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The Republican., 1937-12-23

One day last week John Weitzell, OF
this county, residing on his farm neal
Homecoming, butchered a hog which
dressed SAT pounds. The animal was a
Poland China.
Miss Rebecca Thayer, instructor in
English at Wooster College, Wooster,
Ohio, is here for the holiday season
with her father and other members
of the family.
Miss Ethel Miller was hostess to
members of the County Welfare staff
and a few other friends at party at
her apartment on Second street last
Saturday evening.
David Walter left Oakland Wednes-
day for Chicago, ILL.,, where he will
visit his son-in-law and daughter, Mr.,
and Mrs. William H. Archer, during
the holiday season. .
Mrs. John T. Sincell, who has been
here for a short time with relatives,
went to Pittsburgh on Monday to re-
main with her sister, Mrs. Hal JEFF
freys, during the holiday season.
The Girl Scouts of st. Peters Par
ish will conduct a card and bingc
party in the Parish Hall on Wednes-
day evening, December 29th. There
will be number of prizes. Admission
will be 25 cents.
The Barton community was repre-,
sented by the following Garrett coun.
tians in Oakland on Tuesday, who
were here as business visitors: Mr.
and Mrs. Floyd Russell and Mr.. anc
Mrs. Harry Russell.
The Acorn, official Oakland High
school publication, was distributed tt
pupils Of the school and other sub.
scribers Tuesday afternoon. The paper
this month is composed of six pages
printed in green ink on high quality
of book paper and contains number
of block prints made by art pupils in
the school under direction of Miss
Baker, art instructor.
The Republican., 1937-12-23

Mr.. and Mrs. Lester C. Yutzy and
daughters, who have been residing in
Oakland during the period required in
remodeling their home at Crellin, ex-
pect to return there this week.
Rev. j. E. Walls, of the Grantsville
community, and pastor of one of the
churches in Grantsville, was a bust
ness visitor in Oakland last Satur-
day.
Miss Lulu Shaffer, Fairmont, w.
Va, sister of William Shaffer, of
Oakland, is a patient in Fairmont
hospital recovering from injuries sus-
tanned in a bus accident there one day
last week.
Announcement has been made of the
birth of a daughter to DR.. and Mrs.
Alexander Cow, of Frederick, Thurs
day, December 16. The name given
the infant is Odessa Roselle. Mrs. Cow
was the former Miss ROSelle BlShoft,
of Oakland.
Boy Scouts of Oakland Troop, No. 3,
will be on the streets of Oakland on
Wednesday and Thursday, December
% and %, to assist people with their
Christmas packages, ETC., according
to an announcement made by Henry
w. McComas, Jr., scoutmaster.
The annual Christmas treat to chill
dren of the community will take place
on Friday afternoon, December "a, at
200 o'clock at the Community Christ
mas tree on the Presbyterian church
corner. The Rotary Club, as in former
years, will have charge.
The Republican., 1937-12-23
PERSONAL ANDLOCAL
NOTES OF INTEREST !.

Miss Lucy Trickett, home economies
teacher in the Scottdale, Pa, school,
is home for the Christmas vacation.
Ira S. Wilt, of Swanton community,
visited Oakland on business Tuesday
when he called at The Republican Of
tce. szss-
Mr.. and Mrs. E. H. Hinebaugh and
son, Canton, Ohio, came to Oakland
Tuesday afternoon to visit with rela-
tives during the holiday season.
Getty Thayer. of Tioga, West Va,
was visitor at the home Of his par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. w. M. Thayer, at
Thayerville, several days last. week.
Miss Mary Elizabeth Browning, who
has been attending school in Philadel-
phia, is home for the holidays with
her mother, Mrs. Mary E. Browning.
Miss Grace M. Jones will leave Oak
land Friday afternoon for Wheeling,
West Va, to remain during the holi-
day season with her aunt, DR.. Harriet
Jones.
Mrs. james Hart, Mrs. G. Bates
Chaires and daughter Miss Mary En-
ma Chaires, and Miss Edith Bolden
were visitors in Cumberland on Sat
urday.
David Pope, William Turner and
son William, and Ambrose Fazenbak-
er, all of the Grantsville community
were business visitors in Oakland on
Friday.
Mrs. Elizabeth Schoch, of Crellin
who has been in Washington, D. c.,
with her daughter, Mrs. Edith S. Sad
Ter, for some time, has gone to Spo-
kane, Washington, to remain during
the holiday season with her son, Fred
G. Schoch, and family.
Milford chronicle., 1937-10-01
BASEBALL'S GRAND FINISH

The baseball season comes to an
end each year in grand burst OF
glory at the world series games. A
visitor from another land might ask
what all this cheering is about. He
would hear a great roar go up from
thousands of throats. He would see
thousands of men pull off their hats
and act like school boys. He would
see them utter lamentations at some
bad error, which seem to show more
pain than if they had lost all their
money or suffered an accident. why
all this excitement? the visitor may
ask.
The American mind almost wor-
ships the successful athlete. Some
say such homage should be given
only to those who improve human
But it is our national trib-
ute to achievement and power, which
ire the qualities our people admire
he most.
Milford chronicle., 1937-10-01
CHILDREN DEMAND
FAIRGROUNDS

Children in Jersey City have been
making barricades in the streets
with cobblestones, and smashing milk
bottles on the pavement, thus block
ing traffic. to emphasize their de-
mand for more Fairgrounds. Per-
haps children in many other cities
would like to do similar things.
You can't justify children in such
acts. Yet those youngsters demand
some kind of game or excitement. If
they can't find it by hitting baseballs
and kicking footballs, they are likely
to get it by committing mischief.
The modern kid can't be made to
sit in the parlor and play with blocks.
II his home town does not provide
some active outlet in which he can
work off steam, look out for some
explosion that will produce human
tragedy.
Milford chronicle., 1937-10-01
WHY PRICES RISE
No. 4

The business man hears many
complaints about rising prices. Why
are they going up? The Chronicle un-
dertakes to present several brief
talks on this subject during the next
few weeks.
Some causes for price advances
are natural and unavoidable. while
others are due to some form of hu-
man mistake. Rising prices always
go with a period of business recovery.
When business is dull, and it is hard
to get orders, manufacturers shade
prices to keep their shops going,
and dealers often sell without profit
or even at loss, to move their stock.
When business RECEIVERS, business
people refuse to take such losses, and
are entitled to a fair price, which
may seem quite an advance over the
previous abnormally low figures.
That kind of advance is legitimate.
within reasonable limits. Some price
advances, however, are due to causes
which could be avoided.
Milford chronicle., 1937-10-01
3DECADENT CITIESn

A United States government COM
mittee is studying socalled "deca-
dent cities, with the idea that they
may need reorganization and reset
tlement of many of their people.
What constitutes a decadent city?
There are many places which de-
pended on one industry or a few
shops, and which are hit hard by
the closing of some or all these en-
terprises. Some of these places will
never recover, unless they get new
work to take the place of what was
lost. There are many other cities
and towns which have slipped, where
the trouble is not so much that the
industries are lost, as that the peo-
pie are asleep. The effort to move
populations from one city to another
is costly and difficult. The thing to
do in most cases is to wake people up,
teach them to depend on themselves,
and show them there are plenty of
chances for progress in cities that
are determined to advance
Milford chronicle., 1937-10-01
MEMS FASHION vAGARIES

The men laugh at the women fol
being Slaves of fashion, but they
do more or less similar Shaving them.
selves. Take this question of the
traditional retirement of the straw
hat. There are many warm days in
late September, and even in early
October, when the cool refreshment
of the straw hat is appropriate and
comforting.
The fatal toll of the straw hat bell
is heard on September 18th. perhaps
other dates in some localities. After
that, woe be to the man who ventures
out crowned with the old straw lid.
In some circles, someone is likely to
bring his fist through that inoffensive
topper. and so mutilate it that it can
only go to the dump.
Or if it is not greeted so violently.
humorous associates may offer sharp
witticisms about wearing last years
birds nests, which fill his soul with
humiliation. The commands of fash
ion are complied with when he next
emerges from the kind shelter of
home.
This straw hat custom has its
uses. Most men wear their straws
altogether too long. so that they look
faded, soiled. and disreputable. If it
was not for the annual Fall Hat Day.
many of them would keep wearing |
their straws until they looked like
the covering of a scarecrow.
AS a whole the men are not as re-
sponsive to the whims of style as are
the women. They accept what is
given them. If the style varies, many
If them don't find it out until an ar
icle of clothing is all rags. This is
lot true of students. or of young men
They are careful watch
RS of the latest styles, they inquire
nxiously whether hats will have
arrow brims. and whether trousers
'ill be wide and fioppy. Thus they
xpect to make deep dents in the
cart of the girl friend.
Milford chronicle., 1937-10-01
THE RED MAN PARADES

There was a colorful scene the
other day at the Crow Indian Agency
in Montana. when a procession OF
Indians two miles long marched past
reviewing stand. Scenes were pre-
sented from the days when the In
dians carried their possessions on
their backs or had them carried by
dogs. down to the present when they
use the modern automobile.
The red man in his original state
was the most striking figure the
American continent ever produced.
He developed amazing powers of en-
durance. When the brave was told
he would be burned at the stake, he
said quietly, ut is well", and tri-
umphed in his expiring breath that
he had given no sign of weakness.
He was fierce and cruel. but If the
white man had kept his treaties, he
might never have scalped any pale
faces.
1t has been hard for the Indian,
trained to a wandering life, to set
tie down like a patient horse. If the
white man had understood him bet
ter. a place could have been made
in our world where he would have
fitted.
Milford chronicle., 1937-10-01
HOMES FOR THE PEOPLE

The progress of city or town de-
pends a good deal ON whether 1t has
plenty of attractive and comfortable
homes for people to live in. If it is
difficult for a family to rent or buy
such a dwelling in a certain town,
that place will have difficulty in get
ting any growth. If plenty of such
homes can be secured for a moder-
ate price or rental, then such a town
attracts new residences, and its pop
ulation grows. ..-e
Anyone therefore who builds
house in Milford for sale or rent, or
for his own use helps his home town
make progress. A special service is
performed by those who take old
houses and put them in good repair
and add moredn improvements. A
town where such work is constantly
going on seems very attractive in
this age, and it is almost sure to
grow.
Milford chronicle., 1937-10-01
THE SCARCITY OF sHINGLEs

According to the Christian Adva-
Gates joker, Grandfather says that
the reason why children are SO much
worse than they used to be, is that
shingles are scarce. and you can't
spank boy with tin roof.
The old folks may say the lack
of fathers shingle, or other means
o. physical chastisement, accounts
for the alleged disobedient ways of
the younger generation. 1t is to be
feared that a return to this use of
the shingle will not check that ten
dency. The time seems to have gone
by when you can beat sound ideas
into boys and girls by whipping
them. There is still a good chance,
up to a certain age, to show them
by reason and experience, that they
will let themselves in for trouble, IL
they don't behave themselves.
Milford chronicle., 1937-10-01
THE CUNTS AND THEIR HANDS

Many people have made mess out
of life because they never learned to
use their hands. The effort made to
guard the famous Dionne quintuplets
from that error has lessons which
parents may we'll note here in Mil
ford.
These young ladies, now three
years and four months old, are being
taught to drive nails into planks, to
pile up blocks. and draw with cray
ors. Thus they are beginning very
young to acquire mastery of the
worlds most marvellous tool, the hu-
man hand.
People who can use their hands
skillfully don't often go wrong. They
find pleasure in the clever work they
do with those hands, which enables
them more easily to find ways to
earn a living. Countless homes are
wrecked because the wives were not !
in the household arts, the |
beginning of which is skilful work |
with the hands.
Milford chronicle., 1937-10-01
FIGHTING TO THE DEATH

Madame Chiang-Kai-Shek wife OF
the head of the Chinese government,
has issued a statement saying that
her people are resolved to fight to the
death against the invasion of Japan.
The Chinese, though not we'll armed
with modern fighting equipment, and
though they have been considered a
submissive nation inclined toward
pacifism. are showing courage that
arouses admiration.
There have been many wars in
which the masses of the soldiers did
not seem to know or care much about
the issues involved. In this war of
the yellow races, the Chinese seem
to have reached a point where they
will not stand any further loss of
their territory and rights.
There are 400,OOO,000 Cinnamon,
who constitute nearly one-quarter
of the worlds population. They are
the worlds greatest potential power,
if once aroused, educated, and mod
ernized. You can't step on such
nation indefinitely. Their friendship
is worth having.
Milford chronicle., 1937-10-01
TO PROTECT NATURE AGE

An organization called the "Foun-
dation for Americans of Mature
Age, is starting campaign to COM
bat the prejudice against employing
people over 40 years of age. 1t is
claimed that well intended social Sc
curity and workmen's compensation
laws encourage this prejudice. by
making it more expensive to employ
elderly people.
Experience is the most valuable
thing in work calling for intelligence.
Speed does not count so much as the
thoroughness with which work is
done. The person over 40 may not
turn out as much in a day, but he
should have had training and ac-
quaintance and information that see
many things inexperienced people
overlook.
Milford chronicle., 1937-10-01
CONCEALING THE CRUEL YEARS

They have been arguing in Boone
County, Iowa, about how to tell the
age of a horse. Some say look at
his teeth, which others examine the
wrinkles on his neck. Poor old
Dobbin has no means of concealment.
BY some such test, the dealers come
near telling how many years are
marked up against him.
1t is different with human beings,
particularly with women. who have
amazing ways of concealing age.
Some say you can hardly tell a wo-
man of As from one of 25, so artfully
has she concealed the marks of those
cruel years. These means are not
all artificial. The woman of former
years showed her age because she
became a mere household drudge.
The modern lady. with her automo-
bile and golf and tennis and swim
ming, keeps young because she keeps |
her vital powers at work, constantly
renewing themselves.
Milford chronicle., 1937-10-01
CROPPING FOR PEACE

While the hatred, the violence, and
the passion of men express them
selves in the horrible scenes now
witnessed in China and Spain, the
world cries out for peace. and is
constantly promoting movements to
bring wars to an end. One more
such step was taken when it was de-
cided at Geneva. Switzerland, to call
a world conference to promote in
terpational peace through religious
organizations and faith.
The races of the world profess re-
ligious beliefs. and pledge them
selves to serve God and humanity
through various creeds and forms.
Then forgetting these noble pledges.
some of them fly at other peoples
throats like so many wolves. Let us
hope this new movement for peace
through the great power of religion
does something to abate the fury of
mans hatreds.
Milford chronicle., 1937-10-01
THE PRESIDE BLAZE

Now comes the time of year when
the family is supposed to gather
around the blazing hearthstone,
while the dancing flames give COM
fort amid the chills of advancing
autumn. The glowing fireplace en-
bers spread comfort and cheer, and
are a symbol Of the warm affection
which the home should shelter. A
house seems real home when 1t has
that center of comfort and radiance.
The fireside blaze is said to pro-
mote good talk. All questions of
state. church, and school have been
discussed and settled in front of those
burning logs, which somehow in
spire people 20 think calmly and talk
reasonably.
Do the family and the neighbors
gather around the hearthstone as in
former days? Not so much. with a
hundred places offering entertain
nent. Yet innumerable homes still
ove this center of good cheer, and
light the fires of good fellowship as
he oak and maple sticks burn.
Milford chronicle., 1937-10-01
REPUTATION FOR PROGRESS

Some towns have a reputation for
being progressive, while people COM
plain that others are dead or asleep.
The dead or sleepy towns often have
plenty of good folks in them, only
they are too content with their stag
nant condition. How shall town
gain a reputation for progressive
ness? t0r
That reputation is given in various
ways. Such town needs good or
ganizations, supplying the social, re-
ligious, business, and educational
needs of the community. It must
have energetic people, who are not
satisfied unless these organizations
are active. 1t must be constantly try
ing to improve home conditions and
enlarge home town business. 1t
must have high standards of neat
ness, so it is attractive to the eye.
Such a town will be known far and |
wide as progressive.
Milford chronicle., 1937-10-01
PUMP PRIMING OVER

President Roosevelt has announced
the approaching end of one of the
chief agencies established to combat
the depression, the Public Works Ad-
ministration. This great enterprise
was supposed to operate the plan of
pump printing.
This descriptive phrase is bor-
rowed from the old village home,
where the family depended upon the
kitchen or barnyard pump. If that
pump ran down, and the most vigor-
GUS exercise of the handle brought
up no water, pump printing was ap-
piled. You poured bucket, Of water
down the pump, and that started the
current going, and the water began
to flow.
So it was argued that if you pour
sufficient money into the economic
pump, spending it on public words
and other projects. this will'start the
current of money to circulating, until
it runs as in normal times.
Much can be said for the idea that
if ordinary business enterprises can't
be induced to spend money enough to |
employ idle labor, if large portions |
of the people have no money and
no job, the government must come
to the rescue, and start some form of
work to employ these idle folks, or
many of them.
The money spent by the govern
ment for this purpose has continued
in circulation, and has done much to
start up idle business. Yet there are
offsetting disadvantages. To carry
OH such an enormous enterprise,
money has to be borrowed. A great
addition to the public debt is Gre
ated. The payment of interest on
that debt and principal payments as
they come due, will add enormously
to taxes. Everyone will have to
help pay those taxes. which will
thus diminish the purchasing power
of the people.
Anyway it is clear that out of this
recent expenditure, the country has
constructed some valuable public
works, the benefits of which will be '
enjoyed for many years. {
Milford chronicle., 1937-10-01
MORE HIGH LIFE ROMANCE

The power of romance is once
more felt in the Roosevelt family,
as John Roosevelt, youngest son of
the President, is engaged to Miss
Anne Lindsay Clark of Boston.
These young people find themselves
centers of national interest, and If
they imagine they can find seclusion
anywhere, it is to be feared their
hopes will be disappointed.
Love comes to high and low, and
it produces joy and gladness that
is about the same, whether one lives
in the White House or in some hum
BILE cottage. The country offers its
best wishes to these young people.
whose high position gives them all
that opportunity can possibly offer.
Milford chronicle., 1937-10-01
UNIVERSITIES OF THE AIR

DR.. James r. Angel, former presi-
dent of Yale University, is to act as
educational counselor of the National
Broadcasting Company. He remarks
that most adults don't want to be
educated. so he apparently feels there
are limitations on the possibilities Of
popular education through broad
casting.
Perhaps there are more people who
desire knowledge than he realizes.
Millions of them are conscious of
their limitations, and feel handicap
ped and inferior when they mingle
with intelligent and cultivated people.
A host of these folks should support
a radio program that gives them in
a short time information which they
feel ashamed not to possess.
Milford chronicle., 1937-10-01
THE HYDRO MYTH

1t is time to explode the illusion
that further hydroelectric develop
ment on a nationwide scale is nec-
essary to cheapening and expanding
the use of power. This Illusion,
largely created by political propa-
gandizing of the iva, has little
basis in fact.
Hydro power-as opposed to pow
er produced by coal and other fuels
lis the most economical source OF
energy only when a large and con-
slant flow of water is situated near
large consuming center. The cost
Of power at the producing dam, like
the cost of drinking water at a res
ervoir, is insignificant. The major
part of the cost comes in. building
transmission lines, and In distribut-
ing power to homes and factories.
When power must be distributed ov-
er long distances, there is a large
transmission loss, which further in
creases the cost.
The private electric industry has
made remarkable progress n reduc-
ing tue dInOunt OIL COdl UT OtucI Auct
needed to produce a given amount OF
electric energy. And the cost OF
building a fuel plant Is far below
that Of building hydro plant OF the
same capacity.
According to the Federal Power
Commission, about two-thirds of our
undeveloped water power is in the
sparsely settled West, and less than
a fourth in the thick1y settled North
east and Middle West. Sections Of
this country which embrace rs per
cent of the population and 80 per
cent of the fuel production. have |
about 20 per cent of the undeveloped
water power. OF the practical water
power developments in this country. |
about two-thirds are located west of
the Mississippi-a section where
power requirements are only about
of the total.
For the bulk of the country, fuel
produced power is and will remain /
he logical and least expensive
source Of electric supply. >