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THIS YEAR SHOULD BE HIGHLY COM
PETITIVE IN THE BUSINESS FIELD


A survey of a. cross-section of the nations
important merchants from all sections of
the country shows that stores expect 1854 to
be highly competitive year Here are some
OF the conclusions:
Business in the first half of the year will
probably dip slightly below the 1858 period.
But, because the economy is basicaly strong,
this loss should be made up in the last half
OF the year. The coming twelve months are
expected to approximate 1853 in sales volume.
With competition keener and expenses still
on the rise, profits may take a slight drop
in the coming year. Prices have been moving
downward at a slow pace since the middle of
1858. Inventories in 1853 rose to a point
where they were causing concern to some
stores. The heavy inventory position should
be cleared IN early 1854 and will be followed
by careful buying.
Because OF keen competition the quality
of goods should improve next year. The GUS
toner will find real values at the best levels
since the end of World War II, say people
in position to know. Quality merchandise
has been finding an ever growing market
since the wars end. This trend is expected to
continue. 10 a great extent the success or
failure OF retailers or manufacturers ODer-
alton is largely IN his own hands, men familiar
with mercantile business practice believe In
the competitive or normal" DAYS ahead his
net profit will be determined mostly by his
business acunnen and bv the extent to which
he has placed his operation on a sound footing
For that reason the year lust BEGINNING may
see greater Emergencies in results than has
been the case since 1871. Selling efforts in
the coming year will be intensive. There will
be more advertising and promotion if present
indications are borne out.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1954-01-08

One way for government to increase
its revenues is TO reduce taxes
Does that sound like a foolish cOntradic-
ton in terms?i Well, it describes exactly
what has beeli happening in Canada. In
that cOuntry's l1953-54 budget, both individ-
ual income tax1es and corporation taxes were
cut, by II per cent and 8 per cent respec-
lively After six months of operation, this
budget had drought the government some
$9O,OOO.OOO more than was the case last
year when the higher tax rates we're in
effect.
What happened, in the words of Time,
is that "tPG tax reductions apparently sent
warming Impulses throughout the entire
Canadian economy" In other words, Can
adams sa'lI more incentive to work hard and
take tinarl cial risks-and citizen and govern
ment ah'R came out ahead.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1954-01-08
HAIRCUTs FOR &c YEARS

One trouble with most discussions of tax
alton is that they involve statistics which
are incOmprehensible to any but the special
list. Now praiseworthy efforts are being
made to dramatize the tax problem in a man
ner that will bring it home to all of us,
An Iowa barber shop, for instance, fea-
tured sign saying that the average custom
er could get his hair cut twice month for
30 years for the money he paid in direct and
hidden taxes in 1852 A Texas department
store had window display of two male
mannequins showing all the clothes, luggage
and other supplies one years taxes would
puy A utility company did similar thing,
showing the number of appliances. Including
washer, stove, ETC., the average-income fam
lily could have bought with its tax money.
This is one highly effective way of show
ing up the tax problem for what it is-a
problem that is direct, personal and ex-
trey.els' Important matter to cvervore.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1954-01-08

Buy Merchandise And Bank Stocks
In almost every community there
are several Chain stores" They
may be grocery chains, or variety
chains, such as the rs cents to b
dollars" kind. Ask your local banker
to tell you which of these in your
town has stock listed on the New
York Stock Exchange. Buy a few
shares. This might even help your
husband in getting a job with one
of these growing merchandising
concerns.
Perhaps before buying chain
store stock, it would be well to
buy a few shares of stock in your
local bank. Banks are doing we'll
right now, and it may help your
husband get started right to have
a few shares Of local bank stock and
to know the men who run the bank.
Parents Should Help More
Soldiers who have been overseas
are coming home with better ideas
than when they left. Many are rea-
lizing that the only things worth
while for a family or nation are:
Cd good land; (2) good babies;
60 good education; and C4 good
character
I trust that fathers and mothers,
as we'll as wives and sweethearts,
will encourage these sensible ideas.
Parents. especially, SHOULD help
their young people get started right
when they return. But begin to
plan for them NOW; remember,
"shrouds don't have pockets"
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1954-01-08
TRUCK e BAGS DEER

REDLANDS, Calf, (R-A Los
Angeles truck driver bagged a deer
in Cotton, but didn't know it until
on the outskirts of Redlands, 10
miles distant.
He stopped his truck when he
was tagged and told it was on fire.
He then discovered that two
wheel of his trailer were missing.
Confused? So was H. T. Frantz,
truck driver.
The wheels came of in Cotton,
shattering an ornamental iron deer
and smashing through a window
The sagging trailer had rubbed
a friction fire in its flooring and
movie billboard posters inside were
afire.
Cotton police caught up with him
when he stopped and put out the
blaze with a hand extinguisher.
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can live on the property, may be like
finding money.
Small stores and lunchrOOms,
where the owner can live upstairs
or adjoining, are now for sale cheap
They will be in demand again some
day. No one will get rich in such
place; but it gives independence
and assures work to all the family.
The same applies to scores of little
businesses, from barber shops to
repair shops of all kinds. There will
always be good opportunities for
anyone who knows more about any
one thing than anyone else in his
neighborhOod.
Parking Land Is Good Insurance
l think that a piece of land will
appeal to many returning soldiers.
Incidentally, the best buy in every
community is that adjoining or near
a parking lot If you and your
husband came from a farm and
want to go back to the same home
farm, this is wonderful. However,
unless you know farming, you had
better be content with an acre of
good land located near schools,
stores, and a church. Latest scien-
tific agricultural experiments in
dictate that you can feed your family
on a very small plot, provided your
husband has some Job on the
side" to get spending money. Have
you read my recent column on New
Inventions and New Discoveries? p
Those contemplating land for farm
ing should buy adjoining a State or
U. S. Agricultural Experiment Sta
ton.
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Message To Soldiers Wives
BABSON DISCUSSES JOBS FOR SERVTCEMEN

BabsOn Park, Mass, Jan. z. Let
me start 1854 by writing to the
many servicemen's wives. So many
are wondering what their husbands
are to do after discharge. Certainly,
don't wait until your man gets back
before you and he discuss the future.
Why not devote to this subject your
very next letter to him enclosing
this message from me.
Former Employers VIII Be Helpful
If your husband had a job when
he was drafted, the chances are
that his former employer will be
proud to take him back. wonder,
however, if your husband will be
content to be a mere cog in a big
wheel again after he returns? Men
differ. Some are born to work for
others and will be happier doing
so; while some men will do better
in a little business by themselves.
Some prefer large cities; while
others like small cities and towns.
Don't try to make your soldier boy
over into someone else. Try to find
out what he likes best, for what
he is best fitted-and then help
him make good.
Opportunities Everywhere
Opportunities exist today which
may not exist a year or more hence.
see them everywhere-vacant
stores, closed real estate offices,
rundown garages, vacant gas sta
tons, etc. AS an illustration, con-
slider the closed automobile sales
agencies. To buy one of these now,
properly located, where a family
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figure, but it doesn't seem very
useful. What good are averages if
you're one of those due to "recede"
100 per cent?
So, maybe we'd better just forget
the whole thing-and work harder.
$50
FOllOW-Up Needed
AS Secretary of State John Foster
Dulles was expressing his pleasure
at the release of two Americans
from Soviet prison camps-along
with 1000 Germans and Austrians
who have been given amnesty in
recent mOnths-SenatOr Charles
E. Potter, (Rep) Of Michigan, an
nounced he was checking into the
number of Americans the Com
munists haven't freed.
The Senator indicated that a
formal investigation may follow his
personal inquiry which would
seem like a good idea since the
number of our fellow citizens re-
ported in Russian prisons has run
as high as 5000.
We congratulate Private Homer
II. Cox, of Tulsa, Oklahoma, and
Leland H. Towers, San Francisco
merchant seaman on their deliver
ance. But we will reserve throwing
I our hat in the air until the Kremlin
gives us more impressive evil
/ dence of its good intentions.
R&H
Diagnosis Needed
Lieut.. Generaf X. S. Thimavya
Indian chairman of the. Nuetral
Nations Repatriation Commission
after a personal plea to the %
American CTS who insist they want
to stay with the Reds, feel certain
! explaining" will be useless.
The General also is little
puzzled over why we're trying sc
hard to persuade them. If % Indians
objected to going home, they could
do as they pleased, he said. All Of
which makes good sense-if you car
accept the fantastic idea that these
youngsters are in their right minds
neither drugged nor hypnotized, mol
in terror of their captOrs or theil
former buddies.
But if you read the odd letter
that Pfc. Richard Tenneson sup
pOsedly wrote to his mother, who
was stopped in Tokyo in her effor
to see him, you must be wondering
1t contains not only obvious error.
of fact as to his surroundings, bu
reads like an Asiatic's studied
effort at conversational American
Thus, hopeless as the effor
seems, we should still do everything
possible to find the causes of thi,
mysterious and senseless detection
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1918 Mayo
Topeka, Kansas
Jan. 4, 1854


Topeka, Kansas
Jan. 4, 1854
Dear Friends:
This has been an unusual week.
So many things unexpected have
happened.
l guess the unusual events began
on the 9th of December. The
Women's Club decided to entertain
the officer husbands with a cocktail
party from four to six that day.
Hayes and 1 put our children in
the base nursery and got to the
club right at four, expecting to be
there early and leave early. We went
in with Terry and Rowland Philips,
whose home is in Wilmington, Della
ware. Even at that early hour there
were many already there. We sat
down in a cozy little nook with
many of our friends and started to
talk when the General, Joseph
Caldara came by in his natty suit,
striped vest and Texas string tie.
He welcomed us to the party and
expecting some reverberations a
bout his loud garb, explained that
soon ole Curt LIE May (Stragetic
Air Commands bOss) was going to
issue orders for uniform dress for
all such functions on the base and
he was going full civilian" for this
party. He left our group and went
on to the next circle and soon he
was back again. Without knowing
what l was doing, and not having
INDUCED in the liquid refreshments
either l excused myself, marched to
the Commanding General himself
and said. II am Elaine DickersOn
from Milford, Delaware" Not at all
protocol for a junior officers wife
am sure, but Smokey" grabbed
my hand, took me over to introduce
Hayes, and we just had a grand time
talking about the Whartons, the
Bannings, the DerricksOns, the
Jack Aliens in GrOtOn, Mass, echos
of all had talked to Mrs. c. about.
A couple of days after our nice talk
we first learned that General Cal
dara is soon being sent to FEAT
Far Eastern Air Force and Mrs
Caldara will go to MARYLAND until
she can join her husband. Our
initial opportunity to get to know q
General and off he goes! Genera
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More Teeth-NOt Less

LOngshOremen are working the
New York docks as this is written
but under an uneasy truce-as the
American Federation of Labor and
the 60 year old International Long
shOreman's Association struggle for
control of the $4,000 stevedores who
keep cargOes moving in and out of
Americas greatest seaport.
Hopes of a peaceful settlement,
via a pTe-Christmas election, of
which union would be the lockers
bargaining agent were dashed by
the ALL demand that the vote be
set aside because of violence and
bloOdshed near the polls; the charge
that the liza had disqualified
itself from the election by de
facto affiliatiOn" with John L. Lewis,
head of the United Mine Workers;
that thousands voted who had no
right to do so.
AS matters stand, 1897 ballots
have been challenged and i'm
pounded, with the liza having a
plurality of 1892 of the 1900
accepted ballots, and the National
Labor Relations Board. under whose
auspices the election was held, has
been unable to decide what to do
about the challenged votes. Mean
while, shippers who fear the i'm
passe will erupt into a strike para
lying the whole Atlantic Coast,
are already diverting West Coast
shipments to the railroads.
Here, in short, is a classic ex-
ample of a struggle for power
among labor leaders, that threatens
not merely the $4,000 pawns in
the game, but the welfare and safety
of all Americans. 1t should illus
trate the need for more teeth in
the Taft-Hartley Act, not less. For
it is the purpose of this Act to
protect union members as we'll as
the rest of us from ruthless and
ambitious leaders.
We can only hope that President
Eisenhower and his advisors will
ponder we'll the DOnnybrook on the
New York docks, and realize that
they can not serve the American
people, or the wOrk-fOrce of sc
million Americans, or even the 16
million Americans who carry union
cards by making concessions to
union bosses.
And it should be obvious that
the Administration certainly can
not get the union members votes
by doing so.
Nothing To Copy
Now that the shouting has sub
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1954-01-08
DELAWARE FARM MARKET NEWS
urksf News InfOrmuon Supplied BY The Bureau OF Markets.
State Board OF Agriculture, Dover, DeG~0To

The following is a weekly round
up of livestock prices and mlscel-
laneous commodities prevailing
last week. This report shows av-
erage prices received by Delaware
farmers for commodities that were
marketed throughout this week:
LIVESTOCK PRICES
VEALERS
Choice: $4,000 to $4,000, mostly
$500 per cwt.
Medium to Good: $24.00 to $3.50,
mostly $28.50 per cwt.
Rough and Common: S14.OO to
$500, mostly $500 per cwt.
Monkeys: $500 to $500, mostly
$3.50 per cwt.
SLAUGHTER COWS e
Medium to Good: $11.00 to $17.25,
mostly $11.00 per cwt.
Common: $500 to $10.75, most
ly $3.50 per cwt.
Gamers and Cutters: $6.75 to
$3.50, mostly $S.25 per cwt.
STEERS
Light Steers: 1925 to $15.25,
mostly $14.OO per cwt.
FEEDER HEIFERS
Dairy Type: $7.75 to $1,000,
mostly $11OO per cwt.
Beef Type: $11OO to $3.50,
mostly $14.00 per cwt.
BULLS
lover 1000 pounds)
Medium to Good: S12.75 to $3.50,
mostly STATS per cwt.
$500 to 1000 pounds)
Medium to Good: $1,000 to $14.5O,
mostly $1,000 per cwt.
HOGS
(goOd quality
100 to 40 pounds: $24.5O to
$1,000, mostly $4,000 per cwt.
10 to 24O pounds: $4,000 to
$27.OO, mostly $26.5O per cwt.
24O to $50 pounds: $23.25 to
$2625, mostly $4,000 per cwt.
SOWS
(good quality
200 to 800 pounds: $21.5O to
S24.25, mostly $23.75 per cwt.
800 to 400 pounds: $21.00 to
$2425, mostly $2325 per cwt.
Over 400 pounds: $4,000 to $23.25,
mostly $22.75 per cwt.
BOARS
(gOod quality
Under $50 pounds: $11.00 to
$3.50, mostly $1,000 per cwt.
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Over $50 pounds: $500 tc $1,000,
mostly $1,000 per cwt.
SHOATS
Medium to Good: $500 to $21.5O,
mostly $500 per cwt.
FEEDER PIGS
&c to II weeks Old)
Choice: $1,000 to $3.50, mostly
$3.50 per cwt.
Medium to Good: $500 to $3.50,
mostly $500 per cwt.
Common: $500 to $500, mostly
$3.50 per cwt.
HORSES AND MULES
Work Type: $4,000 to $71.OO,
mostly $4,000 per cwt.
Butcher Type: $500 to $4,000,
mostly $26.OO per cwt.
LIVE POULTRY
(HEAVY BREEDS)
/ FOWL: $1.2O to $1.7O, mostly
/ $1.4O.
ROSTERS: $1.1O to $1.SO, most
$1.25.
(LIGHT BREEDS)
! BANTAM CHICKENS: Csc to 4Oc,
mostly Csc.
GUiNEAs: 6Oc to CSC, mostly
! 9Oc.
GEESE: $3.50 to 1915. mostly
$500.
DUCKS
Muscovy Ducks: 45c to $1.1O,
/ mostly CSC.
Muscovy brakes: $1.4O to $1.75,
mostly $1.6O.
RABBITS
LARGE BREEDS: $1.SO to $40.
mostly $3.50.
SMALL BREEDS: zoe to $1.1O,
mostly Csc.
YOUNG RABBITS; S5c to 6Oc.
mostly SOC.
EGGS
UNGRADED, MIXED: 471kc to
621ac per dozen.
PULLET: 3715c to 45c per doz-
en-.
MISCELLANEOUS PRODUCE
LARD: $3.50 to $3.50 per 5O-lb
can.
SWEET POTATOES: soc to $40
per rs bushel.
BLACK WALNUTS: SOc to zoe
per 70 bushel.
CABBAGE: 75c to $1.1O per bu-
shell.
POP CORN: Coo to soc per ss
bushel.
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TAX JOB PERMANENT

LINCOLN, Neb., GA Lincoln
man owed 1920 in taxes went
before the county board and asked
for a job so he could pay the bill.
The board directed the county
engineer to put the man to work,
with the promise of a possible
regular county job if things went
well.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1954-01-08
Washington Letter - By Robert Nelson Taylor

captains of industry and the
generals and the admirals have lead
the rest of us in respectful homage
to the Wright brothers on the Occa-
sion of the 5Oth anniversary of their
exploit over the sands of Kitty
Hawk, the year-lOng celebration,
are now under way for a memorial
building TO house the National Air
Museum, created by act of Congress
in 1916, as a bureau of the Smith
sOnian Institution.
The gift, made jointly by the
Air Transport Association of Anne
RIGA and the Aircraft Industries
Association in cOmmemOratiOn of
the 50th Anniversary of Powered
Flight, will itself be devoted to
pioneering in aviation. The new
building will be the first ever to be
constructed specifically for the dis
play of aerOnautical exhibits. Thus,
there are no examples to guide the
planners and no earlier mistakes to
be avoided. But neither are there
any restrictions on the soaring
imaginatiOns of enthusiastic de-
signeTs.
Among the historic planes now
crowded in among various other
objects anC Industries and Aircraft
buildings at the Smithsonian, and
which will be more appropriately
displayed in the new building, are
the Wright brothers Kitty Hawk
that gave the limitless sky to man:
the Win Fiz" that first crossed the
cOntinent,in 1911 in "a days; the
Nays NC-4. first to fly the Allan
tic, Lindbergh's Spirit of St
Louis; the winnie May" which
took Wiley Post twice around the
world and the Spad flown by
General Billy Mitchell in WorlC
War l. Also, among the many il
storage for lack of exhibit space
and that are again to see the light
is the historic B-29 "EnoIa Gay
which dropped the first atomic
bomb.
And we hope the planners of thi:
new National Air Museum will leave
space for a flying saucer.
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Neat But Not CANDY

Washington, at the close of the
year, discovered in the swarms of
economists who descended on the
Capital for concurrent meetings of
various societies devoted to this
science, a new type Of five percenter.
These were the students of trends
and indices who predicted-not a
depression, heavens nO-but a "re-
cession" for the new year of about
five per cent. This is a modest
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Nothing To Copy

Now that the shouting has sub
sided to a muted murmur after the
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WARMING IMPULSES

5000
Evening star., 1954-04-26

HOARD-HORDE. A hoard is
IAN accumulation Of something
for future use," as. a hoard Of
money: or. the verb, ito hoard"
which means "to accumulate.
Horde is a noun which means
company; multitude" as "a
horde of mosquitoes; a horde Of
soldiers"
MIEN-MEAN. Mien refers to
character, or bearing; manner.
Remember Alexander Pope's
Essay on Man?"
Vice is a monster of so frightful
mien,
AS to be hated needs but to be
seen;
Yet seen too oft. familiar with.
her face,
We first endure. then pity, then
embrace.
Mean simply means low; be-
low average: cruel"
PuLOW-PuLAR. A pillow =
Evening star., 1954-04-26
A Word to the Wise nn'. Frank Cobb,

a cushion. A pillar is q column:
something which supports. A
few years ago a reader chal-
lenged me about the fact that I
write a column" "A column. ="
said he, "is something which
supports; a pillar. What does
your column support?" My an
swer. obviously, was: Me. But
another definition for column
is "a regular contribution to a
newspaper.
AUGHT - OUGHT. Aught
means "anything whatever. as
in the expression "for aught
(alD know" Ought refers to
moral obligation, or duty. you
ought to do this" we say.
FATE-FETE. Fate refers to
destiny. fortune; something
which Is destined to be. Fete,
which Is pronounced exactly as
Is "fate," designates Q kind Of
festival; q holiday.
distributed b. NsNsusht Syndicate. nal
Evening star., 1954-04-26
Uncle Roy's Corner
By Romon Coffmon.

Every object is made up Of
atoms. The wood in my desk
contains trillions of atoms. So
does the metal in my typewriter.
There are atoms in every piece
of bread, in every grain of salt
or sugar. When we drink water.
we take in countless atoms. Even
the air we breathe is composed
of atoms.
Some persons think of atoms
as "the oldest things in the
world" Perhaps that is true. but
electrons may have existed be-
fore atoms.
There is a question as to whe-
ther an electron can be called
q thing" Inside an atom. 1t may
be . thing. but outside Of an
atom an electron seems to be
. unit Of energy, and nothing
more.
We still have Q great deal to
learn about atoms. but We know
Evening star., 1954-04-26
Fumous Fables
By E. E. Edoor

PHLANTHROPY-Adolph
S. Ochs.. guiding genius Of
the New York Times. was
well known for his philan-
thropies. At regular inter-
walls, he would send a mes
senger with money to the
homes Of people who were
down on their luck.
One day, the messenger
returned from a visit to a
family who had been accept
ing Ochs' aid for som e
months and said:
II think those people have
been d deceiving you, sir.
When I called on them to-
day, I found them feasting
on turkey"
How much have I been
sending them?" asked the
publisher.
"Ten dollars a week"
you'd better double
that" said Ochs. II had no
idea they were accustomed
to living so we'll"
HANDICAP During the
last years of his life, inven-
tor Thomas Edison was al
most stone deaf. This in
f1rmity did not depress him.
II can scarcely hear a
word now" he conf1ded to a
friend. People have to write
me notes"
Does that handicap you
in your work?"
"Oh, no." replied Edison,
II have much more time for
my experiments. Whereas
before I had to listen to
every one who spoke to me,
now I read only what in
terests me-"
Evening star., 1954-04-26
Our Presidents
By Honore M. CotudoI

(which President said,
"with malice toward none,
with charity for ALP"
2-Boulder Dam was off,
cially named for one Of our
president. Who?
3-Eailure of a presidential
nominee to disavow the slogan
Rum, RomaniSm and Re-
bellion" is generally considered
to have resulted in the election
of the first Democratic Presi-
dent in "a years. Who was he?
ANSWERS on next page.)