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Milford chronicle., 1934-03-30
Milford, Friday, March 20, 1894
ORIGINS OF EASTER

The Easter celebration that Gre
ates such a picture of poetic beauty
and spiritual thought. appears Ia
have had two sources of origin. The
thought comes first from ancient
pagan customs, from the happiness
which people have always felt when
the chills of winter have passed,
and nature begins her great act OF
revival. The sun rising ever higher
and higher, the signs of reviving
nature. give people new hope and
joy. For unnumbered centuries
they have manifested their salts
faction in frOlicsOme spirit.
The churchly origins of Easter
come closer to us today. All over
the land the day is celebrated as a
glorions commemoratiOn of the sur
vival of Jesus after his passage
through the shadOwed valley. Really
these two thoughts are closely al
lied.
As nature goes through a period
of apparent death. when no sign OF
life appears. and then it bursts forth
into leaf and bloom and fruitfulness,
so it is the Christian belief that
Jesus similarly went through the
sleep of death. and then rose again,
and that aspiring souls will also pass
serenely through the dark river.
The dead vegetation of winter and
its revival in spring. are Il suggeS-
tion that we must not take those
appearances of death too seriously.
Beneath the appearance there is
the reality of life and indefinite
frnitfulness again.
II would seem most strange, II
the power that made the universe
had created such wonderful thing
as human personality. and should
then let it die forever in the grave
thus throwing away all its wisdom
and experience as valueless. Eas-
Ter teaches MS that that can not be
accented as the true conception OF
nur career amid these shadows.
Milford chronicle., 1934-03-30
BISHOPVMLE


Washington Long Of Fairview,
N. j., and sister. Mrs. Jasen Hudson
of Philadelphia were weekend
guests OF their parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Luther Long OF near town.
James Il. Hudson and Mrs. Alfred
Nelson are on the sick list.
Mr.. and Mrs. Marvin Evans OF
near town and Mr.. and Mrs. Charlie
Townsend Of Friendship we're Sum
day guests of Mr.. and Mrs. James
LOughrey.
Miss Lydia Mae Ringler was the
weekend guest of Misses Thelma
and Hazel Cropper.
George Edward Hudson Of near
Frankford is spending awhile with
his aunt, Mrs. Ethel Godfrey.
Mrs. Ida Moore who has been
spending some time with her sister.
Mrs. Matte Flggs, OF Snow Hill, re-
turned home aturday.
Mrs. Horace Lynch was an all-day
guest of her son. Mr.. and Mrs. w.
f. Bunting of Selblville. on Thurs
day.
Miss Nell Ringler and friend, Ed
weekend guests Of her mother. Mrs.
Lydia Ringler.
Edward Lee McCabe OF near town
was weekend gnest Of Carlton
Moore.
Mrs. Timothy Hudson was a Sun
day guest of Mr.. and Mrs. George
Hudson at Selbyville.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Hudson and
children Of Milliamsville. Del, Mrs.
Bob Smith and daughter Lucille.
were Sunday night guests of Mrs.
Alfred Nelson.
Milford chronicle., 1934-03-30
POPULATION GROWTH
STOPPED2

Is the United States going to stoI
growing? According to the Scrippi
Foundation for Research in popu
latiOn problems. the recent popula
tion growth has been smaller thar
In any year since 1870. The predic'
tion is made that il population
growth keeps on declining In similar
proposition. sue hgrowth will stoT
about 1910.
In former years, the American
people boasted nightly of their
rapid and constant population
growth. When the census showed
that the country had grown Is or
more per cent in the previous 10
years. they threw np their hats and
shouted. The faster the country
grew. the louder people hollered.
Such growth in numbers seemed a
proof of the greatness of the United
States. and its superiority to the
effete nations OF Europe. which
dragged along year after year with
about the same number OF people.
But as time has gone, il is per-
ceived that population growth alone
does not produce welfare or pros
perity. The more population. the
more mouths there are to feed, and
the more complicated our machinery
of industry and business becomes.
We have had more people here re-
Gently than We could find work for.
We have stopped welcoming every
immigrant who asks to come to our
shores as glorious addition to our
people. The idea that Uncle Sam
Is rich enough to give everybody a
farm" the joyful welcome cry of
former years. is no longer heard.
The country is well populated now. \
and can get along without more peo-
pie. There are enough folks here
now to carry on every conceivable
We do not need any more
man power. What we need more is |
brain power, that will organize that /
man power. and find something use
ful for every one To do.
Milford chronicle., 1934-03-30
AMERICAN FREEDOM

Will the United States become an.
other of those countries where daily
life is ruled by infiexible masters al
the heads OF government, as it is in
Russia and some other countries?
A strange illustration of such
domination has Just been given in
Russia. where the heads of the gov
ernment have been 'purging" the
communist party ranks. The Com
munist party, under the Russian
dictatorship. consists of about g.
10000 people, and no other politi-
cal party is permitted to exist in
that land of l50,OO0,OOO people. The
members of that party hold all po-
sitions of power and influence. Re
Gently a searching examination has
been conducted into the political ac-
tivlties and the personal and private
lives of all members of this party.
About 100000 of them have been
thrown out as unworthy.
1t is absolutely certain. however
that nothing of the kind would ever
be tolerated in the United States. The
American people cling TO their per
sonal freedom. They will go hungry
and suffering privatiOn, if they can
be permitted to do as they like. They
see hope so long as they have free
dom. But even il they were well
fed and comfortably housed under
regime of despOtic control. they
would look at themselves as slaves
and they would not stand it.
You cant put collar on the
American man and woman, and lead
hem around with string. as peo-
1le are led around in countries like
Russia. If the American cant put
lis feet where ne wants them, he
It least knows that he can kick, ana
lis flying heels have demolished
many an obstruction thai troubled
lin.
Milford chronicle., 1934-03-30
RURAL DISTRICTS LOOSEN UP

Retail sales Of stores in January
in the rural districts were As per
cent ahead of last year. according
to U. S. Department of Commerce
figures. The figures OF February
and March will probably show even
better comparisons. This is the
best kind OF news. Forty-five per
cent is a tremendous gain. faster
than even the most hopeful 'anticl-
pated.
Money conditions are ioOsening up
in the country towns. They have
been the hardest hit. and many Of
them have seen almost no real
money for several years Many Of
them have lived largely by barter.
swapping farm stuff for store goods.
Now that they see the color Of
Uncle Sans money again, 1t means
that the tide is rising. and rising
fast.
Milford chronicle., 1934-03-30
LONG HOURS OF LABOR! YES.

Many people demand a six hour
working day and some think it
should be possible soon to reduce
the work period to three or four
hours. Meanwhile the head of the
nation. Franklin d. Roosevelt, be-
gins his days work at $50 in the
morning, and he rarely quits before
midnight. And probably he has to
do a lot of work on Sunday. Many
people consider themselves abused
If they have to work half that time.
When people are keenly interest
ed in their job, and take satisfaction
in doing it the best they can, long
hours of labor do not hurt them so
much as some may think.
Milford chronicle., 1934-03-30
HOME TOWN THOUGHTS

The question is often asked, of
such and such a town, Does that
place have a future?" It all de-
pends on whether it has present
of pushing activity.
Advertising is the much consulted
gnideboard that shows the people
the road to the best bargains.
Milford chronicle., 1934-03-30
Blessed Are the Meek

Here's one name on the commit
tee that I never heard OF"
"Oh, that's probably the person
who actually does the work. Trap
pers Magazine.
Milford chronicle., 1934-03-30

EVERY COMMUNITY has plenty
of energy with which things can be
done. but usually that energy is not
organized and directed as II should
be.
Milford chronicle., 1934-03-30

LEST we forget" said the poet.
But the store. that advertises is not
forgotten.
Milford chronicle., 1934-03-30

Europe's one prayer seems to be:
Forgive us our debts"
Milford chronicle., 1934-03-30
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Evening star., 1934-01-08
SALE OF 1894 MOTOR
TAGS NORMAL AGAIN
Assistant Traffic Director Says
Tardy Purchasers of Plates
Are Few.

M o. Eldridge, assistant director of
traffic. today reported the business of
selling 1884 automobile license plates
practically back to normal" He said
there were a few stragglers, but that
evidently the great bulk Of motorists
had secured their tags before the dead
line at midnight Saturday night.
Promptly at that deadline, policemen
throughout the city had started picking
up motorists still displaying 1888 tags.
and Is in all were rounded up. They
were called upon to put up S. collat-
eral each.
Inspector B. A. Lamb, in charge of
the Trafhc Bureau, said he had been
on the lookout for 1888 tags this morn
ing. but as far as he could see all the
cars on the streets had been equipped
with new plates. The Traffic Bureau
officers made only two arrests for driv-
ing with dead" tags.
Approximately 112,300 sets Of plates
have been issued, of which 5000 were
sold after January l. The registrations
exceeded those Of 1893 by about 4.ooo'
Evening star., 1934-01-08
SECOND SET OF OLD MARKERS
IS MISSING FROM ARLINGTON

and before the Arlington mansion. In
similar fashion, such markers have
been placed in many other Civil War
cemeteries.
Each bore some portion Of the verse
that made the author famous:
"On fame's eternal camping ground,
Their silent tents are spread
And glory guards with solemn round
The bivouac Of the dead"
Mai. O'Hara served as q Confederate
officer during the Civil War and died
in 1867.
Secretary H. P Caemmerer of the
Fine Arts Commission said today he
understood the Grand Army Of the Re-
public has made a request for an ap-
preparation from Congress to have Gen.
Logan's Memorial day order engraved
on marble marker within the Arling-
ton Amphitheater, where the annual
Memorial day exercises are held. Such
q monument or marker would take the
place of the small iron markers which
formerly we're scattered about the cem-
etery.
Mr.. Caemmerer said It was necessary
to remove the two types Of markers
from the immediate vicinity Of Arling-
ton House, since they did not conform
to the plans for its restoration.
The markers also had been set up
within the mansion itself during the
years when it was used as an office.
At the War Department today 1t was
doubted whether any Of the markers
would be restored. This Is q matter,
however, which Mr.. Douglass intends to
take up with Senator Alben Barkley of
Kentucky.
Evening star., 1934-01-08
JANUARY DELINQUENT TAX
SALE STARTS TOMORROW
80, 900 Pieces of Property Involved
Upon Which $1,OOO,OOO in
Levies Is Unpaid.

The annual January sale of parcels
Of real estate, for non-payment of
taxes during the preceding year, will be
started at 10 am. tomorrow in the
Office of the collector of taxes, at the
District Building.
Collector Chatham M. Towers said
today final figures had not been COM
piled. but it was reported recently that
nearly 3O,0O0 pieces of property would
be involved, and that approximately
S1,000,000 in taxes was subject to the
sale. Since the legal notices of the
sale were published in December, how
ever, a large number of property own
ers have paid up delinquent assess
ments. Those who pay before the sale
begins will have their properties taken
from the list. 1t is expected a large
number of the properties will have to
be bought in by the District, since the
operations of professional tax brokers
have been drastically curtailed since
the beginning of the depression.
Evening star., 1934-01-08
BUSINESS SURVEY
TO SHOW PROGRESS
.|ND.C. UNDERN.R.A.
Early Reports Show In.
creaSes During Last Month,
Walter Says.
RETURN OF u. S. PAY CUT
CONSIDERED IMPORTANT
Request That Recovery Agency Be
Made Permanent Included in
Requests Received.

In a survey similar to one made in
connection with employment here few
weeks ago, the District N r. A. organi-
zation Saturday began an extensive
study Of the progress of business under
the various codes adopted for retail
trades.
The local N. r. A. is endeavoring to
find out Just how successful, IF it is
successful" the N. r. A. has been In the
various fields of business and industry,
Maj. Raymond j. Walter of the Bureau
of Information and Compliance here
said today.
More than 100 letters we're sent out
Saturday to leading retail establish
ments in Washington, listing several
questions regarding business trends.
were asked to contrast the December
status Of their businesses with the cor
responding month OF year ago.
Satisfactory Reports.
Although it is too early to judge the
results OF this survey, Maj. Walter
revealed that IS of the 100 letters re-
turned today point to a satisfactory
report Twelve of the replies, he said.
stated business increased during last
month over December. 1882. The in
creases ran all the way up to Is per
cent. Only three stores reported de-
creases, and these were slight.
Emphatic demand for return OF the
Government pay cut as factor OF
importance in recovery in the District
was contained in many of the replies
received today.
In reply to a question. What Is
your general reaction to the N. r. A.
and constructive criticism?" several
pointed out that restoration Of the
Government pay cut Is essential II
Washington is to be treated fairly and
is to keep up with the rest of the
country along the road to recovery.
Industrial centers. they pointed out,
are being asked to restore pay cuts,
and in cases where this is being done,
recovery is given impetus.
Employment Figures.
Other suggestions included one that
the N. r. A. be made a permanent
organization.
The previous survey conducted by
Maj. Walters Office revealed that more
than $4,000 unemployed had been put
back to work in the District as a result
Of increased employment made avail
able by the shorter working hours pro-
vided in industrial recovery codes.
Five hundred questionnaires sent out
at that time brought the information
that 1000 men were put to work in the
firms queried The 10000 figure was
arrived at by an analysis of figures
obtained during the survey and COM
pairing them with the situation before
the N. r. A.
Evening star., 1934-01-08
TWO GAS MANAGERS
LOSE $50 IN HOLD UPS
Numerous Minor Disorders Re-
ported to Police-Taxi Drivers
Are Robbed.

Numerous minor disorders over the
week end were being investigated to-
day by District police.
Kirk Morgan, manager Of a gasoline
station at BladenSburg road and Chan
ming street, northeast was trussed up
with ropes and left on the floor of the
station after three white men had
robbed him of S25, he reported to police.
Police reports show that another en-
ploye of the same station was similarly
robbed a week ago.
Carol H. Douglas, attendant of
gas station at 49 Massachusetts avenue
told police an unidentified white man
forced him at the point of a gun to
give up SIS.
Wilford S. Hall, taxicab driver, said
two colored men employed him to make
trip and then took his cab and 50 and
fled. However, Hall told police. be en-
tered another car and gave chase. The
colored men, he said, crashed his taxi
cab into a parked car and escaped.
Another taxicab driver, Bertrill Ivey
Of 212 S street, reported to police that
three colored men engaged his cab, stole
what cash he had, $3.50, and fed.
Evening star., 1934-01-08

Inquiries made today into protests
against the removal of the last of the
familiar "Bivouac of the Dead" markers
from Arlington National Cemetary de-
veloped. the additional information that
similar markers reciting Gen. John A.
Logan's famous order No. IL, establish
ing Memorial day, also are no longer
in place.
The Fine Arts Commission six years
ago ordered the removal Of both types
of markers. the reason being that they
did not flt into the plans for land
scaping and the restoration of Aring-
ton House to its original state before
the Civil War. Attention to the re-
moval. however, was not directed until
today, when it developed that William
Boone Douglass, president Of the
American Order Of Pioneers, had re-
ceived complaints from Kentucky that
the last of the "Bivouac Of the Dead"
markers had been taken from the cem-
etery several weeks ago. This marker,
it was said at the War Department,
probably was one that had been over
looked in 1927 when the Fine Arts
Commission ordered their removal.
The interest of the KentuckianS Is
based on the reason that the author
Of the "Bivouac Of the Dead" was Maj.
Theodore O'Hara Of Danville, KY. The
verses were penned in memory of
Kentuckians killed in the battle of
Buena Vista during the Mexican War, in
which O'Hara served. Famous for
many years, the verses Of this poem
were used on markers scattered along
the driveways in Arlington Cemetery
Evening star., 1934-01-08

pointed out. "The principle involved
would have prevented compromise.
Also, no one would have assumed re-
sponsibility for presuming that repeal
was certain"
Liquor "of Worst Quality"
Only the boldneSs Of President Roose-
velt in setting up the Federal Alcohol
Control Committee has saved the coun-
try from "a truly appalling situation, ="
he declared. Even with the committee
functioning, however, the liquor trade
Is giving every indication that it has
forgotten nothing and learned nothing, !"
he added.
The liquor trade, he charged, is not
only demanding large profits, but is
marketing liquors 'of the worst quality"
I'm the local community" he asserted,
"it is bringing back the saloon and
standing out against every principle OF
decent regulation.
I'VE must educate, of course, but that
is not all. We must hold every inch OF
dry territory we can and win back
what we lose as soon as majority senti-
ment is with us. We must insist that
the liquor trade be prohibited from edu-
eating the people to drink, and, above
all. we must support the principle OF
Federal control. Already we are being
approached by men and women OF great
influence, who assure us OF their sup
port in every demand short Of prohibi-
ton, and who say that If regulation
fails, they will join us in asking return
Of the prohibition policy to the Nation" !"
Evening star., 1934-01-08
USE Of SURPLUS
FUNDS IN DISTRICT
TO Be DISCUSSED
Donovan Expected to BE In
structed to Draft Esti-
mates for Bureau.
ALLEN APPROVES PLAN
ANNOUNCED BY HAZEF
Four Improvements Listed for Half
of $5,4OO, 1000 Fund in
Treasury.

Plans for the use of about half Of
an expected surplus of S5,400,000 in
District revenues during the next fiscal
year for four long-delayed municipal
improvements will be considered by the
Commissioners tomorrow.
1t is expected the Commissioners
will at once direct Maj. Daniel ]. DON
ovan, auditor and budget officer, 70
draft supplemental estimates to be sub
mitted soon to the Budget Bureau.
Commissioner George E. Allen today
voiced approval Of the general plans
to this end. announced Saturday noon
by Commissioner Melvin C. Hazen.
president of the board. The matter
had been discussed informally last week
by the Commissioners.
Decision to plan the four improve
ments was reached definitely by Com
missioner HaZen after calculations
showed that if the 1885 District budget
were passed as it now stands, there
would be piled up in the United States
Treasury sum of about SIS, 400 900,
exclusive of estimated revenues which
would result from legalization of sale
of hard liquor in the District. This is
estima ted conservatively at between
S785, 900 and 100000.
The four items cited specifically by
Hazen were about S2.000,000 to start
construction of the first unit of the
Municipal Center; 100000 for expan-
sion of the walled" group of buildings
at the District Reformatory at Lorton,
Va; s18O000 for completion of the
projected Anacostia Junior High School,
for which an initial construction sp-
preparation has been provided, and
$4,000 for purchase Of additional land
needed for the site of the new jefferson
Junior High School Building, for which
construction funds have been appro-
priated by Congress.
Representative Thomas l.. Blanton of
Texas. ranking Democrat on the sub
committee to draft the District appro-
prlation bill, said today he would sup
port Commissioner Hazen's proposal if
it is approved by the Budget Bureau.
Evening star., 1934-01-08
NEW VALUE IS SET
FOR GAS COMPANY.
Rosters Introduces Figure of
$23,645,158, Using
1892 Dollars"
A new evaluation figure of s23,645,-

A new evaluation figure of s23,645,-
158 for the Washington and George
town gas light companies was intro
duced this afternoon by Stuart F..
Rosters, company expert witness. In
PRODUCTION of the figure precipitated a
legal argument which Is expected to
occupy the rest OF the afternoon Ses-
sion.
The figure, Rosters said, represents
the original cost of the properties ex-
pressed in terms Of 1882 dollars. The
original cost, he had previously testi-
fed, Is SIS, 1886 ,594.
Assistant Corporation Counsel VIII
liam A. Roberts objected to translating
this figure into 1882 dollars as IAN
iniquitous method" and strenuously
urged the public utilities commission
not to allow 1t in the case.
Stoddard M. Stevens, jr., company
counsel, said the method was one which
is coming into use in many jurisdic-
tions and would be eminently fair for
the commission to consider in connec-
ton with other evidence of value.
Assistant Corporation Counsel Will
liam A. Roberts today began his cross
examination on Rosters inclusion of an
item of s1,038,47 in the working capi-
tai account representing the companies
investment in gas stoves and other ap-
pIances.
The working capital is supposed TO
represent the amount of stockholders
money which must be put into the
business to carry it until money begins
coming In from customers. The idea,
in spite Of its simplicity. has led the
cross-examination in the very rarified
atmosphere of higher mathematics
One question from the record runs:
If you took, Mr.. Rosters, the total
lag Of the average customer from the
average date of rendition of service, the
1921 day Of the average month. and
the time when the customer pays,
which would be the 45.79th day later,
and express that in dollar days by the
multiplication of the daily average
times the total operating expenses for
the month, and deducted from it the
dollar days represented by credit ex-
tended by others from the first day of
the average month to the time when
the company pays for the product
would you not obtain an amount OF
money which would represent the ag-
gregate amount of the investment by
the stockholders"
Mr.. Rosters thought the question
over a moment and answered:
mo"