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The Coolidge examiner., 1932-03-04
M arziDan.

Take one-half cupful of heavy
sugar sirup, warm it and mix with
one-fourth pound of almond paste,
add One-half pound of cOnfectiOn
er's sugar and work into paste.
Add d few drops of favoring and
mold into any desired form, using
color and leaves of angelica; small
fruits are easily copied.
(0. 1882. Western Newspaper Union.)
The Coolidge examiner., 1932-03-04

his eyes fixed on the hole in which
Shadow had disappeared. He took
care not to make a sound. Where
the brush was very thick he crawled
on his stomach through the snow
under it. And so at last he reached
the edge where he could peep out.
Just a little way off was big
stump.
IF l could reach that" thought
Peter, without being seen, think
perhaps l could steal away. There
is a little hemlOck tree just be-
yOnd, and if | can once get that
between HOoty and me he never
will see me in the world. 1t is my
one chance to get away from here,
and after I've done that | will have
to trust to luck to fool Shadow.
He'll follow my tracks as sure as
winter is here, once HOoty lets him
out, and Hooty isn't going to sit
there all night"
Peter looked back over his shoul-
der up at the top of the tall dead
tree which was HOOty's watch
tower. Right on the very tip-top
sat Hooty. If Peter had not known
he was there he certainly would
have thought Hooty a part of the
tree itself. Peter shivered, and it
wasn't the cold that made him
shiyer. Did he dare to cross that
open place to the big stump right in
plain sight of Hooty if he should
turn his head?
O6l by J. G. LloydD-wNU Service.
The Coolidge examiner., 1932-03-04
Masonic Temple in Ireland

What is claimed to be the first Ma
sonic temple in Ireland has been ded-
icated at Crawfordburn, County
Down. The temple is beautifully
situated on two acres of land over
looking Belfast Tough. 1t formerly
was known as the Red house, and
was transformed into its present
condition by three local lodges.
The Coolidge examiner., 1932-03-04
Roman Plumbing 2

Two thousand years ago. in the
reign Of Augustus, the first Roman
emperor, nearly every private house
in Rome had its own water supply
drawn from the main by lead pipes.
The pipes have such a modern ap-
pearance that they might have been
put in by a plumber of today.
The Coolidge examiner., 1932-03-04

never gives up until he has to. Now
I'll look about and see what chance
l have got to get away. The sooner
| can do it the better. Shadow
thinks | won't dare move while
Hooty is on guard. I'm going to
fool him if there is the least
chance in the world, and the soon
er l do it the better"
Very, very slowly and carefully
Peter crawled to the edge of the
brush pile farthest from where
Hooty sat on his watch-tower with
The Coolidge examiner., 1932-03-04
Dutch Sauce for Fish.

Take two tablespoonfuls of but
ter, one and one-half tablespoOnfuls
of flour, one cupful of liquid in
which the fish was cooked, one
cupful of milk, salt and paprika to
taste. Cook the sauce, adding two
egg yolks. one teaspoOnful of lemon
juice and beat we'll with an egg
beater just before taking from the
heat. Add a tablespoonful of minced
parsley and serve.
The Coolidge examiner., 1932-03-04
Cipar Bands History

Visitors to Cuba visit a rich to-
bacco growing country. They learn.
too, that Cuba introduced the band
on cigars. Fashionable ladies years
ago, afraid that the cigar would
stain their fingers, brought out the
cigar band for their protection.
The Coolidge examiner., 1932-03-04
Mother5C6oRBook
OUT OF THE ORDINARY

n OCCASIONALLY for luncheon or
~ for a supper dish one likes a
change. something which appeals to
the taste, and intrigues the imag-
ination. The dish may be an or
binary one, but the serving makes
it different.
The Coolidge examiner., 1932-03-04
Woman's Feat Recorded

The Colorado Springs Chamber of
Commerce says that Mrs. Holmes of
Lawrence, Kan, was the first wom-
an to hike up Pixies peak. She did
it in 1859.
The Coolidge examiner., 1932-03-04

TT7Ehad to cut down expenses;
w so my husband did his share
by switching to Target and rolling
his own cigarettes. felt kind of
sorry for him at first, but ! notice
he's more cheerful than ever.
. "He tells me that Target rolls
up into cigarettes that look and
taste like ready-mades. Target is
the same mixture of foreign and
domestic tobaccos that the ready
mades use. You get 40 special
gummed papers free. No wonder
my husband tells me he's glad he
changed. He's getting more ciga-
rette pleasure than ever, and we're
saving about enough to pay for
the family's bread and butter
each month"
The Coolidge examiner., 1932-03-04

chovy butter and just before taking
from the fire add the juice of half
a lemon or more.
The Coolidge examiner., 1932-03-04
Sauce d. Anchois.

Take three or four anchovies
mash them and mix with two table
spoOnfuls of butter. Prepare q
brown sauce with Drowned flour
butter and milk. Stir in the an
The Coolidge examiner., 1932-03-04

The girl friend says that the
younger generation would have lot
of respect for gray hairs-if they
could find any!
(@. 1882. Bell Syndicate. )-WNU Service.
The Coolidge examiner., 1932-03-04
Maitre d. Hotel Sauce.

Put a tablespoonful of butter into
a small saucepan over a moderate
fire and add to it chopped parsley
and chives. Season with salt and
a little lemon juice and while siz-
zling hot pour over the fish.
Another sauce to be used for this
dish or for any fish is:
The Coolidge examiner., 1932-03-04
Herrinu in Paper.

Soak smoked herring overnight in
cold water after removing the heads
and tails. Wipe dry and place in
a paper bag, those prepared for
cookery or in creased paper.
Place on a hot griddle and cook
until the paper is well Drowned
Serve in the paper with:
The Coolidge examiner., 1932-03-04

II ERE, strange as it may seem,
IL you see the fatal plunge of a
burning airplane in which a doomed
pilot is fighting for life. Only it is
being done for movie company at
Burbank, Calf, and while the
plane is stationary smoke pots, a
whirling fan and a camera that re-
wolves do the trick.
Milford chronicle., 1932-05-20
CARE OF THE VETERANS

The government will have spent by
1885 at the present rate, the vast
sum of $21 ,5OO,OOO,OOO for care of the
World War veterans, says General
Hines, head of the veterans bureau.
Our people will go the limit to take
care of the disabled boys. They are
our heroes, and nothing is too good
for those who lost legs, arms, eye
sight, or suffered other such dis
abilities.
The veterans love their country,
and do not want to impose unrea-
sonable or excessive burdens on it.
There is a difference of opinion as
to wether the costs as now running
are excessive. But all will agree on
this one point, that if the United
States ever goes to war again, the
cost of caring for the veterans after
peace is declared, will be greater
than the cost of the war. Almost any
kind of compromise is better than
taking on such load,
Milford chronicle., 1932-05-20
WISHING THEY WERE HOME

A lot of folks who few years age
hiked down to the larger cities, long
ing for the white lights and dream
ing of making fortunes, wish they
were at home now. If they had
stayed at home, they wouldn't have
gotten rich, but they would have
made secure place for themselves.
A lot of these folks will gradually
return to the small cities and coun-
try towns where they came from.
If they can find something to do, the
life of these towns Will look a great
deal better to them than it used to.
They always make a place for any
good worker. They don't have much
jazz life, but there are plenty of
and pleasant activities
for all who wish social life.
Milford chronicle., 1932-05-20
ORIGIN OF DISORDER

The plague of loose paper blow
ing around, or of paper refuse scat
tered around the streets, is one of
the worst blots on most of our mod
ern towns. AS cities grow in size,
they usually find that the only way
to keep their streets clean, is to hire
people to spend their time picking
up the waste that other people have
thrown away.
1t seems too bad that people have
these disorderly habits, which spoil
the looks of their home places, and
make town look like a Cutlery
place. The people of Milford should
be as much ashamed of throwing
paper refuse in the streets, as they
are of splitting on their living room
floors. Can not parents drill into
their children the idea that they must
help keep their home town clean?
Milford chronicle., 1932-05-20
THE BIRD FRIEND

The boys whose main aim is to
date" the girl friend, the girls
whose highest ideal is to pursue the
boy friend, might devote some of this
emotion to making dates with the
bird friend who serenades them so
cheerfully each morning from his
tree-tOp home.
When people become over senti-
mental and mushy at a premature
age, it is commonly due to lack of
normal and wholesome interests.
Young folks who have opened their
eyes to the marvellous beauty of the
world in which they live, who are
fascinated by the story and romance
of nature and her creatures, are not
so likely to get foolish and startle
the neighborhood.
The labors and the loves of these
fascinating bird friends provide a
drama as fascinating as any you
watch on the stage. AS our bread
and butter depends in part on the
protection of the feathered world in
its job of destroying our pest enc
miesfi we should know its individ-
lals well enough to speak to them
IN the street.
Milford chronicle., 1932-05-20
THEY TOOK THEIR COATS OFF

The number of jobs found for un-
employed persons by the American
Legion, American Federation of La
Dor, and the Association of National
advertisers, aggregated 668,SO7 at a
recent date. This work is now turn
ed over to local committees, with the
hope of attaining the original aim of
100000 jobs.
This effort has produced bigger re-
suits than many doubters expected.
While others have sat around and
criticized and offered freak sugges-
tiOns, these folks took off their
coats, rolled up their sleeves, tramp
ed around from door to door, and
started all these idle folk on useful
work. In the languag" of the ball
field, Alta boy.
Milford chronicle., 1932-05-20
HOUSECLEANING BLUES

If anyone is to complain about the
dirt and disorder of the houseclean-
ing season, it should be the lady of
the dustcap and broom, who is in
the thick of that annual scrimmage.
But did you ever hear any good
housewife of Milford complaining
about this annual combat with Gen.
Dirt? Hardly, for the women so
hate that abominated foe, that they
get a kind of fierce triumph in put
ting him down, and restoring their
homes to their original sanctity.
No, the men are the ones who do
the real kicking on housecleaning.
When they come home and perhaps
find their Sunday clothes not in the
usual place, or maybe are asked to
beat a rug, they are depressed by
the Housekeeping Blues, and begin
to entertain bolshevik conceptions
of married life. But the women say
that if it were not for housecleaning,
the homes would be sorrowful
places.
Milford chronicle., 1932-05-20
WEALTH AND THE SHOVEL

James C. Brady, Jr., 23, of New
York, who recently inherited a for.
tune, also directorates in so compa-
MES, has bought a pair of overalls,
and gone to work shoveling coal for
$2S.OO a week at a gas plant of which
he is a director.
He wishes to learn the utilities
business from the ground up. The
business people will have their eyes
on that boy. What he doesn't event
ually know about the gas business
will be of doubtful value. And if all
rich mems sons would do similar
things, fewer corporations would lose
money by futile quarrels with their
help or by failures in practical judg-
ment.
Milford chronicle., 1932-05-20
STUDENT SOLICITORS

How many times the doorbells OF
Milford have been rung, by young
men who were trying to sell stuff to
pay their way through some educa-
tional institution. Ones first i'm
pulse is to give that eager faced
youngster a lift, and buy his maga-
zine or other article, event if you
don't want it.
But what kind of a view of life
does that boy get, if he can sell stuff
that is not wanted by that appeal?
Anyway, q leading colleges do not
like that plan. They have united
to discourage students from using
that form of appeal. They may be
influenced by the feeling that a, host
of students who are not fitted for
college study, have conceived the
false idea that a college diploma
opens the doors to all success.
The college boy who sells stuff to
help him through college can be
commended, if he sells the goods on
their merits, and because people re-
ally want them. But if they buy
through sympathy, and don't want
the goods, then he forms a habit of
relying upon such sympathy to float
him over the rocks of life. Thus he
is depending ON something which |
can't be depended upon. The quick
er he learns to depend on his own
performance alone, the sooner he
will attain his ends.
Asking people to buy things they
don't want, on grounds of sympathy,
IS good deal like passing around
he hat and asking for dimes and
lickels. Self reliant people hate to
show up in that light
If boys can't sell goods except
through such an appeal, they would
,etter put on overalls and go to
work. farming or digging bitches, or ]
ny other manual labor they can {
md. In so doing they supply a real l
uman need, which they fail to do )
they sell goods through sym c
athy appeal '
Milford chronicle., 1932-05-20
BACKING UP THE BANKS

A bill to assist closed banks, and
providing a guaranty fund, raised by
the banks, for the benefit of banks
that may close in future, is favored
by the banking committee of the
lower house of congress.
The American people want to put
their banks on a rock bottom foun-
datiOn. They have been dismayed
by the ruinous and sorrowful spec
tacle of bank failures. They have
listeneded to too many lamentations
from widow and orphan depositors
in such institutions. But if the eff
feet of such guaranty law was to
make the less conservative bankers
feel that, with this fund back of
them, they could lend money to all
their bosom friends and distant rela-
tives, it might close more banks
than it would open. More protection
of deposits, will need more regula-
ton of the way those deposits are
invested.
Milford chronicle., 1932-05-20
TAX WEEPERS

There will be weeping and gnash-
ing of teeth over the new federal
taxes soon to go into effect, to para
phrase the words of Scripture. But
when your Uncle Samuel succeeds
in balancing his budget, and making
his cash account look like a paying
business, he will hold up his head
much straighter The thing for him
now is to stop acting like the slow
pay debtor who lodges around the
street corner to avoid the man of
whom he borrowed a tenspot.
When the American people make
up their minds to buy an article, they
buy it, The fact that it is taxed two
to five per cent does not make them
hold onto their coins.
Our folks can learn a great deal
from Europe. A year ago England
was way down in the dumps People
said the little old isle was done for,
gone to seed. Today, largely the re-
suit of balancing the budget, Eng
land is claimed to be the most hope
full country on earth, in spite of the
fact that its taxes are many times
heavier than ours.
France was in terrible shape a
few years ago, until it began to pay
its own way. Today, France holds |
almost as much gold as the United |
States, though its population is only
one-third Of ours. When a country
becomes solvent instead of insolvent,
the psychological change is enor-
nous. Fear gives place to conf
dence, and business goes on in
normal way.
Taxes hamper business, and cut
Ting off unessential expenditure is
FAR better than raising new leVies.
But the harm done by taxes is inf
litely less than the shock given to
by the spectacle of
that keeps borrowing
money for current expenses. But the
quicker our people become used to
laying the new taxes, the sooner the !
ears that now paralyze business
1ill vanish like nightmare. /
Milford chronicle., 1932-05-20
DEFECTS OF CAPITALISM

The capitalistic system has brok-
en- down, and is soon to break up,
say the Socialists. But the Ameri-
can people have always been wary
OF jumping from the frying pan into
the fire.
The folks over in Russia have been
living under that wonderful Soviet
system for Is years. But they have
MT yet been able to get enough to
eat, let alone enough clothing, and
all the comforts our people enjoy.
And people are constantly being shot
for trying to escape over the Rus
sian boundaries.
There is some satisfaction in liv-
ing in a country where troubles arise
from producing too much of things,
rather than in country that can't
produce enough of anything. ~'s-
1t would seem far easier to remedy
the defects of our system, than to try
some new plan which has never
worked well yet. Our system pro-
duced a marvellous progress up to
1929. and during the period while
the bolshevists of Russia were al
most standing still.
The following remedies would go
far to abolish the faults that got us
into trouble:-
1. Unemployment insurance, main
purchasing power in irreg-
llar industries through temporary
2. Discouragement of speculation.
It has been too easy to borrow
money with which to play the mar
let.
3. Strengthening the bank system.
The banks should be managed by
,eople who have experience and en-
ugh capital.
4. Economy in government. Ma
ion, states, and cities, should be
un as families are, spending money
Or the things they can afford, in
tead of for everything they want.
With such faults cured, our country ,
ill make the greatest progress ever
nown in the next 90 years
Milford chronicle., 1932-05-20
THE GAY NINETIES

A reminiscence of the so-called
gay nineties", the last decade of
the 18th century, was given at the
Boston Pop" concerts, when Bos-
ton symphony orchestra players pre-
sented music of 40 years ago, heard
Dy a great audience many of whom
wore 18th century costumes. One
sees many references now to the Pc
ROD referred to, and some people
wish they were back there.
The years 1890 to 1899 were III.
height of the Victorian age. when
Queen Victoria reigned in England,
a period which highbrows now view
with contempt. 1t is called a time
of insincere pretensions. People
called legs, limbs, they wore
bathing suits that swept the ground,
they pretended a virtue and piety
they did not practise. Our modern
age is considered to be emancipated
from these restraints, exalting sim
cerity as the highest good.
But much of our present frank
ness and liberalism is only another
name for cynicism and skepticism.
We are told to enjoy our coarsest
impulses, and consider them noble.
The world never made progress by
the beasts of the field.
The life of the gay nineties"
seems singularly barren to us now.
No automobiles, no movies, no
radios. How tOilsomely they logged
around behind lazy Old Dobbin, see
ing only a little fragment of the
world. Yet they found their gaiety
in simple ways. Instead of burning
up the tenspots in swift motor par
les, they had evenings of happiness
singing college songs ON the door
steps, and dancing in the barn, while
he Illuminating cows peacefully
'hewed their cuds and looked on in
Wonder.
1t was an age that started innum-
rable movements for relief of pow
rty, distress, and oppression. This
interest in making a better world
1as a more creative spirit than the
opeless cynicism so often express
d today.
Milford chronicle., 1932-05-20
OUR AGED HUMANITY

A Yale professor. exploring in
Palestine, has discovered human
skeletons $4,000 years old. Such
remains disprove the idea once held
that the human race is only a few
thousand years old.
1t seems strange that 10000 years
or more of history have passed away,
leaving as little trace as the winds
that blow over the desert. Man must
have been thinking, loving, fighting,
and struggling all these years. But
all this drama and conflict have drop
ped into oblivion. Man had no books
or newspapers through all those in
millenniums, so his ex-
periences and aspirations made no
mark on the world.
Milford chronicle., 1932-05-20
Milford, Friday, May 90, 1882
GRIEYTNG FOR RABY LINDY

Many years have rolled back into
the silence, since the world has felt
any such unanimous emotion of grief
as developed with the news that the
pathetic little body of Charles A.
Lindbergh, Jr., had been found in a
secluded spot, slain by some foul
hand. The wrath of our people boils
up against the dirty wretches who
perpetrated this unspeakable crime.
1t cries out for just retribution for
them.
1t seems a strange and unaccOunt-
able thing, that people so supremely
worthy as these two, the very flower
of our land, could be singled out for
such an outrage. They have en-
deared themselves to the people by
their usefulness, their helpfulness to
many good causes, and by their mod
est bearing when they could have
swelled with pride because of great
achievement. Such considerations
mark them out as entitled to the re-
spect and affection of every human
being.
The rain falls on the just and the
unjust. People of this fine type may
be the most likely to be the victims
of attack. They are so free from
guile themselves, their hearts are so
innocent of desire to wrong anyone,
that such persons tend to ignore the
evil purposes that menace them. They |
are likely to feel that others are as
kind as they are.
Some such feeling may have led
the Lindberghs to underestimate the
perils by which they were surround
ed They trusted the world to deal
kindly with them, and felt no one
could wish them harm. so they over
looked the snakes that were kissing
and coiling, ready to spring at their
secluded home.
Well, at least their suspense is
ended. They are better off now,
knowing the worst, than they would
1e while agonized by a futile search.
Nay God comfort their grief, and
give them some new happiness that
will help soften these moments of
struggle and alteration of
lope and despair.
Milford chronicle., 1932-05-20
GARDENING FOR THE UNEM-
PLOYED

Plots of land have been set aside
in many towns for the use of unem-
ployed persons. These men will
work off many grouches against life
with the strokes of the hoe.s They
will be happier fighting bugs, pests
and weeds, than they were at home
cursing the social system and the
mistakes of industry and finance.
The Industrious man who can
stand a period of unemployment
without losing his nerve, has much
of the soldier spirit in him. Walk
ing streets in search for work until
the feet ache has broken the heart
of many good man. Others do not
takes it seriously enough, and they
are perfectly willing to live on pub
lie help so long as it is offered, until
the charity begins to look more
pheasant than real work.
Giving a man a garden plot to
till helps the Industrious one keep
his poise of mind, and it prevents the
indolent one from losing the habit
Of toll Anyone who offers the use
Of land for this purpose in a town
where many people are idle, per-
Orms an act of charity and public |
jpirit.