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Furniture and Equipment

To Whom Issued: Amount
a &, SuppIy Co. S 2460
Ri,rrolIghs Adding Machine Co. 205. 20
Marchant CaIc,IIatine Machine Co. $500
c. M. Pennington -------------. $500
L. ere re- Trnri'ii fmc e N 1000
Tvnewrifer Shop Inc. - 1880
S 934 80
Repairs to Furniture and Equipment
T. p Fink 14.50
Marchant Calculating Machine Co. 1898
S 34.48
Askov American., 1942-03-05
Printing and Publishing

American Publishing Co.
Circulating county printing -----S 1920
County printing -- 52.48
Statement ----------- $50 85
S 1O95 .83
Hinckley News
County printing ------.----------S a1.dO
Personal property tax list ------- l0o.oO
S 127.90
Pine County Courier
Personal property tax list - 321.38
S 32338
Pine POker-PiOneer
County printing --------------$ 1,014.25
DeIinG1ent tax list - 1870
Financial statement - 930.8
Personal property tax list 241 so
5 2,37230
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Clerk of Court
Co1or riQc
County Attorney

SdIdTy |
To Whom Issued: Amount |
Albert johnson, attorney --------$ 1,73700 |
Julius A. Schmahl, state treasurer,
PERA deduction -------------- $500
10000 |
Milford chronicle., 1942-12-25
SAME OBJECTIVE

Small business must be saved if
the free enterprise system is to
be saved. No one knows this bet
Ter than large business. How to
keep small business afioat in the
growing flood of restrictions on
the supply and distribution of ma
terials, is grave problem.
Senator Murray of Montana.
Chairman of the Special Senate
Committee on Small Business, has
pointed out in effect that the banks
are carrying the main burden at
present in keep small business
'slive. The local banker, more
than any other agency, is in a po-
sition to aid the local business in
meeting financial and operational
difficulties.
Consultation with the banker Of
ten spells new life for an enter
prise otherwise faced with extinc-
tion from the exigencies of war.
And every enterprise thus saved is
as valuable to the cause of. free
dom as a military victory. Con-
versely, every Independent enter
prise that closes its doors is in the
nature of a defeat.
The business man who goes to
the banker with his war prob
lens" will get a sympathetic hear
ing. They are both striving for the
same thing, the maintenance of
system under which they can con-
tinue to do business as free men.
Unless this system is saved, the
war will have been lost, irrespec-
tive of who fires the last shot.
Milford chronicle., 1942-12-25
REGULATION-HOW FAR?

The United States Supreme Court
has rendered a unanimous decision
upholding the governments power
to regulate wheat production, even
when the crop is to be consumed on
the farm. An Ohio farmer who
planted 23 acres of wheat was fined
S117.11 for raising 12 more acres
than his allotment of IL acres un-
der the Agricultural Adjustment
Act.
Granting that the decision is in
accordance with the letter of the
law, the reasoning of Justice Jack,
son, who wrote the decision, has
far-reaching effect on every Ameri-
can citizen. He said that wheat,
even if grown for home consump-
ton, could be considered within the
scope of Congressional regulation
if it "eXerts a substantial economic
effect on interstate commerce" To
emphasize this point, he went fur
ther and said that even If such
wheat was never marketed, it is
subject to regulation because 1t
supplies a need of the man who
grew it which would otherwise be
reflected by purchases in the open
market" and, therefore, it COM
petes with wheat in commerce"
This is worth thinking over. I'm
der similar legislation and court
rulings, almost every productive
act of American citizens could be
construed to exert a substantial
economic effect on interstate COM
and therefore be subject !
to Federal jurisdiction.
If farmer cannot feed his sur
plus grain to his own cattle because
this affects interstate commerce,
how long will it be before he is
told he cannot kill hog or beef
Tor his own consumption because
it supplies a need of the man who
grew it which would otherwise be
reflected by purchases in the open
market"
Almost any human activity of
'ree and independent men and wo-
Milford chronicle., 1942-12-25
LEST WE FORGET

1t must ever be borne in mind
during these days of big govern
ment that in the last analysis the
unspectacular plugging of private
citizens in private industry is what
is going to win the war. The people
who are accomplishing production
miracles are not on the public pay
roll.
They are the men who get the
coal and metals out of our mines
and the timber and food out of the
mountains and from the land. They
are the men who get the oil out of
the ground, refine it to produce the
cannon ball power required in mod
ern war. They are the men who
keep the assembly lines rolling.
They are the millions of American
workmen and business men with
out whom not a wheel would turn.
They are the soul and the spirit of
free enterprise.
In peace time their energies were
devoted to producing a better civil
ization. Today their energies are
devoted to producing for war. Why?
Because free enterprise and politi-
cal liberty have been threatened by
military aggression. To save our
political liberty we must save free
enterprise. We must save the right
of a man to hold a job or operate a
business without paying tribute to
anyone, either in votes or money.
Some bureaucrats would like to
impress the idea upon the people
that a combination of political gen
ius and public authority are the
handspring of the war effort: that
industry was a hopeless shambles
of squabbling business men until
the guiding light of RECOMMENDATION
came to their rescue. Nothing could
be further from the truth.
The government and our military
forces now need the products of
industry, just as in peace time the
public needed them. Consumer de-
mand for more and better products
was not followed by any claim that
consumers created those products.
Similarly, merely because military
necessity requires the government
to demand more and better ma
chimes of war, it certainly does not
follow that government is the pro-
ducer. 1t is not. And if the proper
function of either government OF
industry becomes confused in the
public mind, it bodies ill for the
future of America.
Milford chronicle., 1942-12-25
TAKE TIME

BY T. A. HALL, Milford, Delaware
The moment to yourself, you say
1 haven't any time to pray.
That very moment, you begin
To say to Satan, I've no sin.
To confess unto my Lord,
Or need to know what's in His
word.
Old Nick knows that you have lied,
The very moment you decide.
That you can get along without
The time to talk to God about.
The problems of your weary day,
And ask Him there to take away.
The burdens you find hard to bear,
Or ask for strength that you might
share.
And make light another's load,
Plodding down life's weary road.
There's always someone needing
you,
There's always something you can
do.
If it's only to be kind,
And you can, if you're amind.
But you will miss all that, the day
That you have no time to pray.
For life is giving time to you,
To do just what you want to do.
So, don't let Satan hear you say,
That you have no time to pray. 1t
Milford chronicle., 1942-12-25
CHRISTMAS

By T. A. HALL, Milford, Del.
my Christmas contribution to
all who like my poems.)
Away up North where the cold
winds blow,
Hills covered with drifted snow
Old Kris Kingle raises his horn
To blow once more on a Christmas
morn.
To call his deer to hook to his
sleigh,
For he has other deer over the hills
far away;
Some in the West, some in the
East,
He remembers them all from larg-
est to least.
He gets in his sleigh with his
prancing four,
To go out calling as always before.
He has done it so often and done it
so long,
Our dear little children love to sing
the glad song.
And we all love to sing of these
glad Christmas tunes,
AS our Lords church bells ring out
their chimes,
again to mortals of earth
The old. old story of our Saviour's
birth.
For unto us all a son was given,
Who came all the way from Earth
to Heaven,
To bring to us all glad tidings of
great joy,
For the babe born in Bethlehem
that day was boy.
He grew to be a youth-then to
man,
And lived a life that no one else
can,
Unless by his spirit we too have
been born
We too can blow Gods Gospel
Horn!
Milford chronicle., 1942-12-25
"WE HAVE NO QUORUM
BY ]. E. JONES

Since the first of December the
77th Congress has found it almost
impossible to make headway with
important legislation. And on the
7th day of December, House Speak
er Rayburn admitted that the lower
branch of Congress could not leg
islate because it was impossible to
get a quorum, "and it is doubtful
whether we can muster one" he
confessed.
At the same time there have been
many little filibusters in the Senate,
despite attempts to act on bill to
permit the sale of non-monetary
silver owned by the Treasury to
war industries at so cents an
ounce. Another measure was the
Presidents request for authority to
suspend tariff laws and statutes
governing immigration. The legis-
lation on the Senate calendar to
increase by billion dollars the
borrowing authority of the Recon-
Finance Corporation was
also stalled.
Milford chronicle., 1942-12-25
DIRECTIVE SO

An order issued to the petroleum
industry by the Office of the Petro-
leum Coordinator virtually social
ICES the oil industry. The order is
known as Directive SO. Under it,
the. competition which stimulated
development of the oil industry to
undreamed of heights of public SER
vice has been abandoned. Progress
has been frozen and henceforth the
resources of the oil industry will
be pooled under total government
control.
AS a representative of one COM
pany pointed out, the industry glad
ly contributes its facilities to be
used in the common effort, adding
that "No one will count the cost
in money or in constitutional lib
critics freely given up for the du-
ration. But, when. peace returns,
he continued, "let us make sure
that with it will be reborn the
traditional American system OF
competitive private enterprise un-
der which we have prospered be-
fore, and which is embodied in the
freedom for which, we are fight
ing"
Milford chronicle., 1942-12-25
YOU CAN'T HAVE BOTH

Compulsory government econom-
ic planning, whether it be forced on
the people or engulf them gradual
ly under the guise of reform, is
equally destructive of freedom.
AS W. H. Prentis, Jr., chairman
of the Executive Committee of the
National Association of Manufac-
turers, points out, none Of tn
middle-of-the-roaders" in econom-
les, government, and the church
who approve limited planning for
basic industries, would feel very
comfortable with a little cancer in
any portion of their honorable
bodies. They seem perfectly serene,
however, about implanting the car
cinoma of stae socialism in the
national body polite"
Both the Communists and Nazis
recognize the fact that it is the
whole hog or none at all. Stain
himself has said that without get
ting rid of capitalism and abandon
ing the system of private owner
ship in the means of production,
you cannot create planned econ
omy." And a keen analyst of the
German scene has written:
1.-THE experience of the last few
years shows that economic plan
ming and system of free enter
prise cannot permanently endure
side by side in the same nation.
For example, the Nazi system of
wage and price control must be ex-
tended to every area which they
dominate, otherwise the control of
prices would soon get out of line.
If labor is compulsory in some
areas, it must be made so every
where or else laborers will migrate
to freer regions"
Milford chronicle., 1942-12-25
UNBROKEN VOW

News reports on the transpor'
tation problem leave the definite
impression that this country is iI
danger of the same calamity that
even now is perhaps fatally weak.
ening Hitler's war machine, i'm
pairment of rail transportation The
load carried by the American rail
roads is increasing steadily, its
weight slowly crushing the life out
of tracks and equipment. Next veal
the burden will be much heavier
the necessity for speed greater be-
cause the punch that will knock
out the Axis must start rolling
right here in this countTy-on the
railroads. And still the railroads
wait desperately for new equip
ment, while driving present loco
motives and freight cars to the
limit with an efficiency that has
amazed the nation.
The railroads have asked for au-
thorization to buy 900 new loco
motives, $4,000 freight cars, and
100000 tons of steel rail. Rail-
road experts point out that this is
the absolute minimum necessary to
do the job. Already delay in ap-
proving the request makes it i'm
probable that much new equipment
can be delivered before late 1943.
In the critical months ahead, the
best brains of shippers and rail-
road managements will have to
make up in some manner for lack
of maintenance material and roll
ing stock. However, the cushion of
is getting threadbare. 1t
cannot continue indefinitely to fill
the widening gap in our transporta-
tion needs.
For twenty years the railroads
have been preparing for trans
portation emergency. Railroad men
vowed that the confusion during
World War 1, when thousands of
freight cars did duty as ware
houses instead of hauling freight,
would not be repeated. The emer-
yency came, an emergency the mag
litude of which cannot be put down
n words. The VOW they made has
lot been broken. The railroad in
lustry has kept pace with demand.
The railroad men have told what
must be done if the railroads are
o finish the job of war transpor-
alton. They know what they are
alking about. They must have
quipment. That is elemental.
Milford chronicle., 1942-12-25
ANNUAL MEETING
The First National Bank
and Trust Co.

The annual meeting of the share
holders of The First National Bank
and Trust Company, of Milford,
Delaware, for the election of Di-
rectors and the transaction of such
other business as may be brought
before the meeting, will be held at
its banking house on Tuesday, jan
uary 18th, 1949, at two o'clock
P. M.
d1S-4t w. F. McFAUL, Cashier
Milford chronicle., 1942-12-25
NOTICE

Notice is hereby given that Let
ters of Administrator were in due
form of law granted unto the un-
dersigned, on the eleventh day of
December A. D., 1912, and that all
persons having claims against the
estate of the deceased must pre-
sent the same, duly attested, to the
said Charles A. Hudson, Admins
traitor of the estate of Eta M. Hud-
son, deceased, on or before the
eleventh day of December, 1943, or
abide the Act of Assembly in such
case made and provided.
CHARLES A. HUDSON
Address, Administrator
Frankford, Delaware. d1S-3t
Milford chronicle., 1942-12-25
NOTICE

Notice is hereby given that Let
ters of Administrator were in due
form of law granted unto the un-
dersigned, on the seventh day of
December A. D., 1912, and that all
persons having claims against the
estate of the deceased must present
the same, duly attested, to the said
Sarah L. McIlvain, Administrative
of the estate of James H. McIlvain,
deceased, on or before the seventh
day of December, 1913, or abide the
Act of Assembly in such case made
and provided.
SARAH L. McILVAIN
Address, Administrative.
Glendale, Delaware. d11-3t
Milford chronicle., 1942-12-25

twenty years, have produced three
times as much as Europeans, not
because they are a superior race,
but because they are infused with
the initiative generated by a keen
competitive system in which any
one with talent can rise to the top.
Initiative is intangible, but we
can tell by our war production rec
ord thus far that it is still present.
The question is how long will the
genius that is American industry
continue to possess the initiative
necessary to build better weapons
of war. How long will it be before
unnecessary restrictions and regi-
mentation from the government
stiles it completely?
Milford chronicle., 1942-12-25
ADMINISTRATORS NOTICE

All persons indebted to the es-
tate of John w. Webb, deceased, are
hereby notified to settle the same
ON or before the first day of Feb
ruary, 1943. and all those having
claims against the estate to pre-
sent the same, duly attested, on or
before the first day of February,
1943,
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK
AND TRUST COMPANY,
Milford, Delaware
d1S-3t Administrator G. T. A.
Milford chronicle., 1942-12-25
Who's In Washington Today?

When the King and Queen came
from London to the United States
before the outbreak of the war the
streets of our cities were lined with
people anxious to get a look!
A few months ago Molotov of
Russia, the King of Greece, the
Queen of Holland, members of the
Royal families of Norway and
other countries, and quite recently
a string of Presidents and promi-
nent officials from Latin America
have been guests at the White
House.
The above leads pto the fact
that one of most outstanding wo-
men of the world who has perhaps
done more to help her people than
any other living woman has come
very quietly to the United States,
to enter a hospital. Very little at
tention has been paid to the visit
of this woman, who was educated
in America-but she is here now.
That great woman is Madame
Chang Kai-shek of China.
Milford chronicle., 1942-12-25
MILFORD CHRONICLE
YOU BREAK AND BEND
WE WELD AND MEND

Oxy-acetylene Welding, Cutting
and Brazing. We specialize in
Electrical Repairing Batteries
Generators :. Radios.
MILFORD BATTERY SERVICE
HUNTER AND CoVERDALE
Phone 3S7
One block east Of First National
Bank. o2s-tf
Milford chronicle., 1942-12-25
ANNUAL MEETING OF STOCK.
HOLDERS OF MILFORD TRUST
II COMPANY

II December 21, 1912.
\ The annual meeting of the stock
holders of The Milford Trust Com
pany will be held at its banking
house on Monday, January II, 194S,
at one o'clock.
w. G. SAMMONS,
12-25-3t Treasurer.
Milford chronicle., 1942-12-25
REVISION OF ORDINANCE No. 81

That parking on Southwest Front
Street, South Milford, from Walnut
Street to the Bridge be limited to
80 minutes between the hours of
A. M. to P. M. This parking on
the north side only, and that no
parking be allowed on the south
side of this street. Violation of
this ordinance shall be punishable
by a fine of $500 for first offense
and $1,000 for subsequent convic-
tions.
T. C. COLLINS
Sec'y. of City Council.
12-25-3t
Milford chronicle., 1942-12-25
IN MEMoRlAM

In sad and loving memory of our
dear wife, mother and daughter. Mrs.
Margaret e. Frank, who departed this
life, Tuesday, July 81, 1912:
This is our first Christmas without
your loving presence, but somehow
we feel that your loving spirit is
closer to us now than any time
since you left us. For you loved
Christmas, and loved to make
others happy. The work of making
others happy at Christmas, which
you started, will be continued. I'M
til we all meet some day in that
land where there is no sorrow, we
are your loving husband. S. II.
Frank; children, and parents, MIR.
and Mrs. John A. Truitt. II
Milford chronicle., 1942-12-25
TUESDAY, JANUARY 5, AZ
AT 300 O'CLOCK p NJ.
PEACH AND APPLE. ORCHARDS
AND TIMBER LANDS
FIRST SALE


AND TIMBER LANDS
FIRST SALE
At the farm formerly owned by the
late j. Roy Cannon, situated on the
south side of the Browns Church to
Middleford Road. being about one-half
mile from Highway Route No. 13.
Containing a total Of 70 acres more or less,
consisting of 600 trees Golden Jubilee peaches,
years old, 1900 trees Elberta peaches. IA and
16 years old, 275 trees Red Delicious apples, l6
years old, $50 trees Stayman Winesap apples,
IL and 16 years old. There being approximately
AZ acres in orchards and 30 acres in growing
and standing timber. Also a building that
ment storage, also 1000 gallon steel tank with
pump all connected for use in spraying.
SECOND SALE
At the farm formerly owned by the
late j. Roy Cannon. situated on the
west SIDE of the county road leading
from Middleford to Green's Pond, be-
ing about one and one-half miles from
Middleford.
Containing 90 acres more or less. consisting
Of 400 trees Golden Jubilee peaches, years old,
$500 trees Elberta peaches, 5. and years
old, 200 trees Hale Haven, 4 years old, 600
trees J. H. Hale. 12 and is years old, there
being approximately so acres in orchards. Also
80 acres Of cleared land and 36 acres Of grow
ing and standing timber. This farm improved
pump for spraying.
The orchards on both of these farms are in
a perfect state Of cultivation, having been
treated this fall with Parodichlorobenzene and
seeded in rye. These farms are being sold only
because one of the owners is now in the Army
and the other has other businesses.
Will also offer for sale a Wayland roll
Peach Grader complete with motors. facers,
2 automatic turner's. etc. This Grader is cap
able Of packing $50 to 400 bushels an hour and
oil md ur1ar IN he n narfnct
working order. Also large size Trescott clean
IT with motor new last year. This cleaner has
cleaned less than 10000 bushels.
TERMS OF SALE-10 per cent of
purchase price on day of sale, balance
upon delivery of deeds unless satisfac-
tory arrangements have heen made /
with the owners prior to the day of
sale. The deeds and stamps will be
furnished.
ROY ALLEN CANNON
FRANK DANIEL CANNON /
Dickerson Bros. Owners
Auctioneers. d25-2t .
Milford chronicle., 1942-12-25

HELP WANTED - Experienced or
inexperienced man wanted, with good
reference, and small family to oper-
ate broiler chicken plant. Must be re-
liable, dependable, energetic. Ability
to assume responsibility. Location in
corporate limits of Snow Hill. Con-.
venient to churches, school. Heat. rent,
electric free. Pay good salary and
bonus. Write Box 123, Snow Hill, Md.
n11-3tp
Milford chronicle., 1942-12-25
CHICKS OF QUALITY
NewtOn's New Hampshires :

Fewer broody hens mean more eggs
on less feed. Delaware Pullorum clean,
U. S. Approved. Vigorous chicks that
live, grow and produce pullets that
make you more money. Chicks avail
able during February and April. o. A.
Newton and Son Company, Bridge
vile, Del. Phone 2551. d25-3tp
Milford chronicle., 1942-12-25

SPENDING MONEY out of town
is something like weakening the
foundation of a building. Some
part of the strength that supports
the community is removed.
Milford chronicle., 1942-12-25

Come out and dance next Wed
nesday evening at Milford Com
munity building. Music by the
Starligbters
Milford chronicle., 1942-12-25

WANTED-Man. Rawleigh Route
townships, $500 families. Want steady
man to make route regularly every 2
months. Good profits. See w. S. Glen
daniel, Harrington, Del. or write Raw
leigh's, Dept. DEL-35-211C, Chester.
Pa. d11-3tp
Milford chronicle., 1942-12-25
PUBLIC SALE!
-OF VALUABLE
Real Estate

The undersigned will offer at Public
Sale. OH the properties described be-
low on
Milford chronicle., 1942-12-25

FOR SALE-New Hampshire Red
broiler chicks for immediate delivery
at &c each, from Pullorum clean New
England stock. Also Cross Chicks in
any quantity available soon. NJ. +.
uphoff. p. o. Box 1105, Salisbury. Md.
d1S-3t
Milford chronicle., 1942-12-25

WANTED-Female. Part time or
full time; steady year around. Expert
ence not necessary. Particularly at
tractive to housewives who want some
extra money and still have time for
home work Milford Laundry. Milford.
-d11-tf
Milford chronicle., 1942-12-25
WANTED

WANTED-50OO CORDS long leaf pine
delivered to our plant IN Glendale.
Write. phone or see r. ]. Clendaniel.
Glendale Excelsior Company. Inc.
Ellendale. Del. nS-tf
Milford chronicle., 1942-12-25

men could be brought under the
dragnet classification of "exerting
a substantial economic effect on in
terstate commerce" The housewife
who makes a dress for herself in
terferes with such commerce.
And this is happening in the
United States where the independ-
ence of the American farmer is one
of the most sacred traditions of our
nation.
WHAT PRICE SECRET WEAPON
War has changed the eternal
American question from "How's
business?" to where and what is
the American secret weapon?"
]. Howard Pew, president of the
Sun Oil Co. and national vice-presi-
dent of the National Association of
Manufacturers, supplies the ans
wer. Our secret weapon is our ini-
tiative. Our workers for the past
Milford chronicle., 1942-12-25

Don't speed-the only thing you
will catch will be trouble.
Milford chronicle., 1942-12-25

FOR SALE-(New) Home Comfort
cooking ranges. All manufactured be-
fore the war and must be sold by jan
nary Is. 1913. Call. write or see e. d.
Loper, Princess Anne, Md. Phone
19F13. d18-4tp
Milford chronicle., 1942-12-25

FOR RENT-Seven room house, in
Slaughter Neck, with electric, garage,
chicken house, garden, with or with
out 10 acres of land. Elizabeth Glen
daniel. Phone Milton 1921. d1S-2tp