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Milford chronicle., 1932-07-29
THE RELIEF MONEY

The federal government has pro-
vided means by which great sums
Of money can be loaned to aid in
construction of public works and in
providing relief for the destitute.
Already one can begin to hear the
clamOr for these funds. Some of
these applicants will not have any
fair claim for such loans. When the
federal government distributes
money, it somehow does not seem
to go so far as when the states
spend it. If state wastes money,
a chorus of indignant taxpayers is
heard. But if the federal govern
ment supplies the cash, then the
feeling exists in many quarters that
there is not so much need to worry
about where the money goes.
There Will be many schemes for
public improvements to be financed
from this money, which will not be
justified by the value of these pro-
jects. The construction jobs to be
financed by these funds should go
for things of permanent value, new
roads over important routes, build
ings and improvements that will
save money to the public. 1t will
take a good deal of discrimination
and resolution to pick out the use
full projects from those that will not
be worth what they cost.
1t is to be hoped that all officials,
federal and state, who are to have
any part in handling the construc-
tion and public works money, will
see the necessity that it should be
spent with judgment, so that none
of it shall be wasted, but all shall
go into improving the facilities of
our country for doing business.
And so far as money is loaned to
the states for relief, it should go to
the places where the need is most
and where people are least
able to meet the needs of their own
Money well used at this
time will pump new life blood into
our industrial stream, but money
wasted never yet brought any pros
perity.
Milford chronicle., 1932-07-29
MINISTERS-JANIFORS

Theological students remark that
many of their number this summer
are combining janitor work with
preaching. Sunday they put on the
noble tail coat, and utter wise say
ings about life and religion. Monday
they put ON the overalls and sweep
out the church. Many older minis
ters do the same thing, and can
turn their hand to anything, from
killing the pests in the garden to
doctoring a sick COW.
Excellent idea. But it might not
have gone 25 years ago, when many
men were squeamish
about doing hand work. But today
the minister who can sweep out the
church and tell why the grapes don't
ripen, seems practical enough so
one likes to hear him preach.
Milford chronicle., 1932-07-29
RECORD OR CONGRESS-

Doleful predictions were heard
last December when the new Con-
gress met, as to its probable failure
of achievement The President and
Congress would be constantly at
loggerheads, it was said, and the ses-
sion would largely pass in fruitless
debate, with little to show for it ex-
cept enlarged issues of the Congress
sional Record, jammed with futile
oratory.
These melancholy predictions have
not been fulfilled in the session
which has just closed. 1t has of
course seen no end of controversy.
The verbal razOrs have constantly
been flying through the air. 1t is as
tonishing that people can offer such
cutting remarks, and yet forget them
the next day and come down to earth
and do business.
Congress biggest job was its eff
fort to balance the federal budget. A
government that does not pay its
bills, is about like a business con-
Germ that has to keep borrowing
money. People become anxious about
its credit. Governments are not ex-
empt from these fears.
A chorus of lamentation greeted
the imposition by this Congress of
ST 900, 100000 in new taxes. But it
is infinitely better to pay more taxes
than to see the government credit
weaken. Congress made its greatest
error in its failure to cut more deep
Iy into the costs of government. The
people want those expenses cut.
Many candidates who can not pledge
positively to favor fur
ther reductions will be excused from
service at Washington after the COM
ing election.
Measure taken by Congress to
the credit of banks, rail
roads, and other financial institu-
tions, have been helpful, and pre-
vented further prOstration. The new
relief bill will pump new
life into many depressed situations.
So while Congress might have done
better, it could have done far worse. |
Milford chronicle., 1932-07-29
A LOVER OF AMERICA

The American people have never
been too popular in the rest of the
world. And yet we have friends in
those lands. Among them was Jules
Jusserand, French ambassador to
our country for % years, who has
just died One of his last words ex-
pressed hope for eternal friendship
between France and our country.
Why did he like us, when so many
others say our country is raw and
crude? No doubt he saw our most
finished side. Bred in the formal
old world, the courteous life of dip
lomatic Washington pleased him.
But he might not have liked the
shirtsleeves styles of conduct in or
dinary American life. Foreigners
with ancient traditions are apt to be
startled when some breezy Ameri-
can promoter pOkes them in the
ribs. Some boisterous citizens need
to shave off their rough edges, be-
fore they appeal to these people who
have grown up in a more conven-
tional civilization.
Milford chronicle., 1932-07-29
Milford, Friday, July 80, 1882
PEOPLE AND LAWMAKERS

Not for many years have the MEM
bers of Congress received so much
in the way of advice and probably of
threats from their constituents. The
lawmakers have been bombarded
with letters and kilograms. These
harassed and no doubt worried leg
islatOrs must have been mighty glad
to take the trains for home when
the session closed a few days ago.
Ordinarily the country views de-
lays and futile oratory in Congress
with a kind of hopeless tolerance,
something like bad weather that
can't be helped But this time tens
of thousands of impatient citizens
have been filling the mails and the
wires with their protests and COM
plants.
In ordinary times the Legislators
get many form letters asking for
this or that, in which people simply
sign a certain request which was
presented to them. When a legisla-
tor gets a hundred or thousand of
such requests, the thing looks lit
tie too machine made. But when
his desk is heaped high with indi-
vidual letters, which people have
stopped their ordinary work to write,
he begins to feel that something is
doing.
congressman are always glad to
know what their constituents really
think. The more such letters they
get, the more good action we shall
secure out of our representatives.
This pressure from the home dis
tricts has helped produce legisla-
tive result that has come out better
than many people feared. Much of
course could be said in criticism of
the session just adjourned. 1t
should have finished its work weeks
ago, there has been too much par
tisan controversy. But at least its
measures for relief, protection of
the credit of financial institutions, |
and its effort to balance the budget,
represent long step toward indus
trial recovery.
Milford chronicle., 1932-07-29
PROGRESS IN ECONOMY TIMES

In this time when there is much
need of lower taxes, many costly pro-
jects which people would like to
see put through in their home towns
must be postponed. But that does not
mean that progress must stop.
The best kinds of progress are not
the most costly ones. The people
can all take hold to improve their
home places, and work for the re-
moval of unsightly objects in their
own neighborhOods. They can car
ry on educational and social work
in their organizations, which shall
enable people to develop their per-
sonal gifts, an dmake community
life pleasanter. We can have richer
lives, even if people are poorer for
the time being.
Milford chronicle., 1932-07-29
WHERE DOES WET SENTIMENT
ORIGINATE?

In the present Congress seventy
wet bills and resolutions were offer
ed in the House by forty-one repre-
sentatives from twelve states. Only
one-fourth of the states were repre-
sented in the bills. Analysis shows
they came from the large cities OF
the North and East, most of which
have a heavy foreign, element.
Twenty-nine of the wet bills were
offered from the state of New YORK
by thirteen representatives, twelve
of whom are from Greater New York
and the other from Buffalo.
Eleven wet bills were offered by
five representatives from Illinois,
three being from Chicago and one
each from Peoria and East st. Louis.
Ten wet bills were offered by two
representatives from Missouri, both
living in st. Louis.
Seven wet bills were offered from
Connecticut by three representatives
living in that state.
Six wet bills were offered from
Michigan by two representatives liv-
ing in Detroit.
Five wet bills were offered from
Pennsylvania by three representa-
tives, two from Philadelphia and one
from Scranton.
In the Senate, ten wet bills and
have been introduced
from the four states of Connecticut,
Ohio, Wisconsin and Missouri
American Issue.
Milford chronicle., 1932-07-29
MILFORD NEEDS THIS

In thousands of towns about now
the home town band plays in the To-
cal park on nice evenings. The au-
tomobiles and baby carriages gather
from miles around, the sheiks and
girl friends line up six deep at
nearby soda fountains, and great
is the chorus of motor horns when
the music suits the crowd.
Some of these bands might not
sound so good to a critical SYM
phony audience. A cynic remarked
about one of them, Sounds as if
they was bilin' 'taters in the ERE
horns. But don't look down on any
musical organization merely because
it halls from a small place. If it
has good leader, if its players love
music and are willing to practise
and rehearse constantly, you will
hardly be able to keep your feet still
when it sets tile tune.
Milford chronicle., 1932-07-29
GOOD OLD SUMMER TIME

A favorite old ballad recites the
sweet joys of the good old summer
time. Why is summer more popular
than winter? Its scorching heats are
depressing to most persons.
And yet, the doctors are relative
ly idle while Old Sol is doing his
heavy stuff. The good old winter
time, when the air is stimulating, is
the time that sends out the hurry
calls to the doctors, to come quick
to someone with bronchitis or pneu-
monia. Why is it that summer with
its prostrating heats, seems to leave
people healthier than winter with
it sinvigorating airs?
The human body was developed
for innumerable centuries, for out
door life. Indoor existence, particu-
larly in houses heated to desert
aridity, does not fit our physical
needs. We pay for soft winter COM
fort. So let us cherish the health
full summer days while they last.
Milford chronicle., 1932-07-29
LIVING 10 BE 100

- Do you want to live to be 100
years old? Some of us say mo,
that life at that age, unable to play
with the young crowd, wouldn't be
worth living. Yet long life has al
ways been desired, and many au-
thorities say that if people would
take care of themselves, they could
as a rule live out their century.
But if so, most people fail to ex-
ercise such care, as there were only
1864 centenarians i'll the country
when the census man went around
last time. And the census bureau
has its doubts about some of them.
1t says that some folks guess at their
ages.
The workers in many industries
are employed under conditions which
shorten life. Women with large
families toll for long and exhausting
hours, and their wrinkled faces at
premature age tell a story of years
sacrificed.
Peoples lives are abbreviated by
reckless habits of eating and drink
ing. They bolt their food in great
gulps, regardless of the protests
their digestive organs will later Of
fer. They acquire vicious habits
whose penalty is a precOcious end.
If you study old people, you COM
monty find them of a calm and
placid temperament. You don't find
many high strung nervous types
among them. They have gone through
life with hopeful philosophy. They
do not fret because they can't get
into society, OF because the stock
market has gone wrong.
People who wish to live to be 100
can not be on the go every minute.
They must not take life too serious
ly, yet must take it seriously enough
so they make and keep some prudent
resolves, about such things as eat
ing, drinking, and smoking. They
would better spend little less time
in sporting life, and more i'll placid
of the neighborhOod
from their own doorsteps.
Milford chronicle., 1932-07-29
WHAT CAN THE DRYs DO!

A wet declaration in a ntiOnal po-
litical party platform is worth the
paper on which it is written and
nothing more.
! 1t is not legally binding and it has
no moral authority, for the simple
reason that a party convention strays
far beyond its sphere of representa-
tiOn in declaring itself upon a ques-
tiOn which is a matter of conscience.
A political convention might just
as well try to compel adherence to
a particular form of religious wOr-
ship as to attempt to coeree free
American citizens in regard to the
liquor issue.
There are only four men in this
Republic who are bound by the DEM
ocratic and Republican platforms.
They are the presidential and vice
presidential candidates. Even upon
them the bonds rest lightly, mas
much as these conventions were
mOb-dominated, so much that debate
was made almost impossible, and or
derly transaction of business out of
the question. Those party platforms
cannot bind the Judicial Department
of our government; no judge will
change his decision because of the
hysteria and Glamour that was heard
at Chicago. The Legislative Depart
ment is not bound. No Senator or
Congressman worthy of trust will
repudiate his obligation to his con-
stituency and his own pledged prom
Use to stand for the Eighteenth
Amendment and the Volstead Act
because his party platform bound
over a President. A senator makes
his own platform, congressman
makes his own promises, the mem
bers. of the state legislatures go out
and promise their people that if
elected they will do and not do GER
tain things. These pledges to the !
voters are the supreme obligations,
therefore, the duty of the drys is
clear.
What should dry Democrats and |
do? Vote for candidates |
for Congress who believe in the pro-
amendment and who will |
sustain it in all needed legislation.
What shall dry candidates for office
do? Run on their own prohibition
planks.
In the case of the Democrats, these
have the high precedent
Of the action taken by Mr.. AL Smith
in 1928, altho Mr.. Smith did not
have the excuse that the Democratic
party had attempted to cOerce him
IN matter of principle, for the Demo-
cratic plank was for law enforce
nent only.
AS for the presidential candidates
hey need to answer satisfactorily
hese questions:
viii you enforce the law?
Will you appoint honest, cOurag-
,Ous men to administer the law?
Will you name judges and other
lppointees in whom the people will
)e justified in having faith? In other
words, will you hold true to your
,ath of Officer" If so, you may well
cave the question of the law to the
Congress, which has the duty under
he Constitution to deal with it.
Milford chronicle., 1932-07-29
SUPERIOR PRODUCTS

If a certain industry gains the
reputation for turning out or hand
ling goods that excel others in quail
ity but cost no more, the merits of
that concern become known far and
wide. Business flows into that shop,
and the community where the place
is located is benefited by the enlarg-
ed business.
All our people who work in any
occupation should have this keen in
terest in doing superior work. They
will all profit by it. If they can
make their work little better thaa
that which competitors do for the
same price, their concerns increased
prosperity will enable better wages
to be paid and work will be more
regular.
Milford chronicle., 1932-07-29
FOREIGN STEEL COMING HERE

The steel industry in America is
limping along on a basis of about 25
per cent normal, thus in itself ac-
counting for very large percentage
of the unemployment abroad in the
land.
And the reason is that steel max
ers in Belgium, France, Germany
and Luxemburg are laying down
cargoes of steel in American ports at
prices with which American steel
mills cannot compete. The menace
to the American industry has become
so great that the Iron and Steel In
stitute IN Washington has launched
a vigorous protest in which it pre-
sents facts which show that the do
mestic tariff is so low as to afford
u t t r ly inadequate protection
againt the output of cheap foreign
labor.
Nor is steel the only industry
which is suffering from insufficient
protection. Amy one can satisfy him
self upon this point by trip of in
spection through any department
store, particularly those handling a
variety of cheap goods. Such in
spection will disclose a percentage
of foreign made goods on the shelves
OF American merchants great enough
in itself to account for the silence
of many mills and factories and the
idleness of thousands of Americans.
That is the answer to the anti
tariff clackers who complain that
our tariff is too high. 1t is the an
swer to the Democratic platfrom
which demands that the schedules
in the Hawley-Smoot law should be
revised downward. The facts as dis
closed by our import trade are that
many of the rates in the existing
tariff law are too low rather than
too high-facts that are further at
tested in scores of cases by the re-
ports of the Tariff Commission,
made up of three Democrats and
three Republicans, in which an in
crease in rates is unanimously rec
Milford chronicle., 1932-07-29
pRTFT TO THE COUNTRY

The number of people who last
year moved from cities to the farms,
exceeded those who moved from
farms to the cities, by 252,000. Many
of those moving from farms to cities
were young folks who finished school
and went away to fill city jobs. But
this great tide was far more than
offset by 1,679,00O folks who quit the
cities and went back to rural life,
largely to their old hOmme neighbor-
hoods.
They won't find labor union wages.
But anyway there is plenty of food
out among the cornfields. They do
not have to submit to the questions
of any public welfare bureau, before
they get their bread and hash.
1t may be said this drift is a mere
ly temporary current. AS soon as
the prosperity sun shines again, it
is claimed, they will be back under
the white lights and near the movie
theater. They aren't supposed to
like the rustic scenes, where people
rush to the windows every time an
automobile goes chugging up the
road.
Yet this great population shift
may mean a turn Of the population
tide. Perhaps the cities are in for a
permanent ebb. There is realiza-
tion that people have been jamming
too much into the crowds, that life
gets no chance for growth there.
These folks may make a different /
choice next time. Which will they |
prefer, job in some store, shop, or
garage, in the nearby village, or
one far away in some crowded city? |
The city one may offer double pay.
But for how long? Will they get
the dismissal ticket in a couple of
in some shop where the en-
ployer buys labor as he does coal,
IRON, or wool, and where he quits
buying the labor whenever Wall
Street falters? But these folks know
he home jobs in Delaware are
steady. They meet permanent needs.
and thousands of them
will take the country jobs next
ime.
Milford chronicle., 1932-07-29
ABSURD CONTENTION

There is nothing more absurd than
the contention that prohibition is
responsible for the depression in the
United States. Millions are unem-
ployed in Great Britain, where the
drink traffic is legal, and the num-
Der of unemployed is increasing.
France has more than a million idle,
and the problem is growing more Sc
riOus each week. In Germany, there
are approximately seven million men
out of employment and that country
would have collapsed but for the
billions of money invested by the
United States since the close of the
war. The number of unemployed in
Italy is approximately a million.
The leading European countries have
been assisted by the United States
in maintaining social and financial
stability by the declaration of one
year moratorium on obligations. The
United States has suffered much
less than any other country during
the worldwide depression.
Milford chronicle., 1932-07-29
THE GAME OF POLITICS

Frank R. Kent, the well-knOwn
political writer, recently under the
heading "The Great Game of Poll
TICS" expresses a fact that would be
we'll worth consideration by anyone
who becomes discouraged over the
wet uproar that just now is rending
the halls of congress. Mr.. Kent
says:
"The side with the least votes in
variably makes the most noise and
gets the most newspaper publicity.
The kickers are the fellows that
make the news. There is no news
in keeping quiet. In poltics-par-
ticularly in cOngress-the more re-
sponsibility you have the greater the
disposition to keep quiet. 1t is the
irresponsible elements that unloose
the warwhOops, make the front page
and set off the fire works. They
have nothing to restrain them, and
are beautifully free to assail and as
sault with complete disregard of the
facts" It's part of their game. Mr..
Kent is man of wide experience
and speaks advisedly about condi-
tions in congress.-Americ Issue.
Milford chronicle., 1932-07-29
Mexican Spaghetti'

Cold Baked Cottage Ham: Soak
Cottage Ham over night in water.
Pour water off. Cover ham with
cold water and bring to boiling
point slowly. Simmer until tender.
Allow to cool in liquid in which it
has boiled. Remove excess fat and
any tough skin. Make syrup of y
cup granulated sugar, teaspoon
Prepared Mustard, l tablespoon
Pure Vinegar and small amount, Of
water. Stick 1 dozen whole cloves
in cooked ham, pour over sauce,
cover side of ham with bread
crumbs and bake, basting with
liquid syrup. Bake until delicately
brown. oServe hot or cold.
Milford chronicle., 1932-07-29
MORLD,S BIGGEST JOB

Up to now the Panama canal has
been called the worlds biggest en-
gineering job. But now that treaty
has been signed for the ST. Lawrence
canal development, this project, if
completed, should be the greatest
construction work up to date. 1t
will do wonders for our western
states. Yet it will cost your Uncle
Samuel quite some bill. He claims
to feel rather poor just now, so he