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Milford chronicle., 1932-04-29
PLAN FOR DISARMAMENT

How can the terrible burden OF
war preparation be reduced, was the
subject of a recent statement to the
Geneva disarmament conference, by
Ambassador Gibson, of the United
States delegation. He outlined a
plan for abolishing weapons like
tanks, heavy artillery and gases. The
idea is that abolition of implements
chiefly relied upon by an attacking
force, would strengthen a defensive
army, and make it more difficult for
an invading army to cross a coun-
try's boundaries. .
This theory would seem good,
provided there is some means of
knowing whether promises to stop
making tanks, big guns and gas, will
be really kept. The nations might
agree to abolish gas warfare, yet
might prepare for it in secret labo-
ratories which could not be inspect
ed by any foreign power. Thus such
nations would be all ready to use
these extremely destructive chemi-
Gals, and some of them in a tight
pinch might forget promises and use
these forbidden methods again.
The possibility of abolishing such
weapons as tanks and heavy artil-
lery seems to depend on whether the
manufacture of such weapons can
be carried on out of sight. The ma
tions do not yet act as if they could
be wholly trusted. They have too
frequently made promises and failed
to keep them. They would probably
keep their promises to abolish any
weapon of warfare the manufacture
Of which could be detected by for
eign powers. They are like automo-
bile drivers who obey the traffic laws
while the police are looking at them.
Possibly something can be done |
along the line suggested by our gov
But the best defense
against war is the cultivation of |
peaceful and generous policies that
win the friendship of other nations
instead of antagonizing them
Milford chronicle., 1932-04-29
FLOWER LOVERS

How on earth did the old timers
ever find the minutes they put into
their lovely old gardens? People
worked long and hard in those days.
The woman with six to ten children
tumbling around the place, eagerly
looking for mischief and trouble
would not seemingly have any sur
plus time for the hollyhOcks.
There were no women's or lunch
con clubs then, no bridge parties, no
automobiles, no movies. The home
occupied all activity. No one fretted
because that field of effort was too
narrow.
The old gardens gave the touch of
sentiment and decoration to what
now seems a humdrum life. So their
lovely old patterns lifted their col
orful blooms, and smiled Good
morning" to a toilsome world. We
have more activities now, but do we
find more real happiness than the
obtained from petting
the flowers?
Milford chronicle., 1932-04-29
MUTUAL CONFIDENCE

Do you notice how suspicious
some people always are about bust
ness concerns? How they are con-
stantly claiming that such and such
a store failed to give them a fair
deal or sold them goods not as rep
resented?
There are of course people in
business who are not on the square.
But for the most part, in such COM
as Milford at least, store
people simply have to give honest
goods, or they are forced out of busi-
ness. Our experience is that our
retail merchants are doing their
best to give good goods and service,
and if we have confidence in them
and back them up, they will be able
to treat us well.
Milford chronicle., 1932-04-29
SPLENDID IMPROVEMENT

Wilmington Morning News)
Everyone familiar with the con-
duct of affairs at the State Hospital
at Farnhurst knows the wonderful
work that DR.. Tarumianz is doing
and has done. The State indeed is
fortunate in having so able a physi-
clan in such a department. Skilled,
sympathetic and manifesting a per-
sonal interest in the patients, an ex-
emplification of sunshine rather
than darkness, DR.. Tarumianz is al
ways looking for betterment.
The re-education building at the
State Hospital has been completed
and Governor Buck, along with the
trustees, inspected it the other day
The trustees. and DR.. Tarumianz, the
superintendent, have every kind of
reason for feeling proud of their
achievement in the line of real pro-
gress.
1t should be remembered that the
treatment of those mentally afflicted
is being changed from time to time
and new methods are employed.
Cases in these days are nothing like
hopeless as they have been in the
past. There is more humanity mani
tested and the idea is a cure, not
herding the unfortunates to-
gether and treating them as if they
were not human beings.
The last session of the Legislature
commendation for appro-
priating funds for this worthy work. !
Milford chronicle., 1932-04-29
NATIONS HEART WITH THEM

The ardent sympathy of the nation
goes out to Col. and Mrs. Lindbergh
who have been bearing up so brave
ly under the terrific strain of the
past weeks. Hope deferred maketh
the heart sick While each day has
brought some new expectations of
the return of their beloved child, all
these hopes have been turned to the
dust of disappointment.
1t should be some comfort to them
that even if they have suffered a
permanent loss, which is not by any
means certain, they have made them
selves beloved in every American
household. Every American home
has been united to them by ties that
will never be broken.
Milford chronicle., 1932-04-29
GOVERNMENT BY ORGANIZA-
TIONS

government in our states and the
whole country is supposed to be "of
the people, by the people, and for the
people" But to a large extent, it is
a government by organizations. The
American people are organized in a
host of societies, one aim of which
is to exert influence in the govern
ment.
So we have organizations of bust
ness people, organizations of wage
earners, organizations of women, or
ganizations of farmers, organizations
of the various trades, organizations
of veteran soldiers, and an innum-
cradle host of other societies. A
large part of these organizations
have created systems for exercising
influence over legislatures and con-
gress.
The average legislator pays far
more attention to the voice of organ
izations than he does to the voice of
individuals. If he gets a letter of
protest from some individual person,
he may feel that the writer thereof
is a crank, or a person who lacks
weight or influence. But if a pro-
test is filed by some organization, it
seems there is a powerful force be-
hind that communication, and he is
likely to be swayed by it.
A few organizations may be able
to get legislation enacted or defeat
ed, when nine-tenths of the people
are hostile to the action taken.
There are plenty of organizations
which favor extravagant forms of
expenditure. But the taxpayers and |
the consumers, the people who bear
the loads, are not well organized.
Frequently their point of view at
tracts little interest. There is moth
ing to prove what their opinion is
anyway. If the organizations want
something done, but the unorganized
majority dislike such action, the or
are likely to get their
way.
The American people need some
more powerful force which shall
stand for economy and the protec-
ton of the interest of the whole
people, against the raids and de-
nands of special elements and
Milford chronicle., 1932-04-29
URGE MILFORD CITIZENS TO COOPERATE
ON CLEAN UP WEEK EFFORTS

The citizens of Deaware's
beginning April
This improvement
this period
ing the value of it from standpoint
the standpoint health suggest
procedures to be done by each householder
Week. but each throughout
garbage is kept in covered receptacles
piles should not be allowed
should not be allowed decompOe
should be allowed
places where mosquitoes breed This place the
which contain water they should
the premises All outdoor prvs should
fyprOof
anayzed frequent
should the wells
safe In the of dug wells be
getting in them and that properly
allowed stand them This
wells they become contaminated.
the object of Cleanup S o o
beautiful and safer place in which think
well something about the
municabe diseases These
and directly indirectly
those who do This being
citizen
their If the visiting
positively they
disease done with, and especially
child, isolated becoming
called, and most epidemics might
Let make in the
Milford the healthiest well the beautiful Della
E. f. SMITH, M. d.
Executive Secretary of Milford Board 0 Health
Milford chronicle., 1932-04-29
LEARNING FROM DEFEAT

I'VE learn practically nothing
from victory. All our information
comes from a defeat" is a remark
quoted from Coach "Chick" Meehan,
formerly of New York University.
One sometimes wonders how many
business people and wage-earners
there are who can learn equally well
from defeat.
An athletic coach simply has to
learn from defeat, or he will lose
his job. When victory comes, as Mr..
Meehan indicates, the faults of
team are not apparent. 1t looks as
II the team were somewhere near
perfect. 1t is impossible to tell
where the weak points are which
will yield when the team is evenly
matched.
But when team is beaten, then
its weak points become obvious. If
those weak points are not noticed,
and if no steps are taken to remedy
them, that team will be a consistent
loser.
One reason why so many farmers
in Delaware and elsewhere, have not
been prosperous in past years, is
that such ones failed to correct the
weak points in their business. If
their fathers always did things in
certain ways, they kept on doing
them the same. Many farmers, for
instance, would keep COWS whose
feed cost very much more than the
milk and cream they gave was
worth.
1nnumerable business men have
had similar several leaks. They could !
not seem to discover where the weak
points were that prevented their SELL
ing goods, or kept their sales from
being profitable. They learned moth
ing from defeat.
1t is the same with the majority of
They crab about their
hard luck and the iinX that pursues
them, but they fail to realize the
weak points that have obstructed
their success. They wonder why
hey are the first ones laid off when
lull times come, but if they would
inquire into the reason, they would
ind some weak points that makes
hem less desirable workers.
Milford chronicle., 1932-04-29
THE LINDBERGH NUMBERS

What are the chances that the
kidnapers of the Lindbergh baby can
be traced through the numbers of
the treasury notes paid over to them
or their supposed representatives by
Col. Lindbergh? The worlds best
memory expert could no probably
remember all those numbers. Yet
with millions of people watching for
that money, there is fair chance
that those who try to pass it can be
identified.
Bank people may say they could
not stop to examine all the notes
that come over their counters. But
any business man or sales clerk who
keeps watch of the money that comes
in and compares it with the lists of
the Lindbergh money, is entitled to
the gratitude of the public. Anyone
who can thereby furnish a real clue,
will be likely to win something more
tangible than gratitude.
Milford chronicle., 1932-04-29
Milford, Friday, April 90, 1892

ROBERT G. HOUSTON will not go
to the Republican National Conven-
tion as a delegate from Delaware
but his friends have retaliated for
his defeat at the State Convention by
defeating William J. Swain, who for
ten years has been chairman of the
Sussex County Republican Commit
tee, and by electing w. Elwood
Wright to head that committee.
While Republicans generally were
surprised at the dropping of Mr.
Swain, who has served capably dur
ing his term of office, leaders
throughout the county were predict
ing his defeat for the Craftsmanship
the latter part of last week. The
committeeman and leaders friendly
to Congressman Houston are said to
have asked for and secured the as
sistance of the anti-organization
members of the County Committee
in carrying out their plans to GUST
Mr.. Swain. The organization lead
ers and the Senator Townsend fac
tion worked hard to hold the COM
mittee in line for Mr. Swain, but the
desire for revenge on the part of
the Houston followers was such that |
this was impossible. w. Elwood |
Wright, the newly elected County |
Chairman, is well-known throughout |
the county. He has served as clerk
of the peace and in several other
county offices. At present he is sec
retary to the Board of Assessment.
His Republicanism is unquestioned
and all factions should secure fair
treatment at his hands.
Milford chronicle., 1932-04-29
DEALING WITH THE DEVIL

"He who would sup with the devil
needs a long spoon, says the prov
erb. Colonel Lindbergh may have
thought of that old saying when the
kidnapers failed to return his miss
ing baby after he had paid them
$4,000 ransom money. The old prov
erb referred to the people who go
into partnership with the devil on
some evil enterprise. But even
when an upright and noble man like
Colonel Lindbergh is forced by cir
cumstances to deal with the devil, it
also takes a long spoon to get any
thing ont from his sinister clutches.
The true status of this most SEN
sational of crimes is not apparent at
this writing. But the failure of those
miscreants TO return that infant af-
ter being paid a great sum to do so,
reveals in still stronger light the
depths of baseness to which some
natures have descended, and it shows
what vile creatures the American
people have to contend with. The
result of these negotiations up to
the time when these words were
written, suggests that it is futile to
trust to the good faith of such peo-
pie to the least degree. Anyone
who is capable of perpetrating such
an abominable act can be expected
to go further, and commit any de-
ceit to extort more money
The cruel fraud perpetrated upon
Col. Lindbergh suggests to friends
whose children or other relatives are
kidnapped, that it is no use paying
over any money to these crooks un-
ess at the same time the victims of |
he kidnapping are returned.
The old idea that there is some
good in everyone gets a severe shock
rom such doings as these. Some
low we have been turning out tribe
If people with hearts of stone, who
eem as impervious to any good and
lecent motive as the lions and the
igers of the jungle would be. What
hall we do to tame these wild
'easts? 1t is up to parents to do it,
nd a home that fails to train it's
hildren is a nursery of crime.
Milford chronicle., 1932-04-29
THE GREEN CARPET

Your home place lawn can you
make it look like anything? Do those
pesky little grass roots hang on like
a puppy to a root, as the old timers
used to say, in the places where they
ought not to, but persistently refuse
to grow where you want them? Can
you make them grow in those bare
spots which are a worse problem
than the shiny plate of the bald head
ed man?
When You keep clipping off and
carrying away the tops of your
grass, you take food out of the soil.
Feed that soil some more fertilizer,
and your grass roots won't die from
hunger. They are thirsty through
the droughts of summer. 1t takes
elbow grease and a little money, but
the green carpet is worth mending
and cleaning, for it is natures tap
estry out of which she makes
background of beauty for your home.
Milford chronicle., 1932-04-29
PLAIN TALK FROM FARMERS

Application of common sense to
government farm problems is again
being urged upon Washington by
farmers throughout the country. The
latest advice along this line directs
attention to overlapping of activi-
ties between the Department of Ag-
riculture and the Department of the
Interior. Speaking for the farmers,
Tom Carthcart editor of The COun-
try Home, addresses an open letter
to Ray Lyman Wilbur, Secretary of
the Interior.
Dear Mr.. Secretary, writes Edi-
tor Carthcart, you have an extra
ordinary opportunity to help hard
pressed taxpayers, to confer a great
bentfit on the farmers, and to prove
yourself a generous and far-sighted
public servant.
Nobody knows better than you
what crazy quilt our government
has become. Bureaus and commits
sions have become so plentiful that
not even old residents can name
them all. Some are Independent and
others are scattered through the va
rious departments without logic or
reason.
"Take your own department, for
instance. Among other bureaus you
have the Reclamation Service and
the General Land Office. They should
be transferred to the Department of
for many sound and con-
reasons, as you, being an in
telligent man, very we'll know.
"Take your Reclamation Bureau,
which is now considering a $400-
100000 irrigation project in the Co
lumbia River Basin, to yield more
than land is now being used for ag-
riculture. 1t is necessary to restrict
rather than increase the productive
farm lands, if agricultural unrest is
TO be dispelled by fair prices.
mo progress in these matters can
be made while the responsibility is
divided, and while sundry bureaus
work independently and without
.hought of the major problem. Why
lon't you inform wOur associates in
he cabinet and notify the President |
hat in the interest of the nation you
ire willing to surrender these bu-
'eaus which properly belong in the
of Agriculture? Such a
surrender would be an act of states
nanship. which would be long re-
nembered and appreciated"
Milford chronicle., 1932-04-29
COMMUNICATED
Los Angeles. AnriI 1a9. 1a2.

Los Angeles, April 1913, 1882.
Editor Milford Chronicle,
Milford Delaware.
Dear Sir:
| l want you to know how much APP
preciated the photograph of the
graduation class of 1902 of Milford
High School, also the very capably
written and interesting article by
Miss Irene Williams. One thing that
made this picture most interesting to
me was the fact that Miss Elizabeth
Belts was a member of that class
My sister and myself were amoms
her pupils when she taught at Pine
Grove school, District No A, Kent
County, Delaware. My sister at
tended the full year, but | left for
California two months after school
opened, much to my regret.
My final year of schooling was at
Pine Grove under the direction of
George H. Jester, now resident of
Milford. 1t seems to me that Mr..
Jester had more uncanny ability to
explain and clarity a problem in the
minds of his pupils than any instruc-
tor | have ever contacted before or
since. In my humble opinion he was
an ideal instructor, always sure of
himself when explaining a problem
to the class, always patient with
those like myself that did not grasp
the solution Immediately, always ex-
acting discipline and order without
intimidation.
While our public school buildings
of today may be more pretentious
from the standpoint of architectural
design and up-tO-date appliances, yet
the 25 or more years that has passed
have failed to erase the pleasant
memories of the hours we spent in
study and recreation; also the
friendships we made in the little
frame school house which nestled
among the pine trees at District No
A, in Kent County, Delaware.
1t is through the kindness of my
very dear friend, Mrs. May Beswick
Hammond that l receive the Milford |
Chronicle each week, and | look for
ward to its coming with never |
waning interest.
Respectfully yours,
WILLIAM j. FARLEY,
Los Angeles, Calf.
Milford chronicle., 1932-04-29
THE PUBLIC TO BLAME

According to the president of the
New York Stock Exchange, Richard
Whitney, the stock market bears"
are not to blame for the recent dras-
tic fall in securities, which depress-
ed prices still further below level
that was previously far below real
values.
1t all goes to show that when the
spectators push prices up beyond
all reason, then the violence of the
reaction is accelerated, and they are
sure to fall beyond all reason. The
cure for that evil is for people to
sell their stocks the moment they
appear a bit inflated.
Milford chronicle., 1932-04-29
LIVING WITHOUT MONEY

The remedy most frequently sug-
gested for unemployment, is to start
public works. This plan may be
helpful, yet it loads the community
with debt payments, and govern
ment red tape delays its prompt
operation. The community may have
needed the roads and buildings thus
provided, yet it has so far been able
to exist without them, so that the
product thus created may be in
part a superf1uity.
When business was slack and
money scarce in the old time village,
the farmer and the tailor and the
shoemaker swapped goods. Neither
of them had any money, but they all
sold their products and all supplied
their needs. Could some comparable
system be arranged for temporary
relief in our highly complex life?
1t is conceivable that groups of
factory and farm producers might be
organized, who would consent in an
emergency TO work largely without
money payment, in return for orders
on central distributing stores where
their products should be exchanged.
In that way the various producers
would sell their labor and supply
their needs.
A plan under which all needs
would be supplied by barter would
be almost inconceivable in our coun-
try. Any such plan for exchange of |
commodities would need to sell a |
portion of the product or labor for |
cash. But good many creditors in
emergency times would accept an
order for the necessaries of life if
they couldn't get cash.
The exchange of goods rather than
cash would be highly awkward, COM
pared with the facile ease of our
money and credit system as it works
in good times. But people with no
job and no money should look with
favor on any plan that supplied
their most urgent needs and sold
their labor.
The subject is referred to the cor
ner store statesmen, and perhaps
our business and political leaders
can find possibilities in it. The
world demands a more systematic
plan for providing work for willing
workers. And the work provided for
purposes should be the .
production of the necessaries of life,
rather than superfuities with which
we can dispense.
Milford chronicle., 1932-04-29
SELF HELP

Have the people Of Milford visited
any leading college lately, and noted
the beauty, convenience, and in
spiration by which these favored stu
dents are surrounded? Are they as
similating this wealth of culture
which is poured into them, some
times by forcible feeding?
May we not sometimes do too much
for them, so they lose all "git up
and git?" 1t was at least some sat
isfaction to read that a number of
leading girls colleges have a plan
by which the students do the house
work of certain dormitories, and
thereby save part of their costs. In
an age when we try to stuff young
folks with ready made culture. will
not this hand work also be educa-
tional for any student? Will it not
help them pay the price of sweat and
grit which is demanded for any real
education?
Milford chronicle., 1932-04-29
A PATRIOTIC DUTY

President Hoover: "The American
people are no less courageous and
no less wise than the people of other
nations. All other great nations of
the world have been faced with even
greater necessity during the past
two years. In order to preserve their
national credit these countries have
increased their taxes far more Sc
verely than our deficit demands Of
the American people.
"One of the first requirements to
the accomplishment of the absolute
necessity of a balanced budget is
that the people and all their organ
izations should support and not OBJ
struct the members of Congress in
sound efforts to both reduce eXpendi-
lures and adjust taxation.
at must not be forgotten that the
needs of the government are insep-
arabic from the welfare of the peO-
pie. Those most vitality concerned
in recovery are the ones whose mar
gins of savings are the smallest.
They are affected by the depression
more seriously than any others; ulti-
mately they will pay the biggest price
for any failure on our part of the
to take the necessary
action at this time. We can over
come this national difficulty as we
have overcome all our difficulties in
he past by willingness to sacrifice
and by the resOlute unity of national
lction."
Milford chronicle., 1932-04-29
THE NINTBLE' DOLLAR

Success in business is not Great
ed so much by the amount of capital
a concern has, as by the rapidity
with which that capital moves. If
two concerns have equal capital, and
the sales of one of them in a year
are twice the amount of its capital,
while the sales of the other are four
times its capital, then the company
with the rapid turnover is going to
make the most money.
Also it can sell cheaper, since its
overhead and operating expense for
each article sold is a less amount.
The way to get that rapid volume
is to advertise. Advertised goods
will move fast, and the public will
come in to look at and buy them be-
fore they gather dust, and they will
make room for new stock, and the
stock will always be fresh.