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Milford chronicle., 1931-12-04
UNEMPLOYMENT RELIEE

Famous personalities, including
Calvin Coolidge, Col. Lindbergh
Gen. Pershing, Mary Pickford, etc.
have joined in issuing appeals to the
American people to contribute gen.
erously to the cause of unemploy-
ment relief. The money for this
purpose is needed at once.
The cold weather is upon us, and
it means untold suffering for poor
people who can not afford fuel. The
charity societies report many who
are actually hungry, many who are
wearing summer clothing as the
chill frosts of winter come on.
People in comfortable circum-
stances should realize that their
good fortune is largely due to chance.
Many others who meant as we'll as
they did, who tried just as hard to
make good, have failed to do so for
no fault of their own. 1t seems only
fair that all these people who have
made an earnest effort in life should
be helped over the present emerg-
ency.
When people fail to contribute to
such suffering, the reason is not us
ually that they are unsympathetic.
1t is that they are so busy rushing
hither and thither, that they have
given no thought to the needs of
their fellow citizens. They should
abandon this neglectful attitude, and
ask how they would feel if they had
no food, no fuel, no money to buy
anything with, if their children were
getting sick from lack of nourish-
ment. People who give generously
find greater happiness in the act
than those who cling to every dol
lar.
There are reasons of self interest,
for being generous in Offering relief
to the unemployed. If large numbers
of worthy people suffer this winter,
social discomfort will increase, ex-
cuses will be given for attacks on
our form of government, and the
spirit of bolshevism will gain ad-
herents. If the American people |
want to check these tendencies to-
ward upheaval and destruction, they
must see to it that their less fortu-
late folks are saved from suffering.
Milford chronicle., 1931-12-04
CHRISTMAS TRADE

1t is one of the essential elements
of good citizenship, that people shall
show willingness to take hold and
help the public interests. If they
will not respond to calls for Coop
GRAFTON, where is their citizenship?
Just now one thing that would
help us all here in Milford is for
people to proceed at once to make
their Christmas purchases.
The grand rush that usually takes
place at the stores just before Christ
mas is an awkward and expensive
way of doing business. It creates
trouble for the store help, it makes
trouble for the proprietors, and the
public is not so weel served. 1t is
difficult to make thoroughly salts
factory purchases when the people
crowd into the stores all at once,
and demand to be served simultane-
ously.
Many people might just as well
buy their Christmas goods consider
ably in advance. and distribute this
rush over a period of four to six
weeks. Then the work of the stores
would go on more smoothly, people
could buy in a more careful and less
hurried way, they would come near
er getting what they want, and the
plan would be less expensive as a
means of distributing merchandise.
That plan also would save the Sc
we're strain that is imposed on
multitude of store and postal work
ers all over the country, who are
made to suffer because of this sud-
den rush which creates a period of
intense overwork.
In smaller places where there is
no great rush, the people yet con-
tribute to the grand scrimmage in
other places, by buying and mailing
their gifts and cards at a late date.
This stuff piles into the post offices
Ill in heap and creates noun
ain of work that is almost insup-
portable. The whole thing looks
lnbusiness-like and foolish, and |
people could avoid it by a little fore
hought and planning.
Milford chronicle., 1931-12-04
THE REMEDY OFFERERS

A man was sick at Mansfield
Ohio, recently, with a prolonged hic-
coughs, lasting two weeks, and
about 10000 letters were received
offering remedies. This avalanche of
suggestions illustrated the way peo-
pie rush to offer remedies for all the
troubles of their friends, chance ac-
quaintances, and people they read
about in the newspapers.
When so many people take their
time to write letters, offering sug-
gestions to tatol strangers, it is a
sign that the world is not wholly
cold hearted. But if people kept
taking all the remedies their friends
offer for their various ailments,
many of them would grow worse
rather than better. Too much tink-
ering with nature may be worse than
letting her alone to cure her own
troubles.
Milford chronicle., 1931-12-04
BUSINESS WHOOPEE

The whoopee spirit has by nc
means been confined to the sporting
element. Back in 1928 and 1929,
very much of it was seen in bust
ness. There was a tremendous
pressure on the part of business
concerns to expand. The question
was not thoroughly faced whether a
market could be permanently secur-
ed for an increased production. So
vast sums were expended in new
construction and equipment, much
of which was not needed.
These enlarged plans called for
bigger sales. If it seemed that the
existing plans were not producing
that increased business, then there
was a tremendous drive to secure
that increase through excessive
pushing of installment plan sales
and other schemes.
AS result of artificial stimula-
ton, the majority of successful con-
Germs enlarged their business dur
ing those years. Quite commonly
they produced increased dividends,
also stock dividends and split-ups
and stock subscription rights which
could be sold for good sums, etc. All
such evidences were received by the
stockholders of these concerns in
spirit of great jubilation, and specu-
lators promptly bid up the stocks of
these concerns to highly inafited
figure. 1t was this imitation that
caused the speculative collapse of
1929, from which the country has not
yet recovered.
The lesson for the next period of
prosperity should be obvious. When
companies increase their dividends
beyond fair return, the stockhold-
efs, instead of joining in the chorus
of business whoopee, should ask if |
that expansion is normal and sub |
stantial, or if it is mere temporary
squirt involving speculative risks.
Also if they money thus distribut-
ed in increased dividends would not
better have been salted away in re-
serves so that tn plant could operate
future dull times. Also be-
fore people bid up stocks that show
dividends, they would not
better consider the chance that the
increased distribution can not be
Milford chronicle., 1931-12-04
APPRECIATING HOME THINGS

The Bible says that no prophet is
without honor save in his own coun-
try, a very true saying applied to
almost any town. There is a ten
dency to look favorably on things
we see from elsewhere, and to look
unfavorably ON the same things
seen at home.
That accounts for the action of
many people, who pass over perfect
ly good merchandise in their home
stores, and go elsewhere and buy the
same things, or perhaps something
not so good, and commonly pay more
for it. 1t is poor judgment, and it
prevents their own community from
developing and providing better op-
portunities.
Milford chronicle., 1931-12-04
A THOUGHT FOR THE FARMER

The inexorable laws of econom-
les have been gradually forcing
down the price of milk, along with
that of practically all other agricul-
tural commodities. In a recent let
ter to members, Fred H. SeXauer,
president of the Dairymen's League
Cooperative Association of New
York. said:
Working together will hold
the price decline i'll check as long
as possible. Then, if, because of
surplus and distributors actions, the
prices do break, we will reorganize
our plans and set about to rebuild
the structure. 49,.
"This fight is just begun Our
real job will be ahead of us. Even
before we retreat we must get ready
for the next advance. Dark days
may be ahead but that is only one
more reason for greater effort"
This is the spirit that will make a
success of the cooperative move
ment-if the members, as individ-
uals, live up to their responsibilities.
1t is certainly not encouraging to
see prices sag-but they will sag a
great deal farther, and stay down
a great deal longer, without coop
eratives than with them.
Co-operatives. large and small,
are the greatest hope agriculture has
for future prosperity.
Milford chronicle., 1931-12-04
ATTRACTIVE BUSINESS CENTERS

Towns with bright looking stores
become more popular trading centers
than those which look slow and un-
progressive. To make business
center attractive, it needs first, well
kept business buildings. They need
not necessarily be costly. A freshly
painted structure of inexpensive ma
terials may look better than some
more substantial one that has de-
cadent touches.
Second, progressive merchants
place great emphasis on attractive
show windows. They change them
frequently, and they initiate model
displays in trade papers. Their win
dows always look neat, they always
convey new ideas fitted to the day
and season. II takes wide awake
people to make success in retail
trade, and we are mighty proud of
many such ones here in Milford.
Milford chronicle., 1931-12-04
FURNITURE BUSINESS REYIyEs

According to a dispatch from
Grand Rapids, Michigan, the furni-
ture business is looking up The
furniture manufacturers are adver-
tising freely, and orders are coming
in. This is a sign of the return of
prosperity. When people sec enough
money ahead so they replace their
worn chairs and tables with the
beautiful products of modern artis-
tic home furnishers, it is a sign of
clear skies ahead
Millions of people have been saw
ing money through the last two try
ing years, and are beginning to see
where they can discard some shabby
stuff that has cast a gloom over
their homes. 49,.
Milford chronicle., 1931-12-04

store prosperity and everyone Le-
lieves that it will be restored soon
er or later-we will have TO get
Gown to brass tacks" nationally as
well as individually. Nothing would
restore confidence quicker in the
United States han the return of
Uncle Sam to a balanced budget.
Milford chronicle., 1931-12-04
GRANDMA WAYBACK SATS

The modern wOmqn's idea of
stunning hat is one that knocks 'em
cold.
Nothing. upsets a wOman's pOise
like worrying about her avoirdu-
pOis.-The Pathfinder.
Modern civilization seems to be
leener about Laving its foods pure
t.an its mind3.
1t has gotten so now that any girl
with good job can get married.
The trouble with most selG-sacri-
ficing folks is that they sacrifice
their better self.
Milford chronicle., 1931-12-04
=NNEl

BUSINESS people who complain
of the lack of enterprise in a town,
and then fail to show that enter
prise by advertising, are usually to
blame for their own troubles.
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Milford chronicle., 1931-12-04
G&SH

PROSPERITY is created first by
the amount of money in the COM
munity, second, by the speed with
which that money circulates. Ad-
vertising adds to prosperity, by
making, the money circulate faster.
Milford chronicle., 1931-12-04
-I&--l

THE TOWN where everyone at
tends simply to his own business, is
likely to be one where the public
business is neglected.
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Milford chronicle., 1931-12-04
NATIONAL AFFAIRS
By Frank ?. Litschert

Dy IIdIh L. l1llSCHcTl
AS the session of Congress APP
prOaches, it becomes more and more
evident that the national legislators
this winter will spend most of their
time wrestling with problems of
economy and of revenue. For as the
fiscal year grows older it is clear
! that there will be a sizeable deficit
at the end of the governments Off
/ cial twelve month period.
A few months ago it was the
commonly accepted opinion that
this new Congress because o. its
almost equal division would run
| away with itself" so to speak. 1t
was predicted that all sorts of un-
sound legislation, ranging from
ideas of government operation, huge
appropriations for unemployment
relief, to the dole would be propos-
ed, and possibly forced through
Congress. But now there has been
change of public opinion, to an ex-
tent at least. 1t is not to be denied
that bills calling for paternalistic
legislation will be introduced, but
those in touch with the situation
are now more of the opinion that
most of this legislation will die in
its infancy.
There are several reasons. In the
first place, President Hoover and
the leaders of his administration in
Congress will stand squarely oppos-
ed to unsound legislation of any
sort, just as they have stood OppOs-
ed to such legislation since Mr..
HoOver's administration was inaug-
urated. And again the general pub
lie, which includes the voters, is !
coming TO realize that we have been |
going through a serious depression |
and that we will not recover fully |
from it until economy takes the |
place of extravaganza, in govern |
mental expenditures as well as i'm
private budgets. It is just as alb
surd to demand that the government
embark in all sorts of wild extrav-
agances during critical times as it
would be to demand that the ordi-
nary citizen throw away his money
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restore normal times. Everyone who
has studied the question knows that
it cannot be done that way, and that
the government will have to balance
its budget in order to meet condi-
tions as they are.
Then again. it is now considered
likely that there will be tax revis-
ion during the coming session of
Congress. 1t is now generally agreed
hat the depression is a major one
and that the government cannot 60
1n borrowing money and anticipat-
ng the future while rolling up huge
ieficits each quarter. The only REM :
sdy at hand, therefore, is an up
ward revision of taxes, or the impo-
iition of new kinds of taxes. Now
axation is not a popular subject,
either with legislators Or the tax
payers themselves. Nobody likes TO !
zee taxes raised. And during a per- ;
cd when Congress is under the
painful necessity of raising taxes to
AXE care of present and past eX- i
it is not going to be a {
popular past-time to try to create
lew ways of spending money and I
Milford chronicle., 1931-12-04

new deficits which in the future will
have to be made up with higher
taxation.
Therefore, because of the Presi-
dents stand, because of the general
realization of the real government
tai financial condition, and because
of the public's tax consciousness at
this time, schemes for appropriating
huge sums of money for more or
less illusory ways of "curing the
depression" are not going to be as
popular as they bade fair to be
year ago. The aveiage legislator
keeps his car to the ground and
senses the change in public opinion
about as quickly as anyone. And
public opinion being what it is to-
day. the aforesaid legislator is go
ing to be a little more careful about
the way he votes fer legislation
wkich will have a tendency to Gre
ate pew deficits.
Certainly there mover was time
in the history of the country which
called for more careful, conservative
legislation on economic matters
than the present. If we are to re-
Milford chronicle., 1931-12-04

new deficits which in the future will
have to be made up with higher
taxation.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-06-02
Expect Light Vote
At Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES, June 2. U.P) -
An exceedingly light vote was pre-
dicted by city officials as voters
went to the polls today to elect y
city councilmen, three municipal
court judges and one member of the
board of education, and to vote on
proposed $6,000,000 sewer bond
proposition.
City Clerk Robert Dominguez said
he believed the total vote would fall
below the 100000 mark, or approx
mately 80 per cent of the registra-
ton.
The election today is for the pur-
pose of choosing between candidates
nominated at a primary election
held May 5. Three councilmen,
four judges and four members of
the board of education were elected
at the primary.
Owing to the fact that David H,
Clark, one of the candidates for Of
flee No. 7 of the municipal court
bench, is in Jail accused of murder
in connection with the shooting OF
Charles H. Crawford, politician, and
Herbert Spencer, magazine editor,
considerable interest centers around
the race between Clark and the in
cumbent, Judge Charles MacCoy.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-06-02
.VATICAN-FASCLST
BREAK REMAINS
AT STANDSTILI
ConcOrdat Establish in G
Vatican State Threat
ened By Trouble.

ROME June 2. U.P)-The split
between the Vatican and the Fas-
cist government over Fascist charg-
es of political activities by Catholic
lay organizations reached a dead
lock today.
A truce prevailed, but formal ne
gotiations to prevent a rupture of
the concordat establishing Vatican
as a sovereign state were suspend
ed. Only unofficial negotiations
were proceeding, since the Pope's
protests against anti-Catholic or
ganizations in Italy was made as
the bishop of Rome not as the
temporal head of the Vatican state.
Efforts to arrive at a peace agree
ment were being made through
persons having no diplomatic rank,
although fully conversant with
Italian-Vatican relations.
The government decided to re-
gard the knights of Columbus
Fairgrounds, which are run by AM
ericans, as part of the whole ques-
tion of Catholic clubs. The play
grounds therefore were still closed
today. The protest of Edward l..
Hearn, the K. of c. director, to the
United States embassy, was taking
a regular course through the for
eign office and will be considered as
a diplomatic question by Foreign
Minister Dino Grandi.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-06-02
P|NCHOT
ATTACKS
UTILITIES
Tells Governors Electric
Trust Has Strange
Hold Upon Country.
CHARGES OF GRAFT
Huge Sum Collected Each
Year By Collection Of
Excessive Rates.

FRENCH LICK, Ind. June 2. tU.E
The powerful combine of public
utilities threatens to undermine
government by the people, Governor
Pinchot, Pennsylvania, charged to-
day in an address delivered before
governors of the United States In
conference here.
About 90 per cent of the electric
power generated in the nation Is
under the domination and control
of four major interests, which work
together under common policy and
toward a common end--"milkng
the public"-he said.
The utilities speech was substi-
tuted by Pinchot for an address Oh
Timber Needs of the Future"
topic assigned him by the execu-
tive committee of the conference
which had agreed that controver-
sial matters would be banned from
discussion.
THE power of public utilities is
manifest in every political assembly,
from the congress of the United
States to the smallest town meet
ing" Pinchot said.
Although the utilities do not
dominate the Republican party In
Pennsylvania, they do own and
operate the party machinery. They
control the state chairman, national
committeeman and other officials
of the state committee, all of whom
are occupied in doing the will OF
the utilities and defeating the will
of the voters.
"The political power of the util-
tiles is the direct result of the
| failure to regulate them on one
hand. and of their almost incredi-
BILE expansion on the other.
Beginning less than two genera
tons ago with nothing, the electric
industry today has an investment OF
nearly II billion dollars. 1t ranks
fourth or fifth among all our in-
dustries in invested capital.
Control Limited
Electric consolidation has gone
so far that single group controls,
directly or indirectly, over one half
the electricity generated in the
United States.
Il have no desire to be unjust to
the utilities. A square deal, how
ever, does not require or include the
unbridled power to make such
profits as they please, to control
public service commissions that
might impede their march to COM
mercial dominance, nor to own and
operate such political organizations
necessary to perpetuate their graft.
Il call it graft And I am well
within my right. Through over
charges in rates, throughout the
United States, the public utilities
are collecting each year a sum esti-
mated at five hundred million doll
lars.
"AS governor, stand strongly for
the rights of my state, but when I
see the doctrine OF states rights
Continued on page 81
Imperial Valley press., 1931-06-02
ELECTION CLERKS
in COOK COUNTY
DEMAND MONEY

CHICAGO, June 2.U.P)-Inter-
nal strife ragged today in the SUBJ
urb of Cicero as 300 election clerks
and judges demanded that the
officials whom they had counted
into office find some way quick
way to pay them for the counting.
The clerks and judges broke up
meeting of the city council last
night when they stormed the city
hall and demanded that they be
paid a total of S33,385 for services
in all elections since January 1880.
The financial situation of Cook
county became more acute and de-
spite its taxable wealth of S4O,00O,-
100000 the county defaulted yes
terday on payment of Sl,45l 900 of
bonds and S417,00o of bond inter-
est.
Seven large banks stepped in.
however. and offered to save the
county's credit by buying the bonds
and paying the interest.
County Treasurer Joseph B. Nc
Donough, said the bonds could not
be redeemed nor interest paid be-
cause taxes had not been collected
and the county had been unable to
borrow.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-06-02
CITIES PROTEST
CHANGES MADE IN
DISTRICT BOUNDS

El Centre, Caiexico, Brawley and
Westmorland today had joined in
protests TO the county board Of
supervisors over proposed supervis-
orial redistricting lines recently
drawn by the county engineer.
Each city. represented by its
chamber Of commerce or business
men. asked a two weeks postpon-
ment before any official action is
taken on the redistrnted county
city. The supervisors promised TO
plan to furnish each newspaper in
the valley with q photostatic copy
of the county map with redistrict-
ed lines before official action is
taken.
Don Davis, assistant Ell Centro
city engineer, appeared before the
board yesterday afternoon TO inform
supervisors that the Veterans Mem
orial Home does not meet with
fireproofing requirements of the
city. The usperyisors promised to
take action to fireproof the ceiling
of the basement as well as base
ment columns, the parts objected
to by the city engineer. Appropri-
alton for this work however, was
put off until July Is, when funds
will be available.
The supervisors this morning de-
cided to copyright a county map
drawn by Henry j. Burk, and
adopt it as the official 1880 county
map. Burk will furnish copies of
the map to the county.
A compromise agreement was eff
fected yesterday afternoon in which
the county is to pay Curtis Darnell
$3.50 an acre for one and six-tenths
acres OF land condemned as right
of-way for the Brawley to West
morland highway. This leaves only
one claim on this right Of way not
settled
Imperial Valley press., 1931-06-02
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TIDE HAMPERS
INSPECTION OF
HARVARD HULL
Government Proceed s
With Investigation Of
Saturdays Wreck.

SAN PEDRO, June 2. W.n)-Ef-
forts to determine the extent OF
damage suffered by the liner Har-
ward when it grounded on a rocky
reef off Point Arguelo last Satur-
day with 497 passengers aboard,
were being hampered today by rip
tides, according to reports received
here.
r. s. Gardner, in charge of SAL
wage operations, reported that no ef-
forts had been made to pull the
stranded vessel free. He said THAI
two divers were forced by rip tides
to abandon attempts to inspect the
bottom of the ship. The weather
was calm, however, Gardner
said, and only nominal movement
of the vessel was perceptible.
Captain s. A. Kennedy, inspector
of hulls for the United States steam
boat inspection service. said today
there will be no formal hearing to
fix responsibility for the wreck until
the return here of the Harvard S
officers and crew.
Captain l.. B. Hilsinger, in COM
mand of the Harvard. together
with other officers, remained at the
scene of the wreck, and was not ex-
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