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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-05-15

in honor of her aunt Mrs. Lucretia
Hogue, it being her 18th birthday an
niversary.
Those present were Mr.. and Mrs.
Paul Kemphfer and son, Robert, and
granddaughter, Charlotte; Mr.. and
Mrs. George CLANCY and daughter,
Geraldine; Mrs. Ernest Wotring; Mr..
and Mrs. Albert Sisk; Mr.. Samuel
Slaubaugh, Miss Lena Slaubaugh,
Miss Thelma Wotring and Miss Flor
ence Sisk.
Games were played, after which re-
freshments were served. The honoree
received many gifts.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-05-15

children, Hagerstown, spent the week
end with the latter's mother, Mrs.
Effie Friend.
Percy Friend spent the weekend
with his wife in Westminster, who is
visiting Mr.. and Mrs. Garrettson
Buckingham, since leaving the hos
pital
Mr.. and Mrs. C. E. Black, Conflu-
ence, Pa, and Mr.. and Mrs Harry
Black, spent Sunday in Brotherton,
Pa, and Meyersdale, Pa.
Edward and William Rose, Brad
dock, Pa, spent several days last
week here with relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Fox and son.
Wilbur, and Miss Jane Guard, ac-
companied Miss Lucille Greenwood to
Frostburg on Sunday, where she at
tends college.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-05-15
pent Monday here with Mrs. Mollie

spent Monday here with Mrs. Mollie
Fike.
Mrs. Sadie Plot, Mrs. H. L. Shoe
maker, Jane and Merle E. Shultz
Somerfield, Pa, visited Mrs. E. Shoe
maker, and Mrs. w. E. Durham, on
Thursday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. o. Ross and SON.
James, and Mrs. Cleda Clemmensen
and son, Ross, spent Sunday in Fort
George Meade, with the formers SON.
Charles, who is in camp there.
Mr.. and Mrs. Stanley Dewitt
Akron, Ohio, have returned to their
home after having visited the latter's
parents, Mr.. and Mrs Orval WEIGH
Mrs. Gaynelle Funds and children,
and Mrs. Bessie Frantz, were guests
at the homes of Mr.. and Mrs. Robert
Lewis, and Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph
Lewis, and Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Har-
ford, in Pittsburgh, Pa.
Mrs. Sara Jane Shultz, and Mrs.
Merrlle Shultz, Somerfield, Pa, were
Tuesday morning guests of Mrs. w.
E. Durham.
Oren Huff, Baltimore, visited his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Huff,
Saturday and Sunday.
Orval Brenneman, Detroit, Mich, is
visiting at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Harvey Brenneman.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lloyd VanSickle and
son Clyde, Hopwood, Pa, were visit
ing friends here on Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charley Miller were
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. John Timney,
Homecoming, Sunday.
Clark Wicklow and family, Terra
Alta, W. Va, spent the weekend here
with relatives.
Mrs. Pearl Shultz and children,
Somerfield, Pa, spent Tuesday eve
ming here with Mrs. E. Shoemaker.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Kneirum and
son, Wheeling, w. Va, were dinner
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Lowder-
milk, Sunday.
Wilbur Friend, Frederick, visited
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Harry
Friend, Sunday.
Mrs. Roy Shevel, is visiting her
sister, Mrs. Blanche Liston, Pitts
burgh, Pa.
Mrs. Leo Rice, Cumberland, visited
her husband and friends here, on
Thursday.
Lawrence Dixon, Washington, D.
c., spent several days here with his
parents.
William Hicks, Baltimore, visited
relatives here over the weekend.
Miss Gladys Fike, Selbysport, is
employed at the home of Mrs. Effie
Friend.
Miss Jean Young attended the
teachers bridge club at the home of
Mrs. Hayward Broadwater, Grants
vile, Wednesday night.
Mrs. Jeanette Statler and children,
Bobby and Hope, Oakland, visited
relatives here over the weekend.
Mrs. Benjamin Evans, Homecoming,
is visiting her aunt, Mrs. Maria
Guard. Mr.. Evans went to Baltimore
Sunday, where he will enter an army
camp for a year.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Murphy
visited friends in Frostburg, Monday.
Miss Betty Coddington visited
friends in Somerfield, Pa, on Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Crawford and
daughter, Janet, Mr.. and Mrs. G. E.
Haenftling and daughters, Violet and
Frances, Cumberland, were Saturday
evening dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs.
w. E. Durham.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. A. Murphy visited
the formers parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Vim. Murphy, Frostburg, Sunday aft
ernoon.
John Williams, Baltimore, spent the
weekend with his wife and family,
here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Klaburner and
daughter, and Raymond Barnes,
Baltimore, spent the weekend here
with Mr.. and Mrs. James Barnes.
Mr.. and Mrs. Patsy Doolan and
sons, Dayton, Ohio, spent the week
end here with Mrs. Clara Kester, and
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-05-15

spent Sunday here with her brother,
Jesse Merrill, and family.
Mrs. Gilbert Mckenzie and daugh-
ter, of Frostburg, spent Sunday here
with her parents.
Mrs. Asa Wilhelm is spending a
few days with her sister, Mrs. Oscar
CLANCY, who is i'll at her home in
Frostburg suffering from an attack
of measles.
Ray Fike has purchased an auto
mobile.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-05-15
AVILTON

We are having quite a cool change
in the weather during the past week.
Notwithstanding this, farmers are
continuing with their spring work
and expect a bountiful harvest.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Weaver, of
Pittsburgh, spent the weekend with
Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse Merrill and fam
lily.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lee Broadwater, of
Pied mont, were calling on. the for
mer's father and family Sunday.
Miss Mildred Fike, Washington. D.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-05-15
Celebrates 18th Birthday

Mrs. John Sisk, at her home at
Loeb Lynn Heights, last Friday eve
ming, gave surprise birthday party
Evening star., 1941-10-12

off a 10-foot strip against the wind on
the lee side of the area before touching
off the main blaze A shallow trench
will stop the first fire, and the burned
swath will keep the second one from
getting out of bounds after it has
gathered headway.
The routine story of these fires that
get out of hand is: The wind came
up and the fire got away from u.s."
Few laymen realize that smoke from
a brush fire is dangerous, and this is
exactly why 50 many brush burners
are knocked out and then burned to
death. Laboratory tests prove that
burning materials normally give of
several gases more deadly than carbon
monoxide: the fumes from burning
wood, for instance, are more lethal
than those from burning gasoline.
This simply means that you should be
careful to avoid large doses of smoke
coming from even the simple trash
fire in the back yard.
City dwellers, of course, are apt to
shrug off these admonitions a being
applicable only to country folk or
suburbanites. But that 10 another
fallacy. The average individual doen't
think of New York City az being the
home of much brush or leaves. Yet
if you will examine the Fire Depart
ment's annual report from year to
year, you may be surprised to dis
cover that the greatest single cause
of fire alarms in Greater New York
is listed as ''Bonfires, brush fires,
ETC." The number ranges from 5000
to 5000 annually.
Proving that you should be careful
of your brush fires no matter where
you live.
Tks End
Evening star., 1941-10-12
HOW NOT TO BURN LEAVES
Doing il wrong can be
dangerous and deadly
-even in a big city
bY william Evans

"HR advent of real fall weather
will find firemen all over the
country, urban and rural, in a
lather of activity. For fall is the time
when we all suddenly fall to work on
clearing away fallen leaves, dead
flower stalks, and the like. On the
record Of the past. several-score lives
will be lost and millions in property
damage caused by this seemingly inno-
cent activity.
Last year, for example. 77-year-
old man in South Dakota started a
bonfire on his lawn and was over
come by the smoke. He fell into the
fire and later died from his burns.
In New York a woman burning
raked-up leaves died from her injuries
when the wind blew her dress into
the fire and it ignited. In Missouri
a man and his wife both died when a
simple grass fire got out Of hand in
a twinkling and trapped them.
Familiarity with these little domes-
tic bonfres is apt to breed contempt
and a serious underestimation of
their potential power, for they are
treacherous things.
Not long ago, an experienced fire
captain in Kansas City was killed
fighting simple grass fire" Trapped
in a hollow. he couldn't see his way
through the smoke and was over
come. Three other firemen we're killed
while working on a brush IRE on Cape
Cod. In Los Angeles County a few
years ago 16 men we're burned to
death in similar blaze.
Costly, Too
obviously. grass and brush fires
can be deadly. BY the same token,
their economic toll is terrific. The
town of Bandon, Ore. was leveled
when a number of small fires started
by farmers and cattlemen to clear
their land were merged by a rising
wind and swept into the town. taking
II lives and leaving 300 homeless.
Another farmer burning over his land
caused $l,2OO,O 900 damage to the
watershed and destroyed % build
ings near Malibu. Calf.
And don't ever forget that the
5000. 900 ronfiagration which wiped
out 600 buildings in Berkeley, Calf,
began as a little grass fire!
So when you get out your rake this
fall yes, and next spring, too - be
very careful of those brush fires. 1t is
safest to burn small accumulations of
dead grass, leaves and the rest in
wire baskets which have some sort OF
a heavy screen on top to keep burn
ing embers from flying away.
Debris from a large area should
never be piled into one huge stack
and touched off it should be divided
into a dozen or more small piles and
burned two or three at a time. In
deed, if you are working alone. one
small bonfire at a time is enough for
you to handle.
Obviously, such fires should never
be started on a windy day or after
prolonged dry spell. Low humidity
Evening star., 1941-10-12
hl1lp D. Cesdtsss

nifty or in any town surrounded by
woodland.
If you intend to burn off a field or
a vacant lot. you most certainly need
helpers. A good plan is to first burn
Evening star., 1941-10-12

and a rising temperature are the
danger signs which keep forest rangers
biting their nails. And those atmos-
pheric conditions are just as danger
ous in a wooden-shingle-roof commu-
Evening star., 1941-10-12
Correct again,
Noah WebSter!"

TIME DICTIONARY says that "profes-
i sion" is "calng in which one pro-
fesses to have acquired some special knowl-
edge used by way either of instructing,
guiding, or advising others -"
Under that definition, the proper sale
and service of life insurance is profession,
for the trained life insurance agent is man
who has acquired special knowledge which
he uses in guiding and advising others.
The Metropolitan agent, for example, is
trained to Judge family's life insurance
needs and to help each family buy the type
of insurance best fitted to it's needs. He
learns to help distribute the protection
properly among the members of the family.
The agent strives to keep the insurance
protection fitted to the family's situation.
He also learns to arrange modes of settle
ment so as to achieve most effectively the
hopes and ambitions of the policyholder.
On some policies, he collects premiums and
sees that dividends are credited.
The agent often acts as trusted friend
and advisor When policyholder dies. the
agent frequently helps the bereaved fam
lily by preparing the necessary papers and
by getting the claim check promptly to the
beneficiary.
The Metropolitan agent is interested in
the health of policyholders and of the COM
munity in which they live. Therefore, he
plays his part in Metropolitan's welfare
service During 1910, Metropolitan agents
helped to distribute more than 81 100000
booklets on health and safety problems In
addition, agents are instrumental in bring
ing Metropolitan's Nursing Service to pol
icyholders eligible for this service. Last
Evening star., 1941-10-12

year, more than 100000 nursing calls
we're made in over !, 500 communities
In short, the life insurance agent is more
than a man who sells life insurance More
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-22
Factory Traffic Patrols

CUGGESTION of Traffic Director D. Grant Mcke that
- volunteer traffic patrols of adults similar the school
boy patrols be formed to control pedestrian traffic around
busy factories, is interesting
Accidents factories increasing and the police
department admits it has not sufficient to police all
industrial intersections
Critics of the plan doubt that adults would obey other
adults readily school children obey the duty boys.
Why not try it out and see?
Factory workers will surely cooperate to the limit
with any plan to their lives
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-22
MARTIN DAHER,
10825 Mack avenue
TO THE EDITOR:

TO THE EDITOR:
WHY do some of the leaders
w think we can defeat Hitler
when all the neighboring coun-
tries couldn't do it, including
Russia?
How do they think we can get
him 5000 miles away? To hear
them talk all we would have TO
do is jump the fence to go after
him.
What is England doing? They
pretended TO help all Germany's
conquered countries. Now would
be a chance for them to help
Russia. What they want is for
the United States TO kill off all
its fine young men and win the
war for them.
Britain declared war on Hit
Ter and then never made a move
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-22
One Mans Opinion
Batt|eships
Pop Out Like
Burned Toast
By WALTER HERMAN

BY WALTER HERMAN
international News service stan Writer
With the launching of the
battleship Indiana we moved
the shoreline of Europe and
Asia back a couple Of more
miles.
Battleships, cruisers and
destroyers are popping out Of
our shipyards like toast in q
drug store luncheonette.
We name our battleships
for states and when we pass
48 we will admit a few more
territories to the Union.
Either that or enter an
alliance with the Pullman COM
pany.
NSoPNhhiS VI tic DIlllSH
front in North Africa meets
with popular approval, To-
bruk being one of the few
war-names we can both spell
and pronounce.
The Axis powers now have
a choice between Stains
Russian ice box and Churchill's
African frying pan. They can
freeze or fry or freeze and fry.
Thought for the day: Too
many public-spirited men are
more public than spirited.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-22
Let the Epithets Fly. Boys!
It's a Democratic Privilege
BY BENJAMIN DE CASSERES

DEMOCRACY is very much
alive in our country in spite
Of what the pessirnists linclud-
ing myself. sometimesl say.
Proof: The biggies still call one
another names in public. Ep-
ithets fly everywhere. The
mudsills are loyously and
democraticslly functioning
Traitors, British parasites"
liars ''hypocrites' scream
"isolationlSts" and "war-mon-
gers at one another.
Even our staid and reyeIed
President has let fiy many a
time. And look at Harold ickes,
who can man the verbal mud
sills even better than Senator
sVheeler or Senator Nye. Ickes'
shot az Willkie as "the barefoot
boy OF Wall Street was a YER
liable bull'S-eye.
During the recent campaign
for mayor Of New York my
heart leaped for JOY when the
candidates and their friends
catapulted &C a h bage head, -
liar" cad. "faker and cheap
skate" at one another.
DUT alas! There has been a
ID decline in this old demo-
cratic custom. We are anemic
when compared with the way
the candidates and the news
papers puddled in the horse
troughs Of invectiNe and black
suardism in the days of Wash
ington, Jefferson. Hamilton,
Randolph OF Roanoke, Burr.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-22

THAT great strategist, Mr..
l. Harry Hopkins, who has
spent more of the peoples
money than any other individuap
since the beginning of time and
with less result is the lease-lend
poo-bah. and, if there is COM
petent soldier in his retinue l
cannot for the moment recall
his name.
Surely the situation now is
not a far cry from the way in
which some WPA projects we're
parceled out. If a certain coun-
try is showing slight weakness
in support of our detectives, a
few tens of millions may be
thrown that way.
Similarly. If a South Ameri-
can good neighbor begins TO flirt
with the Nazis, il may suddenly
find itself the recipient OF sew
eral hundred millions of dollars
of this. that. or the other. which
il has been seeking. If il is dem
onstrating good resistance 10
Mr.. Hitler Ii may get tanks or
airplanes in addition to other
such favors.
Thus the process OF interna-
tional log-rolling continues with
out much central planning. with
out uniform guidance and with
almost total disregard for the
obvious and simple fact that il
we are TO beat Hitler it must be
done by well balanced pro-
gram based on military ex-
pediency.
We have long had in this coun
try an almost neglected group
of experts called the army and
navy munitions board. II Is an
agency equipped to make de-
cisions as to where our indus
trial military production will do
the most good.
1t is in a position TO know all
the considerations and thinking
Of the general staff of the army,
the general board of the navy
and what should be the future
task of our armed forces and
the plans of our allies.
In our setup today. its voice
Is an almost neglected whisper
at the counsel tables where it
is drowned out by the clamor of
the diplomats, the politicians,
the cultural experts and the
new tribe of international do
coolers who are out 10 remake
the world with American bill
lions when the war is over.
1t is the latter groups which
decide on their own considera-
tons what country should get
how much Of our production and
why. Even our own army and
navy are at their mercy in the
question Of supply.
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-22
ALFRED p. ADAMO,
11711 Oakland avenue.
TO THE EDITOR:

TO THE EDITOR:
THE Anti-Cruelty Association
u calls the attention OF the
public TO the fact that the giving
of living prizes at bingo parties.
baZaarS, theaterS, etc, always
means suffering 10 the turkeys,
chickens. etc. which have usually
been brought from a consider
able distance packed into crates,
often unprotected from cold
winds. and mishandled.
They then must wait for a
long time. frightened and weary.
still without food or water,
while prospective recipients play
their games.
At last they are thrown into
the trunks of cars and again
hustled off. suffocating and terri
fed.
People who must have such
prizes in order to be happy
ought TO be glad to receive them
after they have been killed and
put out of their misery.
LOIS BANFIELD,
Anti-Cruelty Association,
Secretary.
TO THE EDITOR:
IT SEEMS that Mr.. Roosevelt
L has seen the writing on the
wall and will, hope, sign his
name TO it.
Forcible arbitration would
bring peace in the industrial
field. If the union can show us
a reason why we should join the
union. we will join. But a man
who is forced TO join surely can't
be a good union man.
b. w. CARvAL,
327 East 9-Mile Road,
Ferndsle, Mich.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-22
MRS. DORA RIMAR,
1851 Dexter boulevard

TO THE EDITOR:
7 AM backing President Roose-
i Welt.
And now that we are actively
preparing TO invade the conti-
nent of Europe TO re-eStabliSh
Holland, Belgium, Denmark and
Poland and save England and
the British empire from Nazi
control, our next step is for
peace. The United States must
take her active place in shap-
ing the world in this next peace
conference.
In this new adjustment Of
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-22
TO THE EDITOR:

~ TX LII AIls
TWO HUN DRIED AND
l. TWELVE congressman who
have voted for the change in the
Neutrality Act. / believe, have
not realized that they have COM
mitted one of the most serious
mistakes the Congress of the
United States ever made.
The mistake is that they have
sold American blood to those
internationalists to shoot and
get shot.
II never concerned or bene-
fitted America. only to create
feud, so the sons of American
mothers, every 20 years, will be
prepared to 60 out and shoot
and get shot as America already
has begun to practice since 1917.
For all justice and fairness
without any hatred or prejudice.
I wish some one would tell me
what harm Italy, Germany and
Japan have done to this country.
Why should America be so
hasty against these nations?
What benefit has America re-
ceived from England and Russia
and why should America be so
generous every time some one
knocks at her back door and
why should she respond to their
knock?
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-22

world colonies now owned by
Holland Belgium. France and
Great Britain twhere most of
the raw material of the world is
located) the United States should
assume the responsibility of taxi
ing over and governing her just
share of these colonies.
Especially should we take over
the Malay state. half of the
Dutch East Indies. the Belgian
Congo, and all of the British,
French and Dutch American
possessions. Canada not included.
Let Canada volunteer to be-
come United States territory.
JOE THOMAS,
500 Josephine street.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-22
ONE YEAR AGO TODAY
kou. ~, 1910

Greeks take koritza.
German bombers raid the
Midlands and Birmingham.
Martial law is put in effect
in Turkeys European territories;
sections along the Dardanelles
and Bosporus are heavily.
guarded.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-22
25-YEARS-AG0T TO-DAY
Nov. ~, 1916

British hospital ship. the
Britannia. is sunk off Kea Island,
in the Aegean Sea, off Greece.
German troops enter the Ru-
manian city of Craiova.
Germans storm British
trenches south Of La Bassee
Canal and capture 20 prisoners.