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Milford chronicle., 1938-11-25
HOME Opportunities

We all want to see our home town
go ahead and make progress. but are
we all doing what we could to ac-
complish that result? People may
ask what they can do. They may
say they can't give big sums of
money and establish needed institu-
tions. Nor can they go out and in
duce some new industry to move in
and provide more jobs.
There is one thing they can do
which will help a great deal, and
that is to spend their money at
home. That builds up home town
business, and when home town busi-
ness improves. it can employ more
people. and it can supply more COM
plete stocks of goods. Also it is able
to pay more taxes. which makes it
possible for the town to keep adding
improvements. Back up the home
stores, if you want to see the home
town go ahead.
Milford chronicle., 1938-11-25
THE IEFFERSON NICKEL

Eleven million new five-cent pieces
have been coined, and in a few
years will become a familiar coin in
the hands of the people. They COM
memOrate Thomas Jefferson. author
of the Declaration of Independence.
Jefferson's most pronounced ideas
were his Strong faith and confidence
in the character and capacity of the
common people, and his belief in the
rights of the individual states as
against the power Of the federal gov
ernment. Our country has accepted
his democratic views by adopting the
principle of universal suffrage. If
the people suffer from the evils of
the time. they have the power in
their hands to end these evils, if they
know how.
Milford chronicle., 1938-11-25
WHEN BRIGHT STUDENTS FAIL

Why is it that some students who
do very well in school and college,
yet fail to make good when they
get out into the world.
1t should not necessarily be as
sumed that any such young people
have finally failed, until many years
have gone by and they have been
unable to obtain or hold good jobs.
In time they may be able to pull
themselves together. and make them
selves useful in the world.
Probably 80 per cent, perhaps
more, of the young people who do
well in. school also do well in the
world of work. 1t usually takes
perseverance, industry. and intelli-
gence to make good in a school. and
these are three qualities which the
world values most highly.
There are some young people who
learn almost too easily for their
own good. Their minds are quick.
and after one hasty reading of les
son they may have a better idea of it
than is obtained by some plodder
after hours of study. Young people
who learn so readily some times be-
come too self confident. Some of
hem may not realize the need of
lard and laborious work, and a great |
leal of such toll is necessary in the |
lard school of working life.
So when they get out and face
ome difficult problem of work or
BUSINESS, they may never have devel-
ped the persistence necessary to
onquer it. 1t reminds one of the
Id fable of the hare and the turtle.
he hare could run many times
aster than the turtle. But when the
wo had a race. the hare. after get
ing way ahead. lay down and went
D sleep. while the slow-moving tur-
le reached the goal first. 1t has
ometimes been so in human life.
Milford chronicle., 1938-11-25

farm tenants increased from 1924
COL to 2,S65,155, a gain of about
1909. The trend to tenancy and alb
sentee ownership of the land became
noticeable when good farm land in
the public domain began to disap-
pear and agriculture became more
highly cOmmercialized. The evils of
the tenancy system. particularly in
the cash-crOp areas of the Nation.
are pointed out in the 1888 Yearbook
of Agriculture, Soils and Men,"
Landlords do not want their land
tied up under a lOng-term lease be-
cause favorable selling opportunities
may arise at any time. Many ten,
ants, also look with disfavOr upon
lOng-term leases because they want
to be free to rent a better farm or
buy one of their own. This free to
sell, free to move arrangement.
leaves no one the responsibility of
the soil. The work of the
Farm Security Administration in
setting up tenants as landowners
under the Bankhead-Jones Farm
Tenant Act, while limited, is a step
in the right direction.
Milford chronicle., 1938-11-25
TENANTS WANT FARMS

The farm security administration
has $25.OOO.OOO to help farm tenants
buy their farms. and it expects to
aid 5000 of them to secure owner
ship during this fiscal year. That is
only about one out of every 100 who
desire to make such purchases.
It could be wished that every
worthy farm tenant could get
chance TO own the property on
which he works. He then has added
incentive TO improve the property, as
he knows he will get the benefit of it.
Agricultural education should help
these tenants, as the more they
know about the farming business,
the better wheat and corn and hogs
they can raise. AS their farms grow
to look more prosperous. it will be
easier for them to borrow money
for ownership.
Milford chronicle., 1938-11-25
THE MORLD,S CRrELTY

1t has been said for many years
that the world has grown kinder
hearted, that the old savageries anC
brutalities of former centuries have
passed away and will not return
Reading of the barbarous ways in
which the Indians of colonial times
used to torture their prisoners, peo-
pie have shuddered with horror, and
said that such things could not occur
i'm modern life.
In many ways kindness has in
creased. The people of civilized coun-
tries are more sensitive to suffering.
They establish hospitals to cure pain,
and those in distress are relieved in
many ways.
For the past few years, we have
seen a great revival of cruelty. Ma
tions at war send their great air.
planes over populous cities, and
drop their deadly bombs, inflicting
cruel wounds and death on helpless
and unoffending people, including wo-
men and children and old men.
Mercy for such ones is forgotten, at
least by the armies of some ma
tions.
The cruel persecution of the Jews
in Germany is another instance of
the revival of savage instincts.
Honest and worthy people who have
rendered great services to their coun-
try are so oppressed that there
seems nothing for them to do but to
get out of the country. If they go,
they may have to give up most of
their property to get out.
What is the cause of all this saw
age cruelty? Like so many other
things, it can perhaps be charged up
to the World war. People got so
used to death and suffering on a vast
scale, that it hardened the hearts of
many. The world sorely needs a re-
vival of kindness, if it is not to sink
back into the barbarism of the Dark
Ages.
Milford chronicle., 1938-11-25
THE GOOD OLD HOME TOWN

If there is a better town to live
in than Milford, some of us never
heard of it. We don't have all the
advantages that the big city offers.
but we have the best advantage of
all, consisting of good folks whose
friendship is a treasure. who are
ready to help in cases of need and
distress. who are full of good
thoughts about life and work, and
who have an intelligent idea of what
is going on in the world.
1t is a good place to live in, be-
cause living is not expensive, and
you can get more of the good things
of life for a moderate price than in
big places. There is opportunity
fere and in the immediate neighbor-
hood for willing and industrial
workers. Unless people have special
talents that call for a big field,
they are likely to lose if they go
elsewhere.
Milford chronicle., 1938-11-25
Milford, Friday, November 25, 1888
GOOn TIME FOR SHOPPING

Is this too early to think of buying
Christmas presents and winter
stuff? The business men, who have
had long experience in this problem,
will say no. Many sensible folks are
doing it.
If half the people would do most
OF their Christmas and winter shop
ping in the month of November, some
lad trade problems would be solved.
The rushing crush to buy gifts and
send them away, which creates tur-
mOil in retail trade and in the postal
service, would be distributed over a
wide period. Many people would be
saved from excessive toll and over
strained nerves.
1t is commonly said that the rea-
son people engage in a grand rush
of buying for about two weeks be-
fore Christmas. is that they have no
money ahead, and have to wait until
a few days before the holiday before
they can collect the cash they need.
There no doubt are a good many of
whom that is true.
Yet the great majority could prob
ably collect the money for gifts just
as well in November as they can in
December. If some change should
be made by which Christmas would
be observed November 25 instead of
on that date in December, they
would somehow manage to dig up
the money to make their purchases in |
November, and would not probably |
find it any harder than it is now to
make them in December. If they
could do it if the Christmas date was
changed. they can do it now, for
other reasons.
If they do this shopping now, they
get the chance to look over the
stock before other people have picked
it over. and selected the most at
tractive things. They will have the
satisfaction of shopping at a time
when there are not so many GUS
toners i'm the stores, and salespeOple
can give them more attention.
There are many reasons for starting
Christmas buying now in Milford.
Milford chronicle., 1938-11-25
THE MEAT EATERS

Meat producers report that during
the first eight months of 1888, the
American people ate 125,OOO.OOO
more pounds of meat than they did
in the same period of 1887.
This suggests the thought of the
many Old-timers who were powerful
consumers of the flesh of animals
Meat three times a day was the rule
in many homes. The amounts of
this food which many of them put
down would make the ordinary desk
worker of our times say they must
have had wide stomachs.
The housewives of those days
prided themselves on their ability to
cook meat in the most perfect way.
The appetizing odor of this food as it
came on the table made people feel
hungry. and in a mood to eat hear
tily.
Milford chronicle., 1938-11-25
BOYS WHO GO WRONG

Sanford Bates, former director OF
federal prisons, said in a recent ad-
dress that penalties don't stop juve-
nile delinquency. What is needed,
he says, are boys clubs. to give the
youngsters recognition. friends. and
a chance for achievement.
The modern boy is inclined to
take a chance" If he thinks he can
commit some offense and get away
with IT," he may take that chance.
In good boy organization, he gets
the chance to show what he can do,
which is what he probably wants
more than anything else. Open doors
of opportunity, and he won't take so
many bad chances.
Milford chronicle., 1938-11-25
U. S. Health Service

From director and two attendants
stationed in a single Marine Hospi-
tai room to director plus 728 assist
ants land 1853 active, non-residential
consultapts) housed in six vast
buildings in 60-acre greenwood
near Washington, d. C.-Such has
been the physical growth of the Ma
tional Institute of Health, major re-
search division of the U. S. Public
Health Service, in the half century
since its founding in 1887. While the
Institute is its most important re-
search laboratory in size and num-
ber of employees, it is not the only
such laboratory conducted by the
Service, A number of temporary
laboratories have been set up in the
field for various investigations, and
the Marine Hospitals are all prOvid-
ed with clinical laboratories in some
of which research has been conduct
ed.
Milford chronicle., 1938-11-25
FREEDOM or THOUGHT

The trustees of Beloit college, ont
of the oldest institutions of thi
Middle West, have adopted a declar-
alton of principles. the central idea
of which would seem to be freedom
Of thought. They call for a spirit
of toleration that shall perpetuate
freedom as to work, worship, speech,
the press, and academic research.
These principles are in accordance
with the ideas on which the United
States government was founded.
There are many countries today
where these principles are denied,
and where free thought is not toler-
ated.
These governments say it is not
safe for the people to think freely,
because they will get wrong and
dangerous ideas. An editor who tried
to express thoughts contrary to gov
ernment policy would be likely to
find himself in Jail The govern
ments of these countries say that
to obtain national progress, they
must have unity of action, and they
can't get unity of action if people
are free to criticize the government.
Unity of action is a good thing if
obtained in the right way. Govern
ments frequently get wrong ideas,
and if they force such unity of
action that the people all support
these wrong ideas. these countries
may blow up in wars and revOlu-
tions.
The American people have had the
most successful government in the
world, because they have maintained /
freedom of thought, speech, and the
press. When the government does
wrong things. or when the people |
make mistakes. it is considered legi-
innate to criticize and point out
these errors. If the criticism is rea-
sonable. in time the people are con-
vinced that changes must be made.
and the evils complained of are
corrected. Such freedom is the only
sure way to progress.
Milford chronicle., 1938-11-25
RoxANA


The revival meetings are still In
progress at the Roxana NJ. r.
Church for the second week. Rev.
J. E. Jones is being assisted by
able local ministers each evening.
There has been a number OF CON
versions.
Charlie Breasure arrived home
from the Milford Memorial Hospital
last week.
Mrs. Amanda Watson is having
repairs made on her barn.
Mrs. Hilda Jones was taken to the
Milford Memorial Hospital on Sat
urday and operated upon for apnen-
dicitis Sunday morning. We wish
her speedy recovery.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ranzo Wilgus enter
tanned Mr.. Wilgus' sister, Mrs. Ada
Thompson of West Mansfield, Ohio,
and Mrs. Lydia Wilgus to dinner on
Saturday evening.
Mr.. Stacks who has been making
his home with Mr.. and Mrs. Renzo
Wilgus is seriously i'll at the Milford
Memorial Hospital
Kendall Wharton is employed at
RolIie Murray's hatchery at Mills
boro. .t.
Asher Carey, Jr., Of Washington
College, is spending a while with
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Asher B.
Carey, Sr
Charlie Tingle. is making improve
ments to his buildings on his poul-
try farm, near town.
Mr.. and Mrs. Tilghman Johnson
and son Edward are spending the
holidays down the bay with other
on a cunning trip.
Milford chronicle., 1938-11-25
STRICTLY POLITICAL

along the maintenance, were as
sessed $50 each-and they had tc
pay 1t. In Kent county the same as
sessments were made in the Dover
Office of the State highway meth
cd unheard of before the New Deal
took over the department. w. w.
Mack, who formerly was in direct
charge of every employee would
have been horrified by a suggestion
that any of his men should be as
sessed for any purpose. Yet this
year we have a friend who is EN-
ployed there who asked us previous
to the election, If he should pay the
$50 the Democrats had demanded of
him or lose his job. We told him
plainly not to pay cent-that IL
he paid and the Republican party
lost the election, he would lose his
joy any way and IL we won, they
would be afraid to fire him. It was
one of the highway workers who
was put in the job because he was
a Democrat, who was making the
collection. Whether he paid the tax
asked of him, we do not know, but
we do know he was not the only one
in that department who was asked
to pay or get off the job. How can
any party win by pursuing such
methods.
The latest dope from the Demo-
cratic administration is to have the
Governor appoint Judge Rodney as
Chancellor and then appoint Char
lie Terry, his Secretary of State to
Judge Rodney's vacancy and make
Zack Wells Secretary of State. We
hope he does just that thing. Not
because we think Zack would make |
such a good secretary but il would |
just add another load on the backs
Of the Democrats to carry in 1910.
And now former State Auditor /
lin Wise, the juggler of figures and
private Sherlock Holmes who
around the highway depart
nent in Sussex county to discover
Who was getting the free gasoline
md discovered that he was getting
10 where, finding out something that
idn't happen, is being mentioned as
member of the Industrial Accident
Board. Wouldn't he be a fine MEM
er. He could sleuth to his hearts
ontent then and could hand in his
eport so juggled up that it would
rove that he had been in Europe.
very time Governor McMullen and
is New Deal advisers make an ap-
ointment they just drive another
all into their 1910 political cof1ins.
10 right ahead, Governor, what you
nd your advisers generally do is to
lake the people of the State more
nxious to change for Republican
Overnor.
What lawyer is it that is said to
ave his friends out soliciting rec
to place before the
overnor urging his appointment as
Sounds to us like get
ng testimonials from users of
Dugh medicine that some one is
,lling from door to door.
Francis Morgan is said to be the
My man in Sussex county that has
'er been reelected as Clerk of the
eace in consecutive elections. Any
ay, Morgan has been reelected
nd we believe it is because the cit
ems of Sussex county know how
ell he does his work.
Milford chronicle., 1938-11-25
GREAT AIR FLEET NEEDED

President Roosevelt feels that ex-
pansion of the aerial defenses of this
country is needed, in view of the
warlike conduct of certain nations.
According to his view, the whole
American continent must be pro-
tected.
The development of airplanes has
changed the entire picture of war
fare. These great hornets can fly
anywhere with their load of death
and destruction. 1t is conceivable
that populous American cities could
be reduced to ruin by their cruel
work.
The Atlantic and Pacific oceans
constitute our strongest defense. 1t
would not be an easy proposition for
an attacking air force to cross those
oceans, carrying enough fuel to take
them over those vast spaces, and
deliver a deadly attack, but aviation
improves so fast that the next few
years may see such an attack pos
sible. The United States must be
ready to meet it.
1t is a terrible thing that in a
world where the Christian gospel of
love and peace has been preached
for 1000 years, men still do these
cruel things, and get out with deadly
weapons to kill and destroy. But
we have to take the world as it is.
Milford chronicle., 1938-11-25
FISHERS DISTRICT
.ENear Greenwooa1

Now here's that news you've been
so anxioTsly looking for from Todd's
Chapel Ladies' Aid. The captain of
Group No. 1, is having a White Ele-
phant Sale Tonight, Friday, Nov. 25,
at Fishers School house and extends
wide welcome to all to come out
and enjoy the comedy play by Rose
bud and Henry, free for all laugh,
no admission. there will also be ice
cream and cake on sale and you just
don't want to miss II for likely there
is other surprise fun under their
hats for you and don't forget there's
no admission. Don't hesitate to come
because the notice is short, good en-
tertainment for you just the same,
Herman Galloway has been on the
sick list the past week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Horace Edgell and
Mr.. and Mrs. M. z. Russell and fam
lily were guests of Mr.. and Mrs. S.
f. Collision on Sunday evening.
The funeral services of John A.
joins, age 76, held at Bethel M. p.
Church on Thursday afternoon was
largely attended as he had many
friends and was we'll known in the
community as he had been a resident
there since a very small child. He
has been a worker in the church for
many years and will be greatly miss
ed in the church, in the home and as
a good neighbor. Interment in Todds
Chapel Cemetery.
Mrs. John Maris and Miss May
of Overlook, Pa, and Mr..
and Mrs. George Young and son, of |
were dinner guests of |
Mr.. and Mrs. T. P. Morris on Sunday, |
before returning home Mrs. Maris and |
Miss Morris spent several days with
friends in Snow Hill. Nd. where Miss
Norris was maid of honor at the
wedding of friend at 500 p. m, on
Tuesday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Lloyd entertain
ID Mrs. Ella Edgell. of Greenwood
It dinner on Wednesday.
Miss Frances Morris spent Friday
With Mr.. and Mrs. S. F. Collision.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harvey Rhodes and
amily entertained relatives from
over the weekend.
Mr.. and Mrs. U. S. Collision, of
Milford chronicle., 1938-11-25
WASHINGTON
NEWS LETTER
From
CONGRESSMAN WIN. +. ALLEN
Winter Building

Winter Building
SignpOsts pointing to a relatively
active winter building and moderni-
cation season are found in recent
reports Of the Federal Housing Ad-
ministratiOn. These reports shows
that applications for both moderni-
cation loans and new home mort
cages are being received in unusu-
ally large number, in spite of the
approach of winter weather. Small
home mortgages selected for ap-
praisal showed an increase of 1179o
for October over that month last
year. In addition property improve
ment loans are being insured at the
rate of over 10000 weekly, with the
daily volume nearly $1,000. 900. This,
in itself, should provide many build
ers, dealers, and contractors with a
backlog of work to tide them over
the 'slow" months.
Milford chronicle., 1938-11-25

A constructive program of State
legislation to facilitate the work OF
the General Assembly of which the
Republican Party controls both
Houses, drafted by a Statewide
committee, is the suggestion of State
Chairman Ebe H. Chandler, which is
most gratifying to the taxpayers and
voters of the State. The happy idea,
follows on the successful Statewide
committee appointed by the Repub-
lican State Committee which work.
ed hard and long before the eonven-
tiOn, to prepare a State platform,
which was passed by the convention
and which by its clear language and
direct attack at the evils which were
arising through the Democratic ad-
ministratiOn, did much to win the
election. The idea now proposed in
tends to select a committee of prom
inent party workers and statesmen
which will draft bills tending to
carry out the promises made In the
platform and to stop interference by
politically minded persons in the
mapping out of a thoroughly con-
structive program for the session.
This bears out the fact that the Re-
publican party is the peoples par
ty" and will avoid the delays gem
orally attendant on the opening
measures brought before the Legis- |
lature. 1t is a splendid idea and will
do much toward making this session |
of the Legislature one to be remem-
bered.
Although the Democrats raised a !
great howl about election interfer- |
ence by bringing a Congressional
examination into the work of the
Republican Party, it must have been
a smoke screen raised to hide the
most dastardly plot ever attempted
to be perpetrated. In New Castle
county, on hundreds of absentee
ballots. names and affidavits were
forged, and the ballots sent in, bear
ing the name of some legalized vo-
ter who when he went to the polls
was told that his ballot had been re-
ceived and he could not vote. For
Attorney General Percy
Green has investigated and although
he was not able to cast out the il
legal ballots that had been sent in,
It looks very much now as if he was
going to be able to punish those who
framed the idea.
o.
In New Castle county the Demo- {
,rats had Louis J. Lingo. a State
Highway bridge supervisor, dis
charged because he did not contri- !
Iute to the Democratic party funds {
md would not allow the free use of {
lis car. Mr.. Lingo has been a very {
efficient worker in the highway [
'anks for eleven years and had new {
n before been asked to contribute s
o any political party funds until
he New Deal chairman of Whining
on, evolved this new way of getting {
money, before election. Lingo made G
he matter public but there were ]
many more who silently suffered !
md they were not all in New Castle a
ounty. 1t was openly whispered be-
ore the election that the road men '
Milford chronicle., 1938-11-25

Clayton, and Mr. and Mrs. Edgell
Coates and son, of Harrington, were
guests of Mr. and Mrs. j. w. Rust
on Sunday. Other guests in the even
ing were Mrs. r. P. MtNris and daugh-
ters, Frances and Betty.
Several from this vicinity took ad-
vantage of the Springk-like wealth
er on Friday by being Dover visitors.
Mrs. T. p. Morris and daughter,
and Mrs. J. w. Rust were guests of
George E. Morris on Monday after
noon.
Milford chronicle., 1938-11-25

THE HOUSEHOLDER who can't
afford to keep his buildings in re-
pair. is usually the. one who has to
take a heavy shrinkage in value If
he wants to sell the property.