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Evening star., 1940-04-09
Aerial Traffic jam
Stacks Up Planes
Al La Guardia Field
Foo and Rain Hold
Croft AIoft z Hours
Before Landing

~ the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April s.-Rain and
fog gave the new $40,000,000 La
Guardia Field its first aerial "traf-
fic jam" last night.
Fifty-eight flights to and from
the field were Cancelled and at one
time half dozen incoming planes
were stacked up" circling the field
at different altitude levels waiting
for a chance to come down.
One plane, T w. A. flight 10,
which carried Actor Henry Fonda
among its IL passengers. circled the
city for two hours before the con-
troll tower signaled it to land at
Newark.
Pilot Eugene Klose of Kansas City
found the field there closed in by
bad weather. He then flew on to
the Harrisburg Pa, airport but low
lying clouds and an unexplained
failure of the fields boundary lights
to function made a landing too
hazardous.
Klose finally set his ship-which
had left Pittsburgh at 1925 pm
down at the new auxiliary Cove
Valley Airport, % miles southeast
Of Altoona, Pa, at 9:49 pm,
T. w. A. officials here said the
plane had II gallons of gas, ample
to have flown it back to Pittsburgh
If necessary"
Clearing skies restored air traffic
to normal here by 10 pm.
Evening star., 1940-04-09

Frick. secretary, and George r. Nc
Vennie, sergeant at arms.
The meeting was held In Mr..
Donohoe's ONCE and was presided
over by Mr.. Shaher.
Evening star., 1940-04-09
Interrupted Trip
Resumed by Train

ALTOONA, Pa, April 9 (P.-A
dozen smiling air passengers, includ-
ing Cinema Actor Henry Fonda, Au-
thor j. C. Furnas and a mother
and her 4-month-old baby. resumed
their interrupted trip to New York
early today by train.
1--WE were mighty glad to SET
down." commented Mr.. Furnas, au-
thor of Sudden Death"
"And we had swell time -" Mr.
Fonda was very amiable all the time
- he's tops" joined Laura Jane
Smith and her pretty sister Betty
Fay. who had boarded the ship at
Kansas City.
Mr.. Fonda posed for pictures, but
declined to comment on the trip
Stewardess Frances Hulet Of Am
bridge, Pa, said there had been no
excitement on the plane One Of
her passengers was a neighbor, s.
NJ Thatch.
Mrs. Wood Williamson of Waynes-
burg, Pa. and her young baby ap-
peared none the worse for their ex-
perience.
Evening star., 1940-04-09
G. u. Professor to Speak

The Rev. Gilbert r. Hartke, o. p,
head Of the department Of speech
and drama At Catholic University,
will speak on play production In
universities tomorrow at 1 pm. over
Radio Station WJSV.
Evening star., 1940-04-09

at the Mayflower Hotel. President
Clark Grifith Of the Washington
Nationals, George p. Marshall, owner
OF the Redskins; Paul v. McNutt,
and Rev. Maurice Sheehy are among
those invited.
Milford chronicle., 1940-09-27
Ideals In Education

What aims should be held chiefly
in view in educating the children
Back in the so-called Little Red
schoolhohse Of many years ago. &C
curacy and thoroughness were per-
haps the first objectives. Every
arithmetic example had to be pre-
cisely right, the pupil was required
to speak with absolute correctness,
and have a true knowledge Of the
facts of geography.
This thorough work was excellent
training. Yet 1t did not seem TO so
far enough. It was later seen that
skill with the hands was also ex-
tremely desirable. Today many
young people can't find work. be-
cause they lack such skill. So trade
and industrial schools have become
very common.
Young people need not merely to
acquire skill and thoroughness. but
they need intelligence. So the
school courses were broadened to
take in subjects that will make them
think.
Today our world is almost turned
upside down by the conQuests Of the
German Nazis. The young people
need not only intelligence. skill. and
accuracy, but they need something
Of the same power that has made the
German youth such cOnquerors, only
we want our youth to put that pow
sr to noble instead of cruel ends.
So we need education that will
i'll them with affection for their !
and give them a willing
.ess to make sacrifices for the pub
ic good. The schools already do |
heir best to give young people these
deals. The homes should back them
lp, and teach their children what
! heavy debt they owe to their coun-
ry. and how they should subordi-
late their own selfish aims to the
.ooG of the home town and Of the
tate and the country. They should
owe the land that has given them
reedom and countless benefits.
Milford chronicle., 1940-09-27
Worship Of The DoIIar

A recent newspaper note informed
us that the dollar mark was once
religious symbol. Cynical persons
will say 1t is natural to use that
mark as the sign Of dollars. since
the American people worship mon
ey, and they bow down before any
one or anything who has many OF
these dollars.
How come that a sign once used
to express religious worship came to
be attached to figures to show they
meant dollars? Perhaps the old tim
ers who first used the dollar sign,
wanted to impress wasteful and
careless people that money is valu-
able and should be treated with re-
spect, even if not worshipped. There
was an element of truth in that idea.
but the people who pray to their
dollars rather than to God find the
object of their worship a slippery
when they come up
against the sorrows of life.
Milford chronicle., 1940-09-27
Hitler and America

The dictator powers keep assur-
ing the United States and the rest
of the American countries that they
have no designs on our continent
Hitler claimed a couple Of years or
so ago that he had no more terri
torial ambitions in Europe. After
that he invaded and conquered half
a dozen countries. His assurances
in that respect do not seem to
amount to anything. When he wants
a thing, he just reaches out and
grabs it, if it is within his reach.
Hitler and his crowd have been
looking at the United States as a
degenerate country. trying to oper-
ate under an outworn system of
government. The spectacle Of over
16,OOO,OOO men registering for poss-
ible military training suggests that
he should revise that view.
Milford chronicle., 1940-09-27
Pursuing the Truants

We don't so often hear nowadays
about truants. The old people can
remember a day when these kids
who used to cut school were quite a
factor. They had a way of slipping
cut of sight to pursue the elusive
fish in some shady brook, or to lie
dreamily under the trees watching
the birds. happy to escape the te-
dium of lessons.
Do the officers of today have to
spend any considerable time pursu-
ing truants? Perhaps they do, but
we hear little about that. Modern
parents stand for a good deal. but
they know that the schools cost a
heap of money, and they want their
children to get all the school has
for them. So If the modern kid plays
truant. and a school agent or officer
has to be sent for him, the youth
knows he is in for a real session in
the family doghouse.
Milford chronicle., 1940-09-27
Building The Small

Wendell L. Willkie, Republican
candidate for President. advocates
policy that he calls 'decentraliza-
ton of industry" which means the
return of a good share of the coun-
try's industrial plants to small
towns. The Roosevelt Administra-
tion has seemed to favor a similar
policy.
1t is a good program. The life Of
small cities seems more healthful
than that Of the great eenters Of
population. It is also more costly
to live and do business in great cit
les. People can live closer to their
work, and they can have easier ac-
cess to open spaces. if they live in
small cities. -ssoa i-a tal ,oa saee
The government will get itself in
to trouble IL it so discourages the
activity Of big corporations that
many of their employees are thrown
cut of job. There is a place in this
country for both big and little bus
iness. Big business should not
crowd the little fellow to the wall,
and the people should not so crowd
the big company that there is no
incentive to carry on business.
Milford chronicle., 1940-09-27
Making Desert Blossom

There is a very big sand dune near
Grand Haven, Mich, and the city
council has been asked to plant
$4,000 trees on that land at cost
OF only $4S3.
Directors may say they will be
dead before those trees reach ma
turity. 1t will be a wonderful stunt
for any community or state to take
such tract of waste land. and plant
trees on it. It is amazing how land
that seems as dry and unprOductive
as the desert of Sahara. can grow
trees. If the generation before us
had planted all its sandy wastes
with trees, the cost Of wooden build
ing materials would be far less to-
day. and the family Of small income
would find it easier to obtain a
home.
Milford chronicle., 1940-09-27
Problem for Uncle Sam

The United States government
has made it clear that it proposes
to protect the western hemisphere
from European aggression. If ar
mics are landed in South or Central
America, our government has said
that our people will not stand for
it.
It may be difficult to tell when a
real aggression occurs. Suppose
they have a so-called election in one
of those countries, and the people
elect public officials who for rea-
sons Of their own support the Nazi
regime in Germany, and will do
what the German government tells
them to. II that is the free choice
OF the people Of that country. many
would say they are entitled to make
that choice.
Such a development would make
that country practically an adjunct
to the German Reich. and its terri
tory might be used as the base OF
an attack on the United States. Such
make Uncle Sam wish
he had been a little speedier in pol
ishing up and renewing his
weapons.
Milford chronicle., 1940-09-27
Childish Nations

When children get to fighting, they
proceed to destroy the things they
don't like. The kids will smash the
playthings belonging to the boys
against whom they are fighting, they
tear the clothes of their antagonists,
and all emerge from the melee
bruised in body with possessions
ruined.
The world in centuries to come
will look back at the history Of these
times, with the feeling that the ma
tions are now acting like rowdy
children. Like small kids in the
back yard. they can't agree about
their games. or who shall have the
fruit they have gathered. So. like
the'skids, they begin smashing the
possessions of their foes.
The Nazis have carried on in Lon
don the most terrible acts of de-
struction for many days. This great
historic city, which the world re-
CARDS with reverence as the scene
where great masters in government,
literature. and art, played their
lives, and left behind them the mem
orials of their greatness, the evil
dence of the beauty they created. and
the wisdom they had conferred on
the world. The German Nazis
swarm over this city like evil wasps,
stinging all this product Of human
ity at its greatest. and reducing it to
ashes as fast as they can.
The British have to retort in a
good deal of the same spirit. They |
can not stand idly by and see their
civilization destroyed, without TAX
ing their own part. All this de-
deepens the poverty and
of the world. which was
at very low point before this ter
ror broke loose.
When, o when, will the nations
cease to act like foolish boys who
see no better way to settle their
futile quarrels but to fight and to
lestroy? In spite of our so-called
Doasted civilization, the world is at
4 very low point of infantile char
lcter, that such things can go on and
De accepted as inevitable.
Milford chronicle., 1940-09-27
Milford, Friday, September ga, 1870
Youth and Consumption

Congress has taken the momen-
tous action by which 16,5OO,OOO men
from ages 21 to SO are required to
register on a day to be soon fixed
by the President. A total of 100000
conscripts are due to be in training
early next January. What say the
youth to this call for service?
There are some who say that war
is wrong and insane, and they resist
strenuously the idea that they may
have to take part init. But the num-
ber taking this view is not probably
very large. Most of them will say
that while they do not think any
army of youth should be sent to Eu-
rope again, they realize that the
young men of America have to be
prepared to defend their country
again tyrants who are rampaging
over Europe with their hell Of fire.
1t is realized rather generally that
il those dictators win the mastery
of Europe they are not going to be
satisfied to stop there, unless they
have reason to fear defeat If they
venture farther.
They will not probably venture
farther, if they find that the power
of America is determined to oppose |
them with all the force it possesses.
So the youth of America do not en-
counter any very serious physical
risks in learning to defend the coun-
try. The gains in health and disci-
pline they will make will outweigh
the hazard of the soldiers risks.
What probably worries them most
is the idea of interrupting their plans
and work for the future. Employers
will do their utmost to give these
men their old jobs back when they
return. The men will be more COM
petent and useful after this expert
ence. 1t may seem hard for young
man to give up a year of his time
in this way, but he is going to get
many benefits out of these new ex-
periences.
Milford chronicle., 1940-09-27
Slump After the WARP

Some people think there will be a
deep industrial and business slump
after the war ends. This is one rea-
son why the stock market keeps at
a rather low level. Many people
dislike to put their money into Sc
curities now, feeling that the war
might end within few months, and
that then the rush of orders from
abroad and for defense work at
home might take sudden drop.
The country would be glad
enough to see such a sudden end of
the war with its horrible losses and
carnage, even if it did hurt business.
But the country seems in for spend
ing a vast amount OF money on war
preparation whatever happens. OF
course, if England succeeded in
really licking Nazi Germany, our
country would feel so far safer that
it could slow down on defense. Such
result in the near future is un-
likely. What is likely to happen is
a prolonged war with a continued
threat to American safety. Such an
outcome will mean spending billions
to protect ourselves against the vio-
lent and cruef men who are trying
to dominate Europe.
Milford chronicle., 1940-09-27
Winning the Young People

A good town like Milford brings
up every year a fine bunch of young
people, and it should try to keep as
many of them as possible for per-
manent residents. A very friendly
attitude toward them will help. The
older folks should try to know as
many of them as possible. speak to
them cordially, and make them feel
they are wanted in the home towns.
They should be encouraged to
think that the home town brings
opportunities. People should never
make disparaging remarks about the
home town to them. They should be
told what fine people the town has
produced in the past. and how they
found excellent chances for success
and progress without going else
where. Make them realize how
keenly interested the home town is
in their development.
Milford chronicle., 1940-09-27
Heroes of The Gridiron

Baseball is called the national
game. But when the football begins
to thud the gridiron field, and the
grand stands are filled with yelling
rooters, and the colorful girls wave
their school and college flags with
ecstacy, it seems to take the good
old game of football to really stir
the American heart to its depths.
Many parents dislike to see their
boys go into football, fearing they
may get physical injuries. The game
does produce certain assets in the
development of character, so that
educational authorities usually call
it a valuable adjunct of school life.
They are not generally inclined to
exclude it from the list of their
sports.
1t takes a certain amount of physi-
cal courage to go into that rough
and tumble. If boy is timid about
meeting the harder bodily strains,
football is likely to do him good. He
thereby learns that it is not the
most terrible thing to suffer physi-
cal strain, even if he does get
twisted ligament or possibly brok-
en- bone in some melee. His power
to do difficult things has been in
creased. The vigorous body produc-
ed in this strenuous sport will help
carry the heavy loads >of mature
life.
The boy who can go through the
football scrimmage and come out
with calm self control and mastery
of his own temper, has acquired a
poise that will help him in the
struggles of life. If he can still be
a gentleman when he comes up
against players who are not so well
controlled, he has learned a lesson
of how to battle with the contrary
ways of a rough world.
What would these boys do If they
didn't play football? Some boys who |
don't play the game are in greater
danger of moral wrenchings than |
the gridiron men are from physical
strains. Anyway, the football boys
have plenty to occupy their minds.
The temptation to wander into for
hidden paths is slight.
Milford chronicle., 1940-09-27
Power of The Handshake

1t is surprising how people will
loosen up and show friendship when
you take them by the hand. The
politicians know that. and one of
the first principles of their business
is to grasp people cordially by the
hand. 1t is a sign of friendship that
people value, and far better than the
formal nod with which you greet a
mere acquaintance.
The business man or worker who
shakes hands with a lot of people
every day is bound to make many
friends by so doing. There is some
thing magnetic about this human
touch, and it makes people feel they
are valued, that their support and
patronage is sought, their friend
ship is desired. 1t costs nothing to
grssp the worlds hand with enthus-
Iasm. and it spreads happiness. and
brings many substantial results.
Milford chronicle., 1940-09-27
Under 80

In the World War. the men in the
trenches were the 0nes upon whom
the pity Of the world was lavished.
They had a dreadful time with the
shells Of the enemy bursting among
them every minute, and with those
tragic bitches alive with rats and
vermin. and running with the blood
Of their fallen comrades.
In this war the men in the
trenches have gotten on fairly cas-
lily IN SO far as they dug trenches,
they do little lighting in them. The
war has been largely in the air, or
conducted by armorcd tanks that
plough through the enemy like a
modern farmer ploughing up the
witchgrass in his field.
Today it is the civilian popula-
tions of a city like London that are
to be pitied. What a horror it is to
live in a city where a dreadful bomb
may drop into your home at any
moment. and send you or your dear
ones to eternity. or to some bed Of
pain.
How long will the people Of Lon
don stand it, and will they collapse
under the nervous strain, which may
be more than humanity in all its
pathetic weakness can bear? Per-
haps we can get some idea about it
by asking how long our own people
here in Milford would stand for it.
Even if half of our homes were |
destroyed, one can hardly imagine |
them as saying, Let us bow down
to Adolf Hitler, for he is bigger and
stronger than we, and if we become
his obedient slaves. perhaps he will
permit us to live and raise our fam
lilies and barely subsist.
One can't imagine the people of
any American city saying that. Even
II their homes were ground to pow
der, they would say. I'VE will live
IN tents, or houses built out of the
sod of the ground, as the cid pio-
leers often did, before we will bow
he neck to such people," Very like
y the people of London feel about
he same way.
Milford chronicle., 1940-09-27

child will understand. But the ans
wering Of those questions is an es-
sentidl element in educating chill
dren. II parents lmpatientIy refuse
to think out the best possible ans
wers, they miss a chance to make
the child mind grow BY patient re-
ply to every question, they help the
y0ungster understand what words
mean. and how life's business is car
ried on. The boys who asks many
questions will grow into the man
Milford chronicle., 1940-09-27
Answering The Boy

The newspaper funny man has one
in which the son asked his father
many questions. Said Father:
What would have happened II I'd
asked as many when / was a boy|
To which Son replied: Perhaps
then. you would have been able to
answer some Of mine
It often takes time and thought
to put an answer into words the
Milford chronicle., 1940-09-27

An. how unfortunate It is when
men have q past which they are not
anxious to hear about They did not
always think about that when they
were stepping around on those high
spots without regard to how far
they wandered of on forbidden
paths. It may be said the folks who
had no such past missed a good deal
Of fun. but they find smoother tray-
elling and are more apt to reach
their destinations on time.
Milford chronicle., 1940-09-27

IF PEOPLE JUST DEVOTE their
entire time to their own personal
interests. their home town will prob-
ably fail to remedy faults and de-
fects that injure US all.
Milford chronicle., 1940-09-27

A POLITICAL CANDIDATE usu-
ally has to talk to get elected. A
candidate for business success also
needs to talk through advertising, if
he is to be elected to prosperity.
Milford chronicle., 1940-09-27
Doesn't Like History

There is a newspaper Joke that
tells how the man complained that
his wife was too historical The
friend asked If he did not mean
emysterical." "No," he said. ~his-
torical. She digs up my past"
Milford chronicle., 1940-09-27

THE BRIGHT SMILE in a cold
world is a good deal like warm sun
shine on a winter day. It thaws out
snow banks of indifference and op-
position.
Milford chronicle., 1940-09-27

who knows many things and %
whom the world win turn for lead
ership.
Milford chronicle., 1940-09-27

High style need not high price. The suits
sketched above are Grifon-taiIored and follow the
price trend as we'll as the style trend. s25 to s45
Milford chronicle., 1940-09-27

IF YOU WANT your home town
to do things for you. do things for
it by working for its progress.
Milford chronicle., 1940-01-19
A.crutab OF comfot

Some time ago the Commonwealth
and Southern Corporation. one Of the
largest private utilities 10 the coun-
try. issued terse press statemant
81 which IL said: aThe paasagc Of the
Booth Bill by tie Alabama Llegisla-
ture prohibiting the duplication Of
utility facilities. the action of Con-
eress IN limiting and car-ularlkins
the funds appropriated TOT iva ae-
QUESTION OF utility properties and the
generally more fayoraiIie attitude Of
Congress and other Legislative bod
les toward busifiess, causes CommOn-
wealth ami Southern System 70 nn-
Eounce an additional construction
progra naf approximately $4,000
000 New plans will bring the pro-
ieeted expenditures up 20 about $22,-
10000
This Is what happens when govern
ment. after. years Of fighting the pri-
vare utilities with every weapon at
the politicians command. holds out
a crumb OF comfort to the industry
II Is significant proof Of what utility
leaders In an parts Of the country
have long said that, IL they were
given assurance tnat tax-8u DSiulzed
government projects would not be
used to soeialize the electric indus
try, they would at once start spend
ing large sums for plant additions
and hettermcnt. Not one cent Of this
money woald be provided BY the tax
payers. Every cent spent would Gre
ate new taxable wealth, along with
new jobs ard opportunities instead |
Of creating gigantic government de-
iicits for the taxpayers. living and
yet unborn. to meet.
II has been reliably estimated that, I
once freed Of the specfer Of political Z
destruction ard persecution. the util-
tiles would spend S1.00O.000,009 a !
year or more in expanding and i'm
proving their facilities. Certainly no
one can blame them for having spent I
Milford chronicle., 1940-01-19
MEN OF SCIENCE

We're all familiar with men OF
science. working patiently in shiny
laboratories in the never-ending war
against disease, plague and famine
The achievements Of these men have
been celebrated-in the drama, in
fiction, and in history.
We're not so familiar with the
work OF another kind Of scientist
a worker who battles other enemies
Of mankind. That worker is the bus
mess man. Aud his fight is against
unemployment. depression and
long list OF economic ills that plague
a people
The banker makes an excellent
case in point We don't often think
OF him in the role OF scientist or re-
search specialist. But, II he is a good
banker, he must be as keen and an
alytical IN his field as the biOchemist
is in his His laboratory is his COM
mnpity. His patients are those fndi-