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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1918-05-30
HANDS ACROSS The CHASM.

Two hands, both hands of men Of
superior eminence, and both hands of
true Americans; the good right hands
of the former Presidents Theodore
Roosevelt and William Howard Taft
met across the chasm of the years. and
bygones became bygones, and the genial
smile of former fellowship irradiated
the countenance Of the one, while the
other broke the record for the eXhi-
bition of worries that may be barred in
formidability or in magnanimity.
And the two men sat and talked at
the table in tie Chicago. hotel. but a
few blocks from the Coliseum, the
scene Of the turbulent convention that
witnessed the split in the party and the
sweeping into the presidential chair of
Woodrow Wilson. Thus close to the
place of fractured friendship was
friendship renewed. In these times
past, personal and political differences
should be lost sight Of, with unity as
aim of all Americans.
There could. not be a better spec
tacle of American unity than that pre-
sented by Mr.. Taft striding across the
public dining room to hand clasp the
man who broke him. There was some
thing big boyish in the event, but there
was somethingsmsgnifcent in its indi-
cation of the readiness of these two ex-
presidents to.put away their differences
in order to demonstrate the solidarity
of Americans in. these crucial times.
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GORTNER

NI~<~S%
Mr.. and Mrs Dan Swartzentruber
left Saturday for Baltimore where Mrs
Swartzentruber will undergo an opera
ton for appendicitis as soon as she is
strong enough. They expect to % 70
Greenwood, Del, for the summer
Mr.. George Lee and family, Messrs.
Dan LichtY and Noah schrocb wero
visitors at Joel Slabaugh's Sunday
afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Sanders OF Silver
Knob, are spending a few DAYS with his
parents at this place.
MIR. and Mrs. Brison Glotfeltv and
family, Mr. and Mrs. Jonas GlotfeItv,
OF McHenry' motored to this place Sun
day and spent the day with Mr. ard
Mrs D. j. Swartzentruber.
Grandma DERRICK, who spent savsroI
weeks with her daughter, Mrs. Amanda
Schlossnagel. has returned to her bor,o
near Selbpsport. ''''
Mrs. Mary Llchty and Emma R.,rL
holder and Messrs Ross Lichtv and
harvey Swartzentruber spent Sundax
afternoon with Miss Hazel Rider,
Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob Miller, of Dover
Del, were recent visitors at tb;v rI.e
MISS Lulu Teats spent Saturday and
Sunday at Terra Alta. the guest Of
relatives and friends. "
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1918-05-30

has opened her cozy bungalow for the
season.
Mr., and Mrs. Spears and daughter,
of Spears, Pa, motored to the Park for
a week S outing. They returned home
Sunday.
Commencing Sunday, June End, B. &
0. trains Nos, l, 2, j, 4, II and u will
stop at the Park to take on and put OFF
passengers.
Mr.. Rugg, 4 representative Of the
Moody Bible School Of Chi.ago, is here
arranging for the Bible Conference.
Mis- Bell Pritchard, of Warrington,
W. Va, opened her cottage last week,
as also did Mrs. Crane, of New York.
Mrs. Talson and Mrs. Jones have re-
turned to Wheeling for few weeks.
Mrs. S. W. Davis, Of jamestown, N.
Y, spent part Of last week in the Park,
looking after matters connected with
the School of Missions.
Isabelle Ellen Calls. daughter of
Joseph Calls, died at the home of her
grandmother, Mrs. Welch, on | street
Friday night. aged years. Interment
took place at the Flatwoods cemetery.
Mrs. Catherine Gibbs and family will
move from the Dare cottage to Mrs. E.
T. Talson's cottage No. 2. and occupy
it for the remainder of the season.
The electric light plant will be in
operation about the middle of June.
The plant is being put in condition for
operation and the street lines repaired.
Mr.. Herbert Leighton, who has been
employed at Clarksburg, W. Va. for
several months, has returned to his
home IN Loeb Lynn.
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Empire Theatre Program.

Two of Americas brilliant movie
stars will be the attraction at the EN-
pire. Theatre very shortly.
Tonight Thursday Billie Burke will
appear in the Mysterious Miss Kelly, "
play of more than ordinary interest.
Monday and Tuesday nights of next
week that famous premier of the films,
Douglas Fairbanks, will hold the at
traction of the crowds sure to be pre-
sent in Reaching for the Moon"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1918-05-30
Close of Schools.

Exercises in connhction with the clos
ing of schools in this county next week
will be held as follows: Deer Park,
Wednesday evening; Oakland High and
Kitzmiller, Thursday evening; Friends
vile High and Oakland Grammar, Fri
day evening.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1918-05-30
Services Tonight.

In compliance with the message of
the President, an appropriate service
will be held in the Presbyterian church
on Thursday evening at o. clock. This
is intended to represent the community
and all are most cordially invited to at
tend.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1918-05-30
Memorial Service.

The Garrett county W. o. w. will
have their annual memorial services at
Pleasant Valley, Sunday at II a. m.
Rev. Fallon will deliver the address.
They will meet at the hall at Loeb
Lynn and go in automobile to the
church at which the services will take
place. A very cordial invitation is ex-
tended to all to attend the service.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1918-05-30
X. of p. Notice.

All member. of Garrett Lodge No 113,
K. of P. are hereby notified to meet at
our Castle Hall on Decoration Day
Thursday. May 30th, at 10 o'clock a. m.
By order of the Lodge.
THOS. J. C. LITTLE,
K. of R. & S.
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Went TO-Camp.

Thomas Delbert.Murphy. of Swanton,
but a registrant in Tucker county,
West Va, where he is employed went
with the Tucker county contingent of
selected men to Camp Lee. Va, Mon
day.
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Notice.

Notice is hereby given to all who are
indebted to me to make payment by
Saturday next to Miss Julia Rowan.
who has charge of my books, and ali
parties who hold accounts against me
will please present the same to Miss
Rowan.
Adv. JOHN D. DARBY.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1918-05-30
NOTICE.

Onoer conditions now existing :.
becomes becomes necessary for me to chsnee M. ~
business to STRICTLY CASH my
Ao'' 1877" JOHN w. DAVIS
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HIGH SCHOOL
COMMENCEMENT
Program In Detail for Event
June 2-7.

The Oakland High School will have
its commencement beginning Sunday
June 2, at which time the baccaleurate
sermon will be preached in st. Marks
Lutheran church by Rev. S. E. Wicker,
Athe service to begin at 8 o'clock in the
evening, the program in detail being as
follows:
Prelude
Professional .............Th The class
HYMN No. LAG. Blessing and Honor"
....... ...................C Congregation
Evening Service, Page 62 Congregation
Psalm 120: Parts IA and Is Congregation
Scripture Lesson. ..........T The Pastor
Prayer. ..................T The Pastor
Hymn No. 424, walk in the Light"
Vocal olo. ...... Miss Orpah c. Ashby
Sermon.-''The Voyage of Life"
Violin Solo. Mr.. W. F. sunder nnrHn
Offertory, Page 81. .... Congregation
Hymn No. 554,-"He Leadeth Me"
Observation-Disclosures. Congregation
Evening Service, Page 65 Congregation
Benediction. ...... ...... The Pastor
Postlude
The Class Day program has been ar
ranged as follows and will be rendered
at the Maryland Theatre on Wednesday
evening next:
Class Song written by Robert Porter
Address of Welcome Robert Sliger
Class History. Victor Harvey
Piano Duet. $3.50. Mary Drake Naylor-
Lorena Falkenstein
Class Poem. Eva Falkenstein
Grafton .............R Robert Slger
Class Prophecy Margaret Sincell
Vocal Solo. Emma Rathbun
Class Will ..........M Margaret Glotfelty
Donors. Reva Dayls-Lorena
FalkensteIn
Toast. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. Frank Lyon
Class flower. Yellow Rose. Class
colors, Blue and Gold. Glass motto,
ITO be. rather that to be SEEN"
The Commencement Exercises will be
held in the Maryland Theatre on Thurs
day evening, June 6, at.8:15 o'clock.
The speaker will be Prof. C. H.
Richardson, Professor of English and
Public Speaking in the Maryland State
College.
The public is cordially invited to all
these exercises
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THE DEATH RECORD.
MRS. w. E. BURST.

MRS. w. T.. burst, BOND, aged Az
years, died at her home, May 10, from
complication of diseases. She had
been an invalid for two years. The
funeral services were held last Thurs
day afternoon and interment was at
Bond.
MRS. CORDELIA ELLEN BURST.
Cordelia Ellen burst was born March
20, 1878, and died May 10, 1918. aged
40 years. month and 20 days. She
was daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob
Blocher of New Germany. Twenty
years ago she was united in marriage
with VIM. E. burst and together they
lived happy life until the death angel
called her. To this union was born
eight children, four of whom preceded
her to life of bliss in infancy. She
leaves mourning their loss a husband,
four children. father and mother, five
sisters and one brother, besides a host
of relatives and friends who followed
her remains to their last resting place,
Funeral services were conducted at
Dry Run school house near her home by
Revs. Mechanic and McCauley, who de-
hvered very touching sermons to the
living, the text being Man is appoint
ed once to die, and then the judgment"
Mr.. w. &. Moon had charge of the
music Mrs. burst was a faithful
member of the M. E. church for many
years, always ready to do her Christian
duty and ready to lend helping hand
when health would permit her.
tuberculosis was the cause of her
death and two Of her sisters. Mrs. AL
bert Wilt and Mrs. Lincoln Wilt were
by her side when death came
Interment was made IN the burying
ground on the farm of s. F. Broad
water.
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Money to loan on Real Estate. E.
r. Jones, Attorney. Advertisement.
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-24
g. uspicious of
~ Patent Remedies

There is little use to sit down to coun-
Gil about Utopia when there arc pressing
problems of bread and butter, clothing and
shelter that demand Immediate attention.
Even if anybody were supremacy wise
enough to know what the ideal social order
should be and could hand us out in neatly
done up package the constitution and laws
thereof we would still have to make the
old order work while we were getting ready
for the new. But the American democracy
is suspicious of any ready made new social
order. 1t is willing to let the wise men
think and propose, and it is in a mood seri-
ously to consider their proposals, but in
the mean time it wants to meet the situa-
tion-and will.
But whether the problems be at hand or
distant, though inevitable all hands seem
to be agreed that some sort of instru-
mentality ought to be established forth
with to take both the near and the distant
view. Already three theories of the con-
stltution of this regenerating and remodel
Ing medium have been advanced The Re-
publicans maintain that as the problems are
vital and elemental they are essentially
legislative problems. especially in view of
the fact that Republican Congress has
just been elected which feels that if to the
Democrats fell the monumental wax oppor-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-24
Washington Is Struggling With
the Many Problems of
kecOnVerSiOn

The first step toward REIMBURSEMENT then
was merely one toward chaos. and alreadv
there has been backing up in this re-
spect The indscriminate cancellation of
contracts has been stopped and now the
war Department is creating a board to
pass on the question of continuing or
stopping production on all the larger con-
tracts. The War Industries Board is be-
ing advised Of cancellations in advance
so that it can use its knowledge of the
situation to replace cancelled orders with
the non-essential requirements that have
been held up during the war, or with the
requirements of the Allies and neutrals
Tor materials for reconstruction and re-
placement
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-24
w Railroads ?

In the matter of the railways and the
mercantile marine we are brought now
squarely to the issue Of public versus PR
vate ownership. Before the war we seemed
to be away from government owner
ship in regard to either. The government
now holds the railways, holds the private
ly owned ships, and is building a vast mer-
chant feet of its own. The question of
the shipping policy will have to be settled
soon, and the railway question must be dis
posed Of within twenty-one months after
the war ends
The subject of public improvements con-
tains immense possibilities relating to the
public welfare. There is talk of spending
$500,00O,000 on a great system of national
highways The figure doesn't seem to-
worry any one. On the existing roads and
those to be built it is proposed to put into
service by the tens of thousands trucks
that were made for war and may now serve
in peace. The city and the country, the
producer and the consumer. are to be
brought into direct and rapid connection
with each, other
The most concrete and at the same time
the most stupendous and novel of all the
great material projects of the new age ID
Secretary Lanes plan to reclaim something
like 250,000,000 acres of unused lands, turn
them into readymade, completely equipped
farms and sell them to returning soldiers,
war workers and others on very longtime
payments. Thus would be created homes
for 10000, 600 peoplc-20 000, 900 producers.
And beyond this scheme is the conception
that II land no tod ri he
larry that unused estates shall be broken
up and put into small holdings.
Nor should the governmental public
social regenerative and elevatng agencies
be overlooked Americans arc stubborrly
committed to the belief that no matter how
much the government may undertake to do,
there some things that can always be
done better by private individuals or non-
governmental agencies.
The Red Cross, the Y. NJ. GA and SINH
lar bodies and the community service or
CARNATIONS have come into their own
through the war. They will go as a result
of the to an even greater work in
peace. The government and its works will
stand for justice and equality and the
square deal but these organizations will
be the national expressions in substantial
form of the nations high moral aspirations.
of its sense of human fellowship, brother
hood of man and the three old-fashioned
virtues Of faith, hope and charity. All OF
these organizations, chiefly supported as
they are by the great wealth of the nation.
are full of the new impulse toward better
and higher world. not in the great beyond.
but here and now
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-24
War Has Altered the United States
---Peace Finds Us I'm
prepared

visibility of increased use of machinery,
with view to reducing the need for un-
skilled workmen to a minimum. 1t has
been discovered that the nation has a.
great asset in its enormous numbers of un-
skilled men who may be turned into skilled.
Tins more than ever directs attention TO
the fact that American industrial supremacy
be maintained with the machine and
the highly paid skilled laborer against the
hand labor of other countries The Ship
ping Board is planning its ships more and
more to be congeries of complex machinery,
which it will take skilled and intelligent
men to operate. In this way it is hoped
to be able to compete on the sea against
the cruder ships and large crews of I'M
skilled seamen of other nations.
AS the war progressed the Federal gov
eminent more and more took the whole
field of employment into its hands. This
was done a war measure, but it is
not thought that the question of get
ting employer and employee together can
ever again be relegated to private manage
the United States it is held that only
the Federal government can properly act as
general employment agency. Some per-
manent machinery for dealing with the dis.
tribution Of labor in scientific manner is
considered inevitable.
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lite and conduct Of the American people dur
ing the war, and had the dominant hand in
mussing up the old Order he is the logical
one to take the initiative in laying the
foundations of the new era. Technically
the war is still going on, and his vast war
powers arc still active 1t is not to be
forgotten, cithcr that he has the larger por-
ton of a contingent fund of 100000, 900
on hand to spend as he pcascs While Con-
gress Is playing politics with the subject the
President can go ahead and appoint COM
mittees end commissions galore, and he can
get the best brains of the country in and
out of the government to survey and sub
nit a solution of every problem that vexes
the people and the state.
Whether in relation to the near future
or in relation to that more distant golden
age OF reform and perfection that many
generous souls look TO see issue from the
present confusion, here are some of the big
questions on which the national wellbeing
rests:
1. The labor problem and the manifold
relations of labor and capital.
? Maintaining and increasing the VOL
ume of production Of wealth.
o. i OiSlSu tldNc pOllcy, Win winch is
Intimately bound up the spacious -ques-
ton of a policy for the new national
merchant marine.
l. Domestic trade policy including con-
troll and regulation OF great corporations
which have become more powerful
through the war.
5. Public Improvements on vast scale.
such as highways, river, harbor and
canal improvements, ocean terminals and
the ambitious land reclamation projects.
6. Future ownership and control of the
railways.
T. Universal military training
s. Universal education and vocational
training.
In dealing with these subjects. and. even
more, in dealing with the greater matter
that is vaguely named as the creation of
a new social order. it is realized that this
1.-THE opportunity Of cycle for a great
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-24

tunity to them rightfullv belongs the
equally vast reconstruction opportunity. OF
course the Republicans feel that the next
Congress is the one that should take up
the work. SO they would like to see the
matter deferred until after March 4, when
they would have Congress called together
in special session. The Republican idea
is to have joint Congressional commit
foreign trade, interstate transportation,
domestic trade, relations Of employers and
employees and national resources. If Con-
gress is to have an immediate hand in the
tangle the Democrats would prefer a per-
mancnt reconstruction commission author
lied by act Of Congress, with numerous
membership at liberal salaries and supplied
with large staff This is embodied in
Senator Overman's bill, which was hurriedly
drafted after Senator Weeks, of Massa-
chusetts, embodied the Republican idea in
joint resolution.
rhc Democrats, however are not working
overtime on the Ovcrman bill They are
waiting for signal from the White House.
Perhaps they got this signal at confer
encc some Democratic Senators had with
the President Tuesday evening. The Presi-
dent is believed to hold to the view that
since he is commander in chief of the army
and navy and was general regulator of the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-24
Lreedom For
l. Little Business

Concerning the regulation of domestic
trade, it is said that the incidence Of war
industry has contributed greatly to the
fertilization of powerful corporations and
that unless new ways are found of provid-
ing opportunity for small corporations and
individual businesses, they will have very
hard shedding hereafter
The industrial side of the war has re-
vealed the fact that it is possible with
comparatively little training, though of an
intensive nature, to convert an unskilled
workman into skilled one In shipbuild-
ing, Tor instance, green men have been
turned into skilled workers in six weeks. in
stead of the several years that we're deemed
necessary IN peace times. 1t has also been
found an easy matter to convert skilled
man from one trade to another. These
facts have directed attention to the adj
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-24
Mo Return to
l. y The Old Order

Take the labor problem. 1t is scarcely an
eXaggeration to say that the war has revo-
lutionizcd relations between employers and
employees and that the latter have derived
from it advantages that they resolved
not to surrender The National War Labor
Board will expire as such with the coming
of peace, but it has built up a body of
extra legal capital-labor Jurisprudence that
is not likely to be overthroWn. In some
form its work will have to continue in
peace. its policies and its interpretations
have firmly established in the popular mind
the permanence of such things as a limited
working day, a minimum living wage, the
right of employees to organize, collective
bargaining and equal pay for women. The
cight-hour day, as basis at least, has be-
come almost UNIVERSAL Even the United
States Steel Corporation, which long MAIN
tanned that it was not suited to the steel
industry, has accepted it. But the War
Labor Board, though sort of supreme
court for the settlement of disputes between
labor and capital has not been alone. Some
eight ten adjustment commissions have
dealt with labor matters in as many differ
ent groups of relations between employers
and men where the government was con-
cerned Permanent committees of en-
ployers and employees in the major trades
have been created. Everywhere the view
has gained ground that industry belongs
not to capital or to labor, but to both. We
have made great steps toward the democra-
thing Of industry without infringing on the
conception of private property.
Now labor is going to insist henceforth
that it be spared the misery of unemploy-
ment 1t has practically won the conten-
ton for minimum living wage, no matter
what the work. Now it desires continuity
of income. That means that somehow en-
ployment buffers must oe created The pro-
posed solution of this problem is that all
great public works be held in reserve for
periods OF business depression, absorbing
workers times get bad and dispensing
with them times improve and private
employment calls to them. Samuel Com
pers told us the other day that labor is 60
ing to insist on the high rate of wages it
has won during the war. AS long as infla-
ton keeps up and business keeps going on
the present plane that is possible, but when
the purchasing power of the dollar begins
to increase nominal wages will begin to go
down. But whether measured in nominal
or actual pay, wages will henceforth be
higher. Labor will get and capital
less the wise ones tell US Ii that be the
case, it is the business Of government to
help industry to keep its wheels turning
at all times, and we come to problems
of increasing production and finding outlets
for the goods. Moreover, the policy of the
various labor adjustment boards of
regulating wages according to the purchas-
ing power of the dollar supplies the begin
nings OF scientific method OF determining
nominal wages in order to keep real wages
IN line with the varying cost of living.