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Milford chronicle., 1934-02-16
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occasion was IafeWell party
for her father, DR.. G. Layton
Grier, who is leaving today for a
trip to South America. DR.. Gricr
will be away about two months,
travelling many thousands Of
miles and almost exclusively by
airplane. The guests arrived at
1880 after which they enjoyed a
buffet supper. Assisting Miss
Grier were Mrs. Anna V. Car
lisle, Miss Elizabeth Carlisle,
Miss Frances Lammey, and Mr..
and Mrs. Marvel Wilson, of
SwarthmOre. Group singing.
with Mrs. Harry Mulholland at
the piano, and Mrs. Clyde Nelson
lending her lovely voice, made
the evening pass very pleasant
ly. GOod-byes and wishes for
happy landings brought to a
close a lovely party.
s@Wt~
Mrs. Edwin r. Messick gave
party at her home on Wednes-
day evening which was in the
nature of Valentine Party-rod
flowers, red fayors and the color
scheme being carrie out in the
refreshments. II was a large
party, too, there being seven
tables. and ii was in honor of
Mrs. Harrington Heisler. The
guests besides Mrs. Heisler were
Mrs. S. NJ. u. Mas.hah, Mrs. i.
ID. Short, Mrs. T. Carlisle Col
Inns, Mrs. Marvel Wilson, Mrs.
Frank r. Crier, Mrs. Walter
L. Gricr, Mrs. William Smith.
Mrs. Harry Pettyjohn, Miss Lena
Short, Mrs. James Stack. Miss
Edith Simpson, Miss Sara Grier,
Mrs. c. d. HOlzmueller, Mrs. NJ.
Haswell Pierce, Miss Elizabeth
Carlisle. Mrs. Della Hall Dea-
kyne, Mrs. George II. Draper, Jrp
Mrs. j. Postles Hammond, Mrs.
Harry Mulholland, Mrs. Bayard
Wharton, Mrs. stephen Toad
vine, Mrs. Alphonso Humes,
Mrs. Elmer Williams, Mrs. John
Burris. Mrs. August Faix, Mrs.
Clyde Nelson and Mrs. n. NJ.
Stokes.
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Milford chronicle., 1934-02-16

-..t - VEN F1E hADlO on
~ W Tuesday came the
echoes of the wonder
AS full day, amid sun
- shine and flowers,
that New Orleans was having.
Shrove Tuesday marks for those
Southern folks the grand and
glorious finale of their social
season before Lent. It was their
Mardi Gras. Here, we had a
forerunner of another cold wave,
but it did not discourage Mr.. and
Mrs. George Grier, for on that
evening they gave a very lovely
party at their comfortable home
"PinewOld" in honor of our dis
tinguished visitors, Mr.. and Mrs.
c. Harrington Heisler. of Dam
zig. Six tables of guests played
and enjoyed contract bridge.
Milford chronicle., 1934-02-16
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DIR. and Mrs. S. NJ. ID. Marshall
gave a delightful bridge party at
their home on Friday evening of
last week in honor of their
house guests, Mr.. and Mrs. c.
Harrington Heisler. They had
twenty-four guests.
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Mrs. Herman Johnson was
hostess to a few friends at her
home on Friday afternoon.
! Bridge was played.
Z %4Wee
+. Mr.. and Mrs. /. Dolphus Short
entertained a small group of
stheir friends on Saturday eve
ming. Contract bridge was play
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Milford chronicle., 1934-02-16

From the pen OF one Ot the
faculty of the high school comes
this vivid description of the par
ty which was so enjoyed by
those who attended il ON Tues
day evening: "On Tuesday eve
ming the members of the faculty
of the Milford schools and their
guests gathered in the auditor
ium of the high school for the
express purpose of enjoying
themselves. The festivities were
launched at 1880 when Mickey
Mouse began to cayort on the
screen in "Eelix Finds En-
Fickle." Following this appe-
Milford chronicle., 1934-02-16
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DIR. and Mrs. S. NJ. D. Marshall
were among the guests who en-
ioyed the supper dance given by
Mr.. and Mrs. Marvel Gooden and
Mr.. and Mrs. Cecil Fulton at the
Mapledale Country Club, near
Dover, on Saturday evening.
The Washington times., 1934-12-18
undesirable" Schools
ssDisoraceful'' Is More Descriptive

This is the week the District subcommittee Of the House
Committee Appropriations takes the estimates for the
local public school system.
The committee members will do great deal of studying
the figures which show how much appropriated for the
schools last how much the current bill for running
the schools and how much is estimated will be needed to
them next year.
There is one thing we the Representatives would do
and that is to VISIT PERSONALLY SOME OF THE DIS
GRACEFUL ROOMS which being used for instruction
in the public schools.
visit to those rooms convinced would do to
acqant committee with the school needs Of the community
than all Of the studying which devote to the cold figures
Superintendent of Schools W. Balou prepared
report classroom congestion listing % rooms as UN
DESIRABLE
When he calls them undersirabe he becomes candidate
for a medal for undersatement.
DR.. Baou the word undesirable to describe
in school easements which being used classrooms
Rooms WHICH WERE NEVER MEANT TO BE USED FOR
THAT PURPOSE.
The same word used to describe corridors halls
which held These corridor classes incidentally
mostly kndergarens the class in which the child gets his
introduction to school lfe
In the undesirable group Of cassrooms also those
which used for the conduct Of classes although they
originally built and designed play This USE
OF COURSE DEPRIVES THE OTHER CHILDREN IN THE
SCHOOL OF THE PLAY FACILITIES WHICH ARE HIGHLY
DESIRABLE.
But the crownng of undesirable is describe the six
rooms in the Van Buren School Annex.
This school was built SO years ago. The only heating equip
ment that has consists of large stove in each
The youngsters near the stove fry and the youngsters at
distance freeze.
On other points school has about the Same standard
the people Of the District their way convinced
that they wouldn't put up with buildings like that for single
day.
BUT THE PEOPLE OF THE DISTRICT HAVEN'T ANY
THING TO SAY ABOUT IT. They pay the bills of course
but the gentlemen meeting Capitol Hill have
control over how the money is to be spent.
We hope that Chairman Cannon and his colleagues before
they refuse to let replace of the SHACKSCH00S
will visit them and look the situation at first hand.
The Washington times., 1934-12-18
A Thought for Today
Budd Killer Had 30-Yr. Crime Record

Albert Howard Fish, aged confessed murderer of Grace
Budd has 3oyear criminal record including sentence to
Sing Sing.
His last arrest before he was revealed as Graces slayer
in $780, for sending indecent letters through the mails
He was then put the Psychopatc Ward at Bellevue in
New York, and eventually discharged as SANE.
Also nothing ever came of the letter charge.
The case recalls that of the killing Of little Nancy costigan
bv moron named Stone at Mount Vernon, N. Y, few
months ago. Stone had asylum two three times
but had been let out
FISH it is rue killed Grace before he placed under
observation.
But the public would be pleased to know what kind Of
observaon it detect degenerate such
was what of system is that turns such
loose society," AS the Hearst newspapers revealed in the
Cosgan case the authorities admit that there
adequate rules for release from asyums
The public would also like to know how many potential
killers of this type roaming the streets Of New York
and other cities thanks observers" who don observe and
laws which don't protect
AND WHAT CHILD IS ALREADY MARKED DOWN AS
THE NEXT VICTIM
The Washington times., 1934-12-18
Breaking a Record
The Traffic Toll
roken the recordl

Well, we We broken the record!
We've killed people the streets of Washington this
year than we killed them before.
Of course may do in the end because there
still remain couple of weeks in the present year.
This sort Of thing simply cannot go indefinitely.
Something has to be done and has to be done quickly.
We don't propose to be able to a magic wand and
make the streets safe but it is obvious that thus far the
wand hasn't been waved and the STREETS HAVEN'T T BEEN
MADE SAFE.
Early this year started out with big huabaoo about
courtesy and consideration We would all be polite and
body would be killed.
fairly obvious that that program didn't work and pos
siby won't
It seems that the only thing left to drop the polite
ness and save few lives.
Some automobile drivers may be inconvenienced BUT AS
CITY WE HAVE TEMP0RIZED WITH THE TRAFFIC
PROBLEM LONG ENOUGH. We believe that the job Of cut
tngs this death toll rests with the Police Department.
That department can't do its job long its members
are afraid that when they make traffic arrest they will be
fired arresting the wrong (hat is the wrong man
politically.
few strong and spectacular arrests might have alutary
effect upon some of the killers who sit at the wheels
of automobiles
Let's try enforcing the law. WITHOUT FEAR and WITH
OUT FAVOR, and if we can't keep alive until next
Christmas of those who otherwise would be killed
Stop saving minutes and hurt feelings and start saving
lives!
The Washington times., 1934-12-18
Listen, World!
By Elsie Robinson

have no other source Of support,
as it is to see them through
their earlier education"
And suppose he doesn't? Sup
pose parents refuse to carry on
after the wedding day-as is
now their habit?
Some years ago Judge Ben
Lindsay, out of long and sad
experience, told the answer to
that-and daily every front
page adds tragic footnotes to
his report.
Frustrated youth, watching
the wasted years drift by, un-
able to mate until the sweetness
of desire has long passed.
Others, more rebellious, seeking
satisfaction in furtive free-love
alliances, with it's inevitable con.
sequence Of shame and despair.
Still others abandoning the
hope Of education-"taking any
job as long as we can be TO-
gether"-doomed to almost GER
tain lifelong poverty for them.
selves and their children-blam-
ing each other for their spoiled
lives.
CHANCES GONE
That's what happens when
Dad won't help. And in all our
present chaos, that is the dark
est chapter-the Illustration Of
Youth, the denial of the right
to mate and make homes and
give birth at the proper time.
tits their own fault" sneers
the ostrich tribe, with their
heads ducked deep in the sand
of sentimentality. "Why don't
they take a chance and start on
nothing, as their grandparents
did?"
AS well ask why they don't
hunt turkeys and scalp Indians
in Central Park! They can't.
Such chances" are gone for
ever. So-what?
$50 subsidize them!" cries
Dad McDermott.
So-WHAT-SeZ you?
Copyright, 1884, by King Features
Syndicate lnc)
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signed by a most imposing ar
ray of charitable persons of the
female gender. Some Of them
were actual poetesses in their
own name, for they were pos
sessed of papas whose pocket
books made it possible for them
to get their stuff into print.
There seemed to be less excuse
for those than for the others,
for they, at least, might be sup
posed to know what they were
doing. And what they were
doing was very simple. They
were trying to make the status
of the artist just a little
more difficult in our beloved re-
public than it has been so far.
My friends, I know whereof I
speak. I have gone through the
mill. So have all of us who
survived and who have come out
at the other end of that dread
fully long and dark tunnel
which leads to success. It was
a terrible trip. 1t was a dread
full experience. And often
enough it seemed as if we would
not possibly survive the ordeal.
But it was what made us what
we are. Even so, we may not
be great Shucks, but without
that experience we would be
nothing at all.
Occasionally we got helping
hand, and we shall never cease
to be grateful, for without that
we would have slipped and died.
I am not talking about encour-
agement and sympathetic un-
derstanding and a free meal
once in a while. They we're in
dispensible. But steady an
nual income of five thousand
berries-rain or shine, in drum
kenness or sobriety-Would have
killed every spark of genuine
inspiration. It would have
turned us into amateurs. And
that would have been the end.
SENSIBLE WAI
There is a perfectly sound
and sensible way in which the
public can help the artist. Let
it buy his pictures and his
poems and his compositions
and his statuary, instead of
wasting millions on the pic.
lures and statues and compo-
sitions of people who have
been dead and buried these
last two thousand years. That
money serves no purpose ex'
cept to enrich the art dealers,
for the creators of these treas
ures are beyond all mortal
help-and an art dealer is
merely an art dealer.
Art in our country-honeSt,
contemporaneous art-has al
ways had to struggle for its
very life. It could be lifted out
Of its ignominious position if
our rich people would have the
courage Of their artistic con-
victions and would buy the art
of the living instead of the
dead.
But spare art this last insult.
Do not allow it to degenerate
into somebody's pet charity"
Copyright 1894. by King Features
Syndicate, Iue.)
The Washington times., 1934-12-18

An uncon- Henry P. Fletcher
firmed report has it that Henry
P. Fletcher, chairman of the
Republican National Commit
tee, has deep sympathy for
King Boris.
After trying to stuff the
G. o. P. pachyderm during the
recent election he knows what
it takes to keep one in condi-
ton.
OF all the Yule cards that
poStmen are carrying these
re-Christmas days one OF the
most clever is that sent out by
Representative Everett M. Dirk
sen, Republican, Of Illinois, ana
his family.
Written exactly like proposed
legislation, it reads:
"Seventy-third Congress, SEQ
Ond Session. H. r. l.
I'm the House Of Joy and Hap.
pineSs, December rs, 1884.
"Mr. Dirksen, Mrs. DirkSen
and Miss DirkSen introduced
the following bill; which was
referred to the Committee on
Peace and Good Will and or
dered to be printed.
"A Bill-TO provide for an
abundance of joy, happiness
and prosperity for all folks, for
q Merry Christmas, a Happy
New Year and for other glad
purposes.
BE it enacted by the Senate
Of Happiness and the House Of
Good Cheer of the United States
Of America in Congress assem-.
bled, That there shall be Peace
on Earth, Good Will toward
all men; that there shall be joy
and happiness, an abundance
of prosperity and a Merry
Christmas and a Happy New
Year for ALL"
Former Representative James
v. McClintic, of Oklahoma, has
t1ithdraWn from his position of
seeking election to the post OF
Sergeant-at-Grn1S of the House.
His withdrawal leaves Ken
The Washington times., 1934-12-18

the days when Christmas was
Christmas. For one thing, folks
nowadays don't know anything
about how to make a fruit cake
right, and what's Christmas
without a proper fruit cake?"
whats the trouble with mod.
ern fruit cake, Aunt Sarah?"
1T only keeps you awake one
night. Two at the most. What
kind of wishy-washy fruit cake
is, that? My mother used to
bake a fruit cake that wouldn't
give you wink Of sleep from
Christmas until Twelfth Night"
"But didn't it upset you to go
so long without Sleep?"
Certainly not. Who wants to
sleep at Christmas time? That's
a time for staying awake and
having merrymaking and jollity.
One piece of my mothers fruit
cake and you were merry for
two weeks; at least you jumped
around as if you were."
What did your mother put
in her fruit cake. Aunt Sarah?"
Everything she could think of.
Anything that happened to come
to her mind. And she was always
open to suggestions about what
to put into a fruit cake. Mother
was a very fair-minded woman
and not sot in her ways, particu.
larly about fruit cake, as most
women are. Shed try anything,
and for months before she
started making the cake we'd
save UP odds and ends for it.
MY mother used to bake it a
long time ahead of Christmas
50 1t could have time to flavor"
"How long beforehand did
she bake it?"
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is one express H. W. va" NVOH
sion which never would get by,
and that is the expression ''pet
charity" I hate it and loath
it and abominate it, and I am
happy to say that everybody to
whom I have ever mentioned
this dislike is most heartily on
my side and is willing to help
me commit murder and may
hem whenever those two dread
full words occur.
Mrs. P. de Schma1tZ Wander
Zylch loves to do bubble-danc-
ing for the bread-line, which
is her pet charity" Or "At last
nights dance Mrs. P. de zylch
van der Schmaltz wore her
diamonds for the free lodging
house, which is her pet char.
ity."
1 am willing to shut one or
both eyes to pet poodle" and
"pet husband" but save us
from pet charity!"
God knows, it is bad enough
for the poor devils who have
to sleep in lodging houses and
stand for hours in a bread
line to accept our bounty. But
don't make it any harder by re-
minding them that they are
objects of some other persons
"pet charity" At least, not just
now, when the thermometer is
playing around with zero.
WASTE OF MONEY
This outburSt with due
apologies to all poodles, who
are nice and intelligent ami.
mails and can't help the way
they are tonSorialized by their
owners) might never have oc-
CURED if I had not been in
vited to contribute a little
money to some kind lady'S
"pet charity" and if that par.
ticular pet charity" had not
struck me as the most sense
less waste of money of which
I have heard for a long time.
OF course, people are always
doing things for poets. And,
poetry being what it is, I am
sure that somebody should &C.
caSionally do something for a
poet. But this time we were
going to give poetry such a
boost that Mount ParnassuS
would look like a mole hill.
For we were going ta Gallect
The Washington times., 1934-12-18
Oldti1ne Fruit Cake
By Frank Sullivan

"Genrilly two years. Some
times three. In 1743 she started
real early and baked the cake
for 1746. And lucky she did.
It came in mighty handy"
How SOP"
Because the Indians were on
the warpath in 1774, the year
after mother baked that cake,
and by that time it had just had
time enough to settle. We run
out of ammunition one raid and
Pa grabbed the cake and guess
he must have Drained twenty or
thutty Indians with it,"
"That was some cake all right.
Aunt Sarah"
It Suttingly was. We got so at
tached to it on account OF it
having been such a help that
when 1746 finally did come
around we just didn't have the
1CdIG W cav I've AOA 6CU w ANS
a cake that's been in the family
so long, you know"
What did you do with it?"
"Pa used it for a grinding
stone"
Did your mother use citron in
her fruit cake, Aunt Sarah?"
"Citron! I should say not. MY
mother would have thrown a
skillet at anybody that told her
to put citron in a fruit cake"
"Well how did she spice it?"
with limestone. My mother
used to say that the way to a
mans stomach was through the
stone quarry. Nowadays you
whippersnappers don't have
those Stom a chs we had.
Citron! Pooh! The limestone
gave the fruit cake body; there's
no resistance to citron. But you
know you've got something when
The Washington times., 1934-12-18

the prospective bridegroom for
fading if she doesn't.
For they look at marriage
differently than we do, in the
old countries. Much less SEN
timentality - and far more
seriousness.
We concentrate on poetry
they 60 in for practical plans,
and see no reason why Young
Love shouldn't discuss its fu-
ture in terms of Cold Cash.
For how's it going to eat if 1t
doesn't?
This - according to william
McDermott, Chicago religious
editor-iS one reason why Euro
pean marriages last, and why
our muchly advertised American
romances don't.
So, being the father Of two
adorable daughters, Mr.. McDer-
mott has decided to follow the
experts. And has electrified
chicago ana way SLdCIOIlS Oy
making this BRIDES ON SUB
SIDY offer in the November is
sue Of Good Housekeeping Mag
azine."
Knowing his fellow humans,
he has prepared his comeback
in advance.
SUBSIDIZE
"Why," says he to prospective
objectors, should I consider my
obligation to my daughters COM
pleted when they have finished
college any more than when
they have finished high school?
II believe it is fully as good
an investment-and almost, If
not fully as important-to spend
two or three thousand dollars,
or more if necessary, in help
ing my daughters, if they need
it, to marry happily during their
mating time, and in assisting
their husbands to complete their
life.work preparation. if they
The Washington times., 1934-12-18
Wise Words

Books without the knowledge
of life are useless, for what
should books teach but the art
of living.-Johnson.
It matters not how man dies,
but how he lives.-JohnSon.
A lie travels round the world
while truth is putting on her
boots.
Honesty is the best policy, but
he who acts on the principle Is
not an honest man.-Whately.
Each bird loves to hear him.
self sing.
He was scarce Of news who
told that his father was hanged.
A mouse can drink no more
than its fill from q river.
The Washington times., 1934-12-18
The Greatest Show
On Earth
Bv John Snure, T.

meth L. Romney, incumbent, in
a clear field.
When McClintic announced
that he would seek Romney'S
job when the House convened
1t aroused considerable interest,
as the two men had been friends
for 20 years.
But Jim has retired from the
race and returns to Oklahoma.
Before the State, War and
Navy Building the other eve, a
long, sleek sedan was drawn up
to the curb.
A liveried chauffeur stood at
the door awaiting his passenger.
Out OF the building came a
MISUNDERSTANDING gentleman.
His gray hair was set off by
his Well-choSen attire and in all
ways he appeared to be one Of
the most influential men in the
official family.
He stepped into his car, care
fully guarding a priced posses
sion which he carried.
It was q toy "Micky Mouse"
Incidentally, the car is listed
to the Quartermaster Corps Of
the United States Army.
Indications are that Col. Henry
M. Waite, formerly Deputy Pub
lic Works Administrator, is going
to return to Government service
in the capacity Of Undersecre-
tary Of Interior, a job which
must be created.
Long before Waite resigned
from PWA on September I
there 1OdS talk around Wash
tngton that he and Secretary
OF interior Harold L. Ickes Dere
not getting along so UeU.
The talk was that Waite did
not approve of the leisurely way
in which IckeS as PWA Ad.
The Washington times., 1934-12-18

m l n l S traitor
made loans
and that he
believed tn e
Public Works
head should
make every ef-
fort to make
grants as soon
as po oSS i b ! e
without tying
them up with
red tape.
lex es, at
that time, was
being so eau
tiouS in at
fAmntin0 tn
The Washington times., 1934-12-18

''People don't know how to
celebrate Christmas nowadays"
said Aunt Sarah Gallup, the
Grand Old Lady Of the Adironr
dacks.
well, I don't suppose we do
celebrate it with the gusto that
Washington Irving. -" we be-
gan.
"Oh, I'm speaking of way be-
fore Irving" interrupted Miss
Gallup. I'm talking about the
times when was q gal up in
Holcomb Landing. Those were
The Washington times., 1934-12-18

a million dollars (Which is a
lot of money these days. and
invest it in AAA-1 securities,
and out of the income every de-
serving young poet was going
to receive an annual stipend of
five thousand dollars, so that he
wouldn't have anything to do
The Washington times., 1934-12-18

across like
that nc e
y ou n g Eilly
Bear Claws
first wrapped
a n u p t i a l
club around
Tilly tt er
Tooth's ton
sill and cried
Meet the
MiSsiS!" And
e v e n today
brides ar e
supposed to
supply dow
ries-and no
hOdv hlameS
The Washington times., 1934-12-18

YOU bite on a fruit cake made
with limestone.
Eve had a lot Of nice little
customs in connection with the
fruit cake that you people don't
observe now. We had one saying
that the girl that broke the
most teeth on a piece Of fruit
cake would be married within
the year.
I won for seven consecutive
years"
copyright. 1894. by King Features
Syndicate. Inc>l
The Washington times., 1934-12-18

all day long but just write the
Swellest poetry, and never a
thought about the butcher or
the baker or the landlords
monthly reminder.
The appeal to my "magnani-
nifty" (the first time I saw that
word typed in 35 years. was
The Washington times., 1934-12-18

that can nev-
er be u S e d
a n d o tn e r
W or dS that
m u S t never
be printed.
I gave up
playing Jeho-
vah several
W e ks ago,
ana ! QOQG
own q news
paper. B u t
if I were the
c e n s or-in-
chief of this
planet there
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prevent graft that there was con-
siderable criticism to the effect
that his lethargic methods were
injuring the purpose of PWA.
Waite, however, has been in
conference with IckeS and from
all appearances any differences
have been irOned out.
The Washington times., 1934-12-18

his 1lVe-LOn
ing too much
and the king
believes tn e
pachyde r ms
tastes fore
an unneces-
Sary drain on
the Bulgarian
Golfers.
He W an t $
to sell him,
claiming that
h e consumes
five times as
much as the
entire palace
staff.