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Milford chronicle., 1937-01-01
PEOPLE WHO KNOCK

The knocking" habit. the dispo-
sition of many persons to criticize
anything attempted for the benefit OF
their home towns. is one reason why
many good causes fail. and why
many towns stand still. If the car
pers and skeptics make fun Of every
progressive movement. it takes a
person of courage to start anything,
and the town will probably stand
still.
II people find fault because moth
ing is done to suit them, it would
be a good idea to appoint them on
some committee, so they could have
a chance to do these things better.
If that was done, they would find
out that it is much easier to stand
OIL one side and criticize. than to
manage things oneself. 1t would do
them some good to take some knock
ing themselves because they did not
do things right.
Milford chronicle., 1937-01-01
RETURNING GOODS

One of the big problems of mod
ern trade is how to deal with re-
turned goods. The merchants have
to worry about that following Christ
mas, when lot of stun comes back
Business concerns realize that il
people buy something and then find
it is not what they wanted, it pays
in the long run to be liberal in let
ting them return it.
Too many people abuse that privi-
lege and make a nuisance of it. Peo-
pie will sometimes wear or use
things so they appear soiled and i'm
perfect. and then expect the dealer
to take such stuff back and give
them the full cash in return. The
cost of doing business is increased
by such unreasonable demands.
Milford chronicle., 1937-01-01
OLD.TIMER MADE GOOD

A man walked into business Of
flee the other day, where they were
hiring salesmen. They asked how
old he was. He said he was 65.
Sorry, but you are too old. said
the boss.
Instead of turning around and 60
ing out detected, this old-timer be-
gan to gesticulate, and said he would
guarantee to go out and sell twice
as many goods as the average young
man could. He was so forceful that
they took him on. That was due to
two things. his knowledge OF his
trade and of what he could do, and
his strong confidence. Old-timers
should cultivate these gifts.
Milford chronicle., 1937-01-01
INDUSTRIAL COERCION

How far can an employer legiti-
mately tell his employees how he
thinks an election will affect their
business? Charges Of industrial CO.
ercion OF voters in the recent cleo
tion have been dismissed by the
United States Senate Investigating
Committee. but other and similar
charges are to be considered.
This is a land of free speech. IL
an employer thinks certain political
results would hurt his business and
all who work for him. he has the
right to say so. If he couldn't, we
are coming too near the Russian
model. If he threatens to do things
to employees who vote contrary to
his ideas, he also fails to understand
the principles of our government.
The American people do not propose
to close anybody's mouth. and they
do not propose to be told how they
must vote.
Milford chronicle., 1937-01-01
THE ANSWER Is UP TO YOU

When the final figures are made
up, 1t will very possibly be found
that the automobile accident record
'of 1885 was ths worst in our mo-
tcring history-from the standpoint
of injuries and property damage, as
well as fatalities.
Will 1887 further improve" that
record? The answer is up to the
millions who drive cars and walk
our streets and highways.
We make our cars mechanically
safer-and accidents increase. We
apply the most advanced engineer
ing knowledge to the problems of
highway cOnstruction-and accidents
increase. We stiffen our traffic laws
and accidents increase.
1t is a telling commentary ON our
driving habits that the worst acci-
dents involve cars in good condition
operating on first-class highways
under excellent weather conditions
not worn-out wrecks driving on
icy pavement in storm. There is
a percentage of drivers who habitual-
ly exaggerate the safety factor
and the annual cost is $4,000 lives
and hundreds of millions of dollars
in property destruction.
The driver who steps ON it-who
weaves through congested traffic
who disdains traffic signals-whO
regards pedestrians as a nuisance
to be run off the streets-this driver
Is responsible for mass manslaugh-
ter ON an unprecedented scale. Will
he American people continue to
his ravages?
Milford chronicle., 1937-01-01
Milford Friday, January 1, 1887

MOST NEW YEARS resolutions
don't survive the second of January
But there are a few resolves that all
of us should make and keep. One
of them could we'll be, "Ill do my
part to protect my property and the
lives of my loved ones from fire."
During the past year, the fire loss
has tended to rise. Part OF the in
crease is doubtless due to increases
i'm property values. But the princi-
pal factor is human Indifference, hu-
man carelessness and human igno-
rance.
The refusal of millions of citizens
to do anything to prevent fire might
be understandable if the job required
a lot of money. But it doesn't. 1t
is expensive, of course, to rebuild
deficient house in accordance with
the best fire-resistant standards. But
a large proportion of the most potent
and ordinary hazards can be com
pletely eliminated without spending
a cent.
For example, there is an excellent
chance that your attic and basement
are jammed with old magazines and
newspapers. discarded clothes and
broken-down furniture. Thousands
of fires have started in such trash
and every one of those fires could
have been prevented had property
owners simply avoided such worth
less accumulatiOns.
1t is also probable that somewhere
about your home you have stored
varnish, gasoline or other infiam-
mables in improper containers. or
near heating equipment. Here is
another major cause of fire that can
be eliminated in five minutes.
Carelessness with smoking ma
terials is one of the most common
causes of fire-a cause that only the
habit of thoughtfulness can ellmi-
nate.
sAs4sozif you. don't want your. home.
to possibly be among the $40O.OOO.-
900 worth of property that will be
destroyed by fire this coming year,
or your loved ones perhaps among |
the thousands of people whom fire
will kill-resolve to carry on per-
sonal fire prevention campaign dur
ing 1887. And keep that resolution.
Milford chronicle., 1937-01-01
room rKIcEs anING rp

Secretary of Agriculture Wallace
issues a warning that food prices
may soon rise 10 per cent. Supplies
of meat. some fruits and vegetables,
and dairy products are below aver
age. The government will probably
say the drought is mostly TO blame,
while. critics will probably claim
that limiting production has done
harm. ss 5s.. .es4 u . .~,
In former years. when food prices
went too high. people dug up their
back yards in spring, and raised
vegetables. They kept chickens and
produced much of their own food.
That is probably considered too
serenuous in these times, when the
popular theory is to spend the spare
hours in stepping on the gas. rather
than in hoeing the garden.
Milford chronicle., 1937-01-01
NEWSPAPER PEOPLES
IAUGHTER

The Gridiron Club of Washington
has just had one Of its annual out
bursts, at which this famous organ
ization of newspaper people gently
pokes fun at the mightiest personali-
ties of the land, without regard to
party affiliation. The newspaper
worker has his own political views,
but he is keen enough observed so
he can see all the mistakes made in
the political game.
The statesmen should never take
themselves too seriously. They are
all human, with plenty of ability to
make errors. When the newspaper
people laugh at their grand words,
they should not go up in the air with
Indignation. Rather they should
ask themselves whether their plans
are not more or less dreamy, and
whether they have not got stuck in
some deep rut that keeps them from
getting anywhere.
So when the Gridironers jollied
President Roosevelt. representing
him as serving his ninth term. and
still hoping confidently to balance
the budget. he no doubt laughed
with good humor. and will reflect
that the people expect the govern
ment to stop spending more than it
earns in the near future.
And similarly when these club |
men laughed at the G. o. p. as hav-
ing died from premature senile in !
ability, the statesmen of that party !
should ask themselves whether there |
is not truth behind that jest. and
whether they should not rebuild their
party on a 1910 model before enter
ing another presidential race.
In some countries political Op-
ponents shoot each other up. In this
country they frequently get together
and laugh at each other. Laughter
reveals truths previously hidden.
The newspaper people, in pointing
out the occasions for laughter, keep
many evils of government from
growing worse.
Milford chronicle., 1937-01-01
THE PASSAGE OF TINE

The latter days of an old year and
the first of the new, make one think
of the passage of time. Wrote old
Isaac Watts:
Time. like an ever rolling stream
Bears all its sons away,
They fly forgotten, as dream
Dies at the opening day..
1t is not exactly a comforting re-
fiection to think that we too shall
be like a dream at no very distant
day. Yet when people have lived
good and helpful lives. that dream,
ii dream it be. lasts a very long time
in the memory of those benefited
by these uplifting personalities.
The boys and girls say time doesn't
fly fast enough. They look forward
with longing to the day when they
shall be earning their own living,
dependent on nobody, and not forced
to consult anybody as to the things
they can do. When they get older.
and particularly if they get married.
they find it still difficult to realize
that hoped for independence.
AS people become still older, they
remember the old Latin proverb
"Tempus fugit", meaning time flies,
and they feel it really does fly, and
does not simply move. Yet these
same people have frequent periods
when life seems dull and they would
like to see the days pass faster. In
winter they long for summer to
come, and when it comes. they long
for the hot and sweltering days to
be gone.
Some people lament very sadly
over the flight of time, and it tinges |
their lives with a constant melan-
choly. 1t is better to fill the days so
full of activity, that we do not have |
time to spend on such morbid re-
grets.
Human life is on the march. 1t |
was not meant to stand still. We
do not know the destination at which
IT is aimed, but we have faith that
the power that made this marvellous
world is able to make the destina-
tion one of joy and accomplishment.
Milford chronicle., 1937-01-01
CHANGEABLE FOLKS

Why does a restaurant waitress
take away the menu card after get
ting an order? The president of the
National Restaurant Association says
that if she doesn't the patron too
often changes his mind. One can
see the turmoil in the kitchen, if all
the customers who ordered beef
steak should suddenly cancel that
request. and demand chicken pie.
The American people cherish the
privilege of changing their minds.
They promise to pay some bill to-
morrow, and when tomorrow comes
they say they have changed their
minds, and spent the money for
else. Which does not
make business run any better. 1t
is good thing il the restaurant
people at least encourage them to
stick to the thing they first said.
Milford chronicle., 1937-01-01
FLOOD OF DIVIDENDS

Stockholders in many corporations
are getting extra dividends, and
many workers are receiving special
bonuses. These handouts are prin-
cipally the result of the new law
placing heavy taxes on undistributed
profits. The stockholders rejoice
with an uneasy feeling. that perhaps
the present feast means future
famine.
Formerly such surpluses were
stored up against bad years. as" a
squirrel stores up nuts against win
ter. What will these companies and
their stockholders and workers do
in future depressions, when no such
store exists? The American people,
with customary hopefulness. say
I'VE should worry. Some hope
there won't be any more depressions.
There needn't be, IL people would
abandon certain follies.
Milford chronicle., 1937-01-01

Entomologists OF the United
States Department of Agriculture
tested this theory by creating the
oases that turned part of the dry
lands over which the leafhoppers
might be expected to fly into a
modified checkerboard of green and
white squares and recording the
moves of the insect pawns.
Leafhopper flights. though long
distance, are not necessarily nom
stop. But In the spring. when mi
grafton starts, desert vegetation is
too sparse to afford many good stop
ping places. The entomologists sup
piled this natural deficiency for four
successive springs by planting a
weed Of the mustard family-known
locally as the Western wailaower-
in small irrigated plots on the dry
land between Arizona waste lands
and Utah sugar-beet fields. The
Western wallfiower-favorite host
plant of the leafhopper-is tough
enough to stand up under frequent
sweepings with an insect collecting
net.
By spring the little oases were
lrxuriantly green. Daily scouting
with the insect collecting net, from
April to June, showed which plots
were visited briefly by migrating
leafhoppers and which were not.
Those where collections reached
significant numbers were marked
with an X on a map of the region.
A line drawn through these KS in
6ieated the route from the winter
quarters and also the peak days OF
the migration period-essentfal in
formation in making ready for at
tack by the pest and for working
out effectiye control measures.
Milford chronicle., 1937-01-01
coon READING

The recent convention of the Ma.
tional Council OF English Teachers
heard an address on the Reading
| of Good Books" Here is q problem
that concerns the teachers, and II
! gives anxiety to thoughtful parents
What are they going to do. when
they find their boys and girls fasci-
mated by undesirable literature?
How can they turn the thought OF
these youngsters toward stories and
other volumes that shall suggest
high ideals?
In every city which has good
library. the problem becomes easier.
On those shelves the youth can find
books that are both fascinating and
elevating.
Unfortunately these are many
towns where there is no public Ii
brary. The problem is easily ca
pable of solution anywhere. ANY
group of people can form book or
magazine club. buy the best and
most interesting things as they come
out, pass them around the circle.
and they will be as well up with the
times as anybody. Such circles can
be formed exclusively to provide the
children with the best things in
juvenile literature.
The habit of newspaper reading
probably does as much as anything
to cultivate a taste for good books.
The newspapers tell real things that
happen in the world. They give
facts and information. If a young
person once forms a desire to know
about these real things. you don't
have to preach any sermon to him
about not reading trash. He sees
the Stiffness OF the trash by his own
II the boys and girls were required
to read the newspapers each week.
and relate the most important things
that have happened in their home
towns, state. and country, they would
form a taste for real things that
should solve the bad book question.
Milford chronicle., 1937-01-01
LeafhoPpers' Air Routes
Manned from Gases BeI0rO

Small artificial oases In Western
deserts give valuable clues to the
aerial route OF beet leafhoppers to
the sugar-beet fields of Utah. One
explanation for the sudden appear
ance of this costly insect pest in
fields which but a few days earlier
contained few leafhoppers. IL any. is
that these insects pass the winter In
remote Arizona waste lands, feeding
on wild vegetation and. as soon as
the wild plants dry up. take off for
cultivated sugar-beet fields hun
dreds of miles across the desert.
Milford chronicle., 1937-01-01

YOU HAVE TO GO half way in this
world in meeting other people, IL you
expect to win favor. When the busi-
ness concern advertises its goods. it
goes half way to meet the desires of
the public.
Milford chronicle., 1937-01-01
A BIG PROSPERITY wave is ap.

A BIG PROSPERITY wave is ap-
parently coming. Are our people
here in Milford ready to get the full
benefit of the new high tide, or will
they wait until it begins to recede
before trying to take advantage OF It.?
Milford chronicle., 1937-01-01

ANOTHER FINE WAY to start
the New Year, is to invite friends
from other places to come and visit
you. and enjoy the pleasant features
of life In Milford.
Milford chronicle., 1937-01-01

IF YOU NEVER give thought to
the welfare of your home town. how
expect the home town to give q
thought to you?
Milford chronicle., 1937-01-01

IF YOU HAVE an idea Of how to
help town progress, don't keep 1t
locked in your own brain. Tell the
people about 1t through The Chron-
icle.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-24
BottIers To
Tangle With
CaIipat Club

Jack Stark's Coca Cola baseball
team will defend its claim to the
honor of being Imperial Valleys
outstanding baseball team Sunday
afternoon in the Brawley park
when the Bottlers tangle with a
strong Calipatria club at 2 pm.
The Bottlers, who have twice de-
feated the Calipat club and have
dropped only one contest to the
Merchants. will send their full
strength lineup out on the field
Sunday afternoon.
MCGOWAN, hard hitting, catcher
will be behind the plate and Pilip
who hurled a five hitter against a
previously undefeated Yuma team
last Sunday will be ON the mound.
Bob Elliott, who is slated to break
into the majors before SO many
years pass, will take over duties at
first base, T. Chuiy will hold down
second base, B. Miller will handle1
the hot corner and Tufie Hashel
will cover the shortstop ground. Y
o. Miller, Ehml1e and Ritter will
patrol the outer gardens and B. Rit-
ter will act as utility man.
The Calipatria team, according to
reports from the north, are primed
for the battle Sunday and have
strengthened their ball club for the
all-important game.
The Coca Cola team will meet Ell
Cajon baseballers on the Brawley
diamond Sunday afternoon, January
81, in tilt that is expected to
overshadow any winter season ball
game seen in the valley this year.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-24

SARASOTA, Fla, Jan. 20. W,p)
AS one who for two days has fol-
lowed the baseball players national
golf tournament, l wish to state
flatly, firmly, loudly, and unequivo-
cally that alchemists will be Great
ing gold from second hand canary
bird cages before baseball player
wins any Of our major golf cham
In fact, want to go even fur
ther and say that alchemists will
be creating gold from just the
DOORS of used bird cages before
a baseball player lasts long enough
in an important tournament to
make it. worth his while to pack
more than one pair of socks in his
overnight bag.
Until I watched two rounds in
this tournament I really believed
many of our famous baseball play
ers meant it when they threatened
to quit the d1arnsnd for the fairway
If their salary demands were not
met. Now, having seen them with
golf clubs in their hands, 1 know
the threats were as empty as a
leaky rain barrel in the Sahara. If
they should carry out their threats
to depend on golf for a livelihood,
however, I can think of no better
way to. get rich in a hurry than
have the-sstandings room concession
in the .poorhouse. For the boys
will be packed in deeper than
Brooklyn pitchers in the bull-pen
during a double-header.
Here are thumbnail descriptions
of the golf games Of some of the
noted baseball players now con-
testing for the Powell Crosley cup:
Jimmy Foxx - The best thing
about his game is the 25-cent cigar
he smokes from tee to green. al
the finish of his swing Mr.. Foxx
looks exactly as Horatius would
have looked If, just as he prepared
to defend the bridge, someone hao
stuck brassie in his hands. AL
ways appears to be warding off un-
seen enemies.
Heinie Manush---I wouldn't swear
as TO what his form is like, as thu
only times ! have seen him he wa,
deep in the woods and obscured By
a network OF blackberry bushes
palm fronds, frightened caddieS anc
cloud of pale, blue air of his owr
creation. He's sportsman. how.
eyer-in the rough he only picks or
trees his own size.
Lyn Lary--yery popular with thu
gamblers because they like to fol.
low him around and bet even money
that either Larry or the ball viii
wear out before the green is reach
ed. Has swing which wrenche'
him so violently that its the equa
of two dozen chiropractic treat
mentS 4.s-,,st
Lloyd Waner-Hits long bal
but doesn't get any distance, /;
strictly a rightfield, or slice hitter
His screaming brassie shots are the
despair of every grasshopper ir
Sarasota. Plays in cap and the
mature nineties.
Bill CissellEHas never hit bal
be personally, couldn't handle al
shortstop. Plays all Of his shot,
as If making sacrifice hits. Ha.
had three offers from the United
States foresty service because O.
expertness at tree blazing.
Bill Swift--Is often ruled of
courses because he is in SO man.
places that, he ,sis frequently mis-.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-24
Doubles Teams
To Compete for
Valley H0nOrs

Leading mems doubles teams from
all sections of Imperial county will
vie for valley honors Sunday morn
ing in the first doubles matches OF
the season at the Calexico Legion
courts. ~
The tournament, sponsored by the
Calexico tennis club will begin at
8 am. Play in the first two rounds
will be completed, according to Karl
Edmunds, president of the Calexico
club, and semi-finals and finals
will be played next week.
Starting at noon Sunday play will
begin in the Women's singles
tournament 1t is expected that
mems singles mixed doubles and
Women's. doubles tournaments will
be sponsored by the Calexico club
later in the. year.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-24

ference. washington emerged VIC
torious in a northern. division
game; and St. Mary's kept up its
winning pace in the northern CAL
ifornia conference.
Stanford's unbeaten varsity in
vaded the lair of the California
Golden Bear TO defeat the old ri
vals, 51-34. Hank Luisetti, STAN
ford forward. was the high scorer
with 21 points. It was the Cardi-
nails 18th straight win. Down in
Los Angeles q. s. c., sharing first
place honors with Stanford in
the conference, scored its 18th
successive victory over a U.CL.A.
basketball team by beating the
Bruins, 36-3l.
In the northern division Wash
ington. defending divisional cham
pions, rang up their third confer
ence win by beating Oregon State
37-31 at Seattle. University of
Oregon, sharing the runner-up
berth with Washington State, came
through with a 1929 win over
Idaho at Moscow.
st. Mary's turned in its fourth
straight win in the northern Cali
fornia conference, an independent
organization. by walloping College
of Pacific, 1924.
University of Nevada began its
far western conference campaign
by last-minute win over Chico
State, 24-23, at Reno. Humboldt
State defeated San Francisco
State, 1928, at Eureka.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-24
Imperial, Calipat
Cage Teams Will
Tangle Saturday

Imperial and Calipatria high
school basketball teams will tangle
this afternoon in the Central GYM
nasium to decide, temporarily at
least, the cellar championship of
Imperial county.
The c teams of the two schools
will meet in a preliminary game
starting promptly at 2 pm.
Neither Imperial nor Calipatria
have come close to winning league
game to date but the Calipat team
has made a better showing against
tougher opposition.
Imperial, however, has shown i'm
provement in practice this week and
are given a $3.50 chance to upset
the favored Calipatria Hornets.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-24
Peace Officers
= Determined on
Revenge in Shoot

Imperial Valley peace officers pis-
tol shoot team will depart for Yuma
Sunday to take part in shoot on
the Arizona city course Sunday
afternoon.
1.-The local officers are slated TO.
bring home more than their sha1
of the trophies as they have beeX
looking forward to a chance to out
shoot Yuma's number man, j.
Adair, since the Arizona champ
carted away most Of the trophies at
a shoot held in the valley last year.