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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1940-07-25
Part OF State Income Taxes Are
Distributed To Counties

Fourteen counties, the incorporated
towns within these counties and Baltl-
more City have received $1,271 900 as
their share of the State income tax.
The counties and Baltimore City re-
ceived $1,211 ,606, and the incorpor-
ated towns $4,000. Ten per cent of
each political subdivisions share was
withheld pending refunds to taxpay-
ers.
Income tax receipts now total ST.
456,250. Nine counties, Allegany,
Prince Georges, Cecil, Talbot, Gar
rett, Calvert, Caroline, Dorchester and
st. Mary's, and their incorporated
towns are yet to receive their share
of the levy
The law stipulates that counties are
to receive twenty-five per cent of the
sums paid by their resident individu-
ais. If taxpayer resides in an incor-
porated town, the twenty-five per cent
is divided between the county and the
incorporated town.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1940-07-25
Number OF Fires In Maryland
Continue To Increase

The number of fires in Maryland
continues to increase, according to a
report from the State Insurance Com
missioner, showing fire losses in the
counties from 1888 to 1889, and the
causes of fires in the latter year.
Garrett county showed a reduction
Doth IN number of fires and in amount
OIL losses paid. The number of fires IN
tne State rose from 3044 to 1884,
and the increase in property damage
$l6O,571O1.
Furnaces, boilers and their pipes
mead the list with TAT fires. Matches
ana smoking resulted in 443 fires for
1859. Lightning resulted in 405, while
chlmneys, fiues, cupolas and stacks
cVerheated resulted in 436 fires.
Garrett county had 10 fires in 1889
as compared with "a in 1888, the toal
loss being $12,79747, as compared
TO $15,021.15 in 1898.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1940-07-25
FRIENDSVILLE
Social Meetings

OOCldI MEETINGS
A social gathering was held in the
Methodist church basement on Mon
day night. A lunch was served.
The newly organized ladies auxil-
larry of the fire company held a bene-
fit social on Wednesday and Saturday
nights. The auxiliary is planning to
buy capes, hats and skirts of green
and tan.
Brief Mention
Mr.. and Mrs. Donald Chisholm and
son, Billy, Mrs. John Williams and
children, Miss Helen Miller and Arm
old Dixon attended the Fire Wasdens'
picnic at New Germany on Sunday.
Twenty-eight new members were
baptized at Buffalo on Sunday at the
Church of God, with the pastor, Rev.
Slagle, in charge.
Carl Dixon, who had been a patient
in Memorial hospital, Cumberland,
for about month with a badly bro
ken and crushed leg, returned to his
home here Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Karol Rush announce
the birth of daughter at the latter's
parents home, Mr. and Mrs. B. w.
Frantz. This is the second child, both
being girls.
Mrs. Flora Welch and daughter
Betty were in Baltimore last Mon
day where Betty was under observa-
ton at Johns Hopkins hospital.
Miss Hope Welch returned here on
Saturday from Terra Alta to spend
the summer with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. ]. E. Statler.
Mrs. John Dye returned here after
a weeks visit with her son-in-law and
daughter, Mr.. and Mrs. Otis Wilson,
at Masontown, w. Va.
Leslie Friend remains seriously ill
at his home here.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. ]. Black were din
ner guests at Backbone Inn, on Back
bone Mountain, near Oakland, recently.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Reckard and son,
Ross, of Orr, W. Va, were Sunday
dinner guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Russell
F'razee.
Miss Ida Frantz, who had been a
patient in Memorial hospital, Cumber-
land, was able to leave the hospital
and is visiting her aunt, Mrs. Minnie
Frantz, at Ridgley, W. Va, for a week
before returning to her home here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leonard Lytle visited
Mr.. and Mrs. Hosea Everley at Cove
on Sunday morning. Mr.. Everley is
seriously ill with heart ailment.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Thomas and
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1940-07-25

family, of Point Marion, Pa, were
Sunday evening guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Ray Lytle.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Brown and
daughters, Yvonne and Theresa, of
Cleveland, O., are spending few days
here with relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Davis and chill
dren, of Akron, o., are spending a
week with the latter's parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Orval WEIGH.
Rev. and Mrs. Thomas Gray and
Mrs. Mae Smith, of Meyersdale, Pa,
held Pentecostal service at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. Russell Frazee on
Sunday evening.
Mrs. Matte Crane and Adair Daily
returned here on Saturday night after
week in Parkersburg, W. Va.
Miss Margaret Wicklow, who was a
guest of Miss Eleanor Wicklow for a
few days, returned to her home at
Addison, Pa, on Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. R. E. Guard and Mr..
and Mrs. Doyle Mccullough were in
Hagerstown on Friday.
Aubrey Custer and family spent
Tuesday in Cumberland on business.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carroll McCracken
and Edward Filsinger, of Cumberland,
spent Saturday night and Sunday
with relatives and friends.
Miss Lucille Hockenberry returned
to her home at Corinth, W. Va, after
visit here with friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. j.. Warthen and
Eleanor Daily spent Friday night in
Bruceton, w. Va. Miss Rebecca Bailey
returned here with them for a visit.
Mrs. Hattie Casteel was visiting
her son-in-law and daughter, Mr.. and
Mrs. VIM. burst, at Dry Run.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Spear and
daughter, June, and Miss Eloise Grit
fifth, Oakland, were Sunday evening
visitors of Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. E. Dun
ham.
Mrs. Clarence Wicklow and children
spent Friday evening in Uniontown.
Walter Coddington, Sr., was a bust
ness caller in Oakland on Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. w. Mitchell and
sons, of Oakland, visited the latter's
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. C. Wicklow, on
Sunday.
Senator and Mrs. Clifford Friend
and family, of Bear Creek, were Sun
day evening visitors of Mr.. and Mrs.
Harvey Friend.
Miss Irene Brasseur and w. G.. Nc
Mahon, Uniontown; Mrs. Ross Bryner
and Mrs. Eliza Morrison, Ohiopyle,
Pa, were guests of Mr.. and Mrs. L.
j. Lyle on Sunday.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1940-07-25
SIX MONTHS HEALTH
RECORD is TABULATED
Three Groups OF Diseases Re-
sponsible For Over 81 Per
Cent Of Total

Three groups of diseases-the So
called children's diseases, the venereai
diseases and the respiratory diseases
were responsible for over 81 per
cont of the total sickness from the
catching" diseases reported to the
MARYLAND State Department of Health
during the first six months of the
current year. The rest was scattered
among the fifty or more other diseases
on the reportable list.
DR.. R. II. Riley, Director of the De
nartment, summarized the six months
report as follows: From January l
TO June 30, inclusive, of this year,
22178 cases of communicable diseases
we're reported to the department;
1852 from Baltimore City and 1916
from the counties. During the same
period of 1889, there were 1881 cases
reported-23, 288 from Baltimore City
and 1883 from the counties. The
measles epidemic of the winter of 1899
was responsible for last years high
total.
"This years record shows marked
increases in whooping cough, infu-
neza and the pneumonias, and sub
stantiaI decreases III tuberculosis and
syphilis. The most spectacular drop
occurred in measles, of which LAG cases
were reported in comparison with 817
last year; and scarlet fever from / ,O39
as compared with 913. Diphtheria
dropped from 81 to 67 cases. Other
diseases to which children are partic-
ularly susceptible brought the total
for this group for the current six
months, up to S,745 cases.
There were over $500 cases of
venereal diseases reported in compar-
ison with over 5000 cases during the
corresponding period Of last year, the
decline occurring particularly in syph-
Ills, of which 4,817 cases were reported
in comparison with 6,417 during the
first six months of 1889.
"The respiratory diseases came next
with 6,223 cases reported this year
and $500 last year. Of the current
total of pa cases were charged to
influenza, 1886 to tuberculosis and
S,643 to the pneumonias. The total for
the corresponding period last year
were influenza, 1,104; tuberculosis,
,521, and 2,635 of the penumonias.
There were 81 cases of typhoid, II
of tularemia-rabbit fever; Is of
Rocky Mountain spotted fever-tick
bite fever, and 16 of undulent fever
which is usually contracted through
the use of unpasteurized milk from
infected cattle; in comparison with 81
of typhoid, z of tularemia, 20 of Rocky
Mountain spotted fever, and % of I'M
dulant fever during the first half of
1889.
"The total for the first six months
of 1910 also includes II cases of Vim
cents angina-trench mouth; 6 of tet-
anus-lockjaw; 2 of pellagra, and l
of malaria.
"Practicing physicians are asked to
report all cases of communicable dis
eases they attend or that are brought
to their attention, to the nearest city
or county health officer or to the State
Department of Health in order that
the necessary measures of prevention
or control may be gotten under way
promptly, The readiness with which
the physicians of Maryland cooperate
in forwarding these reports is indi-
Gated in these records"
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Evening star., 1940-11-24
Bulletin of Current Exhibitions

Gallery of Art Seventeenth and New York
NW-Permanent collection of American paintings and scup
e works by old and modern masters tapestries ces Bae
Paintings living American artists terri
oral possessions auspices Corp One hundred prints by
ings by Catherine c. cricher, through December
Club Washington Nw-Pastels by
E. Autographs by Clark
Phillips Memorial Gallery 1900 street NwPant-
by old modern sculpture Christmas exhi
bon Works by artists of Washington Virginia and Maryland to
Public Library Eighth Nw.-water by
Susan B. Chase through November.
Library Congress- Division Fine Arts-Lhogaphs by
Joseph Penne ing and other works by contemporary print
haoeaps Of %aT e1ess OF sa American %
Gallery s.w-orental
paintings sculpture bronze pottery ETC. Whistler paintings and
prints; Peacock room; American paintings.
Nw.-Rugs, tapestries
textiles the Mondays
H Myers @ R s at ONCE OF George
National Museum, Natural History Building, Tenth and
Collection
cludng the Gelat Johnston Pe collections
State Art Contest (exhibiton5 foyer closing today Eching and
Autographs by chlde Hassan, lobby through November
National Museum Arts and Building south side of
the Mall Eighth street WPhotograph Dr. Rucka through
November.
water colors by members of the local Arts Unit.
Gallery Independence w.-work
by American children in the Philippine Islands.
A Museum Continental Memorial Han-Amercan scenery
as presented by English potters.
Chalet NonpareiI Georgetown Bethesda,
Aquaone wood block prints by William Henche closing today
Howard University Art Gallery 24o Sixth street NWRelgious
december
Gallery, O NW-Speca exhibition
Works by 25 local artists.
Bookshop Gallery
of oils and Autographs by Joe Jones.
Womens City Club 73 Jackson place NWPantngs by Grace
M. Ruckman, through November.
Wesley Hail. 1903 street NW-Works of Richmond artists,
through December 5.
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection of Early
Christian NW-Monday
admission only issued written application
to secretary, stating day and hour desired
Studios NwPortrait drawing Caroline
The Whyte Gallery 1907 street NW-Exhbtion of
color prints, to November 80
Evening star., 1940-11-24

meaning beneath the surface made
manifest through art.
That is, perhaps, as it should be,
inasmuch as the first duty Of the
camera is to bear witness. But the
question is: To what? Truth mani
tested by things seen as by chance,
or the consummation of such dis
cerned and interpreted? Here is
the difference between the reporter
and the man of letters, the camera
man and the artist. The one gives
to the other the material from
which is wrought that which stirs
mems souls.
Miss Bonney's photographs are set
forth at this time as a protest
against the total war and the ter
rible burden it has imposed upon
those who did not will it. They
show, and very graphically, the
peoples of three nations in Europe,
as living their normal lives in times
of peace and under the abnormal
conditions created by war. 'Obvi-
ously, the contrast is great, but not
so great as one might expect: partly,
perhaps, because so little time had
transpired between when these
negatives were made. There is,
perhaps, nothing more impressive
about these pictures than the bright
and happy faces of those engaged
in war work, evidencing, it must be
supposed, the lamp of sacrifice
burning brightly within, lighted by
love, not of one but of all. Only the
refugees who are, of necessity, seek
ing safety for themselves-and, at
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inal group. Most of them are rep
resented in the present show.
The method is based on a STEM
Gil, with colors superimposed, and
one printing required for each color.
The color range is not so extensive
as that in lthography, but the
method has its advantages. A fine
silk stretched on a wooden frame
is the printing apparatus, and the
color (oil, tempera or others, ap-
piled with a rubber tool made for
the purpose, penetrates the silk
mesh to the paper beneath. One
can see how the manipulation of the
stencil produces the artists design.
The present show OF 40 prints is
the work of Is artists. AS one might
expect, the prints are in the modern
idiom. Artists who embrace new
medium are likely to be experimental
also in the character of their out
pat. However, there are some beau
tiful prints, in simple color schemes.
which would harmonic admirably
with various decorative arrange
ments Elizabeth Olds' Harlem River
Bridge" in gray green and light
Evening star., 1940-11-24

times, their loved ones-appear
broken-hearted and forlorn.
War is and always has been deva-
stating Because of the clever en-
gines of war, created by man, it is
more devastating today than hereto-
fore. But war, like other disasters,
has always primarily brought forth
noble qualities of courage, kindness
and unselfshness among the suf-
ferers. Apparently, from Miss Bon
ney's photographs, the present was
is in this particular no exception.
Another thought is awakened by
this exhibition of the peoples of
three nations, none of whom speak
in words our language, and that is
how much they are like unto our
selves; therefore, how thin is the
shield behind which we stand when
we think that what happened to
them cannot happen to us. We
are akin.
Perhaps these people, like our
selves, have not taken time from
the busy-ness of life to search out
the essentials and embody them in
their everyday living. They are do
ing it now that the call has come
but perhaps too late. In other
words, it is the before-war pic
lures here which give occasion for
alarm rather than those taken later,
when calamity befell.
This pictorial report must induce
thought. 1t would be better and
more effective if, in the first place,
the prints were not so glossy, hence
unatmospheric and hard; and, in
the second instance, if the super
scriptions were not so out of scale
and insistent that they Jump at the
eye to the detriment of the print
to which they are meant to call
attention. Words are valuable i'm
plements but should be kept in place
These Photographic pictures, speak
for themselves. Let them be heard
without intrusion.
Evening star., 1940-11-24
Water Colors Exhibited
Works OF Susan B. Chase Are


Sho,Dn at Public Library.
The Public Library is exhibiting
for National Art Week-in fact, for
the whole month of November-a
collection of water colors by local
artist, Mrs. Susan B. Chase, member
Of the Washington Water Color
Club, the Arts Club Of Washington,
etc. Rarely does one see a more
pleasing group Of work in this me-
dium-colorful, freely handled and
subjectively engaging. Some of
these water colors were done in
Canada, others in Mexico, few in
Texas and others still nearer home.
Water color Is not, as many seem
to think, a medium for amateurs. To
use 1t well, one must be both a good
craftsman and an accomplished
painter. Mistakes once made can
not be remedied. One must think
quickly and correctly; the stroke
goes down while the inspiration is
vital. 1t is for this reason that
charm abides. Mrs. Chase shows in
her works that she knows all this
and acts upon it.
Some of her compositions are
complex, but she invariably handles
them skillfully. Take, for example,
two found and executed in as widely
separated places as Mexico and Yu-
goslavia-"Convent, Tasco," and
"Cloisters, Dubroome," both Of
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which are in merit outstanding.
There is in this collection an un-
usual picture of a Canadian Bed
room"-which, by the way, quickly
found purchaser Also colorful
and appealing rendition of a bit of
the Adriatic shore with it's blue sky
and water. Two flower subjects in
cluded in this showing also may we'll
be noted because of exceptional
qualities "from the Green House"
which is especially sensitive in rem
dering, and "Poppies," colorful and
decorative.
Thus far, three sales have been
made from this exhibition.
In the Corcoran Schools Alumni
Exhibition, 16 sales were listed a
week ago. Two water colors and one
or more prints up to the same time
had been sold from the Hutty ex-
hibition, and in the exhibition Of 100
prints numerous red stars appeared.
signifying purchases. All of which
sets the stage, as 1t were, for the sale
exhibitions about to open.
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and Lee Atkyns, with TWO somewhat
calligraphic water colors. Mrs. Kane
brought the exhibition to WASH
ington.
1t is surprising to find nearly as
many flower paintings as there are
landscapes. There are flowers grow
ing in gardens, flowers in vases and
flowers painted as botanical studies
or decorations. Martha Moffett
Bache offers in April a combina-
ton of flower and landscape, by
placing a blue vase of forysthia in
window looking out on a garden.
Laura Alexander Coleman, the Rich
mond News Leaders writer on art,
also exhibits a decorative flower
painting. Not a few art and dra-
matte critics, and reviewers of books,
turn artists, playwrights and authors,
and one cannot but admire their
temerity.
Jean Peacock's Blue and Cold
has well drawn flowers in a glass
vase. "Dahlias," by Nathan Robin
son. also includes a bit of nicely
painted still life, a Chinese porcelain
figure. This artist, by the way,
appears to be one of the most COM
petent in the group. He also shows
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brown, with vivid red accents. IS
outstanding. Harry Gottlieb's Win
ter in the Creek" with its swirling
snow and active skaters, and
Leonard Pytlak's Fishing Tourna-
ment," depicting the fishermen
knee-deep in rushing stream, are
competently executed and cheerful
scenes. Anthony Velonis shows sew
eral prints, the most elaborate being
an abstraction, 'Decoration-Em-
pire"
Still another group of the prints
comprises satirical and symbolic
subjects, and caricatures. A power-
full indictment of war is seen in
Harry Sternberg's Brotherhood of
Man" involving bitterly symbolic
figure of a single pair of legs with
two torsos and heads in gas masks,
each of these bodies running the
other through with sword. The
blood red color of background and
pool in which the figure stands
points up its tragic import.
Elizabeth Olds pokes fun at those
who appreciate art" at each end of
the scale. in "Picasso Study Club.
and Alteration of the Masters
specifically BotticellD. There seems
to be an ironic implication, too, in
Beatrice Mandelmans Carnival"
depicting the tents, caroussel, etc,
completely devoid of human merry
makers. In his "Great God Pan"
Adolph Dehn combines satire with
the unexpected or impossible. In
other words, the situation which
gives this print its humor could
not actually happen.
The exhibition contains few sur
prises in work by well-known
painters, who appear in very diff
ferent guise in silk screen prints.
Federico Castellon, for instance,
noted for his meticulously rendered
paintings and drawings (of sur
realist subjects) has here a print
Conversation" of somewhat heavy
women represented in normal sit
uation. This exhibition remains
through November 80.
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feathered bonnet, seen against a
pink background with excellent ef-
feet. Here, also, are her paintings
of "Juanita and Her Children" and
Of "Juanita" alone, listening to the
Pueblo bells, both very colorful and
brilliantly painted; also, her noble
presentation of an Indian Mystic"
wrapped in his white robe, and OF
Taos Grandmother" striding across
country. burden swung in a white
blanket across her back.
AS souvenirs of her recent sum-
mer sojourn in Nova Scotia. Miss
Critcher shows a study of two fisher
men, seen out of doors. strong and
sturdy old salts, one with a knife,
unsheathed, in his hand; in interest
ing contrast with which is a por-
trait of Monsieur Berubo, Trois-
Pistoles," with his beloved town seen
through a window as background.
Still-life and flower studies, gaily
rendered, add increased charm to
the showing as whole.
This exhibition will continue
through next Sunday.
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National Art Week

Many Exhibitions Are Sched-
uled Here During Period Pro-
claimed by President.
There will be literally an orgy of
exhibitions this week, due to the
celebration of National Art Week
proclaimed by President Roosevelt
for the entire country.
The major event will be the CEN
tral exhibition. held under Gov
ernment auspices, in the Depart
mental Auditorium, Constitution
avenue between Twelfth and Four
teenth streets, which will include
works by local artists and also by
artists in many of the States. This
will consist of paintings, sculpture,
craftwork and designs, and will be
featured by demonstrations given
by artists and craftsmen, puppet
shows and other instructive enter
tainment.
In the Offices occupied by the
Section of Fine Arts, Public Build
ings Administration, Federal Works
Agency, Seventh and D streets S.W,
will be shown water colors by liv-
ing American artists throughout the
country entered in the recent COM
petition for 300 in this medium to
be placed in marine hospitals.
At the Phillips Gallery will be
found the annual Christmas ex-
hibition of works by artists of the
District. Maryland and Virginia.
At the Corcoran Gallery, the
alumni exhibition of the Corcoran
School, likewise held annually at
this time, will bring before the
public opportunity for buying orig
inal works at small cost.
Both the National Art School and
the Abbott Art School will show
exhibitions of student work.
| At the Library of Congress there
will be a special exhibition of prints
| by living artists selected from the
library's own collection.
The Textile Museum will give
over a room on its first floor to
the display of ceramics and tex
tiles by regional craftsmen.
The American Association of Uni
versity Women will show at its
clubhouse. 1884 I street NV, paint
ings by local artists, as will George
Washington and Howard Universi-
ties in their respective galleries.
The National League of Amer
lean Pen Women will exhibit, in its
studio at the Grafton Hotel, a coll
lection of work by local members.
Besides all of which, there will be
exhibitions in bookshops, interior
decorators showrooms, clubs and
libraries. Organizations in Rock
vile, Md; Arlington and Falls
Church. Va, are also cooperating.
There will be more than 80 exhibi-
tions in ALL
The purpose of these exhibitions
is, it will be remembered, to bring
contemporary art to the attention
of the public and thus encourage the
building up of constant art mar
ket which should eventually put
the artists on as sound a financial
basis as that enjoyed by those of
other professions.