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Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1933-07-07
FIRE PROTECTION
FOR THE FARMER

The farmer is the greatest proper.
tionate sufferer from fire. In other
words, the annual farm fire waste is
greater in comparison to property
values than the urban loss.
This may have been unavoidable a
few years ago. Farms were far apart
roads poor, communication facilities
slow and indispensable. But today
different situation obtains. Good
roads make 1t possible to go from the
nearest town to the average farm in
very short space of time. The
Telephone affords instant contact
with the outside world. The reason
farm fire loss has not come down
is that the bulk of farmers have
taken insufficient interest in build
ing up fire fighting organizations, or
water supply.
A few states have shown how this
can be done at a reasonable cost
A first-class standard engine is sit
uated at a central point, where it
can serve a wide number of farms
in the surrounding area. The de-
partment is headed by a qualified
fire marshal who builds up a volun-
teer organization. The cost to the
state or the scommunity or the
farmer is nothing in comparison to
the protection furnished. Such or
CARNATIONS have saved hundred of
thousands of dollars worth of farm
which would otherwise have
been destroyed.
Anyone who has lived in farming
sections knows the tragedy of fire
that destroys buildings, livestock,
crops and lives and raises taxes and
insurance rates. The solution is the
central fire department, well equip
ped and scientifically developed.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1933-07-07
THE GIFT OF LIBERTY

What is the thing that the Ameri-
can people most prize? What will
we cling to above all else here in
Milford?
According to. Owen D. Young,
famous industrialist and financer,
as he spoke at graduation address,
the freedom of the individual per-
son is his most priceless posses
sion. Some people may dispute
that statement. They may say, af-
ter the experience of recent years,
that the ability to earn a living is
the most cherished possession, that
people would give up their freedom
and be willing to be ordered around
at someone's dictation, if they could
only be sure Of earning a living.
This low opinion of the value of
freedom is not the traditional Amer
lean sentiment. The fathers took
their lives in their hands to have
freedom from a tyrannical king. Our
boys fought the World War in 1918
with fiery enthusiasm, because they
felt their liberty was in danger from
an aggressive nation.
1t does not seem probable that we
can get permanent industrial well
fare, unless we continue to have our
freedom. People might say they
would be willing to give up their
freedom in return for a sure job
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1933-07-07
ELECTRICITY CAN.
= IT. BUILD BUSINESS

One exhibit at the Chicago Worlds
Fair is particularly interesting tC
merchants, whether their stores are
large or small. That is the one
showing the use of electricity in
merchandising, which is part of the
power industry's electricity at
work" series.
There is a white carpeted dress
shop with Partisan imports being
modelled by tiny mannaquins upon
a revolving stage, with curtains that
open and close automatically. There
is a grocery store in which light in
dexes the foods kept on various
shelves. There is a beauty shop,
bakery and a restaurant, each
showing how lighting effects may be
used to make a striking and tempt
ing display. All are the products of
months of work by master craftsmen,
architects, electrical and mechani-
cal engineers, in consultation with
experts in various arts and indus
tries. .-
The average store, like the aver
age home, has as yet taken little
advantage of the possibilities of
modern lighting. 1t is pretty safe
bet that the store which does, will
be the one that sees its volume of
business and its profits rise. All
other things being equal, the buyer
will go to the store which displays
it's merchandise most uniquely and
catches his eyes most definitely.
AS result, the electricity in mer-
chandising exhibit might very well
be entitled Electricity as a business
builder"
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1933-07-07
THE STATE WELFARE HOME

In order to correct what may be a
misapprehension, it should be ex-
planned that the item of $$69,00O in
the State budget, which was omitted
when Governor Buck signed the bud
get bill, while it concerned the State
Welfare Home, at Smyrna, had moth
! ing to do with the maintenance fund
for the institution.
This item was included in the bill
with the intention, should 1t be au-
thorized, of using it for an addition
to the home for the accommodation
of the blind wards of the State,
As the item failed of authorization,
the blind wards will continue to be
maintained independently, as at pres
,ent.
Under the law creating the We'll
fare Home Commission it is speci-
fed that the maintenance cost of the
institution is to be charged to the
three counties, which, however, are
to be reimbursed to the extent of one
half out of the State treasury.
The Welfare Home is nearing COM
pletiOn, and, in all probability, will
be occupied some time in August.
After it has been placed in use the
almshouses in the three counties
will be misunderstanding Journal.
Caller-What would you suggest
to cure a chimney from smoking?
Editor-Fd give it one of your ci-
gars.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1933-07-07

that world trade slumped to $685.
OOO. 900, 900 last year, as compared
with S6S 1000, 900 900 in 1929. Not all
of this is the result of depression.
Much of it is the result of such slo-
gans as Buy British"-"Buy Amer
ican"-even BUY in bonneville" 1t
is the announced purpose of the
Conference to demonstrate the fol-
" that such slogans represent, and
do away with them.
90
OF great importance to the nation
is President RooseYelt's program on
the relationship of government and
business. Research indicates that
cut-throat competition, with the re-
sulting tremendous waste, is a
strong influence in prolonging de-
preston, inasmuch as it forces
prices down and prevents them from
rising. in the past, the antitrust
laws have stood in the way of agree
ments to offset this. The Presidents
plan is to abrogate the trust laws,
permit industries to work together
in controlling production and prices,
lHc 40
Government would have a strong
voice in determining wages, hours
of labor, output, prices, etc. Bust
ness has shown itself ready to CO.
operate.
-l,-. go
Factors at play now justify the be-
lief that heavy upturn in building
work will occur before long. Dur
ing the past two months small res
idential building has been moving
steadily upward, the material maxi
ers have noticed better than sea-
sonal gain in orders.
Building upturn would be felt In
every ndustry-lumber, steel. trans
port, metal, paint and varnish, cleo
trio, gas, etc.-and would provide a
vast amount of new employment
with a consequent jump in buying
power. Also important would be its
favorable effect on security values.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1933-07-07
Economic Highlights
Happenings That Affect The Dinner
Pals, Dividend Checks And Tax
Bills OF Every Individual. Nation
al And international Problems In-
separable From Local Welfare.

"If the world is sick enough to
have gained any sense, the (Econo-
mic) Conference will be a success. +,
So spake James Middleton Cox
one of the American delegation, just
before sailing. His attitude jibes
with that of most observers. They
believe that the world is sick
enough; they know likewise that a
sick world is not necessarily a SEN
sible one. When George v, Impera-
tor and Rex, formally opened the
Conference, none felt that it would
be an unqualified success, many
were unable to believe that it would
| produce much of definite and per-
manent worth. There are too many
warning interests at play; as in a
drama, plots and counterplots will
underlie the seemingly smooth ten
or of the proceedings.
1t is safe forecast that during
its first weeks, the delegates will be
sparring for position, testing their
ground. There will be a great many
polite speeches, pretty gestures, abb
struse discussions. The real work
will come later. There will be a con-
tinuous, thinly-veiled battle between
various sectional interests, opposed
PHILOSOPHERS. AS the Conference OPP
ems, the world it faces might be de-
scribed, briefly, in this manner:
! A Europe which is closer to war
than at ony time since 1913-with
armed troops patroling unfriendly
borders and looking jealousy at
alien lands. An increasing spirit of
nationalism in many major powers,
of which Germany under Hitler is
the classic example. In the Far East,
a growing spirit of Imperialism on
the part of the Japanese, which
must inevitably cause the Chinese to
develop a still greater enmity for all
foreigners. Widespread unemploy-
ment and industrial debility in every
country. Chaotic monetary systems
and tOttering currency standards.
And, in most powers, fear and dis
trust of the rest of the world.
These matters are not discussed
in the Conferences agenda. But they
will have much to do with the poll
cies of the delegates, and they will
influence the proceedings at every
turn. What the agenda does specifi-
cially mention for discussion fol-
lows: Monetary and credit policy;
prices; resumption of movement of |
capital; restrictions on information
al trade; tariff and treaty policy;
organization of production and
trade.
These are high-sounding labels
and the subjects they cover are
Greek to ninety per cent of the
worlds people. But the economist
can translate them into terms of
Jobs, wage scales, living standards.
If the Conference collapses, it will
be because the politicians, dominat-
ed by racial prejudice and national
istic passion, do the debating. If it
succeeds, it will bebecause the world
has at last become so sick that it is
willing to go the limit for cure.
On the eve of the Conference, the
of Commerce announced
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1933-07-07
INDUSTRIAL RECOVERY

Hearings have begun in Washing
ton on the stupendous program OF
business management provided by
the industrial recovery act. The sue
cess or failure of this program af-
fects the work and wages of every
family in Delaware, especially Mil
ford.
This precedent breaking law gives
the government power to lay its
heavy hand on industries and order
them what to do. But the govern
ment began laying it's heavy hand
on them many years ago, when it
passed severe antitrust laws. The
government now merely substitutes
one kind of regulation for another.
The new regulation gives the in
dustries a chance to regulate them
selves, something they could not do
previously without the chance that
their heads would be given free
board for a considerable term in one
of Uncle Sans not wholly popular
hotels known as jails.
These plans ask employers to put
more people to work with a shorter
work week, and give them pay en-
ough to live on. That probably
means operating temporarily at a
loss for many of them. No concern
can run at loss very long.
But a concern that is just start
ing in business usually expects to
run at a loss for some time, fire.
quently a year or two. The gov
eminent believes it will be good
policy for business to make a SINH
lar sacrifice now, and that in the
end it will make money by so doing.
If all or most of the industries con-
sent to do so, they should put bust
ness on a prosperous basis within
a few months or in a year at the
outside.
Labor should look at the situation
in a similar way. 1t would better |
accept the wages the industries can
afford to pay, and recognize that in
iustries that are losing money can
not afford to be very generous. 1t
$ one of those cases where, as in
starting a new business, sacrifices
made by all elements will build a
sure foundation of future welfare
or all.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1933-07-07
KITCHENS OLD AND NEW

kitchens of Today and Yesterday
have an important part in the ex-
hibit of the electric light and power
industry at the Chicago Worlds
Fair.
Thousands of housewives of today
know the old-fashioned kitchen only
from childhood memories and more
thousands d OnOt know it at all. The
one at the Worlds Fair is most in
teresting as it is indicative of what a
good kitchen was in its day. 1t has
a woodworking stove, candles and
oil lamps, a hand water-pump, a
laundry bench and large wooden
wash tubs.
In contrast, the kitchen of today
is shown as a marvel of convenience.
There is an automatic range with an
oven which maintains the proper
temperature without attention, and
turns itself off and one as the clock
directs. There, of course, an auto
matte refrigerator and an electric
dishwasher. Supplementary equip
ment includes a silent .ventilating
fan, electric mixer, bottle warmer,
toaster, percolator, egg cooker, waf-
1le-iron, and so on-fifteen electrical
appliances in all. Fuses in this
kitchen will never blow-because the
kitchen is fitted with a useless serv-
ice panel. 1t is illuminated with
fourteen lights, not one of which is
visible, providing careless and shad-
owless illumination. ..
While the fully electrified kitchen
shown is such as any home could
have today, it is intended to be
of what every kitchen will
have tomorrow. Women who see it
will be impressed with the distinct
idea that electricity applied to home
service is indeed her most efficient
household servant.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1933-07-07

Answer this riddle if you can:
Who will pay the tax bill if taxes
rise as fast during the next ten years
as during the past ten, and If more
taK-exempt government business re-
duces taxable private enterprise.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1933-07-07

THE man who dares not ask a
girl to marry him will probably re-
main a bachelor. The merchant
who dares not spend money asking
people to buy his goods, will not
probably sell them freely.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1933-07-07

SOME people who curse the al
legged slowness of their home town,
are terrible slow to clean up their
own disorderly places
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-04-23

Mr. Hull says, Inmates stock prices
and the volume of stock dealings and
the increase of plant capacity. while
simultaneously undermining the con-
sumption of plant output.
The fact that we have invented a
stock certificate representing fractional
ownership of the plants that produce
products, but have failed to invent a
similar product-certificate to represent
products in the same freely interchange
able manner brings about an inevitable
distortion as between productivity
and enthusiastically. The produc-
ton warrant will cure this.
Perpetual Prosperity"
Mr.. Hull, in book entitled per
petual Prosperity" discusses the origin
and method Of operation Of the PRO
duction- warrant" He says, in part:
Suppose that corporation pro-
ducing some kind of consumer-goods
round that it could sell at the moment,
in exchange for money at profit. only
80 per cent of its capacity. 1t would
continue paying dividends, wages. sal
aries, etc, in the usual form of money
credit, out of the sales of goods which
it could make in money form. The
other 20 per cent would be paid out to
the workers and the proprietors OF that
industry or enterprise, in the form OF
production warrants. What would be
the effect of this operation? Industry
would have been saved from the calam-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-04-23
New Faces in Congress
BY WILL p. KENNEDY.

TIME first Democrat ever to repre-
sent the third district of Wash
ington State in Congress Is
Representative Martin F. Smith
of HoQuiam, who gained wide
prominence in the last political cam
paign because of his leadership IN
the Pacific Northwest in advocating the
nomination and election Of President
Roosevelt.
For more than year preceding the
Democratic national convention Mr.:
Smith visited leading cities along the
Pacific Coast, particularly in Washing
ton and Oregon, pushing the nomina-
ton of Roosevelt. He organized the
first Roosevelt for President club IN
Washington State and was its presl-
dent He was the principal speaker
and guest of honor at a banquet IN
Portland Greg, when the Roosevelt
for-President League In that State
launched its activities.
Mr.. Smith, a lawyer by profession.
was born in Chicago and Is AZ years
old. He was admitted to the WASH
ington State Bar in 1911 and has made
his home in Hoquiam for the last ~
wears. He served as municipal judge
from 1914 to 1917, was member OF
the Hcquiam city council for two years
when Hoquiam returned to the council
manic form of government in 1926, and
served as mayor from 1928 to 1880:
When Mr.. Smith was elected last
November he succeeded his fellow
townsman, Albert johnson, Republican
Representative for the last 20 years.
Mr.. Smith has been a progressive IN
politics. He campaigned years ago In
favor of the initiative, referendum and
recall amendments to the State con-
stitution. Two years ago he was an
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-04-23
RACING BILL PASSED

OKLAHOMA CITY, April "a R.-
The Oklahoma Legislature gave final
approval today to legalised horse racing
with wagering on the pari-mutuel OF
certificate system, but the measure faces
other hurdles.
Should the bill escape veto by Gov.
w. H Murray, anticipated in some
quarters, it may be attacked in the
courts on the grounds it is a revenue
raising measure and, as such, should
have been passed five days before legis-
lative adjournment. This was the last
day of the session. The bill would be-
come law July IL.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-04-23

ity Of having to partially shut down its
plant and discharge workers and re-
duce dividends. Moreover. instead Of
producing only 80 per cent as much
wealth as it was capable of, it would
produce the full amount, and that
wealth in physical form would all be
distributed to the people Eighty per
cent of If would be distributed through
the usual medium of money credit. The
other 20 per cent instead of being
abandoned entirely, would be dis
tributed through the medium of pro-
duction-warrants A stakeholder would
get 80 per cent of his dividend in a
check and the other 20 per cent In q
production-warrant. A worker would
receive 80 per cent of his total wage In
money and the other 20 per cent In
q production warrant"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-04-23
MRS. PETERMAN FREED
IN HUSBANDS Staying
Charlotte Crowd Congratulates
Woman at End Of Three-Day
Trial.

BY the Associated Press.
CHARLOTTE, N. c., April ga Su-
perior Court jury after celebrating IS
minutes today acquitted Mrs. Ruth Pc
terman Of a charge of numbering her
husband, a public utilities executive
after liquor party at their fashionable
home here.
The woman who screamed IT killed
him" when police found her husband,
Roy L. Peterman, shot to death in the
midst Of broken furniture and topsy-
turvy household, had been on trial three
days-maintaining that Peterman, a
vice president of the Southern Public
Utilities Co., had committed suicide.
When the verdict was announced, the
crowds of Charlottes social set that
packed the court room during the trial
rose in a mass and pressed forward to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-04-23

congratulate the widow, to kiss her and
to shake her hand.
The well-wishers gathered about Mrs.
Peterman as she attempted to thank
the jury, which filed out of the court
room during the confusion, while the
widow, except for fleeing smiles Of &C
acknowledgement to her friends, remained
impaSsiYe.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-04-23

active worker in behalf Of the grange
district power bill throughout South
west Washington.
He is a member of the American Bar
Association, the American Legion and
is both a RotaIian and a Kiwanian.
His fraternal affiliations include the
Benevolent and Protective Order OF
Elks, the Loyal Order Of Moose. Fra
ternal Order of Eagles, Order Of Vass
and the Order of Runeberg. He is
married and has two small daughters.
Evening star., 1933-10-19
REICH ENC|RC[ED
BY RING OF STEEL
All Border Nations Increase
Forces of Defense Against
Any Nazi Move.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
A chain Of steel almost completely
encircles Germany today-backing with
cold metal the terms of treaties which
bind her within her rambling borders
To stretch in almost any direction,
the land Of Naziism would have to
penetrate border. defenses thrown up
with increasing vigilance since the war.
Only last month, still unsatisfied
despite heavy reinforcements all along
the line, Austria got the approval Of
France and Great Britain to raise q
special force Of 5000 men.
Special Duty Outlined.
These, it was explained, were to be
assigned to the specific duty against
terrorist elements" within Austria on
the German border. But Austria's big
scale preparations for defense along
the Austro- German line are more than
matched by those of which Belgium
and France now boast.
While Belgium had hesitated a bit
over laying out more funds for frontier
defenses, she went ahead with appro-
priations to complete them even before
Germany's explosive withdrawal from
the League and the arms conference.
Meantime, France, urged on by vet
Grams of her wars with Germany and
a people that never can forget the last
one, has forged powerful chain in
cluding a trench and casemate system.
For three years workers in the Metz
Evening star., 1933-10-19

he thinks there are fewer this year
than usual
Industrial scenes attracted perhaps
the biggest groups of pre-vieWers
Evening star., 1933-10-19
Cardinal and 'tSage'' Play
To a Tie In Piano Contest
Churchman's Splen did
Humming in the Pinch
Brings Victory.
William, Allen White Ad-
n,its Cardinal O'C0nnelI's
Tenor Turned Tide.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, October 19.-Cardinal
O'Connell of Boston arrived on the liner
Vulcania today after visit to the Vati-
can. On the same boat was William
Allen White, sage of Emporia, Kans.
The cardinal told of an audience with
the Pope and said that 1t was ''the most
delightful incident in my life"
The sage of Emporia was enthusiastic
about the cardinal.
He's the most democratic fellow"
he said.
Yesterday he and played the piano
for each other.
I'VE were in the conservatory alone
l played the Hymn to the Evening
Star He played the Pilgrims March,
from Tannhauser.
Then I played 'Cavalleria Rusticana.
The cardinal popped up and said, let
me play that for you And he did
and it was splendid.
Then he sang Marguerite and Last
Night the Nightingale Walked Me- sort
Of hummed them in fine tenor voice.
Il didn't sing. but our piano contest
was horse and horse.
There was no audience. It was too
bad"
Evening star., 1933-10-19

litical implications or was departure
from established practice.
At one time, it was said, all eliei-
biltty Lists were posted as q matter Of
general information, but this was dis
continued because Of the labor involved
It was added that members Of Congress
always have been able to get informa-
ton about the employment prospects Of
any eligible and that the same infor-
nation Is available for a private indi-
vidual representing a person eligible
for employment. Consequently, 1t was
said, where too much work Is not re-
Quired, there Is no resIson why the
member Of Congress should not see the
entire list.
But few requests for this information
have been received. according to the
commission, which pointed out that 1t
Is available to Democrats and Repub-
iicans alike.
The commissions statement was
prompted by q published account Of its
action.
Evening star., 1933-10-19
TUSSLE PROVES FATAL

SAN PEDRO, Calf, October 10 Up.
james F. Harrison, a seaman. second
class, from Grovania, Ga. was killed
yesterday during friendly scuffle with
j. S De Jarnette. jr. seaman. second
class aboard the U. S. S. PENNSYLVANIA.
Harrison was thrown to the deck of
the battleship. His neck was fractured.
Flags of all fighting ships in the har-
Dor were half masted and officers and
men stood at attention as the body was
taken ashore.