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The Washington times., 1931-08-13

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Milford chronicle., 1931-10-23
EACH CLAnIS GOYERNORSHIP

Gov. Long of Louisiana and Lieut..
Gov. Cyr of that state, have been en-
gagged in controversy, each claiming
to be the rightful governor of that
commonwealth. The lieutenant gov
ernor claims that the governor, hav-
ing been elected United States Sen
ator, can continue no longer to be
the governor. The matter will, of
course, be settled according to the
laws of that state.
If these two claimants were Off
cials of some South American state,
civil war would result. The party
that could make the most persuasive
appeal to the army and get the sup
port of the soldiers, would be seat
ed i'll office, without much regard
to what the lawbooks said. In an
American state, the faction that has
the law on it's side will get the Of
offices, without bloodshed. That is
the difference between the good old
U. S. A. and many other countries.
Milford chronicle., 1931-10-23
THE RIGHT TO WORK

1t is said that the right to work
should be considered equal to the
right to life, liberty, and the pur-
suit of happiness, which is consid-
cred the foundation of our govern
ment. 1t is argued that it is just as
much the duty of the government to
find work for the people, as it is to
give them protection and liberty.
Something is radically wrong
when millions of industrious people
can't find work. Popular errors of
one kind and another, like specula-
ton and extravaganza, create such
conditions from time to time. The
old saying is that people who dance
must pay the piper But our indus
trial system needs important changes
that shall keep business running
more steadily.
Most of the time, the natural spir-
it of enterprise finds work for peo-
pie. If anyone can see a chance to
make money, he goes ahead and en-
ploys labor. The desire to make
money leads to the offers of jobs in
hundreds of thousands of industrial
enterprises. But if people see no
chance to make money, there will be
a shortage of jobs. The first thing
to be done when work is short, is to
give employers of labor chance to
make a little money. But if they are
too grasping, they spill the beans"
If the government undertakes to
find work for all the people, people
may become fussy about the kind of
work they will accept. In England,
where the government pays a So
called unemployment insurance, or
dole, people plan to live off the gov
and reject work they could
do.
The government can help by
starting jobs of public construction
in times of unemployment. But if
it undertakes to find work for all
the people who are idle, it will have
to go into business, and it will drive
out of business people who are now
labor. The government |
will accomplish the mosl, when it
removes the obstacles that prevent |
normal industry from operating.
Milford chronicle., 1931-10-23
MONEY HOARDERS

During recent weeks, vast quanti-
ties of money have been withdrawn
from banks. and stored away in peo-
pies safe deposit vaults and other
places. Probably some of this money
is kept in peoples homes, where the
thieves are likely to get it. Even if
ii is put in a good bank safe, the act
represents very poor Judgment.
These people have withdrawn
their cash because of panicky alarms
about business and the stability of
money. They help make business
worse, because for every such with
drawal the banks have had to sell
securities in order to get more cash.
When the banks were forced to
dump vast amounts of bonds and
stocks on the securities markets,
prices dropped way down, and the
spirit of pessimism and fear was in
creased.
Then the fall of stock prices made
it necessary for many banks to sell
securities held as collateral, or force
borrowers who had loans based on
securities to sell the same. That
piled still more stocks and bonds on
the market, resulting in the lowest
prices seen for years.
These money hoarders accomplish
ed nothing by their panicky action,
except to do harm. They are losing
interest on their money, when at
least they might buy government
bonds, which pay to 315 per cent
If government bonds are not good,
certainly the promises of the gov
ernment to pay in the form of money
are no better.
There would be nothing very Sc
rious the matter with business, pro-
vided two conditions could be re-
lieved First, people must get over
fears. Second, something
must be done to help Europe get on
a better basis. With these two
things done, there is no serious OBJ
stacle in the way of high level of
business prosperity and full employ
ment for the country.
Milford chronicle., 1931-10-23
Milford, Friday, October %; 1881
NO LOANS BUT FOR PRODUCTION

President Hoover came out against
loaning money to other countries for
anything but productive purposes, in
an address given to the Pan-Ameri-
can commercial conference. He con-
demned loans made for war pur-
poses, or for balancing budgets, or
reproductive purposes generally.
The American people have loaned
out great deal of money to foreign
countries during recent years, and
many of them wish they hadn't now.
In so far as loans were made for
useful industrial development, they
will eventually help these countries
to recover from the war, and such
loans will probably be repaid. But
our people ought to make up their
minds that they or their government
are not going to lend any more
money for countries to fight wars
with.
From now on, any country that is
determined to go to war, contrary
to all sense and reason and to the
agreement it has made, should be re-
quired to take its own money for
that purpose. If countries had to
fight wars with their own money,
mighty few wars would be fought. If
the people of countries which desire
to fight, would refuse to buy the
bonds issued to pay war expenses,
the chances of war breaking out
would be still less.
1t is conceivable, though extreme
ly unlikely, that our country might
al some distant date become involv-
ed in another war, and our people i'll
that case would have to pay for it.
But poor old poverty stricken Eu-
rope could not possibly attack our
country, for many years anyway
Hereafter, when people are asked to
loan money to foreign countries,
they should make sure that the
money is to be used for construction
or productive equipment, and not for
destruction by war or other waste.
People can be fairly sure in future,
that if they lend money to foreign
countries for war purposes, they
will never see it again.
Milford chronicle., 1931-10-23
FARMERS REGULATE HUNTING;
HUNTERS PROFIT BY SYSTEM

/ Although Sportsmen consider the
/ system of hunting exchanges" be-
ing developed in Michigan by organ
lied farmers to be the ideal hunt
ing arrangement, its purpose actu-
ally was far from flattering to the
sport, judging from bulletin of the
American Game Association.
Individual farmers, finding it i'm
possible to enforce their mo hunt
ing" orders against an annual flood
of trespassers carrying and using
their guns in a reckless manner,
banded together, hired private war
dens to protect the aggregate of
their acres and agreed to adopt a
ticket plan by which each landow-
ner, his family and guests might
hunt undisturbed on all the COM
bined area. The game protectors
were also expected to see that every
needed encouragement was proVid-
ed for an increase of game.
Out of this action is self-defense,
mixed with the hospitality of the
farmers, have grown the 10000 acre
Williamson plan near Lansing and
several other projects, where hunt
ing is said to be more intense than
ever before, yet game more abund-
ant.
The favored guests have been fur
nished by sportsmen's organizations,
which quickly offered their cooper
alton and have aided in restoration
programs and in seeing that regu-
lations were observed. The Michigan
division of the Izaak Walton League
is conducting %two demonstrations
on exchange territory to prove that
game may be restored to abundance
by natural means through the mex
pensive improvement of wild-life
food and shelter conditions.
So far the organized farmers, glad
to be able to regulate hunters and
hunting on their property, have ig-
nored a new development in other
states, which is placing game supply
on sound economic basis by rec
ognizing it as a secondary farm
crop on which landowners may
profit through the sale of hunting
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Milford chronicle., 1931-10-23
FREIGHT TRAFFIC GAINS

Loadings of freight for the week
ending October were the highest
for the year, and increases were re-
ported i'll all commodities. Many OBJ
servers have felt that ground
swell of increased business has ex-
listed for some time, but this gain
could hardly be proved by existing
statistics. Now that it is seen in
the biggest freight traffic for the
year, the gain appears to be a real
ity.
The American people have been
wearing out their clothes, their
shoes, their automobiles, etc. The
people have had cold feet about buy
ing, but when they see their trous-
ers going through their seats, and
their shoes showing up wide cracks,
they say it is time to dress up again.
This new demand should bring about
improving business from now ON.
Milford chronicle., 1931-10-23

Chihuahua pine of the Southwest.
And all these sprout successfully
only when small. Sprouting of the
shortleaf pine sometimes aids in
getting return crops of this valu-
able species found from New Jersey
to Texas. Redwood and southern
cypress also sprout from stumps.
Many hardwoods, or broadleaf trees,
in contrast to the conifers, sprout
freely.
Roof cement or putty is good for
stopping leaks in the rOof or chin
ney. This material comes in air.
tight cans and hardens soons after
exposure to the air. Clean the open
ing, then fill it with the putty, using
a large putty knife or small, pointed
trOwel, and smooth the surface. DO
the work in dry weather. This roof
putty will cement a composition
roof to brick or stone wall. There
is also on the market a new "plas-
tic wood" that is fine for filling
small holes and cracks in weather.
boarding. If not stopped up, these
holes and cracks will begin to decay
when moisture gets in and will let
in cold air in winter.
Milford chronicle., 1931-10-23

classes the birds as old and young
hens and toms. The grades labeled
with a Government grade tag are
U. S. Prime and U. S. Choice. The
cost of grading is less than one-Ealf
a cent bird.
The nicotine-sulphate treatment
is one of the best ways to Vcontrol
lice in poultry flocks including a
large number of pullets, says the
U. S. Department of Agriculture.
Paint the top of the roosts with
liquid nicotine-sulphate in late af-
ternoon just before the birds go to
roost. The fumes will kill the lice
during the night. The use of sodium
fiouride dust for controlling lice on
poultry necessitates handling the
pullets. This frightens them and
may check egg production.
Only rOuI of the many species of
pine trees in the United States
sprout from the ground when cut or
burned, says the Forest Service.
These are the shortleaf pine of the
States, the pitch pine
of the Northeastern States, the pond
pine of the Coastal Plain, and the
Milford chronicle., 1931-10-23
THE SPIRIT OF UNITY

When the people of community
feel closely tied to each other, when
cordial desire for cooperation eX-
lists, a spirit of unity is created that
turns a town from a collection of iso-
lated individuals, into a powerful
achieving force.
In a town where the people do a
great deal of their purchasing of
merchandise away from home, it is
difficult to produce that spirit of
unity. The business men have re-
sentful feeling that the town does
not back them up. Consequently
they do not feel under special obli-
cation to strain and sweat and con-
tribute to do things for their town.
But where the townspeople buy at
home, the business men feel under
so much obligation to these home
town folks, that they will go the
limit to support every home town
cause
Milford chronicle., 1931-10-23
@lS&@|

THE INDEX published by the
New York Trust Company recently
presented an article which pointed
out that Rising costs of government
inficting heavy tax burdens are
causing grave concern in most coun-
tries and in the opinion of many
competent observers are proving a
serious obstacle to the restoration
OF our economic prosperity" They
also point out that in the face of di-
minishing receipts Congress at it's
last session appropriated the enor-
nous sum of $1O,249, ,S19, ,915.6O-the
largest sum ever appropriated at a
single session in peace time in this
or any other country. State, county
and municipal governments have fol-
lowed the lead of the national Con-
gress and have steadily increased
their expenditures and raised their
taxes. According to figures present
ed by the Index of the $4,000, ,000,-
600 gross total spent i'll 1928 the fed
eral government accounted for 31.5
per cent, state governments for 14.5.
per cent and local governments for
81 per cent.
These are facts. But what lies
back of them? The legislatures,
state and national do not meet and
simply because of a desire to spend
money appropriate millions that
must come out of the pockets of
their constituents. There is a def
mite we'll organized demand for the
moneys not with the legislatures
but with the taxpayer Sooner or
later he must come face to face with
the fact that the government can
not meddle in all things he advO-
Gates without his paying the bill.
Unfortunately those who pay large
sums for taxation are in the COM
paratiye minority and those who ad-
vocate large government eXpendi-
lures are in the majority. In self
defense property owners must join
hands to stem this rising tide of ex-
pense.
Milford chronicle., 1931-10-23
INFORMATION FOR BUYERS

If the buyer for a business con
Germ is going to make an important
purchase, he makes a careful study
of the trade news relating to the line
in which he is buying. He examines
price quotations, supply and demand
of raw material, and every fact he
can get hold of that can affect the
price of that merchandise.
If he was accustomed to meet
statesmen without that preliminary
preparation, and bought goods of
them without such previous study, he
would make many mistakes in the
course of a year, and could not be
expected to hold his job
The buyer of household and per-
sonal supplies also needs prelimi-
nary study before making purchases.
He or she needs to know what things
cost, what people are buying, what
values and qualities are offered.
Modern store advertising has devel-
oped a wonderful system for giving
the public this information, which is
comparable to the knowledge which
the buyer for a business needs.
The buyer of clothing and home
supplies can look through a good
newspaper, and get an idea of what
people are buying, what should be
bought, and what prices should be
paid. Consequently after reading
such advertising, people are far bet
ter equipped to make intelligent pur-
chases. They form a general idea
as to how goods should look, and
what service can be expected of
them.
People value the information thus
distributed more than some realize.
They look with favor on a store that
is willing to describe its goods in
this public way. They raise some
question about store that does not
furnish this information.
Milford chronicle., 1931-10-23
BACK UP THE POLICE

Speaking to the convention of po-
lice chiefs at st. Petersburg, Fla.
President Hoover asked the Ameri-
can people to back up their police
forces. They must do so. There are
too many people who seem to SYM
pathize more with the criminals than
with the police. If the police at
tempt to arrest someone in many
cities, the street crowd seems to
think more of the offender against
the laws, than it does of the guard
ians of the public safety.
O. Policemen take serious risks in
these days when an army of gun
men are loose, with deadly weapons
concealed in their pockets. The man
who protects our life and property
deals with many desperate chaTac-
ters, and many policemen fall under
gangster bullets. We owe them all
a debt of gratitude.
In many places the politicians use
police forces as pawns in the po-
litical game, and make appointments
and removals for their own benefit.
If the American people want crime
put down, they must keep politics
out of the police business.
Milford chronicle., 1931-10-23
is INV AMERICAS BUSINESS2

The United States government,
working with the League of Nations,
is exercising all possible inuence to
harmonic the grave dispute be-
tween China and Japan. Some peo-
pie who feel that our country should
mind it's own business, may say that
this is no affair of ours.
But isn't it? If these two coun-
tries fight, the effort to put down
wars by international action will
seem to have been a failure, and fear
of more wars will spread over the
world, making it probably necessary
for the United States to spend more
money on its army and navy. Also
these nations would waste their re-
sources, and be unable to buy
American goods. A threat of war is
like fire. All must take hold to put
it down.
Milford chronicle., 1931-10-23
RAISING CAMPAIGN FUNDS

The Democratic national commit
tee announces a plan for raising ST.
100000 toward the expenses of the
coming presidential campaign, in
Guiding 100000 for the 1928 deficit.
The Republican campaigners will
soon be asking for funds. The usual
contributors may claim they are
short of funds, but political cam
paigns cost money, and are likely to
cost more rather than less.
The people ought to be willing to
read all the political speeches and
articles that are printed in the news
papers, and if they did, they would
become intelligent on politics, and
would know how to vote. But in
this hurried and busy age, many of
them fail thus to inform themselves.
So the political message has to be
takento them through various forms
of advertising, principally the news
papers and the radio.
Milford chronicle., 1931-10-23
WORTH OF A GOOD WORKER

People who hesitate about taking
hold and doing their share of public
work, should think of all the appre-
citation that a good community work
er gets. They may think that if they
hold some public position or organ
ization office, they get nothing but
kicks. But while they may get
plenty of complaints, yet the COM
munity or groups of people depend
on such ones, and look to them for
leadership.
A person who has worked for the
good of an organization or the COM
munity, demonstrates his compe-
tence to take on responsibilities The
consequence is that people have
more faith in such person. When
someone is wanted for some impor-
tant position, they look to such a
person as the one who can fill the
place.
Milford chronicle., 1931-10-23
OGE
HALLOME,EN DOINGS

Young America has quite ardent
longing for mischief. Halloween
is an occasion when a certain
amount of it is tolerated. Children
grow more Independent, and disin-
clined to obey the regulations i'm
posed on them, although these rules
becomes less and less stringent each
year.
The customary tricks of Halo
we'en are made dOubly delightful,
by the thought that the old folks do
not approve of them. The rOwdy
conduct so often seen on this occa-
sion seems to the young crowd fas-
cinating demonstration of their right
to do as they please.
So we have window screens and
blinds ratified, doorbells rung, gates
removed, and a hundred more or less
serious exploits of defiance. If one
stern parent keeps his boys in at
Halloween, they weep and lament
that all the other children are Civ
en- their liberty. So finally the
stern parent relents. The kids go
out to have their fun, which fire.
quently becomes of so rough a char
acter as to accomplish nothing to
develop courteous young people.
We all have to remember that we
were young once, and the children
must have legitimate fun. When
they carry it so far as to commit
mischief that involves people in ex-
pense, and troubles sick and old
people, it is time for the hand of au-
thority to get busy, and use some
thing besides words.
The Halloween doings are
singular development of an old
church celebration. Originally con-
ceived as a means for honoring
saints and holy men and women who
had gone on, the idea spread
through the superstitious ages that
the ghosts of the deal walked abroad
OH this portentous night. In former
years, people walked the streets
trembling for fear. of seeing a
ghost. Now they merely tremble for
fear their porch chairs and other
loose property will be smashed.
Milford chronicle., 1931-10-23
FARM NOTES

About three-ffths of the income
from poultry products on the aver
age farm comes from eggs and two
tifths from poultry meat
The soles of street shoes can be
made more water and wear resis-
tant by brushing them with warm
neat's-foot il, castor oil, or lanolin.
Take care not to get the oil on the
! uppers.
Whether you like a little or ! .
of rainfall you can find it in the
varies from 120 inches in the Cl M
pic Mountains of Washington to less
than inches in southeastern Cali
fornia.
Do not let pullets rOost en- tree
limbs in the fall when they start to
lay. This is a habit some pullets
acquire on hot summer nights. To
break them of the habit, cOnfine
them to the laying house for a few
days, or clip the flight feathers on
one wing.
The name "sarine" does not apply,
as many people think, to a certain
species of fish, but means any small
fish suitable for the purpose. The
name is derived from the island of
Sardinia, in the Mediterranean Sea-
where many sardines are packed.
The best way to rid lawns and
gardens of moles is to trap them,
says the U. S. Biological Survey.
Another way that is fairly effective,
especially if there are only a few
moles, is to open up the runway at
the edge of the lawn, drop in a few
moth balls or a spoonful of naph-
thalene flakes, and replace the
earth.
Size and q,.ality of eggs, as we'll
as the number laid, are important
characteristics to consider in chOos-
ing breeders from the poultry
flock. A pullet that lays 225 eggs of
good shape, good quality of shell,
and standard size, will make a bet
ter breeder than one that lays 275
undersized and poorly shaped eggs. |
Many people think that persim-
mons are not edible until they have |
been frozen or touched by frost. !
Freezing is injurious to persimmOns |!
as it is to other fruits. If they are |
not free from astringency and fit to |
eat before frost, it is because the
variety is a late one and the per-
simmons have not matured.
Better methods of soil building
and intensive soil cultivation have
the need for clearing uD
new lands for crop production. This
favors the growing of timber as
crop on the less fertile or more
broken parts of the farm, and makes
it a part of the regular farm pro-
gram.
The U. S. Department of Agricul-
ture now grades turkeys at many
country points as well as at termi-
nal markets. In the 1929-90 season.,
including Thanksgiving and Christ
mas, the department graded nearly
3 100000 pounds of turkeys at coun-
try points and terminal markets. 1t
Milford chronicle., 1931-10-23
RABBITS SHOT ON RUN
LESS APT TO BE SICK

Shoot your rabbits only on the
run, is the advice being given hun
tors again this Year for other rea-
sens than that of sportsmanship,
says a bulletin of the American
Game Association. Rabbits shot on
the run are not likely to be infected
with tularemia, a disease which can
be communicated to human beings
through the hands. An additional
precaution suggested against con-
traction of the disease is the use of
gloves, preferably rubber ones,
while cleaning rabbits. Cooking kills
any germs that might be present.
Milford chronicle., 1931-10-23
E=I@G=

WHEN you pay your debts here in
Milford and all of rural Delaware,
you not merely add to the value of
your own property, but you help
someone buy more goods and start
production going.
Milford chronicle., 1931-10-23

WHEN you advertise in a newspa-
per, you induce people to spend their
money in their own town and build
it up, instead of letting it go to build
up other communities.