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The Washington times., 1938-10-04
Tossing off Inhibitions

ST1LL the most congenial assembly point for
~ those Of us who want to toss off inhibitions
and let our hair down is the boisterpus Bill
Hardy's Gay Nineties, where gentlemen in their
SOS and COS are star performers, and youngsters
in their 20's and 30s are welcomed-only as
patrons :. Comeback House. they call this
place-for here old-timers have been pulled out of
their impoverished obscurity and thrust into the
limelight again Moon-faced Victor Moore is
a Sixth Avenue saunterer-enveloped in a flam.
boyant topcoat of Hollywood origin which bill
lows weepingly about his ankles The fops of
town have swung back to Solid-colored cravats
again-and white shirts /. &. Placid Ethel Mer.
man and turbulent Lupe Velez share the same
table at the Stork Club :. and both turn to
stare at Gloria Swanson, still proudly glamorous.
GLUNIMESTLOOKING gentlement of Manlat-
" tan are George S. kaufman. Jed Harris, Moss
Hart, Oscar Levant, Lowell Thomas, DR.. Leo
Michel, Truman Talley, Lee Shubert, George
Jean Nathan, Ben Hecht, James Montgomery
Flagg and Brooks Atkinson Jovial-visaged
burghers are Robert Benchley, Jimmy Walker,
Steve flanagan Quentin Reynolds, Toots shor,
Hiram Bloomingdale, Grad Sears, Dudley Field
Malone, Kelcey Allen, Joe Moss, Robert Christen-
berry and Bill Corum . .. Burgess Meredith "a
glumfacer, too), boasts the virtues of country
Squiredom.
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Conscience Hard to LiUe With

0UR OLD MAN did not believe in capital pun.
" ishment. He said he had once favored it but
after living a long time he had not noticed that
it tended to reduce the type Of crime punishable
by death. He said he thought man or woman
who committed premedtated murder got more
punishment just by being compelled to live with
their conscience than if you knocked them off.
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I believe in peace and democ-
racy. But we've got to knock
off all these tough guys that
don't believe in democracy.
We must fight to preserve
peace"
I grow more weary Of those
citizens who permit themselves
to become dupes Of "profes-
sional pacifistic democrats"
who, masquerading under de-
ceptive organizational titles
such as leagues for peace and
democracy, leagues for disarm-
ament, peace unions, are not
the destination of doyroooro
The Washington times., 1938-10-04
By WILLIAM S. NEAL

QN.SO A new old-age pension
plan, designed to raise pensions
throughout the country to $50 a
month, will be thrust before the
next Congress, Senator Theodore
Bilbo Cd of Mississippi said to-
day. More than 100000 people
would be affected.
In beginning the draft Of a bill,
Bilbo accepted a challenge by
President Roosevelt to find ways
OF raising money by taxation to
meet any increased cost Of old
age pensions.
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FaUOrs ReviUal of PillOry

OUR OLD MAN strongly favored a revival of
" the pillory and the stocks Of Puritanical
days as punishment for miscreants who abused
their wives or children. Those were engines of
ye olden time in which scallawags were locked
and exposed to public scorn.
There was one fellow back in our old home
town who made regular practice of beating his
wife, frail little thing who was always sick,
and our old man said he would give anything to
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Copyright 1888 King Features Syndicate inter-
national Copyright and All Other Rights Reserved.
OUR OLD MAN was always mighty tolerant to-
Oward erring mortals. He used to say that in the
final accounting, there might be lot of charges
filed against him but that you could bet your
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The victory of Sheridan Downey
on the "$30-every-Th Thursday" pen
sion issue in the California Sena-
torial primary, and the election Of
Republican candidates in Maine
on the Townsend $200-a-month
pension plan, shows that Congress
must liberaliZe the social security
act, Bilbo asserted.
DriUe Planned
Under the Bilbo plan, the Fed
eral Governments contribution to
State old age pensions would be
raised from 6 maximum Of SIS to
$50 a month for each pensioner.
States would be forbidden to
lower their present grants. They
would receive the $50 if they met
this condition. A drive then would
be started, Bilbo said, to increase
State contributions to $50 month.
IT have economists and finan-
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Voice Of New York By Louis SO6ol

copyright 1885, King Syndicate Inc Inter
national copyright and all other rights reserved)
LBUM OF MANHATTAN - Cinematycoon
"A Jack Warner outlaws at the biting lampoon
of rival producer in Clare Boothe's satire, kiss
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Their Stock in Trade

Their Stock in Trade
YTHE CHARACTERISTIC common to both types
i Of "pacifacits" is that they should stir their
fellow citizens to engage in war Of offense for
an theology.
OF facts, practicalities and realities, they will
have none. Their stock in trade is hysteria and
emotionalism. They do not care about preserva-
ton Of their country. They do not stop to won
der what may happen after their "holy" war is
finished. They misinterpret personal morality
as a social principle, invoke the name of the
Diety march about in aimless confusion, aggra-
waiting mass of people whose nerves are already
badly strained.
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changes "reminiscences with Producer Jed Harris
express agent, too - Three unrestrained white
tie and starched-shirt whoopers, Conde Mast, Lu-
cius Beebe and William Rhinelander Stewart.
give audible indication of their approval of the
classconscious satire in the proletarian Sing Out
the News Suggestion to feature editors: a
Toast-of-theTown ballot Off hand can't
think of any candidate but zorina
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''But''- Is

GROW very weary these days of those citizens
who start off conversation something like
this:
II hate war. hate war as much as any one
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States to Share Cost

The plan being devised by Bilbo
would boost the present cost of
old-age grants to the Federal Gov
eminent from $191, 100000 to
$500, 100000 a year. States would
be expected to appropriate a like
amount.
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Youthful Beauty on Display

COL. NICHOLAS BLAIR's new Paradise
~ revue entices the bored and once again
endows him with ziegfeldian laurels in corralling
the fetchingest. shapelest beauties in town E. :.
Youth and paprikish zest are the attractive
lure-and we old men in our doddering forties
sigh and pine in utter hopelessness Nor is
this feeling Of gloom dispelled as we wander
out and across the street to N. T. G.'s Midnight
Sun, where more youthful beauty is on display
-. But thrill anew over the vocal charm of
the seductive chanteuse, Carol Bruce, already,
according to report. destined for Hollywood
slorification ..
VoLUBLE BARNEY GALLANT, Village boni-
face, once press agent for Pancho Villa, ex-
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mill +. 10 jo esd monotonouS it appears to me.
as that Of Lre cashiers in the towns automats
-shelling out nickels hour after hour E. Burns
and Allen and Jack Pearl sit in gloomy huddle,
contrast to the uproarious gayety of the smart
and predominately social assembly at the open
ing of the new streamlined El Morocco
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ament, peace unions, are not for peace, but for
the destruction of democracy
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she could get Mr.. RooSeVelt'S
ear he would have her pension
raised.
She is a tall, very thin, wrin-
kled old woman who must have
been a vigorous person, say rs
or 80 years ago. She is in full
possession of her mental facul-
ties, thinks slowly and answers
plainly and clearly. Her mother
and father were slaves to
"MasSa" James Glass, who
owned two great plantations in
Warren county, Miss. She be-
came a "houSe servant" was
nurse to Mrs. Glass through two
confinementS and brought those
children successfully t hrough
their childish ailments.
THE family had moved to its
Il town house in Vicksburg,
not for relief from the tedium
of country life but because
Grant and Sherman had ridden
through the plantations. During
the At days of the siege-which
ended IS years ago today-Mrs.
Russell, a woman of 35, married
to a slave, herself a slave and
the mother of slaves, nursed
wounded Confederates within
the lines and nursed also Union
soldiers who pierced those lines
and fell there with life still in
them.
Mrs. Russell believes herself
to be the only living nurse of
the civil war and to date no
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Another Visitor

Under the heading, Visitor
Protests" Mr.. Charles L. Jones
apparently complains that the
police towed his car away from
a position within Is feet of a
Stop" sign.
Would Mr.. Jones be good
enough to write again and say
what else was open for the po-
lice to do? Perhaps he would
be giving others something to
talk about because, visitor my
self, cannot imagine that any
other action could be taken.
If Petersburg police allow
stop" signs to be covered up,
would Mr.. Jones tell us if there
is any fine for passing a sign
without stopping and how much
the fine amounts to, as am
thinking Of taking a run down
there? Yours faithfully,
C. H. SOCKFEID.
The Washington times., 1938-07-04
Food for Thought

In the June 80 edition of The
Washington Times, Alva Frank
lin Hart stated that war Is
justifiable.
If he really believes what he
has written let him think this
over:
First-He took his pastors
Interpretation of the Bible. Sec
ond Peter, first chapter, twen-
tieth verse, states: knowing
this first that no prophecy OF
the Scripture is of private in
depreciation"
Second - Revelation, twelfth
chapter, seventh to ninth verse,
states: There was war in
Heaven" That means, as it
states, was war in Heaven, not is.
Third-Literal war on earth
is a cardinal war, or the use
of weapons, spoken of in the
Bible as a sword.
Therefore his literal interprS-
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Wise Words

Employment, which Galen
calls natures physician" is so
essential to human happiness
that Incidence is justly con-
sidered the mother of misery
Robert Burton.
When sorrow sleepeth, wake
it not, but let it slumher on
Miss M. A. Stodart.
To despise money on some
occasions is a very great gain.
Terence.
The greatest element of criti-
cism is taste.-Sainte Bevue.
I trust no rich man who Is
officiously kind to a poor man.
-Plautus.
Not one false man but does
unaccountable evil.-Carlyle.
Patience is bitter, but its
fruit is SWEET. ]. Rosseau.
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Your |. O..
BY SHIRLEY SPENCER

Thoughts while travelling:
/. There is a certain island
situated between England and
France, yet the island is farther
from France than England is.
How is that?
2. What fictional character
lived at 10 Baker ST.?
3. On what street did Eliza
beth Browning live?
4. What is the Wall Street Of
London called?
S. Which of these university
boat crews are referred to as
the dark blue?
(a) Cambridge
Cd Oxford
6. What is the name of the
Scottish Lake where a sea mon
Ster has been reported seen on
several occasions?
7. What is the poetical name
of Scotland?
8. What flower is used as a
national flower or emblem for
the following countries:
(a) England (b) Scotland
Co Ireland Cd Wales
(e) France
ANSWERS on Page 2D
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to maintain vigilance. How
ever, this condition might be al
tered somewhat if the necessary
cooperation was exercised BY
the Van Duzer office.
According to unconfirmed re-
ports, the D. C. traffic wizard
is supposed to have made a sur
vey of conditions here and the
opinion was expressed that
lights were not needed for the
time being. Perhaps it will re-
quire the forfeiture of lives to
light the way for lights.
Perhaps the traffic authority
may be right in reaching his
decision, but there are those
who feel just as strong in sup
porting the contrary view.
CWAR.
The Washington times., 1938-07-04
Baer Chance

In a fight with Joe Louis last
year, Max Baer got slapped even
sillier than nature made him.
Later Joe met Tommy Farr and
won what many people thought
was a very doubtful decision.
During the battle the English
man laughed at Louis, fre-
quently sticking his chin out
and inviting the colored boy to
take pot-shots at it.
5000, a return bout is now
arranged between Louis and
Baer! Anyone capable of think
ing out that kind of logic can
smoke celluloid pipe. But box
office trouble may yet show
Jacobs that even the best Of
racketS can be overdone.
IN.
The Washington times., 1938-07-04
Lives or Lights?

Will it require major auto
mobile collision, wherein hap
less victims are sacrificed, to
awaken the van Duzer Traffic
Authority" from the indifferent
stand it has struck as regards
the placing of traffic lights at
vital points along Georgia
Avenue?
With the advent of new com.
mercial enterprises along this
bustling arterial thoroughfare.
which abound beyond Bright
wood, D. c., an avenue that was
regarded heretofore as a country
road has been taxed to the strain
ing point. The flow of traffi;
that utilizeS this area during
the course of a day has multi
Piled two-hundredfold within a
two-year span.
Encouraged possibly by some
providential act, a traffic police
man has been assigned to the
Georgia Avenue and Bitten
house Street danger spot, but
this occurs only at such inter
walls when a great flow of COM
munity residents are engaged
in Saturday marketing.
Three blocks above this point
of pedestrian peril is yet another
intersection that feeds into the
two neighbor1ng communities
namely Takoma Park and Silver
Spring. This vortex Of turmolI
occurs at Plney Branch Road
and Georgia Avenue.
Observations made at this juno
ture find the pedestrian COIN
pletely at the mercy Of autoists
in attempting to negotiate safe
passage across a wide stretch
Of roadway.
To augment the existent con
fusion for Mr.. Pedestrian, other
than the surging flow Of auto
traffic, the community resident
finds his safe passage chal
lenged still further by street
cars and heavy trucks. More
recently another hazard has
come to plague him-buSses
Buses returning from down
town ply this route on theil
return journey.
To climax this situation. here
also terminates the bulk OF trat
fic that moves northward via
Thirteenth Street, which at this
point is diverted into Georg1s
Avenue. With the above citet
conditions, each contributory tt
affixing more deaths to our al
ready huge traffic toll, this in
tersection certainly seems a logi'
cal point for the Grim Reaper
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which to live and I am proud
of our country. I think Wash
ingtonians display a wonder
full spirit of patriotism. love
the parades and the flag-wav-
ing and am planning to see
the fireworks at the Monument
Grounds tonight"
X X
Huck Wynne, 1900 P st.
N. w., Government clerk:
1T means a holiday in which
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Rollin' Along
By ". A. S. Douglas

TTNHERE is only person here at the seventy yh ami
versary of the Battle of Gettysburg who receiving the
full honors due soldier sailor of either the Federal
the Confederate sideand yet who is neither Her is
Rosa RUSSELL of Vicksburg Miss her age is 10 by proven
record and she is fuLbooded Negress.
BY special act of Congress- because she nursed Union
soldiers we'll those of the South Mrs. Russell enjoys
Government pension of $50 month She says she could do
with little in these her declining years and for
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should go up
the hill" and
hear and see
P e S / d e n t
R 90 S e v e 1t
dedicate t h e
eternal peace
light. She fl
nally decided
it W ul d be
better to stay
W h ere S h e
waS-but felt
sure t h a t if
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should pay more attention to
this holiday and be more patri-
otic and appreciate the fact
that they are Americans. like
the Fourth particularly when it
comes on a weekend, for I
usually try to spend the day at
a beach,"
Miss Dorothy Hughes, 1880 L
st. N. W., stenographer:
"It reminds me that this is
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pendent nation; where we
have freedom of speech, re-
ligion and political beliefs.
Although, I often celebrate
the different holidays by
going places, intend to stay
home and rest today"
X X X
Joseph d. Cooper, 1880 R
st. N. w., Government clerk:
"It makes me glad that I am
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tation of war in Heaven was as
war on earth. 1t would be i'm
possible to have a cardinal war
in Heaven. We have literal or
cardinal wars on earth but the
war in Heaven was spiritual and
ceased at the same time as the
World War.
Has the writer never read the
thirteenth verse of Exodus, twen-
tieth chapter? In this God com.
manded: Thou shalt not kill"
The sword is not the "key to
Heaven. A key is either to lock
or unlock, open or shut, Mat
thew, twenty-third chapter, espe-
cially the thirteenth verse, will
give much light on this subject,
R. BOCKOVER,
Front Royal, Va.
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though the beaches, parks
and highways are always
crowded. Getting away some
where is particularly good for
a working person, because one
should do something different
in order to benefit from a va
cation. even . very brief one"
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to celebrate and
appreciate our Inde-
pendence Day-the
day on which that
marvellous doc u
ment, upon which
the greatest democ-
racy in the world
was founded, was
signed. Pc lie
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the freeSt country
In the world. We
should all celebrate
the Fourth with
prayers of thanks
giving that we are
living in a country
where we can have
the advantages of
a free and indie
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in Cumberland, Md. but I in
tend especially to get just a
good weekend rest. Holidays
and vacations are useless un-
less one can get away from the
everyday things and get diver
sion or into new environment.
X X X
Miss Reggie GOldenZiel, 1890
New Hampshire Ave-, Stenog-
rapher:
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"Well, first Of all,
l am glad I am an
American and free
to celebrate Inde-
p e n nee Day.
From what I read
of conditions in
other parts of the
world, America is a
wonderful place in
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to the Fourth of July because
it gives me a chance to exer-
else my picture-taking hobby.
I like to take pictures Of the
fireworks at the Monument
Grounds"
X X X
Mrs. Mary Steninger, 736
Twenty-Second st. N. w., clerk
'typiSt:
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an American citi-
zen, considering
conditions in other
parts of the world.
Today is a real in
dependence d a y
for Americans, and
I am proud of that.
However, I espe-
cially look forward
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holiday, a time
which I look for
ward to; for I al
ways plan some
kind of an eXcur.
sion or trip. This
holiday laun C h e S
the summer season
for me. Today I am
visiting my brother
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ESPECIALLY when
it comes at a week
end, the Fourth of
July means a grand
vacation for me.
I've had S o m Q
lovely trips on this
holiday and I al
ways manage to
enjoy myself even
The Washington times., 1938-07-04
Traffic Toll

The list of traffic victims in
the District Of Columbia since
January /, 1888, is graphically
shown by the death watch.
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consider she is eAitled to it.
Mrs. Russell sat in the shade
of her tent porch last evening
debating whether or not she
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body has come forward to dis
pute her claim.
Il assisted in many terrible
operations" she said in her soft,
remarkably clear voice. "At first
they only let me help the white
ladies but they got sick and
nervous, that is the ones I was
working with. And after while
it got so the doctors, when they
had bad case, would say Let
Rosa look after it. She's got
more nerve than Pemberton.'
Gen. John Pemberton COM
manded us Southern folk at the
SIEGE"
CHE has brought many chill
~ dren into the world, so
many that she either could not
remember or else, as she put it,
I'm ashamed of myself. I'm
like the old woman in the shoe
who had so many children she
didn't know what to do. Used
to sing that song to Massa
Glass children when they were
babies. All gone, his children
and mine. That is, all but one"
The survivor is her son,
Howard, so years old, who is a
clock repairer in VickSburg and
with whom his mother makes
her home. She said that in all
her life she has never enjoyed
anything as much as this re-
union.
"The only thing I miss" she
said, sis sour milk"
She was told she had only to
ask for it to get it-and five
minutes later she had it.
EOOTNOTE on virility:
l. An old Union soldier,
spruce and spry, was walking
along the duckboards of the en-
campment Sunday behind an
other older and less spry gentle
man who leaned on the arm of a
pretty, slim-ankled great-grand-
daughter.
That yer daughter?" chirped
the Beau Brummell in the rear.
mo-" yelped back the other
veteran, cts me daughters
daughters daughter"
"Ye don't say?" said the other,
"Why, got wife back in Los
Angeles pretty near as young
and as pretty as she is"
why didn't you bring her
with you?" asked the girl.
'Fraid O. losin' her." giggled
the ancient.
Copyright. 1888, by Washington Times.
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VOICE OF THE PEOPLE
and addresses Of


the writers wilb omit upon request
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heInquiring
Photographer
The washington Times in
vites you to submit timely
and interesting questions to
be used in this column.
THE QUESTION
What does the Fourth Of July
mean to you?

THE ANSWERS
Miss Joyce StiteIy, 405 E. Cliff.
ton Terrace, stenographer:
The Fourth is my favorite
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"WeStWdrd the
March of Empire"

territory liqudated.
The stage set for the Civil War (1861-65), viii
settled forever the question whether the Unions ter
tory to be it is end along the Dix
Line on its Southern exposure
We put forever in quotes above because it is very
word
Ever since got shut of European domination, Eu1
Montgomery County sentinel., 1938-05-19
P. T. A. To Sponsor
Strawberry Festival
Wednesday, June ]

A strawberry festival for the bene-
fit of the PIT. A. will be given by
the room mothers of the elementary
and high school departments of Rich
ard Montgomery High School, on the
old Academy grounds, June l, o.
clock p. m.
Strawberries, ice cream, home made
cake and soft drinks will be on sale.
A grab bag will also be feature of
the festival.
The committee is as follows: ice
cream, Mrs. Leigh Allnutt, assisted
by Mrs. Clifford Stiles tnd Mrs. Thos.
Garrett; Mrs. Dexter Bullard and
Mrs. Carl Black, tables; Mrs. Louth-
an, candy; Mrs. Lloyd Howes, cake;
Mrs. Mills, grab bag; Mrs. John VOL
colt, publicity; Mrs. John Harding,
Montgomery County sentinel., 1938-05-19
KensingtOn To Name
Candidates For Office
Next Monday Night

The Town of Kensington will hold
nominating meeting on Monday,
May % at 500 p. M, in the Masonic
Temple, Kensington. The purpose of
the meeting is to nominate candi-
dates for the Office of Mayor and two
vacancies on the Council.
The terms of office of Edward R.
Saunders, Mayor, and Edwin A.
Neyes and Thomas H. Tremearne,
Councilmen, expire July 1st. Mayor
Saunders has announced that owing
to the many demands upon his time
at present, he will not be candidate
for office.
The election will be held June 6. B.
F. Dierdorf, w. D. Kingston and E.
S. Noyes have been appointed judges
of election; alternate ]. A. Kaiser.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1938-05-19
Little Garden Club
Sponsoring Exhibit May %

The Ninth Annual Flower Show
sponsored by the Little Garden Club
of Sandy Spring, will be held in the
Community House on Saturday, May
28, from 8 to p. m.
The classes consist of flowers in
any type container, compete height,
inches; flowers in any type container,
compete height, a to 10 inches; flow
ers in any type container, compete
Height, 10 to 18 inches; flowers in any
type container, compete height, 1S
inches or over. Specimen classes,
blooms of any kind.
All flowers exhibited must be
grown by the exhibitor. Exhibits must
be in by 1900 noon on Saturday.
There will be silver offering at the
door and tea will be served.