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Evening star., 1933-12-29
DOLLAR DECLINES
SLIGHTLY ABROAD
Closes at $5.oss4 in Terms Of
Pound at London, or l Cent Off
From Previous Day.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, December 29.-The United
States dollar maintained its quiet ways
today on the foreign exchange market
and closed at s508a4 to the pound,
cent a pound lower than yesterday.
The market was narrow. A few spec
ulative dealings weakened the rate
somewhat, but thereafter the American
currency recovered under the stimulus
of trade demand and an unchanged
American gold price.
Uncertainties as to the future possible
action of Congress were regarded as a
check to big exchange dealings, but
some venturesome SPECTATORS sold dol
lar futures at discount in anticipation
Of further imitation.
The French franc made a firm close
at S3 AS to the pound.
Last nights final quotation of the
dollar was s5.O774 to the pound.
PARIS, December 90 (P.-Three per
cent rentes Ct francs 20 centimes; Az
per cent rentes, 85 rs.
Exchange on London, s3.45. The dol
lar was quoted at l64l.
Evening star., 1933-12-29
COMMODITY EXCHANGE
RESULTS PLEASE CHIEFS
BY the Associated Press.

~ tEIc zhocOCIntcU
NEW YORK, December 29.-Com-
modify Exchange, Inc, representing a
consolidation of the Hide, Metal Silk
and Rubber Exchanges here, handled
contracts valued at $730,000, 900 in the
first seven months of its operation. saws
a report by Jerome Levine, president.
Results Of the merger, Mr.. Levine be-
heves, have fully justified the hopes
and expectations of its sponsors" The
exchange has members from 1e coun-
tries.
Evening star., 1933-12-29
U. S. TREASURY POSITION.
By the Associated Press.

BY the ASSOClateu FreSs.
The position of the Treasury December ~
was: Receipts, S105,270, 527. 80; expenditures,
S105.244 .595.3S: balance, S1,072.247,-
O19.54; customs receipts for the month.
S23, 254, ,055.55; receipts for the fiscal year
since July l. 81 455. .919. $4,000; expendi-
lures. So, $40 154. .449.06 dnc!udinR 1.116.-
070.372.S6 emergency expenditures)s excess
of expenditures. S1.114 .234. 500. A..
Receipts for December 27. 1882 (com-
expenditures. S41,217, ,592.2S; net balance,
S591 .0S0, 1929: custom receipts for the
month, S1S,159,263.56
expenditures, S2,117 ,06O, ,342. 30: excess of
Exclusive of S463,925,79959 expended for
the Reconstruction Finance Corporation).
Evening star., 1933-12-29
STEEL DIVIDEND VOTED.

NEW YORK, December 20 (R).-Mid-
land Steel Products Corporation today
declared a dividend of So share on
the 8 per cent cumulative preferred
stock An announcement by the di-
rectors said ST of the payment was to
apply on accumulations of a similar
amount from the October dividend and
81 on the dividend due in January.
Evening star., 1933-12-29
NOVEMBER ORDERS SOAR.

CHICAGO, December 29 (P.-Ship-
ments of household washing machines
in November by members of the Amer
ican Washing Machine Manufacturers
Association totaled 69026, an increase
Of 435 per cent over November, 1892, 1t
was reported to j. R. Bohnen, secretary.
Evening star., 1933-12-29
New York Cotton
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, December 29.-Cotton
was quiet today, with fluctuations mar
row and trading largely Of a pre-hol-
day character. A little Southern SELL
ing was reported early. which was alb
sorbed by a continued trade demand,
but after selling or 3 points above
yesterdays closing quotations, prices
sagged off slightly under scattered
realizing or liquidation. March was
ruling around 1924 in the midafternoon
market, with active months showing
net declines of l to points.
Evening star., 1933-12-29
GENERAL TIRES OFFER
FOR INDIA co. REJECTED

By the Associated Press.
AKRON, Ohio, December 2e-The
General Tire g. Rubber Co., proposition
to purchase the India Tire & Rubber
Co, for aproximpately $557,000 was
turned down today by three common
pleas judges after a week of stormy
hearings.
The offer was rejected "as made
quate," the judges pointing out that for
little more than half million dollars
General would get book assets of 81
$4,000 with present realization value
Of approximately 1891 300.
Evening star., 1933-12-29
VICE PRESIDENT NAMED
ON NEW YORK CENTRAL

BY the Associated Press
NEW YORK, December 29-F. E.
Williamson, president of the New York
Central, announces appointment of
Martin j. Alger as vice president Of
traffic in charge of both passenger and
freight departments. Mr Alger has
been executive assistant to the presi-
dent, a position which he held under
Patrick E Crowley and A. H. Smith.
Evening star., 1933-12-29
BROKERS' LOANS GAIN
48 MILLIONS IN WEEK

BY the Associated Press.
Loans to brokers and dealers held
by weekly reporting New York City
member banks amounted to $801, 900 900
during the week ended December 81, the
Federal Reserve Board reported yester-
day, representing an increase of $48,-
OC0. 900 for the week.
The loans for the week ended De-
cember %, 1882, were 1894 1000 900.
Evening star., 1933-12-29
NORFOLK NET DOWN.

NEW YORK, December 20 (R).-Nor-
folk & Western Railway reports No.
vember net operating income of ST.
S37,967, compared with $2,759,185 a
year ago
Evening star., 1933-12-29
RUG PRICES MAY RISE.

NEW YORK, December 20 R.-
Reports are current that Spring rug
prices may be raised about per cent.
The current market situation is be-
lieved by manufacturers to be favorable
to absorb the higher prices.
Evening star., 1933-12-29
COttOnSeed Oil.

Bleachable cottonseed oil futures
closed steady; spot unquoted: January,
44Ob; February, 4.40b: March, 4.62b;
April, 465b; May, 4.78b; June, 4.82b;
July, 4.98b. Sales, 16 contracts. b-Bid.
Evening star., 1933-12-29
EXCHANGE SEAT COSTS MORE.

NEW YORK, December 20 @.-A
New York Coffee and Sugar Exchange
membership sold today for $500. up
$500.
Evening star., 1933-12-29
STATEMENT is ISSUED
BY NEW YORK RESERVE
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, December 29.-The
statement of the condition of the Fed
eral Reserve Bank of New York at the
rloco of hrciraSc DoceYnhor 07 shows.
Evening star., 1933-12-29

Another grand rush of Civil Works
administration checks is expected by
le local banks tomorrow. The banks
i'll cash as many as possible in cases
here Identification is definite.
American Ice Co. has declared the
egular quarterly dividend of $3.50 on
ne preferred stock, payable January c5
} stock of record January 5.
An increased distribution from 10
7nts to 81 cents a share will be paid to
ilareholders of Massachusetts, Investors
rust on December 80, representing the
lirty-seventh consecutive quarterly
ash distribution of this investment
rust. This is the first increase in
egular quarterly distribution since the
bird quarter of 1929.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1933-11-16

Groups representing farmers and
other customers objected so strongly
to this that the completion of the code
was held up for several weeks while
compromise was sought. This COM
promise provides that goods cannot
be sold at less than invoice price plus
an allowance for store wages. Stores
in towns of less than $500 persons
were exempted from the provisions of
the act. This is regarded as fur
Their concession to the farmers.
1t may not be favorably received by
the National Retail Dry Goods Asso-
citation which recently declared that
unless the ten per cent MAKEUP value
was included hundreds of retailers
would fail within the next few months.
On the other hand, those representing
consumers claimed that the provision
of minimum selling price of cost,
plus ten per cent, would make prices
higher and thus discourage rather
than encourage buying.
Now that the code has been adopted
and merchants are prohibited from
selling merchandise less than cost plus
allowance for wages, it remains to be
seen just how we'll the plan will work.
Price fixing has been tried since the
days of Diocletian back in the Roman
Empire and has never been complete
success. The laws of supply and de-
mand have to be taken into consid-
Grafton.
1t is to be remembered, however,
that the new code provides against
profteering as well as price cutting.
And point to be taken into consider
alton in these provisions is that of the
enforcement of the provision for
equitable prices. Who is going to de-
termine whether a merchant is living
up to the provision of the code against
illegal price cutting, or illegal price
gouging? Who will see to it that
a particular article is not sold below
cost plus an allowance for employees
wages? Does this mean the coming
of another army of federal inspectors,
checkers and double checkers, or does
it mean a case of permitting the mer-
chants conscience to be his guide?
Only time alone can tell.
In the meantime the proponents of
the code remind us that this is only
one part of the scheme of planned re-
covery for the depression and that we
must view the plan as whole to see
how it works. We will all hope that
it works we'll.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1933-11-16
THE NEW PLAGUE


Ever since discussion of the NRA
put the "boycotting" idea into the
headlines, life the world over seems
to have been one boycott after an
other. Of course it is not a new
disease.
Appearing in America with a few
attempted isolated cases of boycotts
against those who failed to display the
blue eagle, the plague became evident
throughout the world.
Germany began her boycott against
the Jews within her borders. The
American Jews launched their boy
colt against Germany, and Americans
of German birth began to retaliate by
quietly but systematically boycotting
the Jewish concerns of the United
States.
The American Federation of Labor
then announced at its recent national
convention that it would boycott
China, Russia, Italy and Germany be-
cause those nations have sounded the
death knell of freely organized labor
unions. The White Russians in the
United States, of which there are
hundreds of thousands, have an
announced that they will boycott Soviet
Russia, American banks financing Sow
let Russia or it's trade, and firms pur-
chasing Russian goods for sale in the
United States. And Soviet Russia has
boycotted Christ and His teachings.
The radical Milo Reno farm move
ment has announced a boycott on the
American market until farm prices are
raised. China has boycotted Japanese
products, as has Russia, and to top the
story off, the United States govern
mant has in effect "boycotted" the
Ford Motor Company, preventing the
various governmental departments
from placing orders with that firm be-
cause it does not fly the blue eagle,
although it claims to be living up to
or beyond the requirements of the
automobile code as to wages and hours
of labor.
? If the plague is to continue its
devastating march, about all that re-
mains now is for those who have not
yet been affected by these actions to
boycott one another. Then all of the
wheels of progress will be at stand
still and we can go down for the third
time with scowl on our faces and
resentment in our hearts.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1933-11-16
RED CROSS RELIEF
AIDS DISTRESSED
IN 100 DISASTERS

The American Red Cross has reached
into the homes of six million families
in the past year with unemployment
and disaster relief, Chairman John Bar
to Payne announced.
GAS the year closed the organization
continued in readiness to serve in the
forthcoming winter at the point OF
greatest need and to adjust its service
to meet the calls of the emergency Of
unemployment and disaster" Chairman
Payne stated.
In a year of greatest economic dis
tress in the nations history, in which
the Red Cross ably discharged relief
task in distributing flour and clothing
to distressed families in all but six OF
the nations 3,O9S counties, the organi-
cation also was called into action in 100
disasters, of which SO were within the
borders Of the United States.
Earthquake, floods, hurricanes, fires
and other cataclysms visited death and
destruction upon the lives and homes
of thousands of people. Red Cross sta
tistics showed that in the 120 disasters
almost a thousand lives were lost, 49,
$40 homes were destroyed or damaged,
1925 persons were injured, and Red
Cross relief was given to 452,S79 ind1-
viduals.
In giving aid in these disasters, in its
unemployment relief and in handling
the distribution of government wheat
and cotton, the Red Cross expended
from its national treasury the sum Of
$1,07O,2S4.
During one period of twelve weeks
46 disasters occurred in % states. Red
Cross disaster workers were hard
pressed in meeting all Of these needs
occurring at once, but everywhere mis-
cry was promptly relieved.
Support of the Red Cross work Is
through it's annual roll call, conducted
by chapters in the period from ARMS
tice Day to Thanksgiving Day, Novem-
Der II to November 80. Every citizen
who joins the Red Cross as a member
aids in carrying relief to disaster VIC
tins and in other Red Cross services
such as preservation Of life, child well
fare through the Junior Red Cross, and
direct service for the public health.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1933-11-16
THE RETAIL CODE

The much discussed and debated
NRA code affecting the retail stores
of America has been completed and
signed by the President. Just how
we'll it will work remains to be seen.
1t is designed to eliminate price cut
ting and cut-throat competition, and
just how effective it will be along this
line remains for the future to deter
mine. There was a great deal of
difference of opinion concerning the
",sales at a loss" prohibition in the
code. This prohibiting the practice Of
selling goods at a loss was Designed
to do away with the custom of GER
tain stores in advertising a commodity
on a particular day at a greatly re-
duced price in order to attract GUS
toners into the stores. 1t was first
proposed that no article be sold at
less than ten per cent above cost.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1933-11-16
"Too Unanimous

In "The Great Game of Politics"
column, written by Frank R. Kent
and printed in the Baltimore Sun of
last Friday, Mr.. Kent lays the lash
on Postmaster General Farley for the
part he took in the recent New York
City election. Mr.. Kent's pen, always
vitriolic when he lambasts those in
public life, was eXteremly so upon
this occasion, when he, so to speak,
laid the Posmaster-General over his
editorial knee and gave him drub-
bling that he will likely remember for
a long time.
Writing from Washington to his
paper, Mr.. Kent said: .-
Following the New York election
it is astonishing how many people ap-
pear to derive pleasure from the fact
that the urban and expansive Mr..
Farley, Postmaster-G General, National
Chairman, State Chairman, patronage
distributor and political strategist for
the Roosevelt Administration, had, as
they say in certain circles, taken it
on the chin'-in other words, been
slammed good and hard.
"There was once a rheumatic old
gentleman in Maryland, who, slapped
on the back in the club by a buoyant
youth flushed with success at the races
and generally full of himself, made a
trenchant remark, Young man. he
said, the trouble with you is that you
are just too damn unanimous There
had begun to be something of that
feeling on the part of the public about
Mr.. Farley. He slapped it on the
back too often when it ached with
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1933-11-16
IN DAYS OF OLD
FORTY YEARS AGO

The public schools of the county
had just opened for the school year.
Republicans of the county celebrated
their victory at the polls early in the
month with torchlight procession in
Oakland. DR.. Henry W. McComas
was chief marshal. r-s.e,s 4.
Owing to the work connected with
the removal of The Republican plant
from its original quarters on Liberty
street to the new building, which had
just been completed, paper was noS
issued that week.
F. H. Sharpless sold his grocery
store to w. H. Malettte. -
A lodge of the Jr. o. U. A. M. was
organized at Accident, which was the
seventh council of the fraternity to be
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1933-11-16
THE MARYLAND BIBLE SOCIETYS CORNER
'The Word of Our God Shall Stand Forever

with benevolent deeds. His devotions
are interrupted by clamors for help.
He has not leisure to eat. His life re-
vealed such frenzied activity that his
friends said he was unbalanced. The
people pursued him when He sought
rest: Mark 6:31-33. "And He said
unto them (the Apostle), Come we
yourselves apart into a desert place
and rest awhile" for there were many
coming and going, and they had no
leisure so much as to eat. And they
departed into a desert place by ship
privately. And the people saw them
departing, and many knew Him, and
ran afoot thither out of all cities and
outwent them, and come together unto
Him. And Jesus, when He came out
saw much people, and was moved with
compassion toward them, because they
were as sheep without a shepherd,
and He began to teach them many
things"
Among the distinctive features of
this Gospel may be noted the follow
ing: 1t is the shortest of the four
Gospels; the style is vivid and pic
turesque. Much of the subject mat
ter is found also in Matthew and Luke,
but it is not mere repetition, for it
contains many details not found in
either of the others. 1t opens, like
Johns Gospel, with a declaration of
the divinity of Jesus Christ, but does
not enlarge upon this doctrine. His
faith requires only the simple state
ment of what to him is obviously true.
However, careful study of the book
reveals the fact that the authors aim
is to let the wonderful works of Jesus
testify to His deity, rather than fire.
quent repetitions of the writer.
Nineteen miracles, demonstrating
the supernatural power of the Mas
ter, are recorded in this short book.
With this brief synopsis in mind, go
to your New Testament and re-read
the wonderful Gospel of Mark.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1933-11-16
SAINT MARK

Mark, the son of Mary of Jerusalem,
was a relative of Barnabas. He was
associated with Barnabas and Paul on
their first missionary journey. He is
also known in the Acts of the Apostles
as John Mark.
This Gospel portrays Jesus as the
Wonderful, dwelling more upon the
things He did than upon the things
He said. Mark omits the Sermon on
the Mount and most of the long dis
courses of Jesus. He dwells especi-
ally on the miracles, showing Jesus
wonderful power. Marks record is
occupied mostly with the Galilean
Ministry and our Lords last week on
earth.
Mark was not a personal associate
of Jesus Christ, and it is commonly
accepted that he never heard Him
speak. Later, however, he attached
himself to Peter, and wrote down ac-
curately all that Peter said concern
ing the mighty works of Jesus. One
Papias, a contemporary of the Apos-
tie John, stated in a writing made
while John was still alive, that he
had inquired diligently of the elders
and followers of the Elders as to
Marks place in the authorship of the
Gospels. The result of this inquiry
was his conviction that Mark received
all of his knowledge of Jesus from the
preaching and teaching of Peter.
This Gospel was written with the
Roman or Gentle Christian in mind.
1t contains few references to Old Tes-
lament prophecy, and for that reason
alone was not especially adapted to
Jewish readers. Furthermore, the eX-
PLANTATION of Jewish words and GUS
toms would indicate that the author
had foreigners in mind when he wrote.
The main theme of Marks Gospel
may be stated as: "Christ, the Tire
less Servant of God and Man" The
life of Jesus is portrayed as crowded
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1933-11-16
in Garrett county.
TWENTY YEARS AGO

A regular mid-winter snow storm
visited the county, blocking roads
and breaking down telephone lines.
Baltimore citizens were talking of
securing a giant Christmas tree from
Garrett county for its annual munich
pal celebration.
Price for turkeys for Thanksgiving
was expected to be rs cents per lb.
While on their way from Accident
to Oakland to place his wife on a
train for Baltimore, in which city she
was to become a patient in one Of
the hospitals, Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Speicher were caught in a
snowstorm on the State road. Mrs.
Speicher remained in the car until
her husband could procure horse
and sled by which to continue their
journey. A delay of several hours
resulted before their arrival here. Mr..
and Mrs. Speicher were accompanied
on the joruney from Accident to Oak
land by Henry NJ. Speicher and DR.. W.
Ravenscroft.
A basketball team was organized in
Oakland and a hall for the play was
fitted up in the First National Bank
building.
W. A. Smith, living at Hoyes, only
eighteen miles from Oakland, was
compelled to travel 100 miles to reach
his home, going from here via Cum
berland, Confluence and Friendsville
by rail and from thence overland by
team to his home. The roads were
completely blocked by snow and a
blizzard was raging in all this Sec
tion of country.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1933-11-16

pain. He was bit too jolly and sun
ny. He rushed hither and yon, too
often, letting people know his soul
yearned for their good, and indicat-
ing what they should do to be saved
often quite unnecessarily-as wit
ness his telegram exhorting the people
of Maryland to do their duty in voting
for repeal-Maryland, a State which
was for repeal when Mr.. Farley still
thought of the word in terms of ba-
nanaS.
"He made speeches all over the
place. He ardently advocated purity
in politics. He played poker in the
air over Texas, he preached the Ad-
ministration program in Tennessee
and he expressed faith in the wetness
of North and South Carolina. Every
now and then rumblings of resentment
were heard over the Wilderness of the
Farley swath, but SO triumphant was
his progress that these were largely
unnoticed, and he has had perfectly
splendid press, under cover of which
he got away with a great deal.
"But when he sponsored the Mckee
candidacy in New York, involved the
Roosevelt Administration up to its
neck in local fight, put himself and
the Federal machine into the fray
when he did all this in the name of
good government and pure politics, he
made a mistake. What lot of people
saw in this noble effort was the pos
sible emergence of the Hon. Mr.. Far
ley as the supreme political boss of
the country, controlling, through his
closeness to the President of the Unit
ed States, the Governor of New York
and the Mayor of the city, patronage
in undreamed-of quantity, wielder of
unprecedented power. Some suspected,
too, a Farleyish ambition to become
Governor in 1936-in fact, that idea
appeared in print conspicuously at the
start, and was never wholly obscured
by the argument that a vote against
Mckee was vote against Roosevelt.
Altogether Mr.. Farley injected into
the New York campaign lot Of is
sues and ideas that should not have
been in it. He mussed up clear-cut
anti-Tammany fight and took pretty
bad tumble. Slapped on the back by
the genial Farley and told to go to
it., the people of New York, in effect,
said, Young man, the trouble with you
is you are too damn unanimous 1t is
rather a pity, too, because Mr.. Farley
is a pleasant, likable fellow, with a
good heart, and we'll adapted to the
practical politics in which he has been
STEPPED for years. However, it is a
big step up to take in fifteen months
from State Boxing Commissioner to
the Cabinet, from State Chairman to
National Chairman, from local OBJ
security to countrywide prominence. 1t
is the sort of step that has made 9TH
ers in Washington besides Mr.. Farley
a little dizzy. IL.
5itAs result of his mistake, the
Roosevelt Administration has suffered
some in political prestige just at a
time when it needed all it has to sus-
tain it's program against opposition
and in the face of the incoming Con-
gress. Others of the Presidents inti-
mate friends, following the Farley
lead, publicly proclaimed that Nc
Kee victory would be sign of ap-
prevail of the Roosevelt Administration
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1933-11-16

"a reputation of opponents of its
policies. All of this, plus the adoption
by the Mckee managers of the name
Recovery party gave the election a
national significance it should never
have had. 1t is very safe bet that.
the Administration will not take part.
in another local fght-not through
General Farley, anyhow.