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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1940-03-21

injured in an automobile wreck at
Marion, N. c., one day last week. Her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Schroyer,
of this place, have received word that
she is recuperating in hospital at
Marion.
Adam Lininger and son Jimmy were
business callers in Oakland on Mon
day.
Mrs. Mintie Jenkins, near Cove.
spent Sunday with her son, Lloyd Jen-
kins, and family.
Miss Savilla Hanft, Cove, is at the
home of Mrs. Claudine Friend for an
indefinite stay.
Mr.. Thomas was in Confluence over
the weekend.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Black visited
relatives at Confluence Monday even
ing.
Mrs. Bert Gri. tn and daughter
Ruth, Cove, visited Mrs. W. E. Dun
ham on Thursday.
Miss Nina Peck spent Friday in I'm
! iontown.
Robert Kelly and family, Cumber-
land, were guests on Sunday Of Mr.
and Mrs. Pat Kelly.
Mr.. and Mrs. Foster Glover, Cres-
aptown, spent Monday here with rela-
tives and friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry, Cumberland,
visited Mr.. and Mrs. Lloyd Warthen on
Sunday.
John Capel and family returned to
Friendsville Sunday evening after a
weekend visit with relatives at Frost
burg.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. A. Skidmore and
Mrs. J. W. Friend spent Friday in
Cumberland.
Emert Shoemaker and family and
Mrs. William Durham visited relatives
at Somerfield Tuesday afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Kamp and chill
dren, of Elizabeth, Pa, were at their
home here Saturday and Sunday. On
Sunday afternoon Mr.. and Mrs. Kamp
Mrs. Adam Lininger and Mrs. Matte
Ramp visited George J. Kolb, who is
now improving lin health at Memorial
Hospital at Cumberland.
Mr.. and Mrs. Donald Chisholm spent
Sunday at Deer Park with relatives.
Mrs. Effie Chisholm returned here
with them after spending the winter
in Charleston, w. Va, with her sis
ter, Mrs. Ora Shaffer.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Lyle and son
Paul, Mrs. L, j. Lyle and Miss Alice
Conway were Sunday dinner guests of
Mrs. Elvira Lichty at ConnellsvilIe.
Mr.. and Mrs. Emmons Warwick and
daughter, Grantsville, were visiting
Mr.. and Mrs. E. NJ Coddington on
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Frazee. Mrs.
Emma Barley and daughter Blanche,
Confluence; Mr.. and Mrs. Bruce Fike.
Masontown, Pa, spent Sunday after
noon here with Mr.. and Mrs. 7. B.
Hinebaugh
Mr.. and Mrs. Q. A. Murphy were in
Frostburg with relatives on Sunday.
Mrs. Curtis Friend was stricken
with appendicitis on Monday and was
Immediately taken to Memorial Hos
pital at Cumberland for an opera.
ton.
Mrs. Paul Friend, Mrs. Earl Guard
and John Mccullough spent Monday
in Cumberland.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1940-03-21

Richter, Mr.. and Mrs. Adam Richter
and son, Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond Georg
and family, Mr.. and Mrs. Orus King
and family, Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Rich
ter. Refreshments consisting Of ice
cream and cake were served.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ross Speicher were in
Baltimore last week where the for
mer attended a meeting of insurance
men from Maryland, Delaware and the
District of Columbia.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Georg and
daughter and Mrs. Anna Bowman
were visiting Mr., and Mrs. Henry
Bach on Sunday.
Peter J. Lohr made a business trip
to Uniontown on Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Ault and fam
lily were visiting at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. Lloyd Miller on Sunday.
Roy Glotfelty and Miss Grace Bow
man were visiting Mr., and Mrs. Har-
old Kahl on Sunday evening.
Miss Hazel Schlossnagle, Selbys-
port, was a guest of Mr.. and Mrs.
Benz. Calls one day last week.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1940-03-21
AVILTON

Orville Stark and family attended
Church in New Germany on Sunday.
Jesse Merrill made a business trip
to Piedmont on Monday.
William Robson was a business
caller at o. S. Fixes Monday morning.
Albert Broadwater was in town on
Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Owen Robson and son
spent Sunday with his parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. Oscar CLANCY and
family, Mr.. and Mrs. George Fike and
baby, of Frostburg; Mr.. and Mrs. Asa
Wilhelm and baby spent Sunday with
their parents, Mr.. and Mrs. o. S. Fike.
Mrs. Fannie Weitzell, and Mr.. and
Mrs. Lewis Broadwater have severe
colds.
OrvilIe Garlitz spent few days
last week with relatives near Frost
burg
Mr.. and Mrs. 0. S. Fike and son,
Ray, were business callers at Accident
on Wednesday.
Mrs. Joshua Turner, who has been
very i'll, is able to be about again.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1940-03-21
FRIENDSVILLE
SchnnI News


A Joint assembly of the high and
elementary local schools was held this
morning. March 81. Practically all OF
the numbers included We're related
to Easter. At the conclusion of the
program school was dismissed TO-
the Easter holidays, converting again
on Tuesday morning, March 70.
Miss Betty Skunk, local home eco
Monies teacher, was confined to her
home from last Wednesday morning
until Monday. While she reported for
school duties on Monday she has not
fully recovered from her illness.
The local independent team played
a team of former high school play
ers from Homecoming on Monday even
ing in the school here. The locals lost
by a score of 1871.
Local X. of p. Lodge Host
Youghiogheny Lodge No. 1874, X. Of
P, will be host to Grand Lodge off
GERS of Maryland and members of
neighboring lodges in Maryland, West
Virginia and Pennsylvania on Friday
evening in the school auditorium. This
move to the school building was neces-
STATED by the expected large attend
ance of Knights. The principal speaker
will be Grand Chancellor Julius Schin-
der, of Baltimore.
Church Activities
The Milly X. Circle made a profit of
$22.28 on its spaghetti supper held on
March 9th. This circle will have an
early sunrise service and breakfast at
the Methodist parsonage on Easter
morning.
Rev. Richie, of Addison, will preach
at the Methodist church at Hoyes on
Good Friday at 1870. Rev. R. L. Grey
nolds and the local choir will assist in
the service,
A service will be held here Friday
from - noon until 800 o'clock with
Rev. R. L. Greynolds in charge.
On Sunday morning at $3.50 a sun
rise prayer meeting will be held in the
church. Sunday school will be at 10
A. NJ and church services at II A. W.,
with an Easter program at the same
time.
The Women's Foreign Missionary
Society met on Thursday evening at
the home of Miss Inez Friend at Sell
bysport with fifteen members attend
ing. The society will hold social in
ing, March 10.
A Natal Note
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Lawson an
nounce the birth of a daughter, born
Sunday evening, March 10. Mrs. Law
son was the former Miss Lillian Ry-
land, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. E. C.
w. Ryland.
Surprise Birthday Party
A surprise birthday party was given
in honor of James H. Fike at his home
at Selbysport on Saturday evening,
March 16. Twenty eight guests were
present. The honoree received many
useful gifts. Refreshments were
served. John Savage, and Junior San
ner furnished music.
Personals
Mrs. Florence Guyer, Tyrone, Pa, is
visiting her mother, Mrs. Catherine
HENDERSON, who has been seriously i'll.
Mr. and Mrs. John Williams and
children, Mrs. Mae Williams, Mrs. O.
A. Murphy and Miss Alta Wicklow Wis
tied in Cumberland on Saturday.
Mrs. Myrtle Frazee, Confluence, and
Mr.. Jack spent the weekend with Mr..
and Mrs. Alvin Sines.
Miss Virginia Friend Goucher Col
lege student, is here for the spring va
cation with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Harvey Friend
Karol Forsythe and Clayton With
erall, of the University of Maryland,
were here Saturday and Sunday with
Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. J. Forsythe.
Rev. Paul Clemmensen, Vanderbilt,
Pa visited for several DAYS last week
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-04
C%ONFOUNDING A PROPHET

Vice President GARNER's announcement that
he is ready, willing, and perhaps anxious, to
enter a Georgia primary, if one is held, for
that states endorsement for President, shows
how easy it is for political forecasters to 20
astray. Just the other day one of the popular
prophets declared that GARNER soon would re.
nounce his intention to seek nomination for
the nations highest post and come out for a
third term for President ROOSEVELT.
Perhaps the prognosticator clothed a hope
in the raiment of fact. Or he may have made
his prediction with tongue in cheek. In eth.
er case he was guilty of a grievous fault. Nc
sane person, and least of all a political wise
acre, should go off half cooked.
But as the practice is we'll nigh universal
it may be accepted as gospel truth that the
masses are best pleased when hoodwinked
It also proves that nobody knows what turn
politics will take from day to day, and espe.
cially in these days, harassed as they are nv
a wilderness of cross purposes.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-04
DESERTED

Rumania's hope that her little neighbors
would hold up her hands for victory if Ger
many or Russia should bear Town on her
industries and especially her petroleum, was
crushed when Yugoslavia, Turkey and Greece
agreed among themselves that they would
consent to no change in the present Balkan
entente. With the democratic allies, on one
hand, pressing their claim for a lions share
of Rumanian oil, and Germany demanding
strict observance of the Berlin treaty Ru-
mania was forced into signing, on the other,
King CAROLS tiny kingdom is in a wise with
pressure from both sides cracking her eco
nomic ribs. Her understandable appeal to the
other Balkan states for automatic help in
emergency, and it's rejection, gives her little
to look forward to.
Her plight is the more desperate because
both Germany and Russia are in need of vast
supplies of petroleum, which her wells are
conveniently situated to yield, and England
and France are by no means overlooking
with petroleum SURPRISES.
The situation in southeastern Europe, fol
lowing the Friday session of Balkan entente
foreign ministers at Belgrade, offers one
more reason to fear that, if peace is not
speedily restored among present warning ma.
tions, the conflict, like any other pestilence,
may spread over all Europe with the arrival
of spring.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-04
Cold Weather Fails
To Halt Garden Work

The unusually cold weather of
January failed to halt the progress
Of the city garden program, Carl
Render, director, reported this week.
1--WE made fine progress in our
cleanup garden campaign" he said,
land 81 of our needy families are
now busy preparing their ground
for planting their spring gardens.
We will give them for planting in
February mustard, turnips, collard
and tomato seeds.
During January" he said, "our
four NYA workers and myself made
ga visits and conferences and /
must say that I have never before
at this time of the year seen fami.
lies so interested in planting a gar
den. I am sure that our 1910 gar
dens will be the best we have ever
had and much better than Will be
found in other cities in North Caro-
lima.
During January" he said, "164
Of u gardeners called at our office
for seed. Even if we did have five
SHOWS in January, most Of our gar.
deners enjoyed mustard and turnip
greens and collards all from their
own gardens"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-04
Editorial Comments
From Other Angles
ESSENCE OF DEMOCRACY
Greensboro News

Debate, differences Of view, elaboration, pool
ing Of thought and opinion for the solution of
mocracy. Out of these Emergencies come that
strength and those safeguards which dictator
ships can never know.
Thus we read with distinct pleasure the note
that Chief Justice Hughes sounded in remarks
Thursday commemorative the first meeting of
the supreme court $50 years ago. Disagree
ment over Interpretation of the United States
constitution the chief justice hailed as "a to-
ken of vitality" Stressing that fundament,
as we'll as giving an enlightening insight into
the workings of the high court, the presiding
jurist of the tribunal from which there is no
appeal went on to emphasize:
However serious the division Of opinion,
these cases must be decided. 1t should occasion
no surprise that there should be acute differ
ences of opinion on difficult questions Of con-
stitutional law when in every other field of
human achievement, in art, theology, and even
on the highest levels of scientific research,
there are expert disputants.
1.-THE more weighty the question, the more
serious the debate. the more likely is the OPP
portunity for honest and expert disagreement.
"This is a token of vitality. 1t is fortunate
and not regrettable that the avenues of criti-
cism are open to all whether they denounce or
praise. This is a vital part of the democratic
process.
'The essential thing is that the independ.
ence, the fearlessness, the impartial thought
and conscientious motive of those who decide
should both exist and be recognized"
Certainly the Hughes point of view is as re-
freshing as it is reassuring in a period when
the supreme court has been under fire and
when it's rebuilding has been undertaken in an
effort to make its views conform to a given
trend or pattern, reflective of an individuals
philosophy. One of the tribunals most valuable
assets, as relating to the public veal and pro.
lection, is disagreement among itself, for out
of that disagreement comes the very fluidity
upon which critics of the court have insisted.
In contrast to the Strengthening position of the
chief justice, there was at the same ceremonies
asseveration by Attorney General Jackson, of
the Observation-Disclosures school of thought,
that the claw must be reviewed and rewritten
in terms of current conditions Must is a
word most unhappily applied to the interpre-
tation of the constitution and the law.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-04
B~ODYGUARD SCARED
STIFF BY CROWD

A current magazine makes anus.
ed comment about the spectacle Of
Shirley Temple pedaline around
Palm Springs with a 2oo-pound
bodyguard on a tandem bicycle. The
l porter should have seen the bodv.
Guard hastily hired by the Temnles
when they made their first trip to
Honolulu.
He was a tremendous fellow and
to~ugh-enough looking, as Papa
George Temple tells the story. But
when the ship docked before a clam.
orous throng in Hawaii, he wasn't
on deck. MIR. Temple finally found
him, pale and jittery, in his room.
and audibly worrying about the size
of the crowd and what might han.
pen to his charge. That's all right"
said the stars father. wen inst
push right through. Better bring
your gun, though"
II didn't know it was gonna he
like this" whimpered the burlv bodv.
guard. II amt got a gun A.
matter of fact, I v even shot
one!!'
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-04
AN OPPORTUNITY

Every state, city or local government and
every organization that is interested in navi-
cation, flood control, irrigation, reclamation,
hydroelectric power, reforestation, the pre-.
vention Of shore and soil erosion, water pol
luton, the protection of life and property
from destructive floods and drought, and the
development of the American merchant ma
rine, should send representatives to the 35th
annual convention of the National Rivers and
Harbors congress in Washington on March
IA and Is.
The interest of Wilmington and southeast
ern North Carolina generally in projects of
the types listed need not be reiterated.
What is important is an immediate re-
Spouse to Rep. DEWEY SHORTS invitation as
president Of the congress to governors, may
ors and other executive heads to appoint dele
gats and provide them with means of at
tending the sessions.
Wllmington's stake in it's waterways and
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-04
NOT A "PENSION"

THE state group commissioned to prepare
L data looking to the establishment of a
pension system for school teachers and state
employees has completed its first step-the
gathering of information on similar systems
in operation in other states, the federal gov
eminent and private corporations. The next
step will be formulation of a definite pro-
gram with such conclusions as the group
may reach through it's studies.
Altogether it appears that teachers and
other state workers may expect to find some
method adopted in the operation of which
they will be free from the worries of penury
and even want when their years of active
service are past.
If there is any reasonable complaint of
the plan it does not lodge in assuring finan-
cial independence for workers when retire.
ment time comes, but in the use Of the word
pension" which connetes the getting OF
something for nothing. Most so-called pension
are based on savings by the benefi-
Charles themselves, deductions from pay en-
which are boarded in special funds
against the day of the savers REIMBURSEMENT
of his job. This, of course, applies to workers
and not to veterans whose wal services are
worthy of special monetary re.
ward after the fact.
The money transferred from the payroll
to the pension" fund is, in fact, the en-
ployee's own provision for old age, and de-
serves a more appropriate label-one free
from all hint of charity.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-04
3,5O5 Persons Fingerprinted
Here Since Office Was Opened

A total Of 3,505 persons have been
fingerprinted and photographed
and their records placed on file
since the New Hanover county bu-
reau of Identification was opened
On August is, 1885, Harry e. Fales,
superintendent, reported yesterday.
Fales released the following rec
ords Of persons fingerprinted and
photographed since the bureau was
opened:
August Is to January 1, 1885,
6s6; 1886, 592; 1887, 555; 1888, SIG;
and 1889, LOIS, including 1T for
the personal Identification file, and
POT cases investigated for the city
and county.
During 1899 three cases of miss
ing persons were continued under
investigation, latent fingerprints
and other physical evidence were
recorded at the bureau for the con.
v%enience Of all law enforcement
bodies.
During January the records OF
fingerprints and photographs of 80
persons were filed at the bureau,
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-04
STUDIO o CALLS
HITLER BY NAME

But "The Mortal Storm" from
Phyllis Bottome's novel, will be
something else again. 1t tells how
Naziism brought hate and death to
a friendly little town. Hitler is call
ed by name, and there's Jew-bait-
ing and book-burning. However, it
is not an hysterical preachment, but
the sort of story which, until now,
the timid movies have left to be
printed fiction and the stage.
Several stpdios are whipping up
anti-war, anti-Nazi and peace
Observation-Disclosures themes, but
for several months most of the war
fare probably will come from Lon
don, where the dark, dead studios
are coming to life with a bang. Be.
sides Metro, Warmers and Para
mount are resuming operations
there. Alexander Korda, an United
Artists associate, is starting three
pictures, and the all-British COM.
panies are lighting their stages
again. Hollywood, which was almost
as panic-stricken as London, now
admits hat theatre business in the
British Isles is booming, with some
houses drawing their best receipts
in two years.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-04
MANY MEN, WHAT
o ISSUES?

Justice HERIoT GARRISON, of the state SUI
preme court believes the plentitude Of can.
didates in the gubernatorial race is a healthy
sign. tits fine for the state to have so
many men to choose from" he says, Just like
it's fine to have a lot of horses on a race
track"
Now, if the candidates will bring some
important issues before the voters, and stir
up public interest in reforms, the campaign
will be finer.
The issues exist. One is the operation of
school buses by boys. Another is the sales tax
on food. A dozen more could be named. But
it would be better for the candidates to
bring them up. And fight for or against them,
and SO get the people to thinking c%onstruc-
lively on the political structure of North
Carolina.
Give Us. gentlemen, a lively enlightening
campaign.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-04
Book Highlights

To read Jenny Ballou's "Perioo
Piece-the Life and Times of Ell
la Wheeler Wilcox (Houghton
Mifflin: $50 is to re-discover the
America that existed from the CT
vii war to the World war. The
"poetess of passion" was born in
1855, reached her heights in the
gay nineties, so YOU have the
setting. The incredible Ella, who
placed "heart before art" sup
piled the resi- and the result is a
lively biography of the Wisconsin
farm girl who wrote for the world.
The story of one poem she wrote
Cor is supposed to haze w%ritten)
is excepted briefly here:
On February q, 1883, Ella Wheeler
published Solitude in the New York
Sun:
Laugh. and the world laughs
with you;
Weep, and you weep alone;
For the sad old earth must
borrow it's mirth,
But has trouble enough of it's
(But soon after on John A.
joyce published a volume in which
he included Solitude" as his own
poem.)
Both Ella Wheeler and Joce have
described the exact conditions un-
der which they claimed to have writ
ten the poem. He remembered per.
fectly the whisky barrel on which
he sat in Louisville, KY; she re-
membered in fine detail the Feb
ruary day of 1883 when, with a
white dress in her suitcast, she
a on the way to the inaugural
ball for the governor in Madison.
The unwilling inspiration of the
poem-a woman on the train with a
black-bordered handkerchief-is as
minutely described as the scene af-
ter the ball, when her host, Judge
Braley, congratulated her. How
ever, the whisky barrel is nc less
clear in Joyce's mind. -.
Whether the one took it from the
other, or both borrowed it from
else, it was Ella who put
it, from whatever source, into circu-
alton. Literary detectives have de-.
sinitely attributed Solitude to her;
md h body Of her work, compared
o hat of Joyce's, certainly justifies
he conclusion.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-04
TOP o. THE MORNING

"Surezy goodness and mercy shall tolzoy
me all the days of my life" Psalm 1876. . .
"sMrely," says the Psa7mist. Why so sure?
Because God is God, Interchangeable and ever
lasting; He cannot q1ithdraU a1hdt He has
once given? II We believe not, He abideth
faithful; He cannot deny himself. . And
Uhen once He has begun to tolow us in
goodness and mercy, We may Wander from
His paths, and neglect His love, and do de-
spite to His Spirit, ignore the presence of
His messengers, and bid them begone; and
get they will not remove. Thea man folloU
at a greater distance; but they WiU tollo1o
still, mever satisfied till they haze won us
back to HimseT.-MEYER in "The Shepherd
Psalm"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-04
LET ALL HEAR HIM

Oil men of this eight-county district are IN
have opportunity to hear Mr.. I. M. BAILEY
former president of the North Carolina Bar
association On February 9 discuss gasoline
taxes, their legitimate uses and possible di.
version. As he has made a deep study of the
subject in its bearings upon highway progress
and it's burdens upon motor vehicle operators
what he has to say will be not only interest.
ing but of great value as the testimony of an
expert.
The meeting here is to be one of ten in
the state under sponsorship of the North
Carolina Petroleum Industries committee. II
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-04
Indirect Effect

If the cold weather con-
tinues much longer, Whining
ton may be facing a shortage
of milk bottles.
1t seems that while the tenn
peratu"es are lowering below
the freezing mark, the city's
housewives are reluctant to
venture on the front porch at
night to leave the empty con-
tainers for the milk man to
collect the next morning.
If this keeps up, dairymen
said yesterday, the situation
may become embarrassing.
In western sections of the
state, where the mercury is
roosting below zero, dairy op-
erations are reported practical
ly at a standstill.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-04

is arranged specifically for persons in the
business and will include general
discussions on matters pertaining to their
business. With public interest so deeply GEN.
tered in the gasoline tax and it's possible di-
version, it would seem that a general mass
with motorists invited to hear Mr..
BAILEY would serve a greater purpose than
having him talk only to the oil men.
The people who pay the tax, and who
want their tax money used for lettering the
highways Of the state, as it should be used
exclusively, would, we believe, like to hear
his deductions.