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Milford chronicle., 1940-12-13
GREENWOOD

Joseph KOnopha spent the week
end in Philadelphia.
Howard Mcknight spent the weel
end in Salisbury.
James Wilson spent the weekend
in Georgetown with his parents.
Mrs Raymond Mariner is quite
III in the Milford Memorial Hospi-
tai.
James WillOn OF Bridgeton, N. j..
spent the weekend in town.
Jack Farrell of Bridgeton, N. j.,
spent the weekend in town.
Mrs. Grover Cannon was taken to
the Peninsula General Hospital in
Salisbury last Sunday to be oper-
ated upon on Monday.
Keith MacNamaine spent the week
end in Dover.
Mr.. and Mrs. George D. Baker and
daughter Phyllis, spent Sunday in
Media, Pa.
Mr.. and Mrs. Kenneth Cheatwin
motOred to Rehoboth last Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Louche Of Lam
caster, Pa, spent the weekend with
Mrs. Louche's parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
George Murphy
Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Warrant Of
Wilmington, spent the weekend
with Mr.. and Mrs. Clayton Johnson.
Harry Mariner, Sr., of Salisbury,
is visiting his son, Raymond Mar
riner.
Mrs. Edward BOzymowski of Phil
adelphia. spent several days last
week with her husband. Edward
Mr.. and Mrs. Stanley Klemm en-
guests from Philadelphia
over the weekend.
Mr.. and Mrs Elmer Cannon en-
Milford chronicle., 1940-12-13
ALWAYS PREPARED

Facts recently published show WV
idly the ability of the American rail-
roads to handle the nations freight
: ioad-and to handle it in time of
emergency, no less than under nor
NAL conditions.
The few Doubling Thomases who
question the ability of the railroads
to do this, says the Nations Busi-
ness. are reminiscent of the time in
1896 when, months after the loco
motive engine George Washington
had climbed six per cent grade,
certain scientific gentlemen of the
age were busy proving by calcula-
tiOns that il had done no such thing
because it was a mathematical i'm
possibility"
Railroad cars today are far big
ger and stronger, and are capable
Of providing a great deal more SER
vice than in 1917. Today's locomo-
tives are half again as powerful as
their 1917 predecessors, and far more
speedy and efficient Everything that
has anything to do with the railroad
plant, from rails to signal systems,
is the finest in history. For example,
today's average freight train speed
is nearly twO-thirds faster than it
was in the World War period.
There is lack Of understanding as
TO Just how much drain the defense
program will put on the railroads.
Il has been pointed out that a 49,
000-ion battleship represents only
5000 carloads of freight-and deliv-
cry is spread over number of years.
A million men in an army camp
sounds impressive 600 carloads
Of freight each day will supply them
with all the goods, clothes, weapons
and everything else they can use.
And 500 carloads is about six-tenths
Of one per cent of average daily car
loadiqgs last year.
When you hear government Off
cials and railroad experts say that
we need have no fear OF the Iinesi
capacity to do the job ahead Of them,
you can be certain they aren't talk
ing through their hats. Our Number
I medium of transportation was new
er ii better shape. Come what may
the railroads are ready.
Milford chronicle., 1940-12-13

Mrs. Eliza McIlyaine had the mis-
fortune to lose 9 valuable mule on
Monday Of this week
The next quarterly conference Of
Unity Methodist Church VIII be held
at the parsonage on Saturday, De-
cember IA,
Milford chronicle., 1940-12-13

Reports from all sections of lows
er Delaware are to the effect that
the holly crop this fall viii be q good
one and thousands Of dollars are ex-
pected 10 be realized from Il BY far-
mers between now and the middle
of December
Milford chronicle., 1940-12-13
HOLLYYHLE

Mrs. Nora Prettyman Is a patient
at the Peninsula Hospital at Sails
bury, Nd, where she Is undergoing
an operation for the removal OF a
cataract from the right eye.
Mrs. Elizabeth Stevenson. accom-
Evening star., 1940-10-06

gagged in industries or occupations
considered important to the defense
or to the normal economic order of
the country.
Two Glasses Deferred Indefinitely.
Men in Glasses and 3 will be de-
ferred from military service indefi-
nitely. The second class consists
of those placed in the delayed status
for industrial or professional rea-
sons. Glass 3 includes those with
dependents, and this may be con-
strued to take in most, If not all,
married men.
Whether a deferred man could
enlist in the Regular Army, Navy
or Marines is a question. The selec-
tive service law says, in giving regis
trants an opportunity to volunteer,
but no person who so volunteers
shall be inducted for such training
and service so long as he is de-
ferred after classification" This
provision may take care of such
difficulties as confronted Gen. Crow
der.
Apparently Congress. in drafting
the present act, did not worry over
the situation that arose in World
War days-perhaps because the
country is not at war now.
During the debate over the con-
scription bill, opponents declared
the armed forces could get enough
volunteers and the draft was un-
Evening star., 1940-10-06
Departmental Bank
To Pay Final Dividend

The seventh and final dividend
amounting to ga per cent, will be
paid to depositors of the Depart
mental Bank. beginning tomorrow
morning, it was announced by Re-
ceiver John F. Moran. The amount
to be disbursed is about $4,000.
Checks will be ready for distribu-
ton at Room 222, Riggs Bank
Building, at Fourteenth street and
Park road NV. but Mr.. Moran
asked depositors not to call for their
dividends until they received notifi-
cation by post card.
Due to lack of space he said,
"our facilities will not permit the
handling of more than 500 depos-
itors a day." Receivers certificates
must be presented by depositors be-
fore they can get their checks.
Including the last dividend. the
depositors will have received total
of Ola per cent of the money they
had in the bank at the time it
closed July IA. 1882. The amount
of dividends will total 100000 dis
bursed to about 1000 persons,
The receivers office will be open
from 9 IN. to pm. daily. except
Sunday, it was announced, but de-
positors must call for their checks
on or before Monday, Oct. 81.
Evening star., 1940-10-06

necessary. Advocates of the legis-
lation not only denied this, but con-
tended that selective service was the
scientific way to prepare the Ma
tion's defense, with each man as
signed to the task for which he was
needed, whether it was in a factory.
in the Army or planting crops. But
in the measure that finally emerged,
Congress left the voluntary military
system pretty much as it was.
Spurt in Recruiting.
The one-year enlistments which
the Army now is accepting have
brought squirt in recruiting. More
than 400 men applied for acceptance
at the District recruiting Office from
Friday morning through yesterday
This is the same period of training
draftee will go through, and there
will be no difference in the program,
except that a man enlisting before
registration day would escape that
formality, as we'll as further nego-
tiations with his draft board as he
filled out QUESTIONABLE and sub
mitted to classification. There is
the further danger that the volun-
teer might be accepted by the Army
recruiting station, but deferred by
his draft board for reasons other
than support of dependents.
The States, the District and the
Territories will get credit in the
tentative selective service quotas
Evening star., 1940-10-06
Record Peacetime
Conscription Raises
Draft Problem
PorIey Called to Map
Plan Thot Won't Disrupt
Conscription Setup
By CARTER BROOKE JONES.

While volunteers for the various
armed forces are enlisting at rate
unprecedented in peacetime. thus
lowering the quotas which the
States and the District of Columbia
will be required to draft for mill
tary service, the numbers of these
volunteers have posed problem
which will bring about conference
of officials concerned at an early
date, it was learned yesterday.
The officials will try to work out
a uniform method of accepting
volunteers which will not interfere
with the principle of selective serv-
ice, which. in other words. will not
disrupt the plans of co-ordinating
defense equipment with manpower.
Otherwise, it was pointed out,
should the defense emergency con-
tinue, perhaps growing more acute,
it may be necessary to stop volun-
tary enlistments and depend on
selective inductions to keep the in
tricate machinery of national de-
fense turning smoothly. This was
found necessary during the World
War.
The Army, for instance, is not
accepting men with dependents.
But it does not 60 into a mans
background as a craftsman If he
otherwise is acceptable. Thus men
needed in vital defense industries
say. airplane factory mechanics or
other specialists who are scarce and
hard to replace-might enlist.
System played Havoc"
Continuance of the volunteer
system after America entered the
World War while the country was
trying to coordinate and systema-
tie all the elements essential in
war, played havoc" according to
the final report of Gen. E. H.
Crowder, the provost marshal. He
wrote:
But while the classification and
mobilization under the selective
service law were proceeding, the
Army, the Navy and the Marine
Evening star., 1940-10-06

Corps were recruiting under the
old system of voluntary enlistment"
The enlistment of men eligible for
the draft was stopped by the Army
December Is, 1917-eight months
after the country went into the war
and was not halted by the Navy
and the Marine Corps until August
8. 1918, when all voluntary enlist
ments were discontinued.
Such recruiting" said Gen.
Crowder, played havoc for a time
with the orderly process of selec-
ton. During the period in which
enlistments were permitted, 100 900
men were withdrawn from the avail
able source of supply upon which
the selective service system relied.
No Heed of Economic Value.
The volunteer plan took no heed
of economic value; it received as
readily the men indispensable to
production as it did the industrially
worthless. We were presented with
the strange anomaly of a Nation
which had intrusted its manpower
to a selective organization, at the
very breath turning over the same
resources to an indiscriminate with
drawal by the agencies of recruit
ment. The task of accounting be-
came highly difficult; an equitable
or efficient apportionment of man.
power between the military and in
dustrial realms was impossible. Re-
cruitment disturbed every phase of
the scientific administration of our
task and impaired the efficiency OF
the whole organization.
The facts were readily recognized
by the summer of 1918 and all re-
cruitment was discontinued"
Officials at national selective serv-
ice headquarters plan to 60 over
the present situation with officers
in charge of recruiting activities
at the War and Navy departments.
Meanwhile the various branches
of the service will continue to ac-
cept recruits that meet their re-
quirements. And after registration
day, October 16, the Selective Serv-
ice Act provides, men within the
ages-21 to 35, inclusive-may vol
unteer for their years service and,
if they are acceptable, be called for
immediate service.
There is this important difference,
however. between enlisting outside
the draft and volunteering to a Sc
lective service board. The board will
classify all registrants. whether they
volunteer or wait for possible induc-
ton. II a man is not in Glass J.,
he will not be accepted, whether he
wants to go into training or stay
home. Glass l will include men
without dependents and not en-
Evening star., 1940-10-06

soon to be handed them for all who
are serving in the Army, National
Guard. Navy or Marines.
The tentative quotas are reported
to have been completed, but they
are being held up for further study
before they are released
Selective service headquarters
plans to make public early this week
the highly important volume of
the regulations, covering classical
ton and selection. These interpre-
tations' of the act are expected to
give the local draft boards more
specific instructions On which men
they should defer and which certify
for immediate service.
With registration day only 10 days
off, preparations at the headquarters
in the building at Twenty-first and
C streets NV. formerly known as
the Potomac Park Apartments, are
continuing at an accelerating pace.
Evening star., 1940-10-06
tended that the Governments cor
resnondinply will contract.

tended that the Governments cor
respondingly will contract.
The housing co-ordinator re-
ported on economies for the pro-
gram. "Promiscuous purchase OF
materials is on the way out" he ex-
planned. Centralized buying is be-
ginning. Land purchases are being
channeled through one negotiator
now, he said. rather than having
five bidding against each other as
heretofore.
Secretary OF Commerce Jesse
Jones was unable to attend the
meeting at the last moment. In ad-
dition to Administrator Carmody,
guests included Nathan Straus of
the U. S H. A.; w. E. Reynolds of
the Public Building Administrations
Harold B. Smith. Director of the
Budget; John H. Fahey of the Fed
eral Home Loan Bank Board; Emil
Schram. chairnsp of the board of
the Reconstru Finance Corp. /;
Jacob Crane, tant housing CO.
ordinator of befense Commis-
sion and Coll Woodbury., execu-
tive chairmanV the National As
sociation of Housing Officials.
Evening star., 1940-10-06
Two Men Are Shot Dead
By Unidentified Gunmen

Two colored men were shot and
instantly killed today, apparently
by some unidentified gunmen as
they sat on bench in front Of the
home of one of them at $500 I
street NV.
The dead men were identified by
police as Sam Banks, IS, Of the I
street address, and Theodore Goff-
ney, As, of 8231a Twenty-sixth street
NV. The elder man was said to
have at least two bullet wounds In
the head.
Some time after the shooting. po-
lice had been unable to find any eye
witness. Headquarters detectives
said no gun mad been found at the
scene.
Evening star., 1940-10-06
Weyqund Leaves for AIqiers

BY the Associated Press.
VICHY, France, Oct. 5.-Gen.
Maxine Weygand, recovered from
rib fractures suffered in a recent
airplane accident. left today for
Algiers ito coordinate our efforts"
for the safety of the French African
empire.
Evening star., 1940-05-22
Manners
of the
Moment

I never know whether to be mad
der at myself or at the person who
shoves into telephone booth ahead
Of me after I have been waiting for
good 10 minutes, and quite OBJ
viously have first rights. OF course
/ am always madder at her at first.
She comes stalking up to the tele-
phone booth with all the self-con-
fdence in the world, just as the pre-
vious incumbent steps out of it. And
simply because she is 80 bold about
it she gets in.
After she is inside I burn up at
myself. I realize I must either
have been asleep when the whole
thing happened or must have been
terribly timid. And I don't like to
admit that I was either.
I suppose I should just step right
up and demand my rights. But
sometimes I wish people didn't make
life so hard for us. Why couldn' t
the newcomer have just tapped me
on the shoulder and said, you're
next, aren't you? Well, shake a
leg" JEAN.
Evening star., 1940-05-22

dressed to the teeth. Plan on q
parasol for your vacation. If you like
1T viii give you . tremendously
gala feeling. If you do carry one,
however, carry 1t proudly and grace
fully, not with . self conscious air
that will make every one think you
look as silly As you feel.
Select your evening fashions for
charm, becomingness and the crisp,
refreshing appearance they present.
Be sure that they At wen. are Of q
good color and that you're going to
be happy In them. Wear the proper
jewelry-but not too much Of it-and
see that your flowers, If any, go with
the color scheme and the type Of
dress you have chosen for q fiirta-
tious, frivolous and happy summer
season.
Evening star., 1940-05-22
Answering
Readers

By EMILY POST.

When five hostesses together give
party, 1t Is easy enough to under
stand why their invitation is likely
to cause exactly the confusion that
this letter describes: II can't I'M
agine how to answer an invitation
from five hostesses, whose names are
listed in alphabetical order at the
top Of a formally worded invitation.
Must I send five notes of acceptance
or may send one to the list as a
whole? If so, to whose address shall
I send it?"
AS a matter of fact, the answer is
not q definite one. You can write
Mrs. John Smith
accepts with pleasure
the kind invitation of
(then list all five names) and address
the place where party is to be
given. You may also go to the other
extreme and simply word your an
swer: Mrs. John Smith accepts with
pleasure your kind invitation for
Saturday, the fifth of june" and
send this to the name at the top of
the list, or to the hostess whom you
know best.
Dear Mrs. Post: Would it sound
presumptuous to call my business
Mrs. John Elder, Fine Antiques?
I am not young and it seems much
too familiar to call the shop by my
first name.
Answer-Mrs. John Elder would be
proper. The incorrect combination
would be Mrs. Louise Elder. Since
most business women are not mar
ried at the beginning of their ca
reers, they usually keep the name
they begin with. If a woman wants
to keep the name by which she has
become known and also wishes to
identify herself with her married
name, the correct way to do this
is to add in parentheses underneath
this name MRS. John Smith.
Evening star., 1940-05-22

OF amusement to turn q mans
thoughts toward marriage. No man
is moved to propose to q girl over q
restaurant table, with the waiter
standing within earshot. It is home
that turns the trick.
1t is when the man and the girl
are raiding the icebox, or scrambling
eggs in the kitchen, that a man
thinks how nice it would be to have
that sweet and smiling face across
the table from him forever.
1t is the psychological moment
when the man, the girl and the place
meet, and the chap who has been
hesitating on the brink goes OF the
deep end into the sea of matrimony
No one who considers the subject
can doubt that the lack of any place
in the home for girls to receive the
Boy Friend is not only the reason
that so many of them fail to marry,
but the reason that so many Of them
who do marry make failures of their
marriages.
Bold as a lion in other circum-
stances the modern youth trembles
like a hunted hare at the thought of
spending an evening in the bosom Of
girls family. And so they keep
their dates at dance places or the
movies, instead of at home, and be-
cause Of this they never really get
acquainted.
They never have a chance to sit
down quietly and talk things out and
find out what sort Of people they
really are and what they ask Of life
and marriages.
All of which leads us back to say
ing once more that what this coun-
try needs more than any other one
thing is more homes and people who
will stay in them.
DOROTHY DIX.
Evening star., 1940-05-22
Dorothy Dix Says 80
Increased Spinster Crop Due
To Conditions in Homes
[itions in Homes

In a recent scientific study of
how, when and where men pop the
question, 1t was found that out of
1,l81 proposals of marriage, % per
cent were made in the girls homes,
Is per cent were made in cars and
the remaining So per cent were made
In public places. Doubtless, if the
investigation had been pursued
further, it would have been dis
covered that about 80 per cent OF
the proposals that are never made
are the direct result Of the mod
srn family living in apartments
where there is no proper place in
which young man can make love
and ask a girl to let him assume
her board bill and shopping ticket
for life. In the good old days,
when every family lived in what the
English call a "self-contained house"
instead of on shelves-as is the pres
ent custom-there were very few
maids, whereas nowadays the spin
ster crop increases year by year.
And this sad condition of affairs can
literally be laid at the doors Of the
homes which used to be of solid,
thick, soundproof wood, but are now
nothing but f1imsy curtains that are
peep holes and listening posts for
the family.
1t is strange thing that parents
who desire their daughters to marry
have never realized that the home is
the greatest matrimonial promotion
agency in the world. It furnishes q
girl the background which the dull
est man respects and against which
the beauty is a knockout and the
homely sister looks her best.
There is nothing in big paid places
Evening star., 1940-05-22
Parents Must
Set a Good
Example
Manners Initiated,
Therefore Lecture
Is Not Effective
By ANGELO PATRI.

The most easy-going parents are
distressed II their children are bad
hammered before other people. Now
good manners are not born with q
child. They are the result Of long,
patient training and example, espe-
cially example. Children learn
largely through imitation. What
their parents do is right In their
eyes, and they copy 1t faithfully
to the twitching Of an eyelid. Good
manners must be In practice in the
family every day.
Little children soon learn to say
please" and Thank you," and too
soon, Excuse me-" They hnd it is
easy to escape censure by saying
sweetly, Excuse me" How could
one punish q child when he
apologies? Look out for Excuse
me-" When 1t comes too often
withhold the pardon q little. Teach
the children rather to avoid the
cause for apology.
In order to do that they must
learn the right ways Of behavior.
Teach them to pass behind people.
Putting it in the negative way,
Don't pass in front of people" is
not as forceful. Tell them to offer
the paper. the sweets, the right
chair to older people before helping
themselves. Put it positively and
set the example.
Teach children to rise when older
people enter the room and remain
standing until the grown-ups are
seated. Girls and young ladies
should rise when elderly women
enter room and stand until they
are seated. 1t is courteous of them
to watch to see that infirm men,
aged men, are comfortably placed
should their hostess be occupied
elsewhere. Age should have re-
spectful attention from youth
always. Begin with the grand
parents In the home and there will
be no mistakes outside the home for
which to blush.
Manners have their roots In q
consideration for other people,
which may explain why it takes
80 long for children to acquire them.
They are self-centered little peo-
pie, by necessity, and this thought
full, nicely adjusted behavior is
artificial as far as they are con-
cerned. It is only when they reach
the stage Of reflective memory, Of
reason, and the imposed manners
become rooted as personal charac-
teristics, and even then the roots
are feeble until the years Of use
strengthen them.
Evening star., 1940-05-22

room are ensembled, 80 that the
same note Of color Is repeated
throughout to make = pattern Of the
whole.
Shaggy washable rugs may be
selected to blend with towels and
bath mats, low benches, hampers,
scales and all other portable equip
ment are now designed for beauty
as well as utility. And speaking Of
utility, there is bath chair which
fits on the side Of the tub. It may
be used first on the inside for the
bath and afterwards on the out
side, which is q great help in q
small bathroom, especially for eon-
valescents, invalids and children, as
1t eliminates the danger Of falling.
Attractive rubber-covered bottles
and others Of unbreakable material
are very good-looking on the bath
room shelf and have the added ad-
vantage of bouncing nicely when
dropped. II you have ever tried to
get up the last splinter Of glass
from a tiled floor you will appre-
ciate this item and never have to
worry again about the fanily's cut
toes when the rubbing alcohol bottle
or the bathroom tumbler takes q
fall.
If you cannot have real coolness
you may do a great deal to create
the illusion Of 1t with soft light,
crisp cleanliness and cold color.
Two or three showers q day will
keep the children more comfortable
and happy and when one spends
that much time in any part Of the
house 1t is more fun If it Is at
tractive. A new shower curtain, q
nigh pile Of Turkish towels and an
electric fan will make this utility
'oom one Of the most sought after
n your house this summer.