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Milford chronicle., 1939-01-20
FRIENDS OF BUSINESS
RELATIONS

Many people will say that some of
their best and most useful friend
ships come through business rela-
tions. AS they talked with mer-
chants and salespeople about what
they wanted for goods, they found
they were interested in the same
things. They talked about many
things outside the immediate puT-
pose that brought them to the store.
The acquaintance thus develops in
to something more. The people who
started buying an d selling goods
find before long that they have COM
mon interests, and they grow better
acquainted. They join in making
plans for good times, they grow
closer as they work together in local
organizations. You get lot besides
the good bargains when YOU buy
stuff in the stores of Milford,
Milford chronicle., 1939-01-20
..ro The Victor Belongs The SpOIIs''

ITO the victor belong the spoils"
was the war cry of the Democrats
following the election of 1896, and
Immediately the state was turned
over to the Democrats they went to
work to gather in the spOils. The
Motor Vehicle Department was their
first attempt; the State Highway De-
partment was the next, and so on
down the line into every depart
ment they could get a ground hold
Even the Agricultural Department
felt the sweep of their fist. Every
thing for which the State had built
up for years, went down in a
smash. The Motor Vehicle Depart
ment received the soundest beating
of all. Out went everyone connected
with the department and in went a
multitude of employees, twice and
three times the number necessary,
and all at increased salaries. You all
know the results. automobile tags
lost. deliveries made in person and
in some cases, tags that were needed
were lying on someone's desk await
ing their rightful claimants. In the
Highway Department, efficient en-
gineers were thrown out and men
unknown before that time, except in
politics. were put in. The Right-Of-
Way Department got the worst lick
ing" when the efficient force was
thrown out on their ear and a Kent
county politician put in charge. ITO
the victor belongs the spoils" was the l
answer the Democrats gave.
Milford chronicle., 1939-01-20
SORROWS OF UNPAID BILLS

Many people complain of the wor-
ry and anxiety they suffer because
of unpaid bills. They say they can't
90 their best when this cloud con-
stantly hangs over them. Those
clouds often take the sunshine out
of the sky. and surround the debtor
with the paralyzing chills of uncer-
tainty. 1t is to be feared though.
that the bill collectors will have to
keep on collecting.
Failure to collect debts is one of
the causes that lead business con-
Germs to fold up. If they have to
stop, what are their employees to do?
Those who are thus thrown out Of
work are more unhappy than those
who merely have to ask the collect
or to wait a little longer.
Milford chronicle., 1939-01-20
TINE SPENT IN FIGURING

individuals and business concerns
had to make out about 1S5,000.OOO
reports and returns to the federal
government in 1887, according to q
government committee. The United
States government is carrying on a
business enterprise of perfectly
enormous proportions. Its social Sc
curity program alone is something
stupendous.
The actions of the government, its
collection of taxes. its decisions on
questions of policy, etc. call for the
assembling of great masses of in
formation. If the people demand
that Uncle Sam be kind of univer-
sal Father, the typewriters will have
to keep tapping, and pencils and
pens keep making figures. If these
could be simplified
any, business and many individuals
would give three cheers.
Milford chronicle., 1939-01-20
Milford. Friday, January 20, 1889
TRAINING OUR MINDS

If the people of Milford are going
to do any particular job on improv-
ing their minds during 1899, Il
would be well to begin right of
now For before we know il, SUM-
meF will be here. There is al Ann
eFiean tradition that you can't do a
great deal on mental improvement
when the old July sun is sweating
down on us, and driving us into the
cooling shade.
The clubs and classes ard lecture
courses that run programs which
improve the mind usually fold M in
summer. They regard it as nearly
hopeless to induce the people to do
any work of self education then.
That was not the principle on
which one of our greatest Alleri-
cans, Abraham Lincoln, sought to
obtain more knowledge. He had hut
very little schooling, and he lived in
The humblest kind of hme But he
used to lie in front of the glowing
fire. to get the light with which to
read the History of the United
States and the Life Of George Wash
ington and the Bible. lie did not
probably quit reading these books in
summer because II was 100 hot.
The winter is a vely fine time for
us to try to improve on" minds. 1t
is a chance to sit down under tine
evening lamp and learn what the
worlds wise men have to say. Also"
we might take down that dust COW
cred poetry book, and see how it
teaches us to rise ah1vc the some
times depressing clouds of daily
work and cheer our hearts with the
song of hope and JOY ana beauty.
Let us not forget the newspaper,
as many newspapers as our purse
will permit, which tell in each issue
what your home Town and the world
are doing and are likely to do. The,
person who knows those things is
the one to whom TIL people look for
leadership and advice. and lie counts
n whatever he does.
Milford chronicle., 1939-01-20
FINDING THE OPPORTUNITIES

There is an old saying that OPP
portunity knocks at least once at
everyone's door. AS things actually
go, Opportunity may not come to
your door at all. 1t does not neces-
sarily happen that opportunities
come to anyone without asking for
them. Not many people get jobs be-
cause someone called at their homes.
or wrote them letters. asking them
to take certain positions.
The majority get their opportuni-
ties by asking for them. They had
to go out somewhere and seek the
opportunities. Usually it means writ
ing letters, making calls, advertis-
ing, and pushing for work or busi-
ness. If Opportunity does not knock
at your door, hunt her up. and knock
on her door.
Milford chronicle., 1939-01-20
FRIGHTENED MONEY

During the war scare which spread
over Europe in September last,
funds amounting to $374,00O, 900
flowed into the United States. Con-
ditions don't seem any too good in
this country. Yet we can feel they
are far better than in Europe. where
the anxious people are almos: living
on the crust of volcano, with
seething forces of hatred boiling un-
der them. No wonder lot of those
folks want their money in some
peaceful spot.
Whether money thus sent to us
does any particular good is ques-
tion. They might want it back all of
a sudden, which might be trouble
some. At least they know there is
one country that will not probably
blow up in any grand explosion.
Milford chronicle., 1939-01-20
UNITED WE STAND

One of the notices of the Ameri-
can nation is UNITED we stand; di-
yided we fall" 1t applies to the ac-
tivities of our home towns. If we
are a unit here in Milford, we shall
get somewhere. If not. our progress
will not be so good
One necessary form of that unity
is the policy of buying of the home
stores. If we buy here and there
and everywhere, the force of ithe
community for producing prosperity
is not being we'll concentrated. 1t is
scattered over too great a space, and
our community will not make the
gains that 1t could under a policy of
standing. together and backing UP
home business.
Milford chronicle., 1939-01-20
WILL BUSINESS BE GOOD!

The business people of Delaware
are anxiously peering into the un-
known future, and asking what the
prospects are for 1889. Will the sun
of prosperity shine. or are we in for
more murky clouds of depression?
The business system of America
seemed to be making progress in the
early part of 1887. with work grow
ing steadier, and profits mounting.
Then for some cause not quite clear,
the picture turned dark, and the
business taste sour.
1t is perhaps the most common
view that the accumulation of ex-
cessive stocks of goods in early 1887
created that sour turn. The busi-
ness people feared prices. were go
ing up so far that they bought and
bought, and then had to stop be.
cause of excessive stocks. No such
excessive stocks of goods are sup
posed to exist at the present time.
A good demand for most anything
for a few weeks or months should
send many merchants to their tele-
phones, begging the maker or whole
saler to hurry up that shipment
That would make work for millions.
Milford chronicle., 1939-01-20
OUR PLACE IN THE WORLD
J. Z. Jones


AT the beginning of the twentieth
century-just SO years ago, the Uni
ted States was a somewhat isolated
part of the world in which tariffs
were sky-high to protect American
manufacturers in establishing many
new lines of industry. Steel was
competing with lumber, and both
were very important industries. An
drew Carnegie lived to say that the
United States could compete in the
steel industry with the world, with
out aid of tariffs. That is only an in
cident in changes brought about
which finally resulted in present day
/ trade treaty policies.
The railroads connected the vast
distances in our country. Little did
any one dream that the automobile
industry would Out-distance the rail-
roads as a medium of transportation
in a few years. American automo-
biles were so good that they rode
right through all the tariff walls on
to the highways of the world.
The third link in transportation
was furnished by steamboats," But
none of the great carriers are
steamboats," today. They are pro-
PEELED by petroleum and electricity,
sources of power borrowed from the
automobile industry-and they call
themselves by the grander names of
ships and liners. The automobile in
dustry furnished new wings for the
discovery that was made by the
Wright brothers. Planes now soar
through the air with motors that
were developed in automobile fac
tories. Diesel engines made by au-
tOmObile manufacturers are breath
ing new life into the railroads.
The country talked about good
roads for three centuries, but never
started to build real highways until
automobile transportation made us
road-cOnsciOus. Any road was good
road that went from here to there"
twenty-five years ago.
Thirty-eight years ago all the cor
ner stores carried kerosene and coal
oil Gasoline has been developed
from Tefinements of the same pro-
duct. Its annual rate of consump-
tion totals 21,345, $780, 900 gallons, ac-
cording to a 1888 report. Gasoline is
one of the principal sources of tax
alton.
The automobile industry uses $50
Of all cotton grown in our country:
4O% of mohair; lumber, SO; steel,
209S; malleable iron, $40; crude
rubber. 300; plate glass. 72.79o:
leather upholstery. 67qo; aluminium,
12.7So; copper, 16.S8o; tin, 1296;
lead, S14%; zinc, 12.59o; nickel,
2S9o. Every state in the Union bene-
fits from automotive material pur-
chases with the result that 6,000,000
persons have employment in its diff
ferent branches and in road build
ing.
When Morse telegraphed from
Washington to Baltimore less than
hundred years ago the message
was an exclamation: what hath
God wrought" Bell telephoned over
a mystical mile of wire about sixty
five years ago. and Marconi COM
across the ocean in 1901.
All these triumphs in communica-
tion were accepted with nonchaI-
ance. The motor car appears to have
been developed through evolutionary
Milford chronicle., 1939-01-20
Highway Affnrner

Are the Democrats going to ap-
point Ralph Baker of Georgetown as
the attorney for the State Highway
Department? His advocates declare
that he was the only Democratic
leader in Sussex who filed and backed
a straight Democratic county ticket.
The other leaders were busy trying
TO make deals with the now defunct
third party. while Baker and his
men were trying to elect a Demo-
cratic ticket. Some of the Democrat
ic members of the highway depart
ment are working for his election but
it is said that the governor and his
Sussex county advisors who tried to
effect coalition with the defunct
third party, are fighting it. Any way
Baker will know that it is his Demo-
cratic brethren who will defeat him
if possible.
Milford chronicle., 1939-01-20
The Program

The Republican Legislature is al
ready announcing what its program
will be and bills are being intro
duced to carry out the promises
made before the election. If the
Republicans are successful. automo-
bile licenses will be cut in half. Cars
that cost $12 to license last year will
cost Sc if their bills are successfully
passed. Drivers licenses are to be
reduced in cost. These were promises
Milford chronicle., 1939-01-20
Fatal Economy

The Republican party promised
the voters of Delaware that they
would reduce the cost of operating
the state if they were elected. They
Rave been elected and they are going
to reduce costs. There is no par
ticular place where they will reduce
them. The cost of running the Leg
islature may be just as great, we
don't know. They have plenty of
work to do and if it does cost a few
dollars more. what of it? But there
is one thing of which we are sure
when it is all added up. there will
be savings of many thousands OF
dollars made by the Legislature.
Milford chronicle., 1939-01-20

FINE THING TO HOLLER with
your voice for the home town at the
football games and similar occasions.
Also a fine thing to let your money
speak for that home town by spend
ing it at home.
Milford chronicle., 1939-01-20

SAIL ON, o Ship of State. Sail
On" said the poet. The ship does
not sail on merely by giving it a
good engine. You have to burn some
fuel in it. Similarly advertising is
the fuel that makes the ship of bus
iness sail on. 50 ."
Milford chronicle., 1939-01-20

processes. with many inventors con-
tributing to it's perfection.
In less than twenty-five. years il
mas become recognized as the most
important industry in the history of
the world, Economically speaking.
we have ridden to OUR PLACE IN
THE WORLD, in American-made
automobiles.
Milford chronicle., 1939-01-20
STRICTLY POLITICAL

made and will be carried out if pos
sible. Although it will cut the amount
/ of license money paid in for the
lumber of machines licensed, for
ward looking statesmen declare il
will mean more cars licensed and
that in a short time the income will
be as great but in small personal
amounts. 1t will also mean more
cars licensed and more gasoline
burned and more gasoline taxes paid
in to the Highway Department. The
automobile is the real method of
present-day transportation and every
effort should be made to reduce its
cost to the owner
o.
Real Opportunity
The Republican party in Delaware
has wonderful opportunity to prove
to the people of the state that sane
and sound government is still the
only practical politics that the Re-
publican party wants to rely upon.
Even the Democrats are now looking
backward and saying what they
should have done to have remained
in power. Some of their writers are
bemoaning the fact that they did not
write a liberal platform and make
promises that would be of benefit to
the ordinary mass of people. They
are still divided among themselves
as to what they should have done.
AS a matter of fact the Democratic
party in Delaware is controlled by a
crowd that is trying to build up their
own personal leadership-the public
be hanged. That is their trouble.
they have forgotten the people and
are only governed by political fac
tionalism. Their jobs are appor-
toned with that in view. They are
headed for defeat as long as they
continue along that course.
Milford chronicle., 1939-01-20

IF YOU WANT your home folks
to like you, show that you like ev-
eryone in your home town.
Milford chronicle., 1939-01-20
N o r E

The statements made in this column are
not necessarily the opinions OF the pub
fishers of the Milford Chronicle. They are
purely the views OF the writer. This news
paper will express its opinions only
through its editorial columns.
Milford chronicle., 1939-01-20

Read the classified column!
Evening star., 1939-01-22

- \ ONE OF those icy nights that
freeze you to the marrow,
~ you've probably heard some
one offer the comforting remark that
"Anyhow. 1t s too cold to snow" AS
matter of fact, the Weather Bureau
has recorded a tWo-inch snowfall that
dropped while the temperature was as
low as "a degrees below zero. The
falaclous character of the too cold
to snow" idea is proved by the fact
that the cirrus clouds of winter -
snow clouds - form high up in the
sky, where the temperature ranges
around 6o degrees below zero. The
only grain of truth in this common
notion is that very cold air is usually
very dry air, and very dry air con-
notes lack of sufficient moisture to
form thick snow clouds. Very cold
weather. therefore, does not preclude
a snowstorm. though it's not very
likely there'll be heavy fall if the
thermometer is lowering around zero.
OON'T cat snow! 1t doesn't QuenCh
thirst it stimulates it, This IS the
opinion of camping experts, as stated
in the official Boy Scout manual.
Moreover. eating snow is fraught with
great danger, for snow that has lain
Evening star., 1939-01-22

as good as his, and there was the
baby"
"You mean he actually had to
marry her."
That was what she wanted. Your
father wasn't in the Office when the
sheriff came to serve the warrant.
Someone slipped out and warned him.
If the papers had been served. there
wouldn't have been any escape after
that. You see, he was single. If he had
been married it would have been
different"
you mean you Evelyn's
chair abruptly stopped its slight
movement.
Eyes, that's what l mean. The
friend who had warned him called
me and told me he needed me. didn't
know why. didn't want to know. tie
was packing his suitcase when got
to his home. He told me all there was
to tell, everything. He told me it
wasn't his child, and believed him.
offered to marry him. that very day.
if he wanted me-"
"Mother!" Evelyn spoke huskily.
ut wasn't the easiest thing" Mrs.
Bond said, but l loved him. We
rented buggy and drove across the
state line and we're married before
noon. My people were furious. Their
pride was hurt. that was all. didn't
have any pride"
What about the girl? Couldn't she
make trouble?'
IL talked to her once. later: she had
married someone else. think it was
someone she meant to marry all along.
Her threat to your father was gesture
to obtain money. yet she might have
gone through with it"
Evelyn said, I'm sorry you had
to tell me this. l ~
The phone rang in the dark house.
Mrs. Bond held her breath. her hands
plucked at an invisible something in
the darkness.
LET me-" Evelyn SAID.
The End
Evening star., 1939-01-22
LONG DISTANCE CALLING
Continued from poge four

marry him, but I really did love him.
There was another girl - not
nice kind of girl, but your father had
gone with her few times. The girl
was going to have baby. l don't
know what happened; maybe she got
scared. maybe she thought she could
get what she wanted. Anyway, when
he refused to accept the responsibility
for the child and marry her, she swore
out warrant for your father"
Mother, you're making that up
EVELYN said. Dad wasn't that sort"
mo, he wasn't that sort, but he
had gone with the girl. Her word was
Evening star., 1939-01-22
THIS WEEK MAGAZINE
WHEN YOU HAVE TO SHOOT FAST

shutter speed required for shot OF
the same subject snapped dlagonally.
Then, too, some subjects are mo-
mentarIly at rest even in fast action.
This is especially true of ski jumper
at the very peak of his jump - or OF
a fancy skater at certain points in an
evolution. Whenever possible, it is
wise to make your picture at those
moments when you can use slower
shutter speed and a smaller lens
aperture for the sake of depth OF focus.
Still another dodge that is OCCASION
ally relied on by the experts is the
expedient of moving the camera in
the direction the object travels as
you shoot. Thus, with bobsled pass
ing to your left, you swing the camera
to the left as you release the shutter.
This is often done to accentuate the
feeling of speed in the picture, since 1t
blurs the background and makes the
object appear to be moving very fast.
But it is hardly trick for beginners.
Remember, however, that the shut
ter speeds gwen to stop motion with
out blur have no bearing on the
exposure time required for a good
negative. In this respect the brilliance
of the sun and the time of day will
determine whether or not you can get
picture with your particular lens at
l/250 or 800, as the case may be.
So don't forget that it avails you
nothing to stop motion if the resulting
negative is too thin to be printable.
Nevertheless, with an aperture Of
f63 or larger and with modern. super
speed films, you'll be surprised at the
fine action shots you can make when a
powerful sun shines on an endless
reflector" of white snow
-FULTOk WILLIAMS
Evening star., 1939-01-22
BR-R-R!!!-b by Harold Hart

for even a short while may harbor the
deadliest of germs. Medical science
recognizes that typhoid may be ac-
quired by eating Snow or licking ice
Up IN Canada, there is town called
Medicine Hat 1t is situated in south
east Alberta and is so famous for its
climate that it has been dubbed the
Cold Wave Factory"
In winter, the thermometer sinks
Evening star., 1939-01-22

III told that there's infinitely
. y more kick in getting a swell
action picture than there IS in shoot
ing a subject that stands stock still.
And since the winter sports season is
in full swing, there's load of fun
waiting for the cameraman who'll
buckle his CATERS and go after it!
AT the ski jumps, at the toboggan
and bobsled runs, at the rinks where
the figure skaters show off, at the lake
where the iceboats careen - there are
pictures galore that will be never
ending source of satisfaction to you.
And between times you always have
the kids sliding on the ice or riding
'belly-whoppers' on their sleds or
engaging Justify in their SNOWFALL
battles.
If you haven't done much of this
sort of work, however, there are two
factors to be considered before you
start. One is the matter of exposure
for winter shooting; the other is the
detail of stopping motion without blur.
- Considering the first, you must re-
member that the actlnic light (the
camera value") of the sun is much
weaker in winter Thus group that
may be done at $50 of a second at
{ IL at IL am. in July would require
/25 of second at the same hour in
December or January provided there
is no snow on the ground.
Snow. of course. acts as brilliant
reflector or, really, a supplementary
source of illumination. SO when snow
>erters into the picture - as it Will IN
winter sports - you can usually
count on giving almost a summer ex-
pOsurc betueen the hours OF Il am. and
p ~ But by pm. with the light
failing fast. you have to give twice the
time cor shoot half as fast in the
winter months whereas at 4 O'Clock
you'll do best to keep your camera in
It's case as far as action Stufi goes.
This is SO because action demands
fast shutter time If you are working
at a distance of twenty-five feet, for
example. you will need an exposure OF
l/lOO of second to stop the motion
of a man walking only four miles per
hour For vehicle moving only
twelve miles per hour, you will have
blurred negative unless you shoot
at $50.
Faster subjects. such as a ski
jumper coming down the incline.
bobsled or toboggan at full tilt, will
call for exposure of about 1900 OF a
second when moving dlagonally across
the camera at a distance OF twenty
five feet
Evening star., 1939-01-22

to 81 below. In summer. it's just as
likely that the natives will slzzle at
lO8. At least, those two extremes of
temperature have been recorded.
Moreover. warm winds, known as
chinooks, frequently swoop down over
Medicine Hat. melting its huge SHOWS
like butter on a hot plate, Tempera-
lures, at such times, have frequently
risen 20 to 80 degrees in the space Of
a feu hours
Evening star., 1939-01-22

Such exposures demand a brilliant
sun and fast lens, and the general
rule is to use the largest lens opening
and the fastest shutter time you have
available To compensate for lmita
tons here. you can do either or both
of two things:
First. get farther away from the