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Milford chronicle., 1938-05-20
CLEANUP DAYS

Cleanup Days and Cleanup
Weeks have become an American
institution. Countless cities and
towns are now having these useful
occasions.
It is one of the bad habits of the
American people that they tolerate
disorder. Many of them seem to
think that if they keep the fronts
of their homes looking fairly we'll,
any old thing will go in the back
yard. That is a point of view that
would seem ridiculous in Europe,
where people prize the seclusion
and beauty of the back yard. They
cultivate flowers there. and take
more pains with it than they do with
the front.
The back yard is much more Wis
ible than people realize. The near
can see it, and frequently
it is conspicuous both from the street
in front and the one next behind. A
frOwsy back yard makes a family
seem careless and unprOgressive.
Modern life produces a great deal
Of household refuse. much more than
In former times. People formerly
bought larger quantities of stuff. and
It came more in boxes and barrels, |
which were useful about the home |
Ind could be split up and burned
is fuel. Now an enormous amount
VI stuff comes in paper cartons,
which make a great deal of refuse. A
tream of tin cans is all the time
lowing out of the kitchen.
The ideal plan is to have col
ectors gather refuse at regular in
ervals. Where this is not done the
ouseholder should see that this
'aste does not disfigure his home.
lie should look out how he collects
lflammable stuff. Many a fire is
lused by matches and cigarets {
lrown into heaps of waste.
Every day and every week in the
ear should be Cleanup Day. 1t
easier to take care of this stuff s
; people go along than to allow it !
accumulate. If il has accumulated \
len people should go to work on a
Iean-Up Day with a cheer. S
Milford chronicle., 1938-05-20
YOUTH HOsTELS

The interesting movement TO pro-
vide youth hostels is spreading from
New England out to the middle west,
where they are being established in
wisconsin. Illinois. and other states.
These hostels are provided specially
for hikers. cyclists. equestrians. etc.
They give young people lodging for
about 25 cents a night. with cooking
facilities. The idea originated in
Germany.
As this idea promotes genuine
hiking on foot, it will be a .godsend
to many young people who will re-
turn from such vacations full of
vigor and fresh air. Let us hope
too many of them do not turn il into
Cyclists, horseback
riders. and canoeists thrive on such
experiences. People should not lose
these active habits.
Milford chronicle., 1938-05-20
HELPING SPAIN TO FIGHT

The United States has tried pretty
hard to keep neutral in the war i'm
Spain. Many influential people feel
it should do something to aid the
Spanish government which is fight
ing against Fascist rebels. If Spain
goes Fascist, they say. the alliance
of Germany. Italy and Spain will
menace the world. So they would
have it made possible to ship war
materials to the hard pressed Span
ish government.
Probably the American people
would better keep out of a row con-
cerning which they don't know all
the details They got in the World
war up to their necks. and after
ward decided they had leaped before
they looked.
Milford chronicle., 1938-05-20
DATES AND nIY0RCEs

Dates are said to be a problem
for youth. In former days that
meant they were terribly bothered
to learn the dates of great historical
events. Now when the young folks
speak of a date. they usually mean
an engagement to take the girl
friend out. The boys worry their
heads over it more than over the
dates of history. Probably the girls
do so. too.
Some colleges and other schools
have date bureaus" through which
the young people obtain partners or
escorts for social events. These
arrangements are reported as useful
in helping nice young people TO get
acquainted.
Many young people who are away
from home are lonely and have no
way of making friends. In colleges
they may be shy and reticent. and
find it difficult to make close ties.
They have youths natural desire for
the society of the other sex, but if
the boys make advances to any girl.
they sometimes get laughed at. Or
they fail to find congenial associates.
Such conditions frequently lead
young people to marriage engage
ments that do not turn out well. In
the lack of companionship. the first I
girl or fellow who comes along ma!
seem very fascinating, and after a
short engagement they are mar
ried. Many of the divorces result
from just such conditions.
These date bureaus. by introducing
desirable young men and women TO
each other. give them a chance to
get thoroughly acquainted before
hey venture ON the perils of matri-
nony. Such acquaintance should do
much to reduce the number of the
separations that cause so much
leart burning.
Milford chronicle., 1938-05-20

government reports which gather
dust on library shelves and few peo-
pie read
The people want conditions made
as easy as possible for the little
fellow" who is trying to compete
with big enterprises. Yet they re-
cognize that ebig business" employs
a great army of people. They don't
want action that would close up
many of the shops where these folks
are employed. Somehow big business
and little business must learn to live
together in peace.
Milford chronicle., 1938-05-20
GOVERNMENT AND MONOPOLIEs

President Roosevelt wants $780,
600 spent in an investigation Of
business. TO see what can be done
to break up price fixing and monopo-
listic practices that interfere with
democratic ideals and free enter
prise and competition.
The American people don't like 10
see men getting together to fix prices
at excessive rates. but they are a
little cynical about investigations.
They have seen too many such in
quiries resulting in big volumes of
Milford chronicle., 1938-05-20

IF YOU LIKE your neighbors,
tell them so, and they will say that
Milford is a friendly town, where
the people all enjoy themselves to-
gether.
Milford chronicle., 1938-05-20

TO SELL GOODS, you have TO
know a good deal about them. The
salesman who is just a machine that
passes them over the counter and
takes the money is not so good.
Milford chronicle., 1938-05-20

THE DOLLAR that stays at home
works twice or more for you. Once
when it buys the nice goods in the
home stores, and again when it
keeps circulating here and making
more home town prosperity.
Milford chronicle., 1938-05-20

KEEP TO YOUR SHOP and your
shop will keep you" said old Ben
Franklin. Won't probably keep you
very abundantly unless you keep an
ad in the paper telling what the
shop keeps for sale.
Milford chronicle., 1938-05-20
THROUGH REPUBLICAN EYES

Dover people are wondering what
takes this weekly or semi-weekly
calvacade of automobiles from the
sands and swamps OF Sussex county
into Dover and lined up around the
Governors office. They need not be
alarmed. 1t is just the Tunnel DEM
ocrats who are seeking an audience
with the State Highway Commission.
To date they have never been able
TO meet with the Commission. The
merry 20 round goes round" and the
coalition Democrats from Sussex
county have so far only been able
to burn gasoline. They have gotten
nowhere-and those who know say
they never will get anywhere. The
whole thing started off when, with
great fan-fire in the papers, they
announced a petition with lS5 sign
ers to put the resident engineer for
Sussex county out of his position.
II was never read before the Com
mission but was waste basketed'
without reading. for which many OF
the signers were thankful as 1t is
whispered many signed under duress
but were afraid not to sign it and
also afraid to sign it.
The next move was to make
drive on the commission and awe
them with numbers. That didn't
work: for when the crowd gathered
they discovered that the commission
had postponed their meeting. Last
week they made the second attempt;
the 1856 in number being cut down
TO less than so and several of them
felt il was all silly mess. This
time they did not get to the commits
sion but did have an audience with
Commissioner Fader and the Cover
nor. Chairman Cullen refused to see
them as he declares it is certainly |
out of order for a political body to !
come before a commission supposed |
to be working for the best interests |
of the State to demand a lot OF "po- |
litical jobs" After the crowd had
voiced their desires for jobs and de-
clared that Democrats in Sussex
were not satisfied, Commissioner Fa-
der declared that to the best of his
knowledge the Democrats of Sussex
were satisfied as the Democratic
Committee and its chairman has so
expressed themselves. And so II
went back to the same old question,
which committee represents the real
Democrats? The Highway Commits
sion is not going to constitute itself
as an election board to pass on the
of committees. So another
whirl has been given the merry go
round and we wonder what and when
the next trip to Dover will bring
forth?
Just what is the inside fight
among his own party members
against the candidacy of a Milford
farmer and trucker for a Kent
office? It is whispered that
he is going to get an awful cutting
If he gets on the ticket.
George c. Herring, Jr., certainly
gave all voters something to think
about when he recently exploded the
New Deal claim in Delaware that
hey were the first to think of the
lnderprivileged. Mr. Herring called ;
% the attention of the voters that j
he Republicans were the pioneers
n social legislation in Delaware be- {
'ore it was thought of in other {
states. The Mothers Pension Law, {
he Old Age Welfare Home and Hos &
1ital, the Workmen's Compensation I
Act, minimum hours for women and s
Milford chronicle., 1938-05-20

IF THE BUSINESS of your home
town gains. every resident benefits.
So when you talp build mp home
town business by buying stun at
home, you create benefits for your
self.
Milford chronicle., 1938-05-20

THEY SAY IT'S A POOR bird that
fouls its own nest. Don't do that by
carping criticism of your home
town.
Milford chronicle., 1938-05-20
N o T E

The statements made in this column are
mot necessarily the opinions Of the pub
fishers Of the Milford Chronicle. They are
purely the views Of the writer. This news
paper will express Its opinions only
through its editorial columns.
Milford chronicle., 1938-05-20

Kent county Republicans are real
~ getting together in old time shape
and real observers are predicting a
big shake-up in the political COM
plexiOn of the county at the next
election. With both factions really
putting their shoulders to the wheel
there is every reason to believe that
they are going to land some of the
county Offices.
Milford chronicle., 1938-05-20

Just what is the inside fight
among his own party members
against the candidacy of a Milford
farmer and trucker for a Kent
county office? It is whispered that
he is going to get an awful cutting
if he gets on the ticket.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-08-03
No Details Revealed
of Program for In
creasing Nations De-
lenses, Decided on by
Mussolini.

Rome, Aug. 3.-(AP)-The govern
ment announced today all foreign
Jews would be barred from Italian
schools, beginning with the fall term.
A communique issued by the govern
ment said:
beginning with the scholastic year
1889, the admission of foreign
Hebrew students, including those re-
siding in Italy, to all Italian schools
of all grades is prohibited"
At the same time, it announced a
new program to increase the eff
cheney of the nations armed forces. A
communique said
"At recent meetings held by II Duce
with the minister of finance and the
chief of the general staff of war and
air, further program to increase the
efficiency of our armed forces was
concluded"
It gave no further details
The ban on Jewish students pre-
sumably does not apply to the $4,000
Jews who are Italian citizens.
The fascist race doctrine issued July
II by a group of fascist professors
proclaimed Italians were an Aryan
race and denied Jews were members
of the Italian race.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-08-03
Youth
Ex-Sheriff
AS Murderer
Paul Dwyer, Is, Serv-
ing Life Term for
Killing He Blames on
Maine Official.

South Paris, Maine, Aug. 3.-(AP)--
Paul Dwyer, 18-year-old convicted
slayer of country doctor, today nam
ed former deputy sheriff Francis L
Carroll as the man who committed
the murder for which Dwyer is now
serving life sentence.
Dryer was called to the stand to
accuse Carroll, father of five children,
of the brutal murder of DR.. James
Littlefield for which Dwyer was SEN
fenced to life Imprisonment eight
months ago.
Special Prosecutor r. M. Ingalls,,
who painted Carroll, a World War
veteran, as a vicious" killer, who had
threatened to shoot the boy if he told
the truth, had planned to place Dwyer
on the stand yesterday, but as his
name was called, the youth faltered-
stricken with indigestion brought on
from heat and nervousness.
Ingalls, described to an all-male jury
yesterday the States version of the
Littlefield murder. He carefully es-
chewed, however, mentioning how
Lydia Littlefield, the physicians elder
ly spouse, whom Dwyer had confessed
garroting met her death.
Neither Dwyer nor pretty 18-year-
old Barbara Carroll, the defendants
daughter, and Dryers one-tfme
sweetheart, were in the court room
during the grim recital.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-08-03
Says Voting
Serious Blow
To New Deal

Washington, August g. (AP) =
John Hamilton said today the New
Deal suffered a crushing and humi-
lating defeat" in yesterdays Virginia
Democratic primary.
Referring to the victory of Repre-
sentative Smith, over William Dodd,
Jr., the Republican national chairman
said the issue presented was "New
Deal VS.. anti-New Deal" He declared
"Yet he Dodd was ANONYMOUSLY
beaten by a vote of better than three
to one, not even carrying a single
county in the district. This crushing
defeat of the White House candidate,
coming on the heels of the defeat of
Representative Maury Maverick,
Democrat, Texas, again indicates the
grass roots swing away from Roose-
welt and the New Deal that is TAX
ing place throughout the country"
The Communications Commission
granted permission to w. G. Ewing
and Harry Layman Cumberland
Broadcasting Company to establish
new radio station at Fayetteville.
N. c., to operate on 1910 kilocycles,
with power of $50 watts, daytime.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-08-03
A. C.. L. Offers
New Appeals
About Trains

Raleigh, Aug. 3.-(APD-The At
lantic Coast Line railroad continued
to present testimony today that op-
Grafton of passenger trains on three
Eastern North Carolina branch lines
was a losing proposition.
The railroad has petitioned the
Utilities Commission to be allowed to
stop service between KinstOn and
Weldon, Washington and Parmele
and between Tarboro and Plymouth.
C. M. Cobb, superintendent of the
Norfolk division, underwent gruell-
ing examination regarding sanitary
facilities afforded on the involved
trains. L. F. Ormond assistant comp
troller, was recalled for more finan-
cial testimony.
L. White, in charge of mail opera
tions for the railroad, testified he be-
lieved proposed star mail routes would
give better service than the present
trains He was examined as to income
from mail contracts.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-08-03
Border Belt
Markets Open
On Tomorrow

Florence, S. c., August 3.-(AP)
Mounting piles of tobacco flow
ed today into warehouses of 10
South Carolina and North Caro-
lima market towns as optimistic
growers prepared expectantly for
tOmOrrOw's opening of the 1888
auction season.
The farmers found cheer in the
reports of prices paid on the
Georgia Florida markets, which
opened July %, and when an
average of around rs cents
pound has been established. Last
years opening prices in the nine
South Carolina markets and the
seven North Carolina border mar
kets approached 80 cents.
So far there have been no re-
ports of organized opposition i'm
this territory to the Federal quo
tas, against which some Georgia
ard Florida growers have taken
legal action.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-08-03
Italy Bans Alien Jews
From Schools And Plans
Stronger Armed Forces
Hope For Clipper
All But Abandoned

Manila, p. L, Aug. 3.-(AP)-
Chances of finding the Hawaii Clip
per and the Is men she carried
when she vanished last Friday ap-
peared hopeless to most observers
today as a fleet of IL naval ships
completed the fifth day of fruitless
search.
The aerial and sea patrol has ex-
hausted practically every possible
search area where the plane might
have crashed or drifted in the
Pacific ocean east of the Philip
pines or on the islands themselves
The army transport Meigs, which
discovered the only possible clue
uncovered as to the Clippers fate,
backtracked the distance from
Manila to Guam. The samples
taken from the oil slick found by
the transport were brought here
for analysis.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-08-03
''Lame Ducks
Will Be Back
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In The Sir Walter Hotel.

Raleigh, Aug. 3.-The session of the
General Assembly next week will be
the first lame duck meeting of the
legislature of North Carolina, in
many. many years-sO many in fact
that on short notice your corr espon-
dent has been unable to find any one
who knows when the last one was
held.
Next week, however, the eligible list
of senators will contain two Who ran
for denomination and were defeated
in the primary voting. In addition
there will be one senator who tried
to get into the next House, but failed.
On the House side there viii be 10
less than % members WHO met cnfcat
in the primary or convention Tor re-
nomination, and two who wanted to
go across the rotunda into the Sen
ate but couldn't win their constituents
approval.
It is from these casualties Of the
election wars that trouble might come
next week in combining the session
to the agenda laid before it by the
governor and the budget authorities.
Consensus of observers is that there
will be no trouble, but ali agree that
the possibility of it lies i'll these legis-
lators who have already cost out and
who may have some pet or personal
fContinued- IN Page Eight.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-08-03
Capital, Labor
Find Interest
Very Similar
BY CHARLES p. STEWART
Central Press COlumnist

Washington, Aug. 3.-Government
testimony and labor's testimony rela-
tive to reported price fixing by the
country's steel companies is rather
conflicting.
From official sources the complaint
has come repeatedly that the COM
panies, when invited to submit bids
on steel required for government pur-
poses, pretty regularly submit iden-
teal ones, which OfficialdOm inter-
prets as indicative of collision among
them.
However, this rule is not invari-
able. Occasionally a company under
bids it's rivals and gets a big gov
eminent contract.
Chairman Philip Murray of the
Steel Workers Organizing Commit
tee explains how, according to his
account, the low-bidding companies
make their bargains profitable to
themselves They do it, he says, by
underpaying their labor.
Confusing?
The implication is that high steel
prices, with a minimum of compel
tive price-cutting, represents the
ideal situation from the organized
workers standpoint.
Nevertheless, it can't but mean
price collision among the better
wage-paying companies - in short
monopoly Which seems to place or
ganiZed labor on the monopolists' side
Philip Murray does not express it
that way, but it sounds SO.
1t is confusing to be told first that
the steel companies keep prices high
by not competing and then to be told
that some of them do compete sue
cessfully with others at labor's ex-
pense Still, that is what it amounts
to. At the same time, the companies
which pay the better wages are blam-
ed as monopolistic, whereas the ones
Continued on Page F'iVe)
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-08-03
Bethel Hill
Professor Is
Given Award

Raleigh, Aug 3.-(AP)-A. G. Bull
lard. vocational agricultural teacher
at the Bethel Hill high school in Per-
son county, received today the GER
tificate awarded the man adJudged
annually to have been the outstand-
ing such teacher in the State.
Roy Thomas, director of the work,
made the presentation at the joint
session of Farm and Home Week at
N. C. State College.
DR.. o. E. Baker, of the United
States Department of Agriculture, dis
cussed the problem he said had been
created by the ''drain of 34,OOO,OOO,-
600 in wealth from farms to urban
communities during the decade pc
fore the depression.
The agricultural economist Offered
no solutions to the problem, but
pointed out that farm youth and farm
wealth had been drifting steadily to
the cities for 100 years until the de-
preston. The depression, he SAID
forced young people to stay on the
farm and the result was that produc-
ton per person dropped after increas-
ingly steadily for years, and natural
ly, therefore, the standard OF living
on the farm was going downward.
The speaker warned that failure OF
farm youth to find jobs or work IN
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-08-03
Legislature
ToBe Very
Perfunctory
Everything Will Be
Cut and Dried for
Rubber Stamping by
the Extra Session
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In The Sir Walter Hotel.

Raleigh August 3.-Those who want
jobs for the special session next week.
and those who are breathlessly ex-
pecting fireworks and thrills from
the gathering of the lawmakers here
are doomed to sad disappointment
and complete disillusionment, ac-
cording to all signs and portents.
If the session isn't one of the most
perfunctory, cut and dried affairs on
record, there is going to be more than
mild surprise in informed circles.
There will be very, very few plums
Tor attaches. Secretary of State Thad
Eure says he isn't even going to Sc:
up an enrolment staff, because there
will be so few bills passed he can take
care of them with his regular office
force with no trouble at all.
AS for excitement, there'l be just
ABOUT none at all.
Workmen are busy repairing wiring
IN the Capitol and there may be some
niue trouble about lights in the
Rouse and Senate chambers, but
'heyh be able to get all they need
CONTINUED on Page Five.)
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-08-03
Presidents
Foes On Top
In Virginia
c ark and Magill
Senate Victories Ex-
pected; West Virgin
la for Roosevelt
(By The Associated T'ress.)

10y LIE kASSOCldICQ IICSS.)
Roosevelt hackers and anti-admin-
istration candidates divided the Dem
ocratic honors today in four primary
elections.
Senator Bennett Champ Clark, OF
Missouri, foe of the court bill and
other White House measures, won a
landslide denomination. So did Sena-
ator Magill, of Kansas, loyal follower
of the President. Their victories were
not unexpected, however, for both had
the active backing of their State party
organizations.
President Roosevelt had taken no
part in either race.
The same division extended to
nominations for House seats in two
other states. Three West Virginia re-
representatives. who have supported the
President defeated their opponents,
but in Virginia two avowed New
Dealers lost out. Representative
Smith of Virginia, whose district in
cludes the "hOme town" of George
Washington and Thomas jefferson,
won a three-to-one victory over Will
liam Dodd, Jr., son of the former am
bassador to Germany. The vote, with
ten precincts missing, was: Smith,
1861; Dodd, $3.50.
Smith, a rules committee member
fought the wage-hour bill, claimed the
right to vote as he thought best on
administration measures, while the
32-year-old Dodd had said "a vote for
me is a vote for Roosevelt"
The only other Virginia House race
was much closer. Representative
Hamilton, calling himself pro-Roose-
Do EHiohh