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Milford chronicle., 1934-10-12
MILLVILLE

The Ladies Aid Society of the VI
L. Church will serve oyster sand
wiches. pie and coffee on election
day.
The Senior class of the Lord Bal
timOre School thank all who helped
to make the supper Saturday a sue
cess. They cleared around $55.0p.
They also apologize 10 those who
we're served after the shortage of
food. and will not let it happen
again.
Rally Day services in the NJ. +.
Church Sunday morning was given
over to the children and passed off
nicely.
The young peoples service Sun
day night was led by Miss Cathleen
Hickman.
DR.. and Mrs. Orville Daisey of
Fruitland. Md, and Mr. and Mrs.
Vaughn Collins of Philadelphia. were
the Sunday guests of Mr.. and Mrs,
Roland West.
Mr. and Mrs Joshua Dukes and
daughter Shirley are visiting Mr..
Dukes mother and sister. Mrs Ida
Dukes and Mr.. and Mrs. l. X. Wiley.
Mr.. and Mrs. Isaac West and
children, George. Matte and Isaac,
Jr.. spent the weekend at Wash
ington. j. C.. as the guests Of Mr..
and Mrs. John Smith.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles w Town
send and Mrs. Katherine Anderson
spent Sunday with Mr. aud Mrs.
Joshua Hudson of Wyoming. and
Mr.. and Mrs. George Hudson of
Dover
Mr.. and Mrs. Ivah Hudson and
children Jack, Joan and Shirley. Mrs.
Veigler and Mrs. John Ritter of
Wilmington. Mrs. NJ. L. Hickman
and children. Cathleen and Brice
were dinner guests Sunday of Mr..
and Mrs. Wilson Hudson and daugh-
ter Doris.
Mr.. and Mrs /, X. Wiley and
daughter Wanda were guests on
Sunday of Mr.. and Mrs. J. Conn
Scott of Selbyville.
John Furman was visitor on
Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs. Rollin
Hudson of FrankfOrd.
John Townsend is spending a few
days in the Quaker City.
Mrs. Marellia Evans and daughter,
OF Bethany Beach called on Captain
and Mrs. Elbert Evans on Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Derrickson of
Ellendale spent Sunday with Mr..
and Mrs. Herbert Williams. They
were callers in the afternoon with
Mrs. Sadie Williams.
Mrs. William Monroe of Omar was
a town caller on Tuesday.
Regenia Derrickson of Philadel-
phia. and Miss Drew of Milford we're
Sunday callers with Miss Electa
Williams.
Mr.. and Mrs. Vance Lynch of
Bayard visited Mrs. Lynchs parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. George West on Sun
day. Mr.. West is still confined to
his home and greatly missed from
teh Sunday School and church SER
vices by his many friends.
Captain and Mrs. Clinton Evans
and children Naomi and Roger of
spent the weekend at
their summer home here.
Miss Clarimond Mcgee was the
weekend guest of Mrs. Helen Nit
chell.
Milford chronicle., 1934-10-12
4.HGUBN NOTES

The Henlopen All Club met II
the Henlopen Grange Hall Wednes
DAY evening with the local leader
19 club members, the County Clul
Agent and the Assistant Entomolo
gist, from the University of Dela
ware, present.
Fourteen club members brought
in collections of insects, made dur
ing the summer months. These were
judged by Donald McCreary, AS
sistant EntOmOlogist. First place
was awarded Molloy c. Vaughn, Jr.
who had a collection of 35 bugs
carefully mounted. He was awarded
an exceedingly nice case for mount
ing bugs. Second place was tie be-
tween William Hopkins and Stephen
Vaughn.
The Club made plans for Hal
lowe'en party. to be given the first
Wednesday evening in November. in
the Henlopen Hall. II was decided
to invite the members of the Cool
spring Sewing Club. The president
of the Henlopen Club. Everett Hop
kins, was requested to extend the
invitation through Julia Ann Bryan,
president of the COOlspring Club.
A theatre party was held by the
Coolspring Sewing club Friday eve
ming. Fourteen of the members at
tended the play. In the Money,
given by some of GeorgetOwn's alb
lest talent. in the NJ. +. Community
Hall. At the close of the play. the
members of the club visited a local
drug store for refreshments.
Several canning clubs have spe-
cialized this season i'm putting up
Jelly. pickle and vegetable mixture
for soup. A committee from the
Woodenhawk club, made apple jelly
and pepper relish. Saturday after
noon.
The members of the Sunny Smile
4-H Club met at the home of Mrs.
Edna Coverdale on Friday evening,
October 5. The meeting was rather
long because of new business. We
decided to have a Halloween party,
October 80, at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Harry Minner. A program COM
mittee for the party was appointed
as follows: Chairman, Mae Case;
helpers, Hubert Richter and Mar
shall Stubbs. Sixteen members and
several visitors were present. Ev-
eryone enjoyed the program which ,
included a balloon blowing con-
test" Refreshments were served.
Meeting adjourned at 1920.
The Cardinal Juniors Al club
met at the home of their local lead /
er and their president. Kathryn and
Ellen Ninyard. of Houston, on
Thursday evening. October I. Sug-
gestions were made for making |
some money for their club. followed |
by election of officers for tine COM /
ing year. They are as follows: lta- :
eel Johnson. president; Betty Prt- 3
lyman. vice president; Marion Roy-
nolds. secretary and Ann Ninyard, |
treasurer.
The Cardinal Seniors who held
their monthly meeting earlier in the
month are sponsoring a dance on
Friday evening of this week, Octo-
ber u. at the New Century club
House in Milford. This is the third
wear that the club has held these !
dances and they have always HroYcn
very successful and enjoyable af-
fairs.
Milford chronicle., 1934-10-12

Flora May, of Amity. Pa. are visit
ing their brother and wife, Mr., and
Mrs. Leander Bamberger.
FrankfOrd New Century Club
The New Century Club of Frank
ford met at the home of Mrs. VIM.
A Gum, Jr.. on Friday evening. with
the president, Mrs. TOpp NJ. Heath
in the chair The meeting was
opened by the reading of the club
collect by Miss Sallie G. Hall. The
minutes of the previous meeting
were read by the secretary. Mrs.
Carleton c. FOOks and were approx
ed. Reports of standing committees
were given of which the program
outline by Mrs. George HOrsey and
Miss Sallie G. Hall. and that of the
conservation. by Mrs. VIM. A. Gum.
Jr. were both full and satisfactory.
A report from the executive board
meeting which was held i'm Dover
on Thursday of last week was given
by the director. Mrs. Robert S. Long.
The program was in charge of the
art chairman. Mrs. Raymond p.
Long. who after brief outline of
the work suggested for the year. in
trOduced Miss Adele Hermann. a
Delaware Supervisor of Art. who
talked on Art in the Home" giving
many helpful hints and closed with
general discussion which proved
most helpful.
Milford chronicle., 1934-10-12

Ed Carol, OF Baltimore, Md, was
a recent guest at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. Wilbur Hurley.
Mrs. Jennie Deakyne, OF Whining
ton. Mrs. Lena Nawton, Railway, N.
Milford chronicle., 1934-10-12

j.. are mid-week guests at the home
of Mrs. Wilda Spicer.
Despite the inclement weather,
the oyster supper was quite a sue
cess, $1,000 was cleared.
Milford chronicle., 1934-10-12

Too many men work off excuses
as reasons.
Milford chronicle., 1934-10-12

Flowing fields for sowing wheat
in October. will be general in lower
Delaware this month.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-03
Colds Poem, Set to
Music, to Be Sung at
Concert Sunday Night

NEW YORK.-The first public par-
formance of THE Strange F1lnersI in
Sraddock, : the famous poem bv
Michael Gold, with music by Elje
5legmeister, member OF the Com
posers Collective, to be sung BY Henry
schroeder, concert baritone will he
given on tomorrow evening at 8,3o AT
the Civic Repertory Theatre, l4th 81
ana 9th Ave. This is included in the
program Of a concert held by the
Workers Music League of New York
TO protest against war and fascism.
ms concert is part of an inter
national music demonstration called
by the International Music Bureau.
TomorroW's program also includes
piano sonata by one of the leading
Soviet composers, Shostakowitsch. to
be played by Norman Cazdeu. of the
Juillard Chapter of the National
Students League. New workers songs
taken from the recently published
international Collection of Reyolu-
tionary Songs" will be heard in this
country for the first time. They will
be sung by the Daily Worker Chorus
and the Freiheit Singing Society. The
Pierre Degeyter Symphonietta, the
first professional musicians orchestra
to be developed in the working class
music movement, will also perform.
Speakers will be Charles Seeger and
Lain Adohmyan. Harry Martell will
be chairman. Tickets may be OBJ
tanned from the Workers Music
League, 5 E. 18th st.
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book, OF course, raises innumerable
aesthetic problems. Naturally, Gellert
would be superhuman genius if he
solved them all at one stroke.
should say that in some cases GeIlert
faced the problem too closely from
the point Of view Of giving a too
literal representation Of the text, in
stead Of, what seems to me a more
fruitful way, the comprehensive
imaginative conceptions of Marks
epoch-making words.
Also, one misses in some of the
drawings, the many details of real
istic observation, necessary to enrich
the imaginative power Of drawings.
There is often abstraction, instead
Of having detail built into a signi-
fcant design.
But Gellert has dared to blaze the
way, to face the most difficult of jobs,
and he calls upon others to follow
him and better his example. He calls
upon the revolutionary artists to
give to the working class in pictures
the enormously rich content that lies
at hand in the works of Marx, Engels,
Lenin and Stain, This makes his
book valuable.
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" Charity Not for Those
Who Are Starving

blowing contract ne makes with the
government nets him more than be
paid for the far1nl
Then there IS the added bitterness
Of the cropper because he sees the
landowner, VINO has not yet lost bis
farm, getting paid by the federal
government for restricted planting
The cropper gets no share Of this
government money.
For the farmer who has still chung
to his land there is resentment
against the government because Of
the production credit association Or
gained and financed by the federal
government. This corporation, which
is supposed to help farmers by lend
ing them money. seems ect''e''-, 10
be functioning to ruin the small
farmer, to drive him from STATE
Of independence into that Of
cropper.
The credit association fees Tor
lending money to the small farmer
makes it utterly impossible for the
small farmer to borrow from It. The
large landowner or corporation
owned plantation can afford the fees
called for and are actually helped
but the overwhelming majority OF
farmers in this county, and for that
matter, in the whole cotton belt, have
to pay q rate Of interest which runs
close to Is or 16 per cent--which, Of
course, makes it impossible for him
to borrow.
On the face Of It the credit as
sociation charges seem reasonable
until you learn that most Of the farm
loans TO the small farmers in the
cotton belt range anywhere from $50
to 500, sometimes Si25. For such
sums the government finance
scheme charges, under one name or
another, costs which run to some SIS
for the 500 or fraction Of this that
the farmer wants. This is q prohihi-
tive charge, but II he does not pay
it, he cannot borrow money from the
credit association.
The local bank, having been hard
hit by the depression, is tight on
credit and viii not lend money as
literally as In years before the de-
preston, and even if it wanted TO-
it could not undertake to finance all
the small farmers in the county.
So - when these things are con-
sidered, the farmer who still has
land feels that the government is
simply trying to drive him Of II
make him cropper; the farmer who
has no land. no government work
job, Is resentful because he is being
showed aside in preference for those
with a few dollars TO pay the poll
tax, and with federal relief doles
getting scantier YOU find bitterness
in almost all classes.
TO BE Continued
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Reviewed by EDWIN RoLFE

Reviewed by EDWIN ROLFE
THIS is an account by a young
Smith College graduate Of a short
period spent among the miners Of
Pennsylvania. Unable to find a job
in New York, possessing the vague
and unformulaoed literary aspire
tons so common among young COL
lege people who find most Of the
other professions closed to them, Miss
Gilfillan hit upon the novel and for
tunate idea Of spending her period Of
comparative perjury among the
striking and penniless miners Of
Western Pennsylvania. Our author
does not tell us just why she went to
Avelonia to study life in the raw; she
does not explain why coal strikers
interested her more than New York
bohemianS. If she tossed a coin to
decide the course Of her Summing
odyssey, 1t was q lucky break; for
only crisiS-shattered, starving and
striking working-clasS community
such as Avelonia could have given
meaning to her book.
That her book does possess this
meaning and significance Is unde-
riable. There are chapters Of excel
lent reportorial detail, of description
Of miners lives and living conditions
which approach some of the best
workingclass journalism this reviewer
has read. There are other chapters
made melodramatic and somewhat
unreal by the authors too-evident
attempt to fictionalize material too
true to life to need literary re-cast-
ing. Miss Gilf1llan's accounts Of the
home life Of the miners are definitely
the truest and most convincing we
have read, surprising most similar
attempts in revolutionary fiction or
reportage.
But the whole effect Of II Went to
Pit College" is spoiled, loses dignity
and power and sincerity, by the too
insistent intrusion Of the authors
personality into the direct narrative
Such an intrusion would have been
justified only If the author had met
these miners on a basis of equality.
Of complete understanding, Of willing
ness to merge her personality with
the personality Of Avelonia and
then it would not have been an in
trusion.
But Miss Gilfillan's approach on
this score leaves much to be desired.
She did not attempt to discard her
Smith College outlook, nor her
literary character. She studied these
people from above, even when she
courageously went forth with them
on the picket line, on the streets of
Pittsburgh to collect pennies for milk
for the miners kids She remained
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HighHghts in the Life
OF Ernst ThGeLnlGgln
Born in Hamburg in 1886, Joined Revolutionary
Movement at the Age of 10

only in Berlin and Hamburg. This
field also still has to be cultivated.
In our trade the younger people
are left to themselves even more
than in the skilled trades. That is
why more has to be done for the
youth consider it very in
correct that the young workers
should have less to say than the
adults, despite the increased dues,
and ask that this passage should
be rejected"
Despite the attempts of the trade
union bureaucracy and the employ
ers to corrupt Ernst Thaelmann, who
was untiringly coming forward for
the demands Of the workers, by Of
fering him permanent positions and
so forth, he remained true to the
working class and consistently con-
tinued his work of mobilization. He
was black-listed and was unemployed
for a year Immediately before the
outbreak Of the war.
AT the outbreak of the war his
n standpoint at that time already
showed him the path to the BoIshevik
policy in the struggle against the
imperialist war and bourgeois die
tstorship. Conscripted already in
1914, Ernst Thaelmann, for whom, as
g revolutionary worker, there was no
promotion during the war although
there was severe disciplinary punish
ment, experienced all the horrors Of
war in almost all the territories Of
the Western Front. During the war
Ernst Thaelmsnn did not for a mo-
ment forget or deny his duties and
obligations as revolutionary worker.
He carried on untiring Illegal prop
uganda against the imperialist war.
At the front he distributed illegal
pamphlets and papers against the
war, such as, for example. the
Bremen Buergerzeitung." When in
his proletarian resentment and ha-
tired towards the blind omedience to
militarism, he showed open resistance
to military drill, they tried to curb
him by sending him as a soldier to
the most dangerous parts of the front
ana by not giving him any leave for
two and a half years. He finally
came before military court and was
sentenced to serve a long time in
prison. That was just as powerless
TO break his revolutionary will as was
the discrimination against him in the
factory. The persecution to which he
was subjected strengthened his revo-
lutionary will and his conviction of
the ineyitability Of the overthrow of
the capitalist system and the victory
OF Socialism. Despite all the diff
culties, he maintained constant con-
tact with the revolutionary organi-
zation of the "left-wing" in Hamburg
and when he got leave later on made
use OF his stay in Hamburg to have
Illegal conferences and discussions on
revolutionary anti-militarist work
Ito Be COntinueH)
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an outsider even when she lived in
their homes and suffered their wants.
Never, one feels in reading this book,
did she forget for a moment that
she was going to write book about
this experience.
THE result is this uneven book
excellent in small and irregular
SnatcheS, unconvincing and false in
others. Her descriptions of Y. G..
L. unit meetings, for example, are
the most utterly absurd and fantastic
bits Of writing that this reviewer
(who has attended several hundreds
Of such meetings) has ever come
across. No less unreal and vague are
her descriptions Of the actual Strug-
gles-the picket lines and meetings.
Miss Gilfillan is eveidently most at
home when her material conveys
merely the suggestion, the effect or
implication Of class struggle. She is
decidedly insecure in her treatment
Of these struggles in their most
naked and truest form.
Perhaps one ought to forgive the
authors unconscious snobbery, her
failure to assimilate what she saw
but did not feel-or, more precisely,
her failure to transmit what she may
have felt to her readers. Her entire
background is petty bourgeois, and
most Of her life up to the point where
she left for Avelonia had been spent
in a financially uncertain but social
ly-quiescent middle class realm. One
can point out the defects Of her book
and at the same time recognize that
these defects merely skin deep
perception of her characters in addf-
ton to other faults already enumer-
st~d-are largely theological.
II Miss Gilfillan understood as well
as she writes, she would be capable
Of far more mature work. She has
made beginning. She needs now,
having seen representative chunk
OF the oroletarian world, only to shed
her bove the battle" cloak to
produce really vital reportage and
fiction.
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DORM on April is, 1885, in Hamburg,
y at the age Of Is he became a
member of the Social-Democratic
Party organization in Hamburg. In
February 1904, he became a member
Of the German Transport Workers
Union, from which he was expelled
in 1881 on account of revolutionary
activity. AS harbor worker, as a
seaman, and later as q transport
worker, Ernst Thaelmann devoted all
his force and energy to the revoiu-
tiOnary labor movement in the strug-
gle for Socialism In the Social
Democratic Party and in the trade
union movement functions were
given to him at an early age. When
he entered military service he was
already notorious as being one of the
"Vaterlandslosen Gesellen" "a fellow
without country and as q revolu-
tionsry social-democrat he was har-
assed by Prussian militarism.
After completing his military serv-
ice, Ernst Thaelmann commenced to
occupy higher functions in the labor
movement. He became a member Of
the local council Of the Transport
Workers Union in Hamburg, later a
delegate of the local council of the
Free Trade Unions. Alongside of that
he became in succession chief branch
leader Of the laundry drivers. mem
Der OF the branch committee of all
drivers, later branch leader of the
lockers, and at the same time he
was active as delegate of the local
committee. Within the Party he be-
came the leader Of the revolutionary
opposton-first of all, mainly in the
district membership meetings and
then at the large delegate meetings
OF the ocial-Democratic organiza-
ton in Hamburg-and carried on a
sharp struggle against the reformist
bureaucracy and their opportunist
policy.
AS founder of the Trade Union
Youth Section in Hamburg. Ernst
Thaelmann is one of the founders Of
the youth sections OF the trade
unions Against the desire and the
resistance Of the reforrnist bureau
cracy, he organized the unity of the
young workers for complete self-de-
termination within the free trade
unions. Ernst Thaelmann and his
circle Of revolutionary youth at first
modified 300 young workers. and
later on 1900 at the general meetings
OF the Transport Workers Union in
Hamburg. The reformist bureaucracy
tlnally used the method of violent
measures against this revolutionary
youth section.
AT very many union congresses.
Ernst Thaelmann represented the
Hamburg members Of the Transport
Workers Union. The records of the
Union show Ernst Thaelmann as the
strong champion of the interests of
the workers against the bu-eaucraev.
which was becoming increasingly
conservative and going more and
more openly to the side of the cam
.talists. With undaunted passion
Ernst Thaelmann proclaimed the
right Of the members to uninterrunt-
ed membership in their organization
He revealed himself here as the
champion of genuine revolutionary
trade union movement such as has
come about in recent years through
me R.T,U.O. which is developing in
TO a powerful organization.
ne came out boldly Tor equal rights
OF the young workers in the trade
unions. In his speech in the discus-
sion at the Eighth Congress of the
transport Workers Union in Bresleu
1912, he said. -
we now have Youth Sections
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