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Milford chronicle., 1955-03-04
Washington Letter = By Robert Nelson Tavlor

Government hasn't got the money.
1t didn't come from the peopIe-yet
Those who buy the bonds will put
1t up for now, and generations to
come will wrestle with the interest
payments which Senator Harry
Byrd estimates at II billions more.
VGu
Showdown Coming Up
While Secretary of State John
Foster Dulles was assuring repre-
sentatives of the eight SEATO ma
tiOns in BankOk Of the "solid in
tention" of the U. S. to fight for
any treaty member that is picked
on by the cOmunists, and telling
them of our unprecedented strength
in ships, men, planes and modern
weapOns-Chiang was preparing to
abandon another off-shOre island,
Nanki, to the Reds.
Within hours of Mr.. Dulles
speech, Chairman James p. Rich
ards, of the House Foreign Affairs
committee, told the House that we
are now apparently" inviting the
Reds TO bargain with us for terri
tory held by the Nationalist Govern
ment Of China"
In London, Prime Minister Sir
Winston Churchill disavowed anv
British military involvement in the
defense of the coastal islands. Pre-
viOusly, Foreign Secretary Eden
(nOw in Bangkok, had enunciated
as the British view that all the
coastal islands are legally part of
Red China. But he didn't mention
why Hong Kong Island isn't.
In New York, Thomas J. Hamil-
ton. Chief OF the New York, Times
UN bureau told a group of teachers
that the Reds would get Quemoy
and Matsu and a UN seat within a
year.
Our massive retaliation" seems
to have gone in reverse.
Interpreter Needed
Milford chronicle., 1955-03-04
February 25, 1866
1918 Mayo
Topeka, Kansas

Topeka, Kansas
Dear Friends:
1 Wednesday afternoon I was in
our front yard picking up paper
that the trash men had left behind
in their collection that day. Two
doors away Mrs. David Weyant
yelled across the yards to me,
Aren't you cOld?"
1t felt good being outside in the
forty degree temperatures and /
told her so. And then she said. "I
don't mean outside. Isn't your
house cOld?" Her husband had lust
called. 1t was about five o'clock
then and he told her the news that
spread like wild fire. GAS WAS
OFF all over Topeka, and had been
since 3 p M.
Our highest gas bill this winter
for a months service has been
only ten dollars. We have gas. not
only to heat our house, but we have
a gas cooking stove and hot water
heater, so you can understand why
$4,000 homes began to cool off when
a gas main broke a few miles east
of town.
At first it seemed like a lark. I
thought it would turn out to be an
Air Force party at the Officers Club
that night since they switched over
to other cooking fuel during the
emergency. All the girls in the
neighbOrhOOd planned to eat out.
That is always fun. We began call
ing for reservations but none were
taken. First come, first served. 4"
Many restaurants cooked only with
gas and therefore --ere closed and
those that were opened were mob
bed. Not feeling like fighting" such
a mob we snacked at home. We
could use our electric percolator.
our toaster, and our wonderful
California rotisserie. The Shirlevs
across the street brought over their
cans of soup and we warmed these
on top of the grill-part of the ro-
tlsserie. After this was completed
we used the grill to fry bacon and
eggs, which certainly wasn't bad
fare in an emergency.
-A~~AN WI " 40 EAEELLIClLV
People were using electric heaters.
turning on electric ovens of their
cooking stoves to heat their homes
and transformers were being over
loaded. We sat in our living room
after dinner in coats. Children
were wrapped in blankets. AT bed
time they rushed to undress bv the
electric heater in our bathroom
wall. All I could think of was how
soft we all were. How much we
had grown to depend on luxuries
Not too many years ago pioneers
lived in log cabin homes right here
on the plains with neighbors ten
miles away. No thermostats to turn
on their heat, no telephones to use
10 seek advice from friends, no ra-
clo' and certainly no idea of tele-
vision.
Milford chronicle., 1955-03-04
Cancer Claims Lives

Cancer claimed almost five and
a half times the number of lives
lost from all accidental causes. in
cluding traffic fatalities, in Del
aware during 1854, it was revealed
this week in figures from the State
Board Of Health Office in Dover.
compiled at the request of the Del
aware Division, American Cancer
Society.
Total of cancer deaths in the
state last year reached $50. This
compared with a 1853 total Of 529.
All heart diseases, combined un-
der one classification, were listed
as the largest group-cause Of Del
aware deaths-a total of 1868 in
1854. Cancer was charged with the
second highest total. In third place
were cerebral observation-disclosures
hage, embolism, and thrombosis
killing 323 Delawareans last year.
All accidental deaths, including fa-
tai traffic accidents, accounted for
total of 104.
Milford chronicle., 1955-03-04
BabsOn Discusses Should U. S. Strike First?

BabsOn Park, Fla, March g. In
view Of the latest news from
Russia, businessmen and investors
are much excited regarding the
new book published by D. Van Nos
trand Co., Inc, New York CITY. en-
titled INFLUENCE OF FORCE IN
FOREIGN RELATIONS. AS the
author, Captain w. d. PulestOn. is
a neighbOr of mine and recently
gave a most dynamic address at
the Webber College Winter Con-
ference, / must comment thereon
and advise everyone to read it.
Eighteen "Fatal Mistakps1
Captain Puleston told me last
spring of these mistakes" Shortly
thereafter, Mrs. Franklin d. RoOse-
Velt, the late Presidents wife. was
visiting my home in Wellesley
Hills, Mass. asked her what she
thought of these mistakes" for
which the Democratic Administra-
lions were reported responsible.
Mrs. Roosevelt answered. "WelI.
not Withstanding Captain PulestOn's
so-called Mistakes we won two
wars, didn't we, Mr.. Babson? Per-
haps someone should now write a
book on the EIGHTEEN MASTER
STROKES which won these two
wars!"
Personally I believe that, al
though a fearless critic, Captain
PulestOn is eminently fair in his
judgments. He emphasizes mis-
takes made by Republican states
men such as Root, Hughes, Kellogg.
StimsOn, and President Hoover
equally with those made by Presi-
dents Wilson and Roosevelt. He
points to Wilson's statesman-like,
but unheeded. appeal to European
leaders in 1916 to seek. a "peace
without victory" Similarly, Pules-
ton has pointed to mistakes made
by military as we'll as diplomatic
leaders. He carefully cites proof
showing the undue subordination of
the trained military to unframed
civilians. Politics, between 1909 and
1871, by weakening our armed
forces, caused first Germany and
then Japan to attack us on the
incorrect assumption that they
could defeat us before we could
prepare to fight.
What ShOuId 4. s. Do Now?
Strike First?
Businessmen and investors want
to know what Captain Puleston
thinks we should do NOW. This is
It: Increase the nations defenses.
particularly the strategic Industrial
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challenging" To All

Senator Francis Case, South Da-
kOta (WhO is not to be confused
with Senator Clifford p. Case, of
New Jersey, introduced the highly
controversial 101 billion dollar Ad-
ministratiOn highway bill into Con-
gress the other day. Next day he
admitted he had not read it prior
to- presenting it and said he could
not go along with it in its present
form"
Senator Case described the ten
year road program as challenging.
but saw some serious questions"
IN the financing plan. The bill calls
Tor 70 billions Of Federal money to
finance most of a 10000 mile net
work of interstate highways, 21 bill
lions of which would be borrowed
Dy hoating a bond issue of that
amount. Like the unseen Overcoat
in the salesman's expense account.
1t would not appear as an item
in the national debt-but it would
be there just the same.
The Government would provide
another six billions for other roads.
and the balance of 20 billions would
be put up by the states.
We don't know just what Sena-
tor Cases mental reservations are.
but, for our own part we go along
with Editor D. M. Turner of THE
TOWANDA (Pa.) REVIEW. who
sees in Government-controlled
roads and schools "a kind of regi-
mentatiOn that leads to other pit
falls and problems" Of the financ-
ing, he says: "If the Government
has money to lend the helping hand.
then the Government got the money
from the people and we are the
people We would rather see
the Federal Government return, on
a pro-rated basis, the tax money
1t has received to the various areas
to do with as they please"
In this instance, however, the
Milford chronicle., 1955-03-04

Air becomes liquid at about 285
degrees below zero Fahrenheit
Milford chronicle., 1955-03-04

of Formosa before deciding what
attitude the United Nations will
take. The fact is that FormOsa was
part of China for centuries until
1895, when China was forced to
give" it to the Japanese. The
Japanese developed Formosa and
made it what it is today. At the
close of World War III, the japan
ese were compelled to give up For
mOsa and return it to China. Strict
ly speaking, there are two Chinas
today-the Mainland under Com
munist AdministratiOn-and For
mosa under the conservative Chang
kal-shek. Both claim sole represen-
tation in the United Nations. Thus
far only FOTmOsa, ruled by Chang
hal-shek, is a member of the United
Nations.
What OF The Future? NV Forecast
Although we should hold For
mosa for the present, I forecast
that FormOsa will sometime again
be an integral part of China which
will have a compromise government
such as General Marshall recon-
mended. Before then both Chinas
will be members of the United Ma
tiOns, l further forecast that World
War II will be avoided for this year
at least. Even though CAPTAIN
PulestOn seems logical in saving
that only by striking first" after
fair warning, can we avoid being
destroyed. I doubt if the American
people would support Striking
first based only on FOrmOsa. Yet.
the recent vote of Congress indi-
Gates that we might. Certainly, we
are in very critical situation.
Businessmen will be tempted at
least to postpone capital expendi-
lures until the air becomes clearer.
Investors will consider the stock
market very selective. Even now
investors are purchasing mainly
the aircrafts metals, and oils, to-
gether certain other stocks which
should prosper as "war babies"
Wise investors will probably, not
buy stocks of companies in large
cities vulnerable to bombing. Fur
thermOre, all investors should keep |
in mind the probability that prices,
wages, and money rates would !
probably be "fxed" Immediately at
the start of anv World War III, and /
a severe profits tax be re-enacted. |
President Eisenhower might veto |
some of this legislation; but with
the Democrats in control of Con-
gress it could be passed over the |
Presidents veto in view of Russia's !
attitudo.
Milford chronicle., 1955-03-04

Businessmen and investors want
to know what Captain Puleston
thinks we should do NOW. This is
it: Increase the nations defenses
particularly the strategic industrial
Milford chronicle., 1955-03-04

Largest number Of 1854 cancer
deaths were in New Castle County.
where 406 succumbed to this dis
ease. In Sussex County the cancer
toll was SO, and in Kent County.
81 The figures were compiled bv
Cecil Marshall, statistician in the
Office Of DR.. Floyd 1. Hudson, exc
eutiye secretary Of the State Board
Of Health.
Even though medical science is
making great strides in finding
ways to arrest or cure certain cam
Ger types, these figures show cancer
as the most single serious disease
IN our state" it was pointed out bv
Robert w. Jack, II, executive di-
rector of the Delaware Division.
American Cancer Society.
Early detection Of cancer. Jack
emphasized, now provides the best
key to conquering the disease. He
advocated regular schedule Of
medical examinations as the first
steps IN battling this menace.
AfT hnnnraes 1srt,,sa - 49,
Milford chronicle., 1955-03-04
DELAWARE FARM MARKET news
Market News lnomuiOn Supplied By The sursuu Of muk,
Siu'o Beard Of Agriculture, Dover DoIowora

IEs following is a weekly round
up OF livestock prices and miscel-
laneous commodities prevailing
last week. This report shows aver
age prices received by Delaware
farmers for commodities that were
marketed throughout this week:
VEAL CALVES
Choice: $28.00 to $500, mostly
$32.50 per cwt.
Medium to Good: $4,000 to S27.5O.
mostly $25.0O per cwt.
Rough and Common: $500 to
$500, mostly $1,000 per cwt.
Monkeys: $500 to $14.O0, mostly
$11.00 per cwt.
SLAUGHTER cows
Medium to Good: $11.OO to $3.50.
mostly $1,000 per cwt.
Common: $3.50 to $1O.75, mostly
$1,000 per cwt.
Gamers and Cutters: S4.75 to
1925, mostly $8.75 per cWt.
STEERS
Good: $15.75 to S21.25, mostly
$3.50 per cwt.
FEEDER HEEFERS
Dairy Type: $500 to $11.5O, most
ly $1,000 per cwt.
Beef Type: $1,000 to S1S.75, most
ly SIPS per cwt.
SLAUGHTER HELPERS
Good: $14.OO to S17.OO, mostly
$1,000 per cwt.
BULLS
Over 1000 DOunds
Medium to Good: $500 to S16.25,
mostly $15.75 per cwt.
500 TO 1000 pounds
Medium to Good: $3.50 to S17.75,
mostly S14.00 per cwt.
STRAIGHT HOGS
(gOOd quality
120 to 10 pounds :-S15.5O to
$16.75, mostly $1,000 per cwt.
10 to 240 pOunds:-S16.OO to
$500, mostly $16.75 per cwt.
240 to $50 pounds: :-S14.5O to
$1,000, mostly S15.75 per cwt.
SOWS
(gOOd quality
200 to 300 pOunds:-S13.5O TO
S15.25, mostly $1475 per cwt.
300 to 400 pounds: :-S13.0O to
$15.25, mostly $500 per cwt.
Over 400 pounds:-S1O.OO to
$1,000, mostly $3.50 per cWt.
BOARS
(gOOd quality
Milford chronicle., 1955-03-04

Under $50 pounds: $500 to S11. 90.
mostly $1,000 per cwt.
over $50 pounds: $500 to $500.
mostly $500 per cwt.
FEEDER PIGS
Is TO 12 weeks ODD
Choice: $500 to $1,000, mostly
$1O.50 per cwt.
Medium to Good: $500 to $3.50.
mostly $500 per cwt.
Common: $500 to $500, mostly
81 90 per cwt.
SHOATS
Medium to Good: $1,000 to s17OO
mostly S14.00 per cWt.
HORSES AND MULES
Work Type: $4,000 to $1,000.
mostly $4,000 per cwt.
Butcher Type: $1,000 to $4,000.
mostly $500 per cwt.
LIVE POULTRY
Heavy Breeds
Fowl: $120 to $1.65, mostly
;, Rooster: q s1.Oo to $3.50. mostly
Light Breeds
Bantam Chickens: 25c to 4Oc.
mostly Csc.
Guineas: soc to $1.1O. mostly Csc
Geese: $3.50 to 1915, mostly
1925.
DUCKS
Muscovy Ducks: soc to s1.1O.
mostly $1OO.
Muscovy brakes: SIPS to $1.65.
mostly $145.
RABBITS
Large Breeds: S1.OO to 81 1SO.
mostly $3.50.
75c.
Young Rabbits: 25c to 45c, most
ly S5c.
EGGS
Ungraded, Mixed: S5c to 45c per
dozen.
MISCELLANEOUS PRODUCE
APPLES: $1.SO to $3.50 per bu-
GREENS: zoe to soc per x bu-
LARD: $3.50 to s5.75 per so n
can.
POP CORN: 55o to 75c per x
TURNIPs: 25c to 45c per x bu-
shell
Milford chronicle., 1955-03-04
ALL THE DIFFERFNCE
MOnOpolies and cartels-whicb don

MOnOpOlleS and cartelS-Which dominate
Daslc industry in long list of foreign coun-
trles-generally have certain things in com
mon. Ihey restrict production. They force
prices up. They are lethargic in improving
pIOducIS-fOr the customer is in the position
where ne must take whatever they want to
offer or do without.
Enterprise which operates under the free
competitive system in the u. S. also has GER
tain things in common - very different
things. Goods are produced in abundance
Prices are held to the lowest level that will
pay the costs Of carrying on the business
plus moderate profit. Products aren't sta
!lc-Cney are forever in the process of being
improved.
The American oil industry is frst-class
example Of how well the interest of the con-
sumer is served under free competition. The
most Wldely-used of the thousands of pro-
ducts that come from crude oil is gasoline
AS everyone knows, it is universally avail
aDle-We're rarely more than a few miles
from service station. In terms of the labor
required Tor US to earn the money to buv it.
II mas become steadily cheaper. In 1925 it
COOk "A minutes of working time to buv
gallon; In 1885 it took 21 minutes. and now
II takes only 10 minutes. These figures in
ciude gasoline taxes, which are up more than
I0U per cent since 1925, and over which the
INDUSTRY has no control. Finally. todav's
gasoline is at least so per cent better in Quail
lty Cnan the 1925 prOduct-Which means that
two gallons do the work three used to do.
Inc history of free industrial competition
IN America is history of more products.
better products and lOWer-priced products in
terms OF the labor needed to buy them.
~CGo&G
GOOD NEWS FROM THE CAPITAL.
On January 26th, the New York Times
reported that President Eisenhower had or
9efeo all government agencies to review their
industrial and commercial activities within
tne next lew months to determine how
many OF these activities are in competition
with private business and how MANY CON
reasonably be ended"
That IS squarely in line with statement
he made in 1852: ''That no federal nroiecf
large or small will be undertaken which the
people can effectively do or be heIped to do
Tor themselves; that no federal project will
Oe undertaken which private enterprise can
eHectlVely undertake; that no project and no
program will be started on the federal level
Wnlch can be undertaken and effectively car
RED through on the state or local level"
some progress has been made in GETTING
Cne government out of business TWENTY
seven gOVernment-oWned synthetic rubber
plants are slated to go into private hands
Cne Navy has stopped manufacturing its
clothing; the Army has disposed of a chloT-
Inc plant, and the assets of the Inland Water
ways Corporation have been sold. But GOV
ernment is still involved in a lengthy LIST Of
service and manufacturing Operations-Of
which electric power is the outstanding ax-
ample. we have long way to 90 before we
VIII De free Of the blight of socialistic exper-
lments.
Milford chronicle., 1955-03-04
A LONG WAIT


We Americans assume that retail stores
VIII nave whatever we want whenever we
want lt-and priced at figure that reflects
the potent force of free competition. Our
superb mass distribution system has been q
ards. '''ie ''''i'u-
Things are very different, however. in
those countries where private enterprise has
been outlawed, along with anything resemb-
ing competition as we know it.
- IN August, 1858, Russia's ex-premier.
MalenkoV, announced that the government
was now fully in position to increase the
production OF consumer goods" This was
great news to the Russian people, who had
Oeen llVlng at subsistence standards.
some Is months later the program was
SClIl nat failure A United Press cOrrespOn-
dent reported, "The Russian people are Co-
ing to have to keep on waiting for those
IhlngSS. the Soviet government promised
Now, it appears, that waiting period will
Oe prolonged indeed. The new Premier, Bull
gahln, VINO followed the OUsted MaIenkov.
mas denounced the emphasis on consumer in
dustry IN strong terms, and declared that ev-
industry. y 'i0'''V
Thus it goes, when the state bosses everv-
ithlng: Maybe we should stop taking free en-
tefprlse and its abundance-as eXennIifad
by retailing-fOr granted Maybe we sbonIJ
Inlnk more about the system that makes #
possible -
MEND HOLES IN UNCLE'S SOCK
Many state legislatures and Congress- are
now IN session. The problem of most of them
Is Is government is spending more
than its income.
II private family was in the same fix if
would have to cut spending or 90 broke. Gov
eLlii1enLs are giving the people services for
Wnlcn they haven't the money to paw.
Candidates for Office talk economy bu+
!Wnen they arrive in office they find economy
IS unpopular with voters who have demanded
puOlc spending beyond the point of pru-
uence-out they don't want to put up in
creased taxes to pay for it.
Inc FEDERAL government is now irving to
unload some of its various operations which
Cost tne taxpayers billions. But it runs into
tremendous opposition because that steps on
Toes Cnat profit by government spending.
one way to reduce public debt and pre-
vent increased taxes would be for govern
meng TO require agencies rendering services
winch don't pay their way, to charge enough
SO they would be self-suppOrting except in
matters of nOn-cOmmercial character
governments will have to cut spendino
q u raise taxes or eventually go bankrupt lust
sne same as private family that continu-
1usly spends beyond its means. If anyone can
lgure out a different answer let him come
Onward with his iaoas.
Milford chronicle., 1955-03-04
TRACTORS FOR TURKEY

TRACTORS FOR TURKEY
Late in January, an operator pushed the
starter button on farm tractor in factory
n Ankara, Turkey, and the machine rolled
)tf the assembly line
What makes this newswOrthy is that the
tractor IN question was the first to be pro-
iuced in that country. The factory making it
vas established by an American farm equip
nenL manufacturer, in partnership with
turkish banks, private investors, and Turk
/ lSh government agencies. Prior to this time
all modern farm equipment used in the cOun-
try was imported. About 900 tractors will
oe made the first year, and schedules call for
Increases up TO 5000 annually, along with
many other implements.
This is a real step forward for Turkey
IL gives the nation a new manufacturing in
dust1y - and, incidentally, all the workmen
are TO be Turks. And it gives her a domestic
source OF something that is 100 per cent es-
sentlal II any country is to properly feed its
people and conserve its irreplaceable land
resources-mOdern farm equipment of the
KIND our American companies produce in
abundance.
We have come to take mechanized farm
ing for granted. In that we are fortunate in
deed. Recent news stories have told of Soviet
Russla's food problem. She simply can't pro-
duce enough to keep her population going
save on a subsistence basis, and apparently
the spectre of famine is always present One
reason IS her lack of sufficient tractors and
other farm machinery.
A steadily declining number of people has
produced a steadily increasing supply of food
and fiber for this country. The machine has
helped make that possible.
NNGO~A>@
THE BOMB BECOMES REAL
1t is amazing and somehow unreal to
know that we live with an enormous poten- |
tai Tor destruction in our midst. That our
lVes which are frequently frantic, some
times humdrum but always a matter of Der-
sOnal concern must recognize the mushroom
ing cloud and the flashes in the desert as an
active part of our privacy.
The recently released data concerning
Iall-0ut and destructive probabilities of H
bomb warfare abruptly brought the flashes
from the desert into the cities and towns and
MADE OF them holocaust in the tortured i'm
aglnatlOns of many people,
IL is TINS unnerVlng vision of waste and
rum that has long kept the government from
making known this information. AS lonp as
experiments continue in worthless pockets of
SAND the pubic's interest is polite and indif- |.
IeEehC But 70 suppose where the sand is now
city tossed to indefinite extinction is more
grlmly real, more intensely personal.
whatever measures the government rec
onmends Tor protection should receive full
cooperation. Neither panic nor procrastina-
ton is an intelligent response.
But more fundamental than any amount
OF preparation and protection is the neces-
ssaIy conviction of all men that neither of
these will ever be needed. It is dignifed
peace which every citizen wants. It is for
peace that we shall censure ruthless and ir-
talk and thought of get-it-over-
quick war. Peace in our time is not a milk 1t
Sopped idea. Peace is the Onlv Wav of inSur N
ing there will be an ''our time" '
~GxGORG II