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Milford chronicle., 1941-08-08
Americas Leisure

1t used to be claimed in past
years that people needed more
time for self Improvement. Back
in the times when people worked
10 hours a day they got home so
tired that they had little energy
left for reading, self improvement,
or for community activities. Yet
even in those days, people had
good times.
Today the hours of work have
been shortened, and few people can
claim they have no leisure. If they
want to improve their minds, they
have plenty of time. If they want
to enjoy life in sports and pleas
ures, there is almost unlimited
chance to do so. No country ever
had such an amount ofe spar
time.
So our people go rolling over the
roads, they reach out to nearby
towns, and can enjoy every form of
human activity. A country where
such abundant leisure time is left
after the work of the day is done
ought to be full of happiness.
Milford chronicle., 1941-08-08
Useful People

1t is customary in many schools
and colleges to offer a prize or
special honor to the student who is
decided to have done the most for
the school during the year. That
honor may not necessarily go to
the most successful athlete, or to
the best scholar. 1t is likely to go
to someone who has performed
faithfully every task given to him,
and who has exercised leadership
in the activities of the school.
Who is the most useful citizen in
a community? There are so many
useful people that such question
can never be answered. The peo-
pie who make a success of their
own business, and thereby employ
labor, would be considered by
many as the most useful.
Also people who are willing to
give considerable time to carry on
necessary public activities per-
form a service of tremendous
value. Without them a town is
likely to lack essential advantages.
Milford chronicle., 1941-08-08
Rewards of Service

Many people, if asked to do some
thing in the nature of community
work, will say they have no time.
They usually have the same amount
of spare time, or more of it, as the
people who do the bulk Of the COM
munity work.
Can people afford to refuse. all
chances to take part in community
activities? If they do so refuse
without good excuse, they give the
impression that they do not take
any great interest in home town
progress. They should look out
that they do not cut themselves off
from the best life of the town. If
they will go into these town ac-
tivities, serve on committees, hold
offices in the organizations, they
will have a sense of pride in good
work done. They will make so
many friends that life is richer and
happier and more profitable for
them.
Milford chronicle., 1941-08-08
Community Efforts

The old idea in a town used to be
Everyone for himself and the
devil take the hindmost." That
idea produced SO little progress,
that people finally saw it was get
ting them nowhere.
In some towns they have fine
speeches on civic progress. but
they do little work for the public
good, so they remain stationary. It
takes organization to get things
done in a town. Some form of asso-
citation is needed to carry on regu-
lar civil promotion campaigns.
Committees are needed to take up
subjects where action is necessary,
to study how cities elsewhere have
gotten ahead and to initiate those
methods. Countless communities
are going ahead by the impetus
provided by organization, in good
and well supported chamber of
commerce, board of trade, or what
ever it is called.
Milford chronicle., 1941-08-08
Breakdown of Civilization

The people of Europe and Amer
lea have always boasted of their
superior civilization and enlighten-
ment. They have claimed to have
most of the culture of the world.
But here we find Europe torn up
by the most horrible war the world
ever saw, and America trembling
and shaking for fear it will be
drawn into that war. Which makes
our boasted civilization appear
pretty cheap.
Life is more comfortable today in
most parts Of Africa, called the
dark continent, than in Europe. At
least those dark skinned people of
the tropics spend most of their en-
ergy carrying on motive arts in a
simple way, instead Of plotting how
they can grab more territory and
invade neighbOr nations. The war
makers would better take a few
lessons in human progress from
those backward" tribes.
Milford chronicle., 1941-08-08
The Cost of Crime

Some startling figures are given
from time to time of what crime
costs. The total cost is not meas
ured by the amount of money
stolen or obtained by forms of
fraud. You have to consider also
the cost of the police forces that
restrain crime, the cost of the pris-
ons and jails that confine crimi-
mails, and of the courts that try
those charged with crime.
A good part of the national in
come drops out each year because
of these costs of crime. 1t seems
poor judgment to allow these costs
to. go on year after year and not
make more effort to stop them.
There is said to be a certain test
sometimes applied to tell whether
a person has ordinary sense. Such
a person is given a tub that has a
fairly large hole in its bottom.
Then he is told to fill the tub with
water. He keeps pouring pail after
pail of water into that tub, and it
keeps leaking out. If he looks to
see why the tub does not fill, he
shows good sense, but if he does
not so look, he seems lacking in
some faculty.
1t is good deal so about crime.
A large share of the resources of
the community are leaking out con-
stantly through the hole called
crime. We pour our resources into
the common vessel of national well
fare, but good part of them leak
ont. We should endeavor to stop
up that hole. If we don't make
such efforts, we are somewhat like
the man who never looks for the
hole in the leaky tub.
Now of course all kinds OF
things are being done to stop up
this leak. We have innumerable
organizations formed to train
youth in the right direction. But
the country has not gone as far as
it ought to in providing these
opportunities. In many cities and
towns there is a lack of opportun.
ity for young people to do active
things that would divert theil
minds from crime.
Milford chronicle., 1941-08-08
Why People Stand Still

If you go into some great fac
tory you viii probably find many
people each one of whom performs
one operation on the product. Such
people do that work perfectly or
they would not work long. But
many of them would know little
about the product as a whole on
which they were working.
If people are simply interested
in the one little task they have to
perform, they are not probably go
ing to climb very high. The world
is looking for inquiring minds that
see all around their little job, and
can see ways in which the things
being done can be done better. The
world pays high prices for the men
who see most deeply into the ways
of business and industry.
Milford chronicle., 1941-08-08
Advertising Religion

Some conservative people may
say that religion can not be pro-
NOTED by any form of propaganda
or advertising. Advertising is one
of the keynotes of the modern
world. You can't get people out to
a public event unless you adver-
tise it, and the same is true to a
large extent of religious services.
Many churches are not well at
tended because they are not suffi-
ciently advertised. Interesting
things happen in the churches, but
unless people are intimately con-
nected with these organizations,
they may not know about these
events. The newspapers are ex-
tremely generous with free notices,
but the churches should realize
that it costs money to publish a
newspaper. They can well help
meet that cost by taking a fair
amount of advertising space.
Milford chronicle., 1941-08-08
Boy Enterprises


One Of 1.-The reasons why many
boys are troublesome, is that their
home town or family conditions
give them no regular occupation
for their spare time. If boy, has
no regular work to do on his free
hours, and no chance to play games
anywhere, his active spirit is going
to blow off some steam, which the
family and the neighbors may not
like one bit.
In country towns and on farms,
that situation is relieved because
there are more chances for boys to
do profitable work. Many boys
have gone in for various projects
connected with agricultural educa-
tion. Thus they have scored mark
ed successes in raising pigs, calves,
etc, also in producing gardens.
There ought to be more chance
in town life for boy enterprises.
One very fine boy job consists of
delivering and selling newspapers.
Many thousands of boys all over
the land are trying out this line of
work, and finding it is excellent
business training. Countless boys
got their start on this job for sue
cessful business careers.
Many boys make try at selling
things from door to door. So many
older peoples have been trying that
line, that it is not very hopeful
prospect. However, any honest and
useful work is better for a boy than
idleness.
If a boy can feel that he has
made success of some line of
work, it is a wonderful incentive to
him to do better work in his stu
dies. He should look out for posi-
tions in stores at holiday times,
and seek chances to NOW lawns
and te ndgardens in summer. What
ever trains a boy in regular and
methodical work, gives him start
in the competitions of adult life.
Milford chronicle., 1941-08-08
Milford, Friday, August 8, 1911
The Migrating Habit

Probably the American people
are the greatest movers in the
world. They have long had q
habit of picking up their house
hold stuff and going elsewhere
where they thought they saw bet
ter opportunities. The West would
never have been settled had it not
been for that adventure spirit.
The old pioneers were not salts
fed to settle down in the towns
where they were brought up. So
they hitched up the covered wa
gons and moved under conditions
of the most intense suffering and
painful hardship, to the Middle and
far West, and occupied the whole
country.
America owes a great deal to
this spirit of enterprise. If it had
not beeno for the courage it took to
take part in these migrations, the
Indians would still be roaming
the plains of the Mississippi val
ley, and the Pacific coast might
still belong to the Mexicans.
After the country gets all set
tied. the value of this migrating
habit becomes more open to ques-
tion During recent years. throng
of these migrating workers moved
out of the dust bowl" and from
states where rainfall has been
light, into California and else
where. Many of them were worse
of after they migrated than they
were before.
1t is a hard problem for many a
family to decide, whether to move
or not. If they have had poor
chance where they are, and can
see a sure chance somewhere else,
the American g spirit tells them to
start. If the hopes held out are
only rumor, in countless cases they
suffer a loss when they start the
rolling habit.
1t is easier to move than it used
to be. In place of the creaky
and bumpy covered wagon, we have
smooth trucks and cars to roll over
the god road, and luxurious trains
and ample freight facilities to car
ry us and our belongings. People
should hesitate long before they
leave a good town like this, or a
good state like this one. Many who
have left our state have regretted
it.
Milford chronicle., 1941-08-08
The Door Of knowledge

Many people feel a certain con
viction that they are inferior, be
cause they had too little educa
tion. Some of them, will always
feel handicapped because thel
never attended any college, per
haps did not finish a high schoo
course, or possibly never saw the
inside of high school, Such peo-
pie ften enter the company of cul-
tured people with a feeling OF in
adequacy. They are haunted by the
feeling that their talk sounds ig-
noratn, or that they are not fami-
liar with the subjects the educated
people talk about.
If such people will just read good
newspapers every day, they will be
able to talk far better than the
average run of people can. They
will have intelligent ideas about
most of the subjects that well edu-
Gated peple discuss.
A wealth of culture isafforded by
magazines and books. In the coun-
try districts in many states there
are many communities without Ii
braries. Books can be borrowed
from circulating libraries in near
by towns, and a small amount
spent on magazines will give such
folks wealth of culture.
Many such people have become
intelligent by such reading, but
they make grammatical mistakes
that do make them seem a little
uneducated. ct college graduates
are apt to make plenty of gram
matical mistakes. People do well
to listen carefully to the conversa-
tion of intelligent people, and hear
how they talk over the radio and
in plays. They will soon learn how
to avoid the more offensove err
rors in speech.
Anyone can appear like an edu-
Gated person, if he is willing to de-
vote some regular time to reading.
The door of knowledge is wide
open, and all who wish can enter.
Milford chronicle., 1941-08-08

You don't have to be an author
ity on international power politics
to figure out why the Vichy govern
ment invited Japan to occupy and
protect" French Indo-China. The
MachiaVellian hand of Hitler can
be clearly seen in this potentially
explosive move. The Vichy govern
ment is completely a pawn of the
Nazis. And Hitler, who is now
fighting the two-front war which
he always said he would avoid, may
profit materially from trouble in
the Pacific. So long as the Japan
ese saber rattlers remain in power
and pursue their imperial policy,
it will be necessary to keep much
of the American Navy in the Pa
cific, and it will also be necessary
to divert much of our Army and
military supplies to our Pacific
possessions. 1t is altogether like
ly that what Hitler would like to
see is a full-dress war between
Japan and the United States, in Or
der to keep us from giving maxi
mum aid to Britain.
This governments reaction to
Japan's move into Indo-China was
precisely what was expected. We
have long been criticized for per-
mitting oil exports to the Nippon
ese-and it is an irOnical fact that
while we have been giving our
moral support and some material
support to China, we have also
been supplying Japan with most of
the gasoline that has made the war
against China possible. President
Roosevelt, queried at a press con-
ference, said frankly that the gov
ernment had permitted oil exports
in the belief that if we shut off
these vital supplies, Japan would
at once attempt to seize Indo-China
and other rich areas, and so cause
a Pacific war of the first magni-
tude. In other words, the govern
ment was trying to localize conflict.
That policy has now proven a fail
ure. A start toward an embargo
on all commerce with Japan has
been made, and Britain and her
have followed suit.
From now on, Treasury license
will be needed to take any Japan
ese assets out of this country, or
to send anything OF any kind to
Japan. AS an Ap dispatch sad,
The asset freezing order put the
Treasury in a position to turn the
economic screws on Japan. Just
how hard they will be applied may
depend ON future events in the Far
East"
1t is difficult to exaggerate the
of the economic whip
we hold over Hirohito's empire.
Milford chronicle., 1941-08-08
Power of The Eats

If you want to put over some
public movement it is a fine idea to
have a good feed. If you have
money to raise it is very useful to
provide a big dinner. Get the
skilled cooks together, or hire a
professional caterer, and give the
crowd some good eats. 1t is amaz-
ing how they will loosen up. If you
tried to put the thing over without
this inducement, the turnout would
Milford chronicle., 1941-08-08
Clean Up After Picnic

The picnic is one of the mos
fixed American habits, but many
people have not learned how t.
play the picnic game. The messei
of dirty rubbish left in beauty
spots and along the roads by many
parties show that the country
would look better, if many people
did their picnicking in the wood
shed at home.
A heap of paper boxes. discarded
fruit cores and skins, eggshells, etc.
look like an ugly wart on the face
of nature, and turn beauty spot
into somebody's ill-kept back
yard. Natures lovely scenes are
a kind of temple where we worship
the splendor of the world. One
should no more leave refuse there
than in the seats of a church.
Milford chronicle., 1941-08-08
prohably have been small

probably have been small.
People of philosophical point
of view can't quite see why this is
so. They would be Interested in
the needed public improvement or
the wise lecture, even If no chicken
pie or ice cream were offered.
Food thaws out the cold feet, and
makes people feel social and in a
mood where they don't like to show
a lack of public spirit. So hurray
for the splendid folks who get up
these grand dinners. The results
they get are most admirable.
Milford chronicle., 1941-08-08

Japan buys the bulk of many vita
supplies fromus. On top of that
we have long been Japan's bes
customer. Most experts believ,
that If Japan loses the American
market, she will be in a desperate
economic position. So far as VIZ
are concerned, our sales to japan
are but a drop in the bucket com.
pared with our total trade. We buy
nothing from Japan we cannot dc
without. Mrs. America may have to
forego silk stockings in the fu-
ture, and use substitutes such as
nplon, but that can hardly be con-
sidered a great hardship.
From the purely military point
of view, Japan has quite a job on
her hands. The war in China seems
as far from conclusion as ever, and
involves a tremendous drain on
Japanese resources-men as well
as materials. Britain is no weak
ling in the Far East, and the
Churchill government is taking as
tough line with Japan now as we
are. In the event of actual hos
tilities, full naval collaboration be-
tween England and the United
States will undoubtedly be imme-
diately effected. Some think that
this country should base ships at
the great Singapore base now.
There is little doubt that Britain
would give enthusiastic permission
if the right to do this were re-
quested.
There is also talk to the effect
that Hitler may persuade Japan to
attack Asiatic Russia. That too
would be a tough assignment. Rus
sia is powerful in the East, and
the Japanese Army isn't regarded
too highly by the military experts.
those who know the Jap
anese character think it very poss-
ible that the Nipponese war lords
may have finally decided to shoot
the works, even If that eventually
involved national suicide, and the
reduction of Japan to the status. of
a third-class power.
900
AS the new tax bill moves pom
derously on toward enactment, /
of many of its provisions /
Main criticism is that the bill
will not provide much of check /
on imitation, for the reason that it 4
does not levy large enough taxes /
on the labor groups which are re-
ceiVing most of the financial bene-
its from defense spending.
AS Ernest Lindley puts it, "If
he economists are correct in fore
seeing a total sum of purchasing
power in excess of goods available,
he lower income groups must bel
from spending part of
heir money. 1t could be taxed out
If them in several ways: By low
,ring income tax exemptions, by
/ payroll tax and by applying
either a sales tax or a multitude of
excise taxes"
There are plenty of evidences of
)rice imitation now-which is an
result of the combina-
ion of more money and fewer
goods. Most economists are Wor-
led owe rthe apparent fact that
Congress doesn't regard taxing the
oMer income groups as good
-oOo-
Current plans call for a so per
.ent cut in automobile production
lext year. That will result in a
major economic dislocation in this
country.
One authority estimates that cut
Will throw about 280,OOO men out
# work. Present defense plans
would provide employment for
,nly $4,000 of these workers by
october 1. Both government and
Industrial officials are now seek
ng for some solution to this prob
em.
Milford chronicle., 1941-08-08
MINERS no MEET

Producers of the sinews of the
nations defense effort-iron ore
copper, lead, zinc, tungsten, molly
bendum, manganese, mercury
gold, silver and other metals, are
planning to meet in San Francisco
September 20 to October 2, at the
annual American Mining Congress
convention. Metals for Defense
is the theme chosen for this meet
Milford chronicle., 1941-08-08

THE WORLD LOVES go-getter
and feels that when a concern hus-
ties for business it is making more
than an average effort to give SER
vice. The best way to appear like
a go-getter is to advertise.
Milford chronicle., 1941-08-08

THE ELEMENTS of happiness
are not found by roaming around
to distant places, but rather they
are located right under our noses
in our home town. Friendships,
pleasures that bring people togeth-
er, and chance to develop our tai
ents, are the essentials of happi-
ness, and they are abundantly
found in Milford.
Milford chronicle., 1941-08-08

THE PEOPLE holler for the
hometown ball team, but they
seem to merely whisper when it
comes to talking in favor of the
home town and its causes of pro-
gress.
Milford chronicle., 1941-08-08

ing.
Taxation, labor relations. iistri-
button and economic problems Of
the mining industry will be con-
sidered, as well as the need of ade-
quate priority ratings for mining
machinery and suppliers. in order
Milford chronicle., 1941-08-08

THE HOME MERCHANT is
working every day to build up your
home town, which benefits you.
Better cooperate with this good en-
deavor by giving him your patron
age.
Milford chronicle., 1941-08-08

to assure continued capacity pro-
duetion. of this great natural re-
Source industry.
Milford chronicle., 1941-08-08

Sunday School picnics keep Che
children occupied and happy these
days.
Milford chronicle., 1941-08-08
Economic HighIigIits

Happenings That Affect The Dinner Pals,
Dividend Checks And Tax Bills OF Every
individual; National And international
Problems Inseparable From Local Welfare
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-04-03
ALP cRAsAEs

In regard 10 the number % air.
plane crashes In the military ser.
vices OF this government. the War
Department Is anxious to ailay any
undue anxiety on the part o. the
public The accident rate. II is ex-
planned, IS due solely 10 the lower.
ing OF the average experience OF
pilots under the rapidly expanding
training program.
In 1870 Army airplanes were
flown more than 100000 hours com
pared to about 7T000 hours IN
1921. but the percentage Of acct
dents in 1870 was far below that OF
1921.
This year the number OF war.
plane accidents has been someWh1t
disturbing but is understandable
when Il Is known that large mum
bers OF new flyers are being taken
on and that they are required 10
undertake more exacting and haz-
ardous flying than ever before in
order 10 be prepared for war ron.
ditions. The department says per-
sonnet errors accounted for 50 eat
Of every 100 accidents because the
personnel Is green. Mechanical
failure causes only II per cent Of
accidents.
The cue to the situation il in tho
fact that America is undertaking
TO train it's youth in such pursuits
as parachute attack and dive-bomb.
ing. Both are extremely hazard.
Gus. Losses IN Germany. Britain
and Italy during the training per.
iod were by all accounts enormous
And the United states Ia now IN
that nhaaa
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-04-03
QUESTIONS. AND ANSWERS

Speculation concerning the
chance Of Yankee acquisition Of
canada, Australia and New Zea-
land is all based on the theory of
an AXIS victory over Britain.
Boosters fnr-an- Irizh.Aaeriean
merger would like to see that ef-
fected no matter how the pending
war ends. They think we'd har-
monte with the Irish, as a state
or two, and that the Irish would be
glad to be invited. As Father Tom
Burke said, away back in the last
century, America accepts her
states on terms Of glorious equal
ity."
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-04-03
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