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The Washington times., 1938-07-20
Church Meeting
To Discuss Center

Prospects for a large center Of
cooperative enterprises in the Ma
tion's Capital will be the topic
of a panel discussion tomorrow
night at the Cleveland Park Con-
Hregational Church,
The Washington times., 1938-07-20

the Potomac up above Great Falls,
where the swift current enters the
intake of the huge viaducts that
carry the water Is miles to the
Capital.
From the viaducts, the water
pours into lower Lake Dalecarlia,
where the process of filtration and
publication takes place. In the
lake much of the mud and sedi-
ment carried in the water settles
to the bottom.
Four booster pumps are then
used to lift the water some Is or
20 feet to the upper lake, where
the process Of publication is con.
tinued.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1938-04-07

The plea that the dictatorship ut
terance was justified by the tactics of
the opposition and was, in fact, clever
stuff planned to take advantage of an
opportunity is rendered absurd by sew
eral things. One is that there was
nothing in his utterance which he had
not emphatically said before and
which had not been said for him many
times. The second was because he used
as a vehicle a four-day-old letter to
an anonymous friend, which justified
skepticism as to whether it was gen
uine. The third-and most remarkable
of all-was the waiting to give it out
until after one o'clock in the morning,
when the correspondents, telegraph
and telephone operators had to be
routed out of bed and only few morn
ing newspapers could get the news in
their late editions anyhow.
X
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1938-04-07

Andrew and Mr.. and Mrs. Irwin Gus
ter were guests on Sunday of Mr. and
Mrs. T. S. Custer.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. j. Alexander and
daughter nellie spent last Saturday in
Cumberland.
Mr.. and Mrs. Foster Yost and Mrs.
Allie Speicher spent last Sunday in
Friendsville.
Miss Kathryn Speicher was in Bal
timore with friends over the weekend.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Hetrick attended
the funeral of the late Floyd Lininger
at Westernport last Saturday.
Waldo Zinkan, Miss Mary Bach and
Mrs. Luther Keller made a business
trip to Frostburg on Wednesday.
Miss Nina Peck motored to Cum
berland Monday night to attend a
meeting of dealers.
Mrs. D. G. Speicher and family and
Mrs. H. j. Speicher were shopping in
Oakland Saturday night.
John Rush and family were visiting
relatives in Accident over the past
weekend.
Misses Harriet Calls and Ruth Ault,
students at State Teachers College,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1938-04-07

Thus it is clear these alibis are too
weak to stand and the Presidents
more radical friends substitute in
vective for argument, which, at any
rate, is more in harmony with his own
language and mood. They gloat over
Mr.. McCarl, who ceased to be Comp
troller General a year ago and who,
it is said, first incurred the White
House wrath by vetoing an eXpendi-
ture of half a million dollars for
Mrs. Roosevelt's Reedsville project.
And they lambast Senator Byrd as a
budget balancer, which seems to have
become a New Deal term of reproach.
And they jeer and sheer at the organ
izations and individuals who, exer-
cising their constitutional right, pro-
tester against the bill.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1938-04-07
ACCIDENT
Community Church Services

community Church services
Church of the Brethren, Rev. A. D.
Scrogum, Pastor-9:30 a. M, Sunday
school; 1920, worship service.
Accident Lutheran Parish, Rev. G.
NJ. Kunkle, Pastor-Accident, $3.50 a.
M, Sunday school; 1915, Communion
service; 7:30 p. M, Luther League,
Cove church, Holy Week services on
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday
evenings; also Friday night at 500
p. M; Communion service Easter Sun
day morning at 1916. Friendsville, 10
a. M, Sunday school
Zion Lutheran Church, Rev. C. F.
Dauphin, Pastor, $3.50, Sunday school;
1920, worship service; 1880 p. M,
Lenten service.
Amateur Contest
Members of the senior class of the
local high school are sponsoring an
amateur contest, which will be held
Friday evening, April 8. Prizes will be
awarded. Any person or group of per-
sons may enter the contest by sending
name or names to the secretary of the
senior class.
Personals and Minor News
Mrs. Florence Schlossnagle and son
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1938-04-07

1t seems to be realized that, first, in
the use of the word purchase" in re-
ferring to the Senate, and, second, in
selecting the middle of the night to
make his dictatorship declaration, Mr..
Roosevelt gave an exhibition well cal
culated to make people generally Won
der what has become of his self-con-
troll. At any rate, these things foster
the feeling that he is in a highly dis
turbed state, in which his judgment
cannot be trusted and his emotions
and prejudices are dominant.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1938-04-07
THE GREAT
GAME OF
POLITICS.
Copyright by the Baltimore Sun and
reprinted in The Republican by
special permission.
Not A Pretty Picture
By FRANK r. KENT

Washington, April 2.
Tha 1.-THE extraordinary outbursts in
which the President recently INDUCED
at Warm Springs have caused his
friends great concern is evidenced by
the exceedingly strained journalistic
efforts to smooth over and explain.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1938-04-07

were weekend guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
E. H. Ault.
Mrs. James ]. Riley, of New York
City, spent two weeks here with her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin Georg.
Miss Helen Glotfelty spent the
weekend at her home in McHenry.
John Shoemaker and family were
recent guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Jasper
Grove at Guard.
Miss Lena Georg, Frostburg, Wis
tied her parents here Saturday and
Sunday.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1938-04-07

calm, earnest Executive, anxious to
sink personal prejudice in the public
interest, the impression he conveys
is that of an infamed and angry man,
intent upon showing his opponents
that he has the upper hand. This isn't
pretty picture. Once they get a
clear view of it, there is apt to arise
among the people a strong disposition
to turn it to the wall.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1938-04-07

How little we pay our way in life!
Although we have our purses con-
tinually in our hand, the better
part of service goes still unreward-
ed.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1938-04-07

1t is, perhaps, unfortunate for the
President that his defenders are split
into two groups, each of which sings a
different tune. One, for example, in
lists that he meant no reflection upon
the Senators who voted against his
bill when, in effect, he said they had
been purchased, and that his nocturnal
dictatorship declaration was to knock
down the "straw man" which a par
tisan opposition had set up. 1t seems
almost unnecessary to point out that
neither of these explanations explain.
To say that he did not intend to re-
fleet upon the opposing Senators does
not make sense. If he did not mean to
charge them with being purchased,
why did he use the word? Why did he
insist on the word after his scared
secretary nudged him to be careful :?
What other idea could he possibly
have had in mind? The fact is that it
was an inexcusabIe and insulting ref
erence, made in anger and intended to
apply to the men opposing him, among
them some of his heretofore loyal sup
porters and friends, toward whom he
is particularly resentful.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1938-04-07
Lesson for April 10
FINDING OURSELVES
IN SERVICE

LESSON TEXT-Mark 8:27-38.
GOLDEN TEXT-"What shall it profit
man, if he shall gain the whole world, and
lose his own soul?"-Mark 1886.
PRIMARY TOPIC-What Peter Found
Out.
JUNIOR TOPIC-Peter's Right Answer.
INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC
Making Life Count Through Service.
YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC
Finding the Richest Life Through Service.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1938-04-07
Discussion

The more discussion the better, if
passion and personalities be es-
cheWed.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1938-04-07

This whole Warm Springs bust
ness can hardly help but be deeply
disturbing to those who appreciate the
gravity of the present state of ma
tional affairs and hope for some form
of constructive leadership from the
President. 1t has certainly increased
the bitterness between him and Con-
gress. 1t is additional evidence that,
ar from trying to bring about the
sort of cooperation which the business
crisis calls for, the President is bent
apon pursuing his political as well as
his economic feuds. Instead of the
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1938-04-07
Pain

Pain is in itself a sharp discipline
and hard to bear.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-08
Not a Constituent

An odd sidelight on the way representa- tive government sometimes works - or fails to work-in America was furnished the other day in the capitol building of the state of Ohio. Ohio has 're1lef crisis" on it's hands; has had it, of and on, for a long time. In its great industrial cities scores of thousands of people are desti- tute, and there is no more money to spend on them. From time to time the problem has been handed to the legislature, but each time the legislature has stalled and fumbed and let the problem slide.
 So the other day the speaker of the state House of Representatives called an unusual conference at the capitol. It was attended by representatives of the legis- lature, the governor of the state-and all of the leading lobbyists Primarily, it was openly and avoWedly a conference of lab- byists; and veteran reporter covering the state house wrote of it as follows "Despairing of the possibility that the legislature would pass any progrom as long as powerful Hobbies were opposing revenue-raising bills, Uible (the speaker; called the lobbyists themselves into session"
 These lobbyists included group known as the Inter-Organization Conference, business lobby which is said to be Gin virtual control' of the State Senate; the Township Trustees Association, which has exercised vast control over the House; the school lobby, the State Farm Bureau, the Grange, and the State Federation ot Labor
 Now if this action does not come close to confession that the peoples elected representatives have abdicated their func- tions and have turned their consciences over to the lobbyists, it is hard to see just what it does mean. Certainly no legisla- ture that felt it's own sovereignty and recognized it's clear duty to it's constitu- ents would tumble helplessly with dire problem for months and then turn meek ly to the representatives of special inter- ests with the humble request that it be informed what sort of bill it might be permitted to pass
 Yet this is no scandalously uncommon situation. In lesser degree the same sort of thing has happened, over and over again in many other state capitals. The invisible government" that reformers have been yelping about for so long is no isolated growth peculiar to Ohio Instead, this sort of thing is part of the picture of American politics. Our elected repre- sentatives have grown more sensitive to the appeals and commands of the pres sure groups than to the requests of the voters And in that fact you have large part of the explanation for the ineffi- ciency and unresponsiveness of American state governments.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-08
Think It Over, Boys

All excited are the Democrats who are going to put Archibald McNeil up in place of U. s. Senator Augustine Lonergan this fall. They're enthuSed over their chances of having the Fairfield County Democrat, former national committeeman, secure the nomination when the state conven- ton is held this fall. But perhaps their enthusiasm may be just bit dampened today by what happened out in Iowa where quasi-Ant-NeW Dealer secured the senatorial nominaton in a brush with 8 congressman who had approval of Harry Hopkins and James Roosevelt
 They were enough impressed at Wash ington by Senator Guy M Gllette's pri- mary victory Monday that Postmaster General James M. Farley dispatched telegram of congratulations to the sena- tor. This was done, too, after MT, Farley had had White House conference Of course, it can't be said that the admins tration was out and out for Senator Gill lette's opponent. It actually didn't say or do anything. But the fact tnat it main tained silence when Harry Hopkins and James Roosevelt were endorsing the can didacy of Representative Otha D. Wearn was enough to convince the politically wise that the sign was out to "kill off" Gillette who had failed in one New Deal test.
 We wonder if now those who are out to find an opponent for Senator Lonergan at the nominating convention may not run into the same sort of trouble. The Hartford legislator is too well-liked by the rank and file of the Democrats in Connec- ticut to find himself dtched. And with the unanimous support of all the Demo- cratic leaders these sporadic movements had better center their attention on solid- flying the party's position in the state rather than advancing individual candi- dacies. It will be better to do this now and profit in November.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-08
A Book a Day
A Country Doctor Has Recollections
CHRISTIAN.

Rich in homspun philosophy and humor and filled with enough med ical adventures for a dozen vol- umes, Fifty Years a Country Doc tor" by Dr. William N. Mccartney (Dutton: $3.50, is a saga of that hardy, wealthy-in-friends though poor-in-purse practitioner, now fast disappearing from the American scene.
 Dr. Mccartney is a story-teller par excellence, and he has gone deep into the memories of a half century of ministering to 8 northern New York state community of farmers, French Canadians and In- dians to i'll his book with innumer- able anecdotes of fact and fun. No gloomy tone of the martyrdom of a self-sacrificing medico in this.
 The country doctor, Mccartney writes, is nearly absolute monarch of his own domain, however small. "He can follow his cases from gen. eration to generation he can live his own life" And there is plenty of work to make 8 good liv- ing.
 Macartney's book also discusses most of the common ailments of his patients, and tells remedies and treatment he has employed. Whether his advice is worthy must be left to the judgment of the medical profeSsion.-T. H.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-08

Connecticut's state flower, the laurel, will be in full bloom by another week if not sooner. Such days as yesterday will hurry it along. We have some wonderful displays of it in the northwestern section of the state, the Winsted, New Hartford and points east and north sections espe- cially In the woods it is beautiful sight, sometimes whiteish and sometimes deli cately pink. We also have type seen hereabouts that grows in low bushes in the meadow and pasture lands This is sometimes called sheep laurel. There are more than 1000 species of laurel, but don't be alarmed or concerned, there's just about two that we are interested in here in Connecticut, the mountain laurel and ground laurel. Tropical species of laurel include the alligator pear, cin- namon, camphor tree and greenheart The most important thing to remember about laurel while you are admiring it for time in June is not to pick it; just look at it and admire to your hearts content.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-08
Meritorious Service

When Judge John F. McGrath con- cludes his judicial duties on July 1 and retires from the City Court bench long and honorable career will be terminated. We don't doubt but what Waterbury's senior judge is perhaps the best-known in this state. Not only has his service extended over long period of years, go- ing oil the way back to 1916, which was, as you may note, a full year before the United States entered the World War, but it has been the type of service to merit reappointment each time that his name was presented to the Legislature.
 Waterbury has come to know, respect, and admire Judge McGrath. The city has found him not man set apart from the rest of us by virtue of the judicial robes that he donned day after day to dispense justice in court where every walk of life was represented. In his long years on the city court bench the good humor that was part of his makeup, the infinite sense of mercy that came with knowl- edge of the problems of mankind as they must be thrashed out in court all tended to make him very human type of person. When he retires to private life or the practice of the legal profession he will take with him the knowledge that his service to the community has been ap- preciated
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-08
PressCOnlrnent
TREES ALONG HIGHWAYS
(Hartford Courant)

The State Highway Department has done much beneficial work in planting of trees along various roads. The Silas Deane Highway, for instance. has been lined with naples and willows. The eco has also done much good in thinning undergrowth in such sections as North Madison. The woods will surely increase in value from those efforts.
 However, let the supervisors get buys; let them complete the job. When tree has died, 1t is neither an ornament for the delectation of the public nor shade-giving access sory. Since the trees have been planted at public expense, 1t is only right that the dead ones should be removed gratis. After all, the pub- lie didn't ask for the verdure. And the dead trees are an eyesore to any sensitive autoist.
 Why, by the way, are the sap lngs usually placed on the west ward side of the road, almost never to the east? The French system is to have poplars and other varieties line either side of the highway. Tn England they let the trees alone and gird their lanes with hedges. There can obviously be difference of opinion. But if Connecticut is going to continue its policy of pro- viding the highways with trees, surely the west should not be so consistently preferred to the east, and dead growths ought to be re- moved.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-08
WITH HOLD PRELIMINARY JUDGMENT OF OFFICIALS,
 WRITES CHRISTIAN"

June ', 1888. Editor, Waterbury Democrat:
 I had been under the impression that Rev. John Walker, pastor of the Second Congregational church was one of the more exemplary of our local clergymen, but recent developments incline me to the necessary belief that Rev. MT. Walk CT speaks and acts in many ways as thoughtlessly as do some of his fel- low ministers who seem to spend most of their time making appeals for the Red Spanish government and similar radical causes.
 Let Mir. Hayes resign" says Rev. MT. Walker in letter to your pa- per.
 To that I say let Rev. MT. Walker follow the tenets of the Christian religion which he is supposed to be preaching.
 Let Rev. Mir. Walker grant the mayor at least the opportunity to have his day ir court.
 Let Rev. MT. Walker allow the courts of the state to function, allow them to decide the question of guilt or innocence.
 Let Rev. MT. Walker be a prac- ticing Christian at least to the ex- tent of refraining from statements of hate and malice.
 Let. Rev. MT. Walker attempt to follow the spirit of fair play.
 Rev. MT. Walker calmly says that "the fact remains-that millions of dollars are missing" Perhaps he is in the confidence of the grand jury or perhaps he has just made person. al audit of the city's books, but I would like to see him give public proof of the damning accusation he makes so casually. Is Rev. MT. Walker the judge in the case? And the jury, too?
 AS one Waterburian, however, I am grateful that we have some clergymen who practice what they preach, and who are withholding judgment until guilt or innocence has been proven. They stand forth gloriously in contrast to those like Rev. MT. Walker.
 There has been enough racial and religious bigotry already-in the selection of the grand jury, in the grand jury's investigation, and in the reaction to its report--Without having Protestant clergyman add to it any more.
 CHRISTIAN.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-08
Selected Poem
CARPENTERS GRANDSON

John Holmes in the New York Times My fathers father worked with wood And clean he planed the pine. And when he sawed board in two, He cut 1t on the line His hammer drove the nailhead home. The joints were tight and true. The saWdust in his crowded shop
 Smelt warm and sweet and new. The boards he used were sound and dry. They did not shrink or twist. His eye was better than rule
 Such skill was in his wrist l hope that he would understand
 A thing he never heard: train myself to learn his art
 Who build with word and word.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-08

Devanter, between Frederick and Ellicott City.
 Stanley Reed, the baby Justice of the Court, will. like Butler, turn agrarian for the summer. As Solicitor General, Reed worked unsparingly, with no vacation in four years. So he and Mrs. Reed now have gone to the Reed farm near Maysville, Ky, and expect to stay there all summer.
 Bachelor Bliss
 In the same state is bachelor Justice McReynolds, stretching his legs in the old home aJ Elkton. Last summer McReynolds went abroad, and this year Elkton prob ably will not hold him long. He will be back in Washington brief ly, then strike out for parts as yet unknown.
 Justice Roberts, newly proud father-in-law, is on his fine Ches- ter County, Pa, dairy farm, where daughter Elizabeth last Saturday (June D became Mrs. Charles Hamilton. Robert expects to stay in Pennsylvania all summer.
 Justice Cardoz0, who has been i'll much of the present term, has left his Washington home well locked, with the telephone dis connected. A call to this number, Decatur 1233, brings special op- erator:
 "What number are you call- ing, please? ... The telephone is disconnected for . party by the name of Cardozo."
 Do you mean Supreme Court Justice Cardozo?"
 Sorry, sir, I do not know."
 Cardozo has gone to his home at New Rochelle N. Y.
 Only member Of the Court who has no definite plans for the sum- mer is Justice Hugo Black. The Blacks will brave Washington heat for most of the summer, later may visit an even hotter place than Washington (if that is possible)- their old home in Alabama.
 Ut"
 Lieutenant Governor Henry F. Schricker has been tagged "it" by Indiana Democratic moguls to make the race against Senator Fred Van Nuys, whom the Admin istration has earmarked for the axe.
 Personally, Schricker would liked to have stayed out of this years melee and run for gover- norship in 1940. But he was the most likely candidate on whom party masterminds could agree, and being a loyal organization man, Schricker downed his own desires and said yes.
 The Indiana politicos have pri- vate assurances from the presi- dent that he will throw his full weight behind the party's selection to unseat Van Nuys.
 Copyright, 1888, by United Fea-
 ture Syndicate, Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-08

There is an appreciable falling off in reservations for boat travel abroad and elsewhere this summer, according to re- ports. This notwithstanding special hol- lday rates and nice arrangements for tourist travel for the student. But as things are the offerings for those who have not the wherewithal to travel de luxe, first or second class or cabin, or even freight passage along with the bananas and cabbages, the S. s. travel rates will have to be even more attractive, much as our American people like to Sea-gO.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-08
Daily Almanac

Moon sets 2:3l a. m. daylight time)..
 Sun rises 5:20 a. m.; sets 8:22 p. m. (day- light time).
 All vehicles must be lighted thirty minutes after sunset.
 It's bat No, it's a moth! And 1t was the latter, one of the beautiful night variety that makes its infrequents appearance at this time of year. attracted by house light. It flut- tered outside the window, huge green wings, long tail pinions. delicately curled at the end. Night-moths grow to huge sizes and are beautifully marked.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-08

Emil Ludwig, who writes biographies, has just had his latest one published This is Roosevelt. And judging by the critics it's not so hot He doesn't seem to have properly placed the president, and makes quite mixup of the various Roosevelts, how they are related and so on. According to what we read his book is pleasant enough reading but quite sprinkled with inaccuracies.