular
monthly business meeting. Ice
cream, cake and pies were son sale
The meeting was well attended and
much enjoyed by all those present.
ed at this writing. t7.tz a4
Theodore Birmingham is seriously
ill with pneumonia at bis home
near here at this writing. I'VE all
hope for his speedy recovery. He
was visited on Sunday by his bro
theirs, Edward Brittingham and fam
lily of Denton, Md, Ira BTittingham
and wife of near Lewes and Green's
bury Brittingham and children of
near here. '.'.
Mrs. Amanda Reed who has been
on the sick list is somewhat improv-
Elwood Clark visited his grand
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Dick
ersOn near here recently.
Mrs. James Jones and daughter,
Mary of Wilmington spent the week
end with the formers parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Washington Mitchell near
here.
Eli Moore and children entertain
ed ON Tuesday evening. of last week
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Littleton and
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Campbell.
Rev. Jas. O'Neil has purchased
new Chevrolet coupe.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Mitchell en-
to duck dinner on Fri
day, Miss Margaret Mitchell and
friend Leroy Davidson, Mr.. and Mrs.
Leighton Lovkerman and son Robert
and Ralph Steele.
Miss Kathryn Campbell. Miss
Milford chronicle., 1931-02-20

Clarence T. Eshum, Mrs. Topp M.
Heath, Mrs. Malverna Long, Mrs.
Ward Daisey, Mrs. Raymond p. Long,
Mrs. Morgan T.EGum.
Mrs. John Ii. Layton is visiting
her daughter, Mrs. Layton UstletOn,
Doyleston, Pa.
Mr. and Mrs. Topp M. Heath enter
tanned at their home on Main street
at dinner last Friday evening, Feb.
18Th. Among the guests were Mr..
and Mrs. C. Dale Lingo, Mr.. and Mrs.
Roland West, Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond
B. Morris, Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. p. Mon
roe, Mr.. and Mrs. Harvey Ruark, Mr..
and Mrs. John A. Tingle, Mr.. and
Mrs. H. Barton Shepherd, Mr.. and
Mrs. Burton G. Cannon, Mr.. and Mrs.
Milford chronicle., 1931-02-20
American Legion Notes
SUSSEX POST NO. s
Dear Charlie:-

Dear Charlie:-
Well things have happened since
the last time l wrote to you. You
remember that at our last meeting
a committee was appointed to see if
we couldn't have a dance at Milton.
Well the committee certainly got on
the jump and went to work. I heard
from the chairman of that commit
tee, Vice P. c. John Fisher, and he
says they are planning to have a big
time over there in the Firemen's
Community Hall on the oath. They
have engaged Blackstone's Orches-
ira from Milford which he assures
me assures everyone going of hav-
ing a good dance, and on top of that
why they are going to serve refresh
ments. Think of it. If you have a
buck, one dollar, you better not
miss it. Comrade Fisher says this
is one in a life time.
Another thing, Charlie, the COM
mittee that was appointed to stage
a minstrel decided to go one better.
They are going to put on a real
show, have engaged professional
coach and will put on this show in
great style at Ryons Theatre on
March II and 12. Two big nights.
The title of the show is "The College
Flapper." hope Comrade Ed. Glen
daniel, P. P. c., will have chance
to see Comrade Calhoon do his stuff .
for then he will pay dollar and a
half to see the performance.
Almost fifty per cent of the 1880 |
membership is signed up for this
year. Let's go over the top before |
the National Commander comes to !
Georgetown on March 5. saw /
Comrade Afflerbach and he says we
will have roast turkey, fruit cup,
candied sweet potatoes, mashed
white potatoes, string beans, butter
ed beets, cole slaw, celery, olives,
gherkins, hot rolls, coffee, cake and
ice cream. Now you might expect
to pay a dollar and half for all
that but you won't, you'll get it for
less. The Georgetown Rotary Club
is going to be there in body.
People are still talking depres-
sion. Thomas Marshall said what
the world needs is a good five cent
cigar but I say we have it. What
we need is more smokers to smoke
more of these good stogies and more
people to wear both pair of pants
that come with two pants suit.
l am putting away. Sidney.
Of !
Milford chronicle., 1931-02-20

been confined to her home for four
weeks with neuritus, is now able to
be out again.
Mrs. Samuel DENIES, of Salisbury,
Md, has returned after spending
some time with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Hamilton G. Davidson.
Miss Phyllis LaRue Wilson has re-
turned home after spending the past
week visiting in Newark and Will
mingtOn.
Milford chronicle., 1931-02-20

Clarence r. Esham, Mr.. and Mrs.
VIM. Powell, DIR. and Mrs. Carleton
c. FOoks, MIR. and Mrs. Dan Carey.
Mrs. Norman Chandler, Mrs. Robert
S. Long, Mrs. William S. Long, Jr,
Mrs. Raymond P. Long and Miss En-
ma Howard Long.
Milford chronicle., 1931-02-20
CANNON
A CORRECTION

The chicken salad supper is to be
given by the Christian Endeavor So
ciety of Cannon NJ. P. Church at
Cannon School on Saturday evening,
February 81, 1881. Price fifty cents.
Milford chronicle., 1931-02-20

One nice thing about being quiet
and dumb is that you escape lot
of disagreeable committee work.
The Washington times., 1931-09-01
Chain Stores May Operate
Big Farms

Washington people interested in fine chain stores will
be concerned in seemingly trustworthy information that the
stores here and throughout the country selling oodstuf
before great while get large part of their supplies from
their own farms.
truck farming large scale beginning cautiously Of
So probable this that predictions made that Wall
Street will be financing farming corporations with huge
capitazations They will be subsidiaries of the big chain
store corporations
Automobile and tire manufacturers had something of the
proposition before them when rubber prices went sky
high but rubber grown far away from this country under
varying conditions of climate and farm help With rubber
prices reasonable rubber kings not disposed to go
into rubber growing.
Truck farming is complicated problem. It can
be made profitable the selling of food supplies It will
be done right here unless the chain stores should reach out
for banana and fruit plantations of their in South
America.
The chain business is scientific proposition Sue
cessfu farming must be scientific This nation is full of
horse farmers who know little beyond putting seed
into the ground and doing cultivatng They know
nothing of soil chemicals and needs OF suitable fertilizers
They know little of market conditions of proper handling
of their products.
There are hundreds of farms in haphazard ways to
that is operated integeny The chain store corpora
tions probably much concerned making money
from large farms operated by them raising just what
they and of ALL getting their vegetables and other
supplies in the right condition for marketing Quantity may
be had but quality at all times would be most desirable
It will be surprising if in Is 20 years. chain stores
have their truck FARMS their poultry FARMS orange
grapefruit canteloupe and watermelon farms scientifically
operated and supplying only the most attractive things Tney
may 60 into canning.
The Washington times., 1931-09-01

This interesting picture shows young John Barrymore well
actor standing proudly beside huge Kadak bear just
killed.
the bear had Barrymore first and had been close
him. the bear would be standing beside Barrymore
much Of Barrymore might be left undevoured.
However the top of his body bear has powerful teeth
in the place. has brain that works He also has
gum and, the bigger the bear the easier to hit him.
What is gory7
There is glory in killing bear like this glory per-
haps killing two of them There might be greater
glory for sentmentas in sayingF Bear should like to
take home your head and hide to show how
am But you probably have family and shall let you
co. knowing that undsturbed you harm nobody"
There glory for the spider Marcus Aureus said in
killing fly and for the conqueror in aughterng thousands
of "sarmatians."
But the important question for all of anxious to do
something worth while before leave this earth to lie under
less accurate epitaph the question: WHAT IS
REAL GLoRY?'
How would YOU answer that?
We know that it might truly be said: Tell mans
idea of glory, and Ill tell you what the amounts to-
The Washington times., 1931-09-01

The necessity for some dras.
tic action in England was in
escapable, but there is a waning
confidence in the capacity
of the coalition government to
put its measure through. Ram
say Macdonald and Philip
Snowden, the most brilliant
members of the Labor minis
try, continuing in the two most
important posts in the coalition
government, are unable to
carry their party with them.
Under the leadership of Hen
derson, their party will offer a
stout resistance to the new gov
ernment. These two leaders
are now without a party and in
a position of tragic isolation.
And now it is conceded that
some Liberal members will
support the coalition only on
condition that the measures to
be submitted for the balan-
cling of the budget actually
provides for an equality of
sacrifice" among the rich and
the poor.
Manifestly, a 10 per cent sac
rifice from men with an in
come Of $1,000 a year and those
The Washington times., 1931-09-01
Men of Genius
And Courage

Men Of Genius
And Courage
The secret of their phenon-
email ascent is. first. in their
genius; and then in their
superb courage. Neither will
wilt under the attacks of their
former associates. Both have
stood without flinching the al
most unanimous denunciation
of a nation; and both have the
capacity, reserved for the truly
great, of standing absolutely
alone.
And then, again, both may
triumph in the end in the
present crisis. for it has been
written that he who would find
himself must lose himself.
There is something magnificent
in the spectacle Of these two
old men breaking with the as
sociations of a lifetime and fac
ing toward the wilderness.
Their honesty Of purpose Is
unquestionable. They know
that labor cannot win on the
financial and economic collapse
of England. They propose no
abandonment of the program
of social amelioration; merely
a postponement through the
crisis.
The Washington times., 1931-09-01
LISTEN, WORLD!
By Elsie Robinson

happening in those years. So
much of gain and glory-so
much of pain and loss. Wars,
conquests, wealth that still
hangs its glittering mirage
above human history - then
desolation blotting out the rec
ord of it all. Great cities go
ing back into the sand. A
lizard scuttling where a jew.
eled throne had stood. And
then more wars-more march
ing feet-new cities springing
from the ashes of the old
new wisdom and new riches
and new night.
But alwayS-love.
Always love-going on and on
in spite of everything.
Always love-thatching hut
in the jungle, moving with pomp
through palace. dreaming,
wrapped in sheep skins, on some
lonely plain. laughing by a
cradle. weeping by a grave.
Love Changeth Not
Everything else changing. Ma
tions changing. Customs chang
ing. Power changing. Even the
face of the earth changing.
Love, alone, not changing. Love
always the same. Always love,
going on and on, through every
trail of life, trying even to fol
low the strange dark trail Of
death. Always love, persisting
in spite of all the penalties of
life, in spite Of all the pangs of
death. Everything else perish
ing beneath penalties and pangs.
LOVE, ALONE PERSISTING.
Thousands Of years between
those tears which filled this
clay-and mine. But love links
them all. Love survives them
all. Then shall we fear a
miracle like this will last no
longer than our fragile flesh
and bone?
Copyright 1881, by King Features
Syndicate. Incl
The Washington times., 1931-09-01
More Women ThanMenHere

That there 2549S6 women in Washington against
SS3 preponderance of something like $4,000 women
does not to the blues among women over their
lessened chances of marriage.
So many Washington make good salaries in Govern
ent departments and bureaus that they rather independent
who make homes and support them not satisfactory
They may marry for companonsh but not often with the
purpose Of having children and homes, ... ......
is Of interest though that the of 1920 showed about
81 for every 100 in Washington while the census
Of last year puts the proportion about 81 for 100
This to bear out the assertion of leaders
that the Government discriminating against in its a
'-intments to the civil service
The Washington times., 1931-09-01
TIMES TEST

Match correctly:
/. A merry hearth doeth good
But few are chosen.
2. The way of transgressors
1ncreaseth sorrow.
8. Pride goeth before destruc-
ton \
Like a medicine.
4. For many are called
Is hard.
5. He that increaseth knowl-
edge
And an naughty spirit be-
fore a fall.
Mark each statement "True"
or False:
s. An artisan is one trained
to manual dexterity.
z. Jute is a fiber grown in
India from which burlap and
gunny sacks are made.
8. The greatest cotton manu-
featuring region in the world
is around Lowell, Mass.
9. The Hawaiian Islands be-
came a territory of United
States in 1878. :,
10. Washington Irving used
Goeffrey Crayon as a pseudo
nym.
Fill each blank:
II. The group of islands south
east of Japan, used for over
100 years for a japanese penal
settlement, are the ---.
. IL. The people employed by
given organization are Known
as the e--~---.
13. The leading slaughtering
and meat-packing city in the
United States Is -.
IA. is the fault Of
using too many words.
is. -- had the first
artificial ice plant in the
United States.
(Answers on Magazine Psge)
The Washington times., 1931-09-01
Statesmen and Politicians

In the American scheme of politics, revealed largely in
action in Congress- have few Of the
shown by Ramsay Macdonald, Prime Minister Of England
This the welfare and good Of his nation sacrificed
his party leadership possibly his future career in the politics
Of Great Britain He has put his nation and its urgent needs
above all other considerations.
His action will carry students Of American history back to
the days of Webster Clay Calhoun and other great states
who did not always trim their political courses to the
political winds They what styled true statesmen
and other national figures Statesmen The huge majority
of them just politicians.
Dictionaries define statesmen those skilled in public
affairs and the art Of government politicians"
Genuine statesmen however do not shift with the political
winds grave matters concerning their nation They oppose
quires such action.
The Washington times., 1931-09-01
Those Guest Rooms

Our grandparents and great grandparents had parlor -
cold stiff that shut off from except Sun
day afternoons when guests Multitude
still remember the slippery horsehar upholstery, the knit
tdies the little figures of bride and groom under
glass; pictures made from the hair Of beloved ancestors
Now don't have parors, but do have guest room
guest chamberhe most beautiful and expensive
in house. Usually the wife permits Of the family to
sleep those marvellous springs under down comforter
In fact the family forbidden to enter that room Something
might be misplaced show fngermarks.
Naturally the desire of the wife for attractive guest
ROOM but why can't of the really guesty things be
put away and brought only when guests the lovely
bedding meanwhile stored in the chest?
We rdicue the oldashoned "paror" and thoughtsssly
substitute guest ROOM.
The Washington times., 1931-09-01
Youth for Action; Old Age
For Wisdom

Uncle Sam in his retirement law recognizes that there are
exceptionally able and in his employ who have
passed retirement age and provides for extension Of time for
retirement
This question of the value of youth and old being
constantly tested somewhere The latest and most
sve of the working capacity of two groups OF pro-
fessors in two Pacific Coast colleges.
One group from Is to 45 of the other from
so to SO The conclusions that the young professors
were somewhat quicker in mental action In accuracy and
quality the old fellows better.
That conclusion is probably applicable to most mental
workers The young men quickest but not dependable
accuracy They have had the experience Of the others
and experience makes for responsibility and knowledge
In muscular activities it is another matter although IN the
fields of mechanics the experienced accomplish as much
as their youthful comrades"
The Washington times., 1931-09-01

I keep it in a quiet corner of
the room, under the picture of
a face / loved.
It is a small, round, earthen
jar, black with age, tightly
sealed save for two spouts. No
body knows what it Is when
first they see it. I did not
know. It was brought to me by
a seafaring man. He had found
it in Peru. not in the regular
shops, but in a native hut,
among a pile Of rubbish.
The people in the house
they were poor Indians-were
disturbed when he found it.
They looked at each other
strangely, a little fearfully. But
he got it out of them at last.
The thing had been found in
an old grave, deep in the re-
cesses of the hillsa There we're
many graves thereof strange
people who had passed that
way long ago, The Indians did
not know who these people
we're. But the sailor man
guessed -. marveling. :. feeling
his flesh creep a bit as he
touched the old, blackened
clay. Incas?
No Great Novelty
There were many graves, they
repeated. In nearly all the
graves there we're jars like this.
But the vessels themselves we're
no great novelty. 1t was still
the, custom to place jars like
these with the dead. Tear jars,
they were. so that the dead
might carry with them, on
their darkened trail, a token
from the love that longed to
follow.
Tear jars, in Inca graves.
How old? How many years
since some brown. savage hand
had worked on that piece of
clay? How many years since
some poor, savage heart stored
there its grief?
So many years. And so much
The Washington times., 1931-09-01
What Price Fame?

new design of headgear affected by smart femniny
is styled Empress Eugene hat It is said that famous
woman born century first designed and the shape
which has recently again into vogue during the days Of
her popularity in Paris.
Eugene picturesque colorful person. but she
little or nothing the life of the Of today the
latter does wear the empress style of hat
checup by reporter who interviewed feminine
wherever he them showed that the modern young
woman's idea of Eugene is extremely vague
The oneme empress quite the in France in her
day. She became the wife of Napoleon Ill., and her beauty
dignity of and becoming apparel gained for her
Alas how eeting is fame! Today wearing the styles
which Eugene designed modern know little nothing
about her So will it be with all of later.
The Washington times., 1931-09-01
Two Men In Merry England = By Claude G. Bowers

will not return the more revo-
lutionary Labor party to power.
Any one familiar with the
progress of the revolutions of
history will find much that is
disturbing in the English out
look. They move as if by
rule. The more conservative
leaders of the parties "of the
people" are shunted aside by
more extreme leaders in the
rush of the masses. In France
-Mirabeau-and then Ver-
gniaud-and then Robespierre.
In Russia-Miliukov-and then
Kerensky-and then Lenin. In
England - Macdonald - and
then Henderson - and then
what?
The Washington times., 1931-09-01

. Neither Macdonald nor Snow
den is an extremist. Their
passing from the party leader
ship means the domination Of
the Labor party by the left
wing, sooner or later. With
out them, it becomes more
radical and revolutionary than
it has ever been.
And unless a way is found to
solve the economic problem,
and that of unemployment,
the tone and temper of the
masses in Britain will become
more revolutionary and radi-
cal.
If the coalition ministry is
unable to meet the crisis. or if
it proposes plans transferring
to the poor and the middle
classes the greater part Of the
burden of balancing the
budget, 1t is not at all certain
that the next general election
The Washington times., 1931-09-01
Over Here and There

If there is much the swing and appeal Of over There
in George Cohans George Washington Bcenennia ballad
may be adopted the campaign song Of the Democratic
"Ir uUOrd and deed,
We follow the lead
Of the father of the land Love"
Appropriate accent those lines should rebuke
debt canceatonis nternaonasts and advocates Of
tangling alliances.
The Washington times., 1931-09-01
Have Written Their
Names In History

The pathos Of the probable
passing Of Macdonald and
Snowden is not so poignant as
it would be were they younger.
Both are advanced in their
sixties; both have written their
names indelibly in history.
Snowden, in delicate health,
probably could not long con-
tinue to bear the killing bur
oens of the exchequer. Mac,
Donald plans to travel, and,
no doubt, to write, and few
can write with more grace and
charm.
Their lives have been
romance. Born to poverty, and
in a class despised at the time
Of their birth, they have risen
by sheer intellect to the high
est stations in the state, to
become the official advisers of
a king.
The Washington times., 1931-09-01
Elimination of Macdonald
Now FOreshadOwed

Whatever happens, it means.
apparently, the elimination of
Macdonald and Snowden from
public life at the close of the
coalition government. They
have no party. Because they
are Socialists they lack the ia
cility for going over to another
party, possible to either a Lib
eral or Conservative.
Winston Churchill has been
Tory, Liberal and Tory again
and always in office; but it is
incredible that either MacDon-
aid or Snowden should go over
either to the Liberals or Tories.
THE difference lies in changing
Dn policies and on fundamen.
tal principles.
The Washington times., 1931-09-01
Unlicensed Drivers

automobile casualties here due to unlicensed drivers
not numerous in some cities where the
is not strict, but there sufficient number Of
to justify traffic authorities in checking up on these
5naces to safety.
It is wise wait until accidents take place before
hecng drivers licenses That is something that can
done quite often Courteous requests to exhibit drivers
licenses cannot be objected to.
The Washington times., 1931-09-01

, with an income of 100000 a
Year would not mean an equal
ity of sacrifice"