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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1939-01-12

ganl4>- Ion as though he were full
fledged on the job. The difference
is that the designation Of the colonel
as acting administrator eliminates
the requirement Of a senate confir-
nation. In other words, the senate
can do nothing about the Hopkins
successor unless it acts by special
resolution. If the Harrington name
had come in as nomination, there
could be wide open exposure of
WPA tactics by the committee
which would consider the nominal
ton. So it is plain to see that the
President slipped away from his
critics in this manner.
The third angle of the strategy
also is vital to the picture / am
seeking to present. The chief dep
uty administrator under Hopkins
has been Aubrey Williams. It was
Williams, you may recall, who has
made speeches and has advised
WPA workers to "vote for your
friends" to insist on federal pres
ervation Of ''your rights" and it
was he who said in a speech that
he was inclined to believe that class
hatred was good thing.
Many Attacks on Relief
Policies to Be Expected
To keep Mr.. Williams out of the
clutches Of the wolves around the
capitol, Mr.. Roosevelt took him off
Of the job of deputy relief admins
traitor and appointed him as direc-
tor Of the national youth admins
tration. Again, the senate can get
to Mr.. Williams only if it is willing
to adopt special resolution for an
investigation, and there is probably
enough administration strength in
the senate to block such a resolu-
ton.
The lines have not yet been tight.
ly drawn in congress as result of
the sudden maneuver by the Presi-
dent. There will be many attacks
on the relief policies at an early
date because the WPA must have
something like $3.50, 600, 900 in addi-
tional money before the middle Of
February, and that request will be
laid before congress along with 9TH
er calls for money in the first de-
ficiency bill. But Mr.. Hopkins will
be nesting comfortably in his pam
elled office on the fifth floor of the
commerce department; he will be
completely detached" from WPA
and so the controversy over voting
the money will settle down to a mat
ter of principle without having too
much personality in it.
The appointment of Col. Harring-
ton will be much advertised by ad-
ministration supporters in order to
help others forget that Hopkins once
held the job. Colonel Harrington is
accepted as high grade man. His
army associates know him as capa-
BILE, and efficient and the critics of
relief policies cannot help feeling
that he will do fairly good Job.
He has not engaged in politics, as
Hopkins did, and thus Is immune
from that approach.
Beneath the surface, plans are
said to be under way to give the
country a correct impression" Of
the new WPA. Colonel Harrington
is reported to be planning to do
away with most Of the boon dog
Cling, sewing circles to make baby
diapers, writer's projects, art prof.
ects, what-else-have-you. He wants
to use the WPA money for "con-
structive purrc-As,"
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Hopkins IL Objectionable
To a Majority in Congress


At the proper time, therefore,
congress will learn Of what is going
to be done by the new administra-
tor.
And then, comes the climax. The
President again will ask congress
to vote relief funds in bulk, in blank
check, just as happened before. The
members will be treasured by the
administration concerning the abil-
ity, honesty and soundness Of plans
of the administrator. Mr.. Roose-
welt is said to hope that the strategy
will work. / doubt 1t. but stranger
things have happened. There have
been few times in my 20 years as q
Washington observer that the feel
ing against a member Of the execu-
tive's staff has been so heated as it
has grown to be concerning Hop
kins and the relief spending that he
carried on. It will be recalled that
he never minced words about con-
gressional critics, and it will be re-
membered, as well, that he sought
to help the President purge" a
number of recalcitrant Democrats
who were seeking reelection. II
appears very strongly that Mr..
Roosevelt has elevated to his cabi-
net an individual thoroughly objec-
tionable to a majority of congress
and has, at the same time, provid-
ed himself with q chance to get
spending money again. He may not
win with the maneuver, but he has
caught good many persons off
guard with the trick.
But what of Hopkins as secretary
OF commerce, assuming that the
name will be confirmed by the sem
ate?
Well, Mr.. Hopkins will draw his
pay regularly on the first and if
teenth of each month. He will be
faithful in going to his office in the
powerful automobile that is provid-
ed by the government for the Sec
rotary OF commerce. He will sign
the papers which the secretary of
commerce is required to sign be-
cause somebody, holding subordi-
nate positions and who knows what
1t is all about, will tell him that is
their recommendation.
Secretary of Commerce to
Make 10000 Appointments
The patent Office will run, as it
always has run by itself, in a yerv
efficient manner. The bureau of air
commerce will be well managed be-
cause it has capable people in sub
ordinate positions. The bureau of
foreign and domestic commerce.
the bureau Of fisheries, the bureau
OF lighthouses and the others. or
most of them, will get along with
out too much trouble because Mr..
Hopkins probably will leave them
alone.
But we should not leave Mr.. Hon.
kins alone yet for the reason that
late this year, or early in 1910.
there will be about 10000 appoint.
ments to be made by the secretary
OF commerce. Next year is the De
Rod for the regular 10-year census
and the personnel must be named
Next year also is a campaign year
a national election.
In the meantime, the business Of
the country which is supposed n
receive encouragement and assist.
ance from the department of com.
merce will be allowed to indulge in
hope. It will not be harrassed or
spanked or threatened with major
surgery beyond the Hopkins capac-
ity to do that sort of thing.
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Total Liabilities 81, 72s. 1885

Total Liabilities 81, 72S, 1889
CAPITAL ACCOUNT
Capital stock:
(a}l Class A preferred,
total par $15,OO0yOO,
retirabl.e( value
$15,00O.0O
(c) Common, total par
800, 100000 $500. .S115,OO0.O0
Surplus ...... 100000
Undivided profits. ...... 12y801s54
Reserves land retirement
account for preferred
stock) 2,558.0O
Total Capital Account 2O5j S59.54
Milford chronicle., 1939-10-27
MRS. WALLER AGAIN
HEADS DELA. w. c. T. u.
CONTINUED from First Page1
Methodist Church, Wilmington.

Methodist Church, Wilmington.
All other officers were reelected to
serve another year with Mrs. Waller.
They are: Mrs. Katie l.. B. Dockety
of Wilmington, presidential
large: Mrs. Bertha j Coursey of
Wyoming, corresponding secretary;
Mrs. Laura V. Cloud of Wilmington
recording secretary, and Mrs. Lucy
V. Conwell of Smyrna, treasurer.
The youth night progra.A observed
at the services Friday evening was
addressed by the Rev Charles j. St
John, superintendent of the Bowery
Mission in New York.
Liquor and Age
Speaking to group of more than
300 persons the minister said that
liquor is the avenue through which
many older people try to forget their
age, and that concern should be felt
for these Americans between 80 and
so years of age.
Prohibition today is political foot
ball rather than a moral issue, the
81 eaker said, and it will not be eff
fective until it is taken out of the
hands of politicians and put in the
hands OF God-fearing Christian men
ard women. America would be dry
in three years if the church would
stand united for prohibition, he ad-
ded
Wins Medal Contest
A pearl medal contest preceding
the address was won by Betty Le-
Gates, Seaford. Other contestants
were: Minnie White, Seaford; Vir-
ginia Goldner, Union Church; Jean
Williams, St. Pauls Methodist
Church; Erma DeCourse and Gladys
Grove, Kingswood Methodist Church;
Helen Moxham, First Methodist
Church, all of Wilmington.
Miss Mildred Miller presided and
devotions were conducted by Miss
Doris Slawter.
Milford chronicle., 1939-10-27
THE ANTARCTIC PROSPECTS

When Admiral Byrd arrives at the
South Pole in a few weeks it may be
that he will be called upon to carry
out a formality of abandoning Lit
tie America" inasmuch as the Brit
ish are claiming that area of the
South Polar region.
News reports are to the effect that
the Byrd expedition, which is Off
cial and has the authorization of
Congress, with appropriations suffi-
cient to carry on work, will make
claims to vast new areas of the froz-
en- polar regions where no other
government has ever landed one of
its citizens, or attempted to place its
flag.
The expedition is bound to be an
historic one, particularly because
for the first time it will establish
permanent stations, always to be
occupied by American citizens.
1t sounds like looking far ahead"
to think of the Anarctic as a place
which in a few thousand years may
grow trees, food and become habit
able. But Byrd proved that it once
was--all that likely will re-
peat, some day, sometime.
Milford chronicle., 1939-10-27
Tax Figures Tell Story

One of the stock arguments in IA
vor of punitive taxation against
chain stores, IL the contention that
they don't pay their fair share of
taxes. Generally that claim is based
on the assumption that due to a high
rate of stock turnover, and eonse-
Quent lower inventories, they have
an especial advantage in personal
property tax assessments.
An exhaustive survey by the Ma
tiOnal Tax Association as 10 the real
and personal property taxes paid by
chains and Independents in nine
western states showed cOnclusively
that in the regions covered, the
chains paid more than the indepeRd-
ents, per thousand feet of floor space.
Percentages in favor of the chains
ranged all the way from l.6 per
cent in California. TO 52.2 per cent
in Utah. In other words, California
chains paid $l2S in taxes for each
thousand feet of floor space, while
the independents paid $126. In Utah,
the figures were $2S5.54 for the
chains and only $1S754 for the in
A QUESTIONABLE was mailed to tax
assessors, asking: "a Are chain
stroes in youI county filing assess
ments on a fair and equitable basis,
or are they receiving any advan-
tage5 in assessments? (2) Do chain
stores enjoy advantages not avail
Milford chronicle., 1939-10-27
RADIANT LIVING
THE ETERNAL TRUTHS
BY Rev. c. NJ. Griffeth
Pastor Ridgely NJ. Z. Church
Ridgely, Nd

AS / motored up a wooded noun
tain road l came at last to the top
which afforded me an extensive
view of the valley below. The view
was so enhancing that pulled to the
side of the road and cut OF the
engine.
With its rectangular fields of green
alfalfa, of yellow grain, and the
dark brown of newly-plOwed land,
the scene presented an appearance
of an Old-fashiOned bedquilt laid
over the unevenness of the valley.
On a nearby hillside stood a group
OF cattle contentedly grazing.
AS / sat looking at the scene l
was deeply impressed with the sta
bility of it all | was but a traveller
Passing through, but this beautiful
valley remains here day after day.
might go to the ends of the earth
but / would always know that this
valley remains in its place. 1t is
reliable. II is something
that can be counted on.
The stability of the valley re-
me of the truths of God that
are unchanged by time or circum-
stance. This beautiful valley may
be swept by icy winds and buried
deep with snow, or drenched by the
torrential rains of summer showers,
yet there it stays unmoved and prac-
tically unchanged. So are the truths
of God unmoved by the icy blasts of
skeptics or by the tOrrential rains of
the opiniOnated writings of modern
critics.
| was reminded of the statement
Of Jesus: Heaven and earth shall
pass away, but my words shall never
pass away"
The quietness of the scene impress
I'd me. The valley seemed to lay in
/ mystic serenity. A prayer aseended
rom my heart. Like those grazing
'attle upon the hillside, let me, o God
iced upon thy everlasting truths!"
was my petition.
Milford chronicle., 1939-10-27
OF ELECTRICITY

The telegraph was invented by
Samuel F. B. Morse and Alfred Dali
in their workshop at Morristown,
New Jersey, 10l years ago this fall,
and IL gave a thrill to Washington
and Baltimore when a message was
telegraphed by code, between the
latter two cities.
The original key used in the trans
mission of the first telegraph mess
age is in the Smithsonian Institu-
tion in Washington.
1t was nearly so years later be-
fore telephone communication ex-
listed. with few optimistic subscrib-
ers in important centers like New
York, Philadelphia and Washington.
The World was better prepared
for ENTHUSIASTICALLY when Mar
conf was conducting his experiments
30 years ago, but there were very
few optimists who had any faith in
the predictions that have been full
filled by radio.
Now comes teleYision, which works
successfully in limited areas.
Thousands of modern wonders are
due to electricity, through which
medium automobiles travel the
earth, and airplanes lift themselves
high into the skies. Electrical sup
ports that keep planes from falling
will be next.
Milford chronicle., 1939-10-27
COUNTY AGENTS TO
PREPARE WORK SHEETS

Previous to preparing their 1889
annual reports, which are to be com
pleted December /, county extension
agents have been requested by the
extension service of the University of
Delaware to also prepare their 1910
programs of work, and these subjects
were among many other agricultural
problems discussed in detail at the
annual extension conference which
was held the early part of this week
at Newark.
The 1910 program of extension work
with reference to the county agent
will be very similar to that of the
past few years, according to Kent
County Agent Russell E. Wilson,
whose duties in recent years have
changed decidedly from those en-
gagged in before many of the federal
programs were allocated either en-
tirely or in part to this division of the
agricultural extension service in this
state. In the preparation of these
programs for Kent county careful
consideration has been given each
year to the agricultural needs of the
county and the adjustment of farming
practices along with the balancing of
production of our basic farm crops
and the conservation of our soil and
other natural resources.
The future progress of agriculture,
therefore, depends upon farmers hav-
ing more thorough and comprehen-
sive understanding regarding the ma
tional agricultural situation and its
influence on their individual farms in
acreage control to conform to our
basic laws of supply and demand.
Taking these facts into consideration
the program of extension work of
the coutny agent in the future will
continue to cooperate with the Agri-
cultural Adjustment. Farm Credit,
Farm Security, Rural Electrification
administrations and other federal
agencies being directed by the United
States Department of Agriculture to
assist farmers to attain a higher
standard of living.
The extension projects relating to
crop and livestock production as i'm
portant factors in the establishing of |
a more secure and satisfied rural life |
are likewise incorporated in the ex
tension program for Kent county each |
year. With reference to poultry spe-
cial attention is being given to poul-
try accounts and egg records, hatch
cry and flock improvement, and poul
try management. Orchard, vineyard
and truck crops spray notes will be
mailed again this coming year to
farmers in regard to insect and dis
ease control, and pasture and hay \
L.. Fe,l ~
with the dairy herd i'm
program. A study concern
ing the more advisable use of land
and the adjustment of crop and live
stock production will be a new fea-
lure of county extension programs in
he future.
Milford chronicle., 1939-10-27

Of borrowed money to date. Each
plant is threat TO free enterprise,
and undermines democracy-yet pub
lie opposition has been dormant.
If government would take over the
electric utility industry and then
stop, the average citizen might not
have undue cause to worry. Unfor-
tuDatelY such would not be the case.
Expanding bureaucracy never halts
OF its own will If given the oppor-
tunity il will gradually extinguish
the institution of private ownership.
and when that has been accomplish
ed, individual liberty and represen-
tative government will follow Gov
ernmenI ownership and free enter
prise cannot live peaceably side by
side.
During the past decade in the Uni
ted States. The public ownership
versus free enterprise battle has
ragged with ever increasing intensity.
There has been no gunfire, but carry
ing cut the principle involved, name
ly, government domination of the
individual has strewn fields of bat
tie with dead the world over
Milford chronicle., 1939-10-27
MEXICO PUTS UNCLE
SAM ON THE HOT SPOT

Mexico's financial condition may
be shaky but her nerve is all there.
At least her Foreign Minister Edu-
ardo Hays nerve never was func-
tioning better than when he rose
from his seat at the Panama Neu-
trality Conference one day last week
to say that he wants the United
States Government to make a clarifi-
caticn statement of its silver policy.
1t took nerve a lot of it and a bit
of gall too, for Hay, who has sup
ported and justified Mexico's cOnfis-
cation of American-oWned proper
ties, TO ask the United States repre-
sentatives openly in meeting whe-
ther or not this country would con-
tinue buying Mexico silver.
AS a matter OF actual fact the
purchase of foreign silver by the
United States is our private affair;
a foolish and even ruinous one if
Indefinitely continued But it's our
own affair And being a purely do
mestic policy, which affects other
countries only because they get
some of the money We are throwing
away on it, it is not a subject for
debate nor an instrument of pres
sure in any international gathering
of good neighbors.
Naturally SenOr Hay did not say
that Mexico would 60 broke or else
would have to return the cOnfiscated
oil properties to their rightful own
ers unless Uncle Sam continued his
weird policy of buying from Mexico
all of the silver she can take out OF
her holes in the ground so that he
paying for it with borrowed money.
can bury il in his hole in the ground
at West Point.
No, Senior Hay did not hint at this
Instead he asked for such Il United
States declaration Oh his silver pur-
chase policy because if continued he
believed that it would intensity
commerce among the silver produc-
ing countries . of the CONT
Dent."
Sure Mike! II would. And why
not? We buy something Mexico has
lots of which no one else wants and
for which we have no earthly need. |
And by So doing We enable her 10 get
away with confiscation Of American
owned properties.
But We do more, far more than to |
keep Mexico atloat financially by
the silver purchases. The |
of this United States |
program is being interpreted in |
Mexico as definite proof that the |
United States Government officially |
approves the c0nfiscation by Mexico |
Of American-Owned oil properties.
Such an Interpretation, of course,
is absurd. But be that as il may. /
Senior Hay did put the United States
officials on the spot by making his /
request at a conference where rep
'esentatives of the twenty-one Pan
American republics were trying to I
work out a solid front agreement
against the European war
His timing VISA perfect. His nerve
vas colossal. His position was ma
ural. Maybe he was sincere in be-
ieving that this misconcerned good
generous gesture had be-
'ome right especially when it had ;
'een continued long after Mexico
orcibly took and continued to hold
Millions OF dollars worth of Ameri-
an property
Milford chronicle., 1939-10-27
Can The People Be
Fooled?

Protagonists of public ownership
of the electric industry cry loudly
that the destinies of electric utilities
should not be left to private enter
prise, that they should be turned
over to the people" and managed
in behalf of the general welfare by
''the people"
AS a matter of fact, the people ac-
tdally own and control the electric
utilities to a far greater extent un-
der private Owner5hip than they
could ever hope to under sOcialis-
tic policy of government ownership.
The private utilities are now
stringently regulated by the people
in every phase of operation, through
state and Federal agencies. Their
profits, if any, after the tax collec-
tor gets through with them, go to
hundreds of thousands of bond and
stock holders throughout the coun-
try-investOrs who, for a number of
years, have lived in fear that their
savings would be wiped out by the
shotgun bargains of public owner
ship politicians
Before a Federal power socializa-
tion policy was inaugurated in our
country, private utilities had given
us the most completely electrified
nation in the world, and had reduced
the average family electric bill TO
about $500 per month.
The people have been able to con-
troll the private utilities through rea-
sonable public regulation. 1t is safe
to say that if the industry is social
lied under government ownership,
il will become a bureaucratic men
ace to the entire system of private
enterprise-and the people will have
very little to say about it,
Milford chronicle., 1939-10-27
R-HOUR WEEK
AFFECTS $500
IN DELAWARE
CONTINUED from I7rst Pass;

officials said that approximately
three-fourths of the workers now
receiving less than 80 cents an hour
are concentrated in IL southern
states and five northern industrial
states. Slightly more than 1000, 900
of those working longer than AZ
hours week are in the industrial
states of Illinois, Michigan, New
York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Mas
sachusetts.
Many Below 80 Cent Minimum
The bureau said that in Virginia
and North Carolina, one out of seven
workers covered by the act was now
getting less than 80 cents an hour;
in South Carolina. Georgia, and
Florida, one out of four; Tennessee,
Alabama, and Louisiana, one out of
five; Arkansas, one out of three, and
Mississippi, four out of 10.
The largest single concentration
of workers below the 3O-cent mini
mum was found in southern saw
mills where it was estimated that
$4,000 out of $4,000 We're below the
30-cent level.
Milford chronicle., 1939-10-27
Neutral Issues

Our good friend, Douglas NAL
colin, of the American Express tells
us that American travellers are
most adjustable" and that when
they ''shut off one avenue of travel
they will soon find another" He
thinks that the steamship eompan-
les and travel agencies should be
able to keep in step with all changes
that occur in business and in travel
and catch up with rerouted seaways
and highways. According to Bro
ther Malcolm exploring the Wes-
tern Hemisphere will likely be the
next travel trend" and inasmuch az
we get this advice from a man who
has been sitting in the drivers seat
and directing lines of travel for a
quarter of a century we are willing
to say that the above is an item
based upon the opinion of a man
who knows what he is talking about
Milford chronicle., 1939-10-27
SAVE DEMOCRACY-AT HOME

Apparently a great many people
never became alarmed about Demo-
cracy until they hear the crack of
rifles. During the last decade there
has been studied, deliberate at
tempt to socidlize the electric light
industry in the U. S. Government
ownership is definite Federal policy.
Every possible effort has been made
to extend this policy. Publicly sub
sidized electric plants dot the coun-
try from coast to coast, for which
the government (the people) has OBJ
ligated itself for nearly $4,000 900 600
Milford chronicle., 1939-10-27

able to other taxpayers?
Replies were received from 23S
county assessors in seven states.
Two-hundred-thirt answered that
chains were fair and honest in max
ing tax returns-none thought that
chains enjoy an advantage not avail
able to other taxpayers! Such facts
are indispensable to an intelligent
discussion of modern merchandising
methods.
Milford chronicle., 1939-10-27

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SUCIETY
Branch Of The First Church or
Christ. Scientist, in Boston. Mass.
Services every Sunday at II a. m.
Sunday School at same hour.
"Wednesday evening meeting, firsI
Wednesday in each month at s p. N
In Grange Hall. Milford. Del.
Milford chronicle., 1939-10-27

If you are interested in charitable
enterprises, contact the Kings
Daughters. They are interested in
scores of worthy cases, and will
gladly place your donations for you.