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Milford chronicle., 1948-03-26
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By FRANK NJ. LEONARD

WASHINGTON, d. C.-The hot
issue on Capitol Hill these days
one which promises to boil over
before Congress adjourns in June
is the record of illegal spending
by the Truman Administration on
publicity and propaganda. Remem-
Der, this is a campaign year, and
Congressman are hopping mad
about smears already traced to
writer's in federal bureaus.
Chfief prOtagOnist in this battle
is the Publicity and Propaganda
Subcommittee of the House Com
mittee on Expenditures in EXecu-
tive Departments, composed of two
Democrats and three Republicans.
Rep. Forest Harness (Ind.) is
chairman.
The Eightieth Congress is en-
phasizing the fact that the Admin
istratiOn is loaded with profession
al prOpagandists. In 1947 the new
ly-elected 8Oth rolled up its sleeves
and began to look over the gentle
men of the kept government
press. They came up with some
staggering facts for the American
taxpayers.
First shock was the disclosure
that in 1946 the cost of federal
propaganda was SIS million. This
would pay for many pressure cam
paigns. OF course, federal statutes
absolutely forbid such encroach-
ment by one branch of government
on another. Obviously, federal en-
plOyees (whO are not elected) are
admirably situated for warning on
unsympathetic economy minded
congressman who have to win
votes.
Subsequent diggings into bureau
activities have repeatedly shown
how John @. Citizen has been
uniquely cOerced into joining the
nations most powerful lobby
against himself and against the
only member of government of
whom he is bOss-his Congress-
man. John Q's vote can't touch a
bureaucrat.
Anyhow, John found that he had
contributed Sc million to the War
Department in 1916 to sell himself
President Truman's pet defense
theories; over 81 millions of his
money to the Federal Security
Agency which argued with his
/ views on sOcialized medicine
more than SO million to the Depart
ment of Agriculture to prOpagan-
die himself against a stabilized
Agricultural budget, and well over
$11 million to the Treasury De-
partment to prepare himself for a
succession of tax-bill vetOes.
/ AS one Congressman pointed
out, this pressure may be used on
/ good or bad laws. The question is
NOT the legislation at ALL but
whether irresponsible federal EN-.
plOyees shall write their own laaws
and make their own budgets thru
pressure on Congress.
The latest trail to be uncovered
leads to the Interior Department
where charges of misuse of fedora
funds are so serious that there is
talk of impeachment proceedings
if the charges are verified.
Milford chronicle., 1948-03-26
Delaware Farm Front

e. L. OCheltree, chairman of the
Delaware Production and Market
ing Administration Committee, re-
ports that the farm price of 1948
crop sOybeans grading U. S. No. 2
and containing not more than IA
per cent moisture-will be supported
by means of loans at 80 per cent OF
the comparable price on September
/, 1948.
Producer loans will be available
until December 81, 1948, and will
mature April 30, 1949. Black,
brown and mixed varieties will be
supported at 20 cents a bushel less
than the support of $2.14 a bushel
for green and yellow varieties.
Milk production per cow in the
Delaware Dairy Herd Improvement
Association continues to move up
ward. According to a summary pre-
pared by Delmar J. Young, exten-
sion dairyman, cows in the three
associations in the state averaged
566 pounds OF milk in February as
compared to $50 pounds during
January.
Topping the county groups was
Circuit Number 2 of the New Castle
County Association with an aver
age production of 500 pounds.
During the month of February, a
total of 1914 cows in 81 herds
were on test.
Milford chronicle., 1948-03-26
DIR. J. r. West Heads
Milford Y. F. w. Post
CONTINUED from FIRST parel

veterans leader. During his two
previous terms as commander, the
post, which he heads, has grown
from a mere handful of veterans to
a membership of 24O, making Blue
Hen Post the largest veterans post
of this area and the largest v. F..
w. post in Delaware south of the
G. and D. canal. Also, during the
same period, Blue Hen Post has
sponsored an unbrOken string of
activities that have been of bene-
fit not only to Milford's veterans
but also to the community as a
whole
In addition to the post of COM
mander of Blue Hen Post, the pop
ular veterinarian is currently SER
wing as surgeon for District No. 8,
V. F. W., and as a member of the
special events committee for Kent
and Sussex counties.
Other officers elected Tuesday
evening were: Senior Vice Com
mander, Louis J. Pack; junior vice
commander, William A. Lynch
quartermaster, J. William Wells
Gncumbent; post advocate, Chas
j. Sigler; chaplain, Martin A. Has
tings (incumbenO; surgeon, DR.
o. A. James GncumbenO; trustee
(three years., J. Russell Evans
and trustee 1.-TWO years.. David S
Hugg. Like DR.. West, DR.. James
Hastings and Wells will begin
third terms with the April 27 in
stallatiOn. Vice Commander Pack
formerly served as trustee and al
so heads the post home building
committee. Vice Command Lynch
headed the committee for last
years highly successful member.
ship drive and has previously hello
other appOintive posts. Hugg, who
was elected to complete Packs
three-year term as trustee, has
! previously served the local post as
/ service officer, athletic officer anC
public relations officer, and is al
officer of both the State Depart.
ment and the District No. 8 cabi
net.
CCA GAlC Dl COCHl ClIlu Lut
next regularly scheduled meetin{
of Blue Hen Post on April Is, DR.
West will complete his cabinet
with appointment of an Oficer-of.
the-day, service officer. patriotic
instructor, public relations off.
Ger, legislative officer, post histOr
ian, athletic officer, guards, anC
adjutant.
One of the highlights of Tues
day evenings meeting was the dis
cussiOn of plans for the projected
post home. Louis J. Pack, chair
man of the post home committee
reported on the progress beinl
made by his group and submitted Z
series of sketches drawn by al
architect who has been retained BY
the post Blue Hen Post owns ar
18-aCre tract on the west shore Ot
Haven Lake and plans to begir
construction of a spacious pos
home there in the near future.
H1orrG0I 5o
Milford chronicle., 1948-03-26
Just Another GYp

On the walk in front Of my house
lay small 12-page pamphlet. The
title said it was a business directory
Of the town. A newspaper workers
curiosity caused me to examine it..
A clever advertising salesman from
the outside had put over a fast one
on many Of the towns business con-
Germs especially the smaller ones.
He had sold them high-priced ad-
vertising space in a pamphlet for
which there was no valid reason or
no practical use. The telephone de
rectory did the job in a much better
and more substantial way. The
clever outside salesman had not
been able to sell the larger business
places. Such concerns used the local
newspaper columns to attract GUS
toners.
The smaller places, those sci.
dom seen in the local paper, had
been the victims of one of the
hundreds of schemes worked by
clever advertising solicitors who
come in from the outside, catch
their suckers and disappear.
Those who know advertising
values use the home town paper
and get results. All such
schemes as those promoted by
these outsiders serve to dis.
credit advertising among the
unknOWing.
United Steel corporation in 194I
paid a dividend of So per share tt
it's common share stockholders. Il
was the money Of those stockhold
ers that provided the plants anC
tools of the corporation. To the ta1
collectors, local, state and federal
the corporation paid $15.65. Nor,
than three times as much for taxei
as the stockholders received. Blu
that $15.65 was not the end. tn,
federal government claimed 81, q
per cent, of sthe $5 the stockholde
had received as a dividend. This i
double taxation.
Milford chronicle., 1948-03-26

.i0 koGER w BABsoN to the Marshall Plan as
Operation Rat Hole" and saw. eve will he
pouring our millions down the drain" The
suggestion is that the project is hopeless from
the start. The writer's imply that they would
rather keep tight hold of their cash than to
give it away.
the Plan is merely an diversified charity Tbev
rear that we should ship overseas the food
winch we ourselves might need and would
sen0 TO Europe money which we could spend
az nome Even if this were true, could we, as
Lne WORLDS richest country and as a Christian
community wholly refuse to share?
Milford chronicle., 1948-03-26
Christian Socialists
Go international

ST. GALLEN, Switzerland up
An international Christian-Socia-
list Federation has been formally
established here by representatives
of Christian-SOcialist parties from
ten nations. The Federation appoin-
ted DR. Louis Meerts, of Belgium,
as its General Secretary.
Milford chronicle., 1948-03-26
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BY WRIGHT
I PATTERSON
Senator SOakem Soaks
Released BY WNU Features.

~@NAN@a9 - - NaeAg8'
A HALF century ago, more or less
4 = congress passed a "pork" bill
before each final adjournment. In
such a bill Senator Soakem would
have an item calling for the expen-
diture of few thousand federal
dollars in his state. Representative
Catchem would get a few thousand
for the improvement of navigation
in his district into the bill as it
went through the house. So it would
go up and down the line of senators
and representatives. The bill would
go through without opposition on
the day of final adjournment or the
day before.
The total expenditures involved,
seldom more than several million,
were not a serious item as govern
ment appropriations. They repre-
sented but a bit of small graft at
the expense Of the federal treasury.
To the newspapers they offered an
opportunity to editorialize justif-
ably on the extravaganza Of govern
ment. To the senators and repre-
sentatives they provided a basis for
their plea for votes at the next
election. The people generally ac-
cepted "pOrk" bills as necessary
evils which go with our method Of
government.
The "pOrk" bills of those
days were but sucking pigs as
compared with the great hogs
of "pOrk" of today. The present
"pOrk" does not CCme in snail
packages, or all in one package.
Today it comes in individual
appropriation bills each calling
for many millions. The total of
all such appropriations amounts
to a billion or more.
Thousands of acres of land need
water if the farms are to be fully
productive. Let the federal govern
ment pay for the needed irrigation
project. While but a comparatively
small percentage of the people Of
one state will profit from the prof.
ect, all of the people of all states
are called upon to pay for the con-
struction of that irrigation system.
While extra production of foods in
the watered acres will possibly re-
duce the price of crops produced on
other farms in other states, the
farmers in those other states are
not relieved Of paying their share
Of the cost Of that irrigation prof.
eCt.
Some years ago it was differ.
ent. AS an example; The Milk
river valley of Montana needed
water. Private capital built the
needed dams, dug the needed
irrigation bitches. Water was
sold to the farmers Of that val.
ley at reasonable rates. Farm.
.ers of Yellowstone river valley
or other states were not called
upon to pay for the water that
was a benefit only to those Of
the Milk river valley.
Along with federal appropria-
tions to pay the cost of such purely
state or local improvements goes
federal RECOMMENDATION for the
states or sections which are bene-
fitted. The people sacrifice much Of
their rights to local self government
when they accept federal cash. In
the end they pay heavily for what
they consider a prize secured
through the efforts of their senators
and representatives.
The United States constitution
that provided for the election Of
senators and representatives did NOT
contemplate they should become
safe breakers whose job was to rob
the vaults of the federal treasury
for the benefit of their constituents
Milford chronicle., 1948-03-26
Japan Lacks Metals

TOKYO -(P)- Lead production
in Japan has reached pre-war lev
els but the output of all other met
ais is low or declining, the govern
ment says. Shortage of materials
and funds are blamed. Iron ore is
being produced at only "a per cent
of the pre-awr level.
Milford chronicle., 1948-03-26
BABSON:-Discusses The Marshall Plan

WASHINGTON, d. c.,
March 26-People ask me,
"As a businessman, what
do you think the Marshall
Plan would mean to Am
erican business?" The
answer l should like to
make is, "As a man, what
do you think the Plan
would mean to humanity?
OPERATION RAT HOLE
/ have read letters to
various newspapers writ
ten by supposedly intelli-
gent people. They refer
Milford chronicle., 1948-03-26

Despite sharp declines in U. S.
deaths caused by tuberculosis about
$4,000 Americans died of the dis
ease in 1916.
Milford chronicle., 1948-03-26

The President asked for the support of Con-
gress for the alliance being projected by
England, France, Holland, Belgium and Lux
emburg. Evidently, Congress will agree to
provide all the money needed to strengthen
our services. While Mr.. Truman minced no
words in opposing Russia, he nevertheless
insisted that 1--WE must be prepared to pay
the price of peace, or assuredly we shall pay
the price of war;" He was we'll received by
Congress to whom he appealed for support.
He will have it!
Milford chronicle., 1948-03-26

we part with the twenty and half billion
dollars, which has been estimated as it's cos?
Can we ship overseas seven or eight per cent
of the food we raise? Can we aggravate Dres-
ent shortages by sending steel, fertilizer, rail-
way cars, coal? Can we spare any?
The answer is that we can afford the Mar
shall Plan because we cannot afford to reject
it. What the program will cost rs has onIv
been estimated, but what it's rejection would
cost can scarcely be imagined There is. of
course, no guarantee that this plan will save
Europe; but without it Western EurODe will
go down into chaos and Communism. We
cannot 1--we alone. in the world. We must not
give Europe over to the other camn For tho
sake of our way of life, for the sake of the
institutions which mean most to us. for the
sake of our business and our future. we cannot
refuse to make the attempt
Milford chronicle., 1948-03-26
CONCLUSION

AS businessman then, think that the
Marshall Plan is good gamble and What is
more, 1 think that the alternative is a moor
gamble. But one thing I insist on. Let's see
that after the countries of Europe receive our
aid, they get busy and produce Production
IS the only lasting solution to their problems
or to our prOblemg either.
Milford chronicle., 1948-03-26

Thomas for any
thing so the first
Nobody has
tn atened to
pinch Senator
Milford chronicle., 1948-03-26

But can we AFFORD the Marshall Plan? Cal
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1948-07-15
LOOKING
ANE4D
n GEORGE S. BENSON
\ Phesiffxf--Esh6ixg college
Starry. ]TksSSHs
Cure for Shortage

Oil is said to calm troubled wa
tiers. Oil is indeed the key to good
many problems, international and
national. Right now there is not
enough oil for all who want to con-.
sumo oil in this country; and some
domestic waters are not Gained.
Some Of you have come smack up
against this shortage Of petroleum
products. hope you are not among
those who have had the poor judg-
ment to call for government ration
ing and control.
/ have said in an earlier column
that it was government bungling,
along with the wastage of war, that
laid the ground work for our current
trouble in the petroleum industry.
The result-our shortage Of fuel oil
and gasoline-is here. Now there
are those folkS who get frightened,
not having the long view of things,
every time slight economic dislo-
cation rears its head. These folks
usually holler for the government to
do something.
Who's To Blame?
Or they blame an industry. In this
instance the oil industry is no more
to blame than you are. In fact, you
are probably more to blame, espe-
clally II you are one Of nearly a
million householders who have in.
stalled oil heating since 1941. Or if
you have anything to do with the
almost 21e million increase in motor
vehicle registration since l941.
There are $50 more trucks on the
road than before the war. They haul
food to you that is grown in farms
almost 1000 more mechanical than
in 1941.
All these things take oil. Rail-
roads used 42% more diesel fuel in
l947 than in the year before. Our
greatly stepped-up industrial growth
has been powered by oil and lubri-
Gated by petroleum products. Oil
and gas have emerged as the main
source of industrial energy. In 1920,
coal accounted for 1870 of the total
energy produced in this country, oil
and gas 1870. In 1916 it was: coal,
479o; oil and gas, 47Fo. (The miners
Mr.. Lewis please note.j
Full Speed Ahead
The oil industry is therefore pro-
ducing at top speed. Present output
OF the industry is more than the
whole world required ten years ago.
This demand is estimated by some
oil men to be growing at a rate of
about 80 year! This is the kind Of
situation that government interior.
ence and price control can never
cure!
Demand is fine thing, for the
whole industry. But there are prob
lens. Oil men tell me it costs three
times as much to put up a modern
refinery as it did in 1885. They saw
total exploration costs are about
four times those of ten years ago.
and wildcat wells cost (per barrel
discovered) five or six times what
they used to.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1948-07-15

Heavy infestations OF weevils were
found in the Delta counties of Is
saquena, Warren and Yazoo, and
in some counties in the central part
of the state including Attala. Car
roll, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Holmes,
and Winston. In general the infes-
tation in the southern half of the
state is light but is expected to in
crease rapidly wherever good rains
occur, according to Dr. Clay Lyle,
entomologist of the Board.
Grasshoppers attracted more at
tention than the boil weevil in south
Mississippi the past week, COM
plants being received from Jeffer-
son Davis, Simpson, Covington. For
rest and Marion counties. In most
cases the hoppers are moving out
of pastures or meadows that have
failed on account of drouth and Dr.
Lyle is urging all farmers through
out the southern counties to exa-
mine their properties and where
necessary poison the hoppers before
they reach cultivated fields. The
cheapest effective control is broad
cast application of poisoned bait
containing wheat bran or shorts,
sawdust, and a poison such as white
arsenic, sodium arsenate, sodium
fluosilicate or paris green. Quickly
effective also, says DR.. Lyle. are
chlorinated camphene (Toxaphene),
chlordane, and benzene hexachlo-
ride dusts or sprays, but these are
several times as expensive as the
poisoned bait which cost only 30 to
go cents an acre for the material.
Directions for poisoning grasshop-
pers and assistance in fighting out
breaks may be secured from the
State Plant Board at State College,
Mississippi.
OF twenty-one farms examined in
Holmes County eleven farms were
found to be infested and the per
cent of infestations were as follows:
/, 1, 2, 2, 4, IL, IA, A, SIS; SO;
and II percent
From now until August 10th is
the critical time on cotton produc-
ton. Keep a close check on boil wee
wills.
If we can be of any service to you
please feel free to call on us.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1948-07-15
BY Virginia Smith

Old gardeners say June, July and
August are the hottest months of
the year and this philosophy is GER
tainly true this year.
With this hot weather comes dry
soil and time TO mulch summer
crops-especially beans and toma-
toes.
One gardener said recently she
had beans throughout the drouth
last year because she used mulch
in the garden. Mulch saves moisture,
retards weeds and grass and lowers
the temperature of the soil.
July is good time to mulch,
if you haven't done SO already. The
temperature begins to go up and the
soil dries out rapidly, even after a
rain or watering.
The crops to be mulched should
be free from weeds and grass be-
fore mulching material is used. At
ter a rain or watering, work over
the rows and apply mulching ma
terial. This material may be old
sacks, clean hay or straw, pine
needles, sawdust or even news
papers.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1948-07-15

When using hay, straw, sawdust
or pine needles, apply a mulch 3
to inches thick. When using old
sacks or paper, to 4 thicknesses
should do the juob. A few handfuls
of dirt on top of the sacks or pa
pers will keep the material in place.
Put the mulch in the middles and
on the side of the beds.
1t is not necessary or even practi-
cal to mulch the whole garden. Put
a mulch around only such crops as
will have considerable value dur
ing the summer months-such as
pole sanp beans, lima beans, toma-
toes and one or two other summer
crops. Give preference to these
crops and to other crops according
to the mulch material available.
Apply mulch now and be reward
ed with extra produce during the
rest of the summer.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1948-07-15

OF faith IN God and
surprising patience
and sacrifice in ser.
vice to her day and
generation.
1t is the Book oil
Ruth which we have
for Sundays lessons,
with Psalms 1860 as
the devotional read.
ing. The golden text,
"Thy people shall be
my people, and thy
God my Cod" Ruth
l:16.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1948-07-15

The cotton insect situation chang
ed little during the past week ex-
cept that more fields became infest-
ed by weevils, reports the State
Plant Board. Inspectors of the
Board and federal entomologists
examined All fields in AZ counties,
finding weevils on 255, or SIS per
cent of the farms as compared to
Al percent week ago. The aver
age infestation on the infested farms
was ID, the same as a week ago,
which compares with Is percent on
this date last year.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1948-07-15
Naomi, Women OF Foith
Lesson for July Is, 1913

IF WE are to understand Ruth,
L cherished heroine Of the book
bearing her name, we must know
Naomi, her observation-disclosures
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1948-07-15

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"INTREAT ME NOT TO
LEAVE THEE"

0RPAH accepted Naomi's sug-
" gestion, and turned away to her
own people; but not so with Ruth.
She loved Naomi. She could not
give her up. Naomi had done some
thing for Ruth in those years OF
sorrow and loss.
'Intreat me not to leave thee, or
to return from following after thee
for whittier thou goest, will go; and
where thou lodgest, I will lodge.
Thy people shall be my people, and
thy God my God. Where thou diest,
/ will die, and there will I be buried.
The Lord do SO to me, and more
also, if aught but death part thee
and me-"
With these sublime words, Ruth
dashed herself to Naomi, and to-
gether they started on the long trek
to Bethlehem.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1948-07-15

IN SEARCH OF BREAD
EAMINE in Judah, where Elime-
L lech and his wife, Naomi, and
their sons, Mahlon and Chilion,
dwelt, drove thenito Moab, in search
of bread E.;<aelech died. and the
sons married young women Of Moab,
Ruth and Orpah. And then the sons
died. Naomi, feeling that she must
not longer remain in Moab, an
nounced her intention to return to
her native land, and babe Ruth and
Orpah farewell. In one brief decade
Naomi had lost husband and sons,
and now she longed for home.