Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1945-09-14
The Wen Are Coming Home

turning DN tldHSIp - az ~ us III
New York Port this week, bringing
our men home. at the rate Of more
than 10000 day. saw them-lt
seems like ages ago, when the boys
went away. light-heated. cheering
;,uXiouS tor adventure and conf
dent that they would win the wal
in Europe. Now, hundreds of
thousands of those boys are dead
The transports are unloading men.
Some of them ale from your com
uunitv. and New York is only a
landing place. But. il is the first
. vieWp0int for the opening of the
great transformation from the
bows of recent years 10 the serious
maturity brought 50 quickly upon
these heroes who have finished
their lob. and returned To resume
their places in the greatest Natiun
in the World. say greatest be-
cause our boys of the l9l7-lH's
won two wars one in Europe and
one in the Pacific. That's just
exactly the whole plain truth
with all sentiment maybe 5"
qualifications, and reservations
scratched.
There are men from the wars on
every avenue and street. and
wherever YOU may look i'll this
great city They are returning to
their own homes. and to their
loved ones every hour of the day
and night.
} Everybody is agreed that every
! man We are talking about must
he looked after, and put back into
his old place. or Il better one. Let
NOTHING defeat. or chill that good
= resolution.
, But have spent many hours in
remembering those "bonuS-arny
marches upon my home city ol
|. WASHINGTON in the 1905, when tn"
T. WASHINGTON Government lulled all
.. of Us citizens and insisted that We
must keep our noses out of this
affair" We did, We won't stand
o for repetition of any such TRACE
= dy again, Nor will YOU. The mcI
are coming home. They will ge
All their rights. Their countrYmel
, will not let them down This time.
II Is l'nempIoy 4 State OF Mind
d There is general unhappineA:
throughout the country over Wha
is looked upon as unemployment
= ahead of MS" The Director OF Wa
le Mobilization and Reconycrsion il
10 WASHINGTON estimates that tn
= number of unemployed may reacl
several million by early mex
Il spring. Just AT present there ar
ld reports from all parts OF tn
m country of war plants Shittm
from war production back to TN
old natural lines" That is jus
ct exactly what must be expected b
ill every one Of us who take time an
TO pains to study the definitions fc
the word "rerunVersiOn.
All those millions of person
ch who were taken out of industrit
shops. stores and offices are neet
ed by employers who gave OF
Jobs before the war" 1t can't all
not accomplished in 4 "jifty' on fe
w., weeks.
Anyhow. heads of some of Il
eS- greatest business institutions
vi the United States have a differe
ing state of mind about unemployment
~, This unemployment" fear seen
to be a state of mind.
the There is plenty of work abe;
IAN for idle hands to do TO make
rid ton lost time.
mo- E>>ayi>t> OF The Air
Perhaps a little more than
generation ago. American ltel
ture was enriched by the wIitin
OF the F.ssayists: men such
Emerson, Holmes. Thoreau. VIII
tier. Riley, and others. Since III,
~, the leiSurely reading habits of Il
country have changed. and I
nv eSsayist has lost his appeal as
o r reading diet. The essay itself. no
ur ever. has been replaced by son
thing more modern, more intere
~ ing. the radio commentator.
II The radio commentator tai
Yep about many things. He may diScl
~ current events; history; or soc
~ trends; or anything his fancy d
l" tates. But he does it interesting
and entertaininSly. What they h;
mn to say. and how they say it. inf
the enCes our way of thinking OF
be wide range of subjects which IL
MIL discuss.
'day Typical among such common
ONE tors is Orson Welles. youth
who genius of theatre. radio. and
able movies. His talks on various :
jectS have proven mighty inter,
and inS. as shown by the high rat
tax held by his program. broadC
hos COast-tO-c0aSt over the Ameri
The BrOadcasting Company netw
coin every Sunday afternoon at
, be EWT.
iris. Equally typical is the fact
the commentator is not hampe
.and by any rules laid down by
ana sponsor, in this case Lear II,
lbon, h"uloS' "u' - sven the freedom
. nf expression that has ALWAYS /
,htpr granted to writers and speak
without the least commercial
, tluencc being used on them.
hnth The Importance OF Names
pson F'rankness is characteristic
and Americans and American inst
gtOn, lions. we want people to X
Mrs. who we are. whom and what
Ii on represent, and what We propoS
do about it. We like to tell. in
Webb n"'ileH VI ""i vi S""i""'loilS ah'
the my W NM" ii"i'i al organ
ID an zation is and whom it repres,
We think that's the fair way,
as a Nation we're rightly skep
y ~" of COnCealment.
4 her Wn re.nart oro,ni,.ti,.,
f. "" names that tell us what the S
sors of the organizations are
lnson. iI.g organizations like the