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Milford chronicle., 1955-09-16
Washington Letter = BY Robert Nelson Taylor

more important things" may lie
ahead and that the ruling may have
been a trial balloon. IF it goes
off fairly WE'LL" she says, "a prece-
dent has been established. Gov
ernment by fiat can replace the
Constitution.
1t is refreshing indeed to have
Further, they will be reassuring to
those whites who hage always con-
sidered the Negro race to have
been richly endowed with it's own
special attributes-and a race that
should be as prideful as any
other.
Readiness Is The Best Prevention
Statistically, the great American
hunter can be proud of his record
for shooting game-instead of his
fellow-hunters, innocent bystanders
and domestic farm animals. Out
of the total 10000 fatal accidents
last year, 1,050 were caused by
firearms. And while only one
one third of these occurred while
hunting, we should properly con-
slider the alarming number of home
tragedies due to hunting guns and
their understanding of how to use
and care for them-aS well as the
lore of woods and fields-it should
be possible to eliminate such acct
dents entirely.
But, we know there will be mis-
haps and bloodshed and the best
we can do is to improve a little on
last years record. Thus, it is
fitting that again the season is
ushered in by Emergencies Don't
Wait" Week-when our friends the
druggist go all-out to remind us
it's time to overhaul and restock
both the first-aid kit and the home
medicine cabinet. We should need
only a reminder that when an ac-
cident happens-in the field, the
shop, the kitchen or the barn
there's no time to go shopping for
emergency equipment.
We should remember too that
hunting accidents most frequently
involve novices at the sport. Thus
the youngsters who get their frs
experience at game-shooting this
year-as we'll as inexperienced old
sters-should be instructed, and
drilled and grilled on the handling
of arms. Here are the simplest and
most comprehensive safety rules We
know of-which you may want tC
use as teaching guide:
1. Make sure guns stored away at
home are unloaded. e. Guns should
be locked away from children. 8
Keep firearms in good working or.
der. 4. A gun pulled carelessly out
Milford chronicle., 1955-09-16
I'm THE AIR FORCE"
BY EIoins Townsend Dieksrson

was called. and informed that the
party was on the 8th and ii was
in honor of the new wing COM
Colonen. Colonel or Generals
wife l still was in charge of the
party sandwiches and, just because
someone really got their signals
crossed didn't relieve me of my
responsibility. II really made the
committees get on their toes, but
/ think the party turned out to be
a success just the same.
Friday afternoon, the day after
the wing party, / had invited eight
guests in for bridge in honor of
Gene Shirley's sister-in-law. Ruby
Noonan, who is here for two weeks
from Mobile. Alabama. Ole Kansas
really rolled out a welcome for
Ruby that day-the temperature
read 105' one hour before the girls
were supposed to arrive. My neigh
Dor across the street who has air
conditioning, invited me TO have
the party in her home, another
neighbors offered to help with ar
rangements at the first neighbor's
house and / quickly moved the ta-
bles, prizes and refreshn ents to
the cooler abode. Pretty nic,N neigh
bors, don't you agree?
The fashion show at the club is
Wednesday and next week / will
try TO tell you about that and l
also want to introduce you to Mrs.
Jesse Cotton. Helen Johnson Cot
ton lives here in Topeka with her
Lieutenant Colonel husband and l
interviewed her last week for the
base paper. She has had very
fascinating life and / think you
would be interested in hearing
about IT, too. How she acquired
over five thousand flying hours for
instance.
Uatil then.
Always, r. IT. ID.
Milford chronicle., 1955-09-16

AS the 37th national convention
of The American Legion votes IN
a new panel of national officers In
Miami this fall, it may be interest
ing to reflect on the fact that dur
ing the year more than 100000
Legionnaires will be elected 10
office within the organization-at
the national, department tstate),
county, district and post levels!
Thus, at least twice this number
of candidates are in the running
for Legion Offices each year, and
are presumably equipped to handle
effectively the jobs they seek. And
considering the broad national is
sues on which The Legion takes
a stand, it's perennial programs on
Americanism. legislation national
defense, veteran rehabilitation and
child welfare Ito name a few IL
would appear that apart from its
other functions, The American Le-
gion provides the nation with what
may we'll be its greatest scholl for
national leadership.
III Will Dt ODNlOuS, VI toui Sc Ahae
an organization of four million
men and women Gncluding the
Auxiliary, united in the common
cause of patriotism, is bound TO
have strong representation among
our elected Representatives at all
Governmental levels. But 1t should
be noted too that leadership train
ing within The Legion has given
us, in most of these instances. men
and women of especial ability in
making themselves understood, in
presenting their viewpoints i'm
pressively and in understanding the
hopes and ambitions and sent-
ments of their fellow man.
And while we are indebted TO
The Legion for this broad-scale
raining-whether we realize II or
Motive need never fear a Legion
bloc, or anything like II In our
Government. AS Americans before
all else, the opinions of Legion
naires on national issues are as
diverse as in any other cross
section of our citizenry. The de-
bates at Miami { as in the 36 pre-
ceding conventions) should assure
us OF that
Milford chronicle., 1955-09-16

very expensive to build; but they
will turn out the same amount of
shoes, clothing, candy, and cloth
with so people that is now pro-
duced by 500 people.
AUTOMATION has become pos
sible only with the development of
Electronics (which | hope every
High School is teaching). AS a
result the American electronics in
dustry has grown from business
of only a few dollars to one of
over a billion dollars. Electronics
accomplishes two things:-O 1t
enables a very faint electric cur
rent to be turned into a strong
current, as illustrated by the loud
speakers of radios. (2) 1t enables
an electric current to be turned
on or off by a change of light or
sound, or by temperature instead
of by hand. This is illustrated by
the electric eye", which opens
and closes doors for you.
Tubes To Become Obsolete
One reason for the coming great
increase in AUTOMATION is that
tubes such as are used in your
radio and TV sets will soon become
obsolete. These tubes are being
replaced by tiny "transistors.
These transistors are so small that
hearing aids are now being made
with them, being built into the
frames of eyeglasses so that no
one will have a hint that the person
is deaf and uses a hearing aid.
Now. let me come to the real i'm
portant point of this column.
refer to the great opportunity fac
ing teachers. preachers and par
ents of impressing unon young
people that thev already possess
the most wonderful automatic fac
Milford chronicle., 1955-09-16
DELAWARE FARM MARKET NEWS
lnormoion Supplied BY The Bursov Of Mors
stofs Board OF Agriculture. Dover DsIowors

800 to 400 lbs: s11.20 to $500,
mostly $1,000 per cwt
over 400 lbs: $1,000 to $1,000,
mostly s1100 per cwt
B0ARS
Good ovolify)
Under $50 lbs: $500 to $500,
mostly $500 per cwt
over $50 lbs: $3.50 to $500.
mostly $500 per cwt.
SHOATS
Medium to Good: $1,000 to $500.
mostly $14.00 per cwt.
FEEDER PIGS .dl
Is TO IL Weeks Old
Choice: $3.50 to $1,000, mostly
$3.50 per cwt.
Medium to Good: $500 to $500,
mostly $3.50 per cwt.
HORSES AND MULES
Work Type: $4,000 to S67.50.
mostly $4,000 per head.
Butcher Type: $1,000 to $500.
mostly $500 per head. 3
LIVE POULTRY
HEAVY BREEDS
Fowl: S1.10 to s1.55, mostly s1.35.
Roosters: $l00 to $1.35, mostly
$1.10.
DUCKS
Muscoyy Ducks: 75c to $1.10,
mostly $1.05.
Muscovy brakes: s125 to $3.50.
mostly S1.45.
RABBITS
Large Breeds: 90c to $1.05, most
ly S1.00.
Small Breeds: 55c to 75c. mostly
60c.
Young Rabbits: 30c to soc. most
ly soc.
EGGS
Ungraded, Mixed: Acc to Gle per
dozen.
Pullet: 35c to 45c per dozen.
MISCELLANEOUS PRODUCE
Watermelons; Sc to, 21c each.
Grapes: 25c to $1.3O per ss bu-
shell
Peppers: 25c to 45c per ss bu-
shell.
Tomatoes: 25c to $1.7o per "
bushel.
Lima Beans: $500 to $3.50 per
5s bushel.
Sweet Potatoes: 6oc TO sl.o0 per
5s bushel.
Onions: s1.20 per x bushel.
Milford chronicle., 1955-09-16
WASHINGTON LETTER
H. s. T. @Ready For A Fight"

Harry S. Truman can't wait for
the conventions. He's starting right
away on a give-em-hell campaign
to tear into the Republicans" and
return the White House to the
Democrats. Reminiscent of his
spectacular, free-wheeling "whis-
tle-stop" campaign of 194S, the
former President believes, " the
more people we talk to, and tell
the facts, the greater will be our
chances of restoring government
to them"
He is still behind Adlai Steven
son, if he wants to try again, says
Mr.. Truman and adds, I'm in
this fight for the duration, and be-
hind the Democratic nominee, who
ever he is" He promised, however,
that he would not give the candi-
date any advice. "The nominee
should run his own campaign he
said.
We'll beat the Republicans with
their own ammunition" declared
the man from independence, whom
many Hdu nOpciuiiy thou6hs "oo
preoccupied with the much-publi-
cized Truman Library, his MEM
oirs and a placid and reflective re-
tirement. He declined to specify
the ammunition he had in mind, but
expressed the utmost confidence
that his party could defeat Presi-
dent Eisenhower by taking the
issues to the people" in all the
48 states.
This early, active and articulate
opposition from his old commander
in-chief, from the man who offered
him the Democratic nomination,
could be rather painful to Presi-
dent Eisenhower Certainly 1t is
advance notice that the campaign
of 1856 is unlikely to be such
a kid glove contest as that OF
1852. But, after all. the President
has not yet announced whether or
not he will be the man that Harry
Truman is out to beat.
School For Leadership
Milford chronicle., 1955-09-16

Zorro Neale Hurston, highly ar
ticulate Negro writer, who decided
long ago that she would have
nothing to say about desegregation-
bylaw, has found it impossible to
keep silent on the subject. She
takes off on what has always
seemed to us the crucial point of
the whole issue-but which we
have not brought up since any
comment would come more grace
fully and far more forcefully from
a member of the black race than
from the white.
''The whole matter revolves a
round the self-respect of my peo-
ple," writes Miss Hurston in The
Orlando (Fla.) Sentinel "How
much satisfaction can l get from
court order for somebody to assO-
ciate with me who does not wish
me near them? The American In
dian has never been spoken of as
a minority and chiefly because
there is no whine in the Indian.
Certainly he fought, and valiantly
for his lands-and rightfully so.
But it is inconceivable of an In
dian to seek forcible association
with anyone. His well-known pride
and self-respect would save him
from that. take the Indian posi-
tion"
In the matter of the educational
rights of Negro children in the
South, Miss Hurston denies that
she is zone of those handkerchief
head niggers' who bow low before
the white man and sell out my own
people out of cowardice." If negro
school in Florida were inadequate
or if white school possessed some
advantage impossible to dupli-
cate, she say, she would be the
first to insist on sharing. "But if
there are adequate Negro schools
and prepared instructors and in
structions, then there is nothing
different by the presence of white
people.
For this reason, I regard the
ruling of the United States Supreme
Court as insulting rather than
honoring my race" Miss Hurston
uCl iuSo tHc iOuS-Heiu uioCOhCCp-
tion that there is no greater de-
light to Negroes than physical as
sociation with whites" She calls
this "the doctrine of the white
mare, explaining that Those fam
iliar with the habits of mules are
aware that any mule, if not re-
strained, will. automatically follow
a white mare"
In Miss Hurston's opinion the
Segregation issue was politically in
spired and a grave mistake ''just
when the nation is exerting itself
to shake off the evils of Commu
mist penetration She warns that
Milford chronicle., 1955-09-16

The following is weekly round
up of livestock prices and miscella-
neous commodities prevailing last
week. This report shows average
prices received by Delaware farm
ers for commodities that were mar
keted throughout this week:
LIVESTOCK PRICES
VEAL CALVES
Choice: $4,000 to $1,000, mostly
$2S.00 per cwt.
Medium to Good: s20.00 to $3.50,
mostly $24.00 per cwt.
Rough and Common: $1,000 to
s17.0O, mostly $500 per cwt.
Monkeys: $1,000 to $500, most
ly $17.00 per cwt.
LAMBS
Medium: $1,000 to $1,000, mostly
$1,000 per cwt.
Common: $1,000 to $500, mostly
$500 per cwt.
SLAUGHTER cows
Medium to Good: $1,000 to s13.25,
mostly $1225 per cwt.
Common: $1,000 to $11.75, most
ly $11.00 per cwt.
Gamers and Cutters $500 to
$a.75, mostly $3.50 per cwt.
STEERS
Good Light Steers: $3.50 to
$22.75, mostly $3.50 per cwt.
FEEDER HEIFERS
Dairy Type: $500 to 1880, most
ly $1,000 per cwt.
Beef Type: $1,000 to $3.50,
mostly $1,000 per cwt.
SLAUGHTER HELPERS
Good to Choice: $14.00 to $3.50,
mostly $1,000 per cwt.
BULLS
Over I 900 Pounds
Medium to Good SLABS to S15.75,
mostly $15.75 per cwt.
500 TO I 900 Pounds
Medium to Good: $1,000 to $3.50,
mostly $14.00 per cwt.
HOGS
120 to 10 lbs: $15.25 to $17.00
mostly $17.00 per cwt.
40 to 240 lbs: s17.00 to $17.75
Mostly $3.50 per cwt.
24O to $50 lbs: $1,000 to $17.00
mostly $16.75 per cwt.
SOWS
Good ovoIify)
200 to 300 lbs: $11.50 to $14.0O
mostly s12.25 per cwt.
Milford chronicle., 1955-09-16

Gloucester, Mass, Sept. Is. l have
just again spent Labor Day Week
at my birthplace. AS / was writing
this, | was looking down at a
marvellous new school built by my
cousin, the distinguished late Ma
jor Elmer Babson.
Changes In School Architecture
Fifty years ago schoolhouses
were built as architectural addi-
tions to a city,-with columns, ia
cades, and fancy stone trimmings.
My cousin had the courage to
make a radical change and built
only to provide the most efficient
teaching conditions possible. The
result was a building which the
local taxpayers dubbed the New
Factory
These critics were more truth
full than intelligent. The time is
coming when every schoolhouse
will be built as an efficient factory,
with teachers working and being
paid as efficient managers, experts,
and foreman deserve. The sooner
local School Committee and tax
payers adopt this factory" idea,
the better off those cities and towns
will be. The hope of every COM
munity is its children. provided they
are properly taught the right
things. I have little use for some
of the silly subjects being taught
today
Attenuation And Electronies
During the next few years stu
dents will hear much talk about
AUTOMATION. This is a fancy
word for automatic factories" {"
These are the factories where the
raw materials are fed into one end
and the finished products come out
the other end. Such factories are
Milford chronicle., 1955-09-16
1881 Mayo
Topeka, Kansas
September IL, 1856

september X, 1900
Dear Friends:
You know what a miserable time
/ have as a cook, Well, every time
find something real simpliod about
preparing foods feel l should
pass them on to you. Ii they're a
cinch for me, think what a snap
they would be for the rest of you.
A doctor in California was ex-
amining a patient with an infected
finger, when he looked at her hand
he also noticed brown spots on her
arm. Curious about them he asked
where they came from and she
said, From frying chickens. The
grease burnt my arm" The doctor
gave the patient the solution, the
patient told her neighbor, the
neighbor told her daughter, the
daughter told her neighbor (me)
and I'm giving it to you! Heat your
oven to 400 degrees. Take cut-up
frying chicken and dip in half and
half portion of frying oil and -four.
Mix the -four and oil in one bowl
together, dipping the pieces of
chicken into this fairly thick mix
ture. Sprinkle each piece with salt,
pepper and paprika. Place each
piece of chicken face up" on cook
lie sheet and leave in oven for so
minutes. No turning necessary.
Less fuss, no grease burns on your
arms, the chicken is beautifully
Drowned, there is nice crust on
the chicken, it's moist and most
important of all ii tastes wonder
full. You try it and let me know
what you think.
This has been a week just full
of rushing from one thing to an
other. Remember two columns ago
| told you that | was responsible
for fixing sandwiches for a wing
party, in honor of the Generals
wife on the 18th? On the sixth /
Milford chronicle., 1955-09-16

of a car may shoot someone, the
the first morning of hunting or
the last 5. Don't drag your gun
through wire fences. 6. Following
another hunter under tree limbs
and through underbrush is danger
Gus when carrying loaded guns. z.
Never use your gun to punch or
club game out of the brush. 8.
Don't carry a cooked gun. 8. Carry
the gun with its muzzle pointed to
tn ground. Never point it at any
one. Don't let the muzzle clog with
snow or mud. 10. Don't shoot NOV
ing objects until you know what
they are. Be certain no one is in
the way.
To which we might add just a
few more: Don't set the woods a
fire. Don't sit on a skinning-knife.
Don't forget about snakess Don't
let emergencies catch you unpre-
pared.
May Warm Up Later
Harry Truman decided, he says
to curtail his preliminary political
stumping tour, not because there's
anything wrong with his health,
but because he's II instead of so.
He said he wanted to conserve
his energies for all-out campaign
ing later on.
Whatever the reasons, we think
the decision is wise. Instead OF
living up to his "give-em-help' bill
ing at French Lick, Ind. and Mac
kinac Island, he lashed at the Ad-
,ministration and President Eisen-
hover more in the manner of a
school girl than a Missouri mule
skinner. He charged 'misrepresen-
tation and demogoguery" and said
that the President "has never
missed a chance to befuddle the
real issues in every speech he
reads"
For Harry, that's pretty poor
Furthermore, at a news conference
in French Lick, he declared that he
was not there to "give anybody
hell", and that he never had hat
any such intention in the past, mo-
would in the futurel
We do not think this attitude II
because he is II instead of so. Blu
it might possibly be because he Ii
II instead of 65-as he was IL
1948.
Milford chronicle., 1955-09-16
A Charge, Or A Retreat?

= Before that Washington training
school for state COP chairmen
broke loose at the final bell to EN-
plane for that breakfast with the
President in Denver, the scholars
were agreed that their biggest itch
next to whether or not Ike will
run-is the farm problem.
Milford chronicle., 1955-09-16
THE STATES DIG DEEPER

This is legislative year for 46 of the
48 states, Kentucky and Virginia being the
only exceptions. In II of those states, the
Tax foundation reports, the governors ask
ed for new taxes, and in % they asked for
boosts in existing taxes. In all parts of the
country, the state levies are going up on
property, corporations, individual incomes,
gasoline, and so on down the list
In the fiscal year which will end this COM
ing June, the states will collect over S12, ,000,-
900, ,000-more than double the 1916 figure.
The total for the next fiscal year will be SUBJ
stantially greater
These are matters of fact And they add
up to one thing-that we must demand econ
omy on the local level as well as in Wash
ington, d. C. The moderate tax reductions
made by the federal government last year
are being largely offset by mushrooming To-
cal taxes.
Milford chronicle., 1955-09-16
WANDERING FREIGHT CARS

Any American male who sees train pass
and does not watch it till it has gone by, is
either very busy or abnormal. If it is a freight
train, he probably counts the cars. or at least
notices the varying roads that own them and
wonders how it would be to ride on the Bang
or and Arostook, If he comes from the West
or South, or on the Santa Fe if he's an Eas-
terDer
He may also wonder if the cars of distant
railroads ever get back where they belong,
and how their owners keep track of them.
The answer is provided by Robert E. Bed
ingfeld. writing in the New York Times.
There are strict rules. If railroad unloads q
freight car not its own, it must reload it and
start it back home, or at least in its general
direction. Some times car has to be sent
back empty. Montana sends out lot of raw
materials, but its population is too small to
demand many carloads of products from
other states.
Accurate records are kept of cars receiv-
ed. These cost S2.40 day, and accounts are
settled monthly. If railroad kept car un-
duly, it would be sure to hear about it.
So the watcher at the crossing may be
sure that even the most outlandish cars he
sees will get back to their own roads before
too long.
Evening star., 1955-07-06
Eisenhower Likes White House

likes people-and people like
him. They don't adore or
worship him; they like him
and feel safe with him. He is
not doing brilliantly but he
is doing very well-and there
is a general tiredness. If my
observation is correct. with too
much brilliance. He gives the
impression of being. a good
navigator, who won't make q
speed record but will get the
ship into port-one way or
another. Above all. people be-
lieve him to be good, in the
simple sense that requires no
definitions.
II he has any neuroses they
are not visible. No one can
imagine him on q psychoana-
lyst's couch. He is sunny, opti-
mistic, and lucky. He makes
reappraisals but he leaves
"agonizing reappraisals" to Mr..
Dulles.
So If he likes his job and the
American people like him as
much a year from now as they
do at present, why shouldn't he
run? He won't even have to
run. He can take 1t easy.
Evening star., 1955-07-06
Soviets' Persistent Propaganda

fered at Geneva Is likely to be
q nonaggression or mutual Sc
curity treaty between East and
West which Europe would &C
cept enthusiastically regardless
Of its ultimate consequences.
A lessening Of tension In
Asia through q solution for
Formosa" and admission Of
Communist China into the
United Nations is suspected as
the main goal Of the Russians
at the Geneva conference. Mr..
Molotov indicated at San
Francisco that he considers
peace a global matter and
consequently an equitable"
solution in Asia must 20 hand
in hand with settlement Of
the lesser tension in Europe.
He has unequivocally told the
world that Communist China's
revendications must be full
filled If We want to have world
peace and establish the much
vaunted coexistence which
has gripped the minds Of all
our allies in the West.
In these efforts Premier
Bulganin will have the COM,
plete support of the French
and British Prime Ministers
and their immediate subordi.
mates. The maneuvers of our
opponents who are dousing
Western public opinion with
hot and cold showers are un.
questionably skillful.