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The Washington times., 1928-04-23
Death Trap CurvesonH Highways
Near Here and Elsewhere

a WASHINGTON automobile salesman the twentieth
a victim Of the deathap the southern Maryland
pike four miles from Waldorf Nd His turned turtle at
the and he crushed to death under It,
No matter how large part Of this sacrifice OF human lives
may be due to caressness and to unnecessary speed the
Maryland Roads Commission and its engineers cannot much
longer permit this bloodsoaked spot to remain it IS
Maryland spending millions Of dollars each year on her
roads, the expense of her citizens and yet most important
part of road construction these days the elimination OF
sharp Throughout the country counties and States
going heavy expense to saghen their highways and TO
make them safer for motorists
Most Of these welconstruCted Maryland roadways follow
the lines Of the old dirt roadway and some OF them like the
Annapolis and Solomons Island have the lines
of moving black snake Bad curves everywhere When
better few eliminated The
result is that death becons all motorists who drive
them at swift rate and to those who observe care
Famous dead Mans Curve on the Baltimore Washington
pike about miles this side of Baltimore took appalling
share Of human beings before the Maryland road authorities
straightened il, In part
The natural tendency Of all State highway authorities is to
Improve public roads fast possible That is done to
satisfy citizens who taxpayers and who demand these
improvements which follow the lines Of the dirt roads
The human and property Wreckage at curves though is
Becoming frghtful that road engineers insisting
getting rid Of bad before improvements made
citizens not willing to give sell rights Of way at reason
able prices then road authorities should refuse to improve
highways that must follow snake-lke courses.
Improved public roads are Of value to property
These roads still valuable they shorten distances
by following straight lines as much as possible.
Road construction in the future done under sensible and
4arseeing public administration must provide wider and
saving time and gasoline but for the greater safety they
assure motorists.
Before these future roads are constructed no matter what
the demand Of taxpayers complete arrangements should be
made for rights of way and stubborn property should
be met with condemnation proceedings Delay in construction
will be better than improper and unsafe construction.
The Washington times., 1928-04-23
By ELSIE ROBINSON

when you come right down TO
brass tacks, motherhood is just as
hard for q woman who likes
children as it is for one VINO
doesn't.
Mothering is never easy for
anyone. Good mothers don't just
happen. Fine motherhood is
never ready-made. We must
achieve it, every day, with ever
lasting patience and tact and
devotion and sacrifice and horse
sense.
Your mother got along with her
10 children because she realized
and accepted that fact. She
didn't have a lot of Temperament
tai ideas about herself. She didn't
go around being sorry for herself
because she had to stay home and
take care of her youngsters while
other women gadded about. She
knew that marriage and mother
hood were her jobs. She knew
they were hard jobs and she
rolled up her sleeves and tackled
them. Her children pestered her
lust as much as yours posters
YOU. And she longed to wiring
their necks just as often as you
do. But she didn't wiring them.
And now you look back and think
she was "a saint. She wasn't.
She was as human as you are.
SO nix on that I'm different"
alibi, old girl. There's nothing
unique about you. You're exactly
as good and as bad as your
mother was before you. And
you're facing the same hard
scrap. It's up to you TO decide
whether you'll go down in history
as an honest soldier or a Stacker.
The Washington times., 1928-04-23
SECRETS OF
HEALTH
BY DR.. C. A. L. Reed

VoU have been RECALLED from
! time to time, in these articles.
by . discussion Of the relative
merits of white and brown bread.
1t is question that has partisans
arrayed on both sides, each par
ticnlar partisan being such be-
cause hel or she has viewed the
question from his or her irdi-
vidual standpoint. There is too
much tendency at this time to
say: What is good for me Is
good for you, darn you, eat It or
I'll get law that will make you
eat it,
That is not the spirit of science.
Science sees all sides of a ques-
ton. So it is with the white
and-brown bread question. ] wish
always to give my readers the
benefit of the facts as they come
out on this vexed problem. Some
such facts have recently been
brought out by CraIner and Mot.
rain Hancet) on one side and
by Hartwell on the other.
The first two point out that
the bread problem. The working
man takes about so per cent az
his proteins in bread, and the
population as a whole eats bread
in greater bulk and regularity
than any other food. Wheat is
rich in vitamin e, and before
roller milling was invented every
one used to get enough Of this
constituent.
Since then, however, bread has
contained practically no vitanlin
+. Some say that the deficiency
is made up by the yeast used in
baking, and these writer's made
some very careful experiments to
test this.
Their results showed that the
amount of yeast in white bread
was only 2 per cent at most, and
quite inadequate as il source of
vitamin b. Wheat germ and
about the same vitamin value,
of Vitamin r needs about y
gramme day of either to enable
him to regain his health. If its
food is only so per cent germ
bread or whole meal bread it will
recover, but it will not recover on
anv amount of white bread.
The chief ex9efimenter on the
other side of the problem was
Miss Gladys Fl. Hartw"ll, but she
gave her rats butter, which may
contain considerable quantities of
Vitamin B. That this must have
been the prime source of this
vitamin is shown by an expert
ment she id with white bread
made without any yeast at all,
which gave the same results as
far as nourishment was con-
cerned.
The discussion has suffered as
much from the unresulated enthu-
siasm of the advocates of brown
bread as from the inaccuracy of
the opponents of white. For in
stance, it has been suggested that
millers should go back to
lower grade of milling.
That would be unnecessary, for
it is easy to mix with pure white
flour any of the V:tamin. contain
ing products of the grain that
may be desired. 1t has to be re-
membered that flour containing
any part OF the germ does not
keep we'll for any length of time
and therefore cannot be shipped,
transported or stored in bulk, 80
that it is of little use FOR supply
ing dsapoa1-populAted eountries.
The Washington times., 1928-04-23
Fighting Insects With Insects
Better IMAM F,ighting Men With Men.

ONCE the beginning Of time and Of war kind and
- color have used their energy and frociy to kill
off other kinds and colors
Alexander with his Greeks killed Persans The Romans
with their invading army killed millions Of all kinds and
colors in all countries.
The Nordic so called drove far into North the
dark squat tribes that call Eskmos.
The Chinese alternately repealed and invaded BY
savage Tartars and other barbarians.
The lighter Egyptians fought against the black Philippians
gradually pressing them South toward the Equator.
AL the world since the very beginning it has been
against man. tribe against tribe nation against nation,
intelligence always cOnquering the end and gradually raising
the level of civilization.
What have done each other they now causing
creatures of the insect tribes to do each other
To get rid of harmful insect pests they employ harmless
kind to fight dangerous kinds.
years the innocent lady bug been used in California
and elsewhere to fight the deadly scale that has destroyed
millions of fruit trees.
Descending lower of lfe science has recently
employed the germ Of malaria implanted in the blood by
quitOes combat pare disease that destroys the BRAIN
And intelligent Frenchman that he has
and cuvating mosquito that will bite human
beings bite other animals and most important drives
out the manbitg mosquitoes that yellow fever
other diseases.
French naturalist Legendrs informs the solemn French
Academy of Sciences that he has discovered Cuex ppens
valuable mosquito friend of that diskes human blood
bites other animals and drives out the Objectionable
The new benefcent mosquito Culex ppens found in Brit
tany raised by Mons Legendr will bite all animals from hens
to horses, but will NOT bite humans
It is not as fullfedged mosquitoes that these different
kinds Culex their fighting They do that killing each
other off in the larva state the kind that does like
human blood wins out.
This will interest many States in this country.
Let us hope that Culex ppens after take the trouble
import him. will change his mind and decide that after
all he might well bite human beings since all the other
mosquitoes do it.
You remember insecteang parrot in Australia It
of the sheep to eat the insects that gath
cred accidentally bit into sheep, found that mutton
better than insects and destroyed thousands of sheep eating
the fat over the kidneys.
You never can tell what her representatives
will do.
The Washington times., 1928-04-23
WHN1L 100
MT1 yoU3

feet housekeeper and a perfect
wife but when it comes to my
4.year-old daughter, I'm "all Wet
i don't know why, but that
little piece of humanity makes my
nerves dance all day long. We've
moved to an out-of-the-way place
which is very inconvenient for
my husband, just to give her a
place to play, with porch, but
she's not content to play on it:
she wants to play on the street
with the boys.
She has lots of toys but still
she always wants what she
hasn't got. She talks to me
sometimes so that feel just like
wringing her neck. / hold off
spanking her when she does some.
thing she ought not to do. but
when l do let go I'm terrible.
Then 1 feel bad afterward and
hate myself for it.
whats the matter with me,
Elsie? I've only one and have
no patience. My mother had IS
and she was so easy-going.
I'm just 20 years older than my
baby, being married seven years.
Perhaps it's because l only have
the one that l act that way.
Is it?
MARGIE.
Do you act that way because
you have just one child?
No, my dear, you act that way
because you're an ordinary, lazy,
stupid, selfish human being, like
all the rest of the race. But you
don't realize that you are like all
the rest of the race. You think
that you're something unusual,
specially created for the twentieth
The Washington times., 1928-04-23
NEGOTIATIONS
OF A WIFE
BY Helen Rowland
nNE Of the most enviable things
" about a man is his beautiful
and sublime serenity.

ONE Of the most enyiable things
" about a man is his beautiful
and sublime serenity.
A woman crosses every bridge
forty times before she goes to it
but a man never even thinks
of crossing a bridge until it is
about to be washed away.
A woman has a panic at the
sight of the first grey hair, but
not until he sees his LAST hair
vanishing does a man begin TO
wonder If he ought to try hair
tonic.
A woman worries when her
throat begins to sag and begins
at thirty to ward off a double
chin. But not until his chins are
tripIed and get in his way when
he's shaving does man suspect
that he may be losing his boyish
beauty.
A woman begins dieting and
banting at the discovery of the
first few pounds of superflous
flesh, but not until man has 10
let his belt out three or four
notches and can no longer get
into his college tuxedo does he
feel any anxiety about his in
creased girth or his vanishing
waistline.
A woman worries bitterly at
the loss OF her first illusion and
her first tooth. But not until he
has shed his last illusion and
parted with his last molar does
a man stop to wonder If it is
really time for him to give up
the love chase and settle down"
and be sensible.
A woman has doIeful vi ions Of
becoming widow every time
her husband coughs. But not
until his wife has been buried
for six months and he finds
some other woman trying to
annex him does a man wake up
to the fact that he is a widower.
A woman begins thinking about
love and marriage and planning
her life long before the first
lover arrives on the scene. She
has her hope chest filled before
there is any hope" and the
wedding decorations all picked
out before the man has discovered
the color of her eyes.
But a. man never gives mar.
rage a serious thought until he
finds himself walking up the
aisle to the altar-and then it's
too late.
A woman lies awake nights for
weeks before the wedding won
dering IF she ought to do it
but a man waits until after the
wedding and then lies awake
nights wondering WHY he did it.
Worrying" is woman's favorite
indoor sport, but it is the one
thing that man lodges as long
as he can. .a
That is why most men have
such nice, smooth, jolly faces
long after their wives faces
are covered with crows feet and
the marks of plastic surgery.
The Washington times., 1928-04-23
The knowledge Test For
Readers of The Times

Do you know
/. How many planets there?
2. What is amber used for?
3. What metal does a magnet attract?
4. What is meant by the spoils system?
5. What ammunition is used in n air rifle?
6. What is period of 100 years called?
T. Where the spark plug gasoline engine located?
Mark false
8. Algeria is located in Africa.
Hero the Helespont
10. government is called oligarchy.
II. Wagner composed the Peer Gynt Suite.
IL. The story of Noah's Ark is found in Genesis.
ID. my Last Duchess" is famous painting
Match each word with it's opposite
IA. Expand Humility
ID. Pride Counterfeit
10. Command Contract
II. Genuine Obey
See Magazine Page For Answers
The Washington times., 1928-04-23

The Prussian State Liberty in
Berlin, which houses more than
100000 volumes of reading mat
ter, is the largest in the world.
1t was founded in 1861.
In China. parents have absolute
power over their children, and
many times the children are sold
to Weather neishbors as ser.
wants or slaves for manual labor.
Live bees are shown at work in
a glass case at the National
Museum.
The Washington times., 1928-04-23
DO YOU KNOW THAT

The British admiralty has ar
ranged for two cruisers to pay
friendly visits to various South
American ports throughout the
remainder of 1928.
A folding canoe has been in
vented in Germany. seating two
persons. which can be rolled into
a bundle four feet long by six
inches in diameter.
An .oxtdant product has
been discovered 20. prevent de.
terioration Of rubber by air.
The Washington times., 1928-04-23
LISTEN, WORLD

c Z tury and
therefore quite
in c a p a BILE of
tackling y o II r
grandma's COM
mon chores. So
when yoIr little
daughter rifle $
you you natur-
ally think you're
mot made for
m o t h e r n God"
and wish you
could wash your
hands OF it--or
wiring her neck.
You are all
wrong, Margie.
1t is true that
some women like
children m o r e
than others. but
any woman can
be a good mother
If she'll put her
mind and heart
to the task. And
The Washington times., 1928-04-23
HERE is a pic

HERE Is a pic
IL ture of a
peevish young
m o t h err. The
woods are full
of them. But
d ont orry
about that. The
woods have al
ways been full
of them, and
yet they've hung
up some pretty
good records.
I'll let Margie
tell her own
story.
Dear Elsie:
You spoke re-
Gently of women
who were good
wives but poor
mothers. Well,
Elsie, I'm one
of them.
My husband
cave TIM q mar.
The Washington times., 1928-04-23
WORDS FROM LIPS OF WISE MEN

Regulations. like beavers and
cloaks, shall last some people
twice the time of others.
Douglas Jerrold.
1t is not allowable for anyone
70 be Judge in his own cause.
Coke.
What heavy burden is a
narne that has become too famous.
=. -Voltaire.
The Washington times., 1928-04-23

There is no life OF a man, faith.
fully recorded. but it is heroic
poem of its sort, rhymed or un.
rhymed. -CarIyIe.
Justice, though moving with a
tardy pace, has seldom failed of
overtakinE the wicked in their
hight. Horace.
Science is certainty. liz truth
found out. A. Coles.
Evening star., 1928-10-07

When Sir Thomas Upton recently saw
his efigy in wax at the new Nine
Tussaud's in London. l1o did not like ths
suit in which il was clothed. so he sent
the museum one Of his own yachting
fNet24xaAs -4ar &lae A9uyA
Evening star., 1928-10-07
Business and Professional Women
Department.

Tuesday evening the Amicitia. Hi
tika, Premiere, Tip-Top and Wol1elo
Clubs will have supper together at 6;l5.
after which they will each hold their
regular monthly business meeting.
Thursday evening the Blue Triangle
Club Of young business girls will meet
for suroer at $50. At O'Clock they
will hold their first business meeting of
the year. during which Summer confer
ence reports will be given and the club
program for the year considered.
As these are all the first club meet
irgs Of the Fall season, it Is most i'm
portant for all members to be present
Smyrna times., 1928-12-26
The Everett Theatre. Middletown

Wednesday and Thursday When
Coronado and his adventurous con-
quistadores arrived in what is now
northern Arizona in 1860 they found
a village of fiat-roofed, one-story
stone houses on a promontory over
looking the Moenkopi wash, near the
Painted Desert. The inhabitants, a
smaller race than the surrounding
warlike tribes, cultivated the soil in
the dry bed of the river and had a
crude system Of irrigation. They still
do. They were called Hopis. The
place is believed to have been many
hundreds of years old before the Pill
grims started for Plymouth. Civil
cation Of a sort fiourished there be-
fore Columbus was born. Recently it
was invaded BY the Fred Thomson
company making Mr.. Thomson's lat
est Paramount picture, Exit Carson"
Smyrna times., 1928-12-26
MORE AMERICAN CARS ABROAD
Auto Manufacturers Paying Heed to
1929 Market Trends

Automobile leaders here at this
time are paying special heed, in their
surveys of 1929 market trends, to the
export aspects Of the industry, con
scious of the fact that overseas trade
has been growing consistently until it
stands today third in the list Of Amer
lean exports with a valuation Of four
hundred and six millions Of dollars.
This is regarded as significant, com
ing as it does with the industry enter
ed upon the final quarter Of what
promises to be the greatest year in
the history of the domestic market
with no decrease in home demand ex-
pected during 1929. Far from view
ing with complacency the gigantic
forward strides made in foreign mar
kets since 1921, the consensus of ex-
pert opinion adheres to the view that
the export business is still an infant
a giant infant which promises to ac-
hieve a mighty growth. Rehabilita-
Smyrna times., 1928-12-26
STAGE AND SCREEN WR|TE-UP
COMING AMUSEMENT EVENTS
The Strand Theatre. Smyrna

Friday and Saturday-Once again
Bob Stele, youthful purveyor Of rapid
action and adventure, comes through
with real entertainment in Lightning
Speed" Blazing forth in new type
of role which taxes his athletic and
histrionic prowess to the utmost, this
youthful star promises to increase his
popularity with meteoric rapidity.
Monday and Tuesday In Excess
Baggage" Director James Cruze has
turned out his finest example Of an
intensely interesting motion picture
since "The Covered Wagon" William
Haines, who also rises to new heights,
Cruze has turned out a picture that
has the audience alternately laughing
and crying with an occasional moment
in between when feeling like cheering
Thursday Friday and Saturday,
January 3-4-5- Manger Rubin has
booked for three days starting Thurs
day, January 3, the Oh Dearie Musical
Revue. 1t is one Of the finest shows
Of its kind playing all the Keith The
atres and is headed BY Ben Loring
that funny comedian, the Broadway
Comedian and strong surrounding cast
of singers and dancers including
George Brown, Straight Man; Bobby
Dunn, juvenile: Madeline Boland,
Prima Donna; Dora Davis. leading
lady. Oh Dearie Peach Chorus of
wonderful girls is a great show for
the money with entire new show daily.
Smyrna times., 1928-12-26

ton of Europe, the betterment of road
conditions all over the world, the es-
tablishment of American credit sys-
TENS abroad and the continuous i'm
provement of American manufactur-
ing methods are among the reasons
assigned for a view of the foreign
market that is decidedly optimistic.
Last week, H. J. Klingler, general
sales manager of the Chevrolet Motor
Company, world leader in domestic
and foreign sales, issued statement
in which i7e predicted that America
will be exporting 100000 cars an
nually within the next few years. Mr..
Klingler made this prediction fully
aware that the total number of Amer
lean cars shipped abroad for sale in
1927 was 460,305, and cognizant too,
of the fact that foreign trade barriers
are not likely ever to be obliterated.
Explaining his forecast he said: zone
million American made cars will be
shipped overseas and sold in the next
few years. Today there are upwards
of 29,505,475 motor vehicles in the
world, and of this number % million
are in use in the United States. I
feel that this is altogether out of pro-
portion. The United States has only
about 1-20th of the worlds population
and only a fraction Of its habitable
land. Yet it owns 80 per cent of all
the motor vehicles in the world. Gen
eral Motors Export, applying Ameri-
can methods of manufacture, distri-
button and credit, has gone long
way in the last few years to make the
world motor minded. For instance,
Chevrolet cars and trucks are now be-
ing sold in 104 countries from Iceland
in the North to New Zealand in the
South, and each one of these cars is
serving as an individual ambassador
of the superiority Of the American
product. Each is educating the world
at large of the advantages Of econom-
ical transportation that cannot be sur
passed. During the first six months
Of this year General Motors Export
reports the sale of 57,808 Chevrolet
passenger cars and 5O,542 trucks as
compared with 1854 passenger cars
and 32,799 trucks for the first six
months of 1927. This increase in the
export trade has been reflected gener-
ally. Figures for the first eight
months covering the entire American
export field show an increase of 36
per cent over 1927.
Smyrna times., 1928-12-26
New Dover Opera House. Dover

Wednesday and Thursday - When
the last scene for "The Docks Of New
York" was completed at the Para
mount Hollywood studios, Josef Won
Sternberg turned to a friend and re-
marked "This is the best picture
have ever made" The remark is more
than passing in its importance for the
director is the same one who startled
the world with "The Last Command" I"
starring Emil Jannings. "The Drag
Net" starring George Bancroft, and,
last but not least, underworld" the
Smyrna times., 1928-12-26

latter being the first picture the di-
rector turned out for Paramount. To
have given the film public three such
pictures in row, all of which have
been .heralded as the best Of their
kind, is no small accomplishment. As
a rule, directors are remembered by
the public for a solitary cinematic
achievement.
Smyrna times., 1928-12-26

y Clings to Metal Better
The Purpose:
To test the capacity for various
motor oils TO cling to metal.
The Test:
A rolled steel plate-1 inch thick
and about 2 inches long-suspend-
ed by light wire, was dipped in
Standard" Motor Oil and another
well-known oil at varying tenn
peratures, namely 1902, ZOO,
3oO0, and 4ooo F. After draining
for one hour at the same temper
ature, the oil then clinging TO the
plate was In each case carefully
weighed.
The test was then continued with
the same two oils, taken from the
crank-cases of test cars az the end
of 17o miles and 600 miles of use.
These DRAWINGS were subjected
to the same tests as the original
samples and under the same tenn
perature conditions.
The Result:
More Standard" Motor Oil clung
TO metal under all conditions-as
follows:
at 1907 al ZOO al 3oo' At 400
q more % more g more g more
Fresh Io7 20 Fl ~
10 miles 70 81 II 50
600 miles 80 "a
The Meaning:
Because Standard" Motor Oil
clings to metal surfaces longer and
better-itafords greater protection
of all moving parts, preserves your
\ motor and saves you money.