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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-14
ROOSEVELT IN
44O-HOUR RUN
Nature Hats Longest En-
durance Test Ever Held
On Big Speedway

The forces OF nature overcame
n forces of man in sensational
fashion at the Indianapolis Motor
speedway to bring to an end the
longest nonstop endurance test in
the worlds automotive history-44O
hours and 40 minutes.
This remarkable record, never be-
fore approached on land or in the
Marmon factory by American Au-
tomobile association representatives,
and run under the official obser-
walton of that body.
The finish of the test, after Is
days, eight hours and 40 minutes
Of continuous running, came at the
zenith Of one of the worst storms
experienced in years in central In
diana. A 60-mile an hour gale, &C
companied by a cloudburst, descend
ed with little warning on the speed
way early in the evening of the 18th
day of the test and, after demolish-
Ing Marmon pit headquarters, tear
ing roofs from grandstands and fill
ing the track with debris brought
an unwelcome end to the record
breaking run.
Not only did torrents Of rain OBJ
1iterate the vision Of the driver
and his riding companion, but the
velocity of the wind was SO great
that the car was swung sideways
on the south turn of the famous
race course and continuance Of the
run was made physically impossi-
BILE. An entire building was picked
up by the wind and placed in the
middle of the track, the air was
filled with gasoline cans and flying
debris, and the track was strewn
with timberS and shattered sections
of fences and grandstandS.
Shortly after the fury Of the
storm subsidized, Marmon officials
and A. A. A. representatives visited
the scene of destruction, agreed to
bring the test to its official con-
clusion. Immediately the task Of
compiling official records was start
ed. The mark now held by the
Roosevelt is subject, of course, to
confirmation by the A. A. A. and
also by the International ASsocia-
ton of Recognized Automobile clubs
before being declared official in the
eyes of these two organizations.
The Roosevelt a was entered In
the test June II, after being taken
directly from the Marmon factory
to the Indianapolis speedway where,
each year, the annual 500-mile rac
is held on Memorial day. With lit
tie ceremony, it was started on its
way. Pit headquarters had been
established in the speedway infield,
timing devices made ready in the
judges stand and all preparations
completed for the run.
Not once in the 440 hours and
40 minutes did the car or its engine
stop. Refueling was done in motion
from a mother" a and oil and
water likewise were added on the
run. Representatives Of the A. A.
A. stayed ION the spot" "a hours
each day and the record-making
Roosevelt was under their constant
observation.
The last record to be broken by
the Roosevelt was the sustained
light mark Of the airplane Fort
Worth-172 hours, 80 minutes and
1 second. This was accomplished
in the afternoon of June 10, after
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-14
Two New Cameron
Roads Opened By
Recent Building

Two new drives have been opened
in Cameron county by recent road
construction work, both of them be-
ing through attractive territory.
One Of these, opened at the end
of the week, is from the Boca Chica
road to Point Isabel. This drive
passes through a section of hills and
lakes, a favorite hunting ground Of
a number Of Valley people.
Another is through a new devel-
opment in the coastal area, on to
the Laguna Atascosa section near
the coast. Connections are made
with other roads, leading out of San
Benito and Brownsville.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-14

misconception Of flying as a spec
tacular fad or as an activity that
lies substantially in the future" Mr..
Johnson said. I'VE ask the conf
dence of the legislator and voter,
spectator and patron.
1T is difficult to believe, yet the
records of the ae~ronautical chamber
of commerce show, that seven years
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-14

DJEDDA, Arabia, July 13.-(P1-
Movies and radio are the only thing
lacking to make Arabia a very mod-
ern country, said St. J. Philby, Eng
lish orientalist and friend Of King.
Ibn Saud, on his return from Mecca.
and Medina.
He reported numerous motor cars,
other modern conveniences in Meca
ca, while the king Is planning cons
struction of q railroad connecting
Djedda. Mecca and Medina.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-14

ago the total investment in the air.
craft industry was probably not
more than $5,000,00 At that time,
1921, not a single strictly CONNER
cial airplane was built. Today the
public investment in aviation is
more than a half billion dollars,
and our airplane production this
year is expected to approach 10000"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1929-06-27

Harry Arnold, John Melouse, Glenn
Tasker, Clyde Gill, John eagle, Clark
Walker, Frank Sapp.
Weiner Roast.
Mrs. Stanley S. Bender's Sunday
school class held a weiner roast at
Sand Spring Friday night. The fol-
lowing attended: Martha Mcdonald,
Mary Elizabeth Craver, Mildred
Moore, Agnes and Alta Harvey, Sara
belle Jones, Clever Poole, Carl Kim
nell, of Shallmar; Albert Jones, Nor
gantown; Paul Kalbaugh and John
Droppman, Elk Garden. Rev. and Mrs.
Adkins were chaperones.
Personal Mention
Paul Custer has gone to Baltimore
to enter summer school.
Frank Sapp has gone to his new
home in Baltimore after finishing his
high school course here.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. C. Jones and Mr..
and Mrs. G. W. Jones, from Morgan
town W. Va, were here for gradua-
ton of the high school class.
Mrs. Fannie Harrison is visiting
Mrs. Charles H. Jones.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. D. Lucas, Schell,
w. Va, visited friends here on Sat-
urday.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1929-06-27

note, however, that the area burned
this spring is over ten times the
amount allowable under the state
standard of adequate protection, one
tenth of one percent per annum.
"As compared to 528 last year, 423
fires were reported this spring. This
season, particularly the last part,
was far more favorable to fire con-
troll than last year.
"The forest wardens of the State
may look again this year upon the
record with a good deal of satisfac-
ton. 1t shows, in no uncertain man.
ner, the general determination among
our wardens to reduce the size of the
fires down, down to the irreducible
minimum!
Prevention of fires is also a most
necessary part of the program and
it is suggested that we all strive par
ticularly hard during the next year
in preventing fires from starting, by
counsel, advice, and caution among
neighbors, friends, and acquaintance.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1929-06-27
Tentative Report on Forest Fire
Given in News Letter

Tentative statistics showing results
of the spring fire season Of Maryland
have been published in the News Let
ter, publication issued by the State
forestry department, and show that
to date 423 fires were reported in all.
As the spring season runs from jan
uary 1 to June 80, the detailed re-
port will not be announced until later.
The report states: "To date, 423
fires were reported this spring. Late
fires will probably bring this total to
$50 or slightly more. District 2, the
Western shore led in the number of
fires, with district total of 245.
Western Maryland reported 1873 fires
and the Eastern shore, as. Western
Maryland suffered the greatest loss
in acreage, a total of 1904. District
2 suffered total acreage burned of
1888, while 1,101 acres were reported
from district 8.
"The Western Shore district show
ed the best suppression practice with
an average acreage per fire of twen-
ty-one and one-half. The average on
the Eastern shore was twenty four
and one-half while Western Maryland
reported an average fire of forty five
and one-half. The average for the
State was twenty-nine and one-half.
"The acreage figures show sat
isfactory improvement over those of
last year when 27,155 acres were
burned in the same period. The av-
erage fire in the spring of 1928 de-
stroyed 81 acres. 1t is interesting to
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1929-06-27
FOUR CAUSES OF CRIME

During the last twenty years 10000
young men between the ages of eigh-
teen and twenty-five years have been
admitted to the Indiana Reformatory
now at Pendleton.
More than IS per cent of them came
from broken homes where the father
and mother had separated and remar-
ried.
Only one per cent of Indiana's pop
ulation cannot read or write, but that
one per cent furnishes 81 per cent of
the reformatory inmates. Only one
college graduate and only fifteen high
school graduates were in all that
10000 youth. Get those figures.
Not a single Boy Scout has ever
been sent to the reformatory.
Only four per cent of the 10000
prisoners belonged to a church. The
percentage of negroes and foreigners
is very low, most of the criminals be-
ing everyday Americans, born and
reared in this country.
These figures mean something to
every good citizen. That broken homes
breed crimes, and the person who
breaks up home should be punished
as criminal.
That our compulsory education laws
should be strengthened, as education
lessons crime.
That the Boy Scout movement
should have the moral and financial
backing of every good citizen. 1t is
apparently the surest way to keep
boys out of the penitentiary.
That church membership seems to
be SO per cent effective and should be
encouraged. To oppose our churches
is to encourage crime. Here are four
splendid ways to discourage crime
lessen divorce, support education, the
Boy Scouts and the church.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1929-06-27
A REMINDER OF DUTY

That the Supreme court of the Uni
ted States has not succumbed to the
widespread agitation of elements both
sinister and sentimental which would
render the republic defenseless indeed
against instruction or invasion, is
indicated by the recent epochal deci-
sion affirming denial of citizenship to
Rosika Schwimmer, alien applicant
who disclosed that she did not APP
prove the use of force to repel force
directed against the government and
institutions of the United States.
The oath required of applicants for
American citizenship prescribes that
they shall be ready to defend the con-
stitution and laws of the United
States against enemies foreign and
domestic. There is no discernible
basis for the clamorous yawp of reds,
pinks and yellows against the decis-
ion of the Supreme court that those
who refuse to do this or desist from
advocating refusal so to defend our
government are not entitled to the
privilege of naturalization.
Lawlessness is the outstanding fea-
ture of the agitation against the ac-
ceptance Of the obligation to serve
the national cause in time of war.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1929-06-27
KITZMILLER

The commencement exercises of
Kitzmiller High School were held in
the Maryland Theatre, Kitzmiller, on
June 10, when the following program
was rendered:
Invocation, Rev. z. G. Adkins; June
song and commencement song, K. H.
S. chorus; presentation of speaker by
Principal C. E. Topping; address to
graduates by DR.. Lewis H. Chrisman,
professor of English Literature, West
Virginia Wesleyan College; "At Part
ing" and "The Big Brown Bear" by
Anna Mae Strachan; presentation of
diplomas by H. A. Loraditch; benedic-
ton by Rev. 2. C. Adkins.
The graduates were Hazel Harvey,
Kathleen Swinabart, Frances Strah,
Elva Mae Dean, Mary Williams, Flor
ence Jones, Mildred Swinabart, Mary
Burton, Geraldine O'Haver, Elizabeth
Poole, Edith Ruble, Madeline Tranum,
Twila Blackburn, Sarabelle Jones,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1929-06-27

beloved Superintendent, the Rev. John
M. Davis, who loved his boys and
girls and had confidence in me as a
young woman to train and guide
them. We were very happy together,
and felt that nothing else was quite so
important in the Sunday school as our
class. The years have passed, the
boys have grown to manhood and are
now in the prime of life.
God has been merciful to US and so
far as we know only two have gone
from our midst, Edward Kildow and
Harry Ferguson.
Our reunion was a great occasion.
seemed to forget for the time that
they were men of affairs.
They were my boys of long ago and
it was wonderful how we all for the
time lived over those days; they were
so real and full of interest to US.
| had often wondered as | looked
over a picture we had taken (eight in
number) how it was with the boys,
not so much the thought of their tenn
poral welfare (although I was inter-
ested in that, but their relation to
God, hoping that some little effort or
some memory of the class meeting as
Sunday school scholars might be an
influence in helping them nearer to
Him. The picture referred to had
thought might long have been forgot
ten by them, and when / got little
hint that we were going to reunite,
thought possibly that they were COM
ing to my home, intended to have
the picture there to remind them and
was surprised to see the picture at
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul MAYORS home,
where we were so royalty entertained.
Most of the boys, if not all, still had
the picture.
We though and talked of the other
boys who were not present and hope
that sometime in the future we may
all meet on another such happy occa-
sion.
We believe more than ever that
the things belonging to God are last
ing, and the fact that we met in His
name to study the word of life will be
20 US all the real life that shall last
forever.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1929-06-27
FOOTPRINTS.

To view the side lights in the lives
of the great men of our nation is
pleasing pastime as we'll as being
instructive.
In the Inauguration ceremonies OF
President Herbert Hoover, for in
stance, in taking the oath of office adj
ministered by Chief Justice Taft, all
doubt as to whether or not he would
follow the teachings of the religious
sect of which he is a member, being
a Quaker, was set at rest, for it was
noted that in accordance with the an
cient customs and tenets of his faith,
instead of the word "swear" the word
"afirm" was used. This age old OBJ
lection to Swearing" on the part of
the Quakers, is interesting to Mary
landers, for the same objection was
raised and had to be met in the very
early formation of this state, for it
was during the reign of Charles Cal
vert as Governor in the late sixteen
hundreds, following that of Governor
Fendall, when a conflict arose be-
tween the two Houses of the As
sembly, the Lower House excusing
the Quakers from taking oaths when
giving testimony, the Upper House
refusing to agree.
1t is also interesting to note that
when President Hoover took the oath,
the Bible was opened at his favorite
passage, where there is no vision
the people perish; but he that keepeth
the law, happy is he" His public
announcements as President signify
that the verse was not selected hap
hazardly.'
In reviewing the induction of
George Washington into the office of
President his character as a Free
mason was emphasized in the taking
of the oath. The corner stone of the
National Capitol was laid by him, act
ing as Grand Master, while clothed as
a Master Mason. With these Incl
dents in mind it does not seem
strange that Washington should take
the oath of his high office on a Bible
taken from an altar of a Masonic
Lodge.
When William Mckinley took the
oath of President, that oath was ad-
ministered on a Bible furnished by
the colored Bishops of the South, the
only instance on record in our his
tory when the colored people through
their Representatives furnished the
Bible on which a President of the
United States took his oath of Office.
Grover Cleveland's hand rested up
on small pocket Bible which had
been his mothers and whose name
was inscribed on the fly leaf.
Calvin Coolidge took the oath the
first time with his hand resting rever-
emily on the old family Bible, the
oath being administered by his father,
who was Notary Public. When he
was indicted into office the second
time, he. used a Bible given to him
by his grandmother on his fathers
side, Almeda Coolidge. 1t was from
this Book that she had taught the
President to read when he was but
five years old.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1929-06-27

General Bramwell Booth, militant
religious leader, former head of the
Salvation Army, aged 70, died Sum
day.
H. G. Carlow, prominent Morgan
town business man, director of the
Monongahela Valley Bank, died Sat-
urday from the effects of carbon
monoxide gas generated in a closed
garage.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1929-06-27

1t was wonderful for Mr.. and Mrs.
Paul Naylor to do so much to bring
us together. 1t was and will be a
blessing to us all and we thank them.
1t was a great pleasure also to have
with US the then assistant superinten-
dent, Mr.. F. A. Thayer; also the
present superintendent, Mr.. E. Ray
Jones.
Thanking you for giving this pub
licity. MOLLlE HAMlLL.
Mt. Lake Park, June 25, 1929.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1929-06-27

The national and state constitutions
impose that duty upon the citizen,
and under the constitutions of the
states, citizens are made members of
the organized militia, subject to call
in case of invasion or instruction.
This provision was the plea of the
founders of our government to pre-
vent the necessity of vast standing
army.
An attempt is made to excuse Ma
dame Schwimmer on the ground that
she would not in any event be liable
to military service and only proposes
to preach to others the doctrine that
those who enjoy the privileges and
opportunities of America are not
bound to join their countrymen in re-
pelling instruction or invasion. Such
agitation is given the fantastic name
of "free speech" by the American
Civil Liberties Union, which declared
that free speech" carries the fright
of aliens or natives to advocate the
overthrow by violence of the govern
ment of the United States. Does
"free speech" include the right to
publicly advocate the assassination
of members of the Civil Liberties I'm
ion? Presumably they would not
think so. They would defend such
pleas for violence only when directed
against the American government.
Their attitude apparently measures
the comparative. quantity of their
consideration for their own safety
and that of our country.
Lincoln, in pardoning soldier SEN
fenced to death for desertion, went to
the heart of this matter when he said
that he could not see the justice of
shooting a soldier who had been in
f1uenced by "wily agitators" to for
swear his duty and let these agita-
tors go free. Those who inculcate
the idea that when our next war ar
rives, should it ever arrive, and the
life of the nation is at stake, citizens
should do that which amounts to trea-
son, are much more to be blamed than
those who may be influenced by such
counsels of disloyalty.
Quakers and conscientious objec-
tors are mentioned as sharing the at
titude of those who on political
grounds object to defense of the life
of our government in case of invasion
or instruction. Shades of those her.
ole Quakers, General Nathaniel S.
Greene, and of thousands of Quaker
youth who have been glad to fight in
cause their consciences approved!
1t is we'll at this time when many
agencies are actively operating to
undermine the loyalty of American
youth, that the Supreme Court of
the United States should call the at
tention of the American people to
the fact that they have duties to per-
form as well as privileges to enjoy,
and that the most fundamental of
these duties is not to shoulder off on
others in cowardice or treason, the
entire responsibility for repelling at
tacks upon their country and upon
the lives of millions of American men
and women and children who live
within the shelter of our flag.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1929-06-27

Miss Mollie Hamill, Teacher in St.
Paul's Sunday School 81 Years Ago,
Kindly Remembers Her Class of
Boys Then, Now Men.
To the Editor of The Republican.
l see in The Republican reference
to the reunion Of our Sunday school
class of the Oakland Methodist church.
This class of twenty-one boys from
seven to nine years of age, was taught
by me thirty-four years ago. I felt
honored to be given this class by our
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1929-06-27
NOTICE OF TEST

The State Employment Commission
of Maryland will hold the following
tests in Cumberland, Maryland, on
July II, 1929:
Junior Clerk .... $720- $900ayear
Senior Clerk ...... .$900$1500 year
Junior Stenographer-Typist
$72O-$10S0 year
Senior Stenographer-Typist
$9OO-$1500 year
Apply State Employment Commits
sion, % Light Street, Baltimore, Md.
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