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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1923-10-18

DR.. John d. Darby, Messrs. Fred.
Peddicord, Dewey May, Robert Hell
big and Joseph Hinebaugh left Oak
land Saturday afternoon by motor
for New York City, it being their in
tention to witness the Sunday after
noon game between the Yankees and
Giants, but on account of The preva-
lence of fog for the last 25G miles of
the journey they did not arrive in the
city until too late to obtain tickets to
the ball grounds, hence they returned
Immediately, arriving here Monday at
noon
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1923-10-18
Advertisement Salt.

Mrs. John Sellers and two daugh-
tiers, Misses Mercedes and Beatrice,
have gone to Baltimore where the
Misses Sellers will continue their art
work in the Maryland School of Art
this winter, both young ladies having
studied in the same school last year.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1923-10-18

Rev. J. c. Buckley, Pastor
Sunday school, 1000 a. m. Mr.. E.
R. Jones, superintendent.
Public worship, HOO a. m.
Epworth League, GAS p. m. This is
the young peoples meeting and every
one should be present.
Evening worship and sermon, 1880.
Junior League, Wednesday, Ais p.
m. Miss Grace Loar, superintendent.
Prayer and social meeting, Wednes-
day, 1880 p. m.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1923-10-18
Notice of Parents Meeting

A meeting of the fathers and moth
ers of those children who are twelve
years old and over and who are at
tending the Oakland Grammar School,
is to be held at the school building
Friday afternoon, October 10Th, at
$50. A good attendance is earnestly
desired.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1923-10-18

Miss Helen Townshend, who spent
several weeks with her brother, Mr..
Fred. Townshend, at Parkersburg, w.
Va, returned to her home in Oakland
Monday night.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1923-10-18
OAKLAND SHOE COMPANY
WILL ORGANIZE TONIGHT
At Meeting To Be Held at The
Court House At 700 O'clock

Tonight at the hour of seven o'clock
those interested in the organization
and erection of a shoe factory, which
has been under contemplation for sew
eral months by a number of the citi-
zens of Oakland who have shown their
interest and subscribed many thou
ands of dollars to the capital stock of
the concern, will be held for the pur-
pose of completing the incorporation
and organizing the company by the
election of a board of directors and
officers to manage and operate the
company.
It is important that every person
interested in the company be present
at this meeting.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1923-10-18
St. Matthew's Parish, Oakland

Rev. VIM. F. BayIe, Rector.
Sunday, October 81, twenty-frst Sun
day after Trinity.
1000 o'clock, Sunday school.
HOO o'clock, Morning prayer and
sermon.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1923-10-18
CHURCH NOTICES.

Garrett Memorial Presbyterian, Oak
land.
Rev. Henry A. Grubbs, Pastor.
Sunday school at 1000 o'clock a. m.
HOO a. H., morning worship.
Gas p. M, Christian Endeavor.
7:30 p. NJ, evening worship.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1923-10-18


Now is the time for all real men of
Oakland to come to the aid Of their
City. Society the world over makes
a demand on every citizen according
to their resources; consequently there
is much to be gained by volunteering
your services when opportunity PIE
sents itself. Giving credit to the fact,
that it is only reasonable every effort
should be rewarded. And remember
the least respected fish that sWims the
ocean is the jelly fish, because they do
not have any backbone.
The time is here, opportunity is
knocking and we are going to meet it..
Can you be depended on to share the
responsibility? Yes, and the results
will be musical salutation of sirens
calling our workmen into position
permanently employed with a comfor-
table livelihood.
In any event we must not allow
ourselves to be accused of incOm-
patibiiity. 60. .-.. ..... -.
Respectfully yours,
CHARLES T. RILEY, Sec'y,
Oakland Chamber of Commerce.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1923-10-18

Send your Job Printing to The Re-
publican Job Printing Office.
Evening star., 1923-05-27
SPARE TIME WORK,

S75 10 500 per month selling tires and
tubes (well known standard make) to friends
and. acquaintauces. No investmeDt-you Sc
cure the order and purchaser calls at centrally
located stores. where tires may be mounted.
Excellent opportunity for government clerks,
office building employees, ETC., to make vaca-
tion money and to secure own tires at whole
sale prices. State place of employment, home
address and phone number. Address Box 12S-
A. Star office
Evening star., 1923-05-27

AUTO PAINTERS.
Steady work for good men. Apply at once
2O1S 18th NV.
Evening star., 1923-05-27

STEE0GRAPHER. patent law, e1nFienred.
desires permanent position. Washington. Ad
dress A: Parry, care Chappeil Earl, ksIs
mazoo. Mich.
Evening star., 1923-05-27

STENOGRAPHER-TYPIST-
Good opportunity for party with
experience, speed and accuracy;
salary to start, $40 week. Ad-
dress Box 45-Z, Star office.
Evening star., 1923-05-27

RECEPTfoNiSf, Photographic studio expert.
desires position in Washington where he-
selling ability and experience will count; now
engaged. Address Box 32l-Z, Star Office. 27'
Evening star., 1923-05-27

STEN0GRAPHER, ca pable, with years eK
perience In patent lawyers office: has kuow-
edge Of bookkeeping. Address Box I7T-T
Evening star., 1923-08-19

OF outrageous bunk, which is doing
unspeakable harm.
Recently I sat in the lobby of a
famous and beautiful hotel. 1t was
the dinner hour. Hundreds of women
filed by me. Now, I have been accus-
toned to the sight of women for
quite number of years. I'm one of
'em myself. There even were women
when 1 was girl. They might, in
fact, be said to be ONE of our COM
monest vegetables. But you'd never
have suspected it from the display in
that hotel lobby.
1t was evident that every lady there
present considered herself to be at
least an orchid. The looms Of India,
the mines Of Africa and the bureau
drawers Of paradise had been rif1ed
to frame their feminine charms. They
made the best harems of Turkey look
like a factory girls picnic.
"Ah. ha,' l hear some feminine
reader exclaim, land yet you say you
don't believe in clothes! Just look
what clothes did for those women"
That's exactly the point I'm COM
ing to, my dear. Just what did
clothes do for those women? Follow
me, Sadie, and you'll find out. If /
fail to prove my point the crepe de
chine diploma is all Yo4rs,
Evening star., 1923-08-19

"Oh, far behind that" he say-so
"In the Year Of Zero all American
Indians meet in Congress and declare
they shall keep the quota down to O..
Then in yr. 1892 long come a boat
load of steerage passengers to Ply
mouth Rock. All Indians come run
ming. Pocahantas, Rolling Bull. Capt
Kidney and Gen. Tammany was stand
ing on shore with arrows. bricks &
other krude weppons OF their time
"'Who go there? holla Chief Poca-
hantas with voice.
Pilgrims.' yall Hon. Capt. Of
Mayfiower.
what you got in boat?' snarrel
Hon. Indian.
bibles & rum annotate Hon.
Capt.
"'Send the rum ashore and go
home,' howell all those Abe brightness,
putting special poison on their ar
rows and taking carfull anne. So it
was when America commenced"
x i: x =
CXI1ERE that the first Immi grafton
W Axclusion Act?" 1 ask il.
"Pussibly," say Nogi. White per-
sons was forbidden to get off boat"
Maybe that are tho reason why
there are only 10000, 900 of them now
survivaling in America" I pronounce.
Human persons are very much like
cats verify Nogi. When you shut
the door with kick they find a way
to make themselves welcome by croll-
ing through a hole under the wood
box"
HUSKY" I whasper. "If you
should be heard saying that somebody
might sispect you was referring to
several honest japanese, now residing
in Oakland, California
Hoping YOU are the same
Yours truly
HASHIMCRA TOGO.
Copyright, 1923. in United States and Great
Britain.)
Evening star., 1923-08-19

cruelty about this immigration Pro-
gram are this: Considerable ailians
will have to be sawed in before they
can be admitted to America"
'Horrus!," I relate. who could
think up such tortures?"
Same gentlemen what invented the
18th Amendment, maybe" narrate
Nogi. Hon. Law say-so, Immigra-
tions can come into America In same
proportion as the number Of wives,
sweethearts & etc he had here in
$780, This might make it easy, but
will it?"
by that law" 1 renig. "ia of me
would have to go back to Japan, be-
cause 1 only had a y sister here in
$780,
More comickle things could hap
pen than that" amputate Nogi For
instancely. in n. Y. News Print I read
how one % Green Man arrive to
U. S. quarantine by boat. Pretty
soonly long come immigration In
spectus with questionable.
"'Where born, If anywhere?'
"I come from the little known Re-
publick of Yok.' say Hon. Green Man.
making liquid words through his ears
"Yok? Yok?' require Hon. In
spectus like menageries. How many
Inhabitants have that so-called Re-
publick?'
~ narrate Hon. Green Man, and
they are all Republicans
THAT will be a point in your
favor report Hon. Inspectus.
land 1 are the entire quota from
Yok.' survive this grass-colored per-
sonality.
0GN vOT SO swiftly say Hon. In,
spectus for sweetly smiling.
with speed in his feet he go to Quar-
antine Library and pull out Vol. X
Y. q. After reading it with his
thumbs he arrive to Yok where he
look until satisfied
Evening star., 1923-08-19

al sorra,' he negotiate when COM
ing back. But I find upon serching
that this Republick of Yok had only
ono % citizen in America in yr. 1890.
This give your position a very delicate
flavor. Can you not SEQ? Accurding
to immigration Law U. S. cannot ad-
nit more than Il of 10 of totall num-
Der of citizens Of any country what
was here in 1890. Do I mako plain in
that language l speak?
TOO plenty say Hon. Yokker with
si & grone.
"'You have an intellectul face
permeatc Hon. Inspectus. Therefore
the arithmatick will be easy for you
to see. To find the amount of your
quota. merely divide yourself by .
and take 60 OF what remains. That
part of YOU will be welcome to Amer
lea with all privileges to vote and
buy an ottomatic revolver
~ think I shall go back to Yok,'
lambent that leafy man.
SCOT yourself say Hon. Inspectus
with generosity peculiar to officials.
But before ! CO. say Hon. Yok
with weeping face, I should like to
leave IL of 10 of me in America O
Sir, Would you so kindishly take this
red banana hankerchif, wet with
tears, TO my brother Sigismund in
Medicine Hat
eyes, I cannot" growell Hon. In
spectus. L cannot carry tear-drops
in duty free because Of high tariff on
optickle goods"
While Nogi told me that phenom-
email I stand ghast.
"Are IL nice & proper" ] ask to
Srrw. --Sr white persons to shove
people off from America merely be-
cause of their color or the way they
wear their legs?'
America have been always axclu-
sive to Immigrants" Nogi simmer.
Even behind the year 1902" l re-
quesh.
Evening star., 1923-08-19

lust what did those clothes do for
- their wearers? They should have
done a great deal in return for their
staggering cost in money and man
power-you'll admit that. They should
have changed many quite ordinary,
rather stupid, spineless ladies into
piquant personalities. Did they?
They did not.
1t is self-evident that before you
can acquire any power over other
humans you must do a little some
thing beside wear clothes. You must
open your mouth to emit few words
or absorb a little food. You must
register a few emotions with your
face, or at least affect the posture of
an intelligent audience. Clothes
won't do the whole job.
Well, these women were quite will
ing to open their mouths and say
few words. They were more than
willing. Nothing could have stopped
them, in fact. And the instant they
did 1T all bets were off. Their clothes
were of the most expensive import
ed brocaded gold tissue. But their
thoughts were all cheap, domestic
gingham, 12h cents a yard.
That's the whole argument against
this mad trust in clothes which pos
sesses US, They. don't do what NE
Evening star., 1923-08-19
How Bessemer Cut
The Price of Steel

TT was Sir Henry Bessemer. the
i British investigator, who devised
the process bearing his name for
making steel. This process revolu
tionized industrial conditions. 1t be-
longs to the same category with the
invention of the printing press and
the introduction of the steam engine
in its relation to human progress
Steel is a compound of iron with a
rendered malleable by being cast
while in a state of fusion. Cast iron
is iron with a much larger percentage
of carbon and other impurities. Bes-
semer's process converts cast iron in
to steel by blowing a blast of cold air
through melted cast iron. The oxygen
of the air burns out the carbon,
until the right proportion is reached,
and then the steel is cast.
The effect of the process has been
to cheaper steel. and to increase its
use enormously. In 1855, when Bes-
semer took out his first patent, steel
sold in England for seven times it's
present price.
Bessemer shared the common lot of
inventors in encountering incredulity
when his discovery was first an
nounced, but he was more fortunate
than most inventors. He lived to en-
Joy the rewards Of fame and fortune,
and to witness the worldwide
adoption Of his process.
sThe first Bessemer steel rail ever
laid down was at Derby, England, in
1857. 1t was placed at point where
it had been necessary to renew the
iron rails once In three months be-
cause of incessant wear. 1t was not
taken up for sixteen years, during
which time million and a quarter
trains passed over 1t.
1t In to the Bessemer process that
We owe the development of our great
Evening star., 1923-08-19

railway systems. Teh giant locomo-
tives which draw long trains across
the continent and the steel rails upon
which they run are due TO his dis
covery. 1t is estimated that the
Bessemer process has reduced the
cost of land transportation almost
two-thirds; and it has also greatly
cheapened transportation by water,
1t has opened great tracts of fertile
country which could not have been
reached otherwise. and has given the
farmer good markets. In the develop
ment Of electric railways, it has
brought together scattered villages
and given new opportunities for in
tercourse.
We owe to the Bessemer process
the improvements in our modern
steamships, the strength and light
ness of the bridges which cross our
rivers, countless modern forms OF
machinery and their cheapened prod
ucts, and the 'skyscrapers" Of oar
great cities. which could not have
been built save by the use of steel.
1t gives an impressive idea or
human possibilities that these vast
changes should have been wrought
by the genius of a single man.
Evening star., 1923-08-19
STORIES BECOME SHORTER STILL
ng On With the Condensation Craze In Fiction.

A MONG the latest follies in fic-
~ ton is the perpetual demand
"A for stories shorter and shorter
\ still. The only thing to do is
to meet this demand at the source
and check it, Any of the stories be-
low, If left to soak overnight in a
barrel Of rainwater. will swell to the
dimensions OF a 81 novel.
AN IRREDUCIBLE DETECTIVE
STORY.
HANGED By A HAIR.
OR,
A MURDER MYSTERY MINIMIZED.
The mystery had now reached it's
climax First, the man had been un-
doubtedly murdered. Secondly, it
was absolutely certain that no con-
ceivable person had done IT.
1t was therefore time to call in
the great detective.
He gave one searching glance at
the corpse. In moment he whipped
out microscope.
"Ha! ha.' he said, as he picked a
hair off the lapel of the dead mans
coat "The mystery Is now solved"
He held up the hair.
Listen" he said, I'VE have only
to find the man who lost this hair
and the criminal is in our hands"
The inexorable chain of logic was
complete.
The detective set himself to the
search.
For four days and nights he moved.
unobserved. through the streets Of
New York scanning closely every face
he passed, looking for a man who had
lost hair.
On the fifth day he discovered a
man disguised as a tourist, his head
enveloped In steamer cap that
reached below his ears. The man was
about to go on board the Gloritania.
The detective followed him on
board.
ARREST him." he said, and then
drawing to his full height, he bran
dishing aloft the hair.
This is his" said the great de-
tective. 'It proves his guilt
Remove his hat" said the ships
captain sternly.
They did so.
The man was entirely bald.
"Har' said the great detective,
without a moment OF hesitation.
HE has committed not ono murder
but about million"
Evening star., 1923-08-19

During all this time women were
calling TO him. He knew and came
to be friends with
Margaret Jones,
Elizabeth Smith.
Arabelle Thompson,
Jane Williams.
Maud Taylor.
And he also got to know, pretty
well,
Louise Quelquechose,
Antoinette Alphabette,
and Estelle Etcetera
And during this same time Art be-
gan to call him
Pictures began to appeal to him
Statues beckoned to him,
Music maddened him,
and any form OF Recitation
or Elocution drove him
beside himself.
Then, one day, he married Mar
garct Jones.
AS soon as he had married her
he was disilluG:oned.
He now hated her
Then he eloped with Elizabeth
Smith
lie had no sooner sat down with
her, than
He hated her.
Half mad, he took his things over
to Arabella Thompson's fiat to elope
with her.
Tho moment she opened the door
of the apartment, he loathed her.
He saw her as she was.
Driven sane with despair, he then
(Our staff here cut the story OFF.
There are hundreds and hundreds OF
pages after this. They show Edward
Endless graphing in the fight for
clean politics. The last hundred
pages deal with religion. Edward
finds I after a big fight. But no one
reads these pages. There are no
women in them. Our staff cut them
out and merely show at the end
Edward Purified
Uplifted-
Translated.
The whole story is perhaps the
biggest thing ever done on this con-
tinent. Perhaps.)
(CopyriEht. 1897
Evening star., 1923-08-19

Backs San Francisco for Convention.

"O the editor: l don't know il
my boy readers has became
aware Of it or no but they
4 seems TO be a movement on the
foot to hold the next democratic con-
vention in y. Y. city and personly I
always been on the other side of the
fence and did not have no idear that
anybody was thinking OF holding an
other democratic convention as I
thought they had enough of them but
It seems like theys one newspaper
that is plugging for y. Y. as the next
democratic convention city and need
les 10 say they have got the idea that
If the convention is held in y. Y. why
another president and vice president
will be nominated to run on the
democratic ticket on acct. Of every
body being overcame by the heat in
Evening star., 1923-08-19
listen, World! 94 Ef;E ES:7: F5S;s;5r 6;

" HIS space is supposed to be
dedicated to the great problems
Of humanity. That's what the
4 editor pays for, and that's what
you're supposed to find when you open
the paper TO this page. All right
you'll find it. This talk is going to
be about one Of the greatest. if not the
greatest, problems Of humanity.
1t is going to be about a problem
which transcends in interest any
discussion OF wars, treaties or possi-
bile judgment days. 1t concerns a
subject which I am assured is doing
more to mold the daily life of modern
America than any other force unless
it be home brew; for We will now
discuss clothes.
You, dear reader. belong to one of
two classes. You either wear clothes,
or pay for 'em. In either case you
will feel acutely on the subject. So
lend an ear.
Let me start the discussion by
stating fatty that believe in clothes.
! believe in 'em because they're legal
and I'm no anarchist; also because
they keep off sunburn, icicles and
ants; also because if we didn't spend
our salaries on clothes. the income
tax would get it anyway; also be-
cause most people are a million times
better looking with clothes than
without 'em.
For all of these legal and utilita-
rian reasons I advocate clothes. But
that's as far as ! go on the clothes
question. And right here this article
starts talking hard sense.
x x x x
L an Importance Of the nth magni-
tude in America. We are clothes
to cajole some one else into adorning
US. We judge other people by their
clothes and expect them to so judge
us. II we are not clothed in gorgeous
expensiveness We are miserable
Patches, which were so common in
the best regulated families some
twenty years ago, are now the last
token Of an ignominious surrender to
fate. By clothes We conquer or are
conquered.
If you don't believe me, read the
ads. listen to chance conversations,
window shop for an hour or get mar
r:ss and pay a few bills. But you do
believe me, so why argue?
Now, IL clothes did all they are
said to do; II they in any way justi-
fed the faith we put in them,
wouldn't have a word to say. I be-
lieve in anything that gets you any
where. No process or accessory is to
be despised II 1t increases your charm,
influence and general helpfulnesr.
Most civilized humans are convinced
that clothes do these very things.
They are firmly sold on the idea
that clothes express personality and
add to power They have passed far
beyond that attitude which makes for
sane, sesmly dressing. Clothes have
become. an obsession. q religion. And
I hereby protest that its all a fabric
Evening star., 1923-08-19

think they're going to do. We de-
light in their gracious contours and
surfaces, and fondly imagine that by
wearing them we incorporate their
fineness, their exclusiveness, within
our own natures. We don't.
Lucille, who has never worn any
undies save those of rarest, pinkest
sickness, is not one whit more aristo-
cratic or refined or magnetic than
Mary Jane, her grandma, who wore
red flannels. The beautiful Mrs. Van
Tassel, who wouldn't dream Of buy
ing a suit which cost less than $3.50,
and only the simplest sport things
at that, proves herself as plain as
Mary in her $3.50 sales garment the
minute she opens her mouth.
The good old simile Of the sow's
ear and the silk purse holds, though
you wrap the sow in georgette from
the day she is born and bathe her
in perfumed waters. We are what
we are, and not what our clothes
seem to make us. The most beauti-
full raiment in the world can't hide
the fact that were blank cartridges,
IL such we happen to be.
X X X
NOR do these restrictions apply
~ only to tho society butterfly
They apply equally well to that large