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Milford chronicle., 1944-09-22
Sussex County Links
Met Last Wednesday
Session Was Held At StOckley /;
Plans Laid For State Meet

The Sussex county All Link
meeting was held at Stockley on
Wednesday evening. September 10.
with eleven members present.
Members attending were c. E. Nc
Cauley. state club leader; Ernest
McGee. Jr.. Roy Passwaters. Orpha
Webb, Thelma Sharp, Florence
Walls. Edna Passwaters. Elizabeth
Hansen. Esther Hudson. Julia
Smith. and Margaret Nelson, coun-
ty club agent, as guest.
Discussions were on various
types of critical labor including
German prisoners of war, Jamici-
ans and Bahamians. and it was
that food cannot be pro-
duced without labor"
Mrs. Nelson pointed out the facts
about the National Achievement
Week which is November All. in
various types of All fairs
and window displays to celebrate
the week.
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Milford chronicle., 1944-09-22
Home Coming At
Lincoln Church
Services Will Be Held This Sun.
day. September "a

Home coming services at Lin
coin Methodist Church will be held
this Sunday. September "a.
At the morning service. starting
at 10 o'clock. Rev. Vinal Hills, a
former pastor. will be the speaker.
At the afternoon service Rev. Will
lis will have charge. In the even
ing another former pastor. Rev.
Charles II. Adkins, will be the
speaker.
At all of the services there will
be special music.
At ~ o'clock noon luncheon
will be served for the benefit of
those coming from a distance.
The public at large is cordially
invited to attend these services.
Milford chronicle., 1944-09-22
EmergencyLabor Period On Farms
In Delaware Is Far From Over

This does not mean that more
workers are being used--emergency
local recruits, mostly boys and
girls, are back in school. Laborers
are going out in smaller numbers
now. but to more different farms,
to help pick tomatoes, corn, and
apples.
The picture one day early this
TTurn 70 Pass }. Pleasel
Milford chronicle., 1944-09-22
Apple Crop Hard
Hit By Hurricane
Large Part OF Yield Blown From
Trees In Kent And Sussex

The promising apple crop of
Kent and Sussex Counties suffered
a severe setback because Of last
Thursdays hurricane.
University of Delaware farm ex-
tension officials estimate that about
80 per cent of the crop in Kent
County and from so to rs per cent
of the crop in Sussex were torn
from branches by the heavy wind.
, However. orchardists hope that
at least half of the apples on the
ground can be saved through rapid
picking. Fortunately, there are still
available to oTchardists West In
dian labor and Nazi prisoners.
1t is also said that considerable
of the tomato crop i'm Sussex Coun-
ty is under water and spelling.
Milford chronicle., 1944-09-22

The emergency labor period on
Delaware farms is far from over.
AS a matter of fact, there are more
different farmers using emergency
workers this week than did during
the peak labor period of peach har-
vesting, according to j. Frank Cor
dy, emergency farm labor super
visor for the Delaware Agricultu-
raj Extension Service.
Milford chronicle., 1944-09-22
Sussex Home Leaders
To Meet Sept. 18th
Training Session Will Be Held In
Georgetown Grange Hall

Approximately 35 leaders of Sus-
sex County Home Demonstration
Clubs will attend training meet
ing to be held on Thursday. Sep
TENDER 2Sth at 2 p. m at the Grange
Hall in Georgetown. Miss Louise
Whitcomb. Extension Home Man
agement Specialist will conduct the
meeting.
Laundry Problems" the topic
for the October Club Meetings will
be the subject for the demonstra-
ton. The leaders who attend the
training meeting will in turn con-
duct the program at the meeting of
their club in October. While all of
the leaders have not been named
the following members of clubs
will attend:
Mrs. Asa Reynolds. Miss Ona
Minor, Georgetown: Mrs. Kenneth
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Milford chronicle., 1944-09-22

That the State Board of Health's
staff of 80 public health nurses
made total of 1851 visits during
the past fiscal year is announced
by Miss Alberta Wilson, director of
the Division of Public Health Nurs-
ing.
Maternity. infant, and child care
visits comprised a large proport-
ion Of the nursing program last
Milford chronicle., 1944-09-22
Sea Trip Finished
By Milford Youth
c. r. DerricksOn, Jr., Serves Aboard
Vessel As Merchant Marine Cadet

Clarence Raymond Derrickson,
Jr.. IS. cadet-midshipman in the
United States Merchant Marine
Cadet Corps. the nations newest
service institution. has just return
ed from four months service
aboard a merchant vessel in the
Atlantic, Caribbean and Arctic seas.
He is the son of Clarence r. Der
rickson, 103 East Fourth Street,
Milford. and a graduate of the Mil
ford High School.
Cadet Midshipman Derrickson
has been serving aboard a vessel
taking arms and equipment to AL
lied forces in European war thea
tres. During this service he earn
ed ribbons for Atlantic and Medi-
terranean war zones.
Two Ships Lost
While en- route to Russia recent
trurn to rage ). Pleased
Milford chronicle., 1944-09-22
Launch U.S.S. Drexler
At Bath, Maine
Destroyer Bears Name OF Della
ware Hero Who Died In 1924

The U. S. S. Destroyer Drexler
was recently launched at the Bath
Iron Works, Bath, Michigan. in
honor of the late Ensign Henry
Clay Drexler, son of former State
Senator and Mrs. Louis A. Drexler
of "Burwood," Camden, Delaware.
Ensign Drexler lost his life in
October of 1924 in an explosion in
the turret of the U. S. Cruiser
Trenton off Cape Henry. Virginia.
He was graduated from the U. S.
Naval Academy. Annapolis. Mary
land. in June of the same year.
The ensign was awarded post
humously the Navy Cross and the
Congressional Medal of Honor. The
citation said he had sacrificed his
life in an effort to save the lives of
his shipmates in the turret."
There were 20 men in the turret
and only five survived the explo-
sion, which occurred as powder
was being brought from the maya
zine below deck up into the turret.
Milford chronicle., 1944-09-22
Methodist Youth
Fellowship Meet
Gathering VIII Be Held At Bridge
vile Next Friday Night

A meeting of the Methodist
Youth Fellowship will be held in
the Bridgeville Methodist Church
Friday. September 10Th at 1880 D.
m. This'meeting is for SUBJ District
No. 8. including the following
charges: Bridgeville. Pennington,
Greenwood, Greenwood Grace,
Cannon), Houston, Harrington CAS-
bury), Harrington Trinity, Mil
ford (Avenue), Milford Calvary.
Milford chronicle., 1944-09-22
Poultry Calendars
Are Now Available
Kent POuItrymen Are Requested
To Contact r.. f.. Wilson, Agent

For several years poultry farm
crs in Delaware have been cooper
ating with the Agricultural Exten-
sion Service in the poultry calen-
dar project by keeping records of
the egg production OF their flocks
and reporting the results each
month to their county extension
office.
AS the poultry record year be-
gins on October 1, 1t soon will be
time to start with new record cal
endars, so those poultrymen in
Kent County, who would like to en-
roll in this project for another
year are requested to contact
County Agent Russell f. Wilson
within the next few days, and one
OF these calendars will be provid-
ed free of charge upon request.
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-26
One Word Led To Another
BY Arthur Bugs" Baer-


If the king of Sweden wanted TO do something fine
why not give the Olympic medals back to Jim Thorpe?
Sweden is where the giant Sac and Fox won them.
And they his until sports writer yelled copper
II down at Rocky Mount Carolina, that Thorpe
played summer baseball
We stopped off the Mount April to play Arthur
Bridwells efthanded hbies in fenceless park Over
throws discovered perpetual motion and long fly ball
good for three states.
1t of McGraws birthdays that day in the
Mount. Arthur Irwin had prepared goulash of white
mule from the bottle orchards of the Blue Ridge He
had cut it with wild cherry and laced it with champagne
Brother that mixture would curl the hair the back
of your neck from the front.
A month before that somebody in Mexico had given
McGraw baby wildcat that had grown up in the unpost
ponable interim Bill Mcclellan, Ring Lardner and
toastng each other in this ndelibe extract of
Irwins while keeping eye McGraw and the other
the wildcat.
Along about the fifth TRANSMISSION decided to keep
both rotating eyes McGraw and take my chances with
the wildcat Events proved had adopted sound strategy
Ny principal memories of Rocky Mount were
ISOLATED with Thorpe. Jack Costello writes in from
Coronado Terrace Los Angeles that the Sac and Fox
was right back in the Ebbett House bar the Saturday
night after the Georgetown game Jack says they
clipping up old touches and not drinking.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-26
BY George E.
Sokolsky

heart of the savage and it did
introduce the human race TO the
idealism OF love.
1t moved far, even in the di-
rection of outlawing war.
1t painted visions and created
hopes for brotherhood of man,
consecrated by the love of God
and the urge TO- an ethical life.
But science has smashed all
that and we deal only with
scientific facts now-and look
at u.s.
No, DR.. Stoddard! You can't
teach my children any such
hokum and that is one reason
why l. a taxpayer. paying for
the upkeep of public schools.
send my children to private
schools.
don't want TO expose them
to your intellectual jungle until
they realize what nonsense can
be written in the jargon of
science.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-26
MAJOR DE SEVERSKY

THE triphibious action that is
unfolding in the Pacific the
alter of war is the latest product
of purely naval minds.
Unless we suffer some I'M
foreseen reverses. il is a STRAIT
egg that will be followed to the
bitter end.
But that does not make it
obligatory for the American
people 10 watch the action I'M
critically
We ought to comprehend the
strategy. if only as a guide TO
future military thinking and
planning.
Boiled down TO essentials.
the Pacific naval strategy can
be stated thus: Under the
guidance of naval minds We
have channeled roughly 80
billion dollars in A meric AN
materials and labor into a naval
force whose sole purpose is to
bring about three billion dollars
worth of carrier-based planes
within striking distance of the
enemy country.
We are counting on that
aviation to beat Japan by over
coming the country's defensive
aviation based on land.
In the final analysis. there
fore, the success of that
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-26
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

| Will be properly grateful. How
ever, hope he will not put him
self out 10 the extent of a
cruiser. A destroyer will do.
IN MAY Il / had a piece
" about Mrs. Lafell Dickin-
son. the new national president
of the General Federation of
Women's Clubs.
/ described Mrs. Dickinson as
a very austere lady and quoted
h Q platform announcement
that:
Men are trying to keep us
down. We women must band
together to fight them
| said | intended 10 practically
dedicate my life to keeping clear
Of Mrs. Dickinson because / did
not wish 10 be fought by women.
either banded or unbranded But
now | don't know what 10 90
because / have just received
this letter from Mrs. Dickinson:
Dear Mr.. Dixon: I was very
much entertained by your de-
scription Of me In your column.
wish YOU would come and see
me some time.
II am going TO be in Washing
ton n great deal after the mid
die Of June and I'd just love to
meet you. Cordially yours,
Lucy &. Dickinson"
/ DO not know how closely
L you follow events of national
significance in Washington. but
l would like TO supply you with
few inside details about the
poSSum which was found at
the navy department
Two personable young ste
nographers. Kay Parker and
Ruth Mccarthy. were at their
desks in public relations when
they saw a tail dangling from
the Venetian blind. Miss Parker
screamed
SNAKE.
Comdr. Gordon Beecher, head
of the section, became some
what irked.
That cannot possibly be-"
said Comdr. Beecher. a reason
ing man and one STEPPED in
navy traditions. mo snakes
were assigned here"
Finally, Comdr. Beecher filled
out the proper form and had il
countersigned. directing him to
investigate. He strobe to the
window and discovered il was
a possum.
The beast apparently had
come through the open window
in the night from its home in
the small woods across the
street. Beecher. an old 'possum
fancier, put IL in box and car
RED il back to the woods.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-26
NV AZ TIED VXIUNyrUUu1U On
~ AS " AAN >AA A>A<A Broadway

loaning Hedy Lamar to R-K-O
in swap for F. S.
"Swede Parker ION trial in
Cal. for attempted murder of
his superior officer is veddy,
veddy, Boston Back Bay.
Dallas (TexaS) is tense over
the report that one of It's most
popular citizens will make
statement. His next bride will
be New York society girl.
MAJ. JAMES STEWART. for
WI merry of Hwood. and the
daughter OF a member OF Par
lament in London are a merger
threat.
Quite a cat-fight al Town Hall
LoS Angeles) between a femme
Chicago socialite and the news
stand lady.
Saxinc Brady and Lenore
Lennon furnished the sudden.
explosion AZ Cerutti's the other
ante meridian. Whew!
Tlorida's {. o. Andrews will
be opposed in the 1916 l.. S.
Senate race by Gov. Holland.
who retireS in January.
Joseph p. Kennedy is buying
up considerable real estate along
Lexington avenue.
Nick the Greek and Tex Gui-
mans brother, Tommy now own
one Of the biggest gaming joynts
in Las Vegas.
The brain dept in the New
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-26
WASHINGTON Scene
BY George Dixon

WASHINGTON, May 26-For
w the life OF me, l cannot see
why these senators are getting
so upset about the purported
gift of a L. S. cruiser 10 Russia.
II seems the most natural
thing in the world. and l only
wonder why President RooSe-
Welt didn't think OF II sooner.
These little tokens of affection
and esteem are always being
exchanged by rulers. Probably
Mr.. Stain will be sending Mr..
Roosevelt droShky.
In the old days. the reignlng
p o ten tates sent each other
camels and Jewels and often
ladies. Therefore. if YOU want
my opinion. / think MIR RooSe-
welt has shown very good taste
in his choice of gift, or keep
sake.
I INTEND 10 speak sharply To
L Senators Styles Bridges of
New Hampshire. and Ralph O.
Brewster OF Maine, for kicking
up such a ruckus over this little
memento. II is high time they
learned that it is more blessed
10 give than 10 receive.
l am a man Of simple wants
myself. but if President RooSe-
welt wishes TO give me anything
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-26
THESE DAYS

nR. GEORGE d. STOD-
~ DARD, commissioner of
education Of the state of New
York, has this 10 say in his
book, The Meaning of Intelli-
gence":
Thus throughout the world
of religion, q mature intellect
IL expected to embrace con-
cepts and relationships abhor-
rent to the inquiring mind of an
average child"
This conclusion follows this
reasoning:
Feeble In mind are the per-
sons whose intact brains, Civ
ing the highest promise up
through childhood las shown
by insight into school subjects
and other relationships. have
been so systematically drugged
with the vapors of dogma, SUI
perstition and pseudo logic as
to fail at the lowest attribute
IeNelS
MARK cut an area from
which scientific methodology is
barred and you have en-
comprised the happy hunting
ground OF primitive tradition,
dogma and propaganda"
One more quotation may
suffice:
"a. IL Is the physiologically
intact minds, sure Of themselves,
bathed in an accepted culture,
that 20 astray along lines mimi
cal TO straight thinking-the
worlds fanatical leaders who
press down upon others a devas-
tating social inheritance.
"Man-made concepts have
distorted the intellectual proc
esses OF millions of persons over
the centuries >. :"
WHAT the learned scholar
w seems 10 be trying 10 prove
in all this turgid language is
that religion is the bunk.
The theory developed here Is
that truth becomes available
only through scientific method
ology.
If you can't see II, feel II.
taste il. smell il even with the
most precise scientific instru-
ment, and If you cannot put it
on chart and work il out on a
slide-rule. il probably amt so.
This is an old argument and
one demonstrably fallacious, be-
cause it runs counter TO the
whole of human experience.
The atheistic materialistic
education of mankind during the
past few decades has little TO
offer except a few tricks in
astronomy and electricity, chem
istry and medicine.
So we prolong life by sulfa
drugs and penic.llin and wipe it
out by the most colossal bomb
ings in history.
We prevent disease by pro-
phylaxis and kill more human
beings than ever before in wars.
So we know all about the
social sciences and we have in
creased hate upon this earth.
DELIGION at any rate tried to
~ teach love and hum an
brotherhood. II did soften the
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-26

who'd men 10 a fraZZle and I
wasn't able To come up the sec
ond time for air.
~ IL I could say Ia her was,
"A just give the women
folks time and they'll get
there. Now. look at our women
folks today. They seem 10 he
getting there right well,
As competent referee in
the matter. who do you think
won the fight"
Well. YOU win. uncle And
that man is the superior animal
* proved | think. BY thiS simple
fact.
lis always the women who
initiate the men. not vice versa,
To make a long story longer.
wind up with this "crack" by
. George Meredith: Woman Will
be- the last thing civilized by
man
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-26
e.. v. DURLING

Love is not times fool, though
rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's conf
pass come.
Love alters not NTH his BRET
hours and weeks,
But bears II ont even 10 the
edge Of doom.
II this be error and upon me
proved.
Herer Vrit nor no man eVer
loved.
Shakespeare.
MRS. JENNIE MADISON Of
Nl Omaha has Il grandsons in
the armed forces.
Why don't they have a ma
tional grandma day?
Mrs. Madison would be the
logical choice for grandma of
1914.
II they had such a day they
could also gtNe-PFizes for the
youngest grandma
.And-feF-tHe- youngest looking
grandma.
QUERIES from clients: O.
W Name six boxing champions
who starred in stage plays and
the titles of the plays or send
three stogies to the trio Of
young old timers asking this
question.
A-Well. there was John l.
Sullivan In Honest Hearts and
Willing Hands," James J. Cor
bett In "Cashel Byron's Pro-
fession" Thy q. Il. shaw,
James j. Jefiries In "Davy
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-26
Answer to Question No. 1

Answer to Question No. 1
Yes. although there are nu-
merous exceptions. The study
of 800 couples by Stanford Uni
versity psychologists tended 10
show that women can size up a
congenIaf. prospective husband
about as successfully in one
year as a man can size UP a
congenial wife in three years.
Answer to Question No. =
Apparently not. AS / pointed
out recently, women have never
organized as many clubs, lodges
and other means that men have
devised for getting a might
out" Women have probably
had more tendency to join re-
ligious organizations than men.
Answer 10 Question No. .
Emotional intrcvsrts. This ID
probably not true q intellectual
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-26

strategy depends on the kind
and the magnitude of japanese
air power. Even if Japan by
that time is wholly devoid of
naval force, the outcome will
depend on that climactic duel
between the aviation we shall
bring on ships and the aviation
the enemy has on land to pro-
tect himself.
Should our three billion dol
lars worth of carrier-based air
power be defeated in the skies,
the carrier would be doomed
and the best we could hope for
would be 10 rescue some portion
OF our naval forces.
JAPAN cannot m n our
u naval establishment.
II does not possess $50 billions
worth of industrial might.
Orthodox naval thought,
therefore, sees Japan as "in-
evitably' outweighed.
II should be remembered,
however, that the enemy does
not really have to match 80
billions of naval strength-but
only three billions of aviation.
What if Japan, realizing the
futllity of outbuilding us in
ships, lacking the materials and
trained manpower for such a
contest, decided TO invest its re-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-26

I REALIZE that I am oversim-
4 plifying the picture, but ! do
so for the sake of clarity.
The Pacific strategy makes
sense when viewed from an adj
mirals vantage point.
That is how his mind func-
tons, and he is dealing in weap-
ons and methods to which he is
accustomed.
From the vantage point of an
airman il looks quite different.
II the airman had been able
TO make their views manifest
and had equal responsibility and
authority to defend their views.
they might have argued for a
different channeling of our
available resources.
Instead of $50 billions in
naval force to escort three bill
lions in air force, they might
have urged 40 or so billions for
big land-based aviation capable
of attacking Japan proper with
out the elaborate triphihio9s
and amphibious efforts to bring
little planes within striking
range of Japan.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-26
MARCH OF EVENTS
BY Benjamin De Casseres

IF ONE wants TO start a merry
i war fought with verbal
brickbats) all a writer has 10 do
Is 10 criticize dean woman.
| lately took issue with
Madame Tabouis. French jour
nallst now in America. ! denied
her statement that woman was
the superior sex.
Well. ! think the best pro-
end-Con on this matter comes
from William Bradford Dickson
t"Uncle Dickie") the S3-year-
old poet-sage OF Staten Island.
] print his fable for both the
ladies and gentlemen OF March
Of Events:
Somewhere around hun
dred years ago--to he exact
about 60--I had n terrific argu-
ment with AN old maid school
teacher about mans superiority
over woman. ratified off:
WHO designed and built all
our great buildings: Who built
oil our great bridges and rail
roads: Who created all our
great inventions and made all
our great medical discoveries
Who composed all our musical
masterpieces. wrote all our great
books, poems and dramas:
Who sculpt all our magnificent
&tues: Who painted all our
lster canvases: Who were
vhe great leaders OF history:
Who wrote the Bible: Who
wrote the plays OF Shake
speare:' | said. Men. men.
men" I went on and on and
who who'd till I sounded like
old papa owl with lsryngitis
scolding old mamma owl.
SsTNHEN the nice ONO started
her who whoing. and YOU
could hear her from Dan to
Beersheba.
"She said: Who chews and
smokes all the tobacco, drinks
all the whisky. gets into all the
fights, beats up all the wives,
runs away from all the homes
and deserts his children Who
does all the racketeering. COM
mits all the crimes and murders
and fills up all the prisons:
Who starts all the wars and kills
each other by the millions:
Who makes dang fools Of them
selves more than any one else:
Men she said. men men. men"
"She kept on who-whoing till
she had me subdued and eating
out 81 her hand. She who
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-26
On the
Side

woman 10 become round shoul-
dered and have bad effect
generally on the feminine physi-
cal makeup.
So states a Chicago matron,
who adds:
"Why don't the men who
manufacture feminine footwear
learn something about women
See what your Mules & Men De-
partment can do about this"
This protest bewilders me.
Men manufacture the shoes. no
doubt. but l thought stylists for
women's shoes were women.
In addition, hasn't a demand
for high heels on the part Of the
female customers inspired the
current styles?
SALLIE CALI of Santa Bar
-o-bara, Cat, has been made a
member OF the My Name Is a
Poem Club.
So has Roland Poland of Lake
Arrowhead. Cal.
A restaurant chef offers the
solution of a mystery that has
puzzled millions.
That is, why do icy put
parsley on fish?
This chef says the reason Is
because if the parsley is eaten
after the fish there will be no
fish odor on the breath.
He says if you eat parsley
right after you have taken one
or several drinks of whisky the
result will be the same.
Copyright. 1914. by King Features