davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Milford chronicle., 1933-10-13
PASSING ON THE HERITAGE

Every citizen inherits much from
the past of his home town. He did
not build all these homes and busi-
ness structures, nor lay out its
streets and walks, nor build its
schoolhouses, nor create other ad-
vantages. These were provided him
at great cost and labor, by those
who went before. We owe some
thing to them for all this effort.
We can not pay that debt to those
who went on before in Milford, or
in Delaware. They would say to us
that the way to pay them, is to do
something to still further develop
the community they gave us, to i'm
prove it so that our children and
successors shall ge the benefit. 1t
seems rather mean to receive all the
benefits the past has given us, and
not to pass on anything of our own
to the future.
Milford chronicle., 1933-10-13
Milford, Friday, October 10, 1888
GOOD RESULTS FOLLOW
CHANGE

A rebirth of a local weekly paper
is infrequent in the world Of news
paper publicity, but last week the
county seat of Sussex, had the eX-
perience of the fact that things do
change" The Sussex Republican at
Georgetown, Delaware, was for
about forty-five years issued with
little supervision by the owner, Hon.
Robert G. Houston, and it was used
through many changes as a factiOnal
mouthpiece, especially during that
period known as the Addicks, or
Union Republican era in Delaware.
Without business policy other than
as a personal organ for the owner,
to carry out the real purposes of a
local weekly paper, there was only
a small clientel or field for its use.
However, recently the paper came
under the management of Mrs. Rob-
inson, daughter of the owner, who
has cleaned out the old equipment,
organized the business and is now
presenting a very pleasing paper for
the county seat. It is a fine thing
for Georgetown that this start to
have a modern conducted local
paper has been made; it was so
much needed because the local tone
of the town as to civic affairs, had
dropped below a normal strata in
publicity, and only such news as was
sent to the daily papers at Whining
ton, kept Sussex and its affairs at
the county seat on the map. The
story as to the great change in the
old Sussex Republican, and it's re-
birth as the Sussex Countian, under
direction of business policies, is told
by the Hon. Robert G. Houston in a
front page editorial in the issue
last week: Viz
Heretofore this paper has been a
personal political organ of its pro-
prietor" THAT being no longer it's
objective, it has changed its name
to one less partisan but no less pa
triotic and expressive. Hereafter
its object will be the distribution of
news which it believes of interest
to the people of Sussex county"
The change in this local paper at
Georgetown will elevate the civic
and moral standard of the county
seat, and help bring to the largest
county in Delaware, recognition of
its importance by the balance of
Delaware. Its a fine open field for
hard work and honor for its pub
Usher, and the Sussex Countian is
indeed welcomed by all citizens.
Milford chronicle., 1933-10-13
EVERYBODY WORKING

1t used to be customary for COM
munity organizations to elect Of
ficers for a year, and then all those
not elected would go home feeling
that the buck had been safely
passed to these active members, and
the rest. had nothing to do.
An organization does not accom-
plish much if that is all it amounts
to. In a good organization today, a
long list of committees is appointed,
every member of which is supposed
to do something. Such committees
should if possible include all mem
bers, and every member should be
expected to contribute some form of
effort. If you get an organization
really working in that way, it will
accomplish results.
Milford chronicle., 1933-10-13
NATURE, SUPREME ARTIST

The art lovers go through the pic
ture galleries, and they praise the
great masterpieces of painting for
their beautiful colors. One of the
chief merits of such paintings was
the ability of the artist to take ordi-
nary paint and put it on canvass in
such beautiful form that the world
stands in breathless admiration.
But the best of those colors are
no more beautiful than the painting
that nature does in her fields. The
red of an apple, the yellow of a
lemon, the purple of a grape the
brilliant hues of autumn foliage, are
as beautiful as the colors of the
finest painter.
We do not have to travel to. dis
tant art galleries to see this superb
color. 1t is found in our back yards,
along the plainest road, in the fruit
stands. If people had to pay great
sums to see a beautiful scene of
autumnal color, how many of them
would rush to do it?
Milford chronicle., 1933-10-13
GOYERNMENF,s RELIEF PLANS

The federal emergency relief ad-
ministration is organizing a federal
relief corporation, the purpose OF
which will be to buy up surpIuses OF
farm products and distribute them
to the unemployed.
Arguments can be found both for
and against this policy. Against it,
it can be said that local communi-
ties ought to support their own
needy people so far as they can. If
they find that the federal govern
ment is coming forward to give this
care, many communities will pass
the buck to Washington when they
could and should do the job them
selves.
Also one of the chief causes for
the country's economic difficulties
has been the great oVer-production
of crops by the farmers. If the
farmers find the government buying
up vast quantities of their products,
many of them will increase their
production, and still more will
maintain it at an excessive level,
the result of which will be that farm
prices will continue low, thus pro-
longing the troubles of the farm dis
tricts.
But in favor of the government
policy, there is the fact that a well
managed relief corporation would be
able to buy vast quantities of these
foods and other supplies at a very
low cost, which should greatly re-
duce the cost of caring for these
needy unemployed.
Furthermore, it will be a lasting
reproach to the country, if there is
a great over-production of farm
while millions of people
are suffering for lack of these
So on the whole pub
lie sentiment can be expected to
support this policy, provided it is
kept within reasonable limits, and
provided adequate steps are taken
% prevent it from causing continued
of farm staples in
'uture years.
Milford chronicle., 1933-10-13
LET'S HAVE A. Il. RA.

We have an NRA to promote ma
tional recovery. Let us also have a
IRA, a Town Recovery Administra-
tion, to bring our community up to
the full point of prosperity it had
reached few years ago, and go
ahead of that point.
Such a IRA calls for commune
ity code. Such a code should pledge
us to give a little time right along
to help ON community movements,
to help carry on our public organ
izations, to keep our home and bust
ness places in a perfect order that
will make our town shine, to work
diligently in our occupations, so
that all forms of business shall be
efficient and successful.
Milford chronicle., 1933-10-13
HIGHER EDUCATION

An enormous sum is spent an
nually on the colleges and other
higher schools of education, which
have now opened for the year. What
actual results, beneficial to the ma
tion, are obtained to compensate
parents and benefactors for all this
vast expenditure?
1t is complained that many young
people go through such institutions,
but that afterward they show no
sign of college culture. Their con-
tact for four years with the worlds
wisdom, has seemingly run off their
minds as water runs off a ducks
back.
While many Of them would be bet
ter off in some more practical
school, yet if a boy or girl really
studies history and science well
enough to pass in a good college,
he has probably got something out
of it. He may show no familiarity
with books, but probably he is not
SO easily fooled by the shams Of
life. If he has learned to size up
the bunk of shallow thinkers, his
course was not wholly in vain.
Milford chronicle., 1933-10-13
THE CHANCES OF FOOTBALL

One hundred thousand boys, more
or less, put on their padded foot
ball clothes about now, and go out
on the school and college football
fields to see what they can do on
bucking these mighty lines. They
never worry about any real or sup
posed dangers. Youth cherishes a
vision of applauding grand stands,
but it never visualizes the hospital
cot or a broken leg.
Parents watch the tussle of the
granny gladiators in the dirt and
mud. They wonder if Tom or Jack
is going to emerge from that melee
with the same number of workable
arms and legs as those he took into
the fight.
If we could take 1000 football
players, and compare their physical
and mental condition five years from
today with 1000 who do not play
this game, which crowd would show
the better physical and mental de-
velopment? Probably a few of
those footballists would have suf-
fered some severe accident, there is
a remote chance that one of them
might have lost his life. But as a
whole they would be a powerful
crowd physically, able to stand the
shocks and strains of life. And
they would be healthy crowd men
tally, not much touched by the vices
of the time.
1t is not probable that we could
say as much for the 1000 non-p1ay-
ers. Those that have not gone in
for any strenuous athletic sport
would include many physical weak
lings. Many of them, as the result
of the lack of occupation for idle
time, would have acquired harmful
vices or pernicious ideas.
If boy goes in for football, he
takes on certain slight risks. If he
should be persuaded by too cautious
parents to avoid the game, and if
this means that he does not go in
energetically for any important
sport, he takes risks of
physical deterioration. If as a result
of idleness, he gets into undesirable
company, he takes risks of mental
degeneration. All in all, the football
risks appear less.
Milford chronicle., 1933-10-13
BITUMINOUs COAL CODE

After prolonged controversy, the
bituminous coal industry, with few
exceptions, has come under the rule
of a code approved by the govern
ment. If this code can put some
new heart into that depressed indus
try, it will do much to heal one of
the sorest spots in our. industrial
life.
But you can never tell how a
thing will work, merely by seeing
it stated on paper. There are hu-
man rivalries and selfishness to deal
with. The new code must be fair
to labor, to capital, and to the pub
lie. Many industrial agreements
have failed, because one or more
of these parties failed to get a
square deal. The public waits to
see what the coal code does to all
three.
Milford chronicle., 1933-10-13
HONOR ABOVE MONEY

The late ike" Hoover, chief
usher at the White House for many
years, had opportunities to earn a
fortune by giving his "reminiscences
Of the presidents he had served.
He knew all the intimate facts Of
their lives. What a story he could
have told!
"Ike," however, did not care for
that way of earning money. He
would rather have his memories of
these great men and their love and
confidence. than any money his
revelations could earn. In an age
when it seems as if people would
do anything for money, this modest
man, who made dollars such a sec
ondary consideration, seems re-
freshing contrast. t.'s
Milford chronicle., 1933-10-13
THE GREATEST DIsCOvERER

} October 18th, date of the discov-
! cry of America by Christopher Co
! lumbus, is generally celebrated now.
We can look back at him as kind
of father of everything that started
on the American continent. Where
would we be today if he had not
performed his immortal work of
exploration? Would the American
continent have been discovered? {?
Would this superb land of ours,
with its teeming cities and smiling
villages and magnificent scientific
achievement, be still possessed by
the saYages?
No one can tell. At the time Co
lumbus performed his great deed,
few if any people of the old world
had dreamed that any such conti-
nent existed. The narrow confines
of Europe, with the portions of
Africa and Asia then known, con-
stituted the entire world to them.
They conceived of our globe as a
fiat surface, and they never asked
what was beyond those mysterious
horizons into which they never
dared venture. Centuries might
have passed without the discovery
of America, if Columbus had not
lived, or if he had not dreamed his
mighty dream.
What would the world be today,
if America had not been discovered, |
or if its discovery had been post
poned for many years or centuries? |
Certainly modern democracy and |
the rule of the people would not
exist. Those ideas were the direct
result of the free life that developed
on our continent.
Without the impulse which Amer
lea gave, the world would have con-
tinued to live under antiquated and
outworn forms of government, in
which little attention was paid to
human welfare. About all the
blessings of modern life, its free
dom and its scientific opportunity,
can be attributed to the American
spirit, the beginning of which oc-
Cured when Columbus first set
his foot on the unknown land of our
soil.
Milford chronicle., 1933-10-13
BRINGING UP OUR HOMES

As a thought for Fire Prevention
Week, October to IA, people should
consider what fires cost them.
We all help pay for them in insur-
ance bills. The man who owns no
property may think he pays nothing
for it. Yet his landlord has to in
sure the property, and the insurance
is one charge that makes rents
higher.
The annual cost of fires is about
81 per person. A family of five thus
pays about $40 annually for fires.
Probably fire protection costs at
least $40 to the average family. If
SO, the average American family
pays $50 annually for fires. Most
of us know where we could put three
ten spots where they would do much
more good than in burning up our
buildings.
Milford chronicle., 1933-10-13
COMMON CAUSES OF FIRES

What are the most common causes
of the destructive fires against which
Fire Prevention Week warns us
each year at this time?
Not all fires originate in the
causes which are given to the in
quirers who ask about them. Some
of course are incendiary, deliberately
set by dishonest people. But the
great majority are caused by gross
acts of carelessness, of which peo-
pie should be ashamed.
Is a man has the habit of throw
ing lighted matches into refuse
boxes, and if his building gets afire,
he should have some suspicion as
to what caused it. But perhaps he
is ashamed to name that possible
cause, and will say that he has no
idea, or that it might have started
from spontaneous combustion or de-
fective wiring.
Probably tricks of careless dis
position of matches and burning to-
bacco, and the habit of accumulat-
ing heaps of refuse in sheds and
start as many fires as
any two causes. A fire chief in a
certain city used to make it his GUS
tom twice a year, before July
Fourth, and in the Fall when fires
were being started, to go to every
business place and ask the mer-
chants to clean out all rubbish. Peo-
pie used to laugh at his hammering |
IN that idea. But that city had
reputation for escaping serious
Tres.
When you get an accumulation OF
waste paper, packing material, etc.
/ thoughtless person is very likely
o throw some burning thing into it,
md you know what will happen
hen. And these accumulations OF
'ubbish give a fire quick and pow
,rful start, and turn the place into
blazing hell for firemen to risk
heir lives in.
If people would be extremely care
uI what they do with lighted match
S and burning tobacco, and keep
heir rubbish cleaned up, you could
ut down the fire loss in almost any
ommunity.
Milford chronicle., 1933-10-13
YOUNG MEN IN MEDICINE

About one-third of the freshmen
of Harvard college who have ex-
pressed preferences for the choice
of an occupation, favor medicine
and surgery as the most attractive
calling. Probably the same trend
is observable in other colleges. This
is an indication that young men are
able to see that the cure of the ills
of the human body presents one. of
the best fields to the ambitious
modern youth.
He can not tell whether he can
make good in business. Every pro-
fessional field is crowded. But
man who treats disease skilfully
will always have a practice. The
world can't get along without him,
Countless country towns have no
doctors, and they clamor for a resi-
dent medical man.
Milford chronicle., 1933-10-13
WOMEN AND CRIME

Mary Roberts Rinehart, famous
novelist, says you don't hear about
racketeering and subtle schemes of
gangsters in other countries, so why
do we have to submit to them in
America? She calls on the women
to get out and fight crime. This
she thinks they can do, by insist
ing that police forces be kept out
Of politics, also on the removal of
dishonest officials, etc.
The women can do most anything
If they really take hold and agitate
for it. They must see the error of
letting politics manage police forces.
II we are going to throw out Of
ficient police officials because they
are Republicans or Democrats, the
crooked world laughs at us, and
concludes it can play tag with our
antiquated notions.
Milford chronicle., 1933-10-13
EVEN THE STRONGEST FALL

A few days ago W. L. Stribling.
heavyweight boxer from Georgia,
was called the physical equal of any
man he ever faced in the ring. A
man of such perfect physique
should seemingly have better
chance of life than the rest of us.
Yet today he is laid away in the
tomb, the victim of traffic acct
dent, suggestion that great physi-
cal power is not much protection in
these days of thronged streets and
ever present peril.
The physical weakling who nurses
his strength and keeps out of dan
ger may have better chance of life
than the highly trained athlete. In
order to survive through such an
age, our powers of caution must be
much developed, and then some un-
fortunate mischance may end our
careers.
Milford chronicle., 1933-10-13
FOR COLUMBUS DAY

Modern history has about con-
cluded that Christopher Columbus
was not the first man of Europe to
see the American continent. Cen
turies before his adventurous dis
covery of October 12, 1892, Nor
wegian explorers are supposed to
have crossed the Atlantic, to a To-
cality they called Vinland, which
was probably either Nova Scotia,
New England, or Long Island.
But all such explorations vanished
into the misty past, leaving no sure
record behind. They built nothing
that lasted.
The Norsemen may have crossed
the Atlantic 500 years before Colum-
bus did, but their exploit counted
nothing, and they are forgotten.
Columbus discovered the same con-
tinent, but he did his work so
thoroughly that others could follow
where he led, and he started and
created the great movement that has
made our majestic country. So in
our daily Jives. What we merely see
counts nothing. 1t. is what we see,
and transmit to others, that makes
lis memorable.
Milford chronicle., 1933-10-13

ARE YOU willing to contribute
to the progress of your home town?
If so, you win spend your money
there SO far as possible.
Milford chronicle., 1933-10-13
TO-

ARE YOU anxious to succeed in
business? If so, you should let your
home folks know by advertising
what you have to sell. -
Milford chronicle., 1933-10-13
RADIO

Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd
plans to broadcast from Little Amer
lea this winter. No "okay America"
stuff, Dick.
Milford chronicle., 1933-10-13
ElAT==I

ARE YOU a friend to your home
town? If so, you will speak well of
it when its reputation is discussed.
Milford chronicle., 1933-10-13

YOU CAN'T produce good town,
just by sitting in an easy chair and
finding fault with those who
are trying to make it good one.
Milford chronicle., 1933-10-13

YOU CAN'T sell goods, If people
don't know they are there. Let
them know by advertising.
Milford chronicle., 1933-10-13
G@ Ct:

YOU CAN'T keep people en-
ployed in your home town, if you
employ the people Of, other towns.
to provide your supplies.
The Washington times., 1933-01-30
CARDOZO QUINT
FACES DUNBAR

Dunbar and Cardozo high
schools will meet today in the
formers gym to open the basket
ball championship series among
the colored high schools of the
city.
Both teams have been going
along at fast rate of speed this
season and the victor in the con-
test is a toss up. Robinson, who
starred for the Cardozo boys on
the gridiron, has become caging
sensation this season and if Dun
bar can stop him, they probably
have a chance to cop the fray.
Matthews and Armstrong have
been carrying the brunt of the
Dunbar tossing. All in all both
teams are about on equal basis.
The contest will start at 3:15
o'clock.
The Washington times., 1933-01-30
NORWAY LEADS
SKATE TEST

OSLO, Norway, Jan. 30.-Nor-
way led the United States in the
international speed skating tour
nament today despite the brilliant
victory of Eddie Schroeder, Chi
cago, in the 10,000-meter' event
yesterday.
Making the fast time of 1908,
the American beat Ivar Ballan-
grud, Norwegian champion, by
almost six seconds. Valentine
Balls, of Lake Placid, N. Y, was
third.
King Haakon personally congrat-
ulated the Chicagoan while a rec
ord crowd of 10000 spectators
cheered.
In the $500 : meter event,
Schroeder finished second to Hans
EngneStagen, Norway.
After two days of competition,
Norway was leading the United
States, 5712 to 8612. The cross
country method of scoring is used.
The Washington times., 1933-01-30
K|CKERS STAGE
CLOSE FRAYS

The two Columbia Heights
soccer teams, Grays and Blacks,
continued their reign at the top
of the Capital City Soccer League
by triumphS yesterday.
However, the Blacks had a
narrow escape, as Rockville put
up stubborn battle, and only
the clever booting of Lewis, who
accounted for two goals, gave
them a 80 edge.
The GrayS scored their seventh
straight win when they showed
BrandyWine under a 9-1 decision.
Dux A. C. finally broke into
the victory column when it took
Bloomingdale over the jumps in
the Recreation League, 80 with
the help of BertoS two goals.
RoSedale squeezed out a 81 tri-
umph over New York Avenue.
The Washington times., 1933-01-30
Weiner Gusts
Prante Al
Portner' s

Herman Weiner is back on the
Portner Arena fight card tomor-
row night.
The Hot Dog" from Baltimore
will supplant Emil Prante, big
Marine from Philadelphia who
was forced to cancel his scheduled
battle with Bob Tow.
The Pennsylvania State Ath-
letic Commission informed Prante
last night that he would be un-
able to box Tow here tomorrow
if he expected to fulfill an en-
gagemnt in Philadelphia Friday
night.
Works With Gallagher
Thus Herman is brought back
into the fold. Herman worked
out with Marty Gallagher last
Wednesday. After the workout
he complained of a bad hand
and pulled out.
A medical examination by a
Baltimore physician proved the
hand had not been injured to
any great extent. With three
days rest, Herman is ready to
box the Georgian.
Marty Gallagher finished train
ing yesterday and is set to battle
the sensational Les Kennedy, in
the eight-round windup.
Kennedy FavOrite
Kennedy will be 2-to-1
favorite by bell time by virtue
of his great showing against Bob
Goodwin a month ago in the same
ring.
Bucky Taylor and Willie Els,
singer go in the six-round main
preliminary. Taylor holds a duke
over Essinger in a furious battle
staged last year.
Other fours feature: Cary
Wright VS.. Sailor Leonard and
Marino Marini VS.. Charley
Parker.
The Washington times., 1933-01-30
A Goodly Throng

Indeed, given a good day, an
immense throng will therefore
be in attendance at Baltimore
to see what may we'll be called
the second heat of the spring
among horses which last sea-
son raced as two-year-olds.
= The Havana Derby, the Cof-
froth Handicap and the Ken
lucky Derby, all for $4,000
purses, therefore will be the
outstanding money events of
the year, the first two named
being for all ages. With that,
we believe the fan interest in
the PreakneSs will be almost
as great at $4,000 as at twice
that amount, the purse nat
urally meaning a great deal
more to the thoroughbred own
ers than to the patrons who
keep the turnstiles clicking.
But one filly comes to mind
to challenge for the three-year-
old supremacy this year, she
being Swivel, belonging to A.
= Pons. This brown baby cam
paigned well as a two-year-old,
but nothing like so we'll as Top
Flight who wasn't beaten in her
two-year campaign.
A half dozen outstanding
colts for the Derby and Freak
ness embrace Ladysman belong
ing to w. R. Coe; j.. E. Wild
ener's Golden Way; H. P. Whit
ney's Caterwaul; Quincy
Stables Repaid; Lee Rosen-
berg's Kerry Patch, winner of
the Belmont Futurity and
Balois, the Wheatley Stables
property.