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Milford chronicle., 1948-08-06
FRANkFORD

The Presbyterian Sunday school
held its annual picnic at Bethany
Beach on Tuesday afternoon.
on Tuesday Of last week Anthony
Hudson Of RehObOth called upon
Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond Poole Long
and other local friends and rela-
tives.
Last Wednesday, Edwin G. Crock
er visited his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
C.. H. Croeker before returning
with his wife to their home in
Storm Lake, Iowa.
Major Warren Eugene Perry and
son Warren, Jr., from Collins Park.
Wilmington, were in town on
Thursday to visit the majors sis
ter, Mrs. Ruby BedWell and her
daughter, Miss Nellie Mae Bed
well.
Returning from st. Petersburg,
Fla, where he has bought a home.
oscar Lockwood of PHILADELPHIA.
stopped off in Frankford to see his
brothers, Sam and Charles Lock-
wood.
James Hastings has gone back
to Philadelphia after having spent
the weekend at home with Mrs.
Hastings.
Miss Margaret Haldeman Of Had
don Heights, N. J., was the week.
end guest of Captain and Mrs. Will
liam s.. Long and son William s..
Long, Jr.
Milford chronicle., 1948-08-06
REDEEM

McCOlley's Ladies' Aid will hold
their July meeting on Thursday.
August s, at Mrs. Charles Golden
Of Georgetown. Due to the fair and
festival we delayed having it. All
ladies are asked to bring cakes as
home made cakes and ice cream
will be for sale. Please don't for
get the grab bag.
MeColley's Sunday School will
hold their picnic at Trappe Pond
on Saturday, August z. All are
welcome. If anyone needs trans
pOrtation they are urged to meet
at the church at 1900 O'Clock noon
as there will be a truck waiting.
McCOlley's Chapel will not hold
any services during the month Of
August.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bob Howard of
Florida visited Mr.. and Mrs. Har-
vey Kitchens over the weekend Of
July 25.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harvey Kitchens
and Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Rust were
at Oak Orchard on Saturday eve
ming.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas P. Prit-
chett and daughter Doris spent
Sdhday at the beach.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas J. Prit-
chett, Jr., were visited by their
daughter and family on Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paris Burton and
children and Mr.. and Mrs. Wood
row Webb and son we're Sunday
evening guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Donovan.
Mrs. Charles Donovan fell last
week and cut her knee so she had
to have clamp put on it. We do
hope that she will soon recover
without complications.
MILTON FIREMEN'S CARNI-
VAL, August IS to %. 1t
Milford chronicle., 1948-08-06

Mr. and Mrs. Edward F. Hud-
son are rejoicing over the arrival
of an infant daughter in the Pen
insula General Hospital at Sails
bury, Md, on Sunday. This makes
three girls for the HudsOns.
Trudy and Ray are having a iol-
ly time entertaining their pals.
Jack and Margaret. In other words
Mr. and Mrs. John AntOninial of
Philadelphia are spending their
annual vacation in FrankfOrd with
Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Hickman.
George F. Mason of Wilmington
was in town on business last Tues
day.
Mrs. Grant F. WILDER Of Penn
Valley, Pa, was the weekend
guest Of Mrs. Topp M. Heath and
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Ellis and
family. On her return home she
was accompanied by Miss Mary
Helen Ellis, who will enjoy a two
weeks vacation at the home of
Mrs. Wilber.
Mrs. Olive F, Bunting, charming
mother of six handsome sons, has
been announced a winner in one
Of the recent great contests spon-
sOred by the Philadelphia Inquir-
ier. Congratulations, Neighbor!
Oscar Fleetwood of Wilmington
called on Mr. and Mrs. Albert r..
Parsons on Monday.
Mrs. H. Barton Sheppard Of Phil
adelphia spent the past weekend
visiting local friends.
Milford chronicle., 1948-08-06

Union worship services in our
two local churches will be CON
Quoted as follows: On August 8 and
Is, the Rev. Thomas I. Smith will
conduct the joint service in the
Methodist Church at 11:0O a. m.
On August % and %, the services
will be conducted in the Presby-
terian Church by the Rev. James ].
Won Hagel.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mordecai H. Hud-
son attended the Kent-Sussex Fair
on Saturday.
Major Albert w. Adams. son of
Mr.. and Mrs. J. o. Adams of Do
yer has resigned his position on
the faculty of the Laurel High
School to become the principal Of
the John M. Clayton School, serv-
ing Frahkford and Dagsboro.
Asher Lee Dukes and Gerald
Hudson spent the past weekend in
Georgetown visiting Gerald's mo-
ther, Mrs. Norma Dorey and fam
lily.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Watson
Milford chronicle., 1948-08-06


rs Clara Foster of Philadelphia
s. VISITING her sisters, Miss Annie
Lawrence Mrs Walter Stephens
and Mr. STEPHENS here
Mrs. Francis Hastings has re-
turned from visit with Mrs. Wal
tar King in Suffolk. va.
Mr.. and Mrs. George White are
entertaining the following guests.
Allen White Of Philadelphia, Miss
Eetty White, superintendent Of the
Atlantic Coast Line Hospital at
Rocky Mount, N G.
mrs. Lillian Ross Of Aieomias.
Vac and Mrs. Gerald Desmond. are
enroute to Beaumont, Texas, where
they win spend several months
Mrs. Edna stursis las returned
from q motor trip to the West
Coast.
Miss Elizabeth Elliott Is spend
ing her vacation with Mr.. and MRS.
Lee German il philadelphia and
with Mrs. Florence Culver in AS
0AA a 4AAAa Ave -
Mr.. and Mrs. William G. Rowe
Of New York City, who have been
guests Of MIS- Frank %. Lynch, are
now visiting Mrs. Fred Stevens at
her Rehoboth Beach home.
There win be no services in All
Saints Episcopal Church here dur
ing the remainder of the summer
since DR. and Mrs. Malcolm Fefne
are vacationing ct Dr.. Ferne's old
home in England.
Walter Stephens suffered a stroke
early last Monday and was rushed
O. the Peninsula General Hospital
81 Salisbury, where he remains a
patient.
Mr. and Mrs Dallas GOrdy have
been entertaining Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles KrikneF Of Upper Darby,
Pa
Mr.. and MIS-. Horace Vincent and
son Of Philadelphia, are the house
guests Of Mrs. Clara Vincent.
Mrs. Nellie Parker is spending
three weeks at Willow Grove and
Hatboro, Pa, Milhngt0n, n. j., and
New York.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. p. Purney are
spending tive weeks in ocean City,
Nd.
Mr. and Mrs. George Short Of
Lowell, Mass, are visiting Mr.. and
Mrs. w. J. Short here.
Milford chronicle., 1948-08-06

and children, Billy and Ruby, at
tended the annual carnival and
pony penning on Thursday at Chin
cOteague Island, Va.
Aunt Suzy sez:
The seeds Of today's deeds deter
mine the harvest Of tomorrow. i.
When your possessions cease to
give pleasure and inspiration they
become liabilities rather than
blessings.
MILTON FIREMEN'S CARNI-
VAL, August IS to %. 1t
Milford chronicle., 1948-08-06


Miss Eileen Chapman has return
ed from a trip through the Middle
West
Jesse Burton, a farmer residing
near Delmaf, has r6tdrhed to his
home from the Peninsula General
Hospital following the amibutatiOn
Of q leg hecessitated by a diseased
foot.
Maryland state Police at Bar
racks 2 can move boast Of a first
class, up to date ambulance. The
1948 Chrysler model arrived last
week fully equipped to meet any
minor emergency.
The limousine type vehicle car
ries a stretcher, an attendants
.seat, long cushioned seat at the
rear for patients who can sit uD
and all modern first aid equipment.
The air-ride tires cut vibration and
shock to a minimum. An officers
and troopers stationed at the Del
mar Road Barracks have passed an
advanced course in first aid, 0uali-
flying them to give aid in the aver
age accident.
Glen Rayne Post purchased the
site for it's new home at it's regular
meeting, on July %, The post voted
to purchase the lot on the corner
0f Grove and North Second streets,
as the site for its new post home.
This site has a frontage Of approx
imately 1875 feet on Grove street
and 155 feet on North Second street
and is directly across the street
from the old post home which was
sold last year.
A building committee, headed by
Past Commander Frank w. Tap
pan, was appointed by Vice Conn
mander Ralph Good with instruc-
tions to proceed Immediately to
draw plans for the new home, with
construction to start in the next
few weeks. The Post plans to COM
plete the building this fall. The es-
timated cost will be approximately
$l0,000.OO. The building will be Of
cinder block construction in colon
ial style, and will contain a large
meeting room, Offices for the ad-
jutant and service officers, a kit
chen and rest room.
MILTON FIREMEN'S CARNI-
VAE, August 1g to %. 1t
Milford chronicle., 1948-08-06
Gymnastics Contest

ZURICH, Switzerland = The
1850 word championships in GYM
nastics probably viii be staged ia
Basel, Switzerland.
Originally, by decision in Prague
in 1888, the competition was TO be
held in Switzerland in 1910, and
war conditions postponed the meet
until 1850 Switzerland to select the,
sit.
Milford chronicle., 1948-08-06

Now We Understand
Sixty-flve per cent of mems neck.
wear Is bought BY women.
Evening star., 1948-07-18

his cousin Liza, who has q husband
little better than a pet poodle and
a son nothing more than a wolf
cub, tells him how rough things are
for the aristocracy; the ruling fami-
lies forced out of their Manhattan
strongholds by high taxes; the
Negroes menacing their safety
from Harlem. He is further be-
mused in his love affair with a
beautiful, brittle widow, who is al
ternately frantic and maudlin. Mig
Holmes regards Dixon as "a plow-
boy with heart of gold, mind
fresh and insipid as a white rose
and a body too perfect for hu-
manity."
With Mig by his side, Dixon be-
comes entangled in the Manhattan
racial situation when his big, power
full car runs over a Negro child,
whom he mistakenly supposes to be
dog. From there the novel moves
with its restless principals to the
West family castle, complete with
gatekeeper, where the tenants re-
ceive presents to celebate the scion s
return and grandfather warns him
Of the danger Of another invasion"
from overseas-by immigrants. Dixon
and Mig add the family of boorish
Oswald P. Boykin, fanatic editorial
chief of the West publications, to
their feveriSh train. Oswald has a
precocious daughter who learns the
folly of putting racial tolerance into
practice. BY the time he has re-
turned to the scene of his unwilling
crime, poor Dixon has learned the
futility Of being a good guy with
confusing" individuals and escaped
into the comforting cosmic respon-
sibility Of a man with 10000, 900
subscribers.
Skillful Plot.
Mr.. Van Gelder has woven the
two themes of his plot together with
great deftness. The only family
stability he describes Is in the house.
hold of the Harlem preacher, Mar
Gus Mannering, who exhorts his
followers to quarantine the white
race after Dixon's hit-and-run acci-
dent has touched of riots.
Mr.. Van Gelder's commentary Is
not a sad one; it. is frequently very
funny and always readable. Like
Dawn Powell in THE Locusts Have
No King" he observes all the moral
and intellectual tics of these in
trenched neurotics. His satire may
not have the blithe lunacy of Eve
lyn Waugh or the ripe improbable
ties of Aldous Huxley. But it is
a stalwart and literate indictment
Of some Of our very best people.
Evening star., 1948-07-18
Books in Brief
LITERARY CRITICISMS.

BY Francis Thompson. Edited by
the Rev. Terence L. Connolly, s. j.
(E. P. Dutton & Co.: $12.50)
With the publication of these new
ly discovered manuscripts, Francis
Thompson, the leading poet of Eng
lands Catholic Literary Revival, is
revealed as a first-rate critic. These
book reviews and papers show
Thompson as an acute judge OF
literature, who operated from solid
philosophic base and phrased his
estimates in language that is precise
and sometimes poetic. His humor,
expressed in gentley ironic phrases
pervades these estimates of such
varied personalities as Shakespeare
Tennyson and the poets of the Irish
Revival. His appraisals of such con-
temporary Americans as James Rus
sell Lowell and Henry James are
particularly sound and and apt. His
accounts of the then current literary
feuds are delightful. M. Meg.
Evening star., 1948-07-18
See
Another Kind
OF Revolution

TRIUMPH OF FREEDOM, ITS
1888
BY John C. Miller. (Atlantic,
Little, Bro,on and Co.; $780,
Reviewed by
DONALD H. MUGRIDGE,
Fellow In American History. Library of
Congress.
The American Revolution, which
began as tea party in Boston
Harbor, steadily expanded until it
became a World War fought out on
three continents. Prof. Miller
of Bryn Mawr, a product of the
Harvard Society of Fellows, is the
latest of the bold men who have at
tempted to confine it's multitudin-
Gus phenomena within the covers
of a single volume. He has succeed
ed better than most, and his tightly
packed book communicates to the
reader vivid impression of great
and various historical drama.
Triumph of Freedom" is evidence
of another revolution, revolution
in academic historiography. Where
as, not many years ago, professors
of history were content to write
for each other, in contempt or des-
pair of a popular audience, they
now aim their work at the general
reader. In spite of some genuinely
difficult subjects which he has to
expound, there is not dull or
tortuous page in all of Prof.
Miller's 688-and this without any
condescension or writing down.
Again, but a few years back any
manifestation of patriotism, however
judicious or qualified, rendered an
academic historian suspect of trea-
son to his profession.
Still Worth Dying For.
Prof. Miller is entirely real
istic, and never blinks the all-too-
human shortcomings on the pa
triot" side. but his history is based
upon a solid conviction that the
cause of the American Revolution
was the cause of human liberty,
and that the principles which un-
derlay it were and still are worth
dying for. Nor Is 1t very long since
the pens Of historians were re-
pressed by an exaggerated sense Of
"the dignity of history"
Prof. Miller knows that the
dignity of great issues will look
after itself, and his drama Is not a
tragedy but a tragi-comedy. He
records with infectious glee Frank
Inns tale of how British general
offered to take q thousand gren-
adiers from one end of America
to the other, and geld all the males,
partly by force and partly by little
coaxing," and how, by a well-placed
shot from Fort Moultrie, Sir Peter
Parker's britches were ruined and
his backside laid bare" These
symptoms all evidence q decisive
break with the self-styled "scien-
tific" historiography imported into
American universities from German
ones in the 1870s and 1880s. They
lead one to hope that sound his
torical scholarship and the read
ing public are about to enter into
a vital mutually profitable relation
shin
Evening star., 1948-07-18

to their plush-lined barricades,
sounding the call to reform the
lines of privilege and prejudice. They
are buoyed up by alcohol, Gained
down by sleeping pills, reassured by
every evidence of wealth and power.
But underneath it all they are
scared stiff, and they have turned
every cocktail party and country
week end into a recruiting drive for
their cause.
Into this hysterical, luxurious
world comes Mr.. Van Gelder's hero
a returning veteran who wants to
start life anew, take up the rich
mans burden, and start at the bot
tom in his grandfather's magazine
empire, which uses modern tech
niques to present antique attitudes
The smart set regards his early
morning freshness with all the en-
thusiasm that hangover victims re-
serve for dawn-greeting bird-walk-
ers. And poor Dixon can't win be-
cause he can't lose. His arm is
easily twisted, for having been
shielded always by great wealth and
great strength, he feels unsure In
the everyday contests Of life, sus-
Evening star., 1948-07-18
A Fascinating
Study of Words
I GIVE YOU MY WORD
AND SAY THE WORD
BY Ivor Brown. (E. P. Dutton
& Co.; $2.75.) ..
CHARLES G.. BROOKS,

Cf1AftLEa0 ". bItOOAS.
Curiously enough, ut is the para
dox OF language in our time that II
is the illiterate who keep it alive,
says Mr.. Brown as he applies the
Shakespearean "puddering" to
overly verbose writer's. statesmen
and others in our time. And, in
deed, he shows the meanings OF
most words reflect a continual proc
ess of change, rejecting the age
and the people who use them. Al
though, he implies language need
not be complicated.
1t is a pleasant experience to be
confronted with a series Of brief
essays dealing with the color as
we'll as the history Of words. Mr.
Brown forces one to reflect that the
formal definitions of the dictionary
may often be inadequate because
of scientific preciseness which
sometimes conveys little of the &C
tual feeling.
We learn that carol was once q
dance instead of song; that chapel
can be far from holy" in its mean
ing, and that galaxy "is Greek for
a spill of milk" And we read OF
coined words such as Millions i'm
broun-far more poetic than brown
The two books in one volume are
a delightful series Of colorf1l word
tales in the simple, familiar man
ner all too seldom found in a "pud-
dering world"
Evening star., 1948-07-18

by AllOI . 11OCs 0tJf CIV A. 4AfkOI
The second volume of the journals
Of Andre Glide, who won the Nobel
Prize for Literature in 1947, is fasci-
mating for its outspoken revelations
of the life Of one of the most con-
troversial authors Of modern times.
Gide's pursuit of truth has brought
him into conflict with many of the
existing standards OF morality and
ethics. But, as he reveals in this
rich and precise record, he was not
deferred by criticism or exhortation
from his chosen way.
Apart from its account Of the pro-
found soul-searching which deter
mined Gide's religious point Of view,
of the austere disciplines which he
imposed on mind and spirit, 1t Is
full of anecdotes Of his daily life, Of
his headaches and the illness of his
dog and the death Of a pet bird. 1t
abounds in trenchant comments on
the literary and political scene Of
those years, of his conversations with
Roger Martin Du Gard, Jacques
Maritain and other. French in
telectual leaders. Glide records
the trivial and the, timeless, his
speculations on art and life, his
journeyings, his reading and notes
for novels. He reports without self
pity the numerous savage attacks to
which he was subject for his "de-
fense" of homosexuality and his
attitude toward that subject. He
speaks often of his intellectual
humility" his periods Of "indiffer-
ence, of dryness and unworthiness.' y
1t is in all ways q remarkable
record for its variety, depth and
lucidity.
Concurrently, his American pub
Evening star., 1948-07-18
THE SUNDAY STAR, Washington. D. c. c-s
i SUNDAY
Crime and
Mystery
BY Miriom Gutenberg

u
Too Good to Be True, by J. r. Hut
ton fSimon & Schuster, 80
Inner S1nctun.
Don Paulson's job as trouble
shooter for that industrial genius,
Ray Menke, was oil the beaten track
but Don liked it until the day a
routine assignment led him to STUN
BILE over q corpse. After that he
seemed to be humping into one dead
body after another. And Menke
didn't want him, to pursue his own
inquiries, even though the police
did consider Paulson the prize sus-
pect. There's more luck than de-
duction in the solution Of this one,
although Dons knowledge of orni-
thology is helpful. Most interesting
character: as old-world landlady
given to flight of philosophy.
II X \
Ill Met In Mexico, by Charlotte
Murray Russell doubleday g. Co..
50.
Crime Club.
Humor mixes with homicide when
Jane Amanda Edwards, sister Annie
and bibulous brother Arthur join
the Rockport Spanish Clubs tour
to Mexico. 1t was like Arthur to
be found brandishing a bloody ma
chete while in his cups, but the
chief of police might have been
more understanding. A mysterious
man in a gray serape, a missing
opal tiara and a batch of mercurial
Mexicans all complicate the high
jinks at the hacienda.
The Mouse With Red Eyes, by Eliza
beth Eastman (Farrar, Straus &
Co., $2.76.
The mysterious subconscious takes
a beating when the author tries to
explain why Alexandria couldn' t
remember the face of a murderer
after three years and even promised
to marry him. Having Told AL in
the prologue, the author relies on a
succession Of small horrors and the
readers Imagination to build sus-
pense. It's all very sinister If you're
willing to accept Miss Eastman's &
view Of psychology.
The Chocolate Cobweb, by Charlotte
Armstrong. (Coward-McCann, Inc;
$250)
OF course, the babies might have
been mixed in the hospital but
Amanda, now grown up, didn't really
believe it. Nevertheless, she die
want to meet the artist who might
have been her father. When the
artists wife knocked over q con-
tainer Of chocolate and then de-
manded the handkerchief with
which Amanda had mopped up, the
girl got suspicious enough to have
the soiled handkerchief analyzed
And when she learned the chocolate
was laced with poison, she had to
do something about it-even If 1t
meant using herself as bait for the
trap. Suspense in the latest novel
by the author Of THE unsupported"
hinges not on whodunit but how 1t
Evening star., 1948-07-18
Cutting Down
TheFog Index
of Stein Style
WHEN THIS YOU SEE

WHEN THIS YOU SEE
REMEMBER ME. Gertrude Stein
in Person.
BY w. G. Rogers. (Rinehart
& Co.: $3.J
Her prose may have been obscure,
but Gertrude STEMS personality
was as clear-cut and understand
able as profile in granite. From
this affectionate memoir by her
longtime friend, w. G. Rogers, art
editor of the Associated Press, she
strides forth as an unforgettable
individual, bulky in outline. con-
tentious in conversation and no
more incomprehensible than mis-
chievous child. She was also great
fun at party.
Mr.. Rogers first met Miss Stein
and her alter ego, Alice B. Toklas,
when he was a doughboy in France
in World War I. His warmly hui
morous rendering of the f1avorsome
character of the creator of "a rose
in a rose Is a rose" is equally a
tribute to the self-effacing Miss
Toklas, who saw to it that her mas
sively fey companion had time to
cultivate her genius. Miss Stein
drove the car when the three toured
the Midi, but it was Miss Toklas
who brought along the maps and
kept Miss Stein on the straight and
narrow roads of France.
A champion of both the writer and
the woman, to whom he was always
"Kiddie," Mr.. Rogers makes a noble
effort to cut down the fog index
of Miss STEMS style, traces her
artistic development and defends
her reactionary politics. He ac-
knowledged that she was avid for
publicity but denied that she ever
courted it. Through their 30 years
friendship, during which they ex-
changed letters, visits and advice
he seems to have regarded her as
a formidable. importunate but emf
nently lovable maiden aunt, and
his "reminiscences have the pleasant
tone of family intimacy.
1t somehow brings her closer to
know that Miss Stein loved nothing
better than good community sing
and that her favorite song was THE
Trail of the Lonesome Pine"
M. Meg.
Evening star., 1948-07-18
Leo Durocher
Tells His Story
THE DODGERS AND ME

IHE DODGERS AND ME
BY Leo Durocher. (Zif-Davts;
$780,
Leo Durocher's story is one of the
most interesting baseball books Of
the year. This is probably because
odd but interesting things happen
in baseball in Brooklyn, Durocher's
stamping grounds until he went to
the Giants last week. Durocher
is one of the most interesting in q
long line of fascinating characters
to wear Dodger livery, and whether
you like the man or not, approve of
his conduct and tactics, you'll find
the book enjoyable, If you're fan.
L, F. A,
Evening star., 1948-07-18
Reviewed by
NINA PEMBERTON.

Here is a thriller without the con-
ventionality of this type of novel
Just as events are about to take
certain turn, Miss Golden dispels
the obvious with originality and
imagination. BY the time you have
reached the end of this book you
are liable to find yourself in state
of suspense and, right up until the
last page, in complete uncertainty.
For her characters, Miss Golden
has chosen spinster Miss Marsh.
her overpowering friend Madge, the
village gossip. Mrs. Buse, and an
American soldier, deserter and mur-
derer. 1t is this soldier who takes
possession of Miss Marsh, her house,
her dog and her soul. The setting
is Cornwall, England. Above all,
Miss Golden has piercingly and
relentlessly laid bare the thin pro-
tecting walls that shelter that rather
tragic category of humans, the
spinster