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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1944-05-04

Swanton, are going forward with good
attendance and great interest shown.
Prayers for the sick and requests
honored nightly for those in the
armed services. The meetings are I'M
der the direction of Mrs. Luclla Saw
adge Ayers and Miss Delma Stouden-
himcr of the Ohio coal fields. Film
slides of the coal fields will be shown
Friday evening at 500 o'clock.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1944-05-04
Clear Sailing If
YOU PREPARE NOW

The tiehtest squeeze this year on the
farm front will come at harvest time.
Many average binders and threshers
cannot survive another year. All-CroP
Harvesters must be prepared to carry
an extra load.
Here's what you can do to get your
machine ready
sSchedule your All-Crop Immediately
for our 24-POINT FARM COM
MANDO overhaul. This also includes
reconditioning the attachments for
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1944-05-04

Robert Grant, Piedmont; Mr.. and Mrs.
Edmund Adams, Warret, O.; Mr. and
Mrs. Fred Burleight, Jr,, Morgan
town. W Va; Mrs. Pearl Laffey Key
ser, W. Va. Mrs. William OFT and
daughter Barbara, Terra Alta; Mrs.
f. D. Ayres, Upper Lake, Calf; Mrs.
Reginald Ford and son Robert, Loeb
Lynn.
Revival Continues Nightly
Mnntinmc NJ Tho Mot hndist churnh IN
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1944-05-04

The following named pupils had
perfect attendance during the month
Of April:
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1944-05-04

special crops and replacing or rebuild.
ing worn parts.
. List your machine on our local Reg.
lister as a qualified Farm Commando.
available for outside work on neigh
boring farms.
If you are in need of an All-Crop Hair
vester, come in and talk to US. We
may be able to furnish one or help
you locate just the machine you are
looking for.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1944-05-04
MEADOW MOUNTAIN

Guests Of Francis Bjttingcr on Sun
lay were Mr.. and Mrs Harvey Bittin-
ger and son, Mr., and Mrs Norman
Rittingcr and children, Mr.. and Mrs.
Lloyd Bittnger and children. Mr..
and Mrs. German Bittingcr and chill
drcn, Pat Mayhem and sons Clifford
and Edward.
Mr.. and Mrs. Marshall Hare and
children spent Sunday with Mrs,
Nancy Bittingcr.
Mr.. and Mrs. Russell Knox bad as
guests on Thursday evening Mr.. and
Mrs. Harvey Bittingcr and son Melvin.
Quite number of persons in this
community have been i'll of influenza
the past week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Russell knoy were in
Oakland Saturday ON business,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1944-05-04

Come t" the Fichelherger Restau-
rant in Mt Lake Psrk for SUNDAY
Dinner.
CHICKEN DINNERS SERVED
TO 2 +. NJ.
DREAMED CHICKEN & WAFFLES
SERVED ) TO 6 =. NJ
PhCns SAX for res5r dtIca..
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-09-14

Soup kitchens were immed-
lately started. Before long, the
population swelled 10 $4,000 as
people of neighboring villages
and small towns flocked there.
The kitchen / saw was serving
from 900 TO 1900 meals twice a
day. At noon meat and two veg
ctables were served, and at
night a large bowl of thick veg
etable soup was provided. Food
is a minor problem for the mo-
ment. There is plenty Of fresh
meat and vegetables, milk and
cheese. The American Army had
just brought in 80 tons of flour,
the wheat crop is said to be ex-
cellent, and while farmers are
sadly lacking in farming inn
plcments, there will be enough
wheat for winter months. For
tunately the Germans had not
had time TO mine the fields as
in other sections Of the Depart
ment.
Medical supplies will soon
be furnished TO us by our Ameri-
can friends said the mayor.
My own clinic was stripped by
the Germans before they left
The only thing they did not take
away was my operating table
The eople of CoutanceS
speak with great affection Of
their 86-year-old bishop. Mon
seigneur Theophile Louvard. He
refused to abondon his town un-
til his palace was burned out by
incendiaries. He started out on
foot. Beyond the walls of the
town he met a farm cart and
sought refuge in a farmhouse
some six miles away, where he
has been living ever since. He
plans to come back TO Coutances
very soon to minister to his
flock.
Mayor Guillard has great
plans for his town. Aside from
the fact that henceforth it will
be the capital of the Manche De-
partment, in place of Saint Lo,
his ambition is to rebuild Govt
ances on modern lines while
still retaining all its picturesque
Norman character. 8
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-09-14
Rowing Reporters

Coutances was bombed on D
Day with two attacks which
lasted several hours. Seven days
later, our planes attacked again
dropping incendiaries. That was
when two hit the nave of the
Cathedral, but by great fortune
were Immediately eXtinguiShed.
DR.. Guillard recounted how
he started his first amputation
at 9 o'clock at night and worked
en- steadily for 40 hours without
a break, though his house had
been completely demolished and
ne and his family escaped death
by a miracle. There were be-
tween 300 and 400 people killed
that first night.
The Germans Systematically
pillaged every house in the
town. They even took away live
stock. Many of the inhabitants
had hidden their most precious
possessions, linen, silver, wine,
soon after the occupation. Few
will ever find them again. /
talked to Madame Gilbert, wife
Of the local engineer, who said
that it had taken her Is minutes
TO locate the spot on which her
house stood. Another told me
how she was the only woman
left in the town and had worked
as strctchCr bearer. She had
helped bury rs dead, working
day and night for II hours with
out any sleep at all.
Coutances is without light or
water. Most Of the people have
only the clothes they stand in or
what they could carry away in
a small suitcase. No civilian is
allowed back in town. The
houses that are still standing
have not yet been cleared of
BOBBY traps.
FEED $4,000
The problem of evacuation
was a tremendous one for DR..
Guillard. All but 100 of the 5000
people in Coutances have been
sent to Coutainville, little fam
lily seaside resort that had been
almost entirely requiSitioncd
and taken over by the Germans
as a rest center. Here, at least,
they had not had much time for
pillage.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-09-14
STRANGE SIGHT

PERRY, Okla.-Henry Geng-
Ter looked twice to make sure it
was a bulls head and not a
ROSTERS sticking up over the
roof of the barn. Then he inves-
tigated.
The 1,000-pound animal had
broken out of its pen and onto
the roof of the basement barn,
he found. Then it climbed to tina
top, slid down the other side
and jumped Is feet, breaking
several ribs and knocking itself
out.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-09-14
NECROMYSTERY

BILLINGS, Mont. - Police
failed to find the body Of man,
reported lying in a silo on an
abandoned farm. A second re-
port that the body was wedged
in between silage and the wall
brought the officers back.
Again, the body was gone. The
police were stumped.
Then Sheriff Herbert Bailey
produced a man who admitted
that the maps occasionally in the
silo, not far from his home.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-09-14
RIP VAN WRINKLE ALIBI

NEW YORK-A Negro youth
asked by a Judge why he had
failed 10 report to his probation
officer for Is consecutive weeks,
replied: Il was sleeping, Judge
Yawning and caring a
dreamy smile he was led off to
an indefinite term in the re-
fOrmatory.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-09-14
BY ROSETTE HARGR0VE
NEA staff Correspondent

COUTANCES - You might
have expected recrimination and
bitterness and complaint. You
might have expected hatred Of
the Allies, whose bombing at
tacks have wrecked almost
every one of the thousand
homes in this martyred town.
Only the beautiful Coutances
Cathedral, with its slender twin
spires, miraculously escaped an
inhalation.
Yet, despite the devastation
land suffering which liberation
has brought to this once smiling
Normandy province, the people
of Coutances are full of courage.
Though they still suffer from
shock, they are preparing 10
tackle the vast work of recon-
struction ahead of them. They
face the future with calmness
and confidence.
All the people have smiles Of
greeting for Americans in UNI
form.
1--WE are so glad you are here, y
they would invariably say.
They have endured gruellinS
experiences. There are entire
families in both Saint Lo and
Coutanccs who have been COM
pletely wiped out. Others have
lost trace of their children in
the shuttle of hasty evacuation,
1t seemed incredible that only a
short while ago. the town had
been the scene of a fierce attack.
There were only a handful of
people gathered on the Place du
Parvis in front of the Cathedral,
where l found the Mayor, DR..
, Henri Guillard.
AS ! sat in his office and lis
tened to his story, l realized
what price these people had
had to pay for their liberation.
But at the same time I felt that
the flame of patriotism burned
brightly and fiercely. There is
a tri-color flag on the spire Of
the Cathedral. 1t was placed
there by the town matchmaker
when the first Americans came.
The Germans were less than 300
yards away.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-09-14
. FLASHES
OF
LIFE Q
DISCRIMINATION?
Nv the Associated Press

HAVERHILL, Mass lFD -
The manpower shortage not
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS wrestling
matches have been banned here
by the city council.
Mayor Albert w. Glynn de-
clared the dignity of woman
hood is way above wrestling
or IL should be."
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-09-14
DUCKS CAN SINK!

Ducks are unable to float in
water that has a small amount
of synthetic compound known as
aerosol added to it, Chemists say
it makes the water wetter.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-11
What About Cartels?

Some of our largest business organiza- tions and corporations have been put on the carpet by Uncle Sam and questioned regarding their part in international car tels One might think that this was a new form of robbery, from the way the Department of Justice is inStituting suits.
 There is a similarity between the trade treaties advocated by Secretary of State Hull and the cartel agreements and u11- derstandings between world industries. It seems that European and American firms have been transferring their secrets" with understandings that Eng land, France or other countries could use these methods in their own countries while the industries in the United States looked after their own domestic markets.
 One American firm replied to an attack on it's connection with cartelS by showing that it had reduced the prices of certain articles it manufactured more than one third and given the public the benefit of that reduction. Evidently our own Government has been doing a good deal of regulation of cartels with a shot gun, instead of making fair analysis of the cartel system.
 Many newspapers have been discussing cartels, and one outstanding financial publication brands as "a lot of trash arguments that postwar world trade must become "a Government monopoly" as pro- vided for under MT. Hull's trade treaties.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-11
The United Nations

The United Nations are in form some what like territories" but in place of a tentative arrangement to work together these thirty odd nations propose to fasten their zppers and formally organize for the serious purpose of maintaining inter national peace and security. The Dum-- barton Conference was a long forward step in that direction and the import ance of the United Nations will be recog.- nized when it is clearly understood that these World countries will restore the objectives of the League of Nations, and "put teeth" in a new organization.
 After all, the League had all the quail ties of noble intentions, but it had no way of meeting warlike threat = and before anything was done to defend the League it was wiped off the map. In the election heavy criticism was aimed at Communism. Despite that fact the Soviet Union is taken in, by the United States and Britain, with full faith and confidence, that it will be loyal to the pledge to the people of the World to main- tain perpetual peace.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-11
Politics and Art

If it isn't raking the cold political ashes unduly, we should like to revert to another prediction topic and recall a remark by the eminent violinist Fritz Kreisler. To the question of how he was going to vote, Mr. Kreisler answered, My political candidate this year is Beethoven and maybe Bach."
 The Beethoven-Bach ticket is certainly an excellent one, and one which has been kept in musical office year after year with scarcely dissenting vote. And we can't blame MT. KreiSler unduly for taking an "art-is-long- -time-is-fleeting'' atti- tude and sticking with his candidates.
 But this attitude is one that artists have taken to their sorrow in recent years.
 Thomas Mann, the distinguished German writer, has told of his belated awakening to the importance of politics after years of thinking politics a dirty business in which the cloistered intellec- tual should not soil himself. Dr. Mann and most of his colleagues awakened after the damage was done, of course, and Hitler was already firmly in power. Great men and great artists like MT. KreiSler must live in a world of politics. And their art nouriSheS in free, demo cratic, prosperous society That society in America is governed by politics. No one can convincingly excuse his indiffer- ence to active political participation m preserving it.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-11
A Thought for Today
Arrnistice Day 1s44

For the third time we are celebrating Armistice Day in the midst of a war which has so altered the occasions spirit and significance that there is some reason to doubt that November II will have permanent place among our national holidays. For twenty years we observed November II as the anniversary of that historic occasion when the "war to end war" was itself brought to an end. But for the past five years such an observ- ance would have been mockery of the facts. Rather, it has become rebuke to the world of statesmen who, confronted repeatedly by threats to the brave slogan of s'war to end war;" did not raise their hands to stay those threats. But the altered circumstances have not lesSened the honor paid to the men who died be- leving that slogan, Since the beginning of history men have honored soldiers who died in battle for cause they thought just. But for the soldiers of 1917-18, the cause had nobility and grandeur that surpassed all others.
 Today some may look back to the Slo- ganS of "war to end war" and world e"safe for democracy" with the same cynic- ism that many statesmen must have felt about them at the time. But many, per- hapS most, of the American doughboys be- 1ieVed them. If they had to die in battle 1t was in the belief that no son or grandson of theirs, or any man anywhere, would have to do it again. And the same belief sustained and solaced the families of these doughboys. Now another genera ton of American soldiers is fighting and dying. Maybe the thoughts of this gen. eration are less idealistic. But the peace for which these soldiers fight may well have better hope of permanence for that very reason. For the world at last seems to have realized how unworthy some guardians of the peace were of the Sacr1- flee of even one Allied soldiers life. And when peace comes this time it seems cer- tain that the American people, at least, will demand greater voice in outlining the task of keeping that peace perma- nent, and will assume a more careful watch of those to whom the task IS entrusted.
 Thus, at last, we may keep faith with the men who died in the first World war and those who must die in the second to defeat the war makers and bring an end to war. When we can say that sound, workable, ole-hearted organization for world peace is established and successful we can also say that we have honored these men as fully as we can. That day, perhaps, will not be marked on calen- dar. But until it comes the obligation to speed it should be this country'S con- cern on November II and every other day of the year.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-11
In Today's Mail

trolled across the Atlantic by sub- marines. It is also possible that attacks might be launched from catapult-plane tenders. It is extreme ly possible that such attacks could entirely elude Allied sea and air patrols"
 This warning, addressed to a civ- ilian population, fond of summing it. self in false security, undoubtedly is issued as a matter of duty to the public by its military guardi- ans, but, as it seems that nothing can be done about it, except to in- vite preliminary attacks of the jit- ters from an already all-too jumpy population, there is some question as to why it appears at this time. Can it be that Army and Navy chiefs overlook the fact that Germany, after the war is over, will have no approach the United States at the back door, hat in hand, begging for money, food, clothing and the means of existence, and thus will not be likely to incur any more enmity than can be avoided? A single robot bomb landed on American shores would make the situation exceed ingly difficult for Supplicants rep- reSenting the Eerrenvolk.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-11

would combine the pleasures of turkish bath and massage.
 There is no need to dwell upon their disillusionment: Time passed, the beard toughened, and shaving became a "nui- Sance and more' Yet the ads continued to proclaim its pleasure. It was enough to shake mans faith in things generally. Now if same disenchantment can be fore stalled in toIhorrowS wonderful world of plastics, electronics and family heli- copters we shall all be happier. Not that we doubt that these things will come. But too many people seem to have the idea that because we have been forced to stop our normal progress for the grim business of killing and destruction, we shall immediately step through the look ing glass on the day of victory into new wonderland.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-11

We talk a great deal about the necessity Of rlgnr training, if people are to be religious. Ger tainly such a point is well made. The lives of men and women are largely fashioned by home in- f1uences. But the emphasis on re- ligious training throws the respon- sibility on the parent, and while this responsibility is great, it is certainly no greated than the re- Sponsibility which rects upon the growing or mature individual to make his own discovery. The in- f1uence of parents is great, but in the end the decision rests not with the parents but with the children. They decide whether they will ac- cept the spiritual opportunities of- fered them or thrust them aside.
 The right of choice is a great privilege, but 1t is also solemn re- sponsibility. It is terrifying to con- front the grim realization that by the exercise of our wills we deter mine our destiny, both for this world and for eternity.
 All Rights Reserved-Ba -Babson News
 paper Syndicate
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-11
GOOD MOVE BY THE LAWYERS
(Hartford Tilnes)

Members of the Hartford County Bar have done a commendable thing in planning to set up central law office in Hartford with stenographic and telephone service and probably a law library, for members of the bar returning from war service, un- til they can re-establish themselves in their own offices. It is not known how many will need such help but the offer of it will be gratifying thing for them, to know while they are still in war service.
 Those lawyers who will need such accommodations for 8 few weeks or months will feel deeply grateful that the legal profession has exercised
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-11

Leon HendersOn-kicked out as OPAdministrator, but organized the Independent Roosevelt Con- mittee, raised thousands of dol- lars.
 Donald NelSOn-Kicked out as as War Production Board chair man, but made an effective radio speech, worked hard backstage for FDR.
 Secretary of the Interior Ickes Those closeup to the Cabinet know how many times FDR has given the cold shoulder to various IckeS projects; has sided with pal ace favorite Harry Hopkins in the bitter Hopkins -IckeS rivalry. Yet 1ckeS was the Presidents main Cabinet speech-maker, hurled pointed barbS which the White House couldn't but definitely wanted hurled.
 Bob Nathan-Eased out of the War Production Board because General Somervell and the Brass Hats didn't like him. He worked with Henderson on the Indepen- dent Committee for Roosevelt, raised thousands of dollars.
 Sidney Hillman-Fired from the Office of Production Management without warning by FDR. He regis tered more voters-and got them out on Election Day-than any other man in the U. s. A. A lot of people including Hannegan, looked upon Hillman with mixed feelings, but without Hillman's stirring up the vote, FDR might not have remained in the White House.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-11
THE CONIMONWEAL
(The Catholic Transcript

Last week The Commonweal ob- served its twentieth birthday. This weekly review, owned and edited by Catholic laymen, has attained rep utation for liberalism and literary excellence. Its views on controversial issues have, from time to time brought its name and its views on a particular subject to the attention of many people who do not see it regularly. But it's claim to respect and support does not rest on these spotlightings alone. It deserves rec ognition for its head-on approach to the most important questions oi the day. There is no dodging ol playing of angles in it's editorial policy. Matters of greatest import ance are faced, explored and hon. estly discussed. The editors are not infallible. They can be wrong. But they can never be accused of lack ing Catholic interests, well consid- cred convictions, or the courage of those convictions.
 The Commonweal presents in its pages some of the finest articles being printed anywhere today. Its verse is of a high order. Its notices on new plays (done just now by the most original and independent of drama critics. Kappo Phelan) are second to none. Its book reviews are, with occasional exceptions, examples of careful judgment. Its correspond ence columns are an open forum where intelligence replaces clam orousneSS. And in MT. Paulding it has 8 columnist who always has something provocative to say and says it in, style reminiscent of Peguy'S
 The editors of The Commonweal are to be congratulated on the con- tinued and increasing excellence of their publicatio !. They have set a standard of thoughtful and respon- Sible journalism and have adhered to 1t through thick and thin.