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Milford chronicle., 1939-06-16
KING AND QUEEN GREETED

The King aud Queen of England
have made a historic visit to the
United States. and have been cheered
and made happy by the most cordial
entertainment. The country likes
their simple and friendly ways. If
they were not monarchs of England,
and if they felt desire to live in
our country. they would make mighty
good American citizens, and be
warmly received as such.
Many years ago England was
looked at as a tyrannical country
which was ruling over our forefath-
ers with an iron hand. and giving
them no chance for free develop
ment. That was more than a CEN
tury and a half ago. Those old dis
likes fade out, and have not marred
the cordial welcome to the heads of
that empire.
King George and Queen Elizabeth
will go back to their home country
with a new sense of the grandeur of
the American continent. The warm
and friendly greeting they got in our
land will never be forgotten.
Milford chronicle., 1939-06-16
MANY WANT TO BE BOSSES

1t is often remarked that a great
number of young people are prepar-
ing to be bosses and managers of in
dustry. but that the demand for such
bosses and managers is very strictly
limited. So most ofthem will have
to be content to be bossed and man
aged by somebody else.
If people want positions of man
agement. American life gives a broad
opportunity. If no big concern will
employ their talents. they can start
some little enterprise of their own.
and manage it all themselves. Some
who try that will fail. because they
don't thoroughly understand the line
of work in which they try to serve
the public. They would better work
for somebody else for a number of
years. before they take on the heavy
anxieties and the hard problems of
the boss.
Milford chronicle., 1939-06-16
PITIFUL JEWS

Sympathy has been universally felt
for 9O7 Jews, pathetic refugees from
Germany, who tried to land at Ha-
vana, Cuba, and have found difficulty
in locating place where they could
stay permanently. They are only
one group of a vast army who are
thrown out of their native land, and
thrust on the mercy of the world.
The United States. with its heavy
problems of unemployment, unfor-
tunately can nG take any large pro-
portion of these pitiful people, but
it sympathizes with them IN their
misfortune and suffering from injus-
tice, and will contribute generously
to their needs. The world should
have plenty of unoccupied land.
where they can find refuge and free
dom, and chance to build their own
future without fear from tyrants and
oppressors. The world is amply large
enough to give all suffering peoples a
chance to toll and create their own
destiny.
Milford chronicle., 1939-06-16
TRIUMPH FOR OUR NAVY

1t was a big feat for the United
States navy. when by what seemed a
miracle of skill and science, it pulled
% men out of the sunken submarine
&qualus. while few days later only
four out of 103 were saved when the
rritish submarine Thetis sunk. The
American triumph seems greater
when it appeared that the Thetis
sunk in only 13O feet of water, while
the Squalus was 240 feet beneath the
waves.
The English are ordinarily wonder
tul seamen. Their feats in navigation
and in naval history have been sup
posed to be unsurpassed. But in the
.cscue of men from the bottom of
the sea. our people proved in this
case more resourceful and better or
ganized to cope with situation of
extreme difficulty.
such an exploit gives our people
great confidence of what the men
of our navy could do. if some great
emergency called on them to save the
country. Our men think fast, they
have a tradition of surmounting all
obstacles.
Milford chronicle., 1939-06-16
STUDENT REUNIONS

What are the feelings Of the college
or school graduates as they return
to the institutions from which they
graduated years and years ago? Do
they wish they were back on that
classic campus. listening to the words
of wise teachers, or perhaps running
footballs over the goal line?
It is an experience stirring the
heart strings, for a graduate to go
back to a school or college after
many years. He may cut up and
lay pranks to prove he is still
young. but the years have passed
ever him, and usually have left their
mark. As he thinks of the old days
when he was a student, he perhaps
reeIizes better the wonderful oppor-
tunities he had. Some students do
not know at the time how valuable
those chances are. If people could
have at is or 20 the wisdom and
ripeness of 40 and so. they could
solve many problems that now battle
them.
Milford chronicle., 1939-06-16
LAST Lap OF SCHOOL

The school pupils are racing tow
ard the home stretch. In a few
weeks the year of study will be
over. What have they gained of
learning and practical knowledge? II
some have tried to slip along with lit
tie work, an opportunity for which
the citizens paid money to aid them
has been missed. Il is a kind Of
tragedy to see. some capable youths
hamper their future for the sake of
present pleasure.
If they have really tried hard, they
lave mot merely pleased teachers and
parents. but they have taken a step
upward on the ladder of success. In
the few weeks left of school. let us
Lope the youngsters do their best,
and If some have loafed more than
they should, perhaps by hard work
they can make up such losses.
Milford chronicle., 1939-06-16
THE BUSINESS NEWS

The people are keen to know what
events happen in the world and their
home town. Among those events that
they are keen about. are the things
that happen in retail stores. When
these concerns put in new stocks,
when they have novel goods. when
they make reductions in price. such
things are just as interesting news
as the events that happen in Wash
irgton or across the water.
The people are keenly anxious to
know what their home stores are do
ing to attract trade. If the stores tell
about these things in the newspaper
advertising. they answer the ques-
tions that people are eagerly asking,
end are rewarded by flock of people
coming to look at their goods.
Milford chronicle., 1939-06-16
INVENTORS KEEP INvENTING

The National Inventors congress
has recently been holding its annual
exhibit at Chicago, with some 300 to
500 new ideas demonstrated to an
admiring public.
The inventors will probably tell us
that the century to come should have
as many amazing new devices as
those that have revolutionized life in
the last 100 years. AS people who
lived in 1889, with their simple and
primitive habits, could have had no
conception of the kind of life we
row live in a machine age. so we
probably have no idea of how life
Will have developed in 2039, with
many changes of which we today
have no conception.
American life has tended to pro-
duce inventors. When the old set
tiers first located on American soil
or on the untenanted plains of the
west, they had to be inventive or per-
:sh. The sources of supply were
many miles away, and not to be had
except by toilsome journeys over
vast land areas, or across the sea.
They had to take what few tools they
had, and create better appliances.
That gave them very intimate COM
pI Iehension of mechanical principles.
and they saw better ways to perform
the most marvellous machinery and
tools.
Human progress depends upon two
kinds of advance. 1t has to conquer
physical nature, and make it serve
our needs. That takes infinite pa
tience and devotion to science and
human needs. Then It has to learn
to influence human beings toward
righteous and prudent conduct. That
is a more difficult proposition. and
our people have not been so sue
cessful at it.
If our social philosophers could
only be as wise as our inventors and
scientific men. the world would make
faster progress. The inventors might |
tell us how their ideas could be ap-
piled to make people behave more
intelligently and kindly.
Milford chronicle., 1939-06-16

places. it is great help to say they
are located on a nice and attractive
street
1t is not very hard or costly for
people to acquire that reputation.
They need to keep their grass we'll
cut and seed down the spots where
the turf is thin. They should root out
the weeds that disfigure some
grounds. A home needs shrubs and
trees and flowers to make II attrac-
tive. Disorder should be cleaned up,
and houses kept well painted. If you
do such things to your home, your
neighbors will probably do the same.
and you will have the satisfaction of
living in a spot where every sight is
pleasing.
Milford chronicle., 1939-06-16
TICKING OF THE CLOCKS

There is a man at George Mills,
n. H.. who has $50 clocks. one of the
finest collections in the country. He
says he likes to hear them all ticking
in different keys. Many people will
agree with him. and say the ticking
of clocks gives feeling of compan-
ionship.
When you go away on vacation
and return to the closed house, the
silence seems oppressive. One Of
YOUR first tasks is to wind the clocks
end set them by your watch. When
the clock begins to tick, the home
seems tenanted again. and you feel
that life can go its regular ways, per-
form its duties on time. and meet the
needs of the day. The indolent man
should feel moved to regular achieve
ment. as he listens to the untiring
tick of the clock.
Milford chronicle., 1939-06-16
THE AMERICAN PICNIC

Picnics are one of our chief Ameri-
can institutions. For the women,
who are often tired of the dull rou-
tine of cooking food and washing
dishes. the meal eaten by the side of
The river or in the woodland glade
has an element of novelty, and it also
saves labor. Woman's imaginative ma
ture makes the ham sandwich eaten
amid the whispering forest or by the
ripping river seem like food for the
gods.
The men sometimes growl about
the picnic habit. particularly when
asked to lug heavy baskets over some
rough path to some nearly inaccess-
ible spot But the male animal takes
a certain pleasure in collecting sup
plies for a fire and making it burn.
which gives him the feeling that he
is still good pioneer, and an adept
al woodcraft.
The fire started, he then proceeds
tn organize ball game. Though he
may not have pitched acurve or run
around the bases for 20 years. the
itch to swat that ball still stirs in
his heart. He feels young again.
when he has sent the little sphere
bounding off into the bushes. Next
day, he may need liniment and mas
sage to correct his lame muscles.
Still it was a satisfaction to be a boy
again.
The picnic habit helps us to come
closer to Nature. In world where
the shams and shows of things often
count more than reality, it does us
good to get out among the birds, the
woodchucks, and the fish. The picnic
habit has one unfortunate result. in
the tendency of many picnickers to
leave their rubbish scattered over
the beauty spot which they tenanted
fer the moment. No family or group
is fit to enjoy the picnic until it has
formed the habit of cleaning ups ev-
cry scrap of refuse. and it is not fit
TO be trusted in Natures temple of
worship until it has extinguished
every last spark of its campfire.
Milford chronicle., 1939-06-16
HITLER CALMING DOWN.

Chancellor Hitler of Germany,
rpeaking to the German war veterans
/. few days ago, had good chance to
issue some more of his threats,
which in, the recent past have caused
the world to do considerable tut-tut-
ting. The result of these previous
rtterances was to persuade England
and France to polish up their wea-
pons and create great new flock of
war birds.
Mr.. Hitler's last speech did not
sound so warlike. He said that if the
English encirclement policy remains
as it was in 1914. the German policy
OF defense is fundamentally changed.
His principal threat was to any peo-
pie in his own government organiza-
ticn who do not come up to 100 per
cent standard as men and soldiers.
People who do not measure up, he
SAYS, will be removed from their
posts.
He has right to require such COM
pliance from his own people, which
is very different thing from order
ing the world around. If the German
people were anything like the Ameri-
can. they would resent the idea that
he alone is to be the judge as to whe-
ther or not the officers of the govern
ment come up to that standard. If
any American political leader should
ever set himself up to be the judge
of all persons connected with the gov
ernment, our people would have
something to say about it at the next
election.
The Germans of Germany have
formed the habit of bowling down to
the head of their government. 1t is
their philosophy that it is not well
for ordinary citizens to mix in af-
fairs of state, and that they should
let such issues be decided by those
who are supposed to know more
about them.
It was this excessive spirit of sub
mission that has led many millions
Of Germans to emigrate to our coun-
try in past years. where they have
gained freedom to say what they
think. Meanwhile Mr.. Hitler's last
utterance may indicate that he is
little more inclined to keep quiet in
his own yard and attend to his own
business.
Milford chronicle., 1939-06-16
UDGED BY THEIR CLOTHES

Clothes cleaned and well pressed,
aid properly groomed hands. hair.
and nails are among the points that
nelp a job seeker in finding work
said a leading bank man of Spring
field. Mass, in talking to a class OF
students.
The world can't look into a per-
sons heart and mind, but it gets some
idea of peoples habits by the clothes
they wear. and the care they take
Of these clothes. 1t is of course pos
sible for people to pay such excess
I'VE attention to dress, that the boss
may question their attention to
work. Good taste in clothing and
strict neatness indicates a regular
rethodical and accurate mind. that
will know and do the right thing in
any shop or office.
Milford chronicle., 1939-06-16
mo- LIMIT T0 PROGRESS

Has the Industrial progress of ouI
country been permanently retarded
or hindered? The country used to
take a new bound ahead every few
years. In the days when big addi-
tions were constantly being made to
the country's producing and trans
portation facilities, there seemed no
limit to progress.
From 1923 to 1929 the American
people spent over 1S,OOO,OOO,OOO a
year on what are called capital goods,
which includes factory plants, equip
ment. machinery. railroads, power
plants. etc. That expenditures drop
ped to about $4.0OO,OOO,OOO in 1882,
and it probably won't come anywhere
near $4,000, 100000 in 1889.
Some people argue that the coun-
try is already equipped with a tre-
mendous producing plant. and it will
not have to spend as freely as it did
in former years to create and main
tain this plant. Hence. it is argued,
a large amount of unemployment will
continue to exist.
Yet the American people have un-
limited wants that are not supplied.
Most of the families that do not own
automobiles would like them. Count
less families lack the conveniences
of modern plumbing. Most homes
need more labor saving devices.
There is an almost unlimited demand
sor electric and gas appliances, and
so on in many lines.
There is an unlimited market for
of American industry and
of labor. but to sell new
things the people need money. And
TO get the money. it is necessary that
they have regular work. And to give
them regular work, it is necessary
that business people see a chance I'd
earn a profit. When business be-
comes profitable. then the people
have work, and there seems no limit
to the progress of the country.
Milford chronicle., 1939-06-16
WELL.KEPT NEIGHBORHOODS

There is a great deal Of pleasure
in living in an attractive neighbor-
hood. The people who can look up
and down their street and say that
every home in that neighborhood
looks we'll cared for. should be happy
TO live among such good looking
homes. If they want to sell their
Milford chronicle., 1939-06-16

A NEW INDUSTRY is fine thing
for any town, but very fine results
can also be had by the plan Of spend
ing money at home. thus helping the
industry of maintaining home stores
to grow and employ more workers.
Milford chronicle., 1939-06-16

1T TAKES MORE than good talk at
public meetings to put town ahead.
Many doorbells have to be pulled.
many folks called by telephone.
Milford chronicle., 1939-06-16

IF THE MEN showed the same
energy in cleaning up their home
places that they do when on fish
ing excursion. some real estate
would be worth more money.
Milford chronicle., 1939-06-16

YOU HATE to send a child off to
school with shabby looking clothes.
Be equally reluctant to let your
home place show a shabby appear
ance to the world.
Evening star., 1939-02-20

Bristles exported from Manchuria
last year were valued 1t $4,000 900.
Evening star., 1939-02-20
Parallel Policy Seen
For u. s, England
And France in East
Diplomatic Circles
Struck by American
Protest Over Holman
BY the Associated Press.

A parallel policy among the
United States. Great Britain and
France in the Far East has de-
veloped to the point where diplo-
matte representatives here are CIV
| ing it close attention.
Diplomatic circles have been struck
particularly by American Ambassa-
dor Crews demand on the jap
anese foreign office last week to
learn Japans intentions in occupy
ing the island of Hainan.
The significance of his action is
not merely that it Immediately fol-
lowed similar step by Britain and
France The significance is that it
was taken despite the fact that no
such step was made when the Jap
anese occupied Canton, which actu-
ally is little closer to the Philip
pines than is Hainan, $50 miles
away.
Americans on Island.
Ambassador Grew called Japan S
attention to the fact that there
we're Americans on the island of
Hainan-but there were still more
Americans at Canton.
Last year. when the japanese
| made a feint to take Hainan, the
British and French warned her
they would stand together In COM
plications that might arise. And
now, in effect, the United States
has joined them.
Hainan is of more direct interest
to Britain and France because, as
| an air or submarine base, it could
threaten French Indo-China, less
than 200 miles away, or the British
Crown colony Hong Kong, not much
farther. But $50 miles is not great
| distance as flying lanes now go.
Exchange of Information.
Signs are multiplying Of a close
exchange of information, opinion
and action among the three democ-
racies with regard to the Far East.
Last month Britain and France
closely followed the United States
in sending notes contesting Japan's
contention that new order had
arisen in the Far East. denying her
right to abrogate the nine-power
treaty and protesting Japans in
fringements of their rights in China.
The three powers adopted the
same line in declaring to Japan
they would be glad to receive pro-
posals from her which could be dis
cussed with both Japan and China
and also the other powers directly
lnterested-meaning the other sig
natories to the nine-poWer treaty.
Japan still is studying the sugges-
ton.
1t is learned reliably here that
the three powers are exchanging
among themselves all information
they can get on Japan's actual or
planned naval building.
Evening star., 1939-02-20
Soviet Trade Campaign
Scores Another Advance

MOSCOW, Feb. 20 LP). The Soviet
Russian trade drive scored another
advance yesterday with signing of a
Polish-Soviet agreement on the basis
of a most-favored nation principle
Moscow in recent weeks has con-
cluded or renewed trade pacts with
France, Latvia. Estonia and Lith-
uania. A trade delegation from Iran
now is in Moscow and is expected
to sign an agreement soon The
appearance here of a representa-
tive of Vickers, Ltd, industrial and
armament concern. recently revived
talk of new Soviet-British trade
agreement.
What looked like a new Soviet
German trade treaty also seemed
imminent a few weeks ago, but a
representative of the German min
istry of economics failed to arrive
in Moscow after his reported de-
parture from Berlin.
German sources said the talks
were called off because too much
political Importance was being at
tached to them abroad"
Under the new agreement with
Poland, Russian exports to be in
creased include cotton, cotton waste.
tobacco, manganese, asbestos and
graphite
Poland will sell Russia more coal,
ferrous metals, cement, textile goods.
textile machinery, leather goods and
artificial silk.
Evening star., 1939-02-20
Franco Plan to Reform
Cabinet Is Reported

PERP1GNAN, France (Near the
Spanish FrontieC Feb. 20 (P).-Ea-
tionaist Generalissimio Francisco
Franco was said today by informed
border sources to plan naming new
! government of eight cabinet min
listers under the nominal direction
of his brother -in-laW, Serrano Sun
ner. as premier.
The new cabinet, these reports
said, will include Gen. Francisco
Gomez Jordana. now Gen. Franco S
Fernandez Cuesta, minister of agri-
culture, as ministers of state without
portfolio.
May Coordinate Armed Forces.
Gen. Fidel Davila, the present
war minister. was said to be slated
for the position of captain general
and inspector general of the land,
sea and air forces.
Gen. Antonio Amanda or Gen.
Jose Moscardo, it was said, might
replace him as war minister.
Other ministers. these reports
said, may be as follows:
Navy, Admiral Baratch; justice,
Count de RodeZno or another rep
resentative of the old Carlist party;
finance, a follower of Jose Maria
Gil Robles, former minister of war
and leader of popular Agrarians;
interior, a civilian appointee, aided
by Col. Ungria, present head of the
Department of Public Oorder in
the Nationalist capital of Burgos.
The cabinet would be limited to
eight ministers and other depart
ments would be turned into under
secretariats.
Evening star., 1939-02-20
Pedestrians
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hours when pedestrian and vehicle
traffic was thickest, the need for
pedestrian protection was even
greater.
One woman. who waited i'm
patiently for the light to change,
expressed an idea which would ap-
ply in many cases.
If my thinking apparatus doesn't
1all me-" she said, I'll probably
obey the signals, because I think it's
q swell idea"
NO policeman was seen raising his
voice or shouting imprecations at
violators beyond his reach, If thev
didn't respond to his whistle he let
them go. One of the officers ex-
planned that most pedestrians con-
meet footing whistles with vehicle
traffic and pay no attention them
selves.
when they realize I'm whistlinp
at them, though he added, they
60 back quick enough"
Capt. Milton D. Smith of the
Traffic Division instructed the Of
flcers this morning not to argue
with pedestrians or to threaten
them with arrest.
This preliminary period" he said,
is an attempt to educate them for
hetr own protection. After March
10 we will take action"
Evening star., 1939-02-20
British Trade Envoy
Will Visit Russia
On Promotion Trip
Other Northern Capitals
Also to See Hudson
Next Month
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Feb. 20.-Prime Min
lister Chamberlain announced in the
House of Commons today that r. S.
Hudson, secretary for overseas trade,
would visit Moscow and other
northern capitals next month to pay
special attention to trade
Mr.. Hudson, with Oliver Stanley,
president of the Board of Trade. a
department of the government, also
was scheduled to visit Berlin shortly
in an effort to improve British-Ge
man economic relations. The Ber-
lin mission was disclosed on Satur-
day.
Mr.. Hudson. known for his efforts
to improve British trade. caused a
stir December IS by threatening that
Britain would beat Germany at her
own game of barter trading unless
she halted tactics considered un-
fair by the British.
Mr.. Chamberlain announcement
followed conclusion yesterday of a
most favored trade pact be-
tween the Soviet Union and Poland
and reports that Col. Joseph Beck.
Polish foreign minister, planned
soon to visit London
The announcement tended to sup
port reports that Britain was
adopting a friendlier attitude to-
ward Soviet Russia, which had been
disregarded largely during the Sep
tember crisis over Czecho-S -Slovak-
German relations. Russia was not
invited to the Munich conference
of September 30.
Mr.. Hudson's visit to the Soviet
capital will be the first paid by a
British cabinet member since An
thony Eden went there in 1885 as
lord privy seal to get Soviet par
ticipation in collective European
security
Evening star., 1939-02-20
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