The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-06-16

10 those VINO dldnC KNOW any more
about why the flags were flying on
June IA around Oakland than did,
when 1 caught sight of them early
in the morning, can explain, having
garnered my information from au-
thoritative source that it was Flag
Day.
On June Ia, 1777, Congress re-
solved: "That the flag of the thir-
teen United States of America be
thirteen stripes, alternate red and
white; that the union be thirteen
stars, white in blue field, represent
ing a new constellation"
RRR
But can sing the Star Spangled
Banner word for word.
This evening Di-di Jim, the Office
devil, will receive his diploma from
Oakland High. While never saw his
report card, I'll wager that the only
high marks he ever made were in the
bathtub.
And yet the grades aren't every
thing, as many students have demon
strated in days gone by. A passing
mark, little at" and what else have
you and your success is assured.
A rumor of wedding in local cir
cles has turned out to be nothing but
a rumor.
After Doc Clarke, the local health
officer, had examined a number of pu-
pills in the Oakland school and one of
the boys had signs of little eye
trouble, he wrote the father the fol-
lowing note:
Dear Sir:-I beg to inform you
that your son William shows signs of
astigmatism, which ought to be at
tended to at once"
He got the following reply:
"Dear Doc:-I don't know just what
it is that Willie's been doing, but l
gave him a good walloping for it at
dinner time, and if he isn't any bet
ter hereafter, you can take a few
swats at him yourself"
This thing of going out in the after
Moons to help take pictures of bathing
beauties and lake scenery isn't all it's
cracked up to be especially when I
promised the Boss Editor to get back
at 2 o'clock and didn't really get my
feet beneath the typewriter until 4:3O,
a matter of only two and half hours
late.
The things that might compensate
me for having to work Tuesday and
Wednesday nights were gathering to-
gether the bathing beauties; seeing
Mayor Stemple in hip boots, fishing
pole in hand, ready to haul in a 26-
inch trout and discovering about the
time the photographer was ready to
pull the trigger that the boots were
leaking; meeting Judge Jake Fisher
and family and going through his
camp palace; riding in Doc Billiards.
| boat and Bill Casteels Packard for
the first time. l thought I'd never get
to ride in that car until l was either
war veteran or the speaker for the
Labor Day picnic.
| l have never seen so many gilgad-
gets on one car. l even found out
that from Oakland to the big bridge
over the lake there was drop in al
titude of 500 feet.
l wish those big flies would try to
get out some other window. 1t isn't
that l am chicken-hearted, but any
more murders on the pane and l won't
be able to see out.
Bruce Barton, noted writer, says
that you can't advertise today and
quit tomorrow; that you're not talking
to a mass meeting-but that you are
talking to a parade.
Sometime the conscience of those
who always borrow their neighbours
Republican instead of subscribing for
it, is going to hurt them, and then
they will feel ashamed of themselves.
The easiest way to free and easy
conscience is to subscribe now.
A fellow who claims to be leading
a certain tax league in the county and
then pays approximately $50 to print
and mail out around 5000 circulars
whose chief aim seemed not to be
directed at the reducing of taxes but
against The Republican, does not have
the league at heart, but his own sell
fish game.
Anyone who reads The Republican
with intelligence would know that tax
reductions are as welcome to the pub
Usher as this weeks rain was to the