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The Republican., 1925-09-17
CAN WE OVERCOME THE
RURAL HANDICAP?

Attractive as country life may be
the most enthusiastic ruralist will ad-
nit that it has its handicaps. One of
its drawbacks is pointed out in this
item. The Bureau of Education, I.
S. Department of the Interior, has
recently compiled statistics from re-
ports received from over 500 county
superintendent Of public schools con-
trasting the cost of country schools
with the cost Of public schools in the
cities and towns Of less than $500
population where less than half the
enrolment comes from farm homes.
Based upon number enrolled in
1924 it is found that the per pupil
cost in the country schools of the
United States was S6S.39 and in the
schools Of the small cities and towns
above indicated it was $f00.G4
Dividing the whole country into
four geographical divisions it is
found that in the North Atlantic
division the rural schools cost 500 per
pupil enrolled and the small city
schools $50. In the North Central
States the average cost per pupil was
S7S in the country schools and Sill
in the small cities and large villages.
In IA southern states the schools cost
$34 per pupil in the country and S44
in the small cities. In the Western
division country schools cost Ss7 per
pupil while the cost in the small
cities and larger villages was Sill
per pupil.
How can the wide difference in cost
be explained? The reports show
that the small city schools are open
one or two months longer and the
salaries of teachers are 40 per cent
larger than in the schools where more
than so per cent of the children are
from farm homes.
The Republican., 1925-09-17
GORTNER

Everyone cordially invited to at.
tend church services next Sunday
morning and evening which will be
conducted by the Brethren and Men
nonites.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Lee and dill
dren visited Mr.. and Mrs. Grover
Lee at Fairsweep Sunday.
Mr.. Henry Byler. of Lawrence
county, Pa, and Mr.. and Mrs. Enos
Byler, Of Ohio, accompanied by Mr.
S. s.. Miller, Of Grantsville. were
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Noah Lichty
on Wednesday.
Miss Irene Dewitt, of Bayard, Wis
tied Mr.. and Mrs. Lester Dewitt and
family at this place last week.
Miss Gladys Irwin, of Pittsburgh
spent Wednesday evening with Miss
Emma Burkholder. The Irwins re-
turned to their home Thursday after
a months visit at Mountain Lake
anu bDl LllCl,
Mr., and Mrs. George Coleman and
son Harold and Mrs. Mary Mosser. of
Cumberland; Messrs. Ray and Earl
Mosser and families and Miss Leila
Mosser were guests Of Mr.. and Mrs
Artie Dodge on Sunday.
Mrs. Mary Lee is srending this
week with her sister, Mrs Clara Lii
lcr, near Bayard.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. f. Spoerlein and
son Earl; Messrs. J. D. and D. l.
Swartzentruber and families; Misses
Mary Lichty, Minnie Newman and
Lena Slabaugh spent Sunday with
AIr. and Mrs. Bud Friend at Hoyes.
Mrs. John Ash and sons Norman
and Memo, of Glade, spent Sunday
with the latter's sister, Mrs. Noah
Schrock.
Mr.. and Mrs. Rufus Beachy, OF
Meyersdale, Pa, and Mr.. and Mrs
Eli Beacby, OF Plain City, O., spent
the weekend here with Mr.. and Mrs
L. NJ. Beachy.
Mr.. VIII Alexander, of Accider.
and Miss Juad7ta Sanders and Cree
The Republican., 1925-09-17
McHENRY

Our village school opened on last
Tuesday with Miss Elizabeth Harper
as principal.
Mf. and Mrs. Asa Glotfelty and
Dir. Hobart Harvey and family spent
Sunday. at the home Of Mr. Samuel
Glotfelty.
Mr.. Ma'kwood GIotfelty and fam
ily and Mr.. and Mrs. A. D. Hoff
called on friends at Terra Alta last
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs William Walton. Of
MckeesDort, Pa, are spending some
time at the Mclean home here.
Mrs. Elizabeth Baker, of Loeb
Lynn Heights, called on relatives in
this section last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Savage and
family visited friends at Markleys-
burg, Pa, last Sunday.
Mr.. James G. GlotfelCy spent Sun
day in Oakland.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob Suter had as
their guests on Sunday Mr.. and Mrs.
Nelson Brenneman and children. Mr..
and Mrs. John Glotclty and children,
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. GiotfeltE and chill
dEcn and Miss Elizabeth Harper. all
OF McHenry; Mrs, Layina Sell, Of
Davis, W. Va; Mrs. George Fulmcr,
Of Akron, o.. and Mr.. ,nd Mrs. Clqr-
once SoOnn of HIVE.
The descendants Of William Glot-
felty gathered on September 9Th and
held a reunion. There were six sons
and one das gh,cr Of William Glotfel-
ty Those living are Messrs. Mahlon
and Jonas Glotfelty and Mrs Eliza
beth Hinebauah. Of Oakland, The de-
scendants Of Nimrod Glotfelty pres
ent included three children and Is
grandchildren; Of Adrian, children
and 3 grandchildren; Of jesse, T chil-
dren ard &c grandchildren; of Thad-
The Republican., 1925-09-17
DEER PARK
5sseaeeaasaanasassGe3a9s

Mr.. and Mrs. Victor Harvey, of
Piedmont, W. Va, spent the weekend
with the formers parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. 0. J. Harvey, at their home in
Deer Park.
Mr.. Louis Reihl, who spent the
summer here with his sister, Mrs. T.
G. Yutzy, returned on Sunday to his
home at Landsdowne, Nd.
Mrs. c. S. Refs and daughter Lena
spent last Wednesday at Piedmont,
". Va, and Westernport, Nd, shop
ping.
Mrs. Henry Holtschneider, of near
town, spent last Wednesday in Cum
berland.
The Deer Park Hotel closed on last
Saturday for the season. All of the
occupants OF the hotel cottages have
gone and these buildings are also
closed for the winter.
The infant son Of Mr.. and Mrs. D.
R. Hinebaugh, who died on Wednes-
day evenin gIast. was buried on Fri
day, the Rev William Anderson, of
Loeb Lynn, conducting the services at
the family home. Interment was
made in the Deer Park cemetery.
Rev. Cuppett, U. B. minister of
Mountain Lake Park. delivered a very
inspiring sermon to a large congre-
CATION on Sunday evening in the NJ.
Z. church at this place. His text was
"Who Am u" This will be the last
service until after the annual con-
ference which will be held at Clarks-
burg, West Va.
Miss Bessie Keys, teacher Of the
Chadderton school, spent Sunday at
her home at Barton, Md.
Miss Merya Refs attended the an
nual Sunday school convention held in
Oakland Monday and Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs Parker Rodeheayer,
of Washington, D. c., are visiting
home folks here.
Mr., Walter Hardesty spent Thurs
day and Friday at Lonaconing, Bar
ton and Luke on business.
Messrs Carl Maybe and G. Grimes
wsnt to Morgantown, W. Va. Mon
day, where they will spend some time
on business.
Mrs. G. s. Walter spent last week
with home folks at LaVale, Cumber-
land,
The Republican., 1925-09-17
THE INFLUENCE OF sun
DAY SCHOOLS

This is the season when the 100000
Sunday schools in the United States
are rallying their 20,000,0O0 teachers,
officers and pupils fer the years
work in churches and missions. The
renewal Of the period of religious in
struction for boys and girls as well
as adults is second in interest and
Importance only to the opening of
the public schools after the sum-
mer's vacation.
The development of the Sunday
school movement in a period Of lit
tie more than 100 years is one Of the
marvels of church history. Ii has
literally spread around the world un-
til there is scarcely a nation or tribe
that does not feel its impulse Even
in so-called ''folb;dden lands" such
as Tibet, the Sunday school has en-
tered with its humanizing program.
Today there are registered in all ma
tions 1000 Sunday schools with
3,500,000 teachers and officers and
3O,0O0,OC0 pupils.
The Sunday school has become
such an accepted institution that very
often its benefits are overlooked.
Justice Lewis L. Fawcett of the Su-
preme court OF New York recently
said: ''In the eighteen years Of my
experience on the bench more than
1000 boys less than 21 years Of age
have been arraignea before me
charged with various degrees Of
crimes. OF this. 1000 only three
were members of Sunday school at
the time of the commission of their
crimes. If we could keep our youth
in Sunday school during the period
of character formation, or at regular
attendance upon religious worship,
we should close our criminal courts
and iails.
That there is need for more Of such
influences upon the youth Of the
United States IS indicated by thk re-
port of the National Probation Iasso-
citation, showing that more than 200.-
900 boys and girls under 1Si years
pass annually through the Juvenile
courts in the Unised States
The Sunday schools form one Of the
most potent agencies for god in the
national life
The Republican., 1925-09-17

of that road this fall. A number of
men were at work last week, clear
ing the old road bed and it is said
that the work of putting down the
new track, using eighty-fve pound
steel, viii be begun very soon and
that the road is expected to be in
operation before winter, which will
make possible the resumption of work
in the coal mines along the line Of the
road.
Mr.. Hendrickson and family, of
Pittsburgh, and also Clarence Loech-
el and family, of GrantsvilIe, were
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. c. c. Beachy,
on Sunday.
Rev. E. E. Campbell and R. L.
Emory, of this village, attended the
annual conference of the West Vir-
ginia Synod of the Lutheran church,
at New Haven, w. Va, last week.
Messrs. U. NJ. and w. E. Stanton,
Of Grantsville, were business visitors
in this section last week,
G. w. Engle, Of Baltimore, spent
part of last week with his mother
Mrs. Ellen Engle, at her home here.
The village public school opened
very satisfactorily last week with
Chauncey Friend in charge as princi-
pal. and Miss Leonora Wiley in
charge of the primary department.
The Republican., 1925-09-17

Stockett visited the Welch family at
this place last Sunday.
Mr.. John Burkholder, of Meyers
dale, Pa, spent Sunday afternoon and
evening visiting Miss Emma Burk-
holder.
Mrs. Mary Lee and daughter Miss
Bertha were guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
Murray White at Loeb Lynn last
Sunday.
A number Of the people of this
community attended the corn roast
at Lynndale last Wednesday evening.
Swan Meadow school house is be-
ing painted. which adds very much to
its appearance. Mr.. Spoerlein's store
at Gortner is also being painted
The Republican., 1925-09-17
ORDER NISI.
james Clark, vs. Truman West and Brid-
yet l.. West his wife

james Clark, vs.. Truman West and Brid-
get L. West, his wife
In the Circuit Court for Garrett County.
Maryland. No. 2632 Equity
II is ordered this 9TH day Of September
1928, by the Circuit Court for Garrett County,
sitting in equity. that the sale Of the proper
ty mentioned in these proceedings as made
aid reported by Gimor S. Hamill, the attor-
ney named in the mortgage filed for fore
cause to the contrary therc,.f be shown on or
before the 10th day Of October. next; pro-
Nided copy of this order be inserted in some
newspaper published in Garrett County once
IN eaeh of three successive weeks before the
Bird day Of October. nest
$4,000
Jr,!e copy. T. u. TOWER CiasE.
Test: r. p. TOWER Cie-t
The Republican., 1925-09-17
BITTENGER


It has been announced that the
Casselman Valley Railroad Co.. own
ers Of what was formerly the Jen-
nings Brothers Railroad, running
from Salisbury, Pa, to the coal field
near Jennings, has been fully re-
organized and that al arrangements
have been nosde for The re.tI'ld;ng
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in Japan to be known as the Ford
Motor Company Of japan, Ltd and
that an assembly plant will be es-
tablished in Yokohama, the first to
be opened in the Orient.
Improving economic conditions
abroad have made a large expansion
program imperative and the forma-
ton of our new company in Japan
is simply n part of the general
plan, Mr.. Ford said.
"Our foreign sales last year. eX-
elusive Of the business done by the
Ford Motor Company Of Canada,
showed an increase of close to 20fo
over the previous year.. he con-
tinued. The outlook is much better
this year. for we feel that we have
only begun to develop the sales pos
SibilitieS abroad.
in Japan We have up to the
present time been distributing our
products through an independent
agency at Yokohama. Even under
these limited conditions. Japan has
been absorbing Ford products at the
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February Biggest Month
In History Of Nash

February. the shortest month of
the year. was the biggest month
Nash Motors has had since the COM
pany was established eight years
ago last August.
The sweeping demand for the
Nash special six and advanced SIX
series is tile more significant be-
cause shipments Of the industry as
:. whole. during the same month,
were below normal. The Nash rec
ord. established last October was
shattered when February. even
though shorter by three days, out
stripped the best previous month in
Nash history by ten per cent.
With stocks Of cars i'll dealers
hands on February %, twenty five
per cent below the figure that pre-
vailed on the same day Il year ago,
Nash shipments eclipsed shipments
for February 1924 by the wide
margin of $50
A big majority of these cars went
almost Immediately into the hands
of retail purchasers. demand III
practically all sections OF the coun-
try. being in excess of the dealers
allotment; in fact immediate de-
livery" has been the order of the day,
regardless of season, ever since the
introduction of the new line of Nash
special and advanced six models on
August l.
Demand for the Nash line Of
Special and Advanced Six series of
cars has kept the plants in Kenosha
and Milwaukee busy literally night
ana ,hiN, practically ever since the
r. In, Ji.n of the new line and has
~ f.'"-' factory extensions
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ways. strictly speaking. and 255
miles has been constructed from
State aid funds.
sixteen hundred miles Of the State
aid system has been completed laav-
ing 2400 miles yet to be built. Work
on the State aid system would pro-
gress much faster if State appropri-
ations were sufficient to meet the
appropriations made by the towns
for this purpose. During the last
four years the appropriations by the
Legislature have been insufficient to
meet the requests of the towns for
state aid to the extent of Sl,295, 900.
This amount, with appropriations by
the towns, would undoubtedly have
constructed from 300 to 400 miles adj
ditional of State aid road.
During the last seven years the
Commission has built over 200 bridg-
es in cooperation with the munich
palities and the counties. At the
present time petitions are in hand
for some ninety bridges but no ac-
ton can be taken by the Commission
upon these petitions until the Legis-
lature provides funds for meeting
the States share of the cost. Some
Of the bridges have been closed to
public travel for more than a year
and in several cases towns appro-
priated money at the last annual
meeting in March. 1924, for the re
construction Of bridges.
The maintenance work Of the
Commission is OF some consequence.
About $500 miles OF road are under
daily patrol maintenance from April
to November and about 500 patrol
N,NIa iii.
There has been expended for main
tenance from 1913 to December, 1924,
$7,92S,0 600, practically all of which
has come from automobile registra-
ton fees.
1t is interesting to note that the
work of the Commission has more
than doubled since its organization.
In the early years the Commission
was charged with the laying out,
construction and maintenance of a
system of State highways and State
aid highways. In 1916 the voters at
the general election adopted a gen
eral bridge act, providing State and
County aid for bridges. This neces-
states holding hearings at the site
of the bridge in response to each
petition received. The commission
erS probably hold an average of fifty
hearings per year, which takes q
good deal of time and necessitates
a lot of travel.
The Legislature Of 1921 passed a
new motor vehicle law, providing for
the establishment of the State high
way police and placed this police
force under the jurisdiction of the
Highway Commission. By this same
law the Commission were charged
with hearing petitions for restora-
ton of licenses to operate motor We
hicles where licenses had been sus-
pended or revoked. The hearing of
these petitions takes considerable
time.
The Commission averages to hold
q meeting once Il week throughout
the year. In the summer these
meetings may be held every two
weeks and cover three or four days
OF inspection and hearing.
The Commission has made an hon
est effort to develop the State high
way system in accordance with the
traffic needs as those needs have APP
Feared 10 the Commission. II mis-
takes have been made they have
been mistakes of judgment
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terial purchased, and safeguard the
interests of every purchaser of a car.
In the chemical laboratory is a
staff of graduate chemists whose
duty 1T IS to analyze every material
that will respond accurately to
chemical analysis.
In the physical laboratory the
character of the work differs, but the
results obtained are just as vital.
Finished parts of every description
are brought here ana tested until a
FAILURE or breakage, occurs The
object of these tests is not to es-
tablish the fact that parts can be
broken. but rather to determine ex-
actly how much force or vibration
is required to break them. The
tests exactly duplicate the stresses
to which the parts are subjected in
actual service, and are then con-
t:nued on to a point where the metal
is no longer able to stand the ter
rifle force applied.
The metallurgical laboratory con-
tains battery of complete, modern
heat treating ovens, with electric
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rate of more than $50 units q month.
With greater facilities for distribu-
ton a considerably larger volume Of
business Is expected as our advices
show there is growing demand not
only for cars and trucks but also for
tractors"
Details affecting the new Japanese
organization have been practically
completed and it is expected to begin
functioning about April LIST Mr.. Ford
said. Formation of a dealer organi-
zation to handle all the Oriental
trade under the company at Yoko-
hama also is under way.
The assembly plant will be located
at the Yokohama dock yards, Afford
ing excellent facilities for transfer
ring manufactured automobile parts
from ships to- the plant. Machinery
for the new plant will be installed as
rapidly as possible.
Manufactured automobile parts for
assembly in the Yokohama plant will
be shipped from the company's plant
at Kearny, n. j.
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promoters for accurately measuring
the temperatures in hardening and
annealing steels. Metals are also
examined under microscopes that
will magnify from 10 to 203O
diameters. Before being placed I'M
der the microscope, the metal is
given seven different polishing oper-
ations, beginning with emery wheels
and finishing up with jewelers. rouge
After the polishing operations the
surface is etched with acids and the
structure of the metal examined
under the microscope.
The electrical laboratory contains
electrical testing apparatus of every
description. Perhaps the most in
teresting of these is the oscillograph.
which is complicated moving
picture machine for making photo
graphs of the strength and regularity
of the current used in ignition.
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The New Studebaker Special Six Brouptam

cate they can weigh the carbon in
those gases. There are moving
picture machines that photograph
the strength and the regularity of
the current used by the ignition an
paratus in action. There are
microscopes, stills and mysterious
trappings of the chemists lore. and
the air is filled with pungent fumes
and doors.
This work ic divided into four
separate departments-the chemical
laboratory. the physical laboratory,
the metallurgical laboratory and the
electrical laboratory. Both testing
and research work is carried on
throughout the year, to check up
the material before it goes TO the
manufacturing departments and to
assist the engineers in determining
the best materials to use in parts for
future models.
Nothing could be more thoroughly
PRACTICAL than the work of these
analytical experts. They provide an
absolute check on every lot of ma
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The Highway Commission as now
organized was created by the Legis-
lature in 1913. The Commission
consists Of three members appointed
for terms of three years each. the
term of ono member expiring each
year. In this way it is possible to
carry on more or less of a continuous
policy in the administrator of high
way improvement and maintenance
coming under the jurisdiction Of the
Commission.
The personnel Of the Commission
at the present time is as follows:
Frank A. Peabody, Houlton. Chair
man. appointed May 20. 1915; Will
liam !. Lanigan. Waterville. appoint
ed June 26, 1923; Charles il. lines,
Saco. appointed September 10, 1924.
The executive officer of the Com
mission is the chief engineer. APP
pointed by the Commission with the
approval of the Governor and Coun-
ell.
Under the law all assistant engi
neers and clerical assistants are Sc
lectod by the chief engineer, subject
to the approval of the Commission.
All employees of the Commission and
all salaries paid however, must re-
ceive the approval of the Governor
and Council.
The Commission is charged with
the laying out. construction and
maintenance of Il system of State
highways, which shall be the main
arteries of highway travel through
out the state; with the selection of
n system of State aid roads, upon
the motion of the municipal officers
OF each town. and their construction
and maintenance; with the supervi-
sion of the construction of bridges
under the general bridge act; and
with the supervision of such other
road and bridge work as the Legis-
lature may from time to time dele
gate to 1t.
AS the law now stands, the Com
mission has charge of the policing
of State highways and the enforce
ment of the motor vehicle and traf-
fic laws.
The Commission has laid out a
system of 1880 miles of State high
way. which constitute II per cent
of the rural road mileage. In the
system of State aid or secondary
roads are 4049 miles, or 17.5 per cent
of the road mileage. The remainder,
or 17,425 miles, constituting 1914 per
cent of the road mileage, are known
as third class highways.
Since the creation Of the Commits
sion in July 1913, 105J miles of the
State highway system has been re-
constructed, 500 miles as state Ei%A-
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and additional plant equipment
which will increase the production
capacity of Nash Motors by 400 by
the opening of the spring season,
over the greatest ~~oduction ever
previously attained.
The expansions include an addi-
tional 254,236 square feet of floor
space and the installation of $780,
coo worth of new plant equipment.
Active work on the building pro-
Sramme has been under way the
several weeks past, the extensions
affecting both the kenosha and Mil
Waukee plants.
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Ford Plant in Japan
Is the Latest

Detroit Mich, Mar. 13-An opti-
mistic outlook for foreign trade, at
least as far as it affects the auto
mobile. was expressed here today by
Edsel e. Ford, president of the Ford
Motor Company, who at the same
, time made public the fact that a new
company has just been incorporated
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I;stide Apparatus
1 pnilding Autos

/. HI. Bassett, President Buick
: Motor Company
t,.mendous amount of interest
r..hs to the scientific side OF
4, ear designing and building,
,orhere is this interest more
a, impressive than in the
L.rlcal and physical laboratories.
4. factories of the large. well
I,hlished companies. every sub
3. that is used in the manu-
.nre Of cars, from the coal used
M furnaces to the steel in nuts
ho,ts. must run the gauntlet of a
I formidable array of scientific
kIng devices.
4 twist the drop forged axles into
knslesa masses. There are fur
ID that turn the carbon in steel
eases, There are scales so deli
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Quick Getaway

In quick getaway and pickup
the New Paige and New Jew
ct, are a step ahead Of every
one. They're of and s.ay
before others start.