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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-01-12
Honesty Is Not Confined In Gar
rett County Alone

A few weeks ago it was learned
there were still honest people in the
world, specifically in Garrett county,
as lady who found another's purse
returned it to the owner when she saw
an advertisement in The Republican
telling of the loss.
Now it is learned there are also hon
est people outside of Garrett county
in GAINESVILLE, Ohio, for instance.
On December %, Mrs. Julius Rem
ringer was enroute to Dayton, Ohio,
with her son and daughter-in-law, Mr..
and Mrs. Julius C. Renninger, Jr. Ar
irving at Dayton they discovered that
small box containing a rather ex-
pensive velvet dress was missing. They
remembered openeing the car trunk
while in GAINESVILLE, Ohio, where they
had stopped for dinner and presumed
it fell out on the street where they had
parked their car.
On December 81, as the party was
enroute home they passed through
GAINESVILLE again and decided to insert
a "lost" advertisement in newspaper
of that city. On Thursday, January 5,
Mrs. Renninger received letter from
woman in GAINESVILLE stating that she
had found the lost article. The dress is
now back in Mrs. Renninger's posses
sion.
This makes a total of two ladies
in the world that are known to the
public to be very honest. Does anyone
know of any real honest men? They
do, no doubt. And the person reading
this is one of the many.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-01-12
MARYLAND HAS SERVICES
FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN
1887 Children With Some Grip
ping Disability Under
Supervision

A report recently issued by the
State Department of Health on the
services for crippled children in the
counties of Maryland, shows that 1887
children and young people living in
the counties, all of them suffering
from some crippling disability, are
under supervision at present. Children
in Baltimore City, who are similarly
handicapped, are under the supervls-
ion of the Maryland League for Grip
pied Children-the pioneer organiza-
ton by which Statewide clinics and
follow-up care were started over ten
years ago-which continues its CO.
operative connection with the services
for crippled children
The expansion of the services for
crippled children in the counties of
Maryland was made possible by State
appropriations matched by funds from
the Social Security Act under the
Children's Bureau, U. S. Department
of Labor. The services were admins
tered at first by the Board of State
Aid and Charities and were trans
ferred to the State Department of
Health by an Act Of the Legislature
in 1887. Under the terms of the law,
the activities are limited to those
under twenty-one years of age and do
not include services to the deaf and
the blind
The present program is a continual
ton and extension of the plans origi-
nally developed by the League for
Crippled Children. A special effort is
made to locate children suffering from
any Gripping disability in need of sur
gical, hospital or follow-up care. Gin
les at which the children are examined
by physicians with special training in
this particular field, are arranged
through the County Health Depart
ments. Provision is made for hospital
care, if necessary, or for other care or
treatment. Braces, shoes and other ap-
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-01-12
NORTHGLADE

Mr.. and Mrs. Earl johnson and
family were visiting Mr.. and Mrs
John Mellinger at Accident on Sunday.
Mrs. Stephen Rhodes visited Mr.
and Mrs. Carlton Swisher and daugh-
ter, at Keyser, several days last week.
Brad Rhodes and family visited Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Rhodes on Sunday.
Miss Eloise Rhodes was the guest
of her mother in Cumberland during
the holidays.
Mrs. Holland O'Brien and family
were visiting relatives in this COM
munity during the holidays.
Miss Vida Mellinger returned to
Keyser after visiting her grand
mother, Mrs. Amelia Mellinger, over
Christmas.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-01-12

ligent administration of a well-organ-
lied and adequately stated parole sys-
TEN" and greater efforts toward study
of prison inmates as a means of crime
reduction.
The comparatively brief address
closed with hint to the legislature
that its deliberations should be speed
ed toward early adjournment.
at may not be too much to hope"
he said, that the work of the legis-
lature will proceed as promptly as in
consistent with efficiency and suitable
deliberations so that the work may be
completed before the expiration of the
period allowed by the constitution.
Public money would be saved if
this General Assembly terminated it's
session before the end of 80 days"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-01-12
TWENTY YEARS AGO

Colonel Theodore Roosevelt's death
was recorded. He died Monday, Janu-
airy 6, 1919, while asleep at his home
at Oyster Bay.
The financial statement of the local
Red Cross chapter showed receipts of
S7,070.77 and expenditures, $6,123.57.
A. R. Martin, manager of the Evans
Garage, purchased the property and
planned to continue the business.
Bank statements showed total ~
sources of the two banks in Oakland
as being approximately a million and
one-half dollars.
The Bittinger correspondent had the
following as his Introductory:
Both idle men and flivvers need
Some new unfailing clutch
So Fords could not exceed their speed
And tongues not wag so much.
Time makes no difference to this.
It's still good.-Editor.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-01-12
IN DAYS OF OLD
FORTY YEARS AGO

Three persons were drowned when
the ice upon which they were skating
on the Rasche mill dam in Oakland
gave way. They were Kezia Yelloly,
49,; Robert Yelloly, 16, and Thomas
Smouse, 21. Young Smouse died in an
attempt to save the others. Emma yell
loly, who also broke through the ice,
was saved by her father, John Yelloly,
and Truman Miller when they arrived
on the scene and threw her a rope.
Thomas Smouse was a son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Edward Smouse.
West Virginia capitalists leased the
Oakland Hotel for a term of years and
planned to operate it as frst-class
sanitarium. DR.. w. NJ. Longstreth, of
Charleston, West Va, was to be the
superintendent. The lessees were oper-
ating under charter and were known
as the Mount Pisgah Chautauqua San
itarium Company of West Virginia.
Mud baths was to be one of the fea-
lures.
The annual Farmers Institute for
Garrett county was scheduled in Oak
land with three sessions, one for dairy
ing, one for fruit growers and home
session.
Sportsmen Ravenscroft and Burk-
hard were preparing for a fox chase
at Accident.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-01-12
RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION

Advertising rates made known upon
application at the business office.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-01-12

planes are obtained for those unable
to pay for them.
The number of clinics has gradually
been increased. Sixty have been held
within the last year. The staff has
been enlarged to include three nurses
and seven other workers with special
training in the care and treatment OF
those with bone or joint diseases or
who are crippled from other causes.
Of the 1887 children and young
people under supervision and treat
ment at present, 1856 are boys and 751
girls. Fourteen are under a year old,
302 from 1 to vars old; 447 from 5
to 9; 529 from 10 to IA; 315 from Is to
10, and 80 are 20 years old. About one
fifth of the total are crippled through
infantile paralysis. In other cases the
disability is due to injury at birth; to
ricketts,; to tuberculosis, to some other
disease or to accident.
Transportation to the clinics is one
of the most difficult problems of the
service. 1t is made possible largely
through the volunteer aid of the Am
erican Legion, civic and other service
clubs, and interested individuals. But
no child recommended for clinic care
has gone without necessary attention.
If the parents have found it impossi-
BILE to get the child to the clinic, one of
the clinic surgeons has visited the child
in his own home.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-01-12
O'CONOR TAKES OATH AS
GOTH GOVERNOR OF STATE
Continued from Page One)

1He IeIuIIbS Vi GHe eleCIlOu can DC
accepted as an approval of the policy
of increased taxation" O'Conor de-
clared, "they can be accepted as an
indication that the people understand
the situation and are willing to as
sumo the necessary burdens to the end
that their states financial house may
be put in order"
OConor said readjustments of the
tax structure would encourage and
stabilize" business, rather than cripple
it under an impost of new taxes.
On economy in government, O'Conor
said in part: 81 am fully convinced
that substantial reductions in govern
mental costs can be made without i'm
pairing essential functions.
No Personal Organization
"No one need fear" O'Conor en-
phasized, san attempt by me to build
personal organization or a political
machine. l am now free, and shall re-
main free to avail myself to the full
potentialities of the whole party for
the betterment of our state.
Il do not intend to criticize or
condemn those who have been in
charge of the states affairs" O'Conor
continued, INSTEAD of occupying your
time with what could or should not
have been done, it is my judgment
that it is more useful to invite your
attention to, and seek your considera-
ton and support of what might be
done henceforth. We go on from here"
On the subject of politics in state
government, the new governor aimed
his shots especially at the State Roads
Commission and the State Conserva-
ton Commission. These two, he said,
prove the case for the avoidance of
politics where politics might jeopar-
die the proper advancement of state
interests"
Turning again to fiscal matters,
he called on the General Assembly to
create a budget bureau to assist and
advise the governor in the preparation
of his budget.
Urges Budget Bureau
"The law puts upon the governor
the duty and the responsibility of
submitting the budget and the ap-
propriating body" he said. CAT the
very outset the incoming governor is
faced with this major problem at
time when other matters of impor-
lance must also be considered"
budget plan and tined to make it more
bureau would systematic the whole
budget plan and tend to make it mare
efficient and orderly" he said.
Moving to discussion of capital
and labor, O'Conor urged workers to
remember that, in addition to the
right to strike and to bargain collec-
lively, there also exists another right,
the right to work"
"This right is ingrained in the
American philosophy underlying our
economic and social ORDER" he said,
land so long as this country has re-
spected it, we have advanced on the
pathway of civilization"
Points Out Social Needs
The governor pointed to what he
said were "four primary social needs"
which must be driven line abreast
under the rain of economy and the
spur of efficiency" These he listed as
law and order, public health, roads
and other means of transportation,
and education.
Law and order, he said, must be
placed first as necessity to the other
three. AS detail under the law and
order category, he called for "intel-
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-01-12


An increasing number of fire depart
ments in various communities are join
ing in conducting home inspection
campaigns.
When Cincinnati inaugurated its
program five years ago fourteen truck
loads of useless, combustible rubbish
were carried from a single house, and
five from another In Providence, r.
l., 1850 tons of similar dangerous
waste, an average of 43 pounds per
home, was carried to the municipal in
cinerator. AS a result the annual
dwelling house fires dropped at once
from $50 to POL.
Such vital safety work as this would
not have to be confined to large COM
munities. 1t could be made a wonder
fully fine poject by the Oakland De-
partment. Two fremen coming to the
door of every home in Oakland and
vicinity would be welcome visitors.
People would rather have them visit
with spick- and-span uniforms for an
inspection than to have them call
later in rubber boots and coats because
of fire alarm, when that fire could
have been avoided.
***
By this time most of your New
Years resolutions have probably been
broken. I guess that is only human.
But there's one resolution every one
should try to keep for the twelve
months ahead: Il resolve to do my
part, as a motorist and pedestrian, to
help reduce Americas CHASTITY death
and accident toll on the highways"
There were five people killed in
Garrett county in 1888 due to automo-
bile accidents.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-01-12
Paragraph Opinions

Before the election the New Dealers
told US there was no politics in relief
Now they say they have a plan to take
politics out of relief. You answer that
one for US.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-01-12
THE REPUBLICAN

Entered at the Postoffice at Oakland,
Nd, as second-class mail matter.
Evening star., 1939-07-13
Jacobs-Combs Final
AT Playground Net
For Girls Likely

Another final match between Betty
Jacobs of Montrose and Shirley
Combs of Happy Hollow for the
playground tennis championship
loomed today as both girls continued
to bowl over opposition with ease
Miss Jacobs, the defending title
holder, was to meet Phyllis Heider
of Twin Oaks and Miss Combs was
to meet Nancy Roeca of Montrose
today after registering love-set VIC
tories yesterday. The champs vic
tim was Dorothy Williams of Chevy
Chase, while Miss Combs eliminated
Dorothy Barkley of Montrose.
Three three-set matches were
played with two of the eventual win
ners coming from behind after drop
ping the first set. Miss Heider rallied
to beat Faye Mccarthy of Takoma
81, 6-3, 6-3, and Peggy Stroud
of Virginia Avenue was beaten at
love before defeating Louise Barnes
of Garfield, 0-6, IS, "a. Cath
crime Stevens of Hoover lost the
middle set in winning from Ruth
Fletcher of Virginia avenue, 90,
4-6, Is.
Evening star., 1939-07-13
Unknown Youngster
Provides Thrill in
Western Golf
Hamilton Borely Misses
Putt for 1877 Medal
Tie With Stewart
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated PresS.
OKLAHOMA CITY, July l3.-
The 81 golfers who survived the two
day qualifying tests in the Western
Amateur Tournament moved into
match play today and by the time
the sun sinks behind the 18th green
at the Oklahoma City Country Club
three-fourths of them will be ready
for the gallery.
Two 18-hole rounds were on the
days card, the first designed to re-
duce the field to 80 and the second
to 16.
Medalist honors in the Western
Golf Association 40th meet went
to- Verne spec" Stewart, long -driv-
ing sharpshooter from Albuquerque,
N. Mex, who put together a 68 and
So for 3-under-par 1877.
Unknown Provides Thrill.
While Stewart's performance was
what the customers expected, it re-
manned for J. C. Hamilton, an Okla
hotila City youngster, to provide the
days biggest thrill.
Hamilton, unknown outside his
home State, startled the visiting
notables by turning in two sub-pa
rounds and missed equaling Stew
arts feat by fraction of an inch.
Nobody thought much about it
when Hamilton came in with a SO
on the first round Tuesday, but
when he passed the 18th hole 2 be-
low par yesterday everybody but the
gatekeeper rushed out to watch him
shoot his last two holes.
Par figures would have given him
a tie for the medal, but his approach
on No. II was short, and ne missed
a putt to so l over. Then on the
final hole he was 10 feet from the
cup and shooting for birdie 3, but
his ball trimmed the can, and he
had to push it again to get it down.
Kingsley Shoots Best Round.
The best round of the day, how
ever, was fired by stocky Ed Kings
ley of Salt Lake City, Utah, who
needed only 68 blows. His 70 on
the previous round stationed him
in third place in the qualifying pa
rade with l40, even par for the SO
holes.
One stroke back of Kingsley was
Art Doerlng of Chicago, former
Stanford University star, who add
ed a 70 to his previous round of II.
Frank Steidle of Hot Springs, Ark,
wound up with 142.
A group which tied at I43 in
cluded Gus Moreland, Peoria, Ill
Larry Moller, Quincy. Ill; Jack
Munger, Dallas, Tex, and Don Ken
nedy. Stanford University.
Walter Emery, Oklahoma amateur
champion, who, like Moreland, had
tied with Hamilton at SO on the
first round, blew himself to IS yes
terday to finish with 144. David
ISpec) Goldman of Dallas followed
him with l45.
Evening star., 1939-07-13
New Workers Unable
To Dominate Own
Tennis Event
Only Two Local Netmen
Reach Quorter-FinuIs
Of Clay Court PIoy
BY the Associated Press

bS tHe hSS0CldLe0 PreSS.
NEW YORK, July 13.-They call
1t the New York State clay court
championship, this tennis tourna-
ment they're playing out at the
Seminole Club in Forest Hills this
week, but you'd never know it to
look at it.
The quarter-fn bracket was all
but filled today and the New York
ers were sadly outnumbered lot
In this, their own tournament. Only
two local performers had made the
grade, and one of these. Bernard
Jacoby, who upset Miamls Martin
Buxby Yesterday, is spending most
Of his time around Baton ROUGE
these days as a student at Louisiana
State.
Columbia Captain Survives.
Frank Bowden, former Columbia
captain, was the only other New
Yorker already in the round Of
eight. One other, Morris Adels-
berg, still had chance, but he
didn't figure to be around after
Billy Gillespie of Atlanta got fin
iShed with him in their match for
the last quarter-fnal spot still un-
filled.
Otherwise, as a New York State
tournament, this was strictly
Dixie affair. For instance, there
was Frank Guernsey. the national
collegiate champion from Orlando.
Fla. and Rice Institute, who came
from behind yesterday to take an
other New Yorker, Charles Master
son, off the list And the chances
are bell make it one less when he
faces Jacoby in one of the quarter
final matches.
SOutherners Advance.
Then there was another pair of
quarter final opponents. Jack Bush
man and Russell Bobbitt. The for
mer comes from Baton Rouge and
the latter from Atlanta.
Billy McGehee also is in the
quarter finals. He halls from New
Orleans and Joined Jacoby among
the "upsetters" yesterday by trounc-
ing fourth seeded Dick Mckee Of
Miami
Evening star., 1939-07-13
Mixed Foursomes Now Draw
D. c. Golfers; Baltimore Pair
Wins at Beaver Dam

Mixed foursome affairs may or
may not be the most popular forms
OF golf competition at the country
clubs around town, but there isn't
any doubt that they do draw. even
these hot days. There are plenty of
men who won't play in them, on the
theory that they suffer enough with
their own golf games and that to
lnflict similar suffering on member
OF the gentler sex would be over
doing it. Others have other reasons,
but on the whole the men and the
women like mixed foursome affairs,
and 60 for them in a big way.
One such affair Is barely finished
(biggest of the season, by the way
and already three clubs are laying
plans for holding mixed events with
the boys and girls hitting alternate
shots at innocent little golf balls
next Sunday. Most novel of these
affairs is the one which sprouts
from the nimble mind of Leopold
Freudberg, golf chairman at Wood
mont
The pros have three amateur
partners in their tournaments. Why
not put on a mixed foursome with
the women having three partners?"
he thought. And so it will be at
Woodmont Sunday. 1t should draw
big field.
At Columbia. where they, do things
in a little different way, they are
going to put the names of the
entrants in the hat and draw them
on first-come- first paired basis
That tourney already has drawn a
big field.
Over at Washington the dear gals
have chosen their own partners for
the mixed foursome tourney Sunday
Yes, these mixed foursome affairs
go over.
Baltimoreans Win at Beaver Dam.
Not all of them will be as big as
the one the Maryland State Golf
Association held at Beaver Dam
yesterday. You couldn't expect any
single club to turn out such crowd
of good golfers. Nor could you ex-
pect much of the kind of scoring
put on by Mrs. T. E. Schleuderberg
Of the Baltimore Country Club and
methodical Spencer Overton of Roll
ing Road
Mrs Schleuderberg is the Balti-
more city champ. Spencer is prob
ably the best amateur around Balti-
more. Together. batting the ball
around that long Beaver Dam
course with scorn for it's length and
its hazards, they fashioned a IS
which is just three shots above par
Coming to the l7th they needed two
fairly easy pars for a 72. But the
ball moved as Mrs. Schleuderbere
addressed it on the 17th, and they
took a 5. They finished with an.
other S. But that's pretty fail
country scoring. Next to them ir
| the gross class were Marion Brown
and Charley Malone Of Indian Sprin.
with 49,
Last Pair Gets Prize.
Last pair of the big field to finish
were first for the net prize Mrs
Clarence E. Purdy and E, B. (Chick
Heimer of Beaver Dam came in a
the end of the parade to finish frs
with card of 81-13-68, breaking /,
deadlock at 10, at which two pair
| had tied. These were Mrs. E. B
Love and c. H, Hoffroge of Rollin,
Road and Mrs. Eddie Bean and r
Carl Mitchell Of Beaver Dam. Fiv,
more pairs tied at net II. Thes'
were:
Mrs. o. B. Coblentz and Henry
Hamp of Baltimore, Mrs Schleuder
Evening star., 1939-07-13
Leonard Seen as Ace
Backfield Prospect
Among P|ebes
Special Dispatch to The Star,

Special Dispatch to The Star.
ANNAPOLIS. July i3-Navy foot
ball coaches have intimated that
the best backfeld prospect from the
plebe squad of last season is Bob
Leonard, 'stocky and clean-cut
youth of ITO pounds from Texas.
Leonard particularly is a fine
passer and we'll up in the other
phases of backfeld play. He un-
doubtedly will be tried out in an
early game in the fall
In big field of backfield candi-
dates others who stand out are
Wesley Gebert, strongly built
ball-carrier of 180 pounds from the
State of Washington, and John
Cutting, 1s0-pounder from Indiana
Cutting may develop into the best
all-around athlete of the class, as
he is also crack basket ball CEN
ter and good track man, specialize
ing in hurdling.
Evening star., 1939-07-13
Honey Trying to Fine
Browns From Cellar
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
ST. LOUIS, July 13.-If slapping
fines on baseball players gets re-
suits, the st. Louis Browns soon
ought to be out of the American
League cellar.
Manager Fred Haney has dis
closed he recently had fined Pitcher
Bill Trotter $25 for failure to cover
first base on grounder down the
first base line. had assessed Pitcher
Howard Mills $50 for not fielding
bunt and had docked Outfielder
Myril Hoag s25 for hitting pitch
with count of three balls and one
strike, when the take" sign was be-
ing flashed.
Evening star., 1939-07-13
Two Swimming Meets
Listed for Capital
A, A. j. Tankers

Two swimming meets which will be
sanctioned by the District A. A. U
were announced today for the Air
port pool by Hardy Pearce, manager
The first will be held Monday night
when there will be three races for
men and three for women in addi-
ton to diving for men. Another meet
will be held on July 81.
Entries for the free style, breast
stroke and backstroke-all so yards
will be accepted by Pearce up to Sat-
urday night. The fee is 25 cents
for each event with handsome troph-
les going to the winners. Divers will
make four compulsory and four op-
tional dives.
Bleacher seats will be erected for
spectators who can view the meet
for Is cents.
Evening star., 1939-07-13
Think Less, Golf Better, Diffenbough Holds
Experimenting With Good Natural Swing Deemed Dynamite

ems, who had finished second in the
tournament. The photographers
were showing them around trying to
get an unusual golf ricture-as it
that could be done.
There's boy who started with
good swing and kept it. I've been
watching him for three or four years
and I can't see where he has changed
his swing bit. He looks just the
same as he did four years ago-a
little bigger and little stronger
but the same sWinger. And I've seen
so many boys get fairly good and
then start experimenting. They
might call it thinking, but it's con-
sclous effort to improve by mastering
some new kink in the swing. Usually
it's dynamite. You know I've always
had the theory that you would play
better golf if your mind could be
mace into a complete blank for
around three hours whenever you
start golf game.
The perfect golfer would be
robot swlnger, whose only thoughts
would be on the speed of the green,
the club to choose, or something not