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cred the nearby paper. In this fashion
the paper was rot spotted or smeared,
All Of Claire's hopes of using the
scrubbing brush vanished, although her
mother told her she could scrub the
floor q bit later. She said that a scrub
bling brush was often used in cleaning
q soiled rug. A heavy lather of white
soap and water-a lather as heavy as
that used for shaving-is made. The
rug Is freed from dust, spread on a nat
surface. Then the brush Is used to
spread the suds on a small patch CT
rug. After brushing firmly. the lather
is wiped OF with q sponge wrung out OF
clear. warm water This water must be
renewed frequently.
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Indignant or Ashamed.

Poor Betty q. She writes me o sad
little letter. II have been out Of work
now for three months" she says. by
great good luck live at home and had
q few dollars saved up. But feel
so ashamed. have reached the point
now when go to look for q Job that
I feel like q thief. I am always
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2IEalu bnhC the gar
at he desk Is
laughing at me-"
Now, isn't that
q pity? Surely,
Betty. you have no
re SON to be
ashamed. It wasn't
your fault that
you lost your last
Job. And you've
tried hard enough
to get another.
The thing that's
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butterfly design can be had by inclos-
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The Woman Who Makes Good

By HELEN WOODWARD.
frightened tppst
the highest paid business n America.
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Flickers. 1t was not always to be
heard. When mother and father were
away hunting food all would be still.
The instant one of them alighted on
the pole the buzzing would begin.
Black Pussy was just about to climb
up to that round doorway when she
saw Farmer Browns Boy coming that
Milford chronicle., 1931-02-13
ST. VALENTINE

Do the boys and girls send each
other Valentines as they used to?
Apparently the answer is yes, since
the stores carry many of these ef-
fusions. But they are not probably
taken as serious as formerly. The
girl who gets one of them is not so
afflicted with a little heart that goes
pit-a-pat.
Nor does the boy who sent it trem-
BILE so as he meets her and tries to
see "how she took it." Probably he
reflects that if she did not take it
well, there are plenty of others who
will be glad to get it next time. The
young folks have their full share of
pessimism.
1t is perhaps just as we'll that
youthful love is not taken so serious
ly as formerly. There are not so
many who die of love. There are too
many other interesting things going
on. But the world would not last
long without st. Valentine. If his
influence does not bring people to-
gether in lifelong unions, our social
will look shaky here in
Delaware.
Milford chronicle., 1931-02-13
BRICKS AND GINS

The National Rifle Association
points out that whenever an acct
dental firearm killing occurs there is
an immediate demand on the part of
reformers for laws to outlaw guns.
However, wherever an automobile,
an axe, club, a brick or some other
such common instrument is the cause
of death, the voices of the reform
element are still.
The automobile, the brick the
butcher knife, the axe and the rest
have, of course, useful and innocent
purposes. And so have the rifle or
revolver. They are used for hunt
ing, for sport, by thousands of peo-
pie who in all probability will never
commit a crime, either by accident
or design. To deprive these good
citizens of weapons would be on eX-
actly the same logical basis as to de-
prive them of their cars because
32,OOO people were Killed IN hlghWay
accidents last year.
AS matter of fact, the old argu-
ment that an anti-gun law would
help subdue the underworld has
been exploded by experience in New
York and other cities. What it does,
is to disarm the law-abiding,
them better, safer and easier
game for the thug, the second-story
man and the gangster. The fact that
such laws are still being advocated
Is a beautiful example of the ability
Of the professional reformer, in any
line, to disregard facts in his en-
.husiasm to infict pet theories on
he public.
Milford chronicle., 1931-02-13
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RETURNING TO WORK

The business reports speak of
many cases where manufacturing
plants have taken idle people back
to work. Philosophers who claim
that work is a curse, will not find
many of these re-employed people
agreeing with them. The factory
whistle is to them the sweetest music
they ever heard.
Some people claim that mechanical
work, with much repetition of one
thing over and over again, tends to
wear down peoples nervous systems.
These recently idle people will not
agree with that. They will say that
they are far happier, even if they
have to do one monotonous thing
over and over again, than they were
when they were idle.
The above will be true, even with
folks who had money saved up and
were not suffering seriously from
their period Of unemployment. Some
how the mind tends to prey upon it.
self when it is not occupied by the
thought of industry. Labor is not a
curse imposed on man.
Many people dream of time when
the worker will have to toll but
three or four hours day, which
they feel will leave him free for the
higher culture. 1t may work that
way with some, but with many 9TH
ers the extended idleness would do
them no good. There would be many
temptations to time wasting or
worse.
= The main thought of the recently
unemployed worker here in Della
ware who goes back to some job, is
as to how long it will last, and
whether the industry can run regu-
larly from. now on. That will de-
pend to some extent on himself. He
can not control those vast and mys-
terious economic forces that bring
prosperity and adversely. But where
the workers and managements toll
together earnestly and harmonious
ly, the product is improved, it's cost
is reduced, and the demand for the
product becomes more certain and
regular.
Milford chronicle., 1931-02-13
SWEET POTATOES MOVING
TO NORTHERN MARKETS

The sweet potato crop which was
dug last fall and placed in storage
houses throughout Southern Della
ware and various other points on
the Del-Mar-Va Peninsula was about
twenty-five per cent less than the
average crop. is being moved at
fairly good prices to the northern
markets.
Thousands of hampers mostly
yellow Jersey" better known by
some farmers as the up Rivers"
and big Stem" are being shipped
daily in carload lots to New Eng
land, northern and western cities.
Prime potatoes are bringing
around $500 per hamper which is
considered a fair price and much
better than has been received during
some of the past years.
While the brokers own a great
majority of the stored potatoes, pur-
chasing them at the time when they
were dug, there are many growers
who prefer not to sell at that time
and if they do not sell at that time
they are mostly forced to pay the
broker for the storage of them as
few farmers have their own storage
facilities. Keeping the crop in stOr-
age houses is a great problem, as it
many times becomes affected with
black-rOt. This year the black rot
and the shrinkage will amount to
about fifteen per cent while in pre-
vious years it runs around ten to
twelve per cent. Black-rot is said to
be caused by not keeping the stOr-
age houses at an even temperature,
if this is not done the rot will ap-
pear and sometimes ruin thousands
of hampers before they can be NOV
ed.
At the present writing. about fifty
per cent of the potatoes stored in
The storage houses on the Del-Mar-
Va Peninsula have been shipped to
he markets.
The brokers this year are trying
% encourage the farmers to grade
heir potatoes so that the prime will |
measure from two to three inches,
or which the yhave agreed to con-
ract at the price of fifty cents per
basket.
Upon a recent survey among sew,
,ral of the leading farmers in ref
renee to the 1881 sweet potato crop
he majority Of them are planning
o increase their acregae from ten
o 25 per cent.
Milford chronicle., 1931-02-13
THE RELIEF OF SUFFERING

In old times, a great deal of suf-
fering went unrelieved. But today
it seems intolerable that anyone
should lack food or clothing, or be
without fuel in cold weather. Peo-
pie can not live comfortably, if they
realize that such suffering exists.
Today the nation faces an unpre-
cented situation, with 100000 or
more people in the drought afflicted
districts suffering from hunger. The
situation has been about the most
difficult thing that the relief forces
ever faced in this country, in that
so little warning of the extent of this
trouble was given.
With the dislike of our people for
appealing to charity, most of these
victims probably said very little un-
til their supplies were exhausted.
Then all at once a wave of hunger
spread through the districts where
crops were small.
All at once, the nation was faced
with n demand for relief, the extent
of which few people had foreseen.
there has been a lack of
time to organize the relief work on
a scale to deal adequately with such
a situation.
The Red Cross has the finest or
ganization for relief that the world
ever saw. 1t has accomplished Won
ders in this situation. But it could
not accomplish the impossible. Now
The question remains as to whether
the Red Cross can get the money and
get it to the people in time, or
the national and state gov
will have to help.
A time when somewhere toward a
million people are hungry and many
lf them sick and shivering, is not
much of q time for argument as to
low the relief shall be met. Some
now the relief forces must get to-
gether and compromise and get the
lelp to them in time. Theories have |
o give way to facts. The American
)eople must pour out their money in
generous offerings.
Milford chronicle., 1931-02-13
INCOME TAX TROUBLES

A great many people who have to
pay an income tax look with dread
on the annual job of making out
these returns. They note the penal
ties imposed for fraud in such re-
turns, and are fearful that they will
make some slip 'that will get them
into trouble. There is no occasion
for fear, If they try TO be fair and
honest.
Some returns are so complicated
that it takes a tax expert to make
them out. Even then the taxpayers
agent may differ with the govern
ment as to certain items. II may
take months or years to get a deci-
sion in doubtful cases.
The taxpayers of Delaware hope
that everything possible will be
done to simplify the law, so that
there will not be so many of these
difficult questions. But it is not an
easy matter to get up a law, or
codes of instructions, that will COW
er all the thousands of cases and
situations that arise in handling
money for a year.
Returns for the great majority of
people should be a simple matter,
and it ought to be possible for per-
sons of ordinary intelligence to
make out a return and get it some
where near right. 1t seems a kind
Of needless imposition on people, if
they have to spend $25 worth of
time in order to ascertain that they
are subject to a $3.50 tax.
One reason why many people have
trouble with their tax returns, is
that they keep imperfect records of
their money matters. They should
consider throughout the year, on any
that can affect their tax
return, that they need a record of
that transaction. Such records and
all documents relating to such bust
ness, should be kept well classified,
so that one can refer to them easily.
With such preparation, it should not
take much time or tearing of hair to
make out a return that will satisfy |
he government.
Milford chronicle., 1931-02-13

There are 1900 raids annually in
Washington. The equivalent in New
York is 23.GG0, and Wilmington, 352
or one daily.
"Why should Delaware be bur-
dened with an enforcement act when
Congress fails to pass enforcement
laws for the city of Washington with
twice the population of our whole
State, particularly when the vote Of
half the State, the city of Whining
ton, and 46.3 per cent of the whole
State is against it?
THE General Assembly is called
upon to enforce the Eighteenth
Amendment as far as possible in
accordance with the wishes of the
people of Delaware and when in
conflict with those wishes not fur
ther than Congress is willing to do
in Washington and elsewhere"
Milford chronicle., 1931-02-13
THE PROOF OF THE PUDDING


The best evidence that can be pre-
sented in support of stringent laws
requiring licensing examinations for
motorists is provided by National
Safety Council statistics.
Last year automobile accidents
claimed 32,5OO lives, an increase of
four per cent over 1929, though mo-
tor registrations increased less than
one per cent. The ten states with
strong drivers license laws showed
decreases in the death rate averag-
ing Is per cent, and one of them,
Rhode Island, enjoyed reduction of
POI per cent.
In contrast to this( "a states with
out examination laws had an average
increase of 8.3 per cent, and in one
state the increase totaled 48.1 per
cent.
The fact that automobile deaths in
creased from 21, 1926 in 1925 to more
than $4,000 in 1880, conclusively
demonstrates that immediate action
is necessary. It is estimated that if
every state had a drivers examina-
tion law, 1900 lives would have been
saved last year alone. Every state
legislature should adopt the law as
the starting point of a campaign for
highway safety.
Milford chronicle., 1931-02-13
THE CRIES FOR RELIEF

Pitiful stories continue to come
out of the drought afflicted regions,
of the experiences of the people
whose crops were burned up by last
summers rainless heat. 1t has evil
IDENTIFY hit hard a mass of people who
are ordinarily self supporting. A
great many folks who never thought
of asking anyone for help before, are
now forced to become beggars.
This country, in spite of depression
the past year, contains abundant
wealth to care for all these people.
The government is going to loan
them money to help start q new
crop, but it will be many weeks be-
fore they can consume their own
foods. Many of them have no credit.
The danger that some severe epi-
demic of sickness will start among
these hungry folks, seems consider
able. The more afflicted regions
need constant medical inspection.
Many of these people must be very
poorly clothed, and many homes
must lack fuel.
it is a tremendous job to see that
help is brought into all these suf-
fering neighborhoods. The Red Cross
is the best agency for such help, and
it is regrettable that after three
weeks from the starting of the drive
for the relief work of this society,
only about half of the $10,OOO,OOO
asked for had been secured. 1t is
also regrettable that the question of
who should help these people should
have become a matter of political
There are likely to be 100000
people to feed before March l. If
the Red Cross is unable to handle
such a critical situation alone, the
government will have to help. The
states and cities and local charities
should also contribute generously.
The people who have money must |
pour it out in willing offerings.
Milford chronicle., 1931-02-13
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ENTHUSIASM

In efforts to push a community
ahead, or promote any kind of en-
terprise, one of the most valuable
qualities is enthusiasm. 1t has pull
ed many men through to success,
even where they were lacking in
other desirable qualities.
You must have enthusiasm in or
der to promote progress in city.
It arouses the apathetic from their
dullness, it enlists service and CO.
operation. Give a community lit
tie bunch of really enthusiastic
boosters, and if it has any kind of
substantial prospects, it will go
ahead. If the cold feet folks in any
town would put a little more warm
hearted enthusiasm into their per-
sonal affairs and community rela-
tions, they would see results that
would surprise them.
Milford chronicle., 1931-02-13
CURBING ROADSIDE SIGNS IN
PENNSYLVANIA
(Philadelphia Ledger }

The long-sought opportunity to
protect the scenery of Pennsylvania
from further DETACHMENT by bill
boards and other outdoor advertising
signs has been presented to the Leg
lislature. A measure similar to the
New Jersey Billboard Law, which be-
came effective Jenuary /, was intro
duced in the House last week by
Representative Talbot, of Delaware
County. Such legislation has been
persistently advocated by the Gar
den Club Federation of Pennsyl-
vania, the Council for the Preserva-
tion of Natural Beauty and other or
CARNATIONS in the State.
The Talbot bill provides that after
January l, 1882, any person or
agency engaged in the business of
outdoor advertising must obtain an
annual license, costing $100, from
the Department of Revenue. No bill
board may be erected without a per-
nit from the department and the
payment of an annual excise tax of
three cents a square foot of surface
used. The department may refuse
to issue a permit when in it's judg-
ment the billboard would be injuri-
Gus to property or to any public in
terest or when such signs are pro-
hibited by municipal ordinance.
The bill also provides that no sign
may be erected within 500 feet of
highway, trolley or railway intersec-
tion. This provision is imperative
for the protection of the safety of
travellers.
Milford chronicle., 1931-02-13
Milford, Friday, February 13, 1881
AN UNPRECEDENTED CALAMITY

Hunger is such an unusual thing in
this land of plenty, that many of our
people can't realize just what it
means in the drought afflicted re-
gions. The idea that people are suf-
fering in 81 states for lack of ordi-
nary food, seems something incom-
prehensible to our folks.
Those things happen in countries
like Russia, where they have politi-
cal upheavals and devastating wars.
But we have had nothing of the kind
in America. We have raised abund-
ant crops practically every year
since the first settlers landed on our
shores.
Now we see a different situation,
and a very peculiar one. While
there is a surplus of certain crops
in certain sections, in many locali-
ties the Implying sun with it's fierce
rays so scorched and scared the land,
that a host of people who depend
on the products of their own fields
for support, suddenly found their
customary supplies exhausted. Their
cellars and storehouses, usually we'll
stocked with nouishing products, are
empty today. With probably 1,000,-
900 being fed before spring opens,
we are face to face with calamity
new in our experience.
The most serious aspect of it is
the effect on these peoples general
health. Half fed people will survive
the winter, if they don't get sick.
But their powers of resistance are
low. If influenza of the more severe
type, should get foothold in such
localities, it would sweep off many
of these poorly nourished people.
Other disease infections may be still
more of a peril.
Such a situation is. very unlikely
to happen again in the near future.
Two such rainless summers will not
come together. The people who
were thus caught without food, will
not, be likely to get into such hole
soon. They will remember this ex-
perience, and be sure they are rails
ing enough to hold them through the
winter. But they face dismal pros
pect until the new crops ripen, and
the people must be very generous to
them.
Milford chronicle., 1931-02-13
KNOWING PRICES

If person starts in business
without full information of his trade,
he will probably come to grief. He
must know prices, values, and quail
ity.
1t is the same in managing the
affairs of a home. The good home
buyer knows qualities, values, and
Milford chronicle., 1931-02-13

prices. Qualities and values are OBJ
tanned from study of merchandise.
Prices are had partly through in
quiry at stores, but largely by news
paper advertising. The people who
read the advertisements are usually
good home buyers. And merchants
who fail to announce their prices
through advertising, are not doing
their part to help home managers
spend judiciOusly. Consequently
such ones are apt to be passed over
when the purchases are made.
Milford chronicle., 1931-02-13

the president pro tenn of the SEN
ate, William A. SimOntOn, also a
typewriter statement by counties
and representative districts. The
whole is submitted for the attention
of the General Assembly"
Extracts of other points stressed
by Mr.. du Pont follow:
"SiXty-six and two-tenths per
cent of the number of votes cast in
the election of November, 1890 in the
City of Wilmington have petitiOned
repeal.
Under local option rights grant
ed by the State Constitution the peO-
pie of Wilmington chose to continue
licensed sale of Intoxicating Ii ,uor
for all purposes, beverage and med
icinal.
1.-THE Klair Law, as far as ii fol-
lows the Federal Constitution, is
within the powers of the General
Assembly but beyond this, dealing
with the medicinal liquor not pro-
hibited by the Federal Constitution,
the choice of the people of Whining
ton especially and of the counties
also, where sale of medicinal liquor
was not prohibited by local option,
the Constitution of the State
should be respected.
Regardless of the fine points of
law the General Assembly should
hold it's action beyond reproach and
truly represent the whole body of
citizens.
"The fact that 463 per cent of the
voters of the State have subscribed
to a repeal proposition shows that a
very large minority, if not a major
ity of our citizens, wish for a return
of the right to purchase medicinal
liquor. 1t is not asked that those
who differ shall be forced to use or
to sanction this use of liquor, only
that the choice of the people may be
free.
GAS to the balance of the Klair
Law which forces the Assembly and
the State Executive and Judiciary to
disregard the local option rights of
the people of Wilmington (one-half
of the population: the only excuse
offered for the existence of the law
is the support of Congress in the
of the Eighteenth |
"The recent report of the Wicker
sham Committee resulted in unani-
nous support of the fact that Con-
gress is not enforcing and has not in |
ten years enforced the Eighteenth |
This is largely due to |
lack of funds for enforcement which
Congress itself has failed TO provide.
Even in the city of Washington Con-
gress has recently failed to provide
1 law sufficient for enforcement.
Senator Howell who proposed a
new law stated that 81 per cent of
he police in Washington had no
luties in connection with liquor viO-
atiOns. Only three or four Federal
lgents work in Washington. Four
:ity police officers anG one car are
he only city detail to stop bootleg
liquor. Persons of diplomatic status
lave secured unlawful delivery of
of thousands of quarts of
liquor annually. Thirteen thousand
luarts of whiskey were delivered on
diplomatic permits from one distil-
cry in three months; equal to 20
Iuarts for every diplomatic official u
member of his family and employ
es. 934 raids of speakeasies in
even months.