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Milford chronicle., 1936-01-24
Farmers Are Organising

An analysis last week showed
that che industrialists who decided
in New York recently 70 work for a
constructive farm program" knew
something about the problems
which vex the farmer.
Their pledge was contained IN a
resolution adopted unanimously by
the Congress Of American Indus
try, attended BY nearly 1900 manu-
facturera. More significant, though,
was the makeup Of the committee
which presented the resolution.
Forty-seVen men we're on the
committee. OF that number, more
than one-third--16, TO be exact
either were born on farms or work
ed on them. At least three more
now own farms and know the size
Of the deficits In recent years.
The resolution recognized ''the
economic unity and interdepend-
ence Of agriculture and industry"
It continued:
"The one produces wealth on the
land. The other produces 1t in the
factory and mine. Each is vital to
the other and to national progress
and it Is essential that work and
investment in agriculture and in in
dustry earn a comparable reward
for the same effort and risk"
The industrialists emphasized a
desire TO cooperate more closely
with agriculture for the develop
ment Of a greater degree Of national I
And to show that they
mean business, they suggested that
the National Association Of Manu-
facturefs name a committee to
study various faFm-aid proposals
and to keep industry informed about |
The committee will be |
named soon.
Milford chronicle., 1936-01-24
according 70 Plan2

President Roosevelt Is quoted BY
press dispatches IS stating recently
at Charleffon, South Carolina, we
are coming back more soundly than
ever before because we planned
that way. Don't let anybody tell you
differently
As we remember It, things Ii the
Industrial and commercial world
weren't so hot when planned econo-
my as typiied BY the NRA was IN
the saddle. Then all at once the Su-
prenie Court rendered its very im-
portant decision and the Blue Eagle
fiew out the window.
Strangely enough business began
to pick up the day after the NRA
was nulliiied ana It has apparently
been getting betters ever since.
Things didn't "go TO pot" as the
New Dealers predicted.
We are glad to know that things
are getting better because the ad-
planned them that way.
Perhaps Il. even planned the SUI
preme Court NRA decision to clear
the path for the reconstruction that
followed, who knows?
OF course with the national def
cit growing three billions year
and the national debt more than
thirty billions for the first time in
history, the statement that I'VE are
coming back more soundly than ev-
sr before" is at least open to argu-
N. Y, Standard.
Milford chronicle., 1936-01-24
MORE DILLIONs ASKED FOR

Representatives of the cities have
put in requests to Congress for an
additional relief appropriation of
s2,34O.OOO, 900 for the unemployed af-
ter July /. Which doesn't look as if
the Federal budget will be balanced
very soon.
The government asks the cities to
take care Of their needy people so
far as they are able. The cities and
towns would probably do it for a
good deal less money, if they had
to pay for it out of their own funds.
But after people have had help from
the Federal government, it comes
hard TO get the money out of their
own city taxes. If the government
has to borrow this money, eventually
all the people will have to pay for it.
Milford chronicle., 1936-01-24
PRESIDE EDUCATION

Much used to be said about life
around the "ireside." It was con-
ceived that the family gathered be-
fore the fire on the hearth. where
Father explained news events to the
children, and Ma gave them counsel
about their daily conduct.
The neighbors dropped in to talk
over affairs in the home town and
the government. The freside con-
verse was not all serious, as mighty
games of high-low-jack, euchre, and
dominoes were played. Social life
and opportunities for pleasure are
far greater today than our parents
enjoyed t,.t
But il IS doubtful II the people Of
today have as clear an idea of what
is going on in the, world. The long
evenings Of the winter of 1886 win
not be wen spent unless we have
taken time BY, the flreside to look out
into the world through the windows
which the newspapers and magazines
giVe-uB.
Milford chronicle., 1936-01-24

LEADS TO INJUSTICE

Much of the public feeling against
utility holding companies stems
from a lack of understanding Of the
essential services that good holding
companies can and do perform-ser-
vices that make for higher standards
of efficiency and economy in oper-
ating utility companies. and that
thus directly benefit the users of
power and gas.
First, the holding company, by Of
fering investors diversity of risk, can
obtain funds for building and ex-
panding plants, especially those in
rural areas, where individual COM
panies would find this difficult or
impossible. Even in normal times,
business may go into a decline in
one part of the country while it pros
pers in another. A holding company
interested in plants in widely sep
arated areas, is consequently better
able to maintain a steady income for
security-hOldefs in the face OF nor
NAL business deviatiOns.
Second, the holding company can
proVide operating utilities with tech
hASNA anu GubAAcGiiuB btINlGtb VI u
class they might not be able to OBJ
tain for themselves. This is particu-
larly important in the case OF cleo
trio plants in small towns. which
have a relatively small volume of
business and can not afford the best
engineers and other experts. When
such a plant is associated with a
holding company, it can obtain ex-
Derts as able and distinguished as
those who work for the largest utili-
ties.
Third. the holding company Is es-
sential to the development aud pre-
of inter-cOnneeted power
systems. By joining a dozen or
plants together, Interrupt
tiOn Of service is eliminated. II low
ers the cost Of operation of all the
plants by pooling resources. The
result is better service TO the con-
spmer, at a lower price.
No one has defense for the "rac- !
keteering" type Of holding company 1
in any line of endeavOr. But a grave |
injustice is done when the public I
the few "racketeers, with |
which perform note I
worthy and necessary services to the
American public.
Milford chronicle., 1936-01-24
If An individual Did
This He Would Be Fired

Here are some figures which the
AAA publicity experts made no ef-
fort to place before the farmers
when soliciting their support re-
Gently for continuation of the corn
hog program:
In 1888, before the AAA went into
effect, American farmers sold g.
775,0OO bushels Of corn abroad,
while this country imported only
10000 bushels.
In 1895, with AAA functioning,
American farmers will sell only O.
$4,000 bushels of corn abroad, but
the country will import 2O.427, 900
bushels from foreign farmers,
What is. true Of corn applies
equally well to many other agricul-
tural commodities, The figures on
meat products are particularly
striking.
The Administration has talked
lot about increasing foreign trade.
Apparently what it has. in mind is
increasing foreigners trade while
our own.
Il hardly seems necessary to-
dwell upon the seriousness Of sur
rendering our foreign markets. The
cotton farmer has received sub
stantial subsidies from AAA, but at
what ultimate cost? Brazil, Egypt
and India are stepping up their pro-
duction as rapidly as possible. Am
eriea's share of the world market /
has dwindled-and If the present |
New Deal experiments continue, in
a few years we shall sell no more
cotton to foreign countries.
In so far as some agricultural
are concerned. however
we are not only losing out in the
world markets, but are buying heav-
fly from foreign producers.
Among the promises of the Roos-
evelt Administration was the main
Ienance of Americas markets for
The American people But why speak
Of promises? MFR. Roosevelt made
many and broke most Of them. II a
private citizen did this he would he
through, whether he was the head
If a business or an employee. Yet
Mr. Roosevelt asks us to vote for
his reelection.
In the light OF his record and the
,eeord of his PROFESSIONAL advisers.
he claim of his Administration for
support makes a rapidly decreasing
appeal to American citizens. To ask I
or reelection is simply to ask the
-oter not to think for himself
Post-Gazette. '
Milford chronicle., 1936-01-24
MUSTC For THE KIDS

Twenty-Five years ago there were
900 public school music supervisors
in this country. Today there are
355,OOO of them. And apparently re-
cent hard times did not lead to the
abandonment of this work on any
big scale.
The American people have evident
ly concluded that the boy who is
footing a horn in a school band is
not standing on the sidewalk with
undesirable companions and planning
rowdy stunts. He may annoy the
neighbors a bit with his jazz, but
anyway they know he is not getting
into mischief. The girl who IS
twanging a fiddle or hitting the high
notes in the school chorus is not
spending all her time looking in the
mirror A singing nation is a conf
dent and achieving one.
Milford chronicle., 1936-01-24
EDUcATION ZOE THE MAssEs

4 EDUNAIAUN EUh The, NAMES
Dr. Tildsley. assistant superinten.
dent OF education III New York City
claims that $4,000 high school stu.
dents in that great city are not fitted
for the kind of education they get
In many other places, the feeling is
held by many that the kind Of edu-
cation given young people is not what
they need most.
Educators differ ON these points,
One authority says, give them good
practical stun. so they can use their
hands or make good appearance in
any business Office. Another au-
thority will say what they need is
something to make them think, and
that facts and rules are less impOr-
tant.
Young people can't all be run
through the same educational ma
chine, and turned out uniform, as if
they were so many boards for build
ing houses. The young person of
literary type can use a different kind
of education from the one who is
fitted to be a carpenter or a plumber.
There are three points of educa-
tion needed by every boy and girl in
Delaware. First, ability to handle
figures correctly. The boy who can't
add up a column without making
will find the world gyping
him at every turn.
Second, ability to write, spell, and
speak with a fair degree of correct
ness. While many very successful
people are deficient in this respect,
the young person who can't speak
Or write correctly has a hard time
in getting a job.
This. ability to read easily. and in
lerest in reading. If q child is not
in reading. if he cares
nothing about what is going on, if he
has no desire for information, he is |
not going far in this world. The /
printed page is the door to all ad-
Milford chronicle., 1936-01-24
EDITORIAL COMMENT
From me PhlladeIphla InQaiTer


Anyhow. Mr.. Mirgenthau Is prob
ably the most worried Secretary oi
the Treasury since Alexander Hamil.
ton.
A millionaire few from Los An
geles to New York in 95s hours. The
California Chambers of Commerce
are surprised that anyone should
wish to do such a thing.
The New Deal seems to have been
given the gong by Major Polls.
The net result of the Nye investi-
CATION of the Morgans was the dis
closure that grOuse-shoOting and the
air in Scotland are wonderful.
aes
A New Deal Congressman has
called Al Smith a Republican. We
are glad TO note this reversal Of their
usual custom of hurting derogatory
epithets.
A burglar broke into a delicates-
sen store and devOured nine cans of
sardines, several boxes of soda
crackers, three links of bologna and
Il quart of buttermilk The theory
that the man was in search of food
seems tenable.
A scientist has discovered a way
to make a high-grade fertilizer from
used gas. He is said to be looking
forward hopefully TO the 1896 cam
paign as a source of raw material.
A Columbia senior has cOntrived
a non-ignOrable alarm which rings a |
bell, flashes a lamp in his face and
turns on the radio. Professors with |
S O'Clock classes still wonder. how
ever, why it is called the rising gen.
Grafton.
An editor claims to have diseOv-
cred n million-dOllar bank deposit /
which he had entirely forgotten. Au-
h0rities have recommended a period
II rest and quiet.
see
Some find il hard to mend their
ways because they neglect the stitch
n time.
An American missionary in India
las been stricken with distOmiOsis.
Doctors feel hopeful OF saving the
mans life if they can get him past
he fourth syllable.
CredulOus Tillie says she has al
says liked Benjamin Franklin for
lis admirable advice: Early to bed,
arly to rise. removes the dark cir
les from under the eyes"
e
During a recent chess match in
Detroit a bomb exploded and hurled
ne of the players through a door
'ay. His opponent complained that
wasn't his turn to move.
Milford chronicle., 1936-01-24
ADYERTIsING RRLIARLE

A New York dispatch tells how
Charles C. steeh organized force OF
workers to ask more than 5000 peo-
pie scattered through 21 states
whether they found newspaper ad-
vertising reliable.
Eighty-four per cent Of the people
thus questioned, said they got help
full ideas from newspaper advertising.
The answers from most of these per-
sons indicated that they have conf
dence in advertised goods. The rea-
son for this confidence should be
perfectly Obvious. Very few con-
Germs spend any money to advertise
goods. unless they feel sure those
goods win give satisfaction. and will
please the people who buy them.
Milford chronicle., 1936-01-24
Does Bladder Weakness
WAKE YOU UP2

Make this CSC test. Remove the cause
Use buchu leaves, juniper OIL etc, to
flush out excess acids and impurities
which causes irritation that results in
restless nights. burning. scanty flow,
frequent desire, or backaehe. Ask for
little green tablets called Bulets. the
bladder lax. They work on the bladder
similar to castor OH on the bowels. In
four days if not pleased any druggist
viii refund your 25c. Frank r. BreFe-
ton. Druggist. Milford Del. Sharp and
Fleming, Harrington. Del adv
Milford chronicle., 1936-01-24

+ FACT THAT A MAN SINGS 'Home
Sweet Home" very loud at the par
ties, does not prove he loves bis
home town enough to spend his mon-
ey there.
Milford chronicle., 1936-01-24

Time heals all scars-bnt you
can't make a woman believe this
when she discovers her first
wrinkle.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-02-24
Travellng Homes

Here is another angle to the housing problem that people haven't thought about. Millions of us hereafter may move around taking our homes with us. NO less Q business authority than Roger Bab- son suggests that time may come when half of American homes will be on wheels.
 These homes, 1t is expected, will be au- tomobile trailers, although there might be @ considerable development of rolling homes made by the expansion of truck bodies into living quarters. Conservative builders of trailers say they expect pro- duction of at least quarter of a million units this year, which could accommoo- date nearly a million people. w. }. Stout, motor and aeronautic engineer, says this type of construction is to be the next great opportunity for creating wealth.
 So here is another unsettling factor in American life. There may be wealth for manufacturers of motors and bodies m such a change as this, but what about social stability and steady earning power if millions get the gypsy habit and find It SO easy to indulge?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-02-24
Apprentice Schools

Industry and trade seems to be doing their share of training workers. An inquiry made by the National 1ndustrial Conference Board, covering about 2,oO0 important establishments in manufactur- ing, mining, transportation, communic!as- ton, wholesale and retail business, H. nance and public utilities, shows more than one.third of them training appren- tices for special lines of work
 Such instruction Is given especially in the metal working industries. In the mmachine and tool group for example, more than half the companies reporting have apprentice courses. This IS also true of the automobile, printing and publish ing Industries. Numerous companies also provide special training for forennen and executives. Several dozen report training schools for disabled employees to fit them again for earning Q living, thus redeeming what they can o fthe human wastage or industry.
 Public schools cooperate with many of these employers training establishments. So do employers associations and the feo- eral government. But the main burden seems to be carried by the employers themselves. It IS 0 good example Of hu' manitarianism on the part Of private enterprise, and policy which will bene' fit private enterprise itself
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-02-24
Albert C. Ritchie

Democrats all over the United States will mourn the death of Albert c. Ritchie, perennial governor of Maryland. This stalwart democrat was long leader or his party and only bare circumstance or two separated him on several oc. casions from his long-cherished afnni' ton, the presidency of the United States However. Governor Ritchie never even was accorded the democratic nomination for the presidency, although he was very much In the running at several con- ventions.
 As an exponent of the states rights theory of government he was outstafld' ing. He subscribed to Q Jeffersonian democracy and was It's loudest defender. Both in 1924, 1928 and 1882 he loomed as Q potential candidate. We rather think that the fact that he was not turned to ir the last year perhaps disappointed him, although he never turned away from his party, due to political setbacKs' He remained to the end democrat.
 We do not know what part he would have taken in the coming nominations and election. He was one of those demo- crats who could not see eye to eye With Roosevelt but we wonder If he would have opposed the latter's nomina- ton. He will always be, in this writer's estimation, shining star In the demo- cratic Armament He was 0 credit to the party and mores the pity that higher honors were not ilis He died at com' paratively young age, not yet 6o'
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-02-24

From our congressman-at-large comes the encouraging news that there seems to be Q splendid opportunity for CVA pro feet right now. Whether Representative CItron Is basing his belief on the recent Supreme Court ruling or has more in' formation than Is generally known IS a matter of conjecture In a recent public statement he said, T believe the courts IVA ruling affirms entirely the .prin- ciples advanced in my bill proposing Q Connecticut Valley authority to develop and beautify the valley. The decision should focus New England attention upon my measure and convince residents of the Connecticut valley they are as much entitled to such federal aid as other parts of the country. though from the beginning the IVA was constitutional and that my bill was similarly valid. "Of course, the more important details of a CVA project would be elimination of pol. lutlon and flood control, not electric power development, which Is what the IVA ruling was concerned with.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-02-24
Not Entirely Power

Every comment on the recent Supreme Court decision on the IVA has simply spoken of the project as If 1t conten- plated electric power development solely. As a matter of fact and to set everyone right on this matter the IVA IS concerned only slightly In the generation and dis. tributIon of electric power. The original thought was to do something about Muscle Shoals, the immense federal ni. trate plant in northern Alabama and southern Tennessee.
 From this was eventually worked out Q plan that would put Muscle Shoals in working order, aS well as control every inch of the Tennessee River and It's i'm. portant tributaries. The river Is one of those contrary ones which annually go on the rampage and cause immense property damage by overflowing banks, innundating lands, washing away valu. able top soils, and in general causing mischief. It was with the idea Of nak- ing the entire Tennessee River Valley liv' able and prosperous that the IVA was created. The sale of electric power, gen. erated at plants constructed at huge dams along the stream was simply side issue. Of course, many legislators, par- ticularly those favoring government oWn- ership of utilities, viewed the opportunity as a golden one. As consequence and due to the fear of the privately-owned utilities we had the suit to establish the constitutionality of the IVA. We think the Supreme Court rather convincingly did tfis But what the court actually did in this one case was to allow similar proj- ects to be developed. Regardless of power projects with Uncle Sam turning on the Juice it's flood control, soil erosion pre- vention, pollution elimination, land irri- gation which are the big things.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-02-24

Thomas jeiforson, third president of the United States, stood firmly for trust in tho sensible Judgment of tho eitiSonry. He credited them with ins teliigoneo. He frequently declared that ignorance could Do overcome by education. Ho wrote, you may TO. member, the Declaration Of tnde- pendonce which his fifty-hve eo- signors accepted, making only c few changes in jofforson's draft. Now, # on that memorable Fourth of July, i770, among those present In fndopendenco hall, Philadelphia, there had been included Lyman Dry- son, professor in this year of grace i030, at Teachers college, Colufl- bit university, New York, that docu- ment of democracy might have como down to us differently worded. He would probably have recommended changes in that manifesto into which, tho historian Trevelyai, says: He tJefferson) poured the soul Of c continent"
 Americans who like b feel that generations of school boys and girls, and eager foreign born pupils ct night schools, have 50 grasped the import of that declaration that itB spirit, # not the letter, has remained . vital part of them, are wrong. Tho document needs stepping down." to tho mentality of tho "nan on the street, the professor believes. Therefore Columbia's 6 Laboratory in Readabiiity" has 70. vamped 1t. So instead Of:
 We hold these truths to be seif-
 evident, that oil men are ere.
 ated equal, that they are on.
 lowed by their Creator with cer.
 tain unaiienable rights, that
 among these are Life, Liberty
 and the pursuit of Happiness, the laboratory does c cute little piece of paraphrasing:
 We believe that oil men are born equal. That God gave every
 man certain rights which no one
 can take away. That among
 these are the right to live, Do
 free and Do happy.
 We don't like the translation. A bit old-fashioned, perhaps, we cling to the opinion that digging through to the meaning of the origi- nal tongue is generally better disci- plane for the reader, and gets more lasting results, than the easy Tead- ing of translations. We are con- vinced that the majority of people prefer stepping up to stepping down And we suspect that, in the sheltered Columbia classroom, re-writers of the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-02-24
ssCornrnent
SHERWOOD ISLAND PARK
Bridgeport Telegram)

A meeting of the Connecticut
 Forest and Park associations in New
 Haven on Saturday went on record
 as favoring the early and complete
 establishment of the State park ct
 Sherwood's Island, Westport, as "a
 vital necessity to the citizens of Western Connecticut.
 This resolution concerning c park whose development has been under
 way for some years, and which hes
 been owned by the State for park
 purposes for more than 20 years,
 would seem surprising were 1t not for the fact that attacks upon the park keep cropping up from inter- ested sources.
 The last session of the Legislature tied the hands of the State Park
 commission by ordering the pur-
 chase of certain Sherwood Island real estate ct Q fixed price. The States program has been some what upset by Q court decision to the effect that some of this land may not be sold because of restrlc- tions in the title deed, unless the proper releases are obtained. It is to be hoped that the Legislature. once and for all, will give the State Park commission enough money to do the fob in its own way. Last ses- sionis order sounded very much Ike 6 real estate deal-as if the State Park commission were being colzl- manded to purchase land t did not