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story in them about Ralph. and
that she would figure in il.
She also knew that every girl in
TIE office would be %craning her
neck as she passed through, 10 see
how she looked.
Once again she looked into the
glass and said 10 herself that there
was ono thing to be thankful for,
and that was that ali people-of
which she was one-did not wear
their daily history blazoned on
their foreheads.
She made IN her face more care
fully than ever before, and with her
gallant little head held high, her
eyes 10 the front. she walked with
a spriChtliness she did not feel,
straight through the big room TO
the door marked Ralph Armitage-
Private"
Out OF the corner of her eve she
noticed that Emily Andrews was
not at her desk. and she wondered
why.
Ralph's desk was covered with
mail. and on her own there were
two envelopes with her name on
them. The one on tor was in David's
familiar hand.
Hastily dropping the other. she
tore II open and read:
Dear Lynda:
81 expect you will be quite sur
p~riscd to sec that 7 still call you
dear Lynda. as YOU will be 10 get
a letter from me at all. You are
very dear to me. even though I do
not know the Lynda Of today.
~ cannot understand how you
could possibly think that ! would
spy upon you under any condition
with any other man.
Lynda, you and I have been
through too much together not to
believe in each other now. and
want TO tell you that nothing. nor
10 one could have made me believe
what | saw the other night.
"All my life-ever since | could
distinguish living from mere ex-
istence-- you have been = part of
Il. and ] sometimes wonder il il
were just egotism on my part to
think that I was part OF you as
you have been a part Of me.
Lynda. J think the giving IN Of
YOU would not be 50 bitter. IL il
were an honorable man that was
asking for you; but don't you see
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-05-02
MAYORS HOME STARTED

EDlNBURG. Mag 2.-Work Of
building the sl2.50O residence Of
Maycr A. J. Ross ~ Tenth snd
Samsno streets was we'll under way
Wednesday. the first step having
been taken with the pouring Of con-
crete for the foundation Tuesday
morning. The house is to be a two
story brick structure with a tile
roof. Several new ideas in equip
ment and architectural design are
TO be introduced Mr.. Ross said.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-05-02

Who am T. What office have |
held? With what n%atinal investi-
CATION have | been Connected
Who Is president Of the Republic
OF Turkey?
What state is generally referred
TO as the Nutmeg State?"
A tea-urn. called "~samovar." has
an interior heat tube. permitting the
water 10 stay hot for hours. In
what country is this utensil used for
the preparation of tea?
20 generation Of vipers, how can
ye. being evil. speak good things?
for out of the abundance Of the
heart the mouth s~peaketh." Where
does this passage appear In the
Bible?
JIMMY JAMS
Today In the Past
On this date. in 1927. korwav. Aft
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-05-02
The Grab Bag

er . decade ~ prohibition. became
vet again. when the new liquor Law.
adorted a. = national referendum,
cane into operation.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-05-02
Todsy's Horoscope

Today's Horoscope
Persons born under this sign res
sess much literary ability and orig
inality. They are close-mouthed re-
FardinE their own affairs. There II
some pessimism in their nature and
they have the faculty Of being in
tcnsely sarcastic at times.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-05-02

A Daily Thought
Love rants in q moment what
toll can hardly achieve in IN are.5-
Goethe.
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SWFETHEARTS9
6ynA0Ra WILSON'S sSEtTAEARTs." CONFESSIONS or a WIFE: ETC:

lONlLooIONS Ut q WIZ. &c.
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RALPH ARMITAGE- SR.'
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-05-02
JIMMY JAMS

Today I'm the Past
On this date. in 1927, Norway. aft
Milford chronicle., 1928-06-22
Vernon

Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Lewis have
improved the dwelling on their
farm by erecting a new front.
The stork has left a fine son
with Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin H. Hobbs.
Draper and Davis phosphate is
recommending itself very highly in
this community. William Wright
has used it on the home farm of
Mr.. and Mrs. R. Wesley Ross, and
tourists of different states pro-
nounce it a champion field of
wheat. By the same treatment the
corn crop is coming along in the
same order.
Little Violet Noble has the dis
.tinction of having made four years
perfect school attendance.
Mrs. R. Wesley Ross attended the
luncheon and business meeting of
the Delaware Citizens Association
on Friday, at the du Pont-Biltmore
Hotel in Wilmington. She has been
visiting Milford, Denton, and Mes
danes R. A. Hopkins and D. Whar-
ton, of Dover, for several days.
Milford chronicle., 1928-06-22
STORE
AT SALISBURY, is
BEING REBUILT

This paper always takes pleasure
in chronicling any steps tending
toward or indicating the advance
ment of this community, and in
this connection it is with pride that
the editors learn of the plans for a
bigger Benjamin's store on Sails
bury's principal business thorough
fare.
A sketch of the progress and sue
cess. of Mr.. Israel Benjamin, since
becoming a resident of this city
thirteen years ago, would seem not
amiss at this time as little has ap-
peared in print, to date, concerning
the activities of this courteous, en-
terprising and successful, yet self
effacing merchant who has become
quite a dominant factor in this
city's business, civic, religious and
social life.
Thirteen years ago, Mr.. Benjamin,
adopting Salisbury as his future
home and place Of activity, came
here from Baltimore and acquired
the good will and fixtures Of Mr..
Samuel Lowenthal, a highly re-
garded merchant who had done
business here for some years. The
store then occupied but a single
room.
Seven years ago business demand
ed an expansion, and when Thor
oughgood's went out of business
the adjoining store was annexed
and the quarters doubled in size.
Today again finds the noise of
hammer and saw abroad in "The
Store of Quality" and mecca for
Peninsula women of taste in dress
wear, and the floors above, in both
buildings, now owned by Mr.. Ben
jamin, will be added-and the busi-
ness quarters again doubled in
size.
The carpenters, now at work on
the second floors of both buildings,
will soon be ready for the changes
to be made on the ground floor. To
make room for the workmen, in
this connection, a large portion of
the present stock must be moved,
Immediately, and the firm is an
nouncing a mammoth Rebuilding
Sale, which started Thursday, June
21st, and which will continue until
Tuesday, July 3rd.
In addition to drastic reductions
on scores of articles there is being
announced eleven super specials"
one item each day upon which a
special discount will be allowed.
Full details of the colossal sale |
may be found in page ad else
where in this issue.-Reprint from
Advertiser.
Milford chronicle., 1928-06-22
Harbeson

Mr.. and Mrs. F. L. Veasey and
Mr.. and Mrs. Barnard Veasey and
son, of Wilmington, were guests of
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. E. Veasey over
the weekend.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Phillips and
daughter Violet, of West Chester,
Pa, visited Mr.. and Mrs. Edward
Veasey on Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. N. T. Veasey, Mr..
and Mrs. Richard Hudson, also
were guests G. E. Veasey on Sun
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alvin Redden and
children, Mrs. Lydia Mcgee and Mrs.
Mary Coulter, were guests of e. H.
Hill and family over the weekend.
Mr.. and Mrs. Everett Hill and
children, of Wilmington, visited his
brother here over the weekend.
Mrs. Charles Veasey is reported
as no better. We still hope to be
able to report her as being much
better soon.
Mrs. Tina Chamberlain is doing
very good at Beebe Hospital, and
we hope for her speedy recovery.
Quite a number of our people at
tended the children's day exercises
at st. Johns on Sunday evening. All
enjoyed the program very much.
Mr.. and Mrs. Stephen Hudson, of
Rehoboth, spent Sunday with Mr..
and Mrs. L. F. Mason.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Rust were
Milford visitors on Sunday.
The annual Homecoming of the
Salmons and Mcgee families was
held at Zoar M. E. Church Sunday.
These people, descendants of George
Salmons and Mary G. Mcgee Sal
mons, meet at Zoar each year as
and it is thoroughly
enjoyed by all. People from all
over the county have become inter-
ested in it, and the attendance was
quite large on Sunday. 1t seems
quite appropriate that this family,
whose ancestors were raised at
this place, and who contributed
largely to its success, when it was
known for one of the best loved
campmeeting grounds in Delaware
or on the Eastern Shore, should re-
turn and establish a day as mem
orial to this famed campmeeting
ground, whose influence has been
felt throughout the world.
Services on Sunday as usual.
Milford chronicle., 1928-06-22

Recently a man in the gallery of
the English parliament, fighting
drunk, yelled at the speaker to shut
up," and threw his hat at a mem
Der on the floor. So there are worse
scenes in some places than in our
own Senate.-The Pathfinder.
Milford chronicle., 1928-06-22
Rehoboth Beach

Belhaven Hotel will open its ball
room on June 23rd with the person
al appearance of Delaware's leading
orchestra, George Kelly and his
original band of eight men,"
Mr.. and Mrs. I. H. Tschlokaloff,
of Philadelphia, who are spending
the month Of June at Hotel Bel
haven, entertained their son, Mr.. A.
A. Tschlekoff, of Petrograd, Russia.
Mrs. 2. Burnette, of Wilmington,
has arrived at Belhaven for the
summer.
Milford chronicle., 1928-06-22
MAJORITY GIVEN FOR
LIQUOR LAW CHANGE
in QUESTIONABLE
[Continned from frst taasl


final count and classification proper
". represented the views Of the vo-
ters who responded. Four groupings
pf the responses were followed-af-
SdrHnative, negative, qualified and no
answer.
I'm reporting the final count to
the committee, the accountants said:
eve considered as direct ans
wers such statements as yes yes
Df course yes without a doubt,
sure and most assuredly' and no.
NEVER I would not mo indeed
most decidedly not etc. A number
bf~answers to certain questions were
Qualified and as it was extremely diff
SfcuIt to interpret the opinions Of
the persons giving such answers, we
did not consider such replies as af-
frmative or negative, but classified
the mas qualified. Certain questions
were not answered by number of
persons and it was therefore neees-
sary to show no answer classif-
cation"
"The six inquiries made in the
QUESTIONABLE and the yes and no
answers to each follows:
"1-Do you believe that much
harm results from abuse of
drink under the prohibition
laws that are in force in this
country? Yes, S4,327; No,
2,218.
S2-Do you believe that alcoholic
liquors such as beers, wine,
whiskey and gin may now be
bought illegally, but freely by
those who wish to buy it? Yes,
34,S69; No, 1,S48.
"3-Do you believe that the gen.
eral disregard Of prohibition
laws is leading to other law
lessness? Yes, S3,761; No,
1922.
"4-Do you think that change in
the existing prohibition laws
is needed? Yes, S2,915; No.
4,422.
.%5-If the sale of light wines and
beer were permitted, do you
believe that the call for whis-
key and gin would materially
decrease? Yes, 29,2O7; No.
7,215.
"6-If you favor a change in our
laws, but do not want the old
time saloon back, would you
vote for a change that permit
ted sale of spirits, wine and
beer through properly con-
" Quoted and government super
vised places of sale? Yes,
= 31,603; No, 4,977.
Milford chronicle., 1928-06-22

"In interpreting the answers, mo
answer is to mean that either the
space is left blank or the answer
shows no relation whatever to the
question.
"In interpreting the answer, quail
fled is to mean that if a reasonably
clear Interpretation cannot be made
of the answer or, as in the case of
the answer to the first question, the
makes a comparison between
present day conditions and pre-pro-
conditions.
In interpreting the answers, the
word probably and such phrases as
Il think so,' can generally be consid-
cred as a 'yes;' on the other hand,
such words as doubtful can be in
terpreted as mo-"
Milford chronicle., 1928-06-22
BUSINESS

New Process Fibre Company
manufactures fibre by a new pro-
cess, completing the product fifty
to sixty days quicker than any
other manufacturer. Among the
trade their fibre is known to be
the best. 1t has its entire output
for the present year sold at good
margin of profit.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-04
SEEK FUND FOR
STUDY OF DOCS
Mentality to Be Subject of
Researches.
BIZ Science Service

BIZ Science Service
NEW YORK, May 4.-Psycholo-
giss at the animal laboratory of
Columbia University have issued a
challenge to dog lovers.
So many dog owners tell them
how intelligent and keen their dogs
are and ask so many questions
about dogs that have not yet been
scientifically answered, that the
psychologists have asked dog lovers
to help them raise a 100000 fund
for experimental work on dogs and
also on cats and other higher
animals.
The fund is known as the Fellow
Fund, after the German Shepherd
dog recently tested by psychologists
at Columbia University. Fellow
responded to 400 words used in
various commands and proved him
self remarkable animal. DR.. G. j.
Warden, who conducted the ex-
animation Of Fellow, is chairman Of
the fund, and Dr. John B. Watson,
exponent of behaviorist psychology,
is treasurer.
Much Of what the average man
knows" about his own dog, and
about dogs in general, is quite I'M
known to the animal psychologist,
DR.. Warden points out.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-04
PREFERS JAIL SOCIETY

Confesses Robbery to Escape
Nagging of MOther-in-Law.
LOS ANGELES, May 4.-The
society of jailbirds is preferred by
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-04

Mike Hagerty, "a, to that of his
nagging mother-in-law. And that's
why he confessed to robbing fill
ing station. "You see," said Red,
I'D rather be in Jail than with my
mother-in-law. She's a holy terror
and she'd drive me mad in time"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-04

The medical officer who has
been selected to accompany the
South Pole expedition to be head
ed by Commander Richard E.
Byrd is DR.. Francis B. Conan,
shown above. He is assistant il
surgery at Johns Hopkins Uni
versity Medical School and as
sistant resident surgeon at the
John Hopkins hospital at Balti-
more.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-17
John He Baptist Goes to Heaven

Mephisto sat on his throne of flames
counting the prickly yellow points Of heat
that curled unhindered around the red-ho seat
which John D. 1.-THE senior) lay a-roastng.
Majestic Mephso with his black beard
curling from his chin like STEEL his gttering
hurting daggers of pain. For a crown,
whirlng round his temples a belt of flame
yellow. red, the heat and fell
(Surely Dr. Fahrenheit had not considered hell
when he gave the world his thermomeer)
Mephisto exulted. A DEVILS is a good
life life of heats leisure, sy.A4
devils life for me! Then he yawned,
a salacious usty yawn, Ia yawn in which
contained lewd, lecherous, lascivious
and disgusting matter) but this hell
and hell is not New York fortunately the devil unused
and therefore he escaped thirty days at the Tombs
and his lechery continued undated.
Mephisto cried John D.. ! will give you
palaces of old Italian marble, Mephisto,
scimitars studded with diamonds, robes
cut Of scarlet velvet and thick silk from Japan
will conure rain of amehysts from the heavens
rubies and sapphres Mephisto, and white ivory.
For your brow will forge a of silver
studded with bright dimes, Mephisto
only let me go!
But Mephisto smiled mephistophelian smile.
And T. S. Eliot in London town
while London bridge falling down
adjusted his spats and took up his
and gazed with friendly interest upon the twain
and basked for a in hels reflected
suddenly into the window hoof-lke beat
king George paradng down the street
Eliot took his Observation-Disclosures
them
and hurled them in platters
at King Georges feet
And Mephsto shouted BRAvoi
And Mephisto said: bring a flagon of burgundy
Mephisto said: bring ne my ebony dice
(Mephisto that burgundy
Mephisto ratified his dice and watched them roll
Avan Fuller cried Mephsto, damn the
Come eleven,
And John D. heaven
EDWIN RoLFE.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-17
SON EULOGIZES
PLUTE FATHER
ESTHER LOWELL.
d derated Press.

CTRIKE-BREAKING and hard-boiled,
= sarcastic driving of his workers by
Gustavus Franklin Swift, founder of
the packing firm, is praised in the
biography his son and collaboration
have written. Louis F. Swift, the son
and present head of Swift & Co., has
written "The Yankee of the Yards"
"a. W. Shaw, s3) with Arthur Van
Vlissingen, Jr.
In the eighties old Gustavus Swift
fought a packing workers strike. In
the 'nineties he butted into the Pull
man workers strike in which Eugene
Y. Debs was leader. The biograph-
ers assert that Gustavus was not spe-
officially concerned as an opponent of
the strikers demands, in either case,
"but when the strikes came and he
saw that tact would no longer serve,
he swung into the job Of fighting
with every resource he had" The
writer's claim there would have been
no strikes if conditions involved were
under the control of Gustavus.
"He was the driver, the dynamo of
the business" the son and biographer
state plainly. "He worked his men
hard and treated them fairly" they
can add unblushingly "From time to
time I have heard rumors of this or
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-17
StYangled in a
Fascist Dungeon

THERE has just come to light the
! most abominable crime committed
by fascism since the murder, at Mus
solini's command, of the Socialist
Matteotti. This is the murder by
strangling of the well-known Com
munist, CASTOR Sozzi, in the prison
at Perusa.
Comrade Sozzi was arrested three
months ago by the police in Milan,
and since then all trace of him was
lost and all information on his fate
refused until curt notice that "Gas-
ton Sozzi had died in his cell at the
military prison, Perusa;" was sent to
his parents.
The fascists would not allow his
father to take the body or to have a
post-mortem to state the cause of
death. Now the Italian ambassador
in Paris blandly causes the usual Of
fetal lie that Sozzi committed suicide
to be published. The truth, however,
has now leaked out.
This atrocious murder has caused
an immense stir in Italy. Comrade
Sozzi enjoyed great popularity among
the workers for his heroic conduct in
the struggle aainst fascism. Only a
young man, his devotion to the work
ing class and the Communist Party
had already given him reputation
for fearlessness in attack on the mon
strous regime of tyranny erected by
Mussolini and his bands.
Comrade Sozzi in turn has fallen
victim to that tyranny, but the work
of organization and leadership to
which he contributed so much in his
short life will not be long in bearing
fruit in the overthrow of the whole
abominable system now weighing SO
heavily on the Italian masses.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-17
HARDY: WRITER WHO
DESPISED PRETENSES
By T. A. JACKSON.

II ever the gods laughed 1t must
have been when Thomas Hardy was
given Christian" burial in West
minister Abbey. 1t was as though Of
fetal bourgeois society had conspired
to execute just the very ritual cere-
monial which would best vindicate the
ironical pessimism which forms the
ground-strata of the whole of Hardy's
work.
Only bourgeois society, too in
grained in hypocrisy to have retained
any sense of sincerity or congruity,
could have conceived in all solemnity
the pantomime Of burying Gin the
sure and certain hope of a glorious
resurrection" the man whose whole
life's work testified that he neither
possessed nor desired any such
"hope"-the man whom they had de-
nounced as pagan" "atheistieal,"
immoral and obscene" whose
works they had belittled and banned
$50 far as they could) from public
circulation-the man whom they had
forced by their never-failing abuse to
abandon novel-writing for poetry and
who gained commentator in their
eyes solely by living long, ceasing to
annoy them openly, and becoming a
Success" in the "best circles"
Complete the picture with a vision
~ 7 b.
the grave-side of the man who had
scorned them with a lifelong scorn,
and flocking there because it was
the "right thing, you know" add the
official representatives of those
"Dynasts," the tragedy implied in
whose existence he had taken 'as the
theme for his one great poem-drama,
and the irony is complete.
Hardy was in fact honored by Of
ficial society almost wholly because
he had lived so long that the propa-
gandist force of his earlier land more
obviously ineligible work) had be-
come blunted by sheer lapse of time.
1t is difficult now to envisage the
IlAiAS WiCu ACSc anu SuQ z bAsc wv
scure were regarded as obscene. Had
they been obscene in reality they
would, nowadays, have been reprinted
in millions.
Hardy had the misfortune to write
them in the days when the Noncon-
formist Conscience had established it's
deaconesses' dictatorship, and he suf-
fered accordingly. That age has
passed; it melted into Brummagem
Imperialism, and that in turn into
postwar Imperialism absolute, i'm
perialism tensed in all its sinews to
meet the imminent day of the prole-
tartan revolution. What was felt as
blow full in its face by the timidly
truculent Nonconformist conscience is
less than fleck of dust to the i'm
perialist aware of a crisis in it's fate.
= T.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-17
RanSOme' S
Book on China GlUes
TybicaILibeYQI Wen

'THE CHINESE PUZZLE" by
Arthur Ransome (Houghton,
Mifflin Co., $1,000, a collection of ar
ticles reprinted from the Manchester
Guardian, gives us the typical liberal
outlook upon the Chinese question.
A large part of it is devoted to Ran
some's personal experiences, on his
travels to Hankow and to Picking,
and Of his meetings with such lead
ers of the revolution as Eugene Chen
a~d c. c. WI These descriptions
are extremely vivid and excellent in
every way, but when he attempts to
aralyze the social forces at work be-
hind the revolution or to dabble in
economies, the result is failure.
On the second page of the book
one is met by the extraordinary state-
ment that the troops which were sent
to Shanghai were sent as a sop" to
the "die-hard" Tories and that, "the
British troops, though illegally in
China, are part of Sir Austen Cham
berlain's conciliatory policy" (Our
enphasis.l And later on we find the
Shanghai Defence Force praised, as
ats presence brings the north nearer
to compromise with the south" 1t is
indeed a strange twist Of the mind
which sees Cancellation" in the land
ing of any army on the soil of a
friendly power, and then justifies
such action because it may in the dim
future help to unite China against the
foreignerl
One can, however, make some all
lowance for such alteration of judg-
ment on the part of liberal, but when
il comes to a deliberate misinterpre-
tation of the plainest facts, no for
giveness is possible. The book is
amusing and makes an interesting
evenings entertainment, but one
wishes that Ransome had confined
himself to descriptions of men and
places, rather than to dabbling in
pseudo-social analysis.