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The Washington times., 1938-10-31
BY ERIC FREDHEIM

UN.S.) The Administration has
initiated a new, long-range pro
gram to slash Government expen-
ditures with the object of reducing
next years deficit to the minimum
and to bring about a balanced
budget in 1910.
The Bureau Of the Budget, 1t
was learned today, is preparing to
employ q new force Of fiscal ex-
perts whose task will be to go
through all Federal appropriations
with q fine-tooth comb for pos
sible savings.
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M5.vQDN6S |
A BouO to Mrs. DGOies

MRS. TYDNGs was thin not from being hun
AVA CRY, I'm sure, but likely from lifting through
the counties with her Senator husband, keeping
the fences up, and listening to the oftrepeated
outline Of his great record. Or could it be from
raking leaves and milking cows for the benefit
Of grass-root constituents when they show up at
Darlington? Anyway, she looked pretty good to
me, so the result Of this encounter was that
walked up the street and bought myself hat
with silver fox on it. too-only MY silver fox
trimming was the tip end of the tail-about as
big as an acorn! (The size Of my pocketbook0
The Washington times., 1938-10-31
D. C.PAY SCALE
HIGHEST IN U. S.

Elmer F. Andrews, wage-hour
administrator, reports that aver
age weekly earnings of workers in
manufacturing industries last Au-
gust were higher in every State
than the modest requirements
Of the Fair Labor Standards Act. >
A compilation prepared by DR..
ISador Lubin, commissioner Of
the Labor Departments Bureau of
Labor Statistics, shows the high
est average weekly earnings were
in the District Of Columbia, $50. 81:
Wyoming, $32.16; Michigan, $50;
California, $26.35; N. Y, $25.51.
The Washington times., 1938-10-31

Apart from the continued strong feeling Tor
Garner, the only new name which creates any
kind of response is that Of Joseph p Kennedy
of Boston Even in this part Of the country, out
among the cornhuSks. the Kennedy reputation
for bluntness, color and those nine kids" serves
as q "pickmeup" in any discussion OF political
possibilities for 1940
MiSEt Fill the Bill
UVHE thermometer Of national interest in
i kennedy rose sharply during the European
crisis of few weeks past. It's rise grew even
sharper when the Boston Irishman suggested the
nations, including ourselves, might be better
off il we cut out emoting over an issue which
was basically material and economic.
The kind of q candidate for 1910 that people
are seeking Is man Of forthrightness.
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and the Republicans put UP
In 1902"
Nobody seems to want any
more the old names Of either
party. Roosevelt, Of course, is
the most popular Of the stand
ard names, but when his name
is linked with third-term posi-
bilities the enthusiasm for the
prospect dies quickly. Yet
there seems to be at present
no name on the political
horizons in either party which
has caught public fancy.
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and perhaps the code is stricter-but in the
days not so long ago. when was an auction
shop habitue. came to the conclusion that
honesty was not, to the auctioneer's way OF
thinking, the best or more profitable policy.
The "solid gold case' Of the watch on sale was
0 slipof- -the.tongue. am sure, for rarely was it
better than 10-karat gold plate-and am much
too wise these days to credit the insistence Of
the man on the block that he is practically
donating onecarat diamond ring for the 81
offered. did not believe then-and do not
believe now-that it was a onecarat diamond
ring.
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and Forty-second Street. The
bargains were simply unbeliev-
able-a watch, a fob, a cigar
ette case, a ring and a stickpin
would be knocked down en-
masse for $11-and once I
bought a huge tapestry with a
gorgeous Japanese scene for
81. But I admit I became
somewhat tired Of the spiels
Of the auctioneer Of those days
and somewhat disillusioned
with the bargains"
PerhanS times have changed
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Experts Hired to Cut U. S. Expenses
Balanced Budget in 1910 Goal of Fiscal Program

Actual blue-pencilling of many
items on these appropriations will
start this week. 1t is expected
President Roosevelt will approve
virtually all the economies recon-
mended.
Just how much money can be
saved next year and in succeeding
fiscal periods is problematical. Of
ficials explained that if the alloca-
tions Tor various departments are
reduced too sharply within short
space of time, the efficiency of
Government administration would
be impaired materially.
The Washington times., 1938-10-31
BOONE SHRINE
HONORS BOYS

Daniel Boone's birthplace, re-
stored and made into q national
shrine, will be dedicated "to the
American boy" in the program at
Baumstown, near Reading, Pa, to-
morrow afternoon.
On the site of the log cabin,
from which Boone went forth to
become an historic frontierSman,
a crowd will pay homage tomor-
row, according to plans announced
here by Aubrey Williams, execu-
tive director of the National Youth
Administration,
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seeing it filled with people-and from where I
stand outside looking In it does seem as If there
is much spirited bidding. OF course, perhaps,
these days those fine ladies and gentlemen I see
are all shills-but.I I will not believe that these
auction" shops will continue night after night
with none but shills for customers.
THERE IS that business of souvenirs Not free
l. understand Gosh, no. folks-I am not going
to insult your intelligence by standing here and
telling you I'm giving you these valuable cigar
cite cases for nothing. But will stand here and
tell you that you are going to get them for prac
ticaly nothing. Not all of you-no, Stree
couldn't afford it, folks But few of you-a
dozen Of you-the first dozen Of you with .
nickel to give me-wil get one Of these precious
valuable cigarette cases. and I want only one
promise from you. Please don't go out and sell
them for dollar or two dollars. We want you to
keep these valuable souvenirs and remember you
got them here" Etc. etc.
The Washington times., 1938-10-31

A number Of these experts al
ready have been added to the
Bureaus staff and currently are
scrutinizing next years spending
estimates for the regular Govern
ment departments with the hope
of chopping off millions Of dollars
from the Treasury's expenditure
column.
Preliminary hearings already
have been held on appropriation
requests for. all regular depart
ments except the Army and Navy
and a few New Deal credit
agencies.
The Washington times., 1938-10-31

has been in the Government
service IS years, came to the
Treasury in 1905.
AS assistant director Of the
mint she Is recognized as the
greatest authority we have on
the coming Of money. She
could tell you right now every
detail Of our billions Of gold
stored away at Fort Knox and
Denver. CWonder If she could
tell US where the key isO
I first remember seeing her
~,l.n,, v,,,, father. to0k me into
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Bidding Is Spirited
DERHAPs the gullible Manhattanite and the
equally gullible outof-towner no longer vel
come rocking in those shops-but this know:
have never passed one Of the places without
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TtBut''-

Copyright Ledger syndicate)
NCOLN, Neb-A popular but persistent ques'
II ton from people one meets from all strata
of the social scale is: "Who will the Democrats
The Washington times., 1938-10-31
Voice of New York By Louis Sobol

THERE WAS time when thought there was
no greater free diversion than visit to one
Of the little auction shops which dot Broadway
The Washington times., 1938-10-31
Ewes Rib

TO-DAY is q very sad day for everyone In the
= Treasury Department and the Bureau Of the
Mint particularlY. Mary OReilly retires. She
The Washington times., 1938-10-31
Those "Nickel" Souvenirs

1h08e WIcRGE SOuOenIF0
Go THE sUCKERs-and I was one of them
~ would step up with our nickels-but we did
not get those valuable souvenirs Immediately.
No, each nickel would be placed on little box
and then we had to wait-and wait-and wait
while the auctioneer shouted his lungs out offer
ing watches and diamonds book props and rings
And after an hour or two I, for one, would tire
and stink out abashed-not having the nerve
to demand my nickel back. Not to this day
have I ever learned what was in those little
boxes.
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Raw Bakers office, the then director Of the
mint, during the war. I was gangling ana
desperately unattractive little horror, bad, too;
but when saw Miss O'Reilly was so impressed
I forgot to be pain in the neck for few mo-
nents. She looked then as she does now; as II
she's just stepped out Of a lovely picture, and
had brought with her all the charm Of it,
The Washington times., 1938-10-31
Her Friends Depressed

7 REPEAT, the Treasury Is sad place today.
Il Every person working there is depressed at
the thought that they won't see that slim, trim
figure. that beautiful face which mas no age,
won't hear that calm, sweet voice. Mary O'Reilly
has never faltered, she has lent the greatest
The Washington times., 1938-10-31
Invaluable to Directors

MISS OREnLY has been the right arm OF
AVA every director for the last Is years. and
they all admit it gladly. Senator McAdoo, the
first Secretary Of the Treasury I ever knew, is
most ardent in his praise Of her. And when HE
gets ardent, you can imagine how he mandates
everything with his vocabulary!
Andrew Mellon and ogden Reed always had
wonderful things to say about her: she was
adored by Mitchell Palmer, former Attorney
General, who sang her praises continually. It's
Q welLknown fact that the present able Secre-
tary of the Treasury, Henry Morgenthau, jr.,
holds her in the highest esteem; he told me just
two days ago "how he hates to see her go and
how lost he will feel without her."
The Washington times., 1938-10-31
By tEUie' Robert

character to her Federal post, and, though she
has never been fortunate enough to receive the
VERY highest honor Of her department, is an
outstanding example Of what a woman can do.
She is Civil Service Parsonage No. 1. Yes, Miss
oRely, you get my biggest reddest apple, and
toast from all Of US.
A ROU to Mrs. D0Oies
7 SAW at luncheon the ever beautiful Mrs. Jo-
l. seph E. Davies, wife Of our ambassador to
Belgium.
AS we sat and chatted could not help but
think that we are indeed lucky to have as an
ambassadress such woman as she. With her
natural grace and charm, her democratic atti-
tude, and her ever-ready sweetness, she surely
must make her colleagues" sit UP and take notice"
My, how wish she'd stay here more. A person
feels better for having seen her. With her was a
tremendous mass of silver fox. which, when it
unfolded, proved to be none other than Mrs.
Davies most recently acquired Stepdaughter,
Mrs. Millard e. Tydings Of the Free State of
Maryland.
The Washington times., 1938-10-31

FOR MEN AND THRIFTY WOMEN WHO BUY FOR MEN!
Low priced aren't news But when get such fine
quality we'll raloed nationally known "XACT FIT ADJ
ABLE COLLAR SHIRTS AT ONLY 81 That's sensation!
Crisp clean fresh hrand the first time this extremely low
nrce Practically evev one of these exact F and Hecht Co.
shirts woven thru Every shirt bears its original LABEL
Broadclot Madrases Chambays Even Rayon Satin Strpes
Five styles regular collars fused collars tabs short tabess
collars neckbands in the groups Sizes l3 IT,
You'll buy them by the armfu It's of the finest shirt sales
we've seen in many day.
Mems Funshin
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1938-01-13
LOOK AFTER OUR YOUTH
AN EDITORIAL

The Boy Scout Troop Committees and Court Honor
ing letter the Mayor Council this week pointing out the
YOUTH have struck vibrant note. This subject that
has been the minds of for months and
Truly members of the Town Council representatives of the
citizens here have responsibility to youth That response
by includes thinking of their welfare providing places of
reaon and activities that will tend to develop character
At present there above the Council room IN the City
organization The scouts use it, band American Legion
the State Employment Service and others it.
the get called every and
then reprimanded for making much This
perfectly anyone who knows boys that
them still for very long would require miracle The second
floor building ideal place for boys play games
but it is the only spot available
What the what The
Republican also earnestly urges united interest and def
mite action the distant future toward the erection of
community oulcngone that would take care OF not only the
scout organizations and band but give boy and girl in
town to for recreation place to to keep them out
of mischief.
community building on the towns property on north Third
street adjacent to the tennis courts would be likely spot The
could be flooded winter time for skating Inside
there would be basketball roller skating ping pong bowling and
for meeting places.
At the present time there nothing youth There
parks The town council has Forbidden coasng the streets
alleys of town 1t leaves them with nothing to do except gather
in gangs and perhaps get into mischief
is the belief of The Republican that something should be
done toward taking of future citizens The City Council
went to great deal of erect golf to provide
recreation for older citizens petition the of
getting this construction started 1t suggested that the Scout
Troop Committee or some other organization start petition to
Ppresent to the COuncnOt demand but simply demon
saon of the interest there among the taxpayers for boys
and girls of the community.
community building surely needed There has some
talk about Federal posofce building here and active Demo
their congressman may Federal
building But need community building far Once
Federal building placed here would contain only the post
Office and Federal Offices 1t would be tax free and there would
system of teephOnng working Terra Alta. AS
installed four girls lost employment and it said the
is not at all satisfactory.
But community building would pay dvidendf not in actual
it would in the character Of future citizens here
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1938-01-13
Card Party Planned For Church
Home and Infrmary Benefit

To help raise its share Of the $780,,
900 campaign fund which the Church
Home and Infirmary of Baltimore IS
sponsoring, beginning next week st.
Matthews Parish in Oakland is plan
ming to hold a card party in the church
Parish House, Center and Second
streets, on Friday, January q, at 8
p. m. The public is cordially invited to
attend. Bridge, five hundred and finch
will be played.
Sponsors of the card party for this
worthy charitable institution are the
local physicians and their wives: DIR.
and Mrs. E. l. Baumgartner, DR.. and
Mrs. N. /. Broadwater, DR.. and Mrs.
M. C. limbaugh and DR.. and Mrs. H..
w. McComas. The committee on ar
rangements is headed by Robert W..
Sheckells and includes the following
ladies and gentlemen: Mrs. Joseph
Browning, Mrs. Charles Butler, Mrs.
Dora Coddington, Miss Martha Con
der, Mrs. William Murphy, Miss nellie
Nethken, Mrs. r. w. Sheckells, Mrs.
Albert Thrasher, Harley Dawson,
Donald Davis and William Murphy.
The Church Home and Inirmary is
one of the oldest hospitals in Balti-
more, with an eighty-year record of
unfailing service. Since the founding
of this hospital in the year 1858 only
one appeal for public aid has been
made. Should the present campaign
meet with success, it will mean that
the institution will be established on
stable financial basis. The hospital
ministers to people of all groups and
faiths in the City of Baltimore and in
the State of Maryland. Many from
this county have received treatment
there in the past and Of these some
were cared for free Of charge.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1938-01-13
Building Pole Line To Accident
And Friendsville

Employees of the Chesapeake and
Potomac Telephone Company have be-
gun the construction of telephone
line from Oakland northward to in
clude Hoyes, Accident and Friends
vile and residents between the points
above named. The c. & P. Company
has taken over the original line that
has been in operation spasmodically
for number of years, until recently
when the service was practically NIL.
The telephone company now has ten
men at work on the pole line and %
of the LILO holes to accommodate a
like number of poles have been dug
and some of the poles have been put
in position. The work will not be COM
pleted until late in April or early in
the month Of May.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1938-01-13
HAS FIRST RIDE IN AUTO
AT AGE OF THIRTY ONE
Garrett COuntian Never on Train
And Is Puzzled BY Electricity

Although thirty-one years old
"Buck" Broadwater's first automobile
ride was on Friday when Garrett
county officers took him from his
mountain home above Bond, on the
Seventeen-Mile grade, and brought
him to Oakland. Relief workers.
health nurses and neighbors had re-
ported him as undernourished, more
or less mentally undeveloped and not
properly cared for in the primitive
home where he resided with his father
and two brothers. He will be examined
some day this week to determine on
his commitment to an institution OF
the State where he will receive ade-
quate care and treatment.
The young man recalls with enthu-
siasm a trip he made to Piedmont
when a youngster, the farthest he haC
ever travelled from home. He had seer
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad trains
occasionally on the Seventeen-Mile
grade, but had never travelled by rail
He soon adapted himself to automo-
bile travel, officers said. When shown
an electric light in the sheriff's office
and told to put it out" he blew at ii
as he would have done to extinguisf
an oil lamp or candle in his home. He
was much puzzled at his inability tc
affect the light until shown the swift
that controlled everything.
States Attorney Neil Fraley, fol
lowing an assertion by Broadwatel
that "Im too dumb to know much,
remarked that he must be a Democrat
in that case The mountaineer said he
wasn't a Democrat but was "toc
dumb" to remember the name of his
political party. When a Democra
present suggested that he must GER
tainly be a Republican, Broadwate1
dumbfounded the Garrett Republicans
by saying:
"That's it; that's what l ana Re
publican"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1938-01-13
Assessments OF Utility Com
panies Increased More Than
A Million Dollars In County

One Of the big hurdles necessary
before the completion of the re-assess-
ment in Garrett county, was success
fully passed on Monday and Tuesday
when a hearing or a series of hearings
was held before the County Commits
sioners relative to the assessments of
utility companies operating in the
county.
Michael J. Lindsey, head of the
State Tax Commission, and C. A.
Mees, of Georgia, who is special en-
gineer, were in Oakland assisting R.
c. McComas, supervisor of assess
ments of the county, and the Board
of County Commissioners.
According to reliable reports, the
total assessments of the utility COM
panies will be increased approximate
ly one and one-quarter million dol
lars. The present assessment figures
are more than five millions on utilities
company property.
New figures on the assessments of
these companies are not now availa-
BILE. The old figures show how the COM
panies are assessed. They include the
Youghiogheny Hydro-Electric Cor
poration, 1885, 793; West Maryland
Power Company, $1O1,O5O; c. & P.
Telephone Company, $18,295; c. & A,
Gas Company, $112,489; American
Telephone and Telegraph Company
$21 ,21O; Potomac Transmission Com
pany, S2O3,952. Total, S5,312,735. Rep
resentatives of these companies APP
peared before the Board on Monday
and Tuesday relative to their assess
ments.
The assessment must be completed
within few days and the levy for the
new year made on or before the first
of February.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1938-01-13
Says He Will File For State Sen
atOr From Garrett County

While in Cumberland yesterday,
Hugh Carey Mcmahon, of District No.
8, Garrett county, announced his in
tention of filing as a candidate for
State Senator from Garrett county in
the coming State primary election.
Mr.. McMahon's home is five miles
west of Frostburg. He will run on the
Democratic ticket. He is veteran Of
the World War. -Four years ago he
was a belated candidate for the same
office but failing to file his papers in
time his name did not appear on the
ballot. He says his platform will be
the same as it was four years ago.
Mcmahon has lately been making a
tour of Allegany and Garrett counties
in behalf of the gubernatorial candi-
dacy of Herbert r. O'Conor.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1938-01-13
Local History Transpiring In
Garrett County During The
War Between The States

There was printed in The Republi-
can last Thursday Part One of an his
torical article written by Capt. Charles
E. Hove, of Oakland, dealing with the
raid made by the Confederate General
Jones through the Oakland section Of
Garrett county during the Civil War.
Part Two of the article appears to-
day, which closes the interesting as
well as informative story.
Part One of the article was quite
well received by readers Of The Re
publican, and while Part Two deals
more with occurrences happening over
in our neighboring county Of Preston,
in West Virginia, when the Confeder-
ates crossed the line into the adjacent
State. interest in the doings OF the
men composing the raiding party re-
mains.
Being of such local character and in
tended to give the present generation
a record of events happening three
quarters of a century ago, County SUI
perintendent Franklin E. Rathbun has
nlaced an order with The Republican
for large number of reprints Of the
article, which will be off the press
late during the present week. The
printing will be done on six by nine
inch pages and will be bound in pam
phlet form for distribution among stu
dents in the various high schools OF
the county.
Other articles dealing with local his
tory are now in course Of preparation
by Captain Hoye and these will be
published in The Republican in due
time.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1938-01-13
To Complete Deer Park-MOun-
tain Lake Park Highway

The State Roads Commission is ad-
vertising for bids in today's issue of
The Republican for the construction
of PIG miles of hard surface highway
on the Deer Park-Mountain Lake
Park road.
The road has been completed for
practically half the distance between
the two points for more than two
years. The extension of the road for
the distance advertised will complete
the highway to the Sand Flat-Deer
Park road just north of Deer Park,
thus giving the people of that COM
munity easy access to Oakland and
will cut the distance now travelled by
motorists desiring to go from Oakland
to Deer Park and points beyond dur
ing wet and stormy weather some ten
miles or more.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1938-01-13
Masonic Officers Installed

Officers of the Oakland Masonic
lodge were installed Tuesday evening
at a regular communication OF the
craft as follows:
Neil V. Liller, worshipful master;
Robert T. Hoffman, senior warden;
Arthur Lawton, junior warden; Har-
land L. Jones, secretary; Cecil Smith,
treasurer; S. Townshend Naylor, SEN
ior deacon; Irwin R. Rudy, junior dea-
con; C. H. Browning, junior steward;
George H. Hanst, tyler; Rev. Charles
A. Shilke, chaplain. In the absence OF
Wayne Reed, Westernport, deputy
grand lecturer, Delbert M. Davis was
the installing officer, with Walter W.
Dawson, district inspector, as mar
shall.
Refreshments were served IN the
clubroom at the conclusion of the bus
mess session.