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find between the covers Of
fiction.
And then came the third
period in Chambers career, the
period of his so-called society
novels" the doings of the idle
rich. Clean, we'll written, in.
triguing stories. A teller Of
tales who will be missed, Robert
w. Chambers.
The most extraordinary re-
quest ever made to the as.
sembled representatives of a
nation is to be put in the
form of a bill in the British
Parliament. The House Of
Commons and the House Of
Lords are to be asked to pro-
tect from eventual slaughter
the rarest of all living crea-
lures, a surviving relic of the
great monsters which shook
the earth and disturbed the
seas long before man entered
the long road of evolution.
Hundreds OF persons living
on the shores of Loeb Ness
beheld the prehistoric sea mon
ster, and the tale spread far
and wide through the British
Isles. Finally, Lieut.. Comdr.
r. T. Gould, a retired British
naval officer, travelled up to
Loeb Ness to get first hand
information. He tells about his
experiences in copyrighted
article in the London Times.
Plesiosaurus
When he went to Loeb Ness
he went with an open mind,
but with a sense of pity for
honest but misguided persons
who were spreading the sea
serpent tale. But, after taking
the testimony of SO persons,
Commander Gould was driven
to the conviction that there
does exist something like the
giant plesiosaurus, one Of the
great sea reptiles of the Mezo-
zoic period.
After going over all the evil
dence he collected, Commander
Gould concludes that the sea
serpent of Lock Ness has
length of at least so feet or so,
and is about five feet thick in
the thickest part of its body.
The head Is comparatively small,
and the neck can be raised to
a considerable height above the
water. The color is between
dark brown and gray. The skin
is rough, but not scaly. A small
ridge, deeper in color. runs
along the crest Of the back. And
finally, there are at least two
and possibly four propeilin0
fins.
The commanders description
is almost a perfect word pic.
ture of the great plesiosaurus.
which was believed to be ex.
tinct millions Of years ago.
Copyright. 1924. King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
The Washington times., 1934-01-12

These pictures show POWERFUL AMERICAN (above)
n his prime beow) in his last years Nobody took his
power from him.
The world has been taught to laugh at this old pioneer
Brigham Young and virtue of rebels at his ideas of
polygamy Pictures have been printed of Brigham Young
rHUNDRED WIVES"-a number which he never had all
sleeping in room-whch prepoerous and not interest
ing.
Solomon is said have had thousand wives of all shades
bf color, and yet praise him for his wisdom.
These pictures Of Brigham Young interesting because
they that success which he had in great measure goes
away with POWER Look at that face that Jaw the mouth
firmly et the wide high forehead and you what it
that enabled the Momons survive against murderous In
dians and conquer distant country far from the cvzed
East marking out trails that exist to the edge of
Che Pacific Ocean.
Power and brother and sister There many
kinds Of power
There the strength that comes sheer WILL POWER
The Washington times., 1934-01-12
The Human Side of the News
Cleopatra-Robert w. Chambers-Sea Monster
Cleopatra
By EdWin C.. Hill

Cleopatra's nose is in the
news again. It was Pascal who
said that if Cleopatra's nose
had been shorter the whole
face of the world would have
been changed. And now His
torian Carcopino rises up to
protest that the great Caesar
never was bewitched by the
dark-eyed lady of the Nile,
and that while she may have
been a baggage, the great
julius was by no means a
boob. He follows the Italian
Historian Ferrero, who as
serted that there was no ro-
mantle affair between Antony
and Cleopatra, and that the
scandal which grew up about
them was invented and spread
by political enemies Of Caesar
and Mark Antony.
Exaggerated?
It is Carcopino who remarks
that, in his opinion, historians
exaggerate the part of women
in great historical catastrophes,
and he doubts, too, that we
ever get a true picture OF any
great historical parsonage. ut
seems to be a law Of human
psychology" he says, "that al
most all historic personages
from Minos to Mazzini, from
Judas tu Charlotte Corday,
from Xerxes to Napoleon, are
imaginary perSonages; some
transfigured into demi-gods by
admiration and success, the
others debased by hate and
failure"
Ali Of which may be true
enough, but when one thinks
of the lady Cleo, one wishes
that both of the Roman Emper-
ors who were her boy friends
Caesar, bold, saturnine, cynical
and weary, and young Antony,
with his red curls and his
gladiator's body-might have
written down their true rela'
tions with the Siren of Alex.
andria, instead of such things
as "All Gaul is divided into
three parts"
The recent passing Of a
writer who was an honest as
well as a skillful craftsman
brought to mind the distinct
periods into which his story
telling fell. Robert w.
Chambers, who had, suppose,
more readers over several dec
ades than any other novelist
of his time. came to popularity
first with that collection Of
tales known as "The King in
Yellow" the Latin quarter at
its gayest and most romantic.
Then came those fine novels
Of New York State and the
early Indian wars. Cardigan"
and 1.-THE Maid at Arms" He
gave us, indeed, the finest pic
ture Of the pre-Revolutionary
times and people that one can
The Washington times., 1934-01-12
School Lunches
There Is No Stigma.

Mrs Roosevelt her tour of the District public
schools study the operation Of the free lunch program d.
pted attention to of the serious difficulties arising from
kMs endeavor
admittedly difficult distribute the lunches in such
way this danger Children be very cruel to
another and unthnngy they apt to call charity
Ut those who receiving the food.
The Board Of Education making every effort to prevent
hny such condition.
But the eliminate traits Of human nature and
the great responsibility for wrestling with the problem will
evve upon the parents Of the children who fortunate
hs not to need the aid
By teaching and example they train their children
10 be consdsrate Of others and to refrain from any criticism
The Washington times., 1934-01-12

They have left us with a rather
bad emotional hangover, and
a bitter taste in the mouth.
Men want something DIFF
FERENT. And so do women!
just what men want, they
don't quite know. Just what
role they will choose for
women, next. they haven't de-
cided.
But ONE thing is certain.
However women may change in
the next decade, whatever
they become, you can safely
wager that they will be ex-
actly what men WANT them
to. be. Or what men THINK
they want them to be!
What girl NEXT, Big Boy?
Copyright, 1884, King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
The Washington times., 1934-01-12

4OSS were u1GA EAsIO hODlnsOm
and bullets and gas. Deadly as
was that combination, it cannot
compare with the viciousness of
your enemy-THE ENEMY OF
YOUR OWN THOUGHTS.
The most malicious thing you
will ever have to face in life lies
within you-in your own mind
in the thoughts you allow to en-
ter and generate in your own
mind. You don't like to ac-
knowledge that. You like to
blame your bad luck on outward
circumstances. But actually the
cause for most of your grief lies
within yourself-LIES IN THE
The Washington times., 1934-01-12
LISTEN, WORLD
By Elsie Robinson

THOUGHTS YOU FEED YOUR
SELF.
COW ardly thoughts. con-
ceited thoughts. suspicious,
vindictive, hateful thoughts. ..
thoughts Of vain grief and vain
remorse. jealous and envious
thoughts. self -pitying thoughts
and, above all, SELF-EX-
CUSING thoughts. these are
the real forces which undermine
and Illustrate your life.
But I can't help thinking"
you say.
Perhaps not. BUT YOU CAN
HELP WHAT YOU THINK.
You have as much ability to
decide what you will think as
you have to decide what you will
eat or wear or do!
Take a cross section Of the
thoughts which are filling your
mind at present. Look them
over honestly, courageously. De-
eide which thoughts are doing
you good. which aren't. That
will be hard, for some of our
most destructive thoughts had
a noble beginning. The grief
over a dead child. .remorse
over past folly. these Thoughts
were sacred at their source.
BUT THEY CAN CLOG LIFE
THEY CAN WASTE AND
DEM OR ALIZE YOU. AS
SURELY AS THE MOST EVIL
SPECULATION.
Put them away from you.
Deny them entrance. say
THEY SHALL NOT PASS!"
Then stick to it,
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except their personal charms?
And, if all this is true, as an
anonymous author claims, who
MADE 'em that way?
The American man has gone
into a state of emotional coma.
He declared that he is tired Of
the sort of girls he meets, and
that he has almost reached
that stage where he'd rather
"stay at home and read a good
book" or just hang around the
club and talk to the boys,
evenings, than throw away his
hard-earned money on some
glittering doll with a spending
complex.
This means that we shall
soon have a brand new type Of
GIRL in America. Because,
women always have been ex-
actly what men wanted them to
be and demanded that they
should be. When men liked
their women sweet and simple
and naive. every girl in America
yearned to be a Mary Pick
ford. When masculine taste
switched to the wild, peppy
iazz-girl, the land was filled
with Clara Bows.
In the pre-war days, when
men liked their women gentle
and clinging and domestic,
they got them that way. Every
girl "got her man." by Turing
him to her fireside, feeding
him delectable things from the
chafing-dish, and m a king
''home" so attractive to him
that he felt sorry for himself.
The Washington times., 1934-01-12

You much Of that in this face Of Brigham Young There
s the higher strength that from thinking power you
that in the face Of great scientist great friend Of
humanity that could not possibly have the
difficulties that Brigham Young surmouned but far ahead
bf Brigham Young in true greatness
The thing is for each Of to develop the power that he
HAS.
Will pOwer can be increased and strengthened. For,
Samuel Johnson truly said: "The WN Free" and
SUith it control OurseUes Wtich is the begin
ming Of all pover and success.
Physical strength and capacity for endurance be in
sased by wise living Independence of Others mastery Of
ourselves be achieved by wise and reasonable
providing against the future.
There many kinds of power in the world. Brigham
Young represents ONE kind.
The Washington times., 1934-01-12
MARRY-GO-ROUND
By Helen Rowland

Then came what we fondly
called ''prosperity"-and the
masculine ideal changed. Every
man had a motor car and he
wanted to whizz around in it.
He wanted to take a girl about
and show her off. And he
wanted her to "look like a
million dollars!"
The more expensive a girl
was in those days and the more
costly she looked, the more a
man valued and admired her.
The more money she could
make him spend at the night
clubs and gay spots, the more
she impressed him. The more
grasping and demanding she
was, the more he thought of her,
Hello, Sucker!"
The girl who didn't use a
lipstick, couldn't hold her
liquor" and couldn't be petted
and mauled was Scorned by
every humorist and every col
lege magazine as a "horse-
and-buggy."
Now, the days of wild spend
ing and jazzy night clubs are
over; the days of the glitter,
without the glamor, are gone.
The Washington times., 1934-01-12

S tr e n g tn
S h OF the m
t h rough to
victory.
1T CAN DO
T H E SAME
FOR YOU.
Your life is
as truly a bat
tlefield as was
Verdun, but
you face in
finitely more
d a n G e rouS
foes than the
Allies ever
faced. Their
Ronn..nna~a ~aa~
The Washington times., 1934-01-12

"They Shall Not Pass!"
A noble phrase came out Of
the late war-"THEY SHALL
NOT PASS!" ===
That phrase lifted men out Of
Observation-Disclosures their
The Washington times., 1934-01-12
What Girl, Next?

W4IWV OI1IJ 1NCAVs
Are American girls spoiled,
selfish, expensive and demand
ing? Are they vain, inconsid-
crate and a little "dumb?" Are
they beginning to bore the
American man and to make his
pocket-book yell for mercy?
Are they takes, and never
givers? And do they expect to
contribute nothing to marriage
The Washington times., 1934-01-12
WORDS OF WISE MEN

An excuse is worse and more
terrible than a lie; for an eX-
cuse is a lie guarded.-Pope.
Coming events cast their
shadows before.-Campbell.
The Washington times., 1934-01-12

He is a gentleman, because
his nature is kind and affable
to every creature.-Barnfield.
A life Of ease is q difficult
pursuit.-Cowper.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1934-10-05

VXTHEN President Rooseyelt's plan
w for a S75,000,OO0 tree belt" from
Canada to Texas, previously discussed
In this column, was submitted to Con
tro1ler General McCarl, that gentleman
turned it down as an improper use of
funds from the S525, 100000 emergency
drouth appropriation. The President,
however, has not abandoned the prof.
ect, though he told the correspondents
he was in full accord with the con-
troller generals ruling that emergency
drouth funds might be used for putting
men to work planting trees, but could
not be used for land purchases. He
said the original plan of the admins.
tration was to begin the shelter belt
project with S15,00O,OO0 of drouth
money, and that some of this was to
be used to purchase land.
The President said the shelter belt
project, designed to protect the Middle
West region from future drouths,
would be carried out. but that the in
itial funds would have to be taken
from sources not yet determined.
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Notice!

BY virtue Of Writ OF Fieri Facias
ssued out OF the Circuit Court for
Charles County. Maryland, at the sui
of Sam Wolf against the goods, ar d
chattels, land and tenements Of James
o Oliver and Mary NJ. Oliver, his
wife. to me directed, have seized and
AIKEN in execution all the right, title,
claim, interest and estate at law and in
equity, of the said James o. Oliver and
Mary M. Oliver, his wife, in and to
the following property, to wit: All
that lot, tract, piece, parcel or sub
division OF land and premises situate,
lying and being in the Fifth Election
District OF Charles County, Maryland,
and being what is known as a part OF
'Cooksey's Sub division" or part OF
pine Grove" and described as follows:
Beginning for the same at the North
easterly corner of the said "Cooksey's
Subdivision" where the laad hereby
being described intersects the present
State Road leading to Cobb Island and
the main entrance to "Cooksey's Sub
division" and running in Southerly
direction for about 100 feet where the
land intersects Oldhelds" line, thence
running West and adjoining the land |
OF "Oidfelds" to the aforementioned |
entrance road or street to "Cooksey's |
Subdivision. thence running in a |
Northerly direction and binding on |
said entrance road or street to the
Point OF beginning.
Being triangular piece of land and |
containing by estimation, seven humid
red 1901 square feet Of land, more or
less, and being part of Lots IS and SO |
the lines being nov revised, which |
said original Lots 50 and 80 are shown |
on a Plat recorded among the Land |
Records of Charles County, Mary.
land, as "Cooksey's Subdivision"
the land of Charles W. Cooksey,
And hereby give notice that 1 will |
offer fer sale at the Court House Door
on the 10th day of October, 1884, in
the town of La Plata between the hours
of II and o'clock, the said property
so seized and taken in execution, by
Public Auction, to the highest bidder
for Cash.
ROBERT V. CooKSEY,
Sheriff of Charles County, Maryland
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GO FAR President Roosevelt has not
" revealed his plans for relief for
the coming winter, but the executive
committee of the United States CON
ference of mayors on unemployment re-
lief has made its recommendations to
him. These are. in effect, that a per-
manent federal relief fund should be
established preparatory to the crea-
ton of nationwide system of un-
employment insurance. The report
says:
This permanent unemployment work
relief fund and program should include
the following features:
1T should include all workers of
all types.
"2-The governments, federal state,
and municipal. should draw upon those
benefited from the fund for work on
public work relief projects.
''3-Such benefited persons should
be paid prevailing wage rates up to
the amount of the determined benefits.
1.-THE United States should be d.
vided into regions for the purpose Of
fixing weekly benefits in accordance
with the regional costs and standards
of living.
5-General administration and su-
pervision of the plan and fund should
be the responsibility of the federal gov
eminent"
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WIS part OF the ran
som money handed over a garden walt
by DR.. John f. Condor ("Jaisie"). when
the baby was supposed to he still
alive. In Hauptmann's garage was
found Sl3,7J0 Of the ransom fund. his
handwriting was fond to be identical
with that Of the ransom notes. and
there were many other facts plainly
indicating his guilt. He explained his
possession of the money by saying It
was paid him by one Isid0r Fische who
later died in Germany. but ibis de-
Tense was said by the police - have
been exploded.
The grand jury in New York indicted
Hauptmann on charges Of extortion, and
when he was arralgned he pleaded not
guilty. The detectives worked like
beavers and found. amung other in
eliminating evidence. $50 more hid
den in the Hauptmann garage. This
the prisoner admitted was part Of the
ransom money. The police said they
expected the early arrest Of two al
legged aecompllces Of Hauptmann, one
of whom was in Germany and the 9th.
er on liner bound for Europe.
New Jersey authorities expect to in
dict and try Hauptmann as the actual
kidnaper and murderer r. the Lind.
bergh child.
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D ESIGNATION of General Johnson
N as accepted by the President. is
not effective until October 10. Until
then he will be busy compiling his final
report and also, 1t is said. writing the
story of his life It was learned that
he has been offered the management
Of industrial and labor relations Of
"a large group of midwestern manu-
facturers."
This is not the time or place to es-
innate General Johnson's achievements
as administrator Of the NRA which
was largely his own creation. He Ger.
tatnly worked hard and accomplished
much, whether for good or evil. His
mistakes were admittedly glaring, and
not the least of them was his recent
assertion that during his administra.
ton he had been in close touch with
Justice Brandeis Of the Supreme court.
As that tribunal will have to pass on
the constitutiOnality of NRA before
long, this statement created a sensa.
ton and was dismaying to the friends
of Justice Brandeis. OF course, the
jurist could take no notice of it, The
Glow down" is said 10 be that johnson
did consult the justice when he was
formulating the MIRA and received
some informal advice which he dis
regarded, and that later Mr.. Brandeis
told him he had better resign.
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Port Tobacco Parish
Winter Schedule

Winter Schedule
September 1st, to May LIST.
Christ Church. Every Sunday at
II a. m. 2nd,, 4th and 9Th Sunday OF
the month. Holy Eucharist 8 a. M, and
every Wednesday, Friday and Hoy
Day at 1850 a. m.
st. Paul's Chapel lst., and Srd.
sunday of the month, Holy Eucharist
$3.50 a. M, End, 4th and 9th sunday
Evensong p. m.
Harry Howe Bogert,
Rector.
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NOTICE
FOR SALE OR RENT

Farm of lis acres, about 40 acres
arabic land and remainder in wood
or timber. Well watered, improved
by dwelling, stable, two barns and
other out-buildings, situated on
gravel road midway between Port
Tobacco and Pisgah. Has an orch
ard and daily mail passes gate, also
telephone accessible. Desirable pro-
perty and will sell on good terms or
rent for 1885 to desirable tenant.
For terms apply to
WALTER H. GRAY
IA Plata, Nd,
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This is to give notice that the subs
criber has obtained from the Orphans
Court of Charles County, Maryland
letters of administration on the personal
Estate Of
EDWIN L. BUTTON
late Of said county, deceased. All per-
sons having claims against said deceased
are hereby warned to exhibit the same
with vouchers thereof legally authenticat
ed, to the subscriber on or before the
4th., day Of March, 1885. They may
benefit Of said deceased's estate.
Given under my hand this 4th., day
of September, 1884.
CAROLINE E. BUTTON,
Executrix.
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carpenter accused OF
extortion in connection
with the Iindbergh
baby kidnapping. col
onel and Mrs. Lind
bersh aew from Los
Angeles to give their
testimony. The an
thorities considered
they had an ironclad
case against the sns-
pect, who was arrest
ed after he had passed
n ten dollar note tina.
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NOTICE TO REDlroRs

La Plata, Md, September 4th 1884.
Ordered by the Court that Caroline E
Button give notice required by law TIC
the creditors Of Edwin L. Duttop
deceased to exhibit their claims legally
authenticated, by advertisement publish
ed in some newspaper printed in Charles
County, Maryland once in each Of three
successive weeks.