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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-04-29

Miss Lavona HENDERSON spent the
week lend with her grandparents, Nh
and Mrs. jeff Lowdermilk of Frazee
Ridge
Mr.. and Mrs. William Lindsay,
Ammon, Pa, were Saturday guests
of Mr.. and Mrs. Fred HENDERSON.
Sunday guests of Mrs. J. j. Friend
and daughter, Miss Nellie, We're: Mr.
and Mrs. w. H. Burnside and chill
dren, Betty. Bob and Harry, Hop
wood, Pa; Mr.. and Mrs. Allen
Friend and daughter Dianna, Denbo,
Pa, and Clarence Friend, OF Allison,
Pa.
Guests of Mr.. and Mrs. r. b. Hinc-
baugh fol several days the past week
were: Mr. and Mrs Mason Lowdrr-
milk, Nh. and Mrs. Vernon Lowder-
milk and Mr.. and Mrs Douglass
Lowdermilk, all Of Akron, Ohio.
Johnny Mccullough was a caller in
Washington, D. G., over the week
end.
W. S. Bowers and Joe Sliger were
attending to business in Oakland,
Monday morning.
Wilbur Fox attended school Of IL
struction on Electric Refrigeration at
the Fort Cumberland hotel in Cum
berland, ON Monday.
Bruce Jenkins and son johnny, OF
Oakland, spent Wednesday night
here with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Orval Jenkins.
Mrs. William Rose who was a pa
tient in Memorial hospital Cumbcr
land. for several weeks, returned 10
her home here last Wednesday. Mi.
and Mrs. Wade Schlossnagle, Ali
son, Pa, Mrs. Byard Liston and son,
William Robert Of Confluence, Pa,
were visiting their sister Mrs. Rose,
and their father, w. W. Savage.
various times over the weekend. Will
liam Robert recently returned from
Tulsa, oklahoma where he graduated
from Mechanical Engineering at
Spartan School of Aeronautics
Mrs. Helen Evans and son Buddy,
Of Homecoming, are visiting relatives
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-04-29
Red Cross Donations
Now Reach S858.51
In Annual Roll Call

Contributions totaling $402.95 were
reported this week by Mrs. Paul b,
Naylor chairman Of the annual Red
Cross Roll Call, bringing the total
amount thus far to $858.51. The
quota for Garrett county was set al
$2I00.
Mrs. Naylor named the schools anG
communities contributing along with
the solicitor and the names Of those
contributing SIS or more.
Crellin, Mrs. Eva Montgomery
Ream soliciting, $l6G.25, which in
cluded employees Of the Stanley Coal
company, $3.50; Stanley Coal COM
pany, $50; pupils Of Crellin school,
$l3.75; Crellin P.-T.A, IS; and OPP
portunity club, IS. Mrs. Ream said
seventy-iive Of the employees of the
coal company made contributions.
Grantsville, Misses Ethel and Viola
Broadwater. solicitors, turned in S98.-
40, making total Of $170.13 for that
area. The Grantsville school already
had contributed $7173. Grantsvilla
included Motor Service company, $25;
Evangelical Reformed church, $15;
Lutheran Women's Missionary soci-
ETY., $40; Evangelical Reformed
Women's Guild and Christian en-
deavor, each IS; Mt Zion Methodist
WSCS, $40; Mr.. and Mrs. Earl
Michael, IS; C. o. Bender, So;
Grantsville Homemakers' club, s.;
Mars Hill Homemakers', 50; Fair
View School, 81.
New Germany school and COM
munity, Mrs. Mary J. Otto, solicitor,
$28.65, including So from Reformed
Sunday School, IS from Parene-
Teacher association, and IS from
Women's Guild.
Yoder school and community, Mrs.
Alvina Miller Livengood solicitor
S187. Bray school and community,
Miss Ethel b. Hesser, solicitor, $2.7S,
including 81 from the Swallow Falls
All club Black Hawk school, Nj
Hannah c. Green, solicitor, $4.45;
Avilton school and community Mrs
Grace c. Warwick, solicitor. $7.53;
Mt Zion school and community, Mi
and Mrs. Harold Garrett, solicitors
$25; Manadier Ridge school and com
munity, Mrs. Birdie R. Friend solic;-
tor, $56.77, including $15.37 from
school, So from Mr.. and Mrs. Blaine
Frantz, and s. from Foster Friend
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mere.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Wicklow and
son Danny. Girard, Ohio, were week
end visitors Of the latter's parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Clark Frazee.
Rev. and Mrs. W. f. Wade re-
turned Friday evening after visit
IN spencer, W. va, with relatives.
Mrs. Jane hihg, MIS-. Jesse. Jessie Al
klhSoi, ana miss DORIS AtNi u 1I re-
turned !lr nome aller VISIT III Me"u'
VIE we, r., Win, Win rgia l,. -, IAN ~
nc lutheran it ;T,' 1A'o WIZ p :.
Siltei t "a on h'll su1H gNeliiiiS
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-04-29
FRTENDSVILLE

WSCS for May 18th
The general meeting Of the WSCS
will be held Tuesday evening May
4th in the social room of the church.
Church News
Rev Wade has announced services
for Sunday, May ?, at Selbysporu,
$3.50 a. M; Friendsville, l / a. M; and
Sang Run, 1880 p. m.
FLA. and FILA.
The FLA. and the FILA. Joint an
nual meeting was held in the high
school auditorium on Thursday even
ing, April %, at 1880
w. w. Dawson, president of the
school board gave the main address.
Other speakers We're r. Bowen Hal-
desty, assistant superintendent OF
schools, and W. J. Glenn, principal
of the local school. The president OF
each club spoke briefly. Charley Il.
Miller introduced the guests. Music
was furnished by Mrs. w. j. Glenn.
The Home Ec. department under the
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-04-29

Sunday visitors of Mr. and Mrs.
Richard II. Friend were: Mr.. and
Mrs. Paul Strawser and daughter,
Kingwood, W. Va; Mr.. and Mrs. {,
w. Fike, Bruceton, w. Va; Mr. and
Mrs. Junior Shaw and sons, Union
town, Pa; Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Hook
and daughters, Nh. Junior Friend,
Markleysburg, Pa; Mr.. and Mrs.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-04-29

Gary Ray Friend and family, Mn an
Mrs. Houston Friend and family MI
and Mrs. Hiram Frazec and dau@h-
ters all Of the Blooming Rose COM
munity.
Patty, Ronnie and Joyce Fike, ii
Bluceton, W. Va. were weekend
guests Of Mr.. and Mrs. r. H. Friend
and Mr.. and Mrs. Gary Ray Friend.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-04-29

Mrs John D. Dockefeller, Jr., 70,
wife of the head of one of the IA
tons wealthiest families, died Of a
heart attack
Evening star., 1948-06-16

public service in the United States. The
need for improvement is beyond dispute.
To help meet it, universities can encourage
and train talented students to enter gov
ernmental work. Congress can cooperate
by making such work more attractive
financially; and qualified citizens, as Mr..
Lilienthal has suggested, can do their part
by being ready to offer their services.
Years ago, when President Cleveland
declared that the Government needed a
constant stream of thoughtful, educated
men," the problem was not particularly
serious. In today's world, however. with
all its complexities and dangers, the United
States can afford nothing less than the
finest possible public service. Mediocrities
are not good enough for the task of gov
erning now. It is task that calls for
the best minds among us.
Evening star., 1948-06-16

July / of all five-star officers still on
active duty, with a provision authorizing
their recall to active duty whenever their
services are needed. This measure actually
will apply to only two officers-Admirals
King and Nimitz. All other five-star
admirals and generals have retired, al
though two of them, Admiral Leahy and
General Macarthur, are still on active
duty. The purpose of the five-star retire.
ment provision is to put all five-star OH
GERS on an equal footing with respect to
duty status and privileges of rank dnclud
ing a number of aides. No loss Of rank
is involved. Ali five-star officers have been
granted that rank for life.
This bill will cost the Government moth
ing 1t will avert an automatic demotion
procedure which would seem like an act
OF ingratitude toward some of the great
leaders in history's greatest conflict. The
Senate, busy as it is, should be able to
find time to pass this small but important
piece of legislation before an inadvertent
injustice becomes irrevocable.
Evening star., 1948-06-16
To Correct On OVERSIGHT

The House, with an admirable show OF
sentiment, has moved to correct an over
sight that otherwise will compel the Army
and the Navy on July to denote six OF
the Nations top-ranking military leaders
of World War II. It has passed bill to
extend for two years the legal deadline
for reducing the number OF four-star
officers on active duty.
Unless this bill becomes law before
Congress adjourns, Generals Mark Clark,
Thomas T. Handy and Courtney H. Hodges
and Admirals H. X. Hewitt, Thomas C.
Kincaid and Raymond A. Spruance will
be denoted from four-star to three-star
rank at the end of this month. Testimony
indicates that Congress, in writing into
last years promotion law restriction on
the number of four-star officers in peace
time, had no intention of deprivfng any
combat leaders of the high ranks earned
during the late war. The limitation was
designed to apply to future appointments.
The bill also requires the retirement on
Evening star., 1948-06-16
Victory in the Senate

On the whole, the Senate has done an
excellent job Of repairing the damage
done to the European recovery program
by the House.
As finally passed the Senate bill carries
a total appropriation of $6,125,710,000 for
all foreign relief and recovery programs
during the next twelve months. In enect,
this restores most Of the cut which the
House made by trimming the appropriation
itself and requiring that the funds be
stretched over a fifteen-month period
instead of year.
That the Senate bill falls short OF per-
fection may be taken for granted. For In
an undertaking of this kind, especially In
its initial stages, it is impossible to deter
mine precisely how much money is re-
uuired for all of the various projects.
The administration prepared careful esti-
mates, but they remain no better than
estimates. And the Senate, in cutting
here and there, was also operating pretty
much in the dark. Senator Bridges stated
the matter aptly when he described the
undertaking as "a venture in faith on the
part OF this Nation"-a token OF Americas
belief that "the free people OF the world
must stand or fall together"
The important thing is that the Senate's
action, in the main, is consistent with the
larger aim of the program to get Western
Europe back on its feet. If the bill pro-
vides too little in one place, or too much
in another, there will be time enough for
adjustment next year, when we will have
had little experience with the admins
tration of the program. Meanwhile, it is
essential to launch the program on basis
which offers reasonable promise of success.
The Senate bill would do this, and the
House should 90 along with. it,
Evening star., 1948-06-16
June

This Is the leaty season, lush and green. -
An emerald laualliere upon the throat
OF time. Mark this June day. Her Joyous
\ ntetn
Stems out of gro1oing. Vein and tendrh
note.
Mark hon the beckoning taper of the sIg
And multiple compassion OF the rain
Chart fresh journey and guest begun,
Fearless and purposefuu, untouched by
o mustery that ne name chlorophW,
knowing you call upon eternal light!
o choir of s,oinging stars, ,Dhose grace
notes spill
More oent1v do,on as birdsong, dropped
in flight!
Filtered through LEAKAGE, falls the secret
NIGHT tells the moon 1ho tells TIN
mockingbird.
BARBARA WHITNEY.
Evening star., 1948-06-16
Controls and Recovery

The Bank for International Settiements
has long enjoyed a high reputation for
knowledge and insight In world economies.
From It's Ivory tower" at Basle, In neutral
Switzerland, its directors and techniclans,
drawn from many lands, are able to view
the economic scene with proper objectivicy,
free from pressure from any quarter. Inls
has been continuously true OF the oanKs
activities during the prewar, wartime ana
postwar periods.
Under these circumstances, 1t Is under
standable that publication OF the oanks
annual report is always an economic event
of the first Importance. No other survey
of economic developments attracts more
attention Or exerts more influence on the
thinking OF policymakers in the financial
and economic field, especially in Europe,
which is the center of its interest.
All this makes 1t understandable that the
report just issued, based on the banks un-
paralleled resources Of information, should
attract worldwide attention. 1t should
be especially well received here IN the
United States, because its conclusions are
wholly in line with our policy toward
Europe's economic future. On the other
hand, it will undoubtedly hutter the official
dovecotes in those countries whose govern
ments are more or less inclined toward
socialistic methods and remedies.
The report trenchantly challenges the
entire basis for planned economy in the
international field. 1t contends that, while
Europe is we'll on its way to overcome the
physical damage done by the late war, its
recovery is being hamstrung by disorder
in trade and financial machinery. "The
greatest mistake of ALL" it concludes, "is
to believe that by perpetuating wartime
controls, Europe can solve postwar eco
nomic problems" The report therefore
unflinchingly advocates abandonment OF
direct controls on prices, production and
trade. It's alternative is restoration OF
functioning price system operating under
stabilized monetary regimes In this way
only can there be evoked that combination
of initiative, incentive and confidence on
the part Of the public which will restore
a balanced, productive economy.
This will naturally be anathema in
Moscow and among Communist circles
everywhere 1t will be only slightly less
unpalatable to official London, dominated
by the socialistic doctrines of the Labor
Party But it should be heartening to all
those who view the world in terms of
economic realities based upon experience
backed by factual data. And it corrobo-
rates the assumptions and practices which
animate our own economic way Of life.
Evening star., 1948-06-16
A Task for Our Best Minds

The problem of improving public service
is not new in the United States or any
where else But it is more important now,
more pressing, than ever before. The
world has undergone such vast and rapid
changes that mankind Is still largely be-
fuddled by them. Socially, politically,
technologically, economically and other
wise, there has been profoundly far
reaching revolution whose end is not yet
In sight.
The most portentous case in point Is
the harnessed atom. 1t has opened up
possibilities capable of transforming-or
destroying life of peoples throughout
the globe. Nothing could better illustrate
the extraordinary nature of our age.
Nationally and internationally, we are
confronted with actual or potential issues
of unparalleled magnitude and complexity.
AS a result big government is getting
constantly bigger, and never has the need
been so great for public servants OF the
highest caliber.
Chairman Lilienthal of the United States
Atomic Energy Commission is the latest
in long line of thoughtful men to call
attention to this need. Speaking at the
University Of Virginia, he has not exag-
gerated in declaring that we face probably
a generation of continued tension and
self-multiplying problems of the most
difficult kind, foreign and domestic. Quite
obviously the prospect is one that demands,
as he says, great Skills in government,
great Judgment and open -mindedness in
the development of public policies, and
creativeness in all the arts of government"
But it is easier to cite the need than
to meet it. For his own part, as far as
the United States is concerned Mr.
Lilienthal warns that it obliges us to
summon all our best talents of citizen
ship and to do away with whatever
remains of the "me-flrst' outlook on life,
substituting in its place philosophy under
which the intelligent and patriotic in
dividual will feel duty bound to be an
active, living part of his times. To that
end, the Acc chairman has offered a
concrete uggestion-namely, that In the
next three decades every educated person
who is qualified to do so should plan
definitely to set aside a number of years
for the rendering of service in the legis-
lative or executive branches of his local,
State or Federal government"
Considering the many able Americans
who quit private affairs to serve the Gov
ernment during the Second World War,
this proposal is more practical than 1t
may seem at first glance. At any rate
It Is an idea worth thinking about in
connection with any long-range program
designed to improve the character Of
Evening star., 1948-06-16
Votino in VoteIess Washington

The ruckus stirred up by dlSsloent ele-
ments within the local Republican ana
Democratic organizations serves gooo
purpose, II only to emphasize the lack OF
the vote in washington.
The absence of election laws in the
District makes the choice OF party oeie-
oates to the national conventions purely
nartv affairs, The only laws are the party
regulations; the only interpreters OF Ihe
regulations are the party heads mere ana
the credentials committees at the conVen-
tions The primaries are IN q sense
mock elections, in which only the small
group of organized partisans partlclpate.
Irregularities, alleged or proven, are OF
no real public concern.
That seemed to be the view OF JuSIlce
Goldsborough when he threw out OF court
q case brought against the local Republican
State Committee, based on alleged irregu-
1arities In recent choice OF delegates.
There may be some other ruling prlnclple
involved in the current Democratic row. For
Justice Godsborough declined to Vacate
a preliminary injunction he had granted
to prevent Democratic election OF delegates
on Monday and set the case for argument
on Friday, leaving the election" up IN tne
air. His ruling on Friday therefore, Will
at least clarity the difference between civil
war when waged by local Republicans ana
when waged by local Democrats.
Sporadic efforts have been made IN the
past to obtain enactment OF legislation
regulating these party primaries within
the District. Such efforts never got any
where because of the obviously Illogical
condition to which they were addressed
the provision of election laws" within a
yoteless community.
It would be mistake, however, to con-
clude that District OF Columbia representa-
ton on the National Committees and IN
the conventions themselves are valueless
and pointless Party rule being the system,
we are better of with than without some
semblance of representation In the ruling
councils Convention delegates from the
District have worked in the past and with
success, for platform planks favoring the
local vote. Their agitation OF the issue has
brought some results, If only in platform
pledges. And the interest stirred up-even
If it has to come through litigauon-in
these local primaries Is bound to stimu-
late more effort to give them substance,
make them mean more than play acting
for a few of the party faithful
Evening star., 1948-06-16
Gertrude Atherton

How much of Gertrude Athertons work
will live beyond her own time is question
for another age to answer. She loved life
so much herself that her friends will hope
that she long will be read if only for that
quality in her writing. The book which
probably has the best chance of survival
is her study Of Alexander Hamilton-"The
Conqueror." 1t represents her art at its
best and is eminently worthy of the re-
search she put into it. But BLACK Oxen"
demonstrates her creative skill more con-
vincingly. She had power when she really
was stirred by a theme. Thus she made
even the steinach theory of rejuvenatlon
compelling, and her triumphant attain
ment- of ninety gave glandular therapy
an aspect of plausibility which she frankly
enjoyed.
Up to month ago Mrs. Atherton still
was turning out copy. Her first novel was
published in 1892, when she was thirty-five.
For more than half century after that
date she produced mountains of manu-
script in her native San Francisco in
England and Germany. Each self-imposed
task was major effort. Her career, there
fore, was little more than series of
assignments doggedly pursued until COM
pleted Sixty volumes was the net result.
Many of them frankly were written for
money. Their author was true profess
sional in the sense that she earned her
livelihood with her pen.
Mrs Atherton's California stories furnish
clue to her dearest interests. She real
lied and appreciated the essential drama
of the settlement and development of the
Pacific Coast The pioneers were her peo-
pie and she rejoiced in her kinship with
them, sharing their individualism their
independence, their contempt for tedious
formality. Always an egoist, she told the
world that she abominated 'the isms" both
Left and Right Hypocrisy was her target
again and again. Yet she was not pre-
dominantly reformer. She certainly
did not desire human existence to be
rendered safe and serene, secure-and dull.
Evening star., 1948-06-16
Stars, Men and Atoms
InoudibIe Sound Waves :
Produce Effect of 'Druet
Changes in Plants and Animals,
Induced by Experiments |:
By Thomas X. Henry

Inaudible sound waves can produce heredi.
tary changes in both plants and animals.
Experiments demonstrating this hitherto un.
known effect Of waves with q vibration fre.
quency Of approximately 100000 q second have
just been reported to the American Association
for the Advancement Of Science here by Uni.
versity Of Connecticut scientists. ~
The effects found by Drs. r. H. wallaces
R. J. Bushnell and Earl H. Newcomer are
quite similar to those produced by the drug
colchichine in inducing species variations which
are passed on to succeeding generations. Thus
new species are created >,
Root Tips Exposed. ..
Growing root tips Of various plants were
exposed to the sound waves. Microscopic exs
animation Of the cells showed that profound
differences in arrangement had been brought
about in the nuclei and these were reelected
in future growth of the plants. Despite thA
general disruption of the cell system. recovetg
and resumption of growth were obtained in all
but those whose tissues showed general
collapse
Much the same effects were obtained when
young adult flies were exposed to the ultra.
sonic waves. A long exposure. as has been
demonstrated In many previous experiments,
resulted in death of the insects. Shorter ex.
posures resulted in hereditary mutations, the
majority of which were lethal. Some, however.
resulted In definite changes in shape Of wings;
essentially amounting to new subspecies
Report on KR Drug. ~
Another report to the American Association
this week throws serious doubts on recent
claims Of the effectiveness Of the widely pubhs
cized Russian preparation KR in the treatment
of cancer. This drug, obtained from South
American insect similar to the carrier OF
sleeping sickness, has yielded quite contra-
dictory results in many tests since the first
Russian reports and still is looked upon by
some as one of the most promising leads in
the cancer problem.
Drs Theodore S. Hauschka and Margaret
Goodwin Of the Lankenau Hospital OF Philas
delphia, one OF the country's leading cancer
research institutions, tested it in 1900 exper1s
mental mice against five varieties of malignant
tumors, attempting to repeat as precisely as
possible some previous experiments from which
good results have been reported. %
There was, they found, consistent inhibition
Of cancer growth, but there were very few re-
gressions and in no case was life prolonged.
The inhibition of growth, it was found, was
not specific to the cancers but applied to most
other parts of the bodies of the infected mice.