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Milford chronicle., 1957-08-02
CIGARETTES AND CANCER

If there are those who still have any
doubts, the Public Health Service has now
officially taken the position that there is "aD
increasing and consistent evidence" that ex-
cessive cigarette smoking is one OF the
causes of lung cancer.
This was announced only few days age
and reVerseS an official prOnOuncement OF
1854, from the Public Health Service, which
took the position that there was evidence OF
an association between lung cancer and Gig
arctic smoking but left open the question
of cause-and-effect relationship.
No only has the Public Health Service re
verSed this 1854 announcement, but DR.. Le-
roy E. Burney, the Surgeon-General, has be-
gun nationwide campaign to spread in
formation on the subject. He has sent to the
public health officers of all states, and to the
American Medical Association, copies OF his
recent announcement and also those of two
scientific reports, which show extremely
high" association between heavy smoking
and lung cancer.
The Surgeon-General's statement was
Immediately challenged by DR.. Clarence Cook
Little, chairman of the Scientific Advisory
Board to the Tobacco Industry Research
Committee. AS expected, Dr. Little claimed
that there has been no proof and that the
issue is still unsettled.
However, those who want to use common
sense and exercise the minimum amount of
prudence would certainly be wise to limit
their cigarette smoking to modest vol
ume: In all of the studies we have read
about, it is the excessive cigarette smoker
who seems to run the danger of lung cancer.
The smoker who smokes less than pack
a day is on much safer ground in our opin-
ion.
Therefore, if one smokes cigarettes, all
the evidence indicates that moderation is in
order
Milford chronicle., 1957-08-02
I'm THE AIR FORCE"
323 Washington Street
Milford, Delawars
July 80, 1857
By Elaine Townsend DIeksrson

323 Washington Street
Milford, Delaware
July 80. 1857
Dear Friends:
Those of you who travel leisure
ly are fortunate. I always think
I'm certain to have a nice trip
home, but something always seem
to rush us. My plans toward go
ing home were working out real
well until Wednesday. Early last
Wednesday morning July 24th)
Hayes called me from the base out
in Topeka, and wanted to know if
| could be ready the following NOR
ming to fly home. I would be ready
to leave Friday morning. not
Thursday, and told him so. After
several phone calls from my nice
hubby / could see my arguments
were losing ground and that we
probably would be leaving "a hours
earlier than / had planned.
The main reason we left early
stemmed from the fact that the
base weather man said a front was
moving in and you know in Kan
sas we just can't mess with wea-
thef. BY nine Thursday morning
Hayes, Dawn, Lynne, ''Sambo"
(our good Boston Bull) and l were
taxing down the runway at the
Municipal Airport and on our way
to Toronto, Canada.
Lunch in Peoria, Illinois, was
nothing spectacular since the air.
port there is small We four ate
sandwiches on debated, detected.
degraded" stools at a snack bar.
We left our best airplane passen-
ger tied inside the airPlane hanger.
Altitude, rough weather-nothing
seems to worry little Sambo and
he really is good on our trips.
Across the lake Lake st. Clair)
from Detroit we landed at the Gus
i toms Office in Windsor, Ontario.
We signed the necessary papers
and showed them proof of Sambo's
rabies shot and we were quickly
on our way. In the lobby of the
airport the children readily no
ticed pictures of the Queen and
Prince Philip and noticed too that
the cigarette machines were full
of unfamiliar cigarette packs
none that they had seen on TV any
way.
If you'll look at your Atlas you'll
see that from Windsor we were
flying between three lakes. Huron
was on our left and Erie and On
tario were on our right. BY Toron-
to time we landed at 7:45, but by
Topeka time it was 5:45. Any way
it was getting dark and the worse
Milford chronicle., 1957-08-02
"YOung Man Riyer1

Senator Homer E. Capehart went
out home the other day to Jeffer-
sonville, Ind, to help officiate a
new up-to-the-minute Jeffboat die
sci towboat from the builders
ways into the waters of the Ohio
River. Before the lady who smashed
the bottle of champagne on the yes:
sells bow had her moment of glory,
the Senator set us straight on a
point that has probably disturbed
more Americans this year than
ever before He pointed out in
fairly unmistakable terms the diff
erence between Federal spending
and Federal investment, or if you
prefer, the difference between
''pork" and progress. :
With the disappearance of the
picturesque, wOOd-burning stern
wheelers from our great rivers
nearly a century ago, inland water
way transportation became what
the Senator called "a dead letter..
But, today, through the funds voted
by Congress for the long-range
program of the Corps of Engineers
for the modernization of the Ohio
River, its locks, dams and levees
these inland waters are serving us
as never before.
"It is, as the Senator said, "a
river cone alive. From 1929 to
1850 river traffic increased 582 per
cent. By 1916 the river was carry
ing 5 million ton-miles of COM
merce. But in 1856 it was just short
of Is billion. In 1899 electric gen.
Grating plants along the river pro-
duced 81 per cent of the nation g
electric power BY 1886 Ohio River
plants were producing per cent
of Americas kilowatts. From 1850
to 1855, the nation invested $11
billion in new industrial and atomic
plants in the area and provided
nearly 100000 new jobs-more jobs
than there are in the cities of Pitts
burgh and Cincinnati combined!
Senator Capehart observed that
the six states whose lands make
up the Ohio River Valley-Penn-
sylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, Ken
lucky, Indiana and Illinois-cur-
rently produce 81 billion in FEEDER
al taxes, and added that navigation
development in the Ohio River had
cost the US Government $3.50 mill
lion in 130 years. ''No investment of
the Federal Government he said,
has ever ben efitted more people
or provided bigger return"
Only the failure of the Govern
ment to follow through on its
lOng-range program to keep the
rivers locks, dams and other navi-
gational and food-control facilities
up to date. said the Senator. could
halt the valleys inspiring progress.
He paid tribute to the constructive
efforts of the Inland Waterways
Milford chronicle., 1957-08-02

very SICK ana nd0 10 DC 'uS0eu 10
( her to the hospital, but Jean was
We her She didn't know anything
lldn't say goodbye when her parents
and very communicable disease. She
withdrawn. She didn't talk at all.
she wouldn't even walk (though she
was physically able) she didn't
play, she didn't laugh, she wouldn't
even smile
Jean had regressed to the level
of a small infant in her behavior.
No one knows exactly what goes
on in the mind of such a little
she was trying to get back and
back ami act as she did in early
infancy, hoping perhaps that at
some place she could make life
be what it once had been. If she
acted as she used to act maybe the
world would be as it used to be
too.
Long Road Back
We had cured Jeans body, could
we now cure her mind? There we're
long talks with Jeans parents. Jean
had to be reassured that life could
be good again, that she would not
be again abandoned.
jeans mother did a wonderful
job. No words could really prepare
her for that pale week sad-faced
little girl she took home from the
hospital For week Jeans mother
never left the child, night and day.
mother was there, warm. tender
and loving, and it wasn't easy be-
cause as Jean did begin to respond
she was very demanding and irrit-
able. AS time went on Jean again
smiled. laughed and ran about.
Eventually She could stand short
separations from her mother with
out the CHASTITY fear that she'd
never come back.
Jean ultimately made a complete
recovery, not only physically bat
mentally and emotionalIy as well.
The story of Jean makes one won
der if the hospital regulation of
complete isolation even for dan
gerously communicable disease is
worth the risk of such dangerous
hospitalitis as Jean contracted.
Milford chronicle., 1957-08-02
Long Stay In Hospital
Affects ChiId's Morale
AP NeWsfeatures

AP NeWSfeatureS
JEAN WAS 2 when she becam
the hospital. Both her parents too
unconscious when they had to lei
about that frantic drive and she CO
left. Jean had meningitis, serious
very communicable disease. She
was rat IN strict Isolation in the
hospital and her parents were not
allowed to visit her.
In the hospital a staff of doc
tors and nurses worked over the
limp little body. They stuck needles
into her, poked tube down her
throat, did all sorts of most un-
pleasant things. At first Jean didn't
know what was happening but af-
ter a while she began to get a
little better and regained con-
seriousness. Then she found her
self in completely strange place,
with strange white-coated crea-
lures hurting her.
There wasn't a soul around
whom she had ever seen before,
The nurses were kind, they tried
to talk to the little girl, they pick
ed her up and cuddled her, but no
one was MOmmy. She was utterly
lost and lonely. In her baby mind
she had been abandoned by every
one and everything that had meant
life and comfort and security in
the world
Lonely Baby
Poor little Jean, had she only
been aware of the many, many
phone calls that kept her des-
perately worried parents posted
on every change in her condition.
she would have known that she
hadn't been abandoned But Jean
was too young to know about this.
All she knew was she had been
left, that she hurt, that all the
joy was gone from life
Her body got better. Through the
miracle of modern medicine, the
battle with the germs was won.
But Jean was a different child.
Before the sudden illness Jean had
been a lively talkative happy child,
full of cute remarks and adorable
tricks. Now, not only was she thin.
and wan, but she was completely
Milford chronicle., 1957-08-02
MAGIC,S WORN OFF

couple of decades ago, ''ten thousand
dollars year" was a magic phrase. 1t meant
luxury, and big house, and stature in the
community.
Something has happened to the magic. A
global war happened, for one thing, and
decade of upheaval and change since the end
of that war. Ten-thousanG-a-year men are
fairly common now. The glamor has worn
off the figure.
The glamor has worn off because the
sum of $4,000 is far from being what it
used to be. The man with gross income of
$4,000 now, says U. S. News and World
Report, is making the equivalent of only
about $4,000 as of 1889. To be as well off
as the man who made $4,000 in 1889, he
would now have to take in about $25,000
One big reason for this is the rise in
prices Virtually everything we use costs
substantially more than it did before World
War III. Another reason for the tarnish
marks on that shiny 10000 is high taxes
federal, state and local. Even a $10,000-a-
year man in 1939-with the equivalent of al
most $25, 1000 in 1857 dollars, remember
paid a maximum federal income tax of only
eight per cent. Today, even for most ordi-
nary wage earners the federal income tax
rate is 20 per cent.
All this makes pretty dismal material for
reflection. But in matters of this kind there's
no use trying to avoid the facts. The big
economic fact of 1857 is that if you want
that $10,000-a-year glow you've got to shoot
for S25.00O.
Milford chronicle., 1957-08-02

that the National Debt and the
money problem could be solved by
printing more money. When you
stand in the balcony of the Bu-
reau of Printing and Engraving,
watch a worker hold up a blank
sheet of paper, push it into a ma
chine, pull a lever, hold the sheet
of paper up again transformed
into $1,000 bills, you can readily
see how they get that idea. The end
of printing such money may be
complete reputation and catas-
trophe.
Labor Unions
In 1888, Labor Unions had a
membership of around 8 million;
today it numbers around Is mil
lion. Since we have a civilian Ia
Dor force of almost 20 million, this
means that less than 80 per cent of
the workers are unionized. How
ever. the leaders of this 80 per cent
practically set the. standards for
a large majority of the nations
workers. Some of the union ac-
tivities are harmful both to the
general welfare of the nation and
to their own members as we'll.
Labor should get a fair wage but
its production should increase in
line with its wages. Otherwice
these workers reduce the value
of your savings and life insur-
ance.
The Vicious Spiral
The Union demand is always for
higher wages or shorter hours.
Employers are willing to grant
increases so long as production
is being increased, but otherwise
Milford chronicle., 1957-08-02
BabsOn Discusses Savings And Life Insurance

such raises are just like printing
pres money and are followed by a
rise in the prices of consumer
goods. Increased prices are soon
met by another demand for an
increase in wages, and the spiral
goes round and round. The vicious
circle continues: Increased wages,
increased costs of production, in
creased prices, then increased
wages. This will go on until the
consumer ceases to buy and we
have unemployment and deEres-
sion.
Creeping Initiation
This gradual increase in prices
lessons by SO much the value of
the dollar and of your savings de-
posits and life insurance. This sit
uation is going on at the present
time, and unless it is controlled it
will cause trouble in time. The
Federal Reserve Board is trying
to stem creeping imitation with
tighter money We should all en-
courage the Board in its effort to
protect the dollar. our savings, and
our life insurance. Imitation does
not increase the volume of busi-
ness; it Just increases thu number
of dollars necessary to carry on
business.
Conclusion
The Administration likes to
speak of the Gross National Pro-
duct, which is measured in dol
lars, because it probably makes
everybody feel better; but remem-
Der that it is measured by a So
cent dollar rather than by amounts
of food, clothing and shelter.
Milford chronicle., 1957-08-02
ULTIMATE BENEFICIARY

ULTIMATE BENEFICIARY
In a free economy-Which means an econ
omy governed by natural law, instead of bu-
reaucratic and dictatorial egulations-prob-
lens have habit of solving themselves. An
editorial in the Portland OregOnian provides
an interesting little illustration of this tru-
ism.
Some time ago there was great furor
over so-called "bootlegging" of new autOmo-
biles. Car production was outrunning sales,
and used car lots and other nOn-franchised
outfits were offering new models at prices
well under those of the regular franchised
dealers Demands were made that Congress
enter the act with legislation to correct the
situation.
Congress did not oblige Yet today "boot-
Logging" of new cars has practically diSap-
peared. And the reason that happened Is
simplicity itself. The franchised dealers met
the competition by reducing their prices and
bringing the customers back to their show
rooms. Once the opportunity for quick
and easy profit vanished, the "bootleggers'
went out of business.
The Oregonian points up the moral !:
''Thus the law of supply and demand.
through its inexorable workings, created
the 'bootlegger' and later abolished him. The
consuming public was the ultimate benefi-
ciary as it generally is when human law
makers are wise enough to resist the
temptation to try to amend this natural law. .
1&@@S%
1857 PASSING FAST
With the arrival of August-the eighth
month of the year-one is reminded that two
thirds of 1857 will have passed into history
at its end. This is hard to realize. After
August, of course, comes September-the
month in which fall begins, with Halloween
Thanksgiving and Christmas not far behind
August is the last month of vacation for
millions of youngsters, who will soon be go,
ing back to school, 1t is also the last month
of summer weather in the more northern
climes.
The coming of autumn, however, is moi
an unpleasant thought for many, for autumn
has its own beauty and many think that it is
the prettiest and most pleasant of all the
seasons. This is because the weather is often
clear, crisp and cool, the earth still retaining
much of the summer neat, thereby making
for brisk bIt not too severe nights and pleas
ant days.
Ii you haven't taken your vacation yet,
take it in August. The break in the routine
of life will do you good. However, if you
plan to drive, drive carefully, so you can re-
turn home to see another August
Milford chronicle., 1957-08-02
GALLOPING SOCIALISM

GALLOPING SOCIALISM
The danger to the nation now isn't "creep-
ing socialism"-it is ''galloping socialism.
Thus writes David Lawrence, one of the
country's most respected commentators on
public affairs.
Mr.. Lawrence'S view was prompted by
the ever-continuing drive to socialize the
electric power resources of this nation. His
concern was over the principle at stake. To
quote him directly .. -. if it is desirable
that the Federal government knock private
enterprise out of the electric light and power
business in America, it is just as logical for
the Federal government to take over and
operate the steel, copper, coal, oil, aluminium
and other natural resource industries as
well as automobiles food and retail stores,
railroads, bus lines, air lines and all the
other businesses now handled by private en-
terprise and private investors
SocialiZed, tax-eXempt electric power
takes more tax dollars per capita and saves
the consumer fewer pennies per meter than
probably any business the government could
go into, so its main effect is not to save money
but to destroy the American enterprise sys-
TEN of industry.
That is the issue, and all the diversionary
arguments in the world can't get away from
it. If government should provide one COM
mercial service, it should provide any and
all commercial services. Then we would have
authoritarian government to the Nth de-
gree. 1t might be called something else. The
name makes no difference. The result is al
ways the same-destruction of liberty, and
the enslayement of the individual.
$685.
PROGRESS IN SMALL,TOWNS
The small town of America is where the
progress of our country is made 1t is the
small town where its residents are united,
often homogeneous and fully patriotic.
1t is in the small towns that community
projects and self-improvement reach their
fullest expression. Community pride and
good citizenship are often more apparent in
the small towns of the United States than
in larger cities.
In addition, life is more wholesome and
probably healthier. The product of the small
town-the average U. S. citizen-is usually
a more hkable citizen and better balanced
one, according to the psychologists. This
does not mean that those from the metro
politan areas are abnormal or unattractive
citizens, but it merely means that the edge
goes to those from the small townsville typi-
cal U. S. community.
Business is realizing the advantages avail
able in small towns and many of the large
corporations are moving their huge plants to
the smaller towns of the nation. More and
more, the cOuntrys top executives and the
wealthiest citizens are moving to small towns,
where they can enjoy slower pace of life,
a more normal and more wholesome life
While the great metropolitan areas are
wonderful to visit, containing amazing ex-
amples of engineering genius and business
and industrial activity, it is the small town
and the rural community which is the back
bone of America and where the real progress
the real Americanism from the grassroots
lis to be found.
Milford chronicle., 1957-08-02
Dawn's Early Light

.
It will be recalled that when the
going got rough on the Civil Rights
bill, the President disavowed any
thought of calling out the troops
to enforce it's provisions-as pro-
vided for in the vicious Section III
which has since been tn own out.
In fact the President said he was
more concerned about protecting
the right to vote. and indicated he
would sign most anything that
might be face-saving.
Although restricted at this writ
ing to a voting rights measure. the
bill still authorizes the Attorney
General to go Into Federal courts
to ask injunctions against registra-
ton or election officials charged
with interfering with the voting
rights of others. Failure to respect
such an injunction could then bring
trial by the Federal judge without
jury, and fine or Imprisonment
for contempt.
The bipartisan forces, both
South and North, who defeated Part
III have expressed confidence IN
securing a jury trial amendment
and Washington observers are in
general agreement that if this hap
pens there will De no filibuster, the
bill will be passed and the Presi-
dent will have something to sign.
We do not quite see. however,
why the defenders of states rights
should quit the battle after pre-
vailing .thusfar. Even a Pyrrhic
victory is a sociological gain, and
there should be no quarter given
on Federal encroachment.
Especially at time when the
tide seems to be turning in the
long, losing battle to retain the
form of government that cOur-
ageOus ancestors gave into our
keeping.
Milford chronicle., 1957-08-02
DULLES FIDDLING

Secretary of State John Foster Dulles is
still fiddling around with an erroneous de-
cision the State Department has supported
for many years, to bar American newsmen
from Communist China.
In the first place, the State Department
has no right to bar American newsmen from
Communist China and Dulles quibbling over
this edict only reveals growing suspicion
in the State Department and possibly on
Dulles part-that the State Department is
wrong.
In meeting with six news executives re-
Gently, Dulles again offered to permit linn
tied number of newsrnen to go to China, but
he and the news executives could not agree
on any such limitation. Most of them be-
ieve that the State Department has no right
to prevent American news cOverage of Com
munist China.
Eventually, Dulles will have to retract
the now-famous and arbitrary order. Fur
ther quibbling about it, in trying to limit
the number of sneWsmen, is ridiculous ap-
proach to the situation. The question is whe-
ther- the basic principle Of free newspaper
reporting in all parts of the world can be
ignored by u. S. Secretary of State, who
was not originally intended to be a super
censor of u. S. news publications.
And what difference does it make whe-
ther six, or ten reporters are in China? Ac-
tually, three reporters could do just as much
aarm-if there is any harm to be done-as
twelve. AS we see it, then Dulles has no ar
gument whatsoever.
Milford chronicle., 1957-08-02


JEAN WAS sick had ushed
the hospital Both her parents took her the hospital but Jean
didn't anything
drive couldn't
left had meningitis serious communicable disease She
Milford chronicle., 1957-08-02

the fact that these newest school
books, while based on the latest
and most extensive findings, are
modern versions of the McGuffey
Readers of yesteryear! In fact the
senior author of the series is DR.
Ullin w. Leavell professor Of Ed
ucation at the University of Vir-
ginia and also director of the Nc
Guffey Reading Clinic. Dr. Leavell
describes the Golden Rule Series
as "do it yourself" books and says
t'They require the child to think as
he reads"
Our public schools understaffed
with underpaid teachers heed such
help as this. And for our children,
there can be no better armor a
gainst the Establishments of an un-
ruly world than the Golden Rule
and no better preparation for good
citizenship.
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