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The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1939-07-08
Paris Flashes

Revival of fur shoulder capes
marks a new trend.
Black lace shawls qualify as
smart evening wraps.
Val lace edging trims youthful
white lapin evening Jackets: .-
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meet with enthusiastic approval.
Basques and bustles give
quaint aspect to current fashions.
Back-lace corsets that give
nipped-in waistline are being
shown.
High postillion crowns distin-
guish the advance millinery
modes.
Many black and white check
costumes for about-town wear
are to be seen.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1939-07-08

for crumbs of her affection. Well let's
have it, what is there for a man to dc?
lRATE HUSBANDS.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1939-07-08
FisIlnet Trim

A New York designer, on the
search for something different to dis
tinguish summer clothes, has turned
to fishnet.
Milford chronicle., 1939-01-20
SOCIAL SECURITY

Nearly 15,0OO,OOO more workers
will gain benefits under the social Sc
curity acts .old-age provisions, if the
recommendations of the advisory
council under this law shall be adopt
cd. OF this great number 12,OO0,OOO
would be domestic and farm work
ers.
II is the hope of the American peo-
lie that eventually all workers can
have reserves laid up against old age
through this system. Such action
will avert sad days of old age through
millions of people who have left the
scene of active service. The sunset
and twilight of life will thus be
brighter where it has been dark and
obscure. The taxes imposed by the
law which makes such benefits pos
sible are somewhat of burden while
they are being collected. The burden
will seem least. when these funds pay
out sums equal each year to those
that are annually collected.
Milford chronicle., 1939-01-20
EARNING AND SPENDING

Nations and individuals have to
consider two problems in regard to
money. First. how they shall earn
l.: Second. how they shall spend it.
1t is like the management of bus
mess. which has to be skilful both
in buying and in selling.
The American people seem to be
better as a whole on the spending
line than they are on the earning.
Many experts point out excellent
ways to spend money, and show con-
yincingly how it can be used to create
good homes. produce the best educa-
ticn, and promote happiness and well
fare.
If many of these projects could be
carried out. improvement that could
be made in the condition of the peo-
pie would be amazing. But it costs
money to do the things that really
ought to be done. How to get the
money? 1t can only come through
production. If there is a lack of
money. the trouble is that for some
reason the production is not suffi-
cient
Some say the thing to do is 10
raise everybody's wages. AS business
is usually done on a rather narrow
margin of profit. and as it is often
done at a loss. such increases of
wages would raise the cost of living,
and people might not be any better
of. If their employers could not
make money under the raised wages,
then business and employment would
rtop.
To create the necessary production.
il seems necessary to make plans by
which the industries can operate reg
ularly and give steady work. Just
how this can be accomplished, when
peoples buying fiuctuates so widely,
is problem that is difficult to solve.
The industries can not be required to /
operate at loss. Perhaps the lead
ers of business will be able to for
nulate plans which will enable these
great benefits to be secured.
Milford chronicle., 1939-01-20
NON.SkID ROADS

In Idaho they are applying small
rock chips mixed with a coating of
oil, to $50 miles of road surface, try
ing to reduce skidding when ice
covers the roads.
Skidding is one of the perils of
winter driving almost everywhere,
and many cars go off the roads. The
method tried in Idaho will no doubt
be very useful
When ice covers road surfaces, it
is hard to develop a plan that will
make the roads wholly safe for fast
drivers. With Jack Frost playing
his tricks. things are different from
conditions under the summer sun.
The driver would better subdue his
impatience, and reflect that half
hour late arrival at his destination is
better than weeks in a hospital.
Milford chronicle., 1939-01-20
MONEY AND FAMILY JARS

The lack of money, according to a
court investigator of Toronto. Ont,
is a chief factor in family quarrels.
1t is wonderful how the passions of
family life do calm down, when
there is fairly good supply of
money. The wife who had found her
husband nearly unsuppOrtable
critter may conclude he might be
worse when he brings in some nice
home improvement. And the hus-
band will find the wife's questions
less irritating when they have
money enough to take an automO-
bile trip, and let the clouds of home
controversy blow away with the
wind.
'Is money then necessary to pur-
chase affection?" some will ask.
Countless couples who have TO con-
slider every penny will say "No" to
that. Love can climb the highest
hill, and cross the most waterless
desert; but money does put more
power into the engine, and it satis-
fies the human thirst FOR variety
amid the sands of montot0ny.
Milford chronicle., 1939-01-20
PUTTING THE GIRLS TO WORK

Wonder how American girls would
like il. If they were forced to accept
the work program which the Ger
man government is imposing on
100000 of its young women. In that
country all unmarried girls between
IS and 25 have to give year of
labor service on farms and in house
holds. unless they are physically in
capacitated.
This measure is adopted as part
of a program the aim of which is to
make the nation economically inde-
pendent 1t would make these young
women very practical. They would
come out of that laborious year bet
ter able to cook good meals, and
keep well regulated homes for their
husbands and families. The children
brought up by women thus trained
would be apt to be strong and heal
thy. and would learn to take hold
and do good work around the home.
American girls value their free
dom of choice. Probably most OF
them would kick pretty hard on any
plan that limited their right to go
where and do what they pleased.
The average run of city bred girls
aim to 90 into offices. stores, or fac
tories, with the idea of marriage in
the background. They have the feel
ing that they can learn to cook and
clean and run the home after they
get married.
As long as the men pick out the
pretty faces and the stylish dresses
and the piquant manners and the
snappy dancers as mates. the girls
sill say they should worry about
they know housewOrk or
cot
The young men could control that I
situation if they wanted to. by re-
using to pop the fateful question to
my girl unless she had demonstrat-
ID her ability as a housekeeper. \
liferent set of qualities seem to /
lave more power to arouse their !
emotions so far.
Milford chronicle., 1939-01-20
INCOME TAX BLIES

Now comes the time of year when
the people who pay income taxes
have to put in some labor getting
out their annual returns. The heavy
penalties provided for wilful eva
sion of these taxes lead some very
worthy people to worry. for fear
they will make some error.
The person whose income comes
mostly from a fixed salary or reg
ular payments from single source
or a few sources, has little to worry
about. A few accurate figures put
down on the correct dotted line, the
word None" written many times,
will let him off.
1t is not so easy proposition for
the business man who has to con-
slider such questions as bad debts,
depreciation, Obsolescence. etc. and
be may well scratch his head. If he
tears his hair after reading the de-
tailed instructions, you can't blame
him.
Also the people who have invest
ments in many different companies
and institutions which pay different
amounts and sometimes irregularly,
have some job to get all these items
straight If such person leaves the
whole task until the new year. his
chances of getting tangled up in
mess of figures are increased. He
would better keep that account of
his going every month, and regard
il as highly important to make an
entry every time an item of income
appears.
The income tax makes people a
good deal of work. 1t does produce
a lot of money, and it could produce
even more on a pinch. If the people |
are determined to spend money by
the billions, those who have good in
comes will have to chip in pretty |
heavily to pay the costs.
Milford chronicle., 1939-01-20
OPPORTUNITIES FOR
ENJOYMENT

People like a town in which they
can have a good time, and they dis
like one in which as they say. there
is nothing doing" If people want
to play cards. and their neiehbors
will never join with them. they are
likely to say the town is sleepy. IF
they want to dance and there are no
dances. they may want to move else
where. If they like athletics. and
there are no ball games. no golf. no
tennis. they probably say life is dull
in that burg.
1t is one of the essentials for the
progress of a town that it provide
an abundance Of healthful recrea-
tion. These things cost relatively
little money. but they bring big re-
turns in the satisfaction and con-
tentment of the people.
Milford chronicle., 1939-01-20
The Election of 1898

And then came the election OF
1888 and the people of the state re-
volted against the Democratic rule
and the Republicans were put in
power. Now the Democrats are urg-
ing the Republicans to go slowly in
Gny changes they make, forgetting
that it was their battle-cry in 1886
that the victors receive the spoils. Is
it any wonder that the Republicans
realize that what was good for the
Democrats in those days is good for
the Republicans in these days and so
no wonder the Democratic office
holders are shaking in their boots
and wondering what the Republican
Legislature is going to do-well,
watch and see, if the people were
tired of the Democrats and their ap-
pointments and their conduct of pub
lie affairs. it is certainly the right of
the Republicans to try and see if
their operation of state affairs is sat
isfactOry. The Legislature is going
ahead with its program.
Milford chronicle., 1939-01-20
MAKING MONEY GO TO WORK

The minister of church at Wal
ton, n. Y, had the clever idea of
passing out dollar bills to his par
ishioners last October, with the idea
that they would make money with
them, and return the proceeds to the
church. Thus the church gave out
S127, and a few Sundays ago took
back that amount of money with
SAT- in addition.
That is a plan that many churches
would find useful in their financial
problems. If they asked their mem
bers to raise their subscriptions.
many of them might have excellent
reasons why they couldn't do it.
Money can always be made to grow.
when you set it to work providing
something that people want.
Milford chronicle., 1939-01-20
ADVERTISED GOODS

People know more about adver-
tised goods than about those that are
not advertised. If you ask what is a
good thing to buy for some need,
people will usually quote some wide
ly advertised article that everyone
has heard of. If you ask about some
competing article that is not adver-
tised, they will usually say they nev-
er heard of it. consequently they are
not likely to buy it.
People not merely buy the adver-
tised goods they have heard of. but
they are more likely to buy at the
stores that are well advertised.
These concerns appear constantly
before the public eye by their widely
read notices. A concern gets a big
over its competitors by
the relatively small expense of ad-
Milford chronicle., 1939-01-20
TEACHING CITIZENSHIP

Very many schools. perhaps the
majority of them, make the effort 10
train the children in citizenship.
Some schools give marks in Citizen
ship" to indicate whether pupil
is acting in his school community
as a good citizen does ir his city or
town.
When your boy asks what makes
a good citizen. what are you going
TO tell him? How can he be a good
citizen in the schoolroom world?
The first job of the young school
citizen of Delaware is 10 obey the
rules of the school. These rules are
not imposed to make children un-
happy, but to help them get results
from the school. The kid who has
never been properly tanned may find
the school room discipline irksome.
He might like to yell and holler as
he goes through the school corridors.
same as he would on the playground,
but the rules call for quieT.
He should see the rea son fer that
rule. If the schoolhouse wn"e full of
commotion. how could any work be
done, The children would get so eX-
cited, they wouldn't know whether
six and eight make IA OF Il.
The good citizen has to attend to
the business of life. The life bust
ness for the school pupil is to study
his lessons. Those lessons are tools
that will help him earn q living and
take his place in the world.
The school citizen also neeGs tc
realize that when he grows up, ii is
to attend to the business
of government. If he forgats to vote
day. if he won't read the /
that give him the facts I
on which he can judge about voting,
he is like the school kid that fails /
to study his lessons. Such kid can't /
expect promotion in school. II he
goes on that way as an adul.. he
will not help his home town get pro-
NOTED to the class that has cool
government and industrial prosper
ity.
Milford chronicle., 1939-01-20
LIKING Y0rR WORK

70 some people almost any kind
of work is distasteful. They hate to
buckle down to any form of toll, and
so through its motions day by day,
Only the necessity of working to
earn money spurs them on. That
kind of folks don't make any great
progress in life.
Then there are the people who
find any kind of work interesting.
At some time it may be necessary to
take hold of some job which is not
in their line. and for which they
feel little attraction. 1t usually hap
pens that that type of people soon
get thoroughly interested in such
job. They try to figure out how they
can do it better than it was ever
done before. When the time comes
to quit it and go on to something
better. they hate in many ways TO
leave. That kind of worker is the
one who goes ahead.
Milford chronicle., 1939-01-20
ONE HORSE TOWNS

II used to be a common thing to
speak of some communities as lone
horse towns" The expression is not
so often heard now. but some folks
still have that idea about their home
communities. If a town is a one
horse town, it is usually an indica-
tion that there are not enough pull
ers in it. There are too many cases
where a single horse has to do ali
the pulling. while horses that might
pull are merely looking after their
own comfort and enjoyment.
A town needs a lot of good pullers.
if its loads are to be moved along
toward the goals it would like to
reach. If it wants good business.
good schools, nice homes, good look
ing streets. adequate public SER
vices. a good many people have got
to do lot of work on those good
aims. Single pullers can't move the
loads alone.
Milford chronicle., 1939-01-20
THE LATE WORKERS

The Russion Soviet government
has decreed that any Soviet worker
who arrives on the job 20 minutes
late shall be dismissed.
What does the average American
business do if it's workers are late
on their jobs? 1t would be difficult
TO answer that question. but anyone
who is habitually late can be assur-
ed that he is not making himself
popular with the boss. Business
works far better if its people drill
into line like the soldiers in an army.
Things happen of course that pre-
vent people from being on time. as
when the car breaks down, the train
is late. etc. The people who make it
point to be always on the minute
get a reputation for being like a
clock, and the boss smiles cheerlully
at them.
Milford chronicle., 1939-01-20
1.n0A. .0AO Under THE SOD

Nearly 100000 people in Spain
are said to be dead as the result of
the prolonged Civil war in that un-
happy land. Many of them were ci-
villains. killed when the storms of
death fell from the skies, which were
created only to drop the life giving
rain and the kindly dew.
The American people feel sympa-
thy for that great land of history. II
was the queen of Spain, Isabella.
who helped Christopher Columbus to
proceed with his expedition across
the stormy and mysterious Atlantic,
and discover our great continent.
And now while our country goes
forward steadily in the march of
progress, the nation that made poss-
ible our history is stained with
blood, and plunged into the darkness
of mourning.
Milford chronicle., 1939-01-20
DEMANDs OF sTATEsMANsHIP

The people look to the members
of Congress now assembled at
Washington. also to all officials of
the government, for what are called
policies of craftsmanship. A states
man is defined as one who shows
unusual wisdom in handling public
concerns.
There are two great fields in
which craftsmanship is urgently
needed at this time. One is in for
eign relations. The nations are jeal-
ous and fearful of their neighbors.
People fear they are not going to
get their rights, and that some coun-
try will start a war 1t will take a
high quality of craftsmanship to
prevent the world from breaking
loose in a new war. which might al
most wreck civilization.
The demands of craftsmanship
call on our public officers to do
their best to see that every country
gets justice. If people are wronged
and trampled upon. if they are so
repressed that they get no chance
for normal prosperity. their discon'
tent may flare up in war any day.
Craftsmanship also calls on the
officers of the government to so ham
die industry and business that these
activities operate freely and employ
the idle. The old idea was that the I
government governs the best that
governs the least.
That idea is said TO be out of date. |
If the government did not do some !
real governing. countless abuses |
would appear. But in regulating in
iustry. the statesmen have to look
)ut that they don't lace difficulties
n the way of business. If it is hard,
'isky. and dangerous to carry on
business. many people say it is no
lse trying TO employ labor and take
isks. They would rather cut cou-
IONS. play golf, and imbibe cooling
rinks. until the government gives
hem little more freedom.
Milford chronicle., 1939-01-20
BOYCOTTING AGGRESSOR
" NATIONS '

Very many people are refusiu G TO
buy Japanese goods, to tell the Jap
anese government that they do not
approve of its action in trampling
on poor old China. A good many
people favor boycotting German
goods, to tell the German govern
ment that its policy of prosecuting
the Jews is all wrong. Should our
government take action making such
boycOtts a national policy?
There are not many Americans
who approve of the things that the
Japanese and German governments
have been doing. They cannot be-
lieve that the masses of those ma
tions. who in their personal lives are
kindly folks. would approve of these
actions if they had a free press to
tell them the whole story.
If our people could do anything to
help the oppressed and the suffer-
ing anywhere, they would be glad
to do it. Considerations of personal
comfort or enjoyment would not
stand in the way.
A boycott by government action
is a measure of force. and it might
be a preliminary step toward war.
1t creates suffering both in the cOun-
try whose products are bOycotted
and in the one that declares the boy
cotts.
Hatreds grow out of such meas
Tres of force. The peoples of the
world want to live in peace like
rood neighbors. but when some
leighbors refuses to buy the goods
III which they depend for a living
ou can't expect them to take it ly-
ng down. If people do not wish to
urchase the goods of any nation of
'hich they disapprove, that is their
rivate affair. Asking the govern
lent to forbid such purchase is
different.
Such suggestions are made out of
xcellent and high motives. but the
aves of passion and revenge are
ready riding high in this world of
Irmoil. People should have care
1t to force them to any more
ormy heights.
Milford chronicle., 1939-01-20
FARM AND FACTORY

Agriculture and industry are fire.
quently discussed in the press and
on the platform as though they rep
resented antagonistic sections of the
American people. The general public
often obtains the impression that
legislation good for one is bad for
the other. Why there should even
seem to be conflict of interests is
difficult to understand. AS a matter
of fact, each is dependent on the
other. When industry is busy, the
workers in the cities and towns have
more money to buy more food, while
industry itself purchases more basic
farm products used in manufactured
products. When agriculture is pros
porous the farmers have more mon
ey to purchase manufactured pro-
ducts.
Not only is this true in our do
mestic economic life but it applies,
likewise, to foreign trade. To take
but a single example, American cars
and trucks during the last 10 years
have accounted for an average of 10
per cent of our total vehicle pro-
duction. What has this meant?
These exports have created em-
ployment in this country-in the au-
tomobile and accessory factories-in
the basic industries-in the mines
and the forests. This business has
been of real value to the farmers
from whom the motor car industry
obtains much of its raw materials. 1t
has created purchasing power which
was of direct benefit to the farm peO-
pie of the country.
Edgar w. Smith, vice president Of
General Motors Overseas Corpora
tion, brought out this common inter-
est at the recent convention of the
American Farm Bureau Federation.
He urged the expansion of foreign
markets for agriculture to obtain a
return of farm prosperity "as the
one approach above all others that
holds promise of success without at
tendant danger"
Paradoxical as it may seem, Mr..
Smith stated, the autOmotive indus
try is even more keenly interested in
the maintenance and expansion OF
foreign markets for agricultural
products than for products of the
motor car industry because the
number of motor vehicles sold in
the agricultural areas of the United
States is far greater than the num-
ber sold in all of the United States
export markets combined.
We want to see farm exports in
creased" he stated, because we
know that our domestic market for
motor cars is definitely in jeopardy
as long as lack of foreign demand
for American farm products keeps
the American farmer from full
measure of prosperity.
Milford chronicle., 1939-01-20
1898 In HISTORY

What will history say about the
! year 1898? What benefits has it add
ed to the history of the world, and
what steps has it taken along the
slow upward march of human pro-
gress? Where has it slipped back
over its treacherous way?
Probably the historians of the year
2O3S. as they pore over the yellow
files of our newspapers. will say
that it was chiefly notable for its
skating on the thin ice of war. They
will say that the ice again and
again seemed to bend and crack and
threaten to let the fearful skater
through into its watery depths of
tears and sorrow. At the end of the
year, the skater was still on top of
the wave, though the cracking and
the bending were still far too no.
ticeable.
Also those historians of the fu-
ture will say the world was in a
backward state. that it could toler-
ate such persecution Of the Jewish
race as the year 1888 has witnessed.
One hundred years from now, we
can hope that the right of men and
women to worship God as they
choose, and their right to be treat
ed on their own merits instead OF
on the racial blood they Inherited,
will be one of the settled facts Of
In 1898, the historians will say.
he world still rocked from the un-
settlement caused by four years of
lighting. The nations celebrated the
birthday of Jesus. who came 10
,ring peace and good will, by spen-
ling billions for fighting equipment.
'eace loving nations were forced to
10 this for their own protection. Mil
ions of men were only able to find
UGH jobs of work as the government
ould give them.
Those historians will call our
tate of society but a very primitive
ne. They should not overlook the
lbors of countless people, who re-
olted from these manifestations,
nd who now toll necessarily to help
le world to rise to ideals of gen
rosity and fraternity. 5