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BIoSoPHY.
Music and poetry evening, at ths b.
aoteI. $40 o'siocf tonisht.
dance. shoreham Hotel. o'clock tonisht.
..-,d. If p.rPR..s'A PRAMA' original psyche
logical ro1 mefodrsms 70 Ss pssrieia Tr:sdwell.
In X. tss.t.s tns csshOi1 on ssp Tn,s5ssy Msh
e'eIoet tonisht and every nisht through
February Z.
Land; Las1a Machines. InGems," and aa,,vsR.d Re
SfsSStoR 81 seStt R..ans Fl WGId 7sS and
Events % Committee, in Friends Meeting
House, gill Florida avenue NV.
Navy Band concert. Departmental Au-
Soldiers Home Military Band concert
Stanley Hall, $50 pm. tomorrow.
SPECIAL EXHIBITS.
Smithsonian Institution, National Col.
lection OF Fine Arts. Tenth street ane
4:3o pm. daily; sixth annual exhibition
January -; forty-sixth annual exhibi.
soeiety Of Miniature Painters, through
lefIsdihff Psiiifs. Memorial Gallery. 1900 Twenty.
J shrst street NV. open 8 am. to 4:30 > m
daily; exhibition OF paintinss by Mauric'
stern, paintings by VAUGHN Flannery snt
photographs by Clarence Laughlin, through
Bush ana I'd Week. Gallery, so1o g stree
NV, open 10 am. to $50 pm. week
days; exhibition Of paintings BY Jack Perl
mutter, through February 8.
and K streets NV, open 0 am. to pm
weekdays: water eolors and etchinss b!
BENJAMIN Rubin. throush January. =,
street and New York avenue NV, opeI
IL to 4:3o pm. Mondays. 10 am. to 4:3t
pm. Tuesdays through Fridays, an. II
days and holidays; recent accessions ii
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sAeva With early pAetesrapaa for aa h.
4rts 6iaS of washiasssn, zo17 Eye
street NV, open II am. to 8 pm. week
artists, ends today.
Pan American Union. Nineteenth street
and Constitution avenue NV. open 9
AM. to 4:30 pm daily: exhibition Of
Latin American paintings, through Janu-
STORY HOUR.
Animal stories for children from 8 to
~. told by educational stan member, Cor
coran Gallery of Art IL am. tomorrow.
FOE sERvICEMEN.
Coed swimming, 1:45 o'clock: square
Evening star., 1948-01-23

daaes and dancing Do suks h1x. $50
oeieck: games In gymAastum, ESQ e'eieek
tonight, Penthouse Service csntef Seven
teenth and K streets NV.
Movies, o'clock and bowltng party.
9 O'Clock tonight, Army-Navy YMCA, 1888
"a street NV.
Soldiers, Sailors and Marines Club
1918 L street NV; comfortable lounges,
library, writing desks, billiard tables,
radio.
sylvania avenue NV, lounge, recreation,
free canteen, open daily from IL am. to
midnight
Evening star., 1948-01-23
Aboriainss Like colnsls

Some Australian aberigines have
acquired the ability to, 30 lcns
periods without food Or water and
then drink and eat prodigiously.
One man Is reported TO have
drunk three gallons Of water Ut .
sitting and two others ate 30 pounds
OF meat In six hours.
Evening star., 1948-01-23
orig. 1875, $500

OsUs OsS
Misses and junior sizes in fine
wool needIepoints and suedes.
Fitted coots, boxy coats, fIors-
back eoot.; most popular coIors.
Evening star., 1948-01-23
/ coats
s48

orig. 58.05, 1895
Misses, wonnen's and junior eoots
in this voIue-pocked group! Top
notch styles in top-noteh woolens.
Every eoot q wonderful buy.
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ir. cartWheeI dress
1896

In current issue Of "Mademoi-
seiIe." R 6 KS bIushine rose
dress with the red-trimned skirt
that can do cort-wheeIs around
you. Tiny woist; black royon
crepe; ir. sizes 9 to IS.
yr Colony Dresses, Fifth Floor
Evening star., 1948-01-23
faiIIe' suit-dress
22.96
BEST ( CO..

To greet the spring; rustIIne
royon foiIIe suit-dress with new
short jacket, swirIing skirt. Now
with pink or black with aqua de-
tochobIe eilet and cuffs. Sizes
10 to i6.
Feshion Colony Dresses, Third Floor,
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orig. 4II0 and $I20

Inooine collars Of full skin Silver
Fox, Block or 6roy Persion Lamb,
jap Mink or siIver-bIue dyed
Muskrot! Misses and wonen's.
Evening star., 1948-08-01
BY STANLEY BArz

A PPROXIMATELY 500 of Germany's
finest scientists are now working in
this country for the military services and
other Government agencies
Their presence in this country for the
first two years after the war was surrounded
with much secrecy. Now the hush hush
aura has been cleared away from Opera
tion .Paperclip," the name by which the
Government refers to the project of bring
ing the scientists to this country.
Typical are the four employed at the
Engineer Research and Development Labo-
ratory at Fort Belvoir, Va, only IS miles
from Washington.
They are Drs Wolfgang Finkelnberg,
Alexander Smakula, Werner X Weihe and
Georg Hass.
All are physicists one of them a special
LIST IN atomic physics. and all are working
IN the field of electronics and radiation.
All live on the Army post with their
families. Their living quarters are former
barracks or mess halls neatly converted
into three to six room apartments, identical
with the quarters provided enlisted men of
the top three grades. These quarters are
located just outside the fenced and guarded
inclosure of the laboratory area, about a
f1ve-minute walk from their place of work.
They are free to come and 60 as they
please, even to travel around the country
although this has but recently become the
case. At one time they were closely
restricted in their movements. One of them
recently bought second hand car. All
are reasonably fluent in English.
Although technically enemy aliens, they
are not prisoners of war who were drafted
into this service. All came to this country
voluntarily under six-month contracts with
the United States Government and are
paid Government professional salaries with
sick and annual leave and other United
States employe prerogatives All four-as
Is the case with most of the others through
out the country-chose to stay on after the
trial period. were signed to long-term con-
tracts, and then brought their families
here from Germany
That they are happy with their lot goes
without saying. All indicate an intention
to remain here permanently under the i'm
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Evening star., 1948-01-04

civilization can supply. But they want moth
ing that will alter their traditional way of
life and thinking.
They will have no automobiles if it means
expensive roads and filling stations; no radio
if it means electricity, poles and power plants.
The price is too high. They accept the spin
ming wheel as an improvement over the dis
taft, however They approve of the sewing
machine because of its self-sufficiency. These
improvements change nothing.
They. expressed great interest in some of
the things had with me - zippers were par
ticulary fascinating - and urged me to ship
them number of articles from home A Mon
golian woman, heavy with jewelry, turquoises
and pearls, wanted an egg beater. She in
quired about artificial silk, and artificial pearls
that wouldn't peel" Others wanted type
writer's in Tibetan script, radios that would
work without electricity, and revolvers
One young gentleman of IS, who already
had two wives, asked for Betty Cradle ''Or
someone like her - so very clean"
Evening star., 1948-01-04

The food, though inferior, was plentiful.
Even the very poor seemed robust. There
were no beggars. Crime was dramatic, but
there was little of it.
The people of Tibet live ENTHUSIASTICALLY,
but they do not strive unduly for material
gains. Greed, the curse of modern civiliza-
ton, is strangely missing. Each man seems
to make himself content with what he has,
IA Mule Could Do Better"
LET me put it this way: they will not pay
too big price for progress. An Englishman
brought motorcycle to Tibet No one was inn
pressed. 1T went twenty miles and stopped"
my host said contemptuously. "A mule could
do better" Filling stations were explained to
him, but only bewildered him more. Such
trouble to 60 to, for such simple purpose.
This same Tibetan owned clock told
him it was As minutes fast mo matter" he
said. THAT is the time go by. 1t suits me-"
Tibetans are not opposed to imports. They
need and want many things that our Western
Evening star., 1948-01-04

Sex is hardly problem in Tibet. Most
men cling to one wife - either because they
want or can afford no more. The women are
rich-complexioned, and few are beautiful.
What of the mystery and spiritualism of
that fantastic mountain land, referred to
with such awe by travellers? saw little of
that in the person of Phari's High Lama.
He sat cross-legged on his raised dais, toying
with some lap dogs, as we entered. The yellow,
oval, shaved head turned neither to nor away
from us. Preoccupiod, he did not seem to
see us for long minutes. When he spoke it
was an invitation to tea.
Thereafter he spoke no more, except to
utter an occasional grunt. But the interpreter
translated these grunts into long and peril
nent questions that seemed to indicate a
knowledge of ourselves as well as of the coun-
try from which we came.
A State Of Hana
AOULD he, as was Claimed transmit mes
sages and ideas merely with look? Could
he read my mind? He seemed to take no in
terest in my answers, to need no interpreta-
ton of them. and yet to understand them.
This was Shangri-La - a disappointment
until returned to my home in Canada Now
I am restless, and want to see Tibet again.
Shangri-La, know now. is state of mind.
lived for three months without the appurte-
nances, the trappings. the necessities of mod
ern society, among people who had never
known them. The people were of peaceful
mind - and so was when lived there.
Shangri-La, repeat, is not Utopia But
what it has that we can never have in our
modern civilization is serenity The people
of Tibet are not disposed to surrender that
for all the progress of the modern world -
including the atomic bomb. The End
Evening star., 1948-01-04

regulate my breathing to gasp the thin air,
normal, and would wake up choking
There were extremes of poverty and wealth
such as no Utopian society would allow The
rich were clad in splendor. The poor appar-
emily never bathed or changed their clothes.
Filth-smeared children played in the street
not far from where vultures pecked at the
carcass of long-dead mule. The humber
citizens Frustrated themselves when a noble
man approached. In the center of the public
square stood whipping post. These were
hardly tokens of the ideal state.
There was crime in Shangri-La. The
penal code was rigorous. To be sure, the
Tibetans are Buddhists and do not be-
lieve in capital punishment. This did not
prevent them from whipping malefactor 50
severely that he died.
A trader near Phari was attacked by high
waymen. To escape them he drove his pony
into lake and was drowned. The thieves
we're later caught by Tibetan soldiers and
driven into the same lake. They drowned too.
Even Dirt Il Different
lHE government of Tibet is absolute. The
Dalai Lama is both the religious and temporal
power of the land. When he dies it is the belief
of the Tibetans that he will be reborn in
new body. A search will then be begun for the
child who is the ruler reincarnated
1t may seem strange to describe this bar
baric and violent land as Shangri-La. In the
beginning felt that had the wrong address,
but understanding came later.
Dirt, observed had a different meaning
in these attitudes than in the low and sweaty
plains The air here was cold and dry and
strangely purifying. Even the carrion in the
street had no smell.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-01-08
DEER PARK

Mrs. Clarence Rollman entertained
the WSCS on Thursday evening of
last week
The adult class of the Methodist
church held an election on Sunday
morning following the Sunday school
hour Those elected were Clark Rode
HEAVIER, teacher; Mrs. Ramsey Smith,
president; Mrs. Leslie Rodeheavcr,
president; Mrs. d. r. limbaugh,
secretary; and Ramsey Smith treasur-
cr. Several committees were chosen.
Special mention was made during the
Sunday school hour that Mary Helen
Sollars, primary class, Patricia Sol
lars, lola King, Junior Girls class,
Edward Sollars, Junior Boys class
made perfect attendance during 1917,
while Nancy Rhodes, Primary class,
June Rhodes, Junior Girls class, John
Iiaines, Junior Boys class, Rosemary
Haines, Intermediate Girls class,
John Smith, Intermediate Boys class,
and Ramsey Smith, Adult class,
missed one Sunday last year. 4 num-
Der of other members made a special
effort to attend Sunday school regu-
lally and are to be commended for
their faithfulness. A new goal is $50
people on roll for 1913. All are
cordially invited to attend.
John Rollman, Charlotte Hall, Nd;
Mary Maude Paugh, Conservatory Of
Music, Dayton. Va; and Betty Ann
Clatterbuck, Allegany hospital, Cum
berland, have returned 20 their
studies.
Nancy and Mary X. Rhodes visited
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-01-08
acknowledgement

Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph r. Davis, Of
Plainfield n. j., announced the en-
gagement of their eldest daughter.
Evelyn, to Ernest II. PAUL., son Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest PAUL, Of New
York City, at luncheon at their home
on Saturday, December 27.
Miss Davis is kindergarten teacher
in the MaXson school in Plainfield
She was graduated from Plainfield
High school and attended the Ann
Reno Institute in New York and re-
ccived her bachelor Of science degree
at Columbia university, New York.
She is granddaughter Of Mr.. and
Mrs. John W. Davis, of Oakland, and
her father is president Of the Securi-
ty Steel Equipment company in Ave
mel, N. J.
Mr.. PAUL is a graduate Of the
Stephens Institute Of Technology,
in Hoboken, and served as an
ensign in the L. S. Navy during the
recent war. He is now in business with
his father in New York
No definite date has been set for
the wedding but it will take place
after the close Of the school term next
June.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-01-08
Gas Company Plans
Improvements In 1913

The Cumberland and Allegheny
Gas company plans to invest more
than 100000 in gas service improve
ment projects during 1913.
This budget figure for next years
construction activity is Incorporated
in the more than 100000 Of con-
struction planned throughout the five
state area served by the affiliated gas
companies in the Pittsburgh group Of
the Columbia Gas System.
According to Irwin X. Peck, vice
president and general manager, the
actual start Of many Of the proposed
projects will depend upon the gas
company receiving approvals from
Federal and state regulatory bodies.
Another important factor is The oh
tanning Of deliVe3 les for Steel pipe,
valves, pumps and similar equipment.
The gas company plans to build in
1913 p high pressure gas transmits
sion line near Oakland. When con-
pletCd, it will increase pressure for
the delivery Of gas from new field
in Preston county, w Va
Also planned for next year is the
further Development of new field in
Tucker county, which seems to have
possibilities of becoming a good
source for natural gas.
Another scheduled project is high
pressure transmission line which will
be laid to improve the gas service in
the vicinity of Terra Alta W. Va.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-01-08
Veterans Eligible For Tests
For High School Diploma

Veterans whose high school train
ing was interrupted by the war may
make application for equivalency
tests, successful passage of which
will entitle them to receive high
school diplomas, it was announced
through the army recruiting service,
Testing service agencies are being
set up by the Veterans Admins
tration wherever it has regional Of
fices.
The tests are not based strictly on
academic knowledge, but on general
educational development resulting
from experience and educational OPP
portunities encountered while in ser
vice
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-01-08
EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS ARA FOR BETTER FARMS.
MORE INCOME AND CLOSER COOPERATION
AMONG BUSINESS AND AGRICULTURAL GROUPS
70 BUILD BETTER COMMUNITIES

Working in conjunction with established
agencies the Monongahela Power Com
pany has for many years employed spe-
ciaists in agriculture farm home design
and in the application of electricity to
farm work. Lately other specialists have
been added to cover heretofore neglected
fields-such as farm management, rural
recreation, soil conservation, forestry and
farm buildings design.
In addition to these general services
available throughout the territory we
serve, specific programs such as Farm
ing for Better Living" have been carried
out successfully in "a counties. Activities
of this type will be extended to other
communities as soon as personnel be-
comes available and when needs and local
interest justify expansion.
Our company considers it merely good
business to support Fundamentally these
programs. We know that a good farmer
is good customer not alone for us but
for many businesses of his county even
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-01-08
BITTINGER

Eleven members of the Missionary
Society met at the home Of Mrs. Ralph
Bucket last Tuesday night for a mis-
sion study class. Reports were given
on the book, Tales from India" by
the following members: Mrs. c. II.
Rune, Mrs. John Reclner Mrs. Jonas
Beaehy, Mrs. Kermit Glotfelty, Mrs.
George ShaWley, Mrs. Lawrence Buck
81, Mrs. Herbert Bucket, Helen Glot-
lelty and Mrs. Orval GlotfeitY. Also
present We're Mrs. Fred Bittinger, and
the hostess Mrs Ralph Bucket. Plans
were discussed for the study Of the
next book and refreshments were
served.
Miss Catherine Metzler has gone to
Johnstown, Pa. whore she will re-
main during the Bible School session.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Boachy and
daughters were Sunday dinner guests
g Mrs. Silas Beachy.
Mrs. Danny Klotz, of Grantsville,
spent several days last week with her
aunt here, Mrs. John Bethel, who has
been i'll.
Ernest BrCnneman motored to
Crantsvile on business last Saturday.
MIR and Mrs. Carl Bittinger Of
ReistcTst0vn. visited their parents
here last Weekend.
Jacob Brenneman is spending some
time with relatives in Reisterstown
Ebert Bucket has purchased a new
.ioep, to be used in carrying the mail
between Bittingcr and Grantsville.
A square dance was held in the
village school building on New Years
Eve.
Arthur DERRICK, Of Beallsville. Pa,
visited his mother, Mrs. Hattie De
trick, here last week.
Ralph Bucket is preparing to build
a dwelling house near Pleasant Valley
Park, South of this village
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-01-08
HOYES

Mr.. and Mrs. William Graves, of
Shinglehouse, Pa, were dinner guests
of Mr.. and Mrs. Clark Schlossnagle,
last Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs James Rush and
family and Mr. and Mrs Glenn
Fratz, Friendsville were Sunday
guests Of Mr.. and Mrs. w. A. Custer.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hobart Bishoff, Mr..
and Mrs. Claude Bishof and baby,
and Mr.. and Mrs. William Enlow
were dinner guests on Sunday Of Mr..
and Mrs. Harley Glover in Cumber-
land.
Mrs. W. w. Dewitt and Mrs. Pan
dali Wilburn attended the county
council presidents luncheon meeting
in Oakland last Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Bond an
nounce the birth of a daughter Satur-
day night in Memorial hospital, Cum
berland.
Mr.. and Mrs. Emerson Bishoff and
Miss Ada Leighton were supper
guests Of Mr.. and Mrs. Hobart Bish-
off Saturday evening. The supper was
in honor of Hobart's birthday ami
versary.
MI. ana MIS-. W. A. custer spent
New Years Day with Mr.. and Mrs.
Hubert Friend and her mother, Mrs.
Asa b. Friend.
Mr. John Bishof returned home on
Sunday from Frederick where he had
spent a week visiting.
Mr.. and Mrs. Foster Yost, Acct
dont. we're callers Of Mr. and Mrs
William w. Dewitt, on Monday even
ING
Rev. and Mrs. Ross Speicher and
Hobart Bishof are leaving today to
attend the Farm Bureau meeting in
Baltimore the remainder of this week
relatives in Cleveland, Ohio, of recent
date.
Miss Mary j. Rhodes is i'll with
pneumonia at this writing.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-01-08
EVERYONE HAS A STAKE
in the Future Of AGRICULTURE

Everyone, whether he or she lives in The
city or on farm, is directly affected by
agriculture This is true, whether or not
we realize it.
Without thriving agriculture, which
means the application Of the most eff
cient farming practices, this country
would be stagnant. Next to coal, agricul
ture is West Virginia's greatest single in
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-01-08

dustry, with a cash income of over $780,
100000 a year to the farmers.
Still, we do not raise enough certain
staple products to come near supplying
even our own needs. And we are sadly
slow in making provision for prosperous
agriculture in the future. We need more
diversified and better balanced programs
and greater efficiency on our farms.
These will prove the best insurance
against future uncertainties.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-01-08
Two Engines DeraiIed

Two freight engines were dcraica
on the l7-mile grade near Swanton
last Saturday morning which inter
rupted regular train service for few
hours. No one was injured.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-01-08

though out of each dollar he spends, less
than two cents go for all the labor saving,
convenience and comfort which electri-
city brings.
No one can tell how much Farming
for Better Living" and other agricultural
programs in which our company has aided
have contributed to the remarkable in
crease in farm income during the last
eight years. No one can tell how much
good they will do in the future
We feel the surface has been merely
scratched. Widespread cooperation in at
tanning the main agricultural detectives
will promote prosperity and make this
country and state better place in which
to live.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-01-08

relatives in Cleveland, Ohio, of recent
date.
Miss Mary J. Rhodes is i'll with
pneumonia at this writing.
Arizona sun., 1948-01-23
Are We Taking Advantage of This Chanc

Are taking advantage Of the 81 registration places
placed disposal to register for the coming election
Never before the history Of this county have places of
registration been brought right to doors Let's not over
look the Importance of registering and coaXng friends
and neighbors to do likewise.
Heretofore the Negro vote has played very important
part in election because the total votes cast SMALL
but what will votes at the next election at the
rate other people registering unless register too
It's possible for to step in most place your way
to from work. during your lunch hour and register
Banks telephone Light and Gas offices will register you
Colored citizens you will need that vote this year more
than BEFORE nustces prevalent all around you
that nothing will check but vote which cost little
The SUN reliably informed just today that there is
drug in Coolidge the Sun Valley Bus station
where Colored person refused drink of water
while waiting. vote stop ths if you will only reg
ster
This too, greatly responsibility of churches and
organizations.
Thought for the week:-If you will walk few blocks
to register it child many miles of
sary travel to school.