Milford chronicle., 1938-04-08
aHApPY DAYS ARE HERE AGAIN.

don't know where the money j!
> coming from to pay their numerous
deserving Democratic office holders
. There surely must be some mistake
about this. although insiders say
that it is absolutely true. With con
siderable glee the department Off
cials recently announced TO the pub
lie that because efz,the. good times
in the State and the wonderful f.
nancial gains to everyone through
the Happy Days" of the New Deal,
many more automobiles we're IL
censed this year than formerly and
that an increase in. receipts was
approximately over $4,000. 1t also
happens that in the period from the
first of December Until the last of
February, each year. Is the high
tide in automobile 'lieense periods,
and yet now comes the news that
they are out of funds. Private esti-
majors had believed they would lack
funds to pay their bills by the last
of April but the. settlement has
come somewhat sooner There must
have been a serious deficit facing
the department when the licensing
! time arrived. Was 1t the increase in
employees? the rafses in salaries
which many of the new help secur-
/ ed when the Democrats came in
power or was 1t just the general
impotentance of the leaders Of the
Democratic party to do anything
right? On the other hand II might
have been the wonderful example
their Administration leader has set
throughout his five years to spend
so much more than he takes in that
proved their undoing. Anyway, that
is the big noise around Dover right
now that the money is running out
Just where to turn to get it. is an
other puzzle that must be solved.
While we are talking about the
Democratic administration of the
Motor Vehicle Department have you
tried to get an automobile license
recently, or tried to get a title
changed? Plenty have been trying
and most of them report that II
takes weeks and some times months
to even get reply out of them. One
very prominent Democratic leader
of the county seat at Georgetown
has been openly complaining on the
highways and byways that it has
been impossible to get a drivers Ii
cense for one of his relatives, while
others complain that after the APP
plication and money is sent, no tags
arrive. Do you suppose the short !
age of money has resulted in run
ming out of tags with no money to
buy any more of the aluminium
plates? 1t has been said that in sew
eral cases, tags were sent without
any money having been paid and
later collections were being made. |
Perhaps all the old accounts have
not been settled. Anyhow, something
is radically wrong with the fine
promises of how well the Democrats
were going to conduct State affairs.
Another thing that Sussex coun-
tians are asking is where are the
new roads that were being built in
former years when the Republicans
were running the Highway Depart
ment? Democratic speakers promis-
ed to bring the farmer out of the
mud with new roads in every di-
rection. Now that the Democrats
are in control, where are those new
roads? This fiscal year has seen the
least building of roads for a long
time. When asked about the matter,
some of the Highway employees de-
clare that their funds were serious
ly cut by a Democratic Legislature
and Governor and that every cent
hat was taken from the Highway
'und was a double loss because pre-
,iously the Federal funds matched
he State road money. For every
penny that is not spent this year,
he State loses an additional Federal
penny. Happy Days Are Here
again"
On the word of the victim himself,
/ person who was involved in a SER
GUS automobile accident in which
he State was plainly at fault in
which he suffered serious financial
oss as we'll as a crippling and
manning for the rest of his life, this
nan was promised some light and
asy position on the State payroll as
ioon as he recovered. Recently he
vent to the person whom he claims
made him the promise and the con-
-ersation recalled. He declares that
Ilthough his claim had nothing
whatever to do with politics that he
vas informed that II he wanted a
OBJ he would have TO get the rec
of the County Demo-
ratio Chairman He wanted TO
now which one, as at present Sus-
ex county sports two such gentle
nen both claiming to be the duly [
lected and legal chairman Of two {
Inherently and entirely opposed
ommittees both sporting the name
+ Democratic County Commlatee.
lie was directed TO the favored /
hartman of the gentleman he in /
erviewed. Was there any indirect I
int that he get over into the DEM /
cratic lines IL beg wanted a posi- I
lon which he had-been duly prom c
sed because of injuries received {
through carelessness Of a State I
gency? If there was, then it didn't I
rork, for our information was that
he man in question told the man
where both he and fav- t
red chairman could go before he 4
'ould ask further favor. Since when Z
i'd County Committees direct the r
fairs Of the State and name the v
mployees of each of the depart p