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Milford chronicle., 1934-11-23
BAKED AIR

In most of the territory of the
United States, some form of central
heating is considered desirable and
necessary in winter. Thereby. it be-
comes possible to live in comfort in
cold climates. and winter loses much
of its terror. .-A
And yet. because people are care
less about ventilation and about
preserving the natural humidity Of
the air, the majority Of these homes
supply the people with baked air,
in which the natural moisture is
dried out, rendering the inmates sub
ject to the multitude of ills which
they get in winter. (
The. human body was not meant to
live in such artificial atmospheric
as are produced in win
eter in the majority of homes. II
.hese folks do not ventilate their
rooms properly, or see that their
lir has the needed moisture, Old
Nan Grip will lay them jox.e ~
Milford chronicle., 1934-11-23
COKESBURY

Mrs. Albert King, Mrs. LOttie
Warrington. Mrs. Ollie Spicer, Mrs.
Alfred Messick, Mrs. Nora Isaacs.
Mrs. Francis Morgan, Mrs. Granville
Lambden, Mrs. Lillian Littleton,
and Mrs. Cordrey, all members of
N. H. D. Club, went on a historical
trip to Philadelphia last Thursday.
All reported a fine time. ....
Mrs. Andrew Givens and Mrs. Eli
Elliott were Wilmington visitors
last Thursday and Friday.
Mrs. Eli Elliott and Miss Laura
Elliott, Mrs. Granville Lambden and
Bobby were Salisbury visitors last
Saturday afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Jewell enter
tanned guests last Sunday.
Joshua Lambden was the guest of
Mr.. and Mrs. George Isaacs last
Sunday for dinner.
The third quarterly meeting of
NJ. E. Circuit of COkesbury will be
held next Saturday afternoon at
Georgetown parsonage at three o.
clock. Everybody invited.
The Cokesbury NJ. E. Ladies Aid
Society met last Wednesday evening
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Eli Eli
oft with a large attendance. The en-
tertainment put on was an interest
ing play entitled when Company
Milford chronicle., 1934-11-23
BRIDGEYILLE


Miss Meiisa Chaffinch. daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs. George Chaffinch oil
near town, was married to Lewis
Smith, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Smith also of near town, on Satur-
day night, at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. George Chaffinch The cere-
mony was quietly performed. in the
presence of only relatives and close
friends Of the couple because of the
serious condition of Mr.. Robert
Priestly grandfather of the groom.
who was injured in an auto acci-
dent last week.
Little Victor Lewis made such
favorable progress after his oper-
alton for appendicitis that he ar
rived home on Saturday, one week
and a day from his admittance.
Firem0n Hold Banquet
The local Volunteer Firemen will
hold banquet in honor of the 25th
anniversary of the organization of
the first Volunteer Fire Company in
Bridgeyille. at the club house on
Dec. 14th. They have planned to
attend the senior play at the school
building later in the evening.
Milford chronicle., 1934-11-23
THE LIFE OF YOUR TOWN

Some pople live in good towns,
yet are almost wholly cut off from
the life that goes on around them.
They move in narrow circles. and
have few activities, and much is
going on that they don't know about.
The local newspaper is the me-
dium of contact by which people can
become a part of the life around
them. When they read the home
newspaper. they know what is being
done in the local government, the
organizations, the social circles.
Tfey are led to take an interest in
the activities that appeal to them.
and are ready to talk about local
affairs whenever they meet people,
they cease to be strangers and be-
come real citizens. People only
touch a fraction of the life of their
home towns. when they fail to read
the home town paper regularly.
Milford chronicle., 1934-11-23
WINS PROMOTION

The many friends of Jacob NJ.
Moore, son of Mr., and Mrs. Walter
B. Moore of Rehoboth, are more than
pleased to receive news of his re-
cent promotion. Jake enlisted In the
army in September, 1882, and sailed
for Hawaii in December of that
year, arriving there the last of jan
uary, 1888. He has had three pro-
motion since that time. A short time
ago he was promoted to sergeant
Captain Schlenker congratulated him
on this occasion and said he was
the second person ever known in
the history of the company to make
the rating OF sergeant in their first
enlistment, which is the highest rat
ing than can be attained in a three
year enlistment.
Milford chronicle., 1934-11-23
Small Industries Menaced

Small industries in the United
States are being squeezed into OBJ
livion by governmental regulation,
says a report made by the Small In
dustries Committee of the Business
Advisory and Planning Council, De-
partment of Commerce. Blame for
this condition is placed largely at
the doorsteps of the Federal Reserve
System, the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation and Congress. the latter
because of provisions incorporated
in the Securities Act.
The report, prepared by DR.. Theo-
dore N. Beckman, chief economist,
in charge of the survey, disclosed
that manufacturers employing $50
workers, or less, made up 97,1 per
cent of the total plants in existence
in 1929. These small industrialists
absorbed 48.1 per cent of the wage
earners employed in industry, IN ad-
diticn to a large number of owners
and firm members. On the other
hand, less than per cent of the
manufacturing establishments en-
ployed almost So per cent of the
wage earners.
James A. Emery, general counsel
of the National Association of Man
ufacturers, has frequently referred
to the owners and managers of
small plants as the corporals and
sergeants of industry, from whence
come the lieutenants, captains, etc,
and has defended small industry in
recent conferences with Government
officials. 1t is the small Industrial !
lists who are most severely feeling !
the heavy hand of Governmental
regulation of business, industry, ag-
riculture and finance, says the re-
port made by DR.. Beckman.
The report added that criticisms
are aimed at Sudden changes in
bank policy, failure of the Federal
Reserve System to meet the situa-
tion and the utter collapse of the |
Finance Corporation
as a means of direct aid to indus
try"
Milford chronicle., 1934-11-23
PRATING OF THE WAYS

An elderly man remarks that the
town where he has spent most of
his life. and which is still rather
small village, was. in his bOyhood
about like a certain city which has
now become about ten times as big.
Those two communities at that date
many years ago were partly farming
towns. but each had a group of small
factories making about the same
line. .. ..1a..
Then one town woke up and saw
that the demand for the goods in
that line had changed. 1t went to
work and modernized its plants. and
kept pace with the popular demand.
The other town said the old methods
we're good enough, and it kept along
On those lines. Today one town has
about 1000 population. while the
other has 100000 "Nuff said"
Milford chronicle., 1934-11-23
WILLIAMSVILLE
(Near HOustOn)
Church News

| hUECn NChH
Sunday School at Williamsville
Church every Sunday at 2 p. m. The
time of service for the master may
be short let us be up and doing. We
earnestly request the prayer of
every Christian for the upbuilding
of Gods. Kingdom in Williamsville.
Our God is sound and solvent.
Mercy flows from out His throne as
it has evr done.
He heeds and knows the needs of
everyone,
He marks the sparrow's fall, the lily
g.. clothes;
And He will ever love and care for
those
Whose faith and trust are fixed upon
His Son.
Why have we fears. when perfect
love has none,
And Christ is refuge from our griefs
and woes?"
There will be a special Thanks
giving service held at Williamsyille
Church ON Thursday eYning, Nov.
29th at o'clock. Let's all go into
the House of the Lord and give
thanks to Him for our many bless
ings.
Mr.. and Mrs. viii Abbott and fam
ily. from Philadelphia spent the
weekend with her mother, Mrs. La
Rinia Kinney. Mrs. Kinney accom-
panied them to their home where
she will make an extended visit.
Miss Elizabeth Vincent and Mr..
Homer Vincent from near Farming
ton spent Sunday with their sister,
Mrs. Myrtle Harrington who has
ben very sick.
Milford chronicle., 1934-11-23
THE FAMILY HOLIDAY

Thanksgiving day has always been
kind of Old Home day. In former
times, when most young people set
tied near the old hearthstene, great
gatherings were seen on this festal
occasion. Itawas not uncommon for
two score people to sit down at the
Thanksgiving feast. Women prided
themselves on their ability to cook
a gorgeous layout, and serve 1t with
speed and finish. 4,'
Those old Thanksgiving dinners
were works of art. 1t took power OF
organization to plan and prepare
those feasts. Trained housewifely
judgment was needed to have the old
Turk cooked exactly right, to have
the preliminary and following cour-
ses perfect, to have everything ready
to serve at the right moment. The
women who used to put on those
stunts. could have managed big
hotels or overflOwing restaurants.
II may be thought by cynics that
the love of kindred that drew many
families together was not so much
the deep affection for relatives, as
the wonderful drawing power of that
grand dinner. No doubt that superb
layout helped bring the sisters and
the cousins and the aunts. But peo-
pie valued those ties of kinship more
then, and they did not feel quite
happy unless the old clan spirit was
revived once a year.
Today our families are scattered |
over the ends of the earth. To gather |
Son from Seattle and Daughter from
Houston and Sister from New York
is not possible. Still, not all the
folks have wandered so far. There
are always some within reach.
1t is a fine thing if they will make
The pilgrimage back to the old home,
Jr join in some meeting place. Some
people speak disparingly of Telati-
res, but after all they are the ones
hat. stick to you when transient
pass. Let the family
holiday serve as the means to re-
lew the old ties.
Milford chronicle., 1934-11-23
Milford, Friday, November %, 1893
THANKSGIVING

What is Thanksgiving day? Is il
Just Turkey day, when people enjoy
= glorious feast? Or shall we be
able to look below the surface. and
find something more in it than that?
Thanksgiving day was originally
the result of the feeling of the fore
fathers that they had been blessed
cf heaven, and they wanted to make
some recognition of that fact. The
blessings that had come to them
would seem extremely meager to us
now. Back in 1921, the early settlers
at Plymouth colony had suffered a
winter of the most terrible depriva-
tion. There were but 1902 of them at
the start, and in that awful first win
ter. Al of that pitiful little band died
from exposure to the cold and lack
OF wholesome food.
Those that remained. instead Of
sitting down to repine their losses
and shiver with fear at the probable
fate that awaited them. took hold
when the spring came with a will
and purpose to make good in their
new land. They were rewarded with
a good crop. Whereupon at the
close of the harvest season, they APP
Pointed the first day of Thanksgiv-
ing, in gratitude to God for his mar
cies.
Their outlook was poor enough.
judged by our standards. They did
not know whether they could live
through another winter, They knew
perfectly well that they had a sea-
son of severe cold to meet in their
primitive DWELLINGS, But cheered by
a good supply of food they saw their
greatest peril had passed. With
grateful hearts they raised their !
psalms of Thanksgiving. and went |
ahead into the unknown future with
Il cheer.
And here, in our thankless lives. |
if things go wrong for a while. we
raise howl of pain and see no cause
for thankfulness. We of course have
had our troubles. But even looking
dt our state in its most unfavorable
light, the powers that rule. the world
have been good to our country. Let
us too feel some sentiment of graft
tude.
Milford chronicle., 1934-11-23
is EGG PRODUCTION
PROFITABLE TODAY?
BY Paul G. Riley.

People are wondering whether II
is possible to make profit on eggs
produced this year. In comparing
egg prices and feed prices this year
as against last year, the situation is
relatively in favor of the poultry
man this year. In other words, the
poultryman has a better opportunity
of producing profit on his flock this
year as compared with last year.
There is one factor. however, that
will control the profit to be made
and that factor is percentage of pro-
duction. How many eggs are you
getting from your flock?
The entire answer to profit in egg
production lies in the answer to the
question-"Hsw many eggs are you
getting?" s.
One hundred hens lin high egg
production) will eat "a pounds OF
fed per day.
Grain costs. $1.5O to 1920 per cwt.
Egg mash, 1920 to $2.75 per cwt.
(Above prices vary, depending on
local conditions and quality of feed
used)
Cost of FEEDING lOO mems per day,
42c to sac per day.
Consequently
2O96 egg production gives a feed
cost of Csc to 32c to produce dozen
eggs.
400 egg production gives a feed
cost of 13c to 17c to produce dozen
eggs. ..I
500 egg production gives a feed
cost of O.5c to 1O.Sc to produce
dozen eggs. ..s- 4
With a high egg production, the
of cents per each dozen eggs
sold is likely to be greater, based
on present and future egg prices
than in previous years but the poul-
tryman getting poor egg production
IS certain to sustain a loss.
How many eggs a day are you
getting?
Milford chronicle., 1934-11-23
PINEY GROVE
Near GeOHgeiOwnl


Mr.. and Mrs. Otha Pepper and
family were dinner guests OF Mr.
and Mrs. Harry Dormah last Sun
day.
Perry Mears has been on the sick
list. but is improving daily.
Mrs. Sally Rogers and family en-
tertained last Sunday the following
Miss >Mazie Rogers, Mrs. Emma Nc
Doweli, Miss Mabel McCrady and
Newell Rogers of Wilmington.
Miss Fannie Elliott spent Sunday
afternoon as the guest Of Miss Thel-
ma and Hilda Workman.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. II. Elliott and
son Charles, and Mr.. and Mrs. AL
fred Rogers spent Tuesday in Sails
bury, Md, as the guests Of the lat
ter's sister, Mrs. c. c. Parsons.
Mrs. Emma Hall and James Hall
spent part of last week as the guests
of Mrs. Sallie Rogers.
Charles P. Spicer has resumed his
studies at Delaware College after an
operation at the Milford
Hospital.
Milford chronicle., 1934-11-23

BETWEEN NOW and November,
1886. one of the most popular con-
versati0nal subjects is bound to be:
What about the Republican Party?"
Democratic zealots, echoing the
words of Mr. Farley. will say that
the party is dead; Republican stall
Warts will say that it is simply lying
fallOw, and shows no signs of de-
cay. The truth probably lies some
where between these two extremes.
The Republicans took terrific
lacing in the last election-sO far as
carrying offices was concerned. But
they did get around 46 per cent of
the total vote cast. A party that
gets as substantial minority as that
can't be considered dead by a long
shot.
One of the principal Republican
problems is dissension within the
pdrty. Henry Fletcher, chairman of
the Republican Central Committee,
is cOnservative--many of the prin-
cipal Republican Senators, such as
BOrah. Johnson, Couzens and Nc
Nary are liberals of varying shades
of opinions. 1t seems a certainty
that a strong drive will be made to
MIR. Fletcher and put
liberal in his place-and until the
have fought their own
battles to a finish. no one
ran forecast the future of the party
with accuracy.
Milford chronicle., 1934-11-23

Comes" The next meeting will be
held in. December with Mr.. and Mrs.
Granville Lambden.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Hastings and
family spent last weekend with
Mrs. Hastings sister in Philadel-
phia. fo
Dir. and Mrs. Alton Isaacs spent
last weekend in Lansdowne, Pa,
with Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred Carey.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred Messick were
Milford visitors OF friends last
Thursday evening. .
Mr.. and Mrs. Linwood 0'Day and
Mrs. w. S. O,Day were Sunday Wis
itors of Mr.. and Mrs. Eli Elliott.
Milford chronicle., 1934-11-23

Mrs. Blanche Hitch, nurse, has re-
turned home from Wyoming, Del,
where she has been nursing Mr..
HOch
William Phillips, and Miss Dorothy
Hall of New Haven, Conn, are visit
ing Mr.. J. B. Phillips this week.
Edward B. Short and outten Can
non were Milford visitors Tuesday
evening.
Miss Dorothy Myer, daughter OF
Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Myer is recover
ing in the Milford Emergency Hos
pital from an operation for appen-
dicitis. -.t-.
Milford chronicle., 1934-11-23

MANY MEN lie awake nights
worrying over their business when
a reasonable amount of advertising
would remove the cause of those
worries.
Milford chronicle., 1934-11-23

New sweet potatoes are fine.
Milford chronicle., 1934-11-23
FOR SALE

FOR SALE-Berkshire pigs. Arthur
Davis. Williamsyille. near Houston.
n23-2tp
Milford chronicle., 1934-11-23
NOTICE

NOTICE-Big shooting match. on
Thursday. November 29. beginning at
10 O'Clock. near Smiths Store. Con-
sisting of pigs. geese. ducks. etc. Air
shooting. LinwOod Wiley. 1tp
Milford chronicle., 1934-11-23

FOR SALE-Estate ocal and wood
ranges. Wilson and Gerow. Frederica.
II b s'- tfs '--
Milford chronicle., 1934-11-23

FOR SALE-16 foot marble bar.
cheap. Apply to Hilrs Restaurant. MIL
ford. n23-2tp
Evening star., 1934-08-19

shipping men and American seamen
for not producing ships and not en-
gaging In the carrying trade. The
latter plan of reducing production is
no more illogical than the first, to
which the Secretary seems to be we'd
ded, as the American people and the
American farmers will discover and
already are discovering. You do not
give more jobs by cutting down pro-
duction; you do not produce more
wealth by refraining from activity.
Mr.. Wallace's only effort to increase
production lies along the line Of in
creasing the numbers Of persons en-
gagged in seeing that other people do
not produce.
President Roosevelt has always
shown himself favorable to national
defense and to the Navy and to ship
ping generally. He probably has a
more vivid recollection Of the efforts
Of the United States to create fleets OF
ships overnight after this country had
entered the World War than has Sec
retary Wallace. Even the Secretary
Of Agriculture is beginning to realize
that it is difficult to grow a crop OF
corn and to raise hogs overnight and
is discovering that a shortage. Of feed
and Of food is to be one of the results
of the efforts of the A. A. A. to cut
production. It cost the American
people $4,000, 900, 900 to try to build
up a merchant marine during the war.
It is this which Mr.. Wallace would
now scrap.
He does not oppose Government aid
to shipping on the ground that it is a
subsidy. He would scarcely have the
face to oppose a Government subsidy
after what he has been advocating
and doing. He opposes Government
aid to shipping on the ground that
the carrying trade should be left to
the foreigners, so that perhaps they
might be able to buy more goods
farm products-from us. But Mr..
Wallace, of course, should know that
the foreigners will buy goods where
they desire 20 buy them, and that If
we give up our carrying trade in the
hope that it will gain us export trade,
we are merely buying q pig in a poke.
Evening star., 1934-08-19
Hitler.

Today the German people are vot-
ing in a nationwide plebiscite to de-
termine whether Adolph Hitlers as
sumption of unlimited power as
leader and chancellor of the Reich
Is to be confirmed. On Friday he made
an appeal by radio from Hamburg
calling for that Endorsement. He will
doubtless get it. Every effort has been
made 20 send the people to the polls,
every precaution taken to prevent an
tagonistic campaigning Hitlers wish
and hope, Of course, is that he will be
unanimously elected
In his address from Hamburg Hit
Ter said that when President Won
Hindenburg closed his eyes there
were not a few people outside the
Reich who tried to see in his death
the beginning of great internal con-
fiicts within Germany" He added:
In the interests of the German peo.
pie and the Reich this game wa;
confounded. He naturally would have
preferred to have made an appeal Il
the people first and then execute tn,
peoples decision. But the result o
the election would not have beer
different. BY proclaiming the unior
Of the two Offices president anc
ehancellor) the Reich government die
Evening star., 1934-08-19

The healing art Is an ancient one.
In all ages those who ministered
to the needs of the body have played
q conspicuous part. The Master, in
one Of His utterances, afflrmed: "They
that are whole have no need Of
the physician, but they that are sick I"
It was the recognition on His part
Of the essential place the doctor
plays in the scheme Of life. One
of the most appealing distinctions that
has been applied to Jesus is that Of
the Great Healer" Throughout His
entire ministry He went about doing
good" and repeatedly we read of
His solicitude and gentleness in deal
ing with those who were impaired
in body. On one occasion He said,
"I have made a man every whit
whole" Repeatedly He associated
physical maladies with maladies of
the soul. He knew what was in
man." and, knowing it, He minis
tered to body, soul and mind.
Among the great professions the
physician occupies q commanding
place. Through long years of close
observation of this distinguished call
ing we have been privileged to know
some of the rarest and noblest of
men. For selfless and devoted service,
for the highest expression of gen.
erosity and good will, the physician
occupies a place quite Incompatible.
The story told by Ian Maclaren in
the Bonnie Brier Bush" Of old DR..
Mcleod is not exaggerated or over
drawn. It Is tale that may be
duplicated in any community. One
must believe concerning men Of this
type that they are motivated by the
highest of impulses, and that their
ministry is associated with that Of
the Master, who never turned away
from those who were bruised and
broken in body.
Great and indispensable as the
medical art Is, 1t is something more
than skill that constitutes the genius
of the true physician. It Is love Of
humanity, desire to do the utmost,
at any cost, to alleviate human suf-
fering and restore the afflicted to
Evening star., 1934-08-19
THE HEALING ART
BY THE RIGHT REV. JAMES E. FREEMAN D. D. L. d, D. c. l.
Bishop Of Washington

wholeness of being. 1t Is so utterly in
consonance with the mind and min
istry of Jesus that it may be con-
sistently called divine art. The
service 1t renders is often obscure and
unnoticed. It receives little Of the
worlds applause and oftentimes too
little of compensation. The unwrit-
ten story of what transpires in
hospitals and frequently in the homes
Of humble and neglected folk Is one
that has never been adequately told.
There Is no form of philanthropy of
which we have knowledge compar-
able to that which is repeatedly ex-
hibited by the healing profession.
Doctors and nurses render a service
Of such high order that we find 1t
impossible to rightly appraise it. The
words Of Jesus, among the most beau
tiful He ever uttered, apply to serv-
ice of this sort: "Inasmuch as We
have done 1t unto the least of these.
my brethren, ye have done 1t unto
Me"
To believe that this great profess
sion received freshened impulse
from the ministry of Jesus, and that
it fulfills In an exalted way one of
His ideals of service, is In consonance
with His teaching and practice. It
is a ministry, where exercised pur-
suant to His practice, enjoys a. dis
tinction of the highest value and calls
forth a grateful and reverent recog-
milton. Rightly conceived and prac-
ticed, it is a ministry that deals
with the whole man, body, mind and
spirit. We have known physicians
whose presence in the sick room
meant as much, If not more than
all that they prescribed. In their
approach to the sick they impaired
both confidence and renewal. They
penetrated the mind of the patient
and dispelled both fear and anxiety.
Their word of encouragement meant
more than their medicine. They were
restorers Of the soul. Such men are
indispensable in every community,
they constitute an essential part of
its life; they exercise an influence
that covers the whole range Of life.