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Milford chronicle., 1932-04-15
WHO'S WHO FINDS
DELAWARE PEOPLE
LOYAL TO STATE

More than half the present adult
population of Delaware, 50 per cent
to be exact, were born within the
State. And 60 per cent Of this ma
tive-born group, or about one-third
of the total population, live today in
the city or town of their birth.
These figures were compiled from
who's Who In Delaware" the new
biographical dictionary of living Del
aware citizens which is released
from the press this week. Although
the statistics apply only to the more
prominent residents of the State,
they cover every community and are
believed to be representative of the
population as a whole.
Further investigation shows that
AZ per cent of those now living in
the State married Delaware people.
About half of the entire group were
educated i'll Delaware elementary
and high schools. And of the SO per
cent who are college or university
graduates, nearly one-half received
their advanced education within the
State.
Another notable discovery made
by the editors is that a big majority
of the present leaders in the larger
business houses, banks and factor
les of Delaware made their start in
humble positions with the same
firms of which they are now owners
and executives.
Milford chronicle., 1932-04-15
AMERICA AND PHILIPPINES

The action of the lower house of
Congress in voting by big majority
to give the Philippine Islands inde-
pendence in 10 years, causes differ
ences of opinion. The inslands load
a heavy bill of expense on this coun-
try, they are a possible military
weakness, their people create indus
trial competition. Yet this country
undertook to train them for self
government. The United States is
not much to quitting its job if they
are only half done.
Probably the thing will eventually
be settled by the Filipinos themsel-
yes. Our people revere the ideal of
liberty. The theory of conquering a
country, and making them swallow
civilization by force, would not ap-
peal to them, if after prolonged trial
of our government, those folks don't
want it. But the Filipinos should
consider that prosperity under Am
erican rule has been far better htan
a poverty stricken independence.
Milford chronicle., 1932-04-15
10 PER CENT GOVERNMENT CUT

The United States Senate voted a
few days ago for a 10 per cent cut
in all government operating ex-
penses. 1t may be that certain of
these expenses can not be cut with
out doing more harm than good.
Still, one would say that the Ameri-
can people as a whole would approve
of this idea.
Competent authorities have always
claimed, that if the government was
run in a systematic and efficient
way, with politics and duplication
and red tape cut out, hundreds of
million dollars could be saved. If so,
it seems folly to keep throwing away
these hundred of millions and pay
taxes that restrict production and
spread pessimism, merely to keep
up needless waste.
Milford chronicle., 1932-04-15
ESTATE TAXES

1t seems inevitable that the new
federal tax bill shall place a much
heavier assessment OH inheritances.
1t may be possible to Overdo such
action, and thus discourage business
people from industrial enterprises,
because they do not like the idea
that most of their estate would be
taken at their death from their heirs.
Nevertheless, public sentiment is
somewhat unanimous that large for
tunes should pay liberal taxes to the
government before being passed on
to the next generation. There are
too great inequalities of wealth.
Without such taxes, many of these
heirs would inherit vast fortunes,
without having rendered any COM
pensating service to the public,
which seems contrary to good pub
lie policy.
Milford chronicle., 1932-04-15
GOOD YEAR FOR GARDENING

State and community relief organ
izations are telling people to plant
home gardens. It is said that more
gardens were planted last year than
during the World War, when home
gardening was more stylish than
Paris fashions. 1t is hoped that still
more families will be raising nour-
ishing vegetables in the little old
back yard this summer.
1t may be objected that this home
gardening adds to the stock of farm
products which is already so excess
sive that It can't be sold. But the
family that raises its own vege-
tables saves money, which money 1t
can spend for other things, SO that
business as a whole does not suffer,
and the gardener ayes the money.
Milford chronicle., 1932-04-15
Women Teach Styles

Women must teach men some of
their own feeling for styles and
neatness in dress, believes DR..
Frank Payne, noted psychologist of
New York University. If wives more
generally took their husbands ward
robes in hand it would result in gem
eral improvement of the appearance
of the American male and would
contribute to the relief of many of
the Psychological, at least, aspects
of difficult economic periods.
Leading merchant tailors' groups
say that at least hint of feminine
variety of color is coming into mems
suitings this season. Shirts, too.
with starched collars to match, will
show more color. Both in white and
colored collars, leading shirt manu-
facturers recognize a growing trend
to the starched collar as mems dress
response to the requirements for
improved neatness and appearance
brought about by recent increased
competition in business and indus
trial life.
Milford chronicle., 1932-04-15
TINKERING TIME

The old timers were not satisfied
with their homes unless they stood
like granite for generations. The
modern world is more interested in
stylish houses than in handing the
same on to the grandchildren.
A house built on that theory often
appears, after a stormy winter, like
the lady in party clothes who was
caught out in storm. Whether we'll
or poorly built, almost any house
needs tinkering after the assaults of
winter. Don't forget the sheds, gar
ages, and chickencoops of your back
yard, which will not probably be
chosen by the improvement societies
for beauty prizes. Like the stitch i'll
time in the old garment, stopping
the little holes and rots will keep
them from growing into big ones.
If not attended to, the little leak of
to-day will be the big hole in your
bank account at some futuer date.
Milford chronicle., 1932-04-15
THE MORLD,S SYMPATHY

Cynical folks say the world is
growing no better. They can point
to limitless scandal and crime to
back up their sorrowful contention.
Still, when they contemplate an af-
fair like the rescue of that three
year-old boy from a drill hole at
Pitcher, Oklahoma, they must admit
that human nature is not so hard as
they thought.
That incident, not yet forgotten,
was the story how this boy fell 20
feet into drill hole, and was res
cued by miners who cut their way to
him through solid rock. The heart
of the story is in the glad response
of miners, managers, telephone peo-
pie, electricians. air bumpers, and
many others who provided or Of
fered needed services. 1t is so in
any modern accident or catastrophe.
Everybody is eager to help.
Years ago, cries for assistance Of
ten went unheard. The world was
looked at as a tough old place, where
people must expect hard going. Peo-
pie had big families, and they eX-
pected to lose a good part of them.
Life was not so precious. There
was plenty of it left.
Today, the world has become re-
sponsive to the cry of need. When
it sees some misfortune, it can not
eat or sleep until it has done some
thing to relieve it. In the scriptural
language, it weeps with those who
weep. 1t does so, not from mere
politeness, but because people feel
the woes of others.
Such incidents suggest that we |
have world growing in generosity.
Our brains are not growing as fast |
as they ought to, nor are they en-
larging sufficiently fast so we can
yet grasp the thickening problems
that assail us. But at least our
hearts grow bigger. They cry out
that humanity's sorrows must be as
suaged. When people feel the need
of doing things, the comprehension
Of how they can be done will event
ually come.
Milford chronicle., 1932-04-15
SONG WAY no PROSPgRITY

Rudy Vallee, noted radio croOner,
was asked by President Hoover the
other day, if he could write song
with a prosperity theme.
Many folks in Milford may laugh
at the idea of singing our way to
prosperity. Yet songs have changed
the fact of the world. Who can tell
how much our World War soldiers
were nerved on to their task by "The
Long, Long Trail" and keep the
Home Fires Buring"?
In old days people sang at their
work. 1t solaced them for toilsome
lives and low pay. Today if a man
sang at his work, his mates would
ask where he got his home brew.
But singing people are not usually
the ones who are crippling the coun-
try by boarding their money. Any
one who can write a good prosperity
song deserves something more than
the leather medal that the humorists
used to proffer.
Milford chronicle., 1932-04-15
INTIMIDATION OF WITNESSES

Can statesman or newspaper
man, into whose ears is poured daily
the story of the country's ignoble
actions, avoid becoming hard boiled?
But even if not, there will be days
when some specially ominous tale
will startle even those whose minds
are adjusted to the revolving story
of evil.
Such a recital came the other day,
when District Attorney Johnson, of
Chicago, testified to congressional
committee about the power of the
gangsters. 1t is terrifying to law
aiding citizens, to think of the au-
thority which these creatures of the
darkness have gained, until they
seem almost to overshadow all forces
of protection and national welfare.
Perhaps the most significant item
in the district attorneys melan-
choly history, was the manner in
which criminals gain immunity by
the intimidation of witnesses. 1t is
a method not confined to any one
locality. 1t is a game that works in
many places.
The man who could tell a tale that
would place some cruel beast behind
the bars for long years, hears some
menacing voice over his telephone.
1t tells him that his health will BEN
eft if he keeps his mouth shut. The
voice from the dark sounds more
ominous than it really is. 1t suggests
enemies, ready to leap at one
from hidden retreats. Many men and
women who should show some reso-
luton, cover down into silence when
they hear that warning.
In most cases such threats are is
sued by persons who would never
dare carry them out. While some
such menaces are fulfilled, yet in
The main criminals shrink from
injury to peaceable persons.
Our people must stand together to
fight these sneaking reptiles. If they
will do so, if they will tell what they
know and have seen and heard, the
creatures of the night can and will
De broken and crushed.
Milford chronicle., 1932-04-15
TRADING OF COMMODITIES

1t would seem as if more could be
done to give people employment,
through periods of slow business, by
direct trading of commodities. This
has been done lately in a small way
in many communities, and more of
it could be done.
The old time country editor, for
instance, was glad to accept load
of wood or a barrel of potatoes in
payment for his paper. Both parties
profited by the deal. The editor got
something just as good as cash, and
the owner of the wood or potatoes
sold his product and got his paper
withut paying cash. Many a clergy
man in the old days, used to take
much of his pay in supplies furnish
ed by his parishioners. Both par
ties benefited. Many a modern
clergyman, ,editor,or member of other
occupations, would gladly make
such a deal, if it could be arranged.
Modern trade has become such a
complicated and nation wide thing,
that no system exists for such trad
ing, and it would have to be created
by individual effort. Without doubt
it has grown up lately to a consider
able extent in many communities,
particularly country districts.
One can imagine that many rural
store keepers take their pay for
manufactured goods, in the form of
food supplies which they can either
use themselves, distribute to their
employees in place of cash, or sell in
their stores.
Small factory managements, one
would think, might manage to sell
quite a portion of their product in
this way, receiving in return farm
products which the owners and
workers could use themselves, or
dispose of through the stores of their
community. Also one would think
that the managements of some small
factories might arrange for exchange
Of products. Such trading might
grow n few years, so that it would
provide for a good part of the needs
Of mil ions of people, who are not
now allie to sell their stuff at a profit
o the outside world.
Milford chronicle., 1932-04-15
PHILOSOPHY AND PUBLICITY

People are interested in the things
they read about and hear talked
about. They are interested in the
famous people who are mentioned in
the newspapers, they like to see the
folks whose pictures occur in the
news every day. They want to know
about the noted characters who fig
ure in the limelight.
The same thing applies to business.
A concern has to get talked about,
and it has to be featured i'll the news
papers, in order to occupy place in
the public mind. When a store adj
vertises freely, people get interest
ed in it, just as they do in the folks
who are featured in the newspapers.
And when they get interested in a
store, they go there constantly.
Milford chronicle., 1932-04-15
Milford, Friday, April Is, 1882
SAVING GOYERNNIENT MONEY

President Hoover and his advisers,
and the leaders of congress, have
been sparring over their respective
proposals for saving government
money and abolishing superfluous
services. The public will never get
excited over such discussions, so
long as they are a mere personal
affair.
If President Hoover and his asso-
ciates have lacked tact in dealing
with congress, they should study the
book of political etiquet, and put
their appeals to the legislators in
more polite form. Congress is a very
"ornery" critter. when you try to
drive it, but it may be led by judici-
Gus persuasion. And If any of the
congressman have been sulking po-
litically and seeking partisan ad-
vantage, they should realize that the
country wants no such contrary ac-
tions at this time or any other.
What the country wants is to get
the cost of government down. When
our people were hitting the high
spots of a visionary prosperity, they
were perfectly ready to blow in
money for government activities of
doubtful value. 1t was easier to vote
money out of the treasury, than to
turn down the plausible treasury
raiders.
Everyone wants to help the farm
ers. But the people ask why the
Department of Agriculture, which
cost S2O,OOO,OO0 in 1911, must cost
$231 100000 now?. They ask similar
questions about most other govern
ment activities. .
It will be a tragic thing to cut
these costs to. the bone now. 1t
means reduced salaries, jobs abol-
ished, worthy people thrown out of
employment. But the first aim must |
be the solvency of the government.
A government that can't pay its daily
bills, is like family that can't pay |
the butcher and grocer. When you
make up a deficit by reducing ex-
penses, you tighten the travellers
load, and he can begin to climb the
hill.
Milford chronicle., 1932-04-15
Anti-Tarif
InternatiOnaliSm

Before we can sell we must buy
! That is the one string upon which
| Democratic leaders and internatiOn'
al bankers are continually harpine
as though it were an axiom. And
upon that foundation they build
their argument that we must break
down our protective tariff system SC
that, by affordiug other nations ell
trance into our markets we may OBJ
tain access. to theirs.
1t would be much nearer the truth
if their axiom" were faced about SO
It would read: Before we can buy
we must SELL" ,..
1t is. not buying that lies at the
foundation of nations prosperity;
it is selling. 1t doesn't make any diff
ference at how low price we may
buy the things we need; we will
never prosper unless we can sell the
things we produce at fair profit.
And whether America can sell her
products at good price depends, at
least to the extent of 80 per cent,
upon her home market and not upon
foreign markets.
The tariff internationalists who
are insisting that we break down
our tariff walls on the specious plea
that if we bought from other people
they wDuld buy from us. and the
banker internationalists who insist
that we cancel European war debts
on the plea that our debtors. if not
required to pay what they owe,
would buy our goods, lose track of
the fact that just to the extent we
sacrifice our markets and forgive
our debtors to that extent we lose
our selling power-fOr our selling
power depends upon our home and
not upon our foreign market. The
outstanding trouble with our domes-
tic market, which absorbs nine
tenths of all we produce. is that it
already is oversupplied. How is that
trouble to be cured by opening our
gates to additional supplies? To
permit European manufacturers, in
the present crisis, to sell more free
ly in our domestic market--to sell to
us what we already produce excess
sively-is to shut out our own man
ufacturers and increase unemploy-
mont. Is our prosperity to be pro-
NOTED by upsetting our whole man
structure?
Thirteen years ago the leaders of
the Democratic party attempted to
lead America into political interna-
tionalism through adherence to the
League of Nations. The people, with |
a sure instinct, rejected that prOpOs-
al by overwhelming majorities.
leaders now are trying
TO lead America into economic in
through a bill al
ready passed by the Democratic
House of Representative providing
Tor a permanent international eco
lOmic conference" the avowed puT-
pose of which is to make the Amer
can market merely part of world
market, proposal in which Ameri-
"a has nothing to gain and every
hing to lose.
The great problem before Ameri-
IAN industry right now is to reOr-
yanize the American market to the
md that it may absorb the products
# American farms and factories. TO
lllow that market to be further de-
noralized by encouraging other
Countries to dump their surpluses
III our shores would be to make
uch reorganization hopelessly diff
cult and postpone indefinitely our
eturn to prosperity. Never in all
ur history was the protective tariff {
o vitality essential to America as 1t /
5 now, {
Milford chronicle., 1932-04-15
Tells Of tuberculosis

In spite of all the educational
work that has been done through
our official health departments. sanI
atoria and clinics, our physiciana
and the teachings of our Volunteel
health agencies, such as the Della,
ware Anti-TuberculOsis Society with
its far-reaching educational caml
paign of this month, there are manJ
people who still believe that tuberI
culosis Just llappens-that il ID
hereditary and n non-curable disl
case, according to DR.. Lawrence DI
Phillips, Superintendent of Brandy
wine SanatOrium.
In an interview today, Dr.. Ph;llipI
expressed the firm conviction thad
tuberculosis causes tuberculosis and
that every case comes from auothcrI
Continuing, he said: Just as sooIl
as the entire public understand tu1
berculosis and is willing to accepd
its share of the responsibility forI
wiping it out, this wholly unneces-
sary disease will cease to be Il mend
ace to us.
"An old superstition once caused
people to nail horseshoe over thel
door to keep plaques and bad lucid
out of the house. A hundred hOrse-I
shoes filled to the brim with gOodl
luck will not keep tuberculosisI
away, for tuberculosis comes OnlyI
from the germ of tuberculosis, justj
as weeds spring froms weeds. TheE
real cause of this disease is a tinyI
germ. If a few of them get into al
healthy body, there is a chance thatA
they will do no harm for a healthyH
body is able to fight back. But i'll
many germs find lOdgment in the
body, and if the persons physical
resistance is below par, they mayI
grow in great numbers and finallyH
destroy the body. These microscopic
germs are so tiny that dozens mayH
ride on a speck of dust or droplet of
sputum. They may pass from one
person to another by kissing, cough-
ing, sneezing, or by the use of the
same glass. spoon or towel"
Continuing, Dr. Phillips pointed &
out how easy it is to spread tubcr4
culOSiS from SICK TO well through &
ignorance of existence of the disease
and by carelessness on the part of
persons. He explained that:
"a child playing on the floor in
nome where there is a careless per-
son sick with the disease, may carry
germs into its mouth. This is one Of S
he many reasons why it is very im-
lOrtant to examine, tuberculin test
ind X-ray children. Often tubercu-
osis is spread by someone who
loesn't even know he has it. When
me person in a family is found to
lave the disease, all others should
,e Immediately examined. The chill
lren should be examined with tine
uberculin test and X-ray. for that
S the only way to find the very ear
Y form of childhood tuberculosis
e concluded.
Milford chronicle., 1932-04-15
NEW FUMIGANT SUCCESSFUL

-Four hundred and fifty thousand
bushels of wheat were fumigated re-
Gently in Baltimore. Md, with mix
ture of ethylene oxide and solid car
bon dioxide in the proportion of 1 to
10. The use of these materials as
fumigant was developed in the
United States Department of Agri-
cultural by specialists in the Bureau
of Chemistry and Soils. the Bureau
of Entomology, and the Bureau of
Agricultural Economics. Tests con-
Quoted by the departments chemical
division indicate that
with competent supervision the fire
and explosion hazards of this fumi-
CANT are reduced to a minimum.
Milford chronicle., 1932-04-15
NO SLEEP, NO REST,
STOMACH Gas IS CAUSE

Mrs. A. Cloud says: For years l had
a bad stomach and gas. Was nervous
and could not sleep. Adlerika rid me Of
all stomach trouble and now l sleep
fine. In Milford by Red Star Drug
StOre,-Tn Milton by Leroy II. john
sons Pharmacy,-in Harrington by
Sharp & Fleming. Druggists.
Milford chronicle., 1932-04-15
Then And Now

Statesmen had to be good in the
old days. They couldn't solve prob
lens by adding another cent to the
gasoline tax.-AkrOn Beacon-Jour-
nal.
Milford chronicle., 1932-04-15
Those School Teachers

Only one letter in the editorial
mail this month was ill-mannered
and ungrammatical: it was from a
school teacher.-The Country Home.
Milford chronicle., 1932-04-15

FAINT heart ne'er won fair lady,
says the old saw, and in business
the faint Ilon-advertising heart rare
Iy wins fair trade.
Milford chronicle., 1932-04-15

THE BEST known way to promote
the anti-hoarding campaign, is to
advertise bargains.