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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1935-01-10
Lutheran Church Services

Sunday morning at 10:45 Rev. G.
A. Shilke, pastor, will speak on Upon
this Rock" Sunday school officers and
teachers and recently elected mem
bers of the church council will be in
stalled.
Ruth Fields will lead the Senior
Luther League and Mary Virginia
Bolden, the Junior League.
"a Church for New Day" will be
the theme at the evening service at
7:30 o'clock.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1935-01-10

Our reason for looking up this
definition was to ascertain just how
very serious its meaning might be,
because the other day, at Webster
Springs, W. Va, giggles cost two
girls an extra year inljail. i....
1t seems that theywere hailed be-
fore Judge Jake Fisher on a small
theft charge. He sentenced them to
one years Imprisonment. Both girls
giggled 1--WE imagine they were a bit
nervous). Then the Judge gave them
another years sentence.
Rather a painful. giggle, says we.
Judge Fisher owns summer place
on Deep Greek and is well known to
many people here. '..5~,a .3...et. e..
----+-- y, tA......,... i.
Plenty of measles in and around the
Park. Fortunately they are not the
dangerous variety and all. Of the vic
TINS seem to be getting along nicely.
Mr.. and Mrs. Emmett Merat an
nounce the birth of "A baby daughter
on Sunday. Mrs. Merat was. the for
mer Helen Gibson, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Henry Gibson, ...n. Pc. D.. i
Mrs. E. L. Winchell is in receipt of
a message from San francisco telling
her of a serious operation undergone
by her nephew, Major Leland Devore,
U. S. A. Major Devore is getting
along splendidly and has been given
three months leave. He has, been sta
toned at Salt Lake City,
Major Devore has !: many friends
here who will be glad to hear of his
improvement. H...
Miss Bertha Warwick is spending
several days in Homecoming.
Mrs, Simpson Fullick and grandson
james Frame, Jr., have returned to
their home in -Clarksbprg after visit
ing with Mrs. Allie Raymond, E. c..
Frame and James Frame.
Mayor Floyd Utteqback spent last
week in Pittsburgh. on. business.
Mrs. Richard Gale and. daughter, of
Terra Alta, were the, guests of Mrs.
Gales parents, Mr., and Mrs. Eugene
Commerford, the past week.
L. A. Frame, Mrs. Cora Bishop and
Mrs. Allie Raymond were visitors in
Fairmont on Thursday Of last week.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1935-01-10
GEORGE WASHINGTON KNOX

George Washington Knox, aged AZ
years, 2 months and % days, died at
his home at McHenry on Tuesday ev-
ening. The deceased was born on Oc-
tober Is, 1892, a son of John Knox.
Funeral services will be conducted on
Friday afternoon with interment in
the Glendale cemetery. The deceased
was engaged in farming during his
life time and was unmarried.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1935-01-10

Substitutions-Oak McComaS,
Dusic, Maroney, Arnold; Terra Alta:
Hoban, Deloty.
Field Goals-Oakland, White l, Nc
Comas 2, Gisriel 2, Rice A, Hanst 3,
May 8; Terra Alta, Hill 3, Hoban 2,
Metheney 8, Bowley l, Killen 2.
Foul Goals-Oakland, Gisriel "A,
May ii; Terra Alta, Hill II, Me-
theny 2-2.
To Play Davis Tonight
The Davis Collegians will meet the
Firemen tonight on the local court at
8:15. A preliminary game will be
called at 7:15 between the High
School girls and the High School
alumnae. Admission will be 10 and Is
cents.
The Davis Collegians have one of
the fastest aggregations in this sec
ton and a good game is expected.
Oakland held long practice session
last evening under Coach H. L. Nc
Millen.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1935-01-10
MT. LAKE PARK

GIGGLE-To laugh in a foolish
silly manner; a silly nervous laugh.
Webster.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-20
Good Plot for Plan or NOUeI

II TRUST that some British novelist or playwright
Il will give permanence to the tragedy of Macdonald
that in quarter of the world will any leader
follow in the footsteps Of this apostate who is
so SpectaCuarly cast aside and blasted 1t will be
interesting to know just when and where the poison
enter into the bloodStream of one who had fought
honestly and well for human rights.
fear that quite possibly Ramsay Macdonald is
symbol of a not nConsiderable number of liberals
and radicals well. He could be gallant in opposi-
ton, but he felt the stimulation of the heady
wine of power he could not resist holding to office
no matter what principles he was called upon to
rifice. 1t was obvious very early that his strategy
stupid in the conduct of the Labor government
Conservatives remained split. And so he pressed
fundamental issues upon which a coalition of the
opposition would have forced him to resign
Instead of maintaining a wholly mpotent pre-
merShp he should have rSked major engagement
at the very beginning and then returned to the
try with the hope of coming back again with REIN
forcementS His marked eagerness to retain even the
hollow shell of authority already indicated which
way he would move When the pinch came.
His newer allies may say he saved the empire
and that he had right to sell his soul in order to do
it. But, in fact, he gave more than that which
his own Not only did he sell his soul but to bind
the bargain he offered the bodies of the English
workers. And now the men of Durham have risen
up TO repudiate the infamous agreement. The miners
of Seaham Harbor have put Ramsay Macdonald on
the Stag pile
Copyright
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-20
GreW Giddy in High Places

TT will take the deepest sort Of sumber to enable
u Macdonald to forget that he went back on the
class which first swept him into power But, as a
matter of fact it success which ruined the soul
OF Ramsay. When he taken up to the high places
and shown the Kingdoms of the world he grew gddy.
Standing upon the ramparts of authority he could
no longer look down and see those sections of his
country which SCARED with the pockmark of the
pits Still less did he keep in mind the men who
traversed the tunnels below the level of the sea.
1t fitting, but it must have ben fearsome, too
to see the gnOmes of Durham rise up from the earth
itself to destroy that magnifcence which had once
been Macdonald
Ever since the and before it the folk of
Seaham Harbor have borne the hammer strokes of
unemployment misery and hunger. When their
leader came into power as prime minister of labor
government they felt that feeling which Israel must
have known when Moses beckOned to the people to
follow him to the promised land. Like Noses Mac
Donald never entered into that kingdom Indeed,
he took no single step in that direction And, worst
of ALL when the temptation came from the Conserva-
tves in 1881 the man who had protested to be
messiah for the workers turned his back Canaan
and moved as fast his hands and knees would
carry him in precisely the opposite direction,
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Times Books

ID OCKWELL KENT has been rusticatng in
IN Greenland, and he comes back to report that
life up there is pleasant peaceful ard full of beauty,
and not altogether devoid of the social graces.
He tells about it in "Salamna," CHarcourt. Brace,
$3.50 A book which is made notable by the pro-
fusion Of sketches which he has drawn for it. The
text, unfortunately, does not up to the level of
the pictures, but can't have everything.
Mr. Kent went TO Greenland to make pictures
and to get away from the annoyances Of
Twentieth Century living. Greenland. he found, is
ideally designed for both purposes With the help
of the grinning natives, he built house. Then he
settled down to year of painting. whale fishing and
getting acquainted with the neighbors.
THE Eskimos proved to be friendly and simple
i souls They fond of informal get-togethers
in the evening with score or more Of merrymakers
crowding into 1O-by-12 living room. They like to
dance and they convinced Mr. Kent that whale hide,
eaten raw, is really a tasty dish.
Their women seem to be a complaisant lot. Once
or twice it almost seems if Mr.. Kent is going TO
write something entitled Casanova in Greenland"
but he gets away from it, at last, and contrives 70
get across the feeling Of freedom Of lmtess space
and unspoiled beauty, which the tremendous open
landscapes and clear skies of this frozen northand
gave him.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-20
Today S Science
BY DAVID DIETZ

THE facsimile telegraph line which the Western
Il Union has Just put into operation between Buff
tao and New York is from 30 to rs per cent faster
than any similar system previously tried engineers
of the company say.
1t is possible. on the facsimile telegraph to send
over an exact copy of message that has been type
written or written by hand. A drawing also might
be transmitted over it. For the present however
the Western Union will use it only to transmit copies
OF typewriter messages.
kilograms to be transmitted by facsimile are
mounted upon cylnoer which revolveS on a hori-
zontal axis under an electrical scanning device The
heart of this device is the photo-electrc cell which
transforms light impulses into electrical ones.
THE device operates with such rapidty that it is
capable of scanning and transmitting the mes
sage upon Il square inches of paper in one minute
The facsimile messages are received upon blanks
which have reddish colored faces and black heads
The test of the message appears in black upon the
reddish face
These blanks placed upon a revolving cylinder
at the receiving end which is rotated by a motor
synchronzed with the motor at the sending end A
tny printing instrument makes a black mark upon
the reddish paper when properly energized by an
impulse from the sending end.
Inc receiving cylinder moves forward as It turns,
taxing 100 revolutions TO progress an inch.
Inc message is ready for delivery without further
processing once it has been removed from the
cylinder.
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All, the Great Legion of Honor

TN another case soldier named Bersot wearing
pair of canvas pants, asked his sergeant for pair
of wool pants, which was what the rest of the COM
mand were wearing. The sergeant gave him old
pair of wool pants which much too big and
soied, moreover. Bersot refused to accept them say
ing they looked if they had been taken off a
corpse
When the lieutenant heard this he told Bersot
that if he didn't accept the pants he'd be charged
with refusing to do his duty and face the enemy.
Bersot said it sounded funny that citizen of
would be charged with refusal of obeying military
command when he only refused to accept pair of
dirty pants. For this he given eight days in pris
on and his comrades began to grumbe.
This was brought to the colonel's attention as
collective protest or mutiny. The result that
Bersot was tried in court, held in a of
trench, and few minutes later shot.
IN 1922 the judgment was reversed on the ground
that order TO accept pair of pants not
military command and the further grounds that
the officer who presided at the trial also made the
charges.
Be1sot's widow and organization of wounded
veterans demanded that the presiding officer Of
the court himself be tried charges but the editors
of Crapouillot report he made officer of the
Legion of Honor instead.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-20

job, too, along the whole 5000
mile aerial bridge.
And yet it's swiftness was merely
in tune with the celebrity of the
whole project; or, for that mat
ter, the celebrity with which the
airplane itself has grown from a
thing of wood and fabric, a sort
of powered kite, into today's null
tiple-motored giants capable of
carrying so passengers.
TT is part of the miracle of our
4 age that its tremendous ma
terial achievements roar from idea
to accomplishment with the speed
of a low-wing racing monoplane
rounding the last pylon; part of
its puzzle that these achieve
ments, the necessary preparation
that precede them, have so slight
a hold upon the popular magma
ton.
In 1881 New York was talking
about the depression, Samuel Sea-
bury was beginning to rake about
in the muck deposited by sue
cessive generations of Tammany
politicians, Herbert Hoover had
the filters, and there were many
to say that capitalistic enterprise
had shot its bolt, that the age
of American pioneering was over.
Up in the Chrysler Tower, in
1881, executives and advisers of
an airplane company which had
already girdled South America
and the Caribbean in the space
of three years were planning an
incredible adventure, a fight
against time and the best tech
nical and business minds of four
great nations. fight to secure a
foothold in a four billion dollar
trade area, fight to send Ameri-
can air liners across the Pacific to
Asia.
Incredible? The saga of the
great railroad builders becomes a
thin, pale yarn beside it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-20
Justice in I933-fOr 1914

A MONG the martyrs whose vindication they bring
to the public attention of France was Francois
Laurent, Briton, who didn't speak French and
couldn't clearly understand the proceedings of his
trial Laurent % and the father of two children
When he went out in August, 1924. On the night of
Oct he was wounded in the little finger of his left
hand by rife bullet and was ordered by his captain
to report to the dressing station.
His name was written in the blank space on
form of accusation which had been prepared in
manifold IN advance on the assumption that many
soldiers shot in the hand would have shot them
selves to escape from the lines.
He was tried one day and executed the next, with
the formal charge not mutilation, but deSeron from
his post His captain didn't hear of this for several
weeks. He then declared Laurent had been brave
soldier and had not deserted his post but had been
ordered back to receive first aid
So in December, 1888 special court of review
declared Laurent to be acquitted of the charge his
name cleared of disgrace and ordered payment of
5000 francs to his widow and $500 francs each to
his son and daughter
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-20

vehicular tunnel, are worth far
more today than when he wrote
the will. Usually set at 100000,
it is likely that they will total
considerably more
Every penny of Charles Vance
Millar's fortune he made himself.
Born near Aylmer, Ont, in
1858, he grew up on farm and
disappointed his father by becom-
ing a lawyer instead of a farmer.
1t was his mother who helped
Millar get the funds to attend the
University of Toronto.
Apparently this rift with his
father was never healed. At the
time of Millar's death his only
relatives, whom he ignored, were
on the fathers side of the family.
He entered a Toronto law firm,
soon gained recognition as a cor
poration lawyer, and became
known throughout Canada. He
was a recognized authority on
commercial law and wrote text
book on the subject.
NEILLAR was president of the
4VI famous B. K. Co., the British
Columbia Express Co., which ran
slX-horse stage coaches from Ash
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papers. 1t was a bitter pill to
swallow.
Most of them we're poor. They
hired legal counsel and started to
fight the case. But counsel en-
ployed by the Ontario govern
ment to defend the unknown
mother" won each case brought to
the courts.
Relatives advanced the argument
that the will tended to place a
premium on immortality by Offer
ing an inducement to women.
whether married or not, to COM
pete against each other in sexual
indulgence"
Apparently their statement re-
garding whether married or not"
was correct, for there was nothing
in the will stating that the To-
ronto mother had to be married
before she could be eligible for his
money.
But even this argument failed
10 move the courts. They upheld
the Millar will in it's entirety.
M1LLAR'S investments, in real
4V4 estate, mine and brewery
stock, and the Detroit Windsor
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proposal when he was here several
months ago. Since that time it
has been considered by various or
CARNATIONS.
The lot of Americans in Paris
has become increasingly difficult.
Many are without means of live
lihood, Disseminated against on
jobs. Some are war veterans who
married French women and now
have families.
Because of the depression and
the unfavorable rate of exchange
against the dollar, private charity
among American organizations
has been restricted.
The repatriation project raises
numerous difficulties.
Standards for selection of those
to be brought home would have to
be rigid, as there are professional
"chiselerS' along the boulevards
who might try to get a joy-ride
back to the states.
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croft to Barkerville, far up in
the Cariboo gold mining country.
Later, in the oil boom following
the discovery of oil at Fort Nor
man, Millar and his associates
sold the B. x. Co., and organized
the Alberta and Arctic Transpor-
tatlon Co., running large stern
wheel steamers on the Peace
acknowledgements River route to
the far North.
His interest in mining also was
extensive. In 1905 he obtained
large interest in the Lawson
mine at Cobalt On this was the
silver sidewalk" famous the con-
tlnent over, altogether about a a.
inch width of ore running into
thousands of ounces a ton. Later
Millar became interested in i'm
portant gold properties.
If Charlie Millar ever had a
blighted romance, no one knows
about it. And there is no record
that he ever showed any particular
4uleIeSG III CilllQre0.
A LII those who knew him are
L n agreed about two things. His
great loves were horse racing and
law, and above all else, he dis
liked hypocrisy.
Twice he was offered the honor
OF kings counsel and refused it.
When his horse, Tartarean, won
the Kings Plate blue ribbon
event of the Canadian turf Mil
lar refused to appear to accept the
trophy publicly.
AS his wealth and reputation
increased, he continued to live al
the same hotel where he had lived
as student, riding to and from
his office on street car. Not un-
til after his fathers death did he
build the home on Scarboro Road
which his mother came to share
with him.
He had no patience whatever
with "uplifters."
why dld he leave his fortune
to be disposed of in such a curious
way? No one knows. Despite the
fact that there are many to
scott at the Millar will, and many
more to tell how the money should
have been left, the fact remains
that the courts must, on Oct. 81,
1886, settle the sum on some
woman, many, many times q
mother.
TIT ENn
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-20

A T Wake Island she lay an al
l. "A most literal stones throw
from the beach, where she should
not have been at all but for the
audacity of her Scandinavian
American skipper.
Capt. Borklund, finding the
water off Wake too deep for an
chorage and desiring to facilitate
the Tightening of cargo, had nosed
his ship right up to the reef,
dropped his hook.
From the decks of the North
Haven one could hear the boom of
dynamite in the slowly growing
channel, view the mounting pile
of cargo ashore, and grasp (be-
cause one could see the contours
of the atolD what was going for
ward.
Wake Island" is in reality three
islands, Wilkes, Wake and Peale,
horseshoe of low-lying land
separated at high tide by shall
low channels inclosing a broad
and quiet lagoon.
Across the horseShoe's open end
extends huge coral reef, jagged
rocks protruding from the blue
water.
Ut had been the original plan to
i erect the seaplane base and the
permanent quarters for the sta
ton staff on Wilkes Island.
Wilkes, however. showed unmis-
taxable traces of having been
completely inundated at some
previous time, and tedious drilling
on Wake produced only salt water
which rose and fell with the ebb
and flow of the tide.
Only Peale, then, was left, and
Peale-something better than 1000
yards long and about half as wide
Offered both high ground and a
fair supply of brackish water.
The North Ravens wireless sent
a message cracking across the
5OOO-odd sea miles separating pin
prick Wake Island from Pam
Americans Pacific base at Ala
media, Cal, received permission to
locate the base on Peale.
There only remained the ques-
ton, "How?"
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1t was a work in keeping
with the twentieth century,
a work conceived in the cool
tower of a Manhattan office
building, although one who
had not seen the Diesel tractor on
the shore or sensed the modernity
of the mechanism half concealed
by the packing cases on the beach
might never have guessed it.
Because of this primitive tear
ing at coral, undisturbed since the
beginning of time, because of
these bent backs and aching
muscles and sun-seared flesh,
giant airplanes would presently
soar 5000 miles across the Pacific
to Asia, the wind of their passage
shrinking the mightiest of oceans
until China became short four
days distant from San Francisco.
TINE 1aconic Postoffice Depart
Il ment, reserving its sense of
the romantic for such things as
stamps reproducing Whistler's
picture of his mother, schedules
the airmail service to the Far
East which begins on the twenty
second of this month as proceed
ing from Honolulu to Manila via
Midway, Wake and Guam
Before the mails, the pioneer.
They had left San Francisco on
March q of this year, and they
also had journeyed via Midway"
(of which more in due time), and
now it was May, and they were
on Wake Island, grubbing out a
channel
Pan-American Anyways reports,
rivaling the postoff1ce announce
ment, refer to them merely as
The North Haven Expedition to
Construct Air Bases for a Sea-
plane Route. :"
The North Haven was their
snip. 1t would not be surprising if
the name of this well-found
freighter of $4,000 tons. chartered
off it's Alaskan run for Pacific
pioneering, received a niche in the
histories along with the Santa
Maria and the Mayfower.
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TINE boat landing, the only
Il break in the encircling reef,
was off Wilkes Island; cargo
would have to be landed there,
carried over to the lagoon side and
ferried, some way, over the mile
or more of inside water to Peale
Island.
Gooch, division manager. Pa
cific Division; and Mckenzie, as
sistant airport engineer, and the
rest of the technicians and straw
bosses held council of war.
Out of it came a plan. One
small lighter drew a mere Is
inches, and there was a light
launch aboard the North Haven
which had been destined for
Guam.
If they could get a depth of Is
inches at high water through the
Wilkes Island Channel their prob
lem-or rather, that particular
phase of it-would be solved.
THEN began the drilling and
IL the blasting and the grubbing
The coral was like granite and the
heat, even to men whose clothing
throughout the day often consisted
of nothing more than shorts and
Sun-helmet, was terrific.
The food came up slowly from
the North Haven and the drinking
water was brackish.
The pile of cargo lightered from
the ship to the Wilkes Island
beach grew steadily, and the trac-
tor yanked it on sleds to storage
yard halfway across to the lagoon;
and other sweating men hacked a
tunnel through the ironWood
scrub down to the inner shore, and
they laid light rails and built car
out of automobile wheels and
planks and two sections of welded
pipe, and they were ready for
that lighter and that launch.
Out in the channel the drilling
and the grubbing and the blasting
continued.