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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1928-04-05
ELECTRIC TRAFFIC SIGNS
TO BE ERECTED BY CITY
Will Be Placed at Towns Con-
gested Crossings-OficiaIs APP
pointed at Council Meeting.

An order to purchase three auto
matte electric traffic signals was
passed Monday night at the business
session of the Mayor and Council of
Oakland. These lights are to be placed
at the most congested street intersec-
tions and at points considered the
most dangerous to both vehicular and
foot traffic, as follows: Third and
Oak streets; Third and Alder streets
and Second and Green streets.
The signals, which will be operated
automatically and also lighted by cleo
trio current, will be erected by the
West Maryland Power Company and
will be on duty twenty-four hours a
day at a very nominal cost, according
to town officials.
Town Officials Appointed.
The Monday evening session of the
Town Council was the first to be held
with the newly elected members pres
ent and was organized by the cleo
ton of Delbert Davis as it's president.
The recently elected members of the
body are Jesse j. Ashby and Ralph
7. Thayer, while Grover c. Stemple
succeeded himself as member of the
Council.
Other appointment made by Council
were James o. limbaugh, collector;
VIM. R. Offutt, attorney; Albert Z.
Ross, reappointed clerk; S. B. Aron-
halt, chairman street committee, who
will have as his associates Jesse ].
Ashby and R. T. Thayer; ]. W. Whor-
ton, Delbert Davis and Grover Stem
pie, members of the water commit
tee, with the latter as chairman; j. ).
Ashby, R. 7. Thayer and Delbert Da-
Wis, finance committee, Mr.. Davis be-
ing selected as it's chairman.
Mayor Lawrence NJ. Fraley submit
ted his list of appointments which
were confirmed as follows: B. b.
Nethkin, bailiff; E. l. West, police
magistrates; Michael Maroney, street
commissioner; James Compton, super
intendent of the water works.
At Monday nights meeting routine
business matters were also taken up
and disposed of. The next regular
meeting of the body will be held on
Monday evening, May Z.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1928-04-05
Where They Found The Pint.

While engaged in raiding the prem
ises of John Swauger, near Jennings,
Garrett county, one day last week,
Revenue officers discovered box in
the Swauger barn. The box did not
look at all suspicious and was labeled
"Stock Tonic" Perhaps the officers
had kept bosses, too, at one time. AT
any rate they were interested enough
to investigate, and upon opening the
box found in it a pint bottle of moon
shine.
Arriving at very natural conclu-
sion, the officers continued their search
and soon discovered three barrels of
mash and five gallon key containing
two gallons of liquor in the Swauger
home.
The mash was destroyed by the Of
ficers and the liquor confscated as
evidence. Swauger was cited to ap-
pear and give bond for his appearance
at court on the charge of manufactur-
ing illicit liquor and also for having it
in his possession for the purpose of
sale.
This is the fourth time Swauger
has been arrested for violation of the
prohibition laws and the public will
watch with interest the outcome of
the matter as the impression prevails
in the minds of a number that there
is no real danger awaiting the man
who violates the law repeatedly and
with impunity.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1928-04-05
Imperial Ice Cream Company
Representative Here In Inter-
est of Dairying.

E. Stanley Halter, field representa-
tive of the Imperial Ice Cream Com
pany, of Parkersburg, W. Va, is in
Oakland for period of several weeks
and will spend his time in the COM
munity in the interest of dairying,
George D. Sprague, manager of the
Oakland Creamery Company, said
yesterday.
Mr.. Halter states that he desires to
be of assistance to all the farmers
and dairymen of the county and Of
fers his services to be used either in
public meetings or at private confer
ences where dairy subjects are to be
discussed.
Mr.. Halter may be found by making
inquiry at the office of the Oakland
Creamery Company.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1928-04-05
IMPRESSIVE RITES MARK
BURIAL OF SENATOR WILLIS
Flag-Draped Casket Escorted By
Battalion of Ohio National
Guardsmen.

At Delaware, Ohio, on Tuesday of
this week, occurred the funeral of
Ohio's Senior Senator, Frank B, Will
lis, until the hour of his sudden death
Friday evening candidate for the
Republican nomination for President,
His body was inferred in Oak Grove
Cemetery with the honors of a first
citizen, while those of opposing polit-
ical faiths mingled at his graveside
with his family and friends.
Down the same throng-lined street
through which he rode in triumph a
short while before he died Friday
night, Senator Willis rode in solemn
triumph again Tuesday, his flag
draped casket escorted by a battalion
of the Ohio National Guard.
The street that was gay with flags
and bunting when the Senator came
home to speak in behalf of his presi-
Dental candidacy, Tuesday was SOM
bre with purple, black and white crepe
that adorned the buildings.
In the chapel his friends-political
and personal alike-paid him tribute.
Fess Delivers 'Eulogy
The junior Senator from Ohio, Sim
con D. Fess, prophesied that "his ca
reer will be a ladder of fame upon
which young men and women of spirit
will aspire to climb. Senator Fess,
who was one of Senator Willis teach
ers at Ohio Northern University,
traced the life of his colleague from a
Delaware county farmer boy to his
high position as a statesman.
Senator Willis life was character
lied by deep natural religious feel
ing, Fess declared.
Frank D. Cole, former congressman,
termed the Senator's life "the grand
epic of American nobility"
Tribute of a Friend.
From the Senator's private secre-
tary, Charles A. Jones, who is native
of Deer Park and brother of E. R.
Jones, attorney of Oakland, came a
tribute of an intimate friend and CO.
worker.
81 believe the highest tribute l can
pay him today is this" said Mr.. Jones:
"In all the years of my association
with him l never knew him to do a
thing that from the standpoint of
broad manhood, from the viewpoint OF
truthful and courageous relations
with his fellowmen, could be called
a little thing"
From a pocket testament which
Senator Willis carried, DR.. Otto Scott
Steele, pastor of Asbury Methodist
Episcopal church, the home church of
the statesman, read passages which
Senator Willis had marked.
what doth it profit, my brethren,
though a man say he hath faith, and
have not works ?" (Taken from the
book of James,, was one of these
"Ye see then how that by works man
is justified, and not by faith only,
from the same book and chapter, was
another.
DR.. Albert Edwin Smith, president
of Ohio Northern University, which
Senator Willis attended as youth
and where he later was a professor
preached the funeral sermon.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1928-04-05
THE SUNDAY BLUE LAWS"
IN GARRETT EXPLANATORY
Law Prohibiting Sunday Fishing
Will Be Enforced, Says States
Attorney ]. C. Renninger.

The following communication to
Fred. C. Dreyer, of Cumberland, rela-
tive to the Sunday "Blue Laws" in
Garrett county, are self explanatory,
says the Cumberland News of yester-
day, in which paper appeared the cor
respondence between the Cumberland
man and the State Game Warden, as
well as the opinion of the Attorney
General of Maryland, reading as fol-
lows:
Mr.. Fred C. Dreyer,
Cumberland, Md.
Dear Friend Fred:-I have your
letter of the 18th inst, stating you
were enclosing a copy of letter you
wrote to Mr.. Renninger, States At
torney of Garrett County. However,
you did not enclose same but enclosed
copy of the letter which you wrote
to me.
Relative to the Sunday "Blue Law
of Garrett County, which prohibits
fishing on the Sabbath day, am en-
closing to you an opinion rendered by
the Acknowledgement of this State to
this department under date of April
Both, 1925, and you will note the last
paragraph states that he does not
think the game warden or deputies are
bound to enforce this law, but should
be enforced by the sheriff or other
county officials, due to the fact that
it comes under the head of what is
usually referred to as "blue laws"
In 1927 we instructed our Deputy
Wardens in Garrett County not to en-
force this act. .
Yours very truly,
E. LEE LECOMPTE,
State Game Warden.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1928-04-05
Acknowledgements Opinion.

E. Lee LeCompte, ESQ.,,
State Game Warden,
Munsey Building,
Baltimore, Maryland.
Dear Mr.. LeCompte:-YOur letter
of the 9th inst, in reference to fish
ing on Sunday in Garrett county, is
received.
Chapter 55 of the Acts of 1896
makes it misdemeanor to fish, gun
or hunt on Sunday in Garrett county,
and provides a penalty therefor by
way of fines, one-half of which shall
go to the informer and one-half to
the School Commissioners of Garrett
county.
Chapter $40 of the Acts of 1924 is
an act defining and classifying and
providing open and closed seasons for
the taking of fish in the waters of the
State above tide water. Section 2 of
this Act provides that all General
Local Laws inconsistent with it are
hereby repealed to the extent of their
inconsistency.
Ny construction of this section is
that it only applies to such Acts as
directly affect the subject-matter of
the bill in question. In other words,
if there was a Local Act which gave
different definition as to the clas-
sification of fish or which provided
different season during which the
same might be caught, or different
manner for catching the same, such
Act would be repealed.
Chapter S. of the Acts Of 1896,
however, is not law for the protec-
ton of fish or game, but one to COM
pei the proper observance of the
Sabbath, and comes under the head
of what we usually refer to as the
''Blue Laws"
Therefore, while 1 am of the opinion
that Chapter $40 does not repeal the
last mentioned Act l do not think
that it is the duty of yourself or your
Game Warden to enforce it, but that
it should be enforced by the Sheriff
or other county officers or in the man.
ner provided in Section of said Act.
Yours very truly,
| (Signed) THOMAS H. ROBINSON,
Attorney-General.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1928-04-05
Road Construction Bids Invited
by State Commission.

The Maryland State Roads Commits
sion, by advertisements appearing in
The Republican today invites sealed
bids for the construction of one and
three-quarter miles of concrete high
way on the Northwestern Turnpike in
Garrett county. 1t is said that the
mileage advertised for will carry the
road, when completed, to the foot of
the mountain and will leave an uncom-
pleted stretch of several miles be-
tween the end of the completed pro-
ject and Gormania at which latter
point connection is made with the
West Virginia portion of the highway.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1928-04-05
Home Demonstration Agents
Schedule, April GA.

April 10-McHenry All Club at
100 o'clock; Dodge All Club at 800
o'clock p. m.
April 12-Sunnyside Women's Club
at 200 o'clock in the Grange Hall.
Problem II of the Home Management
project.
April 13-Sunnyside All Club at
$3.50 a. M; Swan Meadow All Club
at $3.50 a. M; Red House All Club at
800 p. m.
April 14-Deer Park Senior All
Club at 200 p. m.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1928-04-05
Automobile Stolen.

A Chevrolet coupe, 1927 model, the
property of Sherman White, an en-
ploye at the Houck garage, was stolen
from in front of the building on Tues
day night or early yesterday morning.
There is no clue as to the identity of
the thief.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1928-04-05

Mr.. Renninger's Letter to District
Deputy Game Warden.
Mr.. H. R. Kenney,
District Deputy Game Warden,
Cumberland, Maryland.
Dear Mr.. Kenney:-I have your
letter of the 18th inquiring if it is
against the law to fish on Sunday in
Garrett county and if there be such a
law whether it will be enforced.
l desire to say that by the Acts of
1896, Chapter So, cunning and fishing
on Sunday in Garrett county is pro-
hibited by law punishable by fine of
not less than $40 nor more than $50
and for the second offense not less
than 500 or more than S100, and this
law will be enforced in Garrett county.
Yours very truly,
j. C. RENNINGER,
States Attorney.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1928-04-05

An Easter service will be held in
the Episcopal church at Swanton on
Sunday evening, April 8 at 7:45. Rev.
Linaweaver will conduct the services.
Everybody invited to attend.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1928-04-05
FEW MARYLANDERS FILING
FOR c. M. 7. c. PRIVILEGE
Pennsylvania Has Produced
Largest Number of Applicants

Marlyanders are on the point of be-
ing crowded out of Citizens Military
training Camps by Pennsylvanians,
it was learned yesterday from the
headquarters of the Third Corps Area.
Unless large number of applications
are received from Maryland soon,
practically all vacancies will have
been filed by young men from Penn
sylvania, it was said. None have been
reported from Garrett county.
County's Total in Ten.
Garrett county will be entitled to
send 10 young men, according to Mr..
E. E. English, Friendsville, who has
charge of this work. Applications will
be given preference in the order they
are received, he said, and those wish
ing to attend should act quickly.
The total number of "trainees" in
the Third Corps Area, which embra-
ces Maryland, Virginia, the District
of Columbia and Pennsylvania, autho-
rized by Congress, is 1890. Of this
total, 1864 had been enrolled March
80 and only Ill were registered from
the entire state of Maryland, with
fifty-one of the Ill from Baltimore
City.
Maryland Has Fewest
While Virginia and the District of
Columbia have supplied larger pro-
portion of the quota than Maryland,
it is Pennsylvania that so far has
practically filled the camps. The
greater proportion of the Pennsylvan-
ians are registered from the western
part of the State.
Training camp officers are gratified
by the many requests for training
that have been received this year in
advance of any effort to enlist them.
The number is far in excess of any
previous year. They are at loss to
explain the apparent lack of interest
in the camps manifested in Baltimore
and in Maryland generally.
Trainees' Expenses Paid
| In pointing out the advantages of
attendance at these summer camps,
officers at Third Corps Area head
quarters said that all necessary ex-
penses will be paid for those accepted,
from the time they leave home until
they return.
! Mockers at religion are not wanted
at the camps, it is specifically an
nounced in the publicity issued by the
Third Corps Area C. M. T. c. officer,
who states that "a religious atmos-
phere prevades these camps" Selec-
ted chaplains of representative de-
nominations are charged with looking
after the religious and moral welfare
of their respective communicates.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-16
Soil Near Volcano
Eaten by Japanese

A strange edible earth upon which
man might subsist indefinitely ex-
sists on the slopes of the volcanic
Mount ASana, near the popular
Summer resort of Karuizawa. Scien-
tifically 1t is described as vulcano-
third silicophila kawam, but in the
district around Komoro, where 1t is
found, 1t has been known by genera
tions of japanese as -mugi-
meshi, or mountain gods barley
food" as there is superstition that
owes its origin to emergency stores
of wheat and barley buried by an
Gent mountain gods.
However, one scientific opinion lately
arrived at is that tengu-meShi Is due to
an intermixture of plant substance
and earth that has undergone a GU
rious change effected by certain un-
classified bacteria. The earth food. of
which great new deposits have been
discovered recently, is found six inches
to foot below the surface, which indi-
Gates that 1t must have been some
sort of vegetative growth prior to the
last big eruption of Mount ASama in
the eighteenth century.
To the taste the earth food is like
unSweetened gelatin with a slight
earthly faint. That is edible, not un-
healthy and will sustain life indefinitely
is claimed by high officials. Tengu-
meshi is found in three forms. the
purest being almost white IN color,
with a slight greenish tinge made ZIP
of a gelatinous substance and masses
of mold bacteria. Where the earth
has been in contact with the purnice
from the volcano the color is brown.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-16

Order must be taken to provide sources
of revenue to replace the Likin, or To-
cal transit tolls, If the provincial and
smaller governments are to carry on,
and such provision is likely to be mat
ter of difficulty. Has, as some reports
aver, or has not, Marshall Chang Hsueh
LANG, son of Chang Tso Lin, and now
in succession to his father, Super Tu-
chun of Manchuria, definitely commit
ted himself, heart and soul, to the Jap
anese interest, turning down the pro-
Nationalist party of Manchuria, headed
by Gen. Yang Yu Ting, the elder
Chang'S chief of staff and right-hand
man.
Baron Hayachi. special agent of the
! Toxic government in Manchuria, in
forms us that the economic (including
the Financially situation in Manchuria
is improving, thanks to good crops and
military retrenchments. He says that
the political condition is stable. AS to
war-like operations, or threat of such.
between the Shantung (Ankuochunl
remnant and Nationalist troops in Chin
Ii, just over the border from Manchuria,
he says that If the Shantungese retreat
into Manchuria, they will be disarmed.
United StateS-Charles Evans Hughes
has been elected by the League Assembly
and Council Judge of the World Court.
to fill the unexpired term of John
Bassett Moore, resigned; and has
accepted.
Porto Rico was swept by a terrific
hurricane on September 49, Reports
indicate a considerable loss of life and
great material damage. The American
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-16

Red Cross is sending relief expedition.
On September Ia, tornado struck
Rockford, ILL.,, causing death to perhaps
as many as rs persons and much
destruction.
James Duncan, last to survive of the
founders of the American Federation of
Labor and one of its ablest and most
popular officials, is dead at II.
In the international tennis contest
at the Germantown Cricket Club be-
tween American and French teams, the
Frenchman won five matches to four.
In the singles Henri Cochet beat George
Lott, Jean Borotra beat John Hennessey,
Christian Boushus beat Junior Coen,
John Van Ryn beat Jacques Brugnon,
Francis Hunter beat Rene De Buzelet
and John Doeg beat Pierre Landry. In
the doubles Landry and Boushus beat
Doeg and Coen, Borotra and Brugnon
beat Lott and Hennessey and Van Ryn
and Wilmer Allison (the team victory
already decided in favor of Franco
beat Cochet and De Buzelet.
The contest was especially interest,"
ing as furnishing comparison of the
best younger players of the two
countries. Apparently they are on the
whole quite evenly matched.
Cochet was very impressive in his
match against Lott, but observe that in
doubles he has twice met defeat in this
country recently. Either he was not
happily mated or his talent for doubles
is not of quality comparable to his
talent for singles. Note that Lott and
Hennessey. who triumphed so decisively
over Cochet and Brugnon in the ma
tional doubles championship at Brook
line were beaten at Germantown by
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-16

people and promotes the public welfare
by eliminating liquor law violations,
graft and corruption?
The answers to these questions are
all found in the evidence of Canadian
citizens. Canadian officials and the
Canadian press.
1t is not unfair to call attention to
the first page of the Vancouver Daily
Province, published at Vancouver,
British Columbia, January q, 1928. A
four-column, three-line, large-type
''screamer" headline on that page reads
thus: Customs Report Urges Swift
Cleanup of Shady Export Liquor
Houses" The report is that of the
Royal Commission on Customs and
Excise.
Liquor Derelicti0n Cited.
Three columns on the first page are
utilized to tell the story of Canadian
customs and LIQUOR dereliction, and adj
ditional columns are devoted to the
same story on pages four and seven.
On page two most of a column is de-
voted to charges of graft made against
number of employees of a Canadian
government liquor control board.
A quotation from the report of the
royal commission is of direct interest
because of its bearing on the possibility
of improvement in our own country
through individual State control of the
liquor traffic. 1t refers both to illegal
sales of liquor for use in the United
States and for Canadian consumption:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-16
BY MABEL WALKER WILLEBRANDI

BY MABEL WALKER WILLEBRANDT
Assistant Attorney General of the United
States in Charge of Legal Phases of
Prohibition Enforcement.
TINE laws of the United States pro-
hibiting the sale of intoxicating
liquors for beverage purposes have
4 been on the statute books less
than nine years. 1t is now pro-
posed that those laws shall be changed.
The reasons given for these proposals
are that the prohibition law is not sup
ported by public sentiment in the cities
of the Nation, that the law is difficult
of adequate enforcement, that it has
been attended by corruption of public
officials and officers of the law.
That enforcement of the prohibition
laws has been attended by great diff
culties no one will deny. That those
laws should be modified because OF the
great number of violations is proposal
as logical as one to modify all laws
against robbery because there are hum
dreds of violations each day. Yet the
laws against robbery are as old as
civilization itself.
Our Canadian neighbors have gone
far In efforts to solve the problem by
the method of sale made by the state
itself and not by private individuals.
What are the facts in the Canadian
liquor situation? Has Canada found a
means of dealing with the human crav-
ing for alcoholic stinulantS that results
in temperance and sobriety, satisfies its
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-16
Cellist Orchestrates
Music of Philippines

The Philippines are quite rapidly de-
veloping fine national music through
the efforts, chiefly. of Prof. Abdon. a
cellist. He is orchestrating the simple
native airs. which adapt into exquisite
pieces in which he retains the plaintive
minor chords identifying them as typi-
cally Malayan. No doubt some of this
new music will reach America soon. It
is universally applauded by visitors here,
none of whom has ever heard anything
quite like it. Brass and cymbal and gut
and drum all do their wonted parts In
pieces originating on the five-string
guitar. Usually Prof Abdon sandwiches
the pieces in between those of Western
origin, but he played whole concert In
connection with the prayer services at
Maria Clara Church for the early re-
covery of Senate President QueZon,
lying i'll in Monrovia, Calf. This was
the first the masses had learned Of
Abdon'S work. and they were delighted
at the genius of this poor-of-pocket mu-
Sician.