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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1935-09-05
AND NOTHING CAN BE
DONE ABOUT THIS

The Manufacturers News in it's cur
rent issue mentions the recent eight
ieth anniversary of one of the big de-
partment stores in Chicago. Rules
for employees at the time. the first
store was opened in 1855 are printed
as follows
store must be open from 600 A
M. to 900 P. NJ. the year around.
"Store must be swept; counters, base
shelves and showcases busted. Lamps
trimmed, filled and chimneys cleaned;
pens made; doors and windows opened;
a pail of water, also a bucket of coal
brought in before breakfast (if there
is time to do SOY and attend to GUS
toners who call.
"Store must not be opened on the
Sabbath unless necessary, and then
only for few minutes.
"The employee who is in the habit
of smoking Spanish cigars, being
shaved at the BARRIERS, going to dances
and other places of amusement, will
surely give his employer reason to be
suspicious of his integrity and hon
esty.
Each employee must pay not less
than SIS per year to the church and
must attend Sunday school regularly
"Men employees are given one eve
ming week for counting and two if
they go to prayer-meeting.
"After fourteen hours of work in
the store, the leisure hours should be
spent mostly in reading"
Well, gentlemen, these were the
horse and buggy days. 1t is difficult to
see how the United States Supreme
Court could have put US back in this
era by abolishing the NRA. Indeed, it
is our opinion that it is beyond the
very great power of the Supreme
Court to relegate US to the good old
horse and buggy days, even if it had
the support of the President, Chair
man Farley, Chairman Fletcher, both
branches of Congress, all the minis
tiers and statesmen in the country, the
Kiwanis, the Rotary Clubs, the D. A.
R., the Knights of Columbus, the Elks
and the Masons. The fact is that we
have done some progressing in the
past eighty years. Well, no matter
whether we have made progress or
not, We have gone some place.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1935-09-05

In constructing the fence silo a cir
Gle is first laid out on the ground
where the silo is to stand. The fence is
then bent around this circle and
fastened securely by twisting the end
wires together. The fence is then lined
on the inside with a tough quality of
tar or sisal paper, which is Tapped
about foot at the ends.
While the paper should be tight
against the fence, it must not be fas-
tened. 1t is held in place with snap
clothespins at intervals of twelve to
fourteen inches and number nine
gauge wire is fastened around the
middle of the sections before the silo
is filed.
AS soon as the ensilage has reached
within a foot of the top Of this paper
another section of fencing, prepared in
exactly the same manner as the first, is
placed on top of the first with the
laths extending down inside the first
circle about two inches. The laths on
the second section of fence should
match those on the first.
Such a silo should not be built higher
than it's diameter, according to Mr..
Conover. A sixteen foot silo of this
type will hold approximately fifty tons
of ensilage After the silo is empty the
fencing should be taken down and
stored in a dry place.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1935-09-05
for that crop has been checked.
Temporary SilOs Help in Conserving
Ensilage

On many farms not possessing silos,
it often becomes necessary to store en-
silage for an indefinite length of
time. This may be accomplished in a
satisfactory and economical manner
through the use of temporary silos,
either made from a trench in the
ground or woven lath fencing, ac-
cording to John A. Conover, specialist
in dairying for the University of Mary
land Extension Service.
The trench silo consists of long
bitches with sloping ends, nearly per-
pendicular sides, and from eight to ten
feet deep and twelve to fourteen feet
wide at the top. The trench should be
large enough for the passage of a
team or tractor and, if this type of
silo is to be used more than a year,
the top edges of the trench should be
reinforced two or three feet from the
top with brick, stone or concrete.
In filing the trench silo the ensilage
should be we'll packed and should be
built higher in the center than at the
sides. After the trench has been filled
the ensilage is covered with a foot of
chopped wet straw, which in turn is
covered with two inches of earth.
In feeding from this type of silo Mr..
Conover points out that after the
earth is removed about ten feet from
the end the ensilage is cut down in
much the same manner as hay in a
stack.
Woven fencing, such as is used for
snow fences, is ideal for the other
type of silo, it is stated. The fencing
is first cut into the desired lengths
and is then stretched with woven
wire stretcher or tractor. For silo
sixteen feet in diameter these lengths
should be fifty feet. Care must be
taken in stretching not to break any of
the wire strands.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1935-09-05
0 N E M | N u T E
SER M ON
The Kew To Life
By REV. WALTER B. BROCK

My grace is sufficient for thee, for my
strength is made perfect in weakness
IL Corinthians 1879.
This text is the key which for faith
full Christians in every generation has
unlocked inexhaustible resources of
life, light and love, of joy, peace and
power. And this key God has placed in
your hands and mine. Let. US have
the faith and courage to use it to
unlock the unsearchable riches of
Christ, to open the door that leads to
life abundant and life eternal.
Let US not hesitate to use this golden
key of prayer. The only thing that we
must remember is that this key, like
any other key, can be used only by
those whose hands are free. You can
not insert a key in a lock and turn it
while your hands are full of other
things. Neither can we use the key
to life, while at the same time our
hands are cluttered with the dead
things of earth, while our minds are
filled with worldly ambitions, and our
hearts with selfish desires.
Let US not hesitate to use the golden
key of prayer, the key that unlocks the
resources of grace Astounding for
every emergency and vicissitude of
life. God will not fail to answer our
prayer. He may not remove the
thorn in the fesh"--he did not re-
move Paul's-but he will not fail to
give US, as he gave to Paul, strength to
meet the occasion, grace to transmute
its pain into ecstasy. He may not take
the burden from our shoulders, but he
will not fail to give US power from on
high which will change it's leaden
weight to buoyant lightness.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1935-09-05
CountyAgent's Column
County Agent Explains New Wheat
Contract
]. H. CARTER

The new wheat adjustment contract
has been approved in final form and
will be offered to farmers in this
county soon, your county agent has
been advised.
This contract will run for four years
from 1886 to 1889, inclusive, as COM
pared with the three-year period of
the present contract. Producers will
receive first payment each year,
and then at tn eend of the year, the
second adjustment payment will be
fixed at such an amount as will tend
to give the producer parity according
to what the price of wheat has been
during the marketing year.
The reduction in acreage each year
will depend upon the national and
world wheat situation. The eXtrme
limit that may be called for is % per
cent under the base acreage, but for
1886 the figure is set at 5 per cent.
The base years for the new contract
are the same as those for the present
contract-1930-32 for acreage and
1882 for production. Under GER
tain conditions, four-year and five
year base periods may be used, to meet
special practices.
All wheat producers who can estab-
fish base production and acreage are
eligible to sign contracts, whether OF
not they are signers of present con-
tracts. Producers who have not been
contract signers and who wish to &c
into the new program are advised to
consult the county agent.
The adjusted acreage is to be used
for pasturage, hay, timber, shelter
belts, soil-erosion prevention, weed
control and soil Improvements.
First 1886 adjustment payments
will be payable in the summer of 1896
after compliance with the contract
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1935-09-05
IN DAYS OF OLD
FORTY YEARS AGO

| IO1AI LtNO
1t was feared that a frost had de-
stroyed the buckwheat crop in the
county Every month during the year
1895 frost had been seen in Oakland.
The foundation for the Bolden fur
niture store building on Second street
was completed and the new building
to house the ]. NJ. Davis and Sons
hardware store was almost finished.
A boating party went from Oakland
to Mountain Lake Park by train and
spent an hour rowing on the lake
there.
The local postoffice was the only bus
mess place in town to observe Labor
Day.
The town. of Wilson, on the Western
Maryland Railway, although situated
in almost wilderness, boosted a fe-
male tonsoriaI artist in the person of
a Mrs. Simmons. She had a large
number of customers.
A special article appearing in the
Baltimore Sun described Garrett coun-
| tvs glades as offering great induce
ments to farmers. "This most beau
tiful and fertile valley, five miles
broad and twenty miles long, extends
from the headwaters of Deep Creek,
| noartheast of Swanton station, to
Brooksde. Before the Revolutionary
| War the region was designated as The
Reserved Lands lying to the westward
| of Fort Cumberland Lord Balti-
more had 1900 acres of the Deep
Creek glades surveyed and called it,
| The Green Glade Manor In 1888 and
| 1889, 100000 acres of the land in
the county were divided into 50-acre
lots and awarded to those serving in
the Maryland Line during the Rev
olution."
TWENTY YEARS AGO
Charles Strawser, &c, GAINESVILLE,
was instantly killed by an explosion
of dynamite which had been placed in
the transmission case of an automo-
bile belonging to C. G. Teets, postmas-
ter at GAINESVILLE, and which Strawser
had permission to use.
Thomas J. C. Little and Robert C.
Townshend took over the management
of the Maryland theatre from S. A.
Nally.
Labor Day was observed when the
public schools were opened, the post
office observed Sunday hours and the
banks were closed for the day. The
large majority Of the laboring men
rested. Everybody else attended to
the daily routine of his business.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
was trying out a new device on its en-
gines on the 17-mile Grade, the de-
vice being heater attached to the
boiler which heated the water to a GER
tain temperature before being injected
into the boiler.
Several columns of The Republic
can were used by candidates in plac-
ing before the voters what they in
tended doing provided they were nom
mated at the primary, which was
only a few days off. The ballot con-
tanned the names of Fred G. Fox, w.
G. Riley, S. W. Bittinger, 0. S. Fike,
George Warwick, E. R. Jones, Truman
| W. Casteel, Upton Cuppett, George D..
White, George Giessman, A. L.
Sines, ]. Thomas Moon, W. G. Mey-
ers, A. G. Ross, on the Republican
side, and Harry Rasche, S, K. Schloss-
nagle, N. I. Broadwater, William Mil
Ter and B. IF. Selby, on the Democratic
side.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1935-09-05
September Court Begins Monday

The September Term of the Garrett
County Circuit Court will convene ON
Monday morning when members of
the grand jury will report for,serwice.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1935-09-05

YER decade reduced the national debt at the rate
W of billion year. although Europe defauted her
debt payments And did all these things for something
less than half the money the Government is spending
and has been spending every year for the past three Not
only did we balance our budgets but rolled up whoppng
SURPRISES and reduced taxes on everybody.
Take President What has caused him to repudiate
his and his parys pledges to cut the cost of
ment 25 per cent and reduce bureaucracy to minimum?
After promising nation sound money why did he de
value the dollar SO cents? If he had to take the country
off the gold standard temporarily why does he not restore
it? Why did he resort to the dshonorable eXpedent of
repudatng the gold clause in the Governments contracts?
Why Mr.. Roosevelts enhancement of a program that
ousocalzes the platform of the Socialist party and the
preachments of Eugene Debs and Norman Thomas? Did
he tell the people when he candidate that he intended
to Russanize the United States?
What changed Mr. Roosevelt, he that way all the
time? Was the Democratic stage set for Socastic coup
detat And how does the Democratic party relish the idea
of being biked?
Why the mysticism of those press conferences? Why
is that anything WHICH the President declares be o
the record remains off the record? Is it in keeping with
the freedom of the American press to submit to this
sorshipS
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1935-09-05
Why Not Lift The Lid?
reprint from the Oil City CPa) Derrick.)

reprint from the Oil City (Pa) Derck)
VXTERE able newspaper man to write the otf-the
wv record story of the New Deal he would produce of
the worlds best sellers
This book should be honest fair factual and ncsve. 1t
should not be written anonymously But should separate
the wheat from the cha and the sheep from the goats and
it should be ptless in its publicity.
The despair of almost every executive editor is the dearth
of inside stuff Washington If the boys have they
not writing it. Why?
Would they be barred from the Presidential press
ferences? Would they be osraced in official quarers Is
there reeMasonry the correspondents which
cOpes them to suppress the Mistakes the confusion the
currents and the general nepttude of the Govern
ment? Or is it just kosher to analyze the motives
lions and personalities of the principal actors?
ITO OUR way Of thinking Washington unfolding of
L the great dramas of modern times. The World War,
with all it's cost of and money did not begin to pro-
duce the effect the nation that the New Deal has.
In 1917 and 1918 raised army of four and half
Millions sent half of them France lost something
100000 of them, brought back 100000 wounded
sed and diseased spent Is billion dollars en of which
lent to other natons), the war; demoblized the
army and settled down to knitting.
The over, found jobs for our four and half mil
lions of We built hospitals to treat sick and
wounded We made the of veterans the first charge
the Federal purse We handed the back their
railroads after twoyear operating loss of 81 5000
Then what?
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1935-09-05

mo THE Washington correspondents read the Congress
- sOna Record What of the charge hurled the floor
of the House recently that the IVA would not let single
church be built in town of $500 workers. Or is religion
something which does not dovetail with the New Deal?
How many freaks there in Congress, and what did
they amount to before they elected the of
Roosevelt emotionalism and hysteria?
Who is this Ben Cohen brain trust lawyer, who helped
draft the RayburnWheeler BILL and why does the Admin
traton insist his in the deliberations of the
conference committee this BILL to the and
disgust of several of its members Who is this other
brain trust lawyer Thomas G. Corcoran? What the
backgrounds of these bright young limbs of the law and
how much do they under the Frankfurter influence?
What is the secret of the Presidents anmus to Henry
Ford and the other wealthy of the country? Why the
sudden adoption of the soaktherch program? What
became of the tax suit against Uncle Andy Melon How
many of these Investigations onesded and staged
purely for political propaganda? Why has Mrs Roosevelt
withdrawn from the limeight?
Oh there is perfect wealth of material down there for
book which might APPLY be entitled Lifting the lid off
the New Deal but why the newspapers with available
writer's lying down the job?
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1935-09-05

XETHAT has alenated from the Administration and its
wv New Deal the support of every distinguished Demo-
crat we have-such Glass and Byrd Of Virginia,
Tydngs of Maryland, Bailey of North Carolina, Smith,
Davis and Young of New York Long of Louisiana, Baker
and Davey of Ohio Ely Walsh and Curley of Massachu
sets and Reed of Missouri?
Active in Mr. Roosevets nomination in 1882 Hearst
but why have Hearst and his newspaper chain turned
against the President? Why the active opposition Of that
great weekly the Saturday Evening Post and practically
every great magazine and newspaper in the land?
Why comparatively obscure personals like Ickes
Hopkins Tgwe and Wallace elevated to high positions and
given plenary powers? Why do like Jack Garner Jim
Farley, Pat Harrison and Joe Robnson-knowng they
must that the New Deal is Sheosubmit to the
White House. meekly accept the Socastc pre-
pared by the brain trust and then do their best them
through Congress? They know better. Everybody knows
they know better.
Is it characteristic of the extreme modernism of the New
Deal for the Secretary of Labor to take the of Fran
ces Perkins, when her real is Mrs. Paul Wilson and
she has daughter who is young lady?
What strange atmosphere has enveoped Washington? Is
it metaphysical pathological? What is the secret?
Evening star., 1935-08-01
Psychology
BY DIR. JESSE W. sPROwLs.
Mental Formations.

YOUR mind never rests. Awake or
= asleep, you keep UP an endless
search for some new way OF making
life more interesting or more salts
factory. One way to describe all this
mental life is TO take note OF what,
for lack of a better name, have been
called mental formations.
The most important Of all these
mental formations are commonly
called day-dreams or phantasies. In
your day-dreams you are really test
ing your ideas. Trying to see how
they might work II put TO an actual
test. There Is something exhllsrating
about this mental activity. Children.
especially, take great delight in It.
For one thing, they have practically
the whole world Of exploration before
them. Having not yet tested many
of the realities Of life, they have no
conscious qualmS about the matter.
II one phantasy goes to pieces on the
rocks of reality they soon hit upon
a new formation and proceed to test
some other section Of the unknown
world Of reality.
Adults don't say much about their
mental formations, probably because
in adults these formations are gen.
orally automatic in origin. Now and
then some painful memory out of the
realities Of the past halts the pro-
cedure. Sometimes the shock thus
sustained lasts for hours. We recog-
Evening star., 1935-08-01
SnapperS
BY ID. C., PEATTIE

MY SMALL son recently called me
A'A to come at once to the waters
edge and see something enormous in
the pond. I left our picnic lunch re-
mains and hurried down to the shore,
but when he tried TO show it to me 1t
was gone. He himself had doubts,
under my skepticism. as to what he
had seen. For a moment he pointed
out an old sunken log, and then q
sargasso of pond scum.
In the end he returned to his orig
inal story-it was big. he said, and had
looked at him with eyes. Presently,
small-boy wise, he enlarged on his tale.
1t had shown its teeth at him, square
teeth like ours
An hour later I saw 1t myself-and
in the mysterious green underworld
Of the bottom of the pond, 1t did,
indeed, look formidable. 1t was diff
cult to judge how large the creature
was. but 1t certainly had eyes that
stared back at me with reptihan
sloth and watchfulness. For big old
swapping turtle Is large enough and
fierce enough not to scuttle away in
fear, as most creatures, even rattler,
will do, from man.
A snapper does nothing quickly, any
nore than any other turtle, and on
land. at least, 1t keeps stolidly on its
way, no matter where you encounter
1t. II you give it a tap on its shell
1t does not fearfully withdraw its head.
but sticks 1t out and Kisses. II you
care to try putting a finger in its way.
the turtle Is nothing loath to taking
a powerful nip at 1t.
Under water the turtle felt himself
securer still; we could not get at him,
and though he showed no teeth, nat
urally he had a defiant air that did
not tempt any one to make a dive at
him with hand not cased in chain
mail.
The swapping turtle is said some
times to grow to four feet In length;
I've seen them three, but don't doubt
the bigger story. Worse still. they have
an imposing length Of leg, so that
they stand higher than any other
species, and the tail Is longer than in
any other turtle that comes to my
mind, and warty and scaly. much like
q dragons. The shell Is black or more
generally a dusky brown, while the
plastron or under shell Is yellowish
white, like the soft skin. Head and
neck are brown.
This Is the only turtle should not
care to try to capture. but it has been
done, nevertheless. I know a farmer
who impounded one for the excellent
reason that he preferred to have it
where he could know how it passed its
turtlish time to letting it loose In his
wood lot, where it might have bitten
the children.
Evening star., 1935-08-01

THE surname Dale is synonymous
with that OF Deal in point OF
origin, and signifies valley" The
medieval form was At-Dale, later
softened to A'Dale, and is a name
frequently found in parish registers
Of the sixteenth century. The name
became widely renowned through the
ballad OF Robin Hood and Allan
aDale. In the Hundred Rolls such
variations as De Dale and De Ia Dale
are also found.
This coat of arms Is blazoned
"Gules, on o mount vert, q swan
argent, membered and ducally gorged
or. Crest-on q chapeau gules turned
up ernine, a heron argent, beaked
legged and ducally gorged or"
The arms are ascribed to Edward
Dale. gentleman, who settled In Lam
caster County, Va. prior to 1855. The
same arms were borne by the Dales
of London and Northampton. England,
thereby showing close relationship to
that family.
Edward Dale was actively engaged
in the public welfare Of his time, being
clerk Of his county, sheriff and men,
Der of the Virginia House Of Burgesses
Among the early settlers In the New
England States bearing this name
were John Dale Of Salem. and Robert
Dale Of Woburn, Mass.
(Copyright 1880
Evening star., 1935-08-01
Bedtime Stories
Story Gets Around.

cried Redtail. How about giving me
q rider"
Reddy knew then that probably the
story had gone all over the Green
Meadows and through the Green For
est to the Old Pasture. Every time he
saw any one coming he tried to get
out Of sight. Wherever he went he
was teased and taunted. And the
story grew. You know, stories do
grow, and this one did. Every time it
was repeated something was added
to 1t, until at last the story had 1t
that Reddy had not only given Mother
Cat a ride. but half q dozen kittens
as well. And the more Reddy denied
1t the more his neighbors Scoffed at
him. Who had started the story?
Why, Hooty the Owl, who had seen
the whole performance. But to this
day Reddy Fox doesn't know who II
was.
Copyright. 1889