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Milford chronicle., 1941-04-18
Children Aniid,.}fhe Dirt

Parents often complain because
after they have dressed their chill
dren up in nice5clsah clothes, these
youngsters seem to take delight in
going out and playing in the mud.
1t sometimes seSlhs las IL small
boy would enjoysa nigpen as a play
place. tu
The girls may not so often be
that way, but there seems an affin-
ity between the boy and the dirt.
certain age Iitoisl1a supreme
delight to make mud pies. Out in
the dirt he is freed from the paren-
tai supervision. that irks his heart,
and cramps his ambitions. He may
worry the folks, atfHofhe, but any
way the boy playing in the dirt is
usually a healthy child. He is bet
ter off than hef would be in bed
battling with diseased germs.
Milford chronicle., 1941-04-18
Financial Self Retraint

II is sometimes remarked tina
the American people never seen
to learn anything, that they keel
making the same mistakes ovel
and over again. Too frequently
that is the case. Yet it happens
also in many instances that they
do learn from their tough ex.
periences. Having put their hand
into the fire once too often, they
decide to keep a safe distance
from the blaze in future.
An illustration of that appears
in the attitude of the public to-
ward stock speculation. The coun-
try came near being ruined in
1929, because people went wild
on bidding up security prices. They
created great inflated structure
of fictitious values. When that
rickety edifice of prices collapsed,
countless people got very badly
hurt. Many of them have not YET
recovered from their injuries, and
the unemployment of the past 10
years was largely due to that
collapse.
Before that smash, speculative
folks usually gave little heed To
the question of intrinsic values. III
1t appeared likely that a stock
would sell for more money in. six
months time, people bid fever
lshly for it, and lacked the price
way up, even if it was apparent
that it had been boosted too high
The present slow times in the
stock market indicate that that
spirit has almost vanished. People
are asking, not what securities will
'eil for six months from now, but
what they will be worth over a
)erloo OF years and after the war
s ended. That indicates an amount
If sound sense that was mostly
lbsent in the high flying days be-
ore the crash.
The people who have the specu-
ative spirit, or who have savings
o invest, should adhere to these
If they do, one of the
'reatest dangers to financial Sc
urity. regular operation of in
lustry, and full employment of
he people, will have gone. So
ong as this prudence remains, the
anger of a new business collapse
greatly lessened.
Milford chronicle., 1941-04-18
Looks Of'Thse Suitor


The newspaper Joker says the
youth told his lovs one that when
two people live together. they grow
to look alike. To which the lady
replied, that If that is the case,
her refusal would be final.
While good manners, business
success, or wealth. make it easier
for a man to make good mar
riage, good looks are also an i'm
portant factor. Many girls would
never marry homely man. What
shall the fellow do if his looks are
not 100 per cent? Shall he resort
to beauty treatments? Anyway,
when people have hearts full of
kindness, when q, they greet the
world with a smiley and when
they can talk well, unattractive
physical traits are forgotten.
Milford chronicle., 1941-04-18
Picking On Small Nations

In daily life the boy who licks
all the small kids is viewed with
contempt, and sooner or later he
is put where he belongs. Probably
it will come out the same in inter-
national relations. Now Adolf
Hitler, at the top of big and bully
ing Germany, has jumped on two
more nations, little YugosIavia and
Greece. He has already wiped out
the national existence of a dozen
small countries, and he expects to
do the same with these victims.
Those Yugoslavs and Greeks are
tremendous fighters. The big rough
bully may find he has met his
match.
1t seems amazing how the people
of supposedly intelligent country
like Germany can swallow the
bunk put out about such an attack.
1t is represented that the Nazis
are the friends Of the YugosIavs
and the Greeks, and merely step
in to save them from their true
enemies. Over in France where
those Nazis have carried off a
large part of the country's food,
they do not think so kindly of
such friends"
Milford chronicle., 1941-04-18
The Profits Of Business

The financial statements of 1880
leading corporations for 1910
showed net profits of IA per cent
on the net worth of these COM
panies. There are probably many
corporations which made to profit
at all. Government statistics for
1898 showed that 65 per cent of
the corporations. which handled
33 per cent of the total volume of
busines, operated that year at a
loss.
There are innumerable small
business concerns where if fair
salary I is allowed !, to. the owner
or manager, there would be no
profit at all. So it seems doubtful
if business as a whole made more
than four or five per cent on the
money invested.
Some people think business
should be satisfied with less
profit. If the profit were any less,
there would be little incentive to
engage in business or employ
labor. The hope of making
profit, more than can be earned
by putting money in a bank or
buying bonds or stocks, is the
hope of earning a profit some
what larger than ordinary invest
ments give.
When profits are small, millions
of people are out of work. When
profits are large, there is usually
work for nearly everybody. Profits
are the handspring that makes
business go. The idea that busi-
ness can run without profits is a
good deal like the story of the
man who said his watch had too
many wheels. So he took one out,
and he claimed it ran better than
before. If that wheel was the
handspring, it would not probably
run very long.
If people don't want to go in
for Communism, they have to rely
on business profits to provide work
for the people. When profits stop,
wages are likely to stop also.
Milford chronicle., 1941-04-18
MILLSBORO

The dance given by the cotillion
club on Tuesday night was most
enjoyable affair and was attended
by guests from most of the lower
Delaware towns.
The music was furnished by
Johnny McGee's orchestra and the
decorations were of potted plants
and cut flowers, with beautiful
lighting effects.
Much entertaining was done be-
fore the dance and during the in
termission. Among those who en-
tertained were DIR. and Mrs. G. ".
Wood, DIR. and Mrs. w. B. Atkins,
Mr.. and Mrs. H. B. Mitchell, Mr..
and Mrs. Walter Belts, Mr.. and
Mrs. Millard Monroe, Mr.. and Mrs.
Joseph Lingo and Mr.. and Mrs.
Howard Hudson.
Mr.. and Mrs. Norman Goodwin
spent Easter with relatives in Eas-
ton, Md.
Mrs. W. j. P. White, who was
quite i'll the latter part of her stay
in Miami, has returned to her
home here and is improving.
Several people from here attend
ed the funeral services for Robert
Short, in Georgetown, on Monday
afternoon.
When Mr.. and Mrs. William Rod
ney move from their home on the
Laurel road to go to Laurel, where
Mr.. Rodney has been transferred,
the house they live in will be occu-
pied by Mr.. and Mrs. Walls, of
Seaford. Mrs. Walls has been the
mat" teacher here for three years
and Mr.. Walls will be employed by
White Chevrolet Sales Co.
The baby son of Mr.. and Mrs. AL
fred Ellis is being treated in Beebe
Hospital, in Lewes, for severe at
tacks of Group.
Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond Goslee,
of Charleston, w. Va, visited Mrs.
Ethel Dodd a part of last week.
The three-hour service in Grace
Methodist Church on Good Friday
was a most impressive one and
was well attended.
Mr.. and Mrs. e. B. Collins, Mrs.
Emma Collins, Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph
Collins and Mrs. Brooks Reynolds
attended the funeral services for
Mr.. Corbin, son-in-Iaw of Mrs. Col
Inns, in Washington, d. c., last
Thursday. Emma Collins, his wife,
spent her girlhood here, but after
Milford chronicle., 1941-04-18
Winning Personality

In world where military forcC
seems just now to be about the
only thing that counts, our peo.
pie are thinking primarily today
about national defense. That era
will pass, and no race has ever
been able for very long to boss
the world. Human life will come
back to the old conditions where
people try to win position and hap
piness by their various talents
and methods of service and
persuasion.
In normal times, the struggle
for what is called success in per-
haps the dominating motive of
American life. The people who
make service to the world their
aim in life are following higher
ideal. The person who can help
his hearers to win this thing called
success, will find his lecture halls
crowded, and his uterances will
bring a high price from news
papers and book publishers.
Success is attained chiefly by
the ability to render some kind
of service which the world wants
done. Yet some people have the
mental ability to render such serv-
ice, but they have such a cold
and forbidding maner that they
make little impression on the
world.
How can a person have a win
ming personality? A very friendly,
genial, and smiling manner helps
amazingly. The politician who
grasps your hand as if you were
his most intimate friend, gets a
big vote. The business worker who
makes every customer feel that he
is personally interested in the
welfare of that buyer. sells a lot
OF goods. The girl who has a smil-
ing welcome for every boy has the
fellows buzzing around her like
flies around the molasses.
Some people have winning ways
by nature. They seem like shafts
of sunshine pouring into some
dark room. 1t costs nothing to
develop this winsome manner, and
it helps in any occupation. Mere
smiles do not go the whole dis
tance. People have to give the
impression that there is a feeling
of genuine and sincere friendship
behind the smile.
Milford chronicle., 1941-04-18
Nazi Aim Changes,

1t had been expected tnat thl
main war event of this spring
would be a terrific invasion o.
England. The world looked fear,
fully ahead to vast armies ferrieG
over the narrow English seas, OF
dropping from the skies, landed
by an innumerable fleet of Nazi
planes. While the Nazis are MAX
ing terrific attack on shipping,
this combined attack on England
has not come.
The German plan of campaign
has apparently changed. The Bal
kan nations are now aflame with
the terrific drive ON little Yugo-
slavia and Greece. Yet the war
is not to be won for Hitler by
striking at a point far from the
British heart.
Mussolini has taken such a ter
rifle licking that Hitler had to
move in his neighborhood to keep
that tottering opower from col
lapsing. Also there was danger
that If Britain had not been stop
ped, the vast oil 9 fields of Ru-
mania, on whiche Germany largely
depends, would have gone up in
bomb explosions iiil Whatever the
result of the Balkan war, it gives
Britain a bit Of time to breathe
IN it's home front. 'sai'i
Milford chronicle., 1941-04-18
Chance For Married Women

Better chances-ir for married
women to find work are reported
from many Industries. Concerns
that previously did not take on
such women are, now employing
anybody who cam the work.
Conditions ought to be such in
this country that everybody who
wants to work for wages, whether
married or unmarried, could find
some kind of a job If work could
be found for everybody without
running the country deeper into
debt, wonderful new wave of
prosperity would cover the land.
The human race was made to
work, and something is funda-
mentally wrong when many who
long for employment canot find it.
Milford chronicle., 1941-04-18
Fishermen and Farmers

In the so-called good old days,
fisherman could. go almost any
where. They wandered along the
trout brooks and lakes sides al
most as free as the birds.
They are not always so popular
now among the country dwellers.
Too many of them couldn't, take
time to put up the farmers fence
which they knocked down. Or they
were perhaps SO eager to get
home that they left their camp
fire burning, with the result that
a forest tract went up in smoke.
So If many owners have erected
mo trespass signs" they should
not be considered to have Vio-
lated any principle in the etiquet
book or golden rule.
Milford chronicle., 1941-04-18
The Baseball Drama

The teams OF the major baseball
leagues have been. practising fol
some weeks. and the grand race
for the 1941 championships is be-
ginning. If some foreign traveller
wished to give complete picture
of our country, he should attend
some Of these ball games. If he
observes the marvellous skill
which the players have developed.
notes the roaring of the crowd,
the sorrow felt by the losers and
the joy of the winners. he
will have learned many things
about America.
Social. economic, and business
life is rapidly changing in the
United States. but some things
come fairly near being fixed, One
of these is the great national game
of baseball. In minor details the
game changes from one decade to
the next, but the main idea keeps
on about the same from year to
year.
In the minds of many, a ball
game between the most skilled |
is about the most |
highly developed form of sport.
The players devote themselves to
It so consistently over a period
If years, that they attain a per-
'ection Of skill comparable to some
world famous musician who can
miracles on his instru-
nent. This physical skill has to
'e so directed by generalship, the
'ower of quick thought and effec-
i've planning, that it is a contest
f brains as well as trained
muscles.
So the spectators crowd into the
by the thousands and
ften tens of thousands, fascinated
y a marvellous contest of muscle,
agility, self control,
nd brain power. The thing is SO
omplex that people are left to
uess at many Of the points of
iner strategy. One can expect
nat sport that has been de-
eIoped to such perfection will
OF probably be played very diff
,rently when the year 1000 dawns
n the world.
Milford chronicle., 1941-04-18
On The Bird Highway

The American people have been
deeply concerned about the well
fare of the migrants" people who
travel around from place to place
doing farm work. Many Of them
have tough time.
One type of migrant gets along
comfortably without aid, and that
consists of the millions of migrat-
ing birds. Some strange inner
voice tells them they have i6afed
long enough at their pleasant win
ter resorts, and it is up to them to
go North and get busy. They trav-
el thousands of miles on their own
wing 'muscle, and never hold up a
single claw to ask for any ride.
According to scientists, they are
most apt to follow regular routes,
usually along ocean coasts or river
valleys or mountain ranges. So
the bird highway is now thronged
with these knowing travellers. Soon
they will be looking for the tour
ist homes in our back yards, where
you are glad to have them lodge,
and they pay for their board by
singing many times day.
Milford chronicle., 1941-04-18
Dying For The Country

The Balkan war shows heroic
picture of the Greeks and Yugo-
slavs who are dying for their
country. They have TO face mighty
forces, armed with the latest mod
ern war equipment. In the fore
front of the battle are the masses
of German tanks heavily protected
with armor, TO pierce which will
take powerful guns. Overhead are
the great fleets Of Nazi planes,
zooming down and pouring in their
rain of death.
Many defenders of these two
little lands go into battle without
expectation of surviving. The love
of country is great factor in the
life of men, when they can face
the dread specter of the final end
with such a flame of patriotism
burning in their hearts.
Even among the Nazi soldiers,
deeply as the world deplores their
folly in fighting for such miser-
able cause, it has to be admitted
they show heroic qualities. Hitler
has been able to inspire them with
the delusion that their sacrifice is
going to make better Germany,
and that their names will forever
shine with glory.
1t is a terrible thing that it is
possible by false propaganda to so
mislead the youth of a land like
Germany, that they will fight to
the death for a cause the victory
of which means only sorrow and
darkness.
How far have the young men
of America this deathless courage,
which thinks not of danger, but
freely offers its life for a national
ideal? The young people of this
day are supposed to be sophisti-
Gated, little given to enthusiasm,
inclined to poke fun at everything.
There would not be the same emo
tional love of country that you
find in Yugoslavia and Greece. ssIn
the World War our young men
threw themselves into battle with
the same intense force that they
show on the football field 1t would
be the same if our country is at
tackedznow.
Milford chronicle., 1941-04-18

Mr.. and Mrs. John e. Breasure,
Of Millsboro. have announced the
engagement of their daughter,
Miss Elma H. Breasure, to Lester
e. Cannon, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Arthur w. Cannon, OF Bridgeville.
Miss Breasure was a graduate Of
Millsboro High School and for the
Milford chronicle., 1941-04-18

past year has had a position with
the dupont Company at the nylon
plant in Seaford. Mr.. Cannon, a
graduate of the BridgeviEie High
School, has been active In the
plans Of an agricultural club, and
at present is assisting his father
in the management Of his farm.
Milford chronicle., 1941-04-18

Rev. John L. Sparklin, OF St
Georges, was a visitor Of friends
In town on Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Kruger
have sold their home on Church
street to Harley P. White, and are
planning to build on the lot they
purchased from the Ellis estate on
Pilson highway.
Milford chronicle., 1941-04-18

marriage to Mr.. Corbin, who was
in the Marine service. much Of the
time was spent In the Philippines,
Guam, China, and California. Since
his retirement Mr.. and Mrs. Cor
bin had been living in North Car
olina, where he died on Sunday,
April 6. Burial was made in Ar
lington Cemetery, in Washington.
Milford chronicle., 1941-04-18

EVERY TIME you buy things at
home, you tell the home merchant
that you are backing him up in his
enterprise, SO he is better able
to serve the public and provide
employment for workers.
Milford chronicle., 1941-04-18

1T is NOT ENOUGH for busi-
ness success to provide good goods
and good service. The people need
to be constantly informed about the
goods and service by advertising.
Milford chronicle., 1941-04-18

TO GET THE BEST out of your
home town, you have to give it
some portion of your time and
money. Life is not all getting and
no giving.
Evening star., 1941-10-06
UNCLE RAYS CORNER -Enoishmun Studied Malice Birds

Among the strange mound-bu
ing birds which are found on GER
tain islands of the Pacific Ocean
end in Australia are the malice
birds" They are smaller than most
mound birds. being only about the
size of pheasants: other mound
birds are nearly the same size as
turkeys.
An account of malice birds writ
ten SO years ago has come down to
us. II was prepared by Sir George
Grey. an Englishman who visited
Australia and set down more care
ful record than had been made be-
fore. Here, in shortened form, are
paragraphs from his notes:
"a hole which is almost round
Is. scratched in the ground. 1t is
about l8 inches wide and 7 or 8
inches deep.
The hole is filled with dead
leaves, dead grass and so on, and
much Of the same material is placed
on the ground around 1t. Over this
the birds throw sand mixed with dry
grass, until dome shaped mound
rises.
when an egg is to be laid. hole
H. scraped In the mound to a point
within q few inches of the nest Of
Dead leaves and grass. Then sand
Evening star., 1941-10-06
Take Ny Word for 1t
Names in the News
= BY FRANK COLBY.

THAILAND. The country for
merly was known as Siam, a cor
ruption OF the name Sayam.
The Thai race is believed to be
one of the Oldest races of Asiatic
peoples. The word THAI means
free" Instead of ''Siamese,' it now
Is correct to speak of the people
of Thailand as Thai.
The Thai call their country
"Prades Thai" which means the
Land of the Free"
According to bulletin that have
Just received from the Royal Thai
Legation at Washington, the new
name tThailandl is preferred be-
cause go it conveys the truism
that the Thai race has been able
to keep amity and peace with all
the nations in the world and is
always prepared to offer the utmost
resistance if its sovereignty and
proud name should in any way be
jeopardized."
Thai should not. be pronounced
"thigh.' The III" is silent
The correct pronunciation of
Ehailand is: TIE-Pnd
EsCapitals indicate syllables to be
accented1
Evening star., 1941-10-06

it up again. Even II the mound
is robbed, the female will keep on
laying"
When Grey said malice birds
throw" sand on the mound, he must
have meant that they scratch up
the sand with their claws. That
is just what they do. Gravel, As
well as sand, is scratched up until
the mound grows large enough.
The rotting dead leaves give OH
heat, and the heat works to make
the eggs hatch. The sand above
the leaves has temperature Of
from IS to 80 degrees above zero.
Like other kinds of mound birds,
the malice birds do not sit on the
nest. After the eggs are laid, they
feel that their duty is done.
A malice bird mound sometimes
is from 10 to Is feet wide. Mound
birds Of other kinds sometimes make
much larger mounds.
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Let's Learn q New Word

FUEHRER. Originally this Ger
man word was not the monster it
lately has come to be- 1t simply
meant leader, guide, tutor The
correct German spelling is "Fuhrer, Z"
with two dots (umlauU over the
"u." The sound of the umlaut ''u"
Is blending of 100" as in food
and zee" as in feed, a sound that
has no equivalent in English.
The pronunciation FEAR-er,
while not exact, is closer to the
mark than the erroneous FEW
rer" which used to greet us inme-
diately following Go ahead, Ber-
in!"
Evening star., 1941-10-06
LETTER-OUT
BY Muthieu

spell the word
letter column opposite
which removed "Leteeo-Ous
correctly 1t will spell an evil fellow.
Answer to LETTER-OUT.
LetterOut
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(E) ELISHA-HAIIS Che calls.
(W) AWEIESS-LEASES (used by landlords.
ASEPSIS-PASSES (tine by).
Evening star., 1941-10-06
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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-11-07
Decree
Blow to
lew Workers

BERLIN The labor ministry
Thursday issued = decree dated
Oct. 81 depriving Jewish workers
Of al special privileges enjoyed by
Aryan workers.
a Jew individual Of foreign
nature cannot be . member Of
the community Of German
business firm. which IL built
on q foundation of the mutual
LOYALTY Of AL workers In that
business" the decree said.
The decree provides that Jews
may work only together n groups
isolated from Arysn workers.
Jewish workers living away from
home must be isolated from
Aryans and Jews will not be per-
mitted 10 obtain employment az
apprentices.
No Choice Of Jobs
Jews henceforth must take what
ever jobs are assigned to them by
the Official employment office and
Aryan employers VIII be permitted
to discharge Jews on "a hours no.
tiee. In some cases Jews may be
dismissed without any notice.
Under the terms OF the decree
Jews may not claim pay for work
on Sunday or for overtime work.
They will not receive pay for time
off because OF illness or child birth.
Extra pay or Christmas gratuitics
may not be given 10 Jews.