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Milford chronicle., 1937-07-23
STATESMEN SWEAT

Congress has been in session more
than six months. The record of work
done seems unimportant. The presi-
dent asks for certain laws, but many
OF the statesmen balk. Probably
they must do much sweating through
Washington's hot summer. The
frosts of autumn may be nipping the
gardens before they see the good old
home town.
Hot weather at Washington has
been considered helpful in getting
legislation passed. Some stiff back
bones have wilted down when the
thermometer was at 100. II the
statesmen are backed by adverse
sentiment at home, the quorum
necessary to do business has a way
o: melting out of sight.
Milford chronicle., 1937-07-23
PAIR BUsTNESS

The cornerstone has just been laid
a, Washington for magnificent new
building to be erected for the Federal
Trace Commission. The function OF
this commission is to prevent unfair
and monopolistic practices in busi-
ness. This is a difficult job. The
line between the fair and unfair is
very shadowy.
The following principles should be
considered essential in fair business.
First, to give people the worth of
their money. Second, to tell the
truth about goods. Third, to make
no attempt to ruin competitors.
Fourth. to avoid practices contrary
to public welfare. Corporations and
concerns that adhere to these princi-
pies should receive the public bene-
diction, and people should be glad
to buy their goods.
The people who fail to keep their
who sell shoddy goods
them to be first class, may
make sales for a time. The world
has a way of sizing them up, even
IL the Federal Trade Commission
never gets on their tracks.
Milford chronicle., 1937-07-23
RENTS TOO HIGH!

President Roosevelt says that rents
are too high in this country. and he
has ordered a government survey of
the means by which they can be
lowered. He notes that some fami-
lies pay half their income in rent.
The principal cause of high rents
is that it costs so much TO build
houses. High taxes also raise rents.
To get rents down to any general
scale. building costs and taxes will
both have to come down. Owners
won't put up houses to rent unless
they can get fair interest return on
their money. 1t is difficult to get it
on the present costs of construction.
repairs. and taxes.
Milford chronicle., 1937-07-23
CATERING TO TOURIST TRADE

The American people spend today
an enormous amount of money on
vacations and trips. 1t has become
a large item on the yearly budget
OF millions of families. Any town
can get some share of this expendi-
ture by reaching out for it.
This mass of summer roamers are
willing to pay good money for we'll
cooked meals and comfortable sleep
ing quarters. An appearance of
style and artistic taste helps win in
terest, but good cooking goes farther
than anything else. The housewife
who can produce good eats can make
a lot of money catering to tourists.
The people do not demand elegant
on their trips, but they
a place which shows the
constant work of broom and mop.
and offers them a smooth and soft
bed on which to rest their weary |
limbs.
Milford chronicle., 1937-07-23
FISHERMEN ASK FOR MORE FISH

The State of Minnesota during the
past four years. has planted more
than two and a half billion of fish
in its lakes and streams. A news
item like that makes the mouths of
the fishermen water. Many of them
will ask why that can not be done
in their home state.
Fish constitute perhaps the cheap
est food known to man. You don't
have to pay any money to feed them.
or to fertilize or cultivate the water
in which they grow. Just turn
pailful of fingerlings into some lake.
and in due time they grow up, and
the family thrive on them Fisher
men, with this fascinating sport to
take up their minds. rarely get into
Jail.
Milford chronicle., 1937-07-23
Milford, Friday, July %, 1887
VACATION sTAY.AT.HOMEs

There are millions of folks who
never get away from home on any
vacation or tourist trips. Can they
make the summer season pleasant
and beneficial?
While the tourists are exuberantly
stepping on the gas and hitting the
high spots of travel, they are not al
ways very happy. Some of them are
forever complaining. The bed was
SO hard that they tossed to and fro
all night. Or the eats were bad, and
their stomachs kicked about tough
beefsteak and water soaked pie-crust.
Most people are never quite as
comfortable as they are in their own
home bed, and eating the kind of
food they are used to at home. They
may be happier than those who are
shedding the dollars on some trip
the way a duck sheds the rain.
The sky overhead here in Milford
has just as heavenly a blue as it
has over Venice in Italy, or the
highlands of Scotland. The sunsets
are as glorious in Delaware as they
are in England or France. You can |
have as much fun enjoying the pic
mic seats and ball game within ten
miles of Milford as you can in any
sports the world can furnish you.
There is one thing you get at home
that you can't get elsewhere, and that
is friendship. If you go far from
home and put up at some nice hotel,
the guests look you over with cold
and appraising eye, and you might
not make any friends if you stayed
there a month. In your home town
you get smiles and handclasps every
day, and they are worth more than
grand buildings and superb monu-
ments. If you are ambitious for
and self improvement, the
world of newspapers and magazines
and hooks lis. easy ito lreach-in your
home town.
Milford chronicle., 1937-07-23
THE WORLDS BEST SELLER

Magazines and newspapers publish
lists of the best selling books. Mean
while people should not forget that
the best seller in all the worlds
books, is the Bible. That holy book
has now been translated into 1000
different languages.
II is considered a remarkable thing
when an ordinary book is so widely
popular that it is translated into
dozen or a score of foreign tongues.
What must be think of the power of
the Bible. when the people of 1000
tribes and nations can read It in
their own speech! Thus it pene-
trates into the worlds most remote
and savage lands. and offers wisdom
and counsel to all who can read the
printed word.
Milford chronicle., 1937-07-23
LasO Against Prosperity

| From good old Iowa comes some
sound advice In the shape of an edi.
torial In the Estherville News. II
says:
"The interstate commerce COM
mission of the U. s. Senate has re-
ported favorably ON a bill which
would limit the length of freight
trains to seventy cars. -.
1T Is claimed that long freight
trains constitute an accident threat
which ought to be dealt with by law.
But the Daily News is inclined to
agree with the railroads that there
isn't much to the argument. Anyone
ought to be able TO see that IL the
railroads are thus restricted they
will be forced to spend more money
to handle the same business. -.s
People were joking a few years
ago about freight trains being so
short. and wondered If ever again
they would be long and prosperous
looking. Truck competition and hard
times combined to make railroading
tuiH SOup.
Now Congress wants to throw a
tie on the track by telling the rail-
roads how many cars they can hitch
to locomotive. II seems more prop
erly a matter for science to deal
with. .
e.. We are inclined to believe |
that fewer and longer trains con-
stitute less accident hazard than
more trains and the greater possi-
bility of grade crossing collisions.
1T is just another example of the
trying to regulate pri-
vate business and injuring 1t. What
the country needs is more and ION
ger freight trains-more men at
work, more equipment purchased,
more of the prosperity which in
railroad business alone can
provide.
Whatever is done about freight
rains ought to be of nature which /.
would encourage cheaper and more
'fficient transportation rather than
avs which would interfere with SER
ice and increase costs"
Milford chronicle., 1937-07-23
WORRY MAY HURT TEETH

The American Dental Society was
told at its recent convention, that
worry, nagging, and the strain of
modern living may cause tooth decay.
Excessive emotions, it is held. may
upset the functions of the body, and
cause the teeth to deteriorate.
So when Ma complains that Pa
doesn't get in early enough nights.
he may retort that il she doesn't stop
nagging, he may have a bill to pay
for repaired teeth. Also when the
bill collectors chase after Mr.. Slow
pay, he may claim they will cause
him to lose that troublesome molar.
One difficulty with the situation is
that some easy going and always
postponing people need to worry
more. No anxiety they ever feel
seems likely to affect their grinders.
Milford chronicle., 1937-07-23
Selling Out the Indians

Fourteen Navajo Indians came to
Washington recently to tell the Gov
ernment about the wrongs of their
people. The expenses of these In
dians were paid by members of the
tribe In Arizona and New Mexico.
The visiting Indians lived quietly
and economically In Washington.
"Our reservation is overrun with In
dian service employees. Under
their administration our nation has
hit bottom in poverty" said one of
the Indians. I'VE don't get relief
work unless we support the Indian
Bureau policies" said another. THE
bureau agents discriminate in the
herd reduction program; some of us
are pawning our beads to get wool
because we haven't enough sheep"
Government officials listened as
usual. AS usual those Government
officials denied the authority Of the
Indians to represent their tribes
challenged the Indians, said they |
we're not telling the truth. The In |
dians plead for their people. Ameri- \
can Indians have been pleading and
protesting ever since the adventur-
ers followed Christopher Columbus.
The redskins have been fooled,
plundered and robbed by
civilized" white man for centuries.
The Indians have lost their lands,
imber and property rights in their
with the whites. The Gov
,rnment approved the logging con-
racts, and arranged the seizures Of
he Indian lands and properties.
Hhen Indians kick, and complain.
hey are usually "wrong"-wrong,
ven though they are usually right.
Alas, poor Lo, your whole race
GEMS to be washed up-down and
ut. It's too bad you are in the dis
ard. Your only consolation may be
Ound in the fact that there are a
Milford chronicle., 1937-07-23

and income, are no longer accurate
The next six months may be vital
ones, and will provide a partial ans
wer to some of tOday's unanswerabfe
questions.
10000
Some specific notes of interest fol-
low:
COST OF LIVING: In April. Ma
tional Industrial Conference Board
survey shows, cost of living was at
SS.3, well under the 1929 high of
101.1, and also well above the de-
preston low of 71.5.
EMPLOYMENT: In March, 1888,
best estimates put the unemployed
fetal at 100000. Now it is under
half that, about 100000.
COMMODITY PRICES: Rose
swiftly during the first part of the
year, then declined. AS the second
half opens, the general level is
about at the January figure.
AGRICULTURE: First half in
come for farmers was highest since
1880. ~
Milford chronicle., 1937-07-23
WIDESPREAD REPUTATIONS

Many business concerns obtain a
reputation that spreads far beyond
their own community and nearby
territory. If they have some special
ly good lines at low prices. and par
ticularly if they advertise those lines.
people come from long distance to
buy these attractive goods.
People will go a long distance to
find a real bargain. But the bar
gain has to be advertised. or they
won't know it exists.
Milford chronicle., 1937-07-23
REWARDS FOR EMPLOYMENT

In spite of the billions poured out
by the government to create work
for the unemployed, in spite of a
great revival of industry, there are
supposed to be some 100000 to s.
100000 people still out of work in this
country. Something must be wrong
with the methods hitherto adopted
to provide work for idle people.
The projects financed by the Fed
eral government, states, and cities,
have had value, and have provided
work for a great number of destitute
folks. Yet many of these projects
could not be called absolutely essen
tial to the public welfare. The pub
lie could get along if these things
were not provided. What is needed
is to so stimulate and revive employ
ment in ordinary industries, that
there will be jobs for all those who
are able to work.
Employment might be very much !
stimulated, if the government would !
pay bounty to such industries as !
succeed in largely increasing the |
number of workers in their employ.
If concern was paid a reasonable
amount for a limited time, for in
creasing the number on its payroll
10 per cent. 25 per cent. or some
other proportion, it would be great
Inducement to put ON more workers.
The farmers have been compen-
sated for handling their land in a
way that the government considered
helpful. Shipping lines are compen-
stated for running their ships at a
loss. II would not seem wholly in
consistent to compensate the manu-
facturers for employing more people
than they really need. Those who
feel hostile to corporations might
not like such an idea. but the men
and women put to work under such a
plan would not quarrel with that
form of bread and butter.
Milford chronicle., 1937-07-23

WHILE SOME FOLKS are dream
ing about lucky turns that will bring
them prosperity, but never getting
anywhere from these visions. others
are. creating prosperity by their own
hard work and intelligence.
Milford chronicle., 1937-07-23

BUSINESS GOES TO the town
that shows the most enterprise and
knowledge. If town is falling be-
hand in any respect. it must be at
fault in its plans for serving the
public.
Milford chronicle., 1937-07-23

SOME PEOPLE complain that
they are neglected and forgotten in
their home town.. The reason for
that is apt to be that they never
rendered any service Of which the
home town was conscious.
Milford chronicle., 1937-07-23

Some people allow refuse to collect
around their homes and remain there
week after week, and then complain
that it is impossible to keep a place
looking well in these times.
Milford chronicle., 1937-07-23

IF THE AUTOMOBILE industry
had not poured money lavishly into
advertising, automobiles would prob
ably cost twice what they do now.
Milford chronicle., 1937-07-23

PEOPLE ASK HOW they can get
more pay. The best way TO do that
is to help their employer make his
business more profitable.
Milford chronicle., 1937-07-23

greater number of whites than reds
In the nations down-and-out popu-
lation. Bat. the s.Indaans say they
Milford chronicle., 1937-07-23

we're here first. "But you are wreng
and that's all there is to II. Get
eut!" 50 - aN -
The Arizona gleam., 1937-10-29
SeIossie, As
Emperor. Sues
For $50, 900

LONDON, Eng, Oct. 20 (ANP)
The disputed right of Halle Sell
assie to retain the title Emperor
of Ethiopia was brought up last
Monday in Chancery Court when
the former ruler sued Cable and
Wireless for $4,000, claimed to be
due him under an agreement for
public Ethiopian-British wireless
service when he fled from Adds
Ababa. The company contends
that King Victor Emanuel of Italy
through conquest, is now sover-
eign of Ethiopia, Selassie's cause
of action thus vesting in the Ital-
ian Government.
Selassie's counsel maintains that
Continued on page A.
The Arizona gleam., 1937-10-29
Man Tries To
Sdve Another;
Both Killed

NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 20 =
(A.N.P)-Wesley Lewis, 40 years
old died a heroes death last Mon
day morning as he vainly tried
to save the life of his son-in law,
Walter Lemieux, 20. Both men
worked at the Celotex Company
plant at Marrero and were assign
ed to a big crane used to unload
freight cars.
At the time of the accident the
crane was being moved from one
end of the plant yard to the other,
with Lemieux walking at the rear
of the crane and helping to turn
it by prying with his crowbar be-
meath the wheels. AS the mach
inc turned, it suddenly came in
contact with a high-tension wire,
the steel frame of the crane COM
pleting the electric circuit and
sending the 1900 volts through
Lemieux' body. His father-in-law
Lewis, seeing his plight, ran to the
rescue, was also electrocuted as
he tried to free Lemieux' body,
frozen to the steel wheels. Other
workmen shouted to Wilfred Du-
fresno, operator of the crane, to
remain in the control cabin until
the power could be turned off. The
wooden floor on which he was
standing saved Dufresne. DR.. M
M. Odom, Jefferson parish coro-
ner investigated the tragic acci-
dent.
The Arizona gleam., 1937-10-29
u. $. Farm Expert Says New
Agricultural Prograna WI
Benefit Negro Formers

This will be of special interest
to the Negro farmers of the
Southern states. The payments,
in the main, will be divided be-
tween owner and tenant in the
proportion that they share in the
crops and soil-conserving prac-
tices carried out. In the case of
a sharecropper receiving half of
the cotton and carrying out half
of the soil-conserving practices,
his share of the agricultural pay
ment would be half. IF the share.
cropper should carry out all of
the soil-conserving practices, he
would get larger part Of the
payment in proportion. It is ex-
pected that the average share Of
the payment going to sharecrop-
.pers will be 1873 more than the
average under this years pro-
gram.
The Arizona gleam., 1937-10-29
Distinguished American Tenor
Passes Through Phoenix

Mr.. Luther King, of Cleveland,
Ohio, the distinguished American
Tenor passed through Phoenix en-
route to Prescott from the Pacific
coast. He will be presented in a
Recital in the Mile High City.
Authorities on music have this
to say about the singer: 'Mr.
Kings voice is of the most refined
quality, which he uses with rare
skill, and combines these values
with a very responsive musical
The Arizona gleam., 1937-10-29
SUSPECT in WHITE MAN MURDER FREED
Hint FRICTION BETWEEN
SHERIFF'S OFFICE AND
BIRMINGHAM POLICE

BIRMINGHAM, Oct. 29-(ANP)
Friction between the sheriff s
office and city police is given as
the real reason for the freedom
last week of Willie Myers, "a,
who had been charged with the
killing of Ben Montgomery, white,
on Sept. 20. Death sentences
have been carried out on less "evi-
dence" than that against Myers.
After the prisoner was freed
when Assistant Solicitor Robert
told Judge H. B. Aber-
nethy he believed it impossible for
Meyer to have committed the
crime, Deputy Sheriff c. B. Jones
declared there was no doubt in his
mind that Myers was actually the
slayer. He asserts Myers con-
fessed voluntarily and told some
things about the crime that none
but the killer would know.
The Arizona gleam., 1937-10-29
REPUBLIC Steel co.
MOVES NEGRO EMPLOYEES TO
FILL CIO STRIKERS PLACES

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, Oct. 20
(By S. S. Booker, Jr., for A.N.P.)'
Negro skilled workers are being
transferred here from the Repuap-
lie Steel Mills in Alabama to fill
the vacancies left by the CIO
sympathizing employees. For the
past month, the company has been
checking files and fully examin-
ing all foreign origin" workers
in an effort to postpone or fore
stall any future strikes.
Finding too few competent for
eigners, the mill heads determined
ID transfer Negroes here since
had no major part In tho
recent strike. Alabama Negroes
checked in lately and were assign
ed to jobs not frequently given
The Arizona gleam., 1937-10-29
Negro Study
Group Announces
AnnuuI Meet

WASHINGTON, D. c., Oct. 20
(By D. w. Chase for AMP The
Association for the Study Of Ne
gro Life and History announces
it's annual meeting which will be
held Oct. 81, Nov. 1 and 2. This
was made known by Garnet c.
Wilkinson, hartman of the general
committee. The Association was
organized in Chicago about 20
years ago by DR.. Carter C. Wood
son, well konwn historian and an
acknowledged authority on Negro
history and folklore.
The Association has for its OBJ
ject collecting sociological and
historical data, the publishing of
books on Negro life and history,
and promoting the study of the
Negro through Clubs and Schools
and bringing about harmony be-
tween the races by correctly Gin
the one to the other"
The Arizona gleam., 1937-10-29

WASHINGTON, D. c., Oct. %
(ANP)-I. w. Duggan, Acting d.
rector of the Southwestern Divis-
ion of the AAA, interviewed this
week by AMP, gave assurance
that the Federal Program to aid
farmers in the south will be ad-
ministered impartially and with
out reference to creed or color.
Mr.. Duggan declared.
THE 1898 Agricultural ConseE-
walton Program, announced by
Secretary Wallace, offers all farm
ers, including Negro farmers, the
opportunity of participating in the
national movement to conserve
soil fertility and raise the farm
income through better balanced
system of agricultural product
ion.
Following former Agricultural
Adjustment Administration pro-
grams in its broad objectives, the
new program sets up goals for
balancing the crops and building
up the soil on each farm. The pay
ments to all farmers joining in
this program will be in proportion
to their performance in achieving
their goals, but change in the
method of dividing the payments
between landlord and sharecrop-
per assures sharecropperS who
help to carry out soil conserving
practices a larger share of the
returns.
The Arizona gleam., 1937-10-29
"Sou+h Becominu
More Tolerant
REP. Mitchell

WASHINGTON, D. c. CAMP -
Oct. 8. Congressman Arthur
Mitchell from Chicago's First Dis
trict, recently returned from ~
auto good welr' trip through nine
Southern state, said he he'd found
"a definite tendency of lberality"
Continued on Page 81
The Arizona gleam., 1937-10-29

intelligence which makes his in
terpretations unusually appealing
Mr.. King and his wife stopped
here to visit shortly with Rev,
and Mrs. L. Rucker. They are
known also by Rev. M. Thomp-
son. Early next year it is plan
ned to present Mr.. King in a Re-
cital here when they are enroute
back to their home In Cleveland
Phoenix musical lovers are eager
ly looking forward to this event.
The Arizona gleam., 1937-10-29

The liberated man asserted,
however, that after his arrest In
Nashville by deputies. he was
threatened with being turned over
to a mob unless he confessed. My
ers said the deputies told him a
scaffold had already been built
for his hanging, and they also
threatened to cut his tongue out
unless he talked.
However, city detectives and
said records revealed
that Myers was working in the
National cafe in Nashville /. the
night when Montgomery was slain
at a local filling station.
The Arizona gleam., 1937-10-29

to local colored employees.
The move is for the best. Dark
faces so commonly seen on the
ore piles are now seen in cranes,
behind expensive machinery, and
in skilled labor departments.
The mills have iec
their latest move secret so as to
avoid any unnecessary trouble
with the weak CIO but so many
strange faces in the mills point
directly to that source since the
mills transferred many Negroes
from the south years ago after a
major strike. The break will i'm
prove the scale of the Negro
laborer in the mill and will serve
to inspire common laborers to
work upwards.
The Arizona gleam., 1937-10-29
Arrest Man
I'm Dixie AS
"Spi++ing Artist -

RALEIGH, NC, Oct. 20 CAMP
Raleigh police last Tuesday ar
rested Charlie White of Method,
N. c., as the long-sought splitting
artist, alleged to have a new and
novel method of picking pockets.
S. G. Poole of Neuse, Route i,
identified White as the pickpocket
who spat upon him as he was leav-
ing. a local store, and who then
apOlogized profusely while he
brushed his clothes with on ehand
ana lifted" his wallet, containing
co. w th the other.
The Arizona gleam., 1937-10-29

Forty eight per cent of the cof-
fee exported from Guatemala last
yea went to TIE United States,
3 greater aercen% age thu ever be-
fore,