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Milford chronicle., 1933-02-10
Milford, Friday, February 10, 1888
LINCOLN's BIRTHDAY

Says the New International En-
eyclopaedia. in its article ON Abra-
ham Lincoln: "Lincoln's most mark
cd characteristic was the accuracy
with which he understood the Amer
ican people" Lineoln's birthday
speakers might take this thought as
a keynote, opening the door to all
kinds of success, particularly i'm
politics. ~
Many business enterprises have
gone on the rocks. because the pro-
motcrs could not read the American
mind. Politicians fail to grasp the
fundamental ideas of our people,
They see some popular excitement,
aud imagine this transient feeling
is going to be permanent.
Lincoln was great student of our
constitution and laws. While other
boys were frolicking. the future
president was seated by the lireside
reading history Of his country. He
saw that our people believe to the
bottom of their hearts, in liberty.
equal opportunity, equal justice. He
built his political programs on those
ideas. and believed the American
people would rally to them. They
did so, and made him a national
hero.
Milford chronicle., 1933-02-10
PLAYING HOLD.UP

II is a quite common sight on the
streets Of towns now, to see the boys
playing hold-up. Women leaders re-
mark that some youngsters are in
that way geeting the idea Of be-
coming gangsters. They act out the
proceedings of a hold-up with as
much realism as they can command,
showing their toy pistols in the face
of the boy who represents the VIC
tim, while the boy and the play cops
struggle with the boy gunmen.
Who can tell how many kinds have
begun life of crime with these
frolics, which seem harmless en-
ough to many? The effect on some
young minds would be to make the
gunman an attractive character.
Parents who catch their boys imi-
tating gang life would do well to
start them on some other line, and
tell them the reason why.
Milford chronicle., 1933-02-10
ROOSEVELT DAY

Directors r.of the National Retail
Goods Association are. considering q
plan to observe Saturday. March 4,
the date for the Inauguration of the
president-elect. as Roosevelt day. II
is proposed to celebrate it by re-
stocking their stores, encouraging
consumer purchasing, and making a
combined attack on the depression
Democrats expect great things
when the new brooms begin sweep.
ing clean, and will shout for this
idea. The Republican brethren may
not holler quite as loud, but they
vote for anything that promises to
loosen up frozen money. Half our
business troubles are due to fear.
and anything that gives people the
idea that times are going TO be good,
will help make them good. a
Milford chronicle., 1933-02-10
SEED CATALOe NIGHTS

The traditional indoor sport of
February is sitting in the living
room easy chair. studying the bril-
liantly illustrated seed catalogs, and
dreaming over the colorful flowers
and fat vegetables you are going to
grow next summer. s. blessings on
the followers Of this noble sport!
1t costs them no money, it keeps
them up to no late hour, It sends
them to bed feeling that life is not
so bad, even If they haven't one mil
lion bucks In their jeans.
Raising garden, say the knock
ers. looks easier by the cheerful
firesidc now, than it will under the
suns Of July, with those pesky bugs
and pests dancing all over your
cherished plants. But all the same,
people can find joy in the garden.
The country needs more garden
ers. They are people who pay their
bills, who don't ask for relief ex-
cept in case OF misfortunes they
couldn't help. They are home low
ing folks, who waste no time and
money in joy riding. They sit down
under the evening lamp to read the
They mediate on life
and human affairs as they root in
the dirt shefe in Delaware and they
usually vote right
Milford chronicle., 1933-02-10
S,0D0.O0 HOES SAVED

A Washington dispatch states that
adoption OF shorter working. sched.
ules for industrial plants has pro
viIled work for 5,OOO.OO0 people who
otherwise would have been idle.
There is the reverse side of the pic
ture, that In many cases these Jobs
have been preserved by cutting
down the working time of others.
This scheme is called the Share
the work" plan. but those who don't
like it call it "Share the poverty
plan. f
Some people claim this method
is profitable to employers of labor.
in that they thereby may escape hav-
ing to make contributions to relief
OF the unemployed, through taxes
and otherwise. This idea. however,
seems to involve misconceptions, as
operating plant on part time does
not give. full operating efficiency.
A large force working irregularly
does not run as economically as
smaller one working full time.
1t is also argued that people
should get full time pay for a short
working week. Under such plan,
innumerable industries would be
operating at heavy loss, and many
would either have had to close. or
so bankrupt.
A man OF course feels far from
happy when he is told that he is to
wor konly three days a week, so that
some fellow employe can have three
days time. Such reductions in the
pay envelope have meant bitter de-
privation in many families. But
under that plan at least, a family
can be pretty sure of having regular
for part time. while other wise they
might get no work at all.
All these arrangements should be
looked at as merely temporary. The
country is all set for business re-
vival. A change in political admin
istration always produces uncer-
tainty and hesitation, which is true
when the change is to be for the
better. But the total volume of
trade is still Is per cent above tho
level of last July. and the spring
days should bring still greater
boost upward.
Milford chronicle., 1933-02-10
COOPERATION - AND CIVILlZA.
TION

The work shop for the member of
farm cooperative is in his home
bailiwick. Right there, in the coun-
try community, is where America is
going to be made over in the next
ten years or so. The city has had its
run. While cities were heading the
parade, it was city men who led it,.
Now good roads and automobiles are
giving the country community al
most everything that the city has,
on top of the kind of life chat the
city never did and never will have.
Farmers cooperative associations
will head the parade in the new
movement. as chambers Of COM
merce led in city building. The farm
community that gets the most out
of this new age will be the one that
does the most, and it will have to
be through eo-operation--work, not
medicine.
The farm co-operatives are, in the
full sense of the word, civilizing
agencies. They are developing a
fuller, finer life for the farmer and
the farm family, as we'll as a more
prosperous one. They are a social
force as we'll as an economic ma
chine. n
The farmer who joins cor-opera-
tive, works with and for it, and
gives 1t his loyal support, is works
ing for himself. his neighbors and
the American family generally. Ag-
riculturo has many problems-and
the cooperative ideal touches them
all.
Milford chronicle., 1933-02-10
scALpING KNIFE BURIED

Queer ideas exist about the United
States. An Englishman recently re-
marked: II suppose there are many
Indians in Indiana, are there not?"
And a lady living in an eastern state
asked if it was safe for a woman to
drive a car alone through Oklahoma,
and if there are white men all along
the way?
Foreigners can not perhaps be
blamed for imagining American con-
ditions are as they were many years
ago, but one would think they would
want some clearer picture Of
country having 125,OO0.OOO people.
As for our own folks, if they want
to avoid making. mistakes that sound
funny, they should do more news
paper reading.
Milford chronicle., 1933-02-10
WHAT THE ROWING BOYS NEED

Various propositions are being
suggested to the government for
dealing with the hundreds of thou
sands of boys who are wandering
about the country. Various forms
of camps where they shall be set to
work are suggested.
Somebody ought to get next to
each one of these boys and talk to
him like a Father He should be
told that he is throwing his life
away, acquiring rowing habits that
will grip him with a fatal paralysis.
If he must be aided, a ticket to his
home town would be the most prac-
tical help. And if he reaches his
home town, means must be found to
set him to work.
Milford chronicle., 1933-02-10
STREET PRIDE

Let every citizens in Milford look
out for his own street. The old say
ing has it that il everyone sweeps
before his ownr door, the whole
world will be clean. Our citizens,
instead of finding fault because some
street or locality in some other part
Of the town is not we'll kept up,
should get busy on their own
places. fe t5 ~ ~
When they remove every scrap Of
disorder about such places, when
they repair their buildings, when
they spend the growing season cul-
tivating beautiful plants and shrubs,
then they create knid. of standard
that others will follow. If you Just
improve one place on street, the
are disposed. to initiate
the excellent example. M
Milford chronicle., 1933-02-10
LADIES AND THEIR PURSES

How is a lady to carry her purse
when she goes shopping? In many
cities certain thieves make it
practice to snatch handbags. AS
the lady wanders along the walk,
thinking of a hundred things, her
grip on the bag is not so tight as it
should be. Too many dirty crooks
are watching such chances.
Some police authorities counsel
the ladies to carry the money in
their stockings in the good old way.
Perhaps some day when they get
over squeamish ideas, they will re-
turn to tlrat excellent custom. But
now they would say it is not digni-
fled. How about stout strap at
tached to the handbag and encircling
the waist, which would be an inn
pediment that even the smartest bag
would find too much for
him? tFsa. @ .e-
Milford chronicle., 1933-02-10
sHABpINESs NEYEK PAYS

People often say that they can't
afford to paint their buildings or
otherwise repair them. These places
look shabbier aud shabbier every
year. Do they gain anything by this
supposed economy? Not usually.
Their buildings are deterioating if
these repairs are not made. People
do not like to trade in store kept
in dilapidated building.
Those who live in diIapidated look
ing dwellings are not so likely to
get good jobs OF course there are
many cases of late where people
simply haven't got the money. But
u is better policy to borrow the
money rather than let building
tleteriorale.
Milford chronicle., 1933-02-10
CLOSING SCHOOLS

Schools are closing in some locali-
ties. and 9.5OO.OOO American chill
dren are deprived of the essentials
of education. according to an inves-
tigation Of school conditions which
congress authorized in 1891. Thous-
ands of communities find themselves
unable under present conditions to
make even elementary provision for
the needs of their youth. But this
does not apply to Delaware.
This report notes that thousands
Of boys are wandering. around the
country. Many of them took to row.
ing because schools closed i'm their
home towns. 1t is melancholy day
when the Little Red schoolhouse
shuts up its doors. and the pupils
are sent sadly away. When you pull
down the flag over a schoolhouse,
it is about like surrendering a cita-
del Of 'Americanism to some un-
worthy enemy. d.
The above report remarks that
the property tax is too heavy and
that funds for schools must be
raised by other methods. 1t feels
that the entire state must take the
responsibility of caring for schools
in districts that can't provide educa-
ton themselves.
If a school in some depressed Sec
tion has to close, the whole state
suffers, A group of young people
will come up ignorant and wild.
Many of them will start tramping
around the country. When you turn
a school pupil into a tramp, you hit
the country hard. States will have
to come to the rescue Of cOmmuni-
ties SO handicapped.
The taxpayers feel they arc taxed
TO the limit already, and can stand
no new burdens. But il the expense
OF running states and cities was re-
duced as peoples incomes have been,
the savings made wonld provide |
schooling in all districts that can't
pay for it themselves.
We can't permit several million
children to grow up rough and un-
trained. We shall have to pay in
other ways TO take care of such
ones, through jails. police. and a
lack of Judgment among tho voters.
Milford chronicle., 1933-02-10

DON'T complain of defects in
your home town. Il you have failed
to keep your own home place in per-
feet order.
Milford chronicle., 1933-02-10

IF YOU have not gotten all you
should from your homo town, ask
yourself II You have given your
home town your most loyal backing.
Milford chronicle., 1933-02-10
SLEEPY AFTER MEALS?
WATCH FOR POTSONS

4 dopey. tired fecling is usually a
sign of bowel poisons, that breed germs.
Get rid of them with Adlerika. Acts on
both upper and lower bowels without
discomfort. Red Star Drug Store-In
Harrington by Sharp & Fleming Drug
gists.
The Cardinal, or Red Bird, is with
us again.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-31
JOAN Is VERY
HARD-BOILED NOW

Joan Blondeu is teamed with
Chester Morris for the first time in
Blonde Johnson. a First National
picture, in which they play the fea-
tured leads
The picture, which opens today
at the Circle, gives an entirely new
slant on the personal life of the big
time crook, with a woman as the
brains and dominating figure in the
operation of their questionable
trade.
Miss Blondel. who recently PLAYED
in Central Park. Big City Blues"
and Three on a Match now APP
pears in Blonde Johnson" as the
hardeSt-boiled feminine criminal
operative that ever ruled her band
with a relentless iron hand.
Chester Morris. who made his first
hit in pictures as a crook in "Albi".
IS an ideal running mate for the
Wise-cracking Joan. Morris has had
a brilliant picture career. with Lead
ing roles in such pictures as Red
Headed Woman THE Miracle
Man and mo One Man" He was
also a star on broadway before
coming to pictures.
Other theaters today offer: Wall
ter Huston in Gabriel Over the
White House at the Palace, The
Big Cage" with Clyde Beatty and
his lions and tigers in the cast at
the Apollo. and burlesque at the CO.
lonial.
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by the declarer with the ace in
dummy.
He would lead the ace and king Of
diamonds from dummy, on which he
would discard his losing club. The
queen Of spades and then a small
spade would be led from dummy, de-
clarer winning the second trick with
the king.
The opening leader has shown up
with the king-queen of clubs, and
his double definitely marks him with
the king of hearts.
The drop of the nine of spades
gives the declarer the encourage
ment that the spade suit may break,
so instead of ruffing a spade, he
leads a small heart.
West plays low, the trick is won
with dummy's queen A small club
is trumped by the declarer, and a
small heart led, which West wins
with the king.
NOV, if West returns the nine
~ of hearts, declarer will over
take dummy's queen with the ace,
lead the ten of hearts, and then
win the last three tricks with his
three good spades.
However, West can make the play
more interesting by leading the nine
Of diamonds, which declarer will win
with dummy'S queen, discarding a
spade.
The decIarer had played the hand
marking West with the jack of
spades, therefore West must have
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-31
BY JAG AUER
Written for NEA Service

WOU have been working on
i your thighs and hips Now
YOU are ready for advanced
stretching exercises.
Since you want a slender, sup
pie form you must work on your
hips thighs, abdomen, and also
on your spine and neck. This ex-
ercise gets at all Of them.
Start in a sitting position, with
your ankles crossed. Grasp your
left foot with your right hand and
your right foot with your left
hand, and hold on tight. Get
balanced properly.
Now roll back on your spine. at
the same time pulling your legs
up and stretching them over your
head toward the floor. Your OBJ
jective is to have your feet touch
the floor over your head with
your hands still holding on to
them.
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When you have touched the
floor, or come as near to it as
you can, the first time, hold it a
second Or two. Then bring your
feet back, still holding on, and
you will come to sitting posi-
ton again, hands still on feet,
right where you started.
This exercise does more to
break down the fat on your alb
domen, your thighs and the back
of YOUR neck than any other exer-
else given. It is a composite of
many exercises and gets right
after muscles that need stretch
ing, working on your back that
needs limbering, and generally is
simply fine for toning up your
circulation and system.
Don't despair if you can't touch
the floor the first day. Few wom-
en- can who haven't done the ex-
ercise before. But keep at it. The
distance you make each day
toward your goal is measure in
itself Of your decrease in fat and
increase in litheness. Keep at it.
NEXT-The high scissors exer-
else
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Contract Bridge
BY w. L. NrKENNFY

no you make the mistake of
IL doubling a slam contract just
because you feel assured Of setting
the contract one trick? II so, you
are making a grave mistake.
Safely, to double a slam contract
you must be positive Of having at
least two different ways Of setting
the contract.
While in Rochester. recently. ar
ranging for the Rochester district
tournament OF the American Bridge
League, Mr.. Earl S. Colby Of that
city referred the following hand to
me.
FINDER the one over one system.
y the normal bidding would be
South one spade. West pass. North
with his great strength, definitely
knows that a game is certain and a
slam probable.
The question is whether to force
in diamonds or i'll no trump. Per-
sonauy I prefer the bid Of two no
trump rather than one Of three dia-
rlonds. The diamonds may be bid
later on.
After the two no trump bid.
South would bid three hearts. North
would bid four diamonds. which bid
definitely marks him with a strong
four-card suit.
While South has two five card
major suits. he has no more strength
than ordinarily advertised in his in
itjal bid, so his proper response
would be four hearts. This tells
North that the South hand contains
two five-card suits
South's three high-card tricks,
necessary for an original bid, are
marked practically. North should
not bid five hearts, inviting a slam,
but should bid the slam himself
with a bid of six hearts. East and
South would pass.
TXTEST is confronted with a prob
w lent looks as though he
has club trick, and certainly a
heart trick Most players with
Vests hand would double.
West would open his king of
clubs, hoping to establish club
trick Immediately so that he could
cash it when he got in with the king
Of hearts. This trick would be won
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-31
Bride Will
Be HOnOred
at Shower
Mrs. NJ. Scott Walden to
Be Guest at Event on
North Side.

Mrs. Thomas Rhoades and Mrs.
Loran Hickman will be hostesses
tonight at a miscellaneous shower
and bridge party. honoring Mrs. NJ
Scott Walden, formerly Miss Mary
Rosalind Clerkin Of Greensburg.
The party will be held at Mrs. Hick-
mans home, 1895 Broadway.
Assisting the hostessess will be
Mrs. Hickman's sisters Mrs. John
Spiegel and Mrs. Roul Cornelius.
Jonquils will decorate the serving
tables, carrying out color scheme
of yellow and white.
Guests will include Mesdames
Noble Ropkey, Forrest Green,
Cranston Mugg and Misses Jeanne
Spiegel, Ema Louise Reeves, Mar
garet Thompson, Betty Whetsel
and Mary Rose Lowry, both Of Fort
vile
Mrs. John Whitehead. $40 East
New York street, will entertain with
party for the bride Saturday.
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Legion Group
Arrange Party

Mrs. Joseph J. Speaks, general
chairman Of the annual party for
the benefit of the relief fund Of the
auxiliary to the indianapolis Post
4, American Legion, has announced
committees. The event will be given
Monday at the Banner Whitehill
auditorium
The committees are: Prizes;
Mesdames Nathan Swain, H. K
BatcheIder and Harry Green; cards
and tables; Mesdames Stella V
Norland, J. B. Little, Robert Tat
man, E. S. Blessing, Fred Tnnis
Glenn MELVILLE; tallies: Mesdames
Paul Berger, Grover Parr, Herbert
Winkler, and John Royce; telephone
reservations; Mesdames Ralph
Hesler. j. K. Langlett, Robert Moor
head, Malcolm Lucas, E. S. Wester-
welt, John Downing, Louis Yochern
and Frank Friddle.
The ticket committee includes:
Mesdames A. H. Worsham, Nora
Abel Charles Bebinger, E. S. Born
hill, A M. Buyhers, Mary Coleman
Robert Daggett, William Elder, Bow
man Elder, A. B. Fuller, Ralph Bales
John Haymaker, Fred Innis. Fred
Kenner, E. S. Garrison, Hobart Lit
teral, Blanch McClung, H. B. Nit
chell, Charles Macy, Walter Myers
James Quigley, Claud Record, s. K
Ruick, Asa j. Smith, Leo Smith
William F. Steck, Herman Stone
cipher, Louise Stout, Roy seipel, H
Y. finch, Dale White, Agatha Ward
Gilbert Graves, Myron H. Spring
and Mary Galbraith, Misses
Catherine Order Helen SiIcoX, Opal
Silcox, Gertrude McHugh and May
Tatman.
Hospitality committee: Mesdames
w. R. Mcclellan, Louis Markim, A
j. Steinbert, w. j. Overmire, Herbert
Wrinkle and Katherine Coleman.
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JUNIOR ORDER TO
GIVE RINK PARTY

The next in the series of skating
parties sponsored by the Junior
Catholic Daughters of America will
be held Monday night at the River
side skating Kinks. These affairs
are for the benefit Of the camp
fund.
Camp will be held at the Nc
Cornick Greek Canyon state park
July 20 to Aug. 10 in three, four
seven and ten day periods. The
Junior Ministries, to be held April
%, and the cookie sale being con-
Quoted by the group are also for
the benefit of the fund.
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Girl Scout
Troops to
Hold Court
March Honor Awards to
Be Given In Two
Weeks Of Rites

Be Given In Two
Weeks Of Rites
The March court Of awards Of the
Girl Scouts is headed by a number
Of unusual awards including ten
year gold service stripe to Margaret
Titus Of Troop 50.
Courts will be held IN individual
troops during this and next week.
GOLD STRIPE
58@Marqaret TITUS.
SILVER STRIPE
8-Bstty soehner. Martha Johnson.
lhlth Osborne
1911 Frances Patton.
l9-Martha Jean Soenuer.
20-Eieauol Col1Nel4,
23-DorotnT Dunbar. Florence Clpe' Nancy
s0cVeA. Helen Hpdgias
3l-June Bl0cter
45-Agucs Co-o|eI.
FIRST CLASS
= Martha Casseu
52- Roberta Haskell
SECOND CLASS
Margaret McCracken, Margery Clark,
Nancy Warner, Betty White Madeira
AGertrude Unversaw. Una Walker. Lucy
MARGARET smith. Dorothy Booth
Mary Ferguso1, Norma C0urtot.
Il-5arah McMath.
Dorothy Jean Bates, Dorothy Jean
Order. Esther Kennedy, Dorothy Ken
aedv Katherine Martin.
1s- GLADYS Bowers. Voda Marie White,
Marie Love
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Your suit, coat and skirt need
not match. this spring - in fact,
they're smarter if they DON'T No
tice the stunning contrast here
two soft gray woolens hafmoni-
ously blended. with a yellow-and-
gray plaid crepe scarf for a flip
pant dash of color at the throat.
The lines of the jacket are
clean-cut, crisp and boyishly
swagger.
You'll like the sleeves cut in one
With the shoulder broadening
yoke and the interesting closing.
The skirt is slim as reed and
features the new panel scanning
that terminates in pleats.
Both are very, very easy to tai
lor-and grand in manniSh pep
per-and-Salt tweeds, flannel or
mems suiting for wear right now.
Price for pattern, IS cents.