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Milford chronicle., 1948-12-24
FRANKFORT

Last Saturday, December Is. he
and his relatives and intimate ~
friends celebrated the birtbdav -, y
wilson Oliver McCabe. Jr "
On December "a. Albert = Dor
sons and family will celebrate bis
18th birthday. . y MS
On His Birthday, Saturday De-
cember 25, may all celebrate tbo
oay as He would have us do
! MRS. Myrtle Godfrey visited her
sister Mrs. Carrie Tyre in the Rec
oe Hospital on Saturday. Mrs Tvra
ton. '''0"l collul-
The Presbyterian Church School
held its annual Christmas narty
ldSt saturday evening in tho
church. At that time the church
was artistically decorated for Tho
1uletlde. AS usual the SnndaI,
school children were thrilled by, .
visit from Santa. "
On Sunday evening the cantoto
Come Ye to Bethlehem" was boan'
uIuIIy performed by a well drilled
cast from the NJ. Y. F. at the Meth
Odist Church.
Next Sunday morning the chill
aren OF the Presbyterian SUNDAY
School will present their Christmas
program at 10 a. m.
Funeral services were conduct
ed by the Rev Thomas I. Smith nm
Saturday in the Watson-Grav Fin
neral Home for Mrs. Della Law
renee, age 81 years, who passed
away suddenly on Thursday morn
ing IN the Beebe Hospital at Lewes
deceased is survived by two nm
daughters, with whom She
maze her home. Mrs. Lawrence
was buried beside her late hus-
1and IN historic Colonel ArmweT
Long Cemetery, near town The
,WO young women have the svmna-
ny OF the community in their hour
If bereavement.
Dan Carey made a hurried trim
o washington, D. c., last week
,nd to be at the bedside of his mo-
her' Mrs. Sidney Carey, age 93
Milford chronicle., 1948-12-24
SELBYVILLE

Mr. and Mrs. Hngb c.o.,
Gav' Mr. aI a. a family dinner on SIM
toI,,,,C t"y' Nr; and Mrs. Joe Madara an oun1 anl
ors +, VII; and Mrs. Hugh Stonb nh
ems, JI, Mr.. and Mrs e~ ca"Sl 0ospn-
talocilels Eto'h and son, Mr.. and Nrs WE, We
stephens and son, Mr. alu ana MIS-, MS. VIM ",
wood Richards and " fon1iic ana Mrs FL
ana MIS-. E. Quillen and famiIv mil MI =
or 'tl Pbi1aday :. Harry Law and son. Dona1d
o., " IHllauelphia, came down o'@lu' on e ~,
Gay 10 spend the hoIidavs" ~ 1n TT It'll
home here on Main St al tnelr
rIiab be Cns lance that was held at tho
illsn 0cnool on SATURDAY. oTo,,iII'y me
ny the Manual Training S1os" evening
0er the supervision of Hr as 8,s uh-
US. " do d very good success and con-,
dnnnS ,h1IloS were were: 1T was the nicaIt
, aance that has been held in niCgSe tSo
ScI'o0l Sl Ior a long time" TbanLs me ~
MI. Rhoads and his helpers '''' ~
-, Miss Anne Holloway Of wtImino-
% ION was a novernight guest 'l,f''bs Of be,.
Inother' Mrs. Ray HoIIowoU aS5 ne5
Donald and Ray, Jr., on Fridsv anu anu
ihey spent the weekend WITH try tSoir anu
rather and husband, Mr., Raw vi HoiId [IIIF
Baltimore. ''-li' I1ospItaI,
ReH, itei,,d1I and Mrs. Charles Jarvis on
lertained the NJ. Y. r NJ ~ C,s,.;l 10 en-
mas party in the PARSONAGE on "5 GT,. lSc-
day evening. The members Un sui nl
sem SgHSea the minister and Mrs. Jarvis
NUN NUN very pretty Punch Pov,I 3, -
Ihey entertain the NJ. Y F nomI, oror,,
sunday ,. evening after the services 1y
IN the parsonage. 0 SCI vices
MISS Sara Elizabeth Townsord
was weekend guest of P;to Eo.sl- Ilsenu
send in Millsboro. o"ii-
Milford chronicle., 1948-12-24

Mr. and Mrs. Allen Lynch and
children of Milford, spent the week
end with their parents. Mr.. and Mrs.
L. 7. kitchens and Mr.. and Mrs Al
Iled Lynch. Mrs. Kitchens returned
with them to their home in Milford
on Sunday and was an overnight
guest returning home on Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dale Mumford and
children, Connie and Dale. Jr.. were
uinner guests of her parents. Mr.
and Mrs. Benjamin Hall. on SUNDAY.
Mr.: and Mrs. Henry Richards en-
tertained at a birthday recently in
honor Cf Mrs. Robert Harvey and
husband. az"
Mrs. Ida Townsend entertained on
saturday at her annual Townsend
Dinner, preceding Christmas. ex-
Senator John G. Townsend. Mr.. and
Mrs. COvingtOn Townsend and
daughter, Meredith; Mr.. and Mrs
Julian Townsend and children Flea
nor and Jack of Georgetown; Mr.
ana Mrs. John F. Townsend, III. of
ocean City, Md. Mr.. and Mrs. Prev
EaVoy; Mrs. John Kluge and chill
ureh' Dlanne, Jeanette and Peter
Milford chronicle., 1948-12-24

Military funeral services for IT..
Arvel H. Workman, %. who died or
June 1, 1912, at Camp O'DonneII
Fnlilppine Islands, while a prisoner
OF the japanese, were held Friday
october Is, at ? p. m, in Gracs
Methodist Church, MorrisviIle n 7
The Rev. Guy H. Everlv oficiafed
Members of Sanford-DiT.etto Post
455, American Legion assisted At
the services. The body Law in state
from noon Friday. Interment was in
MOrrisville Cemetery.
TIA Workman was born in lin
COIN Delaware, and was a graduate
OF CornWells (Pa) High School he
enlisted in the Army in June. 1895
ne was stationed at Fort Slocum
y. Y, with the Coast Artillery
corps. In April, 1910, re re-enIisfad
IN the Air Corps and was stationed
at Nicholas Field, Philippine ISL
ands. He was in the Battle of Cor
Iegldor and survived the Bataan
Death March and later died at Camn
y Donnell. He was awarded the
Puhple Heart.
Milford chronicle., 1948-12-24
CEDAR NECK

Sunday, December. 26. Sunday
school II A. NJ. Ernest Watson
Supt. ''''
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry swain and
sons, OF Lincoln, were visitors of
Mr. and Mrs. Jay Watson and SON
on Saturday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. G. Clark and
sons OF Candy Park. spent Satur-
aay evening with Mr.. and Mrs
Thomas Clark and family.
me Handy Hands All Club mot
at the home of Miss Orpha Wabb
on December II. This was a Xmas
party. Besides exchanging gifts
they decided to send a Christmas
Dasket to very worthy person of
the community. All were served
refreshments. The meeting then
adjourned to meet on January 81
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Swain and
daughter Nancy spent SUNDAY eva-
ming with Mr.. and Mrs. Jaw Wat
son and son.
Mr.. and Mrs. Granville Sbocl,Iov
and Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond Davis
were in Wilmington Friday on a
shopping trip.
The pupils of Cedar Naol,
won the honor award for
highest attendance for November
$500. The award is a little statna /
}f Victory finishing a race.
Mrs. Ollie Higman and Mrs |
olivia Benson were callers on
sunday of Mr.. and Mrs. q n /
and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. James d. Mills at /
ended the reception of the Der-
icksOn and COverdale wedding on
Friday night. y"
Mrs. Brantley Donovan Mrs
Iesta Mills and Suzanne and En"
'ene Mills, Jr., were in WiImingtOn
N Friday for a visit with Santa
'laus. '''i'''
Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond Davis and
on Charles spent Sunday evening
nth Mr.. and Mrs. Granville Sbocl9
9y and family.
Best wishes for a Merry Christ
llas and a Happy and Prosperons
lew Year, [
Milford chronicle., 1948-12-24

years, who is in a critical cOndi-
llon since a recent fall in which
she suffered a fractured hip.
Mrs. William Tingle is a patient
IN the Beebe Hospital at Lewes.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Dukes and
family vacated one of the apart
ments in the McNeal Building last
week and moved into Cottage No. l.,
Iruitt Extension of Reed street.
Mr. and Mrs. Roland McGinnis and
family have moved into the vacant
apartment in the McNeal Block.
The Rev. Thomas l. Smith, pas
Tor OF the Ocean View and Frank
tord Presbyterian Churches, is on
a Huletide visit to the home of his
mother, Mrs H. A. Smith in James
vile, Ohio.
Nuletide guests from ont of the
state are expected in many of our
homes
Mr.. and Mrs. Hail Bennett and
'Daby daughter Lisa have returned
from a short sOjOurn in Florida.
Mr.. and Mrs. James/R. Murray
and family left on Wednesday to
motor to Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Mrs. J. J. Hastings spent the
weekend at her home on Thatcher
street. Her better half big jim"
recently underwent a major Oper- |
alton in the Marine Hospital at /
Baltimore. His many friends are
happy to know he is cOnvalesc-
ing so nicely that he hopes to spend /
Christmas witho Mrs. Hastings at
the home of their daughter, Mrs.
John WOlfender in Philadelphia.
Aunt Suzy sez: You can have a
Merry Christmas. if next week you
'an feel that you helped make some
)ne else happy.
Milford chronicle., 1948-12-24
Reds Make Huge Lathe

MOSCOW-(P)-A turning lathe
weighing 500 tons is being manu-
factured at the KTamatOrsky Plant
OF Heavy Machine Building.
Evening Moscow" said it is the
first Soviet lathe of such large pro-
portions. 1t will machine parts up
to 30 meters long.
Milford chronicle., 1948-12-24

Jim Foley. fullback and quarter
back on the Syracuse football team
Is a brother Of John Foley. who
called the plays for the Orange last
Milford chronicle., 1948-12-24
Pencil Lighter

A new gOld-flled lighter comes
equipped with lead pencil on one
eha. Press down on the pencil cIin
ana the lighter springs into action
Milford chronicle., 1948-12-24

In the healthy human. red blood
cells ives, on the average, for about
IzO days before being replaced by
new ones. -
Milford chronicle., 1948-12-24

OF Washington, D. c.; Mrs. Name
James and son, Billy and Mr. and
Mrs. John A. Tubbs and son. Bill
Milford chronicle., 1948-12-24
Australia Reports
Population

CANBERRA Il tR- Australia's
population at June 50. 1947 was
7,579,S5S. This is the final figure
shown after the count Of the cen
sus taken on that date.
Evening star., 1948-02-19
ChopIuins' Stamp

The four chaplainS of the transport
Dorchester are not to be forgotten by
their country. Like the Marines who
raised the American flag on Mount Surf
bachi, Two Jima, they are to be COM
memorated in postage stamp. Post
master General Jesse M. Donaldson last
week approved plan submitted by his
Third Assistant, Joseph J. Lawler, for a
postal adhesive to be printed in such
quantities IS to carry the story OF the
chaplain leroism into every home in
the United States.
Each of the lost heroes might have saved
himself when their vessel was torpedoed
off Greenland early in the morning OF
February 8, 1943. The official account OF
their death told how they handed out life
Jackets on the forward deck until the
supply was exhausted Finally, when the
ship was going down by the bow, survivors
saw them link arms and raise their voices
in prayer.
The names of the four chaplains were:
Alexander D. Goode, a rabbi who formerly
had been an assistant minister of the
Washington Hebrew Congregation; John
P. Washington, Roman Catholic priest
from Newark, New Jersey; George L. Fox
of Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts,, and Clark
v. Polling of Schenectady, New York,
Protestants. No arbitrary difference OF
philosophy separated them when they
volunteered to serve as spiritual advisers
in the Army; no barrier rose between them
when in the last great crisis of their exist
ence they together "set supreme example
of courage and calmness."
A stamp in tribute to such demonstra-
ton of patriotism and religious unity will
not be easy to design. Mr.. Lawler has a
difficult as well as a sacred task before
him. But the result surely will be worthy
of his best endeavor. The new commemo-
rative will be appreciated by the whole
Nation
Evening star., 1948-02-19

ing real hazards for venturesome pilots
whose planes may not be equipped with
radio. Few small planes st the sports
mems type are so equipped. It is Of great
value to such flyers to be able to read on
the roof of barn, factory or warehouse
that certain town lies ten miles in the
direction pointed out by an arrow, or that
gas and oil may be obtained at an airport
not far ahead.
The air-marker enterprise in Washing
ton and vicinity will be conducted by
Scouts of the District, Maryland and Vir-
ginia, under sponsorship of the National
Capital Area Council Scores of the signs
will be painted in this area and more
than ten thousand are planned in the
Nation at large. This is a good turn for
aviation that should help to make anna
teur flying safer in an era of greatly in
creased activity at Americas multiplying
airportS,
Evening star., 1948-02-19
NOT Too Much Time

Argument that the AuchinclosS nome
rule bill will relieve Congress OF burden
some detail in local government douptleSS
appeals to some members of Congress.
It is good "sales talk" for the BILL Its
Importance, in that respect is Indicated
bv the fact that the first of three "deslr-
able detectives" listed by its sponsors IN
support of the bill is relieving Congress
as much as possible of the burdensome
housekeeping functions of the District o1
Columbia" while retaining the essential
control assigned in the Constitution.
There can be no quarrel with this as an
objective. With or without home rule
Congress can delegate much more author
ity to a municipal government, appointed
or elected than it has chosen to do IN
the past.
But the argument can be overempha-
sized. For example, the staff assisting IN
preparation of the home-rule measure
made an ingenious illustration of the time
consumed by Congress on local government
by expressing it in man hours. The man
hours expended on the District by the
House alone last year is estimated at
3,00O Standing alone, the figure Is inter-
esting and intended to be impressive.
Used in relation to the total man hours
expended by the House in all its labors,
however, the figure can be judged in its
proper perspective. The House was in ses-
sion last year for IA days. There are A35
members of the House. To Zach one OF
them daily stint of eight hours, undoubt-
edly an underestimate, might be assigned.
1t serves, at any rate, as rough approx
nation in the sum of SOL ,120 man hours
spent by the House last session on all its
business compared with the 5000 man
hours-about six-tenths of one per cent
spent on governing the District of Co.
lumbia.
The difficulty is not the amount OF time
spent by Congress on the District of Co.
Iumbia 1t never has been. The difficulty
is that the work is loaded on few men.
Some of them accept the task rs an oppor-
tunity for unselfsh. constructive labor
Some accept it as an opportunity for
personal influence and publicity Congress
as a whole wastes or otherwise devotes
a negligible proportion of it's time on the
District of Columbia. There are sound
arguments in support of home rule. But
the labor by Congress expended on local
government is not one of them.
Evening star., 1948-02-19
A RivoI Conference on Germany

While representatives of Britain, France
and the United States are gathering IN
London for conference on Western
Germany, it is interesting tosnote another
three-power gathering on the subject OF
Germany. That second conference has
already opened in Prague, the capital OF
Czechoslovakia. The participants are the
Czechoslovak, Polish and Yugoslav foreign
ministers, together with large delegations
of political, military and economic
specialists.
All this invests the Prague Conference
with major significance. And the purpose
of the gathering is plain. 1t is intended to
promote the interests of the governments
concerned, who are frankly opposed to the
policies of the western powers regarding
Germany and are in close association with
Moscow. The Soviet government has, OF
course, already protested the very holding
of the London Conference as being a
usurpation of the Four-Power Council of
Foreign Ministers and contrary to the
Yalta and PotSdam Agreements. Moscow
has therefore served notice that it will
not be bound by any decisions which may
De dTTlVeU dG DCGWCCI tAlC WCSGC4A POWSAo'
The regimes participating in the Prague
Conference are, of course, under Soviet
influence and control. Poland and Yugo-
slavia are mere puppets of Moscow Czech
oslovakia, while not yet entirely under
Moscows thumb, follows their general line
of policy regarding Germany, not only be-
cause of pressure from Moscow but also
because it is against any revival of Ger
many except under the domination Of
Moscow and its satellites. Czechoslovakia
and Poland have both profited enormously
from the seizure of Germany's eastern
provinces, and the two governments have
entered into far-reaching economic agree
ments fox the joint development of former
German resources, including the pooling of
electric power, the cutting of canals and
the common enlargement of the port Of
Stettin at the mouth of the River Oder.
The Prague Conference can therefore
be regarded both as flank attack on the
London Conference and as a consolidation
of their joint solidarity to defend their
gains in Germany and push further de-
Evening star., 1948-02-19
A Good Turn for Aviation

The latest Boy Scout project is deserving
of special commendation. Under ma
tional program supervised by the Civil
Aeronautics Administration, Scouts
throughout the country will emblazon Sc
lected rooftops with air signs and markers
to guide private flyers in their cross
country hops.
Many. far-sighted communities already
have provided such signs, indicating to
aerial travellers not only the name, direc-
tion and distance of particular city or
town but of the nearest airport or emer-
gency landing strip. These visual air
trafhc aids undoubtedly have been in
strumental in guiding many lost flyers to
safe landings and perhaps in averting
serious accidents.
But private flyers still complain that air
markers are too few, situation present.
Evening star., 1948-02-19
Who Is Going to Poy for 1t?

Speaking of spirals, as almost everybody
is doing these days, we should not forget
the spiralling cost of municipal govern
ment.
Here in Washington we have good reason
to understand what it means. We are
paying the highest local taxes in our
history. Yet the budget for the next fiscal
year will not be balanced unless still higher
taxes are decreed, The sales tax is the
only new form of tax that will balance
the local budget.
But consider the effect on this already
unbalanced budget of the $1,000 ''across-
the-board" wage increase to Government
employees recommended unanimously yes
terday by a subcommittee of the Senate
Civil Service Committee.
In Washington it would Immediately
add 100000 to what is already an
enormous city government payroll. That
would take care, however, OF only the 5000
classified city employees. There are another
5000 per diem employees, teachers, firemen
and policemen. In fairness they would
share the cost-of-living increase. The
total bill would exceed $17,000,0 COCOON
siderabIy more money than sales tax is
expected to produce.
Here we have situation, then, in which
a sales tax is being recommended as the
only practical method of balancing the
local budget and financing needed capital
improvements. But the proceeds of the
sales tax would be insufficient to meet the
cost-of-living increase just recommended
by the Senate committee.
For Federal employees alone, the cost is
estimated at billion and a half dollars.
So enormous is the cost of National Gov
ernment, so heavy is the burden of Federal
taxation, that the effect would be tempo
rarily obscured.
But it would not be obscured in local
government. This increase would produce
a financial emergency in local government
costs for which there is no available
remedy. It's serious effect could Offset any
immediate advantages of the cost-of-living
increase.
Evening star., 1948-02-19
Taxes a Heavy Burden

To the Editor Of The Star:
That so few people protest against terrific
governmental spending proves in my opinion
that they do not realize how much in taxes
is being taken from them. Weekly income and
security tax deductions; admission, sales and
excise taxes; and the deceptive hidden" taxes
do not readily disclose their magnitude when
collected little by little. Added together, how
ever, they loom large indeed
To prove this T calculated the total cost of
such taxes-using a single woman earning $45
weekly as an example. The result is astound-
ing It shows such persons pay about 1924 Of
their yearly income in taxes or that they work
more than one-third of their time for the Gov
eminent. 7 do not believe their apathy indi-
Gates that they are content to let extravagant
Government spend so much of their hard
earned wages that it is practically impossible
for them to save a cent for themselves. Taxa
tion methods are deceiving them
The above calculation is based on the fol-
lowing:
Evening star., 1948-02-19
Roosevelt Administration Intrigue

TO the Editor Of The Star:
agree with Theodore D. Perrine, who wrote
to The Star regarding Mr.. Hulls memoirs. It
is indeed discouraging to discover that OUR So
called leaders were practicing intrigue and
secrecy just as surely as those Of Russia. Each
former member of F. DIS official family wne
writes his memoirs adds new information
which confirms our belief that the whole
Roosevelt administration was the most hypo-
critical, ruinous and dishonest in the history
of our country.
The American public was treated, so far as
being informed Is concerned, as If its mental
age might be under II years. and well it de-
served this sort of treatment!
MRS G. B. WARD
Evening star., 1948-02-19
Attention, PTAs

To the Editor of The Star:
Two important projects for PTAs to work
on are: ID To have all schools close early in
June and open early in September. The
weather in September usually is bad, whereas
June is one of the loveliest months for fam
lilies to 60 on vacations, and travelling accom-
modations are less crowded than later in sum-
mer AS it is, families having children in both
private and public schools, have to wait for
public schools to close before they can leave,
then have to come back earlier to enter chill
dren in the private schools that open earlier.
co One of the most needed things in the
world is adult education, to hasten its progress.
There is none provided for the far northwestern
part of the District of Columbia and classes
should be held both day and night at Wilson
High School, beginning in September. 1913,
giving instruction in academic and technical
subjects. Il. M.
Evening star., 1948-02-19
American History Is Taught

To the Editor Of The Star:
In. reply to one of your correspondents who
recently wrote to complain OF the lack OF
movies which have good historical backgrounds,
and also to criticize the lack of teaching history
in the public schools, quite agree with her
that we all could benefit from more liberal
showing of historical films. 1t is hard to
understand why there is such dearth Of them
when the attendance at such showings always
is high and would continue high If the pictures
were allowed to run for several weeks at a
stretch.
But cannot agree with the lady that
because she thinks our young people simply do
not know the basic facts of our history, "our
schools simply do not teach American history"
for know this to be entirely untrue. T am
acquainted with several teachers of history who
are doing excellent work in trying to get their
subject across to their students.
All public high schools in the District OF
Columbia have a prescribed course in American
history which must be pursued for one year
before graduation. If the boys and girls from
our high schools do not know the fundamentals
of the history of their country, it is because
they have not absorbed the facts presented to
them. A TEACHER-NOT OF HISTORY.
To the Editor of The Star:
j. M in his letter of February 5 strongly
disapproves of additional history courses in
Washington schools How, may we ask, does
j. M. propose to teach how to live better in
the future without first intoxicating knowledge
Of the past? Experience is still our best
teacher 1t is much safer and easier to avoid
future pitfalls by first learning the human
races collective past experience.
We are certain that j. M. is aware that
tomorrow will be the result of today just as
today is the result of yesterday. We all concur
with his hopes for better world. But how
can we avoid repeating yesterdays mistakes
until we first know what they were? Could we
be expected to fully recognize and cure the
symptoms of an erring world unless we knew
the analogous historical causes and failures?
An atomic war might destroy our advanced
technology, unless we quickly apply our knowl-
edge of the foibles and mistakes of the past
to prevent contemporary civilization from TAX
ing similar downward steps. History might
be compared to line with distant contrasts
of sharp ascensions and declines Whether
that line continues to climb or descend depends
on our application of historical and sociological
knowledge.
Ethics, itself, has been formulated and
largely determined by history Our technical
progress need have no limits after we have
first applied history toward building solid
ethical foundation r. BAILEY.