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Milford chronicle., 1933-12-01
SETTLING LABOR TROUBLES

The chairman OF the MIA lapoi
hoard reports that more than nall
of the industrial disputes that had
affected 100000 workers, had been
settled. This will create encourage
ment. as the many labor disputes
that have occurred since the NRA
movement started have done much
to impede industrial recovery.
It would be a difficult matter to
say who or which party is respon-
sible for all these hampering diff
culties. The old saying is that it
takes two to make a quarrel. Usual
ly when a dispute occurs, each side
is partly in the wrong.
There are relatively few people
who can see all around the issues
in such cases. People look at the
side which they feel most keenly.
The worker feels the troubles of the
wage-earners. The capitalist feels
the troubles of the employer. Many
employers fail to understand the suf-
ferings of the worker through a
period of unemployment, and the
situation in a home with a meager
income or none at all. They do not
feel as they should the mystery of
home in which there is not food
and clothing enough to sustain the
hungry children and make them pre-
sentable to the world.
The workers also often fail to
realize that if a business keeps los
ing money, it's credit is usually i'm
paired, so that it may not be able
to borrow money, and it may be in
danger of bankruptcy. When busi-
ness is thus made improbable, it is
not able to provide employment for
its workers.
Right and justice usually lie some
where between the two extremes.
The employers that are most ready
10 listen to reasonable propositions
will be the ones who will have the
east labor trouble in future, and the
workers that are the most willing |
o give business a fair chance are !
he most likely to have regular en-
)loyment.
Milford chronicle., 1933-12-01
SPENDING PUBLIC MONEY

1t is estimated that the admins
tration spending to hurry up cash
and credit to make the people more
prosperous totals S12,000,000,0 ,000
The whole $3,300,000,OOO public
works fund is supposed to be dis
tributed for spending January 1, and
the communities that can spend the
fastest will ge the first money. There
is $500,000,000 granted for local un-
employment, millions for railroads
to buy rails and equipment, s400,-
100000 ready to loan to help the
farmers up to 10. cents a pound on
their cotton, and an additional $110,-
100000 bounty to cotton farmers
who plowed up 100000 acres of
cotton this summer. Wheat farm
ers who have agreed to cut down
next years acreage by Is per cent
will get $9O,OO0,00O in bonus pay
ments.
The stimulants are being used in
an effort to bring the farmers dol
lar up to the same level as the city
mans dollar.
The Government also has millions
to help open hundreds of closed
banks that need little lift. Things
are boomingi
Milford chronicle., 1933-12-01
NO MONEY FOR nISPLAY

The federal public works admins
tration says that in providing funds
for post offices, it wants modest and
practical buildings, not monumental
structures. This is the right idea.
There has been far too much clamor
for imposing structures, which make
town seem more important than
it really is.
The post Office building in a GER
tain city was criticized, on the
ground that it was not suited to the
dignified work of distributing the
mails in that burg. The building in
question had a handsome front, but
the sides were plain and the elevted
taste of the citizens complained that
it looked too much like a garage.
But it is not clear why handling the
mails needs any more imposing
building than is required for hand
ling automobiles.
Milford chronicle., 1933-12-01
SERVICE IN OUR STORES

The people are deciding where to
buy their Christmas things, and they
consider the kind of service they get
in the stores. 1t is not very salts
factory to go among strangers into
some store in larger cities, and deal
with some clerk who acts like a
machine. But you can feel sure that
when you enter the stores of Mil
ford and towns in Delaware Pen
insula you are going to get just
as careful service as can be given
in time when store people are hav-
ing to work unusually hard.
Our store workers are trained to
do their best to please each customer,
to give them all possible information
about goods, and to make no COM
plant if they do not see fit to buy.
1t is a pleasure to be able to COM
mend their cheerful and polite at
tention.
Milford chronicle., 1933-12-01
PROVIDE RURAL FIRE
PROTECTION NOW

Farm fire losses, always a black
mark on the dark pages chronicling
the waste and destruction of our re-
sources, have been steadily rising
Matters have reached the. point
where farm risk insurance is con-
sidered undesirable because of heavy
losses suffered by insurance COM
panies.
= Physically, the average farm is
made to order for fire. Houses are
often of inferior construction, and
many of them are so old and dry
that they are like tinder when a
blaze starts. Barns are filled with
infammable materials. And, in most
rural districts, there is absolutely
no fire protection.
= That may have been unavoidable
once, but it isn't any longer, Good
roads and telephone communication
have made it possible to provide ru-
raj areas with fire protection that is
practically as efficinet as that of the
great cities. Various communities
have shown the way. Fire depart
ments are established at central
points, where they may serve the
widest possible surrounding terri,
tory. The costs, when betrayed by
large number of property-holders,
are insignificant in the light of the
protection and benefits received. A
fire marshal of proven competence
is employed to select and train the
personnel. First-class, high-speed,
standard apparatus-always the
cheapest in the long run-is bought.
A system of alarms is developed
whereby the crew may gather and
get underway with a minimum loss
of time.
Rural districts pursuing such a
policy have saved lives and proper
ty. They have demonstrated conclu-
sively that a high farm loss is the
result, not of necessity, but of ne
glect and lethargy and ignorance.
Milford chronicle., 1933-12-01
WASTED ENERGY

Roger Babson, noted statistician
said in a recent address that the
standard of living in the average
family could be doubled, if people
would avoid the waste of energy.
The American people have always
had reputation for wasting their
resources. Not merely have they
burned up vast quantities of forests,
! but the resources of human energy
have been thrown away.
Every preventable accident is q
waste of energy. An automobile
driver hurries around a corner be-
cause he thinks his time is too pre-
cious to waste 80 seconds in cautious
action. Then If he collides with
some car, he is likely to suffer in
juries that lay him up for weeks, and
perhaps affect his working power for
years. That moment of hasty action
has cost him thousands of dollars.
Every fire loss is waste of energy.
If you are careless with a heater in
your home, and your house burns
down, thousands of dollars are vast
ed. You do not realize the waste if
your loss is covered by insurance.
But the people as a whole have to
pay for it. When $500,0O0,O0O
year is burned up in such losses, a
large slice of the nations energy is
wasted.
Unhealthy living and designations
waste energy. Many people feel that
their physical powers are unlimited.
They are up late nights, they lose
their sleep, they yield to various
vices. The result is that physical
deterioration begins at an early age,
and their productive power is dim
inished. Their fun has cost them
many thousands of dollars.
We no not need revolutionary
changes in our social system so
much as intelligence on the part of |
he people, to deter them from care
ess waste of their own resources.
Milford chronicle., 1933-12-01
BUILD DUAL ROAD
ACROSS SUSSEX IN 1884

The neat little sum of S400, ,0O0, 900
is lying idle in Washington, waiting
for the states to call for their re-
spective shares of it.
This sum, created as a highway
fund under the NRA, usefully could
be employed in building roads, in
putting hundreds of thousands of
men to work, and in enlivening
business in many lines of endeavor.
But few states have shown a dispo-
sition to put either the available
money or men to work on roads.
The cause of this lethargy is one
of the mysteries of the day. For
while this fund is lying idle, the
states are collecting from motorists
something like $S00,000, 900 in taxes
for roads-and diverting much of the
money to other purposes. Some
state legislators already are sug-
gesting that motor vehicle and mo-
tor fuel taxes be increased. Still
others are promoting the idea that
motorists should finance the cause
of farm relief" by submitting to
laws compelling them to use the
more expensive fuels blended with
alcohol made from corn.
The situation would be ludicrous,
if it were not so tragic. Here is
$400,000,000 available at Washing
ton for roads. The states are col
lecting $S0O,0O0,00O more in taxes
for roads. There was an unexpend-
ed surplus in state roads funds of
more than s218,O0O,O00 at the be-
ginning of the year. Additional mill
lions are available from Federal and
aid funds. In other words
more than one billion and a half
dollars is on hand or in sight
enough to prosecute mammoth
highway-building program providing
jobs for more than million mem
and virtually every state in the
Milford chronicle., 1933-12-01
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UNDER THE EVENING LAMP

The long winter evening was once
time when people would settle
down in their living rooms, and en-
ter on prolonged courses of study.
They drew out big learned books
from some library or book club, and
were determined that the winter
should not pass without some added
culture. Or they borrowed some of
the good old-fashioned 1000 page
novels, and set themselves down to
prolonged enjoyment of those fasci-
mating but wordy old tales.
Today people are no longer salts
fed to settle down around the fire.
side. Modern life keeps us going so
fast that we have forgotten how to
say whoa" If there isn't some
thing to do most every night, the
people say they can't stand the bore
dom.
But the long winter evening un-
der the living room lamp produced a
quiet mind for next days work, and
people learned many things they
needed to know.
Milford chronicle., 1933-12-01
II MILES INTO MYSTERY

The balloon flight of Lieutenant
Commander Settle and Major Ford
ney from Akron, Ohio, IL miles up
into the air, should throw light on
the mysterious forces that operate
few miles above our heads.
1t is a wonderful thing that while
we can travel $4,000 miles around
the earth, and find physical condi-
tions not so very different anywhere,
yet the moment we go four or five
miles up in the air, we find the air
so rarified that human life can
scarcely exist. When these daring
aeronauts got up IL miles, their life
depended on their oxygen tanks. Ma
ture hangs out a great warning sign
at that altitude, saying "Thus far
shalt thou go and no farther" Will
man ever find a way to cross that
forbidden boundary?
Milford chronicle., 1933-12-01
A CHRISTMAS PRESENT FOR YOU

This is the time of the year when
most OF us are thinking intently-
and perhaps frantically-about the
problems of Christmas gifts. And
here's a good suggestion: Give a
present to yourself; not for entire
ly selfish reasons, but in order to
help those to whom Christmas this
year might be just one more day.
The kind of a gift that will ac-
complish this purpose is one that
provides employment and entails
the purchase of basic commodities.
And nothing fills the bill more COM
pletely than property construction
and betterment. Give yourself a new
furnace or roof or an electric kit
chen or a garage or some new fur
niture. Better yet, if it's possible,
give yourself new home-youll he
getting it for next to nothing in
comparison to what the best opin-
ion forecasts it will cost in the near
future, and you'll be spreading
Christmas cheer among numerous
families.
Your local contractor or dealer in
building materials is competent to
advise you. He can show you where
you can make real saYings-how you
can make your dollars do Spartan
duty. Talk it over with him. Think
how much a wave of construction,
even if on an individually small
scale, would mean to the social and
economic welfare of your commun-
ity. And give yourself that Christ
mas present. You'll never regret it.
Milford chronicle., 1933-12-01
CHRISTMAS TRADE

Every city is going to cut up
very handsome pie during the mex
few weeks. in the shape of Christ
mas trade. Who will get the piece
of that fine pie, distributed by thu
citizens of Milford? Will they g
mostly to our own people, who will
use the proceeds thereof to strength
en- business and employ more labor
from their home city?
Or will large and generous slices
of that nice pie go elsewhere, to
people who will make no return of il
to our community?
A large fraction of the years busi-
ness is done in the four weeks before
the Christmas holiday; this largely
depends upon business people, who
must advertise and tell their busi-
ness story to the entire citizenship
throughout truthful advertisements
to inform the holiday shoppers, as
well as all buyers. Unless this is
done now, local trade will go else
where. The ability of a concern to
pay anything to the owner, or even
to pay expenses, may depend on
whether it gets fair share of holi-
day trade.
People who insist on going else
where to spend large share of their
Christmas money seem neglectful Of
the interests of their home town. A
community can't prosper if there is
a steady drain of money going out
to other places. If the Christmas
trade. or a considerable share of it,
is lost in that way, the loss handi-
caps local business for months to
come. 1t is up to the merchants to
settle this problem for themselves.
Our people should also consider
that now is a very excellent time to
buv their Christmas gifts. The an
nual custom of rushing into the
stores during the week previous to |
he holiday, and buying the gifts OF
he season so late, produces con-
sestion that is costly to the stores
extremely hard on the employees OF
hose concerns, and it places
of work on the backs OF
larassed postal and express en-
,loves. People who are hard up
or cash can't perhaps anticipate
heir purchases. But others will en-
ov the Christmas season better If
heir purchases are made several
weeks in advance.
Milford chronicle., 1933-12-01
ONE TRIBUTE TO THE GROSS"
.(Chronicle. Toledo. Ia.l

.(Chronicle, Toledo, Ia.)
"The Boss" is the title given the
editorial reprinted below which ap-
| peared in the Omaha World-Herald:
During these changing days when
labor is going on the forty-hour
week and men by the hundreds of
| thousands are going to have more
leisure than they ever had before, it
is well, perhaps, to give thought for
a moment to the one who isn't going
to be quite so happy. We mean the
| boss.
He's the man that the national re-
cOvery administration refers to as
an executive who is exempt from the
code provisions for the shorter
week. He is exempt for the simple
reason that he is going to work
harder and longer hours and carry
greater burdens than before. He's
the guy who must think up ways
and means of changing his business
methods to meet code conditions and
still, if possible, keep out of the red.
Ee's the fellow who has TO dig up
the newer and higher wage scale
cash, so that the pay envelopes will
still be available on Saturday night.
He's the man who must answer II
will" to the President, and, in order
to get that precious eagle emblem
think and work and worry as never
before.
In some future day when, we all
hope, historians will look back upon
the summer of 1888 and record it as
the period of a new emancipation of
the American people; when they will
tell the story of a nation united to
destroy dat oil debbil Depression;
when they will write of leadership
that was courageous and confident
and determined, at that future day
we hope the Prescotts and Glib
bonses of the era will find time for
at least a paragraph about the usu-
ally unsung, unhOnored and unwept
hero of it all-the boss. Just in case
those future historians neglect their
duty, we hasten to seize the Oppor-
tunity here and now to cast a few
bouquets and laurel wreaths at the
fellow who is too busy TO know or
care about praise, who is only hop
ing he can scheme way to make
ends meet, while he devOtes forty
and twice forty hours a week to the
process.
Milford chronicle., 1933-12-01
Milford, Friday, December 1, 1888
THE CHRISTMAS RUSH

A big rush of trade is expected this
year for Christmas as usual. While
the country has not recovered full
prosperity, the amount of money in
circulation has largely increased.
Many people have been hanging onto
their dollars with the idea that they
would need them for Christmas pur-
chases. The trade of this year ought
TO come nearer to normal volume.
The people who buy their gifts
early get the pick of the goods. The
assortments are full, while those who
delay buying will find that many of
the most attractive articles have
been snapped up by earlier custom
ers.
There seems something positively
wrong in the old-fashioned practice
of delaying such purchases until the
week before the holiday and then
rushing into the stores in one grand
jam. 1t is not possible to buy goods
we'll under such conditions. The
clerks can not possibly wait on all
such customers when the stores are
so full. People must buy the stuff
without getting much information
about it, and as a result they are
often disappointed in the purchases
thus made so late in the season.
1t also seems inhumane treatment
for store and postal employees, to
require them to lift such a mountain
of work in a few days or a week,
when the great majority of people
could just as well buy their Christ
mas stuff early and get that busi-
ness out of the way. The inevitable
result of the Christmas rush is that
many store and postal workers be-
come over tired, and the epidemic of
colds and grip that so frequently
comes along about New Years is
probably due in part to fatigue in
CURED in the Christmas rush.
If we have any money ahead, let us
make the store and postal workers
happy by getting our purchases out |
of the way. And don't forget the |
home stores, which are all stocked |
up with goods for your needs.
Milford chronicle., 1933-12-01
FOREIGN TRAVEL DISCOURAGED

Whatever may be thought of the
policy of depreciating the American
dollar, it seems sure to have one ef-
feet, and that is to discourage foreign
travel. Uncle Sans children will
have to stay at home much more
than they have.
Many young people who went over
to Europe to carry on various lines
of study are finding their plan far
more expensive since the American
dollar buys less in foreign lands.
One such student who recently re-
turned said it would cost her $500
to do what she had expected to do
for $1,000. If the American dollar
drops still further, this additional
expense will grow still bigger.
During the boom times the travel
to Europe became a great migration.
Our students and joy seekers were
found in every important city of
Europe, having a wonderful old
time. Many of them did not make
any friends for Uncle Sam. They
seemed to take delight in ridiculing
the customs and ways of the old
world. Some of them used to light
their cigarettes with the deprecated
money of those lands to show their
contempt. These too smart guys
will have to content themselves with
the simple life in the old home coun-
try for time now.
Foreign travel should make people |
more intelligent, and give them a |
broader point of view. But many |
thousands of students who went
across the water gained little by the
experience. Instead of studying the
history and economic conditions of
those famous lands, they spent their
time at the cabarets and night clubs,
which they could have found in any
large American city.
As for study in foreign lands,
good United States education covers
all subjects. 1t will do our folks no
harm to stay in their own country
for a time. Perhaps if those folks
across the water discover that the
tourist travel on which they depend
ed has dwindled, they may be little
more conciliatory on some matters.
Milford chronicle., 1933-12-01
THE BIG PUSH

The United States Government is
furnishing American industry "the
big push" and the advice has gone
out from Washington that now is
the time to buy"
There never has been such a gi-
gantic undertaking, which may be
described as. spending the country
back to prosperity" The official
idea in Washington is to keep money
flowing freely throughout the coun-
try and thereby head off the exist
ing demand to turn on the money
printing-presses, as this is not the
kind of imitation that is desired by
the President and those who are
back of his policies.
Milford chronicle., 1933-12-01
BLOTTING OUT EINGERPRINTS9

The suggestion comes from Chi
cago, that underworld characters
may try to defeat Identification by
fingerprints, through some surgical
operation on their fingers so that
these markings would be altered.
The too keen minds of the GRIM
inal world use science to reinforce
their obstinate warfare against the
community. If criminals could
change their fingerprints at will, the
pursuit of crime would be much
handicapped: But in that case the
government would probably be justi-
fled in imposing penalties for peo-
pie who resorted to this method of
concealing their identity. The
crooks are able to think up smart
schemes, but in the long run the
community will get ahead of them.
Milford chronicle., 1933-12-01
CHRISTMAS SEALS

Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, widow of
the former President, has opened the
9th annual national campaign for
sale of Christmas seals, which is
promoted by the National Tubercu-
losis Association.
The death rate from this dreaded
disease has been reduced about one
half in the past 20 years. This great
gain is due to improved sanitation,
and to campaigns of popular educa-
tion. Now if we have been able to
reduce this death rate so per cent
by such means, we should be able
to cut the rate in half again by car
rying this campaign further. When
you buy the pretty Christmas seals,
you do your bit for this great hu-
name cause.
Milford chronicle., 1933-12-01
GOVERNMENT CONTROL

Nearly all the great industries OF
the country have finally agreed to
the rules laid down by the NRA, and
for the first time in the history of
the United States all branches of
activity throughout the country are
under the direction of the United
States Government. Thus the Ad-
ministration through the powers
voted by Congress is operating a
great national machine. Billions of
dollars backs the endeavor..
1t remains to be demonstrated
whether this is a perfect New Deal
and one that will bring the country
back to normal. With normal con-
ditions restored the couHtry may
have to look after it's own future.
Milford chronicle., 1933-12-01
WORTH MORE THAN MONEY

One of our citizens was asked the
other day if he would like to move
away from Milford. He remarked
that he would never go if he could
possibly make a living here. 81
have not been able to accumulate
money here" he added, "but 1 have
found what is worth more than
money, and that is friendship"
Many more of our people would
say the same thing. What we get
out of life does nat depend on how
fast we get rich, but whether we like
the people around us, and whether
community gives the things really
essential to happiness. Our folks
say they have found those things
here.
Milford chronicle., 1933-12-01

country is restricting its road ac-
tivities to the minimum.
For years the states have been
lamenting their financial inability
to build all the roads they need. For
years they have been talking of the
necessity of building more farm
to-market" roads. For years they
have been talking of widening and
improving existing highways, of
eliminating dangerous curves, inter-
sections and grade crossings. And
for years they have been building
yearly only enough new road mile
age to accommodate the new cars
manufactured each year.
Today the men, money, and ma
terials are available. Why not go
ahead now?
Milford chronicle., 1933-12-01
EI@E

THE PEOPLE can always remem-
ber the home merchant when they
have something to sell, but they are
not sure to when they want to buy
something.
Milford chronicle., 1933-12-01

THERE is great buying power
in any community and its surround
ings, waiting for the business con-
Germ to advertise its goods and show
the reasons why it pays to buy at
that place.