The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1936-05-14

The broad jump record Of the pres
ent season goes to old man weather.
He jumped from winter right into
summer, using no spring whatever.
The trees around here, especially the
NAPLES, did quick stunt too. One
evening while going home, there were
no leaves. The next morning there
they were, the trees filled with them.
Or at least so it seemed.
May can be termed another unusual
month.
That's one of the joys Of living
around this section. Many of the
months are unusual. We had an I'M
usual winter. We may have an unusual
summer. One is not able to tell what
this season will be like by comparing
it to similar time last year or two
years ago.
The unexpected is almost always
sure to happen. One time last winter
while the rest of Maryland was having
zero weather, it was very moderate
here, the warmest section in the state.
This summer, while people are swelter-
ing elsewhere, there will be cool nights
here.
And the nice thing about all the
unusualness of the weather, we gen
orally get more nice weather than we
get of the bad, taking things all
through the year. Last winters cold
will be more than overbalanced by
pleasant weather this summer. AL
ready we have good start.
Now, if we don't get another frost
on June Is, everything will be rosy.
Somebody ought to invite E. j. Ryan,
Cumberland attorney, to rural social
function in Garrett county. Then he
would be able to see that in addition
to clean hands and faces Of those at
tending, there would also be clean
clothes, if not Sunday best"
Mr.. Ryan, in defending a client
charged with operating "still," was
trying to show that his client was en-
route to a party, even tho he had on
old clothes when caught at the "still"
by revenue officers. Ryan remarked
that "top hat and tails" were unknown
in Garrett county and that formal at
tire at rural social functions consisted
of clean face and hands.
He evidently was not familiar with
rural social functions of the majority
of Garrett countians. The kind he
probably had in mind would have in
cluded neither clean face nor hands.
But they are certainly the kind Of
functions which are greatly in the
minority around here.
Regardless of all that the jury must
have believed him. For the judicial
twelve acquitted the client. Maybe the
entire jury should be invited up here.
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From another weekly paper comes
this story;
A party of WPA investigators were
surveying projects throughout the
state and in the course~of-their travels
visited a school that had just been
completed with the aid of government
funds. The kiddies had been primed
with the correct answers so that when
the visitors asked questions, the con-
versation ran something like this:
Teacher-Who furnished this beau
tiful school for US?
Small boy-Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Teacher-Who gave US the new
school bus that you ride in?
Small girl-Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Teacher-(pointing to landscaping
about the school yard) Who gave US
the beautiful trees and shrubs out
there.
Another small boy-I know teach
err, God did.
Small girl-Throw him out, teacher,
he's a Republican.
But this story isn't so much fool
ishness as one would suppose. Isn't
that what a lot of these government
agencies are trying to impress upon
the people so that the New Deals
chances for continuing in Office may be
made better this fall.
Wastebaskets full of New Deal pub
licity junk are emptied out of this
office weekly. Just now they seem
to be trying to impress the people with
how much money has been spent in
Garrett county. So much for corn-hog
so much for rural rehabilitation, SO
much for farm credit loans, so much
for projects, and so much and so in
definitely.
Just gentle reminders not to kill
the goose that distributes golden eggs
around here. What they never mention
is the size of the feed bill for that
onnce and tbe fact $hof tho nnnp1a nf