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Milford chronicle., 1931-04-17
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State Department Issues
ArbOr Day Program

This Friday, April II is Arbor Day
and throughout the entire State pro-
grams to suit the occasion will be
carried out. To those for whom the
words Arbor Day are of vague
meaning let it be said that it is a
national practice on April II of each
year to have programs throughout
the country during which program
little trees are set out to help beau
tify the land and replenish our rap
idly disappearing forests. The State
Department of Public instruction
has sent out to the various schools
leaflet which contains a beautiful
program suggested for ArbOr Day.
On the opening leaf is a quotation
of George Van Yahrus which 1 am
going to take the liberty to repro
duce for the benefit of those who
have been unable to procure one of
these leaflets. It is as follows:
Most of us who love trees love
birds. | have never been able to
make up my mind whether God
made the birds for the trees or the
trees for the birds" This is only
one of the many beautiful quota
tions which the book contains.
Below is copy of the actual pro-
gram as suggested by the State:
Reading, "The Meaning of Arbor
Day"
Governors Proclamation (if is
sued).
Song, "The Oak Tree"
Recitation, 1.-THE Kuapsack Trail"
Recitation, "Trees."
Song, celebrate the Arbor Day"
Recitation for twelve children,
Facts About Trees" ~
Recitation, lode to the Skylark."'
Recitation, Trees. -
Recitation, 1.-THE Echo in the
Heart" ..: .,...
Reading, UNITED States Most I'm
portant Crop" ~,
Recitation" for three boys and |
three girls-"Choosing a Tree"
Recitation for small child, "Pll |
Plant a Tree" J.:
Reading, Historical Trees"
Dialogue for two girls, MARY and
the Swallow"
Recitation, "The Shade Tree"
/. Recitation, "The Maiden and the
1t would be impossible to repro
duce on this sheet all Of program,
but / felt that one should be repro
dueed and that is the lode. to the
by Shelley:
Hail to thee, blithe spirit!
Bird Thou never vert
That from heaven or near it
Pourest thy full heart.
In profuse strains of unpremeditat-
ed art.
Higher still and higher
From the earth thou springest,
Like a cloud of fire,
The blue deep thou Wingest
And singing still dost soar, and
soaring ever singest.
There is great beauty in the above
itanzas of Shelley's poem, but l am
lfraid if we do not preserve our
rees and plant more each year on
Arbor Day, the time will come when
I'll that will be left to us is the
memory of the departed songsters
Iept alive by such beautiful poetry
is this. We should, therefore, in
rider to preserve the national beau
y of the trees and birds exert more
are and use more time in the cul-
ure of trees of all kinds and give
special care to shade trees.
-Yerkes 81 |
Milford chronicle., 1931-04-17
Florence FarrOW Is
Senior Class Blonde

4 Florence Farrow is one of the or
iginal members of our class and
one of our salesladies. She shines at
trimming windows, and for proof
you might look closely at Grants
window the next time you go by It..
She has also shown dramatic abil-
ity and is taking one of the leading
parts in the Senior play this year,
Deacon Dubbs." She is very fond of
dogs. We sincerely hope that she
will not follow her desire in gram
mar school to be movie star or
join the circus. =.
Ruth tIitehens
Milford chronicle., 1931-04-17
SophOmOres Wait For Revenge

The Sophomore English classes
are studying Silas Mariner. This is a
very interesting novel and we are
learning much from the synopses we
are writing.
As the class basketball season is
over our team will have to wait till
next year to even the score with the
Juniors. The graduation of the Sem
iors keeps us from getting even with
them.
-Heyman Roosa 'SS
Milford chronicle., 1931-04-17
AESOP'S FABLES

Visitor to Townsend Parvis: 81
can remember when you we're big
baby"
Parvls: yeah, and now I'm a big
BOBBY"
DR.. Williams (seeing Tom coming
in at half past two): "Tom, what
kept you out so late tonight?"
Tom Williams: 81 had date with
my girl friend"
DR.. Williams: How much did you
spend?"
Tom: "Fifty cents"
DIR. Williams: "Why didn't you
spend more?"
Tom: "That was all she had
Carl Strahle, one of the Seniors
wise cracking team, says that If a
boy bushes when he is teased over
his girl friend, it's a school boy re-
feXion on a school girl complexion.
And now comes the yarn about the
Scotchman who bought bath tub
made out of soapstone.
Mr.. Boston: Ralph, what's the
difference between barbarism and
civilization"
Ralph Reed: Its barbarism when
the husbands boss, but when the
wife's boss it's civilization"
Milford chronicle., 1931-04-17

would be heartbreaking to see the
pride of the State shot down in the
fall. merely to adorn the table of
some selfish person.
on the whole the Cardinal seems
to be elected as he has more in his
favor than any other two birds. As
a matter of general interest to the
reader it might be said that the
favorite bird of the writer is the
Duck Hawk This is just to show
that the arguments have not been
biased by any personal motives.
Milford chronicle., 1931-04-17
DELAWARE EP.T.A A.
MEETS AT DOVER
State Chorus Takes An
Active Part.

Last Saturday the members of the
All-State High School Chorus went
to the Parent-Teacher Association
Convention to take an active part in
the days program, which was held
at Dover. Milford was well repre-
sented and did themselves credit.
During the morning session the
chorus practiced. and in the after
noon presented a pleasing program
under the direction of Mr.. Glenn M.
Gildersleeve at the Capital Theatre.
The program which was presented
is as follows:
Entire Chorus
Thanksgiving Prayer, Netherland
Folk Song.
Song Of the Volga Boatnlan, Rus
sian Folk Song.
Lullaby, Brahms.
Boys Chorus
My Hearts in the Highlands,
Courtney.
Down in Mobile, Southern Song.
We Meet Again Tonight, Old Col
lege Song. --> -
" Girls Chorus
WHO Is Sylvia, Schubert.
/ Would That My Love, Mendels-
sohn.
Entire Chorus
Go Down Noses Spiritual.
The Dancers, LacoIne.
:, Robert A. Reed
Milford chronicle., 1931-04-17
Glass Editors
Reporters

Reporters
MARGARET ANN CLEMENTS
--KATHERINE MORRISON
THEODORE TOWNSEND
LORETTA BERRIDGE-
ELEANOR .BUNSTEtN-
--ALTHEA -BETIIARDS-
LANE HARRINGTON +-
--RQBERT, YERKES- ~
RUTH KITCHENS
WILLIAM LEIN1S-
MARIA. VARNET-.
ROBERT PAARzr-
ROBERT REED-
JAMES WDBB
seth BAKEtt.-
Milford chronicle., 1931-04-17
Staff For April To June

Editor-in- Chief
Alice Breme 'S2
Sports Editor
Kennedy Lambert 81
Historical Editor
-Elva Davis '32
Who's Who Editor
Gerald Wilson so
Milford chronicle., 1931-04-17

And now comes the yarn about the
Scotchman who bought a bath tub
made out of soapstone.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-07
VAR

rise in the price OF wheat through change in
the world wheat situation and welcomes it as
the turn in the economic crisis.
There has been no turn in the economic crisis.
The crisis has been worsening through the en-
tire year without any significant let-up. In the
past week the indexes Of business activity have
reached lower levels than ever in the course of
the crisis
The increase in the price of wheat has not &C.
Cured because of a change in the economic
crisis, There has been no such change The rise
in the price of wheat has occurred as the re-
suit of the growing war danger. The spectators
have bought wheat on the information from the
federal government that wheat must be mob
Iized for the coming attack on the Soviet Union
In 1880 the capitalist class through Secretary
OF Agriculture Hyde attacked the Soviet Union
on the charge of dumping wheat to cover the
plans for the attack on the Soviet Union Now
the capitalist class is trying to hide the present
plans for the attack by stories about the fail
ure" Of the crops in the Soviet Union and the
resulting inability of the Soviet Union to ex-
port to the world markets. This in the face OF
the fact that the exports of the Soviet Union
during the past three months were almost three
times those for the same three months last year.
Equally absurd lies of the spelling" of $4,000 900
bushels in Germany are another disguise for the
real reaSon-War
The capitalist press is accompanying the prep
arations for the attack on the Soviet Union
through the purchase Of wheat with stories of
the millions of dollars that the farmers will gain
out of the rise in prices This is deliberate
attempt to draw the farmers into the war front
for the slaughter.
This is a deliberate attempt to mobilize the
farmers of the United States for the attack on
the Soviet Union through trying to make them
believe that they can benefit from an imper-
ialist war. The present price increases have
gone chiefly to the speculator Only the rich
farmers who have been able to hold wheat, can
possibly profit The small farmers and middle
farmers who have no credit have been forced to
sell long ago.
The agrarian masses Of the United States like
the proletariat, can expect nothing but slaugh-
ter out of an imperialist war. This, together
with milestone debts around their necks is what
the farmers got in the last imperialist struggle
The imperialst war in which the capitalists
plan to use the workers and farmers of the
United States is the attack on the Soviet Union
This is the fatherland of all the workers and
peasants throughout the world
The farmers and workers of the United States
must determine to unite with their brothers il
the Soviet Union, who are building Socialism. in
a final accounting with the capitalist system
that dooms the millions of the toiling masses to
untold misery. The rise in wheat prices is a
harbinger of war-war against workers Russia
The farmers and workers of the United States
must defend the Soviet Union-the first Socialist
SoVlets OF the worlds toiling masses.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-07
Rr ERIK BERT.

BY ERIK BERT.
TffE present rise in the price of wheat is, ike
the wheat purchases of the Farm Board
last year an integral part of the preparations
by the United States capitalists for the attack
on the Soviet Union. Last year in accordance
with the plans of the general staffs Of the i'm
periaist countries the United States Farm Board
purchased 25OoO0,OOo bushels of wheat in prep
aration for the attack on the Soviet Union,
which had originally been planned for the spring
OF 1880.
The rise in the price of wheat during the past
several days is part of the present war plans Of
the imperialists for the attack on the Soviet
Union as soon as it can be engineered.
The first official news Of the present plans for
the mobilization of the wheat supplies of the
United States was made public after the war
conference of Laval with Hoover. After this
meeting it was announced that arrangements
were being made with France for the purchase
OF large quantities from the United States.
In commenting on -4ese arrangements Parker
Willis, former editor Of the journal of Com
MERGE pointed out the war character of the
program. They are on the ore hand part of the
intensified struggle between the United States
and France against the British imperialists The
organized purchase of wheat by France from the
United States through the Farm Board means
the attack on the wheat producing areas of the
British Ernpire-Canada and Australia. The
financial arrangements under which it is
planned to sell the wheat indicate further that
this sale of wheat is not ordinary sale of
wheat in the world markets.
willis points this out in the following:
SIS there something about the paper that is
10 come out of these last named transactions
that makes the Bank of France prefer that
our reserve system carry it?"
The peculiar arrangement for the proposed
sale Of this wheat is that the Federal Reserve
BanA3 are TO finance it. The French imperial
lists who have no need for credit from the
United States at this time, demanded that the
Federal Reserve system and not the Bank of
France should finance the sale. The Some
thing about the paper that is to come out of
this transaction" is that it Is not any ordinary
economic transaction but transaction for war.
The French inperialsts demand that in the
Joint plans Of France and the United States for
an attack on the Soviet Union the United States
should have as part of its tasks the mobilization
Of its wheat supplies and the financing of the
sales to France. This is mobilization of wheat
for wsr-war against the workers and farmers
fstherland.
While the news of the mobilization OF wheat
for war purposes this year came out only after
the Laval-Hoover conference this mobilization
has been going on since August This mobiliza-
ton has been going through the operations
of the chief spectators in the wheat markets.
The leader of this group of spectators is Arthur
w. Cutten
The capitalist press is trying to explain the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-07
Music Hath Charms

The board of directors and state presidents o.
the National Federation of Music clubs met at
Hot Springs, Arkansas, on Oct. 81, and Settled"
the unemployment problem.y---
Thus we read an Associated Press dispatch OF
that date, which starts out:
Community singing like that during the war
to stimulate the fighting spirit OF the American
people, was offered President Hoover by the
music clubs Of the nation as a contribution to
unemployment relief"
They sent wire to Hoover offering "coopera-
tion" and saying that country wide songs will
dissipate social unrest"
We suggest a few lines Of song to calm
unrestful souls"
Sing song OF six pence, pocket full OF tyicEs
The recovery is but moonshine
And detectives still are dicks.
And when the pie" is opened
The PIE? An that's the rub
The Hoover pie for your .reliet"
is A FAT COPS CLUE
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-07
The Crisis and Workers Health

Association OF Newark N j., reports that from
January to September /, 1881, its nurses made
9308 free visits as compared with $3.50 for the
whole twelve months of 1880, also crisis year.
The number of visits this year, will, therefore
be about double last years record.
In the face Of this rising curve of sickness
among the workers we find that many of the
so-called health agencies have made serious cuts
in their nursing staff. So while patients are on
the increase nurses are being fired because the
rich are giving less to charity than in previous
years. The net result is unemployment for the
nurses while sickness spreads at a terrific rate
among the workers.
Even the reactionary Red Cross relief arm of
the imperialist army, admits that the health
situation is getting critical in the United States
Its acting chairman, J. L. Feser, declared, Oc-
tober IS, that reports indicate that a serious
health problem may face the nation for several
years to come as a result of curtailed diets, in
ability TO pay for medical and hospital expenses
and withdrawal of funds for local health work
He admits Widespread lowered standards of
living, and reports that 'pelagra, usually preva-
lent in rural sections, was found in many areas"
investigated by the Red Cross. But it is in these
very agricultural districts that the Federal gov
eminent refused to do anything for the farmers,
and where starvation diseases are spreading
most rapidly. The food that is occasionally
given poor families by local charities is Of the
sort that does nothing to stop the spread of
pellagra
Along with sickness goes a rising curve of
insanity. In Detroit. where unemployment has
rayaged the auto workers for the past two years
the general superintendent of the Eloise hospital
admits that within the last month 200 insane
persons we're admitted to hospitals in Wayne
County Insanity" he says. is growing rapidly
through strain and undernouishment and will
continue to spread. - And DR.. j. G. w
Greet Commissioner of Hospitals of New York
City, reports that 2508 more patients were ad-
mitted to the Psychopathic Division of Bellevue
Hospital alone in the first six months of 1881 as
compared with the same period in 1928, IAN ap-
parently normal year. He attributed the rise
to fear OF unemployment in hard times"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-07
Some Hazards in Copper Mining
and Smelling

the copper is separated and prepared for refin-
ing
The outstanding hazard of copper production
is arsenic This begins with the crushing of rock
Cwhere the hazard is minor and continues
through practically every step. 49,. Throughout
the copper production the garlic odor character
istic of arsenic is detachable"
Some ores are especially rich in zinc. Since
zinc has a low melting pointsand boiling point
near the melting point of copper it is natural
that vapor tensions Of zinc should be high
around copper plants Under such conditions
zinc chills may be expected to arise. Lack of
exactness has led many persons to enormously
believe that copper is responsible for this con-
dtion"
Some lead is always present in copper ore, but
Gin copper mining and smelling it is a less i'm
portant hazard than arsenic. Lead poisoning is
more likely to arise from lead dusts than from
lead vapors arising from molten metal
Oil flotation process Gin the smelters) often
gives the workers skin trouble similar to ma
chinists "oil furunculosis."
Sulphur dioxide in low concentrations is an
irritating gas always present in the reduction of
copper ores. Even with modern devices for draw
ing off the gases, all men working near the roast
ers are exposed to considerable amount of sui
phur gas.
In the refineries TO which copper is shipped
from smelters for final treatment before 1t Is
used in manufacturing, other special hazards are
present Most Of the U. s. refineries are located
al considerable distance from the mines
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-07
By LABOR RESEARCH ASSN


PERTAIN hazards underground are common to
all mining: falling rock, falling tmbers, haul
age, machinery electricity, fires, explosives, and
poisonous gases resulting from imperfect com
bustion.
Michigan copper mines are even deeper than
those in Montana, and most of the underground
metal mines are worked at much lower levels
than any American coal mine. This gives the
metal miners a special health hazard from the
excessive heat. Surface workers have extremes of
heat in the smelters alternating in winter with
excessive cold outdoors.
Special summer hazards to which workers in
copper mines and smelters are exposed were
summarized in a recent report. They include the
following:
Metal miners lungs are injured by habitual
breathing in of rock dust Sihcosis is the chief
lung ailment where the rock bed is silicous les
peciay in quartz flint or sandstone. Else
where a less severe condition is common which
doctors call pneumoconiosis (popularly known
as miners complaint). tuberculosis is also un-
duly prevalent.
Where dynamite is used as the explosive, it
may add TO the usual dangers from all explosives
special poisoning, with severe headache and
speeding up of heart action. Ntro-starches are
said to be free of this poisoning effect
Pure copper is one of the least harmful min
erals, but always associated with 1t in the native
sonous effects. especially in the shelters where
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-07
BY Labor Research Association.

DISEASE PREYs ON IDLE" says headline
in a capitalist paper above statement
made November l, 1881, by Frances Perkins, In
dustrial Commissioner of New York State, to the
Emergency Unemployment Relief Committee.
She admits that, in spite of all the charities and
private health funds and state welfare commits
sions, the health of the workers is being shat
ted BY TIE ecHnomic crisis Sickness is taking
an increasingly heavy toll of the underfed job
less workers. She adds that, if the workers have
been undernouriShed as thousands have their
resistance has been lowered and they more read
lily fall prey to disease And illness itself is al
ways enhanced when it is superimposed upon
malnutrition-it is more serious, and 1t leaves
more serious results
Testifying before a q. S. Senate Committee
on October %, Miss Perkins had made practically
the same statement to the effect that the work
ers 'have never been in SO depleted a state
physically; that the amount of minor illness is
increasingly illnesses which are not in the
nature of scourges epidemics, but are due to
malnutrition"-a polite term for gradual starya-
ton
All the recent figures from hospitals medical
societies, doctors and the like, bear out these
observations According to the General Director
of the United Hospital Fund of New York City,
hospital cases have increased during the crisis
in abnormal and progressive" degree And in
addition he states the obvious fact that there
are many persons who ought to be treated, but
who cannot afford to be sick" All the hospitals
are complaining" of their crowded condition
and the increased amount of out-patient work
Another recent statement from the United Hos
pital Fund says that "the city operated hospi-
tails are extended to the limit and the city is
short at least 1000 beds for the care of the
sick in the city institutions"
Every charity organization and settlement
house makes similar report. For example the
Henry Street Settlement of New York City re-
ports that its nurses we're compelled to care for
1000 more patients in the first 9 months of
1881 than in the corresponding period for 1880.
And the Welfare Director of the Visiting Nurses
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-07
Comrade Dmrtri Dontshev
Assassinated

nm September Is, 1881, the Rumanan bour-
geoisie with the Jorga government at It's
head has committed new assassination
Through their inhuman british myr1nidons they
had the national revolutionary Com. Dimtri
DontsheV, member of the &C. of the Dobrudch
revolutionary organization, DRO, shot when
trying to escape" For fifty days the "Siguran-
"a" tried to force him by torture to become a
traitor, and when they were unsuccessful they
shot him down.
Com. Dontshev was one of the most cour-
ageous and active fighters against national sup
preston of the Dobrudscha by the Rumanan
bourgeoisie and against the National Reformisrn
and the National Fascism Of the Bulgarian bour-
geoisie. Hated and pursued by both Of them he
worked indefatigably to gather the broad masses
of suppressed workers and peasants to the front
for national and social freedom, side by side
with the revolutionary proletariat ard peasants
in Run1ania side by side with the national revo-
lutionary and revolutionary workers and peas
ants movements Of the Balkans.
The assassination of Com. Dontshev is blow
against the broad masses Of the Dobrudsha,
against the movement Of all exploited and sup
pressed workers and peasants OF Rumania and
the Balkans; 1t is a heavy loss for the whole
revolutionary movement in the Balkans.
The nationally suppressed masses, the
Dobrudsh emigration In Bulgaria, the working
masses Of the Balkan will reply to the assassina-
ton of the valiant revolutionary Dontshev by
the bloody imperalist Rumanian interventionist
bourgeoisie with strengthening Of the mass
fight for their daily interests, and for the down.
fall of the complete system OF the Shareholders.
Down with the bloody Rumanian bourgeoisie
and all its abettors!
Long live the fight against national suppress
sion in the Dobrudsha and against the great
Rumanian executioners and murderers!
Long live the revolutionary united front of the
working masses Of the Balkan
COMMUNIST BALKAN FEDERATION.
September, 1881.