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Milford chronicle., 1939-12-29
RELIGIOUS FREEDOM

The great causes of human pro-
sress go slow in time of war. Regret
will be felt that it has been neces-
sary to cancel the plans for the
world congress for Free Christianity
and Religious freedom, scheduled to
be held in Budapest, Hungary, in
1910. But the people are urged to
observe International Sunday on
January IA.
The human spirit can't be confined
in any prison house of thought. Ev-
erywhere men long for the freedom
to worship and act as they believe
right. Oppressors may lock peoples
bodies up in concentration camps,
but their spirits are still reaching
out to the free air of heaven, and
demanding that the chains with
which tyrants seek to bind mems
hearts and minds shall be loosened.
Milford chronicle., 1939-12-29
Milford. Friday. December 90, 1ss'
1899 IN HISTORY

The year 1899 will go down in his
tory as a time when the world locke
shudderingly into the horrible pi
where it suffered such agonies from
1914 to 1918. Yet in spite of its clea
sight of all those horrors and suf
ferings, it had to go and fall into thu
same pit again.
The world during this year wit
messed one unexpected thing, ana
that was the alliance between Ger
many and Russia. 1t had been said
for years that if those two dictator
ruled nations ever got together, a
dreadful tragedy might he in store
for democracy and civilization. When
they actually came together, the re-
suits have not seemed quite so omi-
nous II has been found that a good
part of the supposed strength of
Russia was merely on paper.
The year has seen two progress
sive nations. Poland and CzechOslO-
vakia. wiped out and reduced to SER
vitude. History will long deplore
this sad event. The year has also
seen the mighty power of Russia
crashing down on enlightened little
Finland. and discovering up to date
that it takes something more than
numbers to win battles.
In our country. the year has seen
a gradual improvement in business
and industry. The silver Innings
around the clouds have grown wider,
and frightened quite a bit. Large
areas of blue sky appear amid the
heavens.
The main thought of our country
has been the desire of our people to
keep cut of war. They have said that
they can not undertake to cross the
water every 20 years and force those
nations to show some sense and con-
sideration. Our people wait in
rather breathiess manner. as they
hear the cannons roar and see the
ships sink to the bottom of the sea.
They thank God and their ancestors
for 5000 miles of ocean Between
themselves and such folly.
Milford chronicle., 1939-12-29
DRAMA on THE SEA

Perhaps the most dramatic story
of the present war reached its eli
max when the German pocket bat
tleship" the Admiral Graf Spec was
driven after a fierce fight into the
harbor of Montevideo in Uruguay
and later forced out to sea, where
she was sunk on orders. as reported,
of the German government
HerOism was displayed on all sides
of this thrilling event. II took great
courage for the Germans to go
through such hell of battle, and it
took the same valor for inferior
British ships to stand up TO the Ger
man guns. Whatever admiration one
may feel for the men of the Ger
man ship. when such craft is sent
out to prey on peaceful commerce
in a war for which no excuse can be
found. the best place for it is the
bottom of the sea, where even the
fishes can't he injured by the rem
nants of its former power
Milford chronicle., 1939-12-29
WARS DESTRUCTION

If the people of the world SHOULD
J suddenly go out on the ocean ant
, throw a major proportion of theil
money, property. and all valuables
into the water, and see them sink out
of sight, it would be thought they
had gone crazy. Yet this is essen
TALLY what they do when they carry
on wars.
A spectacular illustration of this
destruction occurred when the SUI
lperb German passenger ship, the
"Columbus" was sent TO the bottom.
Here was one of the most superb
triumphs of human skill and science.
Failing in her effort to cross the
ocean and reach home, she was sent
to the bottom, and all that vast
amount of value. capable of per-
! forming such useful and beautiful
service, is forever lost and thrown
away. Great as that loss is, that kind
of thing is taking place every day,
when big and little ships are sent TO
the bottom, when the valuable works
of man are ruined by bombing raids,
when enormous amounts of treasure
are spent on weapons of destruction,
and when human life, which could
create such welfare. is thrown away
viii the world have anything left
when it gets through fighting? The
nations that manage to keep out of
war will not suffer so severely, but
they will have heavy losses. AS for
the fighting nations, they are throw
ing away the results of science and
mans patient effort. And all for
what?
1t seems clear enough to our peo-
pie that all nations lose when they !
take part in a war. In former tunes
il was claimed that some nations
prohted by wars, but this was no
doubt delusion. II is clear enough |
now that ii costs far more to win a
war than the victory is worth. Yet
he nations keep fighting. viii they
ever learn some sense?
Milford chronicle., 1939-12-29
L00KING BACK AT 1899

Ambitious persons in the working
world look back at the close of the
year, and ask where they succeeded
and where they failed in those 12
months. If they missed some op-
portunities and made some mistakes,
they resolve not to repeat such er-
rors in 1910.
1t is a good idea if the people of
a town can do the same thing for
the year that has passed and the
one that is to come. They should re-
gret any chances that their home
town missed in 1889 for going ahead.
but it still has the future to repair
those mistakes. The way to greater
prosperity and advantages is always
open to the community that will
seize its opportunities.
Milford chronicle., 1939-12-29
THE DEBT LIMIT

The law of the United States
passed is years ago. prohibits the
government from incurring a debt OF
more than s45.OOO,OOO,OOO. The pres
ent debt is nearly 100000, 600.
Either congress will soon have TO
pass new law raising the debt
limit, or else new taxes will have to
he laid
The American people don't want
new taxes, and they don't want to
see the debt grow bigger. If they
manage their public affairs as an in
cividual manages. his own finances.
Milford chronicle., 1939-12-29
CONTRASTS OF NEW YEAR

The coming of the New Year sees
a contrast in the way in which peo-
pie take this event. In countless
crowded city streets. in festive dance
halls, in jolly dining places, the
crowd becomes uproariOus. People
shout and cheer. they blow horns and
agitate noise making devices, they
dance and sing. and play tricks. You
would think somebody had given
them a million dollars.
Some of this enthusiasm may be
promoted by too liberal potations of
stimulating fluid. Yet the spirit of
jollity has seized hold of a lot of
temperate people, and something
fills them with hope and happiness.
They will have the same problems
to meet January that they had De-
cember 81. 1t is something to look
into the future with cheer and con-
fdence. Those who do so are more
likely to accomplish their hearts
wish.
Then there are many thousands
who gather in quiet churches for
solemn meditation. They seek in the
comforting words of Holy Scripture,
in the hymns of ancient saints the
comfort that comes from a reflective
approach to life. They do well to
seek the guidance of a higher power, |
which shall help them find new so
lutions of the problems of life.
There is such a thing as taking |
the New Year occasion in a too light |
and flippant way, and there is such |
a thing as being too mournful about
it. It should be time of happiness.
if we are determined to render bet
ter service to the world and look on
the bright side of life. 1t is well to
stop a bit to think We are passing |
over way by which we shall never
return, and we would better scatter
some seeds of kindness, as the old
hymn says, while we journey along.
Milford chronicle., 1939-12-29
ENTERING 1910

What thoughts come to us on New
Years eve, as the clock sounds those
12 solemn strokes which say that one
more year has passed into historyi
Also that so far as we can see in this
world of shadows, we are permitted
some further chance to live and en-
joy the fruits of our labor.
Alfred Tennyson, famous poet,
asked himself that question on New
Years eve One can imagine, as he
was meditating on the mysteries of
the strange experience we call life,
that he heard the Joyous clang of the
New Year bells. and that he then
wrote the beautiful lines that be-
gin:
"Ring out wild bells, to the wild sky
The flying cloud, the frosty light;
The year is dying in the night;
Ring out wild bells and let him die"
He thus expressed the thought
that we should not regret the pass
age of time. nor wish il to go less
slowly. Then he went on to say how
the bells should ring out false pride,
grief. the feud of rich and poor, party
strife. the coldness of the times. the
lust of gold, and the wars of old.
Also that the bells should ring in
redress to all mankind. better laws
and ways of living, the love of truth
and right, and universal peace.
1t is well for people to say Happy
New Year" with cheerful hearts, and |
to celebrate the advent of the New
Year as a pleasant and hopeful
event. But as the poet Tennyson
made clear. it should also bring hope
md plans for making a better world
The bells of New Year should not
merely tell us TO be happy and con-
ident. but they should summon us TO
20 out and work for better world.
where sorrow is less bitter, poverty
ess grinding, and where the peace
makers have softened the hearts of
hose who wage cruel war.
Milford chronicle., 1939-12-29
THE HOLIDAY TRADE

The Christmas trade of 1899 is
over, and the merchants of Milford
wish TO thank the people of this city
and surrounding communities for
the generous patronage they have
received. They believe that the goods
that have been bought here repre-
sent the full moneys worth that has
been paid for them, and that count
less articles purchased here for gifts
will give infinite pleasure and salts
faction.
The people of wide area of terri
tory have seen through this shopping
season that Milford is a most excel
lent place in which TO trade. They
have received the most careful SER
vice that could be given in a rush
period. If they will come in the next
few weeks when the stores will not
he so crowded, they will find that
shopping here is made a pleasure
and satisfaction by all the store peo-
pie.
Milford chronicle., 1939-12-29

who has this burden on his back has
a very hard job to keep up with his
studies.
A news note from Lawrence. Kan
sss. says that the working students
OF the University Of Kansas have
maintained slightly higher scholas-
tic average than the average for all
students. Probably similar figures
from many colleges would show like
results. The way is still open to all
who want high education. and are
willing to toll to get it. They will
not regret the effort.
Milford chronicle., 1939-12-29
THE LIFE an A nEER

1t is customary to say that some.
one is leading a dogs life, If his oc-
cupation calls on him for fatiguine
work. Wonder how dogs life com
lares with a deer's life? Claude
Debussy, famous French composer
wrote piece of music called aThe
afternoon of a fawn." which pictured
in musical language fawn as lead
ing Il very happy and poetic life. The
deer will say their lives aren't like
that during the open season.
In many states it is customary TO
give the hunters free right to shoot
deer for only a short season. Dur
ing the closed season, the deer be-
come very tame, and on the first
Gay of the open season it is easy to
get them. When the banging in the
woods begins. they hunt their most
secluded retreats. and say deer's
life is worse than a dogs life. Deer
are beautiful animals. and some peo-
pie don't want to shoot them. They
are destructive to certain crops, so
il seems necessary to reduce the'-
population from time TO time.
Milford chronicle., 1939-12-29

merchandise could be improved. or
offered to the public at lower
price. They did the kind of thing
that was needed and desired, and as
j result the world fiocked to their
doors. and paid for their keenness
Of observation.
There are plenty. of unfuliilled
needs and desires everywhere. There
are all around us boys and girls
who have little money, but who have
bright minds, who will see things
that need to be done. The world
win reward them generously when
they offer these things to the public.
Milford chronicle., 1939-12-29

they will probably either cut down
expenses or else find some new rev.
enue. It is easy borrowing money
but not so easy to pay it back. The
more Uncle Sam borrows, the harder
he will have to work some day to
pay off his debts.
Milford chronicle., 1939-12-29
FILLING THE PUBLIC NEED

If You study the success of peo-
pie who have made money, you usu-
ally find they had succeeded special
" well in filling some public need.
They were bright enough to see how
some kind of service or article of
Milford chronicle., 1939-12-29

PEOPLE who have the quality
called grit" which is the ability to
overcome difficulties, are greatly ad-
mired. So the gritty town, which
takes hold to remove the obstacles
that block its progress, arouses adj
miration, and people would all like
to live there and share its advan-
tages.
Milford chronicle., 1939-12-29

THE HUMAN RACE began to
make progress when it learned the
art of printing and passed its
thoughts around on paper. So bust
ness makes progress when It learns
to make use Of printing to- adyer-
tise the things it has to sell.
Milford chronicle., 1939-12-29
wORKTNG STUDENTS

1t is often said to be a pretty
tough proposition for a student to
work his way through a college, pay
ing his expenses by the toll of his
hands. Some people say the student
Milford chronicle., 1939-12-29

WHEN ONE TOWN goes ahead
and some neighbor community re-
mains stationary, there is not usu-
ally any great difference in the ad-
vantages of these places. Usually
the difference comes because the
people in the advancing town coop
crate better, and work together TO
get results.
Milford chronicle., 1939-12-29

IF YOU can't remember your
home town when you have money to
spend, will your home town remem-
ber you when it has jobs to give?
Milford chronicle., 1939-12-29

a Hatfy and Pro,eeroui Neqv Year
The Washington times., 1939-01-28
FRANCE ADMITS
SPAIN REFUGEES

PARIS, Jan. % G.N.S0.-Franct
has decided to admit all refugees
from Spain, is was believed today
following a meeting Of the council
of ministers at which the prob
lem was taken up.
Permission for the refugees tc
enter France, however, depends or
exaction Of a promise from Lon
don that the British government
will aid financially.
Albert Sarraut. minister Of the
interior, denied in a press confer
ence that France has decided tc
send a representative to the in
surgent government.
One thousand Spanish refugees
crossed the French frontier al
LIE Perthus today and were sent
on into the interior Of France
Fifteen thousand refugees are ex
pected shortly at rg-Madame
Troop reinforcements have been
sent to guard border stations and
preserve order.
The Washington times., 1939-01-28

The man was identified as Ham
mill L. Nicholson, SO, believed to
be a former District policeman,
and lately a taxi driver for the
Washington Cab Company. The
woman was identified as Catherine
or Katheryne Staples, SO.
Nicholson was tentatively identi-
fled as a policeman attached to
the Ninth Precinct about 10 years
ago. He was dismissed from the
force for desertion, police said.
Note DISCOVERED
They had been living at the K
Street apartment since shortly be-
fore Christmas, according to James
Henderson, manager Of the apart
m snt house.
A note, scribbed on a paper bag,
indicated to police that the deaths
were not accidental. It read:
Il am writing this to my
mother and she viii know why.
I may be gone. I ask God to
forgive me, but hope they
Continued ON Page 4, Col. 81
The Washington times., 1939-01-28
J. H. SChaffner Dies;
Was Noted Scientist

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Jan. 2S
G.N.S0. - Prof. John Henry
Schaffner, 72, world renowned
botanist and research professor
at Ohio State University since
1928, was dead today. victim of a
heart attack. The noted scien-
tist began his teaching career at
the University of Michigan, later
going to the University of South
Dakota. He won international
recognition in the scientific world
for his discovery Of the chrome
some reduction process in plants
on which the Mendelian phe-
nomena is based.
The Washington times., 1939-01-28
Foreigners TO Find
BULGARIA No Refuqe

1" SOFIA, Jan. 28 Q.N.S0.-The
process Of becoming a Bulgarian
citizen is getting more difficult.
The committee for Bulgarian
citizenship is receiving no new
citizens and additional clauses to
the law are being considered.
Henceforth no foreigner will be
able to flee to Bulgaria and find a
refuge in Bulgarian citizenship.
No more marriages contracted in
a hurry, no evading Of the law Of
reighboring countries through the
security Bulgaria guarantees with
her loose domestic regulations
will be allowed,
The Washington times., 1939-01-28
Physics Experts Here
Study Atom-Smashin

An demonstrating experiment,
which took place in Germany and
which might tap untold energy,
reverberated here yesterday in q
report at the fifth annual confer
ence on Theoretical Physics. I"
The breaking of uranium atoms
ioto element 90" and barium Was
reported in papers from DR.. g.
Hahn of the Kaiser Wilhelm InSti-
tute, Berlin. It was estimated by
some scientists that 200, ,000, 900
electron volts Of energy would be
released from each broken atom,
II such a change did actually take
place. The conference has been
sponsored by Carnegie Institution
and George Washington Univer-
Sity.
The Washington times., 1939-01-28
Ben LuCien Burman
Wins Author Award

NEW YORK, Jan. 28 0.N.S).
Ben Lucien Burman, Kentucky
author. today was given the South.
'erp Authors award for his novel,
BLOW for a Landing" The award,
given for the most distinguished
Southern book published during
1888, was made at the seventh
annual Southern Authors lunch.
con held today.
The Washington times., 1939-01-28
Atlanta Battling
Spectacular Fire

ATLANTA, Jan. 28 QN.S0
Fire, apparently starting from an
explosion spread rapidly through
the Mutual Furniture Company's
store shortly before noon today,
threatening to destroy the entire
structure. All available fire-fight-
ing equipment rushed to the scene.
The building Is near a hospital
and is within two blocks Of where
the famous Atlanta fire of 1916
started.
The Washington times., 1939-01-28
RulinQ
Expected

(I.N.S.) Supreme Court JUS
tices held q secret conference
today, with q possibility that
final agreement may be
reached on the pending de-
cisiOn in the Tennessee Val
ley Authority case.
The court cOnveneS Mon
day to deliver opinions.
While rumOrS have spread Of
q split in the court over con-
stitutiOnality of the iva
power program, New Deal Of
ficials are hopeful a ruling on
the question will be an
nOunced Monday.
Another lOng-awaited de-
ciSiOn which may be handed
down revOlves around the
question Of validity Of the
anti.child labor amendment.
now before the States for
ratification.
Prof. Felix FrSnkfurter
will take the oath Of office
Monday.
The Washington times., 1939-01-28
By CHARLES A. SMITH

LONDON, Jan. 28 Q.N.S).-A
stiffer attitude toward the dicta
torships, out with conciliation and
appeasement still uppermost, is
expected to be adopted by Prime
Minister Neville Chamberlain to
night in an address before his
home constituency at Birming
ham.
Originally intended as a plain
talk for the home folks" Chamber
lain'S speech has now been listed
as a formal government pronounce
ment and will be broadcast
CONTINUED on Page 2, Col. ~
The Washington times., 1939-01-28
U. 5. Workers Oppose
State Income Taxes

Opposition to GOV ernment
workers paying State income
taxes was generated in discus
sions at a meeting Of the District
Department of the American
Federation Of Government En-
ployeS last night. Col. Charles
I. Stengle, president Of the feder-
alton, asked why Government
workers should pay more when
those who make an adequate
salary pay a Federal income tax
and that is all their Representa-
tives pay" The meeting was at
the Hamilton Hotel.
The Washington times., 1939-01-28
CHAMBERLAIN
TO STAND FIRM
ON D|CTATORS

LONDON, Jan. 28 U.N.SO.
Reorganization of Prime Min
lister Chamberlain'S cabinet to
cope with the European Situa-
ton was completed today.
Sir Thomas InSkip was trans
ferred from the post of Minister
for Coordination Of Defense to
that of DOminiOnS Minister and
succeeded in the important war
post by Lord Chatfield, former
first sea lord of the admiralty
and q veteran of Jutland.
The Washington times., 1939-01-28
Doctors Hunt Nail in BOy,
Find 1rr1ardS' on Wrong Side

If Percy Jackson, IA, Of the
100 block Fourth st. s. E., hadn't
swallowed a nail, it might never
have been discovered that his
"innardS" are reversed.
But the youngSter did swallow
q nail the other day, and he was
rushed to Gallinger Hospital.
And there the doctors X-rayed
him to locate the nail, and were
they shocked!
For Percy's insides are all re-
Versed. His heart, his liver and
The Washington times., 1939-01-28

NEW YORK, Jan. 28 U.N.SO
Jules e. Brulatour, the 68-year-old
film multi-millionaire who is at
liberty in $500 bail charged with
illegal possession Of a revolver, re-
NAMED confined to his bed today
at Lenox Hill Hospital on the ad-
vice Of physicians.
Miss Hope Hampton, the stage
and opera star, who has been
with her husband ever since he
was accidentally shot in the neck
last Sunday night at his apart.
The Washington times., 1939-01-28

his stomach are all just opposite
to where they should be.
The nail has been removed, and
next Monday the doctors are go
ing to take another look into Percy
to see If mis- appendix Is where II
should be-and they don't think
it is. They expect that too is re
versed.
Such cases are extremely rare
doctors said, but the fact that the
organs are misplaced does not af.
feet the health.
The Washington times., 1939-01-28
Heart Specialist Orders
BrulatOur Not Disturbed

ment, remained in the room at
the hospital she has engaged.
DR.. Franz Groedel, heart spe.
cialist. ordered Brulatour not to
leave the hospital.
It cannot discuss the condi-
ton Of q patient" he said, "but
have ordered a complete rest,
with all visitors excluded"
District Attorney Dewey is
waiting to have Brulatour ar.
raigned in Felony Court as soon
Ias he Is able to leave the hospital.
The Washington times., 1939-01-28
SENATE OPENS.
TODAY ON
WPA POLITICS.
Bill Likely to Pass
After Squabble
BY ARTHUR HACHTEN

U.N.S.) Senate passage Of the
battle-scarred emergency WPA
appropriation bill this afternoon
was generally forecast by Repub-
ucan and Democratic leaders as
controversy over the measure was
resumed today.
The Senate having voted late
yesterday, Al to 46, to slash Pres
ident Roosevelt's recommendation
Of $s75, 100000 to $725.o .o00, ,OOO'
first amendments slated to be
adopted today were those putting
iron-clad prohibitions against
'WPA in politics"
Fight OOer Wages
A fight was brewing over the
Senate appropriation committees
action In knocking out q House
provision to prevent more than a
Is per cent diffeSential in wages
for similar work as between d1f-
ferent areas Of the nation.
Southern Senators were bat
ting for restoration Of the House
language IN the hope that 1t
would result In sending more re-
lief money to the South.
However. there was q strong
combination Of northern Repub'
licans and Democrats. who in
sisted the House language would
in effect repeal the prevailing
wage" law, under which WPA
workers are supposed to receive
the same rate Of pay given in pri-
vate industries.
Economy Bloc Elated
President Roosevelt's defeat in
his appeal for $875. 100000 to
carry on WPA until June 80 was
hailed jubilantly by the so-called
economy bloc in Congress.
Some legislators saw in the set
back to the Chief Executive his
greatest defeat at the hands Of
Congress since the ill-fated Su'
preme Court enlargement bill was
scuttled. This is the first time
that Congress has refused to grant
the President all the relief funds
he requested.
However. there is a stipulation
in the bill that if $725.O00, 900
proves insufficient. the President
may ask for more funds, stating
his reasons for doing so.