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Milford chronicle., 1932-10-21
SERVICE WITHOUT PAY

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for the upt of our people giving of their time and knowledge
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cans have worked hand in hand for the good of the State But
the critics will be found
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of this beautiful river and Its adjacent tributaries This work
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Milford chronicle., 1932-10-21
THE AUTOMOBILE LAW

To get any law obeyed, the public
ought to have a fairly clear idea
what the law requires. If people
have only hazy idea about the law,
they are likely to violate it. One
reason why the laws and regula-
tons governing automobile opera
tion are so frequently violated, is
that these laws and regulations vary
so much in different states, and diff
ferent places in the same state.
These variations are so great that
many motorists who are ordinarily
law abiding, have reached the con-
clusion that the laws and regulations
are so complex that it is impossible
to obey them. So they do about as
they think is right.
Many communities add to the con-
fusion by warning signs erected
years ago which they never attempt
to enforce. 1t is rather common to
see signs on the outskirts of viii
lagos warning driving not to run
over Is or 20 miles an hour. Those
signs may have been erected years
before when the driving habits of
the people were different. The aver
age motorist, on seeing such a sign,
and noting that no one is in sight or
anywhere near, does not see any ne
cessity of obeying it. But when
once people get in the habit of ig-
noring the laws on such matters,
the habit of violating laws and or
dinances is strengthened.
In some states motorists may use
their own judgment in the way they
approach railroad crossings, while
in others they are required to stop
before crossing. Dimming of head
lights is required in some states and
not in others. There are many like
in the laws.
Each state of course desires to
regulate traffic in accordance with
it's own local conditions. But it
would help get these necessary laws
if communities would en-
force the laws that they consider
necessary, and remove notices re-
quiring action that they do not pro-
pose to insist upon. Also if there
could be a movement to make the
laws of the states as nearly uniform
as possible.
Milford chronicle., 1932-10-21
MAKING FRIENDS

The old theory of the way to
make friends in place, was to ask
them to come and call on you. Then
if they did that, you thought you
could call on them, and you would
get acquainted and make friends.
But people are tired of this formal
Calling They are also busy, so they
do not run into each others homes
as they did.
Acquaintance made through or
ganization work create friendship
now. If you feel lonely and want
friends in Milford, join some good
local organization. Tell the officers
that you are interested in it, and
would like to take hold and do some
work in it. They will nail down
that offer before you can say Jack
Robinson. Before you know it, you
will be running some committee and
be quite hero in that society, and
everybody will want to know you.
You can make all the friends you
want in such ways.
Milford chronicle., 1932-10-21
INFERIOR MERCHANDISE

All that glitters is not gold, and
not all alleged bargains are really
bargains. So the merchants of Mil
ford will tell you. There is a great
deal of demand in times like these,
for low priced stuff. The manufac-
turers are forced to get out goods
to sell at certain fixed low prices,
but to provide them they frequently
have to use such inferior material
and hasty workmanship that the
goods Will never be satisfactory.
A campaign to eliminate inferior
merchandise is being promoted un-
der the auspices of the National Re-
tail Dry Goods association, and was
opened a few nights ago in New
York by P. A. O'Connell, president
of that organization. One good way
to help on that cause, is for people
to buy their supplies of their own
local dealers, who can not afford to
offend and disappoint their custom
ers by working off inferior stuff on
them.
There is not usually any economy
in buying inferior goods. If an ar
ticle sells for 25 per cent under the
market, but if 1t will last only half
as long as a first class merchandise,
then the buyer has lost when he
bought it.
Very remarkable bargains, or
those that seem so, are offered
everywhere now. Sometimes it
seems as if goods were almost given
away. But these goods that are sold
so very cheaply may be put together
so hastily and of such poor mate
rials that there is not cent of econ
omy in buying them.
If your home store advertises bar
gains, you can depend on getting
your moneys worth. But probably |
your local dealer will say that the
things he sells the cheapest, in re-
sponse to the demand for low priced |
stuff, are not the best economy in
the long run. Better pay little
more, and get something with the
real old goods in It.
Milford chronicle., 1932-10-21
BUYING TOO LITTLE

In 1929, people bought too much.
They spent beyond their means, they
pledged their income not merely for
that year, but for years to come.
That was one thing leading to the
depression.
In 1882, people have bought too
little. Many of course have spent
all they had, but many have failed
to buy what they could, because of
fears of the future. The way to
meet those fears, is to show people
by advertising that you have goods
to sell at low prices that will not
continue. When anyone is shown
that he can buy for $1.OO today
something that will probably cost
$1.5O next year, he is very likely to
set his fears aside and buy it. Such
advertising and buying is breaking
the force of this depression.
Milford chronicle., 1932-10-21
COMPLICATED ELECTIONS

AT the present time, in the busi-
ness of governing the country, peo-
pies minds are mostly concentrated
on one thing. Are we going to have
Hoover as President again, or shall
we put in Roosevelt?
But there are many things other
than these questions to be decided
November 8. The elections of mem
bers of congress are equally i'm
portant. If the president and con-
gress are pulling and hauling in op-
posite directions, we get little ac-
tion. 1t is perhaps one defect of
our government system, that the
president and congress may be of
opposite parties, so that they are
deadlocked.
Our people should not have their
minds so concentrated on the choice
of the chief executive, that they pay
no attention to the men who make
the laws of the nation. They must
remember that the power of con-
gress is ever greater than that of
the president. Then they have a
long list of state officers and legis-
lators to be chosen, officials whose
work touches us in our daily life.
One favorite project of reformers
is called the short ballot. It is held
that the voters are asked to do too
many things when they mark their
ballot. The result is that the minor
contests get little attention. Many
candidates will slip by
and win the suffrages of the people,
while they have their minds concen-
trated on the choice of a president.
In many states also the voter is
asked to pass on legislative ques-
tions by referendum He gives 10
thought to some issue,
wrong decision on which may cause
him years of anxiety. If some mat
ter is put up to him of which he
never heard, and on which he has
no opinion, he can not be expected
to act wisely on it.
Don't ask the voter to settle too
many issues when he gets into that
little booth with his pencil stub.
Give him fewer things to decide, and
ne will show more wisdom.
Milford chronicle., 1932-10-21
HUNTING

When the sportsman starts out
into the glimmering October au-
tumnal landscape with a gun over
his shoulder, he can reflect that his
ancestors back 10000 years used to
do the same thing. He comes by the
desire naturally. Hunting was in
caveman days what the movies and
football are to us.
The improvement of firearms has
simplified the sport. But the wild
creatures are smarter than they
used to be. Every time man makes
a better gun, the squirrels and the
partrdiges think up some new
scheme for lodging it. Man must
be close student of nature to out
wit these smart critters.
Also there are apt to be several
hunters to every bird. And some of
those hunters look at the game laws
as a pleasant joke, to be freely dis
obeyed when no one is looking.
Well, if they want to wipe out all
game in Delaware so it shall be like
a dessert, all they have to do is to
kill and kill without giving these
beautiful creatures a chance.
Milford chronicle., 1932-10-21
CAUTION WITH FIREARMS

How many people are going to
be shot this year with guns that
weren't loaded? How many folks
are going to look down into the bar
rel of a gun while they monkey with
it's shooting apparatus? How many
are going to point their guns in
every direction while they climb
over fences? And how many hunt
ers are going to fire when they mere
ly see a movement in the bushes?
If you can answer that question,
you will know something about how
many hunting accidents there will
be this fall. The careless hunters
may be warned over and over again,
but many of them will never learn
the lesson, until they have either
shot someone else or themselves.
Milford chronicle., 1932-10-21
DROPPING OUT OF SIGHT

Col. Raymond Robins, famous So
cial worker, dropped out of sight on
September. 8, and the mystery caused
by his disappearance was as deep as
ever when these words were written.
How can a noted man like that,
whose name is frequently before the
public, thus disappear and leave no
trace behind?
The power of the underworld
grows each year, and people who
have interfered with it's misdeeds
can never know when some stealthy
hand will reach out for them with
deadly intent. While the American
people have slept, a great enemy
force has risen, and it often threat
ems the life of some person who like
Col. Robins has tried to check the
wickedness of this foe.
Milford chronicle., 1932-10-21
Some Plain Facts To Consider

1t behooves us at this time to con.
slider carefully how we shall vote al
the coming election, so as to builC
for better and brighter future fol
our State and Nation.
There are several important is
sues before us, one of them being
both political and moral. l refer to
the retention or repeal of the Eigh-
teenth Amendment.
The question is one that affects
vitality a vast number of homes.
To show how it enters into the
home life 1 will relate some facts
that 1 have learned from personal
observation and study.
In the earlier part of my life
was a salesman, going from house
to house which gave me a good
cross section view of American
home life. This took place in Boone
County, Iowa, in the towns, country
and mining camps. In Boone, a
town of 10000 inhabitants, there
were 13 saloons. In some of the
miners homes I would find good
furniture, a we'll dressed wife and
children apparently healthy and
happy. Oftentimes the next home
would be one which had very poor
furnishings, poorly dressed wife and
children and the despair and hope
lessness of the woman was pitiful to
behold. She informed me that her
husband worked at the same mine
and received the same wages as the
husband of her more prosperous
neighbor, but that he spent most of
his wages in the saloon for liquor.
This shows the devastation of
strong drink wherever it is sold leg
ally.
The wife and children would go
to the saloon and beg the saloon
keeper to give them part of their
husband and fathers wages to buy
food with.
If they were apparently going to
make too much publicity about it he
would give them some money for
fear of adverse criticism of the sa-
loon.
Now the repeater will tell you we
are not going to have the saloons
back but some kind of a nice dis
pensary.
Don't be fooled because they
avoid the word Saloon Any place
where liquor is sold will see to it
that they get all they want directly
or indirectly.
Iowa passed a law chat the liquor
said would do away with
the evils of drunkenness. 1t prohib-
tied the sale of liquor to a man that
was drunk or a minor under 16, etc.
Did it work? No, the drunken man
DR. minor always found a buddy who
would take their money and buy the
liquor for them. 1t will be the same
Milford chronicle., 1932-10-21

| with the laws they make if they now
repeal the 18th Amendment. There
is one great evil connected with the
saloon, or whatever name you may
call it, that you don't hear spoken
of much. 1t is the short changing of
the drunken man by the saloon
keeper or bartender. think 1 am
safe in saying that millions of dol
lars have been taken that way from
the drunkard.
The man or woman voting for the
repeal of our present laws will
doubtless vote for some law legaliz-
ing the sale of liquor.
The person voting for the legal
izing of saloons, etc., is the one pri-
marily to blame for all the crime,
misery, sorrow, despair, poverty and
deaths caused by the liquor traffic
thereafter.
They are more to blame than the
official they put in to carry out the
law or the bartender passing the
liquor over the counter. The officials
and bartenders are simply their
agents.
Some people say, 81 do not Use
liquor or have any use for it but l
don't think the person that wanted
it should have his liberty to have it
taken away from him." They forget
that every law is in a way q curb on
an action some one might wish to
make. Laws are made largely on the
theory that we are our brothers
keeper. The poor, weak man who
has inherited the uncomfortable
passion for strong drink must be
protected. No one suggests that we
allow. narcotic drugs to be sold leg
ally. More misery, crimes and deaths
have been caused by strong drink
than by drugs. The responsibility
concerning our brothers welfare is
just as binding on us today as it
was on Cain on the day of AbePs
death.
We should see to it that we do not
give up any of the gain accomplish
ed by our present law. SRather we
should strengthen that law.
When one person buys liquor from
another he is accessory to the fact J
of the crime of the seller when he
knows him to have no legal right to
make such a sale. A sale and deliv-
cry is the consumation of contract !
between two persons, corporations,
etc. Why, then only hold one as do
ing a wrong? Such a CONCLUSION is
contrary to reason and American
juris prudence.
The law should be changed so
that the buyer is also guilty and
would be compelled in court to tell
from whom he made the purchase
DR. be arrested FOR contempt of court.
The fact is that the Volstead Act
md Eighteenth Amendment has
Milford chronicle., 1932-10-21
THE CHOICE OF FRESHMEN

The freshmen of Princeton Col
lege, as reported from recent ques-
tionnaire, most frequently desire
their girls to have beauty, brains,
and money. What would their ver-
dict be, if they were asked which of
the three they would prefer, if they
could only have one in their pros
pective wife?
If their conversation throws any
light on the answer, one would
guess that beauty was their first
aim. At least hours are spent in
discussion of the faces of the pretty
girls, to moments devoted to their
brains. AS to money, the boys will
not forget that issue. Meanwhile
they overlook what are perhaps the
most essential qualities of all in
marriage, which are a good dispo-
sition and a willingness to work.
Milford chronicle., 1932-10-21
WHAT ROOSEVELT TARIFF
POLICIES MEAN

Franklin D. Roosevelt, in asking
the farmers of the Uuited States to
vote for him, said that only through
his policy of international tariffs
and no tariffs on some products,
could the farmer hope to obtain bet
ter prices. This, the Democratic
candidate said, was due to the prices
the farmer could receive in foreign
markets.
The fact of the matter is that up
wards to over SO per cen. of all that
our farmers raise is consumed right
here in our home markets. Further
more, the prices paid IN these mar
kets are much higher than they are
in other countries. Look these fig
ures over These are the market
quotations on some leading farm
products. On, October 10, 1892,
wheat was quoted at a top price of
46 cents a bushel in Buenos Aires
and was bringing 691a cents a BUSH
ell at New York. Corn was selling at
311A cents a bushel at BuenOs Aires,
for 36% cents a bushel at Rotter-
dam, and at 419s cents a bushel in
4NCW 1OIhs OdLS were SellluS dL II
little over 20 cents a bushel at
Buenos Aires and were bringing
anywhere from 251a cents to 81
cents a bushel, according to grade
of the product, at New York. Flax
seed was quoted at. a top price Of
63B cents a bushel at Buenos Aires
and was selling at from $1.06 to
SLIP in Duluth and Minneapolis.
Governor Roosevelt. in suggesting
that we place agricultural products
on the free list so that we can sell
in foreign markets, must mean that
we should sell our products for less 1
than we are getting right here at
home today. II he Goes not mean
this, he must admit that he knows
nothing of prices in foreign mar
kets. In either event a vote to sup
port the RooseYeltian policy is
vote to destroy the American far !
mer.
Milford chronicle., 1932-10-21
ADVERTISING LIKE STEAM

Sir Thomas Upton, famous sports
man and merchant, wrote in his au-
photography, that William E. Glad
stone once said that advertising is
to business what steam is to ma
chinery, the sole propelling power.
Sir Thomas acted on that principle,
and won in business through adver-
tising the money to promote his
famous sporting enterprises.
If he had failed to advertise that
business, he would have dragged
along in the shadows of business
life, and would never have accumu-
lated the great fortune which he
spent so literally for yacht races for
the Americas cup. There is les
son there for every ambitious per-
son.
Milford chronicle., 1932-10-21
CLOSED SCHOOLS

Schools in 80 counties in Ala
bama, says a recent dispatch, will
have to close unless funds soon
show up. Many schools in other
states are equally in need of help.
Thousands of young fry will be
turned from learners to loafers.
If you take school privileges away
from boys and girls, you take away
the foundation of their life. Most
communities will say, after they
have seen their children idle for
time, that it is better to scrimp and
save anywhere else than let the
schools go down. If some towns
economical on appropriations as
they do on personal expenditures,
the school bell would still ring.
Milford chronicle., 1932-10-21
OLD FOLKS AND THEIR JOBS

The old folks are thrown up on
the scrap heap of modern industry,
according to many of our pessim-
lists, who think everything is wrong
in our benighted civilization.
But are they? The 1880 census
returns do not show it. Of the men
from S5 to 80, there were 97.7 per
cent who were employed at that
time. And out of the men from 55
to go years old, there, were SO per
cent employed. That was about 5
per cent less, but probably some of
these older men were not physically
able to work.
The older men are not just fitted
for the high speed jobs. But on the
good judgment jobs, which require
that people think about their work,
they come in strong. They are val
ued in the positions where long OBJ
servation of the ways of people is
important.
Milford chronicle., 1932-10-21

caused the great mass of working
people to put part Of their weekly
wages into the saving accounts and
better living conditions.
The working people have more
money in banks now, even during
this depression, than they had be-
fore the enactment of the Eigh-
teenth Amendment.
The liquor interests are trying to
make the farmer believe that if liq-
uOr can be made and sold lawfully,
| he will receive much more for mis-
grain, because so much grain would
be consumed in making liquor. Now
let us see how that argument agrees
with their statements when the Vol
stead Act and Eighteenth Amend
ment were before Congress for pas
sage.
The brewers and distillers asso-
Citations sent a large lobby with
plenty of money to Washington TO
work against the passage of those
acts.
They produced figures to show
that we did not need what little
grain they used to feed the armies
and civilians of the world in time of
the great war. They claimed that
only approximately two per cent of
our grain was used by them.
If that was the fact it should be
plain to the farmers that such a
small percentage of additional con-
sumption of grain will not increase
the price noticeably. Another thing
to remember in this connection Is
this connection is that the liquor
people claim that there is as much
liquor made now as before. That is
not the fact but if it were, the same
amount of grain is already being
used for the manufacture of liquor
so the farmers are apparently just
as well off now.
They claim the cities and towns
would get so much revenue from a
legalized and licensed liquor busi-
ness that they could reduce their
taxes.
The added crime, poverty and ad-
ditional people in our asylums
would take up the gains in that
line. They forget that a large
amount of liquor sold even during
the saloon age was sold by bootleg
gers who paid no license. In Chi
cago nearly one half those persons,
etc., that took out U. S. government !
permits did not pay a city license.
They were bootleggers.
Government dispensaries where
they have been tried, did not stop
bootlegging, nor excessive drinking.
If the Eighteenth Amendment is
repealed, drunkenness will return
as in former days and with the
large number of cars now on the
highways and streets of our cities,
accidents and deaths will be num-
erous.
Our own beautiful little City OF .
Milford shows a pleasing contrast
between the Saturday nights now
and those of many years ago when
liquor was sold legally in its hotels,
etc.
This liquor question is one that is
serious and affects, directly or in
every person in the United
States. We should not take a step
backward along this line but rather
boldly step forward to a better and
higher plane of action.
Our forefathers fought and died to
make our country the symbol of up
lifting liberties instead of demoral-
izing freedom.
It is we'll that we have a courage