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Milford chronicle., 1939-08-18
GIRL ATHLETES

The old timers of a former gener-
alton would be amazed were they tc
come back to earth, and see the
prominence which girl athletes have
achieved in swimming, tennis, golf
and many sports. The people of a
former age dressed women up in
clothes so cumbersome they could
hardly move, and their social Gus
toms had the women sitting in stiff
chairs doing needlework and such
quiet tasks. They would have
thought modern athletics undignified.
These athletics have made women
more charming, they have immense
ly improved their physical condition.
and they have given them opportun-
tiles TO meet men in a healthful way.
The country takes pride in its girl
and women athletes, and finds them
more wOmanly and more fascinating
than their sex ever could have been
in the old times.
Milford chronicle., 1939-08-18
FAsCMATI0Ns 0F DISTANCE

Distance lends enchantment to
the view" they say. Also 'the far
thest pastures look the greenest." So
there are lot of people who are
more attracted by distant things than
by their immediate surroundings.
Some young folks think il they
could only get to some far distant
country or state or city, where they
have heard great opportunities ex-
ist, the way would quickly open for
them to reach success. If they got
there. they would probably find that
the people living there had picked up
all the chances, and a stranger
would be given the cold stare Also
if they found an opening. ii would be
difficult to make good in a situation
where they had no friends. and were
not familiar wit hthehabits and ideas
of the people.
Stores away from home sometimes
draw people away from the same
things in their home town. Countless
people have passed up the good stuff
sold in their home stores. and paid
even higher prices for something no
better somewhere else.
Milford chronicle., 1939-08-18
SELF RELIANT TOWNS

There is an old saying that God
helps those who help themselves. "
II applies not merely to individuals
but also to cities and towns. Their
gains come principally from the
things they do for themselves. They
cant expect that people living else
where are going to feel interest in
their progress. If they are going
ahead. the people have got to take
hold and do for themselves things
necessary for development
One thing that helps communities
more than almost anything else. is a
high standard of neatness and beau
ty. If the homes are well kept and
made attractive. the community OBJ
tains Il high reputation as a desirable
residence town. People like to live in
it and will make sacrifices 10 secure
a home in such community Such
people will not tolerate disorder and
deterioration in their homes and bus
mess buildings. a community where
this self reliant spirit prevails is
bound to 20 ahead.
Milford chronicle., 1939-08-18
CHEERING CROWDS

People who live near some place
where baseball and football games
are going on sometimes say they are
tired of the yelling and cheering of
the spectators. To many of us. that
cheering is pleasant sound. 1t
means that lot of folks are forget
ting their troubles, if they have any,
and are full of enthusiasm. as they
urge on their athletic favorites.
In some countries the sound of the
crowd would be likely TO mean that
discOntented people were rising in
riots and demonstrations against
the government There the noise of
the crowd is a sign of discomfort and
unhappiness.
In America the noise of the crowd
means just the opposite thing. that
people have found happiness in
sport 1t is sign that on the whole
American life. with all its troubles.
is yet essentially happy. and that in
our freedom and wide opportunities.
people find pleasant things TO con-
sole them for whatever difficulties
they encounter
Milford chronicle., 1939-08-18
AMERICAN HUSTLE

The American people are said to
be hustlers. They are supposed to
do things faster and quicker than
they are done in foreign lands. There
is some basis for this idea. as our
people are quick motiOned race.
They have acquired activity by ath-
letic exercise. in which most young
people engage, which enables them
to do things quickly.
In the race between nations. our
people should not conclude that
speed is everything. When you read
how hard people work in foreign
lands, they may accomplish just as
great results in a day. Our people
have become fearful of overwork,
and that is not a state of mind that
leads to achievement. 1t took hard
work to build up our country, and in
the long run persistence and perse-
verance count as well as hustle and
speed.
Milford chronicle., 1939-08-18
THE GREAT ENIGMA

The most troublesome question
which Congress had to wrestle with
in its session just ended. was what
to do about selling munitions of war
to nations that get to fighting. So
far Congress has refused to repeal
the existing embargo on shipments
of munitions to such countries. but
the effort TO remove this prohibition
will no doubt be renewed when Con
gress meets again.
Uncle Sam is in the position of a
peaceful man who lives between
quarrelsome neighbors. Whatever
be does may get him in bad. If he
sells arms to any of these neighbors.
those who can't get the guns may
jump on him. If he doesn't sell arms
TO help defend those that want peace.
the warlike neighbor8 may rule the
world. and try to put their feet on
him. If the wise men of Washington
know what TO do in such a mess.
they are better than the rest of us.
Milford chronicle., 1939-08-18
RESULTS OF kINGLY VISIT

The very warm greeting given in
America to the English King and
Queen have no doubt been noted in
Germany. Italy. and Japan. Govern
mcnts which few weeks ago were
shaking their fists somewhat fiercely
in the eyes of the democratic coun-
tries. may perhaps shake them a lit
tie less violently. when they read
about these scenes in Washington
and New York.
That does not mean America is 60
ing to send any more soldiers and
armies to straighten out the foolish
quarrels of Europe. Let them settle
their own messes. say our people. 1t
is still likely that if the democracies
and the dictators get to fighting. the
American people will not Ne awake
nights trying to keep the democracies
from getting the war supplies they
need.
Milford chronicle., 1939-08-18
WHO MAKES PUBLIC OPINION!

There is probably no country
where public opinion has such tre-
mendous force as in the United
States The statesmen may think
theyknow the answers to the prob
lems but they often find when they
get dow nto the grass roots" that
the people think differently.
Inpast ages. rulers of command
ing force and personality were often
able to defy public opinion. In the
time of King Louis XIV of France. a
judge once used the phrase THE
king and the state" King Louis was
reported to have said to him: Il am
the state" No man has ever been
able to say that in free America.
Congress adjourned a few days ago
and the statesmen went home. where
they will listen attentively to the
opinion of the people. They will talk
not merely wit hthe captains of in
dustry. the head men of labor. the
leaders of the professions. but they
will ask the man in the street" what
he thinks.
The man in the street will perhaps
say that questions of neutrality, gov
ernment spending. social security.
etc. are too deep for him. But grad
ually the statesmen will discover
that certain ideas have obtained a
powerful hold. They obtained that
hold because original thinkers who
study public questions for themselves
believe thus and so.
Many of these thinkers occupy po-
sitions of influence as newspaper ed
itors, political leaders. educators,
etc, but in the main these thinkers
are just plain folks like ourselves.
They are folks who read. They study
and ponder over the facts and opin-
ions the newspapers print. On the
basis of these facts and ideas, they
draw their own conclusions. They
may not agree with the newspapers,
but these opinions are based on the
facts that newspapers present. Thus
silently the waves of public opinion
roll up and gather momentum, and
break down any barriers and obsta-
cles created by the errors of man
kind.
Milford chronicle., 1939-08-18
YOUTH AND KNOWLEDGE

The newspaper joker has it that
when the kid was told how Isaac
Newton discovered gravitation when
he saw an apple fall from a tree. he
replied that if Newton had been sit
ding in school looking at his books.
he would have discovered nothing.
Youth has a tremendous keenness
to see all that is going on. and it
watches apple trees and 5000 things
to see what will happen. But unless
it has dug into the wisdom which
the past has accumulated over thou
sands OF years in books, it will not
see the meaning of these things that
happen. Millions of kids have seen
apples fall from trees. and never dis
covered anything about them. except
that when eaten green they are apt
tc produce stomachache.
Milford chronicle., 1939-08-18
STILL FASTER CARS

Some people think the automo-
biles of the future will run a great
deal faster than they do now. and
that speeds of 125 to $50 miles an
hour will be more or less common.
The main roads of the future. it is
said, by avoiding intersections and
by carefully separated lanes. will be
far safer than now.
The modern automobile is mir
acle of science and efficiency. but the
element of human failure will SEEM
ingly always be factor. If you give
the drivers a perfect road, some
wabbly hands and minds will always
be doing the wrong thing. II is a
good deal easier to make perfect
car than a perfect driver. So long as
some drivers seem to leave their in
telligence behind at home. a consid-
cradle amount of caution will be
needed.
Milford chronicle., 1939-08-18
DOG DAYS

The time of extreme heat was call
ed by the ancients the Dog days,
as about that date in ancient times
Sirius, known as the Dog star" used
to rise. In our time sthe dog days
are not popular Some favored eli
mates do not get their oppressive
sultriness. but in the main the Am
erican people do a lot of sweating
during the period when the Dog
star was formerly supposed to run
things.
Dog lovers will say the phrase is
not appropriate. as dogs are crea-
lures of great cheerfulness and en-
thusiasm, while humans don't feel
cheerful and enthusiastic in dog
days. Perhaps Father and the boys
get put in the doghouse for their
snappish remarks during this per-
iod. SO the term may have appropri-
ateness for them.
Milford chronicle., 1939-08-18
WAITING FOR MATRIMnNY

Someone remarks that 100000
couples who want to get married,
can't do so, owing to lack of Jobs.
They look with envy into the green
fields of matrimony, and say the
world is all wrong that denies the
most fundamental impulse of human
life.
Perhaps if some of them were will
ing to live the thrifty way their par
ents did, they could make the adven-
turous plunge. They will probably
say life has changed. and you can't
get along without the modern facili-
ties. Perhaps so. but il the old folks
had taken that attitude, some of us
wouldn't be on earth today.
Milford chronicle., 1939-08-18
WHAT SAYS AUGUST!

Bayard Taylor. famous author
called the month of August a tide
less expansion of slumber." II ap-
parently stood in his eyes for a
sleepy quiet, a tendency to repose. a
feeling that the summer has passed
its meridian of heat and activity.
A certain pleasant languor steals
through the air People feel like sit
ting in the shade. swinging in the
hammock, slipping cooling drinks.
Something of the buoyant energy
OF spring and early summer has gone.
! August is the most popular month
for vacations. The farm and muggy
days tell people they need rest.
If able TO do so, they fly from the
pavements of cities and towns TO
resting places under waving tree
branches and by the side of cooling
lakes and shores.
Nature is seen at the top notch of
fertility. The fields of corn that will
soon be stripped to fill the mouths
of man and beast. still stand glis-
tening in the sun. Mans toll and eff
fort has produced a rich fruitage.
and one that will bring comfort
through lean days of winter
The trees shine with the most in
tense green that Natures chemical
laboratory can produce August sees
every color of the rainbow Joining
in the symphony of the garden. Ev-
cry wild flower joins in praise to the
God of nature
Someone says August is not a good
month, since it makes people feel
lazy. an dthat the world performs
less useful labor then than in any
month of the year Possibly. yet OUT 1
Of any loafing we do in August there
comes the relaxation of nerve and
that creates energy. Whether
we work or play in August. there ig /
no better month in which to look at /
he marvels of creation with amaz-
I'd eyes, as we think of all the beau /
y and wisdom displayed when this
superb planet was fashioned.
Milford chronicle., 1939-08-18
DEATHS FROM HEAT

The country has just experienced
an extended heat wave, which has
led to many deaths. The folks of the
greater age and of frail health need
to have a care when the thermometer
is dancing around the nineties.
If the tides of life are running
slow. it is not a good time on such
days to weed the garden, and they
would better look out how they try
to clean up the sitting attic. The
old country folks used to pick off a
great burdock leaf and put it in their
hats, and they claimed it absorbed
perspiration and made them cooler.
The young folks keep going about as
usual on a hot day, but even they
should be careful. They will prob
ably feel the heat more II asked to
hoe tho garden than if a game of
tennis is suggested
Milford chronicle., 1939-08-18
BLANCHARD'S STATION

Ralph Morris Harmon. son of Mr.
and Mrs. c. l.. Harmon. underwent
an operation in the Milford Memorial
Hospital last Wednesday morning
for the removal of his tOnsils and ad-
enOids. His mother remained at the
hospital with him. and they returned
to their home on Thursday
Mrs. Robert Mcdowell and chill
dren left Wednesday of last week for
4 visit with her parents. Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Burnette. of Mendenhall. Pa.
Mrs Louis Edgell of Dover. visited
her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Horace Ed
gell, last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Isaac Adams and
daughter were in James Camp on
Thursday
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Mills and
family left Thursday of last week for
a stay with Mr.. Mills sister and fam
lily in Pittsburgh. and returned Mon
day of this week
Jack Elwell spent the week end
here with his wife. Mrs Bertha Ear
ly and son, of Philadelphia. came
home with him and spent the week
end as their guests.
Harold Burnette, of Mendenhall.
Pa. was the guest of his brother-in-
law, Robert Mcdowell, during the
past week.
Mr. and Mrs. John Phillips have
been entertaining relatives from Ohio
during the past week.
Master Ralph Morris Harmon has
been a victim of chicken pox since
his return from the Milford Memorial
Hospital last week.
Milford chronicle., 1939-08-18
TURN OUT TO THE MEETJNGs

You can judge of the state of pro-
gress in a town by noting what the
attendance is at meetings called for
public Improvement purposes. II few
people will turn out to attend such
meetings, an Indifferent state of pub
lie spirit is indicated. In such a town,
the workers for progress are not
likely to get good support Lacking
such backing, you can't blame them
if they get discouraged and quit.
In progressive community a
meeting called to promote some pub
lice cause will get good attend
ancea. When its Chamber of Com
merce, or whatever its business Or
ganizatiOns may be called. gets a
crowd out to its various meetings. il
shows that people are determined to
support good causes. When such
demonstration is given, the leaders
in all good movements are cheered
on. and they work with all their
might and achieve results.
Milford chronicle., 1939-08-18
THE BOYS AND THE FRUIT

Fruit is a somewhat uncertain
form of property in many towns and
lsuburbs. The householder takes
pride in the nice apples and pears
and grapes his industry has raised
but when he goes out to gloat over
his possessions he may find them
gradually disappearing. Sticks and
stones under his trees may suggest
that the wind did not blow those
apples off. Grape skins under the
vine may tell him that the robins
didn't do it,
If he gets sour about it. people
may laugh and say that boys will
be boys" and that probably he stole
fruit in his youth. Perhaps he did,
but conditions may have been diff
erent in the small town where he
grew up.
There may have been such a sur
plus of fruit in that old burg, and
it may have had so little sale value.
that the owners never grudged the
portion the boys carried off. 1t is
usually different now. when fruit in
the market costs money. and when
gardeners take a good deal of pains
with their trees and vines.
There is a type of men and boys
who will load bags into an automo-
bile, and start out dark nights to-
ward farms and gardens whose loca-
tion they have figured out in advance.
Some of them carry home supplies
of fruit and vegetables TO last many
weeks. They should look out for far
mers having dogs with sharp teeth.
and some of them may have shotguns
around the place.
Some boys who have gotten into
real trouble probably started ont
with swiping fruiti After they had
aided the neighbors' yards with i'm
Dunity. and carried off things having
real value, it did not seem to them
greatly worse to slip nice articles
off the counters of a store. Parents
would better look into this fruit ques-
ion. and tell the boys to let their
'eighbOrs' gardens alone.
Milford chronicle., 1939-08-18
JUDGE ]. P. LEFEVRE
REAPPOINTS WHALEY
fcontInued from FIrst Parel

For eleven years. six of which he
was chief probation officer, he was
connected with the Ferris Industrial
School, working under Col. Tanner,
formerly superintendent OF the Lau-
Iel public schools, and now an army
officer.
He married Miss Mary Hearthway,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. William v.
lIearthway, of Delmar, on October 3.
1926. They have one son, William
Albert, eleven years old, and one of
the outstanding pupils of the Delmar
school.
Mr.. Whaley. because of his work
with the Ferris Industrial School, is
widely known throughout the state
among different organizations.
Being a football player when he
attended the Laurel High School,
curing the years when the school had
one of the best teams in the state,
il was he who introduced the game
at the Ferris Industrial School as a
means of recreation and muscular de-
velopment for the charges.
Milford chronicle., 1939-08-18
Milford, Friday, August Is, 1888
THE NEED FOR WORK

Ministers in former centuries u.s.
ed to preach about heaven as a place
of eternal rest. The old hymn spoke
of it as a place where the wicked
cease from troubling and the weary
shall have rest" That was a natural
point of view, in a day when people
worked extremely long hours. The
housewife who had to toll from early
morning until bed time to maintain
big house and care for six, eight.
or ten children, naturally looked
forwar dto heaven as a place where
she could fold her hands and not
find new calls on her attention every
minutes.
In time when the men usually
had to work 10 or more hours in Or
der to support their families a place
of eternal rest also looked nice to
them. The picture of heaven as
place where people played on harps
and sang praises to God eternally.
seemed a welcome relief after the
grind of incessant toll.
Recent years, when so many peO-
pie have not been able to find work.
make us realize what a blessing it
is to have any kind of a job. Even
if the pay is poor and the hours too
long, it is better to work than to be
idle. Work has a wonderful power
to correct harmful grOuches and sore
feelings in the mind
The man may go out to his toll
with harsh thoughts about his wife
and children. but when he takes hold
at the bench and the desk his mind
becomes healthy as he tries to solve
the problems of his job, and make
useful things or aid people to buy
the things they want. He goes home
in a better mood. and makes up the
old quarrels
. The wife may feel that. her hus-
band is careless and Indifferent, but
as she cleans the rooms and cooks
the food kinder feeling enters her |
heart. She sees that behind that |
mask of commonplace neglect. there
is real and substantial love. and the .
heart softens and she has a warm
kiss for him when he returns Bless
ed be work. and would that every
man; woman. and child could have
it.
Milford chronicle., 1939-08-18
GREENWOOD f. +. A. BOYS
TAKE TRIP TO WORLDS FAIR


Twenty-three boys and their chap
erones, Mr. Americas and Mr.. Myer,
ctarted on their annual educational
tour on Monday, July 9TH, to visit the
New York Worlds Fair and other
places of interest enroute.
Not long after arriving in New
York we saw the worlds largest
steamship. "The Queen Mary"
We arrived at the fair grounds
about 400 o'clock In the afternoon.
We Immediately went as a group to
the Perisphere. This is very beau
tiul attraction and should be wit
Eessed by everyone who visits the
fair. Then we separated and went
to the various exhibits of the fair.
AS we had so little time to cover the
200 acres of the fair, we spent our
time at what we thought were the
most interesting places. Among these
were the r. c. A. building, where we
saw television; the Firestone build
I ing, where we saw tires being made;
The Goodrich building. where Jimmy
Lynch tested Goodrich tires on a
specially built track; the Ford build
ing, where We saw parts of a Ford
made and rode in Ford cars on a spe-
cially built track. and the General
Motors building, where we stood in
line over an hour to see Highways
OF 1860" This was probably the
most popular exhibit at the fair. We
a'sO visited several foreign buildings
of which, perhaps. the most interest
ing were the Italian and the Russian
buildings.
We all met at eleven O'Clock and
v ent by bus out to an agricultural
school at Farmingdale, N. Y, where
we put in for the night.
On Tuesday morning we visited ex-
l;ibits we did not see the day before.
and went out to the amusement area.
The highlight of the amusement area.
and one which most of our group Wis
il, d was Billy Roses Aquacade.
Many of the boys saw Guy LOmbar-
dos orchestra. and some got the
autographs of several men in his Or
Chestra. After spending very pleas
ant but tiresome day. we returned
to Farmingdale again.
Wednesday morning we started
home. stopping at the Gordon
Dairy. where fourteen hundred cows
are MIXED three times a day on a
rotOlactor. The next stop was the
u. S. Naval Air station at Lakehurst.
where we were permitted to go thru
the Los Angeles
We arrived home Wednesday eve
ming, tired but contented with our
experience of sightseeing and amuse-
ment
The following boys made the trip:
MaLcel Cade. William Fleischauer. |
Robert Hochstedler. Robert Houston. /
Emerson Isaacs, Pennewill Isaacs. |
Paul johnson. Lawrence Hates. Ed |
ward Kielbasa. Charles Obier. Earl |
Obier. Louis Mills. Thayer Porter.
Jack Reynolds. Ebe Reynolds. Louis
Sadowski. Phillip Taylor. Everett
Speicher. Harlan Taylor. Willis Tull.
Kenneth Warrington. Allen Wiley !
and Walter Wiley. Russell Kitchens
from Bridgeville, was the bus driver. (
Milford chronicle., 1939-08-18
All CLUB NOTES

The monthly meeting of the Wild
Cat All Club was held at the home
Of Alfred Thomas on August 44th.
II was decided that there would be
4 club picnic on August 16 at the A.
Bailey Thomas cottage. Kits Ham
mock.
The meeting of the Hartly All
Club was held August Sth at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Cahall.
A short business meeting was held.
The election of new officers for the
club followed. Those elected to new
offices were: President, Wallace
Powell; vice-president, Louis GOsch;
secretary. Vernon Morton: Treasur-
ei. Alfred Rosengren. Club Reporter,
Charles Cahall
Carlton King, ex-president of the
club. won honors in the judging OF
poultry at the Kent and Sussex
Fair.
The next meeting of the club will
be held on September 9TH at the
nome of Mr. and Mrs. Rritz Rosen-
fren.
Two visitors of the Westville All
club were present
Milford chronicle., 1939-08-18
Same Old Laws

The wage hour law has not created
as much disturbance in the major
industries as was anticipated at the
time of its passage.
Several needful amendments be-
fore the House and Senate Labor
Committees were pigeon-holed. Too
bad.
Tax revision will be tackled in
earnest next winter What Congress
will invent for tax revision is a big
question for a small bunch of poll
ticians, with conflicting ideas
Bad laws are hardest to change
That's why there was so many same
old laws"