The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1944-04-13

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The Famous Platter Egg
One of Ed Platter's Rhode Island
Reds has come in for some widespread
publicity as the result of a good
sized egg which she laid recently.
The publicity however was not so
much the result Of the egg-laying as
what was said about it in the paper.
But read for yourself the letter The
Republican office received the other
day from Ross c. burst. a first lieu
tenant at Fort Sumner, New Mexico
Dear Editor:
81 have seen many of the great
natural wonders of the world. but it
remained for your correspondent from
Jennings to remind me how great is
nature. In reporting on the Rhode
Island Red pullet owned by a former
acquaintance, Ed Platter, it is re-
ported, 1.-The eggs measures rs inches
the long way by SIS inches in diam
eter.
in case We editor has not seen this
egg. | am enclosing a scale drawing
showing the exact size.
Are you sure the egg did not lay
the pullet?"
And | must add that the scale draw
ing certainly opened my eyes. And it
would open yours too, if you see it,
available at the office. What the
Jennings correspondent meant surely
was rs inches around the long way.
by SIS inches AROUND THE SHORT
WAY.
Now that explanation should at
least take the strain off the editor and
the proof reader.
While we are on the subject Of eggs,
Frank Brenneman, Of Bittinger boasts
, that one Of his White Leghorn hens
produced an egg weighing six ounces,
measuring 8A inches AROUND THE
| LONG WAY, and "a inches CLEAR
AROUND THE SHORT WAY.
Since last week several truck own
ers have complained in person about
the unjustness of the ration board re-
! curing them to come to Oakland tC
get their truck gasoline stamps in per
son, instead of mailing them.
This is the result Of new federal
regulation.
1t does sound silly, but when We
asked clerk in the board about it, q
reasonable explanation was given.
She declared that last year the
books were mailed out. An estimated
half of the truck owners, many OF
them farmers, later vowed and de,
clared and many of them swore to the
fact that they had never received then
books through the mails.
So the innocent truckers this yeal
must suffer along with those who
were guilty of that last year. SO says
the ration board rulings.
An item from the University OF
Maryland states that students at the
University of Maryland are learning
to read all over again because it was
found that many persons even at the
college level do not read as we'll as
| they might" The College of Educa-
ton set up a reading clinic for stu
dents and the course has ended with
good results.
Ever since have looked over copy
that pupils send down to this office |
have been of the firm opinion that
reading, writing and arithmetic are
fundamental or basic in the teaching
program and should never be ne
elected.
Looks like the educators are coming
back to that idea, and it's high time
too.
From Laurel Hollow comes the no.
tation: Il read in The Republican that
grounding weather was past. What
kind Of weather is this? 1t must be
opossum weather.
Another complaint was the price of
halters in comparison to other things;
feed at $3.50 per hundred and still
advancing, selling eggs at 20 cents a
dozen and paying $1.75 for a halter.
That takes 8A dozen eggs to buy a
halter at that rate, she complains.
"Think how lopsided things are that
are taking place." she declared. Maybe
she's right.
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AVRORA-EHON