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The Washington times., 1929-06-14
Luray Mayor Reelected
In Holly Contested Poll

LURAY, Va, June l4.-In the
election for town officers at Luray
Mayor H. W. Huffnan was re-
elected over his opponent, Lynn
Lucas. son of the county sheriff
and prominent young attorney.
Judge j. H. Booten was reelected
town justice. and the six council
men were returned.
There were IL candidates for the
six positions on the council. Those
reelected were w. l.. Rhodes Kirby
Heiston. DIR. j. v. Splitter. H. II.
Hudson. T. G. Booten Denver Ale.
shire. The election was holly con.
tested and practically the entire
voting strength of the town was
polled.
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United states liner America
Farmer.
Tne fadlo operator on the Amer.
lean warner reported that the Vel.
lose Bird had reported 70 two other
liners hat "all was well aboard"
Talks TO British Ship
The american Farmer did not re.
eeive y message from the plane.
Arneno Lott, IT., sponsor Of the
flight from Old Orchard Beach to
Paris. was the radio operator of
the transatlantic plane. With him
was Pilot Jean Assolant and Nayi.
gator Rene Lefevre,
The radio operator aboard the
American Farmer said that at APP
proxinately 11:52 b. in. he heard
the Yellow Bird radio to D British
steamer, whose radio call letters
were GJCD, believed to be the liner
Laconia. A short time later the
American Farmers radio man again
heard The plane message French
steamship, whose radio call letters
were FNTW.
Radio operators on the New
England coastline estimated that
the American Farmer was at least
600 niles east, but the position Of
the plane at the time the radio
grams were sent by Lotti was not
known. However. the wave length
of the radio sending apparatus
aboard the Yellow Bird was 500
meters and the plane, radio opera.
tors in this vicinity estimated, must
have been within the range Of the
American Farmer. The call letters
of the Yellow Bird are FAX.
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| OWMAN 0. KS
Staying Of
NOTORIsT
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customs border patrolman IL en-.
titled TO have any charges against
him decided by a jury OF hts peers,
the same al any other citizen
Lownnan's statement concerning
the case gave no details OF the
killing of VirkuiA. The report, upon
which the statement was based.
was received from Assistant Col.
lector Of Customs Lihderberg, Of
Duluth, MINI, Linderberg has fur.
isdiction over the border patrol In
that area.
1T would appear from the report
that the newspaper accounts Of the
affair have been highly colored, to
put it mildly" LoWnnan declared.
VIII Not Disarm
''The Treasury has no intention
OF disarming customs patrolmen.
Should Congress pass a law disarm.
ing them, II would, in effect, re-
peal the tariff laws. because 1t is
only through police powers that the
smuggling of merchandise into the
United States can be prevented.
IF prohibition agents are dis.
armed, It would. in effect, nullify
the Eighteenth Amendment. Treasury
regulations control the use of fire.
arms by its operatives and they are
very stringent"
Lowman declined to amplify his
statement relative to the Interna-
tional Falls shooting. In what re-
spect press dispatches were colored,
Lowman did not say.
Get Backing
He asserted that just as long as
prohibition, customs. and other
Treasury enforcement agents ad-
hered to the regulations pertaining
to the use Of firearms. they will be
backed up byt the Government.
This indicated that every case in
which a prohibition agent uses fire
arms to inf1ict casualties under
what the Treasury decides are jus.
tifiable circumstances and IL ar.
rested by State authorities his 70
will be transferred to the Federal
courts for trial.
In each of the three shootings
two of WHICH were fatal, within the
last week, Investigations were made
by agents in the same branch of
the service as was the man who
did the shooting. In the Inter.
national Falls and Detroit cases in.
vestigations were made by customs
men, while the Mexican border
shooting was investigated by agents
of the prohibition service.
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10 TO GET DIPLOMAS

EVANSVILLE. Nd, June a.
Nineteen will graduate from Grants
VILE high school at the commence
ment exercises to be held in the
Lutheran church here next Wednes.
day night. The Rev. K. H. Beck will
deliver the baccalaureate sermon at
the Reformed Church next Sunday
night.
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HOUSEWIVES!
This Coupon Means Dollars to You
Sign and Mail Promptly
To SENATOR .CAPPER,

. To SENATOR CAPPER;
"A s one Of the citizens Of the District OF Columbia
~ represented by you as chairman of the District
Committee in the Senate desire herewith, to
register my protest against the tariff bill recently
passed by the House of Representatives II wilt increase
the cost of living work great hardship in the majority
Of homes tend to create industrial and economic
unrest and threatens national prosperity and welfare
Name. ..r....'.......
Address. .'I. .ls...'.'... -+' 'Sss'''"-'
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NEWS AND GOSSIP OF SOCIETY IN THE CAPITAL
State Secretary Missing
At Peace Group Banquet

he believes Is best in bringing
about a world free from exploita-
ton and tyranny.
The advertisement lasted only
a. minute or two. The delegates
clapped and hissed and Mrs. Gait
pounded her gavel, making 80
much noise that it was futile for
the obJectors to voice their OBJ
Jections longer. They soon left
and 70. c. Lindeman, Of the School
OF Social Work, OF New York.
made the final address.
secretary Kellogg was sched.
uled to speak. but Mrs. Gait re.
ported that he was mot feeling
We'll nor was his assistant, Will
nam X. Castle. feeling well,"
eitner. So the State Department
mad no part in the program.
Mrs' Gait Is looking very well.
Last night she wore a sapphire
blue velvet gown and across her
shoulders was silver scarf. It
appeared TO be a fashionable
cocktaiF jacket. but closer in.
spection revealed that It had no
sleeves.
Mrs. Clifford Pinchot and Mrs
henry Wilder Keyes were among
those present. Probably both
Were there in a working capacity
as both are writing interpretative
articies on current subjects for
magazines and newspapers.
mrs. Charles d. Walcott, wife
OF the late Secretary of the
Smithsonian Institution, was also
present.
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Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt Z
opened her conference last nignl
with banquet in the Hall OF Ma
tions of the washington Hotel
This began the fourth annual ols.
Cussion Of the Cause and Cure OF
War under the direction ana &C
the instigatiCn of the as
inguished feminist.
There were about a Thousand
women present - representatives
from every state in the union
and perhaps two score men, VINO
served as escorts to members OF
their families.
Mrs. Gait made some intro
ductury remarks. Bishop Nc
Dowell gave q short prayer. The
banquet was served. Everybody
chartered vigorously through the
usual banquet courses. The
coffee was brought on. And DIR.
Harry Emerson Fosdick, of New
York, began to make speech
endorsing the kellogg Peace Pact.
DIR. Fosdick's remarks Were
punctuated frequently with fer
vent applause. Everything was
koing along beautifully, After
a half.hour DIR. Fosdick con-
cluded his address and received
what is sometimes known as an
ovation.
He had made just the righ.
kind Of speech for group that
is not too radical" and yet not
entirely standpat conservative
in fact advancing slowly along
the road Of progress" in
realization that this Is not yet
the best of all possible worlds.
The applause was dying down
and Mrs. Gait arose to present the
next speaker. when, from the rear
of the room. a sister act was put
on by two women from New
York--supposedlY representing the
Anti-Imperialistic League-who, in
mighty contraltos. alternately,
fired series OF questions at DIR.
Fosdick. asking him why he didn't
talk about something really worth
while; the economic rivalry be-
tween the United States and Great
Britain; the war for oil control:
the marine in Nicaragua, and on
and on.
''oh, that's Ben MarsFSs crowd"
some one in the audience com.
mented when the uproar had SUBJ
sided. Mr.. Marsh is a tall, gray
haired, mild.mannered man who
has worked consistently for what
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FAIR VISITOR
FETED AT
EMBASSY
Duchess Di Sermonetta
Luncheon Guest of Brit
ish Envoy Howard

The British Ambassador and
Lady Isabella Howard enter
tained at luncheon at the EN-.
bassy today in compliment to the
Duchess di Sermonetta, who is
visiting Cleveland Perkins and his
sisters, Mrs. Albert H. Carroll
and Miss Ruth Perkins, while in
Washington.
A sister-in-law Of Prince Gelasio
Caetanb sometime Italian ambas.
sador to the United States, the
duchess was the beautiful Vittorio
Colonna, a daughter of Prince
Mark Antony Colonna, who was
a leader of the "Blacks"-the
Papal party--and a distinguished
parsonage in Roman society. She
ls an old friend Of Lady Isabella
Howard, who is a daughter OF
the late Prince Giustiani. Bandini,
Earl OF Newburgh, scion of an
ancient Catholic family which
fled England with the restoration
and took root in Italy.
Court mourning at the Italian
embassy prevented any formal
entertaining there for the Duchess
di Sermonetta. but she is being
much feted during her brief stay
In Washington.
Other guests at the luncheon
today were the Secretary of the
Treasury. Mr.. Mellon: the French
Ambassador and Nine. ClaudeI.
Mr.. and Mrs. Irwin Laughlin'
Princess Margaret Boncompagnf.
Miss Mabel Boardman, Mrs. Peter
Augustus Jay. Cleveland Perkins.
David Edward Finley, Miss Gytha
Stourton, and Henry Howard and
Edmond Howard. sons of the Am.
bassador and Lady Isabella.
Mrs. Rafael r. Gown will be at
the Mayflower until Thursday
when she will motor to Key West,
going to her winter home i'm
Havana. Mrs. Gown arrived in
Washington late yesterday from
New York city.
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Receiving Line

Mrs. Henry f. Dimock Will
head the receiving line at the an
nual ball of the Washington In.
ternational Assembly to be held
tonight at the Willard and will
be assisted by Mrs. Charles J.
Bell and Mrs. Frederick McCor.
mick. .Goodhart.
4
The Third Secretary of the
British Embassy and Mrs. Henry
Hopkinson will entertain at dim
ner this evening at the Anchor
age and again on Thursday eve-
ming.
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Newfoundland

Sir Esme Howard. the British
Ambassador. will be the honor
guest at the motion picture
presentation by the Bureau OF
Commercial Economies, at the
Wardman Park Hotel Theater,
Sunday night January 20. at
o'clock. The subject will be
Newfoundland. one of the Crown
Colonies OF Great Britain" and
the speaker will be Major Robert
l.. TAFT. who led the overseas
troops Of Newfoundland during
the world war. He will show new
films and slides. with an inter-
esting musical program.
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For President

The President and Mrs. Coolidge
will be guests at dinner tonight
of the Postmaster General and
Mrs. New, who will entertain at
Henlock Hedge, their suburban
home. Mr.. and Mrs. Bennett
Gates. of Dayton, Ohio, who will
be present. arc staying with Mr..
and Mrs. New.
j. 4 4
Mrs. Charles Evans Hughes, of
New York. has joined her hus-
band at the Mayflower for
short visit.
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Woodrow Wilson's efforts 70 -.
cure the backing Of powerful
financIers to get the Democratic
presidential nomination win be
revealed in next Sundays Herald.
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For Diplomats


The Spanish Ambassador and
Nine. Padilla will be the honor
guests at dinner this evening Of
Senator and Mrs. Henry Wilder
Keyes, who will entertain in their
home in Sixteenth Street.
The German Asbassador and
Nine. Won Prittwitz will be the
honor guests at dinner this eve
ming of Representative and Mrs.
Sol Bloom, who are entertaining
in their apartment in Sixteenth
Street.
X
Mr.. and Mrs. William Laird
Dunlop, jr.. fand Miss Elizabeth
Powell Dunlop have Cancelled their
social engagements because of the
death of Mrs. Dunlops mother,
Mrs. William Levin Powell, at
her home in Leesburg, Va.
Mr. and Mrs. George T. Sum.
merlin entertained a small COM
pany at the supper dance at the
Club Chantecler last night.
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cold now and she climbed into
the cabin Of Guys proud, shiny,
new plane. ANY moment he
would be along.
She felt happy. She recalled
the sparkling words of yester-
day-"Pat, dear-next week,
perhaps, we'll take to the air
for the long, long flight. On
$500 a month we can do it-not
so, sweet?"
She was glad for this resili-
ence Of his. Let Bryce do his
darndeSt-he'd never down that
tall, shining spirit of her brown
and happy lovers.
She wondered dreamily what
had happened at the plant this
Monday. Bryce had, Of course,
paid up the weeks wages. Per
haps it was all blown over now.
And in any case, there was
that other beautiful chance
with the Bottled company.
She sank down, deep and
happy in her pleasant specula-
tionS. How sweet this dream Of
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Are you looking for a little
boy in a white suit?" a woman
came up and asked.
"Yes!"
II saw him. About an hour
ago. He was walking with q
man in a brown suit. They
got into a gray sedan"
did the boy have light
hair?"
Eyes. Golden hair and he
wore no hat"
Sophie clapped her hands
over her face. Finally, and al
most fainting, she asked: WAS
it a big gray carp"
II don't think so-not so
very big"
But you're not sure 1T
might have been a big gray
limousine?" She almost i'm
plored the woman to say that
IL was q Dig Cal.
For this might be the an
swer. Barbara Bryce might
have come in her great silver
limousine. Perhaps she had be-
come indignant finding the
child playing alone and
she had sent the chauffeur to
get her son, She was taking
this cruel way Of teaching the
nurse lesson.
Dear God-if only this might
be the answer!
Scarcely able to form a syl-
liable, Sophie reached William
Bryce's home. There in front
of the door was the big silver
limousine. She pressed her
finger on the bell-rang fran
tically. She could not steady
her hand to use her key.
Barbara Bryce and her
father, sitting in the living
room, heard sudden sobbing
clamor in the hall. They came
hurrying out.
"Billy-Billy-he's here-you
came and got him?" Sophie
gaSped.
Seeing their wild looks, she
dropped swooning to the floor.
The terrible news was in their
ears. Some one had come to the
park and ltired their child, their
little golden haired Billy away.
At about the same hour Pat
waited at Mills Field. 1t was
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We, ourselves. forge the
chains which bind us-and the
instruments which strike off
Our shackles.
We, ourselves. are the Sisters
Three, weaving the fabric of
fate. each for himself, spinning
good and evil, a thread at
time. A thread which, If it be
often repeated, forms a pattern
called character.
The threadS-how inconSe-
quentia1 they seem as they run
through our fingers. A single
thread so easily lost in the
whole, so likely to turn into
habit, strengthened and turned
into pattern before we are
aware what has happened!
Remember Rip Van Wrinkle
in JefferSon's play-the e
drunken Rip who keeps excus-
ing himself for each new lapse
by saying I'll not count this
time"
Count it he may not. but the
record of it is woven firmly
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It was with great interest
that I read lately of the progress
of the Illinois Congress of
Parents and Teachers in or
ganizing backyard p1ay-groups.
have seen the idea worked
out with great success among
a few individual families, and
it will spread to so much wider
an area with the suggestions
and data now furnished by the
P. T. A.
Intelligent mothers realize
that the play hours of the
younger children and the after
school hours of the school chill
dren are exceedingly important
to the child's growth and his
philosophy of life. 1t is also
most important that groups of
children playing together play
Constructively and heartily and
this can be materially aided by
the guidanCe-NOT interference
of an adult.
The idea is to have mothers
cooperate in sharing the re-
sponsibility of play-groups, thus
giving each mother periods of
freedom and leisure which,
without a formulated plan
among neighborhood mothers,
she is denied.
Six mothers, each taking one
day a week for the after-school
period of play, can allot to
themselves five afternoons of
freedom to read or shop or rest,
which are an impossibility with
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children as they went down the
slide or as they dug in the
Sandbox.
I'm a soldier" said the lit
tie fellow seriously. There's
my trench over there behind
the tree. When I say Fire
you have to charge"
Sophie nodded. She was q
big, clumsy woman and glad
enough when the young sol
dier finally announced: Now.
I've got to dig in. You don't
charge till 1 tell YOU"
It was a clear, sunny day but
cold. At four-thirty Sophie got
up, put her sewing in a bag
and called: Come on now,
soldier!"
The boy didn't answer.
Sophie called again. Then
she went over to the trench.
Billy wasn't there.
Hiding somewhere, Of course.
Always up to these tricks, a
bit YEARLY, Sophie looked in
all the favorite retreatS-under
the Slide-behind the netting
of the tennis court over there
in that clump of trees.
A little alarmed now, she be-
gan to call very loudly. An
other nurse helped.
Finally Sophie became angry:
Billy" she called hotly. come
now! Your mother will get
mad! It's late! Billy-Billy-"
The whole park now rang
with the frightened calls. But
no child answered.
The two women turend to
each other with white faces and
panic-filled eyes. They wasted
precious moments creeping un-
der bushes, running again and
again over the same ground.
shouting the same distracted
"Billy-Billy-"
1t was five-fifteen and the
sun was setting. Almost imme-
diately the light began to fade.
"Oh, good God" said Sophie,
clinging to the other nurses
hand, where can he bel"
Now a CIamOr
They went back and forth 20
the end Of the grassy square
out to the street. Their shout
ing was now a clamor.
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WE FORGEOUR OWN CHAINS
BY Lucy Lowell

into the pattern of his being;
the threads multiply and each
one makes 1t easier to form a
new one, till at last the pattern
Is strong enough to break down
resistance.
Thus Rip-and others like
him-becomes drunkard. The
pattern in this case is weakness
of character and this in turn
forms numerous unprepoSSess-
ing patterns of environment
and circumstance.
But the threads we weave are
not all sinister or the patterns
disagreeable. Each hour of
work, for example, becomes the
pattern of achievement. Every
constructive thought helps to
form mental development. Ev-
cry kindly, unselfiSh action
works out a twofold pattern of
moral strength for ourselves
and inspiration for others, since
the fabric we weave bears the
shadows of the lives of Others
as well as that of our own life
within itself.
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Back lard Playground
7 Constance Cameron

out a plan of this type. The
rest will be without worry, safe
in the knowledge that another
mother is responsible for the
playing children.
In the account of the activi-
ties of the backyard play-groupS
in Illinois were mentioned inter
esting trips to places of his
torical interest. to industrial
plants, and other excursions.
Much time, of course, was used
for play desired by the children.
And all children need free play,
unhampered by suggestions from
adults. The valuable factor in
the idea is that one mother
takes charge in the sense that
she is responsible and is keep
ing a watchful eye on the group,
unobtrusively but faithfully.
An innovation which elimi-
mated many a dispute during the
summer months, when the plan
was first tried in Illinois, was
the determining of the rules
governing the most popular and
most often used play activities
and having those rules printed,
will be with the mother in
charge, who must guide but not
STEER: must arbitrate but not
BOSS; who must just BE there
when needed, and who must
learn to fade into atmosphere
when not needed, lest the chill
dren rebel and demand that
they play all alone. 1t is a prob
lem, but one worth slowing. A
little tact, a lot of justice, and
a sense of humor will help.
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A Supreme Romance of the
Air By Author of "Chickie"

motor tuned up. He'll be here
any moment now."
Pat nodded. She listened ts
the roar and throttle.
Now the sun had set 80
now the light was fading. On&
a short flight tonight 49,
Now it was almost dark 80
and then, abruptly. without {
word to her, the plane went
taxing down the field.
He was in the cockpit. Ehc
made out his shoulders. She
climbed up and touched him.
A wild start-the man at the
stick flung about.
Pat stood frozen, teetering
with the quick takeoff. It
wasn't Guy at the wheel.
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Ito be continued tomorrow
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hers. Little more than a year
ago it had seemed so far, far be-
yond her widest hopes. That
day when Guy came down like
a God from the very skies to
her.
How miraculously happy she
was that evening with Dickte
saved and she walking at the
side of the tall and sparkling
young man to whom she was
now promised and whom she
loved with all her heart.
Pat smiled-dreaming on
her eyes half closed.
Suddenly the motor was
started-men were tuning up
the plane. She poked her head
from the cabin. The mechanic
recognized her and said: Mr.:
Elliott had orders telephoned
from the plant. He ordered the
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In a cold shock, Guy stared
at the shut doors. A man
emerged from the group:
"Sorry, Mr.. Elliott. This Is
Just a technical procedure. Mr..
Bryce has no wish to embarass
you"
"No! None whatever"
But he has invested an
enormous amount of money in
this plant. AS you have the
controlling interest. he must, of
course, protect himself.
And as you undertook to
keep the men at work this
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extra day. despite the written
and posted notice, you are, OF
course, responsible"
The men listened. They
hemmed Guy and the lawyer
in a narrowing circle.
"You personally are liable
for the wages"
"Are my liabilities any Of
your business, Mr.. Fisher"
I'm merely protecting my
client"
IF you're protecting Bryce"
said Guy, pulling out a check
book, tell him he'll think twice
before he shoots his next round
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Guy went into his workroom.
He cleared out the drawers,
tied up blueprints and designs.
These were all HIS. YeS-three
years Of his life buried in them.
And these three years Of pas
sionate achievement were now
stolen from him. He couldn't
use them. Another man could
calmly take possession Of these
three years of his life!
He became almost weak with
fury. The cold black wall Of
his anger grew until he could
no. longer think beyond it.
One thing only was clear in
his thought-William Bryce
would NOT be allowed to get
away with this outrage.
In this blazing resentment,
he dashed off an answer to
Carl Drummer. Tied up with
Bryce on the patents. He will
release me. In ONE week I'll
have exclusive control. Wire
details later"
He had no idea how he was
going to force Bryce. But some
how, lawfully or otherwise, he
would make the man glad
enough to release him! He went
to the door and whiStled. Jim
didn't answer. That made him
profane. He couldn't endure to
have the dog absent when he
wanted him.
Again and again he whistled.
Half an hour longer he waited.
But the workroom became un-
endurable. 1t echoed with his
hopes: with his fervorS-even
with the dreams that had often
stolen into these working hours
the glimpses of Pats glowing
eyes, the touch of her sweet
lips.
He reached for his hat and
went out, slamming the door.
1t was 2 o'clock.
At 4 o'clock that same after
noon-that Monday in october
little Billie Bryce played in
the park with his nurse.
The woman sat on bench
with other nurses watching the
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NOW CONTINUE
CHAPTER %

CHAPTER %
DNHE men were gathered outside the shops They had
ceased working and their street clothes They
- had a somber, menacing aspect. .
The moment Guy entered the foreman approached with
grim 'What the low down. Elliott? You tell to keep
on working You're off the grounds than the
sheriff arrives and locks the place Attaches the Wnoe
works in Brvces name Where do we get off?'