Milford chronicle., 1956-08-17
STOW IT-DON'T THROW 1T!

In the horse-and-buggy days, flying trash
especially wind-borne newspaperS-were a
frequent cause of runaways Quaint as it
sounds you'd think such accidents were a
thing of the past, but they're not!
Today trash on the highways kills and
mains more people than ever before The
Western Insurance Information Service re.
ports from $50 to 1000 deaths and nearly
100000 serious injuries are caused every
year by cars striking objects thrown on the
road by litterbugs, or swerving to avoid
them.
We mention the matter at this time in
view of the approach of Labor Day and as
a part of our consistent effort to keep as
many as possible of our readers from getting
hurt, or even demised. So great, in fact, is
this trash-strewing problem at this particu-
lar time, there is talk of changing the name
to Litter Day" Where the labor" comes
in is in cleaning up after the event. a job
that will cost somewhere between five and
seven million dollars along our primary state
highways alone!
If Labor Day was merely day, it
couldn't be nearly so bad. But, being a
weekend, and a long one at that, the task
of policing up after the millions of litterbugs
who have spent three days busily strewing
papers, bottles, cans, cartons, and picnic rem
nants over hundreds of square miles of
beaches, parks and Fairgrounds as well as
on highways and city streets, is pretty dis
couraging. And the total cost is beyond esti-
mating.
But there is chance, thanks to the heroic
efforts Of Keep America Beautiful, Inc,
backed by business and industry and more
than forty leading civic and service organiza-
tions of the nation, that this years Labor
Day Safari could leave America just little
neater. The answer is in the hands of the hol-
iday travellers themselves. If enough of them
will heed the plea of KAB to carry litterbugs
in their, cars and 'stow it-dont throw it" !,
travel might again be pleasure We might,
to coin a phrase, be able to see the woods
instead of the debris.
Like charity, public spirit begins private
ly. In this case it begins in your own car.
Is there litterbug taped to your dashboard
or hanging on window-lift?
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THE TOP SENATOR'S
Who were the five greatest senator's in
history? The Senate plans to hang their por-
traits in its chamber, and has named COM
mittee to poll public sentiment
First on the list in an unofficial tabula-
tion is Daniel Webster one of our nations
greatest figures. Recent prominence must
have good deal to do with the choice ofthree
of the other first four, Robert A. Taft of
Ohio, Arthur II. Vandenberg of Michigan
who helped turn the Republicans away from
isoationism after the war, and Alben w
Barkley, "the Veep," of Kentucky. These
were all able men, but it is too soon to judge
their final place in history.
There can be little doubt about Henry
Clay number three on the list. Just behind
the first five were Andrew Jackson who was
senator only briefly and made his mark not
as a senator but as general and president
Sam Houston, the first president of the Re-
public of Texas, but not a Senate leader
George w. Norris of Nebraska, author of the
IVA and of the 10th amendment to the Con
stitution; John c. Calhoun of South Carolina
spokesman of the South in the pre-war days
and William E. Borah of Idaho, the great iso-
lationist.
How did the electors overlook William H
Seward of New York, abolitionist senator
and Lincoln'S secretary of state? Or Nelson
W. Aldrich of Rhode Island, the spokesman
for business control of government who, unit
he retired in 1911, had more power thar
many presidents? Compared with these and
others who could be named, several of the Sc
lections seem inferior.
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PAINS, PILLS, TAXES
AS former president and hard-working
elder statesman, Herbert Hoover has beer
giving the nation good advice for many years
On his S2nd birthday he turned from work
ing at this third farewell address to the
Republicans" to offer the senior citizens &
bit of sound counsel
Keep busy at "some kind of productive
work." he advised. and don't let down
otherwise" he said, "you will degenerate
into talking to everybody about your pains
and pills and income tax" People who retire
and quit being useful, the ex-president be-
lieves, run the risk that they will "shrive
up into nuisance to all mankind" 1t is not
easy for everyone to remain useful in the
sunset years, but Hoover himself is living
nrnnf that the effort is worth making