Milford chronicle., 1951-03-09
EIGHTY-EIGHT YEARS YOUNG

OOlOH6I william Il. Lank, MllIOfQ S grand
old man, celebrated his eighty-eight birth
day last Saturday with fitting celebration
MilfOrd'S "yOungSter" was royalty enter
tanned last Friday evening at the American
Legion Home 1t seems that time just
does not catch up with some people. Capt"
Lank, as he is familiarly known to our older
citizenry, is one of them. AS a small boy
during the SpaniSh-American War we learn
ed to know Capt. Lank We were encamDed
with our father, then Major Theodore Town
send, with the Delaware Volunteers Capt
Lank commanded old Company "B" at the
time. From that time until the present we
have known, and respected him. With the
advent of trouble with Mexico in 1914, Major
Lank went to New Mexico with the Della
ware troops. 1t was while stationed at Dem
ing, New Mexico, that he was severely in
jured when a horse fell on him and crushed
a hip. Predictions that he would never walk
again were unfounded. He recovered and
went to France with the Delaware Pioneer
Regiment in 1917. He returned home a
Lieutenant-COlonel.
A lifelong resident of Milford, he has
engaged in many activities during his long
and useful life. AS a Justice-Of- -the-Peace
he served well and long. Probably one of
his greatest disappointments in life was
when Governor Carvel played cheap politics
and did not reappOint him Notary Public,
even though up to the present State Admin
lstratiOn Notaries were not considered DO
itical jobs. Many Of his friends are now
urging a petition to the Governor asking
that he be renamed a Notary Public for
South Milford. A petition will be circulated
asking that this be done. Will you, regard
less of political affiliation, sign it? Let's
pay our respects to Capt" Lank in this
manner.
CONTROLS WILL CUT PRODUCTION
Farm folk and city folk-big business
and little businesS-we're all eager to do
our share in the defense effort. We're all
eager to get at the job of preparing America
to beat back Communist aggression.
However, there is always confusion and
delay as a democracy turns from peace
work to defense work. The thing we must
remember during this period of confusion
and delay is that every farmer and every
manufacturer knows more about his own
business than any Federal bureaucrat can
tell him.
NOw-as always in the past-any con-
trols set up by bureaucrats will only slow
down production because nationwide con-
trolls won't apply to farms and businesses
IN various parts of the country. Pancky
wage and price controls won't help. The
sooner we rid our economy of such controls.
the more productive this nation will be, and
the further we will be along the road to
victory and survival
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CONTROLS POOR INITIATION DAM
When people are earning good wages, it
is futile to try to keep them from spending
as they please. They buy what they want
when they want it-regardless of price-fix-
ing or rationing. Our experience in World
War II proved that. That is why price and
wage controls must not be considered an eff
fective bar against imitation during the
present period of rearmament. The controls
can ixprice tags, but they reach only the
symptoms of imitation. That is why higher
taxes should stop up some of the extra cash
now We can pay higher taxes with less
suffering than we'd undergo during disas-
trous imitation. And besides, the taxes will
put reaRmament on a pay-as-We-go basis, and
keep down the national debt.