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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1937-11-04

eve never saw so many people out
on the Streets" they told US later.
And they said they couldn't help hid
ing the jugs (of cider) just a wee bit
behind their skirts.
When they were closing the New
Germany CCC camp recently, it was
called to our attention that many
blankets, almost new, were heaped on
a fire and burned; that stoves that
had been used there were broken to
pieces. Other property went the
same way. People in that vicinity
tried to purchase some of it, but it
couldn't be bought.
But it could be destroyed. That
may be army regulations, but it
does seem a shame.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1937-11-04
BITTINGER

The continuous rains of the past
week raised the waters in this COM
munity and greatly interfered with
the fall work on the farms of the
neighborhood. Many fields of potatoes
remain in the ground.
Game Warden Richard Browning,
of Oakland, visited this part of the
county last week where he consulted
with local wardens.
William Durr, of near Frostburg,
with his family, visited relatives here
last Sunday.
Fred Beachy and family, of near
Spencer, West Va, spent the early
days of this week with Mr.. Beachy's
mother, Mrs. Silas Beachy, as well as
with other relatives and friends of the
community.
Mrs. Oliver C. Buckle spent last
Friday shopping in Cumberland.
William Burkholder, an aged and
life long resident of the Bittinger
community, died at his home, about
two and half miles north of Bittin-
ger, on Wednesday of last week, fol-
lowing protracted illness. Funeral
services were held in Bethesda chapel
on Friday afternoon.
Constable Lester Bittinger was in
this section on business last Saturday.
A Halloween party was held at the
home Of Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Shawley
last Saturday evening.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1937-11-04
POSTED

Any person or persons found
trespassing with dog or gun on
my farm, known as the Ami
ROdeheaver Place, located near.
Harrington Creek, will be prose-
cuted to the full extent of the.
law.
STUART F. HAMILL.
Oakland, Md.
Advertisement 37-Gt
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1937-11-04

Here are a couple of good safety
slogans for automobile drivers: GAS
We would that others should drive to-
ward you, drive we even so toward
them;" and "The car to watch is the
car behind the car in front of YOU"
#*~
Muddy Creek Falls, always beau
tiful spot, was never more so than
during the high water of last week
end. To watch it as water swept
over the entire width of the stream,
and with great force, was sight
that doesn't come too often.
$50
The Amish and Memories have
won out in their fight in Pennsyl-
vania for their rural schools. They
do not have to go to the modern
structure erected by government
funds, and there will be six rural
schools re-opened.
Those who are troubled by similar
conditions here might try writing to
the Pennsylvania Amish to find out
what formula they used. Maybe the
same formula wouldn't work in Gar
rett county.
Last week l got a personal glimpse
of that Harrington dam they are
building. 1t looks like the Boulder
dam project, it is so extensive. A
CCC boy told me they expected to
finish it in 1910.
There was enough machinery
around the place, it appeared to me,
to excavate another Grand Canyon.
They appeared to have been doing a
lot of work beyond where the lake is
to be. Maybe they are making two
lakes and the dam will divide them.
There should be prize offered to
the one who can best explain the
picture it presents.
1t seems shame that future gener-
ations can't be here now to see for
themselves all the splendid things
we're doing with their money.
A daily paper columnist has de-
scribed the social security law as
racket" one that would be unlawful
if anybody except the government
was doing it.
In short the practice is this. Each
employer is extracting percentage
of his workers wages each week. He
turns it over to the government where
it is supposed to be sailed away and
returned to the workers when they
reach 65. But instead of sailing it
away they are spending it and sailing
away a piece of paper which says that
there is so much coming to John
Smith, John Jones, and a lot of 9TH
res. If anybody but the government
did that it would be called "breach
of trust" and Jail would be the re-
suit.
The idea of social security may
sound all right. But to make it work
is a different story.
The other day saw an automobile
load of assessors. When l addressed
them, Good afternoon, Gentlemen"
they almost fell on my neck. To be
called gentlemen was a very unusual
occurrence. Since they had been max
ing assessments they had been called
everything but that. But even l may
change my mind when l see my tax
bill.
Miss Thekla Fundenberg wrote
from Washington last week urging
visitors to see the strange new ami
mails at their zoo. / am wondering if
she could have been mixed up on the
place. Congress convenes November
18th.
Mixed in with the tragic loss of
property at Kitzmiller last week
comes an amusing sidelight on the
scene. One man in the lowlands had
his henhouse flooded and so or more
chickens went floating down the Poto-
mac. Dam da CHICKS" he remarked
to neighbor. Next year l raisa
ducks"
kA
SO He Cot HiS panarc
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1937-11-04
The Thought of God

The thought of the Divine excel
lence and beauty, how far it is ex-
allied above us and yet how sweetly
it shines upon us.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1937-11-04

Mrs. Ethel Broaderic is confined to,
her bed as the result of an automobile
accident occurring on the street at.
Frostburg when struck by a car.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1937-11-04
Result of Experience

Experience is a grindstone; and
it is lucky for us if we can get
frightened by it, and not ground
w. H. Shaw.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1937-11-04

Victory
! Victory belongs to the most per-
severing.-Napoleon.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1937-11-04

1t pays to watch the "Paid Local
Notice" column in The Republican,
whether you are buyer or a seller.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1937-11-04
So He Got His Papers

An applicant for final naturaliza-
ton papers was asked this question
over in a Pennsylvania town:
"Who elects the PRESIDENT"
"The WPA," he replied.
He was passed.
Carrying a jug along the street al
ways seems to give people a guilty
feeling-as if there was something in
it that should not be. Even two ladies
whom no one would ever suspicion,
had the same look when they walked
up Second street Monday night.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1937-11-04

Here are a couple of good safety
slogans for automobile drivers: GAS
We would that others should drive to-
ward you, drive We even so toward
them;" and "The car to watch is the
car behind the car in front of YOU"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1937-11-04
IMPROVED
UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL
CUNDAyH
'OCHOOL Lesson
BY REV. HAROLD L. LUNDQUIsT,
Dean of the Moody Bible Institute
of Chicago.
e Western Newspaper Union.
Lesson for November z
CHRISTIAN CHARACTER AND
PEACE

LESSON TEXT-Colossian Slit.
GOLDEN TEXT-And let the peace Of
God rule in your hearts, to the which also
we are called in one body.-Colossians 3:15.
PRIMARY TOPIC-In His Name.
JUNIOR TOPIC-In His Name
INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC
How May Have Peace?
YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC
The Christian Cure for Strife.
Evening star., 1937-03-13
Planning for Subways.

A special committee of the Board of
Trade, under craftsmanship of John j.
ESch has performed a constructive task
lor the community in compiling a re-
port or SubWays which clearly reflects
It's intelligent consideration .of the sub
Ject. Submission Of the report should
iead 10 the relntroduction by Mrs Norton
OF the bill she sponsored in the last ses-
sion appropriating twenty-five thousand
dollars for thorough survey of the sub
way proposition. Her bill was drawn at
the suggestion of the former peoples
counsel, William A. Roberts, much of
whose preliminary discussion of the SUBJ
way question receives complimentary
acknowledgment in the Board of Trade
report.
This report concludes that while re-
routing OF existing traction lines and
addition of busses may afford temporary
relief, ultimately the best and most eff
cient method to relieve congestion '"
is through the construction of subways."
In other words, if the time for subway
construction has not yet arrived, all con-
ditions suggest that subways, and nothing
else, must eventually be relied upon to
solve a comMlcated traffic problem and
Evening star., 1937-03-13
Supreme Court Has Acted
As Keel to Ship of State

TO the Editor of The Star:
Place me on record as another who
refuses to be misled by one % who
makes no attempt to keep campaign
promises, CD who later refuses to make
promises in order not to be accused of
breaking them, 80 who decries propa-
ganda, fear-spreading and partisan poll
TICS, and at the same time uses them all
when in desperate need; Cd who engend-
ers class hatred in business and bitter
dissension even in his own party, go who
resorts to Inconsistencies, misstatements
and smoke screens in general, as so ably
pointed out by Boake Carter, Paul Mall
Ion, etc, and 60 who depends upon an
ultra -egotistical - and mesmeric, if
not hypnotic, radio voice to influence
the unwary, unsuspecting voter looking
for conscientious and unselfish leader.
The Supreme Court, like all other hu-
man agencies, is not infallible, but has
for century and half acted as keel
to the ship, our country as a whole,
through changing times. politics and
local as well as racial and religious is
1ues. Now, probably more than ever,
We need stabilizing keel to maintain
our greatest of democracies in spite of
the trend toward a dictatorship-ab-
horrent term-Which is already an ac-
complished fact in three of the greatest
nations of the world.
j. STUART FREEMAN.
Philade1phia Pa
Evening star., 1937-03-13

A striking figure in the forensic fray
which has suddenly broken forth like
pitched battle for the edification of q
radio mob is Assistant ATTORNEY General
II. II. Jackson, who patiently catalogues
assumptions of what the Supreme Court
may or may not do. Mr.. jackson photo
graphs plcturesquely and his admirers
depict him at the age of forty-f1ve as one
OF those smoldering suns that explode into
luminous splendor in some dark corner
OF space. His rendition of the role of
special pleader displays courage and au-
oaclty, but carries the impression of the
small town lawyer who feels hopeful of
nndlng way to future fortune by brows
beating rustic jury whenever such pro-
cedure is possible.
Evening star., 1937-03-13
All Is Now Quiet Along the
Potomac Save Court Batting
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor of The Star:
Mr.. Roosevelt has made memorable
contributions to our political phrase
book but none that is quite SO intriguing
as the quiet crisis" of his latest fire.
side talk. For four exciting years we
have been borne along on an unfailing
tide of disasters, with each fresh calam-
ity radioed and ballyhooed to the last
scream, made good, where possible, to
the last dollar. And now, on the fourth
anniversary of the great bank holiday,
we are let down with this tame anti
climax!
That it is justified by the present
happy state of the Nation can hardly
De maintained by the most incorrigible
optlmlst Clouds more sinister than
dust or rain now darken the industrial
horizon. 1nternecine strife and an alien
spirit at once laWless and ruthless, vet
tacltly condoned by sentimentaliSts in
high places, jeopardize our peace and
our newly gained prosperity. Ugly days
are ahead OF us, with losses greater, per-
haps, than many floods
But along the Potomac--if we except
the batting of half dozen benighted old
men-all IS quiet. r. D. MILLER.
Evening star., 1937-03-13
Girl Scout Anniversary.

AT moment when youth is alleged
TO be IN revolt against tradition, the Girl
Scouts are celebrating the twenty-fifth
anniversary of the founding of their Or
ganization. The occasion is one which
the general public may note with salts
faction in its implications. 1t signifies
4 continuance Of prosperity for ideals
which are fundamentally liberal in char
acter, but in no wise radical.
The original sponsor of the Girl Scout
movement was Mrs. Juliette Gordon Low,
woman of keen intelligence, generous
temperament and prodigious spiritual
energy. She was an artist a poet and
. practical altruist whose whole career
was devoted to the promotion of human
welfare in terms of education and vol
untary cooperation. BY example, she
taught girls and, less directly. boys the
philosophy of constructive living. 1t was
on March 9, 1912, that She assembled in
Evening star., 1937-03-13

that preparation now, through an ade-
quate survey, would not be premature.
The report looks with most favor upon
Mr.. Roberts suggested four miles of
suoWays, routed SO as to intercept street
car traffic north of Dupont Circle on
connecticut avenue and north of Thomas
Circle on Fourteenth, carrying these lines
Underground through the congested dis
trlcts and connecting with an under
ground east-west line to follow the
route of E street and PENNSYLVANIA ave-
nue between Fourth and Twenty-first
streets. The report points out that all
subWays in other cities were begun with
snort sections of underground construc-
tlon which were extended as financing
operations and demand warranted. The
ROBERTS plan, it is pointed out. would
eApeolte surface traffic and relieve con-
geStlon where it is most acute. while pro-
Vlding really rapid transit. The cost it
suggested, should be borne by the
Federal Government and the District
possibly under the grant and loan policy
OF the w. P. A. The estimated cost of
four million dollars mile in the opinion
OF the report. would be ample" judging
from the cost of subway operations in
new York, Boston and Philadelphia.
Inc Board of Trade has added to the
reasons why the proposed engineering
ana financial survey, the necessary pre-
hmmary to final decision on local s,1b-
way construction, appropriately should
be undertaken now.
Evening star., 1937-03-13
Nothing Is Wrong With
The Supreme Court Today
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor of The Star:
What is wrong with our present Su-
preme Court Judges outside of their
lnvalldating several of President Roose-
Velts projects as unconstitutional? The
answer is, Not thing wrong" And,
Furthermore, their work is up to date
and they are ready and waiting for
more
President Roosevelt strongly denies
personal interest in his application to
add six judges to the present number,
but at the same time says a two-thirds
vote of Congress should override any
Supreme Court decision. What does
all that look like?
1t looks like we might as well do away
with our Supreme Court then would
come abolishment of Congress, then
abollshment Of our Senate, then a die
tator, or king or queen sitting in the
White House making us their subjects
instead of allowing us to be subjects of
our Constitution.
President Roosevelt denies any inten-
ton of taking any advantage of the
power placed within his grasp were it
possible for Congress to override the
Supreme Court, but Roosevelt, after his
nomination at Chicago in 1882 an
nounced by radio that he accepted the
platform one hundred per cent. All
listeners to that announcement believed
he meant using the platform to the last
letter. But Roosevelt had a different
meaning. He meant taking the plat
form in his hand then throwing it in the
waste basket.
This great United States of America
reached its peak in 1882 under our Con-
stitution, guarded, protected and upheld
by the judiciary, the legislative and ad-
minlstration Executives of Republican or
Democratic doctrine, and now we have
neither one of those good old parties.
Property rights have been violated by
union "sitters" and are being violated
today. Gov. Murphy of Michigan sent
to Flint, Mich, three regiments of Ma
tional Guards, fully armed and equipped
to ouSt those "Sitters" when and where
'sitters' were enjoined by court against
their unlawful possession of General
Motors shops. Did Murphy oust them?
He did not. He shed a few tears of
sorrow and said he could not shed lone
drop OF Christian blood" But Murphy
is just one of Roosevelt's puppets.
w. j. DERMOTT.
Evening star., 1937-03-13

her home IN Savannah the members of
the first troop of the international sister
hood which now delights to guarantee
her Immortality through it's development
OF her work on a larger scale than she
ever presumed to dream.
Mrs. Low was a patriot in the best
meaning of that phrase, and her followers
therefore are devoted to their country.
But she also was pledged to that doctrine
OF peace which anticipates tolerant
amlty of all nations and classes, and the
Girl Scouts consequently represent an
aspiration toward world emancipated
from strife. The basic hope of founder
and disciples alike is for the rise of an
order OF womanhood for the welfare of
the race. The activities shall aim
through comradeship to develop initia-
tive, self-control, self-reliance and I'M
selfish service to Others" Such was the
concept of the architect of the sorority
quarter century ago, and each young
recruit has been instructed in the same
vision in the period that has passed
since that time. The effect is obvious
In thousands of homes and in social
civic and cultural enterprises of every
kind.
But the Girl Scouts never rest on their
laurels Their more significant history,
they believe, lies ahead During the next
twenty-five years they expect to expand
their numbers and their field of influ-
ence measurably. The national COM
munity will make no mistake if it aids
their progress.
Evening star., 1937-03-13
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL,

What are the rows Of leaves coming up
so regularly, like green soldiers, in the
borders?
Why, tulips, of course.
The little crocus already has bloomed,
taking advantage Of recent balmy days,
but it will be several weeks yet before
the tulips come into flower
In the meantime. they are doing we'll
by themselves, and rejoicing the eyes
and hearts of all garden lovers.
Who is there who does not love the
tulips?
These bright things have a special
place in the affection Of all persons in
terested in plant life. Whether this in
terest is academic or practical, makes
not the slightest difference in the world.
He or she who admires the flowers
from a window has a right to such ad-
miration, as much as the famous dirt
gardener who actually puts into the
ground every bulb
For the real flower of the flowers is
their beauty, is it not?
Although theoretical difference
ought to be registered, in love of beauty,
between the person who plants and reaps
the harvest and he who merely reaps,
often enough in every day life there is
no difference at all.
Since the flower of all flowers is their
beauty, it is reward of looking and ap-
preciating. No doubt the honest ad-
mirer of flowers in a florists window
gets as much out OF them as he who
buys and she who receives.
1t is so with beauty if one chooses to
make it SO.
What is wrong with so many of us
is that we do not choose to make it so.
In a slipping civilization as a great
scholar has termed the present age, we
individually go with the mob enough to
prevent us from seeing the beauty all
around us.
1t is not difficult to see loveliness in a
row of tulip leaves, if we will stop long
enough to see it.
Beauty is that easy, in many instances.
Its perception is not mystic. as some
would have us believe, but is nothing
more unusual that direct seeing.
One sees properly only when looking
directly at something. To try to take in
an entire garden at a glance is but to
see halfway. 1t may be done, but only
halfway, nothing distinct, everything
semi blurred in the mind. where the real
perception is
Even in the smallest yard, which some
may think dusty and unattractive at
this time of year, there is plenty to see
If the beholder really stops to see it, and
actually looks at each thing he sees.
Every one knows the state of "daze"
in, which much seeing is done
We attain it to perfection in a public
place when we become tired and bored.
Then we may realize we are looking,
but not seeing anything, really The
mind is not at work, but doing.
We are in "daze," which many per-
sons seem to find pleasant, but which.
after all, tends to lose the locker much
real satisfaction
Because seeing is precious, but can
only reach real perfection when the mind
is interested in what it sees.
This blank sort of looking which peo-
pie indulge IN from time to time, called
wool gathering" is not rest for the eyes
in any good sense. 1t is, on the con-
trary, species of staring, and staring,
some say, is the worst possible thing for
Evening star., 1937-03-13
Fireside Chat Showed That
A Great Leader Is Now Here
To the Editor Of The Star.

TO the Editor of The Star
After listening to President Roosevelt s
speech Tuesday evening, we, the people,
fully realize that the country has at last
found the man, magnificent, upright, in
telligently outspoken, it has been waiting
for Without doubt, Franklin Delano
Roosevelt is the greatest, most sincere,
altruistic President--with Washington
and Lincoln-this country has ever had,
and, Notwithstanding Iconoclast Borah,
Jumper -the-Band-W Wagon Glass. L
Love-to-Hear- Myself Talk Wheeler, Rab-
bleRouser Coughlin. old Hands off"
Hoover, "Cigarette Alice" and her small
in every sense of the word) brother
Teddy and all Of the other red herring
trailers, we are at last going places, and
under the splendidly fearless guidance
of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the
grace of God we will get there. Folks,
there's stranger at our gates; let him
in. A. CULLEN.