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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1926-06-03
SELECTING CENTRAL
OFFICE NAME rs
NO LIGHT TASK
Designations For New Telephone Elk
changes Chosen Only After
Panstaking Study

Naming a baby is an easy job COM
pared with naming a telephone eX-
change.
Some people have the idea that
when telephone officials get ready to
christen a new telephone exchange, all
they do is to sit down and think for
while when-presto-a suitable name
comes to mind and it is chosen. TINS,
however, is far from the real facts.
Naming telephone exchange requires
a long time and involves labor on the
part OF large number of persons.
In other words, names for telephone
exchanges are not simply plucked out
of the air. They are selected only
after much care and investigation.
Whenever possible, names to fit the
locality are chosen, but the first and
main consideration is that the name
shall be easily distinguishable in ordl-
nary conversation; that it is not
similar to the name of some other
exchange in the same local area, and
that word is selected that is easily
spelled. In order to be suitable Tor
use in machine switching offices, the
first three letters must not be used IN
the same area as the code correspond
ing to another name.
Accordingly, exhaustive tests are
made by telephone engineers to de-
termine the phonetic suitability or
word Words are tested over tele-
phone wires by different people. After
a long list OF words has been SUBJ
jected to a suitable number of tests,
ordinarily many thousands, the re-
suits are summarized, and those on
which the smallest number of errors
have been found are set aside for use,
the name ordinarily being graded in
accordance with it's apparent desir-
ability.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1926-06-03
TELEPHONE NOW
FIFTY YEARS OLD

On March 10, telephone people
throughout the world in general and
the United States and Canada in par
ticular, celebrated the fiftieth ami
versary of the birth of the telephone,
and in this way paid honor to Alex
ander Graham Bell, the inventor, and
Thomas A Watson, his assistant, in
the early experimental work. Each
of the 100000 telephone employees in
America were furnished a blue button
on which appeared a big white nu-
neral, fifty" to wear in honor of
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1926-06-03

lily left here on Saturday for Buck
hannon, W. Va, where they will visit
relatives.
Mrs. Stella Seymour and daughter
and Mrs. Sallie Gibson, of Kempton,
visited at the home of H. z. Gibson,
in Loeb Lynn last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. V. Shipley have re-
turned to their home here after hav-
ing spent the winter in Sebring, Fla.
Mr.. r. L. Weeks has moved his
family into Mrs. Alma Bells prop
erty here. Mrs. Bell is moving to
Oakland where she has a position in
Dixon's store.
Mrs. c. E. Hardesty and children
spent the weekend in Barton.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1926-06-03

heat and energy. She selects peas
and stringless beans because OF their
protein and vitamin content. Canned
spinach her children mist have be-
cause, besides being rich in vitan:ins,
it serves as a broom to sweep out the
digestive tract. She orders plenty
OF canned tomatoes because they con-
tain both frrit and vegetable acids,
mineral salts and all the ess2ntia,,
v1am;ns. Prepared spaghetti, blended
with cheese and tomato sauce. ard
thus containing practically al; the
bodybuilding elements, is includld i"
her purchases. Based beans and .
variety Of earned and fresh fruits s''e
will also want.
It is not likely that children fed @
these healthful foods will ever driv'
their mother to the extreme measures
adopted by the old woman who lived
il a ehoe.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1926-06-03
LOCH LYNN

The final meeting of the Parent
Teacher Association will be held on
Thursday evening, June 3, at 7:45
o'clock The pupils of the school will
render a short program. Exhibition
Day" will also be observed at this
time. The parents are urged to be
present at this meeting.
DR.. T. D. Richards, summer resi-
dent of the Park, will preach in the
U. B. church here on Sunday evening,
June 9Th, at eight o'clock.
Rev. and Mrs. F. L. Fultz and fam
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1926-06-03
THE "old woman who lived in
a shoe" had no monopoly on the

"HE "old woman who lived in
a shoe" had no monopoly on the
vexatious problems connected
win large families. There are plenty
oi women today, both old and young,
who have so many children they don't
know what to do. Even with one
child, and living ia much more
commodious domicile than shoe, a
mother has worries enough.
But the modern mother has one
advantage over the ancient shoe
dweller of Mother Goose fame. The
feeding problem is solved for her by
ready-to-serve foods. The well-read
woman knows that she can rely upon
canned foods, not only for conven-
fence and economy, but for their
highly nutritive qualities.
She buys canred corn for dinner
because it is rich in sugar, starch
and fat, which supply the body with
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average span Of life has heightened that this is due
TO the fact that people are living, average
longer. The figures, however, convey false i'm
preston nasmuch they indicate, by birth-deatf
ratio, relationship to- old age that does not exist
If we look far enough We find that the great i'm.
provement in the death rate has been brought about
among children and very young people, while the
death rate for people 40 is actually increasing
due to accidents and diseases.
Thus the gain through child welfare and public
health nursing, which is obtained in the early years
CT fe is lost in later years when the probability OF
accident is more pronounced.
That is the big problem today, cutting down the
accidents. 1t can be done if every person will take
it upon himself to he just as careful as he can.
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rf .h cost of living had declined as it ex-
pected to when this fiscal years financial allowance
for the army was made, the war department could
have squirmed through without cut in the size O.
the country's military establishment.
But it didn't decline and the department simply
can't feed so many soldiers That's the expana-
ton Of the contemplated reduction from force OF
!. 1880 to 10000 enlisted men.
Congress appropriated enough to pay the full
49, $780, but not enough to pay the grocery bill Tor
more than 10000. 1hrty-thr cents per day per
man was the estimate. Thirty-six cents per day is
the least the department is able to get the actual
figures down to- 1t isn't much Of deficit, but the
calculations just that close.
!. There are other army funds, besides the subsis-
tcncc fund, on which sufficient saving might be
made take Of the prospective subsistence def
icit, il money could be transferred from fund to
fund, but that can't be done. The appropriation
bill too rigid.
Accordingly recruiting was ordered stopped to ef-
feet the necessary economy. As cnlstmcnts expire
= no new men will be taken into the army, until a
point has been reached where available cash is ade
!. quatc to pay their board.
Three cents per day per man. total of only
$3,562.5O for the entire force Of 1880, de-
ficiency sufficient to force cut Of 1850 men in
the United States army.
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The Wet-Dry Battle

Vets and drys will 90 to the mat this fall in five
states, as the Anti-Saloon League sees it-Oregon
Missouri Montana, Colorado and California.
The vets i'll this quintet trying TO repeal state
prohibition amendments and enforcement acts. The
drys don't want them repealed and will fight.
NJ "Referenda elections without any legal effect.
the AntiSaloon League expresses it, also will be
held in New York, Nevada, Wisconsin and Illinois
That is to say, the New York. Nevada. Wisconsin
Y and Illinois elections not the proposition u
repeal state prohibition laws. (New York has
! nonc) The vets in this quartet Of states wish
simply to secure statewide expressions Of opinion
in opposition to national prohibition.
I'm these elections the Anti-Saloon League an
-nounccs, 1.-THE drys will not participate" In othc,
words, in states where an attempt is made to weak
-cn prohibition enforcement machinery, by dcpriv
ing the federal government Of the states coopcra
a ton, the drys will vote-advcrsely.
In states where expression of opinion is
sought they will regard the issue closed and re
fran from casting their ballots SO that there vii
!. be no cxprcssiOn--uncss the wet vote is so cnOr
J. nous AS to be in an obvious majority.
This enumeration doesn't take into account III,
states and congressional districts in which congress
slonal candidates. sharply aligned as vets o,
Z drys, as to amount to test, though the wet am,
dry issue fails to figure in platforms The result,
will be seen in the candidates who are elected
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Encouraged by the results Of the summer cam
-pagns Of 1925 to send children to the first grade of
schocl iOO per cent free from remedial physical de-
fleets. the United States Bureau Of Education is pro-
noting second nation wide summer campai.n for
-tle same purpose, in cooperation with the National
Congress OF Parents and Teachers. The movement,
saso has the endorsement of the American Medica,
association, the American Child Health association
@a'td OF many other agencies working for the well
fare of children. Already 500 parcnt-teacher as
sociations in many school districts have applied
for registration
The aim is to have pupils examined at once Sc
@that defects may be remeded during the summer
rand the pupils be physically fit for school in Sep
stember The advantages Of this plan are obvious
ad every parent teacher association should adopt
1T Physically fit children should make better all
+round pupils.
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. Hw,(j.as,.,n

part of the luncheon crowd in Pen
dleton, for it's booths invited to tete-
a-tctc, and its thousand island dress
ing was unequalcd anywhere about.
When judith walked into it Mt
! noon, the day after the balcony cpl
| sodc, groups were shouting greet
! ings the entire length Of the room,
and in one corner q quartet of men
!, in freshmen caps was singing indc-
fatigably.
+ Juditk was attacking her stuffed
tomato when somebody sat down be-
| side her. Turning, she saw Will
| Wcthcrel reckoning to waiter and
,nonchalsntly stretching his legs
across to rest on the seat opposite.
| Without h word Judith went on
eating, rs nonchalant in her manner
as he. At last Wetherel finished his
!! order to the waiter and spoke to her.
!, Il call this luck. All morning I've
been searching the student directory
!. for your telephone number. Called
every blessed Martin listed and got
sassed and kiddcd by IL different
women
! "Finally thought | had you and
asked the dame to lunch with me at
the Schooner. But after she'd ac-
ceptcd she laughed horrible. mid
dle-class laugh and I know she
wasn't you. So lodged the
Schooner and came down here. And
now I've found YOU"
(which proves that vice is its own
reward" laughed Judith. "She is
!, probably starving to death ut the
Schooner right now"
"Oh, no." he replied easily, "some
other poor slap who doesn't mind her
raucous laugh will feed her"
Judith looked at him quizzically
But why did you want to reach me
!; all Of student"
Wetherel made q large gesture
ITO invite you to one Of the best
blow-outs Of tho year. Eve Ger
harris giving her annual fall party
tomorrow night and since l intro
duced you to her she's been seized
with desire to know you better
She told me to find you and ask you
!, to come with me-"
!. Judith smiled. "What kind Of
party is it,"
/ Wethcrel considered. swell,
should say it was the nearest ap
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Anne2ustin &e .ssag&lk@zt.
An1,eAustin

George Pruitt, who. in suit Of
LONG Lanes overalls, had been
busy all afternoon stripping layers
| OF dirty old paper from the living
, room and dining room walls of the
Lsne house. firmly announced his
[ intention Of staying for supper, help.
! ing ~ COOK it. and spending the eve
, ming, Is member Of the paper-hang-
ing squad.
I'm going to make washtub full
Of spaghetti, real hone 81. to- cd Ital.
ian STYLE" he said, and began to
deive in the pantry with knowing
hands. 1.-TWO packages Of spaghetti
gosh. is that all you've got ?-on-
IONS. cayenne pepper, mushrooms
mushrooms! Where arc your mush.
rooms, young woman :" he demanded
sternly of Faith, who stood by, laugh.
ing helpleysly.
you've wandered into the wrong
Kitchen" she giggled. Faith gig
Cling! She could hardly believe her
own ears. This isn't the Astorbilt
pantry. my man. We're poor. but
honest woikin' pee'pul, Mr.. Pruitt!
There nin't no such things as mush.
rooms!"
is that right?" George retortcd
with mock turbulence. "Hey, JOY!
Get o hump onl Take this five dol.
lar bill and skin out to the grocery
store and bring back . pound Of
dr'ed mushrooms. Make Il snappy
old timer!"
Joys eyes bulged at sight of the
bill. "Do mushrooms cost five dol.
lars q pound!" Her voice was
weighted with awe.
"Good Lord, don't know! Don't
waste my time on petty details. I'm
busy man, / am. Scoot! Two cans
Of tomato pulp-well. I'm glad to see
that even poor but dishonest woikin'
pee'pul indulge in such sinful luxur.
h les as tomato pulp; Cheese! That'd
can cheese" Faith said. following
Ought to be that Italian kind
grated, but I guess it'll do" George
conceded magnificently. "Hcre, you
crate it. Where's your biggest stew
ing kettle :"
Half IN hour later, waves of savory
fragrance were pouring through the
house from the bubbling pot on the
stove. Cherry, coming in from work,
stopped at the living room door to
sniff ecstatica1ly.
"Yoo hoo, Faith! What lot of
work you've done! And that heaven
" smell! Italian spaghetti? Look
what the kitten dragged in!"
Faith, flushed laughing, feeling
more like giggly school girl than
she had ever felt in her life, ran from
the kitchen to meet her sister.
"Gcorgc is cooking the supper
she announced breathlessly. Hes
been helping me all afternoon"
"Dont skulk behind that door, Bob
Hathaway" Cherry, her eyes. cheeks
and hair glowing riot Of color, seix-
ed his hand and drew him into view
| HE was at the office, on business
with his uncle, Mr.. Cluny. you know,
and ] kidnapped him. He struggled
desperately, but the strength Of my
good right arm held out and here he
is. Told him he'd have to help us
paper. Sentenced to hard labor fol
| resisting an officer!"
Faiths heart lcaped painfully o,
sight Of his embarrassed blue eyes
I fixed appealing upon her. Why did
Cherry have to drag him into the
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preach to a Bohemian revel that
you'll find in Pendleton. It's y fine
chance for you to meet everybody in
town who has a brain and not too
many prejudices."
Judith looked UP quickly. "What
do you meant"
WELL" he said, everybody who
has brain beyond TcnnysOn and
person Eve Gerhart is. The others
such as old Timothy and his gang
well. frankly. Eve is persona non
grata with them"
do none of the faculty people ac-
cept herr" asked Judith fr0wning
slightly.
"Old Timothy sceres 'em off. But
occasionally DR.. Alex Ward Of the
philosophy department and DR.. Pills
bury of the biology section will drop
in at her parties. Timothy probably
thinks they're already SO stepped in
Nietzche and Darwin that they're
damned anyhow, and 50 he never
|. b0thers them.
q Il cant understand why the rest
of the profs kowtow to him rs they
do. There's Dorm new. A cracker
jack scientist and really = very good
fellow. He knew Eve in her girl
hood but he daren't play around
with her here. Rotten slavcry-this
teaching game
Judith was looking prcoccupied
when Wethercl brought her back to
the point at issue. you'll 60 to-
morrow night, Of course?"
Judith considered. "Tm not sure
that my evening dress will get here
from home. The dressmaker was to
mail it two days ago."
Wetherel waved her objection
away. "You can wear something
else. suppose some kind Of party
buds will be advisable. You can rig
up something, can't y0u?" He was
picking up the check and rising t.
!, usher her from the booth.
"Well," said Judith SLOWLY. "pe-
haps-" She stopped. In the booth
immediately behind them sat DR.
Peter Dorm. He gave Judith ont
miserable glance and dropped hi
! eyes to his plate MS she and Wethere
| went OH.
! Will scarcely put . safe distanc,
between them and the booth before
breaking into = guffsw. well. oil
Dorm probably heard more than b
+, liked Of our conversation. Mus
have heard me say he was under oil
Timothy's thumb n all that.
serves him right for listening"
Myra and Eric were walking
across the campus when Judith lief
sidepath and turned toward tn
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Chicago Tribune)

The Illinois state board Of pardons and paroles
abolished an evil Of many years standing when it
returned, last Wednesday, to system of holding
hearings in public For the last several years the
pardon and parole system has been scandalous and
corrupt; it was able to be because it was secretly
administered. The public knew when or why q
convict was pardoned or paroled only when thu
beard chose to tell, and, was proved many times
over, it did not always choose to tell.
Mr. Hinton G. Clabaugh, appointed as new chair
man ct the board following the pardon mill" scan
dal promised that the hearings of appeals would
be open to the public during his term in office. HI
is keeping his promise.
mat criminal trial shall be public is one CT the
provisions written into the bill of rights Phraset
as safeguard OF personal liberty it was intended
ana mas acted as check against Official corruption
ana the betrayal of public safety by the accused
Inc former custom Of holding pardon and parol.
nearings IN private was equivalent to throwing th
provision OF the bill of rights into the discard A,
OF the sentence handed down by court an.
jury should be held as much part Of the crimina
procedure as the trial itself It should therefore
be as public as the trial.
Under the former secret system the uerdon an.
parole laws were scandal0usly abused, the work o
sw enforcement bodies set at naught by the turn
ne QUIZ on TO the streets Of unreformed criminals-
crminels more vicious than they were when the
entered the penitentiary, because they knew the
ne Deatsn the law. Tho people Of Illinois are con
.'oent that The results Of the new systan Of puhli
ihss WIN jjnsttfy tlsir dssaald !os the rsform.
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The Potato Empire
New York Times)


Singing q pacan to the potato. The Boston Her
aid says of the prosperity Of the growers in Aroo-
stock that 1.-THE stories you hear Of wealth gained in
sudden and spectacular fashion this past year and in
some Of the exceptional years Of the past equal any
thing that has come out from the Klondke or Flor
ida" One Maine potato farmer built barn that
cost $4,000 Until it burned it the show
place Of northern Maine. His house not
worthy Of the barn by 100000, reminding one OF
Mary wilkins story, The Revolt Of Mother
year ago the Aroostook farmers owed $4O,OOO,OOO
The talk was all Of mortgages and the air was blue
Then came a good potato crop in season when the
west had poor one. Aroostooks receipts were
$5O,OOO,0OO Some of the growers got so barrel
The crop this year is estimated at 900 bushels
The industry has been stabilized by bonanza yea:
followed by more than average crop that brings
fair returns.
If it had not been for potatoes the Bangor &
Aroostcok railroad would never have been built
Aroost0ok county is big all Massachusetts,
The inhabitants call it the potato empire But the
potato belt is confined to few nshps-Caribou
Fort Fairfield, Houlton, Limestone and half dozen
others. About 10000 acres in potatoes. To
tell the growers in these townships to diversity
their crops is wasted energy. Their fields pro.
ducc potatoes worth in good years much gold as
Canadian Ell Dorado show. One hundred bar
rels to the acre expected Seed fertilizers and
labor cost $3.50 an acre. Buyers now offering
$3.50 a barrel. Everybody is in potatoes in Aroo-
stock, including bank presidents, general store.
Keepers and hardware Dealers. Houton is the
metropolis I'm its social life YOU may be sure thu,
Hculton lacks nothing that the wealthiest Boston
suburb knows Two thousand automobiles were
parked IN Houlton one recent Saturday.
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Her Gum Way Il :!S SKI:

he probably could hear its insistent
tumult.
Under these circumstances it SEEM
cd almost superfluous to ask, rs I
did: "Do you really want me to,
John ?" knowing that my treacherous
heart had already answered him be-
fore I had spoken.
1T will be for such little while,
Judy" he pleaded.
Don't say that, John. For little
or long, am yours. If It will give
you any peace TO have such. q poor
thing as I here with you. the least
that | can possibly do Is to give you
Again Johns lips sought mine.
"Joan," he said peremptorily,
bring minister Immediately. and
on the way ret . marriage license.
Judy 10 going 20 b my wife"
felt myself tremble. did not
know whether It was from terror or
DR.. Phillips rot rid Of most Of the
people in the room and put me back
upon my temporary bed.
Then think tainted, for It was
some time aftcrward when realised
that one of the internes had returned
with . minister.
TOMORROW = Here Comes the
Bride.
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The Elemental Masters

]. Day after day. week after week. the weathel
holds page one in the press of the nation.
& Florida and the gulf coast tattercd to shreds by
winds and wave.
4 cnowstorrps in the west, the fall wheat killed
Inc Acres shaken and devastated by earthquake
Vera Cruz flooded by raging waters.
4 Thousands flee flood in midwest reads todav,s
ssheadline.
4. so it goes Weather supreme over man. with all
fshis complex powers.
Il Aan may build his bridges. his dams, his sky.
E3cFapers.
4nen come wind and storm and quake to over.
ssfnrow N breath the labor Of years.
ana until men learn TO build cities stronger thar
NC elements. they are not supreme at all!
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JUDY SAYS YES

Darling Judy" he said ina kind
OF high, strained voice, "God did let
you come to me. i, sta. y
Bring her over near me-" he COM
handed the attendants. I was wheel
ed over to the edge of the bed. Lift
me up and place me ~ near her as
possible" VIII
DR.. Phillips, with wonderful UNDER
standing. picked me up in his arms
and placed hse in i sitting position
with my back to the head Of Johns
bed. About me were banked pillows
until even my injured leg was made
comparatively comfortable. With
supcrhuman effort John placed his
head in my lap. Only his eyes seem.
ed alive. bent down and kissed
his lips.
Shave they told you, Judy? Are
you going to make me happy for the
little while that I shall 1ive3 Are
you going to marry me :" Again he
had forgotten everyone about ~.
could not resist the pleading OF
his eyes. could not resist the
clamor Of my own heart. which was
beating in the wild manner it always
did when ! had even some near thu
man whose beautiful head was now
resting against it. ! knew that he
could feel its fluttering. knew that
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cared to be the state Of affairs in the town Of Rock
vile Center, New York, where four volunteer fire
have just been arrested for a series Of serious
fires which in many cases endangered many lives
The men arrested are all under 80 years old and
for months their company has arrived first at the
fires 1t in order to preserve this record that
they allegedy placed themselves in the position Of
being accused of one Of the most loathed crimes.
One finds it hard to believe that these men can be
mentally sound Certainly the incident shows to
what lengths even friendly rivalry will 60