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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1933-11-16
BITTINGER

During the entire week the weather
in this section was decidedly win
terry. The week began with heavy
sleet ice, which chung to the trees
for two or three days, then there
, came rain, which quickly turned to
snow and by the end of the week the
drifts of snow in the roads were
sufficiently deep to hinder travel. The
temperature remained between twenty
and thirty all week and most all farm
activities were suspended.
On Wednesday of last week the
County Demonstration agent, Miss
Burtis, Oakland, and Miss Mason, of
the State Extension service, came to
this village and met a group of more
than thirty ladies, members of the
Bittinger and Grantsville Homemaker
clubs, in the Lutheran parsonage, and
discussed the making of rugs. The
demonstration was a thorough one and
lasted the entire day.
Messrs. Charles Wiley and Law
renee Brenneman returned from a
brief visit to Baltimore and Reisters-
town last Thursday afternoon.
W. E. Buckle, who is employed in
the c. c. c. camp, No. 60, at Bond,
spent the weekend with his family
here.
George Stark, a farmer residing
near this village, captured a large
mink one night last week after the
animal had killed a large turkey and
a number of chickens on his farm.
Elmer Wiley left his home here a
few days ago for Uniontown, Pa,
where he will be employed in a coal
mine.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Buckle mo-
tored to Oakland on business last
Saturday.
The following named pupils were
present every day during the last
month, according to the records of the
village school: Harry Brenneman,
David Buckle, Alma Fazenbaker,
Owen Stanton, Oils Wiley, Margie
Hetrick, Mona Brenneman, Dale Bren-
neman, Max Buckle, Robert HetricI,
DIN Fazenbaker, Dorothy Buckle, Roy
Broadwater, Hoye Stanton, Clark
Hetrick, Helen Brenneman, Elmer
Brenneman, Kenneth Buckle, Richard
Buckle and Ruth Wiley.
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GLADES

Ernest Beachy spent a few days at
Berlin, Pa, visiting relatives, return
ing home on Sunday.
o. C. Glotfelty was shopping in
Grantsville one day last week.
Misses Effie and Bertha Klotz spent
the weekend with their parents, Mr..
and Mrs. John Klotz.
Gilbert Broadwater, Grantsville, re-
Gently purchased some cattle from
Jonas Knox.
Samuel Handwerk, who has spent
some time with his daughter in this
community, has returned to the home
of his son Freeman near lockwood,
Pa, where he expects to remain dur
ing the winter.
Asa Dixon was caller at the Nah
lon Bender home on Sunday.
Elwood Handwerk was at the Simon
Opel home Monday.
R. E. Alexander, Mr.. and Mrs. NAH
lon Bender, Kenneth Younkin and
Samuel Handwerk spent Sunday near
lockwood, Pa.
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tails in the office of Louis Howe, sec
rotary to the President.
at will be tough winter for Them"
said Grimes, in explaining why the rs
had been sifted from 800 applicants
on a basis of fitness for the job,
rather than being picked from the re-
lief rolls on basis of direct need.
First each applicant was given a
test that took 45 minutes to go
through" said Grimes. "Then came
simple tests to discover their agricul-
tural background.
eve had plaster COW in the testing
room, and we took them up to it and
asked which side to milk it on. We
had plates filled with 16 kinds of gar
den seeds, lettuce, onion, celery, pars-
nips and pictures of the vegetables
cut from the catalogues. They were
to put the right picture on its plate
of seeds. We asked simple questions
on poultry-pointing to Plymouth
Rock hen and Plymouth Rock rooster
we asked which would lay the most
eggs.
'"Those who passed this test took
more technical one. For instance,
they were shown a number of hens and
were asked which one had been lay
ing the most eggs. A poultry man
can tell the difference between the
liars and the layers.
Homes are Visited
"Then came final test of education,
physical fitness, attitudes and ambi-
tons, and agricultural ability.
"The homes of those with high rat
ings were visited, and the women of
the family interviewed. Some women
said they wouldn't go back to the farm
and that ruled the family out. In some
families, tuberculosis was found, and
they couldn't go up into the winter
SHOWS, of course"
Grimes said the families finally
chosen were found, with very few
exceptions, to be native West Vir-
ginians who once had been farm FAM
lilies, but had been drawn into the
coal mines by the high wages paid at
one time.
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Miss nellie Alexander spent SUNDAY
with Mr.. and Mrs. George Newman at
Salisbury.
Rev. A. D. Scrogum and famEr
motored to Cherry Grove S,,ndyu
where the former conducted serricex
Ernest Glass and family yisjte,a
relatives at State Line recently.
ID. A. King and family motores IN
Eglon Sunday to visit Mr.. and Mrs.
Homer Fike.
Don Chisholm and Kathryn MeCa4-
land, of Friendsville, were goests I'm
Sunday of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Yytta-s.
Misses Amelia Miller anu Rula
Guthrie were guests on Sunday M
Erna and Louise Harmon.
Miss Margaret Richter was p1vs, .
miscellaneous shower recently and VIE
Che recipient of many useful gifts
Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond Georp wro
were married just recently, were ser
enaded in the old-tashioned Yoxr,,p,-
on Monday night.
Paul Ulman, of Baltimore, was .
guest on Sunday of Mr.. and Mrs "
). Speicher at their home here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Custer and their
daughter Mary June and Mr.. and Mrs
Burzie Wilt, all of Swanton, were
Sunday visitors of Mr.. and Mrs. r.
S. Custer.
RAMA Fazenbaker and Mr.. ana
Mrs. L. S. Custer visited Mrs. Fazeze
baker at Memorial Hospital, Cumora
land, last Saturday.
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Uncle Sam Links Farm to Factory

Twenty-Five erstwhile West Virginia
coal miners, proved to be potential
farmers by tests, were definitely pick
ed at the White House last Saturday
as the pioneers on the first Federal
farm-factory project at Reedsville,
West Va.
Bushrod Grimes, former West Vir-
ginia University professor in charge
of the project, arranged for medical
tests of the farmers at Morgantown
to be made on Monday, proceed imme-
diately to the project and start break
ing ground for their homes on Tues
day.
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt was one
of the group who decided the final de-
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be allowed the full amount it had paid
and the plot would be turned over to
another family to take up on the same
basis.
Arguments for subsistence farming
as means of relief won from Con-
gress during the last session a $685.
100000 appropriation. Individuals so
far apart in personal PHILOSOPHERS of
life as Henry Ford and Bernarr Nc
Fadden, high-priest of the bone-and-
muscle worshippers, evidently have
seen eye to eye in the matter and have
for some time raised their voices,
along with many others, in curious
chorus of Endorsement. The idea has
been tried by Ford. Many of his en-
ployes spend the greater part of the
summer, the slack season in the auto
mobile industry, tending their gar
dens, and the winter months in Mr..
Ford's factory earning money to buy
those things they cannot raise on their
little plots of ground. 1t is the same
idea that is to be tried in West Vir-
ginin.
Less practical advocates have shrill-
ed the idyllic features of settling in
dustry's labor surplus on the fat, plen-
tiful acres of the land. What, it has
been asked repeatedly, could be more
certain than that strong, willing men
with fully developed sense of So
cial responsibility, who can find no
gainful employment in dislocated So
ciety, would welcome the opportunity
to turn to the soil and earn a living
by the sweat of their brows and the
ache of their muscles.
Back in the 1So0s there was con-
siderable hubbub for farms for all. At
that time it was pretty generally
agreed that Uncle Sam was rich
enough to give a farm to everybody
who wanted one. And though that
movement was driven by power diff
ferent in many respects from the pres
ent one, it was, nevertheless, founded
on the same premise: that the Fed
eral Government ought to lend hand
to every man, woman and child who
wants to become self-supporting and
independent. Almost anyone who
wished for 100 acres of land could get
it by agreeing to work it.
The new plan to return men to the
soil is radically different from the old
plan which was based on the idea that
man with 100 acres of wilderness
ought to be self-supporting and indie
pendent in a substantial, if not an
exactly stylish manner. The present
plan would put the unemployed on
small tracts of land where they can
augment direct wages from industry
with farming for personal consump-
ton. At the very outset of the pres
ent plan it is realized that other
sources of revenue must be tapped if a
decent American standard of living is
to be reached and maintained. And it
is with those "other sources" that the
Government looks for its hardest
fight.
The work at Arthurdale goes on. By
Thanksgiving Day, it is hoped, fifty
Of the two hundred families will be
occupying their new homes.
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Strawberry Hill Leads in Atten-
dance

Strawberry Hill, with 99.7 percent,
led the one-teacher schools Of the
county in attendance for October,
with Bethel second with 99.5. MI.
Lake Park led the two-teacher schools
with 97.3, and Kempton led the gradeR
schools with 97.6.
Kitzmiller headed the high schools
with 95.1 percent and was the orfy
high school above the county standard.
The average daily attendance WIS
1927 for one-teacher schools; 43T fGr
two-teacher; 1412 for graded; and 7r7l.sa
for high schools, making a total af
4249.
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naterialize.

materialize.
The occupants will be expected to
pay for their house and farm in small
payments stretching over period of
twenty years. After payment is made
they will be stockholders in the COM
munity. During the twenty-year per-
iod they will pay no taxes, the project
being under Government control up
to that point. But after that time the
community will again contribute the
taxes to county and State expenses.
When asked what would be done in
the event a family decided to move
elsewhere after living, say, eight or
ten years on the subsistence farm, it
was explained that the family would
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hard surfaced roads will connect all
parts of the farm when the work is
completed.
About half a mile from the main
group of houses will be located the
part of the misunderstanding that
seems most important and also most
doubtful. A factory, built with Gov
eminent funds by the men who will
live on the farm, will be erected for
the manufacturing of heavy, brown
Irvine used in postoffices, and as this
will affect only manufacturers in
Japan and China there should be no
reason for complaint by industry at
home. 1t is also made clear that
private industry has been invited to
locate there. This, indeed, is to be the
mainstay of the whole program, for it
hoped that enough work can be given
the subsistence farmers in the fac
tory to make them, with the aid of
their own gardens, the community
garden, and the dairy farm, self-sup-
porting.
The government of the model COM
munity, according to present plans,
is to be along the lines of the New
England town-meeting, but should the
people show a preference for some
other form of local government, no
obstacles will be PLACID in their way
by the Federal Government. A ma
jority of the public social functions
of a public nature will be centered in
the schoolhouse.
The people who are to live in the
model village are to be chosen from
among the unemployed miners of
Preston and Mongolia counties. Many
of them have been without work for
several years, and some, it is said,
have been without steady employment
since the coal strikes of the early
1920s.
The present habitations, of these I'M
fortunates are usually grouped pitt
fully around the tipple of an abandon
ed mine, resting indiffently on props
or perched precariously on the side of
a mountain. Most of them are shah
by, boxlike things Of rough weather.
boards or slabs from the sawmill.
One door and one or two windows take
care of the ventilation problem, and
if they sometimes prove inadequate
during the hot months, they are often
too much when winters sets in. The
Sight of a dozen skinny, ragged, un-
washed children around the door of a
single shack is not remarkable.
In many cases the ground surround
ing the miners shacks is not capable
of producing even vegetable gar
den. Cows are almost as rare, and
certainly as unfailing marks Of posi-
ton as they once were in Russia. The
main part of the meagre living of
these people, needless to say, is direct
charity.
1t is people such as these who are
to be given new houses and gardens
and employment. Houses with win
dows and doors and cellars, and cleo
tricity and running water. Yards
with trees and shrubs and flowers and
gardens with fresh vegetables. It is
no wonder that many Of the miners do
not believe the subsistence farm will
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as the first step in a program that
has as its objective a demonstration
of how industry can be decentralized
so as to afford relief to crowded ur-
ban centers and to transfer unem-
ployed from the breadline to a shall
acreage where, with the cooperation
of nature, government and some of
the smaller wheels of industry, he
may become self-supporting. It is the
first of the Governments so-called
subsistence farms.
The launching was an extremely
quiet affair, both in an absolute sense
and in comparison with the send-offs
given to other phases of the recov-
cry program. No ballyhoo worthy the
name was turned loose; indeed, the
magicians even neglected to label the
project with any title other than the
full words, Subsistence Farms.
But, ballyhoo or no ballyhoo, it is an
impressive laboratory that the Gov
eminent is using for its experiment
in subsistence farming. Located atop
a mountain range in a section famous
in West Virginia for it's many fine
farms is Arthurdale, 1,O10 acres of
rolling meadows, farmland and wood
land. Originally the farm was the
estate of Col. John Fairfax, relative
of Lord Fairfax and intimate of Gen.
George Washington, and was a great
deal larger than it is now.
For the last thirty-od years it has
been the property of R. M. Arthur,
gentleman farmer, who in late years,
like many another farmer, dirt or gen.
tleman, has found that farming is an
expensive business. At various times
since the sharp decline of farm values
Mr.. Arthur has been approached by
buyers who sought to obtain some of
the best parts of Arthurdale, but he
refused to cut the estate into small
farms, confident that one day buyer
who wanted the farm in it's entirety
would come along. Evidently Mr.. Ar
thur had the right idea.
Today the old farm is beehive of
activity. Surveyors, map-makers, geol-
ogists, soil experts and various other
Government technicians and suboffi-
Gals scurry from place to place in a
fever of excitement. The Arthurs
still occupy the ambling twenty-five
room house and seem to be noticeably
less excited and great deal more
composed than the small army of
workers busy with the Government
latest politics-sociological experiment.
Mrs. Arthur, who seems least affected
by the charged atmosphere, did ex-
press little surprise that officials of
the Department of the Interior and
the Department of Agriculture " T..
used that telephone right here in the
kitchen to call the White House twice
in less than twenty minutes-just as
you'd call Reedsville!"
According to Government plans, Ar
thurdale is to be divided into 290
homesteads of from l to IL acres
each and twelve homesteads of from
21s to 8 acres each. A house costing
approximately $4,000 and boasting of
a cellar, electricity and running water,
all rarities to the people who occupy
it, will be erected on each homestead.
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AN EXPERIMENT IN EMPLOYMENT
GETS UNDER WAY IN WEST VIRGINIA
FIR ED C r A II A M

Landscape gardeners will do their best
to make the ground surrounding the
houses attractive.
Besides the homesteads there is to
be a 140-acre community farm and a
5O-acre dairy farm. A school and
several Fairgrounds for children will
be built and there is to be at least
one park. More than seven miles of
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Baltimore Sunday Sun, November 81
High up in that section of Preston
county, West Virginia, known to ma
tives of the State as the lakeland,
Uncle Sam has just undertaken an
other great social experiment of far
reaching purpose. One thousand and
ten of the fairest and latest acres of
Preston county were bought outright
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-30
HUGE HIGHWAY
JOB IS PLANNED
Bids Are Asked on Roads
to Be Constructed at
$2,5OO,OOO Cost.

Bids for paving ninety-one miles
of roads at an estimated cost of
100000 will be received Sept. 10
by the Indiana highway commits
sion, it was announced today by
Chairman James D Adams.
Sixty-eight miles of the work will
be under the national recovery
highway act, and twenty-three
miles by the state.
Sixteen separate projects, besides
side ditch paving, mostly in the
southern part of the state, are in
cluded. Paving under the NRA
program includes:
State projects are:
State road Sc. Paoli to Salem 1880
miles in three sections.
Vernon, 12562 miles. two sections.
Road l0i. Brookville to RosebuurE. 11.761
miles. two sections.
I Road 43, north from Road 40 toward
Greencastle. .705 miles
Road g. Rushville to Dunreith. 1928
Road ~. Connersville to Liberty.
1855 miles two sections.
Road "a. Charlottesville west in Mont
gomery county, .05 mile.
Road IS. from Noblesville north. 6.79a
Road 1856. Raccoon to Barnard. 1925
Road So. Harrison Floyd county line
In addition, several thousand feet Of side
bitches will be paved in the Vincennes
highway district.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-30
FINALS IN AUTO
RACES ARE SET
PushmobiIe Contestants to
Compete for Trips
to Fair.

Qualification in the state push
mobile championship in 18-year-old
age class will be held Thursday
night at at Colman park, $500
West Michigan street.
Finals in the 18-year-old limit
class will be run Saturday night
at the park and finals in the senior
class will be held Monday night.
The races are sponsored by the
Indiana Amateur Pushmobile As
ISOLATION which is providing as a
prize for the winners in both classes
a two-day free trip to A Century
of Progress Exposition.
The races will be over f1ve-mile
course, and each team will be COM
posed of a driver, five pusherS, and
the drivers manager
Several teams from cities and
towns throughout the state are eX-
pected to compete.
Frank Northern, secretary of the
pushmobile association, will be in
charge of the races, and entries
should be filed with him before race
time. Out-of-town teams have been
asked to write Northern at 1873 West
Tenth street to list their entrants
in the finals.
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Gone, but Not Forgotten

Automobiles reported to police as stolen
belong to:
Charles NJ RYAN. 6143 West Minnesota
street Ford coupe 114-514, from rear of
6143 West Minnesota street
Clarence Carter. 1912 Yandes street.
Ford tudor. from rear of 1912 Yandes
street
Lenora Dover. 323 West Twenty-eighth
street. Ford touring. 149-863. from Cler-
mont Ind.
Harry A. Irwin 1925 Manlove avenue
Chevrolet coach. 1920. from Washing
ton street. between Delaware and Alabama
streets.
wess Engle. 3s40 West Ninth street. Ford
truck. T 457-2ss from 3340 West Ninth
street.
c. j. Bauman Syracuse. ~ Y, Dodge
sedan. S-4799. New York. from Illinois and
Chesapeake streets
Virgie Kennedy 524 Middle drive
Woodruff Place Marmon roadster. from
in front of 4l6 North New jersey street
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-30
Woman's Hand Is Crushed

A badly crushed hand was suf-
fered today by Mrs. Mary Dean, 40
Of SAL North fremont avenue. while
using an electric clothes wringer al
her home. She was taken to city
hospital in the police first aid cal
for treatment.
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g. In states that we're wet, they
will fight for local option laws which
would enable them to extend their
dry areas piecemeal by counties and
municipalities as far as possible.
Dry leaders for the most part,
though few will admit it publicly,
feel that the eighteenth amendment
was desirable ideally, but mistake
practically. They sought it originally
for two reasons. First, they wanted
to reinforce dry states against pres
sure from outside wet territory and
thought that federal prohibition
would bring additional strength to
enforcement.
Depended on Pressure
Second. they thought it would be
possible to drive liquor forcibly out
of wet states by bringing to bear
the majesty of the federal govern
ment.
The result was not at all what the
drys had counted on. First, as soon
as the federal government entered
upon prohibition. states began to re-
lax their own enforcement, and
state officials and drys concentrated
on throwing the burden of enforce
ment on the federal government.
Second, even the prestige of the
federal government was insufficient
to conquer the traditionally wet
states and within a short time the
federal government had prohi-
bition rebellion on its hands which
defied every method of attack.
AS a result of this breakdown,
popular resentment against federal
prohibition grew until it blazed
across the country and took on
political force which stunned the
drys.
Back to Old Tactics
Now they are gathering forces to
60 back to their original tactics of
fighting inside of state lines. More
will be heard about this shortly. For
the moment, dry leaders, who realize
the imminence of repeal, are not ad-
hitting it, to protect drys who are
making fights in several specific
states to prevent a unanimous rati-
fication.
But after Maine votes on Sept. IL,
dry leaders expect to recognize pub
licly the imminence of repeal and to
open their fight for retention of
prohibition in individual states and
lesser units.
There is a sentimental reason for
waiting on Maine, because it was
the first dry state.
VIII Fight On
Without admitting that repeal is
near, o. G. Christgau, assistant to
the general superintendent of the
Anti-Saloon League, has outlined
the Anti-Saloon League program. as
follows:
l. Unceasing campaign to retain
the eighteenth amendment.
2. A campaign to hold or retain
state and local prohibition laws,
extending dry territory to the
maximum and reducing wet terri
tory through nomination and cleo
ton of city councilnen, state legis-
lstors and congressman, and hon
est enforcement officers.
3. An enlarged temperance edu-
cational campaign.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-30
BRONCHO LOOSE, AT FAIR
Throws Rider and Leaps Into Press
Box, Damaging Typewriter.
By United Press

By ntfed Press
CHICAGO, Aug. 30.-Daring
Workmanship, led by the most noted
riders from Mexico in new feats OF
bravery, featured the events Tues
day at the worlds fair rodeo.
Francisco Aparicio. rated the sec
ond best bull fighter in Mexico, gave
the crowd thrills when he intro
duced the feat of jumping from a
trained horse to the saddleleSS back
of a wild horse and riding the buck
ing animal around the arena.
An unScheduled incident added a
sensation in the broncho riding event
when q horse. after throwing its
rider, Donald NeSbit of Quemsdo,
N. NJ. leaped into the press box,
damaging the typewriters before he
was brought under control.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-30
BY RAYMOND CLAPPER
United Press STAFF Correspondent
r-.--.--l L.aacL

WASHINGTON Aug Spiritually the sudden onslaught
repeal ratification ds are beginning TO
pronolon mas
cked out o Constitution
Their strategy, being planned, is this;
In will fight to hold
Before federal prohibition they held
curt of he area o