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Milford chronicle., 1941-12-19
LINcoLN

The following is the program TO
the Candle Light service at til
Lincoln Methodist Church thi
Sunday evening at 1880 o'clock:
Instrumental music, Charlie
Breme.
Minister, Mr.. Wheatley.
Christmas Offering
"The Coming Of the Great Light,
Mrs. David Bogard
Reader Ethel Mae Warren.
Candles of Prophecy Eottie Col
Inns, Mia Martin, Cleora Donovan
Anna Macklin, Ida shockley, MAJ
Belts.
! Candles of Christmas, Audi,
Maeklin. Alice Dolbow, Clara Pass
| waters. Marie Derrickson. Lorraine
Beebe, Janice Truitt
Away in the Manager Natalie Tur-
pin.
Shepherds. William Donovan, Mr.
Brenneman, Marshall Benson.
Wise Men, Hubbard Macklin
Donald Donovan, Richard John
son.
Missionary Lights, Ann Kitchens
Cathrine Halfen, Elinor Satterfield,
Alice May NAPLES.
Tiny Lights, Mary Sackett, Nata-
lie Turpin. Marguerite May, Laureta
Clendaniel.
Candle of Loving Service, Ruth
wilkins.
Reeessional hymn. 20, Come All
Ye Faithful"
Benediction.
Congratulations are being ex-
tended to Mr.. and Mrs. Utley Rob
erts on the birth of son, John
Donald, born in the Milford Mem
orial Hospital on Sunday, Decem-
ber Z. Mrs. Roberts will be re-
membered as the former Miss Will
ma wilkins, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Raymond Wilkins, of near
town.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Morgan and
daughter Betty Of Hedding, N. j.,
spent last weekend as the guests
Of his parents, Mr.. and Mrs JOS
eph H. Morgan and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paris Greenly are
receiving congratulations upon the
birth Of son, Richard Paris Green
Iy, born Sunday, December IA, in
the Milford Memorial Hospital Mrs.
Greenly will be remembered as
Miss Mildred Boyce, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. H. Casper Boyce Of
near town.
Rev. s. L. Handy Of Wilmington
spent last weekend as the guest
Of Mrs. ]. H. Benson and son, Mar
shall Benson.
Mrs. Herman Sehilze and daugh-
ter Of Greenwood, visited her par
enfs, Mr.. and Mrs. John H. Glen
daniel on Monday.
The residence of Leslie Macklin,
located on Greedy avenue. has been
newly painted. The work was done
by Andrew Bellies and son, near
town.
Mrs. Frederick Frick and Mrs.
Sara Frfck of Ardmore, Pa, are
Milford chronicle., 1941-12-19
soYBEAN PAINT

The first satisfactory lot Of 100
percent soybean oil paint tested by
the U. S. Regional Seybean Indus
trial Products Laboratory was
mixed on May 20, 1887. says A J.
Lewis of the laboratory STAFF Pre-
viously the laboratory had made
up several all=soybean oil varnish-
es. This first lot of paint was
tested against similar linseed oil
paint for drying. brushing. flowing
and other qualities, and was con-
sfdered fully equal except for
somewhat slower drying Since
Milford chronicle., 1941-12-19


Moore, Mrs. Fl. c. Lynch and Mrs.
Nathan Jones.
June Hostess, Mrs. willard
Everett; assistants, Mrs. Norman
Burton, Mrs. W. A. ffargadfne and
Mrs. Havinia Roscoe.
September, Hostess, Mrs, W.
H. Eaton; assistants, Mrs. Estella
Brittingham ard Mrs. L. p Keller
October 5Hostess, Mrs. John s.
Davis; assistants, Mrs. Charles
Bostick and Mrs. Edgar Killen.
November 2-Hostess, Mrs. ]. E.
Melvin; assistants, Mrs. M. Evelyn
Killen and Mrs. Cora Jackson.
December - Hostess, Mrs D. A.
Petrys assistants, Mrs. C. M SImp
Ter and Mrs. Charles L. SippIe.
Milford chronicle., 1941-12-19
FELToN

Mrs. A. o. Bennett has returned
from weeks visit Win Mr.. and
Mrs. George. Derr in 3iladelph
Elwood Jones OF Mhffss N j.,
has been visiting his sister and bro.
ther-in-law, Mr.. and Mrs. A. c. Dill
this week.
Mrs. & M. Bringhurst. Mrs M.
Evelyn Killen and Mrs. Gillis Brit
tingham' attended the State w. C.
+. u Institute held in Peoples
Church, Dover, last Thursday.
Mrs. Bringhnrst visited her
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ing is not important. slow dry
ing paint II allowed plenty Of time
to harden between coats is said to
have some advantages.
Milford chronicle., 1941-12-19

then the laboratory has developed
chemical treatments that improve
drying Of the paift film.
For purposes in which rapid dry
Milford chronicle., 1941-12-19

Come out and dance next We'd
nesday evening at Milford Com
mnnity building. Music by the
Staflighters.
Milford chronicle., 1941-12-19

Be careful how you take cold
liquids; cramps and the old-fash-
ioned "tumniy ache" will be yours
If you get reckless.
Evening star., 1941-10-28

will it be time to worry about Gin
voluntary bondage" in America, for
it will be forced upon us. Our one
hope of Staving off this challenge to
democracy is to match total effort
with total effort, to accept the neces-
sity of giving up some of our cher
ished privileges for the time being so
that in the end we may save a maxi
mum of freedom.
To suggest, as Mrs Roosevelt has
done, that prices should be fixed by
law while the regulation of wages
should be left to voluntary Stabili-
zation agreement" based on an ap-
peal to democratic patriotism is as
unrealiStic and as unWiSe as the
earlier misconceptions of what all
out defense implies. 1t is going to
be difficult, at best, to achieve the
total effort required of us. The task
should not be made more difficult by
Wellintentioned speakers whose fine
phrases serve to weaken public reso-
luton by appealing to prejudices
which should have been laid aside
long ago.
Evening star., 1941-10-28

really at his best in the field in which
he won his popularity. That he was
a great campaigner, Of course, is
true; yet his most notably useful
service was rendered not so much in
controversy as through the forceful
expression Of principles upon which
Americans commonly were and still
are agreed
1t was his function to vitalize the
national consciousness. The first
occupant of the White House after
Lincoln to be individualistic in any
striking respect, h. set fashion for
having opinions and for being willing
to defend them, for desiring change
for the good that could be accom-
plished in no other way, for being
fortnight and frank in the utterance
of an ardent patriotism and for
bravely doing whatever needed to be
done.
Theodore Roosevelt would have
been eighty-three yesterday if he yet
we're alive. Some of those who knew
him and esteemed him this side
idolatry" wish that they might have
him with them in the hour at which
the hands of the clock of fate now
stand
Evening star., 1941-10-28
District Puy Ruise

There will be natural disappoint-
ment among prospective beneficiaries
over the decision of the District
Commissioners to defer the pay raises
contemplated by the Ramspeck-
Mead Act until Congress has appro-
priated funds for this purpose. But
under the circumstances, the Com
miSSionerS are right.
Under the Ramspeck- Mead Act,
the long-overdue promotion plan was
to be effective October /. The
Appropriations Committee, however,
asked that it be held up until the
Budget Bureau obtained an accurate
statement of initial cost 1t was
realized that some agencies could
grant increases out of available
funds, but others faced the neces-
sity of seeking deficiency appropria-
tionS, and the committee wanted all
to hold off until the total amount
required was provided for, so the
program could be launched uni
formly. While the Commissioners
lawfully could have incurred a de-
ficiency by making the pay increases
effective Immediately, they would
have run counter to the expressed
wishes of the House Appropriation
Committee had they done so.
In complying with the wishes of
the committee, the Commissioners
probably are taking the course that
will be followed generally. The Con-
troller Generals decision to the
Library of Congress made it clear
that agencies were free to grant
promotions, but equal emphasis was
laid on the fact that they could be
withheld, and there doubtless will
be a desire to cooperate with the
committee, even by those establish
ments where there is no question of
funds.
The promotion law was sponsored
originally by the Appropriations
Committee to wipe out pay inequities
of years standing. Passage by Con-
gress was recognition of the need
for this reform. Its application
should not be delayed unnecessarily.
Evening star., 1941-10-28
Posture Ledoe

The pasture ledge, beyond phoss
fanks
The sheep flock found the greener
banks,
Was one OF Grandstr's pdntage
points;
often he leaned rheumatic joints
Against summed comfort of its side,
And let imagination ride
BackUard; the autumn slope, bro,Dn-
Termed,
Was foreign strand that early
learned
The bleaching fire OF tidal brine;
Surf sounds whispered from the limo
OF top-slope frs; their serrate heads
Were sails tDhoSe 1Oide triangleS
spreads
Speeded trusty ship along,
For Where the Sun-drenched ,Uind
made song,
Resting against the pasture ledge,
Grandsir sailed to the 1Dorld's edge.
JESSIE M. DOWLIN.
Evening star., 1941-10-28
Theodore RooseveIt's Value

IL is appropriate, certainly, 10 make
use of the birthday of Theodore
Roosevelt to the advantage of the
United States Navy which he loved
But the man himself likewise should
be remembered. The two decades
that have passed since his death
have afforded opportunity for calm
appraisal of his value to his country,
and the resultant verdict is alto
gether conducive to the endurance of
his fame
To comprehend the twenty sixth
President, however, it is necessary
to bear in mind that he was "all
compact" of many different elements.
His versatility is proven by the record
of his life. There was little that he
did not attempt, and there was not
much in which he did not excel.
Consider for instance the problem
of his health: His childhood was
spoiled by asthma and by defective
eyesight. The former handicap he
corrected by changing his place and
manner of living; the latter he COM
pensated for by the cultivation of a
prodigious memory. So, too, he ad-
justed himself to other circumstances
in the world around him. Born to
wealth and to an aristocratic po-
sition, he preferred to be "self-made"
and democratic. Given the privilege
of formal educational training under
private tutors and at Harvard, he
chose to be elf-taught" and became
in time one of the half-dozen best
read scholars of his generation.
In 1882 or thereabouts, Theodore
Roosevelt may have been, as he him
self had the wit to guess, in some
danger of becoming an obscure
teacher of history in college. He
had tried to interest himself in the
law and, for the moment, failed.
The publication of his study of "The
Naval War of 1872" then opened for
him a literary vocation. But destiny
did not mean that he should be
wasted as IAN inkbeast." "A local
Republican boss needed an eminently
respectable candidate for the
twenty-first Assembly district" In
Albany he appeared as "a light
footed, agile, nervous, yet prompt,
boy, with light brown, slightly curling
hair, blue eyes and an eyeglass, and
ready to rise and speak with clear,
sharp, boyish voice"
He did not change beyond recog-
milton in the years that followed
his political debut. Up to the end
there still was that quality in his
personality which could be called
youth" The chronicle of his rise
to power is an account OF the "jobs"
he held: Civil service commissioner,
1889 to 1894; police commissioner in
New York, 1886; Assistant Sec
retary of the Navy, 1897-9S; colonel
of the Rough Riders" in Cuba, 1898;
Governor of New York, 1899-1900;
Vice President, 1901; President, 1901
1909. But Theodore Roosevelt never
was merely successful office seeker.
Indeed, 1t IS possible that he was not
Evening star., 1941-10-28
THIS AND THAT
BIZ Charles +. Trdce1DeH.

or three mornings. We are right IN the
center of Laurel
II have cultivated some land down on
the Potomac for several years and have
had great pleasure In watching the bird
life on the border of the river.
I'VE have not had the big herons this
summer because the marshy places
visited by them have dried up. We
enjoy your column.
Sincerely, ]. P. B."
There are three possible reasons to
explain the number Of sick English
sparrows.
/. The young birds do not get the right
sort of food.
2. They may pick up poison bait used
widely in vermin control.
3. They have so many babies each
season that there are bound to be a
certain number of culls.
We are coming around to a belief
that feeding seeds and grain, and espe-
cially the latter, in the summer, is not
good for many species, particularly the
English sparrows.
All young birds, whether seed, grain
or insect eaters, are brought up during
the first few weeks on insects.
This gives them, through the wisdom
of nature, the requisite proteins for
rapid growth.
If, on the other hand, they are allowed
IN Uet OF corhor ocoo,e fooJe IN p,,op
titles, it makes them too fat, and so,
unhealthy.
The parents take the easiest course.
If the grain is always at hand, they food
the young on it. Such way of feeding
them is far easier than rustling around
for worms and insects.
The older birds seem to be able to
handle this type of food in summer,
but the little ones simply do not get
the food elements they need. In the
gay '90s, when baby foods" were ex-
tensively advertised, there were always
some human babies which were too fat.
Modern food science has corrected that.
Babies today get their vitamins, their
minerals and their protein as well as
their amino acids.
1t is not usually realized that a pair
of English sparrows, in a good season,
can have from 20 to IS or even 40 young.
No other bird, perhaps, can equal them
in this regard. But it is probable that
out of such number, two or three will
be culls, mishapen and unhealthy, des.
tined for an early death.
1t must be remembered that the per-
son who feeds the birds in summer, as
we'll as in winter, is very much interested
in them.
He watches them much more closely
than the average person, and thus is
much more likely to see their bad speci-
mems, and to note their deficiencies.
After two full seasons of summer feed
ing, we have come to the conclusion
that it is not good practice, and here
after will confne it to the fall and
winter, with perhaps little sunf1ower
seed put out for the cardinals in the
twilight hour
Evening star., 1941-10-28
"SILVER SPRING, MD.

'Dear Dir.
II benefit by, and enjoy. your column
about the birds, and wonder if you have
a solution to my problem.
Il feed the birds. from two stations,
the year around, and get such real
pleasure from them, but for the past
several months there has been an in
creasing number of sick sparrows in the
yard, and I'm wondering If it is the food
they get or just what is the matter.
"They are at the stations all the time,
and in addition. I put out all my stale
bread crumbs. The grain is baby chick
feed
Every day see several sick birds and
a few dead ones occasionally. They ap-
pear to be hungry and pick around, but
are SO weak, will topple over on their
breast when they alight, too weak to
move or care If I walk right up to them
Have you any suggestions as to the
cause of this sickness?
Sincerely yours, I. M. S."
LAUREL, MD.
Dear Sir:
II saw an English sparrow attempt to
alight upon a stake which had been
driven in the ground to hold feeder
tight, but which had been removed some
time, evidently while the sparrow was
away.
The look of surprise on the part OF
the sparrow was very interesting to me-
During the past two weeks the SPAR
rows have not visited my feeder, which
is wooden tray on the ground and held
in place by two stakes.
II looked for the reason the first day
they did not show up and two dead
sparrows not far from the feeder ex-
planned the absence of the sparrows.
Mrs. B. who lives upstairs 1--WE live
down on the first floor has two or three
window box feeders and feeds sunf1ower
seeds. Her feeders are on the opposite
side of the house and the sparrows visit
her feeders regularly.
It feed ground corn which I grow and
grind I fed four bushels of corn last
year and started in again but thanks to
the cause of the two dead sparrows ]
will not have much corn to feed this
year. Or do you think they will in time
forget about the dead ones?
Our jays and cardinals have given
us great deal of pleasure this summer
Il think saw a flock of snow bunt-
ings yesterday, and again today. They
are very shy yet and I can only tel
them by the way they fly.
Several years ago saw a number o
snow buntings that had been killed BY
flying into telephone wire which hac
been erected during the summer.
Gould it be that they flew along the
same way they few before they had gone
North, and did not see the wires wher
they came back for the winter? I have
often wondered.
Il have never seen q wood thrush ir
Laurel. But this summer a squirrel
came to our yard and quail came two
Evening star., 1941-10-28
Involuntary BONDAGE

In suggesting that legislative con-
troll of wages might have the effect
of placing wage earners in 'involun-
tary bondage" possibly in violation
of the Constitution, Mrs. Franklin D..
Roosevelt has fashioned a we'll
turned phrase which will have an
emotional appeal to those who con-
tend that prices can be controlled
without a corresponding control OF
cost factors 1t is worthy successor
to other glittering phrases, such as
the assurance that defense need in
volve no impairment of social gains"
and the well-intentioned but woefully
mistaken promise that the rearma-
ment program could be "superim-
posed" on normal induStry-phrases
which appealed to the popular imagi-
nation a few months ago, but which
soon withered in the light of reality
after serving no better purpose than
to weaken our defense effort by con-
fusing our thinking.
There is no doubt that Mrs. Roose-
velt spoke from a genuine distaste for
such things as wage controls. They
are distasteful to every one, but so
are the priorities which, according to
one official, may be expected to put
10000 firms out of business; the
vastly higher taxes which all will
have to pay; the diversion of con-
sumer goods to defense which is
going to compel most people to get
along without many things they have
come to regard as essential, and the
necessity for compulsory peacetime
military training. In opposing wage
controls, Mrs. Roosevelt specifically
approved control of rents and food
prices. What about those whose in
come is derived from selling food or
renting quarters? In effect, their
wages are being controlled. Why not
protest the involuntary bondage" in
which they are being placed?
There is, of course, but one answer
to all of this-namely, that the peril
confronting the Nation is too great
to permit of doing only the things we
want to do, or refraining from other
things merely because we do not
want to do them. This war is total
war. The Nazi war machine is built
on the enslavement of the German
people and all of the conquered peo-
ples, and it's military efficiency is be-
yond dispute.
II the Nazis are successful in their
bid for world conquest. then, indeed,
Evening star., 1941-10-28
A Shooting War

In his address to the Nation last
night, the President, in effect, served
formal notice on the American people
that the United States is engaged in
a shooting war.
Heretofore, he has clung to the
hope that a shooting war could be
avoided. But it seems clear now that
he has abandoned that hope.
eve have wished to avoid shoot
ing" he said. But the shooting has
started. America has been at
tackled. Our ships have been
sunk and our sailors have been
killed. I say that we do not propose
to take this lying down. Our de-
termination not to take it lying down
has been expressed in the orders to
the American Navy to shoot on sight.
Those orders stand"
These quote passages have been
taken at random from the address.
But they deserve to be read together
for they express its main theme and
O1iC u ulII vi llle lIOul
We are, in fact, engaged in an unde-
clared shooting war in the Atlantic
war which could have been avoided
only at the price of retreating from
the high seas at our own peril while
deSerting those nations who had
been promised the full measure of
our material assistance in their fight
against aggression.
The President has recognized the
inevitability of conflict-noW and in
the future. And, with that fact in
mind, it was entirely logical and
proper that he should have renewed
his appeal for a revision of the Neu-
trality Act to make possible the arm
ing of our merchant ships, to permit
them to carry war supplies to the
'harbors of our friends" and to safe
guard them under the guns of the
American Navy.
There was wisdom in Mr.. Roose-
velt's decision not to mince words
about this matter. For, while 1t is
hardly news that a shooting war is
upon us, there have been many who
were reluctant to face this obvious
fact Some Americans still talk of
neutrality, but the hard truth is that
the shooting, which all had hoped to
avoid, has started Neutrality is
dead. We must acknowledge that
fact and we must resolve to meet the
test imposed by it's implications.
History. Mr.. Roosevelt said, has re-
corded who fired the first shot. In
the long run, however, as he wisely
added, all that will matter is who
fred the last shot.
Evening star., 1941-10-28
Quotes Classic Study Of War
For Attention Of Isolationists.
To the Editor Of The Star:

More than 81 years ago S. c. vestal,
in his great book, "The Maintenance Of
Peace" C. P. Putnams Sons, New York,
1920 wrote these words that are singu-
larly appropriate for us to reflect upon
today:
Those who make merit of avoiding
the injustice of aggression run directly
into the other injustice of abandoning
their neighbors when they are wantonly
assailed by strong nation. They are
unwilling to undertake the duties of fell
lowship among nations. What sort of
reasoning could lead men to believe that
they will advance the cause of peace and
quiescent while their neighbor is being
scourged, his cities bombarded, his banks
robbed, his women ravished? There is,
of course, double extreme to be avoided;
first, that we do not combine for aggres-
sive purposes, and second, that we do
by stronger nation. We should not
thrust ourselves into hazards and dam
gers when there is no occasion for it;
nor earn the name Of poltroons and
towards among nations by warily avoid
ing dangers and labors. Whatever a
nation may lawfully defend for ITSELF
said Sir James Macintosh, it may de-
fend for another people. if called upon
to interpose.
1T is the duty Of each state to en-
deavor to conserve its own liberty and
the liberty Of its neighbors without
seeking to oppress anybody. Those who
do not grasp this fact and like the lost
souls adrift in boundless ocean with
out a guiding star, compass, bottom or
shore"
wish that every isolationist in this
land of ours would read The Mainte-
nance of Peace" to imbibe the great
lessons Of history, to learn again the
truth that he who deliberately seeks to
overturn the "balance Of power" and to
crush and Cypress lesser nations through
out all history has been combined
against by the righteous nations to curb
his lust for power. Also, what sea power
has forever meant to the crushing of
ruthless conquerers in command Of over
whelming land forces. Why have we so
many dissenting voices when the lessons
of the past are so plain to be read by
those who want to know?
ENOCH AQUILA CHASE.