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Milford chronicle., 1940-03-01
BLOWY MARCH

We now come to that one of the
~ months which is most famous fol
windy days. When the cartoonist:
want to draw a picture illustrating
the idea of March, they are apt to
make a sketch showing a rough and
vigorous man who is initiating his
cheeks with breath, and splitting out
a swift current of air, which blows
peoples hats off, and gets their fin
cry all mussed up.
People don't like to he blown
around. so many of them spend the
month so far as they are able in
sitting over hot radiators, and shiv-
ering as they look out at a raw
world.
4 little wind pushed into our stag
Enant insides does no one any harm
1t should drive out some pale and
anaemic blood. and put people in
better condition to stand the lang
uors of summer. People spend large
sums of money to get a change of
air. 1t would seem as if the March
weather keeps air changing quite
speedily right on your own home
streets.
Milford chronicle., 1940-03-01
EDUCATION AND MARRIAGE

Many people once thought that
college educated girls did not stand
as good chance Of getting married
as those who had less education.
Some people thought the men were
afraid of these girls. because of their
superior mental development
II was stated by an eminent au-
thOrity at a convention of deans of
women at St Louis, that college girls
are marrying earlier than formerly.
but it was also said that no greater
proportion of them are getting mar
ried.
The girls who graduate from col
lege are an extremely attractive
crowd. Their minds have become
wide awake, they talk well, have
bright ideas. They have had extend
ed social experience. they know how
to act under all circumstances, and
they give an impression of famil-
iarity with the world and its Gus
toms.
They don't probably scare away
many men, and the men would be
glad TO capture these charming
mates. They have become more par
ticular as the result of their educa-
ton 1t would seem very dull to them
to look across the breakfast table
365 days in the year, at a man who
could not keep up with them mem
tally. They fear years of boredom,
and many of them decide to go il
alone, and they believe they will get
more satisfaction out of life.
Probably some of them make a
A man who shows little !
sign of mental power will often de-
'elop it i'm his rontacts with the
gorld II is a pretty serious thing
or a young woman to refuse the
,hance for a home and children,
when the same is offered her by a
rood man who is trying to do his
'est, even if in a limited way
The girls have to decide these
hings for themselves. Countless
numbers of them have gone it alone
nd lived happy lives
Milford chronicle., 1940-03-01
MOST DANGRROUS HOrR

They have it figured out ON the
Grand Coulee dam in the State OF
Washington, that the hour before
quitting time is the most dangerous
for their workers. From 3 TO p.
m., just before the day gang quits,
is the time when the most accidents
happen.
When it comes time for people to
quit work, they can't be quite as
bright and fresh as they are after a
good nights sleep. 1t will be natural
for some to fail to take the precau-
tions they would take in the alert
ness of early morning. This principle
applies particularly to people in all
kinds of occupations as respects au-
tcmobile accidents. When people
quit work and drive home, they are
often too tired to look out for poss-
ible trouble. The penalty of that for
many has been weeks on their backs.
Milford chronicle., 1940-03-01
PRISONER READERS

The New Hampshire state prison
library has a heavy circulation
among the inmates of that institu-
tiOn. Those convicts averaged Ia
call for 175 books and magazines
each during the year. Now il prison
convicts had done an equal amount
of good reading before getting Jail
ed. they should have learned that
crime does not pay.
Prison convicts probably read
principally to pass away the dull
time of their reDressed lives. II they
would really try 10 learn something
from what they read. the world of
hooks would say that the crooked
path gets nowhere. Il would point
cut that the world is full of OppOr-
tunity TO those who obey the rules of
life, and who try TO give the world
the service il asks.
Milford chronicle., 1940-03-01
ENCOURAGEMENT OF BUSINESS

Sharp political controversy viii
arise over the report of the Repub
lican party program committee
which has been formulated after two
years of research. Perhaps the prin-
cipal feature of the report is the
charge that the government has fail
ed to encourage private enterprise
sufficiently to take risks and en-
ploy labor
To this the reply will be made
that the way to stimulate business
is to give the people purchasing pow
er, and the attempt has been made
To do that by the public agencies
that have promoted work relief. So
cial security, and 4 broad program
of public works.
Without attempting to pass on that
issue just now. it might be said that
whoever is in power in the govern
ment, it should be made easy to en-
gage in business, and business should
be aided in earning a profit. Some
people are always worried for fear
business will earn excessive profits.
Excessive profits are a burden ON the
people, and should be heavily taxed.
There is one thing worse than ex-
cessive profits, and that is a situa-
ton in which there are no Drofits at
all. When profits are excessive the
people are usually paying exorbitant
prices, but at least they have work
at good wages and people are spend
ing money freely. When there are
no profits at all. then many workers
lose their jobs, and poverty spreads
through the country.
When people engage in business
and employ labor, they perform
public service. They are under Obli-
cation to treat labor fairly. The
concerns that employ we'll paid and
well treated labor are the founda-
ton on which the welfare of our
country has always been built They
have to take many risks in their bus
mess, some Of them failing as the
result of these risks. So the public
should cheer them on, and encourage
them to grow and expand and en-
ploy more people.
Milford chronicle., 1940-03-01
YOUTHS CLEANUP JOB

fI
Il is often remarked by young
people that the older generation has
handed them a terrible mess, and
they have to take hold and clean it
up. That is no doubt true. Still, they
have to be sure that they are able
to clean it up, and will do a better
job than the old folks did.
The real reason why the world is
in a mess is that people and nations
are generally selfish. and the great
majority OF them are grasping for
their own advantage alone. When
people get that spirit, with little
consideration for anybody else or for
neighbor nations. many people and
countries are going to get trodden
on. And when people get trodden
on, they start things. and pretty soon
the world is a messy place.
The young people of today are far
more intelligent than the previous
generation was at their age. That is
one encouraging thing. This leads
one to hope they will be intelligent
enough so they will stop wars. If
they can do that. all causes Of social
progress will go ahead.
It is doubtful if the young people
of today are any more unselfish than
their parents were at their age. Al
the beginning of this century, young
people were apt to be idealistic. The
essays of graduating students told /
how they were going to make a bet
ter world, and were going TO make /
to do It, Non nObis sOlum" (
a Latin phrase meaning mot for
alone" was a favorite /
motto of graduating classes. and they
really meant it
Today the young people are So
nhisticated. and the majority Of
them think they have just got to
hustle for themselves. without re-
gard to the betterment of the world
You cant blame them particularly, h
1ut if they carry out that idea they
nay pass on just as bad a mess TO
heir children.
Milford chronicle., 1940-03-01
PUBLIC SPIRIT

Some people go through life bent
mostly on securing their own per-
scnal advancement. They may be
good workers and useful in their
own occupation, but they make very
little contribution to the public well
fare in any different way.
1t is not quite enough to dig along
at the daily job and do the best you
can there. That is fine thing, but
if that is all we do some very vital
interests will be neglected We also
need to take hold with our fellow
citizens to remove defects in the
home town, promote progressive
movements that keep up with the
modern age, beautify our home
places, and provide the advantages
that go with q modern town
Milford chronicle., 1940-03-01
OVER.EXERTION

Newspaper reports from many
northern cities and towns, in the
severe winter through which we have
passed, have told of many elderly
men who lost their lives through
cver-exertion caused by shoveling
of snow. Some succumbed because
of over-exertion caused by trying to
walk through deep snow drifts.
When people get along in life, they
have to go a little slow. They hate
terribly to give up customary activ-
tiles. If they see something that
needs doing around the home place.
it hurts their pride to call on some
body else to do it. If people are to
live long lives, they have to learn
their own limitations. Nature marks
out "No Trespass" signs as we grow
older, and tells us not to cross them.
Milford chronicle., 1940-03-01
Milford. Friday, March /, 1910
PRIMARY ELECTIONS

The various states will soon bC
holding primary elections to select
delegates to the national presidential
conventions, or the state cOnven-
lions that choose such delegates.
Probably as a whole these primary
elections will not be well attended.
About 45,000,0O0 votes were cast in
the 1896 November election, and the
number in November of this year
will probably be more than that. If
a total of 2O,00O,0O0 people get out
10 these spring primary election
contests, it would be considered a
good turn out The number might
not be more than 100000.
Now what are all those stay at
home voters doing on primary day?
Some millions will forget that it is
the day to vote Some will be too
busy. Millions will say. MY one
vote will make no difference" In
some districts there may be only one
set of candidates. In some districts
many voters may rot know anything
about the people who seek to be
chosen as delegates.
AS to the idea that one vote makes
no difference, if 100000 people say
that, that great multitude have lost
an opportunity to tell the world
that they want good and efficient
government, and the solution of the
problems that worry the people.
People take a different view of
their relations to the government
than they do of their relation to their
jCbs. If they often forgot to go TO
ne ioh CT We're usually too busy to
60, o. kept saying their absence
would make no particular difference,
the boss would probably say they
could stay permanently at home. He
would say he could run his business
without them.
~ Itgtbey say similar things ab0nt
their job of maintaining the govern
ment of our country. there is no boss
who will tell them that they lose
their vote from now on. The people
of this country determine the kind
of government they want. If they
won't spend the time to vote at these
primaries, the result may be that in
many cases the government won't
be able to solve their problems.
Milford chronicle., 1940-03-01

BLOCKADE LEAKS 49, According
to the United News Weekly, the
American export trade for 1889 has
been lifted TO S3,177 100000, largely
as result of war abroad. 1t is now
revealed that large part of this
increase can be traced to higher
sales of the goods, largely iron, steel,
oil, copper, and chemicals to the
neutral nations that border on the
Third Reich. The thirteen neutrals
bordering on Germany close enough
to funnel goods to Germany through
the British blockade are Italy, Rus
sia, YugoslaVia, Rumania, Bulgaria.
Greece, Sweden, Norway. Denmark,
Belgium, the Netherlands, Hungary,
and Switzerland In the last four
months of 1888 $I40,O0O,0OO worth
Of American exports were shipped to
these thirteen nations; but in 1893.
the four-month trade jumped to $20S,
100000. In 1888 last four months,
Great Britain and France bought
American goods worth S243, 200, 900,
and during the final four months of
1899, their takings increased to $685.
100000 which clearly reveals the
true extent Of this country's role in
Europe's war. According to the De-
partment of Commerce, then the
facts are these: I'm the first four
months of war in Europe, exports
from this country to neutrals near
Germany increased AZ per cent over
shipments for September-December
of warless 1888; meanwhile, exports
to Great Britain and France in
creased only 10 per cent, or-the in
crease for exports to Germany's
neighbors, AZ per cent, is almost five
times as great as the 10 per cent in
crease in trade with the Allies"
Milford chronicle., 1940-03-01
CLARKSVILLE

"Ole Man Winter" is still with us
! lut the robins are showing them.
/ selves. so we know spring is in the
air.
Rev. +. A. Baker preached an in.
spring sermon at St. Georges last
sunday morning. We invite every
enc in the community to come and
hear Rev. Baker-for those who
haven't. are missing something worth
while.
Services are held regularly every
Sunday morning in the st. Georges
! Church. Sunday school at $3.50 a. m,
and preaching service at 10:45 a. m.
Communion service will be held
Sunday morning, March 3, which will
he the fourth Sunday in Lent.
Prayer service every Thursday
night at 7:30 o'clock. Everybody
welcome.
The infant son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Everett Hickman was buried Sunday
at ST. Georges cemetery.
Mr.. and Mrs. Russell Lathbury are
the proud parents of a fine daugh-
ter
Samuel Mclaughlin is iii with the
grippe at this time.
Mrs. John Harmon is spending
some time with her children in Rich
aIdsOn Park.
We regret to report that Mrs. Eva
Murray is not much better
J. C. Numbers is visiting his bro
ther in Pittsburgh.
Mrs. Ralph Belts and little daugh-
ter, Peggy Anne, are visiting Mrs.
Belts parents, Mr.. and Mrs. S. II.
Dunton, in Nassawadox, Va.
Mr. and Mrs. Harley White and
little Bob, also Mr.. and Mrs. George
Quillen spent one evening last week
with Mr.. and Mrs. Charles West.
We are glad to learn Mrs. Aira
Aydelotte is better.
Mrs. Malvina Moore is still quite
feeble.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert DerricksOn
spent the weekend in Camden, N. j.,
with Mr.. and Mrs. Albert DerricksOn
and son Harry.
Charles H. West has been visiting
his daughter and family. Mr. and
Mrs. John M. Hudson.
Miss Marie Nelson spent the week
end with Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Holt
OF Ocean View.
Mrs. Charles Banks and Master
Roy spent the weekend with Mrs.
Mary f. West and Mr.. and Mrs. Nor
man West and sons. Jerald and Dom
aid.
Horace Lathbury spent the week.
end with his family.
Mrs. Swaney Bennett and children,
William Steiner and Andrew West
spent Sunday in Chester. Pa.
Master Wayne West was a Sunday |
dinner guest Of Master Floyd West
Milford chronicle., 1940-03-01

WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY-AlI
legislation was disposed with in the
Congress last Thursday as the Con-
gress and all of Washington most
fittingly celebrated the 20Sth anni-
versary of the birthday of the first
President of the United States. Rep
resentative Frank CrOwther, Repub-
lican, Of New York, who is retiring
from Congress after serving 2s years
read Washington's Farewell Address
in the House Of Representatives.
Milford chronicle., 1940-03-01

RAMSPECK BILL-The Ramspeck
bill, passed by the House February 8,
by a vote of PA to 10, was for the
purpose of blanketing in about 3O0,-
900 employees in various emergency
federal bureaus under civil service.
An amendment was adopted to more
evenly allocate federal Jobs to states,
but the Senate will likely eliminate It.
Proponents of this legislation
claimed that it would place on a
merit basis these employees who
were engaged under the patronage
system, but objected to an amend
ment which would require them to
take a competitive examination to
qualify. Therefore. these 100000
persons, under the Ramspeck bill,
would be given a preferred status
over about 100000 who have taken
civil service examinations and are
now on the eligible list for employ
ment whenever jobs are available in
these emergency bureaus.
Milford chronicle., 1940-03-01
HOUSTON

Mr.. and Mrs. Emmett Harrington
ST., had as dinner guests on Sunday
Mr.. and Mrs. George Davis, Mr.. and
Mrs. Harry Harrington and family
Mr.. and Mrs. George Harrington, Mr..
and Mrs. Clarence Dawson and
daughter, all OF Milford: Mr.. and Mrs.
Emmett Harrington, Jr., of Houston.
Milford chronicle., 1940-03-01

RECIPROCAL TRADE AGREE
MENTS-D During the past week. the
House spent most of its time in con-
sideration Of a joint resolution which
would extend the authority of the
President to enter into foreign trade
agreements for a period Of three
years beginning June 12. 1910. This
authorization was first given the
Milford chronicle., 1940-03-01

INDIAN BILL.-Indians generally
do not vote in this country, and COM
sequently it is interesting to observe
the lack of consideration they re-
ceive at the hands of politicians. Re-
Gently a bill was before the House
to authorize the payment of about n
quarter million dollars to the San
Carlos Apache Indians in Arizona
for land ceded in 1896 to the Federal
Government for mineral exploitation,
but which actually had been used
for other purposes. Uncle Sam ex-
pends money for every conceivable
purpose, and even extends loans 10
foreign countries; however, the In
dian bill was defeated, and the
House devoted several hours to Ques-
tionabIe and costly debate.
Milford chronicle., 1940-03-01

WHEN people go somewhere else
to buy goods and pay more and get
the same thing they could have had
OF home, what is the cause? Prob
ably they had some Of those rose
tinted glasses you hear about.
Milford chronicle., 1940-03-01

CONGRESSIONAL WAR ON IDLE
NESS-On Thursday of this week, a
House group Of twenty Democrats
and four Republicans asked all their
colleagues to join them in ''an in
cessant war on unemployment" and
to attend a conference on the unem-
ployment problem on Monday. The
letter of the "a representatives as
serted that unemployment is the
first and most fundamental problem
before this Congress and before the
nation today" The invitation to join
this movement said, this is not a
move to form a bloc or to gain polit-
ical advantage for any person or any
party or any political program" OBJ
servers, however, interpreted ii as a
move by Democratic liberals in the
House TO focus public attention on
the domestic issue Of unemployment,
as against the distraction" of the
European war.
Milford chronicle., 1940-03-01

FANCY and funny writing is not
necessarily what sells goods by adj
yertising. Just try giving the facts
about goods and their prices. That
is what the people ask you to tell
them.
Milford chronicle., 1940-03-01

SLEEP is called Natures great
restorer, but the sleep Of the home
town means deterioration. loss, and
abandonment Of hopes.
Milford chronicle., 1940-03-01

President on June l2, 1884. and ex-
tended for a further period Of three
years on June ~, 1887. On last
Friday after consideration Of several
amendments to this resolution, the
House finally passed the bill by a
vote of ZIG yeas to 16s nays.
Milford chronicle., 1940-03-01
FROM CONGRESSMAN
GEORGES WILLIAMS

TRANSPARENCY OF FOREST
SERVICE.-Reliable reports in the
Capitol indicate that the President
has abandoned his plan to transfer
the Forest Service from the Depart
ment of Agriculture to the Depart
ment of the Interior. Secretaries
Wallace and Ickes have long en-
gagged in a feud over control of 175,-
100000 acres in 161 national forests.
About four weeks ago, rumOrs cir
culated here that the President had
decided to propose the transfer in
his forthcoming reorganization plan
No. 3. This unleashed a barrage of
criticism from those who believe
that the Forest Service has been
doing effective work in its present
status, and Congressional party
leaders informed the Chief Executive
that it was questionable whether or
not Congress would approve the
transfer. Pressure became so intense
that the proposal was discarded.
Evening star., 1940-02-17
Real Esiais Board SCI
For Annual Dinner Dance

Zhs Program COMMITTEES Of the
Washinston Real Estate Board has
completed plans for the seventh an
nual realtors' dinner dance. which
win be held In the Nayfiower Hotel
next "Wednesday night. There win
be about $50 real estate men and
guests at the party. headed by Fred
A. Smith, board president.
Diversified entertainment, under
the supervision Of Raymond N. Tsy-
lor, has been arranged. Mr.. Tay-
lor will be assisted by William 4.
Shannon, I'd. Edward r. Carr Il
chairman Of the Program Commit
tee.
At the meeting recently held
Richard d. Stimson, chairman Of
the Ticket Committee. reported the
sale Of tickets had been closed and
that al available space had been
taken.
Assisting Mr.. Carr on the COM
mittee, in addition to those named
above, are J. Hawley Smith, 8. s.
Spruce, Oliver n. Walker, c. Hay
ward Marshall and John r. Neale
In addition, the following COM
mittees have been appointed fog
the purpose Of assisting with seat
ing and distribution Of souvenirs:
H. w. Talley, Robert z. hammond,
Evening star., 1940-02-17

simmons. 10l4 Denrike Building, de-
signer: to erect one 2-story addi-
ton to store, 3605 Georgia avenue
NV; to cost $4,000.
G. L. Osborn, 5sl9 Georgia avenue
NV, owner, designer and builder:
to make repairs, 5919 Georgia avenue
NV; to cost $500.
Louis Herman, 1885 Gallatin
street NV, owner: Edmund w.
Dreyfuss. architect; j. Bryant Smith,
522 Fourteenth street Sc, builder;
to make repairs, 7l5-7l7 H street
NE: to cost $500.
Mrs. Alan Haden, owner; RAN
dolph Carter, Warrenton, Va, de-
signer: Carter Engineering Corp,
Warrenton, Va. builders: to make
repairs, SOTO 9 street NV: to cost
81 900.
Carlisle Courts, Inc, l40l Cobb
road NV, owners: Edward r. Dun
lop, designer: ]. B. Hyle, 736 Silver
Spring avenue, Silver Spring. build
ers: to make repairs, 30l0 Four
teenth street NV: to cost $1,175.
Evening star., 1940-02-17

By the regularity of their designs.
Besides, no Oriental worth having
has cotton pile because wool Il much
moro accessible IA Oriental countries
than cotton. A test for wool may
reveal the truth.
In spite OF rising costs the prices
Of genuine. handmade Oriental rugs
are low today. Genuine antiques
have, Of course, disappeared. Semi
antiques are occasionally available,
but In spite Of some Of the crudely-
made and harshly- -colored Oriental
rugs being sold today there are many
well made and softly -colored Orien-
tai carpets available to those who
love tradition and romance that GO
with every Oriental rug.
Evening star., 1940-02-17

Ter, Md. builder; Evan j. Conner, 927
Fifteenth street NV, designer: to
erect one 2-story brick and cinder
block dwelling, 1924 Texas avenue
Sc: to cost 5000.
John j. Sullivan, 927 Fifteenth
street NV. owner; Thomas D.
Riordan, builder; Thomas NJ. Ned
ford, 1910 Ureu place NE. archi-
tect, to erect one 2-story brick stor-
age warehouse, 413 L street NV: to
cost $500.
William Wiener and Helen Wiener,
56l0 Colorado avenue NV, owner;
w. j. Marshall, 627 Hamilton street
NV, builder; N. Langmaid, 2262
Hall place NV, designer; to erect
one 2-story brick and cinder block
dwelling, 3122 Northampton street
NV; to cost $500.
Harry Ziggles, 5425 Illinois avenue
NV, owner and builder; Edmund
w. Dreyfuss, 1894 K street NV,
designer: to erect one 2-story brick
and cinder block store and 1-family
apartment. 920-22-24 Kennedy street
NV; to cost 5000.
Edward A. Hyde, 5918 Second
place NV, owner and builder; Louis
r. Moss, 1415 I street NV, archi-
teet: 10 erect enc 2-story bsick dWel-
ling, 1225 Tuckerman street NV;
to cost $500. -- -- --- --'---~s''-@
Columbia Construction Co.. 702 p
street NV. owners and builders;
]. Marcus Hallett, 6525 Piney Branch
road NV. designer: to erect one a
story brick and cinder block addi-
ton store, and apartment lone
family $3.50 Georgia avenue NV;
to cost $500.
M. L. Stone, 343s Connecticut
avenue NV, owner and builder;
Robert K. Smith, 3433 Connecticut
avenue NV, designer; to erect one
2-story brick dwelling, 3012 Tenny-
son street NV: to cost 5000.
M. Coen. 360S Georgia avenue
NV, owner and builder; ]. P. Fitz-