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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1929-08-01
MT. LAKE PARK.

Beginning with the Pittsburgh Con-
ference, followed by the Baltimore
Conference Of the Epworth League,
and eliminating in the convention OF
the Young Peoples Union, just
ended the past three weeks have seen
much activity at Mountain Lake Park.
1t is estimated that the three meetings
brought to the Park more than five
thousand people exclusive of the reg
ular summer residents and their Wis
itors. Being from nearly every state
in the Union, the fame of our scenic
beauty and delightful climate will be
spread far and near 1t would seem to
be the beginning Of the rehabilitation
of the Park.
The Summer School of Ministerial
Training, Pittsburgh Area, which be-
gan July 20, is to continue until Au-
gust 8. This is the eighth annual SEES
sion. Courses are offered in what is
known as the four-year classes, at
tendance on this course being required
as we'll also as for candidates for ad-
mission to the ministry and along
other lines of study.
An interesting feature of this school
will be a meeting of sixteen of twenty
district superintendent from Western
Pennsylvania, West Virginia and part
of Maryland, which will convene on
Thursday for a three or four days
conference. 1t will be presided over
by Bishop Herbert Welch.
The Interdenominational Summer
School of Home and Foreign Missions
is also in session and will continue
until August 7th. AS the name i'm
plies this school is not confined to any
one church and includes the Lutheran,
Methodist Episcopal, Methodist Prot
estant, United Brethren, Presbyterian,
Protestant Episcopal and number OF
other denominations. The attendance
at this school will probably be more
than two hundred.
An act of heroism performed by a
small boy, has just come to our notice.
1t seems that crowd of boys went in
swimming at the lake in the Park a
few days ago. Among the number was
Bobbie Utterback, Roderick johnson
and Jack Schill. Young johnson at
tempted to swim across the lake and
when he had gotten probably two
thirds across his strength failed and
he began to go under. He shouted
for help and Bobbie Utterback, who is
a good swimmer and able to negotiate
the distance from shore to shore, went
to his assistance. While Bobbie is well
developed for his age (being only 81
vet he feared he would be unable to
save johnson, who was struggling IN
his efforts to save himself, when Jack
Schill went to his assistance. Be-
tween them johnson was saved from
drowning. First aid was rendered and
in a short time the near-victim was in
his usual health. If Bobbie is not a
Boy Scout this act alone should en-
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1929-08-01

Brooke Lees tax-fed Maryland
News tearfully tells its readers that
the Baltimore Post "has been bitterly
attacking Governor Richie and the
Democratic State administration for
the past year and half" We wonder
what Brooke Lee would have The Post
do? Commend the roads and other
scandals of the Richie administration
and lay on the grease in the fine style
of the Wet Blanket and its imitator,
The Baltimore News?
What we need in Maryland among
the papers is more plain speaking and
less bootlicking.-The Baltimore OBJ
server.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1929-08-01
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*BEYOND THE COUNTY*

United States Shipping Board
states that 40 per cent of the trade
of the United States is carried to
foreign countries in American ships.
A man of Martinsburg, with the
temperature at 90, wears an over
coat at work, saying he paid $500
for it and intends to get his moneys
worth. He is being observed to de-
termine his mental condition.
The Missouri river, cutting thru
it's west bank, continues to menace
Corning, Mo-, a town of 300 inhabi-
tants.
Jackson and O'Brien, in the st.
Louis Robin, set the record for sus-
tanned refueled flight by remaining
in the air APO hours, exceeding the
former record by seven full days.
They earned $4,000 each.
A chain of powerful beacon lights
to guide f1iers on the new air main
route will be established between
Hagerstown and Pittsburgh. One of
the lights will be established on the
top of South Mountain.
With a 1900 horse power Packard
motor, with "a cylinders, the "Flying
Bullet" specially designed air plane,
may develop speed of 400 miles an
hour. 1t will compete in the 1929
speed trials.
At the Auburn, New York pris-
on, housing desperate criminals, more
than 100 convicts rioted for seven
hours, resulting in 2 dead and A es-
Gaping.
In the Modoc National Forest Re
serve, more that 5000 acres have
been burned over and more than 5O,-
100000 board feet of lumber de-
stroyed in the last few weeks.
The trouble with playing the stock
market is you can never tell whether
bull is bull or just bear in sleeps
clothing.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1929-08-01
UNDERWOOD

A large number of the people of this
community went to Deep Creek Lake
in truck Tuesday, the party consist
ing of Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Sims and
daughters Goldie and Carrie; Omer
Shaffer, Elmer Soldiers, VIM. Bowser,
Darius Uphold, Lester Rinehart, Wal
ter Peterson, Mrs. Ethel Butler, Clara
Butler, Ranolda Rinehart and Mary
Peterson. They spent the afternoon
and evening fishing and sightseeing
and were rewarded by fine catch OF
fish. The party returned early We'd
nesday morning.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joe O'Haver enter
tanned quite a number of friends Sun
day afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Barkman and
family of Crellin; Mr.. and Mrs. Sam
Barkman, Mr.. C. W. Lantz and Joe
Whitacre were Sunday guests of Mr..
and Mrs. Dorsey Ashby, Sr.
Mr.. Clarence Fulk and family were
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Fulk
in Oakland on Sunday.
Paul Graham was injured in the
Stanley mines one day last week, but
we are glad to note that his injuries
were not serious.
Mrs. Tom Roy is i'll.
Miss Bessie Markley, Akron, Ohio,
after spending her vacation at Allan
tic City, stopped off here upon her
return and visited her uncle and aunt,
Mr.. and Mrs. Joe O'Haver, for few
days.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1929-08-01

erous imagination into public admins
tration, and it is the wise political
medicine against the national admin
istration while the signs of the moon
are contrariwise. The truth is that
unjust attacks upon President who
has the confidence of the people only
strengthens sentiment in his favor and
discredits those politicians who are
not willing to bide their time in the
hope that something may really hap
pen that will create an issue
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1929-08-01

Deer Park was the shipping point
for all the lumber hauled to the place
over tramway built by Mr.. Davis
from his mill. At the mill large
number of men were employed in cut
ting and shaping the logs for lumber.
An equally large number found en-
ployment in the lumber yards at Deer
Park and the stables in which the
mules and other animals were kept.
John H. Riley was the first sawyer
on the mill, afterwards succeeding
James Anderson as superintendent. He
remained in the employ of Mr., Davis
until the timber in Garrett county
had all been cut and was then ap-
pointed timber inspector for the West
Virginia Central Railway Company,
of which Mr.. Davis was president and
one of the chief stockholders. To-
day Mr.. Riley resides at Elkins, West
Va, and is more than ninety years of
age. His wife is a daughter of the
late Mr.. and Mrs. John L. Browning
Mr.. Riley was sheriff of Garrett coun-
ty at one time and is remembered as
having been an excellent officer.
Among the early settlers of Deer
Park were A. J. Head, general fore.
man for Davis Bros, by which name
the lumber company was known; the
Thrasher family, who came to Deer
Park about 1870. Two of this family,
BENJAMIN T. Thrasher, 80, and Frank,
still live.
There were also the Jankeys, Gar
retts, Madigans, Griffins, Madvilles,
Dawsons, Rasches, Hinebaughs, Burks,
Crops, Clearys and Marleys. Mr.
George Marley is still living and is
SO years of age. Possibly less than a
dozen people are living today who re-
member the town as it was sixty years
ago.
A Mr.. Rinehardt was the first post
master and also the first person to be
buried in the Deer Park cemetery
Col. E. C. Tilson was superintendent
of the lumber yards and succeeded Mr.
Rinehardt as postmaster. He kept
the first boarding house and hotel IN
the village, which was known as 1.-The
Wing and Wing"
At that time what is now known as
Deer Park was mostly lumber yard
The houses were small and were of the
same type as those which may today
( be seen south of the Baltimore anc
Ohio railway track in the village.
A union church was built, the towr
being too small for each denomination
represented to support it's own minis
ter. The first minister was Mr.
/ Snapp, of the U. B. curch. Later OF
came Rev. Neihiser, Rev. Thatcher
Rev. Jacob Roderick, Rev. Rexroad
Rev. j. E. Widmyer, and Rev. Clary
Rev. o. C. Miller, of the Oakland
Lutheran church, preached occasion
ally. j. C. Rodeheaver, who is now
living near the village, was possibly
the first Sunday school superinten
dent.
Today Deer Park boasts two gen
eral stores, three churches, garage
and is an up-to-date fiourishing little
village without Jail but many beau
tiful homes with well kept yards ant
lawns.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1929-08-01

A Michigan Judge decides that when
a woman engaged to marry makes
home brew this is sufficient grounds
for her fianeee to commit breach of
promise. Usually in case like this it
is the home brew itself that commits
breach of promise.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1929-08-01

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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-25
BLOCKS PROBE OF
FEDERAL JUDGE
Blease Shields Winslow
in Big Fraud Scandal

WASHINGTON, Feb. 24.-Sena-
tor Blease of South Carolina came
to the rescue of Federal Judge
Winslow of New York yesterday
when he blocked with technical
parliamentary maneuver the attempt
to vote thru the senate the house
bill for the investigation of Wins
lows connection with million dol
lar bankruptcy fraud ring.
The house had voted the investi.
CATION to take place during the con-
gressional recess, and it required
the assent of the senate and the
signature of the president to start
the probe.
Blease stated that he had "inside
information" that the charges
against Winslow were dictated by
personal reasons" He refused to
give the sources of his "informa-
ton"
Winslow was accused by Repre-
sentative La Guardia of New York.
He is said to have worked with a
firm of New York lawyers, to whom
he threw cases that came up in his
court. 1t was generally understood
among bankrupts that favorable
treatment of their cases depended
on their getting this firm as counsel.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-25

In heavy or basic industry we
have, therefore 80 papers. We still
lay too much stress on small-scale
industry, as Comrade Arnold Zieg-
Ter has already ably pointed out in
his article on the Draft Theses on
Organization. In it he points to the
great efforts being devoted to fac
tories of a size which we do not JUS
tify the effort. We might add that
much is also spent on factories which
do not warrant the effort due to
the type of industry. But beggars
cannot be choosers. If, in order to
get the work started, it is a choice
Of tackling a small factory or a
light industry or not issuing a paper
at all, then every bit of effort ex-
pended is just so much to the good
in gaining experience in the work,
in stimulating interest in the work.
Had the New York District, for in
stance, stopped at issuing papers be-
cause its only possibilities for near
ly two years were two shops each
only about 500 workers,
then New York would still have
no shop papers at all, whereas now
it has 6, with several new ones in
view, and every possibility of re-
viving the two it has lost during this
period.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-25
Departmental Coordination.

ed, with the resultant destruction of
the bulletin itself.
Departmental Coordination.
Getting out a shop paper is no
simple job. 1t requires the coordina-
ton of every department in the Dis
trict, and close cooperation between
these departments and the unit get
ting out the paper. The Agitprop
Department must be responsible for
the political line and to see that the
shop material is linked up eleverly
with class struggle economics and
with our current Party campaigns.
The Industrial Department must
be responsible for the correct trade
union line. 1t must be ready to fur
nish information through an effici-
ent industrial registration of all of
our comrades on possibilities of issu-
ing papers where none exist as yet.
We have yet to find so good an
industrial registration that such i'm
portant information is readily avail
able.
The Industrial Department must
establish contact between the unit
issuing the paper and the trade
union fraction concerned, in order
to handle trade union activity in
the shop effectively and correctly.
The Organization Department
must see that the unit in question
is kept regularly at the work, and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-25
CONVENTION DISCUSSION SECTION

desperate. From one end Of the
state of California to the other,
there is chaos; Generalization of the
Party is complete. And now, as the
once proud and agreeable district
organizer arrives at national Party
headquarters, accompanied by his
staff of supporters, it might not be
out of place to relate some of the
underlying facts that have brought
about this demcralized state of af-
fairs and place the blame where it
belongs and that is the purpose of
these articles.
We have no desire to resort to
personalities for the mere sake of
personal revenge or hatred. Rather,
we feel that it is our duty to tell
in a straightforward way the facts
as they appeared to US. And above
all, it is our desire to see an adj
justment made so as to forever pre-
vent a recurrence Of this awful
condition that now exists in Cali
fornia.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-25

ton of reaping the harvest of the
intense work that must necessarily
be put into the issuing of a shop
paper. We are weakest on this point
because we are only in the begin
ming stages of the work and while
still trying to put the work itself on
its feet, we haven't learned yet to
capitalize the effects. In many cases
bulletins were issued month after
month without any increase in the
number of members in the nucleus,
without any apparent increase in in
terest in trade union organization
among the workers, without gaining
the confidence of the workers suf-
ficiently to encourage them to get
into contact with US, either by cor
respondence or personally, without
any perceptible increase in the num-
Der of "Daily Worker" readers, al
though pushing the Daily has been
an important phase of propaganda
in almost every bulletin issued, etc.
One reason for this lack of con-
crete results is the fact that in many
cases (the Wright Propeller" in
Paterson, for example), we were so
weak numerically in the shop, that
we had to restrict our comrades to
getting information, for any activ-
ity in concrete sense, would have
exposed them, and our source of in
formation would have been destroy
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-25

Patronage has been the order of
the day, particularly in the dealings
with the non-white comrades. Those
who accept what is told them with
out protest are tolerated and at any
gathering they are singled out and
made much of. But woe to those
who refuse to accept the orders Of
the superior white comrades who
are the court of last resort when
it comes to a question of knowing
what the darker peoples need, par
ticularly the Negroes. For, it is
this latter group who refuse to be
Uncle Toms or yes-men, whom all
the venom of white chauvinism is
heaped upon.
In their practice of white chauv-
inism and factionalism, the usual
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-25

that the technical work of getting
out the paper and its distribution is
done with the greatest care and eff
ficiency possible. And as far as
reaping the results organizationally
is concerned-that is what not only
the units but also the District De-
parS ents in almost all cases have
yet to learn.
On the whole, therefore, we can
point to progress, without ignoring
the fact, however, shat much still
remains to be done before our shop
paper work is on the same level of
quality that some of our other Party
work has attained. The increased in
terest shown by the general men,
bership of the Party will serve as a
guarantee that this important work
will get the attention and care it
deserves during the coming period.
In further articles, various phases
of shop paper work will be treated
in greater detail, with concrete criti-
cism of the papers existing during
this period.
The next article will deal with
the political content of the shop
papers issued throughout the coun-
try during the period between the
two conventions-the proportion of
political material to other material,
the linking up of political articles
with shop conditions, and errors in
political line, etc.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-25
Factl0nallsm and ChaMvinism IN CaNt

political power. And yet, that is
what has happened in District 10
California;.
The methods. and practices of the
functionaries in this district would
make the high-handed methods of
the Bourbon and lily-white South
pale into insignificance if all the
facts were known.
Suffice it to say that net stone
has been left unturned; nothing too
low on the scale of underhanded
dealings, backhanded stabs in the
dark and a thousand undetermined
tricks has been left out by the OPP
position.
fractional Degeneration.
Thanks to the cunning and re-
sourcefulness of the district organ
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-25

American methods Of incubation
are resorted to; that is to say, to
pit one Negro against the other
The method used is to first win the
confidence of the Negro whom they
wish to use in their factionalism
and then play up everything that
they can think of against the Negro
they hate or fear. AS a fina! step
they induce the Negro of their selec-
ton to openly denounce the hated
Negro. If they succeed in such I'M
derhand methods, such whites feel
that they can heap all the abuses
they wish upon the hated Negro
with IMMUNITY. Such attempt has
been made in the California District.
White Chauvinism Rampant.
On the other hand, when those
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-25

of the Party, are now bitter per-
sonal enemies. These same COM
rades are accusing and counter
accusing each other of all manner
of personal wrong-doing that has
absolutely no bearing on the issues
involved.
The fight has become so bitter
that the units of the Young Work
ers and the Young Pioneers have
become infected. The Young Work
ers League members pass each
other on the streets without speak,
ing. Even the Young Pioneers in
the Los Angeles sub-district fire.
quently resort to actual fighting.
They and no one else seem to know
what it's all about.
Patronage of Negro Comrades.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-25

izer and his aides, every vestige of
Communism has been swept aside
by the rising tide of incompetency,
ignorance, bigotry and downright
white chauvinism of the lowest or
der. And now, en- the eve of the
National Convention, the district
that was once growing, progress
sive, loyal, and above all, an active
stronghold of Communism, has now
degenerated into big family feud,
so to speak, with comrades resort
ing to personalities that are entirely
foreign to Communism or to the ma
jor political problems of the Amer
lean Party.
Comrades who less than a year
ago were working together har-
moniously for the common welfare
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-25

Negro comrades who are held in
esteem by such white chauvinist
tire of such treatment and take
exception to this manifestation of
race prejudice and make complaint,
they are browbeaten and made the
goat. This is only one example of
white chauvinism in District Thir-
teen. The most fragrant evidence
of white .chauvinism in this district
is the complete ignoring of a Negro
comrade whose ability equals that
of the best informed functionary in
the entire district for a period of
more than four years.
District Thirteen is now lying
PROSTATE, suffering from thous-
and stabs. Not stabs of outside
enemies, but of enemies from with
in. The condition of this district is
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-25

gives total increase of nearly 60
per cent. Compared with the size
Of our country and the extent of
its industry, SO papers is far too
few, but compared with the status
of the shop paper work at the time
of the last convention, the increase
is not discouraging.
Industries With Shop Papers.
Besides what we can strictly call
shop papers, we have two neighbor-
hood papers, THE Challenge" issued
in the Negro section of New York
City, and "The Mission Worker"
unfortunate name), issued in the
Mission District of San Francisco.
The SO actual shop papers are in
the following industries:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-25
By GERTRUDE HAEssLER.

CThe following is the first of a
short series of articles dealing
with the Party's shop paper work
throughout the country during the
period since the last convention.
1t is of a general nature, cover
ing various phases of the work.
Those to follow will deal in de-
tail with the political content of
the papers, their trade union line,
their technical makeup, and a con-
Guiding article will cover various
miscellaneous matters and sum
up.-EDITOR.)
In making general review of the
Party's shop paper work during the
period between the two conventions,
one finds that in spite of some very
serious shortcomings still existing
in this important phase of Party
work, much progress has been made.
1t is extremely important and ex-
tremely exacting work. 1t embodies
r'any important slogans which the
Party has put forth-"Face to the
Masses" Decentralization"
Building Of Shop Nuclei" "Roots
in Industry" etc. "Every work
shop is a fortress of the working
Glass;" wrote Lenin. The shop paper
is an effective offensive weapon in
our steady bon1bardment to capture
these fortresses for the working
class.
Shop Papers in Past Year.
What do we find in the general
shop paper work throughout the
country since the last convention?
There has been an appreciable in