Milford chronicle., 1947-10-10


WITH LAST WEEKS ISSUE, the Mil
ford Chronicle entered its 10th year of ser
vice to the citizens of Milford, Kent and Sus-
sex Counties and the State of Delaware.
From the time of its first issue on October a,
1878 to the present, the publishers OF the
Chronicle have endeavored to give Delaware
an outstanding weekly newspaper-one or
which residents of Milford can be Justly
proud. Long leader among Delaware week
lies, the Chronicle has won national recognl-
tion time after time. It is recognized nation
ally as one of Americas leading and out
standing rural weekly newspapers.
There is a reason for this leadership. 1t
can be summed up briefly The publishers and
employees put their best efforts into every
issue They. strive to make the paper better
and better with each succeeding issue. NO
reasonable expense is spared when 1t VIII
allow us to print more readable, more in
formative or a more reliable newspaper. The
Chronicle maintains larger corps OF paid
correspondents than any Delaware weekly
newspaper. We endeavor to impress upon
each correspondent the necessity of accur-
acy in reporting. A member of the AssO-
ciated Press, the Chronicle has access to, and
uses, news and features of national and world
interest, which makes our readers among the
best informed in the entire nation.
We enter our 10th year with bright pros
poets for the future. During the past two
years we have spent thousands of dollars
for new equipment, new type faces and gen.
eral modernization Of our plant. More ma
chinery is on order and will be installed as
it becomes available This is being done with
one purpose in view--to keep the Chronicle
in its enviable position of leadership of which
we are justly proud and which we shall jeal-
ously guard in the future. ~.-..,
AS we enter this 10th year of steady
growth, we pause to thank each and every
one of you-reader advertiser, correspondent
and employee, whose patronage and effort
have enabled us to produce bigger and bet
ter Chronicle. Your confidence in the Chron-
icle shall act as an incentive to us to work for
a more perfect newspaper for Milford, Kent
and Sussex Counties and the State of Della
ware.
REPORTS FROM ENGLAND indicate
that there is a growing opposition to the pol
icies of the Labor government that il
is becoming apparent in the ranks of labor
itself. The cause of that resentment is plain
1t is rooted in the fact that the high hopes
held out for socialism were cruel illusion
that rigid RECOMMENDATION has sapped, not fed
the energies and productive abilities of the
nation, and that England is now on the verge
of complete economic disaster.
The British people are not complaining
about the austerity program-a similar mea
sure would necessarily have been imposed BY
any government in the interest of induStria
recovery. What they are complaining abou
is that the incredible sacrifices made by tn,
people in living standards have gone fo
nothing. All the basic industries on which
British exports depend electric power
steel and the rest-have either been social
lied or threatened with socialization. And il
all of them output has been declining. Poll
ticians, many of them utterly without exper
fence in industry are the unchallenged mas
ters of England today, and they have show
great deal more ability at extending thei
own authority than in getting out the good
that can save England from ruin
When socialism fails, its advocates a
ways propose more socialism as the cure
And that has brought still another gray
danger to the English people-the loss c
rights which have been extended since tn
Magma Carta. Labor officials say that free
ing worker in his job does not amount t
labor draft-but that is merely play o
words when the law makes it impossible fc
man to change employment if he so d,
slreS. Agriculture has been surrounded wit
dictatOrial restrictions, and more have bee
proposed.
Englind is living example of two vita
ly important truths-frst, that socialism
wasteful and inefficient; and, second, that
is basicaly and inevitably destroyer
individual liberty. That is the lesson tn;
England is giving the United States, and
is time for us to heed it.
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THE MINE WORKERS JOURNA
which is the official spokesman for the Ur
ted Mine Workers Union recently took
look at the British coal situation and o
served that English miners have been mi
led to believe that naturalization would +
suit in improved working. conditions It cri
icized labor leaders who pinned their fai
on political action rather than economic a
ton by advocating socialism Finally, Il
Journal said that the idea that rationale
ton would cure the ills of the coal indust
constitutes one of the saddest chapters