The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-09-08
Labor Day Is Right

AdUOr LAY Is Iue ElSHI LSIH-
make no mistake about it. Labor
from morn until night for most of US,
in one way or another.
Many worked overtime in order to
enjoy a rest on Labor Day. Quite a
number rested by going to dance at
The Pines from 1901 a. m. until 400
Monday morning. Others chose the
morning parade for their rest. Bob
Hoffman dressed up in hot uniform
and marched for mile and a half
with a goose step and arms swinging
baton at regular gait; fifty or more
band boys marched behind; the Le-
gion drum and bugle corps, the junior
drum and bugle corps took their La
Dor Day rest by marching along with
the rest of them.
Harry Stemple, Turk Shartzer,
Stanley Bond, Paul Riley, Dave Wall
ter, Ed. Kahl, Alva Gortner and the
whole bunch of active and aggressive
Knights of Pythias got up early,
worked all day and most of the night
on the picnic grounds spending quite
a restful Labor Day vacationing from
their work.
The Crellin and Oakland bands rem
dered a number of restful concerts;
the Boy Scouts spent their rest period
parking cars from 1000 a. m. until
late at night; the square dancers
spent their vacation working harder
on the little platform than they would
had they been back on the farm fail
ing buckwheat.
Several thousand others rested by
milling around among the crowd at
the picnic grounds, standing on their
own feet and other peoples feet the
entire day. And let me tell you it
was day of real hard labor for the
mouths that kept Cabling.
Maybe you were in the class who
took their vacation by driving 200 or
more miles in your automobile in the
hot sun. Quite restful, if you ask my
opinion, which you probably won't.
But then, who asked for yours,
either? Standing bareheaded in the
hot sun must have had it's effect-I
have feeling somewhat similar I can
imagine that quite lot of them felt
on Tuesday morning who saw not so
much sunshine, but moonshine.
Sitting here wondering what might
be hoomerous this week, l can think
of nothing except those who thought
they were getting a rest by having
Labor Day.
For my own part chose to drive,
but 1 didn't bargain on the roads I
went over, which looked like the bot
tom of Big Youghiogheny river with
a few extra boulders thrown in for
good measure. I speeded over this
race track at breath-taking rate of
six miles every forty-five minutes,
not counting the distance 1 spent in
going up in the air and coming down
again. Luckily, each time came
down l was still in the automobile,
which accounts in large measure for
the fact that l am here today and
writing this. The news must go out
at all costs. The public must be fed
and the newspaper is its meat. Use
| the rest of this column to wash it
down with.
Outside of this little trip I was on
the road gang for several hours, can
ming tomatoes, attending reunion
and hunting for house. But you
knew we were hunting for house,
and Labor Day is really a vacation
when it comes to house hunting.
= 4 4
It was at the Scout court of honor
meeting last Friday. "What effect
does alcohol have upon the human
system?" Deacon Jones asked Bob
Lawton, and Bob answered correctly.
"How about the use of tobacco?"
Deacon continued, and Bob answered
correctly again.
"What inference do you draw from
that?" he then asked, and Bob an
swered:
"Why, nicotine"