Milford chronicle., 1946-10-04

up members tor lite. As the years have passed the
list has grown smaller and smaller through death
Today Mrs. Short is the last remaining subscriber to
the first issue of this newspaper. The Chronicle
crcets her each week At her home South Walnut
street As we celebrate our sixty ninth birthday here
1t the Chronicle office today, pause TO wish Mrs.
Short many, many more years OF health and trust
that she shall enjoy the Chronicle with compI-
ments for years and years
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SCHOOLS, CHURCHES AND HOSPITALS
may we'll be taken as the standard of the develop
mcnt of any community. The quality OF the schools
and the hospitals usually reflects the intelligence and
and earneStnes of the work of the churches for the
church must provide the inspiration and leadership
which is to be transformed into applied Christianity.
When Milford Memorial Hospital built the
community recognized that within 10 years would
be outgrown and plans were made for the expansion
of the present building The demand for its services
has become 50 great as TO keep it crow ded almost
continually Day after day there sick patients
who can not be admitted because there IS no room.
A hospital be better than It's The
Nurses Training School purposes 1t
provides corps of trained for the care OF
the sick in the community; and during the period
of their training it makes possible the economical
functioning of the hospital. The Nurses Training
School of the hospital desperately needs teaching
rooms, demonstration rooms laboratories and the
other essentials of / good school IS we'll As 4 suitable
residence for the nurses. The hospital is in compc-
ttion with hospitals all the country in its
efforts to secure student Unless offers
ing and quarters of satisfactory character, cannot
expect to attract the young women il needs. More
over unless the standards and quarters of the school
and hospital quickly improved, the school and
hospital will lose their rating.
South Delaware owes vote OF gratitude 10 the
men of the board of trustees and the women OF the
auxiliary of the Milford Memorial Hospital. We
welcome the news that the board will be enlarged
SO that Others may share the responsibilities The
call TO service on such board carries rcmuncr-
alton, but much work. The call 10 such service is
one of the greatest honors within the power of our
community bestow.
Milford and our surrounding communities may be
Justly proud of the quick and gracious manner in
which our citizens respond the demands of good
citizenship. We may feel that others arc better able
or better fitted then we, but noncthelcss gladly
respond with whatever talents have when called
upon. We welcome the program for the enlarge
ment of the Milford Memorial Hospital, only
because it will fill urgently felt need for more
adequate protection but because it will give u
another opportunity to work shoulder TO- shoulder
with another in the achievement of 4 worth
while goal.
In making gifts totalng $4,000, the member
of the medical and surgical staff of the hospital have
, given US a challenge which arc proud accept
We arc grateful to them because in hospital "
n have staff of officers who work together like bro
), theirs, gladly assisting another and quick 10 cal
on another for the protection OF the patient
, Their example and generosity call forth the best on
community has offer
f CONTINUED BLOCKADING OF full post
II production, in form another, not on
( is keeping existing manufacturing facilities tror
e attaining their full usefulness, but putting
decided crimp in the expansion plans of some majc
d ndustrcs-plans that figured in their postwar est
c mates and predictions of more Jobs and gooc
for more people, i ong-rangc period
If A good example Of how this works note
Y the other day when it was made known that tw
n major automotivc companies General Motors an
,c Ford have put aside for the present their projcc
S. for a light in lower price range Both hl
indicated shortly after wars end that they ain
ii ing at such production rapidly possible
is These companies are pulling in their horns q
is expansions and ventures, not because of las
ne of confidence in their ideas fear that mark
will be found but simply because their varied bottl
~ nccks continue persist. They having plenty
oy trouble getting Supplier parts and materials f
an even prcsentablc fraction of the production tn
as be attained with present facilities Expansion
Sh enterprises reminds of the old Sol
ar about pouring drowning man" 1t u
doesn't make sense
n It's bad the many thousand of potential 20
mt that might have been ready have been put ba
I'M in cold storage with the suspension of the two pr
of ccts above mentioned. There are countless other
las stances the Nation 1t would be most helpf
as if those facilities could be available when this cou
tai try does get back full production, after work.
Dr. of the of regulations and restrictions
materials and prices that is proving be of
ted great postwar handcap>.
to SOCIALISAi-dc>pitc all of the vocicrou> car
'g of its advocates-produccs nothing of itself. Eng1
md today good example of that truism.
am The Labor government power ON pI
re- form pedging eventual socalization of all ba
rst AS its first step, it promptly sociai
9th the coal industry, which had long been Il trou
Did spot in the British economy. But, to the cnorm
ant disappointment of the believers no mira
'art occurred Coal production has been incrca,ce