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Milford chronicle., 1947-09-19
THE LOW DOWN
HICKORY GROVE

/ just been readin' Uncle Harry's
labor message where he says, "The
right to join a union of ones own
choice is unquestioned today and
is sanctioned and protected by
law" But he didn't say anything
about a guy who didn't choose to
have choice and didn't want to
join anything in the first place,
but who wanted to work but
couldn't because he had no union
card. So what want to know now
is, what was Uncle Harry talking
about or tryin' to say. And what is
a free American going to do about
making a living for his helpmate
and their off-shoots unless he gives
up the idea of being "free" and
knuckles down to somebody over
in the labor Temple"
Coming from Missouri and just
across the river from Kansas
where my Susie halls from she is
Topekaite-I kinda try to stay
sociable and overlook some OF
neighbor Harry's doings that look
a little quee-gee. But now and
then / think it is not bad idea to
remind the old boy that the folks
out here are still just like they
were when he was out hereno
different. Uncle Harry has no easy
time of it-crafty gents ON all
sides to wrangle this or wrangle
that-so try to do what / can
to keep him from gettin' too faI
off the BEAM He knows / mean
well-I think.
Yours with the low dawn,
10 SIERRA
Milford chronicle., 1947-09-19
COMMUNICATED
THIS PERSON DOESN'T LIKE
della. AND IT'S RESIDENTS

Note-It is not often that the
Chronicle publishes letters that
come to us unsigned. But the fol-
lowing letter, received last Friday,
is such that we are printing it for
what it is worth. 1t is not our pur-
pose to answer this outsider, for
that is not necessary, 1t is our
opinion that the further "outside"
he, or she, gets the better will be
our state and our community
Editor.
The letter in its entirety follows:
An open letter to the Mothers OF
Delawareans with the fond hope
the Milford Chronicle prints this,
believing. as | do, that the pur-
pose of a newspaper is to-. i'm
prove and instruct its readers y
Is it YOUR child who sits behind
me and bangs on my seat? Is it
your son who makes all the whis-
pering noises so appalling in an
important movie scene? And is it
your children who push and shove
and run and shout and show other
discourtesies in a crowd? Odd,
New York, Chicago and other big
cities are supposed to have very
high delinquency rates. This
will say for them-their children
are good deal politer and better
hammered than any Delaware child
Perhaps, though Mothers, you seel
to save on the hair-brush. You haG
better start using it else you will
live to rue the day you raised the
brats you did. Without any com
junction l can easily say 80 percen
of the farmers children are the
rudest and the widest of all tn,
children. In the children categor,
i include 16 and 1S-year-olds. foI
no well-mannered adult behaves a,
those hellions do. They drive mad
ly down the streets, and woe untt
! anyone who gets in their way, b,
; he young or old, be she a mothe
with babe in her arms or cut
gal or an old woman-they are no
fussy who they pick to blast thei
speedy prowess on. 1t is a pity tha
such a beautiful state should hav
such crummy occupants. AS Johl
Gunther puts 1.-THE backwash O
Wilmington and Dover is welde
the rest of Delaware.
AN ."OUTSIDER".
) P. S.-"Hicks" can truly be ap
! piled to such obnoxious peoples
! Thank God the rest of the U. S.
, not like Delaware. And also than
God | am not a Delawarean wher
, people are so narrow as to cut eac
others throats for filthy dollar!
Milford chronicle., 1947-09-19
Colleges Honor
Leaders of NAM

Among the business leaders who
started from scratch" and now re-
present "the epitome of enterprise"
as selected in a nationwide poll of
students and faculty members of
American colleges, are Sarl Bunt-
ing, president of the National AS
sociation of Manufacturers, and
Robert r. Wason, former president
of the NAM and now chairman of its
board.
The American Schools and Col
leges Association conducted the
survey among it's 800 member in
stitutions, asking students and fac
ulty to name the men best illustra-
ing he traditional American sue
cess story. The poll was said to re-
fleet the belief that American busi-
nessmen are successful because
they take their ioust for success as
a game in the face of competition. "
Milford chronicle., 1947-09-19
BOGGS VOTED FAVORABLE
ON FIVE LABOR MEASURES

WASHINGTON, d. C.-The S0th
Congress majority, including Rep.
j. Caleb Boggs, Delaware-at-large,
fulfilled campaign pledges on labor
legislation to protect the public in
industrial disputes, survey show
ed this week.
Boggs established an indisputable
record in favor of such legislation
by his votes on five important labor
measures.
First action taken by the House
and supported by Boggs was bill
outlawing portal to portal pay
suits except when such pay is re-
quired by custom or contract.
Three times Boggs went on rec
ord as favoring labor bill which
stressed protection of the rights of
the individual laborer. Boggs
voted 'yes" on the original House
version; yes on the adoption of
the conference report which COM
promise Senate-House differences
on the labor bill, and yes" again
on passage of the measure over the
Presidents veto.
On another occasion early in the
session, Boggs voted in favor of
bill authorizing the House Commit
tee on Labor to subpoena witnesses
in its probe of union racketeering.
Milford chronicle., 1947-09-19
washington
= A|||'l|AMEEKII
By GEORGE A. Benson

Secretary Schwellenbach, we
hear, is going to attack high prices.
This is commendable, providing
the Secretary tells the truth about
imitation. But that, we fear, is not
his purpose, for the dispatch says
he is going to blame the Republic
cans for it,
That is the Administrations hab-
it. But it is neither just nor true,
for no group in power has done so
much, in so many ways, to promote
imitation as the four successive New
Deal Administrations.
Mr.. Roosevelt began in 1888. It
was his policy to raise commodity
prices. not slightly. but by at least
so percent. He resorted to numer-
GUS schemes, chief among which
were:
The gold purchase program,
which didn't work; the gold deval-
uation plan, intended to boost the
commodity price level by SO per-
cent on a gold-standard basis;
open-market purchases of govern
ment securities by Federal Reserve
banks, the object-to expand the
/ circulation of Federal Reserve
notes, thus pumping" huge sums
into the economic system; the sill
ver-purchase program, another
scheme to increase the supply of
money, and several dramatic ex-
pedients, such as the old PWA, for
'make-wOrk'' purposes. all financed
by prodigious borrowing from the
banks.
This practice of borrowing enor-
nous sums to pay government costs
and finance recovery pumped huge
supplies of money into circulation.
4 This is the surest way of promoting
imitation. For example: After the
first World War, Germany put hum
dreds of quintillions Of marks In
circulation by much the same pro-
cess, and prices by 1923 were a tril-
lion fold what they were ten years
before.
u. S. imitation really started In
1899. Between August of that year
and July, 1912, the Labor Depart
! ment's index number of % basic
, commodities, all sensitive to infla-
|, tionary forces, went up 81 percent.
The war had to be financed by un-
precedentedly large bond issues.
each greatly increasing the supply
of money. Today, money in circu-
! lation is greater than when the
! war ended. With consumer goods
! still scarce, this prodigious pur-
chasing power naturally forces
!, prices up.
! Mr. Truman has had his own in
: fiation program. He led the fighi
: for many substantial wage In
! creases. ard that boosted prices. He
insisted upon high government
. costs, with no tax relief; thai
. means higher prices. He admins,
: ters a government price support
T program. which keeps many food
prices too high.
! Through it all he inveighs against
thigh prices, but his nights must be
disturbed by the squawking of the
New Deals uncouth economic
chickens, home at last to roost.
Milford chronicle., 1947-09-19
that means!
GIVE THE NEW LABOR LAW
A CHANCE

There were no evil intentions
hidden behind the new labor rela-
tions act when it was passed by
Congress. That kind of talk these
days is nonsense. The Hartley
Labor Relations Act was passed
twice over the President veto. DEM
ocrats helped Republicans plow
the Chief under.
The press of the country has been
filled with news relating to the
operation of the new labor rela-
tions act, and the concensus of OPP
inion was expressed by Senator
Ball of Minnesota a few days ago
when he observed that 80 far the
labor law revision act" passed at
the recent session of Congress, lis
working very well and is being
quite generally observed"
| All this talk about some labor
union leaders rounding up their
members to defeat Senators and
! Representatives who voted for the
act, when and if they run for elec-
tion, is "baloney."
The International Chemical Wor-
kers Union, AFL, has had the good
sense to declare itself in favor OF
compliance to the Taft Hartley
Act" except where, and if, it alb
ridges the right of contract, free
dom of the press. or freedom OF
speech" Which means that this
group of union workers are going
to judge the new labor law on its
merits and abstain from condemn.
ing its provisions until they are
able to judge the legislation on it:
merits.
THE CRIME WAVE
Serious crimes increase in mum
Der throughout the United States
An official report of conditions
: shows that in the. District of Col
umbia crimes increased 1870 dur
ing the past twelve months over th
7 previous year. There was an in
crease in every category of seriou
i crimes; nearly 1000 more cases o
r housebreaking. There were also 10
homicides as compared to So las
: year.
"WE TOLD YOU so"
Many a time has this Week.
Letter made the statement that ex
J. ports of United States goods coul
t not be made to Europe at prof
: under the Hull Trade Treaties.
t There was an export boom earl
v ier in the year but sales abroad i
= July dropped Z per cent below tn
: level of June exports. At the sam
: time exports of U. S. goods in Jun
s were Is per cent below exports i
May. All foreign countries are TAX
: ing steps to cut out their buying j
d the United States. They are shol
t of dollars.
: The trouble with this whole bus
Il ness is that most of these shiI
5, ments of U. S. goods to Europe hay
Q been paid for by U. S. dollars.
Milford chronicle., 1947-09-19
Hamsniffer Holds
His Job By A Nose
AP Newsfeatnres

Richmond, Va. - The nose that
knows" in the multi-million dollar
Old Dominion ham business is
owned by Ira L. Hancock, Sr.
Hancock, 81, has the job of sniff
fling hams for the twin Richmond
plants of Kingan and Company. He
has been at it for more than As
years, during which stretch, he es-
Inmates he has shifted approxima-
tely 540,000,O00 pounds of meat.
Shifting is the only way the ham
industry finds out whether ham is
good or bad after it's cured. Han
cock, employed practically full
time as a sniffer, takes a long steel
sliver-much like an ice-pick -anC
jabs the meat in four places. Their
he shifts the steel.
Good ham smells good" he ex
plans. bad ham just smells"
1t takes a pure steel silver. Han
cock says, to bring out the "rea
flavor" n,A
Even then. he says, II miss |
few. But not many"
Hancock has been with Kingal
since he was in his early teens. HI
didn't start out as a sniffer-jus
nosed his way up the ladder, as i
were, learning a little here an
there from his predecessor.
I'D take a sniff at the hams h
okayed," and then at the ones h
rejected" he says, land got t,
know the difference. Prettysoon
had scent sense of my own"
Hancock likes SHINING, thougl
on days when business is heavy
like, say, the day he passed on 4,
600 hams at one sitting-he some
times longs for fresh air.
At these times, he just wend
his way out the maze-like plan
and takes walk. BY the time h
has walked past the neighborin
stockyards, he says, he's happy t
get back to the hams.
His only major bugaboo is tn
common cold, which play hob wit
J a ham-sniffer's nose. For this res
son he avoids the chilly curin
rooms of the Kingan plants.
, He thinks Old-time hams had
, all over the new ones. They gC
; better meat then than they do now
he says. Nowadays, they rush
; too much-the growers, / mean
Milford chronicle., 1947-09-19
AGRICULTURAL
CLIMATOLOGY
rs NEW FIELD
AP NeWsfeatures

AMES, Ia. Iowa State College has
Just turned out its first class of six
graduates in a newly established
course in agricultural climatology.
X. E. Buchanan, dean of the gra-
duate school, said five of the six
graduates stepped into jobs with
the U. S. Weather Bureau but he
predicted Chronological research
would become an increasingly i'm
portant field of activity.
The sixth graduate, Jose Memoria
of Vicosa, Brazil, will resume a
teaching career at the Minas Gerais
State College of Agriculture in Bra
zil.
The six students, all of whom
were granted master of science re-
grees at the end of the summer
term, were college graduates, had
farm background. and all had
served as military officers during
the war.
Dean Buchanan explained that al
agricultural climatologist is not
weather fOrecaSter in the usual
sense. Instead, he studies all as
meets of the weather in given area
to helm solve agricultural nroblems
He advises on planting dates. or
erosion control. and on whether q
new cron NAV be suitable for pro.
ductiOn in a given vicinity.
Agricultural exneriment stations
lar"e farm MANAGEMENT concerns
and food nrocessino comnanies vii
have increa sinS employment 90
nOrtunities for climatologists i'm the
future. Dean Buchanan predicted.
Milford chronicle., 1947-09-19
Americans Help
Build Berlin School

BERLIN = (PO - Twenty-Five
students from Denmark, Sweden,
France, Great Britain, Holland,
Switzerland and the United States
are helping German students re-
build the Berlin Technical Univer-
sity which was laid in ruins during
the war, British announcement
says.
The project was organized by the
Friends Relief Service (Quakers)
with the aid of the British Military
Governments education branch.
The visitors and German students
do heavy manual work and live and
eat together. The university was re-
opened by British military govern
ment in April last year.
Milford chronicle., 1947-09-19
Little Linda Has
Eleven Grandparents

MT. VERNON, III. = Up = Little
Linda Jane Page, born recently at
nearby Ewing. has a surprise in
store when she begins to sit up
and take notice-of eleven grand
parents.
The grandparents include 80
year-old grandmother, Mrs. Lena
Page of Ewing. Altogether there
ere four grandparents and seven
great grandparents.
Her parents are Mr. and Mrs.
Russell Roe Page, both 21.
Milford chronicle., 1947-09-19

IF THE VARIOUS public opinion polls
are to be trusted, the majority of Americans
have completely fallacious opinion of the
size of profits earned by business.
One poll, for instance, found that millions
of people think that the usual profit of busi-
ness as a whole is in the neighborhood of 80
percent The truth is that, over a 16-year
period business has actually earned less than
per cent per year on its net worth, and less
than per cent on net sales.
Widespread ignorance of the profit situa-
tion has undoubtedly been responsible for
consumer resentment against retail business.
Every so often buyers groups parade in front
of stores carrying placards demanding that
prices be cut by 10 percent or 20 percent or
some other figure. The truth is that the aver
age retail store would close tomorrow if it
made such cuts. Merchants just don't have
that kind of margin. AS an example, the
large food chains report that their net profit
is less than two cents out of each dollar spent
with them The stores which deal in dry
goods, general merchandise, and other staple
items also have very small profits per sale left
after the bills are paid. Only the stores which
deal in luxuries and fashion items have real
ly large mark-ups-a that is unavoidable in
their case because of limited sales and the
extremely high overhead cost of carrying on
a luxury business which meets the special de-
mands of luxury buyers.
Competition, that most inexorable of all
forces, keeps prices at the lowest level COM
patible with sound business, and with today's
high wages, taxes and other general costs.
Americans need. to consider the fundamental
economics involved.
Milford chronicle., 1947-09-19

Fifteen u. s. states require NO
vision tests before issuance of
driving licenses.
Evening star., 1947-01-26
Plane Spots Dredgers'
As Maryland House
Holds Up Oyster Bill

As the Maryland Legislature pre-
paredsto crack down on violators
of State oyster laws, the Tidewater
Fisheries Commission yesterday
used plane to spot IL boats equip
ped for dredging.
The plane sighted the boats, in
various stages of operation, on the
lower Potomac River, near Dahlgren,
Va. Identification of some indicated
they came from Colonial Beach, Va.
Oysters continued to be a topic
of Official conferences at Annapolis
yesterday because of a measure
pending in the General Assembly.
Gov. Lane and Attorney General
Hall Hammond held discussions on
a Senate-approved bill that would
permit Maryland authorities to try
Virginians for violation of the oyster
statutes applying to the river:
Outcome Not Announced.
The outcome of the meeting was
not 11ade known, the Associated
Press reported.
Gov. Tuck and other Virginia OFF,
cials don't want the act passed.
They pledge in effect they will see
to it that the laws are enforced.
The Maryland Senate, obviously
disturbed, suspended its rules Thurs
day and passed the bill after a
Virginia delegation failed to show
up to argue its case.
The House, however, adjourned
for the week end after deciding ats
the last minute to keep the bill in
committee, for the time being at
least The decision followed tele-
phone conversation between Gov.
Lane and Gov. Tuck.
Maryland officials contend that
Virginia courts are none too severe
in the prosecution of Virginia vio-
latorS, and urged enactment of the
bill.
Members of the House have indi-
Gated that the Virginia delegation
must appear before tomorrow night,
or the measure will be brought out
of committee and approved.
Police Notify Plane.
Yesterdays dredging incident was
spotted shortly after noon by Will.
liam M. Shehan of Eastern, Md, pi-
lot of the commission control plane
assigned to the area. The plane
was notified by State police at WAL
dorf after telephone call from an
unidentified person reported oyster
poachers at work.
The pilot said only two of the
boats had oysters aboard, although
1t appeared others were in the proc
ess of starting operations. He said
he was able to identify the names
or numbers on six of the boats. No
warrants were issued yesterday.
AS soon as the plane was sighted,
the boats started scattering towards
various locations on the Virginia
side, Mr.. Shehan reported. The pa
troll boats Pocomoke and Venus were
sent to Dahlgren Greek to investi-
gate.
Mr.. Shehan said he probably
would have to appear at Montrose,
Va, to swear out the warrants.
Evening star., 1947-01-26
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sioner and for c. q. spicknah'
16 years as a member of the School
Board.
He was born here September 6,
1852.
Judge Spicknall is survived by
three sons and five daughters, in
cluding w. Dudley Spicknall, 1923
Hamilton street NV, Washington;
Robert Spicknall and Mrs. S. Louis
Lieb, both of 1923 Columbia road
NV. Washington; Town Council
man H. Wilson Spicknall, 4319 Madi-
son avenue, Hyattsville: Mrs. Joseph
R. Griffin, 1928 Fenwick lane, Silver
Soring; Mrs. E. E. Clements, East
Orange, N. j., and Mrs. Owens Jones
and Miss Marian Spicknall, both of
Calvert County.
His wife died three years ago.
Funeral services will be held at
the Lower Marlboro Methodist
Church tomorrow afternoon.
Evening star., 1947-01-26

Coun ty, died
here yesterday.
He was elected
chief judge of
the Orph a n s.
Court in Prince
Frederick at the
age of 81 and
served six years.
Judge Spick-
nall, active in
civic and Re-
publican party
affairs, formerly
served as county
tax coll e c tor -,
county commits
Evening star., 1947-01-26
Murine Unit to Meet

The Maj. Otho L. Rogers Chap
ter. Marine Corps Reserve Officers
Association, will meet at pm. to-
morrow in the National Archives
auditorium. The chapters charter
will be presented by Col. Melvin j.
Mas, national president of the as
sociation. More than 600, invita-
tions have been sent to former Ma
rine Reserve officers in the area.
Evening star., 1947-01-26
Judge 5picknaI|, ga,
Dies in Maryland
BY the Associated Press

LOWER MARLBORO, Md, Jan.
25.-Former Judge Charles CASA
way Spicknall, "a, believed to have
been the Oldest resident of Calvert