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Milford chronicle., 1935-09-20
RVERYBODY'S SHARE

In a factory, everyone has a part
to perform, and the product will be
faulty unless each particular func-
tion is fulfilled. No process can be
spared.
II is the same in a community.
Everyone has something which he
must contribute if the life of the
community is to avoid serious fail
ings. ANY person who works faith
fully in his occupation does contrib
ute a good deal. But the people who
just work at their occupations, and
do very little else. are not doing the
things the community expects of
them. The community asks them to
cooperate in securing good govern
ment, to keep their home places at
tractive, to join community organ
izations and assist with good causes.
If these functions are not fulfilled,
the result is like the factory where
some of the processes are omitted.
Milford chronicle., 1935-09-20
SOCIAL CREDIT

No end Of fancy schemes have been
suggested for producing universal
prosperity. One Of them is to be
tried out in the Canadian province OF
Alberta. 1t goes by the name Of so
cial credit" Every adult citizen is
given credit of s25 per month in
the form Of blank checks, which he
has to spend within a year. Children
have smaller amounts.
The advocates of this plan claim
it will provide the bare necessities
OF life, and relieve poverty and put
money in circulation.
The people will have to provide
this credit through some form of
taxation. This taxation will raise
the price of goods, which will tend
to check purchases.
Those who regard work as a pain
full experience will not hustle any
harder with this easy money coming
in. So the skeptics and doubters will
say this is merely another rainbow,
with no pot of gold at the end.
Milford chronicle., 1935-09-20
sTORY 0F THR FAIRS


What are the origin and history
of the many hundreds Of agricultural
fairs held all over the country? They
seem to be an offshoot Of the ancient
fairs which have been held for CEN
turtles in European centers. People
came from long distances to these
events, to sell all kinds of products,
and to supply their needs for
months in advance. 1t has been
estimated that three such fairs, held
three times a year in Germany, have
sold as much as $5O,OOO,OOO worth of
merchandise in a year.
American fairs have been a diff
ferent type, held principally to adj
vertise fine farm products, and en-
couraging farming and rural indus
try. Elkanah Watson, a leading
merchant of Albany, New York, is
reputed to have been the originator
of these fairs. 1t was largely
through his efforts that the New
York Legislature appropriated in
1919, the sum of $4,000 for each of
six years, for premiums for the best
agricultural and home products.
The offer so encouraged develop
nent of these arts, that such fairs |
spread all over the country, and be-
,ame a national force for improve
nent of country life.
The cattle shows have developed
nto a favorite rural holiday, where
he country folks gather for days of
Ollity, and to take their minds on
he pitchfork and the hoe. There the
mbitious politician can show wheth-
r he can get down to the grass roots
nd whether he really likes the man
Tho wears the OVeralls.
The advertising which a successful
lrmer gets when they tie the blue
ibbon to his fat cattle, is worth all
lie trouble and expense of exhibit
lg them. His heighbors admire his
Iccess, and try to initiate it, The
eople will always flock to see the
asults of skill and enterprise.
Milford chronicle., 1935-09-20
THE FALL LID

American men are somewhat inde-
pendent on clothes questions. They
have a way of wearing what they
want to, when they want to. But in
the matter of hats, they are regi-
mented according to regular sched-
ules. Few men defy the nearly uni
versal custom that sets dates in the
spring when the straw hat can be
put on, and in the fall when it
should come off.
The custom may be called illogi-
cal, for it permits a man to wear
his straw hat on a cold and shivery
day just before the bell rings, but
he can't wear it the day after, even
if the earth bakes as if in a super
furnace.
But it certainly helps the hat
trade, and the appearance Of the
male world, to have these regular
dates for putting 'em on and taking
'em off. Otherwise many men would
wear the battered old straw until
it would become a disgrace to the
ash can.
Milford chronicle., 1935-09-20
IepIore this resort d yIoIence.

deplore this resort TO violence.
If some political leader or high
official is assassinated. and his life
brought to an end by violent mans
bullet, the situation is not changed
very much. The voters who put in
power the man whose ideas created
this objection. would proceed to
elect some other man of the same
type.
The only way under our govern
ment of laws and freedom, to get
the kind of government we want, is
to use lawful methods and reason
able argument. Truth has a way Of
prevailing in the end. II a mans
policies and ideas are mistaken, the
people can be shown that they are
erroneous. The bullet solves no
problems, even If 1t is successful. 1t
creates plague Of new problems
that have to be dealt with.
Milford chronicle., 1935-09-20
HOW TO STOP WAR

The American people want to keer
out of the war that theratens over in
Europe, but there are sharp differ
ehees of opinion as to how to do So
The majority idea is to keep en-
tirely aloof from it, and avoid any
policies that could tie us up with
either party. But a good many in
fiuential folks hold to the idea there
is a better way. They feel that if a
few leading nations should unite to
insist that there be no fighting, ma
tiOns that contemplate war would de-
eide not to start anything.
They feel that if the United States
and Great Britain, for instance, hav-
ing the two strongest navies in the
world, should put their foot down,
and say positively that Italy must
not start war with Ethiopia, those
nations would keep the peace.
But if the United States once start
ed on that idea, it would not be
enough to put up any bluff. 1t would
not be enough to threaten cutting off
trade with an offending power. The
countries that attempted any such
thing, would have to be prepared to
use military force. They would have
tc talk turkey" and say they would |
fight any nation that started war.
If that policy were followed, soon
sr or later the United States would
get into a war. It tried that sort of
hing in 1917 and 1918. and the re-
ults were not so good.
Even if the United States, England,
nd France. thus determined to fight
ny country that started a way, they
hight not be able to stop fighting.
tally, Germany, and Japan are
mong the nations that are dissatis-
ed with existing conditions, and
ley might fight back. 1t would be
mother World War all over again,
nd the world cant stand it.
Milford chronicle., 1935-09-20
MODERN yPINNEIls

The newspaper humorist remarks
that the modern girl adores spinning
wheels, but she wants four Of them
and a spare. She can spin her spin
ming wheels much faster than the
old-time lady could
To which the modern girl will re-
ply, that there is no sense in spin
ming on oid-time spinning wheel,
when the factory machine can do it
in a few seconds Of time. Her spin
ming automobile wheels, she says,
keep her in touch with the modern
world, and help her make friends.
But there is such a thing as spinning
our modern wheels too fast. Also 1t
makes a difference who is spinning
them with daughter. Sometimes they
spin too fast on the down hill road.
Milford chronicle., 1935-09-20
TRAINED TO BE CITIZENS

A program of training for citizen.
ship is to be made prominent in the
work of the Girl Scout national or
ganization for the coming year. The
enthusiasm of these fine girls is
needed, to help save our country
from the evils that follow neglect of
citizenship.
We may bring up our young peo-
pie with all the learning of a scien-
tist, and all the gifts of an opera
singer or dramatic star. But if they
can't get out on election day and vote
for the right candidates, if they don't
read the newspapers and know who
the right candidates are, our country
is headed for a long slide down the
hill. 'Rah for the Girl Scouts, who
will help us in the campaign for
better country!
Milford chronicle., 1935-09-20
DEAD WEIGHT

In figuring transportation, you
have to consider the dead weight.
In a railroad train is carrying many
empty cars, it is going to be losing
game to transport freight or passen-
gers on that train. The empty cars
are costly dead weight.
There are people in our cOmmuni-
ties who also are dead weight. They
receive power from the forces that
made the town and keep it going.
But they do not contribute power Of
their own. They do not cooperate
with the people who are trying to
accomplish progress, but are just
dead weights that have to be pulled
over the road by those having real
energy.
Milford chronicle., 1935-09-20
Milford, Friday, September 20, 1885

WE QUOTE FROM the $4,000 wore
bill passed recently by Congress Civ
ing AAA control of potatoes. One
section reads: "All potatoes har'
vested after December i, 1885, and
sold in the United States, shall be
packed in closed and marked con-
tainers to which shall be attached
tax stamps or tax exemption
stamps"
This provision applies to the first
sale" that is, the original sale made
by a farmer To put it concretely'
the farmer must handle potatoes
somewhat as a cigar manufacturer
handles cigars, packing them in such
containers as the government may
prescribe, and affixing a government
stamp to each container.
But here is the paragraph when
ought to give new insight as to the
extent to which the New Dealers
propose to go, in controlling the pur-
suits and actions of the citizenry.
Read.
ANY person who knowingly sells !
or offers for sale, or knowingly Of
fers to buy, or buys, potatoes not
packed as Required by this title, or
any person who knowingly sells or |
offers for sale, or who knowingly Of
fers to buy, or buys, potatoes, to the
packages of which are not affixed,
stamps, shall upon conviction there
of be fined not more than $1,000.
ANY person convicted of a second !
offense may, in addition to such fine,
be imprisoned for not more than one
year.
1t Immediately will be observed |
that not only will it be a crime to
sell, or offer for sale, potatoes not
packed or stamped according to law;
it will be a crime to buy or to offer
to buy any potatoes not so packed .
or stamped.
When the VOlstead Act was being
prepared, there were those who
wanted to make it criminal act to
buy bootleg liquor. Others counseled
against such a move, holding that
the people would rebel against a pro-
vision of the kind.
1t has taken the New Deal, with
all its boasting about personal lib {
erty, to put through a law subject /
ing to a heavy fine and imprison- J
ment any citizen who might buy a t
pack of potatoes that were not
raised with the consent of the AAA.
Milford chronicle., 1935-09-20

PEOPLE WHO THINK they save
money by buying goods out OF town,
keep losing money through helping
to deprive their home town If its
resources, but failure to advertise
by a local merchant is to blame.
Milford chronicle., 1935-09-20

WE BELIEVE it will be a long
time before the people Of this cOun-
try will follow the leadership Of the
theorists and college economists in
to government ownership for Amer
ica.
Milford chronicle., 1935-09-20

THE TOWN WHERE the people
always say that somebody else" will
do the things that need to be done.
is the place where these things are
not done.
Milford chronicle., 1935-09-20

SIX MILLION PIGS destroyed by
the Roosevelt New Dealers didn't go
to market, and about a quarter mil
lion mamma pigs were sent to
slaughter by the same set of govern
mental AAA tinkerers to keep baby
pigs from coming along to increase
the pork supply.
A dispatch from Washington, dated
August 10, states that "hams and
picked pork products from Germany,
Poland and Canada have been climb
ing over tariff walls in the wake of
the rise in domestic hog price"
For the first six months of the
year pork imports have amounted to
S,0779S4 pounds-pork that should
have been produced and sold by
American farmers.
Milford chronicle., 1935-09-20

THE OLD TIMERS worked twice
as hard as people do now. but they
could always find time to grow flow
ers around their home places.
Milford chronicle., 1935-09-20

TO TEACH PUPILS in a school,
you must win their attention, and to
teach people to buy your goods, you
must attract their attention by ad-
Vertising.
Milford chronicle., 1935-09-20

THE SAGE of Three Rivers de-
clares that woman can never claim
equality with man until she wears
shoes that don't hurt her feet.
Milford chronicle., 1935-09-20

A SOUTHERN EVANGELIST says
the road hog is a sinner. There's
one thing about that. he don't have
to wait for the hereafter to be pretty
thoroughly damned.
Milford chronicle., 1935-09-20

IF THE PEOPLE of town will
not stand up for it and praise its
merits, is there anybody else who
will?
Milford chronicle., 1935-09-20

IN EVERY business, old customers
are frequently dropping out for some
reason or other. Advertising brings
in new ones to take their places.
Milford chronicle., 1935-09-20

IF YOU WANT to see business
move toward your store. speak up
by advertising. and tell why it should
do so.
Milford chronicle., 1935-09-20

IF YOU MUST use a hammer
build a house.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-12
CHRySLER LOSES IN
ENGLISH LAW CASE
S194,587 Awarded Arnold
de la Poer and Suffolk Co.
By Unitcd Press

By UNitcd Press
LONDON, Nov. 12.-Damages
totaling f39, 500 ($194,580 were
awarded against the Chrysler Motor
interests today in what was called
the De La Poer damage suit one of
the costliest on record and the long
est one for years.
Mr.. Justice Atkinson, in the Kings
bench division of the high courts,
awarded the damages to Arnold De
La Poer, former managing director
of the British Chrysler Co., and the
Suffolk Investment Co.
The plaintiffs complained that in
1928 Walter Chrysler and his asso-
ciates forced them by threats and
Misrepresentation to sell their
Chrysler shares at less than their
value to the Chrysler Export Co. De
La Poer claimed damages for loss of
salary as managing director
Justice Atkinson awarded De La
Poer f3, 500 ($17,242). To the Suffolk
Investment Co. he awarded $4,000
(S177 ,345). In each case interest Is
to be paid at per cent year from
March l, 1928
G. M. LomaX, one of the defend
ants, was dismissed from the case.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-12
PORKERS SHOW
UNEVEN TREND
Lights, UnderWeights Are
Around 5 to 10 Cents
Higher: Others Lower.

Despite sharp increase in le-
ceipts, a tWo-Way trading range de-
veloped in the hog market at the
indianapolis Union Stockyards to-
day. Light grades and underweights
moved around to 10 cents higher.
while all other classes were mostly
cents lower.
The sharp gain in receipts, how
ever, was Offset somewhat by light
supplies reported at the II sur
rounding livestock markets in this
district. Demand continued fairly
strong in face of the heavy supply
which was estimated at 5000, COM
pared with only 1000 erday,
This resulted in the moderate in
crease in the lightweight division.
Holdovers numbered 106
The general bulk of 100 to 225
pounds, sold at $9.65 to 1915, while
medium heavy butcher classes,
ranging from 225 to 300 pounds.
brought $3.50 to $500 Heaviest
grades, weighing from 300 pounds
and upward, cashed in at 1920 to
$940. Lightweights, from 100 to
100 pounds. sold at 50 to $3.50.
Packing sows brought So to S8.75.
With hardly enough trading done
in the cattle market to set a definite
trend, undertone was slightly lower
and all bids were around IS cents
off. A liberal supply Of beef steers
was on hand, Receipts numbered
200. Veals remained unchanged.
The bulk of good and choice grades
sold at $1,000 to S11. Receipts
were 600.
Lambs we're generally 25 cents
higher than yesterdays best aver
age, due mostly to limited supplies.
The bulk of better grade eve and
wether classes sold at $3.50 to SO .25.
Bucks were discounted from so cents
to 81. Slaughter sheep, after yester-
days sharp advance, sold at S275
to $4.57. Receipts were 1900.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-12
FACTORY PRODUCTION
INDEX MOVES UPWARD
Increase Attributed to a Slightly
Higher Price Level.
By Times Special


NEW YORK, Nov. 12.-The index
Of the value of factory output rose
from 1913 in August to 741 in Sep
tember due not only to the gain IN
the quantity produced but also to
a slightly higher price level, accord
ing to the Alexander Hamilton In
stitute. The value index in Sep
TENDER was 305 per cent higher
than in the same month last year.
AS in previous months, the value
of factory output in September was
VII in excess Of this years normal
demand. This is indicated by the
fact that the estimated 1885 farm
income index is 646 per cent and
farm income is a measuring rod for
the normal demand for factory
goods.
While over-expansion during the
first nine months foreshadoWs some
curtailment during the last quarter.
the outlook is that such curtailment
will not be sufficient to correct much
of the excess, especially since there
is no evidence yet that a recession
has started.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-12
On Commission ROlU

Quotations below subject to change are
average wholesale prices being offered TO
BUYERS by local commission dealers.
Fruit Cranberries, early blacks 25-lb
bUshcl, 81 IS; Avocados. Florida. box, s. So
Cantaloupe California Honey DewS. S225
Casabas S225; PerSians, S22 Bananas
II hands, a pound ) &c. PerslmmonS-ln-
diana l2-qt case, 81 Approximation
Jonathans 81 25dl35 Summer Rambos
81; Delicious 81 So WealthyS ST. Grimes
Golden. Sl.35 Lemons-SunkiSt. 360S SIS
Florida seedless. $375 Limes-Mexican a
carton l2s, zoe; Persian Seedless a hum
drcd So
Vegetables Beans. green. round string
less bu 50 25 BeetS-Home grown, doZ..
2Oc. Cabbage Northern Danish, 50-lb. bag.
SSc. Carrots-Home grown, 35c, new bulk,
half bu COO Cauhhower- Michigan,
Celery Michigan. washed and trimmed,
cumbcrS-Hothouse , doz box. 50 IS.
Kale- Home grown. bu COO. Lettuce-1ce-
berg. California. best SIS; home grown leaf.
15-lb. basket Sil0 Endive-Ohio basket
50 SOFAS IS small basket. 4oc Mint-Doz,
SOC Mustard-Home grown bu, soc.
OnionS-Indiana yellow 5O-lb bag, 90c;
Indiana yellow l0-lb bag. zoe. western
Spanish 50-lb bag Sl.40 ParSley-Home
grown do7 35c PeaS-Telephone. ham
perS. So Potatoes Round Cobblers 100
ID. bag 81 IS Michigan Round White. 100
Ii bag. 81 SO. Early Ohios hu.. 81 65.
Idsho Rpssets, 50 40. Sweet potatoesao,Iln-
buttons. doz baskets. 45c. SaGe-Doa..
45c Spinach Broad leaf bu CSC Squash
Blu 7Sc Turnips-New California, re-
packed. lo-lb carton, Sl25.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-12
EXPECTS SHARP GAIN
IN INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITY
Standard Statistics Co. Forecasts
New High for November.
Times SpCcid!

NEW YORK, Nov. 12.-Current
indications are that aggregate in
dustrial activity will attain higher
levels in November than for any
month this year, the Standard Sta
tistics Co. announced today. The
index of production Tor the month
is forecast at 746.
This figure compares with the
estimate for October of TOT. With
the exception of July, 1888, when
the initiation boom carried the in
deX to TIA, productive activity in
November will be the highest since
May, 1881, the report stated.
The expectations of d sharp ad-
vance in the index this month are
based upon; /. A prospective sub
stantial increase in automobile as
semblies. 2. Generally improved
operations in many of the con-
sumers' good industries. 3, Rela-
tive stability in the capital goods
industries. 4. The fact that pro-
duction normally declines during
the month.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-12

modern homes for low-wage work
erS.
More than 5000 people are leav-
ing their homes here on the sites Of
two Federal housing projects. The
great majority of them realize they
are moving to make way for prog
ress and they are pleased with the
idea
MuSty Landmarks Doomed
They know the government is
spending S6,20000O to stamp out
unhealthful tenements and I'M
slightly old buildings. Some seem
to feel a pang at the doom of musty
landmarks and cobWebbed memen-
toes of the nineteenth century. But
they have been told of modern
apartments to be erected where ram
shackle buildings now stand.
Present tenants or others will be
able to return to comfortable and
convenient quarters soon.
Here are typical reactions of peo-
pie moving from the Lauderdale
SecIlOn, a z0-dCfe trdCC De4ng cleared
to make way for homes for 694 low
income white families:
Tenants Move Cheerfully
Mrs. Sue Hampton, who has lived
in the l00-year-old Titus Building
for 10 years: I am glad to bow to
progress by moving. When old
buildings like this are eliminated,
the government will have performed
wonderful service"
Mrs. N. l.. Hilbert, 70; II am q
little old to begin moving, but
don't mind if it means a more COM
Portable home later"
In the Poplar section, a 39-acre
tract being cleared for Negro homes.
Max Lazar, white operator of dry
goods store, said:
Il hate to leave here where I
have a good business, but it will be
better, The people will get along
better and they will trade with me
at my new location"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-12
SURVEY SHOWS
NATION INCOME
HIGHER IN 1884
American PubIiC'S Earnings
Total S48,561,O 100000
for Year.
By JnftCd Press

81 United Prose
WASHINGTON. Nov. 2.-The
American publc'S income rose to
S46.56l 100000 in 1884 from S39.545.-
100000 in the bottom depression
year of 1882, the Department of
Commerce said today in its Novem-
Der survey Of business.
The e'lrvey showed the public
earned a record income Of S6l.O34.-
100000 in 1929. III 1880 it fell 30
S67,917000,000; in 1881 to S5350A
100000 and in 1882 to S39. 545. 900. -
600; it recovered to 1889 900 in
933 and s48, 1861 100000 in 1884.
lie declines in incomes produced
IN private industries from 1929 TO
he low for the depression. the sur
vey said varied from 80 per cent
in the electric light and power and
manufactured gas industry to 50 per
cent in the construction industry.
The gains from the depression lows
to 1884 were also highly variable.
Agriculture Shows GAIN
From 1882 to 1884 agriculture
showed a gain in income produced
Of 81 per cent, mining registered
an increase of rs per cent and man.
ufacturing showed a rise of "a per
cent. Income produced in the ag-
rlcultural industry increased from 33
per cent Of the 1929 level in 1882
to 81 per cent in 1884.
This co mn mn mn rico ~ 80
tional income resulted in a lessen
ing draft on business resources to
maintain wage, salary, dividend and
other expenses. From a combined
loss of S8,817 100000 in 1882. busi-
ness was able to reduce its deficit to
$685. 100000 by 1884
Among the reasons cited for in
creased national income in 1894 were
increased business activity, higher
commodity prices and heavy gov
ernment expenditures for relief and
public works.
Construction OFF
The government in 1929 paid out
6,805 100000, which was increased
to 1881 100000 by 1884 The work.
relief program accounted for ST. 389.-
100000 in 1884, against nothing in
1929. =
The construction industry MS
the major exception to the tenden-
cieS for those industries which had
shown the largest declines to rec
ord the largest subsequent gains.
Income produced by the construc-
ton industry in 1884, although high
er than in 1888. was less than one
fourth as large as in 1929.
For all government agencies. in
Guiding those providing work-relief.
the levels of income payments to
individuals increased in each year
subsequent to 1929" the report said.
From 1929 to 1884 the gain was
% per cent, with work relief pro-
grams included. and 3 per cent when
they are excluded"