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Evening star., 1939-09-05
Thinks Night Air May Make
Sphere Trovel Foster.

pitchers look faster at night"
said. "Is that only an optical illu-
sion?"
II can't prove it," Ray said, "but
I believe they actually are faster
I really believe the air Is thinner
and lighter at night and that there
Is less resistance to the ball. Every
pitcher I have spoken to about it
agrees with me. Even those who
have more success at night than
they do in the dayhght-and night
baseball is very largely pitcher's
game-don't like it. but they dc
admit that they feel stronger when
they are pitching at night, and il
they feel stronger it seems to me
they should be faster"
You say it's pitchers game
How about the other players? How
are they affected by it?"
The big disadvantage rests with
the hitter" he said. Even with
the improvement in the lights-anc
you can have no idea how great
an improvement there has beer
unless you played under the lights
four or five years ago--the number
OF strikeouts mounts in a night
game. The hitters don't like to &c
to bat against the real fast bal
pitchers at highland you CAM
blame them.
Speed of Boil Difficult
To Gauge Under Arcs
"As far as the inflelders are con.
cerned, don't think there is much
difference, If any AS an outf1elder
here's what I noticed:
The visibility is good and you
can see the ball all the way
better, very often, than you can in
daylight. But you never get usec
to the speed with which it comes
to you. At least, I never did. I'o
be setting myself for a catch anc
the ball would be right in on me
so fast I'd be lucky to catch it
Or I'd play line drive for a base
hit and then realize that I coulo
have caught it on the line.
But, for an outielder, the game
has its advantages, too. Shadows
and crowd backgrounds are elm.
mated and, of course, you don't have
to worry about the sun. Take oul
right field in st. Louis, which,
believe, is the worst sun field ir
any major league park and ont
of the worst I've ever seen any.
where. Especially in the late in.
nings the sun is directly in tht
right fielder's eyes, barred shadow
is thrown by the cut-out stand and
by way of complicating matters, {
thin brown smoke rises from thu
chimney of the dryer in the club
house. The result is the righ
fielder, in spite of his sun glasses
frequently doesn't see the ball ever
when it is pitched, and when h.
hears the crack of the bat h
must look around hurriedly to Sc,
where the ball has been hit.
Night baseball would remove
those hazards and make that fielt
as easy to play as any in tn
league"
Evening star., 1939-03-19
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AFTER FUTILE ATTEMPTS ne Ue THE ENRAeeo MONSTER
HE IS FINALLY ROPEo TO TREES WHICH HE CANNOT UPRooT
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-03-02
Wild Turkeys Are Increasing In
Maryland, Report Shows

That wild turkeys are increasing in
Maryland during the last few years, is
shown in the annual report of the
State Game Department, issued Mon
day by E. Lee LeCompte, State Game
Warden.
Mr.. LeCompte added, however, that
"due to the deforestation in the West
ern Maryland counties, especially de-
stroyeing the oak, the hickory and the
wild grape, natural food is not as
plentiful as formerly"
To provide more food the warden
said $50 Asiatic chestnut trees, which
are immune to blight, were received
from the Federal Department of Ag-
riculture and planted in four counties.
One hundred trees went to the Thayer
game refuge in this county; 100 to the
Billmeyer refuge in Allegany county,
and % each to Baltimore and Mont
gomery counties.
Thousands of species of game, es-
pecially cottontail rabbits, are killed
annually, it was stated.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-03-02

Uncle Sam and the Federal Govern
ment to get something that has been
needed for many years, which other
wise may never have been obtained.
But to continue indefinitely to match
pennies with Franklin D. will put
every town and State as much in debt
in proportion as the Federal Govern
ment is today.
A convenient shelter of some kind is
needed at the municipal course for
those who play there and for those
who care to watch and wait" But
in our own opinion it is not an urgent
matter that an expensive club house
be erected until the future foretells
whether or not the expense is justified.
The golf course will pay for itself, we
believe, if managed properly, if those
in charge do not lose their heads and
plunge in so far that they will never
come to the surface again.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-03-02
Supreme Auditor Visits Local
Council, Knights of Columbus

Colonel M. j. O'Leary, supreme au-
ditor of the Knights of Columbus in
the United States, was a special guest
of the local council Knights of Column
bus, on Tuesday, February %.
While here he was a guest of Rev.
FIR. William F. Sauer, pastor of St.
Peters church. A dinner was given in
his honor at the Manhattan Hotel at
six o'clock, followed by council meet
ing at 8 o'clock in the council room
of the school where a large number of
members turned out to hear Colonel
O'Leary's special message regarding
the work of the organization through
out the United States.
The following are officers of the To-
cal council: Edward A. Shaffer, grand
knight; William R. Browning, deputy
grand knight; A. G. Hesen, financial
secretary; James E. Hart, treasurer;
Joseph 7. Wolfe, warden; F. R. Shaffer
and H. A. Loraditch, inside and out
side guards, respectively. Trustees are
John R. Murphy, Clarence Murphy
and Leo Helbig. The council meets on
the second Tuesday of each month.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-03-02
Girl of Is Granted License To
Wed Farmer, 81, At
Cumberland

A giggling girl of Is became bride
at Cumberland. She was Rosetta Jane
Broadwater, of Barton, and the bride
groom was Arthur Columbus Rounds,
21-year-old farmer of the Grantsville
community.
The girls parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Harmon G. Broadwater, accompanied
the pair and gave their consent when
the license was applied for Monday.
Court house attaches at Cumberland
said the girl smiled happily as she an
swered the required questions.
Fifteen is the youngest age at which
girls have been licensed to wed in
Cumberland for many years. A recent
ruling by Attorney General William
C. Walsh held that a girl of twelve
may legally marry with her parents
consent. Suggesting that the legisla-
ture establish a minimum law, he said
that the common law age of twelve
ruled in the absence of a statute.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-03-02
Sunday Services In Community
Churches
Red House Lutheran Parish


Services next Sunday at st. Luke's
and Red House at the usual time. In
addition to Sunday school and young
peoples meeting at Gnegy church,
there will be a service of song from
1870 until 400, to which all are most
cordially invited.
Lord, Help Mel" This is the text of
the sermon by the pastor. During the
Lenten season, he is making a more
careful study of the doctrines of sal
walton. Thoughtful meditation leads to
changes in the Christians life and in
his conduct. We are reminded of the
sacrifice of Christ for our sins and are
led to repentance, to willing self-de-
NAL and develop a more vigorous
faith. We are distressed by the sin and
suffering about US; we pray for loved
ones, but our prayers are not an
swered till we pray more devoutly
and sincerely for ourselves, as the
Borrowing mother of whom we read in
the Gospel for next Sunday.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-03-02
Maple Syrup Industry in Garrett
Given Boost In Sunday Sun

The maple syrup and sugar industry
of Garrett county was given boost
in the Metrogravure section Of the
Baltimore Sunday Sun last Sunday,
February &c. An entire page was
given over to the subject "Maryland's
Maple Syrup Begins to Rise.
The pictures were taken on the farm
of Simon M. Yoder, near Grantsville,
and showed views of the sugar camp,
the annual activity of tapping the
trees, hanging the pals, gathering the
sap, and making the sugar water into
syrup.
Mr.. Yoder uses on his farm nearly
700 pals in gathering the liquid. He
retails about two-thirds of the out
put and sends about a third to Yer
mont in large drums.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-03-02

he can to catch and destroy. If you
want to help the farmer and the
sportsman why not protect the fox?
If we have money to spend why not
get our game warden to buy some
silver and black foxes and give them
a chance here. Some of you know
there are many men who make a
profitable business of raising foxes.
Won't you help to make our legisla-
tors know it is wrong to pay a bounty
to destroy natures beauty? A few
years ago some of our good men
buried that unfair and dirty law. Why
does anyone want to dig it up?
SAM LEWIS.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-03-02
This Correspondent Holds That The
Weasel Is Not A Predatory Ami
NAL And That The Fox Exists
Principally On Rodents, There
fore An Aid To Farmers
Oakland, Md, March l, 1899

Oakland, Md, March /, 1899.
To the Editor of The Republican.
AS there seems to be some con-
troversy among the sportsmen OF
Garrett county in regard to a bounty
on certain socalled predatory animals,
l thought I would express my opinion.
1t seems to be widely believed that
the weasel is very destructive ami
NAL of our small game, but do not
believe it is. A Cornell Extension
bulletin lists the fall and winter food
of the weasel as follows: Mice, rats,
shrews and chipmunks, 1877 per cent;
birds, frogs and snakes, 80 per cent;
rabbits, 1871 per cent. From this one
can easily see that the weasel is not
harmful, but is actually beneficial.
The few rabbits that the weasel does
kill are probably sick or wounded by
hunters.
The fox is also regarded as very
destructive animal to game but an
entomologist of the University of
Minnesota found, after examining the
contents of ninety-two foxes that their
winter food consists of from Sc to 60
per cent rodents, such as mice and rats
anu are IlSIS1OIe VI SICdC oid w CLAN
farmer as is the weasel.
Let us not forget that the value of
raw furs to the trapper averages
about S60,0OO,0OO a year and that
there are about 100000 trappers in
the United States and about 1880
in Maryland, and l am quite sure that
few of them want bounty on any fur
bearing animal because Of the destruc-
tive habits of these animals.
The value of raw furs taken in the
United States ranks fifth among all
natural resource occupations, includ-
ing agriculture. Surely such an occu-
patton is worthy of protection.
In my opinion the only predators
that are destructive enough to justify
indiscriminate killing are the stray
cat and dog. Many of the killings
blamed on the fox and weasel are done
by cats and dogs, as they are not ma
tive animal and are very destructive,
as wild game has not learned to cope
with them.
If all the people interested in wild
life would cooperate in the protec-
ton and restoration of it, instead Of
offering bounties, the wild life of this
county would benefit greatly.
A HUNTER, TRAPPER AND
SPORTSMAN.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-03-02
IN DAYS OF OLD
FORTY YEARS AGO

Robins had made their appearance
in Oakland; there were three cases of
smallpox in Cumberland, thaw had
begun after cold snap that sent the
mercury to % below; two children of
Joseph Murphy were i'll of diphtheria;
wheat was peeping out in patches
from under the snow.
Editorial opinion had the following:
Gin these times man can never tell
with any degree of certainty whether
within a weeks time he will be frozen
by the cold, drowned by the thaw, or
sunstruck."
Rev. Frank A. B. Wunnenberg, pas
tor of st. Peters Catholic church,
who had been at Hoyes and who
wanted to get to Oakland, had to go
to Friendsville, then to Confluence,
and thence to Cumberland. At Cum
berland he found no trains were run
ming due to snow, but arrived here the
following day just in time to celebrate
the church holiday, Ash Wednesday.
Ladies of the Presbyterian church
were serving supper at MAYORS Hall
on Railroad street to liquidate the
church debt.
Dixon and Kelso were compelled to
enlarge their store room because of
their growing business.
Austin Brown, who purchased the
Pennington property on Second street,
was having a number of repairs made.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
Fifty or more persons ment in the
Court House and formed an organiza-
ton for the protection of fish and
game in Garrett county.
The Firm Rock School sent money
order for $50 to apply toward the cree
ton of monument to the soldiers and
sailors of the World War.
Garrett countians who were in the
service were slowly returning to their
homes. The latest ones to arrive
were Peter Wilt, district II; John
Nair and Albert Walter, Oakland.
The Garrett National Bank had
reached one million dollars in re-
sources.
Albert L. Lee became a candidate
for treasurer of the county, in which
he became successful at the primary
and later at the general election.
1t was announced that the law re-
quiring the display of lights on all
horse-drawn vehicles was to be strict
ly enforced throughout the state.
Lights were to be displayed one-half
hour before sunset until one-half
hour after sunrise on all vehicles using
the public roads.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-03-02
PARAGRAPH OPINIONS
Many Happy Returns

Many Happy Returns
The Congress of the United States
has a birthday March 4. That date
marks the 15Oth anniversary of this
greatest of all great American institu-
tutions-an institution of the people,
by the people and for the people, as
Lincoln to aptly descdibed it.
No elaborate ceremonies will mark
the occasion, but Americans can well
pause on that day and reflect that it
is a joyous occasion. Congress, they
should remember, is the elected voice
of the people in government. 1t is
there to be the peoples servant. In
other lands the citizen has no voice in
government. Instead, the citizen is the
servant Of government.
Born of the Constitution, the Con-
gress is the worlds best example Of
self-government. May free Congress
never perish!
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-03-02
Letters To The Editor
Oakland, Md,
February %, 1889

To The Editor of The Republican:
Mr.. Taxpayer, do you know if there
is bounty bill passed, it will cost a
thousand dollars a year or more to
pay it? Do you want to pay to kill
the fox? If you are a sportsman you
would not want the foxes destroyed.
A report in the paper showed that a
Mr.. DeBerry killed rs foxes this win
ter without any bounty. These hides
will net him around $50. Then why
should the rest of the taxpayers pay
him $50 more when he has already
made $50 and some of you have not
killed any foxes. The real sportsman
loves to chase the fox with his dog
and kill it by his skill. Some don't
kill at all, as the chase is all they
want. Likewise they kill the deer by
their skill, but the intruder is different
from the sportsman. He sets traps,
makes deer ticks and uses any means
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-03-02
And More Returns

The Republican also has birthday
today, beginning its sixty-third vol
ume. The Republican has been much
a part of Garrett county through the
years of it's advancing interests, and
has endeavored to serve the best in
terests of its citizens in presentation
of news events and in its editorial pol
icies.
That its services are we'll recognized
is shown in it's ever-increasing sub
scription list and the faithfulness of
its readers who have been subscribers
for many years. ..'%
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-03-02
| See by The Dailies

/ Harry Il. Hopkins, Secretary OF
Commerce, mapped a Federal pro-
gram for business based on "desire
to create an environment in which
private capital will be encouraged to
invest" but his remarks were not re-
ceived with much enthusiasm by bus
inessmen, who had attempted to CO.
operate with the New Dealers upon
several former occasions and had been
rebuffed.
Nazi Germany has imposed new in
come tax regulations on her bachelors,
spinsters and childless married cou-
pies.
The largest flying boat in the entire
world, the Yankee Clipper, arrived in
Baltimore last Friday afternoon after
| spanning the continent from San
Francisco.
The third national defense bill, pro-
viding for acquisition of great stocks
of stragetic raw materials essential
to industry in time of war, and au-
thorizing an expenditure of $102,000,-
900, was reported to the U. S. Sen
ate by the Military Affairs Commit
tee.
A prediction that an organized at
tempt to abolish the State civil service
system would be made at this session
of the legislature, was made at An
napolis.
The House of Representatives elm
mated from the 3,8O0,0OO air-base
defense bill the navy's program for
strengthening its aviation facilities OH
the mid-Pacifc island of Guam.
The Supreme Court condemned the
action of employees who seized their
employers plant in Shutdown strike,
in an opinion rendered Monday. 1t was
the third major decision delivered
against orders by the National Labor
Relations Board.
The first of twenty-one ultra-mod-
ern flying boats being built for the
navy by the Glenn L, Martin Company,
Baltimore, was launched Saturday.
They are designed for patrol bombing
or general reconnaissance work.
Tax revision, a new deal for rail
roads and utilities and an overhauling
of labor policies, are basic elements
of joint business administration pro-
gram designed to bring about lasting
recovery, some industrial leaders have
proclaimed.
Senator Key Patman, Nevada Dem
ocrat, denouncing dictator states as
intent on dominating the world, de-
clared Monday at New York that Am
orleans would die if necessary to pre-
serve the things they consider worth
more than life" He called for firm
stand in defense of American rights
throughout the universe.
Doctors demonstrating a new oXy-
gen mask for airplane passengers
state that it not only opens the way
to commercial sub-stratosphere flying
but is capable substitute for costly
oxygen tents used in treating pneumo-
MIA patients.
Cardinals at the Vatican will meet
in conclave March 1 to elect a new
Pope Voting will begin March 2.
King George vi, of England, VINO
was guarded by more than 1000 police,
launched Britain's great new battle
ship which bears the name of his late
father, King George V.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-03-02
st. Marks Evangelical Lutheran
Church
Second Street, Oaklal

Second Street, Oakland
REV. A. B. LEAMER, DID,, Pastor
$3.50 a. m. The Church School.
10:45 a. m. The Service of the
Church. Sermon, Faith Has Its Per-
feet Reward"
$50 p. m. The Luther League.
1880 p. m. The second in the series
of Lenten Vesper meditations on
"What We Believe and Why" by the
pastor. The subject for the evening is
ave Believe in Man. Why?"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-03-02
Union Holiness Tabernacle
Third Street, Oakland.

Revival services now in progress,
with Rev. Raymond V. Smith as evan
gelist. Services every night beginning
with music at o'clock and preaching
at 1870.
Sunday: Sunday school at 2 o'clock;
preaching at o'clock and at 1880
by the evangelist, Rev. Smith.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-03-02
st. Paul's Methodist Church, Oakland
Rev. Winfield S. Patterson, Minister

$3.50 a. M, Sunday school. E. Ray
Jones, superintendent.
1O:45 a. M, Morning worship. The
minister will give the second in a
series of Lenten sermons. The sub
ject will be: "The Master, Leader of
Men" Special anthem by the choir.
500, Evening Vespers.
$50. Epworth League.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-03-02
A Change Needed Somewhere

Something should be done to correct
the law which has brought about the
situation in which the County Com
missioners, the bankers and business
men find themselves at the present
time.
Two remedies are suggested.
The collection of taxes should be
so arranged that there would be suf-
ficient cash on hand at all times to
operate the ordinary and proper bus
mess of the county, or the county's
administrators should be empowered
to borrow money, with proper interest
to tide them over during the months
when no tax money is being received
by the Treasurer.
In way the situation created is abb
surd. Banks are founded to give indi-
yiduals a place in which to safeguard
their money, to receive interest on
their investment, to extend credit to
the worthy and to make money for the
stockholders by so doing. They have q
perfect right to expect interest to be
paid on borrowed money, just as any
individual or business concern expects
If banks could not earn money by in
terest on loans they make, how could
depositors expect interest to be paid
on their deposits?
But with a group of taxpayers just
waiting for an opportunity to GUST the
Commissioners from office on the
slightest pretext, it is not hard to re-
alize why they have refused to pay
interest on county orders after then
attorneys have informed them it is not
a legal thing to do.
This situation in regard to interest
payments, borrowing and so on, there
fore, should be remedied, not alone fol
the present Board of County Commits
sioners, but for future Commissioners
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-03-02
Proceed With Care

The City Council, it appears to us,
is proceeding with proper care about
the construction of an elaborate club
house on the municipal golf course.
The outlay of several thousand dol
lars in cash looms pretty big on the
horizon, for a luxury, when the cash
is not available and when there is
money owed and quite bit of uncol-
lected taxes.
Compared to the community build
ing for which the people recently vot-
ed almost three to one, twenty thous-
and dollar club house is luxury, while
the community building is considered
by the majority to be necessity.
That is why in that instance they
are willing to match pennies with
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-03-02
THE REPUBLICAN

Entered at the Postoffice at Oakland,
Md, as second-class mail matter.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-18
Bruce Cation in Washington
Disseets the News

enuers could get nowhere. and
they couldn't get him to talk un-
til they could explode his yarn
that this $4,000 was private
little estate he had built up.
To do that they had to go all the
way back to his boyhood and check
on every single business trans
action he had made.
In the end, they. were able to
demonstrate to Mccormack that
his little story just couldn't pos
sibly be true. Whereopon he broke
down and told the truth, which was
that he had been the pay-off man
in the insurance case, getting cash
from Street in Chicago and taking
it personally to Pendergast.
And when they look back at it,
the revenuers figure that they
ought to get at least little of the
credit for the Pendergast case.