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Seward daily gateway., 1932-04-29

For Satisfact1On-try our Purity Seattle Ice Cream. Alaska Shop.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-04-29

Fancy Winesap Apples, $200 per box. Brown & Hawkins.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-04-29

Flowers made to order for all oc- caSiOnS. SYLVIA'S.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-04-29

It appears that each nation represented at Gen disarmament for all the rest
Milford chronicle., 1932-12-16
CHILD WORKERS

A nation wide campaign has been
started to remove more than 2,000,-
900 children from the jobs where
they are said to take the place of
adult workers, and put them back
in school. Such action, it is claim
ed, would provide jobs for a great
number of idle workers who now
are tramping the streets.
There are said to be 100000 chill
dren from seven to II years of age
who are out of school. Some people
would put practically all of them
back at their schoolbooks.
Yet there are many boys and girls
from IA to II who do not learn well
out of books. They learn life's
lessons in other ways. If they can't
keep up with their school classes,
they may really learn more if put
on some farm or shop or store job,
provided the labor is not excessive
for their capacities.
Some employers may say that
only by employing child workers,
can they compete with other pro-
ducers. But is competition worth
while, if you stunt the growth of a
child, or weaken his puny little
body? If such employment impairs
his mental or physical faculties, you
may place life long burden on the
community. Such ones often drift
into lives of crime, and the commu-
nifty has to employ police and courts
and prison keepers to handle such
misfits of society.
Every state should examine its
labor and school laws, to determine
if they hamper the best development
Of their children. There are prob
ably too many boys and girls work
ing whose employment deprives
adults of their jobs. The commu-
nifty does not gain much when it
throws a man out on the street and
puts a child in his place. If many
Of these little ones should go back
to their books, we would better
pinch somewhere else, and not ask
hem to go through life without edu-
cation.
Milford chronicle., 1932-12-16
THE CHRISTMAS SHOPPER

When people do their Christmas
shopping, they should realize, paI-
ticularly if they are a little late
about it, that the store people are
doing about two or three times as
much work as usual, and that the
shoppers must be prepared to do a
little waiting before they can ex-
pect service. Those who can't stand
it to wait few minutes until ear
lier comers are served, should have
bought their holiday stuff long be-
fore this.
We must all keep good natured
through the Christmas rush. The
store clerks who can keep their
temper when customers are cross
and grouchy, are headed for pro-
motion. They show capacity for
success in retail trade. And the
customers who are tolerant and do
not find needless fault, are the ones
who get the best service in the en0.
Milford chronicle., 1932-12-16
GOOD OLD SANTA CLAUS

Some literal minded folks think
that parents make q mistake when
they tell the children the pretty old
fable about Santa Claus. When the
little ones find out that it is all just
a myth, it is claimed, they lose faith
in the veracty of their parents.
Children, however, are not literal.
They live in a world of imaginings.
They constantly read about magic
carpets, elves and gnomes, but that
does not lead them to district all
literature. They have to learn when
the world is telling fables and when
it is talking seriously.
The Santa Claus story had it that
the genial old citizen of the North
Pole brought his gifts ito good chill
dren". 1t was literally false, but es-
sentially true. We have learned here
in Milford, that if people are good
and kind and helful, gifts come to
them far more wonderful than any
that old Santa brought with his
reindeer.
Milford chronicle., 1932-12-16
JUNIOR AND HIS TOYS

The mission into which the Christ
mas shopper puts the most real en-
thusiasm, is buying toys for Junior
and Sister, and all the other little
Juniors and Sisters of the family cir
Gle. 1t is fascinating experience
to look over the toy sections of our
good stores here in Milford, and see
what marvellous things they offer
to the juvenile eye.
Mechanical toys are most allur-
ing. Father may be so absorbed, as
he fools with them, that Junior
hardly gets chance to work them
himself. One of those little railroad
trains that careers so bravely around
it's little track, as it ploughs
through tunnels, and scares the toy
horses and COWS off the track with
its glowing headlight, is enough to
make Juniors eyes pop out of his
head. And many others are equally
bewitching. ,.. -tn
Toys and other Christmas gifts
have their influence in shaping
character. If children are provided
with the equipment for athletic
sports, they are likely to grow up
good out door kids, who know how
to do active things, and do them
skilfully and gracefully.
No toy can be more useful than
one that teaches a child to think or
exercise skill. Innumerable chill
dren, for instance, have grown more
deft with their hands through using
building blocks. When they learned
to initiate pictured models and build
homes and shops and churches out
of these little pieces, those little
hands got a start toward using the
tools of skilled mechanics and ar
tisans.
Many boys have turned away from
mischief by giving them sets of
tools. When they were saving and
hammering their funny little con-
they weren't tramping
down peoples gardens or hooking
fruit. A good tool so occupies the
heart of a boy, that hoodlum ideas
can't find any room there.
Milford chronicle., 1932-12-16
LIFE INSURANCE HAS NO COM.
PETITION

It casts no discredit on other
types of investment to say that a
life insurance policy is the safest
haven for savings.
Most investments contain ele-
ments of risk. Under favorable con-
ditions, they return good profits.
Under unfavorable conditions profits
often dwindle or disappear.
Life insurance is different mat
ter. Primarily it is for security -
secondarily for reasonable earnings
varying with the type of policy. 1t
is a means of creating an estate, of
protecting dependents, or guarding
against the misfortunes of the fu-
ture-not a means of speculation. 1t
is an investment for persons who do
not want to take chances-who must
make sure that their savings are
safe.
In these days, a life insurance
policy is often the only thing of
real value in once-sizeable estates.
Life insurance is being used to build
up estates which have been depleted
by depression. In functions such as
these, it reigns supreme-an invest
ment without competitor.
Milford chronicle., 1932-12-16
AMERICAS BANK SYSTEM

President Hoover remarked in his
message, that the nations banking
system has failed to meet the great
emergency of the past three years.
Great Britain has suffered no bank
failures through this period, and
Canada has not had any substan-
tial ones, which seems to show that
our statesmen should be capable of
developing a bank system that shall
stand such strains.
But it will have to be one in
which many people who want to
borrow money will not be able to
get it. Many people complain that
banks are too reluctant to lend
money, but the number of bank fail
ures for the past three years sug-
gests that they loaned it too freely.
If we want the banks to stand up
against such strains, they will have
to be cautious about making loans.
Milford chronicle., 1932-12-16
THE GOVERNMENTS DIGNITY

President-elec Roosevelt expects
to write to all the state governors,
asking them not to send state
guardsmen to Washington at state
expense, to march in the parade held
in honor of his Inauguration. He
wants a simple ceremony. In this
he will be generally commended. A
similar question also may come up
at the Inauguration of newly elected
state governors. The people will
feel, if it is proposed to have elab-
crate and costly ceremonies in any
state, that the money could be bet
ter spent in other ways.
The idea is often advanced that
the things the government does.
must be done in some expensive
way, to preserve the dignity" of
the government. But it is doubtful
If the government gains any dignity
in that way, particularly in times
like these. Extravaganza rather
detracts from the dignity of the gov
ernment, by giving the impression
that its officials lack judgment.
A similar feeling is often seen in
the erection of public buildings. A
city may spend thousands more
than it can afford for a city hall or
a schoolhOuse, in the effort to pro-
vide a handsome structure consid-
cred suitable to the dignity" of the
place. This sentiment is one thing
that has helped load the country up
with burdensome debts.
1t does not exactly appear. why a
city needs a more dignified building
than business enterprise. If a
building good enough for some
successful corporation, it should
apparently be good enough for the
public business.
Governments acquire dignity, not
by spending more money than is
needed, but by administering the
peoples affairs so honestly, skill
fully, and justly, that the people re-
spect them for their achievement.
There are no short cuts through
which dignity can be achieved by
the extravagant use of money.
Milford chronicle., 1932-12-16
THE PRESIDENTS MESSAGE

President Hoover's message to
congress calls attention to the need
for balanced budget and reduced
expenditures of the government.
With this general principle most
people will agree. But when it comes
to picking out the particular things
that shall be cut out, most people
are willing to sacrifice their wives
relations, as Artemas Ward said
about enlisting for the Civil War.
When so great economies are
needed, it becomes necessary to cut
costs all along the line. When gov
ernment officers protest against sal
ary cuts, they can be reminded that
most peoples income has been
sharply reduced. The government
salaries can not go on indefinitely
in time of general shrinkage.
Milford chronicle., 1932-12-16
Milford, Friday, December 16, 1882
THINK THIS OVER

Congress is now in session. There
will be a hundred and one sugges-
tions for farm relief, unemployment
relief, etc. Most of the suggestions
will be at the expense of the tax
payer who, in turn, needs relief un-
less the sources of taxation are to
be dried up.
Suppose that instead of new
schemes to soak the taxpayer, Con-
gress would urge that five million
individuals we'll able to do so-one
twenty-fifth of the population of the
United States-should spend in the
next thirty days, an average of 5000
each for needed improvement to
their home or places of business.
This would put one billion dollars
($1,00O,000,00O) into immediate cir
culation, would create new taxable
income and property, and start an
endless chain of buying and produc-
tion.
The public should recognize that
relief for itself can come only from
itself. Congress can give no relief
except as it takes from one person
and gives to another. Instead of
having our money taken from us
and getting only a tax receipt in re-
turn, why not spend it wisely so as
to get value received and at the
same time start business going,
which, in turn, will return our ex-
enditure through increasing the
business of each of us instead of
killing it by exorbitant taxation.
Milford chronicle., 1932-12-16
BUSINESS AND POLITICS

One reason why business does not
recover from recent depression as
rapidly as some have hoped, is that
there is always a certain hiatus or
interruption caused by a change
from one administration to another
at Washington. This interruption
would occur, even if the change
ahead was generally admitted to be
for the better.
What business wants is to be able
to look ahead with some certainty
and know what it can depend upon,
what the conditions are which it
must meet. Business never knows,
when new congress is elected, just
what these lawmakers are going to
do. Even if they make good rec
ord and satisfy the country, this ele-
ment of uncertainty exists until
their policy is determined.
1t was to meet this situation that
congress adopted the so-called lame
duck amendment, which starts the
new congress early in January, the
new president to begin his term
about two weeks later. But that is
too late to apply this time to the
new administration.
If then the recovery of business
is slower than many have hoped, it
does not mean that the depression
from which we have suered will be
unduly prolonged. Our business
people should look ahead with faith
and confidence, that the common
sense of America will work out
ways by which normal conditions
can be restored.
If business is still slow, it is
largely due to two causes, fears and
uncertainties as to the future, and
the lack of purchasing power among
the people. When business is as
sured that it can get it's money back
ii it buys and sells as usual, it will
go to work with customary enter
prise. Business must be given a
chance to make money, and be as
sured that it's interests will be safe
guarded. But business must not
grasp for high profits and dividends,
as so many corporations did in the
past, or it will destroy the purchas-
ing power of the people.
Milford chronicle., 1932-12-16
IF PROHIBITION IS REPEALED

Opinions differ so violently on the
liquor issue, that it is difficult to
unite on any constructive program
for dealing with this matter. But if
we are to discourage intemperance,
"wets" and "drys" must get togetb-
er, and agree ON certain general
principles.
Intemperance has cursed the
world since earliest history. 1t has
broken up homes, enfeebled minds
and bodies. Young men of most bril-
liant attainments have sunk to the
gutter. An evil that has so ruined
lives and happiness is no joke, and
it is not smart to take it lightly.
One reason for the present power
full revolt against prohibition, mani
tested in the first day of the con-
gressional session, has been that its
advocates depended too much upon
law and not enough upon education
and persuasion. They relaxed their
former efforts to train the children
as to the evils of intemperance. No
young person is fit to go out into
the world, until some authority has
given him correct information as to
these evils.
There is a general agreement, in
case prohibition is repealed, that the
saloon system must not come back.
But what constitutes a saloon? The
place where the stuff is sold may be
called by some other name, but the
old evils may center there. Also
there is a general agreement that
states which desire to retain prohi-
bition, should be protected by the
government from importation of
liquor.
Liquor dealers in former days US
ually made more money when peo-
pie drank to excess. Either the ele-
ment of private profit should be
eliminated entirely, or else such
sales should be so taxed that in
creasing sales will not be profitable
to the sellers. Good people of all
shades of opinion must unite to
mitigate and regulate these evils,
or we may see conditions worse
than they were before.
Milford chronicle., 1932-12-16
DIR TRADING CENTER

1t is a satisfaction to our people
to see. so many folks coming in by
automobile and other means to trade
in the stores of Milford. This gath
ering of shoppers from more or less
distance tends to increase as time
goes on. The good reputation of our
business concerns has spread quite
widely, and they are appealing to a
large population through the pres
ent Christmas trade season.
Now if people come considerable
distances to trade at our stores, it
seems foolish for our people to go
anywhere else. There is such thing
as "going farther and faring worse"
as many of our people have learned
in the past when they went away to
buy goods.
Milford chronicle., 1932-12-16
REASONABLE TRADE

One of the losses which business
people have to take, comes through
the habit of returning goods to
stores. People will wear things for
days, and then expect stores to take
them back. Even if they are brought
back at once, it costs something to
carry on the transaction, and the
store should be compensated for
that loss.
Before you take anything back to
a store, ask yourself if your claim
is a reasonable one. Merchants Of
course win favor when they are lib
eral in such matters and give peo-
pie a chance to examine goods in
their homes. But they should not
be asked to go to added expense be-
cause people made errors in judg-
ment, or if they are forced to go to
such expense, people should expect
to compensate them for it.
Milford chronicle., 1932-12-16
BARNARD ARIsTOCRATs

A wonderful show if the aristo-
Gratis of the barnyard was given at
Chicago, when $4,000 horses, cattle,
sheep and swine were shown al. the
International Livestock Exposition.
Our people may not believe much
in human aristocracy, but they
rightly choose the blue bloods of
the barnyard, descended as these
grand creatures are from ancestors
with high records of production.
The human aristocrat may some
times be contemptous of ordinary
folks. But the barnyard aristocrat
is no snob. Any farm boy who brings
him water and corn looks good to
this potentate of the show pens. 1t
is one sign of agricultural advance,
that the quality of its fiocks is con-
stantly improved by the eager search
for fine pedigrees.
Milford chronicle., 1932-12-16
CHRISTMAS STOCKS

People sometimes used to think
that they had to go to large cities
to obtain nice Christmas presents.
But under present conditions, there
is not the slightest necessity of so
doing. The merchants in a city
like Milford buy their Christmas
stocks from the most up-to-date
wholesale places. If any style is
generally popular, you are sure of
finding it in our stores.
The only difference is that in a
community like ours, the stores
make a special effort to provide
stocks of very useful and depend
able merchandise, which people will
not merely like when they buy it,
but which will give satisfaction if
offered as a gift OF if used by the
purchaser.
Milford chronicle., 1932-12-16

IF the supporters of a political
candidate don't holler little, he
will not probably be elected, and if
the managers of business don't
shout a little through advertising,
they will probably also be losers.
Milford chronicle., 1932-12-16

Betty came running into the house
in a state of great excitement. Bob
by Smith kissed mel" she announced
at the top of her shrill voice. why,
Betty" cried mother, what did he
do that for?" "Well-I'm not sure
but think 1 have the stronger
will. l."-American Legion Monthly.
Milford chronicle., 1932-12-16
FRANKFORT

Come to Miss Sally's Hat & Gift
Shop to see and buy Christmas gifts.
Ask for a list to help you select
your gifts. Bring the little folks in
with you. Frankford. 1t
Milford chronicle., 1932-12-16
Good Rag

"Where can l get a license?"
"a hunting license?" asked the
clerk. 2.
mo, the hunting is over. want
a license to marry the girl I've
caught Boston Transcript. ~
Milford chronicle., 1932-12-16
SPRING LAMB

Nurse: "It's boy, sir, and weighs
six pounds"
Happy Father Ga butcher)-
without ?"-Jugend.
Evening star., 1932-06-19

Over the jumps
in the Bowman
Steeplechase S Sc
Handicap. main
event of the
u nited Hunts
M e ct at w est
Hills, ng
Island. Although
behind here, the
near horse, Fair
banks, I'd, won
the race.
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The Washington times., 1932-01-09
.ACR|MONY OUT
IN TAKOMA

Dissention within the Takoma
Park Volunteer Fire Depart
ment is expected to be smoth-
cred out next Wednesday night
when Martin F. Iverson will be
elected president of the organ
ization, along with A. L. Rey-
nolds, vice president; Charles
Thomas, secretary: C. c. Wa
ters, treasurer, and Leo B. Moi
felt, chief.
Mr.. Iverson let it be known
that he would not be a candi-
date unless all chickering's cease
and the members unite their ef-
forts for the good Of the de-
partment.
There may be a contest for
the position of department
chief, but it is said this will
melt before the election.
The Washington times., 1932-01-09
To HEAR
TAKOMA JUDGE

Judge A. L. Wilson of the
Takoma Park police court has
been ordered by Judge Robert B.
Peter of the Montgomery county
circuit court to appear Wednes-
day to show cause why the circuit
court should not issue writ of
prohibition barring the police
court from hearing any further
cases until it's validity is estab-
lished.
Judge Peter signed the rule to
show cause after counsel for
John w. Schaefer, of Takoma
Park, recently before Judge Will
son on charges of nonsupport,
had filed a petition asking for
writ to stay all proceedings of the
Takoma court.
In a prior appeal, Judge Peter
had ruled the court unconsti-
tutional.
The Washington times., 1932-01-09
BA|L|FF'S F { { s
FACE ATTACK
At BAR MEET
Arlington County Lawyers
to Pass on Report ReIa-
tive to New Court

Presid ent j. Hammond
Brewer, of the Arlin g t o n
County Bar Association, has
called a special meeting Tues
day afternoon to pass upon the
recommendations of a special
committee on the legislative act
setting up the county court.
A battle is expected on a
clause in the recommendations
which would give the bailiff of
the county court the authority to
serve all summonses, notices and
processes, and to execute all
orders and attachments arising
out of court business. This power
has formerly been held exclusively
by the sheriff or his deputies.
The bailiff's salary was placed
at 50 per day by the county board
of commissioners at it's last meet
ing, but with fees derived from
service of papers, the salary
would become a substantial one.
The Washington times., 1932-01-09
MONTGOMERY s
SUICIDE EST|RS
MYSTERIES.
Like Girl Who Died Recently,
. He Made Every Effort
to Hide Identity

The suicide of William Penn
Montgomery, jr., 1907 Cleve-
land Ave, n. w., a student
at Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, in Manchester, n.
H., was linked in investigation
today with the strange death
last month of "Louise &.
Meade" at Booth Bay Har-
Dor, Me.
Her body, not yet identified be-
yond the name she signed on
the Hotel Fullerton register at
Booth Bay Harbor, was taken
from the sea December 3. Both
Louise G. Meade" at Booth Bay
Harbor and Montgomery at Man
chester registered as from Pitts
burgh.
Young Montgomery was identi-
fled by a Boston woman, whose
name is being withheld at her
urgent request. She consented to
go to Manchester to view the
body only on the promise that
her name would never appear in
connection with the case.
Friends of Montgomery remem-
Der that the boy had been a
close friend of John Armstrong
Cygon, former Annapolis under
class man, who died by his own
hand at his home in Baltimore
on Sunday. The two attended
the Naval Academy together.
The Washington times., 1932-01-09
DEFENSE PILES
Up CHARACTER
TESTIMONY
Failure of Prosecuting Witness
to Identity Policeman
Cited by Lawyers

With indications pointing to-
ward an acquittal. the assault
trial of Jeremiah J. Cullinane,
suspended First precinct po-
liceman, was to be resumed in
Police Court before Judge Isaac
r. Hit today.
The defense was to open its
case today with numerous char
acter witnesses.
Hoffman Reluctant
Other defense witnesses were
expected to deny the charge that
Cu1linane on Christmas Day beat
Wilbur A. Hoffman. 614 MaSsa-
chusetts Ave. N. W., prisoner
1T the precinct, while transfer
ring him from one cell to an
other.
Hoffman's failure to identify
Cullinane as his assailant was
pointed to today as the strongest
point in the policeman's favor,
together with the fact that the
two most important Government
witnesses, although allowed to
testify, were jailed for contempt
of court.
Hoffman proved reluctant
witness yesterday when the Gov
ernment'S case was presented. He
said he was so drunk at the time
OF the alleged assault he could
not say whether the two teeth
were knocked out by the police
man or whether he stumbled
against the side of the cell.
Cell Mates Jailed
The highlight of yesterdays
session came with the sentencing
the two prosecution witnesses to
Jail for 48 hours for contempt of
court.