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Milford chronicle., 1932-01-08
Milford, Friday, January s, 1889
BEGINNINGS

One reason why the coming of the
new year facinates people, is that it
is. a beginning of new things. Be-
ginnings of anything are alluring.
There are so many enticing possibil-
tiles in new things.
Life is full of these buoyant hopes,
these ardent imaginations of the
things that are going to be. Every
new undertaking, every new ven-
ture, every new plan, is viewed as
the doorway through which we are
to go on to higher levels of success
and achievement
If people are coldly skeptical, if
they look at new things with sus-
picion and fear, we never get any
where. Plenty of people have that
attitude. They are opposed to any
thing that is new. What is old and
tried is good enough for them. The
old thing may be antiquated, out
grown, as useless in the modern age
as voluminous hoop skirts for wom-
en- and powdered wigs for men. Nev-
ertheless they cling to the past, and
the part of the world which they con-
troll remains stationary or falls
backward.
1t is fortunate that not all are
that way, that there are plenty of
enthusiasts, most of them young
sters, who like new things because
they are new. They begin new en-
terprises with hope and faith, and
make a go of many of them. If it
were not for that love for new be-
ginnings, the world would stay stag
nant in its old rut, as it did for 100
centuries before modern progress
began.
Something more than the love for
new beginnings is necessary, how
ever. There are more beginners
than finishers. Plenty of people
will promote useful ideas, for time,
and then become discouraged, be-
cause they do not at once meet with
success. We need people who are
not merely good beginners but good
stayers, who will stick with good
idea or a good plan until they make
people see and accept it.
Milford chronicle., 1932-01-08

we-perhaps mOrei" When you say
this, you mean that in every era
there have been savants who stood
out, and who, in after generations,
were seen to have been grand eX-
amples of wisdom.
If these things be true in mans
inventive skill, how much truer must
they be in the simpler actions of
life. There is no one who can not
be MORE KIND; MORE HAPPY in
1882 than he was in 1931-that is,
unless he pOstpones starting until
1888.
If the yesterdays, the yester-
years and the bygone centuries pro-
vide one outstanding lesson, it is
that knowledge, mental alertness
and optimism, based on wisdom,
have been apparent and profted by
eternally. You may say that our
has not always been an
moving one but surely the
answer is that there is more univer-
sal knowledge in our world today
than ever there was before. More
people have the OPPORTUNITY for
wisdom and happiness even if they
do not use it.
Milford chronicle., 1932-01-08
NEVITABLE PUNISHDTENT

Smart young Alecks, who are
tempted into crime by the supposed
prospect of easy money, should
consider the fate of the notorious
Legs" Diamond, who at last after
his long career of conflict with the
law, has been called to his final ac-
count. If the law does not overtake
such characters, the sullen venge-
ance of their own gangs usually
does so.
The American people have sur
rounded suspected criminals with
many legal and technical projections,
and it is often difficult to convict
men who are guilty of the most Sc
rious offenses. But as the Scriptures
said, they who take the sword shall
perish by the sword, so today, those
who take the gun usually perish by
the gun.
Diamond said good-by at the
youthful age of S3, time of bright
promise in other lives, when young
men who choose honest careers see
bright prospects ahead.
Milford chronicle., 1932-01-08
SPEED AND LUXURY

The demand of modern life, said a
recent speaker, is for speed, luxury,
action, and convenience. In part
these aims are good. Action is a
splendid thing, up to the point where
it leads to unhealthy exhaustion.
Convenience, also, facilitates labor,
and it sets free the mind, so that it
has more time for self improve
ment.
But speed and luxury are not so
good. In its desire for speed, the
world gets into a highly excitable
and nervous condition. People want
something doing every minute. They
have no time for quiet thought and
discussion. Many people, even those
who are well educated, do practical
ly no thinking on general subjects.
They lost much of the intelligence
they once had. This accounts for
many blunders made by the voters
at the polls.
The demand for luxury also is not
so good. 1t leads to the haste to get
rich, feverish speculation and finan-
cial disaster. People become so alb
sorbed in their desire to get costly
things, that they neglect the things
that can give the most genuine pleas
ure. While they are wearing out
their lives, they fail to realize that
books, music, friendship, love, the
beauty of nature, athletic sports,
such things cost relatively little.
1t does seem preposterous, for peo-
pie to be wearing themselves out,
driving themselves into nervous ex-
haustion, spelling their physical or
gans by fast living, all in the pur-
suit of unrewarding aims. And at
the same time, for those who have
the insight to discover them, the
great and rewarding pleasures and
satisfactions of life, cost very little,
and are within the reach of all.
We need leaders and inspirers of |
thought. who shall divert our minds
here in Delaware from the false aims
of life, and turn them toward the
true ones.
Milford chronicle., 1932-01-08
STAGE COACH METHODS

No one begrudges the senators and
Representatives their Christmas and
New Year holiday, but it does seem
absurd for congress to assemble on
December z, and then adjourn in
about three weeks later for the hol-
idays. When the United States con-
gress was first created, it was not
possible for the members to go home
for Christmas over the tedious stage
coach journeys of those days. The
conditions of today, under which the
statesmen could go and return in a
few days, were never dreamed of at
that time.
1t is one illustration of how our
people keep trying to do business
under antiquated methods. There
is not much use trying to run the
age of railroads, automobiles, and
on stage coach methods.
Milford chronicle., 1932-01-08
FINDING. WORK

What effect does being out of work
have on peoples character? Does
the experience so battle them that
they lose heart and deteriorate, or
does it so incite them to more in
telligent effort that in the end they
gain? } .s
The heartiest sympathy should be
felt for people who tramp the streets
and roads until their feet are weary
and, sore, and return home still
without opportunity to earn their
bread. Their faces commonly take
on "a disheartened aspect. Their
clothesAmay become shabby and
worn so that their appearance is so
forbiddihg that no employer is at
tracted by them. They look like old
and shopworn goods which no one
wants to buy. They need some bet
ter philosophy or plan for selling
their services, so that the purchas-
ers of labor or. goods are attracted
by them. This descriptive does not
apply in rural Delaware.
The first thing for an out of work
person, is of course, to seek employ
ment in the line which one knows
best, where ones experience counts.
But such people should also keep
their eyes open and their brains at
work, looking to see what needs in
the community are not being ade-
quately filled.
A great many such people have
found things to do, by discovering
chances to render more efficient SER
vice than people have been getting,
or by supplying people with goods
or services for lower prices.
Unemployed people should not be
idle. If they can't find work in just
the thing they have been doing,
they should try to learn something
else where service seems to be need
ed. The world is full of opportuni-
ties. Plenty of people complain of
the cost of things, or of the way
their work is done. People who rem
der superior service, or the same
service for less cost, are very much
needed. A host of people are look
ing for such ones. But to sell goods
or services, a seeker for work must
be willing to do some hustling to
find it.
Milford chronicle., 1932-01-08

SONGS AROUT HOME

Talking to the home building con-
ference at Washington, President
Hoover remarked on the songs like
Home Sweet Home, my Old Ken
lucky Home, ETC., which had been
inspired by love of home. He said
that bundles of rent receipts inspire
no songs. His remark raises the
question as to how far the old love
of home is dying out, and whether
the appeal of these sentiments is so
strong as it used to be.
According to many observers,
home life is very much broken up.
They see people fiocking into great
city apartment buildings, or into
smaller apartment houses, and
large part of these folks move every
year and form no deep roots. 1t is
hard to form any strong attachment
to a place from which people are
likely to move when their years
lease is up.
People have to live on and on in a
certain location before it inspires
sentiment. They have to think of a
certain room as the one where some
dear one died, or another where some
child grew up from infancy. AS
memories cluster around those
homes, they acquire a sacred char
acter, and it almost breaks the heart
strings of our people to leave such
scenes in Delaware.
This sentiment grows partly from
the fact that we have tended the soil
of home place. planted flowers and
raised vegetables there, cared for the
building and protected it from de-
cay.
There is a sweetness about the
old home that gathers as the years
increase. 1t has been the witness
of our joys and sorrows. 1t gives us
a feeling of rest when we come back
to it. People who never settle down
anywhere miss this sentiment. There
is kind of empty feeling in their
lives that accounts for much modern |
People should think
long before they disturb these dear |
old associations.
Milford chronicle., 1932-01-08
SANTA CLAUS. INDIANA

1t is proposed that the name of
the postoffice at Santa Claus, In
diana, be changed, on account of the
heap of Christmas mail sent there
for the Santa Claus postmark. Fifty
thousand letter writer's are said to
have protested against such
change.
We name our cities for Washing
to nand Jefferson and Lincoln and
other great men. If Santa Claus is
not great man, you can never
make the American people believe
it. We need imitators of him, as
well as of the statesmen whose
names adorn on rtowns. If town
wants to call itself Santa Claus, it
at least shows admiration of the CIV
ing spirit. Instead of abolishing
Santa Claus, Indiana, let us have
Santa Claus postOffice in every
state, including Delaware.
Milford chronicle., 1932-01-08
BUILDERS OF HOME BUSINESS

The business interests of a town
are the foundation of its life Any
thing that hurts the business of a
town, is as destructive to the social
structure of community, as the cav
ing in of a house foundation is to
the structure of that house. When
the foundation of a house drops,
everything falls in. If business is
poor in town, its schools, its
churches, its social organizations,
everything begins to go to pieces.
The most serious injury is done to
a town, when it's people form the
habit of buying their supplies in
other places. They are hitting at
every interest which they hold dear.
They are making it more difficult to
employ labor in that town, harder
to support schools, churches, social
organizations, and everything worth
while. The dollar spent elsewhere,
means community welfare gone else
where.
Milford chronicle., 1932-01-08
RESPONDING TO APPEALS

Churches and other organizations
have adopted a method during recent
years of canvassing every one of
their members to see how much each
one will give for the support of such
societies. They greatly increase
their revenues by so doing. There
are many people who would never
give to such a cause, even if they
were interested in it, unless solicited
to do'so.
This truth is one that the business
world should not. You have to So
licit peoples support, before they
will spend money for anything. The
business house that fails to solicit
trade by advertising, will probably
come out about like the society that
fails to solicit its members for con-
tributions.
Milford chronicle., 1932-01-08
UNEMPLOYED TEACHERS

Attention is called to the disap-
pointment of many young women
who have finished their education
for teaching positions, but have not
obtained work as yet. Many of them
have taken extensive and costly
training, and have nothing tangible
to show for it yet
They should not be disheartened.
Teaching is a profession in which
opportunities occur rapidly. Not
merely are vacancies constantly due
to death and ill health, but a host of
young teachers MARI yeach year. The
new ones, if well prepared, will not
have to wait rong. If not we'll pre-
pared, little more study will i'm
prove their chances.
Milford chronicle., 1932-01-08
BENDING THE TWIG

AS the twig is bent, the tree in
clines. Applying that idea to fam
lily life, many of our parents are SO
busy with dollar chasing and gaso-
line burning, and show going, that
they have no time to bend the juve-
nile twigs committed to their
charge. They can't find fault, if
these twigs grew up into crooked
trees, which must be cut down out
of society, and cast into the refuse
heap. ......
1t is a common thing today, to
look to the state or the community
to take such action that people will
not have to spend any time bending
the family twigs. People look for
this or that evil to be suppressed by
the community, so it shall not con-
stitute a temptation to young people.
This is all very we'll and necessary,
provided such evils can be effective
ly suppressed by law or other public
action.
In the main family government has
to find some way of so training it's
young people, that bad influences
seem repulsive. Laws that tend to
suppress evil influences are neces-
sary and helpful, but they can not
be the main reliance in bringing up
our young families.
There are too many holes in the
laws through which snaky people
can crawl. But when a young per-
son has contempt for anything that
is dirty or crooked, he has protec-
tion against bad influences more
powerful than any law.
The way to give him that con-
tempt, is for the parents to set an
example of clean living, to give a
boy or girl clean and active enjoy
ments, and to take plenty of time
to show them why the clean and
straight life is better than the dirty
and crooked one. In that way the
crooked twig that might grow into
a gnarled and worthless tree, be-
comes a straight piece of timber
which the master builders can use.
Milford chronicle., 1932-01-08
$50

THE BUSINESS man who expects
his townspeople to remember his
store, when he has not logged their
memory by advertising, should spend
a little time studying business psy-
chology.
Milford chronicle., 1932-01-08
E@N&l|

THE business men can hardly ex-
pect that people will do ali the trad
ing at home that they could do, if
they are not well informed by ad-
vertising of what the home stores
have to SELL
Milford chronicle., 1932-01-08
E|IN&T

COMMUNITY LIFE should be a
kind of partnership, in which the To-
cal business men furnish capital and
enterprise, and the public furnish
backing and support by patronizing
the home stores. ~.
Milford chronicle., 1932-01-08

THE PEOPLE who can remember
only the faults of their home town,
and who forget and overlook its
achievements, are apt to be forgot
ten by the townspeople when they
have rewards and promotions to dis
tribute.
The Washington times., 1932-08-04

athlete as he is a star tenor. He's
in as good physical shape as the
day he stepped out and beat
Ray Barbuti of Syracuse in the
intercollegiate quarter-mile cham.
pionShip four years ago. He does
it by golf, squash and swimming.
In golf, Lanny admits he's
about on a par with the game
Joe E. Brown last displayed when
he teamed up with Bobby Jones
in Hollywood, but it's out in the
open, and Lsnny wouldn't trade
outdoor exercise for anything else
in the muscle-making line. He's
struggling hard to bring his game
down under 100, and thinks he
is about to succeed.
Squash he considers a neces-
sary evil. He took it up recently
when he found himself pressed
for time for exercise during the
day. When he is. he slips over
to the Yale Club, plays furiously
for about half an hour with a
college friend, and is back on the
job.
Lanny'S made a scientific study
of physical culture, and has corle
to the conclusion that a days
intensive exercise indoors can't
compare with an hour under the
sun.
The Washington times., 1932-08-04
Mike Mutterings

"Leathernecks" will be repeated
tonight at $50 by the Northern
Dramatic players, over VOL.
AS a result of increased postal
rates, hundreds of listeners are
delivering in person, rather than
posting, their fan letters to WRC
Bob Arnbruster wants to
know if the notes in THE Banks
of the Wabash" are bank notes. >.
Judge Gordon keeps in touch with
"Our Daily Food" listeners by
selling groceries in chain store
:. .Irma Glen, N. B. c.. organist.
must be making a lot of dough
=. She is on 10 commercial and
18 straight programs weekly. . If
you missed it before, hear Grand
Canyon Suite" played by Paul
Whiteman's musickers Sunday at
5 p. M, over WIZ.
The Washington times., 1932-08-04
Improved Pianos

WINS, the Hearst radio station
in New York city, does things in
q big way. WINS engineers have
solved the problem of eliminating
the tinny effect of a piano note
when broadcast. They built a
piano around a sounding board
Of exceptional tonal qualities,
taken from a piano in use more
than 40 years. The idea is that
the resiliance of the sounding
board, seasoned to a stage that
no manufacturing process can
reproduce, builds up the highest
notes with fidelity, and thus
harshneSS is eliminated.
The Washington times., 1932-08-04
Here and There
In the Realm Of
Broadcastins
By STANLEY BIGELOW

Although Miss White" the
charming nurse who aided DR..
Royal F. Copeland in his daily
health talks, has been off the
air for some time, she seems to
be sadly missed by an army of
radio fans.
The other day, an elderly wo-
man came into the office Of
Senator Copeland in the Senate
Office Building, inquiring for
Miss White. When told the radio
nurse was no longer connected
with the program, the woman
said:
"I'm very sorry, for 1 know
Miss White could have helped
me in my dilemma. am a
very sick woman, and Miss
Whites cheerful assistance
would do much to put me on
the road to health again."
And thousands of letters reach
Senator Copeland inquiring if
Miss White will return to the
air soon. There is reason to be-
lieve that she will return to the
ether lands this fall.
The Washington times., 1932-08-04
BIRTHS

Frederick H. and Alice E. Potts. boy
Joseph and Mollie NJ. Lutsky. boy.
Frank R. and Margaret l.. Tierney.
boy
Edwin G. and Julia Koenig. boy.
Joseph E. and Nellie NJ Wood, boy.
Raymond C. and Virginia H. Rem
nenberger, boy.
boy
Alfred w. and Mildred Sherman. boy.
John w and Ruby Swaren, boy.
Francis l.. and Sophie X. Fahy boy.
Charles S. and Anita NJ. Shaw. boy.
Nathan and SybiI E White, girl
Louis S. and Florence G. Beaupre,
girl
William f. and Marjorie Waldan.
girl
Hilton L. and Maude Torreyson, girl
Frank N. and Ruth Holford, girl.
Jack T. and Charlotte Dempsey, girl
Frank NJ. and Miranda Hodge, girl.
Clifton NJ and Mary Eisek' girl,
Thomas B. and Viola NJ Lee, girl.
Arthur c. and Gwendolyn G. Baur.
John F. and Catherine E. Reardon.
girl.
Frank and Ida Bonetti, boy:
Louis L. and Margaret NJ. Beavers,
Theodore R. and Helen E. willard,
Carl F. and Mary ]. schoenug, boy.
AFtnuF l.. anu LULA d. NutlaS' Ii'
boy
Samuel r. and Sonia Pearlman. boy.
Anthony E. and Katherine f. Man
cuso, boy
Paul F.. and Edna w. Pessagno boy.
Leland G. and Dorothy S. Sutherland
Albert p. and LaVerna E. Ehrhardt,
boy
James S. and Marjorie c. Unkle, boy.
William S. and Ruth NJ. Rhoades'
Clyde C. and Ella w. Richardson,
David X. and Lollie I. Lusby, girl.
Herbert A. and Anna d. Almgren,
Claude E. and Ina F. Harrelson,
John w. and Florence Massey, girl.
Eugene and Georgia D'Jarboe. girl.
Charles w and Josephine B. Meal
Guss S. and Rena G. Kidwell. girl.
Charles l.. and Alice V. Gain. girl,
j Miles and Gertrude A. Miller. girl.
Charles V. and Eula B. Sincere. girl.
Stanley S. and Mary Ferguson, boy.
Richard and Anna White, boy.
Marshall and Matte Williams, boy.
Edward and Lucille Jones, boy.
Frank and Alma Kenner, boy.
Sherman and Roberta Caldwell, boy.
Alec and Sarah NJ, Lucas. boy.
Ellsworth and Ruth jackson, boy.
Elmer and Mary Wilson, girl.
Irwin r. and Emma Lucas, girl.
William and Evangeline Dorsey, girl.
Elmer and Iretha Hancock, girl.
James and Edna NJ Newton, girl
Albert and Ruth Williams, girl.
Samuel and Hattie E. Battles, girl.
Lester and Gussie L. Swanson, boy.
Caro- and Louise Montague. hoy.
Charles and Elizabeth Addison, boy.
James and Elizabeth Green, boy.
Malaki and Dorothy Bayen. boy.
James A. and Mary l.. Brown, boy.
James and Elizabeth Warfield, boy.
Tecumsah and Ida Moore, boy.
Vernon and Juanita Griffin. boy.
George and Estella Davis, girl.
Robert and Helen Jackson. girl.
Robert and Edith Lewis. girl
Eugene and Edna BeAsley, giTi-
Albert and Fannie Butler, girl.
Richard E. and Betty Sampson. girl.
Jessie and Matte Billinssly, girl
William and Nena Hill. bnv.
Francis and Lucille Cooper. boy.
Charles and Cora Edwards boy.
The Washington times., 1932-08-04

7eO kilOcycle' WBAL @04 Meters
1901. S. Navy Band.
4:OO-Musical Program.
4:3O-The Singing Lady.
4:45-Little Orphan Annie.
5:OO-Ted Black and his Orches-
ira.
5:25-John B. Kennedy.
5:3O-Old Songs of the Church.
5:45-"Today's News" by Lowell
Thomas.
6:OO-AmoS m Andy.
6:15-Royal Vagabonds.
6:3O-The StebbinS Boys.
6:45-SoloiSts.
7:0O-RegimentaliStS.
7:15-Sol Sax, pianist.
7:3O-Goldman Band.
S:OO-Danger Fighters.
8:30-T h m pkinS Corners
(sketch).
9:OO-The Country Doctor.
9:15-Whispering Jack Smith.
9:3O-Object, Matrimony Com
edy).
9:45-Jane Froman.
Sisters.
lO:15-N.B.C. Concert Orchestra.
Morse and his Or
chestra.
11:3O-Benny Kyte's Orchestra.
The Washington times., 1932-08-04
T ITenor-AthIete

Pampered crooners may require
weather-making machines in their
luxurious penthouSes to protect
their voices during the hot sum-
mer months, but no such artifi-
cial Stimulants for Lanny Ross,
radios handsome, blond tenor.
AG all such fol-de-rol, he's slightly
amused.
For Lanny's as much of an
The Washington times., 1932-08-04
Bids and Proposals

ARLINGTON Memorial Bridge Commission.
Office of the Executive Officer, Wash
ington, D. C.-Sealed bids, in duplicate,
will be received in this office until l l
a. M, Eastern standard time. August II,
1882. and then publicly opened in Room
1915. Navy Building. for furnishing all
labor and materials. and performing all
work. in connection with the construction
of the pavement for the Memorial Avenue
leading westward from the Boundary Chan
mel Bridge to the Memorial entrance to
the Arlington National Cemetery at the
west end of the Arlington Memorial Bridge
project Approximate quantities of the
major items OF work are in part as fol-
lows: Scrubbed surface reinforced concrete
pavement 8 to 10 inches thick. $4,000
square yards; reinforced concrete curb and
gutter, including the setting of granite
curbstones to be furnished by the Govern
ment 4,30O linear feet; grading. including
both cut and fill. $500 cubic yards: also
drainage system. consisting of catch basins,
manholes and miscellaneous metal and Wit
rlfled pipe.
Further information upon application 10
Room 1881. Navy Building.
The Washington times., 1932-08-04
BIRTHS, DEATHS AND MARRIAGES
WILLIAM r. ROSE

Funeral services for William r.
Rose, go, we'll known business
man of Arlington county and
Washington. who died yesterday
at his hime on Mount Vernon
Avenue, Arlington Ridge, will be
held from the residence tomorrow
afternoon at 2 o'clock. The Rev.
Edward G. Latch will officiate
at the rites. He will be buried
in Columbia Gardens Cemetery
Arlington County, Va.
Mr.. Rose, who had lived in
Arlington county for about Is
years, was in the roofing business.
His business was located in this
city until two years ago, when
it was moved to Rosslyn, Va.
He was a member of the Wash
ington Chamber of Commerce,
the Board of Trade, and was
a director in the Peoples State
Bank of Cherrydale and the Ar
lington county Chamber of Com
merce. He was also an active
member of the Arlington County
Republican organization.
Surviving are three children;
a daughter, Miss Edna Rose; two
sons, Robert Lester Rose, and
William r. Rose, jr.