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Milford chronicle., 1933-03-17

Last Tuesday Mrs. Clara B. Rust,
widow of the late Robert Rust,
passed away at her home here at the
age of n years. Her funeral was
held in the church on Friday and
burial vas made in adjoining ceme-
terry. She leaves to survive two
daughters. Mrs. Harry Hudson and
Mrs. William Green and four sons,
Harry, John. William and Lloyd.
Mrs. Lizzie Warrington and fam
lily and Brady Dorman of near Oak
Orchard visited Mr.. and Mrs. Ana
Mas Hickman on Sunday
Mr.. and Mrs. r. Elwood Godfrey
and children of Aillsboro spent
Sunday with Mrs. Nora Ennis and
family.'
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph G.. Rust who
spent the winter at Miami. Fla,
have returned to Delaware. On Sat-
urday they visited Mr.. Rust's par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. George A. Rust
John 1ust had his nose broken
and was painfully injured ON Satur-
day when he was kicked by a mule.
Mrs. Effie Davidson is on the sick
list at this writing
On last Friday the home of Miss
Hester Walls and brothers, George
and Edgar Walls. was destroyed by
fire
Milford chronicle., 1933-03-17
HARRISON

The Harbeson-Coolspring Home
Demonstration Club held a delight
ful luncheon ct the home of Mrs.
Jerry Wagamon last Tuesday after
noon. Those present were Miss
Laura B. Rutherford. Mrs. w. o.
Warrington, MIS-. Lawrence Mason,
Mrs. VI. c. Vaughn, Mrs. Gilbert
Stewart, Mrs. Marvin Martin, Mrs.
Nora Ennis, Mrs. ]. Floyd Lingo,
Mrs. Hylon Smith, Mrs. Walter
Robson, Mrs. c. r. Davidson, Mrs.
G. Edward Veasey, Mrs. A. w. Hick-
man, Mrs Benjamin Chamberlain,
Mrs. William II. Prettyman and
daughter Pasty. Mrs. Ella Marvel.
Mrs. Stephen Hudson, Mrs. A. Red
hefer, Mrs. Cora Prettyman, Mrs.
Howard Abbott, Mrs. Sallie ThOmp-
son, Mrs. Jerry WagamOn and
daughter Louise. After the luncheon
and recreation period, Miss Ruther-
ford gave a talk. The meeting then
adjourned to meet with Mrs. Cora
Prettyman in April.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Walls and
family of Wilmington spent the
weekend with Mr.. and Mrs. .. II.
Davidson.
Milford chronicle., 1933-03-17
SUGAR HILL
Near WLlliamsVIlls)

Services al the Sound NJ. f.
Church Sunday as follows: Sunday
school $3.50 q. m, followed by prea-
ching at IL. Sunday evening praise
meeting. Prayer meeting Friday ev-
ening.
Miss Anna Williams spent the
weekend with Miss Elsie Evans.
VOllie Gray spent the weekend
with his sister. Mrs. Myrtle Hudson.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ira Pepper enter
tanned Mr.. and Mrs. George VIII
liams and family and Mrs. Eva Lew
is Sunday evening.
Anna Murray is spending some
time in Philadelphia with relatives
Mr.. and Mrs. Willie Lewis spent
Sunday night with Mr.. and Mrs. Is
rael Townsend.
Mr.. and Mrs. Rodney DerricksOn
and family. Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Hick-
man and Clara Hickman called on
George Williams and family Thurs
day. 49m@@
Gladys Lewis spent the weekend
with Hattie Townsend.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lem Keen and fam
lily. Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Bennett and
Mr.. and Mrs. George Grise called on
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Adkins, Sr., sun
day evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Eashum spent
Sunday afternoon with MIR. and Mrs.
Stephen H. Hudson.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas DOnnelly
and Jack Hoffman, Jr., of Philadel-
phia spent Sunday with Mr.. and
Mrs. Dave Derrickson and daugh-
ter.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed. Adkins, Jr., were
Sunday guests of her parents, Mr.
and Mrs Murray of Selbyyille.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dave Derrickson,
JT., entertained Mr.. and Mrs. Marvel
Campbell of Selbyyille and Mr. and
Mrs. Bob White of Millsboro Sunday
evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Shockley have
returned home after spending few
weeks with their son and his wife.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed. Shoekley of New
Jersey.
Milford chronicle., 1933-03-17
GLENDALE HAPPENINGS

Greenwood were Sunday guests o
their daughter and son-in-law. MIR
and Mrs. William HOuseman.
Mr.. and Mrs. George NJ Reed, Jr
accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Har
vey 7. Smith mOtOred to Wilmington
and Marcus Hook on Sunday.
Mrs. r. A. Wood and Mrs. Ally,
Wells were DagsbOrO visitors or
Sunday
Sick
r. d. Lingo, Sr.. one of the mos,
| promin ent citizens of Sussex coun-
~, residing at DagsbOrO is reported
very i'll with intestinal grip. Mr.
Lingo, besides being president ol
the bank at Dagsboro is also en-
gagged in other enterprises which
bring much revenue to the town
where he resides. II means much to
any place, where its most prominent
citizen is only temporary i'll.
We wish for our old time friend q
quick recovery, and hope to be able
to grasp his hand as of yOre We
can i'll afford to lose citizens of the
type of Mr. Lingo.
Ladies' Aids To Meet
Al the school auditorium at Ellen
dale ON Tuesday evening, March 81,
there will be public social meeting
of the four Ladies' Aids Of the Ellen
dale Circuit: Union, MrCoiiey's. New
Market and Glendale.
Each organization will present a
program of 20 or 30 minutes. Admis-
sion l5 cents. Ice crcall on sale.
Everybody welcome. Come and
join one of these organizations il
you are not now a memDer.
EpwOrth League Rally
The EpwOrth Lea sue Rally which
was held In the chur3h Sunday eve
ming was something worth while.
The program rendered by Miss Ly-
dia COverdale was iinH and the in
PRODUCTION of officers Of the League |
by Mr.. Conner aud the addresses by |
Prof. Adkins. Martin Adkins and !
Fred Ireland will long be remem-
lered by those who were present.
Church School
lO5 teachers and scholars answer
ID TO roll call Sunday morning. This
vas a fine showing and must have
een very gratifying to the new SD
erintendent, /. W. Warren, who
GEMS TO be the right man in the
light place.
forming Sermon
The pastor preached a very
and entertaining sermon.
lis mind seemed strongly inclined 5
speak only of those things which Z
ave a tendency to bring women
ld men closer to the Master. |
Yenlng Service n
The eveningservice was taken Ov-
= by the EpwOrth League. a
lnday Services. March 10:
Ellendale: 10 a. m. Church school. II
Il. M. Preaching by the pastor. Z N
m. EpwOrth League Mrs. Pauline
ynch. leader. 1880 p. m. Preaching u
? the nastOr. IL
Church School Glass No. 6, Mrs.
ava DickersOn. PRESIDENT Mrs. II. o
Conner. teacher. will go to Mill q
Ood, ON Houston Circuit, Thurs IL
~ evening. March %, and present "
play which is up TO date in every u
spect. u
Milford chronicle., 1933-03-17
FREDERICK
Historic Barratt'S Chapel to Reopen
Next Sunday With Proper
Dedication Services.

Next Sunuay Win PROPER
Dedication Services.
Barratt's Chapel, near Frederica
one of the three oldest churches in
America and known as THE Grade
of Methodism" will be rededicated
next Sunday, March 18th. The
church has been closed for several
weeks during which time extensive
repairs have been made. The SER
vices will begin at o'clock in the
afternoon. DR.. w. L. Habbart, SUI
! perintendent OF the Wilmington Con
ference will be the speaker for the
occasion. A special musical pro-
gram will be presented and il is eX
pected that large congregation
will be in attendance. The old build
ing with its quaint architecture.
looks very attractive with its new
ly decorated white interior.
On the afternoon of Wednesday,
March Sth, the boys and girls bas-
ketball teams of the Frederica High
School jOurneyed to Milford, where
they engaged the boys and girls Ju-
niOr High tossers in two very inter-
esting games. The Milford girls
must have had their minds pretty
well made up to get revenge for the
beating they suffered upon their Wis
il to Frederica because they handed
our girls neat trimming of POI.
Our boys Jared better and balanced
things up hit by beating the Mil
ford boys by score of ll-6.
With the advent OF early spring
days one begins TO think of garden
ing and devises a personal program |
for the cleaning up of the premises
and planning what to grow for the
table and what to plant for beauti-
flying the outdoor surroundings.
Perhaps one has already purchas-
ed vegetable and flower seeds from
the school children who are the
most persuasive and successful
5alesmen We know. Already every
hing is awakening 10 new life. The
pussy willows are putting forth
heir silver gray catkins and the
laffodils are Haunting their golden
Iells in spite of wind and weather.
Buds are unfolding from their waXy .
on the bare trees and the
Migrant birds are returning. Dur
NC these early days one can build
few homes for our feathered
riends who will repay us with rhoir /
heery songs and also by destroy I
lg the insect pests. To keep busy
eeps UP ones morals in these times i
MIR. and Mrs. Il. Il. Allaband. of n
n. c.. aud William S. q
avis, of Dover, were guests of Mrs. a
allie Williams on Monday and +
uesday of this weew. &
Mr.. and Mrs. S. II. BlOcksOm, OF n
spent Sunday with Q
r. and Mrs. II. W. Patterson. II
Mrs. Alice G. Melvin entertained
few friends at cards ON Friday eve. II
MIR. and Mrs. Henry Kay, of Will II
instOn, were guests of MIR. and h
rs. Samuel BOstic on Sunday. n
Mgs. N. c. Benson has been suf- ~
ring greatly with one of her eyes r.
+ several weeks. -,
Mrs. Jester A. Gray who has been nj
the sick list for several days is n
lie to be out again. She is an eff In
lent welfare worker and is now n,
)rLing to establish sewing unit
re in the town hall, which will
re employment 10 thirty women. II
Milford chronicle., 1933-03-17
DAGSBORO

! The warm days and chirping oi
birds bring thought of spring as
many of the ladies has begun to
plant their early gardens.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Collins and
Miss Louise Hudson were the guests
of Mr.. and Mrs. JnO. NJ. Hudson over
the weekend.
Miss Decima DOnaway and Mrs.
Howard Vickers visited Mrs. Vick-
ers' daughter. Grace. at Wilmington,
Sunday, where she has been taking
medical treatment. but glad to know
she is able to return home at this
writing.
Mrs. Charley Timmons and daugh-
ters, Irene and Eva Virginia, and
Sonyboy McCabe called on Mrs. A.
( &. Steen on Sunday.
Mrs. A. Barber has returned after
/ spending a few days in Philadelphia.
Mrs. Jennie Peny and son, of Cool
! spring. is spending Il few days with
Mrs. Barber
| Johnathan Baker and son Asher,
of Laurel. called on Mr.. and Mrs. c.
A. Gray on Tuesday.
Mrs. Earl Smith, of Virginia, and
Mrs. William Singer, of New York.
and Mrs. Ernest Hill, of Philadel-
phia, spent the week with their par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. S. M. Hudson.
The speed boat (Binks) No. III,
the winner of many cups. has been
purchased from Raymond Steel by
Jas. A. KOllOck. Jr.
W. B. Chandler left Tuesday on
the Orange Blossom Special from
Wilmington for Plant City, Florida
the strawberry center.
Mrs. A. C. Steen, Mrs. John Peny |
and son, and Mrs. A. Barber were |
dinner guests of Mrs. C.. L.. LingOn |
Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Claud Watson and
son. of Chester, Pa, spent the week.
end with Mr. and Mrs. Walter Tim
mons and. family.
Mrs. Alva Wells. of Ellendale,
spent the weekend with her par
ents, MIR. and Mrs. Charlie Hickman.
MIR. and Mrs. Norman Hickman call
ed on Mrs. A. c. Steen Monday even
ing.
Mr.. aud Mrs. Frank Johnson are
spending some time in Cleveland,
Ohio, due to the illness and death of
Mrs. Johnson's father and the ILL
ness of her mother.
Work has begun on the road lead
ng from DagsbOrO 10 Frankford by
he new John NJ. Clayton school,
The relief committee has organ
zed a sewing circle for the ladies
# our community for the unempiOy-
d. II seems TO b. a great help as
u winter the men has been looking
or work but failed to- find any. Mrs
!. NJ DOnaway is acting as manager
f the circle. The ladies' wish to
xpress their appreciation to the re-
ef committee.
One of our high school boys spent
he weekend in Philadelphia. Owing
e had not been in long time. lost
is way and went to the ferry re-
lrning to the apartment. where he
as roOming, stepped in the eleva-
lr for the fourth floor. After as
ending to the apartment failed to
pen the elevator door and enjoyed
imself by ascending and descend
lg on the elevator that work auto
sYNrr al.
Milford chronicle., 1933-03-17

Mr.. and Mrs. william H. Short
were pleased when ON Sunday they
received a telegram from their son,
William H. Short, who resides at
Long Beach, California, saying that
be was safe after the recent severe
earthquake there.
Milford chronicle., 1933-03-17

Mr.. and Mrs. David Pepper and
daughter Mary Louise, visited Mrs.
Peppers parents, Mr.. and Mrs, Mar
win Martin on Tuesday.
Howard Abbott who has been i'll
has recovered sufficiently to return
to work.
Milford chronicle., 1933-03-17

Milt Fall was describing fish he
had caught. He stretched his arms
to full length and said ut was that
long. boys. / never saw such a
fish"
No. | don't believe you ever did,"
commented Bill.
Milford chronicle., 1933-03-17

Feed the birds when snow covers
the ground.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-17
CHILDREN VS.. BLACK BASS

Certain manufacturers have tried for years to kill
the childrens bureau because it fights child labor
Lattery, under cover OF the national economy drive
attempts have been made to cut off a particularly
large share of this departments annual appropria
tons
This year is no exception. The bureau received
the modest sum of $375,OOO for 1888. The budget
bureau and the house of representatives took off
$4,000. The senate appropriations committee has
recommended another cut of $35 ,45O-the only cut
suggested in the bill providing for state Justice COM
MERGE, and labor departments.
If this last slash is made in revenge for activities
against child labor some of the most important work
being done by the federal government will stop.
The chldren's bureau is the only agency collect
ing data on relief expenditures by cities and states
Its findings have proved invaluable to relief agencies
state authorities and the Reconstruction Finance
corporation.
IL compiled all state relief laws passed last wear
and all constitutional limitations on state and local
spending, so that government relief money might
be spent ntelligently and the need for more ac
curately known.
It has prepared guide for those engaged in
feeding families on the least possible money. showing
which foods must be included to preserve life and
This work supplements an extensive children's
bureau service for the department of Justice regard
ing care of juvenile denquents and also preparation
and distribution of booklets on infant care which
nave meant health to many thousands of children
whose parents were unable to paw for exnert n,edi,
advice.
So the senate appropriations committee recon-
mends taking $5545O from the children of the Tinted
states and using it for interstate transportation of
black bass for an international commission on an
hual table of constants international council of
scientific unions an international joint commission
10 continue fumes investigation in northeastern
washington, and convention relating to LIQUOR
traffic in Africa.
Perhaps the senate will disagree with its COM
mlVtee That black bass and Observation-Disclosures thew
may be-are more important than the lives of chill
dren.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-17
REPEAL,

Thirteen years Of good intentions gone wrong
and now relief is in sight. When the senate Thurs
day voted for prohibition repeal 63 to o. it prepared
the last rites for the no longer noble experiment.
The American voters gave their mandate last
November. The senate merely has registered the
popular will. That the house of representatives will
follow the senate and that the necessary state con-
ventions will ratify repeal, seems certain-unless
tricky politics delays.
We Americans learn slowly, but we learn
We have learned that prohibition is the reverse
Of temperance we have learned that morality can
not be egslated, that speakeasies are worse than
saloons, that government which invades the uber-
ties Of citizens degrades itself in lawlessness
Prohibition is not being abolished by drunkards
but by patriots No repeal is needed to get drink
or too many drinks Repeal is essential to restore re-
spect for law, to take profit out of wholesale crime
TO turn the federal government back to its rghtfu
tasks and restore its legitimate revenues to save our
selves from snoopery and hypocrisy and to teach
our children that there is no evil in beverage or food
except intemperance.
Repeal will help We need not be naive enough to
think it will solve the liquor problem. We never
were temperate people in anything.
But with national prohibition out of the wav
we at least can start to face the continuing prob
lem Of liquor control honestly and inteIigentIy.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-17
ZANGARA

Any nation which can take an attempted assas-
sinatlon so calmly has character The President
elect and Mrs. Roosevelt kept cool The public re-
spondcd with pose
There was no plot. The tragedy has no politi-
cal significance. A demented man. sick in body and
mind, became maniac. He had no personal grudge
against Mr. Roosevelt, either real or imaginary.
He confesses that always since youth he has
hated and wanted to kill all rulers, whether kings
or presidents. Apparently it is a type of insane
obsesson well known to psychatrists
The able secret service has ways of guarding
against political assassins, of crushing plots in the
Matching. But it can not foresee the acts of the
insane
The nation, which is so profoundly grateful that
the PreSident-elect escaped unframed hopes for
the quick recovery of Mayor Cermak and the other
victims of the madmans gun
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-17
It Seems to Me . :. by Haywood Broun

some sincere radical blacks po-
liceman's eye or kicks out a tooth.
II
An Old Se1ltlmentdliSt
T WILL be told that I am just an
IL old sentimentalist and mol
lycoddle and that I have no con-
ception Of the realities. Even so,
I remain puzzled when I see
marcherS met in Union Square to
demand that the Chinese govern
ment in Marking release an i'm
prisoned rebel.
1 know it is called mass pres
sure, but is it really true that
in far-off Marking somebody says:
They had a riot in Union Square
yesterday. I guess we'd better let
that fellow go?"
1t can even be that there is a
sort Of intellectual lazineSs in some
KINDS of direct action. I'm not
sure that it takes more energy to
throw half a brick than to argue
out a social problem.
I will agree that there must
come a time when argument turns
into action. Yet, even then, I
wonder if we don't confuse milling
about with action" which can
be a much more vital thing. After
all, a riot isn't a revolution.
Frankly, I want to see this world
in which we live scrapped like a
twenty year-old battleship. But
even in that process, some of the
metal could be saved and used for
better purposes. That's where toll
erance enters.
I'd rather convince a man than
club him. If anybody objects that
I'm not much good as a cOnvincer,
I can reply that I'm not SO hot at
clubbing, either. III stick to my
last. If anybody doesn't like my
style of tolerance, to hell with
him!
Copyright, 1888. BIZ The Times)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-17
SCIENCE.
Asteroids Are Puzzling
BY DAVID DIETz

NNE of the great mysteries of
~ our solar system is the origin
of the asteroids, that group of tiny
planets, or "planetoids," as they
sometimes are called, which re-
volve around the sun IN the gap
between Mars and Jupiter.
Until recently, there were two
theories generally advanced to &C
count for them. One was that
they were the remnants Of a great
planet which blew up or exploded
at some date in the distant past.
The other theory was that they
we're material which normally
would have formed a planet at the
time that the solar system took
shape, but that for some reason,
perhaps the great gravitation pull
of Jupiter, failed to do so.
A third theory for the origin of
the asteroids has been advanced
by DR.. N. T. Bobrovnikoff of the
Perkins observatory of Ohio Wes-
leyan university, Delaware, o.
DR.. Bobrovnikof, who is one of
the worlds chief authorities on
the subject of comets, believes
that the asteroids are the rem
nantS of a very large comet which
disintegrated. They might, in his
opinion, represent the wreckage
of several comets, but he thinks
it quite likely that they all origin
ated from one very large comet.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-17
RAILROADS

On the eve Of a new administration pledged to
improve railway conditions, which are deepening
the depression the report of the national trans
portaton committee makes two pertinent recon-
mendatons.
one pertains to rates; the other to consolida-
tons and efficiency of operation. Though neither
recommendation is original it is significant that
such position should be taken by an eminent COM
mittee organized by railroad creditors
AS to rates, the committee concludes:
The basis (for rates. of costs of operation I'M
der efficient management is better general guide
than any attempt to preserve capital structures ire
suective of economic trends. We see no reason
why the making rule should not say in plain
English that railroads are entitled to make reas-
enable profit based upon costs of efficient opera
ton and that they are entitled to earnings merely
to preserve present structures if overcapitalized
Equally important is the committees pressure for
fastening consultations, elimination of obsolete and
,neconomic lines, utilization of newer competing
methods of transportation, all tending toward
eventual unihcation of a single efficient national
railway system.
Having shown such wide knowledge Of these two
aspects of the railroad problem it is the more
prising to find the committee apparently lacking in
comprehension Of the labor and public regulation
sides of the problem.
No plan will get far as a solution whith fails
10 consider the industrys 100000 unemployed and
100000 part-time employed. victims of stagrant IN
d,lstry and chronological advance.
Nor is it practicable to consider merging all the
railways of the country into SYSTEM without
realizing that such concentration of power will
necessitate either public ownership or greatly IN
creased regulation to protect the public interest.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-17
FRIDAY. FEB. II. 1888


Certainly the state administration can
not afford to be placed under the sus-
plclon Of being on too friendly terms with
the petty loaners, the boys who charge AZ
per cent a year for furnishing money TO
desperate people.
And yet that is exactly what is bap-
pening.
In every session for the last six years,
these interests have defeated every effort
to curb their rapacity. Always there has
been suspicion Of very dubious tactics.
At this session. a bill has been passed
by the senate to reduce that rate to "a per
cent, somewhat astounding figure when
the credit unions Of the state lend to their
own members at 8.
But that figure, so state the men who
have created a vast business of catering to
the needs of the impoverished is too low.
And so the measure siumbers in the
lower house.
One of the leaders in this business hap
pens to be member of the state Demo-
cratic committee. Reports from social af-
fairs held by the party in power relate that
at these functions he does not hesitate to
mix business with his politics and his social
prestige.
Now there comes a suggestion that in
stead Of fixing the rate for small loans by
law, it be left to the financial commission
proposed by the bankers.
That suggestion has merritt the pub
he is informed in advance as to member
ship Of this commission.
If the same tenderness is to be shown
in selection of this commission as was
shown by the bankers toward the petty
loaners, it means that there will be no re-
bef for the victims.
There should be a variable scale. It
costs more to place and collect a loan of $50
than it does a loan Of $500, the limit for
the small loaners.
The bankers, as a whole, have done
themselves little good in being so consid-
crate Of the interests which make mil
hons by the high rates If they, or the dis
trct chairman, are to have any voice in Sc
lection Of the proposed commission, the
people would dO well to fix the rate by law.
The situation is unfortunate. not only
Tor the unfortunates who are driven to
these sources for aid in extremities, but for
the administration.
A prompt reputation of the activities
OF the district chairman who pleads in per-
son Tor high rates would be helpful.