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The Washington times., 1928-12-03
PeaDDortionment OF the House
Before That Body

~ enresentation upon the basis Of population is
u force bitter fight in the House in the matter Ct
respportonment Of that body
a oestion has become serious in the minds Of execu
and officials of some denied just representation
ii the House. the Constitution has not been complied
with since the census 1920 that the Supreme Court q tne
United States may called upon to decide the extent q
constitutional notification
The Michigan has announced that unless the
House reapportions membership 50 that Michigan + given
ii; rrhtfu will test the in the Supreme
ourt Owing to that attitude Representative Mcleod Ct
ebiean will lead fight the House to bring prompt
reapportionment. . ,o,o h 40
last raapportonment made victims Of grave nju
tice under present conditions
Th last presidential election serious denial to
s4.tas II ther Constitutional rights Each State the
Ector College equal to its number Of senators
and representatives. California for example will cast Just
thirteen votes when the Electoral College meets far re-
annoinen bill had passed the last session Of Con-
pe that would cast nineteen votes il the college
that denial the rights Of Caornans and the rights
Of other States entitled increase in their House member
ship and in the Electoral College
Most fortunately for the nation this bad situation did
cause trouble the election which not close Had
been close the failure OF Congress 70 ac. nave
the election Of President who was actually defeated e. the
polls.
Reapportionment win lose strength for States n the
House providing that the membership Kept at the e1ng
total Of 435 Speaker Longorh and other leaders maintain
that under should the total be greater than
435
The Far West will gain nine seats IN the House. the Middle
West viii gain five The heretofore solid South would lose
one the grain States five the border States six and the
Northwestern States two.
Should reapportionment the sentiment Tor It's
passage is grownga States that lose gain will have TO
be redstrcted by their legislatures.
The Constitution plainly that representation Of States
III the shall be based population asreyealed BY
each Mr. Mcleod orcby points out that unless there
equality Of representation upon the basis q popuanon
there beginning Of the failure Of representative gov
ernment.
The House. which should always stand for popular govern
ent has sound to defy the Constitution and TO
perpetuate existing njustces.
The Washington times., 1928-12-03
SECRET OF
HI HEAI TIL
BY DR.. Louis ii. Bisch

TIME cause of cancer still BATTLES
the persistent researches of
science Each year cancer kills
some 125 900 Of the inhabitants of
the United States alone.
Doctors have put faith, Of late,
In special efforts to educate the
public about cancer and TO warn
them that. with our present knnwl-
edge nf the disease, the only hope
OF checking or curing II lies III
its early recognition and prompt
removal.
People should not become uTE
necessarily alarmed, OF course
And it certainly Is true that II
one stresses The Importance Of
some dread disease and empfla-
sizes the beginning signs and
syptoms. there are always ner-
vous and suggestive people who
will start TO worry, and possibly
become convinced shat they have
the disease even ii they have not.
But certainly health prOpa-
ganda should not cease for fear
Of unnecessarily alarming the ex-
ceptional few. They can find out
very rapidly anyway whether there
Is any foundation for alarm or
not. All they need do is consult
doctor, privately or In a clinic,
and nnwarranted fears will soon
be allayed.
Is it not best, though to dis.
cover what is wrong with your
body and have it corrected before
it can make such progress that
help becomes a forlorn hope?
This is unquestionably true
about cancer. Thousands wDtIId
be saved each year it only they
would be diagnosed when the
cancer is in its beginning stages.
Some day sure cure for cancer
may be discovered. but that time
is not yet. Surgery. x-ray and
radium are what we must depend
upon now. and they seem to be
cures IL employed promptly.
1t must be emphasized that
cancer starts from things which,
in the beginning, are not cancer
All sorts of Jumps in the skin
may be starting points. Moles
and birthmarks should therefore
be investigated to see If they are
growing into cancerous tissue.
Persistent sore places on the
tongue and anywhere inside the
mouth should be suspected. Ulcers
or the teeth may cause cancer
trouble. Constant pains in the
stomach or joints should be in
vestigated. Breast cancer often
comes from chronic nipple. irri.
tatfons.
The thing to do. IL you are in
doubt, is to find out. Tn fact.
even it you are not in doubt.
let your physician look you dRer
every new and again and let him
form an opinion whether or not
your swellings and pains are
suspicious.
The Washington times., 1928-12-03
LISTEN, WORLD!
The Kkatka Ell Girl
BY Elsie Robinson.

While others are being cautious
and careful she snaps her fingers
at life.
ALSO, WHAT rs MUCH MORE
{ IMPORTANT. SHE SNAPS HER
{ FINGERS AT HERSELF.
She takes nothing very seriously,
neither life nor herself. nor this
strangely muddled world.
She IL 81 natural philosopher,
Struggling her shoulders at Fate
meeting Lady Luck with her
tongue in her cheek ready TO
thumb her nose at Destiny.
Don't gather from that that
Destiny has not dealt Emily some
cruel blows. She has known
much more than the average
amount of suffering but she
hasn't allowed it to cramp her
style.
HATTIA ELL" laughs
Emily az she picks herself up.
dusts herself off and starts on her
way again.
Yes. she takes life lightly, does
Emily.
AND SHE MAKES OTHERS
TAKE LIFE LIGHTLY TOO.
Life's a grim affair. 1t rests
on our neck like heavy. galIop-
ing yoke. The yoke falls on us
early and few of us learn how to
shake it off People like Emily
show us how to shake it Off
show us that it's an unreal
burden we're carrying.
Life is what you make it.
Emily makes Ii q gay and gallant
adventure. That's why she
achieves popularity where better.
brighter ladies fail.
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I'VE often wondered why Emily
Il Ii so popular.
She isn't nearly as pretty as
Gladys
Nor as charming as Flora
Nor as bright as Ethel
NDr as gHeds a. Grace,
Shes untidy. careless. unpunc.
ttlai and noiSy~iil fact. she has
d long list Of refrehensible quali-
ties
YET, SHES A WOW.
When Emily enters a room,
that room Is hers with all the hu.
mans therein
Away goes boredom and gloom.
Your spirits lift--you relax.
you begin TO take a hopeful view
of affairs.
After all, maybe things aren't
so bad.
silly OF you to have taken
everything SO seriously.
Others have been UP against 1t
before and gotten by. Maybe you
can. too
4 glow creepes over you-you
grim
And before you know it. you're
chuckling with Emily.
That's the way Emily affects
people and for long time it was
a mystery TO me.
Why couldn't other girls who
tried ten times as hard to please,
be as popular as this big. care
less. rowdy girl?
One day ii dawned In me.
EMILY WAS A WIiATHA ELL
SORT Of A GIRL.
Yes, / know that's bit pro-
fame. biit no other expression can
possible describe Emilys attitude.
The Washington times., 1928-12-03
HoLYRooD CASTLE FROM THE AIR
Beautifully Peaceful Now.

TN this castle once lived Mary Queen Of Scots whose life
ended when chopped off her head by order Of
Elizabeth, Queen of England.
In this CASTLE Rizzio, Mary Queen Of Scots lover
murdered. Here Where Mary Scots envroned with
plots preaching passion and DEATH the quiet well
behaved Queen Mary Of England has recently been
visiting looking into the old Of blood and tragedy
She and her exemplary well behaved modern husband
glad undoubtedly that they led life different from the life
of Mary Scots the violent red haired Queen Bess
who chopped Marys promote Ezabehs safety
The perhaps less romantic than it in those
old days Of passion and death plots assassinatcns and
executions.
But romance not entirely lacking For this picture Of
ancient Holyrood Castle was taken from the air human
that can fly in the clouds explore the depths Of the
in submarines and talk across by wireless ought
not to lack ROMANCE unless they entirely lacking in
imag gination
Some Of entirely lacking, unfortunately
The Washington times., 1928-12-03
THREE-MINUTE JOURNEYS
BY Temple Manning

One of the things which is i'm.
mediateIy evident in Tunis Is the
manner in which the women
those of the Mohammedan faith
are protected from the unholy and
sometimes lustful glances of men.
These women. and they are often
beautiful in their somewhat fash
ion. are closely yelled, more care
fully hidden than their sisters in
other parts OF northern Africa.
Upper class women are practically
never seen on the city streets
although their presence Is hinted
in the closely curtained carriages
which roll over the uneven cob
bles or along the paVemenfs Of the
few main thoroughfares.
Middle-class women, in addition
to being yelled. carry before .em
a piece of richly-patterned silk.
This hangs from their heads and
allows them to see only few
feet of sidewalk before them.
Beggars form the other out
standing characteristic of Tnnis.
Begging Is recognized profess
sion with the steps OF the mosques
as. the best hunting grounds"
Deformed or crippled mendicants
are numbered by the hundreds
and the more revolving their de-
formities or injuries, the more
successful they are in their pro-
fession.
Begging is such specialized
profession that the beggars secure
the services of assistants. These
assistants are sound bodied young
men. They have TO be for they
often carry their crippled employ
ers OH their backs. Seeing pros
pectiVe victim la the offing, the
beggar Is hoisted upon the assist.
ants back and this young bust.
ness man trots his living example
of misfortune up to the native or
tourist from whom 1t Is expected
aims will be forthcoming.
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CWATHED in flowing robes,
~ crested by tightly wound tur-
bans and hiding behind bristly
boards, the dark-skinned men of
Tunis present a picture not un-
like that painted centuries ago by
the chroniclers of ancient Greece.
For despite the fact that the
Tunisians are the progeny of one
OF the oldest races OF the world.
they have changed but little in
the years which have passed since
the earliest records of history.
Tunis Is on the northern coast
of Africa. 1t Is Tapped on the
east and north by the blue waters
of the Mediterranean, that great
highway of the ancients. On the
west is Algeria, while to the
southeast is Tripolitania. 1t was
in what is now Tunis that the
ancient city of Carthage was 10.
Gated and it was from Tunisian
stock Hannibal, near conqueror of
the then known world was born.
it is land rife with romance and
color. hot passion. mysticism and
the peculiar stolci9m which seems
always present where Mohammed.
ism fiourishes.
The Washington times., 1928-12-03
MEDITATIONS
OF A WIFE
-By Helen Rowland

Englishmen. according to the
marriage records. are choosing
ripper brides this season. They
have discovered that the green
peaches In the garden OF love dis
agree with them, and are no
longer marrying flappers.
one first-ciasn passage to Liver.
pool, please. and = deck state
room.
Those Engllshmen may not be
80 up-fo-the.inoment on onions
and slang. but they KNOW their
WOMEN.
The American man knows lots
OF things. He knows business,
politics. dancing, athletics. ma
chineIy and golf and can give the
average Englishman points on
most OF them.
Dut thSS
he doesn't knowand 80 Of them
are WOMEN! What he doesn't
know about the unfair sex would
fill a city library.
He doesn't know how to Judge
,,,axoa., how n choose them how
N make love to them how to
,,anaoa them how to hold them
- ia =. +h.,f
or even Ho" ."
In matters OF ioFe anu ilatt'as So
he Is an ostrich with his head in
the sa sand--continualI fooling him
seti't lH -
,, b,o,,o1,+ ~
such epidemics as the FLU and
tie f,anner he has been blindly
49,, o,,.1, a,,,. .nd rick.
Aoil""tne '"9
ing nfe,mate from y the bdoy
Parade at Asbury Park.
slogan And as far thirty-that Is
"posifivelv senile"'
No wonder girls are rushing
! brethIessly into marriage~-and
breathlessly out OF it, again. They
are in positive panic, for Tear
they may be left hanging on the
family tree, when they are tottef-
ing toward twenty five.
Yet, from twenty-five to thirty.
five is the most attractive az" Oh
woman, when her heart Is tender
The Washington times., 1928-12-03
RAILROAD PLoWs sMooTHINc THE BALLAST

scattering ii along tracks where wanted The Stone
being scattered slowly the locomotive pulls The train
Won can imagine what this new invention iii the way
of labor saving and back-brealing labor at that
The second picture shows the railroad ploW that follows
behind the stone laden trucks smoOhs the ballast
il is wanted.
with truck loads Of stone and one
plow actually laid $50 tons ballast III good shape
quarter mile track in IL minutes considerable gang
of men could not do IL in a whole day.
The wealth Of the human is not in gold mines
oil wells but IN THE HUMAN BRAIN.
Use your brain; think up IDEAS
small invention make big fortune and what is more
important than making fortune render service to the
human for all time come.
The Washington times., 1928-12-03
SCATTERING ballast ALoN6 THE TRACK

HIS IS the age of inventive genius 4 works Cssseessy
performing new miracles with every rising of The sun
From your railroad window YOU have seen men sbor
ouy with picks and shoves smoothing out the stone ballast
along the railroad bed would take big gang cf men
long time smooth few yards of the heavy stone ballast
TheLondon and North Eastern Railroad shows the
thing be done by machinery il short order Asrican
railroad will be doing the thing and perhaps
better II they are not doing II already.
The first picture shows loaded with the stone ballast
The Washington times., 1928-12-03
WISE SAYINGS

When a man puts on char
acter he is q stranger to, there's
as much difference between what
he appears and what he is really
in himself. as there is between
,vizor and a face.-L Bruyere.
Tt has been more wittily than
charitably said that hell Is paved
with good Intentions; they have
their place in heaven also.
---Southey.
The world Is an old woman. and
mistakes any gilt farthing Tor
gold coin.--Carlyle.
The worst kind Of shame is be-
being ashamed OF frugality or
povertN.~&iYy.
The Washington times., 1928-12-03
The knowledge Test for
Readers of The Times

Do you know:
= l. Who wrote the Koran?
2. What Egyptian queen dissolved pearls in wine?
What English poet attacked his critics poem called
"The Dunciad?
A.. wrote" "Home, Sweet Home?
Who the Knight without without
g. pianos first invented?
z. was of Wales first given?
Match correctly words that the
s. Authorized Increase
9. Growth Correctness
i 10. Precision Commissioned
Indictment Suffering
Anguish Accusation
Complete these quotations.
13 or but few chosen."-Bible.
Ia "Al that tread
The globe are but handful to the tribes
sumber in the -"-Bryant.
15 "Let have faith that makes might" incoln
Il ANSWERS Magazine Pagsl
The Washington times., 1928-12-03
Do You Know

There are 1889 900 unemployed
workers registered on trade union
lists in Soviet Russia A year
ago the figure exceeded ], 500. 900.
Plymouth. England, incorpor-
ated az a town 400 years ago. has
been raised by the King TO the
dignity of city. There are
200, 900 inhabitants living there.
Anti.airGraft guns have been de-
vised which have driven the air.
men further into the sky,
Milford chronicle., 1928-02-17
Sycamore
(Near ,LaureD

Miss Elva Wilkerson spent the
weekend with Miss Maude Brown.
Mrs. Maggie Lowe, who has been
very ill, is improving very much al
this writing.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Lowe were the
Sunday guests of his brother, Mr.,
and Mrs. John B. Lowe and family.
Miss Wanda Lewis spent the week
end with Mrs. Kathryn Messick.
Miss Wanda Lewis and Mrs. Kath-
ryn Messick and son Hilton spent
Sunday morning with Mr.. and Mrs.
Ira F. Brown and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Wilkerson
spent Sunday with her father and
mother, Mr.. and Mrs. Ira F. Brown
and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Reuben Wilkerson
spent last Sunday afternoon with
the latter's parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Ira F. Brown and family, and Sun
day night Mr.. and Mrs. Reuben Will
kerson, Miss Maude w. Brown, Miss
Elva WilkersOn, Mr.. George F.
Smith, Mr.. Joseph Lewis, Mr.. Arthur
Lewis and son Everett visited Mr..
and Mrs. Van Smith and family, of
Pepperbox.
Mr.. and Mrs. Goldsborough T.
Revel were the guests of her father.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ira F. Brown, and
family.
Mrs. Myrtle Shockley, who has
been making her home with Mr.. and
Mrs. Ira Brown and family, has now
returned to her husband, Mr.. Carl
ton Shockley.
Milford chronicle., 1928-02-17

sal clothing MISREPRESENTATION
hesitates to picture what would re-
suit from a sudden termination of
the flow of cotton goods; hundreds
of thousands of sewing machines
would be stilled and the great fac
tories that produce them would be
driven into bankruptcy; millions of
needles would cease to flash and
armies of hungry workers would
vainly storm at the gates of other
industries or riot in the streets;
stores would close; banks would
crash and the entire American pub
lie would discover that it had been
unconsciously a partner in the cot
ton industry upon whose welfare
its own welfare is so closely de-
pendent.
Cotton furnishes the cellulose
from which high explosives are
made. Americas first line of de-
tense is found in the cotton fields
of the South. The peacetime en-
ployment of explosives in mining,
engineering, building and agricul-
ture also is large and constant.
The manufacture of the versatile
Milford chronicle., 1928-02-17
ARTICLE SIX
CoTTON'S MANY PARTNERS

VERY much each of the many processes having to do
with cotton is part of great inerdependent whole
this gigantic industry itself is portion of the still vast
structure of American business To it is de-
pendent upon other industries but to an extraordinary e-
tent other business of many kinds, big and little, in the
greatest variety is dependent upon cotton Here is an
larger unity calling for still wider view.
1t is meant in dsparagng sense if say that many
people fyeyed" and some few "eagle-eyed" for
really all people should be something of both The fly with
its many lenses intensity of detail from distance of
fraction of inch; while the eagle high aloft has
range Of miles For humanity has been living clOse
its job and travelling when at ALL upon the surface and
this has been most necessary because effectiveness calls for
dose attention to details But lattery has begun
simulate the eagle in the air. and many who have yet
ventured physical flight have learned to rise mentally into
ere heights of larger view Then when they descend again
their tasks they bring consciousness of important rea-
lions that previously had not been fully appreciated
This viewpoint has especial value in considering cotton
for the and the gnner engaged in many kinds of
business of which they rarely think So also the
manufacturer and distributor.
For example, the American manufacturer of automobile
tires produces 10650OO per year, according to the
Census of 1928 Less than cent of these made
entirely of RUBBER the balance consist of rubber facing
applied cotton base Tire manufacture in this country
consumes the equivalent of 100000 bales annually.
Milford chronicle., 1928-02-17

Thousands of bales more 81 into
automobile upholstery, including
the large quantity of cotton fabric
that is converted into artificial
leather. Fifteen million Ford cars
alone are said to have required a
million bales. Other bales of cotton
go into the upholstering of furni-
ture, the binding of books and the
many other applications of artificial
leather.
America produces 645,OO00O0
pairs of boots and shoes per year.
Nearly all of these are lined with
cotton duck, or have cotton fabric
in their composition. A similar
thing is true with the product of
the large baggage industry.
And then there are the manufac-
tuners of towels and other house
hold cloths, of sails and tents, or
awnings, flags, draper es, wall COW
erings and road markers, or hose
and of certain kinds of machinery
belting-these could not operate at
all if their supply of cotton fabric
were cut off. The same thing is
true of many apparently incidental
uses while as to the almost univer-
Milford chronicle., 1928-02-17

/ Miss Mabel Wilkins, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Wilkins is suf-
fering from the mumps.
Mrs. John T. Taylor and Miss An
ME Kollock have returned from
Lithicum Heights, Nd, where they
spent sometime with the formers
son, Clarence Taylor.
Mr.. and Mrs. G.. Franklin NAPLES
spent last week in Baltimore, Mo.
John Knowles is suffering with the
grip at his home on North Bedford
street.
Mrs. George Proctor and son of
Boston, Mass, are the guests Of Mrs.
Andrew Marvel, here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Blizzard Of
Milton spent Sunday afternoon with
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph
Millman.
Mrs. Ida Abbott of Milton called
upon her brother, Joseph Millman
and family Sunday.
Mrs. Eliza Clendaniel and son
Myer of Glendale spent Tuesday of
last week with her daughter, Mrs.
Joseph Millman.
A beautiful wedding was solemniz-
ed at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. John
A. Jones of this city on Saturday
evening at eight o'clock when their
daughter, Mary A., was married to
Thomas H. Drews of Wilmington.
The ceremony was performed by the
Rev. T. F. Beauchamp with only the
immediate families and few friends
attending. Miss Jones was a gradu-
ate Of the Georgetown High School,
class '25 and Goldey College. After a
wedding trip to points north Mr.. and
Mrs. Drews will live in Whining
ton.
John J. Morath entertained
number of his friends and relatives
to a duck dinner Saturday night at
his home on Rosa street, this town,
it being his 85th birthday anniver-
sary. Among those present were Mr..
and Mrs. J. T. Watson, Mr.. and Mrs.
G. P. Green, Mr.. and Mrs. S. j. Reg
lister, Mrs. Joseph Littleton and |
three children, Miss Frances and
Master George and Joseph. Mr.. Nor
ath is veteran of the Civil War,
having enlisted when a young man
in the 10th Ohio Regiment, Company
l., and served during the war. He
also has diary Of each days hap
penings during his service. His
many friends hope that he will en-
joy many more birthdays.
Milford chronicle., 1928-02-17

celluloid and the enormous motion
picture industry arise from the
same field, and so also do the va
rious other industries dependent
upon the linters and seed, not over
looking that very new activity, the
making of "rayon."
Nor must sight be lost of the
far-reaching effect of the annual
inflow of approximately nine hun
dred million dollars, on the aver
age, which comes to America in ex-
change for cotton shipped abroad.
In no small degree, therefore,
American agriculture, industry and
foreign trade are dependent upon
the South's production of cotton.
The foregoing list is not exhaus-
tive, only suggestive, but it indi-
Gates that the cotton industry must
be regarded as one of the most es-
sential factors in the great unity
of American welfare. In all of this
the need for a constant and con-
scious spirit of cooperation is
primary.
(Next article, "THE LESSON
OF '26.")
Milford chronicle., 1928-02-17

Mr.. and Mrs. Elijah Workman
spent Sunday night with Mr.. and
Mrs. ]. B. Lowe and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Esham and
son Billy, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Win
gate and daughters were the guests
of the latter's parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
j. B. Mitchell and family.
Mr.. Raymond Buigh and mother,
from Baltimore, Mr.. and Mrs. Rufus
Moore and children, of Hearn's X
Roads, spent Sunday with Mr.. and
Mrs. Mamie Fletcher and family.
The Ladies' Aid met at Mr.. and
Mrs. ]. Rufus Dukes and family last
Friday night, and was very largely
attended. At late hour refresh
ments were served to all. Everyone
reported having a fine time.
The P. T. A. of Sycamore School
will be held Friday evening, Feb
ruary 18th, Hoping we will have
large audience.
Class Services of Epworth M. E.
Church at 1890 a. M, and Preach
ing Services at 2.3O p. m.
Milford chronicle., 1928-02-17

Mrs. Gait says that the way to
peace is to prepare for peace. And
the way to prepare for peace is to
build a navy that will give peaceful
ideas to the rest of the world.
Milford chronicle., 1928-02-17

There is many an united knot in
a cord of wood.