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Seward daily gateway., 1932-01-02
IN HOSPITAL

NEW YORK, Jan., 2, [P)-Wil- liam Muldoon, 86 year old member of the New York State Athletic Commission and health advocate, is a patient in a postgraduate hospital for observation of an un- announced ailment.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-01-02

Harold Chadwick was el le c e d Worshipful Master of the Cordova Mt. Mckinley Lodge No. 193, A. F. & A. M. at the regular annual elect ion recently, says the Cordova Times.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-01-02

Hans Simonsen is the fifth man employed in the construction work of the Seward Airport hangar, hav- ing begun his work Thursday
Seward daily gateway., 1932-01-02
LADIES REMEMBER:

The heels of oyer-shoes, when worn through, can be recondition- ed and made as good as new. Why throw them away when they can be repaired?
 SEWARD LEATHER WORKS.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-01-02

A special term of the District Court will be convened in the Fed eral courtroom at Seward next Monday
Seward daily gateway., 1932-01-02

There are 1,279 people living in the Seward district.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-01-02

In the Third Division of Alaska there reside 8,848 white people and 7,298 Indians.
Milford chronicle., 1932-07-01
THE NATIONS BIRTHDAY

OF what should our people be
proud as they celebrate the 166th
anniversary of their country's birth
OF its vast territory covering more
space than almost any other? OF its
amazing wealth, exceeding all 9TH
ers? OF its achieving people, who
have gone farther in mechanical
progress than any other?
These are all objects of congratu-
lation. When a country can develop
and retain such an enormous terri
tory, and keep its people so we'll
satisfied, even under adverse condi-
tions, that there is no thought of
any change of government, there has
been an achievement in social prog
ress not equalled anywhere. -
When we acquire more wealth
than any other nation, we demon
strate that our people have more en-
ergy and alertness. When we make
an unparalleled scientific progress,
it is sign that our people are more
and resourceful. s..
And yet all these considerations
are but minor causes for pride. A
nation might accomplish all these
things, and yet be an undesirable
place for a home, and it might be
menace to the world and disliked by
all its neighbors, Our greatest rea-
son for pride should be that we
have gone the farthest in promoting
human welfare, that we have opened
The doors of opportunity the widest,
have done the most to educate the
Formerly the nation with the
greatest fighting force was consid-
cred the greatest. Today the nation
with such a force is likely to be the
most hated one. We shall carry out |
he spirit of the great patriots who
ounded our country, if we organize
,ur industry with the greatest intel
igence, if we give the most gener-
'us treatment to the humble and
owly, and if we offer the most
PRACTICAL and inspiring education to
IL. A nation that concentrates on
hose aims will become the leader
f mankind. .a..
Milford chronicle., 1932-07-01
MHAF WE. .EEI,ERRATE

/
When the boys set of their big
bangs on July Fourth, tand perhaps
nearly burn up the town, when the
cities paint the dark skies with their
gIittering, fireworks, what essential
ly are theySall celebrating? Is..it the
successful war to which the Decla-
ration of Independence led?
Winning of independence for a
nation is not necessarily a reason
for celebrating. Thousands of ma
tions have won their independence,
and have gotten sick enough of it in
a short time, Giving them indie
pendence was like giving the chill
dren the matches ato play with,
which they use to set the house
afire.. 49,,
But on July 4, 1776, for the first
time in history, a successful and
lasting, Democratic government was
founded. Up to them, democratic
governments had been founded over
and over again, but for some reason
never lasted. Their founders were
too theoretical, they lacked common
sense, or something else was the
matter.
The government our fathers found
ed has lasted all these years, suffer-
ing the shocks of wars, depressions,
and frequent turmoil. But today it
is more powerful than ever. These
founders, for, one thing. were able to
set aside selfish and sectional spirit,
They did not consider merely in each
case what would be good for some
one state, but they tried to form a
system that would be good for all
he states, =,
These founders lived in a very
primitive society, without much edu-
cation, far from the world centers of
hought. Whence did their marvel
GUS wisdom come? There seems
super-human about it.
Well may we celebrate the day when
hey first declared our country ma
ion, at which date the process of
reating our amazing nation began
o take shape.
Milford chronicle., 1932-07-01
FIsTIC COMBATS

Millions Of people listened over
their radios to the broadcast of the
boxing match between Jack Sharkey
and Max Schmeling, when the form
er became world heavyweight cham
pion. There was a time in the days
Of old fashioned pugilism, when ten
der hearted people, particularly wo-
men, deplored what they called the
brutality of prize fights.
Today people of all types, includ-
ing many women, crowd these fight
ing arenas, and listen to the report
of the same over the radios. The
sport has been very much human
lied, although to many people the
sight of these fighters hammering
each other, and the story of their
CORY faces and exhausted condition,
is still far from pleasant, However,
when fairly, conducted, they are
test of science, endurance, and cour-
age, and as such have their place in
the world of sport.
The real test as to whether it is a
brutal sport, is the condition in
which the men are left after the
battle. The beaten fighters are ap-
parently no worse off than the ex-
hausted runners in a marathon run
or the winded crew of boat race.
Some people think that such con-
tests encourage boys and young men
to fight to settle their own quarrels,
Probably they do not fight nearly as
much as they used to, They seem
too fearful of little pain for that.
Many boxing match fan who yells
himself hoarse, in his derision at a
fighter who shows signs of weak
ness, would not dare himself to put
On the gloves against the tamest am
ateur opponent.
Lovers of sport should see that
.hese matches are fairly conducted,
with rules strictly adhered to. When
his is done, the spectators must get
he idea that yellow conduct meets
With contempt, and that all sports
md the game of life as well, must
'e played according to rule.
Milford chronicle., 1932-07-01
CHILD WELFARE GAINS

Don't let the children slip back
in this difficult economic period, was
the substance of the message deliv-
cred to the women of the land by
Mrs. Grace Morrison Poole, the new
president of the National Federation
OF Women's Clubs. ,.t
The women with reduced incomes
may say it is hard to live up to that
principle. But many children n re-
cent years have had too much money.
Their parents satisfied their every
wish. 1t would do millions of them
good to get out and do some work
for their money. Also many pleas
ures so easily purchased in the past
undid the work the, schools did for
them. Children's welfare depends
not on business prosperity, but on
the amount of attention, they get
from their parents. -.
Milford chronicle., 1932-07-01
BETTER GO HOME

Opinion has been divided as tc
whether the sO-called bonus march,
ers were justified in appearing in
Washington to ask for immediate
payment of their certificates. The
great majority seemingly condemned
the enterprise, yet many defended
it, and considered the boys had done
themselves much credit by their or
derly conduct.
But the senate has voted them
down. Why do they linger in Wash
ington? The place for them is in
their home towns. They do not ask
for charity, but if they stay on in
Washington, they must depend upon
gifts. 1t is not a good idea to sug-
gest to other elements Of people, that
they can. get legislation through
by assembling in great
masses in Washington to exert pres.
sure on congressman.
Milford chronicle., 1932-07-01
CAN AFFORD TO READ

Librarians in many cities and col
leges remark that the people are
reading more than ever before. If
they haven't the money for sporting
life, they can at least find excitement
in their favorite novels, or in
glimpses of the infinite world of real
life.
The jazzy followers of sporting
doings of a few years ago did not
care for books. They dropped his
tory like hot potato. Biography
put them to sleep. But the people
of former years never felt SO. They
sat up half the night to see if Jack
married Jane, or if the distressed
heroine was carried off by the
bloody pirate chief.
And many of them were not salts
fed to stop with the dream world of
fiction. They wanted to know what
the real folks had done. So they
read about Washington and Napoleon
and all the big ones. Many of them
who never travelled 100 miles from
their secluded homes, knew more of
the real world than our globe trot-
ters who have seen all the cafes of
Paris and the boulevards of Vienna.
All this marvellous world of liter
ature, is open to those who can't
afford to spend money now on jazzy
life. You can tire of the sports. But
once the enhancing world of books
opens up, that fairy land of romance,
That battle ground of nations and
peoples and personalities, becomes
more fascinating even than real life.
Milford chronicle., 1932-07-01
CHOOSING A PRESIDENT

The American people seem asleep
when it comes to managing their
state and city governments. While
they recline in peaceful slumber, all
kinds of schemes are put over on
them. But they do partly wake up
once in four years, when a president
is chosen. ,.
They certainly should do so. Our
political customs give the president
enormous power. Some people would
like to curb it, but it is more likely
to be enlarged than restricted.
One congress after another has
wrangled, delayed action, and dodg-
ed issues, with little interruption for
14O years, due to the conflict of sec
tions and interests. This lack of de-
cisive action creates the feeling that
the president, to which ever party
he may belong, should have a strong
initiative and power to bring about
action. The party in the minority
at any time would not probably de-
sire to limit that power, because it
hopes to WELD that authority in
coming administrations.
Our presidents, and the president
al candidates of the two leading par
ties, have all been men of honor,
and almost always of great ability.
Yet the problems they face are so
overwhelming, that many have fail
ed, or would have failed if they had
been chosen, to do the work expect
ed of them.
A man may seem of consummate
ability in his own state or occupa-
tion. But if put up against the prob
lens of all 48 states and all occupa-
tions, he faces a situation too big
for any one man to carry. Only those
brainy enough to understand all the |
multifarious and complex
conditions of the whole country can
attain any degree of success in such
! super-human task, People who
yote on such an issue without pro-
onged thought, reading, and discus
zion with their neighbors, show lit
lie realization of the problems our
country faces and must solve.
Milford chronicle., 1932-07-01
PURSUING TRUTH

Our old friend Truth, like that
other longed for ideal, Opportunity,
is much pursued, and not so fire.
quently found. According to the
lofty utterances at the college COM
mencements, to which some of us
recently listened, the main purpose
of education is to pursue truth.
Teachers and students in all kinds
of schools, scientists, clergymen and
their congregation, editors, and
many others, are supposed to be pur-
suers of truth. But judging by all
the shams of life, relatively few peo-
pie ever catch up with that sublime
parsonage.
The average modern student does
not look as if he pursued truth very
hard. Anyway, he does not appear
to get out of breath while chasing
her. He has so many other things
to pursue, sports, girls, money MAX
ing, etc., that truth has no serious
difficulty in eluding him.
Who are the real pursuers of
truth? What are the rewards of such
pursuit?
After thoughtful person has liv-
ed quite a number of years, he be-
gins to see that life is full of illu-
sions. People grab for money, for
instance, on the theory that possess
sion of dollars will make them hap
py. Most people who get the dollars
find they have made no steps what
ever in the direction of happiness.
They were reaching out after a
dream.
The pursuers of truth are not linn
tied to those who teach and study
in institutions of learning. They in
clude all of us who are keenly anx- |
ious to see things clearly as they are,
to grasp reality in place of shams. |
These pursuers do much personal
observation and quiet reading. They !
know what is going on in the world,
hey see into the emptiness of exag-
geration and visionary theories.
Their reward is the ability to see the
rue ends of life, and usually to at
ain them.
Milford chronicle., 1932-07-01
THE NEW VOTERS

Five million new voters, young
men and women who never voted for
president before, can be expected to
march up to the polls on November
8. Most new voters like to vote, un-
like many jaded ones of older years,
who are too tired to spend a few
minutes at the polls looking after
their own and their country's well
fare.
The majority will vote about as
their parents do. Not from any high
reverence for parental wisdom, but
because they belong to about the
same social and economic elements
as their parents, and they. copy
their group patterns.
The love which the politicians
manifest for these new voters is
very touching, enough to move a
heart of stone. How their heart goes
out to the aspirations. of youth, and
how they promise them a new heay-
en- and a new earth! Youth used to
accept rainbow promises somewhat
on their face value, A shiny plat
form, presented by candidates all
dolled up in the garments of re-
form, seemed glorious to them. They
Joined those marching armies with
waving banners and shining faces.
These former new voters, older
now, have seen illusions evaporate in
fog. How far are the freshmen yot-
ers now taking their place, to be
subject to similar illusion? Modern
youth is reputed cynical. It's dis
belief in all things impresses the
world as superficial and often shall
low. Still, this skeptical quality will |
come in handy when the gladhand- |
ers and long winders come around.
A bit of advice to the new voters.
Read, read, read" Follow the do
ings of the federal and state govern
ments, congress and the legislatures.
What the candidate promise for the
'uture is not so important as what
hey have performed in the past.
rhe reading voter, the listening vot-
II, is our salvation. Shams sink out
If sight, when they face his search
ng eye.
Milford chronicle., 1932-07-01
WEEDS

Why were sweeds. ever made,
groans the householder as he gazes
ruefully at his weedy garden. They
seem to prove the contrariness of
nature. Why do these pesky intelop-
ers, which do no good to anyone,
grow so easily without water or fer
tilizer, when good and beautiful
plants have to be petted every day?
Also boy looks at the weedy gar
den with profound aversion. All the
spirit with which he contemplates
pursuing the bandits, or navigating.
airplanes fades out when he looks
at the hated weeds. Why. not aban-
don such hopeless fight? Why do
not he and Dad let the garden grow
up to weeds, and live by hunting and
fishing like the Indians?
Perhaps the weed that seems like
such a dirty intruder here, may be a
useful plant elsewhere. But anyway,
the good gardener is rewarded for
his effort, when he contemplates the
clean order of his well weeded gar
den, His plants, seem verify. to shine
and say THANK YOU, as they shoot
upward like a growing hoy, when no
longer elbowed into the background
by the rOwdy intrnders.
Milford chronicle., 1932-07-01
SELF SUPPORT

The feeling has become deeply i'm
bedded in the popular mind, that
people should support themselves if
they are able to. The able bodied
young man who refuses to support
himself in these times is not usually
looked upon with favor. People feel
he should get OF and hustle for him
self.
1t is much the same with COM
munities. The self supporting COM
munity not merely works hard for
its sustenance, but it is converted to
the idea that it should buy its sup
plies of it's home people when it is
possibly able to do so. Buying at
home is self support, buying else
where is helping support some other
place. .t . ~-.. .s.
Milford chronicle., 1932-07-01
WARNING FOURTH OF JULY
Danger From Fire Crackers TO
Children

With the Fourth of July so near
at hand it is appropriate that the
! Delaware Safety Council issue
warning relatives to the use of
fireworks.
The campaign for a safe and sane
Fourth has succeeded in lessening
the toll of lives taken by fireworks,
however, casualties continue to oc-
cur wherever the unregulated use of
fireworks continues as it does in
many places even in the face of pro-
hibitory legislation.
Prohibiting the use of fireworks
will save many lives. Everyone is
urged to help lead the movement in
their own communities to secure
adequate fireworks legislation and
complete enforcement of restric-
tions against fireworks.
The Fourth of July is our coun-
try's birthday and it is very natural
for us to want to celebrate it in
some emphatic way but please re-
member that there have been more
people killed in celebrating the day
of our independence than were kill
ed in the Revolutionary War-the
very war in which we won our in
dependence.
Doctors realize the dangers of the
day and many of them stay at home
so as to be ready for accidents.
A doctor at the head of the large
hospital emphasized that cases that
come in several days after the
Fourth are often the worst. He said
that boys get hurt and do not want
to stop their fun so they stuff their
wounded hands in their pockets and
do not tell their parents until after
the Fourth is over. By this time the
Inflammation has begun and the
case is difficult to treat.
The most serious accidents on the
Fourth are caused by toy pistols
and cannon fire crackers. The pow
der from the caps often cause lit
tie wound in the hand and in this
wound the dangerous germ Of lock-
jaw finds a good place to live.
It is perhaps too much to expect
a complete return to sanity but
great effort at least should be made
by all cities and towns towards
leading their people into more mod
crate, more intelligent forms Of eel
ebration.
If explosives must be used the au-
thorities can limit their use to pub
lie parks during certain hours of the
day thus eliminating the danger Of
injurying other people or destroying
by fire.
Milford chronicle., 1932-07-01

der present conditions the people of
Kent and Sussex believe that Isaac
Dolphus Short, of Milford, will car
ry out all laws, make appointments
of all department heads, of ability
to discharge all duties connected
with both state and county adminisr
tratiOns, Certainly there is no ques-
ton as to the fact, that the lower
counties have men of equal or great
er capacity to look after the needs
of all public affairs, as any there be
in either Wilmington or New Castle,
l. d. Short is honorable in his deal
ings, he has experience in public
affairs with wide acquaintance in
the business world. He respected the
choice of the people in convention
assembled at Dover four years ago,
and Loyalty supported the party from
then. Sussex feels that he is neces-
sary for her future welfare as part
of Delaware, and if the people will
register who should register and
then vote in November their senti-
ments, Sussex Republicans will be
just as loyal to their principles be-
fore and after the election, as our
Godfearing folks have always been
for the past eighty years. ,..,
Isaac Dolphus Short, of Milford,
has announced he is a candidate, and
the Republican party in Sussex
county will undoubtedly give him
the delegates from this county at the |
State Convention.
The Governor of Delaware must /
be a man of high moral character.
He must be experienced in business,
in political, in moral ability to. en-
force the laws as the legislature
made them, He must be acquainted
with requirements of our courts Of
Justice and have respect for the
rights of all the people. That is
enough for a candidate to have and
4 elected to carry into effect.
Governor Buck is an ideal COVER
nor, he may have made some errors,
out who is there that has not. It will
De amazing to meet any perfect rec
,rd of any human being.
When the primary elections are
,alled to select delegates Isaac Dol
,hus Short, of Milford. is worthy of
our support and confidence in, him
o make a progressive Governor, of 5
Delaware.
Milford chronicle., 1932-07-01
GETTING DOWN TO CASES

Too many arguments between ad-
vocates of municipality owned and
privately owned electric plants re-
solve themselves into dog-fights of
the You're a liar" type.
There are undoubtedly municipality
owned plants in the country which
give good service at low rates and
return a profit to public treasures.
There are probably private plants
whose rates are too high. But such
isolated instances as these prove
They provide ammunition
for battles of words, but that is all.
Milford chronicle., 1932-07-01
COMMENTS on MR..
ROCKEFELLER
(From New York Timesl

The full effect of Mr.. Rockefel-
ler's statement regarding the Eigh-
teenth Amendment cannot be infer
red from the first comments on it.
Naturally, proponents of repeal have
found it heartening. To the defend
ers of the present law it brings dis
appointment which their reitera-
tions of faith in the cause itself do
not conceal. But the opinions of pro-
fessional leaders on both sides are
merely the expression of what they
are bound to say in the circumstan-
ces. Their verdicts could have been
anticipated. What one does not
learn, but would like most to know,
is the effect which this dramatic
change of front has had or will have
among the rank and file of those
who have supported prohibition,
whether half-heartedly or with en-
thusiasm. There is every reason to
believe that here its influence will
be great. For Mr.. Rockefeller is not
a politician changing sides to suit
the needs of the occasion. He is
disinterested and deeply trusted ad-
vocate of temperance who has come
reluctantly to abandon an earlier
belief on the basis of the evidence
presented to him.
Among the comments reported
from Washington was one by Sena-
tor Sheppard, co-author of the
Eighteenth Amendment. This hardy
friend of prohibition believe that
"Mr. Rockefeller doesn't sense the
situation properly" To urge repeal
is apparently to advocate an impos-
sible course of action. For the Eign-
teenth Amendment was not the con-
sequence of a sudden decision ON
the part of the United States. "It
was put in the Constitution by a
slow process of development.
Admittedly, the prohibition move
ment was such a process, maturing
over period of more than half a |
century. But this can scarcely be
said of the adoption of the amend
ment. AS late as 1912 the Anti |
Saloon League itself was still in
favor of State rather than national |
Neither political party
ever adopted national prohibition
plank. No President was elected on
the prohibition issue. That the sud-
den ratification of the amendment
was in large part due to the war
and to the need of conserving food
and fuel was frankly recognized at
The time by the Anti-Saloon League
Of New York, when it gave thanks
FOR the turn of events which had
enabled the advocates of this pro-
1osal "to take advantage of the war
1t is not unreasonable to
believe that what was done in so
great a hurry can be undone when
he growing movement for a change
,nlists the support of a man with
Hr. RockefelIer's willingness to give
rational prohibition every possible
,enefit of the doubt before rejecting
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