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MEMBER OF XHE ASSOCIATED PRESS
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1949
TODAY GIVE THANKS FOR OUR
FREEDOMS
Here is Thanksgiving Day, 1949.
Since the Pilgrims first celebrated with
prayer and feasting the day of gratitude to
Almighty God for the blessings they had
found in a new world, this has been a time
devoted to recognition of the things which
have brought us happiness as individuals and
grçatness as a nation.
Each year, there is a link with the past
forged of the principle of freedom sought by
the Pilgrims, and of ever greater meaning
throughout our history.
Each year, too, there are new blessings to
be thankful for, new benefits growing from
the firm beliefs which animated our fore
fathérs on the first Thanksgiving Day.
As we reflect on our reasons, this year,
for expressing our gratitude, many come in
stantly to mind. We have a. prosperity un
dreamed of a few short years ago, bringing
new progress in the fight against individual
want and suffering. We have survived one
* war, and we face the troubled future still
hopeful that we can avert another.
But look all around us, and we can see one
reason, above All others, why we should be
more than ever grateful for the privilege of
living in America this year.
Elsewhere, the world still struggles to
emerge from war's devastation and economic
dislocation. Here, spared the physical dam
age of war, we have again turned loose enor
mous productive forces to supnly the things
we, and the whole world, need.
Thç abundance we epiov/ip without par
allel in other countries. While we have march
ed forward toward the proal of meeting the
wants of all the people, other nations, follow
ing other principles, have fallen behind.
What have we here which other nations
lack, or possess only in greatly diminished
measures?
Today, as in the davs of the Pilgrims, it
is freedom, and the determination to keep
jfei
in large areas of the world the forces of
freedom are in retreat. A new totalitarian
power, crushing the rights of individuals, has
overrun many countries, and v threatens
others. Even nations defending liberty are
sacrificing liberty in the process*
But America, founded on the.principle of
human freedom and unyielding in its devo
tion to it, has become more than an island of
liberty in a world where individuals rights
are under assault. It has become the arsenal
of freedom.
We may be thankful that the abundance
our system of political and economic freedom
has produced does more than satisfy our own
needs. It has enabled us, with food and ma
terials and machines to bolster the cause of
freedom everywhere.
Thanksgiving Day is a time of sharing,
When we sit down to our feasts of turkey and
cranberry sauce and pumpkin pie and all the
traditional fixings, we do more than pay trib
ute to these symbols of our Nation's Bounty,
The more fortunate share with those less-for
tunate. '
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less favored nations, its wealth and resources
and Jt s ideals.
The principle of freedom for which the
Pilgrims endured great hardships with for
titude and courage is no less meaningful to
day. They sought the right to worship as
they pleased, to hold thpir own onimons. to
live, work and raise families free of dictator
ial authority.
Our world is more complex, but the essen
tial principles remain. Enioying the fruits
of froodom. we should bo soberly grateful for
the Divine Guidance which makes it possible.
Aod each of us, in his own wav. should
offer thanks, too. for the freedom which from
the time of the Pilgrims to the nresent. has
been the foundation of America's errçatness
and our own physical and spiritual well-be
ing.
And the Nation, too, is sharing, with other
WHlTRF TQ tut? itfOMODOt v?
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The government has instituted a suit to
dismember the largest food chain in the
county, charging monopolistic practices and
activities in restraint of trade. Shortly there
after, an independent grocery store in a town
vprHÎLîLnf °i« erV 1? h u an a< ? _
Siïïîlîîî. f h ,^ h ^ said that people
might think it would welcome Jus effort to
eliminate a competitor. However it took a
very different view. It competed with the
hutwi«« f f u ir - baS1S uVW succeeded in
fe ! t f air competition
such as this should be maintained to assure
g ? d SerV1CG and u l0W pncss * A11
edftorialfv on t fhp n «iiIf P Tlfphiin^ e f
JhiSrif ° the 8Ult ; J. he bulk °l them tak e
three positions. First, there can be no ques
^<«*®*«
tion but what chain operations have bene
fited consumers. Second, the government
seems to be working on the dangerous prem
ise that size alone is evidence of monopoly
—and that when a business gets very big, no
matter how well it serves us, it should be
broken up. Third, it is ridiculous to say
there can be anything resembling monopoly
in retailing. Every store is in direct compe
tition with other stores, and the consumer
decides where he will trade. Newspapers
have come to the defense of the chain in this
case not because they are primarily con
cerned with the fate of any particular busi
ness, but because of a great question of prin
ciple. If we hold that a company, which is
operating in an intensely competitive field,
is monopolistic just because public patron
age has enabled it to attain great size, we
will establish a precedent that could swiftly
undermine our economy, our living stand
ards, opr strength as a nation. For size is
the reward of good service and fair dealing
—and it is one of the incentives that creates
progress.
WHAT ARE THE MOTIVES?
t In all sections of the country, newspapers
of diverse economic and political faiths have
been strongly questioning the motives which
lie back of the government's anti-trust in
vestigation of the American Medical Asso
ciation. The Cincinnati Enquirer, which has
often been «ritical of the AMA, said that
the investigation "looks like deliberate per
secution. Certainly it is not a bonafide use
were never in
- ,, ... . . , . ,
j hle , anti-trust law ?» whl , ch
. „ as a clu ° a 8» ms t the medical profes
fi. 011 '* ^ editorial entitled "Dirty Pool,"
Akron Beacon Journal said, "The general
pu , 1C c . an 't help believing that the adminis
trati< ? n is tr y in *î to swing a club over the doc
tors because of their opposition to socialized
The New London , Da y observed,
18 almos t standard practice of the gov
ernmen t these days to 'turn the heat' on any
group or individual who has been annoyingly
in opposing some pet administra
sc " eme -" The San Antonio Exnress
char ^ ed that the investigation "looks like
Purely political maneuver." The Wall Street
d ® arna l said,
whose trust-busters charged the medical :
a
The . same administration
((
so
monopoly wants to create an ab
R °l u t6 and unbustable medical monopoly,
Pa £ es could be filled with similar comment,
Some responsible editors have gone so far
as say that the methods used in this par
ticular investigation smell of the police state.
The press is not particularly interested in
defending the doctors—but it is vitally in
terested in defending basic rights and lib
erties, and in speaking up for anv group
which is politically persecuted. If the medi
ca1 Profession is being put on the snot as nart
°f the plan to fasten some form of socialized
medicine on the country, the public ought to
know it.
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AMERICAN INNOVATIONS
It has Ibeen said that the function of th*é
private enterprise system is to produce
abundant merchandise and distribute it to
consumers as quickly as possible. That idea,
as a general rule, always characterizes the
American economy. There have been per
iods of great scarcity, as during the last war,
when our energies were directed in other di
rections and the rule did not apply. There
have been government policies, such as ra
tioning and price control, which virtually
did away with competition as we understand
it and closed the traditional free channels of
trade. At any time, in any field of endeavor,
there are always a few who are afraid to take
chances, and who look for ways and means to
make a great deal of money without risking
or venturing anything. But, in the long run,
the successful manufacturer and the suc
cessful merchant are those who do the best
producing and retailing job and constantly
keep in mind that the welfare of the
sumer always determines their own. Today,
we have returned to highly competitive con
ditions and we have a buyers' market for
almost every kind of commodity. The retailer
is looking for the best and most reasonably
priced product—from manufacturers—and
he is doing that because his customers are
doing the same thing when they come to his
store. The main effort is to keep the goods
moving, even if profits must be pared to ex
tremely low levels. The amount of monev
and merchandise that moves back and forth
across the counters of stores is what deter
mines whether times are good or bad in this
country. Mass production and mass distribu
tion are American innovations. They repre
sent private enterprise at its best
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RUTHLESS MONOPOLY
Last year, when the contract between the
United Mine Workers and the soft coal mine
operators was signed, John L. Lewis declared
that it was the best labor contract
gotiated. He was completely correct —
comparable labor force on earth is so well
paid, or has so many other valuable benefits.
That is the identical contract that the
ever ne
no
oper
ators wish to renew—if the union chiefs will
give assurance that the miners will be allow
ed to work every day on which business is
available. What then has caused the present
and bitterr destructive controversy? The
answer is that the mine owners are not will
in? give Mr. Lewis the powers of manage
ment, or to let him decide when coal may or
may not be produced regardless of public de
mand or the economics of the industrv, or to
let him further cement and extend his one
man monopoly power over an industry which
is essential to the internal and external
curity and welfare of the United States. A
spokesman for the Operators' Negotiating
Committee has said, "In his mad race for
power, John L. Lewis is imnoverishing
employees and is willing to dçstroy the coal
industry." Those are hard words—but how
else can Mr. Lewis' policies and actions be
described? The countrv needs the coal. The
hi ? h " p aid lobs are waiting for the miners.
But no 1 industry can accept a ruthless labor
monopoly that attempts to dictate
cision.
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Thirty Years Ago
As Taken From The Files
Of The Milford Chronicle
Mrs. Jennie Deakyne of Wilm., is j
tiie guest of Mrs. Lydia C. Jump
and relatives. 1
Mrs. William Roach of Atlantic
City Is visiting relatives and frien
ds at Milford, Harrington and Den-|
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Mr. and Mrs. Edward J. Salevan
are receiving congratulations upon
the arrival of a son. James Frank
Salevan,2nd. who arrived Monday,!
November 17th. j
Hahnemann Hospital for treatment'
and his assailant was arrested with
the ten dollars in his possession.!
Mr. Betts is a well known farmer
and highly resoected in the section
where he resides
ne resides.
lon.
Mrs. G. Marshall Griffith, who
has been visiting in Phila., Marcus
Hook and Wilm., has returned to
her home near Milford.
u ■ n t .
Duck shooting on the marshes
at Slaughter Beach is not what it
was in former years. The ponds
and water feeding places for the
wild fowl have been drained away
and the feeding grounds do not at
tract the ducks as in former years.
Howard Betts, who resides about
four miles from Milford, iust north
of Houston, had an experience
while in Phila., which caused him
a memorable visit. He was in the
Chinatown section of Phila., Mole
and Cherry streets, where he met
two men in one of the Chinese
taurants and by who he was beaten
about the head and robbed of
ten dollars. He was taken to the
res
Safety Council Urges
Care In Toy Buying
Is
The Delaware Safety Council
points out that the wisely chosen
toy Is a tool for playing—an instru
ment for carving out rich dreams,
for gaining experience, for achiev
ing skills, and for forming the first
rough shapes of a life ambition.
Expertly clîosen toys can help
prepare young children for
school. They can supplement the
educational development of the old
er child, and provide examples of
the ways in which knowledge and
skills can be put to practical
to
uses.
The first consideration is the
age and development of the child.
The chemical set which might be !
suitable and stimulating for a boy !
of ten years, would be unsuitable
and unsafe in the hands of a five
year-old.
!
Children find fun only with toys
they can understand—toys they
can enjoy. A toy that is too ad
vanced for a child will
feeling of frustration, instead of
providing educational experience. I
On the other hand, a toy that offers
no challenge will only bore the'
child and will be tossed aside.
Furthermore, if the toy is to pro
vide any play value or stimulation
for the child, it is also essential
that it coincide with his expressed
interests. The chemical set men
tioned above, should be questioned
as a gift for the boy who spends
a large portion of his allowance ;
for model plane kits, or the boy
who uses most of his leisure for lor
participation in athletic activities,
Select toy tools which are related
to his hobbies, which help in school in
activities, or which lure him on to
new fields of experience.
cause a
Do not omit safety from your
consideration in purchasing a toy.
Something intended for a small
child or an infant should be large
enough so it cannot be swallowed.
The eyes of stuffed animals and
dolls should be sewed on securely,
or better still, embroidered. Since
the young child puts everything in
to the mouth, it is also important
that his playthings be easily clean
ed. Toys should be made of woods
that do not splinter, of metals that
have no sharp edges, and the paiat
to
or coloring should be non-poisou
A party of gunners from Wilm.,j
among who is a farmer resident of
this section. Michael Crawford,
have been stopping with Mr. and
Mrs. W. F. Grahn at the Beach Ho
t®L They got a goodly number of
babbits and a few quail. He is ac
corapanied by his wife, and they
will return to Wilm., the last of this
Local laboring men struck for
$5 a day at the Coast Fish Oil and
Fertilizer Company plant The man
agement of the company had b«en
Paying them $3 a day and board.
which was considered a fair wage;
according to prevailing wages in
this section, and did not yeild to'
the demands of the men and hadj
very little trouble in filling their
places at the old scale.
i ,
The Methodist Episcopal Church
of Hanington was the scene last
Tuesday of a notable gathering of
women. The occasion was a meet-j
nftîi* 6 W ' F ' M ' S ' of Dover
District.
.various auxiliaries of the dist
riet were represented bv three or
four enthusiastic members, inculd
mg faithful district officers. The
meeting was honored by the pre-jin
sence also of some State officers
and a branch, officer. Miss Susan
I î orm ® rly P ,es '<ient of the
1 hlla., Branch, and two "Real live
Sh'of Wilm ^nd MiÏÏ'Vo^o \
irwUol. , v W #' and Miss rox of
!oih gïve most^nte^esHn^ dST'
g , , inter f stin S des
° f Zt* WOr ^ aad the
conditions and the needs of their
f i e i ds .
week -
Named Kent Blue
Cross Representative
Charles J. O'Bier has recently
been appointed a Kent County rep
vesentative of the Delaware Blue
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Cross Plan, succeeding Bennett
Aikin, now enrollment manager
the plan. Mr. O'Bier's headquar
is in the Ehrlich Building in
Dover. During the war he served
Europe as a pilot in the Eighth
Force,
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Antibiotics Good
Four Of 200
(Æ*) — There are
known antibiotics. But only
four, pencillin, streptomycin, aure
omycin and Chloromycetin, have
proved generally useful.
NEW YORK
When you select a toy, select
that will make a contribution
the child's life, one that is suit
able, durable, and safe.
This week Mrs. Hester Angeline
Marshall has séld the water rights
and the land connected with the
{Old Mill site at the edge of Mil
ford to Edward M. Davis, who will
cause the property to be turned In
to a receation park and beauty
spot for the people of Milford,
This property is located at the
point where the old "ford" or cross
ing of the waterway over which
^ar Rodney rode during the Re
p h » 8 , fam ? Ua
!, lde n 10 , m ^? wes t( J j hila 'j t0 sis ?
ra°alo* 1 »h^ml^w™
SÏSrawd* hv *«! p th?
dest,oyed b y fi,e - and the water
v , „ . , .
'° ad be ^" daa6e ^ OU ? foi L travel
fhf r / inCe ' h°<-T Mr ' D K V n, Wll !i ha yn
the damaged flume rebuilt and will
will offer to assist the Levy Court
in widening the roadway over the
d am>
He purposes having the lake en
closed with wire but free for plea
sure boats and fishing privileges.
The obstructions in the lake will
h e blown out and the use of boats
be made safe,
Two or more bath houses will be
erected at points where the bath
ing is best, and a man be placed
charge to see that everything is
kept in good order, and swimming
will be free under observation of
certain rules. It was in this lake
that Mr. Davis learned to swim,
\ learD 1 d t0 fish for
sunnles' when playing truant
nf°n T ? is , can be raade one
of the pleasent pleasure spots tor
boys and beating parties, and it .„
located at the very edge of the cor
porate limits of Milford.
power has been idle since. During
the great rains of last summer the
flume was washed out and the
is
Apple Time In Delaware
At this season of the year,, apples
are one of the most plentiful pro
ducts found along the road side
stands and on many farms. Accor
I ding to Maybelle Ligon, Sussex
! County Home Demonstration Agent
; apples have a very definate value
in the daily food plan. Each day's
( menu should include some fruit,
and while apples are so plentiful
j now is the time to make the best
I use of them.
A number of varities are found
! on the market. The Jonathan, a red
apple, is tart, and can be used for
, cooking and eating. The red* De
I licious and the Golden Dèllcious
are medium sweet and favorites for
pood eating. The Winesap and
Stayman are both medium tart, and
good for cooking and eating. There
are two other varieties, the Tome
Beauty and the Yorks, which are
medium tart and excellent for
cooking.
j Apples can be used In a variety
: of ways, reports Miss Ligon. Eaten
raw. no fruit is better. Even if
j do no,; follow the old Roman cus
[tom of ending fllnner with apples,
I we can use them in some way every
! day.
Apples may be used with meats,
as relishes, desserts or in salads.
" he following salads are simple to
make and good to eat These
a special need in the diet,
1 Apple and Date Salad: cut ap
* n long strips. Cut dates in
similar stripes, using %
d3 4 îu ^ a PPle- Serve with lettuce
with Fiench or Mayonnaise dress
ing.
we
can
as much
Apple and Cabbage Salad: mix
equal amounts of chopped cabbage
aad aPPies cut In thin strips. Mix
" itn boiled salad dressing or may
onnaise and serve on lettuce.
Celery and Carrot Salad:
LÎn e /5 p es . and celery . mi* with
noiled dressing or mayonnaise and
garnish with finely grated raw car
rot seasoned with lemon Juice
French dressing,
Apple and aelery salad mix equel
fS ntS flnely cut a PP les a " d
celery and mix with mayonnaise.
Garnish with curled celery, chop
P® d walnut meats may be added
The bulletin, "Apple Time in
Delaware" is available from the
office of Miss Ligon, in Georgetown
Delaware. *,
or
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WALTER SNEAD. WNU C
Tyranny in Labor
r )HN L. LEWIS, vain, cantanker
ous and contentious boss of the
United Mine Workers, is reported
to have shouted boastfully to the
coal operators In a recent con
ference, "I have labor to seU.
It's such stupid attitudes of some
labor union leaders and the tre
mendously costly strikes in the
steel and coal industries which
have led to renewed demands in
some quarters for government
prosecution of some labor Unions
as monopolies in violation of the
anti-trust laws.
And while the idea of prosecut
ing a labor union as a monopoly or
in restraint of trade under our
anti-trust laws is aH poppycock,
there is a real danger that as a
result of the truculent and tyranni
cal antics of such leaders as John
L. Lewis, legislation might be
forthcoming which again would
take us back into the dark ages of
labor-management relations when
the laboring man did not enjoy the
freedoms and Immunities he now
holds under the laws of our Democ
racy.
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Old Thiory Outgrown
Today in America we have out
grown the fallacious theory that
labor is a commodity and have
accepted the maxim that man is a
free individual having a right to !
work, or not to work, and that he
has the added right to set his own
price on his labor and his own con
ditions of work.
It was not too long ago when a
man, if he wanted to work, must
necessarily accept the wage his
employer decided to pay. ,
He had no alternative la the
matter. Bat with the advent of
mass production, it became
impossible for a man or the
employer to dicker individually
with thousands of employees on
the production lines. So onions
came into being and the work
ers authorised their unions to
bargain with employers for the
best wage and working condi
tion they conld get.
Not only that, the Clayton act
specifically grants immunity to
these unions and also to agricultur
al organizations from prosecution
under the anti-trust laws. So this
reporter contends all the talk of
prosecuting the unions is pure
propaganda intended to harm the
unions, but at the same time it is
provoked by such union leaders qs
John L. Lewis.
Labor Not 'Commodity 1
Article 6 of the Clayton act says:
"The labor of a human being is
not a commodity or article of com
merce. Nothing contained in the
anti-trust laws shall be construed
to forbid the continuance and op
eration of labor, agricultural
horticultural organizations insti- I
I
tuted for the purpose of mutual
help and not having capital stock
and conducted for profit, or to
forbid or restrain individual mem
bers of such organizations from
lawfully carrying out the legiti
mate objects thereof; nor shall
such organizations or members
thereof be held or construed to be
illegal combinations or conspira
cies in restraint of trade under the
anti-trust laws.
I
But congress gave this immunity
and congress can take it away.
Of course there have been in
stances where an individual union
has conspired with an employe!: to
prevent use pf the commodity of
a rival manufacturer, in which
case the union was equally guilty
with the employer.
Demos Gain Seat
For a short time the Republicans
gained a seat in the senate when
Idaho's Republican governor
named former Sen. Henry C. Dwor
shak to take the place of Democrat
Sen. Bert. H. Miller, deceased. But
when congress convenes in Jan
uary a new Democrat senator, yet
unnamed, will take the place of
Sen, Raymond Baldwin of Connecti
cut. who resigned to become a
justice of the Connecticut supreme
court. His successor will be named
by Democratic Gov. Chester
Bowles of Connecticut.
The 81st congress has apparently
appropriated a cumulative total of
46.4 billion dollars, as compared to
45.5 billion appropriated by the
80th congress. But additional for
eign aid and deficiency appropria
tions as a result of 80th congress
cuts, made up for the difference.
• • •
Mike Straus, reclamation di
rector in the department of in
terior, is still on the Job and
he is drawing back pay
amounting to several thousand
dollars. It will be remembered
the 80th congress, peeved at
Strans, cat ont the appropria
tion for hit salary, along with
that of the California director
Richard L. Boke.
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Under a loophole in the tax law,
iu* u tS^r p *' u " * rc e,,<un '
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Nickel Parking Penalty
LAW RENCBVILLE, Ill.— (/P) —
Folks who ignore parking meters
used to get off with a warning. But
no more. Violators will be summon- j
ed to the City Hall to drop a nickel i
in a parking meter set up in police
headquarters.
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Monopoly of Brains
pOR SOME YEARS 1 bad oc
casion , to visit Wilmington,
Del., at intervals. On such visits
I stopped at the duPont hotel. In
• corridor there was a display
window that always attracted my
interest. In it were shown mord
than 100 small items of merchan
dise. Some were wearing apparel,
others were but gadgets of one
kind or another, cosmetics, and
other things.
Not one of the things displayed
In that window was produced in
Wilmington. They *—
ducts of hundreds of factories
were pro
in aU sections of the nation.
aD of
them comparatively
smaO te sise. Those factories
were selling their products in
competitive fields. No one of
them had a monopoly
dootion of any one item. The
materials from which aD
made were produced by da
Pont, and were a result of dis
coveries made in duPont
chemical laboratories.
wfre
The 100 or more items shown in
that window were but a small por
tion of things the materials for
which are bom in duPont labora
tories. The total of all is num
bered in the thousands. Each one
of them means greater pleasure.
convenience or comfort for the
people of the world, and the total
°f all means hundreds of thou
sands of jobs for American work
ers.
Included
items in that window was a pair
of nylon stockings and a pair of
rayon socks. At that time a friend
of mine was in the business of
manufacturing hosiery. He
among the various
a 3
one of many purchasers from du
Pont of materials from which
Ion stockings and rayon socks are
made. He or no group of hosiery
manufacturers bad a monopoly on
such production, but in his plants
alone those materials meant Jobs
for 1,000 people or more. Knowing,
through the operations of my ho
siery manufacturing friend, some
thing of the duPont methods, I
thought that concern was doing a
big part In maintaining the Ameri
can free competitive system. It
Was preventing, rather than as
sisting in creating, monopolies.
For the second time within the
last third of a century the attorney
general of the United States has
brought suit against the duPont
company, charging it with being a
monopoly and seeking to dissolve
it as a corporation. Other than
from information received from
my hosiery producing friend. I
know nothing of the operations of
the duPont Company, It may be
violating the anti-trust laws, but
I do not know in what way. As far
as I can see, the only charge of
monopoly that might be estab
ny
. ,. . „ J
"* hed W0ldd be that of a monopoly
of the chemical brains of the na
tion.
The chemical brains it bai
exercised have certainly pro
duced vast benefits for the na
tion, including Jobs and wagea
for hundreds of thousands of
American workers. They have
found nse for materials of the
soli, the mines and the forests.
many of which had been oon
sidered I waste before
utility was discovered by da
Pont. These brains have pro
vided the people of the world
with many things contributing
to their pleasure, convenience
and comfort.
Laboratories operated by practD
cally all th« major industries of
the nation, hâve, more than any
Other thing, made America great
as an industrial nation. Such lab
oratories have provided the know
how of what to produce and how to
produce. From such laboratories
have come jobs, wages, homes for
millions of Americans. We cannot
afford to sacrifice such a source of
supply.
A woman's voice on the phone
asked if I would say which party.
Republican or Democratic, I would
vote for at the next congressional
Which Republican or
vthich Democratic?" I asked. Fact
is, there will be approximately as
many of each as there will be
candidates of each for the house
and senate. There are no policies
for candidates to follow. Unless
conditions change before next fall,
each candidate will be on his own.
He will be for or against only that
which he thinks will attract the
most votes.
election.
« <
The woman's club announced it
as a "brunch," without the quotes.
After some Inquiries I found it
meant a breakfast. Why they did
not call it breakfast I do not know,
unless it might lead their patrons
to expect bacon, eggs, wheat cakes
and coffee, instead of only coffee
and a doughnut.
We have an over-abundance of
dollars, but none of them will buy
much. Less quantity, and more
value would be acceptable.
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aparte. .66, has worked with a main
tenance crew since 1920.