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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-22

What the government is trying to show Is that in this democratic country, with the assent of the peo- pie, we can make and carry out all the plans which are necessary to win victory.
 Prime Minister Neville Cham
 berlain of England.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-22
THE EDITOR.

Q. Is there novachord in Hor- ace Heidt's orchestra?
 A. Yes.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1940-10-17

TODAY-there's a new kind of
l. car in the lowest price field
the 1911 Nash!
Little would you believe, as you
look at the size of it-104 inches
long-that it delivers 5 to 80 miles
a gallon, to good drivers.
Powered by Nash's new Flying
Scot" Engine, it's the Aeetest,
m00fhest "six" you ever drove!
You'll be delighted by the way it
responds to the wheel and holds TO
the road. With Two-way Ball-bear-
ing Steering and soft coil springs
on all fONr tVheels-it rides like
miracle in motion.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1940-10-17
Planning Opening OF Carnation
Company Plant

N. A. Sween, field representative
of the Carnation Company, was in
Oakland yesterday comforting with
Glenn Hoffman, local manager, con-
corning plans for the official open
ing of the receiving station here on
Saturday, November 2.
The plant has been receiving milk
since the middle of September, but the
official opening has been delayed until
the building was entirely completed.
Mr. Sween said a carload of Hol-
stein and Guernsey cattle would be
shipped to Oakland on October 26
from a point in Wisconsin which will
be sold at cost to farmers in this sec
ton.
Mr.. Sween said that several off
Gals Of the company would probably
be here on the opening day.
The prizes donated several weeks
ago by local merchants will be given
away on the opening day. A Judging
contest is also being arranged.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1940-10-17
big Train" Points Ahead

Under the caption, "The Big Train
Points Ahead" there appeared in the
rotogravure section of the Washing
ton Post last Sunday a full-page of
photographs taken in Garrett county
during the recent visit Of Walter P.
Johnson, former big league baseball
pitcher, and now Republican candi-
date for Congress from this District.
The pictures show Mr.. Johnson
greeting Mayor Lawrence NJ. Fraley
as he arrived in Oakland. Another,
taken at Bittinger, where the candi-
date is conversing with ]. B. Emory
and Chauncey E. Ellithorp, Other pic
lures show Mr.. Johnson addressing
the Republican meeting in Oakland;
talking with a group of workmen
near Jennings and a group of school
children at Deer Park; becoming ac-
quainted with several young women
members of the Young Republican
club; talking with worker at lime
stone quarry, and receiving some sage
advice from George D. White, 81, vet
eran Republican of Oakland.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1940-10-17
I E D
MISS ALICE BUCKET

Alice Bucket, "a, died at her home al
Bittinger last Friday night, October
Il, after an illness of several years
She had suffered from a heart condi-
ton since early girlhood and although
various climates were visited in an eff
fort to improve her health it seemed
nothing could be done. Her condition
had been critical for four weeks.
Miss Bucket, born at Bittinger, was
the only daughter of Oliver C. anc
Ruth Shoup Bucket She was 8
graduate of Accident High school anc
was also a member of the Bittingel
Lutheran church.
Surviving, besides her parents, are
six brothers, Herbert, Rexford C.
Ralph, Joseph, Kenneth and Elbert
Bucket, all of the Bittinger section.
Funeral services were conducted
Monday afternoon, October IA, from
the Bittinger Lutheran church witt
Rev. A. C. Curran, pastor, in charge
Interment was in the adjoining GENE
terry.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1940-10-17

Its amazing quiet, its unusual room
mess are due to a new kind of
untitled" construction. Frameand
body are welded together. The
front seats almost five feet wide.
The rear has ample space for Nash'S
big Convertible Bed.
Even the air you breathe is different
thanks TO the new Weather Eye
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1940-10-17
THE ACORN, OAKLAND HI
PAPER BEGINS VOL. Ia
Staff Offers New Features
Kathryn Butt Is Editor
This Year

The first issue of The Acorn, Off
cial student publication for Oakland
High school, for the school year, was
distributed on Tuesday afternoon. 1t
was the beginning of volume IA for the
publication, having been started in
1927. Its staff this year includes Kath-
ryn Butt, editor in chief; Esther Lou
Davis, news editor; Annabelle Kloss,
feature editor; Nancy Bolden, copy
editor; Jacqueline Tower, assistant
copy editor; Virginia Lawton, girls
athletic editor; Robert Bittle and
James Krause, boys athletic editors;
Villa Browning, art editor; Rosemarie
Booming, humor editor; Peggy Casteel,
social editor; Marcella Kerins, club
editor; Dolores Yutzy, asst. club edi-
tor; Marjorie Friend, headline editor;
Frank Fazzalari, business manager;
William Stemple, advertising mana
ger.
Faculty advisers are Miss Elizabeth
Powell and Carl Everly. Reporters
include Maxine Butts, Howard Wen
sci, Barbara Martin, Elaine Casteel,
James Rock, Harland Bittinger, Lynn
Grant. Typists are John Mason, Neil
Wolfe, Josephine Rowan, Wanda
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1940-10-17

*New 1871 prices begin in the lowest
price field--S7SI for big Ambassador
900" Business Coupe. l-DoOr Sedans as
low as $500. All prices, delivered here,
include standard equipment and federal
tax. Weather Eye, Fourth Speed For
ward, Convertible Bed, Special Paint
and Waite Side Wall Tires are optional,
at slight extra cost.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1940-10-17
Young Republicans To Help In
Campaign

A number of Young Republicans
will participate in the series of Repub-
lican rallies throughout the county
during the next two weeks, it was
decided at their meeting last night.
Several of them volunteered to
speak at these rallies on some of the
issues of the election. Those present
last night were earnest in their desire
to help as much as possible this year
in electing Wendell Willkie as presi-
dent and the entire Republican ticket.
The group listened to Mr.. WILKES
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1940-10-17
Marriage Announced

Announcement has been made of
the marriage Of Miss Bertha Ellen
Rounds, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Floyd Rounds, of the Failview section,
to George Dorsey, Springs, Pa. The
ceremony was performed at Swallow
Falls September 26, by Rev. Schaefer.
Mrs. Dorsey had been employed in
Grantsville for several years. Mr..
Dorsey is employed at the Miller
machine works at Springs.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1940-10-17

Lantz, Helen Zimmerman.
The staff decided upon several
changes this year, making larger
headlines for their news stories and
changing the width of columnss on the
editorial page.
The publication is being printed al
The Republican office and 500 copies
are being printed. In the first issue
was picture of William Truban, stu
dent council president. The photo
and story are carried in The Repub-
lican today, as is other news.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1940-10-17
nench from Cincinnati.

speech from Cincinnati
The club will meet Monday night at
$3.50 and following their regular bust
ness will listen to Mr.. Wilkes adj
dress to youth.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1940-10-17

julius C. Renninger was present at
a Republican meeting held in Hagers-
town yesterday evening at which a
number of prominent Republicans of
the State were also present.
Mrs. Vernie R. Smouse and Mrs.
Irene Bond attended the Republican
dinner given last Thursday in Balti-
more by Mrs. Lulu E. Powell, Repub-
hcan National Committeewoman for
Maryland. More than a hundred
women and a few men from all part 5
Of the State were present.
Ladies from Oakland and nearby
communities who attended the Noun
tain District convention, Woodmen
Circle, at Cumberland, on Wednesday,
were Mrs. Odessa Bishoff, State presi-
dent; Mrs. Margaret Graham, State
inner sentinel; Mrs. Beural Casteel
district chaplain; Mrs. Myrtle Sollars,
newly elected district banker; Miss
Anna Thrasher, second State auditor.
Mrs. Grover C. Stemple, Oakland,
and Mrs. Timothy Moon, Mountain
Lake Park, attended the organization
session of the West Virginia Confer
ence set-up of the Woman's Society
of Christian Service of the Methodist
church. They left Monday for Hunt
ington, where the session was held,
returning Wednesday night. Both are
presidents of their local societies. Rev.
Minor Sprague, pastor of ST. Paul's
Methodist church, also attended the
meeting.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1940-10-17
MARRIED

FElGHT-WILEY- and Mrs.
Ralph Wiley, Grantsville, announce
the marriage Of their daughter. Miss
Beulah, to Grant E. Feight, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Joseph Feight, of Breeze
wood, Pa. The ceremony was per-
formed Tuesday afternoon, August
10, 1910, at Winchester, Va, by the
Rev. Herman Mickey, Methodist min
lister. The ring ceremony was used.
The couple will reside at Cresap
Park, Cumberland, where a new home
for the couple is now nearing compile
ton.
LOUGHRY-PROPST-Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Propst announce the marriage
of their daughter, Maryland Grayce,
to Lester B. Loughry, son of Hugh
Loughry, both of Steyer. The cere-
mony was performed in the Methodist
parsonage at Mt Lake Park on
October 4, with Rev. Garrett Evans
officiating.
Attendants were Mr.. and Mrs. Oscar
Wolfe, brother-in-law and sister of
the groom.
The bride wore a gown of royal blue
crepe with navy blue accessories. The
bridesmaid was dressed in rose crepe.
The groom is employed by the
Western Maryland Railway company.
STEMPLE-LILLER- Oline Lor-
raine Liller, daughter of Mrs. H. J..
Hovermale, Cumberland, and Harry
Stemple, Jr., son of Mr.. and Mrs
Harry Stemple, ST., of Oakland, were
married Sunday afternoon by the
Rev, George E. Baughman at the par
sonage of the First Methodist church
in Cumberland.
Miss Betty Ann Hest, Cumberland,
and Carl johnson, Oakland, were the
attendants. Mr.. and Mrs. Stemple will
reside in Oakland. The groom was
graduated from Oakland High school
in the class of 1885, and is now en-
ployed as a clerk in the A. and P.
food store in Oakland.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1940-10-17

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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1940-12-24
TO THE EDITOR:


VNHE Goodfellows. the Saliva
L ton Army. the Volunteers
and other charitable organiza-
tons have done a laudable job
in getting together funds to
take care of the needy on the
day of days.
Unfortunately. There are nun
dredS of men and women IN De-
troit and its environS who VIII
have a mcager Christmas. They
are not the ones who would
want a basket of food dumped
on their doorstep one day in The
wear. but who ask only for the
right to make a living for them
selves in this land of abundance.
There are small business men
whose profits are eaten up by
many kinds of faxes, architects
who have no work TO do be-
cause no large buildings are
being built. old people who have
been turned off the old age as
siStancc rolls. presumably be-
cause they have children able
10 support them, while actually
these children are either not
accepting this responsibility and
privilege or are giving grudg-
ingly a crust from their bounti-
full tables to the parents who
sacrificed for them in their
growing years. These arr facts.
There arc women who have
been trying TO get work upon
WPA sewing Projects. This
work is now on piece basis 20
that only the unusually efficient
can succeed. There are older
women who would like TO help
out their pitiful incomes by tax
ing care of children. but even
these jobs are giver mostly to
young girls.
We are in the midst Of a war
frenzy stirred up by those mas
tor minds who rule the mass
mind.
II makes one ponder on. the
strange transformation that has
taken place in America, where
all men are presumed to have
the right TO life. liberty and
the pursuit of happiness"
GULA VI. gambler,
sol East Cambourne street,
Ferndale, Mich.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1940-12-24
Frank Condor Among Best
Story Writers, Runyon Says
By DAMON RUNYON

those days were the writers who
were writing for the Saturday
Evening Post. which was reputcd
To pay what was deemed the Ut
ierly fantastic sum Of $500 for
a short story. Condor sent
many a manuscript 70 George
Horace Lorimer, the boss of the
Post, and got them back with
incredible rapidity.
He was telling his troubles
one day to Charles +. Van Loan,
who was a Post writer, and Van
Loan suggested that perhaps
Lorimer had seen -COndnnS
name on so many unacceptable
manuscripts that he had ceased
allowing for the possibility OF
Improvement and had quit read
ing them altogether.
He suggested that Condor
send in a story under d different
name which Condor did and
Lorimer Immediately accepted
that and several others under
the same name.
WAN LOAN thought this too
' good to keep and he twitted
Lorimer about il one day and for
a time the old editor. one of the
greatest that ever lived was in
clined to be little peeviSh/with
Condor. But then he finally
laughed and for years Condor,
under his own name was
steady contributor TO the Post.
OF late years most of his work
appeared in Golfers.
We remember a curious idea
Condor used TO have. He would
suddenly decide that he could
not write story except IN a
certain town. say New London.
and he would go there and hole
up in a hotel and do the Job
He got to be a terrific golf bug
in the later years of his life and
no funnier stories on the game
have ever )ecn written than
those he got out of his own eX-
periences.
We named him in this column
some time ago as one of the 10
greatest living humorists. Per-
hapS we should have said then
what we say now out of friend
ship with him of many years,
that he was one of the finest
chaps we ever have known.
Registered, United states Patent othce
Copyright. 1870 Kirg Features synd.. Inc
Distributed hy International News Service
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1940-12-24
ONE YEAR AGO TODAY
Dec. ~, 1889

Europe's warning nations OBJ
served Christmas Eve in various
ways as Pope Plus called for q
Just peace"
Nszi leaders rallied the Ger
man people with broadcast
speeches: General Gsmelin told
French troops on the Western
Front: We will hold and we
will win; London observed a
bIscked-out holiday permitting
but one Illuminated outdoor
Christmas tree. at ST. Martins
in-the- Fields.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1940-12-24

OUT of the ruins of Coventry
" comes Peeping Tom-that
is, a-statue of the naughty tailor
That The citizens erected TO his
memory.
You know the story? It's an
old legend and good one.
Way hack. about 500 years
ago, Leoffic, the lord of Coven-
try. laid new plaster of taxes
on the backs of the poor of Cow
entry.
Lady Gbdiva. his wife. was
sorTy for the poor, for she was
as good as she was beautiful.
Listen. Leo" said Godiva one
morning while Leo was shaving,
II want you Ia hit those new
faxes of the poor. We've got
enough iack-we're crawling
with IT,"
I go looked thrfAigh the laiher~
IL ami shouted AZ Godiva with
the runn-soaked voice of a heavy
night at ye olde Inglenooke:
'I1l lift those taxes when YOU
ride through this here burg
naked on a hOrse-see"
Now sGodiva was one of the
old strip and stripe. a descend
ant of the forty-niners that came
over With Billy the Conuucror.
She serayed herself in her orig
inal contingent" clothes THAT
is. nothing at aln. mounted Sill
Yer BeSs and rode through the
town--flrst giving orders that
all the inhabitants should put up
their shutters. stay indoors and
read their cateChiSms.
But there was Tom the tailor.
the ornerieSt cuSs that eNcI
tossed a quart Of sack down an
English alimentary canal He
peeped through a hole in his
shutter as Cody. wreathed in her
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1940-12-24

i in Los Angeles last week,
was an American story writer
who in proportion to his ability.
got considerably less than bis
full due from fame. His name
was widely known among maya
zine readers and his work was
highly priced by the editors. but
he seemed to be overlooked IN
literary circles when they were
discussing and rating writers.
Yet we think he belonged in
the first rank for the past 20
years or more. He was Efade-
A humorist. He was a master
of light fiction in the short story
form. a declining talent IN this
country. Some of his tales arc
worthy of rank with the best
of II. c. Bunner or O. Henry or
Irwin Cobb or any of the other,
American short story writers.
CONDOR survived a shoal of
~ 'hashy fellows who came
along in his time to attract brief
attention With "arty' forms of
writing story and then be for
gotten. He preserved the old
formula. which is telling the
story in simple. straighttor-
ward manner.
o. He always had a start. a MD
die and finish. The formula
has never been improved on. He
wrote for the entertainment OF
his readers. He never had a
message. and no more moral
than was necessary.
He was of the old school of
short story writers. whose peo-
pie talk and act like people. and
this school, while not as numer-
Gus as il used to be. still seems
TO occupy first place in the al
fectionS of the magazine read
ing public Judging from the fact
that the members of the school
continue TO dominate the table
of contents. Condor was going
strong up to the days of his last
illness which finally terminated
a writing career OF over 80
years. He was SO when he died,
LIE FIRST appeared when the
IL echoes of O. Henry were
still reverberating through the
literary land. All the magazine
editors were looking for second
O. Henry and none more asSldu-
ouSly than Bob Davis. then edl-
tor of several of the MunSey
publications, who had been O.
Henry'S mentor
Condor was working for an
advertising agency at the time
he submitted his first story 10
Bob. who seized upon Condor
eagerly, not as second q.
Henry, perhaps, but as new
story teller in his own right.
Bob gave Condor considerable
coaching and bought many of
his short stories which were
then mainly in the highly com
pressed form of the O. Henry
tradition O. Henry is supposed
10 have said that from | 800
10 1000 words were sufficient
for relating any yarn, though
O. Henry himself often exceeded
that length. -
Some of those earlier stories
of Icondon's were little master
pieces.
HOWEVER. those were the
IL days of short money for
short stories. Condor thought
he was lucky if he got as much
as $50 for one of his classics.
More often he got less.
The high pTiced fellows OF
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1940-12-24
lie # ers to
HE Editor

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not he printed.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1940-12-24
BAERfN0 -DOWN- ON The NEWS
DiT,IOnstslic DiSgsziSp
BY ARTHUR BUGS BAER

Mr. Hoover that nobody speak his mind these
shortfused days without being tagged Ike shinbone in
OF natural history.
Herbert Is correct cork bottle Times hotter
than oneyce engine and arguments do cool them off
The first rule Of diplomacy that speech made 70
ambush thoughts The example of spoutng off the
English statesman who asked to turn alien boats
He shoud gone al another way by Disgusting his
information private b Of shy5wntng yellow and green
smoke.
Or he might have broadcast @Jean With Igh Brown
Hair And would have given him anything 70 keep him
quiet
II known that the Axis would Just as soon
have the rolling Eneand snowbals. The
ton is tighter than packed and hotter than home movie
protector
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1940-12-24
% YEARS AGO TODAY
Dee. "a, 1915

A German U-Boat torpedoed
the French steamer Vile de la
Ciotat in the Mediterranean
with a loss of 80 lives.
The AustrIanS were hurled
back in fierce Russian ATTACKS
along the Stryps River IN
Gahcis.
Heavily reinforced Turkish
forces staged a savage attack
on British-held Kut-El-Amsia
but were repulsed. >
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1940-12-24


and shouted, Hey. Toots,"
WELL, saith Vhc legend. Tom
w went blind from the daz-
zlingrazzling things he saw He
was lucky at that. for the ukaSe
of Lenfric said that any one who
'peep'd should be quite to
deth."
Anyhow, isn't it a bit of
cussed irony that with Coventry
in ruins, Peeping Tom should
rise out of the ashes
Moral: Peep.
ZURICH KAHLER, a literary
II refugee TO these shores
from central Europe. cnlightenS
us hcnighted Americans in tho
Saturday Review of Literature
with this gem pluckad from the
necklace of hisrnightly thoughts:
What strikes me most in
America II that these fanatically
individualistic Americans are
habitually the most collective
people I have ever met. Though
they value their independence so
highly. they seem TO care little
for what seems independence To
European: the opportunity for
privacy and the privilege of non
conformity.
americans even In their
hours of recreation, on their
vacations. at their Summer re-
sorts, on their cruises, seek COM
pany and restless collective ac-
tivities in organized games and
organized entertainments.
You rarely find any one en-
joying a quiet hour by himself.
meditating. walking alone. or
just resting in the sIin, without
AT least a radio to keep him in
touch with the outer world
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1940-12-24
The Editor Says:

THE DETROIT COMMUNITY FUNDS REPORT THAT
Detroits contribution of S24300O0 is per cent
hgher-in comparison with 1889 totas-than the average
of 252 community funds throughout the country is
encouraging
afford 70 slacken our efforts 10 take care OF
the eity's underprivleged.
The gain ii is said, will merely permit the fund
agencies TO operate on basis comparable TO 1889 since
iapast wears has been necessary draw
and freed bank deposits keep the various departments
work at needed level
THE GOODFellOWS ARE DISTRIBUTING BASKETS
today to 70O0ODetro children, that none will have
to be without happy Christmas.
Scores Of churches also delivering the Christmas
baskets which they send to thousands of needy families
each year
AT time when many lands in the world must forego
any real celebration of the holiday Detroit may soemny
give thanks that the light OF The Spirit of Christmas still
burns bright IN our country.
" 7. KELLER, PRESIDENT OF THE cHRYSGER COR
N. PORATION in announcing that the auto industry
has completed of the best years its history appends
Looking forward to 1911 he says 1--WE must
expect that production of defense materials will likely
affect the volume of passenger and truck prOduc
ton for domestic However it is hoped that
reasonable volume of domestic production be main
tanned, because many people depend for their live
hhoOd, directly or indirectly upon the automobile
business
Detroit can well second his closing words:
while there will be plenty of work in the national
defense program for those engaged in the national
defense industries every effort should be made to avoid
temporary unemployment of large numbers of people
during the transition from domestic to defense work.
NJ FURTHER INTEREST TO DETROIT AUTOMOBILE
~ workers is the plan submitted to President Roosevelt
and the National Defense Advisory Council by Philip
Murray president of the CIO.
Drafted by Walter p Reuther of Detroit director of
tho UAWCIO at General Motors the plan suggests that
the automobile industry using its present facilities
manufacture 500 fighting planes day without interfering
with production.
Although this is in apparent contradiction of part
of Mr. Kellers report, the plan should be carefully
studied Since it calls for establishing nine-member
board-three from auto plant management three from
the federal government and three from labor unions
worthwhile ideas might be brought forth
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1940-12-24
II Isn't
Whom You
Like in War
Whether We Love Britain
or Not Isn't Material

(Editor's note. The opinions
expressed by Wesfbrook Pssisr
are entirely his own. and not
neeessariiy those Of the Detroit
Times.)