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Milford chronicle., 1953-09-04
MORE MOUTHS TO FEED

The old problems of surpluses which have
plagued agriculture in-recent times are fpass-
ing problems Before long we won't be wor-
rying about whether our farmers will pro
duce too much. Instead, we will be concern
ed with whether they can produce enough
for our expanding needs
The reason for this lies in what is hap
pening to our population. Each II seconds,
America gains a new-and hungry mouth.
We have passed the 16O,OOO,OOO mark. and
the time when we will have 2OO,OOO,OOO peO-
pie is in sight. Yet our agricultural acreage
remains practically cOnstant-our new ar
rivals bring no new land to farm.
What, then, is the solution? 1t lies in a
better utilization and conservation of the
land-in the attitude that our farm lands
are trust, which must be passed on to the
next generation in the most productive poss-
ible state. And it lies in the increasing use
OF mechanical equipment-in the amazing
machines which enable each farmer to pro-
duce more crops and better crops in the most
economical fashion.
The farm machine has brought us a very
long way. Today a small part of our total
population produces all the food and fiber
we consume and expOrt-leSs than a century
ago the great majority of our people were
employed at this task. The machine, in other
words, has worked a peaceful revolution.
That revolution is still going on, and there
is no end in sight
Milford chronicle., 1953-09-04

only logical outcome of such a tax
is really economical government.
But do not expect all this over
night. To accomplish it's propeF
purpose, national sales tax would
have to replace a myriad maze of
hidden" taxes, to say nothing of the
tricky and bewildering income tax.
REPUBLICANS ARE REPORTED
AS STUNNED and Democrats de-
lighted at the revelation of Trea-
sury Secretary Humphrey that the
Eisenhower budget for next year
calls for six billions for foreign aid!
Oddly enough the Dems are now
opposed to handouts perhaps
because as Adlai Stevenson reported
on his return from Europe, I'VE
carried every country overseas from
Korea to Britain" And that wasn't
much of a victory.
Milford chronicle., 1953-09-04
DELAWARE FARM MARKET NEWS
Market News Information Supplied By The Bureau of MO
State Board OF Agriculture Dover DeIuwcre

The following is a weekly round
up of livestock prices and miscel-
laneOus commodities prevailing last
week. This report shows average
prices received by Delaware farm
ers for commodities that were mar
keted throughout this week.
VEAL CALVES
Choice: $25.OO to $34.5O. mostly
$28.00 per cwt.
Medium 10 good: $500 to s24.5O.
mostly $3.50 per cwt.
Rough and common: $1,000 to
$500, mostly $1,000 per cwt.
Monkeys: $500 to $21.OO, mostly
$17O0 per cwt.
LAMBS
Medium: S17.75 to $24.5O. mostly
$17.75 per cwt.
Common: $3.50 to $16.5O, mostly
$12.5O per cwt.
SLAUGHTER COWS
Medium to good: $1,000 to $1,000.
mostly $3.50 per cwt.
Common: $10.5O to $11.5O, most
ly $11.00 per cwt.
Gamers and cutters: $500 to
$1,000. mostly $3.50 per cwt.
STEERS
Light steers: $11.OO to 1880.
mostly $14.00 per cwt.
FEEDER HEIFERS
Dairy type: $3.50 to $500
mostly $1,000 per cwt.
Beef type: $1,000 to $3.50, most
ly $1700 per cwt.
BULLS
lover 1000 lbsO
Medium to good: $500 to $1,000.
mostly $145O per cwt.
$500 to 1000 lbs.)
Medium to good: $3.50 to SLASH
mostly $3.50 per cwt.
STRAIGHT HOGS
(gOOd quality
40 to ITO lbs: $19.75 to S22.75.
mostly $22.75 per cwt.
40 to 24O lbs: $2S.25 to S24 75
mostly S24.00 per cwt.
24O to $50 lbs: $22.5O to S2S5O
mostly $4,000 per cwt.
SOWS
(gOOd quality
zoo to 300 lbs: $16.25 to $40 25.
mostly $3.50 per cwt.
Milford chronicle., 1953-09-04
Making Haste Slowly

Asked to comment on the accom-
plishments of his first six months
in office, President Eisenhower lee
tured his press conference on his
theory of gradualism, reminded his
hearers that you could not have a
right angle turn in a railroad, but
must build a gradual curve. This
was necessary. he pointed out, in
picking up where others left off
and where there were opposing pol
icies and ideas after twenty years
of another type of philosophy.
The President stressed the point
that not always must we say that
everything that had been done be-
fore was wrong, that he had never
said that and no reasonable man
would. He said there had been
progress in that the people in the
Government, regardless of party.
were coming to see eye to- eve on
the great important problems that
affected the United States of Am
erica.
His job as he saw it, the Presi
dent explained, was not to create
friction and not to accentuate diff
ference, but to bring people togeth-
er to achieve more progress. That.
ne admitted, was not particularly
dramatic. and it did not mean do
ing something just to get another
headline.
There was no question about II
ne sald' we were making progress.
but we had not gone as fast as he
would like, and that was the sum
total of it.
from such summary, shines the
true greatness of sympathetic un-
derstanding, and the unassailabIe
strength of mOdesty.
Milford chronicle., 1953-09-04
AMENDMENT IGNORED

"The powers not delegated to the United
States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by
1t to the states, are reserved to the states
respectively, or to the people"
So reads the tenth amendment.
For a score of years this amendment has
been Overridden by the so-called "welfare
clause" in the Constitutions preamble, which
has been interpreted by "do-gOOders" to
mean that the Federal government can do
anything they consider necessary "tO Dro-
mote the general welfare"
By ignoring the tenth amendment. the
"do-gOOders" have built up vast. costly
Federal bureaucracy. We won't be free of
this bureaucracy until we "bring government
back home" so each state, county, and mu-
nlcIpallty can know it's own responsibilities
and have its own sources of revenue.
Milford chronicle., 1953-09-04
S51S Mayo
Topeka, Kansas
August 81, 1858

August 81, 1858
When we first moved to Topeka
the last of July we stayed in the
Meadow Acres Motel and the own
er of the Motel, Mrs. Mildred Sper-
ry, was very, very nice to us and
to our children. We were introduce
ed to her by some Topekan who
said she was the Queen of Tone
ka" While we were living in her
modern motel she mentioned the
Meadow Acres Ball Room. which
she too owns. 1t is about 400 feet
in back of the motel. She was tell
ing us some of the name bands
that come there monthly to plav
and the end 'of August we were
told that she would have Les
Brown there for an evenings en-
gagement.
Well, Les Brown is another
story. I don't believe you need anv
introduction to MIR. Brown. but in
case you do. perhaps If I said
Les Browns Band of Renown"
1t might strike home with Won. He
is nationally known for his dance
band. Les and Hayes brother. Jim
my, were roOmmates at New York
Military Academy. While they were
at school together, Les came to
Milford to spend aSweek-end and
then Hayes met him for the first
time. Once, when Hayes was in
college, and Les had begun to re-
celve national acclaim, he invited
Jimmy up to hear the band and
Hayes was included in the invita-
ton. You can imagine what fun
this was for Hayes when he was
IN college and especially interested
IN dance bands.
Just before we were called hack
IN the Air Force we went to Phillv
CPhiladelphia) to see Les again
and this time Elaine and Harry
Mulholland went with us. Les was
accompanying Bob Hope and Doris
Day on a U. S, Tour and then
Hayes had brief visit with this
short, average looking fellow
whose musical talents have paid
him well.
Last night was the night for us
10 try to meet Les again and yes
terday morning Dawn developed a
rarln fever! cancelled the baby
SITTER and told Hayes he'd have
10 go alone. l was really disap-
pointed. Even though 1 had seen
Les the time we went to Philadel-
phla 1 didn't get to meet him and
certainly wanted to meet this guv
mad heard so much about and
Milford chronicle., 1953-09-04

, Cester there was no municina1 water
plant or sewerage system, either
one OF which could then have been
installed for One-quarter of what
tney later cost. l believe that most
cities. including the city from which
l am writing this column, are very
shortsighted today as to municipal
parking facilities. Furthermore. the
longer a city waits to tackle this
problem in big way the more it
VIII cost. These parking expendi-
lures may amount to a million or
more and perhaps equal the cost of
a water. gas or sewage system: but
they can be paid by self-liquidating
bond issues.
Thes municipal parking systems
can become very profitable to everv-
one. AS an illustration let me refer
to Quincy, Mass. Here the city de-
mOlished the buildings at the rear
OF one side of the main business
street at a cost of a million dollars.
This provides parking for a thou
sand cars with a parking meter for
each car. Not only have these park
ing meters given a fine income. but
the business property on this side
of the street has considerably in
creased in value. The merchants
are opening a second front" at
their rear with new show windows.
They also are developing their base
ments as additional floors. Some
stores have almost doubled their
business. Now the stores on the
other side of the street are begging
for another municipal parking area
at the rear of their stores and want
the city to invest another million
dollars in more parking facilities.
Milford chronicle., 1953-09-04
BRYAN RESIGNS AS SUPERINTEN-
DENT AT DELAWARE COLONY

The Commission for Feeble-Minded, un-
der whose jurisdiction Delaware Colony at
Stockley, is operated, accepted the resigna-
ton Of George w. Bryan, Superintendent of
that institution, at meeting held in Dover
on Tuesday evening. We believe the mem
Ders OF the Commission acted wisely in ac-
cepting his resignation.
Regardless of Mr.. Bryan's ability-and
there seems to be no question raised on this
scOre-he had become a controversial figure
over whom only continued squabbling was
sure to revOlve. In view of the fact that he
apparently does not want to work under
rules set up by the Commission, it is the only
logical solution of the problem to accept his
resignation and look elsewhere for a sue
ceSsOr. Regardless of the merits or demerits
OF the issues raised over the conduct of Della
ware Colony In the past and under the ad-
mlnlstratiOn of the outgoing superintend-
ent, 1t seems to us that "meddling" column
lists have had much to do with creating
sentiment dOwnstate against Mr.. Bryan. To
us 1t looks like the Ong-drawn-Out publicity
thrown by northern Delaware sources at
Mrs. Mary Robinson, editor of the Sussex
COuntlan at Georgetown, have backfred.
Certainly the lengthy TRADES and needing
against her have aided in creating an ad-
verse public sentiment against Mr. BRYAN
and his administration.
AS lifelong resident of lower Della
ware, the writer feared that just such SEN
timent was being built up. Public sentiment
in lower Delaware, once aroused, is hard to
overcome. 1t is to be hoped that Mr.. Bryan's
successor shall be given an opportunity to
do good job while working under rules
set up for him by the Delaware Commits
sion for Feeble-Minded which, in the final
analysis, is the boss and has the legal re-
sponsibility for the operation of Delaware
Colony. Less newspaper, radio and televis-
ion publicity stunts are the crying need at
the Colony at this time.
Milford chronicle., 1953-09-04
Units Start Work
In Kent, Sept. 9Th
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culosis carriers should he dis
covered and isolated so that thew
cannot and will not spread the dis
ease to healthy lungs It is therefore
sound logic to assume that all of
us must be X-rayed in order to he
cleared as carriers or non-carriers
OF TB. If one person is not X-rayed
out of 1000 and that one person
has tuberculosis. he or she can all tn
easily transfer TB to any or all of
the 999 others.
Have you had chest X-rav with
IN the last six months? In order to
be certain that you do not have a
lung tumOr, a heart abnormalify.
or tuberculosis. it is necessary to
have your chest X-rayed every six
months.
When you see the mobile X-rav
unit near the place where you are
working or shopping, walk over TO
it and let the X-Tay technicians
write up an insurance policy for
you and your family-because that
is just about what your chest X-ray
will be to you. No appointment is
needed; no bill has to be paid (aI-
though a chest X-Tay would ordi-
narily cost you from $40 to S15):
Just take so seconds to be sure.
Milford chronicle., 1953-09-04
tion of such stores and plants.
Buying Adjoining Lots


Driving about New England towns
this summer I have seen many small
stores and homes where an adjoin-
ing vacant lot is for sale. I strong
ly advise that the owner of the store
or home purchase this adjoining lot
Immediately. In the future this lot
will add considerable to the present
value of your place, as we'll as serve
as protection. The value of a build
ing usually is constantly declining:
but the value of land is usually in
creasing. The time is coming when
parking on all streets will be for
hidden, especially at night. FOrtu-
nate those will be who have a place
on their land for parking and other
purposes.
Another. good speculatiO is
vacant land near where q cross
street intersects a Through Way
or a Turnpike, or even a heavily
travelled road. The reason for
this is that modern Through
ways allow no exit from ad-
joining property onto the main
highway. Going along one of these
new Turnpikes you see a beautiful
knoll and think this would be a
fine place to build a home. Upon
inquiry, however, you learn that you
must buy to the nearest crossroad
in order to get in and out. Yet. there
are many such functions where
there are now no buildings what
ever. The land close to these in
tersections will be the first to build
up and should now be excellent
or speculations.
Municipal Parking Programs
When I was a boy here in Glou-
Milford chronicle., 1953-09-04
A THOUGHT FOR LABOR DAY

High productivity = which means high
unit output per manhOur - has made Amer
lea the real workers Paradise, and that's a
Labor Day thought.
Productivity is the result of many fac
tors. Among them are invention, capital in
vestment, better machines, competition,
good management, and of course, the skill
and cooperation of the labor force.
Productivity has tripled the actual buy
ing power of mans work since 1900 Eco
nOmiSts say new machines, better methods,
and the loyal cooperation of employees will
bring further increases.
That means more goods and lower prices
= the same as an increase in wages. If all
OF us do what we can to speed the march
OF productivity, we can all have that wage
increase - in real rewards.
NO~GRG~G
Milford chronicle., 1953-09-04

300 to 400 lbs: $1,000 to s1s25.
mostly $1,000 per cwt.
Over 400 lbs: $500 to S215O
mostly $3.50 per cwt.
BOARS
tgOOd quality)
Under $50 lbs: $500 to S14OO
mostly $12.OO per cwt.
over $50 lbs: $500 to $1,000.
mostly $3.50 per cwt.
SHOATS
Medium to good: $1,000 to $4,000.
mostly $500 per cwt.
FEEDER PIGS
(6 to IL weeks old)
Choice: $3.50 to $500, mostly
$3.50 per cwt.
Medium to good: $500 to $500
mostly $500 per cwt
Common: $4OO to $500. mostly
$500 per cwt.
LIVE POULTRY
HEAVY BREEDS
Fowl: $1.2O to $1.8O, mostly
$1.60 per cwt.
LIGHT BREEDS
Cockerels: $40 to $40, mostly
Bantam chickens: $50 to $50
mostly $.35. O
DUCKS
Muscovy ducks: $50 to s1O5
mostly. $85.
RABBITS
Large breeds: $.S5 to $1.4O, most
ly $11O. ---'''
Young rabbits: $.25 to $40
mostly $25.
EGGS
Ungraded, mixed: S.471k to $40
per dozen. w
Pullet; $50 to $.45 per dozen.
MISCELLANEOUS PRODUCE
bushel. u
Cantaloupes: $.55 per 81 busbaI
Peppers; $1.2O per bushel
Sweets: $3.50 per bushel
Lima beans: SIS to $500 per
% bushel. -'VO per
can. % iD'
Grapes: $1.7O per * bushel.
Crab Apples: '$l.1O per x busbel
Milford chronicle., 1953-09-04
OUR FOREFATHERS DID RETTER

We applaud the statement of Ambassa-
dor Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., in which he told
the U. N. that Vishinsky in his recent 81
minute TRADE against this country "missed
another one of several great opportunities
IN his life to keep quiet"
But we must recognize too that the Uni
ted States at great toll and expense helped
erect the platform from which the wilv Rms
sian speaks, and is maintaining it todav
with but token help from the other SO mem
Ders OF this choWder club. Nor can we for
get that this is the pagan altar on which we
nave offered up, again and again. the hard
won right of the American people to make
their own decisiOns-and mind their own
business.
And so we must agree with Secretary of
State John Foster Dulles in the dissatisfac-
tlon with the u. N. which he expressed be-
fore the American Bar Association conven-
tiOn in Boston.
Mr.: Dulles said this Noble Experiment
was encumbered with ga pre-atomic char
ter suggesting that the rules would have
been different had we known in 1915 what
was coming.
I'VE now see" he said, ''the inadeouacv
OF an organization whose effective function
ing depends upon cooperation with nation
Wnlch Is dominated by an international party
seeking world domination
We could remind the Secretary that there
were those who saw this pretty clearly back
IN 1945. But we prefer to emphasize the fact
that there is just one legal instrument that
americans have not, through the years
round wanting. That is the Constitution of
tne United States. 1t is document that Mr..
Dulles has sworn to uphold and defend.
In his enthusiasm for revisine~a u. NJ
charter that even he admits is worthless
and In his opposition to the Bricker Amend
ment to prevent further erosion of that Con
sstitution by treaties now being written. we
nope our Secretary of State will not forget
his oath of office.
Milford chronicle., 1953-09-04
SPENDING OUT OF HAND

Federal spending is clearly out of hand
when the highest officials of our government
consider it necessary to struggle for cOntinu-
ance of an admittedly bad tax like the So
called excess profits levy.
The profits tax law was passed originally
as sop to voters who would have fought
any tax increase that didn't "soak" the cor
poratiOns 1t has stunted the growth of small
companies while raising comparatively little
revenue.
The present level of taxation is more than
our economy can stand indefinitely. However.
sound tax laws would collect as much reve-
nue. with less damage. The excess profits
tax only made bad situation worse. The
sooner it is repealed, the better.
Milford chronicle., 1953-09-04
THE END is COMMUNISM


One acknowledgement argument used
10 promote government hydrOelectric devel-
opment is that water is part of the DeOnle'S
he!ltage, and must never be turned over to
private interests for exploitation The arOu-
ment is being used now in favor of federal
OF state construction of $4OO,OOO,OOO hydro
project at Niagara Falls, and in opposition
70 oeVelOpment by five taxpayiHg, business
managed utility companies which are ready
to undertake the project with their own
money. '0'- 0"i Il
Inc holes In the argument are big enough
70 df1Ve locomotive through. in the first
place, the water would not be given awav
After powering the generators. it would he
returned to the river in unchanged form
Inc utilities would pay a substantial sum for
the rlght 10 use 1t. And they would not make
a pront on thewater-their profit, under pub
nc regulation, would be allowed only on the
IacllueS they would build for utilizing the
water and producing and distributing the
power And very large part of these profits
would go TO government in taxes.
Furthermore, if the argument is valid
government should own and control all our
idhu, our ores, our minerals our forests
tnese are natural resources to exactly the
same extent as water. In fact everything we
nave comes directly or indirectly from natur-
a a resources, from food to automobiles. So
tne argument can logically be extended to
saying that the government should own and
run everything. anu
In other words, this is the argument that
once accepted, can end only in Communism
with all the human poverty, misery and
tyranny that involves ''"
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THE RIGHT TO BE LET ALONE
The meaning of few words has been ca
perverted as that fine old term liberalism "
10 many people liberalism has come
70 mean more and more laws designed To
mlraculously cure this or that trouble: more
and more pOlitically-inspired security
measures; more and more government direc-
tion OF and meddlings with our lives.
In the light of that, something written IN
1873 by Supreme Court Justice Brandeis
VINO holds high place as a liberal thinker
deserves reprlnting. He said: "The makers
u our constitution sought to protect
americans in their beliefs, their thou0hts
their emotions and their sensations Thew
conferred, as against the government the
right to be let alone-the most comprehen-
sive OF rights and the right most valued bv
civilized men,"
Since history began, that has been the
attituqe OF the real liberal It is the onlv
attitude which can perpetuate the freedoms
men won through centuries of bloody CON
flcts and incredible sacrifices.
Milford chronicle., 1953-09-04
History Lesson?
MORRS4D7


Remember Harry Truman? He i,
the former president who, after hc
had sent American troops into the
Korean police action" quipped thai
the US had never lost a war, anC
wouldn't lose this one. He was the
COmmander-in-C Chief who summari.
ly removed General Douglas Mac.
Arthur from command, because he
feared the Generals plans fol-
winning the war might offend the
Russians, who ordered a war OF
"cOntainment," and who gave the
enemy sanctuary beyond the Yalu
River boundary of the Korean
peninsula.
In a speech before the Disabled
American Veterans convention in
Kansas City the other day, Mr..
Truman declared that "the only
way to meet the threat of the Rus
SLAMS is with force" Hitler and
Mussolini, he said were second
raters compared with the Russians,
and he warned that I'VE will be in
for another world war" if we fail
to accept the responsibilities we
should have assumed, after World
War II.
There must have been at least
some in his audience whose blood
remains in Korea. We wonder what
they were thinking.
%*&
Back Home and Broke
Several days ago., according to
James c. Hagerty, White House
press secretary, Shah Mohammed
Reza Pahlevi, of Iran, received the
congratulations of President Eisen-
hover on his happy return" to his
country after the bloody repulse of
the Mossadegh regime. Whether the
Presidents greetings came before
or after the triumphant Shah an
nOunCed to the world that his cOun-
try was broke and needed money
I'm the next few days, remained
in doubt
Asked II he would accept Russian
money. the Outspoken young mon
arch replied, I'VE are ready to
accept help from anybody" Thus,
we judge that practically everybody,
us and the Commies. are
ready and anxious to provide for his
needs.
There will be no concessions
given for such help. says the Shah.
But he should realize by now that
had better crank up his
oil industry-and he can't. We tried
10 arbitrate Mossy's fight with the
Milford chronicle., 1953-09-04

CLASSIFIED Ads get results
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1953-11-24
/ armviIie lIissI,
Second In District
Emporia Takes
1858 Grid Title

Empolia High Schools Eagles
are ciliclal griGiron champions of
District 3, Group III for the 1858
campaign Coach Ed Drew S eleven
defeated four district foes. includ-
ing secOnd-place Farmyille TO
wrap no the title
The champions declined a con-
test Offer for the Southside title.
issued by Bedford S Offers. Distric5
4 king pins Since custom has de-
creed such a game, the Offers
claim the regional title W.thou
a scrap Emporia officials said the
approaching basketball season
would require all the time and eff
fort available.
In District wind ups Blackstone
took CreWe 27 to in that annual
rivalry. While Amelia played the
came Of the year in holding Vic
toria to a 90 tie Amelia had the
ball within a foot Of the goal when
The final whistle caught up with
her.
Farmyllle Wolverines. who tore
through district competition af-
ter the early loss to Enporia. set
tied for TulNer-uO post