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Milford chronicle., 1932-04-08
PETITE COACHES
GIVEN TO 60 BOYS
Replicas Of Model For
Fisher Craftsman's
Guild Contest

Cutting out paper dolls, malina
paper furniture and the like is often
considered child'5 play or at best fiji
work for girls. This week a num-
Der of the boys in the manual train
ing department ire busy with scis-
sOrs, pen knives and what not doing
j. st that thing. They arc more am
bilious than to be satisfied with
making chairs and tables, so are
assembling petite Napoleonic coach
es in one hundred and eight pieces.
Sixty of these coaches which are
put out by the Public Ledger chap
ter of the Fisher Body Craftsman 5
Guild were presented to McGee's de-
partment last week by the Atkins
Motor Company. These paper coach
es, the bodies of whicn are blue, are
gay with trappings of crimson and
gold just as the coronation and we'd
ding carriages Ns Emperor Napoleon
had. The paper cut-Outs which are a
composite design of those two fam
GUS carriages are reproductions of
the model which is the subject of
the second competition of the Fish
er Body Craftsman's Guild. The
guild which is open to boys between
twelve and nineteen, was formed to
stimulate and perpetrate The art of
fine craftsmanship among boys of
high school age.
These coaches are submitted an
nually, in State and International
Competitions. for a list of awards
valued in excess of $75, 900 The four
International awards are four-year
scholarships valued at
$4,000 each to any university in the
United States or Canada. The two
boys who build winning coaches in
each state receive 500 in cash. and
are taken to Detroit for 4 four-day
convention at the expense of the
Guild. There eighteen other awards
for boys in each state ranging from
fifteen dollars to one hundred dol
lars are given. In all there are over
a thousand prizes.
The work is fascinating Mr.. Me-
Gee says, but when one looks at the
hundred and eight separate pieces
that go into one of these little
coaches, he readily understands that
such work is only for the boy who
has learned or wants to learn pa
tience and perseverance.
Milford chronicle., 1932-04-08
SENIORS WILL
SPONSOR SHOW
Special Engagement OF
Harry D'Esta RhOads
Entertainers

The Seniors have procured the
Harry D'Esta RhOads Entertainers.
This is a delightful entertainment.
1t is something out of the ordinary.
First, D'Esta Rhoads Entertainers
consist of the Marionettas. A minia-
ture stage is placed upon the regular
stage The players on this mimic
stage are all marionette figures op-
Grated in a manner that makes them
lifelike. Second, VentrilOquist, the
very foremost example of a Five
Act handled in a mastery manner.
The act in its entirety is one that
none but a master hand can accom-
plish. Third, Among
stage magicians none has perfected
a more finished technique than is
displayed. The skilled by-play and
touches of light comedy that go
with his tricks are really the most
entertaining part of his act" Be
sides these stage productions there
are many other features. This show
is something distinctly different. i
is something that you will enjoy
There has been arranged 4 matt
nee for the students of our school.
At night there will be the regular
performance The Senior Class is
featuring this amusement. II is of
the highest quality and we solicit
your patronage.
Robert Reed 80
Milford chronicle., 1932-04-08
MANY PROBLEMS
FOR SEWING CLASS
Comfort And Durability
Are Stressed Above
"PicturebOOkness"

The classes in Home Economics
and II are beginning a unit in Chill
dren's Clothing.
In thinking of clothing for adults
we think in terms of style and COM
fort. In times past it would seem
that we have thought of children's
clothing in terms of style only.
With the increasing interest in wise
guidance of young children there
came a realization that clothing
does play Il large part in the behav-
ior of the young child. Then began
a swinging away from the very cum
ming children's garments which
were difficult for the child to man
age when dressing, which inhibited
their freedom when playing, and
which constantly brought forth the
acclamation Ito be careful of your
pretty dress"
So, from a consideration of style
only for young children, we now
Judge their clothes in terms of COM
fort, both for the child wearing the
garment and for the mother who has
TO keep il i'm wearing condition, and
i'm terms of the challenge the gar
ment will present to the child who
is learning to dress himself. Are the
fastenings in front? Are the buttons
large? Are there few or many fas-
Jennings? Are neck openings large
enough for the head to come
through with ease? Is the elastic
wide and loose enough to prevent
clinging? Are arm holes, neck bands,
and leg bands loose enough for the
child TO grow in for several months
without being annoyed by tight
ness? Does the child have perfect
freedom i'm his garments. Are there
rockets for loved possessions? Does
he say me do il Mummy and he is
really able to do it and enjoy the
thrill of success which comes to the
three-year-old with such an achieve
ment Or does he work hard and
then come TO mother with dis
cOuraged "YOu do il Mummy, |
cant?" Will the garments survive
many ubbings and are they easy for
mothers to iron?
These are the problems which the
home economics girls are consider
ing while making garments for their
small brothers and sisters and nie-
ces and nephews. In places of love
ly shocking, laces. ruffles, and stit-
cherry we see handy pockets. stitched
down collars, large buttons in con-
venient places and wide elastics. But
with all this there is in the clothing
laboratory a rit of beautiful colors
and soft materials which fairly pro-
claim glorious childhood and en-
chanting spring.
Ethel Collins '33
Milford chronicle., 1932-04-08
ANNIVERSARY TO
Be CELEBRATED
Free Examinations To Be
Given By State Board Of
Health; Sure And Sim
pie Test

On March "a, 1882, Robert Koch,
an unknown German physician an
nounced to the world that he had
discovered the germ which caused
tuberculosis. Whole families died
from, this White Plague" as it was
called, and when one got a hectic
flush and cOughed, it ives expected
he would die. Everybody thought
that tuberculosis was inherited.
A young carefree New York socie-
ty man, just graduated as Il physi-
clan, had gone to the AdirOndacks to
die of tuberculosis in well-lOyed sur
rOundings, but miraculOusly grew
better out-of-dOOrs. This was Ed
ward Trudean, the pioneer in the
United States of our present method
of treating tuberculosis with fresh
air, rest, and sunshine He was in
terested in Robert KOch's remark
able discovery and secured mater
ials for him to carry on his own eX-
periments. The full measure of
KOchs discovery is hard to estimate.
Think of the hope it brought to
countless men and women who had
believed sickness meant not only
that they but also their children
were doomed to death! Their fam
lilies could now he protected against
tuberculosis.
Our modern methods of discover
ing tuberculosis germs is so simple
that drop of fluid injected just un-
der the skin of the forearm will
show by the color it produces whe-
ther or not there have ever been tu
berculOsis germs in the body. If
red circle forms about the spot, it
indicates that at some time we have
had the dreded germs in our sys-
tenn An X-ray will show whether or
not these have done any damage or
if there is danger of future damage.
The month of April is being cele-
brated by a health and educational
campaign as a memorial to Robert
Koch's untiring work, and we hope
our own school will be benefited as
the State Board of Health and Anti !
Tuberculosis Society are both back
ing a free examination and X-ray
service to any contact or suspect of
the dread disease.
A. Keller "a |
Milford chronicle., 1932-04-08

Eight ladies in white repOSe splen-
didly before an interested assembly
in the Armory Hall which was then
somewhat newer and more inviting
than at present. Judging from the
graduated ruifles that cover their
trembling, modest, young bodies an
expert dress maker would probably
be nearly right in estimating enc
hundred yards of lace. Tho style is
to us perhaps bit quaint. ana one
is right if he believes that his ima&-
ination has been set back bit;
this is the class of 1902. a class of
exactly thirty years ago. 10 be in
the second class graduating. from
the Milford Consolidated Schools!
Ahl What hOnOrl Better still, to he
in a class which held nothing. nut
honor students, having averages oy-
er ninety. is a compliment.
Probably someone wonders about
the class of '0l. This in contrast to
the class of '02 held only one mem
ber, Effie Davidson, who is now dead.
True to their aspirations six MEM
bers of the class of 1902 became
school teachers, this their retlibu-
tion to public education. The COM
mencement exercises of the night
continue Mary Wilkerson's pre-
sentation Of Washington, the Mod.
ell American" and Bess Watson's es-
say, "The Development of the Faust
Legend by Goethe almost compel
the OnloOker to feel he is really pic
turing the present age, those two
men being widely celebrated this
Milford chronicle., 1932-04-08
WHO'S Who OF
SENIOR CLASS
Sara DickersOn, Class Act
reSS

Ever since she graduated from
grammar school Sara Dickerson has
been singing and acting on the stage
here in Milford. At our eighth grade
commencement she played the lead
ing part in the operetta, Merry
Company" From that time on she
has played many and varied parts in
many and varied productions. in
Betty Lou" she was the mother,
Mrs. Pendleton; in Cherry Bios
son." she was the little Japanese
girl, Cherry Blossom; in college
Flapper" she was Nellie, a fresh
man; and in "The Farnhurst lew
els" she was Sue, the country school
teacher who became a society lead
er That may not be all the parts
she has played. but it is a long list
at that
AS you probably already know,
Sara is pretty and can sing. She is
about five feet five inches tall, has
black hair and dark eyes. She sings
a rich alto and last year was one of
Miss Cathcart's solOists. She has IA
very small mouth, and long fingers
and toes. She wears a great deal of
blue in many different shades.
Sara started in high school taking
an academic course but she balKed
at Latin and took three years Of
home economics in place of her sec
Ond year in that language. She in
tends to become a nurse and would
like to enter Walter Reed Hospital
i'm Washington as soon as she fin
ishes high school.
Like all great actresses and every
body else Sara has her hobbies.
One of them is Ralph Reed and the
other her fish aquarium. This aQuar-
ium holds thirty gallons of water
Milford chronicle., 1932-04-08
WHO'S WHO OF
SENIOR CLASS
Elva Davis, Lawyer To Be

ElVa Davis is another person who
hates to give interviews, in fact she
never gave this one at all. We Just
had to write it, We couldn't even
find out how old she is. SiXty-seVen
was the lowest figure she would
give, so we take it that she is some-
where in the region of seventeen.
She Is about five feet eight inches
tall. and has long, light hair which
she winds around her head like
halo. Her eyes are hazel gray, very
large and expressive. She always
wears a very serious look and
walks as though she were in deep
meditation.
Elva takes the academic course
and has hopes of being lawyer
some day in the future. She is stud
ious and has lots of will power She
should make a good lawyer.
Through the Defamation Contests
Elva has attained prominence in the
Senior Glass. She has been mem
Der of the class team for four years.
and we have won the contest three
years out of those four. ElVa reeeiR,s~
ed the highest mark of ell the en-
tries this year, from all the judges.
too. She represented the school at
Harrington last Friday.
She plays the violin very well. but
does not go in for athletics. We de
not know what her favOrite subject
is, because she absolutely refuses to
talk about anything if it's going to
be published. We know, however,
that Latin used to be easy for her
and that English and Civics are her
other strong points. This year she
simply revelled in the study Of de-
batting. which all goes to prove that
she ought to make a good lawyer
Alice Breme 80
Milford chronicle., 1932-04-08
Eighth Grader Shows
Imagination In Story
My Surprise

One day while l was walking
through the graveyard my foot slip
ped and l fell into a large hole. l
fell down and down.
When 1 stopped 1 found myself in
a large room. In the middle of the
room was small fire. Around the
fire sat thirteen skeletons. In the
far corner sat seven skeletons. They
served as the orchestra. Two of them
had two of their ribs in their hands
making a noise with them. Three of
them had flutes made from bones of
their legs. The other two had their
skulls in their laps beating on them
with their ribs. The thirteen in the
circle were singing weary songs.
When they noticed that l was
there they grabbed me and trust me
in the fire. I began to burn and
shrek. They all left the room. I was
almost burnt up. The smoke of my
body began to rise. The smoke went
out the chimney and I found myself
outside.
Finley Mason
Milford chronicle., 1932-04-08

year. AS each speaker presents heT
essay. ushers rush up arms full OF
beautiful flowers and with commen-
dations for the speaker One speak
or. Ethel Hugg, gave the "FGturc
Prospects of Our Country" Surely |
would not have been the twentieth
century American had not asked
for "Depressions" in the course of
the essay.
mo, the future prospects Of our
country were very bright.
This class attended school IN the
old South Milford School Building
on East Second street which was re-
Gently occupied by the Simpson Bro
theirs. Shall | introduce the mem
beTs of the class of 1902? They were
the privileged Misses Ethel Hueg,
now Mrs. George Warren of in
coin; Mary WilkersOn, now Mrs.
George Swain of Milford; Laura c..
Hall, now Mrs. r. Alan GoldsbOr-
Ough, of Denton, Maryland; Bess
Watson, now Mrs. Charles Shew Of
Lincoln; Edna Laws of Milford;
Elizabeth Belts, now dece ased; Viva
Johnson, now Mrs. +. G. Satterth-
waite of Yardley, Pa, and Nellie Da-.
wilson, now Mrs. Mears of Yardley,
who gave to the school the silver
defamation cup for which the class
contend annually.
In trying to impress upOn his pu-
pills that it was not such a disgrace
to be poor, Professor John Brooks,
who was :; young married principal
Milford chronicle., 1932-04-08
Demand For Books More
Than Keeps Pace With
Increasing Supply
Monthly Library Report

Our librarian again has been do
ing some research work. After going
over last years records and COM
pairing them with this years rec
ords, she found that during the sew
en- months of school ending March
/, 457 more books had been circu-
lated this year than last
During the month of March the
total circulation was 494 books
which were divided as follows:
School Library 424, Free Public Lii
brary, so, and the State Travelling
Library, 20. One hundred and eighty
of the total circulation were nom
fiction and the remainder 314 were
fiction.
Three new Junior Guild books are
in the Library. They are "Behe-
MOTH" by Eric Hodgins and Prof. f.
Alexander Magoun; 1.-TWO Children
of Tyre" by Louis Andrews Kent,
and Under Twenty" May Lamber-
ton Becker.
VIM. DOering 80
Milford chronicle., 1932-04-08
Girls Learn Right And
Wrong OF Breakfast
!, Menus

The following dialogue written 0y
Elizabeth Cleaver suggests the work
the seventh grade girls are doing in
II. f.
"Oh me, am so sleepy. What 90
you do to get so full of pep in the
mornings?" questioned Peggy OF Ann
as they started to school.
81 just get up and dress, and eat
breakfast, Peggy"
Eat breakfast? l never want TO
eat breakfast" answered Peggy.
What do you eat?"
"Oh, l have an orange, some cook
ed cereal, soft cooked egg, and
toast, sometimes"
Gee! 1 never have a breakfast
like that. We have sriddle cakes,
sausage, syrup and coffee for break
fast"
mo wonder you are sleepy That's
an awful breakfast Maybe if you
would try my kind of breakfast ev-
cry morning you would feel like
jumping toO"-said Ann as shn he-
gan to skip down the path.
Ethel Collins
Milford chronicle., 1932-04-08

at thE tine, gave an incident in his
life which Mrs. George Warren las
remembered all these years. PrO.es-
sor Brooks when a small boy sr0w-
ing mp. had always remained very
poor One night during one of his
commencement exercises lie happen
ed TO cross his foot in sCch man
'ner that he C9uglit glimpse oT
what should have been his slca sole,
but horrors! He saw the bottom of
his foot.
The graduating classes of that day
had few Of the variel Interests
which confront us today However.
an Alpha Phi Literary SGc:e.y inte"-
ested this class in which hot debates
often ensued. One of the strong
topics touched upon was "Reselyed
That the Pen is Hightier Than the
Sword" AS far as the living grad
uGtes of 1902 can rememher. the Pen
carried off the Donors.
Al the close cf school the girls
hired hack 10 convey them ia that
Old party haun:, Slaughter Beach
Ten O'Clock sees them Fastening
back fearful If missing any beauty
sleep.
You have noticed that of this
class only three or four remain in
this vicinity; others have taken
their places elsewhere in different
stations of life. Always do they eX-
emplify their old class motto. I'VE
will find Il way or make one
Irene Williams '33
Milford chronicle., 1932-04-08
The Photography Class
Has Own Dark Room
Boys Soon To Make BIus Prints

At last Milford High has Il dark
room where the chemistry students
may develop their own films. This
dark room, in back of the chemistry
laboratory on the third floor, is
about Z by feet and contains all of
the necessary equipment.
The first project that will be un-
dertaken by the class in the dark
room will be the manufacture of
blue prints. by the Junior boys in
the class. The boys will make all Of
the necessary things to make the
prints a success.
Next the class will study the use
of silver salts in the development of
pictures.
When finished with the study OF
the silver salts the class will start
developing pictures. something the
whole class has been awaiting all
year.
-Bunstein SO
Milford chronicle., 1932-04-08
Former Graduating
Glasses OF Milford High
School To Be Reviewed

Recently our superintendent sug-
gested to us that our readers might
be interested in a review of post
graduating classes of Milford High
as well as in the dOinss of the
classes Of l932-35 The idea pleased
several of our staff, so we started
work at once. This week we present
a review of the class of 1902 Each
week from now on we shall print a
history of one of the classes of the
Milford chronicle., 1932-04-08

and almost that many species of
fish. Sara likes cats too, especially
when they are small. She doesn't
like ViOlets at all She once said she
would like to be a musical comedy
star but she doesn't care for vaude-
vile, so she's going TO be a nurse.
Alice Breme 80
Milford chronicle., 1932-04-08

past thirty years. insofar as we shall
be able to find information. Any in
formation that our readers may con-
tribute to these histories will be ap.
preciated, and shonld be given to
Robert Reed,
Milford chronicle., 1932-04-08
He Knew How

Kind Old Lady-Did you say you
lost both legs in the war. my poor
man?
Mendicant-Ill be honest lost
one in the war and | wore out the
other looking for wark-The Path
finder,
Milford chronicle., 1932-04-08

This Page Is Edited BY Pupils
OF The Milford High School
Directing Editor
ELIZABETH L. ALDEN
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1932-11-17
TOWN BEAUTY AN ASSET.

In spite OF the apparent commercial
ism of the age in which we live, il is
evident to any observer that the Amer
lean people are developing a greater
appreciation of the beautiful. This is
not confined TO the weather. CLASSES
but extends to the Great masses in the
towns and villages, and in the rural
districts.
New towns and new sections of the
older ones are being laid out with
wider streets, with provision for larger
lawns, more trees, shrubbery and flow
ers, and more attractive setting gen.
orally.
New houses show better architec-
ture and greater harmony with their
surroundings, while unsightly yard
fences have largely disappeared. The
net result of all these modern devel-
opments is beauty And aside from
the satisfaction which its affords the
eye, it pays in dollars and cents.
Beautiful cities, towns and villages
attract people. They attract permanent
residents, they attract tourists and
they attract trade. 1t is natural that
a person selecting trading center will
choose a town that is beautiful and
clean in preference to one that is un-
slightly and dirty, if other conditions
are anywhere near equal.
Therefore, it behooves the authori-
ties of any community. as we'll as each
individual citizen, to make the most
of their opportunities for improving
the appearance of the place in which
they live. Beauty and cleanliness are
towns best assets-The Culver
Citizen, Culver, Indiana
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1932-11-17
What You'd You Take?

iANahoAtuf isAo6d@AaiCJ
What would you take for that soft
little head
Pressed close to your face at time for
bed,
For that white, dimpled hand in your
own held tight
And the dear little eyelids kissed down
for the night?
What would you take7
What would you take for that smile
in the morn.
Those bright dancing eyes and the
face they adorn;
For the sweet little voice that you
hear all day,
Laughing and cooling, yet nothing to
say?
What would you take2
What would you take for those pink
little feet
Those chubby round cheeks and that
mouth SO sweet,
For the wee tiny fingers and little
soft toes,
The wrinkly little neck and that funny
little nose?
Now, what would you take?
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1932-11-17

the lowest figure since the year 1852.
In Liverpool, the great international
grain market, wheat has been selling,
according to London newspapers, at
the lowest price since the days OF
Queen Elizabeth, in the l5OO's. The
price in Liverpool controls the price
everywhere in the world, because
wheat from all the world is traded
in there, and the price of any COM
modify is always fixed in the cheapest
market.
The real reason for the present low
price of wheat is, of course that not
only the farmers of the United States
but the farmers of the whole world
have produced more wheat than the
world can consume And, like most
of the rest of the economic ills that
are troubling us, this condition traces
back to the war. During the war some
65,O0O,000 men were taken out of their
regular employments into the armies
OF the world. They had to be fed The
price of wheat went up to 81 and more
a bushel.
The result was that not only in the
United States but in every other wheat
growing country, every acre of land
that could possibly be induced to grow
few bushels Of wheat was put un-
der cultivation. These so-called mar
ginal lands were never fit for wheat
production on an economical basis in
normal markets, but millions of farm
ers, once they had planted them to
wheat, did not see or would not be
warned that they could not continue
to use these marginal acres profitably
in peace time.
1t seems to lis that the only perma-
nent solution for the problems of the
growers of wheat, cotton, tobacco, corn,
potatoes, and the other staple crops
whose market depends upon not only
our own production but world pro-
duction and world trade, is to find
some way whereby the acreage planted
throughout the nation to these staples
should be limited to fit the probable
needs of the world. Farmers cannot do
this individually. They must either or
ganize in cooperative associations which
will include practically 100 percent of
the growers Of each staple, or, even
tually, we believe they will have to
submit to governmental regulation of
production, which is certainly a far
less desirable alternative.