The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1933-07-13

weeks paper came out.
Now, isn't that appreciation for
you!
There's just one thing want to get
off my chest especially this week, and
it might as we'll be first as last. If
| don't, the rest of the office editors,
sub-editors, assistants, etc, swear
that they will add it, so there's moth
ing left but to hide my face.
1t was all Mrs. Scoops fault for
leaving town last Friday and not re-
turning until the parade was under
way, but anyway, under the cover of
darkness and very few people at the
Sincell corner on upper Second street
| took chance of stepping out of line
to greet my wife, whom l thought
sure would be watching her hero in
the procession.
| was three-fourths completed on an
embrace when l discovered my mis-
take, and | don't know what the color
of her face was, but was mine RED!
And all the time my wife was inside
satisfying her inner craving for food.
Oh, well, my face could have been
redder. Just suppose she had caught
me in the act!
Remember last year how the Tax
payers league hollered for cutting
down in the number of teachers of
the county? 1t was decided to cut
one, at least temporarily. in the Acct
dent community, and who do you
think headed the delegation opposing
the elimination? Nobody but Mill
Biller himself, one of the leagues
leaders. As our old friend Shakes
peare once said. "Oh, consistency.
thou art a jewell" or something like
that.
Is there going to be fair? is the
question that is being asked by no
body, as far as can be learned, except
maybe the star reporter of the Oak
land Republican.
Manager Speicher said it might be
held if they can hold it in Sweeney's
lot and block off Third street as they
did at the Firemen's convention. But
there aren't half dozen farmers who
seem interested.
With fairs pretty much in the dis
card all around, it makes one wonder
what is the trouble. Is it lack Of
pride in their products, too much
trouble with no immediate benefits, or
what? At any rate, pride in ones
products should never lag. Quality is
being demanded more and more of
products in order to make them
marketable, and if quality is demand
ed, quality is what the public is going
to have.
Maybe the country is getting ready
to pull Rip Van Wrinkle and go to
sleep for twenty years, resting until
times are better.
I've never predicted much since
predicted Hoover's reelection but
I'm of the opinion that all these huge
loans being made to States by the
Federal government will go the way
the foreign debts are going. They'll
never be paid back.
And | also believe, as if you cared
anything for my opinion, that the tax
payers will not be permanently bene-
fitted by R. F. C. funds, Federal
grants, welfare gifts, etc.
Bare existence will be so easy for
a large number of people that they
never will go back to work when the
opportunity arrives.
And what will happen to the c. c..
c. boys when the six months are up
and they are dumped back on the
towns from whence they came?
Just give me a picnic in the cold
misty weather anytime. OF course,
the sun can shine and it can get warm
afterwards when it is time to swim.
But just think, no flies, no ants, no
bugs, and you have to exercise to
keep warm so you can eat more chick
en-. And the wind comes along and
blows away all the scraps left on
your plate, and there isn't anything
to clean up afterwards.
Weigh all the inconvenience of a
hot weather picnic against an occas-
ional dribble of rain down your back
on misty weather picnic and III
choose the lattel-until dinner is
over
Suggestion to the Fire Department
: Some deep, dark night, take the fire
trucks out of town. Come back and
/ set fire to the Gessman barn on
south Third street. Then laugh hear