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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1926-04-29
BLOOMING ROSE

Our roads are now better than they
have been for quite awhile.
Our Sunday school is progressing
nicely since the reorganization.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lott Vansickle were
visiting the formers sister in Friends
vile, Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs Charles Conneway,
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Thomas and
Mr.. and Mrs. J. B. Thomas, from
Markleysburg, Pa, were visiting Mr..
and Mrs. Orval Friend, Saturday and
Sunday.
Mr.. Olin Friend and Mr.. Paul Hook
motored from Cumberland Friday to
spend the weekend with their parents
here.
Miss Flossie Friend had as her
guests, Sunday, Misses Helen and
Loretta Vansickle, Ruth and Bobbie
Friend.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Frazee, Mrs.
Orval Friend and daughter, Miss Ruth
were shopping in Oakland, Saturday.
Mr.. Orval Friend and daughter, and
Mrs. Mabel Rumbaugh motored to
Oakland Monday last.
Misses Ruth, Flossie and Bobbie
Friend were visiting Misses Loretta,
Agnes and Helen Vansickle Sunday
evening at their home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Orval Rush, of Point
Marion, Pa, were visiting Mr.. and
Mrs. c. Q. Hook the past week.
Mr.. Merle Frantz was substitute
teacher for Miss Gertrude Beachy,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1926-04-29
A. ]. Merrill Gives His Views on Pro-
hibitiOn and Takes Rap at those
Who, in Office, Deride the Enforce

hibition and Takes Rap at those
Who, in Office, Deride the Enforce
ment of the Law.
To the Editor of The Republican.
Please publish my views and exper-
fences of the whiskey question. will
say that l believe am one of the old
est woman suffragists in the country.
Some 80 or 35 years ago l said that
politics would never be honest until
women got to vote. That women would
not sell their vote for drink of whis-
key as l knew men did. Now l am
sorry to say that they betrayed my
confidence, particularly Mrs. Mary
Norton, New Jersey, and Mrs. julius
Kahn, California. Would those women
like drinking husbands? l think not.
Then why do those women want to
force whiskey on other women's hus-
bands? | understand that these two
women are actively aiding John Philip
Hill. They are certainly associating
with dandy. Who is Mr.. Hill? Is
he law maker or law breaker? Oh,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-06-25

merce Department Building, with a
million square feet of space, to be
located within the Mall, offends seri-
ously against the park preservation
principle. If II is located there the
temptation will be incessant to add to
It as the department grows, until it
will spread far over the area, crowd
ing toward the center, extending on
both TANKS.
Those whose official duties cause
them To see only the immediate need
OF new construction for department
and bureau requirements are apt to
lose sight of the greater consideration
of Capital development. Every de-
partment is at present congested and
scattered The public work is ham
pered. Immediate relief is required.
But there is a factor more important
than the prompt cure of these condl-
lions. and that is the permanent wei
fare of the national city.
If this matter Of building emplace-
ment is not settled right now. condi-
tons will develop in later years that
will demand correction at heavy cost.
If the parks are filled with buildings
the characteristic that distinguishes
Washington from all other American
cities and gives ii indeed the lead in
the world will be destroyed.
No such urgency for building sites
that cost nothing at present exists as
to justify the further invasion Of the
parks and the neglect of an obvious
duty to correct a bad condition along
the Capitals principal thoroughfare,
the historic Pennsylvania avenue,
which can be redeemed from its I'M
only through the use of
its southern side by the location there
of the structures which the Govern
ment requires in its proper and eff
,ient housing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-06-25
Country Amazed at Expense
OF Repairing White House

in which 10 worship" though it sees
greater difficulty with political foun-
lations." The Camden Courier, taking
account of superstition i'll such
matters, suspects that some folks
will wonder if the skies aren't get
ting ready to fall on the President.
The Lowell Evening Leader adds that
with both the White House and his
church unsafe, the President on sun
DAYS will be in the plight of the man
who Is all dressed up and nowhere To
go
Who can blame busy past Presi-
dents asks the Lincoln State
Journal If. facing the misery of q
six-month housekeeping, they cried.
After us the deluge" and turned the
reckoning over to posterlty Presl-
dents, as we do our war debts? The
Willingness of Mr.. Coolidge TO be the
final goat is bound, meanwhile. 10
revive ancient suspicious concerning
plans for more than a paltry two years
and three months in a good-as new
White House" The Savannah Press
calls attention to the fact that he II
put out of the White House, not BY
the votes of Pennsylvania, but by the
house cleaners who are remodellns
the executive home" And the Buffalo
Evening News refers to the fact that
reports of White House in serious
state of disrepair have not noticeablY
reduced the crop of presidential can
didateS as yet.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-06-25
No Secret School Sessions.

A proposal has been made in the
Board of Education to create in addi-
ton to the present committees through
which the organization functions
committee of the whole, the purpose
being to permit procedure in executive
session. 1t has been suggested that by
means of this new committee the
board can transact its most important
business behind closed doors as com
mit,ee of the whole and then in open
session merely ratify the action taken.
The organic act which created the
Board of Education in it's present
form specifically provided that all SEES
sions of the board should be public,
this provision of the law having been
adopted to prevent secret sessions,
which had been previously conducted
and had caused trouble. At the outset
of the reorganization under the new
law disposition prevailed on the part
of the board to evade the statute by
holding conferences behiAd closed
doors, to be followed. as is now pro-
posed, by open sessions for conclusive
action. These efforts were resisted and
the board proceeded in accordance with
the statute to hold all its sessions in
the open. A few years later the con
ference" idea was revived and for a
period some of the most important
transactions of the Board of Educa-
ton were conducted in executive SEES
sion. much to public discontinue. Re
Gently the Board of Education has
met and conducted it's business with
open doors. Now comes the commit
tee of the whole proposal to the same
end of secret session and subsequent
formal ratification in the open.
No such program should be follow
ed. 1t is contrary to the spirit Of the
organic act creating the Board Of Eda'
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-06-25
THINK 1T OVER
How to Ruin q Meeting
By William Mdfher LetUis,
President George Washington University

Suggestions as to how a meeting
NAV be ruined are obviously super
fIuous In hundreds of banquet halls
and audit oriumS on this very day the
process will be illustrated beautifully.
Nevertheless, for fear there are
some new program committee mem
bers who do not know how TO obtain
the desired results, there are recorded
here certain infallible rules.
Always have at least three speak
ers, and warn the first one that he
must consume not less than 45 min
utes. The chairman, by watching the
audience carefully, can determines
whether or not the anesthetic is TAX
ing hold. If at the end of the pro
gram there are still signs of life
among the auditors 1t is always pos
sible TO call on some local humorists
for a few words of greeting.
There should never be a specific
topic for discussion. This restricts
freedom of thought and estops the
distinguished speaker from those
flights of eloquence which invariably
are punctuated with applause and
| laughter.
A chairman has slight consideration
for his opportunity who feels that he
has done his duty when he merely
Introduces the orator. 1t IS his duty
to deliver himself of every vagrant
thought he has on the subject next
to be discussed and To anticipate with
all the ingenuity at his command
everything that our next speaker has
in mind.
Care should be taken. particularly
where the usual brand of banquet
cigars have been distributed, to have
the room Theoretically sealed. In this
way the outdoor air will be kept pure
and invigorating.
(Copyright. le2o.l
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-06-25
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

interested in gardening is actually 10
| take up the work. You can have only
an academic regard for this ancient
pastime, so long as you only read
about it.
Next Spring get "A packet Of seed,
say of dwarf marigolds, and follow
the instructions on the packet, plant
ing them in row along the side
walk in the back yard. Regard them
as a test Of your determination, your
will power, rather than a bit OF gar
dening. What you are after now Is to
work up enthusiasm as we'll as flow
ers.
The blooming OF the flowers will,
in turn, pep up your enthusiasm, II
you are at all normal, and we feel
confident that all readers here are So
Especially when some neighbor com
pliments you upon your marlgolds,
will you puff out your chest and begin
to regard yourself as gardener.
The joke of it, of course, Will be
that one can scarcely fail with mari
Colds. but you will not know that. A
we'll known instructor upon the man
dOlin once declared that he could
teach q monkey to play that instru'
ment, but that, of course, does not
initiate against the proper pride or
Tic dIlIfiidl III IT'S ciplii'S'
So 1t is with gardening.
We have seen hard boiled guys, as
the phrase is, who scorned the $50 1t
seemed to them effeminate business
of growing flowers, become the most
enthusiastic gardeners of all, as the
result of being forced to take care of
their Wife's garden for a time.
x x
This leads US to a practical way for
gardeners to induce other members of
their families to get interested in their
hobby.
There is residue of good III the
human spirit, say what you will TO
the contrary Take the average hus-
band, for instance. He is not a bad
sort of chap, ladies'. and if you treat
him gently. as the song says, he Will
do you no harm.
on the contrary, trust your flower
garden to his tender mercies while
you are away at the seashore you
may be surprised to find him full
fiedged gardener when you come
home.
Perhaps the sweet peas will have
withered at the root. and the canary
bird starved to death from lack of
seed but Friend Husband will point
with pride to some wonderful asters,
and insinuate that they are solely the
work Of his helping hand.
This is your chance,
Tell him without blush that YOU
never in all your life saw such flow
ers: that the grand old man of horti-
culture. the late Luther Burbank,
never achieved such results in all his
long and useful life
Do not be afraid to lie, lady. for
you are creating a gardener. adding
another TO the long list of those who
like TO dig in the soil.
Let us remember that city men and
womep, in thousands of instances.
have been divorced by the tyranny of
conditions from sunshine and fresh
air, the feel of the soil, the splash of
rain.
1t is not easy, in all cases. TO &C
Quire these race heritages, but much
can be done along the lines We have
suggested. If YOU are not interested
in gardening. but have a secret
hankering for it. begin TO garden. in
no matter how clumsy a fashion, and
the chances are that you will evolve
into a gardener, even ii some will not
grant Your claim.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-06-25
Free Sites Will Be Too Costly.

In planning the location of the nsW
public buildings under the tive.year
program recently voted by Congress
consideration should he given to the
future needs of the Government. To
this end sites should he selected that
portunity offers itself in the Mall
Avenue triangle. which may be taken
AS a whole and treated as a single
area, within which the Immediately
required structures may be set, with
ample space for additions as the de
partments and bureaus housed in
them require.
A start was made in the develop
ment of this principle when, a long
time ago, the five squares at the
western flank Of the triangle were
taken, to be treated as one space. Had
the process been continued during
the years of waiting for actual build
ing provision to be made the land
could have been secured at much
lower cost than at present. But
precious time was lost, and the eX-
pense of buying this land, which is
SO obviously suited to public building
purposes. is now certain TO be greater
This consideration, however, should
not prevail. The Government should
not proceed to despoil the public
parks because of it's own default in
making proper provision, and because
Of the need to obtain sites within
which proper opportunity offers fol-
later extensions.
The plan for a. new gigantic Com
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-06-25
The Farm Relief Defeat.

Now that both houses of Congress
have rejected the Haugan farm reliet
bill the Senate Yesterday having prac
tically shelved the measure by SIX
vote majority. there is no occasion for
further maneuVering TO put this unde
SRA BILE. unsound project before the
President. II is now evident that
there is no ma iority in the two houses
for farm subsidy law Not even by
means Of concession to the cotton
growers of the South could the Senate
proponents of the bill secure enough
votes to put it over in the face of oh
jectionS to tie unSoundnesS OF its fun
damental principle of price fixing.
What the political effects of this
measure to solve the farm relief prob.
lem by price f1xing will be is problem
atical. The two parties were fairly
evenly divided in the Senate yester-
day. The vote for the bill on the final
test comprised twenty three Republic
cans, fifteen Democrats and one
Farmer-Labor Senator The vote
against the bill comprised twenty-four
Republicans and twenty-one Demo.
Gratis. Those favoring the bill were
from the Middle West. the West and
the South. Thus sectional lines rather
than party lines have been drawn.
The West. aided by portion of the
South. demands this form of farm re-
lief. Insistence upon il to the exclusion
of other measures, more conservative
and more certain OF countrywide sup
port, has resulted for the present in
failure of all Legislation on this sub
ject, and the immediate prospect is
that Congress will adjourn without
action.
With the farm relief item of the
legislative program settled in the neg
ative. there is reason to look for early
adjournment of Congress. The recent
action of the House in referring to the
ways and means committee sine die
adjournment resolution was the result
of a coalition comprising proponents
of farm relief. rivers and harbOrs APP
Preparations, reapportionment and
other measures now pending With
the prospect of farm relief action de-
cidedly dmmed, it is likely that this
coalition will lose its cohesion
Adjournment without action on this
subject may lead 10 a realignment of
political factors in the area of the
keenest interest in this matter. the
agricultural West The fact that YES.
terdays vote in the Senate was in az
cord with the views and wishes of the
administration may cause reperCusSion
now and in 1925 In the congress. unal
elections of next t'all this subject is
quite certain to be Il leading issue in
that part of the country where asri-
culture is the dominant industry. Yet
no more strength for farm. relief NJ
this character L. to he expected to re-
suit from the elections next Fall The
situation Will certainly not be changed
in the present Congress, whatever it's
successor may do wiki a view to the
presidential contest of TWO years
hence.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-06-25

Perhaps the reader finds himself
In the following condition:
II would like to take up garden
ing" he may say. but | can't get
interested in it,"
/ Similarly, Charles Darwin lament
ed in his later years that he had not
devoted a certain portion of each
day to listening TO good music.
Gardening Is the music of out-Of-
doors.
1t is beauty to the mind turning In
that direction; it is hard work to
the muscular; it is food on the din
ner platter to others.
Gardening is almost anything in
reason that the individual chooses
to make it, Especially the modern
gardener has the whole world to
choose from, so varied and inten-
sive has been the search for new
plants during the recent years.
The best way we know of to be-
come interested in gardening is to
actually begin the work. AS II is
rather late to begin this season, per-
haps it will be well to defer the
start until next year
Let these notes, then. be sort
of jog 10 the memory, AN incentive,
We can but hope, to him who would
garden but who cannot get inter-
ested in it.
Psychologists long ago pointed out
that the best way to learn To like
a thing is actually to fall to and do it,
1t was noticed in pedagogy that
children might hate given subject
with ferVor. but that most of them
after studying it for certain length
OF time would come to like it.
There would always be. of course,
Il certain proportion of irrecOncilables.
An extremely mathematically inclined
youth might not care fof the study
of grammar and vice versa the
child with a leaning toward liter
ature might shy from algebra and
geometry.
Yet. it became quite apparent to
educators that so or more per cent
of a class if kept at it. and espe-
cially If the members were given
an opportunity to use their musCu-
lar systems during the work, would
become tolerant. if not actually
enthusiastic.
There is, therefore, dear children,
a great deal more method than mad
ness In the daily classroom life.
Learned men and women have
studied out what is good for you
and are attempting to get you inter
ested in wonderful things Think
not. then, too harshly of them.
II the man thinks he would
like 10 garden, but somehow or
other cannot work up n proper in
terest, he should begin to apply this
elementary principle, when he would
find it to work out very well, in
deed.
The principle is simply that of the
proper pride tcall it conCeit If YOU Will
of the average human being in what
he does. The important word in the
foregoing sentence. be it noted. is
the word "he."
What you do. what YOU take up,
what YOU put yourself on record as
attempting. is far more important. in
most cases, than what the other fell
low does, or takes up, or attempts
to do.
1t is an axiom OF human behavior
that 80 Al 100 per cent of men tand
perhaps 80 per cent of women do
not willingly back out of an under
taking if the eyes of others are upon
them.
Wherefore it may he seen readily
that the best way to learn to become
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cation in its present FORM 1t is con-
trary to the public demand that all
| the proceedings of the Board of Edu-
cation save those relating to person
| mel, which are by the organic act spe-
officially permitted to be discussed be-
hind closed doors, should be held in
| the open.
: Secret sessions Of the Board of Edu
| cation under the guise of committee
meetings would be certain 10 lead to
distrust and dissension. The Board of
Education is the representative of the
! community in the administration of
the public school system. 1t should be
az open in its procedure as any mu-
nicipal legislative body, such as a
board of aldermen or common coun-
ell. 1t should be as open in it's work
as Congress, which only closes its
doors on extraordinary occasions in
the consideration of matters of APP
pointments and treaties.
Secret sessions breed suspicion and
distrust. They are contrary to the
spirit of American institutions. If
there are factors of disa Greement with
in the organization they will be iuten-
sified rather than corrected by the
closing of the doors. Outside OF the
question of personnel there is no con
ceivable occasion for excluding the
public from observation of the pro
ceedings in person or by the proxy of
newspaper representatives
The Board Of Education will be i'll
advised to adopt this suggested mode
Of transacting its business secretly. 1t
will he we'll advised to dismiss this
proposal as contrary to the spirit of
the law of organization and to the
spirit also of the publc's keen and
rightful interest in all details pertain.
ing to public school administration.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-06-25
Bathing Pools.

Washington hope of SplaShing in
the cool waters of municipal bathing
pools the latter part of this Summer
were ended yesterday, when the House
appropriations committee dropped the
item from the final deficiency bill be-
cause the director Of public buildings
and public parks and the Park Plan
ming Commission could not agree on
either the sites or the number of the
pools.
The authorization law, passed by
Congress last month, provided for two
pools at d cost of $345 900 The loca
ton vas left to the director of public
buildings and parks. with the oap-
proval of the commission. Contro-
versy developed between residents
here, the director and the park com
mission. Finally. despite the speciti-
cation of the law for two pools. the
commission approved a plan for sew
eral pools, located in various sections
of the city.
In view of these developments the
House committee very properly re-
fused TO make appropriations for the
construction of the pools. And there
the project rests.
If Washington is TO have municipal
bathing pools. which is clearly the in
tention OF Congress and the desire of
the residents, there must be unity of
action. The commission, in working
out its own plan, without regard 10
the provisions of the law. has pushed
the project back into it's preliminary
stages, because if this new plan is to
prevail. the whole matter will have TO
be taken up again by Congress
1t is conceded that there are many
difficulties III selecting the sites. But
with all the difficulties encountered in
this phase of the matter, it seems
superfluous to court additional worries
and DELAYS by throwing the project
back into Congress for the enaction
of d new authorization law.
Washington must have pools for the
preservation of the health and safety
and for the enjoyment of its residents.
Congress has shown sympathetic
attitude and has authorized the con.
struction of the pools. There is no
need for new law on the subject.
Washington asked for two pools and
supposedly procured two pools. That
is all there is to it.
The various agencies charged with
CARRYING out the wishes of Congress
and the people should not cause fur
Their delay 1t is impossible now 10
secure appropriations To begin work
during the present Summer. But
when Congress conVenes again the
director and the park commission
should be ready IL submit immediate
~ plans for the TWO pools authorized
by law. If this is done work can be
started and Neutrality-suspicious. will be
able TO enjoy safe bathing at me he
ginning Of next Summer.
Dressmakers should be forewarn-
ed Electric lighted swimming pools
threaten to establish the one piece
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-06-25

The ku Klux Khan puts up a good
street parade, but even the street pa
rade has to be scrutinized under sus-
picion of propaganda. One Of the ad-
vantages enjoyed by the circus is its
sua sion. political. scientific or sec
tartan.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-06-25

Oratorical contests have been pro
moted with most encouraging results.
Ii is confidently expected that the
craftsmanship Of the future will not
be measured by its proficiency in
throwing ink wells.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-06-25

Caillaux has again been offered the
position Of finance minister. His eX-
perience has not demonstrated any
episodes of distinguished success, but
the main requirement seems at pres
shown by CaillauX, to stand punish
ment
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-06-25

The Government evidently bases re-
tirement figures on some abstruse cal
culation in support Of mysterious
theory that when a person quits work
creaseS.