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one way or the other. once we enter
the Life beyond
IN our folklore days. before the war
airplaned wages sky high. Mrs
Average left her general homework TO
some brown goddess Of the lower re-
gions. The upward flight Of the wage
scale looked like tragedy for Mrs.
Average at first sight. but Mother
Necessity Is such a wise teacher that
the average misSis is now doing her
own work in some apartment Kitchen
cite
If you should walk in on her I'M
expected. say at breakfast, she can give
YOU fruit. eggs, crystal-clear coffee and
5he goldenest toast from the electric
plate on the table with no trouble or
musS and without the expense of cook,
who could do it no better
All Of which is secondhand knOwl-
edge gained from the braggings OF two
successful business women. each gifted
with an apartment and a plate For
them the food question has lost it's
claws and the help-problem Is a brother
that can trouble them never no more
And as they banded experiences In the
office of third woman. who doesn't
count except to tab down things un-
bcknownSt, one of them Chuckled over
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the barn. when tobacco stripping goes
on to the tune of rich. unstudied mel
ody and laughter Of the colored man,
which nature seems to have given him
in atonement for the brown of his
skin~-nor Of the hauling along deep.
country roads with ruts in them Of
hogsheads drawn by patient oxen to
gay wharf-and then wait till the
boat tortoises along Of the prayer
full expectancy Of what the crop will
bring after the inspectors arc through
with their proddings-and, then to
work again. at another crop-tobacc0
being more trouble than a teething
baby
The beautifully mentioned lady iR-
nored the millions whose lives have
depended on Just such crops since
America childhood days when tobacco
was Colonial currency, and forgcts, #
she ever knew how tobacco planters
helped to make the laws Of this coun-
try and died on land and sea in their
defense.
Oh. yes We who raise tobacco are
willing 10 take our chance at heaven
along with those who damn IL on earth
the real outcome Of all arguments or
the subject will doubtless be left on this
side Of life, anyhow, since It isn't likely
that We will be questioned about It.
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asked leave TO go TO the funeral Of
friend. Of course, permission was
granted, and. dressed in a CAV red
georgette, cook showed herself of TO
the madam
Madam asked If she thought 1t was
exactly appropriate to wear red on so
sad an occasion
Yes, ma'am that's all right. Reds
my color
by the time the incident was for
gotten-say couple Of months-cook
gave notice that she was going TO quit
her service place and get married
Being a reliable. cheerful and hard
working aid the madam was sorry
Also she was surprised.
Why. Luellen. I didn't even know
you had beau
"'Oh, I got beau all right. You
remember that friend of mine I wore
my red dress to her funeral? Well,
that's him
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she had always admired her seemingly
| high gift of spirituality-but never
| again. and so on
How can you allow the filthy weed
to contaminate the atmosphere of this
sweet little place? All. my dear wom-
an, If you knew tobacco, as | know
tt"
- 1t gave the lady obvious pleasure
TO discourse on the subject, and as eacn
Of us desires that guest shall enjoy
herself, the hostess sat back and took
II all in, And, as it might have made
her feel a bit fiat to be told that the
owner had never smoked nor expected
to. but that the cigarettes were for any
friend who might want them, she kept
mum~-wnich was about all there was
to 1t, except for the inside thoughts
that come to us when we live alone
So she found herself a bit sorry for
one who knows nothing Of the green
splendor Of upshooting stalks topped
with pink blooms that the farmer calls
darn suckers" in the same spirit that
he cusses a daisy for a weed She
never saw the fat, sluggish worms tibet
look like live Jade until the turkeys
arc turned in ON thCm--nor Of the
under junGlcs of ground leaves that
mean a new frock or a very own pig
10 the child that picks 50 many for
early prizinC nor of the damp days III
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MEN would be all right If only they

MEN would be ali right II only they
A'A were different
II is true that they have put deeper
rcd IN the Flag. and nobody can deny
that at every fresh call for relief their
bank books answer Here But.
When beautifully intentioncd ladies
demand that they give up smokes, YOU
know what Kipling said
Every argument has its extremes. Of
course, which makes this world such a
nice exciting place to live in. Take
say. some multttudinous reformer who
assumes the personal responsibility of
coudemning to perdition all who han
Ole tobacco in any shape or form. 10
this soul-eXpert tobacco is a vice. Vice
is sin Sin is-ask him for details
A reformer may be wrong, You may
have noticed that reformerS sometimes
are, but why consider trif1es?
All Of which is To present one good
lady who paid q call at the apartment
Of woman who lives alone. 1t is
plain apartment, as money goes. but It
means a home where tables and chairs
are memories of upclimbing days, and
many old paintings are loved because
of the touch Of a vanished hand, And
along with the lot of beloved junk Is a
little green glass concern that holds
a package of cigarettes and a box of
matches And it shocked the lady
into a moral SpaSm.
The little outfit meant perdition for
the owner. and she begged that it be
destroyed instantlv-and by the time
she was through with her missionary
work she had let the hostess know that
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- cN pUll3Nc il1c
tsue drawing string
{ oG1 hl * hate
cre 5 Il l>7ndhs z
- Is cfesp even
81 these days
a3 whilc she waS
Cealc H. the man
r'1s~6 MS nee :
I'll the irritation
t's9t secs WITH
hHdG caught
This IS the f~S-
tine J ever started
without ta~ tool
hcx and. Of course.
something he'd "a
happen
The " ,n1an IN
tire car protested
IN Ep* tl,r tN,~.>
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Vacation Home for Cats.

LEIPZIG Up).-Where TO leave ones
pet cat during the Summer vacation Is
a problem that has been solved here
with the Inauguration of q vacation
home for felines. Business Is brisk.
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woman know what an elegant lady
Sae was. but the stranger refused to
be shocked. she even encouraged The
man by telling him that when we
reach a point Of never making mis-
takes. we will be wearing wingS-and
she hoped his machine was all right
now
The man besmed into A chuckle.
You can't tell Automobiles are
Ike people; all Of us look pretty much
alike on the outside. It's our inside
works that makes the difference. Can
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AROUND THE CITY
BY MAMIE LANCASTER.

TINE dusk was leadening into dark
ness and the street was as de-
serted as thst village Gold
smith knew about--except for
stalled automobile with a
woman seated inside and man outside
tnSerne 81 q wheel Presently a
raSeeEhv mstcriaiiaed out Of the shad-
oVS and the woman called out, as SIC
Nace 81 one in the wilderness.
Excuse me, bu; have YOU a piece Of
& ring you can Srerc1"
Tnc paSSerhy responded to the emery
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we take you anywhere' Wen be slac
If the pleasure"
No. the tape woman was lust coins
across To the Public Library. Anr
shat was all there was to the incident
Over at the library she filled out a
card for Walpole--the Horace one.
and then sat down to wait
Naturally. YOU prefer an aisle seal
these warm evenings. but that is what
she would not have got. except fcl
two men who arose from a couple o.
end chairs and went out together
They were nice, commonplace men
that you might set down AS being in
the harm and cabbage class. men THAT
you might look 10 for kindly assistance
IN trouble. but without the least trim
mines in the way Of intellectual frills
and yet
As the woman took possession Of the
vacated aisle scat and waited and
waited. she took up the book left bv
one Of the two. It was magazine
about amateur building how to put IN
bungalows and garages and chicken
coOpS and how 10 set the artistic mos,
out of chimney corners. and the way
to turn the old back porch into a sun
room, and all the other dear tomfool-
ishneSS that makes you want home Of
YOUR own like Fido hungers for a bone
until the woman. who is addicted.
anyhow to dreaming Of the home she
never had or never will have. had
already placed rows of Jelly glasses on
the "deep-Shelved bracket under the
stairs" and was leaning over the ad-
Unstable fence" to gossip with her next
garden neighbor. when a clerk broke
up her trance with the statement that
Walpole was out"
So she filled out another card ami
took up the book that the second man
had been reading Unlike his domestic
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companion he had wandered back

companion he had wandered back
to-
Egypt. 424l 3. C."~~before those
dear old Paleolithic folks had evoluted
into Lybians. and the like. all Illus
tratcd with mummies. gods and tomhs
and SO on
None of which would be worth
hotherine YOU about, except to show
that the automobile man was entirely
right in his diagnosis Of cars and hui
mans:
We are all of us pretty much alike
on the outside II is the inside works
that make the difference
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we take you anywhere Wen be glad
If the pleasure"
The Washington times., 1928-01-25
POLICE WOMEN
GET HEARING

Efforts to reorganize the Wom-
ans Bureau OF the Police Depart
nent will be renewed at a hearing
of the Senate District Committee
this afternoon.
The modified Van Wrinkle bill, adj
vancing the rank of the officials
of the Wonlans Bureau and defin-
ing the duties and functions of po'
licewomen. will be under considera-
ton. The measure has strong sup
port from various women's organiza-
tions, but its opponents have been
we'll organized in the past and will
appear against the bill today.
The Senate District Committee
also will meet Friday afternoon to
reopen its consideration of the dip
Iona mill'' measure, the District
Commissioners salary bill, the leg
islation exempting Octagon House
from local taxation. and other bills.
Senator Capper. chairman of the
committee, Is anxious to have addi-
tional District legislation placed
upon the calendar for early action
by the Senate.
The Washington times., 1928-01-25
81, HIT
BY AUTO

Struck by an automobile at
Eleventh and H Streets Northwest,
last night. Mrs. Goldie Rappaport,
81. an employee in the home of Paul
Himmelfarb, Sixteenth and Decatur
Streets Northwest, was taken to
Emergency Hospital and found Z
be suffering from severe bruis on
the head and chest. X-ray pictures
will be taken today to determine
the full extent of her injuries. The
automobile that struck her was
operated by Gusippi Spadara, Oil
Third st. N. E.
James r. Lawler, 65, 1917 I St.
N. w, suffered decorations to the
scalp and cuts about the arms and
legs when knocked down at Twelfth
and Streets Northwest, by an
The Washington times., 1928-01-25
s HUT

For old timers, this is an open and
shut proposition, as they say. in
business. Aside to beginners: The
rules call for filling in the second
rung with a word that, differs from
Open by a single letter. Without
transposing the remaining letters
climb down until you have trans
ferred Open to Shut md don't use
words you have to make excuses
for. Remember. there's more than
one way to do the trick maybe you
can find a shorter route than the
one. we print tomorrow. Here's how
Bad Egg worked out: /. Bad; 2, Bar;
3, Ear; 4, Err; 5, Erg; 6, Egg.
Copyright by Public Ledger
The Washington times., 1928-01-25

automobile operated by Vernon w.
waple, 1744 L st. N. w. Lawler
is in George Washington Uni
versity Hospital.
Policeman Harvey F. Elliott, 81,
of the Traffic Bureau, received
slight injuries when, while directing
traffic at North Capitol Street ana
Massachusetts Avenue Northwest
he was struck by an automobile
operated by Joseph A. Jennings, OF
the Gordon Hotel.
Others injured were William wal.
tiers, S, 1922 wisconsin Ave. N. w,
Roland w. Mitchell, colored, IL,
1880 Fifth st. n. W., and Anna
Hutcherson, colored, Is, AS Douglas
st. N. z.
The Washington times., 1928-01-25
Medieval History
Study Club Formed

A study club for medieval history
has been formed at the knights Of
Columbus School, following a lee
ture last night by the Rev. Francis
F. Lyons, rector Of st. Paurs Col
lege, on Pope Innocent III"
The next subject will be the
legend of the Holy Grail. DR.. Paul
Gels, head Of the German Depart
ment at Catholic University, will
conduct the club.
The Washington times., 1928-01-25
cor. SAVES 100
. On FL TRAIN

NEW YORK, Jan. 25.-More
than one hundred passengers on a
Brooklyn elevated train were saved
from injury and possible death
early today when Policeman Charles
Rvrnes climbed to the tracks from
The street below and blew his
whistle to warn the motorn1an that
= fallen girder lay across the struc-
ture.
The girder was blown by high
winds from the Fox Theater build
ing construction. 1t fell to the
elevated tracks and lodged on the
third rail.
The motorman failed to hear the
signal until almost upon the girder,
but stopped the train fifteen feet
from the obstruction.
The Washington times., 1928-01-25
TENEMENT BURNS

NEW YORK, Jan, 25.-Eight
families were driven to the street
when fire swept a five.story tene
ment on 11sth Street early today.
Police were hunting a firebug be.
Heved to have set the blaze.
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EMOTIONAL IMPULSES
ARE WHAT MAKE A
| DEMOCRAT A DEMOCRAT

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minutes by the clock, and then a
clergyman, with prayer, quoted
things 1t takes a gavel to quiet Re-
publicanS: 1t takes q prayer to quiet
Democrats.
It was O'Clock. half an hour late,
before the business got under way.
Then Claude Bowers began his speech.
In the first place who Is this Claude
Bowers? He is no friend OF Presidents,
spokesman for administrations, enuncl-
ator of policies. He Is an editorial
writer on the New York Evening World.
who happened to make hit with
Jackson day address; who, 1t had been
discovered, has spent much of his life
with his nose in history books and
who knows what the Democratic party
is all about. The Republicans would
not have picked him for the keynoter.
But the Democrats did. The Demo-
Gratis knew that Mr.. Bowers, in the
first place, can turn pretty sentence
and knows the meaning of words, and
who, despite his unprepoSSeSsing ap-
pearance would make Democrats yell
and shout and turn ecstatic somersaults.
The Republicans wouldn't care for that
sort of thing
So what followed when Mr.. Bowers
began TO speak was only TO be ex-
pected. When he lambaSted the Re
publican party. the Democrats howled
in devilish glee. 1t was what they
wanted. When he drew the philosoph-
ical boundary line between Hamtltonian
and Jeffersonian principles they nodded
their heads in agreement. And when
he said that the Democrats were going
TO see that the hands of special privi-
lege were taken out of the farmers
pocket and from around his throat the
house came down. The Republicans
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which the Republicans would never
have permitted to occur. the Democrats
set out by the thousands last night to
reach Sam Houston Hall, with the rain
still coming down. There were not
enough taxicabs. The Republicans would
have had plenty OF taXicabs. One
OF the special BUSES, after vending
around one-way streets that the Repub-
licanS would have made open TO any
and all bound traffic, stalled
because of a slipping clutch. A Re-
publican bus driver would never have
held up his bus because OF slipping
clutch. He might have held 1t up. but
it wouldn't have been with slipping
clutch. And after lots of good-natured
advice from the Democrats in the bus,
the driver finally got the vehicle under
way again. If Republicans had been
in that bus they would not have given
good -natured advice. They would
either have told the driver what a
rascal he was to have a slipping clutch,
or they would have charged him for
telling him how TO fix it.
And after fighting the battle of Sam
Houston Hall the delegates and their
guests were in their seats, or near them,
talking and having a good time when
the session was supposed to begin. But
it was II minutes after opening time
when Gem Shaver began aimiesSly
hammering with his gavel no one pay
ing the least bit of attention.
A Republican chairman would have
had that convention under way on
time to the minute and If the delegates
didn't keep still he would have the
sergeant-at-arms policing the place
with machine guns.
But Glen Shaver simply hammered:
a picture of futility. He hammered for
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Convention Sidelights

HOUSTON. June 27.--Mrs. j. Borden
Hartman, national committeewoman
from the District OF Columbia, and Mrs
Mary T. Norton, first and only Demo-
cratic woman in Congress, who Is
member of the House District COM
mittee, sat side by side throughout the
wee small hours of the morning In u
sweaty room while the credentials COM
mittee heard the various contests.
At am. Mrs. Norton was eating q
sandwich and drinking bottle Of
coffee which James William Bryan,
district delegate, brought her from a
neighbOring unchrOom.
Mrs. Hartman and Mrs. Marie d.
Marye, delegate from the District, are
to be guests OF honor tomorrow at a
breakfast on the roof of the Rice Hotel,
given by the women Of the Texas dele
CATION.
Within a square of the Convention
Hall is the birthplace of Col. E. M.
House, which has been marked with a
bronze tablet by the Daughters of the
Republic of Texas Col. House was born
there July rs, 1858.
The number of those who are stand
ing around hoping for the vice presi-
Dental sun to shine upon them is in
creasing daily. There are 81 whose
names have been advanced for this
office. Last night large placards APP
peared In all the hotel Hobbies offering
Senator Alben w. Barley Of Kentucky
for the honor with the slogan embark
with Barley and carry the border
States" Gen. Henry T. Allen Is still
another candidate.
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DRY FIGHT JOINED
BY MARYLANDERS
Back Gov. Richie in Stand
for States Rights on
Prohibition.

By the Associated Press.
HOUSTON, Tex, June 27.-Confident
that the nomination Of Gov. AL Smith
OF New York would come on an early
ballot, Maryland delegates to the
Democratic national convention have
settled down to actively support their
chairman and leader, Gov. Albert G.
Richie, In his night for States rights
on prohibition.
I'VE are all for Gov. Smith for nomi-
nation and for Gov. Ritchie in almost
anything he undertakes said Mrs.
Elizabeth Menefee of Cumberland, new
national committeewoman. Despite
our belief that Gov. Smith is the logical
choice for President we yield to no one
as regards to the ability Of our gov
ernor."
Occupy Front Seats.
The delegation last night attended the
second session OF the convention to
her the keynote address delivered by
Claude G. Bowers of New York, bu,
anxious for the opportunity to come To
cast solid vote for Gov. Smith. The
delegates were certain not to receive
any dust that might be created by the
Smith bandwagon, as they were holding
seats right on the front.
The delegates eheered wildly when
patriotic anthems were sung by the
convention at the opening session
Every one was glad that 1t was short
As the Texas sun bearing down un-
mercifully from clear sky ran the
temperature considerably higher than
that tempered by breeZes from the
Chesapeake Bay and the Allegheny
Mountains.
Badges with the Maryland State fiaf
appeared today, and every one entered
into a carnival spirit at the convention
Howard Bruce of Baltimore. nationa
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All CLUB FARLEY
BROUGHT TO CLOSE
Large Number Of Delegates Re-
main in the City for Period Of
Pleasure Seeking.

The Second National All Club En-
campment ended last night and. while
some of the farm girl and boy experts
left for home on late trains. some 10
or IL State delegations remained over
In the city to pursue sightseeing In
leisurely fashion. The camp started
Thursday. June 81, with a program
repIete with sightseeing. addresses.
conferences and campfres, and the
young people we're quartered in tents
on the Department of Agriculture's
grounds near Fourteenth street. AS
rapidly as State delegations vacated
their tents they were being taken down
today
At the final campfire meeting last
night there we're visitors from other
lands, an agricultural expert from Den
mark. a woman from tire Philippine
Islands and a man from the Virgin
Islands. There we're Is girls and 70
boys in the encarnprent, and alto
gether 2ll people we're encamped In
the tan-colored tents on the grass,
some being adults from the various
State extension services. Department
of Agriculture officials today expressed
themselves as gratified with the fact
that there were no accidents or sick
ness noted among the personnel Of the
camp.
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% House les It's Name for Thousands Outside Convention Hall


that.
The parade over, the perspiring dele
gates already worn out from hard
day, took their seats. smiling happily.
They had had q good time. A Repub-
lican would not have considered that
parading was SO exceptionally remuner-
alive In the form OF emotional stimu-
lant A Republican would have pre-
ferred to sit still.
So IL goes. When a band played at
Kansas City the Republicans gathered
around and regarded 1t with interest,
some of them becoming excited 10 the
extent of wildly walking about. But
here when a band enters a Stif1ingly
not hotel lobby--where those creating
any excitement should be fined and put
IN jail--the Democrats break loose and
veil Justify. The Houston Ladies' Band
always manages to strike painfully
fiat note on parts of The Sidewalks
OF New York" but the fiatter the note
the heavier the cheering from the
Democrats.
Visitors Join In Song.
Here in Houston six fat men with
out coats and with handkerchiefs tied
around their necks enter the parlors
temporarily occupied by the Smith
headquarters. One of them goes all
the way across the room and shouts
at the top OF his voice, Where you fell
lows from?"
We're IRON Ioway," shout the men.
Then they put their heads together
and sing In nerve-racking discordance
''Ioway. Ioway. etc." while the crowd
cheers them on.
Who you fellows going to vote for?'
yellS the man on the other side of the
room.
"Al Smith," boom the barber shot
boys from "Ioway" and the crowd get,
tremendous kick out of that.
In Kansas City the boys from "Ioway'
were terribly depressed and went about
signing over the difficulty of trying tC
make the corn grow tall without .
farm relief bill.
Here In Houston a door along hote
corridor will fly open and the passerby
total stranger that he is, is boisterously
invited to join grape juice party, pro-
vided the paSSerby is for the candidate
favored by the grape juice drinkers. In
Kansas City the Republicans conserved
their grape juice by not inviting the
pasSerby to join them, no matter whom
the passerby favored with his patronage
Split by Dry Debate.
And isn't the liquor issue before thu
Democrats another sign of their emo
tionalism? What after all, has party
platform to do with prohibition In the
United States? Yet because the argu-
ment is mentally stimulating and ex-
pressive, some good Democrats are per-
fectly willing to split their party b.
aimless debate. The Republicans. as W.
messed at Kansas City, avoided such
debate.