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Milford chronicle., 1932-08-19
CORN
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These are such days as send ten
million stalks of towering corn still
further toward the sun in that great
inland empire of America, the Mid
die West. Hot days and humid
nights when golden tassels scent the
air with sweetness and ears droop
heavy with that ceaseless energy
distilled from soil and rain and sun.
In those black bottom lands, on a
still August night, the listener can
hear amid the gentle rustic of the
swOrdlike leaves the soft, sure
crackle of growth itself.
There lies the great new home of
Americas majestic grain, that maize
which once grew wild and grasslike
in the teaismng lowlands of the
tropics. But everywhere, from coast
to coast and Gulf to Lakes, the tall
corn grows. Every road to the open
country leads past fields of waving
green, and within an hour from City
Hall stands corn where even now a
man can disappear from sight as
surely as a mouse in meadow grass.
Six feet and more it rears it's yellow
crowns, and before the frosts come
to scar the husks it will be ever
higher. Row on row, acre on acre, it
stands like a young forest, lush
green on distant hillsides and flow
ing like some emerald flood down
the valleys.
Yet commonplace as these fields
now are, the corn from which they
grew and into which they will ripen
with the autumn frosts is one of the
lasting wonders of the New World.
The Indians knew and used it long
before the white men dreamed there
was land between their homes and
India to the west. And before those
Indians which we recognize as such
knew corn, their ancestors or other
races of Americas forgotten past
knew maize. A grass it surely was
long, long ago. Then some one found
its grains were worth the gather
ing, and still others took from the
leftover harvest and planted fields
in some new place.
And so it grew and changed, and
the tropic grass migrated north.
choice of seeds picked
out those variations from the par
ent plant which best thrived in new
Trade introduced it to
still other peoples, and new soils,
new seasons, new ways of cultiva-
tion brought out new traits. And
then, after time so long that none |
can safely estimate, the white man
came and found the Indians and |
their maize. The white man called (
it corn. The white man called it
good. And the white man made of D
that strange grass grown tall and |
fruitful the very basis of an empire. |
Milford chronicle., 1932-08-19
ABOUT FARM MARKETS

Shall the farmer control his own
market?
To that question every farmer
would answer yes"
For generations it has been the
complaint of the farmer that he had
no control over the prices of his
own products, that all he can do is
to ship his surplus crops to market
and then take what the buyer is
willing to give.
The organization of cooperative
selling was the effort of the farmer
to change that situation. To pro-
mote this effort was set forth in the
law creating the agricultural mar
keting act as the principal objective
of that legislation. ITO promote the
effective merchandising of agricul-
tural commodities in Interstate and
foreign commerce = by encour-
aging the organization of producers
into effective associations under
their own control = and by per-
mitting the establishment of a farm
marketing system of prOducer-own-
ed and producer-controlled coopera-
tive associations. Those are the
words in which the purpose of this
law is set forth.
And that purpose has been sedu-
iously kept in view by the Farm
Board ever since that act was pass
ed.
In spite of the breakdown in all
commodity prices including general
markets, the $4,000 farmer-Owned
cooperatives in the United States,
aided and stimulated by the Farm
Board, have increased their total
business during the past two years
more than one billion dollars. OF
this vast number of farmer-contrOl-
led cooperatives, less than 80 failed
"a record unparalleled in the bus
mess annals of this country.
1t is because the Farm Board has
so successfully promoted the Amer
lean farmers effort to control his
own market that it is now being
violently assailed. The source of
these assaults sufficiently indicates
the purpose of them. That purpose
is not to promote the welfare of the !
ditions under which they had no
control over their own markets but |
were Obliged to rely wholly upon |
private dealers whose primary pur-
pose naturally was to make sure of |
their own profits, regardless of |
what happened to the grower of the
products he handled.
The farmers should not be taken
in by propagandists who are obvi-
Ously more concerned for their own
business than for that of anybody
else.
Milford chronicle., 1932-08-19
FIRE IN FOREST CALLS
FOR RUSH TO FIGHT IT

Dry weather, hot summer temper
atures, even a moderate wind, and
a spark of fire combine DISASTROUS
ly in the forests. Experience with
forest fires makes men of the For
est Service wish it were easier to
educate" the public to prevent fires
by never giving fire a chance to get
started. How rapidly forest fires
can spread and how rapidly it is
necessary to multiply the number of
fire fighters is revealed in bare sta
tistical outline by George M. Jemi-
son of the Forest Service, report
ing the weather conditions that af-
fected the Freeman Lake fire in
Idaho last August.
Within a single day this fire
burned over tract miles wide
and liz miles long. There were al
SO scattering "spot fires" caused by
burning brands carried by the wind
outside this area. This fire spread
at an average rate of 1000 acres
per hour for a full day. The fire
started at 10:30 in the morning on
a hot August day, with the duff in
the forest unusually dry, and with
the wind blowing 12 to 19 miles an
hour. The weather remained hot
and the wind increased in the early
afternoon TO II or 18 miles an hour.
What these conditions demanded
of the fire-fihting force appears in
other figures. The fire was discover
ed 20 minutes after it started. A
fire crew of II men reached it and
began work 1 hour and 10 minutes
after it started, but by that time it
was a 20-acre fire. By 1880, less
than two hours after the start, 81
more men arrived and so more at
S p. m. By midnight $40 men were
working on the fire line, and the fire
was under control three days liter.
Milford chronicle., 1932-08-19
Milford, Friday, August 10, 1882
BOSSES AND MACHINES

Disgust is often felt with what is
called machine politics, and the rule
of the politicians called bosses. 1t
is complained that such interests
sway political results, their astute
management decides who shall be
nominated and elected, that they pass
out the political offices to their sup
porters with little regard to eff
cheney qualifications, and that the
worst type of such organizations
profit and subsist ON political cor
ruptiOn.
1t is often difficult to tell whether
a certain politician is to be consid-
cred a leader" or boss" The
people need political leaders. If no
one took hold to do any organization
work, and see to it that qualified
candidates were presented, political
results would be much worse than
they now are. The voters would
scatter their votes among many can
didates, while tonguey people with
a capacity for persuasion would
sway the voters by their arts, and
they would run the government.
The so-called bosses and ma
chimes have to come pretty near
giving the people what they really
want. If the people really insisted
ON having efficient and businesslike
government, the bosses and ma
chimes would not dare to propose
candidates that would fail to give
that kind of government.
If people want to get rid of boss
and machine dictation, all they have
TO do is to pay attention to political
subjects, form intelligent, opinions,
and insist that candidates be pre-
sented who will carry out such
ideas.
Undesirable bosses and machines,
where they exist, thrive on peoples
Indifference and prejudice. If they
find that people are willing to toll
crate a crooked or inefficient official
because he is personally such a
good fellow" then they will run
such candidates, and the people get
costly service. Many of the people
who complain about the rule of boss
es and machines, could not them
selves be interested to go to the |
polls and vote for anything better.
Milford chronicle., 1932-08-19
TAKE A LOOK AT YOUR
FIRE DEPARTMENT

If you live in comparatively
small town-or a comparatively
large one TO rthat matter-take a
look at your fire department at reg
ular intervals. See if it's personnel
is as efficient as it should be. See
if apparatus is of standard quality,
built solely for fire fighting, as op-
posed to apparatus assembled from
various unrelated pieces of machin-
cry. When the fire department needs
oVerhauling and improving, either
in regard to personnel, equipment
or other factors, do what you can
to bring it about.
A first-class fire department is
one of towns best assets. 1t is as
important as the local bank-and
sometimes a good deal more help
full! Without it your life and prop
erty are in needless danger. If a
fire department is improperly train
ed, or if its apparatus is old or sub
standard, a small fire may become
confiagration almost within the
space of minutes. A town may save
few thousand dollars by buying
cheap apparatus-and that "sav-
ing may cost its citizens million
in the future.
Yes, keep your eye on the home
town fire department. That will help
keep it up to the highest possible
standard of efficiency-and the time
you give to it may pay you ten
thousand per cent dividends when a
fire starts.
Milford chronicle., 1932-08-19

not learning much about improving
their own work, nor are they gain
ing any ability as voters.
If people wish to climb higher up
the ladder of life, they must also
read for information. A persons
place in the world is created by the
knowledge he possesses. II he
knows everything that can be known
about his own work, he wins promo
tion. If he is well informed on gem
eral topics, he interests the people
he meets, and places higher up are
made for him.
If you want to know what a per-
sons future will be, tell us what
he or she reads, and you will have
some idea of it.
Milford chronicle., 1932-08-19
MEAT STAMP is HARMLESS

Inquiries have come to the United
States Department of Agriculture
concerning the practice of butchers
in trimming the familiar purple
Federal inspection stamp from fresh
meat at the time of sale. This is en-
tirely unnecessary, department. spe-
cialists explain, as the fluid used in
marking meat is made according to
a Government formula from harm
less ingredients-as harmless as
fruit juices.
Formerly labels were attached to
the meat that had been federally
inspected and passed, but this prov
ed expensive and otherwise unsat-
isfactory. The purple stamp pro-
vides safe, clear, and permanent
mark of inspection for the benefit
of the meat buyer. It's presence sig
nifies that the meat came from an
animal that passed a thorough in
spection by trained men.
Milford chronicle., 1932-08-19
THE MIND ON THE JOB

The prosperity of a community
depends very much on the success
of its business concerns in pleas
ing the people. And in order to
please the people, there must not
merely be enterprise and judgment
on the part of business managers,
but there must be an intelligent de-
termination on the part of the en-
ployees of business, to make the
concerns for which they are work
ing successful. People must have
their minds on the job
If you interviewed the managers
of retail stores in most towns, they
would tell you about various troubles
encountered in finding competent
salespeople. They would speak of
many applicants who had been tried
out and who failed to make good.
These unsuccessful ones could not
somehow keep their minds on the
job.
They were interested mostly in
the fun they were going to have
after they quit work. If allowed use
of the telephone, they would con-
stantly be conversing with their boy
and girl friends about their dates.
After they quit the store, they did
not probably give a thought to their
work.
Every job is a problem In a re-
tail store particularly, there is an
unlimited chance for anyone to ex-
pand his usefulness. He can make
the stores service more attractive
to old customers, he can attract new
ones. The chance for such develop
ment should be an extremely inter-
esting thing to any ambitious youhg
man or woman. He can succeed by
putting his mind on his work, study
ing how to please, informing him
self about the things he handles,
taking pains to serve customers.
We have in the stores of Milford
many salespeople of just that type.
We need still more of them. In so
far as the employees of business con-
Germs show that spirit, they create a
future for themselves, and promote
prosperity for their home
-own.
Milford chronicle., 1932-08-19

Town Council. They contend that
80 per cent of their calls come from
outside the borough, and that it is
unfair to levy a fire tax of u mills
within the municipality, while the
adjacent districts contribute nothing
for maintenance.
Councilmen are inclined to agree
with the tiremen and will go into a
huddle with rural officials at the
earliest opportunity. This is a good
idea to apply in Delaware.
Milford chronicle., 1932-08-19

water. Add tablespoons Pure
Vinegar, 2 tablespoons lemon juice,
3 tablespoons sugar and l teaspoon
salt. When this mixture begins to
thicken, add l cup diced cucumbers.
l cup thinly sliced radishes and
cup chopped cabbage. Pour into a
large mold or into small individual
molds to chill. Then unmold in
nests of crisp lettuce on a large
platter. Place the platter on the
serving table and garnish with
Mayonnaise Salad Dressing.
Creamed Ham and Olives-Melt
2 tablespoons butter in saucepan,
add tablespoons flour and stir to-
gether until we'll blended. Add 1ls
cups milk and cook until thick. Add
11a cups cooked diced ham and x
cup Stuffed Spanish Olives, sliced,
and heat thoroughly in the sauc9.
Add a few drops Worcestershire
Sauce and a dash of pepper. Servo
on a platter on slices of buttered
toast and allow each person to
serve himself.
Milford chronicle., 1932-08-19
HERE'S GOOD IDEA

Rural taxation is urged to aid fire.
men in towns VINO respond to all
alarm calls from the country dis
tricts, by MOrrisville, Pa. The prop
OsitiOn is asked that levy fire tax
on inhabitants, turning over the
money to the borough, from which
they receive protection.
Firemen here are drafting a plan
to be submitted for approval by
Milford chronicle., 1932-08-19
SHORTS VS.. SKIRTS

They are having quite a hot de-
bate in the Irving Park district of
Chicago over the appearance of
Shorts" on the municipal tennis
courts. Two girls barred from the
grounds for wearing the abbreviat-
ed trunks went to court about it..
Their petition ayers: "The new
shorts tend toward grace and beau
ty and fulfill all canons of decency.
Medical experts recognize the bene-
ficial designs of the costumes, which
permit health-giving sun rays to
play upon the body" And the court
agreed with them!-The Pathfinder.
Milford chronicle., 1932-08-19

GUNNER meals should be informal comfortable af serving
~ only lessons for the
serving but provides welcome change Buffet
suitable for group large the table
place aactvey grnshed serving dshefor the part
the table with silver and linen by, allow
guests themselves Almost all may
this way.
Chicken Salad Sandwich Rolls Potato Chips
Preserved Sweet Gherkins Spanish Queen Olives
Nodded Mixed Vegetable Salads
Jelly Refrigerator Roll Iced Tea
Milford chronicle., 1932-08-19

Creamed Ham and Olives%
Fresh Cucumber Pickles
's~ Nodded Fruit Salad
Jelly Jumbles
fAl Tnd;cafaa that racnaa ara rivan
Milford chronicle., 1932-08-19

.(') Indicates that recipes are given below.
Evening star., 1932-04-19
BUSINESS INSTRUCTION.

POLICE, FIREMAN, SPECIAL preparatiol
Clerk promotion, statistical clerk, FIJI
clerk. The Civil Service Preparatory Schoo
sc. corner l2th and F NV. Met 6337
Evening star., 1932-04-19
PERSONAL.
fConffnuaI

DON'T DISCARD YOUR WORN HATs-LET
US remodel them into latest creations. 81. so
and $3.50: Smart new hats to order. For
HATS expertly reblocked and remodeled
Rachel M Berry, 8 years with julius Gar
finckel G. Co. Lin. 1850. Apt. so 21'
PARENTS, WHY NOT GLASS HONORS"
for your child? I tutor in your home My
method is generally successful, for children
usually like young men. They will regard
me as their chum. Lessons soc up. Address
Box 25-X. Star office.
RUSTLESS SCREENS MADE TO ORDER,
also carpenter and cabinet work; recon-
mended workmanship; reas price Col 0225
YOUNG WIDOW AND 2-YEAR-OLD CHILD
want a good city home. doing housework for
small compensation Ashton 24-F-l3
WANTED-GOOD VOICES; NV CHURCH
choir: solo and best voice lessons advantages
Address Box 426-V, Star ONCE. 10"
MASSAGE. BATHS, IRRIGATIONS: CIRCU-
latory, muscular treatments; white nurse
operator. District 9071 II"
Evening star., 1932-04-19
CIRCULARS PROHIBITED.

In order to protect its adver-
tisers from receiving circular
matter, it is expressly under
stood and agreed that all such
matter will be withheld as far
as possible by The Star. Only
bona fde answers to advertise
ments addressed to box numbers
in care of The Star will be de-
livered to advertisers on pres
entation of the box number
ticket.
Evening star., 1932-04-19

IF YOU have had washing ma
chine sales experience come in
and see us; full cooperation
with the best proposition in the
city on the worlds leading May
tag line. We will also tram a
few inexperienced men il they
are hard workers. Married men
preferred. Apply employment
Office,
THE HECHT CO.,
62S F St.
Evening star., 1932-04-19
MOTOR TRAVEL

GO BY PRIVATE AUTO; SAVE MONEY.
REFERENCES REQUIRED
BUNYANS, 1921 PENNA. AVE MET. 6752.
90
MINISTER AND WIFE DRIVING TO SOUTH
Carolina, April ~. can accommodate two,
share expenses. Adams 4691-M.
Evening star., 1932-04-19
HELP-MEN AND WOMEN.
WANTED-SALESMEN

COUNTER MAN (whitej, car service girls
experienced preferred Cal! IueSoaS' Du.0i
Kitchen, 6525 Georgia ave. NV
Evening star., 1932-04-19
FARM AND GARDEN.

sODDING, GRADING AND SEEDING
class. Call M. Schools, Pot. 63o7 for esti-
COW MANURE for roses, 81 per i00-lb.
sack; SackS, IS; delivered; lawns seeded.
Cleveland i2l5-J, or write Glenhurst Dairy,
Bethesda, Md.
ROSE BUSHES dug daily, years old. 8 for
~; perennial bedding yeg. flowers, plants;
top soil, seed, fertilizer. 500 9Th ST. NV 22s
Evening star., 1932-04-19
SITUATION-MEN.

VALET, gentleman's, English, single seeks
position; references. Address Box Sl7-V,
Star once. 90
YOUNG MAN, college education, medical
training, ex-employe of Congress. offers to
do messenger. guard. aid or CLERICAL work;
moderate salary. Address Box 45-x, Star
Office.
YOUNG MAN coiored, porter; reference.
Call or write to 300 Oakdale pl. NV.
YOUNG MAN as chauffeur. clerk or odd
Z. NJ. Shinn, l22 c NV. Dist. 0384.
SITUATIONS-MEN AND WOMEN.
COUPLE. chauffeur and maid or waitress;
white; long references: can leave city. Ad-
dress Box 436-V Star office. l9'
Evening star., 1932-04-19
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

MAKE YOUR HOME SAFE WITH DOG
We have good collie puppies. also fox terri
ers, and other breeds and singing eanaries
gold and tropical fish. Schmids Pet Empo'
rum, 712 18th st. NV.
FRESH MIXED BIRD SEED.
Pound, l5c; lbs, Toe; 10 lbs, 81 80.
ATHERTONS PET SHOP.
6l2 r st. NV. Nat. 4702.
Evening star., 1932-04-19
POULTRY AND EGGS.

POULTRY AND EGGS.
BABY CHICKS. Barred Rocks and R. I
Reds. Hatches each week. Strong. healthy,
lively thoroughbreds. Baby Ducks and Tur-
supplies. F. w. Bolgiano & Co, 607 z st. n W.
GUARANTEE your income this year. Get
Massanutten chicks from high-fiock average
certified, $50 INABILITY. Lowest prices in
years 1000 live delivery guaranteed. Write
for FREE BOOK. MASSANUTTEN FARMS
HATCHERY, Box 560l, Harrisonburg, Va.
PURE-BRED BABY CHICKS
Rocks, Reds, Leghorns.
PURE-HRED WHITE PEKIN DUCKLINGS
ATHERTONS PET SHOPS,
612 F St. NV Nat A702
Evening star., 1932-04-19
EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES.

houseworkers; by day week, month; ref. in
vestigated. Decatur 1851. 1887 llth NV.
my2s
Evening star., 1932-04-19

nd evenings. eSe'' euiie~S
Northeast Hupmobile Sales,
oi EYE ST. ne -.-. 80 H st. ne
Seward daily gateway., 1932-08-24
TESTIFIED HEAVY BOOM

After many hours of steady work and long into the hours of last mite, a c. M. B. crew completed building up and resteping the heavy boom on the aft-mast of the SS Derblay, which will now permit unloading the last five big railway cars. The absence of railroad cranes here, due to flood conditions along the northern divisions, has delayed the big ship for two days, it is said.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-08-24
DEATH VALLEY SC0TTY' |S AGAIN 0N THE TRAIL
 0F ANOTHER FORTUNE
Death Valley Scotty" famed aS

Death Valley Scotty" famed q
 the man of mystery along about
 l904'06, is again taking the trail ir search of gold, or to reSurrect his famed secret mine in the Funera range of Nevada. Scotty now own.
 a castle far out in the Nevada deS- ert where it is possible to fry eggs in the hot sand and water is wei only on one side.
 Scotty came into fame after drifting into Los Angeles with 8 quantity of fabulously rich ore chartered a special train and took number of cronies to New York on an excursion and establishing a record for cross-country travel
 From that date on thousands ot men have sought to discover the source of Scotty's wealth. Thus far no one has penetrated the se- cret, altho there are many plaus- ible speculations.
 Scotty was and is one of the most picturesque characters of a picturesque country, and repre- sents about the last remnant of that age of romance when men of the sun -scorched, trackless desert like the Arabs folded their tents and stole silently away in the night"
 Despite his periodical possession of large sums of money Scotty nev- CT altered the style of his raiment: black trousers, leather boots, black shirt, flaming red necktie and a Kentucky colonel sombrero. To add to his picturesque ensemble he was invariably accompanied by his fa- nous mule "Slim."
 There were those who alleged that Scotty was supplied with the special train by the Southern Pa ,lflc railroad as an advertisement, put it could not be proven; neither could the suggestion that his fabu- ously rich ore came out of Gold field, where miners just then were 'eaping a harvest out of "high- grading"
 Sidney Norman, Western en- sineer, and Rol King, president of he Los Angeles Chamber of Mines,
Seward daily gateway., 1932-08-24

Flowers made to order for all Sylvia'S.