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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-04
In New York

Halifax, Nova Scotia-More notes from a vacation diary.
 I am not sure which is more inn portant in this section: Evangeline or friendly hospitality. .. Poor Eyangelinei. .Longfellow's heroine bumps into you at every corner.... There's Evangeline tobacco, chew ing gum, candy; Evangeline hotels, tours, face powder; Evangeline pamphlets, paintings, drawings, posters. Wonder If she looked like any of them?.. Or rather If her prototype did?. Certainly she bears slight resemblance to photo- graphs of old Acadians one sees about Museums. And what were those Longfellow lines had to learn in school? Have to do a little homework when l get back to New York.
 And that hospitality! You couldn't call 1t southern or west ern. It's native, with a rural warmth one finds on roadsides.. No one seems too busy to help you find your way around. A clerk left his store to show us how to reach a certain eating place. A newspaper editor dropped his work to get us started on the right road into the wilderness.
 There's a solid, easygoing quiet about the way folks do things and go about. This Is the town where they won't let auto horns toot after a certain hour at night.
 Maybe the New York noise abatement com mission could get some ideas up here!
 Through the fog and most of early morning, the landscape looks like the Brittany coast. Lots of Scotch-Irish hereabouts with ac- cents like those of the southern hill people in the states. A small boat sputters past the liner, with huge tuna on deck. one of the crew lets down a hand-line and brings up a good-sized mack erel. {. A photograph shows Zane Grey landing a giant tuna. Scores of little fishing boats slip through the harbor, bouncing out to sea. The town is half hid den behind the fog-curtain. quaint and unspoiled. They've never done much rebuilding since the ex- plosion of "17," remarks an old timer. Hope that tourist-con- sciousness doesn't get in its infiu- ence, Such towns should re- tain their fine old flavor!
 So on to Liverpool and Annapolis Royal. Lumberjacks and vast jams gathering in the rivers and bays. Seafaring folk and Indians. Annapolis Royal is the oldest town in North America. ' says the folder. . T always thought St Augustine, Fla, claimed the age distinction. Funny that the "oldest town" should look so new ."Its because it's been rebuil' so often," says a native. we've had many disastrous fires. One was just a few years back after d drought. Almost took the whoie town"
 Tourists from all over the world coming by train, notorious ano private autos proving over the hilly acres about the old fort. ;. Tourists nosing through historic fragments, trying to recall Tor gotten chapters. A confusing lly checkered story of colony's change from the hands Of the French to the British, back to the French and back to the British and so on.
 Just beyond the fort. the sort of graveyard you've always wanted to find. Headstones dated back to i7O7, and engraved with
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such epitaphs as Here lyeth ye body of Bathiah Douglass. the same endowed with piety and vir- tue ." Some have little verses. the words of which are all but erased by wind and rain.
 A "tea room shoppe," of all things operated by a young man who points proudly to chairs and clocks owned by his great-grand- fathers and fingers of water every where, leading to wilderness and open sea!
 (Copyright 1881 NEA Service. Inc)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-04
Over Seven Million
 Washington Trees
Goal of Ten Million on National Honor Roll Expected
 Before Bicentennial in 1882

Washington--Going we'll over the halfway point toward ten mill lion trees to be planted to mark the bicentennial, in 1882, of the birth of George Washington, Ann erican citizens have registered 7,601,SS5 such plantings on the national roll of honor of the Amer ican Tree association. New York and Pennsylvania are in the lead. With the fall planting season at hand and the spring and fall sea- son of 1892 before them, Charles Lathrop Pack, president of the American Tree association. says the tree planting army will reach beyond the objective set when the call to plant in honor of Washing ton was sent out more than year ago.
 "Thousands of trees will be planted by women's clubs, the D. A. R. and civic bodies this fall and in 1882, the bicentennial year." says MT Pack. "The suggestion for dedicating the trees in 1882 has been adopted by thousands. Why not make the trees, as they grow, the point of dedication exercises every year? This would be par ticulariy appropriate with trees planted by schools. Surely there is much more appeal in the living tree as a rallying point than any monument of stone. Picture what such a rallying point will mean to the tree planters 25 years from now"
 Here is what the tree planters are doing by states as tabulated by the registrations sent to the Amer ican Traa assnciatiOn.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-04

D. A. R. has a particular reason for honoring Washington as Fort Loudoun was built by George Washingtons soldiers in 1756.
 Daughters of the American Rev olution of Idaho planted a tree in honor of Washington on the State House grounds at Boise. Mrs Jos eph E. Bord, state regent, regis tered the tree. The George Wash ington Parke Curtis society. Chil- dren of the American Revolution of Buffalo, N. r.. has planted six trees. Miss Mary R. Johnson. senior president. made the regis tration.
 Every American should be on this national honor roll. Tree planting time is here." says Charles Lathrop Pack, president of the American Tree association. 12l4 Sixteenth street. Washington. D. C.. who will send you a tree-pianting book. Make your plans to plant tree in memory of George Wash ington. Get others to plant and by all means report the number of trees planted to the American Tree association. washington was first in many things and one of them was tree planting. In honoring him by planting q tree you do q worthwhile thing"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-04

for movie fans It is rumored that Doug Fairbanks Jr and Crawford longer the perfect and wife Looks like Reno Lupe Vaez gagang plenty with Win Sheehan production chief for Fox studios Mbbe he's the and not Gary Cooper after all Evayn Knapp will be back in films She recovered from fall John Boes will do Murders in the Rue Moreue" A Tiden reel is due Waterloo Bridge is showing on the nation this week
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-04
oRIENTs GREATEST CROP

The Chinese do not speak Of "farming"--they speak of "rice- growing" For thousands of years, China's chief crop has been rice. This grain has fed the millions. and it still feeds them. If the rice crop fails in a section of China. many persons will starve.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-04
Good evening.
ONE OF THE SOB SISTERS
tBY THn MAN IN THE TOWER,

When Mae throws birthday party, She always plays up stage, But someone always crabs the act,
 When they ask poor Mae her age.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-04

Telling it to the daisies Mrs is visiting friends Staten Island Mir and Mrs John Bredee will celebrate year Of
 ppv dayinQ Mrs Breee before her marriage Ermainda Famm who beauty prize in 1925. George Freeman the superior vacatoning Hes due back Monday Sheriff Ben Brady had the honor of opening the civil d of pleas Thanks Helyne Walsh for contribution of tin foil to Tower collection the Lincoln House seeking old razor blades idea they have barrel of em by calling at the Elton Webster Judd will be tkled to get rid of Fem.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-04

Believe it told that $l0oooo was lost by Watebur- ian those in surrounding towns due to the bowup ot Tom Thumb golf estimated have cost anywhere Sl0000 $5000 So the boys who went Tom Thumb are counting the fingers which all thumbs
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1931-03-19

older children may easily be able to
take care of it once it is ploughed.
The result is that in many instan-
ces the farm diet is too much restric-
ted to meat, potatoes and bread.
Green vegetables, one of natures
best preventive medicines, have little
place on the menu. The various
deficiency diseases have a chance to
creep in, breaking down health and
stamina. Investigators have found
that large proportion of ill health in
rural districts is traceable to the alb
sence of a well balanced diet. No
diet can be called well balanced that
lacks an abundance of fresh, green
vegetables.
A vegetable garden planted this
spring will return ample dividends in
health and in helping to make the
farm family elf-suficing, able to
weather any economic storm.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1931-03-19
BEAUTIFUL YARDsNEEDED

Last year, through the efforts of
members of the Oakland Civic club, a
yard and garden contest was conduc-
ted.
Disregarding the drought in late
summer which ruined gardens and
yards in all parts of the country, the
Oakland contest for Identification of
ones personal property was decided
success in that more than $50 were
instilled with ambition to improve the
beauty of their city.
That ambition should be kept alive.
Many citizens last fall made plans
for continuing the work of growing
flowers and shrubs, and are waiting
only for the weather to become favor
able before proceeding. In order that
those who have made no definite plans
will continue to improve the beauty
of their property, Oakland should
have a yard and garden contest again
this year, with an organization and
individuals behind it such as made it
the success it was in 1880.
With an organization to inspire
Identification work, like the Oakland
Civic club, the results of the second
years contest would surpass the first.
Let's continue.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1931-03-19
MR.. HOOVER AND THE
CONGRESS

During the first half of his term,
Mr.. Hoover recommended three score
measures to, the Congress. Nearly all
of them have been enacted into law.
Every one of them that was included
in the great program sponsored by the
President received favorable action.
The platform pledges were fulfilled.
The great emergency program found
legislative endorsement. The meas
ures to permit administrative reorgan-
ization were passed and the propos-
ais to expedite public works and in
crease efficiency were sanctioned.
Upon such items as the World
Court, the Tightening of deportation
laws and the consolidation of border
patrols the Congress failed to act, but
they represent such an inconsiderable
and, by comparison, unimportant part
of the total legislation passed that
they are completely overshadowed by
the colossal work accomplished.
The recapitulation of Legislative
achievement is the more important
when it is considered that for two
years the Administration has been
under barrage of propaganda which
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1931-03-19
VARIATION is SPICE

One may travel up and down
Oakland or any city and find no two
houses exactly alike, unless they be
members of row of dwellings,.
The difference makes and models
of automobiles number into the hun
dreds.
Women insist that their dresses,
coats, and hats be exclusive, and no
two men are usually found in identi-
cal habiliment.
What is true Of houses, automobiles
and clothes is also true of breakfast
foods, furniture, shoes, and virtually
all of mans possessions.
The reason is obvious. No two
people have identical tastes. That
which one finds attractive repels an
other. The person whose discernment
you criticise probably thinks even less
of yours.
Life would be monotonous exis-
tence but for this conflict of tastes.
Nothing bores like uniformity. What
interest would the world hold for hui
mainly if every house was built alike;
If the choice of the ten million was
good enough for the world; if the
wardrobe of the modern woman had
as little variation as Ewes; if what
one wanted everybody wanted?
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1931-03-19
NEW GERMANY

A very interesting sermon was de-
livered at the Reformed church on last
Sunday morning by the pastor, Rev.
E. D. Bright, his text being "Thou
art the man."
Preaching service next Sunday
morning in the M. E. church at 1890
o'clock. The theme will be an Easter
sermon, "Four Cleans of Immortal7
ity." Everyone welcome.
Messrs. Arthur, Wade and Ira
Broadwater and Leland Swauger at
tended the Garrett County Fire War
dens' convention held in Oakland two
days last week.
Mr.. Elmer burst spent the week
end at the home of Charles Jenkins.
Mr.. and Mrs. Floyd Wampler Wis
tied at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Asa
Fresh on Sunday.
Mrs. C. C. burst has returned home
after visiting relatives in Michigan
and Ohio.
Willard, Eileen and Bernice Otto
called at the F. L. Otto home on Sum-
day.
Parker Warwick was Sunday Wis
itor at the home of Miss Alberta
Broadwater.
Mrs. Lewis Warwick and Mr.. and
Mrs. Willie Warwick and family called
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. C. C.
burst Sunday.
Miss Mary Jankey and Mr.. Lorraine
Otto were visitors on Sunday at the
home of Miss Jankey's parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Robert Jankey, Deer Park.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1931-03-19
IN DAYS OF OLD
FORTY YEARS AGO

Merwin McKaig, Cumberland steel
manufacturer, located plant for
crushing rock on the Big Youghio-
gheny River, where the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad crosses that stream a
mile and a half west of Oakland. A
number of men, approximately Is,
were expected to be employed when
the plant was running full time.
Edward I. West purchased the lv-
cry barn and residence of John F.
White, located on Oak street, and as
sumed control and operation of the
property where 25 or more horses
and a number of equipages were
stabbed and hired to those having need
for such.
Persons from down in the county
who attended court during the week
reported that the roads were we'll
nigh impossible on account of the
huge snow drifts blocking them.
John w. Veitch was appointed by
the Court States Attorney for Gar
rett county, the Office having been
made vacant by reason of the death
Of w. P. Townshend.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
Ground on the west side of the EN-
pire Theatre was being cleared pre-
paratory to the erection of garage
and store room.
A revival in the town of Kitz-
mile was in it's fourth week. One hun
bred and seven persons had protested
conversion, "a of whom having unit
ed with the church.
Messrs. E. G. Naylor and VIM. Byrd
were erecting a garage near the old
electric light station on Liberty
street.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1931-03-19

attempted to convince the country that
the government had not accomplished
and was not accomplishing anything.
Facts have defeated the propagan-
dists. Their destructive criticisms
crumple before the tabulation of what
has been done.
One of the favorite charges of the
subsidized wolf-criers and mud
singers has been that the President
was unable to obtain the cooperation
of Congress in carrying out his pro-
gram. The legislative record not only
refutes this charge but makes it ap-
pear ridiculous. And the fact that
this record has been established not
withstanding every kind of an assault
including the Democratic "coopera-
ton" gives it greater stature in the
eyes of the nation.
There has been opposition to the
President by members of Congress,
particularly in the Senate. There have
been members who have attacked the
Chief Executive and his recommended
tions for political, personal, and, in
some cases, selfish reasons. This lack
of cooperation has not deferred the
President, nor has it gained anything
for the opposition. On more than a
dozen occasions these individuals have
engaged in combat only to come off
second best. Outstanding instances
of Presidential victories over political
opposition may be seen in the outcome
of the contests over the debenture, the
flexible tariff provision, the attempt
to provide Federal dole in the areas
affected by the drought, and the plan
to put the government in the business
of running Muscle Shoals.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1931-03-19
Bible Glasses Planning COnven-
ton April IL and IL at EIktOn

Preparations are being made by
the Mems Bible classes of Elkton and
vicinity for working out program in
view of the convention of the Mary
land Federation Of Mems Bible Class
es which will meet in that city on
April Hip, 1881. 1t is expected that
number of Garrett county delegates
will attend this State conference.
The aim of the federation, which
was organized IN 1928 and which is
affiliated with the National Federation
of Mems Bible Glasses, is to organize
every county in an effort to weld the
various isolated groups of Mems Bible
classes into one cooperative body so
that through an interchange of ideas
and the resultant suggestions and CO.
operation, Christian churchmen may
come stronger factors in the upbuild-
ing of the church.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1931-03-19
MAKE BASIC LAWS OPERA.
TIVE

Recently Chief Magistrate Corri-
gan, of New York City, in speech
on anti-revolver laws, observed that
taking away the gun by legislation
will not cure crime and killings; the
cure must be found by making crime
improbable and by removing judi
cial and other official positions from
politics. Certainty of sentence, he
continued, rather than severity Of SEN
tence, is needed to lessen crime.
A political judiciary is great ally
of the criminal. The recent investi-
cations in New York, where it was
found that large percentage of the
judges had affiliations with gangsters
and other criminals, startled the ma
ton. 1t is safe to say that in many
other of our large cities similar con-
ditions exist.
Judge Corrigan's observation on the
need for certainty of punishment
should receive. nationwide attention.
Nothing is more helpful to the under
world than our overburdened, slothful
legal codes and the technicalities and
red tape which often make it possible
for the most hardened offenders to
evade serving sentences.
Taking the crime situation by and
large it would seem that reformers,
instead of seeking more laws, would
do we'll to give their efforts to finding
ways of separating crime and politics
and making basic laws operative.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1931-03-19
GOOD CITIZENS

The Mayor should be congratulated
for the action he took in ordering a
number of people to get GU of town on
Monday evening.
The town welcomes to it's citizen
ship everyone who is inclined to con-
duct himself decently, but for people
who seem to have no regard for moral
living she has no room, and the decent
and self-respecting residents of Oak
land feel that the air is purer since
they took their enforced departure.
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deal deathblow to the Federal fleet
the next day.
Owing to the serious nature of his
wounds, Captain Buchanan was not
in command the following day in the
Virginian's historic clash with the
Monitor.
Contrary to general belief the Mon
itor did not defeat the Merrimac
(Virginian) in that notable battle.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1931-03-19
An Interesting Fact
THE MERRIMAC-FIRST IRON
CLAD BATTLESHIP
A Marylander Was Her Commander

A Marylander Was Her Commander
Captain Franklin Buchanan was a
distinguished son of the Free State.
In 1845 he was appointed the first
superintendent of the United States
Naval Academy, and two years later,
detached at his own request, he en-
gagged in active naval duty in the war
with Mexico. In the historic expe-
dition of 1853 he was the first Amer
lean officer to set foot on the soil of
Japan. Still later, in 1861, in the
Civil War, he was placed in command
of the historic wooden frigate Merri-
mac.
While Commandant of the Navy
Yard at Washington he learned of
the first bloodshed at Baltimore on
April 10, 1861, when the Sixth Mas
sachusetts Regiment marched through
Baltimore, and believing that his ma
tive state would withdraw from the
Union, resigned his commission. When
he learned, however, that Maryland
had not seeded as result of the
incident of April 10, he requested
that his resignation, if it had not al
ready been accepted, be withdrawn.
His request and his letters were ig-
nored by the Navy Department and
he was dismissed from the service.
The Merrimac, which had been sunk
by the Federal forces when they
abandoned Norfolk, was raised by the
Confederates and converted into an
ironclad fighting ship by covering it
with iron plates, some of which were
fashioned from iron rails. 1t was re-
named the "Virginian," and Captain
Buchanan was placed in command.
It must have been with repressed
anxiety and some misgiving that the
commander of that unwieldly and I'M
tried craft gave the order to move
out of it's harbor and into the sea.
/ Although it had an armament of
only ten guns of varying size, Cap
tain Buchanan ran the Merrimac into
the midst of the Federal feet at
Fortress Monroe, where he faced the
fire of more than three hundred Fed
eral guns. He was attempting that
which had never been attempted be-
fore. Under his cool leadership his
strange craft had soon destroyed the
Cumberland and the Congress and
drove ashore the Minnesota, the St.
Lawrence and the Roanoke, while the
shot and shell from the Federal fleet
did but little damage to his ironclad.
While Buchanan was directing the
rescue of some of the crew of the dis
abled Congress, under flag of truce,
he was fired upon, presumably
through mistake, by Federal troops
on shore and severely wounded. The
Virginian had been withdrawn, after
the days destruction, in order to re-
pIenish its ammunition, intending to
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1931-03-19

ments solely to the needy; but in ar
ranging with lightning rapidity for
the commencement of payment to one
and all, he gave to the country mag
nifcent example of respect for the
law and an illustration of the effec-
tiveness of the consolidated Bureau of
Veterans Affairs.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1931-03-19

Possibly the Democratic attacks up
on the administration of the Nations
financial affairs will be temporarily
suspended while they attempt to pay
off their party's debts of more than
half a million dollars which are now
more than two years old.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1931-03-19

The Federal Government, during
the past year, has done handsomely
by the people. Things should be bet
ter now, if the pople will do all they
possibly can for themselves.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1931-03-19

Within a few years the public war
debt of the United States will prob
ably be reduced to the point where
the foreign war debt payments to this
country will gradually wipe them out.
That is the sort of cancellation that
we learned in the old hometown
school.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1931-03-19

When so little is being said about
the various departments of the Fed
eral government it seems probable
that efficiency is in full control.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1931-03-19

The Republican has the largest cir
culation of any newspaper published
in Garrett county.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1931-03-19

President Hoover lost his energetic
fight for the limitation of bonus pay
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-04-15
NOTED VISITORS TO BE GUESTS
 AT LUNCHEON
Community Cleanup to Be Discussed by Cham
 Der of Commerce

Remarks by prominent visitors will feature the program at the noon luncheon tomorrow of the Juneau Chamber of Commerce. Lieut.. Glen Palmer. Signal Corps, United States Army, will be guest of Major Malcolm Elliott, president of the Alaska Road Commission. Victor Elfendahl of the Skinner and Eddy Corpora tion, Seattle, and o. D. Cochran, Nome lawyer, have invited to be present
 John w. Troy, editor and mana ger of the Alaska Daily Empire, veteran member of the chamber, who has just returned from visit of five months in the States and in Hawaii is expected to be in at tendance.
 G. H. Walmsley, secretary of the Chamber, announces that members here now of other chambers or of community service organizations are invited to come to the lunch con.
 There will be further discussion tomorrow of the cleanup prize contest. A number of communica- tions will be submitted by the sec- retary.