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Milford chronicle., 1948-06-11

World War II veteran and history
instructor at st. Andrews School,
Middletown, who, as Department
Senior Vice Commander, will have
an active role in the Eighteenth
Encampment of the Department of
Delaware, Veterans of Foreign
Wars, to be held in Dover on June
l8-19-20.
Hutton, prominent veteran
leader, was the principal speaker
at the Memorial Day exercises held
at the Milford High School last
Monday week. He is scheduled tC
speak again this Saturday evening
at z pm. over WILM on the
Speak Up For Democracy" pro
gram.
Milford chronicle., 1948-06-11
rice Eating states

Sixty per cent Of the rice con-
sumed in the United States is eaten
in Louisiana. North Carolina. South
Carolina. Florida, Georgia. Ala
bama. Texas and California. IN
these eight states live 20 per cent OF
the people in the United States.
Milford chronicle., 1948-06-11
Sweet Potato Candy

Candies having high quality, taste
appeal and varied food values have
been made from sweet potatoes at
Alabama agricultural experiment
station. A limited sales test has been
conducted with satisfactory results.
Milford chronicle., 1948-06-11

man and children, of Selbyville, al
so spent Sunday with their mother
and grandmother. Mrs. Lynch.
Davis Wilgus. Of Philadelphia. is
visiting friends, here.
Milford chronicle., 1948-06-11
Kings Touch to Cure

Certain forms of tuberculosis once
were called the kings evil" be-
cause il was believed that the kings
touch could effect cure.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-12-06
TWO THINGS TO REMEMBER

1 Of everybody is interested in Christ mas time but matter how busy is, there is always room for something added
 For instance Girls Scouts are out this week sell their calendars for 1949 The price is nominal
 the calendars are said be exceptionally attractive and furthermore useful Give them hand if pos sble because the little they derive is for special charities and their own troop projects
 The other reminder is the Good Neighbor Day observance dedicated to the Ideal of Peace" to be given Tuesday night at o'clock in the Grade School Auditorium, patriotic rally all will enjoy, worth while program with music and interesting speakers
 With wide interest in this Americanism program evidenced by general comment, it may be assumed there will be large turnout of people who want to learn more of the fundamental objectives of the group The American Legion, and of it's unselfish objectives declared in it's preamble as being service to the community, State and Union'
 If service to ones fellow man could be instilled as universal principle and practical mode of life then many of the problems of todays complex world would forthwith be resolved and the road to peace on earth might well be the trod by the hun dfeds of millions of warweary people of this rather brutal twentieth century.
 It appears that the time required Tuesday eve ming to attend this meeting may pay dividends in a better understanding of the world today
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-12-06
MARITIME STRIKE ENDS; MERCHANTS
 CONGRATULATED

The West Coast maritime strike that has grpped Alaska for the past 97 days has ended officially ended Sunday night according to Associated Press dispatches to The Empire Millions of dollars have been lost during this strike by the Pacific American Shpowners Association and also by the CIO Longshoremen and other labor unions involved by the walkout of the demands by the AFL Sailors Union of the Pacific finally split when agreement was reached on all issues of their dispute with the PASA and, according to Associated Press dispatches only the formality of signing contract remained.
 Orders were issued last night for all sevedores to return to work at o'clock this morning and other union groups instructed to do the Work today depended on how many of the personnel could be reached last night to be on the job at today
 Some 1855 ships the West Coast, dled by the strike will be unloaded loaded today.
 Of Juneau especially, well as other cities of Alaska is interested in the sent last night by the Alaska Steamship Company that full scale operations ordered to start this Monday morning on all ships of the line dled since the strike began September ?. Unloading of strikebound cargo from holds to be started and loading for northbound service will be started as soon as possible.
 But right here let us give word of praise to ,ir Juneau merchants This city has not suffered any lack of commodities due to the enterprise and energy displayed by merchants They engaged small boats to bring food and supplies and also air-freghted and air-expressed commodities essential to the needs of Juneau and adjacent terri tory.
 Congratulations, merchants of Juneau. We cer- tanly appreciate your service.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-12-06

and who are not suspect of build ing up war plants for the future. If such men, sitting under the jurisdiction of a commission of small nations, operated Ruhr in dustry, then it would dispel the fears and suspicious of Western Europe. It would cut the ground right out from under Moscow's pro- paganda. And it would do much to build up confidence on the part of Europe's man in the street. the man who will have to should CT the gun-rhat our foreign policy is not dictated by bankers, but by an unselfish desire to build up the future peace of the world. I apologize for intruding with these thoughts. I do so only be- cause of your own previous elo- uuence on the necessity of the will to fight, and because man as busy as you cannot always mingle with the people who in any army must do the bulk of the fighting.
 Yours sincerely,
 Drew Pearson.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-12-06
WSCS WILL HAVE CHRISTMAS PARTY
 WEDNESDAY, NIGHT

The Worlds Service Circle So- ciety of the Methodist Church will have their annual Christmas party on "Wednesday evening. December 8 at o'clock in the Church par lors, with a Christmas tree, gifts, entertainment, and refreshments. The decorations will be made by Mrs. Ruth Popejoy, Mrs. Anna Hcugendobler, Mrs. Carroll Elford and Mrs. Garlic Turner
 Devotions will be led by Mrs. Katherine Young and Mrs. Mill dred Lister will lead the group singing. Mrs. Leigh Grant will sing vocal solo with her daugh- ter Louise at the piano. A Christ mas tableau will be presented by Marjory Mslcolm. Sylvia Lister, Nat Moore, and Julian Rivers.
 After presents have been given out. refreshments will be served by the hostesses: Mrs. Madeline Sturm, Mrs. Gladys Robards, Mrs. Frieda Robinson, and Mrs. Florence Legge.
 Everyone attending the party is asked to take an exchange gift, not costing more than 50 cents.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-12-06

hands of the Red Army If the people of Europe aren't sold on the 4dea that we Americans are try ing desperately to build up a new order for world peace and that they should help us
 Today it remains and undisput- able fact that they are not sold. They are not sold partly because they see the same bankers who loaned the nancy to build up Ger man munition plants prior to the war, now proposing to turn Ger man steel and chemical and muni- tions plants back to the same German cartels which ran them during the war.
 They see the same American bankers who loaned Germany bill lions before the war, now acting as our Secretary of National De- fense, as our Undersecretary ot the Army and as our Undersecre- tary of State. And they see them carrying out exactly the same pol icies in Germany which gave Hit fer the chance to convert Ameri- can loans into wartime mach inc.
 All the efforts of the Voice of America and by American news papers to tell the true story of American idealism will come to naught, MT. Secretary, as long as this situation prevails
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-12-06
An Enduring Principle
Cincinnati Enouirer)

In the 1830s, when Cincinnati was lIsty river town of 35000 persons it didn't trouble formal notice of any notional newspaper week Its people were too busy hammerng out a policy of freedom of the press. Cincinnati had it's full share of news papers and magazines already tbe 183Os And feeling ran high on many questions above all, slavery.
 In the summer of 1886 James G. Birney was pub fishing fiercey antisavery newspaper called the Philanthropist. In mid July mob attacked his office dismantled the press destroyed much type other propery. Birney hastily resumed publication
 committee of notable citizens, including Jacob Burnet and Nicholas Longworth, sent to warn Birney against publishing Abolitionist paper city closely tied to the economy of the South He refused to be overawed. Then mob attacked again carted his presses away and threw them into the river
 It was then that rising young lawyer named Salmon F. Chase sent his views the subject to the Cincinnati Gazette. which published them on August 4, 1886, follows:
 Much I have deprecated the course of the Abolitioniss, regard all the consequences their publications evils comparatively light, when con- trasted with the evils produced by the prevalence of the mob spirit Freedom of the press and constitutional lierty must live perish together"
 Freedom of the press is not an abstraction. It is working principle hewn out by sturdy of our own local past, who learned the hard Way that threat to the liberty of any pamphleteer was in fact threat to the liberties of all of them
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-12-06
EUROPE WON'T FIGHT

However. as you yourself so elo- quentlys indicated, guns are no good Unless you have men to fire them. And today I greatly fear the peo- pie of Western Europe would not fight
 They would not fight because they are tired of war, because they do not want to see their farms and factories become another battle ground. and finally because they GO not see enough difference be- tween the aim of Russia and the United States to get in the mid dle of another great conflagration
 They..like the United States. They trust us more than they do Rus sia. They want to be friendly and they are reasonably grateful for the Marshall Plan. But their friendship does not go to the ex- tent of fighting
 This does not mean they won't declare war, nor that the generals won't try to lead troops into bat tie. They will But generals are worth little without soldiers who follow them. and today the com mon folks of Western Europe who make up the backbone of any army, just aren't going to follow the generals. They will fade away just as fast as the Belgians, the Dutch and the French faded before Hitler
 l am sure that you will find that the intelligence reports of the U.sS. Army agree with this.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-12-06
CONSUMERS COME FIRST

On the other hand there is a great opportunity in the Ruhr to build for the peace of Europe. The Ruhr is just as important to the economic welfare of all Europe as it is to Germany. Almost every consumer in Europe has some stake in the Ruhr.
 And where consumers have a vital interest we, in the United States, have recognized and pro- tected it. That is why we have electric lights and telephone rates That is why the Interstate Com merce Commission tells the rail- road what it can charge for pas sengers and freight The consum- CTS interest is considered more important than the vested inter est.
 Germany has vested interest in the Ruhr, but the people of Western Europe have a consum- CTS interest, and they have the right to put commission of small nations in control of the Ruhr to look out for that interest.
 In Europe. furthermore, the or ganizations which have done the best job for the consumer are the big Swedish, Danish, British and Norwegian cooperatives. They are efficient organizations, run by skii!ed executives who understand business i, management.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-12-06
20 YEARS AGO fME TIT EMPIRE
DECEMBER 6, 1928


 basketball team were to play thr womens town team The Douglas quintet against the Douglas rHemen TOT the secoo game the Bremen had in the first game
 Clark and her two children left on the Northwestern to join husband in Seattle
 Santa Claus had letter to the Ek Lodge the children Juneau on De- cembe 2s in the child to be given present and the show be Buge Calls starring 
 ready for opening the local branch o the com General Manager of the Alaska Ketcikan formerly occupied by the billiard and department Billiard Paos The store would before Christmas holidays 
 After lapse of Club meetings the previous evening.
 present the play There Was Room in the December 20
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-12-06
MODERN ETIQUETTE RygRrRrA Sy LEE

e. When serving table or should it be the
 A. If the guests table the desired
 O. Do the brides attendants decide what they will the wedding?
 A. No the bride has this privilege
 to apply keuu 
 A. No the dressing is the proper place
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-12-06
BATTLE OF IDEAS

Therefore. it seems to me that our problem ot defense in West ern Europe boils down to the ques- ton cf inspiring the same will to defend themselves that you and others inspired in the American Army from 1942 to l945.
 Which means that this is a battle of ideas and ideals. Weap- ons. cf course. are necessary But weapons will only fall into the
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-12-06
Daily Lessons in English v v. L. GORDON

previously" NONE of whom
 
 MSPRONOUNcED: FIRST syllable and not the second.
 MIssPEILED: Compacent Complaisant ging)
 SYNONYMS DSCORDANT harmony Dscodan thoughts conducive to happiness"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-12-06
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fense.
 The great majority of the Ameri- can people, I feel sure, agree with your policy, in principle-as do I. Certainly the friendly countries of Western Europe should be armed against the threat of an invading Red Army, and the investment will be more than worth while if they will fight.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-12-06

Young men who drive with one arm are liable to run into chuch-(Daily Olympian).
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-12-06
CONDITIONS OF WEATKER
 ALASKA DIS.

Weather conditions and temper atures at various Alaska points, also on the Pacific Coast, for 24- hour period, ending at 4:30 this morning, and released by the Weather Bureau, Juneau, follow:
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-12-06

Excuses change. lot of kids late fo rschoo now blame it on stuck zippers.-Qynden Trbune)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-12-06

"The average physician arrives at old age prac- tically destitute reports insurance statistican Physician heel myself
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-12-06

MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. ll' SECOND and FOURTH Monday of each month ,x ::::;:; !; ::::::' 1: 5: :: E: s;s;: ]: @ Worshipful Master: JAMES VI LEVERS. Secretary.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-12-06
LOOK and LEARN 4. asy c. GORDON

l. In what countries these 2 How people g. Where is the largest bay n world?
 What are the plural forms these stimulus? ,. In what the Pilgrims Chorus sung?
  l. Scotland md Switzerland 2 Eight; Noah, his wife their wives g. Bay of Bengal on the Indian A. Deer, crises, 5. Wagner's "Tannhauser'
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-12-06

Mrs Clark Douglas and her two children left or to join her husband in Seattle.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-12-06
The Washington Merry-Go-Round
By DREW PEARSON

sContirued from Page One)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-12-06
TIDE TABLE
DECEMBER

Low tide. 0:15 am, 2.2 it. ( High tide, $50 am, 13.5 it. ,
 Low tide, 12:48 pm, 6.7 it. ( High tide. 1920 pm, 12.8 it,
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-04-10

miserable living conditions in
certain backward areas. He was
convinced that it would eventu-
ally prove profitable to the U. S.
to furnish engineering leadership
to those areas.
He was completely shocked by
imperialistic exploitation of back
ward peoples and felt that in
some way he could do something
about it.
HIS vision was always world
wide. AS a boy he loved postage
stamps, maps, and boats-sym-
bols of things which would take
him everywhere in the world.
No other man had such a de-
tailed, personal vivid under
standing of world geography.
The first time I met Roosevelt
he started talking to me about the
shelter belt of trees to be planted
in the Great Plains all the way
from Texas, through Nebraska,
to North Dakota. Those were the
days of the dust storms and he
felt that if trees were planted,
the weather would change.
To me some Of his agricultural
ideas seemed fanciful; neverthe-
less, experience proved many of
them to be far more practical
than 1 had expected. His love
for trees equaled his affection
for maps and boats. When he reg
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-04-10
HE Led The
COMMON man

istered to vote, he gave his occu-
patton as that of "tree planter"
HE MIGHT also have called
himself an architect and dam
builder. He loved to draw plans
of just how things should be
built. No President except, per-
haps, Jefferson was so precisely
conscious of space relationships.
The engineering aspects of the
iva fascinated him. But in the
final analysis, the IVA inter-
ested him most as a demonstra-
ton of how the living standards
of people might be raised.
Roosevelt was not a scientist,
but he had an intuition which
made him respond in a remark
able way to the suggestions Of
scientists. The outstanding ex-
ample, of course, was the way
he acted at once on Einstein's
atomic-bomb suggestion in the
fall of 1899. 1t took the highest
order of executive courage to
pour more than two billion dol
lars into an utterly untried pro-
ject.
No President ever had such a
remarkable combination of cour-
age and imagination. Without
that imaginative courage, Amer
lea would not today be the
worlds greatest democratic ma
ton.
NO ONE in the United States
will ever again be elected four
times to the presidency with the
support of a party victory in
seven successive congressional
elections.
Undoubtedly, Roosevelt made
many political mistakes, but the
essential fact remains that he
held the Democratic Party to-
gether, as an effective political
force, at a time when no one
else could have done it. He made
it an instrument of progress with
out completely alternating the
conservative elements in his own
party.
Many accused him of duplic-
ity when he was merely recon-
Cling in a practical way con-
flicting elements. He played his
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-04-10
CHINA MAGIC

mics and supermen are on the
warpath, lavishing billions of our
hard-earned dollars upon Japan,
Germany, Italy, and their anti
democratic pals anywhere, and
that they are rearing to sacri-
flee few millions of our boys
rather today than tomorrow.
FOR. who knows Iii maybe
that crazy paperhanger's dream
of world domination wasn't so
crazy, after all? We, Supermen,
can swing it. Anything he could
do, we can do better! We can
grab everything better than he!"
American ganiz labor
alone, as the vanguard of the
people, can answer them cate
gorically: mo, you can't" 1t has
the power. 1t has all facts within
its reach, and the means to stop
warmongers in their tracks today.
Military Intervention in China
is the most immediate 1arge-scale
folly on their schedule. The blue
prints are ready; UNIT, draft and
selective service seem to be COM
ing along nicely.
WHY send troops to China?
Because puppet Chang Kali
shek's game is up. He's all popped
out. Some 800 of the Chinese
people-the starving, maltreated
farmers-are through with him
and his police terrorism; and so
is the middle class, the students
and scholars in and outside the
concentration camps, the tremb-
ling officials and generals. They
all stand together-party or no
party-in their demand for DEM
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-04-10
x IT'S A IA
StiIIweII on G.

q hadD faith in Chinese
soldier and Chinese people;
fundamentally great, demo-
cratic, misgoverned. No bars
of caste or religion. Honest,
frugal, industrious, cheerful,
independent, 1t leran t (,
friendly, courteous.
L Judge Kuornintang and
Kunchantang Communist
Party) by what saw:
Kuomintang: Corruption,
neglect, ch aos, economy,
taxes, words and deeds.
Hoarding, black m a r k e t,
trading with enemy.
Communist program: Re-
duce taxes, rents, interest.
Raise production, standard
of living. Participate in
government. And practice
what they preach.
Chang Kai-shek is con-
fronted with an idea, and
that defeats him. He is be-
wilderd by, the spread of
Communist Influence. He
can't see that the mass of
Chinese people welcome the
Reds as being the only Wis
ible hope of relief fir o m
crushing taxation, the abus-
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-04-10
NY Presidential Election

A NY Presidential Election
N year in this country is
comparable to some 300-odd
April FOOLS Days, strung to-
gether. 1t is free-for-an bluff
ing period. y
The smoke-screen of atom
bombastic oratory behind which
pygmy politicians and military
superman lay down the plans for
regimenting the American people
and subjugating the rest of the
world, is wearing thin.
Truman's' and Marshall's re-
cent speeches, the current debates
in Congress, and the discussions
in the United Nations are ruth
lessly open admissions that pyg-
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-04-10
* FACTS ABOUT
The new rent law

the important facts for tenants to know
about the rent control law
automatically increased The federal rent
administrator control rents through March 1949
controls have, however been removed from hotels
JAM 1947 from apartments not rented for "a consecutive
months 1942 and from leased apartments which
vacated between Jan. and April l. 1948.
Tenants whose dwellings still controlled should
member
You do not have to to increase If do
one ask boost of more than 1884,
and he must give lease running Dec 81 1949 Those
accepted increases and signed lease
under no obligation to sign
landlord be able to increase approved by
the government by claiming Hardship loss other
qualifications if have lease Or the Chicago Rent
Advisory Board ashland gea general rent increase
you lease check carefully to that it contains
joker prohibiting subtenans already
have sub-tenants.
landlord evct ONLY failure to pay
rent committing nuisance violating conditions of tenancy
rental market desire the of the landlord to
property for member of his family.
If refuse to sign lease, landlord must still
provide the customary services and decorating.
If your landlord Illegally overcharges you,
him for three times the amount of the overcharge plus
costs and lawyer fees You the director to
get injunction landlords violating the rent
law You also ask him to Injunction preventing the
landlord from carrying through illegal eviction.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-04-10
BY IONA RALF SUES

When Miss Sues wrote Sharks
Fins and Millet" in 1874. she es-
tablished herself as one of the
outstanding authorities in This
country on China. For several
years. she was in Geneva with
the Anti-Opium Information Blu
reau. which worked closely with
the League of Nations.
% From there. she visited both oc-,
cupied and Free China. She be-
came aide to w. H. Donald. power
full advisor to Generalissimo and
Nine. Chang and was later per-
sonal press representative for
Nine. Chang. She visited the 9Th
Route Army and went on TO
Yenan. capital of the Communist
Border Regional Government at
that time. On her return TO Han
kow Miss Sues became broad
caster in English and French for
the Military Affairs Commission.
She is now in the U. S.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-04-10

sometimes to the pressure of
the last person who saw him.
YET. he always prided him.
self on being a hard headed :
stubborn Dutchman. And at
times he was exactly that. This
combination of adaptabiity and
stubbornness baffled everyone.
Henry Morgenthau, when / first
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-04-10
BY HENRY A. WALLACE

ITO those of us who worked
with Roosevelt day by
day, the outstanding thing about
him was his ability to lift the
spirits of those around him. No
matter how difficult the problem,
he always had worthwhile sug-
geStion.
His leadership was always on
behalf of the common man both
in the United States and the
world. In his airplane flights
abroad he was impressed by the