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Milford chronicle., 1951-11-09
MITCHELL

Mrs. Mary Jane Mitchell. aged rs
years, widow of Isaac P. Mitchell,
of FTankford, died at the home OF
daughter, Mrs. Carrie Lowe, in
Frankford, Thursday evening,
short time after suffering a heart
attack. A native Of Sussex County
she was a daughter Of the late
Elisha and Lettie Hudson Wilker-
son. Besides Mrs Lowe, she is sur
vived by two other daughters: Mrs.
Eva Hickman, Millsboro and Mrs.
Jerdie Wooten, Laurel; two sons,
Norman Mitchell, Frankford and
Merrill Mitchell, Millsboro. There
are also 20 grandchildren and q
eat-grandchidren, q sister, Mrs.
Verna Parker, of Laurel and 2
brothers John Wilkers0n, Selby-
Vile eand William ]. Wilkerson,
Laurel. Funeral services were held
/ in West Woods Methodist Church,
near MiIlsboro, last Sunday after
noon at two o'clock with the Rev.
Clarence E. wilkins, pastor Of the
! church officiating. Interment was
in Mechanics Cemetery in Mills
bor0.
Milford chronicle., 1951-11-09
NO RELIEF IN SIGHT
ECONOMISTS REPORT

The New York Times reports the Fed
eral Government will go into the red this
year and again next year even more deeply,
and apparently there is nothing Congress
can do to prevent it. Pay-as-we-gO, has be-
come a lost cause. The new tax bill of S5.7
billion will not approach the sum needed to
balance the budget for 1951-1952, the report
said, showing that even if Congress had ap-
proved in full President Truman's request
for a $40 billion tax increase, the pay-as-
yOu-go system would still be out of reach.
The Times estimates that perhaps an
additional S5 billion or so might be squeezed
out of tax sources without running the ma
tiOnal economy but quoted no authorities or
legislators who believe the country could
stand much more than that unless Congress
resOrted to some such unconventional reve-
nue. system as a general sales or transaction
tax.
otherwise, the Government must con-
tinue to borrow vast sums to meet expenses,
and the national debt will continue to rise
MANY responsible economists conse-
Quently see a grave inhatiOnary situation
ahead. They feel that Congress, to prevent
an economic blOw-up, must scrape the bot
tom of the tax barrel until the nails are eX-
posed and simultaneously impose the most
drastic sort of artificial restrictions on cred
it, prices and wages"
This may spell austerity, The Times
points out, but the alternative as things are
now, is boom and bust That is what the
Russians, according to a widely held belief
are really striving for.
Milford chronicle., 1951-11-09
Washington Letter ByJ. E. Jones
LEAK The Plans But
Hide The Performance"
New U. S. Policy

LEAK The Plans But
Hide The Performance"
New U. S. Policy
While the White House, the Pen
tagon, cabinet officers and sundry
others are busily leaking" mill
tary information as a part of the
currently popular "scare Stain"
policy, Manly Fleischmapn, head of
the Defense Production Admins
tration and the National PrOduc-
ton Authority, announces a four
man security committee. This
group, headed by James F. King,
a former Baltimore newspaperman,
will sit on defense production in
formation, and decide what we can
be told.
This would seem to mean that
while we will continue to feed the
enemy with dope on atOm-pOwered
planes and subs, tactical atom
weapons, the III" bomb, defense
plant activities and locations, Ov-
erseas bases, strength and deplOy-
ment of forces and SO on, the tax
payers are not to be told where
and by how much its government
is falling down in the production
of such commonplace needs as
tanks, mombers, fighter planes
trucks and ammunition.
Meantime a swarm of Govern
ment spokesmen" descended OF
the Hot Springs, Va, meeting o
! the Business Advisory Council, t
spread sunshine among these bust
ness leaders who have been gath
cred together by Secretary of Com
merce Charles Sawyer to advisD
the government on economic poll
cies. "The initiative is beginning t.
pass into the hands of the West,
they were told, and further tina
80 far there are no signs that tn
Russians are prepared to star
World War Ill"
But we doubt that any or all q
Milford chronicle., 1951-11-09

signal for the admissions that cor
ruptiOn i'm government may be a
major political issue next year.
Mr.. McKinney's own inaugural
speech-delivered with his prede-
cessOr, William NJ Boyle, Jr.. sit
ting white-faced at his side-Was
the frankest admission by the
chairman of a political party that
his own party needed a house
cleaning that veteran political re-
pOrters could remember.
The new chairman - in blunt
HOOsier language-said he was go
ing to stop influence peddling at
Democratic headquarters and make
other drastic" changes to cor
rect certain existing faults and
weaknesses"
He indicated what he had in
mind the very next day when he
stepped OaLside the realm of the
Democratic committee and won
the Presidents approval for a pro-
posal that collectors of internal
revenue-targets of one of the hot
test current scandals - be taken
out of politics and placed under
civil service. Thus a political lead.
er took the unusual step Of trying
to reduce his party's patronage.
Mr.. McKinney's words and &C
tiOns we're highly interesting fol
several reasons:
/. They signaled a reversal o
the stand taken by most Admins
tratiOn leaders-from Mr.. Trumal
and Mr.. Boyle dOwn-to belittle
disparage and brush aside eacl
new disclosure of official corrup
tiOn in Washington.
The Presidents attitude was ex
emplified by his comment that tn
original report of Senator ]. vii
liam Fulbright, D., Ark, on pOliti
cal influence in the ReconstruC
tion Finance Corporation was "as
nine" Senator Fulbright there
upon proved his charges and fore
ed Mr.. Truman to reOrganize th
Milford chronicle., 1951-11-09

children he decorated the tree with
many small lighted candles to sim
ulate the beautiful sights he had
seen earlier that evening in the
forest.
The Scandinayians. some inVesti-
gators believe, originated the
Christmas tree in their early prac-
tice of erecting poles to support
sheaves of grain as a Christmas
gift for the birds. Others assert
that the first Christmas trees were
fruit trees. pOtted months ahead of
| time so as to be in full bloom at
Christmas.
An Arab philosopher of the tenth
century noted that trees and flow
ers awaited bloom on Christmas.
j A French legend declares that can
dies were seen for the first time
towering on a Christmas tree in
the thirteenth century. Another
legend says the rod of Joseph of
Arlmathea. a hawthorn tree, flow
cred at Christmas at Glastonbury
and elsewhere in England.
These stories, however, accord
ing to some scholars do not. actu-
ally mark the birth either of the
Christ Child or of the idea of the
/, birth of a Christ Child, for similar
customs we're in existence more
than 5000, years before the begin
= ginning of the Christian Era. These
; scholars. for example. point to the
: custom widely practiced all over
: the ancient world of decorating
houses with green bOughs-a GUS
tom believed to have originated in
the early worship of trees.
Another custom cited in this con-
nection was that of having sacrifi-
cial offerings in the form of first
/ harvested crops hung on certain
trees in which, it was believed.
: dwelt spirits or gods. The ancient
, peoples also wOrshipped the sun
= and held big festivals to honor the
. sun gods at the time of the win
ter solstice, shortest day of the
1 year. This festival was called Yule
by the GOths and SaxOns.
Milford chronicle., 1951-11-09

II. +. Z.
It was further exemplified by
his refusal to find any trace Of
wrOng-doing when such aids as
Donald S. Dawson, Major General
Harry Fl. Vaughan and Mr.. Boyle
were caught in what appeared to
be efforts to trade on their infiu-
ence.
This attitude was likewise indi-
Gated by the Internal Revenue Bu-
reau's reluctance to expose and
prosecute the wrongdoers in its
ranks and the strange suggestion
of John B. Dunlap, Internal Rev
enue Commissioner, that those in
vestigating the bureau should back
away lest they destroy public will
ingness to pay taxes.
2. In the face of this attitude
of the Administration hierarchy,
it was obvious that Mr. Mckinney
spoke the thoughts Of most MEM
bers of the Democratic National
Committee in his call for a party
house cleaning.
He won prompt support from
| such party stalwarts as Senator
Estes Kefauver, D., Tenn, who
used even stronger words to de-
mand that the Democrats them
selves toss out any wrong-doers;
Senator Joseph c. O'Mahoney, D.,
Wyo., and James Roosevelt, son
of the late President.
Mr.. Mckinney, it was learned
later. was thoroughly briefed be-
fore his election by some of the
committees practical politicians
and given an earful of their griev-
| ances. about the way the party had
been run under Mr.. Boyle.
A major grievance was that the
: apparent attitude of 'see no evil
= hear no evil, speak no evil" taken
= by party leaders in Washington
: and the failure to recognize the
= issue of corruption in government
= was already making a deep inn.
= preston on voters throughout thC
e country.
Milford chronicle., 1951-11-09

The origin of the Christmas-tree
ceremony still is shrOuded in un-
certainty and no one seems to be
sure where the custom started. It
is estimated that 10000 acres in
this country are used solely for
growing Christmas trees.
One legend says that ST BOni-
face, English missionary to Ger
many in the eighth century, desig-
mated a small fir a holy tree after
he had felled an oak, long an OBJ
ject of pagan worship. He declar-
ed the fir was the wood of peace,
and because its leaves were ever
green. the sign of an endless life.
The Vikings legend held tha
"the Lord in the ninth century dis
patched His emissaries, Faith, Hop,
and Charity. earthward to selec
the first Christmas tree. Tradi
tiOn has it that they chose the bal
sam fir because it bore man!
crosses on every tree and branch
was high as hope and wide a
love-"
The French and Germans credi
Bonchevalier Ga legendary figure
with the discovery of the frs
Christmas tree as follows:
walking through the forest on
Christmas Eve, he beheld a tai
evergreen, brilliantly aglow wit
glimmering candlelight and crown
ed with an iridescent halo. Hi
mother later interpreted this phen
OmenOn by stating that BOncheva
lier had seen the Tree of Human
ity' and that the candles represent
ed the people all over the world
while the halo at the trees cres
was the Christ Child watching owe
ALL"
A Lutheran story has it tina
Martin Luther became enchante
on Christmas night in 1850 by tn
sparkling of the stars and tn
glistening reflection of the moon
e beams on snOw-fecked evergreen
This led him to cut down a sma
tree, take it home and place it o
a table. To the delight of his sma
Milford chronicle., 1951-11-09

pretty much have to stick to the letter of
the price control rules because quite apart
from matter of honesty they have too much
at stake"
It may be that attacks on the meat people
and other business represent an effort to
avoid the fact that price control always pro-
duces confusion and disrupted markets, and
to pass the buck for the governments fail
ure to realize this. No one should be de-
luded by such a stratagem. Apparently the
packers are being abused for 9beying the
law.
Milford chronicle., 1951-11-09
HUDSON

Ardis Hudson, 80, of Selbyville,
died Friday at the Beebe Hospital,
Lewes, following a long illness Of
a heart ailment He is survived by
his mother, Mrs. Ida West, of Sell
byville. Funeral services were held
Tuesday at 2 p. m, at Watson and
Gray Funeral Home. Frankford,
with Rev. Frank Baynard, pastor
of Frankford Methodist Church,
officiating. Interment was in Colo
mel Armwell Long Cemetery, in
Frankford.
Milford chronicle., 1951-11-09
BABSON Discusses Your Age

BABSON PARK, Mass, Nov.
8 - In 1850 there were eleven
workers under 65 years of age
for every person over IS years
old. Gradually the number of
workers over IS has increased
until in 1851 there are only five
working adults under 65 for
every adult over 65. Projecting
this trend to 1860 we find there
will be only about three work
ing adults for every oldster. If
we project to 1000 A. D., which is
only fifty years hence, fantastic
Milford chronicle., 1951-11-09
THE TRUMAN PROGRAM

There has been so much big news this
year that one fact Of great political and
economic Importance has been Obscured. The,
fact is that the session of Congress which
Just ended gave President Truman's alien
comprising social welfare program the COM
plete deep-freeze treatment. The roster Of
failure in this regard was complete. The
compulsory health insurance proposal wasn't
even given hearings in House or Senate.
Nor was the equal rights measure, or the
Federal Fair Employment Practices law.
Nor was the Brannan Plan for production
payments to farmers. bill providing Fed
eral aid to medical education did come to
vote in the Senate, and was decisiVely de-
feated. The House ignored this scheme COM
pletely. No President has asked more social
welfare legislation of Congress than has
Harry Truman. No President has been more
Intellectual in the achievement of a social
welfare program
Mr.. Truman didn't get his way in many
other matters either The new tax bill, for
example, will produce only about half as
much additional revenue as the President
asked of COngress-even though it will
bring the tax burden to an all-time high
save for the peak reached during the last
major war. Mr. Truman cannot blame these
setbacks-which obviously ranked him hard
on the Republicans alone. The Democrats
have small majOritieS in both branches of
Congress. But great many Democrats are
as opposed to the Presidents ideas on social
and kindred legislation as any Republican.
These Democrats are not all from the ira
ditiOnally conservative South. Some OF them
have Northern and Western constituencies
where Mr.. Truman's following is supposed
to be strong. The fact that the Presidents
program was beaten doesn't mean that it is
now ancient history. There is one quality
in Mr.. Truman which is acknowledged by
both his friends and enemies, and that quail
ity is stubbornness. He thinks his program
is right, and he thinks the masses of the
voters want it. If he runs again, he will
undoubtedly use it for campaign ammuni-
ton, just as he did last time.
In only one big matter did the President
get his way almost totally. That was rearm-
ament and the related European aid pro-
gram. And that program is bipartisan, and
it was engineered in large part by Republi-
cans, such as John Foster Dulles and the
late Senator Vandenburg. There is much
difference of opinion over details both be-
tween the parties and within the parties
But there is overwhelming agreement on the
broad general principles. One development
in the view of many, is likely to overshadOW
all other domestic issues during the next
campaign-cOrruptio and irregularities IL
the government. Even such burning issue!
as taxation and government spending cOulC
conceivably be subordinated to it. In tn,
past, nothing, save war, has so infamed tn
hearts and minds of the American peOpi
as scandals in high places and graft in tn
government bureaus. The disclosures tina
have so far been made are, it is believed
merely fOreShadOWing of even more shock
ing revelations. That is the kind of thinj
which has roundly beaten candidates an,
parties before.
Milford chronicle., 1951-11-09
PASSING THE BUCK AGAIN

Price Controller Michael Disable has been
most critical of the meat packers of late.
According to him, they are deliberately at
tempting to destroy the whole price control
system. Mr.. Disable is entitled to his views,
but other observers draw very different con-
clusions from the present confusion in the
meat industry. For example, news dis
patches from Chicago said that, in a recent
week, the 95 leading meat professors were
handling 35 per cent less beef than year
before. Of this the Wall Street Journal said
editOrially, Zone thing this Chicago item
ought to suggest to the Washington authOri-
ties is that if the professors were trying to
gang up on the price control program, a
curious way to go about it is to do them
selves out Of 35 per cent of this business. -
The Journal then observed that the total
supply of livestock coming to the market was
about the same as a year ago, and cOntin-
ued: 'Where did the rest of the livestock
go? And why? 1t pretty obviously went to
other professors, and there's a sneaking
suspicion that quite bit went to black-Or
at least gray-marketee There's also a
tiny suspicion that it went to these rather
than the 95 leading professors because OF
a matter Of price. The leading professors
Milford chronicle., 1951-11-09
Democrats Change Tune

The growing the parys poli-
clans that the scandals which
might their
for the first time last week.
The election of Frank Mckinney, Indiana banker
phye in national politics.
Milford chronicle., 1951-11-09
OBITUARY
BULOW

BUL0W
Funeral services for Mrs. Will
hemina o. Bulow, age 81 years,
were held from the home of her
son, former State Senator Leon c.
Bulow. in Bridgeville, on Monday
afternoon. teTment in the
Bridgeville Cemetery. Mrs. BulOw
was stricken with a heart attack
last Friday evening and passed
away an hour later. She was the
widow of the late julius Bulow
and besides her son is survived by
two daughters, Mrs. Elsie Simpler,
of Bridgeville, and Miss Clara Bu-
low of Wilmington, eleven grand
children and eleven great-grand-
children. Funeral services were in
charge of Rev. L. e. WimbrOw OF
Snow Hill. Md, former pastor ol
Union Methodist Church, Bridge
Vile.
Milford chronicle., 1951-11-09

ing, no agreement on the location
of the buffer zone was in sight
That a truce is expected how
ever, might be read into the state
ment of Army's Chief of Staff,
General Lawton Collins from
somewhere in Korea" that our
troops will have to stay in Korea
for some time if a cease-fire is
arranged"
Meantime fresh Red troops are
reporting coming into the enc
mys lines from their apparently
inexhaustible reserves in that
protected Shangri-la just over the
border of Mongolia. And mean
time in the U. s., our baggage cars
are carrying more and more Am
orleans home, in fiag-draped cOf-
fins.
On the Square
In fine whistle-stOp form, PTesi-
dent Truman lashed out at "spe-
cial interests" "the forces of re-
action" and even that lOng-dis-
/ carQeQ DrOmlQe t0e privileged
few" in dedicating "GOmpers
! Square," in Washington on the
very day that hundreds of pickets
resOrted to violence to maintain 8
wildcat strike on the piers of New
York.
In his flOrid please for "justicC
for the working man" the Presi
dent excOriated those who woulC
"cut the strength of organized la
Dor into little pieces" Appar
emily, he has failed to realize tha
only organized labor itself can d.
that, for he overlooked completed,
a made-tO-Order opportunity to tel
Labor's Templars that the uniOl
= which can not or will not cOntro
it's members or honor its con
= tracts can not survive.
: Perhaps it's beside the poin
but GOmpers Square is 'not
square. It's a triangle.
Milford chronicle., 1951-11-09
U.S.. Leads World In Xmas Fetes
Intensity Attached To Holiday And Wide Trude
Links Here---History Of The Yule Tree

Although United history
countries
stripped intensity
festival according
emark Associate History Museum Herbaum article
pn1oin
Milford chronicle., 1951-11-09
MITCHELL

Funeral services for Miss Ruth
l.. Mitchell, S5. who was killed on
Saturday night, when she was
struck by car on highway, were
held at the Watson and Gray Fu-
neral Home, Frankford, Thursday,
at 2 O'Clock. Rev. S. Turner Fos-
ter, of Frankford Presbyterian
Church officiated, and interment
was held in Red Mems Cemetery.
Dagsboro. Miss Mitchell had been
employed by the H. and H. Poul-
try Company She is survived by
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Mitchell, of Selbyville; a brother
Raymond, stationed in Panama with
the Army; and the following bro
Tiers and sisters, Herman. Marie
Charles, Vernon. Fannie, Rosadel
and Cecil, all Of Selbyville.
Milford chronicle., 1951-11-09
Were Still Being
Talked To Death

The truce talks at PanmunjOm
are reported as proceeding with
out acrimony, and also without
progress. THE teeter-tOtter teet-
ers more than it tOtters," says Col
onel William P. NuckOls, the UN
information officer. At this writ
Milford chronicle., 1951-11-09

these tactics will help any of us
forget there is a war on, right
now that there is an Ameri-
can casualty list of $1,000 COM
pared with 1000 for our allies d.
that we are maintaining full
strength replacements and placing
additional reserve units in Japan,
while most of our UN friends are
not making replacements at all,
thus leaving us more and more of
the load to carry.
No one will question that the
administration is making every eff
fort to conclude the Korean
slaughter, and promote our sub
sequent security. But an honest
effort would be more inspiring.
Britain Warns
Trans belligerant premier. Mo-
manned M0ssadegh is apparently
finding the climate of Washington
more soothing than that of New
York. First, his health is imprOv-
ed so that he has moved from the
Presidential suite of the Army's
Walter Reed Hospital to a hotel
second he has indicated that his oil
battle with Britain might be ami
cably settled under an arrange
ment whereby Iran controls pro
duction and the British takt
charge of marketing. And the frs
official act of the new FOreigI
Minister Anthony Eden was to or
der his ambassador in Iran to Lon
don Immediately for oil discus
! SiOnS.
Evening star., 1951-09-11
WuistfuII?
By Josephine Lowmon

Are you "waistfull'? If so. bet
ter get busy with a few simple
exercises to slim that vital mid
portion. This is essential if you
are to have a youthful graceful
figure. No matter what age you
are, if you have a thick waist
your figure will look matronly.
The waist responds more quick
ly to special reducing exercises
than any other part of the figure
You will see some difference after
q week or so of faithful exercise
Do this one: Stand tall. Twist
your trunk to the left, bend and
touch your right hand to your
left toe. Turn trunk toward front
Twist to the right. Bend your
trunk and touch your left hand
to your right toe. Raise your
trunk. Turn forward. Continue
alternating left and right.
Evening star., 1951-09-11
Take Special Exercises

This is an old exercise but il
is often done incorrectly. Make
it in four counts; twist, bend
raise trunk, turn trunk toward
front. In this way the exercise
is much more effective than when
there is no definite twisting OIL
raising of trunk.
This is another waist reducing
motion: Stand erect with your
feet comfortably separated. Raise
both arms overhead. Keep the
arms in that position as you bend
as far to the left as you can
Now sweep the trunk and arms
across the body, bringing the fin
gers as near the floor as you can
Continue toward the right, raise
trunk and bend to the right. This
time bend trunk and sweep the
arms toward the left, raising
trunk and bending sideways to
the left again. You keep the arms