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Milford chronicle., 1932-12-02
PUTTING THINGS OVER

The principal reason why the
American people accomplished re-
markable results during the World
War, was that they gave such hearty
and unanimous support to the war
causes. If there was a movement to
raise money or accomplish anything
else for the benefit of the army and
the government, everybody cheered
it on. Even if people could not give
money, they usually gave their own
labor, and if they could not give
either money or work, they cheered
the work on. There were practical
ly no objectors, dissenters, or SCOT
fers.
If we could get something like
that unanimous support Of the good
causes and the business advance of
our city would accomplish
its objectives, the same as our peo-
pie did things in the war time.
Milford chronicle., 1932-12-02
RESTLESS YOUNGSTERS

On a railroad train a short time
ago, a group of college students
were noticed as they returned from
a football game. They were a mer-
ry crowd, full of laughter and hap
piness. They were a feeling of pow
er, yet in spite of that they had not
acquired the ability to keep still a
minute. They were like jumping
jacks, and it seemed as if nature had
put tightly coiled springs in their
heels.
They were constantly roaming
through the aisles of the train, and
if they were in one railroad coach,
they wanted to be in some other. 1t
is a godsend that there are games
to serve as an outlet for such rest
lessness, or there would be an ex-
plosion. However, it would not hurt
them any to acquire a little more
power of quiet reflection. Things
that are in too incessant motion
have way of wearing out.
Milford chronicle., 1932-12-02
"WINDOW" BAG HELPS
SELL FARM PRODUCTS

The duplex" or window" bag
developed by the United States De-
partment of Agriculture about two
years ago, is proving popular for
marketing many farm products. One
side of the bag is woven closely and
the other is mesh, thus giving the
consumer a chance to see the con-
tents.
Consumer demand has increased
the use of these small cotton bags
for potatoes, onions, and other veg
etables and fruits. This increases
cotton consumption and makes the
farm products more attractive, the
department says.
Citrus growers in Florida are
turning to mesh bags for marketing
their fruit. They find it ships as
well in bags as in crates and the
bags make attractive selling pack
ages for stores. Retailers have
found that a red mesh bag height
ems the color of oranges.
Increased consumer bag use has
been especially marked for potatoes.
It jumped from $4,000 in 1928 to
more than 100000 in 1881. The
15-pound bag is most popular for
potatoes, with the 25-pound bag
next in favor.
Milford chronicle., 1932-12-02

Just suppose that the total
Spanish War pension bill was cut
off. The average local taxpayer
would not receive one cents ad-
vantage to himself or his busi-
ness. Only those who pay high in
comes would receive a return
from the Government. The cost of
maintenance of the disabled men
and their families is a duty of the
Nation. Big Business is trying to
relieve itself of the responsibility
and desires to place it upon the
communities, which would in
crease local taxes of the commun-
tiles. The local grocer, butcher,
storekeeper, and produce mer-
chant would be adversely affected,
for the Spanish War veteran
would have less to spend for the
necessities of life. Less than one
third of one per cent of the Ma
tional taxes go to pay Spanish
War Veterans pensions.
Make these facts known to your
neighbor. You may rest assured
but few of your friends pay in
come taxes to the Federal Gov
ernment and perhaps none pay
the large income taxes from
which most of the veterans pen
sions are paid. Those who do pay
Federal income taxes can afford
to do so. Most of these fortunes
were made during a war period
while the service men were un-
dergoing the Tigors and hard
ships of Army and Navy service.
No mans home is taxed one
cent to pay veterans pensions.
The real and personal property
tax goes to the State and local
treasures, not one dime of it
goes to pay the veterans.
All of the propaganda that is
being spread throughout the coun-
try comes direct through the eff
forts of Big Business and is in
tended solely to prejudice the
home owner and community tax
payer by making him believe that
he is paying the veterans pen
sions. Nothing is further from the
TRUTH.
The sympathies of the Ameri-
can people are with the veterans
and we should point out the hypo-
critical statements issued from
the agencies that are controlled
and manned by Big Business.
RICE w. MEANS,
~ '-.'c Chairman, National Com
thifh mittee on Legislation.
Milford chronicle., 1932-12-02
Milford, Friday, December 2, 1882
PUT THE FARMER ON HIS FEET

A hopeful kind of meeting was
held in Chicago a few days ago,
called by the United States Chamber
of Commerce. The object of the
gathering, as stated, was to put the
farmer on his feet financially"
At present the farmer is very far
from being on his feet. He strug-
giles under burden of debt and
taxes. The theory of a good many
folks seems to be to relieve him by
having him borrow still more, and
pay still higher taxes. But when a
man carries load too great for his
strength, that load must be light
ened. .....
This meeting at Chicago is a sign
that the leading business people re-
alize that the farm end of our ma
tional partnership has been carry
ing a too heavy weight. The prices
received for farm products are so
far below the prices which other
merchandise gets, that the farm dol
lar looks very thin and meager when
it gets out on the street, and it buys
little compared with what it used to.
The farmers of course have made
plenty of mistakes. The majority of
them borrowed too much money, in
those high stepping days when there
weren't going to be any more hard
times. One reason why they did so,
was that people were incessantly
teasing them to borrow more. And
now many people who formerly
urged them to buy on credit and put
on moro mortgages, are blaming
them for borrowing too much.
We have a condition among the
farm people that has not existed be-,
fore for many years. 1t can not be
cured simply by lending them more
money. Most of them owe too much
now. When the old economic laws
do not fit changed conditions, new
ones have to be made. The farmer
must be put on his feet, as the busi-
ness people were told at Chicago, or
in his stumbling and striving to re-
gain his footing, he will pull us all
into the ditch.
Milford chronicle., 1932-12-02
CHRISTMAS SEALS

The American people are again
asked to buy the pretty Christmas
seals, the proceeds of which sale are
used in the anti-tuberculosis cam
paigns. AS 10000 people are an
nually carried off by this dreadful
disease, it is a real peril that we
must not forget.
tuberculosis might be nearly
abolished, if everyone took sanitary
precautions to prevent its spreading.
So long as people are careless, it
will spread. The money provided
by the seal campaign educates mil
lions of people who otherwise would
be careless, and trains them to take
the necessary sanitary precautions
against this scourge. When you buy
the seals, you are safeguarding your
own home.
Milford chronicle., 1932-12-02
FALSE HOPES IN LIQUOR
STOCKS
(The Literary Digestl

High pressure stock statesmen
who have been peddling beer stocks
on the ground that the Eighteenth
Amendment will be repealed, or at
least that the Volstead Law will be
modified in short order, are being
1oundly denounced as rcketeers by
the Better Business Bureu.
And this blast recalls to the mind
of a market writer on the New
York Times that "liquor securities
never were favorites in Wall Street
speculation:
Unlike the oil, radio, utility, and
other shares, the "booze stock" just
did not seem to carry a popular ap-
peal, although a few of the more
prominent were dealt in actively at
times.
One of the reasons was that most
of the prosperous corporations were
family-owned, with small capitali-
cations, usually handed down from
father 10 son, and in which the out
standing shares were limited.
In many cases, stock in these en-
terprises was unobtainable. In the
instance of the most widely adver-
tised beers, the producers were clos
ed corporations-family gold mines
and no stock was available to the
public, nor were reports of their
earnings published.
A few years ago an attempt was
made to popularize a whisky stock
on the New York Curb Exchange,
but misfortune struck the play; first
and then market
crash. Most investors lost money.
The advent of new beer stocks on
he market was described by the
Better Business Bureau as crack
ct" to take advantage of the popu-
arity of beer and the possibility
hat its manufacture and sale
would be legalized soon.
Most of these shares were describ-
ID as rank speculations, being bas-
ID largely on possibilities, and with
earning figures comput-
ID on the basis of income which
would put a prosperous speak-easy
indicate to shame.
Milford chronicle., 1932-12-02
Suggests Farmers To
Take City BOarders

The Editor:-
Our State is appropriating money
for relief of the unemployed. Are we
starting to wreck those peoples
lives by the dole system, or are we
planning to help them permanently?
/ am told by a member of the inVes-
tigating commission that five cents
per meal per person is the allow
ance. Also 1 am told that if all the
industries of Wilmington were to
start up, there would still be 5000
unemployed in that city. Such a
statement indicates that many of
these people should be gotten out of
the city for keeps"
Most of our farmers have plenty
of food, shelter and fuel, but no
money. How many farmers would
take one person, how many would
take two persons, and how many
would take a family for period of
time, provided those persons helped
with the farm chores and other
work, and provided the State used
part of the relief money to pay the
farmers five dollars per month for
each person? At this rate, $1,000,O00
would take care of 10000 persons
for five months-and at the same
time place $1,000,000 cash in the
hands Of our farmers. Such a plan
would nelp the unemployed (per-
haps permanently, would get them
out of the city, and would also in
crease the purchasing power of the
farmers by just that much.
Could such an idea be worked
out? Perhaps partly, anyhow. 1t is
basicly economic, and ought to be
worth considering.
Frank H. Shakespeare
naIauoro
Milford chronicle., 1932-12-02
GIVING WAN HIS WINGS

Man first obtained his wings on
December II, 1903, when Orville and
Wilbur Wright flew the first motor
driven airplane on the sands OF
Kittyhawk, North Carolina. A mon
ument in honor of that superb
achievement is now erected and
dedicated. The world pays tribute
to the splendor of that deed.
The story of the triumph of the
Wright brothers over incredible diff
ficulties is one of the most fascinat-
ing romances of history. The tales
of the fiction makers seem pale and
fiat in comparison. These struggling
and obscure young men had studied
for years on this problem. They
built up by tireless investigation and
experiment, a theory of human
flight. But probably the smiling
wiseacres who watched their do
ings regarded them as slightly
cracked.
They had too little money to
spend $500 for a stove to keep them
warm on the bleak sands of Kitty
hawk. But in spite of all, they kept
on and on. "Ad astra per aspera",
says the old Latin proverb, meaning
ITO the stars through thorns."
1t throws a queer light on human
nature, to recall that it took about
five years during which these fellows 1
were constantly making successful
flights, before the doubling world
could see anything in it, or take
my interest in this one of the worlds
greatest developments. The slow
human mind could not grasp the
'act that scientific genius had given
nan wings, on which he would soon
iy the oceans and circle the earth.
The story of the Wrights should be
londered by every ambitious young
iter. They knew every single thing
hat was to be known about flying.
I anything was wrong in other the
,ries, they discovered the error by
heir own experiments. You can't |
zeep people down on the ground of |
ow achievement, when they show
uch traits, any more than the
Wright boys could be kept out of
he air by public jeers.
Milford chronicle., 1932-12-02
CHRISTMAS BUYING

What will people do this year
about their Christmas gifts? Will
they as usual wait until few days
before the holiday, and then pour
into the store in jams of jostling
shoppers? Will they all turn up at
the postoffce a few days before the
holiday, and make life miserable for
the army of postal workers who re-
ceive and deliver these vast noun
tains of packages and other remem-
brances?
Probably they will do about as
usual, for it is extremely difficult
to jar our folks out of their custom
ary habits. Many of them will make
the excuse that they are living from
hand to mouth this year, and if they
should make their holiday purchases
early in December, they would have
to adjourn still further the payment
of other bills that are long overdue.
There are good many hard up
people who can not be expected to
do their buying this year much in
advance of the holiday. There are
millions of others who are not thus
hard pressed, who could just as well
buy their gifts early and mail them
early. These folks should have a
heart.
They should ask themselves how
they would like to be mail carriers
or postal clerks or store employees,
trying to do a week or two of ordi-
nary work in single day, and what
effect such an intense strain would
have on them, if they had to put on
the harness and carry that load that
is almost too heavy for any human
being to carry.
The annual rush of Christmas |
buying is welcome in the stores, as
it helps restore the volume of trade
that has been sadly depleted in a
year of reverses. But it could be
handled with greater comfort to the
public, less expense, and less over
work, if people would be more con-
;iderate, and would spread the rush
over a greater period. Everyone in
Milford who has any money on hand,
should buy his Christmas gifts at
once, and send them very early in
he game.
Milford chronicle., 1932-12-02
MODERN MARTYRS

The strange case of Col. Raymond
Robbins, famosu social worker, who
recently disappeared, and was To-
Gated in a little North Carolina viii
lage, suggests what mental strain
can do to a sensitive nature. Here
is a man who carried the fate of all
humanity close to his heart. Unlike
many wealthy persons, he did not
surround himself with soft luxury,
but he gave his life effort to human
welfare.
The sorrows of the poor weighed
Milford chronicle., 1932-12-02

on him day and night. He apparent
ly drlfted into an abnormal mental
state, in which he did not recognize
his own life. People who thus give
themselves to noble causes until
something in them snaps, deserve to
rank as modern martyrs.
Milford chronicle., 1932-12-02

William, aged 46, a poultry farmer
of Charing Heath, in Kent, showed
a London reporter a photograph of
his fathers big family taken two
years ago and said:
"For a long time I had been anx-
ious to get a complete group and
eventually got them all together. We
had a great time and, grown up
though we were, played the old
games of our childhood around the
old home at Bilsington. The party
included most of the grandchildren.
at was a sort of thanksgiving re-
union, as four of us boys had come
safely through the war, and only
one of us was slightly wounded.
That was Jim, who was a sergeant
in the artillery"
Milford chronicle., 1932-12-02
FAMILY OF 81 AT PARTY
English Farmer Claims World Rec.
ord in Living Descendants.

Richard Lukehurst, a retired
farmer, aged n, living in BiIsington
Cross, near Ashford, England, is as
serted to have more descendants
alive than any other living family
man in the world. They number an
even sixty, and are thus designated:
Fifteen sons and daughters, forty
three grandchildre nand two great
grandchildren.
Of the eight sons and seven
daughters only one of the latter re-
mains unmarried. Bessie, age "a,
who lives with her father. One son,
Milford chronicle., 1932-12-02
His MartlydOm

F'ather-"Troubled with dyspep-
sia in school today? Why, that's
strange thing for boy to have"
Johnny-'I didn't have it: had
to spell it."-Boston Transcript. :
Milford chronicle., 1932-12-02

The difference between a hunting
license and marriage license is
that the first entities you to a GER
tain number of deer while the other
means just one dear-at a time.
Milford chronicle., 1932-12-02

JEERING at your home town is
good deal like throwing your bread
and butter on the ground and spit
ting on it.
Milford chronicle., 1932-12-02

THE business people who forget
to advertise, must expect that peo-
pie will forget about their stores.
Milford chronicle., 1932-12-02

Call at Morrison's Store for Pet
ty's Bread. adv
Milford chronicle., 1932-12-02

Policeman-Miss, you were doing
60 miles an hour!
She-Oh, isn't that splendid! 1
only learned to drive yesterday.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-02-16
MORE PROPERTY IS BOUGHT BY F FAIRBANKS co.
F. E. Company Purchases Engineer Greek Block,
 Harlan Makes Known

The Fairbanks Exploration Com pany has recently added to it's al- ready extensive holdings in the Fairbanks district by the acquisi- tion of a block of placer ground on the famous Engineer Creek. it was announced here by J. D. Harlan, General Manager of that organiza- tion and the Hammon Consolidat- ed interests at Nome, both sub sidiaries of the United States Smelt- ing and Refining Company. This property, lying north of the town of Fairbanks, is adjacent to the Fairbanks Exploration Com pany's Goldstream ground and car be worked by dredges two and six to advantages, MT Harlan said. Ii was formerly owned by the Whit worth interests of London, from whom it was purchased.
 After having put the company on an operations basis to enable it to go ahead with mining ot the extensive holdings it holds ir the Fairbanks district, the organi- zation is now prepared to pay more attention to the explorations branch of the industry. MT Harlan said To that end it is prepared to in- vestigate prospects and will not hesitate to acquire additional prop critics, either lode or placer, when- ever and wherever opportunities are presented.
 MT. and Mrs Harlan, who ar rived last Saturday, are house guests of Gov. George A. Parks They will leave on the Admiral Evans Friday or Saturday for Sew ard enroute to their home in Fair banks
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-02-16
DEMOCRATS TO
 INCREASE SIZE
 OF COMMITTEES
Organization Give Women Equal Rank on Commit
 tees-Try New Plan

The Democratic party's Territor- al organization was completely re- vamped at the Territorial Conven- tion at Fairbanks, it was revealed here this week when an official transcript of the proceedings was received. A new Territorial Con- mittee was partly appointed and provision was made for inclusion of women on both the Territorial and Divisional committees on a 50-50 basis with the men.
 The Convention fixed the pro- cedure for completing the organiza- tion of both these bodies and in- structed this work to be expedited.
 John w. Troy, Editor and Pub fisher of The Empire, was made member at large and. Chairman of the Territorial Central Committees. The Convention, upon the recom- mendation of the Divisional dele gations, appointed the following members of the same committee: First Division, s. Hellenthal, and Judge w. A .Hclzheimer; Second Division, Thomas Gaffney and Hugh O'Neill; Third Division, A. A. Shonbeck and o. J. Todd; Fourth Division; Harry Phillips and Thomas B. Wright.
 The membership of this commit- tee was increased to IT, and the Divisional Central Committee in each Division was instructed to name two women to fill the re- maining eight places.
 The Convention also authorized the Divisional Central Committees to enlarge their memberships to 13, from the present number of seven. The additional six memberships will go to women. The Committees were asked to name six women at once to complete their rosters.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-02-16
SHISHALDIN IS
 ACTIvE;BREAKS
 LOOSE AT NIGHT
Series of Explosions, at h. tervals of Two Minutes,
 Takes Place REPORTS ARE HEARD FIFTY MILES AWAY
Mu ch Apprehension Felt
 for Various Settlements on Unimak Island

ANCHORAGE Alaska, Feb. 16.- The Anchorage Radio Club has re- ceived a message from the False Pass station stating that Shishaldin volcano went on another rampage last Saturday night
 The eruption this time took the form of series of explosions which were audible for 50 miles.
 The explosions were undoubtedly caused by gas from the inner crater mixing with oxygen.
 The explosions occurred at in tervals of two minutes.
 Reports received at False Pass, according to the advices sent here, are that there is considerable ap- prehension felt for settlements on Unimak Island.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-02-16
CHICHACOF WILL
 RESUME IN BIG
 WAY IN 50 DAYS
Keller, Back from Inspec- ton Trip, Says
 Progress Good

The Chichagof Mining Company probably will initiate a regular mining and milling program with in 50 days, according ot w. K. Kel- Ter, Commissioner of Education, who returned here yesterday after a 11-day trip of school inspection, which included a visit to Chicha- gof where he talked with General Manager J. L. Freeburn, of the mine.
 The company is now running two shifts on underground development work and the results are entirely satisfactory, he said. The ore taken out by the development crews is being milled.
 Schools Do Good Work Besides Chichagof, Commissioner Keller visited Hoonah. Strawberry Point, Sitka, Port Alexander and Tenakee where he inspected schools and Goddard where he arranged for the creation of new school district to replace the old one. From an educational standpoint, all of the schools are doing good work, the Commissioner said. At tendance is at normal.
 Upon his recommendation the Sitka authorities are considering making certain changes to enable the school there to enter the ac- credited class. In order to do this, it will be necessary to augment its teaching staff with another in- structor and make additions to it's
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-02-16
Black Cat Escapes Alipe
 When SnO,U Slide Buries
 Cabin, Kills T,oo Miners

The body of Areander was re- covered Sunday.
 The slide crushed the cabin of the two miners.
 A black cat was the only thing to emerge from the wreckage alive. The rescue party dug the cat out, half frozen, from the debris.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-02-16
 BICE NTENNIAL. LUNCHEON HELD AT NOON TODAY
Ch a m b CT "Unofficially' Opens Washington Biz
 centennial Observance

Wirs. (. capacity crowd in att tendance, the Chamber of Com merce today 'unofficially' opened the George Washington Bicenten- nial Memorial celebration in this city by devoting it's entire weekly meeting hour to a special program The official opening of the cele- bration will be featured next Mon- day evening in program by the Mt. Juneau Lodge F. & A. M, al Masonic Temple.
 Dr. H. w. Alberts, Director oi Agricultural Experiment Station in Alaska. in a brief 15-minute ad. dress reviewed Washington life closing with a quotation from lief ferson's tribute, that he was '.s wise, good and great man."
 Fine Song Program
 The meeting was opened witt the entire Chamber, led by Mes danes Crystal Snow Jenne and w c. Ellis. singing My Country Iris of Thee" The first musical num- Der on the program was solo Sally in Our Alley" sung by Mrs Ellis. This, she explained was one of the most popular ditties ir Washington's day. She responded with an encore, The Girl I Left Behind Me-" another Colonial flaw. orite.
 A duet. Your Flag and NY Flag" sung by Mrs. Ellis and Mrs Jenne, was the next number Mrs Jenne was enthusiastically ap- plauded for her rendition of Wash. ington, Our Hero, the words tC which she wrote herself. Mrs Carol Beery Davis played the ac- compartment to all songs.
 Favors From School
 The dining room had been ap. propriately decorated for the oc. casion, large and small American flags and pictures of Washington predomniating in the scheme. Cen. tered over the luncheon table, { large flag was suspended from tht ceiling. Another was hung above