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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1933-10-12

not credit that it needs, but customers.
The Alexander Hamilton Institute re-
Gently we'll summed up the credit sit
uation in one of its bulletins when it
said:
"The credit situation is giving seri-
Gus concern to the administration. AL
though the banks have loanable funds
in most instances, except those banks
that are still closed by the govern
ment, these funds are not moving out
to finance business activities. Bankers
have been charged with holding back
on the granting of credit because of
the supposed heavy risks. For this
attitude the bankers could hardly be
blamed, because of their recent har-
rowing experiences at the hands of
the government and the public, and
the watch that is being kept on bank
ing operations. The Reconstruction
Finance Corporation has offered aid
through preferred stock in banks or
by loaning banks money at three per
sent that they can reloan at per
cent as maximum, to trade and in
dustrial Organizations. If such offers
are not accepted by the banks, the
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
has threatened to set up so-called
mortgage companies in various
centers to loan directly to bust
ness without the medium Of bankers
Studies of the situation, however,
show that merchants and manufacture
ers alike, both small and large, have
no immediate need for the wide ex-
tension of credit What they do need
is sales, and sales are not sufficiently
brisk to warrant increasing produc-
ton and building up wholesale and re-
tail stocks on borrowed money. There
are many loan applications from indi-
viduals and organizations whose credit
qualifications are so meagre that they
would not pass even in times of pros
perity. Sound organizations are not
on the market extensively for the bor-
rowing of funds"
This undoubtedly states the siua-
ton as it is today. One of the sound
est and most conservative business
men in the Middle West recently said
to me, in discussing the bank credit
situation:
at is not bank credit which my firm
needs, but orders for goods. We can
get all the credit we need for our bus
mess operations. Given customers, we
can get the credit we require to ex-
pand."
The same is doubtless true of thous-
ands of business institutions IN the
United States. What good will it do
to borrow money of the banks to pro-
duce or purchase more goods il the
public demand is not Forthcoming?
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1933-10-12
IWfI9
COST OF THE NEW DEAL

Everyone has been pulling for the
national recovery act and the coor-
dinating efforts of the administration
to pull us out Of the depression. When
anyone has mentioned the terrific ex-
pense to the government of the Yari-
GUS projects which have been assem-
bled by the so-called "Brain Trust"
for restoring Uncle Sam to- a prosper
Gus condition, he has usually been met
with the reply: "Well, no matter
what it costs it will be worth it, if it
does the work."
All of which, however, naturally
leads to the question of just how
much it is going to cost. According
to Gould Lincoln, a conservative, fair
minded and usually accurate writer in
the Washington Star, the cost of the
recovery program under the New Deal
is apt to be considerably more than
eleven billion dollars. In round fig
ures he places the approximate total
sum at $11,574,000,000, although on
four billions of this amount, he adds,
the government guarantees only the
interest. The total, according to Mr..
Lincoln, may be subdivided as follows:
"Total capital structure or lending
power of the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation, $4,O74,741 900.
appropriation for the NRA and
Public Works Administration. $780,
100000.
Bonds to be used by the Home
Owners Loan Corporation, on which
the government guarantees interest at
per cent, $2,OOO,OOO,OOQ.
Farm Loan bonds, issued by the
federal government on which the gov
eminent guarantees interest at a per
cent, $2,OOO,OOO,OOO. '''
appropriation made for subscrip-
ton to the Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation, $150,000,OO0.
Bonds Of the Tennessee Valley Au-
thorization, $50,O00,000,
The writer adds that while the gov
eminent only guarantees the interest
on the bonds of the Home Owners
Loan Corporation and the Federal
Farm Loan bonds, it is not believed
that the government would permit
these bonds to become valueless.
The tremendous financing of these
various relife acts comes of course
outside of the regular federal budget.
The government theoretically expects
to get most, if not all, of this money
back. But the question is, will the
money come back? If the recovery
program works and the country gets
back on the road to prosperity again,
doubtless money expended in this ex-
traordinary way will in part flow back
into the treasury. But if it doesn't,
then who will pay? No doubt our old
and much abused friend, Mr.. Ameri-
can Taxpayer, will be asked to step
into the breach once more.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1933-10-12
IN DAYS OF OLD
FORTY YEARS AGO

Prof. S. C. Smith, Mountain Lake
Park, was teaching the Accident and
Friendsvllle bands.
Stuart Hamill shot himself through
his hand with a revolver which he was
examining. The bullet passed en-
tirely through his hand and left a
painful wound.
The boiler at Whites Mill, Crellin,
was burned out necessitating a shut
down of the mill for several weeks.
Robert Porter purchased the Ole
Lutheran church located on Fifth
street and moved it to lot on Water
street where he planned to rebuild it
for tenement purposes.
Louis Littman, manager of the Tag
CART Hotel, purchased the Henry Felty
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1933-10-12

property, west end of town. L. H.
Karn rented the Browning property on
Liberty street and moved into it.
The Ladew tannery at German was
being enlarged and new machinery in
stalled.
The two-year old daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Milo Trotter, at Corinth, was
instantly killed when struck by pas
senger train at that point.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
Fish Commissioner w. A. Smith, of
Hoyes, superintendent the delivery of
fifteen thousand brook trout in Mer-
ley, Harrington, Dunkard and Meadow
Mountain Creeks.
The death of DR.. E. H. Bartlett, a
prominent Oakland citizen, was re-
corded.
A new town to be known as Davis,
two miles northwest of Jennings, on
the Casselman river, and near the site
of the village formerly known as
Cleveland City, was being established.
The two-year-old- daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Joseph O'Haver, on the Col.
]. E. Wood farm, fell into spring
near the home and died two hours
later, presumably from shock.
At meeting of the Knights of
Pythias lodge held in Oakland, DR..
Logan Carr gave an illustrated lecture
on his trip through Egypt, from which
land he had recently returned.
Henry Lauer was making arrange
ment to sail for Bremen, Germany,
there to visit his kinsfolk.
John Whisner, returning to his
home at Bloomington from Hoffman
Hospital, where he had been i'll of
typhoid fever for three weeks, found
himself to be the father of a daugh-
ter, born during his absence.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1933-10-12
HOW TO SAVE MONEY ON
YOUR MONTHLY GAS BILL
A Series of These Articles to APP
pear in The Republican

This is the first of a series of five
articles describing methods of gas
economy in the home.
Proper Adjustment of Flames and
Burners
Hundreds of local gas users are
wasting gas daily because they have
not acquainted themselves with the
simple precautions recommended by
their gas company service depart
ments to obtain the maximum of po-
tential heat which is provided.
Gas burns when it is united with
oxygen from the air and consumes
about ten cubic feet of air to each
cubic foot of gas. If sufficient guam
tity of air is not supplied through the
mixing tube at the burner, the gas
is not completely burned and heat is
lost. Too high a flame also is waste
full. 4
All gas appliances are equipped
with facilities to adjust the quantity
and velocity of gas supply and to pro-
vide the proper amount of air which
passes up the mixing tube from the
gas cock to the burner.
Short flames use gas most effic-
iently. Burner openings should be
about one and one-quarter inches be-
low the bottom of the surface to be
heated, and the flame should touch
and spread out slightly.
When adjusting the flame, light the
burner and keep it lighted until the
adjustment is made. To lower the
height of the flame, turn the six-sided
nut at the gas cock until the flame is
about one and one-half inches high.
A perfect flame can be identified by
an inner cone Of blue-green and a
dark blue outer flame. A suffering
blue flame means too much air is be-
ing supplied. A yellow-tipped flame
indicates that not enough air is be-
ing provided. ~
To adjusut the quantity of air sup
ply, loosen the set screw holding the
air shutter, which is located just be-
hind the gas cock, and turn to right
or left until clear blue flame is OBJ
tanned. An occasional reddish tinge
to the flame requires no attention
as this does not indicate inefficient
burning.
Possible fuel-wasting leaks in the
gas supply system may be detected
by shutting off all appliances for three
hours and checking the small foot
measure dial on your meter to see if
it has moved. Meters are so con-
structed that they cannot operate ex-
cept when gas is being used. If the
hand on the foot-measure dial has
moved while all gas appliances are
shut off, this is evidence of a leak
and the gas company service depart
ment should be called at once. Do not
look for leakage with match.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1933-10-12
The Safe Drivers Code

There is one badly needed code
which will not have to await an Off
cial signature. 1t affects every per-
son in the country and its adoption
should be unanimous. 1t is "The Safe
Drivers Code"
Accident statistics reported to June
20, 1888, according to the National
Bureau of Casualty and Surety I'm
derwriters, showed 1920 persons had
been killed by automobiles this year.
The indications, judging. from. unoffi-
cial reports in July and August, are
that final results may show decided
increase in deaths and accidents for
1888. This is doubly significant be-
cause there are nearly 10 per cent
fewer automobiles registered in the
United States this year than in 1881
To motorists, therefore, and to pc
destrians and all users of our streets
and highways, the following code is
directed:
1. Regulate your speed to fit traf-
fc conditions; keep your car under
control at all times
2. Slow down for intersections in
towns and in the country and obey all
traffic signals.
g.. Use better judgment in passing
other cars, waiting until there is al
least 500 feet of clear distance ahead
4. Pedestrians-Cross at cross.
walks; walk on the left side facing
traffic; obey traffic signals.
5. Remember that automobile &C,
cidents constitute an economic waste
totaling billions through property
damage, high insurance rates, increas-
ed taxes, etc. i
Every motorist should feel that ii
is his duty and privilege to pledge
himself to this code.
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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1933-10-12
STEYER

Mr.. and Mrs. George Grimm, of
Terra Alta, spent several days last
week with their daughter, Mrs. V. T.
Steyer.
Miss Millicent Wilhelm, Kitzmiller,
visited Mrs. M. E. Tucker last Satur-
day. e
Mr.. and Mrs. Willie Steyer and two
daughters, Minnie and Vera, and Mrs.
j. T. Steyer were guests at Elmer
Harvey's Thursday evening.
Misses Virginia WEIGH and Jennie
Cerne spent Friday evening with Le-
ona Propst.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leon Steyer, Kemp
ton, visited relatives here on Sunday.
Mrs. Hester Harvey, Mrs. Allie Will
son and Miss Maryland Propst were
recent guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Burt
Wilson at Wilson. 49,
Mrs. ]. B. Shockey visited friends
and relatives in and around Steyer re-
Gently.
Mr.. and Mrs. Homer Grimm and
family, Terra Alta, were Sunday Wis
itors at the home of Mrs. V. T. Steyer.
/ Miss Ann Dilgard attended the re-
cent teachers meeting.
Madison Tucker and Lloyd Shilling
burg attended the Petersburg fair one
day last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Willis Holmes, of near
Reedsville, were weekend guests of
friends in this vicinity.
Chester Steyer returned to Buck
harmon Sunday evening after spend
ing the weekend with his parents in
this community.
Mrs. Oscar Wolfe, Mrs. Hester Will
son and son, of Henry, called on Mrs.
Hester Harvey last Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Propst and Mr..
and Mrs. M. E. Tucker were Sunday
evening callers at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. v. T. Steyer.
Misses Lola and Mary Rulings and
Edna Foley and D. C. Rulings visited
friends near Davis, w. Va, on Sum-
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Floyd Foley are
spending the week with the latter's
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1933-10-12

parents at White Church commun-
ity.
Mr.. and Mrs. Emory Shillingburg
and family were visiting Mr.. and Mrs.
George Bowers, near Swanton, on
Sunday.
NJ. E. Tucker and Frank Propst
were business callers in Mountain
Lake Park on Saturday.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1933-10-12

The Republican is Garrett County's
longest established newspaper.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1933-10-12
NATIONAL AFFAIRS
By FRANK P. LITSCHERT

We have heard a great deal of late
| about the failure of the nations banks
to lend money to private firms for the
expansion of business and have been
told that this is one of the things
which is retarding our economic recov-
cry. There has even been strong in
timation from Washington that unless
the banks "loosen up, so to speak,
the government itself will take the
credit situation in hand. There are,
of course, two sides to the question.
On the one hand the banks are being
urged to extend credit in every direc-
ton while on the other they are COM
PEELED to comply with the new bank
ing laws which provide for a more
stringent examination and much
harsher penalties for bankers who
lend their customers money in poor
speculative enterprises.
In thinking about this situation it
must be remembered that banks can
not make money for their stockhold-
ers unless they put to work the mon
ey which is left with them on deposit.
1t is hardly likely therefore that the
bankers of the country are in some
deep conspiracy to restrict credit,
since they can only show an operat-
ing profit by extending credit. Dur
ing the past few years it has been
necessary for the banks to remain as
liquid as possible. Granting, for the
sake of argument, that this period is
now coming to close, it must be adj
mitted that the bankers must be more
careful than ever in extending credit
because of the provisions of the new
banking law. They are compelled to
go slowly also in that the future mon
etary policy of the country is now de-
cidedly "up in the air" and nobody
knows just what sort of imitation or
currency or credit expansion we are to
have, if any.
But there is another phase of the
general situation which must not be
lost sight of. 1t is easy to overesti-
mate the importance and extent of the
tightness of credit. The average sound
and conservative business firm is able
to get what credit it requires. 1t is
Evening star., 1933-05-24
SEPARATED 40 YEARS,
| LOOKS FOR BROTHER
Woman, Former Resident Of Rich.
mond, Unable to Obtain Clue
Following Adoption.

It's been more than 40 years since
Mrs. Minnie williams Dickson and her
brother, John Samuel Williams, were to-
gether.
At that time, she was years old and
he six years her junior. They were liv-
ing In Richmond, Va, when their father
died, and their mother was compelled
to place them in adoption. They have
been separated ever since.
Now, Mrs. Dickson is renewing q
search she has often times conducted
for her long-lost brother. She has no
clue as to his whereabouts or who his
adopted parents were. Municipal records
in Richmond, she says, contain no in
formation as to her own or her brothers
adoption.
Mrs Dickson recalled, however, that
a John S. Williams advertised in a
Washington paper in 1915 for any in
formation concerning living relative.
At that time she made efforts to locate
him. but was unsuccessful.
Mrs. Dickson, who now resides In
Greenville, Del, says she believes her
mother remarked and moved to another
part of Virginia. but she has been un-
able to 'ocate her either.
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which convicts the youth Of voluntary
manslaughter.
The climax comes when the defense
counsel, waving q bottle of liquor In
his hand, shouts:
Ladies and gentlemen Of the jury
| who should pay the penalty for this
crime?
"The prosecuting attorney will tel
you just this boy-this boy influenced
by older men to drink this stun that
robbed him of his reason and caused
his hand to strike down his best friend
"But I say it was the man who fur
nished him the stuff oh. yesi know
the prosecuting attorney in his closing
argument will paint a sad picture for
you, a picture of a mother who weeps
alone, of widow left penniless, OF
two small children left fatherless.
Two Sides Of Picture.
'But, ladies and gentlemen, justice
demands that call your attention to
another mother bowed and broken un-
der this tragedy, and may call your
attention to the fact that the thing
responsible for the sorrow of one is
likewise responsible for the grief OF
the other?
This bottle was the cause OF both
their griefs"
Picking up the bottle, the prosecuting
attorney looks at it quietly, commends
the defense counsel for his attack upon
liquor, and states:
Il want to add that the alcohol which
this bottle contains is the embodiment
of all crime. 1t is the very essence OF
just such deviltry as took place on that
fatal midnight
And yet, the alcohol in this bottle
is no excuse under the law; for the
man who voluntarily puts this bottle to
his lips, even as he drinks, is entering
upon the school of crime and register
ing as a candidate for the county jail
and penitentiary.
II know that this terrible tragedy
would not have occurred If the man
who sold the liquor in this case had
been put out of business. And want
to- say here and now that whenever +
can have the cooperation of the citi-
zens and peace officers, the jury anu
the court, the liquor sellers can and
will be put out of business, provided the
eighteenth amendment is not repealed
Evening star., 1933-05-24
SALMON RATES RAISED
IN MOVE TO END STRIKE
Astoria, Greg, Packers Offer Seven
Cents a Pound for Chinook
Catches Until July 81.

BY the Associated Press.
ASTORIA, Greg, May 24.-1n COM
promise effort to end the strike that has
tied up the fishing and canning indus
try of the Columbia River since the
season opened May l, Astoria packers
today offered cents pound for Chi
nook salmon until July 81. They guar
anteed the price would not be less than
cents young from August to Au-
gust 10.
While the packers offer does not
meet the price Of cents the gill METERS
have demanded, it is half cent better
than their highest previous offer.
Last year the price was 6 cents until
July 16, dwindling to cent by the close
of the season. August 25
Evening star., 1933-05-24
DRYS FIGHT REPEAL.
WITH TACT DRAMA
Trial of Youth in Killing Over
Liquor Presented by West
virginians.
ey the Associated Press.

BY tle ASSOCihlcu EAceo.
CHARLESTON, w. Va, May "a
The West Virginia Anti-Saloon League
As fighting repeal with drama.
who killed Earl Wright" the League
asks in a one-act drama which grad
ually reveals that John Barleycorn'
was responsible for the Staying:
In churches, schools. theaters, but
preferably in court rooms, the play Is
being presented as part OF the cam
paign of the united dry forces of West
Virginia against repeal of the eighteenth
amendment.
The play is produced by home-talent
actors under the direction of Rev. B. E
Ewing, State superintendent of the
league, or his representatives.
It was Ewing who conceived the idea
of fighting repeal with a court room
drama showing the closing hours OF the
trial of youth charged with killing his
best friend during an argument over
q bottle of liquor.
Ewing Plays Part.
Ewing himself played one of the lead
ing roles at the first night" which
brought capacity audience to a little
church in Dunbar, bustling industrial
town near Charleston.
He portrayed the prosecuting attor-
ney, who, swayed by arguments of the
defense attorney, agrees that Earl would
not have been slain if his best friend
had not been intoxicated.
Encouraged by the interest shown at
the first night" performance, Ewing
prepared copies of the dialogue and
distributed them throughout the State.
Now casts are in rehearsal to present
the play in every town of more than
1000 in the State before June 27, when
the State votes upon the repeal ques-
ton.
The play was written by Midwest
ern attorney who participated in a
trial upon which it is based. 1t re-
quires cast Of "a, including the jury,
Evening star., 1933-05-24
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C0D0NA HURTS HIS ARM,
CAREER PROBABLY ENDED

BY the Associated Press.
LONG BEACH. Calf, May 24.-Al-
fredo Codona, famous aerialist. in a
telegram to his father, Edward Codona,
today revealed that his performing Ca
reer has probably been ended by an arm
injury suffered while performing with
Ringing Bros Circus in Madison
Square Garden, New York.
Codona did not 60 into details re-
garding the injury. He is the widower
of Lillian Leitzel, aerialist, who was
killed several years ago by fall in
Copenhagen.
Evening star., 1933-05-24

lack Of occupation, being given them to
plan further crimes to be perpetrated
when they shall be free. 1t also tends
TO make them economical failures
through long habits of lolling about in
Evening star., 1933-05-24
France May Aid Refugees.

PARIS, May "a LR.-A Ministerial
Committee was appointed yesterday tc
study the problem of giving help tc
the German refugees in France, mostly
Jews.
Government aid for private assist
ance committees is being considered.
Evening star., 1933-05-24

houses IN the United States. According
to q warden in . New Jersey peniten-
tiary, lack of employment for inmates
Is the most undesirable condition In any
penal institution, opportunity, through
Evening star., 1933-05-24
Employment Of Prisoners.

It is estimated that approximately
5000 prisoners are confined each year
In municipal and county jails and work
Evening star., 1933-05-24

cells. He advocates the development Of
idle lands, food growing and preparation
and other industrial programs for all
prisoners.