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Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-02-12
Plucked From the Plains
Rondeau of Deferred Obligations

-
ROndeau of Deferred Obligations
A moratOrium's a way
OF giving people time to pay
1t seems helpful sort OF act,
A pleasant piece of legal tac-,
To grant debtor some delay.
Now why, my darling, when I pray
A little later wedding day.
Can't you obligingly enact
A moratorium?
I'll 'love and honor and Obey
But, dear, 1 still need time to play;
Another month or so, in fact.
Please fix a more extended pact,
And easy love-law or, let's say.
A moratorium.
Lois Whitcom3.
Initiative
Mary: / didn't know Ted had any
idea OF marrying you.
Ann: He hadn't-it was entirely
my own idea.
Husband: I've waited an hour for
you.
Wife, But I said I'd be five min
utes late.
Mr.. Peters: At last we're out OF
deft.
Mrs. Peters: Oh, goody! Now I
can get credit againl
poe "ETv,llo Nanoo
Census taker: Your husbands
name, please.
Mrs. Grogan: Pat.
Census taker: I want his namo
in full.
Mrs. Grogan: Well, sir, when he's
full he thinks he's Gene Tunney, but
when I lay. my hand on him he's
just plain Pat again.
s. 0. s.
Little Flu Chez was diminutive
specimen of Chinese boy in Hankow,
who possessed a more infinitesimal
specimen as brother, and in whose
custody the tiny one was at times
left. Thus, one day, did he call out.
Gracious and illustr1ous mother,
wouldst thou not please speak to my
desirable brother, the infant Chez?
He hath seated himself on the
American fly paper and all the flies
wait in vain to get thereon!"
Sighted
Clarice had been looking forward
for weeks to her birthday, which was
the most festive event in her young
life. Nevertheless, when it came, she
was aStoniShed to be called upon to
kiss her father goodby as usual when
- was time for him to start for
the office.
my goodness!" the little one eX-
claimed. ut seems just terrible for
you to use my birthday so careleSs!"
Give Her Time
/ Little Joan JooS had been visiting
some friends and when it came time
to go home, her hostess said: ''You
must come over again, Joan, we would
like to see more OF you." e !,
"But there isn't any more of me,
answered the puzzled Joan.
! Different
i Donald Roach, an old resident OF
Montana, tells the following ancedote,
which is one OF the favorite stories
of the old-timers in Butte, concern
ing the late Senator Clark and his
son, w. A. Clark, Jr., now Of Los
Angeles.
/ During one of the occasions w,>n
both Senator Clark and his son hap
pened to be in Butte at the same
time, w. A., Jr., visited barber shop,
and when the barber was finished
gave him a tip OF five dollars.
/ "About an hour later, the senator
himself came in and when his work
was finished, handed the barber just
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-02-12
Initiative

Mary: I didn't know Ted had any
! idea OF marrying you.
! Ann: He hadn't-it was entirely
my own idea.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-02-12

Husband: I've waited an hour for
you.
Wife: But I said I'd be five min
utes late.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-02-12

Mr.. Peters: At last we're out OF
deft.
Mrs. Peters: Oh, goody! Now I
can get credit againl
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-02-12
Pas Full" Name

Pas "FulT' Name
Census taker: Your husbands
! name, please.
Mrs. Grogan: Pat.
Census taker: want his namc
| in full.
Mrs. Grogan: Well, sir, when he's
full he thinks he's Gene Tunney, but
when lay. my hand on him he's
! just plain Pat again.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-02-12

I'll love and honor and obey"
But, dear, 1 still need time to play;
/ Another month or so, in fact.
Please fix a more extended pact,
And easy love-law or, let's say.
, A moratorium.
Lois Whitcom3.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-02-12

Now why, my darling, when I pray
A little later wedding day.
Can't you obligingly enact
moratorium?
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-02-12

Give Her Time
Little Joan Joos had been visitin!
some friends and when it came tim
to go home, her hostess said: "YoV
must come over again, Joan, we woulc
like to see more OF you." a,
"But there isn't any more of me,
answered the puzzled Joan.
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Blotted Landscapes

You have lovely country here" re-
marked the tourist, overjoyed; "but it
would lovelier appear if all the sign
boards were destroyed Yon mountain
has stupendous lines, its beetling cragS
are good to see: but you can't see them
for the signs announcing JohnSon'S Kid
ney Tea. A tourist has to stop his car,
and walk half mile or two, to get
around behind the signs that interfere
with every view. You have an ocean
that is grand, the sight of it gives
pleasant thrills but right before it sign
boards stand, which recommend Bogg'S
Liver Pills. I have to crawl beneath a
sign, or Chamber over three or four, to
feast these eager eyes of mine upon
the ocean and the shore. The sun
think your finest bet, it cuts much grass
from day to day; but when that golden
orb would set, Signboard'S always In
the way. One cannot see the gorgeous
tlntS that sunset yields at evenSong,
unless he girds his loins and sprints
around sign some cubits long. You
have your valleys and your woods which
might invite the tourists gaze, but signs,
announcing tinhorn goods, shut off the
view and block the ways. The finest
scenery on earth is thus obScured by
signs which tell of pills that will re-
duce your girth, and heal your corns.
and make you we'll" BE patient, tour
ist." exclaimed. some day the signs
will all be banned; we all are bitterly
ashamed of things which thus deface
the land. Each day, each hour the feel
ing grows against the men who spoil
the hills with signboards boosting fur
bellows and vacant lots and piebald pills. u
WALT MASON.
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LITTLE BENNY
BY LEE PAPE.

Me and Glasses Magee was taking a
wawk. just taking wawk, and we stop
ped to look in a candy store window
at all the diffrent kinds, me saying, I
wonder If they sell a cents werth.
G, wonder, Glasses sed, and I sed,
Q well, 1t wouldent do me any good to
ind out, haven't got cent.
Neither have I, Glasses sed.
They can't stop us from wondering
anyways, sed.
And we kepp on looking, and pritty
soon Glasses sed, G, got ideer.
Wat? sed, and he sed, A ideer how
to get some candy for nuthing just for
the pleZZure of eating it.
Go on, like fun, how? I sed, and
ne Sed. Easy, just go in and tell them
we're willing to stand outside and eat
their candy out OF bags, and any time
anybody goes pass we'll say, 0 boy this
is swell candy, G winnickers this is the
best candy in the werld, anybody that
don't go in this store and buy candy
must be crazy, and holey smokes they'll
be glad to give us each a bag full free
for the Advertisement, and G roozlem
If 1t werkS and lot of customers start
to go in I bet they'll leave us do it
every afternoon for about half hour.
G, we could eat lot of candy in a
half hour, even If We had to tawk at
the same time, sed. Whose going to
ask, you or me? sed, and he sed,
You. and sed, Why? and he sed, Be-
cause I made up the ideer and that
will make half the werk for each.
Sounding like good argewment, and
We wawked in the store and some lady
was behind the counter, being tall
skinny lady with one of the fearsest tx
preSSiOnS I ever saw on lady, and we
wawked rite out agen without even tx
planning why we wasent staying, and
we looked in 3 more candy stores to
see if we could see a candy store lady
that looked as If she mite like the
ideer.
Wich we couldent.
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BEDTIME STORIES By y: T ssSe1ss

but Yowler is wise old Cat. H.
knows that We are not going to stay
| inside here always. He'll give us time
to forget about him and then he will
| come shopping around again. Well
have to watch out when we go outside
Just as We always have watched out
wherever we have been. I can think OF
lots of things would rather do than
furnish Yowler the Bobcat bite for
| dinner"
so can l." said Whitefoot. so can
I, and not think very hard either
Hello, what's that noise?"
Whitefoot and Mrs. Whitefoot crowd
ed close together and stared down in a
| corner Of the little sugar-house where
the woodpile used to be and where
there was still little wood. They had
heard a noise down there.
There's some one there!" whispered
Mrs. Whitefoot. "You-you-you don't
suppose FOWLER, or one of his family,
has dug his way in underneath"
Whitefoot shook his head most de-
cidedly. NO" said he in a whisper. II
don't suppose anything of the kind"
But there certainly is some one
down there" whispered Mrs. Whitefoot.
She was right. Just then a stick of
wood was pushed aside and a sharp
face peered out. Whitefoot gave a little
sigh of thankfulness. ITS our big
cousin, Trader the Wood Rat" he
whispered.
Mrs. Whitefoot had never met Trader.
so she was little baShful She hung
back. But Whitefoot was not afraid
He hoped down from where they were
sitting.
Good evening. Cousin Trader" said
he.
Trader the Wood Rat, for that is
who 1t really was, looked at Whitefoot
in some surprise. What are YOU doing
over here. Cousin Whitefoot?" he in
quired mildly.
Il might ask the same thing of YOU. "
retorted Whitefoot. IF you really want
to know" he added, Mrs. Whitefoot
and l are living here now"
"Oh, that's it," exclaimed Trader.
coming wholly into view now. We'll,
there are times when it is a very good
place to live. I used to live here once,
In fact, I'm thinking a little bit about
moving back here now"
Whitefoot looked at Mrs. Whitefoot
and she at him and there was doubt in
both little faces.
Obi" said Whitefoot, and then said
nothing more. for, for the life of him.
ne could think of nothing more to say.
Copyright. 1927
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Another Sugar.House Visitor.
Troubles hard to meet today
Will tomorrow pass away.
Old Mother Nature

Whitefoot and little Mrs. Whitefoot
didn't leave the old sugar house for two
or three days after the visit of Yowler
the Bobcat They didn't put so much
as a whisker outside Every time they
were tempted to go out they thought of
the terrible screech Yowler had given
when he voiced his disappointment at
being unable to get into the sugar.
house. And when they thought of that
Screech they shivered. Yes, they did,
they shivered
But the troubles of little wood and
meadow folk are soon forgotten. 1t is
a, good thing that it is so. 1t would be
q good thing if we humans could forget
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orr troubles as quickly and as easily as
do the little people in feathers and fur.
During the daytime Whitefoot and Mrs.
Whitefoot were not inclined to go out
much, but when the Black Shadows
began to creep through the Green Forest
the temptation to 60 outside was almost
too much to be resisted. You see, that
Is Wood Mouse playtime.
II dent believe Yowler will come back
again." said Whitefoot HE knows now
that he can't get at us, so don't believe
he will waste his time"
"Perhaps not" said Mrs. Whitefoot.
The Washington times., 1928-06-11
DEMOCRATS IN
IN. c. ROW ON
UNIT RULE
~ international News Service

BY International News Service
- RALEIGH, n. c., June IL
Claims OF control emanated today
from the camps Of both Governor
| Al Smith, of New York and Rep
resentative CordeH Hull, of Ten
pessee, on the eve of the State Dem
pcratic convention here.
|! These two dissenting Festivities
sincerely tended to substantiate the
now foregone certainty that a con-
Test will arise tomorrow over the
unit rule binding the entire delega-
fion of % votes to hold together TO-
pne candidate.
l. On the basis of virtually COM
plete returns from Saturdays State
wide county conventions, Represen.
tative Hull will stand in the lead, so
Tar as control of the convention
goes.
/ The Tennessean has 755 votes
of the total of 1858, compared with
Smiths 444. Then there are 40
delegates who have beAa instructed
20 vote against Smith" and 70
others instructed to vote for "a dry
/ candidate both groups being
claimed by Hull headquarters here.
! However. it was generally con-
eeded that the balance Of power
lay in the remaining 6O9-odd unin-
@tructed votes. A few scattered
votes also have been pledged to
Senator James A. Reed, of Missouri,
Josephus Daniels, Governor Don
ahey, Of Ohio, Governor Mclean, of
North Carolina, and a few others.
The Washington times., 1928-06-11
Naval Patients Fall
To Death Held Suicide

A suicide certificate has been
ISSUED in the death of Harold v.
Anderson, 81, a patient at Naval
Hospital. who yesterday dived head
long from a secondfloor window.
A few moments before he jumped
TO his death Anderson had been
couversing with his brother, John
Anderson. of Providence, r. l., and
w. o. Davis, who are also patients
at the hospital. They did not
AInow he had jumped until they
saw his bed was vacant.
Lieut.. Comdr. T. E. Cox pro.
lnounced him dead from a skull
fracture. Dependency over Illness
was given as the reason for the
suicide. Anderson had only been
in Naval Hospital a few days. lie
2 was transferred there from Walter
Reed HosDital
The Washington times., 1928-06-11
ADVICE ON
CELEBRATION

Fireworks and oratory clashed
today in the board room of the
District Building when the Fourth
of July committee met to plan this
years celebration.
Gen. Anton Stephan. general chair
man of the committee representing
numerous patriotic, civic and COM
mercial organizations. named sew
eral subcommittee and sent out
a query to the Washington public.
''Shall it be fireworks or ora
tory?' is the question before the
committee, General Stephan said.
I'VE want the people of Washington
to decide what sort Of celebration
they WISH
Within the next day or two the
committee will have formulated the
preliminary program. In the mean
time General Stephan would well
come suggestions from the public.
The Washington times., 1928-06-11

u0uG Is uO IOuSE4 q MA -
Representatives of foreign coun-
tries in Washington have oeen
operating their automobiles with
such decorum recently that the
question of diplomatic immunity
which used to be on every tongue
is hardly mentioned any more.
One of the strongest proofs o.
the assertion that the issue Is oeau
is that during the last session o.
Congress not single mempef OIL
either House made any attack OH
the diplomatic corps and its ABUSE
of the immunity privilege. :,
This is a startling fact when II
is considered that Senators Blease
of South Carolina and Helm or
Alabama. and Representative Blan-
ton of Texas, who used to glory
in attacks on the representatives
of foreign governments and their
attitude toward municipal regula-
tons, are still on the job.
And the District Commissioners
have not communicated with Secre-
tary of State Kellogg for months.
1t used to be an almost daily event
for Secretary Dan Garges to SIT
down and write the State Depart
ment requesting an investigator
of some attaches reckless driving
or reckless disregard of Washlng-
toms police force.
Perhaps the recall of two or three
promising young diplomats as a
result of clashes with the local
constabulary has had the desired
effect.
The Washington times., 1928-06-11
DEATHS

Annie 8. Springer. IS years, 1893
Mary N. bradley. IT years. $500
Samuel ]. Lancaster, 10 years. 94l
John W. Pate, 10 years. rs T St.
". w
virginia d. Leftwich. 70 years 1864
Columbia Rd. n W,
Edward Shine. So years. SibIey HOS
pitai.
Mary A. simms, 81 years, IA Fourth
St. s. f.
Infant Of Oscar r. and Freda F"lle~-
man. 10 hours. 1t03 Seventh ST n. r.
Henrietta Bowles 26 years. 1876
Rhode Island Ave. n. W.
Butler Baker. SIS years. Providence
Hospital
Rosie Watkins, Sc years. 1905 Twenty
third st. n. W.
julia Bowie. Ga years. GO Defrees
st. n. w.
Minnie Hill, 81 years Garfield Hos
pital.
Charles Contee. SIS years. IL MAYORS
Court n. w.
william Moore. SIS years. st. Eliza
beths Hospital
Mary Wright. IS years. Providence
Hospital.
Benjamin e. Butler. 81 years. IT'S
Twenty-fourth ST. N w
Ruth Strolh"rs. ,aiiaa srakeA rs
years, 172S Tenth st. h. We
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FLORISTS
BIRTHS

Horace NJ. and Susie d. Adams. boy
william J. and Gladys n. Doolan
girl
stuart T. and Fayetta Terrett Uwins)
boys.
Harvey r. and Eths1 NJ. Oliver. boy
George A. and Bonnie K. williams,
boy.
Wesley L. and Ethel M. slonaksr'
boy.
william w. and Delta G. Duncan
boy.
Clinton e. and Lucy L. Thomas, boy.
Edward 7. and Effis A. Stone, boy
Oscar b. and Freda Fetterman, girl
Philip and Lucy Iacangelo, boy.
Daniel and Annie Reeves. girl.
Herbert w. and Eva r. Molinen'
girl.
Henry L. and Evelyn Wright. boy.
Charles and Clara Henson, boy.
Roscoe and Margaret Miller. girl
Anderson and Elsie Williams, boy.
The Washington times., 1928-06-11
MRS. ELIZA LOUDERBACK

Funeral services for Mrs. Eliza
Louderba ok, rs years old, who died
at the home of her daughter in
Luray. Va, Friday night, were held
today in that city.
Mrs. Louderback came from
well-known Virginia family. She is
survived by her daughter Mrs. j.
w. Frazier, Of Iuray.
The Washington times., 1928-06-11
Boy Scout Troop, 100,
Enters Intercity Test

Washington scouts will be repre-
scented in the intercity Boy Scout
camping contest in Frederick, Md,
.Tune % and %, by Boy Scout Troop,
No. 100, of the Y. M. c. A, which
Yesterday was selected from nine
competing patrols at the Woodrow
Wilson reservation at Burnt Mills,
Md
The selection followed an over
night camping contest at the reser-
Hatian.
The Washington times., 1928-06-11
Judge Will Give Talk
On Compensation Law

Judge W. W. Warwick. a MEM
her of the Workmen's Compensa-
ton Commission, will address the
industrial committee of the Wash
ington Board Of Trade at meeting
wednesday afternoon, al o'clock,
I'm the United States Chamber of
Commerce.
Judge Warwick will explain the
District workmen's compensation
law, which goes into effect July. /.
All Washington employers are in.
vited to the meeting and TO the
open forum which will be held i'm
pnedisteIy after Judge Warwick 5
address.
The Washington times., 1928-06-11
ROBERT L. TAYLOR

Funeral services for, Robert L.
Taylor, president of the r. L. Tay-
Tor Motor Company, who was
crushed to death when his car over.
turned Saturday night, were held
today from the Bethlehem Chapel
of the National Cathedral. Inter
ment was in Rock Creek Cemetery.
Mr.. Taylor was killed when his
touring car. after striking a smaller
car at Thirty-fourth and Macomb
Streets Northwest, collided with a
tree and overturned.
He was born in Johnson City,
Tenn, in 1889. He was the son of
former governor and Senator Rob-
ert Taylor. He attended Georgia
Tech, and in 1915 married Miss Lila
Tolley, of Columbia, Tenn. He
came here in that year and started
In the automobile business.
He is survived by his widow and
two children, Robert l., jr.. 10, and
Loretta, Is, all of 35O5 Woodley Rd.
n. w; sister. Mrs. Jay Hayden
of this city. and brother and two
sisters in Tennessee.
The Washington times., 1928-06-11
Each State Will Send
Bows and Girls to Camp

Two boys and twoo girls from each
of the states will attend the Ma
tional All camp which will be helc
here from June 81 to June 26, the
Department of Agriculture, spon-
sors of the camp, has announced.
A camp program will be broad
cast from the auditorium of the
National Press Club the evening o.
June %.
The Washington times., 1928-06-11
MAJOR TOM S. MERANE

Major Tom s. Mebane, surgeon in
the Medical Corps Of the Army dur
ing the World War and member of
THE medical staff at Walter Reed
Hospital. died yesterday at the hos
pital from an illness of three months.
He was 40 years old. Ma jor Mebane
is survived by his wife. Mrs. Louise
MacLean Mebane, formerly of
Wilkesbarre. Pa; three sons, his
father and mother. two brothers and
IL sister. Funeral arrangements have
not yet been completed.
The Washington times., 1928-06-11
THE REV REGINALD RIPLEY

The Rev. Reginald Ripley, rector
of St. Matthew's Episcopal Church,
Seat Pleasant, Md, died yesterday
at Emergency Hospital. following a
brief illness. DIR. Ripley was
stricken Saturday at his Seat Pleas
ant home.
st. Matthews Church is one Of
the oldest in the Washington do
cese, dating back to 1892, when it
was founded as Addison Chapel.
Services COMMUNICATING the 231st
anniversary of the church were
conducted by DR.. Ripley in 1928.
Funeral arrangements have not
been completed
The Washington times., 1928-06-11
VA. SCHOOLS To
. END SESSIONS

ARLINGTON COUNTY, June IL.
The Villa Maria Academy West
Falls church, graduating class will
have it's class exercises in the audi
forum tomorrow night at o'clock.
The program will open with the
reading of an essay on the class
flower by Mary Berge: Helen Jones
will give the class history, and
Elizabeth Brown the prophecy.
Marie Crimmins will read the class
win, and Marion Beattie will read
the class poem. The class presen-
!: tation will be made by Edward
Jones.
The st. James School will have
Ats closing exercises Friday at 10
-. m.
The program will include an oper-
eta, 1.-THE Rose Dream" in which
30 OF the pupils will appear.
State Senator Frank L. Ball and
Delegate Hugh Reid will be speak
T. ers at the monthly meeting of the
Ballston Citizens Association, to be
held in the firemen's hall tomor-
row night.
The Clarendon public library will
open tomorrow at 2 o'clock. 1t Is
located on Clarendon Avenue. oppo-
site w. r. Rogers drug store.
Tonight will be a meeting of the
sponsors of the movement for the
purpose of perfecting organization
and lection of officers.
Mrs. Amelia Duncan. So, died at
her home on. Washington Avenue,
near Braddock, Arlington county,
yesterday. She is survived by five
children, one daughter, Nellie A.
Duncan, and four sons, William
H, Duncan, James A. Duncan
George NJ. Duncan, and Clarence
B. Duncan. Funeral arrangements
will be announced later.
The Clarendon Rebekah Lodge,
No. %, will hold it's monthly meet
3n1 tonight in the I. o. o. f. Hall
at Clarendon at o'clock.
With the closing of the county
public schools, Fletcher Kemp,
County school superintendent, to-
k1ay announced the summer school
system will open Monday, June Is.
Those schools which will be open
are Clarendon. Cherrydale, Airing
ION. and Mount Vernon Elementary,
and the George Mason and Wash
6ngton Lee High Schools.
County Commissioner of Revenue
Harry K. Green announces that to-
night he will be at the Jefferson
District Firemen's Hall between the
hours of and 8, to asst taxpayers
in filling out State income papers.
The Washington times., 1928-06-11
MRS, CORNELIA BAGNELL

Funeral services for Mrs. Cornelia
BagneIl, who died yesterday at the
residence of her daughter, Mrs. Ada
Marshall, 1910 Calvert st. n. w,
were held today from the Nevius
undertaking establishment. The
body was taken to Altoona, Pa,
for interment.
Mrs. Bagnell, who was the widow
of Samuel BagnelI, was 81 years
old. She is survived by her daugh-
ter, a son, Allen Griest, and =
granddaughter. Miss Harmonic Ear
man.
The Washington times., 1928-06-11
Joseph III. BOND

Joseph Fl. Bond, II, who died Sat
urday, will be buried in Rock Greek
Cemetery tomorrow afternoon, fol
lowing services at the family resi-
dence at 702 Allison st. n. w.
Mr.. Bond, who came to this city
IS years ago, had been employed in
the General Land Office for more
than Is years. He was native of
Burnt Mills, Md. He is survived by
his widow, Mrs. Laura M. Bond, and
three daughters. Mrs. w. FL. Rock,
Mrs. Nora L. Gilbert and Miss Edna
Bond, all of this city.
The Washington times., 1928-06-11
Births, Marriages, Deaths
Phone Notices to Main $780, Obituary Desk
IN MEMORIAM

CONOVER-A tribute of love TO the mem
departed this life suddenly 10 years ago
today. June IL 1918
The world may change from year to year
Our lives from day to day
But the love and memory of our dear son
Shall never pass away.
MOTHER AND FATHER.
The Washington times., 1928-06-11
PROFITABLE IN SPAIN

BARCELONA, Spain, June IL
Promoter Ninerola announced today
that the winner of the Joe Dundee
Hilario Martinez fight here on July
Z. will receive IS 900 pesetas and
the loser $4,000 pesetas.
The Washington times., 1928-06-11
DIPLOMATS Cease to
Ire D. G. Police

.tDipomatic immunity" which, for years. has been the
Of speeces in halls of Congress and controversies
between the District Commissioners and the State Depart
mont s M 1onoar a burning issue here.