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Milford chronicle., 1937-04-16

County contest to be held at Caesar
Rodney High School on Friday, April
18th are: Dramatic, Frank Dono-
van and Ellen Vinyard; humorous
Barbara Marshall and Margaret
Hammond.
The regular weekly Assembly of
the Milford Junior-Senior High
School was held on Wednesday
morning, April 14th at 9 O'Clock.
Miss Rachel Taylor, director of art
for the State Board of Education,
was present and gave an illustrated
lecture on Art Appreciation"
The program was as follows:
Hymn, "Hark! The Vesper Hymn
Is Stealing"
Bible reading, read by Edna Vada-
kin.
Lords prayer.
Patriotic song, America"
Flag salute, led by Frank Mick.
Art program through the courtesy
of Miss Bancroft, and the guest
speaker, Miss Rachel Taylor, direc-
tor of art for the State Board of Edu
cation.
Class Tree Successfully Planted
Arbor Day commentaries the life
work and interest of j. Sterling Nor
ton, born April %, 1882 on the tree
less plains of Nebraska. He later
became United States Secretary of
Agriculture and realized what value,
beauty and comfort trees would add |
to the barren spaces of his state.
He persuaded the authorities of
Nebraska to proclaim the first Arbor
Day. April %, 1872. Prizes were Of
fered to those who planted the great
est number of trees. The plan won
great favor, and more than mil
lion trees were planted in Nebraska
that first arbor day.
Other states followed Nebraska's
lead, and Arbor Day is now observed
in most states.
Governor Richard C. McMullen
Friday. April 8. 1887, as
Arbor and Bird Day in Delaware
md in his proclamation urged and
its observance by all pub
ic and private schools.
In obedience to our Governor re- q
luest the boys and girls in Mrs. Cor :
leila c. Derrickson's section of the :
ixth grade in the Milford school de- Q
ided to plant a tree.
They discovered that the ArbOr- .
itae at the left of the entrance had .
ot survived.
The former planting had not sur Q
ived but the token which has been .
lanted now shows promise of taking .
Dot and some day by its size and .
rowth will reflect the interest and :
are Of the thirty-four children who .
to its placement. .
Milford chronicle., 1937-04-16

Mr.. A. C. Creaiicf. has been to
Omaha. Neb.. this weak after car
load of horses.
Mr.. Frank 0'Neal of Wilmington
spent the weekend with his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. F. C. O'Neal.
Miss Emma Richards of the Uni
versity of Delaware spent the week
end with her parents. Mr.. and Mrs.
f. S. Richards.
Mr.. and Mrs .Tr..id Pepper and
little daughter c1 Wilmington spent
the weekend with his father, Joseph
Pepper.
Mr.. JbSs Mrs. William w. Sharp
were a,lnington visitors on Mon
day. They also called on friends in
Richardson Park.
Mr.. and Ms. Elmer Barrett are
spending a week with the latter's
parents i'm Altoona. Pa.
Milford chronicle., 1937-04-16
SCHOOL NOTES

The 9th annual Defamation Con-
test for the possession of the Nellie
Davidson Mearns cup for 1887 re-
suited in a win for the class of 1888.
The winning declaimers were Bar
bara Marshall and Ellen Vinyard.
Other class representatives were:
Class of 1887, Frank Donovan and
Doris wilkins; Class of 1889, John
Williams and Edward Murphy.
Judges for the contest were Mrs.
Elinor b. Rosa, Mr.. Franklin NAPLES
and Mr.. George Miller OF Frederica.
AS a result of the contest the rep
resentatives from Milford Junior
Senior High School to the Kent
Milford chronicle., 1937-04-16

visiting at the hone ci her daughter,
Mrs. Oscar WIKI and rrolre hertarfn
Miss Emma Downes has returned
home after spending the winter with
her brother. Norman Downes. at Hol-
ly Oak ~ trt9 ~
Milford chronicle., 1937-04-16

Mr. and Mrs. Elbert Stevens Of
Wilmington have been recent guests
OF Mr.. and Mrs. W. R. Massey. Il
Mrs. Stephen K. Belts OF Frederick
had the misfortune to fall while
Milford chronicle., 1937-04-16

Miss. Myrtle 0tweIl of Wilmington
has been spending part Of this week
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
Otwell.
Milford chronicle., 1937-04-16

Mrs. Ray Deische of Wilmington
has been spending the past week
with Mr.. and Mrs. Wallace Hanson.
Evening star., 1937-12-17

into 10 tennis courts under plans
approved by the Federal w. P. A.
The cost of the project Is estimated
at about 1921 900. The ultimate use
to be made of the reservoir tract
since its use has been abandoned as
. part Of the water system has been
studied for several years by District
and Federal officials.
otto Cass, deputy District w. P. A.
administrator, said probably 200 men
would be set to work Monday, and
that probably some $50 would be
given work in all on that project.
All will be taken from the eligible
lists certified by the District Public
Assistance Division. They are to be
paid about SAT a month.
The District w. P. A. Job quota
recently was increased by $50 in keep
ing with the enlargement of the
made-work program. c. Marshall
Finnan, superintendent of National
Capital Parks, has agreed to support
petition by Commissioner George
E. Allen for an increase in the Dis
Evening star., 1937-12-17

losses and get their profit from their
parts and service operations.
He was testifying for q resolution
by Representative Withrow, Progress
siye, of Wisconsin. which would di-
rect the Federal Trade Commission
to investigate distribution policies OF
automobile manufacturers and selling
policies of dealers as they affect the
public interest"
A survey of 314 dealers who sold
1891 new and 97,507 used cars IN
1885, Mr.. Payton said, showed the
net profit on new cars was $84.76
per $1,000 of new car sales, and the
net loss on used cars was .$l01.47.
The net loss Of $16.7l on the car
sales was made up and net profit
of $20.12 realized when parts and
service sales were taken into account
Mr.. Payton said 80 per cent of all
new-car sales involve trade-in.
A. M. Benson, general manager OF
the National Auto Dealers ASsocia-
ton told the subcommittee:
whenever any one wants to pur-
Evening star., 1937-12-17

chase q car for cash I am sure one
could get q discount from practically
any dealer in America"
Overcrowding of dealers in many
communities, he said, gives rise to
unfair trade practices. An example,
he said, is the driving OF cars 500
to 1000 miles to dealers with speedom-
eters disconnected SO no mileage viii
be showing when the vehicles are
sold.
Manufacturers, he said, set sales
quotas for dealers under threat OF
cancellation of franchises. 1nnumer-
able dealers, he added, are losing
franchises. y
Evening star., 1937-12-17
SITE OF RESERVOIR
TO BETRANSFORM
Tennis Courts Will Be Constructed
on Abandoned Ground on
Sixteenth Street.

Conversion of the old water reser-
voir at Sixteenth and Kennedy streets
NV. into a series of tennis courts
will be started Monday as Works
Progress Administration project un-
der the supervision of the Office OF
National Capital Parks, it was an
nounced today.
Gangs Of workmen will start Mon
day removing the walls Of the res
ervoir and leveling off the area.
Within a few months, it is said, the
extensive area will be transformed
Evening star., 1937-12-17
Trains Use Short Wave.

SAN FRANCISCO tP).-The South
ern Pacific is asking permission to
install two-way short wave radio sets
on certain trains. In case OF severe
storms that, took down telephone lines,
the radio would link trains with dis
patching centers. .ss
Evening star., 1937-12-17
GAMBLING NO BAR

Court Rules Man Cannot Be Kept
From Citizenship.
, SPOKANE, Wash. (P.-Eght ar
rests for gambling do not bar a man
from American citizenship, United
Evening star., 1937-12-17

trict allotment II 1t Is necessary to
transfer anywhere near 1000 persons
from the Federal to the District
projects in January, as has happened
several times in the past.
Evening star., 1937-12-17

States Judge J. Stanley Webster ruled
in passing Yugoslav applicant.
IF the gambling laws were enforced
against our native born sons, imagine
the population Of Spokane would be
somewhat reduced" the judge said.
Evening star., 1937-12-17
LOSSESOF DEALERS
|NAUTOSREvEALED
House Committee Is Told
Many Make Up Deficit on
Parts and Service.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
A House Interstate Commerce Sub
committee received testimony yester-
day that many automobile dealers
' lose money on their motor car busi-
ness.
Edward Payton, Cleveland manage
ment counsel, submitted figures to
show dealers must make up these
Evening star., 1937-12-17

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Evening star., 1937-02-25

the same time they could not well permit
the dignity of the House to suffer
through DR.. Townsend's contemptuous
act.
Instead of the immediate indictment
which the normal processes of justice
would have produced, the presentation
of the case to the grand jury was
delayed The indictment was not re-
ported until December last, a month
after the election had demonstrated that
DR.. Townsend and the o. A. R. p. Inc-
did not figure very largely in the eyes
of the American electorate. The trial,
two and a half months after the indict-
ment, required only two days. The jury
deliberated only fifty minutes. Possibly
a year hence the Court of Appeals will
hand down its opinion. And by that time
people may look at the headlines and
pause moment while recalling who Dr.
Townsend was, what he did and why.
DR.. TownSend's strategy may have
been maSterful. But all the strategists
are not confined to the ranks of the
o. A. r. p, Inc.
Evening star., 1937-02-25
killing of Fox Run to
Earth UnspOrtsmanlike
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
May I commend the sentiments of
your correspondent, Mr.. John Eliot, in
sport Of fox hunting.
The incident he referred. to, which
was reported in the column In the
Hunt Country" was particularly un-
SportSmanlike, inasmuch as a fox run
to earth has won immunity from the
hunters and is regarded as inviolate. To
have harried the fox from his sane
tuary and allowed the dogs to tear him
to pieces is as revolving as other prac-
tices Of the hunt from which England
is slowly emerging under pressure of
such organizations as the League for the
Prohibition of Cruel Sports supported
by such members as Viscount Morley,
Air Commodore L. E. o. Charlton, the
late John Galsworthy. Dame Sybil
Thorndike and host of others.
AS England throws on the shackles Of
blood sports forged link by link of hunt
ing the otter, coursing the timid hare,
pursuing the carted stag, throwing the
fox to the dogs and "blooding" the faces
of young children with the brush it is
pity this country is taking it up.
We saw some time ago an Episcopal
prelate of washington enter into this
sport" by blessing the hounds in the
name of the Compassionate One. And
we like to call ourselves civilized!
M. S. BRECK.
Evening star., 1937-02-25
The Woes of Empire.

Ethiopia has turned up again, like
Banquo's ghost, to torment Italy's feast
of empire. Not only has it been neces-
sary to destroy formidable rebel army
and execute thousand-odd tribesmen
implicated in an attempted assassina-
ton of Viceroy General Gralani, but
Great Britain has mortally aspersed
Fascism's newly incubated imperial
honor. II Duce's blood is boiling.
The former Emperor Halle Selassie,
now exiled in the English provinces, was
invited to send representative to the
coronation of King George vi. The ex-
Negus has not only accepted the bid,
but added insult to injury by naming
as his envoy Ras Desta Demtu, the
chieftain now leading the forlorn hope
of resistance to the Roman conqueror.
Italy is undecided whether to vent its
wrath upon perhdious Albion. with
which she only recently sealed a bond
of Mediterranean amity, or upon the
throneless fugitive who dares still to
comport himself as an emperor.
The Fascists resent the coronation in
vitation because it denotes that Britain
does not yet acknowledge King Victor
Emmanuel's sovereignty over Ethiopia.
Rome Is in q state Of high dudgeon.
Evening star., 1937-02-25
Election Gave President
Right to Change Court

To the Editor Of The Star:
1t is interesting to hear people talk
about the changes advocated by our
President on the question of the re
organization of the judiciary" Some
of the people who did everything they
could to defeat Mr.. Roosevelt's re-
election are at it again, saying this
time that he is trying to be dictator
The people who supported him have no
such idea that he is trying to become a,
Hitler or Stain. His friends are fight
ing for him. and they can be assured
that Mr. Roosevelt will win out in this
fight with the courts. Some of our
Federal and State courts are out of step
with the wishes and demands of the
people. If the judges do not carry out
the demands Of the people through our
President they should be retired from
the bench. There are just as many in
telligent lawyers in Congress today who
understand the Constitution and what
it stands for as any judge or any Fed
eral bench in this land.
Lowell once said: New times demand
new measures and new men; the world
advances and in time outgrows the laws
that in our fathers days were best"
These words are full of wisdom and
make sense Federal judges would do
well to get in step with the New Deal
and carry out the wishes of the people
through their representatives in Con-
gress. H. v. HUDGINS.
Evening star., 1937-02-25
Packing Box Architecture
And the Mellon Gallery

To the Editor Of The Star:
was gratified at your reference yes
terday to the packing box style of archi-
lecture which some of our public build
ings exemplify. It has been rumored
that the State, War and Navy Building
will have to be remodeled, which per-
haps means that it will be covered over
with q packing box exterior. am
afraid that even the District Building
beautiful though it is, will be found too
unique, too on-uniform, in style, to be
considered good. taste by the Fine Arts
Commission.
1t is much to be hoped that the Mellon
gallery will be set of by itself some
where, instead of being arranged with
uniform binding to add to the congeSted
condition of Pennsylvania avenue, and,
further, that it will not be built so as
to cut of more of the routes Of access to
the south side of the city. Other build
ings. beautiful though they are when
considered singly, have had a bad effect
on looks and utility by being set right
across some streets that are needed for
streets, and too close to the center line
of others.
Why could not Mr.. Melons splendid
gift be placed in some other part of the
city; for instance, on Capitol Hill? There
1t will be in the neighborhood of other
art works, the Capitol and Congressional
Library. WILLIAM G. LEE.
Evening star., 1937-02-25
Masterpiece of Strategy.

DR.. Townsend's masterpiece of STRAIT
egy" in walking out on the House COM
mittee last May during investigation
OF his old-age pension plan may have
been even more masterful had there
been proper cooperation by those
charged with upholding the dignity of
the House. But politics also calls for
mastery strategy. AS result, DR..
Townsend has been found guilty by a
Jury of his peers long after the end Of
o campaign during which such verdict
might have made of him much more
Of a martyr than he is today.
The offense for which the doctor was
tried occurred last May 81. Members OF
Congress found themselves holding a
bear by the tail. They SHE'D away from
any move which in the eyes Of an
emotional public might have been con-
strued as persecution Of the doctor. At
Evening star., 1937-02-25
STARS, MEN AND ATOMS
Notebook of Science Progress in Field,
Laboratory and Study.
laboratory and Stud
BY THOMAS r. HENRY.

term which use in the broad sense Of
tightening labor. Science is concerned
with labor saving. too. but 1t is far more
vitality concerned with creation-the
creation Of new knowledge, of new ma
terials and new products, of new in
duStrieS and new employment, and OF
improved health and material welfare
for all of us, from the proudest to the
humblest.
THE awakening of the chemical in
dustry was the birth of new viewpoint
and of a new idea of responsibility in
finitely more daring than man had yet
conceived. On the one hand 1t recog-
nized the imperfections in our progress,
while on the other it challenged the
complacency which held imperfection
to be an inevitable characteristic of
human effort, about which little or
nothing could be done. Under the old
viewpoint we believed that man could
not possibly improve on Natures ma
terials and deemed successful imitation
of them the height of human achieve
ment. Under the new viewpoint we
threw attempted imitation to the winds
and set out boldly to become creators
in our own right of wholly new ma
terials that Nature had failed to supply.
do not misunderstood me- Nature
still is omnipotent in her own vast
sphere. The chemist is seeking neither
to paint the lily nor to perfume the
rose. He is seeking and finding colors,
perfumes and drugs that are far more
satisfactory for mans purposes than
any nature has provided in flowers and
plants. He Is taking such common
things as air, water. coal. salt, lime and
the like and compromising them or their
components into great new category
of materials capable of serving us better
than any of the natural substitutes to
the use of which we have been limited
for centuries.
This new ability of man to create
and the new vision it has given US in
turn Is creating a new economy-an
economy that Is putting wealth in the
true sense Of greater enjoyment Of life
within the reach of millions who never
before knew it. 1t is creating new op-
portunities for work, new leisure, new
health. Above all. it is creating new
knowledge in the light of which almost
nothing stands as impossible"
Evening star., 1937-02-25
Election to Office Is No
Mandate to Violate Pledge
To the Editor Of The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
In q recent letter to The Star Mr..
M. r. Pollitt begins with an abjurgation
of all the "hue and cry of dictator
ship" and ends with the following state
ment: mo one can doubt that the die
tate Of the electorate in November de-
mands an adoption of the policies of
President Roosevelt and a release from
the domination Of deciding vote in q
decision of the Supreme Court
The only logical deduction from these
two opinions is that the recent election
gave a mandate to Roosevelt to dictate
its decisions to the Supreme Court. Any
one having intelligence enough to read
the editorial pages of the newspapers is
not so naive as to be taken in by such
arguments. What's the use talking
about Congress representing the people
when everybody who can read knows
that Congress does exactly as the PreSi-
dent wants it to do? When Congress
passes bills of the greatest importance
without debate, and without even read
ing the bills, why talk about its repre-
senting the people? Such talk Is an
insult to common intelligence.
And this talk about mandates" Is
equally nauseating. The only mandates
that the pople give to elected of11cialS
are to carry out the specific declarations
of the party platform. The New Deal
platform declared it to be the purpose Of
the party to carry out its policies by
laws within the Constitution" or by
clarifying amendments" Roosevelt and
his campaign speakers studiously avoided
any suggestion that he intended to
tamper with the court. Demands by the
Republicans that he declare himself on
this issue met with complete silence.
Who is so innocent Of practical politics
as not to know that Roosevelt carefully
avoided this issue because he knew that
a large number of voters still retain a
higher regard for the Constitution than
for any political party, and that their
votes might be enough to defeat him?
This is called political strategy" That
the people well understand such polit-
ical strategy is convincingly shown by
the instant and loud protests that rang
out when Roosevelt sprung his surprise.
Stripped Of all its sophistry and mere
Sound and fury" the present question
of the Supreme Court comes down to
this: Roosevelt, having Congress COM
pletely under his thumb, now wants to
put the Supreme Court in the same posi-
ton. If that would not result in prac-
tical dictatorship then the English Ian
guage has lost its meaning.
z. L. ELLIOTT.
Evening star., 1937-02-25

Doubt has already arisen whether the
house Of Savoy will consent to be repre-
sented at London in May. A ticklish
matter Of protocol is involved. If Halle
Selassie was simply addressed as "his
majesty" that may be overlooked, as
deposed monarchs do not shed that
appellation. But it will be horse Of
more serious color II the pasteboard was
sent to Halle Selassie, Emperor Of
Ethiopia" The royal occupant Of the
Quirinal Palace claims the sole right
to that distinction now. If King
George has invited the late ruler Of
Adds Ababa as Emperor" the rival
potentate in Rome, unable to tolerate
a competitors presence in Westminster
Abbey, will probably send regrets.
OF greater gravity than this tragi-
comic situation is the insurrection which
eliminated in last weeks effort to kill
General Graziani. Ras Desta Demtu at
the head of 5000 men planned to attack
Adds Ababa following the expected
assassination of the viceroy. The force
was cut to pieces before coming within
striking distance of the capital. With .
remnant of his warriors, Desta Demtu
eluded capture. A merciless fate awaits
him if he falls into the Italians hands.
Rebellious operations, in progress since
January, will eventually be suppressed.
But Mussolini is discovering, like other
colonial conquerors before him, that the
price of empire is high and must be
paid in blood.