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The Washington times., 1931-11-17
Grandi Foes Take 'tHlnt, ,
Call off Today;s Meet

Fear of the American State De-
partment for the safety of Dino
Grandi, Italy's Foreign Minister,
was evidenced again today when
official pressure was brought to
bear on the International Com
mittee of Anti-FaScist protest to
postpone its scheduled meeting
here today.
The committee intended to pass
resolutions condemning Senor
Grandis presence in the United
States and his recognition by the
American government on grounds
he participated in the castor oil
policy of Mussolini and used
other violent tactics to crush
Fascist opposition in the days
before Mussolini become dictator.
Warren C. Montross, Spokes-
man for the committee, told In
ternational News Service it had
been suggested" in important
quarters that the proposed meet
ing should be abandoned until
Grandi had left Washington. He
said:
The Washington times., 1931-11-17
GRAND| CALLED
stunt VICTIM

NEW YORK, Nov. II dN.S.O
"A publicity stunt for the ma
tional government" kept Dino
Grandi, Italian Foreign Minister
from a welcome in New York be-
fore he was rushed to Washing
ton.. Major William F. Deegan
chairman of the arrangements
committee for the visitors recep,
ton here, said today. He de-
clared:
From the time plans were
first discussed for this recep-
tiOn, the Federal Government
has done everything in its
power to minimize the city's
part in it,"
He also declared he believed
Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, who
abandoned a plan to fly G1andi
to Washington when fog made
such a venture dangerous, was
"unwittingly used by the Federal
Government to keep Signor Grandi
out of New York until he had
been to Washington"
Final plans were perfected for
the city's reception to Grandi
when he comes here Friday, Dee
gan announced. Elmer Ellsworth
Brown, chancellor of New York
University, will be chairman of
the mayors welcoming commit
tee.
The Washington times., 1931-11-17
KIDNAPPED CHILD
i FEARED SLAIN

LIVONIA, Ind, Nov. II GN.S0
Search for 12-year-old Cora Hunt,
kidnapped from school last Thurs
day by her demented brother, Bill,
27. spread over Southern Indiana
today as the populace grew aroused
over the possible fate of the girl.
The brother is six-time ex-con,
vict.
A sinister note was given the
search today by the discovery of
the girls school satchel in a ceme-
terry near here.
The frantic parents were almost
certain their daughter had been
slain. Sheriff Trinkle said the
man had tried twice to shoot his
mother, Mrs. LAME Hunt, last
week.
The Washington times., 1931-11-17
Alexandria School
Gets Banking Trophy

A silver trophy. awarded the
Alexandria high school for a per-
feet record in student banking
last year by the Education Thrift
Service, of New York city. was
presented the school yesterday
by Carroll Pierce, president Of the
Citizens National Bank.
Under direction of Mrs. Ruth
S. Flgin, thrift director of the
school, every student had IN in
dividual bank account and not
one missed depositing at least q
small sum each banking day.
The Washington times., 1931-11-17
M|SS|NGLAUNCH.
PARTYF0UND
international Photo
STIMSON

CAPE MAY, N. j.. Nov. II
GN.S0.-Three women teachers
and five boy pupils of the Mill
vile IN. j. High School. who
have been missing since Sunday.
when they left Bivalve, N. j., on
a pleasure trip in a 29-foot motor
boat, were reported found today
in Delaware Bay. about IA miles
west of the Maurice River.
The Washington times., 1931-11-17
Wet Plank Urged
For Republicans

ROCHESTER, N. Y, Nov. II
U.S0. - Unless the Republicans
write a wet plank into their next
presidential platform they will be
defeated, according to James w.
Wadsworth, jr., former United
States Senator from New York.
Milford chronicle., 1931-05-29
THE ART OF GARDENING

One reason why more people dc
not cultivate gardens, is that they
have tried to do so and have gotten
poor results. Many of them labored
and toiled for a summer or two
trying to raise nice flowers and
vegetables, but the results were
meager. They decided they would
rather buy their foods at the stores,
and that the floral beauty around
their homes costs too much per-
spiration.
Plants are like people. Each one
has its own characteristics. You
can't treat them all alike. Some
are strong and rugged, and will
stand any amount of abuse. Others
are sensitive and ailing, and must
be humored and nursed. Real gar
deners here in Milford love to study
these differences of plant tempera-
ment, and find satisfaction in learn
ing how to overcome them.
Milford chronicle., 1931-05-29
THE COMMUNITY IDEA

Some years ago, all our business
and community life was run on a
very individualist basis. Every
one for himself, and the devil take
the hindmost," was the slogan.
There was no unity and co-opera-
ton. Local feuds prevented har-
monious effort for the general
good.
During recent years, a great ad-
vance in community spirit has been
secured among business circles.
Competitors in the same line of
trade, who formerly would hardly
speak to each other, have joined
Chambers of Commerce and lunch
con clubs, they get together and act
for mutual benefit, and they have
become friends. This has permit
ted thousands of cities and towns
to accomplish progressive results.
There are still a good many peo-
pie, however, who have not yet full
ly grasped this community idea of
united effort. They do not see just
what they will gain from increased
prosperity in their town, and they
will not make any particular effort
for the community good.
When a community goes ahead,
every man, woman, and child in that
community obtains a benefit. More
prosperity in the stores and facto-
ries means higher pay for workers,
more chances for promotion, more
jobs. Every employe who is work
ing heartily for the prosperity of
his employer, is giving that employ
er the power to do more for his help
and for his home town.
If practically all the people of
Milford could taken an increased
interest in making their home places
attractive, the great improvement in
our exterior appearance would Gre
ate a reputation for beauty and high
standards. The reputation of our
town as a high class residence and
business town would spread. People
would seek locations here for homes
and business, which would mean
more prosperity an advantages for
everyone.
Milford chronicle., 1931-05-29
WOMEN FARM WORKERS

The Russian soviet government
under which already 100000 wo-
men work on farms, is starting a
movement to place many more OF
them at farm work. They find this
step necessary, in order to speed up
their so-called five year program, u
for the modernization of their indus
trial equipment.
1t is significant of the difficulty
they encounter in creating efficient
production under a socialistic sys-
tenn, that they have to call on such
a great body of women to cultivate
the soil. In the main, America gets
along without requiring it's women
to work in the fields. 1t is of course
possible, as our women cease to be
the weaker. SEX" that many more
of them will be seen doing farm
work. But the great majority of
American farmers say that the wo-
men have all they can do to carry
on household tasks and look after
their children.
Milford chronicle., 1931-05-29
BUSINESS LEADERSHIP

Senator Borah, of Idaho, calls on
the business leaders to hold con-
ference, and consider measures to
be taken up by the next session of
Congress. This would seem a good
idea. The brilliant men who head
the leading industries have been
able to create fortunes for them
selves, and their opinions as to what
the government should do to bring
good fortune to the whole people,
are entitled to much weight.
Business men frequently become
so disgusted with the way things go
in politics, that they feel they can
not waste their time with political
movements That is not the way to
get anything improved. If one of
their machines works badly, it will
deteriorate still further if neglect
ed. The thing to do is to oil and
clean and repair it. Politics may be
sufficiently fabricated now with all
the oily talk, but it certainly needs
cleaning and repairing.
Milford chronicle., 1931-05-29
THE nWEAKER SEX"

According to all traditions, wom-
en- and girls constitute the weaker
sex, in a physical sense. They have
not apparently in the recent past at
least, been as physically strong as
men. So the laws and customs of
the country favor them in many
ways. But as one watches the young
people of today, one is often in
clined to doubt if there is any
weaker sex.
1t is often remarked at dances,
that the young men are tired before
the girls are. Many young women
consider that a dance is not desir-
ably arranged, unless there is a
Stag line" of unattached men, who
are ready to dance with the un-
wearied girls after their partners
become exhausted.
The Indian sQuaws in pioneer
days did the hard work of the gar
den and seemed physically equal to
the noble red man." In Europe to-
day women do much of the farm
work and seem physically equal to
the men. In our country now, the
girls play about the same games as
the boys, and seem to have very
nearly as much physical power.
AS women largely transmit their
physical characteristics to their
children, probably more than the
men do, it is of supreme Importance
that they should come up physically
vigorous. Anything in customs and
clothing that restricts this physical
vigor, is an influence to be deplored.
Many men, noting a tendency in
women's styles to put on longer
dresses, have regretted it, feeling
that the change must interfere some
what with their freedom of motion
and readiness for active pursuits,
and thus constitute a physical han
dicap. Young women and girls
should have just as good opportuni-
ties for games and physical develop
ment as the boys have. If they fail
to get it, the community is not doing
it's best for the health of the coming
generation
Milford chronicle., 1931-05-29
VERNON

Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Van Ormer,
of Norristown, Pa, and Mr.. and
Mrs. Nelson Coverdale and three
sons have been guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Walter c. Coverdale.
We are sorry to note that Millard
Collision has been suffering with
his eyes.
The first quarterly conference
was held on Saturday at Wesley M.
L. church.
Frank Price and son, of Chester,
have been visiting Mr.. and Mrs. ia
cob Price.
Mrs. Alice H. Ross and friends,
the Mesdames Bailey and daugh-
ters, attended the field meeting at
Delaware University, Newark, and
also the Perfect Attendance Day ex-
ercises at Middletown. Mrs. Ross
and three pupils marched in the pa
rade, the children being William
and Carroll Heverin and sister
Pearl. Mrs. r. F. Murphy accom-
panied the visitors to Newark.
Many are glad to know there is
to be a new concrete road from
Harrington to Whiteleysburg, Md.
Ross Clancey has been promoted
again, this time to be bill clerk,
a well paying and easy job. Ross
however is not looking for an easy
job, it just happens to come along
in the line of promotion.
Before going to California Mrs.
Hope Farrell, of the Farrell Farm,
near Charlottesville, Va, visited
Mrs. r. Wesley Ross.
Among the many guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Jack Stevens have been Mr..
and Mrs. Gootee Stevens, of Will
mingtOn.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. T. Brown and
Mrs. Hilda Bailey attended the field
meet at Chestertown.
Milford chronicle., 1931-05-29
OLD MAN BELLYACHE

According to Investigations made
by the U. E. interior department,
four out of every ten of the Ameri-
can people suffer from various di-
gestive diseases. When one consid-
ers the misery that such troubles
cause, and how they are usually due
to some form of imprudence, it
seems singular that people will do
the things that bring on these trou-
bles.
The American people gobble their
food. They dump in the eats as if
they were shovelling coal into fur
mace. 1t disappears down their
throats in great and insoluble
chunks, showing scarcely any tooth
marks. 1t is no wonder that this
poorly prepared stuff raises rue
tions after it has gone down the
little red way.
People who want to live long and
comfortable lives will learn to con-
troll their eating habits better. If
they don't, Old Man Bellyache, to
use the homely old expression, will
have much to say to them.
Milford chronicle., 1931-05-29
PUBLIC.SPIRITED PRIZES
Wilmington Morning News)

Wilmington Morning News)
Beautiful Delaware happily more
and more is attracting the keen in
terest of many of our residents.
They know the value and the possi-
bilities of this fine land between the
bays. They want it to become bet
ter and better in every way.
Some of them are translating
their desires into definite action.
This is evidenced by the letter of
Mrs. Mary Wilson Thompson, Mrs.
Alice Belin DUPONT and Mrs. Alice
DUPONT Buck to Governor Buck each
offering a prize of fifty dollars in
gold for the best-kept farm and
garden without bill boards on the
highway between St. Georges and
RehOboth by the way of Milford;
also for the most tasteful gas station
and refreshment stands with only
small signs needed to advertise their
wares; for the prettiest and best
kept garden in a town on the dupont
Boulevard.
The winners under these terms
are to receive besides the fifty dol
lars in gold flag which they will
be asked to display after the deci-
sion has been made to show what
places are the prize holders.
The governor is asked to appoint
a committee which will render a de-
cision not later than August l.
This is, indeed, a forward move
ment that will no doubt have cordial
support. Among many there is
natural desire to have handsome
homes, and the prizes offered will
substantially add to that desire. Many
indeed are the fine places in this
State in the area described that
should be close competitors for the
prizes. C. X. Chesterton, the lee
turer and noted novelist from Eng
land, recently denounced disfgure-
ments and scored Americans for
what he regarded as their failure to
produce anything in the way of a
village fit to look at.
Most Americans will think that
Mr.. Chesterton has gone too far.
There are, beyond question, many
ugly towns and villages. There
could be improvement in every di-
rection. On the other hand, in many
parts of the United States are vii
lagos that are really we'll kept and
No doubt the average person with
a country home would prefer a prize
to a sign. The ladies who have Of
fered the prizes are public-spirited
md deserve the highest commenda-
ion.
Milford chronicle., 1931-05-29
THE OLD.FASHION GARDEN

1t has been a remarkable aspect
of life in this country, that the old
time home was so apt to have a
pretty flower garden. The people
who built up our cities and towns
were very hard working folks. Yet
somehow they managed, and usually
it was the toilsome housewives who
did it, to get out doors.
In those days people obtained
their pleasure from the resources
of their own home surroundings. If
life looked dark to them under their
heavy loads of toll and care, they
found solace in the upturned faces
of those bright flowers, which said
THANK you" so heartily for the good
care they got.
Our modern folks, in their rest
less desire to get away from their
homes, have much to learn from the
happiness which the old timers
found in their beautiful flower gar
dens.
Milford chronicle., 1931-05-29
BACK TO THE SOIL
New York Times)

From the statements made by
politicians the city dweller would
infer that most farms are barren
wastes where no human being
would remain of his own free will.
But Dean C. L. Christensen of the
College of Agriculture of the Uni
versity of Wisconsin is satisfied that
"the opportunities for well-trained
men in agricultural positions today
are as good as they have been in
the past" That the great majority
of the universitys alumni agree
with him may be inferred from the
fact that n per cent of the gradu-
ates from 1922 to 1929 are today in
some branch of agriculture.
COllege-trained men, moreover,
are OF the only ones who are turn
ing to the soil. Wisconsin's Depart
ment of Agriculture reports that un-
solicited inquiries about available
farm land have increased greatly
during the last eighteen months. AL
most all the writer's seem to. be city
people with a little money. They
ask if there are more tracts to be
homesteaded, or if there are tax-de-
linquent lands available. They are
concerned chiefly with the price of
the land and admit knowing little
or nothing about farming.
1t is probably true that unemploy-
ment and business uncertainty have
caused many people to consider
farming as a livelihood. 1t seems as
natural an action as the soldiers
augging the earth while a shell !
flashes past. But in the struggle for
the catastrophes of ma
ture are likely to prove less trying
than the vagaries of economic
cycles.
Milford chronicle., 1931-05-29
Ar=
REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENTS

The past two years have seen IL
governments in various countries
overthrown by armed revolutions.
There were 10 other attempts at
such armed revolution, but these
were put down. And in "a other in
stances, sudden changes took place
in the governments. These facts
were brought out by Secretary of
State Stimson in a recent radio ad-
dress.
All over the world unstable peo-
pies have been kicking their rulers
out of office, and giving the power
to someone else. Economic trou-
bles have been the principal cause
of such upheavals. In many turbu
lent little countries, the people who
are out of work or are otherwise
unhappy, have constituted a force of
unrest which could be used by am
bilious politicians.
The government of the United
States and of its states and cities
has many faults. 1t costs too much,
there is far too much political fav-
oritism, inefficiency and corruption.
Yet there is reason for congratu-
lation, that the fever of revolution
which has swept over the world, has
left the United States untouched.
The apostles of revolution have been
busy among us. They whisper their
misleading propaganda into the ears
of unhappy people. And yet the
least attempt at any outbreak is put
down with firm resolution.
Our people know very well that
the government is in their own
hands, and they do not have to re-
sort to any revolution in order to OBJ !
tain justice. They know that if their
public affairs are badly managed,
it is not so much the fault of the
public officials, who in the main are
doing as well as they know how, as
that the people were at fault for
electing the wrong public servants.
But to retain this hold on the
masses of the people and head off |
revolutionary movements in future,
our government must constantly
improve. The American people must
not merely choose well meaning Of
ficials, but they must select those
who have vision and practical sense
enough to solve the problems of the
times. This applies to cities, towns
and other local government.
Milford chronicle., 1931-05-29
HUMAN RELATIONS

Yale university dedicated a few
days ago a department of its work
called the Institute of Human Re-
lations." A building for this school
costing $2,OOO,OOO is the gift of the
Rockefeller foundation. 1t is spoken
of as a clearing house of knowl-
edge bearing ON problems of human
well being"
The subject of human relations
touches all our lives right here in
Milford. 1t does people very little
good to acquire a whole library full
of knowledge, if they lack a correct
view of human relations.
Well regulated human relations
enable employers and employees to
live together in peace and carry on
successful production. They would
enable the nations to stop wasting
vast sums in wars and war prepa-
ration.
Good human relations would en-
able husbands and wives and chill
dren to live together in peace and
harmony, all working for their NUT
ual welfare and service to the COM
munity. In that ideal state we
should have little crime and pow
erty.
There are a lot of people who in
most ways are splendidly equipped
for life, but who fail to reach much
success because of wrong human
relations. They are skilful at their
tasks, well informed, inclined to be
ingenious and scientifis, but they do
not know how to get along with
other people. They are always quar-
reling with their competitors and
associates and employees. They ac-
complish nothing in the way of CO.
operation.
Good human relations exist when
people stop being selfish. When an
employer considers the welfare of
his help as we'll as his own, he will
get along with his employees. When
nations are fair to their neighbors,
and are willing to consider their
welfare as we'll as their own, there
are no wars. This new school at
Yale has a wonderful mission to fill,
and if it can promote the idea of
better human relations, it will do
much to solve the problems of the
people.
Milford chronicle., 1931-05-29
THE HOME TOWN OBLIGATION

Young people who attend schools
and colleges get much instruction
about their obligation to these in
stitutions. They are not merely told
by the teachers that they are under
an obligation to obey the rules and
submit to the discipline, but their
class mates tell them they must sup
port the athletic teams, and go in
for student activities that will help
the school.
After these young folks leave
school and go to work, they owe a
similar obligation to the communi-
ties where they locate. They obtain
opportunities to earn a living and
many enjoyments from these COM
munities. They owe them a certain
obligation of loyalty. That obliga-
tion calls on them to work for the
good government, the business prog
ress, and the attractiveness of these
cities. fL
Milford chronicle., 1931-05-29

has some of these advantages, such
, as abundant capital, quantity buy
ing, efficient management, it con-
sists of a number of shops selling
different articles under one roof,
while the chain store runs one kind
of store in many places. The court
below and enormously held that the
distinction between chain stores and
other stores was one of ownership.
The differences evident in the rec
ord consist not merely in owner
ship, but in organization, manage
ment and type of business trans
acted"
Since all owners of chain stores
have equal treatment, the Const.tu-
tion is satisfied. The justice OF the
law or the motives that compelled
its passage are no business of the
court. The growth and spread of
chain stores, the agitation against
them in some regions and the injury
they have done to many individual
traders tend to give this decision
magnified importance. No relief to
those traders from excessive burden
on the chain stores can be expected.
COnfiscatory taxation would not be
permitted by the courts. A new
source of revenue opens itself to
the hungry eyes of Legislatures.
North Carolina and Mississippi have
already tried to tap it, and their
forms of classification have yet to
be passed on by the Supreme Court.
We may look for a good deal of
this sort of law. 1t may be "popu-
lar" so long as the tax-gatherer's
hand is laid too lightly on chain
stores to be felt by their host of
customers.