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Milford chronicle., 1931-05-01
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UNSKILLED WORKERS

The Russian soviet government
has issued notice that it does not
want any more unskillcd workers.
In our own country, and probably
the same elsewhere. a big part of
the unemployed people the past
winter have been unskilled laborers.
They are the ones who suffer most
when depressions come.
They constitute a great fluid mass
who depend upon occasional Jobs
that come along. They work for this
or that contractor, or on this or that
farm. People do not depend on them
as individuals, If they expect to
make 4 place for themselves, they
must perfect themselves in some
trade, so that some employer will
depend on them, and be reluctant to
let them go.
Milford chronicle., 1931-05-01
INFLUENCE OF IMPROVEMENTS

Our people are very initiative.
They do what their neighbors do. If
one family OH a street maintains a
disOrderly looking place, the neigh
bors are very apt to do the same.
The idea spreads that everything
goes, and indolent people point to
the decadeut appearance of that
dwelling, as an excuse for their own
carelessness.
And OH the other hand, if on"
neighbor spruces up his place, if h1
tends and beautitics it with a low
ing hand. all the other neighb0rs
who tolerate disorder become
ashamed of their own negligence.
They hate to fall behind, and they
too catch the contagion of improve
ment. They get out with rakes and
hoes and lawn seed i'm the nice
spring weather, and by the time the
summer is over you would scarcely
know the neighborhood. We need
more of those folks in Milford.
Milford chronicle., 1931-05-01
HOOYER,S BOY FRIEND

Obscure people, known only to
their own little neighborhoods, are
constantly doing things that touch
the nations heart. This is the case
with Bryan Untiedt, the 13 year old
youngster of Towner, Colorado, who
saved the lives of several of his
comrades who were maroOned in a
snow storm. The invitation given
him by President Hoover to visit the
White House, has fittingly expressed
the nations appreciation.
That young fellow will not be for
gotten. Apparently he is in the
way of getting a very considerable
money reward for his heroism,
which should assure whatever he
needs for education. A boy who can
do things like that should go far.
One could only wish that all the OBJ
scure young folks who are capable
of doing important things, could al
so have a chance to develop their
talents.
Milford chronicle., 1931-05-01
Will PAY BY RESULTS

The soviet Russian government
abandons the principle of COM
munism, in it's new policy by which
workmen will be paid according to
results they get. Communism says
that people should share alike in
property and rewards.
These communists now seemingly
admit that the workman who does
twice as much as the average,
should get twice as much pay. What
will they say about the organizer of
great enterprise, who may be able
to do 1000 times as much as the
ordinary person can do, through
science and administrative power?
Our country believes in rewarding
such people for their service. The
soviet government will make more
rapid progress, when it gives up it's
visionary ideas and permits people
of exceptional ability to be compen-
sated in proportion to their eXcep-
tional service.
Milford chronicle., 1931-05-01
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COMMUNITY SUCCESS

Certain qualities help an individ-
ual to achieve success, and they al
so bring development and progress
to communities. The young worker
or business man, for instance, usu-
ally achieves success if he is per-
sonally pleasing, thorough, and en-
terprising.
The community needs to show all
these qualities. 1t needs TO do its
work thoroughly, to do a good COM
pleae job on its streets and schools,
and whatever it takes up. 1t needs
to be physically attractive, pleasing
people by its neatness and charm.
And it needs enterprise, the willing
ness to accept useful new ideas, and
go to reasonable effort and expense
to take advantage of them.
Milford chronicle., 1931-05-01
BLAME FOR SLOW BUSINESS

There are certain faults in human
nature that always have caused
periods of slow business, and they
always will until these faults are
modified. Trades which are not af-
fected by styles and fashions run
along about the same in all seasons.
There is always a demand for bread
and meat, for instance, so that fluctu-
alton in public demand do not affect
the market for these products to any
extent.
But in trades where styles are
constantly changing, dealers can not
stock up with goods for long in ad-
vance, A merchant who should buy
years supply of women's dresses,
would be likely to find half of them
out of style before the year was out.
1t is so with a great many articles,
particularly on things the women
wear.
The result is that the factories
that produce such goods have to
limit themselves pretty closely to
the things needed for the season for
which they are working. And then
when the seasonal rush is over, they
have to lie idle or run part time,
until the styles for another season
are determined and the orders flow
in. That makes work in such trades
very irregular and leads to distress.
Goods produced in that jerky way
are more costly, since higher prices
have to be paid the workers per hour
Or per day or per piece, if the work
is irregular
1t is much the same on goods for
which there is purely seasonal de-
nand. Take coal used for domestic
fuel. The great majority of people
will not buy in spring or early sum-
ner when prices are usually low,
)ut they wait until they need the
coal. That leads to a long loafing
period in the early season, while if
people would buy such fuel in ad-
,ance of their needs, they could save
money and keep the miners employ
ID regularly.
People must show more judgment,
hey must be willing to buy when
goods are cheap, and they must not
expect to follow the whims of style
70 closely, If they want to have busi-
less run regularly.
Milford chronicle., 1931-05-01
"PLAY BALL"

Once again the crack of the batted
ball is the cheerful music heard
from the major league ball grounds.
In thousands of lesser centers, the
ball fans are organizing, and the
teams are starting their seasons and
getting the winter kink out of their
rusty muscles.
Anyone who fears that the Ameri-
can people are losing their vocal
powers, will be reassured by attend
ing almost any game, and listening
to the crowd yell for their favorito
players and teams. Anyone also who
thinks it an easy task to umpire a
ball game, and keep both factions of
excited players and partisans salts
fed, should try that job, and see
how quickly he is run off the field.
and perhaps submitted to painful
bodily indignities.
Some serious minded people have
always thought that the American
people spend too much time on ball
games, and that many of them bet
too much money on that sport. How
ever, when they are hollering in the
open air, they are getting much use
full oxygen into their lungs, which
may save them the necessity of
medical care at a later date. AS for
betting, if they want to lose their
money, the stock market would pro-
vide them ample opportunity even if
every ball game stopped.
Baseball furnishes inexpensive
amusement to millions of people.
Discontinued and restless men feel
more reconciled to life, after they
have hollered the bile out of their
systems at the ball grounds.
The American people like baseball
because they admire skill and power
to do things. That swift low throw
from shortstop to first base, which !
may look easy to the novice, is thee
result of years of practice, and of
mental and muscular
self control. A good ball game is
dramatic clash of heroes of sport,
and our people will never cease to
applaud it.
Milford chronicle., 1931-05-01
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NARCOTICS AND CRIME

Testimony was recently presented
to the Wickersham commission, that
certain habit forming drugs are an
important factor in the prevalent
crimes of these turbulent days. 1t
was shown how these drugs pro-
duce a feeling of physical eXhilara-
ton, which deprives people of nor
NAL judgment.
When stimulated by these mar
cotics, such persons are not moved
by the ordinary motives of fear and
pity and sympathy. They see every
thing in distorted light. The de-
based motives which tempt them to
crimes are magnified. The restraints
and objections that in cooler NOM
ents might control their conduct,
seem of no account to them.
A man in that exalted frame of
mind may do anything, and commit
some action from which even his
depraved nature would recoil in u
calmer moment.
If we are going to control crime
in this country, we evidently have to
get the use of narcotic drugs under
better control. That is an extreme
ly difficult proposition, because it is
so easy to smuggle narcotics into
the country. They are so easily
concealed, that only d complete
search of everyone and everything
that passes the borders or comes in
by sea would completely stop these
importations.
1t will take some kind of intcrna-
tional action controlling the growth
and distribution of the products
from which these drugs are made, to
put down this traffic that has such
direful results. The world has to
have narcotics for the relief of pain
and suffering when properly admin
istered. But public sentiment in ev-
cry land should demand that the
illegal sale and use of them should !
be treated as dangerous offense to |
be given severe punishment. The
United States, which suffers per-
haps more than any other country
from crime, should do its full share
to control the use of such drugs.
Milford chronicle., 1931-05-01
To Go (Or Not To College

Choosing a college because of so
cial contacts already made or others
hoped for, or because it is known
to encourage athletic interests, is a
motive strongly opposed by Dean
Loomis. An amplification of the un-
intellectual selection of college
appears in this months Atlantic.
This discussion of the kind of stu
dents who should not go to college
at all is by Mr.. Frederick Winsor,
for many years headmaster of a
New England boys school.
He has great admiration for the
boy whom he describes as "unintel-
lectual." That boy is not unintelli-
gent, but his mind does not work
like that of the boy for whom higher
education is a suitable preparation
for life. Colleges are beginning to
realize that boys of the latter stamp
are not nearly so numerous as en-
rOlment might indicate. But they
are still providing training, not of
the mind, but training in skills, for
the benefit of those who insist on
going TO college whether their tai
ents are developed by it or not.
Many boys, non-academic-minded
but nevertheless possessed of plenty
of practical intelligence, are drop
ped from preparatory schools and,
by tutoring and examining, "shoe-
horned" into college. Mr.. Winsor has
outlined the kind of secondary edu-
cation which he believes these boys
should receive. 1t would prepare
them not for college but for life;
yet probably many such students !
would find themselves qualifying, in
spite of its main purpose, for easy
entrance into college.
Milford chronicle., 1931-05-01
WHO NEEDS WAKING uP2

A minister once asked a famous
clergyman, what could be done to
keep his congregation awake during
the church services. The famous
clergyman remarked, that probably
the first thing to do. was to wake
up the preacher. He needed in some
way to give more impression of ac-
tivity and original thought.
IT. is much the same as respects
trade. People frequently claim that
business is dull and needs waking
up. But probably the trouble is that
they need waking up themselves.
They have done little OF nothing to
Keep trade awake. The best way TO
wake business up, is TO give it in
te'esting things to think about
through advertising.
Milford chronicle., 1931-05-01
RAISING FOOD PRODrCTS

The government is warning the
growers of various food products
that they must reduce the amounts
raised if they want decent prices.
Wheat growers have been told this
over and over again. A few days ago
word was sent out to the potato
growers, that the present indications
are for a 10 per cent increase in
that product, and if they persist in
planting so much, they can expect
the lowest prices for years.
After the government and other
agencies spent many millions of
scientific methods which shall ill
crease the product, then they have
to be urged and even begged not to
use this new productive power, and
to hold down their production.
While many countries suffer from
lack of food, our farmers suffer be-
cause they raise too much of it.
Many farmers, hearing that the gov
ernment is trying to keep the pro-
duction down, will quietly plant a
few extra acres, convinced that
there will be a shortage. But they
should have a care. Bigger crops
mean more farm labor to be hired,
which may take all the profit out of
the crop.
However, farm labor will not cost
SO much this summer as it did UP to
1929. Many farm boys who hied
themselves to the cities and towns
when the big wages were being paid,
are back at the old homestead today,
satisfied with good old home fare.
The 1881 farmer needs to keep his
costs down, raise no more than he
can sell for a fair price, and raise
stuff that the market demands. If
he does not know what will sell, let
him ask his banker or his state
college or farm adviser.
The mere fact that he always has
raised something else, does not
prove that he can make profit on
it under present conditions. The
whole country is interested in farm
since if the farmers can't
buy, the factories can't run, and the
store man can't sell his goods.
Milford chronicle., 1931-05-01
Milford, Friday, May 1, 1881
EVERYBODY'S FRIEND

Much can be learned from the
career of Speaker Nicholas Long
worth of the lower house of Con-
gress, whose death the nation
mourns. In the intense partisanship
of American politices, where feeling
runs very high, few politicians &C.
Quire universal friendship. Yet it
seems fair to say that Speaker Long
worth, or Mick" as everyone affec-
tionately called him, could be spoken
of as "everybody's friend.
Congressman Garner of Texas,
Democratic leader of that body, said
that no one can take the place that
Mr. Longworth held in his affection.
What were the qualities that thus
endoared Nh Longworth to the
American people? Perhaps first
among them must have been that of
fairness. He was constantly forced
to turn down the claims of various
representative and states. Yet
somehow there are few people who
can do that, and do it so graciously
and with such effort to be fair, that
they keep their friendships. Mr..
Loagworth had that gift. AS one
member of Congress remarked, Mr..
Longworth had the faculty of get
ting along with everybody. What a
wonderful quality that is, and how
we all need to cultivate it here in
Milford
The majority of people go through
life having one quarrel after an
other. They think people who differ
with them are mean and crooked,
and they say sharp things, and then
a permanent breach results: Such
people usually gail to accomplish all
they might in life. They can't get
other people to work with them.
Then there are other optimistic
and friendly folks who naturally see
the good side of life. They see good
in everyone. That kind of people 60
through life with few quarrels. Peo-
pie are willing to cooperate with
them. Speaker Longworth was of
that type. He was much more than
the son-in-law of Theodore Roose-
welt. He made his own place in the
history of the nation, and the coun-
try will miss him.
Milford chronicle., 1931-05-01
FOUNDATION For PROGRESS

The question whether Milford is
going to advance or not, depends
very largely on what is done with
the money that our people earn in
their various occupations.
If large part of that money is
spent i'll other cities, than there is
no foundation for progress. The
capital which should belong to the
community is being dissipated. 1t is
building UP other places. But if
most of that money is spent at home,
a strong foundation is created for
progress. Taxable values increase,
public improvements can be afford
ed, there is more wealth and gener-
Gus people will give more to public
causes. And with more wealth, more
people can be employed, and there is
a job for everyone.
Milford chronicle., 1931-05-01
ElCGEz
MULE DRIVER TO MAYOR

Anton J. Cermack, elected mayor
of Chicago, was once Tony the i'm
migrant boy from Bohemia, who
drove a mine mule and worked on
Illinois farms. 1t is the glory of
American life that men can thus
work their way up from the bottom.
1t is a proof that no matter how
humble the origin of a boy, the way
of advancement is open.
Mr.. Cermack attended night
schools in order to complete his
Amcricanization. While the major
ity of native young people refuse to
do any real study after they quit
school, this youth from the plains of
Europe was determined to improve
his equipment for life. Rewards
come to those who show this spirit.
Milford chronicle., 1931-05-01

That all these factory people who
have been set to work making such
essentials as textiles and shoes, arc
able to buy more freely. They can
now pay up debts they owed, treat
themselves more literally on food,
have some things they badly need
ed.
Thus the progress Of normal re-
covery proceeds from one spot to
another until ii reaches the whole
country. It is a time for confidence
and hope here in Delaware.
Those who are unduly discour-
aged simply make things worse for
themselves and everyone else.
Milford chronicle., 1931-05-01
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THE IRREVOCABLE DIVISION

Both political parties appear to
be split wide open on the prohibi-
tion question. If one party nomi-
mates wet candidate and the other
a dry, millions of voters will quit
their regular party ticket because of
that issue. The voters are demand
ing real contest on this question.
They ask that the parties define
their position in words that a child
can understand, and that candidates
stop humming and having about it,
and that they say what they mean
TO do.
Still, prohibition is not the only
issue. It is not usually good judg-
ment for the voters to allow their
sentiment OH any one question to
wholly control the government that
will have to decide many vital mat
ters.
Milford chronicle., 1931-05-01
Trrom New York Times)

" bAh 4NOW VI n AAANb(
A list of "Donts" for the parents
of boys and girls who will soor
graduate from high school has been
prepared by Dean Loomis of New
York University. 1t is so beautifully
balanced that it would hang evenly
all around if it were poised on the
point of a needle. But its chief vir-
tue is its emphasis ON common
sense. Fathers and mothers prob
ably need to be reminded that they
should not insist on a college edu-
cation for their children merely be-
cause they themselves had one or
did not have one. 1t is easy to be
wise about these problems until the
moment when they become urgent.
All the parental wisdom in the
world is sometimes not enough to
send students to the best college
for their needs. Dean Loomis rec
ognizes the forces which often take
the decision from the parents, and
warns against them. but there is no
way of surely carrying out his in
structions.
Boys and girls know well enough
what college they want to attend,
and whether they want to go to any.
Some wish to so with their friends.
Others prefer a college within easy
reach of home, and some welcome
the opportunity to get as far away
as possible. They are too shrewd to
offer reasons which might prejudice
father or mother, but in almost any
they can find plenty of
plausible evidence of the good they
could derive from that particular
college.
Milford chronicle., 1931-05-01
Al&EEl

DON'T EXPECT the public to
realize the bargains in your store,
if you don't tell the public about
them through advertising.
Milford chronicle., 1931-05-01

ABOUT the only time that some
folks seems to value their home
stores, is when they want to get
trusted for something.
Milford chronicle., 1931-05-01
.N1E

EVERYONE SEEMS to be in favor
of home town progress, provided it
does not cost him anything per-
sonally.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-06-19

to contain adequate amounts of vitannins A, D, 0 and c for health needs in her honeymoon canned menu"
 Here are the foods upon which pr Eddy stated in . recent address before the American Chemical So- ciety that brides can replys
 Canned milk, every day.
 Choice of ten meats: Roast beef. corned beef, tongue. potted meat, chicken, lamb stew, corned beef, hash, sausage, veal loaf and chicken la king.
 Spinach. peas. string beans. toma- toes, tomato juice, wax beans, b4k- ed beans, beets. corn. lima beans, sweet potatoes, homfny, carrots, okra, turnip greens, Brussels sprouts and mixed vegetables.
 Choice of six fruits: Prunes, peaches, apricots, cherries. pine- apples, apple sauce.
 Canned brown bread and spaghet- ti.
 Dessert: Canned plum pudding Based on Scientific Tests. The tests upon which these speci- fic recommendations were made were based on rats. The rat experiments lasted for a year, which, Dr Eddy said, was eQuivalen ito about twen- ty-five years of human life. All the animals average better in weight than those fed on . stock diet, he said
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-06-19

ing from their pods And what is more delicious than fresh, sweet green peas just picked for cream- ing? There are creamed peas and creamed peas. But the best creamed peas are prepared with evaporated milk. The only adequate description of peas prepared this way Is that they taste creamier.
 If you are not fortunate enough ko have fresh garden peas you will md the canned sweet wrinkled peas have a. delicious flavor. There is q trick in preparing these, too, as you will discover by the direc- fions given in the recipe.
 Now back to fried chicken and gravy. So many sections of the country lay first claim to fried chick en and gravy as their traditional best dish-especia1ly the gravy ffat with continental migration 1t has become the popular sectional treat everywhere.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-06-19
Stav-At-Home Fourth
 Means Fried Chicken
fis Dish Smotfered With Brown Gravy Just as POpu-
 lar and Necessary as Fireworks

There is skill in making . good chicken gravy so that it will not be lumpy or curdly. If you use evap- orated milk mixed with boiling water as described in the directions you will be sure of a very smooth tex tured gravy.
 July Fourth Luncheon
 Fried Chicken Gravy
 Green Peas in Cream
 Baked Stuffed Tomato
 Muffins
 Frozen Fruit Salad
 Fried Chicken and Gravy
 i three ID chicken
 Flour
 1-2 cup fat (half butter)
 1-8 tsp pepper Sa4 tsp salt e+s fbsp flour cup boiling water
 cup evaporated milk Clean and joint chicken. Roll each piece in flour. Heat fat until bubbling hot before adding chicken. Brown chicken quickly on both sides. Cover closely and place in moderate oven (350 degrees F.) Cook until tender. Add salt and pepper the last 15 minutes of cook ing. Remove chicken from pan. Brown 9 tablespoons of flour in fat remaining in pan. Then add water and evaporated milk and cook or 4 minutes. More salt may be re- quired. Chicken cooked in this man. ner is tender and juicy. Yield: 6 servings.
 FROZEN FRUIT SALAD
 1.2 cup evaporated milk
 1 tbsp. lemon juice
 1-2 cup cooked mayonnaise
 8 tbsp. chopped oceans
 1-4 cup crushed drained pdne-
 apple
 IA cup stoned white cherries IA cup chopped canned
 apricotS
 orange, cut in small pieces banana, sliced
 Scala milk in top of double boiler. Cool, then chill in bowl surround