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Milford chronicle., 1933-09-15
DESPERATE CHARACTERS

The escape of Harvey Bailey,
called one of the nations most des-
perate criminals, from the strong
county Jail at Dallas, Texas, and his
sensational capture after a wild au-
tomobile ride, at Ardmore, Okla
homa, reminded us a few days ago
of the days when we used to creep
up into the haymow to read some
surreptitiously obtained dime novel.
We can all recall how father used to
call us down to help rake up the hay
but we could not be lured from
those thrilling tales of enchant-
ment.
But truth is stranger than fiction,
and today, the wild doings of desper-
ate characters exceed the deeds
which the fiction writer's of our
days used to describe. Such Incl
dents incite thought as to the losses
which the nation suffers when men
of such powerful character are di-
verted from the normal pursuits of
society into life of rebellion against
all government.
Here was a man who showed a
great deal of courage, initiative and
imagination by breaking his way
without aid, so far as the public was
able to learn, out of a strong and
well managed Jail. A man with such
gifts ought to be successful in some
good line of business. Yet he
throws away all such chances in his
blind and futile rebellion against the
American people.
In spite of all his abilities he
shows one fatal lack of judgment in
such proceedings. He should have
realized that even if he made good
his escape, his picture would soon
adorn the walls of all important pol
ice stations, and patrolmen every
where would be studying his features
and hoping for the reward and pref
erment that would come to the man
who captured him. There is no hap
piness ahead for a man who chose
the path of hunted criminal.
1t costs the United States an
sum annually to guard
against the deeds of such creatures
and keep them locked up in prison
sofar as may be. There ought to
be some less expensive way of hand
ling such men. There was always
4 time in the early youth of such
characters, when some person or
persons or institution, could have
changed the character of such lives.
Milford chronicle., 1933-09-15
WHEN THE SCHOOL BELL RINGS

What says the 1888 school boy and
school girl, when the bell rings the
first day of school?
In the so-called good old days,
they were supposed to respond to
this call with lingering steps and
tardy appearance. But the first day
of school is a festival now. The
children turn up in new clothes if
possible, if not, the old ones are
shined up to the limit. The kids are
tired of loafing around. School
brings the bunch together, and
there is a whole lot of fun going
with it, and they are rung to their
desks in a good frame of mind.
Children are brighter and more
alert than they used to be. The
modern child has had it pretty well
drilled into his head, that educa-
tion pays. He can see that if a
young person does not do well in
school, he is not likely to do well
after he gets out of school. Hence
the average kid will say that he
wants to learn and sees the neces-
sity of it.
Many of the children start out
with the best possible intentions,
but side issues come in to draw
their energy. They want to play foot
ball, or to stay out late to the par
ties. 1t takes real work to learn
LESSONS, and if a kid is spending
his best energy on other things, the
lessons are going to drag.
Well, let us hope that none of the
boys and girls of Milford and other
large schools of Delaware, are go
ing to come into that class this
year, but all are going to take hold
and do real work.
The tragedy of education is that
in many states, owing to hard times
and scant public funds, many
schools will open late and run for
short periods. 1t is poor policy to
close schools. People would better /
pay heavy taxes rather than cripple /
their young people by defective
schooling.
Milford chronicle., 1933-09-15
BEANPOLE STYLE GOES!

Edna Woolman Chase, editor of
Vogue, declares that the starved
looking and fiat chested feminine
figures of recent days look out of
style. The new fashion lady, it is
predicted, will not be ashamed of a
curved figure. For some years now,
the feminine world has sought to
model itself on the beanpole, and
girls who weighed over 12O pounds
laid awake nights worrying about it.
Many of them denied themselves
nourishment that they needed, and
lived on filmy and foamy foods as
much as they could, to avoid putting
on the dreaded pounds. Thereby they
themselves more liable to
of disease, and less able to
do their work in the world. Also
it seems very defective conception
of physical beauty.
Milford chronicle., 1933-09-15
Milford, Friday, September Is, 1893;
PROMOTING CONFIDENCE

For four years we have been told
over and over again, that what busi-
ness needs is mostly confidence. 1t
has been said so many times, that
people are sick of hearing it. And
it is still true, that when the peO-
pie engaged in business feel this
confidence in the future, they en-
ploy labor and buy goods.
So we can't forget this psychology
of the situation, and we must do
everything possible to promote
hopeful feeling that the nation is re-
covering from its troubles, that great
forces are working to produce recov-
cry, and that they are going to make
a great change for the better.
1t does very little good to tell
people that they must do this or
that, or else the country is in dan
ger of some great peril. When we
talk so much about perils, we renew
the apprehensions that have done
untold harm. If people are told that
if the NRA does not succeed, the cOun-
try is in danger Of a smash, they
begin to hold their breath again, and
hang onto their money.
In this life nothing is ever a 100
per cent success. Yet when a great
mass of people take hold and pull
together, as they are doing on the
NRA, they are sure to get large
results. Progress out of a depres-
sion has to be by gradual stages, |
and we can't all at once leap out of |
it. If we have temporary setbacks, |
these mean very little.
Business has shown a large i'm
provement over 1882. That move |
ment acquires more momentum as |
we advance. People should not get |
panicky if this or that unfavorable |
development occurs, but they should
see that all indications show that
eteady progress is being made. That
is all we can ask, and it should give
every business concern faith in the |
future and a willingness to show
enterprise.
Milford chronicle., 1933-09-15
STAY ON THE FARM

w. P. MCGUIRE, editor of the South
side Virginia News, Petersburg, Va,
has a proposal that deserves wide
attention. 1t is simple and it is i'm
portant. And the crux of it is: Why
not keep farm boys on farms?
In pursuing his proposal, he asks
27 pregnant questions concerning
the trend of young men away from
the farm and possible ways of re-
versing its direction. 1t is certainly
obvious that boys who have been
reared on farms and have been in
timately associated with the craft
of agriculture since infancy, are best
equipped to make the farmers of to-
morrow. And it is equally true that
these boys have been marching to
the cities in armies, for a great
many years, impelled by the hope of
making their fortune in a life of
which they know little or nothing.
In the years following the war,
this away-from-the- farm drift add
ed hundreds of thousands of boys to
the urban population. And when
the depression came, it was an i'm
portant factor in causing the worst
unemployment situation in our his
tory. Most of the boys had never
learned any trade especially we'll
they took any old job they could
find, and it was usually of a sort
requiring little skill and no training
or aptitude. They were the first to
be let out when production slowed.
They are likely to be the last taken
back
We have appropriated millions for
agricultural relief and created great
federal organizations to administer
it. Certainly it would be worthwhile,
as Editor Mcclure says, to go to
the root of the farm problem and
give part of the money and effort to
evolving a plan to enable young
men to stay on the farm and become
self-supporting citizens. Doing this
would prevent over population of
urban centers, tend to mitigate en-
ployment problems and, as Mr.. Nc
Guire says, fits in perfectly with the
aim to provide a !
solid economic foundation for our
country.
Milford chronicle., 1933-09-15
MILLSBORO SCHOOL HAS
LARGE ENROLMENT

The Millsboro consolidated school
| opened last week with the largest
enrolment in its history. There are
between IS and rs enrolled in the
first grade alone, and the majority
of the other classes are also larger
than last year. A careful check-up
has been made to ascertain what
children have not as yet enrolled,
and a special effort is being made to
visit the homes of all such children
and explain to their parents the i'm
portance of having them enter
school at once. 1t is believed that
when all, who belong come in, the
enrolment will be around 450.
AS the children promoted or re-
tanned were classified last spring,
the courses each desired and could
take to advantage determined, and
careful survey of the community
made, the sizes of the various
classes were anticipated almost ex-
actly. Therefore, all preparations
had been made in advance to accom-
modate the increased enrolment so
that when school opened last Tues
day everything was in readiness, and
classwork started the first period
and continued throughout the day
without interruption. Since it wats
foreseen last spring that the first
grade would be very large and the
fifth grade much smaller than last
year, Miss Ruth Lawson, one of the
fifth grade teachers, was informed
hnf ,b kA oh - Rv1k
grade in September. Miss Lawson
co-operated by going to summer
school and taking a course in the
teaching of primary work. Since
there were no changes in the per-
sonnel of the faculty, all the other
teachers have practically the same
work as last year.
In as much as all the children
study general science in the seventh
and eighth grades, and in the past
have had little chance to study U. S.
history or civics until the junior and
senior years in high school, the
Millsboro school has eliminated gem
eral science from the ninth grade
and has substituted a course in U.
S. history and civics. By this ar
rangement, it is hoped that not only
the children who continue in school
until they finish, but all who have
finished the ninth grade and later
are forced to drop out before grad
uating, will leave the school with a
better understanding and apprecfa-
tion of their country and its gov
ernment.
Recently the State department de-
cided to withdraw the rural super
visors from few of the State
schools and make the supervising
principal fully responsible to DIR.
King, assistant superintendent in
charge of elementary schools. for
this work. The Millsboro elemen-
tary school being one of the two
schools in southeastern Sussex Sc
lected to be thus supervised, Princi-
pal Bennett under the direction of
Milford chronicle., 1933-09-15
THE HOUSEHOLD BUDGET

The authorities on home affairs
tell us we must budget the family.
We all politely applaud and agree.
But can we make a budget to which
all members of the family will as
sent? After making it, can we ad-
here to it, when the sports invite us
to join their junkets and forget the
budget?
1t is one thing to fix a reasonable
expenditure, and another thing not
to exceed that figure. In many fam
lilies, the family budget is "laid on
the table" much of the time, to use
the legislative phrase.
These little habits, those pretty
petty vices, those favorite extrava-
gances, what about them? How
budget them? Many a man is will
ing to economic on his wife's hats
Many lady will consent to curb
the husbands smokes. The home
budget plan will not go far, unless
every member will take his share of
the stinting.
Some people are governed by the
amount of money in their purses at
any time. AS long as there is any
thing there, they feel rich, and spend
accordingly. If they are half
through the month, and the money
is only one-third gone, it never oc-
ours to them to save the balance,
or hold it in reserve for some great
er need. o no, it goes, and when
the greater need comes, then they f.
nance that by borrowing from their
future income, or possibly touch"
their friends for loan.
These are the folks who need a
budget badly. They very frequently
make one, and forget it with equal
speed.
To live up to budget, the house
wife must often pass over the fes-
tive chicken and the appetizing
roast, and content herself with the
soupbone or the modest
stew. But out of little economies,
and fortune grow. If you
want education for your children
or a better home, you will have to
learn to look at things without buy
ing them.
Milford chronicle., 1933-09-15
VERNON

Some of our citizens are being en-
ployed in the different canneries, the
owners and operators being Alfred
Ranghley, Fred Parker and John L.
Hopkins.
Mrs. Rachel Ross has returned
home from several weeks visit
with her brother, Walter Jester.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Clancey and
son, Ross, of the New York Univer-
sity have been spending their vaca-
tions with Mr.. and Mrs. R. Wesley
Ross. In the absence of the pas
tor and wive, the Rev. and Mrs. R.
w. Sapp, Mrs. Clancy ably took
charge of their adult Sunday school
classes at the NJ. P. Church of Har-
rington at the earnest request of
all concerned. She has been invited
to teach again next summer.
Mrs. Mary Lord Hudson has re-
turned from a delightful trip to the
Worlds Fair at Chicago.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred Raughley re-
Gently entertained the Mite Society
of the Union Corner NJ. P. Church.
All had a very pleasant time.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fletcher Price have
purchased farm near FELTON,. One
near it at the same time was bought
by DR.. Chapman.
Miss Dorothy Harrington has been
visiting Oak Orchard and Cam
bridge, Md.
Miss Pearl Cain and friend and
Mrs. Edgar Cain have been visiting
California and the Worlds Fair.
Glenwood Harrington has returned.
Mrs. Thomas Clancey has been
visiting Philadelphia, Wilmington
and Dover. She and family were the
guests of the Clanceys in Whining
ton.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter C. Coverdale
were Ross Lane visitors on Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Draper of
have been visiting. Bert
Draper.
The residence on the farm on
which Clarence Lofland and family
reside was burned down on Sunday
at noon.
Mrs. R. Wesley Ross will attend
the Airport dedication at Dover and
the teachers meeting and luncheon
at Delaware City this week.
Milford chronicle., 1933-09-15

Aug. 21-Spent the day in and
around Denver.
Aug. 22-Turned our faces home
ward through eastern Colorado and
western Kansas. Encountered flood
conditions and had to drive through
literal rivers on the roadway, and
at Washington, Kansas, were mired
and had to be pulled out by state
highway tractor. Spent the night at
Phillipsburg.
Aug. 29-Through Kansas and
Missouri. Spent the night just west
of Hannibal, Mo-, on the banks OF
the Mississippi.
Aug. 24-Through Illinois, Indiana
and spent the night in Ohio.
Aug. 25-Across Ohio, a corner of
West Virginia and Pennsylvania and
into Maryland. Spent the night at
HagerstOwn, Md.
Aug. 24-Through Baltimore and
into Wilmington at noon, and on to
Milford at p. m. Home again.
Milford chronicle., 1933-09-15

DR.. King will be fully responsible
for directing and rating the teach
ers of the elementary school the
same as he has been and still is
completely responsible. under the
guidance of DIR. Shilling, for the di-
recting and rating of the secondary
teachers in this system. "~
The Millsboro school is main
tanning a careteria and lunch room
and providing food at cost for all
pupils desiring it. This additional
service is being given the communi-
ty for the following reasons:
Ito provide wholesome food for
school boys and girls, properly pre-
pared and served.
2-To provide a satisfactory. COM
Portable and pleasant place for pu-
pills and teachers to eat lunch.
whether they buy it in school or
bring it with them or both.
3-TO provide a proper social sit
uation for pupils to learn good hab-
its of eating.
ITO provide a practical anDlica-
tion of the teachings of health, by
guiding pupils in their choice of
food.
The menu is varied from dav to
dav. but the prices rim as follows:
Platters, 10c: soup. Sc: salads, &c:
two slices of bread and butter, &c:
milk, &c; chocolate milk. &c; orange
ade. 4c: ice cream, SC: four Graham
crackers. 1c: fancy cakes. 1c.
IT is recommended that the par
ents supplement the home luncheon
with a fice-cent hot dish. if they do
not care to buy full lunch in cafe
teria. For ten cents, however, the
child can secure well balanced
luncheon.
Milford chronicle., 1933-09-15
WOMEN'S CLUBS

The season is approaching when
the activities of the women's clubs
will begin and many women all
over the country are busy complet-
ing plans for the years work. The
summer has seen groups gathering
to formulate these projects and the
calendars will announce many in
teresting meetings and pursuits
which may be expected in the com
ing months.
Formerly the wOman's club move
ment was largely pre-occupied with
the idea of cultural development
through lectures, musicales and
classics. During recent years the
scope has broadened to include
many civic enterprises, so that they
have become very influential in their
various communities, and a help to
all sorts of welfare organizations.
Community Christmas trees pro-vid-
ing needy children with clothing
as well as toys, hospital aid COM
mittees, educational work in cooper
alton with the schools, and many
other enterprises enter into the
work of an active woman's club.
Not the least of the results accom-
plish is the development of the
latent powers of the members. Of
ten a retiring and little known
woman when serving on a commit
tee reveals unexpected ability. She
acquires confidence and becomes a
much greater influence in her fam
lily and group. than she has ever
been before. The gift of organizing
is very valuble one as large tasks
required united and well directed
effort, and the executives ability ac-
quired through these clubs reaches
out into many lines.
Under the broading influence
of joining in some effort for the
common good, pettiness disappears,
the spirit of narrow criticism is re-
placed by a larger appreciation of
the endeavors of others, and the
life of the community can not fail
to reflect the inspiration derived
from these movements.
Milford chronicle., 1933-09-15
RECOVERING FROM JAZZ LIFE

Many medical men feel that the
recent industrial depression has had
at least one favorable effect; that
it has led people to go slow on eating
and has influenced them to avoid
various excesses. Their economy
has led to less stuffing with rich
and indigestible foods. They have
lived more simply.
Many people are said to dig their
graves with their teeth. 1t seems
tragic that this uncontrolled ten
dency to stuff and stuff long after the
appetite is satisfied, should have the
effect. to break down so many peo-
pies vital organs.
Some people have more money
than they know how to spend.
Where formerly they were sitting
up late nights for unhealthy dis
sipations, when the income slackens
they tend toward quieter pleasures.
The American people have had their
trials, but they will probably come
out physically better than they were
at the height of the jazz age.
Milford chronicle., 1933-09-15
el9E5

THE BITTER experience of the
past few years will be worthwhile
if we, as individuals, have absorbed
the lessons they provided-if we
have learned that You can't get
something for nothing. We should
have gained a true idea of thrift
and real knowledge of how to pre-
pare for the future and guard
against misfortune.
Milford chronicle., 1933-09-15
BURNED no DEATH

About 10000 people are burned to
death in this country every year,
and double that number are Grip
pied in such fires. The American
people think of fires as a great and
needless money loss, but they fail
to Sc what terrible devastation
they do to human life.
In the face of these figures, what
a dreadful thing it is for incen-
diaries to set building afire. Many
of them do it to squeeze a little
money out of insurance companies
by their dirty trick, while with 9TH
ers it is a mean act of stealthy re-
venge. 1t is not surprising that
tn laws impose a heavy penalty for
arson, and anyone who knows of
such a crime should give informa-
tion against such a despicable offend
Milford chronicle., 1933-09-15

IF YOU WANT your home town
to develop, don't be SO indolent that
you won't take of your coat and
work for its progress. s0
Milford chronicle., 1933-09-15
~GOLD in THEM THAR HILLSv

President Roosevelt's order per-
mitting the sale of newly mined
gold in foreign markets, ought to
stimulate gold digging. A great
many people had resorted to that
form of earning money, but the re-
cent embargo on shipment of gold
must have checked that activity.
Now any ambitious prospector can
see what he can do with his gold.
The world needs more gold to do
its business with, and there will
still be a good reward for anyone
who can find it. The hills of the
west have been gone over quite we'll
for the yellow boys, but there may
be lot more of them undiscovered
even yet.
Milford chronicle., 1933-09-15
EGMEl

WE NEED Local Recovery Acts
too. To recover from town losses,
we need the habit of spending our
money at home. a's ~ 's''-s''',ss -l'.i
Milford chronicle., 1933-09-15

Careless drivers should also be
carless-that would help some.
Milford chronicle., 1933-09-15

The following article is an ac-
count of what Joseph Gray Davis,
of Milford, Delaware, and Horace
Bennett of Slaughter Neck, a farmer
near, Milford, kept as daily log" of
their auto trip across the continent.
1t is their own language, and told in
brief.-Editor.
The Semi-weekly Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 1923-19??, 1933-04-07
Civil Service Exams
To Be Held Apr. 20-21

Examination af applicants for four
teen positions in the state and county
classified service of Ohio will be held
Thursday and Friday, April 20 and 21,
according to announcement just made
by Ralph w. Emmons, chairman, and
A. P. Sandles, member of the State
Civil Service Commission.
Positions for which applicants will
be examined on these two days in
clude Engineers Grades III and ",
Route Marking Foreman, Investigator
Grade ", Mechanic Estate and county
service) and Janitor, in the Depart
ment of Highways; Assistant Station
ary Engineer at the London Prison
Farm; Calculating Machine Operator,
Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station;
Examiner Grade ", and Legal Ex-
aminer in the Intangible Division Of
the State Tax Commission; office as
sistant in the Department of Auditor
of State; Parole Officer at-large (male
only, Department of Public Welfare
Stock Clerk, Ohio Soldiers and Sail
ors' Orphans Home; and Supervisor
of Egg and Poultry Grading in the De-
partment of Agriculture.
The official bulletin, which not only
gives the required qualifications of
prospective candidates, but also the
duties and salary of each position, will
be mailed free upon request to The
State Civil Service Commission, CO.
lnmhle
The Semi-weekly Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 1923-19??, 1933-04-07
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PAROLED MAN
BACK AT FARM
Prisoner, Given Freedom, Re-
turns to London Institution
Unable to Make Use of
His Freedom
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Unable to make a go of it after be-
ing paroled from the London prison
farm on January 28, 1888, Joe Ban
iere, 25, has returnd to the farm and
has been admitted professionally to the
institution by Supt. w. +. Amrine.
Baniere, VINO served five years of a
five to 20 year-term from Franklin
county for forgery, hiked practically
all of the way from Philadelphia to
London and related his experiences
to the farm officials, asking to be per-
mitted to return.
He is a native of Pennsylvania and
said that he had been unable to get a
job and was afraid to continue under
that plan Of living any longer.