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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1918-01-31
RED CROSS CAMPAIGN
Supplemental List of Those who
Earned Badges.

The following report supplements
that published in these columns last
week in which the various schools of
the county participated in the Red
Cross Seals Campaign.
Each pupil who sold 25 seals during
the Red Cross Seals Campaign earned
a badge. With this bsdge the crusader
earns the title of Squire IN the progress
of Knighthood.
Each pupil who sold 100 seals earned
a silyered pin. The right TO wear the
siivered pin carries the title of Knight.
The gold pin is the mark Of highest
rank and conveys the title Of Knight
Banneret.
The subsequent list of boys and girls
who have received the title of squire:
Kitzmilier Herman Keller, Bonnie
Lyon, Georgia Jones, Milroy Davis,
Hulda Bishop, Ashley Bishop, Herbert
Durham. Dorsie Spring, Edna Murphy,
Winter Hines, Maye Bell, Hollis vii
son, Clarence Liller, Anna Mckenzie.
Katie Tenant, Ray Harvey, Phyllis
Harvey, Martha Harvey, George Prilts,
Pearle Baldwin, Margaret Harris.
Adeline Patterson, Harry Wilson, Ilene
Baldwin, Marian Price, Virginia Smith,
Beulah Walker, Mildred Welcht, Irma
Hart.
Deep Creek-Della Edgar, Nellie
Smith, Elsie Smith, 50.
VIndeX-Emma Chisholm. Nellie PEN
nell, Gertrude Pennel Ethel Stewart.
Laring Johnson, Henry Johnson. Salie
McRobie, Myrtle King, Rosetta Wilson,
Lille Sims, Della Sims, Georgia Boyce,
Ellie Sharpless, Susan King. Lula Har-
vey. Dorsey Knox, William Barnhart,
Clurel Barnhart, Nellie King. Mabel
Comp, Maud McRobie, Lloyd McRobie,
Marie Paugh, Frank Stewart, Bertha
Stewart, Austin Tasker, Albert Stew
art. Wayne Wilson, Robert Wilson,
Edward Pencil, Margaret Pencil,
Phoebe Paugh Agnes Putfenbarger,
Deer Park-Charhe Hams, Edwin
Browning, Alma Hinebaugh, Dale
Browning. Virginia Apsley, Myra West.
knights of Garrett County.
Kitzmiler- Nellie Kimes. Esther
Starr, Leroy Price, Hazel WEIGHT,
Doris Cough, Vanyla Bishop, Ferre
Trout, Fred Brown, William Pew,
Nellie Murphy. Ernest Alternately, Alya
Bender
Vindex-Russeli Knox, Irene Tasker.
Deer Park Elizabeth White, Mar
garet West.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1918-01-31
WHAT a DIFFERENT SORT OF
WAR 1T is!

A dispatch from General Pershirg
January Is was given prominence in
one of the largest New York papers
under this headline:
United States Soldier Killed In Action
In France
This was on the two hundred and
ninety-ninth day of the war; during
these 299 days English casualty lists
had run up total of nearly 20O,O 900 IN
dead wounded and missing.
The fact that one American cas-
ualty on the two hundred and ninety.
ninth day was worth not only a cas-
ualty mention but actual display as
an important news item may serve,
according to ones predictions, to
illustrate either the immensity of
the task the United States is han
ding or the slowness with which we
are getting under way. But human
nature is human nature. We cannot
forget all our past ideas of war.
These 299 days are exactly one week
short of the time, from the declaration
of hostilities to the signing of the for
NAL treaty Of ipeace, REQUIRED for the
complete passage of the Franco-Frus-
sian War into history. But a third of
the time more, in the Japanese War,
and Russia found her Waterloo at
Mukden. 1t is hard to get used to the
idea that war is so different from what
it was; why, even in this conflict itself
who can not remember the five DAYS of
breathless anxiety with which we wait
ed for the first clash of the millions of
men we knew were on the frontier?
Whether we find fault because of a
scrupulous nicely with which perfec-
ton, down to thessecure sewing on of
the last button on the last uniform is
insisted upon in Washington, or find
fault because there aren't anv uni
forms, let alone the buttons on them,
so that the men can be sent out. the
marvel is that there is not far more
faultfnding, not less. The slow metho-
deity that makes one casualty in ac-
ton on the two hundred and ninty-ninth
day of the war matter of affirmative
news interest is foreign to all ones
traditions. Patience about getting I'M
der way has never been a popular war
virtue. Baltimore News.
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Mrs. S. H. JACKSON,
MRS. j. @. MEALY,
Mrs. N. /. BROADWATER,
Committee.
WE MUST HAVE SHIPS
This County Called On To Supply
Volunteers for Shipyard Work.

Mr. Gilmor S. Hamill, Sr., chairman
for Garrett county of the Maryland
Council of Defense, has received an ur-
gent letter from General Francis E.
Waters, Chairman of the Executive
Committee of the Council, asking him
to make immediate appointments of
local men to receive registrations of
volunteers for shipyard work. General
Waters writes that it is the most i'm
portant call that the government has
made on the Maryland Council and
there is demand that the work must
be handled swiftly.
The purpose is to raise at once a re-
serve force of 25O,OOO shipyard volun-
teers. Maryland's quota is $3.50. This
county's quota Is so.
Men are asked to give their names to
local committeeman. These names will
be forwarded to MIR. John K. Shaw,
chairman in charge of the Labor and
Employment Bureau, 26 and % Com
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1918-01-31

The machinery by which the purchase
of Thrift Stamp or a War Savings
Stamp is to be made as easy and con-
venient as the purchase of a spool of
thread or pound Of nails, in every
community in the United States, IS
rapidly being established. Already
1S5, 900 War Savings Stamp Agencies
have been established and by the close
of January this number will have been
increased by $780,
In addition to these agencies there
will be 1000, 600 ''sales stations, which
do not receive direct authorization to
make the sales from the Secretary of
the Treasury, but obtain their stamps
from authorized agents and sell them
oyer their counters at their. cashiers
windows, and other places.
Fifty thousand postoffices now have
War Savings Stamps on sale and %, 600
banks and 5000 individual firms and cor
porations have been appointed agents.
Nine thousand interstate corporations
having places of business in several
States will constitute is, 600 additional
agencies.
An intensive campaign is now on for
the establishing of War Savings So
cieties which can be organized by 10 or
more persons in any community, school,
club, church, factory or office and can
be affiliated with the National War
Savings Committee.at Washington up
on application.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1918-01-31

ing problems, so that all will be well
taken care of. There will be steady
employment.
In this critical year the man who
helps to build ship will serve his
country as usefully as though he car
ried a musket.
This countv's quota should Re made
up in week. Action is needed. APP
ply at once.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1918-01-31

merce Street, Baltimore. The buttons
and certificates of enrolment will be
furnished at later date. The volun-
teers will not be given immediate en-
ployment but will be called on later.
The fact that so much shipbuildinc is
done in Maryland means that thev will
not have to go far from tn r mes.
The wages will be hioo ard tire gov
eminent is now working cut the aou5-
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1918-01-31
O. II. S. Notes.
ours very truly,
F. E. RATHBUN, County Sup

Per the suggestions of r. f. Sliger,
Director Of the Thrift Campaign for
Garrett Co., and in order to do "our
Bit in helping Uncle Sam to WIN the
war for humanity the principal last
Wednesday classified the pupils alpha
betically and organized two societies
for the purpose Of selling Thrift Stamps.
One society was named Economy
War Savings Society,"" This society
elected the following officers and So
Letting committee: President, Mary d.
Naylor; vice president, Margaret Sim
cell; secretary, Robert Porter; treasurer,
Townshend Naylor; committee, Ralph
Robinson; Virginia Moore, Elizabeth
Townshend, nellie McComas, and has
sold stamps up to date worth $4O7.
The other society was named In
dustry War Savings Socity." This So
ciety has elected the following officers
and committee: President, Carleton
Hinebaugh; vice President nellie Glot-
felty; secretary, Clyde Dawson; treas
urer, William Garrett; committee;
Uriel Cheuvront, Katie Lauer. Victor
Harvey, Morgan Hinebaugh, Ralph
Davis and has sold stamps worth SI63.
On Wednesday of this week at 3:1O o.
m. the two literary societies rendered a
program appropriate for "Tag-your-
Shovel-Day." For this occasion Janu-
airy Both had been fixed by DR.. Garfield,
fuel administrator. The program con-
sisted OF essays, poems and Jingies on
coal saving. Part of the time was de-
voted stringing the tags and giving di-
rection and purpose of tagging the coal
shovel.
Mr.. j. B. Cheuvront gave talk at
chapel the other morning.
We are always glad to have our par
ents and friends visit US and talk to US.
Robert Sliger and Clyde Dawson were
in Cumberland last week.
DEAR EDITOR Since the o. H. S,
notes were sent to the press one of the
societies sold over $4,000 worth more
war stamps.
This makes a total amount of receipts
from the sale of thrift and war stamps
sold by the o. H. S. pupils equal to
$4,000. The Gales were begun on
Wednesday, Jan. %.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1918-01-31
MUST BE VACCINATED
States Attorney Jones Gives An
Opinion to School Authorities
January %, 1918.

January 70, 1918.
To the Public School Teachers and Gen
eral Public, Garrett Co, Md:
We desire to call your particular at
tenthn to the letter received from Mr..
f. R. Jones, States Attorney for Gar
rett county, Oakland, Md. the same
having been received by the writer in
reply to our inquiry regarding the APP
plcation Of the State Compulsory
School Attendance Law to those par
ents or guardians who keep their child
rem from school because they have not
been vaccinated, the teacher or princi-
pal of the school not permitting those
children TO attend school because they
haye not been vaccinated; the letter in
full reads:
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1918-01-31

FoUND-On the Oakland-Gortner road
recently ia e. --.t~lnng dry
goods. Owner may recover same by
calling at this Office and paying for this
advertise bc1t.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-11-21

To be possessed of head Of heavy,
beautiful hair; soft, lustrous, fluffy
wavy and free from dandruff is mere
ly a matter of using a little Dander-
inc.
1t is easy and inexpensive to have
nice, soft hair and lots of it. Just
get a small bottle Of knowlton's DAN
derine now-it costs but a few cents
all drug stores recommend tap
ply a little as directed and within ten
minutes there will be an appearance
of abundance freshness, flufiness and
try as you will yoI can not find a
trace of dandruff or falling hair: but
your real surprise will be after about
two weeks use, when you will see
new hair-fine and downy at first
yeS-but really new hair-sprouting
out all over your scalp-Danderine is.
we believe, the only sure hair grower,
destroyer of dandruff and cure for
itchy scalp, and it never fails to stop
falling hair at once.
If you want to prove how pretty
and soft your hair really is, moisten
cloth with little Danderinc. and
carefully draw it through your hair
taking one small strand at a time.
beautiful in just a few moments-a
delightful surprise awaits everyone
who tries this.-Adv
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-11-21

-"Ach Colt. we die. Give us bread.
in the name OF humanity, you moth
ers Of America"
This policy Of "sq"eaIins' is essen
TALLY Teutonic. l have lived with
Germans. l know their language,
thought, psychology and character.
German men and women alike are ar
roEant in victory, cruel brutal and
savage beyond anything we care TO
contemplate. In defeat they fall %
their faces and wrlthe in anguish,
cowardice and despicable appealings.
France has starved, too, and Belgium
and other lands; but these peoples
have not played the coward. Ger
many is playing the coward now be-
cause she has been a bully and an
arch criminal 1t is all part Of the
same piece Of cloth. She willed star
walton for others. Now let her drain
that same medicine to the dregs. And
if one say: I'VE cannot see her
starve!" ask: why not?"
l shall be accused of extreme bru-
tally and hardness of heart. in this
connection, especially as I have long
pCCI iiiOiS VI iCoo iIShtiliSU Will tih->
Socialist movement. My friend,
George Bernard Shaw is a Socialist.
but for that he does not refrain from
saying, in substance: THE fact is, if
they beat us they will skin us alive,
and if we beat them we should skin
them alive. The way to break Ger
many's power is to kill the women.
They are such great breeders that If
the women are left, they will soon re-
gain their millions"
Now, I do not go so far as to ad-
vocate Strengthening German women
and children. That would sink us to
the level'of the Germans, themselves
But do say this: That when our
Allies and we ourselves are in need OF
food, and when vast stretches Of ter
ritory have been systematically raw
aged by Germans, leaving the inhabi-
tants to die, it is unjust, illogical and
mawkishly sentimental to tax our
selves for years, take food that by
right belongs to the victims, and hand
it over to the oppressor, fallen though
he be. The German is unchanged, at
heart. He is beaten, that is all.
Even. now Germans are trying to
build up their exploiting power in
Courland and elsewhere: and we, in
feeding them, are only cutting our
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OUR VS.
OUR COUN1RY'S SERVICE

Mrs. Fannie Stevens of Is Western
avenue, Augusta, has received the
following interesting letter from her
husband, Sergeant Walter Lee Stew
ems who is now in France with the
56th Pioneer Infantry:
when 1 wrote you from our last
camp, we had just entered the outer
edge of the real war zone but. after
spending about week there, we took
a hike of several miles to the rail-
road where we rode all day in box
cars and arrived at dark at our
destination for the night Here we
pitched our tents in a swamp.
That night 1 was left at the train
to guard the food until midnight
when l was relieved, but 1 had lost
our company, so found my way to an
evacuation hospital near the track
where the wounded are brought from
the field and their wounds redressed
to be sent to the base hospital at the
rear. | was there from - at night
until A. NJ. and I saw $50 wounded
brought in.
Il offered my services. I pulled off
my coat and went to work, helping
bring the men in from the am
balances. l then assisted in re-
dressing them, and served them hot
cocoa, and assisted the nurses in
taking off bandages and washing
wounds, a most interesting expert
ence. l was told that the day be-
fore they had rc-dressed and sent
back to the base hospital 22OO men in
glimpse of the horrors of war.
In the morning we hiked for our
next camp four miles away. We
were just getting supper when three
German planes came along and be-
gan dropping bombs on our camp.
The next minute six American planes
appeared and the fun began. Before
they finished three German planes
came down in q hecp and the battle
was over. This was the most spec
tacular sight l ever witnessed.
I'VE camped there that night and
| slept in a shell hole in the ground.
The next morning we hiked again five
miles to town which days before
had been occupied by the Germans
and where there was not a wall nor
chimney left standing. We were
here two nights and during that tune
we had four gas alarms. Everybody
put on their gas masks and waited
for the gas, but we We're on high
ground and got very little of it. 1t
gave us a little scare, however, com
ing in the middle Of the night.
Il put on my mask in the dark
and came out Of my tent, intending
to climb up steep bank remember
ing that gas always seeks a low level.
but | missed my footing and rolled
down the bank, mask and ALL so [
decided to sit down and behave my
self and for half an hour my gas
mask and | held a rehearsal all
alone. An hour later we got a sec
ond alarm and this time I remained
in bed and went to sleep with my gas
mask on.
"The next day we packed our
stoves and put them in a big truck
and started for another camp On
the way the Germans were Smelling
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the road and a 6-inch shell dropped
within 20 feet of our truck covering
US with rocks and dirt but doing no
further harm. Up to this time l
have been shot at by a machine gun,
from an aeroplane. and gassed four
times. but am still kicking and look
ing for more.
Now we are in new camp.
Every night We can hear the big
shells whining over our heads as
they drop in the roads and towns a
mile or two beyond.
Il have seen thousands of German
prisoners, hundreds of dead horses
and graves of soldiers along the road
side. We are at present in the apex
of big sector with fighting on three
sides Of us. Yesterday we were
within three miles of the line but to.
day the fighting is off to our right.
Last night I saw 200 American aero
planes go over in one bunch and it
was quite sight.
and some observation balloons
burned and fall. The artillery fire
cannot be described, it is so heavy
and rapid, and resembles thousands
of cannon crackers all going off at
once,
THE ground fairly shakes and
everywhere you go shell holes are as
thick as you can step. Every night
the sky is solid blaze of light from
the cannon fire. The noise is fright
full and | don't see how anything
lives under such a rain of hell.
or course. we have not been to
the actual front and the chances are
we never will, but three or four
miles from it gives one a pretty good
idea of what it is like
"One night the German airpIanes
gave us a call. Bombs came down,
and Holy Smoke. didn't the ground
shake. Soon the American planes
got after them and drove them off
but things did snap for awhile. The
nearest bomb struck in the woJss
just back of our tent and l thought
the top of my head was coming off.
l put my steel helmet over my face
and laid still as one is safer lying
nat than anywhere else. It's not
pleasant experience, l tell you, but
it's part of the war game
On account of the danger from air
raids, we have no lights at night or
in the morning, and if 1 were to tell
you that we prepare and serve break
last to ESQ men III total darkness.
you would hardly believe it. but that
IS what we do. We get up at $50
and dine at $50, and not u speck of
hight. You can get used to almost
anything II YOU have to, l find, even
shell! fire. L guess we are getting our
moneys worth, but I, for one am
willing to stay until Germany is
cooked to a FRAGILE
Yesterday we moved again and
TINS time we nearly all found dug
outs T. live in. We have fine one
leading off from our kitchen just big
enough for four to sleep and sit
down in. II is about 5 feet under
ground, with heavy timbers and
earth On top. We built a big straw
fire inside to smoke out the rats and
dry it out. We built four hunks ont
OF poles and sheet iron, and have q
soft bed as you over slept on.
wish YOU could spend a night with us
Just now to see how very comfortable
we are fixed. l think it will not be
lonG before We are back in Amer
lea"
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own throats. This energy the Ger
mans are using in building railways
to the eastward. and in trying to en-
slave portions of Russia. if put to
productive uses might help solve
their food problems. But no, thay
prefer to let their victors feed them.
while they themselves plan for future
struggles against us. 1t was Welt
macht oder UnterGang." Well. they
got the "Untergang." and now let
them keep it. Shut these brute PEG =
pie up in their own ilAld. and let them
stew there in the fat OF leanness of
their own self-made destiny. That is
no concern of ours.
| ask but one question. Had Ger
many Won this war, not lost it, how
much food would she have appropri-
ated for the feeding of her defeated
enemies? What public works would
she have undertaken in Poland.
France, Belgium. and SO on? 1 will
tell you-she would have set up fer
tilizer plants to convert the bones Of
starved millions into phosphate. Now
you have the naked, ugly fact.
Stephane Lausanne. the French
statesman. who knows the Boche,
says:
Strength is the only thing Ger
many understands. 1t is ridiculous
to speak of as the good German pco-
ple.' the people who shouted with
glee in the streets Of Berlin when the
Lusitania was sunk with little Ameri-
can children. The German Socialists
are noisy, now. They were silent
when the Brest- Litovsk treaty was
signed. Let them be silent now.
There are no good Germon people
except those dead"
GEORGE ALLAN ENGLAND
Nov. 16, 1918.
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Editors Letter Box
HalIoueII Me

Hallowell, Me-, Nov. 20. 1918.
Editor of kennebec Journal:
! am nothing but an old woman, but
beg Of you to say and do all you can to
stop the United States from sending
food to that herd Of swine, the Ger
mans. Did they have human sympa :hy
for the poor women and girls of Bel
GUM? Did they show human sympathy
when they crucified that man to ..'s
barn door and cut off the hands Of a
little four-year-old baby boy to satisfy
their lust for diaboical pleasure?
Think for one moment of the husba n Is
and fathers coming home from four
years in the trenches to find their wives
and little girls with half German babies
IN their arms! Feed them? No. 1o,WO
times no! Let them feel some of :ne
suffering the women and little children
of Belgium fe't! What have we got TO
DO with it? Let England, France and
Belgium speak first. If they are willing
to feed and clothe the fiends that have
tortured them for four long years. we
viii. Think Of it. The United States
must be in he- swaddling clothes to
think of listening to a made-up plea OF
that herd Of pigs. 1t is only to take .he
FOOD from the Belgians and French that
they ask for it.
ana now-and now-the United States
Is gong to let DR.. Solf come over. and
receive him with open arms. Let him
see MS secret agents and hatch up some
plan TO have the United States help out
nave heard tney have thrown ink aot-
ties at each other in the State Hous. at
washington when some momentous
question was being discussed, but I
wouldn't stop at ink bottles.
Now, why should we get big heaa'.
because we helped a neighbor-mean-
ing Belgium and France. When 1 vas
a small child. when a neighbor had a
Of any kind. the whole
neishborhood turned out to help. whv
can't George and Woodrow turn out in
force and help Belgium and France AMI
mink no more about it?
An Old Woman With Very Nice NarAe
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Proof:--

One of the best known professional
men in New York this name will be
given on requesD says:-"After an
acute attack of typhoid pneumonia, I
had a racking cough and lost twenty
pounds in eleven days. I never was
so completely run down in my life.
was about to go to a hospital when
began to take Father Johns Medicine,
which after l had taken it faithfully,
restored me to sound health. l re-
gained flesh that rad lost and have
since been as we'll as ever in my life.
have since learned that my physi-
clan has been in the habit Of pre-
scribing Father Johns Medicine In
such caSes"-Adv