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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-02-11
BITTINGER

The depression seems to have
reached the proverbial grounding, for
even that critter did not do a bit Of
business in this section on February
End, for it was very cloudy the entire
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Buckle, ac-
companied by Messrs. E. S. Brenne-
man and R. L. Emory and Miss Fern
Buckle, motored to Oakland on bust
ness last Friday.
Merchant and Mrs. C. E. Ellithorp,
who have been ill at their home in this
village for some days, are reported
as being much improved at this time.
The members of the Busy Workers
Sunday school class were entertained
by Miss Marie Stark last Saturday
afternoon.
Mrs. Ada Fike, of Eglon, W. Va,
and Mrs. Sarah Schrock, of Mountains
Lake Park, were guests at the home
of their brother, Silas C. Beachy, at
the Beachy farm, near this village,
last Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Bittinger Wis.,
tied friends in Frostburg last Satur-
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Bethel and Mr..
Harold Brenneman motored to Cum
berland on business one day last week.
Sheriff Walter Haenftling, of Oak
land, was in this section on business
few days ago.
Frank Brenneman spent part of last
Saturday with friends on the east
side of Meadow Mountain.
Owners of maple sugar camps in
this community are beginning prepa-
rations for the opening of their plants
and if the weather continues favora-
BILE they hope to soon have some new
ly made maple sweets for sale.
The heaviest rain of the present
year fell in this section early last
week and as a result the streams were
much swollen but no damage resulted.
Sheriff Haenftling purchased two
young horses from Earl Resi-, one Of
the farmers of this community, one
day last week.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-02-11

ways been isolated and which had ec-
onomic standards different from those
of Europe. As a result there came
the historic Senate fight against the
League of Nations which was emf
nently and convincingly successful.
$50
Since that time sentiment against
Uncle Sans joining the League of
Nations has been growing steadily in
the United States, and it has been
growing in spite of the tremendous
propaganda for internationalism
which has been Embossed in successive
floods in the United States. The rea-
son why this international propagan-
da has failed is that the people of
the country have been studying in
ternational politics and are better in
formed on European affairs than they
were when the League idea was first
brought to our shores. And again, this
propaganda has failed because hap
penings in the world have steadily
tended to refute the claims of the
internationalists. The latest refuta-
ton has been the League fzzle in
Manchria.
The League will not be a political
issue again soon unless the Democrats
nominate Newton D. Baker for Pres
ident. If they do, no power on earth
can keep the League from becoming
an issue, not even a declaration
against it in both party platforms.
From a political standpoint the DEM
ocrats could not do the Republicans
greater favor than to nominate
Mr.. Baker for President. They would
at once present the Republicans with
an issue on which they have won two
sweeping national victories, and on
which the chances of winning are
better at this time than ever before.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-02-11

And just what chance have young
men and their sweethearts! There's
no telling when one of these paper ar
rows may reach home or q plaintive
verse, as sweet as a sugar plum, sue
coed in entwining itself around lose
tendril of q wistful heart.
1t is safe to announce that there is
many girl who laughs at the loving
tricks of her grandmother's day. That
would be the kind Of honor with
bunch of flowers, a bar pin or dainty
locket. But while girls shorten their
dresses and cut their hair and while
fashions in valentines come and go, the
heart of the maid is generally as sus-
ceptible to valentines and their verses
as that of the hoop-skirted lady gen.
erations ago.
"What are those things?" questions
a mystified buyer, pointing to row Of
lacy CONNECTIONS. "Would girl really
like one of them?"
Like them! She couldn't help it;
they were the very essence Of the old
time valentines. Through a paper lace
gate was visible graceful lady in bill
Lowry skirts and a pair of love birds,
shaded in delicate lavender. Quite a
contrast to the satirical and humorous
connections which were popular few
years ago. But any older woman will
say there is nothing new about them.
They are limitations of the hand
wrought and fanciful expressions COM
mon years ago.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-02-11
Fine
Old
Saint
By.
MARY GRAHAM BONNER

HE had been i'll, quite i'll.
When she was getting a lit
tie better some of her
friends, conscience smitten,
said each unto herself:
II must go and call on Sally
and ask her what I can do
for her She's all nv herself
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-02-11

visiting her sister, Miss Delta CAN'T
and other relatives here.
U. M. Stanton is in Mercy Hospital,
Baltimore, for treatment. His niece,
Miss Ruth Stanton, is visiting him
there.
Misses Ethel and Viola Broadwa-
ter and Miss Beulah Engle were
guests at a bridge dinner given by
Mrs. Paul Naylor at her home in
Oakland last Friday evening.
Mrs. Ella B. Keller spent the week.
end with relatives in Meyersdale, Pa.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-02-11

And why hadn't he written? why
hadn't she? Each had thought the
other Of course now cared for some
one else when letters were not an
swered at first-letters which were
never received. It was only natural
to think that. But he had heard, only
two months before, when he had been
down in South America, from some one
who had seen her. She was not mar
ried. She wasn't supposed to be en-
gagged.
And he had come-all the way-t0
get her. Nothing would do but that.
Oh yes, there still was romance.
And st. Valentine was a mighty fine
saint!
t@ by Western Newspaper Union.)
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-02-11
NATIONAL AFFAIRS
By FRANK P. LITSCHERT

There has been great deal of
comment in the newspapers concern
ing the recent statement of Newton D.
Baker, Secretary of War in the cab
met of President Wilson, to the effect
that he did not believe the time was
ripe for the United States to enter
the League of Nations. Mr.. Baker
has been one of the most consistent
supporters of the theory of Uncle
Sans adherence to the League. Sew
eral weeks ago, at a Democratic ban
quet in Winchester, Ind, he reaffirm-
ed his faith in the League and it was
widely stated at the time that this
reaffirmation eliminated him as
presidential possibility in the cam
paign of 1882. Now many of the po-
litical dopesters are declaring that
his latest statement to the effect that
the League is not now an issue in
American politics, puts him back in
the race for the Democratic presi-
Dental nomination.
Mr.. Baker in his statement says
among other things that he thinks it
would be great mistake to make
the League issue a partisan matter.
There is not much chance unless Mr..
Baker is nominated for President
that it will be a partisan matter
again in the near future for the rea-
son that Democratic leaders gener-
ally are as much opposed to the en-
trance of the United States into the
League as are Republican leaders,
and the rank and file of the Demo-
cratic party is as much opposed as is
the rank and file of the Republican
party. At the time the League fight
was hot in the Senate many pro-
Leaguers made the charge that Re-
publican leaders were opposed to
Uncle Sans joining the League be-
cause it was a Wilson measure. This
was not true, and it must not be for
gotten that several Democratic lead
ers, whose partisanship has never
been questioned, were opposed to the
League, too.
AS a matter of fact, when Presi-
dent Wilson first brought the League
idea back from Europe the general
unorganized sentiment of the coun-
try was favorable to the idea. We had
heard so much during the war about
universal brotherly love and making
the world safe for democracy, that it
seemed only logical to the unthink-
ing that, with the war over and every
body loving everybody else, some sort
of organization to prevent war was
the next step.
The easiest thing for the leaders
in the Senate to have done would
have been to recognize this senti-
ment, put the League over and look
somewhere else for an issue. But for
tunately for the country, there were
in the United States Senate many
students of international politice who
were not looking for the easy way.
They recognized the fact that the
world had not been changed by the
war and there was just as much fac
tionaism, as much selfshness and as
much crooked international politics in
Europe as there had been before 1914.
They foresaw the dangers that
would come from a political League
of Nations, especially to country
like the United States which had al
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-02-11

Ay and ask her what I can do
for her. She's all by herself.
suppose it's the only decent thing to
do and 1 don't believe she'll need any
thing much now"
So one by one they telephoned and
this is what they said:
ooh. my dear, 1 didn't know you
had been so ILL., I thought it had only
been slight cold, and not having
heard from you 1 thought I'd call up
to see what had happened! I'll come
up and see you if I may. l wish had
known you were ill before. 1 might
have been able to bring you something.
But I'll come up today and see what
I can do for you. Goodby, dear. I
am so relieved you're little better.
Now don't do too much. 1 simply
won't hear of 1t. Good-by."
So. every day for week, one of
them at least dropped in to see what
could be done.
And this is what they did:
They let her get up and make them
tea (when they called around teatime.)
They let her get them just the "sim-
pie lunch she would have had herself
(she wouldn't have had any herself,
not feeling strong enough to get itD
when they came around lunch time.
They let her make coffee and sand
witches when they came in the eve
ningS.
And as they left, at different times,
each said approximately the same. It
was this:
snow don't do too much, dear.
couldn't bear it if you got really ill.
You're looking so much better now.
Oh-don't bother to thank me. 1t was
a pleasure to do what could"
Yes, she felt sadly disillusioned.
Life seemed to her very sordid
proposition.
She remembered when she was pass
ing a jewelry shop one day. She had
seen sign in the window:
1--WE furnish the license free to any
one buying wedding ring from US"
Fancy their having such a sign!
And there must have been people who
had responded. or they wouldn't have
such an advertisement.
She could fancy the modification
and embarrassment of having ones
prospective husband suggest such an
economy.
Alas, though, something had gone
entirely wrong with her romance in
life. Now, Valentines day was ap-
preaching, and once more she knew
she would have no flowers to wear,
while all her other friends had them.
1t had been hard. Illness, and moth
ing now to buck her up. She was
lonely and young. 1t was worse, she
felt sure, than being lonely and old.
Her mind went back to the days
when she was sixteen. There was
Godfrey Pratt. They had talked Of
their future together-but they were
both very young and Godfrey had
gone away that next year. She had
never seen him since; it was over ten
years. To think of being able to
speak of something as having hap
pened ten years before. 1t made her
feel so old.
Suddenly her mind was aroused
from these thoughts by ring at the
bell.
Was she dreaming? Could it be
"Why-Geoffrey she stammered.
ais it you?"
''Such a question:" he laughed.
And then-but why pry into those
precious moments of hers?
He had come back! In real life,
too, and clad in the armor of romance.
And tomorrow-St. Valentines day
they were to be married. He had had
a dreadful time getting back for that
special day!
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-02-11
By WILLIAM HERscHELL

r TITLE old lace valentine,
l. Heritage Of Aud Lang Syns,
You have secrets. old as gold;
Secrets you have never told.
o the glad hours Youth has spent
Drowning in your sentiment
DOY still longs to see her look
ID AS he slips you in Girls book;
Waits to see the glad surprise
Bcaming from enraptured eyes.
All ne Graves is just to know
None out his could please her sol
NYNICS call il puppy-Iove,
" Yet no soul-glow from above
Brings Gods heaven nearer viey
Than the heart throbs born of you,
Little old lace valentine,
Heritage of Aud Lang Syne!
indianapolis Ne
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-02-11
EVANSVILLE

FOR SALE-Dwelling and Lot in
Grantsville; 8 rooms; furnace; hot
and cold water; gas and electricity.
Address, o. H. Yoder, sales agent,
Grantsville, Md-Advertisemen Ats
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-02-11
All Hearts Bow to
Good Saint Valentine

OVERS beware! A wealth
Of CHEEKY little red hearts
and rampant cupids are
Haunting their charms from
shop windows to lure even
the wary into the endearing
ways of st. Valentine.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-02-11

The Republican, largest circulation
of any Garrett County newspaper.
Evening star., 1932-02-27
MAIL CLERKSF|GHT
PAY INCREASE BAN
Constituents Urge House
Members to Vote Against
Restriction.

A determined fight to remove the ban
against automatic promotions in the
postal field service is being made by
the National Federation of Post Office
Clerks, according to Thomas F.
Flaherty, Secretary-treasurer of that
organization, which has a national
membership, he said, Of $4,000 clerks
in first and second class Offices in
congressional districts. House members
have been urged by constituents to
vote to eliminate this promotion re-
striction in the Treasury-Post Office
appropriation bill now before the House
for consideration.
Mr. Flaherty explained there are ap-
proximately IL, 500 post Office clerks,
city carriers and laborers in the auto
matte salary grades now receiving ST.
600 or less who will be affected by
this legislative prohibition. They will
lose $1,000,000 in aggregate wages by
this suspension of the promotion rule.
For the most part, they are men with
families, he said, who have been in the
service on an average of eight years.
While the House Appropriations
Committee has properly exempted post
the possibility of not receiving their
pIOIlOGIOllo QuLlilS IIle ueAG lLoCdA year,
said Mr.. Flaherty 'it saw fit to suspend
the promotions Of subordinates receiv-
ing $4,000 or less year.
This is expensive economy. These
men have worked for years at low
wages and are now to be denied their
earned promotions because Of the need
for cutting appropriations. Yet it is
significant that the committee increased
the subsidies for foreign mail trans
portations in excess of S2,000,000. Thus,
We find $1,000,000 diverted from the
earnings of 1000 postal workers into
Evening star., 1932-02-27
Will Build Four Residences.

Steuart Bros. Inc, plans the con-
struction of four two-story brick DWELL
ings at 1824-1830 Bay street southeast
at total estimated building cost OF
$4,000.
Evening star., 1932-02-27

Nick like wild thing, begging plead
Inc ahiect in her misery.
"Oh, darling darling, this is
dreadful. Help me, darling" Nick
eroaned. His face was white~under the
windburn. He held her fast to his
breast and rocked her, as one would
nuFii Finally q she was still. Finally her
tears stopped. Nick pulled out his
handkerchief, wiped her wet face He
talked in a desperate attempt to COM
fort her. Just have faith and keen
loving me, Judy. I'll never Change
YOU know that. I'll try to get over soon
on a visit. Things will be different
then. Write to me-write to me to-
night so it will reach me right after
7 get to the other side. And be strong
darling. It's bound to be all right If
we stand firm"
Judy was like something of stone
Nick repeated his words. not certain
she had heard. She nodded YEARLY
She tucked away the address he wrote
on a card where she was to send her
letters.
But she came alive again when he
finally had to go and leave her alone
up there on the hill. Came alive to
pain and unbearable loneliness. Strain
ing to watch him through her tears as
he raced down the slope. Whispering
like a child who has cried too long.
"Goodby. Oh, darling, my darling
you're leaving me-"
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Decision
Evening star., 1932-02-27
JAZZ MAESTRO ORDERED
TO PAY $500 FOR BLOW
Dance Hall Manager Claims Bernie
Hit Him With Rack, but Musi-
clan Says It Was His Fist.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MONROE, Mich, February 81
Ben Bernie, radio orchestra leader,
had a little matter Of $500 damages to
settle here yesterday with Clarence L.
Kirk, dance hall manager, who charged
the jazz maestro hit him over the head
with music rack.
A Circuit Court jury awarded Kirk
$500 after he had asked $4,000, claim
ing Bernie's blow had made him
dizzy ever since. The jazz maestro
said he struck Kirk with his fist, after
Kirk threatened him with a pistol.
'I cracked a bone in my hand" said
Bernie, land I couldn't play the violin
for II weeks"
Kirk is 6-footer. while Bernie Is
slim and of much smaller stature.
Bernie's attorney said Kirk had not
paid Bernie's orchestra its $500 fee for
the engagement.
II think we're all square" he said.
Evening star., 1932-02-27

sociations in earning and paying divt-
dends on the shares during periods
when most Of the so-called 'blue-chip'
stocks listed on the Stock Exchange
have eliminated or reduced dividends
and suffered tremendous shrinkage in
liquidating value leaves little room to
question the oft-repeated claim that
there is no safer form of investment
than wisely placed first mortgages"
Substantial improvements in real
estate business in Baltimore will be
seen this year, c. Philip Pitts, secretary
Of the Real Estate Board, prophesized
this week.
"All that Is needed" Pitts said, ito
make the thousands Of potential home
buyers abandon their present tempor-
ary conditions, is the restoration Of
their customary incomes with con-
fidence as to their permanency."
Evening star., 1932-02-27
BETTER OUTLOOK SEEN
FOR BUILDING GROUPS
Associations in Maryland Paid
$4,000, 900 in Dividends Last
Year, Official Says.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE, February 27-Build-
ing associations are facing a brighter
outlook this year than they did in 1881,
according to william S. Dubel. presi-
dent Of the Maryland League Of Build
ing Associations.
Mr.. Dubel said Maryland associations
paid s10,000,00o in dividends for what
many consider one Of the worst years
in the country's history.
The outstanding success of these as
Evening star., 1932-02-27
CHAPTER LXII.

QUEER, desperate week fol-
lowed. Stan was away from the
house a great deal that
was all that made it possible to
NIT I'm with the awkward still
Evening star., 1932-02-27
RADIO SERIES TO START
Programs Will Be Devoted to Beau
dhcadon Of Lawns and Gardens.

A series Of radio programs devoted TO
the development and Identification ,of
lawns and gardens In and around Wash
1ngton will be opened tomorrow after
noon at 1880 over Station WMAL by B.
Y. Morrison, editor of the National Hor-
ttcultural Magazine, published by the
American Horticultural Society.
Mr.. Morrison has specialized in work
with the iris and daffodils and is in
active touch with garden clubs and
their work over the United States. In
later programs, other horticulturists
and officials of local garden clubs have
been invited to make education talks.
Evening star., 1932-02-27
HELD IN BIGAMY CASE

Linden Stage, 26, Faces Jury Probe.
Bail Fixed at $1,000.
Linden stage, 26, of Rochester. N. Y.
was held for grand jury action in Police
Court yesterday on a charge Of bigamy
In a hearing before Judge John P.
Mcmahon it was charged that Stage
married Anna Frances Arnold Decem-
Der %, 1881, without obtaining di-
vorce from his first wife, Beatrice
York, whom he had married April 4,
1927. His bail was fixed at $1,000.
Evening star., 1932-02-27

the Golfers Of q few corporations for
subsidies Of exceedingly doubtful value.
This Is q brand of economy the average
tax payer will not understand. It Is
taking wages from low paid groups to
enrich through subsidies a few shipping
and aviation concerns"
Evening star., 1932-02-27
3,100 Visit Building Daily.

The observatory on the Empire Stats
Building. says American Architect, took
in about $4,000 in the last eight
months. An average Of 3,l00 people
visit the building daily.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1932-11-02
PRESIDENTS FAMILIES

Some facts regarding the family rea-
tons of our presidents may be Of interest,
as they are probably little known to the
average reader. How many, for example,
could tell off-hand how many presidents
never married? The answer is, only one,
Buchanan.
All the rest were married, and five OF
them married twice, Tyler, Fillmore, Ben
jamin Harrison, Roosevelt and Wilson.
Seven married widows, Washington, JEFF
ferson, Madison, Jackson, Fillmore, B. Har-
rison and Wilson, the last three taking
widows as their second wives.
The wives of Jefferson, jackson, Van
Buren, and Arthur died before their hus-
bands became president Cleveland went
into office as bachelor, but was married
during his first term.
Washington, Madison, Jackson, Polk
and Harding were childless. Tyr was
the father of IA children, seven by each
of his wives. w. H. Harrison was the
father of 10, Hayes was the father of
eight, Jefferson, Taylor and Roosevelt were
the fathers of six each
Two widows of presidents remarked.
Mrs. Cleveland married T. J. Preston, Jr.,
a professor of archaeology, in 1913, about
five years after her husbands death. Mrs.
Benjamin Harrison married James Blaine
Walker, Jr., her third husband, in 1921,
when she was Cd years of age.
The most unusual circumstance con-
nected with marital relations of any presi-
dent concerned Andrew Jackson. Believing
that Mrs Lewis Robards had been divorced
from her husband he married her in 1891,
only to discover that the decree of divorce
had not yet been granted. Later the de-
cree was issued and Jackson remarked
Mrs. Robards in 1884.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1932-11-02
TODAY'S WEATHER

the Plains and West Gulf States
eastward. During the last "a
hours rain has occurred in Allan
tic coast districts from Cape Hat
teras northward, and rain or snow
in northern Michigan and the Lake
Superior region. Rain also oc-
Cured on the Pacific coast from
San Francisco northward, and
there were showers in southern
Florida. Temperatures have risen
from the West Gulf States north
ward over Minnesota. and in the
central and northern Rocky Noun
tain region, and have fallen from
the eastern Lake region and New
England southwark over northern
Florida and the east Gulf coast,
with readings below freezing in
western Virginia.
The tropical disturbance has APP
.parently moved southwestward and
is central this morning north of
Willenlstadt, Curacao. 1t is of
moderate to considerable inten-
sity.
q. S. KENNEDY,
Official in charge.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1932-11-02

The death of "the last of the Romans"
John Sharp Williams. former senator from
Mississippi. recalls his personality and his
achievements more wildly, though he had
not been in fact forgotten by those who
knew him in his senatorial career, which he
voluntarily ended decade ago. Loyalty
personified. Eloquence at its highest.
Craftsmanship unto perfection, A patriot
is dead. Mississippi and the nation pay due
ADMINISTRATIONS ,lMiss.l Star.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1932-11-02
THE KEY WEST CITIZEN

WILL always seek the truth and print it
without fear and without favor; never be
afraid to attack wrong or to applaud right;
always fight for progress; never be the or
gan or the mouthpiece. Of any person, clique.
faction or class; always do its utmost for the
public welfare; never tolerate corruption OF
injustice; denounce vice and praise virtue;
commend good done by individual or organ
ization; tolerant Of others rights, views and
opinions; print only newa that will elevate
and not contaminate the reader; never COM
promise with principle.