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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1922-10-19
GENERAL

Z. F. Cradle defeated for reelection
as head Of Maintenance of Way Emu
plOyees and Railway Shop Laborers at
Detroit.
United States forces organize for
relief work in Smyrna; Archie Roose-
welt comes from Texas for the cam
paign.
DenOuncing the officials of Middle
sex and Somerset counties, New Jer-
sey, for "bungling stupidity" counsel
for Mrs. Frances Y and her family
wrote asking Governor Edwards to
take from these officials control Of the
Investigation of the murder Of her hus-
band and Mrs. Eleanor Mills.
A $2G,OO0,OOO water power plan is
under construction in northern Arkan-
sas on the White River.
Thomas X. Glenn, member Of the
organizing committee, announced that
a holding company had been formed
10 retain control, in the South, of the
Coca-Cola Company, a $25,000,OOO cor
pOratiOn.
Crowds cheered Premier Lloyd
George in London when he returned
to Downing street from Manchester
where in an address he upheld his
Near East policies and challenged his
political foes to beat him on his
record.
American Railway Association re,
ports an increase in shortage Of cars
during week ended September 30 OF
24662.
Passengers and crew of steamship
City of Honolulu, on which fire broke
out in midPacific, taken safely from
nfeboats and RATS by freighter West
Faralon. Two hundred and eighteen
in all rescued.
international Mercantile Marine
gets Federal Court order restraining
execution of Dausherty liquor ban
ship seizure order may be modified
France to take appeal to League o.
Nations Court.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1922-10-19
GORTNER
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Arthur Deitrick has purchased
new Durant car.
The stork left little Merrell Edgar
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob
Swartzentruber on October 7th.
Mr.. Daniel Spade, of Eglon, West
Va, preached for us Sunday morning
from the text, "What think We of
Christi"
There will be church services next
Sunday morning and evening. You
are cordially invited to attend.
Mr. Alvin Beachy, of Meyersdale,
spent the weekend with his brother,
Mr.. L. NJ. Beachy, at this place.
Mr.. and Mrs. B. H. Yoder returned
home Friday from a rev weeks visit
in Lancaster, Pa.
Some of our residents attended the
husking bee at J. T. Beckman's on
Saturday night.
Mr.. S. W. Slabaugh and Misses En-
ma Burkholder and Lena and Lizzie
Slabaugh spent Wednesday afternoon
with Mrs. John Ash, near Bittinger.
Mrs. Arthur Harvey returned to J.
D. Swartzentruber's Monday after
having spent the weekend with her
relatives at Mountain Lake Park.
Mr. Lester Moon and Misses Mary
Lichty and Emma Burkolder visited
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Vought Sunday
afternoon.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1922-10-19

Southern Railway directors vote to
resume dividends on preferred stock.
Charles E. Dawes praises Harding
as budget slasher, but has naught but
hard words for Congress.
Diabetic serum not Il cure but
big step forward, says New York ex-
pert; treatment costs $50 Il day.
Stillman's New York attorneys OPP
pose $50 day fee for divorce ref
cree and immediate decision on Gus
tOdy of children.
Deer hunting season opens in Adj
rondacks, New York
Veterans gather in New Orleans
for American Legion convention.
Condition of railroad rolling stock
continues to show marked improve
ment, the Association of Railway
Executives announced.
Cornerstone of the New York Cot
ton Exchange was laid by President
George NJ. Shut. Building will cost
$3,5OOO00.
Government will construct at HO-
bOken the largest pier at any port in
the United States for the accOmmo-
dation of the giant liner Leviathan.
United States Railroad Labor
Board granted wage increases of 2
cents an hour to 451,911 members of
the United Brotherhood of Main
tenance of Way Employees and Rail
road Shop Workers.
President Harding now expected 10
call special session of Congress for
November 20.
Clubwomens Federation, of New
York, indorses prohibition and de-
mands restoration of direct primary.
Clemenceaus New York visit I'M
der auspices of Council on Foreign
Relations, House reveals; what he'll
talk about still in doubt.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1922-10-19
WAY WORLD WAGS
told IN TAbLOIDS
Big Stories and Minor Events
Blue PenCiIed Into Quickly
Read Paragraphs.
O0INGS AT NATIONS CAPITAL
Happenings That Caused Stir Briefly
Observation-Disclosures About the
Progress of Things in General
Throughout the World.
DOINGS AT NATIONS CAPITAL
WASHINGTON

The Hague arbitration 'ibunal
awards S1200O,00O to NOrwegians for
ship requisitiOning during war.
Changes in Nolstead act 10 facili-
tate liquor regulation enforcement be-
Ing urged on President Harding.
President delays naming Federal
Reserve Board head until after spe-
cial session of Congress.
International excitement over appli-
cation of American prohibition to for
eign vessels within the threemile lin
1t was regarded as almost certain to
throw the whole issue back into Con
gresS
President Harding in letter to House
Leader Mondell praises work of Re
publican Congress.
Secretary Mellon announces sub
scriptiou books closed to governments
half-billion long term loan but still
open for subscriptions to be paid for
by Victory notes.
The United States will stand alOof
from the forthcoming International
Conference at Brussels, it was semi
officially stated.
Mrs. Harding able to sit up for
first time in five weeks.
Rear Admiral Thomas Washington,
chief Of Navigation Bureau, lauds
Great Lakes, H., as recruit training
station.
No protests received officially
from foreign governments on Daugh-
erty ruling barring liquor laden ships !;
court action initiated by Great Brit
ain expected soon.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1922-10-19
BITTINGER

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A little more justice and a little less
greed,
A little more virtue and a little less
speed
Would fill many seasons with laugter.
A little less shift ard a little more
thrift,
A little less drift and a little more
thrift
Would save many ships from disaster.
While husking corn in the field one
day last week John Klotz, one of our
progressive farmers, was always on
the lookout for red ear to carry in
to the new baby boy presented to he
and his wife by the stork on Monday
of last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. 0. Wiley, Of Oak
land, motored to this village last Sum
day afternoon for a brief visit with
relatives. On the trip Isl" expert
enced his first blowout.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles H. Wiley and
Misses Bertha Brenneman, Ethel Bit
finger and Leonard Wiley motored to
Cumberland last Saturday where they
spent the day shopping.
Mrs. Lydia Broadwater, of New
Germany, passed through this village
last Saturday morning en- route to Ac-
cident to attend the Soelders family
reunion which was held there on Sum-
day.
Joel Brenneman, of this place, has
been engaged as a tenant farmer on
Senator Speicher's farm at Accident
and Mr.. and Mrs. Brenneman will
soon move to their new home.
Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Broadwater, of
Sharpsburg, Pa, spent a couple of
days last week at this place with
Mr.. Broadwater's parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Perry H. Broadwater.
County Agent James fowler, of
Oakland, passed through this village
last Saturday en- route to points north
of Bittinger.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1922-10-19
FOOTBALL FAN DROPS DEAD

Exciting Play During Game Proves
Fatal to Man of 60 Years.
Cleveland-In the midst of n spec
tacular advance in the first period Of
the football game between Case
school of Applied Science and Woos-
ter College here, Case rooter
dropped dead. overcome with excite
ment when Case carried the ball to
Woosters fiye-yard line.
The name of the man was said to
be +. NJ. Kappel, 60 years old, of
Cleveland.
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U. S. GOLD AT RECORD

Nearly Four bIIIIohs m Stock on
October l.
New York-The gold stock Of the
United States made new high record
on October l at $3,S74,17S,711, an in
crease of $15,63O,5O9 over September 1.
BY months the yains have been as fol-
lows: September, $15,63O,509; August,
$33, 7O4,793; July, $39, 322,907; June,
S11 ,O502S1; May, S7,704,647; April,
16,148,045 March, $29,S61, SS4; Feb
ruary $39,S73,254, and January, $685.
893,S50
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Artists Treated TenderIy
And Able to Keep Property

Artists of every kind, beginning with
Chaliapin, have been treated by Lenine and
Trotzky with a fatherly tenderness, suf-
fered no hardship, been permitted to keep
their belongings, in luxuries as well as
necessities, and their landed estates. Cha-
liapin owns two houses in Moscow, one in
Petrograd, and a country estate besides.
In this ownership he has not been molested'
and it is known that in the harshest days
Of rationing this singer and his fellow ar
lists were given the best procurable, so
that other than altruistically they know
not what hardship means.
To quote the author whose departure
from Moscow was almost simultaneous
with Chaliapins own, another word or two
from her may he allowed 20 close the sub
iect. For Mrs. Harrison believes that Rus
sia under Lenine is passing through the
last evolutionary stages Their Govern
ment Is bound TO be permanent She said
to this writer in NJ. Chaliapin's hotel:
II am not apprehensive of the effects OF
Socialist and Boshevist doctrines. and
there is no danger of formal class warfare
in Russia. We are witnessing the exten-
sion OF the more retrograde districts to full
citizenship and to the benefits Of civiliza'
ton. In eastern Europe the revolution OF
1S4S freed the peasants from actual legal
serfdom. and the further stage OF giving
them full economic independence is now
in progress"
Acknowledging as he did the foreigners
forecast OF his country's future and fully
believing that its roseate hucs-such per
haps as shone on 1t in GATHERINGS day
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error to think we Russians never smile,
for we are born comedians!
"Perhaps Americans will learn to know
us better and grant us the possession OF
this wholesome trait when our evolution
has progressed little further 1t lives
and smiles in spite of everything and in
a strange atmosphere of dirt, Ignorance,
superstition there shine out qualities to
which this Russian smile lends the highest
light. For compounded with these things
which are being shaken off there have
never been found wanting devoted cour-
age, incredible patience and stoical endur-
ance."
No better opportunity would ever arise
than to slip to the singer the following
question:
what is the attitude, the mutual atti-
tude of artists and revolutionaries?
The genuine artist, according to NJ.
Chaliapin, is never the product OF an aris-
tocracy. or only now and then has the
world seen an exception to the fact that
from the people come the great dramatic
and lyric artists He is therefore in SYM
pathy with true democracy, not the democ-
racy which is a catchword Of politics. No
downfall Of civilization Is to be feared
when, as has been true in Russia through
out these fateful years. actors, singers,
dancers found in the people their truest
admirers and best friends.
What was true in France in her typical
revolution, when Talma acted and Arnould
sang and countless other actors and sing
ers and dancers kept open house in the
theaters. has been repeated in Russia.
A returned traveller, Marguerite Harri'
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return engagements in England, but my
stay anywhere must be short, for as a
feeble but earnest member of my Govern
ment I do not wish to be long away from
Moscow.
MY poor Moscow. My poor friends and
neighbors, who exist without heat, without
food! In spite of every evil l am hap
piest among my own, for whom I wish, as
| ought to do what can to brighten their
lives. Yes, IL is pleasant to be here. pleas
ant to see all the world again, but ones
home Is ever the goal, however wide the
circle.
"On my way passed through Berlin.
sang there indeed, and last saw my friend
Gorky. He is very i'll, very; his condition,
which is not new, for his lungs have long
been affected, ia very bad indeed. think
of him sadly often, and especially when in
my recitals / sometimes sing his words.
Or when I sing the "Chanson de Prison"
you see IL ends on a note of comedy.
All, we Russians are melancholy; the
world calls us so. but the world should
realize also that Russia is land of great
contrasts.
1T is this ignorance of Russia that is
most deplorable. People think we never
laugh there How mistaken are they! In
my music, know. the Russians, like my
self, love the romances and the dramas Of
our poets, they love the operas of Modest
Petrovitch Mussorgski-his Boris Godu.
non and 'Khovsnstchina,' but they love
more, yes, they adore The Barber OF Sc
VILE and that laughing opera OF Glinka.
in which as FdrldG made my debut in
Russian and Liudmilla II is a grave
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are to be seen again, there seemed to be no
good excuse for Chaliapin to be melan-
choly; he is so nevertheless.
Indeed, all the sons of Holy Russia give
this impression. Beyond the circle OF his
immediate scene seems to lie great space
1t often appeared to the writer that the
singer who sat opposite him at a small
table was not there. And as he talked OF
his country and his country's ballads,
which of all music he prefers to sing, this
impression deepened.
Outside the window there was not the
mere width of a city street but great
space which flowed through it, pressing
upon him as II the space were a windy
steppe, isolating him. causing him to ap
pear Indifferent to the effect of his words
making him seem sincere and open minded
The interviewer does not insist that
everybody would feel this uncanny effect
of isolation, but he wishes to convey the
impression made upon himself. Perhaps
il may have been due to Chaliapn's speak
ing in a tongue that was foreign TO him
self and TO his listener Language thus
used, passing thought through media, can
hardly fail to be evasive
In his own tongue Chaliapin is said to
talk not with the inevitable careful exact
ness-or stiffness-of translation, but flow
ingly. Even beneath this cloud the singers
speech revealed variety and transparency
The personal impression Of the singer jus
tiies the romantic which he has always
been said to convey with remarkable
emotional power. But he always came
back to earth after fusing his thought into
a moment of intensity, sending it out as
it were, to all the silent spaces and then
calling It back and turning away in the
end with little shrug of his shoulders
With the exception of the roles OF Lepo-
relic in "Don Juan" and Bdsilio in "The
Barber of Seville" Chaliapln has cut away
all except Russian opera. He expects to
sing the latter role in New York before
he departs, and is eager to do so.
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became aware of a manner as chilling as
any blast that blows across the steppes OF
Russia. Il reminded him of the proverb
which tells you what to expect when you
scratch Russian.
These chills, due to his temperament or
to a. lack of full understanding, did not
follow questions about the existing politl-
cal conditions OF his country, for questions
of this kind were not asked OF him. In
fact a condition that such queries were to
be omitted had been exacted before the
interview.
But as will be seen, Chaliapin could not
avoid talking about Russia and his own
people. He simply has to speak of these
things which are the fullness of his heart.
Whatever follows on this nature will be
considered as not having been provoked
from but advanced by him.
Remarking that owing to the excessive
heat kept on in New York houses, the basso
said he was always thirsty, and with that
he opened bottles of near beer" the best
he could provide, calling it with smile
and a funny accent prohibition beer"
Quafing it. he said that although efforts
we're being made to arrange for additional
appearances at the Metropolitan, he was as
yet only booked for one more. Three days
after Christmas he was to sing in recital
in Boston. and his other concert engage
ments included Chicago, Montreal, Detroit,
Philadelphia, Cleveland and New York. He
will return to Russia before spring
Chaliapins first appearance out of Rus
sia in seven years was made in Riga, and
on his way here he sang. in Czecho-Slova-
khan cities, Czecho-Slovakia being the first
country to sign a commercial treaty with
the Soviet Government of Russia, and from
there he went to Denmark EN- route for
England.
"Old friends met me wherever went"
said he, land Il was joyful to meet the
artists and others from whom l had been
so long isolated. I did not sing In Den
mark except in a sort Of trial of my voice
and at the Importantly of those comrades
who came to the ship to bid me bon roy
age.
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Eager to Show Just Why
Russians Adore Him

IL wish to show with what reason the
Russian people like me in this work, the
,ibretto OF which, although II does not fully
carry all of the revolutionary message of
Beaumarchais, yet has enough Of II to be
acceptable to the Russians. When our peo-
pie come 10 the opera to hear it they laugh
like fools.
"Rachmaninovs opera 'Aleko.' written
on a poem of Pushkin. is another great
iavorite in Moscow. | hope some day II
will be produced here and that ! may sing
the role. The poem, which was written
in 1924, belongs to the picturesque school.
AIehO is n social outcast, who figures over
and over again in Pushkin's work. Weary
of a conventional world he joins tribe OF
wandering gypses and falls in love with
their leader. the beautiful lem ira. For
time they are rapturously happy. until the
capricous girl is fascinated by a younger
man, a member of her own tribe
: "In the history of Zemtird that Of her
mother repeats itself and owing to this.
when the heroine is discovered about 20
flee with her gypsy lover and is killed
by Aieko the gypses, led by the old queen.
do not exact his life in punishment but
drive away from them the guest who has
brought discord and bloodshed into the
free and simple life of the caravan, and
the curtain falls upon the melancholy figure
OF Aleto left once more alone in the world.
Chaliapin's furlough. so TO speak, from
the Bolshevik Government is for -four
months. He sang constantly both for his
fee and for charity during the last seven
years which have seen Russia more or less
involved in war. His London concerts.
given on the way to this country, were at
tended by very great audiences. Asked
about the enormous fees which, IL had been
asserted, he had been paid by the Soviet
Government. Chaliapin smiled and said:
when | was IL received 20 rubles for
my first concert. For my latest concert I'm
Moscow got 100000 rubles. Both ices
were the same. about ten dollars"
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His Manner Freezes Us
When Chance Question Falls

These and other incidents Of the same
nature. presenting his career with the high
lights and dark shadows-for there is
prison gloom in it as we'll as the dazzle OF
the stage--were related easily and suavely,
without pretension, and with ready appli-
cation OF the graces of the French Ian
guage in which he told them. Everything
went smoothly and as was to be expected
in this interview. except that now and then
a question having been asked which fell
out of the general routine his interlocutor
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Chaliapin, Patriotic Russian Singer,
Reflects Love Of Country in His Roles

Great Muscovite Basso Gives Unusual Inter
view Telling of His Kindly Feelings Toward
America and Describing the Attitude of the
Soviets Toward Artists Appear at
Metropolitan Again, Probably in "The
Barber of Seville"
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son, in her book just published, called
"Marooned in Moscow" asserts this fact
with plentiful testimony. The theaters,
she says, were never so crowded and never
have done work so fine as since the revo-
luton in Russia. What the theater has
attained in this distracted period the world
has yet to learn. II has thrived abun-
dantly.
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Tells of Desire to Please
On His American Tour

America, your United States, welcomes
me again, and / give it my best with full
appreciation of its unfailing kindness. /
have sung in both South and North Amer
lea, in France, Italy and Germany and
England, but nowhere, outside OF Russia,
with better zest and the strong wish TO
please. AS go home 7 shall stop TO I'll
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Like Tamagno, Is the Victim
of Anecdote Monger.

Chaliapin, like Tamagno, has been vic
tim of the anecdote mongers the yarn
about the tenor washing his own SOCKS
and drying them on the footboard of his
bed and the stories of how Chaliapin, Tar
tar or cave man, used to seize chicken in
either hand and devour them simultane-
ously, are about all the younger generation
who never heard either man sing know
about them. Stories like these are never
diving: like truth, when crushed to earth,
they rise again.
The Chaliapin of to-day on the Metro.
politan boards and in his hotel apartment
seems like vast improvement over his
former self, at least to one cold observer.
This observer remembers with a shudder
of dislike the picture he gave of Mephisto-
pheles in Boitos score. In its knotted
nakedness it ranks in his memory with
that one of Salvini, when, to represent the
virility of Samson, the actor attached
sheepskin. with the hair outside, to his
breast Neither picture is pleasant mem-
ory, but the Mephisto in its effect of naked
ness seemed more true. There is no ac-
count extant which says that Lucifer, son
of the morning packed any clothes when he
took his sudden exodus from heaven.
liapin in his temporary home in New York
Is that of a well bred man of the world
suave, easy and tactful, he talked of him
self without false modesty, dwelling only
on the things which hold a general inter
est, like his early and unprotected days in
his birthplace, Kazan. where only ambition
and will power gained him the knowledge
OF how to read and write. lie told Of how
he learned the trade of shoemaker, while
his chum, Maxim Gorky, was apprenticed
to baker in a shop opposite, and how the
two, breaking away from these humdrum
surroundings, got work on railway load
ing cars with melons for IL cents a day.
He explained how he Joined band Of
strolling players, learned to act a little
and to sing little, and how, eventually.
he became a pupil Of Oussotof in Tihis en-
est mort" interiected Chaliapin). and after
a years study st the age Of IL made a
debut In the opera "Galka" in that city.
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AS the remorseful Gear in Boris
Godunof," Mussofgski's best known
opera here, Chaliapin exhibits his great
histrionism.