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Milford chronicle., 1933-09-01
FLOWER GARDENS

Some words of praise and thanks
should be said to everyone in Mil
ford and lower Delaware who has
cultivated a flower garden the past
summer. These beautiful blooms
not merely give pleasure to the own
er, but a benefit is conferred on
every neighbor and citizen. A town
without any flowers is dull looking
place, and it is hard to believe there
is much happiness there.
When you put flowers among the
homes, the town begins to look like
a place where people love the soil
on which they tread, and wish to
show that affection by making it
more beautiful. Many of our folks
say they are too busy to do any
work on flowers. Perhaps they are.
But our grandparents, who worked
harder than we do, usually found
time to cultivate their roses and ge-
raniums and the rest of their charm
ing old time gardens.
Milford chronicle., 1933-09-01
THE DANGER OF GOVERNMENT
TAI RELIEF

The new farm bill is swinging
slowly into action. The govern
ment will undertake to balance pro-
duction and demand, to improve the
farmers financial condition, to ease
the burden of mortgages, and to
raise the prices of. his produce.
While this may be temporarily
beneficial it will be permanently
harmful, if the farmer as an indi-
vidual, comes to depend on govern
ment to solve his problems and
smooth his path. That is always
the trouble with governmental aid
measures, no matter how carefully
they are drawn-they are apt to
create a feeling of dependence in
the beneficiary that leaves him help
less when aid has been taken away.
The wise farmer will recognize
the bill for what it is-an effort to
carry him through critical period,
and give him a hand in straighten-
ing out his troubles, so that he may
stand on his own feet thereafter.
Lasting farm progress comes from
the farmers own effort. 1t must
be the reflection of his own will, his
own aggressiveness, his own cour-
age, if it is to be permanent.
Milford chronicle., 1933-09-01
WHY BIG CITIES GROW

The question is often raised, why
big cities like New York, Chicago,
Los Angeles, grow so fast.
One great element in that growth,
is the tendency of trade to stay at
home. In a big city the business
ment get the entire trade of the city,
and an enormous volume from su-
burbs for many miles around. In ad-
dition they get tremendous bust
ness from an area of hundreds OF
even thousands of miles.
If cities like Milford are to grow
the merchants must ADVERTISED tell
the people facts and sell reliable
goods. In such places and condi-
tions is usually made as rapid
percentage gain as in a large city,
by keeping at home the trade that
belongs there.
Think it over. Is it not an ad-
vantage to see the home town BOOM
ing? If so, help out by trading at
home.
Milford chronicle., 1933-09-01
TOWN REPUTATION

The development or nOn-develOp-
ment of a town depends on its repu-
tation. That reputation is created
to large extent by the appearance
which it presented to the world.
Thousands of motorists go through
any town every week, and they form
impressions about that town with
their own eyes, and this impression
creates town reputation.
When those motorists see well
kept business district, with good
buildings and handsome looking
store fronts and displays, they say
this is a good town. AS they pass
by the homes, and see neat lawns
and dwellings, pretty flowers and
shrubbery, and tree planted streets
and parks, they say This would be
a wonderful town to live in. That
idea spreads around, and the hand
some face that town displays brings
new residents and business.
Milford chronicle., 1933-09-01

The administration has one major
worry now-the poor results of the
farm bill. The mortgage situation is
more tense than is was, and it is ap-
parent that present legislation is
either misdirected or inadequate. All
observers forecast that the act will
be given a thorough overhauling
when Congress meets again.
A few months ago the most talked
about subject of them all was infla-
ton. Then it practically dropped
out of the days news. The President
had been given the powers he want
ed, and nothing drastic happened. 1t
looked as if they wouldn't be used
after all.
Now imitation is preparing to take
its place in the headlines again. The
administrations desire for man
aged dollar" has not abated; it was
simply shelved for a, time while
other and more pressing matters
were being handled. A managed dol
lar is one which, in terms of buying
power, does not deviate in value; it
will buy as many eggs, automobiles,
suits of clothes and what-not one
year as the next. Our present kind
of dollar is constantly deViating.
Where its buying power, on the basis.
of a fixed normal, was sixty or sew
enty cents at the height of the boom,
it rose to $3.50 at the low in COM
modify prices we reached last sum-
mer and fall.
The President has two courses
open in initiating the currency. Most
obvious course is to lower the gold
content of each dollar. Then by
verying it from time to time, the dol
lar will theoretically possess a con-
slant value, and will be immune to
variations. Another
course is to order the Federal Re-
serve to buy large blocks of gov
ernment securities in the open mar
ket, thus expanding the Federal
credit. This would not create a
stable dollar; it would, however, be
helpful in providing a
market for new Treasury securities.
Opponents of imitation say that the
dollar is a golden dream
which is impossible of realization,
and point to the disastrous effects of
extreme imitation in Germany and
Administration spokes-
men say that miscarriage of a plan
doesn't necessarily mean the plan is
wrong. The public, confused by
is simply in waiting
mood.
Milford chronicle., 1933-09-01
Milford, Friday, September 1, 1888
THE DIGNITY OF LABOR

One of the thoughts on which peO-
pie can well reflect on Labor Day,
is as to the dignity and honorable
character of all honest labor. This
is a point of view ON which recent
years have seen come again. Old
people can recall time when many
forms of labor were looked at with
some contempt. There was a time,
for instance, when aristocratic peo-
pie though it beneath their dignity
TO engage in trade.
That particular feeling does not
exist today. 1t is considered that
anyone who seeks to serve the peo-
pie in a useful business is entitled
to credit. Yet some remnants of
that feeling exist that lead people
to cherish false ideas.
Many young men think there is
more honor in sitting on a desk
stool and adding up columns of fig
ures. than there is in handling the
tools of some skilled trade. There
is nothin in that idea, SINCE
it takes as much skill to WELD
a hammer as a carpenter, or a
wrench as a plumber, as it does to
add and subtract figures.
Also some people think it is more
creditable to a young woman to take
stenographie dictatiOn in an office,
than to work as a servant and cook
the dinners and sweep the floors
for some family. Also that idea is
wrong, since it takes as much brains
to maintain a well kept home as to
do clerical work.
.s Civilization. is. created by, labor.
The Indians were a lazy tribe of peo-
pie, who liked to hunt and fish bet
ter than to raise corn, and the re-
suit was that they built up no civil
lization. Their pathetic little wig
vans were swept out of the way by |
the oncoming palefaee. The reason |
was that the white man was not |
afraid of labor. In so far as we are |
willing to work, and work faithful |
ly, we shall constantly lift our civil
lization to new levels of excellence. |
Milford chronicle., 1933-09-01
GOSSAMER

We've watched the trend of women's
clothes
From times when we'd not dare sup
pose
They'd ever show their angles;
From bib and tucker, f1ounce and
frill
And furbelows and bustles til
Their mere remembrance rankles.
In after years they rolled their hose
Their pink patelals to expose,
Then later dropped the stocking;
Dropped other garments one by one
To keep us guessing, yet it's fun
To get mild shocking.
No corset now to spoil the view
Through waist of lace and peek-a-
boo
Their epidermis showing;
Slim silhouette, with hose of net.
What they'll shed next we don't
know yet
But we know something's going.
Mrs. P. R. Sheaffer, Cabot, Ark.
Milford chronicle., 1933-09-01
THE TROUBLE WITH WHEAT

Wheat is one of the most vital
products of our country. In years
past, when we raised a large wheat
crop, the stock market doomed, ev-
cry business man smiled, and felt
that trade would be good, and he
ordered more merchandise.
But for years now we have been
raising too much wheat. The sur
pluses piled up, and the news of a
big crop produced groans instead
of cheers from the business world.
How did we get into this difficulty,
when the seeming good news of a
great crop spells only disaster for
the country?
During the Is years ending 1928,
the United States, Canada, Argen-
tine, and Australia, which produce
normally about half of the worlds
wheat, increased their production rs
per cent. The increase was stimu-
lated by the greatly enlarged de-
mand during the war years. But
when the war stopped, the addition
al demand stopped. The European
countries, in which the war greatly
curtailed this production, began to
plant wheat again in every possible
acre.
Consequently the four countries
named above found themselves with
a productive capacity raised rs per
cent, but with the demand about
where is was before the war. When
any business increases its produc-
tive capacity rs per cent, while its
market remains stationary, it is
headed for trouble, and our farmers
have seen plenty of it and then some.
Now the problem is of getting the
wheat production down where it will
not be in excess of the demand. The
crop will never pay a living wage
until that is done. The government
is trying to accomplish that result
through its farm relief legislation.
The welfare of the country demands
universal cooperation with that eff
tort.
Milford chronicle., 1933-09-01
PRODUCTION AND EMPLOYMENT

The heads of the government are
said to have worried because the
number of people employed in the
industries has not increased as fast
as the product of these industries.
This is a singular discrepancy. How
do you account for it?
A good many agencies have sys-
TENS of statistics by which they es-
innate the amount of work and bust
ness done in the country. Accord
ing to some of the most reliable of
these tabulations, the amount of
business done has increased about
so per cent over the low point.
Meanwhile it is estimated that
100000 previously unemployed per-
sons have been given work. This
is only small fraction of the total
number of wage-earners in the Unit
ed State. How comes it that we
have done so per cent more bust
ness, but only a small fraction of
additional people have been set to
work?
Such statistics however only tell
a part of the story. A great many
people who have been working on
short time, have been working more
time, so that the production of their
trades has increased, without put
ting many more people to work.
We have not yet seen the full re-
suits of this increased employed.
But a great volume of money has
been distributed to the people. Much
of it has gone to pay old debts. Much
of it will be spent as the cool wealth
er come on. We have only felt the
first impulse of that so per cent in
crease in business.
The effects of putting a single
persOn to work go a long way. That /
person, previously penniless, OBJ
tains money, and most of that
money is spent. Most of the people
who get the money spend it for
else. 1t is like throwing |
a stone into a lake. The ripples
reach the farther shore, and the
spent dollar leads to the spending
Of many other dollars.
Milford chronicle., 1933-09-01
LARnR DAY

Labor Day was originally estab-
lished to direct attention to the prob
lens growing out of our industrial
life. 1t was intended as a time when
questions which the country's work
ers had to solve should receive pub
lie attention. For many years this
side of the day has not been promi-
nent The holiday has become a ma
tion wide festival, the main purpose
of which is to give every one a good
time and a chance for happy out
ings.
Still, we should not lose sight of
the original purpose of the day. We
need not lose sight of the original
purpose of the day. We need to
think on Labor Day of 1888, of what
can be done to provide the oppor-
tunity of labor for everyone.
Labor is not a curse, as some have
dreamed 1t is rather a blessing,
and an essential of life. 1t is not
merely that we need to labor at
something to provide our daily
bread. Even if person is wealthy
and does not need to labor for pc
cuniary reasons. such a person, if
physically able to work, suffers some
loss if he or she does not have some
regular task on which the energy of
body and mind can be usefully en-
ployed
Abnormal industrial and finan-
cial conditions have arisen which
deny to many people the opportunity
to labor. Not merely have they
become unable to support them
selves, but severe strain of anx-
iety is placed upon them, and many |
have weakened under that deplor-
able TRIAL
1t is the nations first thought at |
this time, how we can so amend our
industrial system that these periods
of unemployment shall not recur. 1t
must be possible in some way to
provide work for every willing work.
er. Our civilization is defective if |
it falls down at this point. 1t is not
an insoluble problem. The American
people have accomplished greater
things than this. This objective on
which they have set their hearts,
will in some way be accomplished.
Milford chronicle., 1933-09-01
ONE OUT OF FOUR ASKS HELP

Twenty-eight per cent of the peo-
pie who have reached the age of 65,
are dependent upon someone else.
Either they have to be supported by
relatives, or ask help from the COM
munity. Those who are supported
by their children, however, need not
feel they are really without assets.
These children owe them a heavy
debt, and such parents should not be
looked upon as dependents. If the
debt which is owed to them is paid,
they are assured care.
The lot of those who have no rel
atives to fall back upon is pathetic.
Some of them wasted their resources
by lack of thrift, but the majority
are victims of the rush for wealth
which crowds many to the wall. Our
country ought not to be happy, un-
til it has provided abundant homes
for the aged.
Milford chronicle., 1933-09-01
HE SURE WOULDN'T

Two country editors were talking.
81 spent three hours on the best
editorial 1 ever wrote telling the
folks to buy from home merchants
and its been two weeks and not one
merchant has said word Of thanks" Z"
said one. . N
"If you had told them to go out
of town to buy" sadly replied the
other. you wouldn't have lived long
enough to care.
Milford chronicle., 1933-09-01

instead of his left. For ten years
we have listened to speeches on tax
reduction and have permitted the
national expense account to soar.
And it's time we remembered fact
of the utmost simplicity only
way lowed taxes can be had is for
government to spend less money.
Milford chronicle., 1933-09-01
E@AE]

PATRIOTISM, like charity, be-
gins at home. The way to start
making a fine country, is to make
your home town a fine community
Milford chronicle., 1933-09-01

IF YOU want your home town to
grow, help make it worthy of
growth by rendering the best pos
sible service on your job.
Milford chronicle., 1933-09-01
Ell@E=

IF YOU want your business to
grow, prove to the public by adver-
tising that it is worthy of growth.
Milford chronicle., 1933-09-01
ECONOMIC HIGHLICHTS
Happenings That Affect The Dinner
Pals, Dividend Checks and Tax
Bills of Every Individual. Ma
tiOnal and international Problems
InSeparable From Local Welfare.

The month of March isn't the only
thing that comes in like a lion and
goes out like a lamb. The World
Economic Conference bested it
welcomed with the blare of ten
thousand brass bands, it adjourned
to the wheeze of mouth organ.
Never was there a more definite
failure-MussOlini cynical obser-
vation that it is time for an embargo
on conferences will find a lot of
supporters after the London comic
opera.
The subjects of principal interna-
tional interest at this time are cur
rency, war debts, tariffs and arma-
ments. The delegates met the situa-
-tion by eliminating ornaments, tar
ifs, war debts and currency from
the discussion calendar! Toward
the end it began to look as if the
only thing left to talk about was the
English weather.
Sole achievement must be chalk
ed to the record of Senator Pittman
of Nevada, member of the American
delegation. Silver stabilization has
long been his principal mission in
life. After weeks of effort, Mr.. Pitt
man got a pact signed by the pro-
ducting nations-Canada, Peru, Aus
tralia and the U. S.-by which they
agree to annually withdraw 53,000,-
900 ounces from the market. The
chief silver holding countries-In-
dia, China and Spain-agreed to re-
strict sales. If the agreements are
kept, there will obviously be price
strengthening.
The dismal failure of the Confer
ence as a whole, can be laid of
course, to the vast disagreement in
policy most of the nations present
these days, but there is another less
factor. Before his cleo
tion Mr.. Roosevelt displayed some
what sentimental notion of foreign |
relations - European chancelleries |
rubbed their hands and looked for |
ward to the American government |
playing Santa Claus much in the |
same fashion as it did after the |
World War. Premier Mcdonald
called the Conference as soon as
possible after Mr.. Roosevelt's VIC
.ory. But the American delegation
sven counting all its mistakes and
unconscious humor, was
much more hard-headed than was
expected. Gold standard nations
ound President Roosevelt an unre-
enting foe of currency stabilization
principal goal of France.
Result of the Conference takes no
eer to forecast-the wave of ma
ionalism that has swept the world
he past few years will be as a
'reeze compared to a typhoon, when
elated to the wave of nationalism
hat is coming.
Milford chronicle., 1933-09-01

There is a black spot in the indus
trial outlook-retail trade, which is
still in an extremely depressed
state. Best fact of all is that the
upturn has been in progress for four
months without a setback. The most
stable barometers-car loadings,
electric power, steel output-indi-
cate continued improvement. During
June there was an 1S per cent. in
crease in man-hours worked in man
ufacturing plants, as compared with
May. Wage totals showed 10 per
cent jump, while cost of living went
up less than one per cent. So far,
purchasing power is advancing
much more rapidly than prices. We'll
fare agencies in most cities report
that requests for relief are well be-
low former levels. A remarkable
feature of recovery is that improve
ment has been largely apparent in
heavy industries. According to the
Federal Reserve Board, this is the
first time that a pickup has not
been almost wholly confined to in
dustries producing non-durable
goods.
Milford chronicle., 1933-09-01
Proftsi


Industry has been going along for
three and one-half years practically
without them. This month there has
been a turn. Companies which have
been running constantly in the red
are furnishing a market for black
ink. Investors who have become
used to going without dividends are
looking forward to the reappearance
of quarterly or semi-annual checks.
All businesses haven't had an
equally happy quarter or half-year.
But the general trend of profits is
definitely upward. Most important
of all is sharp improvement in the
earnings of small businesses whose
fortunes don't constitute headline
news. They represent the bulk of
American capital investment, and
their position is great deal more
solid than it was even a month or
two ago.
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It's marvellous the way the new
frothy cotton dresses perk up your
spirit. There's festive air about
pulled sleeves and feminine Sashes
that's contagious.
If you are tired of sitting at home
and listening to the radio, just try
frock like this on your best beau
and he is certain to take you to the
incest place he knows.
This is frock that just can't stay
at home. In crisp green and white
dotted batiste it is as cool as the
fruit sundae you order on a swelter-
ing night.
This time the all-important dash
Of contrast is introduced in a wide,
"little-girP' sash of brown cire satin.
It has just the right formal-in-
formality for those evenings when
your escort wears his linen suit or
his white fannels.
Size 16 requires 3% yards 39-inch
material, y yard 39-inch contrast
ing for sash. Width about Us
yards.
Pattern No. 1920 is designed for
sizes IA, Is, IS, 20 years, 80, "a, So,
S8, 40 bust.
New summer fashion book is out
Send for it-put check here and
inclose 10 cents for book.
Price for pattern Is cents.
Copyright. 1888 by United Features
Syndicate Inc
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Manners and Morals
BY JANE JORDAN

as could, to try to get it off my
mind. Now I have stopped seeing
them, because they won't come to
see me. I am sure I haven't hurt
their feelings in any way. I would
like to have your advice.
LONESOME.
AnsWer-Sorrow is an only child
Whenever we make too constant de.
mands upon the sympathy of on,
friends, we can expect to be dropped
gradually. They can't stand the
strain. Time will take the edge of
your grief and make you a more
cheerful companion.
Dear Jane Jordan-I have been
going with q girl about five
months. She is a wonderful girl,
very sweet, and does everything
to please me, but want my free
dom back. I know if I quit her
she will be very broken up. am
not conceited. I am only stating
a fact.
Her folks have been very nice
to me and I don't want to do
anything to change their feelings.
like the girl when I am with
her, but when I am away all I
can think of is my freedom. She
is 16. am 10. What to do?
ME.
Answer-The young lady is pay
ing the penalty of being too possess
sive. You are too young to become
involved seriously with the young
lady and her family. Break away
gradually and tactfully. If after
all your care they persist in get
ting their feelings hurt, you can't
help it.
Many a young man gets swept
into marriage before he is ready for
it, simply because he didn't have
the courage to disappoint sweet
girl. It's a very poor reason fol-
getting married. Such chivalry is
very much misplaced.
Il +
Dear Jane Jordan-I am
Technical high school girl in my
teens. have been going with an
Italian three years older than
myself. have met his parents
and he has met mine. They like
him real well. The crowd which
ran with before I met him is
putting me in low class. Should
quit him and go back to the old
crowd? WORRIED
AnSwer-That depends on which
means the most to you, your friends
or your sutton. If you're going tc
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less, he will not be able to get any
court to award him the custody Of
the baby. He will be obliged to
make adequate allowance for both
you and your little daughter, so
that she will not be deprived of
material advantages by remaining
with you
What are your husbands charges
against you? What besides money
makes him feel that he is a more
suitable person to bring up the
child? Have you q secret banker
ing for complete freedom from do
nestle ties which wars with your
love for your daughter? I can not
answer adequately until I know
that part of the story which has
not been told.
= = II
Dear Jane Jordan-I am a girl
in my late teens. Decoration day
my boy friend drowned trying to
save me. I loved him very dearly
and we were planning to get mar
ried in June. have been going to
see most of my friends as often