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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1925-01-15
GORMAN

Mrs. Eearle Shank, of Schell, is
visiting her parents here.
Mr.. Russell Harvey and Mr.. Ray
mond Shreve, of Oak Grove, were
business callers at this place Satur-
day last.
Mrs. Betty King and Mrs. E. B.
Grim, of Gormania, were Bayard Wis
itors last Friday.
Miss Iva Ashby has returned to
Oakland after having spent Christ
mas at her home here.
Miss Cleona Pope has returned to
her home after a visit of several days
with friends in Cumberland.
Mrs. Daniel Schell is very i'll at
this time.
Miss Eugenia Schell and brother
Carl were guests of Frieda Clayton
on Thursday.
Miss Ida Vaughn was a dinner
guest of Mrs. Samuel Mason, Friday.
Rev. Johnson, pastor of the NJ. E.
church at Gormania, started a revival
meeting last Sunday week and it is
still in progress.
Miss Ruth Grub was the guest of
Mrs. Bertha King, Saturday.
Miss Bessie Eyer is very seriously
i'll with appendicitis at this writing.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. G. Williams have
returned home from Keyser, w. Va,
where they We're visiting their son
Lee.
Wenton Wildeson, Edna Foreback,
Raymond Shreve and Myrtle Ray. of
Oak Grove, ATTENDED the revival meet
ing at this place Saturday evening.
Mr.. Richard Eyer, an employee of
the Luke Paper Company, spent the
weekend here with his parents.
Our school is doing nicely under
the principalship of Mr.. w. Harold
Miller.
Miss Fronnie Williams is very ill.
Miss Magdalene Dilgard, cashier of
the Kempton store, spent Sunday at
her home here.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1925-01-15

Several of the young people of Will
son attended prayer meeting at P. H.
Smiths, near Deer Park, Saturday
night.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clyde Harvey are
visiting the latter's parents, Mr.. and
Mrs P. H. Smith, of near Deer Park.
Mr.. Cecil Smith, of near Deer Park,
was a guest of Miss Ruth Jefferys
one evening last wekk.
Miss Elizabeth Edminston, princi-
pal of our school, was in Oakland Wis
iting on Saturday and Sunday.
Mr.. Gilmor Dewitt and family have
moved to Deer Park from this COM
munity.
Mr.. c. l. Wright visited Mountain
Lake on business Tuesday.
Mrs. G. C. Jefferys is visiting rel
atives in Grafton, West Va.
Mr.. William Kimmell and daugh-
ter were in Oakland Friday last.
Mr.. Luke Wright and son Jerold,
of Keyser, visited the formers moth
er, Mrs. H. j. Wright, one day re-
Gently.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1925-01-15
LOCH LYNN

Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Combs are
visiting relatives in Buckhannon at
this time.
Mrs. Rachel White, of this village,
is in Clarksburg visiting her sons.
Mrs. Fultz, of Buckhannon, West
Va, is the guest of her son. Rev. F.
l.. Fultz, at the parsonage here.
harvesting of the ice crop from the
lake across in the Park has furnished
employment to number of our cit
liens for a number of days past.
Mrs. H. W. Rhodes and daughter
Merle, of Terra Alta, visited the for
mer's brother, c. E. Hardesty, here
on Saturday.
The revival being conducted at the
U. B. church here is in full sway I'M
der the direction of the pastor, who
is being assisted by Rev. farmhouse,
of Kingwood.
The people of all the churches in
this community have united their eff
forts and worked for the success of
the meeting. Much good is being ac-
complished. The meetings are being
held at 1920 a. M, and 1870 p. m.
Mr.. Fred. Wyndham, of Martins
burg, West Va, visited Miss Mary
Liston here on Saturday.
Miss Helen Bell, R. n, of New
kensington, Pa, has returned to her
duties after a months vacation spent
at the home of her father, Mr.. C. F.
Bell, in this village.
There will be the usual services in
both churches here next Sunday.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1925-01-15
THE INDEPENDENT VOTER.

The real power in British elections,
according to John Maynard Keynes,
is welded by ten per cent of the vot-
ers, "the unprejudiced, independent
wobblers, who hold the head high and
govern us by slightly inclining it to
the left or to the right" These "wOb-
blers," who in the United States are
called independents, really "settle
matters" According to Mr.. Keynes,
they are not a "bloc" and they have
no recognized representation in Par
Lament, but they determine the re-
suits of elections. And they are able
to do so because they do not seek Of
flee for themselves and therefore see
no need of putting allegiance to party
above what they regard as the public
good.
This, in general, is a reasonably
good description of the similar class
of voters in America called indepen-
dents, although Mr.. Keynes describes
the English brand as natural fadl-
GALS" and the American independ-
ents may be either progressive" or
conservative, according to the needs
of the hour as they see them. The
independent voter in America, though
officially ignored, may accomplish
much.
AS the Springfield Republican sees
it, she has in reality governed the
United States since Grover Cleve-
lands first election in 1884"
Obviously this is true only to the
extent that the independent voter
may choose which party shall be
trusted with power and thus dele
gates power to govern. 1t is obvious
further, that much depends on the
soundness of his political judgment
at any given time.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1925-01-15

the bankers, internal disorders, pow
erty and class hatred would disap-
pear.
Men have to be paid for, or sup
ported in fighting just as in other
things. Moreover they have to be
clothed and fed and transported.
Their implements and tools of war
fare are costly and unproductive.
They are indeed wholly destructive.
Money provides the sinews of war.
at is the great unseen power which
can make war or peace" Should not
its misuse by international manipu-
lators be made an international
crime ?-Dearborn Independent.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1925-01-15
THE GREAT UNSEEN
POWER

Professor Frederick Soddy, of Ok
ford University, has this to say:
"There is a great unseen power
which can make war and peace and
render a nation stagnant or prosper
ous-the power of finance. 1t is the
invisible devil at work producing
periodic outbursts of national fury.
In overthrowing autocracy, democ-
racy has absolutely forgotten all
about money, and that the secret of
power is the control of currency"
1t was not for nothing that some
begone philosopher called money the
sinews of war. The Crusaders had
to borrow money from the Jews to
enable them to lay siege to Jerusa-
lem. Frederick the Great had to do
likewise before he could carry on his
great campaigns; Napoleon had to
finance himself in the same manner
before he could set Europe in a
blaze, and there has not been a mon
arch or petty princeling who has
stirred up trouble within the past few
centuries but has had to borrow mon
ey at usurious rates before a horse
could gallop, man could march, or
a gun could be fired.
1t has been said that "Jingoism"
springs from the feeling that a ma
ton is financially in a position to
buy all the munitions of war neces-
sary to smash up somebody or some
thing. The old song says:
We don't want to fight.
But, by lingo if we do;
We've got the men, we've got the
ships;
We've got the money too.
1t is the last item that counts, for
without the money there could be no
ships nor men to man them.
1t has been evident for long time
that those who stand to enrich them
selves by lending money for war
purposes are to be found behind the
causes which lead up to international
strife.
Professor Soddy thinks that the
League of Nations ought to concen-
trate on the financial factor in war
on the assumption that all other war
questions would then settle them
selves. He thinks that the League
should take charge of part of the
surplus gold of the world and see to
it that it is not misused.
He is Of the opinion that if money
were issued by public authority for
use for exchanging the products of
industry, for facilitating barter, for
enabling people to purchase instead
of being issued for usury; if it were
used to keep peace with the progress
of science, instead of being held by
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1925-01-15
ORDER NISI.

George G. Dixon VS.. William N. Wilson ct ux.
No. $3.50 Equity. In the Circuit Court for
Garrett County.
ORDERED, This Sth day of January. in the
year nineteen hundred and twenty-five by the
Circuit Court for Garrett County, sitting in
equity, that the sale mde and reported in the
above cause by Horace P. Whitworth, attor-
ney named in mortgage, be ratified and con-
firned, unless cause to the contrary thereof he
shown on or before the 18th day of Febreu-
airy, 1925; provided copy of this order be
published in some newspaper published in
Garrett county, once week for three success
1925.
The report states the amount of sale to be
100000. W We
True copy E. 2. TOWER Clerk
Test: E.Z. TOWER, Clerk
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1925-01-15
Construction Company Worker
Succumbs To Injuries.

Mike Yoses, aged 40 years, of Bar
mum, West Va, who had his leg badly
crushed in the tunnel of the General
Construction Corporation north of
Oakland Monday of last week when
loaded car containing earth and
rock ran over it, died at the Western
Maryland Hospital, Cumberland, on
Friday morning. His body was sent
to Barnum for interment.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1925-01-15
ORDER NISI.

Albert L. Lee, Treasurer for Garrett County
Maryland, VS.. Charles E. Scothern.
No. 40 Miscellaneous. In the Circuit Court
for Garrett County.
IT is ORDERED, By the Circuit Court for
Garrett County, this 18th day of january
1925, that the tax sale made and reported
in the above-entitled cause by Albert L. Lee
Treasurer in and for Garrett County, Md
be ratified and confirmed, unless cause to the
contrary be shown on or before the 18th day
of February, 1925; provided a copy of this
order be inserted in some newspaper printed
in Garrett county once a week for three sue
cessive weeks before the 9Th day of Febru-
airy, 1925.
The report states the amount of sale to he
S24461.
ALBERT A. DOUB.
True copy-Test: E. 2. TOWER, Clerk.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1925-01-15
Matter Of Diet

How do yca& tel tie difference be-
tween yacht cad sailboatY" said
the girl with tSss IN firing MIN by
lookin' into the r@rtry," replied Cap
tain elect. "If she carries plenty of
refreshments and seegars, she's a
yacht If it's mostly plain victuals
she's sailboat- "-Washington Star.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1925-01-15
ALTAMONT

Miss Martha Friend, of Oakland.
spent Saturday here with Miss Ruth
Jefferys.
Mr.. Frank Dewitt was in Piedmont
on business, Wednesday.
Misses lone and Grace Wright were
visiting their uncle, Mr.. J. A. Lee, of
near Wilson Saturday.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1925-01-15
DIED..
JEANETTE JEARL ARTICE

jeanette Pearl Article, aged nearly
three years, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Harvey Article, died at the home of
her parents in District No. 2 on Jan
uary 9Th. Funeral services were con-
Quoted Saturday afternoon by the
Rev. A. L. Donachy with interment
in the White cemetery at Friends
vile.
New Britain herald., 1925-06-17
ANNUAL CARD PARTY

The men of St, Joseph's parish will stage card party in the church hall Thursday night and all the pinochle and "45" sharks are eager
 y waiting for the event. This is an annual affair in the parish social life and an. entertainment will be fur nished and smokes and refresh nets will be served.
 The following men were selected for the various committees for the event and they will meet tonight: Card committee, John oLeary (chairman), James Woods. Charles Lent, pinochle; Joseph Kennedy, Charles McKeon. AS; James Mo Cabe and Patrick Hawley. setback; entertainment, J. Callahan (chair- man). Neil Murphy. Ringrose, Hag- erty, Manning and Leo Fortier; re- treatments, Owen Higgins (chair- man). Frank McMahon. Garvey Daly, William Mcclure and Mur- ray; prize committee, Thomas Ken ney; door. Pelletier and Manning. The following boy scouts will act as punchers: R. Miller, ]. Murphy. William Buckley, Bob Wright, H. Broff, 4. Gentle, J. Sullivan, ]. Halloran and W. Luddy.
 According 10 the report Of the chairman, over 500 tickets hsve been sold and large delegations are expected from St. Johns and St. Msry's parishes.
New Britain herald., 1925-06-17
AV|ATORS HURT IN
 D0DG|NG AN AUTO
Peculiar Accident Occurs on
 StratiOrd Road

stratford, June 1T. R,-Two men received possible fractures of the skull and other injuries early last night when tho airplane in which they were riding crashed into two telegraph poles in an effort to avoid striking an automobile on Stratford road which could not be seen from aloft because Of the approaching darkness. The ayiators Injured were: William Jennings. 521 Connecticut avenue, Bridgeport, former U. s. A. aviator. and Edward J. Conklin, bSS Noble, avenue, Bridgeport. One Of the poles felled by the plane crashed through the top of parked auto mobile and narrowly missed striking the occupants of the car.
 The plane was just making a land ing and as the running gear struck the ground Pilot Conklin, who was under the instruction of Former Lieutenant Jennings observed the lights of the car and attempted to rise in an effort to avoid the car.
New Britain herald., 1925-06-17
Cost of Whiskey Runs
 High in Virginia Court

Washington. June 1T Rl-The cost of pint of whiskey for evid- ence in Virginia was shown to be rather high in a report received by H. M. Luckett, divisional prohibition chief
 Five Washington prohibition agents, 1t was related, filed with the state a bill for s57.75 for expenses incurred in giving testimony recent ly on thes seizure of one pint of liquor in a recent raid near Win chester.
 Winchester court attaches said the appearance of agents in such cases heretofore has been without cost but the agents told MT. Luckett the raid was made solely to assist state enforcement officers.
 The Winchester officials, however asserted that the aid was unsolicited The bill. meanwhile. has been refer red to the circuit court in the coun' ty for it's consideration.
New Britain herald., 1925-06-17
Farm Wages Up 200 P. C.
 During Past Sixty Years

Washington, June Y P-Depart. '. mcnt of agriculture statisticians. after dclving into civil war records. have concluded that farm wages have increased more than 200 per cent in the past sixty years.
 Farm labor that could be hired for S1O month with board in grandfather time. they found now costs $34 a month. and this is q slump from the S47 peak, reached in 1920.
 Selecting one hundred as repr"- senting the average between 1910 and 1914, the experts calculated that wages were at the 55 level in 1866 and at e in 1893. After q drop 10 6l in 1894, farm wages again started an ascent and reached l01 in 1904. With the World War impetus, the index advanced rapidly, reaching 112 in 1916. 40 in 1917, 176 in 1918, and 2o6 in 1919, and 239 in 1920. A drop to 150 was eX- perieneed in 1921 and to 146 in 1922, but the movement was then reversed the figure going 10 1G6 in 1923 and 1924.
New Britain herald., 1925-06-17
RICHARD TALMApcE, CAPITOL

Stirring melodrama, sweet TO- nance and an abundance of spine tckling thrills make Laughing at Danger" Dick Talmadge's latest pho'oplay production which appears for first run at the Capitol theater on Thursday. Friday and Saturday one Of the most exciting pieces of entertainment ever released by F.B,O. Eva Eoyak heads a capable cast in support of the star.
 ! The new serial, "sunken Silver" with Aleen Ray will also begin with this program. The Keith vaudeville bill will have five first-class attrac- tions, headed by the Kalman Matus players In variety skit called
 Practice Makek Perfect" Another headliner on the bill Is Mullen and Frances. great comedy couple, in Take a Chance" The other acts are up to the Capitol standard of excellence. There are continuous shows daily and children will be ad- mitted after school each day and at the Saturday matinee for 10 cents.
New Britain herald., 1925-06-17
FAMOUS PRISON
 ID BE ELIMINATED
Russian Political Camp Soon to
 BEoms But Memory

Moscow, June IT. R-The Solo yetsky Monastry--that desolate for bidding prison camp on solovetsky island, in the frozen White Sea. which has been the terror Of poll tical offenders under the Soviet re- glme--wlll soon become but an echo Of the past
 On recommendation Of the state political police. the council of peoples commissars has decided 10 abolish the notorious prison. which houses several hundred social revo- lutionists. mensheviks, anarchists and others who rehelled against the present government. The official decree directs that. beginning August 1, these and future prisoners Of this category shall be interned in prisons on the Russian mainland.
 Tn the imperial days, the Solovct- sky island with its ancient religious shrines, treasurers and traditions, was considered one of the holiest places in Russia, but in 1921 the Bolsheviki converted it into an exile camp. Its remoteness. inaccesshility and cheerlessness appealed to them as particularly fitting for place to which to banish political dissenters.
 For a long time reports were printed abroad of hunger strikes suicides outbreaks and other dis turbances at the monastery-prison, but these were denied by the Soviet.
 The inmates included many pro- minent members of the old nobility and aristocracy, and the most active leaders of the social revolutionary party and anarchistic bodies. At- tempts were made by socialists abroad to induce the Soviet govern ment to grant complete amnesty to some of these prisoners. but the Bolshevik officials ruled that the time for such amnesty had not yet arrived.
New Britain herald., 1925-06-17
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and Alabama coastal lines. The fol- lowing is typical;
 When tell you that large manufacturing concern of Alabama, which uses certain kind of ore in It's manufactures, and owns its own mines of this ore in the state of Alabama, can yet get this same ore from Sweden, transport 1t by sea to Mobile, thence by our Warrior line to Tuscaloosa. Ala, and deliver 1t at It's plant cheaper than 1t can pro- duce it's own orc at It's own mines, and transport it by rail to It's man. nfactory, 1t will be brought home to you that there is something radical. ly wrong in the present situation"
 General Ashburn isn't trying to furnish substitute for rail trans portation or 10 force the railroads to cut their rates.
 He recognizes that many and per- haps most water hauls will have to be supplementsd by tho roads, on some equitable rate division which the Interstate Commerce Commis- sion presumably will fix.
 But setting everything else aside. he says, "the increasing demands of the country's commerce" will soon be beyond the railroads power to meet without tremendous en- largement of their facilities.
 He estimates its cost at 10 bil- lion dollars in the next decade. His theory is that it will be better to minimize this expenditure on the railroads part and to devote part of the money to waterways devel- opment, which costs far less and can be made, he thinks, 10 aceom- plish just as much or more.
 Besides, the general doubts If ths roads can possibly manage the, necessary expansion of their sery- ices, at any cost.
 When we reach point" he says, where it costs more and takes . longer time to get car in and out of a city like New York than it does to move it from New York to Phila- delphia, the transportation system is pretty well saturated"
New Britain herald., 1925-06-17
CHAPMAN APPEAL
 IS LONG PAPER
Cites Many Instances of Alleged
 Irregularities

Hartford, June 17 Rl-The appeal of Gerald Chapman to the supreme court from his conviction in the su- perior court for the murder of a New Britain policeman was perfect ed yesterday with the filing of the final papers in the proceeding by his junior counsel, Nathan 0, Freed man. The appeal Is scheduled to be heard at the October term of the supreme court, and for that reason Chapman. who was sentenced to die on June 25. was granted a reprieve until December 8.
 Many Errors Claimed
 Among the many errors assigned to the court as reasons for appeal and reivsion of errors in the state ment that Judge Newell Jennings erred in charging the jury as fol- lows:
 "I do not desire to misquote the evidence, and my recollection is that the accused did not tell Us where he was on the morning in question but desires you to believe from the evidence introduced that he was not in New Britain"
 Charge to Jury
 Another error assigned to the court in ifs charge to the jury is the following: T have already in timated to you that in my view of the evidence only two verdicts are possible, not guilty or guilty of murder in the first degree"
 Mentioned Other Crimes
 The appeal sets out that the court erred in denying Chapman's motion 10 set aside the verdict; it erred in allowing irrelevant and immatcrial testimony to go before the jury on the promise that the states attor- Incy would connect 1t up with the issue in the case; it erred In allow Ing the introduction of evidence tending 10 show the commission of crimes other than that with which he was charged.
 It sets out that reversible error does exist because the states att torneys in their closing arguments to the jury appealed to their pas- sion, prejudice and partiality and because the objects urged upon the Jury were unfair and prejudicial and were adopted to, and did. influence the minds of the jurors against the accused, and did prejudice the jurors against him, the accused"
 Unfair Atmosphere
 The court erred in failing to charge the jury, it is set out, that the courts estimate as to the weight and value of evidence should not be submitted for that of the Jury's; the jury is entitled to con- sider the fact that Walter E. Shean IS a self-confessed murderer in con- sidering his interests and motives and credib,lity of his testimony shear, a native of Springfield Mas, is held on a charge of mur- der Sinathc Hartford county jail in come ction with the, same crime for which Chapman was convicted. sFurther. causes of error are as- signeH to the alleged prcjudicial at- mospf,ere created by the prosecu-
New Britain herald., 1925-06-17
By CHARLES P. STEWART NEA Service Writer

Washington, June IT. - To re. duce the spread In prices between what the American producer gets and the ultimate consumer has to pay -- to give tho former more for his product and the latter his lIv- ing at lower cost - let's get back 10 our old-time utilization Of the country's inland waterways.
 The suggestion is Brig. Gen. T. e. Ashburn's.
 Ashburn is chairman of the In- land Waterways Corporation, cre- ated by Congress a year ago - a government enterprise, but intended 10 be run goyernmentally only with view to demonstrating the feasi- bility and economic value of water transportation"
 It is then to encourage the re- establishment of private corpora lions upon our navigable streams and canals, operating common car ricrs which will be Of mutual bene- fit 10 the public and themselves"
 America, General Ashburn re- marks in pamphlet he has just issued through the government, has experienced two stages of trans- portation and is entering on a third,
 The first was the wagon and wa- ter stage; the second, rail; today we need every available transporta- ton means rail, the automobile, air - we already are using or be- ginning 10 use all these and wa ter.
 This latter method we abandoned during the period of our great rail- road development but ought to be getting back to, for the handling of bulk freight, because its the cheapest means of transportation known"
 To show how very much cheaper water is than anything else the gen. eral cites figures gathered in con- nection with his operation of the governments experimental Missis- sippi, Warrior river and Louisiana