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Milford chronicle., 1931-02-20
EDITORIAL Joys AND SORROWs

The reading public, which now
adays includes pretty nearly every
person above the age of three or four
years, is always inquisitive and
sometimes very critical regarding the
mysterious personages called edi-
tors, whose function it is to pick and
choose the daily supply of printed
material for the Unsuitable nav of
the printing presses.
What qualifications should a good
editor have? How should he make
his selections? Are present-day edi-
tors performing their duties effe-
GENTLY and effectively? Is the public
satisfied with them?
All these questions were brought
sharply into the public eye a few
days ago in remarkable radio ad-
dress by Sumner Blossom, editor of
the American Magazine.
1.-THE editors job," he said, "is
comparable to that of a mail carrier.
He has to go out and get something
and deliver it. When this is done,
he has to go out and get something
else and deliver that. The minute
he stops delivering he has turned
from being a good servant to being a
poor one. Nothing counts except a
continuous and effective perform
ance.
1.-THE search for the fresh, the new
and the original is his unending
task. Able writer's are the scarcest
and most valuable things in the
world. Competition for ability is so
great among editors that no potential
source of talen can be overlooked.
"Above all, the editor must remem-
ber that the public does not grow old
along with him. The individual grows
older-but the public, always chang
ing, is always young. And so it is
that l suggest to editors and writer's
that they keep young. Youth is the
age of enthusiasm, and enthusiasm
therefore is the most useful quality
a writer can have.
mo job l know is more difficult
than that of editing material for pub
lie consumption. Other creative
folk can stand face to face with their
audiences and catch reactions imme-
diately. But the editor must say
his decisions on paper and send them
out into the world, knowing that
from then on he is their slave. For
for his peace of mind, peo
pie in the main are generous, and |
for every letter of criticism there is |
sure to be at least one expressive |
of his efforts"
Milford chronicle., 1931-02-20
Milford, Friday, February 90, 1881
wAsHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY

1t is difficult to get public holi-
days adequately celebrated, but we
miss something if we do not give a
thought to George Washington, and
consider the debt the American peo-
pie owe him, and the wise advice
which he handed down to future gen
erations. If only the self seeking
politicians who are so numerous in
public affairs, could be inspired by
his example, how differently the
business of our country would pro-
ceed. Here was a man who never
considered selfish advantage. He re-
fused any pay whatever for his serv-
ices as commander of the Revolu-
tionary army, and merely asked to
have his expenses refunded after
the war.
When he heard the year before
the war broke out, of the sufferings
of Boston in dealing with the royal
tyranny, in a spirit of superb gener-
osity he said that he would raise a
force of 1000 men, maintain them at
his own expense, and march to the
relief of that city.
In addition to his superb power
as a military strategist and leader of
men, he was gifted with high in
tegrity of character to which the
slightest stain of suspicion never
clung, and he showed marvellous
thoroughness in performing any
piece of work that came to him. He
could see big issues, and plan out
campaigns in a grand way, and yet
he had a passion for correctness of
detail. Such qualities are rarely
combined in one person. The people
who are good on small details, can
not usually lay out comprehensive
plans, and those who lay out COM
prehensive plans are apt to fall
down on small details. Washington
did both to perfection.
The picture of his stunning and
romantic achievements and superb
character should be drawn each |
year, for young and old to admire |
and initiate here in Delaware.
Milford chronicle., 1931-02-20
CREAM GATHERING ROUTES

Cream gathering routes for local
creameries have become more COM
mon because of motor trucks and
improved country roads, says the U.
S. Department of Agriculture. The
Bureau of Dairy Industry has found
that where farmers bring in their
sweet cream to the creamery every
day or every other day, deterioration
in quality in transit is usually very
slight. However, if the farmers
bring in cream only once or twice a
week, it is usually sour and stale,
and the creamery. can get a better
quality of cream by starting gath
ering service and collecting the
cream by motor truck three or four
times a week, and thus produce a
better quality of butter. At some
creameries, the bureau declares,
regular collection of cream by mo-
tor trucks has so improved the quail
ity of the butter produced that the
premium for higher-quality butter
more than pays for the cost of gath
ering the cream. The cost per pound
of butterfat for operating a cream
gathering route may be estimated
closely by determining the length of
the route and the number of miles
of travel, the quantity of cream and
its butterfat content, the wages for
the truck driver and other labor, and
the cost per mile of operating each
truck. If the cost of collecting
cream is te ncents a pound of but
terfat, for example, this is more
than the service is worth to the far
mer or to the creamery. However, a
cost of about two cent sa pound of
butterfat for gathering cream by
motor truck is less than the cost to
the average farmer for delivering
his cream.
Milford chronicle., 1931-02-20
INTERETSTS OF me GIRLS

A young woman from another city
who is teaching a Sunday school
class of girls of high school age, re-
marked few days ago that about
the only subjects that interested
those girls were boys, movies, dances,
and fashions. Also they spent con-
siderable time discussing the ques-
ton whether girls should smoke.
But as for the subjects that the Sun
day school lesson was supposed to
take up, they had no interest in them
whatever.
The girls who attend such classes
in Milford may be more interested in
the higher ideals. Yet probably our
Sunday school teachers will also say
that it is hard to hold their atten-
tion.
Young people in all ages have been
more or less fippant. The older peo-
pie who complain of youthful irrev-
erence today, were probably Sunday
school terrors in their youth. There
is however, a kind of trick or knack
about winning the interest of young
people. Many persons do it very
successfully, and they exercise a pro-
found influence over the lives of
these youngsters. Boys and girls
will do a lot of things for older
people whom they really like.
They have within themselves much
hero worship. They admire people
who have done noble and self sacri-
ficing things. They often respond
splendidly to some story of fine
If they hear about
this or that personality who has
gone out into the world and has !
done noble and generous work, they
are apt to listen. Something in their
hearts compels attention. !
The experiences of Bible and histori
cal characters can we'll be presented |
to them in story form, as tales of |
and noble achievement, |
and many young people will be STIR
red by such recitals to form better
for their own lives.
Milford chronicle., 1931-02-20

noon unanimously defeated Repre-
sentative Virden's bill for the sale
of ice cream by weight and requir-
ing one quart of ice cream to weigh
pound and three-quarters and one
gallon to weigh seven pounds.
Representative r. A. Davis intro
duced a bill on Tuesday providing
that any veteran of the World War
or the dependents of such veterans
having resided in the State one
year, who have pending with the
Veterans Bureau of the U. S. Gov
ernment any claim for relief, who
shall be deemed in need of financial
aid, shall receive compensation FROM
the State, pending determination of
such claim, in a sum not exceeding
$50 a month or for a period not ex-
ceeding six months.
Milford chronicle., 1931-02-20
Personal SIDE OF BUSINESS

Business authorities suggest many
expedients by which a, business or a
community can increase it's trade.
But after all, it is personal effort
and attention that pushes business
the most.
A business concern may plan it's
operations in a systematic way, but
if there is lacking some element of
personal push and winsomeness, it
may not get far. The power of the
individual in business to push trade
is something enormous. The sales
clerk behind the counter who greets
every customer with a smile, who
tries to render useful service to each
customer, who tries to make each
customer a permanent friend, may
not understand the theories of bust
ness, but he gets there just the same.
Milford chronicle., 1931-02-20
EDUCATIONAL BROADCASTING

A bill is before the United States
Senate that would reserve Is per
cent of the broadcasting facilities of
the nation for educational purposes.
Some of our frisky folks may think
that most of the radio stuff should
be jazz, wisecracking, and humorous
sketches. But life is not all dancing
and joking. We have to take some
time to improve ourselves, if we have
any ambition.
The people who feel that they
stopped learning things when they
quit school, may not care for any
thing educational. But the major
ity of the American people would
like to learn something more. They
recognize their limitations. They
will not be shocked or made wrathy,
if the government says that Is per
cent of radio time should go toward
telling the people some of the things
they don't know.
Milford chronicle., 1931-02-20
DISINTECTING SEED POTATOES

Many farmers who formerly disin-
fected their seed potatoes by a long
time soak in a corrosive sublimate
or fOrmaldehyde solution now use
the hot-formaldehyde or organic
mercury treatments which take only
few minutes. By either of these
methods one man can treat 100 bus
hels of seed in a day at a cost of
only 81 an acre. Gains in yield of
from 20 to 80 per cent result from
seed disinfection. Soak the seed for
3 or minutes in a solution of one
pine of formeldehyde to Is gallons
of water, kept at a temperature of
124o to 1867 f. The containers in
hich organic-mercury dips are sold
Milford chronicle., 1931-02-20
HUNTERS ALARMED
OVER SHORTAGE OF
QUAILS AND DUCKS

Alarm is spreading throughout
the country over the obvious short
age of the quail crop and the deple-
ton of wildfowl-principally ducks
according to reports to the Ameri-
can Game Association. Hunters
themselves are clamoring for rem
edial measures TO save the capital
stock, and insure as nearly as pos
sible the future of these species.
Quail shortage has affected Ten
nessee, Maryland, Virginia, across
sectors of Louisiana and Texas, and
as far north as the baked areas of
Missouri, Kentucky, Illinois, Ohio
and Indiana" Nash Buckingham, eX
ecutive secretary of the American
Wild Fowlers, who has just COM
pleted a survey, said. Drought and
attendant conditions are given as
the causes. WildfOwl are also af-
fected by much the same conditions
and reported very scarce.
What is needed is game restOra-
ton in equivalent to blood transfu-
sion; mere restriction means post
pOnement of the inevitable" Mr..
Buckingham continued.
Conservation job, therefore, is
to tell the farmers and their friends,
the real spOrtsmen. authoritative,
easily obtained, practical methods of
game bird production at minimum
expense. Such information includes
lessons in 'environmental CONTROL
meaning providing sufficient cover,
food, water, and control of natural
enemies to the desirable species"
Mr.. Buckingham also recommend
ed that sufficient authority be given
state game departments to make
regulations to meet all such emer-
gencies. Sportsmen in Tennessee
desired to close the season on quail
but the state game department was
powerless to do so as such author
ity rests in the legislature only. Mr..
would make such dele
cation of authority permanent.
Little if any dew, arid water
courses, dry ponds, dearth of fluid
bearing insects, shriveled forage, oV-
furred and feathered !
all wrought dire havoc. |
Whole cOvies perished from eating |
insects or poisoned |
dew. Nested egg clutches were
found containing baked remnants of
forming bird life," Mr.. Buckingham
said in enumerating causes for the
bird and wildfOwl shortage. !
Milford chronicle., 1931-02-20
FATHER OF HIS COUNTRY

They call George Washington the
Father of his Country, and as such
he is remembered each year with
veneration. No country can be the
creation of any one man. 1t takes
the leadership of many gifted per-
sonages, and the cooperation of
many followers, to do anything SO
tremendous as to establish a new
country, much more one that has
survived so many shocks and come
out so powerful as has the United
States of America.
But Washington more than any
other one man supplied the creative
impulse that made our country a ma
ton. There were others who en-
tertained the idea some time before
Washington avowed it, that this land
ought to have an Independent exist
ence. But they lacked the creative,
energizing, and active force that
could put through that idea to sue
cess.
George Washington was the man
who had that combination of enthus-
iasm, sound Judgment, military skill,
and power of leadership, that could
take an abstract idea like that and
make it a reality. Almost every day
all through the terrific revolution
ary struggle, his fellow countrymen
were willing to give up the ideal of
existence as a dream.
But Washington had the faith and
he vision to see that the idea could
be brought to fruition.
When the situation looked hope
ess, he had the genius to see how
some military triumph could be
'natched from the jaws of defeat,
Ind give the ragged little colonial
lrmy another chance for success.
When the politicians wrangled
lmong themselves and failed to sup
,ort his army, he somehow held it
ogether by the force of his leader
hip.
He had a wonderful combination
# qualities, and the world has rare
Y seen his equal. We must never
ct a Washington's birthday pass
Without recalling them.
Milford chronicle., 1931-02-20

is always within reach. Sweetmeats
and smoking accessories can very
handily be placed on these little
tables, as we'll as reading lamps
and books. The trough table, de-
signed especially for books, plays
a proper part in comfortable read
ing and is very decorative because
of its unusual shape and the inter
esting manner in which it adds the
color of bright bindings to the
scheme of the room.
If living room is modern and
swanky, low round tables, only
about foot in height and several
feet in diameter are appropriate
for cigarettes and magazines. These
may be painted in the bright colors
SO dear to the heart of the mod
ernist.
Metal tables, to hold plants for
the living and sun rooms, add dis
tinction to the Spanish or Italian
house. These should be protected
from rust with a coat of varnish.
Or they may be painted with or
dinary fiat paint, if color is desired.
The tables in the more formal
rooms can either furnish needed
spot of color with their enameled
or lacquered finish; or they may
be given a natural finish with stain
and Varnish.
Milford chronicle., 1931-02-20

HVERY home maker knows
that the house is not furn-
IL ished just because the large,
fundamental pieces like the daven-
port, the chairs, the dining room
set, the rug and the beds have
been installed. Furnishing" means
something more. 1t connotates
comfort and detail. Objets dart,
footstools, books, a radio, pictures,
tapestries - all these things help
to make the house homelike and
give it a sense of being completely
furnished.
Perhaps no other kind of furni-
ture so successfully fills in the
empty spaces and affords a rest
ing place for beautiful things as
does the occasional table. 1t can
be one of a number of types. In
the bedroom, the bed table is un-
believeably convenient and may be
very decorative when painted in a
color that harmonizes with the
bedroom suite. A reading lamp,
some books and a carafe of water
find their logical place on it and
contribute immensely to the ap-
pearance and comfort of the bed
room.
In the living room, the end
table which stands by the arm of
an easy chair or by the davenport
Milford chronicle., 1931-02-20
RnSINESS OuTLOOK

The ideas of business people and
of the speculative fraternity differ
about the business situation. The
spectators have been much discour-
aged for nearly a year. Not many
of them have any heart for specula-
tion at present. They lost so heav-
lily last year, and they saw so many
of their predictions go wild, that they
are not making any more. They are
principally anxious now not to lose
any more money.
Business people, those who are
actually managing industries and
are close to the pulse of trade, are
more hopeful. AS rule, they feel
that the worst of the business de-
preston is already behind us.
The monthly bulletin of the Ma
tional City Bank of New York eX-
presses this point of view. 1t says:
"The month of January has justified
expectations of an improvement in
the business situation. Activity in
the steel and automobile industries
has increased, and has been paral-
leled by a general broadening out of
business in other important lines.
Employment reports indicate a sub
stantial expansion of payrolls in the
manufacturing centers. The business
situation wears a more hopeful as
pect tina nit has for some time"
An opinion like that coming from
authorities located in the heart of
the nations business, is one that
counts. 1t is kind of composite
picture taken from reports coming in
from every section of the country.
When these trained observers, after
their comprehensive view, say busi-
ness is better, no one should doubt
it. Such reports should put more
heart into every business man who
has been doubling the future.
The spectators may have cold
feet, the natural result of unwise
ventures amid the perilous uncer-
tainties of the stock market. But
people who are close to the actual
working of trade, can see that bust
ness is on the up grade.
Milford chronicle., 1931-02-20
HOUSEHOLD NOTES

Children should eat bananas only
when they are fully ripe. For cook
ing, bananas that are still slightly
hard may be used.
The color of canned salmon is no
indication of its quality. 1t indicates
variety. There are several kinds of
salmon and after canning they vary
in color from bright red to almost
white.
The right height for the kitchen
sink depends on the height, length
of arm, and general build of the per-
son who is to use it. Thirty-six
inches from the rim to the floor is
often given as good average
height. If the sink is too low, fiat
box or block may be used on which
to set the dishpan while working at
the sink.
In making fruit salad, cut the fruit
in small, shapely pieces. Do not stir
them about or they will look mushy
and unattractive. Any sort of fruit
that combine well may be used, de-
pending on the season. Fruits for
salad are not sweetened; those for
fruit cup, used as an appetizer or a
dessert, usually have a little sugar
sprinkled over them before serving
time.
Milford chronicle., 1931-02-20
E=lNGEl

1T HAS always been considered
one of the most important functions
of government, to encourage the in
dustries to grow. The government
assists them with a protective tariff,
by helping them to obtain foreign
trade, by stopping unfair competi-
ton, and assisting them to use scien-
tific methods.
Milford chronicle., 1931-02-20
@N&7

ON ROADS having no direction
signs and guideboards, motorists
frequently go astray. Advertising is
the guideboard of trade, and if it is
lacking, the public frequently buys
at the wrong place.
Milford chronicle., 1931-02-20

give directions for treatment. The
solution is usually made by adding l
pound of chemical to 21s gallons of
water. Treat the seed before sprOut-
ing occurs and prior to cutting. If
potatoes are treated several weeks
before cutting, do not put them in
containers in which untreated tu-
bers have been stored unless the
containers also are disinfected
Milford chronicle., 1931-02-20

More liberal use of seed potatoes
would increase the average produc-
tion per acre, the U. S. Department
of Agriculture believes. From Is to
18 or more bushels of seed potatoes
should be planted to the acre, in
stead of 8 to II, as is the usual
practice in some sections.
Milford chronicle., 1931-02-20

Always grease an iron with lard
or vaseline before putting it away
for long time, or it will rust. To
remove rust on an iron, scour it
with securing powder, and rub well
with a flannel cloth.
Milford chronicle., 1931-02-20
l~NE@l

IF YOU have no affection for your
home town, your home town can't
be expected to have much affection
for you.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-08
A Little of This and That

The Brookyns and Atlas will play basketball local fans the futu according Manager Skddo Dumschot They made football player of Joe Crowley down Yale whose running transformation from three ged truck house scared antelope has been of the delights of they give him the ball inside the 20yard line next year Yale will plenty of yards and points in pinch Ganer Bddock said be in line for the New Haven after their sizzler last week. At admission the City Amateur League had pretty fair day financially last Sunday with all hands satisfied The players incidentally ckd with light heat and accommodations Al Deands Waown Indians will pretty close the Western Connecticut hoop championship this all indications da Jim Lee has made running guard of little Jimmy Cehton Wby this with Jae0yno La Russo the forward Parocha basketball at the Phoenix regular feature thanks George Francis Null
 gan senior Incidentally George find good for Eddie Ran the Polish puncher who polished Kapan round According New Hvene the best fight cards to show the Elm City couple of years drew $200 last Friday with Gainer and top But Matchmaker Tony Paolo will do better than that the time the big boys mix.
 Hank ODonne of the opposition, doing well at St Francis
 Hospital Hartford following of those pey ppendeetomy which will him hors de combat for days It's nice hear he's progressing we'll and here's to his speedy The Hills according Manager Nicholas Lop Guerrera quite outfit with managers captains publicity director coach secretary all duly elected last Saturday night end of the blowout.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-08
MT Singer Mounts His High Horse

the confirmed conviction of your humble that when Christopher Luigi Battano finishes with New Yorks pride of the Bronx Friday night the latter will be honest goodness candidate for the head of Singers mdge Yet Al has attempt ed tell the aherwegh champion of the world about everything he shall shall regard their bout this week almost the point of warning him keep from that somewhat brittle chn
 The irony of the situation must be amusing those who have fol-
 lowed the the bars Singer knocked cold Thanksgiving turkey week Saturday by Tony Cnzone and Jimmy MeIarnin. held for 2round bout against Chocolate whom he originally scheduled this week but Batano the Bon Bons girl trouble After three hour Singer finally agreed take Chocolate IS rounds but until Peous Pete Reilly stepped with suggestion that Battano would step Singer and Chocolate could As stands Singer will have about eight pounds Batano and has distance down for Albert gets very tired after round bout which there much action So anxious Bat to the shot, and subsequent try for the lightweight title that he is oncedg Singer everything but the family album because he knows he punch the New Yorker full of holes And he Singer doesn come in top-heavy and Bat is down to 128 or less