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Mrs. Blanche Mason returned
from Chicago last week. She was
one of the fortunate people who
heard the chorus Of fifty thousand
voices at the Century of Progress
Fair.
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Mrs. Dorothy Wilson, (nee
Dorothy Waters), made a hurried
visit to Anoka to be with her
mother who has been i'll. Mrs. Will
son will remain in the country for
a while until her mother is up and
about again.
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Mrs. Orzola Hall of tbs st. An
thony Avenue has returned from
trip to Waterloo, Iowa, where she
spent two weeks with her parents
and friends. ~
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Mr.. and Mrs. George Hoage,
their grandchildren, and George
Hoage, Jr., spent several days in
Chicago at the Century of Prog
ress.
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Mr.. Julian Penn of Chicago, Illi-
nois, left Sunday evening after Wis
iting his cousin, Mr.. William Penn
of 670 Carroll Avenue, for the past
two weeks.
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Visiting Mr.. and Mrs. M. R. vii
son of 1920 Clinton Avenue, was
Mrs. Blaine Thompson of Des
Noines, Ia. Mrs. Thompson
lnotored here with Mrs. Matte
Gould of Des Moines.
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Miss Thelma Murdoch of Chi
cago, Illinois, who has been the
house guest for a month of her
brother-in-law and sister. NJ. and
Mrs. Dan Presley of 208 E. Indiana
Avenue, left Saturday evening on
the North Coast Limited for LONE.
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Mrs. Essie Arnold of the Zion
Baptist choir is convalescing at
home after several weeks of seri-
Gus illness.
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Advertisers in this newspaper
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Mrs. Dora Waters, who has been
seriously i'll in her home in Anoka,
is improving.
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Mr.. j. Harold Mitchell, son Of
Mr.. and Mrs. James Mitchell of
329 N. St. Adams Street, is vaca-
tioning in Chicago, Illinois.
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Our circulation department is Al
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The Misses Harriet and Junauld
Brown entertained Miss Lowell
Locke of Detroit, Michigan, at a
whist-luncheon Thursday after
noon, August Both, from one un-
I'll four, at their home, 626 st. An
thony Avenue. First prize was
won by Miss Charlotte Crump, Sec
ord by Miss Elizabeth Moore, and
the consolation by Miss Delgracia
Wright.
Mr.. Louis Moore, Jr., son Of Mr..
ard Mrs. Louis Moore of w. Cen
trail Avenue, is attending school in
Yankton, South Dakota.
Mrs. c. R. Collier, aunt of Mrs.
Doris Roper of 982 Fuller Avenue
is spending ten days visiting in
Benton Harbor, Michigan.
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Mrs. Gladys Johnson of 492 st.
Anthony Avenue, entertained Fri
day morning, August 31st, at a
breakfast-bridge complimentary to
Mrs. Marvel Jackson Cook of New
York City. Sharing honors with
Mrs. Cook were Mrs. Ruth Hunter
Paige of st. Louis, Mrs. James
Hickman of Gary, Indianas Mrs,
William Thornton of Chicago, and
Mrs. Johnnie Mae Fields Of Chi
cago, Other guests of the hostess
included Mesdames Lucille Weber
Mary Clark, Alyce Melker Taylor
and Beatrice Gibbs.
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Complimentary to Mrs. James
Hickman of Gary, Indiana, and
Mrs. William Thornton of Chicago,
Illinois, Mrs. Gladys Lewis Harris
of GIT Fuller Avenue, entertained
at dinner Tuesday evening, Sep
TENDER 4.
Milford chronicle., 1934-10-26
HALLOWEEN PERFORMANCES

To Young America. Halloween is
one of the great days of the year
Al that time the glorious feeling
comes over him. that laws are sus-
pended for the time being. The
.wearisome and oppressive system OF
regulation, by which his conduct is
controlled at other times by stern
parents and local government, is
lifted for the moment.
All these repressions of his daily
life weigh heavily on youth. He
constantly desires to show his power
by breaking or destroying some
thing, but always he runs up against
this strict discipline which the older
world forces on him..
But at Halloween, there is cele-
brated annually a kind of Declara-
ton of independence for youth. He
feels that at last he is given free
rein to work out his desires. Not
merely that. but the Halloween
spirit has often seized him days or
weeks in advance of that occasion,
and on many previous evenings he
has roamed the neighborhood, pull
ing door-bells and performing tricks
dear to his heart.
The American people have much
sympathy with youth, sometimes a
little too much. So they do not
restrain these activities very much,
except where they result in serious
damage. So they have long toler-
ated minor tricks like rapping
violently on window panes. over
turning porch chairs. and rafting
blinds. But when it comes to |
punching holes through window !
screens and doing things that cost
real money to repair. the adult
world frequently decides that Young
America is not yet ready for full
When il comes to false fire alarms,
bOnfires that endanger property. or
other serious mischief, Young Amer
lea needs to realize that there are
limits to liberty. Some boys have
begun careers of crime by excessive
rOwdyism at Halloween.
Milford chronicle., 1934-10-26
THE HALLOWEEN JOKE

The world has a way of taking
the solemn things of life and turn
ing them into joke. So with the
Halloween celebration. 1t was orig
inally observed as the night before
All Saints day. when the Christian
church was supposed to pay honors
to martyrs and other historic per-
sOnages. ..
But 10 and behold, this time when
these spirits were once supposed to
be lowering near us, has become
the occasion for countless games
and pastimes Of youth, and the time
when the kid element celebrates by
topping over ash barrels and rum
ming off with gates. The tendency
to make joke out of everything is
not wholly wrong. But If the kid
world carries its Halloween joy so
far that Father has to settle a size
able bill next day, there are likely
to be exercises not too joyful for
youth.
Milford chronicle., 1934-10-26
THE MODERN PATRIOT

A plea for patriotic education OF
youth was made in a recent address
by Mrs. r. W. Magma, president gen.
eral of the Daughters of the Ameri-
can Revolution. What is patriotic
education, anyway, and what shall
we teach our children to conform
with this ideal?
The old idea of patriotism was that
il means willingness to fight for the
country, and support it in time Of
war. But the worst enemies which
the American people have to fear
now are not any foreign foe.
The foes against which our coun-
try must struggle are mostly at
home. They consist of ignorance,
dishonesty, selfishness. vice indif-
ference to the public welfare. Most
of us are guilty of these things at
| times. In a sense we are all foes
of our country, in so far as we mani
fest such tendencies. To make a
good country, we have to fight our
own neglects, our own errors, our
own selfishness.
1t is just as important for the boy
and girl to learn to fight these foes
of the nation, as to learn to do arith-
metic examples and speak gram
matically. We shall never get a
good country, until we throw dis
honesty, ignorance. selfishness, in
difference, out of our lives. So long
as people have those traits which
corrupt politics and business, so
long our country is in danger from
internal foes.
To be a modern patriot. the youth
must be inspired to higher ideals of
daily living. He must be taught
to scorn dishonesty, as the canker
that corrupts the nation. He must
be taught to be a good citizen, to
cheerfully his time and |
money to the public welfare.
Milford chronicle., 1934-10-26
GOVERNMENT BY TERROR

In many countries, including the
United States, are found small
groups of people who contemplate
direful deeds of assassination. They
seek to attack the worlds rulers,
in their desperate attempt to alter
human society. The killing of King
Alexander of Jugoslavia and Minis
ter Barthou OF France is said to be
due to the activities of such group.
Most fanatics are simply harm
less. They explode violently in con-
versation, they call on the people to
rise and overturn governments, but
they never do violent things them
selves. If there was any real fight
ing to be done, they would watch
it from some good safe place.
The world is full of sorrow and
distress, and it is not strange that
the hearts of many become sour and
bitter. Some minds dwell on
thoughts of vengeance. A few of
them cherish the dream that If this
o. that high parsonage could be re-
moved, by some miracle of govern
ment all the wrongs and miseries
from which people suffer could be
done away.
But the miseries of the people in
countries where there are any real
democratic systems. are not due
principally to rulers and govern
ments. They are due to the mis-
takes of the people, the prevalence
of dishonesty, human selfisbness and
indifference. vice and ignorance.
These various disturbances and
turmoils can be considered to be a
part of the vast backwash of the
World War. That terrific struggle
left the nations impoverished. When
poverty rules, bitterness grows. Some
people who lack self control begin
to explode. and commit acts that
would not occur in a happier time.
Milford chronicle., 1934-10-26
ENDURING SILENCE

Admiral Byrd has been taken back
by :airplane to Little America, from
his advanced Antarctic outpost
where he spent months in solitary
combat with paralyzing forces OF
cold and storm. He will have much
to tell of how it feels to be alone
for months, and sick part of the
time, in the worlds most desolate
spot.
The stinging bite of the cold
must have been hard to bear. But
the lack of any human presence,
and the CHASTITY silence of his sur
roundings, must have been worse.
People complain of noise, but abb
solute silence is worse. Noise speaks
of activity. of things being done.
Silence speaks only the language of
death. Few people can stand it for
even few days.
Milford chronicle., 1934-10-26
WORKERS IN THE HOME

Why is it that through the recent
period of unemployment, jobs for
workers in homes have been much
more common than those in stores
and ships?
II you ask some unemployed young
woman, why she does not geek such a
position, which perhaps could be
had in her home town or some not
distant city, she would often say
that the girls who do housework are
not as rule so well treated as those
in shops and stores. Whatever the
reason, housework is not popular
with the modern young woman.
Some opinions on this subject
were expressed at the recent annual
meeting of the Association of Gov
ernment Labor Officials. 1t was
claimed that the American housewife
as a rule requires long hours of labor
and pays poor wages and provides
unfavorable working conditions.
Some people will doubt this view of
the wages paid. The real wages
paid such a household worker in
clude not merely the cash payment,
but sthe free board and room which
the household worker receives if she
lives in the home. If the value of
this board and lodging is added to
the cash wages, the total usually
averages higher than that earned by
workers.
Many women who employ one or
more household workers, expect too
long hours of service. You can't
expect such an employe to be very
If she has to work so
to 20 hours a week, while the fac
tory or store worker is employed
only 40 to 48 hours.
Many housewives realize that this
is wrong and give their helpers
rooms now. But there
are probably many others who do
not. No family should be happy, If |
It's helper is shivering or baking in
some too cramped little quarters.
Milford chronicle., 1934-10-26
WHERE ARE THE GHOSTsY

Years ago a favorite evening di
version was the telling of ghosi
stories. The lights would be turned
low to give kind of spirit atmos.
phere. The Pickering fire on the
hearth was often the only light, and
its weird reflection made the audi
tcrs feel creepy.
The narrator would tell the tale
in grisly tones. When it was COM
pleted, the hearers would look over
their shoulders apprehensively, half
expecting to see some sheeted form
appear in the semi-darkness. In
those days many people dared not
pass any cemetery at night. Towns
usually had some haunted house,
some old dwelling which was rented
only with great difficulty, since it
was supposed to be haunted by some
restless spirit who fingered near
the scene of his old sorrows. Stories
of returning spirits and other super
natural occurrences figured largely
in novels.
The attention given to these tales
was an indication that many people
believed in them. They were ready,
if queer noises happened about
house. to attribute them to ghosts.
instead of such natural causes as
Tapping blinds or the signing of
tine wind through cracks in the roof.
Today the ghosts seem to have
faded out. If there are any haunted
houses, it is doubtful if the owners
have any trouble in renting them.
The young people no longer dread |
the cemetery, and they considered |
it nice secluded place for their |
amorous manifestations. And il is |
many years since anybody has told
us any ghost story.
The present age is skeptical. II
has gotten rid of many baseless SUI
perstitions. But in abolishing the
ghosts, it may have abolished other
hings that are just as real as sun
shine. We can't explain everything
II terms of science.
Milford chronicle., 1934-10-26
HOME STUDY

Are school children burning up too
much nervous energy in home study?
Complaints are heard from parents
in many places. that too much home
work is required
Our guess would be that more
children are hurt by late hours at
parties, and too much loafing around
the streets. If you let up on home
study, they may go in for things that
hurt them still more. Perhaps some
nervous children should be given
easier lessons. But it ordinarily
takes about a dozen years to COM
plete grammar and high school
course, and it would not seem as il
the average child was doing it in
too short a time.
Milford chronicle., 1934-10-26
THE RATS OF THE DARK

The organized underworld ha
been gaining in impudence an
power. Where formerly 1t slinke
steadily through the streets of grea
cities, now it openly defies law an,
order. 1t sweeps through banks an,
carries out thousands in loot, l
swoops down on payroll vehicles lik,
Indians on the old frontier outposts
shoots down honest citizens as 4
they were wild beasts.
Shall we put this power down, oil
will it draw in such vast army Of
brutal men that the forces of Law
will be powerless against it?
A national conference has been
called by the Federal attorney-gen-
eral, to meet at Washington, Decem-
ber 10th, to consider causes and
prevention of crime. Let us hope
this December meeting will lead to
some new movement that shall take
these rats of the dark, and give
them the treatment they deserve.
Organizing the war on crime is
like forming a great army. Every
section of the fighting force needs
to be strengthened. The weaknesses
in the law need reinforcement. Po-
lice forces must have better equip
ment and freedom from politics. The
schools and clubs must help divert
youth from criminal thoughts.
So long as so many children have
poor homes, many boys will turn
to crime as the means by which
they think they can get money.
Crime will continue until these boys
are shown that they destroy their
own happiness by so doing. Thirty
talk with a boy when he
taxes his first step in crime, may
accomplish more than a 80 year
sentence when his character is
hardened.
We must look after our boys when
they commit their first criminal act.
We have hospitals for peoples
bodies. We need more hospitals for |
minds infected by diseased ideas.
Milford chronicle., 1934-10-26
YOUTHS STARTLING PROJECTS

At a quite early age now, the boys
and girls invent ambitious projects
which seem full of hope and excite
ment, and demand parental ap-
prevail Son conceives a desire to
hitchhike to some distant city and
find work. Or he wants to go out
selling things on the road.
Such ambitions are often prompt
ed by some clash or collision at
home or school. If the boy doesn't
get his lessons, and the teacher finds
fault, or IL he stays out too late to
the parties, and the parents order
him to get home earlier, disgust
often settles over his thought. He
feels himself a man at the age of
10 or IA, and he feels old enough to
manage his own affairs.
Daughter may be full of ambition
to take some prolonged journey. to
go to some distant city. perhaps to
Hollywood to get into the pictures.
She too feels the old folks are too
slow. and that they fail to UNDER
stand modern life and are not will
ing to allow young ambition to make
its way in the world.
1t is often true that parents fail
to give young people a chance to
do things they might. The young
sters are tremendously full of ener-
gy, and ought to have some oppor-
tunity to show their own initiative.
They can do some things that the
previous generation could not do,
even at much more advanced age.
So it does not do much good to
oppose everything that the young
Milford chronicle., 1934-10-26

The American people carry around
a burden of loss due to accidents. It
was brought out at the meeting of
the American College Of Surgeons,
that 10000 people were killed in
accidents last year, while $500, 900
were injured. It is a terrible rec
ord, principally due to forms of
carelessness.
Reckless automobile driving
leaves a trail of helpless victims
groaning by the roads. Carelessness
in working places leaves a grim
army of injured people behind. A
part of our cost of living goes to
pay compensation for the people
thus hurt. Many a family which is
on relief today, got there because
the breadwinner was hurt in an ac-
cident.
Milford chronicle., 1934-10-26

people suggest unless you make
some kind of counter suggestion. If
they want to do things they can't
do, think up some thing they can
do, wnich is within their reach, and
let them try it out. That will quiet
their restlessness. and there will
not be so much chance of getting
into some experience of failure or
possibly disgrace.
Milford chronicle., 1934-10-26

THE REPUBLICAN PARTY in
Sussex County has nominated men
of integrity and ability for each of
the six county offices. These men
were selected carefully for their fit
ness for the office-and each is well
qualified to administer efficiently
the office for which he was nomi-
mated. For Levy Court, George c.
Bishop has been placed on the bal
lot. Without question, Mr.. Bishop is
one of the outstanding candidates
ever TO aspire to the office. He is the
choice of all factions and his cleo
ton will place on the administra-
tive body of Sussex County man
we'll equipped for the job. His cha
acter is above reproach and his bus
mess ability is not to be questioned.
In the case of the Republican can
didate for Levy Court it is that of
the office seeking the man-not the
man seeking the office.
Francis +. Morgan. Republican
candidate for Clerk of the Peace, is
one of the most progressive and
successful agriculturists in the
county. A graduate of Cornell Uni
versity. he is properly educated and
fitted for this very important office.
Robert J. Clendaniel. candidate
for Sheriff, has large farm and tim
her interests. He is bank director
and is well and favorably known in
all parts of Sussex county Such a
man is needed in the Sheriff's Office.
James E. Lloyd. who halls from
the western part of the county,
seeks the election to the office of
Recorder of Deeds. He has the eX-
ecutive ability to administer the af-
fairs of the Office without question.
For Register of Wills, John Lind
en- Barr is the nominee. Another |
case of a man who can fill the office |
and for Coroner, Charles II. Lock-
wood has been named.
With conditions getting better
daily, the Republicans in Sussex
have every confidence of electing
their full county ticket by an over
majority. The ticket is
made up of capable men who voters
of all faiths may safely support.
Milford chronicle., 1934-10-26
SUSSEX COUNTY

THE CAMPAIGN in Delaware is
how at its height Both major par
ties are holding meetings nightly al
which the issues confronting the
voters are discussed. Never i'll years
has there been such interest during
an "off-year" campaign. Democratic
spellbinders in their campaign are
raising the issue of stand by the
President" and State issues are
passed lightly over. If ever matters
of State interest were at stake, the
problems confronting the common
wealth now certainly would indi-
cate that right now is the time to
consider State affairs.
If the Democratic cry of stand
by the President" is right nationally,
then the Republican party has every
right to demand a legislature which
will "stand by our Governor" No
right thinking man or woman wants
such a legislative body as that of
the last General Assembly. Prob
lens of vital interest to every citi-
zen of Delaware will be brought be-
fore the legislators when they con-
vene January 1st. at Dover The
State Administration is Republican
and Republican controlled Senate
IL. tr AtNt tn
to work in harmony with Governor
Buck to the end that methods for
the proper administration of State
affairs may be formulated and en-
acted into law A Democratically
controlled Senate or House can, and
if past acts are criterion by which
to judge. would create strife and
retard any program presented by
the Administration,
The Republican party has pre-
sented to the voters of Delaware /.
candidates for both the Senate and /
the House of Representatives who I
are capable to cope with the prob
lens to come before them-and who
will work in harmony with Governor
Buck and his associates.
In the First Representative Dis
trict in Sussex County. which COM
prises Milford, Lincoln and Ellen
dale as we'll as the outlying terri
tory, Lawrence Warren is the Re-
publican candidate for Representa-
tive. Mr.. Warren is young man
of outstanding ability. His charac-
ter is above reproach. and he will
his district with honor
when he takes his place in the
House. In the Tenth Representa-
tive District in Kent County, DIR.
Willard R. Pierce is the Republican
candidate for Representative. DR..
Fierce, while new in the political
ield, is a man of sterling character
ind is well able to consider care
ully all matters presented in the
Jouse of Representatives His eIec-
ion is of real Importance to his
district, and voters of all parties !
will do we'll to support him on No t
ember 9Th.
DR.. Samuel Marshall, Republican
andidate for State Senator in the t
irst Senatorial District in Sussex il
'ounty, like DR.. Pierce, is a new t
Milford chronicle., 1934-10-26

THE FELLOW who doesn't ask
any girl to marry him, will probably
remain single, and the store that
doesn't ask patronage through ad-
vertising, will probably have to get
along without wedding Miss Success.